the WaPo experience...

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If you're like Gus and pay attention to (accidental) details you could be amazed at the amount of delicate transformations that is used by media to first tell you lies, half-truths and also tell you nothing... But then when one media supporting something finds faults in the others, all hell breaks loose...

This from the "other" Post (New York Post):

Journalists with major companies “outright” lied to perhaps millions on Twitter when they claimed a new report from the director of national intelligence “confirmed” that Russia engineered last fall’s story — reported by The Post but censored by social media — about e-mails found on Hunter Biden’s laptop, observes Glenn Greenwald at his Substack page. “Hey, New York Post and everyone else who got suckered into the ridiculous Hunter Biden Laptop story. Take a bow,” tweeted HuffPost White House correspondent S.V. Dáte. Yet the report, on foreign threats to the 2020 election, actually made no mention of the Hunter story. Nor did it even offer any evidence for its assessments. And though some journalists “were shamed into acknowledging the falsity of their claim,” many refused, causing the lie to keep spreading.

From the right: The Gaslighters Get Gaslit

“Who gaslights the gaslighters?” White House press secretary Jen Psaki, of course, quips Grace Curley at Spectator USA. “The liars are being lied to, and it is a sight to behold.” Example: Psaki asserting that Team Biden “has a handle on the overwhelming influx of illegals at the southern border” — when “the number of unaccompanied minors in Border Patrol custody is at an all-time high.” Even “far-left news outlets are pushing back” on her claim that President Biden “inherited a broken system” from his predecessor, since the surge “came after Biden’s administration reversed a number of Trump-era policies.” “For four years the press treated the American people like credulous morons,” and now “the BS artists are being served malarkey.” What a “well-deserved comeuppance.”

Libertarian: The Steep Price of Joe’s Tax Hikes

President Biden’s “plan to hike taxes on individuals and corporations” to offset another “splurge of government spending” would cost the nation a large number of jobs and lower wages for workers, warns Reason’s Eric Boehm. “Every dollar the federal government drains from the economy is a dollar that cannot be used to grow a business” or pay workers. The “corporate tax hike alone would reduce long-term economic growth by about 0.8 percent, kill 159,000 jobs and reduce wages.” Yet the Biden administration seems determined to lock in the “symbolic win” of undoing 2017’s tax cuts, even if it means making “things even harder” for Americans as they emerge from the pandemic.

Conservative: Biden’s ‘Malarkey Maneuver’

President Biden is using his standard tactic — what National Review’s Jim Geraghty calls “the Malarkey Maneuver” — to address his “first major crisis”: the situation on the southern border, “now worsening by the day.” Whenever Biden is accused of something unsavory, “he just emphatically insists it isn’t true and hopes that resolves the issue.” “My son did nothing wrong!” “This never happened!” “You’re a lying, dog-faced pony soldier!” Now, in his recent interview with George Stephanopoulos, he simply denied that his “policy shifts prompted the current surge of migrants heading toward the US-Mexico border.” Biden wants folks to believe “it’s just a coincidence that this migration surge intensified the way it did after he took office — and that it’s just a matter of post-pandemic economic conditions and the hurricanes.”

From the left: Reopen Schools Now!

At New York magazine, Jonathan Chait fears the pandemic’s “gravest catastrophe” may be “a generation of schoolchildren whose formative years were irrevocably stunted” by a year-plus of public-school closures. Problem is, opening schools “requires negotiating a gamut of government guidelines, negotiation with often recalcitrant teachers’ unions and persuading parents who have (in some cases) come to see in-person schooling as a serious risk.” Yet “the weight of evidence strongly suggests in-person schooling, especially of younger students, poses a small health risk.” Even “the guideline that students must maintain six feet of distance in schools has no value” — it’s utterly unsupported by science. Reopening opponents pretend students haven’t actually lost ground, but kids are “watching the hourglass run out on opportunities to learn they will never have again.”

— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board

https://nypost.com/2021/03/18/new-lies-about-hunter-bidens-laptop-and-other-commentary/

And today, within a few minutes, The WaPo changed one of the headlines to an article which first placed the onus on Biden, while the second placed the problem on China:

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Yes, APPETITE was a bit like someone looking for a fight... A NEW STANCE is more dignified, isn't it?... Same shit.

By Gus Leonisky at 20 Mar 2021 - 11:42am
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falling off the stairs...

The national media were ready to have a 25th Amendment party when a sloppy book by Michael Wolff came out with a bunch of ditzy rumors about President Trump’s mental acuity.

By contrast, we just watched the current president literally collapse and there’s not a peep of concern from the press.

Joe Biden on Friday was climbing up to board Air Force One when, even with his hand on the rail for support, he tripped over one of the steps. He pushed himself up only to see the same thing happen a second time. Finally, gravity got the best of his 78-year-old ankles and he fell to his knees.

Biden eventually got up and made the rest of the journey to the cabin, but are we all going to pretend that we weren’t feeling the urge to rush to his side like a Boy Scout offering his arm to an elderly woman crossing the street?

Aides were quick to let us know that everything is fine. Relax!

https://nypost.com/2021/03/19/questions-about-bidens-physical-mental-health-ignored-by-press/

Making an old senior like Gus feel proud... He's not the only one falling off ladders, steps and perches...

By Gus Leonisky at 20 Mar 2021 - 11:49am
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no-one paid attention to her accusations...

Exclusive: How Tara Reade Was Branded a "Russian Asset" for Sexual Assault Claims Against Joe Biden

The #MeToo movement's perceived achievements seemingly failed to protect Tara Reade after she came out with accusations against Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden. Her life then spiralled out of control.

Following scores of women claiming to be sexual assault and harassment victims in the wake of the #MeToo movement, Tara Reade, a former staffer in Biden's US Senate office, has spoken out about allegedly being sexually assaulted by the current president in 1993. However, neither US corporate media, nor Democrats, who scrutinised the sexual misconduct accusations against Brett Kavanaugh, a GOP US Supreme Court nominee, seemingly paid much attention to her accusations.

"I did not receive a safe space at all. And that was what was so ironic. Joe Biden's campaign was making an announcement, and other Democrats, about how it takes courage and how they want to make sure there's a safe space for women to come forward. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, Joe Biden was weaponising a social media army of trolls to go after me," Reade tells Sputnik.How It All Started and How Tara Reade Was Muted

Back in 1993 Reade was helping to manage the Biden office interns – she was left shocked and "disgusted" after her boss, as she recalls, pushed her against a wall, kissed her, and put his hands under her skirt without consent before attempting to sexually assault her. After having no luck with several officially filed complaints to her Senate supervisors, she chose not to go to the police with the case.

Did Biden rape Tara Reade as she claims? pic.twitter.com/gEPhGP6IhM

— Bribes for Bidens (7kidchaos) April 5, 2021

Fast forward nearly 20 years and after several women reported Biden's unwelcomed "touching" – and spurred on by the #MeToo movement – Reade decided to tell her story, only to find herself "really shut down." The media either ignored her or worse – called her "a Russian asset."

"I was very kind of lost as to how to come forward in a safe way. And then I just realised there was no safe way," Reade says.

That's when she decided to request help from Time's Up – a non-profit organisation to help women publicly open up about sexual assault or sexual harassment. However, not only did Time's Up not help her, but Reade also found out later that the managing director of the PR company representing the NGO – Anita Dunn – was a member of Joe Biden's campaign. Dunn is now POTUS's senior advisor. Reade claims that the organisation failed to notify her about this possible conflict of interests.

"It's that's political roadkill now. The #MeToo movement doesn't exist. […] I think, was just it was more optics. There was nothing behind it. There was no real movement. There is no real commitment to that. Democrats have shown again and again that they're using the mantle of #MeToo as a protection, to shield the fact that they're actually enabling predators and empowering them," Reade says. 'Politically Homeless' After Democrats' 'Betrayal'

What was even more "stunning" for her is how she was denied support from the political force she'd backed for years – the Democratic Party. Reade sent requests to numerous prominent Democrats, such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren. No one answered except for Warren's office, which only asked if she wanted to help fund her presidential campaign.

Reade says it was "a betrayal on a level [she] can't even describe" and a "cognitive dissonance" for her. She adds she can no longer identify herself with the party, although she still shares most of its ideals, except for an aggressive foreign policy approach.

"I was a Democrat all my life. I was a person that not only just voted Democrat, but I was working for Democrats. I was in the trenches, so to speak, in that regard. And I believed in the bigger policies […] In terms of political parties, I feel politically homeless right now. Essentially, I am progressive in my views, but... I'm an independent," Reade says. 'I'm a Poster Child of How It's Not Safe' to Come Forward With Sexual Misconduct Allegations in US

If getting no help from the NGO and being targeted by The New York Post and The Washington Post articles was not enough, Reade's decision to go public with the sexual assault accusations also seriously impacted her life. She was accused of lying about her education, including under the oath, when she worked as an invited expert on domestic violence cases in court. The Monterey District Attorney, with which she often worked alongside, visited her former college with a search warrant to check if she had studied there.

Reade explains that it felt like her career was being destroyed. If the DA had somehow found her guilty, she would have ended up in prison, also, she insists that she never lied about her education. She was eventually cleared of the charges but the media never corrected these claims in their articles.

This legal attack on Reade started right after she came out with her accusations against the then-Democrat presidential hopeful. She believes this is no coincidence.

"They were also people who were asking for me to be locked up for other reasons. They wanted me to be locked up for being a Russian agent. They wanted me to be locked up for any kind of federal wire charges they could do. It was really ugly. And meanwhile, the Democrats were out in front of cameras saying it's safe for women to come forward. Well, I can tell you, I'm a poster child of how it's not safe," Reade says.'Mistakes' of Mainstream Media Nearly Ruined Reade's Life

Her career was not the only thing that suffered after Reade came out with her revelations – she also lost her house and encountered numerous other problems, all thanks to the media. After unsubstantiated claims about Reade being a "Russian asset" started circulating, she began receiving death threats. It was also reported that her finances were in dire shape, which ultimately led to her losing the house she'd been renting for years.

"I was renting a little house and the owners of the property had heard on CNN that I had death threats. They literally heard it on the news and came that next morning and said: 'You need to leave the property because you have death threats. And we're voting for Joe Biden. And before these things, we heard about your bankruptcy online. You didn't tell us you had a bankruptcy,' because I didn't," she says.

Due to the bad publicity and ongoing probe claims she had lied about her education, Reade had trouble finding work. However, she faced even more trouble when The New York Times "accidentally" published her social security number.

It was printed on her old congressional ID, an image of which the newspaper claimed it published by mistake. By the time Reade found out about it and requested the paper remove it, her social security number was all over the internet.

"That caused problems for me. It also allowed people to just dig through everything and my life. They have been using that to set up false accounts, all kinds of things happened when that happened. So it really affected my life in seen and unseen ways. I had difficulties," she recalls.

Reade admits that her life was "pretty much a mess" at that moment, but quickly notes that she is "kind of laughing" about it, wondering how she survived. She has since published a book, "Left Out: When the Truth Doesn't Fit In" about her revelations, how they were rejected by the media, ignored by politicians, and about the trouble it caused her. Reade says her goal was to show people they can move on even despite the trauma of surviving sexual assault, as well as to demonstrate to people how such cases are still treated in the #MeToo era.

https://sputniknews.com/interviews/202104101082592926-exclusive-how-tara...

"we won", yawn...

CNN has lost more than half its viewers in multiple categories since President Joe Biden took office, Fox News has reported.

CNN averaged 2.2 million viewers throughout the first three weeks of 2021, however, the network has since declined 54% and now averages one million viewers since Inauguration Day, according to Fox.

Moreover, CNN’s most prominent demographic of viewers, adults aged 25-54, dropped by 60%.

Primetime hosts Anderson Cooper, Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon also saw a sharp decline in viewership. From 8-11 p.m., CNN saw an average of 3.1 million viewers from Dec. 28 through Inauguration Day. Now the network averages 1.4 million views from 8-11 p.m. Moreover, CNN’s primetime lineup lost 63% of its viewers among the 25-54 age demographic.

During an interview on the New York Times podcast “Sway,” host Kara Swisher asked Lemon if he was “worried about the viewership fizzle.”

“No. I’m not worried about it … Trump was a horrible person. And he was terrible for the country. And it is better for all — for the world that he is no longer the President of the United States,” Lemon said. “So if that means that cable news ratings go down? Aww. So I’m not really that concerned about it. I would prefer that my ratings go down and Trump not be in office than my ratings be sky-high and him be there. That’s the honest truth.”

Fox News noted that they have retained most of their audience with single-digit declines since Inauguration Day and they are expected to be the most-watched cable news network for the second month in a row among both total day and primetime viewers.

https://saraacarter.com/cnn-viewership-declined-over-50-since-biden-took-office/

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By Gus Leonisky at 17 Apr 2021 - 8:25am
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fake mainstream news...

Corporate News Outlets Again "Confirm" the Same False Story, While Many Refuse to Correct it

Journalists with major outlets know they spread a false, retracted story about the FBI and Giuliani but refuse to remove it, because their real job is spreading disinformation.

By Glenn Greenwald

One of the primary plagues of corporate journalism, which I have documented more times than I can count, just reared its ugly head again to deceive millions of people with fake news. When one large news outlet publishes a false story based on whispers from anonymous security state agents with the CIA or FBI, other news outlets quickly purport that they have “independently confirmed” the false story, in order to bolster its credibility (oh, it must be true since other outlets have also confirmed it).

This is an obvious scam — they have not “independently confirmed” anything but rather merely acted as servants to the same lying security state agents who planted the original false story — but they do it over and over, creating the deceitful perception that a fake story has been "confirmed” by multiple outlets, thus bolstering its credibility in the public mind. It was the favored tactic for spreading debunked Russiagate frauds and is still used. One of the most vivid examples occurred in December, 2017, when CNN falsely reported what it hyped as "a major bombshell”: that Donald Trump, Jr. had advance access to the WikiLeaks archive. Within an hour, NBC News’ Ken Dilanian and CBS News both claimed they had “independently confirmed” this fairy tale. When it turned out that it was a complete lie, all based on a false date on an email to Trump Jr., these outlets embarrassingly corrected it hours later and then simply moved on as if it never happened, never explaining how multiple outlets could possibly have all “independently confirmed” the same blatant falsehood.

On Thursday night, The Washington Post, citing anonymous sources (of course), claimed that the FBI gave a "defensive briefing” to Rudy Giuliani in 2019, before he traveled to Ukraine, that he was being targeted by a Russian disinformation campaign to hurt Joe Biden's candidacy, yet he ignored the FBI's warnings and went anyway. The Post also claimed that the right-wing news outlet OANN was similarly briefed. The claim about Giuliani not only predictably ricocheted all over social media and cable news — where, as usual, it was uncritically treated as Truth — but it was shortly thereafter “independently confirmed” by both NBC News’ de facto CIA spokesman Ken Dilanian along with The New York Times.

What was the problem with this story? It was totally false. The FBI never briefed Giuliani on any such thing. As a result, The Washington Post had to append this "correction” — meaning a retraction — to the top of its viral story:

(see correction)

At first, The New York Times attempted to quietly change the story to delete the false claims without noting they were doing so. But upon being pressured, they finally faced up to what they did and posted their own retraction at the very bottom of the story that reads: “Correction: An earlier version of this article misstated whether Rudolph W. Giuliani received a formal warning from the F.B.I. about Russian disinformation. Mr. Giuliani did not receive such a so-called defensive briefing.” In their self-glorifying jargon, the Paper of Record did not spread Fake News — perish the thought — but merely "misstated” the truth. Meanwhile, NBC News, at the top of its false story, posted this explanation for why Dilanian got the story completely wrong:

An earlier version of this article included an incorrect report that Rudolph Giuliani had received a defensive briefing from the FBI in 2019 warning him that he was being targeted by a Russian influence operation. The report was based on a source familiar with the matter, but a second source now says the briefing was only prepared for Giuliani and not delivered to him, in part over concerns it might complicate the criminal investigation of Giuliani. As a result, the premise and headline of the article below have been changed to reflect the corrected information.

This credibility carnage was so glaring that even CNN acknowledged that “the corrections are black eyes to the newsrooms which have aggressively reported on Giuliani's contacts with Ukrainians in his attempts to dig up dirt on then-presidential candidate Joe Biden.” But there have been so many similar "black eyes” like this one, indeed far worse ones, over the last five years, and they never change anything that causes these "black eyes” because they want to do this: spreading disinformation is their function. Indeed, as I have asked almost every time these debacles happen: how is it possible that these same outlets keep "confirming” one another's false stories?

And the answer is obvious: they all serve as mouthpieces for the same propagandists and disinformation agents of the CIA, FBI and other security state agencies. In this capacity, they dutifully write down and vouch for what they are told by those agencies to publish without any investigative scrutiny or confirmation. The most amazing part of it all is that when they try to malign independent journalists for not doing "real reporting” — real reporting like these corporate outlets do — this is what they mean by real reporting: getting a call from the CIA or FBI and being told what to say. And that is why they so often mislead and deceive the public with blatant disinformation in unison.

It is hard to overstate how far and wide this false story about the FBI's briefing to Giuliani spread, how many millions of people it deceived. The two liberal cable outlets, MSNBC and CNN, instantly convened panels to analyze the grave implications of this revelation, accusing Giuliani of knowingly spreading Russian disinformation (by which they meant, as usual, truthful information that reflects poorly on Democratic Party leaders) even though he was told not to keep doing so by the FBI.

As usual, the MSNBC program of Nicolle Wallace — who has magically transformed from a disinformation agent for the Bush/Cheney White House into an identical disinformation agent but now for the DNC — was one of the leaders in spreading this lie. She brought on former FBI agent and current MSNBC analyst Clint Watts to do just that (just as Wallace dramatized how Brian Sicknick died by falsely claiming that "they beat a Capitol Police Officer to death with a fire extinguisher" and repeatedly glorified Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) as a great and truthful leader on COVID):

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https://greenwald.substack.com/p/corporate-news-outlets-again-confirm

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By Gus Leonisky at 6 May 2021 - 9:25am
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unfree, in shackles...

Slavoj Zizek discusses cancel culture and censorship on Tara Reade’s RT podcast

Many are living in a state of ‘unfreedom’, Zizek said

Slavoj Zizek, the “most dangerous philosopher in the West,” joined Tara Reade on her RT podcast ‘The Politics of Survival’ to discuss the censorship that is currently growing and happening on both sides of the political aisle.

New forms of “de facto censorship” are appearing today, Zizek told Reade during their wide-ranging conversation, and much of it is beginning to come from liberals, who are introducing an “even worse censorship” hidden under the guise of “progressive” politics.

“One word can literally ruin your career,” noted Zizek, the author of ‘Heaven in Disorder’. He and Reade turned to ‘Harry Potter’ actress Emma Watson to prove their point. She received backlash even from the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations after recently posting an image from a pro-Palestine protest.

“Anything you say can be used for whatever purpose,” Zizek said of anti-Semitism accusations thrown at Watson and others, noting that making “abstract” arguments helps in labeling certain views as hateful.

READ MORE: Comedian Ron Placone talks cancel culture on Tara Reade’s RT podcast

Such control and de facto censorship is derived from “unfreedom,” the author declared at one point, noting Julian Assange currently facing numerous charges for simply publishing material that shone a negative light on the US government and others.

“You are free, but you are free within certain coordinates which are tightly controlled and regulated,” he said.

https://www.rt.com/news/546003-tara-rade-cancel-culture/

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By Gus Leonisky at 17 Jan 2022 - 6:39pm
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shutting up the truth...

America's demonization project against me is complete

I’ve been vilified, hounded and denounced for nearly three years since making my sexual assault accusation against Joe Biden. But will I shut up? Hell, no

BY Tara Reade

In the cancel culture era in the United States, the irony of displaying political correctness while vilifying someone is prominent. Cancel culture is devouring itself. Because I came forward about an elite politician three years ago, who now happens to be the president of the United States, I have been called a liar, whore, slut, accused of treason, and worse. My private parts and what I wore under my clothes when assaulted have been discussed publicly and my private life combed through by major media outlets.

These ‘journalists’ kept looking under my bed for Russians and, when they found none, they made it up. I have been called a traitor because I have spoken positively about Russia. Someone sent me a picture of a mass grave, saying I should be in it. Others asked when I would commit suicide. Some taunted me, saying they would come kill my pets or me. Just words, only words (some too vile to repeat here), except when the attacks came into my real life and destroyed it, my work, my reputation, my security – then those words became like daggers.

The celebrities and prominent journalists going after me don’t cease in their campaign against me, so incensed are they that I refuse to be silent. Like Edward Dovere, a senior CNN reporter, who on an almost monthly basis sends out tweets like these:

Tara Reade, the one-time Biden accuser who once disavowed her past pro-Russia blog posts as creative writing, has been promoting Russia’s position in the Ukraine situation in recent tweets - including through promoting articles from Kremlin media pic.twitter.com/lh7p1yY2S6

— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) February 6, 2022

Death threats, ugly emails, and threatening emails follow. Why is a leading CNN reporter allowed to come after a US citizen for being pro-peace? And for telling the truth?

No one at his organization will take action against him, and no establishment politician will denounce him, because this is how it works. America’s demonization of me is complete. They want to silence me, humiliate me and vilify me, so that no one will believe my words about what Joe Biden did to me.

This villainization by the media and social media has happened to many others too, of course – female sexual assault victims like Rose McGowan and Juanita Broaddrick. But it also happens to those who don’t toe the correct line, or who expose America’s crimes, like Joe Rogan and Julian Assange. The list of the canceled in today’s America is becoming vast.

There are real-world consequences that flow from these online witch burnings. One dark night in the late spring of 2020, after work, I was driving down a remote, country road in California. An SUV started to tailgate me, then began to push my car from behind. I slowed down and took evasive action, thinking it was someone with road rage.

My phone was dead. I swore at myself for not having charged it. The SUV sped around me with bright headlights on and continued. A few minutes later, it was back, only this time, it was in my lane – the wrong lane – speeding towards me. Trying not to panic, I went to the edge of my lane, but there was a steep ravine off the roadside, so I moved into the oncoming lane. The car moved with me, so I swerved back, and it followed my movement again with precision. In the last seconds before we smashed head-on, it swept around me so close that, with my window open, I could see the vehicles’ mirrors almost clash. It sped off. I went to a place to pull over and gathered myself.

Soon afterwards, I received an email threatening me. The email address was fake and went to an expired website. I reported it to the authorities to no avail. To this day, I do not know if the two events were connected or not. Was this a targeted attempt to harm me by some attacker, or a chance encounter with a psycho stranger? On the heels of this came more threats on my life via phone and social media, the hacking of my email, and threats against my daughter. I moved out of state.

I do not share all this to garner sympathy, as I need none. I have had an adventurous life that included years in acting and modeling from the age of 16. In my political life, I enjoyed many interesting situations, despite my negative experiences with Biden. My point is that, before this demonization campaign, I had already survived a great deal. I was beaten and almost strangled to death by my ex, and afterwards became an advocate for others.

I trained with the Seattle police for victim support and became certified as a trainer with US Homeland Security for domestic violence prevention, and, later, as an expert witness. I did dangerous work that put me in harm’s way. I learned to navigate safety planning. I learned how to disappear. I say this to emphasize that I had the training and skills to deal with difficult, dangerous situations like the ones I am now subjected to. Now, imagine the poor survivor who does not have these skills or my resilience?

Even I, however, underestimated the viciousness of the media cycle. When all the vitriol came at me, I knew these were all tactics to get my silence about what Joe Biden did to me when I worked as his Senate staffer. I have no doubt that the sustained attacks were fuelled by his resources and connections. I have been up against a vicious political machine. However, I stand on the strong shoulders of those brave women who came before me, like Rose McGowan and Juanita Broaddrick.

I knew I had to create a psychological structure that would protect me so I could continue speaking the truth unfettered by the noise around me. Several people warned me this would all happen after I came forward. Rose McGowan, Anita Hill, Chris Wallace, and Megyn Kelly, to name just a few, warned me about the crazies and coordinated attacks that hound people at the center of a public discussion, especially one so politically fueled.

Rose has gone through all of what I experienced and worse. Slowly, I built a support system around me that helped me cope with the journey. All the while, I knew I was politically inconvenient and expendable. I am just a normal, average citizen without access to expensive resources, but I have learned to face my fears and push past them. The demonization script employed against me only worked to a point, and I pushed back.

The American landscape has become quite rough for any whistleblower or anyone with a dissenting opinion from the elites. As both parties weaponize sexual misconduct claims for their own use, it is imperative to continue to call out the hypocrisy of the American ruling class.

For me, as a young Senate staffer, democracy died when a man I respected, who had power over me, would not accept no for an answer and took my body without my consent. And then destroyed my career because he could. In that moment, a determination ignited in me to continue fighting for the truth and the rights of women – the war is not nearly over.

The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT.

Gus knows of similar events as reported by Tara Reade...

https://www.rt.com/news/549096-america-sexual-assault-demonization/

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By Gus Leonisky at 14 Feb 2022 - 2:39pm
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The inside story of how Twitter suppressed a damaging story regarding US President Joe Biden just weeks before his election was finally revealed in a multi-part post published to the social media giant.

Twitter began censoring mentions of an explosive October 2020 New York Post report detailing the sordid contents of a laptop left by Hunter Biden at a computer repair store---going as far as to suspend the account of White House spokeswoman Kaleigh McEnany---under the excuse that the Biden story was in violation of Twitter’s “Hacked Materials policy,” investigative journalist Matt Taibi revealed Friday.

"Twitter took extraordinary steps to suppress the story, removing links and posting warnings that it may be ‘unsafe.’ They even blocked its transmission via direct message, a tool hitherto reserved for extreme cases, e.g. child pornography," Taibbi said a Twitter thread.

1. Thread: THE TWITTER FILES

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 2, 2022

Per Taibi, in many cases Twitter did so despite lacking any proof for their claim that the laptop material had been obtained through illegal means. And email records indicate they knew it, too.

“I support the conclusion that we need more facts to assess whether the materials were hacked,” Twitter’s Deputy General Counsel Jim Baker reportedly wrote at the time in an email.

“Hacking was the excuse, but within a few hours, pretty much everyone realized that wasn’t going to hold,” one former Twitter employee reportedly told Taibi. “But no one had the guts to reverse it.”

In another leaked email exchange, Trenton Kennedy, Twitter’s U.S. Policy Communications Manager, admitted he was “struggling to understand the policy basis for marking this as unsafe” as well.

Noting that the company will “face hard questions on this if we don't have some kind of solid reasoning for marking the link unsafe,” Kennedy proposed an excuse that could be fed to the public: “I think the best explainability argument for this externally would be that we're waiting to understand if this story is the result of hacked materials.”

Subsequent investigations by US law enforcement and media outlets would confirm the story was not, in fact, the result of hacked materials. But at that point, there was heavy speculation to the contrary.

And less than a week later, at least 50 former senior US intelligence officials signed an open letter insisting without evidence that the laptop revelations had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”

Facebook* also censored the story at the time, and the CEO of its parent company, Meta*, suggested in August that the move was implemented at the behest of the FBI.

“Basically, the background here is the FBI, I think, basically came to us---some folks on our team---and was like, ‘Hey, just so you know, like, you should be on high alert,'" Zuckerberg said in an interview on Joe Rogan’s podcast.

“We just kind of thought: Hey, look, if the FBI, which I still view is a legitimate institution in this country, it’s a very professional law enforcement---they come to us and tell us that we need to be on guard about something, then I want to take that seriously,” Zuckerberg insisted.

Virtually every major Western media outlet refused to publish 2020’s ‘October surprise’ in the form of files on Hunter Biden’s computer which included videos depicting the future US president’s son smoking crack while engaging in sex acts, and emails linking some Ukrainian oligarchs with his father’s business dealings. Most papers took the view encouraged by the FBI that the laptop story was nothing more than Kremlin-sponsored disinformation.

Two years later, nearly all of them have backtracked. In November, CBS News joined the New York Times, Washington Post, NBC, and CNN in issuing a long-awaited correction acknowledging the laptop’s authenticity.

Social media users were abuzz with speculation after Twitter owner Elon Musk promised to reveal the full truth surrounding Twitter’s suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story in a viral post Friday evening.

“What really happened with the Hunter Biden story suppression by Twitter will be published on Twitter at 5pm ET!” Musk teased – in a post which racked up nearly half a million likes in just a few hours.

*Meta (Facebook and Instagram) is banned in Russia over extremist activities.

https://sputniknews.com/20221203/twitter-files-reveal-internal-doubts-about-hacked-excuse-for-censoring-hunter-biden-laptop-story-1104990020.html

NOTE: HAD THE LAPTOP CONTENT BEEN FULLY EXPOSED BY THE MEDIA — AS IT SHOULD HAVE — JOE BIDEN'S CHANCES TO BE ELECTED PRESIDENT WERE NIL. THE CONSPIRACY BY THE FBI AND OTHER INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES WAS TO PREVENT DONALD TRUMP BECOMING PRESIDENT AGAIN.

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