A Crash Course In US Empire Building

[Megaterio Llamas]

I was going to start a thread on the arrest in Paris of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov and I might still but it's a little late in the game.

However in my sniffing around for news on that story I came across this recent interview Tucker Carlson did with a very interesting guy named Mike Benz.

After listening for the first eighteen minutes my mind was already blown. This is a little bit about Durov, but it's mainly about the new censorship and antidemocratic liberal authoritarianism sweeping the West. The nuts and bolts of it, how it came about, the ideas behind it, how it works.

This is the most jolting, sobering, depressing, informative video I have come across on the web in quite a while.

[Megaterio Llamas]

[Tactless1]

Tucker's face looks so serious? Is it constipation??????

[Edge Guerrero]

Brazil top court threatens to suspend X operations in latest twist of ongoing feud

BY DAVID BILLER
Updated 10:40 PM BRT, August 28, 2024

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Wednesday threatened to shut down the local operations of X, formerly Twitter, unless its billionaire owner Elon Musk names a legal representative in Brazil within 24 hours.

The order from Justice Alexandre de Moraes is the latest development in an ongoing feud with Musk’s platform. The company clashed with de Moraes earlier this year over free speech, accounts associated with the far-right and misinformation on the platform, and it claims to be a victim of censorship.

Earlier this month, X said it was removing all remaining Brazil staff in the country “effective immediately,” saying de Moraes had threatened its legal representative in the country with arrest.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday notified X of de Moraes’ order in a reply to a post from the company’s global government affairs account on the social platform.

“In case of non-compliance with the determination, the decision could bring about suspension of the social media network’s activities in Brazil,” the court said in a statement.

In the United States, free speech is a constitutional right that’s much more permissive than in many countries, including Brazil, where de Moraes in April ordered an investigation into Musk over the dissemination of defamatory fake news and another probe over possible obstruction, incitement and criminal organization.

Brazil’s political right has long characterized de Moraes as overstepping his bounds to clamp down on free speech and engage in political persecution. His defenders have said his actions are lawful, supported by at least the majority of the court’s bench, and have served to protect democracy at a time in which it is imperiled.

https://apnews.com/article/brazil-top-court-elon-musk-de-moraes-028f7a9f65e3bf355518bbe9d1fbe564

[dass]

Tucker's face looks so serious? Is it constipation??????

A colonic flooding is so ordered???!!!

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[Edge Guerrero]

- That bald dude looks to much with Batman rogue DR Hugo Strange