Daily Mail article (“Kim Jong Un sends North Korean women to fight in Ukraine”) with the altered image has now been removed.
Link now redirects to Daily Mail home page.
No apology or explanation.
They AI altered a video from 2023 of Russian twin sisters Zhenya and Sasha, made them look Korean, and ran with the BS narrative of North Korean women soldiers fighting in Ukraine.
These lies from the media are pushing us to nuclear war, and they cry about how X is fake news. Daily Mail is fake news
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Fascism comes to New Zealand
It’s the abuser’s Swiss army knife for the empty-headed. Multipurpose, its meaning has near-infinite elasticity. You can be labelled ‘fascist’ if you say that there are only two biological sexes, or that women should not have to undress in front of men, or that men should be excluded from women’s sports, or that men can’t get pregnant, or even if you voted for Trump.
Such is the ignorance of the 1930s and 1940s that in contemporary discourse, ‘fascist’ has lost all meaning.
Yet, in a very real sense, New Zealand is now Fascist. If this seems an extraordinary statement, consider Mussolini’s widely reported (though not documented), definition [Emphasis added]:
“Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.”
This definition may not be to everyone’s liking, but has the virtue of simplicity and clarity. Moreover, it is an accurate description of what is happening in America, Europe, Australia and – as I shall show – New Zealand.
There can be no clearer illustration of the corporate rule of New Zealand than the stranglehold the pharmaceutical industry has on government and media.
CNN Correspondent Says the Quiet Part Out Loud – Admits Hunter Was Pardoned Out of Fear His Family Would Be Investigated by Trump
Jeff Zeleny, Chief National Affairs Correspondent from CNN, said the quiet part out loud on Sunday night after news broke that Joe Biden had granted Hunter Biden a blanket pardon for any criminal acts he partook in from 2014 to present including, trading influence for cash, trafficking prostitutes, and taking on the role of the Biden Family bagman.
Jeff Zeleny: We were told that this came to a head this weekend, and this is why President Biden decided now to do this. But as Isaac was just saying, that really is a sense of the conversation that has been going on really inside the family.
I’m told this has been very much a family discussion and something that has been not widely shared or discussed as a policy matter inside the West Wing.
But there was a worry of future prosecutions or future the potential of what the incoming Trump Justice Department could do.
So that, of course, is fretted in all of this as well.
But for now, this moment, this certainly is a decision that President Biden, I’m guessing, did not come too easily. But as you played that statement before, so much has changed since June when he told David Muir of ABC News that he would not do that.
Of course, his station in life has changed. Did not complete his campaign. So that is why, leading up to this, that’s why I’m told a decision was reached finally this weekend after spending time together in Nantucket.
Zelensky More Unpopular Than Ever After Nearly 3 Years Of War: Mainstream Media Admits
While the war-weary US and European populations have long ago lost their fascination with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, which was on display during his September trip to Washington—largely met with little enthusiasm even among Congressional leaders—it is less common for the mainstream media to admit his star power has completely faded.
However, a fresh assessment in Britain’s The Times newspaper details the extent to which there’s been a general “disenchantment” with him both at home and abroad as he’s clearly lost his “shine”.
Amid steady Russian military gains in the east, and under pressure by Washington drop the military enlistment age from 25 to 18 (which would be hugely unpopular among Ukrainians), if a presidential vote were held tomorrow Zelensky would very likely lose.
War on Women: The New York Times Refers to Actual Women as “Non-Transgender Women”
The New York Times has fully embraced the left’s efforts to erase women from society.
On Thursday, The Times published an article chronicling the turmoil caused by Blair Flemming, a biological male on the San Jose State University Spartans women’s college volleyball team.
Multiple teams in the Mountain West Conference have forfeited games rather than place their players in harm’s way.
Flemming’s inclusion has also resulted in a lawsuit against the Mountain West, alleging that allowing Fleming to play at San Jose State violates Title IX and the players’ First and 14th Amendment rights.
The New York Times used a story about Fleming and the controversy to erase womanhood entirely and characterize actual biological women as “non-transgender women.”
“The Mainstream Media is Dead! Long Live the Mainstream Media!”
The old mainstream media is dying, and has been for years.
This has only become more apparent in the weeks since Donald Trump was re-(s)elected. News that CNN is firing half their workforce, that MSNBC’s ratings continue to slump and is probably being sold, or that The Guardian is leaving X and in financial trouble are greeted with celebratory memes.
Newspaper readership has been dropping for decades, and television news channels struggle to drum up the audience of a moderately popular YouTube channel featuring cute cat videos set to quirky music.
And you know what? Great. That’s all good stuff.
CNN, MSNBC, The Guardian – all of them – they deserve to go under. Digital communication has allowed people to undermine and overthrow decades-old propaganda outlets.
But does that mean it’s over? Is Elon Musk actually correct when he reassuringly declares on X that “YOU are the media now”.
Well the answer to that depends on whether or not you think the same forces that spent untold resources constructing this system of information control are just going to give up and go home when it starts to fail.
I mean – does anyone seriously think they would?
You don’t think it ‘s rather more likely they’ll just regroup, re-calculate, and go again?
Remember – newspapers and TV channels are functionaries of the establishment, not the establishment itself.
For several centuries they have been crucial to the selling of ideas and agendas, but they are a voice not a brain. They’re just a tool of control. And tools can easily be swapped out.
One way or another, the internet has replaced television as the media now, just as television replaced radio and radio replaced print.
This is the Darwinian selection process that flows with the development of technology. And while each step of that path has in some ways led to the democratization of the media landscape, each step also saw those in power adjust their methods to the freer flow of information.
The “free internet” is just as vulnerable to money and influence of the “elite” as the “free press” was before it, only the tactics change.
In short, the mainstream media isn’t so much dying as evolving.
Today, if you want to a sell a story to the whole world you don’t need blaring red “Breaking News” banners on the ten o-clock news – you can fund an “independent podcaster” to interview a “whistleblower” on a set decorated to look impromptu and stripped down.
You pay YouTube to boost the video, or make a few short clips go viral.
When it’s popular enough, other youtubers and podcasters will start repeating it or posting “reaction videos”. It doesn’t even matter if they agree or disagree, either way you’ve set the parameters of the discussion.
Instead of full pages ads in the New York Times, NGOs, think-tanks and corporations can spend the same amount of money on a few thousand social media influencers.
NYT & Bloomberg Bury Rutgers Study Showing DEI Makes People Hostile
Corporate media outlets have buried, downplayed, or otherwise shelved a new study which reveals that “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) policies cause people to become ‘hostile’ – essentially seeing racism where none exists.
The new study from the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) and Rutgers University found that people exposed to DEI talking points about race, religion and gender form integroup hostility and authoritarian attitudes towards others.
“What we did was we took a lot of these ideas that were found to still be very prominent in a lot of these DEI lectures and interventions and training,” said NCRI Chief Science Officer Joel Finkelstein, a co-author of the study. “And we said, ‘Well, how is this going to affect people?’ What we found is that when people are exposed to this ideology, what happens is they become hostile without any indication that anything racist has happened.“
Researchers exposed 324 participants to two sets of reading material; a racially-neutral text about corn, or the writings of race-baiters Ibram X. Kendi or Robin DiAngelo. The participants were then exposed to a racially neutral scenario in which a student was rejected from college.
Scott Jennings Pulls Hilarious Reversal During Argument About X With Fellow CNN Panelists
If you’re not an X user, I can safely say you’re missing out on a great free speech platform that gives you the news faster than any corporate organization can, and what’s more, it is ideologically balanced, as all good platforms should be.
Elon Musk’s platform isn’t just a breath of fresh air, it easily changed the conversational landscape and, as a result, affected the political one. As free speech spread, the Democrat Party and the left lost its narrative edge, collapsing multiple attempts to push lies that may very well have shaped public opinion for the worse.
If you want proof that X is effective enough to shape the people’s opinion, look no further than the fact that CNN talking heads are mad about it. They don’t even want to discuss any positive reporting about it… even if it comes from CNN.
Scott Jennings was, once again, on a panel taking on his colleagues when the subject of X came up.
“I saw a survey this week,” Jennings began. “It’s now the most ideologically balanced user platform of any platform.”
Before he could even finish that sentence, fellow CNN Cari Champion was already trying to shut him down. She attempted to tell him “you cannot say that,” which is actually a phrase you’ll find repeated at Jennings quite often during these back and forths.
Host Audie Cornish asked for a source, causing Champion to ask for one as well, but Jennings, a man who clearly plays 4D chess, was ready with the answer.
“We’ve reported it on this network,” said Jennings.
Champion’s only recourse was to say that CNN’s reporting on X was “not accurate.”
Cornish didn’t let Jennings speak again, though he was clearly ready to, but you can see just how radical the leftists on the panel were when the question was posed if they would worry if Bill Gates bought MSNBC, to which Champion responded “no, because he’s sane.”
Who Takes International Law Seriously?
The Washington Post published a despicable editorial in response the International Criminal Court’s warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant:
But the arrest orders undermine the ICC’s credibility and give credence to accusations of hypocrisy and selective prosecution. The ICC is putting the elected leaders of a democratic country with its own independent judiciary in the same category as dictators and authoritarians who kill with impunity.
If the ICC had not issued these warrants in the face of the overwhelming evidence that the Israeli government was using starvation as a weapon, that would have been devastating to the Court’s credibility in the eyes of most nations. Everyone would have concluded that the ICC had bowed to American political pressure by letting these officials off the hook. It is a victory for international law that they didn’t allow fears of the insane backlash from Washington to influence their decision.
One of the problems that the Court has had since its inception is that Western and Western-backed governments always seem to get a pass when they commit war crimes. Many critics did complain about hypocrisy and selective prosecution in the past because for many years it seemed as if the ICC only went after African leaders. That started to change when the ICC issued a warrant for Putin’s arrest last year. The Post was singing a very different tune then, saying that the Court had taken an “important step” when it did that. There were no complaints about the wrong “venue” at that time. The Post had no objection to the ICC going after a war criminal leader that they oppose.
It will come as a revelation to the Post’s editors, but democratically elected leaders can be guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The ICC did not put Netanyahu and Gallant in the same category as dictators and authoritarians. They did that themselves with their brutal and atrocious policies. If they didn’t want to be classed with other rogue leaders, they shouldn’t have committed such terrible violations of international law.
Spencer Ackerman explained recently that the ICC struck a blow for international against the so-called rules-based international order. International law isn’t just for one’s enemies or the world’s pariahs, but it has to be applied to all equally if it means anything. As Ackerman put it, “It’s sufficient to observe here that international law requires universal application, while the Rules-Based International Order preserves American and allied Exceptionalism, making war crimes less about barred conduct than about who gets to commit it.” Cheerleaders of the rules-based order assume that some people and some states are above the law, and these warrants are a direct challenge to that. That is one reason why there has been such an angry reaction in Washington.
Israeli lawmakers vote to sanction Haaretz newspaper citing ‘damage to legitimacy of the state’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet unanimously voted on 25 November to cut ties with Israel’s oldest newspaper, Haaretz, citing its critical coverage of the war on Gaza and comments made by the paper’s publisher expressing support for Palestinian “freedom fighters” and calling for sanctions on Israeli leaders.
The liberal Israeli daily newspaper is Zionist in orientation but sometimes publishes reports that are critical of the government and sympathetic to Palestinians.
The cabinet voted to approve a proposal that would end government advertising in the newspaper and cancel all subscriptions for state employees and employees of state-owned companies.
Haaretz responded by saying the initiative was an attempt to “silence a critical, independent newspaper.”
The proposal came in response to comments made by Haaretz publisher Amos Schocken, who expressed support for Palestinians living under Israeli occupation during a speech in London last month.
According to CNN, Schocken stated during his speech that “It (the Netanyahu government) doesn’t care about imposing a cruel apartheid regime on the Palestinian population. It dismisses the costs of both sides for defending the settlements while fighting the Palestinian freedom fighters that Israel calls terrorists.”
“In a sense, what is taking place now in the occupied territories and in part of Gaza is a second Nakba … A Palestinian state must be established and the only way to achieve this, I think, is to apply sanctions against Israel, against the leaders who oppose it and against the settlers,” he added.
Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi, who spearheaded the proposal to cut funding to Haaretz, was angered by Schocken’s comments.
“We must not allow a reality in which the publisher of an official newspaper in the State of Israel will call for the imposition of sanctions against it and will support the enemies of the state in the midst of a war and will be financed by it,” Kari said in a statement.
Karhi also criticized the paper’s coverage of the war on Gaza.
“The decision came in the wake of many articles that damaged the legitimacy of the State of Israel in the world and its right to self-defense,” he said.
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