"I support the 1st Amendment and Freedom of Speech. And I can't understand why the press are not also supporting @JulianAssange"- @jimmy_dore is now talking to @Suzi3D
Youtube superstar @jimmy_dore just called out @Acosta for grandstanding about freedom of speech in the White House, but not speaking out for @JulianAssange.
"Despite all the suppression, people are still flocking to you. 250,000 views of your videos compared to a few 1000 for CNN?. Why is that?"- "@Suzi3D to @jimmy_dore
"The people in the U.S. who are supposed to be telling us the truth are now owned by the people making the wars. There are now only six giant media companies." -@jimmy_dore
"In America we don't really have a free press. People are hungry for the truth. Jimmy Sanders was filling stadiums because he was giving them something they couldn't get from other politicians - the truth." -@jimmy_dore
"People liked Julian Assange when he told people the truth about the Iraq War. But when he started telling the truth about everybody else they didn't like him no more." @jimmy_dore
"Daniel Elsberg told me he thinks the U.S. is trying to create a precedent with @JulianAssange to go after the rest of the media, do you agree?" - @Suzi3D
What we are trying to do here Jimmy is to prevent that from happening - what can we do Jimmy? - @Suzi3D
The volunteers for #Unity4J are sending a message to everybody else, that "we're not going to take it," and I think the tide is going to turn. - @jimmy_dore
Those new 2600 volunteers that you have on Unity4J.com/discored they are sending a message to the world about this Julian Assange issue, listen up. - @jimmy_dore
The media are phonies. People who consider themselves liberal in the U.S. are not. @ChrisHayes wanted to cover Bernie Sanders but he was told not to do so, and he didn't. - @jimmy_dore
"Real comedians at their core are contrarians. And for me that lines up with the truth. E.G. with Julian Assange, its obvious why I need to stand up for him. But right now most of the comedians are going along with the B.S." - @jimmy_dore
What you should be making fun of at the moment is the system that gave us Donald Trump, not @realDonaldTrump . Everybody knows that what gave us Donald Trump, is 40 years of neo-liberalism. . - @jimmy_dore
5.5 million families lost their homes. And thats a lot of families. I make fun of the system because it is fun and because it is necessary. - @jimmy_dore
What a lot of people don't know is that @Wikileaks published all the Clinton opposition research into the Trump campaign, that stuff is all there, including all the donors, but most of that stuff was not reported. - @Suzi3D
"Of course they are corrupt and yes Trump should revoke their (the ex-intel chiefs) clearances. The media are wrong to be backing these guys. It is weird to see people on the left protecting the FBI that has always attacked the left." - @jimmy_dore
A: Guess what @BarackObama, all crimes happen in the past, you should have prosecuted these people. This shows how perverse a society we are living in right now. - @jimmy_dore
"People who ordered torture and lied us into war, whocommitted war crimes, are walking around free, while @JulianAssange who exposed war crimes is in solitary confinement and faces imprisonment for the rest of his life. Perverse" @jimmy_dore
Why is it Trump doesn't lift a finger against the military?
Trump is corrupt. There is no doubt about it. Which is why they can get away with doing what they are doing. Why does he go along? He's a plutocrat, he is one of them, plus he hasn't got a plan. - @jimmy_dore
"The intelligence community is messing with Trump left and right. They had a FISA warrant, so they could wiretap two people removed from that one person. They have nothing on Trump. They won't get him."- @jimmy_dore
"Lots of people say it was Bill Clinton who convinced Trump to run. They try to dismiss people by calling them conspiracy theorists, but what was the Iraq War if not a giant conspiracy." - @jimmy_dore#Unity4J
"I have to go but I just want to say thankyou to the 2600 volunteers, they give me hope. " - @JimmyDore
"If they touch a hair on @JiulianAssange's head there are 21 cities ready to have demonstrations. We have the embryo of a global movement here now. Thank you Jimmy." - @Suzi3D
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Everything about this @ABC news report is fishy. It was rushed into publication on Friday Night shortly after the #Unity4J vigil was started. The video in the header is more than a year old & only today did they add the audio of the IV with Assange's lawyer. /1
The story itself is full of blatant misinformation which might as well have been written by the CIA or State Dept, the rebuttal from Assange's lawyer - filmed last week - was added today to the already published story so clumsily that it breaks the layout. /2
Two video tweets have been added, the one above and this one, which has been tweeted three times.
And he is talking about how real power is exercised in the world. /2
Their decisions (to do bad things) are often done without malice, but too often these decisions are often made without reference to humanity, or to the consequences for ordinary people. /3
Trump demanded this summit. It was his plan, took place against advice – especially the bit where he agreed to meet in private with Putin. And it ended as monumental own goal for both Russia and Trump.
Yesterday Trump did to himself what nobody has been able to do, and nothing he has hitherto managed to do: he has made the GOP shy away from him. He also managed to frighten away a many of his Fox cheerleaders.
"Hamas and Islamic Jihad announced a cease-fire late Saturday night following regional and international mediation efforts after the most serious and widespread flare-up between Israel and Palestinian fighters in Gaza since the 2014 war."
Nested below are two tweets of the @CNN report, the earlier version from @CNNbrk the latest version of the Gaza escalation story now leads with the ceasefire. [The @haaretzcom and @CNN reports of todays events are both updates of earlier reports.] /15
Trump's visit to the NATO summit over the past day has been a confusing affair. A typical Trumpian press conference held around midday today bears little relation to both reality, nor what happened at the summit. /1
After a series of bellicose tweets berating NATO members for not spending enough money on defence (many containing falsehoods) the summit began very badly with this on camera attack on Germany. /2
Listening to coverage of Brett Kavanaugh's past, I decided to Google the judge and "Deep State" and out pops this article from Roger Stone on the odious website Infowars, warning Trump not to pick him. infowars.com/roger-stone-ka… /1
Roger Stone thinks Judge Brett Kavanaugh will betray the right, and cites the voting records of David Souter and John Roberts, appointed by the Georges Bush, and who he thinks served liberal interests rather than those of true conservatives. /2
Yesterday this @GOP tweet crossed my screen, I confess I was surprised to see that @ChrisCuomo and @chucktodd were commending the nominee, my first thought was that maybe the GOP was quoting them both out of context in these clips. /3