on because they had promised with great certainty that it was ninety nine percent certain that hillary clinton was going to win the data they saw or they chose to look at was hillary clinton was going to win but that turned out to have been news they were wrong so since then we've had this whole backlash against fake news not the one they presented but what the individual citizens of america have been presenting so in the past week we saw facebook shut down these pages of activist groups here in washington d.c. they shut down their facebook group because they said they acted like russians well it turns out they were actual citizens of america that are activists who were here in washington d.c. they were organizing to basically counter protest against the nazis that are coming into town to protest so they wanted to counter protest them facebook deleted them on the word of atlantic council and they're gone so also in the past week we saw

under pressure from the resistance online that they took down a conspiracy theorist in the united states called alex jones they took down all his social media footprint data center ordinated attack between you tube google the other google properties apple to come off their apple i to facebook they all i deleted him from existence really at the center at the same time within the same hour. and alex jones yeah who's just basically a satirist is said in court he's a performance artist there for the us to have a call there is the same threat and act as that cold air love hate strong s. and you know judges are part of the network that does the macabre so that's what they will it's competition assert you know this is this is. competitive behavior yet this was like a coordinated attack within one hour it all happened within one hour. all the

social media that the big four because we always have big for everything big for accountants big four banks big for tech monopolies oligarch police and they all to come down of course this was quite similar to when wiki leaks was also coordinated to cut off from the financial grid and that was the beginning of this wave of censorship where of course it's it's not the government it's these private corporations and somehow they can cut you off from the grid that is really under the domain of the government normally but that the monopoly for these many rails of our our economies and our societies have been handed to private corporations in the us it's not us something government it's these corporations well you know during the previous robber baron great wealth was accumulated by carnegie's in the melons and things like that there was a sense that they had enormous influence over society and then gauging the whole self-censorship and the stupak ation of the population know they want about

creating public libraries they said you know we can do we can educate people so that when they're faced with multiple messages from different allies they have the education to give themselves agency in this multimedia world and you had in the sixty's were probably the apotheosis of the well informed educated media savvy america but since that time seventy's of course off the gold standard replaced hard money with money and junk money and junk media now the government saying that nobody in america has the intelligence to decipher what's right or wrong accurate not accurate fake news propaganda real news is the day they come in and with that a giant diaper and said you we need it where this diaper all day long and will make sure you get it big because you choose to do baby you can't have any of it but the . but in terms of our public squares in our public spaces now our reality

is that most people spend their time online that is where they meet up with other individuals that's where they you know assemble on twitter on facebook but there aren't very many different options for the critical mass that you get from those monopolies you know they say if you're with a friend in the words in the bear starts chasing you you don't have to run the berry just run your friend you know alex jones i was the guy that figured they'd get first. but now that they've taken him off the air i'm feeling like they're coming after me that it's a the truth because. they need complete unanimity in their message because remember they're hopped up to go to war and they want as many young men to sign up so they've got to get the propaganda machine rich deep strong and any

dissent must be squashed well by the way alex jones is part of a long line of american sort of hucksterism of american talk radio that has been around for one hundred two hundred years that people have a lot of southerners especially talk like this there's a lot of snake oil salesman this is part of american history if you've ever read sam of commons or mark twain or any of this literature of the are you know eighteenth or nineteenth century america you would say this is like is no different from a long line of american freaks like this is what we do we're big car at the same satirist like jot the swift he out things about eating children and things that are patently over the top or orson welles the war of the worlds now of orson welles did more of the world today the martian lobby would come out and say that you're infringing upon martian transsexuals or a martians or green people and you're

a man they needed their own bathroom right and then they would be pilloried and destroyed and one of the greatest authors of broadcasters motion picture and directors and writers in american history would have his career still crushed worse than the aftermath of citizen can't well again like who is who is deciding what speech is is fair with speech is good which feat speech is bad like who should be banned like i said they had led to council is a think tank who are financed by i think partly from the u.s. state department but mostly from like government which by the. like you can say a lot of things and there's no first amendment there's no right to free speech there and yet they're getting to decide what is allowed to be heard by american citizens where we're supposed to be allowed to say whatever crazy idea comes into our head and not be punished for it we're allowed to assemble with freaks and not be punished for it because the hard protection but here the argument is

a lot of people say well they're private companies and therefore they can block whoever they want because you don't have free speech on there but if they have a monopoly on those those rails of just like the television used to when we said three or four television channels and now we have i don't know thousands but before when we had one only a few television channels where everybody got their news they were more you know they had to allow public access they had to allow every freak of america had a show locally in new york city or somewhere like that and i'm sure these media companies off soon get into the business of selling air and if you are a friend of the media companies you will be allowed to breathe air if you're not a friend of the media companies you will be a fix yet it to death the airwaves are simply the public's public domain and when corporations with governments collude to diminish the public still

maintain the public loses its ability to have a common space that would define itself in terms of western civilization we're going back to centrally to the dark ages where you've got feudal lords like these media barons who are rationing out. barest a minimalist type of self-sustaining little paper trinket dollar nonsense to keep in slave population just healthy enough to keep clicking on it at facebook but not strong enough to stage a successful revolt that's feudalism that's coming right now it's happening here in washington d.c. maybe tramples stop it maybe not the other thing i want to point out is that we have been covering this notion in china of the social credit score and if you have if you're a bad member of society and it could be things like you walked you jaywalked or you

went over the speed limit at one point and the government gives you a social credit score that you get denied access to things like twitter to things like why it's a little pollution are so bad in china yet they wear face masks masks and it's connected to your i phone connected to the government if you say something as a government they will turn down your oxygen into the mask may do is remain i'm sort of it's you get to zero your debt that's like saif i possibly future but right now today everybody here and on m.s.n. b.c. on fox news on c.n.n. all the media agree on every commentator on twitter agrees that that is like totalitarianism this social credit score and yet they pushed for the same thing to happen to alex jones basically he's been pulled from the grid in the same way that the chinese government is imposing on their citizens through the social credit score so it's very similar except for they're saying well because it's a private company because it's google and facebook and twitter that these are

private companies it's not really the government telling from companies are operating out of the public airwaves. the apples trillion dollar market capitalization should be in part reimbursed to every american in there for a one k. plans or there are a plans as a stock dividend the fact that they can privately. remove from the public domain the wealth of the nation and in return give censorship and an extraordinarily bankrupt few tile nightmarish quagmire of piss and write list junk it is not american obviously well i mean of course there's censorship resistance on the block chain and there are alternatives developing and i reckon that this is going to be a good time for those censorship resistant sort of social media platforms like minds that con like steam and like all these other places where you can go and it's literally impossible to delete your content so it's out there and it's up there but

in the meantime you know here again i just want to say that at least alex shows this conspiracy theories there's always the government behind every wacky conspiracy whether it's pizza gate or some other crazy theory but right now we have like lots of conspiracy theories presented on the mainstream media but those are kind of acceptable and they tend to be i believe my feeling is that when i watch rachel maddow in particular she's kind of seems like very similar to me in my eyes to alex jones but her conspiracies are that not the government but the people of the united states the voters are somehow involved in a conspiracy against the government and against the elite the crazy conspiracy theorists that they're all worthless they're all throw money at the bus forget about the back of the bus just run them over with the us we because we want rush limbaugh wonder bread and fake news so you die that's america hey i can break come

back right after this go away. virgos never great was founded on the rapes and the murders. nothing changed so we said oh response to these situations that we do in the ways. people get shot every day she is just people kill each other blood for killing children. so it was just no way that people are going to just sit back and allow children to be shot down by law enforcement. this country

doesn't work for us it doesn't function for us. this is this can't be happening in america we call from the streets we've got to deal with why this is the reason i have to ride like this is the reason. so it's seems wrong. when old rules just don't hold. any new low that is yet to stamp out these things to come to atlanta and in detroit because the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

keep i. sleep when you say i. welcome back to the kaiser report i'm max kaiser time now to turn to max blumenthal who is senior editor at the gray zone project max welcome back to kaiser report good to be back you know the one question i want to ask you and just keep in the back your mind is that there's a timeline of how the slippery slope that america's falling down into some.

absolute kind of tar pit of horribleness and we're going to we're going to come to that question a minute just keep that in the back you know my foot first. facebook they shut down the page for a local d.c. based anti-fascist group the headline shouted to the american public that it was the russians but the activists were not russians ok your thoughts yes this was one of the few facebook pages organizing a counter protest to the upcoming neo nazi unite the right march all of the pages that were shut down by facebook most of which average between zero and seven followers clearly a threat this must be putin's thirteen dimensional chess to like out match the u.s. by attracting zero followers all of them were left wing liberal sites and some of them may have been fake this one was real and as i said at the beach when russia gate really exploded into the open and i said this very publicly it will blow back

back on the left yet there's a point there's a point so when you go out there and you start censoring folks you know it now they can know where to stop and now it's blowing back it's all coming on the chickens are coming back and now it's like a just a madhouse of such a ship ok what is the atlantic council coup finances them what role is the atlantic council playing in monitoring and censoring content posted to facebook what anyone who's watching the show cares about independent media should know because facebook has been so important for those of us who are in alternative and. independent media that facebook has hired a group called d.f. r.l. lab which operates out of the nato and arms industry funded atlantic council also funded by saudi arabia and another bunch of pro freedom advocates in the gulf including turkey which arrests more journalists and any other country and. the job is basically to market facebook's findings and takedowns of these pages and to

justify it they put out a report on medium dot com justifying taking down these pages which were said to be russian they tried to link them to russia without coming up with conclusive proof the pages were wrecked the report was actually authored by the atlantic council's resident bot hunter who falsely identified two living human beings including a british pensioner and vala sits a ukrainian concert pianist as russian bots and here he's linked pages like resistors and a page on mindfulness and holistic living to a supposed russian propaganda plot to sow division in the u.s. there's a racial undercurrent in the findings on this medium dot com post that one of the pages that was taken down was dedicated according to the atlantic council to celebrating the beauty of african women and black pride and that they concluded was an attempt to divide americans and so division so celebrating the beauty of black

women is sowing division and that's how they're filching out these pages and it's it's very disturbing to me along with the fact that many of my alternative media colleagues like lee camp from redacted tonight have noticed that facebook is de prioritizing their posts they've refused to allow me to take out ads for my own factual reporting and they've basically put a ceiling on the amount of followers people like lee camp can get something fishy is going on and i'm sure he's been going to something less about alex jones for a second that he spent time in the doghouse for a while. ca is what i would call it extreme satirists is conspiracy theories etc are you know off the charts in terms of their connection to reality is that a lot of times us but we've seen the extreme such fire in the past and jonathan swift for example his work of eating babies and things like that work and said it's just anyway all these major media companies cook seemed like they colluded they got

on a conference call and they just all together at one time d. platform my thoughts on alex jones is that you know after nine eleven there was a lot of questioning about what was behind this attack and questioning of the official version i think there was an illegitimate side of the truth movement which was interested in internal explosions in the world trade center and you know false flags and there was a legitimate side that was interested in the saudi connection which we validated and you know question asking legitimate questions about blowback things like that alex jones role was to eliminate the legitimate side and take everyone and take all that energy that was questioning the bush administration in the official line and move it to the right he started injecting anti immigrant vitriol into the kind of truth movement and just generally moved everyone to the right i think in that sense he's actually benefited the establishment but at this point he's been singled out kind of as the most prominent and chaos causing conspiracy theorists so he's the

easiest target for silicon valley and collusion do you platforming across the board huge tech companies acting at the same time does that smack you what is there is there that if you have huge tech companies that can pretty much control everything we see and hear colluding with the government to shut down someone who i have nothing but contempt for and it's a precedent for shutting the rest of us down it has to be opposed on principle i said the same thing right julian sunshine someone i respect you know i say like he if you're out in the woods or their friend in a bears attacking you have to. run the bear is at that run your friend like for me out challenge with the guy who if they were going to come after alternative media they would eat him first yak which is the most recognizable right bigger right and he's to much so that they just ate him he made it into a you know richard linklater film you know that's a cult figure ok so he's not you know now the next layer you know who's next type of thing i mean there's they're totally without control by the way i would actually

say that our t. was first and it's the easiest target because it's russian backed you go after r t then you start taking on people who are simply you know private american backed individuals ok let me go to my my my original question is the timeline question i remember at the risk of this are you ok so this sounds like dystopian nightmare stuff like you read in one thousand any for you know like this is in like media out of control such a ship out of control so historically were what were the precedent for this where we've seen this type of behavior before historically or is this unprecedented and are we going down a slippery slope somewhere with all this because it seems like now or add a peer a point of no return in a lot of ways with something that's clearly out of control can you can you give us on a store a goal kind of view were we are it goes back to you know the founding of the united

states we've never been a democracy can look at the alien and sedition act which limited speech you can look at the palmer raids under wilson which were just used to basically round up anyone promoting socialism inside the united states and arrested an entire generation of leftist and destroyed the you know the first real left wing movement in the u.s. you can look at the mccarthy era everybody knows about the mccarthy era but now we're in a much more confusing era where a lot of people who are traumatized by the election of trump and the rise of trump ism. are willing to justify in their own minds the suppression of someone like alex jones who i find completely contemptible without considering the long term consequences and the consequences will be the same a limiting of speech this is being carried out by the i think the most dangerous element in the us which is the radical center the john brennan center the center of these you know former intelligence agents who've been hired is going radical center

what is it out a call center the you know the center of the american political mainstream which pushes the most radical policies from regime change around the world to structural adjustment policies on the third world and has completely destabilized entire regions of the world while posing as moderates they are the ones in control of the supposedly rules based liberal international order that hasn't serve the majority of people in the west and they cannot handle the fact that they are being rejected in the u.k. whether it's by people who voted for breaks that are people who are supporting jeremy corbyn and they've been rejected in the us whether it's by people who supported bernie sanders or what their vision of donald trump as an anti-establishment figure is and they came up with this plague of fake news in order to shut down alternative media as part of a general agenda to limit our freedom to think ok an international scene you've recently interviewed daniel ortega who's been

a president nicaragua's a six thousand and seven there's been some recent unrest violence what's going on first according to the mainstream media presents it and then according to what you believe is actually happening it's really shocking if you just google nicaragua you'll find a greek chorus of pro regime change grey propaganda in every outlet from the guardian to democracy now to the new york times and none of them did what i did have done what i did which was to actually go to nicaragua and talk to the masses send in east us. porters who were abused and tortured during a violent right wing coup attempt that nearly shut down the country cost it five hundred million dollars and was designed not just to topple daniel ortega but to destroy the send in east a movement of two to two point five million people one of the most cohesive movements per progress of social change to benefit workers in latin america and that's what this is about it was about destroying an example of socialism to the

rest of latin america it was funded substantially by usa id and the regime change arm of the united states the national endowment for democracy and we don't hear about any of that we don't meet any of the student leaders who were beaten half to death shot or tortured because they turned against this plan for regime change and we see no analysis of it what it was was a classic color revolution like the kind we saw in eastern europe blended with the horrors of libya and syria except fortunately for the people of nicaragua the rebels in this case were not armed by the u.s. they had been the bloodshed would still be continuing to send in these the government has defeated a coup and in the us media it's still being portrayed as some kind of people's revolution it was a right wing counterrevolution initiative in israel very similar very similar to what we saw in venezuela with the go team bus where the right wing opposition would close off entire neighborhoods with roadblocks to try to damage the economy they

would attack anyone any supporters of the government in that area and then they'd been given clashing with the police who were attempting to restore order they actually shared tactics online and even traveled to nicaragua to share their violent tactics and for the first time in nicaragua we didn't see this during the civil war in the one nine hundred eighty s. supporters of the sent in east as were burned alive burned alive that's what we saw in venezuela the republic you million people lashed to trees and strip nude and whipped on video i interviewed the wife of a. a police officer who on his day off was kidnapped by the opposition dragged by a truck and taken to a road block where he was burned alive on video the videos there for everyone to see but for some reason u.s. media isn't reporting this side and as i reported at the grey zone project doing working with a independent researcher in nicaragua to do a case by case analysis of each death that occurred between the middle of june and

april eighteenth when this kicked off send in east as have probably suffered more deaths more murders at the hands of the opposition than the opposition suffered at the hands of daniel ortega government so this is the big lie that is being pushed in congress and in the media that ortega and his government have killed over three hundred people that's totally false. the red sun thanks for being on the hazard thanks for having me what is going to do for this edition of the cause report with a mass geyser and states i would like to i guess max blumenthal you can reach us on twitter a times report the next time. the way to the united states is dangerous for most of the illegal immigrants.

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