CodyyyGardner Categories Government
demanding that media publish the presidents words with no editorial interference is exactly what the founders were worried about when they created 1A.
It\u2019s a little surreal to see the traditional anti-censorship discourse newly applied to the most powerful man in the world right after he incited a mob that attacked a rival branch of government to overturn a free and fair election.
— Matt Pearce \U0001f985 (@mattdpearce) January 9, 2021
free speech absolutists demand (checks notes) that the NYT allow Trump to write all its headlines.
the first amendment was not meant to allow the president to seize control of all media. it seems weird that you have to explain this to free speech defenders.
this is what happens though when you fetishize the speech act and completely lose track of what freedom of speech was supposed to do in the first place.
the president is literally the person the 1A is supposed to *protect media from.* It's supposed to allow media to criticize him and have an editorial policy independent of the government!
What is the real relationship between Kerry and Zarif? Does Iran truly control its own
Why did Obama have to mislead the American people in order to do a deal with Iran?
Jan 25 2018
CONFIRMED.
https://t.co/Y8k4D0ja4w📁
Why did HUSSEIN travel ahead of POTUS?
"Trump would not be in office for long, suggesting he could be out in a year."
Re-read crumbs.
Future unlocks past.
Q
Note - the Q item is quoted.
"The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change is a non-profit organisation set up by former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair which proclaims its ambition as being to help make globalisation work".
https://t.co/qMotcsqrsI
Who exactly, are "OUR TEAMS" Tony? Who decided they could be "EMBEDDED" in Governments around the World? Why Weren't the Public Consulted?
Our teams are now embedded in governments around the world, helping them to keep their people safe during this pandemic - not just in respect of Covid-19 itself but also the political and economic collateral damage.
— Tony Blair Institute (@InstituteGC) May 9, 2020
Watch Tony Blair's update on our response to #COVID19 \U0001f447 pic.twitter.com/7G8Id9MTP1
https://t.co/1OZT7wDAno
"The Tony Blair Institute (TBI) & Oracle have brought cloud technology to Africa to manage public health programs. Ghana, Rwanda, and Sierra Leone will use the new Oracle Health Management System to create electronic health records for vaccination programs
https://t.co/2G004hNGen
3rd January
"Tony Blair urges UK to step up vaccination programme"
The entire country must be placed under a Covid-19 vaccination programme, according to Tony Blair. He insisted that a goal should be set to increase vaccinations to five million per week.
https://t.co/I1rZ2cqUaW
"Tony Blair 'was bidding for contracts with the EU for his 'institute for global change' as he campaigned against Brexit".
MPs are being asked to shovel through, in a single day, a bill that was published yesterday, implementing a treaty agreed six days ago, which comes into force tomorrow night. The European Communities Act 1972 was debated in Parliament for 300 hours. Today's bill will get about 5.
MPs will have at most four minutes to speak on a trade agreement covering more than 1,200 pages. Few will have had time to read it anyway, and their votes will mostly be cast by the Whips. The entire charade will be over shortly after lunch.
Today's legislation doesn't just transform our trade relations. As @jeff_a_king points out, it gives ministers the power to rewrite vast swathes of domestic law without further scrutiny. It is a massive transfer of power from Parliament to the Executive.
Third, the general implementation powers contained in cl 31 allow ministers to make any law that is required to implement the agreement by regulations - and that this power can be used to do anything an Act of Parliament can do (including amend the bill/Act itself).
— Jeff King (@jeff_a_king) December 30, 2020
Parliament has to do this with the legislative equivalent of a gun to its head. The UK's current terms of trade with the EU cease to exist in 48 hrs. MPs cannot inflict a crash-out on their constituents, so all that's left for the Opposition parties to argue about is positioning.
The US DOJ has already said it intends to appeal. The question -- and I'm hearing different things on this -- is whether the courts will keep Assange imprisoned while that appeal is pending. The court ordered him released, but it's unclear if the DOJ appeal will keep him in jail.
This wasn't a victory for press freedom. Quite the contrary: the judge made clear she believed there are grounds to prosecute Assange in connection with the 2010 publication.
It was, instead, an indictment of the insanely oppressive US prison system for security "threats."
Ultimately, though, from a humanitarian *and* a political perspective, what matters most is that Assange be freed as soon as possible. The US Govt doesn't care what prison he's in, or why: they just want him silenced and in a cage.
He should be freed immediately.
The full ruling is at the link. Savor the last, sweet paragraph.
https://t.co/edZcOywXUE