Reporting Information and Facts at Times of War (and Information Wars), Dissent of Merit and Scepticism//Critical Skills Impermissible
POLITICIANS are generally corrupt. Some of the most "successful" ones are extremely reliant on corruption ("nice guys finish last") and it seems like a universal truism, globally or internationally applicable because cheating (or taking bribes from the rich) gets "results"*.
Some time today (in the afternoon) we'll probably know who got cast aside as "RTÉ announces unrivalled General Election 2024 Results coverage across all platforms" and at the moment it says: "It indicates Green Party first preference support stands at 4%; Labour at 5%; the Social Democrats at 5.8%; Aontú at 3.6%; People Before Profit-Solidarity at 3.1%; Independents at 12.7%, Independent Ireland at 2.2%, with others on 1.9%."
So in Ireland, TikTok (which is operated by and for the Communist Party of China) didn't quite prop up non-establishment candidates like in Romania [1, 2]. Romania is a priority if Putin wants the Soviet Union back.
"As an independent candidate," Daniel Pocock explained some hours ago, "I'm not expecting to get too many votes. Ireland is a country where traditions are very strong and people gravitate to the parties and candidates they grew up with. On top of that, my campaign was subject to distortion and obfuscation in Google search results. I will be happy if I get more than 5 votes but even that is not certain. In the last election, some independent candidates only got 23 votes each."
The reason we reproduce what Pocock has to say is that he has long covered a number of suppressed topics. He also has access to a lot of evidence, more so as a former insider.
The world needs more reporting, not jingoism. The world is full of white-collar crime, so the more people report, the better.
There's a SLAPP crisis in the UK and this new report says "Lords slam government inaction on SLAPPs, calling for action by summer [...] Lords say financial penalties for lawyers pursuing slaps should be 10,000 times higher..." █
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* Consider this new article from Daily Links. The US falls into insane levels of debt (approaching 103 trillion dollars in debt if folks also count personal ("household") debt and business debt, not just national debt) while bailing out Microsoft and letting Microsoft control the government. The latest article shows that Pelosi profits from this corruption and this is how she stays at the top. "Pelosi Sells 5K Microsoft Shares Ahead Of FTC Antitrust Probe, Marking Her Largest Sell In Years," says the latest headline. An associate says that it is a problem (among many others) worthy of revisiting at intervals. But it's tiring. It's happening all the time. The political systems are very badly compromised. In more transparent countries with free press it becomes more visible more quickly. Microsoft bribes everybody, even its opposition.