[GG] The same trends of repression, censorship and ideological homogeneity plaguing the national press generally have engulfed the media outlet I co-founded, culminating in censorship of my own articles.
Today I sent my intention to resign from The Intercept, the news outlet I co-founded in 2013 with Jeremy Scahill and Laura Poitras, as well as from its parent company First Look Media.
The final, precipitating cause is that The Intercept’s editors, in violation of my contractual right of editorial freedom, censored an article I wrote this week, refusing to publish it unless I remove all sections critical of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, the candidate vehemently supported by all New-York-based Intercept editors involved in this effort at suppression.
The censored article, based on recently revealed emails and witness testimony, raised critical questions about Biden’s conduct. Not content to simply prevent publication of this article at the media outlet I co-founded, these Intercept editors also demanded that I refrain from exercising a separate contractual right to publish this article with any other publication.
I had no objection to their disagreement with my views of what this Biden evidence shows: as a last-ditch attempt to avoid being censored, I encouraged them to air their disagreements with me by writing their own articles that critique my perspectives and letting readers decide who is right, the way any confident and healthy media outlet would. But modern media outlets do not air dissent; they quash it. So censorship of my article, rather than engagement with it, was the path these Biden-supporting editors chose.
The censored article will be published on this page shortly (it is now published here). My letter of intent to resign, which I sent this morning to First Look Media’s President Michael Bloom, is published below. see image:
As of now, I will be publishing my journalism here on Substack, where numerous other journalists, including my good friend, the great intrepid reporter Matt Taibbi, have come in order to practice journalism free of the increasingly repressive climate that is engulfing national mainstream media outlets across the country.
This was not an easy choice: I am voluntarily sacrificing the support of a large institution and guaranteed salary in exchange for nothing other than a belief that there are enough people who believe in the virtues of independent journalism and the need for free discourse who will be willing to support my work by subscribing.
Like anyone with young children, a family and numerous obligations, I do this with some trepidation, but also with the conviction that there is no other choice. I could not sleep at night knowing that I allowed any institution to censor what I want to say and believe — least of all a media outlet I co-founded with the explicit goal of ensuring this never happens to other journalists, let alone to me, let alone because I have written an article critical of a powerful Democratic politician vehemently supported by the editors in the imminent national election.
But the pathologies, illiberalism, and repressive mentality that led to the bizarre spectacle of my being censored by my own media outlet are ones that are by no means unique to The Intercept. These are the viruses that have contaminated virtually every mainstream center-left political organization, academic institution, and newsroom. I began writing about politics fifteen years ago with the goal of combatting media propaganda and repression, and — regardless of the risks involved — simply cannot accept any situation, no matter how secure or lucrative, that forces me to submit my journalism and right of free expression to its suffocating constraints and dogmatic dictates....
[Free Pressers] These are all proportionate responses to decades of blatant Chinese mercantilism and demonstrates the holistic approach the Chinese hawks in the White House are taking to the CCP.
I suspect this trend will continue, and another prominent Chinese company may now be in U.S. crosshairs.
Aviation Industry Corporation (AVIC) is a CCP-owned enterprise with over one hundred subsidiaries and China’s crown jewel military aerospace provider. It’s a critical element for China’s unrelenting quest to become a military and industrial dominating force and employs more than both Boeing and Airbus combined. While weapons of war are its core business, it also makes civilian products and is known to partner with U.S. companies.
The Trump administration placed AVIC on a list of firms controlled by the Chinese military back in June. With the U.S.-Beijing relationship continuing to deteriorate, and anti-Chinese sentiment at all-time highs due to Wuhan-originating Covid-19, this seems like a ripe target for new restrictions.
Its joint venture with Honeywell focuses on flight-control software and hardware. It works with General Electric to create avionics products. And it’s partnered with Textron to build business jets. All of this and its other U.S. ventures can be ended under the guise of national security.
The CCP can compel any Chinese company to work with the government and military at its whim. China hawks could make a credible argument that partnering with a Chinese company is de facto partnering with Chinese government; and it’s not much of a stretch. The overarching sentiment towards China is that of decoupling, and focusing on AVIC fits with this theme.
Just like the U.S. proselytized its allies to reject Huawei, it could also do so with AVIC. AVIC works with several European aerospace companies like Airbus and Safran, and those partnerships could be jeopardized, depending on how hard a line the U.S. takes.
The Trump administration has also started focusing on weakening business partnerships that directly help the PLA. With AVIC spending nearly $3.5 billion on 20 engineering and aerospace businesses in the U.S. and Europe, and a simple CCP phone call away from being compelled to help the Chinese military, one could easily see AVIC being earmarked under a more strategic, SMIC-type ban instead of the "national security" banner. If Trump gets a second term, I would not be bullish on AVIC's prospects in the U.S.
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#1
AVIC, in joint venture w/ Airbus, just announced they have assembled their 500th Airbus A320 passenger jet in China.
[Mises] Even if Trump somehow manages to win in November, the Left (i.e., "progressives" and social democrats) can rest easy knowing that the Left's influence over the country's institutions and ideological views have only increased in recent years.
Naturally, the Left has portrayed itself as somehow victimized, declaring itself to be "the resistance" and making numerous predictions of doom in which the opponents of the Left would gain untrammeled control over the population. In this view, the nation is always just a few days away from enduring a mixture of social Darwinism and theocracy as imposed by libertarians and conservatives, respectively.
After four years with the Trump administration in power, of course, the nation isn't even heading in this direction. Government control over healthcare isn't going away. Most states have only expanded Medicaid. Gun control laws have become more stringent, not less. Government spending has risen to unprecedented levels, and almost no political candidate at the federal level would seriously argue in favor of any substantial cuts. Anti-Christian rhetoric has become more fashionable than ever, so that now any Christian who actually practices his or her religion—i.e., Amy Coney Barrett—is portrayed in the media as a religious zealot. Even minor deviations from the demanded orthodoxy—such as actor Chris Pratt’s lack of enthusiasm for Joe Biden—earns hate campaigns from the guardians of acceptable public opinion.
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#5
Yes indeed #3. In my opinion covid has destroyed liberal institutions.50% of liberal colleges are projected to fail in the next few years. Conservative colleges are thriving. The new conservative age, nationalism, God and country has returned. With a Trump win and gaining the house and senate the country will achieve, achieve and achieve. We ain't seen nothing as yet. To the moon Alice or most likely Mars.
#9
In cases where the left wins it is because they (a) play to emotions over logic and (b) use new words, redefine old words, and intellectual sounding phrasing to make themselves seem so smart.
If they were truly winning honestly they wouldn't ditch the word liberal or progressive from time to time after their policies get discredited, again.
#10
I didn't see the left's "Willingness to cheat and do anything for money and power" on the list. I didn't see "Selling your soul to the devil" either.
#11
Pretty much on the mark. They won the education system and the media slowly over a period of nearly 100 years and with negligible opposition. The opposition was too busy working, building, inventing etc. - and supporting them - to notice.
#12
If they are winning why are they shouting and threatening so much these days? If they are winning why do they have to bury so much from other people these days?
Its not a sign of winning when you devolve into calling nearly half your population your enemy.
It's Kurt
[Townhall] The next few days will be a Cat 5 hurricane of mainstream media spin and Democrat bullSchiff designed to make you think that you've already lost this election. They want your morale shattered, your spirit broken, and you to put a lid on your participation in saving your country from leftist tyranny.
Think about the liberal tears that will flow when the networks are forced to croak out the magical words "We project that *sniff* President Donald J. Trump has been reelected" followed by, "It appears that the Republican Party has kept the Senate and has won a majority in the House.”
h/t HotAir
It is "futile and immoral" to seek herd immunity as a protection from a pandemic, and the transmission of an infectious disease like Covid-19 cannot be fully halted without a vaccine, Sweden's chief epidemiologist Anders Tegnell has said.
During the first wave of Covid-19 outbreaks in Europe earlier this year, Sweden decided against a national lockdown and its schools, restaurants, and shops remained open. However, people aged over 70 were cautioned to limit their social contacts.
Die Zeit reported that Dr Tegnell, who was the key person behind that approach, said Sweden is now at a critical juncture as the number of daily cases has increased by 70 per cent in a week.
Despite a rise in cases, Dr Tegnell said the curve was rising less steeply than in other countries and has not led to more people needing hospital admissions. Guess Andy still haven't grasped what "exponential" means.
p.s.
The Swedish government has insisted all along that it wasn’t pursuing herd immunity. What it’s done instead is take a middle-ground approach, which increasingly resembles the U.S. approach. It closed high schools and universities in favor of distance learning. It left elementary schools and businesses open, but encouraged people to take sensible precautions against infection. It advised the old and vulnerable to isolate themselves (https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2020/10/29/swedens-state-epidemiologist-says-herd-immunity-strategy-futile-immoral-cases-rise/)
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[GG] The same trends of repression, censorship and ideological homogeneity plaguing the national press generally have engulfed the media outlet I co-founded, culminating in censorship of my own articles.
Aviation Industry Corporation (AVIC) is a CCP-owned enterprise with over one hundred subsidiaries and China’s crown jewel military aerospace provider. It’s a critical element for China’s unrelenting quest to become a military and industrial dominating force and employs more than both Boeing and Airbus combined. While weapons of war are its core business, it also makes civilian products and is known to partner with U.S. companies.
[Mises] Even if Trump somehow manages to win in November, the Left (i.e., "progressives" and social democrats) can rest easy knowing that the Left's influence over the country's institutions and ideological views have only increased in recent years.
