Posted on 11/30/2022 9:04:58 PM PST by weston
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At least there is some good news and sanity today.
Are you getting rested up?
Thank you for the ping about this.
I haven’t heard anything about this.
Prayers for the Agent’s family.
Yes, hopefully tomorrow I’ll get more done. Hope I sleep good tonight.
Thank you for last nights updates!
I left early last night on here and up early this morning for work,so I miss so much on here.
Thanks always!
My Christmas Holiday has turned into a nightmare!
I'll work more hours and see less of anyone!
Not happy at all! I wish I could just enjoy the holidays,but instead it's all about making money for the company you work for! Not Happy about it at all! More money cannot replace being with your loved ones!
Xi Inks Tens Of Billions In Deals With Saudis, From Huawei Cloud-Computing To Expanded Military Ties
The WSJ continues, “Missing from the leaders’ public statements was any mention of the more controversial aspects of a relationship that have raised the hackles of U.S. officials—such as advanced military sales, expansion of 5G and 6G telecommunications networks and pricing some Saudi oil sales in yuan, which accelerated this year.”
Among other areas of cooperation include urban development, housing construction, high tech complexes, as well as health, environmental, and energy-saving building projects, all related to the Saudi Vision 2030 and Beijing’s Belt and Road initiative.
Concerning the latter area, the WSJ details that “One of the agreements involves a top Saudi renewable energy company, Acwa Power, and the Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd.—China’s largest commercial bank, which is a direct participant in CIPS, the Chinese version of SWIFT—hinting at deepening financial cooperation between the countries”
It goes without saying that the China-Saudi summit is being held against the backdrop of strained Saudi relations with Washington, also as Saudi officials likely increasingly see America as a superpower in decline. This theme has also been on display with apparent cozier coordination with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, despite the Ukraine war, which has seen MbS firmly rebuff Biden’s pleas to produce more oil.
Meanwhile, there’s been a lot of media commentary in the West over just how “lavish” Xi’s reception in the kingdom has been, and for good reason. The below greeting included much more than a fist bump...
Sorry to hear that. That’s the bad thing about working in retail.
Thanks Rusty for the ping.
There it is for all to see.
Just as we thought.
Yes and just had to throw in my whine for the eve.Ha!
Dinesh D’Souza
@DineshDSouza
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These #TwitterFiles2 revelations are also indirectly exposing the censorship regimes at @Meta and @YouTube
. Can you imagine how the little nazis regulating those platforms are feeling? Their day is coming, too.
How did Proby do while you were gone all day?
I need to put up my Christmas village tomorrow. Ive got the boxes out and decided where to put it. That was a week ago!
I heard something really cute about chester. That was the red tabby kitten that I found a local home for. His new mom cleans the house of a friend of mine so I keep up with him that way. Anyway Janet told me that his mom said they have to watch out for shutting doors because he has been sitting on top of them. I gave no idea how he would get up there! And he is a big cat, he was going to be 13 or 14 lb. He must be at least 10 now. If not more. And he definitely wasn’t the most athletic. But it sure makes me feel better to hear these little stories about him. I wish I knew more about the others.
Good news.
Charlie Kirk
@charliekirk11
In 2018, I met with Jack Dorsey. I have never talked about this publicly before.
He assured me Twitter did not “shadow ban” accounts. Either he lied or these policies didn’t take effect until later, which is plausible based on what happened next.
Within 6 months of our meeting, I began to notice severe throttling of certain posts that were obviously being suppressed. I reached back out to the executives I had previously met, and while attempting to get answers to the drop in engagement, they just stopped responding.
In 2019, Axios named my account as one of the Top 10 most engaged in the county. Then, in the run-up to the 2020 election, I witnessed a precipitous, massive drop in engagement. It was obvious at that point I was being directly targeted and censored.
While some Tweets still seemed capable of breaking through it became very rare, and after January 6, basically overnight, I lost 200k followers (presumably, according to Twitter at the time, these were bots?) and engagement was essentially dead.
For the next two years, I had zero engagement and zero follower growth, but Twitter would still trend “Charlie Kirk” if someone else tweeted about me.
Since Elon’s purchase of Twitter, I’ve seen follower growth and engagement ramp back up significantly. Not quite back to 2018/2019 levels, but close.
Now we know why.
We will never know how much damage Twitter’s censorship of my account and others’ has done to the public discourse, the marketplace of ideas, my work at TPUSA, or the 2020 Presidential election. Twitter may be a private company, but this was digital tyranny, full stop.
I’m happy Elon Musk and Bari Weiss have confirmed my account was targeted, but every Twitter user deserves to know if they too were targeted in some way. Twitter should publicly release ALL information on shadowbans, no matter how large or small the target was. Let the truth out.
https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1601035080280915970
Homeopathic peril
https://www.uncoverdc.com/2022/12/02/urgent-action-fda-plans-to-ban-homeopathic-medicines/
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
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Replying to
@AmandaMilius
Twitter isn’t using Perkins Coie. No company should use them until they make amends for Sussman’s attempt to corrupt a Presidential election.
Glad for that response from Musk. It seems that everyone thinks PC still has its hands in Twitter. Glad it’s not true.
Dan Bongino
@dbongino
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We ALWAYS knew we were a target of the Twitter suppression machine. ALWAYS. Yet liberals insisted it was another “conspiracy theory.” Tonight is vindication, yet I expect no apologies from liberals. They live to abuse power and they’ll make no apologies for doing so.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
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Replying to
@DavidSacks
As @bariweiss clearly describes, the rules were enforced against the right, but not against the left
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