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#Hegseth #Nazis #history #FreedomOfThePress
"No Tab Pete Punches Down: Hitler’s 1942 Pivot as Hegseth’s Domestic Agenda
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The 'myth' of Rommel is a perfect example. Montgomery broke him by November 1942 and he was flown out of Tunisia in March 1943 with Torch closing from the west. The arrogant, impatient Nazi general was outsmarted and outclassed, losing badly. For two more years he was used a propaganda asset, until the regime demanded he commit suicide and staged his state funeral as killed by enemy wounds.
What followed for three and a half years was a regime that could no longer win a battle against an army, so it instead punched down like a bully who fixated on people who could not fight back. Sound familiar?
Europe-wide extermination was on the table by December 9, 1931, when the Münchener Post printed the Nazi party’s leaked plan for the Jews and its own word for the end state, Endlösung. The Nazis answered by destroying the paper and sending its reporters to Dachau. Historians who date the 'decision' to autumn 1941, at the peak of 'perceived victory' propaganda, are dating the moment the regime believed it could carry out what it had already published.
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On August 21 Hegseth’s Pentagon fired the editor of Stars and Stripes for insubordination after he called censorship a red line, four months after removing the ombudsman Congress installed to keep brass out of the newsroom. The paper that prints the plan gets shut first. Shocking but true fact, I have found zero Germans today who say they have heard of Münchener Post, or why Hitler called it a poison kitchen (Giftküche) and sent the publishers to concentration camps.
Pete’s purged Pentagon has performed the first two Nazi platform procedures in Iran: no fire discipline, 'max lethality', and a depleted magazine.
The third procedure is on the domestic side, and it was prepared before the Iran war. It was clearly Nazi doctrine as well, in preparation for the punching down that comes next.
In 2025 the administration sent 7,000 troops into American cities over the objections of their governors, put active duty Marines into Los Angeles during the immigration crackdown, and told the generals at Quantico that American cities were the training ground.
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The obvious hurdle is the November election. Trump said on May 12 he would not rule out troops at polling places. Hegseth, asked in April whether he would follow an order to seize ballots, called the question a 'gotcha hypothetical'.
It’s not a hard question, yet no tab Pete struggled to answer. Federal law since 1865 bars armed federal forces at the polls except to repel armed enemies of the United States, an exception no president invoked even during two world wars."
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Why has the Trump administration ordered staff to take polygraph tests? | Military News
In a major crackdown on information leaks, the Trump administration has ordered dozens of Pentagon officials to undergo…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #DonaldTrump #Espionage #FreedomofthePress #investigation #Iran #Media #MiddleEast #Military #UnitedStates #Us #US&Canada #USA #Weapons
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https://www.europesays.com/people/216333/ Why has the Trump administration ordered staff to take polygraph tests? | Military News #DonaldTrump #espionage #FreedomOfThePress #investigation #Iran #Media #MiddleEast #Military #News #PeteHegseth #UnitedStates #US&Canada #Weapons
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Why has the Trump administration ordered staff to take polygraph tests? | Military News
In a major crackdown on information leaks, the Trump administration has ordered dozens of Pentagon officials to undergo…
#UnitedStates #US #USA #DonaldTrump #Død #espionage #freedomofthepress #investigation #Iran #media #middleeast #military #News #pentagon #petehegseth #SecretaryofDefense #US&Canada #Weapons
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Pentagon polygraphs dozens of US military staff over media leaks | Freedom of the Press News
About 50 officers on the US Joint Staff have been interrogated over reports detailing depleted weapons stockpiles during…
#NewsBeep #News #Topstories #Europe #France #FreedomofthePress #Government #Headlines #investigation #Iran #MiddleEast #Military #TopStories #UnitedStates #US&Canada #Weapons
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https://www.europesays.com/people/216035/ Pentagon polygraphs dozens of US military staff over media leaks: Report | Freedom of the Press News #europe #France #FreedomOfThePress #Government #investigation #Iran #MiddleEast #Military #News #PeteHegseth #UnitedStates #US&Canada #Weapons
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https://www.europesays.com/videos/88018/ What does acquittal in the Daphne Caruana Galizia case mean for journalists? • FRANCE 24 English #FRANCE24 #FRANCE24English #FRANCE24 #FRANCE24English #FreedomOfThePress #Journalists #Malta #murder #news #SCOOP
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/277024/ Trump calls media ‘treasonous scum’ over reports of low Iran war munitions | Donald Trump News #DonaldTrump #Europe #FreedomOfThePress #Iran #Media #MiddleEast #Military #News #Opinions #Ukraine #UnitedStates #US&Canada #USIsraelWarOnIran #Weapons
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Trump calls media ‘treasonous scum’ over reports of low Iran war munitions | Donald Trump News
Comments are the latest swipe by US president against critical media coverage of what experts call troubling shortages.…
#Conflict #Conflicts #War #DonaldTrump #Europe #freedomofthepress #Iran #media #middleeast #military #News #Opinions #Ukraine #UnitedStates #US&Canada #usisraelwaroniran #war #Weapons
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https://www.europesays.com/videos/87536/ Outrage mounts in Malta after acquittal over journalist’s murder • FRANCE 24 English #CarBomb #DaphneCaruanaGalizia #fenech #FRANCE24 #FRANCE24English #FRANCE24 #FRANCE24English #FreedomOfThePress #infos #InvestigativeJournalism #journalist #Justice #killing #Malta #news #outrage #press #PressFreedom #Scandal #verdict
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https://www.europesays.com/people/213496/ Trump calls media ‘treasonous scum’ over reports of low Iran war munitions | Donald Trump News #DonaldTrump #europe #FreedomOfThePress #Iran #Media #MiddleEast #Military #News #Opinions #POTUS #PresidentOfTheUnitedStates #Ukraine #UnitedStates #US&Canada #USIsraelWarOnIran #Weapons
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https://www.europesays.com/videos/87291/ Kenyan editor found safe after abduction by armed men • FRANCE 24 English #abduction #Africa #AttacksAgainstJournalists #democracy #EDITOR #FRANCE24 #FRANCE24English #FRANCE24 #FRANCE24English #FreedomOfThePress #infos #journalist #kenya #kidnapping #medias #nairobi #news #press #PressFreedom
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https://www.europesays.com/people/212723/ Hungary’s Election Could End Orbán’s Rule. Will it End His Power? #authoritarianism #CentralAndEasternEurope #CivilLiberties #Democracy #DonaldTrump #ElectionInterference #Elections #europe #EuropeanUnion #FreedomOfThePress #Hungary #LocalVoices #NewsMedia #OrganizationForSecurityAndCooperationInEurope(OSCE) #PeterMagyar #Russia #TrumpAdministrationSecondTerm #ViktorOrbán #VladimirPutin
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In the First Amendment, the Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. The Government’s power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government. The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.
Hugo Black (1886–1971) American politician and jurist, US Supreme Court Justice (1937–71)
New York Times Co. v. United States 403 U.S. 713, 717 (1971) (concurring)More about this quote: wist.info/black-hugo/36400/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hugoblack #scotus #censorship #firstamendment #fourthestate #freepress #freedomofthepress #government #journalism #media #meme #priorrestraint #SCOTUS #tyranny #watchdog
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Trump threatens to report journalist Kristen Welker to broadcast regulator | Donald Trump News
The Federal Communications Commission under Trump has tried to target news outlets for spreading ‘fake’ news. Published On…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #CA #Canada #DonaldTrump #FreedomofthePress #Media #Politics #Regulation #UnitedStates #US&Canada
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Iran’s leader calls for Muslim unity and other Mideast news
Iran’s supreme leader called on Muslim countries to stand together against Israel and the United States, imploring them…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #Activism #Assault #breakingnews #Business #FreedomofthePress #Generalnews #iranwar #Islam #Israel #Militaryanddefense #ML--Mideast #Television #Worldnews
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RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/117181483436647924
The Trump regime is scared of facts. They need #propaganda only.
#Fascism #Authoritarianism #FreedomOfSpeech #FreedomOfThePress #Midterms #ElectionInterference #Censorship
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Trevor Noah implores U.S. journalists to ask themselves this one vital question
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“Long live Stars and Stripes and the honorable service the paper has provided for decades to soldiers and to the nation.”
#starsandstripes #usmilitary #journalism #freespeech #freedomofthepress #hegseth
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/stars-stripped?r=1emko&utm_medium=ios
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Trump’s war on Stars and Stripes: Why has military newspaper chief quit? | Freedom of the Press News
Max D Lederer Jr, the longtime publisher of the United States military publication Stars and Stripes, announced his…
#NewsBeep #News #Topstories #Europe #Explainer #France #FreedomofthePress #Germany #Headlines #Media #Military #TopStories #UnitedStates #US&Canada
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The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·The Iranian YouTube Show Posing Questions Few Dare Ask
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/15/world/middleeast/iran-youtube-show.html
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Had there been a literary censorship in Rome, we should have had to-day neither Horace, Juvenal, nor the philosophical works of Cicero. If Milton, Dryden, Pope, and Locke had not been free, England would have had neither poets nor philosophers; there is something positively Turkish in proscribing printing; and hampering it is proscription.
[S’il y avait eu une inquisition littéraire à Rome, nous n’aurions aujourd’hui ni Horace, ni Juvénal, ni les œuvres philosophiques de Cicéron. Si Milton, Dryden, Pope, et Locke, n’avaient pas été libres l’Angleterre n’aurait eu ni des poètes, ni des philosophes: il y a je ne sais quoi de turc à proscrire l’imprimerie, et c’est la proscrire que la trop gêner.]Voltaire (1694-1778) French writer [pseud. of Francois-Marie Arouet]
Letter (1733-06-20) to a First Commissioner [Lettre á un premier commis] [tr. Tallentyre (1919)]More about this quote: wist.info/voltaire/85406/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #voltaire #authors #censorship #classics #freepress #freedomofthepress #history #literature #perspective
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https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/ricochet/ricochet
(Not functional in Rawhide. App Images are discontinued in Atomic but .tar can be cryptographically verified, although dnf (like APT) is the highest bar.)Do deprecated WARNINGs make you feel nostalgic?
e.g. tor is “a very small network”
consider using Privoxy or Socat, etc . . .
https://2019.www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html – eliminating DNS leaks* in /torrc → TestSocks 1 – client requests tor server DNS and “this is good”
which negates #ObsoleteWarnings for naysayers who don’t want to update and reason correctly* SafeSocks 1 prevents the issue anyway
*There is Vanguards now, not to mention [email protected] (stable G countermeasures)
#Fedora #Tor #NextGeneration #Arti @torproject @fedora
@cloudflare #DNS #Cloudflare #ComputerSafetyEducation
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As you have it in your power, sir, to do some service to letters, I implore you not to clip the wings of our writers so closely, nor to turn into barn-door fowls those who, allowed a start, might become eagles; reasonable liberty permits the mind to soar — slavery makes it creep.
[Puisque vous êtes, monsieur, à portée de rendre service aux belles-lettres, ne rognez pas de si près les ailes à nos écrivains, et ne faites pas des volailles de basse-cour de ceux qui, en prenant l’essor, pourraient devenir des aigles: une liberté honnête élève l’esprit, et l’esclavage le fait ramper.]Voltaire (1694-1778) French writer [pseud. of Francois-Marie Arouet]
Letter (1733-06-20) to a First Commissioner [Lettre á un premier commis] [tr. Tallentyre (1919)]More about this quote: wist.info/voltaire/85298/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #voltaire #censorship #control #enslavement #freepress #freedomofthepress #liberty #regulation #restrictions #writers
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#RicochetRefresh and #Arti build on #Fedora Atomic #OS.
#rustlang environment is also functional in #rpm #ostree.
(#immutability over sandboxing if not live?)
#FreedomOfThePress #Journalism #ComputerScience #Linux @freedomofpress @torprojectjk, Rotational #HDD and #Rust work together just fine.
Anomalies and vulns in #QubesOS . . .
#console #hacking #rpc #Wayland #fastly @rustForeign Sources as attack vector
http://www.dds6qkxpwdeubwucdiaord2xgbbeyds25rbsgr73tbfpqpt4a6vjwsyd.onion/wiki/Install_Software#Foreign_Sources
also → APT::KashGrow “true”;What other flaws might lie in confidential computing core trust mechanisms?
https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/07/04/confidential-computings-trust-mechanism-is-broken-the-fix-may-not-exist/5266056
@QubesOS @whonix
#attestation #TLS
@rfceditor #GOSalso, in case you didn't know,
rpm-ostree kargs --append=
is really great
and rpm-ostress works over torsocks, atomic just doesn't like systemd so run 'tor' manually -
(Peru) The Right to Be Forgotten and Freedom of the Press: An Analysis of the Constitutional Court’s Ruling from the Perspective of the Principle of Proportionality
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I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Voltaire (1694-1778) French writer [pseud. of Francois-Marie Arouet]
(Spurious)More about this misquote: wist.info/voltaire/34462/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #voltaire #defense #freepress #freespeech #freedomofexpression #freedomofspeech #freedomofthepress #integrity #principle #selfsacrifice
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#israel #palestine : #gaza / #westbank / #genocide / #freedomofthepress / #violations / #oppression / #repression / #elimination
„The violations encompassed #killings, #arrests, #physicalassaults, and the #obstruction of press coverage in the occupied West Bank and Gaza″
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An interesting write up from #ABCNews.
The editor-in-chief of Reuters, Alessandra Galloni delivered the 2026 Andrew Olle Media Lecture in Sydney talking about the future of #Journalism while #GenAISlop imposes itself as an alternative way to get news (This is bad).
“AG Sulzberger, publisher of the New York Times, lent a very eloquent voice to these fears in a recent speech in Marseille. He warned that tech companies are "hijacking the public square" leading to "a future where a crucial wellspring of a healthy society and a stable democracy — the truth, understanding and accountability provided by original journalism — continues to dry up."
#TrustedNews #JournalismAndGenAI #Democracy #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfThePress #QualityJournalism #InvestigativeJournalism
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Weijia Jiang, WHCA President, condemned the Trump Administration: "The White House Correspondents' Association stand with New York Times reporters who were targeted for doing their jobs to uphold the public's right to know how its government operates. The WHCA condemns any act of intimidation against journalists, including attempts to pressure them into revealing sources."
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Call for an Advertising Boycott: Debate on the Limits of Political Influence
In May 2026, an Instagram video by SPD politician Saskia Esken caused a stir.
The reason: a podcast interview lasting several hours conducted by Ben Berndt (“Ungeskriptet”) with AfD politician Björn Höcke. Esken called on companies to reconsider their advertising placements on such platforms.Critics, including FDP politician Wolfgang Kubicki, viewed this as an infringement on freedom of the press.
Esken rejected the accusation of censorship: As a member of parliament, she had no authority to censor, but had merely provided information.The case highlights a recurring tension: legitimate political criticism versus economic pressure on the media. In addition, the Streisand effect kicked in—the interview gained additional reach as a result of the criticism.
(Directly translated with deepl.com)
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A quotation from Henry Commager
Who are those who are really disloyal? Those who inflame racial hatreds, who sow religious and class dissensions. Those who subvert the Constitution by violating the freedom of the ballot box. Those who make a mockery of majority rule by the use of the filibuster. Those who impair democracy by denying equal educational facilities. Those who frustrate justice by lynch law or by making a farce of jury trials. Those who deny freedom of speech and of the press and of assembly. Those who press for special favors against the interest of the commonwealth. Those who regard public office as a source of private gain. Those who would exalt the military over the civil. Those who for selfish and private purposes stir up national antagonisms and expose the world to the ruin of war.
Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1947-09), “Who Is Loyal to America?” sec. 3, Harper’s Magazine, Vol. 195, No. 1168More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #henrycommager #America #civilliberties #civilrights #corruption #demagoguery #democracy #disloyalty #division #firstamendment #freepress #freespeech #freedomofreligion #freedomofspeech #freedomofthepress #injustice #jingoism #justice #loyalty #loyaltyoath #military #patriotism #publicoffice #religiousfreedom #unAmerican #usvsthem #votersuppression #votingrights #war #warmongering
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
In the democracies of the world, the passion for freedom of speech and of thought is always accentuated when there is an effort anywhere to keep ideas away from people and to prevent them from making their own decisions. One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education and thus make it impossible for them to understand what is going on in the world as a whole. […] The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books, but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady of the US (1933-45), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1943-05-11), “My Day”More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/81…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #bookburning #education #freepress #freespeech #freedomofexpression #freedomofspeech #freedomofthepress #freedomofthought #information #media #oppression #thoughtcontrol #tyranny #understanding
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The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·
Orban’s ‘Propaganda State’ in Hungary Is Starting to Show Cracks
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The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·
How Trump’s Approach Echoes China’s Crackdown on Dissent
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/business/china-censorship-jimmy-kimmel.html
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The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·
In Assault on Free Speech, Trump Targets Speech He Hates
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/us/politics/trump-free-speech.html
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Robert W. McChesney, Who Warned of Corporate Media Control, Dies at 72 - In over a dozen books, he explored the failures of journalism and the internet, blaming c... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/business/media/robert-w-mcchesney-dead.html #capitalism(theoryandphilosophy) #democracy(theoryandphilosophy) #computersandtheinternet #politicsandgovernment #rocketthe(magazine) #deaths(obituaries) #booksandliterature #freedomofthepress #mcchesneyrobertw #newsandnewsmedia #sandersbernard
