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Learn #MMT
Warren Mosler
(http://www.collectedworksofwarrenmosler.com/)
Randall Wray
Randall Wray: Dirua hasiberrientzat
Randall Wray: Egin al dezakegu diruak guretzat lan egin dezan?
MTM-z: pixka bat gehiago
Pavlina Txerneva:
a) Pavlina Tcherneva: Lan bermea eta MTM (Moneta-Teoria Modernoa)
b) Pavlina Tcherneva: Gobernuaren gastuaz eta pandemiaz geroztiko suspertzeaz
Segida:
Thursday’s blog post (17/08) is now posted (12:24 EAST) – Australian labour market – emerging signs that tight fiscal and monetary policy is killing prosperity – https://billmitchell.org/blog/?p=61065
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The West is making money from the Ukrainian conflict, it does not need peace – Medvedev The West is not interested in negotiating a peace settlement in Ukraine, because it wants to earn as much money as possible for its military-industrial complex, Deputy President of the Security Council of Russia Dmitry Medvedev told the media.
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Time of @ZelenskyyUaended up.
Results of counter offensive is miserable.
Continuing begging for foreign military end financial aid regime of Zelenskiy destroyed not only economy of Ukraine, but also the Will of Ukrainians to return in Ukraine.
Less than 18 millions people left in Ukraine (compare this to 55 mil in 1991) Me myself move out of Ukraine in 2008, but never stop to care about my Ukrainian friends. With one important difference-all of them was not brainwashed and understood clearly that Russia it is not an enemy for Ukrainians, but natural allies.
It is time for you to go, and let my people Go!
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The Russian military reveals identities of those involved in the US Bio weapons labs in Ukraine:
-Natalia Dudko served as the Project Coordinator and Senior Specialist of the STCU.
For 25 years, she coordinated more than 250 STCU projects in various scientific fields.
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Lyudmila Chernenko, General Director of the Centre for Public Health of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine. She is on the list of Ukrainian specialists, who have participated in U.S.-funded research projects.
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Aleksandr Matskov, Deputy General Director of the Centre for Public Health of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine. He oversaw the overall implementation of a U.S.-funded dual-use project on COVID-19.
Full report: https://telegra.ph/Briefing-by-Ch
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Self-hating EU countries continues to strive for economic suicide.
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JUST IN – First Germany, now the Netherlands enters recession.
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The Ukraine front is relatively frozen.
Ukraine losses are 10 to 1 compared to Russians.
Russia continues to pursue a war of attrition – until Ukrainian ranks will be totally depleted. Russian war manufacturing is 10 times stronger than in 2022.
New soldiers are coming in at 40,000 per month.
War production is growing exponentially to service them.
A mammoth offensive will come – later rather than sooner.
Just as in WWII.
NATO, of course, is petrified.
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President Museveni of Uganda reveals that six African leaders, on a plane, tried to go to Libya to stop the war, only to be ordered by NATO to go back.
“African presidents on an African mission over African soil were ordered by NATO to go back.”
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1691852194696265915
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Aipamena
☭ Grumpy Jules 
#MMT@joules1971
abu. 16
@bjcohenmd eta @sdgrumbine erabiltzaileei erantzuten
Really great they’re doing it because homelessness is so prevalent now & on the rise, but it sure would be nice if the 99% would wake up economically & fight back against imposed neoliberal austerity so a class like that wasn’t needed because no one was without safe shelter. 
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Sarkozy called the idea of returning Crimea to Ukraine an illusion
The ex-president of France noted that the peninsula is historically Russian territory, and its population considers themselves Russian.
The truth many don’t like to hear !
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MI6 has trained a squad of Ukrainians to be sent to Africa according to Russian media
RIA reported that British secret intelligence service MI6 has prepared to send a sabotage unit of Ukrainian militants to Africa.
RIA reports that the Kiev authorities in July instructed the Security Service of Ukraine and the Defence Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence to provide assistance to representatives of MI6 and British special unit SAS “in the selection of one hundred fighters from the Ukrainian formations with significant combat experience to disrupt Russian activities in Africa.”
RIA added that “the squad’s tasks tasks include sabotage and elimination of African leaders oriented toward interaction with Russia.”
This cartoon says it all #auspol
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Ukraine will not negotiate the extension of the gas transit contract with Russia, which expires at the end of 2024, Ukrainian Energy Minister.
“I think that next year will be indicative in terms of Europe’s ability to function without Russian gas at all”
Will be fun to watch 
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Zelensky holds court with Ukraine’s most notorious neo-Nazi New footage published by
shows the president openly collaborating with a fascist ideologue who once pledged to “lead the white races of the world…against Semite-led Untermenschen.”
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Le Monde: #AfricanUnion opposes military solution for #Niger. It is reported that the decision stands out because “traditionally, the African Union has been in solidarity with the positions of regional organizations” The African Union has rejected a military solution to the situation in Niger, in contrast to the position of the Economic Community of West African States, the French newspaper Le Monde reported, citing diplomatic sources.
At a meeting of the African Union’s Peace and Security Council on August 14, “it was decided to reject the use of force against the rebels in Niger,” the report said. The group is expected to officially publish the decision in a statement on Wednesday, Le Monde reported. The newspaper said this means the African Union “expressed its disagreement with #ECOWAS, which, while giving priority to peace talks, has put its armed forces on standby.”
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The UK government deployed 15 staff on the secret operation to seize Julian Assange from his asylum at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. This has never been reported in a British newspaper. Censorship by omission is how they keep you brainwashed.
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— GEROMAN — time will tell – 
—@GeromanAT
Viktor Medvedchuk: The Great Ukrainian Retreat While the Ukrainian military counter-offensive is being announced, the massive retreat of Ukrainian citizens from the country does not stop.
Eurostat writes that in June the number of Ukrainian refugees in the EU increased by almost 46,000 people. And this is only in the EU, and how many left for other countries is still unknown. The largest number of people received asylum in Germany (28% of all refugees), Poland (24%) and the Czech Republic (9%). Western media note that the men caught crossing the border would be enough for a full five combat battalions. But this is one of those who were caught, and it turns out that several divisions of Ukrainians who do not want to fight have already retreated to the west.
Calculations for the beginning of 2023 (based on official data from the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, data from the civil-military administrations of the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, the statistical services of the DPR and LPR) show that the population of the territory controlled by Kiev was 19, 4 million people, while de facto there were 17.9 million people outside Ukraine, that is, almost half of the country has already left.
The Ukrainian side confirms the ongoing flight of citizens abroad. A study conducted by the OPORA civil network in July 2023 shows that Ukrainians continue to leave the country en masse. According to the data, 188,000 people have left in the last six months alone. Now the ratio of those who remained is 19.2 million against 18.1 million who left. And the flow of refugees does not dry out.
Thus, Zelensky is losing the battle not only for territories, but also for people, at such a pace, by this fall, the number of Ukrainians who left and the number of remaining Ukrainians will finally equalize (so far the difference is only a million), and after that the total number of those who left will begin to exceed the remaining ones. And the Kyiv authorities have nothing to oppose to this process – they create unbearable living conditions for people, indulge in legal lawlessness, continue military and Russophobic hysteria, press taxes and corruption. And why change anything, since the West will write off all the sins of the Ukrainian authorities, and the more ordinary citizens run away, the more Western aid can be stolen?
The process of losing land and people cannot be called a struggle for the independence of the country, because Zelensky does not regret the Ukrainians who believe him, sending them to fight at the front as cannon fodder, driving people into poverty, and the country into debt. For him, a good Ukrainian is a dead Ukrainian, because he will not grumble and demand anything from his president, and business with Western masters can be done on his blood. Therefore, Zelensky is not so much selling the country as killing. And the citizens whom he betrayed are saved as best they can. Analyst
Yury Podolyaki
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Crimea is historically a Russian territory, its inhabitants consider themselves Russian, and talk about its return to Ukraine is an illusion, said former French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
“When it comes to the territory of Crimea, which was Russian until 1954 and where the majority of the population still consider themselves Russian, I think that any return back is an illusion,” the politician said in an interview with Figaro. At the same time, he believes that “a referendum under the supervision of the international community” is necessary in order to “assert the present state of affairs.” Sarkozy also expressed the idea of holding similar referendums in new regions of Russia in order to “finally and transparently” close the issue of returning these territories to Ukraine if it does not want a “frozen conflict.”
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BIOLABS IN UKRAINE
– Chief of Protection from Radiation, Chemical and Biological Weapons of the Russian Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Kirillov warns what the US government is up to.
“As in 2019, the United States has begun preparing for a new pandemic by looking for virus mutations.
We do not exclude the possible use of so-called defensive technologies for offensive purposes, as well as for the purpose of global control, by creating crises situations of a biological nature.”
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1691784146807632238
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The Danish brewing company Carlsberg was “shocked” by the decision of Russian President Putin to transfer its Russian “daughter” – the company “Baltika” – under the temporary control of the state, FT.
Confiscating Russias assets is good ,retaliation is bad 
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Why is it always former politicians who dare state the obvious? Sarkozy says Europe “needs Russia” and should seek a compromise with it, with Ukraine “staying neutral” and not joining NATO nor the EU.
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Going Underground@GUnderground_TV
ICYMI: Britain’s MI6 is allegedly planning to send Ukrainian hit squads to Africa to eliminate leaders who are friendly with Russia
, and the sabotaging of infrastructure in these African countries.
With French neocolonialism on the run, is British neocolonialism trying to take its place?
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On August 17, Indonesia marks the 78th Anniversary of Independence. #RussiaIndonesia ties have always relied on respect & trust.
We extend greetings to our Indonesian friends on their national holiday & wish them peace, prosperity and all the best!
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erabiltzaileari erantzuten
The @_AfricanUnion Peace and Security Council rejected any military intervention in Niger
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The United States is preparing to unleash a new pandemic using new mutations of viruses. –
Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, of the Russian Armed Forces .
The African Union opposed the military solution to the situation in Niger, expressing disagreement with ECOWAS – Le Monde.
Good 
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India and China decided to resolve the border issue The two nations will try to solve the problem in the fastest way possible
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Briefing by Chief of Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Protection Troops of Russian Armed Forces Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov: 
Pentagon conducts uncontrolled dual-use research in circumvention of international obligations under the #BTWC. 
https://is.gd/ewuh9d
China Minister of Defense in Russia: “Playing with fire and attempting to control China with Taiwan will inevitably end in failure… For the sake of a safer world, we need to stand by each other and help each other to resist the global military hegemony. For the sake of a more inclusive world, we need to work together to resist any means of containment.”
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1691787014230663456
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Fiorella Isabel@FiorellaIsabelM
EXPLOSIVE 
revelations by the Russian Defense Ministry show Washington:
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Has “used defensive technologies for offensive purposes, as well as for the purpose of global control, by creating crises situations of a biological nature.”
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Is prepping for a new pandemic by searching for virus mutations that could be used for offensive purposes “
I recall that on 18 October 2019, two months before the first official reports about the emergence of the new coronavirus infection in China, John Hopkins University conducted Event 201 exercise in New York.”-Igor Kirillov
Full report: https://telegra.ph/Briefing-by-Ch
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1691926926963720682
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Seyed Mohammad Marandi@s_m_marandi
When westerners do it, it’s a “mistake.” When others do it, it’s an outrageous crime.
Two Deeply Inconvenient Truths About Ukraine:
1) They have no democracy of any kind.
2) Zelensky is increasingly fighting with a conscript army, as his citizens desperately flee to avoid the draft.
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1691845511475581228
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MUST WATCH: “The US tried 70 regime changes during the Cold War, 1.5 coups per year!” -> The Duran and Jeffrey Sachs discuss regime changes and Imran Khan!
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1691937546991718862
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NATO Suggests For First Time Ukraine Could Cede Territory
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Zelensky was not invited to the G20 summit, because this is not the UN Security Council
“Ukraine was not invited to the G20 summit, which will be held in New Delhi on 9-10. of September, because the group deals with economic development issues, and there is a UN Security Council to deal with security issues,” said the Indian foreign minister. Subramaniam Jaishankar
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Germany, the Netherlands, Taiwan & New Zealand Are all currently in recessions
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Angelo Giuliano 
/ living in 
@Angelo4justice3
Welcome to the Club !! Netherland announced it just entered into recession ! List EU so far into recession : 
Estonia 
Hungary 
Netherlands 
Germany
This is the Zelensky curse !!
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Russian Embassy, UK@RussianEmbassy
Ambassador #Kelin: Overwhelming majority in #Donbass, #Kherson & #Zaporozhye regions expressed desire to join #Russia. These territories are enshrined in our Constitution. What remains is to fully establish control over the territories that became part of Russia. No turning back.
Watch the full #interview to @JomanaHashim for @Alqaheranewstv: https://youtube.com/watch?v=034Y8g
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1691818854551319038
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Morocco has submitted an application to join the BRICS
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I feel like I’m in the twilight zone.
Russia just publicly accused Deep State actors and Big Pharma of manufacturing the Covid pandemic to take over the world.
They even listed Obama, Clinton, Biden, and Soros, of being the main “Ideologists” behind the plot.
This is the biggest story in human history, and yet it is somehow remaining largely unnoticed.
Angelo Giuliano / living in @Angelo4justice3
Not a joke, Estonia with population of 1.3 millions including cats, dogs and sheep, the 104th army in the World wants to give security guarantees to Ukraine
Aipamena
Dagny Taggart@DagnyTaggart963
abu. 16
Estonia plans to provide its security guarantees to Ukraine, said the head of the Estonian Foreign Ministry. Estonia , security guarantees? 
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For years we have been told that the EU stands for something more than just economic prosperity. That political freedom and the ability to change those in power through fair and transparent elections are part and parcel of Western values. Sanctions by the EU against the opposition in Moldova are unprecedented. My party are not dictators in some oil rich region. Never before has the EU used its sanction regime to suppress opposition. We have filed an application to the European Union General Court to annul these sanctions. We believe that it is time for the west to stand up for what they pertain to believe in. Free and fair elections are the only way any future government of Moldova should be decided.
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Member of the US House of Representatives, Republican Marjorie Taylor-Green, announced the failure of US anti-Russian sanctions and again called on the US administration to stop allocating money to Ukraine.
“Russia is getting richer and America is getting trillions poorer,” Taylor-Greene said.
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Absolutely brilliant decision by African Union 
African Union will not back ECOWAS intervention in Niger
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“An educated, healthy & confident country is harder to govern”
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SimonFromFlorida@SimonFromFlori2
“Li’s visit to Belarus carries great strategic value in offsetting the challenge of the world losing strategic balance, as the US-led West is increasingly attempting to achieve an imbalanced strategic pattern that only benefits itself.”
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MUST WATCH: The assassination of JFK, w/ Jacob Hornberger / Was the CIA Involved? Hornberger claims: (the CIA is) “Guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.”
THURSDAY – 3:30P Eastern / 12:30P Pacific – LIVE on Judging Freedom Podcast
Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1691938300712415609
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— GEROMAN — time will tell – —@GeromanAT
NATO is a criminal and terror organisation. This obsolete shit club NEVER wanted peace after USSR was done. All it did was causing chaos – war – destruction.
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President #Putin: Only by having the international community work together that we can lower the degree of confrontation on the global and regional levels, neutralise challenges and risks, and build confidence between states, while also creating broad development opportunities.
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The NATO backed Atlantic Council declares the US and its allies must be “situated to fight a two-front limited nuclear war in East Asia” An anon US intel official is quoted calling a Chinese or DPRK nuclear strike in response to US war “rational”
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Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have joined the G7 security guarantees for Ukraine, Estonian Prime Minister Kaija Kallas has announced. Three imaginary super powers
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Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy called for a compromise and peace with Russia: Crimea “which was Russian until 1954 and the majority of the population of which always considered themselves Russian, I think that any return back is illusory”.
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youtube.com
Ukraine Offensive’s NEW Strategy – HOPE? w/Scott Ritter
#Ukraine #Putyin #Zelensky #Biden #NATO
Bideoa: https://youtu.be/vULxpAQambY
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THE BEST, most articulate & knowledgeable update on the ongoing conflict in the #Donbass yet. Thank you Scott, & #JudgeNap for your continued education of the world!
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Scott Ritter@RealScottRitter
8 h
https://youtube.com/live/vULxpAQam
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Switzerland wants to strengthen its army and cooperation with NATO because of the conflict in Ukraine – statement. Switzerland has clearly decided to go down with the sinking ship.
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Russian Embassy, UK@RussianEmbassy
FM #Lavrov: The very possibility of the dominance of one country or even a group of states is disappearing into oblivion. The mentality, which allowed the West to rule the world for centuries, has led to a dead end. 1/2
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Jackson Hinkle 
@jacksonhinklle
Ukraine has lost 40,000+ men after 75 days of their “counteroffensive.”
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Stoltenberg stated that they are ready for a nuclear war to destroy Russia. The NATO-backed Atlantic Council says the US and its allies must be “prepared to fight a limited nuclear war on two fronts in East Asia.”
An anonymous U.S. intelligence official is quoted as calling a Chinese or North Korean nuclear strike in response to a U.S. war “rational.”
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FM #Lavrov: 
In order to save their geopolitical project to “contain Russia” & to split the Russian world, #US, #NATO and #EU are flooding #Ukraine with increasing amounts of modern weapons, thus stoking the conflict & provoking the unchecked spread of weapons around the world
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YouTube, Censorship, and the American Way of Life
A Personal Journey
19 Aug 2023
On Fridy, August 11, YouTube shut down the US Tour of Duty channel. The reason cited was “violations of our Community Guidelines,” although no specific example was cited. Neither was a warning issued. Simple termination, with prejudice.
There are some, including a certain former US Marine electro-optical repair specialist-turned-geopolitical analyst, who view the YouTube action as a form of karma for my public pronouncements regarding Gonzalo Lira and my assessment regarding his relationship with the Ukrainian intelligence service, or SBU. But life, like geopolitics, is never that simple.
First and foremost, the decision to terminate the US Tour of Duty channel, which hosted both my “Ask the Inspector” podcast and Jeff Norman’s collaboration with Tori Mansfield and Arkady Itkin, “Scenes from the Evolution,” coincided with the termination of a separate YouTube channel, managed by the Russian media organization “Solovyov Live!,” which hosted a separate weekly podcast, “The Scott Ritter Show,” where I interviewed Russian guests about topics of the day. There was no connectivity between Solovyov Live! and US Tour of Duty in terms of content, and as such to have both terminated on the same day for the same reason is more representative of desired effect as opposed to justifiable cause.
Simply put, YouTube wanted me gone.
The journey toward YouTube termination, however, suggests that YouTube had a larger motive than simply silencing an inconvenient voice. If that was the goal, then the US Tour of Duty channel, would have had the plug pulled shortly after the inaugural episode of “Ask the Inspector,” which premiered in July of 2022, and featured former CIA analyst Larry Johnson as a guest. But YouTube allowed the channel to persist for more than a year, eventually garnering some 63,000 subscribers.
Scott Ritter will discuss this article and answer audience questions on Ep. 90 of Ask the Inspector.
YouTube, I discovered, is all about the numbers. Unless one commits copyright violation, or airs something so egregiously outrageous that the content monitors in YouTube’s ironically named “Trust and Safety Division” have no choice but to take action, most YouTube channels go about their business with no interference from the powers that be in San Bruno, California.
But once you cross a specific threshold in terms of subscribers, and/or a designated sustained rate of viewers, YouTube suddenly takes an interest. The reason—money. Simply put, YouTube makes its money by attracting advertisers who are in turn attracted by viewership. To attract content capable of generating the level of views that would be attractive to mainstream advertisers, YouTube has a monetization incentive where channels that generate large numbers of views are rewarded with money. While most YouTube channels which are monetized receive modest renumeration, some YouTube channels are capable of generating tens of thousands of dollars on YouTube-sourced income every week.
Once you reach a certain monetization potential, you will automatically fall under the watchful eyes of the YouTube “Trust and Safety Division,” which is liberally staffed with not-so-liberal former CIA and FBI employees. The reason for this is that, given the YouTube monetization algorithm, a channel that generates x number of views is automatically used as a platform for advertisement insertion by YouTube—this happens whether the content provider wants it or not (it is also an incentive for YouTube subscribers option to pay money for an “ad free” experience). The problem, however, is that these mainstream advertisers do not want their product associated with messaging considered “controversial” by the mainstream, and since the insertion of the ads is automatic, the YouTube censors must come up with a way to either limit the number of views a channel is recognized as having generated, or by shutting down the channel altogether. YouTube, however, is a business, and if it automatically banned channels which had genuine growth potential (and, as such, advertisement revenue generation capability), then it would not be the multi-billion-dollar corporation it is today.
What follows is an analysis of what I believe is a representative model of how YouTube uses the allure of monetization to compel YouTube content providers to comply with the need to control content in a manner which keeps the corporate advertisers who make YouTube possible happy. First, a YouTube channel which is exhibiting growth potential finds itself being “toyed” with by the boys and girls at the “Trust and Safety Division.” Let’s say, for instance, one was to upload a two-part documentary about Ukrainian President Zelensky (we’ll call it “Agent Zelensky”) which garnered a quarter-million or more views. The trusty censors at the “Trust and Safety Division” will arbitrarily intervene to “age restrict” the video, which limits drastically the number of views (and, by extension, the potential for monetization.)
The channel owner can, of course, submit an appeal, which, based upon experience, is often granted. But the lesson learned here isn’t that one can win an appeal, but rather that one should avoid getting in a position where one needs to appeal. Self-censorship, it seems, is one of the main ways YouTube controls content.
If a channel is deemed to have serious growth potential (remember—more views equals more mainstream advertisement dollars!), then the channel owner will be contacted by “agents” who make use of “talent scouts” who monitor flagged channels for growth potential. If a channel passes muster, then the agent will provide the channel with an opportunity to earn “easy” income, usually by reading a short advertisement blurb at the start of their podcast. While the amount of money generated in this manner is modest, it is—literally—“easy” money, allowing the recipient to be susceptible to notions of even greater income generation, notions the agent reinforces when discussing the income growth potential of a YouTube channel with the owner.
The money is the drug that blinds most YouTubers into ignoring the process that is actually taking place. By leading the channel owner horse to water, the agent fully expects the money-thirsty channel owner to drink, and drink again. It is at this juncture that the “Trust and Safety Division” team interjects again, usually to demonetize the YouTube channel in question. This is a classic baited trap—lure someone in with the promise and realized potential of income generation, promote the idea of unrealized wealth, and then take it all away, leaving the channel owner frustrated and willing to do what it takes to get back on the money train.
And here is where the issue of self-censorship comes in with full force—to get back on the train, the channel owner will have to undergo changes to his or her channel, both in terms of how content is delivered (remember—more viewers!) and what content is allowed to be put on the channel. In our case, the agent listed 10 prohibited subjects, one of which was the Ukrainian conflict.
We balked, they banned.
Putting content on YouTube takes work—a lot of work, if you’re going to do it right. And since money unfortunately does not grow on trees, viable mechanisms of monetization are necessary if the YouTube content provider is going to be in a position to stream quality programming.
But the YouTube model is the antithesis of free speech.
It is controlled speech.
But worse, it is controlled speech where the mechanism of control is disguised through the vehicle of self-censorship, thereby creating the illusion of free speech.
The bottom line is that a successful YouTube channel must adhere to the four corners of content control defined by the “Trust and Safety Division.” This is not, on its own volition, a violation of protected speech, since YouTube is a private company operating outside the protections of the First Amendment.
The problem comes when YouTube, like Twitter before it, allows its internal censors to be influenced by government actors. Twitter has already been shown to have been influenced by FBI agents who, at the behest of the Ukrainian intelligence service, asked that certain Twitter accounts be shut down. Behavioral science suggests that patterns repeat, and as such there is every reason to suspect that YouTube, and other US-based social media platforms, are subjected to similar pressure to censor content by US government personnel and agencies.
While legal challenges are possible (the current exposure of Twitter stands as an example), it takes time and money most YouTube content providers do not have.
There is an alternative course of action, however—Rumble. That’s what Jeff, me, and the Solovyov Live! team have chosen as our platform for continuing both “The Scott Ritter Show” and “Ask the Inspector” (and “Scenes from the Evolution” as well). While the pathway to monetization potential on Rumble is not as clear as it is with YouTube, one thing is for certain—Rumble is, for the moment at least, a free-speech platform. Jeff and I will be free to stream any content so long as it conforms with the law.
This, more than anything, including potential monetization, is what is important to us. “Ask the Inspector” was deemed by a talent scout to be a “million dollar” property. The problem was, to get those million dollars, Jeff and I would have to alter the content of the property to the point that it would be unrecognizable from the original.
We refuse to do this because free speech isn’t for sale.
It is the most American thing we can think of doing, placing principle over profit.
We hope everyone who reads this will join us on Rumble as we take “The Scott Ritter Show” and “Ask the Inspector” (and “Scenes from the Evolution”) into a successful second season, and beyond. We will also be creating special content for paid subscribers on Locals, nothing there is behind a paywall yet.
