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Tucker Carlson has found a new audience in Russia.
Russian media, along with some American outlets, claimed that the former Fox News host was launching his X show in Russia. Newsweek issued a correction to their initial report this afternoon, clarifying that Carlson hasn’t done business with state media in any foreign countries. According to the Daily Beast, a Russian network is airing existing episodes of his show dubbed in Russian.
Russia has made a habit of appropriating American businesses since the war in Ukraine began, with knock-off versions of Starbucks, McDonalds and other chains popping up after the originals pulled out of the country. It’s only fitting that they would take Carlson’s show as well, complete with misleading advertising and possible disregard for American copyright law. Tucker’s strange career pivot continues apace…
→ Klaus Schwab rides off into sunset
Klaus Schwab is stepping down from the World Economic Forum chairmanship after more than 50 years at the helm.
He’ll be remembered as a visionary, responsible for foisting bugs on the public, as well as the foreboding promise, “you’ll own nothing and be happy.” Indeed, the push to incorporate bugs into the Western diet has already yielded (crunchy, protein-rich) fruit in the EU, where regulators are allowing certain insects to be added to food.
Schwab, far from a bug-eating pauper, turned WEF into a $390 million per year business, with his children serving in high-ranking roles. Good night, sweet prince.
→ New 9/11 evidence paints Saudis in a bad light
The global War on Terror was based on a mistake.
That’s the major new claim made in a new piece in today’s Atlantic magazine. As part of a new filing in a lawsuit brought by the families of 9/11 victims against the government of Saudi Arabia, new evidence points to deep Saudi complicity.
The 71-page document goes on to list all the ways Saudi officials helped al-Qaeda operatives in the run-up to the attack. It names two individuals Fahad al-Thumairy, an imam at a Los Angeles mosque and a Saudi diplomat, and Omar al-Bayoumi, who masqueraded as a graduate student “not rogue operators but rather the front end of a conspiracy that included the Saudi embassy in Washington and senior government officials in Riyadh.”
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SubscribePutin to his close advisors ‘You know that useful idiot who gave me time and space to convey our propaganda a couple of months ago, well he’s on our side and has been for some time now so get him on telly a bit more here in Russia. Slight danger the scales will be removed from the eyes of his western supporters, but most of them are useful idiots too so unlikely to do us any harm’.
What absolute rubbish. Carlson’s two-hour interview with Putin was very revealing in displaying the Russian inferiority complex, regret and paranoia over dropping from the rank of world superpowers. It’s like Marlon Brando sayng in “On the Waterfront”: “I used to be somebody.” As for describing his career as “strange,” I take that to mean “astonishingly successful.” He reaches many times the audience he had a FOX, where his prime time audience of 3 million was double that of the nearest rival network. It is not rare nowadays for it to top 100 million people tuning in to Tucker on X.
In the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, there was a brief period during which U.S. airspace was closed to all commercial flights. However, there was an exception for a single flight which was allowed to leave the U.S. and go to Saudi Arabia, and it carried several members of the Saudi royal family and other Saudi nationals, including relatives of Osama bin Laden. Clearly, with the full approval of “Dubya”. I wonder why it has not generated more interest