First and furst.

This is Matt Taibbi’s speech to a conference in London a day or two ago. I think it condenses his (and others’) work on the Twitter Files very well, and I’d find it hard to disagree with a word of it.

The Elite War on Free Thought
Address at Free Speech Event in London, with Russell Brand and Michael Shellenberger

It’s heartening to see so many faces here in London, to talk about the crisis of free speech around the globe, or to protest censorship, or whatever it is we’re doing exactly. Before we begin, I think it’s important to make a distinction. Unlike Russell and the rest of our hosts, Michael and I, and a few of us in the crowd, are Americans. For us, belief in unfettered free speech is a core part of our character. It’s a big reason that we Americans enjoy the wonderful reputation we do all around the world, especially here in Europe, where (I’m sorry to tell you) we hear you whispering to the restaurant hostess that you’d like to be seated at the table as far away from us as possible.

That was meant to be a laugh line, but in some ways, that’s what the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution comes down to: the right to be an asshole. We have a prettier way of saying it — a right to petition for a redress of grievances — but it’s the same basic idea.

Isn’t that a beautiful phrase, a redress of grievances? Great, memorable language. Like a lot of Americans, I know the First Amendment by heart. I’ve recited it to myself enough to know it doesn’t say the government gives me the right to speech, assembly, a free press. It says I have those things, already. As a person, as a citizen.

This is a very American thing, the idea that rights aren’t conferred, but a part of us, like our livers, and you can’t take them away without destroying who we are. That’s why in other contexts you’ll hear some of us say things like, “I’ll give you this gun when you pry it from my cold dead hands!”

Some people roll their eyes and think that sounds crazy, but we know that guy actually means it, and to a lot of us it makes sense. We’re touchy about rights, especially about the first ones: speech, assembly, religion, the free press.

But we’re not here tonight to debate the virtues of American speech law versus the European tradition. Instead, Michael and I are here to tell a horror story that concerns people from all countries. Last year, he and I were offered a unique opportunity to look at the internal documentation of Twitter.

I entered that story lugging old-fashioned, legalistic, American views about rights, hoping to answer maybe one or two questions. Had the FBI, for instance, ever told the company what to do in a key speech episode? If so, that would be a First Amendment violation. Big stuff!

But after looking at thousands of emails and Slack chats, I first started to get a headache, then became confused. I realized the old-school Enlightenment-era protections I grew up revering were designed to counter authoritarianism as people understood the concepts hundreds of years ago, back in the days of tri-cornered hats and streets lined with horse manure.

What Michael and I were looking at was something new, an Internet-age approach to political control that uses brute digital force to alter reality itself. We certainly saw plenty of examples of censorship and de-platforming and government collaboration in those efforts. However, it’s clear that the idea behind the sweeping system of digital surveillance combined with thousands or even millions of subtle rewards and punishments built into the online experience, is to condition people to censor themselves.

In fact, after enough time online, users will lose both the knowledge and the vocabulary they would need to even have politically dangerous thoughts. What Michael calls the Censorship-Industrial Complex is really just the institutionalization of orthodoxy, a vast, organized effort to narrow our intellectual horizons.

It’s appropriate that we’re here in London speaking about this, because this is the territory of George Orwell, who predicted a lot of what we saw in the Twitter Files with depressing accuracy.

One example stands out.

One of the big themes of 1984 was the reduction of everything to simple binaries. He described a world where “all ambiguities and shades of meaning had been purged,” where it wasn’t really necessary to have words for both “warm” and “cold,” since as he put it, “every word in the language – could be negatived by adding the affix un-.”

Let’s not bother with cold, let’s just have unwarm.

A political movement has long been afoot in America and other places to reduce every political question to simple binaries. As Russell knows, current political thought doesn’t like the idea that there can be left-neoliberalism over here, and right-Trumpism over here, and then also all sorts of people who are neither – in between, on the peripheries, wherever.

They prefer to look at it as, “Over here are people who are conscientious and believe in science and fairness and democracy and puppies, and then everyone else is a right-winger.” This is how you get people with straight faces calling Russell Brand a right-winger.

But it goes deeper. Michael and I found correspondence in Twitter about something called the Virality Project, which was a cross-platform, information-sharing program led by Stanford University through which companies like Google, Twitter, and Facebook shared information about Covid-19.

They compared notes on how to censor or deamplify certain content. The ostensible mission made sense, at least on the surface: it was to combat “misinformation” about the pandemic, and to encourage people to get vaccinated. When we read the communications to and from Stanford, we found shocking passages.

One suggested to Twitter that it should consider as “standard misinformation on your platform… stories of true vaccine side effects… true posts which could fuel hesitancy” as well as “worrisome jokes” or posts about things like “natural immunity” or “vaccinated individuals contracting Covid-19 anyway.”

This is straight out of Orwell. Instead of having “ambiguities” and “shades of meaning” on Covid-19, they reduced everything to a binary: vax and anti-vax.

They eliminated ambiguities by looking into the minds of users. In the Virality Project if a person told a true story about someone developing myocarditis after getting vaccinated, even if that person was just telling a story – even if they weren’t saying, “The shot caused the myocarditis” – the Virality Project just saw a post that may “promote hesitancy.”

So, this content was true, but politically categorized as anti-vax, and therefore misinformation – untrue.

A person who talks about being against vaccine passports may express support for the vaccine elsewhere, but the Virality Project believed “concerns” about vaccine passports were driving “a larger anti-vaccination narrative,” so in this way, a pro-vaccine person may be anti-vax. They also wrote that such “concerns” inspired broader discussions “about the loss of rights and freedoms,” also problematic.

Other agencies talked about posts that shared results of Freedom of Information searches on “authoritative health sources” like Dr. Anthony Fauci, or used puns like “Fauxi.” The VP frowned on this.

“This continual process of seeding doubt and uncertainty in authoritative voices,” wrote Graphika, in a report sent to Twitter, “leads to a society that finds it too challenging to identify what’s true or false.”

It was the same with someone who shared true research about the efficacy of natural immunity or suggested that the virus came from a lab. It all might be factual, but it was politically inconvenient, something they called “malinformation.” In the end, out of all of these possible beliefs, they derived a 1984 binary: good and ungood.

They also applied the binary to people.

This was new. Old-school speech law punished speech, not the speaker. As a reporter I was trained that if I commit libel, if I wrote something defamatory that caused provable injury to someone, I would have to retract the error, admit it, apologize, and pay remuneration. All fair! But the court case wouldn’t target me as a person. It wouldn’t assume that because I was wrong about X, I would also be wrong about Y, and Z.

We saw NGOs and agencies like the FBI or the State Department increasingly targeting speakers, not speech. The Virality Project brought up the cases of people like Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. The posts of such “repeat offenders,” they said, are “almost always reportable.” They encouraged content moderators to make assumptions about people, and not to look on a case-by-case basis. In other words, they saw good and ungood people, and the ungood were “almost always reportable.”

Over and over we saw algorithms trying to electronically score a person’s good-or-ungoodness. We found a Twitter report that put both Wikileaks and Green Party candidate Jill Stein in a Twitter “denylist” – that’s a blacklist that makes it harder for people to see or search for your posts. They were put on a denylist called is_Russian because an algorithm determined she had too many beliefs that coincided with banned people, especially Russian banned people.

We saw the same thing in reports from the State Department’s Global Engagement Center. They would identify certain accounts they claimed were Russian operatives, and then identify others as “highly connective” or “Russia-linked,” part of Russia’s “information ecosystem.” This is just a fancy way of saying “guilt by association.” The technique roped in everyone from a Canadian website called Global Research to former Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, and former Italian Democratic Party Secretary Nicola Zingaretti.

If you apply these techniques fifty million, a hundred million, a billion times, or a billion billion times, people will soon learn to feel how certain accounts are deamplified, and others are not. They will self-sort and self-homogenize.

Even when Twitter doesn’t remove an account if the FBI recommends it, or passes along a request from Ukrainian intelligence to remove someone like Grayzone journalist Aaron Mate, users start to be able to guess where that line between good and ungood is.

One last note. As Michael and I found out recently with regard to the viral origin story, things deemed politically good often turn out to be untrue, and things deemed ungood turn out to be true.

I can recite a list if need be, but many news stories authorities were absolutely sure about yesterday later proved totally incorrect. This is another characteristic Orwell predicted: doublethink.

He defined doublethink as “the act of holding, simultaneously, two opposite, individually exclusive ideas or opinions and believing in both simultaneously and absolutely.”

Not long ago we were told in no uncertain terms the Russians blew up their own Nord Stream pipeline, that they were the only suspect. Today the U.S. government is telling us it has known since last June that Ukrainian forces planned it, with the approval of the highest military officials. But we’re not expected to say anything. We’re expected to forget.

What happens to a society that doesn’t square its mental books when it comes to facts, truth, errors, propaganda and so on? There are only a few options. Some people will do what some of us in this room have done: grow frustrated and angry, mostly in private. Others have tried to protest by frantically cataloging the past.

Most however do what’s easiest for mental survival. They learn to forget. This means living in the present only. Whatever we’re freaking out about today, let’s all do it together. Then when things change tomorrow, let’s not pause to think about the change, let’s just freak out about that new thing. The facts are dead! Long live the new facts!

We’re building a global mass culture that sees everything in black and white, fears difference, and abhors memory. It’s why people can’t read books anymore and why, when they see people like Russell who don’t fit into obvious categories, they don’t know what to do except point and shriek, like extras in Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

We have been complaining about censorship, and it’s important to do that. But they are taking aim at people in a way that will make censorship unnecessary, by building communities of human beings with no memory and monochrome perception. This is more than a speech crisis. It’s a humanity crisis.

I hope we’re not too late to fix it.

Taibbi posts on Substack at https://www.racket.news/ and I thoroughly recommend him, by the way.

The AIS damages quite a lot of young people.

I’m assuming the Janet A column posted above is the other case that Cassie has referred to previously.
The ACT DPP office needs an clean out.
But who would replace them?
It would just be another “approved” clone who would do exactly the same thing.

Dinesh D’Souza was put through the wringer for $10k of illegal electoral donations (the allegation was he was the architect of more but nothing came of that).

Today Jimmy Dore has a brief video on Hillary & her $84mill of illegal donations.
As he says, it’s old news but worth pointing out the two sets of rules.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CcY1HsJf7I

1. What is the cost of that model say 2.5 years later.
3. What is the trade-in value in 5.5 years.

This is key.
And it depends.
You are always going to rip up some money, but unless you buy a Lexus and hold it for 15 years, you’ll come out ahead on the maintenance, time, energy, inconvenience side of the equation.

Jet Black and the Seven Trannies.

Nolte: Disney Will Expose Your Kids to Drag Queens But Not Snow White’s Dwarves (23 Jun)

Next year, Disney will release a live-action remake of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. Only it will be called Snow White. Why? Because there will be no dwarves. Why? Because as soon as the live-action Snow White remake was announced, a dwarf named Peter Dinklage started whining. The result? Disney axed the dwarves, and seven little people or midgets or whatever the Woke Reich has ordered us to call them this year are now out of a job.

Disney really does seem to have a death wish. Meanwhile the reviews are in for the new Bud Lite ad, and they’re just as entertaining as you might expect. The WIP will probably have a few of the memes tomorrow!

Twitterverse Roasts Bud Light Over New Ad Mocking Its Own Customers (23 Jun)

Prigozhin appears to have started a coup, or something. Things going exceedingly well in Russia. Can’t wait for db to explain this one!

Still no evidence from Turd Case to justify his claims of Queensland Native Police killing 41,000 aborigines, or of an aborigine being openly killed in Toowoomba, or of the alleged killer also personally killing “thousands” of aborigines in Queensland over a 28 year period.

One might almost suspect that he made the whole thing up.

It’s a luxury to lay in bed watching the high clouds skimming past.

I clocked up 55 hours work this week.
I’m doing absolutely nothing today.

The Nativity of Saintt John the Baptist

Pope Benedict XVI said in 2012 the Church’s celebration of the birth of John the Baptist should be a reminder that for God, all things are possible.

The Pope was marking today’s Solemn Feast of The Nativity of St. John the Baptist. He noted that apart from Our Lady, St. John is the only saint to have their birthday celebrated as a liturgical feast “because it is closely connected to the mystery of the Incarnation of the Son of God.”

CNA

It’s been said Tom that worse than being wrong is that you’re the only one who is. Was Drumgold influenced by others in the course he took? Was Yates? If Drumgold gets a bucketing from Sofronoff will he reveal political influences?
Well, probably not. Public servants in the ACT don’t have to be told to follow the political lines of Labor and the Greens.

It’s pretty amazing how Range Rover drivers the world over fit the exact same stereotype. Blonde, skinny women who can’t drive.

Nice Jeep, peasant.

Is “window” a parachute colour?

Russians v Rushians = stock up on popcorn.

However as the radio just mentioned who controls the nuclear weapons sites.

However not to worry I am sure the CIA knows what is going on. Heck they are probably finding Wagner as the world is so messed up now.

Great speech by Matt Taibbi posted above. We are in a dangerous world due to the mainstream media no longer performing it’s function to hold Governments to account.

I’m surprised NAFO psy op Armchair Copelord hasn’t troll tweeted yet.

However as the radio just mentioned who controls the nuclear weapons sites.

I was being facetious about breaking up Russia but you’d really hope even the most bitter of enemies would have the sense not to use nukes in a civil war/coup/mutiny.

Tanks and APCs on the streets in Moscow, just for show as the Wagner column is a day’s drive away.

Now we get to see just how many troops the MoD has in reserve. According to db, they have barely even deployed any of them. And how much equipment do they have left that is not already at the front? Things could get rather messy if the two sides actually meet in battle, might be bayonets and bare hands.

Prigozhin appears to have started a coup

Probably the only way of Ukraine getting a “win” is if Russia is too b usy kicking itself in the balls to fight.
But theres always the downside, who will replace Putin, will they be worse?
Anyone want a army smallgoods cook in charge of Russia?

From the DM.

I can’t see them negotiating anymore.

Earlier on Friday, Prigozhin had appeared to cross a new line in his increasingly vitriolic feud with the ministry, saying that the Kremlin’s rationale for invading Ukraine was based on lies concocted by the army’s top brass.

The FSB domestic security service said it had opened a criminal case against him for calling for an armed mutiny, a crime punishable with a jail term of up to 20 years.

‘Prigozhin’s statements are in fact calls for the start of an armed civil conflict on Russian territory and his actions are a ‘stab in the back’ of Russian servicemen fighting pro-fascist Ukrainian forces,’ the FSB said.

‘We urge the … fighters not to make irreparable mistakes, to stop any forcible actions against the Russian people, not to carry out the criminal and traitorous orders of Prigozhin, to take measures to detain him.’

The Kremlin said Putin had been informed and that ‘necessary measures are being taken’.

Let’s guess what db’s response will be:

(a) enh Wagner has served its purpose for the Empire, we will crush this rebellion and deploy our elite stormtroopers

(b) this is all a CIA plot to start WW3

(c) this is all the West’s fault, whoever replaces Putin was always going to be way worse, they should have negotiated peace and given in to all his Ukraine demands

(d) all of the above

Geez, the pervert apologist is getting off on Russia and Ukraine this morning, anyway, I suppose that’s preferable than his usual shtick, getting off on women being assaulted and bashed because they want women only spaces.

The stench of Gloat in that despicable ‘usual shtick’ this morning can be smelt on Mars.

Cassie and Megan

General Filed Marshal mUntgumery, Master of War, seems unaware of the adage: “Things are never either as good or as bad as the early reports”.

(c) this is all the West’s fault, whoever replaces Putin was always going to be way worse, they should have negotiated peace and given in to all his Ukraine demands

m0nty I always was frustrated with the Russian moving target which could be argued away no matter what.

I wouldn’t gloat though either. We are less safe then before right now and I got 1/2 predictions right about this war. The one I got right isn’t a happy one. Russia is less secure now so we are all faced with uncertainty and a possible civil war involving nukes.

1. Maybe he’ll be horrifically bad.
2. Who says he’ll win with 25k troops?
3. What if it is a psy op and Russia throws another 20 divisions towards Kiev from the north?
4. If Prigozhin installs himself as *temporary President until fair elections can be called* then he’s likely to sue for peace to get credibility among his neighbours, bar Belarus.
5. Does anyone know if Belarus really has nukes? Would their soldiers refuse orders like Americans are said to have refused Nixon’s orders?
6. Why would they get involved?
7. Maybe Prigozhin is competent and he will defeat Ukraine is a few months (like my failed prediction), ending them forever as a sovereign nation.
8. The real worry is unpredictability and nukes. Russia’s “allies” are allies of convenience.
9. Many fringe Russian territories with separatist movements might make a move, along with their sovereign neighbours.

“The safety of trans people is one of University of Melbourne’s highest priorities”.

If governments hadn’t closed Lunatic Asylums to release the inmates to the street they’d be full of trans people.
Why the farck are we giving these sickos any attention?

More speculative comments on twat social media say Putin is already dead, really unhinged ones think Putin and Trump are fully interchangeable and thus Putin will “get away with it” as long as Trump is free, alive and kicking.

Sophie Vivian’s story in the Oz is both disturbing and chilling.

Imagine if the perpetrator was a member of the clergy instead of the AIS & then attached to the Australian embassy in Indonesia?

CNN now is throwing the Bidens under the bus, but that truth must be displaced on the US evening news cycle. Until we see Prizhogen perp walked or on a morgue slab, none of this can be believed. There is no footage I’ve seen of P’s outburst, just audio.

Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg
NEW: CNN makes shocking pivot and is actually now reporting on the whistleblower’s claims that the Department of Justice conducted a cover up operation for Hunter Biden.

The state media’s plan is becoming clear.

Get Joe Biden out of the White House for 2024 & replace him with Gavin Newsom.

“The question is, where was this message and was evidence like this thoroughly investigated by the FBI and the IRS?”

Speaking of CNN;

“CNN Producer Sentenced To 19 Years In Prison For P3dofilia”

mOron’s team of deviants coming unstuck.

Makka go and post that on Hot Crapper, some retired teachers with $500 of BHP shares were the most obstinate in insisting that Hunter Biden was a roolly smart and legitimate business fella.

This is pretty interesting, but Hungry Jacks can go to hell with their COVID vaccine bigotry and adult sippee cups.

Can Burger King Make A Comeback?

215,616 views Jun 22, 2023 #CNBC
In September 2022, Burger King owner Restaurant Brands International announced the chain’s $400 million Reclaim the Flame plan. Now the No. 3 burger chain behind McDonald’s and Wendy’s, Burger King is pouring $150 million into advertising and digital investments to “Fuel the Flame” and $250 million toward a “Royal Reset” involving restaurant technology, equipment and remodels, and relocations. In connection with the big revamp, the company also hired two former Domino’s executives: Tom Curtis, Burger King U.S. president, and Patrick Doyle, executive chair of RBI. Wendy’s snatched the No. 2 spot from the chain in 2021 after years of declining sales due to complex menu items, outdated restaurants and slow operations. BK profits fell about 20% from 2019 through 2022. It remains to be seen if the overhaul will be enough to put the mother of the Whopper back into the burger supremacy race.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT0EAJo9lRA

Pervert Family in the WH showing US citizens the middle finger;

BREAKING: White House National Security Council Coordinator WALKS OUT after being asked about Hunter Biden’s WhatsApp messages with China implicating President Biden

THE MESSAGE:

“I am sitting here with my father, and we would like to understand why the commitment made was not fulfilled. Tell the director I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight.

https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/1672314542150262805

Interesting that the FSB has not challenged the Wagner column and is waving them through. Guess they think this is a fight for the army, not the police.

Don’t get me wrong Dot, I don’t think Prigozhin is going to win. This is a move borne of desperation. The West has locked up his foreign capital, and the MoD has choked his supplies.

The ultimate consequence is the damage to Russia’s war effort. To that end, let Putin’s chef cook.

the cancer destroying the world – Kyiv

Sweet Jesus this is a bit over-egged.

Hungry Jacks can go to hell with their COVID vaccine bigotry and adult sippee cups.

When they proudly advertised their Veggie Burger for months at my local shopping centre I immediately went to Maccas just across the road instead.

Speaking of obnoxious vegans:

Celebrity Chef John Mountain Bans Vegans from His Restaurant: ‘**** Off’ (22 Jun)

A TV celebrity chef has told vegans not to consider dining at his restaurant in Perth, Australia, saying negative reviews from fastidious plant eaters were putting his very livelihood at risk.

Fyre restaurant can be found in the state capital of Western Australia. That’s where former Great British Menu star John Mountain declared his upscale destination was a “vegan free zone” in response to a bad review.

He took to social media to publicise his ban on vegans, telling telling them if they want to eat vegetables to “go somewhere else.”

“Sadly all vegans are now banned from Fyre (for mental health reasons),” he said in a Facebook post. “We thank you for your understanding. Xx.”

“**** vegans seriously … I’m done. At the end of the day, it’s not what I want to do, they can **** off,” Mountain further declared.

Had to edit his erudition because the New Cat has scruples. Quite a ratings war then started, which Mr Mountain seems to be winning.

A controversial celebrity chef has doubled down on his decision to ban vegans from his restaurant after he received threats that activists will stage a protest. … Less than 48 hours after the hailstorm began, Fyre restaurant is currently sitting on a 4.4 review score – which is better than it was before Mr Mountain banned vegans.

Well done sir!

I expect the high percentage is due to the redefinition of sexual assault to include even staring.

It’s insane. Men must look at the ground whilst women judge them as acceptable or not.

The fat turd is certain it will never have to don khaki green and run around in the cold slush with a rifle.

A reasonable assumption.

Bons the threat is they will find out they are mentally defective and they’ll have to find a different club to bash normies.

Just on Armstrongs comment on Senaotor Lindsay Graham above Neocons Pushing for Nuclear War NOW!

Nuke false flag not on ZNPP but on…..another one.

Turns out, the real nuclear power plant which may be the actual target, is the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant (SUNPP), the location of which is shown on the map below:

Of course, if NATO thinks the radiation from a Ukrainian nuclear power plant would be bad, they’re clearly not factoring-in the actual radiation from the Russian nuclear missiles that will likely rain down on NATO countries (including us here in the United States) once NATO invokes Article 5 and Russia is then forced to hit us with all she’s got.

https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/not-zaporozhye-npp-south-ukraine-npp-being-used-to-store-us-weapons-and-intelligence-hq

grr – 4 hr ago
I don’t trust Hal Turner, not too much actually pans out in the way he reports

Natoistan – 1 hr ago

Me too but he has been proved right I would say 7 out of 10 times, not so bad.

I just can’t follow western MSM anymore because they all lie 24/7.

Barking Toad says:
June 24, 2023 at 10:11 am

Why the farck are we giving these sickos any attention?

They are useful vehicles for those who find satisfaction in the destruction of our way of life.
As soon as they cease to be useful, their nutrient-free corpse will be discarded (with as much emotion as a snake sheds its skin), and the parasites formerly within, will seek a new host. This is about resource acquisition, not altruism. Juicy hosts offer more opportunities than ones which have already been drained. Feed until you are sated, or until the resource runs dry, then discard. Just like women have been discarded.* (They’ll come back to women as useful vehicles at some point).

* Not ALL women, just the approved, ‘insider’ women, who pose little or no threat because they are controllable.

China sitting back, arms folded for the time being.

I just can’t follow western MSM anymore because they all lie 24/7.

Liberty quote.

I clocked up 22 hours fishing, 12 hours sun baking, 8 hours walking, 56 hours sleeping aaannd 78 hours doing SFA.

Make sure you don’t push yourself too hard. It’s not worth the stress.

The females granted acknowledgement and protection by 48th-wave (give or take) feminism, only receive this approval because they are deemed controllable.

There is a quip that feminism was never about equality.

Whatever the case, it is true now. Women have more rights in law than men do and are substantively advantaged over men. Why women need any more help in tertiary education is really inconceivable.

How much more “equality” do feminists want? They can’t keep on beating up the same strawmen. The hypothetical cranky old guy who genuinely hates women, in his seventies in the 1990s will pop his clogs soon.

Wagner troops advancing the front line against the Uke army in Bakhmut: 10 metres per day

Wagner troops advancing the front line against the Russian army in Rostov: 100km in one day… and counting

I have to say that Dmitri’s feed today is very interesting and entertaining. He’s an Estonian who has been translating a lot of Russian traffic into English. He doesn’t like Russians, of course, but the words from the players themselves are worth reading. The tea leaves are especially thick right now and it’s hard to determine what exactly they all mean. He’s been translating a lot of what Mr Prigozhin has been posting on social media today.

https://twitter.com/wartranslated

A bit weird that the US networks have not mentioned the situation in Russia as yet.

How about the ALPBC?

I clocked up 22 hours fishing, 12 hours sun baking, 8 hours walking, 56 hours sleeping aaannd 78 hours doing SFA.

You work for a government department in Canberra?