Biden Wags the Dog on Ukraine, Alt-Media Race to Bottom & Cops Play Into Crime Panic w/ Yasha Levine by Media Roots Radio published on 2022-02-01T00:48:27Z Abby and Robbie talk to investigative journalist and author of the book Surveillance Valley, Yasha Levine, about his thoughts on the crime wave hysteria, the Russia "incursion" in Ukraine and the alt-media race to the bottom. SUBSCRIBE // https://yasha.substack.com/ Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this podcast please subscribe to Media Roots Radio on Patreon // www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio Patreon subscribers at the $5 tier get access to an exclusive bonus episode per month. FOLLOW // twitter.com/AbbyMartin // twitter.com/FluorescentGrey // twitter.com/YashaLevine Genre News & Politics Comment by Cheesenado I don't really know what you mean when you say the Ukraine situation came out of nowhere; conflict in Ukraine has been pushed by the usual suspects essentially since the Hunter Biden scandal and the think tank warmongers have been all over 2022-02-02T22:52:02Z Comment by MindShielder I was lucky enough to go 3 shows (they were punk/hardcore shows so the limit of 500 was fine, there's nothing better than small clubs for that kind of music) in October.Also, I think the confinement was much less severe here (and this is where it was the most severe in al of Canada's provinces) than places like Cali, we don't have to wear masks outside for example and cops don't act like in Australia, even last year when the province was split in its regions in Tom Ridge colour codes, people who lived alone had the right to visit family or another person who lives alone even at its worse (Code Red). I think that people are now looking back at articles about oveflowing hospitals because of the flu in the past, in this prov, in 2012 and 2018, we had sealed floors in hospitals because of how bad influenza was and triage tents were outside hospitals because the triage rooms inside were not enough by far, it's only been like this once with covid, in march 2020. Puts things in perspective. 2022-02-02T08:05:03Z Comment by MindShielder Ivermectin is a valid tool, it's not the be all end all, but they do use it in ICU's. I do think it would work as a preventative, but that's because it's more related to what I studied in school, chemicals and my own self-education in biochem later on. China is giving interferon related antiviral covid-stopping inhalers to its citizens and using a normal vaccine (dead sars-cov-2) and they have much less trouble there than anywhere else. You're a pro in your field Yasha, maybe listen to the pros in other fields who like you are underdogs who shouldn't be! 2022-02-02T07:50:31Z Comment by MindShielder "The Anarchists" that the Domestic Terror laws put in place because of 1/6/21, as Robbie says in the following podcast, if you read the fine print, it's the "punk" left they are after, not right wing wackjobs, they are consolidating themselves a huge base in Texas near Waco of all places as we speak, preparing for civil war, undeterred. 2022-02-02T07:44:26Z Comment by MindShielder Covid gave Biden NY State...which was going Sanders before the fear oven was cranked to 11 in March 2020, he was cheated out of NY State and a couple other smaller ones. Not as obvious as in 2016 because Covid. I agree with Russia that Britain released sars-cov-2 just a few days before it was leaving the EU (not kidding, Russian intel says so, it made a stink in the UK on the DailyMail but it was never talked about in north america afaik). 2022-02-02T07:31:06Z Comment by MindShielder Bernie removed the fear of the word socialism from a good chunk of Americans even if it doesn't seem like it. 2022-02-02T07:27:53Z Comment by MindShielder Funny how (although CBC in 2020 and last year tried to compare people who are anti-ultra rapid warp speed developed vaccines (and not antivax in general, the shortest testing time for a branded vaccine out there is 4 years, I don't want to be part of a Stage III cliinical study involving the whole west (China's vaccine is a normal vaccine using dead sars-cov-2, they also sell for very cheap antiviral interferon based inhalers to prevent worsening of infection ever since it got in control over there) and I don't know much at all about Sputnik-V. Anyways, they tried to portray people like this before in Canada as ultra-right wing etc. but it fails since it's mostly leftists (who do not like the Liberal Party of Canada or Trudeau) that are against this rush for a vaccine for a coronavirus, a first, since the premise is idiotic, like other coronaviruses, it mutates every 2-3 weeks. I rather just take Pfizer's Antiviral (if it turns out to be good) than go ahead with hazardous experimentals 2022-02-02T07:21:19Z Comment by MindShielder Yasha, you jaded yourself with your tell-all book, Surveillance Valley. I haven't read it fully, not cos I have a problem with it, because of how disillusioning it is. 2022-02-02T07:13:13Z Comment by MindShielder Ah, Matt Tahibi, the guy who wrote one good article in 2016 who's somehow still relevant to some people out there, who, I don't know. 2022-02-02T07:11:35Z Comment by MindShielder Haha, I can see hoiw one could get sour to Dore, but I find him funny still (when he wants to be) and is one of my first-line news line into the US, I'm in my comfortable home at -35c in Canada where things are nowhere as ugly/wild. I don't do twitter much at all, so I don't see the people Yasha mentions here, I have accounts on a lot of social media but barely use them, the only thing I let decide for me is my RSS feed with certain keywords, otherwise, I decide what I want to get informed by, not the opposite like those relying solely on TV/radio, the wave of new internet users around 2008-2009 are those who would have never gotten an internet connection if it wasn't for those double-edged tools, some of them totally single edged to profile you and sell you. Not everyone who likes Dore falls in the Greenwald Mafia heh. 2022-02-02T07:05:21Z Comment by MindShielder There's not a whole lot of people I give money to compared to 10 years ago....some just disappear, censored-to-death where giving a monthly normal contribution yourself isn't enough cos not enough people care (see how truthdig died, people are slowly catching on to using search engines other than google though...because with google you have to be doing some googlefu boolean warfare to find some stuff and some websites are entirely blacklisted from it, I guess MediaGuard or w/e is fully integrated to Alphabet inc. now. I'm sure it will be at the OS level in Windows 11 and soon-to-be OSX versions, use Linux, it's really simple nowadays not many excuses are valid not to and one can just emulate their win or mac only "apps". 2022-02-02T06:58:02Z