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#FreeSpeech

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"If you can’t get the balance sheet on a marquee show worked out, that’s a YOU problem. As I have said for the last week, other late-night shows have made cost-cutting concessions, but Colbert wasn’t given a chance to defend his corner and present ideas for savings. So basically, the balance sheet is a mess, but you’re not interested in ways to fix it. Gotcha."

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‘Be patriots’: Bombay HC rejects CPI(M) plea to hold protest rally against Israel’s war on Gaza

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> The bench urged the party to focus on domestic concerns rather than international affairs.

Behold! The wold's largest "democracy":
Not only do people need to make a plea in front of a court to be allowed to protest, the court's ruling specifies what people can and can't protest.
#India #democracy #freeSpeech #Israel #Gaza

Today in Labor History July 25, 2010: WikiLeaks published classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history. The leak included 91,000 Afghan War documents, covering the period from January 2004 to December 2009. Prior to the release, WikiLeaks made the logs available to “The Guardian,” “The New York Times” and “Der Spiegel.” The Times said the leak "offers an unvarnished and grim picture of the Afghan war." The Guardian called it "one of the biggest leaks in U.S. military history ... a devastating portrait of the failing war in Afghanistan, revealing how coalition forces have killed hundreds of civilians in unreported incidents, Taliban attacks have soared and NATO commanders fear neighboring Pakistan and Iran are fueling the insurgency." The documents also revealed that U.S. military contractors had hired local male child prostitutes.

As a result of the leaks, the U.S. government launched a criminal investigation into Wikileaks, and its founder, Julian Assange, who spent years under British custody. And the U.S. fought aggressively to get him extradited to the U.S., where he would face multiple life sentences for espionage.

Watch the original leaked footage here: youtu.be/5rXPrfnU3G0?t=2

It should be apparent to anyone taking notice that our govt(s) are becoming more intolerant of #FreeSpeech and #PeacefulProtest. The result of restrictive laws are readily seen in #PoliceViolence on the street, as if somehow these 'servants of the people' have caught the public order violence epidemic we see in the US.

Hannah Thomas is currently the most visible case in point. In her article she reminds us that the Minns govt is overreaching with freedoms restrictive legilsation and reminiding us of NSW police #Brutality and #CoverUp.

Read more:
crikey.com.au/2025/07/25/hanna

Crikey · I was punched in the face by NSW Police, as Chris Minns’ anti-protest laws crack down on Palestine dissentBy Hannah Thomas

Eduardo Porter explained why he was leaving the Post: “Jeff Bezos and his new head of Opinion are taking the paper down a path I cannot follow, directed toward the relentless promotion of free markets and personal liberties…. I have no idea to what extent this is driven by Mr. Bezos’ fear of what Donald #Trump could do to his various business interests, most of which are more valuable to him than The Post.”
robertreich.substack.com/p/the #Trump #autocracy #censorship #media #freespeech #WaPo #JeffBezos

Robert Reich · The silencingBy Robert Reich