MintPress News reporter and returning TNNE champion Alex Rubinstein (@RealAlexRubi) joins Dan Ackerman (@DarnArckerman) and Peter Ronson (@Parenthestein) this week! Together, we catch up on the arrest of Julian Assange and walk through Alex's latest Max Blumenthal collab, a series of articles on the eBay billionaire, sole shareholder in The Intercept, and virtual-reality-obsessed doomsday prepper Pierre Omidyar.
NOTE: PLEASE read Part 3 of Alex's series. We didn't get to talk about the NXIVM connection, and we're kicking ourselves.
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Timestamps:
0:00: The GOAT sings us in
2:34: Intro
4:33: Julian Assange and Wikileaks
25:41: Pierre Omidyar and Alex's articles
49:48: We fall down the Syria hole and talk about how various funding models influence journalism
Links:
Part 1: How One of America’s Premier Data Monarchs is Funding a Global Information War and Shaping the Media Landscape
https://www.mintpressnews.com/ebay-founder-pierre-omidyar-is-funding-a-global-media-information-war/255199/
Part 2: Pierre Omidyar’s Funding of Pro-Regime-Change Networks and Partnerships with CIA Cutouts
https://www.mintpressnews.com/pierre-omidyar-funding-of-pro-regime-change-networks-and-partnerships-with-cia-cutouts/255337/
Part 3: Pierre Omidyar: A Billionaire Prone to Reclusiveness and his Trove of State Surveillance Secrets
https://www.mintpressnews.com/pierre-omidyar-a-billionaire-prone-to-reclusiveness-and-his-trove-of-state-surveillance-secrets/255439/
Weird Al, "eBay"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKtlK7sn0JQ
Whitney Webb on Assange and Ecuador
https://www.mintpressnews.com/with-assange-arrest-ecuador-creeps-further-towards-authoritarianism/257381/
Webb on the IMF as a "weapon" of US foreign policy
https://www.mintpressnews.com/leaked-wikileaks-doc-reveals-how-us-military-uses-of-imf-world-bank-as-unconventional-weapons/254708/
Glenn Greenwald on NPR
https://vimeo.com/329855329
Historic.ly thread on Wikileaks revelations
https://twitter.com/historic_ly/status/1024158368691314688
MintPress livestream of the "alt" book launch for Blumenthal's The Management of Savagery
https://www.facebook.com/MintpressNewsMPN/videos/2268039386749747/
Max's cool joke
https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1042117000351371264
Theme song credit: "Robobozo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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