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2022-12-10 23:24:01+00:00
AOC Hits Sinema for Leaving Democratic Party, Registering as an independent: 'People Deserve More'
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. is criticizing Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema after she announced her decision to leave the Democratic Party and register as an independent on Friday.
Sinema announced the decision in an Arizona Republic op-ed published on Friday, criticizing America's two party system.
"Americans are told that we have only two choices – Democrat or Republican – and that we must subscribe wholesale to policy views the parties hold, views that have been pulled further and further toward the extremes," Sinema wrote. "Most Arizonans believe this is a false choice, and when I ran for the U.S. House and the Senate, I promised Arizonans something different."
In response, Ocasio-Cortez said that Sinema doesn't offer "a single concrete value or policy she believes in."
"She lays out no goals for Arizonans, no vision, no commitments," Ocasio-Cortez said. "It’s ‘no healthcare, just vibes’ for Senate."
Ocasio-Cortez also said she's "grateful this race & nomination has opened up."
Source: Fox
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2022-12-10 20:55:09+00:00
The Twitter Blacklisting of Jay Bhattacharya
Jay Bhattacharya, a professor of medicine at Stanford University, was a latecomer to Twitter, joining in the summer of 2021. In his first tweet, he linked to a recent article he had written that discussed age-based mortality risks and natural immunity, among other topics. His main message was powerful and contrary to Covid policies enacted across the country. “Mass testing is an insidious form of lockdown by stealth,” he wrote. Many Americans, especially parents of school-age children, would agree. But it’s possible that many on Twitter didn’t see his message.
This week Twitter released a set of internal emails and documents from before Elon Musk’s takeover of the company in October. One of the revelations was that Dr. Bhattacharya, among many others, had been censored and shadow-banned (tweets hidden in various ways) by Twitter.
Bhattacharya was secretly blacklisted because he "argued that Covid lockdowns would harm children," and was thus unable to trend on the platform, Weiss reported in a Twitter thread.
The medical professional spoke with Laura Ingraham about the revelation Thursday night.
On "The Ingraham Angle," Bhattacharya said the suppression of his voice, which questioned much of Dr. Anthony Fauci's guidance and the COVID-19 policies, ultimately harmed data, children and the American public.
He believes he was essentially silenced because the opposing "arguments were not strong enough to survive the light of day."
"If we had an open discussion, Laura, the schools would not have closed in the fall of 2020. If we had an open discussion, the lockdowns would have been lifted much earlier because the data and evidence behind them was so bad," he said on the show.
Source: Wall Street Journal, Fox News
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2022-12-10 20:45:39+00:00
Twitter's Former Global Head of Trust & Safety Argued That Kids Should Be Able to Access Adult Internet Services in PhD Thesis
Related Reading: How the Old Twitter Failed the Fight Against Children's Sexual Exploitation Content
🔈Audio Recording: Eliza Bleu/ Elon Musk Twitter Space
'Small World' Elon Responds to the Fact that Lesley Podesta, Recently Resigned From Twitter Trust and Safety Team, Is Niece of John Podesta
Source: Elon Musk, Yoel Roth
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2022-12-10 20:00:37+00:00
How the Old Twitter Failed the Fight Against Children's Sexual Exploitation Content
While I'm working as an independent researcher along Twitter's Trust and Safety team led by Ms. Ella Girwin and passionate managers like Jarrod Doherty, I want to share some information and updates with you all. So, here we go 👇
Twitter is continuing its operations against accounts that publish child sexual abuse material. As I said,Twitter focused on Spanish-speaking and Portuguese-speaking users in the past days. Reduced over 90% the impact of these malicious accounts that used specific KWs and #'s
Furthermore, Twitter is working on the following:
a. report form. As Eliza Bleu suggested, it will be easier and faster to report CSAM with clear reporting options.
b. ban evasion. The Twitter engineering team is working to detect users that try to bypass account suspension
c. Continuous updating and monitoring of suspected hashtags and KWs.
d. Strengthening of cooperation with law enforcement.
e. Listening to users' ideas and feedback.
f. Operations against suspected networks that share CSAM.
About f. read the following tweets
The more we work on child sexual abuse material on Twitter, the more we find the HELL left by the old Twitter management. What I'm going to tell you now is INSANE.
We found several accounts that shared CSAM, including videos of children and teens involved in sexual activities. >95% of these accounts were created before Elon Musk bought Twitter. Some of these accounts have been active for years (even since 2017).
These accounts that shared CSAM acted with impunity for years. The contents of these accounts obtained over ten million views on Twitter. Yes, 10.000.000 views. They won't get any new views because Twitter has now taken down all these accounts.
I found that old Twitter, in many cases related to child sexual abuse material published on the platform by malicious users, instead of suspending the whole account, just removed the tweet. Now Twitter, under Elon Musk's leadership, directly suspends the accounts.
Elon Musk is constantly updated about the progress. Two days ago, he authorized additional measures to fight child abuse on the platform. Old management had other priorities, but for the new Twitter, children's safety is #1
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After the thread above was posted by Andrea Stroppa, Eliza Bleu hosted a must-listen-to twitter space with several major voices including Elon Musk attending.
Source: Andrea Stroppa
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2022-12-10 19:28:14+00:00
The Twitter Files Pt 3: THE REMOVAL OF DONALD TRUMP - Part One: October 2020-January 6th [Post 10]
The group then decides to apply a “Learn how voting is safe and secure” label because one commenter says, “it’s totally normal to have a 2% error rate.” Roth then gives the final go-ahead to the process initiated by the FBI:
Examining the entire election enforcement Slack, we didn’t see one reference to moderation requests from the Trump campaign, the Trump White House, or Republicans generally. We looked. They may exist: we were told they do. However, they were absent here.
Source: Matt Taibbi
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2022-12-10 19:15:29+00:00
The Twitter Files Pt 3: THE REMOVAL OF DONALD TRUMP - Part One: October 2020-January 6th [Post 9]
Here, the FBI sends reports about a pair of tweets, the second of which involves a former Tippecanoe County, Indiana Councilor and Republican named John Basham claiming “Between 2% and 25% of Ballots by Mail are Being Rejected for Errors.”
The FBI's second report concerned this tweet by John Basham:
The FBI-flagged tweet then got circulated in the enforcement Slack. Twitter cited Politifact to say the first story was “proven to be false,” then noted the second was already deemed “no vio on numerous occasions.”
Source: Matt Taibbi
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2022-12-10 19:12:20+00:00
The Twitter Files Pt 3: THE REMOVAL OF DONALD TRUMP - Part One: October 2020-January 6th [Post 8]
This post about the Hunter Biden laptop situation shows that Roth not only met weekly with the FBI and DHS, but with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI):
Roth’s report to FBI/DHS/DNI is almost farcical in its self-flagellating tone:
“We blocked the NYP story, then unblocked it (but said the opposite)… comms is angry, reporters think we’re idiots… in short, FML” (fuck my life).
Some of Roth’s later Slacks indicate his weekly confabs with federal law enforcement involved separate meetings. Here, he ghosts the FBI and DHS, respectively, to go first to an “Aspen Institute thing,” then take a call with Apple.
Source: Matt Taibbi
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2022-12-10 19:10:21+00:00
The Twitter Files Pt 3: THE REMOVAL OF DONALD TRUMP - Part One: October 2020-January 6th [Post 7]
During this time, executives were also clearly liaising with federal enforcement and intelligence agencies about moderation of election-related content. While we’re still at the start of reviewing the #TwitterFiles, we’re finding out more about these interactions every day.
Policy Director Nick Pickles is asked if they should say Twitter detects “misinfo” through “ML, human review, and **partnerships with outside experts?*” The employee asks, “I know that’s been a slippery process… not sure if you want our public explanation to hang on that.”
Pickles quickly asks if they could “just say “partnerships.” After a pause, he says, “e.g. not sure we’d describe the FBI/DHS as experts.”
Source: Matt Taibbi
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2022-12-10 19:08:48+00:00
The Twitter Files Pt 3: THE REMOVAL OF DONALD TRUMP - Part One: October 2020-January 6th [Post 6]
On October 8th, 2020, executives opened a channel called “us2020_xfn_enforcement.” Through J6, this would be home for discussions about election-related removals, especially ones that involved “high-profile” accounts (often called “VITs” or “Very Important Tweeters”).
There was at least some tension between Safety Operations – a larger department whose staffers used a more rules-based process for addressing issues like porn, scams, and threats – and a smaller, more powerful cadre of senior policy execs like Roth and Gadde.
The latter group were a high-speed Supreme Court of moderation, issuing content rulings on the fly, often in minutes and based on guesses, gut calls, even Google searches, even in cases involving the President.
Source: Matt Taibbi
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2022-12-10 19:06:55+00:00
The Twitter Files Pt 3: THE REMOVAL OF DONALD TRUMP - Part One: October 2020-January 6th [Post 5]
As the election approached, senior executives – perhaps under pressure from federal agencies, with whom they met more as time progressed – increasingly struggled with rules, and began to speak of “vios” as pretexts to do what they’d likely have done anyway.
After J6, internal Slacks show Twitter executives getting a kick out of intensified relationships with federal agencies. Here’s Trust and Safety head Yoel Roth, lamenting a lack of “generic enough” calendar descriptions to concealing his “very interesting” meeting partners.
These initial reports are based on searches for docs linked to prominent executives, whose names are already public. They include Roth, former trust and policy chief Vijaya Gadde, and recently plank-walked Deputy General Counsel (and former top FBI lawyer) Jim Baker.
One particular slack channel offers an unique window into the evolving thinking of top officials in late 2020 and early 2021. ...
Source: Matt Taibbi
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2022-12-10 18:59:24+00:00
The Twitter Files Pt 3: THE REMOVAL OF DONALD TRUMP - Part One: October 2020-January 6th [Post 4]
As the election approached, senior executives – perhaps under pressure from federal agencies, with whom they met more as time progressed – increasingly struggled with rules, and began to speak of “vios” as pretexts to do what they’d likely have done anyway.
After J6, internal Slacks show Twitter executives getting a kick out of intensified relationships with federal agencies. Here’s Trust and Safety head Yoel Roth, lamenting a lack of “generic enough” calendar descriptions to concealing his “very interesting” meeting partners.
These initial reports are based on searches for docs linked to prominent executives, whose names are already public. They include Roth, former trust and policy chief Vijaya Gadde, and recently plank-walked Deputy General Counsel (and former top FBI lawyer) Jim Baker.
Source: Matt Taibbi
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2022-12-10 18:57:48+00:00
The Twitter Files Pt 3: THE REMOVAL OF DONALD TRUMP - Part One: October 2020-January 6th [Post 3]
Twitter executives removed Trump in part over what one executive called the “context surrounding”: actions by Trump and supporters “over the course of the election and frankly last 4+ years.” In the end, they looked at a broad picture. But that approach can cut both ways.
The bulk of the internal debate leading to Trump’s ban took place in those three January days. However, the intellectual framework was laid in the months preceding the Capitol riots.
Before J6, Twitter was a unique mix of automated, rules-based enforcement, and more subjective moderation by senior executives. As Bari Weiss reported, the firm had a vast array of tools for manipulating visibility, most all of which were thrown at Trump (and others) pre-J6.
Source: Matt Taibbi
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2022-12-10 18:55:22+00:00
The Twitter Files Pt 3: THE REMOVAL OF DONALD TRUMP - Part One: October 2020-January 6th [Post 2]
Whatever your opinion on the decision to remove Trump that day, the internal communications at Twitter between January 6th-January 8th have clear historical import. Even Twitter’s employees understood in the moment it was a landmark moment in the annals of speech.
As soon as they finished banning Trump, Twitter execs started processing new power. They prepared to ban future presidents and White Houses – perhaps even Joe Biden. The “new administration,” says one exec, “will not be suspended by Twitter unless absolutely necessary.”
Source: Matt Taibbi
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2022-12-10 18:53:28+00:00
The Twitter Files Pt 3: THE REMOVAL OF DONALD TRUMP - Part One: October 2020-January 6th [Post 1]
The world knows much of the story of what happened between riots at the Capitol on January 6th, and the removal of President Donald Trump from Twitter on January 8th...
We’ll show you what hasn’t been revealed: the erosion of standards within the company in months before J6, decisions by high-ranking executives to violate their own policies, and more, against the backdrop of ongoing, documented interaction with federal agencies.
This first installment covers the period before the election through January 6th. Tomorrow, @ Shellenbergermd
will detail the chaos inside Twitter on January 7th. On Sunday, @ BariWeiss will reveal the secret internal communications from the key date of January 8th.
Source: Matt Taibbi
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2022-12-10 17:55:07+00:00
🚨 FDA Whistleblower: “I’m disheartened to see what’s going on with these vaccines or gene therapies… even more upsetting I can’t believe that I’m the only person here speaking out about this out of 20,000 or so employees at the FDA.”
Senator Ron Johnson’s hearing on December 7th, 2022 in Washington D.C.
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2022-12-10 17:25:04+00:00
American Journalist Grant Wahl Dies at 48 After Collapsing at Qatar World Cup
Wahl died after collapsing while covering Friday’s Argentina-Netherlands match. The circumstances around his death are unclear.
He “collapsed” while covering Friday’s Argentina-Netherlands match, a witness told CNN.
Qatar’s World Cup organizers said on Saturday that Wahl “fell ill” in the press area, where he received “immediate medical treatment on site.” He was then transferred to Hamad General Hospital, said a spokesperson for the Supreme Court Committee for Delivery and Legacy, the body responsible for planning the tournament.
He was treated in the stadium “for about 20-25 minutes” before he was moved to the hospital, Keir Radnedge, a columnist at World Soccer Magazine, told CNN Saturday.
“This was towards the end of extra time in the match. Suddenly, colleagues up to my left started shouting for medical assistance. Obviously, someone had collapsed. Because the chairs are freestanding, people were able to move the chairs, so it’s possible to create a little bit of space around him,” Radnedge said.
He added that the medical team were there “pretty quickly and were able to, as best they could, give treatment.”
The circumstances around his death are not clear.
Source: CNN, USA Today
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2022-12-10 16:34:25+00:00
🔈Audio Recording: Eliza Bleu/ Elon Musk Twitter Space
If you missed the Twitter Spaces tonight you can check out the recording!
Topic: Twitter Child Sexual Exploitation
Source: Eliza Bleu
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2022-12-10 03:55:08+00:00
"In September, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) — over the objections of the agency’s own advisors — authorized Pfizer’s COVID-19 bivalent booster on an emergency basis, without any testing or demonstration that the products had any benefit in human beings.
The only “emergency” was that collapsing demand for Pfizer’s original shots had caused a lapse in the drugmaker’s windfall profits."
https://thepulse.one/2022/12/09/covid-bivalent-booster-falls-flat-in-first-real-world-test-cdc-report-shows/
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2022-12-10 03:24:01+00:00
Nanoplastics Disrupt Ubiquitination in Human Cells
Researchers in Italy have investigated how polystyrene nanoparticles interact with human ubiquitin, a regulatory protein found in most tissues.
Their study showed that nanoplastics change the structure of ubiquitin and disrupt cell ubiquitination processes, which could have implications for human health.
Nanoplastics and microplastics have diameters of less than 100nm and 5mm, respectively, and are formed when plastic materials fragment. As well as being found in soil, oceans and freshwater, nanoplastics have been detected in food, drinking water and the air.
It is still largely unclear exactly how nanoplastics might affect humans, but we already know that they are able to enter cells and interact with various biomolecules due to their size.
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Source: Chemistry World
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2022-12-10 02:55:05+00:00
Flashback: Then CEO Jack Dorsey Says Twitter Doesn't Censor Speech Outside of Calls to Violence
"Does Twitter censor the content of its users? Does it hide what it would consider inflammatory comments, whether they be social or political?" asked Matt Lauer.
"Absolutely not!" alleged Dorsey.
"Who decides the difference between criticism and hate?" questioned Lauer.
"These are the individuals," replied Dorsey.
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2022-12-10 02:24:02+00:00
First Attorney General Files Lawsuits Against TikTok
https://www.activistpost.com/2022/12/first-attorney-general-files-lawsuits-against-tiktok.html
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2022-12-10 01:25:10+00:00
Cop Gets 25 Years for Torturing 8 Year Old Boy to Death—Freezing, Beating, and Starving Him
The death of 8-year-old Thomas Valva shocked the nation in 2020 when it was discovered his New York cop father was alleged to have beaten him and starved him before throwing him into an unheated garage where he froze to death. As the investigation unfolded, we learned that authorities were warned by multiple people on multiple occasions that NYPD officer Michael Valva was horrifically abusing his children, and, in a disgusting display of blue privilege, no one acted. In fact, the only actions taken were against the mother which helped Valva continue the abuse.
This week, Valva was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison after he was found guilty last month.
“The torture that killed Thomas and endangered Anthony’s welfare was nothing short of evil,” Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney said in a press release.
“This is one of the most difficult and heartbreaking cases I have experienced in my nearly 30 years as a prosecutor. Thanks to the great work of my prosecutors and the SCPD, there is a small measure of justice in Michael Valva receiving the maximum sentence,” Tierney said. “However, no prison sentence is adequate for the cruel treatment this defendant inflicted on his own children.”
Source: The Free Thought Project
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2022-12-10 00:25:10+00:00
US Weighs Giving Ukraine Cluster Bombs
According to a report from CNN, the Biden administration is considering a request from Ukraine to provide cluster bombs, munitions that are banned by over 100 countries under an international treaty due to the harm they cause to civilians.
Cluster munitions scatter small bombs over large areas, making them more indiscriminate than other munitions. The small bombs often don’t explode on impact, making them a huge danger to civilians who comes across them, similar to land mines.
The 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions that bans the weapons has 108 signatories, but the US, Russia, and Ukraine are not parties to the treaty. Since Russia launched its invasion in February, both Russian and Ukrainian forces have used cluster munitions, and Kyiv was accused of using the bombs in populated areas of Donestk back in 2014.
The last known time the US used cluster bombs was in Yemen in 2009. Before that, US forces used them in the early days of the Afghanistan war and in Iraq in 2003. The US has supplied cluster bombs to Saudi Arabia, which has used them in its war on Yemen.
The CNN report said that the Biden administration has been fielding a request from Ukraine for cluster munitions for months and has not rejected it outright. The administration hasn’t taken the option off the table if US stockpiles of other munitions become dangerously low.
Source: Antiwar.com
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2022-12-09 23:55:04+00:00
SBF just suggested creating another Ponzi token scheme to payoff the earlier victims of his first Ponzi scheme. 🔥
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2022-12-09 23:36:40+00:00
'Small World' Elon Responds to the Fact that Lesley Podesta, Recently Resigned From Twitter Trust and Safety Team, Is Niece of John Podesta
Sour Patch Lyds on twitter responded to Elon Musk saying "It is a crime that they refused to take action on child exploitation for years!", by noting:
"Just FYI, Lesley Podesta (resigning as listed in this Tweet from Twitter) is John Podesta's niece (Democrat deputy chief of staff)."
Elon Musk would reply:
"Small world".
John Podesta was made infamous during the Podesta leaks, which led to the Pizzagate theory, which as we all know, is just a crazy conspiracy theory that you should never explore.
Musk is set to appear on a twitter space hosted by Eliza Bleu concerning twitter's handling of child porn prior to Musk's take over. The twitter space is scheduled for 10 PM.
Source: Elon Musk
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2022-12-09 23:20:49+00:00
🚨BREAKING: Eliza Bleu to Host Twitter Space with Elon Musk Commentary on Twitter Child Porn, Invites Jack Dorsey To Join - 10PM
Scheduled for 10pm, Eliza Bleu is set to host a twitter space which Elon Musk has reportedly agree to join to discuss twitter's changes in how it handles child porn.
"I wasn’t going to say anything but Elon Musk has agreed to pop into my Twitter Spaces after the Twitter child sexual exploitation material update. Jack Dorsey is welcome to attend and speak about what happened under his leadership."
Earlier, Mike Cernovich tweeted the NYP headline, "Twitter refused to remove child porn because it didn’t ‘violate policies’: lawsuit", saying to twitter's former trust and safety council "You all belong in jail."..
Musk chimed in, "It is a crime that they refused to take action on child exploitation for years!"
Jack then joined the conversation to say "This is false", which Eliza Bleu is challenging him to elaborate on.
Source: Eliza Bleu
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2022-12-09 22:55:07+00:00
CDC/FDA has not conducted risk-benefit analysis of Covid boosters for young people. A team including ethicists and epidemiologists now has.
"This paper makes a strong case that COVID booster mandates in young adults (as in many US universities), caused net harm, and must be judged unethical." ~ Jeffrey Flier, Harvard Medical School
Was it science-based policy? Was it ethically justified?
https://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2022/12/05/jme-2022-108449
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2022-12-09 22:25:06+00:00
Head Of Twitter’s Censorship Operation Was A Former FBI, CIA Operative
The head of Twitter’s censorship scheme to shadowban conservative accounts and posts across the platform previously worked as an operative for the FBI and CIA.
According to a now-unavailable LinkedIn profile discovered by journalist Andy Ngo, Jeff Carlton, whose prior work included serving as a federal intelligence officer, became the leading member of Twitter’s Strategic Response Team (SRT) last month. As revealed in a batch of “Twitter Files” released by reporter Bari Weiss on Thursday, SRT is one of the main groups at Twitter tasked with shadowbanning conservative accounts and tweets on the platform.
In his LinkedIn profile, Carlton states that his role as SRT head involves “resolving the highest-profile Trust & Safety escalations,” as well as managing “crises and non-standard incidents in content moderation and customer support to promote ‘healthy public conversations.'” Before leading the group in his new role, Carlton served as a senior program manager at Twitter, starting in May 2021.
Prior to joining the Big Tech giant, however, Carlton was heavily involved in intelligence-related work within the federal government. In addition to serving as a senior intel officer in the U.S. Marine Corps, he also worked as an intelligence analyst for the FBI and CIA, according to his LinkedIn profile.
“Between 2014 and 2017 … [Carlton] worked for both the CIA and FBI, authored dozens of official reports, some of which were read by President Barack Obama,” a Mint Press News report reads. “Carlton describes his role as a ‘problem-solver’ and claims to have worked in many ‘dynamic, high-pressure environments.'”
Jim Baker, another former FBI official who later transitioned to Twitter, was recently fired by Twitter CEO Elon Musk after his “unconvincing” explanation for his role in suppressing the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story ahead of the 2020 presidential election. During his time with the FBI, Baker was instrumental in helping advance the Trump-Russia collusion hoax.
The bombshell revelation about Carlton came the same night files confirmed that Twitter has been shadowbanning prominent conservative figures on the platform for years, without notifying them or explaining why. As The Federalist previously reported, conservative commentators such as Dan Bongino and Charlie Kirk were among those placed on company “blacklists” to prevent users from finding and seeing their profiles and posts.
Source: The Federalist
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2022-12-09 21:55:04+00:00
Yoel Roth, the Twitter executive who censored highly esteemed medical professionals like Dr. Peter McCullough, Dr. Robert Malone, and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, wrote his entire dissertation at Penn on the gay dating app Grindr.
He silenced a Professor of Medicine at Stanford, one of the most published cardiologist in the world, and the co-inventor of mRNA technology from talking about their field of expertise in the middle of a health crisis.
They claim they are removing "harmful" content, but they are the ones that have done irreparable harm to our society.
How many lives were lost from lockdowns, lack of treatment, and deadly mRNA shots?
https://rumble.com/v1zeexw-the-elitist-snide-worldview-of-yoel-rothtwitters-former-censor-in-chief-wit.html
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2022-12-09 21:43:57+00:00
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2022-12-09 21:25:08+00:00
Twitter — and Democrats — Lied, Lied and Lied Again About Censorship
“1984” author George Orwell warned that “if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” That line has never been more relevant than in the aftermath of the second release of Twitter documents this week.
Many liberals had denied the social media giant was engaging in censorship by using the more pleasant term “content modification.” Now documents show Twitter executives burying “disfavored” views as “visibility filtering” and “amplification” limits.
Calling executives the “head of legal, policy, and trust” (Vijaya Gadde) and the “global head of trust & safety” (Yoel Roth) doesn’t alter their status as some of the greatest censors in history.
Yet the license for this massive system clearly came from Twitter’s very top. Shadow banning and “visibility filtering” are consistent with the policies of ex-CEO Parag Agrawal, who pledged the company would “focus less on thinking about free speech” because “speech is easy on the internet. Most people can speak. Where our role is particularly emphasized is who can be heard.”
So we now know that Twitter was not only banning dissenting voices on subjects ranging from COVID to climate change but was throttling or suppressing the traffic for disfavored writers.
Source: New York Post
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2022-12-09 20:25:03+00:00
Revealed: Group Shaping US Nutrition Receives Millions from Big Food Industry
Newly released documents show an influential group that helps shape US food policy and steers consumers toward nutritional products has financial ties to the world’s largest processed food companies and has been controlled by former industry employees who have worked for companies like Monsanto.
The documents reveal the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics has a record of quid pro quos with a range of food giants, owns stock in ultra processed food companies and has received millions in contributions from producers of pop, candy, and processed foods linked to diabetes, heart disease, obesity and other health problems.
The findings are a part of a recently published peer-reviewed study that examined a trove of financial documents and internal communications obtained through a Freedom of Information act (FOIA).
“It’s incredibly influential so if the Academy is corrupt then nutritional policy in the US is going to be corrupt,” said Gary Ruskin, executive director of US Right to Know, and a co-author of the study. The investigative nonprofit developed the study with researchers from nonprofits and universities in the US and UK.
“If we’re ever going to solve the problems of obesity and diabetes in the US and elsewhere, then we’re going to have to tackle the corruption in our health institutions,” Ruskin added.
The Academy says it as an independent voice and “trusted educational resource for consumers”. It lobbies Congress and represents and provides information to over 110,000 US dietitians who help people make decisions about which foods to eat.
Though the academy has long received criticism for its ties to big food, the study for the first time reveals the depth of its financial ties.
The Academy accepted at least $15m from corporate and organizational contributors from 2011-2017, and over $4.5m in additional funding went to the Academy’s foundation. Among the highest contributions came from companies like Nestle, PepsiCo, Hershey, Kellogg’s, General Mills, Conagra, the National Dairy Council, and baby formula producer Abbott Nutrition.
The Academy and its foundation also received food industry fundings via sponsorships, which are effectively quid pro quos. In a 2015 email, an Academy employee defined a sponsorship as “When a company pays a fee to the Academy/Foundation in return for Academy/Foundation defined specific rights and benefits.”
Source: The Guardian
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2022-12-09 19:25:06+00:00
MONDAY: Dr Jessica Rose | Has VAERS Data Been Manipulated?
Join us on Monday, December 12 at 7 pm UTC/GMT (2pm EST) in the WCH Newsroom to hear from Dr Jessica Rose, who will be giving a presentation on VAERS data and if it has been manipulated.
Dr Jessica Rose is an artist, musician, mathematician, professional surfer, biologist, researcher, and data analyst with a bachelor’s degree in Applied Mathematics and a master’s degree in Immunology from Memorial University of Newfoundland. She was one of 5 esteemed graduates of a newly established interdisciplinary degree program.
Jessica also holds a PhD in Computational Biology from Bar Ilan University and 2 post-doctoral degrees: one in Molecular Biology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and one in Biochemistry from the Technion Institute of Technology. She took a break following completion of the final Post Doc in December 2019—then Covid-19 happened.
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2022-12-09 18:55:06+00:00
📖STUDY: Discriminatory Attitudes Against the Unvaccinated During a Global Pandemic
Abstract
During the COVID-19 pandemic sizeable groups of unvaccinated minorities persist even in countries with high vaccine access1. Consequently, vaccination became a controversial subject of debate and even protest2. Here, we assess whether people express discriminatory attitudes in the form of negative affect, stereotypes and exclusionary attitudes in family and political settings across groups defined by COVID-19 vaccination status.
We quantify discriminatory attitudes between vaccinated and unvaccinated citizens in 21 countries, covering a diverse set of cultures across the world. Across three conjoint experimental studies (N=15,233), we demonstrate that vaccinated people express discriminatory attitudes towards the unvaccinated, as high as the discriminatory attitudes suffered by common targets like immigrant and minority populations.
In contrast, there is an absence of evidence that unvaccinated individuals display discriminatory attitudes towards vaccinated people, except for the presence of negative affect in Germany and United States. We find evidence in support of discriminatory attitudes against the unvaccinated in all countries except Hungary and Romania and find that discriminatory attitudes are more strongly expressed in cultures with stronger cooperative norms.
Prior research on the psychology of cooperation has shown that individuals react negatively against perceived free-riders including in the domain of vaccinations. Consistent with this, the present findings suggest that contributors to the public good of epidemic control (i.e., the vaccinated) react with discriminatory attitudes against perceived free-riders (i.e., the unvaccinated). Elites and the vaccinated general public appealed to moral obligations to increase COVID-19 vaccine uptake but the present findings suggest that discriminatory attitudes including support for the removal of fundamental rights simultaneously emerged.
Source: Nature
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2022-12-09 18:25:07+00:00
📖STUDY: Mandatory Vaccinations, the Segregation of Citizens, and the Promotion of Inequality in the Modern Democracy of Greece and Other Democratic Countries in the Era of Covid-19
Abstract
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Greek authorities enforced a vaccination mandate for healthcare workers (HCWs). At the same time, multiple concerns were raised about the epidemiological profile of Greece in addition to the ethical status of the harsh measures and their impact on employees, organizations, society, and public health. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), considerations regarding the evidence of vaccine safety and effectiveness, necessity, and proportionality should be clearly evaluated by before imposing mandatory vaccination policies. We discuss the issues regarding the mechanics of the transmission and contraction of SARS-CoV-2, the toxicity of COVID-19 vaccines, and the impact of the suspension of HCWs who did not vaccinate versus the potential expected benefits in addition to whether the vaccine mandates were justified considering the overall epidemiological context.
Conclusions
In summary, mandatory vaccinations for COVID-19 can raise medical, social, and ethical concerns. Politics and medicine are completely disparate, but through their transparent cooperation, they can be life-saving in times of a health crisis, contributing to multidimensional healthcare. Mandatory vaccination of HCWs in Greece does not seem to have improved the pandemic’s outcomes and, in addition, has produced a quantitative and qualitative shortage of staff that may have contributed to increased inpatient mortality. In addition, vaccinated individuals can contract and transmit SARS-CoV-2, so the mandatory requirement does not seem to be in a potent factor in pandemic management.
Furthermore, it is necessary to design and complete randomized controlled trials to address the critical issues discussed in this paper, especially regarding the mid- and long-term adverse events of current vaccines. We sincerely hope that the scientific community will re-evaluate bioethics principles and the medical data toward maintaining the fundamental Hippocratic principles.
Our duties as scientists are to ensure that our actions promote well-being and avoid harm to the public and individuals, and this includes avoiding silently backing a potentially flawed political model of pandemic management in such a complicated and unclear medical and scientific challenge.
Source: History and Philosophy of Life Sciences
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2022-12-09 17:52:01+00:00
🚨BREAKING: Baby Will Has Been Returned to His Parents and is Recovering from Heart Surgery
🇳🇿@COVID19Up: Baby Will has been returned to his parents in stable condition and is recovering from heart surgery.
The operation took over half a day.
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2022-12-09 17:35:10+00:00
The First US-Africa Leaders Summit in Eight Years Could and Should Redefine How the US Views Africa
The US has a shot at rekindling its relationship with Africa next week. From Dec. 13-15, president Joe Biden will host around 50 heads of states and senior leaders from across the African continent in Washington, DC.
The US-Africa summit’s agenda is a hefty one. “The US-Africa Leaders Summit will build on our shared values to better foster new economic engagement; reinforce the US-Africa commitment to democracy and human rights; mitigate the impact of covid-19 and of future pandemics; work collaboratively to strengthen regional and global health; promote food security; advance peace and security; respond to the climate crisis; and amplify diaspora ties,” Biden said in a July statement.
The first US-Africa summit was hosted in 2014 by then-president Barack Obama a year after he and the first lady traveled to Senegal, South Africa, and Tanzania, to meet with heads of states and businesspeople. But since then, the US put this diplomatic exercise on the backburner. Donald Trump did not host the summit during his time at the White House, and pandemic considerations would have complicated hosting the event during Biden’s first year in office.
However, it’s not moved fast enough or committed wholeheartedly. Biden has restarted the event and he speaks of “collaboration” when referring to it, but the US—which has often looked at the continent more like a problem to solve than a partner in trade and innovation–is yet to walk the talk. And hopefully, its efforts aren’t only motivated by stopping China in its tracks on the continent but also by helping African nations advance.
Quotable: The US Needs to Start Seeing Africa as an Ally
“For years, US engagement in Africa has emphasized poverty reduction, foreign aid, and addressing conflict and insecurity. While critically important, these priorities have not fully kept pace with dramatic changes occurring across the region, as Africa today has emerged as one of the world’s premier destinations for cutting-edge innovation and inspiring entrepreneurship. This upcoming summit presents an unparalleled opportunity for the U.S. to recalibrate its approach to the region’s rapidly changing dynamics.” —Brookings Institution
The US faces stiff competition from China and Russia in Africa
China is outpacing the US when it comes to trade and investment. From 2007 to 2017, US trade with Africa dropped by 54% whereas China’s grew by 220%. In 2016, China was the leading job creator on the continent. In 2020, China had deals totalling $735 billion with 623 businesses—a massive leg-up on the 80 companies the US has invested $22 billion in since 2019. China is sponsoring 46 port projects in Africa, and the US handles none.
China’s soft power has been growing steadily too. Since 2006, it has diligently hosted the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation once every three years. Almost a decade ago, China put satellite televisions in 10,000 African villages, and loaded them with free Chinese stations broadcasting state-sponsored content.
Meanwhile, Russia has been tightening its grasp via military and security deals. At a 2019 Russia-Africa summit, Russia flaunted nuclear plants and fighter jets. And since the war Russia unleashed on Ukraine, the Kremlin has found supporters among the continent’s social media influencers, suggesting that there is a softer, cultural win, too.
Unlike the West, these two countries work on the continent without openly criticizing the politics, bureaucracy, gender imbalance, and more, reducing chances of ideological tussles in business deals.
Their growing influence was pronounced when African countries were voting on resolutions concerning Russia at the UN: they were divided, and several withheld or voted down important charters.
Source: QZ
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2022-12-09 17:14:30+00:00
Jean-Pierre Stormed Out Briefing Room After Losing Patience With Reporter, Refusing To Answer Question
Karine Jean-Pierre just stormed out of the briefing room after losing her patience with a reporter.
Instead of answering the man's question about the US-Africa summit, she accused him of not letting her answer, to which the two went back and forth, with the reporter begging for a good-faith answer out of Jean-Pierre, who was adamant about not answering.
Source: TownHall
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2022-12-09 16:35:08+00:00
Tulsi Gabbard Attacks Identity Politics, Says Biden Missed 'Red Flags'
One of the main reasons I left today’s Dem Party is bc of their obsession with race, sexuality & other externals instead of merit. America is the greatest country in world because it’s a meritocracy. If we become a society based on externals, America’s excellence will be history.
Source: Tulsi Gabbard
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2022-12-09 16:15:04+00:00
Elon Musk Confirms Political Candidates Were Subject To Shadowbanning when Running For Office
Ian Miles Cheong posed a question to Elon Musk on Twitter: "So here’s a question for Elon Musk and Bari Weiss, were any political candidates — either in the US or elsewhere — subject to shadowbanning while they were running for office or seeking re-election?"
Musk responded matter-of-factly: "Yes"
Source: Elon Musk
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2022-12-09 15:55:06+00:00
🚨 WARNING: Distressing Footage Shows Medical Kidnapping of Baby Will
🇳🇿@COVID19Up: 6-month-old baby Will urgently requires surgery for a heart condition. Due to his condition, Will’s parents requested that the blood used during his operation be from donors that did not receive the experimental Covid-19 mRNA vaccines.
Will’s parents took it upon themselves to find donors of the correct blood type who were not vaccinated, and who were approved for pediatric blood use according to the requirements in NZ Blood’s clinician’s handbook.
Unfortunately, the efforts of baby Will’s parents were met with opposition. Before midnight local time Thursday (Dec. 8) night, Will was removed from their hospital room by five uniformed police officers.
Moments ago, Zeee Media shared this distressing footage showing the medical kidnapping of baby Will.
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2022-12-09 15:23:51+00:00
Tulsi Gabbard Rips Biden Admin's Resistance to Lifting Military Vaccine Mandate: 'Absolute Madness'
Fox News contributor Tulsi Gabbard argued the Biden administration's resistance to lifting the military's COVID-19 vaccine mandate is "absolute madness" as branches continue to face recruitment woes. Gabbard joined "Fox & Friends" on Tuesday to discuss why the mandate should be lifted and how it was "based on a lie."
TULSI GABBARD: I know people personally, Brian, who have been kicked out of the military, some who've served 10, 20, 25 years, all because of this mandate that makes no sense, and frankly is based on a lie that Fauci and others continue to propagate, as they have throughout this whole thing, which is these vaccines will prevent you from catching COVID and that it will prevent you from spreading COVID. That this is even a question at this point whether or not to lift this DOD mandate and that Sec. Austin is opposing it is just absolute madness.
Source: Fox
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2022-12-09 14:55:04+00:00
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2022-12-09 14:22:45+00:00
These criminals told Congress under oath that they do not use blacklists to censor conservatives, while they were using blacklists to censor conservatives.
Dr. Bhattacharya is part of Louisiana and Missouri's landmark censorship case against the Biden administration.
Fauci and Collins collaborated with the corporate media and big tech companies to silence the Stanford epidemiologist after he wrote the Great Barrington Declaration calling for the government to replace lockdowns with focused protection of the sick and elderly.
This will help their case against the government.
https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1601011428579717121?s=20
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2022-12-09 02:25:05+00:00
Report: Ukraine Asks NATO For Leftover Afghanistan Funds
NATO is considering using a $3.4 billion fund that was meant to support the now-defunct US-backed Afghan government to provide more aid for Ukraine, POLITICO reported on Wednesday.
Known as the Afghan National Army Trust Fund, the money was donated by individual NATO countries. The report said that Kyiv has asked NATO to consider using the money to support Ukraine in its war against Russia.
The US is not a contributor to the Afghan fund but has previously provided Ukraine with military equipment that was meant for the old Afghan government. Earlier this year, the US sent Kyiv 16 Russian-made Mi-17 helicopters that it originally procured for Afghanistan.
Western officials told POLITICO that NATO allies have discussed using the Afghan funds for Ukraine and are leaning toward doing so, although the decision is up to each individual country.
The funds are currently frozen, and NATO is either going to transfer the funds back to the donor countries or into a new fund for Ukraine. If the money is used for Kyiv, it will likely go to the Ukraine Comprehensive Assistance Package, a fund NATO established in 2016 to give aid to Ukraine.
Source: Antiwar.com
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2022-12-09 01:36:57+00:00
🚨BREAKING: THE TWITTER FILES PART TWO: TWITTER’S SECRET BLACKLISTS.
Six days later, in a direct message with an employee on the Health, Misinformation, Privacy, and Identity research team, Roth requested more research to support expanding “non-removal policy interventions like disabling engagements and deamplification/visibility filtering.”
Roth wrote: “The hypothesis underlying much of what we’ve implemented is that if exposure to, e.g., misinformation directly causes harm, we should use remediations that reduce exposure, and limiting the spread/virality of content is a good way to do that.”
He added: “We got Jack on board with implementing this for civic integrity in the near term, but we’re going to need to make a more robust case to get this into our repertoire of policy remediations – especially for other policy domains.”
Source: Bari Weiss
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2022-12-09 01:32:28+00:00
🚨BREAKING: THE TWITTER FILES PART TWO: TWITTER’S SECRET BLACKLISTS.
The committee justified her suspensions internally by claiming her posts encouraged online harassment of “hospitals and medical providers” by insinuating “that gender-affirming healthcare is equivalent to child abuse or grooming.”
Compare this to what happened when Raichik herself was doxxed on Nov. 21, 2022. A photo of her home with her address was posted in a tweet that has garnered more than 10k likes.
When Raichik told Twitter that her address had been disseminated she says Twitter Support responded with this message: "We reviewed the reported content, and didn't find it to be in violation of the Twitter rules." No action was taken. The doxxing tweet is still up.
In internal Slack messages, employees spoke of using technicalities to restrict the visibility of tweets. Here’s Twitter’s then Global Head of Trust & Safety, in a direct message to a colleague in early 2021:
Source: Bari Weiss
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2022-12-09 01:28:35+00:00
🚨BREAKING: THE TWITTER FILES PART TWO: TWITTER’S SECRET BLACKLISTS.
One of the accounts that rose to this level of scrutiny was @libsoftiktok
—an account that was on the “Trends Blacklist” and was designated as “Do Not Take Action on User Without Consulting With SIP-PES.”
The account—which Chaya Raichik began in November 2020 and now boasts over 1.4 million followers—was subjected to six suspensions in 2022 alone, Raichik says. Each time, Raichik was blocked from posting for as long as a week.
Twitter repeatedly informed Raichik that she had been suspended for violating Twitter’s policy against “hateful conduct.”
But in an internal SIP-PES memo from October 2022, after her seventh suspension, the committee acknowledged that “LTT has not directly engaged in behavior violative of the Hateful Conduct policy." See here:
Source: Bari Weiss
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2022-12-09 01:26:42+00:00
🚨BREAKING: THE TWITTER FILES PART TWO: TWITTER’S SECRET BLACKLISTS.
Twitter denied that it does such things. In 2018, Twitter's Vijaya Gadde (then Head of Legal Policy and Trust) and Kayvon Beykpour (Head of Product) said: “We do not shadow ban.” They added: “And we certainly don’t shadow ban based on political viewpoints or ideology.”
What many people call “shadow banning,” Twitter executives and employees call “Visibility Filtering” or “VF.” Multiple high-level sources confirmed its meaning.
“Think about visibility filtering as being a way for us to suppress what people see to different levels. It’s a very powerful tool,” one senior Twitter employee told us.
"VF” refers to Twitter’s control over user visibility. It used VF to block searches of individual users; to limit the scope of a particular tweet’s discoverability; to block select users’ posts from ever appearing on the “trending” page; and from inclusion in hashtag searches. All without users’ knowledge.
"We control visibility quite a bit. And we control the amplification of your content quite a bit. And normal people do not know how much we do,” one Twitter engineer told us. Two additional Twitter employees confirmed.
The group that decided whether to limit the reach of certain users was the Strategic Response Team - Global Escalation Team, or SRT-GET. It often handled up to 200 "cases" a day. But there existed a level beyond official ticketing, beyond the rank-and-file moderators following the company’s policy on paper. That is the “Site Integrity Policy, Policy Escalation Support,” known as “SIP-PES.”
This secret group included Head of Legal, Policy, and Trust (Vijaya Gadde), the Global Head of Trust & Safety (Yoel Roth), subsequent CEOs Jack Dorsey and Parag Agrawal, and others.
This is where the biggest, most politically sensitive decisions got made. “Think high follower account, controversial,” another Twitter employee told us. For these “there would be no ticket or anything.
Source: Bari Weiss
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2022-12-09 01:22:10+00:00
🚨BREAKING: THE TWITTER FILES PART TWO: TWITTER’S SECRET BLACKLISTS.
A new #TwitterFiles investigation reveals that teams of Twitter employees build blacklists, prevent disfavored tweets from trending, and actively limit the visibility of entire accounts or even trending topics—all in secret, without informing users.
Twitter once had a mission “to give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers.” Along the way, barriers nevertheless were erected.
Take, for example, Stanford’s Dr. Jay Bhattacharya who argued that Covid lockdowns would harm children. Twitter secretly placed him on a “Trends Blacklist,” which prevented his tweets from trending.
Or consider the popular right-wing talk show host, Dan Bongino, who at one point was slapped with a “Search Blacklist.”
Twitter set the account of conservative activist Charlie Kirk to “Do Not Amplify.”
Source: Bari Weiss
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2022-12-09 00:55:05+00:00
Check out my latest article:
Beyond the Hype: How Neuralink Advances the Transhumanist Agenda and Harms Innocent Animals
As Elon Musk announces human trials for the Neuralink brain implant, the company has come under scrutiny for claims of animal abuse, as well as advancing the Transhumanist agenda.
https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/neuralink-hype/
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2022-12-09 00:25:02+00:00
Kanye West Was Kicked Off Twitter for Posting Symbol of UFO-Worship Cult
Kanye West was kicked off Twitter on December 2 for posting a swastika inside a Star of David — but it turns out the image is actually the insignia for a UFO-worshiping cult and not necessarily the anti-Semitic symbol that it was widely read to be.
The group is the offbeat Raël Movement, which claims to have 50,000 members in 85 countries and is often described as a cult.
Raëlians, as they call themselves, maintain that “all life was created by the Elohim, who were extraterrestrials visiting earth from another planet,” Glen Carter, president of the British Raelian group, told Vice.
Members of the sect maintain that their symbol — offensive for obvious reasons — means no disrespect to Jewish people. As a Raëlian named Houari told Newsweek in 2020, “Don’t worry, it has nothing to do with Jews and Nazis.”
What it does have to do with, Houari insisted, is infinity — represented by the star both pointing upward and downward — and time. The swastika, which did not have negative connotations before being adopted by Adolf Hitler for the Nazi Party in 1920, is said to represent the never-ending cycle of time.
Spokespeople for the Raël Movement insist that the group’s symbol is what their founder, the French auto-racing journalist Claude Vorhilon, saw on the front of a spaceship during his first UFO encounter in 1973. He founded the movement a year later.
Source: New York Post
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2022-12-08 23:25:07+00:00
New Zealand Admits It Has Direct Access to Facebook Takedown Portal Where It Can Flag Content for Censorship
New Zealand’s government has officially admitted that it has partner access to Facebook’s controversial content takedown portal.
This portal is designed specifically for government agencies to flag content to Facebook for censorship. According to The Intercept, which reported on the portal in October, government partners can also use the portal to “report disinformation directly” to Facebook.
And in a recent response to a New Zealand Official Information Act (OIA) request, which asked whether the government has partner access to Facebook’s takedown portal, the New Zealand government confirmed that the Department of Internal Affairs has access. While this was the only government department that was confirmed to have access to the portal, the OIA response also said “we cannot advise if any other government agency has access to the takedown portal.”
The OIA response didn’t detail how much content had been censored via this Facebook takedown portal. However, other reports on similar types of backdoor content takedown arrangements between governments and Big Tech have shown that governments regularly use them to target legal content such as parody accounts, accounts questioning the effectiveness of Covid vaccines, and so-called "election misinformation.”
Publicly, the New Zealand government has endorsed the censorship of legal content with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern saying “disinformation” should be regulated like guns, bombs, and nuclear weapons. Big Tech companies have also agreed to a censorship pact in the country where they suppress “misinformation” and “harmful content.”
Related Reading: New Zealand Court Rules Against Parents Who Refused 'Vaccinated Blood' for Baby
Source: Reclaim The Net
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2022-12-08 22:55:04+00:00
Five Electricity Substations Attacked in Pacific Northwest in November: Report
At least five electricity substation attacks in Washington and Oregon in November were reported to the FBI, according to local media. Utility companies Puget Sound Energy, the Cowlitz County Public Utility District, and Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) told the Seattle Times they were cooperating with a federal investigation, though the FBI declined to confirm it was investigating the attacks.
It’s not clear if any power outages resulted from the assaults. One operation described as a “deliberate physical attack” took place at a Clackamas, Oregon, substation over the Thanksgiving holiday, BPA spokesman Douglas Johnson said. News of the attacks in the Pacific Northwest comes after damage from a substation shooting in North Carolina on Saturday plunged tens of thousands of people into darkness.
Source: The Daily Beast
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2022-12-08 22:25:09+00:00
The ADL Issues Statement Declaring Ukraine’s Azov Battalion No Longer ‘Far-Right’
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has emailed The Grayzone a defense of the Azov Battalion and refused to condemn the Pentagon for honoring a veteran of the group who sports Nazi-inspired tattoos.
A November 9 email from the Anti-Defamation League to The Grayzone provided a twisted defense of Ukraine’s Azov Battalion. Despite its self-proclaimed “anti-hate” mission, the ADL insisted in the email it “does not” consider Azov as the “far right group it once was.”
The Azov Battalion is a neo-Nazi unit formally integrated into the US government-backed Ukrainian military. Founded by Andriy Biletsky, who has infamously vowed to “lead the white races of the world in a final crusade…against Semite-led untermenschen,” Azov was once widely condemned by Western corporate media and the human rights industry for its association with Nazism. Then came the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
In the months that immediately followed, Azov led the Ukrainian military’s defense of Mariupol, the group’s longtime stronghold. As the militia assumed a frontline role in the war against Russia, Western media led a campaign to rebrand Azov as misunderstood freedom fighters while accusing its critics of echoing Kremlin talking points. The New York Times has even referred to the unit as the “celebrated Azov Battalion.”
Like the Washington Post and other mainstream outlets, the ADL ignored Azov’s atrocities this April in Mariupol, where locals accused the group of using civilians as human shields and executing those who attempted to flee. One video out of Mariupol showed Azov fighters proudly declaring the Nazi collaborator and mass murderer of Jews, Stepan Bandera, to be their “father.”
The Azov Battalion has long served as a magnet for the international white nationalist movement, attracting recruits from the terrorist Atomwaffen Division to a US Army Specialist arrested on charges of distributing bomb-making instructions.
Back in March 2022, just a month before the battle of Mariupol, the ADL itself issued a report acknowledging that white nationalists see Azov “as a pathway to the creation of a National Socialist state in Ukraine.”
Eight months later, however, the ADL has changed its tune, asserting to this outlet that Azov has rooted the fascists from its ranks. So did Azov change its Nazi ways, or did the ADL simply shift its messaging to conform to the imperatives of a Biden administration still intent on sending billions in military aid to Ukraine?
Source: The Grayzone
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2022-12-08 21:55:09+00:00
Peter McCullough: Military Came up with MRNA vaccines, Not Pfizer or Moderna — Not Operation Warp Speed
We now know that the US Govt created Covid-19 by funding gain of function research at the Wuhan lab in China. But the US Govt also created gene-encoded vaccines since 2012.
Back in 2012, DARPA began investing in gene-encoded vaccines.
So, "The military came up with the idea of messenger RNA vaccines, not Pfizer or Moderna — not operation warp speed,"
- Dr. McCullough.
“The US military came up with the idea of messenger RNA vaccines, not Pfizer…”
Source: Kim Dotcom, Peter McCullough[Full Video], Ignorance, The Root and Stem of Evil
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2022-12-08 21:25:04+00:00
NYC Bill Would Ban Firing Workers Without "Just Cause", Limit Employee Surveillance
A bill in New York City set to be introduced on Wednesday would ban companies from firing workers without good reason, or "just cause."
Currently most US employees work "at-will," meaning they can be fired for just about any reason, or for no reason at all. Under the Wednesday bill, introduced by Democratic Socialist and City Council Member Tiffany Cabán, the power dynamic between workers and employees would radically shift - as jobs would be legally protected unless their boss can demonstrate misconduct, unsatisfactory performance, or a genuine economic need to eliminate their position, Bloomberg Law reports.
The new bill would expand on a pair of laws which took effect in July 2021 which protected non-union, private sector fast-food workers.
The fast-food bill has thus far withstood legal challenges from business groups, such as the NY State Restaurant Association, which is appealing a February ruling by a judge in the Southern District Court of New York who dismissed a lawsuit. Last year the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce said the fast-food legislation called into question "how we encourage small-business owners who will be vital to New York’s economic recovery."
The bill would expand protections to employees in retail, finance and other sectors, and would provide carve-outs for construction companies and short-term positions.
It would also limit a company's ability to use technology to surveil and assess workers' performance, and would allow the city comptroller to bring cases on behalf of fired employees, Bloomberg reports.
Source: Zerohedge
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2022-12-08 20:55:08+00:00
Twitter censored the Pfizer-injured Israeli doctor who made Israel's COVID vaccine for criticizing the COVID vaccines.
To say the censorship got out of control is the understatement of the decade.
https://kanekoa.substack.com/p/twitter-censors-pfizer-injured-israeli
https://truthsocial.com/@KanekoaTheGreat/posts/109479521792106003
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2022-12-08 20:25:04+00:00
The NDAA Rip-Off Is Huge!
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2022-12-08 19:48:58+00:00
🚨BREAKING: FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried Faces Probe over Luna Cryptocurrency Crash
The feds are reportedly investigating whether beleaguered FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried manipulated the market for two cryptocurrencies that crumbled earlier this year – eventually resulting in the downfall of his own company.
Prosecutors are examining whether Bankman-Fried engaged in illicit trading activity to drive down the prices of TerraUSD and Luna – a pair of cryptocurrencies interlinked by algorithms that became essentially worthless in May, the New York Times reported. The collapse of those digital currencies erased more than $50 billion in market value.
Just before the crash, traders reportedly noticed “a flood of sell orders” for TerraUSD that “overwhelmed the system” and eventually caused the prices of both cryptocurrencies to plummet.
Most of the sell orders for Terra USD originated from the cryptocurrency trading firm Alameda Research, a source with knowledge of the situation told the Times. Bankman-Fried owned both FTX and Alameda, which was led by his ex-lover, CEO Caroline Ellison.
Source: New York Post
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2022-12-08 19:25:04+00:00
American Girl is Accused of 'Stripping Away All Innocence' in Book That Teaches Children as Young as Three How to Change Gender by Asking Doctors for Puberty Blockers
The popular American Girl doll brand is facing backlash for pushing children as young as three years old into changing their gender.
A Smart Girl's Guide: Body Image, contains lines that give advice to prepubescents on how to change their gender - without their guardians' blessing. Parents have since slammed the book's contents as 'deceptive and dangerous.
A passage in the book - marketed to girls aged between three and 12 advises: 'If you haven't gone through puberty yet, the doctor might offer medicine to delay your body's changes, giving you more time to think about your gender identity.'
It also provides a list of resources for organizations the children can turn to 'if you don't have an adult you trust'.
The book, penned by resident American Girl author Mel Hammond, is currently available on shelves in bookstores across the country and on the company's website.
Source: Daily Mail
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2022-12-08 18:55:04+00:00
Palestine: Israel Digs up Agricultural Lands West of Bethlehem
Israeli occupation forces yesterday levelled agricultural lands in the Bethlehem village of Al-Walaja in the West Bank.
The head of Al-Walaja village council, Khader Al-Aaraj, said in a press statement that a large force of the occupation army stormed the Ain Jweza area in the village where it bulldozed agricultural lands and demolished stone walls across an area of four dunums (one acre).
The land belongs to Nasser Shehadeh, one of the village's Palestinian inhabitants.
The Israeli occupation has been targeting the Ain Jweza neighbourhood where it has demolished Palestinians' homes, preventing them from expanding their towns and bulldozing their agricultural lands
Source: Middle East Moniter
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2022-12-08 18:18:32+00:00
The WEF Pandemic Treaty will be negotiated in early 2023, finally cementing the global biosecurity state. We await to see if there will be any significant pushback.
https://www.who.int/news/item/07-12-2022-who-member-states-agree-to-develop-zero-draft-of-legally-binding-pandemic-accord-in-early-2023
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2022-12-08 17:55:05+00:00
🚨BREAKING: FDA Approves “Updated” COVID-19 mRNA Injection for Babies at the "Speed of Science"
🇺🇸💉@COVID19Up: The warp-speed approval of anything that Pfizer asks the FDA to do continues.
On Monday (Dec. 5), Pfizer asked the FDA for "emergency use authorization" to allow the "updated" COVID-19 mRNA "bivalent" booster shots for babies six months and up.
On Thursday (Dec. 8), the application was approved at the "speed of science."
Not counting the day of submission and the day of approval, it took the FDA just two days to consider this application. How many trials were done on infants and young kids with this "updated" vaccine? Zero.
So now, a recently-born child could have received:
• Three COVID-19 vaccines while in utero.
• Another set of three COVID-19 vaccines upon reaching six months of age.
• All six doses would be given within about a year.
What could possibly go wrong?
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2022-12-08 17:35:44+00:00
Brittney Griner Released from Russian Custody in Prisoner Swap with Viktor Bout
- U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner has been released in a prisoner swap with Russia in exchange for Viktor Bout, a former arms dealer, and was heading back to the United States, ending what President Joe Biden on Thursday called months of "hell" for her and her wife.
The swap was arranged after talks spanning months during a time of high tensions between the two countries in the wake of Russia's February invasion of Ukraine. The exchange took place in the United Arab Emirates at Abu Dhabi airport, where the two walked past each other on a tarmac, a U.S. administration official said.
The Russian foreign ministry said it traded Griner for Bout, 55, a Russian citizen who in 2012 was given a 25-year prison sentence by a U.S. court on multiple charges related to his arms-dealing career.
Source: Reuters
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2022-12-08 14:25:03+00:00
UPDATE: Francis W. Parker just sent an email attacking Project Veritas & defending the schools "comprehensive approach to sex education"
"Please know this video contains descriptive language. If you choose to view it, we ask you not to share it, because it will add to its viral power"
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2022-12-08 13:25:08+00:00
Balenciaga Parent Company Kering Ignored an Offer to Partner With Children's Foundation Set Up by Gucci Heiress a Year Before Bondage Bears and Child Porn Scandal
- Alexandra Zarini, whose great grandfather founded Gucci, runs The Alexandra Gucci Children's Foundation which combats child sexual abuse
- Last October, her charity contacted The Kering Group - which owns both Balenciaga and Gucci - seeking partnership in the fashion industry
- She was turned down by Gucci, which complained over her use of her family name in the marketing materials for the foundation
- She has had no involvement in the business since her family sold its trademark in the 1990s
- Kering, which also owns Bottega Venetta, Saint Laurent and Alexander McQueen, ignored the offer
-The company has also been silent on the Balenciaga scandal involving children
A year before the Balenciaga scandal sent shockwaves through its parent company, The Kering Group, executives ignored an offer from Gucci heiress Alexandra Zarini to work together to prevent child sexual abuse in the industry, DailyMail.com can reveal.
Executives from Zarini’s charity emailed representatives of both Kering and Gucci last October, in the hope of creating a partnership to crackdown on social media images and the use of children in fashion campaigns.
The Kering Group, run by Francois-Henri Pinault, is a French fashion powerhouse: it owns both Balenciaga and Gucci, along with Bottega Venetta, Saint Laurent and Alexander McQueen, and is worth 65billion euros.
The company has not issued any statement on the Balenciaga scandal involving the use of bondage-styled bears in one photoshoot, and child porn legal documents in another. The second photoshoot also featured a book by a Belgian artist whose work depicts naked, castrated toddlers.
Neither Zarini nor the Gucci family has had any business involvement with the fashion label since the 1990s, but she sought to partner with the brand founded by her great-grandfather.
Gucci declined the offer and complained about her use of her family's name in the marketing materials for the charity. The Kering Group's executives did not respond to her requests.
Source: Daily Mail
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2022-12-08 11:04:07+00:00
🇨🇳🤝🇸🇦Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman receives Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Al-Yamama Palace in Riyadh
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2022-12-08 04:01:30+00:00
How Will You Prepare for the Climate Lockdowns, Digital ID’s and Travel Restrictions?
The following is a preview of “Fighting Lockdowns, Immunity Passports, and Travel Restrictions”, a chapter from the upcoming 2nd edition of How To Opt-Out of the Technocratic State. Order your copy beginning December 12, 2022!
In this chapter, I will focus on lockdowns, immunity or vaccine passports, and various travel restrictions. We will discuss how to prepare for these strategies, which are sure to be used against us again. First, let’s define what is meant by “lockdown” in relation what we saw the last two years. Incidentally, lockdown is a term used in correctional institutions to punish disobedient prisoners. Generally speaking, a lockdown involved the forced closure of businesses and schools, travel restrictions, and in the worst cases, limited ability to leave one’s home. The lockdowns were a convenient way to silence critics of COVID-19 policies by shutting down mass protests, as well as another method for advancing the technocratic digital dystopia. The forced closing of schools and businesses gave various industries an opportunity to sell surveillance technology like facial recognition cameras in an alleged effort to fight the spread of COVID-19.
Even with the days of COVID-1984 appearing to be fading away, we must remember that lockdowns will be used again. In fact, as early as September 2020, the term “climate lockdown” was used by Mariana Mazzucato, Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London, and Chair of the World Health Organization’s Council on the Economics of Health for All. Mazzucato wrote:
[U]nder a “climate lockdown,” governments would limit private-vehicle use, ban consumption of red meat, and impose extreme energy-saving measures, while fossil-fuel companies would have to stop drilling. To avoid such a scenario, we must overhaul our economic structures and do capitalism differently.
It should be clear that, regardless of the reason advanced, the lockdown tactic will be utilized again.
Continue reading: https://theconsciousresistance.com/fighting-lockdowns/
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2022-12-08 03:30:56+00:00
How Will You Prepare for the Climate Lockdowns, Digital ID’s and Travel Restrictions?
The following is a preview of “Fighting Lockdowns, Immunity Passports, and Travel Restrictions”, a chapter from the upcoming 2nd edition of How To Opt-Out of the Technocratic State. Order your copy beginning December 12, 2022!
In this chapter, I will focus on lockdowns, immunity or vaccine passports, and various travel restrictions. We will discuss how to prepare for these strategies, which are sure to be used against us again. First, let’s define what is meant by “lockdown” in relation what we saw the last two years. Incidentally, lockdown is a term used in correctional institutions to punish disobedient prisoners. Generally speaking, a lockdown involved the forced closure of businesses and schools, travel restrictions, and in the worst cases, limited ability to leave one’s home. The lockdowns were a convenient way to silence critics of COVID-19 policies by shutting down mass protests, as well as another method for advancing the technocratic digital dystopia. The forced closing of schools and businesses gave various industries an opportunity to sell surveillance technology like facial recognition cameras in an alleged effort to fight the spread of COVID-19.
Even with the days of COVID-1984 appearing to be fading away, we must remember that lockdowns will be used again. In fact, as early as September 2020, the term “climate lockdown” was used by Mariana Mazzucato, Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London, and Chair of the World Health Organization’s Council on the Economics of Health for All. Mazzucato wrote:
[U]nder a “climate lockdown,” governments would limit private-vehicle use, ban consumption of red meat, and impose extreme energy-saving measures, while fossil-fuel companies would have to stop drilling. To avoid such a scenario, we must overhaul our economic structures and do capitalism differently.
It should be clear that, regardless of the reason advanced, the lockdown tactic will be utilized again.
Continue reading: https://theconsciousresistance.com/fighting-lockdowns/
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2022-12-08 02:25:04+00:00
Sen. Hawley Tells Blinken to Prioritize Arming Taiwan Over Ukraine
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) on Tuesday sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken urging the Biden administration to prioritize arming Taiwan over Ukraine.
Hawley is a China hawk and wants the US to start giving Taiwan billions in military aid each year. He has voted against Ukraine aid packages and NATO expansion because he thinks the US should be focusing more on building up in the Asia Pacific to confront China instead of Russia.
The senator said in his letter to Blinken that he believes “Taiwan is more important for US national interests than Ukraine.” The senator claimed that the US needs to start sending more arms to Taiwan to prevent a Chinese invasion, although Beijing’s recent rhetoric and actions have made clear they are more likely to attack if the US keeps ramping up support for Taipei.
The letter said that if both Taiwan and Ukraine need a certain weapon, it “should go to Taiwan first.” Hawley pointed to a massive backlog in deliveries of US weapons that have already been sold to Taiwan as an example of how the US is failing to arm the island.
Source: Antiwar.com
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2022-12-08 02:12:36+00:00
BREAKING: Francis W. Parker School Dean of Students Brags About Bringing in LGBTQ+ Health Center to Teach "Queer Sex" to Minors
"Passing around dildos and butt plugs...kids are just playing with them...Using lube versus using spit...that's a really like, cool part of my job."
#ExposeGroomers
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2022-12-08 01:30:40+00:00
Julian Assange's Family Pleads for Unity
Julian Assange’s family wants supporters of the imprisoned WikiLeaks founder to politely advocate for his release, rather than “disparaging” the Australian government.
Endorsing the approach of “quiet diplomacy” and thanking Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for a supportive statement in parliament last week, Mr Assange’s mother Christine called on backers to unite in their support of the government’s efforts to bring her son home.
Mr Assange is facing espionage charges in the United States and remains in London’s Belmarsh prison, where he’s been since 2019 while fighting extradition.
Ms Assange asked advocates to “support and not thwart or disparage the efforts of the Australian government in their diplomatic efforts to bring Julian safely home”.
“Diplomatic negotiations at this level are not easy. They require a high level of skill, experience, understanding, mutual respect, time and patience,” she said in a statement on Wednesday.
“Please continue to politely inform your politicians, media and the general public of the facts of Julian’s plight to raise public and political support for the Australian government's diplomatic efforts.”
Source: AAPNews
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2022-12-08 00:43:33+00:00
New Peru President Sworn in, Predecessor Castillo Arrested
Peru's Congress swore in a new president on Wednesday in a day of sweeping political drama that saw the former leader, Pedro Castillo, arrested after his ousting from office in an impeachment trial hours after he attempted a last-ditch bid to stay in power by trying to dissolve Congress.
Ignoring Castillo's attempt to shut down the legislature by decree, lawmakers moved ahead with the previously planned impeachment trial, with 101 votes in favor of removing him, six against and 10 abstentions.
The result was announced with loud cheers, and the legislature called Vice President Dina Boluarte to take office.
The 60-year-old Boluarte was sworn in as president through 2026, making her the first woman to lead Peru. She called for a political truce after months of instability that have seen two prior impeachment attempts and said a new cabinet inclusive of all political stripes would be formed.
Source: Reuters
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2022-12-07 23:55:03+00:00
Feeling Blue? Protect Your Eyes from Screens with These Three Essential Tips
Full video:
➨ https://worldcouncilforhealth.org/multimedia/ramiro-romani-healthy-tech
Speaking at General Assembly Meeting #68 on Monday, December 5, educator and technologist Ramiro Romani (🇺🇸) gave a motivating presentation on what we can do to live healthfully and harmoniously with technology.
A lot of studies have found breakdown and damage of retinal cells and different parts of the eyes via blue light from screens. "And that is really concerning," expressed Ramiro.
So, what can we do if we spend long hours in front of a screen for work?
1.) Turn down the brightness
2.) Take regular breaks
3.) Invest in blue light-blocking glasses
Ramiro dropped his corporate career in tech to work on meaningful social movements. He is a core member of the Freedom Cell Network, and co-producer of The Greater Reset.
He is the founder of Take Back Our Tech, an educational initiative that releases free content on how individuals can increase their privacy and security by using friendly technologies. Recently, Ramiro launched Above Phone, a complete privacy phone solution powered by open-source technologies.
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2022-12-07 23:25:01+00:00
Vax-injured Living Hell on Earth
US Federal Government and corporate media just do not care
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/vax-injured-living-hell-on-earth
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2022-12-07 22:55:05+00:00
Uniparty: Congress Likely to Deliver Tens of Billions More to Ukraine in Coming Days
The gravy train keeps chugging along.
It’s a “done deal.”
Congressional sources tell The Dossier that there is a strong enough appetite in Congress, given the unanimously pro-war Democratic voting bloc, and the significant amount of Republicans who support the perpetual funding of the Zelensky government in Ukraine, to pass a bill by the end of next week that will deliver tens of billions of dollars into Kiev’s coffers.
The Dossier discussed the voting blocs with congressional staff multiple representatives on Capitol Hill, and it is clear that there is indeed some strong resistance to additional heaps of war funding among some factions of the GOP. However, Republican leadership and a majority of Republicans in the Senate continue to support the blank check Ukraine policy.
On Wednesday, the Senate will convene for a classified briefing on Ukraine…
👉 Read more: The Dossier
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2022-12-07 22:00:00+00:00
The Greater Reset 4: Co-Creation is coming to Texas and Mexico on January 18-22, 2023!
The theme of Day 1 is Liberate Your Body, Mind, and Soul! Don't miss these powerful speakers educating on how to heal and liberate yourself mentally, physically, and spiritually!
Learn more: https://www.thegreaterreset.org
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El Reinicio Mayor: Co-Creación llegará a Texas y México del 18 al 22 de enero de 2023!
El tema del Día 1 es ¡Libera tu cuerpo, mente y alma! ¡No te pierdas a estos poderosos oradores que te enseñan cómo curarte y liberarte mental, física y espiritualmente!
Aprende más: https://www.thegreaterreset.org
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2022-12-07 21:42:59+00:00
Peru's President Castillo Ousted Following His Attempt to Dissolve Congress
Peru's Congress voted to oust President Pedro Castillo in an impeachment trial on Wednesday, hours after he plunged the country into a constitutional crisis by attempting to dissolve the legislature by decree.
Ignoring Castillo's attempt to shut down Congress, lawmakers moved ahead with the previously planned impeachment trial, with 101 votes in favor of removing him, six against and 10 abstentions. The result was announced with loud cheers and the legislature called Vice President Dina Boluarte to take office.
Peru's national police shared an image on Twitter of Castillo sitting unrestrained at a police station after the vote to remove him and said that it had "intervened" to fulfill its duties. It referred to Castillo as "ex-president". It was unclear if he had been detained.
Castillo earlier had said he would temporarily shut down Congress, launch a "government of exception" and called for new legislative elections.
That sparked resignations by key ministers from Castillo's government and allegations of a "coup" by opposition members and allies. The police and Armed Forces warned him that the route he had taken to try to dissolve Congress was unconstitutional.
Congress summoned Castillo last week to respond to accusations of "moral incapacity" to govern. The prosecutor's office in October filed a constitutional complaint against Castillo for allegedly leading "a criminal organization" to profit from state contracts and for obstructing investigations.
Source: Reuters
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2022-12-07 21:25:10+00:00
Congress Unveils $858 Billion NDAA
Congress on Tuesday night unveiled the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), worth $858 billion, $45 billion more than what President Biden requested for the military spending bill.
The House is expected to vote on the legislation this week, and it could be brought to the floor as soon as Wednesday. Once the House approves the bill, it will send the spending bill to the Senate, then to President Biden’s desk for his signature.
The massive $858 billion bill represents an 8% increase from the 2022 NDAA, which was also larger than what Biden requested. The $858 billion includes $817 billion for the Pentagon, and the remaining funds go toward military spending for other departments.
Notable amendments packed into the NDAA include $10 billion in military aid for Taiwan that will be dispersed over five years. The aid is in the form of Foreign Military Financing, a State Department program that gives foreign governments funds to purchase US-made military equipment.
The NDAA also includes $800 million in the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, a program that allows the US government to purchase weapons for Ukraine. But the vast majority of spending on the Ukraine war will come through emergency funding, and the White House is hoping Congress approves a new $37.7 billion tranche of Ukraine aid during the lame-duck period.
The NDAA includes $11.5 billion in new investments for the Pacific Deterrence Initiative, a program to build up in the Asia Pacific to confront China. The Pentagon has identified China as its main focus, and the NDAA includes investment in new technology research and development that US military leaders say is meant to counter Beijing.
Source: Antiwar.com
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2022-12-07 21:05:22+00:00
Raytheon CEO Says China’s Hypersonic Missiles Are More Advanced Than the U.S.
“The Chinese have more sophisticated hypersonic missiles than we do today.”
https://rumble.com/v1zdr3a-raytheon-ceo-says-chinas-hypersonic-missiles-are-more-advanced-than-the-u.s.html
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2022-12-07 20:25:06+00:00
Shireen Abu Akleh: Al Jazeera Takes Israel to ICC Over Killing of Journalist
Al Jazeera has submitted a formal request to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate and prosecute the Israeli soldiers responsible for killing Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, the network announced on Tuesday.
Abu Akleh, 51, a veteran reporter for Al Jazeera Arabic and a household name across the Arab world, was shot dead on 11 May while covering an Israeli military raid in the Palestinian city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank.
Her death, which was widely condemned, sparked multiple investigations, including one by the UN, which concluded that Israeli forces likely killed her.
On Tuesday, the same day the request was filed, Israel's National Security Minister-designate, far-right leader Itamar Ben-Gvir, called for the expulsion of Al Jazeera from Israel.
"Al Jazeera is an anti-Semitic and false propaganda network that works against the State of Israel in the world," he said. "They should be expelled from the country today and the anti-Israeli campaign of lies should be stopped from within Israel."
An Israeli army investigation into Abu Akleh's killing in September concluded that she was likely shot by an Israeli soldier but was not deliberately targeted.
The Israeli Military Advocate General's Office said it would not open an investigation into any soldiers involved in the incident as there was "no suspicion that a criminal offence was committed".
According to Al Jazeera's lawyer, Rodney Dixon KC, the request was filed in the context of what the network perceives as a wider attack on Al Jazeera and journalists in Palestine, referring to incidents such as the bombing of the channel’s Gaza office on 15 May 2021.
“The focus is on Shireen, and this particular killing, this outrageous killing. But the evidence we submit looks at all of the acts against Al Jazeera because it has been targeted as an international media organisation and the evidence shows that what the [Israeli] authorities are trying to do is to shut it up,” Al Jazeera quoted Dixon as saying.
Source: Middle East Moniter
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2022-12-07 19:55:02+00:00
🔥 Gov. Ron DeSantis Says He Plans to Hold mRNA Vaccine Manufacturers Accountable
“We are going to work to hold these manufacturers accountable for this mRNA because they said there were no side effects and we know that there have been a lot.
We are going to have some announcements over the next three or four weeks.”
https://rumble.com/v1zg0ti--gov.-ron-desantis-says-he-plans-to-hold-mrna-vaccine-manufacturers-account.html
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2022-12-07 19:25:07+00:00
🔴 LIVE: Covid-19 Vaccine Roundtable Discussion | What You're Not Being Told
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Tune in as U.S. Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) leads a roundtable discussion—COVID-19 Vaccines: What They Are, How They Work, and Possible Causes of Injuries—to shed light on the current state of knowledge surrounding the vaccine and the path forward.
Several medical experts and doctors who specialize in Covid-19 vaccine research and treatment will be speaking at the roundtable.
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2022-12-07 19:02:46+00:00
🚨BREAKING: Chaos, Protests Erupt In Peru: Constitutional Court Calls President's Dissolution Of Congress A "Coup"; Congress Impeaches Castillo
Update (1:50pmET):
*PERU CONGRESS APPROVES IMPEACHING PRESIDENT PEDRO CASTILLO
PERU'S VICE PRESIDENT REJECTS ON TWITTER CASTILLO'S DECISION TO "PERPETRATE THE BREAKDOWN OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER WITH THE CLOSURE OF CONGRESS"
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It turns out the US is not the only banana republic out there: moments ago, Peru President Pedro Castillo announced the dissolution of congress and called for legislative elections to draft a new constitution hours before an impeachment debate, greatly escalating a political crisis and putting the Latin American nation’s democracy under threat.
“We took the decision of establishing a government of exception toward reestablishing the rule of law and democracy,” Castillo said in a televised speech Wednesday, adding that the incoming congress will draft a new constitution within nine months. “From today and until the new congress is established, we will govern through decrees.”
Castillo's move was met with nationwide protests and outrage by the Peruvian constitutional court which called the dissolution of Congress a coup, and said that Castillo is no longer president. Meanwhile, the Congress - which apparently did not get the memo that it has been dissolved - started the Castillo impeachment session early, and will most likely vote to remove the president.
Additionally, the Peruvian vice president Boluarte rejected Castillo's "coup" while the country's Attorney General said he would file a criminal complaint against Castillo.
Meanwhile Castillo also announced a curfew and the “reorganization” of Peru’s justice system including the top courts at the same time he pledged to respect private property and business freedom. The president also said all illegal arms in possession of Peruvians must be handed back to the police within 72 hours.
Castillo’s unexpected move comes as congress was preparing to discuss a third impeachment attempt against him after failing to remove him from power twice. The president has had a rocky relationship with lawmakers since the start of his administration in July 2021 yet the measure risks creating a backlash as it’s legality will be questioned. A sign of that came quickly after Castillo’s speech, when Finance Minister Kurt Burneo, Foreign Minister Cesar Landa, and Justice Minister Felix Chero presented their resignations.
The move brought back memories of the decision by former leader Alberto Fujimori in 1992 to dissolve congress. At that time, he was supported by his ministers and the military.
And just like then, what will matter at the end of the day is who controls the army.
Source: Zerohedge
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2022-12-07 19:01:28+00:00
Peru’s President Pedro Castillo Says He Will Dissolve Congress, Hours Before Impeachment Vote
Peru’s President Pedro Castillo announced on Wednesday that he will dissolve Congress temporarily and install an emergency government – hours before lawmakers were due to make an impeachment vote in congress.
In a televised speech from the Presidential Palace on Wednesday, Castillo said he will call for early parliamentary elections to work on a new constitution.
The embattled president, who has survived two impeachment attempts, also declared a national curfew from Wednesday from 10 p.m. local (5 p.m. ET) to 4 a.m. local.
Congress appeared defiant however, beginning its session on Wednesday with lawmakers singing the national anthem.
Francisco Morales, the president of Peru’s Constitutional Court, called Castillo’s action “coup d’etat” in a televised press conference, and urged Vice President Dina Boluarte to assume the presidency.
Boluarte too criticized the move. “I reject Pedro Castillo’s decision to perpetrate the breakdown of the constitutional order with the closure of Congress,” Boluarte wrote on Twitter. “It is a coup that aggravates the political and institutional crisis that Peruvian society will have to overcome with strict adherence to the law.”
A least seven cabinet ministers have announced their resignations following Castillo’s announcement, including Minister of Environment Wilbert Rozas, Finance Minister Kurt Burneo, Foreign Relations Minister Cesar Landa, and Justice Minister Felix Chero.
Source: CNN
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2022-12-07 18:25:06+00:00
BIS Warns Central Banks Will Soon Be Forced to Bail Out Capital Markets
- BIS’s quarterly review cites the Bank of England’s intervention in the bond crisis as an example
- U.S. economic data showing strength prompts fears of further Fed action
- ECB will walk the tightrope on rates as European recession looms
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS)—often called the central bank for central banks—worries about many things so that your local central bank doesn’t have to.
Right now, the BIS is worried that central banks will have to bail out markets hit by higher interest rates, thwarting the effort to curb inflation by tightening money and shrinking bond portfolios
As two BIS economists wrote in the quarterly review released on Monday:
“When these risks materialize, and the attendant economic costs are substantial, there will be pressure on central banks to provide a backstop. While justified, this can contrast with the monetary policy stance and encourage risk-taking in the longer run.”
There’s the catch; much like the so-called Fed put (the expectation the Federal Reserve will intervene to keep markets from tanking), the anticipation of a central bank bailout will encourage banks and other investors to take bigger risks. If their bet pays out, they cash in. If it flops, central banks come to the rescue.
The BIS economists are better at worrying than they are at providing solutions and consider forewarned as a fulfillment of their role. There is no good solution to bad advice, though some of that only turns bad in retrospect.
The U.S. jobs report, released on Friday, came in at a robust 263,000 added to non-farm payrolls, a much better showing than the 200,000 anticipated by economists. This has raised fresh concerns about how upward wage pressure can counterbalance Fed efforts to cool inflation, forcing the U.S. central bank to keep raising rates.
More good-news-means-bad-news came out on Monday, as data showed stronger-than-expected performance in the services sector, and factory orders also came in higher than expected. In short, the U.S. economy is more resilient than forecast, maintaining wage pressure on inflation and leading the Dow Jones Industrial Average to shed nearly 500 points in anticipation of further Fed action to cool it down.
The job market in Europe has also maintained resilience. Data for unemployment in the eurozone released on Friday showed the jobless rate dropping to a record low of 6.5% in October from 6.6% the previous month, even though big European economies are facing energy shortages this winter in the wake of the Ukraine war.
European Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni, who oversees the economy department in Brussels, said on Monday that Europe would fall into recession this winter, and it could well be spring before growth is restored.
Source: Investing.com
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2022-12-07 17:55:05+00:00
New Zealand Court Rules Against Parents Who Refused 'Vaccinated Blood' for Baby
Health authorities in New Zealand, have won a High Court decision granting temporary guardianship of a 6-month-old baby so his heart surgeon and cardiologist can give consent for life-saving medical care.
Health NZ sought the order after the baby's parents refused blood transfusions unless the blood came from unvaccinated people.
The parents said in previous media interviews that they realized their baby needs urgent surgery, but were extremely concerned with the blood the doctors were going to use.
Gault's decision ordered the baby be placed under guardianship of the court "from the date of the order until completion of his surgery"
The decision allows the baby's heart surgeon and cardiologist to legally consent to the infant's surgery and "all medical issues related to that surgery including the administration of blood and blood products."
Source: UPI, Distributed Warfare[Video]
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2022-12-07 16:55:58+00:00
🚨BREAKING: Nigeria Limits Cash Withdrawals to $45 per Day in CBDC, Digital Banking Push
Nigeria has imposed limits on cash withdrawals in a move to push consumers towards alternatives, including its own Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), the eNaira.
In a letter to banks and other financial institutions published on Tuesday, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) applied new limits on over-the-counter withdrawals at just ₦100,000 ($225) per week for individuals and ₦500,000 ($1,123) for businesses.
Taking cash out of ATMs will be capped at ₦20,000 ($45) per day, with only ₦200 ($0.45) notes and smaller denominations being available from the machines.
Customers will still be able to take out larger sums in some instances but will have to pay processing fees of between 5% and 10%.
The move was justified in the letter as being in line with “the Cashless policy of the CBN.”
The central bank’s director of Banking Supervision Haruna B. Mustafa wrote that customers “should be encouraged to use alternative channels (internet banking, mobile banking apps, USSD cards/POS, eNaira, etc.) to conduct their banking transactions.”
Slow start for Nigeria’s eNaira
The eNaira was launched in October last year, but less than 0.5% of Nigerians are thought to be using it.
As Tech Monitor reported, "The slow uptake of CBDCs in Africa and across the Caribbean does not bode well for India’s new digital currency.
CBDCs are on the march.
From China to the UAE, the Bahamas to Nigeria, countries around the world have started trialling the use of central bank digital currencies as a way to translate their national fiat currencies into a means of digital exchange. One of the drivers of these state-backed digital currencies is the dramatic decline of physical cash usage which, according to McKinsey, has plunged by approximately one-third in Europe between 2014 and 2021.
The authority of digital payments is so strong because, in extremis, they are redeemable through the public cash issued by central banks. As the popularity of physical money diminishes, however, that nexus could break down. As these payment systems become increasingly global, therefore, central banks are eager to introduce CBDCs to reassert their roles as the anchors of capital."
Source: Bloomberg
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2022-12-07 16:25:08+00:00
FX Swap Debt a $80 Trillion 'Blind Spot' Bank of International Settlements Says
Pension funds and other 'non-bank' financial firms have more than $80 trillion of hidden, off-balance sheet dollar debt in FX swaps, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) said.
The BIS, dubbed the central bank to the world's central banks, also said in its latest quarterly report that 2022's market upheaval had largely been navigated without major issues.
Having repeatedly urged central banks to act forcefully to dampen inflation, it struck a more measured tone and picked over crypto market troubles and September's UK bond market turmoil.
Its main warning concerned what it described as the FX swap debt "blind spot" that risked leaving policymakers in a "fog".
FX swap markets, where for example a Dutch pension fund or Japanese insurer borrows dollars and lends euro or yen before later repaying them, have a history of problems.
They saw funding squeezes during both the global financial crisis and again in March 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic wrought havoc that required central banks such as the U.S. Federal Reserve to intervene with dollar swap lines.
The $80 trillion-plus "hidden" debt estimate exceeds the stocks of dollar Treasury bills, repo and commercial paper combined, the BIS said. It has grown from just over $55 trillion a decade ago, while the churn of FX swap deals was almost $5 trillion a day in April, two thirds of daily global FX turnover.
For both non-U.S. banks and non-U.S. 'non-banks' such as pension funds, dollar obligations from FX swaps are now double their on-balance sheet dollar debt, it estimated.
Source: Reuters
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2022-12-07 15:55:08+00:00
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2022-12-07 15:27:38+00:00
Nigerian Military Ran Secret Mass Abortion Programme in War Against Boko Haram
Since at least 2013, the Nigerian military has conducted a secret, systematic and illegal abortion programme in the country’s northeast, ending at least 10,000 pregnancies among women and girls, a Reuters investigation has found. Many had been kidnapped and raped by Islamist militants. Resisters were beaten, held at gunpoint or drugged into compliance, witnesses say.
Nigerian soldiers surrounded the Lake Chad island village where Islamist insurgents held her and many other women captive. Shells exploded. Bullets whipped by. As her captors fled, Fati blacked out in terror.
When she awoke in a military camp nearby, “I felt the happiest I ever had in my life,” said Fati, now in her early 20s, recalling the attack that occurred several years ago in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state. Over more than a year, she told Reuters, she had been forcibly married to insurgents, beaten and repeatedly raped – resulting in a recent pregnancy. Now, finally, she had been rescued. “I was extremely grateful to the soldiers,” she said.
About a week later, Fati said, she lay on a mat in a narrow, dim room at a military barracks in Maiduguri, the state capital. It was rank, with cockroaches skittering across the floor. Uniformed men came in and out, giving her and five other women mysterious injections and pills.
After about four hours, said Fati, who was about four months pregnant, she felt searing pain in her stomach and black blood seeped out of her. The other women were bleeding as well, and writhing on the floor. “The soldiers want to kill us,” she thought.
Fati was four months pregnant when liberated from the insurgents. Soon after, she says, soldiers medically aborted the pregnancy without telling her. And she was warned: “If you share this with anyone, you will be seriously beaten.”
She recalled the injections, then understood: The soldiers had aborted their pregnancies without asking – or even telling – them.
Since at least 2013, the Nigerian Army has run a secret, systematic and illegal abortion programme in the country’s northeast, terminating at least 10,000 pregnancies among women and girls, many of whom had been kidnapped and raped by Islamist militants, according to dozens of witness accounts and documentation reviewed by Reuters.
The abortions mostly were carried out without the person’s consent – and often without their prior knowledge, according to the witness accounts. The women and girls ranged from a few weeks to eight months pregnant, and some were as young as 12 years old, interviews and records showed.
Source: Reuters
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2022-12-07 14:55:05+00:00
'Small World,' Elon Musk Reacts To Fauci Disclosing Daughter Worked At Twitter During Pandemic
Twitter CEO Elon Musk responded to a post on the platform Tuesday regarding the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Anthony Fauci’s, daughter working at the platform.
What Happened: Replying to a tweet from conservative activist and radio talk show host Charles Kirk who shared a report of Fauci’s daughter working at Twitter during the pandemic, Musk said, “Small world …”
Source: Benzinga
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2022-12-07 14:27:36+00:00
Hungary Blocks EU Aid for Ukraine
Hungary on Tuesday blocked a massive EU aid package for Ukraine worth 18 billion euros ($18.9 billion), angering other members of the bloc.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that Budapest is not against sending aid to Ukraine but objects to how the EU wants to do it. The 18 billion euro plan would require all 27 EU members to jointly borrow the funds, something Hungary has previously said it’s against.
The 18 billion euro aid package for Ukraine is meant to help cover Ukraine’s massive $38 billion budget deficit for 2023. The US is expected to put up a similar amount for the deficit, and the $37.7 billion in new Ukraine aid the White House seeks from Congress includes $14.5 billion in budgetary aid.
Orban said that Hungary is ready to “give financial assistance to Ukraine, on a bilateral basis,” but said the EU’s proposal is not the solution. “If we continue to go down the road towards a debt community, we will not be able to turn back,” he said.
Hungary is already at odds with Brussels and risks losing billions in EU funding over allegations of corruption that have been leveled since Orban won reelection in April. According to The Associated Press, the EU’s European Commission has proposed suspending 7.5 billion euros in funding for Hungary over claims of mismanagement of EU money and “democratic backsliding.”
Source: Antiwar.com
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2022-12-07 13:54:01+00:00
Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Apple for AirTags’ “safeguards against stalking deemed deficient”; 2 Murders So Far
https://www.activistpost.com/2022/12/class-action-lawsuit-filed-against-apple-for-airtags-safeguards-against-stalking-deemed-deficient-2-murders-so-far.html
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2022-12-07 13:34:23+00:00
Bernie Sanders to Bring Yemen War Powers Resolution to the Senate Floor
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) told The Intercept on Monday that he could bring a Yemen War Powers Resolution to the floor of the Senate for a vote “hopefully next week.”
The resolution would end US support for the brutal Saudi-led war and blockade on Yemen. According to the UN, the war and blockade have killed at least 377,000 people, more than half of which are children under the age of five.
A version of the resolution has been introduced in the House and Senate, and both have received strong bipartisan support, with over 100 co-sponsors in the House. When asked by The Intercept if he will have enough votes to pass the resolution, Sanders said, “I think we do, yes.” A similar resolution made it through Congress in 2019, but the measure was vetoed by President Trump.
Americans can call 1-833-Stop-War to get connected to their senators and representatives and urge them to support the legislation that could bring an end to the over seven-year war. Go to 1833stopwar.com for more information and for helpful prompts on what to say when connected.
Source: Antiwar.com
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2022-12-07 02:33:57+00:00
Miranda Devine Joins Tucker Carlson After Elon Musk Fired Former FBI General Counsel James Baker
This weekend, we learned former FBI General Counsel James Baker had been "vetting" the Twitter File documents. In other words, removing the ones that might incriminate him or the feds.
"It was pretty obvious that the Twitter files that had just been released were missing a crucial element — and that was the FBI," stated Miranda Devine.
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2022-12-07 02:04:55+00:00
Transgender Activists Attack Feminists Protesting Men in Women’s Prisons
Women protesting the possible transfer of convicted killer Dana Rivers—a biological man who identifies as female—to a women’s prison were attacked outside of the Alameda County Superior Courthouse in Oakland, Calif., on Dec. 5.
The women, representing mainly feminist and lesbian groups, said they are opposed to a California law that allows male inmates who self-identify as women to request to be housed in women’s prisons.
One hooded assailant was caught on video, obtained by The Epoch Times, throwing an egg into the group of women and also seen striking one with an umbrella, while another attacker in all black garb with red armbands on a bicycle plowed into the women from the opposite direction.
The women, who wore sashes reading “Woman Adult Human Female,” and carried signs saying “No Men In Women’s Prisons” and “Dana Rivers Is A Man,” were also pelted with pies in the video.
Rivers, born David Warfield, was convicted last month on three counts of first-degree murder and felony arson. He was found guilty in the 2016 slayings of lesbian couple Charlotte Reed and Patricia Wright, and their teenage son, Benny Diambu-Wright, as well as setting their home in Oakland on fire"
Source: The Epoch Times, [Archive, Paywall Bypass]
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2022-12-07 01:33:59+00:00
Ousted Twitter Counsel Jim Baker Vetted 'Twitter Files' Without Elon Musk's knowledge, Matt Taibbi Reveals
Matt Taibbi, the journalist who first broke the news of Elon Musk's "Twitter Files" revealed that the company's top lawyer had "vetted" what information was shared without the knowledge of the new boss.
Musk announced on Tuesday that he had terminated Deputy General Counsel Jim Baker "in light of concerns about Baker’s possible role in suppression of information important to the public dialogue."
And when asked by a Twitter user if Baker was able to explain himself, Musk replied "His explanation was …unconvincing."
Moments later, Taibbi began his own Twitter thread calling it a "Twitter Files Supplemental."
"On Friday, the first installment of the Twitter files was published here. We expected to publish more over the weekend. Many wondered why there was a delay," Taibbi tweeted. "We can now tell you part of the reason why. On Tuesday, Twitter Deputy General Counsel (and former FBI General Counsel) Jim Baker was fired. Among the reasons? Vetting the first batch of 'Twitter Files' – without knowledge of new management."
Taibbi explained, "The process for producing the ‘Twitter Files’ involved delivery to two journalists (Bari Weiss and me) via a lawyer close to new management. However, after the initial batch, things became complicated. Over the weekend, while we both dealt with obstacles to new searches, it was @BariWeiss who discovered that the person in charge of releasing the files was someone named Jim. When she called to ask ‘Jim’s’ last name, the answer came back: ‘Jim Baker.’
Source: FOX
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2022-12-07 00:30:30+00:00
Turkish Military Vehicle Runs Over Woman and Child in Syria, Sparking Protests
A Turkish military vehicle ran over a woman and a child in a northern Syrian town on Monday, killing them instantly and sparking protests by locals, opposition activists said.
The apparent accident happened in the town of Atareb west of the northern city of Aleppo as two armored vehicles drove through the town, the activists said. Afterward, angry residents pelted the vehicles with stones as they drove slowly in the town located about 10 miles from the Turkish border, they said.
Residents in northern Syria frequently complain about the aggressive way in which Turkish convoys drive through their towns and villages.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, said members of a rebel group in Atareb protected the Turkish soldiers from the protesters and took them to a nearby police station.
Source: Fox
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2022-12-07 00:03:27+00:00
Sen. Ron Johnson is Hosting a Roundtable Wed 12/7 to Review the Safety of COVID Jabs
And Twitter won’t be censoring it this time with the ending of the COVID “Misinformation” policy
https://rumble.com/v1z9t5s-sen.-ron-johnson-is-hosting-a-roundtable-wed-127-to-review-the-safety-of-co.html
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2022-12-06 23:31:02+00:00
WSJ: US Secretly Limited Range of Weapons Sent to Ukraine
The Department of Defense secretly altered the most advanced weapons systems the US has transferred to Ukraine. The change prevented the platform from firing long-range munitions, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The White House has sent 20 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) to Ukraine over the past six months, out of a total of 38 units authorized for Kiev. Without telling their Ukrainian counterparts, the Pentagon outfitted the systems with a component to prevent them from firing munitions with a range of over 50 miles.
President Joe Biden has sent thousands of Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GLMRS) rockets to Ukraine with a range of 50 miles. However, Kiev has repeatedly requested the longer-range Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS), which can strike targets nearly 200 miles away. Both munitions can be fired from the HIMARS platform.
The Biden administration has said it will not transfer rockers with a range longer than 50 miles out of concern the munitions will be used for attacks on Russian soil. Ukraine has offered the White House control over selecting targets in an effort to alleviate US concerns, but Washington apparently has yet to budge on the issue.
The Journal spoke with American officials who said the Biden administration fears that sending longer-range munitions will escalate the war. Some NATO members, such as Latvia, have disagreed with Biden’s decision and urged him to supply the weapons, arguing it is unwise to let Russia determine Western policies. “We should allow Ukrainians to use weapons to target missile sites or air fields from where those operations are being launched,” Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics said on the sidelines of last week’s NATO summit, adding that allies “should not fear” retaliation by Moscow.
Additionally, the US officials said the modification for the HIMARS indicates distrust between Washington and Kiev. “[The alterations] reflect apprehensions among administration officials that their Ukrainian partner might stop keeping its promise not to strike Russian territory with US-provided weapons,” the Journal added.
Related Reading: Explosions Hit Air Bases Deep Inside Russia, Killing Three Russian Soldiers
Drone Attack Hits Another Air Base Inside Russian Territory
Source: The Libertarian Institute
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2022-12-06 22:55:21+00:00
There is a reason why Derrick Broze is the hardest-working activist in activism. His knowledge about the Epstein saga and globalist organizations is rival to none. We discussed the recent Balenciaga scandal along with Elon's transhumanism agenda. Must listen!
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/podcast/podcast-derrick-broze-epstein-elon-cults-the-world-economic-forum
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2022-12-06 22:25:08+00:00
Uniparty: Congress Likely to Deliver Tens of Billions More to Ukraine in Coming Days
The gravy train keeps chugging along.
It’s a “done deal.”
Congressional sources tell The Dossier that there is a strong enough appetite in Congress, given the unanimously pro-war Democratic voting bloc, and the significant amount of Republicans who support the perpetual funding of the Zelensky government in Ukraine, to pass a bill by the end of next week that will deliver tens of billions of dollars into Kiev’s coffers.
The Dossier discussed the voting blocs with congressional staff multiple representatives on Capitol Hill, and it is clear that there is indeed some strong resistance to additional heaps of war funding among some factions of the GOP. However, Republican leadership and a majority of Republicans in the Senate continue to support the blank check Ukraine policy.
On Wednesday, the Senate will convene for a classified briefing on Ukraine…
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2022-12-06 21:25:10+00:00
Netanyahu to Give Ultranationalist Politician Authority Over Policy in Occupied West Bank
Religious Zionism party leader Bezalel Smotrich that will give the far-right politician unprecedented authority over the policy on Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and relations with the Palestinians.
Why it matters: Smotrich, a radical right-wing settler known for his Jewish supremacist rhetoric, supports the annexation of the West Bank and the expansion of settlements. He has also called for increasing the number of evictions and demolitions of Palestinian houses in the area of the West Bank that is not controlled by the Palestinian Authority, known as Area C.
- Smotrich's expected appointment comes as the West Bank experiences some of the highest tensions and worst violence since the second intifada two decades ago. U.S. diplomats and Israeli security officials are concerned that further deterioration in the security situation in the West Bank could lead to a third Intifada.
Driving the news: According to the coalition agreement, published on Monday, Smotrich will be appointed as the minister of finance, as well as a “minister in the ministry of defense."
- As part of his ministry of defense post, Smotrich will be in charge of the two key military units that run civilian and security affairs in the West Bank.
The big picture: The occupied West Bank has historically been administered by the commander of the IDF central command, who is in charge of military operations, and the coordinator of government activities in the territories (COGAT), who is in charge of security and civilian relations with the Palestinians in the West Bank, including with the Palestinian Authority.
- Both operated directly under the supervision of the Israeli defense minister, who is the cabinet member in charge of policy in the West Bank.
State of play: The new coalition agreement divides for the first time the authorities of the defense minister by moving all the authorities in the West Bank that are not directly connected to military operations over to Smotrich as the “minister in the ministry of defense."
- Smotrich will be in charge of COGAT, including its civilian administration — a unit that manages all the issues relevant to the expansion of settlements and the daily lives of Palestinians and Israeli settlers.
- This will give Smotrich authority and power over building permits in the settlements, planning and zoning, determining the status of land in parts of the West Bank, demolitions of Palestinian homes and issues like water supply and infrastructure.
- It will also give Smotrich authority over the security and civilian coordination with the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and with the authorities in Gaza. Smotrich supports abolishing the Palestinian Authority, and his appointment could lead the Palestinians to halt security coordination. The PA has not publicly commented on the coalition agreement.
The coalition agreement says that Smotrich will also have the authority of appointing the head of COGAT, a military officer with the rank of major general, and the head of the civil administration, a military officer with the rank of brigadier general.
The coalition agreement repeatedly stresses that all of Smotrich’s actions as a minister in the ministry of defense will be in coordination and under the approval of the prime minister, giving Netanyahu veto power.
Source: Axios
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2022-12-06 20:25:02+00:00
In France, Minority Communities Decry a Surge in Police Fines
Mohamed Assam went to buy groceries at a supermarket close to his home near Paris one April afternoon in 2020. By the time he returned, he had incurred more than 900 euros in fines for nine different infractions without once, he said, coming into contact with a police officer.
The 27-year-old from the Paris suburb of Epinay-sous-Senart said he learned of the fines about a week later, when he received notifications in the post. His alleged offences, which he is contesting, include violating COVID-19 lockdown rules and lacking correct headlights on his quad bike, according to the notices he received from an interior ministry agency reviewed by Reuters.
"It was a surprise, a bad surprise," said Assam. He now owes thousands of euros in total for fines accrued since 2019, including late payment fees, according to Assam and his lawyer.
French President Emmanuel Macron – facing criticism from rivals who accuse him of being soft on drug dealers and other offenders – has implemented a string of policies aimed at curbing urban crime. Those include greater authority for police to issue fines – a power police have seized upon.
Source: Reuters
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2022-12-06 19:55:05+00:00
NEW: John Bolton says he'll consider running for president...
If Trump is running? So, yes?
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2022-12-06 19:25:02+00:00
Drone Attack Hits Another Air Base Inside Russian Territory
An airfield in the Russian city of Kursk was targeted by a drone strike on Tuesday, a day after two air bases deep inside Russian territory were hit by Ukrainian drones.
Tuesday’s attack targeted an airfield that is about 80 miles from the Ukrainian border, causing a nearby oil tank to catch fire. The region’s governor said there were no casualties in the incident.
The attacks on Monday hit targets hundreds of miles inside Russia, the deepest Ukrainian drone strikes in Russian territory since the February 24 invasion. Later on Monday, Russia launched another massive missile barrage across Ukraine, targeting energy infrastructure.
The Kremlin said Tuesday that it’s taking necessary measures to counter the attacks. “Certainly, the push for such terror attacks to continue being openly announced by the Kiev regime is a risk. Of course, it is being taken into account, with all necessary measures being taken,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, according to the Russian news agency TASS.
Kyiv hasn’t officially taken credit for Monday’s attacks, but a senior Ukrainian official speaking on the condition of anonymity to The New York Times said Ukraine’s forces were responsible. The official said the drones were launched from Ukraine and claimed Ukrainian special forces inside Russia helped hit one of the targets. Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor to President Volodymyr Zelensky, also hinted at Ukraine’s involvement.
Source: Antiwar.com
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2022-12-06 18:55:10+00:00
Harmeet Dhillon joins Tucker and announces that she is running for run for RNC chair: "…Republicans are tired of losing and I think that we need to radically reshape our leadership in order to win…Our messaging needs to be fresh and positive and not just reactive to news cycles and what the Democrats are doing…. I’m afraid that the base of our party is not getting what it needs from our leadership…”
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2022-12-06 18:25:09+00:00
"Shortly after people began dying from the COVID-19 virus in early 2020, virologist Danielle Anderson began attacking media accounts that questioned if the pandemic could have started in a lab in Wuhan, China.
In a fact check for Health Feedback, Anderson repudiated a New York Post article that questioned if the “coronavirus may have leaked from a lab” claiming it was false to label the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) a bioweapons research lab, while adding that the Post article was “appalling.” This censorial fact check helped limit the audience for the Post article on social media—but then, less than a year later, Anderson’s claims fell apart when the State Department declassified information on the WIV’s ties to military research and Facebook ceased censoring statements that COVID-19 was man-made or manufactured.
Unpersuaded by facts, Anderson stuck to her story, making a media splash throughout the summer of 2021 as the “last—and only—foreign scientist in Wuhan” and the victim of an online harassment campaign by “conspiracy theorists.” Anderson’s tale of online persecution then made its way into a Nature Magazine article last October that went on to win a journalism award.
There is, however, a glaring omission from the media’s portrayal of Anderson as brave truth speaker. None of the fact checks or news stories disclose that her name has appeared on multiple grants for projects aiming to manipulate coronaviruses, including a National Institutes of Health award to Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance, and a grant that was rejected by the U.S. military research agency DARPA, in part for risky gain of function research."
https://thepulse.one/2022/12/06/funding-documents-expose-virologist-danielle-anderson-once-feted-as-a-conspiracy-buster/
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2022-12-06 17:55:01+00:00
🚨BREAKING: Canada Wasted Billions In Pandemic Response: Audit
Canada wasted billions of dollars on unused Covid vaccines and pandemic aid to people who were not eligible for it, says an audit released Tuesday of the government's response to the health crisis. In reports presented to Parliament, Auditor General Karen Hogan said the government moved fast to roll out Covid-19 emergency programs to provide relief and help the economy rebound.
By relying on information provided by applicants and limiting controls in order to expedite the payments, the government had "recognized that there was a risk that some payments would go to ineligible recipients," Hogan said. But time is now running out to recoup those overpayments totalling Can$4.6 billion (US$3.4 billion) as a 36-month legal deadline looms, she warned.
"We estimated that at least Can$27.4 billion of payments to individuals and employers should be investigated further," she added. As of mid-2022, only Can$2.3 billion in overpayments had been recovered through voluntary repayments.
In its zeal to secure vaccines to reduce Canadians' risk of serious illness, hospitalization or death, the government also overbought vaccine doses, the auditor general said. Ottawa signed advance purchase agreements with seven companies that were developing Covid-19 vaccines, and between December 2020 and May 2022 obtained 169 million doses -- far more than was needed to inoculate its population of 38 million.
Of its approximately 84 million surplus doses, 15.3 million were donated to other countries, while 13.6 million spoiled, according to the audit. And most of remaining stockpile is expected to expire by the end of 2022 if not used for boosters or donated, it concluded.
In total, the Canadian government doled out more than Can$210.7 billion in emergency pandemic benefits.
Source: AFP
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2022-12-06 17:25:05+00:00
REAL ID Enforcement is Delayed Again to 2025
More than 14 years after the original deadline, the enforcement of REAL ID-compliant driver's licenses or IDs has been pushed back once again.
The Transportation Security Administration and other federal agencies were expected to only accept the nationally approved IDs starting May 3, 2023. But on Monday, the Department of Homeland Security announced that the deadline would be extended until May 7, 2025.
The federal agency said that state motor vehicle departments need more time to comb through the backlog of applications created by the pandemic. But the virus is only the latest cause for delay in the yearslong effort to implement stricter forms of identification.
"This extension will give states needed time to ensure their residents can obtain a REAL ID-compliant license or identification card," Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a press statement.
Source: NPR
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2022-12-06 16:55:06+00:00
Tulsi Responds to WEF Webpage: "I've Literally Not Had Anything to Do With the World Economic Forum"
"It's unfortunate that there's a lot of false assumptions being made," expressed Gabbard.
"I've never gone to any of their events. I didn't graduate from any (Young Global Leaders Academy). So I've literally not had anything to do with the World Economic Forum."
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2022-12-06 16:25:05+00:00
Meta Threatens to Remove US News Content if New Law Passes
Meta has threatened to remove news content from Facebook in the US. It objects to a new law that would give news organisations greater power to negotiate fees for content shared on Facebook. A similar law, passed in Australia, led to news on Facebook being briefly suspended last year.
Meta claims their platform, in fact, provides increased traffic to struggling news outlets. It says publishers put their content on Facebook because "it benefits their bottom line."
The legislation, known as the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) was introduced in Congress by Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar and has bipartisan support. It would give publishers and broadcasters greater powers to collectively bargain with social media companies for a larger share of ad revenue.
Media companies argue that Meta generates huge sums of money from news articles shared on the platform. Local news in particular struggled during the pandemic, as Meta made huge profits.
However Meta argues that this narrative is wrong. Instead, it says, Meta drives traffic to news sources.
Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said: "If Congress passes an ill-considered journalism bill as part of national security legislation, we will be forced to consider removing news from our platform altogether".
Source: BBC
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2022-12-06 15:55:05+00:00
US Army Plans “Dramatic” Increase in Ammunition Production as Ukraine Aid Drains Stockpiles
https://www.activistpost.com/2022/12/us-army-plans-dramatic-increase-in-ammunition-production-as-ukraine-aid-drains-stockpiles.html
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2022-12-06 15:25:05+00:00
UK Sleepwalking Into Food Supply Crisis, Says Farming Union
The UK is "sleepwalking" into a food supply crisis and the government must step in to help farmers, the National Farmers Union (NFU) has warned.
Yields of tomatoes and other crops will likely slump to record lows this year, it said, with potential supply problems ahead as already seen with eggs. Soaring fuel, fertiliser and feed costs were putting farmers under severe pressure, it added. The government said the UK has a "highly resilient food supply chain".
Some supermarkets are rationing egg sales after farmers cut back or halted production because of rising costs - a situation made worse by the Avian flu outbreak. However, the NFU warned that food producers in other areas were now facing difficulties.
It said yields of energy-intensive crops like tomatoes, cucumbers and pears were likely to hit their lowest level this year since records began in 1985. It also said milk prices were likely to fall below the cost of production, while beef farmers were considering reducing the number of cows they breed.
Rising costs were to blame, it said, with fertiliser prices for farmers more than tripling since 2019 and the cost of feed and diesel up by 75%. Soaring energy costs, Brexit red tape and worker shortages were also factors, it added.
Source: BBC
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2022-12-06 14:55:05+00:00
A recent poll conducted by Elon Musk asked, “Should Assange and Snowden be pardoned?” The answer was an overwhelming yes, with 80.5 percent of approximately 3.3 million people voting.
“How far have we sunk if telling the truth becomes a crime? How far have we sunk if we prosecute people that expose war crimes for exposing war crimes? How far have we sunk when we no longer prosecute our own war criminals? Because we identify more with them, than we identify with the people that actually expose these crimes. What does that tell about us and about our governments? In a democracy, the power does not belong to the government, but to the people. But the people have to claim it. Secrecy disempowers the people because it prevents them from exercising democratic control, which is precisely why governments want secrecy.”- Nilz Melzer
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2022-12-06 14:25:07+00:00
Katie Hobbs' Office Contacted Twitter to Censor Posts
Arizona Governor-Elect Katie Hobbs is facing backlash as proof that her office requested for certain tweets to be censored came out of Elon Musk's release of the "Twitter Files," the internal documents showing collusion between government officials, campaign teams, and other like actors with the social media giant to silence political dissent.
On January 7 2021, the communications director for Hobbs' Secretary of State office emailed the Center for Internet Security (CIS), a 501 nonprofit cybersecurity organization that "makes the connected world a safer place for people, businesses, and governments through our core competencies of collaboration and innovation," according to their website.
"I'm flagging this Twitter account for your review," Hobbs' comms director wrote to misinformation@cisecurity.org, linking to an unidentified profile. The subject line was "Election Related Misinformation."
The "misinformation" department at CIS then forwarded the message along to an employee at Twitter, writing "Please see this report below from the Arizona SOS office. Please let me know if you have any questions."
"Thank you," Twitter wrote back. "We will escalate."
About seven hours later, a Twitter employee wrote again; "Thank you… both tweets have been removed from the service." Copied on this response was an employee at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), a branch under the federal government's Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene called for an investigation into the matter, writing, "The SOS of AZ and Gov candidate, Katie Hobbs, used the power of the AZ SOS to collude w/ Twitter to unconstitutionally violate 1st Amendment rights of Americans for her own political gain."
Source: The Post Millennial
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2022-12-06 03:25:10+00:00
Explosions Hit Air Bases Deep Inside Russia, Killing Three Russian Soldiers
Explosions hit two Russian air bases deep inside Russian territory early Monday morning, killing three Russian soldiers and damaging two aircraft, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
Blasts were reported at the Dyagilevo airfield in the Ryazan Oblast and Engels airfield in the Saratov Oblast, two locations that are over 250 miles from the Ukrainian border. The Russian Defense Ministry said the attacks were carried out by Ukraine using a number of drones.
Kyiv hasn’t taken official credit for the attack, but an anonymous senior Ukrainian official speaking to The New York Times said Ukrainian forces were responsible. The official said the drones were launched from Ukrainian territory and claimed one strike was made with the help of Ukrainian special forces inside Russia.
Drone attacks have been reported throughout the war in Russian regions near the Ukrainian border, but the incident on Monday is significantly further inside Russia than previous attacks.
Source: Antiwar.com
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2022-12-06 02:28:26+00:00
Fauci Got Lockdown Policy From Chinese Communist Party
“Fauci was apparently willing to base his lockdown advocacy on the observations of a single guy relying on reports from a dictator," said attorney Jenin Younes.
“He seized on the thinnest evidence to justify draconian ‘public health’ restrictions but required an unreasonably high quality of evidence for anything that contradicted his narrative.”
Fauci and his deputy, Dr. Cliff Lane, were very impressed with how the Chinese were “handling the isolation, the contact tracing, the building of facilities to take care of people,” and modeled the United State’s response after the communist nation.
“When we got there, the outbreak was already coming under control in China. The measures they put in place appear to be working,” said Lane. “From what I saw in China, we may have to go to as extreme a degree of social distancing to help bring our outbreak under control.”
Fauci and Lane ignored scientific precedent and locked down the United States based on the Chinese Communist Party’s blatantly manipulated data, which shows deaths flatlined around 4,800 over the last two years.
“The U.S. & U.K. followed Italy’s lockdown, which had followed China, and all but a handful of countries around the globe immediately followed our lead. Within weeks the whole world was locked down,” wrote Dr. Aaron Kheriaty.
“From the very beginning, the evidential basis for this global policy catastrophe was always paper-thin. We are now living in the aftermath.”
https://kanekoa.substack.com/p/attorney-generals-release-full-transcript
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2022-12-06 01:23:36+00:00
Musk’s Neuralink Faces Federal Probe, Employee Backlash Over Animal Tests
Elon Musk’s Neuralink, a medical device company, is under federal investigation for potential animal-welfare violations amid internal staff complaints that its animal testing is being rushed, causing needless suffering and deaths, according to documents reviewed by Reuters and sources familiar with the investigation and company operations.
Neuralink Corp is developing a brain implant it hopes will help paralyzed people walk again and cure other neurological ailments. The federal probe, which has not been previously reported, was opened in recent months by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Inspector General at the request of a federal prosecutor, according to two sources with knowledge of the investigation. The probe, one of the sources said, focuses on violations of the Animal Welfare Act, which governs how researchers treat and test some animals.
The investigation has come at a time of growing employee dissent about Neuralink’s animal testing, including complaints that pressure from CEO Musk to accelerate development has resulted in botched experiments, according to a Reuters review of dozens of Neuralink documents and interviews with more than 20 current and former employees. Such failed tests have had to be repeated, increasing the number of animals being tested and killed, the employees say. The company documents include previously unreported messages, audio recordings, emails, presentations and reports.
Source: Reuters
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2022-12-06 00:24:03+00:00
Former Twitter Executive Who Suppressed Hunter Biden Laptop Story Calls Libs of TikTok, Babylon Bee ‘Dangerous’
Yoel Roth, former head of safety and integrity at Twitter, who resigned upon Elon Musk’s acquisition of the company, said the online activities of Libs of TikTok and the Babylon Bee are “f***ed up.” The former is a massively popular account with 1.5 million followers while the latter is a satirical news outlet.
“We have seen from a number of Twitter accounts including Libs of TikTok notably that there are orchestrated campaigns that are particularly singling out a group that is already particularly vulnerable within society,” Roth said at an Informed conference on democracy in the digital age, according to a video reported by Ian Miles Cheong.
“Not only is it not funny but it is dangerous and contributes to an environment that makes people unsafe. Let’s start from a premise that it’s f***ed up,” he added.
Musk initiated his buyout of the tech giant after noticing a troubling trend of censorship on the site. Babylon Bee was suspended after it posted a joke calling transgender White House official Rachel Levine the “Man of the Year.” Yoel reminded the audience at the seminar that the Bee violated an explicit prohibition on “misgendering,” even if the reference was embedded in comedy.
“That’s satire,” the interviewer told Roth. “Nominally, but it’s still misgendering,” he replied.
Source: National Review
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2022-12-05 23:55:09+00:00
Weapons Delivered to Ukraine 'Beginning to Filter' to Africa: Nigeria
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari urges heads of states from neighboring states participating in the Lake Chad Basin Commission to confront the issue of Western arms smuggling from Ukraine.
"Weapons supplied to Ukraine from Western countries are 'starting to flow' into the Lake Chad basin region, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari warned this week.
Addressing the heads of states from neighboring states participating in the Lake Chad Basin Commission on Tuesday in the Nigerian capital of Abuja, the president said, 'Regrettably, the situation in the Sahel and the raging war in Ukraine serve as major sources of weapons and fighters that bolster the ranks of the terrorists in the region.'
Buhari then urged his counterparts to increase security cooperation in order to confront the issue of arms smuggling…"
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2022-12-05 23:25:11+00:00
Nobody’s Using CBDCs. India’s Piloting One Anyway
The slow uptake of CBDCs in Africa and across the Caribbean does not bode well for India’s new digital currency.
CBDCs are on the march. From China to the UAE, the Bahamas to Nigeria, countries around the world have started trialling the use of central bank digital currencies as a way to translate their national fiat currencies into a means of digital exchange. One of the drivers of these state-backed digital currencies is the dramatic decline of physical cash usage which, according to McKinsey, has plunged by approximately one-third in Europe between 2014 and 2021. The authority of digital payments is so strong because, in extremis, they are redeemable through the public cash issued by central banks. As the popularity of physical money diminishes, however, that nexus could break down. As these payment systems become increasingly global, therefore, central banks are eager to introduce CBDCs to reassert their roles as the anchors of capital.
Such was the rationale of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to officially begin piloting its own CBDC, the e-rupee, last week. The product of two years of research by the central bank, the RBI explained in a concept note published in October that the project would ‘bolster India’s digital economy, enhance financial inclusion, and make the monetary and payment systems more efficient.’ Backed by the State Bank of India, ICICI Bank, Yes Bank and IDC First Bank, the pilot will take place across select locations and groups across the country through a digital wallet offered by these institutions. There’s only one problem: the actual popularity of CBDCs in other democracies remains incredibly low.
Interest in CBDCs has been low thus far
Take Nigeria. It launched its own CBDC, the e-Naira, in October 2021. Since then, adoption has been lacklustre.
A similar pattern has played out in the Caribbean, home to the Bahamian Sand Dollar, Jamaica's JAM-DEX, and DCash, used in eight islands across the region's eastern littoral. While in Nigeria the national debate surrounding the uptake of CBDCs has been dominated by the government's hostility to cryptocurrencies, the conversation across these island nations has been defined by how they could improve financial inclusion: an estimated 17% of Jamaicans and 18% of Bahamians, for example, remain unbanked. Even so, only 3.4% of the former's citizens have downloaded the Lynk app, while this figure is even lower for downloads of the DCash and the Sand Dollar.
Indeed, the only case of a CBDC performing above and beyond expectations has been that of the digital yuan. Also known as the e-CNY, the People's Bank of China began trialling the digital currency in September 2021. Since then, transactions using the CBDC have surpassed $13.9bn, a success that some have attributed to its introduction into an economy where digital payments have almost eclipsed those using cash and where cryptocurrencies are vigorously suppressed. Active promotion by the central government also hasn't hurt - a campaign outwardly premised on the role the digital yuan could play in reducing systemic risk in the national payments system but also, some have speculated, on the fact that it provides another opportunity for the state to peer into private individual transactions.
Source: Tech Moniter
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2022-12-05 22:25:04+00:00
Archaeologists Ask Netflix to Reclassify Graham Hancock’s ‘Unfounded’ Netflix Docuseries ‘Ancient Apocalypse’ as Fiction
This week, the Society for American Archaeology published an open letter to Netflix and the television production house ITN requesting that they re-classify its new series Ancient Apocalypse as a work of fiction rather than a docuseries.
The show centers around bestselling author Graham Hancock’s meagerly substantiated claims about the existence of Atlantis, presenting them in a deceptive cloak of veracity.
“We urge both Netflix and ITN Productions to add disclaimers to the series that its content is unfounded,” the society wrote. “We also request that Netflix develop a policy that balances such false narratives with the presentation of scientific documentaries and accurate reporting.”
Netflix has not yet addressed to the letter publicly.
Source: Artnet
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2022-12-05 21:25:07+00:00
“We Have a Serious Problem”: Study Finds Sperm Counts Are Plummeting Worldwide
Sperm counts around the world have more than halved since 1973, according to a recent study — and the likely cause is toxic chemicals found in plastics and dirty energy sources.
Building on a previous 2017 study, researchers observed a sperm count decline of 51% in 53 countries across six continents, triggering fears that the world is sliding into a global fertility crisis. And it looks like that crisis is going to get worse. Between 1972 and 200, the concentration of sperm found in semen fell by 1.16%, but since then, it’s fallen by 2.62% — over twice as much.
Sperm count has important ramifications for male fertility, as men with lower sperm counts find it harder to conceive. But a high sperm count alone does not guarantee fertility. Sperm also needs to be healthy and mobile to increase the chances of a successful conception.
Yet, that seems to be another area where male fertility is struggling. Another study, published in 2019, found that sperm motility (its ability to swim and move) declined by 10% over the previous 16 years. The causes for this are uncertain, but increasing amounts of research point to endocrine-disrupting chemicals, which can confuse hormones and impact their reproductive ability.
That includes phthalates, which are widely found in everyday objects like plastic, soap, hair spray, lubricating oils, and vinyl flooring. Microplastics — which often contain these phthalates — are released when plastic breaks down, whether that’s in the ocean or in our homes, meaning that phthalates are in the very water that we drink and the air that we breathe.
In recent years, microplastics have been found in breast milk, placentas, lungs, and humans’ bloodstreams.
Other culprits triggering the crisis may be air pollution, particularly from herbicides, pesticides, and carbon-based dirty energy sources. Lifestyle factors like diet and smoking may also play a role.
“Our findings serve as a canary in a coal mine,” Professor Hagai Levine, one of the study’s authors, told The Times of Israel. “We have a serious problem on our hands that, if not mitigated, could threaten humankind’s survival. We urgently call for global action to promote healthier environments for all species and reduce exposures and behaviors that threaten our reproductive health.”
“It is serious. If you follow the curve from the 2017 sperm-decline meta-analysis, it predicts that by 2045 we will have a median sperm count of zero,” co-author Shanna Swan told The Guardian. “This means that most couples may have to use assisted reproduction.”
Source: The Cooldown
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2022-12-05 20:25:04+00:00
FBI Official Admits Agency Colluded Weekly With Facebook To Flag, Take Down Posts
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) met weekly with large social media platforms to collaborate on moderating content, according to a deposition this week from FBI Supervisory Special Agent Elvis Chan.
Chan, who was one of the two FBI agents who contacted Facebook ahead of its censoring of the Hunter Biden laptop warning of potential Russian disinformation operations, said that the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF) and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) officials met weekly with social media companies to remove specific accounts ahead of the 2020 presidential election, according to his deposition cited by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt. The deposition was part of a lawsuit filed against the Biden administration for allegedly censoring Americans’ speech in the name of “misinformation” led by Schmitt and Republican Attorney General Jeff Landry of Louisiana.
“Since filing our lawsuit, we’ve uncovered troves of discovery that show a massive censorship enterprise,” Schmitt told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Now we’re deposing top government officials, and we’re one of the first to get a look under the hood – the information we’ve uncovered through those depositions has been shocking to say the least.”
The two AGs filed their lawsuit against the Biden administration in May and discovery was granted in July to allow the Republicans to gather documents from the Biden administration and social media companies. Deposition requests were approved in October.
Dr. Anthony Fauci was deposed on Nov. 23 and reportedly claimed to not recall key details about his role in helping social media companies censor content about COVID-19.
Source: Daily Caller
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2022-12-05 19:25:04+00:00
Satellite Constellation to Be Launched to Support Counterattack Capabilities
A network of 50 small satellites working together in space will be developed for Japan’s defense.
The first of these satellites is expected to be launched as soon as fiscal 2024, in line with the possession of counterattack capabilities to strike enemy missile launch sites for the purpose of self-defense, according to several government officials.
The government and the ruling coalition are in the final stage of discussions to specify the possession of counterattack capabilities in the three documents that will be finalized by the end of this year: the National Security Strategy, National Defense Program Guidelines and Medium Term Defense Program.
The satellite constellation will also be stipulated in these documents, which serve as guidelines for the government’s security policy. The Defense Ministry plans to allocate the related funding in the initial budget for fiscal 2023.
In exercising the counterattack capabilities, which are expected to involve the use of long-range missiles, it is essential to have real-time information on the location of enemy military facilities situated on the ground or naval vessels at sea.
A satellite constellation of multiple small satellites launched into low-altitude orbit and operated in unison will make it possible to accurately monitor targets from space at all times. The network will be able to frequently observe a specific point, enabling it to closely monitor the movements of opposing forces, such as vehicles and naval vessels equipped with launch pads.
Two types of satellites will be launched: optical satellites, which make use of sunlight to capture images of the ground with their cameras, and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites, which observe radio waves reflected off objects.
Source: American Military News
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2022-12-05 18:50:10+00:00
Hunter Biden Laptop Whistleblower Seizes Long-awaited 'Glimmers' of Justice: 'I'm Ready to Go to War'
The Hunter laptop whistleblower who had been given the "death sentence" label of a hacker is pulling the curtain back on the FBI and Twitter's malicious involvement in the scandal, arguing that the FBI "knew all the facts" and divisively swept the story under the rug.
"I went up against Twitter back in 2021 when they labeled my activity hacking or therefore labeling essentially me a hacker," John Paul Mac Isaac told "Mornings with Maria" Monday. "So I went after Twitter."
"Unfortunately, they switched judges on me, gave me an Obama-appointed judge who threw the case out with prejudice and awarded Twitter, the Florida SLAPP statute," he told the host.
"Twitter cut my legs off and prevented me from fighting any legal battles in the future and possibly forcing me into bankruptcy, making it so that it basically would take the fight out of me,"
Source: Fox[Full Interview]
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2022-12-05 18:23:44+00:00
Dow Slides 400 Points on Fears the Fed Will Keep Tightening Into a Recession
Stocks fell Monday on fears that the Federal Reserve may continue tightening until it steers the economy into a recession. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 420 points, or 1.2%, while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite slid by 1.6% and 1.7%, respectively.
A hotter-than-expected reading of November ISM Services further fueled concerns that the Fed will continue hiking after the index topped Dow Jones’ estimates and increased from October.
Bond yields pushed higher as equities fell, with the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury last trading up 8 basis points at 3.586%.
“Clearly, equity markets want to move higher, but that’s very dependent on inflation getting under control,” said Peter Essele, head of portfolio management at Commonwealth Financial Network. “And so, when you have above expectation prints on any econ number that comes out, that tends to fuel inflationary concerns, which sends rates higher.”
Source: CNBC [Live Updates]
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2022-12-05 17:25:08+00:00
China Set to Ease Covid Curbs Further as Markets Cheer Change of Tack
China is set to announce a further easing of some of the world's toughest COVID curbs as early as Wednesday, sources said, as investors cheered the prospect of a policy shift that follows widespread protests and mounting economic damage.
Three years into the pandemic, China's zero-tolerance measures, from shut borders to frequent lockdowns, contrast sharply with the rest of the world, which has largely decided to live with the virus.
The strict approach has battered the world's second-largest economy, put mental strain on hundreds of millions and last month prompted the biggest show of public discontent in mainland China since President Xi Jinping took power in 2012.
Although last month's protests largely subsided amid a heavy police presence across major cities, regional authorities have since cut back on lockdowns, quarantine rules and testing requirements to varying degrees. Top officials have also softened their tone on the dangers posed by the virus.
Source: Reuters
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2022-12-05 16:36:18+00:00
Rep. Adam Smith Says Calls for Ukraine Aid Oversight are ‘Russian Propaganda’
Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA), the head of the House Armed Services Committee, said Saturday that the growing calls for more oversight of the billions of dollars the US is spending on Ukraine are “part of Russian propaganda.”
While the majority of Republicans strongly favor continuing to arm Ukraine, even the more hawkish GOP members have said they favor increased oversight for the aid. Smith said that the concern from Republicans for more transparency “makes me a little crazy.”
“Ukraine is spending the money really well; that’s why they’re winning,” Smith said at the Reagan National Defense Forum, according to Defense News. “Yes, we need oversight, but we don’t need that as an excuse to not fund what we’re doing.”
Last month, a small group of House Republicans opposed to arming Ukraine led by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) introduced a bill that would require an audit of the funds that the US has spent on the war so far. Greene said that if she needed to, she would reintroduce the legislation after the next Congress is sworn in this January.
The White House is looking for Congress to approve $37.7 billion in new Ukraine aid during the lame-duck period. If authorized, the new funds will bring total US spending on a proxy war on Russia’s border to about $105 billion.
Source: Antiwar.com
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2022-12-05 15:56:04+00:00
🚨BREAKING: Pfizer/Biontech Seek FDA Authorization of Updated Covid-19 Vaccine for Children Under 5
Pfizer and BioNTech have submitted an application to the US Food and Drug Administration for their updated Covid-19 vaccine to be used as the third shot in the three-dose primary vaccine series for children ages 6 months through 4 years.
The vaccine makers announced on Monday that if authorized for emergency use, children in that age group will still receive the original version of the Covid-19 vaccine as their first two doses and then the updated Covid-19 vaccine – formulated to target the coronavirus Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 – as the third dose.
While the primary Covid-19 vaccine series for older children and adults involves receiving two doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, a three-dose primary series has been the approach for children younger than 5.
The Omicron-adapted vaccine is currently authorized for emergency use in the United States as a booster dose for people 5 and older.
“With the high level of respiratory illnesses currently circulating among children under 5 years of age, updated COVID-19 vaccines may help prevent severe illness and hospitalization,” according to the companies’ announcement on Monday morning.
Source: CNN
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2022-12-05 15:25:09+00:00
REVEALED: FBI Warned Twitter About a 'Hack-and-Leak' Operation Targeting Hunter Biden in Weekly 2020 Meetings Before the Laptop Story Was Censored
A former Twitter executive said the company was warned about foreign attempts to meddle in the 2020 election using a so-called 'hack-and-leak' strategy, it was reported on Sunday night.
The revelation was made by Twitter's former Global Head of Trust and Safety, Yoel Roth, weeks after the 2020 election - and roughly two months after the site limited the reach of a New York Post story about Hunter Biden's laptop.
'I was told in these meetings that the intelligence community expected that individuals associated with political campaigns would be subject to hacking attacks and that material obtained through those hacking attacks would likely be disseminated over social media platforms, including Twitter,' Roth said according to the Post.
Roth reportedly handed the statement on December 21, 2020 to the Federal Election Commission.
'I also learned in these meetings that there were rumors that a hack-and-leak operation would involve Hunter Biden,' it read.
It comes amid fallout from the Elon Musk-promoted Twitter 'exposé' that was apparently meant to show proof that the platform - which he recently acquired for $44 billion - worked in tandem with Democrats to tip the scales in the 2020 election.
Source: Daily Mail
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2022-12-05 14:38:41+00:00
Macron Says Security Guarantees for Russia Needed for Future Peace Deal
French President Emmanuel Macron has said that Russia’s security concerns when it comes to NATO expansion need to be taken into account in any future peace talks and that the West needs to be prepared to give Moscow guarantees.
“We need to prepare what we are ready to do, how we protect our allies and member states, and how to give guarantees to Russia the day it returns to the negotiating table,” the French leader said in an interview that aired Saturday.
“One of the essential points we must address — as President Putin has always said — is the fear that NATO comes right up to its doors, and the deployment of weapons that could threaten Russia,” Macron added.
Any future peace deal between Russia and Ukraine would require a guarantee that Kyiv will remain neutral and won’t join NATO. Russia made the demand during the lead-up to the invasion, but the US refused to make the promise. Last week, NATO doubled down on its pledge that Ukraine will eventually join the alliance.
Macron’s comments drew an angry response from Ukraine. Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor to President Volodymyr Zelensky who, said security guarantees for Moscow would only be possible “after tribunal, conviction of war authors and war criminals” and the “imposition of large-scale reparations.”
Unlike President Biden, Macron has maintained contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin since February. During his visit to Washington last week, where the interview that aired Saturday was recorded, Macron said that he would keep talking with Putin to “try to prevent escalation and to get some very concrete results.”
Source: Antiwar.com
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2022-12-05 02:10:20+00:00
Raytheon Gets $1.2 Billion Contract to Produce Air Defense System for Ukraine
https://www.activistpost.com/2022/12/raytheon-gets-1-2-billion-contract-to-produce-air-defense-system-for-ukraine.html
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2022-12-04 20:03:56+00:00
FULL VIDEO - REPUPLOADED: Elon Musk Twitter Space
Here’s the recording of our Twitter space with Elon Musk today. The last uploaded video was removed on Youtube. This is for everyone who cares about free speech and truth. Elon answered important questions. Listen to his own words and intentions instead of the spin by the corrupt media that he exposed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJiw_VpnGgk
Source: Kim Dotcom
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2022-12-04 19:06:43+00:00
UK and Ukraine to Collaborate on Digital ID
The United Kingdom (UK) and Ukraine have signed a digital trade deal aimed at helping the Ukrainian economy to recover and “improve” both countries’ digital output. The Digital Trade Agreement (DTA) also has a provision for collaborating on digital identity, where Ukraine supposedly has a lot to teach the UK about ID tracking tech and using digital ID to access services.
Ukraine’s highly-sophisticated digital ID, Diia, is used to grant the public access to most government services online. It has nine digital credentials: the ID card, the identity provider (IDP) certificate for network access, birth certificate, passport, driving license, tax number, student card, and vehicle registration certificate.
The UK does not have a national digital ID system and, over the years, there has been much pushback about implementing any form of national ID.
The DTA will “a– that’s according to the UK’s Department of International Trade.
The DTA will allow Ukrainians to access financial services. The deal also creates more cooperation between the two countries in emerging technologies and cybersecurity. The announcement says it will bring about, “greater cooperation between the UK and Ukraine on cybersecurity and emerging technologies, helping to keep UK and Ukrainian businesses and people safer.”
Source: Reclaim The Net
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2022-12-04 15:52:01+00:00
EU Tentatively Agrees on $60 Per Barrel for Russian Oil Price Cap
The EU has tentatively agreed on setting the price cap on Russian oil at $60 per barrel, Reuters reported on Thursday.
The plan would also include an adjustment mechanism to keep the price cap 5% below the market value. The EU is setting the price cap at the request of the G7, which asked for the price to be slightly higher, somewhere between $65 and $70 per barrel.
The EU governments still need to formally sign off on the price cap plan, which is expected to happen on Friday. The bloc struggled to set a price as Poland was seeking a drastically lower number, around $20 to $30 per barrel.
No matter what the price is, Russia has said it will retaliate and cut off any country trying to impose price caps on its energy. If Moscow retaliates by slashing oil production, it will send global prices skyrocketing.
December 5 is the day that an EU oil embargo on Russia comes into effect, although there are exemptions for Hungary and other land-locked countries. The EU sanctions will also prohibit insurance and other services for shipments of Russian oil.
Source: Antiwar.com
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2022-12-04 04:25:08+00:00
Major Web Browsers Drop Mysterious Authentication Company After Ties To US Military Contractor Exposed
https://www.activistpost.com/2022/12/major-web-browsers-drop-mysterious-authentication-company-after-ties-to-us-military-contractor-exposed.html
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2022-12-04 03:25:05+00:00
Julian Assange Appeals to European Court Over U.S. Extradition
WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange, who is battling extradition from Britain to the United States where he is wanted on criminal charges, has submitted an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), the court confirmed on Friday.
Assange, 51, is wanted by U.S. authorities on 18 counts, including one under a spying act, relating to WikiLeaks' release of vast troves of confidential U.S. military records and diplomatic cables which Washington said had put lives in danger.
Britain has given the go-ahead for his extradition, but he has launched an appeal at London's High Court, with the first hearing expected early next year.
His legal team have also launched a case against Britain at the ECHR, which could potentially order the extradition to be blocked.
"We confirm that an application has been received," a statement from the court said.
Stella Assange, his wife, said she hoped the ECHR would not be needed to consider the case and that it could be resolved in Britain. If the case was taken to the ECHR, she said it "would be a sad day and a major disappointment".
Assange's brother Gabriel Shipton told Reuters earlier this week he believed the U.S. authorities would want to avoid the case going before the ECHR, as the European media and public were more sympathetic to his cause than those in Britain or the United States.
"I would imagine the U.S. wants to avoid that... trying to extradite a publisher from Europe for publishing U.S. war revelations when the U.S. is asking Europe to make all sort of sacrifices for the war in Ukraine," Shipton said.
Source: US News
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2022-12-04 02:24:03+00:00
🚨BREAKING: Elon Musk Polling For Pardoning Assange and Snowden
I am not expressing an opinion, but did promise to conduct this poll.
Should Assange and Snowden be pardoned?
ANSWER THE POLL BY CLICKING BELOW↙️
Source: Elon Musk
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2022-12-04 01:47:00+00:00
FULL VIDEO: Elon Musk Twitter Space
Here’s the recording of our Twitter space with Elon Musk today. This is for everyone who cares about free speech and truth. Elon has answered important questions. Listen to Elon’s own words and intentions instead of the spin by the media that he exposed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crpAzh1DJDg
Source: Kim Dotcom[Space Co-host]
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2022-12-04 01:44:25+00:00
Elon Musk Warns Against Letting Governments Decide What Constitutes "Misinformation and Disinformation."
Source: The Post Millennial
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2022-12-04 01:13:59+00:00
Elon Musk: "I do not have any suicidal thoughts ... If I committed suicide, It's Not Real."
Source: The Post Millennial
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2022-12-04 00:50:45+00:00
🔥 Elon Musk Plans to Flag the MSM As Government-Run Media on Twitter
“We should be labeling that SBF-affiliated media, because it is”
https://rumble.com/v1yph3k--elon-musk-plans-to-flag-the-msm-as-government-media-on-twitter.html
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2022-12-04 00:30:49+00:00
BREAKING: Elon Musk Says the DNC & Twitter Definitely Committed Election Interference
"If Twitter is doing one team's bidding before an election shutting down dissenting voices on a pivotal election that is the very definition of election interference. I mean what the hell else would you... Frankly Twitter was acting like an arm of the Democratic National Committee. It was absurd."
https://rumble.com/v1yp4ii-breaking-elon-musk-says-the-dnc-definitely-committed-election-interference.html
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2022-12-03 23:16:09+00:00
Beijing, Shenzhen Loosen More Covid Curbs as China Fine-tunes Policy
Beijing residents on Saturday cheered the removal of COVID-19 testing booths while Shenzhen said it would no longer require commuters to present test results to travel, as an easing of China's virus curbs gathered pace.
Although daily cases are near all-time highs, some cities are taking steps to loosen COVID testing requirements and quarantine rules as China looks to make its zero-COVID policy more targeted amid a sharp economic slowdown and public frustration that has boiled over into unrest.
The southern city of Shenzhen announced it would no longer require people to show a negative COVID test result to use public transport or enter parks, following similar moves by Chengdu and Tianjin.
Many testing booths in Beijing have been shut, as the capital stops demanding negative test results as a condition to enter places such as supermarkets and prepares to do so for subways from Monday. Many other venues, including offices, still require testing.
Source: Reuters
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2022-12-03 22:11:22+00:00
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2022-12-03 21:21:03+00:00
EU Foreign Minister Says Quiet Part Loud
“Like the discoverers and conquistadores, we have to invent a new world. And we have to recalibrate our strategic compass, with strong historical consciousness, to understand the magnitude of the changes that we will face.”
Anyone up for looting some 21st century Aztec gold?
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2022-12-03 20:45:56+00:00
Exclusive: Twitter Leans on Automation to Moderate Content as Harmful Speech Surges
Elon Musk's Twitter is leaning heavily on automation to moderate content, doing away with certain manual reviews and favoring restrictions on distribution rather than removing certain speech outright, its new head of trust and safety told Reuters.
Twitter is also more aggressively restricting abuse-prone hashtags and search results in areas including child exploitation, regardless of potential impacts on "benign uses" of those terms, said Twitter Vice President of Trust and Safety Product Ella Irwin.
"The biggest thing that's changed is the team is fully empowered to move fast and be as aggressive as possible," Irwin said on Thursday, in the first interview a Twitter executive has given since Musk's acquisition of the social media company in late October.
Her comments come as researchers are reporting a surge in hate speech on the social media service, after Musk announced an amnesty for accounts suspended under the company's previous leadership that had not broken the law or engaged in "egregious spam."
Source: Reuters
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2022-12-03 19:50:38+00:00
Draft NDAA Includes $3 Billion in Annual Military Aid for Taiwan
A draft of the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) includes billions in military aid for Taiwan, but Congress isn’t sure if the funds will be approved, Defense News reported on Thursday.
The funding includes $10 billion in the State Department’s Foreign Military Financing (FMF) program over five years, giving Taiwan $2 billion each year until 2027. It also includes $1 billion in annual presidential drawdown authority, which would allow the US to send Taiwan arms directly from US military stockpiles, the most common method the US is using to arm Taiwan.
While the funding for Taiwan is included in NDAA, members of Congress aren’t sure if it will get past the appropriations committees. Lawmakers say that in order to get the funds for Taiwan, cuts need to be made elsewhere and Democratic appropriators aren’t sure if they want to do that.
Democrats are particularly concerned about cutting the State Department’s budget to fit in the FMF for Taiwan, and it’s not clear if they would be willing to increase the department’s top line.
Source: Antiwar.com
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2022-12-03 18:46:42+00:00
With Iran ‘In Discord,’ The Atlantic Council Says It Wants New Ideas
The Atlantic Council, a leading Washington think-tank, this week announced a new forum to debate the future of Iran and offer policy recommendations.
In a press release December 2, the council said the ‘Iran Strategy Project’ reflected “the unprecedented level of discord and uncertainty in Iran” and was “driven by recent events,” including the “women-led Iranian social movement demanding freedom and autonomy, the near-term potential for a new Supreme Leader, Iran’s evolving role in the region…and the likely end of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).”
The council described the JCPOA – the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, which the US left in 2018 – as “the prism through which US and European policy toward Iran has been based for much of the past decade.”
Founded in 1961, the Atlantic Council stands broadly for a close relationship with Europe and a philosophy of ‘Atlanticism.’ This put it at odds with former president Donald Trump, who ignored European objections in withdrawing the US from the JCPOA and unleashing ‘maximum pressure’ sanctions against Iran. Former journalist Barbara Slavin, who led the Atlantic Council’s work on Iran and will shortly leave, was a prominent advocate of the JCPOA.
While President Joe Biden came to office in 2021 committed to reviving the JCPOA, 18-months of multilateral and bilateral talks saw Washington and Tehran failing to agree how to restore the 2015 agreement, leaving draconian sanctions in place and the Iranian nuclear program expanding. Recent protests in Iran, and Tehran’s military cooperation with Russia, have emboldened enthusiasts of ‘maximum pressure’ and put JCPOA supporters on the back foot.
Source: Iran International
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2022-12-03 18:16:03+00:00
Episode 15: : "America This Week," with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn
Walter and Matt discuss the Twitter Files and Matt's recent Munk Debates appearance
Welcome to America This Week, with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn, the national news wrap-up so true, we recommend you stow all sharp objects before reading.
Listen to subscriber only audio in your podcast app: https://support.substack.com/hc/en-us/articles/4519588148244-How-do-I-listen-to-episodes-on-my-podcast-app-
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2022-12-03 17:55:06+00:00
Maybe Rand Paul will do what needs doing?
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2022-12-03 17:21:01+00:00
Countries Split on Plastics Treaty Focus as UN Talks Close
The first round of negotiations on a global plastics treaty ended on Friday with agreement to end plastic pollution but a split on whether goals and efforts should be global and mandatory, or voluntary and country-led.
More than 2,000 delegates from 160 countries, meeting in Uruguay in the first of a planned five sessions of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC), aim to craft the first legally binding agreement on plastic pollution by the end of 2024.
The negotiations in the coastal city of Punta del Este pitted a "High Ambition Coalition," including European Union members, against countries including the United States and Saudi Arabia, which have the world's top plastic and petrochemical companies.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, saying plastics were "fossil fuels in another form," urged nations to crack down on pollution and production.
"I call on countries to look beyond waste and turn off the tap on plastic," he said on Twitter.
Source: Reuters
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2022-12-03 16:58:31+00:00
Musk Says 'Possible' That Twitter Gave Preference to Leftists During Brazil Election
Twitter owner Elon Musk said on Saturday he thought it was "possible" that personnel at the social media firm gave preference to left-wing candidates during Brazil's election this year, without providing evidence.
Musk completed his acquisition of Twitter on Oct. 27, just days before Brazil's presidential second round runoff vote, when far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro was defeated by leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
"I've seen a lot of concerning tweets about the recent Brazil election," Musk wrote on Twitter when asked by a user about elections possibly "handled" by the company's previous management.
"If those tweets are accurate, it's possible that Twitter personnel gave preference to left wing candidates," added the billionaire.
Bolsonaro earlier this year hosted Musk at a meeting in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo, when he called the U.S. billionaire's takeover of Twitter a "breath of hope" and dubbed him a "legend of liberty".
Source: Yahoo Finance
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2022-12-03 16:25:07+00:00
Zelensky Looks To Ban Christian Denomination With Ties to Moscow
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced he is seeking to ban all religions with ties to Russia. He claims the move is needed to "guarantee spiritual independence to Ukraine."
This law will target millions of Ukrainians who identify as Russian Orthodox.
During his nightly address on Thursday, Zelensky announced he was introducing legislation that would eliminate religious organizations affiliated with Russia from operating in Ukraine. He said this will make "it impossible for religious organizations affiliated with centers of influence in the Russian Federation to operate in Ukraine."
The Ukrainian leader said it was necessary to purge the church to preserve the country’s spiritual independence. Adding, "We will never allow anyone to build an empire inside the Ukrainian soul." Zelensky denounced Ukrainians continuing to attend the parishes as failing to overcome "the temptation of evil."
He claimed a series of recent raids by Kiev’s intelligence found orthodox churches which remain connected with the Moscow Patriarchate have been acting as operatives for the Kremlin. In his address, Zelensky instructed his security forces to further target Russian Orthodox parishes.
Source: Antiwar.com
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2022-12-03 15:56:16+00:00
US Russia Says It Won't Accept Oil Price Cap and is Preparing Response
Russia "will not accept" a price cap on its oil and is analysing how to respond, the Kremlin said in comments reported on Saturday, in response to a deal by Western powers aimed at limiting a key source of funding for its war in Ukraine.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow had made preparations for Friday's price cap announcement by the Group of Seven nations, the European Union and Australia, the Russian state news agency TASS reported.
"We will not accept this cap," RIA news agency quoted him as saying. He added that Russia would conduct a rapid analysis of the agreement and respond after that, RIA reported.
Russia has repeatedly said it will not supply oil to countries that implement the cap - a stance reaffirmed by Mikhail Ulyanov, Moscow's ambassador to international organisations in Vienna, in posts on social media on Saturday.
Source: Reuters
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2022-12-03 15:10:45+00:00
Upcoming: Episode Two of the Twitter Files
Tune in for Episode 2 of The Twitter Files today!
- Banning gender critical accounts
- Banning COVID "misinformation"
- How shadowbanning was used
- Where Twitter lied about what it was doing
- Collusion with other Big Tech re: above
- and the big one: how Trump ban decision was made
Source: Elon Musk, Konstantin Kisin
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2022-12-03 01:40:02+00:00
🚨BREAKING: Matt Taibbi Continuing the Breaking Thread (Part 15)
The problem with the "hacked materials" ruling, several sources said, was that this normally required an official/law enforcement finding of a hack. But such a finding never appears throughout what one executive describes as a "whirlwind" 24-hour, company-wide mess.
It's been a whirlwind 96 hours for me, too. There is much more to come, including answers to questions about issues like shadow-banning, boosting, follower counts, the fate of various individual accounts, and more. These issues are not limited to the political right.
Good night, everyone. Thanks to all those who picked up the phone in the last few days.
Source: Matt Taibbi
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2022-12-03 01:23:08+00:00
🚨BREAKING: Matt Taibbi Continuing the Breaking Thread (Part 14)
There are multiple instances in the files of Dorsey intervening to question suspensions and other moderation actions, for accounts across the political spectrum
Source: Matt Tabbi
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2022-12-03 01:20:27+00:00
🚨BREAKING: Matt Taibbi Continuing the Breaking Thread (Part 13)
An amazing subplot of the Twitter/Hunter Biden laptop affair was how much was done without the knowledge of CEO Jack Dorsey, and how long it took for the situation to get "unfucked" (as one ex-employee put it) even after Dorsey jumped in.
While reviewing Gadde's emails, I saw a familiar name - my own. Dorsey sent her a copy of my Substack article blasting the incident
Source: Matt Taibbi
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2022-12-03 00:55:02+00:00
🚨BREAKING: Matt Taibbi Continuing the Breaking Thread (Part 12)
Twitter files continued:
"THE FIRST AMENDMENT ISN’T ABSOLUTE”
Szabo’s letter contains chilling passages relaying Democratic lawmakers’ attitudes. They want “more” moderation, and as for the Bill of Rights, it's "not absolute"
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2022-12-03 00:49:32+00:00
🚨BREAKING: Matt Taibbi Continuing the Breaking Thread (Part 11)
Within a day, head of Public Policy Lauren Culbertson receives a ghastly letter/report from Carl Szabo of the research firm NetChoice, which had already polled 12 members of congress – 9 Rs and 3 Democrats, from “the House Judiciary Committee to Rep. Judy Chu’s office.”
NetChoice lets Twitter know a “blood bath” awaits in upcoming Hill hearings, with members saying it's a "tipping point," complaining tech has “grown so big that they can’t even regulate themselves, so government may need to intervene.”
Szabo reports to Twitter that some Hill figures are characterizing the laptop story as “tech’s Access Hollywood moment”:
Source: Matt Taibbi
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2022-12-03 00:47:23+00:00
🚨BREAKING: Matt Taibbi Continuing the Breaking Thread (Part 10)
Gadde replies quickly, immediately diving into the weeds of Twitter policy, unaware Khanna is more worried about the Bill of Rights:
Khanna tries to reroute the conversation to the First Amendment, mention of which is generally hard to find in the files:
Source: Matt Taibbi
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2022-12-03 00:45:32+00:00
MONDAY: Living Healthfully & Harmoniously with Tech | Ramiro Romani at General Assembly #68
Join us on Monday, December 5 at 7 pm UTC/GMT (2pm EST) in the WCH Newsroom to hear from Ramiro Romani, who will be giving a presentation on living healthfully and harmoniously with technology in a better way.
Ramiro dropped his corporate career in tech to work on meaningful social movements. He is a core member of the Freedom Cell Network, and co-producer of The Greater Reset.
He is the founder of Take Back Our Tech, an educational initiative that releases free content on how individuals can increase their privacy and security by using friendly technologies.
Recently, Ramiro launched Above Phone, a complete privacy phone solution powered by open-source technologies. Above Phone gives people a way to communicate & exchange privately, while using the apps they love, and getting all the support they need.
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2022-12-03 00:33:34+00:00
🚨BREAKING: Matt Taibbi Continuing the Breaking Thread (Part 9)
To which former Deputy General Counsel Jim Baker again seems to advise staying the non-course, because “caution is warranted”:
A fundamental problem with tech companies and content moderation: many people in charge of speech know/care little about speech, and have to be told the basics by outsiders. To wit:
In one humorous exchange on day 1, Democratic congressman Ro Khanna reaches out to Gadde to gently suggest she hop on the phone to talk about the “backlash re speech.” Khanna was the only Democratic official I could find in the files who expressed concern.
Source: Matt Taibbi
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2022-12-03 00:30:11+00:00
🚨BREAKING: Matt Taibbi Continuing the Breaking Thread (Part 8)
You can see the confusion in the following lengthy exchange, which ends up including Gadde and former Trust and safety chief Yoel Roth. Comms official Trenton Kennedy writes, “I'm struggling to understand the policy basis for marking this as unsafe”:
By this point “everyone knew this was fucked,” said one former employee, but the response was essentially to err on the side of… continuing to err.
Former VP of Global Comms Brandon Borrman asks, “Can we truthfully claim that this is part of the policy?”
Source: Matt Taibbi
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2022-12-03 00:28:03+00:00
🚨BREAKING: Matt Taibbi Continuing the Breaking Thread (Part 7)
Although several sources recalled hearing about a “general” warning from federal law enforcement that summer about possible foreign hacks, there’s no evidence - that I've seen - of any government involvement in the laptop story. In fact, that might have been the problem...
The decision was made at the highest levels of the company, but without the knowledge of CEO Jack Dorsey, with former head of legal, policy and trust Vijaya Gadde playing a key role.
“They just freelanced it,” is how one former employee characterized the decision. “Hacking was the excuse, but within a few hours, pretty much everyone realized that wasn’t going to hold. But no one had the guts to reverse it.”
Source: Matt Taibbi
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2022-12-03 00:27:18+00:00
🚨BREAKING: Matt Taibbi Continuing the Breaking Thread (Part 6)
Although several sources recalled hearing about a “general” warning from federal law enforcement that summer about possible foreign hacks, there’s no evidence - that I've seen - of any government involvement in the laptop story. In fact, that might have been the problem...
The decision was made at the highest levels of the company, but without the knowledge of CEO Jack Dorsey, with former head of legal, policy and trust Vijaya Gadde playing a key role.
“They just freelanced it,” is how one former employee characterized the decision. “Hacking was the excuse, but within a few hours, pretty much everyone realized that wasn’t going to hold. But no one had the guts to reverse it.”
Source: Matt Taibbi
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2022-12-03 00:23:43+00:00
🚨BREAKING: Matt Taibbi Continuing the Breaking Thread (Part 5)
White House spokeswoman Kaleigh McEnany was locked out of her account for tweeting about the story, prompting a furious letter from Trump campaign staffer Mike Hahn, who seethed: “At least pretend to care for the next 20 days.”
This led public policy executive Caroline Strom to send out a polite WTF query. Several employees noted that there was tension between the comms/policy teams, who had little/less control over moderation, and the safety/trust teams:
Strom’s note returned the answer that the laptop story had been removed for violation of the company’s “hacked materials” policy:
https://web.archive.org/web/20190717143909/https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/hacked-materials
Source: Matt Taibbi
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2022-12-03 00:21:17+00:00
🚨BREAKING: Matt Taibbi Continuing the Breaking Thread (Part 4)
The resulting slant in content moderation decisions is visible in the documents you’re about to read. However, it’s also the assessment of multiple current and former high-level executives.
Okay, there was more throat-clearing about the process, but screw it, let's jump forward
The Twitter Files, Part One: How and Why Twitter Blocked the Hunter Biden Laptop Story
On October 14, 2020, the New York Post published BIDEN SECRET EMAILS, an expose based on the contents of Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop:
https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-biz-man-to-dad/
Twitter took extraordinary steps to suppress the story, removing links and posting warnings that it may be “unsafe.” They even blocked its transmission via direct message, a tool hitherto reserved for extreme cases, e.g. child pornography.
Source: Matt Taibbi
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2022-12-03 00:06:44+00:00
🚨BREAKING: Matt Taibbi Continuing the Breaking Thread (Part 3)
By 2020, requests from connected actors to delete tweets were routine. One executive would write to another: “More to review from the Biden team.” The reply would come back: “Handled.”
Both parties had access to these tools. For instance, in 2020, requests from both the Trump White House and the Biden campaign were received and honored. However:
This system wasn't balanced. It was based on contacts. Because Twitter was and is overwhelmingly staffed by people of one political orientation, there were more channels, more ways to complain, open to the left (well, Democrats) than the right.
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/twitter/summary?id=D000067113
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2022-12-03 00:03:34+00:00
🚨BREAKING: Matt Taibbi Continuing the Breaking Thread (Part 2)
By 2020, requests from connected actors to delete tweets were routine. One executive would write to another: “More to review from the Biden team.” The reply would come back: “Handled.”
Source: Matt Taibbi
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2022-12-03 00:01:01+00:00
Matt: Note to Readers: Its about to Get Weird
Dear TK Readers:
Very shortly, I’m going to begin posting a long thread of information on Twitter, at my account, @mtaibbi. This material is likely to get a lot of attention. I will absolutely understand if subscribers are angry that it is not appearing here on Substack first. I’d be angry, too.
The last 96 hours have been among the most chaotic of my life, involving multiple trips back and forth across the country, with a debate in Canada in between. There’s a long story I hope to be able to tell soon, but can’t, not quite yet anyway. What I can say is that in exchange for the opportunity to cover a unique and explosive story, I had to agree to certain conditions.
Those of you who’ve been here for years know how seriously I take my obligation to this site’s subscribers. On this one occasion, I’m going to have to simply ask you to trust me. As it happens, there may be a few more big surprises coming, and those will be here on Substack. And there will be room here to to discuss this, too, in time. In any case, thanks for your support and your patience, and please hold me to a promise to make all this up to you, and then some.
Source: Matt Taibbi
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2022-12-02 23:52:27+00:00
🚨BREAKING: The Twitter Files: Here We Go(Part 1)🍿🍿
What you’re about to read is the first installment in a series, based upon thousands of internal documents obtained by sources at Twitter.
The “Twitter Files” tell an incredible story from inside one of the world’s largest and most influential social media platforms. It is a Frankensteinian tale of a human-built mechanism grown out the control of its designer.
Twitter in its conception was a brilliant tool for enabling instant mass communication, making a true real-time global conversation possible for the first time. In an early conception, Twitter more than lived up to its mission statement, giving people “the power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers.”
As time progressed, however, the company was slowly forced to add those barriers. Some of the first tools for controlling speech were designed to combat the likes of spam and financial fraudsters.
Slowly, over time, Twitter staff and executives began to find more and more uses for these tools. Outsiders began petitioning the company to manipulate speech as well: first a little, then more often, then constantly....
Source: Elon Musk, Matt Taibbi
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2022-12-02 23:33:19+00:00
US Federal Government Pays $5M for Software to Turn Citizens Into Online “Misinformation” Responders
Journalism group Hacks/Hackers was awarded $5 million by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop software that would encourage ordinary Americans to warn their friends and family about misinformation in their online speech. Users of the software would confront alleged misinformation by replying with text recommended by the software.
Hacks/Hackers has been tasked with developing the “Analysis and Response Toolkit for Trust (ARTT), a suite of expert-informed resources that are intended to provide guidance and encouragement to individuals and communities as they address contentious or difficult topics online,” the NSF group said in an October 24 article.
According to a video demonstration of the software, the tool will tell users if a social media post is “harmful” and, if it is, it “suggests relevant responses through tailored response examples or templates” that users can copy and paste as responses.
The group led by Hacks/Hackers is also working on Wikipedia tools, which will determine those that are a “credible source” on Covid vaccines and prevent sources that are not credible from being cited on Wikipedia.
Another video by ARTT claimed that social media efforts to fight misinformation are not as effective in influencing users’ views as efforts made by friends.
“That’s why we want to focus on these peer connections when it comes to having these conversations online … Instead of coming to you from the platform, it’s actually coming to you from a friend,” the video said.
Source: Reclaim The Net
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2022-12-02 22:18:33+00:00
🚨BREAKING: Elon Musk To Imminently Reveal Details on Hunter Biden
"What really happened with the Hunter Biden story suppression by Twitter will be published on Twitter at 5pm ET!" Musk said at 3:39 EST, followed by 2 more tweets.
It is 17 minutes past due. While some joke he got Clinton'd, others anxiously await a fashionably late bombshell.
Update: Elon tweeted at 5:21, "We’re double-checking some facts, so probably start live tweeting in about 40 mins"[New Projected start time is 6:PM]
Source: Elon Musk
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2022-12-02 21:55:09+00:00
🚨BREAKING: The Global South and BRICS Births a New Game-changing Payment System
The Eurasia Economic Union (EAEU) is speeding up its design of a common payment system, which has been closely discussed for nearly a year with the Chinese under the stewardship of Sergey Glazyev, the EAEU’s minister in charge of Integration and Macro-economy.
Through its regulatory body, the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC), the EAEU has just extended a very serious proposal to the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) which, crucially, are already on the way to turning into BRICS+: a sort of G20 of the Global South.
The system will include a single payment card – in direct competition with Visa and Mastercard – merging the already existing Russian MIR, China’s UnionPay, India’s RuPay, Brazil’s Elo, and others.
That will represent a direct challenge to the western-designed (and enforced) monetary system, head on. And it comes on the heels of BRICS members already transacting their bilateral trade in local currencies, and bypassing the US dollar.
This EAEU-BRICS union was long in the making – and will now also move toward prefiguring a further geoeconomic merger with the member nations of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).
The EAEU was established in 2015 as a customs union of Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus, joined a year later by Armenia and Kyrgyzstan. Vietnam is already an EAEU free trade partner, and recently enshrined SCO member Iran is also clinching a deal.
The EAEU is designed to implement free movement of goods, services, capital, and workers between member countries. Ukraine would have been an EAEU member if not for the Maidan coup in 2014 masterminded by the Barack Obama administration.
Source: The Cradle
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2022-12-02 21:31:35+00:00
Russia Says US, NATO Directly Involved in Ukraine War
The US and NATO are directly involved in the war in Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Thursday.
“You shouldn’t say that the US and NATO aren’t taking part in this war. You are directly participating in it,” Lavrov said at a press conference.
“And not just by providing weapons but also by training personnel. You are training their military on your territory, on the territories of Britain, Germany, Italy, and other countries,” he added.
Lavrov made the comments while defending Russian strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure, which have left millions of civilians without power and heat as temperatures are dropping. He said that Russia is “disabling” energy infrastructure that allows the US and NATO to “pump Ukraine with deadly weapons to kill Russians”
Lavrov also warned that any conventional war between nuclear-armed powers comes with a huge risk of nuclear escalation. He said that any war between nuclear powers is “unacceptable.”
“Even if someone plans to start it by conventional means, the risk of escalation into a nuclear war will be enormous,” Lavrov added.
Source: Antiwar.com
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2022-12-02 20:59:56+00:00
FBI met weekly with Big Tech ahead of the 2020 election, agent testifies | Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-weekly-big-tech-ahead-2020-election-agent-testifies
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2022-12-02 20:31:07+00:00
Everything We Learned From the Sam Bankman-Fried Interview
The New York Times’s DealBook newsletter held its annual conference in New York on Wednesday, capped by a dramatic interview with Sam Bankman-Fried, the fallen crypto mogul.
It was Mr. Bankman-Fried’s first public appearance since the collapse of his cryptocurrency empire, which included FTX, the crypto exchange, and its trading arm, Alamada Research. The Times’s Andrew Ross Sorkin interviewed him for over an hour in a discussion that generated headlines and tweets around the world.
S.B.F., as he’s known, addressed many questions (and dodged a bunch, too) about how his business went bust last month, a multibillion-dollar meltdown that could take years to sort through in bankruptcy courts. The ordeal has also wiped out much of his personal wealth. As he spoke, it became increasingly clear that the lost fortunes won’t be recovered. Ultimately, he said, he “screwed up."
- He said he “didn’t knowingly commingle” FTX customer funds with those of Alameda Research, the exchange’s trading arm, which served as a market maker on FTX, facilitating customer transactions and making its own very risky leveraged bets.
- He denied he had knowingly committed fraud. “I did not ever try to commit fraud on anyone,” he said.
- He said that he did not realize what a dangerous position the firms were in until it was too late.
- He admitted that big mistakes were made, including poor if not nonexistent risk management and no oversight to protect customer accounts.
- He said that he was telling the truth — or that he was not aware of bending it. “I don’t know of times when I lied,” he told The Times, and said he “was as truthful as I’m knowledgeable to be.”
- He said the political donations he had made, which filings showed amounted to $40 million, were not meant as an attempt to buy access to lawmakers.
- He appears to have ignored legal advice to stay quiet as several countries continue to investigate the implosion of his firms
Full Interview Transcript.
Source: New York Times
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2022-12-02 19:55:08+00:00
China Mandates Social Credit System for Social Media, Will Track “Likes” on “Harmful” Content
https://www.activistpost.com/2022/12/china-mandates-social-credit-system-for-social-media-will-track-likes-on-harmful-content.html
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2022-12-02 19:25:11+00:00
Bitcoin Family is Moving More Than $1 Million Into Decentralized Exchanges After Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX Disaster
Ever since liquidating all of their assets and buying bitcoin in 2017 back when it was trading at around $900, the Taihuttus have safeguarded their crypto riches in three main places: centralized exchanges, or CEXs, such as Bybit and Kraken; decentralized exchanges, or DEXs, such as Uniswap; and hardware wallets hidden in secret vaults on four different continents.
But as digital asset brokers, lenders, and exchanges continue to fall into bankruptcy — locking up customer funds in the process — the Dutch family of five is proactively moving $1 million in crypto into DEXs, which allow users to hang on to custody of their tokens.
“For me, bitcoin is still about freedom, and decentralized currency should be able to be used by everyone in the world without needing to do KYC or any other regulatory stuff,” Didi Taihuttu told CNBC, referring to the know-your-customer, or KYC compliance, required by many centralized platforms such as Coinbase. DEXs don’t require users to connect an ID or bank account to the platform, hence making it an ideal custody solution for the Taihuttus.
While the Taihuttus did not have any tokens tied up with FTX, Celsius, Voyager Digital, or any of the other platforms that recently went under, the wave of failures did remind them of the importance of ownership.
In crypto, one of the mantras is “not your keys, not your coins,” meaning that rightful possession of tokens comes through the custody of the corresponding private keys. DEXs such as Uniswap and SushiSwap are peer-to-peer platforms where transactions happen directly between traders, entirely cutting out intermediaries such as banks and brokers. That means that users retain custody of their tokens by never handing over their private keys.
DEXs eliminate centralized intermediaries from financial transactions such as trading, holding and transferring assets through programmable pieces of code known as smart contracts. These contracts are written on a public blockchain such as ethereum, and execute when certain conditions are met, negating the need for a central intermediary.
In essence, with DEXs, you trust code, and with CEXs, you trust people.
That nuance of ownership is critical, “If the DEX collapses, it doesn’t matter, because the bitcoin are always in your own wallet,” he added. From the beginning, Taihuttu said he could tell something was “really off” with FTX, even though it was one of the biggest CEXs on the planet before it imploded in November.
“Too many influencers were paid too much money to promote that one,” said Taihuttu, who added that reliable crypto products and companies typically don’t rely so heavily on celebrity endorsements.
Taihuttu had learned his lesson in 2017, when he lost four bitcoin to a hack of a centralized exchange known as Cryptopia.
“From that moment, I was always searching for alternatives,” he said.
Taihuttu said he ultimately wants to move 100% of the family’s crypto savings into DEXs and invest 15% of their net worth into upstart DEXs since he sees these decentralized platforms as the centerpiece of the next bull run.
Source: CNBC
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2022-12-02 18:58:31+00:00
The hypocrisy (and futility) of focusing on "The Jews" — You don't like it when social justice warriors blame all the ills of society on white people, but how is blaming the Jews any different? You can point to their disproportionate representation in certain fields and positions of power, but any black or brown person could use the same logic to say the same about whites. These same people who constantly bring up the "Jewish question" point to the fact that most modern Jews are Ashkenazi, and their genetic origins trace to western and southern Europe (not the Middle East), but they never seem to consider the implications: If Ashkenazis are European, then the only thing that sets them apart from non-Jewish "whites" is their culture and beliefs. You can fault them for showing loyalty and preference for their tribe, but the truth of the matter is that all cultures do this to some degree. The grand irony is that demonizing a culture only strengthens the tribal instinct. In the same way that social justice nonsense has actually pushed white people to defend their race, the demonization of Jews over the millennia has only served to strengthen their identity.
Now here comes the tricky part. Many who dive deep down the rabbit hole come across evidence of a satanic cult that traces back to biblical times. The worship of Baal and the sacrifice of children is historical fact. A contingent of the Israelites joined this cult and were corrupted by it. Some families passed this evil down through the generations. However to call this cult Jewish is intellectually dishonest. Anyone who has researched this topic thoroughly knows that the satanic network I am referring to has infiltrated every major religion and has members of every race and ethnicity. The real enemy is the spiritual force that unifies them. Failure to understand this plays into their hands.
Which brings us to the elephant in the room: what exactly do people hope to accomplish by focusing on the ethnicity of some of the bad guys? What course of action would they hope to inspire? Nothing good comes from this line of thought. If an entire people can be framed as a problem, the "solution" is always going to be ugly. You can't take down an Italian mafia by going after all Italians. You can't take down a Mexican cartel by arresting all Mexicans. You can't take down a neo-nazi gang by locking up all whites. And you certainly can't take down the globalist cabal by demonizing Jews. Real justice holds individuals and organizations responsible for the crimes they actually commit. Anything else is injustice; a crime in and of itself.
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2022-12-02 18:25:05+00:00
Rising Cost Of European Energy Makes EV Battery Plants "Unfeasible", VW Exec Says
We've already written this month about how the "tax break" incentive to buy an EV is starting to vaporize into thin air in places like Japan and the U.K.. Now, the irony continues, as rising costs of energy in Europe, helped along by "green" energy policies, are making industrial projects like battery cell factories "unfeasible".
Volkswagen brand CEO Thomas Schaefer said this week that investments in German and EU projects will no longer make financial sense if "policy makers fail to control ballooning energy prices in the long-term", according to the Times.
In a post on LinkedIn, Schaefer said: “Unless we manage to reduce energy prices in Germany and Europe quickly and reliably, investments in energy-intensive production or new battery cell factories in Germany and the EU will be practically unviable. The value creation in this area will take place elsewhere.”
Last week, French and German economy ministers proposed an outline for policy cooperation that Schaefer claims “falls short in crucial areas and does not address the envisaged priorities”, the report says.
“Outdated and bureaucratic state-aid rules” fail to focus enough on “the short-term ramp-up, scaling and industrialisation of production," he said.
The report says that EU officials are focused on responding to President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, which they say "violates World Trade Organisation rules and discriminates against non-US companies."
Meanwhile, Volkswagen is in the process of putting 6 battery factories in operation across Europe by the year 2030, the report says. The company's lead plant in Germany broke ground this July and already has a €3bn (R53bn) joint venture with Umicore in place for cathode material production.
Recall, just days ago, we reported that the UK was looking to raise more tax revenue from electric vehicles, shattering the years-long assumption that if you contributed to "helping the environment" by buying an EV, you'd be entitled to subsidies and tax credits.
Now Japan's internal affairs ministry is reportedly weighing whether or not to raise taxes on electric vehicles in order to make up for a shortfall in income from taxes on traditional gas powered cars.
And so it's turning out that the economics of an industry pivot set into motion almost solely due to government subsidization may not entirely make sense. Who would have figured?
Source: Zerohedge
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2022-12-02 17:25:04+00:00
Biden Says He Has ‘No Immediate Plans’ to Contact Putin
President Biden said Thursday that he has no plans to contact Russian President Vladimir Putin but that he’d be willing to talk with the Russian leader if he was prepared to end the war in Ukraine.
“I have no immediate plans to contact Mr. Putin,” Biden said at a joint press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron, who is visiting the White House. “I’m prepared to speak with Mr. Putin if in fact there is an interest in him deciding he’s looking for a way to end the war. He hasn’t done that yet.”
Russia has maintained that it’s open to talks with the US and Ukraine about the war, but there’s little chance Putin and Biden would be anywhere close on what they think is an acceptable peace deal to end the fighting.
Biden has not held any talks with Putin since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, unlike Macron, who has maintained a dialogue with the Russian leader. Macron reaffirmed that he would continue speaking with Putin to “try to prevent escalation and to get some very concrete results.”
When asked on Thursday about a potential Biden-Putin meeting, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Moscow never “shuns dialogue,” pointing to talks with Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. “Anyone who wishes to hold a telephone conversation has the opportunity to do so — our president communicates with everyone without any time constraints,” he said.
Source: Antiwar.com
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2022-12-02 15:25:05+00:00
Airbus Says to Decouple From Russian Titanium 'in Months'
Airbus (AIR.PA) will halt its reliance on Russia for titanium supplies within months, a senior executive said on Thursday.
Russia is the largest producer of titanium, a strategic metal prized for its strength relative to its weight. It is used mainly in aircraft engines and landing gear for large planes.
"We are in the process of decoupling from Russia when it comes to titanium. It will be a matter of months not years," Michael Schoellhorn, chief executive Airbus Defence & Space, said.
"I cannot give you a precise date; it is a relatively complex process with certification and everything else that aviation calls for, but it will happen," the former Airbus operations chief told a company sustainability briefing.
The European Union has so far avoided banning Russian commodities other than steel and coal, and titanium remains exempt from restrictions imposed after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which Moscow calls a special operation
Airbus has said it is trying to identify alternative supplies, while rival Boeing (BA.N) says it has suspended titanium purchases from Russia.
Industry sources say it has expanded purchases from the United States and Japan while exploring new sources. Certifying new suppliers to stringent aerospace standards can take years.
Source: Reuters
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2022-12-02 13:25:06+00:00
Wikileaks Website is Struggling to Stay Online—as Millions of Documents Disappear
WikiLeaks’ website appears to be coming apart at the seams, with more and more of the organization’s content unavailable without explanation.
WikiLeaks technical issues, which have been ongoing for months, have gotten worse in recent weeks as increasingly larger portions of its website no longer function. Even attempting to visit wikileaks.org is a gamble in itself, often producing a 502 message that indicates an error was detected on the website’s server.
When the website does become available, problems still abound. The main banner on WikiLeaks, which includes the organization’s logo as well as links to subdomains such as the “About” page, has been entirely missing since earlier this month. A similar banner at the bottom of the page, which once showed links to sites for Bitcoin and the Tor Project, is now gone as well.
A search bar that once scoured the site for information also appears to no longer work and instead redirects users to the homepage.
But the biggest issue relates to WikiLeaks’ entire purpose: Leaks.
Many of the group’s leaks have either vanished or become inaccessible to the public. Of the seven leaks highlighted on the homepage, three produce no content. Two of those redirect to error pages while the third merely sends users back to the homepage.
Some of the organization’s most prominent leaks have also been affected. A cache of more than 1 million emails from Hacking Team released in 2015, the now-defunct Italian surveillance vendor, are gone. An archive of tens of thousands of emails from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email are inaccessible. The Democratic National Committee emails, provided to WikiLeaks ahead of the 2016 election by Russian state entities posing as rogue hackers, are similarly missing.
Although WikiLeaks long boasted that it released more than 10 million documents in 10 years, at current, less than 3,000 documents remain accessible, according to an analysis by the Daily Dot of the website’s leaks archive. The issues have become so apparent that supporters of the group are now voicing concerns across social media.
In a post on the WikiLeaks subreddit over the weekend, one user complained that every search request made on the website produced an error message.
“The site is completely down for me,” another responded. “All I get is a ‘502 bad gateway’ error.”
Source: Daily Dot
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2022-12-02 08:22:29+00:00
Headlines of The Day:
Ukraine/NATO/Russia
1. Report: US Considers ‘Dramatically’ Expanding Training of Ukrainian Forces
2. Exhibit A on Why NATO Should Never Have Expanded
US Domestic
1. Elon Musk: Twitter ‘Has Interfered in Elections’
2. Florida Pulls $2 BLN From Blackrock in Largest Anti-ESG Divestment
3. 13 Attorneys General Oppose Investor’s ESG Utility Application for Blanket Authorization; Consumers “would be harmed”
Economy and Finance
1. U.S. Treasury's Adeyemo Calls for Global Cooperation on Crypto Regulations
2. Florida Pulls $2 BLN From Blackrock in Largest Anti-ESG Divestment
3. 13 Attorneys General Oppose Investor’s ESG Utility Application for Blanket Authorization; Consumers “would be harmed”
Covid
1. China Quarantine Camp Set on fire in Lanzhou City
2. Vaccine Adverse Events Are Caused By "Scaremongering & Fear?
3. Whitney Webb Exposes Crypto Billionaires Who Bankrolled Event 201
Digital Dystopia
1. Neuralink Brain Chip to Begin Human Trials in 6 Months -Musk
2. Elon Musk: Twitter ‘Has Interfered in Elections’
3. UK Regulator Appoints Former Google Exec as “Online Safety” Head After Online Censorship Bill is Reintroduced
4. Elizabeth Warren on Elon Musk's changes to Twitter: "One human being should not be able to go into a dark room by himself and decide 'Oh, that person gets heard from, that person doesn’t.' That's not how it should work
5. Apple CEO Tim Cook Has NOTHING to Say About the People's Protest Happening in China
Kanye West Shit Show
1. Ye (Kanye West): "I like Hitler, the Holocaust is not what happened, let's look at the facts of that. Hitler has a lot of redeeming qualities."
2. Kanye West: 'I see good things about Hitler'
3. Alex Jones / Kanye West FULL INTERVIEW
4. Kanye Talks to Prop Netanyahu on Alex Jones Interview
5. Kanye West: "I love Jewish people, but I Also Love Nazis", "I have to disagree with that" - Alex Jones
6. Fauci: Data 'Strongly Indicates' Covid-19 Is From a Natural Occurrence
7. Elon Musk has suspended Kanye West from Twitter.
8. Elon Musk says Rapper Kanye West's Twitter account will be suspended again as Kanye violated Twitter's rule against "incitement to violence"
9. Kanye West Vows to Stand by Balenciaga Despite Huge Backlash After Controversial Campaign
10. Kanye West Suspended From Twitter After Posting Swastika Inside the Star of David, Sparks Free Speech Debate
Misc
1. Physicists Create a Holographic Wormhole Using a Quantum Computer
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2022-12-02 07:49:34+00:00
Kanye West Suspended From Twitter After Posting Swastika Inside the Star of David, Sparks Free Speech Debate
Hours after drawing outrage for making statements such as "I like Hitler", Kanye Posted a Swastica Inscribed in a star of David.
The swastika/star of David symbol posting is what led to Elon Musk suspending Kanye, which Musk claimed was an incitement of violent. After his suspension, Kanye leaked screenshots of Musk privately texting him after the swastika/star of david tweet, saying "Sorry, but you have gone too far, This is not love." followed by a picture of Kanye's Swastika tweet. Kanye asked, "Who made you the judge"
This sparked debate at to what is incitement for violence. While Kanye said "I also love Nazis too" and "I like Hitler" today, many users asserted that he did not call for violence, and challenged the notion that it was an incitement for violence.
Ye's suspension comes around a month after the multibillionaire Musk, who has described himself as a “free speech absolutist", bought Twitter for $44 billion.
Clint Russel would respond to Musk saying he tried his best, but had to suspend Kanye:
"How is saying "love everyone" an incitement to violence? A symbol holds more power than the words themselves?
Would a photo from WW2 be considered incitement? So bizarre
Come on, man
Free speech or bust"
The photo shows the symbol on a computer program, insinuating he made it himself.
Users began pointing out that the symbol is an old symbol for a "UFO Sex cult", Raelism, which believes aliens called the Elohim created humanity, and will return to establish a one world government.
Some speculated he intentionally posted the Raelian symbol to prove a point:
"Kanye posted the Raëlian UFO cult logo in Adobe as if he designed it in present context, and everyone is too ignorant to realize it was a trap to prove Elon is a hypocrite."
Others dismissed this idea: "It's interesting, but symbols have multiple interpretations in context and it doesn't mean raelian in this context."
"He just likes the design. Bringing two opposing symbols together, furthering his I don't Hate anyone / I love everyone thing. Honestly lame reason for Elon to ban. Any normal account could post this symbol and not get banned."
Cassandra Fairbanks commented on the Free Speech Front:
"Praising someone who killed people is an incitement to violence? I sure hope you have never said anything nice about a US politician.
He was offensive. He did not incite violence. Grow a pair."
Source: The Gaurdian, Elon Musk
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2022-12-02 05:56:29+00:00
Kanye West Vows to Stand by Balenciaga Despite Huge Backlash After Controversial Campaign
Kanye West has publicly supported Balenciaga despite severe criticism following the luxury fashion brand's controversial campaign.
The Spanish brand, which was founded in 1919, came under fire after a global campaign featured children holding teddy bear bags accessorised with bondage gear and documents referencing a Supreme Court ruling that upheld a law that criminalises child sexual abuse images.
The fashion house pulled the controversial campaign last Tuesday (November 22) amid a severe online backlash and deleted the disturbing photoshoot from Instagram.
The comments on Twitter come hot off the back of his interview with right-wing radio host Alex Jones on Infowars, where he repeatedly praised Adolf Hitler and admitted he "sees good things" and "likes" the Nazi leader.Jones tried to defended the rapper before Kanye insisted he admired Hitler.
Source: The Mirror
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2022-12-02 05:44:53+00:00
Elon Musk says Rapper Kanye West's Twitter account will be suspended again as Kanye violated Twitter's rule against "incitement to violence"
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2022-12-02 05:44:20+00:00
JUST IN: Elon Musk has suspended Kanye West from Twitter.
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2022-12-02 03:55:05+00:00
Exhibit A on Why NATO Should Never Have Expanded
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2022-12-02 03:42:58+00:00
Fauci: Data 'Strongly Indicates' Covid-19 Is From a Natural Occurrence
"How high of a priority do you think it is to understand COVID origins? What do we know so far? And how important is it in the understanding of how this pandemic evolved and how to prevent a future one from happening?" asked The Washington Post.
"I think it's very important," replied Fauci. "There's this debate of whether it's a lab leak from something that was going on in a Chinese lab or a natural occurrence. The data that has been accumulated and published in highly respected peer-reviewed journals ... strongly indicate that this is a natural occurrence."
H/T: Fox News
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2022-12-02 03:41:06+00:00
Kanye West: "I love Jewish people, but I Also Love Nazis", "I have to disagree with that" - Alex Jones
He had Alex Jones stress laughing you know how crazy that is
Source: Lightworks
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2022-12-02 02:55:05+00:00
Apple CEO Tim Cook Has NOTHING to Say About the People's Protest Happening in China
"Do you support the Chinese people's right to protest?" asked Fox News.
Tim Cook: *Silence*
"Do you regret restricting AirDrop access that protesters used to evade surveillance from the Chinese government?"
Tim Cook: *Silence*
"Do you think it's problematic to do business with the Communist Chinese party when they suppress human rights?"
Tim Cook: *Silence*
So Apple now aligns against freedom of speech AND human rights. What would you expect from a company that has exploited Chinese labor for so long?
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2022-12-02 02:25:07+00:00
Physicists Create a Holographic Wormhole Using a Quantum Computer
Physicists have purportedly created the first-ever wormhole, a kind of tunnel theorized in 1935 by Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen that leads from one place to another by passing into an extra dimension of space.
The wormhole emerged like a hologram out of quantum bits of information, or “qubits,” stored in tiny superconducting circuits. By manipulating the qubits, the physicists then sent information through the wormhole, they reported today in the journal Nature.
The team, led by Maria Spiropulu of the California Institute of Technology, implemented the novel “wormhole teleportation protocol” using Google’s quantum computer, a device called Sycamore housed at Google Quantum AI in Santa Barbara, California. With this first-of-its-kind “quantum gravity experiment on a chip,” as Spiropulu described it, she and her team beat a competing group of physicists who aim to do wormhole teleportation with IBM and Quantinuum’s quantum computers.
When Spiropulu saw the key signature indicating that qubits were passing through the wormhole, she said, “I was shaken.”
The experiment can be seen as evidence for the holographic principle, a sweeping hypothesis about how the two pillars of fundamental physics, quantum mechanics and general relativity, fit together. Physicists have strived since the 1930s to reconcile these disjointed theories — one, a rulebook for atoms and subatomic particles, the other, Einstein’s description of how matter and energy warp the space-time fabric, generating gravity. The holographic principle, ascendant since the 1990s, posits a mathematical equivalence or “duality” between the two frameworks. It says the bendy space-time continuum described by general relativity is really a quantum system of particles in disguise. Space-time and gravity emerge from quantum effects much as a 3D hologram projects out of a 2D pattern.
Source: Quantamagazine
Additional Reading: Breakthrough wormhole simulation may unite quantum physics and general relativity
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2022-12-02 01:55:09+00:00
Elizabeth Warren on Elon Musk's changes to Twitter: "One human being should not be able to go into a dark room by himself and decide 'Oh, that person gets heard from, that person doesn’t.' That's not how it should work."
"It's a private company they can do what they want", until they're not doing what they want?
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2022-12-02 01:25:07+00:00
UK Regulator Appoints Former Google Exec as “Online Safety” Head After Online Censorship Bill is Reintroduced
A former Google executive will play a key role in developing new “online safety” rules in the United Kingdom (UK) as a new censorship and surveillance law is expected to come into force.
Gill Whitehead, who was previously a member of Google’s UK Management Group and previously led Google’s consumer and market insights function across several continents, was appointed as the Group Director of Online Safety at the UK communications regulator, Office of Communications (Ofcom), yesterday.
The appointment was announced days after the UK government reintroduced the “Online Safety Bill” — a censorship and surveillance law that will empower Ofcom to levy huge fines against Big Tech firms that fail to enforce the censorship rules in their terms of service consistently.
Whitehead will start leading Ofcom’s Online Safety Group from April 2023 as it starts preparing new rules that will “hold tech firms to account for prioritising their users’ safety.”
Bloomberg reports that Whitehead’s appointment is part of a trend of Ofcom being increasingly led by former Big Tech executives with Whitehead set to work alongside former Amazon and Meta executives.
While the reintroduced Online Safety Bill has dropped some controversial provisions that required platforms to censor “legal but harmful” content, many problematic aspects still remain.
Source: Reclaim The Net
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2022-12-02 01:24:53+00:00
Whitney Webb Exposes Crypto Billionaires Who Bankrolled Event 201 ☝️
SBF, Financial Crimes, COVID + Con Artists with Dr. Jessica Rose on #CHDTV
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2022-12-02 00:25:13+00:00
Believe it or not this was struke down by YouTube before I even published it!
People may not know but humans are rarely involved in the process of removing content on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. It's largely an AI driven process.
In this case, this balanced piece was removed resulting in a 2 week ban for us here at The Pulse.
This is the larger problem with AI and tech running censorship: it's going to make mistakes constantly, and there is nothing we can do about it.
These companies should not be attempting to tackle "misinformation" because they cannot possibly do a good job of it.
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2022-12-01 23:55:04+00:00
Report: US Considers ‘Dramatically’ Expanding Training of Ukrainian Forces
The US is considering “dramatically” increasing its training of Ukrainian forces, CNN reported on Wednesday, citing unnamed US officials.
The plan under consideration would aim to train up to 2,500 Ukrainian troops each month at a US base in Germany. The report said that since Russia invaded, the US has only trained a few thousand Ukrainians to use specific weapons systems.
The new training program would be more sophisticated and would include infantry maneuvers and the use of artillery systems. Ukrainians have been receiving similar training in Poland and Britain. The British started an infantry program over the summer with the goal of training 10,000 Ukrainian troops.
The new training program was requested by Ukraine and is still under review by the Biden administration. If approved, the training would likely take place at a US base in Grafenwoehr, Germany.
The potential training program is another sign that the US plans to provide long-term support for Kyiv. The US is set to open a command in Germany dedicated entirely to overseeing the arming and training of Ukraine’s forces that will be headed by a three-star general.
Source: Antiwar.com
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2022-12-01 23:26:03+00:00
Kanye Talks to Prop Netanyahu on Alex Jones Interview
Here is Kanye talking to a prop "Bibi Netanyahu" he brought with him. Unbelievably, this is one of the more tame parts of the interview.
Source: Ben Collins
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2022-12-01 23:12:59+00:00
Alex Jones / Kanye West FULL INTERVIEW
https://odysee.com/@RonGibsonChannel:0/20221201-ALEX-JONES-FULL-720p:3
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2022-12-01 22:30:14+00:00
Kanye West: 'I see good things about Hitler'
Alex Jones: "You're not Hitler. You're not a Nazi."
Ye: "Well, I see good things about Hitler, also. Every human being has value that they brought to the table, especially Hitler."
Source: Greg Price
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2022-12-01 22:17:37+00:00
Ye (Kanye West): "I like Hitler, the Holocaust is not what happened, let's look at the facts of that. Hitler has a lot of redeeming qualities."
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2022-12-01 21:55:09+00:00
13 Attorneys General Oppose Investor’s ESG Utility Application for Blanket Authorization; Consumers “would be harmed”
https://www.activistpost.com/2022/12/13-attorneys-general-oppose-investors-esg-utility-application-for-blanket-authorization-consumers-would-be-harmed.html
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2022-12-01 21:35:07+00:00
Florida Pulls $2 BLN From Blackrock in Largest Anti-ESG Divestment
Florida's Chief Financial Officer said on Thursday his department would pull $2 billion worth of its assets managed by BlackRock Inc (BLK.N), the biggest such divestment by a state opposed to the asset manager's environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) policies.
The move will hardly dent BlackRock's $8 trillion in assets and drew a strong response from the company, which said the action put politics over investor interests. Nonetheless it underscores how a backlash among many Republican leaders, such as those in Florida, against ESG investing, which they see as promoting a "woke agenda" is gathering steam.
Republicans are set to assume control of the U.S. House of Representatives in January. This will allow them to hold hearings on ESG and grill the chief executives of BlackRock and other major assets managers about their ESG policies, and also pressure regulators to scrutinize them.
In a statement, Florida CFO Jimmy Patronis said the state's Treasury, which he oversees, would remove BlackRock as manager of about $600 million of short-term investments and have its custodian freeze $1.43 billion of long-term securities now with BlackRock, with an eye on reallocating the money to other money managers by the start of 2023.
Source: Reuters
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2022-12-01 21:15:05+00:00
China Quarantine Camp Set on fire in Lanzhou City
#Covid quarantine camp in #Lanzhou city, #Gansu province #CCPChina set on fire by somebody.
When people decide to fight back, there are many ways, just as #XiJinping said, “Don’t mess with Chinese people, or it won’t end well.”
Source: Jennifer Zeng
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2022-12-01 20:55:08+00:00
Elon Musk: Twitter ‘Has Interfered in Elections’
Twitter owner Elon Musk on Wednesday wrote that the social media company’s previous management “interfered in elections” after the former head of its security team lobbed accusations against the Tesla CEO.
In a Twitter thread on a Reuters report in which Yoel Roth—Twitter’s former head of trust and safety—said Twitter is not safer now, a user wrote that “Twitter has shown itself to be not safe for the past 10 years and has lost users’ trust” and the “past team of ‘trust and safety’ is a disgrace, so it doesn’t have any right to judge what is being done now.”
Musk then replied, “Exactly. The obvious reality, as long-time users know, is that Twitter has failed in trust & safety for a very long time and has interfered in elections.”
“Twitter 2.0 will be far more effective, transparent and even-handed,” he claimed. He did not elaborate on how Twitter interfered in elections, although Republicans have long said that the social media outlet censored and banned conservatives, including former President Donald Trump.
Source: The Epoch Times
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2022-12-01 20:25:08+00:00
Neuralink Brain Chip to Begin Human Trials in 6 Months -Musk
STORY: "He's not actually using a keyboard. He's moving the cursor with his mind..."
At Elon Musk's much-awaited “show and tell” event for his brain-implant company Neuralink, the world's richest person shared video of a monkey typing telepathically, as he seeks to begin clinical trials for a wireless brain chip in human beings.
"The monkeys actually enjoy doing the demos, and they get the banana smoothie and it's kind of a fun game."
The billionaire said he expects approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to conduct human trials in six months, after the company missed earlier timelines set by him.
"We've been working hard to be ready for our first human and obviously we want to be extremely careful and certain that it will work well before putting a device into a human..."
Musk has also set the bar high, saying the brain chip could help disabled patients to move and communicate again, and that it would also aim to restore vision to people who were born blind.
"So even if they've never seen before, we're confident that they could see."
But current and former employees said Neuralink is running behind schedule, having repeatedly missed internal deadlines to gain FDA approval to start trials in people.
It's also running behind competitors. Reuters reported in August that Musk approached rival brain-chip firm Synchron, which received U.S. regulatory clearance for human trials in 2021, about a potential investment after he expressed frustration to Neuralink employees about their slow progress.
Musk also said he plans to get one himself. “You could have a Neuralink device implanted right now and you wouldn’t even know. I mean, hypothetically ... In fact, in one of these demos, I will,” he said. He reiterated that on Twitter after the event.
Source: Yahoo News, CNBC
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2022-12-01 19:50:29+00:00
U.S. Treasury's Adeyemo Calls for Global Cooperation on Crypto Regulations
The collapse of Bahamas-based cryptocurrency exchange FTX points up the need for the United States to cooperate with other countries to develop effective international regulations for the crypto sector, U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo said on Thursday.
Adeyemo told the Reuters NEXT conference that it was important to erect regulatory regimes to protect investors, consumers and financial stability and block illicit uses of cryptocurrencies. Because FTX was not a U.S.-based firm, the effort must broadened, he said.
"This is a global phenomenon. And what that means is that we're going to have to work closely with our international partners to design a regulatory regime in a framework that helps us to make sure we protect the global economy as we think about innovation like cryptocurrency," Adeyemo told Reuters NEXT.
Source: Reuters
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2022-12-01 06:31:25+00:00
Headlines of The Day[11/30]:
Ukraine/NATO/Russia War
1. 100,000 Ukrainian Soldiers Have Died in Conflict – EU
2. Russia Warns U.S. That Its Deeper Involvement in Ukraine Brings Growing Risks
3. US Debates Sending Patriot Missile Defense System to Ukraine
4. NATO Seeks to Shore Up Russia's Neighbours as Moscow Attacks Ukraine on Multiple Fronts
5. Medvedev Warns NATO over Supplying Ukraine with Patriot Systems
China and Korean Penn.
1. South Korea Scrambles Jets After Chinese, Russian Warplanes Enter Air Defense Zone
Europe
1. European Union Adopts Drone Strategy 2.0 to Accelerate UAV Use for Domestic Operations
2. EU and US turn up the heat on Elon Musk over Twitter
3. Russia Finalizes ‘LGBTQ Propaganda’ Ban
Domestic Dystopia
1. As Ross Ulbricht Rots in a Cage for a Website, FTX Founder Celebrated by Elite for Stealing Billions
2. Fauci Taps Wuhan Institute of Virology’s ‘Longtime’ Gain-of-Function Research Partner Advising People How to ‘Make Money’ Off Pandemics to Run Pandemic Drug Development Network
3. House Passes Bill to Avert Looming Rail Strike, Sending It to Senate Ahead of Crucial Deadline
4. Sen. Ron Johnson: 'It's an Insane Policy' to Force Anyone to Take a Covid-19 Injection
5. Fed's Powell: Rate Hikes to Slow, but Adjustment Just Beginning
6. Australian PM Anthony Albanese Urges Us Government to End Pursuit of Julian Assange
Business and Finance
1. Bank of Canada reports $522-million third-quarter loss, losing money for the first time
2. As Ross Ulbricht Rots in a Cage for a Website, FTX Founder Celebrated by Elite for Stealing Billions
3. FTX Founder Says He “Didn’t Ever Try to Commit Fraud on Anyone”
4. House Passes Bill to Avert Looming Rail Strike, Sending It to Senate Ahead of Crucial Deadline.
5. Fed's Powell: Rate Hikes to Slow, but Adjustment Just Beginning
COVID and Health
1. Threats to Freedom of Expression: Covid-19, the ‘fact checking counter-disinformation industry’, and online harm legislation
2. Fauci Taps Wuhan Institute of Virology’s ‘Longtime’ Gain-of-Function Research Partner Advising People How to ‘Make Money’ Off Pandemics to Run Pandemic Drug Development Network
3. WHO Renames Monkeypox as Mpox, Citing Racism Concerns
4. Sen. Ron Johnson: 'It's an Insane Policy' to Force Anyone to Take a Covid-19 Injection
Digital Dystopia
1. Threats to Freedom of Expression: Covid-19, the ‘fact checking counter-disinformation industry’, and online harm legislation
2. As Ross Ulbricht Rots in a Cage for a Website, FTX Founder Celebrated by Elite for Stealing Billions
3. EU and US turn up the heat on Elon Musk over Twitter
4. Huawei Phones Are Deleting Data After Covid Protests
5. Elon Musk says Apple ‘misunderstanding’ resolved, thanks Tim Cook for campus tour
6. Australian PM Anthony Albanese Urges Us Government to End Pursuit of Julian Assange
Misc
1. Thai Buddhist Temple Emptied After All the Monks Test Positive for Meth
2. Just Another Coincidence? Photos From Scrapped Balenciaga Campaign Feature Book by Artist Whose Works Include Castrated Toddlers... After Bondage Teddy Bears Fiasco and Hidden Child Porn Docs
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2022-12-01 04:25:07+00:00
Russia Finalizes ‘LGBTQ Propaganda’ Ban
The Federation Council, Russia’s upper chamber of parliament, has approved a bill on Wednesday that imposes a complete ban on LGBTQ, pedophilia, and sex-change ‘propaganda.'
The bill, which is now set to become law after Russian President Vladimir Putin signs off on it, outlaws the respective ‘propaganda’ in books, movies, media, and advertising.
The legislation on the “protection of traditional values” was backed unanimously by all 153 senators present at the session of the chamber, with no abstentions or opposition. Last week, the legislation passed through the State Duma, Russia’s lower chamber of parliament, receiving unanimous support there as well.
The bill, which is now set to become law after Russian President Vladimir Putin signed off on it, outlaws the respective ‘propaganda’ in books, movies, media, and advertising. The new rules, however, do not apply to video games, as lawmakers agreed this field would require separate legislation. Roskomnadzor, Russia’s media watchdog, will be tasked with monitoring media content for illegal propaganda and blocking offensive material available on the internet.
The legislation is effectively a follow-up to a 2013 law that banned the dissemination of LGBTQ propaganda among children under 18 in the country. The new law, however, universally applies to both minors and adults.
While the bill does not introduce a criminal liability for violators – as well as for repeat offenders – it carries heavy fines for both individuals and organizations who break it. Individuals risk incurring a penalty of 400,000 rubles ($6,600) and corporate entities a penalty of up to five million rubles (around $83,000) for promoting LGBTQ ‘propaganda’. Those promoting pedophilia would face fines twice those amounts. Foreign nationals would face fines of up to 800,000 rubles ($12,000), as well as expulsion from the country.
Source: RT
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2022-12-01 03:25:04+00:00
Australian PM Anthony Albanese Urges Us Government to End Pursuit of Julian Assange
The Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, says he has personally urged the US government to end its pursuit of Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange.
In his most in-depth comments about the diplomatically sensitive issue in months, Albanese said he had raised the Assange case “recently in meetings” with US representatives and he vowed to continue to press for it to be brought to a close.
Assange, an Australian citizen, remains in Belmarsh prison in London as he fights a US attempt to extradite him to face charges in connection with the publication of hundreds of thousands of leaked documents about the Afghanistan and Iraq wars as well as diplomatic cables.
Albanese was responding to a parliamentary question from the independent MP Monique Ryan, who said public-interest journalism was “essential to democracy” and declared that Assange’s freedom “will only come from political intervention”.
Ryan asked: “Will the government intervene to bring Mr Assange home?”
The prime minister acknowledged the case was “an issue of great interest to many Australians and of interest to people across this chamber”.
“The government will continue to act in a diplomatic way, but can I assure the member … that I have raised this personally with representatives of the United States government,” the Labor leader told parliament on Wednesday.
“My position is clear and has been made clear to the US administration – that it is time that this matter be brought to a close.”
He did not state explicitly whether he had raised it with the US president, Joe Biden, or with other US representatives such as the ambassador to Australia, Caroline Kennedy, with whom he also met recently.
Albanese’s most recent meeting with Biden was in Bali, Indonesia, two weeks ago.
This comes days after 5 major news outlets, The New York Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, DER SPIEGEL, and El País published an open-letter calling for Assange's freedom that stated “publishing is not a crime” and that it was time for the US “to end its prosecution of Julian Assange for publishing secrets.”
Source: The Guardian
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2022-12-01 02:55:10+00:00
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/m/5209338d-a8f2-3dda-9b97-e27aadf62879/elon-musk-says-apple.html
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2022-12-01 02:25:03+00:00
Fed's Powell: Rate Hikes to Slow, but Adjustment Just Beginning
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Wednesday said it was time to slow the pace of coming interest rate hikes while also signaling a protracted economic adjustment to a world where borrowing costs will remain high, inflation comes down slowly and the United States remains chronically short of workers.
In an hour-long session of prepared remarks and questions at the Brookings Institution think tank - his last scheduled appearance before the central bank's next meeting in two weeks - Powell gave a short-term message that sent markets soaring: The Fed was "slowing down" from the breakneck pace of three-quarter percentage point rate hikes that have prevailed since June, and would feel the way towards the peak interest rate needed to slow inflation to the Fed's 2% target.
But he also outlined longer-term shifts that may be underway - in the supply of labor in particular - that could presage a long period of elevated interest rates and inflation that responds only slowly to the Fed's restrictive policy. At the same time, he rejected the idea that the central bank was so intent on calming the highest inflation in 40 years that policymakers would "crash" the economy in that effort, insisting that a "soft or softish" landing remained possible, with inflation easing without a dramatic rise in unemployment.
"We wouldn't...try to crash the economy and then clean up afterward," Powell said, with policymakers hoping not to "overtighten...because we think that cutting rates is not something we want to do soon. That's why we're slowing down and going to try to find our way to what that right level is" that lowers inflation over time.
Source: Reuters
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2022-12-01 01:55:10+00:00
Sen. Ron Johnson: 'It's an Insane Policy' to Force Anyone to Take a Covid-19 Injection
"The bottom line here is the vaccine does not prevent infection — does not prevent transmission. So why would we make anybody take it?" asked Johnson.
"The fact of the matter is there are safety signals that anybody who's looking at CDC and NIH and FDA data might have cause for concern about. Now, part of our problem here is that the FDA, the CDC, and the NIH have not been honest. They have not been transparent."
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2022-12-01 01:25:10+00:00
Thai Buddhist Temple Emptied After All the Monks Test Positive for Meth
Four Buddhist monks in Thailand have been shipped off to rehab after they all tested positive for meth.
The holy men — including the temple’s abbot, or head monk — failed the drug tests in the Phetchabun province’s Bung Sam Phan district on Monday, an official told Agence France-Presse.
“The temple is now empty of monks and nearby villagers are concerned they cannot do any merit-making,” said the official, Boonlert Thintapthai.
Police forced the monks to undergo urine tests after they raided the temple as part of the province’s crackdown on drugs. The monks, who haven’t been named, have since been sent to a health clinic to undergo drug rehabilitation.
They were also immediately booted from the monkhood in the wake of their positive tests — leaving their tiny temple without any religious leaders. Merit-making is a Buddhist practice that involves followers donating food to monks as a good deed. Back-up monks are being sent to the temple so villagers can practice their religious obligations, the official said.
Source: New York Post
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2022-12-01 00:25:11+00:00
University Bans Conservative Student Group’s Pro-Gun Signs, Security Escorts Regional Director Off Campus
Creighton University, a private college in Nebraska, told a conservative student group they could not use a pro-gun sign at a recruiting event this November, according to emails obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller.
The sign in question featured an image of an AR-15 and the slogan “print guns, not money” and was worn around the neck of a regional director for the conservative student group Young Americans for Liberty (YAL). The Biden administration has made extensive use of quantitative easing to increase the money supply while also moving to restrict 3D-printed firearms.
JP Kirby, Director of Student Rights at Young Americans for Liberty, told the Caller that the poster was meant to convey that, “the Second Amendment is absolute, people should be able to defend themselves and we’re opposed to the Federal Reserve.”
“They swooped in within 20 minutes and kicked us out,” said Anton Mirzayants, deputy regional director at YAL, who was on campus when the confrontation occurred. “Engagement was going well with the students, I was getting sign-ups there, the student body wasn’t particularly hostile at all, it was just some kind of issue the administrators had,” he told the Caller.
Source: Daily Caller
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2022-12-11 15:34:40+00:00
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2022-12-11 14:30:14+00:00
A Supreme Court Case Could Kill Facebook and Other Socials — Allowing Blockchain to Replace Them
If the Supreme Court decides to strike down Section 230, it's going to become considerably more difficult for centralized social media companies to operate.
The internet — arguably the greatest invention in human history — has gone awry. We can all feel it. It is harder than ever to tell if we are engaging with friends or foes (or bots), we know we are being constantly surveilled in the name of better ad conversion, and we live in constant fear of clicking something and being defrauded.
The failures of the internet largely stem from the inability of large tech monopolies — particularly Google and Facebook — to verify and protect our identities. Why don’t they?
The answer is that they have no incentive to do so. In fact, the status quo suits them, thanks to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, passed by the United States Congress in 1996.
But things may be about to change. This term, the Supreme Court will hear Gonzalez v. Google, a case that has the potential to reshape or even eliminate Section 230. It is hard to envision a scenario where it wouldn't kill the social media platforms we use today. That would present a golden opportunity for blockchain technology to replace them.
Source: Coin Telegraph
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2022-12-11 13:33:08+00:00
EU Levels Fresh Sanctions On Iran Following 1st Protest-Related Execution
The West continues ratcheting up its sanctions regimen against Iran, as the now effectively collapsed efforts to restore the JCPOA nuclear deal are ever more distant in the rearview mirror, with the EU on Friday announcing fresh sanctions related to the ongoing protest crackdown in the wake of Mahsa Amini's death in police custody months ago.
Europe is also taking aim at Iranian military supplies to Russia amid the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. Iran has supplied suicide drones to the Russian military, which have seen increasing use against Ukrainian cities and national energy infrastructure.
"The new measures will target around eight individuals and organizations involved in the manufacture and delivery of drones Moscow has used in the war on Ukraine," according to European diplomats cited in AFP.
"Another 20 individuals and one organization will be added to the asset freeze and visa ban blacklist over the repression of demonstrations that have rocked the regime, officials said."
This follows prior EU sanctions placed on two known drone manufacturers, as well the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Further Tehran's "morality" police and the interior minister are under sanctions - though it should be noted that days ago Tehran claimed to have disbanded the feared morality police as a good faith compromise with the activists. However, protesters have expressed skepticism, saying the government did no such thing.
On Thursday, Tehran authorities were met with international outrage as the judiciary conducted the first ever execution of a man based on charges related to the protests.
23-year old Mohsen Shekari was hanged after being convicted of wounding a government paramilitary officer. Specifically he stood accused of stabbing a Basij paramilitary officer in Tehran on September 23, amid a raging street protest.
France and Germany were among European governments to strongly condemn the execution, with German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock saying that Shekari "was tried and executed in a perfidious rushed trial for disagreeing with the regime."
Source: Zerohedge
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2022-12-11 04:15:07+00:00
Here We Go! Bill Gates, Johns Hopkins, & the WHO Just Simulated Another Pandemic
Almost 3 years to the day, the same people behind Event 201 just completed a desktop simulation for a new Enterovirus originating near Brazil. The virus has a higher fatality rate than COVID-19 and disproportionately affects children.
https://rumble.com/v201c7c-here-we-go-bill-gates-johns-hopkins-and-the-who-just-simulated-another-pand.html
https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/exercises/2022-catastrophic-contagion/index.html
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2022-12-11 03:39:42+00:00
🚨BREAKING: TWITTER FILES, PART 4: THE REMOVAL OF DONALD TRUMP - Part Two: Jan. 7th [Post 14]
"The underlying problem," writes Will Oremus, is that “the dominant platforms have always been loath to own up to their subjectivity, because it highlights the extraordinary, unfettered power they wield over the global public square..."
"... and places the responsibility for that power on their own shoulders… So they hide behind an ever-changing rulebook, alternately pointing to it when it’s convenient and shoving it under the nearest rug when it isn’t.”
“Facebook’s suspension of Trump now puts Twitter in an awkward position. If Trump does indeed return to Twitter, the pressure on Twitter will ramp up to find a pretext on which to ban him as well.”
Indeed. And as Bari Weiss will show tomorrow, that’s exactly what happened.
/END
Source: Michael Shellenberger
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2022-12-11 03:37:03+00:00
🚨BREAKING: TWITTER FILES, PART 4: THE REMOVAL OF DONALD TRUMP - Part Two: Jan. 7th [Post 13]
The evening of January 7, the same junior employee who expressed an "unpopular opinion" about "ad hoc decisions... that don’t appear rooted in policy," speaks up one last time before the end of the day.
Earlier that day, the employee wrote, "My concern is specifically surrounding the unarticulated logic of the decision by FB. That space fills with the idea (conspiracy theory?) that all... internet moguls... sit around like kings casually deciding what people can and cannot see."
The employee notes, later in the day, "And Will Oremus noticed the inconsistency too...," linking to an article for OneZero at Medium called, "Facebook Chucked Its Own Rulebook to Ban Trump."
https://onezero.medium.com/facebook-chucked-its-own-rulebook-to-ban-trump-ecc036947f5d
Source: Michael Shellenberger
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2022-12-11 03:25:36+00:00
🚨BREAKING: TWITTER FILES, PART 4: THE REMOVAL OF DONALD TRUMP - Part Two: Jan. 7th [Post 12]
That evening, a Twitter engineer DMs to Roth to say, "I feel a lot of debates around exceptions stem from the fact that Trump’s account is not technically different from anybody else’ and yet treated differently due to his personal status, without corresponding _Twitter rules_.."
Roth's response hints at how Twitter would justify deviating from its longstanding policy:
"To put a different spin on it: policy is one part of the system of how Twitter works... we ran into the world changing faster than we were able to either adapt the product or the policy."
Source: Michael Shellenberger
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2022-12-11 03:23:12+00:00
🚨BREAKING: TWITTER FILES, PART 4: THE REMOVAL OF DONALD TRUMP - Part Two: Jan. 7th [Post 11]
The ad exec is referring to Twitter’s policy of “Public-interest exceptions," which allows the content of elected officials, even if it violates Twitter rules, “if it directly contributes to understanding or discussion of a matter of public concern”
Roth pushes for a permanent suspension of Rep. Matt Gaetz even though it “doesn’t quite fit anywhere (duh)”
It's a kind of test case for the rationale for banning Trump.
“I’m trying to talk [Twitter’s] safety [team] into... removal as a conspiracy that incites violence.”
Around 2:30, comms execs DM Roth to say they don't want to make a big deal of the QAnon ban to the media because they fear "if we push this it looks we’re trying to offer up something in place of the thing everyone wants," meaning a Trump ban.
Source: Michael Shellenberger
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2022-12-11 03:20:57+00:00
🚨BREAKING: TWITTER FILES, PART 4: THE REMOVAL OF DONALD TRUMP - Part Two: Jan. 7th [Post 10]
What if a user dislikes Trump *and* objects to Twitter's censorship? The tweet still gets deleted. But since the *intention* is not to deny the election result, no punishing strike is applied.
"if there are instances where the intent is unclear please feel free to raise"
Around noon, a confused senior executive in advertising sales sends a DM to Roth.
Sales exec: "jack says: 'we will permanently suspend [Trump] if our policies are violated after a 12 hour account lock'… what policies is jack talking about?"
Roth: "*ANY* policy violation"
What happens next is essential to understanding how Twitter justified banning Trump.
Sales exec: "are we dropping the public interest [policy] now..."
Roth, six hours later: "In this specific case, we're changing our public interest approach for his account..."
Source: Michael Shellenberger
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2022-12-11 03:15:23+00:00
2018 Narrative: Far-right conspiracy theorists falsely claim Twitter shadow bans conservatives.
2022 Narrative: Of course Twitter shadow bans conservatives - it's called "content moderation."
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2022-12-11 02:09:53+00:00
🚨BREAKING: TWITTER FILES, PART 4: THE REMOVAL OF DONALD TRUMP - Part Two: Jan. 7th [Post 9]
Indeed, notes Roth's colleague, "a quick search of top stop the steal tweets and they’re counterspeech"
But they quickly come up with a solution: "deamplify accounts with stopthesteal in the name/profile" since "those are not affiliated with counterspeech"
But it turns out that even blacklisting "kraken" is less straightforward than they thought. That's because kraken, in addition to being a QAnon conspiracy theory based on the mythical Norwegian sea monster, is also the name of a cryptocurrency exchange, and was thus "allowlisted"
Employees struggle with whether to punish users who share screenshots of Trump's deleted J6 tweets
"We should bounce these tweets with a strike given the screen shot violates the policy"
"They are criticising Trump, so I am bit hesitant with applying strike to this user"
Source: Michael Shellenberger
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2022-12-11 02:06:11+00:00
🚨BREAKING: TWITTER FILES, PART 4: THE REMOVAL OF DONALD TRUMP - Part Two: Jan. 7th [Post 8]
Recall from #TwitterFiles2 by Bari Weiss that, according to Twitter staff:
"We control visibility quite a bit. And we control the amplification of your content quite a bit. And normal people do not know how much we do."
Twitter employees recognize the difference between their own politics & Twitter's Terms of Service (TOS), but they also engage in complex interpretations of content in order to stamp out prohibited tweets, as a series of exchanges over the "#stopthesteal" hashtag reveal.
Roth immediately DMs a colleague to ask that they add "stopthesteal" & [QAnon conspiracy term] "kraken" to a blacklist of terms to be deamplified.
Roth's colleague objects that blacklisting "stopthesteal" risks "deamplifying counterspeech" that validates the election.
Source: Michael Shellenberger
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2022-12-11 02:03:14+00:00
🚨BREAKING: TWITTER FILES, PART 4: THE REMOVAL OF DONALD TRUMP - Part Two: Jan. 7th [Post 7]
The *only* serious concern we found expressed within Twitter over the implications for free speech and democracy of banning Trump came from a junior person in the organization. It was tucked away in a lower-level Slack channel known as “site-integrity-auto."
"This might be an unpopular opinion but one off ad hoc decisions like this that don’t appear rooted in policy are imho a slippery slope... This now appears to be a fiat by an online platform CEO with a global presence that can gatekeep speech for the entire world..."
Twitter employees use the term "one off" frequently in their Slack discussions. Its frequent use reveals significant employee discretion over when and whether to apply warning labels on tweets and "strikes" on users. Here are typical examples.
Source: Michael Shellenberger
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2022-12-11 01:16:44+00:00
🚨BREAKING: TWITTER FILES, PART 4: THE REMOVAL OF DONALD TRUMP - Part Two: Jan. 7th [Post 6]
Roth's colleague's query about "incitement to violence" heavily foreshadows what will happen the following day.
On January 8, Twitter announces a permanent ban on Trump due to the "risk of further incitement of violence."
On J8, Twitter says its ban is based on "specifically how [Trump's tweets] are being received & interpreted."
But in 2019, Twitter said it did "not attempt to determine all potential interpretations of the content or its intent.”
Source: Michael Shellenberger
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2022-12-11 01:14:14+00:00
🚨BREAKING: TWITTER FILES, PART 4: THE REMOVAL OF DONALD TRUMP - Part Two: Jan. 7th [Post 5]
Around 11:30 am PT, Roth DMs his colleagues with news that he is excited to share.
“GUESS WHAT,” he writes. “Jack just approved repeat offender for civic integrity.”
The new approach would create a system where five violations ("strikes") would result in permanent suspension.
“Progress!” exclaims a member of Roth’s Trust and Safety Team.
The exchange between Roth and his colleagues makes clear that they had been pushing Jack Dorsey for greater restrictions on the speech Twitter allows around elections.
The colleague wants to know if the decision means Trump can finally be banned. The person asks, "does the incitement to violence aspect change that calculus?”
Roth says it doesn't. "Trump continues to just have his one strike" (remaining).
Source: Michael Shellenberger
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2022-12-11 01:11:10+00:00
🚨BREAKING: TWITTER FILES, PART 4: THE REMOVAL OF DONALD TRUMP - Part Two: Jan. 7th [Post 4]
In 2017, Roth tweeted that there were “ACTUAL NAZIS IN THE WHITE HOUSE.”
In April 2022, Roth told a colleague that his goal “is to drive change in the world,” which is why he decided not to become an academic.
On January 7, @ Jack emails employees saying Twitter needs to remain consistent in its policies, including the right of users to return to Twitter after a temporary suspension
After, Roth reassures an employee that "people who care about this... aren't happy with where we are"
Source: Michael Shellenberger
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2022-12-11 01:08:34+00:00
🚨BREAKING: TWITTER FILES, PART 4: THE REMOVAL OF DONALD TRUMP - Part Two: Jan. 7th [Post 3]
Dorsey was on vacation in French Polynesia the week of January 4-8, 2021. He phoned into meetings but also delegated much of the handling of the situation to senior execs Yoel Roth, Twitter’s Global Head of Trust and Safety, and Vijaya Gadde, Head of Legal, Policy, & Trust.
As context, it's important to understand that Twitter’s staff & senior execs were overwhelmingly progressive.
In 2018, 2020, and 2022, 96%, 98%, & 99% of Twitter staff's political donations went to Democrats.
Source: Michael Shellenberger
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2022-12-11 01:05:02+00:00
🚨BREAKING: TWITTER FILES, PART 4: THE REMOVAL OF DONALD TRUMP - Part Two: Jan. 7th [Post 2]
For years, Twitter had resisted calls to ban Trump.
“Blocking a world leader from Twitter,” it wrote in 2018, “would hide important info... [and] hamper necessary discussion around their words and actions."
But after the events of Jan 6, the internal and external pressure on Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey grows.
Former First Lady @ michelleobama, tech journalist @ karaswisher, @ ADL, high-tech VC @ ChrisSacca, and many others, publicly call on Twitter to permanently ban Trump.
Source: Michael Shellenberger
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2022-12-11 01:02:07+00:00
🚨BREAKING: TWITTER FILES, PART 4: THE REMOVAL OF DONALD TRUMP - Part Two: Jan. 7th [Post 1]
As the pressure builds, Twitter executives build the case for a permanent ban
On Jan 7, senior Twitter execs:
- create justifications to ban Trump
- seek a change of policy for Trump alone, distinct from other political leaders
- express no concern for the free speech or democracy implications of a ban
This #TwitterFiles is reported with Leighton Woodhouse.
For those catching up, please see: Part 1, where Matt Taibbi documents how senior Twitter executives violated their own policies to prevent the spread of accurate information about Hunter Biden’s laptop;
Part 2, where Bari Weiss shows how senior Twitter execs created secret blacklists to “de-amplify” disfavored Twitter users, not just specific tweets;
And Part 3, where Matt Taibbi documents how senior Twitter execs censored tweets by Trump in the run-up to the Nov 2020 election while regularly engaging with representatives of U.S. government law enforcement agencies.
Source: Michael Shellenberger
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2022-12-10 23:55:04+00:00
Nigeria...where Davos-sponsored CBDCs and US-sponsored forced abortions are forced upon you:
"Nigerian soldiers fighting against a jihadist group regularly ordered women to be given abortions without their consent, according to a new Reuters investigation. The US has provided Nigeria with billions in military aid, weapons and training.
Victims and soldiers told Reuters that women and girls in the custody of Nigeria’s 7 Division were given injections to terminate their pregnancies. Some victims were killed by the abortions, and women who resisted were beaten. It is unclear when the program started, but it has reportedly existed since at least 2014."
Nigeria’s military is heavily dependent on America. https://libertarianinstitute.org/news/reuters-nigerian-army-preformed-over-10000-forced-abortions
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2022-12-13 23:13:11+00:00
🚨BREAKING: US Prosecutors: FTX Founder Bankman-Fried Made Illegal Campaign Donations Totaling in the Ttens of Millions of Dollars’
US prosecutors: FTX founder Bankman-Fried made illegal campaign donations totaling in the ‘tens of millions of dollars.’
Source: AP
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2022-12-13 22:25:03+00:00
DeSantis: What Happened at Twitter 'Is Not Even Close' to the Totality of the Censorship Around C19
"Your policies or your positions or your analysis of this medical science should stand on its own. And if it's not able to accept criticism, if you can't defend the policy against valid criticism, then maybe you need to be looking in the mirror," expressed Governor DeSantis.
"But that's not what these elites wanted to do. They wanted to just cocoon themselves from any criticism and to try to denigrate anybody that had a different way of thinking."
Full Video: https://www.redvoicemedia.com/2022/12/desantis-announces-petition-to-investigate-any-and-all-wrongdoing-with-respect-to-the-jab/ref/8/
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2022-12-13 21:42:05+00:00
Whitney Webb And Dore Discuss The 100 Year History of Cooperation Between Organized Crime and the US Government
Webb: "You had the Democratic party um specifically in New York City become very much entwined with organized crime this happened in the early 20th century as well with Tammany Hall - which was very much involved with the power apparatus of New York. But they ended up taking over the organized crime, ended up taking over the leadership of a lot of unions, and later voting precincts among other things which allowed them to consolidate a lot of power in New York .
Specifically in the Democratic party at first and of course, you know. later, the Republicans as well. But that's part of Operation underworld - as it's called - the formal team up between the mob and the the Navy Naval intelligence and the CIA precursor[OSS].."
Watch the video to hear more
Source: Jimmy Dore
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2022-12-13 21:25:02+00:00
U.S. Close to Providing Patriot Missile Defense System to Ukraine -Officials
The United States is finalizing plans to send the Patriot missile defense system to Ukraine, a decision that could be announced as soon as this week, three U.S. officials told Reuters on Tuesday.
Ukraine has asked its Western partners for air defenses, including U.S.-made Patriot systems, to protect it from heavy Russian missile bombardment including against its energy infrastructure.
Ground-based air defense systems such as Raytheon Technology Corp's (RTX.N) Patriot are built to intercept incoming missiles.
The Patriot is considered to be one of the most advanced U.S. air defense systems and is usually in short supply, with allies around the world vying for it.
"It's very, very significant," said Alexander Vindman, a retired Army lieutenant colonel who led Ukraine policy at the White House during the Trump administration.
"These are going to be quite capable of dealing with a lot of different challenges the Ukrainians have, especially if the Russians bring in short-range ballistic missiles" from Iran.
Source: Reuters
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2022-12-13 20:54:02+00:00
The History Of Jeffery Epstein's Intelligence Community Connections.
Whitney Webb joins Jimmy Dore to discuss her latest books, One Nation Under Blackmail, volumes 1 & 2, and the deep history tying World War II era organized crime syndicates to intelligence agencies in the United States, the UK, and Israel.
They discuss how that relationship evolved over decades into the international sex trafficking / pedophile/blackmail network of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell and connected them to prominent individuals in the government and financial sphere as their crimes spand the globe.
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2022-12-13 20:25:50+00:00
🚨BREAKING: NYPD Evidence Warehouse Erupts In Flames
Local media ABC7 New York reported that the warehouse also housed "evidence."
The building is one of five warehouses where the NYPD stores vehicles that are confiscated. They also use the warehouse to store evidence that is too large to fit in normal storage areas.
Social media is a buzz with footage of a massive fire at a waterfront warehouse used by the New York City Police Department.
Local news FOX 5 New York said the Erie Basin Auto Pound warehouse is located in Brooklyn. The NYPD said a vehicle caught fire and spread throughout the facility.
First responders arrived at the auto pound around 1030 ET. The fire is still raging two hours later. There are more than 140 firefighters at the scene.
Source: Zerohedge
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2022-12-13 20:25:09+00:00
Indian Citizens That Don’t Link Account Numbers to Digital Id Will Soon Face Financial Blacklisting
India’s income tax administration has warned citizens that they should link their Permanent Account Numbers (PANs) to their Aadhaar biometric identification numbers before April 1, 2023, or risk their PAN becoming non-operational.
In India, PAN is required to perform multiple financial activities like creating bank accounts, depositing money, trading stocks, and buying or selling real estate. Indians can link their PAN to Aadhaar on the tax department’s website after paying Rs. 1,000 ($12).
“As per Income-tax Act, 1961, it is mandatory for all PAN holders, who do not fall under the exempt category, to link their PAN with Aadhaar before 31 March 2023. From 1 April .2023, the unlinked PAN shall become inoperative. The last date is approaching soon. Don’t delay, link it today!” the income tax department wrote on Twitter.
Those excluded from this requirement are residents of the states of Meghalaya, Assam, Kashmir, and Jammu who do not have Aadhaar. Additionally, residents 80 years or older and foreign nationals are exempt from the requirement.
According to the government, the aim of linking PAN to Aadhaar is to improve tax compliance.
PAN is a form of picture ID recognized by the government and private entities. Linking it to Aadhaar is wanted by the tax department because Aadhaar is a biometric-based ID system that is not accessible via any other form of ID.
Source: ReclaimTheNet
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2022-12-13 19:24:02+00:00
China Discussed How to ‘Properly’ Handle Taiwan Differences With US Officials
China’s vice foreign minister discussed how to “properly” handle differences over Taiwan with US officials who visited China for talks, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Monday.
A senior US delegation that traveled to China for two days was led by Daniel Kritenbrink, the assistant secretary of state for East Asia and the Pacific, and Laura Rosenberger, the senior director for China and Taiwan at the National Security Council.
Kritenbrink and Rosenberger met with Vice Foreign Minister Xie Feng in the Chinese city of Langfang. The talks followed a recent meeting between President Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Bali, Indonesia.
“The two sides had in-depth communication on following through on the common understandings between the two heads of state in Bali, advancing consultations on the principles guiding China-US relations, properly handling important and sensitive issues in bilateral relations including the Taiwan question,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said of the US visit.
According to The South China Morning Post, the US delegation was part of the preparation for Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s planned visit to China, which is expected to happen in early 2023.
While the US and China have increased communication, a thaw in relations isn’t expected. The US has framed its engagement with China as a “managing of competition” rather than attempts to resolve issues, and tensions are rising over Taiwan as Congress is advancing a plan to give the island unprecedented military aid.
Source: Antiwar.com
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2022-12-13 18:55:05+00:00
Are Politics Playing A Role In The Bankman-Fried Arrest?
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2022-12-13 18:25:04+00:00
Protests and Hunger Strike Take Place at Apple’s HQ, After the Company’s Censorship in China and More
Apple’s policies ensuring its comfortable presence in the Chinese market, over the years criticized on a number of occasions and from many quarters, seem to have caught up with the giant right at its own doorstep.
Local press in San Francisco report about a protest staged by Chinese activists in front of Apple headquarters in Cupertino. University of Southern California student Han Wang started his hunger strike there on Monday, joined by a number of others.
A bigger protest took place at Apple Park for December 10, United Nations Human Rights Day.
The pro-democracy activists want Apple to reverse a number of its decisions such as limiting AirDrop functionality on phones sold in China, censorship on the company’s Chinese App Store, as well as stop what they say is exploitation of workers at the Foxconn iPhone factory.
Another demand is for the US tech powerhouse to take a public stance on the plight of the Uyghur population in the mainland, which the protesters describe as persecution and mass incarceration.
The controversy around the AirDrop file sharing service arose around Apple’s decision to swiftly update the app in China to disable the functionality after ten minutes, except among iPhone contacts.
This came amid protests in China against President Xi and the rule of the Communist Party, images of which were being shared and spread using AirDrop.
Apple is yet to react to the hunger strike outside its HQ, but some of those who support it, like Vivian She, who immigrated to the US from China in the 90s and has corresponded with Wang via Telegram, say that the strict Covid lockdowns and their grueling consequences on people was what first inspired them to consider the nature of Beijing’s policies.
Source: Reclaim The Net
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2022-12-13 18:03:27+00:00
🚨BREAKING: Florida Governor Empanels Grand Jury to Investigate "Any and All Wrongdoing" with Respect to COVID-19 Vaccines
🇺🇸💉@COVID19Up: During a Tuesday (Dec. 13) roundtable discussion Covid-19 mRNA vaccine accountability, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced that he will be petitioning for a statewide grand jury to investigate "any and all wrongdoing in Florida with respect to COVID-19 vaccines."
"Today, I’m announcing a petition with the Supreme Court of Florida to impanel a statewide grand jury to investigate any and all wrongdoing in Florida with respect to COVID-19 vaccines," DeSantis said.
Additionally, DeSantis announced increased surveillance and research into adverse reactions to the COVID-19 vaccines.
"We are initiating a program here in Florida where we will be studying the incidence in surveillance of myocarditis within a few weeks of COVID-19 vaccination for people who died," Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo revealed.
"It is a question that I’m sure keeps the CEOs of Pfizer and Moderna up late at night hoping no one ever looks, but we’re going to look here in Florida," Ladapo said.
DeSantis added, "It is illegal in Florida to mislead the public about the efficacy of drugs. It should be illegal everywhere else!"
The most important takeaway is that Florida will be able to subpoena all documents that Pfizer is hiding from us, according to Igor Chudov.
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2022-12-13 17:25:04+00:00
Binance Withdrawals Hit $1.9 Bln in 24 hours, Data Firm Says
Binance has seen withdrawals of $1.9 billion in the last 24 hours, blockchain data firm Nansen said on Tuesday, as the world's biggest crypto exchange said it had "temporarily paused" withdrawals of the USDC stablecoin.
Scrutiny of how crypto exchanges such as Binance and its now-bankrupt former rival FTX handle customer deposits is under close scrutiny from users and regulators. FTX's founder Sam Bankman-Fried was charged by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday with defrauding investors.
Binance, whose dominance of crypto was cemented by the fall of FTX, last week tweeted a so-called proof-of-reserves report by audit firm Mazars. The report showed its holdings of bitcoin exceeded customer deposits on a single day in November.
The $1.9 billion of token withdrawals based on the ethereum blockchain mark the largest daily outflow over a 24-hour period since June 13, the Nansen data showed, and accounted for the majority of the funds being pulled in the last seven days.
"Binance's withdrawals are increasing due to the growing uncertainty about its reserves report," a Nansen spokesperson said.
The withdrawals were "business as usual," Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao tweeted. "We saw some withdrawals today (net $1.14b ish). We have seen this before. Some days we have net withdrawals; some days we have net deposits."
A Binance spokesperson earlier said it always had "more than enough funds" to meet withdrawal requests. "User assets at Binance are all backed 1:1 and Binance’s capital structure is debt free," the person said.
Source: Reuters
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2022-12-13 16:51:20+00:00
U.S. CPI Fell to 7.1% in November, Lower Than Expected
Headline inflation in the U.S. fell by more than expected in November to its lowest level this year, bolstering hopes that the Federal Reserve may not have to raise interest rates much further in order to bring it back firmly under control.
Consumer prices rose 0.1% from October and were up 7.1% from a year earlier, the Bureau of Economic Analysis said, as a drop in energy prices took the sting out of another chunky increase in shelter costs. Excluding volatile fuel and energy components, the 'core' CPI index rose 0.2% on the month and 6.0% on the year, representing a clear slowdown from October's 6.3%.
Headline inflation has now fallen for five months in a row but still remains more than three times the Federal Reserve's target level of 2.0%. Analysts expect the year-on-year rate to ease further as the sharp rises in oil and other energy prices at the back end of last year pass out of the calculations. High-frequency data for house prices and traded goods (especially used cars, prices for which fell 2.9% last month) also suggest that near-term price pressures are also starting to abate, albeit from acutely high levels.
The numbers bolstered hopes that the Federal Reserve will be able to soften its guidance on Wednesday when Chair Jerome Powell announces what is expected to be a 50 basis point increase in the target range for fed funds. S&P 500 Futures rose and the dollar fell along with benchmark Treasury bond yields as market participants moved to price in a lower trajectory for U.S. interest rates going forward.
Mike Konczal, director of macroeconomic research at the Roosevelt Institute, said that the report met all three of the key criteria that Powell has made preconditions for slowing the pace of monetary policy tightening: falling goods prices, a peak in house prices and signs of cooling from services prices.
"All three happened, and happened again for the second month in a row," Konczal said
The numbers contrast with the labor market report released two weeks ago, whose strength had hinted at stubborn inflationary pressures across the economy. The economy has added 800,000 jobs in the last three months, giving little indication of the recession that many have said would follow this year's sharp increases in interest rates.
"This is the very definition of a soft landing Powell articulated earlier this year," Konczal said. "It's there if the Fed pauses and let's these positive developments all play themselves out."
Source: Investing.com
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2022-12-13 16:25:03+00:00
Biden Faces Growing Pressure to Drop Charges Against Julian Assange
The Biden administration has been saying all the right things lately about respecting a free and vigorous press, after four years of relentless media-bashing and legal assaults under Donald Trump.
The attorney general, Merrick Garland, has even put in place expanded protections for journalists this fall, saying that “a free and independent press is vital to the functioning of our democracy”.
But the biggest test of Biden’s commitment remains imprisoned in a jail cell in London, where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been held since 2019 while facing prosecution in the United States under the Espionage Act, a century-old statute that has never been used before for publishing classified information.
Whether the US justice department continues to pursue the Trump-era charges against the notorious leaker, whose group put out secret information on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Guantánamo Bay, American diplomacy and internal Democratic politics before the 2016 election, will go a long way toward determining whether the current administration intends to make good on its pledges to protect the press.
Now Biden is facing a re-energized push, both inside the United States and overseas, to drop Assange’s protracted prosecution.
Five major media organizations that relied on his trove of government secrets, including the Guardian and the New York Times, put out an open letter earlier this month saying that his indictment “sets a dangerous precedent” and threatens to undermine the first amendment.
Source: The Guardian
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2022-12-13 15:20:17+00:00
Senate Expected to Vote on Yemen War Powers Resolution Tuesday
Americans can urge their senators to support the bill that would end US support for the war by dialing 1-833-Stop-War
The Senate is expected to vote on the Yemen War Powers Resolution this week, and it could be brought to the floor as soon as Tuesday. The bill would end US support for the Saudi war and blockade on Yemen that has killed at least 377,000 people.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said last week that he would bring the resolution to the floor and that he believes he has enough votes to pass the legislation. Americans can dial 1-833-Stop-War to get connected with their senators to urge them to support the resolution.
The resolution has strong support from Democrats in the Senate, but according to the activist group Demand Progress, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is the only Republican to have come out publicly in favor of the resolution. Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) could may also support the bill as he has led previous efforts to end the war in Yemen.
Click here to see if your members of Congress have said they support the war powers resolution. A version of the resolution has also been introduced in the House, which has received strong bipartisan support and 118 cosponsors, including 10 Republicans.
Source: Antiwar.com
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2022-12-13 04:25:03+00:00
❗️The implications of this data are enormous...
In a new peer-reviewed study published in The BMJ Journal of Medical Ethics, researchers performed a risk-benefit assessment and ethical analysis using data from Pfizer, Moderna and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Their findings were:
- Over a six-month period, 31,207 to 42,836 young adults ages 18-29, would have to receive a third mRNA vaccine - a booster - in order to prevent a single hospitalisation.
- For every hospitalisation averted there would be approximately 18.5 serious adverse events (SAE)s and 1430 - 4626 disruptions of daily activities, including in males, 1.5-4.6 booster-associated cases of myopericarditis, typically requiring hospitalisation.
And then there’s this:
- For 32 hospitalisations prevented, there would be 593.5 serious adverse events.
The researchers concluded that “booster mandates in young adults are expected to cause a net harm.”
Whichever side of this debate you sit on, this data is scandalous. And mainstream media should be all over this story. Which of course begs the question, why aren’t they?
Read the study for yourself here: https://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2022/12/05/jme-2022-108449
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2022-12-13 04:21:58+00:00
THE TWITTER FILES PART FIVE: The Removal of Donald Trump From Twitter - Part Three - Post 12
Macron told an audience he didn’t “want to live in a democracy where the key decisions” were made by private players. “I want it to be decided by a law voted by your representative, or by regulation, governance, democratically discussed and approved by democratic leaders.”
Merkel’s spokesperson called Twitter’s decision to ban Trump from its platform “problematic” and added that the freedom of opinion is of “elementary significance.”
Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny criticized the ban as “an unacceptable act of censorship.”
Whether you agree with Navalny and Macron or the executives at Twitter, we hope this latest installment of #TheTwitterFiles gave you insight into that unprecedented decision.
From the outset, our goal in investigating this story was to discover and document the steps leading up to the banning of Trump and to put that choice into context.
Ultimately, the concerns about Twitter’s efforts to censor news about Hunter Biden’s laptop, blacklist disfavored views, and ban a president aren’t about the past choices of executives in a social media company.
They’re about the power of a handful of people at a private company to influence the public discourse and democracy.
Source: Bari Weiss
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2022-12-13 04:19:57+00:00
THE TWITTER FILES PART FIVE: The Removal of Donald Trump From Twitter - Part Three - Post 11
“For the longest time, Twitter’s stance was that we aren’t the arbiter of truth,” wrote another employee, “which I respected but never gave me a warm fuzzy feeling.”
But Twitter’s COO Parag Agrawal—who would later succeed Dorsey as CEO—told Head of Security Mudge Zatko: “I think a few of us should brainstorm the ripple effects” of Trump's ban. Agrawal added: “centralized content moderation IMO has reached a breaking point now.”
Outside the United States, Twitter’s decision to ban Trump raised alarms, including with French President Emmanuel Macron, German Prime Minister Angela Merkel, and Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
Source: Bari Weiss
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2022-12-13 04:14:05+00:00
THE TWITTER FILES PART FIVE: The Removal of Donald Trump From Twitter - Part Three - Post 10
Many at Twitter were ecstatic.
And congratulatory: “big props to whoever in trust and safety is sitting there whack-a-mole-ing these trump accounts”
By the next day, employees expressed eagerness to tackle “medical misinformation” as soon as possible:
Source: Bari Weiss
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2022-12-13 04:11:48+00:00
THE TWITTER FILES PART FIVE: The Removal of Donald Trump From Twitter - Part Three - Post 9
Two hours later, Twitter executives host a 30-minute all-staff meeting.
Jack Dorsey and Vijaya Gadde answer staff questions as to why Trump wasn’t banned yet.
But they make some employees angrier.
“Multiple tweeps [Twitter employees] have quoted the Banality of Evil suggesting that people implementing our policies are like Nazis following orders,” relays Yoel Roth to a colleague.
Dorsey requested simpler language to explain Trump’s suspension.
Roth wrote, “god help us [this] makes me think he wants to share it publicly”
One hour later, Twitter announces Trump’s permanent suspension “due to the risk of further incitement of violence.”
Source: Bari Weiss
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2022-12-13 04:01:18+00:00
🚨BREAKING:Dr. Robert Malone’s and Peter Mccullough's Twitter Accounts have been reinstated.
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2022-12-13 03:56:36+00:00
THE TWITTER FILES PART FIVE: The Removal of Donald Trump From Twitter - Part Three - Post 8
Less than 90 minutes after Twitter employees had determined that Trump’s tweets were not in violation of Twitter policy, Vijaya Gadde—Twitter’s Head of Legal, Policy, and Trust—asked whether it could, in fact, be “coded incitement to further violence.”
A few minutes later, Twitter employees on the “scaled enforcement team” suggest that Trump’s tweet may have violated Twitter’s Glorification of Violence policy—if you interpreted the phrase “American Patriots” to refer to the rioters.
Things escalate from there.
Members of that team came to “view him as the leader of a terrorist group responsible for violence/deaths comparable to Christchurch shooter or Hitler and on that basis and on the totality of his Tweets, he should be de-platformed.”
Source: Bari Weiss
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2022-12-13 03:54:29+00:00
THE TWITTER FILES PART FIVE: The Removal of Donald Trump From Twitter - Part Three - Post 7
Muhammadu Buhari, the President of Nigeria, incited violence against pro-Biafra groups.“Those of us in the fields for 30 months, who went through the war,” he wrote, “will treat them in the language they understand.”
Twitter deleted the tweet but didn't ban Buhari.
In October 2021, Twitter allowed Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to call on citizens to take up arms against the Tigray region.
Twitter allowed the tweet to remain up, and did not ban the prime minister.
In early February 2021, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government threatened to arrest Twitter employees in India, and to incarcerate them for up to seven years after they restored hundreds of accounts that had been critical of him.
Twitter did not ban Modi.
But Twitter executives did ban Trump, even though key staffers said that Trump had not incited violence—not even in a “coded” way.
Source: Bari Weiss
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2022-12-13 03:53:14+00:00
THE TWITTER FILES PART FIVE: The Removal of Donald Trump From Twitter - Part Three - Post 6
To understand Twitter’s decision to ban Trump, we must consider how Twitter deals with other heads of state and political leaders, including in Iran, Nigeria, and Ethiopia.
In June 2018, Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei tweeted, “#Israel is a malignant cancerous tumor in the West Asian region that has to be removed and eradicated: it is possible and it will happen.”
Twitter neither deleted the tweet nor banned the Ayatollah.
In October 2020, the former Malaysian Prime Minister said it was “a right” for Muslims to “kill millions of French people.”
Twitter deleted his tweet for “glorifying violence,” but he remains on the platform. The tweet above was taken from the Wayback Machine:
Source: Bari Weiss
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2022-12-13 03:50:05+00:00
THE TWITTER FILES PART FIVE: The Removal of Donald Trump From Twitter - Part Three - Post 5
“I also am not seeing clear or coded incitement in the DJT tweet,” wrote Anika Navaroli, a Twitter policy official. “I’ll respond in the elections channel and say that our team has assessed and found no vios”—or violations—“for the DJT one.”
She does just that: “as an fyi, Safety has assessed the DJT Tweet above and determined that there is no violation of our policies at this time.”
(Later, Navaroli would testify to the House Jan. 6 committee:“For months I had been begging and anticipating and attempting to raise the reality that if nothing—if we made no intervention into what I saw occuring, people were going to die.”)
Next, Twitter’s safety team decides that Trump’s 7:44 am ET tweet is also not in violation. They are unequivocal: “it’s a clear no vio. It’s just to say he’s not attending the inauguration”
Source: Bari Weiss
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2022-12-13 03:31:38+00:00
THE TWITTER FILES PART FIVE: The Removal of Donald Trump From Twitter - Part Three - Post 4
"We have to do the right thing and ban this account,” said one staffer.
It’s “pretty obvious he’s going to try to thread the needle of incitement without violating the rules,” said another.
In the early afternoon of January 8, The Washington Post published an open letter signed by over 300 Twitter employees to CEO Jack Dorsey demanding Trump’s ban. “We must examine Twitter’s complicity in what President-Elect Biden has rightly termed insurrection.”
But the Twitter staff assigned to evaluate tweets quickly concluded that Trump had *not* violated Twitter’s policies.“I think we’d have a hard time saying this is incitement,” wrote one staffer.
“It's pretty clear he's saying the ‘American Patriots’ are the ones who voted for him and not the terrorists (we can call them that, right?) from Wed.”
Another staffer agreed: “Don’t see the incitement angle here.”
Source: Bari Weiss
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2022-12-13 03:18:29+00:00
THE TWITTER FILES PART FIVE: The Removal of Donald Trump From Twitter - Part Three - Post 3
But after January 6, as Matt Taibbi and @ Shellenbergermd have documented, pressure grew, both inside and outside of Twitter, to ban Trump.
There were dissenters inside Twitter.
“Maybe because I am from China,” said one employee on January 7, “I deeply understand how censorship can destroy the public conversation.”
But voices like that one appear to have been a distinct minority within the company. Across Slack channels, many Twitter employees were upset that Trump hadn’t been banned earlier.
After January 6, Twitter employees organized to demand their employer ban Trump. “There is a lot of employee advocacy happening,” said one Twitter employee.
Source: Bari Weiss
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2022-12-13 03:15:57+00:00
THE TWITTER FILES PART FIVE: The Removal of Donald Trump From Twitter - Part Three - Post 2
7:44 am: “To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.”
For years, Twitter had resisted calls both internal and external to ban Trump on the grounds that blocking a world leader from the platform or removing their controversial tweets would hide important information that people should be able to see and debate.
“Our mission is to provide a forum that enables people to be informed and to engage their leaders directly,” the company wrote in 2019. Twitter’s aim was to “protect the public’s right to hear from their leaders and to hold them to account.”
https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2019/worldleaders2019
Source: Bari Weiss
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2022-12-13 02:55:00+00:00
THE TWITTER FILES PART FIVE: The Removal of Donald Trump From Twitter - Part Three - Post 1
On the morning of January 8, President Donald Trump, with one remaining strike before being at risk of permanent suspension from Twitter, tweets twice.
6:46 am: “The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE long into the future. They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!”
7:44 am: “To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th"
For years, Twitter had resisted calls both internal and external to ban Trump on the grounds that blocking a world leader from the platform or removing their controversial tweets would hide important information that people should be able to see and debate.
Source: Bari Weiss
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2022-12-13 02:36:01+00:00
Putin Makes REAL Nuclear Threat; US Yawns
Russian President Vladimir Putin stated Friday that Russia is considering changing its nuclear doctrine to allow for preventive – not just retaliatory – use of nuclear weapons. Such a change would align Russia’s nuclear posture with Washington’s own strategic doctrine and, at one stroke, make the world far more dangerous.
Putin’s highly unusual remarks leave no doubt that Russia views the U.S./NATO proxy war in Ukraine as the kind of existential threat that President John Kennedy perceived, when Moscow installed nuclear missiles in Cuba. Those missiles were capable of hitting, within minutes, Washington and the Strategic Air Command in Omaha.
For readers who have missed this, US missile capsules already emplaced in Romania and Poland – ostensibly for "ABMs" – can accommodate overnight what Russia calls "offensive strike missiles" – with even shorter launch-to-target time – than those Kennedy strong-armed Khrushchev to remove from Cuba, under threat of nuclear war.
Did Biden Renege on a Promise?
Another largely unreported factoid: When Presidents Biden and Putin held a conversation on Dec. 30, 2021, the Kremlin readout stated: "Joseph Biden emphasized … that Washington had no intention of deploying offensive strike missiles in Ukraine." At once, Senior Putin adviser, Yuri Ushakov, pointed out approvingly that this had been one of Moscow’s chief goals in proposing security guarantees for the U.S. and NATO to consider. Six weeks later, after a "follow-up" Putin-Biden call (on Feb. 12, 2022), Ushakov lamented that Biden did not address … nondeployment of strike weapons systems on Ukrainian territory. Ushakov: "We received no meaningful response."
Nuclear Deterrence – Strategic, Not ‘Tactical’
Putin’s remarks Friday also serve to put some context around the recent rash of contrived accusations that he has threatened to use "tactical nuclear weapons." That charge is a red herring – a highly mischievous one. The Kremlin strongly suspects some sort of false-flag nuclear explosion (perhaps a dirty bomb) might be used by West to "justify" responding with some kind of tactical nuclear weapon lying in bunkers in several European NATO member states. The Russians fear that NATO might opt for this kind of nuclear "solution" as the only possible way to stave off definitive defeat of Kyiv’s remaining forces this winter. Yes, Russia is fully capable of inflicting such a defeat on Kyiv, absent any prospect of serious negotiations.
Putin has not explicitly threatened to use "tactical" nuclear weapons; rather, from the outset in February, he has said he is committed to using "all the means at his disposal."
Source: Antiwar.com
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2022-12-13 02:15:08+00:00
UK Government Asked Twitter and Facebook to “Tweak” Algorithms During Covid
Former United Kingdom Health Secretary Matt Hancock, self-styled as an official who was at the forefront of Britain’s battle against Covid, didn’t seem to feel like he had done enough in 2020 and 2021, so he felt compelled to milk the pandemic cow by writing a book about that “battle.”
But he wasn’t laboring alone, since he had a co-author, Isabel Oakeshott, who reports say is actually opposed to Hancock’s policies and is a lockdown skeptic.
And now, Oakeshott, who had access to official records and Hancock’s notes exchanged with “all the key players in Britain’s Covid-19 story” – as the book’s blurb states – has penned her own “story,” an article based on the collaboration published by the Spectator, whose content draws from the material used for the book.
Oakeshott writes about the “key lessons” that include revelations about the details of UK’s vaccine and mask policies, but also the mechanisms to deal with dissenters, particularly online.
According to the journalist, Hancock genuinely considered those who disagreed with him on how to handle the situation as “mad and dangerous” and more importantly, as persons that “needed to be shut down.”
Judging by the article, his “response” to online skepticism effectively came even before pandemic restrictions themselves. Hancock had no problem revealing that in January 2020, his special adviser was already in conversation with Twitter about the ways to “tweak” the platform’s algorithms.
Another social media giant was co-opted somewhat later, and by Hancock personally, when he got in touch with former British PM and politician Nick Clegg – now president for global affairs at Meta.
Clegg, who was at the time Facebook’s VP of global affairs and communications, was reportedly “happy to oblige.”
Source: ReclaimTheNet
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2022-12-13 01:45:09+00:00
Elon Musk Your new company Twitter has many ex FBI/CIA agents in high ranks. Should probably do a little housecleaning.
Kevin Michelena - current Twitter Sr. Corporate Security Analyst. Ex FBI Intelligence Analyst 12 years
Doug Hunt - current Twitter Senior Director. Ex FBI Special Agent 20 years.
Mark Jaroszewski - current Twitter Director Corporate Security/Risk. Ex FBI 20 years
Douglas Turner - current Twitter Senior Manager, Corporate and Executive Security Services. Ex FBI 14 years. Ex Secret Service 7 years.
Patrick G. - current Twitter Head of Corporate Security. Ex FBI Special Agent 23 years.
Karen Walsh - current Twitter Director - Corporate Resilience. Ex FBI Special Agent 21 years
Russell Handorf - current Twitter Senior Staff Technical Program Manager. Ex FBI 10 years.
Michael B. - current Twitter Senior Corporate Security Manager. Ex FBI 23 years.
Vincent Lucero - current Twitter Senior Security Manager. Ex FBI Special Agent 22 years
Kevin L. - current Twitter Corporate Security Manager. Ex FBI Special Agent 25 years.
Matthew W. - current Twitter Senior Director of Product Trust, Revenue Policy, and Counsel Systems & Analytics. Ex FBI 15 years.
Claire O. - current Twitter Senior Corporate Security Analyst. Ex FBI 8 years.
Bruce A. - current Twitter Director, Corporate Security. Ex FBI 23 years.
Jeff Carlton - current Twitter Senior Manager. Ex FBI & CIA Intelligence Analyst 3 years.
What do all of these Twitter employees have in common? They were ALL hired since Donald Trump was elected.
Why, after Trump was elected, did Twitter hire over a dozen ex FBI/CIA agents and place them in Senior Management roles?
Elon Musk - how many "Jim Bakers" are imbedded in Twitter, possibly working against you? or....."watching" you. I'd advise you to do some investigating and clean house.
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2022-12-13 01:15:08+00:00
NATO Chief Says Full-Blown War With Russia Is a ‘Real Possibility’
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg warned Friday that he fears a full-blown war between Russia and NATO is a “real possibility” in a rare acknowledgment of the dangers of backing Ukraine.
“I fear that the war in Ukraine will get out of control, and spread into a major war between NATO and Russia,” he said, according to The Telegraph. “If things go wrong, they can go horribly wrong.”
Russian officials have made clear that they believe they are fighting against NATO in Ukraine. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said recently that both the US and NATO are “directly participating” in the war in Ukraine, meaning Russia has the pretext for strikes on NATO bases in Europe if they choose to take that step.
Despite the risk, Stoltenberg stressed that NATO countries should continue arming Ukraine and that the best way to deter Russia is to strengthen the alliance’s positions in Eastern Europe. Stoltenberg said Russian President Vladimir Putin “knows it’s one for all, and all for one,” referring to NATO’s mutual defense commitments as outlined by Article 5.
The risk of escalation rose last week after Ukrainian drones struck air bases hundreds of miles inside Russian territory, killing three Russian soldiers and damaging two Russian bombers. Citing unnamed US military sources, The Times reported Friday that the Pentagon has given Ukraine its tacit endorsement to launch such attacks.
Source: Antiwar.com
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2022-12-13 00:53:00+00:00
🚨BREAKING: Baby Will's Family Lawyer Arrested
🇳🇿@COVID19Up: Sue Grey, a lawyer and co-leader of the Outdoors and Freedom Party, is in custody after a New Zealand judge removed her from the Nelson District Court for contempt on Tuesday (Dec. 13) morning.
The circumstances surrounding Grey’s alleged behavior are not clear. However, nzherald.co.nz reports a hearing will be held this afternoon where Grey will appear before the court.
When Grey was removed, she was reportedly supporting a defendant in court, not representing them. She was escorted from court by security, while the public gallery was cleared, a witness said.
Grey is a critic of vaccines and the government’s COVID-19 response. Prior to 2020, she stood against 5G technology and pesticide 1080.
Last week, Grey represented the parents of baby Will in the Auckland High Court as they fought to use unvaccinated blood for their child’s heart surgery.
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2022-12-13 00:07:52+00:00
🚨BREAKING: FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Arrested in the Bahamas After U.S. Files Criminal Charges
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested by Bahamian authorities this evening after the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York shared a sealed indictment with the Bahamian government, setting the stage for extradition and U.S. trial for the onetime crypto billionaire at the heart of the crypto exchange’s collapse.
Damian Williams, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said on Twitter that the federal government anticipated moving to “unseal the indictment in the morning.”
Bahamas Attorney General Ryan Pinder said that the United States had filed unspecified criminal charges against Bankman-Fried and was “likely to request his extradition.”
In a statement, Bahamian Prime Minister Philip Davis said, “The Bahamas and the United States have a shared interest in holding accountable all individuals associated with FTX who may have betrayed the public trust and broken the law.”
“While the United States is pursuing criminal charges against SBF individually, The Bahamas will continue its own regulatory and criminal investigations into the collapse of FTX, with the continued cooperation of its law enforcement and regulatory partners in the United States and elsewhere,” continued the statement.
Bahamian regulators and FTX’s attorneys had been engaged in a bruising battle in chambers and in the court of public opinion. Earlier Monday, FTX attorneys once again accused the Bahamian government of allegedly working with Bankman-Fried to spirit away FTX assets from company control and into Bahamian crypto wallets. Bankman-Fried’s arrest by Bahamas law enforcement, as well as his expected extradition, suggest that close cooperation between the Bahamas and the U.S. will continue to evolve throughout the bankruptcy proceedings.
Source: CNBC
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2022-12-12 20:25:05+00:00
Bodycam Footage Shows Moment Leading to Ax-wielding Man Being Shot by Jacksonville Officer
The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office on Friday released police body-worn camera footage that was taken in April, when a man who was wielding an ax was shot and killed by an officer.
It happened on April 21, when the Sheriff’s Office said police were called to Morse Avenue just before 4 a.m. in response to a call “regarding a mentally ill individual.” Sheriff T.K. Waters, who at the time was JSO’s chief of investigations, said that initially, officers were unable to locate the man. He said officers came back around 11:30 a.m. following another call from neighbors.
One of our officers at that point walked through through a wooded area of a small field where he saw the subject standing behind some woods holding a hatchet, a small ax,” Waters said. “He (the officer) announced ‘put the hatchet down.’ They announced three more times, ‘put the ax down.’”
Source: News4Jax
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2022-12-12 20:05:53+00:00
JUST IN: Sam Bankman Fried's Alameda Research borrowed FTX customer funds for trading and investments without any limits, court documents reveal.
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2022-12-12 19:25:05+00:00
Who Is Purposely Sabotaging Power Plants All Over America?
Someone has been attacking power plants all over the country, and federal authorities are trying to determine who it is. In recent days, we have seen significant sabotage on both the east and west coasts, and so it can’t just be one individual that is responsible. During the first eight months of this year, there were a total of 106 attacks on the electrical grid in the United States, and that represents the highest number ever recorded in a single year. Hopefully authorities will be able to get to the bottom of this mystery, because winter will soon officially begin. If power goes out in your neck of the woods for an extended period of time during the months ahead, what will you do?
Nobody is trying to claim that the string of attacks that we have been witnessing is “accidental”, and ABC News is reporting that “federal authorities are investigating” this very disturbing trend…
"Federal authorities are investigating a number of recent reported acts of sabotage on utility companies, a senior law enforcement source told ABC News.
The move comes in the wake of substations being riddled with bullets in North Carolina, leaving tens of thousands without power for days.
After the incident, the utility companies reached out to federal authorities in recent days to investigate, the source said."
The recent incident in North Carolina was particularly alarming.
At approximately 7 PM on Saturday night, gunfire erupted at two electrical substations in Moore County. Officials are calling this “an intentional and coordinated attack”…
"Duke Energy restored power to all of its North Carolina customers Wednesday evening, four days after 45,000 customers were left in the dark after what officials have said was an intentional and coordinated attack on two substations in Moore County. Moore County Sheriff Ronnie Fields has said a motive for the attack is not known. It is also not clear what kind of protective measures were in place to prevent such an assault."
Source: Zerohedge
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2022-12-12 18:25:10+00:00
Dr. Bhattacharya Visits Twitter HQ at Invitation of Elon Musk to Find out More About The Trend 'Blacklist' and Covid Censorship
I spent the afternoon yesterday at Twitter HQ at the invitation of Elon Musk to find out more about the trend "blacklist" that twitter placed on me & more. A short thread on what I found out follows.
Twitter 1.0 placed me on the blacklist on the first day I joined in August 2021. I think it was my pinned tweet linking to the
@gbdeclaration [The Great Barrington Declaration] that triggered the blacklist based on unspecified complaints Twitter received.
Twitter 1.0 rejected requests for verification by me and @ MartinKulldorff . Each time the reasoning (never conveyed to us) was that we were not notable enough. They should have asked Francis Collins -- he would have vouched for our standing as "fringe epidemiologists."
It will take some time to find out more about what led Twitter 1.0 to act so imperiously, but I am grateful to Elon Musk who has promised access to help find out. I will report the results on Twitter 2.0, where transparency and free speech rule.
Source: Dr. Bhattacharya
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2022-12-12 18:10:17+00:00
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2022-12-12 17:56:03+00:00
New research from the University of Florida has linked Aspartame with anxiety.
A study from the Florida State University College Of Medicine has found a link between Aspartame, the most commonly used artificial sweetener in the world found in over 6,000 products, and anxiety-like behavior in mice, following a four year study.
Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, it is also noted that in addition to producing anxiety the effects extended up to two generations from the males exposed to the sweetener.
https://news.fsu.edu/news/university-news/2022/12/08/fsu-research-links-common-sweetener-with-anxiety/
More people need to realize that the majority of ailments we face, both physical & mental, are caused by the crap we consume. And the corruption of the food industry and government regulators that allowed it on the market.
It's worthy of note that many dangers associated with aspartame have been reported throughout the years largely in the independent media despite the criticisms of mainstream pundits who, on behalf of industry lobbyists, have constantly contended the product is safe.
A 2017 Vice article chronicles several of the studies linking it to various cancers, and some of the controversial history of how it gained approval by the FDA.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/nzpbkx/the-story-of-how-fake-sugar-got-approved-is-scary-as-hell
The short version is that originally the FDA banned aspartame due to safety concerns. Whereupon soon after Donald Rumsfeld (yes, war criminal Donald Rumsfeld) who was at the time CEO of GD Searle, the drug company which owned the patent to aspartame, used his connections in the Big Pharma lobby and the Reagan Administration to get it approved in 1981 with the help of some fraud and political backdoor deals.
A 2016 piece by Dr. Joseph Mercola (archived) also outlines some more of this shady history, as it relates to emails released at the time through WikiLeaks detailing more of the prominent health concerns attributed to the chemical.
https://archive.md/oJOqs
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2022-12-12 17:25:04+00:00
Experts Warn of World Cup 'Camel Flu' - Which Kills Up to a Third of Everyone It Strikes - as England Fans Make Their Way Home From Qatar
Football fans returning from Qatar are being advised to watch out for the signs of camel flu - a potentially lethal respiratory illness - symptoms of which include a fever, coughing and vomiting.
Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome (Mers) can be contracted through close contact with camels, according to the UK Health Security Agency.
The body has warned UK clinicians to 'be alert' to the prospect of returning World Cup fans showing signs of illness, The Times reports. A briefing note states: 'The risk of infections to UK residents is very low but may be higher in those with exposure to specific risk factors within the region - such as to camels.'
'Mers can be acquired from close contact with camels or from consuming camels products eg, unpasteurised camel milk.'
Other risks include close contact with an infected person. Many excited fans are reported to have enjoyed camel rides in Qatar while following England's journey in the World Cup.
Five instances of Mers have been reported in the UK to date, with the last known occurrence in August 2018.
Source: The Daily Mail
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2022-12-12 16:55:02+00:00
A weird rabbit hole to check out involving Elon's weird partner and her post on Instagram in September 2019
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2022-12-12 16:25:08+00:00
Everyone is Sick Right Now. 3 Tables Will Help You Figure Out What Ailment You've Got
- There are tons of seasonal illnesses spreading around, not just flu, COVID, and RSV.
- Many have overlapping symptoms, but there are a few telling ways to tease different ailments apart.
- If you have a fever, plus a headache or cough, doctors recommend getting tested for flu and COVID.
The US is ill. Federal health data shows the country is currently red-hot with lots of fevers, sore throats, and coughs popping up from coast to coast.
Most of the sickness out there right now is flu. Wastewater surveillance also suggests COVID is on a post-Thanksgiving uptick, and RSV — which has been sending babies and toddlers to urgent care for months — is still circulating widely too.
But there are many other illnesses beyond the "tripledemic" of flu, COVID, and RSV which are contributing to this year's earlier-than-usual onslaught of seasonal yuckiness.
"There's a lot of viral junk out there," infectious disease expert Dr. William Schaffner, from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, told Insider.
Source: Business Insider
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2022-12-12 15:25:08+00:00
US Scientists Boost Clean Power Hopes With Fusion Energy Breakthrough
US government scientists have made a breakthrough in the pursuit of limitless, zero-carbon power by achieving a net energy gain in a fusion reaction for the first time, according to three people with knowledge of preliminary results from a recent experiment.
Physicists have since the 1950s sought to harness the fusion reaction that powers the sun, but no group had been able to produce more energy from the reaction than it consumes — a milestone known as net energy gain or target gain, which would help prove the process could provide a reliable, abundant alternative to fossil fuels and conventional nuclear energy.
The federal Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, which uses a process called inertial confinement fusion that involves bombarding a tiny pellet of hydrogen plasma with the world’s biggest laser, had achieved net energy gain in a fusion experiment in the past two weeks, the people said.
Although many scientists believe fusion power stations are still decades away, the technology’s potential is hard to ignore. Fusion reactions emit no carbon, produce no long-lived radioactive waste and a small cup of the hydrogen fuel could theoretically power a house for hundreds of years.
Source: Financial Times
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2022-12-12 14:55:12+00:00
Did Fauci fund gain of function research at the Wuhan lab?
Let's review the statements and evidence. 🔥🔥🔥
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Source: Wall Street Silver, KanekoaTheGreat
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2022-12-12 14:25:04+00:00
European Union to Put a 10,000-Euro Limit on Cash Payments; Transactions Over €1,000 in Crypto Will Be Scrutinized
The countries of the European Union have announced a set of new directives to make more difficult the usage of cash and other alternative currencies like crypto for criminal purposes. On Nov. 6, the bloc approved a new limit for cash payments, that will permit up to €10,000 ($10,557) in all of the countries that are part of the union. However, countries will be allowed to reduce the limit even more.
Currently, Spain has one of the lowest limits in this regard, allowing citizens to only pay up to €1,000 ($1,055) with cash. However, the European Central Bank (ECB) expressed its disagreement with this back in 2018, when the institution qualified the measure as “disproportionate” as it could limit the usage of cash as an effective legal tender.
It’s not just cash payments that will be affected by this new round of measures. Other sectors including jewelry and goldsmithing will also face heightened control from the organization.
Zbynek Stanjur, minister of finance of the Czech Republic, stated:
"Cash payments of more than 10,000 euros will be impossible. Remaining anonymous when buying or selling crypto assets will be much more difficult. Hiding behind several layers of corporate ownership will no longer work. It will be even more difficult to launder dirty money with jewelry or goldsmithing."
Source: Bitcoin.com
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2022-12-12 13:25:11+00:00
'Oh Its Coming Bigtime': Elon On Upcoming Covid Censorship Revelations
A twitter user asked Musk yesterday, "When will we get the twitter files on covid? The info on the suspension of the many doctors and scientists? Who was involved? Suppression of what has turned out to be factual information."
"Oh Its Coming Bigtime" - Elon Musk
Later in the day,Ritchie Torres tweeted, "Elon Musk wants to criminalize Anthony Fauci because he disagrees with him. Elon is no champion of free speech."
To which, Viva Frei responded: "Pretty sure @ elonmusk wants to “criminalize” Fauci because Fauci lied under oath, engaged in gain of function research in a Chinese lab, jeopardized the entire planet, and arguably contributed to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.
But nice strawman, @ RitchieTorres"
Elon affirmed: "Correct"
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2022-12-12 02:22:44+00:00
🚨BREAKING: Elon Musk: 'My Pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci'
Early on Sunday, 30 minutes after tweeting, "Now things get spicy🌶". Elon Musk tweeted at 5:58 AM:
"My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci"
Scott Kelly quote tweeted Musk later in the day, stating:
"Elon, please don’t mock and promote hate toward already marginalized and at-risk-of-violence members of the #LGBTQ+ community. They are real people with real feelings. Furthermore, Dr Fauci is a dedicated public servant whose sole motivation was saving lives."
Elon Musk responded:
"I strongly disagree. Forcing your pronouns upon others when they didn’t ask, and implicitly ostracizing those who don’t, is neither good nor kind to anyone. As for Fauci, he lied to Congress and funded gain-of-function research that killed millions of people. Not awesome imo."
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2022-12-16 22:41:50+00:00
Instead of chasing child sex predators or terrorists, the FBI has agents — lots of them — analyzing and mass-flagging social media posts.
Not as part of any criminal investigation, but as a permanent, end-in-itself surveillance operation. People should not be okay with this.
Source: Matt Taibbi
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2022-12-16 22:35:09+00:00
‘I Can’t Do This Anymore’: Steve Bannon Ridicules Trump’s NFT Announcement, Says Those Involved ‘Oughta Be Fired Today’
Steve Bannon is not taking kindly to former President Donald Trump’s self-described “major announcement” that he’s now selling non-fungible tokens.
Trump teased the move on his Truth Social platform on Wednesday, saying in a video, “America needs a superhero.” The video shows an image of Trump wearing a superhero outfit underneath his suit and fire shooting out of his eyes.
On Thursday, Trump revealed his NFT collection, which drew widespread mockery and criticism – even from conservatives.
“Teasing NFT cards as a major announcement is not the kind of fight people want to see now,” one tweeted. “These are dark times. Love the guy but this turns many off.”
Later in the day Bannon – a former White House adviser to Trump – panned the development on his show War Room on the Right Side Broadcasting Network.
“I can’t do this anymore,” he said. “He’s one of the greatest presidents in history, but I gotta tell you: whoever–what business partner and anybody on the comms team and anybody at Mar-a-Lago – and I love the folks down there – but we’re at war. They oughta be fired today.”
Source: Mediaite
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2022-12-16 22:15:41+00:00
🚨BREAKING: THE TWITTER FILES PART SIX: TWITTER, THE FBI SUBSIDIARY - Post 12
If that’s confusing, it’s because the CIS is a DHS contractor, describes itself as “partners” with the Cyber and Internet Security Agency (CISA) at the DHS:
The EIP is one of a series of government-affiliated think tanks that mass-review content, a list that also includes the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensics Research Laboratory, and the University of Washington’s Center for Informed Policy.
The takeaway: what most people think of as the “deep state” is really a tangled collaboration of state agencies, private contractors, and (sometimes state-funded) NGOs. The lines become so blurred as to be meaningless.
Twitter Files researchers are moving into a variety of new areas now. Watch
@ BariWeiss, @ ShellenbergerMD, and this space for more, soon.
Source: Matt Taibbi
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2022-12-16 22:14:05+00:00
🚨BREAKING: THE TWITTER FILES PART SIX: TWITTER, THE FBI SUBSIDIARY - Post 11
Reports also came from different agencies. Here, an employee recommends “bouncing” content based on evidence from “DHS etc”:
State governments also flagged content.
Twitter for instance received reports via the Partner Support Portal, an outlet created by the Center for Internet Security, a partner organization to the DHS.
“WHY WAS NO ACTION TAKEN?” Below, Twitter execs – receiving an alert from California officials, by way of “our partner support portal” – debate whether to act on a Trump tweet:
Here, a video was reported by the Election Integrity Project (EIP) at Stanford, apparently on the strength of information from the Center for Internet Security (CIS):
Source: Matt Taibbi
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2022-12-16 22:11:57+00:00
🚨BREAKING: THE TWITTER FILES PART SIX: TWITTER, THE FBI SUBSIDIARY - Post 10
While the DHS in its “products” pans “permissive” social media for offering “operational advantages” to Russians, it also explains that the “Domestic Violent Extremist Threat” requires addressing “information gaps”:
FBI in one case sent over so many “possible violative content” reports, Twitter personnel congratulated each other in Slack for the “monumental undertaking” of reviewing them:
There were multiple points of entry into Twitter for government-flagged reports. This letter from Agent Chan to Roth references Teleporter, a platform through which Twitter could receive reports from the FBI:
Source: Matt Taibbi
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2022-12-16 22:10:42+00:00
🚨BREAKING: THE TWITTER FILES PART SIX: TWITTER, THE FBI SUBSIDIARY - Post 9
In this March, 2021 email, an FBI liaison thanks a senior Twitter exec for the chance to speak to “you and the team,” then delivers a packet of “products”:
The executive circulates the “products,” which are really DHS bulletins stressing the need for greater collaboration between law enforcement and “private sector partners.”
The ubiquity of the 2016 Russian interference story as stated pretext for building out the censorship machine can’t be overstated. It’s analogous to how 9/11 inspired the expansion of the security state.
Source: Matt Taibbi
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2022-12-16 22:08:16+00:00
🚨BREAKING: THE TWITTER FILES PART SIX: TWITTER, THE FBI SUBSIDIARY - Post 8
At the bottom of that letter, she lists a series of “escalations” apparently raised at the meeting, which were already “handled.”
About one, she writes: “Flagged a specific Tweet on Illinois use of modems to transmit election results in possible violation of the civic integrity policy (except they do use that tech in limited circumstances).”
Another internal letter from January, 2021 shows Twitter execs processing an FBI list of “possible violative content” tweets:
Here, too, most tweets contained the same, “Get out there and vote Wednesday!” trope and had low engagement. This is what the FBI spends its time on:
Source: Matt Taibbi
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2022-12-16 21:39:55+00:00
🚨BREAKING: THE TWITTER FILES PART SIX: TWITTER, THE FBI SUBSIDIARY - Post 7
The Twitter exec writes she explicitly asked if there were “impediments” to the sharing of classified information “with industry.” The answer? “FBI was adamant no impediments to sharing exist.”
This passage underscores the unique one-big-happy-family vibe between Twitter and the FBI. With what other firm would the FBI blithely agree to “no impediments” to classified information?
Source: Matt Taibbi
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2022-12-16 21:37:53+00:00
🚨BREAKING: THE TWITTER FILES PART SIX: TWITTER, THE FBI SUBSIDIARY - Post 6
Many of the above accounts were satirical in nature, nearly all (with the exceptions of Baldwin and @ RSBNetwork) were relatively low engagement, and some were suspended, most with a generic, “Thanks, Twitter” letter:
When told of the FBI flagging, @ Lexitollah replied: “My thoughts initially include 1. Seems like prima facie 1A violation 2. Holy cow, me, an account with the reach of an amoeba 3. What else are they looking at?”
“I can't believe the FBI is policing jokes on Twitter. That's crazy,” said @ Tiberius444.
In a letter to former Deputy General Counsel (and former top FBI lawyer) Jim Baker on Sep. 16, 2022, legal exec Stacia Cardille outlines results from her “soon to be weekly” meeting with DHS, DOJ, FBI, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence:
Source: Matt Taibbi
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2022-12-16 21:34:21+00:00
🚨BREAKING: THE TWITTER FILES PART SIX: TWITTER, THE FBI SUBSIDIARY - Post 5
In an internal email from November 5, 2022, the FBI’s National Election Command Post, which compiles and sends on complaints, sent the SF field office a long list of accounts that “may warrant additional action”:
Agent Chan passed the list on to his "Twitter folks":
Twitter then replied with its list of actions taken. Note mercy shown to actor Billy Baldwin:
Source: Matt Taibbi
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2022-12-16 21:30:09+00:00
🚨BREAKING: THE TWITTER FILES PART SIX: TWITTER, THE FBI SUBSIDIARY - Post 4
Just to show the FBI can be hyper-intrusive in both directions, they also asked Twitter to review a blue-leaning account for a different joke, except here it was even more obvious that @clairefosterPHD, who kids a lot, was kidding.
"Anyone who cannot discern obvious satire from reality has no place making decisions for others or working for the feds,” said
@ClaireFosterPHD, when told about the flagging.
Of the six accounts mentioned in the previous two emails, all but two – @ ClaireFosterPHD and @ FromMa – were suspended.
Source: Matt Taibbi
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2022-12-16 21:26:45+00:00
🚨BREAKING: THE TWITTER FILES PART SIX: TWITTER, THE FBI SUBSIDIARY - Post 3
Twitter personnel in that case went on to look for reasons to suspend all four accounts, including @ fromma, whose tweets are almost all jokes (see sample below), including his “civic misinformation” of Nov. 8:
Source: Matt Taibbi
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2022-12-16 21:24:02+00:00
🚨BREAKING: THE TWITTER FILES PART SIX: TWITTER, THE FBI SUBSIDIARY - Post 2
What stands out is the sheer quantity of reports from the government. Some are aggregated from public hotlines:
An unanswered question: do agencies like FBI and DHS do in-house flagging work themselves, or farm it out? “You have to prove to me that inside the fucking government you can do any kind of massive data or AI search,” says one former intelligence officer.
“HELLO TWITTER CONTACTS”: The master-canine quality of the FBI’s relationship to Twitter comes through in this November 2022 email, in which “FBI San Francisco is notifying you” it wants action on four accounts:
Source: Matt Taibbi
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2022-12-16 21:21:34+00:00
🚨BREAKING: THE TWITTER FILES PART SIX: TWITTER, THE FBI SUBSIDIARY - Post 1
The #TwitterFiles are revealing more every day about how the government collects, analyzes, and flags your social media content.
Twitter’s contact with the FBI was constant and pervasive, as if it were a subsidiary.
Between January 2020 and November 2022, there were over 150 emails between the FBI and former Twitter Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth.
Some are mundane, like San Francisco agent Elvis Chan wishing Roth a Happy New Year along with a reminder to attend “our quarterly call next week.” Others are requests for information into Twitter users related to active investigations.
But a surprisingly high number are requests by the FBI for Twitter to take action on election misinformation, even involving joke tweets from low-follower accounts.
The FBI’s social media-focused task force, known as FTIF, created in the wake of the 2016 election, swelled to 80 agents and corresponded with Twitter to identify alleged foreign influence and election tampering of all kinds.
Federal intelligence and law enforcement reach into Twitter included the Department of Homeland Security, which partnered with security contractors and think tanks to pressure Twitter to moderate content.
It’s no secret the government analyzes bulk data for all sorts of purposes, everything from tracking terror suspects to making economic forecasts.
The #TwitterFiles show something new: agencies like the FBI and DHS regularly sending social media content to Twitter through multiple entry points, pre-flagged for moderation.
Source: Matt Taibbi
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2022-12-16 20:25:03+00:00
‘It’s Official: The United States Is Developing a Bank-to-Bank Digital Currency’- the Atlantic Council
While the world was busy watching the collapse of crypto exchange FTX, the US Federal Reserve system made an important move. Speaking at the Singapore FinTech Festival on November 4, a senior official from the New York Federal Reserve surprised many in the audience by announcing that for the past several months, the New York Fed has been developing a “wholesale” central bank digital currency (CBDC) designed to speed up transfers between banks around the world.
For those who thought the United States was behind in the digital-currency “space race,” the news was welcome. We see what the world is doing on CBDCs, and the United States is not going to be left behind.
According to new Atlantic Council research, the United States, thanks to Project Cedar, has moved into development of a central bank digital currency and joined its colleagues at the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan, and the Bank of England in making the leap forward.
Over a span of two years, the world’s leading central banks have gone from skeptical to serious about a government form of digital currency. When the Atlantic Council’s GeoEconomics Center began this project in 2020, thirty-five central banks were exploring a CBDC; as of today, that number is 114. The motivations vary in each economy, but there are some common themes. The first is the pandemic, or more specifically, the lessons learned from it. At the height of COVID-19, many countries—including the United States—discovered how antiquated their financial plumbing was. The distribution of stimulus checks that could have taken hours sometimes took weeks. As the global economy likely heads into a recession in 2023, the need to improve delivery of money to citizens is paramount for policymakers.
The second is crypto. The FTX debacle is just the latest and largest in a string of prominent crypto failures. While the regulators get to work, central bankers don’t want to sit on the sidelines. Cryptocurrencies and stablecoins are being used all over the world. In India, for example, nearly 10 percent of the population now owns or is planning to invest in cryptocurrency. In the United States, it’s closer to 13 percent. Central bankers are concerned about losing monetary sovereignty and becoming blind to what is happening inside their own economies. They see a central bank digital currency as a way to evolve and compete in this changing landscape.
The final motivation is geopolitical: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In the ten months since Russia’s invasion, the GeoEconomics Center’s research has shown that interest in wholesale central bank digital currency has nearly doubled. A range of countries including China, India, Indonesia, South Korea, and Brazil are pursuing this new technology. So what does a land war in Europe have to do with the future of finance?
When the United States and Group of Seven (G7) responded to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion, they did so not with direct military engagement but with the most sweeping set of financial sanctions ever levied against a major economy. The West froze Russian reserves, cut Russian banks off the SWIFT payment messaging system, and slapped over 6,500 individuals with sanctions—and the rest of the world took notice. In conversations we have had with central bankers, it was clear that financial sanctions made several countries think differently about the dollar. Suddenly, the possibility that any country on the G7’s bad side could be cut off from the ability to transfer funds between banks became very real. The logical move, for many countries, was to develop a back-up plan. That’s where central bank digital currencies come in.
Source: The Atlantic Council
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2022-12-16 20:13:02+00:00
Google ‘Psychosis’ In Canada & You Get: “You May Be Worried That The Government Is Trying To Harm You.”
A lack of a good faith effort into understanding each other’s perspectives and ‘steel manning’ each other’s arguments produces cultural division that’s destroying our society. Simply said, if we don’t actually listen to what each other is saying because we are protecting our own views and opinions, we’ll never make meaningful progress. I talk about this in my (sensemaking episode of the CE Podcast here.)
This sentiment applies to this article because some in society would rather wipe out important evidence and questions with “that sounds crazy,” and this simply isn’t a good faith effort at sensemaking.
Generally, the mainstream loves to believe that the alternative, “did my own research” crowd is causing havoc, but they themselves actually play a big role in this as well.
I typed in ‘psychosis’ on Google only to find this returned result:
Source: The Pulse
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2022-12-16 19:25:05+00:00
Major Airport Biometrics and Government Digital Identity Projects Advance
Australia’s myGov mobile app has launched to give residents control over their digital identity and access to both public and private-sector services. The app provides log-in with face biometrics, includes a digital wallet, and gives users access to 15 government services to start, with more coming soon.
The EU Council has agreed on a draft version of the AI Act, with a ban on social scoring, fundamental rights considerations for classifying applications as high-risk, and more detailed definitions of “public spaces” and “remote biometric identification systems.” Several civil society groups and some EU legislators immediately weighed in with criticisms.
The Council has also reached a common position on the legal framework for a continental digital ID. Proposed amendments to eIDAS would set technical standards for EU ID digital wallets, address attribute attestation, define its relations with other laws, and could give countries until 2025 or later to have the whole system up and running.
At almost the exact same time it was announced a contract to build the European Digital Identity Wallet that will deliver that ID has been awarded to Scytáles, along with partner Netcompany-Intrasoft.
An agreement between the UK and Ukraine will see the countries collaborate on digital identity, emerging technologies and cybersecurity. Ukraine gets financial services access, and a path to global portability of digital identity through mutual recognition agreements becomes a little clearer.
U.S. CBP has introduced biometric traveler verification for people debarking on cruise ships from San Diego, as border biometrics checks continue to expand. Already, 240 million people have used CBP biometrics at sea, land and air borders, and another 16 airports in the country are expected to test biometric systems next year. Meanwhile India’s Digi Yatra system has expanded to biometric checks for domestic flights.
Thales Head of Business Development and Strategic Marketing Neville Pattinson explains in a sponsored post how digital travel credentials held on mobile phones are now combining with face biometrics to deliver the long-promised ‘paperless’ airport journey. A single app serves multiple airport processes for major time savings, and will be further extended going forward.
Source: Biometric Update
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2022-12-16 17:29:33+00:00
COVID Origins 'May Have Been Tied' to China's Bioweapons Program: GOP Report
Republican members of the House Intelligence Committee are alleging in a newly released report that there are "indications" that COVID-19 could be tied to China’s biological weapons research program and "spilled over" to the general human population during an incident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The information was released in a minority staff report by members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on Wednesday night.
"Contrary to the implication of the [Intelligence Community’s] declassified report, based on our investigation involving a variety of public and non-public information, we conclude that there are indications that SARS-CoV-2 may have been tied to China’s biological weapons research program and spilled over to the human population during a lab-related incident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology," a summary of the report states. "The IC failed to adequately address this information in its classified Updated Assessment. When we attempted to raise the issues with the IC, it failed to respond."
In a declassified assessment on the origins of COVID-19 by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in October 2021, the report states that SARS-CoV-2 was "probably not a biological weapon," adding, "We remain skeptical of allegations that SARS-CoV-2 was a biological weapon because they are supported by scientifically invalid claims."
Wednesday's report released by House Republicans also alleges that its investigation "revealed serious shortcomings with both the classified and declassified versions of the Intelligence Community’s," and states that the omissions "likely skewed the public’s understanding of key issues and deepened mistrust."
"The Committee believes the IC downplayed important information relating to the possible links between COVID-19 and China’s bioweapons research based in part on input from outside experts," the report states, adding that the intelligence community "refuses to be transparent with the Committee regarding which experts it relied on."
Source: FOX
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2022-12-16 14:25:07+00:00
Louisiana Officers Charged in Black Motorist’s Deadly Arrest
Five Louisiana law enforcement officers were charged Thursday with state crimes ranging from negligent homicide to malfeasance in the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene, a death authorities initially blamed on a car crash before long suppressed body-camera video showed white officers beating, stunning and dragging the Black motorist as he wailed, “I’m scared!”
These are the first criminal charges of any kind to emerge from Greene’s bloody death on a roadside in rural northeast Louisiana, a case that got little attention until an Associated Press investigation exposed a cover-up and prompted scrutiny of top Louisiana State Police brass, a sweeping U.S. Justice Department review of the agency and a legislative inquiry looking at what Gov. John Bel Edwards knew and when he knew it.
Facing the most serious charges from a state grand jury was Master Trooper Kory York, who was seen on the body-camera footage dragging Greene by his ankle shackles, putting his foot on his back to force him down and leaving the heavyset man face down in the dirt for more than nine minutes. Use-of-force experts say these actions could have dangerously restricted Greene’s breathing, and the state police’s own force instructor called the troopers’ actions “torture and murder.” York was charged with negligent homicide and 10 counts of malfeasance in office.
The others who faced various counts of malfeasance and obstruction included a trooper who denied the existence of his body-camera footage, another who exaggerated Greene’s resistance on the scene, a regional state police commander who detectives say pressured them not to make an arrest in the case and a Union Parish sheriff’s deputy heard on the video taunting Greene with the words “s—- hurts, doesn’t it?”
Greene’s May 10, 2019, death was shrouded in secrecy from the beginning, when authorities told grieving relatives that the 49-year-old died in a car crash at the end of a high-speed chase near Monroe — an account questioned by both his family and even an emergency room doctor who noted Greene’s battered body. Still, a coroner’s report listed Greene’s cause of death as a motor vehicle accident, a state police crash report omitted any mention of troopers using force and 462 days would pass before state police began an internal probe.
All the while, the body-camera video remained so secret it was withheld from Greene’s initial autopsy and officials from Edwards on down declined repeated requests to release it, citing ongoing investigations.
But then last year, the AP obtained and published the footage, which showed what really happened: Troopers swarming Greene’s car, stunning him repeatedly, punching him in the head, dragging him by the shackles and leaving him prone on the ground for more than nine minutes. At times, Greene could be heard pleading for mercy and wailing, “I’m your brother! I’m scared! I’m scared!”
Fallout brought federal scrutiny not just to the troopers but to whether top brass obstructed justice to protect them.
Investigators have focused on a meeting in which detectives say that state police commanders pressured them to hold off on arresting a trooper seen on body-camera video striking Greene in the head and later boasting, “I beat the ever-living f--- out of him.” That trooper, Chris Hollingsworth, was widely seen as the most culpable of the half-dozen officers involved, but he died in a high-speed, single-vehicle crash in 2020 just hours after he was informed he would be fired over his role in Greene’s arrest.
Source: AP
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2022-12-16 13:25:02+00:00
Chase Through LA Ends With Innocent, Compliant Bystander Assaulted and Arrested
A high speed chase in LA last night ended in the arrest and assault of a totally random and compliant bystander.
Around that time, AIR7 HD captured a man with a baseball cap walking away from the liquor store when he was bitten by a K-9. The man was then handcuffed to a gurney and treated for his wounds.
California Highway Patrol says officers later found the driver.
Source: ABC, LP Mises Caucus
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2022-12-16 03:47:25+00:00
Twitter Bans Accounts of Mastodon, Journalists That Cover Banning of Elon Musk Flight Tracker Account
Twitter has suspended the accounts of several reporters from a range of news outlets from CNN to The Washington Post. The reporters all appeared to have covered, in some way, the story about Twitter banning @ ElonJet account which was tracking the location of Elon Musk’s private jet.
Aaron Rupar was amongst the first to be banned. Rupar, an independent journalist who had amassed more than 780,000 followers, had his account banned within a day after the flight tracker account was banned.
The range of suspensions followed Twitter’s shutdown of the account of social media rival Mastodon after its @ joinmastodon account linked to an account on its platform that still tracks the location of Elon Musk’s private jet.
Also banned are Donnie O’Sullivan of CNN, Ryan Mac of The New York Times, Drew Harwell of The Washington Post, Micah Lee of The Intercept, and Matt Binder of Mashable.
Political commentator Keith Olbermann was also soon banned by Twitter after he tweeted screenshots of the post that got Drew Harwell of The Washington Post suspended
As reported by Ben Collins of NBC News, Rupar says he has “no idea” why he was banned.
It’s unclear to what extent the reporters linked to or showcased content from the flight tracker. Twitter CEO Elon Musk responded to the string of bans, saying the “same doxxing rules apply to ‘journalists’ as to everyone else.” Musk made the statement in a reply to Founders Fund Vice President and author Mike Solana, who said that he counted that at least of half of the banned accounts “posted links to the jet tracker thing in violation of the new doxx’ing policy.”
Musk recently followed up to this statement, tweeting that "They posted my exact real-time location, basically assassination coordinates, in (obvious) direct violation of Twitter terms of service"
“Any account doxxing real-time location info of anyone will be suspended, as it is a physical safety violation,” Musk tweeted this week, when Twitter quickly introduced the controversial new policy. “This includes posting links to sites with real-time location info.”
Source: ReclaimTheNet
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2022-12-16 03:16:31+00:00
But will you comply when they attempt to outlaw cash in favor of CBDCs?
Will you go along with the Digital Identity and Digital Wallet schemes?
Will you keep flying next year in the US when facial recognition becomes a requirement?
Will you stay silent when they attempt to force the shots on your kids again?
Will you remain indoors when they say it's time to lockdown for the climate?
If you are unwilling to say no to these and many more situations like this then all hope is truly lost. Thankfully, I think, when the time comes people will be forced to stand up because they know silence and obedience will mean the end of privacy and individual liberty, not only for the living, but for the generations to come who are depending on us.
This is exactly what my book How To Opt-Out of the Technocratic State is about. It is a warning and it is a call to action. You cannot simply sit still and expect to be free in the coming years and beyond 2030. If you want to know more about thoughts on this situation you can download the book for free or purchase it here.
If what I am saying is totally new to you I encourage you to go to The Conscious Resistance and start exploring some of my research from the last 10 years.
Thank you.
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2022-12-16 03:14:40+00:00
On FTX, Central Bank Digital Currencies, and the Future of Freedom
Friends,
To those who might not fully understand the implications of the FTX implosion and the calls for crypto regulation - specifically the Digital Asset Anti-Money Laundering Act introduced by Senator Elizabeth Warren - let me attempt to enlighten you about what we are witnessing and what is at stake.
First, a brief background. I have been reporting on Bitcoin and the crypto movement since early 2012. I have also been paid in crypto for my journalism since around that same time. I have used it to buy flights and other goods, accepted it for my books and shirts, swapped one crypto for another, exchanged it in true peer-to-peer fashion in person, etc. I don't claim to be an expert but I have actually lived the crypto life and because I haven't used a bank since 2008 it has also helped me move money around without a government or a bank.
From the very beginning of my experience in the crypto space there have been two main camps: those who believe crypto could be a tool to disrupt the central banks and governments who control money, and those who believe crypto should be regulated by governments and tend to see it as more of an investment than an actual medium of exchange. This second group has been calling for regulation since the beginning.
So now with the FTX implosion - which is way too big of a topic to fully dissect in this post, but rest assured we are not seeing the whole picture yet - we are seeing renewed push for regulation, including the aforementioned Digital Asset Anti-Money Laundering Act. This bill is extremely dangerous in terms of private crypto use. Essentially, FTX situation is being used as a way to attack private crypto use and a promotion of the need for Central Bank Digital Currencies. CBDC's are government controlled, not private, not anonymous, and include the risk of being able to be turned off or limited by governments.
This is where it's important for those who don't use or understand crypto to distinguish between non-private CBDC's and private cryptos like Monero (I know there are those who will argue Bitcoin can be private, and that may be true, but what I learned when reporting from the Silk Road trial was that they absolutely can track and find it. It's only become easier since then.)
The Central Banks and the governments HATE private use of crypto, taking place in decentralized exchanges, or peer-to-peer because they cannot track all of it. Similar to cash, when done right - and not via centralized exchanges or mainstream platforms like CashApp and Paypal - you can privately exchange and move crypto around. This will not work in the world they are trying to create.
This is why we are seeing this "never let a good crisis go to waste" moment presented to us with the FTX debacle and subsequent calls for regulation. The governments want to force crypto businesses to require Know Your Customer standards like ID, name, phone number, selfie, etc. If this happens it could spell the end of private crypto use and the beginning of only government controlled digital currency. This will eventually lead to the outlawing of cash altogether.
But there is a caveat. I said it COULD be the end of private crypto use because, like most things relating to government, it entirely depends on our compliance. If this bill or some future bill becomes law and attempts to outlaw the private exchange of cryptocurrency it 100% depends on compliance to work.
Will you stop buying, selling, or using crypto simply because the government passes a silly law? I think you know my answer. And I am hoping that there will be other individuals and businesses who have the courage to ignore the government. This is the essence of Agorism and Counter-Economics and it is the solution to avoiding their Technocratic State.
At some point you will have to refuse to comply with this slavery system if you want to remain free. Maybe crypto isn't the line in the sand for you.
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2022-12-16 02:02:23+00:00
Tucker Carlson calls out former CIA Directors Mike Pompeo and John Brennan for blocking the release of documents that show the CIA was involved in the assassination of JFK.
https://truthsocial.com/@KanekoaTheGreat/posts/109520871483853253
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2022-12-16 01:25:04+00:00
Israel to Introduce Sweeping Online Censorship Law
The Israeli government has announced that it will adopt recommendations to regulate social media platforms to create a “safer” online environment. The recommendations are similar to the social media rules in the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA), which will take effect next year.
Outgoing Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel announced that Israel would adopt recommendations made by the committee for examining legislation on online social media platforms, which was formed in October 2021. The committee, which was led by the Communications Ministry director-general Liran Avisar Ben-Horin, was created to find solutions to tackle the regulatory and ethical questions related to social media.
“This is an unregulated space where negative and harmful social phenomena have emerged,” said Hendel, as reported by the Times of Israel. “Legal responsibility needs to be applied to digital platforms in relation to the distribution of illegal sexual content, incitement to violence and terrorism, and more.”
“The step we are taking today brings us closer to a more protected and safer online space while preserving freedom of expression.”
The committee recommended that social media companies should be obligated to immediately remove illegal and offensive content, create an online hotline for reporting offensive and illegal content, create a system where users can appeal censorship and suspension decisions, and be more transparent.
Courts will be given the power to issue content removal orders, and a social media regulator will be created. Platforms operating in Israel will be required to set up offices in Israel.
Source: ReclaimTheNet
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2022-12-16 00:55:40+00:00
A Remarkable Drug: "If You Had to Design a Drug for COVID, It Would Look Exactly Like Ivermectin"
Dr. Paul Marik explains why:
• Antiviral - works against a host of RNA viruses
• Very powerful anti-inflammatory drug
• Stimulates a process called autophagy, a healing mechanism that allows the body to get rid of spike protein.
• Improves the microbiome
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2022-12-16 00:25:06+00:00
Former Twitter Employee Sentenced to 42 Months for Accepting Saudi Bribes for User Information
A former Twitter employee was sentenced to 42 months in prison on Thursday after he was convicted of accepting bribes from a Saudi Arabian official in exchange for providing the kingdom with user information from the platform.
Ahmad Abouammo, who worked as a media partnership manager for Twitter’s Middle East and North Africa region, met with a close adviser to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on multiple occasions, accepting thousands of dollars worth of gifts as he provided information about Saudi dissidents’ Twitter accounts, according to court documents.
A jury in August found Abouammo guilty of acting as a foreign agent without notice, money laundering and falsifying records as well as wire fraud and honest services fraud. He was found not guilty on five other counts of wire fraud and honest services fraud.
“This case revealed that foreign governments will bribe insiders to obtain the user information that is collected and stored by our Silicon Valley social media companies,” U.S. Attorney Stephanie Hinds wrote in a statement. “In handing down today’s sentence, the Court emphasized that defendant shared the user information with a foreign government known for not tolerating dissidents, and he did so working with his even more culpable co-defendant who fled the country rather than face trial.”
Source: The Hill
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2022-12-15 23:25:12+00:00
Matt Taibbi: ‘Definite Conclusive Proof’ U.S. Government Colluded With Social Media Executives on Censorship
The “Twitter files” released so far show “definite conclusive proof” of the U.S. government agencies and social media executives monitoring and censoring speech on Twitter, according to investigative journalist and author Matt Taibbi.
In an interview with Russell Brand, Taibbi spoke to the larger issues of mainstream media and censorship and the nature of propaganda versus truth.
Heading into the “Twitter files” project, Taibbi Taibbi said he was “most interested” in the relationship between law enforcement, government and social media.
“A lot of people have questions [about], ‘how involved is the government in monitoring and censoring the speech of ordinary people?’” Taibbi told Brand.
Taibbi said the documents show Twitter was “clearly getting communications” from not only the FBI and the DHS, “but also a surprise was the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. I hadn’t heard that one before. That was a new one,” he added.
He added:
“The government is harvesting tons of information from these companies and then turning around and spitting it back to companies like Twitter in the form of requests for maybe bannings, maybe shadow bans, maybe deletions or labels and that sort of thing.”
Twitter has ‘Idiosyncratic Control Over the Visibility of Every Single User’
Taibbi continued:
“They [Twitter executives] have a whole universe of stuff that they can do to any single account.
“They can dial it all the way down to [making it so that] you cannot be searched, then from there there are countless gradations of things that they can do all the way up to [making it so that] your account will not ‘trend,’ only people who follow you can see you, even people who follow you won’t see you unless they search … there’s a whole list of stuff, so they have absolute control over the visibility of basically everything.”
Taibbi and his team have not yet learned much about how Twitter amplifies accounts “because that appears to be another side of the company.”
Brand asked Taibbi whether he thought other social media platforms had similar arrangements with U.S. government agencies.
Taibbi said he thought it was a “safe assumption that every single one of the major platforms has basically the same arrangement with the government.”
“We can’t say definitely exactly how it works yet,” he said, “but I think it’s a safe supposition that there’s probably something similar to what’s going on on Twitter.”
Source: Children's Health Defense
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2022-12-15 22:25:03+00:00
Norwegian Filmmaker Faces Up to 3 Years in Prison for Saying Men Cannot Be Lesbians
A woman in Norway is facing up to three years in prison on criminal hate-speech charges after saying that a man cannot become a lesbian.
Tonje Gjevjon, a lesbian filmmaker and actress, was informed on Nov. 17 that she was under investigation for speaking out against prominent Norwegian activist Christine Jentoft on Facebook. Jentoft is a transgender female that often refers to herself as a lesbian mother.
Jentoft previously accused another woman, Christina Ellingsen, of transphobia for a similar claim. Ellingsen is also under investigation and faces three years in jail if found guilty.
The post on Gjevjon’s Facebook page under investigation read, "It’s just as impossible for men to become a lesbian as it is for men to become pregnant. Men are men regardless of their sexual fetishes."
Gjevjon has said that she intentionally posted her Facebook message to draw attention to Norway’s hate speech laws.
Gjevjon’s comments appear to be under investigation for falling under a 2020 amendment to the country’s penal code that added "gender identity and gender expression" under protected categories from hate speech. People found guilty of hate speech face a fine or up to one year in prison for private remarks, and a maximum of three years for public comments.
Source: FOX
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2022-12-15 21:25:04+00:00
Senator Elizabeth Warren Uses FTX Collapse as a Reason To Introduce Surveillance of All Crypto Wallets
Even though the two events are unrelated.
As the US Senate conducts hearings about the collapse of crypto exchange FTX, Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Roger Marshall (R-KS) introduced a bill to regulate the cryptocurrency industry, going beyond fraud in companies and instead targeting crypto holders themselves.
Critics have called the bill unconstitutional and authoritarian.
The Digital Asset Anti-Money Laundering Act will impose know-your-customer (KYC) requirements on providers of blockchain infrastructure, including developers of decentralized networks as well as validators supporting such networks and miners.
We obtained a copy of the bill for you here.
The bill would require the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) to treat miners, validators, crypto wallet providers, and other such networks as “money service businesses.” As such, they would be required to collect KYC data on participants and required to implement anti-money laundering (AML) programs.
The bill would also impact personal self-custody crypto wallets, and require networks to identify clients and track all transactions.
The bill also bans the use of asset mixers and other technologies that enhance privacy by concealing transactions between wallets. In August Tornado Cash, which was one of the most popular mixers, was banned by the Treasury Department through sanctions.
“The crypto industry should follow common-sense rules like banks, brokers, and Western Union, and this legislation would ensure the same standards apply across similar financial transactions,” Warren said in a statement. “The bipartisan bill will help close crypto money laundering loopholes and strengthen enforcement to better safeguard U.S. national security.”
The proposed bill has already drawn criticism from the crypto industry.
“The Digital Asset Anti-Money Laundering Act is a direct attack on technological progress and also a direct attack on our personal privacy and autonomy,” said Peter Van Valkenburgh, the director of research at crypto advocacy group Coin Center.
“Make no mistake, while proposed as a solution to potential money laundering and terrorist financing, the bill is, in fact, a repudiation of liberal values and a move towards the types of surveillance and control prized by authoritarians like Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, and Kim Jong-un.”
The bill was inspired by the collapse of FTX, even though the surveillance of user transactions on the centralized exchange would have done nothing to stop the fraud that was going on within the company.
Source: ReclaimTheNet
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2022-12-15 20:24:22+00:00
‘The Footage Will Haunt Me for the Rest of My Life.’ Jeffrey Epstein Survivor Claims She Watched Tapes the Pedophile Made of His Wealthy Friends Having Sex With a Female Victim for ‘Blackmail’ – And Says She Still Has Copies Stashed
One of Jeffrey Epstein's victims has claimed that he did make sex tapes of his wealthy friends – and not only has she seen them, she's made copies.
And Sarah Ransome's newly released deposition has rekindled allegations that top attorney Alan Dershowitz was involved in the abuse of underage girls.
Ransome claimed in the deposition taken as part of a lawsuit that Virginia Giuffre filed against Epstein's one-time girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell that she has seen footage of two of Epstein's associates having sex with a female victim.
And she claims that she had been forced into a threesome with Dershowitz and an unidentified woman.
Dershowitz denies any abuse. He told the Daily Beast: 'Let me be very clear—I have had sex with one woman since the day I met my wife.'
'And during the entire relevant period of time, I never had any contact with Ransome. I’ve never had any contact with anyone else. And the stories are all made up.'
Ransome goes on to claim that footage she saw will 'haunt me for the rest of my life' and that the faces of the two men were clearly visible. She does not identify those men.
Ransome even claims to have copies which she has stored at several secure locations around Europe and says she fears retaliation by Epstein even though he is dead.
The bombshell claim gives new insight into the long-held theory that Epstein blackmailed his wealthy male friends with secretly recorded videos of them having sex with underage girls he provided.
Ransome, who was born in South Africa and moved to Scotland aged 14, was lured into Epstein's web by one of his recruiters after coming to New York to become a model.
Epstein claimed he had connections at FIT, the New York fashion college, and Ransome says he 'used my education as a way for me to trade my soul to the devil and become a sex slave to pay for my studies'.
While the college placement never materialized, failure to agree to have sex with Epstein would lead to him refusing to support her anymore, leaving Ransome penniless and with no prospect of making it as a model, she claims.
Among the newly unsealed documents are emails sent by Ransome explaining the existence of the tapes.
Ransome writes: 'When my friend had sexual intercourse with (redacted) and (redacted), sex tapes were in fact filmed on each occasion by Jeffrey.
'Thank God she managed to get ahold of some footage of the filmed sex tapes which clearly identify the faces of (redacted) and (redacted) having sexual intercourse with her'.
Epstein does not appear in the video, something that Ransome says showed how 'clever' he was.
The friend sent Ransome some of the footage 'implicating' both men and she writes that she has seen 'with my own two eyes the evidence of these sexual acts'.
Ransome writes: 'I will be more than willing to swear under oath and testify in court over these sex tapes….it will break your heart into a million tiny pieces when you watch this footage.'
Ransome claims that she has backed up the footage on several USB sticks that she has stored at various locations in Europe.
Source: The Daily Mail
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2022-12-15 19:55:09+00:00
Dr. McCullough: Pharma Could Be in Big Trouble for Wrongfully Advertising the C19 Shot
"It's now clear, they're gonna go after areas of wrongful advertising," stated Dr. McCullough.
"It's illegal," he continued. "And matter of fact, when any drug is advertised on TV, there's all the disclaimers of the side effects, but they're not giving any of the disclaimers of the side effects on the COVID-19 vaccines. Everybody should view that as being illegal."
Kansas has already taken action and pulled advertising for the C19 shot off the market.
Dr. Peter A. McCullough is a world-renowned MD — fighting against censorship and reprisal. He has teamed up with The Wellness Company, where he now serves as Chief Scientific Officer.
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2022-12-15 19:25:10+00:00
Report: US Mulls Sending Small Number of Troops Into Ukraine to Track Weapons
The Pentagon is discussing the possibility of sending a small number of additional troops to Ukraine to step up the tracking of weapons being sent into the country, NBC News reported on Monday.
Back in October, the Pentagon said that US military personnel based at the US embassy in Kyiv began conducting “onsite” weapons inspections in Ukraine. According to NBC, the US currently has a couple of dozen troops inside Ukraine, including a small number involved in tracking weapons.
The current tracking effort involves traveling outside of Kyiv to scan bar codes on weapons and other supplies, although US officials say the US troops are not traveling to the frontlines.
The NBC report said that Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is considering increasing this small troop presence to enhance the oversight mission but also to ensure there are “experts in country to help Ukraine use critical weapons systems,” signaling they may be doing more than tracking weapons.
POLITICO reported Wednesday that the US is considering other measures to increase oversight, including relying on Ukrainian troops to do their own inspections. Citing a State Department cable from September, POLITICO said the US was struggling to track weapons and was preparing to hire an unnamed private firm to launch a three-year initiative to aid in oversight.
“Above all, kinetic activity and active combat between Ukrainian and Russian forces create an environment in which standard verification measures are sometimes impracticable or impossible,” US Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink said in the cable.
Source: Antiwar.com
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2022-12-15 18:40:00+00:00
Digital Asset Anti-Money Laundering Act Announced
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A bill impacting everyone who uses cryptocurrency has been announced.
The bipartisan Digital Asset Anti-Money Laundering Act, introduced today by Sens. Warren and Marshall, is the most direct attack on the personal freedom and privacy of cryptocurrency users and developers we’ve yet seen.
It would force anyone who helps maintain public blockchain infrastructure, either through software development or validating transactions on the network, to register as a Financial Institution (FI). As FIs, they would be obligated to:
- identify and record the personal information of every person who uses their software or sends transactions over their internet-connected computers,
- develop risk-calibrated AML programs that block persons from using their software or network throughput if they suspect those people are moving funds related to crime, and
- file reports about their users without a warrant, government request, or probable cause as the trigger.
Additionally, every FI, including traditional FIs like banks, custodial crypto FIs, and these newly classified crypto infrastructure FIs, would be banned from making any transactions involving privacy tools (e.g. Tornado Cash or similar privacy software) or privacy preserving cryptocurrencies (e.g. Zcash, Monero, etc.), irrespective of any evidence of criminality related to those transactions.
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2022-12-15 18:32:37+00:00
This was Trump’s “Major Announcement” today…
https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/109518512543023262
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2022-12-15 15:50:09+00:00
The number this video ends on isn't quite accurate. It's actually more than $60 billion. According to the 'Center For Strategic & International Studies,' U.S. aid to Ukraine totals $68 billion. This even after a White House official admitted that they have "almost zero" ability to track it and "it drops into a big black hole." But don't worry, 10% goes to the "big guy."
We can't afford to continue to turn a blind eye to this flagrant wealth transfer!
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2022-12-15 15:25:08+00:00
We Are About To Witness A Major Move Toward A Cashless Society
The war on cash has just gone to an entirely new level. When I heard that the European Union was planning to completely ban all cash transactions above 10,000 euros, I had a hard time believing it. There are so many wild rumors flying around on the Internet these days, and so I wasn’t going to write about this unless I could confirm it. Unfortunately, this particular rumor is quite real.
Under the pretext of fighting “money laundering and terrorist financing”, the European Union will be entirely outlawing all cash payments greater than 10,000 euros.
The following comes from the official website of the Council of the European Union…
"By limiting large cash payments, the EU will make it harder for criminals to launder dirty money. An EU-wide maximum limit of €10.000 is set for cash payments. Member states will have the flexibility to impose a lower maximum limit if they wish."
So this means that in some countries the upper limit could potentially be a lot lower than 10,000 euros.
But instead of framing it as a major move toward a cashless society, the EU is trying to claim that this is all about fighting terrorists.
The following is what Zbyněk Stanjura, the Minister for Finance in the Czech Republic, has said about this upcoming change…
"Terrorists and those who finance them are not welcome in Europe. In order to launder dirty money, criminal individuals and organisations had to look for loopholes in our existing rules which are already quite strict. But our intention is to close these loopholes further, and to apply even stricter rules in all EU member states. Large cash payments beyond €10.000 will become impossible. Trying to stay anonymous when buying or selling crypto-assets will become much more difficult. Hiding behind multiple layers of ownership of companies won’t work any more. It will even become difficult to launder dirty money via jewellers or goldsmiths."
Meanwhile, the European Central Bank has been actively considering the possibility of introducing a “digital euro”. The following comes from the official website of the European Central Bank…
"We are working with the national central banks of the euro area to investigate whether to introduce a digital euro. It would be a central bank digital currency, an electronic equivalent to cash. And it would complement banknotes and coins, giving people an additional choice about how to pay."
Well isn’t that convenient?
As they take cash away from the general population, it turns out that they have already been working on the replacement.
Source: Zerohedge
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2022-12-15 14:55:02+00:00
Former President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Stella Kyriakides, and now the European Commissioner on health and food safety, the man who signed contracts with coronavirus vaccine manufacturers on behalf of the EU appears to be involved in a gigantic corruption scandal.
https://en.rua.gr/2021/05/05/vaccine-makers-bribed-the-european-commissioner/
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2022-12-15 13:25:05+00:00
DeSantis To Pursue Legal Fight Against Big Pharma in the Criminal Arena, Recruiting Additional States for ‘Shadow CDC’
Following his two major announcements on Tuesday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis made himself available for a Q&A with The Dossier along with a couple other media outlets.
Governor DeSantis had just announced that he was petitioning the Florida Supreme Court to impanel a grand jury with the hopes to “investigate crimes and wrongdoing committed against Floridians related to the COVID-19 vaccine.” He also announced the establishment of a Public Health Integrity Committee, which the Florida Governor also referred to as a “shadow CDC” that seeks to hold the federal government’s health bureaucracy accountable.
Gov. DeSantis: "Today I'm announcing a petition with the Supreme Court of Florida to impanel a statewide grand jury to investigate any and all wrongdoing...with respect to COVID-19 vaccines"
The Dossier asked Governor DeSantis if he was specifically focusing on Pfizer and Moderna, because they are the only pharmaceutical companies that provide mRNA Covid injections in the United States.
“Yes, for sure,” the governor responded, adding, “I think we will look beyond that too, because there were a lot of fraudulent representations made” with the government health institutions as well. In the earlier panel, the governor and his co-panelists cited claims by Dr Fauci, the CDC director, and the many others who grossly misrepresented claims about the supposedly “safe and effective” shots that were fraudulently marketed as providing immunity and blocking transmission.
The governor added that the vaccine mandates were “based on premises that turned out not to be accurate,” so the fight in the Supreme court will be “broader than” just Big Pharma, and will also target federal overreach.
Citing the 2005 PREP Act, a bill passed in 2005 by Congress that clears the drug companies of virtually all civil liability, Governor DeSantis discussed his approach to petitioning the Florida Supreme Court.
“They’ll go into federal court and try to squash anything that we do, but that liability does not include criminal,” he said of the Big Pharma protections. “We’re going to do our process with the grand jury. We will have more heft than a congressional committee would anyway, because it’s a criminal process, not just civil.”
Source: The Dossier
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2022-12-15 04:25:02+00:00
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2022-12-15 03:25:03+00:00
SBF's $5 Billion FTX 'Spending Binge' and 4 Other Things the New CEO Has Discovered Since Taking Over the Crypto Exchange
FTX's new CEO John J. Ray plans to reveal five ways the bankrupt crypto exchange handled its money, at Tuesday's US House Financial Services Committee hearing.
In his testimony, Ray, who oversaw bankruptcy proceedings at energy firm Enron, highlights several "unacceptable management practices" at FTX, including a $5 billion "spending binge" and the commingling of the exchange's assets with those of its sister company, Alameda Research.
"Never in my career have I seen such an utter failure of corporate controls at every level of an organization, from the lack of financial statements to a complete failure of any internal controls or governance whatsoever," he said in his remarks.
FTX filed for bankruptcy last month after suffering a liquidity crisis that saw its ex-CEO Sam Bankman-Fried in need of an $8 billion cash injection. On Monday, Bankman-Fried was arrested by Bahamian authorities in the face of allegations that he illegally mishandled customer funds, leading to billions of dollars in losses.
The disgraced FTX founder was expected to testify at the Tuesday hearing, but it is unclear whether he will still attend.
While Ray notes that "many things are unknown at this stage," he and his team know the following about FTX and its funds:
- Customer assets from FTX.com were commingled with assets from its sister trading platform, Alameda Research.
- Alameda used client funds to engage in "margin trading" which exposed customer funds to massive losses.
- The FTX Group went on a $5 billion spending binge in late 2021 through 2022, where they purchased a "myriad" of businesses and investments possibly at prices beyond their worth.
- Loans and other payments of more than $1 billion were credited to insiders.
- Alameda's business model as a market maker required deploying funds to various third party exchanges which were inherently unsafe.
Source: Business Insider
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2022-12-15 02:26:01+00:00
FTX Insider Turned on Sam Bankman-fried Days Before Bankruptcy, Flagging Potential Fraud to Regulators
Days before FTX’s bankruptcy filing last month, co-CEO Ryan Salame told Bahamian authorities that founder Sam Bankman-Fried may have committed fraud by sending customer money from the crypto exchange to his other firm, Alameda Research.
According to a filing on Wednesday tied to FTX’s bankruptcy proceedings, Salame disclosed “possible mishandling of clients’ assets” by Bankman-Fried. The letter included in the filing was dated Nov. 9, and was sent from the Securities Commission of the Bahamas to the commissioner of police. FTX declared bankruptcy on Nov. 11.
The disclosure on Wednesday marks the first public acknowledgement of an insider turning on Bankman-Fried, who was arrested in the Bahamas on Monday after the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York shared a sealed indictment with the Bahamian government. The indictment, unsealed on Tuesday, charged Bankman-Fried with eight criminal counts related to fraud, money laundering and improper use of customer funds.
Salame told regulators that only three individuals at FTX — Bankman-Fried, Nishad Singh and Gary Wang — had the kind of access and authority to engineer the possibly fraudulent transfers to Alameda, a hedge fund and trading firm. Salame said he advised Bankman-Fried and Alameda executives that the possible mishandling of customer funds, which were commingled with Alameda, was contrary to “normal corporate governance.”
Salame’s LinkedIn profile says he’s based in the Bahamas. He also has multiple residences in the U.S., with homes in Massachusetts, Washington, D.C., and New Jersey. He had departed the Bahamas for the U.S. by Nov. 9, according to the letter.
Like Bankman-Fried, Salame was a significant political donor, donating $20 million to Republican causes.
Source: CNBC
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2022-12-15 01:59:08+00:00
While America crumbles, $68 billion of your tax dollars have been sent to a "big black hole" in Ukraine, as one White House official called it.
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2022-12-15 01:25:02+00:00
Why was one of The Greater Reset's speakers deleted under "Twitter 2.0"?
Matt Gubba is speaking at TGR4, representing the International Liberty Forum, another organization created to counter the WEF.
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2022-12-15 00:21:44+00:00
China, India at Odds Over Trigger for Troop Brawl at Disputed Himalayan Border
China and India have given conflicting accounts about the cause of a clash in a disputed Himalayan border region last week that left soldiers on both sides with minor injuries.
Long Shaohua, a spokesman from the People's Liberation Army's (PLA's) Western Theatre Command, said the clash happened during a regular border patrol on Friday when Chinese troops were intercepted by their Indian counterparts, who were "illegally crossing the border".
"Our troops' response is professional, firm and standard, which has helped to stabilise the situation," Long said on Tuesday. "Both sides have been under disengagement since then."
Source: MSN, PatrolPoint1[Video]
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2022-12-14 23:45:42+00:00
Wordpress Discussed Deplatforming the New York Post After Hunter Biden Laptop Story
The content of Hunter Biden’s laptop was certainly scandalous enough, but the handling, i.e., censoring of the story about that by tech platforms influenced by political preference certainly gave it a run for its money.
Even by the standards of 2020, “the year of censorship,” Twitter and Facebook’s decision to suppress the New York Post article just before the US presidential election that resulted in the victory of Hunter’s father, was highly unusual.
Facebook used “potential misinformation” policies to artificially limit the story’s spread, while Twitter went for outright censorship by banning links to the Post page, saying it was enforcing “hacked materials” rules (which did not apply).
In early December, Twitter owner Elon Musk put this controversy back in the spotlight when he announced that to restore public trust in the social platform he recently acquired, internal documents detailing how the censorship decision was made would be released.
And now that people are once again talking about it, so is WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg, who this week revealed that WordPress owner Automattic was also considering censoring the New York Post story since the media outlet used WordPress VIP as its content management system.
Source: ReclaimTheNet
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2022-12-14 22:25:10+00:00
Fed Pledges More Rate Hikes Despite Fears of Economy Stalling
The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by half a percentage point on Wednesday and projected at least an additional 75 basis points of increases in borrowing costs by the end of 2023 as well as a rise in unemployment and a near stalling of economic growth.
The U.S. central bank's projection of the target federal funds rate rising to 5.1% in 2023 is slightly higher than investors expected heading into this week's two-day policy meeting and appeared biased if anything to move higher.
Only two of 19 Fed officials saw the benchmark overnight interest rate staying below 5% next year, a signal they still feel the need to lean into their battle against inflation that has been running at 40-year highs.
"The (Federal Open Market) Committee is highly attentive to inflation risks ... Ongoing increases in the target range will be appropriate in order to attain a stance of monetary policy that is sufficiently restrictive to return inflation to 2% over time," the Fed said in a statement nearly identical to the one it issued at its November meeting.
The new statement, approved unanimously, was released after a meeting at which officials scaled back from the three-quarters-of-a-percentage-point rate increases delivered at the last four gatherings. The Fed's policy rate, which began the year at the near-zero level, is now in a target range of 4.25% to 4.50%, the highest since late 2007.
Source: Reuters
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2022-12-14 21:57:17+00:00
BREAKING: FAUCI tells 6-year-old boy he vaccinated Santa Claus himself.
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2022-12-14 21:25:08+00:00
EU, Hungary Reach Deal on Sending Ukraine 18 Billion Euros
Hungary on Tuesday lifted its objection to the European Union sending 18 billion euros ($19 billion) to Ukraine after reaching a deal with the EU on funds Brussels wants to deny Budapest.
The EU was looking to block 7.5 billion euros in EU funding from Hungary over allegations of corruption that were raised after Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban won reelection in April.
Under the agreement reached this week, the EU will free up 1.2 billion euros for Hungary, but the remaining 6.3 billion won’t be released until the EU’s European Commission is happy with the reforms it wants Hungary to make.
The 18 billion euros for Ukraine is expected to help cover Ukraine’s massive $38 billion budget deficit for 2023. When Hungary initially blocked the funds, it said it was opposed to the way the EU planned to send the aid, which is by all 27 EU members jointly borrowing the funds.
Hungary has also been holding out on approving Sweden and Finland’s NATO bids, but Orban insists Budapest supports their memberships. Orban’s chief of staff, Gergely Gulyas, said that Hungary’s parliament would begin debating the ratification of the two Nordic nations joining NATO on February 20.
Hungary and Turkey are the only two countries that haven’t approved of Sweden and Finland joining the alliance. Western officials fear that Turkey is willing to delay its approval for a few more months as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is looking for more concessions from the Nordic countries.
Source: Antiwar.com
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2022-12-14 20:25:05+00:00
Fed Raises Rates by Half Percentage Point, Sees Economy Nearing Stall Speed
The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by half a percentage point on Wednesday and projected at least an additional 75 basis points of increases in borrowing costs by the end of 2023 as well as a rise in unemployment and a near stalling of economic growth.
The U.S. central bank's projection of the target federal funds rate rising to 5.1% in 2023 is slightly higher than investors expected heading into this week's two-day policy meeting and appeared biased if anything to move higher.
Only two of 19 Fed officials saw the benchmark overnight interest rate staying below 5% next year, a signal they still feel the need to lean into their battle against inflation that has been running at 40-year highs.
"The (Federal Open Market) Committee is highly attentive to inflation risks ... Ongoing increases in the target range will be appropriate in order to attain a stance of monetary policy that is sufficiently restrictive to return inflation to 2% over time," the Fed said in a statement nearly identical to the one it issued at its November meeting.
Source: Reuters
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2022-12-14 19:25:09+00:00
UK Marines Conducted Covert Ops in Ukraine, General Claims
The British Royal Marines have carried out high-risk special operations on the ground in Ukraine, according to the former head of the elite unit, who said UK commandos have been deployed to the country on more than one occasion this year.
Writing in the Royal Navy’s official magazine, the Globe and Laurel, Lieutenant General Robert Magowan said some 350 Marines were sent to Ukraine for two missions since January, starting with an operation to help relocate UK diplomatic staff to Poland just ahead of Russia’s invasion.
The second occurred in April, soon after Moscow’s withdrawal from the region surrounding the Ukrainian capital, according to Magowan, who was once the commandant general of the Royal Marines and now serves as a senior official under the Chief of the Defense Staff.
“In April, they returned into the country to re-establish the diplomatic mission, providing protection to critical personnel,” the general said. “During both phases, the commandos supported other discreet operations in a hugely sensitive environment and with a high level of political and military risk.”
Though Magowan did not elaborate on what those “other” missions entailed, he is the first British official to publicly confirm special operations in the country since Russia’s attack began in February. The UK Defense Ministry previously acknowledged that soldiers were sent to protect embassy staff, but has never discussed missions on the scale described by Magowan and rarely comments on covert ops.
Asked about the general’s claims, a Royal Navy spokesman would only say that Marines were “deployed to Ukraine to support the UK’s diplomatic presence,” but stressed that “they served no combat function.”
Source: Libertarian Institute
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2022-12-14 19:05:08+00:00
US Patriot Missiles To Ukraine: Game-Changer Or Nuclear War?
Yesterday CNN reported that the Biden administration has decided on a significant escalation in Ukraine: providing Kiev with the most advanced US missile defense system, the Patriot Missile system. The missiles have a longer range and a much higher price tag. Russia has vowed to take them out if deployed in Ukraine. Will NATO troops be operating the complex systems? If so...then what?
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2022-12-14 18:46:41+00:00
JUST IN: PayPal partners with MetaMask to integrate new crypto services.
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2022-12-14 18:12:12+00:00
🚨BREAKING: Warren Pushes Bipartisan Bill to Regulate Crypto Firms After FTX Collapse
U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) are introducing a bill to crack down on money laundering and financing of terrorists and rogue nations via cryptocurrency.
If it becomes law, the Digital Asset Anti-Money Laundering Act will bring know-your-customer (KYC) rules to crypto participants such as wallet providers and miners and prohibit financial institutions from transacting with digital asset mixers, which are tools designed to obscure the origin of funds.
The act would also allow the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) to implement a proposed rule requiring institutions to report certain transactions involving unhosted wallets – wallets where the user has complete control over the contents rather than relying on an exchange or other third party.
The Democratic US senator from Massachusetts is pushing for the new controls on the crypto industry in the wake of the spectacular collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX. On Tuesday its founder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried was charged with eight criminal counts including conspiracy to commit money laundering.
In a statement to CNN, Warren said that the “commonsense crypto legislation” would protect US national security. “I’ve been ringing the alarm bell in the Senate on the dangers of these digital asset loopholes,” she said, adding that crypto was “under serious scrutiny across the political spectrum”.
Even before the implosion of FTX, the treasury department was focusing on the feared risks to national security posed by relatively unregulated digital currency exchanges. In August it moved against Tornado Cash, a virtual currency mixer which it accused of laundering more than $7bn in virtual currency since 2019.
The Treasury said that Tornado Cash was attractive to launderers of the proceeds of cybercrime, including the Lazarus Group, a hacking group sponsored by North Korea. The entity’s appeal to cybercriminals was that it could move digital assets around anonymously, obscuring the origin and destination of transactions and hiding the parties involved.
Source: The Guardian, Coin Desk
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2022-12-14 17:55:03+00:00
Mass Surveillance On A Mass Scale
Most people know by now that the concept of privacy is virtually extinct. In some form or another we are all under constant surveillance.
The casualness with which this is accepted is one of the most concerning aspects of our society, so much so that being under government watch has bled into meme culture, acknowledging that it exists and subsequently laughing it off as if it is no big deal.
But the evisceration of personal privacy rights IS a big deal. And one that should have caused a mass public outcry and backlash a long time ago.
Yet still, most have no idea the grotesque extent to which we are tracked and monitored every moment of every day.
As John W Whitehead writes for The Rutherford Institute –
"Geofencing dragnets. Fusion centers. Smart devices. Behavioral threat assessments. Terror watch lists. Facial recognition. Snitch tip lines. Biometric scanners. Pre-crime. DNA databases. Data mining. Precognitive technology. Contact tracing apps.
What these add up to is a world in which, on any given day, the average person is now monitored, surveilled, spied on and tracked in more than 20 different ways by both government and corporate eyes and ears.
Big Tech wedded to Big Government has become Big Brother."
https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/youd_better_watch_out_the_surveillance_state_is_making_a_list_and_youre_on_it
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2022-12-14 17:25:05+00:00
US Space Force Establishes First Foreign Command in South Korea as Threat From North Grows
The US military activated its first Space Force command on foreign soil on Wednesday in South Korea, with the unit’s new commander saying he is ready to face any threat in the region.
The creation of the US Space Forces Korea gives the newest branch of the US military its first official presence on the Korean Peninsula at a time when North Korea has been testing ballistic missiles at a record pace and China has been building up its ballistic missile forces.
The new unit “will be tasked with coordinating space operations and services such as missile warning, position navigation and timing and satellite communications within the region,” according to US Forces Korea.
A ceremony to launch the new unit took place at a hangar at Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek, 65 kilometers (40 miles) south of Seoul, where the US 7th Air Force is based.
Asked what potential adversaries like Beijing or Pyongyang could take from the formation of the unit, Space Forces Korea commander Lt. Col. Joshua McCullion said he hoped it would have a deterrent effect. “The hope is that they see we are ready,” he said.
“Myself and my guardians are ready to go, day or night,” he said, using the official term for US Space Force members.
“That’s (the message) we want the adversary, whoever that adversary is, to take.”
McCullion acknowledged that the new force, established as a separate military branch in December 2019, has been the object of satire in the media, with some mocking its relative youth and comparing it to “Star Trek.”
But he said nobody should underestimate the force’s abilities.
Source: CNN
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2022-12-14 16:25:04+00:00
Dr. Céline Gounder Attempts to Quell Speculation Behind Husband Grant Wahl’s Sudden Death: ‘Nothing Nefarious’
Dr. Céline Gounder put to rest speculation that the sudden passing of her husband, beloved journalist Grant Wahl, was in any way nefarious.
Gounder appeared on CBS Mornings and gracefully shared details with Gayle King. She also sent a message to subscribers to Grant’s Planet Futbol newsletter, which included the following details:
"Grant arrived home Monday, December 12, and this transition was handled with the utmost care and sensitivity. This was an international matter that required coordination from multiple agencies domestically and internationally, and there was full cooperation from everyone involved. Our sincere gratitude to everyone involved in repatriating Grant, in particular the White House, the U.S. Department of State, FIFA, U.S. Soccer and American Airlines.
An autopsy was performed by the New York City Medical Examiner’s Office. Grant died from the rupture of a slowly growing, undetected ascending aortic aneurysm with hemopericardium. The chest pressure he experienced shortly before his death may have represented the initial symptoms. No amount of CPR or shocks would have saved him. His death was unrelated to COVID. His death was unrelated to vaccination status. There was nothing nefarious about his death."
Source: Mediaite
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2022-12-14 15:25:02+00:00
Korea Orders Drug Companies to Make More Common Cold Medicines
Medicine shortages are being reported globally, in Europe, the United States and China.
The 18 medicines covered by the Korean order include Tylenol 8-hour tablets from Janssen Korea, Penzal AR tablets from Chong Kun Dang and Suspen 8-hour tablets from Hanmi Pharmaceutical.
With the order in place, the companies will have to increase production by up to 60 percent through the winter.
The aim is to increase the average monthly supply from 45 million tablets to 67.6 million. During the time of changing seasons, the total will be increased to 72 million tablets.
Commandeering pharmaceutical companies is allowed under a regulation on emergency production in place since March last year. It was updated in September to specify medicines and companies covered under the rules.
This is the first time Korea has ordered drug companies to increase production.
As the government raises the price of tablets, the increase will be covered by national health insurance. A tablet that originally cost around 50 won will be priced at 70 won. The additional 20 won will be covered by the government. Janssen Korea’s Tylenol 8-hour tablet is the most expensive at 90 won per tablet, and Huvist Pharmaceutical’s Tyrepen 8-hour 650 milligram tablet is priced at 70 won.
The government warned that it will claw back the coverage if pharmaceutical companies fail to meet the additional production quantity, leading to complaint from the manufacturers. It is also negotiating with the companies now to limit any increases.
Source: Korea JoongAng Daily
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2022-12-14 14:55:13+00:00
Whitney Web On Epstein's Early Connections to Donald Trump and Bill Gates
Whitney Webb: You may have heard the mainstream narrative that Jeffrey Epstein didn't meet each other until 2011, but that is a bunch of hooey - because there are mainstream articles from 2001 that say that Jeffery Epstein made all of his money from his business connections to three men.
Those three men are: Leslie Wexner, Donald Trump, and Bill Gates.
So how did Jeffrey Epstein make all his money from Bill Gates by 2001 if he didn't meet him for another decade, doesn't make alot of sense right?
Source: Jimmy Dore
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2022-12-14 14:25:08+00:00
Sanders Withdraws Yemen War Powers Resolution Vote Over Biden Opposition
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Tuesday night withdrew his request to vote on the Yemen War Powers Resolution that would end US support for the Saudi-led war and blockade on Yemen, citing White House opposition to the bill.
Sanders said on the Senate floor that he was informed ahead of the scheduled vote of the administration’s opposition to the legislation, meaning President Biden would veto the resolution. The Intercept reported earlier in the day that The White House was pressuring senators to vote against the bill, and Democrats came out in opposition to Sanders’ resolution earlier on Tuesday, including Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA).
Sanders’ justification for not holding the vote was that the administration claimed it would work with Congress on ending the war in Yemen. He said the White House wanted to “work with us on crafting language that would be mutually acceptable” and insisted if that didn’t happen, he would resume his efforts to end the war through a resolution.
But even if the White House really wants to engage with Congress on the issue, or if Sanders chooses to reintroduce the resolution, the plan will take time, which Yemenis don’t have. There has been a cessation in violence in Yemen, with no Saudi airstrikes since March, but there has been a recent uptick in fighting on the ground.
A ceasefire expired in October, and without a real peace deal, the war could flare up again at any time. The resolution could have ended US support for the Saudi-led coalition, including maintenance of its warplanes, which would effectively ground the Saudi air force. Even if Biden vetoed the resolution, its passage through Congress would have sent a message to the White House and Riyadh to work faster on a real end to the war.
Source: Antiwar.com
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2022-12-14 04:25:07+00:00
Whitney Webb Wants to "Really Break Apart the Mainstream Media Narrative that Jeffrey Epstein was an Anomaly"
Dore: "I didn't pay much attention to it. but what did catch my eye was what I thought was an overreaction to a bunch of people online saying that there was a sexual pedophile ring in Washington DC and I'm like, 'well first of all that sounds completely reasonable uh to assume that there's a pet of sex pedophile ring servicing powerful people in Washington DC' - that's not crazy to think. That that could happen.
They overreacted to that like any - just like Seth Rich - if you even mentioned it you were a banished from society. You couldn't ask questions about it, you couldn't cover it, you couldn't do anything and I was just like: 'what is going on, why are they overreacting to this pizzagate thing so much? Why why do they have to, why is tha. and then you find out it's because there actually is a pedophile ring happening
Source: Jimmy Dore
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2022-12-14 04:00:28+00:00
U.S. State Department 'Deeply Troubled' by Report on Nigerian Army Killing Children
The U.S. State Department is "deeply troubled" by a Reuters special report that the Nigerian army killed children in its fight against insurgents and has raised the allegations with the Nigerian government, a spokesperson said on Monday.
Nigerian military leaders told Reuters the army has never targeted children for killing. They said the reporting in the article is an insult to Nigerians and part of a foreign effort to undermine the country's fight against the insurgents.
"We are pursuing further information, including from the Government of Nigeria and stakeholders working in this space," a State Department spokesperson said by email.
"We are still reviewing the report and will make decisions about next steps thereafter. Our Embassy in Abuja is seeking additional information, including by speaking to Nigerian authorities."
The Reuters report said intentional killings of children have occurred across northeast Nigeria, where the military has been battling Islamist extremists for 13 years.
Source: US News
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2022-12-14 03:23:58+00:00
Israeli Military Admits Shooting 16-Year-Old Palestinian Girl, Calls It ‘Unintentional’
The Israeli military admitted Monday that its troops shot Jana Zakarneh, a 16-year-old Palestinian girl who died during a raid in the occupied West Bank on Sunday night, saying she was killed by “unintentional” Israeli fire “aimed at armed gunmen.”
“Following an initial inquiry, it was determined that the girl who was killed was hit by unintentional fire aimed at armed gunmen on a roof in the area from which the force was fired upon,” the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) statement said.
“The IDF and its commanders regret any harm to uninvolved civilians, including those who are in a combat environment and in close proximity to armed terrorists during exchanges of fire,” the statement continued.
Jana’s uncle, Majed Zakarneh, told CNN on Monday that his niece “was shot with four bullets, two to her face, one to her neck, and one to her shoulder.”
The Israeli military were “heavily shooting everywhere. Jana was inside the house with her family and when she heard people screaming she went to the rooftop to see what is happening,” Zakarneh said.
“Twenty minutes after the soldiers left the neighborhood, her father went to look for her … He found her lying on the floor with a face full of blood,” Zakarneh said.
Source: CNN
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2022-12-14 02:05:08+00:00
Gov. Ron DeSantis Addresses Fauci's 'Tunnel Vision' on Covid-19 Deaths
"[In] 2020, obviously, there was an increase in excess mortality because COVID was there — then you have the mass introduction of mRNA vaccines in 2021. And you would think that there would be a reduction in excess mortality, and there just wasn't," stated DeSantis.
"It goes back to the tunnel vision of like a Fauci — only caring about this one infection. You have a vaccine that maybe reduces [Covid deaths], but if it's increasing other ways [of death], then you're not any better off."
Full Video: https://www.redvoicemedia.com/2022/12/desantis-announces-petition-to-investigate-any-and-all-wrongdoing-with-respect-to-the-jab/ref/8/
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2022-12-13 23:39:15+00:00
🚨BREAKING: Jack Dorsey Makes Public Statement On TwitterFiles
There's a lot of conversation around the #TwitterFiles. Here's my take, and thoughts on how to fix the issues identified. I'II start with the principles I've come to believe based on everything l've learned and experienced through my past actions as a Twitter co-founder and lead:
1. Social media must be resilient to corporate and government control.
2. Only the original author may remove content they produce.
3. Moderation is best implemented by algorithmic choice.
I don't want to edit everything into 280 char chunks, so here's the rest:
The biggest mistake I made was continuing to invest in building tools for us to manage the public conversation, versus building tools for the people using Twitter to easily manage it for themselves. This burdened the company with too much power, and opened us to significant outside pressure (such as advertising budgets).
I generally think companies have become far too powerful, and that became completely clear to me with our suspension of Trump’s account. As I’ve said before, we did the right thing for the public company business at the time, but the wrong thing for the internet and society. Much more about this here:
Keep reading: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/jackjack/issues/a-native-internet-protocol-for-social-media-1503112?via=twitter-card&client=DesktopWeb&element=issue-card
Source: Jack Dorsey
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2022-12-19 22:55:04+00:00
Tulsi Gabbard Pulls No Punches in Assessment of 'Autocratic' Justin Trudeau.
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2022-12-19 22:25:03+00:00
Exclusive: Davos 2023 will Feature BlackRock & TikTok CEOs, with WEF Demanding More Censorship and Tyranny
The World Economic Forum (WEF) will host its annual meeting in Davos next month, and for the second year in a row, The Dossier is the first publication to publish a list of speakers attending the invite-only, ruling class gathering in Switzerland.
The World Economic Forum is a fanatical political organization masquerading as a neutral entity, with specific policy goals that involve centralizing power into the hands of hand-picked global elites as the only means to save the earth from a claimed climate emergency. The annual Davos conference acts as an ultra exclusive in-person narrative and ideas exchange for this hand-picked ruling class. The WEF is led by frontman and president Klaus Schwab, who advocates for a “green transition” through his misleadingly named “stakeholder capitalism” agenda, which amounts to technocratic tyranny.
Movements such as The Great Reset, Build Back Better, and the ESG agenda were pieced together by WEF “stakeholders” at previous Davos confabs.
The Dossier has obtained an early, partial list of both events and confirmed speakers for Davos 2023.
The programme for Davos 2023 includes events such as:
“Why We Need Battery Passports”
“Leading The Charge Through Earth’s New Normal” (Featuring Al Gore)
“A Living Wage For All”
“Enabling An Equitable Transition”
“Beyond The Rainbow: Advancing LGBTQ+ Rights”
“Advancing Racial and Ethnic Equity” (Moderated by CNN)
“Decarbonizing Supply Chains” (Moderated by Chinese state television)
“Finding The Right Balance For Crypto”
“Tackling Harm In The Digital Era”
Speakers for Davos 2023 include:
WHO Director Tedros Adhanom
Laurence D. Fink, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, BlackRock Inc.
Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary-General of NATO
Shou Zi Chew, Chief Executive Officer, TikTok
Shamina Singh, President, Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, Mastercard
Former Vice President Al Gore
Hilde Schwab, Klaus Schwab’s wife
Tian Wei, Host, China Global Television Network
Elena Cherney, Chief News Editor of The Wall Street Journal
Ina Fried, ChiefTechnology Correspondent, Axios
Brad Smith, President and Vice-Chair, Microsoft Corp.
Hadley Gamble, Anchor, CNBC
Mark Rutte, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
Stacy-Marie Ishmael, Managing Editor, Crypto, Bloomberg News
Larry Madowo, Correspondent, CNN
Jeremy Allaire, CEO of Circle
Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple
In recent months, the WEF agenda has received fierce blowback in the United States from both the civilian population and leaders of free states in America.
It is not yet clear what the American contingent at Davos will look like for the 2023 meeting. In 2022, it included 25 politicians and top Biden Administration officials. U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo joined “Climate Czar” John Kerry as the White House representatives there. They were joined by 12 democrat and 10 republican politicians, including 7 senators and two state governors.
Source: The Dossier
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2022-12-19 22:05:05+00:00
🐦 Lex Fridman on Twitter: Fun suggestion @elonmusk Let me run Twitter for a bit. No salary. All in. Focus on great engineering and increasing the amount of love in the world.
Just offering my help in the unlikely case it's useful.
🐦 Elon Musk: You must like pain a lot. One catch: you have to invest your life savings in Twitter and it has been in the fast lane to bankruptcy since May. Still want the job?
🐦 Lex Fridman: Yes. We'll turn it around.
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2022-12-19 21:42:00+00:00
Ukraine rockets hitting center Donetsk about 30 min ago
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2022-12-19 21:41:27+00:00
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2022-12-19 21:04:02+00:00
This DC Party Invite Shows All The Money To Be Made Off the Ukraine War
A Ukrainian Embassy reception, sponsored by America’s biggest weapons manufacturers.
The invitation said the quiet part out loud.
The Ukrainian Embassy hosted a reception last week in honor of the 31st anniversary of the country’s armed services. Events like this are part of the social calendar of Washington’s smart set, with hobnobbing diplomats, think tankers, journalists, and US officials. Guests took photos with the Ukrainian ambassador. Even Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley showed up.
But there was something so overt it led some observers to laugh out loud at the gathering’s invitation.
The logos of military contractors Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Pratt & Whitney, and Lockheed Martin were emblazoned on the invitation as the event’s sponsors, below the official Ukrainian emblems and elegant blue script that said the Ukrainian ambassador and defense attaché “request the pleasure of your company.”
“It’s really bizarre to me that they would put that on an invitation,” one think tank expert told me. “The fact that they don’t feel sheepish about it, that’s interesting,” explained an academic. (Both spoke on the condition of anonymity and regularly attend embassy events in Washington.)
That Ukraine and those US military contractors have a strong relationship isn’t surprising. America’s allies and partners around the world bought some $50 billion in US weapons last year. These four companies produce some of the most high-profile missile defense systems and anti-tank missiles that President Joe Biden has sent to Ukraine since Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded in February. Neither is it surprising that Ukraine’s government, which says its country has already suffered hundreds of billions of dollars in damage, might not want to deplete its coffers.
But the explicit sponsorship indicates how intimate major military contractors have become with Ukraine, and how much they stand to gain from the war.
The invitation is a clear expression of how the war in Ukraine has been good for business. As Ukraine fights a defensive war against Russia’s brutal invasion, Ukrainians in Washington have been pushing for the US to send Ukraine more weapons. So far, President Joe Biden’s administration has committed a substantial $19.3 billion of military assistance since February.
Source: Vox
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2022-12-19 20:17:16+00:00
Democrats Warn Meta Not to Rollback Any “Misinformation” Policies
Democrat lawmakers sent a letter to Facebook warning the platform not to stop censorship.
In a letter to Meta’s president of global affairs Nick Clegg, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), and Reps. Andre Carson (D-IN), Adam Schiff (D-CA), and Kathy Castor (D-FL) hinted at Congressional action if Facebook attempts to “alter or rollback certain misinformation policies.”
Meanwhile, House Republicans have vowed to investigate social media companies over censorship when they take control of the House in January.
We obtained a copy of the letter for you here.
The letter also notes that “unlike other major social media platforms, Meta’s policies do not prohibit posts that make unsubstantiated claims about voter fraud.” The letter also called on the company to preserve bans on public figures like former President Donald Trump.
After former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey apologized for censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story in a senate hearing, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said that Congress would not condone any “backsliding or retrenching” by “failing to take action against dangerous disinformation.”
Source: ReclaimTheNet
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2022-12-19 19:07:46+00:00
This is how dumb our government thinks you are. They are trying to gas light you once again to make you believe you are the problem.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/money/fed-blames-inflation-on-americans-splurging-on-goods-not-the-trillions-of-dollars-they-printed
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2022-12-19 18:27:01+00:00
Chip Dilemma Will Buy Beijing Precious Time
America’s chip war against China will make only partial inroads in 2023. After unveiling sweeping new export restrictions in October, Washington appears to have successfully lobbied friendly governments including Japan and the Netherlands to join. A full anti-China alignment, however, will be tricky while global semiconductors demand slows.
The latest U.S. trade rules effectively make ultra-high-performance microprocessors used in supercomputers off limits to Chinese buyers; as are software and equipment required to make semiconductors above certain technological thresholds, including high-end memory chips from China’s YMTC.
The move has prompted Apple to freeze plans to buy components from YMTC, Nikkei reported. Yet, most of the chips made in and shipped to China are less advanced technologies unaffected by the restrictions. This blunts the hit for both Chinese and American companies. Last year, Chinese imports of integrated circuits and related equipment topped $466 billion.
The outlook for China-dependent players in South Korea, Japan and the Netherlands is more uncertain. Memory giants Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) and SK Hynix (000660.KS) have factories inside the People's Republic and won’t be able to maintain them without a U.S. licence. Both have secured a one-year waiver from the restrictions, but what happens afterwards is unclear.
For ASML (ASML.AS), which has a monopoly in advanced chipmaking equipment, the picture is similarly hazy. The company had already stopped exporting its most cutting-edge machines to China. But Washington policymakers are pressuring their Dutch and Japanese counterparts to also ban less sophisticated tools from ASML and Japanese peers. Both governments have agreed in principle to adopt “at least some” of the U.S restrictions, Bloomberg reported on Dec. 12. But the devil is in the details. Dutch Trade Minister Liesje Schreinemacher already said in November her government "will not copy the American measures one-to-one".
Curbs would be painful for the Veldhoven-based company: 2.7 billion euros, or 15% of total revenue, came from the People's Republic in 2021. Rival Nikon (7731.T) made sales of over 153 billion yen ($1.1 billion) in China, some 28% of total. Slowing demand is another worry: Total chip sales will shrink 4% to $557 billion in 2023, a sharp reversal from the 26% growth in 2021, according to World Semiconductor Trade Statistics.
That will probably make companies wary of quickly and fully embracing Washington's requests. The hesitancy will play in China’s favour. It will buy it time to stockpile on foreign components and tools and help President Xi Jinping court trade partners. As Beijing knows, wars are seldom fought and won unilaterally.
Source: Reuters
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2022-12-19 17:35:06+00:00
Study Claims Unvaccinated People Are at Higher Risk of Traffic Accidents, Seriously
A new study released this month by members of the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at Toronto University in Canada makes the bizarre claim that being unvaccinated is an indicator of psychological risk-taking and recklessness. The authors, Donald A. Redelmeier, MD, Jonathan Wang, MMASc, and Deva Thiruchelvam, Msc argue that data involving traffic accidents in which one or more people are admitted to the hospital for injuries shows a correlation between vaccination status and car wrecks.
Not surprisingly, the data sources involved in the study strongly support the original premise. But we'll get to that in a moment...
The first question one might ask is why in the world anyone would engage in such a study in the first place? The notion is out of left field and requires a couple initial assumptions – That unvaccinated people are a monolithic group that share the same psychological motivators, and that those motivators are dangerous. Without this rather biased assumption, it's unlikely that a group of doctors or scientists would dream up the study in the first place.
Of course, strange premises are not necessarily proof of rigged conclusions. So, let's get into motivations:
The authors of the study are all member of the University or Toronto Temerty Faculty and the Sunnybrooke Health Sciences Centre. This faculty and section of the university was funded by a $250 million grant from James C. Temerty and the Temerty Foundation in 2020; it was the single largest gift in Canadian history. The money was designated to various areas of the university, but a large portion went directly into Covid-19 research projects.
So who is James Temerty? He is a Ukrainian born citizen of Canada and the founder of Northland Power, but his non-profit foundation appears to be his primary focus. He is also on the advisory board of the Atlantic Council, a globalist think-tank out of Washington DC with many of the same ideological aims promoted by the World Economic Forum. In fact, members of the Atlantic Council are often invited to speak at WEF functions and none other than Klaus Schwab was the very first recipient of the Atlantic Council's “Global Citizen Award” several years ago.
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2022-12-19 17:11:27+00:00
🚨BREAKING: TWITTER FILES PART 7: The FBI & the Hunter Biden Laptop - Post 7
Indeed, Twitter executives *repeatedly* reported very little Russian activity.
E.g., on Sept 24, 2020, Twitter told FBI it had removed 345 “largely inactive” accounts “linked to previous coordinated Russian hacking attempts.” They “had little reach & low follower accounts."
In fact, Twitter debunked false claims by journalists of foreign influence on its platform
"We haven’t seen any evidence to support that claim” by @ oneunderscore__ @ NBC News of foreign-controlled bots.
“Our review thus far shows a small-scale domestic troll effort…”
Source: Michael Shellenberger
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2022-12-19 17:01:07+00:00
🚨BREAKING: TWITTER FILES PART 7: The FBI & the Hunter Biden Laptop - Post 6
They did the same to Facebook, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg. “The FBI basically came to us [and] was like, ‘Hey... you should be on high alert. We thought that there was a lot of Russian propaganda in 2016 election. There's about to be some kind of dump similar to that.'"
Were the FBI warnings of a Russian hack-and-leak operation relating to Hunter Biden based on *any* new intel?
No, they weren't
“Through our investigations, we did not see any similar competing intrusions to what had happened in 2016,” admitted FBI agent Elvis Chan in Nov.
Source: Michael Shellenberger
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2022-12-19 16:58:59+00:00
🚨BREAKING: TWITTER FILES PART 7: The FBI & the Hunter Biden Laptop - Post 5
And yet, during all of 2020, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies repeatedly primed Yoel Roth to dismiss reports of Hunter Biden’s laptop as a Russian “hack and leak” operation.
This is from a sworn declaration by Roth given in December 2020.
https://www.fec.gov/files/legal/murs/7827/7827_08.pdf
Source: Michael Shellenberger
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2022-12-19 16:57:34+00:00
🚨BREAKING: TWITTER FILES PART 7: The FBI & the Hunter Biden Laptop - Post 4
On Dec 2, Matt Taibbi described the debate inside Twitter over its decision to censor a wholly accurate article.
Since then, we have discovered new info that points to an organized effort by the intel community to influence Twitter & other platforms
First, it's important to understand that Hunter Biden earned *tens of millions* of dollars in contracts with foreign businesses, including ones linked to China's government, for which Hunter offered no real work. Here's an overview by investigative journalist @ peterschweizer
Source: Michael Shellenberger
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2022-12-19 16:52:16+00:00
🚨BREAKING: TWITTER FILES PART 7: The FBI & the Hunter Biden Laptop - Post 3
Shortly before 7 pm ET on October 13, Hunter Biden’s lawyer, George Mesires, emails JP Mac Isaac.
Hunter and Mesires had just learned from the New York Post that its story about the laptop would be published the next day.
At 9:22 pm ET (6:22 PT), FBI Special Agent Elvis Chan sends 10 documents to Twitter’s then-Head of Site Integrity, Yoel Roth, through Teleporter, a one-way communications channel from the FBI to Twitter.
The next day, October 14, 2020, The New York Post runs its explosive story revealing the business dealings of President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter. Every single fact in it was accurate.
And yet, within hours, Twitter and other social media companies censor the NY Post article, preventing it from spreading and, more importantly, undermining its credibility in the minds of many Americans.
Why is that? What, exactly, happened?
Source: Michael Shellenberger
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2022-12-19 16:50:37+00:00
🚨BREAKING: TWITTER FILES PART 7: The FBI & the Hunter Biden Laptop - Post 2
The story begins in December 2019 when a Delaware computer store owner named John Paul (J.P.) Mac Isaac contacts the FBI about a laptop that Hunter Biden had left with him
On Dec 9, 2019, the FBI issues a subpoena for, and takes, Hunter Biden's laptop.
By Aug 2020, Mac Isaac still had not heard back from the FBI, even though he had discovered evidence of criminal activity. And so he emails Rudy Giuliani, who was under FBI surveillance at the time. In early Oct, Giuliani gives it to @ nypost
NYP Article: Smoking-gun email reveals how Hunter Biden introduced Ukrainian businessman to VP dad
Source: Michael Shellenberger
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2022-12-19 16:47:15+00:00
🚨BREAKING: TWITTER FILES PART 7: The FBI & the Hunter Biden Laptop - Post 1
How the FBI & intelligence community discredited factual information about Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings both after and *before* The New York Post revealed the contents of his laptop on October 14, 2020
In Twitter Files #6, we saw the FBI relentlessly seek to exercise influence over Twitter, including over its content, its users, and its data.
In Twitter Files #7, we present evidence pointing to an organized effort by representatives of the intelligence community (IC), aimed at senior executives at news and social media companies, to discredit leaked information about Hunter Biden before and after it was published.
Source: Michael Shellenberger
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2022-12-19 16:25:02+00:00
Even Former Twitter Censor Expressed Discomfort With FBI Demands
Journalist Matt Taibbi has released a “Twitter Files Supplemental” which reveals that even Twitter’s former Head of Trust and Safety, Yoel Roth, was uncomfortable with some of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI’s) demands to the company.
Previous releases of internal Twitter documents and depositions have shown that the FBI had regular meetings with Twitter and other tech platforms. Twitter allowed the FBI to flag tweets and the FBI flagged jokes and satirical accounts for censorship as part of this process.
While serving as Twitter’s Head of Trust and Safety, Roth communicated and met with the FBI regularly. Roth was part of a high-level Twitter censorship team that made “the most politically sensitive decisions.” He also defended Twitter’s high-profile ban of satire site The Babylon Bee after he left Twitter.
Despite his support of much of Twitter’s censorship and his regular meetings with the FBI, even Roth was left “perplexed” by some of the agency’s demands.
In a July 2020 email, San Francisco FBI agent Elvis Chan told Roth that the Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF), an inter-agency group that tackles cyber threats, will be contacting Twitter with questions. Chan also noted that “there was quite a bit of discussion within the USIC [United States Intelligence Community] to get clarifications from your company.”
The questionnaire authors seemed unhappy that Twitter had indicated it “had not observed much recent activity from official propaganda actors” on its platform in a June 2020 meeting and pressed Twitter to provide extensive information on how it measures “official propaganda actors.”
Source: ReclaimTheNet
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2022-12-19 16:02:43+00:00
Twitter Files Supplemental: TWITTER AND THE FEDERAL TASK FORCE - Post 4/Final
That may be true, but we haven’t seen that in the documents to date. Instead, we’ve mostly seen requests for moderation involving low-follower accounts belonging to ordinary Americans – and Billy Baldwin.
Watch @ BariWeiss and @ ShellenbergerMD on twitter for more from the Twitter Files.
Source: Matt Taibbi
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2022-12-19 16:00:19+00:00
Twitter Files Supplemental: TWITTER AND THE FEDERAL TASK FORCE - Post 3
He then sent another note internally, saying the premise of the questions was “flawed,” because “we've been clear that official state propaganda is definitely a thing on Twitter.” Note the italics for emphasis.
Roth suggested they “get on the phone with Elvis ASAP and try to straighten this out,” to disabuse the agencies of any notion that state propaganda is not a “thing” on Twitter.
This exchange is odd among other things because some of the “bibliography” materials cited by the FITF are sourced to intelligence officials, who in turn cited the public sources.
The FBI responded to Friday’s report by saying it “regularly engages with private sector entities to provide information specific to identified foreign malign influence actors’ subversive, undeclared, covert, or criminal activities.”
Source: Matt Taibbi
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2022-12-19 15:58:53+00:00
Twitter Files Supplemental: TWITTER AND THE FEDERAL TASK FORCE - Post 2
The task force demanded to know how Twitter came to its unpopular conclusion. Oddly, it included a bibliography of public sources - including a Wall Street Journal article - attesting to the prevalence of foreign threats, as if to show Twitter they got it wrong.
Roth, receiving the questions, circulated them with other company executives, and complained that he was “frankly perplexed by the requests here, which seem more like something we'd get from a congressional committee than the Bureau.”
He added he was not “comfortable with the Bureau (and by extension the IC) demanding written answers.” The idea of the FBI acting as conduit for the Intelligence Community is interesting, given that many agencies are barred from domestic operations.
Source: Matt Taibbi
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2022-12-19 15:45:11+00:00
Twitter Files Supplemental: TWITTER AND THE FEDERAL TASK FORCE - Post 1
In July of 2020, San Francisco FBI agent Elvis Chan tells Twitter executive Yoel Roth to expect written questions from the Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF), the inter-agency group that deals with cyber threats.
The questionnaire authors seem displeased with Twitter for implying, in a July 20th “DHS/ODNI/FBI/Industry briefing,” that “you indicated you had not observed much recent activity from official propaganda actors on your platform.”
One would think that would be good news. The agencies seemed to feel otherwise.
Chan underscored this: “There was quite a bit of discussion within the USIC to get clarifications from your company,” he wrote, referring to the United States Intelligence Community.
Source: Matt Taibbi
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2022-12-19 15:24:01+00:00
FTX's Bankman-Fried to Appear in Bahamas Court; Expected to Waive Extradition
Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of now-bankrupt crypto exchange FTX, is expected to appear in court in the Bahamas on Monday and agree to be extradited to the United States, where he faces fraud charges.
Bankman-Fried initially said he would fight extradition after his arrest a week ago in the Bahamas, where he lives and FTX is based. He was denied bail and remanded to the Caribbean nation's Fox Hill prison.
The 30-year-old crypto mogul rode a boom in the value of Bitcoin and other digital assets to become a billionaire several times over and an influential political donor in the United States, until FTX collapsed in early November after a wave of withdrawals. The exchange declared bankruptcy on Nov. 11.
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan said Bankman-Fried stole billions of dollars in FTX customer deposits to plug losses at his crypto hedge fund, Alameda Research. They accuse Bankman-Fried of misleading lenders and investors, conspiring to launder money, and violating U.S. campaign finance laws.
Bankman-Fried has acknowledged risk management failures at FTX but said he does not believe he has criminal liability.
Source: Reuters
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2022-12-19 14:25:10+00:00
Henry Kissinger Calls for Negotiated Peace in Ukraine to Avoid World War
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has again come out in favor of negotiations to end the war in Ukraine in an article for The Spectator titled “How to Avoid Another World War.”
Kissinger said that he “repeatedly expressed my support for the allied military effort to thwart Russia’s aggression in Ukraine” but that he thought there was room for negotiations.
“The time is approaching to build on the strategic changes which have already been accomplished and to integrate them into a new structure towards achieving peace through negotiation,” he wrote.
Kissinger angered Kyiv and hawks in Washington back in May when he suggested Ukraine should cede Crimea and territory the Donbas separatists controlled before the February 24 invasion to achieve peace. In his essay, Kissinger suggested a similar idea, although he said Ukraine could no longer be neutral and must be aligned with NATO.
“Ukraine has acquired one of the largest and most effective land armies in Europe, equipped by America and its allies. A peace process should link Ukraine to NATO, however expressed. The alternative of neutrality is no longer meaningful, especially after Finland and Sweden joined NATO,” Kissinger said.
Source: Antiwar.com
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2022-12-18 23:25:10+00:00
Twitter Bans the Sharing/Promotion of Other Social Media Platforms
"We recognize that many of our users are active on other social media platforms. However, we will no longer allow free promotion of certain social media platforms on Twitter.
Specifically, we will remove accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting other social platforms and content that contains links or usernames for the following platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post.
We still allow cross-posting content from any social media platform. Posting links or usernames to social media platforms not listed above are also not in violation of this policy.
More information on this policy, as well as how we will take action on violations, can be found here:
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2022-12-18 15:18:08+00:00
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2022-12-18 02:53:36+00:00
Bombshell Report from DailyClout Team Finds Massive Hypertension Signal After the Shots
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2022-12-18 01:02:22+00:00
US Will More Than Double Its Training Program for Ukrainian Troops
The Pentagon is planning a major expansion of the number of Ukrainian troops that it will train in Germany and aims to start the new program in early 2023, US officials told The New York Times on Thursday.
The expanded program will enable the US military to train up to 800 Ukrainian troops each month, a battalion-sized force. The US has been training Ukrainian forces in Germany and other undisclosed locations in Europe since earlier in the war at a rate of about 300 troops per month, according to Pentagon statistics.
President Biden has already approved the new training program, which will take place at a US Army base in Grafenwoehr, Germany. Previous training efforts have been focused on using specific weapons systems, such as the HIMARS rocket systems. But the new program will be more advanced and will include battlefield tactics, such as coordinating infantry maneuvers with artillery support.
The US training program will reflect what Ukrainians have been going through in the UK. The British military started the program in the summer with the goal of training 10,000 Ukrainian troops in infantry tactics.
The new US training program reflects the ever-increasing US involvement in the war in Ukraine. The US is set to open a new command center in Germany that will be entirely dedicated to arming and training Ukrainian forces, signaling that Washington is planning to support a proxy war against Russia for years to come.
Source: Antiwar.com
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2022-12-17 23:25:02+00:00
'None of The Terms Mean Anything, Its Either Centralized or Decentralized' - Alex Jones on Michael Malice
You can call it fascist, you can call it communist - I really call it a managed capitalist economy using fascist and communist techniques for control, with a lower floor of the social credit score and universal basic income once they've gotten rid of the real economy. So we'll be communist at the grassroots, controlled by local commissars with nothing. Then a two-tiered society with a manager class, and a group on top that are the owners.
And if you actually read the white papers put out by the GOP and DNC think-tanks..look at Clinton and Obama speeches at top universities.
Obama was in South America, telling a big class of law graduates that 'you will be a communist country, but you will work with a capitalist country, and you'll be the manager class.' So none of the terms mean anything, its either centralized or decentralized.
Source: Michael Malice
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2022-12-17 21:25:02+00:00
Senate Passed Massive $858 Billion NDAA, Awaits Biden's Approval
The Senate on Thursday night passed the massive $858 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) in a vote of 83-11. The spending bill has already been approved by the House and now heads to President Biden’s desk for his signature.
The $858 billion bill is $45 billion more than Biden asked for and represents an 8% increase from the 2022 NDAA. It marks the second year in a row that Congress added tens of billions of dollars to the president’s original request, as massive military spending is popular on both sides of the aisle.
Out of the $858 billion, $817 billion will go to the Pentagon, and the remaining funds will go toward military spending for other departments, including $30 billion for the Energy Department’s nuclear weapons program.
The NDAA will ramp up tensions with Russia and China as it includes amendments that will help the US send more arms to Ukraine and Taiwan. One measure will give the Pentagon wartime purchasing powers by allowing non-competitive, multi-year contracts for certain arms. The authority could be used to refill US stockpiles, arm Ukraine, and assist foreign governments that have provided support for Ukraine.
Ukraine will also receive $800 million in the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative from the NDAA, a program that allows the US government to purchase weapons for Kyiv. The vast majority of aid for Ukraine will still be authorized as emergency funds, and the White House is currently seeking an additional $37.7 billion, which is expected to be included in an omnibus spending bill Congress wants to pass before the end of the year.
When it comes to arming Taiwan, the spending bill will give Taiwan $3 billion in annual military aid and includes other provisions to increase informal diplomatic ties with Taipei. Other notable amendments include $11.5 billion in new investments for the Pacific Deterrence Initiative, a program to build up in the Asia Pacific to confront China, and the bill will roll back the Pentagon’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate.
Source: Antiwar.com
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2022-12-17 20:56:41+00:00
"It Has Gone Missing": Israeli Government Claims to Have Lost the Agreement with Pfizer for COVID-19 Vaccines
🇮🇱💉@COVID19Up: The Israeli government has just admitted in court that it can't find the contracts under which the experimental COVID-19 mRNA injections operated.
Israeli's Ministry of Health quietly revealed in court on Wednesday (Dec. 14): “We cannot locate the signed agreement with Pfizer. It has gone missing.”
“We didn't find the signed agreement. We looked everywhere.”
“Due to government change, we are not sure if an agreement was signed or not.”
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2022-12-17 20:05:05+00:00
This is an official vaccination campaign of the city of Vienna aimed at encouraging the youth population to get booster shots.
It is disturbing that threats of violence are used and considered legitimate. In this video, the mascot Boosta kidnaps a teenager to force her to get vaccinated.
Channel: @Goddek
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2022-12-17 19:40:22+00:00
Peru President Urges Congress To Bring Elections Forward Amid Deadly Protests
Peruvian President Dina Boluarte, who has said she is leading a transitional government, urged the country's Congress to pass a proposal to bring forward general elections in a news conference from the presidential palace on Saturday.
Boluarte, formerly Peru's vice president, assumed the presidency earlier this month after leftist then-President Pedro Castillo tried to illegally dissolve Congress and was arrested.
Since then, protests have broken out across the country, and at least 17 people have been killed. Another five have died of indirect consequences of the protests, according to authorities.
Boluarte on Saturday countered protesters asking for her to step down, saying "that does not solve the problem" and that she had done her part by sending the bill to Congress.
On Friday, Peru's Congress rejected the proposed constitutional reform to move elections forward to December 2023. Some members of Congress have called for the legislature to reconsider the proposal.
Source: Reuters
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2022-12-17 18:49:57+00:00
Ukraine Furious as EU Plans to Refine Sanctions on Russian Fertilizer Exports
The European Union has agreed to redefine sanctions on some Russian exports to make it easier for poorer nations to import Russia’s fertilizer products. While a group of Western states say the amended policy will help to ease a growing food crisis in Africa, Kiev was outraged at the EU for taking any steps that could even slightly ease the economic war on Moscow.
The tight blockade on Russian agricultural exports has opened a rift between EU members, with several Western European countries arguing that the sanctions are fueling hunger in the third world while pushing to alter the existing policy. However, Poland led a bloc of nations in Eastern Europe which insisted the penalties must continue, calling to keep up maximum pressure on Russia’s economy.
The two sides reached a compromise by modifying the language of the sanctions to clarify that third countries are permitted to import Russian fertilizer, according to Politico, which noted the agreement will take effect on Friday if it faces no opposition from other EU members. The decision made Ukrainian officials irate, with Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba later condemning the move on Twitter.
“Attempts to allow Russian oligarchs and companies to derogate from the already imposed EU sanctions deal a blow to the entire sanctions regime, undermine support for Ukraine & our joint effort to stop Putin’s war machine. We strongly oppose them & thank EU members who do so too,” he wrote.
While the EU sanctions do not specifically target Moscow’s fertilizer exports, the blacklisting of several Russian businessmen – as well as the overall legal uncertainty created by the economic war – have complicated purchases of Russian agricultural products.
Source: Libertarian Institute
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2022-12-17 17:25:07+00:00
Bank For International Settlements Basel Committee Finalizes Policy Suggesting 2% Bitcoin Exposure Cap For Banks
The Bank for International Settlements' (BIS) Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has finalized a proposed policy that would place a 2% limit on banks' Tier 1 capital held in bitcoin. This comes with an endorsement from the Group of Central Bank Governors and Heads of Supervision (GHOS), the oversight body of the Basel Committee, which is the “primary global standard setter for the prudential regulation of banks.”
Investopedia defines Tier 1 capital as “the core capital held in a bank's reserves [that] is used to fund business activities for the bank's clients. It includes common stock, as well as disclosed reserves and certain other assets.”
The policy includes bitcoin in its definition of Group 2 crypto assets, saying that “In addition to any tokenised traditional assets and stablecoins that fail the classification conditions, Group 2 includes all unbacked cryptoassets.” It later describes that “a bank’s total exposure to Group 2 cryptoassets should not generally be higher than 1% of the bank’s Tier 1 capital and must not exceed 2% of the bank’s Tier 1 capital.”
Source: Bitcoin.com
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2022-12-17 16:57:43+00:00
RFK JR Responds to Carlson Calling Out The CIA For Kennedy Assassination
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. responded on twitter to this segment:
"The most courageous newscast in 60 years. The CIA's murder of my uncle was a successful coup d'état from which our democracy has never recovered."
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2022-12-17 16:22:16+00:00
Lawsuits and protests have delayed Amazon's plans to build its headquarters on the River Club site. Since Amazon got approval to build the $250 million office complex, groups aligned with the Khoisan have opposed the project and have tried to derail construction.
https://www.news24.com/fin24/companies/amazon-ancient-tribe-face-off-over-cape-town-office-20221217
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2022-12-17 02:25:10+00:00
"YOUR WELCOME" with Michael Malice #237: Alex Jones
Michael Malice (“YOUR WELCOME”) is joined by the one and only, Alex Jones, to talk about his controversial interview with Kanye West, the impact of the recent legal judgments, what he views controlled opposition to me, and Elon Musk’s public call to prosecute Fauci. Michael and Alex also debate the “worst president in US History” and how one person, by all definitions, takes the title.
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2022-12-17 01:19:23+00:00
US Believes Ukraine Can Retake Crimea, But May Provoke Nuclear Escalation
The White House believes Ukraine’s military could retake the Crimean Peninsula from Russia. However, officials say the offensive may cross Moscow’s "red lines" and prompt a nuclear strike.
The Biden administration has radically changed its view of Kiev’s military since Russia invaded nearly ten months ago. The Ukrainians "continue to shock the world with how well they’re performing on the battlefield," an unnamed official said.
The White House now assesses that the Ukrainian armed forces are capable of retaking Crimea, with NBC News reporting that statements to that effect were made to lawmakers during a Congressional hearing last month. The administration official was attempting to explain to Congress why Kiev still needs American support.
The Crimean Peninsula was a region of Ukraine before it was annexed by Russia in 2014. While a referendum of Crimean citizens backed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision, Kiev and Washington assert the peninsula still belongs to Ukraine.
Sources reached by NBC News said the White House believes Putin will respond sharply to a successful Ukrainian offensive in Crimea. "Putin may react more strongly to Crimea," one official said, while a former administration staffer added "That’s the red line."
Source: Antiwar.com
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2022-12-16 23:22:10+00:00
“This isn’t a Political Issue.” - Michael Malice on Child Porn With Lex Fridman
Michael Malice discussing Elon Musk making the removal of child sexual exploitation the top priority of Twitter 2.0 on the Lex Fridman podcast
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2022-12-21 21:55:09+00:00
Biden and Zelenskiy Show Solidarity at White House in First Wartime Visit
Presidents Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Joe Biden showed solidarity at the White House on Wednesday in the first foreign trip of the war for the Ukrainian leader, as the United States announced new military aid including Patriot missiles.
Zelenskiy plans to seek more support during the trip. The Ukrainian president, wearing his trademark olive green pants and sweater, Biden and first lady Jill posed on the White House lawn before the two leaders spoke at the Oval Office in front of reporters.
"It's an honor to be by your side in the united defense against what is a brutal, brutal war," said Biden of Europe's biggest land conflict since World War Two, which has killed tens of thousands, driven millions from their homes and reduced cities to ruins.
"It's hard to believe: 300 days," Biden said of the invasion. Some in Moscow expected the campaign to achieve a rapid victory; instead the conflict has ground on.
Source: Reuters
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2022-12-21 21:22:56+00:00
NEW - FBI responds to Twitter Files: "Conspiracy theorists and others are feeding the American public misinformation with the sole purpose of attempting to discredit the agency."
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2022-12-21 20:55:08+00:00
Bloomberg article from March 18, 2008: Young Global Leaders--Anderson Cooper and Leonardo DiCaprio Are In The Most Exclusive Private Social Network In The World.
"The World Economic Forum out of Davos just announced its new 2008 list of YGLs—Young Global Leaders...
Elon Musk, the chairman of Tesla Motors, the much-publicized electric sports-car company, is a new YGL"
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2022-12-21 20:25:01+00:00
Dispatcher Lit Ohio Forest Fires ‘To Give the Boys Something to Do,’ Feds Say
A volunteer fire department administrator and former 911 dispatcher admitted to starting several fires in a national forest “to give the boys something to do and to distract himself from depression,” according to federal authorities.
Now the 50-year-old man from Patriot, Ohio, is charged in federal court.
James A. Bartels, a Greenfield Township Volunteer Fire Department administrator and former Gallia County dispatcher, was arrested Tuesday, Dec. 20, and charged in connection to 24 arson fires in Wayne National Forest, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Ohio.
His defense attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment from McClatchy News on Dec. 21. In a probable cause statement, a U.S. Forest Service officer said he was tasked with investigating over 40 wildfires lit on federal land and administered by Wayne National Forest since the spring.
Source: MiamiHerald
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2022-12-21 19:25:11+00:00
Zelensky Headed to Washington for ‘Weapons, Weapons, and More Weapons’
President Biden confirmed on Wednesday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is on his way to Washington for his first foreign trip since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24.
Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor to Zelensky, said the Ukrainian President will be seeking “weapons, weapons, and more weapons.” He said it’s important for Zelensky to “ 'personally explain' why Ukraine needs certain types of weapons.”
“In particular, armored vehicles, the latest missile defense systems, and long-range missiles,” Podolyak said. Ukraine is set to receive some of the new weapons that it seeks. A senior US official told Reuters that Biden is expected to announce a new $2 billion arms package for Ukraine that will include Patriot missile defense systems for the first time.
The patriots are an advanced system that will take six months to train Ukrainians how to use. Russia has repeatedly warned against the US providing Patriots, warning they will be a legitimate target for Russian forces.
While in Washington, Zelensky is expected to address Congress, which is set to pass $45 billion in new aid for Ukraine, bringing total US spending on the war to about $112 billion. The Ukrainian leader addressed Congress virtually back in March and asked for the US to impose a no-fly zone over Ukraine, which would require the US to shoot down Russian warplanes and bomb missile systems inside Russia.
Source: Antiwar.com
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2022-12-21 19:02:01+00:00
🚨BREAKING: Kentucky Senator Says Transgender Son has Died by Suicide
A Kentucky state senator said Tuesday that her transgender son, a trans rights advocate on whom “a lack of acceptance took a toll,” has died by suicide. He was 24.
Democratic Sen. Karen Berg said her son Henry Berg-Brousseau “long struggled with mental illness, not because he was trans but born from his difficulty finding acceptance.” She said he died on Friday.
The Louisville lawmaker said her son had just received a big promotion working for the Human Rights Campaign, which advocates for LGBTQ rights. He had finally found a community, she said, “but that could not undo the brokenness that he already felt.”
Berg has talked about her son during legislative proceedings as she opposed Kentucky bills that take aim at transgender people, which have increasingly passed in Republican statehouses across the country. That includes a 2022 law that bars transgender girls and women from participating in school sports matching their gender identity from sixth grade through college.
“On a daily basis at his job Henry would be aware of the hateful and vile anti-trans messaging being circulated around this country and focused at his workplace,” Berg said in a news release. “This hate building across the country weighed on him. In one of our last conversations he wondered if he was safe walking down the street.”
Source: NBC
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2022-12-21 18:37:51+00:00
Toronto: Eight Teenage Girls Charged With Deadly Stabbing
Police said the girls, aged between 13 and 16, seem to have met online before meeting in person on the night of the attack, possibly for the first time. They were arrested near the crime scene shortly after midnight on Sunday. The man, who has not been named, had been living in a shelter for the homeless at the time of the assault.
"He does have a very supportive family in the area so I wouldn't necessarily call him homeless, maybe just recently on some hard luck," Toronto Police Detective Sergeant Terry Browne told reporters.
Officer Browne said the girls are believed to have assaulted and stabbed the victim in Toronto's downtown core, an area filled with high-end condominium towers and hotels, following an altercation. Police believe the man may have been preyed upon because he was spotted carrying alcohol.
A group of bystanders flagged down emergency services after finding the man with stab wounds, Mr Browne said. The man was rushed to a nearby hospital with serious injuries and died shortly after. Police recovered several weapons, but did not say exactly which type. Police said the teenagers "swarmed" the man, adding the attack was a prolonged "back and forth" on the victim involving all eight of the teenagers.
"The actual incident, proper, lasted almost three minutes long," Mr Browne said. "So, walked away, walked toward, walked away, walked toward."
Police have not called the teenage girls a gang. The "anomaly" of this attack, Detective Browne said, is that the girls all came from different parts of the city and did not appear to have met in person prior to the attack. Three of the girls had prior run-ins with police.
"We don't know how or why they met on that evening," he said.
A female resident of a nearby homeless shelter told the CBC the victim was stabbed in the stomach after trying to protect her when the girls approached her for alcohol.
"I didn't know if they had a knife or what. I was just scared," the woman said, explaining how she walked away from the attackers and sought refuge in the shelter.
Source: BBC
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2022-12-21 17:55:10+00:00
UK Doctors Issue Urgent Call for Government Investigation of mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines
🇬🇧💉@COVID19Up: Many doctors, in the UK and internationally, have become increasingly concerned about the safety profile of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines and the continued rollout of these products to the public, including pregnant women and children.
On Wednesday (Dec. 21), Doctors for Patients UK (DFPUK) issued an urgent call for an investigation.
DFPUK was launched in September 2022 and has become a fast-growing group of UK doctors who are dedicated to practicing ethical, evidence-based, patient-focused medicine. The group was born out of increasing concerns that core principles of medical ethics are being disregarded, such as the oath to “First do no harm,” respect for individual bodily autonomy and the need to obtain full and informed consent for all medical interventions.
Several of these doctors have submitted multiple Yellow Card reports of adverse events to the MHRA, and have signed letters to the JCVI, MHRA, the RCOG, Prime Minister and others to express their concerns, but have seen little or no response or action taken.
In this video, doctors from DFPUK share their individual perspectives, clinical experiences and serious ethical concerns, in the hope that urgent action will finally be taken by the authorities.
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2022-12-21 17:25:05+00:00
Meta Likely Has Your Phone Number and Email, Even if You Never Shared Them. Here’s How to Delete This Data.
One of the main ways Facebook gathered data in its early days was by encouraging new users to share their contacts with the platform. This resulted in many people having their phone numbers and email addresses shared with the tech giant, even if they never signed up to use Facebook or its other services.
For many years, there was no easy way for people to determine whether their data had been harvested in this way and to delete any phone numbers or email addresses that had been collected without their consent. But earlier this year, Facebook’s parent company Meta quietly rolled out a tool that lets you check whether Facebook, Instagram, or Messenger has a copy of your phone number or email address, delete this information from Meta’s “address book database”, and block it from being uploaded to this database in the future.
When you delete and block an address or phone number, Meta keeps a copy of the data in its “block list.” However, Meta says the data will no longer be used to see if it’s associated with an active Facebook, Instagram, or Facebook account, to make contact suggestions on these platforms, to invite non-users to join these platforms, and to “conduct business intelligence and analytics.”
You can access this Meta data deletion tool by clicking or tapping here.
Source: ReclaimTheNet
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2022-12-21 16:55:02+00:00
Notice how everyone is sick right now? Common colds, the flu and similar ailments seem to be surging. As you may remember yours truly was even struck with a bout of the flu recently. Which is a particularly rare occurrence.
This is yet another consequence of lockdown mandates and a reflection of their failure. Since the beginning of the C19 hysteria anyone with common sense and an understanding of basic biology warned that among many other consequences locking down all of society would create an immunity deficit. In layman's terms; restricting exposure to endemic pathogens to which we have already acquired herd immunity, like flues and similar seasonal illnesses, causes a decreased rate of antibodies weakening the immune system and making one more susceptible to future infection.
So in addition to the catastrophic consequences of lockdown mandates and the millions of lives that they completely destroyed, they're also responsible for getting society sicker as a whole. And those responsible for them still need to be held to account.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/be-the-change/how-the-experts-silenced-their-critics-and-the-lockdowns-made-us-sicker
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2022-12-21 16:26:01+00:00
Europe’s $1 Trillion Energy Bill Only Marks Start of the Crisis
Europe got hit by roughly $1 trillion from surging energy costs in the fallout of Russia’s war in Ukraine, and the deepest crisis in decades is only getting started.
After this winter, the region will have to refill gas reserves with little to no deliveries from Russia, intensifying competition for tankers of the fuel. Even with more facilities to import liquefied natural gas coming online, the market is expected to remain tight until 2026, when additional production capacity from the US to Qatar becomes available. That means no respite from high prices.
“Getting gas is an absolute necessity and we will likely see widespread European hoarding,” said Bjarne Schieldrop, chief commodities analyst at Swedish bank SEB AB, predicting a “seller’s market” for at least the next 12 months . “The race is on to fill EU natural gas inventories” before next winter.
The main source of pipeline gas from Russia to Western Europe was Nord Stream, which was damaged in an act of sabotage in September. The region is still receiving a small amount of Russian supplies through Ukraine, but heavy shelling of energy infrastructure puts the route at risk. Without this gas line, refilling storage will be challenging.
For the likes of Germany, which rely on affordable energy to make products from cars to chemicals, high costs mean losing competitiveness to the US and China. That puts pressure on Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s administration to maintain support for the economy.
“Given the potentially enormous political and social repercussions of the energy price explosion and the shock to the backbone of the German economy, it is important for the German government to step in,” said Isabella Weber, an economist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who’s known as the inventor of Germany’s gas price break.
“The biggest task out of the crisis is to make the energy transition happen,” said Veronika Grimm, an economic adviser to the German government. “We have to massively expand renewables.”
Source: BNNBloomberg
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2022-12-21 16:05:26+00:00
A Top Australian Doctor and Former C19 Vaccine Advocate Has Just Revealed Her “Devastating” Injuries, Now Warns of Risks
🇦🇺💉@COVID19Up: On Monday (Dec. 19), Dr. Kerryn Phelps—a former member of the Australian Parliament who in 2000 became the first female president of the Australian Medical Association—revealed that both she and her wife have suffered severe and ongoing injuries from the COVID-19 vaccines, writes Michelle Edwards.
Moreover, due to “threats” from medical regulators and well-documented underreporting, Phelps estimates that the accurate rate of adverse events is far higher than is being acknowledged.
Dr. Phelps, the most prominent public health figure in Australia to voice serious concerns about the COVID-19 mRNA injections, is calling for more research on the shot’s long-term adverse events. She explained that she and her wife were falsely told myocarditis and pericarditis were “rare” and that “the worst thing that could happen would be anaphylaxis.”
After much suffering, Phelps has finally gone public with the “devastating” experience she has endured, as reported exclusively by News.com.au. In a bombshell submission to the Australian Parliament’s Long COVID inquiry, Phelps explained:
“This is an issue that I have observed first-hand with my wife, who suffered a severe neurological reaction to her first Pfizer vaccine within minutes, including burning face and gums, paraesethesiae, and numb hands and feet, while under observation by myself, another doctor and a registered nurse at the time of immunization.
I continue to observe the devastating effects a year-and-a-half later with the addition of fatigue and additional neurological symptoms including nerve pains, altered sense of smell, visual disturbance, and musculoskeletal inflammation. The diagnosis and causation has been confirmed by several specialists who have told me that they have seen ‘a lot’ of patients in a similar situation.”
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2022-12-21 15:25:00+00:00
US Launches Raids in Eastern Syria, Says Six ISIS Members Captured
US Central Command on Tuesday said that US forces launched raids in eastern Syria and captured six ISIS “operatives,” marking the second time this month that CENTCOM conducted operations against ISIS.
“Over the past 48 hours, US Central Command forces conducted three helicopter raids in eastern Syria resulting in the detention of six ISIS operatives, including al-Zubaydi, an Islamic State Syria Province Senior Official involved in the planning and facilitation of ISIS attacks in Syria,” CENTCOM said in a press release.
According to The New York Times, the raids were conducted by US special operations forces alongside members of the Kurdish-led SDF. “These partnered operations reaffirm CENTCOM’s steadfast commitment to the region and the enduring defeat of ISIS,” said Gen. Michael Kurilla, the head of CENTCOM.
CENTCOM said earlier this month that US forces conducted a helicopter raid in eastern Syria on December 11 in which two ISIS “officials” were killed in a three-hour gun battle. In all the operations this month, CENTCOM insisted that no civilians were harmed, but the Pentagon is known for undercounting civilian casualties, and few details have been shared about the raids.
ISIS controls no significant territory in Syria, and US operations against the group are usually against a small number of fighters. The US maintains that its occupation of eastern Syria is necessary to fight ISIS, but the presence is more about the economic campaign against Damascus, which involves crippling economic sanctions that are having a devastating impact on Syrian civilians.
Tensions have been high in northeast Syria between Turkey and the US-backed SDF since Ankara launched a series of airstrikes against the group in November over their alleged role in a bombing in Istanbul. Unhappy with the US effort to stop a Turkish incursion, the SDF is looking to make a deal with Damascus, but such an arrangement is unlikely as long as the US remains in Syria.
Source: Antiwar.com
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2022-12-21 14:25:00+00:00
Hybrid Wheat Hitting U.S. Fields as War, Climate Threaten Global Food Supplies
Global seed maker Syngenta will release a new type of wheat developed with complex cross-breeding techniques in the United States next year, beating out rival companies that are also trying to develop higher yielding wheat at a time of diminishing global grain supplies.
The hybrid wheat, which combines positive traits from two parent plants, arrives after severe weather slashed grain harvests and the Ukraine war disrupted shipments to hungry importers, sending prices to record highs this spring.
Syngenta, which began working on hybrid wheat in 2010, told Reuters enough seeds will be on the market next year for U.S. farmers to plant about 5,000 to 7,000 acres.
Though a tiny fraction of the nation's plantings, the previously unreported total represents the company's biggest ever release of hybrid wheat. It could open the door for larger seedings in 2024 and beyond, as war and climate change make the world's food supplies increasingly vulnerable.
Source: Reuters
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2022-12-21 04:25:11+00:00
Iran & Russia Have Entered "Full-Fledged Defense Partnership," US Warns
The US has alleged that relations between Iran and Russia have reached a "full fledged defense partnership" - based on the words of the US State Department's Ned Price.
Price explained that Iran has continued its shipments of drones to the Russian military, at a moment drones have continued to pound Ukrainian cities, particularly targeting energy infrastructure - plunging at least half the country into darkness, and resulting in rolling emergency blackouts.
Price went on the explain that the constant supply of drones and other munitions has in return resulted in Moscow giving back "unprecedented level of military and technical support to Iran... that should concern Iran’s neighbors."
Source: Zerohedge
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2022-12-21 03:54:26+00:00
MSG's Facial Recognition Stops Mom From Attending Christmas Show With Child
Madison Square Garden used facial recognition to identify and stop a mom from attending a Christmas show with her kid because she's an attorney at a firm who is engaged in litigation with them.
On a similar front, Jason Bassler recently pointed out that:
"The TSA is quietly testing facial recognition in these airports:
Atlanta
Boston
Baltimore
DC
Denver
Dallas
Detroit
Gulfport
Jackson
Las Vegas
Los Angeles
Orlando
Miami
Phoenix
San Jose
SLC
Next year they want to convert all airports into digital ID/facial recognition systems.
They claim the scanning is immediately overwritten. But the TSA did acknowledge there are cases in which it holds onto the data for up to 24 months so its "science and technology office can evaluate the system's effectiveness."
TSA now wants to scan your face at security. Here are your rights.
Source: NBC
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2022-12-21 03:19:43+00:00
It's hard to go through documents and information like this and not believe that some of these people are indeed out there.
https://thepulse.one/2021/11/03/the-paranormal-writing-ability-of-a-gifted-girl-described-in-declassified-cia-document/
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2022-12-21 02:46:05+00:00
Buffalo, New York Sues Gun Makers, Accusing Industry of Fueling Violence
The upstate New York city of Buffalo on Tuesday filed a lawsuit in state court accusing major gun manufacturers of fueling violence through irresponsible marketing and sales practices.
Defendants in the lawsuit include Smith & Wesson Brands Inc (SWBI.O), Beretta USA Corp, Bushmaster Firearms Industries Inc, Colt's Manufacturing Co LLC and Glock Inc. The city is seeking an unspecified money award to combat gun violence.
The case appeared to be the first time a city has sued major gun companies under a 2021 New York law that allows lawsuits against gun makers and sellers for creating a "public nuisance" through their business practices.
Source: Reuters
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2022-12-21 01:49:02+00:00
Russian Military Says US-Made Missiles Shot Down Over Western Russia
The Russian Defense Ministry on Monday said that four US-made AGM-88 HARM anti-radar missiles were intercepted over Belgorod, an oblast in western Russia that borders Ukraine.
The AGM-88 HARMs are air-to-surface missiles that are designed to home in on electronic signals emitted by radar systems. The Pentagon revealed in August that it began providing Ukraine with the AGM-88 HARMs and said they could be fired by Ukrainian aircraft.
“In the airspace of the Belgorod Region, four American HARM anti-radar missiles were shot down,” a Russian Defense Ministry spokesman said, according to Russian’s TASS news agency.
Belgorod had come under attack throughout the war, including on Sunday, when the region’s governor said one person was killed and another eight were wounded by Ukrainian shelling.
This week’s attacks on Belgorod come after The Times reported that the Pentagon has given Ukraine its tacit endorsement of strikes on Russian territory, which risks a major escalation of the war. Publicly, Biden administration officials recently said that Ukraine could use US-provided weapons however they want.
The Times report said that the US was no longer concerned that Ukrainian attacks inside Russia could lead to a major escalation based only on the fact that Moscow hasn’t yet responded with nuclear weapons or attacks on NATO countries.
Source: Antiwar.com
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2022-12-21 01:05:06+00:00
FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Will Fly From Bahamas to U.S. Wednesday to Face Criminal Charges
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried signed extradition papers in the Bahamas and will return to the U.S. on Wednesday, a Bahamas prison official told NBC News.
Doan Cleare, Bahamas’ acting Commissioner of Corrections, confirmed on Tuesday that Bankman-Fried will fly to the U.S. on federal aircraft following his third courtroom hearing this week.
A source familiar with the matter told CNBC that Bankman-Fried’s team is not anticipating further issues with the process.
Bankman-Fried, his U.S. counsel, and his local Bahamian attorney have appeared at odds over the last two days, resulting in confusion and chaos in the Nassau courtroom.
Bankman-Fried faces eight federal charges, including wire fraud, securities fraud, and money laundering, related to the collapse of his crypto exchange, which sank into bankruptcy last month.
Source: CNBC
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2022-12-21 00:45:13+00:00
🚨BREAKING: Pelosi Alerts All House Members to Be Physically Present for Wednesday ‘Special’ Session
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) alerted all House members to be physically present at the United States Capitol for a "special" session on Wednesday.
The alert, sent to all colleagues in the form of a letter, only gave the reason that the "very special session" would feature a "very special focus on Democracy." While no elaboration was given, the letter, obtained by the Washington Examiner, coincides with reports that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will visit the U.S. Capitol in person on Wednesday.
"We are ending a very special session of the 117th Congress with legislation that makes progress for the American people as well as support for our Democracy," the letter reads. "Please be present for a very special focus on Democracy Wednesday night."
Sources told Axios and Semafor that Zelensky's trip is not yet certain and is reliant on a number of factors, including security. If true, however, it would be the Ukrainian president's first foreign trip since Russia's Feb. 24 invasion of the country.
He is expected to thank the U.S. for the military aid that has proven instrumental in halting the Russian advance while making pleas for more. The leadership of the embattled country has increasingly warned of the possibility that Russia could attempt a renewed offensive in the new year against Kyiv itself, and Ukraine's power grid continues to be crippled by missile and drone attacks.
Source: Washington Examiner
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2022-12-21 00:25:13+00:00
Biden and Zelensky Planning to Meet in Washington for Ukrainian President’s First Foreign Trip Since War Began
President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky are planning to meet at the White House on Wednesday, according to two sources familiar with the planning underway, in what would be a surprise visit that could change based on security concerns.
The visit, which hasn’t been finalized and has remained tightly held due to security concerns, will coincide with the administration’s intent to send the country a new defense assistance package that will include Patriot missile systems. It would mark Zelensky’s first trip outside Ukraine since the Russian invasion began in February of this year. His potential visit to Washington could also include an address to Congress.
The White House declined to comment on a potential visit or Biden announcement or new security assistance announcements. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wouldn’t confirm reports Zelensky would be coming to the Capitol on Wednesday, saying, “I don’t know that that’s going to happen.”
“We don’t know yet. We just don’t know,” she said.
When asked by CNN if the invitation had been made to him, she said: “No. Not until we know if he can come.”
Source: CNN
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2022-12-21 00:01:50+00:00
"The FBI handed nearly $3.5 million of taxpayers money to Twitter to pay its staff to handle requests from the bureau to ban accounts.
A Twitter employee wrote in a February 2020 email that the company's Safety, Content & Law Enforcement (SCALE) had 'collected $3,415,323' in less than two years from the FBI for 'law-enforcement related projects.'
The email, which was revealed by journalist Michael Shellenberger, stated that SCALE had instituted a 'reimbursement program' in exchange for devoting staff hours to 'processing requests from the FBI'.
It was revealed Monday that Jim Baker, Twitter's top lawyer and ex-FBI general counsel, personally intervened to say it should be banned."
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11558251/FBI-paid-Twitter-3M-devoting-staff-processing-requests.html
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2022-12-22 23:25:05+00:00
Syria’s Middle East adversaries fomented a Sunni‐dominated revolt against Assad’s government, which garnered most of its support from religious minorities in Syria, especially Christians, Druze, and Assad’s own Alawites (a Shia offshoot). Washington increased its support for the Sunni campaign and highlighted the Syrian regime’s human rights abuses while ignoring equally egregious offenses by rebel forces and their autocratic foreign sponsors. The Obama administration tried to portray a brass‐knuckles power struggle as a morality play featuring Assad as a monstrous villain and his adversaries as noble freedom fighters. U.S. policymakers persisted in that approach even as evidence mounted that many of those “freedom fighters” were Islamic jihadists—some of whom were even affiliated with Al Qaeda.
Russia’s 2015 military intervention to support Assad doomed Washington and its Sunni partners’ hopes of a rebel victory. Nevertheless, the Obama administration refused to abandon its ill‐starred crusade. Indeed, it already was busy in 2014 and 2015 escalating America’s involvement by deploying U.S. troops over the strenuous opposition of the Syrian government. Such behavior made a mockery of Washington’s lectures about the need for nations to respect a “rules‐based international order.” Syria was a sovereign state and a member of the United Nations, yet the United States brazenly deployed its forces in that country without the consent of the recognized government.
Source: CATO Institute
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2022-12-22 23:25:05+00:00
Washington’s Dubious Syria Intervention Continues
With the world’s attention focused on the Russia‐Ukraine War and growing tensions between China and the United States over Taiwan, other worrisome U.S. ventures tend to fly under the radar. A prominent, potentially very dangerous example is the continuing U.S. military presence in Syria. That intervention should be objectionable on constitutional, moral, and strategic grounds, yet it retains widespread bipartisan support in Congress and the foreign policy establishment.
It is becoming increasingly difficult to justify that mission on any basis. Positioning U.S. occupation forces in northeastern Syria, the one region of the country with significant oil reserves, hardly seemed coincidental and has raised understandable suspicions about Washington’s motives. Moreover, the principal U.S. client in that region, the Kurdish‐dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), is something less than a paragon of democracy. Meanwhile, U.S. troops have repeatedly come under attack, usually by pro‐Iranian militias based across the border in Iraq.
As if those problems weren’t enough to cast a pall over the mission, the presence of U.S. troops is causing growing difficulties with NATO ally Turkey. Ankara launched a new round of airstrikes against Kurdish targets in northern Syria in November 2022. One attack came within 300 meters of a U.S. military base, leading to complaints from the Pentagon that such tactics were needlessly endangering the lives of U.S. personnel.
Mounting frictions with Turkey with respect to Syria are not a small problem, since the Biden administration badly needs greater cooperation from Ankara to implement NATO’s policy of isolating Russia in response to the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine. Thus far, Turkey’s stance on policy toward Russia has been ambivalent, and a new quarrel with Washington now has arisen over Ankara’s growing flirtation with Tehran—a move that is helping to cushion Iran from the effects of U.S.-led sanctions. The last thing the Biden administration needs is a new round of tensions with Turkey regarding Syria.
Washington’s unwise Syria policy has been unraveling for some time, but that process seems to be accelerating. The misadventure in that country began when Barack Obama’s administration launched an effort in collaboration with Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and other leading Sunni powers to unseat Syrian president Bashar al‐Assad. The underlying reason for that campaign was Assad’s close ties with Iran; indeed, Syria was Tehran’s principal ally in the Middle East. The Assad family also was a longtime Russian client. Therefore, as far as U.S. officials were concerned, Assad’s regime was guilty of not one, but two unforgivable sins.
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2022-12-22 22:55:03+00:00
New report shows extent of Apple’s censorship for China and Russia’s governments
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2022-12-22 22:25:04+00:00
"Once-In-A-Generation" Snowpocalypse Sweeps Across US
A powerful winter storm and cold blast will wreak havoc across the central and eastern US through the weekend and bring what the National Weather Service calls a "once-in-a-generation type event."
More than 100 million people across the US are under winter weather alerts which extend across 37 states, dipping as far south as Texas
NWS said heavy snowfall, strong winds, and dangerously cold temperatures would affect areas from the northern Great Basin region through the Plains, Upper Midwest, Great Lakes, and the northern/central Appalachians starting today and lasting through the weekend.
"At the forefront of the impressive weather pattern is a dangerous and record-breaking cold air mass in the wake of a strong arctic cold front diving southward across the southern Plains today and eastward into the Ohio/Tennessee Valleys by tonight," the weather agency said.
"Behind the front, temperatures across the central High Plains have already plummeted 50 degrees F in just a few hours, with widespread subzero readings extending throughout much of the central/northern Plains and northern Rockies/Great Basin ... these temperatures combined with sustained winds of 20 to 30 mph and higher wind gusts of up to 60 mph will continue to lead to wind chills as low as minus 40 degrees across a large swath of the Intermountain West and northern/central Plains, with more localized areas of minus 50 to minus 70 possible through the end of the week," it continued. .
Source: Zerohedge
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2022-12-22 21:55:04+00:00
"Enough Is Enough': Rand Paul Calls for Raising the Threshold to Waive a Budget Point of Order
"There hasn't been enough time for a single person to have read this entire bill. The bill in process ignores soaring inflation, rising interest rates, and our ballooning debt of $31 trillion," enunciated Sen. Paul.
"Enough is enough. I now ask my colleagues to support my amendment to raise the threshold to waive a budget point of order from three-fifths to two-thirds."
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2022-12-22 21:25:03+00:00
🚨🚨ANNOUNCING: Rage Against the War Machine: Feb 19th, 12:30 pm Lincoln Memorial
On February 19 we are going to Washington DC to Rage Against the War Machine! We will rally at the Lincoln Memorial with vets, speakers, rock bands, and comedians then march to the White House to demand an end to the billions going to Ukraine!
We'll be joined at the Lincoln Memorial by Jimmy Dore, Medea Benjamin, Scott Horton, Garland Nixon and many other speakers to DEMAND:
https://rageagainstwar.com
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2022-12-22 20:45:08+00:00
Representatives Lauren Boebert and Matt Gaetz Refuse to Applaud Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Most members of Congress gave a standing ovation, but Boebert and Gaetz remained sitting.
This made a lot of liberals on Twitter angry. One wrote,
"Boebert & Gaetz are Russian assets."
Another said, "There are quite a large number of Ukrainian Americans in Virginia. It would be awful if Matt and blobert ever met them."
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2022-12-22 20:08:09+00:00
Toyota Chief Says ‘Silent Majority’ Has Doubts About Pursuing Only EVs
Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda said he is among the auto industry's silent majority in questioning whether electric vehicles should be pursued exclusively, comments that reflect a growing uneasiness. about how quickly car companies can transition.
Auto makers are making big bets on fully electric vehicles, investments that have been bolstered by robust demand for the limited numbers of models that are now available.
Still, challenges are mounting -- particularly in securing parts and raw materials for batteries -- and concerns have emerged in some pockets of the car business about the speed to which buyers will make the shift, especially as EV prices have soared this year.
"People involved in the auto industry are largely a silent majority," Mr. Toyoda said to reporters during a visit to Thailand. "That silent majority is wondering whether EVs are really OK to have as a single option. But they think it's the trend so they can't speak out loudly."
While major rivals, including General Motors Co. and Honda Motor Co., have set dates for when their lineups will be all-EV, Toyota has stuck to a strategy of investing in a diverse lineup of vehicles that includes hydrogen-powered cars and hybrids, which combine batteries with gas engines.
Source: Bangkok Post, WSJ
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2022-12-22 18:55:05+00:00
US Sanctions Prevent Dozens of Ships Carrying Food from Reaching Iran
https://www.activistpost.com/2022/12/us-sanctions-prevent-dozens-of-ships-carrying-food-from-reaching-iran.html
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2022-12-22 18:25:13+00:00
Why Detransitioners Are Crucial to the Science of Gender Care
Still skeptical that regret was a significant issue, MacKinnon in the autumn of 2021 embarked on his latest study and began talking to more people about their decisions to detransition. In July, he published a paper based on formal interviews with 28 of the more than 200 detransitioners he and his colleagues have found.
A third expressed either strong or partial regret about their transition. Some said their transitions should have proceeded more slowly, with more therapy. Others expressed regret about the lasting impact on their bodies. Some said their mental health needs weren’t adequately addressed before transitioning. “They felt like their consent wasn’t informed because they didn’t initially understand what was going on that might have explained their feelings and suffering,” MacKinnon told Reuters.
The patients’ stories brought MacKinnon round to the view that the gender-care community needs to address regret, adjust treatment to reduce its incidence, and provide better support for detransitioners. “Some of what I’ve learned about detransitioners is identifying cracks in the gender-affirming care system, particularly for young people,” he said.
In September, MacKinnon presented his findings to a small but attentive crowd at WPATH’s annual conference in Montreal. A few weeks later, he shared his research more widely on Twitter. “We need to listen to and learn from the experiences of detransitioners, not silence them,” he wrote.
Source: Reuters
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2022-12-22 17:54:50+00:00
A widely popular film with many flaws, but it does contain some signal we should not be ignoring. I offer some insight into how I thought critically about the film.
https://thepulse.one/2022/12/21/how-to-think-critically-about-the-film-died-suddenly/
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2022-12-22 17:25:14+00:00
US Announces $1.85 Billion in Arms for Ukraine That Includes Patriot Missiles
The US on Wednesday announced a new massive $1.85 billion weapons package for Ukraine that includes a Patriot air defense system for the first time, marking an escalation of US military aid for Kyiv.
The Patriots will be the most advanced air defense system the US is providing Ukraine and will require six months of training for Ukrainian forces, which will likely take place in Germany. Russia has warned strongly against providing such systems, saying the Patriots will be a legitimate target for the Russian military, but the Biden administration doesn’t seem concerned about potential escalations.
The Kremlin said Wednesday that additional US weapons for Ukraine will lead “to an aggravation of the conflict and, in fact, does not bode well for Ukraine.”
The announcement of the package coincides with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visiting Washington. The aid includes $1 billion in arms that will be sent from US military stockpiles and $850 million in assistance in the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI), which allows the US to purchase weapons for Kyiv.
Source: Antiwar.com
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2022-12-22 16:25:10+00:00
FBI Blasts ‘Conspiracy Theorists’ Behind Twitter Files, Claim There’s Nothing To See In Communications
The FBI released a statement on Wednesday responding to Elon Musk’s Twitter Files, blasting the journalists publishing the revelations as “conspiracy theorists.”
The FBI said:
"The correspondence between the FBI and Twitter show nothing more than examples of our traditional, longstanding and ongoing federal government and private sector engagements, which involve numerous companies over multiple sectors and industries. As evidenced in the correspondence, the FBI provides critical information to the private sector in an effort to allow them to protect themselves and their customers. The men and women of the FBI work every day to protect the American public. It is unfortunate that conspiracy theorists and others are feeding the American public misinformation with the sole purpose of attempting to discredit the agency."
The Intercept’s Lee Fang released new Twitter Files this week, revealing that Twitter allegedly “gave approval & special protection to the U.S. military’s online psychological influence ops” despite publicly saying they were actively working against such efforts. Twitter would prioritize fake accounts meant to spread messages globally, according to the documents.
Source: Mediaite
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2022-12-22 15:55:03+00:00
15 Facts Which Prove That A Massive Economic Meltdown Is Already Happening Right Now
https://www.activistpost.com/2022/12/15-facts-which-prove-that-a-massive-economic-meltdown-is-already-happening-right-now.html
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2022-12-22 15:25:04+00:00
SEAL Team Commander Found Dead, Age 47, in His Home
The highly decorated commanding officer of the Navy’s SEAL Team 1, Cmdr. Robert Ramirez III, was found dead at his San Diego County home on Dec. 19.
In a statement on Wednesday, Naval Special Warfare Command officials said that foul play was not suspected in Ramirez’s death, and that an investigation is being conducted by the San Diego police department.
Ramirez, originally from Virginia, enlisted in the Navy in 1996 before commissioning in 2004. According to his releasable service record, as reported by Military Times, he deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan, and received five Bronze Star medals, including two with a combat “V” device. Ramirez also received three Combat Action Ribbons.
“Bobby was an outstanding leader, devoted husband and father, and a good friend to us all,” said Capt. David Abernathy, commanding officer of Naval Special Warfare Group 1, which SEAL Team 1 falls under. “This is a devastating loss to our community and all who knew him. We will remain in support of Bobby’s family, friends and teammates during this extremely difficult time.”
Source: Task and Purpose
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2022-12-22 14:55:04+00:00
The U.S. Will Have Given Ukraine OVER TWO TIMES The Entire Military Budget of Russia!
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2022-12-22 14:25:03+00:00
Biden Launches Investigation Into How 82% Of Components Found in Drones Made in Iran, Deployed by Russia and Downed in Ukraine Are Manufactured in the US
Joe Biden has launched a task force to investigate how US and western components are ending up in Iranian-made drones being used to wreak havoc in Ukraine.
Despite strict export controls in place to prevent Iran from obtaining such materials, evidence has emerged that Tehran is finding more than enough commercially-available tech - including US-made microelectronics - to manufacture the drones.
UK-based investigative organization Conflict Armament Research found last month that, upon examining drones downed in Ukraine, 82 percent of their components were made by companies in the United States.
In response, the White House has now launched an 'all hands on deck' task force involving agencies from across Washington - including the DOJ, DOS, DOD, DOC, and DOT - according to sources cited by CNN.
Source: The Daily Mail
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2022-12-22 13:55:13+00:00
Rand Paul Humiliates Traitors in Office With His Rendition of 'Twas the Night Before Christmas'
"Now McConnell, now Schumer, now Pelosi and Vixen! On Biden, on Stupid on Dumber and Blitzen!"
"To debt, to bankruptcy, to free money for all. Now dash away, dash away, more cash for all."
Source: https://fb.watch/hz8_v-it9o/
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2022-12-22 13:25:12+00:00
Rand Paul Condemns Congress For Omnibus Bill
I brought along the 1.7 trillion, 4,000+ page Pelosi-Schumer omnibus spending bill that's being fast-tracked through the Senate. This process stinks. It's an abomination. It's a no good rotten way to run government. We're standing up and saying NO.
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2022-12-22 12:25:04+00:00
Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang Plead Guilty to Fraud Charges, Cooperating with Prosecutors
Former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison and FTX co-founder Gary Wang have pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges and are cooperating in the Justice Department's investigation of the former FTX CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried.
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) Damian Williams made the announcement on Dec. 22, emphasizing that this latest major development is unlikely to be the last.
“As I said last week, this investigation is ongoing and moving very quickly. I also said last week's announcement would not be our last and let me be clear once again, neither is today's,” he said, adding that:
“I'm announcing that SDNY has filed charges against Caroline Ellison [...] and Gary Wang [...] in connection with their roles in the frauds that contributed to FTX's collapse. Both Ms. Ellison and Mr. Wang have plead guilty to those charges and both are cooperating with the SDNY.”
Source: Coin Telegraph
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2022-12-22 02:55:00+00:00
Dr. Robert Malone to RFK, Jr.: Americans Have Been Subjected to "Military-Grade Information Warfare"
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🇺🇸@COVID19Up: Dr. Robert Malone, who helped develop the mRNA technology used in COVID-19 vaccines and now has become an outspoken critic of the vaccines, recently discussed his new book “Lies My Government Told Me” with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
According to Malone, U.S. Americans for the last three years have been subjected to “military-grade information warfare—capability and technology that was designed for our opponents for military warfare outside of the U.S.—that has been turned on American citizens.”
Kennedy and Malone discussed the “psychological operations” employed by the U.S. government during the COVID-19 crisis and earlier in U.S. history that relies on fear and propaganda messaging as tools of social control.
Malone said the information warfare regarding the U.S. government’s response to COVID-19 appears to have been largely deployed through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
“What’s been deployed has been basically the technology and capabilities that were designed to respond to terrorism, but they’ve been deployed against the likes of you, me and Dr. McCullough and so many others,” Malone told Kennedy.
In his new book, Malone explains how during the COVID-19 crisis DHS “defined misinformation, disinformation and malinformation as a form of domestic terrorism.”
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2022-12-22 01:30:15+00:00
Former High Ranking Russian Military General Says Extraterrestrials Are Here
The Facts: A high ranking Russian military and public official, General Leonid Grigoryevich Ivashov, shares his belief or knowledge that extraterrestrials are visiting Earth and they have not been hostile.
Reflect On: There are hundreds of people across the globe with interesting military and intelligence backgrounds. Why have they been unacknowledged during the process of public UFO disclosure that seems to be taking place?
Recently, the United States government admitted to the reality of these objects while simultaneously claiming that they don’t know what they are. This claim in itself doesn’t seem to be quite accurate as multiple whistleblowers from “within” have publicly stated that the U.S. government has in fact retrieved some of these objects.
But public UFO disclosure today, unfortunately, doesn’t seem to be much different than what it was decades ago. In the past, we’ve seen presidents like, like Harry Truman for example, publicly acknowledge the reality of UFOs. We’ve also seen programs implemented within government, like Project Blue Book, to study them. The end result always seems to be the same, “we don’t know what they are.”
Given the fact that big governments and big media has a track record of keeping things unclear to the public, relying on these entities for any kind of significant truth may be the wrong approach, as in many cases they are used as tools of deception, perception manipulation and psychological warfare.
In his very last interview before his death, Colonel Robert Friend, who from 1958-1962 was a director of the U.S. government’s investigation into the phenomenon at the time (Blue Book), suggests the U.S. Air Force knew what these objects were, which is why they shut down the program, hinting at the idea that they knew they were extraterrestrial.
Further, people who have claimed to have ‘contact’ with these beings have been completely ignored during “public ufo disclosure.” If we had potential eye witnesses, wouldn’t it be a good idea to inquire about their experiences and apply some curious rigor to their stories?
Furthermore, a plethora of people within military, intelligence, and government agencies who have chosen to speak out about what they apparently know, have been completely ignored.
Why is it that that all of these people and their opinions are constantly ignored and kept from wider public discourse?
Source: The Pulse
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2022-12-22 00:19:00+00:00
I am utterly speechless. This confirms what we have long known and that is that no one that works in legal services is allowed to be critical of the Government and Covid policies, despite the harms that have come from them, (that are now well known), let alone speak out about the jabs which are now recognised as causing severe illness and death for some.
This tells you everything about why the legal profession has been silent during all of this. Because they will get struck off for saying anything. Not even allowed to go to the ICC which is every person's absolute right.
The legal profession is not there to cow tow to politicians and the government. We are supposed to be independent and hold politicians and the government to account. We work for the PEOPLE not the ruler of the day.
What's the point of the legal profession if it is not allowed to raise concerns about serious government failures on policies that have harmed people?
https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/magistrate-sacked-for-public-campaigning-over-covid-response/5114649.article
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2022-12-21 23:57:05+00:00
China Accused of Fresh Territorial Grab in South China Sea
China is building up several unoccupied land features in the South China Sea, according to Western officials, an unprecedented move they said was part of Beijing’s long-running effort to strengthen claims to disputed territory in a region critical to global trade.
While China has previously built out disputed reefs, islands and land formations in the area that it had long controlled — and militarized them with ports, runways and other infrastructure — the officials presented images of what they called the first known instances of a nation doing so on territory it doesn’t already occupy. They warned that Beijing’s latest construction activity indicates an attempt to advance a new status quo, even though it’s too early to know whether China would seek to militarize them.
Fishing fleets that operate as de facto maritime militias under the control of authorities in Beijing have carried out construction activities at four unoccupied features in the Spratly Islands over the past decade, according to the officials, who asked not to be identified to discuss sensitive information. Some sand bars and other formations in the area expanded more than 10 times in size in recent years, they said.
Source: MSN
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2022-12-23 22:25:05+00:00
Spooks Infiltrate Silicon Valley: Facebook Is Riddled With Ex-CIA Agents – Including President’s Briefer Who Now Runs ‘Harmful Content’ Team – So Many Ex-FBI Work at Twitter
The Twitter files have revealed the close relationship with the FBI, how the Bureau regularly demanded accounts and tweets be banned and suspicious contact before the Hunter laptop story was censored.
The documents detailed how so many former FBI agents joined Twitter's ranks over the past few years that they created their own private Slack channel.
A report by Mint Press' Alan MacLeod identified dozens of Twitter employees, who had previously held positions at the Bureau, by tracking down their LinkedIn profiles
He also found that former CIA agents made up some of the top ranks in almost every politically-sensitive department at Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
And in another report, MacLeod detailed the extent to which former CIA agents started working at Google. It remains unclear whether any of these former agents have worked with their previous employers in a coordinated effort to quash any stories.
But the CIA is prohibited under federal law from 'engaging in any activities for purposes of affecting or interfering with the domestic political process.'
Source: The Daily Mail
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2022-12-23 21:25:07+00:00
US SEC Chairman Gary Gensler Says Cryptocurrency Crackdown is Just Getting Started
- SEC Chairman hopes pending charges against Sam Bankman-Fried send message to crypto community.
- Gary Gensler argues cryptocurrency issuers and exchanges need to ensure compliance with existing securities law.
- US financial regulator announced it had settled civil fraud charges with two former executives of bankrupt FTX exchange.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) believes that existing rules are adequate for cryptocurrencies. Gary Gensler, the chair of the SEC, argues that the crypto community needs to ensure that firms comply with existing securities laws. FTX exchange's swift collapse has prompted urgent calls in Washington DC for legislation to rein in the digital asset industry.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission, an independent agency of the United States federal government, believes that existing crypto rules are adequate but issuers and exchanges need to ensure compliance. The Chairman of the financial regulator said that existing rules are adequate for cryptocurrency firms.
Gary Gensler argues that pending charges against the FTX exchange set an example for the community about the need of having operations compliant with existing securities laws. The collapse of the bankrupt FTX exchange founded by Sam Bankman-Fried poses a warning to crypto issuers and exchanges that are not registered with the SEC. Gensler believes these firms could soon find themselves facing enforcement actions.
Source: FXStreet
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2022-12-23 20:55:02+00:00
It’s Time To Free Julian Assange Now!
https://www.activistpost.com/2022/12/its-time-to-free-julian-assange-now.html
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2022-12-23 20:27:31+00:00
Putin Says the Sooner Conflict in Ukraine Ends, the Better
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said that Russia’s goal was to end the war in Ukraine as soon as possible and that the fighting would inevitably end through a diplomatic solution.
“So we will seek to make sure that it all ends, and the sooner, the better, of course,” Putin told reporters, according to Russia’s TASS news agency.
Putin’s comments came the day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Washington and said he wouldn’t “compromise” to reach peace in Ukraine. Zelensky’s demands for talks are the complete withdrawal of Russian forces from territory Russia has captured since February 24.
Zelensky’s demands are a non-starter for Moscow as Russian officials insist they are not leaving the territory Putin has annexed. With the positions so far apart, it’s unlikely any sort of peace talks will happen in the near future unless the US decides to press Ukraine to seek a negotiated solution, which at this point is also unlikely.
As the war drags on, Ukrainian civilians are in a dire situation as Russian missile strikes have pounded energy infrastructure, and millions are without power and heat.
Much earlier in the war, Russia and Ukraine seemed close to reaching a deal after holding in-person peace talks in Istanbul in March, but it was discouraged by the West. Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson visited Kyiv in April and urged Zelensky not to negotiate with Moscow, and according to Ukrainian media, his visit was a major factor in the scuttling of negotiations.
Source: Antiwar.com
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2022-12-23 19:55:04+00:00
Ex-Google Boss Helps Fund Dozens Of Jobs In Biden’s Administration
Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google who has long sought influence over White House science policy, is helping to fund the salaries of more than two dozen officials in the Biden administration under the auspices of an outside group, the Federation of American Scientists.
The revelation of Schmidt’s role in funding the jobs, the extent of which has not been previously reported, adds to a picture of the tech mogul’s growing influence in the White House science office and in the administration – at a time when the federal government is looking closely at future technologies and potential regulations of Artificial Intelligence.
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2022-12-23 19:25:05+00:00
Russia Close To Legalizing International Trade In Bitcoin, Crypto: Head Of Finance Committee
Russia’s Congressional finance committee chairman, Anatoly Aksakov, said the country is moving to greenlight international trade in cryptocurrency within the next month, according to a report by national news agency TASS.
"In January, we want to legalize cryptocurrencies to ensure foreign trade activities," Aksakov said, per a translated version of the report.
The chairman highlighted that although Russia is taking steps to allow bitcoin and cryptocurrency payments for imports, there are no plans to encourage similar usage of the burgeoning assets within the boundaries of the nation’s territory.
"The circulation of cryptocurrencies as a means of payment on the territory of Russia will be prohibited, and liability will be prescribed in this regard," he reportedly stated.
"But to pay for foreign trade transactions, we still assume the possibility of using cryptocurrencies, for example, for parallel imports."
Russian officials have teased at this possibility for almost a year, following an intense package of Western sanctions deployed in the wake of the nation’s invasion of Ukraine.
Russia laid out a roadmap for bitcoin regulation in January 2022, and the Ministry of Finance submitted a proposal in the following month. Around the same time, U.S. President Biden announced the first tranche of Russian sanctions, blocking five of the biggest Russian banks and freezing all the assets they held in America. One month later, Russia said it was open to selling natural gas for bitcoin.
"There can be a variety of currencies, and that’s a standard practice. If they want bitcoin, we will trade in bitcoin," the chairman of the country’s Congressional energy committee, Pavel Zavalny, said in a press conference at the time.
Source: Zerohedge
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2022-12-23 18:55:06+00:00
Boston Dynamics’ Creepy Robo-Hounds Decorate A Christmas Tree
https://www.activistpost.com/2022/12/boston-dynamics-creepy-robo-hounds-decorate-a-christmas-tree.html
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2022-12-23 18:25:01+00:00
Marines Told To Stop Using ‘Sir,’ ‘Ma’am’ To Avoid ‘Misgendering’ Superiors
No more “Yes, sir!” The US Marines may ban recruits from respectfully addressing senior members as “sir” or “ma’am” to avoid “misgendering” and offending them.
The woke recommendation was made in a new $2 million report commissioned by the Corps from the University of Pittsburgh.
The exhaustive, 738-page study that the Marines first commissioned in 2020 said traditional ways of addressing superiors were holding back gender integration.
“Employing gender-neutral identifiers eliminates the possibility of misgendering drill instructors, which can unintentionally offend or cause discord,” the study said.
“By teaching recruits to use gender-neutral identifiers for their drill instructors, Services underscore the importance of respecting authoritative figures regardless of gender.”
The two-year study by the University of Pittsburgh’s Warrior Human Performance Research Center also said that “the Army, Navy, and Coast Guard effectively de-emphasize gender in an integrated environment.”
“Instead of saying ‘ma’am’ or ‘sir,’ recruits in these Services refer to their drill instructors using their ranks or roles followed by their last names,” it said. “Gendered identifiers prime recruits to think about or visually search for a drill instructor’s gender first, before their rank or role.”
Col. Howard Hall, chief of staff for Marine Corps Training and Education Command, told the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services this month that the radical shift was being considered by leadership — albeit with some pushback, the Marine Corps Times said.
The proposal is one of a half-dozen recommendations the Marines’ entry-level training advisory council is considering, the report said. It’s not clear when the service will decide which ones to pursue.
Hall warned the December meeting of the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services that it would not be “a quick fix.”
“That’s going to take some effort,” Hall told the committee of the switch to gender-neutral identifiers, according to the military outlet
“We’ve got a history of ‘sir, ma’am, sir, ma’am.’ If we change something at the root level, how do we make the corresponding change at the Fleet Marine Force? So it’s not ours to implement alone,” he said
Source: NYP
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2022-12-23 17:55:42+00:00
🇪🇺🪖🇺🇦🇷🇺Europe is trying to increase the production of ammunition in sufficient volume for Ukraine and itself, but faces serious difficulties.
The WSJ writes about this with reference to its sources in government circles and the defense industry.
The EU's efforts are hampered by a lack of production capacity, legislative restrictions, a shortage of specialized workers, bottlenecks in supply chains, high financing costs for this industry and even environmental regulations.
"No NATO country, except the United States, has either a sufficient stock of weapons for conducting a major artillery war, or industrial capacity to create such reserves. This means that NATO will not be able to defend its territory from major opponents if it is attacked now," says a former senior official of the German Defense Ministry, Niko Lange.
German officials, on the rights of anonymity, admit that now Germany would have enough shells for a maximum of two weeks in the event of a Russian attack. This is significantly lower than NATO requirements, according to which Alliance members should have enough ammunition for at least 30 days of combat operations.
Ukraine uses up to 40 thousand artillery shells of NATO 155 mm caliber per month. Despite the fact that the total annual production of such shells in Europe is about 300 thousand, says the owner of the Czech ammunition manufacturer.
According to him, even if the war stops overnight, it will take Europe up to 15 years to replenish its reserves at the current rate of production.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/europe-is-rushing-arms-to-ukraine-but-running-out-of-ammo-11671707775
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2022-12-23 17:25:04+00:00
Bloomberg Eyes WSJ-Parent Dow Jones, WAPO
Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire businessman and media mogul, is interested in acquiring either Wall Street Journal parent company Dow Jones or The Washington Post, a source familiar with his thinking told Axios.
Why it matters: Bloomberg wants to expand his media empire and sees Dow Jones as his ideal fit, but he would buy the Post if Jeff Bezos were interested in selling, the source said.
The combination of Bloomberg and Dow Jones would create an unparalleled business news behemoth.
Details: Bloomberg, the source notes, would be interested in a potential acquisition of either property, but Dow Jones — the publisher of financial titles such as The Wall Street Journal, Barron's and MarketWatch — would be a stronger target.
- Bloomberg is close to Dow Jones parent News Corp's owner, Rupert Murdoch, and believes efforts to merge News Corp and its sister company Fox Corporation will fail, creating a possible opening.
- At least one activist investor has said that they would rather News Corp spin off parts of its business — either its real estate platform or Dow Jones — to unlock value for investors.
- Still, Bloomberg has not yet approached Murdoch about his interest, nor has he begun to engage any official third parties, like bankers, to evaluate the opportunity.
- Bloomberg is friendly with, but not close to, Bezos, the source said. He sees the Post combined with Bloomberg as a formidable potential competitor to The New York Times.
A Dow Jones deal would give Bloomberg access to a premiere business title that could be leveraged to sell more subscriptions to the Bloomberg Terminal, a real-time data, news and analysis platform for financial professionals.
- Subscriptions to the Terminal make up the vast majority of Bloomberg LP's revenue, which surpassed $10 billion for the first time in 2018.
-Bloomberg's news offering, powered by Bloomberg Media — a separate division within Bloomberg LP — has helped the Terminal differentiate itself from other data and analysis platforms on Wall Street.
-Bloomberg would plan to integrate any title he acquired with Bloomberg Media, creating a formidable business news empire, the source said.
Source: Axios
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2022-12-23 16:24:08+00:00
The EU Plans To Impose Direct Carbon Taxes On Individuals
Would you like to pay a carbon tax every time that you turn your heater on? What about every time that you fill up your vehicle with gasoline? Incredibly, this will soon be what life is like in Europe. When I first heard that the EU plans to impose direct carbon taxes on individuals, I thought that it must be just another false Internet rumor. But it isn’t a false rumor. News sources in Europe are reporting on it, and you can find information about this plan on the official website of the European Parliament. I don’t know why the corporate media in the United States is not talking about this, because this is an enormous story.
As I write this article, I am still in shock. This is actually happening, and if this plan is successfully implemented in Europe it will be just a matter of time before a similar plan is pushed through in the United States. The following comes from a Dutch article that has been translated into English…
"Last night, after long negotiations, the bullet went through the church: residents of the European Union must pay for the greenhouse gases they emit. This means that every time you refuel and if the heating is switched on, you have to pay because of the harmful substances that are released as a result."
Of course they are starting small in an attempt to minimize opposition. Once this plan goes into effect, the cost of a liter of gasoline will only go up by about 10 cents…
"The new scheme will entail higher prices at the pump: up to 10.5 cents for a litre of petrol and 12 cents for diesel, according to a study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Research."
But as we have seen so many other times, once people become accustomed to new taxes rates tend to go up significantly.
According to one prominent member of the European Parliament, the new direct carbon taxes on individuals are part of “the largest climate legislation package in the EU ever”…
" 'I am pleased that a balanced agreement has been reached on the largest climate legislation package in the EU ever,' says Esther de Lange (CDA) MEP. She was one of the negotiators and responsible for the coordination of the Green Deal and chief negotiator on the Social Climate Fund."
We are being told that there is broad support for this climate legislation package across the political spectrum.
Source: Zerohedge
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2022-12-23 15:24:01+00:00
Paris Gunman Kills Three in Attack on Kurdish Cafe
A gunman opened fire on a Kurdish cultural centre and nearby Kurdish cafe in central Paris on Friday, killing three people and wounding three others, and prosecutors said they were looking into a possible racist motive for the attack.
Multiple gunshots were fired on Rue d'Enghien, sowing panic on a street lined with small shops and cafes in the capital's busy central 10th arrondissement, or district. Authorities said they had arrested a 69-year-old man and the incident was now over.
"It was Kurds who were targeted," Juan-Golan Eliberg, an artist who works at the Kurdish centre told Reuters.
The Paris prosecutor said the suspect was previously known to the authorities and that a possible racist dimension to the attack would be investigated.
Source: Reuters
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2022-12-23 14:31:00+00:00
Sen. Lindsey Graham Says Ukraine War Will Only End If Putin Is ‘Taken Out’
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has repeated a call for Russian President Vladimir Putin to be assassinated, saying that the only way the war in Ukraine could end is if Russia “breaks” and someone “takes Putin out.”
“How does this war end? When Russia breaks, and they take Putin out. Anything short of that, the war’s gonna continue,” Graham said on the Fox News program America Reports on Wednesday.
Graham said the US is “in it to win it, and the only way you’re gonna win it is to break the Russian military and have somebody in Russia take Putin out to give the Russian people a new lease on life.”
The hawkish senator made similar comments back in March when he asked if there was a “Brutus” in Russia who could kill Putin. In his comments on Wednesday, Graham also said the Biden administration should send Ukraine the advanced and long-range weapons that Kyiv has been asking for.
When asked to what extent the US should continue to support Ukraine in the war, Graham replied, “completely, all in without equivocation.” He said the US needs to provide Ukraine with longer-range weapons to help “dislodge” Russia from areas of eastern Ukraine, including Crimea.
He said if Ukraine had larger drones, such as Reapers and Gray Eagles, Ukraine would “kill tons of Russians without losing any Ukrainians in the endeavor.” Ukraine has asked for Gray Eagle drones, which can fly for about 30 hours and are capable of carrying powerful Hellfire Missiles, but the Biden administration has held off from sending them so far.
Source: Antiwar.com
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2022-12-23 04:25:43+00:00
FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried to Be Released on $250 Million Bail, Will Live With His Parents
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was released on $250 million bond while awaiting trial for fraud and other criminal charges, a New York federal judge ruled Thursday.
Bankman-Fried stepped out of U.S. District Court in Manhattan, flanked by his parents, his legal team, and court security at 2:19 local time.
The terms of his personal recognizance bond were agreed to by prosecutors and Bankman-Fried’s lawyers. The 30-year-old will face his next hearing, presided over by Judge Ronnie Abrams, in New York City on Jan. 3., where he’ll enter his plea and be arraigned.
A recognizance bond is a written commitment from the accused to appear in court when ordered. In return, Bankman-Fried’s camp would not be required to meet the full collateral requirements on the bail.
The bond was secured by equity in his family home, and by the signatures of his parents and two other individuals with “considerable” assets.
Source: CNBC
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2022-12-23 03:38:23+00:00
Suddenly Everyone Is Hunting for Alternatives to the US Dollar
Tired of a too-strong and newly weaponized greenback, some of the world’s biggest economies are exploring ways to circumvent the US currency.
Smaller nations, including at least a dozen in Asia, are also experimenting with de-dollarization. And corporates around the world are selling an unprecedented portion of their debt in local currencies, wary of further dollar strength.
No one is saying the greenback will be dethroned anytime soon from its reign as the principal medium of exchange. Calls for “peak dollar” have many times proven premature. But not too long ago it was almost unthinkable for countries to explore payment mechanisms that bypassed the US currency or the SWIFT network that underpins the global financial system.
Now, the sheer strength of the dollar, its use under President Joe Biden to enforce sanctions on Russia this year and new technological innovations are together encouraging nations to start chipping away at its hegemony. Treasury officials declined to comment on these developments.
“This will simply intensify the efforts in Russia and China to try to manage their part of the world economy without the dollar,” said Paul Tucker, a former deputy governor of the Bank of England in a Bloomberg podcast.
Writing in a newsletter last week, John Mauldin, an investment strategist and president of Millennium Wave Advisors with more than three decades of markets experience said the Biden administration made an error in weaponizing the US dollar and the global payment system.
Source: Yahoo Finance
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2022-12-23 02:50:11+00:00
VP Kamala Harris Says She Would “Require” Social Media to Work With the White House to Protect “Democracy”
Vice President Kamala Harris said that social media companies should work with The White House to combat misinformation and disinformation to protect “democracy.”
Harris made the comments in an interview with NPR on Monday. Asked about her thoughts on the changes made by Elon Musk on Twitter, the Vice President said:
“I think about this issue a bit differently, which is my deep and profound concern about how misinformation and disinformation have infiltrated information streams in our country.”
Vice President Harris referenced her role as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, where she was involved in the investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential elections.
She alleged that the investigation proved that there was a “profound amount of intentional disinformation and misinformation targeting specific demographics to take advantage of what might be pre-existing disparities and skepticism about the role and importance of government,” and that it was done to weaken democracy in the US.
“When I see how social media is used in that way, it causes me a very deep level of concern,” Harris said. “So, what I would say about any social media site is this: I fully expect and would require that leaders in that sector cooperate and work with us who are concerned about national security, concerned about upholding and protecting our democracy, to do everything in their power to ensure that there is not a manipulation that is allowed or overlooked that is done with the intention of upending the security of our democracy and our nation.”
Source: ReclaimTheNet
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2022-12-23 01:25:08+00:00
More Than Half of House Republicans Didn’t Attend Zelensky’s Address
More than half of House Republicans didn’t attend Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s Wednesday night address to Congress, The Hill reported on Thursday.
According to The Hill, 86 out of 213 House Republicans were at the Capitol for Zelensky’s speech. While some of the absences could be explained by lawmakers getting an early start on Christmas travel, as about a third of House members had active letters to vote by proxy on Wednesday, there is growing opposition to the policy of arming Ukraine among Republicans.
Ahead of Zelensky’s address, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) wrote on Twitter that he would not be attending the speech of a “Ukrainian lobbyist.” Some Republicans that attended the address were spotted sitting during moments when the rest of Congress was giving Zelensky a standing ovation, including Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Lauren Boebert (R-CO).
After the speech, Boebert said in a video posted on Twitter that she wouldn’t support “sending additional money to this war” until “Congress receives a full audit of where our money has already gone.”
Source: Antiwar.com
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2022-12-23 00:25:06+00:00
US Says Russia's Wagner Group Bought North Korean Weapons for Ukraine War
The private Russian military company, the Wagner Group, took delivery of an arms shipment from North Korea to help bolster Russian forces in Ukraine, a sign of the group's expanding role in that conflict, the White House said on Thursday.
Wagner owner Yevgeny Prigozhin denied the assertion as "gossip and speculation".
John Kirby, spokesperson for the White House National Security Council, said Wagner was searching around the world for arms suppliers to support its military operations in Ukraine.
Source: Reuters
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2022-12-24 18:32:21+00:00
🚨BREAKING: The Twitter Files Part 9: TWITTER AND "OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES" - Post 14
Often intel reports are just long lists of newspapers, tweets or YouTube videos guilty of “anti-Ukraine narratives”:
Sometimes - not always -Twitter and YouTube blocked the accounts. But now we know for sure what Roth meant by “the Bureau (and by extension the IC).”
The line between “misinformation” and “distorting propaganda” is thin. Are we comfortable with so many companies receiving so many reports from a “more aggressive” government?
The CIA has yet to comment on the nature of its relationship to tech companies like Twitter. Twitter had no input into anything I did or wrote. The searches were carried out by third parties, so what I saw could be limited.
Watch @ bariweiss, @ shellenbergerMD, @ lhfang, and this space for more, on issues ranging from Covid-19 to Twitter's relationship to congress, and more.
Source: Matt Tabbi
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2022-12-24 18:28:19+00:00
🚨BREAKING: The Twitter Files Part 9: TWITTER AND "OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES" - Post 13
Often intelligence came in the form of brief reports, followed by long lists of accounts simply deemed to be pro-Maduro, pro-Cuba, pro-Russia, etc. This one batch had over 1000 accounts marked for digital execution:
One report says a site “documenting purported rights abuses committed by Ukrainians” is directed by Russian agents:
Intel about the shady origin of these accounts might be true. But so might at least some of the information in them – about neo-Nazis, rights abuses in Donbas, even about our own government. Should we block such material?
This is a difficult speech dilemma. Should the government be allowed to try to prevent Americans (and others) from seeing pro-Maduro or anti-Ukrainian accounts?
Source: Matt Tabbi
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2022-12-24 18:26:13+00:00
🚨BREAKING: The Twitter Files Part 9: TWITTER AND "OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES" - Post 12
These reports are far more factually controversial than domestic counterparts.
One intel report lists accounts tied to “Ukraine ‘neo-Nazi’ Propaganda.’” This includes assertions that Joe Biden helped orchestrate a coup in 2014 and “put his son on the board of Burisma.”
Another report asserts a list of accounts accusing the “Biden administration” of “corruption” in vaccine distribution are part of a Russian influence campaign:
Source: Matt Tabbi
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2022-12-24 18:24:48+00:00
🚨BREAKING: The Twitter Files Part 9: TWITTER AND "OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES" - Post 11
“Other Government Agencies” ended up sharing intelligence through the FBI and FITF not just with Twitter, but with Yahoo!, Twitch, Clouldfare, LinkedIn, even Wikimedia:
Former CIA agent and whistleblower John Kiriakou believes he recognizes the formatting of these reports.
"Looks right on to me,” Kiriakou says, noting that “what was cut off above [the “tearline”] was the originating CIA office and all the copied offices.”
Many people wonder if Internet platforms receive direction from intelligence agencies about moderation of foreign policy news stories. It appears Twitter did, in some cases by way of the FITF/FBI.
Source: Matt Tabbi
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2022-12-24 18:22:35+00:00
🚨BREAKING: The Twitter Files Part 9: TWITTER AND "OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES" - Post 10
The Venezuelans “were extremely high-volume tweeters… pretty uncharacteristic of a lot of the other IRA activity,” Roth says.
In a key email, news that the State Department was making a wobbly public assertion of Russian influence led an exec – the same one with the “OGA” past - to make a damning admission:
"Due to a lack of technical evidence on our end, I've generally left it be, waiting for more evidence,” he says. “Our window on that is closing, given that government partners are becoming more aggressive on attribution.”
Translation: “more aggressive” “government partners” had closed Twitter’s “window” of independence."
Source: Matt Taibbi
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2022-12-24 18:19:07+00:00
🚨BREAKING: The Twitter Files Part 9: TWITTER AND "OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES" - Post 9
“Found no links to Russia,” says one analyst, but suggests he could “brainstorm” to “find a stronger connection.”
“Extremely tenuous circumstantial chance of being related,” says another.
“No real matches using the info,” says former Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth in another case, noting some links were “clearly Russian,” but another was a “house rental in South Carolina?”
In another case, Roth concludes a series of Venezuelan pro-Maduro accounts are unrelated to Russia’s Internet Research Agency, because they’re too high-volume:
Source: Matt Taibbi
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2022-12-24 18:16:39+00:00
🚨BREAKING: The Twitter Files Part 9: TWITTER AND "OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES" - Post 8
The New York FBI office even sent requests for the “user IDs and handles” of a long list of accounts named in a Daily Beast article. Senior executives say they are “supportive” and “completely comfortable” doing so.
It seemed to strike no one as strange that a “Foreign Influence” task force was forwarding thousands of mostly domestic reports, along with the DHS, about the fringiest material:
“Foreign meddling” had been the ostensible justification for expanded moderation since platforms like Twitter were dragged to the Hill by the Senate in 2017:
Yet behind the scenes, Twitter executives struggled against government claims of foreign interference supposedly occurring on their platform and others:
The #TwitterFiles show execs under constant pressure to validate theories of foreign influence – and unable to find evidence for key assertions.
Source: Matt Taibbi
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2022-12-24 18:13:58+00:00
🚨BREAKING: The Twitter Files Part 9: TWITTER AND "OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES" - Post 7
The FBI was clearly tailoring searches to Twitter’s policies. FBI complaints were almost always depicted somewhere as a “possible terms of service violation," even in the subject line:
Twitter executives noticed the FBI appeared to be aasigning personnel to look for Twitter violations.
"They have some folks in the Baltimore field office and at HQ that are just doing keyword searches for violations. This is probably the 10th request I have dealt with in the last 5 days,” remarked Cardille.
Even ex-FBI lawyer Jim Baker agreed: “Odd that they are searching for violations of our policies.”
Source: Matt Taibbi
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2022-12-24 18:12:04+00:00
🚨BREAKING: The Twitter Files Part 9: TWITTER AND "OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES" - Post 6
Especially as the election approached in 2020, the FITF/FBI overwhelmed Twitter with requests, sending lists of hundreds of problem accounts:
Email after email came from the San Francisco office heading into the election, often adorned with an Excel attachment:
There were so many government requests, Twitter employees had to improvise a system for prioritizing/triaging them:
Source: Matt Taibbi
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2022-12-24 18:09:58+00:00
🚨BREAKING: The Twitter Files Part 9: TWITTER AND "OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES" - Post 5
The FITF meeting agendas virtually always included, at or near the beginning, an “OGA briefing,” usually about foreign matters (hold that thought).
Despite its official remit being “Foreign Influence,” the FITF and the SF FBI office became conduit for mountains of domestic moderation requests, from state governments, even local police:
Many requests arrived via Teleporter, a one-way platform in which many communications were timed to vanish:
Source: Matt Taibbi
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2022-12-24 18:08:14+00:00
🚨BREAKING: The Twitter Files Part 9: TWITTER AND "OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES" - Post 4
Cardille then passes on conference details to recently-hired ex-FBI lawyer Jim Baker.
"I invited the FBI and the CIA virtually will attend too,” Cardille says to Baker, adding pointedly: “No need for you to attend.”
The government was in constant contact not just with Twitter but with virtually every major tech firm.
These included Facebook, Microsoft, Verizon, Reddit, even Pinterest, and many others. Industry players also held regular meetings without government.
One of the most common forums was a regular meeting of the multi-agency Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF), attended by spates of executives, FBI personnel, and – nearly always – one or two attendees marked “OGA."
Source: Matt Taibbi
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2022-12-24 18:06:06+00:00
🚨BREAKING: The Twitter Files Part 9: TWITTER AND "OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES" - Post 3
OGA, or “Other Government Organization,” can be a euphemism for CIA, according to multiple former intelligence officials and contractors. Chuckles one: “They think it's mysterious, but it's just conspicuous."
“Other Government Agency (the place where I worked for 27 years),” says retired CIA officer Ray McGovern.
It was an open secret at Twitter that one of its executives was ex-CIA, which is why Chan referred to that executive’s “former employer.”
The first Twitter executive abandoned any pretense to stealth and emailed that the employee “used to work for the CIA, so that is Elvis’s question.”
Senior legal executive Stacia Cardille, whose alertness stood out among Twitter leaders, replied, “I know” and “I thought my silence was understood.”
Source: Matt Taibbi
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2022-12-24 18:03:49+00:00
🚨BREAKING: The Twitter Files Part 9: TWITTER AND "OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES" - Post 2
The operation is far bigger than the reported 80 members of the Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF), which also facilitates requests from a wide array of smaller actors - from local cops to media to state governments.
Twitter had so much contact with so many agencies that executives lost track. Is today the DOD, and tomorrow the FBI? Is it the weekly call, or the monthly meeting? It was dizzying.
A chief end result was that thousands of official “reports” flowed to Twitter from all over, through the FITF and the FBI’s San Francisco field office.
On June 29th, 2020, San Francisco FBI agent Elvis Chan wrote to pair of Twitter execs asking if he could invite an “OGA” to an upcoming conference:
Source: Matt Taibbi
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2022-12-24 18:01:11+00:00
🚨BREAKING: The Twitter Files Part 9: TWITTER AND "OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES" - Post 1
After weeks of “Twitter Files” reports detailing close coordination between the FBI and Twitter in moderating social media content, the Bureau issued a statement Wednesday.
It didn’t refute allegations. Instead, it decried “conspiracy theorists” publishing “misinformation,” whose “sole aim” is to “discredit the agency.”
They must think us unambitious, if our “sole aim” is to discredit the FBI. After all, a whole range of government agencies discredit themselves in the #TwitterFiles. Why stop with one?
The files show the FBI acting as doorman to a vast program of social media surveillance and censorship, encompassing agencies across the federal government – from the State Department to the Pentagon to the CIA.
Source: Matt Taibbi
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2022-12-24 01:23:46+00:00
Netanyahu Forms New Israeli Government With Far-Right Partners
Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he has formed a new Israeli government, returning to power as prime minister in Israel’s most right wing administration in history.
“I got it,” the incoming premier tweeted on Wednesday night, minutes before a midnight deadline set by President Isaac Herzog to form a new government following elections on 1 November.
“Thanks to the enormous public support we received in the last elections, I was able to establish a government that will work for the benefit of all Israeli citizens,” he added, accompanied by a video of him calling the president.
Herzog’s office confirmed that Netanyahu’s statement had been received.
Israel’s longest serving prime minister, who led the government from 1996 to 1999 and again between 2009 and 2021, returns to power after his Likud party, far-right religious Zionist factions and ultra-Orthodox parties secured 64 of parliament’s 120 seats.
Bezalel Smotrich, leader of the Religious Zionism political alliance, and Itmar Ben Gvir, leader of Israel’s Jewish Power party, will take up prominent positions in the incoming government.
Smotrich, a self-declared homophobe and settler activist, has been named finance minister and will also be placed within Israel’s defence ministry, with oversight of settlements inside the illegally occupied West Bank.
The post gives Smotrich authority over building permits in settlements, demolitions of Palestinian homes, and land issues. He will also oversee two military units in charge of running civilian and security affairs in the occupied West Bank.
Ben Gvir, who was previously convicted in Israel of incitement to racism and supporting a terrorist organisation, will be named national security minister, with oversight of police and the force that controls security at al-Aqsa Mosque.
Source: Middle East Eye
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2022-12-23 23:59:01+00:00
Elon Musk: "I am overall very much pro FBI"
Collin Rugg tweeted:
"REPORT: Conservative Twitter accounts are apparently being suspended for speaking out against Zelensky’s speech last night.
Is the FBI still working at Twitter
@elonmusk?",
To which Elon Musk replied:
"To be clear, I am overall very much pro FBI. The agency does a great deal of important work protecting the public.
That said, no organization is perfect and part of the FBI obviously overreached with respect to online censorship."
Then Eliza Bleu chimed in: "Wait, the question was is the FBI still at Twitter? Not your personal feelings about the FBI.
So is the FBI still at Twitter?"
Sounds like a yes.
Source: Eliza Bleu
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2022-12-26 21:57:18+00:00
Strikes INSIDE Russia Threaten Us All
One of my latest tweets —
"This is a very dangerous game that warmongers are playing. They have escalated to the point of carrying out drone strikes on Russian nuclear bases INSIDE Russia itself.
Paid for with American taxpayer dollars. How long until Putin eventually retaliates?"
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2022-12-26 20:25:07+00:00
New Zealand Government Abuses Parents by Labeling Those They Disagree with as "Conspiracy Theorists"
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Joining us at General Assembly Meeting #70 on December 19 was Sue Grey. She spoke about her recent experience in court representing the parents of a baby in New Zealand who requested mRNA-free blood during a necessary blood transfusion for their child.
Unfortunately, Jacinda Ardern's government had "no appreciation of the concerns of the parents," explained Sue. Instead, the government "has labeled anybody who doesn't just agree with them as a conspiracy theorist."
"And then they use this weird logic that if you're a conspiracy theorist, nothing you say has got any credibility whatsoever. And that they can then, accordingly, ignore everything you say."
Sue Grey is an environmental lawyer based in Nelson, New Zealand and the co-leader of the New Zealand Outdoors and Freedom Party.
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2022-12-26 19:37:27+00:00
The US Captagon Act: Tightening Syria’s Siege Under New Pretext
On 15 December, a bill introduced by US lawmakers into the 2023 Department of Defense budget to “Combat the Syrian Regime’s Drug Trade,” passed the Senate, with the support of 83 senators and the opposition of 11.
The Countering Assad’s Proliferation Trafficking And Garnering Of Narcotics Act or the CAPTAGON Act, which passed in the joint congressional committees between the House of Representatives and the Senate, is supposed to become law after US President Joe Biden soon signs the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2023.
The bipartisan bill inaugurates a new phase of US pressure on Syria, and is another pretext to increase the siege on the Syrian people, who suffer from extremely difficult economic conditions similar to those they suffered during the famine that the region witnessed during the First World War.
Severe US-imposed sanctions under the “Caesar Act” have contributed to the tragedy of the Syrians, at a time when the country is in the midst of an economic crisis, with the US occupation and the Kurdish Autonomous Administration controlling vast areas of lands rich in oil, gas, and agricultural crops in the east of the country, in addition to the Turkish occupation of other regions.
Further Sanctions
Nevertheless, Washington is preparing to impose more sanctions, this time under the pretext of combating narcotics networks manufacturing and smuggling Captagon from Syria across West Asia and perhaps to the US.
Republican Representative French Hill, who first introduced the bill last year, considers the matter a threat to international security and has branded Syria as a “narco-state.” However an anonymous Syrian government source, who spoke to The Cradle believes otherwise:
“The CAPTAGON Act is an American way to impose additional sanctions on the Syrian government and to penetrate more into neighboring countries. The Americans make up many excuses, but the goal is one: to starve Syrian people and bring down the state. This looks like a revenge operation and a way to dominate Syria.”
Source: The Cradle
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2022-12-26 18:45:55+00:00
THE TWITTER FILES PART 10: How Twitter Rigged The Covid Debate - Post 13/Final
What might this pandemic and its aftermath have looked like if there had been a more open debate on Twitter and other social media platforms—not to mention the mainstream press—about the origins of Covid, about lockdowns, about the true risks of Covid in kids, and much more?
An expanded version of this thread is available now @ thefp!
https://www.thefp.com/p/how-twitter-rigged-the-covid-debate
Source: DavidZWeig
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2022-12-26 18:44:55+00:00
THE TWITTER FILES PART 10: How Twitter Rigged The Covid Debate - Post 12
Remember @ KelleyKga with the CDC data tweet? Twitter’s response to her is clarifying: “we will prioritize review and labeling of content that could lead to increased exposure or transmission.”
Twitter made a decision, via the political leanings of senior staff, and govt pressure, that the public health authorities’ approach to the pandemic – prioritizing mitigation over other concerns – was “The Science” . .
Information that challenged that view, such as showing harms of vaccines, or that could be perceived as downplaying the risks of Covid, especially to children, was subject to moderation, and even suppression. No matter whether such views were correct or adopted abroad.
Source: DavidZWeig
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2022-12-26 18:37:52+00:00
Pre-Bunking & Other New Search Engine Censorship Techniques
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We're reaching an internet era where the biggest companies think they have a right to dictate what the truth is and that they know better than anyone else. Over the next few years, you will see startling control over information unless you decide to seek truth using alternative methods. Presearch will be one of those alternative methods.
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2022-12-26 18:32:50+00:00
🚨BREAKING: THE TWITTER FILES PART 10: How Twitter Rigged The Covid Debate - Post 11
That this tweet was not only flagged by a bot, but its violation manually affirmed by a staff member is telling of both the algorithmic and human bias at play. Bostom’s account was suspended for months and was finally restored on Christmas Day.
Another example of human bias run amok was the reaction to this tweet by Trump. Many Trump tweets led to extensive internal debates, and this one was no different.
In a surreal exchange, Jim Baker, at the time Twitter’s Deputy General Counsel, asks why telling people to not be afraid wasn’t a violation of Twitter’s Covid-19 misinformation policy.
Yoel Roth, Twitter’s former head of Trust & Safety, had to explain that optimism wasn’t misinformation.
Source: DavidZWeig
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2022-12-26 18:29:30+00:00
🚨BREAKING: THE TWITTER FILES PART 10: How Twitter Rigged The Covid Debate - Post 10
Andrew Bostom, a Rhode Island physician, was permanently suspended from Twitter after receiving multiple strikes for misinformation. One of his strikes was for a tweet referring to the results from a peer reviewed study on mRNA vaccines.
A review of Twitter log files revealed that an internal audit, conducted after Bostom’s attorney contacted Twitter, found that only 1 of Bostom’s 5 violations were valid.
The one Bostom tweet found to still be in violation cited data that was legitimate but inconvenient to the public health establishment’s narrative about the risks of flu versus Covid in children.
Source: DavidZWeig
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2022-12-26 18:28:11+00:00
🚨BREAKING: THE TWITTER FILES PART 10: How Twitter Rigged The Covid Debate - Post 9
Internal records showed that a bot had flagged the tweet, and that it received many “tattles” (what the system amusingly called reports from users). That triggered a manual review by a human who– despite the tweet showing actual CDC data–nevertheless labeled it “Misleading”
Tellingly, the tweet by @ KelleyKga that was labeled “Misleading” was a reply to a tweet that contained actual misinformation.
Covid has never been the leading cause of death from disease in children. Yet that tweet remains on the platform, and without a “misleading” label.
Whether by humans or algorithms, content that was contrarian but true was still subject to getting flagged or suppressed
This tweet was labeled “Misleading,” even though the owner of this account,
@ _euzebiusz_, a physician, was referring to the results of a published study
Source: DavidZWeig
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2022-12-26 18:25:53+00:00
🚨BREAKING: THE TWITTER FILES PART 10: How Twitter Rigged The Covid Debate - Post 8
After Twitter took action, Kulldorff’s tweet was slapped with a “Misleading” label and all replies and likes were shut off, throttling the tweet’s ability to be seen and shared by many people, the ostensible core function of the platform:
In my review of internal files, I found countless instances of tweets labeled as “misleading” or taken down entirely, sometimes triggering account suspensions, simply because they veered from CDC guidance or differed from establishment views.
A tweet by @ KelleyKga, a self-proclaimed public health fact checker, with 18K followers, was flagged as “Misleading,” and replies and likes disabled, even though it displayed the CDC’s *own data.*
Source: DavidZWeig
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2022-12-26 18:24:43+00:00
🚨BREAKING: THE TWITTER FILES PART 10: How Twitter Rigged The Covid Debate - Post 7
Internal emails show an “intent to action” by a moderator, saying Kulldorff’s tweet violated the company’s Covid-19 misinformation policy and claimed he shared “false information.”
But Kulldorff’s statement was an expert’s opinion—one which also happened to be in line with vaccine policies in numerous other countries. Yet it was deemed “false information” by Twitter moderators merely because it differed from CDC guidelines.
Source: DavidZWeig
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2022-12-26 18:22:41+00:00
🚨BREAKING: THE TWITTER FILES PART 10: How Twitter Rigged The Covid Debate - Post 6
With Covid, this bias bent heavily toward establishment dogmas.
Inevitably, dissident yet legitimate content was labeled as misinformation, and the accounts of doctors and others were suspended both for tweeting opinions and demonstrably true information.
Exhibit A: Dr. Martin Kulldorff, an epidemiologist at Harvard Medical School, tweeted views at odds with US public health authorities and the American left, the political affiliation of nearly the entire staff at Twitter.
Source: DavidZWeig
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2022-12-26 18:21:16+00:00
🚨BREAKING: THE TWITTER FILES PART 10: How Twitter Rigged The Covid Debate - Post 5
But Twitter did suppress views—many from doctors and scientific experts—that conflicted with the official positions of the White House. As a result, legitimate findings and questions that would have expanded the public debate went missing.
There were three serious problems with Twitter’s process:
First, much of the content moderation was conducted by bots, trained on machine learning and AI – impressive in their engineering, yet still too crude for such nuanced work.
Second, contractors, in places like the Philippines, also moderated content. They were given decision trees to aid in the process, but tasking non experts to adjudicate tweets on complex topics like myocarditis and mask efficacy data was destined for a significant error rate
Third, most importantly, the buck stopped with higher level employees at Twitter who chose the inputs for the bots and decision trees, and subjectively decided escalated cases and suspensions. As it is with all people and institutions, there was individual and collective bias
Source: DavidZWeig
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2022-12-26 18:18:54+00:00
🚨BREAKING: THE TWITTER FILES PART 10: How Twitter Rigged The Covid Debate - Post 4
A December 2022 summary of meetings with the White House by Lauren Culbertson, Twitter’s Head of U.S. Public Policy, adds new evidence of the White House’s pressure campaign, and cements that it repeatedly attempted to directly influence the platform.
Culbertson wrote that the Biden team was “very angry” that Twitter had not been more aggressive in deplatforming multiple accounts. They wanted Twitter to do more.
Twitter executives did not fully capitulate to the Biden team’s wishes. An extensive review of internal communications at the company revealed employees often debating moderation cases in great detail, and with more care than was shown by the government toward free speech.
Source: DavidZWeig
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2022-12-26 18:17:28+00:00
🚨BREAKING: THE TWITTER FILES PART 10: How Twitter Rigged The Covid Debate - Post 3
In the summer of 2021, president Biden said social media companies were “killing people” for allowing vaccine misinformation. Berenson was suspended hours after Biden’s comments, and kicked off the platform the following month.
Berenson sued (and then settled with) Twitter. In the legal process Twitter was compelled to release certain internal communications, which showed direct White House pressure on the company to take action on Berenson.
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/jesse-jackson-cant-swim
Source: DavidZWeig
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2022-12-26 18:16:31+00:00
🚨BREAKING: THE TWITTER FILES PART 10: How Twitter Rigged The Covid Debate - Post 2
At the onset of the pandemic, according to meeting notes, the Trump admin was especially concerned about panic buying. They came looking for “help from the tech companies to combat misinformation” about “runs on grocery stores.” But . . . there were runs on grocery stores.
It wasn’t just Twitter. The meetings with the Trump White House were also attended by Google, Facebook, Microsoft and others.
When the Biden admin took over, one of their first meeting requests with Twitter executives was on Covid. The focus was on “anti-vaxxer accounts.” Especially Alex Berenson:
Source: DavidZWeig
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2022-12-26 18:14:13+00:00
🚨BREAKING: THE TWITTER FILES PART 10: How Twitter Rigged The Covid Debate - Post 1
– By censoring info that was true but inconvenient to U.S. govt. policy
– By discrediting doctors and other experts who disagreed
– By suppressing ordinary users, including some sharing the CDC’s *own data*
So far the Twitter Files have focused on evidence of Twitter’s secret blacklists; how the company functioned as a kind of subsidiary of the FBI; and how execs rewrote the platform’s rules to accommodate their own political desires.
What we have yet to cover is Covid. This reporting, for The Free Press, @ thefp, is one piece of that important story.
The United States government pressured Twitter and other social media platforms to elevate certain content and suppress other content about Covid-19.
Internal files at Twitter that I viewed while on assignment for @ thefp showed that both the Trump and Biden administrations directly pressed Twitter executives to moderate the platform’s pandemic content according to their wishes.
Source: DavidZWeig
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2022-12-26 18:01:23+00:00
The Biden Administration Is Banning Low-Cost Appliances—and Bragging About It
https://www.activistpost.com/2022/12/the-biden-administration-is-banning-low-cost-appliances-and-bragging-about-it.html
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2022-12-26 17:25:00+00:00
Only Russia's Nuclear Arms Preventing West From Declaring War - Putin Ally
Russia's nuclear arsenal and the rules Moscow has laid out for its use are the only factors preventing the West from starting a war against Russia, a top ally of President Vladimir Putin said in an article published on Sunday.
Former President Dmitry Medvedev, now deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, also said Moscow would pursue its war in Ukraine until the "disgusting, almost fascist regime" in Kyiv was removed and the country had been totally demilitarised.
In an interview aired separately on Sunday, Putin said Russia is ready to negotiate with all parties involved in the war, but said that Kyiv and its Western backers have refused to engage in talks.
Medvedev, who once cast himself as a liberal moderniser as president from 2008 to 2012, is one of the most hawkish proponents of the war. He regularly denounces the West, which he accuses of wanting to break Russia apart to benefit Ukraine.
"Is the West ready to unleash a fully-fledged war against us, including a nuclear war, at the hands of Kyiv?" he wrote in a 4,500-word article for the Rossiiskaya Gazeta newspaper.
"The only thing that stops our enemies today is the understanding that Russia will be guided by the fundamentals of state policy ... on nuclear deterrence. And in the event that a real threat arises, it will act on them."
Source: Reuters
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2022-12-26 16:57:42+00:00
Attacks on Three Electrical Substations Affect Thousands – Investigation Underway
Three power substations in East Pierce County operated by Tacoma Public Utilities and Puget Sound Energy were attacked and vandalized early Sunday, resulting in power outages affecting thousands of customers. The affected area was centered in Graham. The attacks were preceded by a warning from federal law enforcement citing a possible threat to the local electrical grid, according to a statement from TPU.
The utility did not describe the specific nature of the attack, apart from saying it occurred early Sunday morning. According to the Pierce County Sheriff’s office, unknown individuals broke into the two substations and vandalized equipment.
The sheriff’s office reported that a third substation on South Hill, operated by Puget Sound Energy, was also attacked earlier Sunday. All three incidents were described as burglaries, but nothing was taken, said sheriff’s spokesperson Darren Moss in an emailed statement. TPU released a statement Sunday afternoon providing additional information.
Source: The News Tribune
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2022-12-26 15:25:13+00:00
Twitter Colluded With Pentagon To Run Network of Fake Accounts Around the World – Including AI-Created Deep Fakes – Despite Publicly Claiming To Delete Government Backed Propaganda
Twitter worked with the Pentagon to promote fake accounts in the Middle East which praised U.S. policy, it has emerged - despite the social media company insisting that it made 'concerted efforts' to 'detect and thwart government-backed platform manipulation'.
The collusion spanned at least four years, from 2017 to 2020, and saw top Twitter executives liaise with military intelligence on 'a covert online PsyOp campaign' - promoting accounts including one that claimed the U.S. drone bombings in Yemen killed only terrorists.
The revelations were made by Lee Fang, who on Tuesday published the eighth installment of what is termed the Twitter Files.
Fang, a San Francisco-based journalist who writes for The Intercept, is following on from stories published by reporters Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss since the beginning of the month.
'Despite promises to shut down covert state-run propaganda networks, Twitter docs show that the social media giant directly assisted the U.S. military's influence operations,' Fang wrote.
Source: The Daily Mail
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2022-12-26 14:25:06+00:00
Dax Tejera Dead at 37: Beloved ABC Producer Dies After ‘Sudden Heart Attack’ As Tributes for This Week Exec Pour In
The producer for George Stephanopoulos's This Week has passed away suddenly of a heart attack, according to a memo sent to the staff.
Dax Tejera, the executive producer of the ABC News show, died last night. He was just 37.
A spokesperson for ABC News confirmed the tragedy in a memo released by The Hollywood Reporter.
"It's with a heavy heart and great sadness that we share that our friend and colleague, Dax Tejera passed away suddenly of a heart attack last night," the memo reads.
Source: The Sun
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2022-12-26 13:25:03+00:00
It’s Time To Stop Pretending What’s Happening in Ukraine Is Anything Other Than a US Proxy War
Do you remember how quickly this whole thing was meant to be over – and not in a good way for Ukraine.
Back in February, as Russian troops massed on the border, there was an anticipation that if and when they launched an invasion, they could reach Kyiv in days.
This assessment was partly the result of Russia’s own propaganda. Moscow believed it could swiftly seize the capital, oust the government, and establish its own regime. Russia’s military was believed to be large and powerful; how could Ukraine hope to resist?
In the frantic days after the 24 February “special operation” that Vladimir Putin named his illegal invasion, it was about trying to keep Ukraine and its leader alive by rushing in military equipment, and helping tens of thousands escape. The timetable of operations was marked in days, and at best weeks. Everyone assumed it would only be a matter of time. At one point, EU leaders feared if they would ever see their Ukrainian counterpart again.
Ten months later, we know that was not the case. The West overestimated the abilities of Russia’s armed forces, wrongly assumed Putin had a workable plan, and underestimated the capability and resolve of Ukraine’s military.
Joe Biden and the US Congress spent more than $100bn for military aid for Kyiv, a windfall for the US arms makers who were called on to stock up Zelensky’s arsenal, but probably essential to his survival.
Source: The Independent
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2022-12-27 23:34:43+00:00
In 2023 It Will Be Nearly Impossible to Avoid Facial Recognition in the U.S.
As more airports in the United States adopt facial recognition technology, the privacy of Americans is once again threatened, writes Derrick Broze in a new report for The Last American Vagabond.
In early December, The Washington Post reported that the U.S. Transportation Security Administration is beginning to test new facial recognition tools at 16 major domestic airports. The WaPo reported:
“The Transportation Security Administration has been quietly testing controversial facial recognition technology for passenger screening at 16 major domestic airports—from Washington to Los Angeles—and hopes to expand it across the United States as soon as next year. Kiosks with cameras are doing a job that used to be completed by humans: checking the photos on travelers’ IDs to make sure they’re not impostors.”
TSA representative Jason Lim told the Post that “none of this facial recognition technology is mandated.” Passengers choosing to opt out of the face identification will still need to present their ID. The TSA also said there are supposed to be signs around informing you of your rights.
The report goes on to inform the reader that although you technically don’t have to participate in facial recognition at the airport, “whether you’ll feel like you have a real choice is a separate question."
Source: The Last American Vagabond
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2022-12-27 22:53:04+00:00
U.S. Health Official Claims “Positive Value of Gender-Affirming Care for Youth" is "Not in Scientific or Medical Dispute” — Calls for Big Tech Censorship
The first openly transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate is facing a new round of criticism for a months-old video calling on state medical regulators to pressure Big Tech to censor purported misinformation on so-called gender affirming care.
Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine, with the Department of Health and Human Services, falsely claimed in the May 27 presentation to the Federation of State Medical Boards that the "positive value of gender-affirming care for youth and adults is not in scientific or medical dispute," ignoring heavy restrictions on such treatments for minors in Scandinavia among other regions and widespread debate among doctors.
Levine said that legislative challenges to puberty blockers and surgical removals of healthy breasts and genitals on minors were "dangerous to the public health."
The admiral in the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service told the state regulators "we need to use our clinicians' voice to collectively advocate for our tech companies to create a healthier, cleaner information environment" by scrubbing "substantial misinformation about gender-affirming care for transgender and gender-diverse individuals."
Source: Just The News
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2022-12-27 19:54:43+00:00
Trump Tech Advisor Reportedly Urged Twitter, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft to “Combat Misinformation”
Internal Twitter documents released by journalist David Zweig claim that the Trump administration met with tech companies and asked them to help “combat misinformation” during the COVID-19 crisis.
Zweig published several internal Twitter documents that describe meetings between “the Trump White House, specifically Michael Kratsios,” and several tech companies.
Kratsios joined the Trump White House in 2017 as Deputy Assistant to the President for Technology Policy. He became the fourth Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the United States (US) at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in August 2019 and was President Donald Trump’s top technology advisor when appointed to this role. Kratsios also served as Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering between July 10, 2020 and January 20, 2021.
Another internal Twitter document reports that Twitter, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft participated in this meeting. This document also claims that the meeting’s participants agreed to a “standing weekly call to share general trends and hosting a shared Microsoft Teams group.”
One of these internal Twitter documents claims that Kratsios lead the Trump administration’s calls for help from tech companies to combat misinformation at the onset of the pandemic. Specifically, the document states that the Trump administration wanted tech companies to combat “conspiracies around 5G cell towers, runs on grocery stores, and misinformation that could stoke panic buying and behaviors.”
Source: Reclaim The Net
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2022-12-27 19:15:54+00:00
Russian Lawmaker Who Slammed War in Ukraine Dies After Falling From a Window
A wealthy Russian businessman and regional lawmaker from Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party plunged to his death from a hotel window in India over the weekend—two days after a fellow Russian he was traveling with was found dead in the same hotel.
Pavel Antov, 65, who topped Forbes’ list of the richest Russian lawmakers in 2019, thus joins a rapidly growing list of prominent Russian figures found dead in mysterious circumstances.
The Russian outlet Zebra-TV reported that Antov’s lifeless body was found in front of his hotel in the eastern Indian state of Odisha on Saturday (Dec. 24).
Two days before Antov’s plunge, a friend he was traveling with was found dead in the hotel where the group was staying. The friend, identified by Zebra-TV as 61-year-old businessman Vladimir Bydanov, was reportedly “discovered unconscious” in his room surrounded by empty wine bottles.
Russian state media reports that Bydanov’s suspected cause of death was a heart attack, while Antov’s was his fall out a window.
The bizarre deaths come just a few days after Alexander Buzakov, the director general of Russia’s Admiralty Shipyards, died “suddenly and tragically” at the age of 66. His cause of death remains unclear.
A few weeks earlier, one-time real estate tycoon Dmitry Zelenov died suddenly while visiting friends in the French Riviera.
At least 13 other prominent Russian figures, many of them involved in the oil and gas industry, have died in strange circumstances this year.
Sources: Daily Beast, Zebra-TV
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2022-12-27 18:07:42+00:00
Ringleader in Michigan Governor Kidnapping Plot Sentenced to 16 Years in Prison
The leader of a foiled plot by members of right-wing militia groups to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer was sentenced to 16 years in prison on Tuesday (Dec. 27) in a U.S. District Court, prosecutors said.
Adam Fox was found guilty in August by a federal court jury in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on one count each of conspiring to abduct Whitmer, a Democrat, and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction in a scheme prosecutors said was intended to spark a "second American Revolution."
Co-defendant Barry Croft Jr., like Fox a member of the Three Percenters militia group, was convicted of the same charges at the same trial and was scheduled for sentencing on Wednesday (Dec. 28).
Source: Reuters
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2022-12-27 17:17:55+00:00
Hacker Claims to Have Obtained Emails and Phone Numbers of 400,000,000 Twitter Users
A member of a criminal data breach forum claims to have obtained the emails and phone numbers of 400 million Twitter users in a posting that urges social media CEO Elon Musk to buy the data set for an unspecified price.
The posting, apparently first noticed by Israeli cyber intelligence firm Hudson Rock, includes alleged private email addresses for three dozen well-known personalities, including New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ethereum cryptocurrency founder Vitalik Buterin and cybersecurity reporter Brian Krebs.
The posting also includes a link to a spreadsheet containing 1,000 records, a handful of which belong to public institutions and whose listed email addresses appear legitimate.
The poster, who uses a male avatar and goes by the handle "Ryushi," says the records were exposed for scraping "via a vulnerability" and did not respond to a request for elaboration over his Telegram channel.
If verified, the data breach would be a further blow to Twitter and its beleaguered chief executive, who has said he will step down from overseeing the social media network while remaining its owner.
Only months ago, Twitter entered into a consent order with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission binding it to maintain a privacy and information security program for the next two decades. The agreement ended a federal investigation into Twitter's use of phone numbers and email addresses for advertising purposes when they were collected to be used for multifactor authentication. Twitter also paid a $150 million civil penalty. Bloomberg reports the agency is intensifying a probe into whether Twitter is complying with the order, especially given the exodus of senior legal, privacy and compliance executives (see: Twitter Ramps Up Regulatory Exposure After Loss of CISO).
The Irish Data Protection Commission on Friday announced an investigation into an August incident in which the contact records of 5.4 million Twitter users were dumped on the same forum favored by Ryushi (see: Cybercrime Forum Dumps Stolen Details on 5.4M Twitter Users).
Twitter, according to the Irish data protection authority, apparently violated provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation, Europe's privacy regulation, which are often tied to hefty fines. The Irish agency in November invoked the GDPR to fine Facebook 265 million euros after a data set containing details of more than half a billion social media users appeared online last year (see: Meta Fined by Irish Privacy Regulator for GDPR Violations).
Source: BankInfoSecurity
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2022-12-27 16:24:43+00:00
Just days before Christmas Arjun and I sat down to chat about some of the bigger stories of 2022.
Elon Musk, Twitter, COVID and the Great Reset.
https://www.collective-evolution.com/2022/12/21/ep-31-elon-musk-the-great-reset-discernment-arjun-walia/
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2022-12-27 15:24:45+00:00
Report: The CIA Is Directing Sabotage Attacks Inside Russia
The CIA has been using a European NATO country’s intelligence services to conduct sabotage attacks inside Russia since the February invasion of Ukraine, investigative journalist Jack Murphy reported on Saturday (Dec. 24), citing unnamed former US intelligence and military officials.
The report said that no US personnel are on the ground in Russia but that the operations are being directed by the CIA. The US is using an ally’s intelligence services to add an extra layer of plausible deniability, and a former US special operations official told Murphy that layer was a major factor in President Biden signing off on the attacks.
Murphy said he didn’t name the NATO country whose intelligence services were being used in the report because “doing so might endanger the operational security of cells that are still operational inside of Russia.”
The report appeared on Murphy’s personal website, and in a note at the end of the piece, he explained why it wasn’t published by a media outlet. “While working with editors at mainstream publications I was asked to do things that were illegal and unethical in one instance, and in another instance I felt that a senior CIA official was able to edit my article by making off the record statements, before he leaked a story to The New York Times to undermine this piece,” he wrote.
According to the report, the covert campaign inside Russia has been years in the making.
Source: Antiwar.com
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2022-12-27 14:24:43+00:00
Omnibus Bill Shows Priorities of U.S. Congress: Authoritarianism and War
Those hoping for a Christmastime government shutdown were once again disappointed when Congress passed a 4,000-page, $1.7 trillion omnibus appropriations bill that few, if any, Representatives and Senators read before voting on. The Republican leadership celebrated this bloated monstrosity because it spends $858 billion on warfare while “only” spending $772.5 billion on welfare.
No one should think Republican insistence on more warfare than welfare spending means Democrats oppose the warfare state. Under President Biden and a Democrat-controlled Congress, “defense” spending has increased by 4.3% over the last two years. Similarly, every Republican President in recent years—including two who had a Republican-controlled Congress for at least part of their term—supported huge increases in welfare state spending. Most Democrats only pretend to oppose warfare and most Republicans only pretend to oppose welfare to appease their parties’ respective bases.
The Omnibus appropriates a $44.5 billion giveaway to Ukraine. This brings the total US spending on Ukraine’s military to over $100 billion—approximately 50% more than Russia’s entire military budget! This money is spent in a conflict that does not affect US security, yet one that would likely have not occurred were it not for prior US meddling in the region.
The Omnibus bill provides $11.3 billion for the FBI, a $569.6 million increase and $524 billion above the President’s request. According to the Democratic leadership, the funding increase is so the FBI can better fight “extremist violence and domestic terrorists.”
Source: Ron Paul
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2022-12-27 13:24:45+00:00
Six Killed in Latest U.S. Airstrike on Somalia, Third Known Strike This Month
US Africa Command (AFRICOM) said in a press release that it conducted an airstrike in Somalia on Friday (Dec. 23) against al-Shabaab, marking the third known US strike in the country this month.
AFRICOM said the strike was launched in support of the Mogadishu-based government and that it hit a target about 150 northeast of the Somali capital near the coastal town of Cadale.
The command claimed that its “initial assessment” found six al-Shabaab fighters were killed and no civilians were harmed. But the Pentagon is known for undercounting civilian casualties in Somalia, and there is little accountability as there is virtually no media coverage of the US war against al-Shabaab.
The US-backed government in Somalia also has strict rules for media. Somali journalists say the government has enacted a new rule that requires them to submit content for approval.
Source: Antiwar.com
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2022-12-27 13:02:26+00:00
Slavery & Child Labor In The Congo Powers Our Tech
Many people remain unaware that right now there are more enslaved human beings than at any other point in human history on Earth. An astonishing statistic when considering the horrors of the slave trades of past centuries.
However this modern form of slavery goes largely unnoticed in public purview due to the lack of coverage and how governments and corporations alike benefit and profit from this grotesque exploitation.
Harvard professor Siddharth Karra, an expert on human trafficking and human rights abuses, recently spoke with Joe Rogan about the appalling conditions of slave labor in Cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
"Throughout the whole history of slavery going back centuries never never in human history has been there more suffering that generated more profit and was linked to the lives of more people around the world ever ever in history than what is happening in the Congo right now."
"The Cobalt that's being mined in the Congo is in every single lithium ion rechargeable battery in the world today. Every smartphone, every laptop, every tablet, and crucially every electric vehicle."
Three fourths of the world's entire cobalt supply is mined in the Congo for companies largely controlled by the Chinese government and industry, and then sold to big tech corporations like Samsung, Google, Tesla, and all the rest.
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2022-12-27 04:54:45+00:00
China Sends 71 Warplanes, 7 Ships Toward Taiwan in 24 Hours
China’s military sent 71 planes and seven ships toward Taiwan in a 24-hour display of force directed at the self-ruled island, Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said Monday (Dec. 26), after China expressed anger at Taiwan-related provisions in the U.S. annual defense spending bill—the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act—signed by U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday.
China’s military activity around Taiwan, which it claims is its own territory, has intensified in recent years, and the Communist Party’s People’s Liberation Army has sent planes or ships toward the island on a near-daily basis.
Between 6 a.m. Sunday (Dec. 25) and 6 a.m. Monday, 47 of the Chinese planes crossed the median of the Taiwan Strait, an unofficial boundary once tacitly accepted by both sides, according to Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense.
Among the planes China sent towards Taiwan were 18 J-16 fighter jets, 11 J-1 fighters, 6 Su-30 fighters and drones.
Source: AP
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2022-12-27 03:54:45+00:00
"Full-Blown Meltdown": Southwest Cancels Nearly 3,000 Flights as Holiday Travel in U.S. Hits Perfect Storm
Southwest Airlines canceled nearly 3,000 flights on Monday (Dec. 26), as a historic winter storm and inadequate staffing made for a perfect storm of holiday chaos the day after Christmas.
As of 9PM on Monday, Southwest had canceled 2,882 flights—or 70% of its schedule, according to flightaware.com. Overall, 82% of Southwest flights were either canceled or delayed. By airport, Denver International saw 24% of flights canceled, while 29% were delayed.
Tomorrow (Dec. 27) is also slated to be a total mess, with over 2,400 Tuesday flights already canceled.
Source: ZeroHedge
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2022-12-27 03:14:45+00:00
Meta Settles Cambridge Analytica Scandal Case for $725 Million
Facebook owner Meta has agreed to pay $725m (£600m) to settle legal action over a data breach linked to political consultancy Cambridge Analytica.
The long-running dispute accused the social media giant of allowing third parties, including the British firm, to access Facebook users' personal data.
The proposed sum is the largest in a US data privacy class action, lawyers say.
Meta, which did not admit wrongdoing, said it had "revamped" its approach to privacy over the past three years.
Source: BBC
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2022-12-27 02:12:20+00:00
World Economic Forum Cancels Twitter, Directs Followers to Chinese Social Media Apps
Prior to its upcoming conference in Davos next month, the World Economic Forum (WEF) appears to have joined the cancel campaign against Twitter, taking to recommending Chinese state-controlled social media apps to “follow along” with Davos Man into the future.
Twitter is noticeably absent from the entities listed on the organization’s “How to follow Davos 2023” social media pamphlet, and that appears to be no accident.
To stay up to speed with all that is happening within the invite-only doors of the ruling class confab, the WEF recommends following along through a handful of social media sites. They include the U.S.-based narrative-compliant Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube, along with the Chinese social media apps TikTok WeChat, and Weibo.
Twitter is no longer included.
Source: The Dossier
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2022-12-27 01:21:09+00:00
North Korean Drones Penetrate South Korean Airspace
Five North Korean drones crossed into South Korea, including one that flew near Seoul. South Korea responded by scrambling jets as well as attack helicopters and attempted to shoot down the drones.
The drones sent by Pyongyang, which crossed into Seoul’s airspace Monday (Dec. 26), measured about two meters, according to South Korean defense official Lee Seung-o. He added that Seoul failed in its attempts to down the drones. South Korea’s defense agency believes one drone returned to North Korean territory and is unsure about the fate of the other four.
Seoul says it is unsure if the drones were armed or not. The airspace incursion caused South Korea to temporarily close its two largest airports. Seoul also scrambled several jets and helicopters, including one light-attack aircraft that crashed.
Source: Libertarian Institute
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2022-12-27 00:29:03+00:00
Ukraine FM Says No Talks With Russia Until After War Crimes Tribunal
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told The Associated Press on Monday (Dec. 26) that Russia must face a tribunal for alleged war crimes in Ukraine before direct peace talks can be held between Kyiv and Moscow.
The comments are the latest sign that there’s no end in sight to the fighting in Ukraine, as Russia would never comply with Kuleba’s conditions, and the US continues to escalate military aid and other kinds of support for Kyiv.
For his part, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Sunday (Dec. 25) that Moscow is prepared to negotiate an end to the war and that Ukraine and its Western backers were not. “We are ready to negotiate with everyone involved about acceptable solutions, but that is up to them—we are not the ones refusing to negotiate, they are,” he said.
Kuleba said that his country was hoping for a “peace” summit hosted by the UN to be held soon the get other countries on the same page, but Kyiv doesn’t want Russia to participate unless all of Ukraine’s conditions are met.
Source: Antiwar.com
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2022-12-27 00:13:30+00:00
NEW: Neuralink, Dead Monkeys, and Transhumanism
In this clip from the Live Free, Think Free podcast, Derrick and Micah break down the latest on Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain implant, the cost to animal lives, and the push towards Transhumanism.
https://theconsciousresistance.com/neuralink-dead-monkeys-and-transhumanism/
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2022-12-28 22:52:34+00:00
Sweden Pulls Way Back from Gender-Affirming Care for Children
As the Biden administration and deeply ideological publications such as the New England Journal of Medicine push for treating children with gender dysphoria with nothing but affirmation—and castigate mental-health treatment for gender dysphoria, considering it equivalent to “conversion therapy”—less politicized institutions in other liberal societies are hitting the brakes.
Sweden’s national board of health just updated its guidelines on the care of children with gender dysphoria, and “caution” is its new watchword. It declares that extended psychosocial explorations are key.
From its announcement: "Young people suffering from gender dysphoria need to be able to quickly receive an investigation and be offered adequate care measures, based on the health-care system’s assessments of care needs. Good psychosocial care is fundamental, says Thomas Lindén, head of department at the National Board of Health and Welfare."
Contrary to the Biden administration’s and gender activists’ assertions that the science is settled—there is a paucity of studies on the best approach to caring for gender-dysphoric children.
Source: National Review
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2022-12-28 21:55:09+00:00
The Income Tax Is the Main Enabler of the Government’s Criminality Against the People
https://www.activistpost.com/2022/12/the-income-tax-is-the-main-enabler-of-the-governments-criminality-against-the-people.html
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2022-12-28 21:25:07+00:00
Big Brother is protecting you’: NYC Mayor Eric Adams pledges stronger policing, more technology in 2023
How his aspirations play out in a city where fears of increasing crime followed wide-scale protests against police violence in 2020 remains to be seen.
NYC Mayor Eric Adams blames the rise in crime on problems he inherited from his predecessor, Bill de Blasio, who had a famously fraught relationship with the NYPD.
The new mayor has walked a line between police ally and critic — passionately defending the force while also calling cop culture to task. He often harkens back to his own abuse at the hands of police officers in the 1970s and years spent calling for change during his 22 years inside the department. As mayor, he admonished officers he feels are wasting time on their phones .
Progressive Democrats had warned last year Adams would turn the city into a police state, but concerns about crime overpowered them. And Adams believes he has a mandate to make change.
How his aspirations play out in a city where fears of increasing crime followed wide-scale protests against police violence in 2020 remains to be seen.
In an interview with POLITICO, Adams promised an expansion of technology-assisted policing to detect weapons. Over the past year, he has promoted the use of cameras and lauded divisive facial recognition devices .
“It blows my mind how much we have not embraced technology, and part of that is because many of our electeds are afraid. Anything technology they think, ‘Oh it’s a boogeyman. It’s Big Brother watching you,’” Adams said. “No, Big Brother is protecting you.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/24/eric-adams-policing-technology-new-york-00075359
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2022-12-28 20:25:06+00:00
U.S. Military Hires Recruits Diagnosed With Behavioral Disorder — Wall Street Journal
The US military has allowed 700 recruits with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) to sign up, after it rewrote its rules on which medical conditions bar applicants from joining, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Tuesday (Dec. 27).
The 700 trainees were hired following a decision by the military in June to allow those who suffered from 38 medical conditions to enlist, provided they hadn’t demonstrated symptoms or needed treatment for between three and seven years prior to signing up. These conditions – which include congenital heart defects and tuberculosis – were previously automatic disqualifiers.
Army Secretary Christine Wormuth told the WSJ that the branch would assess the effectiveness of the program after a year of service by the recruits.
“We want to be cautious,” Wormuth said, referring to hiring those with mental health conditions. “I think we have to constantly be refreshing our approach and looking at conditions in this society.”
Source: RT
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2022-12-28 19:56:12+00:00
Elon Musk: 'New Twitter policy is to follow the science, which necessarily includes reasoned questioning of the science'
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2022-12-28 19:31:01+00:00
Zelensky Planning to Join World Economic Forum in Davos, Will Sign Massive New Loans With Blackrock
On Wednesday (Dec. 28) it was revealed that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s government is prepping to participate in January’s World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, and that the Ukrainian leader is in talks with BlackRock CEO Larry Fink regarding rebuilding efforts following the war with Russia.
According to Bloomberg, Zelensky said in an evening address to the nation, "Specialists of this company are already helping Ukraine to structure the fund for the reconstruction of our state."
Zelensky reportedly had a video call with Fink in September. He did not reveal whether he would be attending the WEF in person or virtually.
According to a Wednesday post on the Ukrainian President’s official website, Zelensky said, "In accordance with the preliminary agreements struck earlier this year between the Head of State and Larry Fink, the BlackRock team has been working for several months on a project to advise the Ukrainian government on how to structure the country’s reconstruction funds."
"Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Larry Fink agreed to focus in the near term on coordinating the efforts of all potential investors and participants in the reconstruction of our country, channeling investment into the most relevant and impactful sectors of the Ukrainian economy," the post added.
"During the conversation, it was emphasized that certain BlackRock leaders plan to visit Ukraine in the new year," the post continued. "The President thanked Larry Fink for the work of the professional team that BlackRock has allocated to advise on structuring the reconstruction projects."
Source: The Post Millennial
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2022-12-28 18:55:07+00:00
The Always Relevant "What if..." Speech -- And Now It's Ukraine
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2022-12-28 17:34:42+00:00
U.S. Space Force Gets Massive Budget Boost Amid Bizarre Sexual Harassment Scandal
The 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) increases the budget of the Pentagon’s newest branch by billions of dollars. The funding increase comes after a top Space Force civilian employee sexually harassed his subordinates and kept his job.
The Space Force will receive $26.3 billion in the upcoming fiscal year, $1.7 billion greater than the Pentagon initially requested and an $8 billion boost over 2022’s funding levels.
Most of the money will go toward building satellites for various uses, as the Space Force recently said it would attempt to build more low-orbit satellites. Under the spending plan, private military contractors, such as Boeing, stand to make hundreds of millions.
The significant budget hike comes after a senior Space Force official, Andrew Cox, become embroiled in a sexual harassment scandal involving lower-ranking personnel. According to the Air Force Times, he encouraged a workplace culture where sex toys and “G-strings” were given as gifts, beginning sometime after he was tapped to lead the Pentagon’s Space Security and Defense Program in 2013.
Source: Libertarian Institute, Air Force Times
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2022-12-28 16:34:42+00:00
Report Warns Risk of Nuclear War at Its Highest Since U.S. Nuked Japan
A Swedish group that assesses catastrophic risks warned in its annual report this year that the risk of nuclear weapons use is higher today than at any point since the US dropped nuclear weapons on Japan in 1945, AFP reported on Tuesday (Dec. 27).
Kennette Benedict, an advisor to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists who led the report for the Global Challenges Foundation, said the risk of nuclear war was greater than during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
The report warned that an all-out nuclear exchange would send enough dust in the air to block sunlight resulting in “a period of chaos and violence, during which most of the surviving world population would die from hunger.”
President Biden acknowledged the risk back in October when he said the chances of nuclear “armageddon” are higher today than at any point since the Cuban Missile Crisis. Despite his recognition of the danger of his policy of supporting Ukraine against Russia, Biden continues to escalate US involvement in the war, and there is no end in sight to the fighting.
Ukraine’s war effort is entirely reliant on Western support.
Source: Antiwar.com
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2022-12-28 15:38:08+00:00
Taiwan Extends Mandatory Military Service to Better Prepare Soldiers for a Future War with China
Taiwan will extend its mandatory military service to one year to better train soldiers to take on mainland Chinese forces in the event of a cross-strait conflict.
Under the plan, men aged 18 and above will be required to serve for one year instead of four months from 2024, when the self-ruled island will elect a new president.
“I must admit it is a highly difficult decision to make, but as a president and commander-in-chief of our forces, I must do so to uphold the interest of the nation and the persistent survival of Taiwan as well as the free [people] living in the generations to come. This is my responsibility as president,” Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen said when asked if the plan would sabotage her party’s chances in the election.
Source: South China Morning Post
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2022-12-28 14:33:13+00:00
Chris Hedges: Democrats Are Now the War Party
Democrats position themselves as the party of virtue, cloaking their support for the war industry in moral language stretching back to Korea and Vietnam, when President Ngo Dinh Diem was as lionized as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
All the wars they support and fund are “good” wars. All the enemies they fight, the latest being Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping, are incarnations of evil. The photo of a beaming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Vice President Kamala Harris holding up a signed Ukrainian battle flag behind Zelensky as he addressed Congress last Wednesday was another example of the Democratic Party’s abject subservience to the war machine.
The Democrats, especially with the presidency of Bill Clinton, became shills not only for corporate America but for the weapons manufacturers and the Pentagon. No weapons system is too costly. No war, no matter how disastrous, goes unfunded. No military budget is too big, including the $858 billion in military spending allocated for the current fiscal year, an increase of $45 billion above what the Biden administration requested.
This lust for war is dangerous, pushing us into a potential war with Russia and, perhaps later, with China—each a nuclear power. It is also economically ruinous. The monopolization of capital by the military has driven U.S. debt to over $30 trillion, $6 trillion more than the U.S. GDP of $24 trillion. Servicing this debt costs $300 billion a year.
The U.S. spends more on the military than the next nine countries, including China and Russia, combined. Congress is also on track to provide an extra $21.7 billion to the Pentagon—above the already expanded annual budget — to resupply Ukraine.
Source: ScheerPost
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2022-12-28 05:23:38+00:00
Russian FM Lavrov Says Pentagon Threatening "Decapitation Strike" Against Putin
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Tuesday (Dec. 27) said that statements made to the media by anonymous Pentagon officials amount to threats against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s life.
“There are some ‘anonymous officials’ from the Pentagon who have actually enunciated threats to deliver a ‘decapitating strike’ on the Kremlin, which is in fact an assassination threat against the Russian president,” Lavrov said, according to the Russian news agency TASS.
Lavrov appeared to be referring to a report from Newsweek that was published in September that cited anonymous US military sources who said the US was considering a “decapitation strike to kill Putin in the heart of the Kremlin” in response to the Russian leader’s warning that he could use nuclear weapons to defend Russia’s “territorial integrity.”
It’s not clear from the context if the unnamed sources meant the assassination plot was being considered as a potential response to Russia using nuclear weapons or if it could happen before that. Either way, US military officials discussing such a plan is extremely provocative, even if they’re speaking on the condition of anonymity.
Source: Antiwar.com
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2022-12-28 04:37:39+00:00
Russia Expands Invasive Biometric Pay Technology on Metro
Starting in January 2023, the Moscow Metro in Russia will expand its biometric payment service to 330 more turnstiles through the Face Pay system, making journeys more “convenient” for passengers but also more privacy-invasive.
According to Moscow Deputy Mayor for Transport Maksim Liksutov, the system is already being used by over 220 thousand users.
The metro’s new technology means that passengers can pay for their tickets using their face, meaning they no longer need to carry coins or cards with them.
Source: Reclaim the Net
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2022-12-28 03:55:04+00:00
Elon Musk: "Almost Every Conspiracy Theory That People Had About Twitter Turned Out to Be True!"
"So, is there a conspiracy theory about Twitter that didn't turn out to be true?" asked Musk.
"So far, they've all turned out to be true, and if not, more true than people thought."
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2022-12-28 01:41:48+00:00
World Economic Forum to Accelerate Push for Global ‘Metaverse’ Surveillance Network at Davos 2023
During its 2023 Davos conference, the World Economic Forum will host a press conference on its “Building The Metaverse Initiative,” and release key “studies” and details about its efforts to further facilitate what appears to amount to a global surveillance network, according to documents reviewed by The Dossier.
The Metaverse, a buzzworthy bumper sticker slogan that refers to a whole host of ideas in the technology space, has potential current and future applications both for private and governmental entities. It will be featured as one of the core staples of the 2023 Davos conference.
The Metaverse can be defined as “a vision of what many in the computer industry believe is the next iteration of the internet: a single, shared, immersive, persistent, 3D virtual space where humans experience life in ways they could not in the physical world.” Before its expanded definition, the Metaverse encompassed a technologically advancing virtual and augmented reality space.
Source: The Dossier
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2022-12-28 00:30:01+00:00
Every Social Media Firm Censors for U.S. Government — Musk
All social media platforms work with the US government to censor content, Twitter CEO Elon Musk claimed on Tuesday (Dec. 27). Documents released by Musk following his purchase of Twitter showed that the platform colluded with the FBI, CIA, Pentagon and other government agencies to suppress information on elections, Ukraine, and COVID-19.
“*Every* social media company is engaged in heavy censorship, with significant involvement of and, at times, explicit direction of the government,” Musk tweeted, adding that “Google frequently makes links disappear, for example.”
Musk was referring to internal Twitter communications published by journalist Matt Taibbi with his approval, which suggested that the platform’s senior executives held regular meetings with members of the FBI and CIA, during which the agencies gave them lists of “hundreds of problem accounts” to suspend in the run-up to the 2020 election.
In addition to Twitter, the government was in contact “with virtually every major tech firm,” Taibbi claimed. “These included Facebook, Microsoft, Verizon, Reddit, even Pinterest.” CIA agents “nearly always” sat in on meetings of these firms with the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force, Taibbi claimed, explaining that although this task force was convened to fight alleged election interference by foreign states, it made “mountains of domestic moderation requests.”
Source: RT, Elon Musk
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2022-12-30 03:51:33+00:00
Serbia Ends State of Alert for Military as Kosovo Stand Off Eases
Serbia on Thursday (Dec. 29) lifted the combat readiness alert for its troops that it enacted on Monday (Dec. 26) as ethnic Serbs in northern Kosovo agreed to remove barriers they erected in protest against authorities in Pristina.
As the Serbs began dismantling roadblocks on Thursday, Kosovo also reopened a border crossing with Serbia that it had closed. The roadblocks were erected this month after a former ethnic Serb police officer was arrested for allegedly attacking an election commission office.
Kosovo also stepped up its police presence in the north Serb-majority areas, raising tensions even more. When Serbia placed its military on high alert earlier this week, it said they were ready to deploy troops to Kosovo to protect ethnic Serbs, but tensions appear to have eased, at least for now.
Source: Antiwar.com
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2022-12-30 02:49:40+00:00
Putin Signs Into Law a Bill That Creates a "Unified Biometrics System" for All Russians
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law a bill that regulates the collection and use of the biometric data of the country’s citizens.
The legislation approved by Putin on Thursday (Dec. 29) introduces a new state-operated Unified Biometrics System (UBS), set to be created next year. The UBS will handle all biometrics collected from Russian nationals, including face images and voice samples. However, the law prohibits forcibly collecting such data.
Russians seeking to maintain the privacy of their biometric data will reportedly be able to opt out of having it collected. They will also allegedly be able to easily have it deleted from the system should they change their minds if it has already been gathered. The legislation also outlaws any discrimination against those who decide not to provide such information, stating that a refusal cannot be used as grounds for denying an individual state-provided services or employment.
Source: RT
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2022-12-30 01:49:41+00:00
FTX's Bankman-Fried Met with White House on Crypto Policy at Least 4 Times This Year
Sam Bankman-Fried, the now-disgraced cryptocurrency mogul, held at least four meetings with senior White House officials this year—part of a push to influence crypto policy and build connections in Washington before his FTX empire ultimately collapsed.
On September 8, Bankman-Fried met Steve Ricchetti, one of President Joe Biden’s senior advisers, White House officials familiar with the matter told Bloomberg. The meeting, previously unreported, was the latest in a handful of sessions.
Bankman-Fried had at least three other previously disclosed visits to the White House, according to visitor logs.
His brother, Gabriel Bankman-Fried, is recorded as holding a March meeting of his own, making a total of at least five White House meetings this year that involved one or both of the brothers.
FTX’s ties to Washington have come under scrutiny since the exchange’s collapse.
Source: Bloomberg
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2022-12-30 00:50:29+00:00
Russian Military Plans to Disrupt Western Arms Supplies to Ukraine: Lavrov
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said his country’s military is working on new plans to cut off supplies of weapons and ammunition sent from abroad for the Ukrainian forces.
During an interview on Russian television on Wednesday (Dec. 28), Lavrov said there were calls among military experts to interrupt supply routes delivering weapons from the West to Ukraine.
“We observe that Ukraine is receiving more and more and better Western weapons,” Lavrov said. “Railway lines, bridges and tunnels” are being considered, he added.
“I assume that they will make professional decisions on how to make these deliveries more difficult or, ideally, stop them altogether."
Lavrov said Russian attacks on Ukraine’s infrastructure were already making it more difficult to deliver new weapons.
Source: Al Jazeera
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2022-12-29 23:44:53+00:00
Belarus Shoots Down Stray Ukrainian Air Defense Missile
Belarus on Thursday (Dec. 29) said it shot down a stray Ukrainian air defense missile from an S-300 system that ended up in its territory and summoned Ukraine’s envoy over the incident.
“It was preliminarily established that the fragments belonged to an S-300 anti-aircraft guided missile launched from the territory of Ukraine,” the Belarusian Defense Ministry said.
The missile was downed in a field in Belarus’ southwestern Brest region, and local authorities downplayed the incident. It’s the first known time that a Ukrainian missile ended up in Belarus since the war started, and it came as Russian missiles and drones were pounding Ukrainian infrastructure.
Belarus’ Foreign Ministry said it demanded an investigation into the incident. According to Al Jazeera, a spokesman for Ukraine’s military appeared to acknowledge it was a Ukrainian missile and said the incident was “nothing strange, a result of air defense” and something that “has happened more than once.”
In November, a Ukrainian S-300 missile hit a farm in Poland, killing two people. When the missile strike was first reported, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his top aides portrayed it as a Russian attack and demanded that NATO take action.
Source: Antiwar.com
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2022-12-30 23:04:29+00:00
Friends,
I am reflecting on my 2022 and how amazing it was for my personal world. In fact, the last couple years of worldwide insanity have actually been some of the most productive, fulfilling years of my personal life.
2022 was a year that included the following:
- The launch of The Greater Reset 3 in January 2022, reaching thousands and thousands of people around the world with solutions
- Touring Mexico giving talks and performing my music
- Launching the 3rd edition of The Conscious Resistance Network website, including the launch of TCRU, our home for courses and workshops.
- Breaking several original stories, including reporting on the history of sexual abuse within the Mormon Church
- Releasing the 2nd and 3rd season of The Pyramid of Power docu-series
- Releasing the 2nd edition of my book, How To Opt Out of the Technocratic State
- Writing and recording my debut album as 33
- Getting closer to my immediate family
- Doing all of the above with Miriam, the love of my life
As far as The Conscious Resistance Network, I continued to focus on releasing hard-hitting, factual reports exploring political corruption, personal development, spirituality, and solutions involving all of the above. I tend not to focus on the "conspiracy of the week" or the trending topics, choosing instead to put my energy into evergreen stories which will will have lasting impact.
I do this because I don't want to add to the noise and constant fearporn being shoveled into the consciousness of the "Freedom/Truth" community. I am more determined than ever to produce journalism that will educate, empower, and promote solutions. Thanks to everyone who has supported my efforts over the last decade. I couldn't do this without you.
With that in mind, I want to share with you the most important stories from TCRN in 2022. These include video reports, interviews, and my presentations. Please share this link and the individual stories with your friends and family.
https://theconsciousresistance.com/most-important-stories-of-2022/
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2022-12-30 22:01:41+00:00
Insect Farming Turns Organic Waste Into Food For Chickens
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Recently discovered 'Better Origin', an UK company producing mobile insect farms for use in animal agriculture. Their product is a shipping container with AI & automated systems that manage the production of food scraps into larvae feed. These larvae grow full sized and are harvested to replace soy / grain feeds. The use of the land for larvae production is more efficient in comparison. There are also benefits to the health of the animals, showing improvements in behavior, feather count, and egg production.
However I definitely do not agree with the larvae being processed for consumption for humans, as this company has suggested as a use - along with their alignment with carbon agendas and reliance on AI.
Does insect farming instinctually turn you off, or do you think it can be harnessed for animal feed?
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2022-12-30 21:25:06+00:00
Zelensky Signs Media Law Criticized by Journalist Groups as Authoritarian
President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday (Dec. 29) signed into law a controversial bill on the media.
The Ukrainian authorities argued that the law aims to bring Ukrainian legislation in line with EU law and fight Russian propaganda.
Media reform is one of the EU's conditions for starting negotiations on Ukraine's accession to the bloc. The EU wanted Ukraine to adopt legislation to fight the influence of vested interests on the media.
However, the bill has been criticized by journalist organizations as an attempt to introduce censorship. The authorities have denied the accusation. The law dramatically expands the media regulator's powers and gives it the authority to shut down news sites that are not officially registered as media without a court ruling.
In July the European Federation of Journalists urged the Ukrainian authorities to withdraw the draft media law. The federation said that the law contained "many provisions that are contrary to European values."
"It proposes to give arbitrary and disproportionate regulatory powers to the national regulator, the National Council on Broadcasting, which would have authority not only over audiovisual media, but also over print and digital media," the federation said.
“The coercive regulation envisaged by the bill and in the hands of a regulator totally controlled by the government is worthy of the worst authoritarian regimes. It must be withdrawn. A state that would apply such provisions simply has no place in the European Union,” Ricardo Gutierrez, general secretary of the federation, said then. “Media regulation should be implemented by a body independent of the government and its objective should be media independence, not media control."
The Committee to Protect Journalists said in July that the law "threatens to restrict press freedom in the country and would move it away from European Union standards."
In September Ukraine's National Union of Journalists said that the law was "the biggest threat to free speech in (Ukraine's) independent history." The union added that the adoption of the law could "cast the shadow of a dictator" on Zelensky.
According to Ukraine's Institute of Mass Information, under the law, the media regulator is likely to be controlled by the incumbent authorities because its members are appointed by Zelensky and the Ukrainian parliament, where his party has an absolute majority.
Source: Kyiv Independent
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2022-12-30 20:31:02+00:00
Google Faces Another Lawsuit For Tracking Children
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Google is set to face a class action lawsuit that accuses the tech behemoth of collecting information and tracking children’s behavior online without consent, according to the decision of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
The lawsuit was filed in 2019 by children, through their parents, against Google, YouTube as well as other firms with channels on the video streaming platform like Cartoon Network, Hasbro, DreamWorks Animation, and Mattel Inc. The companies are blamed for running targeted ads on children based on Google’s “persistent identifiers.” The decision comes a year after another court had dismissed the suit.
These identifiers refer to unique IMEI numbers of a device or the IP address that allows Google to track the behavior of a user over as much as 80 percent of the internet, thereby enabling the creation of profiles used in targeted advertising.
By tracking the online behavior of children without the consent of parents, Google and other firms are said to have violated the federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and other similar state laws.
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2022-12-30 19:54:39+00:00
Pod Life Incoming? WEF's Plan for the Future Is to Shove More People into Mega Cities
"We are entering the era of the megalopolis," announced the World Economic Forum. Cities with 50 million+ people will be the new norm.
"Today, 60% of people live in urban areas. By 2100, it's forecast to be 85%."
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2022-12-30 18:53:09+00:00
The Conscious Resistance University is NOW OPEN!
Our first course is How to Become an Independent Investigative Journalist, a Six Week Course Taught by Professional Freelance Investigative Journalist, Author, Film Maker, and Activist Derrick Broze.
Join this course so we can build a better independent media!
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2022-12-30 17:45:13+00:00
Homeless Encampment in Minneapolis Cleared by Police in the Middle of Winter
A large presence of police cleared the The Quarry shopping center encampment of unhoused people in Minneapolis on Friday (Dec. 30) morning in the middle of winter. Homeless residents were reportedly not allowed to grab their belongings and now have nowhere to go.
The City of Minneapolis had planned to clear the encampment on Wednesday (Dec. 29) morning but told FOX 9 it held off because there was allegedly an "intention to have a violent confrontation with city staff over this encampment" from those who called the encampment home.
Those living in the encampment held a news conference on Tuesday (Dec. 28) calling on the city to leave them alone during extreme weather.
Source: Fox 9
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2022-12-30 16:41:50+00:00
New Material Removes 99.9% Of Microplastics From Water
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Researchers in South Korea have developed a new material that can remove 99.9% of pollutants like microplastics from water in 10 seconds.
“The technology we developed here is an unrivaled water purification technology with the world's highest purification efficiency, removing more than 99.9% of phenolic microplastics and VOC contaminants in water at ultra-high speeds,” said Professor Park Chi-Young, lead author of the study. “We expected that it will be a universal technology with high economic efficiency that can purify contaminated water and supply drinking water even in areas where there is no power supply.”
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2022-12-30 14:56:35+00:00
9,000 People Are “Probably” Dying from COVID-19 in China Every 24 Hours, According to U.K.-Based Health Data Firm
🇨🇳@COVID19Up: Around 9,000 people in China are probably dying each day from COVID-19, UK-based health data firm Airfinity said on Thursday (Dec. 29), nearly doubling its estimate from a week ago, as SARS-CoV-2 infections ripped across the world's most populous nation.
COVID-19 cases started to sweep across China in November, picking up pace this month after Beijing dismantled its zero-COVID policies including regular PCR testing on its population and publication of data on asymptomatic cases.
Cumulative deaths in China since Dec. 1 likely reached 100,000 with infections totaling 18.6 million, Airfinity said in a statement. It says it uses modeling based on data from Chinese provinces before the recent changes to reporting cases were implemented.
Airfinity expects China's SARS-CoV-2 infection wave to reach their first peak on Jan. 13 with 3.7 million COVID-19 cases a day.
That is in contrast to the several thousands of cases reported by health authorities a day, after a nationwide network of PCR test sites was largely dismantled as authorities pivoted from preventing infections to treating them.
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2022-12-30 13:57:40+00:00
China Sails Warships Near Guam in Warning to U.S. Over Taiwan
China has sailed one of its three aircraft carriers near the U.S. territory of Guam, Japanese officials confirmed, ending an already combative year with a rare move that Beijing signaled as a clear warning to the Biden administration over Taiwan.
The Chinese fleet, led by the aircraft carrier Liaoning, had already spurred several clashes with U.S. allies in the region with its tour of the western Pacific, most recently by conducting roughly 260 takeoff and landing drills near the Japanese island of Okinawa, home to a major U.S. military presence. The operations prompted the Japanese air force to scramble fighter jets and helicopters, as well as a destroyer and other elements of its self-defense forces.
But Japanese officials also confirmed Thursday (Dec. 29) that the Chinese vessels had transited to the south, near the western edge of territory the U.S. claims as part of the remote island of Guam—a critical element of America’s ability to project military might in the region as both a stopping point and a base for strategic Air Force bombers and Navy submarines.
The operation “showed that the Chinese carrier is ready to defend the country against potential US attacks launched from there, including military interference attempts over the Taiwan question,” according to an article from the English-language Global Times, citing Chinese analysts.
Source: U.S. News
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2022-12-31 23:17:09+00:00
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2022-12-31 20:30:03+00:00
Putin Gives Unusual New Year Address as Russia Beefs Up Air Defenses Over Moscow for Celebrations
Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered his traditional New Year's Eve address on Saturday (Dec. 31), speaking to the nation about the challenges the country has faced over the past year and the achievements it has made. The address venue differed drastically from the traditional Kremlin courtyard stand-up shots of the president, with Putin this year recording the annual message at the Southern Military District HQ. During his visit, he also met with top military brass and gave state awards to distinguished soldiers.
The unusually long address primarily revolved around the ongoing special military operation in Ukraine, the large-scale conflict which broke out late in February.
Meanwhile, Russia has beefed up its anti-air defenses surrounding Moscow and other high population places across the country for the New Year's weekend, given there's expected to be large public gatherings celebrating the coming of 2023.
The defense ministry was quoted in TASS as saying that some 2,000 service personnel are currently manning Moscow's air defenses while "on duty at combat posts on New Year's Eve."
Source: RT, ZeroHedge
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2022-12-31 19:23:06+00:00
It's Official: The XBB.1.5 Variant is the Next Big COVID Thing
🇺🇸🦠@COVID19Up: For the last six months or so, we've had COVID-19 cases in the U.S. everywhere, and the dominant variant of SARS-CoV-2 was Omicron BA.5.
This rapidly changed in late December 2022 when a new clade called XBB.1.5 showed up and became the largest circulating variant of SARS-CoV-2 nearly overnight, according to the CDC. The XBB variant is an offshoot of BA.2, which ripped through the U.S. this spring and has now returned.
In the U.S. Northeast region, XBB.1.5 is already fully dominant and comprises 75% of COVID-19 cases. Unfortunately, daily hospitalizations in New York and Massachusetts are rising.
Coincidentally, the U.S. Northeast is a very highly vaccinated region—and yet it is home to another SARS-CoV-2 outbreak of a new variant, which is now already outstripping the BA.5 wave.
Despite promises of “multi-layered hybrid immunity” from COVID-19 vaccinations and multiple SARS-CoV-2 reinfections, there is no immunity in sight.
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2022-12-31 17:54:36+00:00
As 2023 Begins, No Agreed Framework for Peace in Ukraine Exists
After over 10 months of fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces, there’s no sign that 2023 will bring peace to Ukraine as the warring parties have radically different demands, and the U.S. continues to escalate aid for Kyiv and its role in the war.
Ukrainian officials are demanding that Russia withdraw from all the territory it has captured and face war crimes tribunals before peace talks can even begin, while Russian officials say they’re open to talks but insist any peace deal must involve the territories it has annexed joining the Russian Federation.
The only way Ukraine would likely be compelled to talk with Russia is if the U.S. leverages aid to push them to do so, as the Ukrainian war effort is entirely reliant on support from its Western backers. There was a glimmer of hope in November when Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley said winter would provide a good opportunity for peace talks, but his view was not a popular one within the Biden administration.
Milley said that the warring sides should “seize the moment” to achieve peace, but following his comments, the U.S. reassured Ukraine that negotiations don’t need to happen.
Source: Antiwar.com
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2022-12-31 16:52:08+00:00
Teacher Fired for Having Students Listen to Joe Rogan Interview, Dr. Robert Malone Says
Dr. Robert Malone went viral on Twitter this week after he claimed that a teacher in New York was fired for giving students an extra credit assignment to listen to his interview with podcaster Joe Rogan.
"Crazy times... A teacher in NY was fired for having students listen to my interview with Rogan in an extra credit assignment. Commissioner of education demanded reinstatement with back pay, and evidently the district refuses to follow the order," said Malone.
Along with his Twitter post, Malone also shared a link to an appeal from the New York State Education Department’s website.
The appeal referenced an assignment that asked students a series of questions about a "podcast" (Joe Rogan) involving Malone, who became famous in 2021 and 2022 for pushing back on government narratives around COVID-19, mRNA vaccines, and discussing "mass formation psychosis."
That interview was removed by YouTube and widely censored on the internet, with Malone himself being banned from Linkedin and Twitter. However, billionaire Elon Musk reinstated Malone’s Twitter account earlier this month.
Source: Fox News
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2022-12-31 16:24:37+00:00
Seven signs that they're taking us for a ride.
1. When you enter a restaurant, you need to wear a mask. As soon as you sit down to eat, you can take it off (https://bit.ly/3uhzQOU - see bullet point #3). There is no single virus that solely hovers at an altitude of 1.50m and above or double-checks whether someone is eating/drinking before choosing that person as a host.
2. The goalposts regarding the vaccine's efficacy are constantly shifting (https://bit.ly/3KZJITo). We all remember that self-proclaimed experts such as Fauci and Drosten claimed to achieve herd immunity against a respiratory virus (LOL!) at a vaccination rate of 60%. Now, the countries with the highest vaccination rates suffer from the highest number of cases. Surprise, surprise!
3. There is no robust scientific evidence that masks work (https://t.me/goddek/1169). However, there is much evidence that masks harm those who wear them (https://bit.ly/3LczvDx). And yet, people in many countries have to wear such masks throughout the whole day - even outside. This raises the suspicion that they are primarily used to gag us and serve as a daily reminder that we are in the middle of a "deadly pandemic".
4. The majority of the experts presented in the media have substantial conflicts of interest, such as being funded from the Welcome Trust, the Gates Foundation or Big Pharma (https://bit.ly/3HoDuKH). Independent scientists with dissenting opinions are pigeon-holed as dangerous heretics.
5. Big Tech bans dissidents who question the official narrative. I, for instance, have been removed from social media platforms for spreading "dangerous misinformation about Covid-19". There is nothing dangerous about facts about viral evolution, the efficacy of Ivermectin, or citing my own vitamin D publication (https://t.me/goddek/1149). Worse still, it is currently being debated to ban alternative social media, such as Telegram, as it provides a platform for "dangerous" alternative opinions (https://bit.ly/3ghT8f3). The truth is that we are a danger to their narrative and that is why they are fighting us.
6. There is no single need to vaccinate young people or children that are not exposed to any risk of becoming seriously ill. The narrative that "they need to get vaccinated to make sure that the vaccines of others work" is a mixture of illogicality and absurdity. Alternative treatment methods such as using Ivermectin have been fiercely criticized by so-called "experts" from the beginning, even though the body of evidence was already overwhelming back then (https://c19ivermectin.com).
7. Politicians never cared about our health; otherwise, they would long have enlightened us about the importance of vitamin D, physical exercise, a healthy diet etc. It speaks volumes that the first thing they closed were sports clubs while locking us up at home so food delivery companies could flourish. Obesity is associated with a much higher risk of hospitalization (https://bit.ly/3Hf0Pym). And yet, many obese politicians argue for compulsory vaccinations instead of using a treadmill. Well done, hypocrites!
There are many more signs that this is a big hoax. What is your favourite one? Leave a comment below.
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2022-12-31 15:54:37+00:00
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2022-12-31 15:08:06+00:00
Another Mystery Death in Russia as Putin’s Former Space Chief Becomes 4th Senior Official to Suddenly Die in Matter of Days
Vladimir Putin's former space chief has died suddenly aged 74, the latest death among Russia's military and scientific elite this year.
Vladimir Nesterov, who designed the Russian Angara rocket, was accused of massive embezzlement just before his death aged 74. Nesterov was the former general director of the Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center.
The cause and manner of death have not been disclosed.
He is the fourth senior Russian official to die in a matter of days and follows a string of deaths of high-profile Putin associates since the start of the war in Ukraine.
Source: The Sun, New York Post
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2022-12-31 14:12:51+00:00
Big Pharma to Raise Prices in U.S. on at Least 350 Drugs in January
Drugmakers including Pfizer Inc, GlaxoSmithKline PLC, Bristol Myers Squibb, AstraZeneca PLC and Sanofi SA plan to raise prices in the U.S. on more than 350 unique drugs in early January, according to data analyzed by healthcare research firm 3 Axis Advisors.
The increases are expected to come as the pharmaceutical industry prepares for the Biden Administration's Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which allows the government's Medicare health program to negotiate prices directly for some drugs starting in 2026. The industry is also contending with inflation and supply chain constraints that have led to higher manufacturing costs.
The increases are on list prices, which do not include rebates to pharmacy benefit managers and other discounts.
In 2022, drugmakers raised prices on more than 1,400 drugs according to data published by 46brooklyn, a drug pricing non-profit that is related to 3 Axis. That is the most increases since 2015.
Source: Reuters
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2022-12-31 04:24:38+00:00
"I Also Orchestrated It": Uncharged Ray Epps Transcript Released
Ray Epps, the uncharged man identified as a key instigator behind the January 6, 2020 Capitol Breach for telling people to storm the Capitol, said in a text message to his nephew that “I WAS IN THE FRONT WITH A FEW OTHERS. I ALSO ORCHESTRATED IT," according to newly released witness transcripts from the January 6th Committee.
The night before, Epps was seen going around to various groups of Trump supporters, telling them they need to storm the capitol.
In two interviews with the FBI in 2021, Epps admitted he was guilty of trespassing on restricted Capitol grounds and confessed to urging protesters to go to—and into—the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Epps also told members of the Committee that he found himself playing peacekeeper between Trump supporter "Baked Alaska" and the police—who called Epps a Fed.
"I was trying to find some common ground," said Epps. "This guy was trying to turn people against me...he was calling me 'boomer,' and it's his generation's fault that we're in the position we're in."
Despite the admissions, the FBI never arrested Epps and he was not charged by the U.S. Department of Justice with any Jan. 6 crimes. The non-action has fueled a crop of theories that he might have been working for the FBI or another agency.
Source: ZeroHedge
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2022-12-31 03:47:13+00:00
Google Home Speakers Allowed Hackers to Snoop on Conversations, Make Online Purchases, Unlock Doors, & More
A bug in Google Home smart speaker allowed installing a backdoor account that could be used to control it remotely and to turn it into a snooping device by accessing the microphone feed.
Researcher Matt Kunze discovered the issue and received $107,500 for responsibly reporting it to Google last year. Earlier this week, the researcher published technical details about the finding and an attack scenario to show how the flaw could be leveraged.
Having a rogue account linked to the target device makes it possible to perform actions via the Google Home speaker, such as controlling smart switches, making online purchases, remotely unlocking doors and vehicles, or stealthily brute-forcing the user's PIN for smart locks.
More worryingly, the researcher found a way to abuse the "call [phone number]" command by adding it to a malicious routine that would activate the microphone at a specified time, calling the attacker's number and sending live microphone feed.
Finally, it's also possible to play media on the compromised smart speaker, rename it, force a reboot, force it to forget stored Wi-Fi networks, force new Bluetooth or Wi-Fi pairings, and more.
Source: Bleeping Computer
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2022-12-31 02:51:05+00:00
Austrian Defense Minister Warns a Third of Europeans Are Unprepared for Days-Long Blackouts
The Austrian defense minister has warned that Europeans could face blackouts that go on for days, leaving one—third of citizens unable to “supply themselves.”
Klaudia Tanner made the comments during an interview with German news outlet Die Welt.
“The question is not whether it (the blackout) will come, but when it will come,” said Tanner, blaming the war in Ukraine.
“For Putin, hacking attacks on Western power supplies are a tool of hybrid warfare. We must not pretend that this is just a theory. We must be prepared for blackouts in Austria and Europe,” she added.
Tanner spoke to how unprepared Europeans were for crippling elongated blackouts by warning, “one-third of citizens would not be able to supply themselves on the fourth day of a blackout at the latest.”
Source: Summit News
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2022-12-31 01:04:27+00:00
U.S. Warplane Reports Unsafe Encounter with Chinese Jet
The US Department of Defense released a video showing a Chinese fighter jet flying near an American RC-135 Rivet Joint reconnaissance plane.
The DoD released the video on Thursday (Dec. 29), but noted the “unsafe” encounter took place more than a week ago.
Published on the Pentagon’s media-sharing platform, DVIDS, the footage shows a Chinese fighter flying near the front of an American surveillance aircraft, though it is not seen crossing in front of the plane. The Defense Department claimed the Chinese jet approached within just 20 feet of the US RC-135, however it is unclear how the military arrived at that measurement.
Indo-Pacific Command reported that the incident happened in “international airspace” over the South China Sea, claiming it is “dedicated to a free and open Indo-Pacific region and will continue to fly, sail and operate at sea and in international airspace with due regard for the safety of all vessels and aircraft under international law.“ It added that it expects “all countries in the Indo-Pacific region to use international airspace safely and in accordance with international law.”
While Washington maintains that the South China Sea is international territory, the Pentagon declined to specify the exact location of the close encounter.
Source: Libertarian Institute
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