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Facebook, Google banned Alex Jones, now they've banned even talking about Alex Jones

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Alex Jones
Flo Read spoke to director Alex Lee Moyer about the suppression of her film

Infowars' Alex Jones, described by The Southern Poverty Law Center as 'one of the most prolific and influential conspiracy theorists in contemporary America,' has long been the subject of controversy — and a social media ban.

When Facebook removed him in 2018, they stated that he both glorified violence, 'which violates our graphic violence policy' and uses 'dehumanizing language to describe people who are transgender, Muslims and immigrants, which violates our hate speech policies.'

But what was not clear until this week is that the social networks now seem to have banned all discussion of him, however critical.

Comment: Doubleplusgood censorship!


Megaphone

Dock workers strike at German ports demanding higher pay amidst soaring inflation

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© Marcus Brandt/dpa via APPolice officers are pushed back by demonstrators after the arrest of a participant in a demonstration of port workers in front of the union building in the city center in Hamburg, Germany, Friday, July 15, 2022. Several participants were injured in a brief confrontation between participants and police.
Dock workers at Germany's North Sea ports went on strike Friday in the latest of several walkouts that have added pressures on shipping as their union demands a hefty pay rise to counter high inflation.

The 48-hour strike, which is to end on Saturday morning, has largely paralyzed cargo handling at major ports including Hamburg, Bremerhaven and Wilhelmshaven, news agency dpa reported. It follows a 24-hour walkout in June and a previous one-shift warning strike.

However, there will be no further strikes before late August under a deal reached at the labor court in Hamburg on Thursday night, the court said. The agreement calls for the two sides to set three further dates for negotiations up to Aug. 26. Courts in several cities had rejected bids by employers for injunctions halting this week's strike.

Comment: Governments don't appear to have any solution to the both manufactured, and increasingly out of control, cost of living crisis, and so it's likely that these protests that are spreading across much of the planet are only likely to increase: Farmer protests spread across the globe




Bullseye

Joe Rogan: Canadians gotta get rid of 'f*cking dictator' Trudeau

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Podcaster Joe Rogan said Canada must get rid of their "f*cking dictator" Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.


Rogan said he liked Trudeau before the pandemic because he seemed "sweet" and "handsome," and "confident," as well as well spoken.

"And then during the pandemic, I'm like, 'Oh, you're a fucking dictator,'" he said.

"'Oh, you don't like criticism. You're trying to shut down criticism by saying that all your critics are misogynists and racists.'"

Rogan was pointing to the prime minister's comments on the Freedom Convoy, Canadians led by truckers who travelled to the nation's capitol, Ottawa, to protest federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

USA

Arizona communities would 'collapse' without cheap prison labor, Corrections director says

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Arizona Department of Corrections Director David Shinn
Arizona Department of Corrections Director David Shinn said Arizona communities would "collapse" without cheap prison labor, during testimony before the Joint Legislative Budget Committee Thursday.

Shinn made the statement while answering questions about a Request For Proposal for a contract to run the Florence West prison.

Sen. David Gowan asked Shinn about the nature of the work the prisoners do at the Florence West prison. In Arizona, all people in state prisons are forced to work 40 hours a week with exceptions for prisoners with health care conditions and other conflicting programming schedules. Some prisoners earn just 10 cents an hour for their work.

"These are low-level worker inmates that work in the communities around the county itself, I would imagine?" Gowan asked.

"Yes. The department does more than just incarcerate folks," Shinn replied. "There are services that this department provides to city, county, local jurisdictions, that simply can't be quantified at a rate that most jurisdictions could ever afford. If you were to remove these folks from that equation, things would collapse in many of your counties, for your constituents."

Bizarro Earth

Video shows Ukrainian cargo plane crash in north of Greece, secondary explosions suggest explosives onboard

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Air Accident According to Greek state broadcaster ERT1 and an12 operated by Meridian Air Cargo (flight MEM3032) en route from #Nis to Jordan crashed about 10 NM to the west of Kavala, Greece. No reports about casualties yet. The crash site is close to a village.

The Ukrainian Antonov-12 took off from Nis Airport in Serbia en route to Amman Jordan and crashed on the outskirts of Kavala in Northern Greece after the pilot declared an emergency south of Thasos island. Unfortunately the aircraft didn't make it to Kavala Airport.

The plane was a Meridian Air Cargo An-12BK flight path before it crashed west of Kavala International Airport. See the flight path below.

Comment: Aviaci Online reports:
Initial reports indicate that emergency crews attempted to approach the stricken aircraft, but secondary explosions confirmed that the aircraft was carrying explosives.

The same reports indicate that the crew declared an emergency due to an engine fire and requested an emergency landing at Kavala. Images captured by witnesses show fire in the aircraft before it hit the ground.

The flight path and flight profile observed on FlightRadar24 are consistent with a sudden emergency and speed control problems:

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The aircraft, delivered to Aeroflot in February 1971, began operating for Meridan on January 26 of this year.
More footage has emerged:



Windsock

Update: Texas grid operator takes emergency measures to avoid rolling blackouts as wind turbines fail to produce energy due to low winds

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© KXANTexas wind turbines useless in power outage
Texas grid operator ERCOT was forced to take unprecedented emergency measures on Wednesday to avoid rolling blackouts amid a heatwave as wind turbines failed to produce energy due to low winds.

ERCOT manages electric power to more than 26 million Texas customers and represents 90% of the state's electric load, according to the company.

On Monday ERCOT asked customers to voluntarily raise thermostats a degree or two, turn off lights, avoid using ovens, washing machines and dryers, and unplug appliances if possible during the hours of 2-8 pm.

According to ERCOT, a heatwave along with very low winds is causing the latest conservation alert. In a press release it said:
"Wind generation is currently generating significantly less than what it historically generated in this time period. Current projections show wind generation coming in less than 10 percent of its capacity."
ERCOT was forced to take emergency action two days after it issued a conservation alert.

Comment: Wind turbines consistently prove to be a costly investment with unreliability when most needed. Turbines must have wind to run and quit if it exceeds 50 MPH.


Target

75% of "poorly targeted" $800 billion PPP money sent to unintended recipients: Study

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A multi-billion-dollar pandemic-era stimulus program meant chiefly to help small businesses keep staff on the payroll and hire back laid off employees was poorly targeted, with only about one-quarter of the money supporting jobs that would otherwise have disappeared, a new Fed report shows.

Lockdowns and a collapse in consumer spending during the first wave of the pandemic drove fears that America's small business sector was at risk of a collapse.

This prompted lawmakers in Congress to adopt a series of relief measures, including the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which directed roughly $800 billion in forgivable loans to small businesses and other organizations hit by the crisis.

At least 75 percent of the PPP funds were intended to maintain payrolls or hire back laid off employees and the remaining share could be earmarked for overhead costs like rent and utilities.

But was this money well spent?

That's the question researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis sought to answer in their July 6 study, which arrived at an unflattering conclusion.

Comment: Waste and fraud? How typical and intentional:


Airplane

'Net Zero' global warming alarm based on temperatures measured next to airport runways with hot jet engines and tarmac

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About one half of all land surface temperature measurements used to show global warming and promote the command-and-control Net Zero agenda are taken near or adjacent to airport runways. This amazing fact from research by Professor Ross McKitrick casts further serious doubt on the validity of three major global temperature datasets, including the one compiled by the Met Office, which continue to show higher global temperatures compared with other reliable measurements made by satellites and meteorological balloons.

Airports are arguably uniquely unsuitable for providing an insight into global temperatures. Many of them are major industrial complexes spread over miles of heat-radiating tarmac and concrete, containing industrial buildings and subject to constant super-heated jet exhausts measuring hundreds of degrees centigrade.

There are three major global surface datasets. HadCRUT is compiled by the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit in collaboration with the Met Office, NASA runs the Goddard Institute for Space Studies GISS record, while NOAA is compiled by the U.S. national weather service. All three global averages depend on the same underlying land data from the Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN). As I have noted on numerous occasions, all three datasets have made significant adjustments, which has had the effect of increasing recent warming and cooling the historical record.

Bacon

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: It gets worse on the food side of things

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Where has the lions share of American wheat stockpiles gone? U.N issues "Global Hunger Crisis" alert as global rice production is set to plunge further. Blackrock starts working on Bitcoin ETF products and seven waterspouts at the same time from a cloud.


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SOTT Focus: MindMatters: John Carter of Substack: Conspiracy, Clown World, and the New Dissidence

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Culture wars, political convulsions, social upheavals - you name it. If you're like us, we're always on the lookout for new voices giving their take on these strange times and just what the heck it is we're watching unfold in the West. There are a good many bloggers, pundits and observers out there, but...there can be only one. Enter John Carter (nom de plume), who writes "Postcards From Barsoom." A veteran of the academic world and all its woke garbage, John found himself transported to the fantastical realm called Substack, where he became a warrior battling various mythological beasts, alien armies and malevolent foes, armed solely with his mighty keyboard and nimble mind.

In just a short time, John has shown himself to be a voice worth listening to. And speak with aplomb he does. His writings are insightful, challenging, creative, and playfully hilarious. And in our conversation today, nothing is off the table: science, psychology, spirituality, philosophy, politics, sci-fi - whatever ideas have the explanatory power to help describe and understand the world we're facing. At a time when we're being barraged by the weapons of 'cognitive conquest' nothing is more important than communicating the ideas that could provide a good sword and shield, and a means with which to face the future.

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