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Twitter and Facebook smack down all questioning of US election integrity. What about the 4 years of Russiagate?

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Social media is clamping down on posts questioning US election results' "integrity," despite troubling anomalies. Yet questioning election integrity defined the establishment narrative for four years of relentless Russiagating.

Twitter, Facebook and YouTube's crackdown on speculation about voter fraud, "election meddling," and other "information intended to undermine public confidence in an election or other civic process" (as Twitter put it) represents a stunning about-face from the way they fostered - even bolstered - speculation about alleged Russian interference in the 2016 vote.

In what is perhaps the ultimate irony, the current level of election meddling by the social media establishment - which outstrips anything the troll farm Internet Research Agency pulled off in 2016 by several orders of magnitude - would be impossible without the hysteria ginned up on these platforms by journalists casting doubt over the integrity of that year's election. If not for four years of Russiagate, social media platforms would never have gotten away with choking off the flow of information about 2020's election on the level they are.

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Best of the Web: Thousands protest nationwide lockdown in Liverpool, Manchester & London, police increase armed patrols claiming 'increased terrorist threat'


Comment: Thanks to the Powers That Be bringing 'Islamist terrorism' back into play, we're VERY close to governments just admitting that the 'real terrorists' (from their perspective) are the people...


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© Associated PressA woman is detained by officers
ANTI-LOCKDOWN and Million Mask protesters have clashed with cops during demonstrations on the street against the new coronavirus lockdown.

Hundreds of furious protesters gathered in central London and began marching up the Strand towards Trafalgar Square at around 6pm on Thursday.

Many were arrested and had to be forcibly dragged off the street in dramatic scenes.

Yesterday marked the first day of a new nationwide lockdown in England set to remain in place for at least four weeks.

Comment: RT provides further reporting on the protests that have erupted throughout the UK against the tyrannical lockdown measures:

The Million Mask March takes place on November 5 when Guy Fawkes Night is celebrated in the UK. The rally is aimed at decrying global corporations, government corruption, police brutality and systemic racism, but this year it was also joined by those protesting the Covid-19 lockdown.


https://www.rt.com/uk/505850-liverpool-manchester-covid19-protest-lockdown/
Liverpool protesters clash with police and Manchester students tear down 'prison-like' fencing

Liverpool was awash with protesters on Thursday night as local residents came together to protest against the government's Covid-19 restrictions.

The police responded to reports of huge crowds gathering at St George's Hall in the city center at around 6.30pm. The demonstrators were dispersed but gathered again later in the evening at the Pier Head.

Three arrests were made and 13 people were fined for their part in the disturbance. Videos also show pepper spray being deployed to neutralizetroublemakers at the demonstration.

One protestor compared the lockdown to the panic created by the millennium bug, which turned out to be unjustified.

"I'm worried about my kids. But what it is, is right, is I got onto this sort of thing, remember the year 2000, 'millennium bug,' when they scared the life out of the world for six months? This [is] the same thing. Fear is a great controller. So basically, we're being controlled using fear," he told Ruptly, RT's video agency.


Former Supreme Court judge Lord Jonathan Sumption is in agreement.


Liverpool was the first city in England to be hit with the highest regional coronavirus restrictions on October 14 but is now subjected to the even stricter measures of the national lockdown until December 2.

Meanwhile, university students in Manchester marched around their Fallowfield campus in protest against the restrictions placed upon their lives, including the erection of a perimeter fence around their halls as a "security measure" to "help avoid the mixing of households."

In other footage published by Ruptly, students can be seen cheering as the fencing was torn down.

"There is fencing around the whole outside, we feel like it's completely unnecessary. It makes it feel like we're in a prison," one of the students told the BBC. The university subsequently apologized for putting up the fence and said it would be removed on Friday.

Many students in Manchester and across the country have been isolating for weeks and have not received face-to-face tutoring, despite paying £9,000 a year for their university education.

Both cities, Liverpool and Manchester, have been deemed epicenters of the second wave of the coronavirus in the UK and faced local restrictions before the national lockdown commenced on Thursday.

On Friday, Liverpool will become the first city in the country to take part in a mass Covid-19 testing trial. Around 2,000 British military personnel are being drafted in to increase capacity at test sites.


This appears to a worrying precedent and there are clues as to what the army could be used for next: UK's NHS to enlist ARMY to vaccinate ENTIRE population with coronavirus vaccine, will do a 'dry run' with flu vaccine


The pilot scheme will offer everyone living and working in Liverpool the opportunity to have repeat coronavirus tests over the two-week trial period. It comes amid fears that the new technology, which provides rapid results within 20 minutes, was missing up to half of Covid-19 infections.
Rather coincidentally, alongside increased police funding and powers, and a rushing through of new lockdown restrictions through parliament, the UK has just raised it's 'terrorist threat' levels:
"You can expect to see an increase in armed police patrols across London over the next few days," the police said on Twitter. It's a "precautionary measure" due to the raised terrorist threat level, they added, while urging the public to "stay alert and report anything suspicious to police."


British authorities raised the terrorist threat level from 'substantial' to 'severe' on Tuesday. It's the second highest level, meaning that an attack is believed to be highly likely. The move was made after Austria and France witnessed deadly attacks in recent weeks.

Armed officers will be patrolling mostly empty streets in London as England went into lockdown on Thursday in an attempt to stem the sharp rise in coronavirus cases. Until December 2, residents are forbidden to leave their homes except for essential reasons like work, education, or receiving medical assistance.

This Monday, a man who previously tried to join Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS), went on a rampage in Vienna, killing four people with an automatic rifle before being shot dead by police. The shocking events in the Austrian capital followed an attack on a church in Nice, France in which three people were killed, and the beheading of school teacher Samuel Paty near Paris in mid-October.

The attack on Paty is believed to be an act of revenge, as he showed his students cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed during a class on freedom of speech. President Emmanuel Macron enraged Muslims around the world with his endorsement of caricatures of Mohammed, while the country's security forces have cracked down on organizations suspected of promoting radical Islam.
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Yellow Vest

'We are essential!' French workers protest lockdown in Toulouse as country's economy slides further into recession

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Wearing masks and clad in black, hundreds of small business owners and workers took to the streets of Toulouse, France, to stage a visually striking protest against coronavirus lockdown measures.

Protests against fresh lockdown rules have broken out in a number of European countries in recent weeks. In France, where the government shut "non-essential" businesses last Friday, shopkeepers and business owners have sounded the alarm that the restrictions could kill their trade.

In Toulouse on Friday, hundreds of these owners and workers gathered at Place du Capitole in the city center. Socially distanced and clad head to toe in black, the masked demonstrators chanted "we are essential!"

Comment: See also: France and Germany prepare to impose harsher lockdown restrictions


Eye 2

Video shows UK gym owner ARRESTED & patrons fined for staying open during second national lockdown

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Police in Essex have arrested the owner of a Harlow gym on day one of the UK's draconian national lockdown, hours after she vowed to stay open and accused the government of inflating Covid-19 statistics. Patrons were also fined.


Comment: Governments have admitted to exaggerating the statistics.


Video shot outside the Ripped Gym in Wych Elm on Thursday shows dozens of Essex Police officers and several police cars on the scene as an officer demands that a woman believed to be the owner accept a £1,000 fine for breaching the newly implemented lockdown.

The woman refuses to provide her name or other ID details to the cops, claiming to be protected "under common law," and is then arrested for not cooperating. Essex Police confirmed on Thursday they had arrested "a gym owner in Harlow" on "suspicion of breaching coronavirus legislation," also revealing they'd filed a prohibition notice requiring her to close the business indefinitely.


Comment: The criminality of those in power and the blind obedience of the police mean that attempts to debate 'the laws of the land' are, as it is, likely going to be met with force.


Comment: Former Supreme Court judge Lord Jonathan Sumption has been very critical of the subversion of law and democratic processes since the very first lockdown at the beginning of this year:
"The problem is that fear is the main pillar of every authoritarian government. Fear has been skilfully and I fear deliberately employed throughout this crisis."
"This is what a police state is like": UK's ex-supreme court judge lambasts policing, 'collective hysteria' and the lockdown


See also: Liverpool's gyms win battle to reopen because government concedes lockdown measures were contradictory

More footage showing the UK's police behaviour following the forced closures was just posted on Twitter:





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More evidence of fraud? Why does Biden have so many more votes than Democrat senators in swing states?

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In most elections, the majority of votes are cast "down the ticket" - meaning, a voter supports both party's presidential nominee and state Congressional candidates. In fact, according to Pew Research, "overwhelming shares of voters who are supporting Trump and Biden say they are also supporting the same-party candidate for Senate."

Typically, this means that that the number of votes for a presidential candidate and that party's Senate candidates are relatively close.

Twitter user "US Rebel" (@USRebellion1776), however, found that the number of votes cast for Joe Biden far exceeds those cast for that state's Senate candidates in swing states, while those cast for Trump and GOP Senators remains far closer.

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NPC

Stephen Colbert lauded after scolding Trump for doubting 'sacred' elections & called out for doing same when peddling Russiagate

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© Getty Images / Matt WinkelmeyerStephen Colbert
Host Stephen Colbert was almost universally praised by Donald Trump's critics for an emotional monologue on the 2020 election. However, the heartfelt speech failed to impress many cynics on both sides of the US political divide.

Colbert blasted Trump during 'The Late Show' on Thursday for claiming that there were fraudulent votes cast for his opponent Democrat Joe Biden in the ongoing election. "For him to cast a dark shadow on our most sacred right from the briefing room in the White House — our house, not his — that is devastating," he said after apparently tearing up a bit.

The segment seemed to utterly wow anti-Trumpers, with many of them marveling online at how "powerful" the monologue was and calling Colbert the "moral compass" of America.

Comment: Stick to your "Orange Man bad" jokes, funny man.

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Twitter permanently suspends David Icke's account over coronavirus misinformation UPDATE: Icke talks to RT

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© EPAConspiracy theorist David Icke’s Twitter account has been permanently suspended.
Decision comes six months after conspiracy theorist's YouTube and Facebook accounts were banned.

Twitter has permanently suspended David Icke's account, after the conspiracy theorist breached its rules by making false claims about coronavirus.

"The account referenced has been permanently suspended for violating Twitter's rules regarding Covid misinformation," a Twitter spokesperson said.

The decision comes after the former footballer had his YouTube and Facebook accounts terminated six months ago for spreading falsehoods.

Comment: Choose freedom?! You can't say that! Shut him down!

UPDATE: David Icke spoke to RT about his permanent suspension:
Silicon Valley giants 'set out to silence me,' coronavirus denialist David Icke tells RT after perma-ban on Twitter
6 Nov, 2020 10:44

Twitter has permanently suspended the account of controversial UK author David Icke, saying it violated Twitter's rules regarding Covid misinformation. YouTube and Facebook zapped Icke's accounts in early May for the same reason.

The ban hit this week as Icke's Twitter handle boasted more than 380,000 followers. But it didn't come as news to the controversial speaker and author, who said in an interview with RT on Thursday that he was temporarily banned at least twice, in September and in October, before getting the boot for good.

Icke's trouble with the platform came as it tightened its rules regarding spread of coronavirus-related "misinformation" and questioning the pandemic in any fashion. Previous offending posts have fetched him two 7-days suspensions, sharing articles doubting the usefulness of face masks, as well as alleging the true purpose of Covid-19 rapid tests in the UK.

The last post, which ultimately resulted in the permanent ban, criticized the UK government's plans to stage a pilot city-wide coronavirus testing scheme in Liverpool. Icke alleged that the real purpose of this endeavor was to give citizens faked positive tests and to "impose ever more extreme fascism" as a result.

The move by Twitter, however, only proves his point, Icke believes. "It is going to dawn on the media, probably far too late, that what I've been saying is true. So that puts into context why the Silicon Valley giant corporations like Google, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter are set out to silence me. It's very simple," Icke stated.
People should ask themselves what is going on when the Silicon Valley corporations actually say publicly that we're going to censor anyone and anything that challenges the World Health Organization version of this fake pandemic.
Icke pointed out striking similarities in how most countries have tackled the pandemic, claiming the restrictions were actually imposed by mysterious handlers from the World Health Organization (WHO), who maneuvered governments into ushering in the global dictatorship. Icke went as far as to allege the Covid-19 virus does not exist, claiming it had never been "isolated" by scientists.

Such extreme views have already resulted in Icke's expulsion from YouTube and Facebook earlier this year. The London-based Center for Countering Digital Hate, which has actively campaigned against Icke for months, has estimated his fellowship dropped significantly after he was removed from mainstream platforms. The organization has called on Big Tech firms to "act on other racists and antivaxxers spreading dangerous lies."


So far, only Icke's Instagram account has been spared the tightening censorship of the mainstream social media giants. On the Facebook-owned platform, Icke boasts more than 200,000 followers. Despite his waning presence on a number of platforms, Icke's materials are readily available from his personal website, as well as from accounts on other, lesser known - and less censorship-prone - sites, including YouTube alternative BitChute, as well as social media platforms like Gab, VK and others.

Since the outbreak of the pandemic late last year, social media platforms have come under increasing pressure to regulate misinformation on Covid-19. In March, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Reddit, Twitter and YouTube issued a joint statement on the need to join forces to "combat fraud and misinformation about the virus."

However, the platforms are often criticized by users - among them doctors, scientists, politicians and activists - for "flagging" posts for merely discussing Covid-19 mortality rates, or even taking down accounts altogether for allegedly spreading "falsehoods" about the health crisis.
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Snakes in Suits

Danish PM claims its lockdown of entire region "completely extraordinary"

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The restrictions, which were called "completely extraordinary" by the nation's prime minister, will be applied to over 280,000 people in the north of Denmark.


Comment: Much of Europe is reimposing national lockdowns so the fact that Denmark is marching in lockstep, while proclaiming these restrictions are "completely extraordinary", seems a little disingenuous.


Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen announced special restrictions in the province of North Jutland after a mutated version of the novel coronavirus which had originated at mink farms was found in humans.


Comment: This is a rather interesting claim because since coronavirus was first discovered it has only ever been considered to have transmitted between animal and humans twice.


Copenhagen warned that the mutation responds more weakly to antibodies and could therefore threaten the effectiveness of any future vaccine.

Comment: Experts have been reporting on coronavirus mutations since the very beginning however a great many have claimed that the evidence shows that as it mutates it becomes more transmissable but, crucially, even less harmful than it already is. One wonders whether this is a warm up before the Dutch government enforce a national lockdown, as was the case in the UK, France, Spain, Italy, and Germany.

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Candace Owens targets Facebook 3rd-party 'fact-checkers' with lawsuit

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© APConservative commentator and political activist Candace Owens
'I decided I was not going to give up and sit down," Owens said in a video posted to Twitter.

Conservative activist Candace Owens said Thursday that she plans to sue Facebook's third-party fact-checkers over perceived censorship of her social media posts.

Owens said in a video posted to her Twitter account:
"It is time to fact-check the fact-checkers. I'm going to put these suckers through discovery and figure out what the relationship is that they have with Facebook."
Owens gave an example of an instance that she alleged crossed the line.
"Quite literally a doctor gave his opinion about COVID-19, which I shared, and Facebook issued a strike on my account because they said only information that they agree with about COVID-19 ... was acceptable."
She said her Facebook page was demonetized as a result, meaning she could no longer use the page for income purposes.

Comment: We must rise up and challenge the overlords of message control. The First Amendment: Use it or lose it.

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Burka

Poll shows 57% of young Muslims in France believe Sharia law more important than national law

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© FRANCE-ELECTION / LEPEN REUTERS / Jean-Paul PelissierFILE PHOTO: Members of the Muslim community pray during Friday prayers inside the mosque in Frejus, France.
A new opinion poll has shown France's Muslim population to be increasingly disconnected from the general population, with 57 percent of young Muslims believing French law to be subordinate to Sharia law.

A study published on Thursday by the French Institute of Public Opinion (IFOP), highlighted the increasing divide between the French general population and Muslims living in France.

The study's most astonishing finding is that the majority of Muslims under the age of 25 (57 percent) believe Islamic law to be more important than French law in France - an increase of 10 percent since 2016. About 38 percent of French Muslims overall felt the same. Meanwhile, only 15 percent of the Catholic population believe that their religious laws should come before French law.

Comment: After decades of facilitating mass migration from cultures vastly different could the government not have foreseen this clash of values? Or, was it a case of ignorance and wishful thinking on the part of some, and a deliberate scheme by others? Also check out SOTT radio's: The Truth Perspective: Weapons of Mass Migration: Interview with Michael Springmann on Europe's Migrant Crisis