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Best of the Web: The purge begins: Trump permanently banned from Twitter, along with Flynn, Powell and others - Google/Apple give Parler ultimatum to comply

Tali Arbel
AP
Sat, 09 Jan 2021 00:38 UTC
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© Getty Images / ullstein bild Dtl.Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin
US President Donald Trump's Twitter account has been 'permanently suspended,' that is banned. The company said there was a risk of violence because of how his tweets were being 'interpreted' off platform.

"After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them — specifically how they are being received and interpreted on and off Twitter — we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence," the company announced in a blog post on Friday evening.


As the offending tweets that triggered the ban, Twitter cited Trump saying he would not go to the inauguration of Joe Biden, and that the 75 million American patriots who voted for him "will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!"

These tweets "must be read in the context of broader events in the country and the ways in which the President's statements can be mobilized by different audiences, including to incite violence, as well as in the context of the pattern of behavior from this account in recent weeks," Twitter said, saying they decided these messages amount to "glorification of violence."


Comment: Twitter will determine the context.


Trump's refusal to attend the inauguration "may also serve as encouragement to those potentially considering violent acts that the Inauguration would be a 'safe' target, as he will not be attending," Twitter said.

Comment: Covid-19 was just the beginning. And Trump and his allies will not be the last to be completely blacklisted from the public square. Not by a long shot. Welcome to totalitarianism, 2021 style.









The current purge includes General Michael Flynn and Sidney Powell, whom NBC calls "high-profile supporters of President Donald Trump who promoted the QAnon conspiracy theory."
Even 'Techno Fog,' a Twitter account that devoted most of his time analyzing 'Russiagate' documents and the prosecution of Flynn, was removed on Friday. There was no explanation for the move, as usual, but merely the association with Flynn via his case may have been enough of a pretext.



Earlier in the day, Facebook banned Brandon Straka and his WalkAway campaign - a movement of disillusioned Democrats who crossed to the Republicans during the Trump presidency, and were in no way involved in Wednesday's protest. Over 500,000 members and "hundreds of thousands of testimonial videos and stories" were snuffed out in a click, Straka said.






Meanwhile Biden has compared Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.



Meanwhile:

UPDATE: Trump was able to make use of his @potus account temporarily, before his posts were immediately memory-holed.




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Best of the Web: UK's children can be used as undercover spies to report on parents, covert intelligence bill reveals

Charles Hymas
Telegraph
Wed, 06 Jan 2021 21:00 UTC
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© PixabayThe Government faces a major Lords revolt over the bill, which sees children used by more than 20 state agencies
Children can be used as undercover spies by more than 20 state agencies, guidance for the Government's covert intelligence bill reveals.

Covert child agents can also break the law if it means they will be able to glean information that could prevent or detect crime, protect public health, safety, or national security or help collect taxes, says the guidance quietly laid by the Government this month.


Comment: Guidance so vague and broad that it could easily be used against anyone 'suspected' of not following the ever-changing, tyrannical lockdown measures.


Older children aged 16 and 17 could even be recruited to spy on their parents if they were suspected of being involved in crime or terrorism.

Comment: The UK has entered a chilling stage in its descent into totalitarianism, because this new bill just so happens to have been introduced at the same time as a whole raft of new powers, with the majority declared as an 'emergency' in order to bypass all democratic processes. These include the recent court ruling that ALL UK agencies are now legally allowed to commit crimes, including torture and murder; calls to criminalize anyone speaking out against the totalitarian measures; and the power to break into the homes of anyone SUSPECTED of 'breaking lockdown rules'.

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Best of the Web: 'Activist' who stormed Capitol Building, interviewed by CNN, is actually a radical leftist from Utah, threatened to "rip Trump from White House"

Jim Hoft
The Gateway Pundit
Fri, 08 Jan 2021 17:51 UTC

Comment: There WERE 'Antifa' agents in the halls of Congress that day. We put Antifa in quotes because this calls into question their bona fides as lefties. They're more likely US intelligence operatives or useful idiots with professional handlers...


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Ashli Babbit (L) John Sullivan (R)
Last night CNN interviewed John Sullivan from Utah after the shooting death of Ashli Babbit by Capitol Hill police.

John Sullivan, a noted leftist leader from Utah, stormed the US Capitol with Trump supporters and others on Wednesday.

In August John Sullivan threatened to rip President Trump from the White House during violence in Washington DC. Sullivan was flown to DC for the protests.

Comment: The Gateway Pundit further reports that witnesses claim at least one bus load of Antifa thugs infiltrated the Trump demonstration:
Trump supporters are being blamed for all of the violence and chaos but according to a former FBI agent, Antifa has infiltrated the Trump rally.

Via investigative reporter Paul Sperry: Former FBI agent on the ground at U.S. Capitol just texted me and confirmed that at least 1 "bus load" of Antifa thugs infiltrated peaceful Trump demonstrators as part of a false Trump flag ops


There are eyewitness accounts of people in dark clothing urging people to rush forward and start anti-government chants in the crowd.




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Best of the Web: Democrat pile-on begins: Schumer calls for Trump's removal through 25th Amendment, impeachment

Joseph Curl
Just the News
Thu, 07 Jan 2021 21:20 UTC
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© ABC NewsPresident Donald Trump (L) Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (R)
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday called for President Trump's removal through the 25th Amendment.

The New York lawmaker also called for Congress to reconvene to impeach Trump if Vice President Mike Pence and the Cabinet do not move to invoke the 25th Amendment.

Schumer joins more than two dozen congressional Democrats who are calling for Trump's removal — after his supporters invaded the Capitol on Wednesday to protest Congress' certification of Democrat Joe Biden's Electoral College victory.

Comment: Why are the Dems in such a hurry? The man will be gone in less than two weeks. What are they afraid of that he could accomplish in such a short time?


White House officials are already jumping ship:




Given the rallying round against him, we wouldn't put it past them. When you challenge them, and they get you in a weak position, they'll go for the juglar. They do NOT like having their ivory tower (The Capitol) and powerful self-righteousness assaulted.

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Best of the Web: Humanity is at war with the technocracy

Peter Koenig
Global Research
Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:00 UTC
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We are at war. Yes. And I don't mean the West against the East, against Russia and China, nor the entire world against an invisible corona virus.

No. We, the common people, are at war against an ever more authoritarian and tyrannical elitist Globalist system, reigned by a small group of multi-billionaires, that planned already decades ago to take power over the people, to control them, reduce them to what a minute elite believes is an "adequate number" to inhabit Mother Earth - and to digitize and robotize the rest of the survivors, as a sort of serfs. It's a combination of George Orwell's "1984" and Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World".

Welcome to the age of the transhumans. If we allow it.

Vaccination

That's why vaccination is needed in warp speed, to inject us with transgenic substances that may change our DNA, lest we may wake up, or at least a critical mass may become conscious - and change the dynamics. Because dynamics are not predictable, especially not in the long-term.

The war is real and the sooner we all realize it, the sooner those in masks and those in social distancing take cognizance of the worldwide "anti-human" dystopian situations we have allowed our governments to bestow on us, the better our chance to retake our sovereign selves.

Today we are confronted with totally illegal and oppressive rules, all imposed under the pretext of "health protection".
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Best of the Web: Spain records lowest temperature ever at -34C

Graham Keeley
Reuters
Wed, 06 Jan 2021 18:50 UTC
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Heavy snow and icy winds blasted Spain as temperatures plumetted to -34.1C, the lowest ever recorded on the Iberian peninsula, the State Meterololgical Agency said on Wednesday.

The chilling temperature was recorded at Clot del Tuc de la Llanca in Aragon in the Spanish Pyrenees at 5.19 a.m., the agency said.

This was two degrees lower than in 1956, when temperatures of -32C were recorded in Estany-Gento, in Lleida, in northeastern Spain.

More heavy snowfall is forecast for much of central and northern Spain with temperatures expected to fall -11C.

A 75-year-old man who got lost after he decided to walk to safety when his car became stuck in a snow storm was rescued by police in Navia de Suarna, near Lugo, in northwestern Spain.

Comment: Heavy snowfall traps people in Asturias, Spain

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Best of the Web: The paths to American dystopia as it faces 2021

Alan Sabrosky
The Unz Review
Sun, 03 Jan 2021 00:00 UTC
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It is given to few countries to face a future without any bright sides. Those that have done so in the past, have usually confronted overwhelming external challenges, perhaps compounded by internal difficulties. In the case of the United States today, that is not the case. To be sure, there are external challenges with both allies and competitors. But in a very real sense, America today - like so many Western countries - is its own worst enemy, and it may well portend the death of our Constitutional order if not the country itself.

The general election of 2020 will be the stuff of argument and analysis for many years to come, here and abroad. Suffice to say here that a panicky over-reaction to the onset of the COVID-19 virus produced economic hardship and social disorder, compounded by months of riots, looting and arson afflicting hundreds of cities (almost all Democrat-governed) beginning in late May 2020. All of this set the stage for an election won overwhelmingly on November 3rd by President Donald Trump and lost by him in the following weeks to his Democrat opponent. Joseph Biden, as dumps of hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots appeared in dubious circumstances amidst widespread allegations of fraud and lawsuits challenging the outcome.

The Paths to Dystopia

At this point, only an anarchist or a radical (both of which seem to abound in the modern Democrat party) believing that from chaos arises their utopia would view the future with a sense of satisfaction. I am neither, and while I am not inherently a pessimist, I simply see no way forward that does not present one form or another of disaster - a true dystopia, differing only in type and degree of violence.

Comment: The US is on the fast-track to self-destruction, and the more individuals who understand this, and why - and who can prepare themselves (and others) for the future - the better off humanity will be as a whole when the opportunity avails itself to re-form and re-strengthen.

We, also, will have become much stronger souls for the experience.

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Best of the Web: Statistical model indicates Trump actually won majorities in five disputed states and 49.68 percent of the vote in a sixth


Revolver News
Mon, 14 Dec 2020 07:14 UTC
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

We report a simple yet powerful statistical model of county-level voter behavior in the November 2020 presidential election using two main types of data:
  1. County-specific voting data from the five previous presidential elections.
  2. Selected demographic variables (race and education) plotting how different national voter groups voted differently in 2020 overall.
These two types of predictors allow us to explain over 95% of the variation in county-level votes, and therefore allow us identify which counties (and consequently, states) look substantially anomalous in the 2020 election.

The model provides substantial support for the allegation that the outcome of the election was affected by fraud in multiple states. Specifically, the model's predictions match the reported results in all other states, i.e. states where no fraud has been alleged, but predicts Trump won majorities in five disputed states (AZ, GA, NV, PA and WI) and 49.68% of the vote in the sixth (MI).

In other words, the reported Biden margin of victory in at least five of the six contested states cannot be explained by any patterns in voter preference consistent with national demographic trends.

Comment: See also:

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Best of the Web: Heavy snow buries parts of Northern Italy - 6 FEET fell early Monday - blocking roads, burying cars and houses


VOA News
Mon, 04 Jan 2021 15:41 UTC
General view after heavy snowfall in Sappada, Italy, Jan. 3, 2021
© Twitter/AametsocGeneral view after heavy snowfall in Sappada, Italy, Jan. 3, 2021, in this still image obtained from a social media video.
European weather forecasters say about 2 meters (over 6 feet) of snow fell early Monday in parts of northern Italy's alpine region, blocking roads and burying cars and houses in some areas.

From its Twitter account, the Alpine-Adriatic Meteorological Society posted video from Italy's northeastern area of Comelico, near the border with Austria. Snow blocked the entrances to homes and buildings, with more snow falling in the small village of Sappada, in the region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia.

Italian firefighters said they carried out more than 100 operations to clear roads of snow.

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Best of the Web: Chinese Govt: 'Covid-19 began as multiple separate outbreaks globally, we were just the first to report'


RT
Mon, 04 Jan 2021 22:05 UTC
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One report among many that supports the Chinese hypothesis
Research suggests that the coronavirus pandemic was likely the result of outbreaks in many places around the globe, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has said, adding that Beijing will resist any attempts at "stigmatization."

"We raced against time and were the first country to report cases to the world," Wang said in an interview with Chinese media published on Friday. He argued that, contrary to prevailing opinion, China's own outbreak of the disease was not exclusively to blame for the global pandemic.

More and more research suggests that the pandemic was likely to have been caused by separate outbreaks in multiple places in the world.

The first cluster of Covid-19 cases was reported in the Chinese city of Wuhan on December 31, 2019; and over the next year the highly contagious virus spread to the rest of the world, resulting in 84.1 million confirmed cases and more than 1.83 million deaths so far.


Comment: That's the 'official story', and it contradicts what the Chinese believe happened. We agree with them, by the way, as we noticed when all this hysteria began that clusters of 'strange new pneumonia-like illnesses' had actually popped up globally in late 2019.


Despite the fact that the precise origins of the coronavirus remain unclear, the outgoing President Donald Trump administration has been blaming the pandemic on China. Accusations leveled against Beijing have ranged from a cover-up of the initial outbreak to claims that the virus was human-made and somehow leaked from a Chinese laboratory.


Comment: This is rank projection for domestic political purposes. Sars-CoV-2 almost certainly originated in an American laboratory.


Comment: That'll be another point for Sott.net, thank you very much.

We said as much at the beginning of all this, that the Wuhan outbreak was just one cluster among many that developed (almost) simultaneously in Italy, Iran, Israel, France, the UK, and the US (that we know of - it was probably spreading elsewhere too but it just wasn't noticed and thus reported by the given country's press).

China's 'fault' is apparently that it cared enough to actually zoom in and look at what was happening, discover a coronavirus they'd never seen before, and crack its genome to see that it contained sequences from HIV and other viruses, thus realizing it was man-made.

This apparently made them freak out that 'the Americans are attacking us', so they pioneered 'lockdown' in one of its provinces (to psychologically calm its 1.5 billion people, NOT to literally 'contain the virus', which its experts would have known full well is scientifically impossible with an aerosolized coronavirus like this).

Then, many weeks later, Western countries began - in lockstep with one another, as if according to some prearranged model or plan - to 'use the Chinese model' and shutter their countries, also for political purposes and NOT to 'contain the virus' - thereby bringing civilization to a halt and ushering in totalitarian hell for many.

And with gene-editing vaccines being rolled out to compound what was already an immune system-distorting genetically modified vaccine virus, the worst is yet to come. So people had better get busy protecting themselves from the coming cytokine storm, or get busy dyin'...

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