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Trump to form own media company, social platform to counter censorship

Samuel Chamberlain
New York Post
Wed, 20 Oct 2021 17:41 UTC
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Former President Donald Trump announced the formation of 'TRUTH Social' social media platform on October 20, 2021
Former President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he is launching a new media company — complete with a social media platform that will begin rolling out in November.

Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) said in a statement that its mission was to "create a rival to the liberal media consortium and fight back against the 'Big Tech' companies of Silicon Valley, which have used their unilateral power to silence opposing voices in America."

The new company's first project is its social network, dubbed TRUTH Social, which is set to launch in beta for "invited guests" next month and come online nationwide in the first three months of 2022. A web page inviting people to sign up to be part of the beta launch describes TRUTH Social as "America's 'Big Tent' social media platform that encourages an open, free, and honest global conversation without discriminating against political ideology."
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Uptick in Israeli illegal settler attacks serves Bennett government policy: Terrorize Palestinians and steal more land

Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Mon, 18 Oct 2021 15:24 UTC
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B’Tselem image from May 14, 2021 of a masked settler wearing military trousers invading the Palestinian village of ‘Urif in the occupied West Bank and firing on Palestinians as an Israeli soldier watches.
There are more than two settler attacks on Palestinians a day this year on average. According to two Israeli human rights experts, the violent settlers are working with the cooperation of the army and the Israeli government.

Settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank is rising rapidly this year, with more than 2 attacks a day on average, per the Israeli military- a far greater rate than a year ago.

According to two Israeli human rights experts, the violent settlers are working with the cooperation of the army and the Israeli government to take over more and more land for Jewish settlement under a policy of pushing Palestinians out of Area C. Just what Naftali Bennett said he wanted.

"Settler violence is a tool for achieving political aims. It's a tool that serves the government, serves the government policy of taking over land, and therefore it is flourishing; therefore it is successful," says Lior Amihai, executive director of the human rights group Yesh Din.

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Sinister Rockefeller Food System Agenda - They Created It And Now Want To Destroy It

F. William Engdahl
New Eastern Outlook
Thu, 21 Oct 2021 00:00 UTC
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No one group has done more to damage our global agriculture and food quality than the Rockefeller Foundation. They began in the early 1950s after the War to fund two Harvard Business School professors to develop vertical integration which they named "Agribusiness." The farmer became the least important. They then created the fraudulent Green Revolution in Mexico and India in the 1960s and later the pro-GMO Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa since 2006. Money from the Rockefeller Foundation literally created the disastrous GMO genetically altered plants with their toxic glyphosate pesticides. Now again, the foundation is engaged in a major policy change in global food and agriculture and it's not good.

In their latest report, True Cost of Food: Measuring What Matters to Transform the U.S. Food System, the Rockefeller Foundation is deeply engaged in a coordinated effort to radically change the way we produce food and how we calculate its true cost. They claim it is part of a global consensus, through the UN, to create "sustainable" agriculture amid the ongoing COVID breakdown crisis. Far from being a positive change, it is intended to radically change our access to healthy food and our choice of what we eat. The foundation, which has just released the second food report in two years, is partnering with the Davos World Economic Forum and big agribusiness to lead the drive. Their new slogan is "True Cost of Food."
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Biden: Police, emergency responders should be fired if they won't get vaccinated

Pam Key
Breitbart
Thu, 21 Oct 2021 00:01 UTC
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During a town hall on CNN on Thursday, President Joe Biden said police officers and emergency responders should be let go if they refuse their employers ' mandates to get vaccinated against COVID.

Anchor Anderson Cooper said, "Mr. President, let me ask you a follow-up about that. As many as one in three emergency responders in some cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, right here in Baltimore, are refusing to comply with city vaccine mandates. I'm wondering where you stand on that. Should police officers, emergency responders be mandated to get vaccines? And if not, should they be stay at home or let go?"

Biden said, "Yes and yes. By the way, by the way, I waited until July to talk about mandating because I tried everything else possible. The mandates are working. All this stuff about people leaving and people getting it, you have everyone from United Airlines to Spirit, all these airlines all 96, 97% of the people have gotten the vaccine. All the talk about all these folks who are going to leave the military if they're mandated. Not true. You got about a 90 some percent vaccination rate."

Comment: Also at the town hall, Biden said he was open to altering filibuster process for Democrats' voting rights bill 'and maybe more'. From Just the News:
President Biden said Thursday night he would be open to altering the filibuster to pass voting rights legislation "and maybe more," a shift in the president's position on the Senate voting rule.

Biden made the comment during a televised CNN town hall in Baltimore when asked about Democrats' voting rights bills being blocks by Republicans in the evenly divided Senate.

CNN host Anderson Cooper asked: "When it comes to voting rights, just so I'm clear though, you would entertain the notion of doing away with the filibuster on that one issue, is that correct?"

Biden replied: "And maybe more." However he also said attempting to do so now would hurt his ability to pass his economic agenda, considering Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona have expressed opposition to altering the filibuster, which would effectively allow Senate Democrats to pass legislation without a single Republican vote.

"I lose at least three votes right now to get what I have to get done on the economic side of the equation, the foreign policy side of the equation," Biden said.

The president said he would propose an intermediate return to the so-called "talking filibuster," which requires senators to speak continuously on the floor to hold up votes, according to CNN.


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UK minister claims MPs can make "informed" choice over mask wearing, lockdown threatened if public do not take precautions


RT
Thu, 21 Oct 2021 14:28 UTC
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Tribute to MP David Amess in the House of Commons in London.
UK Health Minister Edward Argar has defended MPs who fail to wear masks in Parliament, claiming they can make an "informed view" on whether to follow guidance despite the health secretary asking the public to wear face coverings.

Speaking on Thursday, Argar rebuffed criticism that MPs are not following government guidance by claiming that politicians are entitled to adopt an "informed view" about whether advice to wear one in enclosed places applies to Parliament.

"There's clearly a leadership role for members of Parliament on all sides," Argar said, adding, "I think it's for those individual members of Parliament to read the guidance, consider it, bear in mind what Sajid [Javid] has said, and reach their own views."


Comment: Apparently many in parliament think the public aren't capable of making the same "informed" choice. That's because a significant number of them think that they're smarter than the average citizen, it's also likely because many of them are well aware that the coronavirus is not the deadly plague that they, and their propaganda media, have made it out to be.


Comment: It's telling of the psychological state of those in positions of power that they routinely flout the very restrictions that they subject the rest of the population to; below are just some of the most recent examples, but the last 19+ months of lockdown have made it very clear that there is one rule for us, and another for the 'elite'.

For an idea of just what's going on with the establishment, check out:






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Ukraine's President Zelensky sees huge drop in popularity amid increasingly authoritarian rule

Jonny Tickle
RT
Thu, 21 Oct 2021 11:27 UTC
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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during a joint news conference with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Kiev, Ukraine January 31, 2020.
The popularity rating of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has plummeted almost 10% in just one month, and his party Servant of the People would come in second place if an election were held today, a poll has shown.

The fall in the favorability of both Zelensky and his faction comes as the politician has been slammed from many sides for what some see as growing authoritarian tendencies, including purging party members for disagreements and organizing a vote against the speaker of the parliament.

The poll, conducted by the Kiev International Institute of Sociology (KIIS), found that just 24.7% of Ukrainians would vote for Zelensky, a significant drop from the 33.3% in September. Zelensky is still ahead of the pack, however, beating out former president, Petro Poroshenko (15.6%), and former prime minister, Yulia Timoshenko (12.2%).

Comment: Similar stats can be seen in politics throughout numerous European countries, with elections suffering low voter turnout and weak majorities that often lead to coalitions, it's notable that this also comes amid rising corruption in the country as well as a number of suspect murders:

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National School Board Group communicated with White House while crafting letter likening involved parents to terrorists

Caroline Downey
National Review
Fri, 22 Oct 2021 16:49 UTC
Attorney General Merrick Garland
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Attorney General Merrick Garland is asking the FBI to treat protesting parents as domestic terrorists.
The National School Board Association communicated with the White House before releasing a letter requesting federal intervention to investigate whether alleged threats leveled by parents against school-board members qualify as domestic terrorism under the Patriot Act.

Email correspondence obtained by nonprofit Parents Defending Education and first reported by the Washington Free Beacon shows that White House officials coordinated with the NSBA to iron out the details of the letter before it was officially published.

NSBA interim executive director Chip Slaven wrote, "in talks over several weeks with White House staff, they requested additional information on some of the specific threats, so the letter also details many of the incidents that have been occurring."

Comment: Rep. Steve Chabot grills Garland on his actions:



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'Simply monstrous': Putin says teaching young children they can easily swap genders is a 'borderline crime against humanity'


RT
Thu, 21 Oct 2021 16:14 UTC
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LGBTQ activists hold placards during a rally for the rights of transgender people in Kiev, Ukraine, May 22, 2021
A growing campaign in the West to do away with gender-based language defies reason and is subverting human nature, Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed, arguing children should not be taught biological sex does not exist.

"The discussion about the rights of men and women has turned into a total phantasmagoria in a number of Western countries," Putin said in a speech to dignitaries and reporters at the Valdai Discussion Club in Sochi, Russia on Thursday. "Those who risk saying that men and women still exist, and that this is a biological fact, are virtually ostracized."


He listed examples, such as banning words like "mother" and "father" in favor of terms like "parent one and parent two", as well as "banning the phrase 'breast milk' and replacing it with 'human milk' so that people insecure about their own gender wouldn't get upset."
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Amazon and Google: partners in Israeli apartheid

Jonathan Cook
The Electronic Intifada
Tue, 19 Oct 2021 00:00 UTC
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Google depicts Israel as a democracy, while assisting the abuse of Palestinian rights.
The best-selling Irish novelist Sally Rooney is openly shunning Israel after recent reports from human rights groups warned that Israel practices apartheid, systematically oppressing Palestinians under its rule.

But while Israel risks becoming a pariah among some cultural producers, it is being aggressively embraced by globe-spanning corporations like Amazon and Google - among the wealthiest companies in history.

The two tech giants are not just lining up to do business with Israel. They are actively working to build and improve the technological infrastructure Israel needs to surveil Palestinians and confine them to the ghettos Israel's army has created for them.

Through their collaboration on Israel's Project Nimbus, both companies are helping to remove any pressure on Israel to make peace with the Palestinians and are instead becoming partners in Israeli apartheid.

Now workers for both companies are speaking out - most of them anonymously for fear of what they call "retaliation."

This month some 400 employees of the two companies published a letter in The Guardian newspaper warning that Amazon and Google were contracted to supply "dangerous technology" to the Israeli military and government that would make Israel's rule over Palestinians "even crueler and deadlier."
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Donald Trump is launching a new social network called Truth Social

Steven Musil, Queenie Wong
CNET
Thu, 21 Oct 2021 11:06 UTC
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© Trump Media and Technology Group
Former President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he's launching a new social network called Truth Social, whose goal is to push back against Big Tech, according to a press release purported to come from one of his companies. The Trump Media and Technology Group, which made the announcement, said the social network will begin a limited beta launch in November, with a wider rollout expected in the first quarter of 2022.

Trump said in the press release sent to the media:
"I created Truth Social and TMGT to stand up to the tyranny of Big Tech. We live in a world where the Taliban has a presence on Twitter, yet your favorite American president has been silenced."
There's a site for Truth Social where people can join a waiting list for the social network, as well as a link to preorder the iOS app. Screenshots of the app suggest Truth will have profile pages with a Twitter-like timeline of posts.

Plans to launch a new social network underscore how Trump is trying to rejoin the online public conversation after Twitter, Facebook and Google-owned YouTube booted him from their platforms following the deadly US Capitol Hill riot in January.
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