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Mexican president AMLO mounts campaign against social media bans

Mark Stevenson
AP
Fri, 15 Jan 2021 20:47 UTC
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Mexico's president vowed Thursday to lead an international effort to combat what he considers censorship by social media companies that have blocked or suspended the accounts of U.S. President Donald Trump.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's administration is reaching out to other government to form a common front on the issue.

"I can tell you that at the first G20 meeting we have, I am going to make a proposal on this issue," López Obrador said. "Yes, social media should not be used to incite violence and all that, but this cannot be used as a pretext to suspend freedom of expression."

"How can a company act as if it was all powerful, omnipotent, as a sort of Spanish Inquisition on what is expressed?" he asked.

Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said Mexico is starting to build an international campaign around the issue.

"Given that Mexico, through our president, has spoken out, we immediately made contact with others who think the same," Ebrard said, noting they had heard from officials in France, Germany, the European Union, Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia.

"The president's orders are to make contact with all of them, share this concern and work on coming up with a joint proposal," Ebrard said. "We will see what is proposed."
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Project Veritas strikes again: Twitter CEO Dorsey caught talking Trump and outlining roadmap for future political censorship

Cristina Laila
The Gateway Pundit
Thu, 14 Jan 2021 18:19 UTC
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A whistleblower inside Twitter recorded CEO Jack Dorsey and sent Project Veritas the recording.

Jack Dorsey recently banned President Trump from the social media platform for 'inciting violence.'

Project Veritas released video of Jack Dorsey laying out the roadmap for future political censorship — censoring Trump was just the beginning.

"We are focused on one account [@realDonaldTrump] right now, but this is going to be much bigger than just one account, and it's going to go on for much longer than just this day, this week, and the next few weeks, and go on beyond the inauguration," Dorsey said in a video recorded January 8.

Comment: Ironically, the story has been trending ON Twitter, using the hashtag #ExposeTwitter, to which one commenter remarked:
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Project Veritas noted:
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A pickle indeed.

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Eye 1

UK government lies again: Starts funding COVID 'vaccine passports' just weeks after saying there were no plans for them

Paul Smeaton
LifeSite News
Tue, 12 Jan 2021 17:51 UTC
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Meet the document that will control your life.
The U.K. government is funding the trial of COVID-19 vaccination passports, less than a month after the government minister responsible for COVID-19 vaccines stated that "we have no plans to introduce so-called vaccine passporting" and urged businesses "not to even think about that."

U.K. newspaper The Telegraph report that biometrics firm iProov and cybersecurity firm Mvine will provide thousands of Britons with a free app which will enable them to digitally prove that they have received a vaccine.

According to the report "[t]he trial will be overseen by two directors of public health" with the government providing £75,000 in funding.

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Gift

Trump declassifies Russia Collusion documents, Nunes among first to receive them

Jim Hoft
The Gateway Pundit
Thu, 14 Jan 2021 17:28 UTC
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Donald Trump
Coming as soon as Friday

On Tuesday The Gateway Pundit got word that President Trump was going to declassify all of the Russian hoax investigation documents.

We reported previously that Deep State operatives, including people inside the White House and ostensibly on "his" side, were urging the president to keep the information from the public.

In fact, President Trump promised several times that he would release everything on the Russian hoax before he left office.

Comment: Speculation was rife on the timing of impeachment charges:
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Vader

The Pentagon Speaks

Jacob G. Hornberger
The Future of Freedom Foundation
Wed, 13 Jan 2021 16:54 UTC
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Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley
The Joint Chiefs of Staff have spoken. Issuing a remarkable memorandum to all members of the Armed Forces, the JCS have declared that Joe Biden will be the new president of the United States. The memo may have been not only one to military personnel but also to President Trump: No matter how convinced you are that the election was stolen from you, don't even think about remaining in power because we will ensure your forcible exit from the White House.

Unfortunately, relatively few people, including libertarians, comprehend that the Pentagon, along with the CIA and the NSA and, to a certain extent, the FBI, are the part of the federal government in which ultimate power is being wielded. They are the ones who are ruling the roost in America. That's why that memo is so important. It's declaring how things will be.

This overwhelming power is usually exercised behind the scenes in order to make Americans feel comfortable that their government is different from other national-security governments. While the national-security branch of the government is driving the overall direction America will take, especially with respect to foreign affairs, it permits the other three branches to maintain the appearance of power. The idea is to convince Americans that the federal government operates the same as a national-security state as it did when it was a limited-government republic.
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Attention

Congresswoman claims office 'panic buttons' removed before Capitol riot as Dems demand investigation into 'suspicious activitity'


RT
Wed, 13 Jan 2021 22:11 UTC
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Staff for Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Massachusetts) is claiming there is an investigation into office "panic buttons" being removed before the US Capitol riot while other Democrats are demanding a probe into "suspicious activity."

Democrats are leading the charge into conspiracy theories surrounding the siege of the US Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump last week, with multiple claims that more could have been involved in the riot.

Pressley's chief of staff, Sarah Groh, has gained the attention of many social media users thanks to a Boston Globe interview this week where she alleged that panic buttons from the congresswoman's office had been removed without explanation or warning from her office, something she and Pressley discovered on the day of the riot.

"Every panic button in my office had been torn out — the whole unit," Groh said, adding that she and other staff had previously used the duress buttons and they had been regularly tested.

A spokesperson for Pressley said in a Wednesday statement that the issue is currently being investigated and new panic buttons were installed in the office the day after the protest.

Comment: See also:

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Americans are being divided as the war on 'domestic terror' expands

Derrick Broze
The Last American Vagabond
Wed, 13 Jan 2021 00:00 UTC
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Americans appear too divided and distracted to recognize that the architects of the Patriot Act and the failed War on Terror now have their sights set on the American homeland.

The first week of 2021 kicked off with chaos at the Capitol in Washington D.C. Was it a protest, a riot or an insurrection? Were there provocateurs, and if so, were they Antifa, the cops, and/or the Feds? As usual, everyone on the internet thinks they know the answer within ten minutes. Unfortunately, this genuinely leads to the spreading of unfounded theories - many based on nothing but speculation and emotion. But while the public is debating over theories and arguing amongst themselves, the newly emboldened Military Industrial Complex is eagerly anticipating the incoming Biden Administration as an opportunity to expand the War on Domestic Terror.

In the immediate aftermath of the "storming of the Capitol", the media pundits, intelligence community, and politicians began foaming at the mouth in excitement over the chance to push through Domestic Terror legislation. Michigan representative Elissa Slotkin, also former Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense and CIA analyst, said, "the post 9/11 era is over. The single greatest national security threat right now is our internal division. The threat of domestic terrorism." Slotkin went on to say that she urges the Biden administration to "understand that the greatest threat now is internal."

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No Entry

Lockdown Britain turning into Stasi-ruled East Germany? No, in many ways it's worse

Neil Clarke
RT
Thu, 14 Jan 2021 13:44 UTC
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L) A public health information sign during the spread of the coronavirus disease pandemic, London, Britain, January 7, 2021. REUTERS / Toby Melville; (R) The former Berlin Wall border crossing point Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin, Germany, March 22, 2020. REUTERS /
"I don't want to live in East Germany," says Nigel Farage in a new video in which he expresses concern at where Britain is heading. He has a point; I was in the DDR in 1989 and found it to be less oppressive than Britain today.

It started with stamps. My interest in the 'German Democratic Republic' began when a very nice lady called Frieda, who lived on our road when I was a child, started to give me her old East German stamps for my collection. She was from the DDR, and went every year to visit her elderly mother there. She told my mother she was followed by the secret police when she went back. My apolitical fascination with this rather mysterious 'Behind the Iron Curtain' country grew. I had a pen friend who lived in Karl-Marx-Stadt (Chemnitz), and we exchanged football pennants and stickers. In September 1989, I was finally able to visit. It was some experience.

Without wishing to brush over or downplay in any way the negatives, which I will go into, I found the country was a lot less grim than popularly portrayed. Perhaps that was partly due to the gloriously sunny weather. But it soon became clear to me that, despite living in a 'dictatorship', people could still enjoy happy, meaningful lives. I remember packed bars and restaurants (including one self-service cafeteria that was open all night at Erfurt station, where my friend and I spent our first night on wooden benches).

Comment: Expect all the above and worse to occur in the US once Biden is inaugurated.

See also: MindMatters: Interview with Rod Dreher: How to Survive the Coming Soft Totalitarianism

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Black Cat

Bail fund promoted by Kamala Harris won't share records of alleged criminals it sprung from jail

Daniel Payne
Just the News
Thu, 14 Jan 2021 12:51 UTC
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Amid violent riots, vice president-elect promoted cash fund that helped convicted rapist, accused murderer.

A bail fund promoted by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris that reportedly helped bail out several accused and convicted criminals — at least one with a markedly violent history — is refusing to share the records of the individuals it helped spring from jail in the midst of last year's deadly Black Lives Matter-led riots in Minnesota.

In June 2020, as violent unrest swept the country in the wake of Minneapolis resident George Floyd's death at the hands of city police, Harris — then two months away from being chosen as Joe Biden's running mate — tweeted out a link to the Minnesota Freedom Fund, which claims to "pa[y] criminal bail and immigration bonds for those who cannot otherwise afford to."


Comment: The story above and the following statements by Harris (stating that the Leftist political violence should continue) suggest she had no small part in helping it along. And yet no one holds this malevolent political animal to account.



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Evil Rays

Yawn: House Dems briefed on 3 'terrifying' plots to overthrow government

Matt Fuller
Yahoo News
Thu, 14 Jan 2021 22:46 UTC
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Capitol Police briefed Democrats on Monday night about three more potentially gruesome demonstrations planned in the coming days, with one plot to encircle the U.S. Capitol and assassinate Democrats and some Republicans.

On a private call Monday night, new leaders of the Capitol Police told House Democrats they were closely monitoring three separate plans that could pose serious threats to members of Congress as Washington prepares for Democrat Joe Biden's presidential inauguration on Jan. 20.

The first is a demonstration billed as the "largest armed protest ever to take place on American soil."

Another is a protest in honor of Ashli Babbitt, the woman killed while trying to climb into the Speaker's Lobby during Wednesday's pro-Trump siege of the Capitol.

And another demonstration, which three members said was by far the most concerning plot, would involve insurrectionists forming a perimeter around the Capitol, the White House and the Supreme Court, and then blocking Democrats from entering the Capitol ― perhaps even killing them ― so that Republicans could take control of the government.

The members of Congress whom HuffPost spoke to Monday night were extremely concerned by the call.

"It was pretty overwhelming," one member said.

Comment: Be terrified.

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