Matteo Salvini has been upsetting the European globalist applecart over the last several months, with great success. His steadfast refusal to allow migrant ships' passengers to debark in Italy exposed the highly political nature of this effort to flood Europe with mostly Muslim migrants who then burden the governments of their host European nations and also gain power. As we can see from the snipped of the Guardian's report above, Mr. Salvini is Italy focused, religion focused and family focused. His fearless stance on these issues has been winning the hearts and minds of the Italian people.
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This latest move by the Italian prime minister appears to be intended to prevent snap elections, which Mr. Salvini wants. However this is a risk, as those elections may well come anyway. How would they go?
Well, Mr. Salvini has cut illegal immigration into Italy by over 90% since becoming Italy's Interior Minister. His frequent and open defiance to European globalist norms and the visibility given to "suffering migrants", which is being used as a prop by the Sorosian-minded globalists, is only winning him and his party more and more support. In Italy now, Lega Nord is the most popular and powerful single party in Italy's parliament. It appears that nationalism and the preservation of sovereignty, culture, family and religious traditions are a winning combination for the average Italian.
'Sowing discord' again? Twitter wades into Hong Kong protests with hunt for 'Chinese bots'RT also reports that Facebook is getting in on the censorship action:
In another high-profile purge, Twitter has announced the deletion of nearly 1,000 accounts from its platform, citing fears that "Chinese bots" are "sowing discord" in Hong Kong after months of heated protests there.
After coming under fire recently for its alleged role in protests in China, Twitter has taken steps to combat what it called a "significant state-backed information operation focused on the situation in Hong Kong," according to the company's Monday blog post. In all, the firm said 936 accounts were permanently suspended "for a range of violations" of its policies.
"Based on our intensive investigations, we have reliable evidence to support that this is a coordinated state-backed operation," the blog post said of the deleted accounts. "Specifically, we identified large clusters of accounts behaving in a coordinated manner to amplify messages related to the Hong Kong protests."
Using the "sow discord" language directly out of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report, the company's blog post reads much like a rehash of the 2016 presidential election, in which so-called "Russian bots" supposedly played an outsized role.
Also reminiscent of 2016's "Russian bot" craze is Twitter's connect-the-dots reasoning, in this case identifying a "cluster" of suspicious accounts "behaving in a coordinated manner," though the company did not elaborate on how such a determination was made. A recent court ruling determined Mueller's team did not prove any connection between the Russian government and the company that managed the purported "Russian troll farm" - despite making very similar claims of "coordinated behavior."
Twitter is certainly no stranger to purges, especially those of the politically motivated variety; in recent months, in fact, the company apparently can't keep its hands off the banhammer.
April saw British European Parliament candidates Carl Benjamin and Tommy Robinson exiled from the platform, while Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya was given the boot in June - for no stated reason. The Russian Embassy in Syria briefly fell victim in July, but was soon reinstated, however weeks later three Iranian news agencies would suffer the same fate. Earlier this month, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and a reporter from the right-of-center Daily Caller were censored on Twitter for reporting the contents of death threats against the senator.
While accounts are removed from Twitter on a daily basis for a variety of reasons, the platform's major purges are apparently related to political considerations, and the great hunt for 'Chinese bots' seems to fall into that category. However, it also amounts to meddling into internal affairs of a major world power.
China has previously warned the US against sticking "their noses in our affairs" in relation to the ongoing Hong Kong protests, with China's freshly appointed ambassador in Moscow, Zhang Hanhui, reminding that Hong Kong is Chinese and not "American" or "English."
Facebook said it also removed a number of "fake" accounts and pages linked to people associated with the Chinese government after a tip-off from Twitter.See also:
On Tuesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang refused to comment on the claims made by the social media giants, but said Chinese people "have the right to express their point of view" on the protests.
"What is happening in Hong Kong, and what the truth is, people will naturally have their own judgment. Why is it that China's official media's presentation is surely negative or wrong?" Shuang asked during a daily news briefing.
Comment: We wish Judicial Watch the best of luck in cornering Killary and her minions. Wonder how many times she will take the Fifth?