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Love him or hate him, Donald Trump is the one maverick who can set Americans free from the Big Tech gulag

Robert Bridge
RT
Tue, 13 Jul 2021 17:06 UTC
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Despite their historical disdain of the Soviet Union, Americans are now prisoners of their own electronic dictatorship that crushes political dissent. Can Trump's battle against Big Tech return free speech to the land of the free?

These days, there are no late-night knocks on the door signaling the deportation of some unfortunate 'comrade' to a penal colony on the outskirts of the empire for the crime of 'wrongthink'.

The overlords of Silicon Valley have effectively streamlined brutal totalitarian techniques, concealing the iron fist of repression inside the velvet glove of algorithms, fact checkers and ever-changing 'community standards'. But make no mistake, the result is the same: the disappearance of individuals who dare hold opinions at variance with those at the commanding heights of our technocracy.
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RT reporter in Baghdad detained by Iraqi security forces but later released - no explanation given


RT
Tue, 13 Jul 2021 16:39 UTC
Ashraf Al-Azzawi arrested Iraq
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Ashraf Al-Azzawi, was taken to an unknown location by Iraqi security forces
A journalist working for RT has been detained in Baghdad, the network's Arabic channel has reported. Press freedom advocates have argued he was unjustly arrested by Iraqi authorities and have called for his release.

UPDATE: The journalist was released later on Tuesday, according to RT Arabic representatives.

The correspondent, identified as Ashraf Al-Azzawi, was taken to an unknown location by Iraqi security forces under the pretext that his work permit had expired.

Comment: The crackdown on the free press is spreading. Was Al-Azzawi closing in on a story the U.S. vassal would find embarrassing?

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French president Macron declares medical apartheid: Issues globalist control measures to force EVERYONE into accepting Covid vaccine


The Connexion
Mon, 12 Jul 2021 12:25 UTC

Comment: Technically, it's not yet 'mandatory vaccinations' but, effectively, it's the same thing...


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President Macron tonight (July 12) announced new measures in a bid to slow the spread of the Covid Delta variant with the emphasis on vaccination.

They include obligatory vaccination for some workers, and much greater use of the pass sanitaire for access to different spaces in everyday life.

In a televised speech President Macron said that at present deaths and hospitalisations due to Covid are at their lowest for a year; however the Delta variant - "three times more contagious than the original version of the virus - was a concern, especially as it "rushes into all the areas not covered by vaccination".

If nothing is done now, cases will continue to rise strongly and there will be a rise in hospitalisations next month, the president said. However all the vaccines used in France "protect solidly" from it: "They cut its power of contamination by 12 and avoid 95% of serious forms".


Comment: Actually, it's the reverse, but that doesn't stop them claiming that only they know how to read and write scientific papers. On that note, it's telling that Macron cited as his authority 'The Science', not God or any 'higher power':
"Nous sommes une Nation de sciences, des Lumières. Quand la science nous offre les moyens de nous protéger, nous devons les utiliser avec confiance dans la raison et dans le progrès. Nous devons viser la vaccination de tous les Français".
Translation:
"We are a Nation of science, of the Enlightenment. When science offers us the means to protect ourselves, we must use them with confidence in reason and in progress. We must aim for the vaccination of all French people."

Comment: So, this Fall, in France, if your children are of school age, the state will inject them with (mostly) 'gene therapy' experimental cocktails, and it will coerce everyone else to 'voluntarily' do likewise, lest they wish to instead spend upwards of 200 euros each time they go shopping for essential goods like food, see a doctor, or even order a coffee.

The mask is fully off now...

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England to lift most lockdown restrictions on 19 July, restrictions could be REIMPOSED, Covid ID coming in autumn

Heather Stewart
The Guardian
Mon, 12 Jul 2021 15:49 UTC
Sajid Javid

Large indoor venues urged to check customers' status as mask-wearing and gatherings rules swept away
Large indoor venues in England will be urged to check the Covid status of their customers on entry this summer, while prevalence of the virus is high, the health secretary, Sajid Javid, has announced.

Speaking to MPs, the health secretary confirmed the government's plan on 19 July to lift almost all the remaining legal restrictions put in place during the pandemic, including those covering mask-wearing and the size of social gatherings.

But his tone was noticeably more downbeat than a week ago, when he told MPs, "freedom is in our sights once again".

Comment: See also: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: The Terrible Toll of Lockdowns



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Snakes in Suits

UK Labour Party to vote AGAINST 'Freedom of Speech' bill, claiming it will embolden 'hate speech'


RT
Sun, 11 Jul 2021 18:12 UTC
Starmer
© Reuters / UK Parliament/ Jessica Taylor
FILE PHOTO: Keir Starmer speaks during a session in Parliament in London, Britain, May 12, 2021
The British Labour Party will oppose a Tory-sponsored bill that would allow "deplatformed" political speakers to sue universities. Labour leader Keir Starmer claims the bill will enable "Holocaust deniers" and "anti-vaxxers."

The bill, proposed by the Conservative government and headed for a second reading in the House of Commons this week, would amend existing laws safeguarding free speech on university campuses by allowing guest speakers to sue the universities if they are denied a platform over political views. It would also mandate the appointment of a "Director for Freedom of Speech and Academic Freedom" within the government's Office for Students, and allow university staff to take legal action if they felt they had been passed over for a job due to their views.

Comment: It's unlikely any of these bills relating to freedom of speech are ideal because they're attempting to plaster over a situation where a significant proportion of is losing its grip on reality, and in large part because of a corrupt political establishment that uses the propaganda media to give legitimacy to the mentally deranged:

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The Memo: Biden struggles to impose his will as problems multiply

Niall Stanage
The Hill
Sat, 10 Jul 2021 05:59 UTC
Biden
© Matt Rourke/AP Photo
US President Joe Biden
President Biden's biggest vulnerability isn't any single issue. It's the risk that he could be seen as losing control of events. Six months into Biden's presidency, illegal crossings of the southern border are at a two-decade high. Violent crime rates are marching upward. And the Taliban are resurgent in Afghanistan as U.S. forces withdraw.

The sea of troubles raises the stakes for the administration's fight against the coronavirus pandemic, too. The response to COVID-19 has been Biden's strongest issue so far. But as the pace of vaccination slows and the highly transmissible delta variant becomes dominant, defeat could yet be snatched from the jaws of victory.

Republicans are already stitching these disparate events together to make the argument that Biden is not taking charge in the way that presidents need to do.

Comment: Basement Biden has never had control of events. He is an unwitting pawn in his own administration.

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Haitian police arrest suspect in president's assassination

Andre Paultre, Sarah Marsh
Reuters
Mon, 12 Jul 2021 04:07 UTC
Dr. Sanon
© Conan Daily
Dr. Christian Emmanuel Sanon - Suspect
Haitian police said on Sunday they had arrested one of the suspected masterminds in the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, a Haitian man whom authorities accused of hiring mercenaries to oust and replace Moise.

Moise was shot dead early on Wednesday at his Port-au-Prince home by what Haitian authorities describe as a unit of assassins formed of 26 Colombians and two Haitian Americans, plunging the troubled Caribbean nation deeper into turmoil.

National Police Chief Leon Charles told a news conference the arrested man, 63-year-old Christian Emmanuel Sanon, flew to Haiti on a private jet in early June, accompanied by hired security guards, and wanted to take over as president.

He did not explain Sanon's motives beyond saying they were political, but added that one of those in custody had contacted him upon being arrested. Sanon, in turn, contacted two other "intellectual authors" of the assassination, Charles added.

"The mission of these attackers was initially to ensure the safety of Emmanuel Sanon, but later the mission was changed...and they presented one of the attackers with an arrest warrant for the president of the republic," Charles said.


Comment: See what Dr. Sanon had to say about the conditions in Haiti:

See also:

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Met police should release information on British WikiLeaks journalists passed to US, tribunal is told

Bill Goodwin
Computer Weekly
Fri, 09 Jul 2021 10:30 UTC
Hrafnsson • Harrison • Farrell
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Kristinn Hrafnsson • Sarah Harrison • Joseph Farrell
A journalist is taking legal action against the Metropolitan Police after it refused to release correspondence with the US about three WikiLeaks journalists under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) on terrorism and national security grounds.

Italian investigative journalist Stefania Maurizi argued in a tribunal yesterday that terrorism legislation should not be used to "clamp down" on journalists working in the public interest to report on national security.

The Metropolitan Police, which is backed by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), claims that the release of the information, which it exchanged with the US Department of Justice, will harm counter-terrorism initiatives and damage the UK's relationships with the US.

Press freedom groups and the UK's National Union of Journalists (NUJ) have raised concerns that the ICO is applying national security exemptions to block the release of information about the monitoring of journalists by police.

In a long-running legal battle, Maurizi, who writes for the Italian daily paper Il Fatto Quotidiano, is seeking copies of correspondence between the Metropolitan Police and the US Department of Justice relating to three current and former WikiLeaks journalists under FOIA.
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Pistol

Donald Trump says Babbitt shooter linked to top Democrat

Carmine Sabia
Conservative Brief
Sun, 11 Jul 2021 00:00 UTC
Trump on Phone
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Former US President Donald Trump
Donald Trump believes he may know who was responsible for shooting Ashli Babbitt on January 6 at the Capitol and if he is correct it is a blockbuster. The 45th President of the United States was interviewed by Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday and he said he heard the shooter was connected to a top Democrat.

Bartiromo said.
"I want to talk about that because Ashli Babbitt, a wonderful woman, fatally shot on January 6th as she tried to climb out of a broken window. Her family has spoken out, her family has been on Tucker Carlson and they want answers as far as why this wonderful woman, young woman, who went to peaceful protest was shot. Do you have any information? There is speculation that this was a security detail in a leading member of Congress' security detail — a Democrat. What can you tell us in terms of who shot Ashli Babbitt?"
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Mr. Potato

Kamala Harris says rural Americans would have trouble getting voter ID

Carmine Sabia
Conservative Brief
Sun, 11 Jul 2021 00:00 UTC
Kamala Harris
© Unknown
US VP Kamala Harris
One of the things about the administration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris that many have noticed is that they either do not comprehend or do not care how condescending they are being.

Harris took criticism after she contrived another reason that people cannot manage to get identification to vote, which starts to make you wonder why the Democrats are fighting so hard against it.

In an interview with BET Harris said that voter ID laws would "make it almost impossible" to vote.

Comment: Harris just pissed off rural America and they won't forget it.

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