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Journalist A.J. Cooke: I covered the Capitol Protest- there were NO riots

A.J. Cooke
National File
Fri, 08 Jan 2021 18:23 UTC
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EMS transport Ashli Babbit away from the Capitol Building
The mainstream narrative of the shooting of Ashli Babbitt is a horrifying stream of lies

Words cannot express the shock and disbelief I felt after witnessing the immediate aftermath of the Capitol Hill Shooting. But that didn't compare at all to the horror of turning on the news and seeing brazen, flagrant lies about what I'd just witnessed.

There was no "riot" at the United States Capitol Building. There was no "massive armed assault".

There were hundreds of thousands of peaceful protesters blanketing downtown D.C. while maybe a few dozen troublemakers engaged in trespassing and petty vandalism at the Capitol Building.
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60 dead and search underway after Indonesian Boeing 737 MAX confirmed crashed into Jakarta Bay

Simon Calder
Independent
Sat, 09 Jan 2021 18:11 UTC
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Relatives of passengers on board missing Sriwijaya Air flight SJY182 wait for news at the Supadio airport in Pontianak.
There are fears for the passengers and crew aboard a domestic flight in Indonesia after officials lost contact.

According to FlightRadar 24, Sriwijaya Air flight SJ182 from Jakarta to Pontianak on the island of Borneo departed from the Indonesian capital's airport at 2.37pm local time (7.37am GMT).

The 452-mile flight is scheduled to take 95 minutes.

The Boeing 737-500 flew a short distance north of the airport and above the Java Sea before contact was lost.

Comment: RT confirms the crash and the ensuing search operation:
Indonesia's transport minister has confirmed that a Sriwijaya Air passenger jet carrying more than 60 people on board crashed into Jakarta Bay.

Transport minister Budi Karya Sumadi said the jet crashed near an island in the bay. He told a news conference that 62 people had been aboard, including 12 crew. Local media is reporting that 56 passengers and six crew were on the aircraft.

Jakarta Provincial Fire and Rescue Service announced on its Twitter account that searchers found debris in Jakarta Bay as they search for the missing plane.

The head of Indonesia's Basarnas search and rescue agency, Bagus Puruhito, said teams had been dispatched to search the waters north of Jakarta but no radio beacon signal had been detected.

Flightradar24 said that Flight SJ182 "lost more than 10,000 feet of altitude in less than one minute, about 4 minutes after departure from Jakarta".

Sriwijaya Air said in a statement it is still gathering more detailed information regarding the flight before it can make any statement.

FlightRadar24 data indicates the plane was a Boeing 737-500 series which was 27 years old. Pontianak is a city on the island of Borneo, part of the Indonesian archipelago.


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© DKI Jakarta Provincial Fire & Rescue Service
Rescuers found debris while searching for the missing Sriwijaya Air passenger plane.
Jakarta Provincial Fire and Rescue Service announced on its Twitter account that searchers have found debris as they frantically sweep the area in search of the Sriwijaya Air jet, which lost contact with aviation authorities shortly after departing from Jakarta on Saturday.

Footage on social media shows searchers holding up wires and other bits of material that were found floating in the bay during the operation.

"Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 lost contact. Several debris were found in the area where the Jakarta - Pontianak plane lost contact. Hope to see you soon. The sweeping continues," the fire service and rescue service wrote on Twitter.

The plane was travelling from Indonesian capital Jakarta to Pontianak in West Kalimantan province and lost contact shortly after taking off on Saturday. Local media is reporting that 56 passengers were on board the aircraft.
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Shock and glee: Twitter's ban of US President Donald Trump evokes shadow of Orwellian corporate dictatorship


RT
Sat, 09 Jan 2021 08:35 UTC
Twitter headquarters
© Reuters / Robert Galbraith
The Twitter logo is shown at its corporate headquarters in San Francisco, California.
While Democrats and the online #Resistance rejoiced in Twitter's decision to permanently ban US President Donald Trump, his yet un-purged supporters, independent journalists and even critics worried the step went too far.

Within minutes of Friday evening's announcement that Trump would be "permanently suspended" because his tweets expressing support for his voters and refusal to attend Joe Biden's inauguration "could be interpreted" as inciting and glorifying violence, 'THANK YOU TWITTER' and #TrumpBanned became the top trending topics in the US.

Comment: Social media are increasingly used by psychopathic elites to brutally suppress the fundamental truth in science, politics, and every other aspect of our lives. Censorship increases daily, and they are undoubtedly gaining more and more control over our personal lives.

In the last 4 years with Donald Trump as the elected president of the USA, we were able to see the power and the magnitude of the psychopathic deep state gang that has enslaved humanity for such a long time. Now they're coming into the open.

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Sleeping Giants demand Google & Apple pull Parler app from stores over 'incitement' to violence


RT
Fri, 08 Jan 2021 18:36 UTC
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Online activist group Sleeping Giants has demanded Apple and Google remove Twitter alternative Parler from their app stores, insisting it violates their policies on incitement to violence. But they've given other apps a pass.

Google's Play Store bans apps that "depict or facilitate gratuitous violence or other dangerous activities," including "graphic depictions or descriptions of realistic violence or violent threats to any person or animal," Sleeping Giants posted on Twitter on Friday, insisting Parler had run afoul of these guidelines.


Comment: Never thought we'd say this, but model Emily Ratajkowski called it.


And the social media censorship is indeed being amped up. More from RT:
Facebook BANS pro-Trump '#Walkaway' group, as social media turns up censorship crackdown
8 Jan, 2021 19:42

A day after banning President Trump indefinitely and forbidding any content praising the riot in the US Capitol, Facebook has removed the popular pro-Trump '#Walkaway' page and banned its founder, Brandon Straka.

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According to Straka, the group's page was wiped from Facebook on Friday. In an email shared on Twitter by Straka, the tech titan said the movement's page violated its terms of use, and though the precise reason for the ban wasn't mentioned, the email listed "hateful, threatening, or obscene" content as potential factors.


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Facebook has also banned a host of what it calls "militarized social movements" from its platform, including militias like the 'Oath Keepers', conspiracy pages linked to the 'QAnon' movement, and pro-Trump groups like the 'Proud Boys'. The Facebook team promised that they would "take additional measures if necessary to keep people safe."

Conservatives and Trump supporters raged at the latest ban on Friday. Podcaster Tim Pool called the removal of Straka's page the beginning of a "great purge" - a mass rollout of online censorship that the Right has warned about since Trump's election in 2016.

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

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West Michigan man arrested amid Capitol riot 'not a Trumpster,' step-father says

John Tunison
MLive
Thu, 07 Jan 2021 23:22 UTC
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© AP Photo/Julio Cortez
Police stand outside the Capitol after a day of rioting protesters, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol in Washington.
A 25-year-old Grand Rapids man arrested in the aftermath of the U.S. Capitol riot is "not a Trumpster," his step-father said.

Andrew Hanselman spoke about his stepson Thursday, Jan. 7, the day after rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol.

He was one of six Michigan residents arrested and among 70 arrested overall by Washington D.C. Metropolitan and U.S. Capitol police inside or near the federal building, according to a report released by the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department.

Comment: It's likely that many more people at the protests at the Capitol were not Trump supporters. It was a varied crowd, to say the least. It will be interesting to see if any further investigation finds anything more about the people actually doing the rioting - lets see some numbers!

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'This is getting sicker by the day': Viewers blast TV show asking about rewards for snitching on neighbours breaking Covid rules


RT
Fri, 08 Jan 2021 13:17 UTC
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© Getty Images / Justin Paget
ITV's 'Good Morning Britain' came under fire from viewers after it controversially asked whether Brits should receive a financial reward for turning their coronavirus rule-breaking neighbours in to the police.

"Should people be rewarded for snitching on their neighbours who break lockdown rules?" asked presenter Kate Garraway during Friday's show. Acknowledging that the UK is in "such a serious situation," Garraway added, "But should we incentivise people by giving them money?"

Viewers argued it was a "revolting proposition" and compared it to Nazi Germany and the East German Stasi's practices, with one Brit arguing that those who do snitch to the government "should be shunned by the communities in which they live."

Comment: Question rephrased: "Should the UK employ Stasi tactics in order to catch and punish people for not taking the fake pandemic seriously enough in order to further erode any last vestiges of a sense of community not already wiped out by social distancing and mask wearing?"

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Coffee

Two women out walking in England fined £200 each for 'taking unnecessary exercise and drinking beverages'


BBC
Sat, 09 Jan 2021 11:19 UTC
lockdown fines UK
© Jessica Allen
Jessica Allen (left) and Eliza Moore have now learned their lesson
Two women have described how they were surrounded by police, read their rights and fined £200 each after driving five miles to take a walk.

The women were also told the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed as they were "classed as a picnic".

Guidance for the current lockdown says people can travel for exercise as long as it is in their "local area".

The police force involved, Derbyshire Police, said driving for exercise was "not in the spirit" of lockdown.

One of the would-be walkers, Jessica Allen, assumed "someone had been murdered" when she arrived at Foremark Reservoir on Wednesday afternoon.

Comment: Thank goodness for the police. Without them, crime would be running rampant across the land and no one would be safe. We are all safer now knowing that these two criminals are not stalking the wilderness drinking lattés. Onwards into the glorious future! All hail the New Normal Order!

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Questions about the chaos at the Capitol that desperately need to be answered

Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse
Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:00 UTC
Antifa at Capitol
Like most Americans, I was absolutely horrified by the violence that I witnessed at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. I didn't understand how protesters could have possibly gotten inside the U.S. Capitol, and I didn't understand why police were slow to respond to what was happening. In the hours following the attack on the Capitol, lots of reports were going back and forth on social media. Some of the information was good, and some of the information was not. I have updated this article to reflect the latest information that we have received. The following are some questions about the chaos at the Capitol that desperately need to be answered...

#1 How Did Protesters Get Near The Capitol In The First Place?

Well, it turns out that police actually opened up the barricades that were surrounding the U.S. Capitol and purposely allowed protesters to storm the building. You can see this on video right here...

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Bad Guys

Two known Antifa members posed as pro-Trump to infiltrate Capitol riot: sources

Larry Celona
NY Post
Thu, 07 Jan 2021 01:22 UTC
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At least two known Antifa members were spotted among the throngs of pro-Trump protesters at the Capitol on Wednesday, a law enforcement source told The Post.

The Antifa members disguised themselves with pro-Trump clothing to join in the DC rioting, said the sources, who spotted the infiltrators while monitoring video coverage from the Capitol.

The infiltrators were recognized due to their participation in New York City demonstrations, and were believed to have joined in the rioting so that Trump would get blamed, the source said.

A Washington Times report initially claimed two other protesters were actually Philadelphia-based Antifa members — citing a retired military officer with access to facial recognition software — but the outlet deleted the article after the software company told Buzzfeed News that the story was "outright false."
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West Virginia state lawmaker Derrick Evans charged after entering capitol with 'rioters'


CBS Pittsburgh
Fri, 08 Jan 2021 01:05 UTC
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West Virginia state lawmaker Derrick Evans has been charged with entering a restricted area of the U.S. Capitol after he livestreamed himself with rioters, the Justice Department announced Friday.

Ken Kohl, a top deputy federal prosecutor in Washington, announced the charge against Derrick Evans on a call in which he presented dozens of new charges against members of a mob that stormed the Capitol on Wednesday.

It wasn't immediately announced if Evans is in custody. Several other state lawmakers across the country traveled to Washington, D.C., for demonstrations this week but it's unknown if any other elected official joined the mob of Donald Trump supporters attacking the U.S. Capitol.

A growing number of Republicans and Democrats said they want to expel Evans from the legislature if he does not resign. His attorney, John Bryan, said late Thursday that the delegate didn't commit a crime and doesn't plan to resign.
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