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Majority of French agree with military generals, country is heading towards "civil war" - Valeurs poll

Paul Joseph Watson
Summit News
Fri, 30 Apr 2021 18:54 UTC
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© Agence France-Presse/FilePeople leave a migrant camp as they are evicted by French authorities near the French port city of Dunkirk
Nearly half want the military to be sent into multicultural banlieues to restore order.

A new poll has found that a majority of French people support the sentiments expressed in a letter signed by active duty and retired members of the military warning that the country is heading towards a "civil war" caused by failed multiculturalism and attacks on French identity.

Around 1,000 servicemembers signed the letter, including 20 retired generals, warning President Emmanuel Macron of "several deadly dangers" threatening France, including "Islamism and the hordes of the banlieue," a reference to the fractured suburbs around major cities with high crime and immigrant populations.

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Ashli Babbitt's family to sue police, officer who shot her at US Capitol: Beyond 'rookie' blunder


RT
Sat, 01 May 2021 18:29 UTC
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© Reuters / Carlos Barria; TwitterSupporters in January created a makeshift memorial for Ashli Babbitt near the Capitol in Washington.
The family of Ashli Babbitt, the Air Force veteran who was shot and killed by a police officer while participating in the US Capitol riot, reportedly plans to file a wrongful-death lawsuit seeking at least $10 million in damages.

The lawsuit will target the US Capitol Police Department and the unidentified plainclothes lieutenant who killed Babbitt, lawyer Terry Roberts told Zenger News on Thursday. Roberts, who represents Babbitt's family, said he will serve notice to Capitol Police within 10 days that he plans to file the case in US Federal District Court in Washington.

Babbitt was shot on January 6 after she climbed up and tried to enter the Speaker's Lobby, located near the House floor, through a broken window. The plainclothes lieutenant shot her from inside the Speaker's Lobby, hitting her in the left shoulder and causing her to fall back into the hallway where rioters were trying to get through a barricaded doorway.

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'It's May Day, baby! Let's kill some cops!': Trump supporter reportedly leaks audio recordings after infiltrating Antifa group


RT
Sat, 01 May 2021 18:31 UTC
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© REUTERS/Stephanie Keith
A man who infiltrated a group of Antifa activists in Sonoma County, California, revealed to media that the radicals have a 'target list' and made allusions to carrying out acts of violence.

The mole told a local ABC affiliate that he felt compelled to "do something" after reading the manifesto of SoCo (Sonoma County) Radical Action, which appears to encourage vandalism.

Identified by the media as a "Trump supporter," the man reportedly contacted the group and told his "comrades" that he wanted to "smash the system the same as you." The ploy apparently worked and he was granted access to their communications channel on the encrypted messaging app Wickr. After gathering documents and recordings of their meetings, he then went to the press - and the police.

The alleged leader of the group, "Marb," is believed to be a 25-year-old college student who was arrested for assaulting a police officer last year in Oakland during a riot sparked by the death of George Floyd. The charges were later not filed.

In one reported exchange from March, Marb explains how the group was originally called SoCo Antifa, but changed their name because there were concerns that identifying as "Antifa" would put them on an "FBI watch list."

Another alleged recording made by the infiltrator details plans for May 1. Marb suggests that it would be "sick" to do something "a little more extreme for National Workers' Day."

"It's May Day, baby, like come out and take, take somethin' over with us, I don't, I don't (bleep) know," the group's leader continues.

A member interjects: "Let's kill people," followed by laughter.

"Let's kill some cops," Marb responds.
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With guns drawn, FBI raids WRONG Alaska couple's home looking for Nancy Pelosi's laptop

Joel Davidson
Alaska Watchman
Thu, 29 Apr 2021 18:07 UTC
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Homer resident Marilyn Heuper (left), posted this photo on Facebook to show the physical differences between her and the woman who FBI agents were looking for when they raided her home on April 28.
Paul and Marilyn Hueper, owners of Homer Inn & Spa, woke with a start at 9 a.m. April 28 when a dozen armed FBI agents kicked down their front door in an investigation associated with Rep. Nancy Pelosi's stolen laptop, which was taken during the Jan. 6 siege of the nation's Capitol.

Homer resident Marilyn Heuper, posted a photo on Facebook to show the physical differences between her and the woman who FBI agents were looking for when they raided her home on April 28.

Speaking April 29 to Kenai-based radio host Bob Bird of the Bird's Eye View, Paul recalled that he was alarmed and shocked to come out of his bedroom with seven guns pointing at him and his wife.

Comment: So much for the wonders of facial recognition technology. How many other mistaken 'hits' have resulted in the same error?

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Dear teen girls: Leave the vulnerable kids alone

Donna M.
New Discourses
Sat, 01 May 2021 17:42 UTC
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Thirty-five years ago, I convinced another girl to eat a cow pie.

It's hard to admit this - it's actually awful, really. The short story is that it was a counselor-approved camp "initiation" ceremony (aka "hazing"), and that I actually stopped her before she did it. But there was a minute or two where I looked this girl in the eye and told her everyone else had done it and it wasn't a big deal and she believed me. She believed me. And here's the worst part: despite it all, I blamed her for being so gullible. I was thirteen, and I believed someone that stupid and easily pressured didn't deserve my respect. To subdue any shame in my own brain, I convinced myself it was her fault.

But it wasn't her fault. And over the next few years the memory of that moment and her trust in me slowly ate away at me. I couldn't believe I had done it, that she had believed me, that the other girls (and counselor) had just let me make this outrageous demand. That I had briefly believed that because I had stopped her from doing this horrible thing that I was somehow excused from the guilt of starting it in the first place. Worst of all was realizing that I had that power, and that I could so easily abuse it. Which meant that other people could do that sort of thing, too. It was horrifying and humbling.
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Colombia's former FARC accept responsibility for tens of thousands of kidnappings

Julia Symmes Cobb
Yahoo
Fri, 30 Apr 2021 19:24 UTC
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© Julia Symmes CobbFILE PHOTO: Carlos Antonio Lozada arrives for a hearing at JEP tribunal in Bogota
Leaders from the now-demobilized FARC rebels on Friday accepted responsibility for tens of thousands of kidnappings during their group's part in Colombia's long internal conflict.

Some 13,000 members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) demobilized under a 2016 peace deal with the government. The group became a political party called Comunes.

Under the accord, former rebels must provide information to the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) tribunal about crimes committed during the conflict, including murders, kidnappings, sexual violence and forced evictions.

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West turns a blind eye to march honoring Nazis in Kiev: Ukraine may not be a fascist state, but it has a fascism problem

Paul Robinson
RT
Sat, 01 May 2021 09:07 UTC
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Wednesday's march in memory of the 14th SS Division 'Galicia' in downtown Kiev demonstrated not so much that Ukraine is a fascist state as that its leaders are guilty of turning a blind eye to the far right and of exploiting it.

For their own ends, of course. Meanwhile, with the exception of German and Israeli officials, the West pretends not to notice. Particularly Anglophone media correspondents in the Ukrainian capital and those who cover the country from their bases in Moscow.


Comment: And yet Israel isn't so reluctant to supply them with weapons: Ukraine attacks journalists for reporting on Israeli weapons flow to its neo-Nazi militia


Perhaps they are inspired by Horatio Nelson, who famously said "I really do not see the signal," after being ordered by signal flag to cease his attack at the Battle of Copenhagen. Instead, the Admiral put his telescope to his blind eye and professed not to notice what was visible to all around him.

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Facebook bans RT's digital content project Redfish for posts marking end of Mussolini's dictatorship and Holocaust Memorial Day - UPDATE: Facebook caves, page restored


RT
Fri, 30 Apr 2021 19:04 UTC
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(L)Redfish logo (R) Screenshot Facebook
RT's Redfish, an award-winning Berlin-based digital content project, has had its Facebook page of over 830,000 followers deleted over posts commemorating the Holocaust and the defeat of Italian fascism.

The company's Facebook account was suspended on Friday after a recent post that criticized fascism. Redfish said Facebook deleted the page on the grounds that its posts commemorating the Holocaust and the defeat of Italian fascism violated its community standards.

The post in question featured an upside-down photo of Italy's dictator Benito Mussolini. It was written on April 28, marking the day when Adolf Hitler's Axis ally was executed.

Comment: Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan threatened to get the platform itself banned from the internet if Redfish isn't reinstated:
Margarita Simonyan has lashed out at Facebook for suspending the page of Redfish, RT's Berlin-based digital content producer. She said she will try to have the social network itself banned if the decision is not reversed.

"It's not quite clear what this 'community' found so insulting. Was it the Mussolini photo, the reference to Holocaust, or the very existence of the Redfish project, which the Western establishment has long been irritated about," RT editor-in-chief Simonyan said in a social media post.
If the page is not back, I promise I will personally be seeking Facebook's suspension.
The strike for the upside-down Mussolini photo, which led to the suspension, isn't the only one that the platform issued to Redfish this year. In January, Facebook took down a post that showed historic images of inmates of the Auschwitz death camp taken after its liberation. Redfish posted them to commemorate International Holocaust Day.
She was joined in her warning by the International Federation of Journalists:
Censorship of political views by a private company like Facebook can undermine media freedom, the head of the International Federation of Journalists warned after the page of RT's digital content project, Redfish, was deleted.

"If pictures of prisoners detained by the Nazis during World War II are removed because they allegedly breach nudity guidelines then Facebook's algorithms are not fit for purpose," Anthony Bellanger, the general secretary of the International Federation of Journalists, told RT. "Journalism is about context," he pointed out.

But, according to Bellanger, the more worrisome scenario is that Redfish could've faced restrictions for "political reasons."

"There are grave concerns that an unaccountable private corporation like Facebook can decide, which political views it allows and which it decides to censor," he said.
That is a dangerous path to go down and can undermine media freedom.
Later on Friday, Russian media regulator Roscomnadzor demanded that Facebook swiftly lift all restrictions on Redfish's account. The actions of the US social media platform "violate key principles of free distribution of information" and constitute "an act of censorship against the Russian media," the watchdog pointed out. Facebook could face fines for ignoring warnings about violations of the rights of Russian citizens and companies online, it warned.
UPDATE 01/05/2021: Redfish has had its account reinstated, but Facebook is still throttling it:
The page of the award-winning Berlin-based project was restored by Facebook on Saturday. The account got deleted by the social media giant on Friday over alleged violations of its "community standards" with several posts that commemorated victims of the Holocaust, as well as celebrated an anniversary of the downfall of the fascist regime in Italy with an upside down photo of Benito Mussolini.


The page, boasting over 800,000 followers, is now available under a new URL address and remains heavily restricted, Redfish said in a statement.
"It is still at risk of being deleted. The posts commemorating victims of the Nazi Holocaust and the defeat of fascism in Italy remain flagged as 'content violations' that threaten the survival of our page," Redfish said. "Our account is also severely restricted, it has been made invisible to Facebook users who do not follow Redfish, and we are banned from inviting people to like the page."
The status of the page has effectively changed from being flatly banned to being "under the risk of being unpublished...due to continued Community Standards violations," the Redfish team told RT. While Facebook promised on Friday that someone would contact the project to address the issues, Redfish still has not heard anything from the social media giant.

The action against Redfish - which previously was labeled by Facebook as "funded in whole or in part by the Russian government" during a big tech campaign against Russian-linked media - has been criticized by the head of the International Federation of Journalists, Anthony Bellanger.


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A new American divinity - Part I: Scientism

Noelle Garnier
The National Pulse
Sun, 25 Apr 2021 00:00 UTC
Fauci in the Machine.
Fauci in the Machine.
On the Monday before Easter 2021, Gallup published a poll indicating that membership of a church, synagogue, or mosque had dropped below fifty percent of U.S. adults for the first time in eight decades.

For six of those decades, the number hovered around 70 percent. It has since dropped to just 47 percent, with the sheerest decline occurring in the past two decades.

Religion In America Is Hollowing Out.

The study noted:

"The decline in church membership... appears largely tied to population change, with those in older generations who were likely to be church members being replaced in the U.S. adult population with people in younger generations who are less likely to belong. The change has become increasingly apparent in recent decades because millennials and Gen Z are further apart from traditionalists in their church membership rates (about 30 points lower) than baby boomers and Generation X are (eight and 16 points, respectively)."
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Twitter isn't censoring accounts to keep users 'safe', it is using its power to spoon-feed the world establishment narratives

Eva Bartlett
RT
Fri, 30 Apr 2021 18:21 UTC
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© REUTERS/Stephen Lam/File PhotoA Twitter logo is seen outside the company headquarters in San Francisco, California, US, January 11, 2021.
It's one thing to have policies against violence, abuse, and harassment. But in "protecting" users, Twitter is hell-bent on censoring voices that rock the boat, even when all they have tweeted is a peer-reviewed scientific paper.

Last week, Simon Goddek, who has a PhD in biotechnology and researches system dynamics, tweeted a link to a scientific study titled, "Is a Mask That Covers the Mouth and Nose Free from Undesirable Side Effects in Everyday Use and Free of Potential Hazards?"

Some time later, his account was frozen and he received a notice from Twitter that it would remain frozen until he deleted the offending tweet, and for the 12 hours following that.

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