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Babylon Bee CEO discusses online censorship with Tucker Carlson, cites control as key motive

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© @TuckerCarlsonSeth Dillon of Babylon Bee and Tucker Carlson
Seth Dillon of Babylon Bee and Tucker Carlson engage in a discussion on online censorship, emphasizing the desire for control over speech and thought as the primary reason.

Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon recently joined Tucker Carlson, co-founder of Daily Caller, to discuss experiences with online censorship. Dillon appeared on Carlson's social media show to delve into the Babylon Bee's 2022 Twitter ban for alleged hate speech and its subsequent reinstatement by Elon Musk. The conversation was prompted by a clip of NBC News journalist Brandy Zadrozny criticizing Musk's decision, which led to a critique from Carlson about the role of such journalists in society.

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Comment: One hilarious moment in the interview, is when they discuss the fact-checking of a satirical article that was published by Babylon Bee. Maybe it was this instant that invited Tucker Carlson to make his comment about CNN in the Tweet announcing the episode, given that the fact-checkers apparently would not put it past the CNN to have just such a washing machine that can spin the news before publication.

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While the above is seriously funny, a real problem is the censorship, a concern for both Seth Dillon and Tucker Carlson. There are also instances where satire unintentionally comes so close to what happens or later happens, that it is both surprising and disturbing for those writing the satirical articles, as well as their readers.

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Green Light

Assange visitors given green light to sue CIA

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© Constantin Eckner/picture alliance/Getty ImagesJulian Assange on the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in 2017
A US federal judge has ruled that lawyers and journalists, who claim their phones were illegally searched, can seek damages...

A federal judge has ruled that four US nationals can proceed with their lawsuit against the CIA in court. They claim their electronic devices were illegally searched on behalf of the agency when they visited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.

The decision by Manhattan-based US District Court Judge John Koeltl on Tuesday relates to a case filed by attorneys Margaret Ratner Kunstler and Deborah Hrbek, as well as John Goetz and Charles Glass - journalists who report on national security issues. Their complaint was initially submitted in August 2022, but the CIA sought to have it dismissed.

The case focuses on events at the Ecuadorian embassy in 2017 and 2018, when the four individuals visited Assange. Undercover Global, the now-defunct Spanish firm hired by the diplomatic mission to provide security, was allegedly compromised by US spies. It had installed secret cameras and microphones to snoop on Assange, and shared personal data about visitors with the CIA, according to press reports and court filings.

The complaint was directed against Undercover Global, its CEO David Morales Guillen, the CIA and its then-director Mike Pompeo. The latter had publicly branded WikiLeaks "a non-state hostile intelligence service," and expressed animosity towards Assange. The plaintiffs claim this attitude motivated the agency's monitoring by a proxy.

Bizarro Earth

Best of the Web: 10 dead after shooting at university in Prague, assailant shot dead by police - Update: 15 people now confirmed dead, including shooter's father

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Several people have been killed and dozens have been injured in a shooting in central Prague, according to Czech police.

The incident place took place in the area of Jan Palach Square in the city's Old Town.

"There are several dead and dozens of injured," police said on social media platform X, formerly Twitter.

Comment: Update @ 20:42 GMT: RT now reports that 15 people were killed by the shooter and that the killer also murdered his father before going on the shooting spree.

The number of incidents like this, in countries not known for such violent attacks, and particularly in Europe, is rising. Some have been shown to have links to the intelligent agencies, and are likely intended to sow discord and foment fear and hatred in society, and to justify draconian state measures, whilst it seems that others seem to be unstable people susceptible to the general unrest and malaise polluting societies (which is also engineered by the establishment).

Further details of the incident in Prague have yet to be revealed, but sometimes recent developments within the country effected can help provide insight: UPDATE @ 17:28 GMT: If the following is correct, it appears the perpetrator was known by the authorities, and, if previous incidents are anything to go by, it would be reason to suspect intelligence agencies were involved in today's events:




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Eye 1

Just 40% of Germans believe they can express opinions freely, lowest since 1950s

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Comment: Please note this has been machine translated from the German original and roughly edited for clarity.


Never before have there been such great concerns in the Federal Republic of Germany to freely articulate political opinion. Only supporters of the Greens are still convinced of freedom of expression.

Fewer and fewer people in Germany have the feeling of being able to express political opinion freely. This is possible from a survey of the The Institute of Demoscopy Allensbach and the Media Tenor Media Research Institute. According to this, the perceived freedom of expression in of the population reached the deepest level since the 1950s.


Comment: So, just a few years after Nazi rule...


The authors of the study primarily blame the media climate for this.

Megaphone

Anders Tegnell's lesson for the Covid Inquiry

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© JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty ImagesAnders Tegnell in October this year
Sweden's former State Epidemiologist is still being ignored.

After thousands of hours of political inquisition and motivated reasoning, the UK Covid Inquiry has finally allowed mention of the single most important control group in the global lockdown experiment: Sweden. A written submission by former State Epidemiologist of Sweden Anders Tegnell, published in a dump of more than 700 documents on the final day before the Christmas recess, contains a barrage of uncomfortable facts delivered in typical Nordic deadpan.

Tegnell, both revered and reviled as the architect of Sweden's more laissez-faire Covid response, begins by restating the fundamentals in answer to a series of written questions. What was Sweden's approach to lockdowns? "No formal lockdown used." What about so-called "circuit-breaker" mini lockdowns? "None used." And what was the overall result in terms of excess deaths, or the number of people who died as a result of the Covid period? "Excess mortality differs slightly depending on the method but Sweden is at the same level as the Nordic countries and sometimes lower. The UK has a considerably higher excess mortality." Ouch.

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Heart - Black

Drug poisoning deaths in England and Wales at highest level in 30 years

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© David Maialetti/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP, FileNearly half of the 4,907 drug poisoning deaths in 2022 involved an opiate, ONS figures show
Drug poisoning deaths in England and Wales have risen for the 10th consecutive year to the highest level since records began 30 years ago, with nearly half of deaths now involving an opiate.

There were 4,907 deaths related to drug poisoning in 2022, equivalent to a rate of 84.4 deaths per million people, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

The figures show a small increase from 2021, when there were 4,859 deaths, or 84.0 deaths per million.

The death rate in 2022 was 81.5% higher than in 2012, and has increased every year over the past decade after remaining relatively stable for 20 years.

Comment: It's likely that many of these are deaths of despair - that we saw steadily increase following the 2008 financial crash and subsequent government austerity - which only worsened with the government enforced lockdowns; but one also wonders how many of these also received the experimental covid jabs, and therefore potentially suffered from some of the more commonly reported severe side effects such as: immunocompromised, abnormal blood clotting, and heart issues - to name just a few.


Bizarro Earth

Canada's population grows by record 430,000 in Q3 - poll shows 75% of citizens unhappy with impact

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© Ben Nelms/CBCShoppers are pictured on Black Friday in Vancouver on Friday, Nov. 24, 2023.
Canada's population grew by more than 430,000 during the third quarter, marking the fastest pace of population growth in any quarter since 1957.

Statistics Canada released its Oct. 1 population estimates on Tuesday, putting the number at more than 40.5 million.

The agency says the population growth over the first nine months of 2023 has already surpassed the total growth in any other full year, including the record set in 2022.

Comment: So the economy is supposedly growing, but the increased tax revenue isn't being invested in government services, and 75% of citizens aren't happy with the progress.

But, this seems to be part of an agenda, as we've seen with weaponised mass migration from the US to Europe; governments that have been flooding their countries with migrants and refugees, regional governments are unable to cope with the additional financial costs, the already strained societal fabric is starting to tear, and locals are beginning to revolt:


Star of David

Best of the Web: Registered Israeli foreign agent driving contrived campus antisemitism crisis

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Lawsuits accusing top US universities of harboring antisemitism all originate from one source: a corporate law firm that fielded the pro-settler ex-US ambassador to Israel, and which was registered as a foreign agent of an Israeli principal as recently as 2021.

The firm now represents professional Israel lobby activists posing as victimized "Jewish students" and seeking to crush the free speech rights of Palestine solidarity activists.

The fallout from December 5 House Committee on Antisemitism hearings has already cost University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill her job, while demands by billionaire pro-Israel donors and politicians for the firing of Harvard's Claudine Gay have grown by the day. Both stand accused of refusing to condemn calls for the genocide of Jews, even though no such calls have taken place on their campuses.

Meanwhile, little attention has been paid to the forces orchestrating the carefully choreographed, heavily-funded campaign to crush Palestine solidarity activism on campus.

Comment: A 'moral' takeover of US universities does not happen overnight, nor do influence and persuasion just snap into place. Israel's conquests have strategy and trajectory - most evident after the fact.


Star of David

Israeli government propagandist WRECKED over Oct. 7 'intelligence failure' narrative

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Tal Heinrich, "spokesperson" (the HR term for credentialed propagandist), appeared for a PR job on MSNBC, at which time she was made to earn her paycheck.

Given the usual kid gloves with which Israeli government propagandists are used to being treated in American corporate state media, she likely didn't expect the level of scrutiny she received.


In some respects, MSNBC didn't disappoint in its long tradition of toeing the Israeli line, sprinkling in the routine caveats about the evil of Hamas, Israel's right to self-defense, etc.

It goes pretty well, in fact, for the propagandist upon initial questioning from the resident Eric Swalwell body double (his name doesn't matter), but then Mika Brzezinski, of all people — nepo-baby of infamous neocon Zbigniew Brzeziński — jumps in with some heaters down the middle of the plate.

Comment: The task of MSM is to weave a mindset for its clueless audience. Period.


Bulb

Devastating economic and social crisis: A majority of Germans want a new government and early elections

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More than half of German voters are so dissatisfied with Chancellor Olaf Scholz's coalition government that they want early elections. The decline of Scholz's coalition government also comes as German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said that it would take Europe between five and eight years to recover its defensive capacity after disarming itself by sending weapons to Ukraine.

According to a survey by the German newspaper Bild and published by Bloomberg on December 16, 59% of Germans would prefer elections for a new parliament in 2024, while 27% oppose such a measure. Regular elections are scheduled for the fall of 2025.

The German government's Advisory Council of Economists, known as the Five Sages, said,

"Germany's current economic development continues to be affected by the energy crisis and the drop in real incomes."

"That's why our annual report this year is titled 'Overcoming weak growth, investing in the future'," said Monika Schnitzer, president of the Five Sages, when handing the document to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in November.

Berlin is currently the worst-performing large developed economy in the world, and the IMF and the European Union predict the German economy will contract this year. According to Euronews, the recession arose from the loss of cheap Russian natural gas because of the sanctions imposed by the European bloc. Due to this, industries felt an unprecedented shock.

Comment: Angela Merkel ended up playing a big part of German's current disaster. She fully admitted to stringing Russia along with the Minsk II agreements with Ukraine in order to give the Nazis of Kiev the time they needed to arm themselves, and act belligerently towards, Russia.

If Merkel hadn't gone along with this Western-hatched plan, and had been sincere in her efforts to implement the Minsk II agreements between Ukraine and Russia, who knows if the disaster Ukraine is now experiencing would have have occurred.

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