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Most of the "fact-checking" organizations Facebook uses in Ukraine are directly funded by Washington

Alan Macleod
MintPress News
Sat, 06 Aug 2022 09:33 UTC
facebook ukraine factcheck
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Most of the fact-checking organizations Facebook has partnered with to monitor and regulate information about Ukraine are directly funded by the U.S. government, either through the U.S. Embassy or via the notorious National Endowment for Democracy (NED).

In light of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, an information war as bitter as the ground fighting has erupted, and Meta (Facebook's official name) announced it had partnered with nine organizations to help it sort fact from fiction for Ukrainian, Russian and other Eastern European users. These nine organizations are: StopFake, VoxCheck, Fact Check Georgia, Demagog, Myth Detector, Lead Stories, Patikrinta 15min, Re:Baltica and Delfi.

"To reduce the spread of misinformation and provide more reliable information to users, we partner with independent third-party fact-checkers globally," the Silicon Valley giant wrote, adding, "Facebook's independent third-party fact-checkers are all certified by the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN). The IFCN, a subsidiary of the journalism research organization Poynter Institute, is dedicated to bringing together fact-checkers worldwide."

The problem with this? At least five of the nine organizations are directly in the pay of the United States government, a major belligerent in the conflict. The Poynter Institute is also funded by the NED. Furthermore, many of the other fact-checking organizations also have deep connections with other NATO powers, including direct funding.
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Leftists dominate FBI top 10 domestic terror list, despite warnings about far right

Luke Rosiak
The Daily Wire
Thu, 04 Aug 2022 00:01 UTC
fbi most wanted leftists
© FBIMost Wanted Domestic Terrorists.
Many on list are associated with a leftist group that bombed the Capitol in 1983. Democrats pardoned or commuted the sentences of non-fugitives tied to that group.

The FBI has sounded the alarm about white supremacists and far-right extremists, but the bureau's own Top 10 "most wanted domestic terrorists" list includes at least two Communists, three black nationalists, one anti-war activist, and a vegan eco-terrorist.

While the diverse roster doesn't purport to capture the breadth of domestic terror, it seems at odds with federal law enforcement's claims that white supremacists pose the biggest threat facing the nation. Some skeptics are accusing the bureau of exaggerating the threat by adopting a misleading definition of such ideologies.

Comment: Could it be that American right-wing extremism has actually been exaggerated and that extremist leftists are actually more prevalent and dangerous? Nah. It must be that the most wanted list isn't reflective of domestic terrorist threats over all.

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Twitter censors Pfizer-injured Israeli covid vaccine director

KanekoaTheGreat
kanekoa.substack.com
Wed, 03 Aug 2022 09:16 UTC
Shmuel Shapira, M.D., MPH
Professor Shmuel Shapira, M.D., MPH, served as the Director General of the Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR) between 2013 and 2021, where he led Israel's effort to develop a coronavirus vaccine.

Prof. Shapira is also the founder and head of the Department of Military Medicine of the Hebrew University Faculty of Medicine and IDF Medical Corps. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) at Reichman University in Israel.

Shapira previously served as Deputy Director General of the Hadassah Medical Organization and as the Director of the Hebrew University Hadassah School of Public Health. He is a Full Colonel (Res.) in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and served as the IDF Head of Trauma Branch.

He has published more than 110 peer-reviewed scientific articles and is the editor of Essentials of Terror Medicine, Best Practice for Medical Management of Terror Incidents, and Medical Response to Terror Threats.

Last week, Twitter censored Prof. Shapira — who was "physically injured" after his third Pfizer vaccine — and forced him to remove a post which said: "Monkey pox cases were rare for years. During the last years a single case was documented in Israel. It is well established the mRNA vaccines affect the natural immune system. A monkey pox outbreak following massive covid vaccination: *Is not a coincidence."
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Twitter facilitates cyber terrorism and NATO-proxy war crimes in Ukraine

Vanessa Beeley
beeley.substack.com
Wed, 03 Aug 2022 00:00 UTC
Ukrainian Special Forces (SSO) sniper.
Ukrainian Special Forces (SSO) sniper.
Louise Mensch an online blogger, former UK Conservative MP, chick-lit author and committed Russophobe with a sizeable following on Twitter effectively called upon the Ukrainian Special Operations Forces to assassinate Canadian journalist Eva Bartlett.

Mensch whose Substack account includes titles such as "Yes Vladimir Putin has Parkinson's disease" a claim refuted by CIA Director William Burns responded to Bartlett's comment that she was on the ground in Donbass recording the Ukrainian criminal use of petal or butterfly mines in residential areas of Donetsk and surroundings.

Video - Eva Bartlett's on-the-ground report on butterfly mine deployment against Donetsk civilians:

Comment: Mensch tried to justify herself:


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Attention

Ethics of requiring covid vaccination for travel not considered, testifies official behind policy

Noé Chartier
The Epoch Times
Thu, 04 Aug 2022 14:17 UTC
Air Canada
© Graham Hughes/The Canadian PressAn Air Canada jet takes off from Trudeau Airport in Montreal on June 30, 2022.
The issue of whether it is ethical to impose a vaccine requirement to travel is not something that was given consideration by the Canadian official who wrote the policy, court documents show.

Jennifer Little, director general of the COVID Recovery Team at Transport Canada, was responsible for drafting the vaccine mandate policy that precluded millions of Canadians from taking a plane, train, and some marine vessels.

Little testified as a witness for the government in its defence of the travel mandate that is currently being challenged in federal court.

During her June 9 cross-examination, Little was asked if she had a conversation with anyone in government that would have considered whether a mandate is ethical.

"I'm not aware of any particular study or specific conversation to that effect," Little said, noting that the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) "may have literature on the ethics of vaccination mandates."
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Egypt to expand terminal Russia uses to transport its oil


Middle East Eye
Fri, 05 Aug 2022 13:59 UTC
oil port tanker
© AFPFILE PHOTO
Egypt's Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources has begun the expansion of El Hamra oil port on the Mediterranean coast, with the aim of increasing the terminal's storage capacity to 5.3 million barrels of crude oil.

El Hamra terminal, which was built to service crude produced in Egypt's western desert, is currently able to hold 1.5 million barrels of crude oil in its six storage tanks.

El Hamra port lies around 120 kilometres west of Alexandria, Egypt's second-largest city, and is run by the Western Desert Operating Petroleum Co (Wepco). The expansion will see the addition of four storage tanks, each with a capacity of 630,000 barrels of crude, the ministry said in a statement.
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Attention

Choose Your Fighter


The Good Citizen / Substack
Thu, 04 Aug 2022 23:19 UTC
How low can one party go?


If ever you wondered why they killed John F. Kennedy, this speech decrying the tyranny of secrecy and conspiracies of men who plot in the shadows is one of many reasons.
JFK and Jackie
© The Good Citizen
Meanwhile, in the two generations since his assassination, the Democrat party has gone from supporting free and open debate to public calls for government-supported mass surveillance and censorship to combat "disinformation" — anything critical of their regime in power, while weaponizing alphabet agencies (FBI, CIA, DOJ, NSA, DHS) as their personal secret police to prosecute political enemies who dare question their corruption and agenda that seeks to subvert and destroy the constitution and country.
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Light Saber

Florida Gov. DeSantis on monkeypox emergency declarations: 'We are not doing fear'

Julia Musto
Fox News
Fri, 05 Aug 2022 18:01 UTC
desantis ladapo covid monkeypox
© Florida Governor’s OfficeFlorida surgeon general Joseph Ladapo (L) and Gov. Ron DeSantis at the governor’s office in Tallahassee on Feb. 24, 2022.
The governor claimed monkeypox virus health concern is overblown

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis reacted to recent action taken in response to the U.S. monkeypox virus outbreak, telling reporters in a Wednesday media briefing that his government is "not doing fear."

The Republican governor said during a press briefing that Florida would, instead, "focus on facts."

"I am so sick of politicians — and we saw this with COVID — trying to sow fear into the population," he said. "We had people calling, mothers worried about whether their kids could catch it at school."

"We are not doing fear," DeSantis added. "And, we are not going to go out and try to rile people up and try to act like people can't live their lives as they've been normally doing because of something."

Comment: The Covid narrative is losing steam. Time for the next big scare. Who knew?

Monkeypox outbreak simulation was run at Munich biosecurity conference just last year

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DeSantis sends cops to physically remove suspended 'Soros-backed' state attorney

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Thu, 04 Aug 2022 03:54 UTC
DeSantis Warren
© Marco Bello/Reuters/Ammon Free Press/KJNFlorida Governor Ron DeSantis • State Attorney Andrew Warren
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has suspended State Attorney Andrew Warren for 'picking and choosing which laws to enforce based on his personal agenda,' and has appointed Susan Lopez as his replacement during the suspension.

Warren, who had served the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit, has most recently refused to follow state policy criminalizing abortion in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade - and repeatedly refused to enforce laws cracking down on child sex-change surgeries, according to DeSantis.

The liberal state attorney also declined to prosecute 67 protesters arrested in George Floyd demonstrations, and said in 2017 that he would only pursue the death penalty "in the very worst cases," and not where "mental illness played a role."

DeSantis' office said in a statement, per Fox News:
"We are suspending Soros-backed 13th circuit state attorney Andrew Warren for neglecting his duties as he pledges not to uphold the laws of the state."

Comment: Warren fights back:
Warren said his suspension "spits in the face" of voters who elected him twice to serve as Hillsborough County's top prosecutor. He said in a statement:
"Today's political stunt is an illegal overreach that continues a dangerous pattern by Ron DeSantis of using his office to further his own political ambition. The people have the right to elect their own leaders — not have them dictated by an aspiring presidential candidate."
Warren has called the new law "unconstitutional on its face" because of privacy rights embedded in the Florida Constitution. That privacy clause is the subject of an ongoing lawsuit challenging the new 15-week abortion ban. That ban was briefly blocked by a lower court judge last month, but was quickly reinstated on appeal.

The executive order read:
"Warren has thus clearly, unequivocally, and publicly declared that his office will not persecute violations of Florida's criminal laws and prohibit providers from performing certain abortions to protect the life of the unborn child."
Warren was suspended but not yet removed from office, a step that would require involvement from the Florida Senate.

Warren has been elected twice, and was included on a slate of candidates in 2016 supported by George Soros, a major national Democratic donor who has become a political boogeyman for Republicans. Warren and former 9th Judicial Circuit State Attorney Aramis Ayala were both financially supported by Soros organizations and ran on a platform of criminal justice reform.


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James Lindsay permanently banned from Twitter

Robert Wakerell-Cruz
The Post Millennial
Fri, 05 Aug 2022 11:44 UTC
Lindsay
© Twitter/Wikipedia
Author, mathematician and cultural critic James Lindsay has been suspended from Twitter, for what appears to be a violation of Twitter's rules against hateful conduct.

A screenshot shows that the account @ConceptualJames was suspended for what Twitter says was promoting "violence against, threaten, or harass other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease."
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