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Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Wales
Wales was promptly called to account and defended his tweet:
Society's Child
Wales was promptly called to account and defended his tweet:
Here's the gist of this analysis. The alt-media attacks the establishment on all fronts (and they have ample reason to be attacked). However, logically, this doesn't make the alt-media right, or protected from some of the flaws they are exposing shown by the Establishment. Remember, that the Establishment is really just well funded, they are people too. There isn't likely a single individual in the Elite of the Establishment which enjoys to watch human suffering they create with their policies, but as a whole, they act with the subtle and un-agreed agreement of the group-think of the Elite. Plausible Deniability. "We" didn't do that, we hired some company to do it, and they messed it up.
When the Soviet regime exiled Sakharov in 1980, everybody assumed the USSR was permanent and impregnable to collapse.
There are many ironies in the RussiaGate drama, but none greater than this: The U.S. becomes more like the former U.S.S.R. every day. Longtime correspondent Bart D. sketches out the irony:
I look at the US economy and what I see in actual everyday life is that corrupted capitalism has resulted in the same problems for average citizens as what crony communism did for the citizens of the USSR.
I look at the US economy and what I see in actual everyday life is that corrupted capitalism has resulted in the same problems for average citizens as what crony communism did for the citizens of the USSR.
A Horizon Air Bombardier Dash 8 Q400, reported to be hijacked, flies over Fircrest, Washington, the U.S., before crashing in the South Puget Sound, August 10, 2018 in this still image taken from a video obtained from social media
There were no passengers on board when it crashed about 30 miles later, according to local police, who said they knew the identity of the 29-year-old mechanic at the controls and believed him to be suicidal.
Flights were halted in and out of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Passengers on airliners took to social media to relay messages from air crew as they were told their flights would not be taking off.
A Horizon Air Bombardier Dash 8 Q400, reported to be hijacked, flies over Fircrest, Washington, the U.S., before crashing in the South Puget Sound, August 10, 2018 in this still image taken from a video obtained from social media
Alaska Air said a Q400 twin-engined plane, operated by its subsidiary Horizon, was involved.
Comment: His conversation with local ATC is something to behold:
The news is WEIRD these days!
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PVV councillor Willie Dille was 53 years old
PVV councillor Willie Dille was 53 years old
Willie Dille, 53, who served as an MP for the PVV from 2010 to 2012, said in the video that former PVV MP Arnoud van Doorn, who has since converted to Islam, was behind the attack and that he 'hated her intensely'. The attack happened 'March 15, May 15 2017,' Dille said.
The video, which showed a pale and thin-looking Dille looking around nervously, was removed from social media shortly after it went online.
Comment: The Dutch establishment has created a dangerous climate for anyone who opposes the government's culture war agenda. Just like populist politician Pim Fortuyn, Willie Dille was demonized and terrorized in a most outrageous and cruel manner.
May she find peace.
Also see:
- 16 years after Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn was assassinated by a radical leftist, Dutch establishment is gunning for Thierry Baudet
- Dutch Intolerance: For 10 Years, CPS Tried Taking Away my Kids Because I Homeschooled Them
It's a good thing that New York is the city that never sleeps - since it takes all day to get anywhere.
A perfect storm of subway repairs, highway construction, commuter rail woes and worsening gridlock is creating a commuter doomsday the likes of which the city has never seen before.
"It's really bad out there, and it doesn't seem like it's going to get any better," Robert Sinclair, spokesman for AAA Northeast, said of the amalgam of transit troubles. "For the next four or five years, every day will be like Thanksgiving."
A perfect storm of subway repairs, highway construction, commuter rail woes and worsening gridlock is creating a commuter doomsday the likes of which the city has never seen before.
"It's really bad out there, and it doesn't seem like it's going to get any better," Robert Sinclair, spokesman for AAA Northeast, said of the amalgam of transit troubles. "For the next four or five years, every day will be like Thanksgiving."
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L Train commuters endure packed platforms at 14th Street Union Square in Manhattan Thursday morning.
L Train commuters endure packed platforms at 14th Street Union Square in Manhattan Thursday morning.
Hundreds of well-intentioned campaigners, commentators and even journalists are celebrating the public hanging of Infowars - but this style of execution benefits no one.
The major internet platforms are increasingly society's chief arbiters of free speech. Our conversations, relationships, businesses and democracies are increasingly mediated by a handful of global, for-profit companies.
Those companies are within their rights to set their own rules about who can and cannot share information on their sites - but Facebook and YouTube have become de facto global information services. Of the world's 3 billion internet users, 2.2 billion are active Facebook users and 1.8 billion have active YouTube accounts. When tech giants hold a monopoly on free speech online, that responsibility must be taken particularly seriously.
Comment: See also:
- Chilling Precedent? InfoWars Purge Exposes Big Tech as no Friend of Free Speech
- Agreed, Alex Jones is terrible, but the war on Infowars is a war on all of us
- In America, Corporate Censorship is State Censorship
- By censoring Alex Jones, the establishment just gave all his worst ideas increased credibility - building a further divide
Twitter has banned both the official verified account for the Proud Boys and the account belonging to their founder, comedian and CRTV host Gavin McInnes.
Twitter also banned the accounts belonging to The Proud Boys Girls, all chapter accounts, and Kyle Chapman, who is better known online as Based Stickman.
Comment: It has been speculated by many that the high-profile banning of Alex Jones on multiple social media platforms was a little too convenient in its timing just prior to the mid-term elections. While it is unknown whether this coordinated banning of conservative voices is an attempt to silence pro-Trumpers in an attempt affect the election, this latest group of bannings seems lends a lot of credence to the theory.
See also:
- By censoring Alex Jones, the establishment just gave all his worst ideas increased credibility - building a further divide
- First they came for Alex Jones now Facebook has banned Venezuela news site
- Twitter resists the pressure, says Alex Jones will not be banned because he hasn't broken their rules
- NYT implies Alex Jones' content removal from Apple, Facebook and YouTube is not enough
- Censorship: Facebook bans Infowars for using 'hate speech'; Apple removes Alex Jones' podcasts
- Agreed, Alex Jones is terrible, but the war on Infowars is a war on all of us
- Spotify removes podcasts of 'The Alex Jones Show' citing 'hate content'
Comment: This is getting beyond ridiculous. While we wait and see how the British security apparatus spins this, we'll just note that Salisbury and its environs is one strange place: Salisbury Plain is the primary UK military proving ground for testing weaponry, the bulk of which are manufactured in and around Salisbury town; those facilities include numerous producers of chemical weapons, which have been exported globally since WW1, and of which Porton Down is the 'nerve center'...
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Six fire crews were immediately sent to the scene to battle the blaze which erupted following the blast that happened at about 17:00 local time. While the fire department managed to put out the blaze, rescuers discovered one person dead at the scene. Another individual was rushed to a hospital in serious condition, Wiltshire police has confirmed.
Comment: So what the heck is going on in Salisbury? While there's no immediate connection to Porton Down and the Skripal incident, it seems this sleepy little town has been quite the hotspot (pardon the pun) as of late.
See also:
- More than £10m of taxpayers' money splurged on Salisbury & Amesbury 'Novichok' failed probes
- Why does Yulia Skripal believe she was "attacked" in Salisbury poisoning - when that contradicts the official story?
- Something to hide? Ex-UN chemical weapons inspector says UK restricting OPCW access to Amesbury and Salisbury cases
- Revisiting the official Skripal-Salisbury timeline
- 10 questions for the incompetent British authorities on their handling of the Salisbury poisonings
- An open letter from a Salisbury resident to Asst. Commissioner Neil Basu
- 'No risk to public' but police shut down Salisbury anyway as man "falls ill" near restaurant where Skripals ate
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Bucharest's Victoriei Square became a scene of violent clashes with police warning the protesters in advance that they would not tolerate disorder. Despite the warnings, several groups of protesters calling for the resignation of the Social Democrat Party-led government tried to break through a security line. Police responded by firing tear gas and deployed water cannons against the crowd.
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A massive anti-corruption rally in Bucharest
A massive anti-corruption rally in Bucharest
Comment: A couple of key ingredients in there suggest 'color revolution' - that this was led by 'diaspora Romanians', and that they were waving EU flags, i.e. they weren't nationalists.
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