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The Right Of Free Speech Is Being Murdered In Politics, The Media And The Academic Community

One of the most disturbing trends of the past few years has been the effort, coming from the side of the political spectrum that calls itself 'the left' while having no qualms about adopting the tactics of the exreme right, is theeffort to suppress free speech and freedom of thought and create an environment in which, on any controversial topic, only one side of the case is heard ...
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Reprieve For Free Speech - UK Online Safety Bill Sent Back To Committee
It s gratifying for supporters of free speech that the UK Government's Online Safety Bill, which had been described as a charter for censors, has been ripped apart and will have to be redrafted entirely apart from the title.
When the House of Commons the Speaker, savages a Bill it must be bad, so from the moment Lindsey Hoyle told MPs that the bill was 'all over the shop' (a good old northern phrase from a northern politician,), and that at least half its clauses "would be getting the treatment," in particular that measure which aimed to force Social Media platforms to remove content which was "legal but harmful," ...

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With the UK Prime Minister David Cameron still desperately trying to convince his 'revised terms' of British membership of the EU are a really good deal, when in fact they will change nothing, our attention should shift to developments elsewhere in Europe.

The Right To Tell Politicians To Eff Off In An Age Of Self Appointed Censors, and Compliant Media Our right of free speech is increasingly under attack from control freak politicians, politically correct left wing activists and the dark forces of corporatism.


Trump Vows Executive Order Removing Fed Cash from Colleges Which Don't Defend Free Speech

Daily Caller, 3 March, 2019
President Donald Trump announced Saturday at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that he will be signing an executive order protecting free speech on college campuses.
The president invited Hayden Williams, a conservative activist with The Leadership Institute, to speak on the CPAC stage. Williams was assaulted last month while tabling for Turning Point USA at University of California, Berkeley, but promised that students would continue to defend the president so long as he defended them.

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Ireland to Jail ‘Hate Speech’ Offenders for Up to Five Years, But New Laws Are Arousing A Lot Of Hate
World Economic Forum Calls for Merging of Human and Artificial Intelligence to Censor ‘Hate Speech’ & ‘Misinformation’
Why have we doctors been silent? — Lucie Wilk
Vccines Kill Cilvil Rights
Facebook censors conservatives and refuses to ban left-wing extremist groups from using their platform to destabilize the country
<>Graham Linehan: ‘I was happier before I was cancelled, but I'll be proven right’
Big Tech tyranny is the biggest threat to democracy in our era
University free speech society told free speech a 'red risk', external speakers must be vetted

Merkel to German Parliament: We Have to Take Away your Freedom of Speech or We Won’t Be Free
Facebook's Censorship Drive Backfires As Advertisrs Dump Platform
Facebook Steps Up Censorship in Britain, Bans Populist News Site
Thousands March to Save the Internet from EU Censorship Regulations
The EU Moves Closer To Creation Of Orwellian Ministry Of Truth
Student Suspended from University for Calling Halal Slaughter ‘Inhumane’
BBC Journalist Allegedly Likens Working Class Men to ‘Amazonian Cannibals’
Facebook and Twitter Join The Bid To Censor The Internet - Goodbye Free Speech
The Left's Long War On Free Speech
Facebook Engineer's Stunning Admission: "We Tear Down Posters Welcoming Trump Supporters"
In Private Meeting, Top Facebook Exec Threatened News Outlets That Do Not Coperate With Censorship Policy
"Who Will Dare Tell The Truth About Government?"
Members Of European Parliament Resist Brussels Plan To Censor Web Content
Tommy Robinson Arrested for Live Reporting Grooming Gang Trial
UC Berkeley On Notice — Justice Is Not Playing Around On Free Speech
Jordan Peterson and the Stupidity Of The Left
USA: Tear Gas, Guns and Riot Squads: The Police State’s Answer to Free Speech Politically Correct Thinking And The Threat To Free Speech
Free Speech Is Under Attack And Journalism Is Dead
MSNBC Anchor: "Our Job" Is To "Control Exactly What People Think" US Attorney General Loretta Lynch And The Government War On Free Speech
Can Americans Overthrow The Evil That Rules Them?
The Global Warming Scam Is A Weapon In The War On Free Speech
Ignorance Is Strength: European Parliament Ready To clamp Down On Free Speech
Matt Drudge warns new copyright laws will kill free speech on the internet
BBC Compares Free Speech Advocate To Islamic Hate Preachers
Matt Drudge warns new copyright laws will kill free speech on the internetMatt Drudge warns new copyright laws will kill free speech on the internet
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EU Launches Fund for Thinly Veiled Propaganda Project
Judge Denies Obama's Attempt To Block Transfer Of Internet Oversight To UN Maher: ‘Liberals Hate Bullying,’ ‘But They’re Not Opposed to Using It’
The Self Righteous Minority That Threaten Free Speech





Breaking: Brazilian Military Moves Against Socialist Lula After Corrupt Court Refuses Election Audit

For a few days now we have been seeing unconfirmed reports that the Brazilian military, which strongly supports right wing leader Jair Bolsonaro, has taken action to overturn the result of the recent election which was narrowly won by far - left former President Luiz Ignatio Lula da Silva (Lula), was corrupted by extensive vote rigging by Lula's supporters. This follows news that Brazil's Supreme Court, which Lula packed with his communist supporters during his presidency, refused to authorise and investigation into strongly evidenced claims of vote switching
Breaking: Brazilian Military Moves Against Socialist Lula After Corrupt Court Refuses Election Audit

Ireland to Jail ‘Hate Speech’ Offenders for Up to Five Years, But New Laws Are Arousing A Lot Of Hate

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All coppers are bastards - oops, that's hate speech (Picture source: Artur Widak via Getty Images)

 

 

Always eager to be at the forefront of any fascitic EU campaign against freedom an civilised values, the government of Ireland published new 'Hate Speeech' legislation on Thursday (27 October). Under the new laws any individual found guilty of using “hate speech” in Ireland will face up to five years in jail. The country’s Justice Minister, Helen McEntee, has been at the centre of the country’s push towards implementing the effective abolition of free speech under the guise of protecting vulnerable minorities from “hate speech”, with her department announcing that the first draft of the new laws would soon be put in front of the nation's parliament.

Under the proposed law, people found guilty of “any intentional or reckless communication or behaviour that is likely to incite violence or hatred against a person or persons because they are associated with a protected characteristic” could be sentenced to a maximum of five years jail time.

What’s more, and here's the bit that would really make Hitler or Mussolini's thugs proud, any individual convicted of such an offence would be branded a “hate criminal”, a label which the minister says is designed to “follow an offender in court, in garda vetting, and so on”.

“[H]ate speech is not about free speech,” McEntee declared in a statement published by her department. “Hate speech is designed to shut people down, to shut them up, to make them afraid to say who they are and to exclude and isolate them,” she continued. “There is nothing free about that, and there is, frankly, no place for it in our society.”

No, hate speech is about stupid, virtue signalling politicians giving nasty, restentful little shits the ability to destroy somebody's life. Hate Speech, you see, has not and cannot have and solid legal definition. Hate speech is defined by the hearer's interpretation of remarks heard or overheard. Thus a completely innocuous comment made in a private conversation but overheard by some hateful little shit, can destroy somebody's life, even if the offending comment is an undeniable truth, for example saying that somebody born with a penis is a man and cannot ever become a woman.

So a jilted lover, a thwarted business rival, someone whose childish playground insults have festered since schooldays can be targeted and accused of hate speech simply as an act of revenge. Human nature being what it is, how could anything possibly go wrong?

The announcement that the Irish government — already deeply unpopular due to its inept and chaotic response to the COVID pandemic, followed by similar mishandling of the ongoing cost of living, energy,housing, and migrant crises — now aims to implement hate speech legislation posssibly by the end of this year has angered many, who have accused the ruling coalition of trying to silence critics. When somebody can be jailed for saying, "The Prime Minister is a useless, authoritarian clown," what is that other than the suppression of free speech. And the suppression of free speech, along with control of the media (already accomplished,) is always the first act of a fascist regime.

A representative from Free Speech Ireland told reporters that the Irish public was broadly opposed to the implementation of such legislation, and that the move would almost certainly strain police resources in the country. This blog is certain it will also poison police / public relations.

“No one in Ireland asked for these laws except for elite NGOs,” the spokesman said, adding that the new laws would almost certainly restrict freedom of speech in the country.

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University free speech society told free speech a 'red risk', external speakers must be vetted

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Threats to Free Speech

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World Economic Forum Calls for Merging of Human and Artificial Intelligence to Censor ‘Hate Speech’ & ‘Misinformation’

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world economic forum calls for merging of human and ai intel to censor ‘hate speech’ & ‘misinformation’

Half Bond villain, half Scooby Doo villain Klaus Schwab, president of the World Economic Forum
(Picture: VCG / Contributor via Getty Images)

A report recently posted on the official WEF website discusses what is melodramatically referred to as "the peril of the dark world of online harms.”

But the globalist body, run by comic book Bond villain Klaus Schwab, an 84 year old scion of a prominent Nazi family in Hitler's Germany  has a solution. The weirdos and billionaire psychopaths of the WEF want to merge the ‘best’ aspects of human censorship and AI machine learning algorithms to ensure that people’s feelings don’t get hurt and counter-regime opinions are blacklisted.

“By uniquely combining the power of innovative technology, off-platform intelligence collection and the prowess of subject-matter experts who understand how threat actors operate, scaled detection of online abuse can reach near-perfect precision,” states the article.

After engaging in an orgy of psychbabble and technobabble, the article concludes by proposing “a new framework: rather than relying on AI to detect at scale and humans to review edge cases, an intelligence-based approach is crucial.”

“By bringing human-curated, multi-language, off-platform intelligence into learning sets, AI will then be able to detect nuanced, novel abuses at scale, before they reach mainstream platforms. Supplementing this smarter automated detection with human expertise to review edge cases and identify false positives and negatives and then feeding those findings back into training sets will allow us to create AI with human intelligence baked in,” the article rambles.

In other words, your free speech will probably get censored before you’re even able to post it on social media sites. Some are calling it “preemptive censorship.” Or to use WEF terminology, “Trust and safety teams can stop threats rising online before they reach users.” 

It is pure Naziism, so much so it could easily have been written by Josef Goebbels, Hitler's head of propaganda.

No doubt that a central part of such “misinformation” will be strident denunciation of the WEF itself, given that the organization is notorious for blocking its critics on Twitter.

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Why have we doctors been silent? — Lucie Wilk

by Lucie Wilk, originally published in TCW Defending Freedom

AS an NHS hospital doctor, I have had a front-row seat as the drama of the coronavirus pandemic has unfolded. It has been a year and a half of confusion, frustration and anger for me as I’ve watched our profession drawn into complicity with what I anticipate will be regarded as one of the most egregious public health disasters in history.

I have watched as ‘the science’ has been presented on the national stage flanked by Union Jack flags as an unassailable truth. For something so apparently inviolable, it seems to shift and change disconcertingly from week to week, and for those of us looking beneath the pomp to the plain data, we see the rather unexciting (and unchanging) truth: the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, as it turns out, has a much lower infection fatality rate than early predictions. It is less deadly than the seasonal flu in children. The Office for National Statistics has reported the mean age of a Covid-attributed death in the UK to be 80.3 years, slightly older than deaths from other causes (78.2 years over the comparable time period).

What has been most upsetting for me has been the unquestioning compliance from the medical community as increasingly draconian, non-evidence-based and destructive virus control measures have been implemented. Some of the overt corruption, financial conflict of interests and politicisation has been laid bare in editorials in prominent medical journals such as the BMJ. But the vast majority of doctors have had no interest in asking questions or looking further.

My concern over our professional passivity turned to alarm as our compliance required us to support the roll-out of an experimental vaccine to a trusting population.

Contrary to the basic tenets of evidence-based medicine, pronouncing an experimental medical intervention ‘safe and effective’ now does not seem to require any peer-reviewed evidence of safety or clinically meaningful efficacy. The vaccines have not been shown in clinical trials to reduce transmission, hospitalisation or death. The phase 3 trials are not over and the safety data is not complete; the earliest trials will run into 2023.

The consent form for the Covid-19 vaccine does not disclose its status as an unlicensed experimental product. The risks remain largely unknown, although it is becoming clear that the vaccine has resulted in death or injury in a rising number of healthy people. A growing number of vaccine-induced syndromes are being recognised, including immune thrombotic thrombocytopaenia, myocarditis and menstrual irregularities, among many others being published in the literature. At the time of writing, there have been more than 380,000 reports, 1.2million injuries and 1,700 fatalities submitted under the MHRA Yellow Card scheme.

The Prime Minister himself has communicated the latest evidence, that two doses of the vaccine do not stop one contracting the virus, nor do they stop person-to-person transmission, they merely reduce the severity of symptoms. Despite this, it is clear the public are being subjected to a relentless media campaign of shame and coercion, that they must take this experimental product ‘for the greater good’ lest they be viewed as selfish cowards. A vaccine passport is now likely to be rolled out under ‘Plan B’, which proposes to return unlawfully usurped fundamental human rights and freedoms to only the vaccinated. Workers in the care home sector have had their livelihoods tethered to their compliance with the vaccine mandates, and a recent announcement confirms that this will soon include NHS employees. Not only is there no scientific basis for these mandates, these coercive actions breach the Nuremberg Code, as does the unprecedented lack of animal safety data for a novel medical product. A betrayal of the Nuremberg Code constitutes a crime against humanity.

It does not end there. The campaign marches on, and now includes the vaccination of children against a disease that has a statistically negligible chance of harming them. In the world of evidence-based medicine we doctors must weigh risks and benefits, we must ensure the risk of harm is far exceeded by the potential for protection or cure. In this case, with no real risk to healthy children from the infection, any harm is utterly unjustifiable. And the risk of harm is very real and measurable. Vaccine-related myocarditis is now a recognised injury, the risk inversely proportionate to age. Although rare, myocarditis can be fatal, and fatality is more common in the younger population. For reasons that have nothing to do with health, and despite the JCVI advisory board concluding that the health benefits do not outweigh the risks to children, the government is advising that we administer a medicine that carries a risk of serious injury to children who are healthy and who have no significant risk from the disease it purports to protect them against.

Despite all this, and despite our training to look at scientific literature and data with a critical eye, the silence from the medical community in the UK has been deafening. Yet we are the ones who should be shouting all of this from the rooftops. This is a duty of care and an oath we have forgotten.

It is typically those of us most conditioned by the expectations of society, utterly obedient and deferent to authority, who gain entry to medicine. One can see the path: we were good, compliant children and then good, compliant students. Now we are good, compliant doctors. I’m beginning to understand that goodness is measured in a different way, and obedience is not a virtue.

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A newly published study from researchers in Sweden reveals that the immunity to COVID gained from vaccination, is dissipated by natural biological processes within months. Immunity, although it would be more honestly called temporary respite, from Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) injections is short term at best, and completely gone within months, this confirming the doubts raised by vaccine sceptics (or Conspiracy Theorists as mainstream media likes to call us Continue reading >>>

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UK School staff receive threats of violence amid anti-vaccination campaign

Government plans to push their dodgy vaccines onto schoolchildren are meeting opposition. On the back of scientific studies showing children are at zero risk from cOVID and do not spread the virus parents, and citizens concerned at this fascistic coercion of citizens to accept an experimental medication are reacting in the only way they can.

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Facebook censors conservatives and refuses to ban left-wing extremist groups from using their platform to destabilize the country

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Facebook has vowed to crack down on any attempts by organizations to use their website to interfere with the presidential election. While this has resulted in them taking down the Facebook pages of several anarchist extremist news organizations such as It’s Going Down and CrimethInc., it has so far refused to take action against many other controversial radical leftist pages, like Adbusters and Rose City Antifa.

Rose City Antifa, a Portland-based Antifa organization that was formed in 2007, claims that their goal is to defend Portland against fascism. However, they have a solid reputation for political violence even against regular conservatives. Several Rose City Antifa members have even been accused of beating up Andy Ngo, potentially giving the independent conservative journalist brain damage.

Adbusters a group based out of Canada, is responsible for helping to kick start the Occupy Wall Street riots in 2011. They are currently busy trying to meddle in the elections by organizing a “siege” of the White House, set to begin on Sep. 17 and end after election day.

Despite this, in an interview Zuckerberg said that the platform was actively trying to stamp out violent organizations from their website. “We’re trying to make sure that we do our part to make sure that none of this is organized on Facebook,” he said.

And yet, when presented with an extensive report on the violence perpetrated by Rose City Antifa and other left-wing extremist organizations like it, Facebook has still refused to take action.

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Censorship Comes To The Internet - Goodbye Free Speech
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Leaked Documents Reveal Facebook’s Biased, Convoluted Censorship Policies

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Since the 2016 US Presidential election, when the phrase ‘fake news’ entered the vernacular, Facebook has employed thousands of human moderators tasked with identifying what is and is not acceptable content to be posted on the censorious social media website. These humans were not employed to replace the ‘Artificial Intelligence’ automated moderation system the nerdocracy … Continue reading

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In Private Meeting, Top Facebook Exec Threatened News Outlets That Do Not Coperate With Censorship Policy

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Facebook Bans All Content On Vaccine Awareness
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Big Tech tyranny is the biggest threat to democracy in our era

This week's main story, pushing Coronavirus aside at last, has been the attempt by Twitter to censor U.S. President, classifying his somewhat rabid tweets as misinformation. Whether you love or hate Trump or any other occupant of The White House, their utterings can never be dismissed as ‘misinformation’ because they represent what one of the most powerful people in the world is thinking.
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Graham Linehan: ‘I was happier before I was cancelled, but I'll be proven right’

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Graham Linehan at home in Norwich this week Credit: Andrew Crowley/The Telegraph
by Guy Kelly in The Daily Telegraph

So, I say to Graham Linehan, I hear you’ve been cancelled. “Oh, I was cancelled long ago,” he says, shrugging. “As soon as I started talking about this.”

By “this”, the 52-year-old comedy writer – once best, and only, known as the co-creator of Father Ted, Black Books, The IT Crowd, Motherland and other venerable sitcoms – means the often toxic transgender debate. By “talking”, he’s mainly referring to the “billions” of tweets he has sent over the last few years on the topic, leading to him becoming “the most hated man on the internet”.

And by “cancelled”, well, nobody is quite sure how to define the term du jour, but he could mean his recent permanent suspension from Twitter for what the company called “repeated violations of our rules […] against hateful conduct and platform manipulation”; losing various Left-wing friends over his views; the fact he hasn’t written much comedy lately; or, more broadly, that he simply doesn’t feel anybody will engage with him on trans matters.

We speak at a distance in the living room of his home in Norwich. On shelves to one side are a smattering of Baftas, a British Comedy Award and an Emmy – reminders of the old Linehan’s unquestionable talent. Family photos, including of his writer and producer wife, Helen, and their two children, line another. And on the sofa, backed into a corner and surrounded by cushions, is the new Linehan: mild-mannered but prone to irascible rants, entirely single-issue, not always totally coherent, and apparently “fighting for his life”.

His glasses, occasionally askew, are half-black and half-white. The hair is greying slightly, and bluntly trimmed in lockdown. He is, he says, “fitter than ever”, regularly cycling rather than relying on the treadmill desk he used for years, but he’s also on anti-anxiety medication.

“I recently kicked [it] but had to go back on, because when you get into the news, it is very stressful…”

It has been another week in which “cancel culture” has been under scrutiny, notably in the form of an open letter, published in American literary magazine Harper’s, signed by dozens of public figures – among them JK Rowling, Margaret Atwood and Sir Salman Rushdie – warning that the spread of “censoriousness” is leading to “an intolerance of opposing views”.

Rowling, who said she was defending “open debate and freedom of thought and speech”, has found herself vehemently criticised for her views on transgender rights, and has a firm supporter in Linehan.

He was not asked to be a signatory, but says the fight against cancel culture is “a war of attrition: you move forward, then back a bit, then forward again”. It is questionable just how helpful he has been to in that particular war effort, but he is certainly devoted – almost unnervingly so.

Linehan’s involvement in the debate began in 2008, when an episode of The IT Crowd featured jokes at the expense of a character who is trans. “I’m very proud of that episode – it’s a joke. The problem is that these people are easily sent into a kind of beehive of anger,” he says.

He looked into trans issues for years before becoming vocal about them on Twitter in 2017. At the time, he says, he was recovering from an operation to treat testicular cancer, dosed on morphine, and began ‘liking’ tweets that questioned trans rights.

“They call it ‘like-policing’, I was liking tweets that said trans people have the same rights as everyone else, but that there are a few conflicts that need to be addressed – [but] immediately a composite picture of me was drawn.”

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University free speech society told free sceeph a 'red risk', external speakers must be vetted

Sheffield University Students receive their daily indoctribnation
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Sheffield University’s recently formed Free Speech Society has been warned that free speech is a “red risk” and all external speakers at events it organises will have to be vetted by the University Thought Police squad and the topics they intend to talk about shown to be in line with ideas and opinions the titty - sucking babies who run the Student Union are not frightened by.

The Free Speech Society was informed by the Student Union bosses that it must submit an application to the at least three weeks in advance each time it invites a speaker, and that “full and final approval” would of the Union's executive committe would have to be sure nobody would be upset of offended by the speaker's views before the talk could go ahead.

Sheffield's Free Speech Society founder Ewan Somerville, a third year politics and international relations student at Sheffield said he decided to set up a free speech society as a reaction to "creeping censorship” by far left groups that dominate the campus. Last year, Sheffield students were urged not to wear sombreros because to do so is "cultural appropriation," and also told to ensure Hallowe'en costumes were not "sexist, racist, ableist or transphobic".

In January 2020, the extent of the decay into politically correct lunacy of a once - respectable university was revealed when it emerged that Sheffield university was to become the first to introduce mandatory training for students on “micro-aggressions” such as asking Japanese students about sushi and confusing a banana with a plantain.

Mr Somerville said: “We have these student union officers and even the university lecturers and managers who are trying to impose their own narrow and extremist world view on to all students and declaring all differing views unacceptable. Most who oppose such moves are too afraid to speak out because the bullying tactics of the far left are well known.”

He added that he is hoping to attract speakers who are “perfectly legitimate tut are currently deemed too offensive and anti ‘woke’” such as conhotroversial feminist Julie Bindle whose opposition to the far left orthodoxy in transgenderism is well known, and the journalist Toby Young whose conservative views are perfectly reasonable but not acceptable to the precious petals of Sheffield University Student Union. Thomas Woollard, a third-year history student and vice-President of the Free Speech Society, said he believed the university is becoming a "hostile environment".

"The only line that you can say is whatever the student union believe is correct and anything else is considered wrong," he said, adding "We are taking them to task over the hostility that they are causing to students in Sheffield who feel they are being silenced by their attitudes towards freedom of speech".

Sheffield is the latest university to set up a free speech society in recent years, following Bristol, Sussex, Buckingham and Aberdeen. Ministers are now considering increasing the powers of the university regulator to ensure it has the authority to censor student bodies which fail to respect the right to free speech of all students and staff.

Jake Verity, president of Sheffield’s student union, said that their 'risk' classification for student societies is based on how much staff resource will be required to support them.

“Sheffield Students’ Union has a number of red risk student groups spanning media, sport, cooking, arts, and campaigning,” he said.

“The Free Speech Society stated that their activity would involve regularly hosting events with high profile external speakers.”

Since the students’ union requires all events with an external speaker to be risk assessed, the society will require greater staff resource, he added. What Mr. Verity chose not to mention is that at universities throught Britain, Europe and North America, when far - left student bodies disapprove of a speaker it is they who organise disruptive and violent protests in efforts to shut down the event. More intelligent and mature students who hold more reasonable views tend to simply stay away from leftist events.

A college at Oxford University, one of the oldest highter education establishments in the world last week launched an investigation into how a female historian and another speaker were barred from a feminist event because of fears they might express views the titty sucking fascists of the Student Union did not like.

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French Intellectual Jailed for Calling Mass Immigration an “Invasion”
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There Is No Freedom Without Transparency

The Democrat / Republican political puppets in the USA would be supported by European leaders including Prime Minister David Cameron in the UK, France's Francois Hollande and Germany's Angela Merkel who, even as I type, are preparing massive interventions in Libya and Iraq, both turned into chaotic and lawless failed states by previous US / European interventions
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Facebook Declares War On Free Speech

Facebook has for some time had a policy of removing text that the majority of people would consider racist. Now the social media site is now deleting and blocking comments that only one person at Facebook decides is "racist." The sinister, Orwellian reality of a society in which the expression of majority opinion is being turned into a crime has already been witnessed across Europe. Even more disturbing, social media operators such as Facebook and Twitter appear to be collaborating with governments in the suppression of free speech.
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Threats to Free Speech

Threats to free speech and other civil rights us ordinary punters fought and shed blood for are under threat, not from the extreme right but from the liberal left. The intellectually bankrupt lefties have realised their hundred year old arguments are never going to win the battle for hearts and minds and so have moved to the position in the political spectrum once occupied by Hitler and Stalin. Many people would never dream of questioning authority; others see their interests as being served by supporting the abuse of authority, they are the ones who call the questioners 'conspiracy theorists'.
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The Self Righteous Minority That Threaten Free Speech

Until recently Universities were places where any ideas were welcome and any economic, social, or scientific theory, no matter how extreme would be given a fair hearing and debated openly. So where did it all start to go wrong? How did the idea that there is only one set of acceptable answers to society's problems (the 'pensée unique' to use a French phrase I am fond of, redolent of The Borg in Star Trek and much more demeaning than "Social Justice Warriors") and that those who challenge the orthodoxy should be silenced and prevented from broadcasting their ideas in print or verbally.

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Our right to free speech is under threat from intolerant, authoritarian left wingers or 'progressives liberals' as these illiberal reactonaries like to style themselves. The 'Politically Correct Thought Police' as I have somtimes called them in acknowledgement of Geoge Orwell's novel '1984', are determined that in they egalitarian dystopia they dream of (but that fortunately could never be) nobody will be able to say or do anything that may offend s member of any racial, sexual or social minority. This kind of fascistic tyranny is justified by invoking politically correct ideals, but it is having a deeply damaging effect on human society and could eventually result in civil conflict in the developed nations.
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Students Feel Pressured To Reflect Uinversities Anti-Brexit Bias In Essays


University students have claimed they are being pressured by political activist lecturers into writing essays which pander to the "anti-Brexit bias"in the higher education system, and fear they will be marked down if their work does not comply with the left wing agenda. Students have alleged that free debate on Brexit, and opinions opposed to those of the "Remain" camp is being shut down by lecturers supporting the movement to thwart the democratic will ...

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The Science Fraud: Many Scientific Research Papers Are Pure Gobbledegook
The war between humanities and science goes on, both in academic faculties and internet comment threads. But in an environment that is increasingly politicised and influenced by corporate profit motives rather than the pure and unsullied pursuit of knowledge, can we trust either side? This article suggests not.

Its Nineteen Eighty Effing Four In The Education System
Progressive aproaches to education seem to be ideologically driven rather than focused on the needs of the individual pupil. so will the left's dreams of eqality be fulfilled when every child leaving the school system is equally dysfunctional.

The STEM Education and Scientism - the curse of modern education.
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In A Corporatist System Of Government, Corporate Censorship Is State Censorship
Last year, representatives of Facebook, Twitter, and Google were instructed on the US Senate floor that it is their responsibility to “quell information rebellions” and adopt a “mission statement” expressing their commitment to “prevent the fomenting of discord.”
“Civil wars don’t start with gunshots, they start with words,” the representatives were told. “America’s war with itself has already begun ...

EU: Now Telling Europeans What To Think

by Judith Bergman, Gatestone Institute

The first European Media Literacy Week, an initiative of the European Union, will take place March 18-22 in various European cities. The week is a new initiative by the European Commission, putatively "to underline the societal importance of media literacy and promote media literacy initiatives and projects across the EU". The European Commission explains its policy of strengthening 'media literacy' within the EU -- which could have been a noble and useful initiative -- the following way:

"With the rapid rise of digital technology and its increasing use in business, education and culture, it is important to ensure everyone can understand and engage with digital media.

"Media literacy is vital for economic growth and job creation. Digital technologies are a key driver of competitiveness and innovation in the media, information, and communication technology sectors."

As part of its "Digital Single Market" strategy, the European Commission addsflimsily:

"Media literacy concerns different media (broadcasting, radio, press), different distribution channels (traditional, internet, social media) and addresses the needs of all ages... A high level of media literacy is a key factor to enable citizens to make informed decisions in the digital age. Media literacy is a pre-requisite for a vibrant, modern democracy."

One does not have to scratch the surface much, however, before it appears that at least certain aspects of the European Commission's Media Literacy policy are less about enlightening citizens, than about heavy-handedly guiding them on what to think.

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Merkel to German Parliament: We Have to Take Away your Freedom of Speech or We Won’t Be Free

Angela Merkel Says Freedom of Speech Must be Curtailed to Keep Society Free
Angela Merkel in front of the Bundestag (Picture: Deutsche Welle)

German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivered an emotional speech to the German Budestag this week on a subject obviously close to her heart, the need for limiting freedom of speech to suppress criticism of policies implemented by her government and the EU commission.

Since the departure of Barack Obama, Merkel has set herself up as leader of the globalist and Cultural Marxist movements on the international stage.

The Chancellor argued that the government must take away freedom of speech to save preserve the freedom of the free world, or something. Given that the topics she currently wants to slience dissent on are her catastrophic 'open doors' immigration policy and the EU's effort to force European nations and people to accept Islam and assimilate to Islamic values.

Merkel told German politicians: "For those who claim they can no longer express th"eir opinion, I say this to them: If you express and pronounced opinion, you must live with the fact that you will be contradicted. Expressing an opinion does not come at zero cost. But freedom of expression has its limits. Those limits begin where hatred is spread. They begin where the dignity of other people is violated. This house will and must oppose extreme speech. Otherwise our society will no longer be the free society that it was.

The problem Merkel, along with other left wing authoritarians have with their use of "hate speech" (apart from the usual lefties hypocrisy and double standards,) is that 'hate' is a very loose concept. Because the left see their route to establishing an authoritarian global government as being eased by importing millions of unskilled, uneducated, illiterate, fanatically religious Muslims from Africa, the middle east and South East Asia and using their clerics to manipulate opinion and also disrupt and divide national communities.

Thus people like Merkel, France's Macron, Jeremy Corbyn and The Labour Party in the UK and the Democratic Party in the USA are quick to define as "hate speech" anyone suggesting uncontrolled immigration is not a god idea but are happy to allow Islamic Preachers to call on Muslims to rise up and "kill all infidels," or encouraging Muslim men to rape European secular and Christian women.

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Oxford Academics Turn On Gay BLT Propagandists For Pushing Unscientific Claims

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Gay, Lesbian and Trans rights protestor holds a placard making a typically idiotic statement - human rights apply to all humans, trans-rights are the infantile demands of self pitying losers.

'More than 30 Oxford academics have blasted Stonewall for pushing 'tendentious and antiscientific claims' in the trans awareness training it gives to universities according to a report in The Sunday Times (a more sensationalized version of the same story appears in The Daily Mail if you are blocked by The Times paywall).

The professors and lecturers have taken issue with Oxford University's compulsory training programme on Gay, Lesbian and Transgener issues, that includes dogmatic statements about permissible attitudes "towards Gay, Lesbian and especiall Transgender rights, including such unmitigated wank as "gender is how people interpret and view themselves." The Oxford academics expressed their opposition to such unscientific nonsense beong forced on teaching staff, researh fellows and students in a letter passed to The Sunday Times.

They call for universities to sever links with Stonewall and other LGBT charities until and unless those organisations dump their fascistic attempts to restrict freedom of though and commit to 'fully supporting academic freedom of thought'.

Academics are also being bullied by student groups to withdraw invitations to "transphobic speakers," i.e. anyone who do not accept "that trans people are the gender they say they are" or maintain that gender is fetermined by our biological sex rather that "feelings".

They fear the new rules university managers have accepted after being bullied by Gay BLT lobying could see staff lose their jobs, and that they contravene the roght of free speech.

Modern history professor Selina Todd is quoted by the Sunday Times as saying: "[This] is really pushing an agenda which is dogmatic and completely overruling freedom of speech... I am very scared that academics will start to lose their jobs.

"I feel uncomfortable. I've told my employer that I feel vulnerable and I've had students say they feel intimidated by what's going on at this campus."

Oxford and Cambridge last year spent £55,000 between them on LGBT training so staff are better equipped to help students who may be struggling. According to a NUS LGBTQ+ report from 2014, just 20 per cent of trans students feel completely safe on campus, which begs questions just how many of these mental cases are there at Oxford. One in three trans students said they had experienced bullying or harassment - while 51 per cent have seriously considered dropping out of their course. The Daily Stirrer does not see that as any loss to either the university or society in general were that to happen.

And what are these trans students studying for anyway, degrees in self pity?

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Oberlin University Fined $33 Million For Supporting Students Accusations Of Racism Against Bakery

On Thursday, Oberlin College was hit with $33 million in damages when to Ohio jurors found the school participated in protests defaming a local bakery as racist. Oberlin’s vice president, Donica Thomas Varner claimed the jurors ignored “clear evidence” that Oberlin was not at fault and insisting the school was being “held liable for the independent actions of their students.”

Student Suspended from University for Calling Halal Slaughter ‘Inhumane’
In an outrageous assasult on our right to free speech a British student has claimed he has been suspended from university for voicing the opinion that halal slaughter, prescribed by Shariah Law, is “inhumane” and also saying illegal immigrants should not be allowed to use the National Health Service (NHS) for free. The student says he has been told he cannot return unless he signs a conduct agreement and undertakes diversity training.

Dare We Defy The Illiberal Code Of The Liberal Left?
The crescendo of intolerant screeching from the liberal-left about ‘hate speech’, micro aggressions, white privilege (ironic as most of the screechers are privileged and white,) and even the most reasonable criticism of their sacred cows is one of the more bizarre aspects of the culture war currently being fought on university campuses, internet opinion and comment sites and in mainstream media.

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“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will never quench theur self - righteousness ...

Oxford University wants to turn English into a sterilized Orwellian language
Oxford University, one of the oldest universities in the world and, one might think, the 'home' of the English language is now, it seems, engaged in a New World Order campaign to destroy the English Language. It appears the finest young minds in society are so deeply offended by words that remind them men and women are biologically they, backed by their fuckwitted Marxist lecturers and professors, are demanding gender specific pronouns be abolished.

The University Formerly Known As Cardiff Polytechnic Published List Of Forbidden Words Cardiff Metropolitan University formerly known as Cardiff Polytechnic may not be a seat of learning on a par with Oxford, Cambridge, Heidelberg, The Sorbonne or Princeton but when it comes to politically correct idiocy it is at the right up there with Harvard, Uppsala, University of California or The London school of Economics

Neo – Fascist Left Driving University Students To Despair
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via David Broome, Minds.com May 12, 2018 ARE LEFTIST PROFESSORS AND UNIVERSITIES DRIVING STUDENTS TO SUICIDE? Are the oppressive totalitarian politics of the left driving students to suicide in Britain’s Universities? It seems plausible when we consider that most of academia is overrun by Marxist professors organising gangs of SJW’s who subject white straight male …

Oxford University Introduces Mandatory ‘Cultural Appropriation’ Classes November 20, 2017
One of the oldest and most respected colleges, Magdalen, at Oxford, Britain’s oldest university has become the first to introduce the currenly fashinable idiocy from Ameroca’s west coast, compulsory racial awareness classes to ensure ethnic minorities are not offended by anything, ever. Magdalen College students have voted to require all first-years to attend sessions which …

Students Feel Pressured To Reflect Uinversities Anti-Brexit Bias In Essays


University students have claimed they are being pressured by political activist lecturers into writing essays which pander to the "anti-Brexit bias"in the higher education system, and fear they will be marked down if their work does not comply with the left wing agenda. Students have alleged that free debate on Brexit, and opinions opposed to those of the "Remain" camp is being shut down by lecturers supporting the movement to thwart the democratic will ...

Eight Subjects That Ought To Be Part Of The Manadtory Curriculum For Basic Education?
Should subjects like meditation and gardening be part of the school currriculum? Or as one high school in Massachusetts, USA, seems to believe, classes in analyzing conspiracy theories (if taught properly this could help students distinguish between a true conspiracy theory, a fantasy and what is legitimate questioning of official propaganda. The embedded article from Collective Evolution presents some interesting ideas.

Students censored – An Academic Community In A Crisis Of Collectivism.
Intellectual freedom in our universities is under threat from ... intellectuals. So overbearing have the left wing screechers of bourgeois politically correct leftism now become that even the universities have surrendered to the intellectual control freakery of cultural Marxism. But if universities are now dedicated to turning out dull minded conformists, what hope is there for western society?


Facebook's Censorship Drive Backfires As Advertisrs Dump Platform  Mark Zuckerberg's bid to set up Facebook as official censor by appointment to The New World Order has backfired spectacularly as major brands are feeing the social media giant's advertising platform. CrossFit just announced they are shuttering their Facebook and instagram ad campaigns due to censorship, which filters out conservative and libertarian flavoured content and promotes only far left propaganda.

Facebook recently banned one of their affiliate pages without reason or warning. Many other organisations have been purged, somtimes not for actually supporting right wing political views but for simply not being enthusiastic enough about the kind of far left sacred cows Zuckerberg likes to embrace for his virtue signalling exercises. Other unethical behavior Facebook has engaged in around data rights includes collecting private data from users' home systems without authority, selling said data to advertisers and public relations consultants, ignoring court orders to cease and desist, tax evasion and a host of other bltantly illegal or ethically dubious activities.

The issues raised by CrossFit's decision reflect conservative concerns over free speech and social media censorship given the political bias shown by the owners of these companies. It seems that in their quest to satiate the outrage mob they have banned too many accounts, often without any reason other than that those sites reflect views that do not coincide with those of some egomaniacal Silicon Valley bilionaire.

When you appease exrtremists by banning one group then those same people demand you ban another group and it never ends. It is a trait of the left wing mindset that it can only ever go further in the same direction. Thus Facebook caving to far left faux - outrage over non - issues like 'transgender rights' or banning support for Israel has resulted in their steady decline. Young people are are abandoning the platform as it is now longer seen as cool, but has become a byword for authoritarian and illiberal business practices and political views. And now even it's biggest backer, the U.S. government is targeting Zuckerberg's empire with anti-trust measures. As more people and groups get banned on facebook more people decide to leave.

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Facebook Negotiating Multibillion-Dollar US Fine As UK Labels "Digital Gangsters"
Facebook and its executives were labeled "digital gangsters" by a UKParliamentary inquiry into the social media giant's abuse of users privacy. The company should immediately be subject to statutory regulation the report published at the conclusion of the 18-month investigation by the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport  parliamentary committee recommended ...
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Facebook Steps Up Censorship in Britain, Bans Populist News Site

Facebook continues on its course to become the UK's Ministry of Truth, (the government department tasked with ensuring government propaganda can never be questioned in George Orwell's novel '1984'.) by expanding its censorship of websites US Liberals like the social media site's Mark Zuckerberg do not approve, or that question the globalist policies of Theresa May's authoritarian regime, by removing from its platform content posted by anti - EU populists and critics of Islam in Britain. It's latest outrageously hubristic act is the “unpublishing” of a right-leaning news website Politicalite and suspending its editor-in-chief for a post supporting Tommy Robinson.

Other recent examples of censorship by the far - left social media site have the blocking and removal of other conservative sites in addition to Politicalite, and Facebook’s suspension of other British right leaning sies allegedly in reponse to political pressure amid a government inspired crackdown on supporters of Tommy Robinson following the release of “Panodrama,” Robinson’s undercover exposure of bias at the BBC. PayPal also recently suspended service to the website.

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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg: Never trust a man happy to wear a haircut that would embarrass a fove year old (Picture: Getty )

Last week, Breitbart News covered the takedown of all posts linking to a Politicalite article contributed by British Yellow Vest activist James Goddard. Our contacts in France tell us Facebook's French operation is carrying on a similar censorship of Yellow Vest supporters criticising the inept, elitist government of Emmanuel Macron.

Now censorship against the Politcalite website on Facebook is continuing, with the goal of shutting down the website it seems. Politicalite site managers received a message that its Facebook page had been unpublished late last week.

Following the suspension, site editor-in-chief and former UKIP activist Jordan James reported that his own Facebook account had been suspended as well, for a years-old post offering support to Islam critic Tommy Robinson. Robinson has also been banned from the from Facebook and jailed by Theresa May's authoritarian government for reporting facts surounding the activities of one of the notorious grooming and sexual abuse gangs who have been systematically raping and sexually exploiting young girls in the UK.

Asked for an explanaition by one of the biggest organisations it has censored, Facebook declined to supply a justification for the blacklisting of the British news website, which now bills itself “Britain’s most censored news outlet.” Facebook have still not commented.

A recent investigation of Facebook's content management policy by undercover investigative journalists recently found that the social network is, which management approval at the highest level, running a program of deliberate, targeted, secret suppression of conservative and right-wing voices. A whistleblower at the tech company told reporters that a secret “deboosting” code, based on identifying keywords, was applied exclusively to right-of-center and populist individuals and organizations on the platform, limiting the reach and visibility of posts. The source said she never saw the code applied to far-left pages on Facebook.

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Government of Ireland announced new hate speech laws which will permit courts to jail ‘Hate Speech’ offenders for up to five years, but still cannot decide on a legal definition for what constitutes hate speech. Meanwhile the Irish government is finding itself accused of suppressing free speech while its new anti - hate laws are arousing a lot of hate

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Thousands March to Save the Internet from EU Censorship Regulations

Protestors opposed to Article 13 in Berlin

Tens of thousands of people have marched in cities across Germany to protest planned European Union copyright reforms that they fear will lead to online censorship.

The dpa news agency reports the biggest protest Saturday was in Munich, where 40,000 people marched under the motto “save your internet.”

Thousands of others took part in smaller demonstrations in the German cities of Cologne, Hamburg, Hannover, Berlin and other cities against the bill that is being voted on this week.

The most controversial clause, Article 13, which applies to information whose main or one of the main purposes is to store and give the public access to a large amount of copyright protected work uploaded by its users which it organises and promotes for profit. Article 13 does not apply to non - profit encyclopedias, educational and scientific repositories and other non profit services.

Creative Commons the content licensing organisation that addresses internet sharing licences specifically posted this tweet: There’s no doubt #Article13 will force most EU platforms to implement #uploadfilters. These technologies simply cannot distinguish between infringing and non-infringing uses of a work. Creativity and freedom of expression will suffer. https://www.communia-association.org/2019/03/05/final-x-ray-article-13-dangerous-legislative-wishful-thinking/ …

The most controversial section would compel sites such as YouTube and Facebook to take responsibility for copyrighted material that’s uploaded to their platforms. Proponents say the new rules will help ensure authors, artists and journalists are paid. Opponents claim they could restrict freedom of speech, hamper online creativity and force websites to install filters.

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The EU Moves Closer To Creation Of Orwellian Ministry Of Truth

The European Parliament this week rubber stamped a recommendation naming Russia “the main source of disinformation in Europe” and appealed for increased funding for the EU’s East StratCom Task Force, which already received 1.1 million euros in 2018.

The East StratCom Task Force is an EU body focused on so-called proactive communication of EU policies and activities in the Eastern neighborhood (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine) and beyond (Russia and further).

The document released by the EU Parliament reveals that East StratCom Task Force as well as its two subdivisions dealing with the southern neighborhood and Western Balkans, should get “adequate financial and personnel resources which are still required, aimed at the significant increase of their potential, effectiveness, professionalism, institutional continuity and quality of work, as well as safeguarding them against political meddling by officials and countries that back Russian disinformation.”

It also called on EU member states “to ensure that electoral laws take into account possible threats stemming from disinformation campaigns” and urged them to “adapt their electoral rules on online campaigning and to monitor and evaluate the transparency features in relation to political advertising introduced by the online platforms.”

The suggestions also include support for “independent and diverse Russian-language media in the countries of the Eastern Partnership and beyond” and “to focus on the EU accession countries and partners in the EU neighborhood by assisting them in their efforts to counteract hostile propaganda and disinformation activities.”

The formal justification of the moves suggested in the document is based on the mainstream media narrative that Russia carries out disinformation campaigns and cyber attacks on a daily basis, aimed at increasing tensions within the EU and its member states.

The proposal passed by the European Parliament is another indication that the EU bureaucracy is steadily pushing the bloc towards media and political totalitarism. The principle of freedom of speech is becoming abandoned. Most critical positions and reports are labeled "Russian propaganda and disinformation" while grassroots initiatives not loyal to the European establishment or non-mainstream media outlets are described as Russian agents.

The timing is rather bizarre however as in the USA the Mueller Inquiry, launched in the dying days of the Obama administration to investigate allegations of collaboration between President Trump's 2016 campaign team and the Russian government in order to steal the presidency from the anointed one, Hillary Clinton, has been would down having found no evidence of collaboration on the part of the Trump campaign, but plenty of evidence of malfeassance by people connected with the Clinton campaign and organisations with business links to the former first lady's charity, The Clinton Foundation.

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An important factor behind the EU decision to adapt ‘electoral laws and rules’ and exploit the Russian threat is the upcoming election in the European Parliament as well as concerns of the European bureaucracy and financial circles ahead of them. It is noteworthy that most EU, US and NATO documents and declarations don’t bother themselves with providing specific examples of disinformation. Likely, the reason is that most of these ‘examples’ are reports which reveal information and viewpoints routinely hidden and suppressed by the Western mainstream media that are in fact nothing to do with Russia but simply a case of freethinkers and sceptics questioning the risible propaganda poumped out by western governments.

Topics described by the mainstream propaganda as ‘fake news’ vary in range from independent coverage of the 2015–16 New Year’s Eve sexual assaults in Cologne, the existence of no - go zones for police, emergency services and European non - Muslims in EU member state cities, and the operations of Muslim 'grooming gangs' targeting vulnerable girls for sexual abuse and exploitation, to facts provided by the Assad government and Russia regarding the Douma ‘chemical attack’ in 2018. The official Western propaganda and mainstream media outlets are hiding facts, which do not contribute to the ‘official’ point of view which is that war is good, immigration enriches European culture, and all forms of nationalism are equal to Naziism, and pushing the establishment narrative.

Recent hysteria over the so-called Russian threat will strengthen the already existing censorship further. The EU body created to combat ‘propaganda’ can and likely will be turned into the 1984-style Ministry Of Truth, rewriting reports of events to advance a political agenda. The political and business establishment does not care about the freedom, democracy, human rights and other ‘universal values’ if they obstruct its goal of creating a global, authoritarian government.

Interestingly, similar tendencies can also be observed currently in Russia. Authorities are limiting freedom of speech and civic rights of the citizens and fueling internal state propaganda under pretext of countering the ‘Western threat’. However, the Russian effort to suppress free speech has so far been much less intense that the EU's obsessive efforts to prevent the truth leaking out or the efforts by progressives and liberals of the Democratic Party in the USA to demonise Russia and silence voices opposing the politically correct authoritarianism of brack Obama and hillary Clinton.

One of the reasons behind this situation is the bogeyman mechanism inherent in modern society whether intentional or not created by the US, European states and Russia. They all exploit invented foreign threats to justify actions of their governments, involvement in regime change plots, meddling in the internal affairs of sovereign states and manipulating markets in essential goods. In most cases these activities are designed to defend interests of the ruling elites and corporate cartels. The societies are divided and narrow elite groups and their close circles are exploit those divisions to maintain their grop on power.

Socialists of 19th and 20th centuries used the term ‘class struggle’ to promote the division of the society, and where socialist revolutions were successful, the new politicak and academic elite quickly became more oppressive than the old regime.

This division between ‘capitalists’ and ‘working class’ was transformed into another field. Now, this division lies between two “new classes”:

I. ‘ordinary’ representatives of the society (small, medium and even big business oriented on the real creation of added value, real sector and office workers (blue collars), and a part of the 'clerisy', which aims at the headway creation of a new science, engineering, IT, art or culture);

II. the high and speculative financial capital, ‘new bureaucracy’, and self-proclaimed intellectuals, various kitschy and hyped artists defending interests of the previous two groups, as well as various groups of persons living on welfare despite having opportunities to get a job.

Therefore, the ongoing shift to a new technological paradigm has led to the creation of new “exploiters” and “exploited” distributed along the entire social hierarchy.

This situation is one more factor contributing to the further increase of state propaganda around the world. It is expected that rights and freedoms of the working part of the society, a trend will likely continue to gain momentum further until it reaches its expected result predetermined by the logic of social process.

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In Private Meeting, Top Facebook Exec Threatened News Outlets That Do Not Coperate With Censorship Policy
During a meeting held behind closed doors last week, top Facebook executive Campbell Brown, acording to several people who were present, warned news publishers that refusal to cooperate with the tech behemoth’s efforts to “revitalize journalism” (i.e. ensure nothing …

Google, Facebook and Twitter Yield to German Govt Demand to Censor Anti-Migrant ‘Hate Speech’ (aka Free Speech)
Over the past couple of days we, and many other New Media outlets reported the horrific incident in Cologne, Germany at New Year, in which a crowd on male, recently arrived immigrants, all of Arab or North African appearance according to witnesses carried out a mass attack on German women who were simply trying to use the railway station.

Is Free Speech Being Murdered By The Media And Politically correct Left Wing Activism

There can be no doubt, the right of citizens in the developed world to free speech, free access of information and freedom to express ideas is increasingly under threat as the power elites feel their grip being loosened by increasingly well informed and articulate working and midddle classes. Without any apparent sense of irony the advocates of big government and controlled media call themselves 'the left' as though their opponents are not bright enough to know that free speech is one of the foundations of classical liberalism and the suppression of free speech is a hallmark of tyrants.
Is Free Speech Being Murdered By The Media And Politically correct Left Wing Activism

The Self Righteous Minority That Threaten Free Speech

Until recently Universities were places where any ideas were welcome and any economic, social, or scientific theory, no matter how extreme would be given a fair hearing and debated openly. So where did it all start to go wrong? How did the idea that there is only one set of acceptable answers to society's problems (the 'pensée unique' to use a French phrase I am fond of, redolent of The Borg in Star Trek and much more demeaning than "Social Justice Warriors") and that those who challenge the orthodoxy should be silenced and prevented from broadcasting their ideas in print or verbally.

The Self Righteous Minority That Threaten Free Speech

The Imporantance Of Free Speech And The Right To Offend

Our right to free speech is under threat from intolerant, authoritarian left wingers or 'progressives liberals' as these illiberal reactonaries like to style themselves. The 'Politically Correct Thought Police' as I have somtimes called them in acknowledgement of Geoge Orwell's novel '1984', are determined that in they egalitarian dystopia they dream of (but that fortunately could never be) nobody will be able to say or do anything that may offend s member of any racial, sexual or social minority. This kind of fascistic tyranny is justified by invoking politically correct ideals, but it is having a deeply damaging effect on human society and could eventually result in civil conflict in the developed nations.
The Imporantance Of Free speech And The Right To Offend

Free Speech being superseded by Sharia Law in Germany?

In Germany, where the open doors immigration policy insisted upon by Chancellor Merkel has flooded the country with Islamic fundamentalists, Christian activist Heidi Mund was recently charged with “agitation against the people” for speaking our on aspects of Muslim Sharia Law that are unacceptable in western societies (e.g. permitted wife beating, rape, forced marriage.Germany is sliding towards fascism as Hausfrau - Volksfuhrer Merkel outlaws free speech for Christians. All criticism of Islam and discussion of Muslim crimes is hate speech it seems, but the ranting of Islamic hate preachers as they call on Muslims to kill all infidels is acceptable rhetoric.
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Why Are Governments Scared Of Truth? France Begins

Crackdown on Conspiracy Theories

We reported several weeks ago that the French government was planning a clampdown on conspiray theories by shutting down certain dissident websites. Since then we have learned the French government have shown they are prepared to go even further in attacking citizens right of free speech, they are now shutting down sites that question the government's ability to deal with the immigration crisis, the problem of Islamic extremism, the country's dire economic situation or burgeoning unemployment.
Why Are Governments Scared Of Truth? France Begins Crackdown on Conspiracy Theories

Reporters Without Borders unblocks access to censored websites

It is surprising in view of what we now know about the collaboration between internet technology corporations and government security agencies that many people still think og the internet as a bastion of freedom. This page shows how easy it is for governments and corporations to censor web content. Fortunately there are plenty of libertarians out there (we classical liberals have to call ourselves libertarian since the new, politically correct Stalinists hijacked the word liberal) who will help you find the stuff governments don't want you to see. It is surprising in view of what we now know about the collaboration between internet technology corporations and government security agencies that many people still think of the internet as a bastion of freedom. This page shows how easy it is for governments and corporations to censor web content (and helps you get around the censorship).

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Google, Facebook and Twitter Yield to German Govt Demand to Censor Anti-Migrant ‘Hate Speech’ (aka Free Speech)

Anyone in Germany appalled by the scenes we in New Media described however, will find it difficult to express their disgust online because it will be branded as hate speech by the Berlin political class. Major social media sites have said they would work to delete any German anti-migrant sentiments distributed on their networks within 24 hours after a removal request has been made. In fact the Jewish Quisling Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facistbook, has committed his organisation to working with governments to suppress all discussion that does not comply with the dictum of political correctness.
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Facebook's Privacy Piracy
Once again Facebook are in trouble over their contempt for users privacy. It is quite astounding that this upstart corporation that is quite open about its ambition to control the internet does not seem to understand there are lines that cannot be crossed when it comes to broadcasting or "sharing" details of users private lives.

Internet Evil Empire Games - The Facebook Fourth Reich Microsoft might be "the sick man of technology" a spent power desperately trying to cling to its former glories as The Ottoman Empire was in 1914, Google are The Evil Empire, consistently evading regulators attempts to curb their ambition to control all the information in the world and quite prepared to trample on our individualism, privacy and civil rights in order to do so. Where does that put Facebook then?


Student Suspended from University for Calling Halal Slaughter ‘Inhumane’

In an outrageous assasult on our right to free speech a British student has claimed he has been suspended from university for voicing the opinion that halal slaughter, prescribed by Shariah Law, is “inhumane” and also saying illegal immigrants should not be allowed to use the National Health Service (NHS) for free. The student says he has been told he cannot return unless he signs a conduct agreement and undertakes diversity training.

UKIP activist Sebastian Walsh, 19, was critical of “Islamisation” of Britain, halal slaughter, and the treatment of women by Sharia courts during class discussions at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN). He was reported to the university authorities by his tutors and suspended as a result, according to MailOnline.

“All I did was voice my opinions during debates about immigration,” the Walsh told reporters from local newspapers. “I am totally against halal meat because I think it’s cruel — it’s an inhumane and barbaric way of slaughtering animals.

“In another seminar class, we had a discussion about the privatisation of the NHS and I simply said I don’t think free healthcare should be available to immigrants.

“These are views held by many people in the public and I believe I should be able to express them freely,” Walsh complained, adding that he felt the university had “victimised” him.

In fact UCLAN, the University formerly known as Preston Polytechnic is a tin pot little college totally controlled by rabid left wing extremists. Small minded actions like this authoritarian foot stamping are a violation of the every principle of higher education, are a typical publicity seeking stunt from a college with an institutional inferiority complex, situated as it is, in the centre of a trangle the points of which are the great universities of Lancaster, Liverpool and Manchester.

The University's response was a typically mealy mouthed, snivelling spiel of self justification:

“UCLAN is proud to host a campus community comprised of many cultures, faiths, nationalities and beliefs,” a spokesman for the university said in response to the controversy surrounding the suspension.

“It values this rich diversity and takes seriously its responsibility to provide a safe and welcoming environment for all [and] promotes lawful, open debate, the discussion of varying views and academic freedom and has in place robust procedures to ensure this can take place,” they added — but then went on to say that Walsh’s “offensive and inappropriate comments” were unacceptable.

“The student has been temporarily suspended for the remainder of the academic year and is aware that on the successful completion of a diversity training course, he will be able to resume his studies,” the spokesman added.

Walsh, however, has said he will not accept the university’s demands, insisting: “Freedom of speech is a human right and I am determined to stand by this. I will be fighting the university’s decision on this to make sure others aren’t punished for their opinions in future.”

He has received support from his local UKIP branch, which has expressed concern “that this young boy is being denied his education for simply expressing his opinion.”

Have to say we can't fault the lad on this, freedom of speech and opinion is the most fundamental right we have and when we see our countrymen jailed and persecuted for criticising Islam (not Muslims in general but Islam, we have to wonder why similar constraints are not being put on the Islamic hate preachers who call on their followers to kill Christians and Jews.

As Marcus Tullius Cicero said 2100 years ago, "Since our ancestors came down from the hills to live as civilised people it has been understood there is one law that applies equally to all," He was right, and if we lose sight of that principle, for the purpose of appeasing Islamic fantatics for example, we have lost civilisation.

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BBC Journalist Allegedly Likens Working Class Men to ‘Amazonian Cannibals’

It's always entertaining when lefties forget they are supposed to believe in equality, tolerance and diversity and show what nasty little snobs they really are. BBC political magazine show Panorama’s John Sweeney, who likes to parade his 'right on' socialism in public, is reported to have been caught referring to working-class men as being like “cannibals from Amazonia” in an undercover video released by one of the left's favourite hate figures, former EDL leader Tommy Robinson. What makes Robinson a prime target for left wing bigots is of course that he was born into their caste.

Robinson, real name julian Yaxley - Lennon come from a middle clas family but when the father abandoned them, Robinson's mother fell into poverty and ended up living in social housing in a town with one of the biggest Muslim ghettos in Britain, Luton.

The video in which Sweeny is said to have launched into the appallingly prejudiced attack on the working class was posted to Robinson’s social media accounts on both Facebook and Instagram over the weekend and shows the former English Defence League leader confronting Sweeney over his comments. Sweeney seems to describe meeting a working-class white man named Danny in a BBC green room saying, “it was unusual to meet a white working class male in the Newsnight green room.”

Well at least that is probably true, working class voices don't get much airtime from the BBC, instead of giving them a voice the "Ministry Of Truth" hires 'experts' who have never done an honest day's work in their lives to pontificate about the ignorance, racism, homophobia etc. etc. that are qualities of all white, working class British males.

Robinson has also published live streams on Facebook claiming he has more undercover footage of both Sweeney and of people involved with far-left activist organisation HOPE not Hate who are claimed to have sat in on interviews filmed for the Panorama documentary on Robinson apparently labelled with the working title “Tommy Takedown.”

The free speech activist says the full footage will be compiled into a documentary and shown in Manchester on February 23rd outside of the BBC’s offices in the city. He has also promised (threatened?) that he will post further footage from the documentary every 72 hours, starting on Tuesday evening.

So far, neither Sweeney, the BBC, nor HOPE Not Hate have commented on Robinson’s released footage or claims of further revelations, although HOPE not HATE senior researcher Joe Mulhall briefly locked his Twitter account following the release of the footage.

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The Left's Long War On Free Speech

by Micelle Malkin, Daily Wire, 1 September, 2018

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We took a slight liberty here by removing the word Conservative from the original title, because as we have stated many times, the old political designations; left, right, conservative, liberal, socialist, have little meaning left. There are those who support the globalist establishment and those who defend the liberal values of individual liberty, free speech and freedom of thought.

In the competition of ideas, you can't win the game if you're not on the playing field.

That's why Silicon Valley bigwigs' stubborn refusal to put business above their own personal partisan biases doesn't just rankle. It reeks. Equal access to social media is not just about sharing food pics, pet videos, makeup tutorials and travelogues. It's about ensuring the ability to disseminate and distribute political speech on the world's biggest platforms.

Although I started in the metro newspaper industry in 1992, my years as an independent conservative blogger and internet entrepreneur have been the most journalistically enriching. I launched my first website in 1999, my namesake blog in 2004, my first group blog and video content platform HotAir.com and my YouTube channel in 2006 (where I broadcast reports from Iraq), my Twitter account in 2008, my second group website Twitchy.com in 2012, and my documentary-style web series, "Michelle Malkin Investigates," for CRTV.com in 2016.

I don't just preach the First Amendment. I practice it for a living.

Early adopter status was important for us non-leftists who saw the disruptive influence and narrative-setting opportunities that new media and social media offered. I was ridiculed by mainstream media colleagues for wasting time on the internet, derided as "just a blogger" (which I proudly turned into a hashtag), and mocked for starting a Twitter aggregation business long before corporate media outlets copied the idea.

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"Who Will Dare Tell The Truth About Government?"

Authored by Robert Gore via Straight Line Logic,

If the US government prosecutes Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, it will mark a point of no return.

We’ll never know what “average” Germans thought on November 11, 1938, the day after Kristallnacht. Perhaps a few recognized it for what it was: a turning point, an acceleration of Germany’s descent into hell. America’s Crystal Night looms, and if it occurs, only a few will recognize it for what it is.

The fate of Julian Assange is the fate of one man, but it is also the fate of one of our most important freedoms. There won’t be shattered plate glass from vandalized businesses littering the streets, synagogues smashed, graves unearthed, or people herded onto trains. But his prosecution by the US government would destroy an inestimable value, one enshrined in the First Amendment, for which generations of Americans have fought and died: the right of the people and its press to inform the people and to hold their government to account.

Aside from armed resistance and revolution, the one defense individuals have against governments is intellectual: the concept of individual rights. There is an argument as to whether those rights come from our Creator (Thomas Jefferson) or from our basic nature as humans and the requirements of our survival (Ayn Rand). Despite starting from different premises, both arguments lead to the same conclusion: individuals have inherent, inalienable, inviolable rights, and the only legitimate function of government is to protect those rights.

The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were explicit attempts to delineate a set of principles that recognized individual rights and tried to restrain government power. Though real-world implementation has fallen short, often far short, they were towering conceptual achievements.

In 1933, the year Hitler assumed power, the government began enacting laws that restricted Jews’ rights to earn a living, gain an education, or work in the civil service. In 1935, the Nuremberg Laws stripped German Jews of their citizenship and forbade them from marrying non-Jewish Germans.

Kristallnacht’s hooliganism was encouraged by the German authorities, and none of the perpetrators bore any legal consequences. More than 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and deported to concentration camps. The government would not protect Jews from the depredations of thugs and the government itself was a thug. Kristallnacht was a point of no return: Jews no longer had any legally enforceable rights. Soon enough no German would.

In America, there is no one villain or group that one can point to as responsible for the erosion of rights. Begun the day the Constitution was ratified, it’s been a gradual process. We’ve reached the point where only a few of the rights guaranteed in the Constitution and Bill of Rights still receive any measure of government solicitude.

Property and contract rights are out the window; the government routinely abridges them. You have no right to your own income, or to conduct your legitimate business or trade free from government regulation and interference. Much of the Bill of Rights is either irrelevant now or has been rendered a dead letter. In terms of individual rights, only the Second Amendment’s much infringed right to bear arms, and the First Amendment—the prohibition against the government establishing a religion, free speech, press, and assembly, and the right to petition the government—are still hanging by a thread.

Which is why the fate of Julian Assange takes on such significance. While the government has prosecuted those like Chelsea (formerly Brad) Manning who have stolen government secrets and classified information, it has not prosecuted the press individuals and organizations who have published them. That is WikiLeaks’ business model: it receives, vets, and publishes stolen information, often from governments.

The government has not gone after publishers because it would be a frontal assault on the First Amendment that it would probably lose. Any exception would swallow the general rule of press freedom. Say the Supreme Court recognized an exception: classified information whose publication would constitute an imminent and grave threat to the security of the United States. Who decides what’s an imminent and grave threat? The government would have the power to classify whatever information it pleases under that exception and put those who publish it at risk of prosecution, their only recourse years of costly litigation spent arguing that the information didn’t fit the exception.

Many Trump admirers resist the notion that their man is interested in the acquisition and use of power, but his and members of his administration’s hostility to individual civil liberties belies that resistance. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is a gung-ho supporter of the civil-liberties-eviscerating-government-power-expanding War on Drugs and civil asset forfeiture.

In the latter, a government seizes assets it claims were involved with crimes and makes their owners jump through myriad legal hoops—including proving the negative that their assets weren’t involved in a crime—even if the owners themselves were never convicted, or even charged, with a crime. Assets that are not “acquitted”—cars, cash, boats, houses, etc.—are kept and used by the government. President Trump has endorsed civil asset forfeiture, and has extended it outside America’s borders via an executive order (see “By Imperial Decree,” SLL, 1/2/18).

Trump’s Secretary of State and former director of the CIA, Mike Pompeo has fashioned a legal approach the administration might use, in a case against WikiLeaks and Assange, to slither around the First Amendment. In April, still director of the CIA, he delivered a speech in which several passages demanded, but never received, careful parsing from the mainstream media. They are still obsessing over a February Trump tweet in which he declared the US media an “enemy of the people.” This is considered a threat to the First Amendment, but Pompeo’s speech was mostly ignored.

Pompeo called WikiLeaks “a non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like Russia.” Most press organizations, and almost all that consistently challenge the state, are non-state. WikiLeaks has published state secrets, undoubtedly considered hostile acts by those states, but how is it an intelligence service? Pompeo is arguing that WikiLeaks cannot be considered part of the press, consequently it’s not protected by the First Amendment.

As for the “abetted by state actors like Russia,” WikiLeaks has consistently denied it received the DNC emails from Russia, and nobody has proven otherwise. The best technical evidence indicates those DNC emails were directly downloaded to a portable storage device, indicating an inside job, and not remotely hacked, by Russians or anyone else.

Pompeo argued that “we have to recognize that we can no longer allow Assange and his colleagues the latitude to use free speech values against us.” This is straight from Orwell: you are free to say what you want, as long as you don’t say anything against the government. He claimed that WikiLeaks “pretended that America’s First Amendment freedoms shield them from justice,” and, “they may have believed that, but they are wrong.” Now where would WikiLeaks get such a crazy idea? How about the plain language of the First Amendment?

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Facebook Engineer's Stunning Admission: "We Tear Down Posters Welcoming Trump Supporters"

Earlier we reported President Trump's attack on Google, with his remarks later broadening to include Twitter and Facebook, accusing the Silicon Valley digital media giants of leftist bias and Google particularly of "rigging" search results by presenting only results, in his words, "from National Left-Wing Media." He claimed "Google & others are suppressing voices of Conservatives and hiding information and news that is good."

"Those companies "better be careful because you can’t do that to people," Trump said later in the Oval Office. "I think that Google, and Twitter and Facebook, they are really treading on very, very troubled territory and they have to be careful. It is not fair to large portions of the population.”

Google immediately responded, condemning Trump's charge, and claiming that "Search is not used to set a political agenda and we don’t bias our results toward any political ideology." (They would say that, wouldn't they?)

As has often happened with Trump's twitter storms, the politically incorrect truth was later found in the borderline crazy outbursts.

According to a leaked memo posted on Facebook's internal message board titled "We Have a Problem With Political Diversity", which was published by the New York Times, a Facebook senior engineer, Brian Amerige, supported Trump's allegation, writing "we are a political monoculture that’s intolerant of different views" and shockingly admitted that "we claim to welcome all perspectives, but are quick to attack — often in mobs — anyone who presents a view that appears to be in opposition to left-leaning ideology. We throw labels that end in *obe and *ist at each other, attacking each other’s character rather than their ideas."

Anyone who has been shadow - banned by Facebook, as have the owner of this blog and many of his friends (not extreme right nuts jobs as 'liberals' often describe them, but classical liberals, who love free speech and diversity of ideas. Shadow banning is a particularly nasty trick used to rob people whose posts do not break any laws or community guideslines but oppose the corporate political position; usrs are not prevented from posting, but the algorithms ensure few people, (usually those who log into the users' page or follow direct links,) will ever see the posts. People who are shadow banned do not feature in their friends newsfeds for example.

Amerige's indictment of Facebook's authoritarian - liberal "mono-culture" continues:

We do this so consistently that employees are afraid to say anything when they disagree with what’s around them politically.? HR has told me that this is not a rare concern, and I’ve personally gotten over a hundred messages to that effect. Your colleagues are afraid because they know that they — not their ideas — will be attacked. They know that all the talk of “openness to different perspectives” does not apply to causes of “social justice,” immigration, “diversity”, and “equality.” On this issues, you can either keep quiet or sacrifice your reputation and career.

"These are not fears without cause" Amerige continues, adding another stunning revelation about the social media giant's biased culture, "Because we tear down posters welcoming Trump supporters. We regularly propose removing Thiel from our board because he supported Trump. We’re quick to suggest firing people who turn out to be misunderstood, and even quicker to conclude our colleagues are bigots. We have made “All Lives Matter” a fireable offense. We put Palmer Luckey through a witch hunt because he paid for anti-Hillary ads. We write each other ad-hoc feedback in the PSC tool for having “offensive” ideas. We ask HR to investigate those who dare to criticize Islam’s human rights record for creating a “non inclusive environment.” And they called me a transphobe when I called out our corporate art for being politically radical.

In other words, the official policy run by Facebook's management of not toleratiing and where possible suppressing opposition to the company's Cultural Marxist ideology is not tolerated. In other words Facebook uses fascist tactics to enforce its progressive public stance.

Amerige wasn't alone in attacking Silicon Valley's liberal bias, and as the NYT reports, since the post went up, "more than 100 Facebook employees have joined Mr. Amerige to form an online group called FB’ers for Political Diversity." The aim of the initiative, according to Mr. Amerige’s memo, is to create a space for ideological diversity within the company.

The group's formation has upset other Facebook employees (those who identify as Zuckerber's arse kissers maybe,) who said its online posts were offensive to minorities (although none of the posts referred specifically to any minorities,). One engineer, who claimed anonymity for fear of retaliation, said several people had lodged complaints with their managers about FB’ers for Political Diversity and were told that it had not broken any company rules. It is of course hypocritical of Facebook to claim the moral high ground as the upholder of liberal values when Zuckerberg, personally, and his top management team operate a culture of fear to deny employees right to express their own opinions in private.

According to numerous reports the activity is a rare sign of organized dissent within Facebook "over the company’s largely liberal workplace culture." While the new group is just a sliver of Facebook’s work force of more than 25,000, the company’s workers have in the past appeared less inclined than their peers at other tech companies to challenge leadership, and most have been loyalists to its chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg.

Within Facebook, we hear, employees have argued over the decisions to ban certain accounts while allowing others. At staff meetings some workers have repeatedly asked for more guidance on what content the company disallows, and why.

The dispute over employees’ political ideology arose a week before Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, is scheduled to testify at a Senate hearing about social media manipulation in elections. A team helping Ms. Sandberg get ready for the hearing next Wednesday has warned her that some Republican lawmakers may raise questions about Facebook and biases.

In May, Facebook announced that former Senator Jon Kyl, an Arizona Republican, would lead an inquiry into allegations of anticonservative bias on the social network, where new employees supposedly go through training that describes how to have respectful conversations about politics and diversity while complying with company policy.

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In Private Meeting, Top Facebook Exec Threatened News Outlets That Do Not Coperate With Censorship Policy

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During a meeting held behind closed doors last week, top Facebook executive Campbell Brown, acording to several people who were present, warned news publishers that refusal to cooperate with the tech behemoth's efforts to "revitalize journalism" (i.e. ensure nothing that does not concur with the leftist politics of CEO Mark Zuckerberg,) will leave media outlets dying "like in a hospice."

Initially reported by The Australian under a headline which read "Work With Facebook or Die: Zuckerberg," the story prompted outraged responses which saw vthe social media giant insisting the comments were taken out of context, even though five individuals who attended the four-hour meeting agreed on what Brown had said. And to be honest, the words 'dying like in a hospice' leave little room for misinterpretation.

"Mark doesn't care about publishers but is giving me a lot of leeway and concessions to make these changes," Brown reportedly said, referring to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. "We will help you revitalize journalism... in a few years the reverse looks like I'll be holding hands with your dying business like in a hospice."

As The Guardian reported on Monday, Facebook, a company with a long track record for being economical with the truth, is "vehemently" denying the veracity of the comments as reported by The Australian, referring to its own transcript of the meeting. Facebook, however, has so far refused to release its transcript and tape record of the gathering. Enough said.

Brown's warning about the dire prospects for news outlets that don't get on board with a future in which corporate giants like Facebook are the arbiters of what is and isn't trustworthy news comes as progressives are finally understanding that for all his left wing posturing Zuckerberg is far from liberal and are raising alarms that Facebook's entrance into the world of journalism poses a major threat to non-corporate and non - conformist news publishers.

As Common Dreams confirmed in July, independents' fears were somewhat justified when Facebook revealed its first slate of 'government propaganda approved' news segments as part of its Facebook Watch initiative.

While Facebook claims its initiative is part of an effort to combat "misinformation," its first series of segments were dominated by such corporate outlets as Fox News and CNN.

In response to Brown's reporting that Zuckerberg "doesn't care about publishers," Judd Legum, who writes the Popular Information newsletter, argued, "Anyone who does care about news needs to understand Facebook as a fundamental threat."

"In addition to disputed quote, there are also Facebook's actions, which are fully consistent with the quote," Legum added.

"We desperately need to develop alternative delivery mechanisms to Facebook."

As with certain corporations involved in internet search and advertising, computer operating systems and online retailing, all run as Facebook is, by members of the Silicon Valley Cunt's Club, Facebook and Zuckerberg want it all and see no ethical reason why they shouldn't use any means availabe to get it all.

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Members Of European Parliament Resist Brussels Plan To Censor Web Content

It was the ultimate plan nurtured by opponents of free speech, in particular the governments of France and Germany, and the bureaucrats who effectively run the EU, to control the content we could see on the web. Collaboration with Facebook failed because Facebook users are more interested in dying donkeys and piano playing cats than news, collaboration with Google failed because all we had to do to see the'verboten' content was use another search engine.

But controlling what is uploaded to the web seemed like the perfect way to stop members of the public seeing content that questions the official narrative.

The EU has beeen considering a copyright proposal that would require code-sharing platforms to monitor all content that users upload for potential copyright infringement (see the EU Commission’s proposed Article 13 of the Copyright Directive). The proposal was originally aimed at music and videos on streaming platforms, based on a theory of a “value gap” between the profits those platforms make from uploaded works and what copyright holders of some uploaded works receive. as such it was well intentioned. However, the way the proposed rules were written would enable it to capture many other types of content including news and opinion.

Upload filters (“censorship machines”) are one of the most controversial elements of the copyright proposal, raising a number of concerns, including:

  • Privacy: Upload filters are a form of surveillance, effectively a “general monitoring obligation” prohibited by EU law
  • Free speech: Requiring platforms to monitor content contradicts intermediary liability protections in EU law and creates incentives to remove content
  • Ineffectiveness: Content detection tools are flawed (generate false positives, don’t fit all kinds of content) and overly burdensome, especially for small and medium-sized businesses that might not be able to afford them or the resulting litigation

The EU Parliament continues to introduce new proposals for Article 13 but these issues remain. In the embedded video Members of The European Parliament explain why they plan to reject the proposal.

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The Right To Tell Politicians To Eff Off In An Age Of Self Appointed Censors, and Compliant Media Our right of free speech is increasingly under attack from control freak politicians, politically correct left wing activists and the dark forces of corporatism.

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Tommy Robinson Arrested for Live Reporting Grooming Gang Trial

In a time of universal deceit, teling the truth becomes an act of rebellion - George Orwell

Tommy Robinson arrested outside Leeds Crown Court

Despite public inquiries having shown that police, social services departments, local government officials and even the politicians in national government responsible for law and order and public safety lied and lied and lied and lied in their efforts to cover up the sexual abuse crimes perpetrated by Muslim men on vulnerable white girls in Rotherham, Yorkshire, thus making all levels of government and public service complicit in those crimes, the authorities are STILL trying to prevent concerned citizens telling the truth about what has happened and is still happening in Rotherham.

Law and Order activist and independent journalist Tommy Robinson was arrested this morning and taken to jail after an elite squad of South Yorkshire police mindless thugs detained him outside Leeds Crown Court, where he was reporting on yet another child grooming gang trial. Under Sharia law, which is now the paramount law in The Islamic Republic of South Yorkshire it seems, it is not illegal for Muslim men to have sex with very young children.

Robinson, former leader of the English Defence League protest movement but later joined the Quilliam counter-extremism organisation, was at the court to report on the trial of ten men accused of offences including child rape, trafficking, and supply of class A drugs to children, according to Caolan Robertson.

A video posted by Caolan shows Robinson being taken away by three police officers, apparently on suspicion of inciting a breach of the peace.

The recording of Robinson’s arrest shows an officer apparently seize his mobile phone before he is bundled into the back of a van. The exact number of officers at the scene is unclear, but at least half a dozen appear to be involved to arrest a man for simply reporting events as they happen.

“This is free speech. This is where we’re at,” Robinson tells onlookers, before addressing the officers directly.

“You know when you do this, more people are going to watch this now than ever,” Robinson tells them.

“This is ridiculous. Lads, do you feel right what you’re doing, here? I haven’t said a word — in fact, someone laid their hand and assaulted me outside court; other people swore at me and threatened me about my mother, and here I am being arrested for saying nothing. I’ve done nothing,” he claims.

The 10 accused grooming gang members are now on trial at Leeds Crown Court. Charges include child rape, trafficking & supply of class A drugs to children. Welcome to Britain.

A video posted prior to the arrest does appear to show Robinson asking two men how they feel about the verdict, to which one responds: “Go and f**k your Mum’s fanny, go and f**k it!”
“Is there any guilt?” responds Robinson.
“You f**k your Dad, you son of a bitch!”
Such charming people, these universdity brainwashed leftie scum. Needless to say these two were not arrested for their blatantly provocative and grossly offensive hate speech.

Robinson has now been released, although it is unclear whether police will pursue charges at this point.

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UC Berkeley On Notice — Justice Is Not Playing Around On Free Speech

The US Department of Justice (DOJ)on Thursday issued a statement of interest in a campus free speech lawsuit against the University of California, Berkeley. "The Department of Justice will not stand by while universities which receive public funds violate students’ constitutional rights," said Rachel Brand, the DOJ’s Associate Attorney General, in the accompanying press release.

Young America Foundation and the Berkeley College Republicans claim that the university employs a double standard with regard to free speech and particularly high-profile college speakers, according to a press release obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation.

The plaintiffs claim that Berkeley’s "high-profile speaker policy" enabled the university's student bodies to arbitrarily prevent speakers whose views do not conform to the 'progressive' agenda from taking the platform, and cause the cancellation of conservative events by imposing restrictive security conditions, and only offering inconvenient venues.

While statement of interest does not suggest the Trump administration is taking an official stance on the merits of the case, it does mean that the department will monitor the situation to ensure left wing groups are not suppressing their opponents' right to free speech.

“The allegations made by the plaintiffs in this lawsuit are unfounded,” Berkeley spokesman Dan Mogulof told online news ite The Daily Caller. "Berkeley does not discriminate against speakers invited by student organizations based upon viewpoint. The campus is committed to ensuring that student groups may hold events with speakers of their choosing, and it has expended significant resources to allow events to go forward without compromising the safety or security of the campus." Well he would say that, wouldbn't he?

Brand, in a in a Thursday Fox News op-ed. did not agree.

"A new policy at Berkeley, for example, imposes a curfew, security measures, and location restrictions for events that administrators decide are likely to ‘interfere' with other campus functions or activities," Brand wrote. "It doesn’t require much creativity to turn this policy into a heckler’s veto. If you disagree with a speaker about to visit campus, simply declare his views offensive and threaten to riot, and the speaker will be sidelined."

Which is exactly how the left have been denying their opponents a platform in Britain, Europe, Australia and Canada as well as the USA for several years now.

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Jordan Peterson and the Stupidity Of The Left

We have never been slow to lampoon the politically correct, universdity dumbed down 'special snowflakes', or the professors in politicising everything who spoon feed them a constant stream of idiotic lwft wing bullshit. but when we read a story about a professor who is challenging the bollocks and defending free speech and individiual freedom, we were delighted to have a chance to show the higher education system is not entirely in the hands of cultural Marxists.

University of Toronto psychology professor Jordan Peterson recently decided he had had enough of what he saw as a campus culture where "social justice warrior, left-wing radical political activists" ran rampant and nobody dared voice opinions that were not approved by the college's Politically Correct Thought Police.

In September 2016 he released a video lecture series taking aim at political correctness.He zeroed in on Canadian human rights legislation that prohibits discrimination based on gender identity or expression. Dr Peterson was especially frustrated with being asked to use alternative pronouns as requested by trans students or staff, like the singular 'they' or 'ze' and 'zir', used by some as alternatives to 'she' or 'he'.

In his opposition, he set off a political and cultural firestorm that shows no signs of abating.

At a free speech rally mid-October, he was drowned out by a white noise machine. Pushing and shoving broke out in the crowd. He says the lock on his office door has been glued shut on several occasions. At the same time, the University of Toronto said it had received complaints of threats against trans people on campus.

Peterson's employers have warned that, while they support his right to academic freedom and free speech, he could run afoul of the Ontario Human Rights code and his faculty responsibilities should he refuse to use alternative pronouns when requested.

They also said they have received complaints from students and faculty that his comments are "unacceptable, emotionally disturbing and painful" and have urged him to stop repeating them. The university is also trying to organise a "civil and respectful" debate, which would include Dr Peterson, to discuss gender provisions in federal and provincial human rights legislation.

Either way, Dr Peterson is not backing down. See a by conservative journalist Ben Shapiro defending his position below.

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USA: Tear Gas, Guns and Riot Squads: The Police State’s Answer to Free Speech

Forget everything you’ve ever been taught about free speech in America. It’s all a lie. There can be no free speech for the citizenry when the government speaks in a language of force. What is this language of force?

Militarized police. Riot squads. Camouflage gear. Black uniforms. Armored vehicles. Mass arrests. Pepper spray. Tear gas. Batons. Strip searches. Surveillance cameras. Kevlar vests. Drones. Lethal weapons. Spy - in - the - Sky Drones. Less-than-lethal weapons used with deadly force. Rubber bullets. Water cannons. Stun grenades. Arrests of journalists. Crowd control tactics. Intimidation tactics. Brutality.

This is not the language of freedom. This is not even the language of law and order.

Unfortunately, this is how the government at all levels—federal, state and local—now responds to those who choose to exercise their First Amendment right to peacefully assemble in public and challenge the status quo.

Recently, this militarized exercise in intimidation reared its ugly head in the college town of Charlottesville, Va., where protesters who took to the streets to peacefully express their disapproval of a planned KKK rally were held at bay by implacable lines of gun-wielding riot police. Only after a motley crew of Klansmen had been safely escorted to and from the rally by black-garbed police did the assembled army of city, county and state police declare the public gathering unlawful and proceed to unleash canisters of tear gas on the few remaining protesters to force them to disperse.

To be clear, this is the treatment being meted out to protesters across the political spectrum.

The police state does not discriminate.

As a USA Today article notes, “People demanding justice, demanding accountability or demanding basic human rights without resorting to violence, should not be greeted with machine guns and tanks. Peaceful protest is democracy in action. It is a forum for those who feel disempowered or disenfranchised. Protesters should not have to face intimidation by weapons of war.”

A militarized police response to protesters poses a danger to all those involved, protesters and police alike. In fact, militarization makes police more likely to turn to violence to solve problems.

You want to turn a peaceful protest into a riot?

Bring in the militarized police with their guns and black uniforms and warzone tactics and “comply or die” mindset. Ratchet up the tension across the board. Take what should be a healthy exercise in constitutional principles (free speech, assembly and protest) and turn it into a lesson in authoritarianism.

Frankly, any police officer who tells you that he needs tanks, SWAT teams, and pepper spray to do his job shouldn’t be a police officer in a constitutional republic.

All that stuff in the First Amendment sounds great in theory. However, it amounts to little more than a hill of beans if you have to exercise those freedoms while facing down an army of police equipped with deadly weapons.

It doesn’t have to be this way. There are other, far better models to follow.

For instance, back in 2011, the St. Louis police opted to employ a passive response to Occupy St. Louis activists. First, police gave the protesters nearly 36 hours’ notice to clear the area, as opposed to the 20 to 60 minutes’ notice other cities gave. Then, as journalist Brad Hicks reports, when the police finally showed up:

They didn’t show up in riot gear and helmets, they showed up in shirt sleeves with their faces showing. They not only didn’t show up with SWAT gear, they showed up with no unusual weapons at all, and what weapons they had all securely holstered. They politely woke everybody up. They politely helped everybody who was willing to remove their property from the park to do so. They then asked, out of the 75 to 100 people down there, how many people were volunteering for being-arrested duty? Given 33 hours to think about it, and 10 hours to sweat it over, only 27 volunteered … and were escorted away by a handful of cops. The rest were advised to please continue to protest, over there on the sidewalk … and what happened next was the most absolutely brilliant piece of crowd control policing I have heard of in my entire lifetime. All of the cops who weren’t busy transporting and processing the voluntary arrestees lined up, blocking the stairs down into the plaza. They stood shoulder to shoulder. They kept calm and silent. They positioned the weapons on their belts out of sight. They crossed their hands low in front of them, in exactly the least provocative posture known to man. And they peacefully, silently, respectfully occupied the plaza, using exactly the same non-violent resistance techniques that the protesters themselves had been trained in.

As Forbes concluded, “This is a more humane, less costly, and ultimately more productive way to handle a protest. This is great proof that police can do it the old fashioned way – using their brains and common sense instead of tanks, SWAT teams, and pepper spray – and have better results.”

It can be done.

Police will not voluntarily give up their gadgets and war toys and combat tactics, however. Their training and inclination towards authoritarianism has become too ingrained.

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Politically Correct Thinking And The Threat To Free Speech

When I heard that the actor, writer, wit and raconteur Stephen Fry faces prosecution in Ireland for an alleged blasphemy contained in what seem to me fairly innocuous remarks, it reminded me that recently an anti blasphemy law was enacted in that so called liberal utopia, Canada. Blasphemy a crime in this secular century. What's going on?

Why Is Free Speech So Important?

British comedian and actor Stephen Fry, an intelligent and fair minded man, is in trouble for alleged blasphemy. Following complaints from some viewers about remarks made by Mr. Fry on the subject of religion, he is now the subject of a a criminal investigation by Irish police for alleged blasphemy.

During an edition of the talk show The Meaning of Life, hosted by veteran broadcaster Gay Byrne, in February 2015, the comedian was asked what he might say to God at the gates of heaven.

Fry, who is not a religious man, answered: "How dare you create a world in which there is such misery? It's not our fault? It's not right. It's utterly, utterly evil. Why should I respect a capricious, mean-minded, stupid god who creates a world which is so full of injustice and pain?"

He went on to say "the god who created this universe, if it was created by god, is quite clearly a maniac, an utter maniac, totally selfish".

He has explained that he was not directing his remarks at any particular religion and was simply stating his own opinion. The criminal status of blasphemy was revised in Ireland in 2009, presumably to accommodate the extreme views of Muslims on the subject of questioning faith.

Same Rules Must Apply

When the law forbids us to insult or offend somebody, to insult or offend a religion, race, skin colour or sexual preference, free speech and other important democratic rights are under threat.

When the law then goes on to say that anyone accused of these offences has no right to defend themselves and the word of the accuser is sufficient evidence on which to obtain a conviction, which was the norm in medieval Europe, and still is in many Islamic societies, then we have abandoned justice and returned to the law of the medieval witch hunts.

These stupid laws insult the public and threaten free speech

Beware the siren voices of the left who hide their abhorrence of freedom and individuality behind a mask of political correctness. "Oh but we must be sensitive to the feelings of Muslims," such people will claim. Why? And why do I never see or hear any of those politically correct whiners talking about "hate speech" when some fundamentalist Imam calls on followers of Islam to "rise up and destroy the infidel."

To be honest, such talk does not offend me, I regard it as ridiculous. But why can I, or another white male, say "Lets kick Muslims up the arse," by way of response. Why are we required to tolerate one but not the other? As Cicero said two thousand years ago, "Since our ancestors came out of the hills to live as civilised people, it has been understood that there can only be one law and it must apply equally to all."

Everything we say and do could be interpreted by somebody as aggressive or insulting. There have been cases of a look being deemed racially or sexually harassing.

It is time we stood up for the right to express our opinions, and urged others to deal with it by being grown up enough to ignore things overheard or seen in print that are not directed at a specific individual or group by are merely the opinion of some individual, stated in a way that suggests the comments were part of a private exchange, or were a general, abstract statement.

Nobody promised life was fair. And making life sterile by imposing conformity on everybody will not actually make life any fairer. All it will achieve is the suppression of a very important type of diversity, not the diversity of colour the politically correct lobby make so much noise about, but which is really only skin deep, but diversity of ideas.

So come on Ireland, get off Stephen Fry's case, he was only expressing his own doubts about God, not trying to tell everybody else they had to believe as he does.

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What has happened to the news. At one time the news press referred to itself as 'the fourth estate', a reference to the three estates of the nation, the government, The Monarchy and the church The news and commpent journals assigned to themselves the task of objectively and impartilly holding the others to account by investigating the background to events and reporting the facts. No more it seems.

There are no journalists now, neither the reporters in the feild, a job my Dad did for years, following tips from stringers and leads from rumour and gossip, digging into the background of stories, finding out the who, what, where, when, why and reporting it without embellishment, nor are there the independent commentators, the columnists and freelancers whose task was to analyse news stories in the wider context, join the dots and ensure an alternative to propaganda was presented to the government; today news organisations are simply broadcasting or pritning whatever they are given by the anonymous "sources" of government and corporate piblic relations departments. They show no curiosity, no suspicion,. simply swallowing everything they are spoon fed, too credulous to be real journalist they simply provide sensational titbits for a cusomer base with an ever shortening attention span. These are really end times for the MSM unless things change and soon.

True journalists about as relevant in this world of political and corporate control freakery as cordwainer (a worker in Cordovan leather), a higgler (a travelling buyer and seller of dairy products) a pargeter (an ornamental plasterer) or a fletcher (maker of arrows) These skills, trades, professions and hundreds more have been exterminated ... along with the need for truth in media. Since 9-11, all over the world there has been a concerted and determined effort to target and remove all those who would stay true to the principles of the reorter's craft. Just think for a moment of the enormous effort expended by governments and mainstream media to suppress discission of the all too obvious flaws in the official narrative surrounding that event. Or, over several decades, to silence those who dared to question the rispible official account of the assassination of president Kennedy. And, to raise up in its place, a raft of imitators who style themselves reporters, but need have no accountability, nor take the trouble to ever leave their computer screens to go and "follow" a story, their job being to simply rephrase official press releases, tailoring their hackneyed accounts to the prejudices of the intended audiences.

What most people are unaware of is that this faux-journalism is a direct consequence of the centralisation of power on the seat of government (Washington, London, Brussels, Paris etc.) and of wealth (control rather than ownership of) in the hands of global corporations and financial institutions. When leaders and academics start to talk of the need for a world government, they cannot be thinking of the interests of ordinary people who work hard for a living. At the time of writing The European Union is failing simply because it tried to merge the interests of Siciluan almond growers and Greek sheep farmers with those of Urianium miners in Kiruna, northern Sweden or the indusrtial workers of Germany. Realists would have seen the sheer impossibility of creating a one size fits all economy and culture to serve these vastly different groups.

The ideologically diven elitists arrogantly assumed that by controlling everything they could impose their cultural Marxist vision on the world, and have controlled mainstream media because news organisations were controlled by the corporate and financial elite. But the public saw through the managed news outpuut they werre being offered and turned elsewhere. Now it falls to new media, alt_media, to challenge the special interest groups controlling all communication channels and oppose the control freaks. It can be, and has been, argued however that alt_media represents just more special interests with even less accountability.

"There is no longer any attempt to maintain the illusion that makes events capable of adopting the force of news reporting that provides an accurate reflection of reality. Only the medium can make an event - whatever the contents, whether they are conformist or subversive. AND - There are no more media in the literal sense of the word - that is, of a mediating power between one reality and another, between one state of the real and another."

The role of news media then has changed from 'mediating' between events and the reader, to acting as a narcotic, medicating the reader against reality with trivia, celebrity gossip, and concocted storylines customised to appeal to the target audience in order that the central authority can control the narratives and thus shape opinion.

"The Deep State, The Shadow Government, call it what you will, has usurped the role of "the media" in informing the public and "speaking truth to power" to borrow a phrase from anorganisation that has abandoned the principle. Likewise the state has re-defined the terms "democracy" and "free speech" to serve it's own ends, and is now picking off the social media tools which had formerly belonged to the user community as a network of contributors, thus relegating "the media" to the role of a harem eunuch, a jongleur, an entertainer.

All of this has been meekly accepted by a web addicted audience which has forsaken critical thinking skills to a cabal of experts and gurus determined to put the lie to that old adage - 'you can't fool all of the people, all of the time. What a lot of people do not understand about web techology is its ability to make doing just that very easy.

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During a lively discussion with Joe Scarborough, centered on fears that President Trump is "trying to undermine the media," MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski let slip the unspoken truth that mainstream media sees its "job" as to "actually control exactly what people think."

SCARBOROUGH: "Exactly. That is exactly what I hear. What Yamiche said is what I hear from all the Trump supporters that I talk to who were Trump voters and are still Trump supporters. They go, 'Yeah you guys are going crazy. He's doing -- what are you so surprised about? He is doing exactly what he said he is going to do.'"

BRZEZINSKI: "Well, I think that the dangerous, you know, edges here are that he is trying to undermine the media and trying to make up his own facts. And it could be that while unemployment and the economy worsens, he could have undermined the messaging so much that he can actually control exactly what people think. And that, that is our job."

As another panellist points out, the comment failed to raise any eyebrows from her co-panelists. Instead, her co-host, Joe Scarborough, said that Trump's media antagonism puts him on par with Mussolini and Lenin...

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After Brexit European Union Moves To Abolish Free Speech!

A report in New Europe reveals that in Leeuwarden, Netherlands "about twenty opponents of the plans [to establish asylum centers] in the region received police visits at home." In other words, the government of Netherlands, a nation that has paraded its liberalism, is engaging in state censorship, which raises the question: Is the Netherlands now a police state?

At the time of writing Geert Wilders, leader of the anti - EU, anti - immigration Freedom Party in The Netherlands Parliament is on trial for 'hate speech'because of some innocuous remarks he mad about the country not needing any more Moroccan immigrants.

In the town of Sliedrecht, the Thought Police arrived at Mark Jongeneel's office to tell him that he tweeted "too much" and that he should "watch his tone": his tweets "may seem seditious". His offense? One tweet said: "The College of #Sliedrecht comes up with a proposal to take 250 refugees over the next two years. What a bad idea!"

In September 2015, Die Welt reported that people who air "xenophobic" views on social media, risk losing the right to see their own children.

Some might say it is an over - reaction to dub the EU a putative fascist superstate, but while European citizens are increasingly at risk of arrest for "hate speech" and "xenophobic remarks" (both terms for which there is no legal definition, the law does not apply equally to all Europeans, the ruling elites it sems can say what they like about whom they dislike. German EU Commissioner Günther Oettinger recently called a visiting Chinese delegation of ministers "slant eyes" ("Schlitzaugen"). European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker immediately promoted Oettinger to be in charge of the EU budget.

It is not an isolated case. While EU leaders routinely slag off in the most xenophobic terms anybody who opposes their cultural Marxist, globalist agenda, citizens, are arrested and prosecutedfor exercising their right to free speech. Anybody can be a target it seems, except for Muslims, blacks and gays.

We have said before that in Europe and throughout the developed world We The People are at war, and our common enemy is not Russia, China, Iran, Islamic fundamentalism or nationalistic extremism. It is our own governments, the ruling elites, politicians, academics, the professions, the super rich, media luvvies and that army of 'experts' that has spring up, ready to pontificate on anything everything. Evidence is mounting that expressing any opinion, no matter how reasonable, that runs counter to official government policy can land you in prison, or at least ensure a visit from your local Thought Police. Has the European Union effectively become a police state in a desperate but doomed bit to stop disintegration? It would seem so and our FREE ebook on the subject shows that turning the proud old nations of Europe into a bureaucratic dictatorship.

Several European governments including Germany and Sweden have made clear to their citizens that criticizing migrants or European Union 'open doors' immmigration policies will be treated as a criminal offence. People who go "too far," according to the authorities, are being arrested, prosecuted and at times convicted.

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The anti - establishment, anti - globalisation mood that manifested itself in the Brexit vote is sweeping across Europe, the cosy government - corporate cartel is desperately trying to control the narrative, but against the combined strength of millions of new media commentators all challenging the official; narrative, the dar forces of globalism are on the back foot. With the warnings of Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy in mind, concerning the dark forces at work in American society, the 'shadow government', this post examines the threat to freedom posed by a hillary Clinton prediency.
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The Global Warming Scam Is A Weapon In The War On Free Speech

An article in The Washington Times looks at the latest move to silence those who question the motives of the climate change lobby and the pseudo science behind the scam. I, and many of my friends, all believers in freedom of speech and expression, have frequently been callede 'climate deniers' and worse for exposing the statistical frauds behind climate change scaremongering.

Nobody denies there is a climate of course, and nobody denies that it changes. Sometimes a sunny day changes to cold and cloudy, sometimes the sun hardly warms our lands for wekas as rain, snow and hail pummel us. The wind blows strongly on Tuesday, uprooting treees and overturning high sided goods vehicles but on Wednesday, hardly a cats paw ripples the surface of the lake. Mark Twain, who was very wise and did not need mathematical models to help him understand that some things lie beyond the meddling of man, observed that "everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it."

The attorney general of the U.S. Virgin Islands thinks he has found the way to silence, once and for all, the debate over global warming, or climate change, or whatever the 'progressive liberals' and other authoritarian neo fascists are calling the scam this week. Claude Walker, the Obama of the Caribbean who leads the assault on not just free speech but freedom of thought in the idyllic Caribbean microstate presented a subpoena this week to compel the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a public policy think tank skeptical of the climate scam, to turn over all its documents relating to the Institute’s research.

His 14-page subpoena demands the Institute’s documents, communications, emails, op-eds, speeches, advertisements, letters to the editor, research, reports, studies and memoranda of any kind — including drafts — that refer to climate change, greenhouse gases, carbon tax, climate science and the like that in any way are related to Exxon Mobil or the "products sold by, activities carried out by ExxonMobil that directly or indirectly impact climate change."

Mr. Walker reveals the real intent of his lawsuit with a demand for a list of donors to the Institute, the better to pressure them with threats of legal harassment. "We’ve been targeted for our opinions," says Kent Lassman, the new president and CEO of the Institute. Mr. Walker, in fact, is merely acting as the front man for 20 states who have joined forces to prosecute organizations that have exposed the doomsday wailing and gnashing of teeth that is the stock in trade of the global-warming industry.

"Not everyone believes that the planet is warming," Glenn Harlan Reynolds, a law professor at the University of Tennessee, wrote recently in USA Today, "and not everyone who thinks [the planet] is warming agrees on how much; not everyone who thinks that it is warming even believes that laws or regulation can make a difference. Yet the goal of these state attorneys general seems to be to treat disagreement as something more or less criminal."

In fact the ultimate goal of the ruling elites has little to do with global warming or climate change. The goal is clearly to demonstrate that the government has the power to punish dissent, silence criticism, shut down objections and disagreement, and even prosecute those who have politically incorrect thoughts. You must let government make all your decisions for you, because we have PhD qualifications in Philosophy, Politics and Economics while you the masses are stupid and cannot understand complex issues. Government must be unimpeded in doing whatever it wants to do to youir life.

"[This subpoena] is designed not only to silence us," says Myron Ebell, an official of the Institute, "but it is also designed to defund us. These [are] efforts to defund us and other free-market groups that have politically incorrect views on climate and some other major issues. We’ve been dealing with this for a long time, but I think we have now reached another level. When you get an attorney general involved, it’s no longer just a debate in the public base that tries to shut us up, but it’s using the full force of the state to do so."

So there you have it, the climate change scare is really, as my friends and I have always said, about power and control and little to do with saving the planet. This last bit is probably fortunate as not of the predictions of catastrophe in recent years (ice cap melt, rishing sea levels, 50 million refugees, no more snow, mass extinction, the destruction of coral reefs and widespread famile because of crop failure have actually happened so it's a good thing world leaders only managed to agree that 'something must be done' without actually having a clue what. Because any money spent would have been wasted and any actions such as the proposed but in practical terms impossible geoengineering projects might well have resulted in far worse humancatatstrophes than the very worst predicitions of the climate scientists mathematical models of the climate could produce.

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Ignorance Is Strength: European Parliament Ready To clamp Down On Free Speech

by Ian R Thorpe,

"War is peace,
freedom is slavery,
ignorance is strength"

So wrote George Orwell in his dystopian (but eerily prophetic) novel '1984'. Intelegtuals have puzzled over the meaning of these slogans of 'The English Socialist Party' (INGSOC) for decades (find an answer but not THE ANSWER here).

Needless to say the actual meaning is multi layered, but when we recall that under the Big Brother regime of the novel, social control is maintained through technological surveillance and through the powers granted to The Thought Police, then the latest news to leak out of the European Parliament takes on a far more sinister aspect that one would immediately assume.

We have reported the President of the European Parliament (Gauleiter Martin Schulz) has often publicly expressed his contempt for democracy and said public opinion is irrelevant and voters are too ignorant to understand the issues they are voting on the fact that the EU has three Presidents, Schulz, Jean - Claude Drunkard, President of the EU Commission (the executive branch) and Donald Tusk, President of the EU Council, the committee of national leaders and senior bureaucrats, should tell you everything you need to know about the nature of this bureaucratic dictatorship.

The EU is blatantly pro American, supportive of moves towards global totalitatrian government and opposed to democracy, except for the kind of democratic assembly that merely rubber stamps bureaucrats decisions. Moreover, the EU has well documented designs towards extending 'Europe' into the middle east and north Africa, which makes an insane kind of sense of Hausfrau - Volksfuhrer Merkel's determination to flood Europe with illegal immigrants from those regions.

So what of the EU's latest threat to the right of free speech and free expression?

The European Parliament Subcommittee on Security and Defense is openly Russophobic in accusing Russia of waging an information war, MEP Javier Couso warns.

According to Couso, a recent subcommittee discussion on 'Russian propaganda' and the 'threat posed by Russia' was attended by two NATO officials, one of them being an employee of United States dominated Stratcom – the alliance's Strategic Communications Center.

"We were presented with a report which claimed that Russia and Russian media are lying to the Europeans and seeking to mislead them," Couso told the media. "I disagreed because we, the European citizens, were being told what we should or shouldn't watch." This of course accords with what Boggart Abroad has reported previously about western propaganda demonising Russia to swing public opinion in support of a war President Obama desperately needs.

Cuoso also leaked information that there’s already at least one team tasked with opposing 'Russian propaganda' by using a website and freelance employees to debunk ‘disinformation.’

"They intend to create Russian-language media outlets in order to oppose this 'propaganda', along with European media which would openly denounce journalists working for certain media agencies – for example, RT and Sputnik were mentioned by name – and accuse them of spreading disinformation," the MEP added.

Couso surmised that the goal of Washington and NATO’s appears to be preventing the EU from maintaining friendly relations with Russia.

"The thing is, NATO has made a strategic decision not only to encircle Russia, but to exclude it from Europe’s collective security system. Therefore, all of NATO’s actions – and, unfortunately, those of the EU countries which support the alliance – are aimed at preventing us from enjoying good relations with Russia, all for the US’ benefit," Couso concluded.

Earlier this month, the European External Action Service (EEAS) announced the creation of its Russian-language news website. According to the EEAS, the site will present visitors with a wide assortment of publications on the anti-Russian sanctions, life in Ukraine, and EU efforts in the Middle East, along with the so called 'Disinformation Reviews' compiled by a "mythbusting network" comprised of "over 300 experts, journalists, officials, NGOs and Think Tanks in over 30 countries." As we said, pure propaganda presenting the European and American point of view. Russia of course uses Russia Today and Sputnik to present its point of view. Btween the two we have to use our common sense filters to decide for ourselves what is somewhere near the truth.

Here to help you is an amusing and informative Dummies Guide To The Syrian Conflict, which shows how nothing in international relations is straightforward. Which is why you should follow sites like Boggart Abroad, always sceptical and anti - establishment and always willing to remind you that in the geopolitical gunfight at the OK Corral, none of the contenders is wearing a white hat.

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Loretta Lynch And The Government War On Free Speech

During her appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week, Attorney General Loretta Lynch admitted that she asked the FBI to examine whether the federal government should take legal action against so-called climate change deniers. Attorney General Lynch is not responding to any criminal acts committed by climate change skeptics. Instead, she is responding to requests from those frustrated that dissenters from the alleged climate change consensuses have successfully blocked attempts to create new government programs to fight climate change.

These climate change censors claim that the argument over climate change is settled and the deniers’ success in blocking congressional action is harming the public. Therefore, the government must disregard the First Amendment and silence anyone who dares question the reigning climate change dogma. This argument ignores the many reputable scientists who have questioned the magnitude, effects, and role of human action in causing climate change.

If successful, the climate change censors could set a precedent that could silence numerous other views. For example, many people believe the argument over whether we should audit, and then end, the Federal Reserve is settled. Therefore, the deniers of Austrian economics are harming the public by making it more difficult for Congress to restore a free-market monetary policy. So why shouldn’t the government silence Paul Krugman?

The climate change censorship movement is part of a larger effort to silence political speech. Other recent examples include the IRS’s harassment of tea party groups as well as that agency’s (fortunately thwarted) attempt to impose new rules on advocacy organizations that would have limited their ability to criticize a politician’s record in the months before an election.

The IRS and many state legislators and officials are also trying to force public policy groups to hand over the names of their donors. This type of disclosure can make individuals fearful that, if they support a pro-liberty group, they will face retaliation from the government.

Efforts to silence government critics may have increased in recent years; however, the sad fact is the US Government has a long and shameful history of censoring speech. It is not surprising that war and national security have served as convenient excuses to limit political speech. So-called liberal presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt both supported wartime crackdowns on free speech.

Today, many neoconservatives are using the war on terror to justify crackdowns on free speech, increased surveillance of unpopular religious groups like Muslims, and increased government control of social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter. Some critics of US foreign policy have even been forbidden to enter the country.

Many opponents of government restrictions on the First Amendment and other rights of Muslims support government actions targeting so-called “right-wing extremists.” These fair-weather civil liberties defenders are the mirror image of conservatives who support restricting the free speech rights of Muslims in the name of national security, yet clam to oppose authoritarian government. Defending speech we do not agree with is necessary to effectively protect the speech we support.

A government that believes it can run our lives, run the economy, and run the world will inevitably come to believe it can, and should, have the power to silence its critics. Eliminating the welfare-warfare state is the key to protecting our free speech, and other liberties, from an authoritarian government.



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BBC Compares Free Speech Advocate To Islamic Hate Preachers

The BBC (Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation) has been moving from impartial news reporting towards the role of government Propaganda department for some time. In the latest demonstration of its commitment to the destruction of British society and the suppression of dissent and diversity of opinion came last week when it broadcast a programme that labels free speech advocate Anne Marie Waters a “radical extremist”, comparing her defences of free speech and individual liberty to the Islamic hate preacher Haitham al Haddad who campaigns on a "death to the infidel" platform. The BBC documentary implied that British libertarianism and fundamentalist Islamic extremism are two sides of the same coin.

Ms. Waters’s media profile increased recently when it was reported that she was planning to host a ‘Draw Mohammed’ cartoon competition in London.

The BBC series, titled “Radicals,” is currently being broadcast on the rabidly left wing Victoria Derbyshire show on the BBC News channel. The previous two episodes have featured a Neo-Nazi radicals and an ISIS recruiter respectively.

The episode in question causing the anti - British traitors at the BBC problems is entitled “I’ve been silenced for my views.” The fact that Anne Marie Waters has built a career campaigning against radicalism and extremist views is not mentioned in the programme, though they do mention that she is the director of the Shariah Watch organisation that campaigns against sharia law in the United Kingdom. Clearly the BBC to not regard the preservation of British liberal values anywhere near as important as protecting one of their sacred cows by suppressing any criticism of Islam.

The BBC has edited the programme in such a way that Ms. Waters’s quotes appear to mirror Haddad’s. Both say they not radicals.

Haitham al Haddad is a British “scholar” of Palestinian origin, who has called Jews “apes and pigs,” praised Osama bin Laden, written articles arguing gays are a “scourge” and “criminal,” and given his support to female genital mutilation (FGM) as “proper.” He once spoke regularly in British universities and schools, but has recently had the majority of his events canceled.

A great supporter of the British tradition of tolerance and freedom of opinion is our Haitham.

Marie runs shariawatch.com, which was one of several organisations planning to put on the “Draw Mohammad” competition in London that was recently cancelled. The security services believed the event would be attacked, leading to a “very real possibility that people could be hurt or killed – before, during, and after the event.”

“The two people I’ve met feel they’ve been silenced, censored and misunderstood,” the presenter tells us, “they’ve both had events repeatedly called off; they’ve both been accused of preaching hate.”



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Academics Warn Politically Correct Universities ‘Are Killing Free Speech’

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A lot of (well deserved) criticism has been levelled at university administrations and student organisations recently for turning campuses into politically correct "safe spaces" where the frail of spirit may never be shocked or brutalised by a harsh word or a controversial idea. British universities are denying the "intellectual challenge of debating conflicting views" in their eagerness to conform to some kind of ersatz consensus, a group of leading academics have warned.

Geneticist and controversial proponent of militant atheism, Professor Richard Dawkins recently said students who cannot handle hearing anti-transgender views to "leave, go home, hug your teddy and suck your thumb until ready for university," however it seems the dark forces of politically correct thought policing, which prefer ‘safe spaces’ (i.e. like Kindergarten) over genuine academic debate and intellectual freedom hold sway.

A group of academics including professors from the universities of Buckingham, Canterbury, Derby, Kent, Liverpool and Sheffield has written an open letter to the Daily Telegraph to warn that politically correct student power in universities is seeing freedom of speech "being curtailed as never before."

They do not blame the universities or their students entirely, the authors of the letter point out that "the Government’s anti-terrorism legislation, known as Prevent, imposes restrictions on who can and cannot speak on campus and forces academics to police students and each other." Government sympathies with Islamic extremism and 'rights' groups that lobby for minorities to be granted privileged status 'in the name of equality' escape criticism although the use of terms like homophobia and islamophobic have become the standard approach for suppressing the expression of certain perfectly reasonable points of view.

The professors' main target is student-driven censorship regimes under which "the list of speakers banned from unions by students is growing, and even banned artefacts: from pop songs to sombreros." Somewhat hypocritically, student organisations refused to condemn Asian extremist Bahar Mustafa, whose job as Student Union Diversity Officer came under threat when, following a number of ant - white, anti - free speech controversies, she tweeted "All white men should be killed." Mustafa defended herself against accusations of racism by saying, "I can't be racist, I'm an ethnic minority woman." We cannot say if she is racist or not, but she is certainly not intelligent enough to be getting a university education at taxpayers' expense, or to be employed in a responsible job in the higher education sector.

And what does that say about the brainwashed idiots who supported her?

The crux of their argument is that the rise in tuition fees has meant universities changed their attitude towards students, now seeing them instead as “customers”. Universities therefore feel a growing pressure to give their customers what they want such that "in turn, many of the most vocal students feel they have a right to demand protection from images, words and ideas that offend them." And that only encourages pathetic, immature little middle class attention seekers to dream up all sorts of stupid reasons to be offended by everyday things.

The letter writers comment on the idiotic idea of 'safe spaces' to reinforce their case, explaining:

A small but vocal minority of student activists is arguing that universities need to be turned into 'safe spaces'. This represents an attempt to immunise academic life from the intellectual challenge of debating conflicting views. Unfortunately the authors do not see an appetite for defending free speech among their academic colleagues, with only very few willing to challenge 'censorship from students'. Calling for more anti-censorship academics to join their ranks and 'take a much stronger stance against all forms of censorship', they add:

"It is important that more do, because a culture that restricts the free exchange of ideas leaves people afraid to express their views in case they may be misinterpreted. This risks destroying the very fabric of democracy.

An open and democratic society requires people to have the courage to argue against ideas they disagree with or even find offensive. At the moment there is a real risk that students are not given opportunities to engage in such debate."

One of the letter’s signatories who is not herself an academic, the secular human rights activist Maryam Namazie, has herself been banned from speaking at universities, and even threatened by students when she has been able to address them.

But let's not get carried away, "academics" are just as guilty of political correctness, as the students are, and it is they who are fomenting the idea of killing free speech. The students are basically thick, immature, brainwashed idiots who have to think what they are told to think because they are not equipped to think for themselves so it's hardly surprising that they emulate their professors, one critic in an Internet thread commented. Good knockabout comedy of course, but let's move from reportage to analysis.

Politically correct ideology has often been compared to fascism. Here's something Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega wrote in an essay in they on the rise of fascism through the 1920s and 30s .

"Under Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions. This is the new thing: the right not to be reasonable, the "reason of unreason." Here I see the most palpable manifestation of the new mentality of the masses, due to their having decided to rule society without the capacity for doing so. In their political conduct the structure of the new mentality is revealed in the rawest, most convincing manner. The average man finds himself with "ideas" in his head, but he lacks the faculty of ideation. He has no conception even of the rare atmosphere in which ideals live. He wishes to have opinions, but is unwilling to accept the conditions and presuppositions that underlie all opinion. Hence his ideas are in effect nothing more than appetites in words.

"To have an idea means believing one is in possession of the reasons for having it, and consequently means believing that there is such a thing as reason, a world of intelligible truths. To have ideas, to form opinions, is identical with appealing to such an authority, submitting oneself to it, accepting its code and its decisions, and therefore believing that the highest form of intercommunication is the dialogue in which the reasons for our ideas are discussed. But the mass-man would feel himself lost if he accepted discussion, and instinctively repudiates the obligation of accepting that supreme authority lying outside himself. Hence the "new thing" in Europe is "to have done with discussions," and detestation is expressed for all forms of intercommunication, which imply acceptance of objective standards, ranging from conversation to Parliament, and taking in science. This means that there is a renunciation of the common life of barbarism. All the normal processes are suppressed in order to arrive directly at the imposition of what is desired. The hermeticism of the soul which, as we have seen before, urges the mass to intervene in the whole of public life."

Substitute "academics and students" for "elites", and it is scarily similar.

Today's battle between liberty and authoritarianism seems to have turned Ortega's analysis on its head. The threat to the rights and freedoms of people uncivilized societies appears now to come not from jackbooted thus who follow a demagogue, but from the elites who govern without any commitment to civilization itself and the students who would become part of that elite. From enabling the recent shootings in Paris, and allowing the looting of the Baghdad Museum in Iraq, to permitting the destruction of Palmyra in Syria, Western elites have apparently abandoned the civilizing mission which once both defined the West and provided the "soft power" necessary to maintain world peace.

Current campus "uprisings" at Cambridge, London, Bristol and Warwick amongst many, have seen bans imposed on even established left wing and liberal speakers who had gone against the politically correct view on subjects such as Islamic extremism, same sex marriage and transgender rights. In the USA, recent student outcries at Ivy League universities Yale and Columbia, and at the University of Missouri and many other less illustrious colleges are among the latest to be conquered by left wing barbarism. Uncivilized, and indeed Fascist, attitudes are obvious to the most casual observer.

In this lies the heart of the current problem, by for if Western elites, a absolutely corrupted by their absolute power, are in revolt against civilized values such as free speech, then civilization cannot stand unless the power elites are overthrown. The legitimacy of government depends upon the values as well as the character of those who govern. Such things justify status. The other factor on which the legitimacy of government depends is the consent of the masses.



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France Moves to Make ‘Conspiracy Theories’ Illegal by Government Decree
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"It's Over For Me" Matt Drudge Warns Public "You're A Pawn In The 'Ghetto-isation'" Of The Web

Love him or hate him, Matt Drudge was a pioneer of the internet and alternative news, so when he says freedom of speech on the internet is threatened by new laws and international trade agreements that threaten the internet freedom of independent and alternative news sites, we should take the warning seriously. Here's what Drudge had to say about new, corporate friendly, individualism hostile laws being pushed by the Neo - Con Obama administration:

The very foundation of the free Internet is under severe threat from copyright laws that could ban independent media outlets, according to Matt Drudge. "I had a Supreme Court Justice tell me it’s over for me,” said Drudge, warning web users that they were being pushed "pawn-like" into the cyber "ghettos" of Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

It has to be said Drudge is being a bit of a drama queen here. Free speech is threatened for people who use Google or Bing or log on via servers sited in the USA, European Union or other undemocratic "democracies" but you can bet Russia, China and Iran will defent our online freedom even as they deny such freedom to their own citizens.

During an interview on the Alex Jones Show, Drudge claimed that copyright laws which prevent websites from even linking to news stories were being pushed through by lawmakes around the world"

"I had a Supreme Court Justice tell me it’s over for me,” said Drudge. “They’ve got the votes now to enforce copyright law, you’re out of there. They’re going to make it so you can’t even use headlines.
"To have a Supreme Court Justice say to me it’s over, they’ve got the votes, which means time is limited,” he added, noting that a day was coming when simply operating an independent website could be outlawed.
"That will end (it) for me – fine – I’ve had a hell of a run,” said Drudge, adding that web users were being pushed into the cyber “ghettos” of Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
"This is ghetto, this is corporate, they’re taking your energy and you’re getting nothing in return – nothing!”


Drudge warned that social media giants like Twitter and Facebook swallow up content and make sure few people see it. Corporate money is strangling the organic growth of independent Internet news platforms on the web. Automated news aggregators like Google News were among the main culprits.

“Google News – hello anybody? The idiots reading that crap think there is actually a human there – there is no human there – you are being programmed to being automated even up to your news….a same corporate glaze over everything,” said Drudge.
To me, not a famous blogger because I never tried very hard after a career in the computer business burned be out in 1997 before I was fifty but I get plenty of traffic, the solution is simple. Stop letting Google, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft think for you, Artificial Intelligence is bollocks, mchines can't think, all they casn do it match strings of binary digits. Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, Apple and most of the others collaborate with the US government and the corporate giants pushing for a global totalitarian government. Avoid them, there are plenty of other search engines. Firefox is a fine browser though how true its claims about protecting your privacy are, I could not say but there are other good browswers out there that do not mask controversial or dissentious information. Why let yourself be confined within what the Obama administration and fascist corporations like Facebook define as the Internet as a result of this “corporate makeover” of the web. Did you know that what the avergage user, browsing with Google or Bing can see is about 4% of what is actually available online?

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France's FN Win Regional Elections First Round. Now The Cheating Starts
We want to avoid the usual hyperbole on this story, but victory for France’s Front National in the first round of regional elections on Sunday (6 December, 2015), in which the anti EU party led by Marine Le Pen lead the vote in six of France's thirteen regions, will shake up the political landscape not only in France but throughout Europe and possibly further afield.

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Seinfeld: Comedians Tell Me ‘Don’t Go Near Colleges — They’re So PC’

via News Feeds, 6 June, 2015

Comedian Jerry Seinfeld speaking on ESPNU and ESPN Radio’s “The Herd with Colin Cowherd” on Thursday (5 June) referred to how other comedians have warned him to not take his comedy act to college campuses because they are so politically correct now.

According to Seinfeld, people do not even know what they are talking about when they throw out terms such as “racist” or “sexist” and this has made its way into colleges, making them too politically correct to do comedy. The same could be said of course for social media, (aka idiot media?) where people who identify themselves as on the political left hurl accusations of racism and homophobia without the least understanding of what the terms mean.

“I don’t play colleges but I hear a lot of people tell me, ‘Don’t go near colleges, they’re so PC.’ My daughter’s 14. My wife says to her, ‘Well, you know, in the next couple of years, I think maybe you’re going to want to hang around the city more on the weekends so you can see boys.’ You know, my daughter says, ‘That’s sexist.’ They just want to use these words. ‘That’s racist. That’s sexist. That’s prejudice.’ They don’t even know what they’re talking about.”

Chris Rock echoed a similar sentiment last year, saying colleges are "too conservative." He meant authoritarian of course but it wouldn't do for a black comedian to accuse 'liberals' of authoritarianism.



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Why Are Governments Scared Of Truth? France Begins Crackdown on Conspiracy Theories
We reported several weeks ago that the French government was planning a clampdown on conspiray theories by shutting down certain dissident websites. Since then we have learned the French government have shown they are prepared to go even further in attacking citizens right of free speech

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Anti-Islamist Talk Cancelled at Trinity College Over Fear of Antagonising Muslim Students

Iranian human rights campaigner Maryam Namazie who describes Islam as a "totalitarian global threat" has been prevented from speaking at Trinity College, Dublin (TCD). Refusal to observe a set of constraints and limitations not imposed on other speakers, including advocated of Sharia introducing law in the UK and campaigners for a separate Islamic state within Britain, was the reason given.

Ms. Namazie, who is often threatened with physical violence for speaking out against fundamentalist Islam, was scheduled to speak to the university’s Society for International Affairs (SOFIA). Her talk was to be titled: Apostasy and the Rise of Islamism.

SOFIA is trying to dissociate itself from the cancellation, claiming Ms Namazie cancelled the engagement following a 'miscommunication' about the limitations placed on speakers. Aoife McLoughlin-Ngo, chair of SOFIA used a blatant lie to justify this attack on free speech, saying none of SOFIA’s events are open to non members. Unfortunastely McLoughlin-Ngo had promoted the event on Facebook a few days earlier with this message: 'Hey guys, there are 2 event pages – the page I’m linking is open to people outside of SOFIA Members page.'

Ms Namazie insists the college blocked her appearance in order to appease Muslim students who may have been be offended by things she planned to say.

"I’ve just been informed that college security (why security?) has claimed that the event would show the college is “one-sided” and would be “antagonising” to “Muslim students” she wrote on her blog on last Friday. “They threatened to cancel my talk [unless the conditions are met]."

"I, however, will not be submitting to any conditions, particularly since such conditions are not usually placed on other speakers.

"I intend to speak on Monday as initially planned without any restrictions and conditions and ask that TCD give me immediate assurances that I will be able to do so.”

Trinity College declined to give the assurances and the speech was cancelled. To put the bias of SOFIA and the college authorities in perspective, last month, February 2015, Kamal El Mekki was allowed speak at the university in an event at the invitation of the TCD Muslim Students Association and the Irish branch of the al-Maghrib Institute, an organisation for promoting Salafist Islam in universities around the world.

One must wonder what kind of neo - fascist fuckwits are running universities in the west, when Maryam Namazie is gagged by the university authorities in an EU and predominantly Roman Catholic nation such as Ireland, yet El Mekki who has in the past advocated the death penalty for apostates and stoning of adulterers is allowed to speak. When the Committee was shown a video of El Mekki explaining his views, Ms Namazie says they responded that they "could not see why there can even be a discussion about cancelling the event" and that his video was simply "explanatory and not advocatory".

Weasel words from a bunch of sewer rat academics? We could not possibly comment but this might give you a clue as to what kind of hypocritical, self righteous, white - hating racist scum are eating our tax money.

His (El Mekki's) event was allowed to go ahead without the restrictions that the university sought to impose on me," said Ms Namazie in an interview with Independent Ireland. "It is unsettling because these people are given free access to a campus, while those who oppose violence and speak out against the violation of rights of non-Muslims and Muslims alike have restrictions placed on them.

“If you criticise the Islamist movement, which is a far right political movement, you are seen as attacking ordinary Muslims – and this is not the case. Muslims are not a homogenous group. If you criticise the English Defence League, you’re not attacking the English.

"It is no surprise why we see so many young people turn to ISIS when no discussion is allowed to take place without concerns that Islamists might be offended."

She has vowed to speak at the university and has said on her blog that she is currently in discussion with a number of other societies on how this might be achieved.



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The Sad Story Of The Queer Fascist And His Gay Cake

by Arthur Foxake, 29 March, 2015

A Christian baker who refused a bake a cake in support of same sex marriage gave an impassioned defence of his faith, his human rights and the principles of liberal democracy in court last week. Here's a picture of the cake that was ordered, think for a moment if it is offensive and later I will tell you why it is. sesame-street-gay-cake

The Daily Express reported that Daniel McArthur, of Asher’s Bakery in Northern Ireland, told Belfast County Court that to put such a message on the cake would go against his deeply-held religious beliefs. Giving evidence in the second day of a court hearing, he said: “The reason for the decision was that, as Christians, we could not put that message on a cake. Gay marriage is clearly in contradiction of the Bible.

“Our Christian faith is of utmost importance to us. It is how we run our lives, it is how we live our lives, it is how we bring up our families.

“Before God, this is something we couldn’t make.”

The bakery charged with an offence against gay rights by Northern Ireland’s Equality Commission after to take an order for the cake pictured from gay activist Gareth Lee. He had wanted the cake decorated with Sesame Street characters Bert and Ernie arm-in-arm under the text “Support Gay Marriage.”

Now here we hit the first problem. The cake does not appear to be a wedding cake, it makes no mention of two people getting married so it appears Lee in ordering the cake was trying to impose his political opinions on Asher's bakery, which is a violation of about a million human rights. Next, it associates two characters from the under fives TV show Sesame Street. Two muppets in other words.

Now for years the turd burglar lobby (yes, if they want to claim the right to offend me, I have the richt to offend them,)told us they are not paedophiles. And most of us were happy to accept that, I never knew a homosexual male who was remotely interested in children, most seemed to regard them as repulsive little snot factories. So why was it so important a few years ago for the gay rights screechers in the USA to bully the makers of Sesame Street to declare these characters "gay"? Muppets are neither gay nor straight, Muppets are soft toys.

Still the gay rights screechers did us a service by outing themselves as liars and revealing they had a very unhealthy interest in sexualising pre - school children. Sick creeps.

But back to Belfast. Lee, who is member of campaign group Queer Space, claimed the refusal led to him feeling like a "lesser person". The cake was later made elsewhere. A lesser person? This piece of sewer slime is a drama queen as well as a wjining little creep. Let me spell out the position for Mr. Lee.

My wife and I have a significant wedding anniversary coming up. Now if our son (conceived naturally and living in a permanent relationship with the mother of his naturally conceived children) was to go to Asher's and ask them to bake a Silver Wedding cake they are prefectly within their rights to say no. no need to gove a reason whether it is that theyre fully booked up, they're bored with baking Silver Wedding cakes or simply that they don'lt like the look of the person ordering it. They have the right to say no.

So how can there be any justice in forcing the bakers to accet orders for cakes bearing offensive messages supporting paedophila for bullying little tic turds like Lee?

Mr McArthur, who runs the bakery with his parents, said his family did not seek legal advice before refusing to make the cake.

"We were not doing it in defiance of the law,” he said. “I think it is quite obvious that we do not know a lot of the ins and outs of the law. We knew the decision in our conscience as Christians was one that we had to make. That’s why I said to mum ‘regardless, as Christians we are bound by what we believe. This is what we are bound to do’."

His mother, Karen McArthur, said that she initially took the order even though she knew that it could not be fulfilled because she "did not want to embarrass [Lee] or have a confrontation in the bakery."

"The problem was with the message on the cake because, as a Christian, I do not support gay marriage," she said.

Speaking for the McArthurs, barrister David Scoffield told the court that the bakery had not discriminated against Lee as a person and “neither knew nor cared about” his sexuality.

As this publication has often said, everybody has rights, not just minoroties. I suggest Lee chose Asher's bakery because he knew the cake he was going to order and the message it bore would cause offence. The lash laugh will be on Lee however, because in the streets and estates of our towns and cities there is a terrible backlash brewing by people who feel they are being marginalised by the left and the privileged minorities politically correct thinking has created.

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'Gay cake' bakery discriminated against client over sexual orientation, court told

The Evangelical Christian owners of a bakery that refused to make a gay-themed cake discriminated against a client on grounds of his sexual orientation, Northern Ireland’s high court has heard.

bert and ernie - gays sexualising childhood?
The most disturbing thing about this case perhaps is the creepy insistence of the gay rights lobby that a couple of muppets from a TV show for pre school children are being designated as gay.

In the case of individual rights versus gay rights reported in the post above, a private bakery is being sued by a customer for refusing his order from a celebration cake supporting the cause of gay - or same sex - marriage. The evangelical Christian owners of the bakery, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, declined the request because they say, by asking for a cake which bore the slogan, "Support Gay Marriage" it required them to go against their religious convictions.

A lawyer for LGBT activist Gareth Lee, who is suing the bakery, Ashers, said that “but for the word gay this order would have been fulfilled”. Robin Allen QC also told Belfast high court on Monday: “This case is direct discrimination.”

David Scoffield QC, acting for the bakery, said if Lee’s argument was right, a Muslim printer could not turn down a contract to print leaflets about the prophet Muhammad, an atheist could not turn down an order saying God made the world and a Roman Catholic printer could not decline making leaflets calling for the legalisation of abortion on demand.

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Andrew Muir, Northern Ireland's first openly gay mayor, backed the legal action against the bakery, saying businesses should not be able to pick and choose who they serve. The Alliance party member said the Bert and Ernie cake was for an event he was hosting in the constituency in May and was ordered to coincide with the International Day Against Homophobia on 17 May.

"Businesses should not be able to pick and choose who they serve," Muir said, adding that he would be supportive of legal action against the bakery.

So the bigotry and fascistic bullying tactics favoured by the gay lobby in Nothern Ireland (as elsewhere) becomes very clear. This cake was nothing to do with the wedding of a same sex couple and everything to do with gay Naziism. All businesses should be able to pick and choose whom they serve. Would the limp wristed bully boy Muir be equally keen to force a socialist caterer to lay on food for a Conservative Party function we wonder? Gay politics is left wing politics and left wing politics, in spite of all the empty rhetoric about equality, is always about imposing the will of a minority on the majority.

"For Northern Ireland to prosper and overcome our divisions we need a new society where businesses are willing to cater for all, regardless of religious views, political opinion, disability, race, age, sexual orientation, marital status, gender and other backgrounds.

"I was pleased that another bakery, in Bangor, was able to step in and produce this cake for the event I hosted as mayor of North Down. We were able to ensure that this event went ahead, despite the actions of Ashers Bakery, and enjoyed a great afternoon celebrating the vibrant diversity Northern Ireland enjoys."

Gavin Boyd of the gay rights organisation the Rainbow Project, said the firm "cannot have their cake and eat it" in relation to equality legislation in Northern Ireland. "The law on this matter is clear. Companies may not pick and choose the laws that apply to them and they cannot pick the sexual orientation of their customers," Boyd said. So another unelected supporter of the tyrannical turd burglar party takes the line, "We will tell businesses who they can and can't do business with."

As far as this publication can see it is a very straightforward case. The point at issue is do we live in a society in which all are equal and free to choose our own course of action, or one in which some groups are more equal than other, to paraphrase George Orwell's Animal Farm.



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Seven Shoddy Excuses Lefties Use to Justify Islamic Extremism And The Curtailment Of Free Speech

As the shockwave of revulsion at the attack by Islamic extremists on the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo recedes, while France and the publishing industry mourns the twlve journalists and cartoonists left dead by the terrorists bullets, the cowardly, cringing left have gone on the attack against free speech, press freedom and European cultural values.

But as usual our spineless leaders are calling on us, the people of the western democracies, to show tolerance and restraint, while the politically correct left are playing their usual treasonous role of apologists for the people who want to roam our nations randomly killing, maiming and assaulting innocent citizens in the name of a god who has no place in our culture.

And of course they are calling for further curtailment of our civil rights, primarily the right to free speech. There are limits on free speech they cry. Yes there are and they are clearly defined. And the prohibition of citicism of a religion is not among them. Here are some of the stupid excuses for banning free speech the lefties come up with.

1. “You can’t shout fire in a crowded theatre.”

This hackneyed faux-truism is the Expecto Patronum of squishy liberal apologists. That is, when the going gets tough and they’re forced to do that difficult thing – defending free speech – they reach desperately for this magical formula, rather as Harry Potter does when faced with the Dementors. Once the phrase has been uttered, they seem to think, the argument has been made for them and the nasty, scary problem will go away – as no doubt the Lib Dems’ Vince Cable did when he used it in the most recent edition of BBC Question Time.

But the analogy just doesn’t work for at least three good reasons.

First, if the theatre wasn’t on fire, as seems to be implicit, why would anyone want to say it was? You just wouldn’t. Not unless you were mentally ill. So really, to observe that “you can’t shout fire in a crowded theatre” is a bit like saying “you can’t put your willy in a pit-bull’s mouth”. Trivially true. But so what?

Second, any legal restrictions there may be on shouting fire in crowded theatres which aren’t on fire have to do with protection of life and property rights. You might cause a stampede which could lead to fatalities; at best you would damage the theatre’s box office. These laws, therefore, are an expression of common consent. Not so the prescriptions on blasphemy which terrorists like the Charlie Hebdo murderers would like to impose on us. In order for them to become so, we would have all to agree that the precepts of Sharia law are something we should all obey, Muslims and non-Muslims alike. Currently we don’t, though it seems to be the case that people who wheel out the “crowded theatre” aphorism think that we should.

Third, as Mark Steyn argues, the theatre is on fire.

2. “Offensive”

I see that in a Daily Guardiangraph leader today the Charlie Hebdo cartoons are described as “offensive.” Was this adjective really necessary? It seems subtly to concede the case that the French cartoonists had it coming. But last time I checked “offensiveness” in the West was not a capital crime. Indeed, freedom to cause offense is surely one of the defining qualities of a mature, socially liberal culture. It’s how we explore the boundaries of what is and isn’t acceptable, by testing ideas – good and bad ones alike – in the crucible of debate. If people are wrong, we are free to tell them so – and explain why they are wrong. If we simply decide that some things cannot be said simply because they are “offensive” this enables aggrieved minorities to close down any argument they dislike without its ever being aired in public. This is not freedom of speech, but the opposite.

3. “Provocative.”

The first time I heard this justification was – bizarrely – from an old university friend of mine in the aftermath of the brutal 2004 murder of Theo Van Gogh. Sure it was jolly sad and upsetting, she argued, but frankly the guy was an outrageous provocateur who deliberately courted controversy so we should hardly be surprised that he came to a sticky end.

Wow! I never met Theo Van Gogh but I’m pretty sure that, had I asked him, he would have said that being shot in the street was not part of his life plan. Nor was it for the Charlie Hebdo team. They did what they did not, I suspect, because they wanted to but because they felt they had to. Why? Because of precisely the kind of cultural surrender they would have recognised in my university friend’s response to Theo Van Gogh’s death.

4. “Islamophobia”

It’s a nonsense term, of course, because phobias are traditionally a fear of something irrational. But it’s also a classic example of something the progressives are forever enjoining us not to do: victim-blaming. Those millions who gathered in Paris and elsewhere yesterday at the Charlie Hebdo vigils: do we imagine that any one of them wants anything other than to live in peace and harmony with their Muslim neighbours? It’s really about time that lefty apologists like Owen Jones stopped responding to every new Islamist atrocity as if it were otherwise.

5. “Anders Breivik”

If Anders Breivik had never existed the left would have had to invent him. He is the (allegedly) right-wing bogeyman they can wheel out at every turn – as Vince Cable did on BBC Question Time – to ‘prove’ that modern terrorism is not an exclusively Islamic phenomenon. The correct response when they try to play this game is: “OK. Apart from Anders Breivik, name two more. Even one more….” (Note incidentally how Owen Jones goes for the double here: Islamophobia and Breivik)

6. “The spectre of the Far Right.”

Another favourite cliche of progressive apologists, as witness most BBC reports on the killings in Paris. Yes, all right, so it seems that most of the evidence – well, all the evidence, actually – points to the murders being the work of fanatical Islamist cells. But it never does any harm, if you’re a liberal, to spread the blame a bit by suggesting that Marine Le Pen and her resurgent Front National (aka “the spectre of the Far Right”) may have played their part in “stoking tensions…”

Oh and one more thing to be noted about “spectres”: being insubstantial, they lack the ability to kill people.

Actually, two more things: Owen Jones again. He’s gone for the treble! (“The favourite target of the Far Right in Europe is…Muslims”). Go on, my son! Back of the net!)

7. “Editorial foolishness”

This is quite similar to point 3, but let’s give a special paragraph of shame to the senior Financial Times editor Tony Barber for that disgraceful apologia for terrorist violence he published the day after the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

Charlie Hebdo has a long record of mocking, baiting and needling French Muslims. If the magazine stops just short of outright insults, it is nevertheless not the most convincing champion of the principle of freedom of speech. France is the land of Voltaire, but too often editorial foolishness has prevailed at Charlie Hebdo.

What Barber (and his craven ilk) don’t seem to realise is that are many, many of us out here who could produce any number of such niggling criticisms of Charlie Hebdo and who, too, secretly rather wish they’d never gone and published those bloody cartoons. But that’s really not the point. They did it to establish a principle. We may not agree with how they did it and few, if any, of us would have done it ourselves. But the principle for which they were fighting ought to be sacrosanct. Either you have free speech or you don’t. Any one trying to argue otherwise has no business being a journalist.


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Left Wing Prejudices Are Hindering Our Response to Islamic Extremism

Following recent events in Paris, huge crowds joined a rally in the French capital to…do what exactly? To pledge their support for free speech? To show solidarity with the Jewish people? Or simply to express their horror at such depravity? Are they calling for change, beyond an end to the killing? If so, how many of their cosy assumptions are they willing to sacrifice to put things right?

The murdered journalists and illustrators of Charlie Hebdo were not conventional victims, in the sense of being members of a designated identity group. Nor were they friends of the modern Left, in that they scorned liberal poseurs with a penchant for censorship. They could be rude and puerile, but they understood that the right to free speech trumps the ‘right’ not to be offended.

Freedom is a tricky concept for a people accustomed to thinking of it as a bully’s charter and trading it for the empty promise of security. In an age of clicktivism and Big Government, doing the right thing is not a question of exercising your autonomy; it’s about big, dumb public gestures that we can applaud or decry to register our moral worth.

In such a climate, freedom doesn’t count for much, because it’s irrelevant to conspicuous acts of compassion that everyone can get behind. Nowadays, there’s little kudos to be won from defending the right to disparage others, but there’s plenty to be had from calling for the disparagers to be silenced. The good guys are no longer those who defend your right to speak your mind, but those who want to stop you calling a spade a spade – even if it’s being used to bash your head in.

For the time being, the hashtag activists are behind the champions of free speech, but if you’re looking for long-term commitment, don’t hold your breath. After all, these are many of the same bozos who were tweeting their support for Gaza a few months back, so it’s hard to take their sudden concern for the Jews and liberty-lovers of Paris too seriously. As soon as they are asked to choose between freedom and their cherished worldview, they’ll revert to playing George to the racist mob’s dragon.

Contrary to what they may think, freedom is not a racket that lets the strong exploit the weak; it’s what enables people to learn the practices instrumental to a tolerable way of life. Without being at liberty to determine what works and what doesn’t, to thrash out ideas and discover new ways of doing things, we would be at the mercy of zealots. Which is increasingly the case today.



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The Innate Racism Of British People Is A Politically Correct Myth

Free Speech In An Age Of Offence Taking

We truly live in interesting times: the less real vicious or violent racism there is in the UK, the more we are deafened by the screeching of left wing, gay, lesbial, elitist voices demanding new laws, restrictions and penalties to deal wuth the "growing problem" of British racism.

Since economic socialism became an indefensible political philosophybecause of the way that every time a socialist government was elected because of their promise to redistribute wealth and thuse advance the cause of equality, the result of their efforts was that the rich became richer and the poor became poorer and more excluded, the emotionally needy elements of the bourgeois, always by nature hypocrites, have become more desperate in their efforts to be seen to care about those less fortunate than themselves.

The condition of being 'less fortunte' exists only in the fervid minds of the bourgeois left however. The onl money rich, the aristocracy and gentry, to whom the bourgeois look for arroval, see them only as fawning, sycophantic, pathetic suck-ups while the poor, to whom they look for gratitude, despise their patronising snobbery.

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Commisioned by the county council education authority to make an anti-racist video in an Essex school a few years ago, Adrian Hart was struck by ‘the contrast between the exuberant playground of children and the “racism awareness” drama workshops they were about to attend’.

In the playground, with minimal supervision by politically correct, finger wagging teachers, black and white primary-school pupils were unselfconsciously messing around together like primary-school pupils do. Meanwhile, inside the classroom, diversity awareness fringe theatre group sounds like the Essex equivalent of the Legz Akimbo school drama group (from darkly surreal comedy sketch show League of Gentlemen) were preparing to teach these same children how to be more wary of one another and ‘Watch out for Racism!' That contrast, says Hart, made him ask himself: ‘What the hell were we doing there?’ It’s a good question, which he sets out to answer in his short and punchy new book, That’s Racist: How the Regulation of Speech and Thought Divides Us All.

Hart draws on his experiences of activism against racist attacks in 1980s Britain – ‘a truly racist place to be’, where the authorities led the race war on immigrant and ethnic communities – to show how far normal people’s attitudes to race have changed for the better over the past 30 years. (I can't agree with him on that, most Britons were not racist in the 1980s, except in those areas where immigrant communities had developed.) Today, by contrast, we are faced with an army of state-backed crusaders hunting ‘fantasy racism… the racism of the past’ among the masses.

This absolute but ill - founded certainty that there must be a hidden reservoir of bitter racial prejudice beneath the surface of society has driven the dogooderfuckers in the public sector, in an orgy of virtue signalling, to set about ‘slaying the menace of zombie racism’ by pursuing a policy of zero tolerance towards any word or deed that might possibly be construed as unintentionally tinted with racism, from the classroom to the football stadium. The result, says Hart, has been to create and exacerbate divisions in society, and to foster a culture that ‘stifles our ability to speak, act and even think freely’.

Hart focuses on the conclusions of the Macpherson report of 1999, into the Metropolitan Police’s handling of the murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence by a gang of white youths in south London. With Sir William Macpherson of Cluny working from guidelines that could have been written by a team of extreme left anti-racism activists, his report went way beyond the botched police investigation into that crime and became the ‘launchpad for a new kind of official orthodoxy, which is every bit as divisive as traditional racism’. The outcome was that although East London evn then was an area apart from mainstream Britain, with a far greater concentration of immigrants, who segregated themselves into national and secartian groups, and in some cases these self - segregated groups hated each other more than any right wing group hated them.

Macpherson’s report asserted that public life in Britain was dominated by both ‘institutional racism’ and ‘unwitting racism’. There might appear to be a contradiction between those concepts, but not in the virtue signalling, bizarro world of government led anti-racism. Institutional racism refers to ingraned prejudice in the powerful institutions of society. Little of this existed, while 'unwitting racism' referred to the attitudes of individuals who, while not considering themselves racist, might not have gone far enough out of their way to show how wonderful they believe it is to live in areas with large immigrat populations. According to Macpherson, ‘Transposed on to society as a whole, institutional racism is, what happens when the mass of people (that’s you and me, the hoi polloi,) go to work for organisations dominated by politically correct thinking’. As the (ignorant, xenophobic, ineducable,) masses we are all infected with ‘unwitting’ racism, whether we know it or not, i.e. we don't feel compelled to kiss the arse of every dark skinned person we meet. In line with this, the Macpherson report created what should have been a totally unacceptable legal definition of a racist incident as anything that the victim or any other person believes to be racist. That subjective definition has become a licence for racialising British society over the past 15 years.

Hart shows how the elite (who are of course immune to the unwitting racism that the rest of us carry around) have pursued ‘zombie racism’ post-Macpherson, using zero tolerance policies to police language on the automatic assumption that the hidden problem of racism is getting worse.

Which is why monitors and drama groups end up in Essex schools lecturing children to watch out for racism that is not there, while teachers are obliged to tick boxes and record thousands of ordinary playground moments as racial incidents, pursuing a government policy based on ‘the assumption that children are conditioned, from birth, by the persistent racism of their parents’ generation’. And why we have witnessed a crusade against the ‘spectre’ of ‘hidden’ racism in football, based on the assumption that those ugly people who play and watch the beautiful game need to be re-educated.

The result of this new ‘racial awareness’, has been to create a perception of black and ethnic-minority people as perennial victims of racists and white supremacists, and to demonise white people (especially working-class heterosexual males,) as unreconstructed racists who are castigated for not having BAME (that's a recently invented and rightly despised acronym for Black and Ethnic Minority,) friends even if they live in areas where they are not likely to meet people from immigrant minorities. Outside the big cities, people of non - European ethnic minorities are thin on the ground. I've even seen 'white people' being blamed for the unwillingness of Muslims to integrate, although it is widely oberved that many Muslims from the more fundamentalist branches of the religion have no intention of integrating until the British accept Allah as the one true God, convert to Islam and accept Sharia Law. Little wonder that official anti-racism has helped to exacerbate divisions rather than overcome them.

In a striking illustration of how far off track things have gone the tendency of some commentators who work in news media to imply there is a parallel between the murder of Stephen Lawrence and the trial of former England captain John Terry for allegedly calling Anton Ferdinand a ‘fucking black cunt’(Terry denied this and despite there being several players and match officials in proximity, only Ferdinand heard him say it. But as was the case with medeval witch hunts, to be accused is to be proved guilty. One journalist wrote of Stephen Lawrence’s mother, the sainted and now-ennobled Lady Doreen Lawrence, sitting in court ‘to see if another race-related crime had been committed’. The comparison of Terry's alleged foul language with the Lawrence murder, implicit in liberal elite's deliberate misinterpretations of the working-class experience of football, was that the gap between offensive language and murder was not that great’.

Thus we have end up in a multicultural mess where there is less racism, but increased racial and ethnic sensitivities and a hardening separation between ‘diverse’ cultural identities. Where the cry ‘That’s racist!’, directed at anything anybody finds unpleasant, is an immediate and unquestionable call for censorship. This was clearly demonstrated when his Manifesto Club report, 'The Myth of Racist Kids', was condemned for daring to question the orthodoxy created by the self righteous authoritarians of the establishment, for whom any such challenge is a case of ‘racism denial’ and as such is deemed unacceptable. Ultimately the biggest casualty of this process is our capacity to debate an important social issue in a reasoned way.

Thus, over the past few years, we have seen numerous cases, most notoriously in Rotherham and Rochdale but also in many other industrial areas with large Muslim communities from Pakistan or Bangladesh, where Muslim men have groomed and exploited young and often vulnerable British girls, were were effectively given a free pass to break the law as police and local authority care workers came under political pressure to ignore the crimes in order to avoid 'raising racial tensions', while people who tried to report the crimes were dismissed as 'racist.'

In the end ‘That’s racist!’, along with such fashionable phrases as ‘White privilege!’, is another way of repeating the dominant cultural prejudice that You Can’t Say That, which has given us such ludicrous concepts as 'hate speech,' 'hate crime,' and 'diversity awareness.' Fortunately, there are still those who refuse to be intimidated, who can, and will, raise the issue of suppression of the right to free speech and point out the hypocrisy of the Thought Police who would permit only that which conforms to the establishment narrative to reach the public domain.



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The Authoritarian Left is Sending Women Back to the 19th Century

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Universities are the marketplace of ideas, or at least they were until the authoritarian left gained the grotesque amount of power it now holds on campuses today, where you can be "No Platformed" for supporting UKIP, for taking the wrong line on transgender women (over ten years ago and despite having apologised profusely several times) and for, well, disagreeing with the far left on any social issue they decide might "cause mental harm".

On Tuesday, a debate between Brendan O'Neill and Tim Stanley, set to take place at Christ Church College, Oxford, was cancelled. The debate was entitled, "This House Believes Britain's Abortion Culture Hurts Us All", and was organised by anti-abortion student society Oxford Students for Life.

The first thing the feminists took umbrage with was, of course, the fact that two "cis" (meaning not transgender) men were the speakers, and that because they are not in a position to get pregnant they have no right to talk about the subject of abortion.

To take this to its logical conclusion, Western atheists have no right to speak about the Israel/Palestine debate because it has nothing to do with them, and god forbid Owen Jones starts talking about "taxing the super-rich" again. Owen Jones isn't one of the "super-rich" so how dare he have an opinion on what should be done with their money.

The New Statesman wrote an entire article purely about how inappropriate it supposedly is to have two men (white men, no less, as the piece reminds us twice) debating abortion.

The other problem here seems to have been that it's a pro-life organisation hosting the debate, which led many commentators to argue that the debate would be skewed in favour of Tim Stanley (what, and Brendan O'Neill agree to 'throw' the match, recanting everything he believes in? Is this plausible?).

An article cropped up in October, written by a Cambridge fresher who objected to the mere presence of Cambridge Students for Life at a Freshers' Fair. With no evil men having a debate about abortion, one might think there would be nothing to decry, here, especially as there were no graphic signs and none of the often objected-to scare tactics were present.

In the comments directly below her article, the author says that signs saying, "Science has proved that life begins at conception," have "undertones" of "Mommy you killed me." So basically, Cambridge Students for Life should cease to exist, not because they're doing anything outrageous but merely because she feels threatened by imagined undertones of people who have a different opinion.

I imagine the girls at the stall wearing "Social justice begins in the womb" T-shirts probably rankled, too. There's nothing left wingers hate more than to see others use the term in unapproved-by-the-Left ways.

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Free Speech is Dead in Britain - As I Learned on a BBC Debate Programme Called 'Free Speech'

Is it just my imagination or was there a widely publicised report a few weeks ago by a professor called Alexis Jay describing in clinical detail how at least 1400 mostly underage girls were groomed, drugged and raped over a period of years in the northern town of Rotherham by gangs of men from predominately Kashmiri-Pakistani Muslim backgrounds?

The reason I ask is that earlier this week, I was publicly called a liar, an Islamophobe and a racist for mentioning this fact on a BBC TV debate programme called - laughably - Free Speech. "Boo! Hiss!" went the studio audience. "Not true" went the silly girl panelist sitting to my left. "List one contemporary problem facing Britain that's NOT the fault of Muslims? Are there any in your mind?" said someone on Twitter with evidently strong and somewhat unnerving radical Islamist sympathies.

It's normally at this point in the proceedings that the moderator comes to your rescue. I know Jonathan or David Dimbleby would have done. Grumble though I do on occasion about the leftist bias of their respective programmes Any Questions and Question Time, the fact remains that the Dimblebys are bright, scrupulous, supremely well-informed professionals. No way would they allow it to go unchallenged if one of their panelists said something that was perfectly true only to have the rest of the panel and (almost) the entire audience to shout him down as a racist, Islamophobic liar.

But the same, unfortunately, could not be said for the moderators on this particular programme, which was evidently designed as a kind of looser, more youthful version of Question Time, aimed at the 16 to 34-year old demographic. They pointed the mics willy nilly at panelists and members of the audience with little regard to the sense - or nonsense - of what was being said.

Certainly, there was no evidence of any presiding intelligence shaping the show or the direction and balance of the debate. For all the difference the Blue-Peter-level moderation made, we could have been talking about Miley Cyrus's twerking moves or Kim Kardashian's bum, rather than about highly contentious, very serious and potentially dangerous issues like so-called "rape culture" and the radicalisation of young British Muslims.

Afterwards various viewers who had been appalled as I was by this car crash of debate asked why I'd volunteered for it. "Why go on James? It's like stepping into the cretins' den," said one. Other comments from sympathisers included: "I had to turn it off,"; "You must have the patience of a saint after last night's "Free Speech"," It's not a debate, more a left-wing hate-session against anyone daring not to conform"; "Have watched you on the BBC last night. I have to say that even growing up in communist Poland I have rarely seen such a shameless set up and left wing propaganda show. I admire your courage really."

And the answer is: definitely not for the money. (£150 in case you wondered). No, the reason you do these things is partly in the naive hope that this time it will be different - that for once you'll find a BBC debate programme where your function isn't to play the token right-wing nutcase for the torture-porn delight of an audience of rabid lefties. And also because someone has to put the alternative viewpoint across, otherwise all you're going to get is a bunch of people spouting the usually right-on, progressive cant and just agreeing with one another. If no one does this, then the enemy will have won.

So that's why I did it but, God, I almost wish I hadn't - not least because the vision it gave me of Britain's future was so utterly, incredibly dispiriting. The thing that particularly depressed me was the general quality of this young audience's and panel's insights into the problem of fundamentalist Islam in Britain. I got the impression that most of them didn't read a newspaper at all - but that if they did it was only ever the Guardian. And that they'd all bought into the notion that if anyone was to blame for terrorism, radicalism and separatism, it certainly wasn't Britain's innocent, much-put-upon Muslim "community."

I sat, amazed, as first my panelists than the audience members trotted out the same fatuous leftist dhimmi cliches. Apparently the two main reasons so many Muslims in Britain are becoming radicalised are 1. "foreign policy" and 2. "Islamophobia." The only person who even remotely attempted to challenge this line was the one other sensible person on the panel, a Conservative MP called Rehman Chisti, whose father was an Imam and who was the first member of his poor, immigrant family to go to university. Everyone else, though, was totally on board with this nonsense.

A bearded Islamist in a Sharia sweatshirt was reverentially applauded as he spoke up about how his fellow British Muslims were moved to fight because they all were part of the "Ummah" and couldn't bear to see their brothers and sisters in religion being raped and killed in Syria and Iraq.

Since clearly no one else was going to, I had to point out that much of this killing and rape is Muslim on Muslim action - Sunni v Shia. But I might as well not have bothered for it seemed to sail over everyone's woefully ill-informed heads. And anyway, as the Islamist solemnly informed me, the Sunni v Shia conflict was also the West's fault. "Foreign policy" he said - an insight which the entire audience applauded. (But not as uproariously as they applauded when anyone had a go at the murderous, evil, baby-eating Israelis).

There was but one glimmer of hope in this otherwise ugly, disgraceful affair. Quite out of the blue, a young white woman at the back of the audience raised her hand and attracted the attention of one of the moderators, Rick Edwards. She said she lived in Bradford, that she herself had friends who had been raped by these Muslim gangs and that the police had not taken their complaints seriously for fear of being accused of racism.

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Leftists Try to Silence Myleene Klass after She Criticises Ed Miliband

A petition has been started to get Myleene Klass fired from her role at Littlewoods after she humiliated Ed Miliband on ITV's political programme 'The Agenda'.And the half-Austrian, half-Filipino musician and model has also been told by a Labour candidate that she should leave the country.

The petition, started by Elaine Buchan from Manchester, calls on Littlewoods to "part company with Myleene Klass following her deeply insensitive and ignorant comments in response to Ed Miliband's proposal of the so-called "Mansion-Tax" on the ITV show Agenda on the 17th of November."

Ms Buchan tries to justify her attacks on Ms Klass by saying that people who shop at Littlewood's are poor and "cannot afford to buy upfront".

She tries to hide her attempts to get Ms Klass fired from her job for holding different political opinions to herself by saying that as a representative of the brand "Myleene Klass has demonstrated unacceptable conduct and spoken unacceptably publicly in such appalling economic times."

It goes on:

"We the British public call upon you to make you position regarding the words of Myleene Klass clear and end your business relationship with her as the face of your brand."

It even attacks Ms Klass for not going off on a tangent by talking about the 'bedroom tax' when she was debating with the Labour leader, complaining:

"Miss Klass made no reference to the considerable number of suicides because of this social issue and no reference to the unprecedented number of British people now reliant upon food banks in these desperately bleak financial times."

Former pop star Klass divided social media when she 'went full Paxman' on Ed Miliband, accusing him of ''pointing at things and taxing them" and saying that £2million home in London did not mean someone lived in a mansion.

So far, only 3,502 people have signed the petition, with some people calling it 'idiotic' and others mocking it by saying they will start a petition to get Peter Andre sacked as the face of Iceland.

But a Labour candidate has gone even further and said that Myleene Klaus and Sol Campbell, neither of whom were born to British parents, should leave the country.

Ms Sherriff, the candidate for Dewsbury and Mirfield, who calls herself a 'feminist' on twitter wrote:

'If multi millionaire Myleene Klass doesn't like mansion tax perhaps she should emigrate with Sol Campbell and Griff Rhys Jones! Toodle Pip!'

The tweet has since been taken down after the Labour party was forced to defend itself against accusations of hypocrisy and racism by tweeting: "Don't you understand the difference between deport and emigrate?"

The party had been trying to make much of a comment by UKIP candidate Mark Reckless where he said that EU migrants might not be allowed to stay in the UK once Britain had left the EU. This was later clarified by leader Nigel Farage who said that even if the EU tried to kick out British citizens living abroad, the UK would not reciprocate.

Sherriff has since deleted the post and has declined to make a comment.

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The Zombiefication Of America

Let's be blunt about it, the politicians who now lead us, people who stayed far longer in full time education than is healthy, and emerged with PhD qualifications in joke subjects like PPE (Philosophy, Politics and Economics,) Political Science, Social Sciences or Journalism are not qualified to lead us. They might have heads crammed full of theory about the supposed realities of middle and working class life, but they are totally lacking the life experience that would have taught them theory and rewality are a universe apart.

What is more they do not like being made aware of their shortcomings. Thus we are seeing the creation of a new academic and political elite that is in almost every way a copy of the old religious and aristocratic elite. Detached, out of touch and abslutely brutal in repressing the lower orders.

Read all The Zombiefication Of America at Zero Hedge

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Who Runs America? US Federal Trade Commission Takes Orders From Google
Barak Obama runs America surely, you might well be thinking. We would argue that no US President since Eisenhower has truly run the USA. But the latest revelation of how cosy the Obama Administration has become with corporate business, to the extent that government departments are taking instruction from Google will shock even the most cynical Americans

U N (United Nazis) Plans To Criminalise Free Speech Citing human Rights As Justification

Under the guise of advancing what the United Nations refers to as “human rights,” the dictator-dominated global body is waging a full-blown assault on free-speech rights by pressuring governments to criminalize so-called “hate speech.” Indeed, working alongside radical government-funded activist groups and anti-liberty politicians around the world, the UN and other totalitarian-minded forces have now reached the point where they openly claim that what they call “international law” actually requires governments to ban speech and organizations they disapprove of. Critics, though, are fighting back in an effort to protect freedom of speech — among the most fundamental of all real rights.

While Americans’ God-given right to speak freely is firmly enshrined in the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment, the UN and its hordes of “human rights” bureaucrats are currently terrorizing and bullying the people of Japan — among others — in an effort to drastically curtail speech rights. Pointing to a tiny group of anti-Korean activists holding demonstrations in Japan, politicians and self-styled promoters of “human rights” have also joined the UN in its Soviet-inspired crusade to ban free expression. The Japanese Constitution, however, like the American one, includes strong protections for freedom of speech. Still, that has not stopped the UN from seeking to impose its radical speech restrictions on Japan anyway.

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EU Launches Fund for Thinly Veiled Propaganda Project


British taxpayers have been signed up to paying £18million into an EU propaganda programme by MEPs from across the Continent, with only a tiny percentage earmarked for Eurocrat-approved programmes here in the UK.
The ‘Europe for Citizens’ programme is designed to rewrite Europe’s history to counter the rising scepticism across Europe which saw last year’s May elections return scores of MEPs who want full withdrawal or a big return of powers to their own national governments.
Top of the agenda is a ‘peace project’ called ‘European Remembrance’ which is designed to ‘contribute to citizens’ understanding of the EU, its history and diversity as well as ‘raise awareness of remembrance, the common history and values of the EU and the EU’s aim.’
The EU has often tried to claim that it is the reason for peace in Europe is because of the political bloc which has continued to spread Eastwards after initially drawing France and Germany into a coal and steel union to unite key resources needed for warfare. At times it has even had the audacity to say that the First and Second World Wars were ‘European Civil Wars’.
In the previous parliamentary term, national governments signed up to an EU External Action Service which is designed to usurp the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as well as British Embassies abroad.
And there already exists a military organisation who wear the gold ring of stars on sleeves of their uniforms and at the beginning of each Parliamentary year march around the front of the main Strasbourg building for a flag raising ceremony.
UKIP Deputy Leader Paul Nuttall said the “anger” at the project and its costs was “totally justified”.
“This ‘Europe for Citizens’ programme which will gobble up our £18m over the next six years gave us just £300,000 last year and meanwhile sent generous grants to pro-European groups in other member states.

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Ignorance Is Strength: European Parliament Read to clamp Down On Free Speech
The EU is blatantly pro American, supportive of moves towards global government and opposed to democracy, except for the kind of democratic assembly that merely rubber stamps bureaucrats' decisions. Moreover, the EU has well documented designs towards extending 'Europe' into the middle east and north Africa, which makes an insane kind of sense of Hausfrau - Volksfuhrer Merkel's determination to flood Europe with illegal immigrants from those regions.

Euronazi Leaders Admit The Voters Are Irrelevant.
European leaders threw threats and warnings at each other at a meeting held on Saturday (24 October) as thousands of undocumented travellers continued to stream across borders into the Balkans. Saturday's meeting was in preparation for European Union talks aimed at deciding on a course of action to tackle the crisis (Source: Reuters)...



Judge Denies Attempt To Block Obama's Transfer Of Internet Oversight To UN

As reported last week, in a last ditch effort to block Obama's plan to allow the US Commerce Department to hand over oversight of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), or the "Internet's address book" to a multi-stakeholder community - which includes the technical community, businesses, civil society and foreign governments - 4 state attorneys general from Arizona, Oklahoma, Nevada and Texas filed a lawsuit in a Texas federal court alleging that the transition, in the absence of congressional approval, amounts to an illegal forfeiture of U.S. government property. The lawsuit also expressed concern that the reorganized ICANN would be so unchecked that it could “effectively enable or prohibit speech on the Internet.”

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt and Nevada Attorney General Paul Laxalt filed a lawsuit on Wednesday night to stop the White House's proposed transition of ICANN functions. A primary function of ICANN is done by its Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) department, which coordinates the internet's domain name and IP address system. 

However, as of midnight last night, the transfer is officially complete after Obama-appointed US District Judge George Hanks ruled on Friday afternoon that the transfer of internet domain systems oversight to an international governing body can move forward, overruling the opposition from several state attorneys general and lawmakers.

As a result, the transfer of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) from the U.S. to an international entity representing 162 countries will proceed on Saturday as planned. As WND reported, it was the late Phyllis Schlafly who, earlier this year, characterized Obama’s plan as “like telling the fox to guard the chicken coop,” trusting the likes of Cuba, Venezuela and China to ensure the continued freedom of the Web. The transfer of oversight to an obscure non-profit called the Internet Association for Assigned Names and Numbers, ICANN, set for Saturday, “could be the most dangerous use yet of Obama’s now-famous pen,” the conservative icon said at the time. The states’ lawsuit against the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, the Department of Commerce and others sought a halt to the transfer.

Filed in U.S. District Court in Galveston, Texas, the lawsuit argued the U.S. funded the foundations of the Internet and for decades has been managing it appropriately, including through contracts such as the NTIA’s agreement with ICANN to perform Internet Assigned Numbers Authority functions.

The complaint cited constitutional concerns and security risks of potentially losing the .mil and .gov domains for the military and government, respectively. Republican lawmakers Sens. Ted Cruz (Texas), John Thune (S.D.) and others had previously pushed to include language delaying the transition in the continuing resolution to fund the government, but were unsuccessful. Presidential nominee Donald Trump also backed the effort to keep control of the organization in U.S. hands. As WND adds, the lawsuit wasn’t the only opposition that has arisen in the fourth quarter. A coalition of 77 national security, cybersecurity and industry leaders wrote a letter to Defense Secretary Ash Carter and Gen. Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, just days ago asking for intervention.

“As individuals with extensive, first-hand experience with protecting our national security, we write to urge you to intervene in opposition to an imminent action that would, in our judgment, cause profound and irreversible damage to the United States’ vital interests,” the letter said.

“Indeed, there is, to our knowledge, no compelling reason for exposing the national security to such a risk by transferring our remaining control of the Internet in this way at this time. In light of the looming deadline, we feel compelled to urge you to impress upon President Obama that the contract between NTIA and ICANN cannot be safely terminated at this point.”

The signers included former Assistant Secretary of Defense Frank Gaffney Jr., former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Lt. Gen. William “Jerry” Boykin (Ret.), former Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl, former Director of the Defense Nuclear Agency Vice Adm. Robert Monroe (Ret.) and former Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Andrew McCarthy, among others.

They warned: “In the absence of U.S. government involvement in IANA, it seems possible that, over time, foreign powers – including potentially or actually hostile ones – will be able to influence the IANA process. Even coercing the delay in approving IP addresses could impact military capabilities. From a broader view, given the well-documented ambition of these actors to restrict freedom of expression and/or entrepreneurial activity on the Internet, such a transfer of authority to ICANN could have far-reaching and undesirable consequences for untold numbers of people worldwide.” Just a few days earlier, GOP senators, including Chuck Grassley, Ted Crux, Roy Blunt, Richard Burr and Ron Johnson, released a statement opposing the giveaway.

“It is profoundly disappointing that the Obama administration has decided to press on with its plan to relinquish United States oversight of crucial Internet functions, even though Congress has not given its approval. For years, there has been a bipartisan understanding that the ICANN transition is premature and that critical questions remain unanswered about the influence of authoritarian regimes in Internet governance, the protection of free speech, the effect on national security, and impacts on consumers, just to name a few,” they said.

“Without adequate answers to these questions, it would be irresponsible to allow the transition to occur in 15 days simply because of an artificial deadline set by the Obama administration.

“In fact, Democrats at both the state and national level have echoed many of these concerns. For example, former President Bill Clinton has warned that ‘[a] lot of people who have been trying to take this authority away from the U.S. want to do it for the sole purpose of cracking down on Internet freedom and limiting it and having governments protect their backsides instead of empower[ing] their people.’

“The issue of Internet freedom should unite us Americans – Republicans, Democrats and independents alike. Partisanship and political gamesmanship have no place when it comes to the Internet, basic principles of freedom, and the right of individuals in our great nation and across the globe to speak online free from censorship.” In the lawsuit, the states warned that .gov addresses are at risk.


Maher: ‘Liberals Hate Bullying,’ ‘But They’re Not Opposed to Using It’


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HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher criticized protesters against his commencement speech, and defended Rush Limbaugh in a monologue denouncing anti-free speech leftists on Friday.

“Now that it’s been a month since I gave the commencement address at Berkeley, someone has to check in with the people who tried to have my speech cancelled and make sure they made it through OK. Also, since they were protesting me for once saying that Islam is the only religion that acts like the mafia (and will) kill you if you say the wrong thing or draw the wrong picture, and then two jihadists gunned down 12 people in Paris for saying the wrong thing and drawing the wrong picture, you have to tell me, where do I go to protest you?” he stated.

Maher then praised the pro-free speech marches in Paris, but added “unfortunately not everyone got the memo. Like the pope, and his American vigilante, Bill Donohue. Bill’s the head of the Catholic League, and as such, he’s called me an anti-Catholic bigot so many times it’s now my ringtone.” And “last week Mr. Donohue wrote that it was too bad that Charlie Hebdo’s publisher ‘didn’t understand the role he played in his tragic death,’ which is like saying the rape victim didn’t understand that her clothes were too provocative.”

He then turned his criticism to Glenn Greenwald, arguing “Glenn Greenwald says anti-Muslim speech, like the cartoons in Charlie, are ‘a vital driver’ in bombing and occupying Muslim countries and killing the innocent. Really? Newspaper cartoons did all that? Wait till they get to the horoscopes and the crossword. It reminds me of one of the protest signs I saw up at Berkeley last month, it said ‘Islamophobia kills.’ Does it? The phobia kills? Or maybe more it’s the AK-47s, and the beheadings, and the planes into buildings.”

Maher concluded, “I thought we hated bullying now. When it happens in high school these days, people go nuts. When I was a kid, adults just shrugged and went, ‘eh, kids are a**holes, what are you going to do?’ Yeah, liberals hate bullying all right, but they’re not opposed to using it. When they casually throw out words like ‘bigot’ and ‘racist,’ it does cow people into avoiding this debate. And if you’re doing that, you don’t get to wear the ‘Je Suis Charlie’ button, the button you should wear says, ‘Je Suis Part of the Problem.’ And that goes for everybody.

This may surprise you, but I am not a big fan of Rush Limbaugh. However, if you’re one of the people with a website devoted to making him go away, you are part of the problem. And ironically, you’re not even a proper liberal, because you don’t get free speech, you’re just a baby who can’t stand to live in a world where you hear things that upset you.” He also blasted anti-hate speech laws in Europe and declared that “opinions shouldn’t be illegal. Everyone can always come up with a reason why the thing that bugs you should get a waiver. But free speech only works if there are no waivers…including for religion.” And “I like it that jokes can hurt.”

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