Community pages face closure as lengthy new rules ‘create disproportionate liability’ | Hundreds of websites will be shut down on the day that Britain’s Online Safety Act comes into effect, in what are believed to be the first casualties of the new internet laws. ● Microcosm, a web forum hosting service that runs 300 sites including cycling forums and local community hubs, said that the sites would go offline on March 16, the day that Ofcom starts enforcing the Act. ● Its owner said they were unable to comply with the lengthy requirements of the Act, which created a “disproportionately high personal liability”. ● The new laws, which were designed to crack down on illegal content and protect children, threaten fines of at least £18m for sites that fail to comply with the laws.

■ UK’s Online Censorship Law Drives Small Websites to Shut Down (Reclaim The Net)
■ EU wants sanctions against “Kremlin propagandists” (FrontNieuws)

Wearing a Palestine shirt gets you arrested in Germany. And we are supposed to believe the Nazis were worse? pic.twitter.com/in4xJ1lIvE

— Syrian Girl 🇸🇾 (@Partisangirl) October 11, 2024

Following a pledge by former US President Donald Trump to penalize universities that failed to address pro-Palestine protests, many institutions have turned to firms with Israeli ties. | A report released on Saturday by the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth disclosed that universities in the United States and Canada have partnered with Israeli security firms to suppress pro-Palestinian demonstrations on their campuses. ● According to the report, this trend began following the election of former US President Donald Trump, who vowed to penalize universities failing to control "radicals and Hamas supporters." In response, several academic institutions sought assistance from Israeli security companies or firms with Israeli ties to handle Palestine solidarity protests.

■ Silver Bullet (Dr. Mike Yeadon )(Substack)(VIDEO)
■ Australian Medical Icon Breaks Down in Tears During Debate with Government Officials Over COVID-19 Vaccine Catastrophe: “The Most Uncontrolled Experimentation Ever on Humankind” (The Gateway Pundit)(VIDEO)

Romania annulled the Presidential Election...... COUP underway, two days before the final round of Presidential voting

⚠️ Romania's Constitutional Court has annulled the presidential election, ordering a complete rerun of the process. This decision comes after Călin Georgescu,… pic.twitter.com/87qhn7pzu7

— Culture War (@CultureWar2020) December 6, 2024

Romania's election saga continues. The NATO state's Constitution Court has annulled the first round of the presidential vote that saw a staunch anti-EU, anti-war candidate come out on top. Polls put him as the frontrunner with 57% of the vote in the second round this Sunday. The terrorist advance in Syria forces the country's army to retreat. We receive exclusive footage from Aleppo's empty airport - abandoned by Syrian forces and hear from a local who describes life under terrorist rule. As self branded truth seekers CNN give a platform to the insurgents' leader, we take a closer look at the MSM's whitewashing of the jihadist group as it reconstructs the very concept of terrorism. Iran calls on Ukraine to stop funding and arming the militant groups now attacking across Syria.

■ Romanian presidential frontrunner claims he’s victim of coup d’etat (RT.com)
■ Romania To Host Largest NATO Military Base in Europe (BalkanInsight)(Hat Tip: steigan.no)

■ NATO state annuls presidential election results (RT.com) | The decision comes amid accusations that Russia had allegedly assisted Georgescu’s campaign, claims Moscow has dismissed as “absolutely groundless.” Georgescu, a religious nationalist, is critical of both NATO and the EU, and has criticized Romania’s role in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. He has also promised to end all military and political assistance to Kiev if elected into office. During the first round of voting in November, Georgescu secured 22.94% of the ballots, beating out the liberal leftist candidate Elena Lasconi, who received 19.18%. The two were scheduled for a runoff on Sunday.

The parliament in Seoul voted to block the decree but the military has backed the president | President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea has announced he will lift the “emergency martial law” mere hours after introducing it, following the parliament’s unanimous vote against the measure. ● Yoon made the surprise announcement on Tuesday, citing the threat of “pro-North Korean forces” and accusing the parliamentary majority of anti-state activity. ● Within hours, 190 lawmakers who were able to access the National Assembly building voted unanimously to lift the decree. The military responded that martial law would remain in place “until the president says otherwise.” Shortly after 4am local time, Yoon announced he would end the state emergency.

■ South Korean opposition initiates president’s impeachment — news agency (TASS)
■ South Korean parliament votes to defy president by lifting his declaration of martial law (12/03/24)

The South Korean parliament has voted to defy the country’s president and immediately lift his martial law declaration.G | President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law late Tuesday, vowing to eliminate “anti-state” forces as he struggles against an opposition that controls the country’s parliament and that he accuses of sympathizing with communist North Korea. ● The surprising move harkened back to an era of authoritarian leaders that the country has not seen since the 1980s, and it was immediately denounced by the opposition and the leader of Yoon’s own conservative party.

■ South Korea martial law: Full text of military decree (ChannelAsia)
■ ‘Can’t believe I’m seeing martial law declaration in my lifetime’: Shock, confusion among S.Koreans (The Straits Times)
■ Protests outside South Korea's parliament after president declares martial law (BBC)
■ South Korea - President Launches Putsch Against Parliament (Moon of Alabama)

According to Ivan Blagoy, his bureau received the corresponding documents, a 10-page report that substantiates the move, citing EU sanctions, from the German authorities on Tuesday | Germany has moved to close the local bureau of Russia’s Channel One television, ordering the bureau employees in Berlin to leave the country, a reporter with the TV channel said. [...] According to him, his bureau received the corresponding documents, a 10-page report that substantiates the move, citing EU sanctions, from the German authorities on Tuesday. "A German lawyer who analyzed the papers at our request shrugged his shoulders and said that it was a non-case. We have not violated German laws while staying in Germany and we meet all necessary criteria. And yet, we were shown the door," Blagoy lamented.

■ Russia retaliates to expulsion of journalists from Germany (RT.com)

New Zealand has enacted new legislation legalizing the use of physical force in order to vaccinate their citizens, according to a report by Dr. Jonathan Engler. 👉 “Section 71A states that a member of the police may do anything reasonably necessary (including the use of force) to help a medical officer of health or any person authorized by the medical officer of health in the exercise or performance of powers or functions under sections 70 or 71,” reads a passage under “Special powers” on page 125 of the New Zealand Pandemic Plan: A Framework for Action. ● If any citizens suffer harm from the vaccine, there is no recourse due to manufacturer immunity from liability.

Such incidents are needed by the West to sow chaos and to advance its interests, Nikolay Patrushev says. Patrushev [said]: 💬 “According to available information, the Americans and the British are viewing the sabotage on the Nord Stream pipelines as one of many methods to advance their economic interests. They could attack other infrastructure facilities, including undersea fiber optic cables that provide communications throughout the world.” [...] “Since the hegemony of the West began to falter, Washington decided to bring chaos to the energy market, including by destabilizing maritime transportation,” the official explained. Destabilization is needed to put pressure on major consumers, including China and India, and to lay a foundation for grabbing more of the global energy market.

■ US-UK to BLOW-UP Undersea Internet Cables (Harold Turner)

Amira Zaiter, a mother and a nursing student from Nice, France, was sentenced to three years in prison for denouncing the ongoing Israeli genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. | A pro-Palestinian activist in France has been sentenced to three years in prison for allegedly "glorifying terrorism" on social media, according to broadcaster France 3. Amira Zaiter, an activist from Nice, was arrested on September 19 for allegedly "promoting terrorism, glorifying crimes against humanity, and spreading hate speech online," as per the channel.

Onlookers shout ‘Shame on you!’ as Prof Haim Bresheeth taken away by Met Police under Terrorism Act after anti-genocide speech | As Skwawkbox has reported, Professor Haim Bresheeth – an Israeli Jew – was arrested on Friday and is still under investigation, after being accused of hate speech under the Terrorism Act 2000 for a speech (video) to an anti-genocide demonstration outside the residence of far-right extremist ambassador Tzipi Hotovely. ■ Now Skwawkbox can exclusively reveal the arrest itself – part of a campaign of repression and intimidation of pro-Palestinian voices by the Starmer government – and the horror of onlookers, who compared it to the martial law imposed by Israel during the 1990s. ■ Professor Bresheeth, who is in his seventies, was released the following morning without charge but remains under investigation, according to the Metropolitan Police. Skwawkbox is trying to obtain footage of the arrest of a second man, which witnesses described as done with violence.

A tribunal ruling has found that the student's remarks match views expressed by human rights organizations, concluding that the UK Home Office's allegations were not adequate. | Palestinian student Dana Abu Qamar has won a human rights appeal, revoking the UK Home Office's decision to strip her of her visa for speaking about Gaza and its resistance. ● The Guardian reported that the Home Office claimed that Dana's presence was "not conducive to public good" but subsequently failed to prove it after her visa was revoked in December 2023. ● Dana first caught the attention of authorities during a protest organized at the University of Manchester, where she also leads the Friends of Palestine Society. While speaking to Sky News, Dana explored Gaza's historical resistance against the Israeli "oppressive regime", as well as the 16-year-long blockade the occupation has imposed, calling the Strip's Resistance "a once in a lifetime experience."

Von der Leyen Promises to 'Vaccinate' EU Population Against 'Wrong Thinking'

According to Ursula, who is currently facing a criminal case over the EU government's strange contracts with pharmaceutical companies , people in society who hold views that contradict the globalist… pic.twitter.com/fK0wKV6tUQ

— “Sudden And Unexpected” (@toobaffled) October 22, 2024

Tyler Durden | Ursula von der Leyen advocates "pre-bunking" in the public forum to "vaccinate" people against "disinformation"... | EU President Ursula von der Leyen just joined the ranks of former Senator John Kerry and other globalist ghouls in declaring war on free speech by perversely proclaiming that the EU citizenry needs to be “vaccinated against disinformation.” ■ Like every censor in history, she characterizes her censorship program as a means of expunging erroneous information and ideas from public discourse. By using the word “disinformation,” she implies that she and her clique are already the sole possessors of the truth about everything and that everyone who has and shares heterodox ideas is necessarily in error.

■ President of the European Commission Ursula von Der Leyen Likens Free Speech to Infectious Disease (GR)

Cities across the United States are installing hidden surviellance cameras that track everyone, everywhere, and nobody, not even Donald Trump, is talking about this. What are the Top 10 most surveilled cities in the U.S.? We’ve got the list! | Multitudes of cities of all sizes across the U.S. are jumping on the technocracy bandwagon and setting up hidden surveillance cameras on every corner. They’re on light poles, bridges and overpasses, stoplights, buildings, you name it. Some are equipped with speakers so they can also listen in on what’s being said. They claim it’s for our “safety.”

Palestinians in Gaza would be forced to live in 'humanitarian bubbles' where entry and access to food would be based on biometric identification | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet is expected to approve a plan to establish concentration camps in Gaza, operated by mercenaries from a private security firm run by former US and Israeli intelligence officials and special forces commanders, Yedioth Ahronoth reported on 22 October. The US security firm, GDC, plans to establish “humanitarian bubbles” [inhumane ghettos] in Gaza. The Israeli army will be tasked with “clearing” any such bubble of Hamas fighters and erecting a separation wall around it within 48 hours. Entry to these compounds will be prohibited except for residents who live in the neighborhood and submit to biometric identification. Regarding the plan, US journalist Dan Cohen reports that “the Biden administration has approved the deployment of 1,000 CIA-trained private mercenaries as part of a joint US-Israeli plan to turn Gaza’s apocalyptic rubble scape into a high-tech dystopia.”

The US president has called for the Republican to be jailed, later clarifying that he meant “politically” | US President Joe Biden has claimed that Republican candidate Donald Trump wants presidential immunity and powers to kill his opposition, and therefore should be locked up, as he spoke to a crowd with the election just half a month away. ● Biden, who stepped aside earlier this year to allow Vice President Kamala Harris to become the Democratic nominee, made the statement at a campaign office in New Hampshire on Tuesday.

■ Biden on Trump: ‘Politically lock him up’ (Lauren Egan)

Jonathan Cook | The raid on investigative journalist Asa Winstanley isn’t about terrorism – except the UK government’s. It is about scaring us into staying silent on Britain’s collusion in Israel’s genocide | The UK government and police – the British state – made clear today they are waging a war of intimidation against the country’s independent journalists in a desperate attempt to silence them. ■ Ten Metropolitan police officers made a dawn raid on the home of investigative journalist Asa Winstanley and seized his electronic devices under the UK’s draconian Terrorism Act. A letter from the Met indicates that the associate editor of the Electronic Intifada is being investigated by the force for “encouraging terrorism”. ■ Winstanley is the latest – and most high profile – independent journalist to be targeted by counter-terrorism police in recent weeks. Earlier, Richard Medhurst was arrested at Heathrow airport on returning to the UK from a trip abroad. Then Sarah Wilkinson was arrested and her home ransacked. Winstanley has repeatedly embarrassed the British establishment by exposing its covert and deep ties to Israel and its collusion with the Israeli lobby.

Leo Hohmann | The timing of Federal Directive 5240.01 is interesting in light of the upcoming election and the government's narrative about right wing extremists being the 'biggest threat' to US national security. | A video clip has resurfaced from May of 2019 in which Kamala Harris advocates weaponizing the DOJ against speech the government doesn’t like, and the platforms that allow it. ■ In the meantime, one month before a tense presidential election, the U.S. Department of Defense has authorized U.S. military “defense intelligence components” to use “lethal force” against American citizens if requested by state or local law enforcement in an emergency situation. More on this in a minute, but first let’s get to the May 2019 video showing Kamala Harris unleashing her inner dictator. Speaking at the annual NAACP ‘Fight for Freedom Fund’ dinner in Detroit, Harris threatened: “We will put the Department of Justice of the United States back in the business of justice. We will double the civil rights division, and direct Law Enforcement to counter this extremism.”

David Thunder | Satire on trial: How dare you mock the New Normal? | IN AUGUST 2022, US playwright and satirist C J Hopkins, while a resident of Berlin, tweeted cover art from his book on The Rise of the New Normal Reich, which included a satirical representation of a swastika superimposed on a medical mask. For that, he has been found guilty in a German court of spreading pro-Nazi propaganda, and is facing a hefty fine and potentially a prison sentence. ■ In his tweet, Hopkins wrote (in German) that ‘Masks are symbols of ideological conformity. That’s all that they are, and that’s all they ever were. Stop pretending that they were ever anything else or get used to wearing them.’ In a second tweet, Hopkins quoted Health Minister Karl Lauterbach’s statement that ‘Masks always send a signal.’ ■ For these two tweets, Amazon Germany banned Hopkins’s book, and the Berlin state prosecutor investigated him for violating German criminal statutes against ‘the use of symbols of unconstititional and terrorist organisations‘. In January 2024, Hopkins was tried before the Tiergarten Berlin District Court and acquitted. The public prosecutor appealed the decision before the Berlin Court of Appeals, which overturned his acquittal on September 30 and found him guilty as charged.

The crackdown on narratives countering mainstream and Western media continues, slamming the notion of the freedom of the press. | Meta has disabled the account of Al Mayadeen English on Instagram for allegedly not following

💬 "our Community Guidelines." "All your information will be permanently deleted," the decision stated. "You cannot request another review of this decision," it asserted, meaning that no appeal can be made.

The move follows a similar one last October when the Al Mayadeen English account was shortly suspended on Instagram and later restored following an appeal. At the time, neither a reason nor a prior notice was provided for the suspension.

Poursuivi pour avoir célébré la naissance de sa fille un 7 octobre… Faut-il interdire les anniversaires maintenant ? | L’accusation est grave : apologie du terrorisme. Oui, vous avez bien lu. Dieudonné aurait fait l’éloge du terrorisme simplement parce qu’il a salué la naissance de sa fille un 7 octobre. Ce 7 octobre n’est pas n’importe quel jour, il coïncide avec les attaques du Hamas en Israël. Donc, logiquement, quiconque ose sourire ce jour-là est suspect. Qui sait, peut-être que naître un 7 octobre deviendra un acte antisémite interdit par la loi.

CJ Hopkins | [It] wasn’t to pretend to be carrying out justice. It was a show of force. A demonstration. A public humiliation ritual. And, all things considered, they staged it well. | The first rule of New Normal Germany is, you do not compare New Normal Germany to Nazi Germany. If you do that, New Normal Germany will punish you. It will sic the Federal Criminal Police on you. It will report you to its domestic Intelligence agency. It will ban your books. It will censor your Tweets. It will prosecute you on fabricated “hate-crime” charges. I know this, because that’s what happened to me. I broke the first rule of New Normal Germany. I compared New Normal Germany to Nazi Germany. I did it with the cover artwork of my book.

On Saturday, former US First Lady Hillary Clinton called for increased federal regulation of the internet and repealing Section 230. “If the platforms… don’t moderate and monitor the content, we lose total control,” she said, raising the question of who “we” represents in that statement. | The recent purge of YouTube accounts, including those from Mark Sleboda, Rachel Blevins, Glenn Diesen, DD Geopolitics, Fiorella Isabel, Larry Johnson, and Eva K. Bartlett, it is clear that the Western leaders are scared of their populations finding out the truth about their policies and actions.

💬 “We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people,” Former US President John F. Kennedy.

“That’s what they’re afraid of,” Sleboda, an expert in geopolitical relations and a frequent guest on Sputnik Radio, told The Final Countdown. “They don’t trust you to hear an alternate view from the official US government narrative and come to what they consider the right political conclusions.”

Kit Klarenberg | Psychological warfare, stalking, and harassment are all part of the CDU’s clandestine toolkit. The newly-released file reveals British intelligence is exporting this sinister “counter-disinformation” credo to every corner of the globe. | On September 13th, an extraordinary document was released via litigation against the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is an August 2021 slide deck presentation by Britain’s shadowy, spook-infested Counter Disinformation Unit to the White House National Security Council’s Interagency Policy Committee, which regularly gathers Washington’s spying services together to coordinate on national security matters. The contents amply expose how London’s long-running use and abuse of security and intelligence agencies to warp online perceptions is, by design, spreading the world over. The presentation, which has never hitherto been publicly revealed, was delivered by CDU operatives on Aug. 10th 2021.

The executive chairman of the American Communist Party (ACP), Haz Al Din, believes that there is "no semblance of democracy" in the United States at the moment, as the US administration does whatever it wants and those who oppose it are persecuted by the government.

💬 "We basically have an illegitimate occupying regime at this point. We don't have popular sovereignty. There's no semblance of democracy. They basically do what they want, and people either accept it or they face persecution.US Human Rights Activist in Donbass: Most Americans Oppose Supporting Ukraine Now, how far such an arrangement can last, your best is as good as mine, but my suspicion is that it can't for very long," Al Din told Sputnik, while visiting Donetsk, the capital city of the Donetsk people's Republic (DPR).

■ US Human Rights Activist in Donbass: Most Americans Oppose Supporting Ukraine (Sputnik News)

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange testified during a Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) hearing, and spoke about his U.K. imprisonment at HM Prison Belmarsh and his plea deal with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). Assange said he chose freedom over justice, stating:

💬 I eventually chose freedom over unrealizable justice, after being detained for years and facing a 175 year sentence with no effective remedy…. Justice for me is now precluded, as the U.S. government insisted in writing into its plea agreement that I cannot file a case at the European Court of Human Rights or even a freedom of information act request over what it did to me as a result of its extradition request. I want to be totally clear. I am not free today because the system worked. I am free today because after years of incarceration I plead guilty to journalism. I plead guilty to seeking information from a source. I plead guilty to obtaining information from a source. And I plead guilty to informing the public what that information was. I did not plead guilty to anything else.

💬 President Obama’s Justice Department chose not to indict me, recognizing that no crime had been committed. The United States had never before prosecuted a publisher for publishing or obtaining government information. To do so would require a radical and ominous reinterpretation of the US Constitution…. However, in February 2017, the landscape changed dramatically. President Trump had been elected. He appointed two wolves in MAGA hats: Mike Pompeo, a Kansas congressman and former arms industry executive, as CIA Director, and William Barr, a former CIA officer, as US Attorney General…. CIA Director Pompeo launched a campaign of retribution. It is now a matter of public record that under Pompeo’s explicit direction, the CIA drew up plans to kidnap and to assassinate me within the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and authorized going after my European colleagues, subjecting us to theft, hacking attacks, and the planting of false information.

Only “government-issued or law enforcement email address[es]” were allowed to use this system. | On Wednesday, America First Legal (AFL) revealed documents that shed new light on the collaborative efforts between Facebook and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic used to censor free speech. The documents, obtained through litigation against the CDC, expose detailed onboarding materials used to train CDC employees on a specially designed Facebook portal aimed at curbing what they labeled "Covid & Vaccine Misinformation."

💬 These documents reveal how Facebook, on the heels of extreme pressure from the Biden-Harris White House (including from Rob Flaherty, a current senior Harris Campaign staffer) to remove specific posts, responded:Facebook created a new “end-to-end workflow” so that government officials could submit links for removal from Facebook;Facebook only gave access to the portal to approved government and law enforcement personnel;The new portal dramatically increased the efficiency of the censorship machine.

A German man and his Ukrainian wife allegedly provided banned Russian channels | The German authorities have arrested a couple suspected of providing RT and other Russian TV channels to customers via the internet, in violation of EU sanctions. ● The bloc banned almost all Russian media organizations in March 2022, calling them a threat to democracy and citing the Ukraine conflict. The EU bans were then applied worldwide by US-based social media giants such as YouTube. [...] The District Court in Karlsruhe, a city in Baden-Wurttemberg near the German border with France, has also issued an asset seizure order for approximately €120,000 ($134,000) in “illegal income” from the alleged activity.

■ Moscow reacts to Germany’s arrest of couple for ‘illegal’ RT broadcasts (RT.com)

Jacob Nordangård | A "scientific priesthood" will determine the limits of our actions and "protect" us from complex global shocks. | There are barely two months left until the big UN meeting Summit of the Future (September 22-23) where the "Pact for the Future" is to be signed by world leaders (heads of government and state). The pact, which essentially constitutes a blueprint for a global technocracy to manage global risks on behalf of the global corporatocracy, is now being finalised for completion by early August.