Category: Censorship/Freedom of Information

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No, The President’s Uncle Was Not Eaten by Cannibals . . . Seriously. – Jonathan Turley 4/18/24

Source: JonathanTurley.org

President Joe Biden has been long accused of false stories that have ranged from an invented arrest with Nelson Mandela to a zombie-like train conductor. Some are more serious like lying about influence peddling by his family or constitutional norms. However, as a military history nut, one new story stood out this week. President Biden suggested that his uncle Ambrose “Bozey” Finnegan may have been eaten by cannibals in World War II. What is striking about this story is the specificity of the key facts … and the fact that they are entirely false (other than his uncle dying near New Guinea).

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Trump’s New Streaming Strategy Aims To Reshape Media Landscape With Liberated Content – Rick Findlay 4/17/24

Source: ReclaimTheNet.org

Trump Social’s new streaming service promises a safe haven for content creators sidelined by mainstream media.

The Trump Media & Technology Group revealed its latest venture this week, a streaming TV platform designed to broadcast a spectrum of content, including news and films, that the company believes is often overlooked by mainstream media and Big Tech.

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Target Illegally Collects Customers’ Biometric Data, Class Action Lawsuit Alleges – John-Michael Dumais 4/16/24

Source: ChildrensHealthDefense.org

Retail giant Target illegally collected and stored customers’ biometric data, including face and fingerprint scans, according to an Illinois woman who filed a class action lawsuit against the Minnesota-based company on behalf of herself and other customers.

Arnetta Dean alleges Target violated Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) by collecting customers’ data without obtaining written consent or sharing data retention and destruction policies.

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NPR CEO Strikes Out at Editor Who Exposed the Bias of Company – Jonathan Turley 4/14/24

Source: JonathanTurley.org

This weekend, I wrote a column on the continuing controversy at NPR and the bias detailed in a recent bombshell essay by respected editor Uri Berliner. The company has long been criticized for its partisan coverage, including running debunked stories. Now NPR CEO Katherine Maher has responded and appeared to confirm that the publicly supported media company has no intention to bring greater balance to its coverage or editorial staff.

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Facebook Designates Grayzone Journalist Kit Klarenberg a ‘Dangerous Individual’ – Kit Klarenberg 4/17/24

Source: theGrayzone.com

The notoriously intelligence-friendly social media network appears to have imposed a ban on posting a recent report by Kit Klarenberg, and is automatically restricting users who re-publish his work.

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Top Timcast Episodes Are Deleted in YouTube’s Retroactive Censorship Raid – Rick Findlay 4/18/24

Source: ReclaimTheNet.org

Tim Pool, a well-known podcaster, has shed light on another prominent censorship action taken by YouTube. With retrospective effect, a couple of his most popular episodes of the Timcast IRL podcast have fallen prey to YouTube’s enforcement protocol. Podcast episodes that hosted personalities such as Joe Rogan, Michael Malice, and Alex Jones have now been eliminated from the platform, despite being on the platform for the last three years.

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A Secret Internal ‘NYTimes’ Memo Reveals the Paper’s Anti-Palestinian Bias is Even Worse than we Thought – James North 4/16/24

Source: Mondoweiss.net

The shocking revelation of the New York Times’s offensive internal style guide on language it will not permit in its Palestine reporting should prompt a broad examination of the paper’s longtime bias.

Kudos to the anonymous New York Times staffers who leaked the paper’s offensive internal guide about the language it won’t permit in its reports on Israel/Palestine, and more kudos to The Intercept for publishing it. The shocking revelation should prompt an even broader examination of the biased language that has long been routine in the Times and across all U.S. media.

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Police Raid Berlin Conference as Repression of Palestine Activism Escalates in Germany – Abir Kopty 4/13/24

Source: Mondoweiss.net

Berlin police raided and cut off electricity to the Palestinian Congress conference before banning the three-day event. Organizers say Germany’s antidemocratic authoritarian response to Palestine activism is growing by the day.

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NPR Senior Editor Admits Extreme Bias in Russia Collusion, Hunter Biden Laptop, COVID Coverage – Doug Mainwaring 4/11/24

Source: LifeSiteNews.com

A longtime senior editor at National Public Radio (NPR) published a blistering critique of the government-funded “news” outlet’s extreme liberal bias, citing how NPR willfully “turned a blind eye” to the truth concerning alleged Russian collusion with the Trump campaign, Hunter Biden’s laptop, and the origin of COVID-19.

The Free Press’ explosive 3,500-word op-ed “I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust.” by Uri Berliner confirms what many heartland Americans have known for decades: “An open-minded spirit no longer exists within NPR, and now, predictably, we don’t have an audience that reflects America.”

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Catholic Investigative Reporter Explains why he’s Exposing Freemasonry, Bohemian Grove – Stephen Kokx 4/8/24

Source: LifeSiteNews.com

Kyle Clifton is an investigative journalist who has released multiple explosive videos uncovering Freemasonic rituals over the last several months. He says he has received threatening messages for doing so.

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Netanyahu Killed an Iranian General in Damascus to Provoke a Regional Conflict; and the U.S. Media is Covering Up for Him. – James North 4/4/24

Source: Mondoweiss.net

Benjamin Netanyahu continues to raise the risk of a regional war which could draw in the U.S. — and the mainstream media is hiding the danger from its audience.

Benjamin Netanyahu continues to raise the risk of a Mideast regional war which could draw in the U.S. — and the mainstream media is hiding the danger from its audience. Israel’s provocative aerial assassination of a senior Iranian military leader in Damascus on April 1 is only Netanyahu’s latest effort to expand the fighting across the region, partly to put off his own painful day of reckoning. He knows that America has troops stationed all over the Mideast, and he hopes that Iran will retaliate against them, escalating conflict.

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U.S. Surgeon General Quietly Backpedaled on Water Fluoridation 5 Years Ago, Emails Reveal – Brenda Baletti, Ph.D. 4/1/24

Source: ChildrensHealthDefense.org

For more than seven decades, U.S. public health officials steadfastly supported water fluoridation, claiming the practice is a key strategy for maintaining and improving dental health.

Even today, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) calls water fluoridation one of the “ten great public health achievements of the 20th century.”

However, internal email communications shared with The Defender suggest that as early as 2020, officials at the highest levels of the U.S. Public Health Service — the Office of the Surgeon General — were having second thoughts.

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Latest Huge Transfer of 2,000-Pound Bombs From US to Israel Not Newsworthy to the New York Times – Norman Solomon 4/3/24

Source: Antiwar.com

When the Washington Post revealed Friday afternoon that “the Biden administration in recent days quietly authorized the transfer of billions of dollars in bombs and fighter jets to Israel,” a lot of people cared. Readers of the story posted more than 10,000 comments on its webpage. A leading progressive site for breaking news, Common Dreams, quickly followed up with coverage under a headline that began with the word “obscene.” Responses on social media were swift and strong; a tweet about the Post scoop from our team at RootsAction received more than 600,000 views.

But at the New York Times – the nation’s purported newspaper of record – one day after another went by as the editors determined that the story about the massive new transfer of weaponry to Israel wasn’t worth reporting on at all. Yet it was solid. A Reuters dispatch said that two sources “confirmed” the Post’s report.

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Jon Stewart Says Apple Asked Him Not To Interview FTC Chair Lina Khan – Cindy Harper 4/3/24

Source: ReclaimTheNet.org

Jon Stewart’s encounter with Apple censorship came to light during a recent episode of his The Daily Show, featuring an interview with Lina Khan, the Chair of the Federal Trade Commission. After inviting Khan onto his The Problem with Jon Stewart Apple TV+ show for a podcast episode, Apple’s censorship became conspicuous when it requested Stewart not to proceed with the invite.

“I wanted to have you on a podcast and Apple asked us not to do it,” Stewart told Khan. “They literally said, ‘Please don’t talk to her.’”

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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 179: Israel Kills 7 International Aid Workers in Central Gaza, Passes Law Banning Al Jazeera – Qassam Muaddi 4/2/24

Source: Mondoweiss.net

The World Central Kitchen called the attack that killed seven of its aid workers “unforgivable” as Israeli forces killed 71 people across the Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, the Israeli government voted to approve a bill banning Al Jazeera.

Casualties

  • 32,916+ killed* and at least 75,494 wounded in the Gaza Strip.
  • 451+ Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.**
  • Israel revises its estimated October 7 death toll down from 1,400 to 1,139.
  • 600 Israeli soldiers have been killed since October 7, and at least 3,302 injured.***

*Gaza’s Ministry of Health confirmed this figure on its Telegram channel. Some rights groups estimate the death toll to be much higher when accounting for those presumed dead.

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Major League Baseball Begins Biometric Facial Recognition Scans – Ken Macon 4/2/24

Source: ReclaimTheNet.org

Technology developed by a company called NEC has been utilized to introduce biometric ticketing on the opening day of the 2024 Major League Baseball (MLB) season. This pilot was undertaken at four designated baseball parks, including Minute Maid Park in Houston, where it was revealed that around 6,000 eager baseball fans favored convenience and used the touchless technology for entry to the stadium.

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Israel Passes Law, Giving Itself Power to Temporarily Shut Down Al Jazeera – Christina Maas 4/1/24

Source: ReclaimTheNet.org

On April 1, 2024, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a sweeping statement indicating the immediate ceasing of Al Jazeera’s operations within Israeli territory. The Prime Minister’s staunch decision followed the legislative green light enhancing the authority of senior ministers to terminate the operations of non-domestic news agencies that are perceived as a potential threat to national security.

Emphasizing his intention to immediately commence action according to newly approved legislation, Netanyahu proclaimed, “Al Jazeera will no longer broadcast from Israel.” The declaration, which received widespread publicity through a post on X, was made right after the final iterations of the law received parliamentary approval….

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Israel Deploys Facial Recognition Program, Utilizes Google Photos, in Gaza – Ken Macon 3/31/24

Source: ReclaimTheNet.org

The sweeping implementation of a facial recognition initiative is stirring controversy in the Gaza Strip, with the government of Israel reported to have utilized this technology to create a surreptitious database of Palestinian individuals. As disclosed by The Times, this utilization of biometric technology occurred without the informed consent or awareness of the Palestinian populace.

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Scotland Implements Controversial Hate Legislation That Damages Free Speech – Cindy Harper 4/1/24

Source: ReclaimTheNet.org

Scotland’s contentious “hate crime” legislation, widely criticized as an affront to free speech, is now in effect. Critics have voiced concerns that these new measures, while designed to address the alleged harm inflicted by hatred and bias, may inadvertently act as a tool to suppress freedom of speech and be abused.

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German Corona Policy Political Crisis – Robert W. Malone MD 4/1/24

Source: rwmalonemd.substack.com

Release of heavily redacted German government documents obtained under court order by the German alternative media magazine “Multipolar” are shaking up German politics on the eve of the critical 2024 European Parliament election in Germany, which is scheduled to be held on 9 June 2024. The documents reveal COVIDcrisis policy interactions and deference by Robert Koch Institute (RKI) public health scientists to unnamed politicians. The over 1,000 pages of these German language redacted documents can currently be downloaded from this website.

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Nearly 200 People Visiting Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘Pedo Island’ After his Sex Crime Conviction are Exposed by Mobile Data Linking them to Homes and Offices Across the US – Lewis Pennock 3/29/24

Source: DailyMail.co.uk

Nearly 200 people who visited Jeffrey Epstein‘s ‘pedo’ island left a trail of mobile device data which links them to homes and offices in the US around the world, a new analysis reveals.

The analysis exposes the movements of visitors to the island from 2016 to Epstein’s final arrest in 2019, years after his conviction in 2008 for procuring a child for prostitution.

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