Winds of Jihad

Now that the government has fully inserted itself into the news and information industry, the criminalization of free speech is a very real threat…

EUSSR Apparatchik Threatens ELON MUSK

Twitter owner Elon Musk is hit with “devastating news” as France’s Digital Minister threatens to ban Twitter from the ENTIRE European Union territory if Musk does not get serious about tackling Twitter’s growing wave of “disinformation.” But it gets WORSE for Musk… A top European Union commissioner also put Musk on notice that he “can run,” but he “can’t hide” from the consequences of allowing Twitter to be overrun by far-right policial disinformation. The Minister minced no words today when he threatened Musk, declaring, “Disinformation is one of the gravest threats weighing on our democracies. If Twitter repeatedly doesn’t follow our rules, it will be banned from the European Union.”

Yesterday we exposed the existence of a secretive and coordinated push by governments across the Western world for censorship. We are still investigating what precisely is behind the simultaneous crackdowns in the European Union, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and Brazil, but they appear to stem from the backlash last year of President Joe Biden’s proposed “Disinformation Governance Board, which forced censorship efforts abroad.

The most dangerous of them is in the EU. If Europeans allow the EU to censor Twitter, Facebook, and other social media platforms, the censorship may become worldwide. The response to our reporting was overwhelming. We heard from journalists, attorneys, and ordinary citizens in the affected nations who want to join our pro-free speech resistance movement. Many had no idea what their governments were doing. Others, such as Ben Scallon of Gript Media in Ireland, had documented government censorship efforts on covid that were eerily similar to the censorship efforts revealed by the Twitter and Facebook Files. Continue reading EUSSR Apparatchik: “If Twitter repeatedly doesn’t follow our rules, it will be banned from the European Union.”

“Zero deceased of 18–49 years of age with no underlying morbidities,” the Israel Ministry of Health (MOH) said in response to a formal request from an attorney. Officials noted that the statement only applies to COVID-19 deaths where the MOH conducted an epidemiological investigation and had received information about the underlying diseases.

“Zero is a very, very clear number, and cannot be subject to interpretation,”  Yoav Yehezkelli, a specialist in internal medicine and medical management, and former lecturer in the Department of Emergency and Disaster Management at Tel Aviv University in Israel, told The Epoch Times. “Why were all the extreme measures of school closures, vaccination of children, and lockdowns needed?” he added.

The MOH did respond to a request for comment.

“[i]t just doesn’t add up . . . [t]here’s just too much to work with to not know who this guy is.”

Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee are demanding an FBI briefing on the status of their January 6 Pipe Bomb Investigation following disclosures that the feds have enough information to identify a suspect.

In a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray, Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) and Rep. Bill Posey (R-Fla.) said the slow progression of the Bureau’s investigation into the pipe bombs “raises significant concerns about the FBI’s prioritization of that case in relation to other January 6 investigations.”

Never forget:

The footage was never released. Promised, but never released. WTF is going on?

“This law affects 66mn Germans . . . and there is enormous disquiet,”

Germany wants to become net-zero by 2045. To this end, the government recently announced it would ban boilers working with fossil fuels, effectively forcing people to switch to heat pumps as the only green enough option for people with no access to district heating.

The cost of the ban is estimated at over 9 billion euros, or $10 billion, annually until 2028. After that, according to the Scholz government, costs will drop by almost half thanks to a ramp-up in heat pump production and a scale-up of wind and solar capacity.

The government is offering financial help to households, to the tune of 30% of the cost of the switch but Germans appear to not be particularly enticed by that offer.

“People are outraged and furious,” Petra Uertz of the Residential Property Association told the Financial Times.

“They can’t understand why it has to happen so quickly.”

“This law affects 66mn Germans . . . and there is enormous disquiet,” according to Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, a senior MP from the liberal Free Democratic Party.

The FDP is one of the three parties in the coalition government led by Olaf Scholz and it is not a fan of the gas boiler ban.

“We shouldn’t be tying it to a particular date come hell or high water, there are things in it that must be changed first,” Strack-Zimmermann told German media, saying the Green Party’s insistence on passing the ban as law before the summer break was absurd.

The Green Party, by the way, is losing popular support faster than snow melts in May. According to the latest figures, as presented by the FT, it is now less popular than the right-wing Alternative for Germany, with a popularity rating of 14%.

What’s more, the ban has triggered a jump in demand for gas boilers: it would only come into effect as of January next year, so if people install boilers before this year’s end, they can keep using them.

“You can run but you can’t hide…”

Twitter will be legally required to ‘fight disinformation’ in the EU beginning August 25th, referring to the Digital Services Act – a set of new social media rules that include fines of up to 6% of a company’s annual revenue.

Twitter leaves EU voluntary Code of Practice against disinformation.

But obligations remain. You can run but you can’t hide.

Beyond voluntary commitments, fighting disinformation will be legal obligation under #DSA as of August 25.

Our teams will be ready for enforcement.

— Thierry Breton (@ThierryBreton) May 26, 2023

The code of practice on disinfo is a voluntary set of rules that includes the tracking of political advertising, stopping the monetization of disinformation (like Covid originating in a lab? Questions over vaccine efficacy? Hunter Biden’s laptop? Masks? Joe Biden having ‘probably inappropriate’ showers with his daughter?).

Twitter is one of eight social media platforms which falls under the scope of the DSA – which includes Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Snapchat.

Breton has threatened to personally hold Musk to account for failure to comply.