Talk about fisting while the city burns, or: the weirding of the Israeli-Hamas conflict has taken a new turn | Today, I have a particular gem for you, dear readers, which, above all, drives home one particularly awesome aspect of the psy-op side of the current uptick in violence in the Middle East: why are esp. LGBTQI+/- whatever alphabet soup members—among them, of course, the ‘queer’ and ‘trans’ being ‘the vanguard’ (in the original Leninist sense of the term, on which see below)—coming out strongly in favour of ‘the Palestinians’? I mean, they (pun intended) should probably try living a day in Gaza or any other Moslem country of their choice to figure out just how bad and stupid that combo actually is.

Ankara has condemned the “ugly attack” on a Turkish team working in East Jerusalem in which a camera was smashed | Reporters with a Turkish broadcaster have accused Israeli police of assaulting a member of their team, with footage of the incident appearing to show an officer smashing a journalist’s camera with the barrel of his rifle. Working for Türkiye’s TRT news outlet, the camera crew was reporting from East Jerusalem’s Old City, where Israeli security forces clashed with Palestinians near Al Aqsa Mosque on Friday.

■ “Israeli” Occupation Police Smash Journo’s Camera (Alahed News)
■ Israeli Soldier Throws Flash-Bang Grenade into Mosque – VIDEO (Hal Turner Show)

The globalist United Nations agency the World Health Organization (WHO) is demanding that governments launch a major crackdown to block citizens from discussing “conspiracy theories” online. | Given the fervor of WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus’ crusade against “disinformation,” if one didn’t know any better, one could hardly guess that he is at the helm of the UN’s health agency, rather than some “ministry of truth.”

A group of 16 French senators have introduced a bill to criminalise criticism of Zionism. | Senator Stephane Le Rudulier said ‘anti-Zionism’ is linked to the increase in anti-Semitism. Zionism, the racist Jewish nationalist movement, has led to the forced displacement of over a million Palestinians, and the arrest of a million more. ● According to renowned Israeli historian Ilan Pappe: “Zionism was a colonialist movement that penetrated the Palestinian homeland by force, with the wish to colonise the country and with possible expansionist ambitions to penetrate the heart of the Arab world.” ● Last month, France banned pro-Palestine protests “because they are likely to generate disturbances to the public order,” Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said. He added that any organisation of such protests will lead to arrests. [Jewish ruled] France has long supported Israel’s settler colonial project in Palestine, providing arms and diplomatic cover for its genocidal bombing campaign which is ongoing in Gaza.

■ ‘Israel targets journalists intentionally’ (RT.com)

A journalist with Lebanese Al-Mayadeen television channel has filed a police complaint against an Israeli journalist who she alleged had "intimidated" her. | Hana Mohamed said Israeli journalist Haim Etgar confronted her at a post office after allegedly impersonating a postal employee and "threatening" her. 💬 "This is not the first time that this journalist has chased Arab journalists and intimidated them," she told AFP. "When a journalist gives himself the authority to question another journalist like a policeman it legitimizes racist attacks on anyone," Mohamed said. Etgar posted on his Instagram account a video of him following Mohamed out of the post office to her car, asking about her take on the war, Mayadeen's coverage and accusing her of broadcasting "fake news," such as that the Israeli army is using chemical weapons.

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A bill on fighting “misinformation and disinformation” and “harm” aims to empower a government agency to police online expression | The Australian Government has recently introduced in Parliament a new law proposal to ban officially unapproved online content. Digital companies are expected to adopt a code of conduct which will see them censor speech based on broad, vague and far-reaching directives. ● The Communications Legislation Amendment (Combating Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill 2023 foreshadows the imposition of a legal obligation on digital platforms to police alleged ‘misinformation’ and ‘disinformation’. If that does not work, the law proposal provides for the full empowerment of the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) to directly intervene for the purpose of preventing ‘harm’.

■ UK poised to brand dissent as ‘extremism’ – Guardian (11/06/23)

Anyone who “undermines” the country’s institutions or values could be targeted under controversial proposed regulations | The UK is considering adopting a new definition of “extremism” that includes anyone who “undermines” British institutions or values, The Guardian reported on Saturday, citing internal government documents. [...] The source documents, marked “official – sensitive,” trumpet its potential to “frame a new, unified response to extremism.” The lack of public debate or consultation regarding the new definition has worried activists, who fear it will effectively criminalize dissent. ● Index on Censorship editor Martin Bright called the move “an unwarranted attack on freedom of expression [that] would potentially criminalize every student radical and revolutionary dissident.”

■ U.S. and UK oppose anti-Nazi resolution at UN (RT.com)

The Israeli military detained a film crew from German broadcaster ARD in the West Bank and threatened journalists with weapons, the Tagesschau broadcaster, part of the ARD media group, reported on Sunday. | The journalists were detained after they filmed violence against Palestinians by radical Jewish settlers, the report said, adding that ARD in Tel Aviv sees this as a clear attack on press freedom. The situation was resolved only an hour later, after the arrival of additional Israeli military and police forces, the report added. ARD in Tel Aviv promised to hire a lawyer to determine the legal consequences of the incident.

The first Debate on excess deaths anywhere in the world. This was the first time, a government minister anywhere in the world answered concerns about the global problem of excess deaths. (From Hart Group via Aletho News)

“It took my breath away.” —Dr. Drew on the new study shows 50% of young men who got myocarditis after the vaccine now have permanent heart damage and he doesn’t understand why this isn’t front page news. And he recommends injured students sue any school that mandated it. pic.twitter.com/rlUgKhCS2l

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Two prominent American doctors have spoken out to warn the public after a recent study found that young people have “permanent heart damage” after receiving Covid mRNA shots. | The disturbing study was published in the renowned peer-reviewed scientific journal Circulation. Researchers found that 50 percent of young men who developed Covid vaccine-induced myocarditis were left with permanent heart damage. Dr. Drew Pinsky addressed the study last week on The Megyn Kelly Show. Pinsky told Kelly that he was stunned by the lack of coverage of the research.

"A free, independent, and plural media is essential to the functioning of a healthy democracy." | The Media Reform Coalition (MRC) has published a new edition of its flagship ‘‘Who Owns the UK Media?’ report, this is their fifth study on media ownership in the United Kingdom, which covers data for the period since March 2021. According to MRC, the report highlights the dangerous levels of concentrated ownership across the UK’s national and local press, in TV and radio broadcasting, streaming services, and online platforms. ● A free, independent, and plural media is essential to the functioning of a healthy democracy says the MRC, but, their findings show that the UK media is dominated by a tiny handful of corporate media moguls and ‘Big Tech’ tycoons. Across our newspapers, TV channels, radio stations, and online platforms, these companies hold a dangerous level of power to dictate our national conversation and influence the political agenda to favour their own interests. ● An example of media dictating their own agenda was seen in the U.S. Sinclair Broadcast Group, which is the nation’s largest owner of local television stations, faced backlash after being caught using their anchors to push their political views in 2018. The funny clip below shows how that sounded put together in a video.

While producer Khaibar Akifi suffered severe injuries, his four-year-old daughter died in the attack | The four-year-old child, and parents-in-law, of a Sputnik Afghanistan producer were killed in a Ukrainian attack on Russia’s Belgorod Region on Wednesday. Khaibar Akifi and his wife Olesya were wounded in the attack, according to his employers in Moscow. Their dead daughter has been named as Amina.

The Israeli military says it is unable to “officially” substantiate the heinous allegation | US officials have backtracked after President Joe Biden claimed to have seen “confirmed pictures” of Palestinian militants “beheading children” in Israel, explaining that he had seen no images and was merely relaying claims from the Israeli government and media reports. ● While Biden declared in an address tio Jewish leaders on Wednesday that he was shocked by photos depicting brutal acts against Israeli babies, a White House spokesperson later told the Washington Post that officials were unaware of the pictures the president claimed to have seen. They added that they had no independent confirmation of reports that children were beheaded during a Hamas attack on Israel last weekend, despite Biden’s claim of having seen “confirmed” images.

One of the world’s leading climate scientists has admitted that the World Economic Forum’s green agenda is actually a scam designed to force the public into accepting globalism. | When Dr. Judith Curry's work gave her worldwide recognition after it was linked to “climate change,” Curry admits that she enjoyed the green agenda ride. “I was adopted by the environmental advocacy groups and the alarmists and I was treated like a rock star,” Curry recounts. [...] But then some researchers pointed out gaps in her research by highlighting the years with low levels of hurricanes. “Like a good scientist, I investigated,” says Curry. “Part of it was bad data,” she admitted. “Part of it is natural climate variability.” Curry says that she decided to speak out after her own work was exposed. [...] Her own experience made Curry realize that there is a “climate-change industry” set up to reward alarmism. “The origins go back to the . . . UN environmental program,” says Curry. Some United Nations officials were motivated by “anti-capitalism,” she revealed. “They hated the oil companies and seized on the climate change issue to move their policies along,” Curry explains.

Leaked documents reveal a British intel contractor singled out The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal for online censorship, and seeks to redefine factual criticism of NATO as disinformation. | A leaked 130-page report made public here for the first time documents an international censorship campaign funded by the British government and led by a public relations contractor for U.S. Special Operations Forces. The basic strategy is to redefine “disinformation” to include even factual criticism of the U.S. military or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and then to exert “coordinated action to pressure social media and digital market actors” to “moderate” such speech. The previously secret report also recommends “intensifying cooperation among the intelligence agencies within the EU [European Union]”, which in the past has included Ukrainian intelligence conducting what it described as a “multi-level special operation” in Spain to arrest a critical journalist for treason over his YouTube broadcasts.

CJ Hopkins | Mike’s movement is preparing to publish a declaration. | It’s a good declaration. I contributed to it. I signed it, although my name will not appear on it now, as Mike has threatened to remove it if I published a piece like this. Mike is an extremely smart guy, but he doesn’t seem to get that I don’t respond well to threats … or, rather, that this is how I respond to threats. Or, who knows? Maybe he actually wanted me to publish this piece, and goaded me into it, which, I can see how that could be a shrewd PR move. ● In any event, it’s a good declaration (or it was the last time I had access to it). There is nothing wrong with the declaration. What has taken up most of the last three months of the coalition’s time and energy, and has led to my excommunication, is the hunt for Very Important Persons to be included as signatories when the declaration is released. ● The irony is, when you’re “building a movement,” when you know you are succeeding is when you lose control of it, when the movement doesn’t need you to “lead” it, when it starts moving in directions you never imagined and starts doing things you never intended. But you can’t get there if you suffocate it in its infancy, if you are so obsessed with maintaining control that you snuff out every idea and impulse that doesn’t conform to your vision of it.

The Grayzone reveals that ARK, a UK contractor affiliated with the MI6, conducted extensive psychological warfare and media manipulation operations in Syria to destabilize the government. | A recent report by The Grayzone shows that a British government-affiliated CSO played a central role in spinning and disseminating subversive media narratives during the span of the war on Syria. The writer explains that such narratives were propagated to demonize the government in the eyes of the Syrian people and manufacture international consent for foreign interference. ● ARK, a government contractor with deep ties to intelligence agencies, has been exposed for its extensive covert operations in Syria during the turbulent years of the war, leaked documents obtained by The Grayzone revealed. Founded by former MI6 operative Alistair Harris, ARK positioned itself as a shadowy player in the Syrian war, working in conjunction with organizations like USAID, the US State Department, and the British military.

Milica Stojanovic | Using new spyware technology as well as bugs and wiretaps, authorities in various Central and South-East European countries continue to monitor reporters and their sources, journalists who have been under surveillance told BIRN. | [The big] picture is made clear by BIRN’s survey of 15 countries in Central and South-East Europe, which identified 28 cases of surveillance of individual journalists or larger numbers of journalists over the past decade. It’s not clear how many more remain undiscovered and how much active surveillance is still ongoing. ● Investigators and judges are currently dealing with ongoing cases of surveillance against journalists in Greece, Moldova, Slovakia and North Macedonia. In North Macedonia, the country’s former secret police chief is awaiting retrial for the illegal wiretapping of thousands of people, among them journalists. ● The UK newspaper The Guardian has described Pegasus as “perhaps the most powerful piece of spyware ever developed – certainly by a private company”. Manufactured by Israeli cybersecurity firm NSO, it can be installed on mobile phones by exploiting their vulnerabilities and can then record or harvest messages, photographs, videos and calls.

The owner of X (aka Twitter) claims the Anti-Defamation League tried to kill his social media platform with bogus anti-Semitism allegations | Billionaire Elon Musk has upped the ante in his feud with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), suggesting that he may have to sue the Jewish civil rights group for trying to destroy his X (formerly Twitter) social media platform with fraudulent claims of anti-Semitism. “To clear our platform’s name on the matter of anti-Semitism, it looks like we have no choice but to file a defamation lawsuit against the Anti-Defamation League,” Musk said on Monday in an X post. “Oh, the irony,” he added. ● The Tesla and SpaceX CEO, who bought Twitter last year for $44 billion and later renamed it X, blamed the ADL for a 60% drop in advertising revenue. He said the ADL had pressured advertisers not to use the platform by falsely associating X and its new owner with anti-Semitism. “They almost succeeded in killing X/Twitter,” he wrote. ● Musk’s latest comments come two days after he suggested that he might poll X users on whether to ban the ADL from his platform. He posted the idea in response to a message from conservative Dutch activist Eva Vlaardingerbroek, who declared that people are fed up with “labeling everything we don’t like as hateful/racist/dangerous/far-right.” She added that people are no longer afraid of the ADL’s intimidation tactics, claiming “Your labels have lost their power.”

Two of the world’s most renowned climate scientists have spoken out to warn the public that the green agenda being peddled by the World Economic Forum (WEF) and its globalist allies is based on a “hoax.” | As Slay News has extensively reported, governments around the world are scrambling to meet the “Net Zero” goals of the green agenda. This destructive agenda is being led by the WEF and other similarly-aligned unelected bureaucratic organizations such as the United Nations (UN) and the World Health Organization (WHO). The alleged goal of the green agenda is to fight the so-called “global warming/climate change/global boiling crisis.” However, meeting these goals means ramping up taxes, stripping the public of basic freedoms, and drastically lowering the quality of life for the general population.

■ The Great Global Warming Swindle - Full Documentary HD

As of August 25, large online platforms operating in Europe will have to abide by the rules laid out in the Digital Services Act, or face an immense fine of up to 6 percent of their annual global revenue. | The European Union’s (EU) “Digital Services Act” (DSA) has taken effect today, granting the European Commission power to censor “disinformation” and “hate speech” online. As of August 25, large online platforms operating in Europe will have to abide by the rules laid out in the DSA, or face an immense fine of up to 6 percent of their annual global revenue. The EU Commissioner for Internal Market, Thierry Breton, even threatened to shut down social media platforms if they do not comply with the rules in the case of civil unrest, like the recent riots in France.

■ The Digital Services Act Will Give the EU Sweeping New Censorship Powers, Forcing X and Facebook to Remove Content that Challenges Mass Migration, Transgender Ideology or Net Zero (08/28/23)

Yesterday CNN published another Russiagate like nonsense story: "Newly declassified US intel claims Russia is laundering propaganda through unwitting Westerners." 💬 Russian intelligence is operating a systematic program to launder pro-Kremlin propaganda through private relationships between Russian operatives and unwitting US and western targets, according to newly declassified US intelligence. ■ The information contained in the CIA release was 'designed' or construed to create a certain propaganda narrative. It wasn't just information that could be found or observed by a reporter but a curated collection of items put together to create a certain effect. Think about that for a minute and you will recognize that most of the 'news' one reads is made like this. Someone asserts that there is a need for to create a certain effect. A narrative is thought up that could lead to it. The some bits of facts or rumors are collected, sorted, filtered and then written up until the constructed narrative is thought to be likely to create the desired effect. This is then the declassified product and fed to the media which are willing to distribute such stuff.

The European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA) comes into force today, obliging “very large online platforms” to swiftly take down what unelected European Commission bureaucrats decide to define as ‘disinformation’. | As Laurie Wastell points out in the European Conservative, the DSA obliges online platforms to swiftly take down so-called disinformation. From today, the EC has at its disposal an aggressive enforcement regime, such that if Big Tech companies fail to abide by the EU’s ‘Strengthened Code of Practice on Disinformation’, which requires swift censorship of mis- and disinformation, then they can be fined up to 6% of their annual global revenue, investigated by the Commission, and potentially even prevented from operating in the EU altogether. ● In the words of EC President Ursula von der Leyen, it is vital that companies censor disinformation of this kind to “ensure that the online environment remains a safe space”. Safe for whom, one wonders — politicians or citizens?

Lars von Trier had expressed horror at Danish PM Mette Fredriksen cavorting with her Ukrainian counterpart inside an F-16 | The ‘Dancer in the Dark’ and ‘Antichrist’ filmmaker took to Instagram to react to a meeting between Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and Danish Prime Minister Mette Fredriksen, both of whom posed for photographs inside an F-16 jet fighter. 💬 “Like someone head over heels in love, [they] posed in the cockpit of one of the scariest killing machines of our time, grinning from ear to ear,” von Trier wrote, responding to the news that Denmark would be donating F-16s to Ukraine after Zelensky had demanded them for months. ● Von Trier’s post was quickly slammed by the Ukrainian government. National Security and Defense Council head Aleksey Danilov posted a screenshot of the text to X (formerly Twitter), declaring that “behind every living Russian terrorist, there is a dead Ukrainian,” while insisting that Ukraine exists “in a cruel reality in which Russians are murderers.”