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My 65 years as a free writer—and censorship

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My 65 years as a free writer—and censorship
How would you like to be thinking this?  “I’m a censor.  I spend my waking hours keeping people from writing and speaking, by cutting off their access to the public.  That’s my job and I love it.  I love the feeling of shutting someone down…”

I picked up a pen and started writing when I was 16, in 1954.  I knew I had struck gold.  WRITING.   Freedom.   Words.   Sentences.  Poetry.  Images.  Ideas.  This was my universe.  It wasn’t run by some tin-pot teacher or official.  I could keep making worlds.  What could be better?

I’ve never changed my mind about that.  So when someone tells me—or a faceless company tells me—that I’m censored, I don’t take to it kindly.  And I immediately know the faceless ones are rank filthy idiots. Or scrupulously clean robots.  Either way, they’ve jumped species.  Downward.

Why did they censor me?  Was it my articles about toxic vaccines, about freedom of the individual vs. the State, about the CIA, about Obama, about Trump, about political liars, about medical drugs killing millions of people?  Lots to choose from.  Who really cares what it was exactly?  It was CENSORSHIP.

I wasn’t laying out charts for building H-bombs.  WordPress shut down my blog without notice or warning or explanation.  However, I see no reason to stop writing.  So I’m keeping on.  I’ve got people employing “other means” to get the blog back up.  Regardless, here I am.

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“If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.” —Noam Chomsky

The real job of society is educating people so they are “immune” to other people’s views.  What does that mean?  This immunity, what is it?  It’s the ability to understand and analyze someone else’s statements and make a decision about them.  Agree or disagree.  Accept one part, reject another part.  The immunity consists of not impulsively buying what others are selling.

In the 1950s, we had, in the US, a Red Scare. It consisted of Communist ideology.  The question was, should students be allowed to read the Communist Manifesto, or should Marx’s pamphlet be burned and banned?  The knee-jerk reaction was: ban the booklet.  The minority opinion was: let students read it and understand it.  But of course, the American school system hadn’t prepared pupils to analyze ANYTHING.

So there was no solution.  The whole Red Scare faded away eventually, as a “kinder, gentler” Leftist ideology spread through the country like ink on a blotter.

EDUCATION SHOULD PREPARE PEOPLE TO MAKE UP THEIR OWN MINDS THROUGH THOUGHT AND LOGIC.

Censorship is the coward’s way out.

Censorship works when evil people accumulate enough power.  This power CAN BE affected when a strong enough public reaction occurs.  That’s called a clue.

I’m a writer.  I’m writing my way out of censorship.  Help spread my articles, past and present, far and wide.  At nomorefakenews.com, consider ordering my three Matrix collections.

When I was 15, our history teacher was gone for two weeks.  In strode a substitute.  He basically said—“I’m going to use this time to teach you logic.  I’m going to show you what a vague generalization is, so you can recognize it and not fall for it.  I’m going to show you how to analyze what you read.  This is WORK, class, but you’ll be glad you did it.  So let’s dig in.”

It took me about three minutes to see a light go on.  It was very bright.  I felt a surge of power.  Nothing was ever the same after that.

Years later, when I had my first encounter with censorship, I shrugged it off immediately.  I was in possession of something much stronger.

This article is dedicated to that substitute teacher.  And to you, the reader.

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As Canadian MPs weigh how to police online hate, one proposes new body to give tickets or warnings to offenders

Critics warn that any such system could simply become a mechanism for people to shut down views with which they don’t agree

Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Chair Bob Zimmer (left) and Deputy-Chair Charlie Angus (right) look on as deputy-chair Nathaniel Erskine-Smith speaks during a news conference in Ottawa, Tuesday December 11, 2018.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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As Canada grapples with how to prosecute existing laws like harassment, defamation and criminal hate speech in the Wild West, one Liberal MP is proposing the creation of a new judicial body to deal with online offences.

“The criminal code is not an effective instrument,” said Liberal MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, at a justice committee meeting on Thursday, where MPs are studying the problem of online hate. Erskine-Smith, who is vice chair of the ethics and privacy committee, was subbing in at the justice hearing because of overlapping issues the MPs are dealing with.

Rather than embarking on an expensive prosecution for minor offences, Canada could set up “an administrative system that is flexible and efficient,” Erskine-Smith said. “The blunt instrument of imprisoning someone, putting them through a rigorous criminal trial, is probably not the right answer for enforcing rules against hate speech online in every instance.”

In an interview with the National Post after the committee meeting, Erskine-Smith raised examples like online threats, harassment and defamation that are obviously breaking Canada’s laws but that rarely get policed. The proposed administrative judicial system could issue tickets or warnings, the same way it happens “if you’re drunk in the street and disorderly,” he said.

However, critics warned that any such system could simply become a mechanism for people to shut down views with which they don’t agree.

There needs to be a recourse against the platforms and the individuals responsible for the speech

“My question for you is, who is determining what is hateful?” said Jay Cameron, a lawyer for the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms.

Cameron said he was concerned that whether the social media platforms some judicial body were responsible for removing content, it was likely to unfairly target conservative voices. He raised examples of pro-life advocates being silenced simply for stating their beliefs.

Jennifer Klinck, from Egale Canada Human Rights Trust, said she was broadly in favour of “a non-criminal administrative law remedy” for dealing with hate speech but said she was also wary of free speech issues. If it becomes a mechanism for shutting down controversial views, she said that could disproportionately affect vulnerable groups like LGBT people.

“There needs to be a recourse against the platforms and the individuals responsible for the speech,” said Klinck. We need “a variety of tools in the toolbox,” she said.

The committee’s discussion comes in the wake of two landmark rulings on hate speech in Canada and an international focus on the issue. In Toronto in January, two men were found guilty of promoting hatred against women and Jews with a publication called Your Ward News that was delivered to homes in the city. In British Columbia in March, anti-gay activist William Whatcott was ordered to pay $55,000 to trans activist Morgane Oger after Whatcott distributed a hate-filled flyer about Oger during the 2017 provincial election.

Both those rulings involved physical flyers, which MPs and witnesses agreed was much easier to prosecute than the more ephemeral and voluminous speech that takes place online.

There has also been a global push to police online hate after the Christchurch shootings in New Zealand, which targeted Muslims and were livestreamed online. In Paris on WednesdayPrime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that Canada will launch a “digital charter” that will govern how the country fights hate speech and misinformation online. Trudeau was in France for an international summit sparked by the shootings.

After her successful human rights ruling against Whatcott, Oger was in Ottawa to testify at the justice committee on Thursday. She said while her situation rose to the level of criminality, there are countless cases online that tiptoe over the line but never get prosecuted, and argued the situation urgently needs a solution.

“No mom wants to sit her children down and say someone wants to hurt her because of who she is,” said Oger, who detailed for the committee the history of harassment and death threats against her sparked by activity online. “Canadians need a civil remedy,” she said.

As the hearing wrapped up, committee chair Anthony Housefather said the committee’s study doesn’t necessarily have to be about policing the issue, but could centre on information-gathering and studying the problem itself. MPs expect to have the reported completed by early June, before the House rises for the summer.

New Zealand and the New World Order

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Dear Des,

New Zealand has emerged as the little darling of the New World Order. That is to say, it has become a creepily authoritarian place overnight.

In the wake of the mosque shooting in Christchurch, Kiwi Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern made it a crime to possess or to share the video of the attack, with two men currently facing up to 14 years in prison for this (!) and she made Facebook remove 1.5 million copies of the video within 24 hours of the attack.

In addition, Ardern announced the development of legislation to criminalize possession of semi-automatic weapons and she has also ordered armed police officers to make unannounced visits to the homes of people whose social media posts indicate they have conservative views, for example by opposing the UN Migration Pact or by supporting (gasp) Donald Trump, as told here by a mild-mannered YouTuber whose home has already been visited more than once.

These moves and more are being crowned today by the “Christchurch Call”, a summit of world leaders and Big Tech CEOs hosted by Ardern, where participants are pledging to eliminate extremist content online.

Simultaneous to this, former Rothschild banker, Emmanuel Macron is bringing 80 tech chiefs to Paris for his Tech for Good conference. Attendees of the events include the usual Globalist suspects, like Jordan’s King Abdullah II, Canadian Premier Justin Trudeau, British Prime Minister Theresa May and EU Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey will have bilateral talks with Ardern and Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi will have bilateral talks with Macron. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will not attend either event but he did meet in Paris with Macron last week.

Ardern said, “(We’re) asking both nations and private corporations to make changes to prevent the posting of terrorist content online, to ensure its efficient and fast removal and to prevent the use of live-streaming as a tool for broadcasting terrorist attacks,” she wrote in The Times.

Tech firms are being urged to develop “concrete measures”, such as enabling live-streams only on social media accounts whose owners have been identified. This implies a step closer toward the social credit dystopia unfolding in China.

Alas, “It’s a global problem that requires a global response,” said Ardern.

Running Time: 16 min

https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/62387-2/

. jUST

May 2019 CABLE SHOW (CONNECT THE DOTS – Diane King) CENSORSHIP on Ashland’s WACA-TV

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May 2019 CABLE SHOW (CONNECT THE DOTS – Diane King) CENSORSHIP on Ashland’s WACA-TV

 The long and short of it is that after 3 years of a generally amicable relationship with Executive Director, Barbara Chisolm of Ashland, MA’s WACA-TV there was a problem.  It was clear my video series CONNECT THE DOTS promoted CONTROVERSIAL political views and I even presented a video for May dealing with RACIAL AWARENESS with the conservative black point of view. It played once on April 22/23, 2019 at midnight (safe harbor time slot) and that was the last time any of my shows have been aired.
Since then, I have attempted, on numerous occasions, to contact Ms. Chisolm via our customary and formerly successful methods – email and phone calls, met by silence and disregarding my concerns.  I even went down to her office, May 7, 2019 and she refused to see me, feigning a ‘conference call.”  There was no overture for me to wait, that she would get back with me, nor was there any kindness extended towards me as towards a business associate or even a friend.
This SUDDEN and DEFINITE freeze/silence reinforced my suspicion of censorship because of a NOW political bias against me.  She never informed me that my videos were no longer being aired, she just STOPPED airing them.  I must INFER, therefore, that because of the timing of my broadcast cessation, that my last video, RACIAL AWARENESS sparked the censorship.  This was also followed by a special WACA-TV show about FREEDOM OF SPEECH, with a flurry of guests to participate and endorse freedom of speech on WACA-TV.
It appears that PREACHING and PRACTICING of FREE SPEECH at Ashland’s WACA-TV are completely different and selective and THUS nonexistent.  For you SEE: FREEDOM OF SPEECH FOR ALL OR IT IS NOT FREEDOM OF SPEECH AT ALL and I’ve been denied mine.

VIDEO: GERMAN LEFTISTS APPLAUD DEATH THREATS AGAINST AFD

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VIDEO: GERMAN LEFTISTS APPLAUD DEATH THREATS AGAINST AFD

Audience claps and whoops with delight

Paul Joseph Watson | Infowars.com – MAY 14, 2019

Video: German Leftists Applaud Death Threats Against AfD
Video from a political debate television round table shows German leftists in the audience applauding death threats made against the right-wing AfD party.
During the show, chairman of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party Frank Magnitz was asked why his party had underperformed in Bremen compared to success in other parts of the country.
Back in January, Magnitz himself was viciously attacked by three unknown assailants in Bremen and was left fighting for his life after suffering a gaping head wound.
Magnitz explained that Bremen is politically difficult for the AfD party because of repeated threats made against its members in the area.
“This afternoon I received news that we will have to cancel our last three election events that we planned from now up until the end of our campaign,” said Magnitz.
“The reason is very simple….because the owner no longer wanted to rent it out to us because he received death threats,” he added.
In response to this, numerous members of the audience began enthusiastically whooping and clapping.
“It is clear from the reactions here how horrible the political discourse is,” said Magnitz
The host of the show then accused Magnitz of playing the victim, prompting another guest to remark, “Maybe it has more to do with your kind of politics”.
To make the situation even more absurd, one of the applauding audience members is wearing a sweatshirt on which is written the words “always be kind”.
Several AfD offices in Germany have also been bombed or suffered other attacks since the party came to prominence.

Hear Paul Fromm on RADIO FREE SOUTH AFRICA

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Hear Paul Fromm on RADIO FREE SOUTH AFRICA

 

 

At 02:00 am, but on recorded audio, Karin Smith and I will speak for two hours to Mr Frederick Fromm. Not an interview for the faint hearted, as I foresee conversation on very controversial political topics. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/…/radio-free-south-africa…

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Jon Rappoport; Another Blogger Silenced

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THEY TOOK DOWN MY BLOG, PART 2
(To read about Jon’s mega-collection, The Matrix Revealed, click here.)
by Jon Rappoport

I say, “Dear Parents, All over the world they are injecting your children, from the day of their birth, with poisonous chemicals and germs, and they’re calling it a miracle.  But it isn’t.  It’s devastating.”

And then, someone somewhere behind a curtain who’s hidden his name-badge in his underpants says, “Censor that man.  Cut off his expression.  He has no right to say what he’s saying.”

The Soulless Ones are at it again.

Many of you now know that, last Saturday, WordPress took down my blog without warning or notice.  After 10 years—boom.  Gone.  We are in the process of restoring the blog through “other means.”  Meanwhile, my home page at NoMoreFakeNews.com is still up, and you can let others know to go there to sign up for the email list to receive my articles in their inbox on a regular basis.  You can also order products at that same home page.

I strongly suspect that my articles criticizing vaccines triggered the censorship move.  The justification would be: well, we must protect the health of the public and your influence could be quite negative in that regard, etc.

Information, evidence, opinion are all now subject to the preferences of “those in charge,” who of course “only have the best interests of The People at heart.”  Sure.

The reality is: when there is something called official science, then unofficial science must be trampled on and stamped out—the word “official” tells you that authorities are pushing lies down on people’s heads and those lies must be maintained and never doubted.  Unofficial science becomes dangerous.  It contains repressed truth.

I’ve learned that first-hand over the past 35 years working as a reporter.  All my major investigations have been “unofficial,” and in every one of those cases, there was someone standing in the middle of the road behind barricades shooing people away and warning that there was nothing OFFICIAL to see by going farther.

THE RIGHT TO HAVE AND EXPRESS AN OPINION OR VIEW OR FINDING are under attack.  Structures that would enable persons to express an opinion publicly are censoring certain voices.  They don’t have to give a reason.  They just do it.

They might say a writer “violated community standards.”  What community, and what standards?  Oh, the ones they make up and pretend exist.  Those communities and standards.  Or perhaps “the community” they’re talking about is some collection of goody two-shoes robotic idiots they’ve convinced to form an organization and make a so-called mission statement in line with official truth.  Blank minds, blank stares, earnest faces.

The age of rational argument and debate, if it ever existed, appears to be over.  Now it’s just FIND THE CONTRARY VIEW and silence it.

Of course, I’m not the first person to be censored recently.  And I’ve noticed that the black-listing hasn’t worked.  Those independent reporters and analysts and editorialists and activists are still talking and writing.  I’ll do the same.

You can help.  Spread my articles any way you can.  Get others on my email list.  Consider ordering my three MATRIX collections. Get in touch with WordPress and let them know how you feel and what you think.  Refuse to obey the Law of Silence.

There is a WE here.  It isn’t a collection of dumb know-nothings.  It’s many individuals who happen to have arrived, separately, at a similar place: the crossroad where a choice is made for justice and against surrender.

If you’re not already there, get there.  If you’re there, make your presence count.

Cineplex Bans ‘Unplanned’ in Canada

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Cineplex Bans ‘Unplanned’ in Canada

Over the last month we have been working to bring the movie “Unplanned” to Canada.
“Unplanned” is the real-life story of Abby Johnson, a Planned Parenthood clinic director who changed her mind about abortion when she saw the gruesome truth one day. It is a powerful and disturbing film with a redemptive message that every man and woman needs to see. 
Unplanned
“Unplanned” opened in the States on March 29th, bringing in over $6 million US on its opening weekend, far exceeding all expectations. In fact, it was the #4 film in theatres that weekend!
Despite its blockbuster status, we are really struggling to bring it to Canada.
So far, it has only been screened twice in this country – both at private events in Ottawa for MPs and pro-life leaders.
In conjunction with National Campus Life Network, and in partnership with other Canadian pro-life organizations, we had launched a petition in April to Cineplex, asking them to screen the film in Canada. (Cineplex is Canada’s largest retail film exhibitor.)
Unfortunately, Cineplex has now officially said NO! I am sad to report that “Unplanned” has been banned from most Canadian theatres due to its “controversial” nature. (Check out the full story here: https://grandinmedia.ca/blockbuster-pro-life-movie-unplanned-banned-from-canadian-movie-theatres/).
Despite this set-back, we are not giving up!
Moving forward, we are asking pro-life Canadians – and people all over the world – to sign our petition of support for the film. We want you to show your support for screenings in Canada and around the globe – so more people can see the truth like Abby saw it – so more minds and hearts might be changed.
If you haven’t signed already, please SIGN NOW: unplannedcanada.com
Over 185,000 CitizenGOers from Canada and around the world have already signed. Will you join them?
Although we do not expect Cineplex to reverse their decision, we are hopeful that this vast outpouring of support will help us secure screenings with private and independent cinemas. When these smaller theatres see how many people are behind this film, they are going to realize there is money to be made – in spite of the “controversy”.
National Campus Life Network has also created a separate fund to help pay for screenings and/or to provide free tickets once screenings are arranged. This fund has already reached $13,000.
For folks who are in the Edmonton area, I am pleased to announce that there will be a private screening of “Unplanned” to-night at 6:30 PM at the Expo Centre. Admission is being provided free of charge by the organizers. (Find out more here:https://www.battleforcanada.com/unplanned).
Thank you for continuing to stand with us as we work to bring “Unplanned” to Canada. Your prayers, signatures, and support, are vital!
Yours for Life,

David Cooke and the Entire CitizenGO Team

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Facebook has shut down 23 major populist Italian pages with 2.5 million followers just two weeks before the European elections.

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Facebook has shut down 23 major populist Italian pages with 2.5 million followers just two weeks before the European elections.

[It’s time to demand legislation that will treat these near monopolies — Facebook, You Tube, PayPal, Twitter — as public utilities which will be forbidden to discriminate against people because of their views or beliefs. Spread the world! — Paul Fromm., Director, CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR FREE EXPRESSION.]

According to Italian media, the majority of the pages supported the populist parties La Lega (The League) and the 5-Star Movement (M5S) — who currently govern Italy in a temporary coalition.

Facebook has justified its dramatic move by claiming that the sites shared fake news, so-called “hate speech”, and “divisive content” regarding immigrants, vaccines, and Jewish people.

Facebook used information from a report produced by a left-progressive NGO called Avaaz, which deals with “human rights” and environmental campaigns.

“We thank Avaaz for sharing its research so we could investigate,” said a Facebook spokesperson. “We are committed to protecting the integrity of the EU elections and around the world. We have removed a series of false and duplicate accounts that violated our policies on the subject of authenticity, as well as several pages for violation of the policy on changing the name.”

“We have also taken action against some pages that have repeatedly spread misinformation. We will take further measures if we find other violations,” the spokesperson warned.

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Delingpole: Then Facebook Came for Paul Joseph Watson… https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/05/03/only-trump-can-stop-silicon-valleys-war-on-freedom-of-speech/ …

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Delingpole: Then Facebook Came for Paul Joseph Watson…

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In its report, which was presented to Facebook on May 3, Avaaz said it had identified 14 Italian networks on Facebook comprising 104 pages and six groups, with a total reach of 18.2 million followers.

This week, Facebook took punitive action against 23 pages in these networks, with a total of 2.46 million followers and 2.44 million interactions over the last three months.

Facebook has also reportedly “weakened” pages that spread content with allegedly false news, presumably making them less visible to Facebook users.

The technical motivation for the closing of the pages is linked to name changes: it is claimed they initially suggested themes that did not seem to allude to political parties or movements, but later changed the theme.

Among the closed pages are “We want the 5-star Movement in government”, which had 129,000 followers and almost 700,000 interactions in three months, “Beppe Grillo for President”, “Lega Salvini Sulmona” — which had 307,000 followers” — “Lega Salvini Premier Santa Teresa of Riva”, and “We Are 5 Stars.”

The most active page in support of the Lega party was among those closed, just as polls are showing that the Lega is currently the party with the most support among Italians for the upcoming elections.

Facebook’s efforts in Italy to influence the European elections are just the tip of the iceberg, Italian media noted.

According to the Italian daily La Repubblica, on May 2 Facebook opened a “war room” in Dublin devoted full time to the European electoral campaign, with 40 teams of engineers, scientists, researchers, threat specialists, and experts for each country.

There are 500 people working on the elections, with the assistance of 21 supposed “fact-checkers,” operating in 14 different languages.