Paris. Aug. 26. Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, remains in a Paris jail cell as of Monday morning. Durov was arrested Friday “as part of an investigation into Telegram’s lack of content moderation and the …
Paris. August 24, 2024. Pavel Durov, the Russian-born billionaire founder and owner of the Telegram messaging app, was arrested at Le Bourget airport outside Paris shortly after landing on a private jet late on Saturday. …
Columbia University is considered number one in the ranks of US journalism schools. Many of the most prominent news reporters attended Columbia. Now there is evidence that the Columbia School of Journalism is coordinating climate …
Noted pro-government “liberal” writer Nicholas Kristoff recently authored an interesting column in the New York Times, “What have we liberals done to the West Coast?” Kristoff worries that pro-government “liberal” policies have made many social …
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Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, remains in a Paris jail cell as of Monday morning. Durov was arrested Friday “as part of an investigation into Telegram’s lack of content moderation and the platform’s role in allegedly enabling criminal activity, according to the Washington Post.” Durov previously fled Russia in 2014 after refusing to hand over data on Ukrainian users on requested by the Russian government. Durov now lives in Dubai, where Telegram is based, and has dual French and United Arab Emirates citizenship.
Governments around the world are hunting, jailing, and persecuting companies which allow free speech. Previously, this censorship was mostly isolated in socialist regimes such as China and North Korea; or focused on individual journalists. But now governments appear to be seeking to scuttle entire social media platforms.
Elon Musk’s X recently pulled out of Brazil. All X employees have fled the anti-free-speech regime.
The goal of censoring and silencing dissent (masquerading as a crackdown on “hate,” “misinformation,” or whatever) seems to be gaining momentum even among Americans. Especially those affiliated with the Democratic Party. Recently the Democratic Party’s nominee for Vice President, Tim Walz, made remarks supporting increased censorship.
Paris. August 24, 2024. Pavel Durov, the Russian-born billionaire founder and owner of the Telegram messaging app, was arrested at Le Bourget airport outside Paris shortly after landing on a private jet late on Saturday. Reuters reports that “BFM and TF1 said that Durov, who has dual French and United Arab Emirates citizenship, was arrested as part of a preliminary police investigation into allowing possible criminality due to a lack of moderators on Telegram and a lack of cooperation with police.
The Drudge Report (an obvious CIA organ since at least Fall of 2018), provided the globalist take at the top of its page on August 25, 2024:
Thus the intelligence community and global elites are seeking to paint Durov’s arrest as a “terrorism, narcotic supply, fraud,” and “money laundering” arrest. Drudge Report links to a story in the Jerusalem Post.
The U.S. government previously obtained a life prison term for Ross Ulbricht, who founded a similarly open and free internet platform in the early 2000s. The US government also recently ordered the extradition of New Zealand internet freedom advocate Kim Dotcom, for “copyright violations.”
In a recent Tucker Carlson interview, Durov said that he had been hounded and harassed by FBI agents and the US government for years. Durov said that the FBI tried to hire a telegram employee to secretly put a backdoor into the system to circumvent Telegram’s encryption.
Columbia University is considered number one in the ranks of US journalism schools. Many of the most prominent news reporters attended Columbia.
Now there is evidence that the Columbia School of Journalism is coordinating climate terror news narratives that are planted into news stories worldwide. Millions of dollars in grants from Bill Gates and other pro-government extremists promote the project. “They are collaborating, they are conspiring — both in the open and behind closed doors.” See here.
Columbia’s guidelines tell journalists to put scary words such as “dangerous,” “deadly,” and “crisis” in their stories about the weather. Columbia even writes sentences and even entire paragraphs for reporters to place in their weather and news reports.
The Columbia project urges reporters to not let readers think that it is hot because it is summer. A link to CO2 and fossil fuels must be placed into every weather report.
Reporters are urged to illustrate their stories with images of struggle:
“Choose visuals carefully. While it may be tempting to make light of heat by using “fun in the sun” photos, such as people eating ice cream or crowded pools, it’s more accurate to use images that reflect the seriousness of the situation. Opt for photos that show people struggling with heat (like crowded cooling centers or workers struggling under heat conditions) or signage warning of high temperatures.”
Kristoff worries that pro-government “liberal” policies have made many social problems worse.
“The basic reason for homelessness on the West Coast,” concedes Kristoff, “is an enormous shortage of housing that drives up rents. California lacks about three million housing units, in part because it’s difficult to get permission to build.”
This, of course, is because California (and Oregon and Washington) impose too many regulations, barriers, and obstacles to the construction of new housing.
Government trusters like Kristoff have spent years advocating for government housing projects. But “[p]ublic sector efforts to build housing are often ruinously expensive, with “affordable housing” sometimes costingmore than $1 million per unit.”
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On May 30, 2024, Extinction Rebellion and Just-Stop-Oil founder Roger Hallam made a startling prediction on ‘X.’ Hallam predicted the following:
“12 per cent of the population of Phoenix, Arizona will die of extreme heat in the 2030s.” See here.
Hallam calculated that “climate” will kill 180,000 Phoenix residents during the 2030s. “Phoenix will experience social collapse at some point in the 2030s, along with the rest of the world’s cities in the new death zones of the planet.”
I Roger Roots, posted my $500 bet offer on Hallam’s X feed immediately after Hallam made his 12%-dead prediction. We will see if Hallam takes me up on the bet.
More Americans are waking up to how corrupt the government is. According to a new Rasmussen poll, 54% of likely United States voters believe that a group of people randomly selected from the phone book would do a better job of ‘governing’ than the current Congress.
Just 27% of voters believe Congress is doing a better job than a randomly selected group of individuals would do.
And more than two-thirds, 67 percent–believe that the average member of Congress listen mostly to “party leaders” (the elites), more than to constituents.
A neww poll by the American Press Institute and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that just fourteen percent of the U.S. population trusts the news media to deliver accurate information. More Americans admit they believe in astrology. See here.
This although today’s academic, government, corporate, and news leaders now decry misinformation” as a major social problem. During the past several years, numerous Big-Tech- and academic-sponsored nonprofits have been launched to convince people to trust only mainstream, government-curated “news” sources.
Rasmussen Polling 2024. Veteran pollster Scott Rasmussen surveyed a group of Americans he calls the elite 1% earlier this year. Rasmussen was astounded at the stark differences between the opinions of elites and the rest of the population.
“The elite 1%—individuals who make over $150,000 a year, live in densely populated areas, and have postgraduate degrees—are overwhelmingly liberal.
Among the elite 1%, about half say Americans have “too much freedom.” And among politically obsessed 1%ers, about 7 out of 10 say, “There’s too much individual freedom in America.”
Rasmussen says In America, it’s been 50 years since most voters trusted the government to do the right thing most of the time. But among the elite 1%, 70% trust the government.
The January 6, 2021 prosecutions have produced the longest prison sentences for rioting or demonstrating in American history. Many “mainstream” journalists report the event–which produced a 6-hour delay of a congressional proceeding–as cataclysmic. The US Justice Department has prosecuted some 1,400 J6 demonstrators, with J6 defendants receiving sentences as long as 22 years in prison.
But a substack blogpost on April 15, by “Conundrum Cluster,” recounted another episode in which the US Capitol and its grounds were actually, truly “stormed” and occupied: the 1932 “Bonus Army” occupation. “Your high school history textbook was lying to you” about the Bonus Army episode, according to the post.
The episode began during the deepest part of the Great Depression when thousands of unemployed veterans came to Washington, D.C. to lobby for early “bonus” payouts. (World War 1 enlisted men were expecting pensions by the 1940s, but many voices suggested the US government should dole out the money to veterans in need as a depression remedy.
Many public school students learn about the “Bonus Army March” as an episode of brutal suppression by the federal government. But “Conundrum Cluster” points to startling facts regarding the true story. It turns out that fewer than 50 percent of the demonstrators were veterans at all. And there was a hardcore, truly communist element organizing the entire affair.
I was ordered by my Red superiors to provoke riots… I was told to use every trick to bring about bloodshed in the hopes that President Hoover would be forced to call out the Army… The Communists didn’t care how many veterans were killed. I was told that Moscow had ordered riots and bloodshed in hopes that this might set off the revolution.
The demonstrators took over and occupied numerous federal office buildings; for weeks.
“On July 14, 10,000 demonstrators led by Pace staged a march on the Capitol and a communist committee stormed the Vice President’s office. On July 18th they swarmed the DC Courthouse. On July 22, they occupied the Capitol building and had to be removed. On July 25th, a large confrontation occurred with Capitol Police in which many communist leaders, including Pace, were arrested. The city was paralyzed.”
“It’s important to note that a significant proportion of the crowd assembled in DC had prior criminal histories. FBI ran fingerprint matches on Bonus Marchers who had applied for travel loans and found that 24.4% of them had criminal convictions. That figure ran up to 33.3% for those arrested in the July 25th confrontation. A third of those arrested weren’t even veterans.”
“By July 28th, President Hoover and the DC authorities ordered the limited eviction of Bonus Marchers from an abandoned Treasury Department building on Pennsylvania Avenue.” “The 200 occupants of the building had been ordered to evacuate 4 times beforehand.”
“When a small crew of Treasury Department workmen escorted by 75 police officers attempted the eviction, they were confronted by 5,000 Bonus Marchers from nearby camps. The scene quickly turned into a full scale riot. Bystanders from surrounding neighborhoods gathered to watch the chaos unfold. The crowd was estimated to be 20,000 strong. Police were attacked with bricks and clubs, but had been ordered not to draw their guns. Dozens of officers suffered serious injuries. Later, as reinforcements arrived and a huge fight for control of the building broke out, two police officers were cornered on the upper floors. They fired in self defense, killing two Bonus Marchers. These were the only two fatalities of the entire ordeal.”
THE BONUS ARMY EPISODE stands in stark comparison to the January 6 episode. For J6 protestors, the federal government has spent hundreds of millions, rounding up and prosecuting them. But Bonus Army participants–who ACTUALLY did take over the Capitol and occupied the area for months–were barely prosecuted at all.
Washington, D.C. April 25, 2024. House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan has revealed that the federal government has created ‘profiles’ on the American people and is keeping them in a ‘secret portal’ shared with companies to identify customer’s levels of extremism, .
An “interface shared between over 650 companies and federal officials holds a ‘secret portal’ containing sensitive data on American citizens, Jordan warned during a House Weaponization Committee hearing Thursday.”
The Daily Mail reports that there is a major effort by U.S. government officials to use major corporations to track, monitor, and control the American population.
“‘The federal government is building profiles on the American people. And the profile is not based criminal conduct, it’s based on political belief.’ “
