this is just one among many such incidents in which facebook went off of the rails in preventing uncomfortable reality from appearing in their pages; 

Facebook is blocking links to a New York Post story that exposes Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors’ controversial recent home buying spree, preventing users from sharing the link publicly or via private message.

The Post article from April 10 is headlined ‘Inside BLM co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors’ million-dollar real estate buying binge’ and reveals how Khan-Cullors, a self-described Marxist, recently purchased four high-end homes for a total of $3.2 million.

As we previously highlighted, one of the homes, a $1.4 million dollar property, is located in Topanga Canyon, California, where the black population is just 1.6 per cent.

Another of the homes, a “custom ranch” located in Georgia, is surrounded by “3.2 rural acres” and features a “private airplane hangar with a studio apartment above it” in addition to an indoor swimming pool.

After one BLM activist called for an investigation into how finances were being used, other prominent figures within BLM threatened legal action against him.

Now Facebook is completely blocking users from posting a link to the original NY Post story in yet another brazen act of partisan censorship.

When attempting to post the link, the user is met with the message, “Your post couldn’t be shared, because this link goes against our Community Standards.”

Users can’t even send the link via private message to their Facebook friends........read more.......

 looks like this old innocent black woman will be getting a judgement of cash in her favor after the cops went all stupid and broke her arm, and more........

Oklahoma City, OK — Ruby Jones, 74, has never been in trouble with police. And, when police came to her home back in August, they were not there for her. However, because the officers were completely incompetent when it comes to de-escalation and common decency, Jones would leave her home in handcuffs, having been assaulted by police, and, with a broken arm.

This week, the taxpayers of Oklahoma City were put on notice that they will be held liable for the actions of officers Dan Bradley, Ryan Staggs and James Ray. Each officer either used excessive force against Jones or failed to intervene in her assault to stop it, according to a lawsuit filed by Jones.

According to police, they were at Jones’ home that day to arrest her mentally ill grandson for allegedly calling in a bomb threat to a mental health facility at which he used to be a patient. Though the incident happened back in August, police didn’t release the body camera footage until this year.

As the footage shows, Jones is simply pleading with the cops, informing them that her son is mentally ill and to please take care.

“What’s going on?” Jones asked.

“He has a warrant for his arrest,” an officer responded.

As Jones attempted to get more information from the officers and tell them how to approach her son, they shoved her aside and forced their way into her home.

“He’s bipolar,” Jones said............read and watch more......

mr rappoport presents the reality and function of 'our' tv 'news' in ways you won't find on their presentations;

The rise of television news, and its power over the mind, necessitated an agreement among the major networks:

On most issues, the networks would have to mirror each other’s coverage. Otherwise, the audience would experience an unacceptable level of confusion and cognitive dissonance.

This principle of agreement was basically about the rules of propaganda—and nowhere was it more evident than in matters of medical science.

For example, suppose, recently, the COVID PCR test became an occasion for disagreement among NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, and FOX?

Three networks fell into line with the CDC and the WHO in claiming the test was accurate and meaningful, while the other two strenuously reported on the irreparable and fatal flaws in the test. (I’ve exhaustively detailed those flaws in many articles.)

The network dissonance would upset a huge apple cart smack in the middle of COVID “science.” The public wouldn’t know where to turn.

Therefore, the truth of the matter had to take a back seat to conformity. All the major networks robotically echoed the CDC/WHO.

And the network anchors had to sell the PCR lies. Lester Holt (Lurch/ the Addams family); David Muir (Sears underwear model); Norah O’Donnell (student council president); Wolf Blitzer (“smart bombs went right down chimneys in Iraq”); a collection of shiny suits at FOX; they all had to pretend they’d looked at more than the opening lines of public health press releases.

The guiding light of network news is unanimity, and social media have adopted that m.o. as well..........read more......

 hornberger presents a clear case that the empire is run by those descended from the ones who killed jfk though a bit obliquely in this essay, and also hints of more fun yet to come;

For those who are tempted to praise President Biden for supposedly standing up to the Pentagon and the CIA by announcing a pull-out of the remaining U.S. troops in Afghanistan, resist those temptations. There is no way that Biden, who has long been an integral part of the Washington, D.C., establishment, is going to buck the U.S. national-security establishment. Biden made the announcement because obviously the Pentagon and the CIA authorized him to make the announcement.As Michael Glennon, a professor of law at Tufts University details in his excellent book National Security and Double Government, it’s the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA who are in charge of the federal government and foreign policy. They permit the other three branches of the federal government to maintain the appearance of power, but the real power lies with the national-security establishment. They are the ones who are ultimately calling the shots on foreign policy.

After all, look at what Biden did at the same time that he announced the end of America’s forever war in Afghanistan. He announced sanctions on Russia, which has been America’s Cold War enemy since the end of World War II.

Can anyone think that this is just a coincidence? The Pentagon and the CIA know that time has simply run out on their forever wars. They also know that they now stand a good chance of losing terrorism as their big official enemy, one that has stood them well since the surprise end of the Cold War.

That was why they intervened in the Middle East after the Cold War ended. Having ostensibly lost Russia and China and “godless communism” as official enemies, they proceeded to go into the Middle East and poke hornets’ nests, with the aim of stirring up some anti-American terrorism........read more......

 the arrogance and ignorance of the empire only grows and here is the latest manifestation of that stupidity, let alone hypocrisy;

he thirty-member North Atlantic Council, the political decision-making body of NATO consisting of the ambassadors of all member states, posted a statement supporting the Joe Biden administration’s declaration of a national emergency attributed to Russian actions, real or fancied.

Biden began a letter accompanying an executive order sent to the U.S. Congress today with this announcement:

“Pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), I hereby report that I have issued an Executive Order declaring a national emergency with respect to the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States posed by specified harmful foreign activities of the Government of the Russian Federation.”

In a writ of indictment that includes no fewer than seven grave – in some instances the gravest of – accusations, the letter continued:

“I have determined that specified harmful foreign activities of the Government of the Russian Federation – in particular, efforts to undermine the conduct of free and fair democratic elections and democratic institutions in the United States and its allies and partners; to engage in and facilitate malicious cyber-enabled activities against the United States and its allies and partners; to foster and use transnational corruption to influence foreign governments; to pursue extraterritorial activities targeting dissidents or journalists; to undermine security in countries and regions important to United States national security; and to violate well-established principles of international law, including respect for the territorial integrity of states – constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States.”

The last time such near-apocalyptic language was used in relation to Russia was after Soviet troops entered Afghanistan in December of 1979. In his State of the Union address in January 1980 President Jimmy Carter spoke these words (giving rise to the eponymous Carter Doctrine), written by his National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and modeled after the Truman Doctrine of 1947, which signaled the beginning of the Cold War:.........read more.......

 kunstler keeps it rolling with this presentation including allusions to upcoming surprises;

Joe Biden’s party must be thinking — if you call it thinking — that being psychotic isn’t enough… it’s time to go demonic! How else to explain the supernatural doings of the folks in charge of things in our nation’s capital. The casual observer might suppose that these things are spinning out of control, but you also have to wonder how much Joe Biden & Company are spinning them that way. Are they looking to start a war, for instance?

Three weeks ago, Ol’ White Joe called Vladimir Putin “a killer.”  This week, Ol’ Joe called Vlad on the phone and suggested a friendly in-person meet-up in some “third country.” In the meantime, Ol’ Joe essayed to send a couple of US warships into the Black Sea to assert America’s interest in Ukraine, the failed state whose American-sponsored failure was engineered in 2014 by Barack Obama’s State Department. Turkey, which controls the narrow entrance to the Black Sea, was notified that two US destroyers would be steaming through its territory. Hours after the announcement, the US called off the ships. Then, hours after Ol’ Joe proffered that summit meeting, his State Department imposed new economic sanctions on Russia and tossed out a dozen or so Russian embassy staff. How’s that for a coherent foreign policy?

What’s going on in Ukraine, anyway? The US and NATO have prompted Ukraine to move troops and tanks toward the ethnically-Russian breakaway Donbass region. Russia countered by massing 100,000 troops on Ukraine’s border. Though supplied with Western armaments, Ukraine’s ragtag and incompetent army has no ability to control the Donbass, nor do either NATO and the US have any real will to interfere there with their own troops — the logistics are insane. Mr. Putin’s elegant solution: evacuate the three-plus million Russians stuck in Donbass into Russia — which needs labor — ceding the empty territory to foundering Ukraine — soon to be an ungovernable post-industrial frontier between East and West. For a rich rundown on these matters, read Dmitry Orlov’s mordant disquisition on the subject: Putin’s Ukrainian Judo..........read more........

 ten lies being spread about the covid that too many americans accept;

LIE #1. Masks help protect you from viruses and bacteria.

LIE #2. Social distancing is working.

LIE #3. Covid-19 mRNA vaccines are safe and effective.

LIE #4. The whole “herd” theory for safety of the vaccinated.

LIE #5. Using antibacterial and disinfecting products all day keeps you safe from germs.

LIE #6. The CDC protects you.

LIE #7. The Covid-19 vaccine will keep you from catching as bad a version of the virus.

LIE #8. mRNA-technology in vaccines helps strengthen your immune system.

LIE #9. Things will get back “closer to normal” after everyone gets vaccinated.

LIE #10. We’re all in this together.