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A group of Russian MPs have put forward a bill that would ban any “propaganda” promoting childless lifestyles and the choice not to have children, including in the media, online advertising and in films. It comes as the country faces a demographic crisis exacerbated by the war in Ukraine.
The 'godless' comment came from a man named 'Abdullah'. An Arab name and possibly a Muslim. But his argument that childless couples might be godless may be valid. Parenthood is an important part of God's plan for His people, both to populate the Earth and to help the parents to grow in character. Growing in character is one of God's main ambitions for all of us. It helps to prepare us for Eternity. Refusing to have children can really be a very selfish lifestyle, and selfishness is the opposite of the Christian value of sacrificial love.
It's typical of an European journalist to think that Russia would want to encourage families to have more children because of the war in Ukraine, but Russia has been promoting larger families for years. Perhaps it is because they see what is happening in Europe where the indigenous populations are not birthing enough children to maintain their current numbers. They may also see that Muslim immigrants are groing at a significant rate both through immigration and through child birth rates much higher than the rest of Europe.
Russia will most likely protect their Russian majority just as China and Myanmar are protecting their populations from being overrun. We may not like how they are accomplishing it, but they are accomplishing it.
If you are not familiar with France24 and Agence France Presse (AFP), it is one of the bigger news media platforms in Europe. It is far-left, woke, (in my humble opinion) - corrupt, and not very bright.
They continue to favour Muslims and dis Jews in their coverage both at home and in the Middle East. They are an excellant example of everything that is wrong with Western media, and they can't stand anyone who tells the truth, hence, the attack on Musk.
Musk's false X posts on US election viewed 1.2 billion times, says watchdog
Elon Musk has made at least 50 posts on X since January that contain false or misleading information about the US presidential election, the Center for Countering Digital Hate said on Thursday. The posts have amassed 1.2 billion views, said the watchdog, which noted that none of Musk’s posts included a “Community Note,” the crowd-sourced moderation tool the billionaire’s social media platform has promoted as the way for users to add context.
False or misleading US election claims posted on X by Elon Musk have amassed nearly 1.2 billion views this year, a watchdog reported Thursday, highlighting the billionaire's potential influence on the highly polarized White House race.
Ahead of the November election, researchershave raised alarm that X, formerly Twitter, is a hotbed of political misinformation.
They have also flagged that Musk, who purchased the platform in 2022 and is a vocal backer of Donald Trump, appears to be swaying voters by spreading falsehoods on his personal account.
"Appears to be" - wiesel words!
Researchers from the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) identified 50 posts since January by Musk –- who has more than 193 million followers on the social media site -- with election claims debunked by independent fact-checkers.
Want to bet that CCDH and the independent fact-checkers are all Democrats?
None of the posts displayed a "Community Note," a crowd-sourced moderation tool that X has promoted as the way for users to add context to posts, CCDH said, raising questions about its effectiveness to combat falsehoods.
Or, confirming that what he writes is the truth!
"Elon Musk is abusing his privileged position as owner of a... politically influential social media platform to sow disinformation that generates discord and distrust," warned CCDH chief executive Imran Ahmed.
"The lack of Community Notes on these posts shows that his business is failing woefully to contain the kind of algorithmically-boosted incitement that we all know can lead to real-world violence."
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The posts analyzed by CCDH carried widely debunked claims, such as that Democrats are encouraging illegal migration with the aim of "importing voters" or that the election is vulnerable to fraud. Both claims amassed hundreds of millions of views.
Widely debunked? By whom? The Democrats? This is not something that you can possibly prove to be true or false unless you catch some politician talking about it. What a politician will say in public is completely irrelevant. What other reason does the Biden government have for allowing millions of unvetted immigrants into the country and then demanding they have the right to vote?
Last week, Musk faced a firehose of criticism for sharing with his followers an AI deepfake video featuring Trump's Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris.
In it, a voiceover mimicking Harris calls President Joe Biden senile before declaring that she does not "know the first thing about running the country."
The video, viewed by millions, carried no indication that it was parody -- save for a laughing emoji. Only later did Musk clarify that the video was meant as satire.
"Musk behaves as if he is beyond reproach despite growing evidence of the harmful role he is personally playing to fuel disinformation and division ahead of the US elections," Nora Benavidez, from the advocacy group Free Press Action Fund, told AFP.
'The harmful role' means he is hurting the Democrats chances of winning.
"As his behavior edges closer to election interference, it's up to others -- the public, regulatory agencies and advertisers -- to hold him accountable for his anti-democratic behavior."
Musk, who purchased the platform in 2022 for $44 billion, is facing growing scrutiny over his potential influence on voters.
'Growing scrutiny' by the far-left of which mainstream media is the main voice.
On Monday, a bipartisan group of five US secretaries of state sent an open letter to Musk, urging him to fix X's AI chatbot known as Grok after it produced election misinformation.
Hours after Biden stepped down from the presidential race last month and endorsed Harris as the Democratic nominee, Grok churned out false information about ballot deadlines, which was amplified by other platforms.
X -- which also faced criticism for stoking tensions during recent far-right riots across England -- has gutted trust and safety teams and scaled back content moderation efforts once used to tame misinformation, making it what researchers call a haven for disinformation.
Those 'trust and safety teams' ensured the pre-Musk Twitter kept in step with mainstream media and their continual flow of far-left, woke, madness. X is now the only significant news source and social media platform where truth can be found and dissent can be voiced.
Musk faced down the Australian government who tried to end the practice of free speech on Twitter. He is taking on the government of Brazil for the same cause, and will soon be battling the insane Labour government in the UK.
Democracy is impossible without free speech. But that's the whole point of the attacks. It's pathetic, even traitorous, that France24 and most other news media are supporting that attack.
Ursula von der Leyen is married to the German doctor Heiko von der Leyen… who is director of Orgenesis, which is owned by Pfizer… the same company that Ursula signed a 71 billion euro contract with to buy an astronomical 4.6 billion doses (10 per citizen)
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Did Orgenesis benefit from the €71 billion contract with Pfizer? It's hard to imagine they wouldn't. Will any legacy media investigate this? Not likely!
Ursula was just reelected as the head of the EU for another 5 year term. Can the EU afford another 5 years of Ursula?
When political parties weaponize police services and forces, and the police willingly obey, despite violations of the constitutional rights of citizens, freedom and the rule of law are under severe threat.
Leftist fascist politicians are increasingly emboldened globally. Given the history of the Gestapo in Nazi Germany, the case of Compact magazine is even more disturbing.
German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (Social Democrats) ordered police to shut down the leading right-wing monthly magazine “Compact” and sent 200 armed officers to raid the home of publisher Jürgen Elsaesser Monday.
Now the crackdown on free speech seems to be backfiring, however, as more and more call for Faeser’s resignation and Elon Musk chimes in.
The Gateway Pundit has reported on Germany’s “Antifa”-aligned homeland security minister Nancy Faeser, who published a comment in “Antifa” magazine 2021, which is run by a group considered “far-left” and “communist aligned” by the Bavarian secret police.
In 2022, Faeser was involved in a plot to oust Germany’s head of Cybersecurity, Arne Schönbohm, presumably for not being sufficiently pro-censorship as a conservative Christian Democrat, together with public broadcaster “comedian” Jan Böhmermann and a shadowy group of anonymous journalists who call themselves “Policy Network Analytics” on Twitter and are loosely tied to Germany’s “Media Matters”, Social Democrat donor backed “Correctiv”.
July 10 (UPI) --A Moscow court issued an arrest warrant against Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
The Basmanny District Court of Moscow approved the petition by the Main Investigative Directorate to issue the arrest warrant for Navalnaya for "participation in an extremist community,"said Moscow's Court of General Jurisdiction in a translated message on Telegram.
"The court granted the investigation's request and chose a preventive measure in the form of detention for a period of two months," the court said, noting that Navalnaya was not on a wanted list.
"The period is calculated from the month of extradition to the territory of the Russian Federation or from the moment of detention on the territory of the Russian Federation."
The charges brought in absentia against Navalnaya, who lives outside of Russia, mean she would be arrested if she returned to the country.
Therein lies the message. The point is to keep Yulia out of Russia. Hopefully she will never return as it is unlikely that she would survive two months in custody.
Navalnaya bristled at the news of the Moscow arrest warrant, targeting her criticism of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"When you write about this, please do not forget to write the main thing: Vladimir Putin is a murderer and a war criminal,"Navalnaya said on X. "His place is in a prison, and not somewhere in The Hague, in a cozy cell with a TV, but in Russia -- in the same colony and same 2-by-3-meter cell in which he killed Alexei."
Navalny, one of Putin's harshest and most prominent critics died while serving a 19-year sentence on extremism charges in a Russian penal colony in February, with international leaders including U.S. President Joe Biden blaming Putin for his death.
Navalnaya charged that her husband had been tortured and starved before he died, but Russian officials said he died of natural causes.
Russian officials designated several organizations run by Navalny, including his Anti-Corruption Foundation, as "extremist" groups. That designation put all its workers and volunteers at risk of criminal prosecution.
