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Article 19
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
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World Affairs Brief, October 14, 2022 — Copyright Joel Skousen. Partial quotations with attribution permitted. Cite source as Joel Skousen’s World Affairs Brief (http://www.worldaffairsbrief.com).
Alex Jones Ordered to Pay $965 Million to People who Claim they were Defamed:
Juries can really be stupid, especially when the judge is so biased she rigged the trial against defendant Alex Jones. The jury in Waterbury, Connecticut decided that Infowars host Alex Jones and his company, Free Speech Systems, should pay nearly a billion dollars for spreading a conspiracy theory that the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School never happened. It was a mistake I warned Alex about, and he later changed sides and admitted it was real (though instigated by government for gun control purposes).
Mainstream and alternative media often make mistakes but they are never sued with defamation, especially when they don’t name names. But the Plaintiffs distorted defamation law and the judge refused to allow Jones his first amendment defense.
Floyd was saying he couldn’t breathe before any physical pressure was applied.
Hennepin County medical examiner concluded the knee caused it.
Select comments:
“..if you go back a couple years and do the research you can see that the Villages get rid of the drunks and problem children. It’s called Banning and they do it quite frequently. Just think. Your Banned from you booze free village and come to Anchorage and there is booze on almost every street corner. Like going to heaven and we the people are paying them to be here, What a shame.”
‘https://icalliances.org/alaska-communities-dashboard filtering out all data except for ANCHORAGE, AK states that Anchorage homeless clients self-identified as:
– American Indian/Alaska Native/Indigenous at 45% and
– identified themselves as White at 38% (A snapshot in time for 2022-sure to change daily, weekly, yearly). They can identify as more than one race (i.e. mixed race AK Native/White) and get counted in each.
Importance of being humble, willing to admit when we’re wrong.
‘Rolling Stones’ founder, Jann Wenner doesn’t excel in humility, so seriously lacks wisdom — even doing a hit-piece on Rogan, when Joe used the Covid treatments that work, including vitamin D, and hardly got sick at all.
Sandy Hook Case Violates the Constitution as Alex Jones Is Fined $965 Million for Speech
Daren Beattie, a former Trump adviser, said that the $965 million jury award in the Sandy Hook case against Alex Jones sets a dangerous legal precedent that has a chilling effect of silencing people speaking out against the regime. He said that Americans should be allowed to question national tragedies with political implications, especially when politicians use a significant event to pass extreme legislation such as gun control. Beattie said that Alex Jones was only recently targeted for financial destruction following his support fro Trump and the 2016 election. He added that it is cynical to use grieving families to silence political opposition. He warned against feelings being used to rewrite the Constitution. – G. Edward Griffin
Darren Beattie: Freedom of Speech Has Had a Price Set That Americans Must Pay
TimcastIRL Published October 13, 2022
“Those trying to post the article were informed by Facebook that people who repeatedly share “false information” might have their posts moved lower in Facebook’s News Feed.
– It fails to provide any assertions of fact that The BMJ article got wrong
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=609303470592015
From: Suzanne Downing, Must Read Alaska
Anchorage Assemblyman Forrest Dunbar told his fellow Assembly members last week that not only should the public not be allowed to vote on an ordinance that would ask voters if they want the Municipal Clerk to be elected, he didn’t even want to hear the public testimony on it.
The public, Dunbar said, spews misinformation about elections, and he was opposed to allowing the citizens to speak.
The ordinance, AO 2022-13, was offered by Mayor Dave Bronson in response to the discontent among many Anchorage voters about how elections are managed in Anchorage. The Clerk, who oversees Anchorage’s controversial elections, is beholden to a highly partisan Assembly. If elected, she would be responsible to the people.
Starts out with Sandy Hook in general
53:45 The Alex Jones Trial: Jason knows Alex; worked for Infowars.
[UPDATE]: The article Tim is relying on may be in error. Maybe this is what’s going on instead — July 21 and July 18th, respectively:
Daily Dot article: Twitter says it bans using ‘groomer’ as an anti-LGTBQ slur—but its enforcement is lacking (updated)
45:45 “In Russia, you only have religious freedom if you belong to the Orthodox Church. If you are any other denomination, you have to register, and you cannot proselytize outside your church. In Ukraine, there is 100% religious liberty, no restrictions at all.” – Trevor Loudon
From:
Is Elon Musk a champion of free speech, or a globalist in disguise? Is his latest move to buy Twitter a step towards freedom, or has he pulled the rug out from under Trump’s Truth Social at the critical moment? It smells like something fishy is going on…
Russian Victory Would Mark End of Religious Freedom in Ukraine
March 7, 2022
The full scope of the consequences of Russia’s invasion is still unknown. But one thing is clear: any control that Russia or Russian-backed forces have over Ukraine is dangerous to believers not affiliated with the Russian Orthodox Church.
Crimea and the Donbas offer examples of how Russia’s influence brings religious oppression. Russian-backed separatists in 2014 took control of the Donbas region and established what they called the People’s Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk. Now, Freedom House reports any “adherents of faiths that are not affiliated with the Russian Orthodox Church remain subject to persecution.” Believers can be punished for gathering to worship without permission, and churches are raided without cause. Authorities have banned select Christian literature in Luhansk, including a hymnal and a translation of the Gospel of John.
BOTH Ukraine and Russia have suppressed the media and have jailed opposition leaders. Putin has even gone further.
10/24/2015
How does the Russian president manage to control the media with such great success?
After Putin came into power in 2000, he established control over the three main TV stations. In 2001 and 2002, he took control of the two biggest TV channels, ORT (now First Channel) and NTV. The state broadcaster, RTR (now Rossiya 1), was already under his control.
“The Russian media portrays anything going on from the point of view of Vladimir Putin.”
Ekho Moskvy and TVRain are among the few independent media outlets in Russia
False accusations to disguise a brazen act of censorship