Comedians are being arrested for tweeting jokes, Malcolm Gladwell admits he was a coward and Putin and Xi are probably harvesting organs in order to achieve immortality. It’s a full dumpster fire today and Bridget Phetasy’s feeling feisty.
Stephen Colbert’s Late Show is officially getting the axe—and no, it’s not satire this time. Paramount is cutting ties, and suddenly the king of smug, woke comedy is out of a job.
After years of mocking lockdown protesters, shilling Big Pharma, and dancing like a vaccinated Muppet, the “truth to power” guy couldn’t survive the corporate axe. Here’s more from Bearing.
Banks are now being weaponized against dissidents. Debanking is real, and it’s been happening all over the world.
Journalists who are covering stories have suddenly found their banks have shut them down. Individuals and organizations are getting their assets frozen with little to no recourse, and not because of illegal activity, but due to political ideology.
Catherine Austin Fitts just explained to Tucker Carlson how big this really is. Here, with the bigger picture on debanking, is Clayton Morris on Redacted News.
Australia’s eSafety Commissioner tried to censor Billboard Chris for misgendering a trans activist on X… and it blew up in her face.
This is a huge win for free speech — and a massive L for the government’s thought-policing censorship machine.
Christine Anderson, the courageous German member of the European Parliament, addresses key issues including Ukraine, Russia and free speech in a live interview with Viva Frei. She also addresses the wholesale migration of illegal aliens into Germany, wich has resulted in countless rapes against German women. The globalists behind the EU recognize much of the European population opposes this mass migration, but does nothing to stop or moderate it.
Anderson has served in the Parliament since 2019, and vowed when she was first elected to work “lead Germany out of this European Union nightmare.” She hails from the small town of Eschwege and belongs to the conservative AfD (Alternative for Germany) Party.
A trial taking place in North Dakota will have a significant impact on free speech, and could severely limit the power of protests.
The trial involves something called SLAPP, which strands for Strategic Lawsuits against Public Participation. Energy Transfer, the Big Oil corporation behind the Dakota Access Pipeline, is seeking $300 million in damages from Greenpeace USA and Greenpeace International for their roles in organizing indigenous-led protests against the North Dakota oil pipeline.
Steven Donziger, an American attorney who has led legal fights against Big Oil, including Chevron, joins The Jimmy Dore Show to talk about the SLAPP case in North Dakota.
The winner of the German elections is being called a big win for Globalists… a big win for more war in Ukraine… and a slap in the face to free speech and closed borders. Here to analyze the German election is Ralph Schoellhammer, who operates the YouTube channel “Hammer Time.” He’s based out of Austria, next door to Germany. He says the Germans have “gone mad and they are digging their own graves.”
He believes the Ukraine War has been the kiss of death for not only Germany, but also France and Great Britain. Here’s more from Natali and Clayton Morris on Redacted News.
Here’s another analysis, this time from Paul Joseph Watson. He questions how the likely new German chancellor Friedrich Merz can characterize the AfD as a fringe party when it received more than 20 percent of the votes, and pulled majority votes across most of the former East German territory. Merz is playing a game. It’s a dishonest game, and same reason why the German Globalists got trounced. Merz is just a different shade of the same old Globalist charade.
Well, it looks like the West is destroying its own values in a coordinated fashion. In Germany, cops can raid your house for “insulting” a politician on social media now. “Hate speech,” “malicious gossip” and “fake quotes” are against the law too.
I have now been told that, as an American, it is almost impossible to explain freedom of speech and why it is important to people from other countries. Considering what’s going on in Germany now after a recent 60 Minutes piece on the “German insult police,” I have attempted my best in this video to explain why this is such a HUGE problem.
Not only is meaningful dissent made impossible without freedom of speech, enabling all manner of tyranny, but if you don’t have freedom of speech, you cannot have freedom of thought, nor true wisdom. Infantilization strikes once again, this time State-induced. No one can fully evolve their own mind under these circumstances. Here’s more from Truthstream Media.
Why has the German government adopted such extreme laws governing free speech? What are the “hate crimes” they cite as a defense for these laws?
Is there a rationale behind the censorship? Or are there simply German leaders who can’t withstand criticism? Do they suffer from a deeply ingrained, even fascist, approach?
Here, journalist James Jackson explains Germany’s insane patchwork of law governing what’s free and acceptable speech.
Jackson is a Berlin-based freelance journalist covering news, politics and culture in central Europe. He has been published in Time Magazine, BBC Culture and The Sunday Times. He appears here on System Update with Glenn Greenwald.
