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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1133628)	5/8/2019 5:06:38 PM
From: RetiredNow	4 Recommendations Recommended By isopatch locogringo majaman1978 TideGlider Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1576710

Why do you get to decide what I listen to? I think Paul Joseph Watson is a great conservative voice that very appropriately makes fun of all the non-sense coming out of the hard left, with all their Social Justice warrior loonies, their safe spaces, identity politics, and all that other buffoonery. Exactly why are you so entrenched in your opinion that it is ok to silence conservative voices? The consequences of the censorship of conservatives will destroy this country. The loss of Freedom of Speech will not stop with conservatives. It will rebound on liberals and then we're all screwed when no one has a voice to oppose totalitarianism. The fact you can't see this is simply unbelievable and alarming. ---------- Facebook Now Demands That You Hate Targeted People Or You Will Be Banned, Too! Authored by Mike Adams via NaturalNews.com, We have now reached the point of total insanity when it comes to extreme censorship by the tech giants. In what actor Rob Schneider calls a “real world Orwellian nightmare,” Facebook has now issued a gag order on 2.2 billion users, demanding that they must HATE certain selected individuals who are named as targets of censorship. Those individuals include Paul Joseph Watson, Laura Loomer (see FreeLoomer.com), Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos and others. From this point forward, you are only allowed to post content from these individuals if you express hatred toward them in your Facebook post. This is “mandatory hate speech” by Facebook. That’s how insane all this has become now, which is why I have openly announced that every nation on Earth must declare war against Big Tech (or be destroyed by it). THEN FACEBOOK CAME FOR PAUL JOSEPH WATSON… Breitbart News writer James Delingpole has posted an extremely important article about all this that you absolutely must read. I’m re-publishing it here with credit and a link to Breitbart News, which is also fighting for survival in an age of outrageous Orwellian censorship. Here’s Delingpole’s article: President Trump has retweeted a Breitbart News story headline about Facebook’s blacklist of prominent conservatives including Paul Joseph Watson and Laura Loomer. This will become an imp & bigger story going into #2020 ⁦@GOPLeader⁩ ⁦@realDonaldTrump⁩ ⁦@MorningsMaria⁩ ⁦@FoxBusiness⁩ #vote harvesting pic.twitter.com/ZTJlWx0UJV — Maria Bartiromo (@MariaBartiromo) May 3, 2019 Good. Let’s hope this is a sign that he intends to take this problem seriously because right now I’d say Silicon Valley censorship poses one of the biggest threats to Western Civilisation in the world today. Of course, there are other threats at least as dangerous: fundamentalist Islam, China, eco-fascism, neo-Marxism, and so on. But what’s particularly insidious about Silicon Valley censorship is that it makes all those other threats more pressing and real by making it impossible to speak out against them. How, after all, are we going to address the issues of rape gangs and church desecrations and terror plots and homecoming Islamic State terrorists if every time anyone tries to discuss them on social media, Silicon Valley decides to close them down for being racist or Islamophobic? How are we going to face up to the growing menace of hard left outfits like Antifa and Hope Not Hate and Black Lives Matter when Silicon Valley gives them a free pass to spew out their hate while banning all their opponents? Facebook drops the ban hammer on @PrisonPlanet and other conservatives.https://t.co/sG6mFaLMjw — Breitbart Tech (@BreitbartTech) May 2, 2019 President Trump urgently needs to get on top of this because the people being silenced are his base. And because social media is often the only place left where they are free — or rather, where they were free — to exchange the kind of conservative thoughts, jokes, ideas, and memes the world so badly needs if it is to counter the creeping menace of identity politics, post-modernism, and Cultural Marxism. Let’s call out what Facebook is doing for what it is: fascism. It is abusing its extraordinary global power as a publishing platform used by more than 2 billion people in order to impose on all of us its totalitarian leftist new world order. It justifies its fascistic behavior by pretending it is protecting the world from “hate.” A Facebook spokesperson has claimed: “We’ve always banned individuals or organizations that promote or engage in violence and hate, regardless of ideology. The process for evaluating potential violators is extensive and it is what led us to our decision to remove these accounts today.” But today violence and hate are almost overwhelmingly the preserve of the angry, aggressive, radical left, not the playful, irreverent, meme-generating right. While Antifa is busily laying into Trump supporters with bicycle locks and punching conservatives because, hey, anyone to the right of Bernie Sanders is a “Nazi,” their opponents are fighting back with facts and logic and arguments and wit and jokes. Take Paul Joseph Watson — one of the victims of Facebook’s latest censorship drive. What Paul Joseph Watson does is make what he calls “meme videos laughing at Social Justice Warriors.” For these crimes he has now had his Facebook account permanently erased. As Watson says on his latest video — ‘My final ever video?’ — “this is totally political.” “This is nothing less than election meddling. Everyone Facebook has banned was instrumental in getting Trump elected. This is punishment. This is a political purge. This has nothing to do with ‘hate’ or ‘violating terms of service.’” No indeed. Perhaps the most terrifying threats to civilized political discourse today are the asymmetric standards of behavior between those on the left and those on the right. Though the left loves to seize on every scrap of opportunity it can — the senseless murder of MP Jo Cox, for example, by a loner with serious mental health issues; the largely misreported events at Charlottesville — to promote the narrative that the “far right” is on the march. This is pure projection. It’s the Social Justice Warriors of the radical left and their allies in Big Government, from the Maduro regime in Venezuela to the increasingly brutal Macron presidency in France, who are promulgating and enacting most of the hate and violence. Facebook is not doing anything meaningful to stop hate and violence. “Hate” is term so nebulous — its meaning so entirely dependent on the mindset of the beholder, and so debased by cry-bully progressives — that it cannot reasonably be used as any kind of objective criterion for a censorship policy. “Violence” is — or at least was, till the left cynically redefined it in order to expand its potential number of victimhood categories — a physical act and therefore quite beyond the proper purview of a site dedicated to words and images. Facebook is Big Brother.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1133628)	5/8/2019 5:38:51 PM
From: RetiredNow	1 Recommendation Recommended By TideGlider Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1576710

I know you don't like Trump, but the MSM doesn't give him credit for rolling back some of Obama's biggest mistakes. To whit, Trump was right to pull out of that shitty deal with Iran. Iran is not our friend, can not be trusted, and was cheating on Obama's agreement. It was naive for Obama to have trusted them. ----------- One Year Later, Why Leaving the Iran Nuclear Deal Was the Right Call By Benjamin Gedan & Nicolás Saldías This week marks the one-year anniversary of the Trump administration’s withdrawal from the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action ( JCPOA), otherwise known as the Iran nuclear deal. Washington was right to withdraw from the multilateral agreement at the time. One year later it remains the right decision, but there is still plenty of talk about rejoining the deeply flawed JCPOA. Let’s take a moment to remind people again of the problems with the agreement, and of Iran’s continuing belligerence. --Sunset Provision: The JCPOA did not end Tehran’s runaway nuclear program, it only slowed it. For instance, most major uranium enrichment restrictions begin to “sunset,” or expire, at the 10-year mark, allowing Iran to resume this nuclear work in 2025. --Ballistic Missiles: The Iran nuclear deal did not capture Tehran’s dogged development of ballistic missiles -- which are a perfect delivery vehicle for a nuke. Tehran continues to flout U.N. Security Council Resolution 2231, which bars test launches of nuclear-capable missiles. This is an ominous sign of Iran’s future intentions. --Inspection Regime: The JCPOA doesn’t allow for "anytime, anywhere" inspections. International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors aren’t allowed to visit undeclared facilities without permission or credible evidence of concern. Tehran has also put military bases off limits. This doesn’t instill confidence in the ability to verify Iran’s compliance. --Possible Military Dimension: As part of the nuclear deal, Iran was supposed to come clean with the IAEA on the possible military uses of its earlier nuclear weapons work in order to facilitate monitoring and verification of the pact. Tehran didn’t cooperate, which makes the International Atomic Energy Agency’s job IAEA in Iran even more difficult. --Nuclear Archives: Thanks toIsrael’s masterful exfiltration of secret Iranian nuclear documents from Tehran, we now know a lot more about the nefarious intent behind Iran’s nuclear program. According to the Institute for Science and International Security’s read of this archival material, Iran planned to build five nuclear weapons in the 10-kiloton range for delivery by ballistic missile, build a parallel uranium enrichment program, and conduct an underground test. --NPT Compliance: Iran had a secret nuclear weapons program that was at a minimum inconsistent with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, if not a violation of it. When its covert program was exposed, Tehran falsely claimed that its nuclear program was for peaceful power purposes. Can Iran be trusted on any nuclear agreement? --Bad Behavior:While not part of the JCPOA, one hope was that the nuclear agreement would moderate Iran’s conduct by reducing Tehran’s international isolation. It hasn’t. Iran is still a state sponsor of terrorism through the likes of Hamas, Hezbollah, and its own Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. It supports Yemen’s Houthi rebels, Afghanistan’s Taliban, and the Bashar al Assad regime in Syria. Indeed, this week Washington, reacting to intelligence warnings, dispatched U.S. forces to the Persian Gulf to deter Tehran from a possible attack on American interests, including U.S. forces in the Middle East. The Trump Administration’s post-JCPOA “ maximum pressure campaign” is having a dramatic effect on Tehran. For example, a drop in Iran’s oil exports, its main foreign revenue source, due to sanctions has cost Tehran an estimated $10 billion. As a result, the unpopular, repressive regime is under intense pressure from the Iranian people for reforms that answer their unmet economic and social needs. Tehran also has less money in its government coffers for its international adventurism. Iran is desperately fighting to hold the JCPOA together due to the advantages it potentially offers Tehran. The failure of other JCPOA parties to support U.S. efforts to fix the agreement’s defects is deeply disturbing. Even if Iran is believed to be abiding by the JCPOA, Tehran has much of its pre-agreement nuclear infrastructure in place and the intention to preserve its nuclear know-how. Iran thus remains on the threshold of being a nuclear-armed state. The Trump administration was right to leave the JCPOA due to the agreement’s faults and Iran’s unwillingness to renegotiate it --not to mention the ongoing alarm over Iran’s international conduct. Allowing nuclear weapons to get into the hands of Tehran, a rogue regime that supports terrorism and holds the United States, Israel, and other partners in enmity is still unthinkable, and it must be prevented. If possible, we need a new agreement that does just that. Dr. Peter Brookes is a Heritage Foundation senior fellow and a former deputy assistant secretary of defense. The views expressed are the author's own.