Former Biden Advisor Claims ‘The First Amendment is Out of Control,’ Hinders Government Action
Even the New York Times looks like it’s treading somewhat lightly while publishing articles aimed at dismantling the very concept of the First Amendment.
An opinion piece penned by an Obama and Biden administration adviser, Tim Wu, is therefore labeled as a “guest essay.” But was it the author, or the newspaper, who decided on the title? Because it is quite scandalous.
“The First Amendment is Out of Control” – that’s the title.
Meanwhile, many believe that attacks on this speech-protecting constitutional amendment are what’s actually out of control these days.
Wu takes a somewhat innovative route to argue against free speech: he painstakingly frames it as concern that the universally mistrusted Big Tech might be abusing it, with the latest Supreme Court ruling regarding Texas and Florida laws, (ab)used as an example.
When the government colludes with mighty entities like major social platforms – the First Amendment becomes the primary recourse to defend speech now expressed in public square forums forged through the pervasiveness of the internet.
So despite Wu’s effort to make his message seem unbiased, the actual takeaways are astonishing: one is that the First Amendment is an obstacle for the government to protect citizens (for being invoked as a tool restraining censorship?)
But this means that the First Amendment, designed to protect citizens from government censorship, is doing its job.
In the same vein, contrary to the sentiment of this “essay,” the amendment is there not to protect “national security” – nor does free speech undermine that, in a democracy.
You don’t like TikTok? Let’s just ban it…but the pesky First Amendment stands in the way of that? What Wu ignores here is that the bill that allows banning TikTok is so ambiguous it can be used to get rid of other, for whatever reason, “disliked” apps.
Wu also doesn’t like that the amendment is used to counter privacy and security-undermining age verification laws, like California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code.
“Suicide pact” is how Wu referred to the impact of the First Amendment in the 1949 dissenting opinion in the Terminiello v. City of Chicago “riot incitement” case.
As has lately become the norm with the First Amendment detractors: this is lots of words, most of them empty, some dramatic, but overall, free speech-unfriendly.
Five States to Sue Pfizer Over Misleading Covid ‘Vaccine’ Claims
Judgment day is coming for pharmaceutical giant Pfizer now that Kansas, Idaho and three other thus far unnamed states are suing the company for misleading Americans about its modRNA (mRNA) Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) “vaccines.”
Led by Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, the lawsuits allege that Pfizer violated various state statutes – in Kansas it is called the Consumer Protection Act – by falsely claiming that its COVID injections are “safe and effective” against the Chinese Virus.
Pfizer willfully concealed, suppressed and omitted material facts, Kobach alleges, about its chemical shots, which were fast-tracked onto the market through Operation Warp Speed, resulting in many injuries and deaths.
“Pfizer marketed its vaccine as safe for pregnant women,” Kobach said in a statement.
“However, in February of 2021 (they) possessed reports of 458 pregnant women who received Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine during pregnancy. More than half of the pregnant women reported an adverse event, and more than 10% reported a miscarriage.”
Peter Imanuelsen of The Freedom Corner says all five of these lawsuits are “huge news.” They could be enough to really hit hard against a corporate pharmaceutical giant that for decades has been getting away with murder.
“I started to notice something really weird with birth rate statistics,” Imanuelsen writes. “You see, about 9 months after the covid injections were rolled out, we saw a massive collapse in birthrates.”
“Not only that, but we saw that women that did not get the covid injection were overrepresented in giving birth. This made me think.”
(Related: Check out our earlier report about Kobach’s claim that Pfizer misled Kansans on COVID injections.)
Pfizer’s record $75 billion in COVID jab sales should be returned to Americans
Every American deserves a cut of the $75 billion that Pfizer raked in from sales of its COVID shots. That money would best be clawed back from Albert Bourla and his minions, and instead given to We the People who were defrauded by Pfizer.
Remember that Pfizer never ran any true clinical trials as claimed. The few trials that Pfizer claims to have conducted were sham operations “designed, run, analysed and authored by Pfizer employees,” Imanuelsen explains.
One of these sham studies was published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) back in April 2021. It claimed that preliminary findings showed no significant safety concerns among pregnant women who got shot for COVID.
The observed miscarriages were not unusual, that same study claimed, and were probably not even a direct result of the shots.
Nearly a year later, in February 2022, another study was published in the journal Medicine that contradicted the first. It found that “adverse events” from COVID injections are especially pronounced in pregnant women, who face a 17 percent greater risk compared to the general population.
Despite all this, Pfizer lied to the public and to pregnant women specifically, urging them to take the shots because they had been “proven” to be “safe and effective.”
“Pfizer urged Americans to get vaccinated in order to protect their loved ones, clearly indicating a claim that Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccination stopped transmission,” Kobach said.
“Pfizer later admitted that they’ve never even studied transmission after the recipients receive the vaccine.”
In a public statement, Pfizer said that the lawsuits have “no merit,” and that the company will “respond to the suit in due course.”
“Pfizer is deeply committed to the well-being of the patients it serves and has no higher priority than ensuring the safety and effectiveness of its treatments and vaccines,” Pfizer further said in its own defense.
The latest news about Big Pharma’s crimes against humanity can be found at BadMedicine.news.
Toronto Police Fail to Arrest Naked Men at Gay Sex Pride Parade Because it Wasn’t in The Public’s ‘Interest’
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TORONTO (LifeSiteNews) –– The Toronto Police Service decided against arresting or charging fully naked men who were seen participating in Toronto’s LGBT “Pride Parade” events over the weekend because it claimed detaining them would not be in the public’s “best interest.”
Footage from both Friday’s “Trans Pride Parade” and Sunday’s general “Pride Parade” posted online clearly show fully naked men walking in public, despite the fact that the event organizers billed the parades as “family” friendly.
One video shows a man with no clothes on except for a Bugs Bunny mask and rabbit slippers, hoping through the street, fully on display to the crowd.
Toronto’s “Pride Parade” events took place over the weekend and finished off with a large parade on June 30. It is Canada’s largest LGBT-charged event and has the full support of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government, as well as many Conservative MPs.
According to Canada’s Criminal Code, “everyone who, without lawful excuse, is nude in a public place is guilty of an offense punishable on summary conviction.”
Despite this, Toronto Police Service, in a general statement to the media, said that arresting fully naked men was not in the “best interest” of the community.
“At large events such as the Pride Parade, which attracts as many as a million people, our number one priority is public safety and ensuring a peaceful event,” noted a spokesperson.
Toronto Police further explained that it was “not” in the “best interest of officers or the community to have police wading into crowds to arrest people for public nudity.”
Toronto Police said that such a charge would require the consent of the attorney general.
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According to Canada’s Criminal Code, “no proceedings shall be commenced under this section without the consent of the Attorney General.”
Of important note is that committing indecent exposure to those under the age of 16 is illegal, and does not require the attorney general’s consent.
Toronto’s “Pride Parade” is no stranger to scenes of outright debauchery, and in the past has featured fully naked men in near proximity to children.
White House Defends Labeling Critical Biden Videos as ‘Deepfakes’
The world (and the US with it, with the current US administration pretty much leading the way) has for the last few years witnessed what has obviously been a concerted effort to make “AI-powered deepfakes” a thing.
Specifically – a thing that can negatively shape up an election, or even break a democracy.
Anyone, especially apolitical people but those with even a cursory knowledge of the “deepfakes” tech and how long it’s been around in all sorts of media, might have been confused as to why this rhetoric is happening, and why now?
Well – now – months before a US presidential election, we’re starting to get answers.
President Joe Biden is trying to remain in office – and now the White House is giving the world an indication of why the “deepfakes” scaremongering was launched in the first place (and then dutiful picked up by certain – or let’s say, most – corporate media.)
“Confused and disoriented” is a (believe it or not) nicer way to describe the situation with President Biden and his public appearances; the latest, and at this time, the most important, concerns his performance during debates last week.
Instead of trying to prop their candidate up (figuratively and literally) in some credible way, the current White House decided to label the media showing clips of Biden “malfunctioning” as, in addition to being “disinformation, misinformation” – also “cheap fakes.”
But what in the world is that? Is it a video that somebody just happens to dislike, so it’s branded in a way deceptively invoking the dreaded “deepfakes”?
White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre was certainly working hard to earn her salary when she tried to explain this one.
“Not at all,” Jean-Pierre said, when quizzed if there was regret over criticizing the media for “clips showing the president appearing to be confused, freezing at times, and you (White House) called it ‘cheap fakes,’ misinformation, disinformation.”
“At the end of the day, they were fakes,” the press secretary asserted. “And the cheap fakes didn’t come from me, I didn’t coin that. That came from the media… I don’t regret it at all, it was just the facts.”
Florida Police Arrest 18-Year-Old Who Allegedly did Burnouts on LGBTQIAAP2S+ Street Mural
(LifeSiteNews) — An 18-year-old Florida man was arrested by St. Petersburg Police on July 1 for doing burnouts with his vehicle that left skid marks on a rainbow “Pride” mural in May.
According to law enforcement, Christian Maier was caught on video damaging a pro-LGBT street painting on May 22 at 2:40 a.m. The crosswalk experienced a similar act of protest just five days earlier on May 17 at 9:30 a.m. Police say the two incidents are not related.
Maier was released from Pinellas County Jail after posting a $5,500 bond. He pleaded not guilty to two felony charges for criminal mischief and racing on a street. The mischief charge was originally a misdemeanor but later deemed a felony due to the damages exceeding $1,000. Maier has not been charged with a hate crime at this time.
Acts of protests like the one carried out by Maier are seemingly becoming a common occurrence in the United States. As reported by LifeSite in June, three teenage boys in Spokane, Washington could face up to five years in jail and up to $10,000 in fines for putting skid marks on a rainbow-colored street mural with their scooters. Three other acts of vandalism, all unrelated, have been carried out on the mural since October 2023.
The Tampa Bay Times has likewise reported that a 19-year-old male was arrested for allegedly defacing a rainbow “Pride” mural in Delray Beach in March.
St. Petersburg is home to some of the most pro-LGBT policies in the United States. According to its website, the city has since 2014 earned a “perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign’s Municipal Equality Index (MEI), which examines the laws, policies, and services of municipalities and rates them on the basis of their inclusivity of LGBTQ+ people who live and work there.”
The city also boasts about having an LGBTQ+ visitor information, a Metro Inclusive Health LGBTQ+ Welcome Center, and the largest Pride celebration in Florida. What’s more, the city observes March 31 as “Transgender Day of Visibility” and November 20 as “Transgender Day of Remembrance.” The police department as well as the mayor’s office have a “LGBT+ liaison” position that specializes in catering to the complaints of persons in the St. Petersburg community who are confused about their gender and believe this entitles them to have a personal hotline to local authorities.
Germany Will ‘Never’ Support Ukraine Ceasefire – Scholz
Berlin must not back any call for a truce that would see Kiev admit defeat, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said.
As Scholz took questions from members of the Bundestag on Wednesday, Left lawmaker Gesine Loetzsch asked about Germany’s involvement in the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the possibility of a ceasefire.
“In my view, a ceasefire that involves Ukraine’s capitulation is one that we as Germany must never support,” Scholz replied, according to the state broadcaster Deutsche Welle.
The German chancellor argued that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s truce terms amounted to Ukraine’s surrender, calling Moscow “cynical” and not interested in ending the conflict.
“Putin only talks about peace negotiations in order to continue the war. We will not allow this,” Scholz said.
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Last month, the Russian president named several conditions before peace talks with Ukraine could begin. Moscow would order a ceasefire the moment Kiev withdraws troops from the territory of all four regions that voted to join Russia and officially announces it no longer wishes to join NATO, he said.
The lifting of all Western sanctions and the “demilitarization and denazification” of the Ukrainian government would also have to happen before a peace could be concluded.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban had proposed a “quick ceasefire” to Vladimir Zelensky on his visit to Kiev earlier this week, but said the Ukrainian leader “didn’t like it very much.”
Scholz was also asked to guarantee that Germany would not become a party to the war. Berlin has been the biggest EU donor to the Ukrainian cause, while insisting that this did not make Germany a participant in the hostilities.
“Yes, I give this guarantee,” Scholz said. “As chancellor, I stand by that.”
Germany’s ruling ‘traffic light’ coalition has been rattled by a poor showing in last month’s European Parliament election, leading to speculation that Scholz might have to resign in the near future. The chancellor admitted that “many people do not agree with the support for Ukraine and the sanctions against Russia,” but refused to change his policy.