Facebook Has Made Their Stance Clear, Support Establishment Narrative or Be Wiped Out

If you have been following the Free Thought Project or our police accountability page, Police the Police, on Facebook, chances are, you haven’t seen our content in a while. This is not due to us cutting back on content creation or reporting. In fact, in recent months, we have stepped it up but thanks to Facebook’s crackdown on information that doesn’t toe the establishment group think line, our information is being seen by increasingly fewer people.

This is a major problem, not just for the future of the Free Thought Project but for the future of free thought itself.

If you were to visit a page like Occupy Democrats on Facebook, you can clearly see that they violate all the algorithm’s rules against posting too frequently, posting questionable information, and sharing repurposed unoriginal content. If other outlets would manage their pages in a similar manner, rest assured that you would never hear from them as this is a way to ensure no one sees your posts.

Facebook has these algorithm checks in place — they claim — to reduce the spread of spam or inflammatory content. However, Occupy Democrats appears to be given a pass as they toe the Left’s establishment line. Many on the right will look at this and claim that it is evidence Facebook is censoring right wing news while promoting the left, but this is inaccurate.

Case in point: Breitbart. Like Occupy Democrats, Breitbart also clearly violates all the algorithm’s rules against posting too frequently and posting questionable information. And, Like OD, their page receives tens of millions of interactions a day.

Instead of repeating the left’s establishment narrative, Breitbart repeats the right’s, so they are given a pass and are allowed to continue sharing information, even when that information is patently false.

In the meantime, outlets like the Free Thought Project get fact checked on things that are widely accepted as true and our rank in the algorithm diminishes as a result. In the following example, TFTP allowed a member of our Facebook group to post a photo in the group. The photo stated — 100% accurately — that it shows Joe Biden holding hands with a former leader of the KKK, Robert Byrd.

As this was factual information, Facebook’s algorithm or some disgruntled employee made up fake information to claim it was “Mostly False.”

Collective Evolution, who has been around for a decade, may soon see their Facebook page with over 5,000,000 followers, wiped from the face of the internet and the thousands of hours of work into building it will be turned to dust.

Comedian JP Sears, who uses comedy to show the absurd nature of the two-party paradigm has experienced censorship and demonitization as well. Earlier this month, his advertising account was demonitized because he allegedly shared “false news.” As we have illustrated above, there are many examples of this ‘false news’ rating being used to simply silence those who post it, despite the news being completely true.

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/facebook-toe-establishment-line-wiped-out/

Officer Caught in the Act of Raping a Child Receives Massive 400 Month Prison Sentence

Baltimore, MD — As TFTP reports on a regular basis, police officers, as well as child predators in the civilian world, often escape accountability despite horrifying crimes against children. A former officer from Baltimore was about to be one of these statistics last October after the prosecutors declined to prosecute him for the rape of a 13-year-old girl. The ex-cop’s desire to prey on children was so strong, however that he would be caught multiple times and receive a massive sentence as a result.

Former Baltimore County corrections officer, Thomas Michael Mannion Jr., 46, was handed down a massive 400 month sentence in federal prison after being caught in the rape of at least two children and the production of child pornography.

As the Baltimore Sun reported, Mannion was originally charged with raping a 13-year-old in May 2019, but circuit court prosecutors declined to prosecute him on rape charges less than two weeks after the federal child porn indictment was filed in October 2019, court records show.

“Thomas Mannion is a predator and our children and communities are safer because he will now serve more than 33 years in federal prison,” said U.S. Attorney Robert K. Hur in a news release. “We are grateful for the collaboration of our law enforcement partners to remove this sexual predator from the community so he can no longer victimize our children.”

Last year, Mannion, who rented an apartment in Baltimore, was seen by his neighbor luring a 13-year-old girl into his home. On May 6, 2019, Mannion was arrested after his neighbor reported to police that they saw him in bed with the naked 13-year-old.

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/400-month-sentence-child-predator-cop/

Pink, Dave Matthews, John Legend Sing for Biden Campaign GOTV Concert: ‘Joe Will Keep Us Safe. That’s All We Need to Know’

A slew of Hollywood pop stars including John Legend, Pink, John Legend, and Dave Matthews performed in an online concert Sunday to rouse support for the Biden-Harris campaign. They were joined by a bevy of left-wing celebrities, including Helen Mirren, Armie Hammer, Whoopi Goldberg, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Amy Schumer.

“Joe will keep us safe. That’s all we need to know,” Cher sang at the end of the concert, which also raised money for the Biden Victory Fund.

Joe and Jill Biden put in a brief appearance during the virtual event, answering softball questions from hosts George Lopez and CNN’s Ana Navarro.

“The Latino community can determine the outcome of this election across the nation,” Joe Biden said, adding that Latinos now account for 20 percent of the population. “It’s an enormous opportunity.”

Jill Biden added: “Latinos will have a seat at the table.”

At one point, Joe Biden confused President Donald Trump with one of the George Bush’s.

WATCH: Joe Biden confuses President Trump with George Bush.

"4 more years of George, uh, George…" pic.twitter.com/Zzt2brIaYS

— Trump War Room – Text TRUMP to 88022 (@TrumpWarRoom) October 26, 2020

Kamala Harris recorded a brief video segment in which she urged voters to make a choice that will “return decency, dignity, and integrity to the White House.”

Helen Mirren noteed that she is a first-time voter after becoming a U.S. citizen a few years ago. The British actress encouraged first-time and infrequent voters to cast their ballot. “I think it’s important for the soul of America, for the character of America.”

Whoopi Goldberg echoed other celebrities during the concert who described the election as an opportunity for a national course correction. “I’m just going to do everything I can to get out the vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris,” the actress said. “It’s just important for us to shift courses. It’s important for us to take a minute for this correction, which we desperately need.”

Armie Hammer used his segment to bash the Supreme Court nomination of Amy Coney-Barrett, accusing Republicans of trying to “load the bench however they want. It’s a scary thing.” George Lopez bashed Coney-Barrett, saying that she has only been a judge of three and a half years, while failing to mention that Justice Elena Kagan had no prior experience as a judge prior to her Supreme Court nomination by President Obama.

Pop star Pink said in a pre-recorded message that “we are this close to electing Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and setting a new course for our country.” She added: “We need decent, compassionate, and committed leadership in the White House.”

Other performers included the Black Eyed Peas, Darren Criss, and A$AP Ferg.

Cher concluded the evening with a number dedicated to Joe Biden, adapted from the song “Happiness is a Thing Called Joe.”

“Right now our country’s gloomy, fear is in the air,” she sang. “But when Joe’s president, hope is everywhere.”

She continued: “Troubles fly away and life will easy flow. Joe will keep us safe. That’s all we need to know.”

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2020/10/26/pink-dave-matthews-john-legend-sing-for-biden-campaign-gotv-concert-joe-will-keep-us-safe-thats-all-we-need-to-know/

Democrats Take Senate Floor Overnight to Protest Amy Coney Barrett: ‘No Hyperbole – It’s Life or Death Stakes’

Democrats took the Senate floor overnight Sunday to protest Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court, warning that Americans are facing “life or death stakes.”

“Senate Democrats are taking over the floor all night to fight this sham process by Senate Republicans. We will not stop fighting,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced Sunday night.

“Yes, we fight to the end. No hyperbole – it’s life or death stakes,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) said, adding that he and Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI) were taking the “graveyard shift overnight on the Senate floor”:

Yes, we fight to the end. No hyperbole – it’s life or death stakes.@brianschatz and I have the graveyard shift overnight on the Senate floor. If you’re up between 2 and 5 a.m. tune in. https://t.co/ENNs9ORT6q

— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) October 26, 2020

The Republican-led Senate approved a cloture motion over the weekend to cut off debate, limiting it to 30 hours. Both GOP Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) voted against the motion, though Murkowski said she would approve of Barrett’s nomination in the final vote slated for Monday evening.

Several Democrats issued stark warnings on the floor, echoing the minority leader’s words. Sen Jack Reed (D-RI) said Republicans will inflict “lasting damage to both this institution and the Supreme Court” by confirming Barrett, while Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) accused the GOP of committing an “obscene power grab.”

Schatz used his time on the floor to criticize the way McConnell runs the Senate — particularly his prioritization of judges.

“It’s like a joke here,” the Democrat lawmaker said.

“His priority is judges. His priority is always judges,” he said of McConnell, adding that there is “no legislating going on.”

“That’s become the way this place operates. … “We’re just like a little factory that approves federal judges, and that’s how Mitch McConnell wants it,” he added:

“It’s like a joke here,” says @brianschatz about the way McConnell is running the Senate. “No legislating is going on. We’re just a little factory that approves federal judges.” pic.twitter.com/jCAstA4gU1

— Katie Cooper (@thekatiecoop) October 26, 2020

However, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has not wavered, telling his colleagues that the Senate is “doing the right thing.”

“We’re moving this nomination forward. By tomorrow night, we’ll have a new member of the United States Supreme Court,” he said Sunday.

The Senate is expected to confirm Barrett Monday evening. Meanwhile, Democrats do not believe Vice President Mike Pence should preside over the vote because of multiple aides testing positive for the Chinese coronavirus, including Pence’s chief of staff, Marc Short:

Vice President Pence cannot come to the Senate because of his exposure to multiple COVID-positive staffers. His purely ceremonial and non-essential presence would just put Senators, staff, and Capitol workers at risk.

— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) October 26, 2020

Pence's decision to come to Senate today, when he should be quarantining, puts people at risk – mostly the staff on the dais who cannot socially distance from him.

But it's also another clear message from the White House for Americans to ignore CDC guidance. That's lethal.

— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) October 26, 2020

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/10/26/democrats-take-senate-floor-overnight-protest-amy-coney-barrett-no-hyperbole-life-death-stakes/

Chris Wallace Presses Gretchen Whitmer On Biden Business Dealings: ‘It Sure Sounds Like Influence Peddling’

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Fox News anchor Chris Wallace pressed Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer about the ongoing questions surrounding the business dealings of members of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s family.

Wallace introduced the topic during a “Fox News Sunday” interview by playing a clip of President Donald Trump saying Biden “owes an explanation to the American people” during Thursday night’s final presidential debate.

“New information is coming out about the Biden family’s business dealings with China,” Wallace said. “Really, two questions, one, does Biden owe more of an explanation to the American people, and wasn’t it a mistake for the vice president to allow all of this to go on, some of it while he was vice president?”

Trump saying Biden “owes an explanation to the American people” during Thursday night’s final presidential debate.

“New information is coming out about the Biden family’s business dealings with China,” Wallace said. “Really, two questions, one, does Biden owe more of an explanation to the American people, and wasn’t it a mistake for the vice president to allow all of this to go on, some of it while he was vice president?”

WATCH:

Whitmer responded by insisting that not a “scintilla of evidence” exists to prove “wrongdoing by Joe Biden,” then attempting to switch the topic back to Trump’s coronavirus response.

“Respectfully, I do need to ask — governor, I do need to ask you this though,” Wallace pressed. “There is evidence that maybe that Biden didn’t take money, but clearly his brother, his son were involved in business dealings. There was talk about the Biden name. One, wasn’t that inappropriate for that to be going on while he was vice president? It sure sounds like influence peddling and doesn’t he owe a fuller accounting?”

“You know what, Chris, I think that Joe has sat for questions,” said Whitmer. “He has answered these questions. The American people aren’t going to be distracted from the fact that this election is about the dinner table issues and the dinner table issue of 2020 is a Trump administration that has never been able to have a national strategy on COVID.”

Whitmer continued to talk about COVID response, at which point Wallace moved on.

https://dailycaller.com/2020/10/25/chris-wallace-gretchen-whitmer-hunter-joe-biden-influence-peddling/

Election Interference: YouTube Runs ‘Fact Check’ on Searches, Not Just Videos, About Biden and Fracking

Google-owned YouTube is running damage control for the Biden campaign, running a “fact check” at the top of searches related to Joe Biden and fracking, which claims that the Democrat candidate does not want to “ban” the oil and gas extraction method.

Searches for “Joe Biden fracking” and “Biden fracking” currently return a prominently-featured “fact check,” positioned above the list of videos.

The first result in the search results is a clip of Biden and Trump’s exchange on fracking during the second presidential debate, in which the Democrat candidate said his administration would “transition away from the oil industry.”

“The oil industry pollutes, significantly. It has to be replaced by renewable energy over time,” said Biden.

The second result in a YouTube search for “Joe Biden fracking” is a video of Biden attempting to walk back the comments at a recent live event, insisting he is not “banning fracking.”

Biden’s comments on fracking are expected to be a major problem for Democrats in swing states like Pennsylvania and Ohio, both of which have enjoyed employment booms thanks to the fracking industry. Breitbart News fact checked Biden’s recent claims that he would not ban fracking in August, finding the claim “mostly false.

According to Breitbart’s fact check by Joel Pollak:

VERDICT: MOSTLY FALSE. Biden has promised to ban fracking — repeatedly — as has his running mate.

Biden said Monday — during a speech supposedly on violence: “I am not banning fracking. Let me say again: I am not banning fracking. No matter how many times Donald Trump lies about me.”

The problem, for Biden, is that he explicitly promised to ban fracking during the second Democratic Party presidential primary debate on July 31, 2019, in Detroit, Michigan.

President Donald Trump has begun using a video of Biden criticizing fracking at his recent campaign appearances.

Breitbart News has previously revealed that YouTube tightly controls what appears at the top of many politically charged search results.

An internal file from the company, called “youtube_controversial_query_blacklist” contained thousands of search terms, including “abortion,” “federal reserve,” “Maxine Waters,” and “David Hogg” at the time it was leaked to Breitbart News, in January 2019.

When a term is added to the blacklist, it reorders search results to favor videos a set of “verified” accounts handpicked by YouTube.

One Google source called the existence of the blacklist a “smoking gun” proving political bias.

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/10/26/youtube-runs-damage-control-for-joe-biden-on-fracking/

The New York Post endorses President Donald J. Trump for re-election

We can return to the explosive job creation, rising wages and general prosperity we had before the pandemic. We can have economic freedom and opportunity, and resist cancel culture and censorship. We can put annus horribilis, 2020, behind us and make America great again, again. We can do all this — if we make the right choice on Nov. 3.

The New York Post endorses President Donald J. Trump for re-election.

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Elections are always about the economy, but never more so than this year.

So a reminder: Until the necessary shutdown to fight the coronavirus, the unemployment rate stood at 3.5 percent, the lowest in a half-century. African American unemployment was 6.8 percent, the lowest figure since 1972.

Adults out of the workforce for years found new prospects; for 17 months of Trump’s term, there were 1 million more job openings than people unemployed.

That drove up salaries. For the first time in a decade, wage growth exceeded 3 percent year-over-year. It also narrowed the wealth gap. Between 2016 and 2019, real median incomes rose the most, 9 percent, for those without a high school diploma. Real median incomes declined 2.3 percent for those with a college degree, mostly because older workers retired, according to the Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Finances.

How did President Trump do it? First, by trusting the free market. He championed lowering the corporate tax rate to a figure more in line with the rest of the industrialized world. He cut cumbersome regulations, particularly ones rammed through as President Barack Obama was headed out the door. He streamlined the permitting process that would delay infrastructure projects by years, sometimes decades.

A Joe Biden administration would be beholden to a socialist left that sees an opportunity to remake the nation in its vision, one more dependent on government debt. Consider Biden’s dance on fracking — against it for his party, in favor of it in general because he knows what a positive force it’s been for Pennsylvania. Which position would he have in office?

https://nypost.com/2020/10/26/the-new-york-post-endorses-president-donald-j-trump-for-re-election/

Facebook Tries to Shut Down NYU Study on Targeted Political Ads

Facebook is urging researchers at New York University to shut down a study into targeted political advertisements on the platform. As one researcher put it, Facebook maintains a “walled garden” on advertising data.

According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, Facebook is trying to shut down a study being conducted at New York Univerisity on the way that political advertisements are distributed on the platform. 6,500 volunteers are monitoring the political advertisements that appear on their Facebook feed through a browser extension designed by NYU’s researchers.

Earlier this month, Facebook sent researchers at the NYU Ad Observatory a letter in which it claimed that the research project violates the platform’s terms of service.

“Scraping tools, no matter how well-intentioned, are not a permissible means of collecting information from us,” the letter reads. The letter went on to say that the researchers “may be subject to additional enforcement action” if they refuse to shut down their study.

Rebekah Tromble, the direction of the Institute for Data, Democracy, and Politics at George Washington University, defended the NYU study, arguing that Facebook needs to be more transparent about the way in which its various systems operate.

“There’s far too much critical information closed up behind Facebook’s walled garden,” Tromble said. “And efforts like the Ad Observatory play a critical role in breaking down those walls.”

Laura Edelson, a researcher at NYU that is working on the study, claims that their team has no plans to shut down the project. “The only thing that would prompt us to stop doing this would be if Facebook would do it themselves, which we have called on them not to do,” Edelson said.

Stay tuned to Breitbart News for more updates on this story.

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/10/26/facebook-tries-to-shut-down-nyu-study-on-targeted-political-ads/

‘Shove Your New World Order Up Your *ss!’ — London Erupts in Protest Against Lockdown

Thousands of protesters descended on the British capital on Saturday to call for an end to coronavirus lockdowns and restrictions on businesses in the UK, which they described as a form of “tyranny”.

In a Breitbart London exclusive video, protesters were seen singing: “I would rather be a human than a slave”, “We are the 99 per cent”, and “You can shove your New World Order up your ass”.

The ‘Stop the New Normal’ march was organised by the anti-lockdown activist group Stand Up X and was one of the largest rallies against the government’s coronavirus restrictions since the beginning of the lockdowns in March.

The large scale act of civil disobedience followed more restrictions being imposed on the people of Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland, as well as the introduction of a ‘tier system’ by Prime Minister Boris in England, in which local regions and cities are placed under lockdown if spikes in coronavirus cases are recorded.

At around 4 pm the police in London began using tactics to split the protest into separate groups and made at least 18 arrests in Trafalgar Square and on Westminster Bridge.

One woman told Breitbart London: “I’m so angry, all these police that are storming in, they’re going to lose their pensions. They’re supposed to be protecting us, they’re not, this is tyranny.”

“I cannot believe in this day and age, in this time now, more than ever we need to stand together, and if people can’t get together and get united for the cause, for their freedom, for everybody, then we’ve lost already,” she said.

“I don’t understand, if your children are not the motivation to fight for your freedom… my grandfather and my grandad did not fight in the First World War and the Second World War as snipers to not be under a fucking dictatorship, for it to happen now in 2020,” she added, going on to urge the rest of the country to “wake up”.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/10/26/watch-shove-your-new-world-order-up-your-ass-london-erupts-in-protest-against-lockdown/

UK Child Abuse Inquiry Refuses to Investigate Pakistani Grooming Gangs

Britain’s national inquiry into child sex abuse has been blasted for ‘cowardice’ over race as it refused to look at grooming gang scandals carried out by mostly Pakistani gangs, or to hear from key witnesses.

Victims of the grooming gangs and their advocates blasted the public probe, which was launched in 2015 and has so far cost taxpayers £143 million, after it emerged would not be examining any of the notorious cases in which ‘Asian’ gangs have preyed on thousands of mostly white, working class girls.

The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) in England and Wales has so far looked at organisations like the Church of England and the Armed Forces to investigate “what went wrong and why” with regards to “institutional failure to protect children from abuse”.

It was believed that the ‘organised networks’ section of the inquiry would look at the mostly Pakistani grooming gangs which have struck in towns across Britain including Rotherham, Rochdale, Oxford and Telford, while police, social services and local councils turned a blind eye to the sexual abuse.

In two weeks of hearings for this investigation which took place from late September, the IICSA chose not to hear from grooming gang crime experts, victims of the phenomenon, or their advocates like whistleblower and former Greater Manchester Police (GMP) detective Maggie Oliver.

Instead, the probe looked at six areas of England and Wales — Bristol, Durham, St Helens, Swansea, Tower Hamlets and Warwickshire “because they represent a range of sizes, demographics and institutional practices”, according to the Times.

UK’S Worst Grooming Gang Scandal: Telford Whistleblowers Punished, Silenced, Lost Jobs https://t.co/wo8SZ4vKrc

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) March 13, 2018

None of these regions has seen a major prosecution involving South Asian grooming gangs, noted the newspaper, reporting that the proportion of the population from Pakistani backgrounds in these areas is lower than the average in England and Wales.

Oliver, who quit GMP in 2012 in order to expose the grooming scandal in Rochdale and has since launched the Maggie Oliver Foundation providing support, therapy and legal advice to survivors of child sexual abuse, disclosed that she was denied the chance to speak at the inquiry.

Speaking on the ITV talk show Loose Women, the former detective said she “repeatedly” requested the opportunity to give evidence at the investigation and was eventually invited to give a witness statement, but two thirds of this was erased by the IICSA.

“Every non-institutional core participant was denied permission to speak in public in the inquiry,” she said, reporting that “forty pages of my statement were deleted, all the statements were hidden behind numbers and symbols on the website.”

“You would imagine with a problem identified in the northern towns and cities like Rotherham and Rochdale and Middlesbrough and Halifax, you would have one of those towns included in a public inquiry looking at grooming gangs,” she said, adding that: “Not one was included. So we had an area like Swansea, St Helens, Warwickshire.”

Grooming Gang Epidemic: Nearly 19,000 Children Sexually Exploited in the UK Last Year https://t.co/ew64ytkRk2

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) December 31, 2019

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/10/26/uk-inquiry-refuses-investigate-grooming/

FDA Lets Pfizer Test Experimental COVID-19 Vaccine on U.S. Children

Americans have been following COVID-19 vaccine trial developments for weeks, watching companies jockey for frontrunner status like contestants in a reality TV show. And though participants in some of the studies (by Moderna, Oxford, Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer) have surfaced with reactions serious enough to pause several of the trials, market analysts remain “bullish” about the near-term prospects for approval of these liability-free products by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

On Oct. 16, Pfizer’s CEO indicated the company would likely file for FDA Emergency Use Authorization for its experimental BNT162b2 vaccine in late November. That statement came three days after Pfizer announced that it had received FDA permission to administer the unproven vaccine to children as young as 12, becoming the first company in the U.S. to include young participants in Phase 3 trials. In the UK, Oxford and AstraZeneca gained approval to test their vaccine in children aged 5-12 back in May, a couple of months before two of their adult clinical trial participants developed transverse myelitis.

To date, Pfizer has administered two doses of vaccine to almost 35,000 adult participants in five countries. Unworried by the dramatic side effects reported by some of these adults — including high fever, pounding headaches, body aches, exhaustion and shivering intense enough to crack teeth — more than 90 parents have already expressed interest in volunteering their teenagers.

Are these parents (perhaps left unemployed by coronavirus restrictions) tempted by the financial incentives offered to clinical trial participants, reportedly anywhere from $1200 to $2000? Otherwise, their motivation for wanting to throw their children into the experimental fray is unclear; as the director of the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital stated, “most of the time, what a coronavirus causes is a cold” that does not even make children “sick enough to where a parent says they need to go to a doctor.”

The Cincinnati physician has, nonetheless, just started giving Pfizer’s shot to 16- and 17-year-olds (and soon to 12-15-year-olds). To entice additional young participants, he tells parents that the COVID-19 death rate in children is “not zero” — but declines to spell out that, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the survival rate in those age 19 and under is 99.997%. Using similarly vague language, a Memorial Sloan-Kettering health policy expert said that a COVID-19 vaccine’s benefits for the young would likely be “secondary’ in nature” but characterized the gesture as “an act of service to help protect others.”

However, reports in Pediatrics and other journals assert that children are not a source of infection and are far more likely to acquire COVID-19 from adults “rather than transmitting it to them.” In other words, policymakers expect children to accept a risk-benefit equation heavily tilted toward risk.

Corporate bad guy

https://www.globalresearch.ca/fda-pfizer-test-experimental-covid-19-vaccine-us-children/5727585

President Donald J. Trump: “It’s MOVIE TIME at the Trump rally in #NewHampshire!”

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/president-donald-j-trump-its-movie-time-at-the-trump-rally-in-newhampshire/

Bigger than Joe Biden! John Kerry admits on tape Obama and Biden tried to rid the Ukrainian prosecutor

Ukraine corruption

John Kerry: "All of us were trying to get rid of that Prosecutor: me, Joe Biden and Obama"

also OBAMA was in it

https://gofile.io/d/m1uwyc

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/bigger-than-joe-biden-john-kerry-admits-on-tape-obama-and-biden-tried-to-rid-the-ukrainian-prosecutor/

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Microsoft will forcibly open some websites in Edge instead of Internet Explorer==

Here's the list of 1,156 sites you won't be able to open in Internet Explorer anymore.

Big changes are coming to Internet Explorer.

Starting next month, users trying to access certain websites will see IE refuse to load the URL and automatically open the site in Edge instead.

This forced IE-to-Edge behavior is part of Microsoft's Internet Explorer deprecation plans.

Microsoft has been gradually rolling out the feature for testing purposes for some Windows users since the release of Edge 84 this summer.

However, with the release of Edge 87, scheduled for next month, Microsoft plans to enable the forced IE-to-Edge action for all IE users.

Forced IE-to-Edge behavior enabled for only 1,156 websites

At the core of this new feature is a new DLL file that Microsoft has been silently adding inside Edge installations over the summer.

The DLL file, named ie_to_edge_bho.dll, is a Browser Helper Object (BHO). BHO files are plugins for Internet Explorer. This file is installed at:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Edge\Application[VERSION]\BHO\

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application[VERSION]\BHO\

Even if the BHO file is stored inside the Edge folder, the BHO is loaded via a registry key inside IE every time the user starts Internet Explorer.

This BHO works by monitoring what websites a user is trying to access, regardless if the navigation comes from clicking on a link or by typing the URL in the address bar.

Every time this happens, the ie_to_edge_bho.dll file checks to see if the user's URL is found on a list of sites with known IE incompatibilities.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-will-forcibly-open-some-websites-in-edge-instead-of-internet-explorer/?ftag=TRE-03-10aaa6b&bhid=21735961543072688253262375158449&mid=13134166&cid=717936240

YouTube 'kidfluencers' are being paid millions to promote junk food and sugary drinks to other children in their videos, study shows

US researchers looked at 'kidfluencer' videos on YouTube viewed by children

These feature children filmed by their parents reviewing toys or munching food

Nearly half (42.8 per cent) of the most-popular videos promoted food and drinks

And more than 90 per cent of these advertised fast food, drinks or fast food toys

Top 5 kidfluencer videos featuring junk food ads have been viewed over 1B times

Children with popular YouTube channels, known as 'kidfluencers', are being paid to promote junk food and sugary drinks in their videos, a study reveals.

Researchers from New York University School of Global Public Health analysed the five most-watched YouTube kidfluencers, their most popular videos and the presence of branded food in the videos.

The kidfluencer videos featuring food and drinks were viewed 1 billion times – and the overwhelming majority of these (90 per cent) featured junk food from unhealthy brands, such as McDonald’s, they found. 'Kidfluencers' are often filmed by their parents conducting science experiments, reviewing toys, celebrating birthdays or trying food and get paid whopping amounts by advertisers.

The highest-paid YouTube kidfluencer of the past two years is Ryan Kaji – a nine-year-old from Texas who appears in his own YouTube series, called Ryan's World.

The series, which features basic science experiments, challenges, arts and crafts and unboxing toys, earned $26 million (£20 million) last year, researchers say.

But fast food companies are increasingly interested in inserting their products into these videos, which are hugely popular with children.

It's thought that watching unhealthy food advertising increases the calories children eat by triggering cravings and subconsciously directing them to the larder. In the UK, the government is cracking down on junk food ads on TV by implementing a 9pm watershed.

But companies have dramatically increased online advertising in response to consumers' growing social media use.

Authorities will need to do more to limit children's exposure to junk food ads online, the experts claim.

'Kids already see several thousand food commercials on television every year, and adding these YouTube videos on top of it may make it even more difficult for parents and children to maintain a healthy diet,' said Marie Bragg at New York University School of Global Public Health.

http://www.scoopyweb.com/2020/10/youtube-kidfluencers-are-being-paid.html

Dementia patients 'are being given "archaic and dangerous" anti-psychotic drugs to keep them sedated during lockdown putting them at risk of early death', as grandmother, 86, dies six weeks after starting medication

Figures showed a rise in anti-psychotic drug prescriptions during pandemic

A total of 43,352 dementia patients were told to take the medication one month

Family of retired dinner lady Lily Frost believe the drugs sped up her death

The Alzheimer's Society branded the medicine as 'archaic and dangerous'

Antipsychotic drugs branded 'archaic and dangerous' were given to dementia patients during the coronavirus lockdown to keep them sedated.

Experts say the medication carries risks of premature death and is used to treat behaviour and symptoms including aggression and agitation.

Until this year the the use of the drugs had fallen over fears over whether their dangers outweighed any benefits.

But the coronavirus pandemic has seen prescriptions for the treatments rise as medics have looked to keep some patients sedate during the crisis.

Family of retired dinner lady Lily Frost believe her death, aged 86, was connected to the powerful drugs she received to calm night-time agitation.

Daughter Brenda Vickers, 68, of Chester, said: 'The change was rapid. Prescription of these drugs has to stop.'

Fiona Carragher, of Alzheimer's Society, told the Daily Express: 'Anti-psychotic drugs are an "archaic and dangerous" way to treat dementia behavioural symptoms for by far the majority of people who have it.

'People with dementia have already been worst hit by coronavirus, dying in their thousands. We must prevent any further devastating knock-on effects.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8879273/Dementia-patients-given-archaic-dangerous-drugs-sedated-lockdown.html

Facebook (FB), Apple (AAPL), Microsoft (MSFT) and 2 Other Companies Are in Charge of All the Growth of the S&P 500

5 tech companies stimulated the whole growth of S&P 500 during the whole year.

The Dominance of Tech Giants on the Market

According to the data by the Market Ear, return of all S&P 500 companies, except the 5 largest ones, namely Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook and Alphabet, have negative returns YTD.

The market capitalization of these 5 tech giants, on the contrary, grew by 42% compared to the beginning of the year, thereby pulling up the rest of the index so that its capitalization increased by 6%.

The Reasons for Success

This gap is due to the fact that technology giants benefitted the most from the isolation and pandemic, as the demand for their services has decreased.

Besides, these corporations relied more heavily on advanced foreign economies that were able to cope with the coronavirus faster and more successfully than the one of the United States. Smaller companies tend to be more focused on the US domestic market.

However, the biggest companies in the S&P 500 are now in trouble. September turned out to be the worst month ever for these companies, as their shares fell by between 8% and 16%, according to Michael A. Gayed.

Despite the recovery in the S&P 500 after the correction on September 30, the AAII report showed that the overwhelming majority of investors isconfident in a bearish trend, with over 40% of those polled voting for it. Bulls, by contrast, account only for a quarter of the respondents.

Nevertheless, it is worth to mention that the views of investors have changed over the week, because the number of bearish-minded respondents on September 23 was 46%, which happened after the biggest weekly percentage-point decline since June 2020, according to The Market Ear.

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/facebook-fb-apple-aapl-microsoft-msft-and-2-other-companies-are-in-charge-of-all-the-growth-of-the-sp-500/

Germany is on the brink of modifying it’s constitution, to allow all 19 secret services to hack anyone at any time, for any reasons, secretly

The federal government has just decided to allow all 19 secret services to use state Trojans. The cabinet has adopted the draft law to adapt the constitutional protection law, which brings it to the Bundestag.

In March 2019, the Ministry of the Interior drew up a first draft law . At that time, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the Federal Intelligence Service should get the online search. The SPD was against it, saying: “You can't do that with the SPD” .

In June 2020 the Ministry of the Interior presented a second draft law . This meant that all 19 federal and state secret services should receive the source TKÜ. Parts of the SPD were in favor, party leader Saskia Esken was against.

Interior minister prevails

Interior Minister Seehofer has now prevailed with the federal government's draft law. The state trojan is not limited to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution or the BND foreign secret service; in addition to the MAD military secret service, all 16 state offices for the protection of the constitution are allowed to hack end devices in order to divert communication.

A restriction to cases in which attacks are imminent and foreign secret services have already provided information, which was initially discussed, is nowhere to be found. This allows the state offices to spy on anyone who is watching them, for example the association of those persecuted by the Nazi regime in Bavaria or Endegebiet in Berlin.

https://netzpolitik.org/2020/bundesregierung-beschliesst-staatstrojaner-fuer-alle-geheimdienste/

Germany is on the brink of modifying it’s constitution, to allow all 19 secret services to hack anyone at any time, for any reasons, secretly

The federal government has just decided to allow all 19 secret services to use state Trojans. The cabinet has adopted the draft law to adapt the constitutional protection law, which brings it to the Bundestag.

In March 2019, the Ministry of the Interior drew up a first draft law . At that time, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the Federal Intelligence Service should get the online search. The SPD was against it, saying: “You can't do that with the SPD” .

In June 2020 the Ministry of the Interior presented a second draft law . This meant that all 19 federal and state secret services should receive the source TKÜ. Parts of the SPD were in favor, party leader Saskia Esken was against.

Interior minister prevails

Interior Minister Seehofer has now prevailed with the federal government's draft law. The state trojan is not limited to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution or the BND foreign secret service; in addition to the MAD military secret service, all 16 state offices for the protection of the constitution are allowed to hack end devices in order to divert communication.

A restriction to cases in which attacks are imminent and foreign secret services have already provided information, which was initially discussed, is nowhere to be found. This allows the state offices to spy on anyone who is watching them, for example the association of those persecuted by the Nazi regime in Bavaria or Endegebiet in Berlin.

https://netzpolitik.org/2020/bundesregierung-beschliesst-staatstrojaner-fuer-alle-geheimdienste/

Dow tumbles 800+ points amid concerns over COVID-19 and stimulus talks

1 pm: US markets take a beating as coronavirus cases climb

The Dow has plummeted more than 830 points, nearly 3%, to 27,505, which would be its worst percentage drop since June 11. The Nasdaq Composite fell 251 points, 2.2%, to 11,299.3, and the S&P 500 declined 83 points, 2.4%, to 3,382.5.

The selloff comes as coronavirus cases are surging. The US has reported an average of 68,767 cases per day over the past week, which is a record.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin have yet to reach a coronavirus deal, and optimism an agreement will be reached before the November 3 election is wearing thin.

Among the biggest laggards was Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL), which lost 3.9% to $57.55.

9:40 am: Wall Street sputters at the start

Despite expectations of a mixed start, the main three indices on Wall Street were all firmly lower at the start of the week’s first trading session.

Shortly after the opening bell, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 1.13% at 28,015 while the S&P 500 dropped 0.93% to 3,433 and the Nasdaq fell 0.58% to 11,481.

Any remaining optimism among traders appears to have been snuffed out by a surge in coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in the US as well as the imposition of tougher lockdown restrictions in several European countries as they continue to battle a second wave of the virus.

Meanwhile, ongoing political deadlock over more US government stimulus also has investors firmly in a risk-off mood, while on the macro front a sharp drop in the Chicago Fed’s national activity index for September, which dropped to 0.27 from 1.11 in August, is unlikely to have lifted hopes of an economic recovery.

7.48am: Wall Street to open mostly lower

The rising number of coronavirus cases plus a bump in the road on the way to a US fiscal stimulus package are discouraging US investors on Monday, with the main indices expected to start mostly in the negative.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average is expected to open 281 points lower at 28,054 while the S&P 500 is tipped to open 34 points lower at 3,431; however, in a big week for results from technology stocks, the tech-heavy NASDAQ Composite is expected to advance 52 points to 11,600 when trading starts.

https://www.proactiveinvestors.com/companies/news/932359/dow-tumbles-800-points-amid-concerns-over-covid-19-and-stimulus-talks-932359.html

Silicon Valley Campaign Cash Complicates Democrats’ Plan to Break Up Tech Giants

The stage is being set for Democrats to clash next year over a push to rein in Silicon Valley oligarchs. Earlier this month, House Democrats called for the break-up of major tech giants, but Democratic candidates in key Senate races are comfortably out-fundraising their Republican counterparts in campaign cash from the tech industry.

Earlier this month, after a lengthy investigation led by the House judiciary subcommittee on antitrust, Democratic lawmakers on the panel called for regulators to force significant divestment by U.S. tech giants.

“As they exist today, Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook each possess significant market power over large swaths of our economy. In recent years, each company has expanded and exploited their power of the marketplace in anticompetitive ways,” said Judiciary Committee Chair Jerrold Nadler of New York and Antitrust Subcommittee Chair David Cicilline of Rhode Island in a joint statement summarizing the results of their inquiry.

The lawmakers also said that regulators should prevent dominant companies from buying competitors and firms with complementary products — i.e., they should reconsider Facebook’s acquisition of WhatsApp and Instagram, and Google’s purchase of YouTube.

However, Democratic candidates running for Senate seats in Maine, Colorado, North Carolina, Arizona and Iowa are all raising more money from Silicon Valley than their Republican incumbent opponents by a wide margin, according to the latest data from the Center for Responsive Politics. If all five win as they’re expected to, Democrats will take back majority control of the Senate, even if Republicans pick up a Senate seat in Alabama, as many observers are anticipating.

While Democrats are pulling in more campaign cash than Republicans across the board, in a trend driven by the unpopularity of President Trump, Republicans still maintain their money-raising advantage from employees in many key industries. Republicans in all the aforementioned races are taking in more donations from the finance industry, with the exception of Martha McSally (R-Arizona). And all five Republicans are raising more than their Democratic challengers from the agribusiness, defense and energy industries.

https://truthout.org/articles/silicon-valley-campaign-cash-complicates-democrats-plan-to-break-up-tech-giants/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=70360aab-2132-48a7-aec1-4c5cdae6b383

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