Liberal media, Big Tech increase calls to 'deprogram,' deplatform Trump supporters

Lincoln Project threatens Expedia group: 'You will feel immense pain if we fight'

Liberal journalists and social media voices have stepped up their calls to "deprogram," deplatform or outright threaten right-leaning voices in the aftermath of the deadly Capitol riot earlier this month.

During an appearance Friday on "Real Time with Bill Maher," former CBS News anchor Katie Couric ripped the Republicans in Congress who voted against impeaching President Trump over a charge of inciting rioters on Jan. 6.

"The question is how are we going to really almost deprogram these people who have signed up for the cult of Trump," Couric said.

Her language mirrored that of liberal Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson in the aftermath of the riot, when a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol building in a deadly melee.

Robinson said last week on MSNBC "there are millions of Americans, almost all White, almost all Republicans, who somehow need to be deprogrammed," calling them members of a "Trumpist cult."

Forbes published an op-ed last week warning companies against hiring anyone who worked in communications for the Trump White House.

"Let it be known to the business world: Hire any of Trump’s fellow fabulists above, and Forbes will assume that everything your company or firm talks about is a lie," Randall Lane wrote.

Since the riot, Twitter and other social media outlets have banned Trump, and Google, Apple and Amazon deplatformed the right-leaning social media app Parler. On CNN's "Reliable Sources" on Sunday, former Facebook chief security officer Alex Stamos called on Big Tech and major carriers like Verizon and AT&T to effectively deplatform right-wing outlets in the name of purging misinformation.

"It is up to the Facebooks and YouTubes, in particular, to think about whether or not they want to be effectively cable networks for disinformation," he said, questioning whether cable providers should provide conservative outlets.

"I’m not sure we need Verizon, AT&T, Comcast and such to be bringing them into tens of millions of homes. This is allowing people to seek out information if they really want to, but not pushing it into their faces I think is really where we’re going to have to go here."

Reacting on "Fox & Friends" Monday, Fox News contributor Dan Bongino took issue with "activists for the left," like CNN host Brian Stelter, deciding what platforms should be allowed.

"They want to silence everyone," Bongino said, questioning how far Big Tech and the left will go in targeting opposing viewpoints.

"What happens when you send out an email questioning, say, climate change and all of a sudden Gmail says, nah, we’re not deliver your email anymore. What, are you going to tell me that it is a conspiracy theory? I thought wiping Parler off the face of the Earth was a conspiracy too until I lived it."

https://www.foxnews.com/media/liberal-media-members-deprogramming-deplatforming-trump-supporters

Incoming White House Climate Team Blames ‘Systemic Racism’ for Climate Change

'The only path forward is to design national climate policies that are centered on justice'

A pair of top incoming White House environmental aides has blamed "systemic racism" as a driver of climate change in an attempt to justify a government-led economic overhaul.

President-elect Joe Biden named progressive policy adviser Maggie Thomas as Office of Domestic Climate Policy chief of staff and climate advocate Cecilia Martinez as "senior director for environmental justice" on Thursday. Both Thomas and Martinez have cited racial inequality as perpetuating climate change, arguing that the Biden administration's environmental policy must be centered on "racial and economic justice."

"Unless intentionally interrupted, systemic racism will continue to be a major obstacle to creating a healthy planet," Martinez said in a 2019 press release touting her "Equitable & Just" climate platform. "The only path forward is to design national climate policies that are centered on justice."

For Thomas and Martinez, such policies require "massive" government spending and the "realignment of public dollars at all levels." Thomas's climate plan demands "trillions" in public investment—not only to "crack down" on oil production and shift away from the nation's "fossil fuel economy" but also to fund welfare programs, including rent and utility relief. Martinez's platform calls for much of the same, including increased government investment into "affordable and quality housing."

Progressives' most ambitious climate goals are likely to face congressional opposition from centrist Democrats. Sen. Joe Manchin (D., W. Va.) recently told the Washington Examiner that he would oppose a federal mandate to make utilities carbon-free within 15 years. But Biden could use executive action to implement some of his team's far-left climate-policy priorities. Thomas's climate plan, for example, calls on the president-elect to issue an executive order "on day 1" establishing a "government-wide environmental justice initiative" tasked with centering "federal environmental policy around equity, justice, and inclusion."

Power the Future founder and executive director Daniel Turner accused Biden's climate team of using "racism" and "justice" to "nationalize the nation's energy industry."

"Punishing America's energy workers will do nothing to address climate change and it will do nothing to address injustices. It will, however, cause the prices of gas and utilities to rise sharply, and that will punish the less privileged most of all," Turner told the Washington Free Beacon. "We do need to talk about housing, employment, and racism, but doing so under the pretext of energy policy will deliver muddied, expensive, and pointless legislation."

The Biden transition team did not return a request for comment.

https://freebeacon.com/2020-election/incoming-white-house-climate-team-blames-systemic-racism-for-climate-change/

China Ties Raise Questions for Biden’s Pick for Top Defense Post

Colin Kahl works at a research center partnered with China's Peking University

Joe Biden's pick for a top Pentagon post works at a research center partnered with China's Peking University, a school that has long been eyed as a security risk by western intelligence.

Colin Kahl, whom Biden tapped for undersecretary of defense for policy, has served as a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University since the beginning of 2018. The institute oversees the Stanford Center at Peking University in northern Beijing, which opened in 2012.

Peking University, which is run by former Beijing spy chief Qiu Shuiping and has been linked to multiple espionage cases in the United States, recently updated its charter to require loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party, according to an NPR report. The school has also been ramping up its student and faculty surveillance system in what China watchers see as part of the government's broader crackdown on independent scholarship.

Kahl is not the first Biden nominee whose employer has business entanglements in China. Biden's pick for secretary of state, Antony Blinken, cofounded the consulting firm WestExec, which helped U.S. universities raise money from China without running afoul of Pentagon grant requirements, the Washington Free Beacon reported last month. WestExec scrubbed the details of this work from its website over the summer.

The association could be an obstacle for Kahl, who will need Senate confirmation. Congressional Republicans and federal law-enforcement agencies have expressed growing concerns about China's attempts to influence American academics through university partnerships and donations. Last year, the Department of Justice charged at least 17 academics affiliated with U.S. universities with secretly working for China, including one medical researcher at Stanford University.

"China has made a no holds barred effort to compromise China scholars," said Steven Mosher, a China expert and human-rights advocate.

Kahl, a longtime Biden national-security adviser and DJ, was closely involved in crafting the Obama administration's Iran nuclear deal and reportedly played a key role in removing language identifying Jerusalem as Israel's capital from the 2012 Democratic National Convention platform.

Kahl has slammed the Trump administration's Asia policy as a "train wreck," accusing President Trump in a tweet of "falling in love with autocrats in NKorea & China" and "ignoring human rights in Hong Kong."

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/china-ties-raise-questions-for-bidens-top-defense-post-pick/

Another Explosion Struck Gas Pipeline Between Egypt And Israel

On January 18, another explosion reportedly struck a natural gas pipeline between Egypt and Israel in the northern Sinai Peninsula, according to images and reports appearing in social media. Images from the area show a large fireball that could be seen from a distance.

The incident took place between the towns of Arish and Bir al-Abd in Egypt’s Sinai.

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— MahaSerag (@mahaserag) January 18, 2021

No group has taken responsibility for the attack. Nonetheless, ISIS is the main suspect. ISIS terrorists already targeted the pipeline in the region in the past. The previous incident of this kind took place in December 2020.

https://southfront.org/another-explosion-struck-gas-pipeline-between-egypt-and-israel/

How Billionaires Transfer Blame to Others

In a two-Party dictatorship, the important truths are kept away from being publicized on either side, Eric Zuesse writes.

Throughout history, aristocrats, and their flaks such as their ‘news’-media, cast blame downward, away from themselves who collectively control the government, and onto, instead, some minority or other mass group, who can’t even plan or function together so as to be able to control the government.

The U.S. has a two-Party aristocracy, as is clear from the “Open Secrets” list of the 100 biggest political donors in the 2020 U.S. Presidential and congressional campaigns, the “2020 Top Donors to Outside Spending Groups”. Those are only these individuals’ publicly acknowledged expenditures, none of the dark political money, which, of course, is donated secretly. At the top there, of the donors’ lists, is Sheldon Adelson (who just died, on January 11th in California, and was buried in Israel), who spent far more than anyone in all of U.S. history had ever spent in any campaign cycle, $215 million, which amount far exceeded even the $82 million that he had spent in 2016, which in 2016 was second only to Thomas Steyer’s $92 million (the previous all-time highest amount donated in any campaign year). Adelson gave exclusively to Republicans, whereas Steyer gave exclusively to Democrats. Steyer in 2020 gave $67 million, which — though he was running for President in 2020, and hadn’t been running in 2016 — was only 73% of his 2016 donations, in that year, when he had been the nation’s top political donor. He was only the 5th-biggest donor in 2020, instead of #1.

The second-biggest donor in 2020 was the liberal Republican Michael Bloomberg, who ran in the Democratic Presidential primaries in order to defeat the only progressive in that contest, who was Bernie Sanders. Bloomberg spent $151 million of his own funds for that purpose. In 2016, he had spent $24 million in order to help Hillary Clinton beat Bernie Sanders, and then try to beat Donald Trump.

The third-biggest in 2020 was Timothy Mellon, the son of Paul Mellon and grandson of Andrew Mellon. Timothy Mellon gave $70 million, all to Republicans.

In 2020, the top ten donors, collectively, spent $776 million to own their chunk of the U.S. Government. The second group of ten (#s 11-20) donated only $187 million; and, so, the top twenty together donated $963 million, just shy of $1 trillion. All 80 of the other top-100 donors, together, gave around $370 million, so that the total from all 100 was around one-and-a-third trillion dollars. 47 gave to Republicans; 53 gave to Democrats.

The smallest publicly acknowledged donor among the top 100, Foster Friess, gave $2.4 million, all to Republicans.

Most of these 100 donors are among America’s approximately 700 billionaires; and, even the ones who aren’t are serving and doing business with the billionaires, and therefore are to some extent dependent upon having good relations with them, not being enemies of any billionaire. All of these 100 are, obviously, also dependent upon the governmental decisions that the public officials whom they have purchased will be making, not only regarding regulations and laws, but also regarding foreign policies. For example, Friess merged his company into Affiliated Management Group, which “is a global asset management firm” that “has grown to approximately $730 billion.” Virtually all of the top 100 political donors are internationally invested, and their personal wealth is therefore affected by American foreign policies, in ways that the personal wealth of the rest of the population is not.

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/01/18/how-billionaires-transfer-blame-to-others/

Roe v. Wade a ‘Constitutionally Flawed Ruling,’ Trump Says

President Donald Trump on Monday called the landmark Supreme Court decision that dramatically expanded access to abortion “constitutionally flawed” and noted that it’s led to the termination of tens of millions of unborn babies.

“This month, we mark nearly 50 years since the United States Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision. This constitutionally flawed ruling overturned State laws that banned abortion, and has resulted in the loss of more than 50 million innocent lives,” Trump said in a proclamation.

“But strong mothers, courageous students, and incredible community members and people of faith are leading a powerful movement to awaken America’s conscience and restore the belief that every life is worthy of respect, protection, and care. Because of the devotion of countless pro-life pioneers, the call for every person to recognize the sanctity of life is resounding more loudly in America than ever before. Over the last decade, the rate of abortions has steadily decreased, and today, more than three out of every four Americans support restrictions on abortion.”

Public polling shows most Americans back restrictions on abortion in the second and third trimesters, amid attempts by some lawmakers to make abortion up until birth legal for all pregnant women.

Roe v. Wade was a case brought by a Texas woman against Henry Wade, the district attorney of Dallas County. She said Texas laws making abortion largely illegal violated her constitutional rights.

In a 7-2 decision in 1973, justices said the Texas laws were unconstitutional.

“The Court today has thoroughly demonstrated that these state interests cannot constitutionally support the broad abridgment of personal liberty,” wrote Justice Potter Stewart, an Eisenhower nominee.

In a dissent, Nixon-nominee Justice William Rehnquist said the ruling meant “that a State may impose virtually no restriction on the performance of abortions during the first trimester of pregnancy.”

“In deciding such a hypothetical lawsuit, the Court departs from the longstanding admonition that it should never “formulate a rule of constitutional law broader than is required by the precise facts to which it is to be applied,” he added, accusing colleagues of eschewing the history of the Fourteenth Amendment in its reliance on the “‘compelling state interest’ test.”

Since the decision, restrictions on abortions during the first trimester have been repeatedly struck down, including laws against selecting against fetuses with Down syndrome or ones of a certain gender.

Trump has said before he opposes Roe v. Wade, but told a town hall last year that he never spoke of it with the two judges he had nominated to the nation’s highest court. President-elect Joe Biden, on the other hand, has championed Roe v. Wade, telling people on the campaign trail that he would work to enshrine the Supreme Court ruling as a law.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/roe-v-wade-a-constitutionally-flawed-ruling-trump-says_3661285.html

The Great Digital Escape

Did you know you can back up your social media data? It’s officially a good thing to do and the major social media platforms provide utilities to permit this.

The Data Transfer Project was launched in 2018 to create an open-source, service-to-service data portability platform so that all individuals across the web could easily move their data between online service providers whenever they want.

Here’s a use case link for Facebook.

The equivalent link for Twitter.

Of course, the question becomes: where does one move the data to and to what end? Enter the emerging world of personal data services, which allow you to store your data under encryption and let you control access and potentially sell your data to anyone you choose.

For decades, Big Silicon has been making billions by Hoovering up their users’ data and monetizing it. Now some entrepreneurs see a business opportunity in providing storage spaces to users that companies have to negotiate permissions to access. The New York Times writes:

Three decades ago, Tim Berners-Lee devised simple yet powerful standards for locating, linking and presenting multimedia documents online. …

But now, Mr. Berners-Lee, 65, believes the online world has gone astray. Too much power and too much personal data, he says, reside with the tech giants like Google and Facebook — “silos” is the generic term he favors, instead of referring to the companies by name. Fueled by vast troves of data, he says, they have become surveillance platforms and gatekeepers of innovation. …

“Pods,” personal online data stores, are a key technical ingredient to achieve that goal. The idea is that each person could control his or her own data — websites visited, credit card purchases, workout routines, music streamed — in an individual data safe, typically a sliver of server space.

Companies could gain access to a person’s data, with permission, through a secure link for a specific task like processing a loan application or delivering a personalized ad. They could link to and use personal information selectively, but not store it. …

He began an open-source software project, Solid, and later founded a company, Inrupt, with John Bruce, a veteran of five previous start-ups, to kick-start adoption.

Solid, according to their website, can store “any kind of data can be stored in a Solid pod, including regular files that you might store in a Google Drive or Dropbox folder, but it is the ability to store Linked Data that makes Solid special. Anyone or anything that accesses data in a Solid pod uses a unique ID, authenticated by a decentralized extension of OpenID Connect. Solid’s access control system uses these IDs to determine whether a person or application has access to a resource in a pod.”

However, the growing realization of tech abuses, once confined to a few whistleblowers and subject-matter experts, may now be affecting the wider public. The New York Times bannered: ‘Millions Flock to Telegram and Signal as Fears Grow Over Big Tech’.

The encrypted messaging services have become the world’s hottest apps over the last week, driven by growing anxiety over the power of the biggest tech companies and privacy concerns. …

Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur, also weighed in last week with a two-word endorsement: “Use Signal.”…

The result was a mass migration that, if it lasts, could weaken the power of Facebook and other big tech companies. On Tuesday, Telegram said it added more than 25 million users over the previous three days, pushing it to over 500 million users. Signal added nearly 1.3 million users on Monday alone, after averaging just 50,000 downloads a day last year, according to estimates from Apptopia, an app-data firm.

“We’ve had surges of downloads before,” said Pavel Durov, Telegram’s chief executive, in a message on the app on Tuesday. “But this time is different.”

Surveillance, censorship, and data ownership, once an arcane subject, are now massive political issues. They are subjects on which neither the GOP nor the Democrats are completely trusted.

The inaugural committee for President-elect Joe Biden reportedly returned a $500 donation from former California Sen. Barbara Boxer after it was learned she registered as a foreign agent for a Chinese surveillance firm.

Axios reported that the committee rejected Boxer’s donation since the Chinese firm — named Hikvision — has been “accused of abetting the country’s mass internment of Uighur Muslims.” According to Justice Department documents published Friday, Boxer provides “strategic consulting services” to Hikvision’s subsidiary in the United States. …

https://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2021/01/18/the-great-digital-escape-n1387312

Witch Hunt: Telegram Becomes New Target Of Big Tech

A nonprofit group the Coalition for a Safer Web has sued Apple in an attempt to force it to remove Telegram from its app store, just as it has done against alt-tech social network Parler, The Washington Post reported. The Coalition claimed its intention to suit Google too. Parler and Telegram were accused of failing to crack down on extremist conversation amid the January 6 U.S. Capitol assault. However, Apple is not in a hurry to take action against Telegram.

Director of the Coalition Mark Ginsberg says he has the right to file a lawsuit against Apple requiring the company to comply with a terms of service prohibiting hate speech and incitement to violence in apps hosted on the App Store. The lawsuit also alleges emotional distress through negligence and a violation of the California business code.

“This is a lawsuit seeking damages and injunctive relief against Defendant Apple, Inc. for allowing Telegram to be made available through Apple’s App Store despite Apple’s knowledge that Telegram is being used to intimidate, threaten, and coerce members of the public.”

After the Washington Capitol assault a large campaign against independent networks began. Parler was removed from the stores both by Apple and Google, Amazon has also suspended its support. Even US President Donald Trump and thousands of his supporters were struck by the wave of censorship.

A legal claim by a nonprofit organization may serve as a necessary pretext to remove Telegram from the App Store with minor damage for Google.

Under the pretext of fighting extremist content on social media, the Big Tech and the neo-liberal establishment seek to undermine any opportunity to counter their dominance on social media. The democratic principle of freedom of speech is no longer their value.

https://southfront.org/witch-hunt-telegram-becomes-new-target-of-big-tech/

Apple's Cook Says Parler Could Return To App Store With Reforms

Parler, the social network popular among conservatives, could return to Apple's App Store if it changes how it moderates posts on the platform, the tech giant's CEO Tim Cook said Sunday.

Apple suspended all downloads of the Parler app following the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, citing postings on the platform that could incite further violence. Google and Amazon also cut ties with the company.

Speaking to Fox News Sunday, Cook justified suspending Parler, favored by supporters of President Donald Trump.

"We looked at the incitement to violence that was on there, and we don't consider that free speech and incitement to violence has an intersection," Cook said.

Parler sued Amazon on Monday after Amazon Web Services cut off the platform's access to internet servers.

Parler alleged Amazon was violating antitrust laws and acting to help social rival Twitter, which also has banned Trump for language that could incite violence

In Apple's case, "we've only suspended them," Cook said. "So, if they get their moderation together, they would be back on" the App Store.

https://www.ibtimes.com/apples-cook-says-parler-could-return-app-store-reforms-3124208

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Biden inaugural guest is Venezuelan coup leader charged with inciting violent assault on gov't building

Biden inaugural guest is Venezuelan coup leader charged with inciting violent assault on gov’t building

After condemning the pro-Trump invasion of the Capitol, the incoming Biden administration invited Carlos Vecchio – a coup leader charged in the 2014 torching of the Venezuelan Attorney General’s office – to its inaugural ceremony

As Washington recovered from shock and outrage caused by pro-Trump hooligans storming the United States Congress – breaking windows, smashing doors, and intimidating police officers in order to push their way inside – a sense of pre-inaugural excitement began to sweep the nation’s capital. Who would be attending incoming President Joe Biden’s inauguration on January 20, scheduled to take place exactly two weeks following the Capitol riot?

While heavily armed National Guard troops descended onto Washington’s streets to set up check-points, construct fences around government buildings, and establish their military presence, news about the upcoming swearing-in ceremony began to trickle out in the media.

Lady Gaga was booked to belt out the National Anthem, while Jennifer Lopez, John Legend, Bruce Springsteen, and a host of other Democratic Party-aligned pop artists were scheduled to perform throughout the day. Former Trump cabinet members, including Vice President Mike Pence, Supreme Court Justices, and lawmakers were all expected to attend, though the National Mall would be closed to the general public.

Beyond entertainers and high-level federal officials, foreign dignitaries were invited to join a smaller-than-usual group of individuals permitted to witness the day’s festivities. Among those dignitaries is Carlos Vecchio, a former Exxon lawyer who currently serves as US-recognized “Interim President” Juan Guaidó’s envoy in Washington. When the Trump Administration initiated a coup against Venezuela’s government in January of 2019, Vecchio became Guaidó’s ambassador, and has risen to prominence as the de facto leader of a US-based exile lobby dedicated to toppling Venezuela’s UN-recognized government.

The Biden team’s decision to invite Vecchio was a disappointing sign to those hoping the new administration would break from Trump’s failed and destructive policy of recognizing Guaidó as Venezuela’s leader. In the two years since Washington appointed the previously unknown opposition figure to lead its attempt at regime change, Guaidó has failed to rally public support in Venezuela or gain control of any government ministry. The country’s military remains loyal to President Nicolás Maduro and the United Nations still recognizes the Maduro government’s authority.

Beyond giving the appearance that Biden will continue the Trump Administration’s doomed Venezuela policy, Vecchio’s presence at the presidential swearing-in ceremony was filled with irony. In the days following the Capitol riot, Biden and his allies have denounced the violent takeover of Congress as an assault on democracy, with the incoming president himself declaring the rioters to be “domestic terrorists.”

Yet Carlos Vecchio, the Guaidó ally with a fresh ticket to Biden’s inauguration, is responsible for leading his own assault on his home country’s democracy – and is currently wanted in Venezuela for inciting a violent attack on the Attorney General’s office in Caracas.

After condemning Trump for inspiring the Capitol riot, Biden sent inaugural invite to @carlosvecchio – Venezuelan coup leader charged with inciting insurrectionist 2014 attack on gov't building.

See what Vecchio's charged for here, it might seem familiarhttps://t.co/S3nJHdccrk pic.twitter.com/zb6umY3WJ4

— Anya Parampil (@anyaparampil) January 18, 2021

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/79052/biden-inaugural-guest-is-venezuelan-coup-leader-charged-with-inciting-violent-assault-on-govt.html

False Flag Alert! Seditious Democrats Will Use Inauguration Day to Shock & Awe the Nation

There’s lots of fishy stuff going on at state capitols across the USA right now—very suspicious activity indeed!

The Democrats will do whatever is necessary to to take away our guns.

Everyone saw how they hijacked the January 6th Capitol storming to demonize the Patriot Movement.

That was their planned “Reichstag fire” that will be used to further consolidate their power just as Hitler did in 1933.

Now the Democrats will use Inauguration Day events to carry out false flag attacks in those states where gun removal is their highest priority.

How easy is it for AntiFa terrorists or BLM mercenaries to dress up like armed Patriots and show up in any state capitol?!

Everything points to the great likelihood that false flag attacks will be conducted on January 20th in those states most controlled by the Democrat Party.

These false flag operations can take the form of a false flag mass shootings, bombings or other acts of “shock and awe” destruction.

Because both federal and local law enforcement always fully support these Gladio black operations, Patriots caught anywhere near the Democrat crimes scene will be automatically guilty.

Of course, the mainstream media will tar and feather the entire Patriot Movement because the Anti/BLM perpetrators will be disguised as Militiamen, Oathkeepers, Proud Boys or other activist groups on the Right.

The bottom line is that the Left, because the Democrats will soon control all 3 branches of the U.S. Federal Government, practically own and operate the public spaces by remote.

Yes, a Republican governor can exert their influence, but the Democrats will avoid those states where they don’t exert total control over their false flag attack crime scenes.

There’s really no reason for Patriots to show up in the Florida capitol, for instance, with a fiercely patriotic governor like Ron DeSantis.

So, folks ought to especially stay away from GOP-run states on Inauguration Day. Yes, there are many RINO’s in power, but their political careers are over after their betrayal of Trump.

— Intelligence Analyst & Former Military Officer

http://stateofthenation.co/?p=48353

UN Experts Strongly Condemn US Capitol Attack

United States: UN experts strongly condemn US Capitol attack

GENEVA (18 January 2021) – UN human rights experts today released a statement condemning the violent events at the US Capitol in Washington. It reads as follows:

“We, the undersigned independent experts on human rights at the United Nations, strongly affirm and express our solidarity with the American people who stand for democracy, equality and the rule of law at this critical moment.

The violent attempt to overturn the results of a free and fair election at the US Capitol on 6 January was a shocking and incendiary event.

We strongly condemn the attack and the incitement to violence and hatred online and offline, and call for accountability.

We stand with the democratic outcomes of the recent elections and urge political leaders to do everything in their power to de-escalate tensions and unify the country in full respect for democracy and the rule of law.

Notwithstanding the urgent need to tackle political violence of any kind, we urge the US Government, the private sector, civil society and other groups to ensure that their responses are consistent with international human rights standards, including the freedom of expression and due process of the law.

We maintain our hope that the US democracy will emerge strengthened from this crisis without damage to its institutions and with renewed commitment to peaceful pluralism, rule of law and democratic governance.”

https://consortiumnews.com/2021/01/18/un-experts-strongly-condemn-us-capitol-attack/

But the UN supports antifa and BLM