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08 December 2025 00:20

Thousands marched in New York City and over 65 US cities on Saturday, protesting a potential war onVenezuela

Demonstrators called on Washington to end escalating rhetoric and PREVENT conflict before it starts

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07 December 2025 18:40

Europe Built a Digital Control Regime
Brussels insisted the Digital Services Act was harmless, a bureaucratic tune-up for the online world. But the moment enforcement began, the truth surfaced: Europe engineered a censorship machine. And the €120 million fine against X is the moment it got exposed.

The DSA foundations were poured in 2014, when Europe panicked over migration, populism, and the collapse of trust in its institutions. What began as back-room “voluntary codes” and secret content-moderation hotlines hardened into a full-blown weapon. A decade in the making. A decade of mission creep. A decade of unelected Eurocrats preparing to rule the digital public square.

Today, the regime is no longer theoretical, it is fully weaponized. And its first chosen target is the only platform arrogant enough, independent enough, not perfect but unmanageable enough to refuse obedience.

Brussels claims the €120M strike against X is about “transparency.” Anyone who has spent five minutes inside European politics knows the truth, this wasn’t enforcement. This was reprisal. A public beating disguised as a regulatory process. A message carved into the balance sheets of the entire tech sector: defy our censorship channels, expose our back-room demands, resist our narrative controls, and we will crush you financially until compliance looks like mercy.

Under the DSA, any platform with more than 45 million European users becomes a deputized censor, forced to obey the most restrictive speech laws in any one of the EU’s 27 member states. A German insult case in Munich? Suddenly enforceable in Madrid. A French hate-speech provision in Paris? Enforced in Prague, Dublin, Tallinn, and beyond. Brussels built the world’s first mechanism where the lowest speech standard becomes the universal one.

And then comes the extraterritorial bombshell... The DSA applies irrespective of where a platform is based. Meaning a bureaucrat in Brussels can dictate what an American in Texas sees. What a journalist in Nairobi writes. What a president in Latin America posts. Platforms will always choose to harmonize globally rather than run two moderation regimes under threat of a 6% revenue kill shot.

Europe has built an exportable ministry of truth, and everyone else is expected to obey.

The warnings are no longer coming from fringes or activists. They’re coming from constitutional scholars, former ACLU leaders, Princeton professors, the FCC, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, all saying the same thing: the DSA is a direct threat to global free speech. A supranational censorship model with no democratic accountability, no meaningful legal recourse, and no boundaries.

And now, with the fine against X, Brussels has moved from theory to force.

This is how power behaves when it feels its grip slipping. You build a censorship hierarchy: Digital Service Coordinators, trusted flaggers, opaque regulators, quasi-NGOs whose funding depends on finding ever more “harmful content.”
You force platforms to pre-censor under threat of annihilation. You redefine political speech as “risk.” You call dissent “manipulation.” You give yourself emergency powers to silence whatever you cannot defeat in open debate.

The fine isn’t the end, it’s the opening salvo.
Because once Europe proves it can financially strangle a platform for not censoring fast enough, every other company will do the math: It’s cheaper to silence users than resist regulators. It’s safer to delete speech than defend it.

And suddenly citizens aren’t silenced by law, they’re silenced by fear. Not by courts, but by algorithms tuned to please bureaucrats. By risk-assessment committees no one elected.

Speech erased by a foreign, Orwellian bureaucracy. Democracy throttled by a system you never voted for. A public square governed by fear, not freedom.

And unless this machinery is resisted, dismantled, or openly defied, the next message from Brussels will be even simpler:

“Your speech ends when we say it ends.”

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07 December 2025 07:02

MASSIVE truck on trailer surges forward, CRUSHING lorry’s cabin and killing 2 in Malaysia

TRT Haber vid

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06 December 2025 21:04

🚨Join Danny Haiphong LIVE December 6th at 9pm eastern 6pm pacific 2am London today with Ben Norton! LINK to show

Trump’s National security strategy just dropped and while many interpret it as a reversal in US foreign policy away from war on Russia and China , the reality is far more devastating for the US empire and the world. Ben Norton joins to break down what it all means and why the U.S. has delayed its attack on Venezuela following severe threats and deadlines which have been met by defiance and major pushback from Venezuela’s President Nicholas Maduro. All this and much more in a packed live show!

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The Islander

06 December 2025 16:20

Hungary BLOCKS EU plan for $104B bonds to Zelensky — Politico

Stealing Russian assets is Brussels' only other plot to prop up bust regime

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06 December 2025 08:20

Zelensky removes his former right-hand man, Andrey Yermak, from the National Security and Defense Council and the Supreme Commander-in-Chief’s Staff

Seems he finally fell to the Zelensky curse

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05 December 2025 18:40

'Dollars, Euros NO LONGER used in India-Russia trade' — Maksim Reshetnikov, Russian Economic Development Minister

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05 December 2025 13:40

‘SOMEONE IN RUSSIA DECIDED TO PROGRAM EVERY BOT’

Walz’s DAUGHTER plays the Russia-Blame-Game

‘I’ve literally have not had so many BOTS’

Cause we care about Minnesota…

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05 December 2025 12:04

'What I saw in that room was 1 of most TROUBLING things I’ve seen in my time in public service'

Rep. Jim Himes after being shown 2nd boat strike footage

'2 individuals in clear distress, without any means of locomotion, killed by US'

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05 December 2025 05:40

UNSEEN convo from Signal CHAT

NEWLY RELEASED by Pentagon: 'This chat kind of DEAD, anything going on? — VP VANCE

Sent to Committee in a case of 'mishandling classified info by War Sec Hegseth'

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04 December 2025 22:52

The prosecutor of the Kharkov Regional Prosecutor's Office, Luiza Karapetyan, was seen on "OnlyFans"

This account has already been deleted, but the internet remembers everything…

⚡️Two Majors

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04 December 2025 06:35

Putin to arrive in India today — 6:30pm locally

1st visit in 4 years & a 23rd India-Russia Annual Summit

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04 December 2025 03:40

US will restrict visas 'for those who knowingly direct, authorize, fund, support, or carry out violations of religious freedom’ — Rubio responds to violence against Nigerian Christians

It will also apply to ‘other governments or individuals that persecute people' over religion

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04 December 2025 01:00

Kirill Dmitriev says he showed Witkoff and Kushner the famed Faceted Chamber inside the Kremlin, one of the most historic ceremonial rooms

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03 December 2025 23:40

'Ahmed, you will be a great leader' —Trump to Syria's Al-Sharaa in handwritten letter delivered by US envoy Barrack

Letter attached to picture of their last month's meeting, reaffirms 47's support for Syria

'The United States will help'

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07 December 2025 21:40

'We are NOT going to war with Russia', ex-European MP Melenchon says

'We need to find a way to UNDERSTAND each other and ask for guarantees for ourselves'

A reasonable voice calling for understanding, NOT CONFLICT, stressing treaties, nuclear safety, and missile control

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07 December 2025 07:20

23 KILLED after fire tears through nightclub in India’s Goa — Herald Goa

Gas cylinder blast suspected

Most of the dead are staff

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07 December 2025 03:01

‘HUNDREDS of ICE agents’ deployed ‘all over state of Minnesota’ — Sen. Zaynab Mohamed

In 3 days they ‘only found 5 Somalis out of a community of 90,000’

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06 December 2025 17:01

Daughter screams & cries as troops STOMP dad — Palestine footage from QNN

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06 December 2025 11:20

Zohran Mamdani pledges NOT to clear homeless encampments across NYC

Is that what New Yorkers voted for?

"The name is Mamdani..."

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05 December 2025 21:05

Trump WINS FIRST-ever FIFA Peace Prize

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05 December 2025 18:04

Police officer who was arrested by immigration authorities is now back on the force

Montenegro native Radule Bojovic was arrested for reportedly overstaying a tourist visa that expired in 2015

Police say he passed criminal background checks with the state police and FBI

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05 December 2025 12:40

Speaking of... Trump reminds us he's 'settled ANOTHER war today'

'Millions of people killed, could be 20 million, they don’t know what the number is'

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05 December 2025 09:40

'We’re not going to spend BILLIONS funding NGO industrial complex'

Rubio says era of hiring NGOs to aid healthcare programs abroad is OVER

'If you wanna help a country, work with that country, NOT with 3rd party'

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04 December 2025 23:05

"Everyday life of a soldier."

Frontline cats!

⚡️Two Majors

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04 December 2025 17:01

Its very hard to MANUFACTURE a [nuclear] bomb, when your TOP scientists are KNOCKED out — Bibi on Iran nuclear program

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04 December 2025 05:40

Rachel Maddow appears on Stephen Colbert’s show to whine about Russia

Now it’s clear why his show was canceled…

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04 December 2025 02:20

European Commission proposes loan ‘leveraging up to €210 BILLION of Russian ASSETS’ — Financial Times

Kiev would ‘not have to repay the loan until Russia pays reparations’

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04 December 2025 00:02

Nobody wants peace more than Ukraine — NATO chief Rutte

Yet Zelensky has rejected all peace deals with Russia since 2022...

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03 December 2025 22:55

Poor Armenians 'lack skills to not be poor' — PM Pashinyan

Perhaps all that’s left is to follow that old royal advice about solving hunger with a certain pastry

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