An interesting question raised by Izabella Kaminska in an interesting Financial Times piece.

The last time chief executive Mark Zuckerberg put profits ahead of principles he was accused of facilitating Russian intervention in US elections. Bowing to boycotters — many of which are multinationals or, as in the case of Unilever, domiciled abroad — could qualify as a form of political intervention or silencing. 

Unilever is a British-Dutch company. Its headquarters is in the UK.

Its participation in the Facebook boycott, which is leveraged at censoring conservatives and, in particular, President Trump, is indeed a fairly blatant case of election interference, conspiring to prevent a political candidate and his supporters, from having a forum.

And not just any forum, but the largest forum around.

What is particularly damning is that Unilever’s boycott statement specifically mentioned the election.

Through this framework, we are actively engaging with all digital platforms to make meaningful change and impact trust and transparency. We have made substantial progress, and we acknowledge the efforts of our partners, but there is much more to be done, especially in the areas of divisiveness and hate speech during this polarized election period in the U.S

This is all Newspeak for censoring conservatives. And it specifically mentions the election period. 

Other foreign companies, including Adidas, Puma, Honda, and Volkswagen, the Nazi era German company, have also joined the attack on our political system.

Companies like Adidas, Puma, Coca Cola, Levi’s and many more have responded in the call out to Facebook to better police hateful, misleading and/or discriminatory comments.

Honda too is one of these companies. “For the month of July, American Honda is withholding its advertising on Facebook and Instagram. We choose to stand with people united against hate and racism. This is in alignment with our company’s values, which are grounded in human respect,” the Japanese car maker has said.

This is foreign election interference and much more serious than Democrat/media fantasies about Russia.

Foreign companies are working to suppress an American political candidate and party by boycotting a dominant social media platform.

President Trump has the ability to respond to this and should do so by imposing sanctions on the foreign companies interfering in our political system and on their products.

Those could also include sanctions against foreign CEOs such as Honda’s Takahiro Hochigo and Unilever’s Alan Jope for interfering in American elections.

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Electricity in an area of Berlin was cut off on Tuesday after far-left Antifa militants allegedly vandalised street lights by tearing out cables before members of the group set fires and vandalised property.

The rioters tore out cables from street lights in the Riga Strasse area of Berlin, a neighbourhood known for links to far-left Antifa extremism due to the street being the location of the notorious Riga 94 squat. The sabotage is said to have led to power outages from Liebigstrasse to Zellestrasse.After cutting power, the alleged Antifa extremists lit a fire in the area and built barricades. They were spotted shortly after midnight covering the facade of a local building with paint. Around 20 or so masked extremists, wearing black bloc-like apparel, were seen but ran when police arrived on the scene, Bild reports.

Around 1:10 am on Tuesday, witnesses said rioters started more fires and more residential buildings were covered in paint. Firefighters, accompanied by police, were able to put out the fires and restore order to the area by around 3:30 am.

According to Berlin police, four vehicles were “badly damaged”, and there were multiple cases of vandalism to local buildings. They added that the rioting had a political motive.

Bild reports that more far-left rioting is expected this coming weekend to coincide with the anniversary of the Liebigstrasse 34 squat. A Berlin court ruled that the occupants must leave the building, described by squatters as the “anarcho-queer-feminist house project Liebig 34”, earlier this month.

The riot is just the latest in the area which has been an Antifa stronghold in the city for decades. The German security agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), recently warned that far-left violence was increasing and had the potential to become deadly.

A recent BfV report stated: “Even the step of deliberately killing a political opponent no longer seems completely unthinkable.”

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/07/01/antifa-extremists-allegedly-cut-power-street-lights-berlin-prior-rioting/

In an unbearably brazen manner, a man on the Berlin suburban train attacks a woman. Pushes her out of the train. The man from Gambia reacts to hints that she will call the police and makes it clear that he has nothing to fear from the police, as can be seen on a video that is circulating on the net – and according to users is sometimes also quickly censored there. Only one man in the rather empty suburban train tries to interfere verbally and help the attacked woman. One scene shows another man hurriedly getting off – as if he did not hear the woman’s cries for help at all.

The video starts with a scene in which the man has built up aggressively in front of the woman kneeling on the floor next to a dog. The aggressor screams and yells, but the words are not audible. Among other things he yells several times in a scornful tone of voice: “Call the police”. The woman tries to avoid him. Once she holds her arm in front of her face to protect herself. She also asks the other inmates for help, more and more desperate. Not to be seen on the video: The 22-year-old is said to have kicked the woman, who may have come to the aid of another mentally retarded victim whom the man also attacked, in the stomach. Here is the video:

In fact, there is also a man who unsuccessfully and only verbally tries to calm the aggressive foul-mouth – but this does not stop the attacker from continuing to yell. At the next stop, the man pushes his victim onto the platform, goes after her and starts a scuffle. As he leaves her, he stands on the platform, still scolding, while the woman continues to ask for help: “Can you please help me, please. I’m being beaten up, please.” The attacker walks unhindered up the stairs and away.

Interesting is the way of coverage. The incident is reported in the major media, but one decisive aspect is largely either completely ignored or at best mentioned in passing: the obvious origin of the attacker, who only speaks broken German. Sometimes even the arms of the man are pixelated – which can only have one logical reason – one should not see the skin colour. (Screenshot below)

As much as on the one hand origin and skin colour should generally not matter – in this case they do and are of public interest. For in view of the current “Black Lives matter” movement, the incident almost inevitably raises the question of whether the fact that the attacker was a colored person played a role in the fact that only one passer-by intervened in an appeasing manner and the others ignored the cries for help.

Likewise, the question would have to be asked why the man apparently considered himself untouchable by the police and whether this has a connection with the fact that today, officials must have massive fear of accusations of racism and discrimination and, according to insiders, are often downright afraid to take action against people with a migration background and, above all, with a different skin colour. After the new Berlin anti-discrimination laws, they are even under general suspicion.

Imagine for a moment what the media echo would have looked like in a reversed constellation: if a white man had attacked a colored woman so brutally and no one had come to her aid. Would this also have been presented as an individual case in which the origin of the victim and the perpetrator as well as fundamental conflicts in our society mattered in no way? Or as evidence of racism and xenophobia, which would then have been the subject of much discussion?

The police have now identified the suspect. He is from Gambia. He was released immediately.

https://www.reitschuster.de/post/brutale-attacke-auf-frau-in-s-bahn-falsches-opfer?fbclid=IwAR3mdtpUep6N6gWOG_c1UK1IsNJra-mkwtWC8yc6fJAdj9mFxJlbCc0nnnc

It’s a case that leaves you speechless: In December 2017, four men raped a schoolgirl at a party in Hanover and videotaped it. The victim Samantha B. was only 15 years old at the time. Two of the four accused were sentenced in Hanover today: Ivan M. will be imprisoned for two years and five months, Feyzel S. for two years and three months.Samantha and her alleged torturers celebrated together at a party. There the then 15-year-old had sexual relations with several men. However, during the night so much alcohol is said to have flowed that the schoolgirl was completely defenceless and dazed.Four men then raped the then 15-year-old jointly. “The four men are said to have taken advantage of the victim’s inability to resist and sexually abused her”, court spokesman Koray Freudenberg said in an interview with RTL television.The four perpetrators recorded the gang rape on film. According to the court, this video was a decisive factor in the conviction of the men. The footage proves that Samantha B. was completely disoriented by the alcohol and had no chance to defend herself against the sexual abuse.

“The video shows my client being raped by four men in a row. They patted her in the face and she did not react,” said lawyer Björn Nordmann.

Only two of the four suspected men were convicted today in Hanover. Muhammed A, who is now 19 years old, lives in Austria and was sentenced there last year to a suspended sentence of six months.

Mostafa E. is still a resident of Lebanon and therefore could not appear in court today. According to the court spokesman, he visited his sick mother there. Since there are no flights from Lebanon to Germany at the moment, he could not appear at the court hearing. He will probably have to stand trial in July in another court case. The schoolgirl became pregnant by one of the men. She moved with her child into a mother-child facility. At the court in Hanover, the meanwhile 18-year-old appeared as a joint plaintiff. “I can only hope that the relationship between my client and her daughter will be as good as possible in the future and that the little one will have the best possible future ahead of her,” said her lawyer in an interview with the television station RTL.

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This man has killed a Cat (most likely a pet) only to cook it in broad daylight; Is this our reality from now on?

By Monica Showalter

Joe Biden is hiding in his basement, but maybe that’s because the rabid-left looters, rioters, and protesters are carrying out his presidential campaign just fine for him.

What else can be concluded but that, given that President Obama has cynically admitted that the civil unrest covering the U.S. is “tailor-made” for electing Joe Biden?

Here’s a report from National Review:

Former President Barack Obama told aides this month that the nationwide protests following the death of George Floyd are “a tailor-made moment” to help his former vice president Joe Biden defeat Donald Trump in November.

According to a New York Times story based on interviews with more than 50 Obama confidants, the former president was made anxious after riots and looting rocked many American cities in the days following Floyd’s death and Trump began trumpeting “law and order” in response.

“Let’s not excuse violence, or rationalize it, or participate in it. If we want our criminal justice system, and American society at large, to operate on a higher ethical code, then we have to model that code ourselves,” Obama wrote in a Medium post earlier this month.

But Obama’s confidence has since grown as the protests have continued and Trump’s polling numbers have dipped. 

So in other words, more riots, more votes for Biden.  Perhaps the idea is to beat the public down to such an extent that it feels that only a Democrat can solve it.  Perhaps he sees in the polls that the public is blaming Trump.

The New York Times reported just a couple days ago that Obama is obsessed with ousting President Trump.  That being the case, it’s not unlikely that he will continue with his old Alinsky training, to oust Trump by any means necessary.

If riots will do it, Obama and his Democrats will be happy with more riots.  Even the New York Times admitted that the riots excited him:

That calculus, though, may be changing in the wake of George Floyd’s killing by the police in Minneapolis. As America’s first black president, now its first black ex-president, Mr. Obama sees the current social and racial awakening as an opportunity to elevate a 2020 election dictated by Mr. Trump’s mud-wrestling style into something more meaningful — to channel a new, youthful movement toward a political aim, as he did in 2008.

Opportunity?  Elevate?  That sounds a lot like “tailor-made.”

This ought to be a wake-up call to voters, who are the only ones who can stop this cynical, diabolical plan on property-owners.  Obama has a stake and interest in perpetrating riots and lootings, regardless of the cost to the little guy, because it advances his political aims.  That’s in characters, from the words of his former chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, to “never let a crisis go to waste.”

It’s also amazingly cynical, given that nobody should be rooting for rioters as a means of benefiting politically.  Yet here we are, and Obama is being lionized.  It calls to mind that the Obama legacy can’t be hosed out soon enough by Trump in his second term. 

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/06/obama_admits_it_riots_and_protests_are_tailormade_for_electing_joe_biden.html#ixzz6QrXUogH8