Four police officers were killed and four more were injured during an intense shootout in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Monday.

Neighbors caught in the action filmed as the wild gun battle ensued.

If you have been using the internet for longer than a couple of years, you might have noticed that it used to be much “freer.” What freer means in this context is that there was less censorship and less stringent rules regarding copyright violations on social media websites such as YouTube and Facebook (and consequently a wider array of content), search engines used to often show results from smaller websites, there were less “fact-checkers,” and there were (for better or for worse) less stringent guidelines for acceptable conduct.

In the last ten years, the internet’s structure and environment have undergone radical changes. This has happened in many areas of the internet; however, this article will specifically focus on the changes in social media websites and search engines. This article will argue that changes in European Union regulations regarding online platforms played an important role in shaping the structure of the internet to the way it is today and that further changes in EU policy that will be even more detrimental to freedom on the internet may be on the horizon.

Now that readers have an idea of what “change” is referring to, we should explain in detail which EU regulations played a part in bringing it about. The first important piece of regulation we will deal with is the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market that came out in 2019. Article 17 of this directive states that online content-sharing service platforms are liable for the copyrighted content that is posted on their websites if they do not have a license for said content. To be exempt from liability, the websites must show that they exerted their best efforts to ensure that copyrighted content does not get posted on their sites, cooperated expeditiously to take the content down if posted, and took measures to make sure the content does not get uploaded again. If these websites were ever in a place to be liable for even a significant minority of the content uploaded to them, the financial ramifications would be immense. Due to this regulation, around the same period, YouTube and many other sites strengthened their policy regarding copyrighted content, and ever since then—sometimes rightfully, sometimes wrongfully--content creators have been complaining about their videos getting flagged for copyright violations.

Another EU regulation that is of note for our topic is the Digital Services Act that came out in 2023. The Digital Services Act is a regulation that defines very large online platforms and search engines as platform sites with more than forty-five million active monthly users and places specific burdens on these sites along with the regulatory burden that is eligible for all online platforms. The entirety of this act is too long to be discussed in this article; however, some of the most noteworthy points are as follows:

1. The EU Commission (the executive body of the EU) will work directly with very large online platforms to ensure that their terms of service are compatible with requirements regarding hate speech and disinformation as well as the additional requirements of the Digital Services Act. The EU Commission also has the power to directly influence the terms of conduct of these websites.
2. Very large online platforms and search engines have the obligation to ban and preemptively fight against and alter their recommendation systems to discriminate against many different types of content ranging from hate speech and discrimination to anything that might be deemed misinformation and disinformation.

These points should be concerning to anyone who uses the internet. The vagueness of terms such as “hate speech” and “disinformation” allows the EU to influence the recommendation algorithms and terms of service of these websites and to keep any content that goes against their “ideals” away from the spotlight or away from these websites entirely. Even if the issues that are discussed here were entirely theoretical, it would still be prudent to be concerned about a centralized supragovernmental institution such as the EU having this much power regarding the internet and the websites we use every day. However, as with the banning of Russia Today from YouTube, which was due to allegations of disinformation and happened around the same time the EU placed sanctions on Russia Today, we can see that political considerations can and do lead to content being banned on these sites. We currently live in a world with an almost-infinite amount of information; due to this, it would be impossible for anyone or even any institution to sift through all the data surrounding any issue and to come up with a definitive “truth” on the subject, and this is assuming that said persons or institution is unbiased on the issue and approaching it in good faith, which is rarely the case. All of us have ways of viewing the world that filter our understanding of issues even when we have the best intentions, not to mention the fact that supranational bodies such as the EU and the EU Commission have vested political incentives and are influenced by many lobbies, which may render their decisions regarding what is the “truth” and what is “disinformation” to be faulty at best and deliberately harmful at worst. All of this is to say that in general, none of us—not even the so-called experts—can claim to know everything regarding an issue enough to make a definitive statement as to what is true and what is disinformation, and this makes giving a centralized institution the power to constitute what the truth is a very dangerous thing.

The proponents of these EU regulations argue that bad-faith actors may use disinformation to deceive the public. There is obviously some truth in this; however, one could also argue that many different actors creating and arguing their own narrative with regard to what is happening around the world are preferable to a centralized institution controlling a unified narrative of what is to be considered the “truth.” In my scenario, even if some people are “fooled” (even though to accurately consider people to be fooled, we would have to claim that we know the definitive truth regarding a multifaceted complex issue that can be viewed from many angles), the public will get to hear many narratives about what happened and can make up their own minds. If this leads to people being fooled by bad-faith actors, it will never be the entirety of the population. Some people will be “fooled” by narrative A, some by narrative B, some by narrative C, and so forth. However, in the current case, if the EU is or ever becomes the bad-faith actor who uses its power to champion its own narrative for political purposes, it has the power to control and influence what the entirety of the public hears and believes with regard to an issue, and that is a much more dangerous scenario than the one that would occur if we simply let the so-called wars of information be waged. The concentration of power is something that we should always be concerned about, especially when it comes to power regarding information since information shapes what people believe, and what people believe changes everything.

Another important thing to note is that just because it is the EU that makes these regulations does not change the fact that it affects everyone in the world. After all, even if someone posts a video on YouTube from the United States or from Turkey, it will still face the same terms of service. Almost everyone in the world uses Google or Bing, and the EU has power over the recommendation algorithms of these search engines. This means that the EU has the power over what information most people see when they want to learn something from the internet. No centralized institution can be trusted with this much power.

One final issue of importance is the fact that the EU is investing in new technologies such as artificial intelligence programs to “tackle disinformation” and to check the veracity of content posted online. An important example of this is the InVID project, which is in its own words “a knowledge verification platform to detect emerging stories and assess the reliability of newsworthy video files and content spread via social media.” If you are at all worried about the state of the internet as explained in this article, know that this potential development may lead to the EU doing all of the things described here in an even more “effective” manner in the future.

Austin, Texas, officials announced on Monday a deadly and drastic increase in opioid overdose calls with at least thirty cases taking place in one day.

Austin Police Department and Austin-Travis County EMS said four people died from the overdoses and acknowledged that number could grow.

The emergency calls started coming in for the downtown area between Sixth and Eighth Streets, but soon spread across the city.

A typical day in Travis County sees about two or three overdose calls, making Monday’s 30 calls a 1,000% increase in call volume.

“When we see outbreaks like this, the suspicion is essentially there is a ‘new batch in town,'” a city official said.

Travis County in 2023 led the state of Texas in fentanyl-related deaths by population.

Last week, Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott criticized Sleepy Joe Biden’s open border policies, posting to X, “Pres. Biden’s open border policies are flooding our streets with deadly fentanyl, endangering the lives of Americans. Since 2021, Texas has seized over 475 MILLION lethal doses of fentanyl. We continue to fight back against the fentanyl crisis plaguing our state and the nation.”

Police are investigating a bizarre murder in Las Vegas in which a suspect is accused of killing his victim and then consuming his face.

Police had received reports around 5am on Sunday about a man tackling another man near the Las Vegas strip.

“About 45 minutes later, another person called police, saying a man was on top of another man at a bus stop ‘eating’ the other man’s face,” according to 8NewsNow.com.

Police responding to the incident arrived to find 29-year-old Colin Czech with “biological matter in his hair, mouth and on his clothing,” crouched next to the victim.

Czech claimed to officers that the victim, Kenneth Brown, had attacked him.

“Brown had a large cut to part of his head and he was missing an eye and ear, according to documents the 8 News Now Investigators obtained.”

Slipping in and out of consciousness while in custody, Czech told officers he was homeless and that he’d been awake for “five days straight” due to something “possessing him.”

Additionally, Czech told officers he’d “used his teeth to hurt the victim, adding ‘he used his teeth to eat [the man’s] eyeballs and ears,'” according to documents obtained by 8NewsNow.com.

While Czech failed to appear for court on Monday, his next scheduled appearance is Wednesday, May 1, and he’s currently being held without bond.

Filmmaker Michael Moore warned in a direct message to Joe Biden that his stance on Israel will result in former President Trump getting elected in November.

Speaking with CNN’s The Source host Kaitlan Collins on Tuesday, Moore spoke at length about the ongoing pro-Palestine protests at university campuses before addressing Biden’s strong support of Israel.

Moore highlighted Biden’s weakness with the youth vote after Collins cited a recent CNN poll showing 81% of people under 35 disapprove of Biden’s handling of the Israel-Gaza conflict.

“I know we’re speaking to millions of people, but I’d like to speak to one particular individual and that is President Biden,” Moore said.

“His chance of not being reelected, I think, at this point is so great because of those numbers, and because he’s losing the youth vote. He’s lost the Arab American vote in Michigan,” Moore said.

“I’m trying to save Joe Biden…We need an immediate ceasefire. It is wrong. The mass slaughter of innocents, of children, of women, of the elderly is a sin. It is absolutely against what we believe. I know you know that too,” Moore said in his message to the puppet president.

He then pleaded to Biden to “pull the plug” on Israel’s offensive in the West Bank and “shut it down.”

“You can stop the killing tonight. You pull the plug, you close the bank, you shut it down. Doesn’t mean we’re not going to support Israel, protect Israel, absolutely. All of that. But that’s not what’s going on here. It’s a mass slaughter, it’s so– it’s madness, President Biden, and you know this.”

“Democrats are going, ‘don’t be saying this, we got to win the election.’ But we’re going to lose the election, we’re going to lose Michigan if we don’t turn this around,” he added. “If President Biden doesn’t turn this around, that is going to do more to put Trump back in the White House.”

This comes on the heels of a CNN poll that found Trump dominating Biden by 6 six points in a two-way matchup — and 9 points if a third-party candidate is included.

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Tucked away in the $95 billion military aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan is a $3.5 billion slush fund to open new processing centers for Muslim migrants, in what Sen. Eric Schmitt described as a bid to “supercharge mass migration from the Middle East.”

Not only did the “Foreign Aid” package do nothing to secure our own border it included $3.5 Billion to supercharge mass migration from the Middle East. https://t.co/bsbYapsaE2

— Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt) April 24, 2024

And as Breitbart points out, the $95 billion package does not include any funds to help rebuild America’s border defenses against illegal migration – but it does contain $481 million to settle migrants in US cities, and of course, the $3.5 billion to expand migration programs worldwide.

The $3.5 billion was granted to the Department of State, which works with many international groups that feed and transport migrants on their way to the United States.

Biden’s deputies are now using the refugee programs as an adjunct to their diversity-expanding “equity” migration policy. For example, Biden’s deputies used the program in March to import 3,009 migrants from the safe and democratic countries of El Salvador and Guatemala.

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They are also using the refugee funds to expand migration routes from many African and Muslim countries. In March, they pulled in 12,018 people from the Congo, plus 16,732 migrants from the Muslim countries of Afghanistan, Syria, Pakistan, Iraq, and Eritrea, according to a report by Stacker.com. -Breitbart

Tucked into the folds of the new foreign aid package is $3.5 billion for mass immigration NGOs.

America Last Republicans voted to supercharge mass immigration while approving ZERO $$ for the U.S. border.

— Theo Wold (@RealTheoWold) April 25, 2024

According to an April 23 release from the Biden DHS visa-granting agency, “The Biden-Harris administration set the refugee admissions ceiling for fiscal year 2024 at 125,000 refugees,” adding “With the opening of the Doha Field Office on May 7, 2024, and the Ankara Field Office on May 9, 2024, USCIS will have 11 international field offices. Other international field offices include Beijing; Guangzhou, China; Guatemala City; Havana; Mexico City; Nairobi, Kenya; New Delhi; San Salvador, El Salvador; and Tegucigalpa, Honduras.”

So – we have the US government encouraging migration, both legal and illegal – which hurts low-income Americans the most, while neglecting to the borders. Seems we’ve learned nothing from Europe.

The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal trial held the former president in contempt of court on Tuesday for violating a gag order, warning he could face jail if he repeats the offense.

In a contempt motion filed by Judge Juan Merchan, he accused Trump of willfully violating the order 9 separate times, fining the president $1,000 for each violation.

“The Court finds Defendant in criminal contempt for willfully disobeying a lawful mandate of this Court,” Judge Merchan wrote.

“The court finds the people have met their burden of proof and have demonstrated contempt. Mr. Trump is fined $1,000 on each of those two.”

“Defendant is hereby warned that the Court will not tolerate continued
willful violations of its lawful orders and that if necessary and appropriate under the circumstances, it will impose an incarceratory punishment,” Merchan wrote.

Trump was additionally ordered to remove seven “offending posts” from his Truth Social account, and two posts from his campaign website.

Despite the contempt charge, Trump still spoke to reporters outside the NYC courthouse on Tuesday morning, slamming Joe Biden for the protests unfolding at college campuses across America.

Politically motivated Judge Merchan just made a terrible ruling against me in court! He fined “Trump $9,000”for violating the unconstitutional gag order that he put on me. I mush have free speech! Also I should be at Barton’s graduation instead of this court room! Poor Barron! pic.twitter.com/u7HfS3X4EA

— Donald J. Trump (Parody) (@realDonParody) April 30, 2024

It remains to be seen whether Trump will call Judge Merchan’s bluff by willfully violating the gag order again to test if the judge will follow through on his threat to jail him.

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This powerful documentary breaks down how world leaders are promoting the replacement of the human race with robots and AI.

The most important film of all time. The official agenda of the elites to end the human race, and replace mankind with robots. Watch this and share! These monsters must be stopped, and together we can do it!

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From the film’s description:

Did you know there is an official agenda to replace the human race with robots, cyborgs and AI? This agenda is being heavily promoted by the World Economic Forum. Their plan is to end the era of humanity and usher in a new era of neo-humanity, in which people are a mix of man and machine. They also state that our thoughts and emotions will be monitored by AI in order to combat climate change. Is that the world you want for yourself and your children?

Ending humanity to ‘save the planet’

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Many of us have seen the popular science fiction movies about robots taking over the world and eradicating humanity. But little do we know that this is exactly what is being prepared by the global leaders. It is what they are promoting, developing, financing and calling for, all around the world.

The globalists even claim that this is the only way to save the Earth from total collapse. Without exiting the era of mankind and entering into the era of NEO-HUMANITY, the world is doomed, they say. One of their arguments is that humans are the cause of climate change, and must therefore be replaced with artificial alternatives to “save the planet”.

This worldwide reformation is called “The Fourth Industrial Revolution” and is intended to completely digitize every aspect of life on Earth.

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When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanded that the protests against Israel be stopped, the US government complied because our members of Congress have all been bought and paid for with tax dollars given to the American Israeli Political Action Committee, known as AIPAC.

AIPAC openly brags about this on their official website, because they don’t have to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, which requires agents of foreign principals to register and provide transparency.

Beginning in 1962 they were known as the American Zionist Council, and President John F. Kennedy was ordering them to register as a foreign agent. Along with members of the US government, the Zionists fought against this. In October of 1963, forms were prepared for them to register. But the next month, JFK was assassinated. And Israel has never been asked to register since.

Four years later, Israel attacked the USS Liberty, murdering dozens of Americans and injuring over a hundred. The US government helped them cover it up as an accident.

On the day of 9/11, five Israelis who were seen photographing the collapse of the twin towers and celebrating were arrested and detained for several weeks. In documents later released by FOIA requests, the FBI redacted their faces in pictures where they were posing in front of the burning towers. And described them as being happy and jovial.

One of them stated that, “Israel now has hope that the world will understand us.” The end of the declassified document asks if they had foreknowledge of the event and were there to film it, and the answer was redacted. As soon as they were released, they returned to Israel and went on television where they confirmed that the answer was yes.

The dancing Israelis had fake student IDs. And several accounts of suspicious Israeli art students were reported to be infiltrating government buildings. Over a hundred of these Israeli art students were arrested. Fox NEWS reported that these art students served in military intelligence and explosive ordinance units.

In March of 2000, several of these Mossad art students were living in the World Trade Center as part of the World Views Artist-in-Residence program. They occupied floors 90 and 91 where walls were unfinished and structural beams were exposed.

A member of this group of artists, Hanan Serfaty, was arrested by the DEA as part of the Israeli spy ring. But the identities of an additional 14 Israelis who were with him have never been released to the public. These Israeli artists were sharing the space with a group of Austrian artists known as Gelatin who were working on a project called “The B thing” that involved removing windows on the 91st floor of the North Tower. A small balcony was constructed for people to stand on while photographs were taken by a helicopter. Another group called, E-team, managed the helicopter with the designation number, N666LH. This helicopter was to be in an art exhibit memorializing this project scheduled for September 11th 2001.

In March of 2001, E Team had an art project called “127 windows.” Officially, they were going to write their name on the exterior of the tower. They had an artist’s rendering of what the project was supposed to look like, but it never appears to have happened. And on 9/11, American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the exact spot where they were supposedly preparing to do this.

In 2001, Gelatin published a book on the project and described it as conspiratorial work. It includes a drawing of someone falling headfirst from the 91st floor with the words, 300 meters of pure pleasure.

Gelatin was originally spelled the same as the explosive, but was officially changed in 2005.

And the 9/11 Commission report does not mention Gelatin, E-Team, or any of the Israeli Mossad art students.

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