Twitter Permanently Suspends Project Veritas, Locked James O’Keefe’s Account

 Legal Insurrection

O’Keefe: “Does Twitter consider reporting information the public has a right to know private information? This is quite the Rubicon we’re crossing if Twitter wants to ban this particular piece of information.”

Twitter kicked off Project Veritas from the platform for breaking its “private information policy.”

It also locked founder James O’Keefe out from his personal account.

It comes after Project Veritas posted a video of Facebook executives discussing censorship tools:

“We have a system that is able to freeze commenting on threads in cases where our systems are detecting that there may be a thread that has hate speech or violence, sort of in the comments,” Vice President of Integrity Guy Rosen can be seen explaining in the footage.

In a second video posted by Project Veritas, one of its staffers is seen confronting Rosen about his remarks outside his home as he returned from a jog.

“When you talk about freezing comments containing hate speech, what do you mean by that?” the Veritas staffer standing on the sidewalk asks Rosen as he enters his home. “How do you define ‘hate speech?’ Is it just speech that you hate?” he continues in the seconds-long interaction.

The numbers on the exec’s home address were visible in the clip, but the street name was not. License plates on surrounding cars are blurred.

O’Keefe spoke to TheWrap:

O’Keefe also said he’s confused by Twitter’s actions, considering the home address for Rosen isn’t visible in the video. “What I’m trying to understand is, what about what we did is quote ‘posting private information’?” O’Keefe said.

He added: “Reporters with microphones [and] cameras engage in reporting activities on the streets all the time in residential communities, so I’m trying to understand what Twitter considers violating their rules against posting private information. Does Twitter consider reporting information the public has a right to know private information? This is quite the Rubicon we’re crossing if Twitter wants to ban this particular piece of information.”

O’Keefe eventually removed the tweet, which allowed him to take over his Twitter account.

NYT: Was He Innocent? ANSWER: No. -

Yes, “later” in the sense of “20 years later.” For two decades, Alley never denied he’d murdered Collins. He only recalled that his confession was “coerced” in 2004, when he was trying to delay the hangman’s noose.

  Ann Coulter  "Here is this week’s installment of “The New York Times is ALWAYS lying about criminals (and probably everything else).”

"The Times desperately wants you to believe that there are actual cases of innocent people being put to death in America. Their current poster boy for the cause is Sedley Alley, executed in 2006. But the Criminal Lobby is hoping a post-mortem DNA test — on evidence that has nothing to do with his guilt or innocence — will allow them to howl that an INNOCENT man was executed!" . . .

. . . "Seventy-five years and counting with no credible evidence that a single innocent person has been put to death in America."

"I knew nothing about this case, but I knew the Times’ description of the facts was a lie. How did I know?

"1) No jury would have convicted a man, much less sentenced him to death, much less had that sentence repeatedly upheld, on such a flimsy record; and

"2) There is no credible evidence that a single innocent person has been put to death in this country for at least 75 years.

"Here are the facts the about the Criminal Lobby’s latest baby seal." . . .

Bio - Ann Coulter: A Connecticut native, Coulter graduated with honors from Cornell University School of Arts & Sciences and received her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School, where she was an editor of The Michigan Law Review.

Dimming the IQ of America

Intellectual Takeout

"Americans and Europeans are getting dumber.

"At least that’s the conclusion David Solway reaches in his piece “The Decline of Intelligence in the West.”

" 'In the last century various studies have shown the average IQ in Western countries dropping by about14 percent, Solway reports. He points readers to these investigations and offers a score of examples illustrating this decline, ranging from video interviews of college students who know next to nothing about the history of our country to leaders who say “corpsemen” instead of “corpsmen” when referring to combat medics.

"Solway then looks for reasons behind this decline. Why in our new age of technology and advanced science are we losing our capacity to think and reason?" . . .

World leaders wonder who is running America's foreign policy

"And there are plenty more of these mixed signals, all of which make world leaders, friendly and unfriendly, wonder who the heck is running things - Omar, Kamala, Biden, or the swamp? All in all, this isn't the 'America's back' approach that Biden promised."

"Image by Barry Soetoro" He said that.

Monica Showalter  "With Kamala Harris taking calls from foreign leaders now, less than one month into the Joe Biden presidency, and Joe's spokesweasel Jen Psaki saying Joe won't be taking foreign visitors, it's pretty obvious foreign leaders are wondering: Who the heck is running America? Why can't Joe come to the phone? Is the Biden "transitional" presidency really a "regency"?

The signs of it are all over. Here's a list of how bad it is, starting with America's allies:

Israel: After Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu gave Biden an early congratulatory call over the phone for his "victory," the locals are now wondering if the Biden administration is "ghosting" them. Three weeks into his term, he's called practically everyone but Israel. No calls to Bibi. Israel's foreign policy establishment is ready to call it a "full blown snub." And with open anti-Semites like Rep. Ilhan "all about the benjamins" Omar now promoted by Joe's Democrats to a top spot at the House committee on foreign affairs, there's reason to think there's something nasty going on. They are indeed wondering who's running the show.  

Taiwan: Taiwan's leader, too, gave Biden an early congratulatory call, and within days got a Chinese communist incursion into their airspace. Biden threw out some tough words, but apparently nothing else, and obviously, the Taiwanese are concerned, even as they cross their fingers. According to Wang Hao, a Taiwanese local commentator quoted by NPR: "  . . . 

. . . "Ukraine: Biden doesn't want to touch this one, and Ukraine's leaders are antsy: According to The National Interest:

For weeks now, Ukraine: Biden doesn't want to touch this one, and Ukraine's leaders are antsy: According to The National Interest:

For weeks now, Zelenskyy has sent numerous private and public messages; call me! He desperately wants a phone call with the new president.

"Of course, he isn't getting one, given young Hunter's ties with Burisma and the criminal probe presumably still happening around it." . . .

Biden warns China will 'eat our lunch' on infrastructure spending

Yahoo!

AfterMath - Home (terrellaftermath.com)

"US President Joe Biden has warned that China will “eat our lunch” if America doesn’t “step up” its infrastructure spending.

Mr Biden was speaking on Thursday with a group of senators about the need to upgrade infrastructure in the US.

"His warning comes the day after his first phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping. 

"On the call, Mr Xi took a hard line on human rights saying a confrontation would be a disaster for both countries.

"Mr Biden made the comments after meeting with members of the Environment and Public Works committee.

"“If we don’t get moving, they are going to eat our lunch,” President Biden told senators.

"“They’re investing billions of dollars dealing with a whole range of issues that relate to transportation, the environment and a whole range of other things. We just have to step up.”

"During the campaign, Mr Biden proposed spending $2tn (£1.45tn) over four years to create jobs and invest in clean energy infrastructure.

"A widely cited American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) “report card” from 2017 gave the country’s infrastructure a grade of “D+”." . . .