"Something Wicked This Way Comes: Censorship"

InfoWars founder Alex Jones is now officially persona non grata. That's right gang, Apple, Facebook and YouTube (a subsidiary of Google) have given the controversial conspiracy theorist the boot.

Why, you ask? Apparently Jones is guilty of:

• unspecified "hate speech"
• glorifying violence
• using dehumanizing language (though no examples of offending posts were given)

The problem? According to The Gateway Pundit :" Liberal tech giants Facebook, Twitter, Google/YouTube and Wikipedia have all stepped-up their harassment of conservative publishers since the 2016 election."

In a study conducted in June of top conservative news outlets, The Gateway Pundit found that Facebook has eliminated 93% of traffic to top conservative websites. For instance, Breitbart is down 72%, The Daily Caller down almost 77% and The Young Conservative is down over 99%, to mention just a few.

"Facebook began stamping out conservative news in January 2017," according to stats published in The Gateway Pundit, and the overall decline is staggering: 93.7 million views down to 6.8 million views in 18 months.

"On Monday, Facebook caved to the leftist media mob demanding censorship of InfoWars and permanently banned their page. This sets a chilling precedent for free speech. To all other conservative news outlets--you are next," warns The Gateway Pundit.

(Personal note: This particular blog has recently experienced this censorship firsthand, with a very sudden 55% decline in traffic. Don't let them get away with it. Please share this article and help us get the word out.  Thank you).

A wise man once said: "If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." --George Washington

"Whoever sows injustice reaps calamity, and the rod they wield in fury will be broken." Proverbs 22:8

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News:

• CBN: Pastor Greg Laurie Forced To Remove Billboards Advertising So Cal Harvest; Bible depiction deemed "offensive"
• The Washington Examiner: 'Survival of our democracy depends on banning sites like Info Wars', claims Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) 
• Zero Hedge: Twitter suspends Libertarian accounts, including Ron Paul Institute Director, Daniel McAdams

"Is The Government Spying On You?"

Governments around the globe have always been nosy, and totalitarian regimes made spying on its citizens into an art form.

But here in America its different, right? Wrong! 9/11 was the ultimate game-changer. The fear of terrorism has led to a new era of trading privacy for security. Remember the outrage when it was discovered that President Bush was wiretapping suspected terrorists without a warrant?

Well, you ain't seen nothin' yet.

Over the last decade, as the world went wireless, surveillance became virtually invisible. Only it isn't just suspected terrorists and criminals they're watching anymore.

It's us. That right, it's directed at all of us.

The ACLU, in its campaign to stop illegal spying, says, "Increasingly, the government is engaged in suspicion-less surveillance that vacuums up and tracks sensitive information about innocent people. The erosion of reasonable restrictions on government's power to collect people's personal information is putting privacy and free speech rights of all Americans at risk."

What is the government interested in?

• email
• phone calls
• tweets
• texts 
• Facebook
• Google
• and apparently our finances, too

According to Reuters: "The Obama administration is drawing up plans to give all U.S. spy agencies full access to a massive database that contains financial data on American citizens and others who bank in the country." This info came from a Treasury Department document seen by Reuters.

The above information gathered on all of us will then be:

• tracked
• analyzed
• archived
• and kept indefinitely

Is nothing sacred anymore? Even our idle web-surfing is tracked. Aaron Saenz of Singularity University writes, "Nokia, Sprint, Ericsson, Facebook, Google--think of a business that helps people talk and exchange information and you'll think of a company that has helped law enforcement agencies look through private data."

What's next? Micro-drones the size of a small bird. Think we're kidding? Think again.

Next time you see a cute little hummingbird peering in your bedroom window? 

Shut the blinds.

A wise man once said: "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail." --American statesman Henry L. Stimson

"For we are taking pains to do what is right, not only in the eyes of the Lord, but also in the eyes of men" --2 Corinthians 8:21

News:

• MSN: Iran's supreme leader warned the Islamic Republic would level the cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa if Israel launched a military attack.
• NBC News: North Korea issues fresh threat to U.S. with new YouTube video. This time the U.S. Capitol is destroyed.
• Reuters: U.S. beefs-up missile defense against North Korean threat.
• CBC News: The Federal Reserve foresees unemployment remaining high into 2015.
• CNBC: Illinois passes new law requiring gold/silver buyers to register.