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German Court Finds YouTube’s Removal of Videos About COVID Was Illegal and YouTube Must Restore the Videos

German actors expressed their thoughts and feelings about the China coronavirus on YouTube, unfortunately, YouTube didn’t like their thoughts and so they were censored. But the courts in Germany decided that YouTube is not the purveyor of truth and mandated no more censorship from YouTube.

In Germany, a group of actors expressed their opinions of COVID and the government’s actions related to COVID:

Dozens of prominent German actors have banded together as part of the “allesaufdentisch” (everything on the table) freedom of expression campaign to demand a more open discussion on the Coronavirus and the controversial government policies, rules and regulations. Their statements were posted in the form of short videos on YouTube.

In recent months, views critical of government Corona policies and vaccines have been suppressed by the major media.

“Increasing concern” over political actions

At their allesaufdentisch site, the group of leading actors, performers, artists state: “We are watching the development of political action in the Corona crisis with increasing concern. Many experts have not yet been heard in the public Corona debate. We would like to see a wide-ranging, fact-based, open and factual discourse and also an equally wide-ranging discussion of the videos.”

Each actor posted a YouTube video criticizing the current suppressive policies. See background here.

German actor Filipp Piatov had much to share about YouTube’s actions:

When asked if the videos indeed contained controversial content justifying removal, Piatov said there was none, adding “A false fact is not reason for a deletion.” Otherwise, many video statements made by government authorities would need to be taken down as well.

YouTube “no Truth Commission”

“YouTube is not a factchecking platform, not a Truth Commission that gets to decide what’s right and what’s wrong,” said Piatov. “Who is YouTube? Is it a University? Is it a panel of virologists who sit and watch all these videos and say this one, from the 100 million that got uploaded, we’re going to delete?”

Yesterday a German court ruled against YouTube.

A group of German artists skeptical and critical of the government response to the COVID pandemic and promoting conversations around the topic, active online under the #allesaufdentisch (literally, “everything on the table”) hashtag, sued YouTube for deleting their videos – and won in court.

The two videos that got removed by the Google-owned giant consisted of interviews artists had with scientists and they did not take the censorship lying down but opted for legal action against YouTube.

The Cologne Regional Court has now found that the removals were illegal, ruling in the plaintiff’s favor with two preliminary injunctions, ordering YouTube to restore the videos.

Let’s hope these videos inherit the Streisand effect where they are now more popular because of YouTube’s action.

Cancel Culture’s Mental-Health Toll

My patient’s daughter had a panic attack after being bullied for a tasteless joke.

My psychotherapy patients often ask me why so many children are struggling emotionally. The answer is complicated and multifaceted, but it’s become clear that one important aggravating factor is the inflexible, rigid and vicious cancel culture that has swept across our educational system and the country. Children can’t thrive in environments like this. 

From a developmental perspective, adolescents are highly susceptible to harsh criticism. This seems to be hard-wired in the brain: A neuroscience paper published in Nature observes that brain regions involved in “social reward processing, emotion-based processing, regulation, and mentalizing about others” are underdeveloped during adolescence, which the authors define as “approximately ages 10-22.” That helps explain “sensitivity to online rejection, acceptance, peer influence, and emotion-loaded interactions in media-environments” in teens.

As a therapist, I see many young people who are deeply perfectionistic and worried about their image, both online and in person. Because social media is everywhere, adolescents are constantly in a state of high alert about any criticism or rejection, and online communities amplify this beyond what some are biologically capable of handling.

Cancel culture makes the problem much worse. One of my patients told me a story about her daughter, a college student, who made a tasteless racial joke at a friend’s expense. She instantly regretted it, and the friend soon forgave her. But another student overheard the joke and reported my patient’s daughter to the dean, who removed her from a student-leadership position and told her she’d be expelled if she told another bad joke.

t got worse. The eavesdropping student posted about the joke on social media, and other students bullied my patient’s daughter online so severely that she ended up in the emergency room with a panic attack. None of this brutish treatment was necessary for her to learn the lesson of her mistake.

School-sanctioned shaming and a social media free-for-all of bullying leave teens and young adults constantly walking on eggshells, afraid to express heterodox opinions in class, among peers or in schoolwork. Making mistakes and learning from them is an important part of young people’s development. It’s how they grow to accept themselves as well as others—if peers and people in authority show them empathy, tolerance, patience and kindness. Terrorizing young people is no way to teach them sensitivity and respect.

Chicago Art Museum Fires Unpaid Volunteers For Being White

Replaces them with ‘diverse’ paid workers on $25 an hour.

A prestigious art museum in Chicago fired hundreds of unpaid volunteers and replaced them with paid workers because they were too white.

Yes, really.

The Art Institute of Chicago had been able to depend on the help of 122 highly skilled volunteers, mostly older white women, to act as guides to the Museum’s collection of 300,000 works, which they explain in great detail to visitors.

The volunteers also acted as “school group greeters” to help children understand the importance of what they were seeing.

Training requirements for the position were intense, and the volunteers were apparently doing a great job.

But now they’ve now all been dismissed for not being “diverse” enough.

“Many of the volunteers—though not all—are older white women, who have the time and resources to devote so much free labor to the Museum,” reports the Why Evolution is True blog.

“But the demographics of that group weren’t appealing to the AIC, and so, in late September, the AIC fired all of them, saying they’d be replaced by smaller number of hired volunteers workers who will be paid $25 an hour. That group will surely meet the envisioned diversity goals.”

“Paying the replacements will not result in more knowledgeable docents. But they won’t be Caucasian; that’s the important thing,” writes Dave Blount.

Unfortunately for the volunteers, a lack of “diversity” is only apparently a problem at one end of the spectrum.

A similar thing happened last month when the English Touring Opera (ETO) kicked out half of its orchestral players in an effort to prioritize “increased diversity in the orchestra.”

The act of musical ethnic cleansing was carried out in the interests of following “firm guidance of the Arts Council,” which is a government-funded body.

Once again, this all underscores the fact that the only form of institutionalized racism that remains not only acceptable, but something to be encouraged, is against white people.

Sen. Rand Paul: ‘We’ve Got Fauci Spreading Mistruths Across the Country’

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Monday criticized the media and Dr. Anthony Fauci for spreading mistruths about COVID, and for their role in causing unnecessary deaths by politicizing the science around COVID vaccines and treatments.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Monday took to the podium on Capitol Hill to criticize the media and Dr. Anthony Fauci for spreading mistruths about COVID, and for their role in causing unnecessary deaths by politicizing the science around COVID vaccines and treatments.

“We’ve got Dr. Fauci spreading mistruths across the country, saying we’ve got to forcibly vaccinate the kids,” Paul said. “There’s no science behind any of that.”

Paul accused CNN and others of misleading the public on a host of COVID-related of issues, including the need to vaccinate children:

“For example, the one truth you won’t be told is an 85-year-old has a 10,000 times greater chance of dying [from COVID] than a 10-year-old. Now you think we should treat them the same. If you were their doctor, do you think a 10-year-old should get the same healthcare and the same prescriptions for what they need to do as an 85-year-old? Makes no sense at all.”

Paul, who said he refused to get the COVID vaccine because he already had the virus, and has natural immunity, has been an outspoken critic of Fauci and the Biden administration for their handling of the pandemic.

In July, he accused Fauci of lying to Congress about approving funding for gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and called onthe U.S. Department of Justice to investigate.

Paul told the U.S. Senate on Monday it’s time to stop censoring people just for asking questions about COVID policies, and get back to the ideas of classical liberalism, where “we debated things.”

He said:

“But if you’re a collectivist and you believe that from the very top down, all medical decisions come from Dr. Fauci and if he doesn’t want you to fly, you don’t get to fly … if an airline has a policy I don’t like, maybe I’d choose not to fly. But the idea that we’re going to restrict everyone’s behavior based on what they decide to do, what’s next?

“People eat too many cheeseburgers. We’re not going to give them a heart stent because we think they haven’t behaved and they haven’t listened to the doctors on what they should be eating. There is no end to this.”

Watch the video here:

Republican flips Iowa state House seat controlled by Democrats for almost 30 years

A Republican candidate won a special election in Iowa this week to flip a state House seat that had been held by Democrats for nearly three decades.

Republican Jon Dunwell’s victory in Jasper County marks the first time that a Republican will represent the district since 1992. It also marks the second time since President Joe Biden took office in January that a Republican has won a formerly Democratic-held legislative seat, after a Republican won a state Senate seat in Connecticut over the summer. 

Dunwell, 55, a former pastor and current financial services administrator, defeated Democrat Steve Mullan in the election on Tuesday with 60% of the vote, the Des Moines Register reported.

The seat became vacant after the incumbent Democrat representative resigned to take a job with the Iowa Law Enforcement Academy and Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) announced that a special election would take place to fill the seat.

“Thank you, Jasper County, for putting your faith in me to be your voice in the Iowa Statehouse,” Dunwell said in the statement, according to the Register. “Throughout this campaign, I have had the honor of hearing from so many of you — those who agreed with me and those who offered opposing viewpoints. I have learned so much and am eager to get to work representing each and every one of you.”

“Community engagement is very important to me. Being out and among people is very important to me. Giving everyone a seat at the table is very important to me,” Dunwell added in conversation with the Newton Daily News. “I have a conservative philosophy. My passion is for Jasper County and Iowa. The team that I work with is for the Republicans.”

Dunwell reportedly ran a campaign focused on growing the local economy, bolstering parental rights, lowering taxes, and supporting individual freedoms. The platform evidently resonated with constituents.

“Iowans have spoken loud and clear in these last two special elections about the direction we are taking the state,” Gov. Reynolds said in a statement. “Candidates who stood strongly for parental choice, personal responsibility, and pro-growth policies were successful. And we are just getting started.”

Jasper County is considered a pivot county because it voted for former President Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 before voting for former President Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020. The county’s shift from blue to red is part of a statewide trend in recent years.

Nevertheless, some see Dunwell’s victory as a referendum on President Joe Biden’s failed policies. Republicans are hopeful it foreshadows major victories for the party in the 2022 midterms.

VIDEO: Archbishop Vigano Says Pope Francis Is ‘Zealous Cooperator’ In Great Reset, Will Preside Over ‘Demolition’ Of Catholic Church

Archbishop Vigano says Pope Francis is a “zealous cooperator” in the globalist Great Reset agenda.

Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano said Pope Francis is a “zealous cooperator” in the globalist Great Reset agenda, presiding over the “demolition” of the Catholic Church in order to replace it with an order based on “Masonic inspiration.”

In a video currently going viral on social media, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano warned that Pope Francis is a “zealous cooperator” in the Great Reset, and accused the Pope of pursuing the “demolition of the Church” to replace it with an order of “Masonic inspiration.”

The Great Reset is understood by many to be a “reset” of global economics to ultimately replace the system with a totalitarian global state. Some concerns with the Great Reset include the ideas of population control, high-tech invasive surveillance, a global social credit system, and the calculated destruction of economies to usher in world government.

Many elites, politicians, titans of industry, media figures, and fact checkers dismiss the idea of the Great Reset as a “conspiracy theory,” however the World Economic Forum, headed by Klaus Schwab, is relatively open about this notion, as revealed in the WEF’s “Global Redesign” report in 2010. 

In October 2020, Archbishop Vigano wrote President Donald Trump a letter warning of the Great Reset.

“A global plan called the Great Reset is underway. Its architect is a global élite that wants to subdue all of humanity, imposing coercive measures with which to drastically limit individual freedoms and those of entire populations,” Archishop Vigano wrote. “In several nations this plan has already been approved and financed; in others it is still in an early stage. Behind the world leaders who are the accomplices and executors of this infernal project, there are unscrupulous characters who finance the World Economic Forum and Event 201, promoting their agenda.”

Archbishop Vigano is not the only Catholic figure warning of Pope Francis and the Great Reset. As National File previously reported, a Benedictine Nun named Mother Miriam issued a warning of what she described as a globalist depopulation agenda involving COVID-19 vaccines, at one point referring to Pope Francis as the “spiritual leader” of the globalist elites.

“The group of globalists – everyone involved in this new reset, global economy, one-world order – all of that, enforcing the jab, the COVID vaccine, which is a pathological weapon to destroy our body, that’s what it is. And if you haven’t felt it, if you’ve taken the COVID vaccine and you feel just fine, that is working in your body to destroy it,” said Mother Miriam.

She added that “the George Soros’ of the world, Bill Gates, everybody involved in this reset, so to speak, and the Holy Father [Pope Francis] is their spiritual leader.”

Many were left scratching their heads when Pope Francis met with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at the Vatican this weekend, as the abortion-supporting Democrat was accompanied by her husband Paul Pelosi Sr., a member of the controversial Bohemian Club.

The Bohemian Club gained a national spotlight after Infowars host Alex Jones infiltrated their Cremation of Care Ceremony in 2000, in which members practice what many consider a faux-human sacrifice ritual to a statue believed to be Moloch, the demonic “god” of child sacrifice.

Catholic Troops CAN Refuse Biden’s Mandatory Covid Injection, Military Archbishop Declares

“Denial of religious accommodations, or punitive or adverse personnel actions taken against those who raise earnest, conscience-based objections, would be contrary to federal law and morally reprehensible,” says Military Services Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio

Catholic U.S. troops should be able to refuse the COVID-19 injection on religious grounds, regardless of whether abortion-related tissue is involved in vaccine testing, the archbishop for the military declared in a statement.

Archbishop for the Military Services Timothy P. Broglio, who previously supported Joe Biden’s vaccine mandates, reversed course in a statement Tuesday declaring the vaccine mandate “does not” outweigh the conscience of unvaccinated service members.

“No one should be forced to receive a COVID-19 vaccine if it would violate the sanctity of his or her conscience,” Broglio said in the statement.

“This circumstance raises the question of whether the vaccine’s moral permissibility precludes an individual from forming a sincerely held religious belief that receiving the vaccine would violate his conscience. It does not.”

“The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith examined these moral concerns and judged that receiving these vaccines ‘does not constitute formal cooperation with the abortion,’ and is therefore not sinful,” Broglio’s letter continues.

The archbishop also claims the Johnson & Johnson injection “was developed, tested, and is produced, with abortion-derived cell lines,” making its use among Catholics “problematic.”

“The denial of religious accommodations, or punitive or adverse personnel actions taken against those who raise earnest, conscience-based objections, would be contrary to federal law and morally reprehensible,” Broglio added.

The Archdiocese for the Military Services claims responsibility for 1.8 million service members and their families at 220 installations. 

Broglio, who was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI in 2007, initially voiced support for the Pentagon’s vaccine mandate in August.

“Certainly, no vaccine is an absolute, but the military is bound to live, work and recreate together,” he said. “It seems prudent to ensure they do not infect each other.”

This comes just a day after over 100 Ohio pastors penned a scathing letter to Joe Biden criticizing his vaccine mandate, highlighting how “human tissue from pre-born infant victims of abortion has been used for the manufacturing of the COVID-19 vaccines.”

“In other words Mr. President, your Administration believes the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness do not come from our Creator GOD but rather from a federal government which does not know its right hand from its left. Your Administration’s politicization of the truth is profound,” the pastors wrote.

This also comes just days after Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò in an interview condemned the Covid shots, Pope Francis, and the globalist Great Reset agenda.

Hopefully even more within the Catholic Church will continue pushing back against the New World Order.

Read Broglio’s letter:

Federal judge rules in favor of health care workers seeking religious exemption to vaccine mandate

The judge left the door open for an appeal

A federal judge in New York granted a preliminary injunction Tuesday in favor of 17 health care workers applying for religious exemptions to the state’s COVID-19 mandate.

U.S. District Judge David Hurd’s injunction, which is effective statewide, temporarily bars New York State from forcing employers to fire medical workers seeking a religious exemption.

“The question presented by this case is not whether plaintiffs and other individuals are entitled to a religious exemption from the State’s workplace vaccination requirement,” Hurd wrote.

“Instead, the question is whether the State’s summary imposition of [the mandate] conflicts with plaintiffs’ and other individuals’ federally protected right to seek a religious accommodation from their individual employers,” he continued, adding, “The answer to this question is clearly yes.”

Hurd also left the door open for an appeal, writing, “Because the issues in dispute are of exceptional importance to the health and the religious freedoms of our citizens, an appeal may very well be appropriate.”

The New York State Department of Health issued an emergency regulation Aug. 26 mandating that most healthcare workers must be vaccinated against COVID-19 by Sept. 27 or face termination. On Sept. 14, attorneys with the Thomas More Society filed a suit on behalf of 17 Roman Catholic and Baptist medical workers, alleging discrimination and constitutional violation.

“With this decision the court rightly recognized that yesterday’s ‘front line heroes’ in dealing with COVID cannot suddenly be treated as disease-carrying villains and kicked to the curb by the command of a state health bureaucracy,” said Thomas More Society Special Counsel Christopher Ferrera, who represented the plaintiffs in the case.

“Some of these plaintiffs contracted COVID while treating patients, recovered, and were allowed to return to work with the same protective measures that were good enough for the 18 months that they were the heroes in the battle against the virus. There is no ‘science’ to show that these same measures are suddenly inadequate – especially when they are allowed for those with medical exemptions,” he added.

Gov. Kathy Hochul, D-N.Y., defended the mandate in a Tuesday statement about the order.

“My responsibility as Governor is to protect the people of this state, and requiring health care workers to get vaccinated accomplishes that,” she said. “I stand behind this mandate, and I will fight this decision in court to keep New Yorkers safe.”

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