Øystein Søreide

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[Øystein Søreide @OysteinSoreide]

@CultureCrave @NiceTryBLNT

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

This is how the blob weaponizes government agencies for censorship. First, they spread disinfo. They then use it to demand censorship. They use fake NGOs like "Hate Aid" is to deceive public into thinking their illegal censorship is legal. "Trusted flaggers" = government agents.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇪🇺 THE CASE FOR ABOLISHING THE EU: UNELECTED BUREAUCRATS TELLING 450 MILLION PEOPLE HOW TO LIVE

The European Union just fined X $140 million for refusing to censor content.

VP Vance called it "a fine for not engaging in censorship." And he's not wrong.

This is the same organization that nobody in Europe actually voted for making decisions about what hundreds of millions of people can say online. Let that sink in.

Here's the problem with the EU that nobody wants to admit: it's fundamentally undemocratic.

The European Commission, which proposes all EU legislation, is composed entirely of unelected commissioners. Not one.

The European Parliament, which citizens do elect, can't raise taxes, can't sack the Council of Ministers, and historically has had limited power compared to unelected bodies.

So who's actually running Europe? A small cadre of Brussels bureaucrats that citizens have zero direct control over.

The "democratic deficit," as scholars politely call it, isn't a bug. It's a feature.

The system was deliberately designed to be unresponsive to voters.

Now these unelected officials have decided they get to regulate speech across the entire internet through the Digital Services Act.

Platforms like X, Facebook, and YouTube face fines up to 6% of global revenue if they don't remove "illegal content" fast enough.

What's illegal? Whatever any single EU member state decides is illegal, which can include vaguely defined "hate speech" and "disinformation."

A House Judiciary Committee report found the EU uses the DSA to censor "core political speech" including humor and satire.

In a May 2025 workshop, EU regulators labeled a hypothetical post stating "we need to take back our country" as "illegal hate speech" that platforms must remove.

That's a common political statement in any democracy. But in the EU's view, it's forbidden.

Here's where it gets worse: because tech platforms operate globally and can't afford billions in fines, they often just remove content everywhere rather than risk EU penalties.

So Brussels bureaucrats are effectively censoring Americans too.

The lowest common denominator of European speech law becomes the global standard.

More than 100 free speech experts warned the EU that the DSA "constructs a pan-European censorship infrastructure with loosely defined boundaries and the potential to suppress legitimate democratic discourse."

The EU's response? Ignore them completely.

This isn't about protecting democracy, as EU officials claim. It's about control.

When unelected commissioners can fine platforms $140 million for refusing to censor, and nobody who made that decision faced voters, you don't have democracy.

You have technocratic authoritarianism with nicer branding.

The EU also represents a massive sovereignty problem.

Nation states that joined gave up democratic control to an interdependent union where Brussels makes decisions national parliaments used to handle.

Citizens can't vote out the people making the rules.

They're trapped in a system where power concentrates among elites disconnected from ordinary people.

Council of Ministers meetings happen behind closed doors. Minutes aren't public.

Even European Parliament representatives can't attend.

This is the body making binding laws for 450 million people, and citizens can't watch how decisions get made.

The argument for abolishing the EU is simple: unelected bureaucrats shouldn't have the power to regulate speech, override national sovereignty, and make laws that democratically elected governments can't change.

If Europeans want cooperation, they can do it through treaties between sovereign nations where voters actually control their representatives.

The EU promised prosperity and unity.

What it delivered was bureaucratic overreach, speech restrictions, and a system where citizens have less control over their lives than before.

Democratic nations shouldn't tolerate governance by unelected elites, no matter how nicely it's packaged.

Sources: House Judiciary Committee, EUR-Lex, Deseret News, The Daily Signal, LibertyOrg

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

You say it's not about censorship ("content moderation") but it is. You want to censor who gets verified. And you want X to give government-picked "researchers" special access to data so they can demand censorship. The Twitter Files revealed your censorship-by-proxy scam.

[Øystein Søreide @OysteinSoreide]

@AGONbyAOC 👋

[Pio Andrea Peri @pioandreaperi]

Etna Volcano #elonmusk #nationalgeo #viral

[Jon Lai @Tocelot]

the story of Flow is so inspiring - animated film made by a small indie team from Latvia using Blender (free)

$3.6M budget - won the Oscar for best animated picture against Pixar's Inside Out ($200M budget) and Wild Robot ($78M)

creativity & storytelling > $ or tools

[Vice President JD Vance @VP]

Shutting down free speech will destroy our civilization.

America and Europe can take on outside threats as long as we are strong internally, and I will continue to fight for safety and security as long as I'm in office.

[Dan @Daniel_Farinax]

The latest AI generated 3D game I made with @Grok 3 is mind-blowing! No other model can handle over 3,500 lines of complex game logic like Grok 3 from @xAI. Try the Xforce game—link below 👇

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇺🇸🇬🇧TULSI SLAMS UK OVER ALLEGED APPLE iCLOUD ‘BACKDOOR’ DEMAND

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is raising alarms over reports that the UK secretly ordered Apple to create a "backdoor" into iCloud encryption, allowing government access to users’ uploaded data worldwide.

Tulsi called the move a “clear and egregious violation” of Americans’ privacy and civil liberties, warning that such a demand could open the door for adversarial cyber exploitation.

She assured lawmakers that she was not aware of the order before press reports and vowed to ensure the UK complies with the U.S.-UK CLOUD Act agreement, which bars either country from demanding data access without proper legal channels.

Source: @TulsiGabbard

[Øystein Søreide @OysteinSoreide]

WTF

[MagaWatchReport @MagaWatchReport]

House DOGE Subcommittee - Rep. Tim Burchett (R) TN asks questions:

🔹Oh boy - you won't be able to unhear this conversation.
🔹Lots of "Terrorists funded by USAID" talk then . . .
🔹USAID has taxpayer funded Lobbyist in DC asking for more money for USAID and . . .
🔹USAID brings together groups in DC that overseas work with groups that kill Americans

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇷🇴MASS PROTEST IN ROMANIA: WE WON’T LET THEM ERASE OUR VOTE

Romanians are flooding Bucharest’s streets in a massive protest against the stolen election. With the AUR party collecting signatures for Călin Georgescu, the movement is turning into a direct challenge to the political establishment.

The annulment was meant to silence the people—but today, the streets are louder than ever. The fight for democracy is on!

Source: @CG_Romania , @daily_romania

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨CLIMATE SCIENCE OR CLIMATE ACTIVISM? NEW STUDY EXPOSES THE HIDDEN FUNDING

A bombshell research paper analyzing 82 climate studies reveals a disturbing pattern: Not a single paper disclosed conflicts of interest over 29 years, while NGO-funded research consistently pushed alarmist conclusions about hurricanes and climate change.

The numbers tell the story: 68% of NGO-funded studies claimed climate change drastically increases hurricane activity, compared to just 22% of government or academic research.

More telling?

NGO grants averaged $1.2 million per study—four times larger than typical academic funding.

This isn't just about transparency—it's about trust.

When 55% of papers are authored by researchers tied to advocacy groups, and NGO funding correlates strongly with predetermined conclusions, we're not seeing science—we're seeing activism masquerading as research.

Most concerning?

These compromised studies often become the basis for policies that burden taxpayers while empowering the very NGOs funding the research.

Source: @JoshWalkos , Weinkle et al. 2025

[Lars Birkelund @LBirkelund]

Jeffrey Sachs, i 2016 ble det lagt ut rød løper for ham i Norge. Jonas Gahr Støre var stolt og skrev da på Facebook:

"Jeffrey Sachs er en av verdens ledende økonomer, spesialrådgiver til FNs generalsekretær Ban Ki-moon, og støtter Bernie Sanders mot Hillary Clinton. Vi har snakket om den amerikanske valgkampen, hvorfor skatt er så viktig i et moderne velferdssamfunn, og hvordan verden kan møte og løse klimautfordringene vi sammen står overfor. Har du 25 minutter til overs er du velkommen til å høre samtalen vår"! https://t.co/ENimbGkqvY

Men det var da og ikke nå. Etter at Sachs begynte å fortelle sannheten om NATO, Norge, Russland og Ukraina har Støre, Stortinget og norske medier holdt ham på lang avstand. Sachs har blitt persona non grata i Norge. Han blir sensurert. Kansellert, i likhet med andre som forteller sannheten om NATO, norske regjeringer og stortings ansvar for krigen.

Nylig fortalte Sachs til EU-kommisjonen om USA/NATOs dobbeltspill ift Ukraina og Russland, rettere sagt om et møte han hadde med Jake Sullivan, Joe Bidens høyre hånd, eller rettere sagt Bidens hjerne.

Det var 15. desember 2021 og Russland hadde nettopp lagt fram en liste med krav til USA/NATO. På det tidspunktet hadde krigen i Ukraina pågått i nærmere 8 år. Det var en krig NATO stadig trappet opp, etter alt å dømme for å få Russland inn i en 'hengemyr' i Ukraina, som allerede da var en belastning for Russland. Og det ukrainske folk.

Russlands mest sentrale krav, og det som var lettest å innfri, var at USA/NATO måtte gi en garanti om at Ukraina ikke skal bli med i NATO. Så hvorfor ville ikke NATO, Støre, Biden og Jens Stoltenberg en gang gjøre det for å hindre krig?

Sachs sa til Sullivan: "Avoid the war". Vær så snill å gi Russland denne garantien, det vil hindre krigen.

Sullivan svarte at Sachs kunne ta det med ro, for Ukraina vil aldri bli NATO-medlem.

Så hvorfor kan du ikke si det offentlig, spurte Sachs. "Nei, nei, nei", vi kan ikke si det offentlig, svarte Sullivan ifølge Sachs.

Sachs spurte så om Sullivan ville ha krig om noe som IKKE vil skje. Sullivan svarte: Ta det med ro, det vil ikke bli krig.

"Ja visst gjør det vondt når knopper brister" - Karin Boye. Eller ta Henrik Ibsens kjente ord: "Tar De livsløgnen fra et gjennomsnittsmenneske, så tar De lykken fra ham med det samme".

For noen dager siden brøt Christoph Heusgen sammen i gråt som følge av at EU/Europa og sånne som han ble satt på plass av USAs visepresident JD Vance. https://t.co/kTcSICmGKF Heusgen er Jens Stoltenbergs forgjenger som leder for den årlige sikkerhetskonferansen i München.

Slovakias president, Robert Fico, som i fjor så vidt overlevde et attentat etter å ha snakket NATO og EU i mot, kommenterte da at EU må slutte å furte og gråte over at USA og Russland snakker sammen, uten EU. https://t.co/hDYTKEkPRs

Heusgen er neppe den eneste som gråter. Det skulle ikke forundre meg om også Støre og Stoltenberg har grått en skvett. Og det har de gode grunner til. De bør gråte over egen dumhet, opportunisme, feighet, arroganse og ignoranse. I hvert fall bør de føle seg mislykket. Men de skylder naturligvis på Putin. Og Trump.

Til slutt: "Gjennomsnittsmennesker" er naturligvis en upresis betegnelse på så privilegerte mennesker som Heusgen, Støre og Stoltenberg. Men når det gjelder redelighet og ansvarlighet er de UNDER gjennomsnittet. Så til sammen er de likevel gjennomsnittsmennesker.

https://t.co/Wab3mN87ik

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs at the EU Parliament:
- The EU's decades-long subservience to the US has left it with absurd war narratives rather than a foreign policy

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨SOROS NETWORK EXPOSED IN ROMANIA: CONSTITUTIONAL JUDGE LINKED TO ELECTION MEDDLING

Sandra Pralong—Soros operative and ex-advisor to Klaus Iohannis—was deeply involved in the election scheme against Calin Georgescu. She used the RePatriot NGO, funded by USAID, to interfere in the process.

Now, Constitutional Court Judge Iuliana Scântei is revealed to be part of the same NGO—the very group that tried to manipulate the public after Georgescu won the first round.

Key facts:

-RePatriot NGO owns Newsweek Romania, pushing its agenda.

-Pralong was a director at Newsweek US and founded Soros' Open Society in Romania.

-Iohannis, the man behind the election annulment, had Pralong as an advisor.

The pattern is clear: Soros-backed elites are working against the Romanian people and Christianity—and even the constitutional court isn’t safe from their grip. How deep does this go?

Source: @iosefinapascal, @CG_Romania

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇪🇺PATRIOT FILES LEAK: THE LEFT’S PLAN TO CANCEL EU CONSERVATIVES AND DESTROY DEMOCRACY

New documents EXPOSE a secret EU plot to fracture and destroy the rising right-wing movement in Europe, specifically targeting @PatriotsEP - the fastest-growing conservative party in the EU, led by Orban, Le Pen, and Vox.

With the MEGA movement surging and a global shift fueled by Trump’s second term & @elonmusk’s fight for free speech, the elites are PANICKING.

They know their days of unchecked power are numbered.

🧵A THREAD:

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Amazon MGM has gained full creative control of the James Bond franchise from the Brocolli Family.

The first order of business should be to call Christoper Nolan — who previously had failed negotiations with Barbara Brocolli — and have him direct the next Bond film, which he says “would be an amazing privilege.”

[Weather Monitor @WeatherMonitors]

Molten lava spills from Mount Etna's slopes in Sicily, Italy 🇮🇹 (February 17, 2025)

[MAHA PAC🗽 @MAHA_PAC]

RFK Jr. held NOTHING back in his first speech as Trump’s HHS Secretary.

🔥“Nothing is gonna be off limits.”

The vaccine schedule will be investigated. SSRIs will be investigated. Electromagnetic radiation will be investigated.

Here is everything RFK pledged for HHS:🧵