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  • Lawsuit Against MINDGEEK S.A.R.L Filed in California on June 17, 2021; “This is a Case About Rape, Not Pornography” – Part 1

    Lawsuit Against MINDGEEK S.A.R.L Filed in California on June 17, 2021; “This is a Case About Rape, Not Pornography” – Part 1

    A massive civil lawsuit was filed against “MindGeek S.A.R.L”, and others by Brown Rudnick, LLP on June 17, 2021, in the United States District Court, Central District of California. If the allegations in this 177 page civil lawsuit are proven to be true, this will be the equivalent of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake/tsunami and the Haiti Earthquake combined. If proven, this case should be known as the MOAB strike that could annihilate one of the most expansive, wide ranging, superhighways for child trafficking rapists around the globe. Corporate media and politicians remain completely silent about this case, the only question is why? Could any of them be part of the MindGeek S.A.R.L. structure of anonymous owners “over-bosses”, secret financiers, or beneficiaries of this alleged money laundering, superhighway of child/human trafficking, rape, torture, and abuse around the world?

    The sheer size, depth, and reach of the corporation(s), their shell companies, their financiers are so intertwined and massive it is both heartbreaking and breathtaking. Some of the names are of companies you will recognize such as VISA INC., and others you may not. I will break this case down into a series of articles due to the sheer volume of information contained in the complaint. I can honestly say the Jeffery Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell cases are horrific; however, they are small in comparison to this case. This is the case about both the physical and virtual superhighway used to traffic, torture, and rape men, women, and children by the likes of Jeffery Epstein and many others on a global scale. MindGeek’s tentacles reach into every community around the globe.

    Citing the lawsuit they describe MindGeek as “the most dominant online pornography company in the world. It is also one of the largest human trafficking ventures in the world. And it is likely the largest non-regulatory repository of child pornography in North America and well beyond.”

    “MindGeek is a classic criminal enterprise run, according to those who know it best, “just like the Sopranos.” The “bosses” at the head of this criminal enterprise are Mindgeek CEO Feras Antoon and financier Berg Bergmair, representing a group of uber-wealthy owners of the company. These owners, the “over-bosses” of the enterprise, are unknown to the public and even to Antoon because they do not want to be publicly associated, or even risk being publicly associated, with the criminal enterprise they fund and from which they profit.”

    “This is a case about rape, not pornography. It is a case about the rape and sexual exploitation of children. It is a case about the rape and sexual exploitation of men and women. And it is a case about each of these defendants knowingly and intentionally electing to capitalize and profit from the horrendous exploitation and abuse of tens of thousands of other human beings so they could make more than the enormous sums of money they would have otherwise made anyway.”

    Serena Fleites and Jane Doe Nos. 1-33 are being represented by the law firm Brown Rudnick LLP. All plaintiff’s are demanding a Jury Trial, demanding their voices which were once silenced to be heard in a court of law, their stories told, and those whom are part of this criminal conspiracy be held to account for their actions. Accountability is what they seek, and hopefully it is what they will obtain. These former victims are very brave and courageous, they are speaking out against some of the most powerful well connected people in the world. These 34 voices could be the ones to bring down the house of cards in one of the most dynamic spiderwebbed child/human trafficking superhighways in existence today, and possibly saving the lives of tens of thousands of children.

    The complaint alleges the defendants have violated and are guilty of:

    1. Violations of Federal Sex Trafficking Laws 18 U.S.C. 1591, 1594, 1595
    2. Receipt, Transport, and Distribution of Child Pornography 18 U.S.C. 2252, 2252A, 2255
    3. Racketeering 18 U.S.C. 1962
    4. Public Disclosure of Private Facts
    5. Intrusion into Private Affairs
    6. Placing Plaintiffs in “False Light”
    7. Common Law Misappropriation of Likeness
    8. Statutory Misappropriation of Likeness California Civil Code #3344
    9. Distribution of Private Sexually Explicit Materials California Civil Code 1708.85
    10. Negligence
    11. Unjust Enrichment
    12. Unfair Competition California Business & Professions Code # 17200, 17500
    13. Civil Conspiracy

    The defendants named in this lawsuit are “MINDGEEK S.A.R.L.; MG FREESITES, LTD.; MINDGEEK USA INCORPORATED; MG PREMIUM LTD; RK HOLDINGS USA INC.; GLOBAL ENTERTAINMENTS INC.; TRAFFICJUNKY INC.; BERND BERGMAIR; FERAS ANTOON; DAVID TASSILLO; COREY URMAN; VISA INC.; and COLBECK CAPITAL.

    MindGeek S.A.R.L. formerly known as Manwin owns and operates over 100 pornographic websites, production companies, and brands including but not limited to: Pornhub, RedTube, Tube8, YouPorn, PornIQ, gaytube, Thumbzilla, Peeperz, PornMD, Xtube, Brazzers, Babes.com, Reality Kings, Digital Playground, Twistys, Men.com, Mofos, MyDirtyHobby, SexTube, and Webcams. MindGeek also manages websites including Wicked Pictures, lesbea.com and Playboy. MG Freesites, Ltd. aka “MG Freesites” is doing business as “Pornhub”. Yes the same Pornhub website which Hunter Biden was caught having his own questionable pornographic uploads.

    This case goes into detail how MindGeek and it’s alter egos (ex: Pornhub) hide behind the “independent uploads” claim for plausible deniability when children as young as 2 years old are posted on their sites being tortured and raped.

    Victims of rape, torture, and human trafficking have been trying to have their videos flagged and removed off of MindGeek sites for years. Although MindGeek would “suspend” the illegal videos, it is alleged behind the scenes MindGeek kept those illegal videos and purposely never removed them out of their database. especially if it was a popular money maker. MindGeek and it’s alter ego shell companies would blame the re-uploads of the “removed videos” of child rape and torture videos on “individuals” so they would appear to have clean hands and it being something they could not control, when in reality they were the ones controlling the re-uploads of criminal conduct the entire time.

    Here is where if proven true, this case destroys MindGeeks false narrative of “individuals” re-uploading the illegal content of child torture, rape, and human trafficking. Whistleblowers from within the MindGeek structure breaks down the who, what and how. According to whistleblowers cited in this case, the leadership of MindGeek was directly responsible for, and directed trusted third parties to not only create fake “individual” accounts, then directed them to re-upload the previously taken down illegal content of the child rape and torture, so they could once again profit from others pain.

    Although MindGeeks tentacles are far and wide through it’s connections and shell companies, it seems to be under the direct control of a small amount of people known internally as the “Bro-Club”, and other “over-bosses” whom are still unknown to this day. It is alleged that “the bosses” at the head of this criminal enterprise are MindGeek CEO Feras Antoon and Financier Berg Bergmair, representing a group of uber-wealthy owners of the company. These owners, the “over bosses” of the enterprise, are unknown to the public and even to Antoon because they do not want to be publicly associated, or even risk being publicly associated, with the criminal enterprise they fund and from which they profit.” 

    Citing this case,

    “the defendants succeeded in creating a bustling marketplace for child pornography, rape videos, trafficked videos, and every other form of non-consensual content. They intentionally elected to not employ any effective monitoring of what was being uploaded, or process for removing content that was exploitive and illegal. To the contrary, in the rare instance where the defendants were forced to remove content from their platform, whistleblowers have confirmed that they subsequently would reupload the content to their platform. Not only did these defendants allow users to populate MindGeek’s platform with non-consensual content, and restore the non-consensual content of those users when removed, they also acquired and populated the MindGeek platform with their own non-consensual content.” [bold mine]

    “The MindGeek defendants frequently purchased in bulk trafficked content from known trafficking areas such as Eastern Europe, Asia, and South America. In doing so, they used third-parties to upload that content in a way that made it look like user uploaded content. In executing this scheme, MindGeed used its byzantine international corporate structure of hundreds of sham shell corporation to mask the process and launder the payments. Put simply, a central element of the business plan that the MindGeeek used to become the dominant online pornography company in the world was the maximum use of non-consensual content. That business plan worked. And the Mindgeek defendants got rich. Also knowingly profiting along with them, were major American credit companies and banks, including in particular here, defendant Visa, who was uniquely suited to stop this exploitation but chose instead to participate in the profiteering. Left devastated were thousands of human beings who were victimized not simply by their original abuser, but then again, and again, and again by MindGeek’s monetization of that exploitation. Plaintiffs in this case are thirty-four such human beings victimized first by their original abuser, and then repeatedly by the defendants in this case.” [bold mine]

    This article is Part 1 of many I will be covering on this MindGeek Civil Lawsuit Complaint.  According to the Lead Attorney from Brown Rudnick LLP Mr. Michael Bowe no court date has been set yet and he expects it will take anywhere between 4-6 months before they hear anything. I will update you with new information as it becomes available.  While the allegations in this civil case are horrific, we must remember all individuals accused are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

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  • “Flipping the Vote in Those Machines is Equal to a Digital Pearl Harbor” Juan O’ Savin – Interview

    “Flipping the Vote in Those Machines is Equal to a Digital Pearl Harbor” Juan O’ Savin – Interview

    Pete Santilli interviews Juan O. Savin May 27, 2021

    “Flipping the vote in those machines is equal to a digital Pearl Harbor” Juan O. Savin

    Topics discussed:

    • Reality vs Perception
    • His book “Kid By the Side of the Road”
    • Understanding the way our advisories think and believe, is key to understanding how to defeat and stop them
    • How government uses the excuse to “Save the Environment” to steal the land from the ranchers, so they can exploit and strip the land for their own private gain
    • Government Corruption
    • Judicial Corruption
    • RNC incoming donations, and their lack of supporting the candidates that are not of the old guard
    • Corruption within the Republican Party
    • Lord Malloch Brown a British diplomat that has direct links to George Soros Open Society Foundation, Smartmatic, and the Dominion Voting System.
    • November 3, 2020 election, and entities that were behind the coup
    • Big Tech

    and much more.

    If you would like to hear more from him you can follow him on his website 107 Daily – Home to Free Speech and the Free Flow of Information Online

     

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  • The Battle Rages & You are the Foot Soldiers : Pistol Pete’s Jerky ; Peter Santilli

    The Battle Rages & You are the Foot Soldiers : Pistol Pete’s Jerky ; Peter Santilli

    There is an all out war currently raging in our republic, between those whom are actively seeking to dismantle our foundations, and those that seek to preserve Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. Make no mistake, we are at war.

    Big Tech oligarchs are doing all they can to silence truth, Big Pharma is pushing for people to receive a toxic experimental injection that is killing people, and the CIA Operation Mockingbird corporate talking heads of media outlets such as CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, FOX are trying to convince you that everything is normal, all while they are funded by those same entities attacking us.

    Independent media have been attacked in hit pieces, de-platformed, blocked, shadow-banned, and targeted. This caused millions of people to no longer get access to life saving information. True independent patriots rose to the challenge, creating or funding the creation of independent servers and platforms, so information could once again begin to flow to the people of America and the world.

    After this accomplishment independent media united together, through what I call a spiderweb of safe, secure platforms to bring you information that can save your lives, the lives of your loved ones and our republic.

    Individuals like Peter Santilli are doing all they can by using their companies to fight back against the corrupt oligarchs, to save our republic and the lives of millions. Pistol Pete’s Jerky is so much more than just another business. When you order Pistol Pete’s Jerky, you are actually funding many independent media sources, spreading education of our Constitution, and supporting American business. When you order from Pistol Pete’s you receive two pocket constitutions with every order, one for you to keep, and the other to give to someone else thus fueling the fires of liberty through education. As an added bonus you will receive an American Flag sticker so you can unapologetically show your pride for our Constitutional republic.

    Through the power of We the People working together, we have managed to build platforms that are not controlled by the big tech oligarchs. Big Tech and corporate media are in full blown panic mode because they can not stop We the People. By working together we have managed to destroy many of the false narratives the poisonous, deadly corporate media propagandists push out to the public. Independent media is shattering corporate media’s deadly control over the global population by reporting truth. Without your support in the purchasing of Pistol Pete’s Jerky this would not be possible.

    Hundreds —  if not thousands — of individuals have dedicated all they have in order to save humanity. They have put their lives, their fortunes, and their reputations on the line. Independent media are on the frontlines of this war selflessly sacrificing everything to save the lives of billions of people, and to save our republic from complete and utter decimation.

    If America falls there will be no place on earth to run to, no shining light upon a hill for those whom seek refuge. If we fail, our children and grandchildren will watch as the blessings of Life and Liberty crumble before them. Communism, death, and misery will become the new normal and we will have failed them. We can not allow that to happen on our watch.

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  • Big Tech Firms Meet With “World Leaders” To Talk About The New Internet Government

    Big Tech Firms Meet With “World Leaders” To Talk About The New Internet Government

    Judging by how they’ve conducted themselves thus far, do we really want Tech Giants anywhere near decisions having to do with our online content?

    Every time we see a major “terrorist event”; we plug our ears for the secondary explosion of tyrants who subscribe to the adage “you never want a good crisis to go to waste”.  Governments and corporations wasted no time after the New Zealand mosque shooting to begin gun-grabbing, propagandizing on behalf of the Islamic political lobby (yes, it’s a major political movement wrapped in a religion — so that we can’t talk about it without being called “Islamo-phobic”)

    Now we see phase 3 of the marxist plan for seizing global dominance: internet government.  Mind you; these marxist sling the word “democracy” around in the public rhealm while they meet behind closed doors with an unelected body of Tech Giant leaders to install tyranny

    This is likely why President Trump’s administration opted out of these secret meetings; because as long as Trump is President, we will remain a Constitutional Republic.

    I can honestly say that this one snuck up on me.  Hat tip to Faith Goldy for bringint it to my attention.

    Paris, France – May 15, 2019

    The internet bridges divides and helps us build a more open, inclusive world. But it has also increasingly become a tool for terrorism and violent extremism. The March 2019 terror attack in Christchurch was a harrowing reminder that we need to take coordinated action to prevent social media and other online platforms from being used as a tool to incite, publish and promote terrorism, violence, and hatred.

    Today, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau joined Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern, President of France Emmanuel Macron, other government leaders, and industry leaders to adopt the Christchurch Call to Action – a global pledge to eliminate terrorist and violent extremist content online.

    Through the Christchurch Call, governments and online services providers are making voluntary, collective commitments to prevent people from abusing the internet to promote and sensationalize acts of terrorism. These commitments include:

    • Building more inclusive, resilient communities to counter violent radicalization
    • Enforcing laws that stop the production and dissemination of terrorist and extremist content online
    • Encouraging media to apply ethical rules when reporting on terrorist events to avoid amplifying terrorist and violent extremist content

    Many of the Christchurch commitments match the priorities of the National Strategy on Countering Radicalization to Violence, which the Government of Canada launched in December 2018. Through the National Strategy and the Christchurch Call, the Government of Canada will continue to provide international leadership on countering radicalization to violence and eliminating terrorist and violent extremist content online.

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    “Terrorist and extremist content online continues to spill out into the real world with deadly consequences. Today, we are stepping up to eliminate terrorist and violent extremist content online. Together, we can create a world where all people – no matter their faith, where they live, or where they are from – are safe and secure both on and offline.”
    —The Rt. Hon. Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada

    Quick Facts

    • In December 2018, the Government of Canada launched the National Strategy on Countering Radicalization to Violence, which outlines Canada’s approach and priorities to prevent the kind of radicalization that leads to violence.
    • The Canada Centre for Community Engagement and Prevention of Violence leads the Government of Canada’s efforts to counter radicalization to violence, and works with all levels of government, not-for-profit organizations, communities, youth, frontline practitioners, academia, law enforcement, and international organizations.
    • Radicalization to violence happens when a person or group takes on extremist beliefs that lead them to promote violence and, possibly, taking part in terrorist activity.

     

     

    Leaders and tech firms pledge to tackle extremist violence online

    Jacinda Ardern and Emmanuel Macron host Christchurch Call summit in Paris

    World leaders and heads of global technology companies have pledged at a Paris summit to tackle terrorist and extremist violence online in what they described as an “unprecedented agreement”.

    Wednesday’s event, two months to the day since the Christchurch massacre in New Zealand, drew up a “plan of action” to be adopted by countries and companies to prevent extreme material from going viral on the internet.

    Known as the Christchurch Call, it was organised by New Zealand’s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, and the French president, Emmanuel Macron, in response to the attack on the Christchurch mosque on 15 March in which 51 people were killed.

    The gunman, a 28-year-old Australian, livestreamed the attack on Facebookfrom where it was shared online around the world. The footage was picked up by some international media outlets who initially published excerpts of the video and links to the gunman’s extremist “manifesto” before quickly dropping them in the face of political and public outrage.

    Macron and Ardern met ministers from G7 nations and leaders of internet companies including Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter. Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, did not attend.

    The initiative calls on signatory nations to bring in laws that ban offensive material and to set guidelines on how the traditional media report acts of terrorism. However, as a voluntary initiative it is for individual countries and companies to decide how to honour their pledge.

    Launch ceremony for the Christchurch Call
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     At the table, from left: Jean-Claude Juncker, Theresa May, Norway’s Erna Solberg, Senegal’s Macky Sall, Jacinda Ardern and Emmanuel Macron. Photograph: Charles Platiau/pool/EPA

    Britain, Canada, Australia, Jordan, Senegal, Indonesia, Norway and Ireland signed the pledge, along with the European commission, Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, YouTube, Daily Motion and Quant.

    France’s Elysée Palace said Germany, India, Japan, Holland, Spain and Sweden had expressed support for the Christchurch Call.

    The US has reportedly refused to sign up because of concerns about freedom of speech.

    At a press conference after the Paris meeting, Macron made reference to recent attacks in Sri Lanka and the killing of two French soldiers by terrorists in Burkina Faso.

    He said: “Our aim is simply that what has happened in each of these places never happens again. Christchurch was not just an abject terrorist attack, it was the transformation once again of the internet into a crazy propaganda machine used for the fracture of our society.

    “The war of everyone against everyone else [is] an objective of extreme right and Islamist terrorists. The objective of our joint initiative is to enlarge the field of action. We have decided to act.”

    Ardern said the Christchurch attack was “truly unprecedented in its use of social media and subsequent spread of the terrorist’s message. Fifty-one men, women and children from the New Zealand Muslim community were killed, and were killed online. Initially the live stream was watched by only a few hundred people but it was then shared and spread online at such a pace that YouTube recorded one upload per second on their platform in the first 24 hours.”

    She added: “Never have so many countries and tech companies come together in reaction to such an attack to work together to use new technology and develop new technology so our communities are safer.

    “Today must be day one of change. The Christchurch Call is a roadmap for action. It’s a nine-point commitment that I hope will bring lead to further change … to eliminate terrorism from the networks.”

    She said she hoped it would lead to a “more human internet that cannot be used by terrorists for their hateful purposes”.

    Macron said things were moving in the right direction and the presence of the Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, and his “personal engagement” was encouraging.

    “They said they support the objectives they will do all to cooperation, they haven’t formally signed up to the Christchurch Call but we will do all we can to have a more concrete and formal engagement. The fact the US administration has said it shares our objectives is a positive element,” Macron said.

    He said the Christchurch Call differed from previous initiatives to clean up the internet, because of the involvement of tech companies and its worldwide appeal.

    Ardern said Facebook had made a changes to its livestreaming, announced at the same time as the summit, under which the Christchurch terrorist “would not have been able to livestream his act of violence”.

    She said: “That is just one element of the work of we must do. Ultimately we want to be in a position to prevent harm in the first place, to make sure that lives aren’t lost.”

    Christchurch Call: details emerge of Ardern’s plan to tackle online extremism

    New Zealand PM will reportedly urge nations to enforce laws banning extremist material and set rules for reporting on terrorism

    Details have emerged of a plan by New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern and French president Emmanuel Macron to eliminate terrorist and violent content online.

    Ardern and Macron will meet in Paris this week on the sidelines of a meeting of digital ministers from the Group of 7 nations to discuss the plan – named the “Christchurch Call” – and urge other leaders to sign up.

    The New Zealand prime minister announced the project in the wake of the Christchurch mosque attacks on 15 March. The worst mass-murder in the nation’s modern history, in which 51 people were killed, was streamed live online and shared thousands of times.

    On Monday the New York Times reported that the initiative would call on signatory nations to adopt and enforce laws that ban objectionable material, and set guidelines on how traditional media can report acts of terrorism without amplifying them.

    However, the pledge does not contain any enforcement or regulatory measures, and it would be up to each individual country and company to decide how it would honour its voluntary commitments.

    A definition of violent extremist content was not included in a draft version of the pledge, and it would be up to individual companies to decide on what constituted objectionable material, the paper said. The pledge asked tech companies to enforce their terms of service, as well as “re-evaluate their algorithms that direct users to extremist content, and commit to redirecting people looking for extremist material”.

    At the summit in Paris on Wednesday, Ardern will meet the leaders of global tech giants including Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will not attend the event.

    Before leaving New Zealand, Ardern said her country of fewer than 5 million people had been “left reeling” after the Christchurch attack, and despite free speech principles being a central tenet of western democracy, no one has “a right to livestream the murder of 50 people”.

    “This was a terrorist attack that was designed to go viral,” said Ardern in a video discussing the Christchurch Call.

    Ardern said many people did not seek out the video of the attack, but saw it unwittingly because “the proliferation of it was so extreme”. Ardern herself saw parts of the video when it appeared on her Facebook page shortly after the attack.

    It was important to New Zealanders that the internet remained “free, open and accessible”, Ardern said, and the Christchurch Call would not impinge on those rights, but seek to patrol the dissemination and spread of terrorist and extremist material online.

    New Zealand government officials have already visited the White House and the state department to discuss the pledge and urge the US to sign, the Times reported, although the US has indicated it would not.

    Britain, Canada, Australia, Jordan, Senegal, Indonesia, Norway and Ireland have indicated they intend to sign the pledge.

    The news came as New Zealand opened a royal commission into the Christchurch attacks.

    The inquiry will look into the suspected gunman’s activities, use of social media and international connections, as well as whether there was inappropriate priority settings in counter terrorism resources.

    “The commission’s findings will help to ensure such an attack never happens here again,” Ardern said in a statement. Its findings will be handed to the government on 10 December.

    • This article was amended on 13 May 2019 to remove an incorrect reference to Australia not supporting the “Christchurch Call”. Australia has endorsed the call, as the article now makes clear.

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