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One piece of the 2020 presidential election scandal became clearer this week, with news that a private consortium that reported election “misinformation” to Big Tech platforms during the 2020 election season, in “consultation” with federal agencies, targeted at least 20 news outlets for dissemination of “misinformation.”
This time, names were named, including Just the News, the primary source of this article.
In addition to Just the News, Fox News, the New York Post, Washington Examiner, Washington Times, Breitbart, and Epoch Times were identified among the 20 “most prominent domains across election integrity incidents” that were cited in tweets flagged by the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP) and its collaborators.
EIP defines itself thusly:
I won’t waste time pointing out every lie and example of hypocrisy in the above. But I will say this: the arrogance of the elitist left anointing itself as the sole arbiter of “right” and “wrong” — particularly from a political perspective — is off-the-charts unacceptable, not to mention dangerous to a free society.
In a weak effort to appear “fair and balanced,” the EIP also named The New York Times, Washington Post, and CNN to the list. But? The group’s after-action report emphasizes most of the so-called “mainstream” media reports “were referenced as fact-checks” that played a “corrective role” against “misleading narratives.” Yep, try to control your shock and amazement.
This time, names were named, including Just the News, the primary source of this article.
In addition to Just the News, Fox News, the New York Post, Washington Examiner, Washington Times, Breitbart, and Epoch Times were identified among the 20 “most prominent domains across election integrity incidents” that were cited in tweets flagged by the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP) and its collaborators.
EIP defines itself thusly:
I won’t waste time pointing out every lie and example of hypocrisy in the above. But I will say this: the arrogance of the elitist left anointing itself as the sole arbiter of “right” and “wrong” — particularly from a political perspective — is off-the-charts unacceptable, not to mention dangerous to a free society.
In a weak effort to appear “fair and balanced,” the EIP also named The New York Times, Washington Post, and CNN to the list. But? The group’s after-action report emphasizes most of the so-called “mainstream” media reports “were referenced as fact-checks” that played a “corrective role” against “misleading narratives.” Yep, try to control your shock and amazement.
FBI Is Engaging in Purge of 'Conservative Employees'
"During this investigation, we have received protected whistleblower disclosures that the FBI is engaging in a ‘purge’ of employees with conservative views by revoking their security clearances and indefinitely suspending these employees,” Jordan said in an interview with Fox News.
He also said that he has received information that the agency is retaliating against FBI employees who have allegedly reported misconduct to Congress.
However, in a statement, the FBI denied any reports of misconduct within the agency.
“The FBI does not target or take adverse action against employees for exercising their First Amendment rights or for their political views; to allege otherwise is false and misleading… the FBI is required to follow established policies and procedures, to include a thorough investigation when suspending or revoking a security clearance,” an FBI spokesperson told Fox News.
Of Course they are ....n boot lickers are needed who follow ANY Orders
US government plans to develop AI that can unmask anonymous writers
If successful, IARPA believes the Human Interpretable Attribution of Text Using Underlying Structure (HIATUS) program could identify a writer’s style from different samples and modify those patterns to further anonymize the writing.
“We have a strong chance of meeting our goals, delivering much-needed capabilities to the Intelligence Community, and substantially expanding our understanding of variation in human language using the latest advances in computational linguistics and deep learning,” said HIATUS program manager Dr. Timothy McKinnon.
IARPA said that it will also develop explainability standards for the program’s AIs.
Federally backed censorship machine raises separation of powers, election meddling questions
Four House members, including Republican leader Kevin McCarthy of California and oft-censored Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, and one Senate candidate are named in the after-action report by the Election Integrity Partnership, set up "in consultation" with the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).
The consortium of four private entities, led by Stanford and University of Washington research centers, mass-reported alleged misinformation for 100 days before the election and about two weeks after, targeting Just the News among other news organizations. It claimed a success rate of 35% for content removal, labeling and "soft-blocking."
CISA and the DHS-funded Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center, as well as the State Department's Global Engagement Center and the Democratic National Committee, could also submit misinformation "tickets" through the consortium to tech platforms.
Interference in digital communications by lawmakers and candidates "absolutely" could qualify as in-kind contributions under the Federal Election Campaign Act, former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline told the John Solomon Reports podcast.
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So they want the Department of Justice to look into high-profile social media accounts that are involved in “an intentional campaign of disinformation.” That’s funny … all of this started when Libs of TikTok and others simply reposted videos that Boston Children’s Hospital had put online themselves to advertise their gender-affirming care. But they must have known they’d inspire bomb threats with their disinformation.
Look, bomb threats are bad — don’t do it. But what’s also bad is asking the DOJ to investigate and prosecute individuals posting this “false and misleading information.”
Michigan Secretary of State Broke The Law With Rogue Restrictions On Poll Challengers
A former employee of the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center and Democratic National Committee, Benson’s a committed Democratic activist. And as Michigan’s secretary of state during the chaotic 2020 presidential election, Benson played a key role in making last-minute changes to election law to bolster Democratic voter turnout and swing Michigan in then-candidate Joe Biden’s favor.
When a $12 million grant from Mark Zuckerberg — “Zuckbucks” — was funneled to Michigan through the left-wing Center for Election Innovation and Research (ostensibly to help government officials administer elections), the money did not go to the state but to Benson’s nonprofit, the Michigan Center for Election Law and Administration. While supposedly nonpartisan, this nonprofit used nearly all of the $12 million grant to pay Democratic consulting firms for “election security.”
Benson also padded Michigan’s voter rolls right before the election, sending out automatic voter registration forms to all eligible Michigan citizens. As a result of the mailer, 114,000 people were added to the rolls. Benson has not escaped scrutiny for her behavior. She’s been the subject of multiple lawsuits for neglecting to clean Michigan’s voter rolls.
But most recently, Benson’s come under fire for issuing last-minute guidance restricting the ability of Michiganders to oversee their local elections. The Republican National Committee filed a lawsuit on Monday to stop Benson’s guidance from going into effect for the November general election. The lawsuit alleges that before Michigan’s Aug. 2 primary, Benson issued last-minute guidance that conflicts with Michigan election law regarding poll challengers.
Biden Administration Tried to Place ‘Trusted Messenger’ on Joe Rogan Podcast to Promote Covid Vaccine
The conservative watchdog group published 249 pages of records from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) outlining the agency’s plans to push the Covid-19 vaccine via various media sources.
A public education campaign plan dated April 19 to May 31, 2021 suggested the agency could “Place a trusted messenger on the Joe Rogan Show and Barstool Sports to promote vaccination (work with outside expert to identify who will be most effective).”
Asked about the documents and whether HHS has been successful in placing a messenger on Rogan’s show, a spokesperson for the agency said: “As has been reported previously, HHS, in both the Trump and Biden Administrations, has done regular engagements to ensure Americans know about COVID-19 and the resources that they have to protect themselves.”
The Trump administration launched its own $250 million Building Vaccine Confidence campaign to encourage Americans to get the Covid-19 vaccine, which also included the use of paid and earned media.
“The ‘We Can Do This’ public education campaign under the Biden Administration has worked hard when it comes to reaching communities across the U.S. where they are, and informing them about safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines through paid and digital media, influencer engagement, and partnership outreach,” the spokesperson added. “Through ‘We Can Do This’ and other efforts, HHS will continue to encourage people to get the updated COVID-19 vaccine and fight vaccine misinformation.”
DOJ Charges Eleven Pro-Life Activists for Blocking Abortion Clinic
Gallagher allegedly advertised a series of pro-life events on social media for March 2021 in the Nashville area. The indictment claims he and other coordinators recruited participants to travel to the city and erect a blockade, which Gallagher allegedly called a “rescue,” at Carafem Health Center Clinic in Mount Juliet, Tenn., to prevent pregnant women from pursuing abortions.
A livestream of the stand-in shows activists chanting and singing prayer up the stairs to and along the hallway outside the abortion clinic, located in an office complex. Police officers eventually appeared in the video urging them to take their protest outside to the sidewalk.
“This is not allowed guys. Asking you to leave the property or I will call the police,” a security guard can be heard saying. The indictment alleges that the group prevented a patient and an employee from entering the facility. After they refused to leave the premises, the activists were reportedly escorted away to jail by police on misdemeanor trespassing charges. One pro-life activist wrote on March 6, 2021, on Facebook the claim that one “rescuer” was held on $1,000 bail, six, including Gallagher, on $1,500 bail, and two on $2,500 bail.
These eleven individuals, the DOJ said Wednesday, “aided and abetted by one another, used force and physical obstruction to injure, intimidate, and interfere with employees of the clinic and a patient who was seeking reproductive health services.”
The Approach of the Gaslighting Singularity
'Globally, idealism and cynicism among international elites is converging towards a gaslighting singularity in which it will no longer be possible to believe anything you read from a government or corporate source. At that point you have to fall back on the kinds of truth that can’t be corrupted, and that are found in the great traditions of the world. To have access to these we need libraries, galleries, archives, and a culture of reading and scholarship.'
So in reality the number of federal bureaucrats who are empowered to carry weapons and arrest you and me outnumbers frontline Marines by a huge margin. That is absolutely shocking when you think about it, because most law enforcement is actually done by local police forces. The fed’s role in law enforcement is relatively small.
Obviously some of the increased militarization of the domestic agencies of the federal government is a response to the dangers of terrorism, but that doesn’t explain why so many agencies are becoming armed and dangerous. When the IRS and the Department of Human services start arming up dramatically you have to wonder what is going on. The IRS can obviously call on the FBI and the Marshal’s service for law enforcement help, and DHS needing automatic weapons? Explain that one.
Even agencies you would never think of are armed and ready. Would you ever have guessed that the Environmental Protection Agency would send armed agents to raid and inspect an auto shop that converts street cars into racing vehicles on the pretext that emission standards might be violated? If not, you would be wrong.
The arming of the federal government is extremely worrisome. The founders feared precisely this sort of thing and put in safeguards to prevent the militarization of the federal government against Americans. Imagine how George Washington or James Madison would have reacted if they had heard President Biden threaten average Americans concerned about protecting their freedom with the use of F-15s. It would have blown them away.
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Obviously some of the increased militarization of the domestic agencies of the federal government is a response to the dangers of terrorism, but that doesn’t explain why so many agencies are becoming armed and dangerous. When the IRS and the Department of Human services start arming up dramatically you have to wonder what is going on. The IRS can obviously call on the FBI and the Marshal’s service for law enforcement help, and DHS needing automatic weapons? Explain that one.
Even agencies you would never think of are armed and ready. Would you ever have guessed that the Environmental Protection Agency would send armed agents to raid and inspect an auto shop that converts street cars into racing vehicles on the pretext that emission standards might be violated? If not, you would be wrong.
The arming of the federal government is extremely worrisome. The founders feared precisely this sort of thing and put in safeguards to prevent the militarization of the federal government against Americans. Imagine how George Washington or James Madison would have reacted if they had heard President Biden threaten average Americans concerned about protecting their freedom with the use of F-15s. It would have blown them away.
Armed and dangerous federal bureaucrats
GOP Lawmakers Question Blinken and Garland Over CCP Police Stations in New York
“The Chinese overseas police service station established in New York City earlier this year appears to be a further step of China’s illicit long arm policing on U.S. soil that violates our sovereignty,” Republican Study Committee chairman Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), Reps. Michael Waltz (R-Fla.), Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), and 18 other GOP House members wrote in the letter.
The letter came after a September report from NGO Safeguard Defenders revealed the Chinese authorities have set up at least 54 police service stations across five continents, including the United States, as part of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) global transnational repression.
An outpost in New York City was among the “first batch” of 30 overseas police service stations in 21 countries set up by the Public Security Bureau in Fuzhou city, the capital of the southern coastal province of Fujian.
The Chinese police authorities’ division in New York, called Fuzhou Police Oversea Service Station, is located at 107 East Broadway, inside the headquarters of the American Changle Association, a non-profit that was founded in 1998, according to its website.
Why Have a Constitution If You Just Ignore It?
That’s just the starting point. Anyone who bothers to read the Constitution knows that Congress was designed to exert limited authority over Americans’ everyday lives. Read Article I, Section 8 if you don’t believe me. You won’t find anything about vaccines or masks, and the whole idea of presidents ordering citizens to do anything is laughable. Article II, Section 2, which spells out most of the powers of the president, is remarkably brief, and the powers are few. Commander in chief? Check. Negotiator of treaties? Check. Nominator of ambassadors and judges? Check. But from where exactly does the president derive the power to forgive student loans? Or order landlords to stop collecting rent?
Maybe this runaway tyrannical democracy could have been avoided if we still taught civics in our elementary and secondary schools. But at this point there is little to be done. We can’t force members of Congress to read the Constitution, let alone understand it. We can’t stop presidents from legislating with their phone and their pen, as President Obama famously called his ability to unilaterally shape America to his wishes through executive order. And we are decades past the point where we could expect courts to rein in the excesses of the other two branches.
That leaves only one solution, the same one that gave us a republic in the first place – “We the People.” It is time for the true sovereigns to take back their power and put the guardrails back in place. The Constitution needs to be restored to its original purpose as a mechanism to limit government power, and there is only one practical way to accomplish that. It’s called an Article V convention of states.
Article V of the Constitution provides that “The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States…” [Emphasis added.]
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Something that true loses it's humorous aspect.
So I watched the complete video and there was not a single general humiliated in it and the "I WILL NOT USE USE YOUR PRONOUN" quote was not there.
Comer was reacting to a series of stories published by Just the News documenting how the Departments of Homeland Security and State collaborated with a private consortium to flag social posts, stories and Web sites as "disinformation" during the 2020 election and request that Big Tech censor or label such content.
The consortium's own after-action report showed the effort impacted 4,800 Web URLs, 20 news organizations, two dozen conservative influencers and thought leaders and nearly 22 million social media posts. The group said State Department officials actually filed tickets seeking to censor some content, while Homeland did not, instead letting the private coalition take the lead on its behalf.
The consortium has defended its work, saying in the end Big Tech companies made the final decision on what to censor based on its input.
In addition, Homeland collaborated for training and best practices with a Harvard University project cofounded by Hillary Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook, who admitted that during the 2016 election he helped spread the now-discredited Russia collusion narrative that sullied Donald Trump's reputation.
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The consortium's own after-action report showed the effort impacted 4,800 Web URLs, 20 news organizations, two dozen conservative influencers and thought leaders and nearly 22 million social media posts. The group said State Department officials actually filed tickets seeking to censor some content, while Homeland did not, instead letting the private coalition take the lead on its behalf.
The consortium has defended its work, saying in the end Big Tech companies made the final decision on what to censor based on its input.
In addition, Homeland collaborated for training and best practices with a Harvard University project cofounded by Hillary Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook, who admitted that during the 2016 election he helped spread the now-discredited Russia collusion narrative that sullied Donald Trump's reputation.
Influential congressman says federal effort to facilitate censorship is 'abuse of tax dollars'
Rep. James Comer vows vigorous investigation into federal censorship if GOP wins House, has demanded evidence be preserved.