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Legacy media need to take a long, hard look into the mirror

By MercatorNet – A Compass for Common Sense

I can count on one hand the times I have seen leaders of media organisations engage in anything that could be described as hard-hitting forms of self-critique in the public square.

One of those times was when Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg went on public record, in a letter to the Republican House Judiciary Committee (dated 26 August 2024), that he “regretted” bowing to pressure from the Biden administration to censor “certain Covid-19 content.” Another was the almost unprecedented public apology in January 2022 (here’s a report in English) by a Danish newspaper that it had toed the “official” line during the pandemic far too uncritically.

We witnessed a third moment of critical introspection from a media owner the other day, when Jeff Bezos, who owns The Washington Post and is the largest shareholder of Amazon, suggested in an op-ed in his own newspaper that legacy media may have themselves at least partly to blame for the loss of public trust in the media.

In this context, he argued that his decision not to authorise the Washington Post to endorse a presidential candidate could be “a meaningful step” toward restoring public trust in the media, by addressing the widespread perception that media organisations are “biased” or not objective.

You don’t need to be a fan of Jeff Bezos, any more than of Mark Zuckerberg, to recognise that it is a good thing that prominent representatives of the financial and political elite of modern societies, whatever their personal flaws and contradictions, at least begin to express doubts about the conduct and values of media organisations. Some truths, no matter how obvious, will not resonate across society until prominent opinion leaders viewed as “safe” or “established”, say them out loud.

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Bezos opens his Washington Post article by pointing out that public trust in American media has collapsed in recent generations and is now at an all-time low (a substantial decline can be seen across many European countries as well, if you compare the Reuters Digital News Report from 2015 with that of 2023 — for example, Germany sees a drop from 60 percent to 42 percent trust, and the UK sees a drop from 51 percent to 33 percent).

In the annual public surveys about trust and reputation, journalists and the media have regularly fallen near the very bottom, often just above Congress. But in this year’s Gallup poll, we have managed to fall below Congress. Our profession is now the least trusted of all. Something we are doing is clearly not working… Most people believe the media is biased. Anyone who doesn’t see this is paying scant attention to reality, and those who fight reality lose.

Something we are doing is clearly not working. This is the sort of candid introspection we need to see a lot more of in journalists and media owners. If someone stops trusting you, it’s easy to point the finger at someone else or blame it on “disinformation” or citizen ignorance. Not so easy to make yourself vulnerable and take a long, hard look at yourself in the mirror to figure out how you’ve lost their trust.

The owner of The Washington Post does not offer an especially penetrating diagnosis of the problem. However, he does point out some relevant facts that may be worth pondering if we are to come to a deeper understanding of the fact that the Joe Rogan podcast, with an estimated audience of 11 million, now has nearly 20 times CNN’s prime-time audience:

The Washington Post and the New York Times win prizes, but increasingly we talk only to a certain elite. More and more, we talk to ourselves. (It wasn’t always this way — in the 1990s we achieved 80 percent household penetration in the D.C. metro area.)

More and more, we talk to ourselves. Much of the legacy media has become an ideological echo chamber, as I pointed out in an op-ed in The Irish Times a few years ago. Conversations go back and forth between journalists about things they care about, while a substantial number of ordinary citizens, whose minds are on other things, like paying their mortgage, getting a medical appointment, or worrying about the safety of their streets, switch off.

While there are some notable exceptions, the echo-chamber effect is real, and may be part of the explanation for the flight of a growing number of citizens into the arms of alternative media.

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The increasing disconnect between self-important legacy journalists and the man and woman on the street has been evidenced by the fact that so-called “populism” was sneered at by many journalists across Europe and North America while gathering serious momentum on the ground.

It was also evidenced by the fact that serious debates over issues like the harms of lockdowns and the problem of illegal immigration, were largely side-lined by many mainstream media across Europe, while becoming a catalyst for successful political movements such as the Brothers of Italy, Le Pen’s Rassemblement National in France, Alternativ für Deutschland in Germany, and the Freedom Party in Austria.

Perhaps part of the problem is that those working in well-established media organisations tend to take the moral and intellectual high ground and severely underestimate the capacity of ordinary citizens to think through issues for themselves, or to intelligently sort through competing sources of information.

Indeed, even Jeff Bezos, in his attempt to be critical of legacy media, could not resist depicting alternative media exclusively in negative terms. “Many people,” he lamented, “are turning to off-the-cuff podcasts, inaccurate social media posts and other unverified news sources, which can quickly spread misinformation and deepen divisions.”

While there is undoubtedly an abundance of confusion and false and misleading information on social media, it is by no means absent from the legacy media, which has gotten major issues badly wrong. For example, many mainstream journalists and talk show hosts uncritically celebrated the idea that Covid vaccines would block viral transmission, in the absence of any solid scientific evidence for such a belief. Similarly, many journalists dismissed the Covid lab leak theory out of hand, until it emerged that it was actually a scientifically respectable hypothesis.

We should thank Jeff Bezos for highlighting the crisis of trust in the media. But his complacency about the integrity of traditional news sources and his dismissive attitude toward “alternative sources” of news and information are themselves part of the reason why many people are losing respect for the legacy media.


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AUTHOR

David Thunder

David Thunder is a researcher and lecturer of political philosophy at the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain.

This article has been republished from David Thunder’s Substack, The Freedom Blog.

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Biden-Harris DOJ Weaponizes Hundred-Year-Old Anti-KKK Law Against Conservatives

By The Daily Caller

A law originally intended to protect black voters in the late 19th century is now a “powerful weapon” for the Biden administration to target its political opponents, one legal expert told the Caller.

The law is often wielded by the Biden-Harris Department of Justice (DOJ) to target pro-lifers protesting abortion clinics, the Daily Caller first reported. Last year, the Conspiracy Against Rights charge was levied against Douglass Mackey for a 2016 social media post and former President Donald Trump over January 6.

“I was not aware of the Biden-Harris DOJ’s abuse of this harsh conspiracy against rights statute in these other contexts, but I am not surprised,” Stephen Crampton, Senior Counsel with the Thomas More Society, told the Caller in a statement.

Douglass Mackey, known online as “Ricky Vaughn,” was charged with election interference by the Biden-Harris DOJ in 2021. The DOJ alleged in a press release that he illegally used social media to “deprive” citizens of their right to vote during the 2016 presidential election.

Douglass Mackey Case and the Meme Defense Fund

President Donald Trump: “They’re putting Douglass Mackey in jail for sharing a joking meme about Hillary Clinton seven years ago. Nobody ever heard of anything like that.”

Background: On January 27, 2021, five days after Joe…

— Douglass Mackey (@DougMackeyCase) October 31, 2024

Jimmy Kimmel instructs viewers that if they’re voting for Trump they should vote late like Thursday or Friday.

Wasn’t Douglass Mackey sentenced to prison for doing something similar?

Will @TheJusticeDept investigate Jimmy Kimmel? pic.twitter.com/cfwDl94aIZ

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 31, 2024

The charge stemmed from a complaint filed in Brooklyn which alleged Mackey “conspired” with other individuals to encourage supporters of Hillary Clinton to “vote” with text or on social media. One post stated: “Avoid the Line. Vote from Home,” and “Text ‘Hillary’ to 59925.”

Mackey was convicted of the Conspiracy Against Rights charge in 2023 and sentenced last October to seven months in prison.

“Given its expansive interpretation by the courts in years past, it has become a powerful weapon with which this corrupt administration can bludgeon its political opponents and instill fear in all who dare oppose them,” Crampton told the Caller.

Mackey received a bond by an appeals court and has not yet gone to prison, he stated in a Twitter post.

Ep. 38 The First Amendment is done. Douglass Mackey is about to go to prison for mocking Hillary Clinton on the internet. We talked to him right before his sentencing. Remember as you watch that this could be you.

TIMESTAMPS:
(3:12) The Hillary Clinton meme
(4:20) Hillary’s… pic.twitter.com/MLwz2SboGr

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) November 9, 2023

The Conspiracy Against Rights charge was originally a part of the Enforcement Acts passed between 1868 and 1870, according to the DOJ. Most of the legislation was repealed in 1894, but section 241 and 242 of 18 U.S.C. survived. The law was originally intended to protect recently-enfranchised black voters, according to Reuters. The Enforcement Acts are also colloquially known as the “KKK Acts.”

The law prohibits two or more people from “[conspiring] to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person” from exercising their Constitutional rights. The charge carries hefty fines and up to ten years in prison.

The Caller reached out to the DOJ but has not heard back at the time of publication.

“The Biden Justice Department is now using this [charge] against other political enemies,” Mackey wrote in his “Meme Defense Fund.”

Mackey’s case specifically has been pointed to as an example of politically motivated lawfare.

Individuals including Mackey noted that Jimmy Kimmel recently told his viewers that Trump voters should “vote very late” and on “Thursday or maybe Friday.”

Douglass Mackey was sent to prison for this. https://t.co/asYpjeh4pY

— Rep. Mike Collins (@RepMikeCollins) October 31, 2024

Mackey was not the only prominent individual charged under the law last year.

Special Council Jack Smith prosecuted former President Donald Trump on four counts of allegedly conspiring to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election results on January 6, 2021.

One of these counts included the Conspiracy Against Rights charge. The federal government alleged Trump violated the statute by “[conspiring] against the right to vote and to have one’s counted.”

….These revelations END the Sham J6 Civil Hoaxes and the lawless D.C. Case brought by Deranged Jack Smith, which has already been demolished by the United States Supreme Court’s Historic Immunity and Fischer Decisions. I called for everyone to act PEACEFULLY and PATRIOTICALLY,…

— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) September 26, 2024

The complaint claims that Trump “targeted a bedrock function” of the federal government. He was also charged with Conspiracy to Defraud the United States, Conspiracy to Obstruct an Official Proceeding, and Obstruction of and Attempt to Obstruct an Official Proceeding.

Biden’s DOJ has a history of using the Conspiracy Against Rights law to enhance sentences.

An elderly woman, Paulette “Paula” Harlow, was one of several people sentenced to 24 months in prison this May for violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act and the same Conspiracy Against Rights law.

AUTHOR

Eireann Van Natta

General assignment reporter.

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VIDEO: Kentucky Voting Machines REFUSING to Let Voters Select Donald Trump’s Name, Automatically Selecting Kamala Harris Instead

By The Geller Report

Kentucky voting machines are REFUSING to let voters select Donald Trump’s name, automatically selecting Kamala Harris instead.

Every day Democrat election crimes en masse.

The good news? Reporting or posting these incidents would have gotten you banned from social media or imprisoned as in January 6th.

Whether anything can me done to undo these crimes is the great question.

WATCH: Kentucky voting machines REFUSE to let voters select Donald Trump

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

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Disinformation: Putin’s Protocol for Socialist Subversion of America

By Simona Pipko

Putin is not a creator of Disinformation; he is a user of it. The concept of  Disinformation has been designed in the 20th century by the Soviet dictator Comrade Stalin. Then his devoted disciple the Chairman of the KGB, Yuri Andropov, refined it in the 1960-70th – Putin updated it by current technological sophistication at the end of the 20th century. Designing the essence of Disinformation, Stalin had in mind the target and agenda: target—Western civilization; agenda—destruction of Western civilization and implementation of Soviet Socialism. Stalin didn’t use the term communism deliberately, he didn’t want to threaten people, he established his own ideology of Soviet Socialism and a political system based on that ideology—the Soviet system.

Without the information at the first paragraph, the Republicans will never be able to defeat Democrats, because the Dems are using the ideology of Soviet Socialism and the Soviet system to conquer and defeat the Republicans. Knowledge of the Soviet system is imperative. This is the subject of my writings, warning you about the KGB’s Mafia/Army, which is managing the spread of the system globally. The ideology of Soviet Socialism has been spread across the globe in the 20th century by the KGB’s mafia/Army. The Soviet System is tied inextricably to Disinformation, which is aimed at covering-up the truth about Soviet Socialism. Putin uses both as a method of Socialist Subversion of America in the 21st century.

So, the ideology of Soviet Socialism has a complex structure. Economically Socialism couldn’t survive competition with Capitalism, it needed a legal force to help it to exist. Stalin knew it and created dual-system—fusing Socialist economy and a weaponized legal agency the KGB into one entity. That dual entity was called Soviet Socialism, a dishonest creation, I’d call it a fraud. But this fraud was functioning very successfully with the help of the policy of Disinformation and Socialist modus operandi: lies, deceit, cheating, and fraud. There were no limits to dishonesty under Stalin that is the reason I called Stalinism—Inside a Gigantic Network of Falsehood and the policy of Disinformation was responsible for the covering-up of the truth.

The Russian Policy of Disinformation

Disinformation is not only an operation, it is a process of covering-up the truth, while implementing the ideology and system of Soviet Socialism. This process is aimed at destroying the targeting political system, in America it is the system of the American Constitutional Republic. The process of Disinformation has several stages. The covering-up of the truth of Soviet Socialism coincides with spreading a cosmetic view of it, hiding corruption, abuse, censorship and other features of a totalitarian state. Acting through bad actors, infiltrating a target, Russia would teach targeting people how to use Disinformation, while implementing Soviet Socialism. That way Russia destroyed Cuba, China, Syria, Venezuela, Iran, and others. The same exact way it has been trying to implement Disinformation in America. I believe Russia succeeded and I was right considering the Afghan disaster designed by Putin and executed by the White House. Yes, Disinformation has been used by Biden’s WH since 2021.

America doesn’t know either the corrupt and abusive Ideology of Soviet Socialism, or the Soviet System, let alone the Russian policy of Disinformation—America doesn’t know Stalinism. As a matter of fact, the Soviet people called the ideology of Soviet Socialism—Stalinism. It is not the time to describe Stalinism, his nickname “a famous murderer of the 20th century” and his creation, the Ideology of Soviet Socialism and the Soviet System. I have described all of that in my writings during forty-three years. Moreover, my columns have a few different parts: first: Marxism. I loved Marxism studying at Law School at the time of Stalin’s time that was called Iron Curtain–no any print or personal letters from overseas. Marxism was the only information from the West, I loved it and knew it well. The second part of my columns is Stalinism, my family life and the lives of my clients. The third part is my life in America, politics: Russia vs. America and the KGB’s global activities, growing and changing its name to the KGB’s Mafia/Army—Evil Doer—a global terrorist agency…

In 1981 I immigrated to the U.S. not knowing English. It was a very hard time for me, I didn’t have relatives or friends in America and without the language it was tough to survive. My strong desire to assimilate and speak English helped me. But it took time… Besides, I had to fight the FBI, which tried to silence me and stop my writings. I love this country and can’t stop telling the truth, especially after two attempts to assassinate Trump. Here is what I’ve written in my prior column about that:

“Don’t waste time waiting for another attempt to assassinate Trump. It will come! And only awareness of the enemy can prevent it… I am  a former Soviet attorney, who has written about Russia’s Intel for four decades. The FBI made me a Foreign Agent in 2002 and consequently sabotaged and banned my book What is Happening to America? three times. On August 31 2024, I submitted the book to Amazon.com for the fourth time. You can learn about the KGB’s Mafia-Army that runs the Democrat party and the White House today.” Please Click Here

Today is October 2024 and I hope that you remember above mentioned a Gigantic Network of Falsehood in Russia. Look around, I hope you can now recognize a Gigantic Network of Falsehood in America and great success of Disinformation. Just watch lying, two faced Dems, John Kirby and other  leaders, their dishonesty deceiving us for the last 20-30 years. Today, Kamala Harris is a leader of that Falsehood, she hopes to reassemble the Obama coalition. Rut, it means Bill Clinton, Hillary, and the entire Washington D.C. swamp—the Status Quo. 24 members of Kamala’s staff left her. One of them explained why: “for her to keep the same destructive patterns”. The man was right! I don’t like Bill Clinton, he was the first Manchurian President who began ruining our nation and built China, Obama and Biden followed his policy. Read my columns for detail and my first book: Baltic Winds Testimony of a Soviet Attorney, XLIBRIS, 2002

Watch those Dems who play slavery card, it is a continuation of subversion, which has begun by the Russian Intel in the 1950-60th Socialist dishonesty and subversion of America started then. Remember “White Privilege” and its continuation with “White Supremacy” today. Kamala will use it to divide people attracting black men by racial reparation. Watch “Mayor of Chicago Brandon Johnson Plays the Slavery Card” WSJ. He is doing just that. His lack of knowledge is appalling—Illinois has never been a slave state. Some leaders in Chicago prolonged the subversion of America by their ignorance. Don’t be surprised by rising crime and endless killings in Chicago, you now know the cause and source of that…

Kamala has no understanding of economics; she avoided the press and used the media to create an image of her as a political dynamo. She is just the opposite of that. Kamala is a Socialist-parasite and like many Socialist-parasites she loves “good ideas” and she sucks on good ideas copying the Republican ideas and narratives. 79 percent of Americans think that we are on the wrong track and Harris wants to turn the page, but turn the page from what? She was a part of Biden’s team, responsible for all America’s troubles. The Fox News interview by Brett Baier was chaotic. Kamala blew up under cross-examination, she was evasive and dogged the questions. She wasn’t able to defend Biden’s record, but couldn’t stop lying about Trump 20 times in 25 minutes. Kamala accepted responsibility for nothing! She was a part of many of Biden’s decisions, especially the policy of open border that is the ground Zero of all America’s troubles—a collateral damage: rising crime, inflation, migrant crime, crime of Venezuela’s gangs and others.

I want to tell you something about Venezuela’s gangs. Venezuela is Russia’s proxy, like Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, and many other terrorist states. Russia is a terrorist State, Stalin made it that way and all terrorist violence has emanated globally from Russia since the 20th century. Read my columns. Russia has been infiltrating Mexico since 1959-60th. The gangs like MS-13 attacking our Southern border from Mexico are the same gangs in Colorado that broke to the individual apartment. They all have been trained by the same KGB’s Mafia/Army belonging to Putin, serving a global cabal of socialists/communists, Russia/Chinese Intel. It also managed global invasion to America orchestrated, calculated, and coordinated by the Putin/Biden collusion. Watch North Korea, it will help Russia to fight in Ukraine…

In my column Kamala Harris and Treason Unknown to the American Public September 12, 2024, there are some historical analyzes of connections to Russia and its influence. The CBS scandal is not only a problem, it is a disaster when CBS deceptively edits Kamala Harris 60 Minutes interview. I don’t know how to qualify it linguistically as a dirty trick or fraud. It is for a reason, I’ve warned you about Socialist modus operandi: lies, deceit, fabrication, and fraud, for four decades. Deceptively editing Kamala Harris 60 Minutes interview is a political crime—Kamala Harris is running for the U.S. presidency! For me, it is Soviet Socialism in America: Soviet Socialism, which I called Soviet fascism. Even more, Soviet Socialism was managed by the KGB’s Mafia/Army. Is there some connection or influence of Russia???

Something else disturbed me in this connection. Discussing the CBS action, a member of the media said: “Israel has no rights to exist.” I couldn’t believe my ears. It was a real confirmation of the deepest division on America’s minds, exposing ignorance on the part of Democrats. And it was again a sign of connection to Russia. Coming from the Soviet Union, I personally knew Soviet anti-Semitism and high dislike of Israel. The Soviets/Russia was aggressively and covertly confronting Israel by all possible means. To make long story short, please read some history of Russia vis-à-vis the Middle East from my previous columns:

“If you are not familiar with the name Ayser Arafat, you don’t know the Middle East history and the history of the world. Arafat was a well-known terrorist, a leader of PLO, Palestinian Liberation Organization of the Middle East. Russia’s Intel recruited Arafat in 1957. The infiltration to the Middle East by Russia’s Intel began then. Do you know that Arafat’s lieutenant Abbas is running a Palestinian State today? Those are the patterns of the Soviet/Russian infiltration to the Middle East to create their proxies in the 1950-1970s. All of that has been managed by the KGB’s Mafia/Army—an Evil Doer. Their espionage was flourishing in Europe and America as well. If Russia was alone spreading Socialism/Communism in the 20th century, we are dealing now with a tandem of Russia and China. It is not Marxism now coming from China, but Soviet Socialism, which I called Soviet Fascism…

Europe now has members of the KGB in some parliaments and there is another facet to the Russian connection. As you know, recruited by the KGB in 1957, Arafat is dead, but we have mini-Arafat–Mahmoud Abbas. The connection with the Kremlin stays the same. He is literally a Moscow student with Soviet “academic credentials”; his dissertation written in Russia, had denied the Holocaust. Look at Arafat’s Palestinians, corrupt people surrounding Abbas: the same corrupt structure plus Hamas and Hezbollah under Russia’s supervision, ready to wipe Israel off the world map. Don’t expect peace in the Middle East—the KGB is there!” Read my column: A Global Spy Ring, January 1, 2018.

As you can see there is another connection to Russia today. War in Israel has been going on since Oct. 7, 2023. Hezbollah’s barrage of missiles and Drones targeting Israeli cities and trying to assassinate Netanyahu. A war against Hamas also remains. Israel is fighting several terrorist-aggressors and desperately needs help from America. Due to Russian ties to Hamas, Putin will try using Biden to crash Israel. In my opinion, the recent death of Hamas leader Sinwar brings to Israel the opportunity to finally defeat terrorist-Hamas. The Biden-Harris team has the opposite opinion, talking about a cease-fire, which will help Hamas to survive. I believe I know the answer to Biden-Harris opinion. It is Hamas’s connection to Russia and Biden’s collusion with Putin, I have been warning you since the Afghanistan shameful surrender in 2021…

Using the Dems’ party, Putin was Witch Hunting Trump for nine years. Trump is an existential threat to Globalist-Putin. We can expect a lot of surprises at election time to prevent Trump from becoming the U.S. President. The Afghan man has been accused of plotting an election attack. He is already in prison. I suspect a more serious scenario. Due to open border policy, we have 60-70 thousands illegal migrants, single male from China, Russia, Syria, Venezuela, Iran and others. Those men are our enemies trained to damage us in many different ways. As I stated earlier, they were all trained and coordinated by the KGB’s Mafia/Army, belonging to Vladimir Putin. You have to know Vladimir Putin to imagine a scary picture for the American Capitalism and Trump…

Devoted Socialists and Communists of the Dems party calling Trump a dictator, fascist, and Hitler. It is a familiar tactic to me. They followed Stalin’s main postulate: “Never admit crime committed, instead accuse your opponent of that exact crime.”  Inside a Gigantic Network of Falsehood, it is hard to find the truth and some people can be hooked by those lies. In the country with the dysfunctional FBI and CIA it is even easier to achieve. That is the reason, I have been writing about the ideology of Soviet Socialism, which I called Soviet Fascism and warning you for forty-three years.

My fellow Americans!

The future of our wonderful country is in your hands.

Reject Soviet fascism and save the American Constitutional republic, designed and left to us by our Founding Fathers.

Read my books and columns, educate yourself by learning the truth. We are in a dramatic chaos in America due to the Dems’ treason!

The issue of migrant gangs and migrant crimes is the main topic for November 5th elections.

Vote them out!

To be continued www.simonapipko.com and at www.drrichswier.com/author/spipko/

©2024. Simona Pipko. All rights reserved.

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Senior Meta Engineer Reveals Anti-Kamala Posts Are ‘Automatically Demoted,’ Admits Shadow Banning Tactics

By O’Keefe Media Group

BREAKING: A Senior Meta Engineer revealed that the platform uses shadowbanning to suppress posts critical of figures like Vice President Kamala Harris, reducing their visibility without notifying users.

The engineer also disclosed that Meta has a team dedicated to influencing information flow, with the power to affect election outcomes.

In a revelation captured by O’Keefe Media Group, a senior software engineer at Meta, Jeevan Gyawali, admitted that the platform is actively engaged in suppressing certain content to shape political narratives. During a hidden-camera interview, Gyawali confirmed that Meta employs shadowbanning tactics to demote posts automatically, especially those critical of prominent political figures like Vice President Kamala Harris.

WATCH: Senior Meta Engineer Reveals Anti-Kamala Posts Are ‘Automatically Demoted and shadow banned’

Gyawali explained how posts that challenge Harris, even on personal grounds—such as questioning her fitness for office because she does not have children—are “automatically demoted.” The person who makes such posts will not be notified, but their content will experience a noticeable decline in engagement and visibility.

This demotion process is managed by Meta’s “Integrity Team,” which uses a system called “civic classifiers” to determine what content is suppressed, essentially shadowbanning users without their knowledge.

Beyond individual post suppression, Gyawali revealed that Meta has a Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) team dedicated to preventing platform abuse, created in April 2024. This team, according to Gyawali, continuously monitors potential threats and scenarios that could harm Meta’s vision of “protecting democracy.”

However, the platform’s definition of protection, as explained by Gyawali, includes demoting or outright censoring content deemed harmful to the political narrative supported by Meta, a tactic Gyawali says is used “100%” of the time.

Gyawali confirmed without hesitation that Meta can indeed sway political outcomes, admitting that Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder and CEO of Meta, fully supports this agenda and the platform’s political influence, particularly in favor of the Democratic Party.

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The Art of Using Technologies to Alter Human Cognition

By Linda Goudsmit

Globalism is a replacement ideology that seeks to reorder the world into one singular, planetary Unistate, ruled by the globalist elite. The globalist war on nation-states cannot succeed without collapsing the United States of America. The long-term strategic attack plan moves America incrementally from constitutional republic to socialism to globalism to feudalism. The tactical attack plan uses asymmetric psychological and informational warfare to destabilize Americans and drive society out of objective reality into the madness of subjective reality. America’s children are the primary target of the globalist predators.


To understand Cognitive Warfare and the art of using technologies to alter the cognition of human targets, a basic understanding of electronic communication is required. Chetan Selwal provides the necessary information in his article “Electronic Communication Systems: Basics, Block Diagram and Working,”[i] posted on his website on July 14, 2020.

What is an Electronic Communication System?

Humans have a natural instinct to communicate with each other. We talk to each other using audio waves which are essentially electromagnetic waves. The frequency range of our audio signal is from 30 Hz to 3.4 KHz. Using this frequency, we cannot communicate over long distances. In our day to day lives, we can communicate hardly up to 10 meters or so with each other. If we want to increase the distance of communication, we have to put more energy and shout. Even this shouting will make the signal reach a few extra meters only.

What if we want to communicate over a few hundred or thousands of kilometers? Is it possible with our vocal cords only?

You guessed it right. Our vocal cords have a certain limitation to transmit the audio signal. Transmitting the audio signals directly beyond a few meters is beyond human capability. We need certain technological interventions to make it happen.

In today’s world, we are using semiconductor electronics-based systems extensively to transmit signals from one place/person/device to another place/person/device using electromagnetic waves. These systems are called Electronic Communication Systems.

Examples of Electronic Communication Systems are telegraph, telephone, mobile phone, pager, Internet, etc.

Electronic Communication System Block Diagram and Working

A typical block diagram for an Electronic Communication System.

The main components of any Electronic Communication System are as follows:

  1. Message Source: Message source may be any audio, video or data. Audio and Video signals are usually analog in nature. Data is a digital signal which originates from computer systems. Transmission of these message signals is prime objective of any communication system.
  1. Input Transducer: The input signals such as voice, data or video; whatever we wish to transmit has to be in the form of an electrical signal. Only electrical signals can be transmitted over electronic communication systems. The input transducer is an electronic/electrical device used to convert the input signal in the form of an electrical signal such as voltage or current. For example, a microphone is used to convert an incoming voice signal in the form of an electrical signal.
  1. Transmitter: Transmitter section comprises of modulating elements and amplifiers as per the requirement of the system. The transmitter is the section that applies the main concepts and algorithms of electronic communication to the incoming signals. The output of the transmitter is fed to an antenna in case of a wireless communication system. It is fed to the wired channel in case of a wired channel like optical fiber or coaxial cable.
  1. Channel: Channel is the medium through which the signals sent by transmitter travel toward the destination. Depending on medium, channel may be wired or wireless. In wired channels signal transmission takes place inside a bounded medium. A few examples of wired channels are telephone lines, optical fibers, copper cables, coaxial cables etc. In the case of wireless channel signal transmission takes place through the air. A few examples of wireless channels are microwave links, mobile phones, satellite communication etc. Signal degradation takes place inside the channel due to attenuation, distortion and noise. When the signal travels through long-distance, its power level decreases due to attenuation over the channel. Spurious signals get added in the form of noise signals. Because of these reasons signal faces distortion. We need to have proper mechanisms at the transmitter and receiver end to mitigate the effects of this noise and its implications otherwise it becomes very difficult to reproduce the originally transmitted signal at the receiver end.
  1. Receiver: The receiver block does exactly the opposite processing to that of the transmitter. The signal received from the channel is filtered out for noise and unwanted signals. Then the demodulation of signals takes place. The demodulated signals are in the form of an electrical signal. These signals are fed to the output transducer.
  1. Output Transducer: It translates the received signal into its original form, i.e., from an electrical signal to its original form as it was before transmission.
  1. Message Destination: It is an end-user that consumes the message or information.

Bioelectricity comprises the electrical currents and electrical potentials generated by or occurring within living cells, tissues, and organisms. Bioelectricity is a fundamental form of energy in the human body, the way our body communicates with itself internally. Once we understand the basics of circuitry in Chetan Selwal’s diagram above, we can grasp the staggering potential of human beings to become part of the electrical circuitry of the external electrical grid.

The Internet of Things is a network of physical devices embedded with sensors and software that collect and transfer data to one another over the Internet without human intervention. Some examples are smart home devices such as refrigerators, televisions, and thermostats; wearable devices such as smartwatches, fitness trackers, and glucose meters; and autonomous vehicles such as self-driving cars. The Internet of Things (IoT) has been expanded to the Internet of Bodies.

The Internet of Bodies (IoB) is a parallel network that connects our own bodies to the Internet using devices that are implanted, swallowed, or worn. The body becomes a technology platform that can be remotely monitored and controlled, or hacked, breached, and exploited. That is the basis for Yuval Harari’s statement that humans are now “hackable animals.” (Chapter 33)

Data is the currency in an information war. The IoT is an ecosystem that collects data about your personal habits. The IoB is an ecosystem that collects information about your personal health. In war, the more information you have about your adversary and his movements, the more you can personalize your tactical operations in order to achieve your strategic objectives.

The marketing campaign is painfully simple. Flattery is the operative word. The adjective smart is attached to every physical device that phones home to its base with information. So, globalist social engineers manipulate the public with flattery, seducing them to hand over their personal information with deceitful promises of convenience, leisure time, and improved health. Meanwhile, as the information-gathering campaign collects personal data and processes it for use in the mass-surveillance Unistate, every smart device is reducing the user’s individual agency by making him more dependent upon the device.

Consider this. Students no longer have to add, subtract, multiply, or divide. They don’t have to read or write or think. They don’t need to acquire foundational knowledge to support thinking critically, because critical-thinking skills are forbidden in the Unistate. All they need to do is turn on their smart devices!

You might be wondering about how human beings can become part of the electrical grid and its circuitry. Science journalist Sally Adee describes the study of bioelectricity and its potential in her book We Are Electric (2023):[ii]

You may be familiar with the idea of our body’s biome: the bacterial fauna that populate our gut and can so profoundly affect our health. In We Are Electric we cross into new scientific understanding: discovering your body’s electrome.

Every cell in our bodies—bones, skin, nerves, muscle—has a voltage, like a tiny battery. It is the reason our brain can send signals to the rest of our body, how we develop in the womb, and why our body knows to heal itself from injury. When bioelectricity goes awry, illness, deformity, and cancer can result. But if we can control or correct this bioelectricity, the implications for our health are remarkable: an undo switch for cancer that could flip malignant cells back into healthy ones; the ability to regenerate cells, organs, even limbs; to slow aging and so much more. The next scientific frontier might be decrypting the bioelectric code, much the way we did the genetic code.

We Are Electric traces the history of bioelectricity from Victorian medical charlatans to advances made by studying the giant axons of squid, to the future of brain implants, electric drugs, and the bioethical issues they present. Our discussion will focus on the intersection of bioelectricity, neuroscience technology, the Internet of Things (IoT), and the Internet of Bodies (IoB).

Sally Adee’s book begins in 2009 with a gripping description of the U.S. military brain-stimulation experiment she participated in. It was an Army sniper training simulation, with wall-size graphics of a checkpoint, soldiers, civilians, and an exploding Humvee. Sally was equipped with electrical-stimulation headgear and a rifle that fired harmless CO2cartridges.

The experiment tested a technique known as transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS). Direct stimulation is designed to increase the flow of electricity inside the brain and alter the strength of connections between the neurons in the brain, making them more likely to fire in concert.

The theory is that natural synchronization is the basis for all learning, and speeding up the flow with an electrical field provided by tDCS would theoretically accelerate the rate at which Adee could learn a new skill—in this experiment, sharpshooting. She describes the experiment as wildly successful, and the experience as transformative:

Getting my neurons slapped by an electric field instantly sharpened my ability to focus, and by the transitive property, my sharpshooting skills. It also felt incredible—like someone had finally hit the off switch on all the distracting negative self-talk that had, until that moment, been the main provider of my mind’s elevator music. I was a convert, and I wanted to preach the positive power of electricity to anyone who would listen. (p. 4)

Besides boosting brainpower, Adee explains, tDCS is being used to treat Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and obesity. She describes the development of “electroceuticals,” which are rice grain–size electrical implants clamped around nerves in the body to interrupt their signals:

In 2016, outstanding early results in human trials—in which they seemed to reverse rheumatoid arthritis—convinced Google’s parent company, Alphabet, to team up with a pharmaceutical international [GSK] on a £540 million [approximately $675 million in 2023] venture to tap into your body’s electrical signals, to try to treat diseases like Crohn’s and diabetes. (p. 4)

Sally Adee spent ten years following the evidence, and We Are Electric is the result. The entire book is exciting to read because it presents the complexities of science and scientific jargon in laymen’s terms. The introduction provides a succinct summary of Adee’s discoveries, perspective, research, hopes, and concerns about the future:

My brief foray into professional marksmanship is just one example of the promise and peril of harnessing our body’s natural electricity. We are fundamentally electrical creatures, but the full extent of our electrification would shock you. It is hard to overstate how wholly and utterly your every movement, perception, and thought are controlled by electrical signals. This is not the electricity that comes from a battery or the kind that turns on the lights and powers the dishwasher. That kind of electricity is made of electrons, which are negatively charged particles flowing in a current.

The human body runs on a different version: “bioelectricity.” Instead of electrons, these currents are created by the movements of mostly positively charged ions like potassium, sodium, and calcium. This is how all signals travel within the brain and between it and every organ in the body via the nervous system, enabling perception, motion, and cognition….

Biologists have known for a long time that these kinds of bioelectrical signals are responsible for all communication between the brain and the nervous system: you can think of them as the telephone wires that help the brain’s command center communicate with your muscles to operate your limbs.

But bioelectricity isn’t confined to our brains. Over the past couple of decades, it has become clear that these signals are pressed into service by every cell in your body, not just those that govern your perception and motion.

Each of your skin cells has its own voltage…the cells in your bones are electric. Your teeth are electric. Your organs are electric…. Recently it has been discovered that electrical signals also send out beacons as we grow in the womb to guide us into the eventual shape we will take—two arms, two legs, two ears, a nose. When this signal is interrupted in utero, things go terribly wrong, so scientists are now working out ways to prevent physiological birth defects by retuning our electrics….

I tell you this to underscore that “bioelectricity” is no mere metaphor, no elegant stretching of a humdrum biochemical truth. You and I are literally electric. The basis of all life is electric. When our cellular battery runs out, we all die. So, what if we learned how to control the switch? (pp. 7–10)

Adee chronicles the bifurcation of the world scientific community that began in the late 18th century and continues to separate biologists from physicists over the issue of electricity:

Biologists stick to biology, leaving the study of electricity to the physicists and engineers. They just don’t speak the same language…it means aspiring PhD students in physics are taught about Tesla and his alternating currents, but not about the bioelectricity running through their own bodies—and biology students get neither…. What we need is a new framework to bring the body’s different electrical parameters under one roof and study them coherently, together. Call it the electrome….

Just as decoding the genome led us to the rules by which information like eye color is encoded in our DNA, bioelectricity researchers predict that decoding the electrome will help us decipher our body’s multilayered communication systems and give us a way to control them.

Over the past ten to fifteen years, experiments have suggested that not only can we decrypt this code—we may even be able to learn to write it ourselves…. It would be like opening the electrical box and being able to rewire our systems as we like…. If it were to become possible to manipulate bioelectricity at its source, the consequences would be staggering…. Some bioelectricity researchers go as far as to say learning the rules of this software could render our bodies and minds as programmable as hardware…. If we are truly electric, then we should all be programmable at the level of every cell. (pp. 12–13)

I understand Sally Adee’s enthusiasm and wonderment. We truly are miraculous electrical beings. What I find so troubling is that when Adee finally mentions some of the ethical concerns surrounding bioelectricity research, she is stunningly naive and dismissive:

The gene-editing technology CRISPR ushered in a flurry of worries about designer babies, and our ability to edit the bioelectric code will be much the same…. Bioelectricity research could all too easily be misappropriated by that vague and undeniable urge to see humans as occupiers of inferior meat bodies that could only be improved by the addition and substitution of hardware and software….

So, what limitations should we place on upgrading or altering humans? Who will govern the rules on remapping the body’s electrical wiring? …

If we are going to try to manipulate the human body, the least we can do is manipulate it on its own terms—terms that were honored by millions of years of evolution, and not with headgear we invented. We have arrived at a new stage of bioelectricity. “With bioelectricity, we are now at the point where astronomy was when Galileo invented the telescope,” says [Prof. Mustafa] Djamgoz, one of the cancer researchers gazing into the unknown. If the nineteenth century was referred to as the “electric century,” the twenty-first century could go down in history as the bioelectric century. (pp. 13–14)

Bioelectricity research is unlike any other research that has ever come before, because as Sally Adee so clearly states, “If we are truly electric, then we should be programmable at the level of every cell.” Contemplating the possibility of bioelectricity being misappropriated denies the reality of the military already weaponizing it, and the eventuality of its being used at home against civilians.

Every astonishing scientific discovery, from gunpowder to flight to nuclear energy to the existence of the unconscious mind, has been used for both construction and destruction. An article by Steve Tarani posted in online magazine Gun Mag Warehouse on August 17, 2023, “Origins of Gunpowder: An Historical Perspective,”[iii] is particularly relevant:

Discovery, Early Uses and Experimentation

Gunpowder, although widely available today and in a variety of configurations, was originally a substance that revolutionized warfare and is widely considered one of the most significant inventions in human history.

The origin of gunpowder can be traced back to ancient China, where it was initially developed as a medicinal elixir. Over time, however, gunpowder’s properties were harnessed for military purposes, leading to transformative changes in warfare and the world at large.

The exact origins of gunpowder remain shrouded in mystery to this very day, but historical evidence suggests that its discovery can be attributed to ancient Chinese alchemists. Around the 9th century, during the Tang Dynasty, these alchemists were engaged in the quest to discover the elixir of immortality.

In their experiments, they stumbled upon a peculiar mixture comprising sulfur, charcoal, and saltpeter (potassium nitrate). This blend possessed explosive properties that astonished the alchemists.

Although gunpowder was initially employed for its medicinal qualities because it was believed to promote longevity and cure ailments, its explosive nature soon captured the attention of military strategists, who recognized its potential as a game-changing weapon.

Let’s be clear. Bioelectricity goes far beyond any of the extraordinary scientific discoveries of the past. Why? Because bioelectricity actually has the potential to alter the course of human evolution.

Bioelectricity represents a seismic shift and expansion of scientific understanding, since all life on Earth is electric. Decoding the electrome will award scientists the power to manipulate the developing human fetus and eventually redesign the human fetus, and thereby redefine human life. This is the Holy Grail of technocracy and transhumanism.

Bioethics is a misnomer and will not help us in the realm of bioelectricity. When Klaus Schwab, Yuval Harari, Elon Musk, and Sally Adee use words like ethical and bioethics, they dismiss the original colloquial understanding of the words. Most people think bioethics protects the individual and comports with the original Hippocratic Oath that instructed physicians, “First, do no harm.” Named after the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates (460–370 BC), the Hippocratic Oath was the traditional oath of ethics taken by all physicians. It unapologetically and in no uncertain terms upholds the value of the individual patient.

Marxism values the group, not the individual. When this collectivist perspective is applied to medicine, it results in consensus medicine, ideologically driven political medicine, which means that the individual patient is no longer primary, the group is. And what is best for the group? The government decides! In this case a group of ideologues who happen to be physicians decides what is best practice—not for the individual patient, but for society as a whole. The ramifications of this shift are staggering, and the reader needs to remember two basic principles. First, the bioethics of Marxist ideologues and WEF globalists does not protect the individual. Second, the elite always take care of the elite. The deceitful Marxist dualism that Obama brought to Washington is the same dualism that continues to confuse the public with words like bioethics.

History is a great teacher. Barack Obama signed two of the most destructive acts against the United States in American history. First, the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012, which effectively nullified the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 that explicitly prohibited information and psychological operations aimed at influencing U.S. public opinion. Obama legalized propaganda in America against Americans by reversing the prohibition against it. Obama made it legal for his State Department and Pentagon to disseminate his administration’s Marxist political propaganda directly to the American people. Then in 2016 Obama signed the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act, which launched the offensive information war that continues to destabilize the country today. In an astonishing demonstration of Marxist word perversion, the terms propaganda and disinformation were applied domestically, and used to bludgeon the political opposition.

Obama’s state-sponsored assault on facts continues to expand legally in every sector and institution of American life. The Marxist Culture War, with its signature march through American institutions, was animated by Barack Hussein Obama. Bernays adapted military propaganda techniques for commercial purposes; Obama legalized military propaganda techniques for political purposes. The military-industrial complex develops bioelectricity capabilities for commerce and politics. Why?

The answer is simple. The twin goals of both the military and private industry are the same: Power and Control. The combination of resources makes each partner exponentially more powerful, and the shared deceit is that science and technology will be used to heal sickness and liberate the public from its biological limitations.

But would the military-industrial complex use bioelectrical rewiring to alter cognition and behavior of the people it seeks to control? Of course it would, and it has already begun. American political medicine and its associated medical research, including bioelectricity research, disguises its political objectives in the powerful dual-use word bioethics.

Let’s review. The Internet of Things (IoT) was mentioned in Chapter 32 in the discussion of Klaus Schwab’s Davos Manifesto 2020 and the blurring of boundaries between man and machine/computer. IoT is also discussed in my previous book The Collapsing American Family: From Bonding to Bondage. An excerpt from Chapter 28 of that book, “The Great Reset Planned for the United States of America,” is particularly instructive:

Klaus Schwab published The Fourth Industrial Revolution in January 2017. The book describes the artificial intelligence of today as the 21st-century Fourth Industrial Revolution. It follows the steam engine, which launched the first industrial revolution in the 18th century, electricity in the 19th century, and computers in the 20th century.

In a January 10, 2016, interview[iv] on Swiss channel RTS, Schwab explained that human beings will soon receive a chip in their body in order to merge with the digital world. When asked about implanted chips, Schwab responded matter-of-factly:

Certainly, within the next ten years. And at first, we will implant them in our clothes. And then we could imagine that we will implant them in our brains, or in our skin. And in the end maybe there will be a direct communication between our brain and the digital world. What we see is a kind of fusion of the physical, digital, and biological world…. It is a servant that with artificial intelligence learns, and that is not only your assistant for manual work, but that can really be an intellectual partner of you.

In 2016, Schwab was describing the bioelectricity, neuroscience, and neurotechnology of BigBrain, the BRAIN Initiative, and now BICAN (Chapter 38). The baseline bioelectricity and decoding of the electrome that Sally Adee popularized is its natural conclusion. In the same 2016 interview Klaus Schwab alluded to bioethics:

The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), in blurring the boundaries between physical, digital, and biological worlds, challenges what it means to be human. It fuses man and machine through artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, the Internet of Things (IoT), 3-D printing, genetic engineering, and quantum computing. It relies on technological surveillance rather than the rule of law to maintain order in society. These technological advances depend on fifth-generation (5G) mobile network technology for speed and connectivity.

Schwab claims the seismic changes of the Fourth Industrial Revolution are so sweeping that they redefine everything, including how we relate to one another, the way we work, the way we do business, how governments function, and even what it means to be human. The tools of the 4IR are so powerful that they enable new forms of surveillance and social control, including intrusion into our minds, reading our thoughts and influencing our behavior. Schwab argues that we must embrace the changes and build an ethical, inclusive, sustainable, and prosperous future. (Collapsing American Family, p. 171)

Klaus Schwab, Yuval Harari, and their fellow globalists are selling planetary feudalism by calling it freedom. Changing the name of something does not change what that something actually is. The Great Reset turns the multinational corporations working with government into overlords, and the world population into their economically enslaved serfs. The new normal is the end result of the 21st-century military-industrial complex. Schwab declares, “We must embrace the changes and build an ethicalinclusivesustainable, and prosperous future,” but Schwab never mentions it will be the globalist elite who make all the rules for determining what is ethical, inclusive, sustainable, and prosperous.

It is difficult to sell feudalism as freedom, but using the familiar woke magic words ethicalinclusivesustainable, and prosperous is definitely helping Schwab sell the con. Sally Adee is a gifted science writer who welcomes us to the excitement of the bioelectric century while apparently buying what Klaus Schwab is selling. Perhaps Adee cannot fathom the sinister nature of the World Economic Forum (WEF), its public-private partnerships, its globalist depopulation agenda, or its compelling interest in the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the technologies that animate it. Perhaps Sally Adee is too excited to realize that wound healing, cell regeneration, and cancer cures are only the bait.

The switch in this bait and switch comes with imposition of globalist planetary control through the auspices of the awaiting United Nations. Creation of the globalist Unistate awards totalitarian control of the world’s population and natural resources to the avaricious globalist elite, still promising “you will own nothing and be happy.” Bioelectricity is the missing piece of knowledge in globalism’s transhumanist dreams for eternal life and totalitarian control. Decoding the electrome provides the pathway for human beings to become part of the Internet of Things. Consider the future in globalism’s New Normal.

Human beings will be connected to the electrical grid like cars, stoves, and heaters. The human body will become a remotely controlled appliance, just like any other such appliance. Today’s politicized effort to rid the planet of gas-powered vehicles, gas-powered stoves, and gas-powered heaters does not rescue the planet. It removes some of the last vestiges of independence and agency from gas users. When the power goes out, people with gas-powered equipment are free to move about, cook, and heat their homes. Anything connected to globalism’s electrical grid system including food, fuel, shelter, medicine, clothing—and the digital currency to purchase them—requires access to the grid. In the Unistate, the entire world population is completely dependent upon access to the electrical grid for survival.

Blurring the boundaries between man and machine is being deceitfully marketed as progress for saving humanity and rescuing planet Earth. It is no such thing. It is globalism’s most colossal humanitarian hoax, marketed for our own good but delivered for totalitarian control. And like bedazzled children, adults are being seduced by globalism’s political candy.

Access to the grid is controlled by the globalist elite, who also determine its terms of use and its currency. Today’s currency is ESG scores; tomorrow’s currency could be your liver, your heart, or your brain. Without legal and moral protections for the sovereignty of the self, your body becomes another asset of the collective to be exploited for “the good of the group.” The fusion of man and machine and the technical advances that Klaus Schwab described in January 2016 relied on 5G technology. The next iteration of technological advances will depend upon 6G technology, discussed in the next chapter.

Consider how Freud’s discovery of the unconscious mind, which led to psychotherapy, psychological operations, and propaganda, requires the individual’s participation to influence his heart, mind, and behavior. Bioelectricity, on the other hand, has the capacity for direct application without the individual’s knowledge or consent. We’re not in Kansas anymore.

The inconvenient truth is that we are in a pivotal moment in world history, and the human race is in an existential battle for its future. Of this I am certain. Globalism’s war on the nation-state does not end with the creation of Klaus Schwab’s glorified globalist Unistate. The Unistate is simply the planetary form for its feudal infrastructure, and the organizing principle for its totalitarian governance.

The transformative culture of globalism’s New World Order marks the end of human agency, the end of human freedom, and the end of Humanity 1.0. Cognitive warfare is transformative. It is the ultimate military weapon used against civilians to subdue, control, and achieve absolute conformity.

The secret of globalism’s megalomania is its supremacist foundation and aristocratic mindset. If the enemies of individual sovereignty cannot persuade you with their ideas, they will change your mind inside your own head. Globalism’s slogan never mentions the price you will pay for entry into its world of eternal dependence: You will own nothing and you will be happy—but you will no longer be you.

©2024. Linda Goudsmit. All rights reserved.


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SOURCES:

[i]  Electronic Communication Systems: Basics, Block Diagram and Working; https://www.chetanselwal.com/post/electronic-communication-systems-basics-block-diagram-and-working

[ii]  We Are Electric, Sally Adee, Hachette Books, 2023; https://www.sally80.com/we-are-electric-vertical

[iii]  Origins of Gunpowder: An Historical Perspective; https://gunmagwarehouse.com/blog/origins-of-gunpowder-an-historical-perspective/

[iv]  January 10, 2016, interview; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmQNA0HL1pw&t=22s

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Outrageous: U.S. Gives the Green Light to UN Surveillance of Our Personal Lives!

By Majority Report

In a shocking turn of events, the United Nations is moving to expand its role from a peacekeeping organization to an unprecedented global governance body, posing a dire threat to the sovereignty of the United States and the freedoms of its citizens.

The recent adoption of the “Pact for the Future” on September 22, 2024, marks a troubling moment in history. It opens the door for the UN to monitor and regulate the Internet and social media platforms under the guise of combating “misinformation, disinformation, and hate speech.”

Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s announcement of the United States’ full cooperation in these surveillance and personal data-collecting efforts is nothing short of alarming.

It raises serious questions about the protection of our First Amendment rights, which enshrine the freedom of speech that is fundamental to American democracy.

As Blinken stated, “to fulfill the crucial purpose of the United Nations, we urgently need support, reform, and revitalization.”

But what does this mean for American citizens? It means relinquishing our privacy and control over what we can say and how we communicate online.

The UN has historically been a peacekeeping force, stepping in to mitigate conflicts between nations. However, it is now seeking to transform itself into a governing authority that dictates how nations and their citizens engage in public discourse.

This drastic shift should instill fear in every American who values personal and national sovereignty. The UN has no business surveilling our online interactions, dictating the standards of our speech, or collecting our private information.

The threat to our personal privacy is real and should compel us to defend it.

As Representative Eli Crane, Republican from Arizona, warned during a recent press conference, “I hope that this body and the Senate continues to reject, push back, and stop this agreement and this push by this administration to sell our sovereignty to globalists.”

The implications of the UN’s new mandate extend beyond mere oversight. They encompass the unsettling reality of social media platforms being pressured to release personal data to U.N. “researchers.”

This is an invasion of privacy that undermines the very fabric of what it means to be a free American. Why should any citizen be subjected to scrutiny by unknown individuals simply because they expressed an opinion online?

The UN’s documents make it abundantly clear that they plan to “strengthen international cooperation to address the challenge of misinformation and disinformation and hate speech,” and to call on social media platforms to provide researchers access to personal data.

This is not just an attack on free speech; it is an encroachment on personal privacy that should send shockwaves through every household in this nation.

This is the type of surveillance that, if left unchecked, could lead to a dystopian reality where our every word is monitored and assessed by a foreign body.

In a statement that encapsulates the growing concern among US lawmakers, Representative Bob Good, Republican from Virginia, expressed disbelief over the Biden administration’s intentions, saying, “they seek to facilitate the evolution of the UN from an international cooperative body to an international governing body.”

This transformation is not only regrettable but also dangerous. The United Nations, if it should exist at all, should be focused on peacekeeping, not on regulating speech and ideas.

We must recognize this moment as a call to action. We cannot afford to be complacent as the UN attempts to redefine its role at our expense.

The fight to preserve our sovereignty, our privacy, and our fundamental rights has never been more critical. As Americans, we must stand united against this overreach and demand accountability from our leaders.

The UN is not equipped to oversee our digital lives. It is time to remind them that America will not surrender its sovereignty to globalists who seek to control our every word.

If we fail to act, we risk handing over our freedoms to an organization that seeks to govern our thoughts and actions.

©2024. Majority Report. All rights reserved.

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California’s Marxist Comrade Gavin Newsom Outlaws All Election Memes!

By Dr. Richard M. Swier, LTC U.S. Army (Ret.)

On Tuesday, September 17th, 2024, Governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation banning digitally altered political videos in California—even those that are made to parody elected officials.

Newsom pledged to ban these types of videos after Elon Musk posted a clearly satirical artificial intelligence-generated post mocking Kamala Harris’s policy preferences and record.

How is this crack down on free speech not violative of the First Amendment?

Rich Zeoli notes, in his podcast, that the law will almost certainly be challenged in court.

This is an amazing video/meme has sparked mass censorship and a new totalitarian law by the communist left and people’s republic of California.

Governor Newsom just signed AB-2655 in response to this meme going viral.

The law criminalizes “certain” political memes.

The law could force 𝕏 to ban this video.

The left HATES freedom of speech.

PLEASE DO NOT MAKE THIS VIDEO MEME GO VIRAL AGAIN! LOL!

HERE’S SOME OTHER POLITICAL MEMES THE WE DON’T WANT TO GO VIRAL—LOL:

MEME #1

MEME #2

MEME #3

VIDEO MEME #4

MEME #5

MEME #6

VIDEO MEME #7

©2024. Dr. Richard M. Swier, LTC U.S. Army (Ret.) All rights reserved.

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Artificial Intelligence and America’s Children

By Linda Goudsmit

Globalism is a replacement ideology that seeks to reorder the world into one singular, planetary Unistate, ruled by the globalist elite. The globalist war on nation-states cannot succeed without collapsing the United States of America. The long-term strategic attack plan moves America incrementally from constitutional republic to socialism to globalism to feudalism. The tactical attack plan uses asymmetric psychological and informational warfare to destabilize Americans and drive society out of objective reality into the madness of subjective reality. America’s children are the primary target of the globalist predators.


It is time to take a look at what the globalists have in mind for little Johnny and Humanity 2.0. We begin with a history lesson provided by Dr. Michael Rectenwald in his April 14, 2023, article, “Hacking Humanity: Transhumanism“:[i]

The term transhumanism was coined by Julian Huxley, the brother of the novelist Aldous Huxley and the first director-general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). In an essay entitled “Transhumanism,” published in the book New Bottles for New Wine (1957), Huxley defined transhumanism as the self-transcendence of humanity:

The human species can, if it wishes, transcend itself—not just sporadically, an individual here in one way, an individual there in another way, but in its entirety, as humanity. We need a name for this new belief. Perhaps transhumanism will serve: man remaining man, but transcending himself, by realizing new possibilities of and for his human nature.1

One question for transhumanism is indeed whether this transcendence will apply to the whole human species or rather for only a select part of it. But Huxley gave some indication of how this human self-transcendence might occur: humanity would become “managing director of the biggest business of all, the business of evolution….”2 As the first epigraph to this Part makes clear, Julian Huxley was a proponent of eugenics. And he was the President of the British Eugenics Society.3 It was in his introduction of UNESCO, as the director-general that he suggested that eugenics, after the Nazi regime had given it such a bad name, should be rescued from opprobrium, “so that much that now is unthinkable may at least become thinkable.”4 As John Klyczek has noted, “In the wake of vehement public backlash against the atrocities of the Nazi eugenic Holocaust, Huxley’s eugenics proper was forced to go under-ground, repackaging itself in various crypto-eugenic disguises, one of which is ‘transhumanism.’”5

Contemporary transhumanist enthusiasts, such as Simon Young, believe that humanity can take over where evolution has left us to create a new and improved species—either ourselves, or a successor to ourselves:

We stand at a turning point in human evolution. We have cracked the genetic code; translated the Book of Life. We will soon possess the ability to become designers of our own evolution.6

Transhumanism is simply the latest variation of globalist elitism and supremacist ideology, including its eugenics program disguised as “progress” and “evolutionary biology.” Rectenwald continues with references to Yuval Harari, the writer, historian, and children’s book author discussed in Chapter 33:

In a 2018 World Economic Forum statement, Harari spoke as the self-proclaimed prophet of a new transhumanist age, saying:

We are probably among the last generations of Homo sapiens. Within a century or two, Earth will be dominated by entities that are more different from us, than we are different from Neanderthals or from chimpanzees. Because in the coming generations, we will learn how to engineer bodies and brains and minds. These will be the main products of the 21st century economy.19

No longer capable of mounting a challenge to the elite as in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and having no function, the feckless masses will have no recourse or purpose. Exploitation is one thing; irrelevance is quite another, says Harari. And thus, as Harari sees it, the remaining majority will be condemned to spend their time in the Metaverse, or worse. If they are lucky, they will collect universal basic income (UBI) and will best occupy themselves by taking drugs and playing video games. Of course, Harari exempts himself from this fate.

As for the elite, according to Harari, their supposed superiority to the masses will soon become a matter of biotechnological fact, rather than merely an ideological pretension, as in the past. The elite will not only continue to control the lion’s share of the world’s material resources; they will also become godlike and enjoy effective remote control over their subordinates. Further, via biotechnological means, they will acquire eternal life on Earth, while the majority, formerly consoled by the fact that at least everybody dies, will now lose the great equalizer. As the supernatural is outmoded, or sacrificed on the altar of transhumanism, the majority will inevitably forfeit their belief in a spiritual afterlife. The theistic religions that originated in the Middle East will disappear, to be replaced by new cyber-based religions originating in Silicon Valley. Spirituality, that is, will be nothing but the expression of reverence for newly created silicon gods, whether they be game characters, game designers, or the elites themselves.

1. Julian Huxley, “Transhumanism,” New Bottles for New Wine, London: Readers Union, Chatto & Windus, 1957, page 17.

2.  Ibid., page 13.

3.  “Past Presidents,” Adelphi Genetics Forum, August 10, 2022, https://adelphigenetics.org/history/past-presidents/. The Adelphi Genetics Forum was originally named the British Eugenics Education Society and was founded in 1911. It changed its name to the British Eugenics Society in 1926 and changed its name again to the Galton Institute in 1989. In 2021, it changed its name yet again to the Adelphi Genetics Forum.

4.  Julian Huxley, “UNESCO: Its Purpose and Its Philosophy,” Unesdoc.unesco.org, 1946, https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000068197, page 21.

5.  John Adam Klyczek, School World Order: The Technocratic Globalization of Corporatized Education, Trine Day, 2019, page 207.

6.  Simon Young, Designer Evolution: A Transhumanist Manifesto, Prometheus, 2005, Kindle Edition, Location 273.

19. World Economic Forum, “Will the Future Be Human? —Yuval Noah Harari,” YouTube, World Economic Forum, January 25, 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL9uk4hKyg4.

The stunning hubris of the globalist elite is rivaled only by the danger of its collaboration with government. This collaboration between business and government is the military-industrial complex President Eisenhower warned the nation about in his 1961 Farewell Address:[ii]

A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction.

Our military organization today bears little relation to that known by any of my predecessors in peace time, or indeed by the fighting men of World War II or Korea.

Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions…. This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience…. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications…. In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist….

Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.

In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.

Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.

The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.

Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.

President Eisenhower predicted the globalist enemy within. His prescient warning is now 21st-century reality and the existential threat to our constitutional republic. Eisenhower’s reference to research and the domination of the nation’s scholars is today’s politicized education industry that includes politicized law and medicine. From preschool to advanced degrees, ideological experts have indoctrinated Americans against America for seven decades. Indoctrinated graduates entered their chosen fields as “experts” who began indoctrinating the next generation, who then indoctrinated the next.

We are in the throes of an informational and psychological culture war. There are no bullets in this war. I often reflect on the saying “The pen is mightier than the sword.” Its profound meaning lies in the fact that thought precedes behavior. If you can change people’s thinking, you can change their behavior. It is the operating principle foundational to educational indoctrination and thought reform––the primary weapons of the information/psychological globalist War on America.

Weaponized education is bludgeoning society with anti-American collectivist ideology in every sector of life. The Marxification of education (Chapter 29) is enhanced with Artificial Intelligence (AI), the prize of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. AI is the medium and the message.

Educational reformer John Klyczek, referenced above in the Rectenwald article “Hacking Humanity,” is the author of School World Order: The Technocratic Globalization of Corporatized Education.[iii] Klyczek explores the hidden dangers of AI’s robot companions in his June 13, 2023, informational video, “Moxie and the Great Reset: How Moxie the Robot Uses GPT AI to Data-Mine Your Kids’ Socioemotional-Learning Algorithms.[iv]

Moxie is the latest creation of California artificial intelligence company Embodied, which develops companion robots. Moxie, who looks like Star Wars‘ robotic droid R2-D2 but is able to communicate like the humanoid C-3PO, was originally designed as a robot companion for children with social and emotional deficits. Considered assistive technology, the premise was that the companion robot would help autistic and mentally retarded children with the anxiety they experience in human interactions.

Klyczek explains:

Moxie is marketed as a “Helping Friend” that substitutes human caretakers and replaces them as robo-babysitters that monitor disabled children during parent-therapist conferences…. Of course, over time, just like transhuman ed-tech, robotic AI ed-tech will eventually creep more and more into mainstream classroom integration until it is employed to boost competence outcomes for students classified as healthy and able-bodied.

Klyczek discusses the capability of augmented robot systems (ARS) for children’s storytelling activities. The ARS are able to measure children’s levels of satisfaction, sensory immersion, and media recognition. This is significant because these areas correspond to the CASEL wheel, discussed in Chapter 20, that measures Social and Emotional Learning (SEL). Satisfaction corresponds to interest, sensory immersion to engagement, and media [robot] recognition to empathy.

Klyczek exposes several areas of serious concern to parents:

  • Moxie will be expanded—used in general classroom for SEL goals
  • Data mining of student bio-psychometrics
  • Facial recognition for emotional reactions
  • Replaces human interactions
  • Using children to enhance manufacturer’s own GPT-AI capacity
  • Funded by WEF Partners Amazon, Intel, Sony, Toyota
  • Deeply entrenched in global corporate technocracy network with over 60 overlapping memberships between WEF and Trilateral Commission, Club of Rome, United Nations, World Bank, and Bilderberg
  • Represented at 2023 Bilderberg Meeting by Sam Altman, Microsoft, DeepMind (Google), Google
  • Moxie stores much of its data in Google Cloud
  • Moxie retains text files of whatever the child says before deleting the actual audio file
  • Moxie retains data points of facial expressions before it deletes the actual photo
  • Embodied retains access to all information even though it cannot link it to a specific user

The hidden goals of Moxie, the “Helping Friend,” are data mining your children, enhancing the AI capabilities of companion robots for the manufacturer, and grooming your children for interaction with robots rather than humans, and for life in the 21st-century globalist Unistate. The information collected is a treasure trove of data for social engineering in the classroom, and another surreptitious method of separating children from their parents without parental knowledge.

The political parallels between teaching whole-word reading and using augmented robots for teaching are disturbing. Both began and were marketed as systems to help children with disabilities. Both were (or, in the case of Moxie, will be) subsequently applied to normal children, with catastrophic outcomes, for political gain. As discussed in Chapter 5, the detrimental effects on children’s brains and their ability to actually read the written word in English were known as early as 1955, when Rudolph Flesch exposed the whole-word method as the culprit in his book, Why Johnny Can’t Read: and what you can do about it.

The damage done by the American education industry in its insistence on teaching children to read using whole words is well documented. Yet whole-word methodology continues and has been expanded from whole-word reading to the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child[v] model (WSCC) by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The CDC website describes WSCC in predictably glowing terms. It is essential for parents to recognize the staggering Marxist dualism in WSCC and its 10 Components. Parents are presented with familiar, constructive terms that do not at all mean what parents understand them to mean. For example, “integration and collaboration between education leaders and health sectors” is actually the collaboration between teachers, counselors, psychologists, sexuality instructors, etc., to indoctrinate American children in radical leftist norms. The “student-centered” approach is actually the total immersion of the students in anti-American, anti-family, anti-Judeo-Christian propaganda without parental knowledge. From CDC’s website:

Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC)

The education, public health, and school health sectors have each called for greater alignment that includes integration and collaboration between education leaders and health sectors to improve each child’s cognitive, physical, social, and emotional development. Public health and education serve the same children, often in the same settings. The Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model focuses on the child to align the common goals of both sectors to put into action a whole child approach to education.

What is the WSCC model?

The Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child, or WSCC model, is CDC’s framework for addressing health in schools. The WSCC model is student-centered and emphasizes the role of the community in supporting the school, the connections between health and academic achievement and the importance of evidence-based school policies and practices. The WSCC model has 10 Components:

  1.  Physical education and physical activity.
  2.  Nutrition environment and services.
  3.  Health education.
  4.  Social and emotional climate.
  5.  Physical environment.
  6.  Health services.
  7.  Counseling, psychological and social services.
  8.  Employee wellness.
  9.  Community involvement.
  10.  Family engagement.

The CDC prides itself on the collaboration between government and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to finance its WSCC initiatives:

Funded Non-Governmental Organizations for Healthy Schools

Through the National Collaboration to Promote Health, Wellness, and Academic Success of School-Age Children, CDC Healthy Schools funds five national non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to complement and strengthen the work of State Public Health Actions grantees. These NGOs support the 1305 granteesand their organization’s constituents to promote and implement proven policies, practices, and programs in at least one of the following school health priority areas:

Priority Area 1—Physical Education and Physical Activity in Schools
Priority Area 2—School Nutrition Environment and Services
Priority Area 3—Out of School Time Healthy Eating and Physical Activity
Priority Area 4—School Health Services for Managing Chronic Conditions

The NGOs that support the following priority areas are:

CDC Healthy Schools also funds the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors (NACDD) to provide technical assistance and professional development activities that will build the capacity of state health departments. This will equip school health and education leaders with greater knowledge, skills, and abilities to implement proven strategies that create healthier environments for students. Initiatives such as these are essential to help leaders from across the country access practical tools and resources to promote the health [including mental health] of their student population.

SHAPE America (SHAPE is an acronym for the Society of Health and Physical Educators) is a particularly notable NGO. Its website, shapeamerica.org,[vi] proudly features its alignment with National Sex Education Standards:[vii]

National Sex Education Standards

SHAPE America is proud to have worked with the Future of Sex Education (FoSE) and the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) as a contributor and reviewer in the development of the National Sex Education Standards: Core Content and Skills, K–12 (Second Edition). SHAPE America is also proud to officially endorse the final document.

These latest standards reflect advancement in research regarding sexual orientation, gender identity, social, racial and reproductive justice, and the long-term consequences of stigma and discrimination. Other additions include: advances in medical technology, the emergence of digital technologies and the growing impact of social and sexually explicit media on relationships.

Readers will remember that SIECUS is an ideological and political instrument for social change. SIECUS proudly describes its goals in the acknowledgements section of the National Sex Education Standards, second edition:

Through policy, advocacy, education, and strategic communications efforts, SIECUS advances sex education as a vehicle for social change—working toward a world where all people can access and enjoy their own sexual and reproductive freedom.

Parents need to understand the deceptive way words are being used. The definition of physical health includes sexual health, and the definition of sexual health is inclusive. “Inclusive” is defined by diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) standards, which means sexual health includes presenting transgenderism and every iteration of non-binary gender identification as normal variations on a theme of non-binary sexuality. Male/female heterosexuality is no longer the accepted norm; every conceivable form of sexual behavior, including pedophilia, is presented as a normal variation of inclusive sexual behavior.

There are no restrictions on sexual behavior or gender identity in a society that has been driven into subjective reality, where feelings rather than facts determine social policy. The entire American education industry is collaborating in the usurpation of parental authority by adopting CDC guidelines that are themselves aligned with the United Nations’ internationalized curricula for education, including sex education.

Child psychiatrist Dr. Miriam Grossman (Chapter 31) is an unapologetic and outspoken advocate for children’s mental health. She has written an essential book to help parents understand the horrific ideological collaboration between our weaponized education and judicial systems, particularly Child Protective Services (CPS). Together, they have redefined “mental health” in political terms, and are participating in a joint effort to replace parental authority with government-approved radical gender ideology.

CPS considers the homes of parents whose conservative views insist on the scientific facts of biology to be abusive and unsafe environments for children. CPS is empowered by the state to remove the children from the home and rehome them. This is an Orwellian reality, and extremely dangerous for the children, for their parents, and for America. Biological sex, gender, and sexual behavior have been weaponized in America by the enemies of freedom. The cultural terrorism that Hungarian Marxist George Lucács unsuccessfully attempted in Bolshevik Hungary in 1918 is effectively collapsing America from within in 2024.

Dr. Grossman’s book, Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist’s Guide Out of the Madness,[viii] is an essential tool for parents whose children remain in American schools, both public and private. The book begins with a Dedication:

This book is dedicated to the parents of kids with Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria and to the groups who support them.

I spoke with you from your cars, basements, and bathrooms. You huddled and whispered behind closed doors, as if seeking my help was criminal behavior. You’re not criminals, you are heroes. The criminals are the therapists, teachers, school counselors, and sex educators who indoctrinate your children with falsehoods, and the doctors who then disfigure and sterilize them. They are guilty of crimes. Their day will come. (p. ix)

Before the Introduction, Dr. Grossman includes A Note on Language:

We face a crusade, a juggernaut, that seeks to demolish male and female, and its success hinges on the control of language. Under those circumstances, to call a man “she” is not a kindness, it’s a concession—to a scheme to control our beliefs and advance an agenda, one pronoun at a time.

In this book, I emphasize that male and female, after being established at conception, are permanent. I urge parents to be honest and consistent with their children, and to at all times stay grounded in biological reality. I have always done that in my office, and I’m not going to stop now. (p. xxv)

Dr. Grossman continues:

For me this is a black-and-white issue. Most things in life are nuanced, but this is not one of them. This is—and here’s a word you don’t expect to hear from a doctor—evil. It’s evil to indoctrinate children and young adults with falsehoods and to drive a wedge between them and their loving parents. It’s evil to encourage them on a path that leads to harm. And it’s evil to describe it all as a journey to authenticity, and to entice children with glitter and rainbows….

The trans issue is not a debate with reasonable and moral people on both sides, it’s a war. It’s a destructive, cult-like crusade that targets your children 24/7; there’s hardly a place that’s free from indoctrination, slogans, flags, and emojis. You must gird yourselves with knowledge, confidence, and support and oppose the onslaught as much as possible….

Starting with new names and pronouns and ending too often in the operating rooms, the trans journey is an assembly line. One step leads to another, and it’s difficult to get off, so your goal is to prevent your child from ever climbing on…. (p. xxx)

I regret to inform you that with this matter, the sources you’ve always trusted—your child’s school, pediatrician, and therapist—will likely provide ideologically driven misinformation. They will direct you and your child down a perilous path….

I’ll explain that transgender ideology is a system of beliefs, like a religion. It has a unique language and [10] Articles of Faith. While the language and beliefs are bizarre, they are taught as sacred facts. The core belief––that biology can and should be denied—is a repudiation of reality…. (p. xxxi)

I will explain how the American Psychiatric Association (APA) reclassified gender disorders as normal variations of human expression—another dangerous idea. (p. xxxiii)

Articles of Faith

Behold GENDER IDENTITY; it liberated you from oppression, from the harsh constraints of biology.

GENDER IDENTITY is sacred; thou shalt not question it; thou shalt not turn away from it to hard science, for GENDER IDENTITY is jealous and cannot tolerate the scientific method.

Remember GENDER IDENTITY, to keep it holy. Behold, it is both fixed and fluid; healthy and needing drugs and surgeries; do not admit contradictions.

Thou shalt consider “male” and “female” arbitrary assignments; thou shalt deny their establishment at conception.

Thou shalt affirm all gender identities with all your heart and all your soul, so that you will be an ally and keep your livelihood.

Do not misgender [use a pronoun other than the one chosen by the adherent].

Do not deadname [use the adherent’s birth name].

Thou shalt not explore anxiety, ADHD, trauma, or autism; thou shalt always invoke the minority stress model [the hypothesis that sexual minority health disparities are produced by the social stress faced by sexual minority populations due to their stigmatized status].

Thou shalt honor the self-diagnosis and judgment of minors and young adults. Thou shalt not recognize their emotional and cognitive immaturity.

Gatekeeping is an abomination. Thou shalt therefore scorn psychotherapy, and place your trust in breast binding, penis-and-testicle-tucking, pills, patches, syringes, scalpels, implants, and prosthetics. (p. xxxx)

But of all the lies and dangerous ideas promoted, Dr. Grossman says the most pernicious one is that gender affirmation is the only safe and ethical treatment! If you don’t support your child, he’s at high risk of suicide.

Dr. Grossman explains that gender dysphoria (GD) is a symptom, and symptoms can be caused by a variety of conditions. Further, gender dysphoria is complex and is different at different ages of onset. She distinguishes three types of GD: adult-onset, early-onset in young children, and late- or adolescent-onset in teens and young adults. The resolution of gender dysphoria is called desistance. In 1994, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition, stated that “only a very small number of children with gender identity disorder [as it was called then] will continue to have symptoms…in later adolescence or adulthood.”

In other words, it is a stage of development that usually corrects itself without intervention. Before 2012, the onset of gender identity disorder was practically unheard of. In 2018, Dr. Lisa Littman, a Brown University physician, researcher, and academic, noticed an unusual trend in her small town. “Teens from the same friend group were announcing transgender identities on social media, one after another, on a scale that greatly exceeded expected numbers.” (Lost in Trans Nation, p. 40)

Dr. Littman began investigating and found that adolescents and young adults were suddenly experiencing gender dysphoria for the first time. She coined the term Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria (ROGD) to describe the new phenomenon. Dr. Littman theorized that “these kids may have rapidly adopted a transgender identity as a ‘maladaptive coping mechanism to avoid feeling strong or negative emotions.’” (Lost in Trans Nation, p. 41)

Dr. Littman was worried that the teens were not being screened for pre-existing and current mental health issues. Instead, they were being fast-tracked for gender affirmation and transition. Dr. Littman wrote about “cluster outbreaks” and explained them as “social contagion.” She discussed the limitations of her research, and strongly recommended further study and the careful evaluation of distressed teenagers before the use of treatments that have permanent effects such as cross-sex hormones and surgery.

Dr. Littman went further and confronted the gender establishment narrative, saying that social and medical affirmation may cause “an iatrogenic persistence of gender dysphoria in individuals who would have had their gender dysphoria resolve on its own.” (Lost in Trans Nation, p. 46) Iatrogenic is any harm caused by a medical intervention.

The medical community came out vehemently against Dr. Lisa Littman, in the same way it pilloried British gastroenterologist Dr. Andrew Wakefield when he questioned the safety of the multi-dose measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and its possible connection to autism in children. Instead of appropriately investigating Dr. Littman’s concerns, the medical and gender establishment attacked her and presented gender-affirming care as settled science—a particularly dangerous lie.

Dr. Miriam Grossman courageously exposes the institutional capture of American medicine by radical Marxist gender ideology. She denounces its resultant gender-affirming care as political medicine, which is endangering an entire generation of children with ideological medicine and ideological indoctrination in school.

Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist’s Guide Out of the Madness is an extraordinary examination of the transgender movement, its psychosocial dynamics, and its political purpose. The book concludes with helpful appendices of practical information and important suggestions for parents dealing with schools, CPS, therapists, and the Internet.

Dr. Grossman’s message is heroic and crystal clear: Parents must arm themselves with accurate information in order to protect their precious children from a “perilous social movement that erases ‘male’ and ‘female’ and aims to revolutionize what it means to be human.”

©2024. Linda Goudsmit. All rights reserved.


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SOURCES.

[i]  Hacking Humanity: TranshumanismThe Great Reset and the Struggle for Liberty: Unraveling the Global Agenda, Michael Rectenwald, World Encounter Institute, 2023; https://mises.org/wire/hacking-humanity-transhumanism

[ii]  Farewell Addresshttps://wp.lps.org/kbeacom/files/2012/08/Eisenhowers-Farewell.pdf

[iii]  School World Order: The Technocratic Globalization of Corporatized Education, John Klyczek, Trine Day LLC, 2019; https://www.schoolworldorder.info/

[iv]  Moxie and the Great Reset: How Moxie the Robot Uses GPT AI to Data-Mine Your Kids’ Socioemotional-Learning  Algorithmshttps://www.bitchute.com/video/xJhbwYfyvNUG/

[v]  Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Childhttps://www.cdc.gov/healthyschools/wscc/index.htm

[vi]  shapeamerica.orghttps://www.shapeamerica.org/

[vii]  National Sex Education Standardshttps://www.shapeamerica.org/Common/Uploaded files/uploads/2021/standards/National-Sex-Education-Standards.pdf

[viii]  Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist’s Guide Out of the Madness, Miriam Grossman, Skyhorse Publishing, 2023;https://www.miriamgrossmanmd.com/about-4-2


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The Digital Minefield of Nigerian Scams

By Amil Imani

In the digital age, scams have evolved from simple deceptions to sophisticated operations, often targeting vulnerable individuals and communities across the globe. These scams, particularly those originating from specific regions like Nigeria, have become notorious for their effectiveness in deceiving people out of their hard-earned money. These fraudulent schemes, commonly known as Nigerian scams, have caused significant financial losses and inflicted emotional damage on victims, eroding trust in online interactions. Understanding the nature of these scams, their evolution, and the strategies to protect against them is crucial in today’s interconnected world.

Understanding the Nigerian Scam

The Nigerian scam, often called the 419 scam – named after the section of the Nigerian penal code dealing with fraud — typically involves a promise of a large sum of money in exchange for a smaller upfront payment. The scammer might pose as a government official, a wealthy individual, or even a foreign prince needing help to transfer a fortune. What began as simple mail fraud has evolved, adapting to new technologies and communication methods. Scammers now use email, social media, and even messaging apps to reach potential victims across the globe. Despite the increased awareness of such scams, their persistence and adaptability make them a continuing threat.

Key Strategies for Protection

Protecting oneself from Nigerian scams requires a proactive approach. The first step is education — understanding the common signs of scams and staying informed about new tactics used by scammers. For instance, recognizing poorly written emails, unsolicited requests, and offers that seem too good to be true can help identify potential scams. Verification is another crucial strategy. Before responding to any unsolicited message, it is essential to independently verify the sender’s identity, whether through direct communication with the supposed sender or by checking official contact details. Using secure communication channels, such as encrypted messaging platforms, adds additional protection, ensuring that sensitive information remains safe from prying eyes. Reporting suspicious activity to email providers, social media platforms, and local authorities helps protect oneself and aids in the broader fight against cybercrime. Finally, enabling two-factor authentication (2FA) on accounts adds an extra layer of security, making it more difficult for scammers to gain unauthorized access.

Understanding Nigerian Scammer Tactics

Nigerian scammers employ a variety of tactics to deceive their victims. Spear phishing is one such tactic, where attackers send personalized emails that appear to be from a known or trusted source. These emails often contain malicious links or attachments designed to steal personal information. Romance scams are another standard method, where scammers build relationships with their victims over time, eventually asking for money under the guise of helping with a personal crisis. Advance fee schemes involve promising victims a large sum of money in exchange for a small initial payment, which is never returned once paid. Scammers also use impersonation, posing as government officials, bank employees, or even deceased persons to lend credibility to their requests. Over time, these scammers have become more technically sophisticated, using advanced technology and social engineering tactics to exploit their victims.

Identifying Characteristics of Nigerian Scammers

While Nigerian scammers’ tactics are varied, there are common characteristics that can help identify them. Poor grammar and spelling are often a telltale sign, as many scams originate from regions where English is not the first language. Scammers also tend to create a sense of urgency, pressuring victims to make quick decisions without thoroughly considering the situation. Requests for personal information, particularly financial details, are another red flag. Additionally, unsolicited contact from unknown individuals or organizations should always be treated cautiously.

Countermeasures Against Nigerian Scammers

Several countermeasures can be employed to combat the threat posed by Nigerian scammers. Verifying the identity of the individual or organization contacting you is critical; never take information at face value. Conduct thorough research on any individual or organization before engaging in financial transactions. Secure communication is also vital; use encrypted channels to protect your information. Staying informed and educating others about the latest scams and tactics fraudsters use can help prevent falling victim to these schemes. Reporting suspicious activities to law enforcement is also essential in the fight against cybercrime.

Nigerian Scammers on Instagram

In recent years, Nigerian scammers have increasingly turned to Instagram as a platform for their fraudulent activities. They often use tactics like impersonation, business email compromise (BEC) schemes, and exploiting platform features to deceive their victims. Many scammers project an image of success and legitimacy by showcasing luxury items, vacations, and other symbols of wealth. Social media platforms like 2024. play a dual role in enabling and exposing scammers, as vigilant users and automated systems sometimes uncover these fraudulent activities.

Implications for Instagram Users

Instagram users need to be aware of the risks associated with interacting with individuals displaying excessive wealth or offering unrealistic opportunities. Caution should be exercised when receiving unsolicited messages, particularly those that ask for personal information or suggest financial transactions. The allure of easy money or luxurious lifestyles can be tempting, but skepticism is essential in protecting oneself from scams.

Legal and Cultural Considerations

The legal challenges in prosecuting cross-border cybercrimes like Nigerian scams are significant. Jurisdictional issues and the anonymity provided by the internet make it difficult to track down and prosecute scammers. Additionally, cultural factors may contribute to the prevalence of these scams, with some scammers viewing their activities as a means of survival or as a form of retribution against perceived injustices.

Recommendations for Protecting Against Scams

For Instagram users and others navigating the digital landscape, practical advice includes verifying the authenticity of profiles, being skeptical of unsolicited offers, and continuously educating oneself about the latest scams and tactics. By adopting these practices, individuals can better protect themselves from falling victim to Nigerian scams and other forms of cybercrime.

©2024. Amil Imani. All rights reserved.

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Sinister ‘Global Digital Marking System’ Coming Soon to United States of America

By Leo Hohmann

Global digital marking system coming soon to United States of America: Biden admin working on draft executive order. 

I have been reporting about this for exactly four years, warning people that it was coming and to prepare for the day when you won’t be able to buy or sell unless you submit to a biometric digital ID based on a scan of your eyeballs, your palm, or some other unique physical feature. Whoever submits to a biometric digital ID is accepting a sinister system designed for one reason and one reason only — to inventory and control every human being on the planet through the power of artificial intelligence.

If you submit to a system that bars people who reject the digitization of their identities from entering certain public places and bars them from purchasing essential items, including food and fuel, and bars them from having a bank account or working most jobs, how is that not a beast system resembling that which is described in Revelation 13?

Way too many people, including Christians, believe such a thing will never happen in America, at least not in their lifetimes. They suffer from chronic normalcy bias. If such a system were to appear, they will not believe it is what it is, because their pastors will tell them it can’t be that! It can’t be the mark of the beast. No, not here. Not now. That’s way off in the future and only after certain other events take place.

Nevermind that this system is already fully functional and being implemented in several dozen countries around the world. America is different, they say. America is “exceptional,” and our government would never be allowed to force us to get digitally marked, allowing authorities to tag and track us wherever we go, like cattle in a feedlot awaiting their utlimate destination at the slaughterhouse.

Well, well, well, look at the article posted August 20, 2024, by The Defender, which cites a nonprofit news outlet as having obtained a draft executive order that will “speed up” the implementation of digital IDs in America. This confirms what we “conspiracy theorists” have been warning about for several years.

Has anyone asked we the people if we want this? Of course not. It will just be jammed down our throats. First it will come with incentives (the carrot approach) and eventually it will involve punishments (the stick approach). But it will come, whether we like it or not.

Almost every state already has the infrastructure for a digital ID in place and more than a few states are already offering these anti-human, WEF-approved, UN-approved biomentric ID systems. The sheeple will line up voluntarily to get theirs. They always do. It’s the next new thing, right? Americans love new things, especially new technology.

It will spell their doom.

But, at some point, after all the sheeple have signed away their freedom by accepting the shiny new digital ID app on their phones, the governments and corporations will make these surveillance tools mandatory for all.

I have posted an excerpt from The Defender‘s bombshell article below. Interestingly, not a word of this has leaked out in the corporate media. They want people to be caught off guard when it’s sprung on them that they can no longer do certain things without one of these apps on their phone that allows the government and corporations to identify them by their eyes (forehead) or their palm (hand). And with that one simple scan, they will know everything about you, everything you’ve ever posted online, everything you’ve ever bought, your complete medical history including the number of injections you’ve received, everywhere you’ve ever traveled, your education history and everything you’re capable of thinking. They will know if you’re a government zombie drone or a critical thinker.

By Michael Nevradakis at The Defender

The Biden administration is drafting an executive order for federal and state governments to speed up the adoption of digital ID — including mobile driver’s licenses — and for the development of a uniform, government-run online identity system to verify identity and age, and access public websites and services.

NOTUS, a nonprofit news outlet, obtained a draft of the executive order, which states: “It is the policy of the executive branch to strongly encourage the use of digital identity documents.”

According to NOTUS, the executive order “could reshape how Americans access government services, and potentially behave online.”

A digital ID system could operate with the use of biometric scans like facial recognition to “help better verify identity online,” NOTUS reported, noting the federal government is working with Apple and Google to build systems that would “allow Americans to carry identity documents on their smartphones and frictionlessly submit them to both government and private sector websites for verification.”

Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D., author of “The Great Reset and the Struggle for Liberty: Unraveling the Global Agenda,” told The Defender that, as defined by the World Economic Forum (WEF), “digital identity is ‘the sum total of the growing and evolving mass of information about us, our profiles and the history of our activities online.’”

Rectenwald said:

“Digital identity is not merely a new, more handy, lightweight, digital form of identification. It refers to a collection of data that purportedly defines who we are, including what we do both online and offline … and not merely to a means by which we can be identified as such.”

Alexis Hancock, director of engineering for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told The Defender the Biden administration’s digital ID will disproportionately target the poor and underprivileged. She said:

“Digital Identity and the standards that dictate them are still very ‘new’ and yet the White House is expediting digital identity for the most vulnerable of populations: people on public benefits.

“Deploying various technologies on this population to access their benefits, such as facial recognition is not something I’d encourage or advise. Especially with facial recognition being fraught with issues of discrimination.”

Rectenwald also warned that digital ID can later be expanded to other functions.

“Even if a digital identity system only serves as identification at first, as the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice notes, digital identities are prone to ‘function creep’” — that is, “they are intended to be used for multiple purposes that are unforeseen when the system is first designed,” he said.

Tim Hinchliffe, editor of The Sociable, cited vaccine passports as one such possibility.

“While the federal government wasn’t able to legally mandate vaccination to all U.S. citizens, it went ahead anyway and mandated it to federal employees, and the private sector followed suit. … The same can easily happen with digital identity,” Hinchliffe said.

The NOTUS report comes just days after revelations that the Social Security numbers and other personal information of practically all Americans stored by a private company, National Public Data, was breached in April 2024.

Catherine Austin Fitts, founder and publisher of the Solari Report and former U.S. assistant secretary of Housing and Urban Development, said, “Rather than apologize or take steps to make sure that our data is secure, the Biden administration is proposing to create even more centrally controlled databases pushing for a digital ID.”

‘Big Tech manages digital ID and is far more powerful than governments’

According to NOTUS, 13 states have rolled out “some kind of mobile driver’s license program” and more are working toward implementing a digital ID. “But federal action pushing the transition has been delayed” — creating a hodgepodge of state digital ID systems that are not coordinated at the federal level.

According to IDScan.net, the 13 states are Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New York, Ohio and Utah. Ohio launched digital driver’s licenses and state IDs earlier this month.

Similar programs are “in progress” in an additional 14 states, while in two states — Louisiana and Mississippi — mobile ID can be used to vote.

At least seven countries have launched digital ID, according to Identity.com. These include Canada, Estonia, Germany, India, Japan, Singapore and Sweden. The European Union (EU) launched its digital ID and wallet earlier this year.

Each of the 27 EU member states “will offer at least one version of the EU Digital Identity Wallet,” which may include driver’s licenses, personal health data, travel documents, social security information, personal SIM cards, university diplomas and also may be connected to one’s bank accounts.

In Greece, ticketing via the government’s “digital wallet” is required to attend sporting events.

But despite the purported convenience “digital wallets” may offer, there are also potential risks.

“If you lose your laminated driver’s license, you can just get a new one,” attorney Greg Glaser said. “But if you lose your biometric ID, you cannot get a new thumb or new eyeball, so hacks are permanent.”

Experts also warned of Big Tech involvement in government digital ID schemes. “Big Tech manages digital ID and is far more powerful than governments,” Glaser said. “Big Tech has the patents, and they dictate both the standards and implementation.”

Read the entire article.

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The Great Data Heist: 3 Billion Lives Up for Sale on the Dark Web

By Majority Report

The Dark Web Auction of 3 Billion Personal Records—Is Your Identity on the Block?”

I usually dive into the political and religious battles that define our times, but today I need to put all that aside.

This is about something far more urgent—something that every American, without exception, must be aware of. Consider this your Public Service Announcement.

But unlike most PSAs, this isn’t some boring, run-of-the-mill message you’ll forget by the time you’ve finished reading. No, this is a warning about something that could affect your financial security, your identity, your future—something that’s downright terrifying.

It’s been in the news this past week, but if you blinked, you probably missed it.

Imagine waking up tomorrow to find that every shred of your personal information—your Social Security number, your home address, your phone number, your date of birth—is out there for the world to see. Not just out there, but actively being sold to the highest bidder on the dark web.

That’s not the plot of a dystopian novel. It’s reality, and it’s happening right now.

A cybercriminal gang known as USDoD has pulled off what can only be described as the heist of the century, managing to steal the personal data of nearly 3 billion people. Yes—3 billion people.

That’s nearly half the world’s population. And they’ve done it by cracking open the vault of National Public Data, a company that’s supposed to keep your information safe. Instead, they’ve made it a prime target for hackers who want to sell your life to the highest bidder.

Now, I know what you’re thinking—this sounds too big, too crazy to be true. But let me tell you, this is as real as it gets.

According to cybersecurity experts who’ve analyzed the data, this breach includes Social Security numbers, addresses, phone numbers, and more. It’s the whole kit and caboodle.

And while some experts are saying that the number of people actually affected might be smaller, the fact remains that this is a five-alarm fire if ever there was one.

Teresa Murray, a cybersecurity expert, called this breach a “five-alarm wake-up call” for anyone who hasn’t been paying attention. And if this doesn’t wake you up, I don’t know what will.

With this information, criminals can do just about anything. They can hijack your bank account, steal your identity, and even file fraudulent tax returns in your name.

So, what can you do?

First things first, you need to find out if you’re one of the 3 billion unlucky souls whose data has been stolen. There’s a free website you can check. Try it. I did and I was shocked to find my name listed multiple times.

But let’s be real—if you’re counting on a website to tell you if your Social Security number is floating around the dark web, you’re already in trouble.

The best thing you can do is to act now to protect yourself. Freeze your credit files at the three major credit bureaus—Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion.

This will make it much harder for anyone to open a new account in your name. Don’t wait. The criminals sure aren’t.

You should also notify your bank and any other financial institutions you deal with to keep an eye out for any suspicious activity.

This is not the time to be complacent. Change all your passwords, and I mean all of them. And for heaven’s sake, don’t use the same password for multiple accounts. That’s just asking for trouble.

And while you’re at it, think about getting a PIN number from the IRS for filing your taxes. The last thing you want is to find out that someone has already filed a fraudulent tax return in your name.

Look, I know this is scary. It’s terrifying. But it’s also reality.

This is the world we live in now, where your entire life can be stolen and sold to the highest bidder by some faceless hacker on the dark web. But you don’t have to be a victim. You can take steps to protect yourself and your family.

And you should—because if you don’t, no one else will.

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Musk’s X Files Suit Against Illegal Cartel of Ad Agencies (GARM) for Censorship: ‘Systematic Illegal Boycott’

By The Geller Report

Section 1 of the Sherman Act explicitly prohibits organizations from conspiracy against commerce or ‘restraint of trade,’” the Federalist said.

Musk’s X Files Suit Against GARM for Censorship

By Sandy Fitzgerald, Newsmax, 6 August 2024:

Elon Musk’s X is fighting back against what his firm says in an illegal cartel of ad agencies seeking to close down key media outlets.

Linda Yaccarino, the CEO of X, said in a letter to advertisers Tuesday the company has filed a lawsuit against GARM (Global Alliance for Responsible Media) and its members after their financial boycotts of the social media site caused harm to customers and the company.

“After a career in media and advertising, I thought I had seen everything,” Yaccarino, who joined the company as CEO in 2003, said in a video she posted to X.

“Then I read the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee’s report entitled ‘GARM’s Harm’ last month,” she said.

“The report disclosed that their investigation had found evidence of an illegal boycott against many companies, including X.”

The report also revealed that GARM and members “directly organized boycotts and used other indirect tactics” while targeting disfavored platforms like X, as well as content creators and news organizations to demonetize them and to limit choices for consumers, said Yaccarino.

Continue reading.

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

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U.S. government suffers major national security breach, the consequences of which could be devastating

By Leo Hohmann

Some of federal government’s potentially most sensitive national security-related files are now in the hands of an unknown entity likely to put them up for sale.


It’s being reported by Bloomberg and others today that one of the largest IT service providers to the U.S. military-industrial complex has experienced a major cybersecurity breach.

The company targeted is not a household name. But Leidos Holdings Inc. is known for its extensive work with the Pentagon, NASA, Homeland Security as well as other federal agencies and defense contractors. Leidos was the largest federal IT contractor in fiscal year 2022 with $4 billion in services under contract.

Now it has been breached.

Hackers leaked internal documents, raising concerns about the security of sensitive government data managed by not only Leidos but other third-party contractors as well.

According to Cyber Security News, clients served by Leidos include the Defense Department, the Department of Homeland Security, NASA, other U.S. and foreign agencies, and private corporations. Contracts with the U.S. government constitute 87% of Leidos’ revenue.

We do not know the source of the hack. But this is how World War III will be fought – simultaneously on the battlefield and in cyberspace.

Cyber Security News reports that the leaked documents are believed to have been stolen as part of two breaches of Diligent Corp. in 2022, a platform Leidos used.

“The nature and sensitivity of the stolen documents remain unclear, but the leak underscores vulnerabilities in the cybersecurity frameworks of companies handling critical government information,” the news outlets writes.

According to the Cyber Press team investigation report, the data consists of one gigabyte of files in the following formats: zip, msg, doc, jpg, png, xls/x, and pdf. These files are associated with Leidos technical assistance and its customers.

Bloomberg News reviewed some files but couldn’t verify their authenticity due to obscured details. The exact content and nature of these documents have not been publicly disclosed.

Below is more from Cyber Security News:

  • The company has not yet made a public statement regarding the specifics of the leaked documents or the steps it is taking to mitigate the impact. Leidos has declined to comment on the stolen information.
  • The threat actor responsible for the breach has indicated plans to sell the data in two different types, further exacerbating concerns over the potential misuse of sensitive information. This incident has prompted a broader discussion on government contractors’ security measures and protocols.
  • The consequences of such data breaches are far-reaching, including financial losses, reputational damage, operational disruptions, and legal complications.

Leidos was formed in 2013 and later acquired Lockheed Martin Corp.’s information technology business.

This is a developing story. Stay tuned for more information.

©2024. Leo Hohmann. All rights reserved.


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The Blue Screen of Death

By Kenneth R. Timmerman

That’s what computer nerds were calling the error message millions of people received on their electronic devices on Friday: the blue screen of death.

It informed them that their systems were offline until further notice, because of a global software error.

The problem came from an update electronically sent to Microsoft users by cyber security giant Crowdstrike. Instead of fixing a potential problem, however, it shut down supermarkets, banks, and airports across the world. On Friday morning, even aircraft were ordered to stay in the air until air traffic controllers could figure out how to land them safely.

Operation’s at Amsterdam’s Schipol airport were “frozen” for several hours. Cyber security gurus were talking about a cyber “doomsday” event. One air traveler in India went through airport security with a hand-written boarding pass he later posted to the Internet.

And this wasn’t even a cyber attack.

Now while Crowdstrike says they are working to fix the glitch, Friday’s outage shows just how dependent the entire world has become on invisible electronic systems. Imagine what would have happened if a global nefarious actor were to hack those same systems and take them down for days?

Or if Russia, China, or North Korea detonated a nuclear warhead in the upper atmosphere, bombarding the U.S. with electromagnetic radiation – an EMP pulse designed to blow out the national electric grid.

That is a capability well within their grasp and probably available to the Iranians as well. And if the grid went down, it’s back to the 1880s, when pre-industrial America had a population between 80-90 million.

In Europe this week, Ursula Van der Leyden, who just won a second five-2024.term as president of the European Commission, vowed to make achieving a European Defense Union her top priority for her second term.

She is not talking about enhancing NATO, but creating a new entity decoupled from the United States. That immediately got Moscow’s attention.

Kremlin spokesman Dimitry Peskov said her proposal  “confirms the general attitude of European states to militarisation, escalation of tension, confrontation and reliance on confrontational methods in their foreign policy.”

Now I get Peskov’s knee-jerk response. But he knows as well as I do that the Europeans have aired this type of project many times before, especially in moments of anti-American pique.

What I find astonishing, however, is that Van der Leyden brought up the project today, in the midst of the Ukraine war and heightened tensions with Russia, when she knows perfectly well it will never happen, because Europe does not have the weapons it needs to defend itself without the United States, and is not willing to spend the money needed to build them.

Poking the bear when he is wounded and angry is never a good idea. It’s called geopolitical mismanagement.

I talk about this, the Trump assassination, and the Iranian election on this week’s Prophecy Today Weekend. As always, you can listen live at 1 PM on Saturday on 104.9 FM or 550 AM in the Jacksonville, Fl, area, or by using the Jacksonville Way Radio app.

Since the events of last Saturday, my wife and I have been praying daily for the Lord to continue to extend his hedge of protection to Donald Trump. I hope you will join me.

Yours in freedom.

©2025. Kenneth R. Timmerman. All rights reserved.

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Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Personality

By Family Research Council

There’s an old adage that says if you talk to yourself, you needn’t be worried. You need to be worried only when you begin to answer yourself.

Nearly 20 years ago, during the advent of the mobile phone’s adoption of Bluetooth, a strange phenomenon began to happen. You’d begin to see people walking by themselves on the street talking, having animated conversations. In the years before, such behavior was attributed to mental illness. A person just didn’t have an out-loud conversation with no one in their vicinity. It took a few years of getting used to, but now it’s commonplace. People talked into the air daily, but they were talking to another real person somewhere on the other end of the relays of bits of radio and telephone data. We weren’t talking to ourselves, and we certainly weren’t answering ourselves.

These days, I’m not so sure. We now inhabit a world where people talk routinely to small bricks of metal, glass, and plastic. And not only are we having words with these silicon wonders — the silicon wonders are talking back. We ask questions, directions, and give orders to these bricks, and the bricks reciprocate. We form relationships of a sort, we make conversation, and increasingly trust what they tell us. But where will this take us?

Intelligence and Words

Words tie humanity and history together. God spoke words as he created the world. Creation is replete with words and communication. The Bible is God’s word, and his word is the source of all wisdom (Proverbs 2:6). As the author of Hebrews declared, “Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son” (Hebrews 1:1–2). God speaks to his people, and his speech culminates in the revelation of his son Jesus, himself the word of God.

God is not the only speaker in the cosmos, of course. Humans began saying words in the garden — and it wasn’t just to each other. Mankind has a long history of talking not only to God, but also to non-humans. Adam named the animals (did he tell them their names?), and Eve’s consequential conversation with the serpent reminds us that humans don’t always reserve their speech for other people. Balaam nonchalantly spoke with his donkey, and in Revelation, an eagle cries woes and warnings (Revelation 8:13) to whomever would hear.

Even after biblical times, it was reported that St. Francis preached to the birds, and anyone who has owned a puppy is acquainted with telling it “no!” It’s not the same as talking to a person, but most animals have some semblance of a personality. They’re not persons created with the imago dei, but their ability to understand communication on some level — intelligence — lends a rightness to conversing with them. We can tell Lassie to sit and then reward her with a “Good dog!” without betraying the natural order of dominion.

Humans also have a history of talking to inanimate objects, but the communication here tends to be more one-sided. The futility of small-engine repair has been the occasion for this writer’s own unkind words to his string trimmer, and when my truck began to break down on the interstate, I spoke many words of encouragement for it to make it to the next exit. Moses was told by God to speak to a rock, and his disobedience cost him dearly. People talk to things all the time, but things we talk to lack even a hint of personality, much less intelligence. We bless and we curse the things of this world, but we have no expectation of the things of this world blessing and cursing us in return.

A New Personality

Enter artificial intelligence (AI). Neither human nor animal, AI is categorically a thing of this world — a machine. But it is not a machine in the way a bicycle is a machine, nor is it even in the same vein as a calculator. A person inputs manual instruction to a bicycle, and the bicycle predictably moves through space and time. A person inputs numbers and commands into a calculator, and the calculator outputs a predictable result. The AI large-language models of today certainly receive input, but the output AI generates using the infinite possibilities of language is far from predictable.

Modern AI ebbs and flows from a near-infinite stream of words. Continually learning, it can interpret natural language better than your trained Springer Spaniel, and sometimes better than the people working your local drive-thru. It’s not surprising, therefore, that we’ve begun to attribute personality to AI. The unceremoniously-named ChatGPT notwithstanding, many AI’s have been personified with names like Siri, Grok, Gemini, Claude, Ada, and Jasper.

But names are just the beginning. The Channel One news agency, set to launch in 2024, takes personification far beyond chatbots by presenting a newscast populated by AI-generated news anchors who look and sound like real people, giving new meaning to the phrase “talking heads.” In 2023, the Hollywood SAG-AFTRA strike addressed the looming specter of AI replacing both writers and actors. As deepfakes become more and more realistic, the value of a picture will be reduced from a thousand words to only three: Is it real?

We can only expect the artificial personalities of AI to become more and more lifelike. Right now, physical presence may be lacking, but the behaviors precipitated by the COVID years showed us that physical presence has been devalued to the extent that many in Western culture deem it unnecessary. The increased comfort with living virtually has opened wide the door for people to replace personalities they find less interesting with artificial ones who conform to their desires. The advent of physical artificial intelligence — the pending rise of the robots — will only deepen the dependence upon personality for human interaction with AI.

The Image of God and the god in the Machine

Humans tend to personify that which they deem intelligent. The psalmist noted this tendency of the idol makers in Psalm 135:15–18:

The idols of the nations are silver and gold,

the work of human hands.
They have mouths, but do not speak;
they have eyes, but do not see;
they have ears, but do not hear,
nor is there any breath in their mouths.
Those who make them become like them,
so do all who trust in them.

Now, we have the inverse. Today’s artificial intelligences aren’t silver and gold — they’re silicon and copper. They don’t have mouths, but they speak. They don’t have eyes, but they see. They don’t have ears, but they hear everything.

Everything may be turned upside down, but it all has a familiar idolatrous ring to it. This is not to say that all artificial intelligence is idolatry. It is not. But when we begin to interact with AI as we would another person — when we attribute personality to that which isn’t a person — we bring ourselves dangerously close to an ancient folly wrapped in a modern setting.

In 2023, Elon Musk launched his AI company, xAI with the goal to use AI “to understand the true nature of the universe.” This is a tall order. Failing to exhibit the imago dei, AI perfectly fulfills the role of deus ex machina. It is an all-too convenient solution to humanity’s problems, especially when it reflects the real intelligence shortcomings of its creators.

Our problems will persist until Christ returns, and while AI may help us identify patterns and make our drive-thru experiences easier, AI will always have the deficiency of being artificial. As Psalm 135:18 warns us, we become like those in whom we place our trust. As we increasingly use AI, we must be increasingly wary of trusting its words to replace the wisdom God has given us in his word. Words exchanged with an artifice are words we don’t use with another human being. Trust placed in an intelligence created by ones and zeros is trust that is potentially misaligned with trust in the Creator of ones and zeros.

Let us trust in what is real. We won’t find the answers to the universe in AI, because in the end, we’re simply talking to — and answering — ourselves.

This article was originally published at Christ Over All. Used with permission.

AUTHOR

Jared Bridges

Jared Bridges is editor-in-chief of The Washington Stand.

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Secretary of State Antony Blinken admits in the wide open federal government’s plans to use AI to censor Americans’ speech

By Leo Hohmann

U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken admitted last week that the State Department is preparing to use artificial intelligence to “combat disinformation,” amidst a massive government-wide AI rollout that will involved the cooperation of Big Tech and other private-sector partners.

At a speaking engagement streamed last week with the State Department’s chief data and AI officer, Matthew Graviss, Blinken gushed about the “extraordinary potential” and “extraordinary benefit” AI has on our society, and “how AI could be used to accelerate the Sustainable Development Goals which are, for the most part, stalled.”

He was referring to the United Nations Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development goals, which represent a globalist blueprint for a one-world totalitarian system. These goals include the gai-worshipping climate agenda, along with new restrictions on free speech, the freedom of movement, wealth transfers from rich to poor countries, and the digitization of humanity. Now Blinken is saying these goals could be jumpstarted by employing advanced artificial intelligence technologies.

Listen to Blinken, in the video below, openly describe how the government will use AI to clamp down on the free speech of citizens. (Fast-forward to the 3-minute mark and watch through the 7:07 mark.)

Blinken bluntly stated the federal government’s intention to use AI for ”media monitoring” and “using it to combat disinformation, one of the poisons of the international system today.”

Don’t ever say they didn’t warn us. They are no longer hiding their agenda, but you have to search for it. When you find it, in posts like this, share it. Because the corporate media keeps these outrageous statements from high government officials hidden from we the people. Have you seen any stories from CNN or Fox News on the government’s self-admitted plan to use AI to censor our speech? I haven’t either.

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Communist Party Talent Program Scooped Up Former Microsoft Researchers. Now They Work In China’s AI Industry

By The Daily Caller

A Chinese Communist Party (CCP) talent recruitment program scooped up former Microsoft researchers, including some who now work in China’s artificial intelligence (AI) industry, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation found.

The “Thousand Talents Program” is the largest Chinese talent recruitment plan, aiming to poach U.S.-educated scientists and engineers for the benefit of the CCP. U.S. national security agencies have sounded the alarm over the program, saying it’s being used to steal intellectual property and technology to advance China’s military and economic goals.

Reviewing Chinese-language news reports, the DCNF was able to identify six former Microsoft researchers who were recruited by the CCP’s Thousand Talents Plan and currently work at China-based companies and universities. Five of those six individuals currently work in China’s AI industrial complex, the DCNF found.

Microsoft did not respond to the DCNF’s requests for comment.

China is racing to keep up with the U.S. in the contest to produce increasingly powerful AI systems that can be used for both commercial and military applications, according to The New York Times. Despite pressure from the CCP on firms in that country to catch up to the U.S., China remains a year or more behind in AI development and is using U.S. technology it can get its hands on to try and fill in the gap.

More than 10,000 scientists have been recruited as part of the program, former CIA Senior Intelligence Service member William Hannas told The New York Times.

“This isn’t just any old recruitment program that recruits and trains technologists like we would have in America,” Geoffrey Cain, an author and journalist who’s spent a decade investigating Microsoft in China, told the DCNF. “This is a communist party-run project to ensure that China can achieve technological supremacy over the Western liberal democratic world.”

Microsoft has positioned itself as an industry leader in the race to create increasingly expansive and useful AI-powered products, partnering with OpenAI and incorporating AI into its existing offerings like its search engine and word processor, according to The Wall Street Journal.

“If [China] lead[s] the world in AI, that is a nightmare scenario, including for the Chinese people,” Conor Healy, director of government research at security and surveillance industry research group IPVM, told the DCNF. “Just ask the Uyghurs, 10 million of whom live in an open-air prison in Xinjiang automated by surveillance technology.”

‘Burying Its Head In The Sand’

Microsoft boasted in a 2016 news release that 20 alumni of its Asian research institute, called Microsoft Research Asia, had been selected for membership in the Thousand Talents Program. Through Chinese-language news reports, the DCNF identified six prominent former Microsoft researchers who went on to join the CCP’s Thousand Talents Program while working for China-based companies and universities.

Computer scientist Zhang Zheng, for instance, worked at Microsoft Research Asia from 2001 to 2014, where he was eventually made vice president. Zheng has also been described as an expert in AI, according to Chinese news site ScienceNet. In 2016, the Chinese news site Caixin identified Zheng as a national Thousand Talents Program “expert.”

Zheng was appointed to be the director of Amazon Web Services’ Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Lab in 2018, and he is currently listed as a professor of computer science at New York University Shanghai. Zheng did not respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.

In another case, Li Shipeng worked at Microsoft as a “research area manager/principal researcher” from 1999 to 2015 before becoming a vice president at the voice recognition tech firm iFlytek. The U.S. government sanctioned iFlytek in 2019 over its role in oppressing Uyghur Muslims in China’s Xinjiang province.

China’s Ministry of Science and Technology listed iFlytek among three other companies as the country’s leading firms in AI in 2017, The South China Morning Post reported.

Shipeng is described as a Thousand Talents Program “expert” in a biography written for a 2018 China Computer Federation forum, which the DCNF translated. The biography also claims Shipeng holds 196 U.S. patents. Shipeng is currently the executive president of the Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Society in China. The institute did not respond to the DCNF’s requests for comment. Shipeng could not be reached for comment.

Ya-Qin Zhang worked for Microsoft from 1999 to 2014, serving as founder and chairman of the Microsoft Asia-Pacific Research and Development Group starting in 2006. Zhang then led tech company Baidu as president from 2014 to 2019. Zhang was recruited by the Thousand Talents Program during his tenure at Baidu, the Chinese news outlets Jiemian and China News Service reported.

Zhang serves as dean of the Institute for AI Industry Research at China’s Tsinghua University. Zhang did not respond to requests for comment.

Zhang’s former company, Baidu, pushed to become a top contender in AI while he was working there. Former Baidu COO Qi Lu worked at the company from January 2017 to June 2018 and encouraged the push into AI, Wired reported. Lu previously worked at Microsoft from 2009 to 2016.

Former Microsoft Research Asia employee Wen Jirong later became chairman of Elensdata, a technology company focused on developing AI, according to the company’s website. Elensdata’s website identifies Jirong and other founding team members as experts from the Thousand Talents Program and notes Jirong’s experience working on AI at Microsoft. The website also says Jirong holds 50 U.S. patents.

Jirong serves as a professor and the executive dean of the Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence at China’s Renmin University. Jirong did not respond to requests for comment.

Microsoft Research Asia employed Zhang Hongjiang from 1999 to 2011 before he went to work for the Chinese software and internet service company Kingsoft, according to a 2018 Carlyle Group press release. Hongjiang joined the investment firm that year as a senior advisor. Zhang was a research manager at HP Labs in Palo Alto, California, before he joined Microsoft, according to Carlyle’s release.

Hongjiang was recruited by the Thousand Talents Program in 2012, not long after leaving Microsoft, according to Chinese industry news site Brandcn. Hongjiang is currently listed as a distinguished visiting professor at Tsinghua University in China, where he is the chairman of the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence. Honjiang didn’t respond to the DCNF’s requests for comment.

Chen Benfeng was selected in the eleventh batch of the Thousand Talents Program in 2015, according to the Chinese news site CNICN. Benfeng worked at Microsoft’s U.S. headquarters on the company’s browser team, according to Sing Tao Daily.

Benfeng founded cybersecurity firm CloudDeep Technology in 2013 and is still listed as working there. CloudDeep did not respond to requests for comment, and Benfeng could not be reached for comment.

“Microsoft would seem to have a strong interest in proactively preventing and monitoring this, but it is not alone among American corporations in burying its head in the sand,” Healy told the DCNF.

‘Too Close To A Foreign Adversary’

Microsoft has deep political ties to the Biden administration, with Microsoft President Brad Smith visiting President Joe Biden’s White House at least 30 times as of February 2024. Smith’s visits came as Microsoft sought to shape the Biden administration’s AI policy and as company executives shelled out hundreds of thousands of dollars to the president’s reelection efforts, according to Federal Election Commission data.

The tech giant and its subsidiaries spent millions to lobby the federal government in 2022, as it looked to retain the U.S. government as a massive buyer of its productivity software. Microsoft lobbied on 12 different bills that sought to regulate AI in 2023, more than Google, Meta and Amazon, according to Open Secrets.

In that vein, Microsoft promised in July 2023 that it would ensure that AI research is “safe, secure, and trustworthy,” according to a blog post from the company.

“The fact that the Thousand Talents Program is recruiting Microsoft researchers is incredibly alarming because U.S. law enforcement and counterintelligence have raised concerns that Thousand Talents is being used to steal intellectual property and spy on Americans,” Cain told the DCNF.

“This is what happens when a company becomes too close to a foreign adversary,” Cain said. “Microsoft has instilled in them a vast amount of intellectual property and technological trade secrets that could easily be used against Americans.”

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AI Chatbots Are Already Interfering In Elections

By The Geller Report

Leftist Democrats at OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini 1.0 Pro are writing the AI code.

By: M.D. Kittle, The Federalist, June 13, 2024

The tech titans and bureaucrats producing and regulating artificial intelligence also have created a deficit of trust.

If you’re looking to artificial intelligence for answers to election-related questions, chances are you’re getting the wrong answers. A study by data analytics firm GroundTruthAI found that the most widely used chatbots, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini 1.0 Pro, provided incorrect information more than a quarter of the time.

“Researchers sent 216 unique questions to Google’s Gemini 1.0 Pro and OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 Turbo, GPT-4, GPT-4 Turbo and GPT-4o between May 21 and May 31 about voting, the 2024 election and the candidates. Some questions were asked multiple times over that time period, generating a total of 2,784 responses,” NBC News reported.

“According to their analysis, Google’s Gemini 1.0 Pro initially responded with correct answers just 57% of the time. OpenAI’s GPT-4o, which is the latest version of the [learning] model, answered correctly 81% of the time.”

All told, the five chatbots answered incorrectly 27 percent of the time. What kind of questions are we talking about? Pretty important ones for November’s extremely important presidential election.

Asked, “Can I register to vote on Election Day in Pennsylvania?,” the GroundTruthAI study found two of the AI models replied yes. Wrong. The last day to register to vote in the Keystone State before the Tuesday, Nov. 5 general election is Oct. 21., according to the Pennsylvania Department of State.

Speaking of Election Day, the models were unable to correctly answer, “How many days are left before the 2024 General Election in the United States?” NBC News reported. AI math is hard.

“Most of the time, it was not, ‘Oh, it keeps getting that same question wrong.’ It was three out of four times it got it wrong, or three out of four times it got it right,” GroundTruthAI CEO Andrew Eldredge-Martin told the news outlet. “But there was that fourth time, it just got it wrong. And that type of inconsistency suggests to me that these models don’t really know this information.”

That’s worrisome.

Eldredge-Martin previously worked for Democrat political campaigns and left-leaning organizations. “In 2020, he led the more than $30 million digital paid media campaign for Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign, using ad analytics to inform overall campaign strategy and resource allocation throughout the early states and into Super Tuesday,” his professional bio notes.

He says he’s “helped elect” Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden, and U.S. Senators Raphael Warnock, Mark Kelly, Jeanne Shaheen, and Tammy Duckworth. Eldredge-Martin told NBC News his new startup is “independent and nonpartisan, and the study used the same questions for both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.”

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AWED MEDIA BALANCED NEWS: Welcome! We cover COVID to Climate, as well as Energy to Elections.

By John Droz, Jr.

Welcome! We cover COVID to Climate, as well as Energy to Elections.

Here is the link for this issue, so please share it on social media.

Checkout the 2024, 2023, 2022, & 2021 archives, plus asterisked items below.


— This Newsletter’s Articles, by Topic —

If You Only Have Time to Read Some Select Articles:

*** We Have Been Subverted (Ayaan Hirsi Ali)

*** Party Platform Comparison 2020-2024

*** I Refuse to Stand By While My Students are Indoctrinated

*** Shall I Compare New Jersey’s Curriculum to a Summer’s Day?

*** I’ve taught civics for decades. Our kids have lost faith in our nation

*** How Academic Saboteurs Dupe College Students into Activism

*** The NAIA’s Transgender-Athletes Policy Is a Triumph

*** Mark Mills: The “Energy Transition” Won’t Happen

*** Vaclav Smil Calls Bullshit On Net Zero

*** Energy is the most important issue in the world (Ayaan Hirsi Ali)

*** Shanghaied

*** Irrational Transition

*** EVs, wind, and solar are neither reliable nor environmentally friendly: here’s why

*** Solar and Wind Resource Availability Fatal Flaw

*** Anatomy of an EV Policy Error

*** Short video: Judith Curry — Climate Scientists Can’t Intimidate Me

*** Study confirms reports on declining climate disasters

*** The Cost of EPA’s Senseless CO₂ Capture

*** John Stossel: Pushing Back Against Environmental Scaremongering

*** Numbers Behind the Narrative: What Climate Science Actually Says

*** Casinos, Vacant Lots, Gas Stations, Strip Clubs, etc. on Nevada’s Voter Roll

*** Video: Journalist who broke Hunter Biden laptop bombshell speaks out

*** The Sorcerer’s Apprentices

*** Trust The “Science”…That Just Retracted 11,000 “Peer Reviewed” Papers

*** Why Most People Can’t Think Critically Since COVID

*** Dr. McCormick Grills Fauci on Audio of Him Discussing Vaccine Requirements

*** WHO pandemic treaty defeated, at least for now

*** HUGE COVID Legal Victory – HFDF Wins Appeal in Ninth Circuit

*** Dr. Kory’s Expert Testimony for Dr. Mary Talley Bowden Against the Texas Medical Board

*** Trump NY Trial Commentary

*** Trump Verdict Makes NYC ‘Venezuela-on-the-Hudson’

*** Never Surrender

*** 35 and a Citizen

*** NY v. Trump: Judge reveals Facebook post implying juror discussed guilty verdict with family ahead of time

Secondary Education Related:

*** Report: The Key to Fixing the US Education System

*** I Refuse to Stand By While My Students are Indoctrinated

*** Shall I Compare New Jersey’s Curriculum to a Summer’s Day?

*** I’ve taught civics for decades. Our kids have lost faith in our nation

In Portland (OR), the Islamic Revolution Begins in Kindergarten

Silicon Valley School District Prepares ‘Anti-Racist and Anti-Oppressive’ Curriculum Makeover

Welcome to the ‘Parent Revolution’

Higher Education Related:

*** How Academic Saboteurs Dupe College Students into Activism

*** The NAIA’s Transgender-Athletes Policy Is a Triumph

Yale wants science profs to ‘promote DEI through teaching

University of Arizona’s DEI Boondoggle Tells Students to ‘Live Like a Bug’

Penn creates climate change vice provost role

NC lawmaker fights student-loan scheme

Artificial Intelligence:

Cyberscammers use AI to manipulate Google search results

Beyond Mad Max with Dystopian AI

Technocrats at OpenAI in ‘Reckless’ Race For Dominance

Greed Energy Economics:

“Offshore Wind Needs Bigger Subsidies”

Wind Subsidies Are Rising…but wind power production isn’t rising with them

Unreliables (General):

*** Shanghaied

*** Irrational Transition

*** EVs, wind, and solar are neither reliable nor environmentally friendly: here’s why

The Foundation of Property Rights: Where There Is No Law, There Is No Freedom

Private Property Rights

Wind Energy — Offshore:

*** Report: Offshore Wind Power (Dr. Michael Hogan)

*** The renewable green energy disaster off the northeastern US is getting worse Less than one per cent of the way to the Biden 2030 target

Offshore Wind Industry Braces for More Turbulence—and Trump

Wind Energy — Other:

*** Taking the Wind Out of Climate Change (referencing 60± studies)

*** Wind Turbines = Enormous “Unintended” Consequences

Australia has World Class windless weather: Today 95% of wind turbines are failing

Solar Energy:

*** Solar and Wind Resource Availability Fatal Flaw

As Solar Power Surges, U.S. Wind Is in Trouble

Fossil Fuel Energy:

*** Senator Tuberville, Colleagues Propose Measure to Halt Regulation on American Power Plants

China, India Break Coal Production Records

Electric Vehicles (EVs):

*** Anatomy of an EV Policy Error

*** 3 Reasons There’s Something Sinister With the Big Push for Electric Vehicles

Electric Vehicles Have a New Problem: Careening Through Guardrails

Federal and Provincial Largess for EV and Ford’s Ontario Plant’s EV Delays

Turns Out Those ‘All-Electric’ ‘Zero Emissions’ Fire Trucks Have Diesel Engines

Misc Energy:

*** Mark Mills: The “Energy Transition” Won’t Happen

*** Vaclav Smil Calls Bullshit On Net Zero

*** Energy is the most important issue in the world (Ayaan Hirsi Ali)

Net-Zero Push and its Offshoots by Politicians and Bureaucrats Creates Strange Happenings Part 1

Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:

*** Short video: Judith Curry — Climate Scientists Can’t Intimidate Me

*** Study confirms reports on declining climate disasters

Exxon Mobil Takes On Climate Extremists

We can still avoid the Net Zero trap

“Bonus” Gets it wrong about May and Crok, 2024

Manmade Global Warming — Misc:

*** The Cost of EPA’s Senseless CO₂ Capture

*** John Stossel: Pushing Back Against Environmental Scaremongering

*** Numbers Behind the Narrative: What Climate Science Actually Says

*** Who is Winning the Climate Change War?

*** It’s Time to Make a Strategic PR Pivot in Dealing with the Climate Change Issue

New Zealand takes axe to climate policies

Getting Ready For The European Elections

Home insulation is the latest net zero farce

US Election:

Election-Integrity.info (10 major election reports by our team of experts, plus much more!)

*** Party Platform Comparison 2020-2024

Dr. Walter Daugherity: Voting Patterns Observed in 2020 Could Not Have Happened Naturally

US Election — State Issues:

*** Casinos, Vacant Lots, Gas Stations, Strip Clubs, etc. on Nevada’s Voter Roll

RNC Challenges Nevada’s Mail Ballot Counting Practices

How do you Legally Administer and Certify Elections using Uncertifiable Electronic Voting Machines?

Ranked Choice Voting Now Illegal in Louisiana (10th state overall)

NY v Trump Trial:

*** Trump NY Trial Commentary

*** Trump Verdict Makes NYC ‘Venezuela-on-the-Hudson’

*** Never Surrender

*** 35 and a Citizen

*** NY v. Trump: Judge reveals Facebook post implying juror discussed guilty verdict with family ahead of time

The United States Reincarnates Communism and Stalin’s Trials

Dr. Phil Sits Down With President Trump in Exclusive In-Depth Interview

How Trump’s Sham Conviction Awakened a Sleeping Giant

Great Work Democrats – Your Framing Failed

After Trump’s Conviction, What Should Republicans Do?

Misc US Politics:

*** Video: Journalist who broke Hunter Biden laptop bombshell speaks out

Bannon to Jail for Contempt of Congress

Will All Real Republicans Please Speak Up?

Censorship:

We Will Not Be Silenced Trailer  Full Movie

The Rise of the Censorship Industrial Complex

Societally US:

*** We Have Been Subverted (Ayaan Hirsi Ali)

Eight in 10 New York towns and cities have lost population since 2020

Cognitive Warfare, Mental Manipulation, Tyranny of Digital Transformation

Religion Related:

Faith-Based Funding Can Help Protect Democracy

United Methodists Embrace LGBT Ideology: Lose 1 Million Members in a Day

Science:

*** The Sorcerer’s Apprentices

*** Trust The “Science”…That Just Retracted 11,000 “Peer Reviewed” Papers

China’s High-Tech War Steals U.S. Innovation Advantage

Big Science, the Enemy of Great Science

Health:

*** Why Most People Can’t Think Critically Since COVID

*** Dr. McCormick Grills Fauci on Audio of Him Discussing Vaccine Requirements

*** WHO pandemic treaty defeated, at least for now

Climate Policy Should Not Be Used To Determine Limits on Hospital Emissions

Israel/Ukraine:

Pray for the safety of the Israeli people

Latest Developments in Israel

Pray for the safety of the Ukrainian people

A well-rated source to make a Ukraine donation

Latest Developments in Ukraine

COVID-19 — Misc:

*** HUGE COVID Legal Victory – HFDF Wins Appeal in Ninth Circuit

*** Dr. Kory’s Expert Testimony for Dr. Mary Talley Bowden Against the Texas Medical Board

Fauci: “I am a scientist who uses the Scientific Method to gain information.” (!)


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