The left is nothing at all, if they aren’t racist and sexist. In a continued propaganda war against White females, the obsessed left have freaked out after hearing that polling is showing White Suburban Women are tired of the Democrats and planning on voting for Republicans.
Instead of asking why the Democrat Party can’t please White Women and why Democrats don’t represent their concerns, Democrats attack White Women with nasty, nasty verbal attacks.
And this is why- Democrats are likely going to lose:
Democrats are getting hit with a one-two electoral punch. The shift among Hispanics in key states and regions is the straight left, and the swing among suburban white women is the overhand right.
Two blocs they thought were a lock.
It makes a wipeout so much more likely.
— Rich Baris THE PEOPLE'S PUNDIT (@Peoples_Pundit) November 3, 2022
The chicks at the View TV show are not ok with it and sounded off just days ahead of the looming mid-terms, basically called White women who vote for Republicans, escalating the violent rhetoric against the group, as vermin.
The Daily Mail reported with some details about the show and the comments by the View:
The View’s vocally liberal hosts sparked debate on Thursday, with Sunny Hostin comparing white women who vote Republican to ‘roaches’, Joy Behar labeling the GOP a ‘cult’ and Sara Haines saying every Republican candidate in the midterms was an election denier.
The women were discussing the forthcoming elections and key issues like abortion, crime and inflation when Hostin – a devout Catholic who is anti-abortion but thinks it should be legal and unrestricted – referred to a poll which showed the number of white women voting Republican is increasing.
‘The abortion issue. I read a poll that white, suburban women are now voting going to vote Republican. It’s almost like roaches voting for Raid. They are voting against their own self-interest. Do they want to live in Gilead? Do they want to live in The Handmaid’s Tale?’ she said.
Watch a little:
White women voting for Republicans are like roaches voting for raid. If a host said this about anyone other than white people they’d be immediately fired. pic.twitter.com/8H08ml04xu
‘It’s insulting to the voter. Do we love democracy or not? People make up decisions on what’s right for their family.
Sunny Hostin on abortion and inflation
‘The abortion issue. I read a poll that white Republican suburban, women are now voting going to vote Republican. It’s almost like roaches voting for Raid. They are voting against their own. self-interest. Do they want to live in Gilead? Do they want to live in The Handmaid’s Tale?’
People are not educating themselves on it. Domestic inflation is down to corporate greed.
Joy Behar on the GOP
You’re not voting for Republicans, you’re voting for a cult! Remember that. It’s a cult. It’s not Republicans anymore!
Inflation fluctuates, democracy does not. I feel like people are not comprehending the seriousness of what is going on.
Sara Haines on ‘election deniers’
‘It used to be just Donald Trump, now it’s everyone running on the Republican side.
‘That scares me more than anything. Even women’s rights is second for me.’
‘The idea that you should have a say for everyone else’s vote… You had a different view on abortion not that long ago,’ she challenged Hostin.
Hostin shot back: ‘I have that view. I am Catholic. That is my faith. I believe that abortion is wrong – for me. There is a separation between government and church.
‘I do not have the right to tell someone else. They are voting against their own self interest.’
The conversation moved on, with Sara Haines lamenting Democrats for not successfully enough assuaging voters’ fears over crime, and admitting that Republicans are stronger on messaging.
‘I would say the Republicans are [winning the messaging battle.] I tend to vote independent and left.
‘This is what’s frustrating me right now…the issues we’re seeing the most is inflation – that’s low hanging fruit, any party in control during a bad economy is going to be blamed – but then crime and abortion are the other two top issues.
The problem with the crime is, the only thing the left is saying, is “it’s a right-wing talking point, it’s nothing.”
‘I don’t believe the left is light on crime but what people say matters to them. You can’t dismiss them.
‘If they say there’s crime, it doesn’t even matter what the statistics are, if they feel unsafe, you have to answer that. The left is not soft on crime.
‘Only super far progressives might believe in alternatives to police and all these weird things, but the majority of people that are moderate and left are not soft on crime.
‘Answer the question though don’t say, “the right’s making it up”, say “I hear you, and this is what I’ll do.”‘
She went on to say that the top issue for her, above women’s rights, was ‘election deniers’.
‘It used to be just Donald Trump, now it’s everyone running on the Republican side.
‘That scares me more than anything. Even women’s rights is second for me.’
Behar then jumped it: ‘You’re not voting for Republicans, you’re voting for a cult! Remember that. It’s a cult. It’s not Republicans anymore!’
President Donald Trump called for the impeachment of his nemesis Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R‑KY) Thursday, just days ahead of a midterm election in which McConnell could take the reins of the upper chamber.
Earlier in the month McConnell showed his true colors, when he tried to tank a Republican who had been endorsed by Trump:
After RINO traitor McConnell removed his PAC funding from Blake Masters campaign, The Club for Growth just sent $5.5 Million to boost him! ♥️ pic.twitter.com/46HalGvn3a
While theorizing that McConnell could buck the GOP and collude with the Democrats to “blow the debt ceiling up,” Trump insinuated that the Democrats may have blackmail on him and argued that impeachment could be a remedy if McConnell betrays the party.
Trump’s comment was prompted when he was pressed by the host of American Sunrise on Real America News about Democrats “scheming” to collude “with some of the RINOs,” an abbreviation for Republicans in name only, “to blow the debt ceiling up.”
“Mitch McConnell keeps allowing [them] to have it. I mean, they ought to impeach Mitch McConnell if he allows that. Frankly, Mitch McConnell, something has to be — they have something on him. How he approves this thing is incredible,” he said in the interview.
Trump this morning calls for Mitch McConnell to be impeached: “They ought to impeach Mitch McConnell .. they have something on him.” pic.twitter.com/qP5UPtml7g
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said he hopes Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk, acts “responsibly.”
“He’s going to be in a position of responsibility with respect to an important platform, and we hope that he exercises that position responsibly,” Mayorkas told ABC News Chief Justice Correspondent Pierre Thomas during an interview at DHS headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Musk, who acquired Twitter for roughly $44 billion last week, and has spent his first-week making radical changes to the platform and pushing for free speech.
Mayorkas focused on a post that Musk made, and retweeted and responded to something that Hillary Clinton had posted, claiming that Musk had removed the inaccurate post “rather rapidly.”
Mayorkas said that, ultimately, it’s up to Congress to regulate social media companies. The government, however, is within its purview to combat mis- and disinformation, he said.
"He's going to be in a position of responsibility with respect to an important platform, and we hope that he exercises that position responsibly," DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told @pierretabc. https://t.co/VYwVtwIrKD
“For example, if it involves the election — if there is false information that [says] you don’t need to vote on Nov. 8… if you miss [the] voting date, you can ask … for permission to vote five days later — with no factual basis, inaccurate information that could deceive an individual into missing their right to exercise their vote. That is something that we will correct,” he said. “That is our responsibility. That is our mission. And we execute it quite proudly.”
Disinformation from nation-state actors could be seen by a vast audience, he said, including during the 2022 midterm election, if it is not stomped out.
“Here in the online environment, the potential audience is vast,” he said. “And what we do, we have a responsibility to make sure that the American public receives accurate information.”
Earlier this year, DHS established and then quickly shut down a Disinformation Governance Board that was aimed at combatting disinformation but it was criticized by both sides of the aisle.
Mayorkas told ABC News that leaders have a responsibility to combat misinformation.
“The words of leaders matter a lot, and we need leaders to act responsibly,” he said. “It is the responsibility of government, not just the Department of Homeland Security. The responsibility of government. It is a responsibility of leaders. It is the responsibility of people in positions of trust to communicate accurate information to the American public and disabuse them of falsehoods.”
He is concerned about the “temperature” in the country and the divisiveness, the secretary added
EXCLUSIVE: Shady CCP-Tied, Epstein-Directed Nonprofit Figures Prominently in Commie Takeover of Brazil
Last Updated on October 31, 2022
The Chinese Communist Party and its globalist influence operations such as the CCP-Tied Taihe Institute figure prominently in the Communist takeover of Brazil, dominating the political life of Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, Brazil’s left-wing President-elect known widely as “Lula”.
Through his prior terms as President and his continued work with left-wing globalist elites, Lula is tied to two of Communist China’s most notorious influence outfits, which National File has covered extensively.
Lula, who was sprung from prison on corruption charges before his globalist-backed election, has deep ties to Communist China and its malign influence networks like the CCP-led Taihe and Epstein-directed Humpty Dumpty Institutes.
Lula, the Brazillian leftist, is “closely attached” to Bulgarian Communist Irina Bokova who, after the fall of Europe’s Iron Curtain, has set up shop in Beijing and at the United Nations.
National File can exclusively report on Lula’s direct ties to prominent communists in continuation of our in-depth series of articles in conjunction with an investigation completed in party by British Texans working to uncover the shady world of international influence that traces from Mark Epstein in New York, to Michael Sonnenfeldt in Israel, all the way to the Taihe Institute in Beijing.
As Director-General of UNESCO in 2011, Bokova spoke of her close relationship with Lula in an address to the World Social Forum, saying that she was “doubly honored” to be back in his presence and boasted that Lula has a “closely attached” relationship with UNESCO under her leadership.
Based in Brazil with heavy links to Lula, the UN, and Communist China, the World Social Forum is outwardly anti-capitalist.
Bokova hailed her mutual work with Lula on left-wing issues around the globe and in Brazil at the World Social Forum event, as well as Lula’s 2009 winning of UNESCO’s Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize, an award frequently given to left-wing political actors.
Lula not only toed the global left’s talking point line but seemingly called for the end of national allegiances and patriotism in his own acceptance speech of the award.
“There cannot be real peace until the roots of conflict have been destroyed,” Lula said. “So long as there is hunger, inequality, unemployment, but also so long as there is ethnic, religious cultural and ideological intolerance.”
Bokova was educated at an elite Soviet academy in Moscow, training her for the life of a devout Communist Party apparachik. From 2009-2017, she led UNESCO, the UN organization that’s been criticized for its collaboration with Communist regimes for decades.
At UNESCO, she was lauded by the CCP for her work with their regime. She also employed a team of Eastern Bloc, Communist Party “security” veterans with a documented record of brutality.
Her work with the CCP appears to have paid off for her though, as now, Bokova is a high-ranking member of the CCP and PLA-led Taihe Institute, a “think tank” that seeks to spread Chinese Communism around the globe and even operates research centers in the United States.
Among those groups most closely associated with Communist China’s Taihe Institute is the Humpty Dumpty Institute, a globalist influence operation linked to the United Nations, directly partnered with Taihe, and directed by Jeffrey Epstein’s brother Mark. The influence operation has been linked to multiple high-level political figures in the United States and abroad, and works closely with Bokova at Taihe.
During Bokova’s reign at UNESCO, both her sector and the UN as a whole collaborated extensively with Epstein’s HDI.
Irina Bokova works at a high level for the CCP, PLA-led Taihe Institute, a Maoist influence operation.
In 2018, Bokova chaired the Taihi Institute’s “Civilizations Forum,” which was based on “the establishment of a community of a shared future for humankind,” centering around China’s Belt and Road initiative for economic dominance.
In attendance was the Epstein-directed Humpty Dumpty Institute’s Joseph Merante, who provided updates on how HDI, a close Taihe partner group, was promoting the forum’s CCP agenda.
On other occasions, Humpty Dumpty’s leadership has attended and taken part in the Chinese Communist Party’s militaristic rituals, alongside the Taihe Institute. Globally, they’re connected deeply to United Nations, including Bokova’s former UNESCO, and high-ranking officials within both parties of the US government.
Along with the Taihe Institute, HDI is also connected to various factions of the Israeli government, including its global intelligence apparatus.
HDI’s Joseph Merante provides an update to Irina Bokova and Taihe’s leadership in 2018.
In addition to his ties to international Communist and Taihe member Irina Bokova, Lula has been lauded by the CCP for his embrace of Communist China during his prior terms as Brazil’s President.
Among those singing his praises is the CCP-led, Epstein-partnered Taihe Institute.
“Lula’s administration massively expanded economic ties with China,” says Taihe, praising the relationship he built with the Communist state for its pivot away from America and “reconfiguration of the world’s commercial and diplomatic geography.”
Both in and out of office, Lula has been openly affectionate for the CCP, even hailing their COVID “response,” in which China massively expanded its global influence despite being ground zero for the disease outbreak, as an example for the rest of the world.
On the geopolitical stage, Brazil is considered a massive prize for China and the global left. Forecasters say that in his latest term as President, Lula can be expected to cozy the critical nation up to China and its authoritarian regime even more.
After Lula was declared the winner by an extremely narrow margin in an election wrought with judicial chaos, electronic voting systems, and allegations of Soviet-level fraud, not unlike America in 2020, China’s Communist Premier Xi Jinping was among the first on the world stage to congratulate Lula, expressing his desire to forge a “long-term,” and “strategic” alliance between the two nations under left-wing rule.
Lula presidential win a boost for Brazil-China ties, BRICS, experts say
The previous Lula government built strong ties with Beijing and helped to establish the BRICS forum.
Beijing congratulates Lula on election win, says it is willing to promote partnership ‘to a new level’
BRICS is 40% of the world’s population:
NBC News reported:
“Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro for the first time on Wednesday asked protesters blocking roads nationwide to lift blockades as demonstrations are restricting people’s right to come and go and bringing losses to the economy.
Protests erupted on Sunday after the far-right incumbent’s narrow loss to leftist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in an Oct. 30 runoff presidential election. Some of the protesters have called for military intervention to keep Bolsonaro in power.
In a video posted on social media, Bolsonaro said he understood people’s frustration at the result of the election.
“I know you are upset… Me too. But we have to keep our heads straight,” he said on a tweeted message. “I will make an appeal to you: clear the highways.”
The president said blocking roads make the ongoing protests illegitimate. He encouraged people to choose other ways to demonstrate.
Bolsonaro added the Federal Highway Police (PRF) had mobilized to help dispel protesters and clear roads. But he said they are overwhelmed because protests are taking place on multiple locations. “The difficulties are enormous.”
Brazilian authorities said they were making headway in their efforts to clear blockades set up across the country by truckers.
At the same time, Rueters reported on Wednesday, ” Brazil moves closer to China corn exports as Beijing approves traders”:
Chinese customs updated its list of approved Brazilian corn exporters on Wednesday, a move a Brazilian agriculture official said could jumpstart sales of corn to the world’s second-largest economy.
The approvals could reshape global trade flows and result in fewer sales for farmers in the United States, the world’s top corn supplier. China relied on the United States and Ukraine for most of its corn supplies but Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has disrupted exports.
“It is a good alternative for Brazil, having (more) markets to send products to,” said Glauco Bertoldo, an inspections director for vegetable products at Brazil’s agriculture ministry.
He said in an interview the list of approved Brazilian facilities that can export corn to China may be updated to include more units in coming weeks.
The new list on the website of China’s General Administration of Customs included 136 corn export facilities, including facilities owned by Archer-Daniels-Midland Co, (ADM.N), Bunge Ltd (BG.N), Cargill, Louis Dreyfus Company and Cofco International.
Cofco declined to comment. Other exporters did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Once China starts buying corn from Brazil, traditional Brazilian corn importers such as Spain and Egypt could shift some of their purchases to the United States.
“There will probably be some horse trading. But China is going to end up buying more corn from South America and less from the United States,” said Craig Turner, a grain broker with StoneX.
Small Chinese imports from Brazil may begin soon, but larger shipments are not expected until the next harvest begins in early 2023, he added.
Beijing and Brasilia had signed a protocol for exporting corn from Brazil to China in 2014 but little trade had happened due to complex inspection requirements.
The countries agreed to a revised protocol during talks in May, just months after Russia invaded Ukraine.
China customs also published a list of 14 Brazilian facilities approved to export soymeal to the country, including those owned by Bunge Ltd and Olam , according to a document posted on customs website.
Olam did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Demand for soymeal however is expected to be limited, given China’s large domestic production capacity, said traders and analysts.
China is expected to import 18 million tonnes of corn in the 2022/23 crop year that began in October, according to the agriculture ministry.
China’s imports from Ukraine have dwindled to less than 2,000 tonnes in September this year, leaving it reliant on the U.S. for the bulk of its overseas supplies.
November 3, 2022 at 04:37PM San Francisco DA Won’t Release Police Bodycam Video, 911 Calls From Paul Pelosi Attack
San Francisco’s top prosecutor confirmed Wednesday her office will not release police body camera footage or 911 calls from the alleged Paul Pelosi attack late last week.
Authorities said that David DePape, 42, allegedly broke into the San Francisco home of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and her husband Paul during the early morning hours of Oct. 28, according to court documents, before he allegedly struck Pelosi with a hammer. No security camera footage, police body camera footage, or 911 calls have been released.
When pressed about releasing more evidence in the case, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins told NBC News that her office will not.
“Are you planning to release the 911 call or any body camera video [from the Paul Pelosi attack]?” asked NBC’s Kristen Welker on Wednesday.
“Not at this time,” replied Jenkins. “We’re going to find out today the speed at which this case will proceed once he’s arraigned. We’ll make decisions about what evidence gets played in court, during any hearings, or during the trial,” Jenkins added.
The San Francisco Police Department denied a public records request from The Epoch Times for body camera footage from the officers who responded to the Pelosi home, stating that “disclosure of information may endanger successful completion of the investigation.”
Requests for the 911 call and the police incident report are pending.
According to court documents, prosecutors said that DePape allegedly told investigators that he was on a “suicide mission” and sought to break Speaker Pelosi’s kneecaps, although she was not there at the time of the attack. DePape pleaded not guilty in a state court on Tuesday.
“I’m sick of the insane … level of lies coming out of Washington, D.C. I came here to have a little chat with his wife,” DePape also allegedly told officials, adding, “I didn’t really want to hurt him, but you know this was a suicide mission. I’m not going to stand here and do nothing even if it cost me my life,” according to the documents.
The U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) also wrote on Nov. 2 that it has cameras at the Pelosi home but said they weren’t being monitored when DePape entered the residence. The agency said cameras aren’t “actively monitored” unless Nancy Pelosi is at home.
Authorities at the USCP’s Command Center didn’t see anything unusual at the Pelosi home until they noticed police activity.
San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins announces charges against David DePape, who is accused of assaulting Paul Pelosi, in San Francisco, Calif., on Oct. 31, 2022. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
While Democrat officials have claimed that DePape was a right-wing radical, his neighbors and the mother of his children painted a different picture. On Wednesday evening, President Joe Biden, in a midterm stump speech, tied alleged threats to U.S. institutions to the attack targeting Pelosi’s longtime husband.
Independent Michael Shellenberger wrote that he went to the alleged former home of DePape in Berkeley, a city located near San Francisco that has long been a center of left-wing activism.
“And, as I discovered yesterday, DePape lived with a notorious local nudist in a Berkeley home, complete with a Black Lives Matter sign in the window and an LGBT rainbow flag, emblazoned with a marijuana symbol, hanging from a tree. A closer look reveals the characteristics of a homeless encampment,” he wrote in a Substack article.
Shellenberger added that neighbors told him that “people come and go from the house and the vehicles, neighbors say, in part to partake in the use of a potent psychedelic drug, ibogaine.”
Meanwhile, the mother of his children, Oxane “Gypsy” Taub, a nudist activist, told ABC7 over the past weekend that when they were in a relationship, DePape shared her left-wing political views. However, she said DePape was “mentally ill” and has been “for a long time.”
At one point, he disappeared for months and came back, she recalled. “He thought he was Jesus. He was constantly paranoid, thinking people were after him. And it took a good year or two to get back to, you know, being halfway normal,” Taub, who is incarcerated at a California prison on a kidnapping conviction, told ABC7.
The Epoch Times has contacted Jenkins’ office for comment.
Democrat Joe Biden delivered another manic address to the nation to make his case that only his tyrannical supporters should have any government power or authority. Biden made more shocking and defamatory comments about his political opponents, who appear to be ready to take the two political chambers that could defang him as POTUS.
According to Fox News, Conservatives ridiculed Biden’s “despicable” Wednesday speech in which he warned midterm voters of the threats to ‘democracy’ ahead of Election Day.
During his last address before the balance of power would be decided in Washington D.C., Biden pleaded with Americans to vote against Republicans, accusing them of being election deniers and MAGA extremists who have encouraged political violence, promoted former President Donald Trump’s “Big Lie” about the 2020 election and engaged in voter intimidation.
‘Rather than focusing on the main issues voters are most concerned about, namely rampant inflation and other economic woes, Biden’s speech pointed the finger at his political opponents. He noted the assault against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, decrying the violence and misinformation supposedly fostered by extremist Republicans,” Fox News reported..
The Washington Times reported with more details about the original speech:
Biden on Wednesday made his closing campaign pitch to voters for next week’s midterm election, warning that “dark forces” within the Republican Party are trying to subvert democracy.
Speaking from Union Station, which stands in the shadow of the U.S. Capitol, Mr. Biden said the threat of a Jan. 6-style insurrection was smoldering within the GOP and stoked by candidates allied with former President Donald Trump.
He said those “MAGA Republicans” — who he said were a minority in the GOP — were on “a path to chaos” that posed a grave threat to American democracy.
The president appealed for Americans to vote in next week’s election saying it was critical to preserving democracy. He cautioned against backing election deniers on the ballot, saying “it is damaging, it is corrosive, and it’s destructive.”
“This is no ordinary year,” Mr. Biden said. “In a typical year, we are not often faced with the question of whether the vote we cast will preserve democracy or put it at risk. But we are this year.”
Republican National Committee Chairman Ronna McDaniel panned Mr. Biden’s speech as “desperate and dishonest.”
“Joe Biden promised unity but has instead demonized and smeared Americans while making life more expensive for all. While Republicans remain focused on the issues that matter most to voters, Biden and Democrats are flailing in the final days because they have lost touch with the concerns of families struggling to get by,” she said in a statement.
The location for the president’s address was chosen to remind voters of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol when a pro-Trump mob stormed the building trying to stop the certification of Mr. Biden’s 2020 election win.
Mr. Biden kicked off his speech by drawing a direct line between the Jan. 6 riot to an assailant’s violent attack on Paul Pelosi last week. Mr. Pelosi, who is married to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, suffered serious injuries, including a skull fracture, after the assailant invaded his home in San Francisco.
The president said former Mr. Trump and his allies’ endless denial of the nation’s 2020 election results fueled the attack.
“The big lie that the election of 2020 had been stolen — it is a lie that fueled the dangerous rise of political violence and voter intimidation over the past two years,” Mr. Biden said.
The remarks were part of a political event hosted by the Democratic National Committee and not an official White House speech. It echoed many of the same points Mr. Biden has been making for weeks, starting with his prime-time speech in Philadelphia where he railed against “MAGA Republicans.”
He repeated many of the same themes at a speech Tuesday in Florida and the Wednesday speech in Washington.
Mr. Biden has repeatedly warned of the threat posed by election deniers and extremists in the run-up to the midterms, but that message has not resonated.
Republicans are surging in the closing days of the election season as inflation, the economy, and crime have emerged as voters’ top concerns. It is widely expected that Republicans will regain control of the House and possibly the Senate on Nov. 8.
“The scare tactics and fear-mongering aren’t working,” said Jimmy Keady, a Republican strategist. “Voters are fed up with the economy, crime, and open border and I don’t think anything Biden does in the next six days is going to matter.”
Democratic strategist Hank Sheinkopf agreed that Mr. Biden casting himself and his party as protectors of democracy is not resonating with voters.
“Biden is talking about it because it takes him away from the problems that are facing the nation right now, which are the cost of gas, the cost of food, and the sense that things are out of control. Talking about those issues reminds people that this situation occurred under his presidency when he had the most power to alleviate it,” he said.
A New York Times-Siena College poll released last month found that American voters overwhelmingly (71%) agree that democracy is under threat, but only a few ranked it as a major issue this election. The poll showed that it is voters’ third-highest concern after inflation and the economy. Only 7% of voters ranked it as a major issue for this election cycle.
President John F. Kennedy gave a speech to the press, in August 1961 about the secret societies and said:
“The very word “secrecy” is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment.”
So it might be ironic that his nephew, Robert F. Kennedy would bring to attention the new high-tech secret society of this generation, which has recently been exposed:
So many ex-government workers are now employed by Facebook that it’s difficult to view Meta as a private company instead of a government partner, intent on silencing anyone who speaks out against the official narrative.https://t.co/dC6qpJuhwB
Leaked government documents reveal that U.S. government officials have access to a special portal through which they can directly flag Facebook and Instagram posts and request that the posts be “throttled or suppressed,” The Intercept reported Monday.
Internal U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memos, emails and public documents outline “an expansive effort” by DHS to influence tech platforms, despite the Biden administration’s failure earlier this year to launch a Disinformation Governance Board.
As of Oct. 31, the “content request system” at facebook.com/xtakedowns/login was still live despite the public uproar earlier this year when attorneys general in 20 states threatened legal action unless the Biden administration immediately disbanded the “Orwellian” Disinformation Governance Board.
Mark Crispin Miller, Ph.D., professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, told The Defender that collusion between the U.S. government and media companies to censor U.S. citizens is nothing new — but it’s become a “catastrophic trend.”
“The Intercept’s reporting validates what many knew was being undertaken by the Department of Homeland Security, despite the scrapping of its Disinformation Governance Board.”
Rectenwald said the coordination between government and media companies validates his claim that social media companies are not merely “private companies” but are “state and uni-party apparatuses” — what he has called “governmentalities” — that “augment the state by adding precision, scope, and penetration to state power.”
Indeed, many of the people in charge of moderating content at Facebook have been recruited from the government, including the CIA, FBI and the U.S. Department of Defense.
“The unholy alliance between the state and these corporations has historically been called fascism,” Rectenwald added.
Biden ‘paused’ widely ridiculed board — publicly, at least
On May 18, the Biden administration “paused” the board, causing Nina Jankowicz, who was tapped to lead the initiative, to resign. However, the still-active portal allows officials with a .gov or law enforcement email address to request censorship in the name of fighting “disinformation.”
Neither DHS nor Meta, Facebook’s parent company, responded to The Intercept’s request for comment on its report.
According to The Intercept, the DHS Disinformation Governance Board was initially designed to police three forms of speech that allegedly threaten U.S. interests:
“Misinformation: false information spread unintentionally.
“Disinformation: false information spread intentionally.
“Malinformation: factual information shared, typically out of context, with harmful intent.”
Even though the board scaled back and then shut down after being met with wide ridicule, other DHS efforts are underway for monitoring social media behind closed doors, according to The Intercept.
An August 2022 report by the DHS Office of Inspector General tracked DHS’s efforts since 2018 to “counter disinformation” — and concluded DHS efforts did not go far enough.
“Although DHS components have worked across various social media platforms to counter disinformation, DHS does not yet have a unified department-wide strategy to effectively counter disinformation that originates from both foreign and domestic sources,” the report said.
“Without a unified strategy, DHS and its components cannot coordinate effectively, internally, or externally to counter disinformation campaigns that appear in social media,” it added.
According to a draft copy of the DHS Quadrennial Homeland Security Review, obtained by The Intercept, the department plans to target “inaccurate information” on a range of topics, including “the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines, racial justice, U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the nature of U.S. support to Ukraine.”
The draft review also called for DHS to “leverage advanced data analytics technology and hire and train skilled specialists to better understand how threat actors use online platforms to introduce and spread toxic narratives intended to inspire or incite violence, as well as work with NGOs [non-governmental organizations] and other parts of civil society to build resilience to the impacts of false information.”
The draft did not include a concise definition of “threat actors,” an omission Adam Goldstein, vice president of research at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, found concerning.
“No matter your political allegiances, all of us have good reason to be concerned about government efforts to pressure private social media platforms into reaching the government’s preferred decisions about what content we can see online,” Goldstein told The Intercept.
“Any governmental requests to social media platforms to review or remove certain content should be made with extreme transparency,” he added.
In June 2022, an advisory committee of DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) — which included Vijaya Gadde, Twitter’s head of legal, public policy and trust, and safety lead, and Kate Starbird, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington — drafted a report to the CISA director in which the committee called for an expansive role of the agency in shaping the “information ecosystem.”
The committee’s report called on CISA to closely monitor “social media platforms of all sizes, mainstream media, cable news, hyper partisan media, talk radio and other online resources.”
Evidence of ‘deep state’ political censorship, expert says
According to Rectenwald, the DHS has been infringing the First Amendment rights of U.S. citizens — “with the explicit cooperation of social media” — while enforcing official state narratives and dictates.
“Together with social media companies, they comprise an American Pravda,” Rectenwald said. Russia’s Pravda newspaper was the official organ of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1918 to 1991.
“DHS’s backdoor portal to Facebook and Instagram is evidence of ‘deep-state,’ political censorship,” Rectenwald said, referring to a “permanent bureaucracy that voters neither elected nor can change, but which operates independently of voters’ wills.”
According to CISA meeting minutes and other records appended to a lawsuit filed by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt alleging the U.S. government censored the opinions of the scientists who wrote the “Great Barrington Declaration,” discussions among CISA officials revealed the scale and scope of government intervention in online discourse — and went so far as to cover the mechanisms of streamlining takedown requests for false or intentionally misleading information.
For instance, a text message exchanged in February between CISA Director Jen Easterly, and another CISA employee who now works at Microsoft, read: “Platforms have got to get more comfortable with gov’t. It’s really interesting how hesitant they remain.”
And in a March CISA meeting, Laura Dehmlow, an FBI official, said the threat of subversive information on social media might undermine support for the U.S. government.
Notes from that meeting discussion — which was attended by senior executives from Twitter and JPMorgan Chase — showed Dehmlow stressed that “we need a media infrastructure that is held accountable.”
Twitter told The Intercept in a statement, however, that they “do not coordinate with other entities when making content moderation decisions, and we independently evaluate content in line with the Twitter Rules.”
Yet other documents — in addition to the March CISA meeting notes — suggest coordination between the federal government and Twitter regarding the content it allows on its platform.
In July 2021, Twitter locked Alex Berenson, a former New York Times reporter and the author of 13 novels, out of his account a few hours after Biden said the social media companies were “killing people” by allowing vaccine skeptics to speak.
In December 2021, Berenson sued Twitter in federal court, claiming the company had breached its contract with Berenson because it previously assured him he was doing nothing wrong according to their rules and that everything he said on their platform had been accurate.
The internal Twitter communications obtained through discovery revealed the White House had specifically targeted him in its private meeting with Twitter.
The communications showed high-ranking members of the Biden administration — including White House Senior COVID-19 Advisor Andy Slavitt — pushed Twitter to permanently suspend Berenson from the platform.
“I can now bring a claim directly against the White House,” Berenson told Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., in a recent episode of “RFK Jr. The Defender Podcast,” “against people who were in the White House at that time — for trying to abridge my free speech rights.”
More evidence of the federal government’s possible collusion with Big Tech companies to censor users may be revealed as a result of an Oct. 21 federal court ruling that ordered Dr. Anthony Fauci and other top officials to testify under oath at depositions for Attorney General Schmitt’s lawsuit.
Jenin Younes, a New Civil Liberties Alliance attorney involved in the lawsuit, said she looks forward to learning just how far the accused government officials went to push their COVID-19 “perspective.”
“For the first time, Dr. Fauci and seven other federal officials responsible for running an unlawful censorship enterprise will have to answer questions under oath about the nature and extent of their communications with tech companies,” Younes said in a statement to The Epoch Times.
As The Intercept pointed out, the Privacy Act of 1974, created after the Watergate scandal, restricts the government’s ability to collect data from Americans as they exercise their First Amendment rights.
Civil liberty groups have contended the statute limits the ability of the DHS and the FBI to surveil the political speech of Americans on social media, but the statute has exemptions for information collected for the purposes of a criminal or law enforcement investigation.
Faiza Patel, senior director of the Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty and National Security Program, told The Intercept, “There are no specific legal constraints on the FBI’s use of social media. The attorney general guidelines permit agents to look at social media before there is any investigation at all.”
“So it’s kind of a Wild West out there,” she added.
An FBI official interviewed by The Intercept lamented the country’s move toward warrantless monitoring of its citizens and said, “Man, I don’t even know what’s legal anymore.”
CISA boasted of an evolved mission to monitor social media discussions
Following high-profile hacking incidents of U.S. firms, Congress in 2018 passed — and then-President Donald Trump signed — the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act, which formed a new wing of DHS charged with protecting critical national infrastructure.
“From its inception, CISA boasted of an ‘evolved mission’ to monitor social media discussions while ‘routing disinformation concerns’ to private sector platforms,” The Intercept report said.
Additionally, the DHS in 2018 created — under the leadership of then-DHS secretary Kirstjen Nielsen — the Countering Foreign Influence Task Force to respond to election disinformation.
The task force included members of CISA and DHS’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis who together generated “threat intelligence” about the election and then notified social media platforms and law enforcement agencies, according to The Intercept.
In 2019, DHS created yet another branch — the Foreign Influence and Interference Branch — to generate more detailed intelligence about disinformation. That same year, its staff grew to 15 full- and part-time employees dedicated to disinformation analysis.
In 2020, DHS’s disinformation efforts expanded to include COVID-19, according to an Oct. 2020 Homeland Threat Assessment.
In January 2021, under the Biden administration, CISA replaced the Countering Foreign Influence Task Force with the “Misinformation, Disinformation and Malinformation” team in order to “to promote more flexibility to focus on general MDM.”
The ever-present narrative: Censorship not just justified but morally necessary
Crispin Miller traced governmental collusion with media companies limiting free speech back to the 1960s.
“Gradually, over the last sixty years, it’s become increasingly difficult — and, lately, dangerous — to contradict the narratives pumped out by the government and media, Crispin Miller said. “Starting in the late 1960s, those who questioned the official story of JFK’s assassination and other seminal events were largely laughed off as ‘conspiracy theorists.’”
“Over the last 10 years or so, such ridicule has given way to heated condemnation, treating mere dissent from this or that official story as (somehow) an existential danger to us all,” Crispin Miller said.
Crispin Miller continued:
“Thus, for going on three years now, it’s been treated as a crime against humanity to question any of the ‘COVID measures’ forced on all humanity by governments worldwide — especially COVID ‘vaccination,’ which is itself [original emphasis] a crime against humanity, and yet it’s dangerous to say as much.
“Likewise, it’s now treated as (somehow) a crime against democracy, and a dire threat to ‘national security,’ to question the results of an election, with those who do so-called ‘election deniers,’ — as if disbelief in the official outcome of a presidential or congressional race is somehow tantamount to Holocaust [original emphasis] denial.”
Glenn Greenwald, journalist, author and lawyer, also pointed out there is a problematic narrative circulating that regards censorship as both justifiable and morally necessary.
Greenwald, one of the three editors who in 2014 co-founded The Intercept, wrote in an Oct. 28 Substack post:
“Look to any government or society in which censorship prevailed — either today or throughout history. This narrative about why censorship is not just justified but morally necessary is always present.
“Nobody wants to think of themselves as a censorship supporter. They need to be supplied with a story about why they are something different, or at least why the censorship they are led to support is uniquely justified.
“And it works because, in the most warped sense possible, it appeals to reason. If one really believes, as millions of American liberals do, that the U.S. faces two and only two choices — either (1) elect Democrats and ensure they rule or (2) live under a white nationalist fascist dictatorship — then of course such people will believe that media disinformation campaigns, censorship, and other forms of authoritarianism are necessary to ensure Democrats win and their opponents are vanquished.
“Once that self-glorifying rationale is embraced — our adversaries do not merely disagree with us but cause harm with the expression of their views [original emphasis] — then the more suppression, the better.”
“And that is exactly what is happening now,” Greenwald added.
Pouty Gretta Thunberg has been pushed out in the public eye again in what can only be seen as a death rattle of the radical far-left political movement- that has been disguised for years and years as legit concerns about the weather.
The entire “green-woke” agenda is on the chopping block as the blossoming global populist movement has become enraged at the loss of wealth, peace and resources- sacrificed to fix the weather under the left’s leadership- has failed.
So now the left is shifting to admitting they were just trying to focus on destroying ‘capitialism.’
THIS IS WHAT IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT.. YOU JUST NEEDED TO LISTEN TO HER PARENTS A FEW YEARS BACK…
Greta Thunberg 🗣️ “It's time to overthrow the West's oppressive and racist capitalist system” https://t.co/MPQIplbgwz
Thunberg is speaking for her handlers and admitting that she is coming out again- because their dying policies have forced them out of their shadows to admit that, yes, it is all for political influence for the Marxist-Globalist left.
Here is the story according to the left-leaning Telegraph:
“Greta Thunberg: It’s time to transform the West’s oppressive and racist capitalist system The activist claims that the world’s current ‘normal’ – dictated by the people in power – has caused the climate breakdown,” India McTaggart reported, adding:
As well as tackling her usual area of climate action, Greta Thunberg has now thrown her weight behind defeating the West’s ‘oppressive’ capitalist system
The 19-year-old Swedish activist has announced that as well as tackling her usual area of climate action and awareness-spreading, she has now thrown her weight behind defeating the West’s “oppressive” capitalist system.
Calling for a “system-wide transformation” at her book launch in London, she claimed that the world’s current “normal” – dictated by the people in power – has caused the climate breakdown.
She said: “We are never going back to normal again because ‘normal’ was already a crisis. What we refer to as normal is an extreme system built on the exploitation of people and the planet.
“It is a system defined by colonialism, imperialism, oppression and genocide by the so-called global North to accumulate wealth that still shapes our current world order.”
Ms Thunberg added: “If economic growth is our only priority, then what we are experiencing now should be exactly what we should be expecting.”
Appearing at London’s Royal Festival Hall to launch her new book, The Climate Book, on Sunday night, she decided to venture into political waters in her speech – having previously avoided doing so.
”We are still here, and we are not planning on going anywhere. Young people all over the world are stepping up, showing that our leaders messed with the wrong generation.”
My full speech from The Climate Event at Southbank Centre this Sunday is here: https://t.co/d9WfUbCwSQ pic.twitter.com/OwZcCxDHXI
— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) November 2, 2022 Released last week, the book includes around 100 contributions from various climate experts, including writer Naomi Klein, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, chief of the World Health Organization, and Thomas Piketty, the economist.
Expressing views that seemed more radical than in the past, she added that the climate crisis “has its roots in racist, oppressive extractivism that is exploiting both people and the planet to maximise short-term profits for a few”.
People were quick to point out the political emphasis on social media, with one best-selling author saying “this is proof that Greta hates capitalism for reasons that have nothing whatsoever to do with climate change”.
Michael Shellenberger, an American author, posted on Twitter that the “whole capitalist system” Ms Thunberg referred to has led to larger food surpluses than at any point in history, average human life expectancy to rise from 30 to 70 and a drop in total deaths from natural disasters.
In fact, the “whole capitalist system” has allowed for average life expectancy of humans to rise from 30 to 70. pic.twitter.com/RqzmfttuK9
— Michael Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD) November 1, 2022 Ms Thunberg told Samira Ahmed, the BBC journalist, during a question and answer part of the evening that “fascist movements offering easy, false solutions and scapegoats to complex problems are growing and becoming more normalised”.
When asked by Ms Ahmed whether she thought it was as simple as making laws that outlaw things, she responded: “There are many [things we can do], but while we do these things that we can do within our current system, we have to realise that we need a system-wide transformation.
“We need to change everything because right now our current system is on a collision course with the future of humanity and the future of our civilization”.
Thunberg Greta Thunberg spoke to Samira Ahmed during the global launch of her book at The Royal Festival Hall, London CREDIT: Kate Green/Getty Images Ms Thunberg also described the upcoming Cop27 as a forum for “greenwashing” and said she would not be attending.
The teenager, who is widely hailed as the world’s spokesman for climate change, shot to worldwide fame after attending her first United Nations climate conference in 2018, when the then 15-year-old said: “I expected it to be more action and less talking.”
During the question and answer session on Sunday, she said: “I’m not going to Cop27 for many reasons, but the space for civil society this year is extremely limited.”
This year’s conference, taking place from Nov 6 to 18 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, will see world leaders – including Rishi Sunak – gather to discuss the pressing climate crisis.
“Of course, it’s very symbolic that it’s held in a tourist centre – a tourist paradise – in a country that violates most of the basic human rights – and many world leaders are too busy to go there,” she added.
Addressing the coverage of her political take in the new book on Wednesday morning, she posted on Twitter:
The climate deniers and delayers are so desperate and feel so threatened that they simply make up their own “quotes” from pure lies and fantasies. This is what I have said about systems and ideologies: pic.twitter.com/FNacu4EYZv
— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) November 2, 2022 Ms Thunberg attached an image of an excerpt from the book alongside the post, which she said was her take on “systems and ideologies”.
Tucker Carlson Deconstructs Joe Biden’s Democracy -vs- Autocracy Midterm Election Speech – The Last Refuge
Democrat Joe Biden delivered another panicked warning on Wednesday about Republicans and the threat that he sees that they pose to his fantasy hopes for the future of democracy in the United States.
Polling is showing that Americans are planning to vote against Democrats in major battleground states, and headlines show that the leading Democrat pundits are very worried about what is expected as the final day to vote, next Tuesday, comes very quickly.
Biden made a media appearance on Wednesday and talked about “preserving and protecting our democracy” and will “addresed the threat of people he deemed were ‘election deniers and those who seek to undermine faith in voting and democracy’.
Pete Santilli said, “Biden, who takes inappropriate showers with his daughter, has zero credibility to advise the country on the election.”
For his opening monologue tonight, Fox News host Tucker Carlson deconstructed Joe Biden’s midterm election speech broadcast on national television Wednesday night. WATCH:
Tucker Carlson: They’re vicious, they’re intolerant, and they are utterly corrupt. And above all they are incompetent. In less than two years, it is not an overstatement to say they have run this country into the ground. Wrecking our economy, desecrating our military, and opening the borders of the United States to 5 million lawbreakers. The destruction they brought is so profound it’s hard to describe.
So of course, there will be consequences for that… How could this party stay in power?
Tonight Joe Biden traveled across the City of Washington to Union Station… Built by Teddy Roosevelt more than 100 years ago, Union Station was for generations one of the most beautiful public buildings in this country. Under Joe Biden, it has become a homeless encampment. A place that is too filthy and too dangerous for Starbucks.
Standing at this monument to his own failures, Biden proceeded to do what he commonly does, bark at the rest of us for our moral failures. The guy who showered with his daughter is telling you, you’re a bad person .
