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House Oversight grills Blinken on funding conservative blacklist ahead of censorship bill markup

Feb. 23, 2023

The State Department's financial support for organizations that purportedly police disinformation is drawing scrutiny from the new Republican-controlled House.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) asked Secretary Antony Blinkenfor "documents and a staff-level briefing" by March 2 to "understand the scope" ofState's funding for "a taxpayer-funded censorship campaign" in a letter Thursday.

The Kentucky Republican cited the Washington Examiner series "Disinformation Inc.," which confirmedthe British nonprofit Global Disinformation Index had received $330,000 from the National Endowment for Democracy, almost entirely funded by State, and the now "retired" Disinfo Cloud platformsponsored by State's Global Engagement Center.

The Examiner series reported that GDIblacklisted conservative- and libertarian-leaning U.S. news organizations with advertisers, including Microsoft's Xandr ad exchange, while ranking left-leaning outlets as reputable — even those that promoted the Hunter Biden laptop "Russian disinformation" hoax. George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley called it a "knockoff" of China's social credit system.

NED responded to Examiner coverage by pledging to stop funding GDI, which is alsofunded by progressive megadonor George Soros, to "avoid the perception that NED is engaged in any work domestically."

A committee spokesperson declined to specify any other State funding or participation that concerns Comer but pointed to its scheduled Tuesday markup of two bills related to government-tinged censorship.

H.R. 140 would expand the Hatch Actlby prohibiting federal employees from "using their authority to influence or coerce a private sector platform … to remove, suppress, restrict, or add disclaimers or alerts to any lawful speech."

A bill to be introduced would require the government to report "every instance" of federal agencies communicating with private entities for that purpose over the past five years, naming the employees, platforms and "justification of the action."

The billcould doom the Global Engagement Center's participation in the Department of Homeland Security-blessed Election Integrity Partnership, a private consortium that mass-reports what it considers election misinformation to tech platforms. EIP had a self-reported 35% rate of removal, labeling or soft-blocking in 2020.

GEC alsofunded Internet games that claim to teach players how to spot and discount misinformation, including populist narratives, based on a theory that applies vaccination to media literacy. Blinken told diplomatic and consular posts to promote the games with local leaders.

"The purpose of these [GDI] risk ratings is to ==pressure advertisers= into pulling their ads from these websites, defunding those who would dare to host content or opinions deemed objectionable by GDI, and, apparently, the Department and affiliated organizations," Comer's letter to Blinken says.

The chairman objects to federal efforts such as DHS' formally scuttled Disinformation Governance Board, led by Russia hoax promoter Nina Jankowicz, and "labelingdissenting opinions as threats to critical infrastructure," referring to Comer's prior letter to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkasabout the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency's role in the EIP.

Jankowicz is also a target of House JudiciaryCommittee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio). He sought her testimony along with that of several Biden administration officials and allies in a flurry of letters last month that warned a "compulsory process" would soon follow to probe the politicization of federal agencies.

Comer asked Blinken to provide all documents and communications regarding direct or indirect grants and funding "used to suppress so-called mis-, dis-, or mal- information" from within the U.S. since President Biden's inauguration, including the GDI funding.

Documents and communications between State employees, contractors, grantees and others related to this suppression, as well as their identities, should also be turned over, Comer said.

"As a general matter, we do not comment on Congressional correspondence," a State Department spokesperson told Just the News, ignoring queries about whether the agency has changed its mind about funding misinformation efforts and what tangible benefit it provides versus the risk of censorship. GDI didn't respond.

(Janco is not gone, she’s just a hidden contractor, thats the way they roll imo)

https:'//'justthenews.com/government/congress/oversight-gop-grills-blinken-about-funding-conservative-blacklist-ahead

https://twitter.com/JonathanTurley/status/1626969354377265153

Biden’s Disinformation Nanny: Why Nina Jankowicz is “Practically Perfect in Every Way.”

FROM MAY 2022

Below is a slightly expanded version of my column in The Hill on the appointment of Nina Jankowicz as the new head of the federal government’s announced Disinformation Governance Board.' This Sunday, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas assured CNN viewers that there is nothing to fear from his new Disinformation Governance Board, which will “gather together best practices in addressing the threat of disinformation.” I think we can guess what the “best practice” might be from one of the most vocal advocates of corporate and state censorship.

https://jonathanturley.org/2022/05/02/bidens-disinformation-nanny-why-nina-jankowicz-is-practically-perfect-in-every-way/

Trail of Funding for AI ‘Machine Learning Fairness’ Leads to Leftist Billionaires Omidyar, Hoffman, Soros

23 Feb 2023,

This week we examined the field of Machine Learning Fairness, which seeks to imprint AI programs with leftist assumptions and priorities. Following the money behind the leading organizations of ML Fairness leads to some familiar funding sources, including leftist billionairesPierre Omidyar, George Soros, and Reid Hoffman.

One of the most well-funded efforts to control AI is theEthics and Governance of AI Initiative, a joint project of theMIT Media LabandHarvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Media & Society.

By 2017, the initiative had raised $26 million from various sources that played a prominent role in pushing the “disinformation” panic, including Pierre Omidyar’sLuminate, the Knight Foundation, and the notoriously leftist tech bro Reid Hoffman, whose sinister election-influencing activities have been well documented.

Both the MIT Media Lab and the Berkman Klein Center were heavily involved in the disinformation panic, and have been involved in controversies. Joi Ito, the president of the MIT lab, had to resign in 2019 after it was revealed that the organization accepted donations from Jeffrey Epstein.

The Berkman Klein Center, meanwhile, was for years the pulpit of Dr. Joan Donovan, a partisan Democrat who used the disinformation panic to cast doubt on the Hunter Biden “laptop from hell” story.

The priorities of theEthics and Governance of AI Initiativeare similarly leftist — it aims to bring the values of ESG and wokeness to AI. Its mission statement is to “ensure that technologies of automation and machine learning are researched, developed, and deployed in a way which vindicates social values of fairness, human autonomy, and justice.”

In 2017, the Initiative hosted an “AI and Inclusion” summit with financial support from George Soros’ Open Society Foundations and others. In 2019, it gave out six-figure sum awards to projects aimed at stopping the use of AI to “spread disinformation.” Clearly, the priorities of the MIT Media Lab and the Berkman Klein Center are the same as ever.

Another organization to keep an eye on is theAI Now Institute, which is backed byLumiate, an Omidyar organization, as well as theFord and MacArthur foundations.

The AI Now Institute was perhaps the first organization to make ML Fairness its sole focus, and its priorities are predictably woke: making sure AIs don’t get too effective in fields like criminal background checks, and making sure it gets very effective at promoting leftist causes like the Green New Deal.

The co-founder of the AI Now Institute, Meredith Whittaker, worked at Google for several years before moving to the FTC under Biden and then the Signal Foundation.

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2023/02/23/trail-of-funding-for-ai-machine-learning-fairness-leads-to-leftist-billionaires-omidyar-hoffman-soros/

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Internet Speech Will Never Go Back to Normal

https://web.archive.org/web/20210716043839/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/what-covid-revealed-about-internet/610549/

In the debate over freedom versus control of the global network, China was largely correct, and the U.S. was wrong.

By Jack Goldsmith and Andrew Keane Woods

April 27, 2020

COVID-19 has emboldened American tech platforms to emerge from their defensive crouch. Before the pandemic, they were targets of public outrage over life under their dominion. Today, the platforms are proudly collaborating with one another, and following government guidance, to censor harmful information related to the coronavirus. And they are using their prodigious data-collection capacities, in coordination with federal and state governments, to improve contact tracing, quarantine enforcement, and other health measures. As Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg recently boasted, “The world has faced pandemics before, but this time we have a new superpower: the ability to gather and share data for good.”

Civil-rights groups are tolerating these measures—emergency times call for emergency measures—but are also urging a swift return to normal when the virus ebbs. We need “to make sure that, when we’ve made it past this crisis, our country isn’t transformed into a place we don’t want to live,” warns the American Civil Liberties Union’s Jay Stanley. “Any extraordinary measures used to manage a specific crisis must not become permanent fixtures in the landscape of government intrusions into daily life,” declares the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital-rights group. These are real worries, since, as the foundation notes, “life-saving programs such as these, and their intrusions on digital liberties, [tend] to outlive their urgency.”

But the “extraordinary” measures we are seeing are not all that extraordinary.Powerful forces were pushing toward greater censorship and surveillance of digital networks long before the coronavirus jumped out of the wet markets in Wuhan, China, and they will continue to do so once the crisis passes. The practices that American tech platforms have undertaken during the pandemic represent not a break from prior developments, but an acceleration of them…..

Harvard shuts down 'misinformation' program and releases director skeptical of Hunter Biden laptop

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11710991/Harvard-shuts-misinformation-program-releases-director-skeptical-Hunter-Biden-laptop.html

February 3, 2023

Harvard shuts down 'misinformation' research program and cuts ties with director who was skeptical of Hunter Biden laptop story (but claims it was for 'bureaucratic reasons')

• Harvard University has shuttered its 'misinformation' research program while severing ties with the project's controversial director

• Dr Joan Donavan has consistently championed Democrats through her role as a 'misinformation' expert

• She has publicly challenged the Hunter Biden laptop story, with the president's son recently accused of intimidation in the aftermath of the controversy

• Harvard has scrapped its 'misinformation' research program and severed its ties with the project's controversial director, who used her position to cast doubt over the Hunter Biden laptop story. 

• The project's leader Dr Joan Donavan is a so-called expert in the dangers of social media misinformation, and has publicly challenged the Hunter Biden laptop story during her time at the university.

• She led the project since its inception in 2019 with the aim to 'help newsroom leaders fight misinformation and media manipulation'.

Donavan used her role to cast doubt over the media's coverage of the Hunter Biden laptop story, which saw the president's son's missing laptop appear in a Delaware repair shop containing a treasure trove of illicit images and damaging emails from his work at Ukrainian energy company Burisma. The story was notably suppressed by several major media corporations ahead of the 2020 presidential election. 

Dr Joan Donavan has consistently championed Democrats through her role as a 'misinformation' expert. Donavan frequently cast doubt over the veracity of the Hunter Biden laptop story, previously branding it a 'straw man' in an April 2022 tweet.

Hunter Biden has been accused of intimidation amid the backlash to a story about him leaving a laptop containing damaging emails in a Delaware repair shop. The director of Harvard's Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy announced the institution was cutting ties with Donovan in an email obtained by Semafor. The email stated that the Technology and Social Change Project, which studied disinformation online, was being shuttered for what the outlet referred to as 'bureaucratic reasons.'

'The Kennedy School's standing policy is that all research projects must be led by a full faculty member,' said the email. 'While there can be limited exceptions, those can't continue indefinitely without a faculty member as the principal project leader and academic head.

According to her Harvard staff page, Donavan supposedly 'leads the field in examining internet and technology studies, online extremism, media manipulation and disinformation campaigns.' 

Alongside her focus on the Hunter Biden laptop story, she has also analyzed topics including white nationalism and social change activism online. 

#18281575 at 2023-02-04 04:23:56 (UTC+1)

Q Research General #22403: Watkins Q & A Edition

MORE:

https://www.foxnews.com/media/state-department-funds-disinformation-index-targeting-non-liberal-and-conservative-news-outlets-report

Google to expand ‘disinformation’ campaign in Europe

13 Feb, 2023

After suppressing anti-Ukrainian content in Poland, the tech giant will now target Germany

Google is expanding its campaign against what it calls online “disinformation,” and will roll out ads in Germany aimed at“prebunking” contentit disagrees with. Tested in Poland last year, the ads are the product of a Google research unit formed to combat “threats to open societies.”

The tech giant will release a series of videos identifying apparent misinformation techniques and release them on multiple platforms in Germany, including Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok, the Associated Press reported on Monday. The ads will focus on photos and videos, and the ease with which both can be manipulated, the news agency noted.

The concept of fighting the techniques behind alleged disinformation rather than the information itself is called “prebunking,” and was developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge and Jigsaw, Google’s in-house “internet safety” unit. Borrowing language from the medical field, these researchers claim that short videos “inoculate” the public against “misinformation.”

It is unclear what kind of “disinformation” Google’s effort in Germany will focus on.

Jigsaw describes itself as countering “threats to open societies,” a term most commonly associated with liberal financier George Soros’ ‘Open Society Foundations’.Jigsaw is similarly liberal and internationalist in its outlook. Its first CEO,Jared Cohen, was an aide to Hillary Clinton at the US State Department, and a proponent of using technology to advance US interests abroad, including by engaging in regime change operations.

Jigsaw rolled out its ‘prebunking’ ads in Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia last fall, where it focused specifically on making viewers more accepting of Ukrainian refugees. Google found that the Polish campaign worked, and that those who saw the videos were less likely to spread “false claims” to others, the Associated Press wrote.

“There’s a real appetite for solutions,” said Beth Goldberg, head of research and development at Jigsaw. “Using ads as a vehicle to counter a disinformation technique is pretty novel. And we’re excited about the results.”

In the US, a recent report by The Intercept found that the Department of Homeland Security partners with multiple tech firms – including Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Discord, Wikipedia, Microsoft and LinkedIn – to target “inaccurate information” on topics including “the origins of the [Covid]-19 pandemic and the efficacy of [Covid]-19 vaccines, racial justice, US withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the nature of US support to Ukraine.”

Files released by Twitter CEO Elon Musk last month revealed that under previous management, the platform censored “legitimate information” on behalf of the White House and numerous US intelligence agencies.

https://www.rt.com/news/571433-google-disinformation-prebunking-germany/

„EYES OF THE DEVIL”.

A DOCUMENTARY FILM BY PATRYK VEGA.

about one year ago

This documentary talks about highly organized child brothels/ organ harvest clinics. The child trafficker talks about extremely rich clients. When we go about or regular days, this is happening to a child. Compilation of interviews from the mothers that sell their children to the child traffickers themselves.

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Patryk Vega shows us the underbelly surface of child trafficking.

https://rumble.com/v2b1ujq-eyes-of-the-devil-a-documentary-film.html

https://rumble.com/embed/v28gepo/?pub=4

EXTREMELY BLUNT, be warned, same with description BELOW.

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NOTES:

Child sales from the perspective of a mother who will sell her child to a trafficker. Pretty ruthless. The sellers don't care what happens to the child, can be sold for pedophiles, organs or work. They are stuffed with drugs in child brothels til they are 12 or so, then they go to an adult brothel. They have no education and are so fucked up that they can't function in society very well.

4 child brothels in Europe - Belgium Germany Poland _

Organs can be harvested when child is older.

Half a million Euros for that.

Most of the mothers don't get money, they end up in a brothel. Or for spare parts along with the child. May end up marrying a muslim, who can marry the mother and adopt the child.Returns to Europe, to the brothel.

Children from Ukraine – routine. Gets a new Polish ID, then child goes abroad with new ID.

What about kidnapping? Only happens in an emergency – when an organ is needed. Too dangerous for the org. Don't want Interpol on their tail.

Infants may used for intercourse – gets torn apart, limbs get broken or torn apart. The child is useless, organs are then sold. Older children are exploited but infants become useless, they go for spare parts.

The kids' clients are filthy rich – come in private planes/helicopters. The brothels have ops all over the world, with operating rooms, for transplants. Few people know about them. We're talking about huge money here, they are perfectly organized. It's all professional. It will continue, won't stop.

Part of the video is about a mother planning to sell her child. The film maker wants to save the child. Mother starts getting suicidal thoughts. 380 zlotys. Want a c section or suicide (12 days prior to birth). Mother has the c section early. Baby is born healthy. Mother wants out of the hospital to cut herself off. Videographer wants to save the child – the only way is to provide a child in exchange for the child. Did he manage to save the child? Apparently – she gave the child up for Catholic adoption.

Meanwhile, traffickers realized he'd said too much. Started to get to him. He wanted to end his life, cut his wrists.

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included this very graphic video because it speaks to the heart of WHY there is such a well-developed "disinformation campaign": because there is such a well-developed child trafficking network run by extremely wealthy people who will do anything to suppress the truth about who is running the world and why.

''God bless and save the children.''

talk about DISINFORMATION

what about recent betrayal of Project Veritas found James O'Keefe by its traitorous Board of Directors?

Here's the video by Zack Vorhies of whistleblowers who stand with James O'Keefe.

https://twitter.com/Perpetualmaniac/status/1629090011437047814

we stand with James O'Keefe

>>18417706

Here's more on James O'Keefe takedown.

<<< James talking to loyal employees about what really happened.

https://youtu.be/PHXiDfj5o7w

more below.

Discussion:

https://youtu.be/PHXiDfj5o7w

"3 days ago"

Ivory Hecker with PV Whistleblowers

2 hours

https://youtu.be/PHXiDfj5o7w

Ivory Hecker talking with Zack Vorhies, Jodi O'Malley, Cary Poarch

Reacting after PV directors met with whistleblowers.

Daniel Strak, formerly with Goldman Sachs, met with the whistleblowers.

He seems to think that PV can continue on wo/James if he won't work with the board.

Board was actually not united in its decision to get rid of James.

Was James`a being paid? Not according to the mtg minutes.

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HB 1333 creates a Domestic Violent Extremism Commission to develop ways to combat ‘disinformation and misinformation’

TJ Martinell

The Center Square Washington

As the Washington State Attorney General’s Office continues work on a database for police use of force incidents, a House bill would set up a 13-member commission within that same office to develop a data collection process on incidents of “domestic violent extremism,” or DVE.

Although the term DVE is not defined in the bill, under State Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s description it would include noncriminal activities or speech.

HB 1333 sponsored by Rep. Bill Ramos, D-Issaquah, creates a Domestic Violent Extremism Commission to develop ways to combat “disinformation and misinformation,” though the two words are not defined in the bill. Also not defined is the term DVE.

The legislation is derived from a recommendation by theAttorney General’s Office own 2022 “Domestic Terrorism” study, which cautioned that “effective State intervention to address these threats has the potential to implicate speech or association that may be protected by the First Amendment, or the individual right to bear arms protected by the Second Amendment.”

Among the report’s recommendations was the creation of a commission to explore not just data collection, but potentially adding a definition of DVE to state statute. State law already addresses hate crimes, and the FBI defines “domestic terrorism” within the context of actual crimes or intent to commit a crime.

However, the attorney general’s 2022 report argues that “rather than exclusively address ‘domestic terrorism’ per se, these recommendations seek to best support Washington State to respond to this panoply of challenges, which together combine to create the threat of — and indeed, are often precursors to — acts of domestic terrorism.”

The commission would also examine ways to treat DVE as a public health issue, though the state Department of Health is not included on the commission or mentioned in the bill. The commission would only have a member with “an expertise in public health” and would be appointed by the attorney general.

The bill is intended to take preemptive measures to stop actual domestic terrorist acts through community intervention. Testifying in support of HB 1333 at its Jan. 24 public hearing in the House State Government & Tribal Relations Committee, Snohomish County Councilmember Megan Dunn told legislators that “as local electeds, we have limited options in reporting, tracking, or collecting data, and we often have limited resources or solutions for combating serious misinformation related to domestic violence extremism. We know incidents are not reported or under reported, and that data is the first step to determining the scope of the issue before we move forward with solutions.”

However, critics argue that it could easily lead to situations like that in 2021, the National School Boards Association, or NSBA, sent a memo to the Biden Administration asking that it treat parent protesting during public comment at local school board meetings as “a form of domestic terrorism” under the PATRIOT Act.

Several state attorneys general filed lawsuits against both NSBA and the Biden Administration over the incident in an effort to obtain public documents on that memo.   

In a letter from Attorney General Bob Ferguson included in the 2022 Domestic Terrorism study, he described DVE as follows:

“Various forms of extremist and political violence like threats, coercion, and intimidation, online disinformation, extremist recruitment and government infiltration efforts, and the general spread of extreme white supremacism and anti-government ideologies.”

In an analysis of the bill, Washington Policy Center Director Liv Finne wrote that the legislation “would criminalize certain forms of expression based on what members of a state commission consider to be their definition of ‘domestic extremism.’ Creating a state level ‘Ministry of Truth’ would not only undermine democratic norms, it would have a chilling effect on public debate, freedom of speech and civic participation in Washington state.”

In the original bill, the American Civil Liberties Union, or ACLU, would have been guaranteed a spot on the commission, but was removed via a committee amendment. In a brief statement, the ACLU declined to comment on the bill or its removal from the commission.

Part of the commission’s work would be developing ways to track data incidents of DVE, “including how data is collected, what triggers data collection, and how to ensure data is not disproportionately used against black, indigenous, and people of color communities or other communities.”

The commission would have to submit a report of its recommendations to the Attorney General’s Office by 2025, though the office would write its own final review “guided by the recommendations in the Attorney General’s 2022 domestic terrorism study.”

Testifying at HB 1333’s Feb. 20 public hearing in the House Appropriations Committee, Sue Coffman with informed Choice Washington warned that it’s “bad publicity to spend $500,000 on an unlawful effort,” adding that they should “focus on actual criminal activity and intent to commit a crime, and not upon the people who exercise their right to freedom of expression.”

Also opposed was ballot initiative sponsor Tim Eyman, who told the committee that the bill could result in people being investigated over their “views, their associations, and their friends,” with “no judicial oversight, no public viewing, no TVW.”

HB 1333 was voted out of the Appropriations Committee on Feb. 23.

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Ray EPPS' New Lawyer, Michael Teter, Manages The 65 Project

What is The 65 Project?

The 65 project was launched to punish lawyers who supported President Trump and to dissuade future attempts to overturn elections on illegitimate grounds.

Teter manages The 65 project, where [Media Matters' David] Brock is a senior advisor.

#18575643 at 2023-03-25, Q Research General #22784

https://twitter.com/The65Project/

The 65 Project was founded inMARCH 2022:

A dark money group with ties to Democratic Party heavyweights wills pend millions this year to expose and try to disbar more than 100 lawyers who worked on Donald Trump's post-election lawsuits.

Brock told Axios in an interview that the idea is to "not only bring the grievances in the bar complaints, butshame them and make them toxic in their communities and in their firms."

https://thepalmierireport.com/trump-election-lawyers-being-targeted-by-dark-money-group/

INFLUENCE WATCH on The 65 Project

• The 65 Project was launched to punish lawyers who supported President Trump and to dissuade future attempts to overturn elections on "illegitimate" grounds.

• Targeted lawyers include President Trump’s legal advisors such as Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis, lawyers who were purported “alternate electors” for Trump, and attorneys who allegedly supported the January 6, 2021 storming of the U.S. Capitol.

- David Fink was a former advisor to the 65 Project. Previously a lawyer based in Detroit, in 2022 he persuaded a judge to sanction nine lawyers involved in the “Kraken” lawsuit, including Sidney Powell and Lin Wood. David’s son,Nathan Fink, was a former advisor to 65 Project as well. 15 16

• The 65 Project’s advisory board includes former Department of Homeland Security officialPaul Rosenzweig, former Utah Supreme Court Chief JusticeChristine Durham, and former American Bar Association presidentRoberta Cooper Ramo. 17

https://www.influencewatch.org/organization/65-project/

https://www.axios.com/trump-election-lawyers-disbar-5c2b9252-d15d-495f-a759-2446d9fa62e8.html

https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/advocacy-group-files-wave-of-ethics-complaints-against-jenna-ellis-and-other-big-lie-lawyers-who-tried-to-overturn-election-for-trump/

https://twitter.com/the65project

DIG CALL

>>18578892

Targeted Trump Atty Jenna Ellis said she "LIED" about the 2020 election results on Mar 8 2023

@The65Project

One year and one day after @The65Project filed the first public complaint against @jennaellisesq, the Colorado Supreme Court announced it was disciplining Ellis based on our complaint.

https://twitter.com/The65Project/status/1633827994195177472

–Jenna Ellis backing down is no surprise. But the 65 Project is after ALL EFFORTS TO DISCREDIT THE 2020 ELECTION by targeting the lawyers that bring lawsuits__. –-

Klaus Schwab’s WEF Is Hiring Thousands Of ‘Information Warriors’ To Take Over The Internet And Patrol It For ‘Misinformation’

a day ago

There is another plandemic that Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum (WEF) wants to stamp out with more tyranny, and it is known as free speech on the internet.

The WEF made an announcement that it had successfully recruited hundreds of thousands of “information warriors” to control the internet. These “information warriors” will patrol social media and online forums in search of “misinformation” and “conspiracy content”, which will then be systematically removed.

The World Economic Forum founded by Klaus Schwab describes the spread of false information on the internet as a “infodemic” that is “potentially deadly” and needs a “cure.” According to the World Economic Forum (WEF), the term “misinformation” refers to any content on the internet with which they disagree. This indicates that the hundreds of thousands of information warriors employed by the WEF will be actively engaged in the act of suppressing opposition directed toward the globalist elite.

Last month, Klaus Schwab cautioned us that whomever controls artificial intelligence will rule the future. And those at the top of society at Davos haven’t wasted any time getting the groundwork ready to enslave the rest of us.

The “information warriors” employed by the WEF pose as regular users of the platform, but their real goal is to disrupt proceedings and subtly plant the seeds of support for the ideology espoused by Klaus Schwab’s WEF. The “information warriors” are focusing their attention on conspiracy forums and the comment sections of YouTube videos.

Announcing the news on a WEF podcast, UN communications director Melissa Fleming said “So far, we’ve recruited 110,000 information volunteers, and we equip these information volunteers with the kind of knowledge about how misinformation spreads and ask them to serve as kind of ‘digital first-responders’ in those spaces where misinformation travels.”

https://en-volve.com/2023/04/07/klaus-schwabs-wef-is-hiring-thousands-of-information-warriors-to-take-over-the-internet-and-patrol-it-for-misinformation/

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>https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/us-intel-agencies-missed-classified-documents-leaked-on-discord-rcna79404

>https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/04/09/from-discord-to-4chan-the-improbable-journey-of-a-us-defence-leak/

President Joe Biden and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin were briefed about the disclosure last week, administration officials say, but the secret documents appeared online in early March on the Discord social media app, according to

Bellingcat, the open-source investigative group.

^^^^^^^^^^^

no way - it's FAKE NEWS.

Bellingcat is a Propaganda Arm of the Anti-Russia DS

Connected to Soros, Atlantic Council, TED, UK & US intelligence agencies, ASD/German Marshall Fund

Founded in 2014 byEliot Ward Higgins

• attended Haberdashers' Adams - elitist school dated from 1600s

• School founder was member of the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers (one of the Great Twelve Livery Companies of the City of London)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haberdashers%27_Adams

so we know Higgins is probably WEALTHY and WELL-CONNECTED

but looks like his family history has been WIPED from the Net.

More on Eliot Ward Higgins:

• HS school dropout became a blogger - but then a Senior Fellow @ Atlantic DFR Lab

https://web.archive.org/web/20160222070801/http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/about/experts/list/eliot-higgins

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_Higgins

• Left AC to focus on social justice and accountability work w/Bellingcat

https://web.archive.org/web/20160222070801/http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/about/experts/list/eliot-higgins

Bellingcat is NOT an independent news source

• DFRLab where Higgins worked is part of the Global disinformation network

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_Higgins

>>40565, >>40575, >>40576, >>40578, >>40579 Digital Forensics Research Lab

https://qresear.ch/?q=dfrlab

• First Bellingcat project = 2014 investigation of Malaysia Flt 17: "Russia did it!"

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2015/10/08/mh17-the-open-source-evidence/

• But all the groups with which Higgins is associated have ALWAYS been anti-Russia. Examples: National Endowment for Democracy, the Atlantic Council’s DFR Lab, and the Alliance for Securing Democracy.

https://www.rt.com/news/572719-twitter-files-hearing-congress/

Bellingcat Funding

• National Endowment for Democracy

https://embed.kumu.io/b98d48313db03aa5ce7c9a9655695d81#omidyar-sandbox/national-endowment-for-democracy

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/10/09/bellingcat-intelligence-contractors-extremists-syria/

• European Union

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/10/09/bellingcat-intelligence-contractors-extremists-syria/

• Soros' Open Society Foundation

https://twitter.com/EliotHiggins/status/1085501022770991105?s=20

• CIA?

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/17/bellingcat-can-say-what-u-s-intelligence-cant/

https://embed.kumu.io/b98d48313db03aa5ce7c9a9655695d81#omidyar-sandbox/national-endowment-for-democracy (see CAP)

More on the Bellingcat Disinfo

• Bellingcat [FALSELY] "reported" on events in Syria in 2016

• How an unemployed blogger confirmed that Syria had used chemical weapons [FAKE NEWS].'''

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/11/25/rocket-man-2

• Bellingcat was involved in "Whitehall’s effort to destabilize Syria" in ~2016

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/10/09/bellingcat-intelligence-contractors-extremists-syria/

• Bellingcat author Robert Evans on 8chan, Oct 2019: 8chan, the Hate Site That’s Hard to Kill

https://slate.com/podcasts/what-next/2019/11/8chan-internet-offline

https://slate.com/transcripts/U1Vtai81SDFlUlhPZXNwaUhPczVNWWxmaFRscC9STU1jZHRUR2VzTlhORT0=

DIG CALL

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>>18692867 pb

WEF 2018: Mind control using sound waves

https://twitter.com/wef/status/1061846182094401536?lang=en

>>18692930 pb

The World Economic Forum Talks About “Mind Control Using Sound Waves”

Link is now ‘gone’

but found this interdasting

Washington State Fusion Center accidentally releases records on remote mind control

As part of a request for records on Antifa and white supremacist groups, WSFC inadvertently bundles in “EM effects on human body.zip”

https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2018/apr/18/fusion-center-em/

https://www.axios.com/local/seattle/2023/04/11/seattle-leads-global-fusion

April 13, 2023 10:30 PM

https://slate.com/transcripts/U1Vtai81SDFlUlhPZXNwaUhPczVNWWxmaFRscC9STU1jZHRUR2VzTlhORT0=

https://slate.com/podcasts/what-next/2019/11/8chan-internet-offline

Guest:Robert Evans, investigative journalist forBellingcatand host of the podcast Behind the Bastards.

Episode Notes

The 8chan message board has become synonymous with hate speech. It’s been a go-to forum for mass shooters’ manifestos. It courts devotees of the cultish QAnon conspiracy theory. In August, 8chan was booted from the internet, but now the forum is making a comeback, in spite of the efforts of a dogged group of activists and journalists trying to take it offline permanently.

8chan, the Hate Site That’s Hard to Kill

podcast from beginning of Nov. 2019

S1: There’s this video I can’t stop thinking about a guy posted on YouTube after the Christchurch shootings last spring. An American guy living in the Philippines. His name is Jim Watkins. He stares straight out at the camera. Piano music plays in the background.

S2: Condolences to the victims of the New Zealand shootings. So many pious folks lost because of psychotic rage.

S1: Jim Watkins is an older guy with mutton chops and a mustache. He’s got these bushy eyebrows that are combed up to make little points above his glasses. Videos like this one they’ve become a bit of a ritual for this guy after shootings in Texas and Ohio this summer he was at it again.

S3: What a sad weekend. I just finished watching the president of the United States give his condolences to the families of the victims of the El Paso Wal-Mart shooting and the Dayton Ohio shooting. It is.

S1: His speeches seem like they’re a sick kind of joke. If you could only figure out what the joke is. It is indeed such a sad day and time in the history of the world. The worst sort of monster shoots up random people.

S3: That it is the fact that insanity is obviously involved.

S4: He communicates bizarrely. I don’t really know what’s going on in the dude’s head.

S1: Robert Evans watches these videos as part of his job. He covers extremism on the internet and when that’s your beat Jim Watkins is pretty important because he owns eight Chan the message board that’s become known for being the place mass shooters post their manifestos where conspiracy theorists radicalize Jim Watkins calls his message board the darkest reaches of the Internet.

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S5: He’s the one who was responsible at least for making the new name like the new like model with a chan embrace infamy which it was before the site got taken down and I think he I think he liked that. I was thinking about how I would describe Jim Watkins to. My parents. And like he’s this weirdly powerful guy. But he could only be powerful in this particular moment.

S6: In time. Yeah and I think power has a lot to do with it.

S7: Jim Watkins isn’t apologizing in these videos.

S8: He’s explaining he’s defending saying even if these mass shooters did post their manifestos on his Web site even if they came to each hand to share links to their live streamed terrorism.

S9: Well that’s free speech is I think trying to build a place for himself within kind of the broader right wing maggot Internet so to speak. But he’s not very good at it. Like he’s not a person. If he didn’t own a chair nobody would paying attention to Jim Watkins which I think he knows. But this week he’s been back in the news because his infamous message board is back online.

S10: But not before Robert Evans and a handful of other journalists and activists tried to kick each man off the Internet for good. Today Roberts can explain why his effort failed and what the return of this notorious message board says about why online conspiracies and hate speech are so difficult to control. I’m Mary Harris. You’re listening to what next.

S11: Stick with us HRN this message board chat room online forum.

S1: It’s been in limbo since the summer. The companies who are providing all the services that made each kind of functional Web site they got uncomfortable having it as a customer so they evicted it from their Internet real estate. But a chance still exists safely housed on a bunch of servers waiting to be plugged back in this week.

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S12: Jim Watkins the guy from those weird videos he tried to do just that is h Chan back online.

S13: Can you just characterize what’s happening right now. Because I think people are hearing differing reports.

S14: So right now it is effectively down. It could be backup by the time people hear this podcast. It’s been up and down for days as it gets deep platforms and they find a new place to host. I don’t know what’s going to happen in the long run. I can tell you at the moment I cannot access the site but I was able to yesterday.

S12: Watkins has actually rebranded eight chan. He’s now calling it a coon.

S1: But this new site it still has the same basic DNA from back when h first came to life. It was the fever dream of a precocious and kind of lonely teenager.

S13: Can you tell me the story of how this teenager got involved in creating a tan.

S5: Well Bridget Brennan is you know who’s a very online young man spent a lot of his time on fortune. He was he was someone who the Internet was kind of his primary method of socially of being social.

S13: He has a condition called brittle bone disease which means that he he can’t get around the way many can.

S5: Yeah. And he’s also a very good coder and he took mushrooms one day and was struck with the idea of creating infinite charm as opposed to fortune. And so he built this Web site coded it while he was still tripping on mushrooms and released it to the Internet as sort of a kind of radical free speech Haven because he was kind of you know that was something he was really a believer in at that point and a number of different boards are started including bafflement which is dedicated to harassing people and boxing them and you know coal which becomes this Nazi haven. These are all part of HRN they’re all part of a chain they’re all different there’s other communities there’s like animal discussing communities there’s left wing politics discussions it’s not all toxic or whatever like it’s it’s a it’s a pretty sizable site but the chunks of it that are toxic are the most toxic places on the Internet you know kind of things get more extreme as the years go on and after it’s been up like a year or so because it grows very large it becomes a huge burden to Frederick just to keep online because number one it’s not coded perfectly obviously with the mushrooms when he made it in number two is just it’s a very large site and running a site of that size when you’re a single person is an insurmountable task really. And Jim Watkins buys it and hires him and flies him to the Philippines and you know basically says like I’ll give you this new life working for me if you keep the site up.

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S13: And Jim Watkins and Frederick Brennan they end up living down the street from each other in the Philippines operating this image board.

S5: Yeah yeah yeah. Jim buys him like a pays for his condo or whatever like I was part of the deal like he comes in as an employee and it was his job to maintain the site and Jim would fund everything wondered Fredrick Brennan.

S13: Notice the site taking a turn.

S5: And by the time he was out in 2016 it’s this you know again kind of an extreme in I would say very gross place on the internet but it hasn’t killed anyone and it’s not super relevant.

S1: It took the 2016 presidential race to make each man more relevant. That’s when users began to spread these odd memes they combined anti-Semitic and racist symbols.

S15: Donald Trump eventually retweeted one of them and then each hand became linked with a prolific conspiracy theory. He went on. Can you just give me a picture of what I should see in my head when people talk about Q and Q And on you know it’s the best thing I could say is it’s a cult.

S5: The idea that it started with is this person who is claiming to have Q clearance which is like a high level military top secret type clearance. So it’s a person claiming to be a member of the military establishment in the United States of the intelligence establishment would like access to secret data who claims that basically Donald Trump was elected as the result of the military working secretly to free the United States from this cabal of pedophiles and dark wizards who ran run the U.S. government and they believe Hillary Clinton is one of these pedophile wizards and Barack Obama is it’s very dumb it’s very very very dumb. But it because it’s this online community. Q And on conspiracy theory spreads largely among people never would’ve found a chain otherwise. So a chain is like. Mostly very young very internet kind of savvy. Extremely online people queuing on brings in a lot of older folks a lot of people in their 40s 50s 60s who don’t really get the internet but believe in the conspiracy and latch onto it and there’s a lot of things that make it like a cult. One of them is that because these people’s beliefs get so extreme and are so divorced from reality many of them alienate their families and it gets to a point where a lot of them the only cult social network they have are other people who are into Q went on and sort of like trying to secretly pull apart these these Q drops which is like Q providing these hints on what’s happening next and who’s getting arrested next and whatever. What does a Q drop look like.

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S16: You know it all.

S17: I’ll read you one of the very first one I think was Hillary Clinton will be arrested 745 a.m. 830 a.m. Eesti on Monday the morning of on October 30th 2017 HRC Hillary Clinton extradition already in motion effective yesterday with several countries in case of cross-border run passport approved to be flagged effective 10 30 at 12:00 or 1:00 a.m. expect massive riots organized in defiance and others fleeing the U.S. to occur. Like it’s stuff like that in it usually it’s more cryptic. Early on he was more specific and made specific predictions which obviously didn’t come true. I mean find a more recent one. They’ve just been incredibly cryptic and have focused on sort light in a way that you can kind of interpret them to be anything.

S5: So it becomes this community and they develop their own words for things and their own language essentially which is another key aspect of a cult.

S13: HRN Is the one place where Q will appear right and so it becomes this relationship that’s really important because each man is reliant on cue and on to bring in all these users are talking about people who normally wouldn’t be on this message board and it is the only place on the Internet that you can hear from this particular person male or female we don’t know who they are.

S5: Yeah that’s exactly right and you know. Q anon has gotten more and more dangerous as it’s as it’s gone on these people believe that like it’s kind of an apocalyptic utopian cult they believe that when Trump arrests all these people and the deep states finally defeated that though a lot of them think they’ll get jobs in the CIA but they also believe that like all of their problems are essentially a result of this evil Deep State cabal. So when Trump finally fixes everything like them you know the world will be perfect and they’ll be able to like get their families back and be happy.

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S13: You’re speaking about the people who are engaged with this. I mean you’re characterizing what they’re saying it sounds like nonsense but why do you think this is so appealing to people because these are people with motivations. I mean I just feel like it’s hard because what you’re laying out does sound so extreme in any cult.

S5: If you if you look at like what they believe sounds nuts if you’re not inside the cold but like when you’re inside like part of what makes a cult a cult is that there’s this reality distortion field when you’re inside it and everything’s very internally consistent inside the cult. And when you’re locked into a situation like that it becomes emotionally very dear to you. And the idea of being pulled out of it is one of the most frightening things you can imagine. What’s being said in Cuba unlike the core of the conspiracy is so absurd that sometimes you just have to shake your head at it. But it’s very serious to me and I really worry about these people and I feel for them because they’re not like like any members of a cult. These are not on balance happy people these are people who are missing something in their life and this community provides it for them and that’s very dangerous. People who see danger here they’ve now got their eyes trained on Jim Watkins and in particular on the Internet infrastructure he’s using to try and bring HSN back from limbo EDI owns a number of companies one of them is in t technology made it sort of registers this new domain aid code and it becomes very clear through you know technical things that are happening and being filed that he’s trying to bring a man back under a new name. You know they put up test pages and stuff as they like because it’s quite a process to launch a site of this size with this long big of an archive and whatnot so you can see them sort of doing it. So it’s very obvious to everyone for weeks that he’s trying to bring the site back and there’s this battle that gets fought as he’s trying to host finding different hosts for it and stuff to get them to these platform him and drop him.

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S1: You can deep platform 8 10 evicted from the Internet again and again. But to really get rid of it you’d have to grab its servers. That’s where all the data that makes up this message board lives. So a bunch of activists started hunting around for them and they found them being held by a company called sentry communications just outside of San Francisco. Turns out S.R. his business license had been suspended. They had been paying their taxes. So the activists figured hey this is our in.

S8: They started talking to a California congresswoman asking can you send a letter to the attorney general because if you send a letter law enforcement can seize this company’s servers and H in the wandering homeless Web site inspiring shootings and spreading hate speech it could be booted from the Internet permanently.

S12: But that effort failed. The letter never got sent. The congresswoman’s office got scared.

S5: The reason they don’t send the letter is that they’re worried about getting swatted now getting swatted is when a group of people on the Internet there’s someone they don’t like and they call in false reports to the police. Near that person saying like oh this person has a hostage. This person is domestically abusing her. They have a gun. They’re

S13: doing something illegal and dangerous and literally a SWAT team can come to your door and people have been hurt and killed.

S18: This has killed people before. So there’s a real danger they’re not fearing this for no reason but they don’t do anything because of this fear.

S13: What’s interesting about your article is that you have all these text messages back and forth and it’s very clear that both sides of the conversation understand the stakes involved. The fact that these servers are really critical to a particular kind of hate speech online and everyone’s interested in doing something and then all the sudden the legislative staff member starts saying we need to coordinate with the police because we’re scared about being swatted. And it’s it’s kind of stunning that this person who is theoretically in charge who has some standing and power in the state they themselves are they’re fearful of the people online coming after them.

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S18: Yeah. This is a congress person and their staff. And if anyone should be able to communicate directly with law enforcement to make sure that a swatting doesn’t happen it’s it’s them in the fact that if if again if an elected leader with that kind of protection that kind of communication with law enforcement is afraid of these people. But for that specific reason what hope to the rest of us have of dealing with them. You know a chat may never come back online but this sort of thing will happen again. And these people now know that members of the American government are too scared to intervene. That’s not a good situation in my mind.

S13: The day after the last interaction that this activist had with the legislative staff someone posted on Twitter pictures of h hand servers beyond loaded into a car.

S18: Yeah and driven to we don’t exactly know where. From all we can tell they’re not in California anymore so that chance has been missed. Yeah.

S13: So Jim Watkins Chan 8 Coon had the outsmarted the efforts that so many people have put forward to try to keep them quiet.

S18: Not necessarily. They have in part they’ve certainly outsmarted the government the site is still not up because they’re there they’re being continually deep platforms. It’s possible that we will this battle will be won in terms of like keeping each off line. It’s possible they won’t get back on. But it’s also possible that they’ll come back.

S13: You’re describing this effort on your behalf but then also other people especially Fredrick Brennan who founded the site. It’s not it’s not quite journalistic. It’s more of an activist role. We’re going from company to company being a kind of detective looking for where they might be popping up a server and getting an internet connection and then swarming in and trying to mitigate that.

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S5: Yeah. You know there’s there’s a place for pure objectivity in not getting directly involved with a story. And that place is before 75 people are dead at a certain point it became more important to me to keep a channel off the internet than it did to just continue writing about them and not trying to have any sort of direct impact. I don’t want any more people to get killed. I don’t want any more manifestos to spread and I don’t want this cult to continue to grow because all of these things very much worry me. So we got involved. I got involved in Frederick had been for a while and just trying to keep this thing off the Internet and there were a lot of different people I should say involved with this process.

S13: You know in the article that you wrote just this week you do talk about a different shooting a shooting in Germany and it has all the earmarks of being an H an inspired shooting even though each hand was down while it happened and it just made me wonder is taking down the site. How much will it help. Will it prevent these kind of hate crimes from happening.

S6: There will be more a charge inspired shootings regardless of whether or not the site comes up because there are a number of people who were radicalized on the site before it went down. But almost nobody knows about the whole shooting and that manifesto didn’t really spread the stuff that he was trying to go viral. You know as a result of his shooting none of that spread out into the mainstream culture in the way that any of the other shootings did because there’s not this central place for people to you know defy the shooter as a saint. They call them saints all the people who commit mass shootings from a train. And without that central community the shooting had less of an impact both in terms of the cultural impact it had less of an impact on people’s psyches and it had less of an ability to sort of radicalize other people and inspire other people. And that also means that sort of people will be less inclined to commit these massacres. I think there will be fewer of them because part of what people want to do is feel like they’re part of this movement and if the core the central organizing place of the movement is down then there’s no way to feel like you just feel like a lone person murdering people and that’s not how these people want to feel they don’t want to just be a lone gunman killing people they want to feel like a soldier in a war.

S13: So what do you think is going to happen in the next few weeks. You’ve mentioned how it feels like you’re talking about this Web site starting up like a you’re trying to get the engine to turn over and like it’s up for a few hours then it’s down it’s up it’s down. I mean what do you think happens next here.

S16: I have no idea.

S17: I really have no idea. I think there’s probably a 50 percent chance that they find a way to bring the Web site back online.

S19: If not eventually some other community will provide this thing that a chance provided to its users and this whole process will start over again eventually. This is not going to end anytime soon.

S20: Robert Evans thank you so much for joining me. Thank you for having me. Robert Evans is an investigative journalist for Belling cat. He also hosts the podcast behind the bastards for I Heart media.

S8: And that’s the show. What next is produced by Mary Wilson Jason de Leone Daniel Hewett and Mara silvers. Tomorrow in the morning it is what next TBD with Lizzie O’Leary and I’ll be dropping into the feed a little bit later with your impeachment news roundup. Till then I am Mary Harris. Thanks for listening.

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Demoralization: What [Ex-KGB Agent] Yuri Bezmenov Didn't Tell You

Academic Agent

2 years ago

4 STAGES OF IDEOLOGICAL SUBVERSION

DEMORALIZATION — educate an entire

generation in Marxist ideology

DESTABILIZATION — economy, foreign

relations, and defense systems

CRISIS — violent change of power,

structure, and economy

NORMALIZATION — period of stability

(until the next cycle reaches crisis point)

What Bezmanov did not tell you:

It's from the FRANKFORT SCHOOL.

Adorno, HorkHeimer, Fromme, Marcuse.

Inst. for Social Research.

Alt- branch of marxism independent of Moscow, critiqued the Russian project.

Granted refuge in NYC after Hitler came to power.

How had Hitler come to power?

anti-Semiticism came about due to authoritarian mind.

proposed radical solutions for fascism.

Marcuse worked for OSS.

Adorno worked on authoritarian personality in California [developed California F test]

After WW2, only high ranking Nazis were punished. Citizens were presumed to have been "brainwashed". But efforts were made to get citizens to take responsibility. Fascist personality seen as ingrained in German people themselves. Wanted to humilitate the Germans - forced the country thru all four processes described by Bezmenov. Only happened in the West, Russia held E Germany.

1949 - Horkheimer and Adorno returned to Germany. Fascism expanded to include European culture, even American culture later. 1960s and onward - Frankfort school inculcated each country with some sin that made them authoritarian. Now it's WHITENESS. De-nazification program never ended. Why antifa sees itself as fighting fascism.

LINKS to EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM discussion on "Covid and Beyond" thread:

>>18890018 Renee Diresta & the Censorship Industrial Complex

worked at Jane St Capital, they're into EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM

>>18891198 Derek Parfit's ideas

He supported effective altruism.

>>18891355

Abigail Thorn on effective altruism.

covers all the bases.

Ends by saying decisions about where to put charitable money depend on both analysis and CLOUT.

Gotta have CLOUT to CONTROL THE NARRATIVE.

why a global disinformation network matters

>>18930587 Inside the Pentagon’s New “Perception Management” Office to Counter Disinformation

>>18988286, >>18988317 Anti-Trumper Omidyar funded DHS initiative aimed at censoring social media users

Public records requests have revealed that a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) initiative aimed at censoring social media users during the 2020 election was funded by hardline ‘Never Trump’ figure and Biden donor Pierre Omidyar.

https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/06/11/revealed-govt-censorship-tool-aimed-at-swinging-election-is-funded-by-russia-hoax-linked-billionaire-anti-trumper/

The National Pulse+ (https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/06/11/revealed-govt-censorship-tool-aimed-at-swinging-election-is-funded-by-russia-hoax-linked-billionaire-anti-trumper/)

REVEALED: Govt Censorship Tool Aimed at Swinging Election is Funded by Russia Hoax-Linked Billionaire Anti-Trumper.

Public records requests have revealed that a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) initiative aimed at censoring social media

>>6536202

Christchurch Call

formed by Ardern and Macron after shooting of people in mosque in Christchurch, video'd live and posted on 8chan /pol/ and elsewhere.

from Spring 2019

https://www.christchurchcall.com/call.html

A free, open and secure internet is a powerful tool to promote connectivity, enhance social inclusiveness and foster economic growth.

The internet is, however, not immune from abuse by terrorist and violent extremist actors. This was tragically highlighted by the terrorist attacks of 15 March 2019 on the Muslim community of Christchurch – terrorist attacks that were designed to go viral.

The dissemination of such content online has adverse impacts on the human rights of the victims, on our collective security and on people all over the world.

Significant steps have already been taken to address this issue by, among others: the European Commission with initiatives such as the EU Internet Forum; the G20, and the G7, including work underway during France’s G7 Presidency on combating the use of the internet for terrorist and violent extremist purposes; along with

• the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT)

• the Global Counterterrorism Forum

• Tech Against Terroris

• the Aqaba Process established by the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

The events of Christchurch highlighted once again the urgent need for action and enhanced cooperation among the wide range of actors with influence over this issue, including governments, civil society, and online service providers, such as social media companies, to eliminate terrorist and violent extremist content online.

The Call outlines collective, voluntary commitments from Governments and online service providers intended to address the issue of terrorist and violent extremist content online and to prevent the abuse of the internet as occurred in and after the Christchurch attacks.

All action on this issue must be consistent with principles of a free, open and secure internet, without compromising human rights and fundamental freedoms, including freedom of expression. It must also recognise the internet’s ability to act as a force for good, including by promoting innovation and economic development and fostering inclusive societies.

>>19108891

- the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT)

affiliated with Christchurch Call.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230701093144/https://gifct.org/about/

https://web.archive.org/web/20230322234707/https://gifct.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/GIFCT-Annual-Report-2022.pdf

https://gnet-research.org/2023/06/30/how-gen-z-is-changing-anti-abortion-extremism-through-queering/

>>19108891

https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/news/2022/11/elon-musks-twitter-takeover-has-disrupted-the-christchurch-call

What does Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover mean for the Christchurch Call?

Published 24 November 2022

Recent upheavals at Twitter are a reminder that New Zealand needs to rethink its digital strategy, writes Markus Luczak-Roesch.

Comment: Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter as the new sole private owner has delivered plenty of material for memes. Ironically, much of the debate about Twitter is still happening on the platform itself, sometimes with Musk jumping into the conversations personally.

At the same time, a significant number of active Twitter users (mostly those focused on fair and equitable online behaviour, including researchers, journalists, and digital natives) have decided to leave the platform and migrate elsewhere.

The decentralised social media ecosystem of Mastodon has been a prime beneficiary. Media have been busy explaining Mastodon and how best to quit Twitter.

But what might sound like a funny disruption in the social media landscape is actually a serious matter with important challenges for democracy in the digital age. And it raises questions about whether the New Zealand government is well equipped and advised to deal with those challenges.

Antisocial media

At the end of September, the government announced it would partner with Microsoft, Twitter, and the US government to develop technologies that could reveal how algorithms influence users’ political beliefs and potential actions.

The collaboration was a direct outcome of the Christchurch Call, the initiative begun two years ago after the terrorist attacks on two mosques in the city. Its aim is to tackle the problem of online platforms acting as breeding grounds for extremist views and violence, threatening the democratic social fabric.

However, one of Musk’s first actions was to fire Twitter’s head of legal Vijaya Gadde and people from the machine learning, ethics, transparency, and accountability team headed by Rumman Chowdhury. Seemingly, Musk considers their work and advocacy for algorithmic transparency and content moderation goes against his vision of free speech on the Twitter platform.

The entire team the New Zealand government was planning to work with disappeared. And it’s unlikely any work outlined in September will actually eventuate.

While algorithmic transparency on Twitter is important, the Christchurch Call will only be fully effective if all social media platforms are included.Meta (owner of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp) and TikTok’s parent company Bytedance remain outside the initiative.

>>19108956

https://nypost.com/2022/12/03/french-president-macron-has-surprise-meet-with-elon-musk-in-new-orleans/

Excerpt:

In a follow-up statement, Macron also said he pressed Musk on content moderation on Twitter — something the free-speech-loving billionaire has loosened since he bought the social media platform on Oct. 27.

“Transparent terms of use, significant reinforcement of content moderation and protection of freedom of expression: Twitter must make the effort to comply with European regulations,” Macron said

The French leader said Musk assured him Twitter would continue to participate in the Christchurch Call, a collection of governments, online service providers, and civil society groups which combat terrorist and violent extremist content online.

“We will work with Twitter to improve the protection of children online. Elon Musk confirmed it to me today. Let’s better protect our children online,” Macron said.

USER COMMENT:

Let me translate this for you. Macron is asking Musk to censor in favor of Macron and his party.

jim caviezel defends Q and anons July 2023

https://twitter.com/karlibonnita/status/1678819754918793216?s=46

https://codemonkeyz.substack.com/p/behind-the-shadows

Behind the Shadows

The Art of Influence and Manipulation Across White, Black, and Grey Operations

CodeMonkeyZ

Jul 13, 2023

In the shadowy world of psychological operations, every message is a calculated move.

Psychological operations, otherwise known as psyops, are actions that are taken to influence the attitudes and behaviors of a target individual or group to achieve a specific objective.

Psyops can be classified into one of three general types: white, grey and black. The three classifications are based on where the information is disseminated from. Each of these three types serves a different purpose and utilizes a different method to deliver a message.

Awhite psyopposes as an authoritative beacon, ablack psyopconceals its venom under falsehoods, and a grey psyopskillfully pulls the strings from behind a screen of neutrality.

Understanding their unique mechanisms can be the difference between being a puppet and seeing the strings.

White Psyops

White psyops deliver a message that is communicated through a correctly identified and acknowledged source. The target audience is aware of who is sending the message, and the message is usually delivered in a manner consistent with high credibility and authority.

An example of a white psyop from the US military takes us back to the Iraq war. In early November of 2004, US planes dropped leaflets urging women and children to leave the city of Fallujah before the second battle of Fallujah - Operation Phantom Fury. The dropping of these leaflets were sent from a highly credible and authoritarian source - the US military, and were truthful in their messaging and wording that the city would soon be under attack.

Black Psyops

Black psyops involve deliberately misidentifying or hiding the true source of a message intended to persuade a target. This type of psyop relies heavily on a deliberate campaign of misdirection, deception, and manipulation. By obscuring the actual source of the message, the message may be perceived as more credible or bring about a sense of alarm in the target. Black psyops can be used to create confusion, instigate conflicts, or undermine trust in a specific group or individual.

An example of a black psyop is the deliberate dissemination of fake news through an imposter social media account. The target of the psyop might believe they are receiving the information from a trusted source, but in fact they were intentionally misled by an imposter.

Grey Psyops

Grey psyops involve the transmission of a message through a third party which conceals or masks the actual source of the message. The goal of a grey psyop is to create the illusion of independence or neutrality in order to enhance the credibility or appeal of the message. The target audience of a grey psyop is not immediately aware of the true origin of the message.

Achieved through the clever use of intermediaries, such as news outlets, influencers, or non-governmental organizations (NGOs), the true source of the message is hidden or indirectly implied.

A political example of a grey psyop would be the intentional leaking of data or information from a government employee to a journalist so as to help facilitate the release of expert analysis with an intent to sway public opinion. Leaks of information related to high-profile court cases are often used to sway juries or convince the public that a defendant may be guilty. By utilizing a grey psyop to introduce evidence to the public that otherwise would not be allowed in a court room, a prosecutor might be able to convince the jury that the defendant is guilty without going through the proper channels of the court room.

In summary, white, black and grey psyops represent different levels of source identification in psychological operations. White psyops openly acknowledge the source, black psyops deliberately misattribute the source, and grey psyops mask the origin of the source by using an intermediary. Understanding the differences and distinctions of each type of psyop is crucial to analyzing the intent behind various messages and deliberating the credibility of information being disseminated.

Interested in delving deeper into the world of psychological operations? Make sure to click the subscribe button. Stay ahead of the curve, understand the intent behind various psyops. Knowledge is power.

How QAnon and Jan. 6 Ripped the Conspiracy Theory World Apart

NYT

https://web.archive.org/web/20230805013006/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/04/opinion/conspiracy-theory-qanon.html

…

Over the past year, I’ve been part of an academic research project seeking to understand how the internet changed conspiracy theories. Many of the dynamics the internet creates are, at this point, well understood: We know its capacity to help users find one another, making it easier than ever for people to get involved in conspiracy networks; we also know how social media platforms prioritize inflammatory content and that as a result, ideas and information that make people angry travel farther.

What we felt was missing from this story, though, was what this period of change looked like from the perspective of conspiracy theorists themselves.

….

[So they ask a guy involved in Q how he got involved, etc.]

ARTICLE TITLE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE ARTICLE.

long, boring article

Writer highly academic, seems to think she has the luxury of writing idly about conspiracy theories while the world burns.

KEK.

Most interdasting piece of info:

Annie Kelly is a postdoctoral researcher working on conspiracy theories at King’s College London and the University of Manchester. She is also the British correspondent for the podcast“QAnon Anonymous.”

A TRAVIS VIEW FELLOW TRAVELLER.

https://issuesinsights.com/2023/08/18/left-wing-rage-dont-pretend-it-doesnt-exist/

Left-Wing Rage: Don’t Pretend It Doesn’t Exist

SPLC has hate map of conservative groups but university survey finds it's the LEFT that's more prone to political violence

Issues & Insights, by The Editorial Board

Posted By: RockyTCB, 8/18/2023 6:15:08 AM

The Southern Poverty Law Center has its “hate map” of conservative groups that it hopes to marginalize if not kill off entirely. Meanwhile, the feds are looking for vicious, bloodthirsty right-wingers under the bed. But a university survey recently found that the left is more prone to political violence than the right. It’s exactly what we have come to expect from a group that is so sure of its superiority and the importance of its agenda that it’s willing to break an infinite number of eggs so that it can make its authoritarian omelet.

The COVID lie that started it all!

https://twitter.com/simonateba/status/1694355101270302914

MSM says WHO estimates the virus has a mortality rate of 3.4%

Trump says, NO - it's much lower, under 1%.

They attack him over and over again as putting out misinformation, disinformation

In the end, HE's the who proven right.

They are the LIARS.

MSM says over and over that President Trump

can't post mp4s just now.

to be added:

from FAVORITE file, search on "disinfo"

What MAUI Fires Are Revealing About Hawaii Connection to Global Disinfo/WEF Network

>>19444558 pb

Emergency Maui County Council Meeting Highlights: Lahaina Fires – Community Outcry

Matt Holton

https://youtu.be/DpFnb6BHJuY

GREAT VIDEO

>>19448110

Here's a clip that sums the position of locals in a nutshell.

>>19448110

All the clips from this meeting are historic. Here's another.

>>19448099

>https://twitter.com/WallStreetApes/status/1696176274736054774

TESTIMONY from MAUI resident asking for the County Council members' position on the emergency proclamation made3 week before the fire.

(They always say they are "taking testimony," they never reply to questions.)

Points out NANI MEDEIROS as the person who can now OVERRIDE all decisions made by the Council wo/input from the public due to the Emergency Powers granted her by the governor 3 weeks ago.

ATTACHED.

Hawaii Gov Takes Dramatic Action To Solve Housing Crisis. But Is He Going Too Far?

Critics question the decision to suspend laws to streamline the approval process for development.

July 17, 2023

Hawaii could see construction of 50,000 new homes over the next three to five years for residents of all income levels if an executive order issued Monday by Gov. Josh Green achieves its intended purpose. The order suspends a half dozen state and county laws, primarily focusing on land use, historic preservation and environmental review.

Titled “Emergency Proclamation Relating to Housing,” the measure invokes a state law giving the governor broad power to suspend laws that impede a response to emergencies such as natural disasters or the coronavirus pandemic. In this case, the emergency is a shortage of housing and the response is to lower regulatory barriers to building homes.

…..

The fast-tracked environmental review process will largely be conducted by the working group and housing officer. While Green promised the group and officer will work transparently, the working group will not be subject to Hawaii’s Sunshine Law, which among things requires decision-making agencies to hold their meetings in public.

https://www.civilbeat.org/2023/07/hawaii-gov-takes-dramatic-action-to-solve-housing-crisis-but-is-he-going-too-far/

>>19448325

Nani Medeiros DIGG

She is the person who has total say about housing policy on Maui under the Emergency Proclamation (EP) by Josh Green on July 17, 2023.

LINKED IN PROFILE

Critical thinking | effective analysis | partnered with collaborative, flexible solutions. My experience in strategic development, public policy, fiscal analysis, non-profit advocacy, legislative affairs, and coalition building are invaluable assets to organizations with clear, purpose-driven public policy missions. I bring a passionate commitment to any cause I endeavor for.

Worked for HomeAid Hawaii, Hawai‘i Primary Care Association, Housing Hawaii

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nani-medeiros-aloha

Josh Green Names Longtime Advocate To Be New Hawaii Housing Chief

….The money from Bezos’ Day 1 Families Fund went to groups focused on addressing family homelessness in the islands, with $2.5 million going to Family Promise of Hawaii on Oahu and $5 million to Maui service provider Ka Hale A Ke Ola Homeless Resource Centers. They were among 40 organizations in the U.S. that received grants, which totaled more than $123 million.

https://www.civilbeat.org/2022/11/josh-green-names-longtime-advocate-to-be-new-hawaii-housing-chief/

Lawmaker apologizes for comparing housing chief to the devil, but doubles down on DHHL criticism

Feb. 1, 2023

VIDEO

“Nani has nothing or no knowledge about Hawaiian people. I don’t care if she says she’s Hawaiian. Just remember now, the devil also was an angel. Remember that. So just because you’re Hawaiian doesn’t mean you have the passion for the people,” he said during the meeting."

https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2023/02/02/state-sen-fevella-apologizes-doubles-down-his-criticism-dhhls-housing-plans/

>>19448110

>>19447161

#23884

>>19447164, >>19447201, >>19447225 Maui is Epstein Island 2.0? MP4

Maui is Epstein Island 2.0?

TUNNELS UNDER MAUI

https://x.com/shae33172/status/1695870665612497106

>>19452309

Secret Hidden Tunnels found 300' below Maui, Hawaii

18,048 views Jan 22, 2016

Always up for a adventure We take off into the depths of Maui in search of secret passageways. Hidden in the cane fields there is gate ways into the unknown.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96gB5V4TTD4

https://social-innovation.hitachi/en-eu/case_studies/the-new-smart-grid-in-hawaii-jumpsmartmaui-project/

The New Smart Grid in Hawaii: JUMPSmartMaui Project

The State of Hawaii's goal is to obtain 40% of its electric power generation from renewable energy sources by 2030

Hitachi recently announced that it has begun operations on the demonstration site for the "Japan-U.S. Island Grid Project" (commonly referred to as the "JUMPSmartMaui") on the island of Maui, Hawaii, in collaboration with the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), Mizuho Bank, Ltd. and Cyber Defense Institute, Inc. An opening ceremony was held on Maui to coincide with the launch of site operations.

Video: The New Smart Grid in Hawaii

Due to increasing demands for renewable energy, Hawaii is in need of an advanced Island Smart Grid. According to the Maui Electric Company, renewable energy currently accounts for 21% of the total energy supply on Maui.

The goal of JUMPSmartMaui is to demonstrate smart grid technologies that will enable the efficient use of renewable energy and will contribute to the implementation of a low-carbon social infrastructure system in island regions. The demonstration site has been designed to respond to rapidly changing demands in the renewable energy market through the use of electric vehicles (EV) and other innovative technologies.

Operations at the demonstration site are scheduled to continue until March 2015. Following this period, studies and discussions will be conducted for implementing new business models based on the results and evaluation of the demonstration.

Hitachi has already recruited numerous electric vehicle users and residents on Maui to volunteer in the demonstration.

As the company leading the Project, Hitachi oversees all aspects of Project activities, and has been working on the construction of the demonstration site with local stakeholders including the State of Hawaii, the County of Maui, Hawaiian Electric Industries, Inc., the University of Hawaii, and the American national research laboratories.

https://alohachallenge.hawaii.gov/

The Aloha+ Challenge

is a statewide public-private commitment to achieve Hawai‘i's social, economic, and environmental goals by 2030.

Launched in 2014, the Aloha+ Challenge identified six priority goals and local metrics that are delivering against the global United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Hawai‘i Green Growth Local 2030 Hub and partners are catalyzing island-led solutions to drive concrete action. Explore the Aloha+ Dashboard to see statewide progress and benchmark data on the Aloha+ SDGs and Hawai‘i's contribution to the global goals.

Hawaii Open Data

https://opendata.hawaii.gov/

MAUI Open Data

https://mauichallenge.org/

>>19452241

Nani Medeiros digg, con't

Editorial | Island Voices

Column: Emergency order on housing flawed

By Thomas Brandt Aug. 22, 2023

In my opinion, Gov. Josh Green’s Housing Emergency Proclamation (EP) includes nothing to keep new homes — whether for rent or sale — permanently affordable for local residents only.

So I told the governor’s chief housing officer, Nani Medeiros, at the Downtown Honolulu Neighborhood Board meeting this month that the EP sounds as if it was written by real estate and construction industry lobbyists to serve their own self-interests, rather than the public good.

Further, local affordable housing expert Kenna StormoGipson says we need to allocate at least $600 million annually — not just once, and not only for the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL) — to even have a chance to permanently reduce the gap between supply and demand for permanent affordable housing for local residents only….

https://www.staradvertiser.com/2023/08/22/editorial/island-voices/column-emergency-order-on-housing-flawed/

The Ugly Side Of Agenda 2030’s ‘Affordable Housing For All’

Technocracy is epitomized in the UN’s New Urban Agenda, which intends to transform the world’s cities into micro-managed hive populations of humans. It is the prime directive for “Smart Cities” that utilize advanced technology and planning.

Chapter 10 of the World Cities Report 2016 states under the subtitle of Re-positioning housing at the centre of the New Urban Agenda on page 192,

“Housing lay at the core of Habitat II strategic recommendations, particularly the statement affirming the right to adequate and affordable housing for all and the recognition of housing as an important component of local and national economic development”

The following article by John Anthony of the Sustainable Freedom Lab points out the tyranny that results from these policies and that it is already well-embedded in America. ⁃ TN Editor

https://www.technocracy.news/the-ugly-side-of-agenda-2030s-affordable-housing-for-all/

To Tackle Highest Housing Costs in the Country, Hawaii's Governor Declares YIMBY Martial Law

An emergency proclamation by Gov. Josh Green offers developers the opportunity to route around almost all regulations on building homes.

8.23.2023 12:15 PM

https://reason.com/2023/08/23/to-tackle-highest-housing-costs-in-the-country-hawaiis-governor-declares-yimby-martial-law/

Hawaiian Home Lands spending questions turn racial

By Dan Nakaso Feb. 1, 2023

Questions over how to spend $600 million in record funding for Native Hawaiian homes have gotten sidetracked by issues of race after state Sen. Kurt Fevella testified before the Hawaiian Home Lands Commission that Gov. Josh Green’s pick to lead the state’s housing efforts lacks “passion” for Hawaiians.

Green wrote a two-page letter to Senate President Ron Kouchi condemning Fevella’s comments made Friday to the commission about the chief housing officer nominee, who is Hawaiian, calling them multiple violations of Senate rules.

Fevella said Nani Medeiros has “nothing, or no knowledge, about our Hawaiian people. I don’t care if she says she’s Hawaiian. Just remember now, the devil also was an angel. Remember that. So just because you’re Hawaiian doesn’t mean you have the passion for the people.”

…..

Fevella (R, Ocean Pointe-­Iroquois Point-Kapolei) did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday.

….Earlier this month at a contentious joint hearing of the Senate Ways and Means and Hawaiian Affairs committees, Medeiros joined Ikaika Anderson, Green’s nominee to lead the state Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, to answer questions from Fevella and other senators about DHHL’s plans to spend the $600 million approved in 2022 to help clear the backlog of home lands beneficiaries.

Fevella then testified Friday before the commission chaired by Anderson, saying Anderson “lied” five times during testimony to the senators about issues including whether the commission had approved amendments to its plans on how to spend the $600 million.

….

House Speaker Scott Saiki on Tuesday announced that the House has created a working group to oversee DHHL’s plans to use the $600 million.

The group consists of Chair Rep. Troy Hashimoto (D, Wailuku-Waikapu) and Reps. David Tarnas (D, Hawi-­Waimea-Waikoloa), Daniel Holt (D, Sand Island-­Iwilei-Chinatown), Scott Y. Nishi­moto (D, Moiliili-McCully), Mahina Poepoe (D, Molokai-­Lanai-Hana) and Gene Ward (Hawaii Kai-­Kalama Valley)…..

https://www.staradvertiser.com/2023/02/01/hawaii-news/hawaiian-home-lands-spending-questions-turn-racial/

hmmm….one Repub in a sea of Dems.

What could go wrong?

COMMENTS may be even better than the article, they get into the history of debate about how native Hawaiians should be treated (same or different from other Americans).

https://www.staradvertiser.com/2023/02/01/hawaii-news/hawaiian-home-lands-spending-questions-turn-racial/

HOW ARE THE MAUI FIRE, HAWAII EMERGENCY HOUSING PLANS AND UN SUSTAINABILITY GOALS RELATED??

Plan To Commit $600 Million To Hawaiian Home Lands Development Advances

March 2022

A proposal to use $600 million in new state funding to dramatically rev up construction of housing for Native Hawaiians is poised to pass a key House committee later this week, and appears certain to win the approval of the full House next week.

House Bill 2511 was co-sponsored by46 House Democratsincluding House Speaker Scott Saiki, and its progress in the 51-member House appears to be greased. A similar bill has been advancing in the state Senate, and is scheduled for further consideration in the Senate Ways and Means Committee on Thursday.

Both bills as originally proposed would dramatically increase state funding of the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, which has a list of 28,000 people waiting for land and housing. Some have been waiting for decades to be assigned leases of trust lands under the federal Hawaiian Homes Commission Act of 1920.

https://www.civilbeat.org/2022/03/plan-to-commit-600-million-to-hawaiian-home-lands-development-advances/

DHHL Publishes $600 Million Act 279 Plan

The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL) has published and submitted to the Hawaiʻi State Legislature its final plan to spend the $600 million allocation of funding from Act 279.

Dec 6, 2022

Signed into law by Governor Ige on July 11, 2022, Act 279 set aside a historic $600 million toward addressing the needs of native Hawaiians on the DHHL Waiting List. Act 279 required DHHL to submit a strategic plan, including findings, recommendations, and any proposed legislation, to the legislature by December 10, 2022.

https://dhhl.hawaii.gov/2022/12/06/dhhl-publishes-600-million-act-279-plan/

Gov. Green goes to the UN to talk about Hawaiʻi

Jul 12, 2023

Governor Josh Green, M.D. is touting Hawaiʻi’s sustainability accomplishments at the United Nations’ Economic and Social Council which is taking place in New York City between Wednesday, July 12 and July 19.

“We try to lead on energy and climate, we’rethe first state to mandate 100% renewable energy for electricity,” said Gov. Green to the UN forum. …“The United Nations Economic and Social Council is bringing together more than 40 presenters from around the world to present Voluntary Local Reviews (VLR) of their implementation of the UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) agenda,” said the spokesperson. “Hawaiʻi is the only state to have submitted a VLR.”

https://www.khon2.com/local-news/gov-green-goes-to-the-un-to-talk-about-hawai%CA%BBi/

MAUI BURNING: People Flee Into Ocean to Escape Wildfires – Historic Lahaina Town Destroyed (VIDEO)

Tuesday, August 8: 12 a.m. HST - A brush fire emits heavy smoke in Maui’s Upcountry region, later growing to about 1,000 acres. At least 50 people take cover at an emergency center.

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2023/08/hawaii-wildfires-timeline-maui-lahaina-dg/index.html

Aug. 9, 2023 10:15 am

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/MAUI-burning-people-flee-ocean-escape-wildfires-historic/

Emergency Maui County Council Meeting Highlights: Lahaina Fires – Community Outcry

Aug. 23 or 24 ("five days ago")'''

https://youtu.be/DpFnb6BHJuY

LOTS of details by longtime residents who know the score.

One resident, JUSTIN HUEY, calls out the Governor's EMERGENCY PROCLAMATION made just weeks before the fire.

He also calls out Points outNANI MEDEIROS as the person who can now OVERRIDE all decisions made by the Council wo/input from the public due to the Emergency Powers granted her by the governor 3 weeks ago.

BV-Edit: removed 2 broken images

HOW ARE THE MAUI FIRE, HAWAII EMERGENCY HOUSING PLANS AND UN SUSTAINABILITY GOALS RELATED??

Plan To Commit $600 Million To Hawaiian Home Lands Development Advances

March 2022

A proposal to use $600 million in new state funding to dramatically rev up construction of housing for Native Hawaiians is poised to pass a key House committee later this week, and appears certain to win the approval of the full House next week.

House Bill 2511 was co-sponsored by46 House Democratsincluding House Speaker Scott Saiki, and its progress in the 51-member House appears to be greased. A similar bill has been advancing in the state Senate, and is scheduled for further consideration in the Senate Ways and Means Committee on Thursday.

Both bills as originally proposed would dramatically increase state funding of the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, which has a list of 28,000 people waiting for land and housing. Some have been waiting for decades to be assigned leases of trust lands under the federal Hawaiian Homes Commission Act of 1920.

https:'//'www.civilbeat.org/2022/03/plan-to-commit-600-million-to-hawaiian-home-lands-development-advances/

DHHL Publishes $600 Million Act 279 Plan

The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL) has published and submitted to the Hawaiʻi State Legislature its final plan to spend the $600 million allocation of funding from Act 279.

Dec 6, 2022

Signed into law by Governor Ige on July 11, 2022, Act 279 set aside a historic $600 million toward addressing the needs of native Hawaiians on the DHHL Waiting List. Act 279 required DHHL to submit a strategic plan, including findings, recommendations, and any proposed legislation, to the legislature by December 10, 2022.

https:'//'dhhl.hawaii.gov/2022/12/06/dhhl-publishes-600-million-act-279-plan/

Gov. Green goes to the UN to talk about Hawaiʻi

Jul 12, 2023

Governor Josh Green, M.D. is touting Hawaiʻi’s sustainability accomplishments at the United Nations’ Economic and Social Council which is taking place in New York City between Wednesday, July 12 and July 19.

“We try to lead on energy and climate, we’rethe first state to mandate 100% renewable energy for electricity,” said Gov. Green to the UN forum. …“The United Nations Economic and Social Council is bringing together more than 40 presenters from around the world to present Voluntary Local Reviews (VLR) of their implementation of the UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) agenda,” said the spokesperson. “Hawaiʻi is the only state to have submitted a VLR.”

https:'//'www.khon2.com/local-news/gov-green-goes-to-the-un-to-talk-about-hawai%CA%BBi/

MAUI BURNING: People Flee Into Ocean to Escape Wildfires – Historic Lahaina Town Destroyed (VIDEO)

Tuesday, August 8: 12 a.m. HST - A brush fire emits heavy smoke in Maui’s Upcountry region, later growing to about 1,000 acres. At least 50 people take cover at an emergency center.

https:'//'www.cnn.com/interactive/2023/08/hawaii-wildfires-timeline-maui-lahaina-dg/index.html

Aug. 9, 2023 10:15 am

https:'//'www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/MAUI-burning-people-flee-ocean-escape-wildfires-historic/

Emergency Maui County Council Meeting Highlights: Lahaina Fires – Community Outcry

Aug. 23 or 24 ("five days ago")'''

https:'//'youtu.be/DpFnb6BHJuY

LOTS of details by longtime residents who know the score.

One resident, JUSTIN HUEY, calls out the Governor's EMERGENCY PROCLAMATION made just weeks before the fire.

He also calls out Points outNANI MEDEIROS as the person who can now OVERRIDE all decisions made by the Council wo/input from the public due to the Emergency Powers granted her by the governor 3 weeks ago.

>>19468015 UN publishes final draft of declaration that targets "misinformation," backs WHO pandemic treaty

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1697665445610795334

NEW - U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) has contracted a NY-based AI firm to deploy "Argus", a system to detect and "neutralize" real-time "disinformation threats" on social media.

>>19452474

>>19472216

HOW MANY CHILDREN ARE REALLY MISSING IN LAHAINA?

There has been a lot of discussion on this board about the total number of children in the schools in and around Lahaina.

One anon said (sounded like he knew Lahaina) there were about 1200 children in the system.

Others have looked up the stats and claimed that schools outside the immediate area were included to come up with a total of 3001 (in one tally).

The figures showing 2000 children missing apparently come from the Hawaii Dept of Education, but ARE THEY RELIABLE? Should be, but how would we know?

The capped article (discussion on YT video - see below) has not been posted here before.

More Than 2,000 Children From Lahaina Public Schools Still Missing After Maui Wildfires

There are still 850 people missing from the Maui wildfires, but a new report from the Hawaii State Department of Education shows that there are more than 2,000 children who are unaccounted for in the public school system.

Aug 24th 2023

https:'//'8kun.top/qresearch/res/19471719.html#q19472216

DIG From QResearch from OLDER to NEWER:

#23883 >>19446291

>>19446327, >>19446337, >>19446344, >>19446362, >>19446403 DIG CALL on the number of students enrolled in lahaina schools, we got varying reports.

#19446362 at 2023-08-28 11:27:23 (UTC+1)

[START HERE:]

1. King Kamehameha III Elementary School

611 Front St, lahaina, HI 96761 (808)662-3955 Maui County646PK-5

1. lahaina Intermediate School

871 lahainaluna Rd, lahaina, HI 96761 (808)662-3965 Maui County6586-8

3. lahainaluna High School

980 lahainaluna Rd, lahaina, HI 96761 (808)662-4000 Maui County1,0509-12

4. Princess Nahienaena Elementary School

816 Niheu St, lahaina, HI 96761 (808)662-4020 Maui County665 PK-5

#19446344 at 2023-08-28 11:19:05 (UTC+1)

'''lahaina INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL

724 students in 2017-18'''

https:'//'hi02225532.schoolwires.net/Page/11029446344 at 2023-08-28 11:19:05

#19446337 at 2023-08-28 11:14:07 (UTC+1)

#19446337 at 2023-08-28 11:14:07 (UTC+1)

there's at least 3000 student with private schools in lahaina

https:'//'www.privateschoolreview.com/hawaii/lahaina

#19449185 at 2023-08-28

The four schools, two elementary, one intermediary and one high school that comprised the lahaina school district had a total of 3,001 students enrolled before the fire.

The fire killed hundreds, and thousands are still missing. The Hawaii State Department of Education issued a report Thursday stating that 2,025 students are not accounted in the lahaina public school system in the wake of the August 8 fire that ravaged the town of lahaina on the island of Maui.

https:'//'www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/lahaina-fire-survivor-blasts-jeff-bezos-oprah-during/

#19451149 at 2023-08-29

https:'//'youtu.be/jrQGAXOsG30

More Than 2000 Children From lahaina Public Schools Still Missing After Maui Wildfires

Discusses Hawaii Dept of Education figures of 2000 children missing from school system and the EVIE article.

VERY GOOD VIDEO showing officials ducking the question of how many children are missing among other things.

SCREEN CAP is from this YT video.

https:'//'www.eviemagazine.com/post/more-2-000-children-lahaina-public-schools-missing-maui-wildfires

Catherine Austin Fitts explains land and real estate stealing tactics on Lahaina and elsewhere (Paradise CA)

https://www.bitchute.com/video/jBn5Zt0tdWcQ/

Info Saboteurs: How the Ukrainian Centre for Informational and Psychological Operations Works

posted by MONITOR May 25, 2022

I downloaded the strategy documents on how Ukraine does psyops, and propaganda and manipulation to harm Russia. I saved it in a PDF 14 pages

https://www.theinteldrop.org/2022/05/25/info-saboteurs-how-the-ukrainian-centre-for-informational-and-psychological-operations-works/>>19473063

https://youtu.be/2fgSj8Y6kWM

1:06 / 24:19

Maui Audit of Police - #ProtestMaui

Eric West asks why he cannot pull over on the side of the highway (where there looks to be a LOT of room), which distantly overlooks Lahaina. Cop says it's due to Emergency Proclamation, can't block a bike path. (Really?) He asks what is the law (statute). She doesn't respond, says he can't film there. Calls other cops. He's missing a front license plate, thinks it fells off. Ultimately gets cited for that but also for violating this emergency decree, which will require him to go before a judge.

Eric West asking "Where are the children?"

A Message to the WORLD about the Missing & Forgotten Children of the Lahaina Maui Fire

https://youtu.be/FHd8vgKbrsM

https://youtu.be/TbJ-41dZtpg

Listen to the Cry of Hawaiian People - Ku Kia’i Maui

Lahaina FIRE - Inside the RESTRICTED Area

https://youtu.be/9mppuqs7YF0

387,514 views Aug 29, 2023 #lahainastrong #lahainafire #lahaina

Three weeks after the Lahaina Fire… What is inside the restricted area? This video takes a tour of a portion of Lahaina Town that survived the fire. My neighborhood, Kahoma Village, is in the center of all the destruction but it is mostly still standing. Is there any critical information we can gain from looking at the areas that did not Burn? The media is only showing the areas that have been completely destroyed.

one strange strange thing:

on Eric's house, which is entirely intact, there's a garage door opener, which is also ok. the cover, however, is on the ground - burned to a CRISP.

• Media blackout lockdown in Lahaina West Maui after fire

• Geoff Cygnus

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Xm_DhiKrZvY [Embed]

Sometimes you can't TELL the public the truth.

YOU MUST SHOW THEM.

>>19475892

WOW.

Looks like YOUTUBE took this down.

The Maui Fires - REAL Reason They Happened

two weeks ago. good data.

Interdasting video. Shows an emergency plan for Hawaii when potential disasters are ranked - in terms of risk. WILDFIRES are ranked close to the BOTTOM.

https://youtu.be/xVID8jENuzQ

My brother Warner's Lahaina fire story

https://youtu.be/yq-k09xBhgw

Moving but harrowing account.

90 minutes

after getting people outta the fire, he brought in supplies - convoys of water, gas, food

was able to get cops to let him thru

when you hear him speak, can see why

he said, 'at times like this, you see, who is what'

"Our operation was based on ALOHA"

"my concern was saving our people"

ps He got his whole family out but his house was burned in the fire

Comment:

This needs to be seen by more people. This is one of the most detailed stories. It gave me a real idea of what happened & where everything was blocked.

It also shows both sides of mankind. This man is a hero.

Thank you for getting this out there.

Lahaina Wildfire Survival: Uncensored Teens' Ocean Escape Story

https://youtu.be/x2AW-f8ioGs

563,480 views Aug 26, 2023

Story of two teen brothers who escaped the deadly Lahaina wildfire by jumping into the water.

#19618351 at 2023-09-27 16:39:30 (UTC+1)

Q Research General #24092: Fear Pron Not Workin, Enter The Dicks Edition

Significance of maui as a World Event

Alba Weinman hypnotizes people to help them heal. Sometimes they tune into events in the world. In this episode, Sabrina Etheridge is talking about the significance of maui fire. Says it is a "swiveling turning point in American history….this will change things forever."

Ep 598

https://youtu.be/Q1KaOmalQtk

Maui Fires Cover Up Story

Eric West, Hawaii Real Estate, 35 minutes

https://youtu.be/8TuhbBzcD8I

good summary of what we know to date

FALSE CLAIMS MADE BY THE GOVT ABOUT THE LAHAINA FIRE

Josh Green: “It was a 17-minute hurricane fire”

FALSE. It burned all day long. From 9am past midnight.

It was due to climate change.

FALSE: The county is suing because proper burn mgmt wasn’t done.

It was a normal fire.

FALSE: Plumeria is blooming right next to gutted cars.

It was 100% contained earlier.

FALSE: It was not; it re-ignited later in the day.

Sirens weren’t activated bc they are only for tsunamis.

FALSE: They are for any kind of emergency – co website.

Mayor appeared around 6:30 pm saying everything was fine.

FALSE: Half of Lahaina had already burned

Cars were blocked from leaving due to downed power lines.

FALSE: There are no power since 4:30pm that evening.

There was no cell phone service to send text warnings during the fire.

FALSE: Cell phones could still receive text messages. Why were no warnings sent out?

After the fire, govt help was not available due to no comms.

FALSE: Starlinks were available after the fire. Citizens were blocked from coming into the fire.

Cell phones didn’t work after the fire because there were no cell phone towers.

FALSE: There were temp cell towers put in place.

Water was turned off for “water rights” reasons.

FALSE: There was no water available to do laundry, take a shower or fight the fire. Even the well water source, the diesel.

OTHER INCONVENIENT FACTS:

• Temp flight restrictions were put in place (no drones over Lahaina).

• Media were kept out of Lahaina.

• You could not (and cannot) pull over on the hwy to take a picture of Lahaina.

• There were no door to door evacuations as in the past.-

• Owners were not given access to their properties after the fire.

• The US President WAS given access.

• There was no accurate accounting given for the missing persons, including children.

FEMA said “do not call parents” (bc callers “were not qualified”). No effort was made to come up with a method to figure it out.

• Cars were completely melted; how could this happen from a grass fire? (Fire experts said not possible)

• Blue and red objects did not seem to burn very readily.

• He got labeled as a conspiracy theorist for merely asking q’s and showing images of melted cars.

• Many infringements of constitutional rights: nobody is taking responsibility for this.

• Boats out in the water burned.

• Coast Guard said they found bodies that had burned in the water. That’s being hushed up.

• Video of trees burning from the INSIDE. Flames coming from outside of holes in the bark.

• There’s no asphalt scarring around melted cars (asphalt has a relatively low melting point)

• Police chief and deputy both came from Las Vegas. Many strange things here.

• Green came out with an emergency proclamation for HOUSING in July – suspends all kinds of usual rights.

• FEMA workers were staying at top dollar resort hotels an HOUR away from Lahaina.

• WHY did Gov. Green talked at the UN in July about how sub-national gov’t “proactively prepare” for disasters like the fire IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE “SUSTAINABILITY” GOALS?

• WHY did Gov. Green LIE about the length of the fire, then blame it on climate change?

DIG CALL

JAMES WOO DIG [ARLINGTON FIRE]

Posted this twit-x thread during gy:''

>>20043565, >>20043552, >>20043555, >>20043557, >>20043564 DIG CALL: Was James Woo's house blown up to eliminate another witness in the Global Crossing Cyber OP?

in-depth exploration into the relationship between Woo, Global Crossings (an now defunct company that built cyber networks, Eric Holder, and the blowing up of Woo's house

Poster's conclusion: the people responsible for building the cyber infrastructure in Iraq post-invasion, the infrastructure whose point was to provide the US Intel Community with total back door access into not just Iraq's digital communications, but all of Europe’s, are now being killed off one by one.

IS THIS TRUE???

Good place to start DIGGING:

Obama AG Pick ERIC HOLDER Lobbied for Dicey Telco Deal

Eric Holder hired to close sale of bankrupt firm amid security fears.

November 20, 2008

https:'//'abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=6302394&page=1

In 2002, national security officials balked at a proposed sale of the bankrupt telecommunications firmGlobal Crossingto two Asian companies: a Hong Kong firm they reportedly believed to have ties to the Chinese government, and a Singapore firm part-owned by the government of Singapore.

Officials at the Pentagon and the Justice Department believed that foreign control of Global Crossing's global fiber optic network could give other governments access to U.S. data which would travel along those lines or be kept in the company's databases, documents indicate.Those officials also thought the sale could make it harder for U.S. intelligence and law enforcement to secretly tap those lines for intelligence operations or criminal investigations.

SEE CAP for moar.

Does kind of look like Global Crossing might have been a total cover for US Spy-OPS in the early 2000s.

James Wood DIG summary to date ALL PB

>>20027568 House in Arlington, Virginia explodes after police reportedly approached it with a search warrant

https:'//'twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1731856487280959722

>>20026534, >>20026558, >>20026652, >>20026955, >>20027001 House explodes in arlington Virginia

OWNER is JAMES WOO

>>20028472 Video Shows House Explosion Reportedly Triggered By Suspect Firing Flare Gun At Police

https:'//'faulknernewsnetwork.online/video-shows-house-explosion-reportedly-triggered-by-suspect-firing-flare-gun-at-police/

>>20028805, >>20028627 ARLINGTON EXPLOSION: ABOUT JAMES YOO

https:'//'twitter.com/nicksortor/status/1731995227722846463?

https:'//'www.zerohedge.com/political/arlington-home-explodes-arlington-virginia-neighborhood

key facts about YOO: far left, paranoid, frivolous lawsuits against relatives, former head of Global security at CFIUS....

>>20027884 Dude in Arlington, Virginia who’s house got blown up tonight [JAMES WOO] is talking in the comments in his short on YouTube. This whole thing is wild.

https:'//'web.archive.org/web/20160219204752/https:'//'www.wakehealth.edu/faculty/yoo-james-j.htm

far left nut case, psyop or something else?

DID HE SURVIVE THE BLAST?

>>20043405 Remarks of James Yoo, owner of the house that got blown up in arlington VA

Dude in Arlington, Virginia who’s house got blown up tonight is talking in the comments in his short on YouTube. This whole thing is wild.

https:'//'youtube.com/shorts/dcyhnH0 [<<<<< THIS IS NOW DELETED] - see mp4.

https:'//'twitter.com/based_coach1/status/1731900923163627573 [YT VIDEO IS HERE]

There's more - check out the twitter link.......

>>20043532 LB LINKS: james woo DIG

ANOTHER ANGLE: Does James Yoo" refers to Israel's Checkpoint Security surveillance…possibly linked to ADL's "PROTECT Plan"?

MSNBC legal analyst says First Amendment makes US ‘vulnerable,’ calls for ‘common sense’ speech restrictions

Alexander Hall, Fox News Feb. 29, 2024

MSNBC legal analyst Barbara McQuade argued Monday that the United States’ “deep commitment to free speech” makes Americans uniquely susceptible to disinformation campaigns.

McQuade, a University of Michigan law professor, went on “The Rachel Maddow Show” topromote her new book, “Attack from Within: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America.” She said her “goal” with the book was to spark a “national conversation about truth and our commitment to it.”

She added, “I hope that by dissecting it, explaining it, and educating the public, we can all see disinformation for what it is so that we can begin to push back against it.”

When asked by host Rachel Maddowwhether America is just as susceptible to disinformation as other countries, McQuade argued thatit is even more vulnerable. (That’s because we have stronger objections and logic)

“Actually, Rachel, I think we’re more susceptible to it than other countries, and that’s because some of our greatest strengths can also be our Achilles Heel,” McQuade said. “So, for example, our deep commitment to free speech in our First Amendment. It is a cherished right. It’s an important right in democracy, andnobody wants to get rid of it, but it makes us vulnerable to claims [that]anything we want to do related to speech is censorship.”

MSNBC legal analyst Barbara McQuade told host Rachel Maddow that Americans’ defense of free speech makes them uniquely susceptible to disinformation campaigns. MSNBC

She argued, “Of course, the Supreme Court has held that all fundamental rights, even the right to free speech, can be limitedas long as there is a compelling governmental interest and the restriction is narrowly tailored to achieve that interest. But I think any time someone tries to do anything that might limit free speech, people claim censorship.”

McQuade held up as an example this week’s Supreme Court cases regarding state laws about how social media platforms moderate content. MSNBC host Rachel Maddow praised the book’s arguments and touted McQuade’s work as a “real public service and a pleasure.” MSNBC

“We need to have a conversation and common-sense solutions to these things,” she said. “Instead, we throw out terms like ‘censorship,’ call each other names, use labels and retreat to our opposite sides. We need to be pragmatic and come up with real solutions.”

https://nypost.com/2024/02/29/us-news/msnbc-legal-analyst-says-first-amendment-makes-us-vulnerable-calls-for-common-sense-speech-restrictions/

Mike Benz

@MikeBenzCyber

If you watch these 12 minutes I did with

@JesseKellyDC

, you will have an instant PhD on what Bidenworld has really been up to, all these years, in Ukraine.

You will see the world with totally different and suddenly very clear eyes.

https://media.128ducks.com/file_store/21735e7c3606323b5106ee2eedd9be3075ad88ec06920feb2cd7fbf10718f398.mp4

https://twitter.com/i/status/1763423628723453994

>>20507257 MSNBC Legal Analyst Calls For 'Regulation' Of Disinformation As Trust In Corporate Media Collapses

Watch: MSNBC Legal Analyst Calls For 'Regulation' Of Disinformation As Trust In Corporate Media Collapses

Saturday, Mar 02, 2024 - 01:55 PM

MSNBC has long been known as one of the most biased news organizations in the US among a host of other highly biased outlets. The hypocrisy of such an company admonishing the spread of disinformation in American society is probably not lost on most people, but it is also a survival mechanism for an industry that is swiftly fading into oblivion.

In numerous polls, the "mainstream media" is facing an integrity crisis. Only 32% of Americans say they trust corporate platforms a "great deal" or a "fair amount." A majority of the public say they rarely trust the media or never trust the media and faith in establishment journalism is near record lows. MSNBC, once the go-to bullhorn for the political left during the Trump Administration, has been on the receiving end of this fury with consistently low ratings and steeply declining influence over public discourse.

That said, the company is still a useful litmus test for insights into the mind of the political left as well as a window into the thinking of establishment elites. In a segment on disinformation featuring Michigan legal analyst Barbara McQuade, MSNBC actually engages in a mind boggling series of disinformation tangents. It's not so much hypocrisy as it is a master-class in propaganda.

Keep in mind that this is the same crew of people who recently asserted that Trump's 20 point primary victory over Nikki Haley in her home state of South Carolina is somehow a "disaster" for the Trump campaign. However, if we set aside the obvious anti-Trump bias for a moment, the deeper motivations of the above discussion become clear.

Why have Americans strayed away from the corporate media? The bottom line is that the media is no longer a center for objective journalism (and maybe it never was), it is a disinformation machine. The MSNBC segment above engages in disinformation in a number of ways.

For example, they attempt to plant unconscious associations between genocidal dictators and Donald Trump in the minds of their audience. They cite the "kidnapping conspiracy" case involving Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer as an example of public radicalization, but fail to mention that this event was utterly exposed as coordinated and controlled by the FBI. McQuade suggests only right-wing media as a source of "disinformation" while ignoring the endless trespasses and lies perpetuated by the left-wing media.

The analyst goes on to insult the American public by claiming they need to "get out of their basements" and off the internet to find the facts. In other words, they need to watch corporate media again and stay away from any alternative sources. MSNBC laments the problem of the public being separated and limited to "news bubbles," but this is a misrepresentation of what is really happening.

The topic of centralized control of news being a tool for dictators is broached, and the irony is dripping. America lived within a "news bubble" for decades. For generations, corporate media platforms dominated the distribution of information and had the ability to mold and influence the public at will. The populace had no other options. The explosion of the alternative media on the internet is a direct reaction to this long time centralization and abuse of news access.

Whenever mainstream pundits ask questions like "How do we get Americans to listen to the facts?" what they mean to say is, "How can we once again centralize and control what Americans get to see and hear?"

McQuade touches on this issue briefly, suggesting that there are a number of options for "regulation" of social media and online sources to combat "disinformation." She does not elaborate for obvious reasons - We all know that regulation of news and public discourse looks a lot like the authoritarianism that she claims to fear.

We have seen this disturbing trend in parts of the west including in Europe where online companies are required by law to heavily censor certain topics. What constitutes "hate speech" or "dangerous speech" is arbitrarily determined by a gaggle of socialist bureaucrats. This is the kind of news environment MSNBC prefers in the US.

We also witnessed the ugly nature ofcensorshipduring the pandemic hysteria, with alternative news sources crushed by rigged algorithms. The corporate media was collapsing up until that point, but they enjoyed preferential treatment by Big Tech and by governments during covid, to the point that searches on any current event forced readers to sift through hundreds of establishment media results before finding a single alternative view.

The talking heads at MSNBC were right about one thing: The methods of authoritarians might change, but the messages and intent stay the same. In our modern era corporate platforms are the voice of Big Brother, and the only way they can maintain control of the narrative is by becoming the preeminent source of information. That is to say, they can only accomplish dominance through suppression or regulation of alternative voices. They know that no one will listen to them otherwise.

fake news laying the groundwork for next round of fake election interference

https://www.barrons.com/news/iran-news-sites-hackers-target-trump-ahead-of-us-election-668fd7fc

Iran 'News' Sites, Hackers Target Trump Ahead Of US Election

By Anuj CHOPRA

September 27, 2024

Former president Donald Trump is running against Vice President Kamala Harris in November's US election battle

Iran is ramping up efforts to interfere with the US election with fake "news" websites and hackers targeting Donald Trump, American officials and researchers say, as the Republican nominee reported threats on his life from the Islamic republic.

Iran, long known for orchestrating clandestine influence operations against its adversaries, has emerged as a top disinformation threat facing the November 5 presidential vote.

The United States unveiled charges on Friday against three Iranians over a "wide-ranging hacking campaign," with Attorney General Merrick Garland saying they were attempting to undermine Trump's election effort.

A slew of fake sites masquerading as news outlets are meanwhile fabricating reports critical of Trump, disinformation researchers said, with much of the content apparently created using cheap and widely available generative AI tools.

The fake outlets reflect "the depth and coordinated planning of Iranian influence operations" to sway US voters, Dina Sadek, a fellow at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab), told AFP.

The DFRLabreleased a report this week that warned that "government-led Iranian operations have increased substantially in the lead-up to the 2024 elections."

One such site spotlighted by theMicrosoft Threat Analysis Center (MTAC)was NioThinker, which hails itself as the "go-to destination for insightful, progressive news."

In recent months, the site's focus has "increasingly shifted to the US elections," with its content including "sarcastic, long-winded articles insulting Trump," MTAC said.

TheFoundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD)highlighted another Iranian-made site Afromajority which it said targets African American voters with content that is often critical of Trump and sympathetic to Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris.

Among a network of 19 websites publishing Iranian propaganda, at least eight English-language portals are heavily focused on the US election, with many of them targeting key voting groups such as African Americans and Hispanic groups, the Washington-based FDD think tank said….