Secret Service Denies FOIA Request To Provide List Potentially Linked To Cocaine Incident

The U.S. Secret Service has refused to provide The Heritage Foundation with a list of individuals who may have been involved in the White House cocaine incident, claiming such records are outside its authority.

After the Secret Service closed the investigation into the cocaine issue in mid-July, the Heritage Foundation filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking the list of hundreds of individuals who may have accessed the area where the substance was found. In a July 25 letter (pdf) from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the agency denied the request.

“As your request seeks records reflecting visitors or related information concerning the Office of the President, please be advised that these records are not Secret Service agency records subject to the FOIA.”

“Rather, these records are governed by the Presidential Records Act … and remain under the exclusive legal custody and control of the White House,” the letter argued.

The DHS’ response to the FOIA request made The Daily Signal, a news outlet of the Heritage Foundation, suggest that the Secret Service may have “never created such a list in the first place.”

Steve Bradbury, a distinguished fellow at the thinktank, dismissed the DHS arguments for not turning over the visitor list, pointing to the legal difference between an agency record and presidential record.

The distinction is usually based on “who generates the record and whose business the record reflects,” he told the outlet. “If it’s an agency record, it’s subject to FOIA. If it’s a White House record, it’s covered by the Presidential Records Act.”

Mr. Bradbury said that the key question is whether the Secret Service used the White House logs to create its own new record.

If the Secret Service did use the White House records to create a “new document on its systems, which was its own list of suspects that it generated, that new document should” come under FOIA, he said.

However if the Secret Service did not create a new document, it would suggest that the agency did not take the investigation seriously, Mr. Bradbury suggested. The Heritage Foundation intends to appeal the rejection.

This isn’t the first time that the Secret Service has turned down a FOIA request on the White House cocaine issue.

Jason Leopold, an investigative reporter at Bloomberg, had earlier asked for information like emails, text messages, suspicious activity reporting, intelligence bulletins, letters, directives, and other such material referencing the cocaine found at the White House.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/secret-service-denies-foia-request-provide-list-potentially-linked-cocaine-incident

Devon Archer to Hunter Biden: “Why Did Your Dad’s Administration Appointees Arrest Me and Put Me in Jail?” – Hunter Responds

Devon Archer, Hunter Biden’s longtime friend and business associate, is set to appear before the House Oversight Committee on Monday.

Archer is reportedly preparing to tell lawmakers that President Biden met with dozens of Hunter’s business associates while he was serving as vice president between 2009 and 2017.

The hearing is not currently listed on the House Oversight Calendar.

Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) issued a subpoena in June for Archer to appear for a deposition as part of the committee’s investigation into the Biden family’s finances.

Devon Archer worked with Hunter Biden at Burisma and also at the Rosemont Seneca Partners investment firm.

over the weekend, on Saturday, the Biden Department of Justice attempted to intimidate Devon Archer and prevent him from testifying today. The Biden DOJ sent out a letter ON SATURDAY to Archer requesting he report to prison.

GOP House members called on lawmakers to return to Washington and investigate the DOJ following their harassment of a Congressional witness.

Obviously, the Biden Department of Justice is worried that the truth will come out to the American people today. The regime is worried that Archer will spill the beans on the Biden Crime Family, the most corrupt political family in US history.

Chanel Rion reminded us today why the Bidens and their lawless lackeys should be worried.

In an earlier text message exchange, Devon Arch asked Hunter Biden why his father’s administration arrested him. Devon sounds pissed!

Devon Archer: “Why did your dad’s admininstration appointees arrest me and put me in jail? Just curious. Some of our partners asking out here.

Why would they try and ruin my family and destroy my kids and no one from your family’s side step in and at least try to help me. I don’t get it. And I’m depressed. Bunch of these Asians getting in my head asking me the same so just curious what I should answer”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/case-you-missed-it-devon-archer-hunter-biden/

Russian defense chief provides update on Ukrainian losses

Kiev lost nearly 21,000 troops in July alone, Sergey Shoigu has estimated

Russian forces have stopped Ukraine’s much-hyped counteroffensive dead in its tracks, inflicting tens of thousands of casualties on Kiev’s troops, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said on Monday.

Speaking at a conference attended by senior military commanders, Shoigu noted that Kiev “is desperately throwing new forces in a bid to storm our positions” but the Russian military thwarted all breakthrough attempts by relying on well-built and organized defenses, adding that the endurance of military personnel played an instrumental role in the success.

As a result, in July, Ukraine lost 20,824 service members and 2,227 units of military equipment, including 10 German-supplied Leopard tanks, 11 US-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, and 50 self-propelled guns from several Western countries, the minister stated.

According to Shoigu, on July 26 and 27 alone Ukraine lost more than 400 service members and 31 tanks and other heavy weaponry near the settlement of Rabotino in Russia’s Zaporozhye Region. Last week, a video surfaced on social media purporting to show a “graveyard” of Bradleys filmed at the same location.

“It is obvious that the Western-supplied weapons are failing to bring success on the battlefield and only prolong the military conflict,” Shoigu said.

Short of any combat accomplishments, “the Kiev regime, with the support of its Western sponsors, is now focused on carrying out terrorist attacks on civilian infrastructure” in Russian cities, Shoigu noted, adding that Moscow has introduced additional security measures and ramped up attacks on Ukrainian military facilities.

Kiev launched its much-anticipated counteroffensive against Russian defenses in the early days of June, but failed to gain any ground, according to the Defense Ministry in Moscow. Ukrainian officials have attributed the difficulties to delays in Western arms shipments, extensive minefields, lack of air support and stiff Russian resistance.

Meanwhile, several media reports have suggested that Kiev’s Western allies have grown “alarmed” at the slow progress on the battlefield, while being “jolted” by Ukrainian losses in armor. In addition, a Financial Times report from late June suggested that future Western support would depend on the results of the counteroffensive, which have so far been underwhelming.

https://www.rt.com/russia/580615-ukraine-losses-counteroffensive-shoigu/

https://www.rt.com/russia/580615-ukraine-losses-counteroffensive-shoigu/

House Judiciary Committee Members Call on Lawmakers to Return to Washington – Demand Immediate Emergency Hearings on DOJ’s Interference with Congressional Oversight

In response to Saturday’s request by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Devon Archer to report to prison, Rep. Matt Gaetz is demanding lawmakers return to Washington, D.C. He is calling for immediate emergency hearings concerning alleged Department of Justice (DOJ) interference with Congressional Oversight.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York had asked Judge Ronnie Abrams to schedule a reporting date for Devon Archer, following a decision by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold his one-year sentence.

Archer was found guilty of two felony charges in his involvement in a scheme to defraud the Wakpamni Lake Community Corporation of the Oglala Sioux Tribe.

Assistant U.S. attorney Negar Tekeei revealed in a one-page letter that the prosecutors had previously asked Matthew Schwartz, Archer’s attorney, to suggest a reporting date. However, Schwartz deemed this as “premature,” citing Archer’s contemplation of additional appeals and concerns about an “error” in the sentencing process.

Five members of the House Judiciary Committee — Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Mike Johnson (R-LA), Chip Roy (R-TX), Harriet Hageman (R-WY), and Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC) — are calling for immediate emergency hearings on the DOJ’s alleged interference with Congressional Oversight.

They have expressed readiness to return to Washington to hold the DOJ accountable for obstruction of a congressional investigation.

Gaetz took to Twitter stating, “If Devin Archer isn’t in the witness chair Monday, we better haul every SOB at the DOJ before congress EVERY DAY to make them pay for this…Archer is in that chair or Garland is. Yield me the time and let me ask the questions. I’ll handle it from there.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/house-judiciary-committee-members-call-lawmakers-return-washington/

How America's Constitutional Government Came To An End

The birth of the corporate American empire signaled the end for the experimental constitutional Republic.

The few people who benefit from the U.S. Government’s being the world’s most powerful are U.S.-and-allied billionaires, who profit from the enormous sales of U.S.-made war-weapons and from the international extraction corporations such as Exxon-Mobil which rely upon its military, but all of this comes at the expense of the publics in every country including that of America itself. Any empire serves only its aristocracy, at the expense of the public. In modern times, the publics need to be deceived by the media and by the billionaires’ other agencies, so as to become deceived to vote for the billionaires’ candidates. This requires massive censorship, notwithstanding that America’s Constitution bans such censorship.

Freedom of the press, and freedom of expression, are ‘guaranteed’ in the U.S. Constitution, but if the controlling owners of the press are a small group of people who benefit from the fact that the wealthiest 1% of the wealthiest 1% of Americans — the wealthiest ten-thousandth of Americans — donate 57.16% of all the money that funds U.S. political campaigns, and that the “Top 400 Donors” (all of whom are multi-billionaires, not merely billionaires) donate 29.86%, or virtually 30%, of all political money, in the U.S., then how likely will the ‘news’-media be to accept for publication or to broadcast news reports that threaten this status-quo from which all of them have made and keep their enormous wealth? Not only do those billionaires own or control virtually all of the ‘news’-media, but the other corporations that they also own or control advertise in them; and, so, they select to hire editors and producers who will reject job-applicants who would report the types of things that those controllers want the public not to know — things such as these. The most-important realities are thus effectively censored-out.

For an example of the most-important realities, here is an entirely truthful 10-minute-long entirely independently produced compendium video that shows the key evidences that the overthrow of Ukraine’s Government in February 2014 was definitely not the democratic revolution that all of the U.S.-and-allied press pretend it was, but was instead a U.S. coup. And here is the complete showing of the smoking-gun piece of evidence in it, so that one can now see this crucial item of evidence within its broader context, and understand how it fits into that context, to produce crucial history instead of the ‘news’-media-promulgated myth that strings together lie-upon-lie. It’s documentation of how the war inside Ukraine (and to which U.S. taxpayers donated over a hundred billion dollars last year) actually started — via this U.S. coup. And here is an even broader contextual documentation of how that U.S. coup started this war, which U.S.-and-allied Governments and their ‘news’-media blame against Russia — as-if it were the case that Russia had expanded up to NATO’s border, instead of NATO’s having expanded up to Russia’s border.

Is that evidence consistent with what has been widely reported by the ‘news’-media about the overthrow of Ukraine’s Government in February 2014 and about how the war in Ukraine started (supposedly on 24 February 2022)? Did America’s Government start this war, or did Russia’s Government start it? And how important is the answer to that question, to the public’s ability to make fact-based choices when elections are held to determine whom will be occuping seats in Congress, and in the White House? As the brilliant geostrategist who anonymously writes the “Moon of Alabama” blog headlined on July 25th, “Who Can Give Security Guarantees To Ukraine?”, and he concluded there that the U.S. Government and its stooges in its NATO military alliance against Russia now clearly have no intention of providing any such, but that Russia can — and that the longer that America’s war against Russia in the battlefields of Ukraine and killing Ukraine’s soldiers continues, the more onerous to the people of Ukraine will be the peace-terms that Russia will be able to offer to Ukraine for there to be any peace at all in Ukraine. It’s America’s war, but Russia will settle it.

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/the-state/how-americas-constitutional-government-came-to-an-end

Report: Mossad chief visited White House to discuss Saudi normalization

David Barnea visit seen as part of Biden administration’s ‘full-bore effort’ to reach Jerusalem-Riyadh deal, which will reportedly require Israeli concessions to Palestinians

Mossad chief David Barnea visited the White House earlier this month for “secret” talks about a potential normalization deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia, according to a report Monday.

Axios cited two US sources who said Barnea met in the White House with US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan as well as Brett McGurk, the White House coordinator for the Middle East, and Amos Hochstein, US President Joe Biden’s senior adviser on energy and infrastructure.

Sullivan and McGurk both traveled to Saudi Arabia in the period following their purported meetings with Barnea.

Barnea also reportedly met during his trip with CIA director Bill Burns. The CIA had no comment on the report.

“We continue to support for normalization with Israel, including with Saudi Arabia, and obviously continue to talk to our regional partners about how more progress can be made,” a White House National Security Council spokesperson said when asked to comment on the reported Barnea-Sullivan meeting.

According to numerous reports on a potential normalization deal in recent weeks, Riyadh is seeking a significant defense and security pact with the United States, Israeli concessions to the Palestinians, and a civilian nuclear program, a demand long opposed by Washington and Jerusalem.

But on Monday, National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi said Israel’s approval would not be required. “Dozens of countries operate projects with civilian nuclear cores, and with nuclear endeavors for energy, this is not something that endangers them nor their neighbors,” he told public broadcaster Kan, adding that the issue would be between Washington and Riyadh.

“Israel will not give in to anything that will erode its security,” said Hanegbi.

The Netanyahu confidant said that the road to reaching a normalization deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia was long but still possible. “We were positively surprised a few months ago when the White House… said it was exerting efforts to reach a deal with the Saudis,” Hanegbi told Kan

Talks “are currently not at that area of dialogue” where a full deal was being discussed, he added. “I can identify with what the US president said in an interview a few days ago, where he said that the road is still long but that he thinks that there will be a possibility of progress on the issue.”

https://www.timesofisrael.com/report-mossad-chief-visited-white-house-to-discuss-saudi-normalization/

Judicial Watch Files Briefs in the U.S. Supreme for Review of Ninth Circuit Decisions Penalizing Group for Exposing Sales of Fetal Body Parts

Judicial Watch announced today that it filed two amicus curiae (friend of the court) briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of The Center for Medical Progress (CMP) and its founder David Daleiden, one of which asks for review of the Ninth Circuit Court’s affirmation of a monetary award against CMP (Center for Medical Progress et al. v Planned Parent Hood et al. (22-1168)), the other asks for review of an injunction granted to the National Abortion Federation that prevents CMP from publishing more abortion-related videos (Center for Medical Progress et al. v National Abortion Federation (22-1135)).

In 2015, The Center for Medical Progress released videos that exposed employees of Planned Parenthood engaging in negotiations for the sale of fetal tissue and body parts for use in medical research.

On October 21, 2022, the United States Ninth Circuit affirmed most of a 2019 lower court jury verdict that declared that a series of undercover videos produced by The Center for Medical Progress harmed Planned Parenthood, and that CMP was not protected by the First Amendment, requiring CMP to pay millions in damages to Planned Parenthood.

The Judicial Watch brief highlights how the lower court’s awarding of monetary damages for these accurate videos is a fundamental threat to First Amendment protections.

Separately, in August 2022, the Ninth Circuit affirmed the ruling of a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California that granted National Abortion Federation a permanent injunction barring The Center for Medical Progress from releasing recordings and materials obtained at National Abortion Federation’s meetings. The injunction also forbids CMP from talking about the videos or using them in the defense of CMP’s Founder and President David Daleiden in his criminal case.

https://www.judicialwatch.org/fetal-body-parts/

CIA Has Long History of Distracting Public With UFO Stories. Here's What They Dont Want You to Know

https://www.bitchute.com/video/zwd44xvVRTYA/

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Influential Albanian Politician Led Organized Crime Group in Australia, Intelligence Reports Claim

Australia’s top criminal intelligence agency suspected Tom Doshi, a leading Albanian businessman and politician with ties to the prime minister, of leading a criminal group in the country that perpetrates immigration fraud, drug trafficking, and money laundering.

Confidential intelligence documents from Australia claimed that Tom Doshi has headed an organized criminal group consisting largely of members of his family.

His group, the reports say, forms part of a wider network that has exploited systemic weaknesses in Australia’s immigration system to get its Albanian members into Adelaide, Melbourne, Perth, and New South Wales.

According to investigators, these clan-based Albanian gangs specialize in criminal activities like illegal cannabis cultivation, weapons, and drug trafficking.

Tom Doshi, a powerful Albanian businessman and politician tied to the country’s prime minister, is suspected of leading an organized criminal group implicated in money laundering, drug trafficking, and other offenses in Australia, according to confidential intelligence assessments.

This clan is among others from Shkodër, a county in northwest Albania, that have systematically abused Australia’s immigration system to build “an entire Albanian Organized Crime criminal structure” across South Australia, according to the reports.

The documents, produced by the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) and circulated to domestic and foreign police agencies, draw on numerous reports from local police forces and information from foreign law enforcement bodies. They were seen by reporters from OCCRP and Australia’s The Age and Sydney Morning Herald newspapers.

The files describe how, since 2000, Albanian clans have used identity fraud and familial links to migration agents to move their people into Australia, setting up cells in Adelaide, Melbourne, Perth, and elsewhere.

Doshi is described in the files as the “head” of a syndicate “principally consisting of his extended family.” Though the documents contain no details about his specific activities, they note that eight of his relatives have been “implicated” in “drug and money laundering investigations,” in some cases as “primary targets.” His relatives are said in the reports to have gained Australian visas using spurious documentation. One is facing drug trafficking charges.

Tom Doshi leaves a parliamentary session

Credit: LSA Photo

Tom Doshi leaves a parliamentary session in March 2017.

Doshi, who spent years in both countries, has not been charged with any crimes in Australia. In his homeland, he had built a business empire that has benefited extensively from state contracts. He was designated persona non grata by the United States in 2018 for “involvement in significant corruption” and forced out of his parliamentary seat in 2021 following years of high-profile scandals. His alleged involvement in the Australian criminal network has never been previously revealed.

https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/influential-albanian-politician-led-organized-crime-group-in-australia-intelligence-reports-claim

Calling out the New World Order

https://www.bitchute.com/video/4yKvzNUyPMN1/

Conspiracy theorist Billy Te Kahika appeals jail term

Conspiracy theorist Billy Te Kahika has appealed the High Court decision to send him to jail for organising a protest on the first day of the Covid-19 lockdown in 2021.

Te Kahika and Vinny Eastwood were found guilty of intentionally failing to comply with the Covid-19 Public Health Response Act by organising and attending the protest.

The pair were handed short jail sentences in March by Judge Peter Winter, but their lawyers immediately asked for the men to be granted bail, pending an appeal being heard in the High Court.

The protest took place outside the TVNZ building in central Auckland on the first day of the level 4 lockdown on August 18, 2021.

At trial, Te Kahika said he told police about his intention to organise a protest for 200 to 300 people.

He said he wanted police to be present to ensure the safety of protesters, the public and to prevent disorderly behaviour and violence.

But police had advised him against proceeding with the protest as it was illegal and he would be at risk of arrest.

Te Kahika posted live on social media ahead of the protests, encouraging others to attend and included a bank account number to contribute to his costs and expenses.

He and Eastwood appeared before Justice Neil Campbell at the High Court in Auckland on Monday afternoon to appeal the judgement.

Crown prosecutor Matthew Nathan told the court there had been “no demonstrable error” in Judge Winter’s earlier findings.

“The simple fact was both of these persons were in control of the protest. It was obvious to both of them there was no compliance with Covid-19 orders, and they made no attempt to control it.”

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300939746/conspiracy-theorist-billy-te-kahika-appeals-jail-term

The twelve undeniable signs of globalist-engineered planetary genocide against the human race

#1) They are terraforming the planet through planetary-scale atmospheric alterations - Large-scale efforts are under way right now to alter the chemistry of planet Earth in order to make it inhospitable to human life by removing CO2 from the atmosphere through "carbon sequestration" efforts. Since CO2 is necessary for all photosynthesis which drives the web of life on planet Earth this effort would collapse all food crops, rainforests, marine ecosystems and more, ultimately killing off virtually all animals and human beings on the planet if not stopped. Without CO2 in the atmosphere, there is essentially no recognizable life on planet Earth, and yet the entire "climate cult" machine (and nearly all Democrats, media propagandists, government regulators, globalists, etc.) are at war with CO2 and are trying to completely eliminate it from Earth's atmosphere.

2) The biometric inventory of the human race (WorldCoin) has begun, and all humans will be “inventoried” so that globalists can properly track their depopulation milestones - The WorldCoin effort to scan everyone's eyeballs and create an encryption key based on their biometrics is actually a "human inventory" scheme to digitally record all the human beings known to exist on the planet. This step is necessary to track human depopulation milestones and identify anyone who has not been inventoried by the system… "Unscannable!" from Idiocracy, in other words.

3) They've given up on educating young people to be prepared for a productive future - Notice that government-run schools no longer teach anything resembling practical skills, independent thinking or even basic knowledge needed to carry out jobs in a productive society. This is because there is no plan to deploy the younger generations of human beings in any productive activity whatsoever. The plan is to exterminate them, and when you are planning to exterminate a population, you don't need to bother teaching them skills or knowledge. The abandonment of education a scheme now fully endorsed by teachers' unions, by the way is a proxy for the abandonment of any hope in the future of the human race.

4) Controlled demolition of energy infrastructure that drives human economies - As discussed above, the planned take down of the energy infrastructure is engineered to cause both economic collapse and food scarcity leading to mass starvation. Without affordable, abundant energy, no civilization can thrive. As energy is deliberately cut off, civilizations implode and die. Even though we live in a world with abundant energy, the fascist governments of the world i.e. western nations like the USA, Canada, Germany, etc. are prohibiting access to that energy on purpose. The outcome of this is not in question: The collapse of western civilization.

5) Governments are funding, developing and deploying anti-human genetic bioweapons - As if engineered starvation and economic collapse weren't enough by themselves, western governments like the United States of America are continuing to fund genetic bioweapons that target the human race. The spike protein is one such weapon, and it was engineered into both the covid plandemic and the mRNA vaccines which are designed to maim and kill as many human beings as possible. The US Dept. of Defense is the instigator of these bioweapons, and they have a long history of running illegal bioweapons laboratories in countries like Ukraine (and various African nations as well) while actively developing self-replicating bioweapons which feature ethnic targeting based on genetic differences in biology.

https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-07-30-undeniable-signs-globalists-engineering-end-of-humanity.html

Forensic Study Into 2020 Detroit, Michigan Election Finds Up to 34,000 Illegal Ballots – And Additional Warnings from Detroit Clerks that THOUSANDS of Absentee Paper Was Different than Normal Ballots

A national expert in criminal forensics completed a report into the 2020 election in Michigan and has found further evidence of chronic, systemic, voter fraud especially among absentee ballots in that challenged election.

The firm is Speckin Forensics and they have wide national experience testifying in criminal trials. Through their investigation where they were allowed limited access to the 2020 ballots in Wayne County which covers Detroit, they found:

A significant number of absentees in different precincts illegally had no signed ballot application. Many absentee ballots had no request whatsoever, in the two primary precincts examined the rates of illegal ballots were 12% and 20%.

Absentee ballots often had a lighter tone and shade to the printing. The Detroit clerks even commented to the Speckin team that the type of paper felt different.

If the numbers of absentees missing a ballot request are extrapolated out to the rest of Wayne County, Speckin reports, “with approximately 170,000 AV ballots, the range at 8%-20% would be 13,600 to 34,000 ballots with no application requesting the ballot.”

Here is a copy of the full report.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/plugins/pdfjs-viewer-shortcode/pdfjs/web/viewer.php

Left-leaning Twitter rival Mastodon has child sexual abuse material problem, researchers find

Mastodon, a Twitter rival, has a massive child sexual abuse material problem, according to a July study released by Stanford researchers.

The "decentralized" social media platform has recently been growing in popularity among left-leaning individuals looking to ditch Elon Musk's Twitter, now called "X." According to TechCrunch, Mastodon's active users have increased to 2.1 million over the past couple of months.

After Musk took over Twitter, Mastodon's monthly active users shot up to 2.5 million but dropped to 1.7 million shortly after that.

On Friday, Musk shared Twitter's monthly active user count, noting that it reached "a new high" of over 540 million.

Researchers at the Stanford Internet Observatory conducted a two-day test of Mastodon's content and found over 600 pieces of known or suspected child abuse material. CSAM matches were reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Five minutes into reviewing 325,000 posts, the researchers found the first instance of known CSAM. The team also discover 2,000 uses of CSAM-related hashtags. Researchers reported that most of the child abuse material was from networks in Japan, which has "significantly more lax laws" related to the content.

Stanford's report, "Child Safety on Federated Social Media," explained that decentralized platforms such as Mastodon "offer new challenges for trust and safety" because it lacks a "central moderation team" dedicated to "removing imagery of violence or self-harm, child abuse, hate speech, terrorist propaganda or disinformation."

"While Mastodon allows user reports and has moderator tools to review them, it has no built-in mechanism to report CSAM to the relevant child safety organizations," the study stated. "Bad actors tend to go to the platform with the most lax moderation and enforcement policies."

The Washington Post reported that David Thiel, one of the study's researchers, stated, "We got more photoDNA hits in a two-day period than we've probably had in the entire history of our organization of doing any kind of social media analysis, and it's not even close."

"A lot of it is just a result of what seems to be a lack of tooling that centralized social media platforms use to address child safety concerns," Thiel added.

Musk, who has prioritized removing CSAM material from Twitter, responded to the study's findings by stating, "We kicked them off this platform, so they went elsewhere."

Mastodon did not reply to a request for comment, the Washington Post reported.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/left-leaning-twitter-rival-mastodon-has-child-sexual-abuse-material-problem-researchers-find

US discovers suspected Chinese malware inserted to disrupt military operations: report

China has been working to infiltrate U.S. systems with well-hidden codes for more than a year, over a dozen experts said.

The United States is reportedly searching for malware it discovered that China is suspected of installing deep inside computer networks that control the water, power and communications systems that support the U.S. military domestically and abroad.

Over a dozen U.S. officials and industry experts said that China has been working to infiltrate U.S. systems with well-hidden codes for more than a year at least, The New York Times reported over the weekend.

A congressional official called the malware "a ticking time bomb" that could allow China to interrupt or slow U.S. troop deployments or resupply operations.

A major concern is that China inserted the code to disrupt operations if a conflict ever occurs, including if Beijing attempts to invade the self-governing island of Taiwan.

Another theory is that the malware is meant to distract Americans while China launches an attack in another part of the world. A problem in U.S. infrastructure would capture the attention of Americans so they would not think about overseas conflict.

The malware's effect may reach far beyond military operations. The same infrastructure used for military bases is often used in citizens' homes and businesses.

National Security Council acting spokesman Adam Hodge did not directly address concerns surrounding Chinese malware, but said: "The Biden administration is working relentlessly to defend the United States from any disruptions to our critical infrastructure. … The president has also mandated rigorous cybersecurity practices for the first time."

The Chinese embassy in Washington denied that Beijing was behind any wrongdoing.

"The Chinese government agencies face numerous cyberattacks every day, most of which come from sources in the U.S.," embassy spokesman Haoming Ouyang said. "We hope relevant parties will stop smearing China with groundless accusations."

https://justthenews.com/government/security/us-discovers-suspected-chinese-malware-inserted-disrupt-military-operations

Report Confirms Hunter Biden “Misled” Court Under Oath After Judge Asked Him a Question Regarding His Status as Lawyer

You really didn’t think Hunter would be smart enough to be stick to the truth in court, did you?

The Daily Mail Monday broke an exclusive report Monday revealing that Joe Biden’s ne’er do well son deliberately misleading a judge after she asked a question regarding his status as a lawyer at his plea hearing last week. The Gateway Pundit’s Cristina Laila extensively reported on how the hearing was an absolute disaster for Hunter.

Here was the exchange regarding his lawyer status:

Noreika: You’re member of the bar?

Hunter: Yes, your Honor. District of Columbia and Connecticut, your Honor.

There’s just one small problem with Hunter’s statement: Connecticut records show the 53-year-old was suspended from practicing law in Connecticut more than two years ago.

Judicial Branch spokeswoman told the Daily Mail that Hunter is “currently not in good standing” after failing to pay his $75 annual fees since 2018.

The Daily Mail notes Hunter’s lie was first noticed by Connecticut lawyer and columnist Kevin Rennie, who wrote about it on his blog, Daily Ructions.

In an interview with the paper, Rennie generously gave Hunter the benefit of the doubt on perjury but said he should have known better.

I’m careful about using the word ‘lie’ because I don’t know what was in his head. But he certainly should have known better.

A lawyer who is asked under oath where he is admitted to practice and does not include in his response that he is suspended from practice in one of them has misled the court.

He did not give her an answer that, I think most judges would see under these circumstances, was in good faith. It omitted crucial facts.

Clearly he thought he was admitted to the practice in Connecticut. He ought to know, after 26 years, that certain obligations come with that. And they are by no means onerous.

Sure he did. But perhaps we should be lucky Rennie shared this important information at all.

The political columnist for the Hartford Courant after all did vote for Joe Biden in 2020 and vowed to do so again next year.

I voted for Joe Biden. I expect if he’s the Democratic nominee I’d vote for him again.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/lock-him-up-report-confirms-hunter-biden-misled/

Democrat Rep. Dan Goldman Says Hunter Biden Frequently Put His Dad on Speakerphone with Foreign Associates – But Only to Talk about the Weather

Democrat Rep. Dan Goldman emerged from Devon Archer’s testimony on Monday and absurdly claimed Joe Biden did nothing wrong by speaking to his son Hunter’s foreign associates.

Devon Archer, Hunter Biden’s longtime friend and business associate, appeared before the House Oversight Committee on Monday to testify on the Biden Crime Family.

Archer testified that Joe Biden was on more than 20 phone calls with Hunter’s business associates while he was serving as vice president between 2009 and 2017.

Archer told lawmakers the ‘Biden brand’ helped Ukrainian Natural Gas Company Burisma Holdings from going bankrupt.

Rep. Goldman, the only Democrat inside of the congressional hearing on Monday, said Joe Biden only talked about the weather and other niceties during the phone calls.

“It sounded like most of the time Biden didn’t even know who the people he was at dinner – he was just asked to say hello and he would talk about the wea– he described what the weather was – how – what’s going on on your end – the witness was very consistent with that none of those conversations ever had to do with any business dealings or transactions. He was purely what he called casual conversations,” a nervous and sweaty Dan Goldman told reporters.

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