Friday, March 15, 2024

POISON PUTIN POISONS RUSSIA - JOE BIDEN FOLLOWS CLOSELY AND PERPETRATES HIS OWN NEO-FASCIST CENSORSHIP AND LAWFARE - Six More Years for Putin: Three-Day Russian Presidential Election Polling Opens

 WHAT IS IT WITH THE RUSSIANS THAT THEY LOVE THESE LITTLE FAT DICTATORS?

Six More Years for Putin: Three-Day Russian Presidential Election Polling Opens

A woman votes in Russia's presidential election in Moscow on March 15, 2024. (Photo b
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AP — Voters headed to the polls in Russia on Friday for a three-day presidential election that is all but certain to extend President Vladimir Putin´s rule by six more years after he stifled dissent.

The election takes place against the backdrop of a ruthless crackdown that has crippled independent media and prominent rights groups and given Putin full control of the political system.

It also comes as Moscow´s war in Ukraine enters its third year. Russia has the advantage on the battlefield, where it is making small, if slow, gains. Ukraine, meanwhile, has made Moscow look vulnerable behind the front line: Long-range drone attacks have struck deep inside Russia, while high-tech drones have put its Black Sea fleet on the defensive.

Voters are casting their ballots Friday through Sunday at polling stations across the vast country´s 11 time zones, as well as in illegally annexed regions of Ukraine. Russians also can vote online, the first time the option has been used in a presidential contest; more than 200,000 people in Moscow voted online soon after the polls opened, authorities said.

The election holds little suspense since Putin, 71, is running for his fifth term virtually unchallenged. His political opponents are either in jail or in exile abroad, and the fiercest of them, Alexei Navalny, died in a remote Arctic penal colony last month. The three other candidates on the ballot are low-profile politicians from token opposition parties that toe the Kremlin´s line.

TOPSHOT – Members of a local election commission, accompanied by a serviceman, prepare a mobile polling station during early voting in Russia’s presidential election in Donetsk, Russian-controlled Ukraine, amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict on March 14, 2024. (Photo by STRINGER / AFP) (Photo by STRINGER/AFP via Getty Images)

TOPSHOT – A woman poses after casting her ballot at a mobile polling station during early voting in Russia’s presidential election in Donetsk, Russian-controlled Ukraine, amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict on March 14, 2024. (Photo by STRINGER / AFP) (Photo by STRINGER/AFP via Getty Images)

DONETSK, UKRAINE – MARCH 13: People cast their votes at a mobile polling station during early voting in Russia’s presidential election in Russian-controlled part of Donetsk region, Ukraine, amid the Russia-Ukraine war on March 13, 2024. (Photo by Stringer/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Observers have little to no expectation that the election will be free and fair. Beyond the fact that voters have been presented with little choice, the possibilities for independent monitoring are very limited.

Only registered candidates or state-backed advisory bodies can assign observers to polling stations, decreasing the likelihood of independent watchdogs. With balloting over three days in nearly 100,000 polling stations in the country, any true monitoring is difficult anyway.

“The elections in Russia as a whole are a sham. The Kremlin controls who´s on the ballot. The Kremlin controls how they can campaign. To say nothing of being able to control every aspect of the voting and the vote-counting process,” said Sam Greene, director for Democratic Resilience at the Center for European Policy Analysis in Washington.

Ukraine and the West have also condemned Russia for holding the vote in Ukrainian regions that Moscow´s forces have seized and occupied.

In many ways, Ukraine is at the heart of this election, political analysts and opposition figures say. They say Putin wants to use his all-but-assured electoral victory as evidence that the war and his handling of it enjoys widespread support. The opposition, meanwhile, hopes to use the vote to demonstrate their discontent with both the war and the Kremlin.

The Kremlin banned two politicians from the ballot who sought to run on an antiwar agenda and attracted genuine – albeit not overwhelming – support, thus depriving the voters of any choice on the “main issue of Russia´s political agenda,” said political analyst Abbas Gallyamov, who used to work as Putin´s speechwriter.

Russia´s scattered opposition has urged those unhappy with Putin or the war to show up at the polls at noon on Sunday, the final day of voting, in protest. The strategy was endorsed by Navalny not long before his death.

MOSCOW, RUSSIA – MARCH 14: (RUSSIA OUT) A woman poses for a photo beside a full-length cardboard cut-out of President Vladimir Putin at a souvenir shop ahead of the upcoming elections for the President of Russia on March 14, 2024 in Moscow, Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to win the 2024 Presidential Elections, planned on March 15-17. (Photo by Contributor/Getty Images)

TOPSHOT – A man votes in Russia’s presidential election in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk on March 15, 2024. (Photo by Vladimir NIKOLAYEV / AFP) (Photo by VLADIMIR NIKOLAYEV/AFP via Getty Images)

A woman votes in Russia’s presidential election in Yekaterinburg in the Urals on March 15, 2024. (Photo by Anna YURIEVA / AFP) (Photo by ANNA YURIEVA/AFP via Getty Images)

“We need to use election day to show that we exist and there are many of us, we are actual, living, real people and we are against Putin. … What to do next is up to you. You can vote for any candidate except Putin. You could ruin your ballot,” his widow, Yulia Navalnaya, said.

How well this strategy will work remains unclear.

Golos, Russia´s renowned independent election observer group, said in a report this week that authorities were “doing everything so that the people don´t notice the very fact of the election happening.”

The watchdog described the campaign ahead of the vote as “practically unnoticeable” and “the most vapid” since 2000, when Golos was founded and started monitoring elections in Russia.

Putin´s campaigning was cloaked in presidential activities, and other candidates were “demonstrably passive,” the report said.

State media dedicated less airtime to the election than in 2018, when Putin was last elected, according to Golos. Instead of promoting the vote to ensure a desired turnout, authorities appear to be betting on pressuring voters they can control – for instance, Russians who work in state-run companies or institutions – to show up at the polls, the group said.

The watchdog itself has also been swept up in the crackdown: Its co-chair, Grigory Melkonyants, is in jail awaiting trial on charges widely seen as an attempt to pressure the group ahead of the election.

“The current elections will not be able to reflect the real mood of the people,” Golos said in the report. “The distance between citizens and decision-making about the fate of the country has become greater than ever.”

DEEP STATE IS A TERM FOR THE DEM PARTY PIG LAWYERS!

THREE PIG LAWYERS   -  BIDEN - MAYORKAS - GARLAND AND THE SECRET POLICE TO PRESERVE THE BIDEN NEO-FASCIST REGIME OF OPEN BORDERS

 “Protect and enrich.” This is a perfect encapsulation of the Clinton Foundation  (TWO GAMER LAWYERS - OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS) (WHAT ABOUT THE CHINA BIDEN PENN CENTER?)  and the Obama (TWO GAMER LAWYERS - OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS) book and television deals. Then there is the Biden family (FOUR GAMER LAWYERS - Joe, Hunter, James, Frank - OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS AND LARRY FINK OF BLACKROCK)  corruption, followed closely behind by similar abuses of power and office by the Warren (DOCUMENTED LYING GAMER LAWYER) and Sanders families, as Peter Schweizer described in his recent book “Profiles in Corruption.” These names just scratch the surface of government corruption (ADD GAMER LAWYER KAMALA HARRIS (ALSO OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS) AND HER LAWYER HUSBAND AND THE BANKSTERS’ RENT BOY, (GAMER LAWYER) CHUCK SCHUMER, OWNED BY LARRY FINK OF BLACKROCK WHO OWNS A BIG PIECE OF THE ‘BIG GUY’ JOE, AND GEORGE SOROS’ RENT BOY (GAMER LAWYER) TONY BLINKEN, AS WELL AS CON MAN (GAMER LAWYER)  ADAM SHIFF AND HIS CORRUPTNESS (GAMER LAWYER) BOB MENENDEZ STILL EVADING PRISON. TOSS INTO THE DUNG HEAP (GAMER LAWYER ) ERIC SALWELL, A CHINESE HO AND SPY CHASER AND DEFUCT FORMER GOV OF NEW YORK, PREDATORY (GAMER LAWYER) ANDREW CUOMO, A DOCUMENTED COVID LIAR.     BRIAN C JOONDEPH


Ben Carson Warns Of 'An Entirely New Threat To Our Country'


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrUSLyiYHR0

 

I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party that is now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue and stoke anti-white racism, actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms, are hostile to people of faith and spirituality, demonize the police and protect criminals at the expense of law-abiding Americans, believe in open borders, weaponize the national security state to go after political opponents, and above all, dragging us ever closer to undeclared nuclear war.                                REP.    TULSI GABBARD

1:29 / 1:48

Tulsi Gabbard Speech on President Biden

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xl9ymNhwGa4

 

Deep State Attempts to Resurrect RussiaGate as Trump Gains Speed

Former President Donald Trump arrives at a rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. A l
AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall

As former President Donald Trump began tightening his grip on becoming the Republican presidential nominee early this year, former intelligence officials began ramping up familiar rhetoric and fear-mongering among the American public — that he is pro-Russia and a vote for Trump is a vote for Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The same players from “RussiaGate” — the failed deep state hoax to frame Trump for colluding with Russia to win in 2016 — are pushing the narrative, with some help from Never Trump allies who made their way into in the Trump administration.

One of them, Fiona Hill, a Russia hawk who was reportedly recruited into the Trump administration by K.T. McFarland and Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Michael Flynn, has making the rounds in the media warning about Trump as the public face for those disgruntled former intelligence officials.

“He wants to weaponize the intelligence community. And the fact is you need to look with a 360 degree perspective. He can’t just cherry pick what he wants to hear when there are so many U.S. adversaries and countries that don’t wish the U.S. well,” Hill told Politico recently. “If he guts the intel on one thing, he’ll be partially blinding us.”

Hill had also just appeared on CBS News Sunday, where she said: “Former President Trump has made it very clear that he admires Vladimir Putin.”

Hill also had shady ties to characters involved in the debunked Steele dossier, which was the centerpiece of the Russia collusion hoax. Hill, a former National Intelligence Council analyst and a current senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, had worked closely with Igor Danchenko, an analyst at Brookings, and introduced him to the dossier author Christopher Steele. Danchenko would become the primary researcher for the dossier, which was later found out by then-House intelligence investigator Kash Patel to be surreptitiously funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the DNC. Hill would also allegedly introduce Danchenko to Charles Dolan Jr. — a Democrat operative who served as a “source” for Danchenko. Danchenko would later be indicted for lying to the FBI.

Along with figures like Hill, Democrats in Congress with deep ties to the intelligence community are also pushing the narrative.

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), former member of the House Intelligence Committee before he was kicked off for his relationship with alleged Chinese spy “Fang Fang” and one of the lead pushers of RussiaGate in Congress, just recently posted on his social media accounts claiming that “Trump is Putin.”

As with RussiaGate in 2016, Swalwell and fellow hoaxers have begun misrepresenting Trump’s remarks on Russia from the campaign trail.

Trump at a campaign rally in February talked about a private conversation he had with then-German Chancellor Angela Merkel, where she allegedly had asked him if the U.S. would defend Germany against a Russian attack if Germany — the largest economy in Europe — did not meet its NATO obligation to spend two percent of its GDP on its own defense. Trump said he would not.

It was a private theoretical question, with a theoretical response. However, Swalwell later exaggerated that story, saying: “Donald Trump is at it again. This guy loves Russia. And he just said recently that basically, Vladimir Putin should invade any NATO country that’s not doing what Donald Trump thinks they need to be doing…He’s inviting an attack on our greatest allies.”

President Joe Biden also lied about that story during the State of the Union address, claiming that Trump actually told Putin to “do whatever the hell you want.” Biden claimed during the speech: “Now, my predecessor, a former Republican President, tells Putin, ‘Do whatever the hell you want.’ A former American President actually said that, bowing down to a Russian leader. It’s outrageous. It’s dangerous. It’s unacceptable.”

As in 2016, members of the mainstream media have been all too compliant to push that lie. A March 1 New York Times newsletter claimed:

If Trump wins a second term, he may go further. He has suggested that he might abandon the U.S. commitment to NATO, an alliance that exists to contain Russia and that Putin loathes. He recently invited Russia to “to do whatever the hell they want” to NATO countries that don’t spend enough on their own defense.

This was how Democrats first set the scene in 2016 for the Russia collusion hoax — taking campaign trail comments and jokes and suggesting Trump was colluding with Putin.

This time, Democrats are also attacking Republicans in Congress who oppose sending billions more in taxpayer money to Ukraine, despite valid concerns over the national debt and the lack of a winning strategy or endgame. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) recently declared, “There’s a growing pro-Putin faction in the Republican Party.”

In February, there was a drumbeat of articles tying Republicans to Putin:

  • On February 7, The Economist ran a piece titled, “House Republicans are helping Vladimir Putin”
  • On February 8, Never Trumper David French wrote a New York Times piece titled, “Why MAGA Loves Russia and Hates Ukraine”
  • On February 16, MSNBC’s Alex Wagner wrote a piece titled: “How Donald Trump is making the GOP the party of Putin”
  • On February 18, former Wyoming congresswoman Liz Cheney warned of a “Putin wing” of the Republican party on CNN
  • On February 22, Time published a piece titled: “How Putin Co-Opted the Republican Party”
  • On February 23, Jonathan Chait — an original RussiaGate pusher — published a piece titled, “Trump has finally remade Republicans into Putin’s playthings”
  • On February 23, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough stated Republicans have decided, “We’re going to become the pro-Putin Republican Party”

Coincidentally amid this media offensive, the Justice Department indicted a longtime FBI informant, Alexander Smirnov, alleging he lied to the FBI when he said the CEO of Ukrainian energy firm Burisma told him he paid Hunter and Joe Biden $5 million each to help him with an international corruption investigation he faced.

Despite Smirnov pleading non-guilty and yet-to-be-convicted, Democrats and the media have characterized him as a liar and compromising the House Oversight Committee’s entire investigation into the Biden family.

House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-KY) responded in a statement to CNN that his investigation does not revolve around Smirnov, but instead a “large record of evidence, including bank records and witness testimony, revealing that Joe Biden knew of and participated in his family’s business dealings.” He also noted the FBI had said Smirnov was “credible and trusted, had worked with the FBI for over a decade, and had been paid six figures.”

A spokesperson for Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), who had released the FBI’s record of its conversation with Smirnov, told CNN that the DOJ’s “indictment isn’t enough.” He added: “The public has a right to see all the underlying evidence supporting the Biden Justice Department’s case. The Biden administration must show its work.”

The New York Post‘s Miranda Devine has called the attempt to discredit Smirnov “Russiagate 3.0.”

Anonymous intelligence community officials have increasingly appearing in media pieces criticizing Trump.

One example is the aforementioned Politico piece, which cited anonymous current and former intelligence officials.

Another example is a February 25 New York Times piece citing CIA anonymous officials on the deep cooperation between the CIA and Ukraine, questioning whether Republicans would “abandon” Ukraine.

Some former CIA officials are penning pieces themselves. Rob Dannenberg, former chief of operations for CIA’s Counterterrorism Center, wrote an open letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) encouraging him to bring up Ukraine aid for a vote.

Former CIA official Marc Polymeropoulos, who worked with former Deputy CIA Director Mike Morell to write the letter signed by 51 former intelligence officials claiming the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation, recently amplified a piece warning about Trump soon being given intelligence briefings as the Republican presidential nominee.

 In recent days, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) has echoed those warnings and on Thursday, the Atlantic published a piece by Never Trumper Tom Nichols titled, “Donald Trump Is a National-Security Risk: The GOP candidate should not be given intelligence briefings.”

Schiff recently said on MSNBC, “We should fully expect them to engage, it’s just a question of how much they engage.” And Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY), who was the lead counsel in the first impeachment hearings against Trump, recently claimed on CNN: “It now appears the House Republican majority is being used by Russia to interfere in the 2024 election.”

The Republican National Committee summed up the new RussiaGate push in a recent press release:

Democrats have nothing in their playbook, so they’re resorting to a familiar theme: ‘RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA!’ It has been the same old sad story for the better part of the past decade – and it’s becoming increasingly delusional.

These are the same Democrats who leveraged mouthpieces in the so-called ‘intelligence community’ with their backers in the media to launch multiple impeachment hoaxes, declare Hunter Biden’s laptop Russian disinformation, and question every aspect of the Biden family corruption scandal.

While the same players’ fingerprints are all over this year’s attempts to push the narrative, what is not clear yet is whether it is just an attempt to stop Trump’s election, bat down unflattering coverage of Hunter Biden, or potentially gin up a new Russia collusion or some other hoax.

Patel, who uncovered RussiaGate while serving as the lead investigator for then House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) and later joined the Trump administration as a senior national security official, told Breitbart News in an interview:

Whether it’s the media, people in the executive branch, Congress, or even the judicial branch with some of these judges, the chorus of people now going out there and pushing the narrative that Donald Trump is going to be dictator over the intelligence community and use it to be a dictator is the height of hypocrisy.

The are the ones that authored the largest criminal corruption scandals in DOJ, FBI and the intelligence community’s history — i.e. Adam Schiff and RussiaGate. And now Adam Schiff is calling for President Trump to receive dumbed down versions of intelligence briefings because he thinks he’s going to jeopardize American national security? Says the guy who held up an envelope and told the world he had evidence of Russia-Trump collusion, and that envelope was empty.

These are the people coming forward, whether it’s Fiona Hill at Brookings, who in the private sector hired the main source of the Steele dossier, who ended up being charged federally, and introduced him to Steele and Charles Dolan. And both of these ‘sources’ turned out to lie to Christopher Steele and provide him with false information. This person is telling us that Donald Trump is going to weaponize intelligence? She literally took political information she knows to be false and fed it into the federal bureaucracy to take out a sitting president of the United States.

So when they say these things, that circle is complete. You’ve exposed their weaponization of intel, law enforcement, and defense, and the only thing they can do — like Cheney today — is make baseless personal attacks and say, ‘Orange Man bad.’ I think the American people finally are finally saying, ‘Wait a second. These epople lied to me. Them and their partners in the media lied to me, like Politico and the Times and the Washington Post. None of it was true.

He concluded, “The only thing that was true was Donald Trump exposing their corruption.”

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For more than 50 years the DoJ supported the policy that senior White House advisers could not be compelled to testify before Congress. This is the first time a senior White House official has been charged with this alleged crime. In President Obama’s Administration, Eric Holder and Hillary Clinton each refused to hand over subpoenaed documents. They were not criminally prosecuted. 

The Face of Democrat Justice

Despotism created the remand stretch in prison while waiting for trial. A de facto presumption of guilt, this was French law until the Napoleonic Criminal Code, which outlawed such practices. Peter Navarro has been remanded to prison pending appeal. President Biden’s appointee, Judge Amit Priyavadan Mehta, denied Navarro’s request to stay out of prison during appeal. 

Navarro was ordered to report to a Miami federal prison by 2 pm Tuesday, March 19, 2024. He commented:

“United States v. Peter Navarro is a landmark constitutional case that will eventually determine whether the constitutional separation of powers is preserved, whether executive privilege will continue to exist as a bulwark against partisan attacks by the legislative branch, and whether executive privilege will remain, as President George Washington pioneered, a critical instrument of effective presidential decision-making. That’s worth fighting for on behalf of all Americans.”

Congress and the Department of Justice (DoJ) seek documents and depositions related to what they claim was a criminal conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election.

Navarro’s back is against the wall for a strategy that he helped to craft and wrote about in his 2021 book In Trump Time. My Journal of America's Plague Year; which would delay the January 6, 2021 certification in states suspected of voter fraud. Congressional Certification of electoral votes is required. After each state vote is Certified, the Vice President announces the presidential outcome.

January 6, 2021 -- Nancy Pelosi led the congressional electoral vote process. The strategy was to have various Republican members of the House and Senate challenge votes in states where election fraud was suspected. This could change the outcome of the election. During the vote a mob broke into the congressional chambers. Members left for six hours while the building was secured. When Congress reconvened, unchallenged electoral votes were accepted, and Vice President Mike Pence announced Joe Biden as the winner. 

February 9, 2022 -- Congress issued two subpoenas requiring Navarro to produce documents and to give testimony regarding January 6, 2021. He asked for prosecutorial immunity before producing documents and asserted executive privilege; exempting him from the subpoenas. Each count is a misdemeanor punishable for up to one year in prison, and fines of up to $100,000. His legal bills will exceed $1 million. He is not a rich man. 

June 3, 2022 -- At Reagan National Airport, Washington D.C., Peter Navarro was boarding a plane for Nashville. Without notice he was forcibly  arrested, put in handcuffs, leg irons and placed in a cell. A Federal Grand Jury in Washington D.C. had indicted him for not complying with the two subpoenas. Traditional self-surrender had not been offered.

August 3, 2022 -- The DoJ sued Navarro to compel him to produce emails from a personal Proton Mail account used for White House business.

August 30, 2023 -- Judge Amit Priyavadan Mehta, denied executive privilege efforts to dismiss the charges, declaring “The defendant has failed to come forward with any evidence to support the asserted claim of privilege. Defendant cannot avoid prosecution for contempt.” Mehta asserts that for executive privilege to be valid there must be a personal assertion from the executive. This is open to legal opinion. It is probable the Supreme Court will set precedent on this.

March 9, 2023 -- President Clinton appointee, U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, ordered Navarro to turn over records under the Presidential Records Act.

April 12, 2023 -- An appeal to the D.C. Circuit Court for a stay of the March order was denied. Navarro told reporters “You cannot have a partisan Congress that abuses the subpoena process for the purpose of punishing the party that is out of power.”

September 7, 2023 -- A Washington D.C. jury was selected for trial. Navarro declined to testify. After four hours of deliberations, he was found guilty on both counts. Navarro’s attorneys motioned for a mistrial because jurors left court during deliberations. The motion was denied.

January 16, 2024 -- Navarro’s request for a new trial was denied. On January 25 he was sentenced to four months in prison and a fine of $9,500.

March 10, 2024 -- Navarro was ordered to report to a Miami federal prison by March 19, 2024, to begin a four-month sentence. Navarro’s attorneys requested he stay out of prison during the appeal, Judge Mehta denied the request.

For more than 50 years the DoJ supported the policy that senior White House advisers could not be compelled to testify before Congress. This is the first time a senior White House official has been charged with this alleged crime. In President Obama’s Administration, Eric Holder and Hillary Clinton each refused to hand over subpoenaed documents. They were not criminally prosecuted. 

Peter Navarro is 74 years old, attended Tufts University, spent three years in the Peace Corps, earned a master’s degree and a PhD. at Harvard University, and has written more than a dozen books. In the Trump Administration, he clashed with Anthony Fauci, arguing that China violates free trade and profiteered from the coronavirus. He published reports concerning widespread election fraud, and a belief that the 2020 election was stolen. 

Peter spoke at the recent CPAC convention in Washington D.C. He was thin, ravaged by legal battles, and uncertain about facing prison. On center stage he implored us to circulate information about political weaponization in America. Meanwhile he waits for Lady Justice to retie her blindfold and to extend the slow hand of justice.

 The writer is an internationally published writer, a former English teacher, stockbroker, and owner/president of a small corporation. She is active with Republican Women, the Lincoln Club, the California Republican Party; and can be reached at darlenecasella@msn.com

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Ben Carson Warns Of 'An Entirely New Threat To Our Country'


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrUSLyiYHR0

 

I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party that is now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue and stoke anti-white racism, actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms, are hostile to people of faith and spirituality, demonize the police and protect criminals at the expense of law-abiding Americans, believe in open borders, weaponize the national security state to go after political opponents, and above all, dragging us ever closer to undeclared nuclear war.                                REP.    TULSI GABBARD

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Tulsi Gabbard Speech on President Biden

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xl9ymNhwGa4

 

FBI and DHS Are Monitoring Gamers for Signs of ‘Extremism’

DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in Guatemala. (Photo: U.S. Customs and Border Protection)
Photo: U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Claiming it is targeting the growing threat of violent extremism, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have established mechanisms to share information and coordinate with gaming companies and social media platforms, according to a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report.

The Intercept reports that the report, which covers the period from September 2022 to January 2024, reveals that federal agencies have been working closely with gaming and social media companies to identify and address online activities promoting domestic violent extremism or violating the companies’ terms of service. This collaboration allegedly aims to counter the spread of extremist ideologies and prevent radicalization on these platforms.

FBI agent working on his computer in office

FBI agent monitoring Americans (Getty)

LOS ANGELES, CA - JUNE 13: Gamers compete in PC gaming at the 'Nvidia' booth during the Electronic Entertainment Expo E3 at the Los Angeles Convention Center on June 13, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

 Gamers compete in PC gaming at the ‘Nvidia’ booth during the Electronic Entertainment Expo E3 at the Los Angeles Convention Center (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

According to the GAO, the FBI and DHS have set up channels for receiving tips and information from gaming companies about potential law-breaking and extremist views. The FBI conducts briefings to gaming companies on perceived threats, while the DHS intelligence office holds meetings where companies can share information about online activities related to domestic violent extremism.

The report highlights the growing concern within the federal government regarding the use of gaming platforms and social media by extremist groups for recruitment, communication, and spreading their ideologies. The Biden administration’s national strategy for combating domestic terrorism, released in June 2021, specifically mentions “online gaming platforms” as potential avenues for “recruiting and mobilizing individuals to domestic terrorism.”

However, the GAO warns that the FBI and DHS lack an overarching strategy to align their work with gaming companies with their broader agency missions. Without a comprehensive plan, the agencies may struggle to assess the effectiveness of their communications and information-sharing mechanisms in achieving their overall objectives.

The collaboration between government agencies and gaming companies has also raised concerns about constitutional and legal issues surrounding free speech rights. The GAO report notes that both the FBI and DHS are proceeding cautiously in light of ongoing federal litigation, including a case on its way to the Supreme Court.

In 2022, a federal judge prohibited the FBI, DHS, and other federal agencies from communicating with social media companies to fight what they consider misinformation, following a lawsuit brought by attorneys general in Missouri and Louisiana.

Read more at the Intercept here.

Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship.

 “Protect and enrich.” This is a perfect encapsulation of the Clinton Foundation  (TWO GAMER LAWYERS - OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS) (WHAT ABOUT THE CHINA BIDEN PENN CENTER?)  and the Obama (TWO GAMER LAWYERS - OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS) book and television deals. Then there is the Biden family (FOUR GAMER LAWYERS - Joe, Hunter, James, Frank - OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS AND LARRY FINK OF BLACKROCK)  corruption, followed closely behind by similar abuses of power and office by the Warren (DOCUMENTED LYING GAMER LAWYER) and Sanders families, as Peter Schweizer described in his recent book “Profiles in Corruption.” These names just scratch the surface of government corruption (ADD GAMER LAWYER KAMALA HARRIS (ALSO OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS) AND HER LAWYER HUSBAND AND THE BANKSTERS’ RENT BOY, (GAMER LAWYER) CHUCK SCHUMER, OWNED BY LARRY FINK OF BLACKROCK WHO OWNS A BIG PIECE OF THE ‘BIG GUY’ JOE, AND GEORGE SOROS’ RENT BOY (GAMER LAWYER) TONY BLINKEN, AS WELL AS CON MAN (GAMER LAWYER)  ADAM SHIFF AND HIS CORRUPTNESS (GAMER LAWYER) BOB MENENDEZ STILL EVADING PRISON. TOSS INTO THE DUNG HEAP (GAMER LAWYER ) ERIC SALWELL, A CHINESE HO AND SPY CHASER AND DEFUCT FORMER GOV OF NEW YORK, PREDATORY (GAMER LAWYER) ANDREW CUOMO, A DOCUMENTED COVID LIAR.     BRIAN C JOONDEPH

The IRS is putting David Horowitz’s Freedom Center out of business

Nobody likes the IRS, but Americans always assumed that the IRS was an equal opportunity government pest, bedeviling people across the political spectrum. The belief in the agency’s non-partisan status vanished in 2013 when we learned that the IRS had deliberately withheld tax-exempt status from Tea Party organizations, severely hampering their ability to share information during the 2012 presidential election. Now, David Horowitz contends that the IRS is trying to destroy his long tax-exempt Freedom Center, which, among many things, publishes Frontpage Magazine.

David Horowitz is an interesting person. He was raised in the Belly of the Beast, a “red-diaper baby” who was viewed as the great red hope for bringing communism to America. However, after working closely with the Black Panthers, Horowitz concluded that his former beliefs were completely wrong and that America’s founding principles were the best way to bring about maximum happiness and prosperity to the greatest number of people.

In 1988, along with Peter Collier, another former leftist radical, Horowitz founded the Freedom Center, which has been dedicated to exposing leftism in American institutions. As Horowitz writes (and all quotations in this post are to Horowitz’s),

Guided by our understanding of the Left, we were the first conservative institution to alert Americans that their universities and school systems had been captured by radical idealogues who had no respect for American achievements and communities and were transforming these educational institutions into indoctrination and recruitment centers for an anti-American left.

We were the first conservative institution to organize Islamo-fascism teach-ins, to champion the rights of Muslim women, and to warn others about the unholy alliance between the Islamic terrorists and the American left. We managed to give speeches on these threats on 400 campuses and to expose Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) as a creation of the Hamas Nazis whose goal is to aid the terrorist enemies of the West and to bring about a second Holocaust of the Jews.

The Freedom Center sounded the warning tocsin long before others were aware that there was a problem. The organization writes books, maintains databases, and publishes one of my favorite outlets, FrontPage Magazine, all of which are aimed at making Americans aware of leftism in America’s institutions—including the peccadillos, foibles, and illegal acts of politicians advancing Marxism in America.

During the 2016 election, the Freedom Center used its outlets to report on a major news story; namely, Hillary Clinton’s self-admitted national security violations. According to Horowitz, for the IRS, this reporting was the “gotcha!” moment. By opining about Hillary’s criminal activities when she was a presidential candidate, the Freedom Center had gone from being an information outlet to being a partisan political outlet…which meant it was no longer tax-exempt. Writes Horowitz,

In 2019, the IRS informed us that they were conducting an investigation of the Freedom Center to see whether we were a legitimate “non-profit” deserving of the tax-deduction subsidies we had been granted 31 years before. Five years later, the I.R.S. dropped the other shoe, informing us that they had reached a “determination” that we were not a non-profit, and if we did not respond within 30 days, and persuade them they were mistaken, our tax-exemption would be revoked.

The key rule we were alleged to have violated was to have participated in a political campaign on behalf of or in opposition to any candidate for public office. In our 35 years, we have never endorsed a political candidate, nor did the IRS claim we had. Our thought crime emanated from our mission to defend free societies under attack from forces without and within.

But these facts did not deter the IRS. From the viewpoint of the government behemoth, we were guilty because we expressed the journalistic opinion in our online news site, Frontpagemag.com, that Hillary Clinton had violated U.S. espionage laws and obstructed justice by destroying 30,000 emails subpoenaed by the United States Congress, putting classified data on an unsecured home server which could be read by our enemies, and had gotten away with it with the aid of a corrupt attorney general.

Of course, it’s possible that Horowitz’s statement errs and that, as a matter of law, the IRS is right—but history suggests that the IRS has become politicized and that we should take seriously the effort to end the Freedom Center’s tax-exempt status. The Freedom Center is currently seeking donations, saying that it’s already lost several donors simply because of the investigation.

Image of the IRS building in D.C. made using a public domain photo.


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