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Verses for today:
bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you.
Luke 6:28 KJV
who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
1 Peter 2:24 KJV
For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
Romans 1:17 KJV
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
Matthew 5:6 KJV
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Anne McLachlan
Light which Stimulates Brain Cells:
That's just nasty.
PS - I'm glad I have a flip phone
A peer reviewed study published last Friday documented 55 undeclared chemical elements which have been detected in the Covid gene therapy technology from brands Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, CanSino, Sinopharm and Sputnik V.
Including several toxic elements such as Aluminum, Titanium, Arsenic, Lead, and Uranium.
The researchers have deduced that the Covid gene therapy technology injections are part of a secret worldwide nanotechnological experimentation program.
These crimes against humanity have still gone unanswered. And we do not know what the intended outcome of it all was. So at his point, we can only guess.
Optogenetics was selected as Method of the Year in 2010 by Nature Video.
“Scientists can switch on cells in this mouse's brain simply by switching on a light. The light activates nerve cells, which makes the animal walk in circles. This neat trick is also a powerful new tool. Using light to control the behavior of cells is teaching us about everything from how we wake up to how we learn. This is Optogenetics. It's the ability to target specific neurons in living, moving animals. That makes this technique so powerful.
In this fly, a different light sensitive system is used to target just two out of 200,000 neurons. These neurons govern an escape response, the reflex that makes the fly flee as you move into swat it. Here, a flash of light activates the neurons, making the fly jump and spread its wings. It can't take off because it's trapped in a petri dish.
These mouse heart cells have been engineered to beat in time to pulses of light.” ~ Nature Video
“In Optogenetics what we're doing, is we’re putting molecules that convert light into electricity, into neurons, the cells of the brain. Then we shine a light on those neurons, light gets converted into electricity and allows us to turn on or off those cells.
The goal here is to find a way to control the electrical activity in some cells, and not others in the network. To do that, we had to turn to the natural world.
It turns out that throughout all the kingdoms of life, in plants, in fungus and bacteria and so on, you can find photosynthetic or photo sensory molecules that convert light into electricity. So we borrowed these molecules from nature. And then using tricks from the field of gene therapy, we can put them in neurons. Now these molecules can convert light to electricity. And they do it just in the neurons that we want to control, and not all their neighbors. So we can deliver these molecules to some cells and not others. And when we shine light on the network, we can turn on or off that subset of the cells.
If we can turn on and off a set of cells that's embedded within this dense matrix, we can figure out how do they contribute to a behavior.
For example, if we can turn on a set of cells, we can figure out what kinds of behaviors can it initiate. If we can turn off a set of cells, then we can delete it momentarily, and figure out what is necessary for it.
So far, Optogenetics has had a lot of impact in the scientific world, but it hasn't been used in any human patients yet. There are a couple reasons why. One is that it requires a gene therapy to deliver the gene that encodes these light activated molecules into the body. Currently in the US, there are no FDA approved gene therapies.” ~ Edward Boyden (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
That was the problem ten years ago, but the COVID-19 plandemic gave these mad scientists an excuse to inject billions of humans with a mysterious cocktail of nanotech. And researchers at La Quinta Columna have pointed out the possible relationship between the injections, and the invisible light which is constantly flashing from our mobile phones.
We are told that this is for facial recognition, but how can we trust the official narrative when it’s coming from transhumanist mass murderers?
Patrick Bestall
What Kamala Harris was caught on video saying about the national anthem will make you sick:
There isn’t a woke cause that Kamala Harris once didn’t embrace, but what she now wants to make you forget ever happened.
That’s going to be easier said than done.
And what Kamala Harris was caught on video saying about the national anthem will make you sick.
Kamala Harris supported athletes kneeling for the national anthem
2016 was when kneeling for the national anthem became a thing.
Then San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick began kneeling for the national anthem that year after falsely claiming that police were racist.
That fall, Kamala Harris was the Attorney General for California and a candidate for Senate.
PBS’s David Nazar interviewed Kamala Harris about her Senate campaign and Kaepernick’s anti-national anthem protest came up since it involved a home state team.
“Should folks stand for the national anthem?” Nazar asked Harris.
Kamala Harris defended the national anthem protests as political speech and applauded the athletes who disrespected the memory of America’s fallen soldiers.
“We are all, and should be, treated as equals. We articulated those principles in our Constitution. And part of what we decided is what makes a fair and just and noble society in a democracy, a true democracy, is freedom of religion, freedom, right, of association, freedom to organize, First Amendment,” Kamala Harris stated.
“So, that is part of who we are as a country, and I will defend it to the core, which is that we give people, certain choices in this country,” Kamala Harris added.
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SHOCKING: FBI BUSTED for sketchy crime data:
President of the Crime Prevention Research Center John R. Lott Jr. has stumbled across some seriously sketchy data released by the FBI.
“We all remember the infamous fact-check in the presidential debate when Donald Trump was talking about increasing crime rates and ABC News was like, ‘There has not been increasing crime rates according to the FBI,’” Liz Wheeler of “The Liz Wheeler Show” tells John.
“This, you have found, is false,” she adds.
“The FBI every September puts out its data for the preceding year. And I noticed, just by comparing the excel files that they put out for last year and this year, for 2022 and 2023, that there were large changes that had occurred in their data,” he explains.
“They have a footnote that says they’ve revised or I guess updated the data for 2022, but beyond that, they mentioned nothing about the change,” he adds.
While David Muir, the moderator of the ABC News debate between former president Trump and Vice President Harris, was citing statistics from this data — John tells Wheeler that the FBI “missed over 880,000 violent crimes.”
“They missed 1,699 murders, over 10,000 rapes, missed 33,000 robberies, and missed 37,000 aggravated assaults. And for property crimes, they missed 198,000 property crimes that they hadn’t included in their numbers,” he explains.
“So when you say that 1,699 murders were missed, what does that mean?”
“Well, it’s kind of a black box. They don’t explain what happened, they just give you the data,” he says.
“It’s so deceptive. It’s also I think a good reminder when the mainstream media and the left have told us, it’s a form of gaslighting actually, over the course of the past year, every time a conservative has said, ‘Listen, our cities are facing an increase in violent crime where our neighborhoods aren’t as safe,’ and the left said, ‘Oh, violent crime is going down,’” Wheeler comments.
“We should follow our guts,” she continues. “We know that the violent crime rate is not going down.”
The BLAZE Media
Russia Lawmakers Protect the Family:
Russian MPs vote to ban ‘child-free propaganda’
Lawmakers have unanimously backed legislation to tackle the promotion of childlessness in the media and online
[RUSSIA is sounding more & more like the America...
That the FOUNDING FATHERS had constructed]
The Russian State Duma on Thursday passed in its first reading a bill to outlaw propaganda encouraging women not to have children.
The measure is part of efforts to protect traditional values, the speaker of the lower chamber, Vyacheslav Volodin, said.
According to Volodin, 388 legislators backed the bill, with no votes against. The draft law proposes adding “child-free” ideology to six existing laws banning “pedophilia, LGBT and gender reassignment propaganda,” the official said.
“We continue to create a unified legal space to protect children, families and traditional values,” Volodin wrote on his Telegram channel. “It is important to protect people, especially the younger generation, from the ideology of refusing to have children imposed through the Internet, media, films and advertising.”
The legislation will introduce administrative fines for spreading “child-free ideology” of up to 400,000 rubles (about $4,100) for individuals, up to 800,000 rubles ($8,200) for officials and up to five million rubles ($51,000) for entities which promote such ideas, the State Duma chairman said.
Elvira Aitkulova, a member of the State Duma Committee on Education, suggested during the discussion in parliament that with the newly passed bill, Russian “families will have freedom of choice without pressure from media.”
According to Yury Boyarsky, a member of the ruling United Russia Party, ideology that promotes not having children runs counter to the national policy on protection of motherhood and childhood.
Presenting the bill, MPs insisted that it would only target the dissemination of “destructive” child-free ideology, rather than personal lifestyle choices.
“The decision on whether to have children or not should be made by a woman,” Volodin stressed. “But there should be no propaganda which puts pressure on a woman when she makes a decision to have a child, as it is happening now in the US and Europe.”
The bill banning “propaganda of the ideology of childlessness” was introduced to the State Duma in September. To become a law, it has to pass two more readings in the lower house, gain approval in the upper house, and be signed by the president.
Earlier, the initiative was backed by Valentina Matvienko, speaker of the upper chamber of the Russian parliament, the Federation Council. Matvienko criticized modern feminism, stating that it has turned into a “struggle against men” and “traditional values.”
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"Drag Me to Hell" Halloween event:
A leading taxpayer-funded California university will host what organizers are calling a “demonic” drag show steeped in the occult later this month. Known as “Drag me to hell,” the horror-themed drag festival is being marketed as a “one-of-a-kind Halloween event” for students.
'Drag Me To Hell': The Demonic Nature Of What's Happening Is No Longer Being Hidden - Harbinger's Daily (harbingersdaily.com)
“Join us for a festive night of dancing, drag, and dress-up!” reads the event description on the University of Southern California’s website featuring grotesque videos of men dressed as caricatures of women covered in blood and demonic regalia.
“Drag Me to Hell is a one-of-a-kind Halloween event inspired by queer pioneers in 1930s–60s Los Angeles who found refuge in science-fiction fandom and the occult underground,” the invitation continues.
Among other highlights, the event will feature “demonic drag performances” by performers who go by names such as “Specimen Scythe.” It will also include “world-renowned Dragula stars” Vander Von Odd and HoSo Terra Toma, the description says, adding that HoSo is short for “little fxxxxt” in Korean.
Each of the drag queens has a short biography posted on the site. “Specimen Scythe,” for instance, is described as a “non-binary drag artist” who performs in “horror-themed drag, exploring the bizarre and the beautiful in their fearsome ensembles.” By day, the individual does “gender-affirming body modification.”
USC students are encouraged to wear their own do-it-yourself costumes for a contest hosted by “drag sensation Miss Toto.” That individual, who uses she/her pronouns, has raised over $50,000 for the Marxist “Black Lives Matter” movement as part of a “passion for philanthropy,” the site says.
Numerous faculty members are involved. And the event will feature music by USC Professor of “Sacred Music” Emily Sung, who focuses on “the intersection of vocals, gender expression, and technological experimentation in electronic music.”
The event is being organized by USC “Visions and Voices,” which is described as a “university-wide arts and humanities initiative that features a spectacular array of interdiciplinary [sic] events.” The demonic event is co-sponsored by the USC “Fisher Museum of Art.”
But this appears to be just the tip of the iceberg of the demonic and occult activity taxpayers are being forced to finance at USC and beyond.
In fact, less than a week before the “drag me to hell” event, USC Visions and Voices is hosting an event on “conjuring the invisible world” featuring “magical arts” and “spiritualism.” The God of the Bible describes all such activity as an “abomination.”
Meanwhile, the demonic event at USC follows a similar drag fest at California State University on October 11. Dubbed a “Werk Witch Drag Show,” the event was touted as “an intersectional drag show” that encourages participants to “let your inner WITCH shine.”
Of course, the tax-funded occult drag events in California follow the blasphemous drag performance at the summer Olympics in Paris featuring a mockery of the Last Supper. The performance caused a fierce backlash and was condemned worldwide.
It also comes as more and more “drag” performers, including many who read to children in “Drag Queen Story Hour” events, are exposed as child predators, often with criminal records.
For many years, demonic drag queens have been reading LGBT stories to minors in libraries and public schools. One such event at the Michelle Obama Neighborhood Library featured “Xochi Mochi” wearing a dress and red-tipped demon horns.
The anti-Christian hate is coming out in the open, too. When two Christian members of the Cedar Park, Texas, City Council spoke out against a drag queen event targeting children at the library, the local Satanic church and witch coven went after them and even tried casting spells on them, according to the Christian Post.
But despite the horror, God appears to be working in it all. A decade ago, self-proclaimed “satanic drag queen” Trace McNutt surrendered his life to Jesus Christ. He now works with Voice of the Voiceless to minster and protect those who leave homosexuality while encouraging those still trapped in the sin to repent and leave the darkness behind.
The demonic nature of what is happening is no longer hidden in the slightest. In fact, more and more, it is being openly celebrated. And it is being funded by taxpayers. Readers are encouraged to pray for those in the grip of this diabolical deception — and especially for the children in their crosshairs.
Can we stop these at the border?
HARBINGER’s Daily
Canada's "owned" media: (half their salaries!)
Patrick Bestall comments: This practice was discontinued in the USA when federal subsidies ran out during the Trump era, causing CNN and other networks to lay off huge numbers of staff, and all foreign reporters. They began the practice of buying ready-made "live" reports from foreign sources, not their own correspondents. This has resulted in a number of staged events to recreate what was supposed to have happened, fake actors exposed by competitors. .pb
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Billions of dollars of Canadian government “fiat” currency are provided to government approved media outlet every year to support their activities through Heritage Canada, the Canada Revenue Service (CRA) and other government agencies.
The Toronto Star opinion post noted that:
There is going to be something ugly about the coverage of the next election, because more than half the people covering it are going to be doing so with the knowledge that (Federal conservative leader Pierre) Poilievre may end their employment – by defunding the CBC, ending subsidiaries to newspapers or exacting revenge on Bell in ways we do not understand.
The comment is a strong statement that up to half the legacy media journalists consider Canada’s official Federal opposition party to be a threat to their future employment and they will likely react accordingly.
Since we published our original Roasting the Press segment, Freedom Forum has noticed other, scarier stories and commentary referencing the same topic.
The May 30th, 2024 MacDonald Laurier Institute post, “The Ottawa Declaration on Canadian Journalism” calls on Canadian journalists and publishers to reject government funding. The declaration is signed by Andrew Coyne, a columnist at The Globe and Mail; Andrew Lawton, the editor-in-chief of True North; Bruce Annan, the former president of The Toronto Star; Candice Malcolm, the founder and editor-in-chief of True North; Derek Fildebrandt, the publisher/president/CEO of The Western Standard; Holly Doan, the publisher/owner of Blacklock’s Reporter; Peter Menzies, the former CRTC vice chair and Calgary Herald publisher and others.
An example of our current mess comes from media pundit and academic Michael Geist and his September 30th, 2024 Law Bite’s podcast, “Episode 214: Erin Millar on Trust in Media and the Implementation of the Online News Act.”
The podcast discussed a lot of interesting things which Freedom Forum also tracks, including the Online News Act (ONA) and the Canadian Journalism Collective (CJC), which Erin Millar heads and which is responsible for disbursing $100 Million dollars annually to “qualified” Canadian news outlets.
The Law Bite’s podcast focused on how to develop trust in a legacy media where ½ or more of every legacy media journalist’s salary is dependent of Canadian government legislation and funded through the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Questions about trust in the media have escalated in Canada in recent months as with each error or questionable tweet, there is seemingly an inevitable chorus of concerns that raise doubts about the implications of government regulation and funding of the media. So where is the Online News Act at right now? What of the new collective designed to distribute the $100 million that Google agreed to pay in return for an exemption from mandated arbitration? And what can be done about the mounting trust deficit?
Erin Millar wears several hats including as the CEO & Co-founder of Indiegraf and the interim board chair of the Canadian Journalism Collective, the collective that was picked by Google to administer the $100 million distribution. She joins the Law Bytes podcast in a personal capacity – she isn’t speaking on anyone’s behalf – to talk about the latest Bill C-18 developments and what measures might help address trust in Canadian media.
The podcast can be downloaded here, accessed on YouTube, and is embedded below. Subscribe to the podcast via Apple Podcast, Google Play, Spotify or the RSS feed. Updates on the podcast on Twitter at @Lawbytespod.
And the Spirit Hovered over the Waters:
The water measured in the quasar is in the form of vapor and is the largest mass of water ever found, according to the researchers. The amount of water estimated to be in the quasar is at least 100,000 times the mass of the sun, equivalent to 34 billion times the mass of Earth.
Sounds like the universe had water before earth.
Genesis 1
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
An international team of astronomers led by the California Institute of Technology and involving the University of Colorado Boulder has discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe.
The distant quasar is one of the most powerful known objects in the universe and has an energy output of 1,000 trillion suns -- about 65,000 times that of the Milky Way galaxy. The quasar's power comes from matter spiraling into the central supermassive black hole, estimated at some 20 billion times the mass of our sun, said study leader Matt Bradford of Caltech and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
Because the quasar -- essentially a voraciously feeding black hole -- is so far away, its light has taken 12 billion light years to arrive at Earth. Since one light year equals about 6 trillion miles, the observations reveal a time when the universe was very young, perhaps only 1.6 billion years old. Astronomers believe the universe was formed by the Big Bang roughly 13.6 billion years ago.
The water measured in the quasar is in the form of vapor and is the largest mass of water ever found, according to the researchers. The amount of water estimated to be in the quasar is at least 100,000 times the mass of the sun, equivalent to 34 billion times the mass of Earth.
In an astronomical context, water is a trace gas, but it indicates gas that is unusually warm and dense, said Bradford. "In this case, the water measurement shows that the gas is under the influence of the growing black hole, bathed in both infrared and X-ray radiation," he said.
"These findings are very exciting," said CU-Boulder Associate Professor Jason Glenn, a study co-author. "We not only detected water in the farthest reaches of the universe, but enough to fill Earth's oceans more than 100 trillion times."
The water measurement, together with measurements of other molecules in the vapor source, suggests there is enough gas present for the black hole to grow to about six times its already massive size, said Bradford. Whether it will grow to this size is not clear, however, as some of the gas may end up forming stars instead, or be ejected from the quasar host galaxy in an outflow.
In the Milky Way, the mass of gaseous water is at least 4,000 times smaller than that in the quasar, in part because most of the water in our own galaxy is frozen into ice. While the water vapor in the Milky Way is found only in a limited number of regions, a few light years in size or smaller, the water in the distant quasar appears to be distributed over hundreds of light years, said the researchers.
The discovery was made with a spectrograph called Z-Spec operating in the millimeter wavelengths -- found between the infrared and microwave wavelengths -- at the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory, a 10-meter telescope near the summit of Mauna Kea, on the big island of Hawaii. Z-Spec's detectors are cooled to within 0.06 degrees Celsius of absolute zero in order to obtain the exquisite sensitivity required for these measurements.
"Breakthroughs are coming fast in millimeter and submillimeter technology, enabling us to study ancient galaxies caught in the act of forming stars and supermassive black holes," said CU-Boulder's Glenn, who is a co-principal investigator on the Z-Spec instrument development and a fellow at CU-Boulder's Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy. "The excellent sensitivity of Z-Spec and similar technology will allow astronomers to continue to make important and surprising findings related to distant celestial objects in the early universe, with implications for how our own Milky Way galaxy formed."
Confirmation for this important discovery came from images obtained by the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-Wave Astronomy, or CARMA, a sensitive array of radio dishes located in the Inyo Mountains of Southern California. The distant quasar under study is named APM 08279+5255.
The discovery highlights the utility of the millimeter and submillimeter band for astronomy, which has developed rapidly in the last two to three decades. To achieve the potential of this relatively new spectral range, astronomers, including the study authors, are now designing CCAT, a 25-meter telescope for the high Chilean Atacama desert. With CCAT astronomers will discover some of the earliest galaxies in the universe, and will be able to study their gas content via measurements of water as well as other important gas species, Glenn said.
In addition to Caltech, JPL and CU-Boulder, the Z-Spec collaboration includes the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science in Japan, the Observatories of the Carnegie Institute of Science and the University of Pennsylvania. Funding for Z-Spec was provided by the National Science Foundation, NASA, the Research Corporation and partner institutions.
The Caltech Submillimeter Observatory is operated under a contract from the National Science Foundation. CARMA was built and is operated by a consortium of universities with funding from a combination of state and private sources, as well as the National Science Foundation and its University Radio Observatory program.
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Fire in the Sky:
1. Rick Recounts 2012 Claim that Iran Possesses Ancient Source for Directed Energy Weapons (trunews.com)
Here's a far-out scenario for you.
You can believe it if you think the pyramids once generated power.
You can believe it if you think the giant asteroid Apophis could lose pieces of rock when it flies by earth in 2029 (blown off by electrical discharges between earth and the asteroid).
Rick Wiles replays a top-secret interview he made in 2012, Be sure to catch the end of the program 45 to 50 minutes into the hour. Could falling pieces of Asteroid Apophis turn into meteorites big enough to fall on earth in hundreds of flaming pieces? The visions Rick Wiles talks about might convince you.
Patrick Bestall
INTERESTING...
However, I do have a major concern about Rick’s RANT against ISRAEL and their actions in GAZA... That was not demonstrating the LOVE-OF-God! Rick was JUDGING ISRAEL, and it is God who will deal with ISRAEL... be cautious!
Don Brooks
Trump prays famous Catholic prayer:
The prayer was written by Pope Leo XIII following an Oct. 13, 1884, vision of demonic attacks on the church from within — and of the archangel tossing the offending demons back into the abyss.
It was long recited after Mass, though that obligation ended in 1965.
However, when discussing preparations for spiritual battle 13 years after he was wounded in an assassination attempt, Pope John Paul II said, "Even though today this prayer is no longer recited at the end of the Eucharistic celebration, I invite everyone not to forget it, but to recite it to obtain help in the battle against the forces of darkness and against the spirit of this world."
According to the Diocese of Gary, Indiana, Pope Pius XI ordered the recitation of the prayer in 1929 for the conversion of Russia.
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Patrick Bestall
Directed Lightening:
In 2021, Laser Company Trumpf and the University of Geneva fired up a laser- based lightning rod at the top of Santis Mountain in Switzerland.
They control lightning from storm clouds and direct the strikes to places where they won’t cause any damage. The laser lightning rod (LLR) emerges as a promising technology, with successful experiments redirecting lightning’s path.
The next phase aims to demonstrate the technology’s capacity to trigger lightning, ensuring protection for critical infrastructure worldwide.
Patrick Bestall
My Comment:
How long before Man develops a way to HARM “Others” with is new knowledge?
Don Brooks
This is why you need a Dashcam:
Deliberate "accidents" are on the rise. Some drivers want you to hit them.
I was driving in the left lane of the Belt Parkway going East bound towards the Southern State Parkway. The silver Honda (LBB 8917) was in the middle lane, and they cut me off and slammed on the brakes coming to a full stop hoping I would hit them. I did not hit their car and because of that they reversed into my car for collision and acted as if they were injured while coming out of their vehicle.
"Fight the scam with a good dashcam"
Patrick Bestall
Blaze News original: Biden-Harris deep state censorship scandal EXPOSED: Here's who's fighting back:
Pressure mounts for the Biden-Harris State Department to answer questions about the endless search for 'disinformation.'
Under the leadership of Secretary of State Antony Blinken, the U.S. State Department has become fixated on controlling speech under the pretense of guarding against so-called "disinformation."
Fortunately, some of the apparent targets of the agency — reporters Gabe Kaminsky of the Washington Examiner and Matt Taibbi of the "Twitter Files," as well as some Republican lawmakers — have chosen to fight back, calling out the State Department for trying to censor Americans and right-leaning media outlets exercising their First Amendment rights in ways the government doesn't like.
Blaze News caught up with Kaminsky and others wrangled into this ongoing fight for free speech to learn what they have endured in the past and what they hope to accomplish going forward.
Background: The 'disinformation' boogeyman
These days, it seems that all high-profile Democrats and their allies in the media are obsessed with this trend.
In connection with FEMA funding and the hurricanes that recently battered the Southeastern United States, Vice President Kamala Harris claimed in early October that "there's a lot of mis- and disinformation being pushed out there" by former President Donald Trump.
'Our First Amendment stands as a major block.'
CNN anchor Dana Bash dutifully followed Harris' lead and bragged in an X post that she had asked Harris "about dangerous misinformation coming in part from Donald Trump."
Back in 2022, Harris' running mate, vice presidential nominee Tim Walz (D), bizarrely asserted that "there's no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech, especially around our democracy."
Speaking at a World Economic Forum event in September, former Secretary of State John Kerry lamented that "if people go to only one source and the source they go to is sick and has an agenda and they're putting out disinformation, our First Amendment stands as a major block to the ability to be able to just hammer it out of existence."
Even with deadly forces of nature flooding a major swath of the U.S., tens of thousands of rapists and murderers from foreign countries stealing into the country, painfully high prices at the pump and in grocery stores, and the ever-present threat of nuclear war, the Democrats have apparently settled on "disinformation" as the most pressing problem facing America today.
The State Department never responded to the series of questions Blaze News submitted about the topic, so it remains unclear how the department defines "disinformation" or how it determines which information is branded "disinformation" and which is considered plain old information.
Despite this lack of clarity, back in 2016, under the Obama administration, the State Department created a subdivision entitled the General Engagement Center, which has as its mission "to recognize, understand, expose, and counter foreign state and non-state propaganda and disinformation efforts aimed at undermining or influencing the policies, security, or stability of the United States, its allies, and partner nations."
In short, the GEC was mainly established to root out "disinformation" propagandized by other countries in order to guard Americans against pernicious foreign influence.
Within just a few years, however, the GEC appears to have devolved into little more than a federal panopticon seeking out Americans and American media outlets that hold disfavored views and then censoring them by allegedly funding disinformation-related organizations, both foreign and domestic.
The Twitter and Kaminsky files
In January 2023, independent journalist Matt Taibbi famously initiated what became known as the "Twitter Files," a series of exposés revealing alleged ties between the social media platform now called X and various federal agencies.
The first installment of the Twitter Files focused mainly on 2020 — while Trump was still in office — and the increasing number of requests from federal agents and lawmakers to silence accounts over alleged disinformation about COVID-19. According to Taibbi's report, the State Department's General Engagement Center was among the first to flag supposedly "Russia-linked accounts" that promulgated COVID-related messages in various languages to spread disinformation to "a global audience."
By 2021, Joe Biden had been sworn into office, and the GEC then allegedly expanded its efforts to root out disinformation.
To that end, the GEC apparently partnered with the Global Disinformation Index, a London-based organization that ranks various media outlets based on the risk they pose of purveying disinformation. Because GDI is located overseas, the GEC could theoretically send money its way without running afoul of the GEC mission to address only "foreign state and non-state propaganda and disinformation efforts."
And since the GDI included many American outlets on its Dynamic Exclusion List, the GEC appears to have indirectly funded attacks on American media. Blaze Media was among the top 10 media outlets the GDI described as the "riskiest" for disseminating disinformation, as were the Daily Wire, the Federalist, RealClearPolitics, One America News, and the New York Post.
According to reports from Gabe Kaminsky of the Washington Examiner, between October 2021 and March 2022, the GEC gave the GDI a grant of $100,000.
The National Endowment for Democracy, a nonprofit heavily funded by the State Department, apparently gave the GDI an additional grant of more than $750,000, bringing the total given to the GDI by organizations within the State Department's purview to over $850,000.
Neither of those grants has been renewed, the New York Post reported.
'The State Department had numerous opportunities to respond to my reporting on it funding the Global Disinformation Index, but they declined to answer basic questions.'
Rather than engage in introspection after that information became public and assess whether the State Department had gone too far in seeking to silence free speech and the free press, in March 2023, the department apparently compiled a press guide so that agents could defend it against the reports from Taibbi, Kaminsky, and others.
The New York Post eventually got hold of the press guide and published screenshots of it in a damning report last month. All of the screenshots of the State Department's press guide shared by the Post except one is marked "U.S. Department of State" and "not for public release."
According to one screenshot, which appears to be a script for agents to follow in the event they are asked about the relationship between the GEC and the GDI, agents are encouraged to say that the GEC did not invest in the GDI "to blacklist conservative media outlets" but rather to analyze "disinformation efforts in East Asia and Europe."
"The GEC presented GDI with a scope of work to apply its disinformation risk measurement across a set of foreign countries and languages in East Asia and Europe," the script suggests that agents say, according to the screenshot. "GDI was able to expand its disinformation risk measurement across six new languages — Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Russian and Ukrainian — enabling a more precise focus on [People's Republic of China] and Russian disinformation activities."
"The GEC's work with GDI was limited to counter-disinformation efforts in East Asia and Europe," another screenshot reiterates.
Should a State Department agent be asked whether the GDI ever created "a blacklist of American sites," the script suggests referring the inquirer "to GDI for questions on their activities."
Other screenshots of the press guide indicate that the State Department wanted to go on the offense, seemingly attacking the reporters who covered the relationship between the GEC and the GDI rather than defend the actions of the agency.
In a section entitled "Background for Briefer's Eyes Only," the press guide accuses Taibbi of misrepresenting the facts regarding federal influence over Twitter and Elon Musk of amplifying Taibbi's misrepresentations by retweeting his first Twitter Files thread.
"Elon Musk's retweet of Taibbi's thread insinuates that the [United States government], and the GEC in particular, pressured Twitter to close U.S. accounts of which the USG disapproved," one screenshot says. "The evidence offered for this claim is often missing, inferred, or presented out of context."
The text in the screenshot never explains in what way Taibbi failed to support his claims or offered evidence "out of context."
The State Department press guide also takes aim at Kaminsky, implying that he failed in his journalistic responsibilities by not asking for an interview with State Department officials, even as it admits that Kaminsky "sent questions repeatedly" to the State Department press office, the screenshot shows. The guide even acknowledges that the press office "responded to his requests."
Kaminsky, who reportedly sent the State Department press office nearly a dozen requests for comment between January and February 2023, gave the Post a different version of events. "The State Department had numerous opportunities to respond to my reporting on it funding the Global Disinformation Index, but they declined to answer basic questions," he said.
In a summary page of the press guide, the State Department reiterates the mission of the GEC, that it is geared toward combatting "foreign attempts to spread disinformation and propaganda globally" and that it "does not fund programs in the United States."
Another page of the guide insists that "the GEC does not and has never attempted to moderate content on social media," a screenshot reveals.
In a statement to Blaze News, Kaminsky called that assertion "false."
"That claim is untrue alone based on the GEC's involvement in the lead-up to the 2020 election with the Election Integrity Partnership, a collaboration between colleges, think tanks, social media platforms, and the U.S. government to thwart alleged falsehoods online," he said.
"It makes sense that the State Department — or any other agency — would craft public or non-public press guidance to determine how to respond to reporting that scrutinizes its activities and unearths wrongdoing," he continued.
"Investigative reporting by Taibbi, myself, and other journalists demonstrated that the GEC has been closely linked to efforts by activists to suppress domestic content on social media and also funded entities such as the Global Disinformation Index that aim to thwart U.S.-based voices that the British group disagrees with."
Matthew Peterson, editor in chief of Blaze News, one of the outlets disparaged by the GDI, is likewise incensed that the federal government has seemingly taken aim at its own law-abiding citizens:
The federal government now routinely uses our tax dollars to shape and censor political speech in America. In this case, we see the State Department engaged in an active war against journalists like Matt Taibbi and Gabe Kaminsky and elected officials like Jim Banks who dared to expose their unconstitutional activity. If America is to retain a republican form of government, federal officials cannot be allowed to attack and smear anyone who attempts to discover the truth about what they are up to.
The State Department, the Global Disinformation Index, the National Endowment for Democracy, and Taibbi did not respond to a request for comment.
'A sloppy and hypocritical lie': Lawmakers become involved
In addition to Taibbi and Kaminsky, the State Department press guidance obtained by the Post also refers to members of Congress, including Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.).
Murphy, who has described himself as "one of the bipartisan creators" of the Global Engagement Center, appears to have been included in the press guidance because he issued his own tweet thread in February 2023, claiming that the accusations against the GEC in Taibbi's Twitter Files thread were "MADE UP OUT OF THIN AIR."
According to Murphy, the GEC never "improperly labeled" Twitter accounts as agents of "Russian propaganda."
"All the GEC did was was to note that bots and social media accounts that had previously been proven to be linked to foreign governments were now in the business of spreading anti-U.S. COVID misinformation. That's it," he wrote.
'The Putin regime and the Biden-Harris administration both hate free speech, and that’s why they targeted me.'
The reasons for including Rep. Banks in the State Department press guidance are less clear, especially since the key reference to him in the document appears to be a misquotation of a statement Banks gave to Kaminsky.
For an article published February 9, 2023, Banks told the Washington Examiner: "House Republicans will be hauling these bad actors before Congress, and I absolutely support legislation to ban federal funding of anti-free-speech groups."
However, the quotation attributed to Banks that appears in the State Department press guidance, according to a screenshot shared by the Post, looks markedly different: "The Republicans of the House of Representatives will bring these bad actors to justice to Congress, and I absolutely support the legislation banning federal funding for the fight against freedom of speech."
In a letter dated September 16, 2024, and addressed to Secretary of State Blinken, Banks indicated that the cause for the discrepancy is that the State Department cited "RIA FAN (Russia)" as the source for Banks' statement, not Kaminsky or the Washington Examiner.
The ultimate effect of the GEC's "intentional misquotation," Banks argued in the letter, was to give "the impression that [he] had been speaking with a Russian propaganda outlet."
"The State Department, in defense of its domestic so-called 'disinformation' operation, purposefully spread disinformation about a U.S. lawmaker," the letter continued. "This is a sloppy and hypocritical lie and it is typical of the Biden-Harris State Department’s repeated attacks on the First Amendment and Americans’ free speech rights."
Kaminsky is likewise troubled by the apparent misquotation of Banks, telling Blaze News that it raises "concerns about speech suppression."
"The State Department's decision to cite the Russian misquotation, which did not circulate among U.S.-based readers, was an apparent effort to unfairly link Banks to a foreign adversary. Some would call that disinformation. Ironic, no?"
In a statement to Blaze News, Rep. Banks called out Russia and the Biden-Harris administration as enemies of free speech.
"Russia sanctioned me for being an enemy of Vladimir Putin, and now the Biden State Department is falsely smearing me as a Russian propaganda booster," he said. "The Putin regime and the Biden-Harris administration both hate free speech, and that’s why they targeted me."
About a week after Banks issued the letter to Blinken, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) wrote a letter of his own, claiming the GEC was beyond hope and demanding its outright dissolution.
"By smearing anyone who disagrees with it as a Russian stooge, this network conflates U.S. citizens with a U.S. adversary, as State Department talking points did to my colleague Representative Jim Banks and the award-winning journalists Gabe Kaminsky and Matt Taibbi in a scheming sleight of hand that ruled out of bounds political opinions and fact-based reporting it opposed but cannot refute," Issa said.
"Mr. Secretary: It is time for this failed entity to be held accountable. It is time to bring an end to the Global Engagement Center," his letter closed.
In a statement to Blaze News, Issa said:
The First Amendment rights of the American people are threatened not only by malign actors in the EU, U.K., or Brazil — but by our own State Department and specifically the Global Engagement Center. There truly is a Censorship Industrial Complex at home and abroad, and our opposition to it must be no less comprehensive. Congress can’t look away from this continuing scandal that grows worse with every revelation. We need to be committed and creative if we’re going to win the fight for free speech and a future without the GEC is a step in that right direction.
Issa may soon get his wish. A State Department appropriations bill that has already passed the House and that will soon be under consideration in the Senate seeks to strike funding for the GEC based on its alleged ties to American
censorship.
Refusing to be silenced
Ever since Taibbi, Kaminsky, and others exposed the apparent attempts at the Global Engagement Center to censor Americans in defiance of the First Amendment, elected Republicans and some watchdog groups have taken action against it.
'One of the most egregious government operations to censor the American press in the history of the nation.'
Back in December, Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton joined the Daily Wire and the Federalist in filing a lawsuit against the State Department for allegedly "actively intervening in the news-media market to render disfavored press outlets unprofitable" by sending taxpayer dollars to help fund the Global Disinformation Index and a similar group called NewsGuard.
The lawsuit further alleged that the GEC implemented "one of the most egregious government operations to censor the American press in the history of the nation."
In response to a request for comment, a spokesperson from NewsGuard told the Post that the lawsuit “inaccurately portrays” NewsGuard’s relationship with the State Department.
"NewsGuard does not offer any technology that censors or blocks any content, or that blocks ads on content,” the spokesperson continued. "Instead, we provide information — our assessments of sites — so that our clients can decide for themselves where to place their ads or which content to amplify, and each client decides for themselves how to use that data."
Following the bombshell report from the New York Post that made public the State Department's press guidance, a group identified as the Functional Government Initiative filed Freedom of Information Act requests in the hopes of uncovering further details about the agency's alleged attempts to malign Kaminsky, Taibbi, Banks, and others in defense of the GEC.
In its requests, the Functional Government Initiative also asked for certain communications involving Blinken and other top State Department officials dating all the way back to January 2023. The aim, FGI spokesperson Pete McGinnis told the Examiner, was to see "who was involved in the blacklisting efforts" and "just how high up the chain this memo was guiding their media strategy."
"The reporting on the Biden-Harris administration’s censorship clearly struck a nerve at the State Department."
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