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August 20, 2024 · 9:46 am

Hey, right-winger losers, don’t be killjoys…

Speech is power, speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.

– Emerson

Americans are now in the political season where they turn their eyes to an upcoming presidential election, but the fight to protect free speech is our most important battle to preserve our personal freedom in America.

Free speech most definitely is under attack by the left and global elitists working to criminalize speech as an act of violence. The War of Words, I’ve been warning about since 1998 is now out in the open, since the pandemic. While the masks were forced on all of us, the masks of the totalitarians literally came off and more and more people realized their personal liberties were being threatened via a propaganda campaign using fear of a virus, as a tool to force people to submit to a wide array of draconian rules imposed by the state. The relentless media efforts to promote those draconian rules and silence dissent was a pivotal moment in the Dem/liberal media spin information war here in America.

Jonathan Turley, wrote a book on free speech this year, The Indispensable Right: Free Speech In An Age Of Rage, stepping forward to champion the 1st Amendment and explain why free speech matters and the growing threat to free speech in the West, who most of us believed were the guardians of personal liberty against authoritarianism. Turley wrote a piece yesterday, The EU Just Declared War on Free Speech in America. It is Time to Fight Back, explaining:

“One of the greatest threats to free speech today is the European Digital Services Act. The act bars speech that is viewed as “disinformation” or “incitement.” European Commission Executive Vice President Margrethe Vestager celebrated its passage by declaring that it is “not a slogan anymore, that what is illegal offline should also be seen and dealt with as illegal online. Now it is a real thing.” Democracy’s back.”

“In Europe, free speech is in free fall. Germany, France, the United Kingdom and other countries have eviscerated free speech by criminalizing speech deemed inciteful or degrading to individuals or groups. The result had made little difference to the neo-Nazi movement in countries like Germany, which is reaching record numbers. It has, however, silenced the rest of society.”

When Elon Musk bought Twitter he exposed the censorship apparatus between Democrats within the executive branch of the US government and Twitter. He dismantled most of that censorship program, thus becoming the #1 target of both the Democrat political machine, which operated that government censorship apparatus within the US government, and the EU, whom Democrat speech police champions coordinate with on efforts to police speech across the so-called free world, all under the guise of combating the threats of hate speech and misinformation/disinformation.

I find it particularly fitting, considering the efforts to silence women during the Clinton impeachment in 1998-1999, that one of the loudest Dem critics railing about Musk challenging the Dem efforts to police free speech in America is Hillary Clinton:

Sure, global democracy will be bolstered by elites dictating what words we can speak and what we must believe…

Last weekend Michael Schellenberger, a journalist who has been exposing the pandemic efforts to silence people on social media via the Twitter Files, posted this on X:

So, the UK Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, has ordered a review of the UK’s counter-extremism strategy to combat extremist ideologies. Interestingly, the left-wing zealots pushing these draconian speech laws among western democracies don’t see themselves as extremists. A BBC article, Misogyny to be treated as extremism by UK government, states:

“The analysis will look at hatred of women as one of the ideological trends that the government says is gaining traction.”

“Ms Cooper said there has been a rise in extremism “both online and on our streets” that “frays the very fabric of our communities and our democracy”.

“The review will look at the rise of Islamist and far-right extremism in the UK, as well as wider ideological trends, including extreme misogyny or beliefs which fit into broader categories, such as violence.”

What’s not considered extremism are the radical Islamists and Hamas-supporters rampaging through the UK and US…or Antifa thugs rioting in America, while these leftist statists work furiously to silence and lock up right-wing and conservatize people whose views they don’t like.

Another crazy UK undertaking is called Operation Early Dawn, where authorities are going to start releasing people in prison for crimes to make room for the hundreds of people arrested in the recent riots over the murder of three young girls, stabbed to death by a young man, who was rumored to be an asylum seeker, but whom British authorities state was born in the UK. The alleged killer’s name is Axel Rudakubana.

Here in America, the Dem/liberal media spin information war emerged as a Democrat political information war being waged against the American people to advance Democrat and leftist political causes and it’s now in the final stages. This information war across the West is a form of totalitarianism, where liberal elites will control what we can say, in an effort to control what we dare think or believe.

The reinvention of VP Kamala Harris is being packaged as a campaign to spread “joy” across the land, but it’s part of the Dem/liberal media spin information war, in hopes of Dems accelerating the left’s complete transformation of America. Here’s how the campaign of “joy” is being amplified by liberal media:

Under the guise of combating misinformation the global effort to control speech has evolved along several tracks, including the World Health Organization (WHO) mobilizing to counter what it deems medical misinformation by partnering with social media companies. The effort began during the pandemic to combat COVID misinformation, but from the WHO website, Combatting misinformation online:

“Social media platforms have also granted WHO access to fast track reporting systems, which allows us to flag misinformation on their platforms, speeding up the reporting and removal of content that breaks policy. WHO also works with Member States such as the Government of the United Kingdom to raise awareness of misinformation around COVID-19 and vaccines, and encourage individuals to report false or misleading content online. “

On YouTube, for about a year I’ve seen content creators complaining about a YouTube effort to have herbal remedy information removed, often videos that are several years old. As the climate change “experts” decide on new “threats”, assuredly gardening and farming that’s not controlled by the “experts” will be targeted too. In January, this article, Community Gardens Have Six Times the Carbon Footprint of Agriculture, was published in Technology Networks Applied Science. This should be a wake-up call that almost anything people do can be deemed dangerous or a “threat” by power-hungry environmental zealots or self-selected globalist minders.

Every aspect of our lives will be monitored and leftist bureaucrats will decide what we can say, think, do, eat, and how we live our daily lives. This is not an exaggeration. Glimmers of that emerged during the pandemic when the state of CA issued Thanksgiving guidance that included not only how many people you could invite to your home, but also guidance on how to control access to you bathroom for guests. In MN, Tim Walz, the Dem VP candidate, put a snitch line in place for residents to report on their neighbors and he put in place strict holiday guidelines to regulate private citizens homes. We should never forget the COVID government overreach.

No matter what happens with the election in November, Americans still have to be willing to stand up and defend their right to free speech. After warning about the Dem/liberal media spin information war since the Clinton impeachment, it’s heartening to see that more people are recognizing the threat to free speech in America. Unfortunately, it took so many years and having the blatant corruption of this Dem/liberal media coordination at both silencing right-wing people and views and advancing their skill at launching Dem spin attacks selling totally false “news” More people now see the Dem/liberal media corruption now. but if we refuse to confront and defeat this spin war, we’ll find ourselves crushed under a mountain of Dem spin information war propaganda. Dems and their liberal media friends will be banning more and more words and people who challenge their power, They’ll be blasting their spin word barrages 24/7 telling us, “Don’t you dare even think otherwise, because there’s only JOY and “good news” everywhere.

It’s not hard to imagine a President Harris, cackling and taunting, “Stop being killjoys, you evil totalitarian right-wingers! There’s only Good News.”

The Dem/liberal media spin information war censorship regime only applies to people the left wants to silence.

Never forget that.

Note: I’ve done a little bit of editing since I posted this – mostly spelling, and typos, but I rewrote a couple sentences.

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August 13, 2024 · 12:11 am

Trump/Musk conversation hyped as a threat

With so many big things happening so quickly these days it’s hard to decide where to focus. In America, we have a chaotic and bizarre presidential election in full-swing. On July 13th there was an assassination attempt on former President Trump’s life at a rally in Butler, PA. A week later on July 21st, President Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race, after an intensive, powerful Dem-led pressure campaign to force him out. He dropped out via a letter posted on X, that wasn’t even on official letterhead. There’s some big cover-up with this shenanigans, I am sure.

After top Democrat powerbrokers haggled it out in backroom dealings, Kamala Harris was selected to top the Democrat presidential ticket. Last week Kamala announced Tim Walz, the radical progressive governor of Minnesota, would be her running mate. Walz was the most gung-ho governor at imposing COVID social mitigation policies in Minnesota and has embraced radical transgender policies and all the BLM “defund the police” agenda. There’s plenty to delve into about both presidential campaigns and Tim Walz, with his unusual ties to China and 30 trips to China, and his use of his military service for political gain, but this post is going to be about free speech in America.

We should be closely watching what’s going on in the UK with their crackdown on free speech. Reports of glaring double standards of justice and free speech “privileges” between white British subjects and Muslims has been reported, as their government cracks down on “hate speech” and “Islamophobia.” America is unique in having our Constitution and Bill of Rights, which guarantees our rights. The 1st Amendment protects our freedom of religion, free speech, freedom of the press, right to peaceably assembly and a right to petition the government for redress or express grievances.

I’m trying to assess the news using a big picture/little picture approach. While it’s important to keep abreast of news here and all the daily news, it’s probably best to keep the big picture in focus too. I’m trying not to get bogged down in this or that presidential campaign hot topic, that the political pundit crowd is all yammering about, but kind of look at all that stuff, but keep looking at the world events every day too.

Back in the 1980s, I loved reading Sydney Sheldon novels and then the early Tom Clancy novels, where all sorts of events around the world start happening and you have no idea how they all fit together until much later in the story. We are in a real-life version of that type of “plot,” except this is real life with wars breaking out and great powers competitions veering toward confrontation. All over the globe hot spots are popping up. The West is showing major signs of serious stress fractures forming, while China, Russia and Iran are on the move flexing all their levers of power. Then there’s these extreme efforts by powerful elites trying to transform western civilization quickly.

Levers of national power are usually framed in terms of DIME – diplomatic, information, military and economic. The US is failing to leverage any of America’s national power in a way that advances our national interests, but we’re not alone. Post-COVID craziness and post-letting western countries be overrun with refugees and illegal immigrants, who are hostile to western culture and values, has left western democracies extremely vulnerable to domestic and hostile foreign destabilization efforts. America and other western democracies all have both internal extremist entities and hostile foreign entities intent on fomenting chaos (destabilization efforts), but they also have large numbers of refugees/immigrants who are hostile to western civilization (a fifth column). Add in western civilization has been subjected to a steady effort by communist countries and leftist progressives to radically transform (dismantle) western civilization for many decades now.

That’s the big picture reality.

With the information war effort, well, I’ve been harping on the Democrat/liberal media spin information war since the late 1990s and that info war has intensified dramatically since the pandemic to push infringement of free speech, to silence opposing views, to punish people who refuse to use leftist dogma being crammed down their throats. Many people want to just forget about all those COVID government and powerful social media companies’ efforts to force compliance of their draconian social mitigation efforts, but we should all be paying attention to what’s going on both here in America and abroad – especially the UK right now.

Jonathan Turley wrote a good piece on free speech being under attack.

A Harris-Walz administration would be a nightmare for free speech

Turley states:

For over three years, the Biden-Harris administration has sustained an unrelenting attack on the freedom of speech, from supporting a massive censorship system (described by a federal court as an “Orwellian Ministry of Truth“) to funding blacklisting operations targeting groups and individuals with opposing views.  

President Biden made censorship a central part of his legacy, even accusing social media companies of “killing people” for failing to increase levels of censorship. Democrats in Congress pushed that agenda by demanding censorship on subjects ranging from climate change to gender identity — even to banking policy — in the name of combatting “disinformation.”

The administration also created offices like the Disinformation Governance Board before it was shut down after public outcry. But it quickly shifted this censorship work to other offices and groups.

As vice president, Harris has long supported these anti-free speech policies. The addition of Walz completes a perfect nightmare for free speech advocates. Walz has shown not only a shocking disregard for free speech values but an equally shocking lack of understanding of the First Amendment.

Free speech is under attack – globally – in the West, not just in totalitarian countries.

Tonight former President Trump did a live conversation with Elon Musk on X. It was an interesting conversation about all sorts of topics, carried out civilly. There was nothing threatening about it.

Across liberal media there was a tizzy about Musk hosting this conversation with Trump being dangerous misinformation:

The Washington Post’s motto is “Democracy Dies in Darkness” and today their WH reporter was asking the WH press secretary if they could do something to silence Trump due to “misinformation” being a threat. An American reporter was asking the WH to silence a presidential candidate…

Once that sinks in, the EU today sent a letter to Elon Musk threatening him with a potential ban if he held his conversation with Trump tonight.

The Musk/Trump conversation started late due to a massive attack on X’s servers>

Here’s the Harris/Walz statement on the Musk/Trump conversation:

Musk did say he extended an offer to Kamala Harris to have a conversation on X too, but her campaign declined.

This is where America, a country founded on people being allowed to publicly debate and freely express opposing viewpoints, is at.

The self-selected Misinformation Police pose a clear and present danger to our free speech rights.

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July 30, 2024 · 9:39 am

We all should defend free speech in America

Speech is power, speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

It’s been a week since my last blog post and it’s hard to decide where to even begin. First, I’m going to say that I’ve been challenging the Dem/liberal media spin information war since 1998 – that’s the truth. It’s been 25 long years. On July 7th I posted a thread on X, which I ‘m going to type it out here , even though I’m including the link – just in case my X posts disappear at some point. I’ve had other online messages of mine disappear online over the years, since the Clinton impeachment. Here’s the link: https://x.com/susan_heward/status/1809907361814806706

Here’s the text:

Many Americans probably have no clue about the seriousness of having a POTUS in the Oval Office, with advancing cognitive decline, holding the office. The President is also the CINC. He’s the person who leads our military and has the ultimate control of our nuclear arsenal.

It was one thing to have an Edith Wilson, right after WWI, it’s another, when America today, according to our own FBI and intel officials, have stated we are in a very complex and dangerous threat environment.

Since 1999, I committed myself to expose the corrupt Democrat spin information war. I’m an ordinary American. I don’t know any important people and live in GA. During the Clinton impeachment scandal, I unintentionally became a target to silence.

My late husband was an active duty soldier in 1999 and I believe a retired general was recruited to silence me, when pretty new to the internet, I wandered onto the internet and started posting comments on the politics Excite message boards.

My husband served under that general during Desert Storm and respected him. That general was a brigade commander and his wife was another Hillary or Jill – wielding all the power of her husband’s position.

During Desert Storm we were in Germany.

Due to my husband being a First Sergeant, I was the family support group leader for his company. The company commander was single.

Things are trying when solider deploy, many with young wives, kids, lots of problems, but being in a foreign country compounds them.

I had some run-ins with that brigade commander’s wife during Desert Storm, regarding family support matters.

The Army leaves a rear-detachment commander in charge when a unit deploys. A smart commander appoints his worst to that position and takes his best to war.

Ours was a LTC. I called him once about an issue. He told me he wasn’t the rear-detachment commander, that was some major.

The brigade commander’s wife, on the other hand, had no problem taking charge – even things that were official Army matters.

She and I had some run-ins. She called me once and told me that she was going to have to report me to her husband and tell him I wasn’t cooperating. I refused to go along with her dictates and told her the Army has rules and I was following them.

I am a rules person.

As all sorts of things started to happen, I wrote letters to my husband. I decided to write letters to my husband’s company commander to inform him about what was going on too, because it’s important for morale that soldiers know their families are safe back home.

I thought he should have a head’s up. Years later I realized those letters had made their way to DOD [DA] after Desert Storm and caused a ripple. Those letters were rather snarky and not flattering accounts of that brigade commander’s wife or many family support situations.

Then during impeachment in 1999, I believe that brigade commander, by then a retired general, (and Dem general) was recruited to try to shut me up.

I can’t prove it and am not going to go into details, because the important thing is this current crisis.

What’s happening now is about more than an election, it’s about all of us – each and every American citizen could be at risk, because many people believed they didn’t have to play by the rules and that it’s okay to use any means necessary to win.

I see people on the right on here wanting apologies or recognition that they got the story right or people obsessed with polls and the partisan fervor. To defeat this spin information war, expose the wholesale public corruption, and protect our Constitution will take all of us.

If you recognize the seriousness of a CINC with advanced cognitive decline & an unknown circle running the White House, then please look to people trying to expose the scandal, not spin it sway [away] and cover it up. Please, put ego aside, share information, work together.

We are all Americans.

Back in 2013 I wrote my story messages of mhere on my blog and it’s still on my home page. All of the people named are real people. mhere was my user name on the Excite message boards during the Clinton impeachment. It was a joke of sorts, because mir in Russian means peace and I have always been a pretty strident Cold War warrior mentality, but I’ve always dreamed of a more peaceful world.

I believe I was confronting Clinton spinmeisters on those Excite message boards, as the Clinton spinmeisters started going scorched earth mode in 1998 – doing exactly what they’re doing now – aggressive spin word messaging barrages across all of liberal media – except back then it was ranting about “sex, sex, sex” and a prominent law professor showing up on cable news nightly to argue that Bill Clinton lying about sex under oath wasn’t a crime, because everybody lies about sex.

Granted things are more sophisticated now with social media platforms, stealth editing online to make stories disappear, algorithms used to depress flow of information, shadow banning people and other deceptive means to control information in America. As I argued on those Excite message boards, my intent was to counter bullies, who were trying to drown out dissenting opinions with their aggressive spin word tactics on those message boards. Then I noticed that some of my lines from those message boards were being borrowed by actual right-wing pundits in the media in the spin war being played out.

I believe that I was tracked down during that process and that they came across my husband’s Desert Storm brigade commander, who hates me. I know he hates me – after Desert Storm there was a family get-together and he and his wife were walking past me and my husband and kids, His wife made a point of saying, hello to me and her husband gave me an angry glare that scared me honestly.

It was years later at another Army post where a woman (paid government employee) involved in Army family support started trashing the wife of a brigade commander’s wife, who had just left. I told her I knew this lady during Desert Storm. This brigade commander’s wife had been my husband’s Desert Storm battalion commander’s wife (petitesouthernbelle) – who stood up to that Desert Storm brigade commander’s wife (I named her QueenoftheRock). This woman told me she was friends with the QueenoftheRock. Then this woman told me about some wife’s letters that had created quite a stir after Desert Storm. That’s when I realized my husband’s company commander had turned those letters in with the after-action reporting. The Army does after-action reports, so the Army can learn from mistakes and build on things that worked well. The US Army has a lessons learned approach.

My late husband was not into politics and he didn’t pay any attention to the politics around the Army. He was always just concerned about his soldiers and the mission. He trusted his Desert Storm company commander, battalion commander and that brigade commander and in no universe could he have imagined that brigade commander wishing me harm.

The events in messages of mhere, to the best of my recollection, began in the fall of 1998 and ended in early 1999.

It’s fine if you decide I’m just some crazy person online, but I urge you to be prepared for an intensification of this Dem/liberal media spin information war, which goes way beyond this November election. It’s about controlling information in America and deciding who can speak publicly and who can’t. There’s epic abuse of power, abuse of government resources and information (especially within the FBI and our intel agencies) to aid and abet the Dem/liberal media spin war effort. There are scores upon scores of former top government officials willing to sign on to these corrupt Dem spin war efforts (51 former intelligence officials claim Hunter Biden laptop is Russian disinformation). During impeachment with that attack on me, I strongly suspect some active duty people and Army assets were employed.

Fast forward to 2017 and the Obama administration set into motion the development of a massive federal government/civilian contractor effort to develop a “cognitive security” apparatus to ostensibly combat dis/misinformation, as they were leaving the White House in 2017.

Americans will have to open their eyes to this looming threat to our free speech rights and to the vast corruption. Then they’ll have to decide if this is the kind of America they want to live in.

This goes way beyond partisan politics. I was a homemaker, who’s never owned a firearm, and I was attacked in my own home during the Clinton impeachment. And yes, I’m still going to continue speaking out about this abuse of power and corrupt Dem/liberal media spin information war, as long as I can.

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July 13, 2024 · 4:07 pm

Dem/liberal media spin war finally hit an iceberg

American news media underwent a seismic shift since the 2024 Presidential Debate on June 27, 2024. Very quickly, top Democrats, like former presidents, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, along with many other prominent Democrats came out and declared that President Biden’s terrible debate performance was just “a bad night.” The liberal news media took that talking point and ran with it.

This Democrat spin messaging led to more X spin war battles and slowly, because Democrat spin mouthpieces on X weren’t able to divert their battle back to more Trump derangement allegations, well, all sorts of information has begun pouring out. The liberal news media has grudgingly begun investigating and doing their job, of looking into Biden’s health, lies and corruption. Most of that liberal news media adversarial reporting on Biden is in furtherance of top Democrats now deciding that Biden is likely to lose in November and he’s going to damage down ballot Democrat candidates. They want to ditch him on the 2024 ticket.

On July 2, 2024, Former Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi appeared on a cable news show for an interview, and launched a new Democrat talking point, that there’s a difference between whether Biden’s alarming “bad night” debate performance was just an “episode,” not some “condition to be concerned about. Here’s a report from NBC: Nancy Pelosi: It’s a ‘legitimate question’ whether Biden’s debate performance was a ‘condition’ or just an ‘episode’

Then last weekend, the NY Post, the same news source that broke the Hunter Biden laptop story in October 2020, which powerful Dem elites got banned on social media and had 51 former intelligence sign a letter insisting was Russian disinformation, broke this story:

President Biden’s physician met with Parkinson’s disease specialist in White House

This past week has been a deluge of information pouring out, as top Democrats are leaking like crazy to pressure Biden to drop out of the 2024 presidential race. They show no concern about having a CINC with serious cognitive decline, only about winning in November.

As these Dem leaks pour out, Chuck Todd belatedly reports that he knew two years ago:

That brings me to this reality:

Here’s a tweet of Jake Tapper, who dutifully ran the Dem spin attacks, including the 2016 Clinton campaign dirty trick – bogus Steele dossier, is now running dirt on Biden. I believe it’s to aid top Dems in pressuring Biden to step aside and not some newfound integrity, but that’s just my opinion:

Mollie Hemingway has written extensively on the liberal media working with this WH messaging:

On July 11, 2024, the DailyWire reported: Biden Has Not Met With Full Cabinet Since October 2023; Members Uncertain Of His Condition: Report.

Here’s John Kirby speaking to Biden’s ability to handle calls in the middle of the night. He claims two years ago Biden took a call in the middle of the night… and returned it at 8 am. Seriously, he said 8 am.

Most people on the right knew all along that this White House was a Potemkin village since that bizarre Biden in the Basement 2020 campaign. Everything since then has been endless smoke and mirrors to cover-up Biden’s “condition.” And now with Obama trying to pressure Biden to step aside, all of those who believed it was Obama pulling the strings, should be wary, because it’s now looking like Jill and Hunter have way more influence than Obama or Biden’s cabinet officials, who have been just fine running the executive branch however they choose, while their boss signs off on things, which his close aides hand him for signatures… The liberal media and elites finally going public with concerns about Biden’s fitness, regaling us with incidents from months and years ago, speaks to how dishonest, disingenuous, and morally bankrupt they really are:

This scandal goes way beyond a bad debate performance – it’s widespread public corruption, that is breathtaking in scope. I’ve been trying to expose the Dem/liberal media spin information war since 1999 and refuse to get sucked into the November presidential race drama and all the nonstop polling frenzies. I believe exposing this level of corruption is more critical than any election. Our FBI and intelligence agencies have been corrupted, in service to Dem/liberal media spin war operations and almost all our institutions have been corrupted too.

In the 2020 election 51 former top intelligence officials signed a letter that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation and it wasn’t until this year when Hunter Biden was convicted of a gun purchase violation in Delaware that an FBI official testified under oath that the laptop was not Russian disinformation and they had it since 2019. The 51 intel letter happened in 2020 and no one from the FBI said a word, even though they had that laptop:

I’m not getting too optimistic, but finally after all these years it looks like this corrupt Dem/liberal media spin information hit an iceberg and their Titanic of lies and corruption is taking on water.

Who knows how many lifeboats are on board, but personally I hope all these corrupt liars go down with the ship.

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July 3, 2024 · 8:14 am

Biden 2024 being knifed from within

The past few days of mainstream media coverage fully-exposed how completely the liberal “mainstream” media is really just part of the Democratic party messaging operation. To be clear FOX News and conservative media are definitely not unbiased either. Last night FOX had former Trump press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany and former Trump Counselor to the President for Trump, Kellyanne Conway, guest hosting two primetime hour shows The difference is the “mainstream” media has been portrayed as being objective and unbiased and they believe themselves to be beacons of the truth, when in reality they’ve become just Democrat spin mouthpieces.

What’s playing out now is another Dem spin operation, as the liberal “mainstream” media started reporting on Biden’s decline post-debate. Biden’s cognitive decline can’t be covered up anymore, so for a couple days Dems tried running a “bad night” spin messaging effort, while liberal media hyped all the Trump lies in the debate, to try to move past the issue of Biden’s condition. That effort failed and polls started indicating that Biden is losing more ground to Trump.

Top Democrats and their liberal media friends don’t want Trump winning, so now they’ve pulled the plug on Biden.

Yesterday there was a divide still playing out on liberal news media, as some were still trying to blab about how Biden needed new management efforts, while other Democrats were plotting and leaking to force Biden out. On July 1st:

7:45 pm – Biden was rolled out and read remarks for 4 minutes from a teleprompter – the new “management” launch.

8:00 pm – on CNN Anderson Cooper had Carl Bernstein, famed Watergate reporter, on while Bernstein stuck the knife into the Biden presidency, as gently as he could. Bernstein “reported” on 15-20 episodes that Biden’s had similar to his debate freezing moments/blank staring over the past year and a half.

That opened the floodgates and all of a sudden liberal media is reporting on all these incidents like it’s breaking news, yet these are the same crack journalists who carried water for Dems dismissing the Hur investigation and report about Biden’s inability to answer questions and impaired memory.

We’re just being played again, as the liberal media is trying to recover credibility, while they work with top Democrats in moving past Joe Biden.

A few interesting tidbits about Biden’s “episodes,” as famed journalist, Bernstein, described them is let’s look at what was known about Biden’s medical history. I posted this on X yesterday:

The first sentence in that 2008 CBS article is this: “While John McCain’s past battles with skin cancer has received a great deal of scrutiny, Joe Biden’s near-fatal aneurysms in 1988 have yet to come under the spotlight.”

The article goes on:

“In his book “Promises to Keep,” Biden says that he was unconscious for over four hours before he woke up in a hospital in Wilmington, Del. The senator was told that an artery was leaking blood into his brain and he was given his last rites by a priest. He was transferred to Walter Reed Medical Center where it was discovered that he had a second aneurysm on the other side of his brain.”

“Biden immediately underwent a four-and-a-half-hour operation to remove the leaking aneurysm. He had a second surgery in May to repair the other aneurysm and fully recovered after taking a seven-month leave from his seat as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.” https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bidens-medical-history-not-scrutinized/

So, we’re supposed to believe that Biden, with a medical history of two brain aneurysms, hasn’t had brain scans or diagnostic testing for these “freezing” episodes and other alarming symptoms? Yesterday, the WH press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, insisted Biden just had a cold during the debate… Just ask yourself, if your loved one had this medical history and all these “episodes,” wouldn’t you insist on more testing to find out what’s going on?

I am convinced Biden won’t be the 2024 Democratic Party nominee and the odds are increasing that he might not finish out his current term, as more details about his actual cognitive function and condition become known. If Biden’s not fit to run for re-election due to his current condition, then he’s not fit to be POTUS now.

The prospect of Kamala Harris as president, even for a few months, fills me with dread, but it’s hard for a POTUS to have any credibility on competence, when Democrats and people inside the Biden WH now have their long knives out for Biden, because they don’t want to lose in 2024. There’s no concern or talk about having a cognitively impaired old man having control of nuclear football, being CINC and having the POWER to make the most important decisions in America – it’s all about the polls.

Jill Biden is on the cover of Vogue this month and over the weekend, while reportedly having family discussions about whether Biden stays in the race, they were having a photo shoot for this Vogue cover… Jill blabs about how power feels in this Vogue piece. The article began with Jill Biden talking about what power feels like:

“If you want to know what power feels like, try to get yourself driven around in a motorcade. Flashing police chaperone lights form a perimeter as you blaze down an empty highway, waiting cars backed up on entry ramps as you pass. It’s as if the world is holding its breath. For you. Also, rules don’t apply: On a cool spring day, driving down suburban Minneapolis side streets, we run red lights and whip round curves so fast I can barely take in the commonplace American view. Tract housing, big box stores, churches, office parks, semi-​industrial no-man’s-land. Finally, we arrive at our destination, Nine Mile Brewing, in Bloomington, Minnesota. “Let’s go, let’s go, let’s go,” commands someone—a Secret Service agent, maybe—as the motorcade pulls into a loading dock. Politics, I will come to discover in the next few days, involves a lot of backstage spaces: service entrances, freight elevators, places where Very Important People can slip in and out of events unnoticed. Politics also involves a lot of comically fast walking—to wit, at Nine Mile, an entourage of 30 or so are noisily hustling to follow a trim, blond woman in a pristine white suit as she strides nonchalantly past clanging, gurgling brewing vats, aiming for a back office. This is my first glimpse of first lady Dr. Jill Biden: Exiting the sealed chamber of power into the middle of America, a vision of calm amid utter cacophony.” https://www.vogue.com/article/first-lady-jill-biden-august-2024-cover-interview

To compound problems, yesterday there is reporting that Hunter Biden is now attending WH meetings with Biden and at his father’s side, since returning to the White House on Monday:

Our liberal media is a national disgrace. And this situation with how Democrats get Biden out of the White House might become a huge national embarrassment with trying to get this corrupt family out of the White House. Back in the 90s, there were jokes about Hillary clinging to the White House drapes, but now we have Dr. Jill high on what power feels like, Hunter, who is facing more criminal charges and sold out to hostile foreign countries and a cognitively-impaired old man, who some insiders say is mean and blows up a lot.

The Democrat/liberal spin information war has crashed and burned, but never fear they’ll try to emerge from the wreckage and rant about Trump, Trump, Trump soon.

July 3, 2024, 9:10 am – wanted to add this prediction – On Monday Carl Bernstein was sent out to stick the knife in Biden, as gently as possible… this info is from people who love him, blah, blah, blah… On Friday, Biden is scheduled to sit down for an interview with former Clinton press secretary, now at ABC News, George Stephanopoulos. I predict Stephanopoulos has been tasked with snuffing out Biden 2024, with dignity… nothing bloody and messy. We’re always being played by the media – left and right – so be skeptical about all new sources and do some research on your own.

The biggest political miracle in years is that so far Trump has not gotten in the way of Biden’s post-debate demise. He’s let the Biden fall-out dominate the headlines without trying to get the liberal media spotlight back on himself. I never believed Trump had the ability for strategic patience, but here we are.

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June 7, 2024 · 8:55 am

Word games escalate

A couple days ago I clicked on Time magazine’s May 28th interview of President Biden. Time actually has this quote on the transcript: “Below is a lightly edited transcript of the interview conducted by TIME Washington Bureau Chief Massimo Calabresi and Editor-in-Chief Sam Jacobs.” That adverb “lightly” made me distrust Time magazine’s recounting of this interview and I didn’t even waste my time reading any further.

A week ago we were bombarded with media hit takes, recognizable when across liberal media they start repeating the same words and phrases, on the verdict in a NYC court against former President Trump. This week Hunter Biden is on trial in a Delaware court room facing charges that he illegally purchased a gun. Both trials highlight a definite sleaze factor – Trump paying hush money to a porn star and Trump hired Michael Cohen as his personal lawyer and had him on the payroll for years, then there’s Hunter Biden’s drug addiction, sexual relationship with his dead brother’s widow, and a wide array of debauchery he personally chronicled on his laptop.

However, in all fairness the Trump trial had Trump being convicted on 34 counts, where the jurors didn’t even have to agree on the underlying crimes and I still don’t understand how federal crimes that the feds didn’t prosecute could be given new life as the basis for state crimes in NY. In the Hunter Biden case, its clear that Hunter Biden was a drug addict and he lied on his application for purchasing a firearm. Usually federal prosecutors guard their turf when states try to overstep, but in Trump’s case, the #3 lawyer at the DOJ joined the NY prosecutor’s team to get Trump. All of it will lead to more corruption, less trust in the criminal justice system and more abuses of power. America is on a very dangerous path.

Democrats are way more organized, ruthless, and shameless in lawfare and in their media spin war efforts. Yesterday, I saw a Dem talking point warning that Trump will try to throw his political opponents in jail… as Trump is awaiting sentencing in July and could have a Biden-supporting judge toss him in jail. It’s surreal at this point.

If you aren’t emotionally invested in one of the partisan sides, well, I think most people would consider America’s leaders and their families trashy and corrupt. The media, across the board, is trashy and corrupt too. However, Democrats and their liberal media friends have decades of experience running these elaborate spin war operations and Republicans only began to grasp the scope of the Dems spin information war since Donald Trump entered the political arena.

When it comes to sleaze, we can add in all these highfaluting, top former intelligence officials, who pedaled the Clinton campaign’s bogus Steele dossier, purporting Trump was colluding with the Russians and presented the dossier as a serious intelligence report by a former British spy. Along with the “dossier” (doesn’t that word sound official,) since 2016, the “consensus of experts via a letter released to the media” has become a common Democrat spin tool of persuasion. There have been a string of these letters, orchestrated by Democrats to fearmonger and spread lies about Trump and intelligence information, which the liberal media then puts on blast to amplify. In October 2020 many of the same officials who pedaled the Steele dossier in the media got behind a letter signed by dozens of former intel officials stating that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation.

The mainstream media and social media companies tried to squash the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020, but this week, the federal prosecutor in this Hunter Biden gun trial called a FBI expert to the stand, who testified under oath that the FBI had the Hunter Biden laptop in custody in 2019 – long before the November 2020 election and the FBI knew the laptop was Hunter’s and not Russian disinformation. Why didn’t the FBI issue any kind of statement in 2020 after those former intelligence officials released that letter? Did any of those former top intelligence officers contact the FBI for information? And, what does Anthony Blinken, Secretary of State, who reportedly orchestrated that intelligence officers’ letter spin effort, have to say?

In the past few days, media reports that top Democrat senator from NY, Chuck Schumer has a brother at some fancy law firm and his brother provided three of the firms top lawyers to be part of Alvin Bragg’s team to prosecute Trump. So, it wasn’t only the DOJ’s #3 top lawyer who assisted Bragg. And at the same time Democrats and their liberal media cronies keep blabbing about how serious these cases against Trump are, how they’re all about “protecting our democracy,” and how there’s nothing political about these cases.

No matter what happens to Trump, Democrats have normalized their scorched earth spin war, where they’ll spin up any lies with the aid of their media friends, if it advances their political objectives and now they’ve normalized using the courts to take down political opponents. It’s going to be very hard to reestablish boundaries in our politics, even if there’s a public demand for it. And once one side stakes out new political rules and boundaries, the other side will surely play by the new rules. The Trump campaign in the 2024 GOP primary adopted many of the same vile Dem spin game tactics against Ron DeSantis and at times both Democrats/liberal media and Trump mouthpieces were running the same orchestrated spin lies to destroy DeSantis.

All the words coming out of our political class ring hollow and sorry, the political class won’t save America. In 2024, Trump might look like the safer choice, even to Republicans and conservatives who cringe at Trump’s lying and baggage (for example, like hush money to a porn star and having sleazebag Michael Cohen on his payroll), but the truth is political partisans and our media, across the board, are 100% committed to escalating the spin information war, not ending it.

In 2024, we have two old men running for office – one whose cognitive function is declining rapidly and who has always been a big liar and the other doesn’t look well either and he too has always been a big liar. That’s the truth. We’re still left with picking the lesser of two evils. Even a conservative like me, who doesn’t care for Trump at all, can say Trump policies were better for me and my family and better for America, but what’s on my mind is this scorched earth spin information war could easily take more dangerous turns before we even get to election day this year. Democrats successfully used the FBI and intelligence agencies in their scorched earth spin operations, even when Trump was president. Now, Democrats control the executive branch. What’s left for Dem scorched earth tactics to stop Trump? We’re sure to find out in the next few months.

It’s been over 20 years that I’ve been blabbing about the danger of this spin information war having only one outcome – tearing our country apart and I still believe that. There is no 2024 candidate who is going to save America as long as Americans buy into this scorched earth spin information as an acceptable part of our political process

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June 3, 2024 · 11:42 am

Thoughts on the Trump conviction

Often with our American political dramas the media noise drowns out important bits of information and sweeps us along with narratives intended to fuel partisan divides and incite emotional reactions. That hype keeps people watching and clicking along, but often too many people just buy into the narratives and repeat the talking points fed to them. Those emotional reactions also drive poll numbers, which in this never-ending spin information war, get hyped by the media and political pundits and are a constant fixture used to sell the media narratives. This is a sophisticated form of manipulating and selling manufactured “public opinion.”

So, this past week with the criminal conviction of former President Trump on 34 counts, there were important bits of information that weren’t hyped.

First there’s this bit of information: Prosecutors Met With Biden Admin Before 3 Trump Indictments. Alvin Bragg met with the Biden DOJ before filing state charges against former President Trump.

The next bit of information is in this MSN news story: Scrutiny of prosecutor Matthew Colangelo intensifies after Trump conviction. So, Colangelo was the #3 person in the Biden DOJ and he left that position in 2022 to join Alvin Bragg’s DA office in NYC. This guy left a top DOJ position to work in a city DA office… From this MSN story:

“Bragg plucked Colangelo from his top post at the DOJ to help with white-collar prosecutions in December 2022. Colangelo had little experience in that field, but he did have a wealth of knowledge about Trump.”

“Before working at the DOJ, Colangelo worked for Attorney General Letitia James, who investigated Trump for three years before bringing a massive civil lawsuit against him and the Trump Organization in the fall of 2022.”

After watching the Democrat efforts to use lawfare to destroy Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign, well, it’s obvious these legal cases are completely political and not about justice. The case that I thought had the most merit was the mishandling classified documents, but here again it’s hard to take that seriously considering President Biden mishandled classified information too and no charges were brought.

Then there was Hillary Clinton using her husband’s private email server, that he had set up in their home for his Clinton Foundation work, as her State Dept. server while she was Secretary of State. Of course, she also had classified information in some of those emails, that she mishandled. The Clintons, with the aid of the media, were able to spin Hillary into a victim of a right-wing witch-hunt and never honed in on why Hillary used Bill Clinton’s private server for her State Dept. work. Through all the investigative drama, it wasn’t until I read the FBI Notes, released in the Fall of 2016 that I understood the origins of the Clinton server – Bill Clinton had his aide, Justin Cooper, set up that homebrew server, for his foundation work. Hillary used other email providers for her email, until she became Secretary of State. According to the FBI timeline in their server investigation it was in the weeks before Hillary became Secretary of State, the Clintons had Cooper and Hillary’s campaign IT guy, Bryan Pagliano, upgrade the homebrew server, to accommodate Hillary’s State Dept. email load. That’s what the upgrade was all about – merging her State Dept. information with their Clinton Foundation business. So, she used other email service providers, then rather than use the State Dept. secure email system, the Clintons merged Hillary’s State Dept. business with their Clinton Foundation business on a homebrew server in their home. There was also the bleach bit server in Hillary’s email investigation and she never turned over many of the FBI subpoenaed electronic devices – she had numerous BlackBerry devices (some destroyed by Cooper with a hammer) and out of 5 iPads, only 3 were turned over to the FBI.

After all the Clinton corruption in 2016 from the email scandal to the bogus Clinton campaign smear operation “Steele dossier,” well, now we’re supposed to get outraged about Trump paying hush money to a porn star in 2016. Sorry, the two separate sets of rules, where Democrats, with the aid of the liberal media, can spin away all their crimes and then spin up Trump as the biggest threat to democracy, who’s going to destroy the world… well, I am done trusting anything the media reports. I also admit that after listening to many explanations on these charges against Trump, I was left shaking my head trying to understand the underlying crimes… and then I thought about all the Clinton campaign and Democrat efforts to corruptly “influence the 2016 election.” C’mon, some shady bookkeeping vs. the efforts of the DNC and Clinton campaign to hire Perkins Coie and Fusion GPS to concoct the Steele dossier.

In 2022, CNN reported: FEC fines Hillary Clinton campaign and DNC over Trump-Russia dossier research. This article states, “The Clinton campaign and the DNC never conceded that they violated campaign finance laws, but they agreed to drop their pushback and accept the civil fines, according to the FEC letter.” The DNC was fined $105,000 and the Clinton campaign was fined $8,000 and now we’re suppose to think Trump facing up to 20 years in prison is justice. From USA Today: “Each of the 34 counts Trump was convicted of individually has a maximum sentence of four years. Sentences can be imposed consecutively – meaning they must be served one after the other – but New York has a 20-year maximum consecutive sentence for Class E felonies.”

Clearly, there are two sets of rules when it comes to Democrats and Trump. The FEC dropped the hush money Trump matter, but then the Biden DOJ and Soros-backed prosecutors met and conjured up these 2024 campaign year cases against Trump hyping 2016 campaign actions. However, if you bring up the 2016 Clinton campaign corruption the mainstream media and Democrats insist it’s a witch-hunt against Hillary.

There are no guardrails left for Democrat spin information war, when the FBI buys into and sells Dem talking points like the white nationalism hysteria or Comey inventing an intent provision in the law to exonerate Hillary, or top intelligence officials routinely leaking information to attack Trump or signing a letter released to the media that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation, to now they’re using lawfare and turning the criminal justice system into a potent political weapon to try to take out a GOP presidential candidate.

It won’t stop with attacking Trump. Anyone who gets in the way of the Democrats agenda will be targeted by the Democrat political machine. Supreme Court Justice Alito is under attack by Democrats and liberal media now for a flag his wife flew in front of their home. Justice Thomas is a regular target. We all saw what happened to Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearing. Democrats have no qualms about attacking some courts and judges in America, while they rant about “protecting our democracy” and how we must respect this NYC court verdict.

Beyond our shores, America is looking less and less like a shining city on a hill and more like a banana republic.

This intensifying “winning by any means necessary” could reach a tipping point quickly. Trump’s sentencing is scheduled for July and at this point, I won’t be surprised if this judge, who donated to the Biden campaign, imposes a sentence with jail time for Trump. I don’t think millions of Trump supporters will passively sit by and watch a former president, who they believe is a victim of corrupt Democrat prosecutions, be carted off to jail.

Democrats and their media allies are trying to ramp up branding Trump a “convicted felon,” but that’s likely to fall on deaf ears for half the country. We’re at a dangerous point when half the country loses faith in the rule of law and justice in America.

This presidential election year has now taken a dangerous turn and all bets are off on what happens next. Things could easily go off-the-rails very quickly, if Trump is sentenced to jail time.

It’s a good time for all of us to work on becoming better prepared for a bumpy road to the 2024 US presidential election. The 2020 election year dramas could very easily look like minor bumps in the road compared to the next few months.

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March 6, 2024 · 2:19 pm

A few more blips in the information war

A few news bits, that will likely be quick blips that flit by caught my attention. There are so many bigger stories going on with the presidential politics, wars, and more high-profile issues, but these warrant some attention.

On March 4th, there were reports of three cables under the Red Sea being cut. The cause is unknown at this time. Here’s a bit from the Washington Post, :

“DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Three cables under the Red Sea that provide global internet and telecommunications have been cut as the waterway remains a target of Yemen’s Houthi rebels, officials said Monday. Meanwhile, a Houthi missile attack set a ship ablaze in the Gulf of Aden, but caused no injuries.

What cut the lines remains unclear. There has been concern about the cables being targeted in the Houthi campaign, which the rebels describe as an effort to pressure Israel to end its war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The Houthis have denied attacking the lines, however.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/03/04/red-sea-undersea-cables-yemen-houthi-rebels-attacks/2f2c6b8a-da34-11ee-b5e9-ad4573c62315_story.html

US News & World Report ran a piece, 3 Red Sea Data Cables Cut as Houthis Launch More Attacks in the Vital Waterway This article reports:

“It described the cuts as affecting 25% of the traffic flowing through the Red Sea. It described the Red Sea route as crucial for data moving from Asia to Europe and said it had begun rerouting traffic.”

An attack affecting 25% of data moving from Asia to Europe seems like a blip to pay attention to.

There’s been a ransomware attack going on for over a week in the US, crippling many pharmacies and healthcare providers connected with Change Healthcare. Wired reports:

“The ransomware attack targeting medical firm Change Healthcare has been one of the most disruptive in years, crippling pharmacies across the US—including those in hospitals—and leading to serious snags in the delivery of prescription drugs nationwide for 10 days and counting. Now, a dispute within the criminal underground has revealed a new development in that unfolding debacle: One of the partners of the hackers behind the attack points out that those hackers, a group known as AlphV or BlackCat, received a $22 million transaction that looks very much like a large ransom payment.”

https://www.wired.com/story/alphv-change-healthcare-ransomware-payment

Last year the group that my primary care provider belongs to was hit by a ransomware attack, that took down their phone and computer system. I had to physically go into the office to schedule an appointment and when I saw my provider, they couldn’t access records on their computer system. They also couldn’t process payments. Ransomware attacks against hospitals, banks, governments, businesses in the US are increasing. A few years ago, my local water department was hit by a ransomware attack that took a couple months to resolve. During that time online payments could not processed, so customers had to physically show up with cash or a check at the water department or mail in a check.

Yesterday there was a short-lived blip on the domestic ideological culture war front:

This crazy announcement was authentic, but due to social media backlash from the right the VA Secretary overruled this decision. I saw some prominent right-wingers on X applaud the VA Secretary and suggest the person who made that decision be fired. This blip might seem like one random leftist crazy within the VA making this decision, but I am sure this is just part of a vast, orchestrated left-wing culture war effort. The person who penned that public announcement likely won’t be fired and we have no idea how many documents, records, or other information within the US government are quietly being altered, removed, or “edited” to fit the DEI thought police.

Why make a public announcement banishing an iconic image of America’s victory in WWII within all VA facilities?

Back in 2020 during the BLM protests, when the statue-toppling exploded as an acceptable form of public protest, all sorts of politicians, historians, experts rushed to embrace the BLM position that the protest was against US Civil War statues of Confederate generals and therefore noble and heroic, not criminal destruction of public property. Several US military bases were identified for renaming. Many Americans bought into the BLM cause, despite the glaring Marxist ideological undertones swirling. There were scenes of white people participating in white privilege sessions, where they were berated for their “white privilege” and pressured to publicly renounce their “white privilege.” These sessions were eerily similar to Mao’s Chinese cultural revolution and the struggle sessions, that used this exact form of ritualized public humiliation to force conformity to the new rules. Speaking out against anything connected to the BLM protests risked being labeled a racist.

Tell-tale signs were present back in 2020 that the statue-toppling was about more than statues of Confederate generals. By 2022, the historic homes of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, two of America’s most famous founding fathers, have now “gone woke,” A 2022 FOX News opinion piece, Jefferson, Madison’s homes become woke monuments attacking Founding Fathers’ legacies, by Douglas MacKinnon asserted:

“Jefferson’s Monticello is being reimagined to “finish the restoration of the landscape of slavery” — there is signage and interactive displays which incessantly link Jefferson to that subject. One of the main tours now at his home is entitled: “Slavery at Monticello.” On the website of the internationally famous home, visitors see: “Thomas Jefferson wrote that ‘all men are created equal,’ and yet enslaved more than 600 people over the course of his life.” 

There have been numerous other blips of efforts to erase American history since 2020, statues other than Confederate generals have been targeted, numerous historical sites are being “reimagined” is a popular leftist term that’s now used to smear founding fathers as evil racists, very similar to how the trans movement mainstreamed the term “gender-affirming care” to normalize puberty blocking drugs and mutilating genitals of children, as the only humane way to deal with gender dysphoria in children.

On February 14, 2024, protestors showed up at the National Archives and dumped a reddish powder on the display of the original US Constitution, while police looked on. The protestors were allowed to give their speech, before police escorted them away. Here’s a bit from an AP report:

““We are determined to foment a rebellion,” one man said, in a video posted on social media. “We all deserve clean air, water, food and a livable climate.”

Police then led the pair away, leaving a trail of powder out the door.

In the immediate aftermath, cleanup crews were reluctant to use any sort of water or liquids in the cleanup, especially since they were still unsure of the exact makeup of the powder.”

https://apnews.com/article/constitution-protest-red-powder-national-archives-evacuation-2a6dcfadbf35a3263887ac2fce1e813e

Here’s a NBC news report on the incident, National Archives closes after climate change protesters dump red powder on U.S. Constitution, which states, “The two men were immediately detained and escorted out by security personnel on site.” Well, I guess here we’ll have to haggle over the meaning of the word “immediately, ” since the NBC report includes a link to this social media video that was posted:

In the social media video the security personnel allowed the protestors to pour reddish powder all over the display and stood by and allowed them to make a prepared speech and it looks to me like the security guards didn’t even try to intervene until about 50 seconds into this video. The one protestor was spreading the red powder across the display case and this is an irreplaceable American historical document, but there was no rush to protect it.

In WWII, there were all sorts of efforts to try to preserve art, historical documents and books from Nazi destruction. Librarians, scholars, and even bookshop owners risked their lives hiding books and documents to preserve them for posterity. The US government embarked on hiring civilians, many librarians, to collect and microfilm documents, publications, and books from overseas, as part intelligence-gathering, but also to preserve this information from destruction. Now, we have security personnel, who just stood there while two extremists poured red powder on a display case of one of our most precious historical documents.

America today is nothing like the generation who won WWII.

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January 25, 2024 · 10:40 am

A look back at the George Floyd saga

A couple months ago, talk about George Floyd was flitting across right-wing media and I didn’t watch any of it. Today, I happened to click on a Glenn Loury and John McWhorter video, The Truth About George Floyd’s Death, from December 8, 2023. They referenced a documentary, The Fall of Minneapolis, above. 

I decided to watch this documentary, by Alpha News journalist, Liz Collin. Collin is an Emmy award-winning reporter and news anchor according to the blurb at amazon for her book, They’re Lying: The Media, The Left, and The Death of George Floyd.  I haven’t read her book. She interviewed police officers and other people directly involved and she presented the actual body cam footage of the police officers, which was suppressed by the judge in the police officers’ trials. She went into the activist history of many of the officials involved in the case, like Minnesota Attorney General, Keith Ellison, who has close ties to Louis Farrakhan, defending gang members, championing cop-killers and being very anti-police. Then there’s the initial autopsy report, which showed the drugs and preexisting medical problems George Floyd suffered from, but no physical evidence of asphyxiation or injury to his neck. 

Beyond that, the sequence of events presented by BLM mouthpieces, then repeated non-stop by the liberal media and Democrats, was not accurate, according to Collin, who uses police body cam footage and officials records to back this up. Most disturbingly were the number of officials who said the Maximal Restraint Technique used to restrain George Floyd was not an approved procedure or taught, when clearly the reporter talked to numerous officers, who said they were taught that technique and it was approved. The reporter showed the actual police training manuals. 

If even some of Collin’s information is correct, it’s clear we were massively manipulated and lied to by the media bombardment hyping a BLM manufactured narrative of “I can’t breathe,” and hyping how many minutes Floyd was restrained and insisting he was murdered by the police. Those officers are in prison. We never heard about the fact that a police officer called for EMS support 36 seconds after Floyd was on the ground.

Collin’s documentary goes further in showing the aftermath and how officials tied the hands of police officers in Minneapolis and allowed rioters to torch the 3rd Precinct in Minneapolis. She presents interviews with several of the police officers who were in that precinct during this rioting.

Does any of this matter? What if the entire narrative BLM, the media and politicians told us was lies? Should we care? There are four former police officers in prison and Derek Chauvin, the officer who restrained Floyd, received a 22 year sentence. He was stabbed 22 times by a former gang leader in prison, in December 2023. 

While it would be easier to just ignore this and move on, the truth is these false partisan narratives amplified by media do matter. Since the fall-out from “defund the police” has been an unmitigated disaster, Democrats and their media friends continually downplay crime statistics and many Democrats now claim they never supported defunding the police and that they fully support the police. These leftist culture war false narratives matter, just as right-wing false narratives matter too. The power to dominate most of the media coverage in America, still resides with the liberal media (what used to be called “mainstream”). These false narratives fuel deeper divides, distrust and lead to serious public corruption. 

The liberal media will regale you with how crazy the right-wing echochamber is and the right-wing echochamber will yammer on about the left-wing crazy, but what happened during the George Floyd protests and riots goes much further than just concerns about partisan lies told in the media – deliberate lies (BLM narratives) were used to incite nationwide protests, which led to the most destructive rioting in US history, the lying led to the conviction of four police officers. And the BLM narrative about how we needed to “defund the police,” because the police are unfairly targeting back people, seriously eroded our entire culture and led to a rise in attacks on police officers, a rise in crime, and a loss of public trust in law enforcement.

If you challenge anything related to the BLM narratives, you’re going to be labeled a racist. The liberal news media, who willingly amplify so many of these false narratives, then have a vested interest in propping up the lies. Admitting they’re just political hacks for hire and not ethical journalists dedicated to the truth would be a hard pill for them to swallow. If they admit they didn’t investigate and just repeated the BLM narratives without question, well, that would destroy their journalistic reputations.

Perhaps, my skipping a lot of the news, because it’s exhausting, needs some rethinking, because after watching this documentary, I think, once again, the prevailing BLM narrative we were bombarded with in 2020 was deliberately manufactured and filled with lies. I could have known about this documentary two months ago, if I had been paying closer attention to the news, like I used to. I’ll have to consider how I consume news, because what happened in 2020 is still very relevant.

The larger issue, beyond even BLM’s despicable effort to foment racial animus, is we always come back to the Democrat and liberal media spin information war, which is now being developed into a whole new field – cognitive security – to police speech globally. Launching more manufactured narratives will certainly be part of this ramped up cognitive security effort, to combat what liberal elites deem “disinformation and misinformation,” that’s underway.

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January 22, 2024 · 7:19 pm

A flashback to the Obama years

While writing my last blog post, it jogged my memory. This latest targeting of Evangelicals, Catholics, Dick’s Sporting Goods shoppers, and even Bible buyers, as potential threats isn’t some alarming new attack on right-wing Americans – it’s just a continuation of the Obama agenda.

Back in 2013, I wrote a blog post, Equal Opportunity For Dummies, Courtesy Of US Army, which was about how the Obama administration went about recruiting people with close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood to review all training on Islamic-inspired terrorism within the federal government, including in the US military. Experts were fired and the fact-based training was replaced with PC training, that met with the approval of the Muslim Brotherhood mouthpieces in America.

The links in that 2013 blog post no longer work and that happens a lot with old links, but here’s a 2013 Townhall piece by Todd Starnes, Military Labels Evangelicals, Catholics as ‘Religious Extremism’. In that post I mentioned reports of a US Army Reserve unit in PA using Equal Opportunity training material that placed Evangelical Christians at the top of the list of religious extremists in America. Catholics and Mormons made this list too. This Starnes piece states:

“This slide was not produced by the Army and certainly does not reflect our policy or doctrine,” he said. “It was produced by an individual without anyone in the chain of command’s knowledge or permission.”

The Starnes piece stated that a solider attending that training asked for copies of the training material and sent them to Chaplain Alliance.“

So, while the Obama administration had people trying to label Evangelical Christians, Catholics and Mormons as religious extremists, it was simultaneously purging training material on Islamic-inspired terrorism and ranting about Islamophobia constantly. Here’s a 2012 Fox News piece: FBI removes hundreds of training documents after probe on treatment of Islam.

It wasn’t only training documents that were purged by the Obama administration, as top experts on Islamic-inspired terrorism and jihad, were also purged. Stephen Coughlin, was contracted by the JCS as an intelligence analyst, but he was purged in 2008. Here’s a bit of bio from Wikipedia:

“According to reporter Bill Gertz, Coughlin “led the way in uncovering the truth about the U.S. government’s failures to tackle the Islamic threat.”[1] Coughlin completed his master’s thesis in 2007 at the National Defense Intelligence College, which focused on the Islamic doctrine of jihad as formed by Islamic law, and directly conflicted with the positions of central Muslim outreach Pentagon aide Hesham Islam and others in the U.S. government.[1][7] In connection with the trial against the Islamic charity Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, which had been designated a terrorist organization for providing millions in funds to Hamas, Coughlin wrote a memorandum that explicitly criticized several groups that the U.S. Justice Department had been involved with as part of their Muslim outreach program, identifying them as front groups of the Muslim Brotherhood that were part of a subversion plan against the United States.[1] Coughlin was eventually notified after a meeting at the Pentagon’s upper floor which included Islam, who controversially called Coughlin a “Christian zealot”, that his contract would not be renewed after March 2008.[1]“

Here’s a 2010 piece, 10 Failures of the U.S. Government on the Domestic Islamist Threat, by Patrick Poole, explaining, Hesham Islam, the Obama senior Pentagon advisor on international affairs and Pentagon point-man for Muslim outreach, who called Coughlin “a Christian zealot.”

Coughlin went on to write a book, Catastrophic Failure: Blindfolding America In the Face of Jihad, recreating his Pentagon briefings on radical Islam and Islamic law, plus historical information. I have this book and have read parts of it, but it’s a tome – over 500 pages and then hundreds of pages of notes and appendixes – plus there’s a lot of legal terms that I’m unfamiliar with, so it’s tough-going for me. 

The reports in recent days of Evangelicals and Catholics being labeled potential domestic threats isn’t new – it’s the legacy of the Obama agenda, that the Biden administration has doubled down on. The reports of Americans having their purchases monitored and being labeled based on shopping at Dick’s Sporting Goods, or buying Bibles may sound surreal and alarming, but once again this effort has been going on since the Obama years and every time right-wing media creates a stir about it, the response from the FBI and the US military is they had no knowledge, it was an isolated incident, and they’re not targeting Christians, not creating watch lists and there’s nothing to see here. 

So, when I started watching the November hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, I was sick to death of all the Trump “deep state” drama and prepared to dismiss it. I also got weary about all the hysteria about Twitter banning people and all that Trump-centric drama. Then I started thinking back to the years of this labeling right-wing people as potential domestic terrorists and how in the 1990s, the Clinton DOJ (Obama’s first Attorney General, Eric Holder, was in the Clinton DOJ too) and back then the FBI hyped the right-wing militia movement to the point it sounded like there were right-wing extremists everywhere… until 9/11. 

Once the federal government had to face the threat of Islamic-inspired terrorism, well, that was met by anger and resistance on the left, so when Obama was elected – Islamophobia became the biggest problem in America (well, next to racism) and it was because of… dangerous right-wing extremists. In case after case of terrorist attacks within the US, carried out by radical jihadists, there was an effort to reframe the incidents by federal officials and the liberal media. With the 2106 Pulse nightclub shooting, the FBI was aware of the shooter, Omar Mateen, but within days the liberal media had reframed that as due to anti-gay, right-wing Christians. In incident after incident, the FBI was aware of the jihadist shooter, but the liberal news media went full-throttle pushing a flipped script, where right-wing zealots caused the problem, not the radical Islamist, who carried out the attack. This flipping the script tactic continues to this day.

When President Biden gave his first speech after the October 7th Hamas massacre of Israeli civilians, he pledged support for Israel, but rambled on about Islamophobia – not the murdered Israeli civilians and hundreds of innocent civilian hostages (including Americans). Hamas is another group of radical jihadists. The Biden administration, which is largely a continuation of the Obama administration, jumped into flipping the script mode. The White House press secretary was blabbing about the threat of Islamophobia as anti-Semitic attacks in America skyrocketed.

I keep mentioning that short-lived Homeland Security Disinformation Governance Board, because just because the Biden administration disbanded that quickly, that doesn’t mean they’ve ditched that idea. Some tweaked and newly named effort will reemerge, because that’s how the left pushes their radical agenda. They back up, regroup, then rebrand and push forward. They aren’t deterred and they’re certainly not defeated, even though the political right thinks that “owning the libs” is victory. 

There is no concerted right-wing policy effort to counter the radical left’s onward march. The left’s been staking out territory within the federal bureaucracy and Pentagon for decades now. At the same time, for decades, even when they do have power in Washington, Republicans invariably squander it and they are always late to waking up to the left’s political moves.

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