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2024-08-18 15:36:49

The reason for the California electricity crisis of 2000 - 2001 was price controls on retail electricity and an insufficient supply of power plants. It’s yet another example of why Kamala Harris’ plan for price controls is idiotic and you’re a partisan hack.
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2024-07-28 14:31:07

I thought this was a joke at first but it’s not: Kamala Harris’ campaign is segregating its volunteers by race. These are the people who spent decades smearing their opponents as racists. Why do people tolerate this degrading treatment?
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2024-04-18 02:31:15

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The court demanded that a state lawmaker be BANNED for posting this publicly available event announcement.
And, at first, the charges against him were kept secret!
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2024-04-18 02:28:41

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The Brazilian high court and electoral court began by demanding censorship of specific content and then segued into demanding that people — including elected leaders — be entirely BANNED from all social media.
This is madness and psychopathology institutionalized at the highest level of government.
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2024-04-18 02:25:32

Brazil’s high court demanded that Twitter censor, under threat of penalty of nearly US$20,000/day, a state legislator who shared ACCURATE and PUBLIC information.
This is just one case among dozens or hundreds of ILLEGAL and UNCONSTITUTIONAL censorship demanded of politicians & journalists.
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2024-04-05 10:46:45

Russia bribed politicians, EU officials claimed. But they provided no proof and made no arrests. And now, Public has learned, NGOs are working as front groups for Western military and intelligence agencies to spread disinformation and interfere, illegally, in European elections.
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2024-03-26 02:40:37

You are not crazy, you are right: elites across the West are imposing a crackdown on speech. They have weaponized intelligence and security agencies. The news media are helping them. But they will lose in Ireland and could lose elsewhere. We will support your fight for freedom.
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2024-02-24 23:39:10

The media say there's no evidence President Biden was involved in his son's business, but there is. And now, a new whistleblower has come forward revealing that, at the heart of Biden family influence peddling was an effort by China to control U.S. oil and gas resources.
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2024-02-22 22:31:17

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.@npub16ju…g29p is following the lead of totalitarian governments
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2024-02-22 21:43:06

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"I have spoken confidentially with current and former CBS employees who have stated that they could not recall the company ever taking such a step before.... He added that he had never seen a seizure of records from a departing journalist and that the move had sent a 'chilling signal' in the ranks of CBS. A former CBS manager, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, said that he had 'never heard of anything like this.' He attested to the fact that, in past departures, journalists took all of their files and office contents. Indeed, the company would box up everything from cups to post-its for departing reporters. He said the holding of the material was 'outrageous' and clearly endangered confidential sources." — @npub1q3h…sg75
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2024-02-22 21:39:18

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I protect my sources at all costs. My colleagues and I have a perfect record in protecting whistleblowers. My DMs are open, and you can reach me through encrypted email: michaelshellenberger@proton.me

2024-02-22 21:36:41

CBS News has seized the files of investigative journalist Catherine Herridge. This is a gross violation of journalistic ethics. If you are a whistleblower, you can not trust the corporate news media with your secrets.
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2024-02-22 19:18:53

Russia is helping Republicans to steal the 2024 election, say the media. But there's no evidence of that. In 2016, Russia favored Clinton, not Trump, say credible sources. And now, nihilism and McCarthyism are reviving debunked Russia conspiracy theories.
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2024-01-20 13:55:15

A bomb nearly killed Vice President @npub1aug…q676 on January 6, 2021, said the FBI. But now the former FBI official who oversaw the investigation said it couldn't have. In fact, the "bomb" appears to have been a hoax created by and covered up by the FBI and the Secret Service.
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2024-01-15 17:02:44

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@npub1x8g…ek8w 🙏
We can beat this thing! LFG!!!
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2024-01-15 17:00:17

This Video Can Stop Totalitarianism
Imagine for a moment that you wanted to seize control over the Internet and put in place a system of mass censorship worldwide. How would you do it?
You wouldn’t advertise your intentions. You’d hide them. You’d claim there was a rise in hate speech and misinformation and that it was hurting vulnerable people.
You wouldn’t take on powerful interests. You’d pick on individual citizens. You’d say that they were on the verge of committing real-world violence.
And you wouldn’t start in a big nation. You’d find some small country to start. You’d get their politicians to go out on a limb for your agenda.
That’s precisely what’s happening. Politicians in Ireland are, at this moment, attempting to ram through legislation that would allow the police to invade the homes of ordinary citizens, search their phones and computers, and throw them in prison for “hate speech.”
It’s understandable that people find all of this hard to believe. I find it hard to believe. It sounds like a “Black Mirror” episode.
But it’s not a “Black Mirror” episode. It’s real life. And it’s unfolding in Ireland at this very moment.
We don’t know who all is behind the plot to censor the Internet, but we know there is one.
We had thought that the Irish government had abandoned its totalitarian proposal. A scrappy, inspiring group, Free Speech Ireland, @npub1jk9…y9xx had successfully pushed back on the proposal last year, putting the government on the defensive.
But then a deranged man stabbed a schoolteacher and two children last November, triggering anti-immigration riots. Ireland’s Prime Minister and Justice Minister used the riots to bring back their hate legislation.
This time, Free Speech Ireland was ready. Its founders reached out to us and asked us to help raise the alarm.
We did, and you responded with support for the organization. Free Speech Ireland has now created a barnburner of a television and online advertisement that it will run for the next week.
But it’s not enough. Free Speech Ireland needs to raise $100,000 in the next 48 hours so it can run the ad across Ireland.
We will donate 100% of donations made to Environmental Progress to Free Speech Ireland for its inspiring work.
We can win this battle, but not without your help. Please take a moment now to donate.
Together we can prevent this “Black Mirror” nightmare from becoming a reality.
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2024-01-12 18:01:58

Democrats say they are the party of the working class, but they're not. The party is today defined by the concerns of upper-middle-class professionals who prioritize things like the erasure of college student debts and waging a culture war.
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2024-01-05 19:05:01

Nazis are rampant on Substack, say journalists. But they're not. @npub1hed…9z6y & @npub1kkq…pzzu looked far and wide and could hardly find any. And the few Nazi newsletters they found had few posts or comments. The best way to defeat Nazism is through free speech, not censorship.
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2024-01-04 21:39:12

The new Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell court documents show nothing of importance, say the media. In fact, they shed new light onto Epstein's sex blackmail operation. What's more, the evidence strongly suggests that Epstein & Maxwell were working for intelligence agencies.
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2024-01-03 21:10:18

Schools, media, and politicians said DEI racial programs would bring us together, but they didn't. Quite the opposite: they pit people against each other. The purpose of DEI is to undermine meritocracy, equal justice, free inquiry, and other foundational pillars of civilization.
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2023-12-29 19:18:23

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Federal Government Operatives And Soros Money Behind Plot To Keep Trump Off Ballot
The public-private model used for censorship is now being used to undermine democracy
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Noah Bookbinder, advisor to the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and president of the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), which is behind the effort to keep Donald Trump off the ballot; President Joe Biden and Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows; George Soros (Photo credits: DHS; https://t.co/tJHEQafutr; Getty Images)
Maine’s top election official removed Trump from the state’s 2024 primary ballot on Thursday, joining the Colorado Supreme Court in disqualifying Trump from running for president. Maine’s Secretary of State Shenna Bellows determined that Trump was ineligible to run under the 14th Amendment due to his alleged role in the January 6 Capitol riot.
“Tonight’s decision relied heavily on the precedents CREW’s clients set first in New Mexico in 2022, then again in Colorado last week,” said Noah Bookbinder, the president of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). “These decisions make it clear that nobody, including the former president, is above the law.”
But the evidence overwhelmingly suggests that the storming of the Capitol was a security failure, not a coup attempt, and that undercover law enforcement informants or officers may have allowed, or even encouraged, it to happen. January 6 prosecutors have failed to prove a clear link between the rioters and Trump or his associates. And the fact that the Department of Justice declined to indict Trump for inciting an insurrection is a tacit recognition that Trump’s words leading up to the riot were legal speech.
Even some Democrats and mainstream news commentators agree the Maine decision has no merit. Said CNN’s senior legal analyst yesterday, about Bellows’ removal of Trump from the ballot, “She based her ruling on a lot of documents, but also YouTube clips, news reports, things that would never pass the bar in normal court. She’s not a lawyer, by the way.”
In trying to keep Trump off the ballot, Democrats and progressive advocacy groups say that they are protecting democracy. It’s true that some of Trump’s rhetoric is alarming to many liberal voters. For example, Trump recently said, after being asked if he would be a dictator if elected in 2024, “No, no, no, other than day one. We’re closing the border, and we’re drilling, drilling, drilling. After that, I’m not a dictator.’”
But America’s system of checks and balances survived one term of Trump and would survive another. During Trump’s presidency, the separation of powers, backed by the Constitution and the American people, remained in place. The real threat to democracy today comes from those trying to deny the American people their right to vote for the candidate of their choosing.
CREW has a nakedly partisan agenda and has received funding from George Soros’ Open Society Foundation (OSF). David Brock, founder of Media Matters and Democrat-aligned Super PACs, has served as chairman of CREW’s board of directors. Soros was one of the largest donors to Biden in 2020 and the largest donor to Democrats in the 2022 midterms.
Anti-Trump organizations like CREW claim that they are independent and do not act on behalf of the Biden Administration or government bureaucrats. But CREW’s president, Bookbinder, is currently an active member of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Advisory Council. There is additional overlap between OSF and anti-democratic state operatives. Rosa Brooks, a former Department of Defense (DOD) official, was special counsel to OSF before organizing the Transition Integrity Project (TIP), which plotted ways to undermine the 2020 election results in the event of a Trump victory.
This strongly suggests that OSF’s and CREW’s assault on democracy is part of a larger pattern that has emerged from Public’s reporting, in which government agencies use nonprofits and “public-private partnerships” to launder their censorship and anti-democracy activities through supposedly private entities.
These private groups may appear to be operating independently, but they are part of a coordinated effort backed by Soros, the intelligence community, and a network of long-term government bureaucrats sometimes called the “deep state.” Through this effort, government officials and well-funded NGOs are attacking democracy in the name of saving it.
Over the past year, Public has documented the close ties between non-governmental groups and federal security and intelligence agencies. Our investigations have revealed that these nonprofits and their government associates targeted conservatives, sought to interfere in the 2020 election, and called for censorship of true content about Covid-19. We also discovered that US and UK military contractors made a plan for “cognitive security” and planned offensive influence operations in direct response to Trump’s election in 2016. DOD and DHS employees actively participated in this project, and some censorship operatives appear to have had close ties to the Russiagate hoax.
What’s more, there is significant evidence that the State Department and other agencies collaborated with NGOs to deploy regime change tactics against Trump in 2020. Key figures and organizations in the campaign to delegitimize Trump’s presidency were also connected to the “color revolution” playbook used by the US in foreign countries. The FBI’s treatment of Trump supporters as an enemy population is part of the same pattern of counterpopulist and anti-democratic activity.
Since 2016, security and intelligence agencies have improperly meddled in domestic elections and speech, turning tools designed to combat foreign threats against US citizens. After Trump’s election, for instance, foreign policy groups like the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a known CIA front, and the NED-funded National Democratic Institute (NDI) increasingly focused on the alleged threat of “disinformation” and collaborated with domestic censorship groups. In 2021, for instance, NDI produced a report with the Stanford Internet Observatory, a partner in the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP). The report, “Combating Information Manipulation: A Playbook for Elections and Beyond,” suggested that foreign elections and domestic elections should be subjected to the same counter-disinformation and counter-messaging strategies.
NED has developed many connections to the Censorship Industrial Complex. The Global Disinformation Index, which blacklists conservative voices, has received funding from the State Department through NED. Anne Applebaum, who has supported censorship and hyped the “Russian disinformation” narrative, sits on NED’s Board of Directors along with Scott Carpenter, Managing Director of Google Jigsaw, which aims to steer online discourse.
The conversion of deep state security agencies and their non-government allies into weapons of domestic censorship and control appears to have occurred in the UK as well. Big Brother Watch (BBW), a UK civil liberties group, recently obtained recordswhich show that multiple arms of the British military monitored UK citizens’ social media accounts to counter alleged mis- and disinformation about Covid-19. This information warfare operation involved the UK’s 77th Brigade and the Royal Air Force. Internal documents reveal that the military considered the “presentational risk” of these activities, which they knew could be considered “spying” or “conducting ‘PSYOPS’ on the UK.”
“The military has been turned inwards — absurdly dangerous,” Silkie Carlo, Director of BBW, wrote.
The ongoing campaign to prevent Trump from running for office, either by removing him from the ballot or by imprisoning him, is a continuation of this multinational counterpopulist campaign. Why is that? Why have government officials and NGOs weaponized foreign policy tools against the domestic population?
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2023-12-29 19:17:08

We must keep Trump off the ballot because he attempted an insurrection, say Democrats. But he didn't. The storming of the Capitol was the result of a security failure, not a coup attempt. And now we know US govt operatives and Soros money are behind the plot against democracy.
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2023-12-26 23:01:43

Harvard, the New York Times, and other elite institutions say they're about the truth, but they're not. Over the last few weeks, they've been caught spreading lies. The power of Woke totalitarianism, like all totalitarianism, lies in the manipulation of language and emotion.
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2023-12-22 19:08:29

Corporate advertisers said they withdrew their money from X fearing brand damage, but that's ridiculous. Disney and others are happy to associate their brands with totalitarian regimes. What they really fear is free speech & censorial activists. Potent @npub1hed…9z6y
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2023-12-19 20:24:44

Anti-misinformation researchers say they didn't censor for the government, but they did. Not only that, they were hyper-partisan and ideological in how they did it. Now that we've caught them, they're making false accusations of antisemitism, and they're playing the victim.
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2023-12-04 22:56:50

World leaders say they care about climate change, but they don't. If they did, they wouldn't be shutting down nuclear plants and blocking natural gas production. In truth, they're in the grip of an anti-human ideology and profit from keeping energy scarce & expensive.
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2023-12-04 18:09:08

People say the government wasn't involved in censorship, but it was. And now, new documents prove that US military contractors urged & used a wide range of counter-terrorism tactics against civilians, including psyops, debanking, and changing Big Tech's Terms of Service.
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2023-12-02 16:54:02

At last Thursday's Congressional hearing, the lead witness for the Democrats, @npub1zd4…fzpu, denied that she had called the evidence of government censorship a "conspiracy theory." In truth, Troye had done so just minutes earlier in her sworn testimony. You can't make it up.
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2023-11-21 14:47:11

NEW DOCUMENTARY: "The Censorship Files"
How much would you pay to protect your freedom?
by @npub13gd…j93s & @npub1fh8…c9a0
One year ago, we and other journalists gained access to the Twitter Files. What we discovered shocked us. Not only were highly partisan and ideological individuals within Twitter censoring people for holding views with which they disagreed, they were often doing so on behalf of US government officials and contractors with the FBI, CIA, and Department of Homeland Security.
And so, one year later, we are happy to announce a new, full-length documentary film, “The Censorship Files.” You can see the trailer above. The film, made by Leighton Woodhouse and Jonah Markowitz, will bring you inside the Twitter Files and the race to the Supreme Court, which will hear the Missouri v. Biden censorship case early next year.
Today we must ask you a personal question: what price would you put on your freedom? Many of us tell ourselves that freedom is priceless: we would sacrifice everything, die even, to protect our freedoms and keep America a free nation. Even if we weren’t willing to die or go to prison for our nation, we would make a significant financial investment to protect it.
We are asking you to make a far more modest payment: less than $9/month, or about half the cost of a Netflix subscription.
A subscription to Public is an investment in our investigative reporting, our free speech campaigning, and the final production and distribution of “The Censorship Files,” a film that will change how Americans think about free speech.
We believe $9/month is a tiny investment to pay to ensure that, in the future, you can read what you want to read, watch the programs you want to watch, and voice your opinions.
“The Censorship Files” will be a landmark film in educating younger Americans, who are more censorial than their elders, about America’s remarkable history of strong free speech protections. They will learn about the Civil Rights movement, the right of the New York Times to publish “the Pentagon Papers,” and the right even of pro-Nazi and pro-terrorism activists to march freely through America’s streets.
“The Censorship Files” will reveal the origins and scope of the Censorship Industrial Complex, its leaders and architects, and its victims of censorship, from moms sharing stories about the Covid vaccine’s side effects on their children to two of the world’s foremost experts on the Covid response, Harvard’s Martin Kulldorff and Stanford’s Jay Bhattacharya.
Finally, we will use “The Censorship Files” to build a new free speech movement in America, city by city, campus by campus, from the grassroots up. Because if we can’t persuade America’s youth to support free speech, then the First Amendment is just some words on a piece of paper.
We can’t save the First Amendment without you. We can’t even finish “The Censorship Files” without you. This is not complicated. We need more paid subscribers. We need more than 10% of our subscribers to contribute thirty cents daily.
If we could get 30% of our free subscribers to support our movement, I believe that we would have a fighting chance to save our first freedom and the other pillars of democratic civilization along with it.
One year ago, we didn’t even know we lived in a heavily censored society. Today, we have ripped back the veil of the Censorship Industrial Complex and are on the cusp of defunding and dismantling it.
Such a process will take years but won’t take a decade. It may even happen much more quickly than that, depending on the actions of the Supreme Court and Congress.
What’s certain is that we can’t do it without our paid subscribers — and we don’t want to do it without our unpaid ones. We promise that, in the future, you’ll be grateful you funded the fight for our first freedom.
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2023-11-20 18:37:31

The media say X is placing Apple, IBM, and other ads near pro-Nazi content, but it's not. We tried various ways to replicate Media Matters' research and couldn't. The real goal of Media Matters isn't to fight antisemitism. It's to destroy X as a free speech platform.
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2023-10-18 12:16:17

The mainstream media insist that the Censorship Industrial Complex is a conspiracy theory, but it's not. It's real. And, now, 138 artists, journalists, and public intellectuals from around the world, and from Left to Right, are calling on governments to dismantle it.
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2023-08-12 19:45:59

For years, the government has insisted that the increase in whale deaths off the East Coast has no relationship to the wind industry's high-decibel pile driving and boat activity. But now, a new documentary, "Thrown To The Wind," based on new research, will challenge that.
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2023-04-20 01:49:28

This is a disturbing pattern of behavior. I hope IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel addresses this directly. The public needs to trust that the IRS is not being weaponized to advance a political agenda.
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2023-04-18 13:56:19

Over the last several months, my colleagues and I have documented the existence of a Censorship Industrial Complex. We can't do this work alone. If you work for one of the government or non-government entities "fighting" "misinfo," "disinfo," or "hate" online, please contact us
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