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The Nazis Over at NY Times Publishes Swastika Shaped Puzzle on First Day of Chanukkah
This is not the first time.
The preeminent organ of the left has long been a outlet for for antisemitic tropes and bias. This is not new. Left-wing Jew hatred has normed jihadic antisemitism (palestinianism) feeding this age old genocidal hate.
The gravest threat to the Jews is the left.
A few years ago, the New York Times upset people by publishing a crossword that looked vaguely like a swastika. To rectify this, they published a new crossword today that looks *exactly* like a swastika pic.twitter.com/QNCLhiCNFo
— Dan O'Brien (@OtherDanOBrien) December 18, 2022
‘Disgusting!’ Donald Trump Jr. joins hundreds of readers slamming New York Times after their crossword puzzle published on first day of Hanukkah is shaped like a swastika
- Readers looking to partake in Sunday’s NYTimes crossword have been left dumbfounded by its layout and its striking resemblance to a Nazi swastikaThe puzzle’s silhouette has since caused quite the stir on social media, with Jewish leaders and political figures taking to social media to voice their outrage
- Some contend the pattern – which is striking and jumps off the page even at a glance – is a coincidence, while others said it fits the paper’s previous rhetoric
- Donald Trump Jr. slammed the puzzle as ‘disgusting,’ writing Sunday that ‘only the New York Times would get Hanukkah going with this is the crossword puzzle’
- The Times has yet to comment on the puzzle, which was published on SundayBy Alex Hammer For Dailymail.Com, 18 December 2022
Donald Trump Jr. was among hundreds of New York Times readers who slammed the newspaper for their crossword puzzle on Sunday – which many noticed bore an uncanny resemblance to a Nazi swastika.
The puzzle’s silhouette has caused a stir on social media, with several prominent Jewish leaders and political figures taking to social media to voice their outrage – especially since it was published on the first night of Hanukkah.
Some contend the pattern – which is striking and jumps off the page even at a glance – is a coincidence, while others claimed it serves as one of the latest and most brazen examples of the paper’s supposed history of anti-Israel rhetoric.
The Times has yet to comment on the controversial puzzle.
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Pennsylvania County to Recount 2020 Election Results in 2023
The problem is fraudulent ballots.
Also 2023? What happens if the recount shows Trump won? What recourse do we have?
Pennsylvania County to Recount 2020 Election Results in 2023
By: Beth Brelj, The Epoch Times, December 17, 2022:
Persistent questions from voters and a petition with 5,000 signatures have convinced the Lycoming County Commissioners in Pennsylvania to recount its 2020 election results.
Around the state, loosely organized groups of voters have been asking various counties for recounts from 2020.
“In our county, they approached our commissioners and leveled allegations that there were thousands of uncounted votes in our county based on what I believe are nonsense statistics,” Lycoming County Director of Elections Forrest Lehman told The Epoch Times.
Groups of 20-80 people started attending county meetings asking for the recount. The county showed various information to answer their questions, Lehman said, but voters still wanted a recount and gathered some 5,000 signatures to make that request.
“That’s when county commissioners decided, as the board of elections, that if there are 5,000 people who signed this petition and have this belief, then we need to hand count these ballots in order to restore public trust in the outcomes of our elections,” Lehman said.
The county has about 70,000 registered voters and a population of around 120,000, so to the commissioners, 5,000 is a lot of signatures, he said.
“This is not something we want to do after every election, but we need to do it once, at least, in order to prove once and for all that our voting system counts the votes accurately and that there were not thousands of uncounted votes that were hidden by an algorithm or some other nonsense like that,” Lehman said.
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Israeli Doctors Save 3,000th Palestinian Child With Heart Operation
Here’s a story you won’t find in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, nor on the BBC or NPR or Canal Cinq or Deutsche Welle, either. It tells about the advanced pediatric cardiology care Israeli doctors provide to Palestinian (and other) children, often for free. That story makes Israel look good, and that will never do – so the major media find it best to ignore it. But you and I know differently; it’s an important story, that tells a lot about those “Zionists” we are constantly being brainwashed to hate.
A 5-year-old boy from Gaza was brought on Sunday to the Wolfson Medical Center in Holon, where Israeli doctors performed open-heart surgery to save his life, making him the 3,000th child from the Palestinian territories to undergo such surgery in Israel as part of an Israeli NGO’s program.
Amir Yichya Mabchuch from Jabaliya, just north of Gaza City, was brought by Save a Child’s Heart, an Israeli NGO that, since its foundation in 1995, has helped more than 6,000 children travel from abroad with their families for the critical operations.
Of the 6,000 children from 65 countries who have had heart surgery performed, and their lives saved, by Israeli doctors working with the Israeli NGO, Save a Child’s Heart, half of them have been Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank. Many of the families of those 6,000 patients have not had to pay a cent for their treatment.
The children have hailed from over 65 countries, most of which are in the developing world, and many of which have no diplomatic ties with Jerusalem.
Mabchuch was first diagnosed with a heart defect at two months of age. His mother, Maha, had brought him to be seen for a viral infection, when the family’s doctor spotted a blockage in one of the infant’s coronary arteries.
From the very beginning, “we understood that Amir would require an operation to fix the defect,” his mother said.
The child has not enjoyed a normal, carefree childhood. He has been unable to perform simple tasks and he has not been allowed to run around, or even walk for long periods, lest the exertion prove too much for his fragile heart. Instead, his entire life, he has been under constant medical supervision.
When Amir’s family found out about the option of getting him heart surgery in Israel during a check-up in Gaza, they jumped at the opportunity.
“When the doctors told us there was a possibility for Israeli doctors to carry out the complicated operation Amir needed, we were so happy. Everyone here in Gaza talks about how Israeli doctors are the most professional in the world and that they can be trusted completely,” Amir’s mother said.
The Palestinian doctor in Gaza who suggested to Amir’s father that his son could be best treated in Israel knew, as no doubt did all of his medical colleagues throughout the Strip, that the Israelis are not the monsters they are depicted as being by Palestinian propagandists, and with special savagery, by those who belong to the terror group Hamas, that rules Gaza with an iron fist. Israeli doctors have been, in fact, the lifesavers – in the literal sense – of thousands of Palestinian children. Three thousand of those children have been provided to date with heart treatments, including open-heart surgery, and thousands more Palestinian children have been treated for other life-threatening conditions. And aside from the Palestinians, there are all the other children brought for medical treatment to Israel from 65 countries, including Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, Tunisia, and Saudi Arabia.
Aside from children in need of the advanced medical care that Israeli doctors provide, another group of Palestinians insists on being treated by Israeli doctors as well. These are the leaders of both Hamas and the P.A., and their relatives. They spend years denouncing Israel, but when they need a doctor, they head straight for an Israeli hospital. When the P.A.’s top propagandist, Saeb Erekat, came down with COVID, he — who had spent his entire adult life maligning the Israelis as “killers” — insisted on being admitted to the Hadassah Keren Hospital, rather than to any of the Palestinian hospitals.
In 2014, the wife of PA leader Mahmoud Abbas was successfully treated in Israel for a still-unknown condition. In 2018, an Israeli specialist was sent to Ramallah to treat Abbas himself, resulting in a dramatic improvement in his health and apparently saving his life. Of course this information was kept very quiet by those treated, who didn’t want it known that they rely on Israeli doctors for their own treatment, which would undermine their constant denunciations of Israel’s cruelty towards the Palestinians. And they certainly don’t want their own people to learn of the special medical care that they receive from Israeli doctors. You won’t find any mention of these patients, and their Israeli doctors, in the Palestinian press.
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FDA Now Says Pfizer’s COVID-19 VACCINE Linked to Blood Clotting
How many times were we banned, suspended, shadowbanned etc for saying this very thing?
How many people died in the cause of their diabolical power grab?
Photo: Embalmers Have Been Finding Numerous Long, Fibrous Clots That Lack Post-Mortem Characteristics
Adverse events in Pfizer trial may have been underreported by 10X or more
Related:
- Six Feet Of Blood Clots Removed From High School Football Player’s Legs Days Before Season Starts
- FDA Puts Strict Limits on Johnson and Johnson Vaccine Due to Blood Clots
- Funeral directors alarmed by mysterious blood clots in vaccinated people
Explosion of blood clots in my clinical practice over the past two years since their market launch. From the early trials to the published literature, the signal is very clear. Strong rationale to pull products from market. @DrAseemMalhotra @EpochTimes https://t.co/v8cNxfVmTn
— Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH
(@P_McCulloughMD) December 17, 2022
Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine Linked to Blood Clotting: FDA Covid News
By: Zachary Stieber, The Epoch Times, December 17, 2022:
Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine has been linked to blood clotting in older individuals, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
FDA researchers, crunching data from a database of elderly persons in the United States, found that pulmonary embolism—blood clotting in the lungs—met the initial threshold for a statistical signal and continued meeting the criteria after a more in-depth evaluation.
Three other outcomes of interest—a lack of oxygen to the heart, a blood platelet disorder called immune thrombocytopenia, and another type of clotting called intravascular coagulation—initially raised red flags, researchers said. More in-depth evaluations, such as comparisons with populations who received influenza vaccines, showed those three as no longer meeting the statistical threshold for a signal.
Researchers looked at data covering 17.4 million elderly Americans who received a total of 34.6 million vaccine doses between Dec. 10, 2020, and Jan. 16, 2022.
The study was published by the journal Vaccine on Dec. 1.
The FDA said it was not taking any action on the results because they do not prove the vaccines cause any of the four outcomes, and because the findings “are still under investigation and require more robust study.”
Dr. Peter McCullough, chief medical adviser for the Truth for Health Foundation, told The Epoch Times via email that the new paper “corroborates the concerns of doctors that the large uptick in blood clots, progression of atherosclerotic heart disease, and blood disorders is independently associated with COVID-19 vaccination.”
Keep reading….
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U.S Intel Withholding Key Information About Covid Origins
If they could keep their role in the assassination of a US president under wraps for fifty years, a global bio-weapon is a piece of cake.
Report: U.S. Intelligence Agencies Are Keeping From Congress Key Information About Covid Origins
By: Jordan Boyd, The Federalist, December 15, 2022
U.S. intelligence agencies are obstructing congressional oversight by failing to disclose relevant information about Covid-19’s origins and potential connections to a Chinese bioweapons program, finds a new report from the Republicans on the House Permanent Select Committee On Intelligence. The HPSCI Republicans led by Rep. Brad Wenstrup of Ohio found “indications that SARS-CoV-2 may have been tied to China’s biological weapons research program and spilled over to the human population during a lab-related incident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).”
U.S. intelligence agencies, along with corporate media and Big Tech, scrambled at Covid’s release to censor suggestions the virus leaked from a lab working on gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Publications such as The Federalist that reported on evidence for the lab leak theory were punished by internet censors.
Wenstrup confirmed during a press conference on Thursday that “right now, there’s no evidence that it came from nature.” He also said China’s communist government likely benefitted from misleading reports that Covid originated in a Chinese wet market, instead of from a government-run lab.
“Since the People’s Republic of China has not been transparent in sharing information, the IC is uniquely situated to provide relevant information. However, the IC has thus far failed to inform the public and failed to keep its Congressional oversight committees fully informed about what it knows,” the report states. “The IC owes the American people greater transparency on the information it already has and must be fully transparent to those in Congress with oversight responsibility.”
Instead of “adequately” addressing lab leak theories, the committee said various intelligence agencies — including the CIA, FBI, DHS, the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Defense Intelligence Agency, the Department of Energy’s Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, and the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security — “downplayed the possibility that SARS-CoV2 was connected to China’s bioweapons program based in part on input from outside experts.”
Not only did intelligence bureaucrats fail to disclose to Congress which “experts” they relied on to reach that conclusion, they also omitted important information from the declassified version of their classified assessment.
These discrepancies, the committee stated, “could have been shared without damaging national security” but were not supplied. Even after “dozens” of rounds of congressional demands, intelligence agencies failed to “disclose to the public its confidence level regarding this bioweapons assessment.” They also “failed to correct claims” in accordance with new information that “undermined a key assertion in the report.”
Keep reading….
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Freed J6 Political Prisoner, Former West Virginia Delegate Denounces Kevin McCarthy
The Jan 6th political persecutions are nothing than a Kafkaesque kangaroo court designed to criminalize opposition to the totalitarian Democrat regime. It’s all a massive theatrical production with real life repercussions carefully calculated to cover the Democrats insurrectionist election theft and treasonous “Russia hoax” crimes designed to oust a sitting president.
This is typical totalitarian measures. What is unforgivable, is the complicity and silence from our own party. The party has no party. It’s been hijacked by the enemy.
Remember:
Kevin McCarthy Suggested Twitter Censor Biggs, Gaetz, Others Over J6
J6 Prisoner Derrick Evans Denounces Ronna McDaniel, Kevin McCarthy
Did you know your FBI is pulling agents off of child predator cases to focus on January 6th?
— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) December 16, 2022
An audio recording of McCarthy was leaked to the press in April 2021 in which he can be heard talking about censoring the Twitter accounts of President Donald J. Trump and other Republicans. The recording has recently re-emerged in the news cycle with the recent discussion of how Twitter executives determined they should censor President Donald J. Trump, as well as how they could control the content of other posters.
In the audio, McCarthy can be heard discussing the social media posts and habits of Republicans they are monitoring. He was also not in opposition of censoring said members of his own caucus and instead seemed more concerned about the details of the Republicans who were talking about their concerns about the 2020 election.
McCarthy was caught saying one thing to the public and then behind the scenes doing something totally different.
“Through coercion, coordination, and influence, the federal government has used Twitter and another big tech as its stick to silence speech it doesn’t like. We will bring accountability. And Americans’ free speech will be protected,” McCarthy posted.
McCarthy’s public comments run in sharp contrast to what he has said privately, however.
J6 Prisoner Derrick Evans Denounces Ronna McDaniel, Kevin McCarthy
Evans elaborated on his disagreements with the leadership of McCarthy, particularly with regards to the possibility of a legitimate January 6 investigation.
“Part of the issue that I have with McCarthy is he has not said anything about doing any sort of his own investigation into January 6th.
“I stand by my statement to Kevin McCarthy. He and many of them for years have tweeted a big game. ‘We’re going to do this, we’re going to do that. They won’t do anything. they haven’t done anything and they’re not going to do anything,” Evans added.
Freed J6 Prisoner, Former West Virginia Delegate Denounces Kevin McCarthy
“…What are you currently doing for those of us arrested for peacefully exercising our free speech on #J6,” Evans said of McCarthy’s pledges to hold leftists accountable. “I’m finally home from prison but my fellow Patriots are still locked up while you and the RINOs do NOTHING.”
Evans believes that McCarthy’s promises cannot be taken seriously and doubts he will be able to push back on leftist civil rights abuses targeting Trump and his supporters.
“A prime example of the lack of due process is striking in the case of non-violent Jonathan Mellis who has been held for more than 430 days without even a bond hearing,” the non-profit research group Look Ahead America said. “In comparison, in 1979 a hostile Iranian regime held, and then released, 52 American hostages for 444 days.”
Nearly two years after January 6th, 2021, people are still being arrested for attending the protest, even if they were ushered into the building by the U.S. Capitol Police.
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FBI Had 80 Agents Monitored Joke and Satire Accounts To Silence Conservatives
The FBI had 80 agents monitoring jokes random people made on Twitter but they couldn’t send one to respond to the two tips they got about the guy who would end up committing the deadliest shooting at a high school in American history.
If 80 FBI agents had worked with Twitter to silence Democrats it would have been the biggest news story of the century.
And these goons were so confident they actually forced Elon to buy Twitter when he tried to withdraw. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
7. The FBI’s social media-focused task force, known as FTIF, created in the wake of the 2016 election, swelled to 80 agents and corresponded with Twitter to identify alleged foreign influence and election tampering of all kinds.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 16, 2022
Twitter Files Part 6: TWITTER, FBI/DHS SUBSIDIARY
The FBI had 80 agents monitoring jokes random people made on Twitter but couldn't send one to respond to the two tips they got about the guy who would end up committing the deadliest shooting at a high school in American history.
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) December 16, 2022
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Trump Vows To Dismantle ‘Censorship Cartel’ If He’s Re-Elected—An Apparent Nod To Musk’s ‘Twitter Files’ Release
Former President Donald Trump on Thursday promised to upend all forms of social media content moderation if he’s re-elected, in what he framed as a bid to “reclaim the right to free speech”
Watch.
Related – PRESIDENT TRUMP DETAILS HIS PLANS TO FIGHT FOR FREEDOM OF SPEECH 12/15/22
This is amazing and goes to my earlier point:
Why didn't he promote this but promoted the shitty digital card bullshit https://t.co/Ou5b8pcx61
— Real Political Data (@RealPData) December 15, 2022
Absolutely !!! https://t.co/PPP2wrS3Ta
— Sara A. Carter (@SaraCarterDC) December 15, 2022
Trump Vows To Dismantle ‘Censorship Cartel’ If He’s Re-Elected—An Apparent Nod To Musk’s ‘Twitter Files’ Release
By Forbes, December 15, 2022
Former President Donald Trump on Thursday promised to upend all forms of social media content moderation if he’s re-elected, in what he framed as a bid to “reclaim the right to free speech” while describing a plan that seems targeted at the previous management of Twitter, whose new owner Elon Musk has become a recent ally to the right.
In a seven-minute video posted on Truth Social, Trump said if he’s re-elected in 2024, he would “shatter the left-wing censorship regime” by banning any federal agency from “colluding with” businesses, organizations or people who attempt to censor any forms of speech.
Trump also said he would order the Justice Department to investigate all forms of censorship and revoke federal funding for nonprofits, colleges and universities that engage in content moderation, including flagging misinformation and disinformation.
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Arizona Judge Approves Kari Lake Request to Examine Ballots
And again, the worthless GOP is MIA, slouching toward oblivion.
Arizona judge approves Kari Lake’s requests to examine midterm ballots. The judge has approved three out of the four Kari Lake‘s requests to inspect some ballots before the trial in her challenge to the Arizona vote.
The judge has granted (in part) Lake’s request to analyze ballots as follows:
BREAKING: A ruling has been made in @KariLake lawsuit against Maricopa County in regards to ballot inspection. The judge has granted (in part) Lake’s request to analyze ballots as follows: pic.twitter.com/wedCsPdo1x
— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) December 16, 2022
The rest of the order is linked in the next tweet. It prohibits the inspection of ballot envelopes. There is a hearing 12/19 on motion to dismiss, with evidentiary hearing already scheduled in the event that motion isn’t granted. pic.twitter.com/dBIZY5apK0
— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) December 16, 2022
Read the full order: https://t.co/PUAxFS1xRC
— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) December 16, 2022
Arizona judge approves Kari Lake request to examine ballots
The inspection is slated to begin at 8:00 a.m. next Tuesday.
By Ben Whedon, Just The News, December 16, 2022 – 3:49pm
A Maricopa County Superior Court judge has approved Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake’s request to have ballots inspected as she prepares for trial in her ongoing challenge to the state’s gubernatorial contest.
Judge Peter Thompson on Thursday issued the ruling, which allows the inspection of random ballots in the county ahead of the trial date. The Republican had previously filed a request to do so and Arizona law provides for a candidate challenging election results to demand ballot inspections to prepare. The ruling became public on Friday.
Thompson granted three of Lake’s four demands, allowing the inspection of 50 random “ballot-on-demand” printed ballots, 50 random early ballots, and 50 random BOD ballots marked spoiled. The judge denied her bid to inspect 50 random early ballot envelopes.
Related;
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- Berlin to Redo Their Fraudulent Elections Following Long Lines, No Ballots, Voter Suppression – Berlin High Court Throws out Results
- Arizona’s Election Must Be Redone: Here Are At Least Three Provable Constitutional Violations That Render the Results Uncertifiable
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Twitter Files Part 6: TWITTER, FBI/DHS SUBSIDIARY
Yes, it’s worse than we even thought. Absolute treachery. This is a monumental scandal made possible by, ironically enough, the Patriot Act.
“This is the scale of corrupt political compromise on both sides of the DC dynamic that we are up against. Preserving this system is also what removing Donald Trump is all about. The targeting of President Trump in order to preserve the system, the system that was weaponized during the Obama administration, is what the actions of the DOJ and FBI are all about.”
Sundance over Conservative Treehouse:
Taibbi begins by noting, “Twitter’s contact with the FBI was constant and pervasive, as if it were a subsidiary.” I would safely take that a step further, yes there is a subsidiary relationship; however, as years of government involvement continued by 2016 Twitter became the subsidiary of DHS, not vice-versa. This dynamic within the relationship explains some of the more curious elements that Taibbi struggles to fully understand.
Notice the timing of escalation by DHS/FBI: “The FBI’s social media-focused task force, known as FTIF, created in the wake of the 2016 election, swelled to 80 agents and corresponded with Twitter to identify alleged foreign influence and election tampering of all kinds.”
As we have noted from the lead into and out of the 2016 election, the surveillance state took action specifically to protect itself from President Trump. This activity included the NSA, FISA court, FBI, DOJ-NSD, CIA, ODNI while specifically and purposefully enmeshing the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI).
Protecting Washington DC from the risk President Trump represented was a whole of government approach. The executive and legislative branches worked together and weaponized national security claims to involve the judicial branches in the effort. In the aftermath of the 2016 election outcome, now we see social media being pulled further into the approach.
The next three paragraphs are key in this Taibbi outline:
8. Federal intelligence and law enforcement reach into Twitter included the Department of Homeland Security, which partnered with security contractors and think tanks to pressure Twitter to moderate content.
Highlight: “security contractors,” now where have we heard that before? Yes, the same FBI contractor access to raw/bulk NSA metadata that was discovered being extracted in the height of the 2016 GOP nomination contest. In the aftermath of the election, and in coordination with the Twitter context, now those same security contractors are part of the surveillance system generating actionable items.
1. THREAD: The Twitter Files, Part Six
TWITTER, THE FBI SUBSIDIARY
By: Mike Taibbi, December 18, 2022:
2. The #TwitterFiles are revealing more every day about how the government collects, analyzes, and flags your social media content.
3. Twitter’s contact with the FBI was constant and pervasive, as if it were a subsidiary.
4. Between January 2020 and November 2022, there were over 150 emails between the FBI and former Twitter Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth.
5. Some are mundane, like San Francisco agent Elvis Chan wishing Roth a Happy New Year along with a reminder to attend “our quarterly call next week.” Others are requests for information into Twitter users related to active investigations.
6. But a surprisingly high number are requests by the FBI for Twitter to take action on election misinformation, even involving joke tweets from low-follower accounts.
7. The FBI’s social media-focused task force, known as FTIF, created in the wake of the 2016 election, swelled to 80 agents and corresponded with Twitter to identify alleged foreign influence and election tampering of all kinds.
8. Federal intelligence and law enforcement reach into Twitter included the Department of Homeland Security, which partnered with security contractors and think tanks to pressure Twitter to moderate content.
9. It’s no secret the government analyzes bulk data for all sorts of purposes, everything from tracking terror suspects to making economic forecasts.
10. The #TwitterFiles show something new: agencies like the FBI and DHS regularly sending social media content to Twitter through multiple entry points, pre-flagged for moderation.
11. What stands out is the sheer quantity of reports from the government. Some are aggregated from public hotlines:
12.An unanswered question: do agencies like FBI and DHS do in-house flagging work themselves, or farm it out? “You have to prove to me that inside the fucking government you can do any kind of massive data or AI search,” says one former intelligence officer.
“HELLO TWITTER CONTACTS”: The master-canine quality of the FBI’s relationship to Twitter comes through in this November 2022 email, in which “FBI San Francisco is notifying you” it wants action on four accounts:
14.Twitter personnel in that case went on to look for reasons to suspend all four accounts, including @fromMA, whose tweets are almost all jokes (see sample below), including his “civic misinformation” of Nov. 8:
15. Just to show the FBI can be hyper-intrusive in both directions, they also asked Twitter to review a blue-leaning account for a different joke, except here it was even more obvious that @ClaireFosterPHD, who kids a lot, was kidding:
16. “Anyone who cannot discern obvious satire from reality has no place making decisions for others or working for the feds,” said @ClaireFosterPHD, when told about the flagging.
17.Of the six accounts mentioned in the previous two emails, all but two – @ClaireFosterPHD and @fromMA – were suspended.
18.In an internal email from November 5, 2022, the FBI’s National Election Command Post, which compiles and sends on complaints, sent the SF field office a long list of accounts that “may warrant additional action”:
19.Agent Chan passed the list on to his “Twitter folks”:
21.Many of the above accounts were satirical in nature, nearly all (with the exceptions of Baldwin and @RSBNetwork) were relatively low engagement, and some were suspended, most with a generic, “Thanks, Twitter” letter: 
21.Many of the above accounts were satirical in nature, nearly all (with the exceptions of Baldwin and @RSBNetwork) were relatively low engagement, and some were suspended, most with a generic, “Thanks, Twitter” letter:
22.When told of the FBI flagging, @lexitollah replied: “My thoughts initially include 1. Seems like prima facie 1A violation 2. Holy cow, me, an account with the reach of an amoeba 3. What else are they looking at?”
23.“I can’t believe the FBI is policing jokes on Twitter. That’s crazy,” said @Tiberius444.
24.In a letter to former Deputy General Counsel (and former top FBI lawyer) Jim Baker on Sep. 16, 2022, legal exec Stacia Cardille outlines results from her “soon to be weekly” meeting with DHS, DOJ, FBI, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence:
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Hear Freedom Ring! Pamela Geller is Back on Twitter
Here’s hoping my quarter of million followers are restored as well.
Thank you, Elon Musk!
Hey gang, join me there. Again.
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Feds Open Investigation Into ‘Deep-Seated Anti-Semitic Discrimination’ at Berkeley Law School
Why just Berkeley? It’s every college and university in the country. Harvard University ranks first in antisemitism.
My colleagues and I, passionate, proud Jews, have long been banned from colleges and universities while American Jewish leadership sat by and licked the boots of their leftwing masters.
Feds Open Investigation Into ‘Deep-Seated Anti-Semitic Discrimination’ at Berkeley Law School — Prestigious school probed for creating unsafe environment for Jews
Berkeley student groups banned Zionist speakers from campus
By: Adam Kredo • WFB December 15, 2022:
The Department of Education is investigating the University of California, Berkeley, Law School over allegations that the school is fostering “profound and deep-seated anti-Semitic discrimination” that has created an unsafe environment for Jewish and pro-Israel students on campus.
The Education Department earlier this week disclosed its investigation after attorneys raised concerns over a cadre of student groups at Berkeley that banned Zionist speakers from campus. The attorneys said the ban constitutes a violation of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prevents recipients of federal funds from discriminating based on race and national origin, according to the original complaint.
Federal authorities will investigate Berkeley to determine if the school “failed to respond appropriately in the fall 2022 semester to notice from Jewish law students, faculty, and staff that they experienced a hostile environment at the law school based on their shared Jewish ancestry when university-recognized student organizations passed a bylaw against inviting speakers who support ‘Zionism, the state of Israel, and the occupation of Palestine,'” according to the Education Department.
The investigation is the culmination of a prolonged battle between Israel’s defenders and anti-Semitic Berkeley student groups that have been trying to intimidate and threaten Jewish and pro-Israel students. Berkeley has become a poster child for the rising tide of anti-Semitism plaguing many college campuses across the nation. Jewish and pro-Israel students are being targeted at historic levels, with one study showing that these types of assaults on Jewish identity doubled in the 2021-2022 academic year. The federal investigation into Berkeley Law School is a sign that the Education Department is aware this trend is dangerous.
Florida-based attorney Gabriel Groisman and the International Legal Forum, a global watchdog that fights anti-Semitism in late November first petitioned the Education Department’s Office on Civil Rights to open an investigation into the prestigious law school.
Groisman and Arsen Ostrovsky, the International Legal Forum’s CEO, said in a joint statement that the discrimination against Jewish students at schools like Berkeley is fueling anti-Semitism across America at a time when prominent celebrities and athletes such as Kanye West and Kyrie Irving are mainstreaming these attitudes. West and Irving have both been under fire for promoting anti-Semitic canards about Jewish wealth and power.
“We initiated this claim because we said ‘enough is enough’ and decided that we must stand up for the Jewish students at U.C. Berkeley, who have been facing an unprecedented wave of discrimination and anti-Semitism on campus,” Ostrovsky and Groisman said. “Anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism. Zionism is an integral component of the Jewish identity.”
A Berkeley Law School spokesman, when contacted by the Washington Free Beacon, confirmed the Education Department investigation and said the school will “fully cooperate” with the probe into violations of Title VI, a portion of the Civil Rights Act that grants protection from discrimination based on race, color, gender, and national origin.
“U.C. Berkeley has been informed by the Department of Education that an investigation has been opened into allegations that the university’s response to a bylaw adopted by Berkeley Law student organizations violated Title VI,” the spokesman said, adding that the school “has in place strong anti-discrimination policies that support our belief in and compliance with what we understand to be the values and obligations enshrined in Title VI and the First Amendment.”
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Subterfuge: FBI Whistleblower Exposes Bureau Coverup of Jan. 6 Obsession Sidelining Other Investigations
An FBI whistleblower has accused FBI brass of forcing agents to cook the books to conceal the number of manhours devoted to the Jan. 6 investigation and inflate time spent on other cases. …the subterfuge is intended to bolster the bureau’s budget requests to Congress
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Since Jan. 20, 2021, America has gone swiftly from being a free republic to being an authoritarian regime in which foes of the rulers are locked up and subjected to conditions that are designed to destroy them and deter others from emulating them. Based on the false claim that the Jan. 6 entry into the Capitol constituted an “insurrection” aimed at nothing less than overthrowing the government, the Biden regime, chiefly Attorney General Merrick Garland, are working to criminalize legitimate political opposition to the Democrats’ far-Left agenda.
The Washington Times reviewed a draft of the whistleblower disclosure.
The Washington Times reviewed a draft of the whistleblower disclosure.
FBI whistleblower reveals bureau coverup of Jan. 6 obsession sidelining other investigations
By Kerry Picket, The Washington Times, December 16, 2022
An FBI whistleblower has accused bureau officials of cooking the books to conceal the number of manhours devoted to the Jan. 6 investigation and inflate time spent on other cases.
According to the anonymous FBI whistleblower, the subterfuge is intended to bolster the bureau’s budget requests to Congress when House Republicans control the pursestrings next year.
According to a whistleblower disclosure submitted to Congress, a top official in the FBI’s counterterrorism unit at the Washington headquarters pressured the bureau’s field offices to stop agents from clocking hours when they are working on investigations related to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.
The supervisors in the field offices were told the agents should instead claim they were working on international terrorism and other investigations when recording hours in the FBI’s time and attendance system, known as WebTA.
The Washington Times reviewed a draft of the whistleblower disclosure.
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Whistleblower: CIA Involvement in JFK Assassination
“Did the CIA have a hand in killing JFK?”
Security Source: “The answer is yes, I believe they were involved. It’s a whole different country from what we thought it was.
In President Dwight D Eisenhower’s farewell address, he warned the American people of the military-industrial complex:
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
His successor was John F. Kennedy.
Watch:
Tucker Carlson: Not long after Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald on camera in the basement of Dallas police headquarters, a lot of Americans started to have some questions about the Kennedy assassination. It was, you’d have to admit, a pretty extraordinary sequence of events. A lone gunman murders the president of the United States. And then, less than 48 hours later, that lone gunman is himself murdered by another lone gunman.
What are the odds of that? It’s one thing if you get struck by lightning – rare but possible. But if every member of your family also gets struck by lightning, all on different days, you might begin to suspect these are not entirely natural events. But oh, replied the U.S. government, they are. This bizarre chain of killings was all entirely natural.”
So less than a year after the JFK assassination, the Johnson White House released something called the Warren Commission Report. And the report concluded that while their motives remained unclear, both Lee Oswald and Jack Ruby had acted alone. No one helped them. There was no conspiracy of any kind. Case closed. Time to move on.
And many Americans did move on. At the time, they had no idea how shoddy and corrupt the Warren Commission was. It would be nearly 50 years before the CIA admitted under duress that in fact, it had withheld information from investigators about its relationship with Lee Harvey Oswald.
But even then, at the time, before that was known, the government’s explanation didn’t seem entirely plausible. And some people started asking obvious questions about it. It was at that point, as Americans started to doubt the official story, that the term “conspiracy theory” entered our lexicon. As Professor Lance DeHaven-Smith points out in his book on the subject, “The term conspiracy theory did not exist as a phrase in everyday American conversation before 1964. In 1964, the year the Warren Commission issued its report, the New York Times published five stories in which ‘conspiracy theory’ appeared.”
Now, today, of course, the term “conspiracy theory” appears in pretty much every New York Times story about American politics. It’s wielded, now as then, as a weapon against anyone who asks questions the government doesn’t feel like answering. But despite 60 years of name-calling, those questions have not disappeared. In fact, they have multiplied with time.
And here’s one of them. In April of 1964, a psychiatrist called Louis Joylon West visited Jack Ruby in his isolation cell in a Dallas jail. According to West’s written assessment, he found that Jack Ruby was “technically insane” and in need of immediate psychiatric hospitalization. Those are conclusions that puzzlingly no one who had spoken to Jack Ruby previously had reached. Ruby had seemed perfectly sane to the people who knew him. Louis Jolyon West pronounced him crazy.
But what West did not say was that he was working for the CIA at the time. Louis Jolyon West was a contract psychiatrist for the spy agency. He was also an expert on mind control and a prominent player in the now infamous MKUltra program in which the CIA gave powerful psychiatric drugs to Americans without their knowledge.
So of all the psychiatrists in the world, what in the world was this guy doing in Jack Ruby’s prison cell? The media did not seem interested in finding out. In fact, the New York Times, in an extensive 1999 obituary of West, never mentioned the fact that he had worked for the CIA, much less his time in Jack Ruby’s cell, which seems relevant. So you can see why non-crazy people would wonder about what really happened. And of course, many have wondered.
In 1976, long forgotten, the House of Representatives impaneled a special committee to reinvestigate the JFK assassination. Their bipartisan conclusion? Jack Kennedy was almost certainly murdered as the result of a conspiracy. But the question is a conspiracy by whom? Well, the obvious suspect would be the CIA. Why else would the agency withhold critical evidence from investigators? Is there a benign explanation for that, for maintaining this level of secrecy for this many years? Not that we’re aware of. And it is illegal.
In 1992, Congress passed the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act. That act mandated full disclosure of all documents by 2017, 54 years after JFK was killed. The last administration promised to comply fully with that law. But under intense pressure from CIA Director Mike Pompeo, withheld, in the end, thousands of pages of CIA documents.
Today, this afternoon, the Biden administration did exactly the same thing. That would be thousands of pages of documents after nearly 60 years, after the death of every single person involved. But we still can’t see them. Clearly, it’s not to protect any person. They’re all dead. It’s to protect an institution. But why?
Well, today we decided to find out. We spoke to someone who had access to these still hidden CIA documents, a person who was deeply familiar with what they contained. We asked this person directly, “Did the CIA have a hand in the murder of John F. Kennedy, an American President? And here’s the reply we received verbatim. Quote, “The answer is yes. I believe they were involved. It’s a whole different country from what we thought it was. It’s all fake.”
It’s hard to imagine a more jarring response than that. Again, this is not a “conspiracy theorist” that we spoke to. Not even close. This is someone with direct knowledge of the information that once again is being withheld from the American public. And the answer we received was unequivocal. Yes, the CIA was involved in the assassination of the president. Now, some people will not be surprised to hear that they suspected it all along. But no matter how you feel about it or what you thought about the Kennedy assassination, pause to consider what this means.
It means that within the US government, there are forces wholly beyond democratic control. These forces are more powerful than the elected officials that supposedly oversee them. These forces can affect election outcomes. They can even hide their complicity in the murder of an American president. In other words, they can do pretty much anything they want. They constitute a government within a government mocking, by their very existence, the idea of democracy. As cynical as we have become after 30 years of watching government officials ignore the voters who employ them, we were shocked to learn this. It’s not acceptable.
Americans have trusted their government less with every passing year since the killing of John F. Kennedy. Maybe this is why. And people have known this for a long time. The people who knew would include every director of the CIA since November of 1963. And that list would include Obama’s CIA director, John Brennan, one of the most sinister and dishonest figures in American life.
That list would also include, we are sad to say, our friend Mike Pompeo, who ran the CIA in the last administration. Mike Pompeo knew this. We asked Pompeo to join us tonight, and though he rarely turns down a televised interview, he refused to come. We hope he will reconsider.
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JFK Expert: CIA Has Proof Oswald Involved in Secret Operation
By Brian Pfail | Newsmax, 06 December 2022 03:25 PM EST
The CIA is withholding documents suggesting that Lee Harvey Oswald was involved in a covert intelligence operation three months before assassinating President John F. Kennedy in 1963, an author and investigator says.
JFK expert Jefferson Morley said the operation sought to pin the blame on Cuban leader Fidel Castro. The act of violence would have been used as a pretext for a full-scale invasion by the U.S.
Morley made this claim at a press conference on Monday at the Mary Ferrell Foundation, which filed a lawsuit in October seeking the release of all classified information relating to the Kennedy assassination.
“This is an extraordinarily serious claim, and it has profound implications for the official story,” Morley said. “The CIA knew far more about the lone gunmen than they are even admitting today.”
For decades, JFK assassination experts have sought to uncover evidence of U.S. government involvement in the plot to kill the president.
Congressional and independent investigations began with the 1964 Warren Commission. The CIA maintained it had no involvement with the assassin, although denials did not quell conspiracy theories.
Oswald was a Marine veteran who defected to the Soviet Union before returning to the U.S. in 1963 as a supporter of Castro.
Morley told the conference that Oswald had secretly been involved in campaigns to undermine U.S. supporters of Castro in the summer of 1963.
Morley’s claims were based on files from George Joannides, a late CIA intelligence officer who infiltrated pro-Cuban groups and whose files remain sealed. Allegedly then-CIA director John McCone had lied to the Warren Commission, saying the agency had no intel on Oswald.
“What the CIA is hiding is what they’ve always hidden, which is their sources and methods as they relate to Lee Harvey Oswald,” Morley said. “We’re talking about smoking-gun proof of a CIA operation involving Lee Harvey Oswald.”
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Twitter Suspends Reporters from CNN, NYT, WaPo for ‘Doxxing’ Musk’s Family
Thwe left has been doxxing us, taregrting us and suspended us for years. It has never happened to them.
Twitter Suspends Reporters from CNN, NYT, WaPo for ‘Doxxing’ Musk’s Family
By Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit, December 15, 2022:
On Thursday night, Twitter banned more than half a dozen of far-left journalists from CNN, New York Times, Washington Post, and other independent reporters who had been reporting on Elon Musk and Tesla.
The decision comes after Elon Musk declared war on sharing location information on the platform following a stalking incident with his son X.
The decision comes after Elon Musk declared war on sharing location information on the platform following a stalking incident with his son X.
“Last night, car carrying lil X in LA was followed by crazy stalker (thinking it was me), who later blocked car from moving & climbed onto hood,” Musk wrote.
“Legal action is being taken against Sweeney & organizations who supported harm to my family,” he continued.
Jack Sweeney, is a 20-year-old college sophomore and programmer who started the @elonjet account to track Elon Musk.
Musk suspended Sweeney’s account immediately.
“Any account doxxing real-time location info of anyone will be suspended, as it is a physical safety violation. This includes posting links to sites with real-time location info,” Musk wrote.
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“Freedom of Speech is the Foundation of a Free Society and Without it a Tyrant Can Wreak Havoc Unopposed While His Opponents Are Silenced”
Gateway Pundit posted my interview with Joe Hoft on his radio show. Here are some of the highlights:
“Freedom of Speech is the Foundation of a Free Society and Without it a Tyrant Can Wreak Havoc Unopposed While His Opponents Are Silenced” – Pamela Geller Shares from the Heart on America Today
By Joe Hoft, Gateway Pundit, December 15, 2022:
Pamela Geller was on with Joe Hoft today and discussed the US status quo today.
amela and Jim Hoft go way back. She reminded the listeners today of sitting with Jim at the United Nations in the mid-2000s and never imagining what we would be seeing today. She knows what it was like as a little girl in New York enjoying freedom.
Pamela was reminded of what she shared a year ago – the foundation of our country is the 1st Amendment but without free and fair elections, it’s all just gibberish.
She continued with that theme today. Pamela shared:
The people have no say and it is the opposite, the polar opposite of what this country was founded on. You see they’re acting with impunity. They’re literally without consequences. It’s power without accountability…
…We’re living in an upside down world. It’s really a morally inverted world where good is evil and evil is good. It harkens back to the Bible.
And of course, the principle of free speech, as Ayn Rand said, is not concerned with the content of a man’s speech. It doesn’t protect only the good ideas.
Geller discussed Ayn Rand, the author of Atlas Shrugged, calling her arguably America’s most significant political theorist and political philosopher of the past century.
She went on to say the greatest enemy of women is feminism and that transgender people are mocking women. “We’re living in a terrible age of oppression and censorship.” America is now moving to doublespeak.
It’s really quite frightening. Freedom of speech is the foundation of a free society and without it a tyrant can wreak havoc unopposed while his opponents are silenced. Look, that’s us…Political opinion has been designated now as hate speech.
Listen to the entire interview with one of America’s greatest thinkers today starting at the 9:00 minute mark below.
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Democrats Move to Lower Voting Age To 16, Child Rigging Begins
Their brains aren’t fully formed yet. The more malleable, the better. Apparently the millions of illegals they are importing isn’;t enough.
The Federalist reports: Democrats Court Their Newest Voting Bloc: High Schoolers
Think high-school-junior-to-Democrat-voter pipeline. That’s the model for this left-wing nonprofit’s latest Democrat get-out-the-vote scheme.
In a fundraising email to its supporters, VoteAmerica — a left-wing nonprofit that focuses on voter registration and turnout — writes that because 50 percent of high school students take either the SAT or ACT, it’s partnering with high schools across the country to register students to vote when they sign up for standardized testing.
Simply put: by signing underage students up to register to vote, FutureVoter and its parent company, VoteAmerica, can send them Democrat Party-specific prompts and groom them into becoming future Democrat voters. While VoteAmerica claims it’s nonpartisan, its fundraising page is serviced by ActBlue Charities, a “pass-through organization created to facilitate donations to left-of-center 501(c)(3) nonprofits.” ActBlue itself is a left-wing PAC that funnels millions of dollars into left-wing causes and Democrat campaigns every year through its fundraising platforms.
Make no mistake about what kind of voter FutureVoter wishes to cultivate. Gen Z helped pull many Democrat candidates to the finish line this past midterm cycle, with about two-thirds of them backing Democrat House candidates (27 percent of Americans aged 18-29 cast votes). While Democrats don’t quite have Gen Z or millennials in the bag (in fact, a growing percentage of young people are supporting the Republican Party), schemes like lowering the voting age or fronting as CollegeBoard itself are all part of the larger Democrat Party plan to cinch the youth vote.
Never mind that a third of high school seniors fail to attain a basic understanding of civics, or that high school (and for that matter, college) graduates are coming out of school woefully uneducated. This is the perfect kind of voting bloc for Democrat GOTV efforts: one that can be effectively propagandized for years to come (according to VoteAmerica, “a young person who casts a ballot in three consecutive elections will become a lifelong consistent voter”). And on this new voting bloc rests the future of the country.
FutureVoter is just one small piece of the puzzle that is Democrats’ complicated network of 501(c)(3) nonprofit “charities” that “stack voter rolls in their favor.” Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s mother is in charge of one such foundation that funnels millions in tax-exempt cash from Silicon Valley moguls into groups that cherrypick and register potential Democrat voters. The Center for Tech and Civic Life is another one. If Republicans hope to mitigate the effects of these left-wing nonprofit powerhouses (and want a chance at winning elections), they must create their own.
Democrats push to lower voting age to 16
The nationwide campaign is gaining momentum, especially at the local level.
By Aaron Kliegman, Just The News, December 4, 2022:
The Democrat-led movement to lower the legal voting age to 16 — or in some cases even younger — is gaining momentum nationwide, scoring local victories while winning the support of lawmakers and activists on the political left.
The campaign’s latest win came in Boston, where the City Council on Wednesday approved a petition allowing 16- and 17-year-old residents to vote in municipal elections.
The petition will now be sent to the Massachusetts Legislature for approval, which isn’t guaranteed. Several other towns and cities in Massachusetts have voted for similar proposals, which then failed to pass the state House.
Progressive members of the City Council argued that lowering the voting age would help young people build a habit of voting and make them more likely to continue being politically engaged later in life.
“We don’t apply a maturity index to the right to vote for any other age,” City Councilor Kenzie Bok, who sponsored the petition, told the Boston Globe. “Having the opportunity to vote is what gives our 16- and 17-year-olds a chance to engage meaningfully.”
Others argued it’s unfair that teenagers can have adult responsibilities and play active roles in society but don’t have a say in public life.
“Young people are working, paying taxes,” said City Councilor Julia Mejia, who cosponsored the petition. “When it comes to making a decision as to who’s going to represent them, that has been denied to them.”
Mejia also dismissed the notion that 16- and 17-year-old kids may not be mature enough to make important political decisions, saying that “oftentimes it’s young people who are educating their parents and their uncles and aunts and older folks about who’s running for office and why they should vote.”
The push to allow underage children to vote has prompted outcry and legal challenges from election experts opposed to the effort.
“This is a foolish, cynical move by Boston and other jurisdictions,” Hans von Spakovsky of the Heritage Foundation told Just the News. “Under the law, 16- and 17-year-olds are minors. They can’t sign contracts or leases, buy alcohol, join the military, serve on a jury, or engage in a host of other activities that only legal adults are qualified to engage in because we as a society have judged that they have not yet developed the experience and judgment to make such decisions. They aren’t even treated as adults when they commit crimes, except under exceptional circumstances, for the very same reason.”
If children under 18 can be “trusted in matters affecting our democracy,” asked Spakovsky, then when will policymakers change the law to make people legal adults at 16 so minors can make an array of decisions from which they’re currently barred?
Critics of lowering the voting age often cite the fact that a teen’s brain isn’t fully developed, not reaching full development until about the age of 25. According to one oft-cited study on this subject from 2006, “research in neuroscience suggests that the brain, specifically the prefrontal cortex, is still undergoing major reconstruction and development during the teenage years.” The study noted that the prefrontal cortex is what “enables us to weigh dilemmas, balance trade-offs, and, in short, make reasonable decisions in politics.”
Keep reading….
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Twitter Employee Sentenced to 3.5 years For Spying, Acting As Foreign Agent
Reality is making all those ‘right wing conspiracy theories” pale in comparison.
Related:Twitter Still Has MANY ex FBI/CIA Agents in High Ranking Positions
An ex-Twitter employee was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison for spying
By: Sawdah Bhaimiya, Business Insider, Dec 15, 2022:
An ex-Twitter employee was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison after spying for Saudi Arabia and handing over user info’
Ex-Twitter employee Ahmad Abouammo was sentenced to over 3 years in prison after spying for Saudi Arabia.
He was found guilty of sharing confidential information about Twitter users with Saudi officials.
A former Twitter employee was sentenced to three and a half years in a US federal prison after being convicted of spying for Saudi Arabia, the US Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California said.
45-year-old Ahmad Abouammo was found guilty of sharing confidential information about Twitter users with Saudi officials, and receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in exchange, the attorney’s office said.
Prosecutors originally wanted to sentence him for over seven years “to deter others in the technology and social media industry from selling out the data of vulnerable users,” according to Reuters.
“This case revealed that foreign governments will bribe insiders to obtain the user information that is collected and stored by our Silicon Valley social media companies,” said U.S. Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds.
“In handing down today’s sentence, the Court emphasized that defendant shared the user information with a foreign government known for not tolerating dissidents, and he did so working with his even more culpable co-defendant who fled the country rather than face trial. This sentence sends a message to insiders with access to user information to safeguard it, particularly from repressive regimes, or risk significant time in prison.”
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Angela Chuang, a public defender representing Abouammo did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment about the case, made outside of business hours.
Abouammo, formerly Twitter’s head of media partnerships in the MENA region from 2013 to 2015, started receiving payments from a Saudi official close to the Saudi Royal Family in 2014.
He shared the email addresses and phone numbers of over 6,000 Twitter users, some of who were critics of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia including the anonymous account “Mujtahidd” and prominent activist Omar Abdulaziz.
Abouammo received a $42,000 luxury Hublot watch and two $100,000 wire transfers into a Lebanese bank account set up in the name of his father, in return.
He was initially arrested in November 2019 and found guilty of money laundering, wire fraud, and falsifying records in a federal investigation. He was acquitted of five charges of wire fraud by a jury in August 2022, but found guilty of the remaining charges…….
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Pamela Geller on the Joe Hoft Show Discussing Free Speech
Tune in this afternoon when Joe Hoft of Gateway Pundit interviews me on the state of free speech in America.
UPDATE: In case you missed it: Here’s the audio.
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Facebook’s COVID “Vaccine” Fact-Checkers Are Funded by Vaccine Drug Companies
Every time I posted a new study or data analysis regarding the side effects of the Covid vaccine to Facebook, I was banned, for a month.
Every time.
It has been confirmed that Facebook’s COVID “Vaccine” Fact-Checkers are in fact funded by vaccine companies. pic.twitter.com/GOknvNW42Y
— Inkie (@Inkie09634122) December 14, 2022
“This is absolute collusion on the part of vaccine manufacturers having funding the fact checkers on social media.” – Michael Rectenwald
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