Jan 01

Hong Kong—once a beacon of freedom—is now a land of newsroom raids and arrests of journalists

Pro-government journalism may be the easiest professions in the world. Anti-government journalism is one of the most dangerous professions in the world. Last week in Hong Kong, police raided the headquarters of vocal website Stand News and arrested at least six, including current and former editors and board members.

Charges include conspiracy to publish a seditious publication. Over 200 officers participated. “Hours into the day the news website was no longer being updated, nor its active social media pages. Stand News’ HK$61 million in assets have been frozen and all employees dismissed.”

“It appears to be part of a new crackdown wave against opposition Honk Kong media, following the June 2021 shuttering of the Apple Daily newspaper in a similar massive police raid which saw its publisher Jimmy Lai and top editors arrested, as HK authorities continue forcing the public firmly in line with “pro-China” policies.”

Ronson Chan, chair of the Hong Kong Journalists Association, was also taken away for questioning. After his release, Chan said that all his credentials and press pass, including all electronic devises and even bank cards were seized.

Police described Stand News as having “stirred up hatred or contempt for the government and judiciary.”

Jan 01

US government now makes it IMPOSSIBLE to renounce citizenship!

“The US state department says giving up citizenship requires a face-to-face interview with a government official, and that it is too risky given coronavirus.”

The Guardian is out with a detailed story on the plight of thousands who seek to renounce their US citizenship. “By some calculations, there may be as many as 30,000 people among the 9 million US citizens living abroad who would like to begin the renunciation process but can’t.” Many have spouses, families, careers in foreign lands and haven’t been to the United States in years.

Astoundingly, the US IRS seeks constantly to take taxes from anyone in the world who the IRS claims is an American. “In 2010 the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) was passed, requiring foreign banks and other financial institutions to report on any clients they suspect of being American to the IRS.”

The US is also one of only two countries (the other is Eritrea) that tax people on their citizenship rather than where they live. That forces Americans abroad to declare their global income to the IRS, with possible tax implications.

THE IRS EVEN TAXED BRITAIN’S PRIME MINISTER BORIS JOHNSON BECAUSE HE WAS BORN IN THE US
Even UK prime minister Boris Johnson, who was born in New York but has not lived in the US since he was five, was a long-term a tax slave to the IRS. Johnson renounced his citizenship in 2017, having said he was outraged a few years earlier by having to pay the US tax authorities for gains on the sale of his London home.

Dec 31

“Infrastructure” bill will include massive government support for pro-government “journalism”

For years, so-called mainstream (government supporting, government supported) newsrooms have been losing viewers, readers, followers and ad revenue. Americans just won’t pay to view pro-government propaganda.

Alternative news sources have grown to dwarf the “legacy” news sources. Alex Jones’ Infowars network of independent news was Youtube’s BIGGEST channel until Youtube permanently banned Infowars content. Alternative news sources such as Revolver, Whatfinger, Bonginoreport, Bannonswarroom, naturalnews, realclimatescience and Thegatewaypundit have all grown to challenge or eclipse the government supporting networks. And government supporting platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Instagram, and Google have implemented savage censorship campaigns against such independent content.

Many have long suspected that mainstream news is secretly paid, subsidized or bolstered by CIA or other government funding. (US Senate hearings confirmed this 40 years ago, but Congress enacted NO LIMITS on the CIA’s secret funding of “news” (which was admittedly THE MAJORITY of the CIA’s budget dispersements at that time).

Now Congress is poised to bring government support for “journalism” OUT IN THE OPEN. Buried in currently-debated “stimulus,” “infrastructure” and ‘Build Back Better’ legislation is a proposal for so-called “local news” outlets would receive a quarterly tax credit, “equal to 40%” of a journalist’s wages up to a cap of $12,500 per quarter, or $50,000 per year.

A few polls have shown that Americans disfavor the idea by wide margins.

Dec 22

Britain’s “scientific advisers” are not allowed to report good pandemic outcomes!

Britain’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) was created to supposedly “provide scientific and technical advice to support government decision makers during emergencies.” SAGE is routinely quoted in news reports about the dangers and deadliness of SARS-Covi-1. But Zero Hedge recently uncovered startling admissions by SAGE directors: they have been enlisted only to provide scary scenarios which support lockdowns and restrictions and to avoid contrary information.

The latest SAGE pronouncements envision anything from 200 to 6,000 deaths a day from Omicron depending on how many more restrictions the British government imposes “— up to and very much including another lockdown.” But Fraser Nelson of The Spectator recently interviewed Graham Medley, the chair of the Sage modelling committee. Medley revealed that SAGE is given very limited orders by government officials, “and asked to churn out worse-case scenarios without being asked to comment on how plausible they are.”

They are not allowed to report good outcomes.

Dec 22

Alex Berenson was banned from social media for saying COVID vaxx injuries were 50 times greater than flu vaxx injuries. The figure is now 88 times!

Alex Berenson was banned from social media for saying COVID vaxx injuries were 50 times greater than flu vaxx injuries. The figure is now 88 times!

Twitter, Instagram, Youtube, Google and Facebook all impose mass censorship of anti-government opinions and information. There is increasing evidence that this pro-government censorship agenda is secretly paid for or driven by the government itself.
The relentless Alex Berenson, one of America’s only prominent journalistic voices shedding light on the outrages of the COVID-19 panic, has been banned, censored and scrubbed from most “mainstream” (government supported, government supporting) platforms.
Wikipedia now claims that “In 2021, Berenson tweeted that COVID-19 vaccinations had led to 50 times more adverse effects than flu vaccine. PolitiFact rated the claim “mostly false.” The Atlantic called him “The pandemic’s wrongest man,” owing to his false claims of the vaccine’s ineffectiveness.”

Steve Kirsch does the math in a recent Substack article. 848,965 COVID-19 vaccine injuries (per CDC’s own data) divided by 9,572 flu-shot injuries (per the CDC) =88.7 more reports for the COVID vaccines.

It took Kirsch all of 2 minutes to verify that Berenson’s claim was correct.

Dec 18

Wikipedia is not just editing its content to make it more pro-government. Now the site is removing links to anything critical of government.

Wikipedia was launched over a decade ago as an open-source online encyclopedia of information. It frequently comes up high on the first page of any search engine results for any search. Citizen editors produce much of its content but are banned from editing certain entries dealing with politics, government or other topics the government views as sensitive.

Whistleblowers have warned that the site took an extreme pro-government tilt several years ago. Larry Sanger, one of Wikipedia’s founders, admitted the site has become wholly an organ for “the establishment”–meaning the government and pro-government perspectives.

Now Steve Kirsch, the world-renowned serial entrepreneur and tech genius, has documented that Wikipedia is now destroying links to anti-government information and content.

By severing links to “anti-establishment” information, Wikipedia prevents readers from independently evaluating claims made on the site.

Dec 18

More evidence that social media censorship is paid and promoted by the government

PJ Media reports that Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas “is working with the social media giants to combat “misinformation,” which all too often recently has come to mean “dissent from the establishment political and media line.” What about the First Amendment? They’re working on ways to get around it.”

Brad Stone, senior executive editor for Bloomberg News, asked Mayorkas if he considered “misinformation” a “part of your mandate at DHS, and how much resources are you devoting to fighting misinformation such as election falsehoods or Covid disinformation?”

Mayorkas responded: “I think that’s very much within, uh, our domain, uh, misinformation, uh, pointedly, disinformation have very serious and significant ramifications for homeland security. The integrity of our election system, the security of our election system is a prime example of that. And so, um, our office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans under Rob Silver’s leadership, CISA [Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency] under Jen Easterly’s leadership, uh, John Cohen leading, uh, the office of intelligence and analysis, uh, in an acting capacity, Samantha Winograd, a senior counselor to the Secretary and our Acting Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism, these are individuals very much involved in their respective workforces, very much involved in addressing misinformation, disinformation, and the threats that they pose to the homeland.”

Bloomberg’s Brad Stone did not press Mayorkas about how much money was being spent on combating “misinformation.” Instead Stone asked a softball question about Mayorka’s personal dislike of misleading information. (Mayorka said he indeed disliked misinfo.)

Remember that the Church Committee in the 1970s found that THE MAJORITY of the CIA’s budget was directed at propaganda rather than spying.

Dec 17

In 2017 the US government provided six projections for sea level rise due to climate change. Seas are already rising at rates BELOW the lowest scenario projection.

“The Battery,” New York is the fortress-like edifice at the very tip of southern Manhattan. It has a nice small park, walking distance from Wall Street and other sites in Lower Manhattan. Scientists and agencies have kept exact measures of sea levels at The Battery for over a century.

For years, sea levels at the Battery have gently crept upward–at a rate of around a foot PER CENTURY. But in 2017, a joint report by U.S. government scientists at the Commerce Department, EPA, NOAA, and USGS predicted sea levels would rise TWELVE FEET by 2100 due to manmade climate change by CO2.

The government report provided six models of projection for sea level rise. Each projection claimed to be a scenario based on varying degrees of climate change mitigation. “Th[e] extreme rise scenario, considered unlikely but increasingly plausible,” would mean roughly 10 to 12 feet of rise by 2100.”

But just a few years later, actual observed sea levels are rising at a rate LOWER THAN THE LOWEST SCENARIO projected by these agencies.

Dec 10

New Zealand government launches fund to pay for pro-government journalism

Every government seeks to reward pro-government journalists and to punish anti-government journalists. Pro-government journalism may be the safest and most-rewarding profession in the world; anti-government journalism may be the most dangerous profession in the world.

Now the government of New Zealand is launching a fund to pay pro-government journalists. They say this is to combat “misinformation” (meaning any types of questions or criticisms of government claims).

The government’s overreaction to the alleged global pandemic has transformed New Zealand from one of the world’s freest countries into one of the least free places on earth.

“The Journalism Fund will preserve and enhance public interest journalism that will otherwise be at risk or lost due to the impact of COVID-19 on newsrooms. It will support the production of journalistic content that is critical to an open, progressive democracy, and to protect jobs at a local, regional and national level,” claims the government press release.

Dec 09

Australia’s Howard Springs concentration camp houses many nonsick refusers and dissidents without due process, despite government claims it is a voluntary camp for travelers

The Howard Springs Quarantine Facility in Darwin, Australia was claimed by the government to be a site for international travelers to voluntarily self-isolate. But there is increasing evidence the facility is an internment camp for vaxx refusers, critics and dissidents.

And nothing about the Howard Springs facility appears to be voluntary. Three young men recently jumped the barbed wire fence to escape; the government literally shut down all local roadways and performed house-to-house and car-to-car roadblock searches for the men.

An Australian woman was recently forced into a 14-day mandatory self isolation at Howard Springs–without any trial, hearing, or due process–not for public health, but as punishment for lying to contact tracing staff. Hayley Hodgson, 26, chronicled her experience on Dec. 2. She was not accused of having COVID-19 and was never ill. Staff and guards patrol the facility in plastic hazmat-type garb, despite almost no one being sick or needing medical help. Inmates are told that if they step out of their tiny cabin trailers for any purpose other than doing laundry (with permission), or unmasked, they will be fined heavily.

Hodgson was not allowed to speak to a lawyer and was simply whisked away to Howard Springs in a converted shuttle bus. She lost her job due to the 14-day involuntary internment.

See here.