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.

Dec 08

90% of patients in one regional New York Hospital are double vaxxed–in a community that is only 50% vaxxed

Some months ago, Deborah Conrad, a physician assistant in a regional New York hospital, convinced her hospital to carefully track the Covid-19 vaccination status of every patient admitted to her hospital. The results were shocking.

Although her hospital serves a community where fewer than 50% were vaccinated for Covid-19, during the same time period, approximately 90% of the individuals admitted to her hospital were documented to have received this vaccine.

These patients were admitted for a variety of reasons, including COVID-19 infections.

A firm hired by Ms. Conrad sent a letter to the CDC and FDA on July 19, 2021, yet neither agency has responded.

Ms. Conrad also reports that her hospital administrators have been pushing back at her inquiries, and have even forbidden her from completing VAERS submissions regarding vaccination injuries at the hospital. See here.

Dec 07

Americans are fleeing high-tax states in droves; taking billion$ with them

Socialism, regulations and high taxes are driving millions of Americans to relocate to lower tax states. The IRS’s tax migration data shows there were 8 million migrant tax returns representing about 14 million total people who moved in 2018-2019.

The five states that lost the most taxpayers are New York, California, Illinois, New Jersey, and Massachusetts. Those states lost, on net, 219,937 taxpayers and over $28 billion in adjusted gross income (AGI). On average, these states have a state-local effective tax rate of 11.8 percent.

The five states that gained the most taxpayers, on the other hand, are all low-tax states — in fact, three of the five have no state income tax. Florida, Texas, Arizona, North Carolina, and Washington state gained, on net, 194,340 taxpayers and $28.9 billion in AGI.

Florida is the big winner, adding $17.5 billion in AGI to its tax base alone.

Florida, Washington state, and Texas have no income tax. North Carolina has a flat income tax rate of 5.25%. Arizona’s income tax rate is, at its highest, about 4.5%.

Dec 07

More evidence that social media censorship is driven by government

Zero Hedge reports that “Federal efforts to censor social media extend past discussions with companies like YouTube over broad guidelines about Covid-19 “misinformation.”” There is evidence that the FDA has specifically demanded suppression of individual posts.

In an April 30, 2021 email, the Food and Drug Administration director of social media, Brad Kimberly, told a Google lobbyist that the agency expected YouTube to pull a video touting the potential of a new monoclonal antibody treatment for Covid. (Google owns YouTube.)

“Overall, the video is very problematic when it comes to COVID misinformation,” Kimberly wrote to the lobbyist, Jan Fowler Antonaros.

“This video should be pulled.”

YouTube initially declined to remove the video. However, it has since been taken offline.

How often the FDA has made other censorship demands is unknown, because the agency is apparently hiding the existence of its efforts in response to Freedom of Information Act requests.

In October, reporter Alex Berenson submitted a Freedom of Information (FOIA) request asking the FDA to disclose their communications with social media companies like Twitter and YouTube about censoring Covid “misinformation” in general.

On Nov. 30, the FDA responded it could not find any emails between its officials and social media companies that met the request.

“Yet at the bottom of the emails containing the agency’s discussions about me,” writes Berenson, “was the email between Kimberly and Antonaros – apparently attached there by accident, as it had nothing to do with me.”

APPARENTLY THE FDA IS LYING AND COVERING UP ITS CONTROL OVER SOCIAL MEDIA

The fact that the FDA’s exchange with Antonaros was slipped by accident into the bottom of documents–while FDA claimed it possessed no communications with social media–means the FDA is actively covering up its secret influence on social media censorship.

“[T]he agency said it had not found a single record responsive to that request – not one – even as it accidentally provided one.”

Dec 07

Dale Davenport witnessed police brutality in Dallas, Texas. The day after he testified in court, Dallas police officers blocked his business with swarms of cop cars and a bullet was fired through his window

By Roger Roots

As a crusading libertarian lawyer I often get phone calls from people who tell me they want to sue their local government officials in their snake pit of municipal corruption. They always have heartbreaking stories of City Hall stealing, robbing or destroying their homes, families or businesses.

I generally have to tell them to get in line. Every city and county in the country is corrupt. And state and federal regulators are even worse. Victims of government abuses often don’t have a clearly winnable case unless they can produce actual emails, videos or other hard evidence of municipal regulators saying explicitly that they are plotting to destroy them by breaking the law. And local judges bend over backward to protect local officials and their petty speed traps, zoning enforcement, preposterous licensing regs, nuisance laws and other scams.

But a car wash in Dallas, Texas may have a case.

For 15 years, the City of Dallas has been targeting, threatening and harassing the car wash owners, Dale and Freddy Davenport. The neighborhood is crime ridden, and the Davenports have been repeatedly told that their car wash is a hub of crime. The Devenports maintain a constant presence, cleaning and monitoring the property; but it is never enough for the City of Dallas. A local judge once ordered the Devenports to hire shifts of two licensed peace officers at a time to patrol the property “for 24 hours per day, seven days a week, to be sure that the Property is secured and not being trespassed upon.”

Such security would cost the Davenports $50,000 a month. The figure was so outrageous that a special committee of the Texas legislature investigated and found that Dallas was using the nuisance laws to pressure businesses to hire off-duty cops. And Dallas cops were getting rich off the scheme. The investigation also concluded that Dallas cops were running a type of protection racket; cops told businesses not to expect any police patrols or assistance unless the businesses hired lots of off-duty cops as security guards.

And the security companies which employed the off-duty cops were owned by local Dallas officials. “Those who refuse to play by such rules, the committees heard repeatedly, found themselves the target of random police searches, fire and other code inspections and costly, time-consuming litigation,” according to The Dallas Observer.
It was organized crime.

Back in 2002 a Dallas police officer used mace on a man in the parking lot. The officer later said the man was resisting arrest, but Dale Davenport testified to the contrary in court. The day after, someone shot a bullet through a window at Dale Davenport’s home. And on the day the maced victim was acquitted of resisting arrest, 17 DPD vehicles and 26 officers blocked the car wash’s driveway, preventing customers from entering. Dallas police Chief David Kunkle later admitted under oath that the officers’ behavior was “very unprofessional” and “designed to intimidate and coerce.”

In 2012, the city even amended its zoning districts so that it didn’t allow car washes in the district, “though no document on the agenda hinted at this change” in advance. The Davenports were forced, once again, into court to save their carwash.

Now after 16 years of abuse by the City of Dallas, the Davenports have filed suit in federal court.

(photo by Jim Schutze of the Dallas Observer)

Dec 07

Latvian government JAILS rival politician upon grounds of holding “unsafe” meeting!

“COVID-19” is the gift that keeps on giving for tyrants worldwide.

Latvian police have arrested the country’s main opposition leader, Aldis Gobzems, on grounds that he had an “unannounced assembly” where COVID safety requirements weren’t met.

Powermad Latvian officials recently enacted a law BANNING elected legislators from Parliament if they are “unvaccinated” with COVID-19 treatment injections. This means, effectively, that the ‘public health’ protocols will never be challenged; as any lawmaker opposing them is banned from serving.

Gobzems is the leading Latvian politician opposing lockdowns and vaxx mandates. See here.