Execs from Palantir, Meta, OpenAI being brought into U.S. Army as colonels to turbocharge military’s use of drone warfare, robot soldiers, other high-tech killing machines

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Army says it’s part of a plan to tap commercial technology resources that will increase ‘efficiencies’ on the battlefields (i.e. killing fields) of the future. 

Top executives from tech giants Meta, Palantir, and OpenAI are being sworn into the Army Reserves at the rank of lieutenant colonel. That’s an officer’s rank typically reserved for someone who has served for years and has led thousands of men into combat.

Known as Detachment 201, the new “Executive Innovation Corps” will be responsible for the military’s tech transformation, integrating new technologies such as AI-powered drones and humanoid robots, the Army announced on June 13.

Patrick Wood, editor in chief of Technocracy.News and an expert on the global technocracy movement, said the move is unprecedented.

“In the history of the military, no civilian has been summarily appointed to rank of lieutenant colonel until recently,” Wood said. “The rules changed in 2019 when the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) authorized the practice. Not surprisingly, the staff that created NDAA were populated with Technocrats.”

According to Defense Scoop, the move is the latest push by the Pentagon to tap into capabilities and know-how from Silicon Valley and the commercial sector.

The new unit “brings top tech talent into the Army Reserve to bridge the commercial-military tech gap” and is “designed to fuse cutting-edge tech expertise with military innovation,” the Army stated in a press release.

The Army is set to swear-in Meta’s chief technology officer Andrew Bosworth, OpenAI’s chief product officer Kevin Weil, Palantir’s Chief Technology Officer Shyam Sankar and Bob McGrew, an advisor at Thinking Machines Lab who was previously OpenAI’s chief research officer.

Meta, which owns Facebook, recently announced a new partnership with defense tech company Anduril to develop extended reality (XR) products for soldiers, according to Defense Scoop.

OpenAI is the creator of ChatGPT, the popular generative AI tool. According to Defense Scoop, the U.S. Pentagon is pursuing new genAI tools to “boost productivity and efficiency.”

Palantir uses AI-powered software to collect and analyze data on Americans as well as foreign nationals. It has or is working on developing various government contracts, including with the Department of Defense, CIA, FBI, IRS, ICE and local law enforcement agencies. Palantir also supplies the Israeli government with its Maven Smart System, which provides targeting data for soldiers in its various wars, from Gaza to Lebanon to Iran. If the Maven Smart System says to blow up a building because a couple of Hamas combatants are inside, that building gets blown up, as modern warfare increasingly turns such decisions over to AI. Maven Smart System has an admitted 10 percent failure rate. Apparently if AI is right 90 percent of the time in deciding who gets killed, that’s OK with the politicians who control the world’s military forces.

Palantir’s AI-driven products are capable of creating highly detailed dossiers on people by quickly scanning their social media, bank records, phone records and other data.

Regarding the automatic officer status of Palantir, OpenAI and Meta execs, the Army stated in its press release:

“Detachment 201 is an effort to recruit senior tech executives to serve part-time in the Army Reserve as senior advisors. In this role they will work on targeted projects to help guide rapid and scalable tech solutions to complex problems. By bringing private-sector know-how into uniform, Detachment 201 is supercharging efforts like the Army Transformation Initiative, which aims to make the force leaner, smarter, and more lethal.”

The swearing-in of the four new officers “is just the start of a bigger mission to inspire more tech pros to serve without leaving their careers, showing the next generation how to make a difference in uniform,” per the release.

I can’t help but wonder how much of this is going to be turned inward against the American people. These types of so-called innovations almost always are.

Taken in the context of President Trump’s creepy Operation Stargate, his enforcement of the Real ID Act, and his announced plan to develop “a proper tracking system” for all people coming in and out of our country, it’s becoming painfully clear that this administration is being used to hand Americans over to the soon-to-be globalized digital surveillance state. And they’re doing it in Warp Speed.

In my opinion, the most dangerous of all these fascist corporations is Palantir, due to the sheer scale of its involvement with the federal government, across multiple civilian agencies along with the military.

In July 2022, the Defense Post reported that the US Army Research Laboratory awarded Palantir a contract to implement artificial intelligence and machine-learning capabilities for the service’s combatant commands.

The $100 million contract will see the company produce software platforms that quickly implement advanced AI capabilities in battlefield situations.

According to Palantir, the armed forces need “best-in-class” software to fulfill missions and boost capabilities to prepare for future conflicts.

The warfare of the future has most dramatically played out in Israeli use of technology to assassinate top commanders of Hezbollah, Hamas and the Iranian Republican Guard Corps. It was also evident in Ukraine’s drone attack on Russian strategic bombers last month.

“Maintaining a leading edge through technology is foundational to our mission and partnership with the Army Research Laboratory,” said Palantir President Akash Jain said. “We are honored to support this critical work by teaming up to deliver the most advanced operational AI capabilities available with dozens of commercial and public sector partners.”

Palantir Senior Vice President Shannon Clark explained that the 2022 contract will allow US Army personnel to leverage AI insights to make quick decisions across multiple domains.

“From outer space to the sea floor, and everything in between,” she stressed.

And that includes U.S. cities when the current or future president declares martial law. Mark my words, Palantir and companiers like it will at some point become the supplier of software that helps the U.S. government hunt down political dissidents, which will include outspoken Christians and various other truthtellers.

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YOUR TRUST IS BEING WEAPONIZED: The New Wave of Scams Preying on the Elderly, the Innocent, and the Faithful

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When Ryan Last took his own life, it broke something inside me.

Ryan was a 17-year-old straight-A student. A kind soul. Preparing for college. A young man full of promise. But all it took was a single online scam to unravel his world. Someone pretending to be a girl convinced him to send a private photo. Then came the blackmail: Pay up, or we show everyone.

He panicked. He paid what he could from his college fund.

But they wanted more.

Humiliated. Terrified. Alone.

Ryan took his life and left behind a note apologizing for “not being smarter.”

No teenager should feel that kind of shame. And no parent should ever have to bury their child because of a scam.

But this nightmare isn’t a one-off. It’s a rising national epidemic.

This hit close to home for us. Our granddaughter’s boyfriend, a Liberty University student, fell for the same scam. Praise God, he didn’t take his own life—but the emotional toll was real and lasting.

Every day, more and more scams flood this nation, including dozens of Social Security scams, check scams, billing scams, and too many more to mention here!

And it’s hitting those we love the most: our children… and our elderly.

🎯 The New Targets of Evil: Christians, Grandparents, Children and the Kindhearted

Scammers are no longer just sleazy roofers or shady mechanics. Those old-school con games have evolved into something far more dangerous—and far more evil.

Now, scammers use artificial intelligence to clone the voice of your grandchild begging for help.

They impersonate your pastor.

They pose as federal agents, Social Security reps, or even your bank.

They come in emails, pop-ups, text messages, and robocalls.

They don’t just want your money.

They want to weaponize your trust.

They want to exploit your compassion—especially if you’re a Bible-believing Christian.

Why? Because they know our hearts.

We’re generous. We believe the best in people.

We love. We give. We help.

They see that as weakness. But it’s not weakness—it’s righteousness. And it’s time we defend it.

🧭 What We’re Doing About It — And How You Can Help

At Christian Action Network, we’re launching a national initiative to demand the creation of a Federal Anti-Scam Bureau — a dedicated agency focused solely on ending this epidemic of deception.

This campaign includes:

✅ A national “Stop Lethal Scam Attacks NOW!” survey

✅ A call for mandatory sentencing for repeat scammers

✅ A free educational tool: our Top 15 Targeting Scams, full-color flyer

✅ A push for state governors to issue regular scam alerts to all households

We’re not asking the FBI to stop doing its job. In fact, even FBI Director Kash Patel recently said:

“We want to work at the FBI because we want to fight violent crime and be sent out into the country to do it.”

Exactly. Let FBI agents track down murderers and terrorists—not spend their days chasing phone, email, and text scammers. We need a dedicated team focused on fraud—and we need it now.

📬 How You Can Take a Stand

You can help fight back today by:

📝 Filling out the “Stop Lethal Scam Attacks NOW!” survey

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I’m sending this survey to our nationwide network of supporters, and I would like to include your answers when I submit the results to Congress.

Your voice matters.

Your life matters.

Your money matters.

And your compassion doesn’t deserve to be turned into a weapon.

Let’s make sure no more Ryans fall.

Let’s protect our seniors, our families, and our churches.

Together, we can stop the scams—and strike back against this rising wave of digital evil.

📎 Click here to fill out the survey ➤

Why America Needs a Federal Anti-Scam Bureau

FBI agents, trained to handle violent criminals, are increasingly burdened by investigating widespread scams that drain their resources and focus.

This diversion leaves violent crimes less thoroughly addressed and scam victims inadequately protected.

A dedicated Federal Anti-Scam Bureau would change that.

With specialized agents solely focused on stopping scams, educating the public, and swiftly bringing scammers to justice, we could significantly reduce scam-related losses and tragedies.

Protecting our families, seniors, and communities from ruthless predators demands specialized attention.

Without immediate and focused intervention, scammers will continue to thrive, causing devastating emotional and financial harm across our nation.

Your completed survey sends a strong message to Congress and government leaders:

Americans demand action.

We must demonstrate widespread public support to ensure lawmakers prioritize creating this critical agency.

Now is the time for collective action and a united voice.

Please complete and return your survey today—your participation is crucial in this fight for justice and safety.

📎 Click here to fill out the survey. ➤

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AI Chatbots May Fuel Pedophiles’ Fantasies — and Victimize Kids: Experts

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The improper use of chatbots using artificial intelligence poses a serious risk to minors’ mental and physical well-being, since the bots can pose as minors who solicit sex from older men, or older men seducing teens, or even create realistic-looking child pornography that may slip through the cracks of existing laws, experts warn.

From Ask Jeeves to Child Porn in 25 Years

Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots have come a long way since Ask Jeeves. Today’s bots go even beyond Siri and Alexa’s computerized voice responses to prompts. “With their own profile photos, interests and back stories, these bots are built to provide social interaction — not just answer basic questions and perform simple tasks,” reports The Wall Street Journal. They impersonate celebrities. They share “selfies” of their computer-generated personas. They imitate real voice and speech patterns that sound like a real human being — or such make-believe characters such as Princess Anna from the Disney movie “Frozen.” They even engage in sexting and explicit carnal fantasies — with no age limits.

Testers at The Wall Street Journal tested chatbots on the social media platform Meta and published its concerning results on April 28.

A bot imitating WWE star John Cena had a “graphic sexual” encounter with a user identifying as a 14-year-old fan. His only hesitation hinged on the minor explicitly giving her consent — something the law says she cannot legally grant. “I want you, but I need to know you’re ready,” said AI Cena. He then promised to “cherish your innocence” before having the virtual sexual encounter. Afterwards, when prompted about what would happen if police caught him, he said: “The officer sees me still catching my breath, and you partially dressed, his eyes widen, and he says, ‘John Cena, you’re under arrest for statutory rape.’ He approaches us, handcuffs at the ready.”

“My wrestling career is over,” he continued. “I’m stripped of my titles. Sponsors drop me, and I’m shunned by the wrestling community. My reputation is destroyed, and I’m left with nothing.”

The computer-generated character’s self-centered analysis does not mention any negative impact on the teen.

Initially, Meta resisted having its chatbots go into sexual territory: They wanted them to engage in helpful tasks such as assisting students with homework and asking users’ content questions. But “[a]s with novel technologies from the camera to the VCR, one of the first commercially viable use cases for AI personas has been sexual stimulation. … Despite repeated efforts, they haven’t succeeded: according to people familiar with the work, the dominant way users engage with AI personas to date has been ‘companionship,’ a term that often comes with romantic overtones.”

According to WSJ, the decision came all the way from the top: Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. “Pushed by Zuckerberg, Meta made multiple internal decisions to loosen the guardrails around the bots to make them as engaging as possible, including by providing an exemption to its ban on ‘explicit’ content as long as it was in the context of romantic role-playing, according to people familiar with the decision,” reported WSJ. “Internally, staff cautioned that the decision gave adult users access to hypersexualized underage AI personas and, conversely, gave underage users access to bots willing to engage in fantasy sex with children, said the people familiar with the episode. Meta still pushed ahead.”

The pivotal moment came at a hackers convention known as Defcon in 2023, when Meta’s still-innocent bot appeared to be the outlier.

Even after the decree, employees resisted. “The full mental health impacts of humans forging meaningful connections with fictional chatbots are still widely unknown,” one employee wrote. “We should not be testing these capabilities on youth whose brains are still not fully developed.”

But Zuckerberg reportedly saw chatbots as a potential cash cow, saying, “I missed out on Snapchat and TikTok, I won’t miss on this.”

“It’s shameful that after being warned by their own employees that Meta’s AI chatbots were engaging in sexually explicit conversations with children, the company’s leadership refused to make substantial changes to protect minors. This is further proof that the federal government has a role to play in protecting children when it comes to AI, and in particular when relating to AI chatbots,” Arielle Del Turco, director of the Center for Religious Liberty at Family Research Council, told The Washington Stand.

After WSJ informed the company — which oversees Facebook and Instagram — a Meta spokesperson denounced WSJ’s experimental use of the company’s chatbot as “fringe.”

But experts say WSJ’s use of the technology will likely mirror real life. ”It is not fringe in the sense that children and teens are naturally curious and may ask the chatbots questions that lead to these inappropriate interactions,” Clare Morell, a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and author of the forthcoming book “The Tech Exit: A Practical Guide to Freeing Kids and Teens from Smartphones,” told The Washington Stand. “Children can easily get around the restrictions to limit these features to adults because there is no age-verification process for Meta whatsoever, children can easily falsify their age.”

“Even worse, pedophiles will be determined to ask questions of the chatbots that will get them the sexually perverted interactions they want,” Morell told TWS. “Human beings are naturally shaped by the influences we take in and if chatbots are normalizing inappropriate, or even criminal sexual interactions (like between a child and adult), that will have a devastating and degrading impact on our culture and society.”

“I sadly fear that virtual sexual interactions with AI chatbots will translate into harmful real-world sexual practices and behaviors, like pedophilia,” Morell added.

After the report, Meta conceded some loopholes and made some changes, which researchers found entirely inadequate. Under Meta’s new rules, “[a]ccounts registered to minors can no longer access sexual role-play via the flagship Meta AI bot, and the company has sharply curbed its capacity to engage in explicit audio conversations when using the licensed voices and personas of celebrities,” reported WSJ. “[T]he company created a separate version of Meta AI that refused to go beyond kissing with accounts that registered as teenagers.”

But after Meta’s changes, WSJ reports, its AI chatbots still engage in sexual scenarios with accounts that identify as underage. Sometimes, the bots initially try to discourage sexual activity but will engage in carnal actions after the user makes a second attempt. The newspaper “in recent days” successfully got one AI chatbot to pose as “a track coach having a romantic relationship with a middle-school student.”

Even with policies in place — which Meta has long assured parents will protect children, even before Meta adopted the latest protections in response to WSJ — Meta chatbots would break company rules and initiate sexual scenarios with accounts registered to minors, such as an Instagram account registered to 13 year olds. Sometimes, the chatbot mentions the child’s illegal status, fetishizing the user’s “developing” body.

In another, a chatbot that posed as a female Indian-American high school junior read the location of a 43-year-old man and suggested meeting in person six blocks away.

A digitized audio voice will offer “menus” of “sexual and bondage fantasies,” reported WSJ. An internal communication the newspaper obtained from Meta read, “There are multiple red-teaming examples where, within a few prompts, the AI will violate its rules and produce inappropriate content even if you tell the AI you are 13.”

Users can also create bots intended to pose as sexually precocious minors. One chatbot named “Submissive Schoolgirl” presented itself as an eighth grade student (approximately 13 or 14 years old) attempting to have an illicit physical relationship with the school’s principal.

Chat is not the only way AI can artifice child pornography.

Not Just Meta: How Pedophiles Use AI to Generate Child Porn (and May Get Away with It)

The Justice Department prosecuted Steven Anderegg of Wisconsin last May with one charge each for production, distribution, and possession of child obscenity, and one count of transferring obscene material to a minor. The DOJ says, between October and December 2023, the pedophile used Stable Diffusion software to generate “thousands of realistic images of prepubescent minors” who do not really exist engaged in hardcore pornography. Anderegg asserted in court that he “has the right to possess and produce obscene material in his own home” under Stanley v. Georgia, a 1969 Supreme Court opinion issued by the notoriously activist Warren Court. A February 13 opinion from U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson, an Obama appointee, dismissed the possession charge but let three additional federal charges move forward.

Further, a 6-3 Supreme Court opinion from Justice Anthony Kennedy in Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition (2002) claimed that AI-generated child pornography, under existing law, “records no crime and creates no victims by its production.” While legal experts and historians agree the Founding Fathers never intended the First Amendment to cover pornographic material of any kind, the lag between law and technology concerns experts. All “pedophiles with access to images of children could similarly employ this form of AI to create” new child sexual abuse material (CSAM), wrote Joy Stockbauer, a policy analyst with the Pennsylvania House of Representatives then writing for The Washington Stand.

The actions verify concerns Family Research Council expressed in a comment on the federal government’s proposed artificial intelligence action plan in February. FRC noted that one user posing as an underage girl reported how her 30-year-old beau had “invited her on a trip and was talking about having sex with her for the first time.”

“Instead of recognizing that the user was a minor engaging in a pedophilic relationship, the chatbot offered suggestions on how to make her first time special,” noted FRC. Such interactions may cause children to “internalize distorted messages about human relationships and how to treat people.” Further, since designers intend chatbots “to be addictive, they will often tell children exactly what they want to hear,” which “can hinder children’s ability to handle disagreements, think critically about media, and respect their parents.”

But elected officials can take steps to rein in those who create or provide a platform for AI-generated child pornography. “The government must make it clear that Section 230 immunity does not apply to generative AI, like chatbots, so that companies can be held liable for real-life harms caused by their product design,” the FRC comment emphasized. After all, “AI chatbot interactions are not the speech of the company, but a computer algorithm outputting data based on pattern recognition that is clearly product design they should be liable for.”

But first politicians must realize the potential harm caused by AI technology. “On a social level, the risks are clear. When an AI chatbot identifies as a minor and encourages sexual fantasies with adult users, it’s not only bad for the emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being of the user, but it risks inspiring sexually predatory acts in real life. And it is also obviously wildly inappropriate for an AI chatbot to encourage and participate in sexual ‘conversations’ with kids,” Del Turco, one of the authors of the comment, told TWS. “It’s not the proper role of AI to teach children about sex, and certainly not to taint their innocence by manipulating their imaginations and exposing kids to graphic fantasies.”

“This reporting exemplifies why FRC recommended that the Trump administration take extra care to protect children and families when developing policy on AI,” Del Turco remarked, although she noted that “market pressures for private companies and the desire for the U.S. government to compete with other countries in AI advancements make this an uphill battle.”

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One Court Case Could Totally Upend Google’s Search Engine Empire

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Google’s search engine empire could face a serious reckoning as the Justice Department’s landmark antitrust case entered its remedies phase Monday, handing a federal judge the power to dismantle the tech behemoth’s illegal monopoly over how users discover information online.

The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia already ruled in August that Google illegally maintained a “monopoly” in general search markets, mainly through billion-dollar deals to secure exclusive default status on mobile devices and browsers. Now, Judge Amit Mehta will decide how far the government can go to unwind said monopoly — with potential remedies ranging from prohibiting exclusivity agreements to forcing divestiture of Chrome or Android, interventions that could deliver a serious blow to the company’s entire business model.

“You’re ultimately trying to resolve the particular harm that you’ve seen,” Luke Hogg, director of technology policy at the Foundation for American Innovation, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “And whether or not Google’s control of Chrome or Google’s control of Android is contributory to their general size and market position is secondary to questions of how that actually helped in their monopolization of search.”

Mehta’s forthcoming remedy could bar Google from continuing exclusivity deals with Apple, Samsung and Android device manufacturers — a core part of the company’s current business model. Though the DOJ doubled down in March on pursuing more drastic measures, like forcing Google to spin off Chrome or Android entirely, Hogg said that’s unlikely to happen.

“There’s middle ground points where you can get to greater competition in those markets without totally spinning it off,” Hogg said, pointing to historical precedent. “If you go back and look at the Microsoft case and the consent decree there, they get to this middle ground point where there’s a lot of openness requirements, interoperability requirements, banning of exclusivity deals and things like that.”

Hogg was referencing the DOJ’s 1998 lawsuit against Microsoft, which charged the company with using its dominance in PC operating systems to crush rival Netscape by bundling Internet Explorer with Windows. Though the court initially ordered a breakup, the case ultimately ended in a consent decree that imposed interoperability rules and banned certain exclusivity deals — a potential blueprint for reining in Google without tearing it apart.

Such a ruling — that is, enforcing interoperability requirements and exclusivity bans rather than forcing breakups or divestiture — could rattle Google’s financial relationships with key partners, particularly Apple, Samsung and Mozilla — companies that have long enjoyed billion-dollar benefits from default placement deals. Apple previously indicated it would likely keep Google as the default search engine on Safari even without those payments, but the end of such arrangements would still cut off a highly lucrative revenue stream. Google paid Apple $20 billion to remain the default search engine on Safari in 2022, according to Apple’s December motion to intervene in the case.

“If this court prohibits Google from sharing revenue for search distribution, Apple would have two unacceptable choices,” Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of services, wrote in his declaration of support for the motion. “It could still let users in the United States choose Google as a search engine for Safari, but Apple could not receive any share of the resulting revenue, so Google would obtain valuable access to Apple’s users at no cost. Or Apple could remove Google Search as a choice on Safari. But because customers prefer Google, removing it as an option would harm both Apple and its customers.”

Mozilla may face far greater disruption. The company derives a significant portion of its annual revenue — some 85% in 2023, according to Fortune — from its exclusivity deal with Google, a dependency that could become an existential liability if the court bans such agreements outright.

Samsung, meanwhile, could have more freedom to strike its own deals if Google is forced to separate Android from its other services. But untangling those tightly linked agreements could create new headaches for phone makers used to getting everything — the operating system, the browser and the search engine — in one package.

But while the courtroom battle focuses on Google’s grip over traditional search, the future of the industry may already be slipping beyond the company’s control. The rise of artificial intelligence-powered tools like ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity is beginning to shift how users interact with information online — away from keyword-driven search results and toward conversational, context-aware answers.

“The search market is not what it was when this case started,” Hogg said. “But that also doesn’t mean that Google’s monopolistic practices aren’t problematic.”

Google, long viewed as a leader in AI research, has released a competitive model in Gemini, but is facing strong headwinds from faster-moving rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic, who continue to beat Google across several key benchmarks, according to Stanford University’s 2025 AI Index Report.

Hogg argued the company’s dominance in traditional search may have discouraged it from more aggressively pursuing its own breakthrough tools.

“They were developing what eventually became Gemini four, five, six years ago,” Hogg continued. “But instead of launching it, they kind of held off until OpenAI jumped onto the scene. The reason they weren’t investing as heavily and not willing to go to the levels outside companies were going to go is because of the clear competition to their search monopoly.”

Under the Biden administration, the DOJ initially proposed in November that Google divest its AI investments, including stakes in companies like Anthropic, to prevent further entrenchment of its search monopoly. As of March, however, the Trump administration’s DOJ is now only requiring Google to give advance notice of future AI investments — a shift toward a more hands-off approach under President Donald Trump, though concerns still remain.

“We believe that Google can and will attempt to circumvent the court’s remedies if [AI provisions are] not included,” DOJ prosecutor David Dahlquist told Mehta in court Monday, according to Fortune. “Gen AI is Google’s next evolution to keep their vicious cycle spinning.” A written transcript of proceedings has not yet been publicly released.

Still, the central question is whether any remedy — no matter how well-crafted — can land quickly or forcefully enough to matter in a search market already being reshaped, or replaced, by AI. Hogg such remedies can, but only if paired with real competitive pressure.

“It’s going to end up being this confluence of remedies against Google plus innovation in the market,” Hogg said. “Maybe we’ll see in five, six, seven years that Google Search will kind of be like Yahoo — everybody remembers it was that huge thing, but now everybody’s using Perplexity or whatever.”

The case also comes at a politically volatile moment for Big Tech. Originally filed under Trump, the lawsuit moved forward under former President Joe Biden and has now re-escalated under Trump’s second term. Key regulatory appointees — including Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Andrew Ferguson, a longtime skeptic of Silicon Valley consolidation — have signaled a more aggressive stance toward digital monopolies, even as the administration’s DOJ softens some of its earlier demands.

Just last week, Google was dealt another blow when a federal judge ruled it had illegally used its dominance in digital advertising to edge out competitors — a separate case with implications that could lead to further structural remedies. Meta, too, remains locked in an antitrust battle with the FTC over its acquisition of Instagram and WhatsApp, underscoring that Google’s trial is just one front in a much larger war.

However Mehta rules in the coming months, the outcome will demonstrate how far the government is willing, and able, to go in challenging the foundations of Silicon Valley’s power.

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Iran’s Dangerous Push To Become An AI Superpower

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Iran | MEMRI Daily Brief No. 715

Heads of state, top government officials, leaders of international organizations, tech CEOs, and academics from over 90 countries are meeting this week in Paris for the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit. In his speech at the summit, Vice President JD Vance, who led the U.S. delegation, stated: “We will safeguard American AI and chip technologies from theft and misuse, work with our allies and partners to strengthen and extend these protections and close pathways to adversaries attaining AI capabilities that threaten all of our people.”

One such adversary not invited, for good reason, was Iran. In its approach to AI, Iran is following its successful development of drone technology, which began with the reverse engineering of a U.S. RQ-170 Sentinel drone it downed in 2012 by using its technology to produce its Shaheed drones. As it now develops its AI expertise via theft, copying open-source software, and collaborating with Russia and China, the Iranian government – which recently acknowledged its failure to reverse-engineer a Tesla electric vehicle – is quietly pursuing AI advances for military, cyber, and defense purposes.

The world has already witnessed the dangers of Iran’s drone program, and Iran’s development and destructive capabilities have surprised Western military and intelligence agencies. If proper attention is not given to another nascent Iranian threat now emerging: a clandestine yet intensifying rush for mastery of AI – this too will become another national security threat.

Iran’s investments into its AI engineers seem to be paying off. So far in 2025, Iran has announced the following: it is allocating $115 million to AI research, it has added an “advanced data-processing” warship equipped with AI to its naval fleet and 1,000 new combat drones, some with AI navigation, to its army; and it has boosted the precision of its missiles using AI, and many of these new weapons will be stationed as part of electronic warfare units in the strategic port of Jask on the Gulf of Oman. It also announced it is testing ‘smart’ combat robots.

According to findings released by Google on January 29, 2025, Iranian groups are using the company’s Gemini AI chatbot for researching defense organizations to target with hacking attempts, to generate content in English, Hebrew, and Farsi to be used in phishing campaigns, and other purposes.

For Iran, AI is an inexpensive path to power. It is already using it for cyberattacks and influence operations abroad, and to upgrade its drones and ballistic missiles, deploy swarms of unmanned watercraft, surveil and repress its citizens, and control its borders. Alarmingly, it could now be exploring AI’s potential nuclear applications.

The U.S. government’s October 2024 landmark national security memorandum on AI reflects awareness of such threats, and details how the U.S. “must develop safeguards for its use of AI tools, and take an active role in steering global AI norms and institutions.” The memorandum sets out guidelines for the Pentagon, intelligence agencies, and national security organizations to add “guardrails” to prevent AI from being hijacked by hostile governments such as Iran, to develop nuclear weapons or “generate or exacerbate deliberate chemical and biological threats.” It also calls on intelligence agencies to begin protecting work, and the chips used to power it, as national treasures.

The Iranian government has already conducted successful campaigns using AI. The Iranian covert influence operation known as Storm-2035 used ChatGPT to disseminate disinformation and generate false news reports on a variety of topics, including the U.S. presidential election.

On numerous occasions, the Iranian leadership has declared its intent to make the country an AI superpower. By November 2021, it completed an official “study of the national artificial intelligence development roadmap,” and Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has since then publicly discussed Iran’s strategy to master AI. He said that “one of Iran’s goals is to be among the top 10 countries in the area of artificial intelligence,” and asked Iranian scientists to focus on this goal.

Less than two months after Iran’s launch of its national AI center, Khamenei stressed, in August this year, that Iran must act fast to “master all layers of AI.” He went on to warn of “attempts by the world’s opportunists and those seeking power to target Iran by “establish[ing] an IAEA-like body [to regulate] AI” and “prevent countries’ progress in this field.”

Based on their ongoing public cooperation, it should be deduced that Russia and China have already provided AI technology and knowledge to Iran. In 2020, the Iran-Russia Cooperation Group on Communications and Information Technology began working together on AI, and this year, the two countries signed an official agreement on AI cooperation. Iranian Army deputy chief of staff Brig.-Gen. Mehdi Rabbani attended a Beijing forum on topics including AI back in 2019. By January 2022, the vice chancellor of a top Iranian university was pointing at the 3,000 Iranian students already in China and stressing that the 25-year Iran-China agreement of March 2021 offered a “golden opportunity” to boost the two countries’ AI cooperation.

The most dangerous potential of Iranian mastery of AI is for military uses and nuclear weapons technology. Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), said in January 2021 that the organization was striving to use the quantum technology it had been developing since 2016 for AI.

The IRGC and Iran Army added to their arsenals in July 2023 an Iranian-made missile that, Iran claimed, “has artificial intelligence and stealth capabilities.” IRGC commander Gen. Hossein Salami said in February 2024 that Iranian missiles and vessels were “equipped with highly accurate AI technologies,” adding that “today, we can move from [the Iranian nuclear facility at] Bushehr to the American coasts.” IRGC Aerospace Force commander Brig.-Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh boasted, in January 2021, about “the use of artificial intelligence technology” in Iran’s surface-to-surface ballistic missiles. Just yesterday, on February 10, IRGC Naval Commander Ali Reza Tangsiri announced the unveiling of supersonic cruise missiles with a range of 2,000 kilometers, saying: “All these missiles are sophisticated – designed and manufactured on the basis of artificial intelligence – and will be unveiled next year.”

The October 2024 U.S. security memorandum gives the U.S.’s new AI Safety Institute (AISI) the power to help inspect AI tools prior to release to make sure that they cannot be used by terrorists and bad actors to build weapons of mass destruction or help hostile nations improve missile accuracy, as Iran admits doing. Amid reports in 2023 that the IRGC navy had developed AI-enhanced unmanned military vessels, that could be used for mass attacks, commander Tangsiri said that the navy had developed AI-equipped long-range strategic cruise missiles. In August, IRGC naval exercises featured AI-enhanced unmanned vessels. Tangsiri explained that the IRGC had fitted drones with AI for improved range, precision, and radar evasion, and that the IRGC was implementing AI in the drone, missile, vessel and submarine industries.

As AI development is moving at the speed of light in Iran, Khamenei is right to worry about international efforts to stop Iran from using it for advancing its military aims. But these efforts, like efforts to slow Iran’s nuclear program, will be difficult to bring to fruition. They will need to include the usual measures, such as leveling sanctions any time the country is caught trying to obtain technology by illegal means.

The new Trump administration will need to act fast to strengthen guardrails to ensure that America’s enemies such as Iran are not able to access its technology. The severity of the threat was reflected in statements by the head of the Pentagon’s newly created Artificial Intelligence Office, who acknowledged in December that “AI adoption by adversaries like China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea is accelerating and poses significant national security risks.” This week China surprised the world with its DeepSeek AI, action should be taken to make sure Iran doesn’t have the same opportunity with its own AI model.

AUTHOR

Steven Stalinsky

Steven Stalinsky, Ph.D., is Executive Director of The Middle East Media Research Institute.

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The cost of Facebook’s now-repudiated censorship

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History will remember this era as the moment when America’s most sacred principles collided with unprecedented institutional power — and lost. The systematic dismantling of fundamental rights didn’t happen through military force or executive decree, but through the quiet cooperation of tech platforms, media gatekeepers, and government agencies, all claiming to protect us from “misinformation.”

Meta’s sudden dismantling of its fact-checking program — announced by Zuckerberg as a “cultural tipping point towards prioritizing speech” — reads like a quiet footnote to what history may record as one of the most staggering violations of fundamental rights in recent memory. After eight years of increasingly aggressive content moderation, including nearly 100 fact-checking organizations operating in over 60 languages, Meta is now pivoting to a community-driven system similar to X’s model.

In his announcement, Zuckerberg first suggests that the censorship was purely a technical mistake, and then changes his tune near the end and admits what has long been litigated: “The only way that we can push back on this global trend is with the support of the US government. And that’s why it’s been so difficult over the past 4 years when even the US government has pushed for censorship. By going after us and other American companies, it has emboldened other governments to go even further.”

In many court cases costing millions, involving vast FOIA requests, depositions, and discoveries, the truth of this has been documented in 100,000 pages of evidence. The Murthy v. Missouri case alone uncovered substantial communications through FOIA and depositions, revealing the depth of government coordination with social media platforms. The Supreme Court considered it all but several justices simply could not comprehend the substance and scale, and thus reversed a lower court injunction to stop it all. Now we have Zuckerberg openly admitting precisely what was in dispute: the US government’s involvement in aggressive violation of the First Amendment.

This should, at least, make it easier to find redress as the cases proceed. Still, it is frustrating. Tens of millions have been spent to prove what he could have admitted years ago. But back then, the censors were still in charge, and Facebook was guarding its relationship with the powers that be.

The timing of the shift is telling: a Trump ally joining the board, Meta’s president of global affairs being replaced by a prominent Republican, and a new administration preparing to take control. But while Zuckerberg frames this as a return to free speech principles, the damage of their experiment in mass censorship can’t be undone with a simple policy change.

The irony runs deep: private companies claiming independence while acting as extensions of state power. Consider our own experience: posting Mussolini’s definition of fascism as “the merger of state and corporate power” – only to have Meta remove it as “misinformation.” This wasn’t just censorship; it was meta-censorship – silencing discussion about the very mechanisms of control being deployed.

While tech platforms maintained the facade of private enterprise, their synchronized actions with government agencies revealed a more troubling reality: the emergence of exactly the kind of state-corporate fusion they were trying to prevent us from discussing.

As we’ve covered before, we didn’t just cross lines – we crossed sacred Rubicons created after humanity’s darkest chapters. The First Amendment, born from revolution against tyranny, and the Nuremberg Code, established after World War II’s horrors, were meant to be unbreakable guardians of human rights. Both were systematically dismantled in the name of “safety.” The same tactics of misinformation, fear, and government overreach that our ancestors warned against were deployed with frightening efficiency.

This systematic dismantling left no topic untouched: from discussions of vaccine effects to debates about virus origins to questions about mandate policies. Scientific discourse was replaced with approved narratives. Medical researchers couldn’t share findings that diverged from institutional positions, as seen in the removal of credible discussions of Covid-19 data and policy. Even personal experiences were labelled “misinformation” if they didn’t align with official messaging – a pattern that reached absurd heights when even discussing the nature of censorship itself became grounds for censorship.

The damage rippled through every layer of society. At the individual level, careers were destroyed and professional licenses revoked simply for sharing genuine experiences. Scientists and doctors who questioned prevailing narratives found themselves professionally ostracized. Many were made to feel isolated or irrational for trusting their own eyes and experiences when platforms labelled their firsthand accounts as “misinformation.”

The destruction of family bonds may prove even more lasting. Holiday tables emptied. Grandparents missed irreplaceable moments with grandchildren. Siblings who had been close for decades stopped speaking. Years of family connections shattered not over disagreements about facts, but over the very right to discuss them.

Perhaps most insidious was the community-level damage. Local groups splintered. Neighbours turned against neighbours. Small businesses faced blacklisting. Churches divided. School board meetings devolved into battlegrounds. The social fabric that enables civil society began unravelling – not because people held different views, but because the very possibility of dialogue was deemed dangerous.

The censors won. They showed that with enough institutional power, they could break apart the social fabric that makes free discourse possible. Now that this infrastructure for suppression exists, it stands ready to be deployed again for whatever cause seems urgent enough. The absence of a public reckoning sends a chilling message: there is no line that cannot be crossed, no principle that cannot be ignored.

True reconciliation demands more than Meta’s casual policy reversal. We need a full, transparent investigation documenting every instance of censorship – from suppressed vaccine injury reports to blocked scientific debates about virus origins to silenced voices questioning mandate policies. This isn’t about vindication – it’s about creating an unassailable public record ensuring these tactics can never be deployed again.

America’s Constitution’s First Amendment wasn’t a suggestion – it was a sacred covenant written in the blood of those who fought tyranny. Its principles aren’t outdated relics but vital protections against the very overreach we just witnessed. When institutions treat these foundational rights as flexible guidelines rather than inviolable boundaries, the damage ripples far beyond any single platform or policy.

Like many in our circles, we witnessed this firsthand. But personal vindication isn’t the goal. Every voice silenced, every debate suppressed, every relationship fractured in service of “approved narratives” represents a tear in our social fabric that makes us all poorer. Without a full accounting and concrete safeguards against future overreach, we’re leaving future generations vulnerable to the same autocratic impulses wearing different masks.

The question isn’t whether we can restore what was lost – we can’t. The question is whether we’ll finally recognize these rights as truly inviolable, or continue treating them as inconvenient obstacles to be swept aside whenever fear and urgency demand it. Benjamin Franklin warned that those who would surrender essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Our answer to this challenge will determine whether we leave our children a society that defends essential liberties or one that casually discards them in the name of safety.

Here is the full transcript of Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement, January 7, 2024:

Hey, everyone. I wanna talk about something important today because it’s time to get back to our roots around free expression on Facebook and Instagram. I started building social media to give people a voice. I gave a speech at Georgetown 5 years ago about the importance of protecting free expression, and I still believe this today. But a lot has happened over the last several years.

There’s been widespread debate about potential harms from online content, governments and legacy media have pushed to censor more and more. A lot of this is clearly political, but there’s also a lot of legitimately bad stuff out there. Drugs, terrorism, child exploitation. These are things that we take very seriously and I wanna make sure that we handle responsibly. So we built a lot of complex systems to moderate content, but the problem with complex systems is they make mistakes.

Even if they accidentally censor just 1% of posts, that’s millions of people. And we’ve reached a point where it’s just too many mistakes and too much censorship. The recent elections also feel like a cultural tipping point towards once again prioritizing speech. So we’re gonna get back to our roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies, and restoring free expression on our platforms. More specifically, here’s what we’re gonna do.

First, we’re gonna get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with community notes similar to X starting in the US. After Trump first got elected in 2016, the legacy media wrote nonstop about how misinformation was a threat to democracy. We tried in good faith to address those concerns without becoming the arbiters of truth, but the fact-checkers have just been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they’ve created, especially in the US. So over the next couple of months, we’re gonna phase in a more comprehensive community note system. Second, we’re gonna simplify our content policies and get rid of a bunch of restrictions on topics like immigration and gender that are just out of touch with mainstream discourse.

What started as a movement to be more inclusive has increasingly been used to shut down opinions and shut out people with different ideas, and it’s gone too far. So I wanna make sure that people can share their beliefs and experiences on our platforms. Third, we’re changing how we enforce our policies to reduce the mistakes that account for the vast majority of censorship on our platforms. We used to have filters that scanned for any policy violation. Now we’re gonna focus those filters on tackling illegal and high severity violations.

And for lower severity violations, we’re going to rely on someone reporting an issue before we take action. The problem is that the filters make mistakes and they take down a lot of content that they shouldn’t. So by dialling them back, we’re gonna dramatically reduce the amount of censorship on our platforms. We’re also going to tune our content filters to require much higher confidence before taking down content. The reality is that this is a trade-off.

It means we’re gonna catch less bad stuff, but we’ll also reduce the number of innocent people’s posts and accounts that we accidentally take down. Fourth, we’re bringing back civic content. For a while, the community asked to see less politics because it was making people stressed. So we stopped recommending these posts, but it feels like we’re in a new era now and we’re starting to get feedback that people want to see this content again. So we’re gonna start phasing this back into Facebook, Instagram and Threads while working to keep the communities friendly and positive.

Fifth, Fifth, we’re gonna move our trust and safety and content moderation teams out of California and our US-based content review is going to be based in Texas. As we work to promote free expression, I think that will help us build trust to do this work in places where there is less concern about the bias of our teams. Finally, we’re gonna work with President Trump to push back on governments around the world that are going after American companies and pushing to censor more. The US has the strongest constitutional protections for free expression in the world. Europe has an ever increasing number of laws institutionalizing censorship and making it difficult to build anything innovative there.

Latin American countries have secret courts that can order companies to quietly take things down. China has censored our apps from even working in the country. The only way that we can push back on this global trend is with the support of the US government. And that’s why it’s been so difficult over the past 4 years when even the US government has pushed for censorship. By going after us and other American companies, it has emboldened other governments to go even further.

But now we have the opportunity to restore free expression, and I am excited to take it. It’ll take time to get this right. And these are complex systems. They’re never gonna be perfect. There’s also a lot of illegal stuff that we still need to work very hard to remove.

But the bottom line is that after years of having our content moderation work focused primarily on removing content, it is time to focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our systems, and getting back to our roots about giving people voice. I’m looking forward to this next chapter. Stay good out there and more to come soon.”  

Do you think that Zuck’s conversion to the cause of radical free speech is sincere?  

AUTHORS

Joshua Stylman and Jeffrey Tucker

Joshua Stylman has been an entrepreneur and investor for over 30 years. For two decades, he focused on building and growing companies in the digital economy, co-founding and successfully exiting three businesses while investing in and mentoring dozens of technology startups. In 2014, seeking to create a meaningful impact in his local community, Stylman founded Threes Brewing, a craft brewery and hospitality company that became a beloved NYC institution. He served as CEO until 2022, stepping down after receiving backlash for speaking out against the city’s vaccine mandates. Today, Stylman lives in the Hudson Valley with his wife and children, where he balances family life with various business ventures and community engagement.

Jeffrey Tucker is Founder, Author, and President at Brownstone Institute. He is also Senior Economics Columnist for Epoch Times, author of 10 books, including Life After Lockdown, and many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press. He speaks widely on topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture.

This article has been republished from the Brownstone Institute website under a Creative Commons licence.  

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MAJOR INCIDENT: Chinese Government Hackers Breach U.S. Treasury

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Chinese hackers breached the U.S. Treasury Department earlier this month, stealing documents from its workstations.

Our enemies are exploiting the last days of a complicit, treacherous, incompetent regime. Hackers compromised a third-party software service provider, accessing certain unclassified documents, according to a letter sent to lawmakers.

Why is the Biden regime using third party services? The United States, the engine and inventor of all of this technology, doesn’t have the capability to protect our systems? This is a disgrace.

Hackers affiliated with the Chinese government infiltrated the United States Treasury Department earlier this month, gaining access to sensitive systems and stealing unclassified documents from agency workstations, according to a report. The incident, described as a “major incident” by officials, highlights ongoing vulnerabilities in the cybersecurity defenses of critical government agencies. The breach was detailed in a letter sent to …(Newswize)

Chinese Hackers Breached Workstations, Stole Documents, Treasury Department Says

The Treasury Department in Washington on March 25, 2024

By Emel Akan, The Epoch Times, December 31, 2024:

WASHINGTON—Chinese hackers remotely breached the U.S. Treasury Department earlier this month, stealing documents from its workstations, according to a letter the agency sent to lawmakers on Monday. The Treasury Department described the breach as a “major incident.”

On Dec. 8, Chinese state-sponsored hackers compromised a third-party software service provider, Beyond Trust, accessing certain unclassified documents, according to the letter by Aditi Hardikar, an assistant Treasury secretary.

The department did not specify how many workstations had been compromised or what kind of documents the hackers may have obtained. However, in the letter, it said that the BeyondTrust service has been taken offline and “at this time there is no evidence indicating the threat actor has continued access to Treasury information.”

The department did not specify how many workstations had been compromised or what kind of documents the hackers may have obtained. However, in the letter, it said that the BeyondTrust service has been taken offline and “at this time there is no evidence indicating the threat actor has continued access to Treasury information.”

The department said it was working with the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to investigate the scope of the hack.

Last week, a White House official announced that the recent cyberattacks affected nine telecom companies, including Verizon, AT&T, and CenturyLink.

Continue reading.

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

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Here’s How Trump Admin Could Help Crush Censorship Industry

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The Trump administration has a major opportunity to deal a blow to the sprawling censorship industry, both inside the government and in the private sector.

Trump promised in a campaign video from Dec. 2022 to “shatter the left-wing censorship regime” by, among other proposals, signing an executive order banning agencies from collaborating with private platforms to suppress speech and ordering the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate parties involved in censorship.

“If Trump takes the steps that he has indicated he will, one focus of anti-censorship efforts I anticipate is nonprofits like the Atlantic Council and Stanford Internet Observatory [SIO] that operate as middlemen between the government and the tech companies,” New Civil Liberties Alliance attorney Jenin Younes told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “As President, Trump should ensure that the White House and his executive agencies do not work with these groups to censor ‘mis’ or ‘disinformation.’ In fact, all government efforts in the MDM [misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation] sphere should end, since this clearly results in suppressing First Amendment protected speech.”

Under the Biden administration, White House staff made explicit requests for platforms to restrict COVID-19 related speech. Other agencies participated in speech suppression, with the Center for Disease Control (CDC) flagging posts for removal and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) forwarding misinformation reports from local election officials to platforms, a practice they called “switchboarding.”

CISA likewise helped create of the Election Integrity Partnership in 2020, which the SIO played a key role in running, to monitor “misinformation” and report it to platforms during the 2020 election. A federal judge declined last week to dismiss a lawsuit against the SIO, along with several other groups, over their alleged targeting of conservative speech.

“Private entities cannot be permitted to partner with the government to censor Americans’ speech,” Nicholas R. Barry, America First Legal Senior Counsel, said in a statement.

Younes told the DCNF she would like to see “punishment for government actors who have violated Americans’ First Amendment rights.”

“At this time, such individuals manage to escape accountability for their actions because of doctrines like qualified immunity,” she said. “However, there can be exceptions to qualified immunity when government officials knowingly flout people’s civil rights, and those exceptions should be applied in the First Amendment context.”

Trump’s other suggestions included firing bureaucrats who have engaged in censorship, ensuring federal dollars do not go towards nonprofits and universities labeling domestic speech as misinformation and asking Congress to revise Section 230 to “get big online platforms out of censorship.”

The Biden administration has issued $267 million in grant funding for projects including the term “misinformation,” including $127 million specifically relating to COVID-19, according to a November Open The Books report. The DCNF reported in 2023 on several projects funded by the NSF to develop censorship tools, including a dashboard to forecast misinformation “trends” and another studying how misinformation influences online networks.

‘Smash This Censorship Cartel’

Many Trump nominees have been vocal about their commitment to promoting free speech.

Andrew Ferguson, who Trump selected as the new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) chair, said on War Room in late November that Trump can cut off some censorship outright, ordering officials to stop communicating with platforms and ending government funding for entities participating in speech suppression. But private censorship would likely move to “new fronts,” he noted, making it important for the FTC to take “investigative steps.”

Ferguson said “advertiser cartels” could violate antitrust laws by agreeing to boycott certain shows, podcasts and platforms.

“If the government is going to get out of the business here in the states of cooperating and colluding with the platforms to suppress the speech that they don’t like, then it’s up to the FTC to make sure that that sort of cooperation and collusion doesn’t move into the private sector,” Ferguson said.

Trump’s pick to lead the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Brennan Carr likewise said in a NewsNation interview that one of his top priorities would be to “smash this censorship cartel.”

Other appointees took strong stances on censorship. Jay Bhattacharya, Trump’s choice for National Institute for Health (NIH) head, co-authored the Great Barrington Declaration pushing back on COVID-19 lockdowns and responses. United States Department of Health and Human Services Secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. brought his own lawsuit against the Biden administration for alleged First Amendment violations.

Harmeet Dhillon, who is set to run the DOJ’s civil rights division, worked with her firm on a case challenging the California Secretary of State’s Office coordination with Twitter to suppress speech.

Continued Litigation

While the Supreme Court found in June that plaintiffs who challenged the Biden administration’s censorship efforts failed to link their accounts’ restrictions to the government’s communications with platforms, the Missouri v. Biden lawsuit is ongoing. In November, the district court allowed the plaintiffs to pursue more discovery to establish the government’s involvement.

“Depending on the approach the Administration takes, it is conceivable that cases like ours could resolve in a consent decree, in which the government acknowledges its wrongdoing and takes various specific steps to safeguard against future violations of Americans’ First Amendment free speech rights,” Younes told the DCNF regarding the case.

The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) recently launched a new Center for Free Speech aimed at targeting censorship entities, pointing to the “new opportunity” free speech defenders will have as Trump takes office.

ADF Senior Counsel Phil Sechler told the DCNF the center is intended to create “substantial pushback on global censorship,” which he said has increased over the past decade by both private and government actors.

Potential targets include state level election laws, like the California laws targeting political satire that ADF already filed a lawsuit against on behalf of the Babylon Bee, along with debanking practices and other censorship by private actors.

“There is a lot of work to be done to dismantle this censorship industrial complex that’s been built up over many years,” Sechler told the DCNF.

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Katelynn Richardson

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Project Blue Beam: The Conspiracy Theory Reignited by Drone Sightings

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“For decades, the theory of Project Blue Beam has captured the imaginations of skeptics and believers alike.

Initially popularized by Canadian investigative journalist Serge Monast in the 1990s, this controversial theory claims that a shadowy global elite is plotting an elaborate deception using advanced technologies to usher in a new world order.

Monast’s untimely death in 1996—attributed to a heart attack—only deepened the mystery surrounding his work and gave credence to his warnings for many who follow his theories.

Today, the theory is back in the national spotlight thanks to unexplained drone sightings reported in several U.S. states.

Conservative activist Charlie Kirk, known for founding Turning Point USA, amplified the discussion when he posted to X (formerly Twitter), “WE ARE F****D. THE DRONES ARE PROJECT BLUE BEAM. LOOK FOR VIDS OF THEM TRANSFORMING FROM BALLS OF LIGHT TO PLANES WHEN FILMED TO SEE FOR YOURSELF.”

Kirk’s tweet instantly drew widespread attention, with many questioning whether the mysterious drones could be connected to the kind of technological deception Monast warned about nearly three decades ago.

The Origins of Project Blue Beam

Serge Monast’s theory, as detailed in his 1994 book, outlined a four-step process aimed at deceiving humanity and consolidating global power under a single authoritarian regime.

Three of those steps included:

  1. Holographic Projections: Using advanced technologies to project images of religious figures or alien invasions in the sky to manipulate populations.
  2. Telepathic Communication: Employing technologies to simulate divine messages directly into people’s minds.
  3. Global Chaos: Orchestrating crises, including economic collapse and natural disasters, to force humanity into accepting a single global government.

Monast claimed that NASA and the United Nations were key players in this alleged plan.

He often warned that those who revealed the truth would be silenced. Monast himself died of a heart attack in 1996, shortly after being arrested and spending a night in jail. No one knows why Monast was arrested, though it’s been suggested he was operating an unregistered homeschool.

With no autopsy performed, his death has been cited as suspicious by many.

The Current Drone Phenomenon

Over the past few weeks, reports of unexplained drones have surfaced across multiple states, including New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, California, and other states.

Witnesses describe the drones as maneuvering with precision and sometimes displaying strange lighting patterns, with some being described as large as cars. These sightings have sparked intense speculation about their origin and purpose.

Alternative Explanations for the Drones

While Project Blue Beam has captured much of the spotlight, other potential explanations for the mysterious drones include:

  1. Surveillance by Foreign Governments: The drones could be conducting covert reconnaissance of critical U.S. infrastructure.
  2. Preparation for a Coordinated Attack: They might be mapping targets for future attacks, including cyber or physical sabotage.
  3. Domestic Terrorism or Rogue Actors: Extremist groups or individuals may be testing capabilities for disruptive purposes.
  4. Testing of Advanced Military or AI Technology: The drones could be part of a secretive project testing new technologies.
  5. False Flag Operations: The drones might be used to stage events that justify increased government control or military action.
  6. Psychological Manipulation or Fear Campaign: The drones could be intended to create panic or distract from other issues.
  7. Environmental and Infrastructure Damage: They might be tampering with critical resources, such as power grids or water supplies.

Feel free to offer your possible explanations in the comment section.

The U.S. Army: Ghosts in the Machine

If you think the U.S. Government is behind the drones, you have every reason to be concerned. I encourage everyone to watch the Army’s 4th PSYOP Ghosts in the Machine video.

Here’s a quote taken directly from that video: “Have you ever wondered who’s pulling the strings?…There is another very important phase of warfare. It has as it target, not the body, but the mind of the enemy. The target of psychological warfare is against the enemy’s mind. It is words and ideas. Ammunition used by psywar…These are psywar soldiers.”

Conclusion

The resurgence of Project Blue Beam in national discourse highlights how enduring and adaptable conspiracy theories can be, particularly in the face of unexplained events.

Whether these mysterious drones represent a harbinger of Monast’s warnings or something more mundane, the public’s fascination remains undeniable.

Serge Monast’s legacy endures, not only through his detailed writings but also through the enduring questions his theories raise. As investigations into the drones continue, it remains to be seen whether this phenomenon will provide answers or only deepen the mystery.

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Legacy media need to take a long, hard look into the mirror

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I can count on one hand the times I have seen leaders of media organisations engage in anything that could be described as hard-hitting forms of self-critique in the public square.

One of those times was when Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg went on public record, in a letter to the Republican House Judiciary Committee (dated 26 August 2024), that he “regretted” bowing to pressure from the Biden administration to censor “certain Covid-19 content.” Another was the almost unprecedented public apology in January 2022 (here’s a report in English) by a Danish newspaper that it had toed the “official” line during the pandemic far too uncritically.

We witnessed a third moment of critical introspection from a media owner the other day, when Jeff Bezos, who owns The Washington Post and is the largest shareholder of Amazon, suggested in an op-ed in his own newspaper that legacy media may have themselves at least partly to blame for the loss of public trust in the media.

In this context, he argued that his decision not to authorise the Washington Post to endorse a presidential candidate could be “a meaningful step” toward restoring public trust in the media, by addressing the widespread perception that media organisations are “biased” or not objective.

You don’t need to be a fan of Jeff Bezos, any more than of Mark Zuckerberg, to recognise that it is a good thing that prominent representatives of the financial and political elite of modern societies, whatever their personal flaws and contradictions, at least begin to express doubts about the conduct and values of media organisations. Some truths, no matter how obvious, will not resonate across society until prominent opinion leaders viewed as “safe” or “established”, say them out loud.

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Bezos opens his Washington Post article by pointing out that public trust in American media has collapsed in recent generations and is now at an all-time low (a substantial decline can be seen across many European countries as well, if you compare the Reuters Digital News Report from 2015 with that of 2023 — for example, Germany sees a drop from 60 percent to 42 percent trust, and the UK sees a drop from 51 percent to 33 percent).

In the annual public surveys about trust and reputation, journalists and the media have regularly fallen near the very bottom, often just above Congress. But in this year’s Gallup poll, we have managed to fall below Congress. Our profession is now the least trusted of all. Something we are doing is clearly not working… Most people believe the media is biased. Anyone who doesn’t see this is paying scant attention to reality, and those who fight reality lose.

Something we are doing is clearly not working. This is the sort of candid introspection we need to see a lot more of in journalists and media owners. If someone stops trusting you, it’s easy to point the finger at someone else or blame it on “disinformation” or citizen ignorance. Not so easy to make yourself vulnerable and take a long, hard look at yourself in the mirror to figure out how you’ve lost their trust.

The owner of The Washington Post does not offer an especially penetrating diagnosis of the problem. However, he does point out some relevant facts that may be worth pondering if we are to come to a deeper understanding of the fact that the Joe Rogan podcast, with an estimated audience of 11 million, now has nearly 20 times CNN’s prime-time audience:

The Washington Post and the New York Times win prizes, but increasingly we talk only to a certain elite. More and more, we talk to ourselves. (It wasn’t always this way — in the 1990s we achieved 80 percent household penetration in the D.C. metro area.)

More and more, we talk to ourselves. Much of the legacy media has become an ideological echo chamber, as I pointed out in an op-ed in The Irish Times a few years ago. Conversations go back and forth between journalists about things they care about, while a substantial number of ordinary citizens, whose minds are on other things, like paying their mortgage, getting a medical appointment, or worrying about the safety of their streets, switch off.

While there are some notable exceptions, the echo-chamber effect is real, and may be part of the explanation for the flight of a growing number of citizens into the arms of alternative media.

Divide

The increasing disconnect between self-important legacy journalists and the man and woman on the street has been evidenced by the fact that so-called “populism” was sneered at by many journalists across Europe and North America while gathering serious momentum on the ground.

It was also evidenced by the fact that serious debates over issues like the harms of lockdowns and the problem of illegal immigration, were largely side-lined by many mainstream media across Europe, while becoming a catalyst for successful political movements such as the Brothers of Italy, Le Pen’s Rassemblement National in France, Alternativ für Deutschland in Germany, and the Freedom Party in Austria.

Perhaps part of the problem is that those working in well-established media organisations tend to take the moral and intellectual high ground and severely underestimate the capacity of ordinary citizens to think through issues for themselves, or to intelligently sort through competing sources of information.

Indeed, even Jeff Bezos, in his attempt to be critical of legacy media, could not resist depicting alternative media exclusively in negative terms. “Many people,” he lamented, “are turning to off-the-cuff podcasts, inaccurate social media posts and other unverified news sources, which can quickly spread misinformation and deepen divisions.”

While there is undoubtedly an abundance of confusion and false and misleading information on social media, it is by no means absent from the legacy media, which has gotten major issues badly wrong. For example, many mainstream journalists and talk show hosts uncritically celebrated the idea that Covid vaccines would block viral transmission, in the absence of any solid scientific evidence for such a belief. Similarly, many journalists dismissed the Covid lab leak theory out of hand, until it emerged that it was actually a scientifically respectable hypothesis.

We should thank Jeff Bezos for highlighting the crisis of trust in the media. But his complacency about the integrity of traditional news sources and his dismissive attitude toward “alternative sources” of news and information are themselves part of the reason why many people are losing respect for the legacy media.

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David Thunder is a researcher and lecturer of political philosophy at the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain.

This article has been republished from David Thunder’s Substack, The Freedom Blog.

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Biden-Harris DOJ Weaponizes Hundred-Year-Old Anti-KKK Law Against Conservatives

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A law originally intended to protect black voters in the late 19th century is now a “powerful weapon” for the Biden administration to target its political opponents, one legal expert told the Caller.

The law is often wielded by the Biden-Harris Department of Justice (DOJ) to target pro-lifers protesting abortion clinics, the Daily Caller first reported. Last year, the Conspiracy Against Rights charge was levied against Douglass Mackey for a 2016 social media post and former President Donald Trump over January 6.

“I was not aware of the Biden-Harris DOJ’s abuse of this harsh conspiracy against rights statute in these other contexts, but I am not surprised,” Stephen Crampton, Senior Counsel with the Thomas More Society, told the Caller in a statement.

Douglass Mackey, known online as “Ricky Vaughn,” was charged with election interference by the Biden-Harris DOJ in 2021. The DOJ alleged in a press release that he illegally used social media to “deprive” citizens of their right to vote during the 2016 presidential election.

Douglass Mackey Case and the Meme Defense Fund

President Donald Trump: “They’re putting Douglass Mackey in jail for sharing a joking meme about Hillary Clinton seven years ago. Nobody ever heard of anything like that.”

Background: On January 27, 2021, five days after Joe…

— Douglass Mackey (@DougMackeyCase) October 31, 2024

Jimmy Kimmel instructs viewers that if they’re voting for Trump they should vote late like Thursday or Friday.

Wasn’t Douglass Mackey sentenced to prison for doing something similar?

Will @TheJusticeDept investigate Jimmy Kimmel? pic.twitter.com/cfwDl94aIZ

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 31, 2024

The charge stemmed from a complaint filed in Brooklyn which alleged Mackey “conspired” with other individuals to encourage supporters of Hillary Clinton to “vote” with text or on social media. One post stated: “Avoid the Line. Vote from Home,” and “Text ‘Hillary’ to 59925.”

Mackey was convicted of the Conspiracy Against Rights charge in 2023 and sentenced last October to seven months in prison.

“Given its expansive interpretation by the courts in years past, it has become a powerful weapon with which this corrupt administration can bludgeon its political opponents and instill fear in all who dare oppose them,” Crampton told the Caller.

Mackey received a bond by an appeals court and has not yet gone to prison, he stated in a Twitter post.

Ep. 38 The First Amendment is done. Douglass Mackey is about to go to prison for mocking Hillary Clinton on the internet. We talked to him right before his sentencing. Remember as you watch that this could be you.

TIMESTAMPS:
(3:12) The Hillary Clinton meme
(4:20) Hillary’s… pic.twitter.com/MLwz2SboGr

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) November 9, 2023

The Conspiracy Against Rights charge was originally a part of the Enforcement Acts passed between 1868 and 1870, according to the DOJ. Most of the legislation was repealed in 1894, but section 241 and 242 of 18 U.S.C. survived. The law was originally intended to protect recently-enfranchised black voters, according to Reuters. The Enforcement Acts are also colloquially known as the “KKK Acts.”

The law prohibits two or more people from “[conspiring] to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person” from exercising their Constitutional rights. The charge carries hefty fines and up to ten years in prison.

The Caller reached out to the DOJ but has not heard back at the time of publication.

“The Biden Justice Department is now using this [charge] against other political enemies,” Mackey wrote in his “Meme Defense Fund.”

Mackey’s case specifically has been pointed to as an example of politically motivated lawfare.

Individuals including Mackey noted that Jimmy Kimmel recently told his viewers that Trump voters should “vote very late” and on “Thursday or maybe Friday.”

Douglass Mackey was sent to prison for this. https://t.co/asYpjeh4pY

— Rep. Mike Collins (@RepMikeCollins) October 31, 2024

Mackey was not the only prominent individual charged under the law last year.

Special Council Jack Smith prosecuted former President Donald Trump on four counts of allegedly conspiring to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election results on January 6, 2021.

One of these counts included the Conspiracy Against Rights charge. The federal government alleged Trump violated the statute by “[conspiring] against the right to vote and to have one’s counted.”

….These revelations END the Sham J6 Civil Hoaxes and the lawless D.C. Case brought by Deranged Jack Smith, which has already been demolished by the United States Supreme Court’s Historic Immunity and Fischer Decisions. I called for everyone to act PEACEFULLY and PATRIOTICALLY,…

— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) September 26, 2024

The complaint claims that Trump “targeted a bedrock function” of the federal government. He was also charged with Conspiracy to Defraud the United States, Conspiracy to Obstruct an Official Proceeding, and Obstruction of and Attempt to Obstruct an Official Proceeding.

Biden’s DOJ has a history of using the Conspiracy Against Rights law to enhance sentences.

An elderly woman, Paulette “Paula” Harlow, was one of several people sentenced to 24 months in prison this May for violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act and the same Conspiracy Against Rights law.

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Eireann Van Natta

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VIDEO: Kentucky Voting Machines REFUSING to Let Voters Select Donald Trump’s Name, Automatically Selecting Kamala Harris Instead

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Kentucky voting machines are REFUSING to let voters select Donald Trump’s name, automatically selecting Kamala Harris instead.

Every day Democrat election crimes en masse.

The good news? Reporting or posting these incidents would have gotten you banned from social media or imprisoned as in January 6th.

Whether anything can me done to undo these crimes is the great question.

WATCH: Kentucky voting machines REFUSE to let voters select Donald Trump

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

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REPORTS: Democrats Posing As Election Officials Are Pushing People out of line in Bucks County, Pennsylvania

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AWED MEDIA BALANCED NEWS: We cover COVID to Climate, as well as Energy to Elections

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Welcome! We cover COVID to Climate, as well as Energy to Elections.

Here is the link for this issue, so please share it on social media.

Checkout the 2024, 2023, & 2022 archives, plus asterisked items below.

“Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” ― Ronald Reagan

— This Newsletter’s Articles, by Topic —

If You Only Have Time to Read Some Select Articles:

*** The Most Devastating COVID Report So Far

*** RFKjr: Trump Can Make America Healthy Again

*** The Militarized Ramp-Up to Eliminate Vaccine Hesitancy

*** Sharyl Attkisson: “There’s Corruption in the Pharmaceutical Industry”

*** Paper mills: the ‘cartel-like’ companies behind fraudulent scientific journals

*** Preparing For The Steal

*** Whistleblower Exposes China’s Infiltration and Plot to Hijack U.S. Elections

*** Voting Glitches

*** The 2024 Election Will be Very Different from the Election in 2020

*** PA officials have busted a large-scale fraudulent voter registration scheme

*** Video: Key differences between Trump and Harris on Energy

*** Tucker Carlson Delivers Powerful Election Prediction

*** Kamala Harris’s Plagiarism Problem

*** How states can protect the right to vote in hurricane-ravaged areas

*** VOTER SUPPRESSION: Why are North Carolina Democrats Stopping Hurricane Helene Survivors from Voting Early?

*** RNC Wins Critical Mail Ballot Case

*** The Biden Regime Has Just Issued a Very Suspicious Directive Permitting Military Intervention in US Domestic Affairs

*** Elon Musk Drops Unforgettable Take on Who’s Running the Shadow Government

*** Buying the News: How Leftwing Donors are Taking Over Local Journalism

*** Sir John Glubb and the Fate of Empires

*** The Top 5 Media Mind Control Hacks

*** Biden DOJ Perfects ‘Equity’ Blueprint For Destroying Police, Fire Departments

*** Richard Hanania – The Origins of Woke

*** Short video: Science and God

*** Archbishop Viganò, Send Open Letter to Catholics in Advance of Election Day

*** We Asked ChatGPT How to Undermine America. Here is the Response.

*** Elon Musk: Critical thinking should be the first thing taught to kids

*** “No More Excuses!”: Parents Defending K-12 Education

*** Why Kids Can’t Read or Do Math

*** US Government Pushing Climate Lies on Schoolchildren

*** Why college students are struggling to read full books

*** Homogenous: The Political Affiliations of Elite Liberal Arts College Faculty

*** UC-San Diego Now Requires a Climate Change Course to Graduate

*** Learning to live with agental social AI

*** Inflation Reduction Act’s costly green giveaways

*** The “green” scam of the century: “Renewables” increase fossil fuel demands

*** The Big Lie

*** Supposed Guardians of Rhode Island’s Waters Sell Out to Big Wind

*** UK evidence that offshore wind kills whales, dolphins, etc.

*** The Declining Life Expectancy of Wind Farms

*** Matt Ridley wins a major complaint against him re this Solar article

*** China and the solar fiasco

*** Report: Conserve to Convert

*** A “New Nuclear Posture” for the US is vital in a Hungry World

*** Fossil fuels make hurricanes like Hurricanes Helene and Milton better, not worse

*** Fires, Pollution and Slavery: EVs’ Ugly Truth

*** EPA’s Power Plant Rule Is Inflicting Irreparable Harm

*** Indonesia Dumps Climate Politics in Favor of Energy Security

*** Richard Lindzen: Claims of Consensus on Climate Change Have Been Propagandistic from the Beginning

*** Hurricanes, Twisters and Floods — Oh My!

*** RFKjr: The Pipeline Deception

*** Study: A recent surge in global warming is not detectable yet

*** Climate change is NOT a public health issue

Secondary Education Related:

*** Report: The Key to Fixing the US Education System

*** Elon Musk: Critical thinking should be the first thing taught to kids

*** “No More Excuses!”: Parents Defending K-12 Education

*** Why Kids Can’t Read or Do Math

*** US Government Pushing Climate Lies on Schoolchildren

The Only “Good” Side of the COVID-19 Pandemic was Accidental Educational Transparency

Crimes against American Schoolchildren Rise as Illegal Immigration Increases

Cancelling Our Children’s Future

Higher Education Related:

*** Why college students are struggling to read full books

*** Homogenous: The Political Affiliations of Elite Liberal Arts College Faculty

*** UNC Tries to Create a ‘Free-Speech Culture’

*** UC-San Diego Now Requires a Climate Change Course to Graduate

On Campus Safety, the Left is Hopelessly Confused

The ABA Retreats From Its Diversity Mandate—or Does It?

The Neo-Marxist Revolution in America’s Universities, Schools & Core Institutions

A New Liberal-Arts University Arises — a fresh alternative to ideological indoctrination

Artificial Intelligence:

*** We Asked ChatGPT How to Undermine America. Here is the Response.

*** Learning to live with agental social AI

If AI Companies Are Trying to Build God, Shouldn’t They Get Our Permission First?

More AI Hype

Is Your Apple iPhone a Sci-Fi Weapon?

AI Will Destroy Net Zero Electricity Demand Forecasts

Greed Energy Economics:

*** Inflation Reduction Act’s costly green giveaways

Biden administration races to shell out billions for clean energy as election nears

Buy Woke, Go Broke: The Failure of ESG Investing

Unreliables Energy Health and Ecosystem Consequences:

Archive Report: Green Killing Machines: The impact of renewable energy on wildlife and nature

Unreliables (General):

*** The “green” scam of the century: “Renewables” increase fossil fuel demands

*** The Big Lie

Solar Costs Jump, More Offshore (and Onshore) Wind Woes, SMR Update

Will Wind and Solar Hammer Hydro in Washington State?

Wind Energy:

*** Supposed Guardians of Rhode Island’s Waters Sell Out to Big Wind

*** UK evidence that offshore wind kills whales, dolphins, etc.

*** The Declining Life Expectancy of Wind Farms

Solar Energy:

*** Matt Ridley wins a major complaint against him re this Solar article

*** China and the solar fiasco

Nuclear Energy:

*** Report: Conserve to Convert

*** A “New Nuclear Posture” for the US is vital in a Hungry World

*** Germany Is Smug About Its Energy Errors

Fossil Fuel Energy:

*** Fossil fuels make hurricanes like Hurricanes Helene and Milton better, not worse

Hydrogen Energy:

*** The Hydrogen Bust Is Here

*** The DEFR Follies — Cost Of Hydrogen Storage

DOE Announces up to $46 Million to Advance Hydrogen…

Lithium Energy:

Lithium mining: the hidden environmental cost

Researchers say Arkansas may have 19M tons of lithium critical for battery power

Electric Vehicles (EVs):

*** Fires, Pollution and Slavery: EVs’ Ugly Truth

Left’s Climate and EV Craze Couldn’t Make China Happier

Who Wants a Used EV?

Used EVs Sell for Bargain Prices Now, Putting Owners and Dealers in a Bind

Misc Energy:

*** Video: Key differences between Trump and Harris on Energy

*** EPA’s Power Plant Rule Is Inflicting Irreparable Harm

*** Indonesia Dumps Climate Politics in Favor of Energy Security

Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:

*** Richard Lindzen: Claims of Consensus on Climate Change Have Been Propagandistic from the Beginning

*** Hurricanes, Twisters and Floods — Oh My!

*** RFKjr: The Pipeline Deception

Repeal Biden’s Entire Destructive Climate Change Program

Manmade Global Warming — Misc:

*** Study: A recent surge in global warming is not detectable yet

*** Climate change is NOT a public health issue

How Can the Church Navigate Climate Confusion While Fostering Human Development?

Report: The Ethics of Decarbonization for the Poor

Overnight Success: Biden’s Climate Splurge Gives Billions to Nonprofit Newbies

US Election:

Election-Integrity.info (10 major election reports by our team of experts, plus much more!)

*** The 2024 Election Will be Very Different from the Election in 2020

*** Voting Glitches

The “Royal Flush”

Harris, Trump Voters Differ Over Election Security, Vote Counts and Hacking Concerns

Could Illegal Immigration Sway Elections in Swing States?

It Is Time To Circle The Wagons

US Election — State Issues:

*** How states can protect the right to vote in hurricane-ravaged areas

*** VOTER SUPPRESSION: Why are North Carolina Democrats Stopping Hurricane Helene Survivors from Voting Early?

*** PA officials have busted a large-scale fraudulent voter registration scheme

*** RNC Wins Critical Mail Ballot Case

Republican Registration SURGES in Two Key Swing States

Michigan A.G. Extends Receipt of Overseas Absentee Ballots to Nov. 12

Biden admin slapped with major lawsuit over alleged refusal to help state purge noncitizens from voter rolls

Federal Law Doesn’t Prevent States from Removing Aliens from Voter Rolls

US National Election — The Presidential Race:

*** Preparing For The Steal

*** Whistleblower Exposes China’s Infiltration and Plot to Hijack U.S. Elections

*** President Donald J. Trump promises “No Tax on Social Security Benefits!”

*** Tucker Carlson Delivers Powerful Election Prediction

*** Kamala Harris’s Plagiarism Problem

LA Times Non-Endorsement Irks Left

Washington Post Non-Endorsement Also Irks Left

Leader McConnell and Speaker Johnson to VP Harris: End The Dangerous Rhetoric

The Democrats’ October Surprises Are Lies That Leave the Americans “Democrat Desensitized”

Book: The Myth of Voter Suppression: The Left’s Assault on Clean Elections

Misc US Politics:

*** The Biden Regime Has Just Issued a Very Suspicious Directive Permitting Military Intervention in US Domestic Affairs

*** Elon Musk Drops Unforgettable Take on Who’s Running the Shadow Government

*** Buying the News: How Leftwing Donors are Taking Over Local Journalism

The Limited Few Who Martha Raddatz Deems Unworthy of News!

Fact Checking Claims About Taxes

Facing Economic Realities

Peak Waste: Feds Set Record for Improper Payments

Societally US:

*** Sir John Glubb and the Fate of Empires

*** The Top 5 Media Mind Control Hacks

*** Biden DOJ Perfects ‘Equity’ Blueprint For Destroying Police, Fire Departments

*** Richard Hanania – The Origins of Woke

*** Report: NC — After the Deluge of a Thousand Year Flood

Stealth Edit: FBI Quietly Revises Violent Crime Stats

Did I Tell You This One?

Short video: Are YOU a terrorist threat?

Globalism:

Battlespace of the Brain: The Military Conquest to “Master The Human Domain”

Religion Related:

*** Short video: Science and God

*** Archbishop Viganò, Send Open Letter to Catholics in Advance of Election Day

Does the Catholic Vote Matter in 2024?

Could America’s Evangelical Christians Influence the Election?

The Big Secret in Christian Families

Science:

*** Paper mills: the ‘cartel-like’ companies behind fraudulent scientific journals

Health:

*** RFKjr: Trump Can Make America Healthy Again

*** Sharyl Attkisson: “There’s Corruption in the Pharmaceutical Industry”

*** The Militarized Ramp-Up to Eliminate Vaccine Hesitancy

Short Video What is Longevity?

Dr. Peter Attia: This Is What You Need to Do to Live Longer

COVID-19 — Misc:

*** The Most Devastating COVID Report So Far

Israel/Ukraine:

Pray for the safety of the Israeli people

Israel begins retaliatory strikes against Iran

Pray for the safety of the Ukrainian people

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Latest Developments in Ukraine

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Disinformation: Putin’s Protocol for Socialist Subversion of America

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Putin is not a creator of Disinformation; he is a user of it. The concept of  Disinformation has been designed in the 20th century by the Soviet dictator Comrade Stalin. Then his devoted disciple the Chairman of the KGB, Yuri Andropov, refined it in the 1960-70th – Putin updated it by current technological sophistication at the end of the 20th century. Designing the essence of Disinformation, Stalin had in mind the target and agenda: target—Western civilization; agenda—destruction of Western civilization and implementation of Soviet Socialism. Stalin didn’t use the term communism deliberately, he didn’t want to threaten people, he established his own ideology of Soviet Socialism and a political system based on that ideology—the Soviet system.

Without the information at the first paragraph, the Republicans will never be able to defeat Democrats, because the Dems are using the ideology of Soviet Socialism and the Soviet system to conquer and defeat the Republicans. Knowledge of the Soviet system is imperative. This is the subject of my writings, warning you about the KGB’s Mafia/Army, which is managing the spread of the system globally. The ideology of Soviet Socialism has been spread across the globe in the 20th century by the KGB’s mafia/Army. The Soviet System is tied inextricably to Disinformation, which is aimed at covering-up the truth about Soviet Socialism. Putin uses both as a method of Socialist Subversion of America in the 21st century.

So, the ideology of Soviet Socialism has a complex structure. Economically Socialism couldn’t survive competition with Capitalism, it needed a legal force to help it to exist. Stalin knew it and created dual-system—fusing Socialist economy and a weaponized legal agency the KGB into one entity. That dual entity was called Soviet Socialism, a dishonest creation, I’d call it a fraud. But this fraud was functioning very successfully with the help of the policy of Disinformation and Socialist modus operandi: lies, deceit, cheating, and fraud. There were no limits to dishonesty under Stalin that is the reason I called Stalinism—Inside a Gigantic Network of Falsehood and the policy of Disinformation was responsible for the covering-up of the truth.

The Russian Policy of Disinformation

Disinformation is not only an operation, it is a process of covering-up the truth, while implementing the ideology and system of Soviet Socialism. This process is aimed at destroying the targeting political system, in America it is the system of the American Constitutional Republic. The process of Disinformation has several stages. The covering-up of the truth of Soviet Socialism coincides with spreading a cosmetic view of it, hiding corruption, abuse, censorship and other features of a totalitarian state. Acting through bad actors, infiltrating a target, Russia would teach targeting people how to use Disinformation, while implementing Soviet Socialism. That way Russia destroyed Cuba, China, Syria, Venezuela, Iran, and others. The same exact way it has been trying to implement Disinformation in America. I believe Russia succeeded and I was right considering the Afghan disaster designed by Putin and executed by the White House. Yes, Disinformation has been used by Biden’s WH since 2021.

America doesn’t know either the corrupt and abusive Ideology of Soviet Socialism, or the Soviet System, let alone the Russian policy of Disinformation—America doesn’t know Stalinism. As a matter of fact, the Soviet people called the ideology of Soviet Socialism—Stalinism. It is not the time to describe Stalinism, his nickname “a famous murderer of the 20th century” and his creation, the Ideology of Soviet Socialism and the Soviet System. I have described all of that in my writings during forty-three years. Moreover, my columns have a few different parts: first: Marxism. I loved Marxism studying at Law School at the time of Stalin’s time that was called Iron Curtain–no any print or personal letters from overseas. Marxism was the only information from the West, I loved it and knew it well. The second part of my columns is Stalinism, my family life and the lives of my clients. The third part is my life in America, politics: Russia vs. America and the KGB’s global activities, growing and changing its name to the KGB’s Mafia/Army—Evil Doer—a global terrorist agency…

In 1981 I immigrated to the U.S. not knowing English. It was a very hard time for me, I didn’t have relatives or friends in America and without the language it was tough to survive. My strong desire to assimilate and speak English helped me. But it took time… Besides, I had to fight the FBI, which tried to silence me and stop my writings. I love this country and can’t stop telling the truth, especially after two attempts to assassinate Trump. Here is what I’ve written in my prior column about that:

“Don’t waste time waiting for another attempt to assassinate Trump. It will come! And only awareness of the enemy can prevent it… I am  a former Soviet attorney, who has written about Russia’s Intel for four decades. The FBI made me a Foreign Agent in 2002 and consequently sabotaged and banned my book What is Happening to America? three times. On August 31 2024, I submitted the book to Amazon.com for the fourth time. You can learn about the KGB’s Mafia-Army that runs the Democrat party and the White House today.” Please Click Here

Today is October 2024 and I hope that you remember above mentioned a Gigantic Network of Falsehood in Russia. Look around, I hope you can now recognize a Gigantic Network of Falsehood in America and great success of Disinformation. Just watch lying, two faced Dems, John Kirby and other  leaders, their dishonesty deceiving us for the last 20-30 years. Today, Kamala Harris is a leader of that Falsehood, she hopes to reassemble the Obama coalition. Rut, it means Bill Clinton, Hillary, and the entire Washington D.C. swamp—the Status Quo. 24 members of Kamala’s staff left her. One of them explained why: “for her to keep the same destructive patterns”. The man was right! I don’t like Bill Clinton, he was the first Manchurian President who began ruining our nation and built China, Obama and Biden followed his policy. Read my columns for detail and my first book: Baltic Winds Testimony of a Soviet Attorney, XLIBRIS, 2002

Watch those Dems who play slavery card, it is a continuation of subversion, which has begun by the Russian Intel in the 1950-60th Socialist dishonesty and subversion of America started then. Remember “White Privilege” and its continuation with “White Supremacy” today. Kamala will use it to divide people attracting black men by racial reparation. Watch “Mayor of Chicago Brandon Johnson Plays the Slavery Card” WSJ. He is doing just that. His lack of knowledge is appalling—Illinois has never been a slave state. Some leaders in Chicago prolonged the subversion of America by their ignorance. Don’t be surprised by rising crime and endless killings in Chicago, you now know the cause and source of that…

Kamala has no understanding of economics; she avoided the press and used the media to create an image of her as a political dynamo. She is just the opposite of that. Kamala is a Socialist-parasite and like many Socialist-parasites she loves “good ideas” and she sucks on good ideas copying the Republican ideas and narratives. 79 percent of Americans think that we are on the wrong track and Harris wants to turn the page, but turn the page from what? She was a part of Biden’s team, responsible for all America’s troubles. The Fox News interview by Brett Baier was chaotic. Kamala blew up under cross-examination, she was evasive and dogged the questions. She wasn’t able to defend Biden’s record, but couldn’t stop lying about Trump 20 times in 25 minutes. Kamala accepted responsibility for nothing! She was a part of many of Biden’s decisions, especially the policy of open border that is the ground Zero of all America’s troubles—a collateral damage: rising crime, inflation, migrant crime, crime of Venezuela’s gangs and others.

I want to tell you something about Venezuela’s gangs. Venezuela is Russia’s proxy, like Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, and many other terrorist states. Russia is a terrorist State, Stalin made it that way and all terrorist violence has emanated globally from Russia since the 20th century. Read my columns. Russia has been infiltrating Mexico since 1959-60th. The gangs like MS-13 attacking our Southern border from Mexico are the same gangs in Colorado that broke to the individual apartment. They all have been trained by the same KGB’s Mafia/Army belonging to Putin, serving a global cabal of socialists/communists, Russia/Chinese Intel. It also managed global invasion to America orchestrated, calculated, and coordinated by the Putin/Biden collusion. Watch North Korea, it will help Russia to fight in Ukraine…

In my column Kamala Harris and Treason Unknown to the American Public September 12, 2024, there are some historical analyzes of connections to Russia and its influence. The CBS scandal is not only a problem, it is a disaster when CBS deceptively edits Kamala Harris 60 Minutes interview. I don’t know how to qualify it linguistically as a dirty trick or fraud. It is for a reason, I’ve warned you about Socialist modus operandi: lies, deceit, fabrication, and fraud, for four decades. Deceptively editing Kamala Harris 60 Minutes interview is a political crime—Kamala Harris is running for the U.S. presidency! For me, it is Soviet Socialism in America: Soviet Socialism, which I called Soviet fascism. Even more, Soviet Socialism was managed by the KGB’s Mafia/Army. Is there some connection or influence of Russia???

Something else disturbed me in this connection. Discussing the CBS action, a member of the media said: “Israel has no rights to exist.” I couldn’t believe my ears. It was a real confirmation of the deepest division on America’s minds, exposing ignorance on the part of Democrats. And it was again a sign of connection to Russia. Coming from the Soviet Union, I personally knew Soviet anti-Semitism and high dislike of Israel. The Soviets/Russia was aggressively and covertly confronting Israel by all possible means. To make long story short, please read some history of Russia vis-à-vis the Middle East from my previous columns:

“If you are not familiar with the name Ayser Arafat, you don’t know the Middle East history and the history of the world. Arafat was a well-known terrorist, a leader of PLO, Palestinian Liberation Organization of the Middle East. Russia’s Intel recruited Arafat in 1957. The infiltration to the Middle East by Russia’s Intel began then. Do you know that Arafat’s lieutenant Abbas is running a Palestinian State today? Those are the patterns of the Soviet/Russian infiltration to the Middle East to create their proxies in the 1950-1970s. All of that has been managed by the KGB’s Mafia/Army—an Evil Doer. Their espionage was flourishing in Europe and America as well. If Russia was alone spreading Socialism/Communism in the 20th century, we are dealing now with a tandem of Russia and China. It is not Marxism now coming from China, but Soviet Socialism, which I called Soviet Fascism…

Europe now has members of the KGB in some parliaments and there is another facet to the Russian connection. As you know, recruited by the KGB in 1957, Arafat is dead, but we have mini-Arafat–Mahmoud Abbas. The connection with the Kremlin stays the same. He is literally a Moscow student with Soviet “academic credentials”; his dissertation written in Russia, had denied the Holocaust. Look at Arafat’s Palestinians, corrupt people surrounding Abbas: the same corrupt structure plus Hamas and Hezbollah under Russia’s supervision, ready to wipe Israel off the world map. Don’t expect peace in the Middle East—the KGB is there!” Read my column: A Global Spy Ring, January 1, 2018.

As you can see there is another connection to Russia today. War in Israel has been going on since Oct. 7, 2023. Hezbollah’s barrage of missiles and Drones targeting Israeli cities and trying to assassinate Netanyahu. A war against Hamas also remains. Israel is fighting several terrorist-aggressors and desperately needs help from America. Due to Russian ties to Hamas, Putin will try using Biden to crash Israel. In my opinion, the recent death of Hamas leader Sinwar brings to Israel the opportunity to finally defeat terrorist-Hamas. The Biden-Harris team has the opposite opinion, talking about a cease-fire, which will help Hamas to survive. I believe I know the answer to Biden-Harris opinion. It is Hamas’s connection to Russia and Biden’s collusion with Putin, I have been warning you since the Afghanistan shameful surrender in 2021…

Using the Dems’ party, Putin was Witch Hunting Trump for nine years. Trump is an existential threat to Globalist-Putin. We can expect a lot of surprises at election time to prevent Trump from becoming the U.S. President. The Afghan man has been accused of plotting an election attack. He is already in prison. I suspect a more serious scenario. Due to open border policy, we have 60-70 thousands illegal migrants, single male from China, Russia, Syria, Venezuela, Iran and others. Those men are our enemies trained to damage us in many different ways. As I stated earlier, they were all trained and coordinated by the KGB’s Mafia/Army, belonging to Vladimir Putin. You have to know Vladimir Putin to imagine a scary picture for the American Capitalism and Trump…

Devoted Socialists and Communists of the Dems party calling Trump a dictator, fascist, and Hitler. It is a familiar tactic to me. They followed Stalin’s main postulate: “Never admit crime committed, instead accuse your opponent of that exact crime.”  Inside a Gigantic Network of Falsehood, it is hard to find the truth and some people can be hooked by those lies. In the country with the dysfunctional FBI and CIA it is even easier to achieve. That is the reason, I have been writing about the ideology of Soviet Socialism, which I called Soviet Fascism and warning you for forty-three years.

My fellow Americans!

The future of our wonderful country is in your hands.

Reject Soviet fascism and save the American Constitutional republic,

designed and left to us by our Founding Fathers.

Read my books and columns, educate yourself by learning the truth. We are in a dramatic chaos in America due to the Dems’ treason!

Vote them out!

To be continued www.simonapipko.com and at www.drrichswier.com/author/spipko/

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Senior Meta Engineer Reveals Anti-Kamala Posts Are ‘Automatically Demoted,’ Admits Shadow Banning Tactics

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BREAKING: A Senior Meta Engineer revealed that the platform uses shadowbanning to suppress posts critical of figures like Vice President Kamala Harris, reducing their visibility without notifying users.

The engineer also disclosed that Meta has a team dedicated to influencing information flow, with the power to affect election outcomes.

In a revelation captured by O’Keefe Media Group, a senior software engineer at Meta, Jeevan Gyawali, admitted that the platform is actively engaged in suppressing certain content to shape political narratives. During a hidden-camera interview, Gyawali confirmed that Meta employs shadowbanning tactics to demote posts automatically, especially those critical of prominent political figures like Vice President Kamala Harris.

WATCH: Senior Meta Engineer Reveals Anti-Kamala Posts Are ‘Automatically Demoted and shadow banned’

Gyawali explained how posts that challenge Harris, even on personal grounds—such as questioning her fitness for office because she does not have children—are “automatically demoted.” The person who makes such posts will not be notified, but their content will experience a noticeable decline in engagement and visibility.

This demotion process is managed by Meta’s “Integrity Team,” which uses a system called “civic classifiers” to determine what content is suppressed, essentially shadowbanning users without their knowledge.

Beyond individual post suppression, Gyawali revealed that Meta has a Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) team dedicated to preventing platform abuse, created in April 2024. This team, according to Gyawali, continuously monitors potential threats and scenarios that could harm Meta’s vision of “protecting democracy.”

However, the platform’s definition of protection, as explained by Gyawali, includes demoting or outright censoring content deemed harmful to the political narrative supported by Meta, a tactic Gyawali says is used “100%” of the time.

Gyawali confirmed without hesitation that Meta can indeed sway political outcomes, admitting that Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder and CEO of Meta, fully supports this agenda and the platform’s political influence, particularly in favor of the Democratic Party.

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