When the odiously political FBI officials James Comey and Andrew McCabe were selected for the IRS’s most invasive type of audits, they implied that then-President Trump was behind it. Naturally, all the media’s anti-Trump disinformation spreaders, from Rachel Maddow to Ana Navarro, jumped on the conspiracy bandwagon, claiming the odds of both men being audited were nearly impossible and that Trump was acting like a Third World dictator who abuses government agencies to target political opponents (imagine a President being so corrupt as to sic the IRS on people he disagreed with politically!)
Well, the issue was turned over to the inspector general's office for an independent investigation, and the report has finally been released. Its findings:
The audits were random, and Trump had nothing to do with them.
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2022/12/01/not-nixon-inspector-general-concludes-irs-audits-of-comey-and-mccabe-were-random-n514897
I just keep saying this, but if Trump was the crooked, corrupt, lawless, power-mad, authoritarian dictator that the Democrats accuse him of being, he sure was lousy at it. If he wanted some lessons, he should’ve studied Obama, or ironically, the swamp rats running the FBI, like Comey and McCabe.
Democrat Rep. Jared Golden of Maine has a bone – or rather, a shell – to pick with President Biden. For the recent State Dinner with the President of France, the White House ordered 200 Maine lobsters. Normally, Golden would think that was great, except he pointed out that Biden prioritized having a fancy dinner of Maine lobsters with a foreign leader, but he’s yet to find time to meet with the Maine lobster fishermen who provided it and who his Administration is currently regulating out of business.
https://hotair.com/karen-townsend/2022/12/01/dem-rep-from-maine-to-biden-hey-about-those-200-live-lobsters-for-the-state-dinner-n514823
It’s not surprising to hear this, since it’s a pattern for Biden: destroy something, then ignore the consequences. For instance, why is he buying oil from a socialist dictator in Venezuela (oil that’s more detrimental to the environment in both the drilling and the long transport) rather than talking to American oil and gas producers to get us back to the energy independence we enjoyed before he destroyed it? And how many times has he visited the border to talk to the people dealing with the humanitarian and national security disaster he started creating there from his first day in office?
By the way, I feel I should answer that last question (he’s never visited the border, not even once) in case his press secretary is reading this, since she obviously doesn’t know the answer. Or maybe she does and just figured that since dispensing misinformation is her job, she might as well go whole hog and start telling reporters things that both she and they know are complete garbage.
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2022/11/30/doocy-and-melugin-tag-team-to-take-down-whs-blatant-biden-border-lie-n666979
Still, at this point, I don't even know what good it would do for Biden to visit the border. If he hasn't figured out what he's done yet, nothing will penetrate his skull. And calling on him to fix the crisis at the border, as even some Democrats are starting to do, is like asking an arsonist to put out a fire.
Hunter Biden’s laptop wasn’t the only negative Biden story that the media successfully buried during the 2020 election. There was also the story of Tara Reade, who credibly accused Joe Biden of sexually assaulting her when he was a Senator. Feminists showed where their real priorities lay when they ignored her and refused to support her. They went from "Me, Too" to "Who, Me?"
But with Republicans taking back the House and launching investigations, Reade made it clear that she’s ready to testify. Americans would finally hear her name and her story. But will Republicans dare to “go there”? All I can say is, “Stay tuned.”
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/lincolnbrown/2022/12/01/tara-reade-is-ready-to-testify-before-congress-against-joe-biden-n1650236
Former President Obama was campaigning for Raphael Warnock in Georgia, and he tried to mock Hershel Walker, but the way it came out made it sound as if he were talking about Joe Biden.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2022/12/01/watch-did-obama-just-throw-shade-at-joe-biden-n1650250
What else are we supposed to think when Obama refers to “some folks in our lives” who “say crazy stuff…They’re part of the family, but you don’t give them serious responsibilities”? Especially when he referred to that exasperating family member as “Uncle Joe,” not “Cousin Herschel.”
Former President Donald Trump suffered a big loss Thursday, when a federal appeals court panel overturned a lower judge’s ruling that the documents seized in an FBI raid of his Mar-A-Lago home had to be reviewed by a special master to determine whether the government was allowed to see them. As this article notes, that means the decision on whether documents are protected by attorney-client privilege will be made by the Biden DOJ on “the honor system.” I hope you didn't have a mouthful of coffee when you read that.
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2022/12/01/donald-trump-suffers-major-defeat-in-mar-a-lago-documents-case-n667464
As the article also notes, this is mostly a PR defeat. With or without the special master, we all know the Biden DOJ was eventually going to get those documents and likely use them to launch an unprecedented prosecution of the former President over possessing his own official documents. This just moves it up, so that they might be able to strike before the primary campaigns start. If it had come later, after Trump was already an active candidate, it might have looked more politically motivated. But to anyone who’s been paying attention, no matter when it comes, it couldn’t possibly look any more politically motivated than it already does.
Bonchie at Redstate.com reports that the early voting numbers in the Georgia Senate runoff aren’t looking good for Republicans. They’re up, and that usually means heavy Democrat turnout. And of course, Warnock has three times the money Walker does, thanks to all the cash flowing in from leftists in other states who want to buy Georgia’s Senate seat.
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2022/12/02/the-news-out-of-the-georgia-senate-runoff-isnt-good-n667705
As Bonchie explains, Republicans might think that since the race won’t determine the Senate majority, it doesn’t matter. But it very much does. A 50-50 tie means power has to be shared in committees. A 51-49 majority means the Democrats run the Senate and rubberstamp Biden’s radical nominees. That’s something the GOP House can’t stop, and some of them will be in their jobs for life, undermining the Constitution and the Bill of Rights for decades to come.
Georgia Republicans who stayed home during the 2020 runoff gave the Dems their tie Senate and all the disasters that have flowed from it. If they make the same mistake this year, they’ll curse the nation with something even worse.
I hope that high early turnout includes a lot of Republicans who learned their lesson about waiting until Election Day, when mysterious “tech problems” suddenly come out of nowhere only in GOP polling places. But just in case, I urge all Republicans in Georgia to turn out and vote for Herschel Walker. The voting is already underway, so get moving!
In response to our look at “geofence” warrants used by the FBI to sweep up phone records on everyone who was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, we received this helpful letter.
From Ron:
Don't have to leave your phone at home to disappear. Get a Faraday cage for the phone. Slip your phone into it and all signals are blocked. Your phone disappears. There are a lot of them sold, some better than others. Make sure that you get one that works. Put your phone in it and have someone call you. It should not ring. When you take your phone back out of it, it works like normal.
Thanks so much, Ron. I’d suggested leaving one’s phone at home if/when you’re concerned about being tracked or perhaps even going back to a flip-phone, which many are doing (and not just for privacy reasons). We looked into the Faraday cage, and you’re right that they appear to vary in quality and effectiveness. If you’re trying to maintain your privacy, a false sense of security is what you absolutely do not want. Here’s a Faraday cage that costs $50 and is described as military-grade; the website answers a number of questions about the technology.
https://godarkbags.com/collections/faraday-bags/products/godark-faraday-bags-stop-hacking-and-location-tracking-of-your-cell-phone-and-tablet
Note: this isn't an endorsement of any particular brand of Faraday cage, just a way to get some information about the vulnerabilities of modern smartphones and what you can do. For example, this website includes an explanation of why you can’t simply turn your phone off. Neither will it work to put it in airplane mode, which temporarily stops it from transmitting but not from receiving; the phone is still accumulating your location history and transmits that as soon as you reconnect. Because a Faraday bag keeps out incoming GPS and cell signals, the phone can’t gather that information for later transmission.
There’s a “subsystem” in the phone for operating the radio transmitter and receiver that operates independently from the main operating system. “When you turn your phone off,” they say, "it is quite possible that it is simply in a low power state with full receiving and transmitting capability and you would never know it. The screen will be off and there will be no detectable heat, giving you the false impression that your phone is fully off and you are safe from tracking…
“The simple fact is, it’s becoming more and more difficult to know for sure what our phones, tablets, laptops and other mobile devices are really doing, and for those with a very high need for privacy [journalists, activists, business travelers, and anyone else who wants to preserve their privacy], the GoDark Faraday Bag provides significant additional peace of mind.”
Incidentally, it’s amusing to go down and scroll through the reviews of the product (which are very good). Most of these reviews are from “anonymous,” haha.
Thanks again, Ron, for suggesting this solution. It’s a shame that those of us who’ve done nothing wrong and should have nothing to hide have been put in the position of having to think about these things. To minimize technology’s control over us, we have to keep finding ways to stay ahead of it.
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Speaking of Google, they’ve got their grubby hands into far more than just violating the privacy of Americans exercising their right to protest. They haven’t backed down one bit on their activities related to so-called “misinformation” (from the right, of course) and government censorship. On Tuesday, Google and YouTube --- which is owned by Google --- announced that they will be participating in a $13.2 million grant to the Poynter Institute’s International Fact-Checking Network [IFCN], with the goal of launching a new “Global Fact-Check Fund” in early 2023. The Poynter Institute, funded by George Soros’ Open Society Foundation, is also home to so-called “fact”-checker PolitiFact. One of Poynter’s missions is to “train journalists,” which explains a lot.
https://www.poynter.org/shop/reporting-editing/poynter-koch-media-and-journalism-fellowship-2022-23/
The Poynter board includes executives from The New York Times, ESPN, Harvard, Vox, CBS, ABC, and the Washington Post. The Institute made news in 2019 with a blacklist of “unreliable” conservative sites such as Project Veritas, PJ Media, Twitchy, RedState, the Washington Examiner, the Washington Times, National Review and many more (all our favorites!), including WorldTribune.com, who wrote about it.
https://www.worldtribune.com/soros-funded-poynter-blacklists-unreliable-conservative-publications/
We’ve discussed the IFCN before; here’s the info page on their website.
https://www.poynter.org/ifcn/
As the POST MILLENNIAL reports, “the companies [Google/YouTube] justified their decision [to fund IFCN] by noting that ‘helping people to identify misinformation is a global challenge.’”
Gosh, it sure is; it’s full-time job for them! Still, you’d think that with all the effort going into protecting people from misinformation, there wouldn’t be so many folks walking around thinking Hunter’s laptop was Russian disinformation, J6 was worse than 9/11, a man is a woman if he thinks he is, masks and vaccines prevent covid, the border is secure, election fraud doesn’t happen (when Democrats win) and President Trump was selling nuclear secrets to our enemies. But what leftists view as “misinformation” has essentially nothing to do with incorrect facts.
Anyway, this funding, they say, will be used to “incorporate new technologies, create or expand digital footprints, optimize verification tools, and increase their capacities to deepen audience engagement through innovative storytelling formats such as audio, video or podcasts.” What they don’t say is that these are brainwashing techniques.
“The world needs global fact-checking as never before,” said the executive director of ICFN. “This partnership with Google and YouTube infuses financial support to global fact-checkers and is a step in the right direction, and while there’s much work to be done, this partnership has sparked meaningful collaboration and an important step.”
This report will chill you to the bone. But please power through and read it, anyway.
https://thepostmillennial.com/google-youtube-spend-millions-to-launch-global-fact-check-fund
Much of the flagging of social media content in the past few years was done under the cover of censoring so-called “misinformation” and “disinformation.” Judicial Watch has just filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for all communications between the Cybersecurity and Information Security Agency (CISA) and an organization called the Election Integrity Project.
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/biden-administration-rewarded-private-entities-got-2020-election
In case you missed our reporting on the EIP, here’s what you need to know, from JUST THE NEWS. Former State Department official Mike Benz called this project “the largest federally-sanctioned censorship operation he had ever seen, a precursor to the now-scrapped Disinformation Governance Board [remember that?] and one that is likely to grow in future elections.”
“Amazingly, there are now so many Ministry of Truth functionaries within the Department of Homeland Security,” he said. “There are so many Ministry of Truth tasks, so many Ministry of Truth points of contact, so many Ministry of Truth policies for whether to remove something, reduce it, slap a fact checking label on it.”
For when you have time, this is important reading. You want to talk about election interference? HERE IT IS.
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/biden-administration-rewarded-private-entities-got-2020-election
And thanks to Dan Bongino for bringing attention to these communications from Yasmin Green, chief executive of the Google subsidiary Jigsaw, during Tuesday’s “Fighting Information Online” conference. Jigsaw exists to intervene in a way that “inoculates” its subjects from what it doesn’t want people to believe. Interventions are “a set of approaches, informed by behavioral science research and validated by digital experiments, to build resistance to online harms.”
This is for real. Here is their real website; I encourage you to scroll through to the right to see these specific approaches. “Authorship feedback” and “pre-bunking” are particularly concerning.
https://interventions.withgoogle.com/#redirect-method
If anything, these efforts are intensifying. The following report is an absolute must-read, and should be a wake-up call for us all.
https://thepostmillennial.com/google-exec-wants-to-get-more-aggressive-on-fighting-misinformation-and-fact-checking
This one, too.
https://reclaimthenet.org/google-to-introduce-behavioral-interventions/
Once you understand the activities Google is involved in to control the national conversation, it should come as no surprise that they would also be cooperating with the Biden DOJ to stifle dissent by handing over “geofence” data. No wonder their original slogan, "Don't be evil," is inoperative now.
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