Under Biden, Mainstream Media Rebrands “Kids In Cages” To “Overflow Facility”

Under Biden, Mainstream Media Rebrands “Kids In Cages” To “Overflow Facility”

CDC Wants Negative COVID-19 Tests For Those Wanting To Fly Domestically – Evidence Of Goalpost Moving Again And Again And Again

US CITIZENS WILL NEVER REACH THE COVID GOAL POSTS BECAUSE THOSE VERY GOAL POSTS KEEP MOVING, MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE TO EVER REACH THEM

In the united States, if not the world, people have moved beyond “coronavirus/CONvid-1984 fatigue” into “coronavirus/CONvid-1984 exhaustion”. Many people believe an end to this nightmare is only achieved when all people submit to government and medical tyranny through testing, injections, mask-wearing (up to however many some bureaucrat dictates), social distancing, and continued lockdowns. In other words, people should voluntarily relinquish their Rights (yes, this is intentional since it is referencing God-given Rights and not civil rights) in order to return to a pre-coronavirus “normal”. Their reason is always the same – “it’s for the good of society”.

However, the people have refused to learn from experience. From the PATRIOT Act after 9/11 resulting in violations on privacy and bodily integrity to “we collect data on everyone to ensure national security and safety” to “only a 15-day lockdown to flatten the curve” to “only after getting an injection will things return to normal” to “after the injection you will still need to wear masks, social distance, and limit movement”, the goalposts move and the people move along with the new goalposts. The Center for Disease Control (CDC), a government agency with no law-making ability have dictated that airline passengers wear masks, sometimes more than one, for airline, bus, train, taxi, ride-share, Uber, Lyft, and ship travel, as well as in public transportation hubs. But, that has not been enough. Now, the director of the CDC wants travelers to submit to coronavirus testing before traveling on a domestic airline.

NationalNews.com has the story.

The director of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention suggested testing people for the coronavirus before US domestic flights could help to reduce transmission.

Requiring travelers to receive a negative coronavirus test before boarding domestic flights could be “another mitigation measure”, CDC director Dr Rochelle Walensky said on Monday.

Dr Walensky did not say whether the CDC would move forward with the policy, which the Biden administration is actively considering.

Transport Secretary Pete Buttigieg told Axios the discussion is continuing and the decision would be “guided by data, by science, by medicine and by the input of the people who are actually going to have to carry this out”.

Let’s stop right here and look at the language. The director of the CDC is suggesting coronavirus testing individuals before taking a domestic airline flight, which could help reduce transmission. The key here is “could help”, not “will help”, not “will reduce”. In other words, she doesn’t know; but, she is willing to “force” individuals to submit to a “medical diagnostic procedure” in order to “approve” individuals to fly on an airplane only if the test is negative. How many times would an individual need to be tested in order to fly domestically – every flight, once a month, once a week? It’s akin to saying you have to have a colonoscopy before using a public restroom. So, if you want to take a domestic airline flight, the policy may be that you are “forced” to submit to a medical procedure to do so through blackmail and coercion – both crimes.

Remember, the Biden regime is allowing illegal alien invaders to cross the borders of the united States without having to endure any type of testing for any type of illness or disease whatsoever. But, Beijing Biden is considering requiring testing for US residents to submit to a medical diagnostic procedure before taking a domestic airline flight.

Active sodomite Pete Buttigieg, appointed Secretary of Transportation, states this “policy”, not law, will be “guided by data, by science, by medicine and by the input of the people who are actually going to have to carry this out”. So far, the government has not followed any data, science, or medicine regarding this false pandemic, an actual planned scam-demic. What they have followed has been a science project by a High school child whose father works for Sandia in New Mexico that just happened to get the child’s school science project published on the National Institute of Health’s Pub Med site in 2006. And, the “preliminary data” from this child’s project was run through the “super” computers at Sandia, normally used for engineering nuclear weapons. All of these interventions were extrapolated out using a computer, not real-world data.

Yet, eight actual randomized control trials (RCTs) exist from 2009 to 2020 indicating that masks do not work to prevent the spread or transmission of illness/disease. Why isn’t that scientific data being used? The CDC in the US and the head of the Chinese CDC have admitted this “virus” was never isolated in whole using the gold standard technique for actual isolation, meaning the verified scientific definition, not the changed definition of isolate. Why isn’t that science being used? Social distancing and lockdowns have proven to be useless. How do we know? It hasn’t work in any country that has tried it. Moreover, the tests being used to “diagnose” the unisolated, non-proven virus is being misused according to its creator, Kary Mullis. The icing on the cake is numerous doctors who have indicated there is no indication of any new “illness or disease” that is circulating among the population.

The story continues.

Federal health officials have been watching for more evidence that a variant of the coronavirus now widespread in the UK will become the dominant strain in the US.

Dr Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said that could happen by the end of March.

So far, 699 variant cases have been identified, 690 of which are the strain discovered in Britain.

Dr Walensky said the US expected to at least triple its sequencing in the next weeks, giving it a better snapshot of how widely the variants might have already spread in the US.

In case you missed it, scientific data indicates that a “virus” mutates each time it replicates. How do you determine “variants” when the initial “strain” has not been isolated or proven to exist?

“Once we have more sequencing that’s happening, we’ll have a better idea as to how many variants there are and what proportion are out there,” she said.

Dr Walensky advised state and local officials against loosening restrictions despite a decline in Covid cases.

Sequencing is another name for “testing”. Right on cue, the CDC director advises against “loosening restrictions”. So, more testing due to “new variants” is needed and restrictions cannot be lessened because of “new variants”. Are you getting the picture? You can’t reach a goal post that keeps moving farther away as you move toward it.

Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds at the weekend lifted the law making masks mandatory and other guidelines implemented amid a surge of cases in the autumn.

“I’m asking everyone to please keep your guard up,” Dr Walensky said. “The continued proliferation of variants remains a great concern.”

The administration plans to release guidance on reopening schools in coming days, she said.

Officials also urged patience as Covid-19 vaccines are distributed. [This is an injected medical device, not a vaccine according to accepted medical definition.]

More than 17 million vaccine doses have been administered to people 65 and older, said Andy Slavitt, senior adviser to the Biden administration’s coronavirus response team.

You can read the rest. Important to note is that States are reallocating injections meant for long-term care residents because these injected medical devices are going “unused”. Imagine that.

But the question on everyone’s mind is, “when will life get back to pre-coronavirus normals”? Well, that question has been answered.

NationalNews.com indicates in a related article that the “answer lies in the rate of ‘vaccination’” or the rate people can be convinced to get injected with a medical device. “With vaccinations happening more rapidly in richer western countries than the rest of the globe, it will take the world as a whole seven years at the current pace.” This is reported from “Bloomberg’s vaccine tracker”.

This is propaganda at its finest. If you want to get back to normal, then you have to resist. Stop complying with dictatorial edicts no matter the source. How many times has it been said, “I don’t want to die from COVID-19”? With an overall survival rate of 99.9%, higher in some groups, it’s akin to that of influenza. Everyone will face death. God is the determiner of when and how. If someone is that afraid, that someone needs to get his or her life and his or her person right with God.

There is a choice to make. Only you can make it. But, make that choice based on all the information, not off of fear and propaganda. And, certainly not off “trust” in government or government agencies.

If you haven’t learned by now, that the goal posts keep moving because of an agenda and not because of any type of new illness or disease, then there is no help for you. May God give you some kind of peace.

NY Times Accidentally Exposes They Are Tracking You…EVERYWHERE. THIS IS ABSOLUTELY INSULTING AND FRIGHTENING!

In 2019, a source came to us with a digital file containing the precise locations of more than 12 million individual smartphones for several months in 2016 and 2017. The data is supposed to be anonymous, but it isn’t. We found celebrities, Pentagon officials and average Americans.It became clear that this data — collected by smartphone apps and then fed into a dizzyingly complex digital advertising ecosystem — was a liability to national security, to free assembly and to citizens living mundane lives. It provided an intimate record of people whether they were visiting drug treatment centers, strip clubs, casinos, abortion clinics or places of worship.Surrendering our privacy to the government would be foolish enough. But what is more insidious is the Faustian bargain made with the marketing industry, which turns every location ping into currency as it is bought and sold in the marketplace of surveillance advertising.Now, one year later, we’re in a very similar position. But it’s far worse.A source has provided another data set, this time following the smartphones of thousands of Trump supporters, rioters and passers-by in Washington, D.C., on January 6, as Donald Trump’s political rally turned into a violent insurrection. At least five people died because of the riot at the Capitol. Key to bringing the mob to justice has been the event’s digital detritus: location data, geotagged photos, facial recognition, surveillance cameras and crowdsourcing.

From Trump’s Rally to Congress

This time-lapse animation shows smartphones as they moved from Donald Trump’s rally to the Capitol.

8:00 a.m.6:00 p.m.

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This is Ronnie Vincent. This traced a phone inside the Capitol to Mr. Vincent’s home in Kentucky. Confirming his identity led to his Facebook page, where it was found a few photos of him standing on the steps of the building during the siege. Another photo shows a crowd standing in front of the Capitol, its doors wide open.

At the Capitol

Smartphones tracked between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. record the seige on the Capitol.A phone “ping” tied to Ronnie Vincent. A phone “ping” tied to Ronnie Vincent U.S. Capitol Satellite imagery: Microsoft Corporation and Digital Globe. “Yes we got inside. One girl was shot by the DC cops as she was knocking on the glass. She probably will die. We stopped the voting in the house,” he wrote. Shortly after he posted the photos, Mr. Vincent, a pest control business owner in Kentucky who goes by the nickname Ole Woodsman, took them down. When reached by phone, he insisted he never entered the Capitol. “There is no way that my phone shows me in there,” he said. Yet it did!

For all its appearance of omniscience, the data can be imprecise. In a situation such as the Capitol riot, exact locations matter. A few feet can be the difference between a participant who committed a serious crime and an onlooker.While some location data is accurate to within a few feet, other data is not. Location companies can work with data derived from GPS sensors, Bluetooth signals and other sources. The quality depends on the settings of the phone and whether it is connected to Wi-Fi or a cell tower. Issues like population and building density can sometimes play a role in the quality of the data.Mr. Vincent told us that when he wrote “we got inside,” he meant “we the people got in. ”He added, “I did not go in. ”Can we say definitively Mr. Vincent was inside the Capitol on Jan. 6? No, and that is one of the problems with this type of data.

Ronnie Vincent’s Journey

It was easier to identify Mr. Vincent — and discover the path he took to get to Washington, D.C. — because an email was matched to the phone’s anonymous advertising ID.The trip to Washington, D.C. OHIO Washington, D.C. WESTVIRGINIA Home VIRGINIA KENTUCKY Home location has been obscured. The day of the protest Hyatt Regency hotel at 1:48 p.m.7:30 a.m. Rally stage8:17 a.m. Around the Capitol Building at 3:00 p.m. At the Capitol Accuracy 322 feet187 feet Note: Location pings may not be precise. Satellite imagery: Microsoft Corporation, Earthstar Geographics, SIO, Maxar•By The New York Times While the power and scope of this commercial surveillance come into sharp focus when we look at the specific time of the attack on the Capitol, it’s important to remember that it is recording the movements of millions of Americans all day, all night, all year, wherever they are. The data set Times Opinion examined shows how Trump supporters traveled from South Carolina, Florida, Ohio and Kentucky to the nation’s capital, with pings tracing neatly along major highways, in the days before the attack. Stops at gas stations, restaurants and motels dot the route like bread crumbs, each offering corroborating details.In many cases, these trails lead from the Capitol right back to their homes.

Trump Supporters Go to Washington

While protesters may have felt anonymous, their journeys to Washington and back were recorded in meticulous detail by apps on their phones.Washington,D.C.NewMexicoFloridaSouthCarolinaFloridaNew HampshireNew YorkSatellite imagery: Microsoft Corporation and Earthstar Geographics.In the hands of law enforcement, this data could be evidence. But at every other moment, the location data is reviewed by hedge funds, financial institutions and marketers, in an attempt to learn more about where we shop and how we live.Unlike the data we reviewed in 2019, this new data included a remarkable piece of information: a unique ID for each user that is tied to a smartphone. This made it even easier to find people, since the supposedly anonymous ID could be matched with other databases containing the same ID, allowing us to add real names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and other information about smartphone owners in seconds.The IDs, called mobile advertising identifiers, allow companies to track people across the internet and on apps. They are supposed to be anonymous, and smartphone owners can reset them or disable them entirely. Our findings show the promise of anonymity is a farce. Several companies offer tools to allow anyone with data to match the IDs with other databases.

How “Anonymous” Pings Could Be Identifiable

If the Jan. 6 rioters didn’t know before, they surely know now the cost of leaving a digital footprint. Tip lines at the Federal Bureau of Investigation have been flooded for weeks in an effort to identify participants, and detectives in Miami and other police departments are using facial recognition software. Amateur investigators on TikTok, Instagram and other platforms have launched their own identification efforts. Law enforcement has used cellphone footage from the siege to identify participants. As of February 4, there were 181 federal cases pending against individuals involved in the Capitol Hill siege, according to an analysis by George Washington University’s program on extremism. Affidavits show that federal investigators were easily able to cross-reference footage with public social media posts. A leak of data from the social media platform Parler also helped investigators and journalists place rioters in the building, using posts that were geotagged with GPS location data. For some, like 38-year-old Oath Keepers member Jessica Watkins, there was no need for precise location data. Her words tell the story: “Yeah. We stormed the Capitol today. Teargassed, the whole, 9. Pushed our way into the Rotunda. Made it into the Senate even,” she wrote on Parler. Which is to say that law enforcement may not need this data. But as a recent Wall Street Journal report shows, military agencies use these data sets — without a warrant, no less. How? They purchase it. Because we have seen what’s in the data, that revelation is deeply troubling. While some Americans might cheer the use of location databases to identify Trump supporters who converged on the Capitol, the use of commercial databases has worrying implications for civil liberties. The American criminal justice system is set up for a judge or jury to determine whether, in fact, Ronnie Vincent broke any laws on Jan. 6. But the data leads us directly to him, and in the hands of law enforcement officials — or rogue employees of the company that collected the data — it could narrow their search for participants and offer clues about their activity.

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To focus attention only on those people present at the deadly sacking of the Capitol is to lose sight of the larger context of the campaign of incitement and lies from Mr. Trump, right-wing media and members of Congress that set the stage for it. Just as focusing on the movements of Mr. Vincent’s cellphone is to lose sight of the larger surveillance ecosystem that he — and all of us — are trapped in. The location-tracking industry exists because those in power allow it to exist. Plenty of Americans remain oblivious to this collection through no fault of their own. But many others understand what’s happening and allow it anyway. They feel powerless to stop it or were simply seduced by the conveniences afforded in the trade-off. The dark truth is that, despite genuine concern from those paying attention, there’s little appetite to meaningfully dismantle this advertising infrastructure that undergirds unchecked corporate data collection. This collection will only grow more sophisticated. This new data set offers proof that not only is there more interest in location data than before, but it is also easier to deanonymize. It gets easier by the day. As the data from Jan. 6 eerily demonstrates, it does not discriminate. It harvests from the phones of MAGA rioters, police officers, lawmakers and passers-by. There is no evidence, from the past or current day, that the power this data collection offers will be used only to good ends. There is no evidence that if we allow it to continue to happen, the country will be safer or fairer. In our previous investigation, we wrote that Americans deserve the freedom to choose a life without surveillance and the government regulation that would make that possible. While we continue to believe the sentiment, we fear it may soon be obsolete or irrelevant. We deserve that freedom, but the window to achieve it narrows a little more each day. If we don’t act now, with great urgency, it may very well close for good. Related Read more from Charlie Warzel and Stuart Thompson on location tracking. Opinion Total Surveillance Is Not What America Signed Up For Opinion How Your Phone Betrays Democracy Opinion Where Even the Children Are Being Tracked

Biden Administration Quietly Drops Trump Proposal To Track Chinese Influence In US Schools

The Biden administration quietly withdrew a rule proposed by the Trump administration that would have required American schools and universities to disclose their partnerships with Confucius Institutes, which some U.S. officials allege are front groups for Chinese Communist Party propaganda.

The Trump administration submitted a proposed rule to the Department of Homeland Security on Dec. 31, 2020, entitled “Establishing Requirement for Student and Exchange Visitor Program Certified Schools to Disclose Agreements with Confucius Institutes and Classrooms.”

Around 500 K-12 schools and 65 colleges in the U.S. have partnerships with the Confucius Institute U.S. Center, a U.S.-based affiliate of the Beijing-based Confucius Institute Headquarters. The institute, also known as Hanban, is affiliated with the Chinese Ministry of Education.

Many of Hanban’s directors are members of the Chinese Communist Party or have close ties to the organization, The Daily Caller has previously reported.

The Trump-era proposal was withdrawn from consideration on Jan. 26, according to information at RegInfo.gov, the website for the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), which operates under the Office of Management and Budget and the White House.

The OIRA website does not provide any other information about the proposal, or why it was tabled. The website does say that at any point in the review process for a proposed rule, “an agency may withdraw its rule from review and choose not to move forward with it or to resubmit it after further consideration.”

China’s Vice President Xi Jinping unveils the plaque at the opening of Australia’s first Chinese Medicine Confucius Institute at the RMIT University in Melbourne on June 20, 2010. (WILLIAM WEST/AFP via Getty Images)

A spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a component of DHS, confirmed that the rule was withdrawn on Jan. 26.

The spokesperson did not elaborate on the reason for withdrawing the rule, and declined to speculate on whether the Biden administration will re-submit it.

“ICE does not speculate about future pre-decisional proposed rules or policies,” the spokesperson told The Daily Caller News Foundation.

President Joe Biden has pledged to review and potentially nullify many of President Trump’s executive orders, particularly those related to immigration issues, which fall under the control of DHS.

Axios reported on Jan. 11 that the Trump administration was trying to push through a rule that would require colleges and K-12 schools to disclose any financial ties to Confucius Institutes. The story noted that Biden could quickly undo the rule once he took office. (RELATED: Trump Administration Designates Confucius Institute As Foreign Mission In Response To Chinese Community Party Influence)

In August, the Trump administration labeled the Confucius Institutes U.S. Center a “foreign mission” of the Chinese Communist Party, a designation typically used for foreign embassies and consulates.

The Foreign Missions Act applies to entities that are “substantially owned or effectively controlled by a foreign government.”

Trump administration officials said that the Chinese government used the Confucius Institutes as part of its propaganda and influence efforts in the U.S.

Sec. of State Mike Pompeo, who spearheaded many of the Trump administration’s China initiatives, said on Aug. 13 that the Confucius Institute was “an entity controlled by the PRC that advances Beijing’s global propaganda and malign influence campaign on U.S. campuses and K-12 classrooms.”

Biden’s ☭ CIA Pick Was President Of Think Tank That Took Millions From Chinese Communist Party Affiliates

CCP in the White House. They own the demented segregationist. Hell, they own the party.

President Joe Biden’s nominee to be the next director of the CIA, William Burns, was the president of a think tank that reportedly took millions of dollars from entities linked to the Chinese Communist Party.

“As president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Burns also invited nearly a dozen congressional staffers to attend a junket to China, where they met with a communist party operative and a president of a Chinese front group,” The Daily Caller News Foundation reported. “Burns, who was paid $540,580 last year as president of Carnegie, will appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee for a confirmation hearing likely to be held this month.”

Burns, who has been president of the think tank for nearly six years, welcomed Chinese businessman Zhang Yichen, CEO of CITIC Consulting, to the think tank’s board of trustees, saying that they were “very fortunate” to have him. The report said that Zhang donated between $500,000 and $999,999 to the think tank over a one-year span between 2017 and 2018 and gave an additional $250,000 and $549,999 to the think tank in the last fiscal year.

“Zhang is a member of two organizations linked to the Chinese Communist Party, according to his biography at CITIC Capital: the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and the Center for China and Globalization,” the report said. “CPPCC is an advisory group for the Chinese Communist Party that is affiliated with China’s united front system, which promotes Chinese government initiatives abroad.”

The think tank also received funding from the China-United States Exchange Foundation (CUSEF), a Hong Kong-based think tank that has reportedly come under scrutiny in recent years over its ties to China’s communist government.

“CUSEF donated between $100,000 and $249,999 to Carnegie in 2015 and the same amount between July 1, 2016, through June 30, 2017, according to archived versions of Carnegie’s donor page,” the report said. “According to the Jamestown Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank led by retired U.S. intelligence officials, CUSEF is ‘a major player in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s organizational apparatus for conducting united front work in the United States.””https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-0&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1358968431761104905&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fbidens-cia-pick-was-president-of-think-tank-that-took-millions-from-chinese-communist-party-tied-entities-report%3Futm_source%3Dfacebook%26utm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_campaign%3Dbenshapiro%26fbclid%3DIwAR2HJuur1jdF73TN-wEcOuvPB666TkDYazCo90c2ahXK8Nc5sT5nHlAbGmQ&siteScreenName=realDailyWire&theme=light&widgetsVersion=889aa01%3A1612811843556&width=500px

The news comes as the Biden administration has faced mounting pressure over whether it will confront communist China over a wide range of issues. Biden has repeatedly downplayed the threat China poses to the United States and even repeatedly refused to call China an “opponent” during an appearance on CNN last year.

During an interview that aired in-part on Sunday, Biden praised Chinese President Xi Jinping, saying that he was “very bright.”

“He’s very tough. He doesn’t have – and I don’t mean it as a criticism, just the reality, he doesn’t have a democratic, small-D, bone in his body,” Biden said. “But … the question is, I’ve said to him all along, that we need not have a conflict.”

THIS RIGHT HERE IS EXACTLY WHY BIG TECH IS NOT, AND I WILL REPEAT THAT FOR THE LIBERALS WHO DON’T UNDERSTAND, NOT PRIVATE INDUSTRIES, BECAUSE THEY ARE IN REALITY DEFACTO GOVERNMENTS DUE TO THE CONSTANT REVOLVING DOOR OF PEOPLE EXCHANGES BETWEEN THEM AND GOVERNMENT. PERIOD!

Facebook Hires Deep State NATO Press Officer Ben Nimmo As Intelligence Chief

It is now difficult to distinguish where the deep state ends and the fourth estate begins and Ben Nimmo’s move from NATO to NATO-aligned think tank to Facebook is just another example of this phenomenon.  Ben Nimmo, a former NATO press officer and current senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, has announced Facebook has hired him to “lead global threat intelligence strategy against influence operations” and “emerging threats.” Nimmo specifically named Russia, Iran and China as potential dangers to the platform.

His announcement was greeted with joy by several NATO officials but was not met with such enthusiasm by others. “More censorship on the way as the former NATO press officer turned Pentagon-funded ‘researcher’ who labeled real people as Russian bots and peddled disinformation to link Jeremy Corbyn to Russian active measures moves to big tech,” responded investigative journalist Max Blumenthal.https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=BradleeDean1&dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-0&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1358267865472913409&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fsonsoflibertymedia.com%2Ffacebook-hires-deep-state-nato-press-officer-ben-nimmo-as-intelligence-chief%2F&siteScreenName=BradleeDean1&theme=light&widgetsVersion=889aa01%3A1612811843556&width=550px

Nimmo’s questionable past certainly raises questions over whether such an official having a substantial say in what 2.8 billion Facebook users worldwide see in their feeds is such a positive step for the free and open exchange of information.

“Disinformation agents”

For example, in 2019, U.K. Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn revealed secret Conservative Party documents showing negotiations the Tory government had with the U.S. over the privatization of the National Health Service (NHS). With just days to go before the U.K. general election, the scandal could have toppled the government and brought into power the most radical antiwar, anti-establishment government in the country’s history. Corporate media went into overdrive to spin the news, and Nimmo was a key part of this, immediately announcing, without evidence, that the documents “closely resemble…a known Russian operation.” His supposedly expert conjecture allowed the story to become “Corbyn’s links to Russia” rather than “Tories privatizing the NHS in secret.” Nimmo’s work helped the Conservatives to an election victory and consigned Corbyn to the scrapheap.

This was much to the relief of Nimmo’s Atlantic Council, who had branded Corbyn the “Kremlin’s Trojan Horse” — someone pushing Moscow’s agenda abroad. A British Army general was of a similar opinion, claiming that if Corbyn were to win the election, the military would respond. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also said that the U.S. government was “doing its best” to prevent a radical leftist from winning power in the U.K.

Nimmo has been extremely liberal with whom he labels Russian disinformation agents. In 2018, his research identified one Twitter user, @Ian56789, as a “Kremlin troll.” In reality, the user, Ian Shilling, was a British pensioner, as Sky News was easily able to confirm, interviewing him on air and asking him the patently absurd question if he was actually a Russian bot or not. Despite clearly being a flesh and blood human, Shilling’s account was later deleted anyway.

In the past, Nimmo has also insisted that Ruslana Boshirova was an influential Russian bot. In reality, she is an internationally known concert pianist, as one Google search would have shown. This sort of behavior does not augur well for those critical of Western foreign policy, who have faced constant harassment, suspension, or outright bans from social media.https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=BradleeDean1&dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-1&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=978559232508416000&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fsonsoflibertymedia.com%2Ffacebook-hires-deep-state-nato-press-officer-ben-nimmo-as-intelligence-chief%2F&siteScreenName=BradleeDean1&theme=light&widgetsVersion=889aa01%3A1612811843556&width=550px

Pro-war putsch

The Atlantic Council began as an offshoot of NATO itself and maintains extremely close connections to the military alliance. It continues to receive major funding from Western governments and weapons contractors, and its board of directors is filled to the brim with senior American statespersons, such as Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, and Henry Kissinger. Also appearing on the board are no fewer than seven former CIA directors and a number of top military generals, such as Jim “Mad Dog” Mattis, Wesley Clark, and David Petraeus.

In recent years, the council’s employees have penetrated deep into big tech and social media organizations. In 2018, it announced it had partnered with Facebook to aid in the curation of Facebook news feeds of users worldwide, giving it considerable power over what sort of views to highlight and which to demote. One year previously, Jessica Ashooh left the position of the council’s Deputy Director of Middle Eastern Strategy to take the position of Director of Policy at Reddit, the eighth-most visited website in the United States. However, as with many intelligence agencies, it is unclear whether one truly “leaves” the Atlantic Council.

Moral Narcissism and the Show Trial of Donald Trump

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) signs an article of impeachment against President Donald Trump at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 13, 2021.

Discussing the Democrats’ impeachment trial in legal terms is a ludicrous waste of time. Anyone literate in the English language can see that the concept of impeaching a post-president is entirely absent from the U.S. Constitution.

Removing someone from office who is no longer in office in the first place is a serio-comic oxymoron straight out of the Theater of the Absurd.

What is actually going on is Trump Derangement Syndrome taken from a neurosis to some kind of bizarre psychosis with overtones of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

The level at which this “trial” is worth examining therefore has a psychoanalytic, not a legal, tilt. It raises, once again, the question of why the Democrats and their media cohorts despise Donald Trump so much.

Yes, I know they fear his political comeback above all things and wish to extinguish it, but what is it, on a deeper level, that makes them believe this man to be such a monster that they are going full Stalinist in conducting what Rand Paul aptly called a “Show Trial”?

Allow me to be a tad self-referential because I think, at least to some degree, the answer can be found in my 2016 book,—actually written before Trump won the nomination and with few specific references to him—“I Know Best: How Moral Narcissism Is Destroying Our Republic If It Hasn’t Already.”

The narcissism I was referring to was not the traditional kind based on the Greek youth Narcissus’ fascination with his own image, but a narcissism of ideas, of “moral” self-description.

I explained it this way: What you proclaim, what you say you believe, is what makes you good, what makes you important—not the actual results of those beliefs, which are irrelevant.

Biden’s recent cancelation of the Keystone pipeline could be described as a purely morally narcissistic act—proclaimed as something significant for the environment when in reality all it does is put people out of work and give comfort to our enemies as America becomes more energy dependent. (Ironically, it also has negative environmental repercussions, forcing the oil to be transported by more risky rail means.)

John Kerry is a moral narcissist par excellence, jetting around endlessly in his carbon-belching private plane to save us all from climate change.

Moral narcissism fits today’s liberals and progressives to a “t,” living millionaire and billionaire lives that make hypocrisy the understatement of all time while disdaining the working class, their needs and values, to a degree that would embarrass Marie Antoinette.

Donald Trump undermined all that. He makes and made plenty of proclamations and certainly loves his private plane(s), but he is all about results.

In fact, he makes a point of delivering on his promises, the exact antithesis of standard operating procedure in Washington, where politicians send us endless emails and texts (almost always asking for money) about what they say they believe or are planning, but almost never about what they have accomplished, as if we don’t and shouldn’t care about that.

It’s the way the game has been played in D.C. for ages, quite comfortable and insular when you think about it, and self-replicating. No wonder Trump is loathed.

(He also made things like improving the economy seem remarkably easy and quick—just remove excessive regulations and lower taxes—actually common sense, when it was supposed to be so complicated and arcane only wise politicians and economists could do it over years.)

Although nearly pervasive in the Democratic Party, moral narcissism is not exclusive to it. A number of Republicans fit the description as well and you can almost be certain they will be among those voting to convict Trump in the Show Trial.

These politicians (both sides) and the media are particularly angry because, as narcissists, moral or otherwise, they have a great need of fans, people to admire them constantly and make them feel alive.

Trump ruined that to a great extent by unmasking them as phonies. Rage and vengeance were and are the natural responses.

In a less overtly psychological realm, It’s not inconsequential that he made his money before coming to Washington. They usually make theirs during and after.

Trump even had the temerity actually to lose half his fortune while serving, at the same time donating his salary to charity.

How “off message” is that! Imagine if that became pro forma for our public servants.

So it’s a ‘two-fer’… or even a ‘three-fer’… or is it quinella when it comes to hating Trump?

Whatever the case. The left’s agenda will continue to be based on any remaining’s of the Trump POTUS.

Leftists blast Dolly Parton’s ‘5 to 9’ Super Bowl ad that celebrates ‘working’ for your ‘dreams’ — and the backlash is fierce

‘Why would singing the praises of work be “disappointing” to anyone but a commie?’

One of many Super Bowl commercials making headlines the day after the big game features country music legend Dolly Parton turning her iconic song “9 to 5” on its head by celebrating the grit and determination of entrepreneurship as folks out there are “working working working / working 5 to 9” until their “dreams come true.”

Here’s the commercial, which was for website builder Squarespace:

Fun stuff, eh?

Well, not for everyone. A number of news outlets published pieces severely criticizing Dolly. In fact, a writer who penned an NBC News op-ed Sunday blasted the singer’s “tone-deaf misstep” and “rare miscalculation.”

Say what?

“Rather than paying homage to the spirit of the original song, which made no bones about the exploitative nature of the daily grind, the commercial for Squarespace features a tinny ode to the side hustle,” Kim Kelly wrote. “Its office workers are portrayed as being overjoyed to continue working after hours, their side hustles are painted as freeing, fun and fulfilling, and the song itself encourages them to ‘be your own boss, climb your own ladder.'”

More from Kelly’s op-ed:

Now, Parton’s silvery voice is being used to promote the false virtues of working overtime, when so many gig economy workers are barely scraping by and the tech companies who employ — but misclassify — them are raking in boffo profits. The gig economy is a wretched alternative to a stable paycheck and proper benefits, and efforts to paint it as a matter of “independence” or “being one’s own boss” downplay how hard it is for so many gig workers to make ends meet. The lack of a safety net has become even more apparent thanks to the increased demands and dangers of the COVID-19 pandemic Parton herself has helped combat; delivery drivers, grocery shoppers and other gig workers have become a lifeline to so many, and yet they remain stripped of the protections and dignity they deserve.

She added that “as we all love Parton, she’s still a capitalist and still a very, very rich woman; she has a vested interest in boosting her public profile, and Squarespace surely paid dearly for the privilege of borrowing some of her sparkle. Parton doesn’t need the money herself, but between funding her philanthropic efforts, supporting her family and local community and expanding her empire, I can see her welcoming an influx of filthy lucre. The reality is that it made good business sense, and she’s always been a shrewd businesswoman.”

It’s worth noting that Kelly, according to her op-ed bio, also is an “organizer” who specializes in “labor, politics and working-class resistance” — which makes her reaction to Parton’s “5 to 9” tune not terribly surprising.

But that ain’t all

Kelly wasn’t the only one to sling arrows at the beloved songwriter, either:

• Slate’s pop culture writer and editor Hilary Hughes chided Parton for the same reasons, saying the ad “diminished one of the most potent, and beloved, messages behind her own work while dressing it up as a tribute.”
• Newsweek published an analysis calling the commercial “disturbing” and full of “propaganda” that reflects “an insane ideology.”
• And Jessica Bennett — a New York Times editor at large who covers women and culture — didn’t like the commercial’s theme, either, saying it ignores the present reality of “American women” who now “deal with ongoing job losses, economic challenges and just plain fatigue.”

What was the reaction?

As you might expect, many folks weren’t happy with Kelly’s op-ed — and they hit back on Twitter by telling her it actually does take hard work and determination to get where you want to go in life. And that such a path is more gratifying to travel upon than one featuring more and more stuff handed to you:

• “Why would singing the praises of work be ‘disappointing’ to anyone but a commie?” one Twitter user asked.
• “Remember: the left *hates* the idea of the individual building something and making the world a better place,” another user noted. “They’d rather you worship at the feet of the state — the government should provide and decide who succeeds and what you need for life.”
• “I think you misinterpreted the commercial,” another commenter said. “The ‘hustle’ isn’t to work more jobs. It’s to build something on the side that you love and eventually leave the drudgery of cubicle life … that’s how most small businesses are started.”
• “What’s wrong with working? Millions of us go to work every day and dream of someday working for ourselves to have more freedom and independence,” another user noted. “The point is, we work hard no matter what for ourselves and our families. This work ethic is worthy of praise.”

This Story Proves Orwell’s “1984” Is Now the Democratic Left’s Handbook

With its twisted idea of social justice, Biden’s DOJ will let discrimination against Asian Americans slide

Despite repeated promises to clamp down on racism against Asian Americans, President Biden’s Justice Department decided to withdraw a lawsuit targeting Yale University for rampant discrimination against Asian American applicants.

The same social justice dogma that considers it racist to refer to the novel coronavirus as the “Chinese coronavirus” also views the higher education industry’s systemic bias against Asian Americans as a positive good. When the Justice Department announced it would be dropping the Yale case, the American Civil Liberties Union applauded it.

While there are no publicly available statistics for Yale’s admissions, we do have ample evidence of Asian American college applicants being held to a higher standard in general, as well as damning data from its fellow Ivy League university, Harvard.

So why does Biden spend so much time claiming he and Vice President Kamala Harris will fight racism, including against Asian Americans, only to toss out a lawsuit fighting the most consequential forms of anti-Asian discrimination? He finds the need to virtue-signal in this way precisely because he is tossing out the lawsuit. This is just like how Nike, once loathed by the Left for its use of sweatshop labor, became a liberal darling through the symbolic gesture of inking a multimillion-dollar deal with failed NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick. The result? No one talks about its sweatshop problem anymore, even as Nike lobbies against laws hampering its ability to use the slave labor of Uighurs currently facing genocide in China.

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Wokeness thus covers a multitude of sins, allowing Biden to have his cake and eat it too. And while some may not care about the demographics of future consultants and investment bankers that Yale churns out, anti-Asian discrimination masquerading as social justice is trickling down rapidly to the masses.

One prominent example is the woke brigade’s war against a group of New York City’s highly selective public schools, where admissions are based solely on the city’s Specialized High School Admissions Test. Because only 470 black and Latino students were admitted to these elite eight schools last year, Mayor Bill de Blasio and nearly every other New York City mayoral candidate (except for front-runner Andrew Yang) wish to scrap the test as unfair to minorities. This despite the fact that 2,305 Asian American students — that is, more than twice the number of white students — were admitted to these schools.

This isn’t just a racial conflict — it is a class conflict as well. Asian Americans, the most impoverished racial demographic in New York City, comprise 90% of the students who qualify for free or reduced lunch at Stuyvesant, one of the elite eight, where they also comprise three-quarters of the student body. For thousands of Asian Americans, the majority of whom are either immigrants or the children of immigrants, the specialized test is their ticket out of poverty, and the Left wants to take it away in the name of wokeness.

Now that Biden has dropped the Yale case, benevolent bullies across the country just got the green light to rig the game against Asian American students. Admissions officers simply discount the value of their intelligence and academic performance by giving them low scores on personality. One could hardly imagine a more racist stereotype with which to disparage Asian Americans, yet the Biden administration approves.

Biden’s defenders will argue that racism against privileged Asians is worth it if we can only produce more black and Latino Ivy graduates. But if Biden was serious and this wasn’t simply about racism against Asians, he would act to end the teachers union-orchestrated school closures, which have hurt black and Latino students more than any other race. Don’t hold your breath on that one.

As Lockdowns Mow Down Overextended U.S. Universities, China Stands Ready With A Checkbook

The China-higher education alliance may seem a match made in heaven for cash-strapped academia, but it’s a bad development for America.

Late this January, the University of Pennsylvania’s president, Amy Gutman, got a second letter from Congress about China’s million-dollar donations there. The campus is home to the Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, or “the Biden Center.” It was launched in 2017, after which Chinese gifts more than tripled — from $21 million over 36 months before 2017 to more than $72 million during a similar time-frame after.

Signed by Jim Jordan, James Comer, and Virginia Foxx of the House Judiciary, Oversight and Education committees, the letter explained:

In light of your university’s close relationship with the Biden family, and recent revelations regarding their potentially illicit ties to foreign adversaries including China, we request an immediate response to this inquiry.

The letter requests all records and information regarding the school’s China contacts, including those in the custody of President Biden and of Anthony Blinken, his secretary of state and former managing director of the center.

The correspondence comes none too soon and, in another era, would have shocked and infuriated a majority of citizens. Today, few Americans realize how much their institutions of higher education depend on Chinese funds, creating the appearance of a China-higher ed alliance. This is not only unfair to American citizens, who subsidize higher education as a public good with its nonprofit status and receipt of federal and state appropriations, but also because of the obvious risks to national security.

As the letter makes clear, former Chinese Communist Party officials such as Liu Yunshan admit that CCP infiltration of American education is part of a propaganda effort to increase CCP influence here, even as our State Department accuses it of genocide against the minority Uighur population and our Justice Department is arresting its spies.

According to government documents, universities and academic talent initiatives such as the Thousand Talents Plan are vehicles “to attract, recruit and cultivate high-level scientific talent” to further China’s development. They “lure Chinese overseas talent and foreign experts to bring their knowledge and experience to China and reward individuals for stealing proprietary information” for the Chinese Communist Party.

What’s more, thanks to the lockdowns, these trends may get worse before they get better. For decades, colleges and universities have relied on tuition dollars, approximately 30 percent of their total income, to pay their bills — until COVID-19 lockdowns changed all that. As schools move to online learning, more students are opting out — either by deferring enrollment or suspending their studies or even by skipping college altogether.

So, how will institutions replace this tuition revenue that pays for so many buildings and so many salaries? One obvious go-to is China. The CCP already has a welcome presence on hundreds of campuses in the form of their million-dollar Confucius Institutes, marketed as cultural and exchange centers but really a form of soft-power to access American research and technology.

A growing number of Chinese students who pay full, out-of-state, and undiscounted tuition is also an attractive and alternative revenue source. This too has risks, however. Last year, the Justice Department’s China Initiative found a vast network of undercover Chinese military officers posing as students at Boston University and the University of California, Davis.

Faculty and researchers are also targeted and recruited, the most well-known being Harvard Chemistry Chairman Charles Lieber, indicted last year for failing to disclose his contract as a “strategic scientist” with Wuhan University of Technology. It paid him $50,000 a month, plus living and travel expenses, to cultivate young talent and publish in WUT’s name.

Cases also come from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Texas A & M, Carnegie Mellon, Ohio University, and other schools. The arrest of MIT professor Hang Chen revealed an arrangement similar to Lieber’s, indicating a pattern of influence, technology transfers, and espionage. According to Justice Department documents, “Since 2013, Chen allegedly received approximately $29 million of foreign funding, including $19 million from PRC’s Southern University of Science and Technology.” Chen, too, had not disclosed these affiliations.

This secrecy appears to be the norm for institutions as much as for individuals: Just last year, President Trump’s Education Department documented more than $6 billion of undisclosed foreign funds headed to American colleges and universities, even though federal law — Section 117 of the Higher Education Act — requires such disclosures when a gift exceeds $250,000.

Not incidentally, the main lobby group representing higher education is the American Council on Education (ACE), an organization that has furiously fought transparency requirements such as Section 117. Given its heft in D.C. as the representative of hundreds of schools and its likely alliance with many who might serve in a Biden administration, it may succeed not only in keeping these foreign funds hidden but also in growing them to fill the void left by COVID-19.

More sober still is the realization that China as the buyer of American “higher education for sale,” while both wrongful and dangerous, makes sense. After all, many left-wing academics sympathize with communist societies and their academic monoculture already tends in a China-like authoritarian direction with its curbs on free speech, its violations of religious exercise for Christian student groups, and its suppression of the free flow of information.

This all makes the University of Pennsylvania letter a welcome inquiry into a shady area of American higher education finance and Congress members Jordan, Comer, and Foxx should be commended for it, just as Biden & Co. should be scrutinized and shamed. The China-higher ed alliance may seem a match made in heaven for cash-strapped academia, but it’s a bad development for America.