Donald J Trump holds a rally later today (8pm Eastern, 7 pm
Central) in Des Moines, Iowa. To watch the
livestream on Right Side Broadcasting Network or Rumble, click here. Tune in early for coverage of guest speakers.
UPDATE: Tornado watch in Iowa this evening, so the MAGA rally has been postponed.
Emmy Griffin at Patriot
Post explains the “Restrict Act”, presently gaining support in the Senate:
RESTRICT stands for Restricting the
Emergence of Security Threats That Risk Information and Communications
Technology, and of the several bills presented to the Senate on the issue of
social media abuses, this one has the most popular support.
. . .
However, one thing to take into
consideration is that when crafting legislation that restricts or bans TikTok,
other social media companies need to be part of the calculous as well.
Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, SnapChat, and others all data-mine their users.
It’s a good rule of thumb that if a product is free, the actual product is you,
the user. In this case, data-mining and microphone-tapping are used to provide
users with targeted ads. It is an invasion of privacy, albeit one that mostly
feels innocuous — for now.
The RESTRICT Act would delegate
regulation to a bureaucrat in the executive branch. The secretary of commerce
would be given carte blanche to make several decisions that are troubling, to
say the least. According to
Senator Rand Paul: “The bill’s application is far from limited to Tiktok or
other internet-based companies. The third section of the bill would enable the
Secretary of Commerce to investigate any business that is in any way subject to
the jurisdiction of a foreign adversary to determine if its transactions ‘pose
an undue or unacceptable risk to the national security of the United States.’
Though the bill already designates China, Russia, Venezuela, Iran, and Cuba as
foreign adversaries, the RESTRICT Act also empowers the Secretary of Commerce
to unilaterally add any other country to this official enemies list.”
The current secretary of commerce,
Gina M. Raimondo, has already stated that banning TikTok would be a politically
deleterious move for the Democrats. In an interview, she said, “The politician
in me thinks you’re gonna literally lose every voter under 35, forever.”
. . .
The RESTRICT Act takes away
freedoms from the American people. It is just another thinly veiled attack
against the First Amendment. The powers granted to the secretary of commerce
give her the authority to remove, investigate, or outright censor companies
that aren’t toeing the Democrat Party line. In fact, if any company resists her
edicts, those responsible could go to jail for 20 years.
Do we really want that sort of
power in the hands of an unelected bureaucrat?
That sane answer is no. . . .
Read the rest here.
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At American Thinker,
Andrea Widburg reports on yet another alarming development:
The DHS is training Americans to spy on those who oppose leftism
. . . A FOIA [Freedom of
Information Act] request revealed that it produced training documents teaching
ordinary Americans to report on Americans opposed to Biden’s policies.
This sounds too far-fetched to be
believable, but it’s true. The Foundation for Freedom Online reviewed documents
that America First Legal obtained from the DHS via a Freedom of Information Act
request. It showed that the DHS is planning to train ordinary Americans to
intervene when they see “radicalization” among their peers.
. . .
It's one thing to urge citizens to
be vigilant about packages that could be bombs or to be aware of someone
sweating, mumbling prayers to himself, and smelling of rosewater at fairs or
other crowded venues. It’s another thing entirely for the Department of
Homeland Security to define the Democrat party’s political opponents as
incipient terrorists.
This means we no longer live in a
free, two-party representative democracy. Instead, we live in a budding
socialist, totalitarian state, complete with a secret police that deputizes
citizen fanatics to engage in unlawful searches for crimes. Just as the Deep
State used social media to circumvent both the First and Fourth Amendments, it’s
doing the same with a generation of citizen spies.
Read the full report here.
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Dr Robert W Malone posted an update at Substack with a link to the petition to move The American Sovereignty Declaration forward:
“The World Health Organization
(WHO) is a supranational United Nations agency that is effectively
controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), as evidenced, among other
things, by the manner in which the WHO’s Director-General, Dr.
Tedros Ghebreyesus, has relentlessly accomplished Beijing’s
bidding. That includes advancing the CCP’s interest in bringing about
a post-Constitutional-America and “global
governance” dominated by the Party. The CCP’s hegemonic ambitions have
no place for a powerful United States of America, human freedom or personal
sovereignty.
The WHO is, moreover, underwritten
and malignly influenced by other hostile special interests, including Bill
Gates and Big
Pharma. Their efforts to expand the WHO’s supranational control align
with Beijing’s. If they are no more concerned than the CCP with actually
advancing public health, Gates and his fellow corporate globalists exploit
their roles with the World Health Organization to generate profits.
These factors make it hardly
surprising that, in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, the WHO
lied about the nature, origins and effective
responses to the Wuhan Virus. The “China
Model” of lockdowns, masks and vaccine
mandates and digital
enforcement mechanisms was endorsed. And the WHO approved the use of
expensive and inadequately
tested gene therapies as “vaccinations” and the suppression of
readily available, effective and inexpensive treatments. . . .
. . .
What the WHO has euphemistically
dubbed its “One
Health” approach enables it to take animals, plants and the
environment under its jurisdiction. Doing so would give it authority over
every aspect of life, under the guise of a potential public health emergency. .
. .
More at the link here. Anything to throw sand into the
globalist machines.
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As the world staggers into the New World Order, Mark Lewis at Townhall
looks at all the wrecking balls:
What is critical to understand is
that all the failures of the Biden administration are choreographed. They
are deliberate, exactly what Soros, the WEF, the Deep State, i.e., the Marxist
Left covet. They WANT failure. We must understand that. Some
of them are intelligent enough to know that Leftist policies never succeed
because they contradict basic human nature, economic laws, history, science,
God, and every other reality. This is the horror we are witnessing in
America and around the world today —designed, intended collapse. Those who
are engineering this are aware of it and, again, need the failure. As
societies crumble and dissipate into total chaos, someone, echoing Hitler, will
have to step forth and restore order again. The Left certainly doesn’t
intend for Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis to do it. The Marxist Left will
be able to assume all power, and the people will gladly give it to them in
order to restore some measure of peace and stability to their lives. The
masses will obey whatever orders are given to them under the threat of terror,
and out of fear of a resurrection of the madness that brought about the
totalitarian state in the first place. Most Americans sense something is
dreadfully wrong, but don’t know enough history to understand it. That is
a supreme tragedy.
Read the full article here.
And we all know people who are still sleep-walking.
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Here’s the latest on genetically modified pork, from NextGov:
The United States Food and Drug
Administration has authorized gene-edited pigs entrance into the food chain for
human consumption—as German-style sausages.
Gene-editing can make changes in an
organism’s DNA that could occur in nature or through selective breeding but
would take much longer without a tool like CRISPR.
The FDA authorization is
investigational, and limited to these particular pigs, but shows that gene-editing livestock
to quickly produce desirable traits for improved food production is a viable
strategy for helping feed the planet’s growing population.
Uh huh. Here’s the final quote:
“There’s a trust that comes with
university-based research,” he says. “We just want to make sure the research is
valid, and the animals we produce are healthy.”
The “trust that comes with university-based research”? With all the corruption in the peer-reviewed studies
(RetractionWatch does nothing all day but track the retractions in peer-reviewed research),
well, that trust would seem to be long gone. Read the full report here.
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