Behind the Curtain: New Twitter Files Reveal Biden-Harris Team’s Global Censorship Web
More revelations about the previously secret world of “coordination” between the Biden administration and major social media companies have come out with a new set of Twitter Files documents.
Released by journalist Paul D. Thacker, they show that what political opponents consider to be collusion rather than coordination did not concern only the US – and that the entire scheme was playing out through what were effectively middlemen.
The White House denies these accusations, including before Senate commissions investigating the damning claims, and fights them in courts.
However, the Twitter Files paint a different picture, and this time the focus involves Twitter, censorship demands coming from India, the State Department, and a lobbying firm, Albright Stonebridge, that was in charge of “coordination.”
It was 2021 when Twitter turned to Albright Stonebridge (a merger of groups founded by former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former US National Security Advisor Sandy Berger) for help.
The social platform was facing censorship demands, this time concerning criticism around India’s Covid policies.
Given its founders, previous funding it received from the Gates Foundation, and a Politico report saying ten of Biden’s top national security and foreign policy officials “had ties” to Albright Stonebridge – the firm seems to be just one degree of separation from the current White House.
Twitter wanted the lobbyists to pressure the US government (via the State Department) to help the company out in India, a huge market.
According to the new batch of documents, they did, and the State Department started “working closely with Twitter to deal with the company’s problems in India” – while itself indirectly pressuring Twitter to engage in censorship “around the same timeframe,” Thacker writes.
Namely, there was another actor: the Atlantic Council, nominally an independent think tank – but a recipient of a State Department grant – and one that, as Thacker says, has a board “littered with former heads of national security agencies, including the CIA.”
It once had Albright as a board member. A tangled web, indeed.
Previous Twitter Files documents show that the Atlantic Council and the State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC) banded together to compile a censorship list of about 40,000 Twitter files critical of the Indian government (but allegedly “engaging in inauthentic behavior”).
“These emails (call) into sharp question claims by Democrats and their allies in the media that Twitter did not collude with federal agencies and was free from Biden administration pressure to make its own censorship decisions,” Thacker concluded.
Christian Doctor in Germany Receives 2,500-Euro Fine for Warning About Covid Jab Dangers in 2021
(LifeSiteNews) — A German doctor was fined2,500 euros ($2,799 USD) for warning about people dying due to the COVID-19 jabs in 2021.
As Apollo News reported, Dr. Heidi Göldner of Braunfels in the federal state of Hessen posted a written note in her practice in the fall of 2021 warning about the dangers of the experimental shots.
Gölder stated on the note: “Dear patients, due to repeated inquiries: Due to the disproportionately high number of sometimes serious side effects and the more than 40 (more likely 50) deaths in connection with Covid-19 vaccinations experienced in the local community, I will continue not to carry out Covid-19 vaccinations in my practice!”
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In response, the Hessen Medical Association initiated legal proceedings against Dr. Göldner. The Association stressed that it would investigate all complaints against doctors who allegedly deny the existence of COVID-19 or make “false claims” about the COVID-19 jabs.
According to Apollo News, Gölder had defended her statement in an interview in a local newspaper in 2021 by saying that patients, funeral directors, and acquaintances had reported sudden deaths to her at the time — of people who had received the Covid shots shortly before.
READ: The Telegraph admits COVID shots may have helped cause over 3 million excess deaths
In a speech that Gölder gave in 2022, she said her Christian faith prompted her to post the sign even though she knew it might get her in trouble.
“I thought for a very long time about whether I should put up this sign and how I should write it,” the doctor stated, adding, “I am a Christian and did it with trust in God.
“What I have written is the truth. I live in the truth, and I live in the love of God, and I pass that on to my patients, and that is very important to me.”
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The trial was held Tuesday, August 20, and the court ruled that the family doctor must pay a fine of 2,500 euros.
Shortly after the verdict was announced, Göldner declared she was “stunned.” According to Apollo News, she was extremely disappointed with the State Medical Association. Instead of standing behind doctors and supporting them in the exercise of their oath, the organization was stabbing doctors in the back.
Gölder declared that she will continue to warn against the dangerous mRNA injections: “I have seen the side effects, and my job as a doctor is to protect my patients, to stand up for their health, and I will continue to do so.”
On Saturday, August 17, a demonstration of solidarity for the doctor was held in front of Wetzlar Cathedral in the run-up to the trial. There, she once again declared that “she only feels obliged to her oath as a doctor and to her conscience.”
Gölder’s sentencing comes despite the fact that there is ample evidence that the Covid jabs have indeed seriously harmed people and caused many deaths.
Reports of at least 1,644,248 COVID shot injuries and deaths in the U.S. alone seriously call into question the safety of the shots, as does the finding from the largest COVID shot study to date of a “higher than expected” increase in neurological and heart problems following the jabs.
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Bolstering these safety concerns is the fact that European Union drug regulators have warned that frequent COVID boosters could adversely affect the immune system, and that former CDC director Robert Redfield, in a July U.S. Senate hearing, called the COVID shots “toxic” and said they should never have been mandated.
Moreover, the prestigious medical journal BMJ Public Health conducted a data analysis of 47 countries, mainly in Europe and North America, that found high excess death rates for three continuous years since the outbreak of COVID-19, naming Covid shots and other “containment measures” like lockdowns as likely contributors to extraordinarily high excess death numbers.
Additionally, recently leaked documents from a top German health agency show that politicians knew the experimental COVID shots did not prevent transmission and that lockdowns cause more harm than good but advocated for jab mandates anyway, proving the political establishment’s dishonesty regarding the highly controversial Covid injections.
Dems Secretly Tell Grocery Reps: Price Controls Will Never Pass Congress
Democrat lawmakers have been seeking to allay fears about Kamala Harris’s price-control policy by telling grocery industry representatives that price controls will never pass Congress.
Alarm has grown within the grocery sector over the Vice President’s plan to impose central controls on food prices, and among the general public.
Congressional Democrats and aides spoke to Politico under condition of anonymity and said they believe price controls and bills to combat price gouging have no chance of passing Congress.
“I honestly still don’t know how this would work,” said one Democratic lawmaker.
Politico reports that the “backlash has tempered Harris allies’ initial push to paint the proposal as a bold, progressive idea. Since introducing the price gouging plan, her advisers have sought to soften criticism of the proposal by downplaying its overall impact on the market — and emphasizing that the goal is simply to target a small cohort of potential ‘bad actors,’ rather than generate the kind of sweeping overhaul suggested by the plan’s initial rollout.”
Lawmakers have been telling critics and insiders that instead of being a clear policy promise, Harris’s proposals are simply “messaging.” What Harris is actually doing is trying “to show that she understands food prices remain an economic burden for many Americans and to redirect voters’ anger about inflation to corporations, in a way that progressives in particular have cheered.”
#Kamunism pic.twitter.com/Zv20l6FKIY
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) August 17, 2024
Donald Trump has seized on the plan and labelled the Vice President a “communist” and “Comrade Kamala.” Kamunism was a recent New York Post headline, and #Kamunism has been trending on Twitter.
Trump has also claimed that Harris is doing her best to pretend that she is not currently the Vice President, to make it look as if he is responsible for the current economic situation.
“Kamala and her ‘handlers’ are trying to make it sound like I am the Incumbent President, so that they can blame me for the failure of the past four years,” the former president Tweeted on Sunday.
“No, it was their failure! It is one of the worst Presidencies in History, and she is definitely the Worst Vice President.”
Kamala and her “handlers” are trying to make it sound like I am the Incumbent President, so that they can blame me for the failure of the past four years. No, it was their failure! It is one of the worst Presidencies in History, and she is definitely the Worst Vice President.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 25, 2024
Trump followed that Tweet with three further Tweets where he highlighted the disastrous effects on the economy and individual freedom if Kamala Harris wins the election.
“If you think things are expensive now, they will get 100 times WORSE if Kamala gets four years as President. Under her plan, Kamala will implement SOVIET Style Price Controls. She will abolish private health care, and make California’s ridiculous tax policies the law of the land, meaning EVERY American will be taxed up to 80% of their income! If you want more CASH and less TAX, VOTE TRUMP!!!”
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Mike Benz: US State Dept. Behind Arrest of Telegram CEO
The US State Department is responsible for the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov in France, according to Mike Benz.
Benz released a five-minute video on Twitter on Saturday detailing why he believes the US State Department played a hand in the arrest of Durov.
He believes the State Department want to exert pressure on Telegram, not in order to destroy the platform, but to bend it to their will and control it. Benz notes how Telegram has been used in US-backed “color revolutions,” including in Belarus and Russia.
“Telegram played a major role in the State Department’s fomenting of the color revolution in Belarus in the summer of 2020. The National Endowment for Democracy, the US State Department, and USAID were all funding the major organisers of the street riots in Belarus and using Telegram as the main channel to organise those street riots because Telegram has such ubiquitous use in Eastern Europe, also in Russia, also in Ukraine. So they loved Telegram as a way to organise rent-a-riots to destabilise Lukashenko’s government.”
Benz goes on to compare the situation with Telegram to what happened to Wikileaks, which the US government “wanted to kill”, and WhatsApp, which they wanted to control.
“So what they want to do is not kill Telegram like they wanted to kill Wikileaks. They want to control it. And the problem was, they didn’t have the ability to put sufficient pressure on Pavel to break his will. So he was living in Dubai. Now they have leverage. I believe that’s the purpose of this prosecution: not to establish a legal precedent that for every encrypted chat app its founder is personally responsible for all illegal conversations or transactions on the platform, but rather to force Telegram to become WhatsApp.
“This is what they did to WhatsApp, by the way. Through this regulatory pressure, WhatsApp is owned by Facebook. They broke WhatsApp’s back.”
“They didn’t want to shut down WhatsApp,” Benz continues.
“Whatsapp is used by everybody in Latin America and South America, and half in India. They [the State Department] want to control it, to be able to have their own personnel in place to install and oversee the policies in every country on Earth in order to shape the political outcomes from the inside of every country on Earth to determine their elections. This is what they did to WhatsApp and Telegram in Brazil.”
Just got booted from the @MarioNawfal space so I’m gonna speak my peace here: what’s behind today’s arrest of Telegram founder Pavel Durov pic.twitter.com/FexLvJZK92
— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) August 25, 2024
Pavel Durov was arrested in Paris on Saturday, on charges related to the spread of illicit material via Telegram. He was arrested after arriving at Le Bourget Airport on a private plane from Azerbaijan.
In a statement on Telegram on Sunday, the company said, “Telegram abides by EU laws,” adding, “Telegram’s CEO Pavel Durov has nothing to hide.”
Ukraine Tells Belarus to Pull its Army From the Border
Belarus has amassed a large number of troops at the border, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said on Sunday, warning Minsk against making “tragic mistakes.”
Citing intelligence reports, the ministry said that the Belarusian Armed Forces are “concentrating a significant number of personnel,” including tanks and artillery, in the Gomel Region “under the guise of exercises.”
“The presence of mercenaries of the former Wagner PMC was also recorded,” the ministry said in a statement on its website. It went on to argue that holding drills near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant “poses a threat to the national security of Ukraine and global security in general.”
The ministry warned Minsk “not to make tragic mistakes” and urged the neighboring country to “cease unfriendly actions and withdraw forces away from Ukraine’s state border to a distance greater than the firing range of Belarus’ systems.”
“Ukraine has never taken and is not going to take any unfriendly actions against the Belarusian people,” the ministry argued, stressing that Ukraine reserves the right to defend itself in case of an attack.
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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko earlier accused Kiev of dangerous military buildup, claiming that Kiev had amassed more than 120,000 troops on its northern border.
“Having seen their aggressive policy, we have deployed our troops to certain areas near our border,” Lukashenko said in an interview with the Russian broadcaster VGTRK this month. “I was forced to deploy almost a third of [the Belarusian] army to reinforce the existing forces.” He added that the troops were ready to “defend” Belarus should a war break out.
In early August, Lukashenko said that the air defense forces had shot down several “attack drones” that took off in Ukraine and violated Belarusian airspace.
Minsk has urged Russia and Ukraine to return to the negotiating table, warning that the continuing fighting could lead to “an escalation that would result in Ukraine’s destruction.”
Belarus has a defense pact with Russia and Russian nuclear weapons are stationed on its territory.
Ukraine launched an incursion into Russia’s Kursk Region on August 6, claiming that it was intending to establish a “buffer zone” on Russian soil. Moscow responded by deploying additional forces to repel the invaders and organizing the evacuation of civilians from the affected areas. President Vladimir Putin had informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that Ukraine “attempted to strike” the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant.