Biden DHS Paid Activist Groups to Create ‘Counter-Propaganda’ Against Trump & Conservatives
The Department of Homeland Security provided federal grants to “media literacy” groups to create self-described “propaganda” to attack conservatives, according to a bombshell report.
Public records requests filed with the Media Research Center found the DHS used a grant program earmarked for terrorism response, called the Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention (TVTP) Program, to pay activists $700,000 to write blog posts that criticized former President Donald Trump and other conservatives under the guise of “media literacy.”
University of Rhode Island’s Media Education Lab asked the DHS for funding to run “community-created counter-propaganda” against conservatives, claiming that “propaganda and misinformation concerning topics including immigration [and] racial justice” had become “disruptive.”
“Propaganda can also be used for socially beneficial purposes. Indeed, because the public has long been recognized as being suggestible, the United States has long made use of beneficial propaganda during WWI, WWII, and the Cold War,” the grant application said.
From the MRC:
The blog-post portion of the campaign used incendiary language disparaging Biden’s political opponents, all funded with taxpayer dollars. Examples include:
- “We are all living in a darker, scarier, angrier, less hopeful country thanks to Mr. Trump’s influence. Are we on the verge of civil war?”
- “Donald Trump was also adopting the shock-jock style that Rush Limbaugh built into a cultural phenomenon, including his misogynistic and racist comments, conspiracy theories, and grievances.”
- “It won’t be easy, but we really have to reduce Trump’s influence.”
- “[I]t’s tempting and entertaining to tune into the circuses of the Marjorie Taylor Greenes, Louis Farrakans [sic], and MAGA supporters.”
- “It turns out even Fox Media has limits on how much misogyny and racism it will tolerate from its stars–witness the canceling of Tucker Carlson’s show last week.”
“The Biden administration is able to get something quite special with its $700,000 TVTP grant,” the MRC concluded in its investigation. “Harnessing the Media Literacy Now ‘network’ and, ultimately, paying children to advocate for ‘media literacy’ mandates ensnares the whole of the American public school system in its agenda.”
“With just two grants — first from the State Department, and now from the DHS — the Biden administration has been able to artificially create a perpetual ‘[p]ublic demand for media literacy in public education,’ supercharging a censorship industry devoted to an inherently anti-American philosophy hidden beneath the asinine monicker of ‘media literacy,’” it wrote.
“Congress must defund all domestic censorship programs, including the TVTP program that targets Sec. Mayorkas’s critics and finance anti-American activism,” MRC added.
In response to the revelations, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Ark.) wrote a letter to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas demanding the firing of DHS employees who doled out the taxpayer-funded grants to these propaganda groups.
“Your Department has consistently weaponized the federal government to attack conservatives using taxpayer dollars, first by colluding with private social media companies to censor conservative viewpoints and now by funding private actors to create affirmative propaganda to ‘counter’ conservatives,” Hawley wrote.
Now DHS is paying – *paying* – leftist academics to create “counter-propaganda” on “immigration, racial justice” and COVID. This from the people who brought you the Disinformation Board. Another reason Mayorkas should be gone ? pic.twitter.com/TQGbRavh3S
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) January 17, 2024
“This is an outrageous use of federal funds and abuse of power. All these funds should be clawed back by the federal government immediately, and anyone involved in making this grant should be fired.”
“This amounts to the use of government funds to further President Biden’s political agenda,” Hawley added.
This comes as the House Republicans’ second impeachment hearing into Mayorkas’ dereliction of duty of the open southern border is scheduled for Thursday.
This is Part 2 of the MRC’s investigative report. Part 1 detailed how the Biden State Department and DHS were funding schools to propagandize students against conservative ideas and train teachers to leverage censorship tools in the classroom.
Trump Vows To “Never Allow” A Central Bank Digital Currency
Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday vowed to never allow the use of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), as it would “give the government absolute control over your money.”
“This would be a dangerous threat to freedom – and I will stop it from coming to America. We are also going to put in place strong protections to stop banks and regulators from trying to de-bank you for your political beliefs. That will never happen while I am your president,” Trump told a crowd in Portsmouth, New Hampshire – as first reported by The National Pulse.
President Trump promises to block the creation of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) in America:
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) January 18, 2024
“Such a currency would give the federal government absolute control of your money. You wouldn’t even know it was gone. This is a dangerous threat to freedom and I will stop it.” pic.twitter.com/u4G9RkOXxf
Trump’s comments come hours after Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) revealed that federal agencies have been flagging financial transactions using politically sensitive words such as “MAGA” and “Trump” in yet another egregious example of the establishment targeting political rivals.
As we’ve reported for years, CBDCs – touted by globalists such as French Central Bank deputy governor Denis Beau as “the catalyst for improving cross-border payments by enabling the build-up of a new international monetary system” – are in fact the ultimate tools of oppression.
Even Fed Governors know ‘this way lies danger’:
“In thinking about the implications of CBDC and privacy, we must also consider the central role that money plays in our daily lives, and the risk that a CBDC would provide not only a window into, but potentially an impediment to, the freedom Americans enjoy in choosing how money and resources are used and invested,” Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman told a Harvard Law School Program on International Financial Systems last year.
Central bank digital currencies are part of a broader “war on cash.”
A cashless society is sold on the promise of providing a safe, convenient, and more secure alternative to physical cash. We’re also told it will help stop dangerous criminals who like the intractability of cash.
But there is a darker side – the promise of control.
The elimination of cash creates the potential for the government to track and control consumer spending. Digital economies would also make it even easier for central banks to engage in manipulative monetary policies such as negative interest rates.
But they seem to be an inevitability, as according to data from the Atlantic Council CBDC Tracker, 130 countries – representing over 98% of global gross domestic product – are exploring or developing CBDCs, marking an outsized increase from just a few years ago.
Via cbdctracker.org
They’re even starting to experiment with them for international settlement… In November, Zurich issued a CHF 100 million ($113m) digital bond via the SIX Digital Exchange – the most distinctive aspect of which is that it settles using a wholesale central bank digital currency (wholesale CBDC) issued by the Swiss National Bank (SNB).
Resistance!
Last April, Democratic Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (who is now working to create a new political party to qualify for the ballot in various states), vehemently opposed the Fed’s announcement of a “FedNow” CBDC, calling it a “slippery slope to financial slavery and political tyranny.”
“While cash transactions are anonymous, a #CBDC will allow the government to surveil all our private financial affairs. The central bank will have the power to enforce dollar limits on our transactions restricting where you can send money, where you can spend it, and when money expires,” he wrote on X. “A CBDC tied to digital ID and social credit score will allow the government to freeze your assets or limit your spending to approved vendors if you fail to comply with arbitrary diktats, i.e. vaccine mandates.”
The Fed just announced it will introduce its “FedNow” Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) in July. CBDCs grease the slippery slope to financial slavery and political tyranny.
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) April 5, 2023
While cash transactions are anonymous, a #CBDC will allow the government to surveil all our private…
In July, Kennedy promised to back the US Dollar with Bitcoin if he’s elected president.
Also in July, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) vowed to kill FedCoin on “day one” of his presidency, telling Tucker Carlson at the Family Leadership Summit in Iowa, “If I am the president, on day one, we will nix central bank digital currency. Done. Dead. Not happening in this country,” adding “They want to get rid of cash. They want no cryptocurrency. They want [CBDCs] to be the sole form of legal tender. It will allow them to prohibit ‘undesirable purchases’ like fuel and ammunition.”
More recently, several states opposed to CBDC have launched bills which would prohibit classifying digital currency as money.
If successful, Utah, South Carolina, South Dakota and Tennessee would become the first states to exclude CBDC as a medium exchange – potentially creating significant roadblocks to CBDC in the United States.
Finally, for those still unsure, we don’t need to look as far as China to understand the implications here in the West. As Laura Dodsworth wrote in October of the dystopian nature of CBDCs, via The Brownstone Institute:
In 2019, Mastercard and Doconomy launched a credit card with a carbon footprint calculator that can switch off your spending when you reach your carbon max. This functionality is voluntary, but it could be an automatic aspect of a CBDC.
Tom Mutton, a director at the Bank of England, said that the Government would be required to make the final decision on whether a UK CBDC should be programmable. Sir Jon Cunliffe, a deputy Governor at the Bank, said:
“You could think of giving your children pocket money, but programming the money so that it couldn’t be used for sweets. There is a whole range of things that money could do, programmable money, which we cannot do with the current technology.”
As this quote reveals, CBDCs won’t just alter our relationship with money but with government. Governments around the world have shown increasingly authoritarian tendencies during the management of the Covid pandemic, and more recently to discourage driving in cities. Behavioural science has been leveraged to manipulate, incentivise and coerce us into behaving as model citizens. Do we want to negotiate with Daddy State to be allowed to spend our ‘pocket money’ as we wish?
An account-based CBDC would give the government enormous power over your money as your identity is connected to the money. A 2020 Bank of England discussion paper gave examples of programmability, for example that smart cars could automatically pay for fuel directly at the dispensing pump, with automated taxation and charitable donations at point of sale.
That all sounds very convenient. But politicians pushing Net Zero goals on an unwilling population could choose to go a step further. If you insist on keeping your private car, despite the inconvenient 20 MPH speed limits, the ULEZ and congestion charges, and the Low Traffic Neighbourhood barriers, they could simply dictate a maximum fuel spend in a given time period. Just ten of your Britcoins on petrol this month, Sir, no more driving for you.
Interestingly, we have not heard from the Biden administration with regard their support (or lack thereof) of CDBCs. Given their recent authoritarian over-steps, it shouldn’t be too hard to guess which side of the ‘more centralized power and control’ vs ‘freedom and personal sovereignty’ fence they might come down on.
Ukraine on Brink of a Coup as Zelensky Leads Country to Ruin
Andrii Telizhenko laments the state of his home country and explains how the situation there differs from what people in the West are told in mainstream media.
Former Ukrainian diplomat and whistleblower Andrii Telizhenko joined Sputnik’s Fault Lines program Wednesday, speaking powerfully about the “heartbreak” he feels as his country loses people and territory in an unnecessary conflict.
“Ukraine is losing and losing by hundreds of thousands of people, the men and women which are dying and which have been killed… this is already a big loss for everybody,” said the former Ukrainian government official to hosts Jamarl Thomas and Melik Abdul. “Ukraine is going to lose more territories if this attitude continues to fight and fight and fight.”
“He doesn’t even want peace. He doesn’t even talk about peace,” said Telizhenko of the country’s current leader President Volodymyr Zelensky. “This is a heartbreak for me as a Ukrainian, to say that we might lose our country because of the people who are in the government today in Ukraine, the regime which is killing its own people who want to fight for peace, which is killing its own people, throwing them to the front lines against Russia, one of the strongest armies in the world and a nuclear country.”
The ex-diplomat said Zelensky’s increasing unpopularity – at home and in Washington – could lead to his ousting as early as this year.
“There might be a coup in spring of this year in Ukraine, coordinated by the West, changing Zelensky as the president of Ukraine with somebody like [military chief] Zaluzhny or somebody else out there,” said Telizhenko, speculating the regime change could even result in a civil war in the country.
“America does not always understand what’s happening within Ukraine, even though they’re trying to control it,” he added. “And I think that’s what’s going to happen.”
Telizhenko said the conflict would ultimately have to be resolved via negotiation between the US and Russia but, perversely, Ukrainians will likely continue to die until the political moment in the United States allows such discussions to take place. “So the United States and Russia sit down. But I think nobody’s going to go for that in DC until the elections,” he claimed. “So Ukraine is going to lose more and more territories.
Above all Telizhenko lamented the tragedy of Ukrainians being killed in a war they don’t want to fight, effectively being sent on a suicide mission to battle against a more powerful army without the proper training.
“People are being thrown out, thrown from the streets, the buses,” he said. “Ukrainians don’t want to fight. And they, their laws are being broken by throwing them to military camps and then throwing them to the front lines right away, without any tactical experience at all.”
“They basically made a boot camp out of Ukraine,” he said, “not letting any men and women out and throwing them to the front lines without any experience, just to make their owners in Washington and Deep State happy… And this is going to continue to happen as Boris Johnson, who you mentioned before, promised to fight until the last Ukrainian. And that’s what they’re doing right now, keeping that promise, fighting to the last Ukrainian men and women.”
Telizhenko explained that the crisis in Ukraine is personal for him not merely because he is Ukrainian, but also because he knows people who have fallen victim to the extremist government that took hold after 2014’s Euromaidan coup. Making matters worse is that fact that people in the West don’t understand the true nature of the Zelensky regime, but instead are fed lies about how the government there is fighting for “freedom” and “democracy.”
“My country… was a prosperous country years before, before the coup, before everything happened in ’14, Ukraine was prosperous,” he explained. “His situation [Gonzalo Lira’s] is the face of what is happening in Ukraine today, because there’s thousands of people like Gonzalo Lira who we don’t even know about. I had three friends who got shot in Ukraine because they are political and analytics experts – great, great guys that didn’t work for anybody, that just had their point of view of peace and the truth, and they got killed in the first weeks of the conflict.”
“The Secret Service of Ukraine came to their house and shot them. One of them got killed in the prison. And this is what’s happening in Ukraine today… This is what’s happened in a so-called democracy which the deep state is financing today in Ukraine.”
Deep State To Remove Joe Biden At DNC In July
American Psychological Association Seeks Federal Funding For Censorship
The American Psychological Association is going all in for a new psyop campaign, that’s centered around censorship. The association is asking for federal funding from the ruling class to help stop “misinformation” online.
This is an ongoing censorship campaign. In 2021, the APA accepted a $2 million grant from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to help it control the mainstream COVID-19 narratives.
According to a report by Natural News, the APA was tasked with developing “a scientific consensus statement on the science of misinformation,” and a post on the APA’s website announcing the award claimed: “Psychologists can serve an important role in guiding the world out of the pandemic. We are the discipline with expertise to address vaccine decision-making and susceptibility to misinformation.”
Now that the APA has dipped its toe into the censorship agenda, it is asking the ruling class to fund it in doing so. In a self-serving post on its website, it outlined eight recommendations for countering misinformation. The APA lists funding psychological research studies as one of its solutions, explaining that large-scale trials will help them understand which “interventions” work best at combatting specific types of misinformation.
The subtitle reads: Specific ways to meet the ongoing risk of misinformation to health, well-being, and civic life
Just to be clear, when they refer to “civic life,” they are only referring to the slave class and what they are allowed to be exposed to information-wise.
The APA’s CEO, Arthur C. Evans, Jr. says that making sure the slave class stays that way, especially during a (s)election year is a top priority. He also bragged that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have tasked the APA with fighting misinformation and that the organization can help censor those who don’t buy the official narrative.
Considering the way that people who tried to share their concerns about COVID-19 vaccines were often mocked online for not believing in “science” by those on the left, it makes perfect sense that the APA and the CDC are so eager to spend money trying to find scientific justification for further censorship. –Natural News
The censorship and attempts to stop the free flow of ideas that threaten the ruling class will be ramped up as society quickly descends into the dystopia we all know is coming.
How The Illegal Alien Invasion Will Be Used To Put Citizens Into Martial Law Camps
In 2009, Alex Jones outlined the method that the globalists would use to concentrate American citizens into camps – massive illegal alien invasions justifying gigantic facilities in the South West to process the aliens, later being turned into concentration camps for citizens during an economic collapse-triggered martial law.
Sen. Ron Johnson: COVID-19 Injections 55x DEADLIER Than Flu Vaccines
The Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines are 55 times deadlier than flu injections, according to Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI).
The lawmaker came upon this finding after his staff conducted a study on the deaths caused by the two vaccines. Staffers for Johnson looked at data from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) for the paper. “The review involved a certain level of assumption given that no publicly available data exist regarding how many flu vaccine doses were administered in the U.S. over the past 10 years,” according to the Epoch Times.
The report assumed that 70 percent of distributed flu vaccines were injected into people’s arms. Despite this, the shocking figure emerged: The number of deaths per million doses of the COVID-19 vaccines was at 25.5. In contrast, the number of deaths per million doses of the flu vaccine was a mere 0.46.
Johnson outlined this concerning finding in a Dec. 21 letter to White House health officials. He addressed his correspondence to Health Secretary Xavier Becerra, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Mandy Cohen.
“Using the midpoint assumption that 70 percent of distributed flu vaccines were administered, the 25.5 deaths per million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine represents a 55-fold increase over the flu vaccine deaths per million doses,” Johnson wrote. “This is a shocking difference, and only adds to the growing evidence of safety signals that are screaming to be taken seriously.”
Johnson blasts insufficient responses of government agencies
The Wisconsin senator also rebuked the health officials for their insufficient responses to his queries in the Dec. 21 letter.
“When it comes to responding to my data requests on the adverse events associated with the COVID-19 vaccines, your arrogant lack of transparency has been unprecedented, irresponsible and completely unacceptable,” he noted. (Related: Steve Kirsch: Vaccine damage data being DELIBERATELY HIDDEN).
“Over the course of the last 32 months, I have raised questions, sent formal requests and conducted oversight on the safety and efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines. Instead of addressing my legitimate questions and requests for information, you and other public health officials continue to promote the COVID-19 vaccines as safe and effective, and often use the number of vaccine doses administered as support for that misleading claim.”
Johnson also reiterated his previous requests for data on the safety of the COVID-19 injections, and asked the health officials if they were aware of a study that pointed to “off-target” or incorrect proteins stemming from the vaccine. He gave a Jan. 18 deadline for the necessary information to be produced and turned over to him.
On the same day as Johnson’s letter, the JAMA Network published a survey showing that Americans are more skeptical of the COVID-19 vaccines’ safety than that of the flu vaccine. Fifty-one percent of respondents said they were worried about the safety of the COVID-19 injection, more than twice the 24 percent who expressed concern about the flu vaccine’s safety.
It also found that 28 percent of respondents are “not at all likely” to get the COVID-19 injection in 2023, compared to the 22 percent “not at all likely” to get the flu vaccine. Sixty percent of respondents said they want more research on the COVID-19 vaccine, compared to the only 24 percent who wanted more research on the flu vaccine.
Visit DangerousMedicine.com for more news about COVID-19 injections.
Watch this video from the Brownstone Institute about the modified spike protein mRNA in the COVID-19 injections.
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