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Jan. 6 Committee Closed-Door Hearing Was ‘Cordial,’ Patrick Byrne Says

By Eva Fu
July 16, 2022 Updated: July 18, 2022

Former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne testified on July 15 before the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the Capitol, including on his key role in a post-election White House meeting where he urged then-President Donald Trump to investigate 2020 election fraud allegations.

Byrne told The Epoch Times in an interview that his eight hours of closed-door testimony covered a wide range of topics—from his meeting with the president on Dec. 18, 2020, to his concerns over the integrity and safety of election equipment.

Byrne, who was the latest witness to testify before the committee, described the meeting as “surprisingly friendly, cordial, and professional.”

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Former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne is surrounded by private security as he arrives at the Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. House Office Building to be interviewed by the House select committee investigating the events of Jan. 6, 2021, on July 15, 2022. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

“Notwithstanding the fact that we weren’t going to agree” about the Nov. 3, 2020, election, “we agreed that there was a lot for me to fill in from Nov. 4 until Jan. 7 [2021]. I think they seemed to be appreciative,” he told The Epoch Times on July 16.

“They had a lot of questions, and they really did not know the answers, and I was happy to provide them with the answers. I do feel that if they knew the truth about everything, they would understand the truth was different than [what] they were guessing—and significantly more benign.”

The White House Meeting

Byrne had hoped to engineer a meeting with Trump when he used a prior invitation from a staffer to tour the White House with former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn and attorney Sidney Powell. The trio met with Trump in the Oval Office after the president happened to walk by, Byrne told The Epoch Times in an exclusive interview the day before his testimony.

“I was the guy that everyone should be looking into,” he said. “I’m the guy who pulled that famous meeting together. I’m the guy who presented the options.”

The proposal put forth at the meeting was to dispatch a team of cybersecurity specialists from the Department of Homeland Security to the six counties where questions of voter fraud had surfaced.

 

Byrne’s group presented Trump with executive orders signed by former President Barack Obama in 2015 and Trump in 2018 regarding foreign interference in a U.S. election, which they said granted the president authority to launch such an investigation.

“That was the upshot of our discussion,” Byrne said. “That was the cat.”

“I think the tiger they painted was going in with military commandos across the country,” he said, referring to press coverage of a suggestion he said he made to the president to use the National Guard during an investigation. He said the idea was rejected by everyone in the room during the Dec. 18, 2020, meeting.

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Former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne returns from a quick break in his interview with the House select committee investigating the events of Jan. 6, 2021, in the Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. House Office Building on July 15, 2022. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Byrne cited three federal documents to support his claims, the first being an Oct. 22, 2020, joint advisory by the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warning about unauthorized Russian access to information technology systems used by U.S. election officials and efforts of Iranian state actors to sow discord among voters.

The second document, an Oct. 30, 2020, joint advisory by the same agencies, stated that an Iranian hacker had targeted state election websites to obtain registration data and had succeeded in at least one state.

The third was a Dec. 16, 2020, statement by the FBI, CISA, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on the breach of SolarWinds Orion platform.

Rudy Giuliani, a former Trump lawyer and New York City mayor, was called to the White House two days after that to assess the documents and provide his opinion.

“I read through them carefully, I came back, and I said it’s clear to me that there’s not enough [evidence] here,” Giuliani said in his July 14 radio program.

Byrne disputed Giuliani’s response, stating that the documents in question weren’t affidavits but government documents.

The Militia Member

On the morning of Jan. 5, 2021, the day before protests and the breach at the U.S. Capitol, Byrne said he was contacted by a person claiming to be part of a militia, who told him that a group of 10,000 people with firearms were “coming in to take the city.”

The committee appeared surprised to hear about the militia, Byrne said.

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Former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne stops to talk to reporters during a break in his interview with the House select committee investigating Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington on July 15, 2022. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Byrne said he talked the militia out of the plan after the man expressed a willingness to follow his direction.

“You’re willing to take an order, whatever I say?” Byrne recalled asking the man, who he said agreed.

“OK. One direction is absolutely not a single weapon,” Byrne said he told the man. “That’s the only thing that will make us lose.”

‘Untrustworthy’ Election

The Jan. 6 committee at one point asked Byrne if he still believes “the election in 2020 was rigged.”

“I said: ‘Absolutely. I believe our entire election apparatus is untrustworthy,’” he said. “It’s not about Democrats or Republicans.

“In a friendly way, I think we came to a realization that they’re seeing the world as lawyers, and I’m seeing it as a business person.

“I think that they may have extended a bit of an olive branch, and I very much reciprocated.

“I hope I found for America an off-ramp for the tension that’s brewing.”

Eva Fu

CHINA REPORTER
Eva Fu is a New York-based writer for The Epoch Times focusing on U.S.-China relations, religious freedom, and human rights. Contact Eva at eva.fu@epochtimes.com

Seeing Is Believing; Clinton Advisor Found Hanging; Spain Has Admitted to Spraying Lethal Pesticides; Vaccine Injuries

Seeing is believing. We all have heard about child trafficking,  now it is for all to see.
Clinton Advisor Found Hanging From Tree with Shotgun Blast to Chest Blocks Release of Files Detailing Grisly Death Scene
Spain Has Admitted to Spraying Lethal Pesticides Under Chemtrail Program

Brett Weinstein Says Cardiac-Related Vaccine Injuries May Take Years to Surface

Brett Weinstein Discusses the Agenda Behind Vaccine Mandates

Brett Weinstein Says Monkeypox May Be Caused by Vaccine-Induced Changes to the Immune System

Healthy young people are dying suddenly and unexpectedly from a mysterious syndrome – as doctors seek answers through a new national register

“People aged under 40 are being urged to have their hearts checked because they may potentially be at risk of Sudden Adult Death Syndrome.

SADS is an ‘umbrella term to describe unexpected deaths in young people’, said The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, most commonly occurring in people under 40 years of age.” https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10895067/Doctors-trying-determine-young-people-suddenly-dying.html

 

[DS] Attempting To Establish New Narrative, [Riots], Countermeasures In Place – Ep. 2793

Increase Awareness; Former AG Bill Barr Rips Hillary Clinton Over Russiagate; One Disney Cast member Speaks; The Nocebo Effect

The world is not as it seems and many are waking up to that realization. Our job to discover our true-selves regardless of religion or belief system.  We can use our belief system to evolve and realize how  our thoughts, emotions and actions create our reality.  It not only affects our lives but those around us, affecting our world and reaffirms the saying “We Are One”. The Law of One takes us on a spiritual journey exploring who we are, why we are here and where we are going. The Video below explores humility and the awareness of reality and exploring exploring Oneness. .

(3) Jesus said, “If those who lead you (plur.) say to you, ‘See, the kingdom is in heaven,’ then the birds of heaven will precede you. If they say to you, ‘It is in the sea,’ then the fish will precede you. But the kingdom is inside of you. And it is outside of you. “When you become acquainted with yourselves, then you will be recognized. And you will understand that it is you who are children of the living father. But if you do not become acquainted with yourselves, then you are in poverty, and it is you who are the poverty. “Gospel of Thomas. May be an image of 1 person and text that says 'WHAT IF TOLD YOU mmiles TELEVISION IS THE MONSTER IN YOUR HOME And ITS CALLED A PROGRAM FOR A REASON. YOUR TELEVISION IS NOTHING MORE THEN ΑΝ ELECTRONIC MIND ALTERING DEVICE IT HAS BEEN DESIGN TO PSYCHOLOGICALLY CHANGE THE WAYS YOU VIEW REALITY.'

We all have been programmed since birth, not only by Tel-a-vision, but by our education, religion and various other methods. The sooner we come to that realization, the sooner we can begin deprograming. What is happening around the world is our awakening.

Former AG Bill Barr Rips Hillary Clinton Over Russiagate, Says She is Guilty of Sedition

One Disney cast member is speaking out against the corporations wokeness, saying it’s not the family friendly place it once used to be. One America’s Caitlin Sinclair has more.

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Our Negative Expectations Can Create or Worsen an Illness
BY EMMA SUTTIE TIMEMAY 25, 2022

Most people are probably familiar with the placebo effect, but may not be aware of its less popular cousin, and opposite, the nocebo effect. According to the latest research, this mysterious phenomenon is perhaps more prevalent than many people realize, even medical professionals.

Let’s define them both.

The placebo effect occurs when someone is receiving either medication or having a medical procedure and experiences positive results even though the treatment or medication is inert. An example would be a clinical trial studying the effects of a new drug. There is usually a control group of participants given a “placebo,” often a sugar pill, that looks identical to the actual drug but contains no active ingredients.

The placebo effect occurs when the participants taking the sugar pill experience positive results even though the medication they took contained no medicine whatsoever.

The nocebo effect is the exact opposite.

The nocebo effect is when a patient experiences negative effects, symptoms, or side effects of a medication or treatment even though the drug or treatment was inert or contained no active ingredients.

Let’s use another example.

A patient is told she needs medication for her diabetes, and it comes as an injection. The doctor reads her the possible side effects, which include headaches, nausea, and stomach pain. The patient decides to proceed with the injection and afterward reports feeling all the listed side effects—when the injection she received was just water. These negative side effects demonstrate the nocebo effect.

The word nocebo comes from the Latin “nocere,” meaning “to harm.” By contrast, the word placebo comes from the Latin “placere” meaning “to please.”

What Causes the Nocebo Effect?

Apparently, the nocebo effect is prevalent in medicine, but its mechanisms aren’t well understood. Various studies on the subject suggest a number of contributing factors. Some of them are listed below.

Nocebo effects happen due to many factors and vary extensively depending on the individual. This makes trying to pinpoint the exact causes difficult.

The Nocebo Effect in Action

In a 2012 study of the nocebo effect, researchers from the Technical University of Munich in Germany conducted one of the most thorough reviews of the nocebo phenomenon at the time. Researchers took 31 empirical studies involving the nocebo effect and examined their biological mechanisms and the problem they caused for doctors and researchers in clinical practice.

They concluded that, although puzzling, the nocebo effect was surprisingly common and something that should be taken into consideration by medical professionals in their daily practice.

In many of the experiments they studied, the suggestion or expectation of pain elicited significantly more negative responses from participants.

In one study, 50 participants suffering from chronic back pain were given a flexibility test. Half the test subjects were told they might experience some pain beforehand, and the other half weren’t. Afterward, the first group reported significantly more pain than the group that was kept in the dark, despite doing the same test.

Our perceptions may even prove fatal. In one case study, researchers noted one individual that attempted to commit suicide by swallowing 26 pills. Although the pills were only a placebo and unable to harm him even at such high doses, the patient experienced dangerously low blood pressure and needed fluid injections to be stabilized. His physiological reaction was based solely on his belief that he had taken a deadly dose of medication. Interestingly, after the patient was told that the medication was only sugar pills, his symptoms quickly disappeared.

It seems that words, thoughts, and expectations play a more significant role in our health than we may realize.

So how does the medical establishment treat patients effectively while being forthcoming about all the possible side effects they might experience, knowing that this information may cause them to occur?

The Tricky Issue of Informed Consent

This presents medical professionals with a bit of a conundrum because of something called informed consent. Physicians are obligated to inform their patients of all possible outcomes, side effects, and adverse reactions resulting from medications, treatments, and procedures to stay compliant with informed consent laws. The patient must consent to most treatments, having been told about all possible outcomes beforehand.

One way medical personnel can counteract the nocebo effect is by being mindful of how they talk to patients and the way they describe procedures. Reframing and focusing on the positives has been suggested as a way to buffer a possible nocebo effect.

An article from John Hopkins Medicine states that doctors-in-training spend just 12 percent of their time interacting with patients directly. Perhaps more time spent with patients and more time in medical school spent on learning how to communicate with patients effectively could help counteract nocebo effects.

Final Thoughts

It seems the healing process may be more complex than we may realize. Studies of the nocebo effect, and its counterpart the placebo effect, suggest that there are other things at play we don’t fully understand. An individual’s beliefs, expectations, the environment, the medical personnel they interact with, as well as their demeanor and the way the information is presented, all seem to play a role. Although the medical profession has made great strides in understanding how the human body works, we may still have a long way to go to unravel the mysteries of human healing.

From our Foods with GMO, Roundup and Glyphosate, to Voter Fraud to $350 Million in Secret Payments to Fauci, Collins, Others at NIH, the Flood Doors are Opening

People within the food industry speaking out against GMO’s, Roundup and Glyphosate.


If Fraudulent Votes From Mules Removed From Biden’s Total In These States, Donald Trump Wins

In all five swing states analyzed by #TrueTheVote, Joe Biden’s winning margin varied from a narrow margin:

➤ Georgia (about 12,000)
➤ Arizona (about 11,000)
➤ Wisconsin (about 21,000)
➤ Pennsylvania (about 82,000)
➤ Michigan (about 155,000)

As a data professional focusing on advanced analytics & data science, I am beyond impressed with TrueTheVote’s textbook technique to carefully and methodically seek, gather, combine, and analyze critical observational data to test their theories.https://theepochtimes.com/enough-fraudulent-votes-identified-to-change-2020-election-outcome-dinesh-dsouza_4446415.html


NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins holds up a model of the coronavirus as he testifies before a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee looking into the budget estimates for the National Institute of Health (NIH) and the state of medical research, on Capitol Hill on May 26, 2021. (Sarah Silbiger/Pool via AP)

Nonprofit Watchdog Uncovers $350 Million in Secret Payments to Fauci, Collins, Others at NIH

By Mark Tapscott
May 9, 2022 Updated: May 10, 2022

An estimated $350 million in undisclosed royalties were paid to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and hundreds of its scientists, including the agency’s recently departed director, Dr. Francis Collins, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, according to a nonprofit government watchdog.

“We estimate that up to $350 million in royalties from third parties were paid to NIH scientists during the fiscal years between 2010 and 2020,” Open the Books CEO Adam Andrzejewski told reporters in a telephone news conference on May 9.

“We draw that conclusion because, in the first five years, there has been $134 million that we have been able to quantify of top-line numbers that flowed from third-party payers, meaning pharmaceutical companies or other payers, to NIH scientists.”

The first five years, from 2010 to 2014, constitute 40 percent of the total, he said.

“We now know that there are 1,675 scientists that received payments during that period, at least one payment. In fiscal year 2014, for instance, $36 million was paid out and that is on average $21,100 per scientist,” Andrzejewski said. “We also find that during this period, leadership at NIH was involved in receiving third-party payments. For instance, Francis Collins, the immediate past director of NIH, received 14 payments. Dr. Anthony Fauci received 23 payments and his deputy, Clifford Lane, received eight payments.”
Collins resigned as NIH director in December 2021 after 12 years of leading the world’s largest public health agency. Fauci is the longtime head of NIH’s National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), as well as chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden. Lane is the deputy director of NIAID, under Fauci.

The top five NIH employees measured in terms of the number of royalty payments that they received while on the government payroll, according to a fact sheet published by Open the Books, include Robert Gallo, National Cancer Institute, 271 payments; Ira Pastan, National Cancer Institute, 250 payments; Mikulas Popovic, National Cancer Institute, 191 payments; Flossie Wong-Staal, National Cancer Institute, 190 payments; and Mangalasseril Sarngadharan, National Cancer Institute, 188 payments.

Only Pastan continues to be employed by NIH, according to Open the Books.

“When an NIH employee makes a discovery in their official capacity, the NIH owns the rights to any resulting patent. These patents are then licensed for commercial use to companies that could use them to bring products to market,” the fact sheet reads.

“Employees are listed as inventors on the patents and receive a share of the royalties obtained through any licensing, or ‘technology transfer,’ of their inventions. Essentially, taxpayer money funding NIH research benefits researchers employed by NIH because they are listed as patent inventors and therefore receive royalty payments from licensees.”

An NIH spokesman didn’t respond by press time to a request for comment.

Andrzejewski told reporters that the Associated Press reported extensively on the NIH royalty payments in 2005, including specific details about who got how much from which payers for what work, that the agency is denying to Open the Books in 2022.

“At that time, we knew there were 918 scientists, and each year, they were receiving approximately $9 million, on average with each scientist receiving $9,700. But today, the numbers are a lot larger with the United States still in a declared national health emergency. It’s quite obvious the stakes in health care are a lot larger,” Andrzejewski said.

He said the files Open the Books is receiving—300 pages of line-by-line data—are “heavily redacted.”

“These are not the files the AP received in 2005 where everything was disclosed—the scientist’s name, the name of the third-party payer, the amount of the royalty paid by the payer to the scientist,” Andrzejewski said. “Today, NIH is producing a heavily redacted database; we don’t know the payment amount to the scientist, and we don’t know the name of the third-party payer, all of that is being redacted.”

Federal officials are allowed to redact information from responses to FOIA requests if the release of the data would harm a firm’s commercial privilege.

The undisclosed royalty payments are inherent conflicts of interest, Andrzejewski said.

“We believe there is an unholy conflict of interest inherent at NIH,” he said. “Consider the fact that each year, NIH doles out $32 billion in grants to approximately 56,000 grantees. Now we know that over an 11-year period, there is going to be approximately $350 million flowing the other way from third-party payers, many of which receive NIH grants, and those payments are flowing back to NIH scientists and leadership.”

Fauci and Lane told AP that they agreed there was an appearance of a conflict of interest in getting the royalties, with Fauci saying that he contributed his royalties to charity. Lane didn’t do that, according to Andrzejewski.

The governing ethics financial disclosure form in the past defined the royalty payments as income recipients received from NIH, which meant the recipients weren’t required to list their payments on the form.

But Andrzejewski said NIH has refused to respond to his request for clarification on the disclosure issue.

“If they are not, none of these payments are receiving any scrutiny whatsoever and to the extent that a company making payments to either leadership or scientists, while also receiving grants … then that just on its face is a conflict of interest,” he said.

Open the Books is a Chicago-based nonprofit government watchdog that uses the federal and state freedom of information laws to obtain and then post on the internet trillions of dollars in spending at all levels of government.

The nonprofit filed a federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) suit seeking documentation of all payments by outside firms to NIH and/or current and former NIH employees.

NIH declined to respond to the FOIA, so Open the Books is taking the agency to court, suing it for noncompliance with the FOIA. Open the Books is represented in federal court in the case by another nonprofit government watchdog, Judicial Watch.

Mark Tapscott

CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT
Congressional Correspondent for The Epoch Times

2000 MULES Full Documentary

2000 Mules documents research from True the Vote, a conservative election intelligence organization that has compiled evidence of organized ballot trafficking in at least 6 states: Georgia, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Texas. In Georgia for example, True the Vote alleges there were 242 traffickers who made 5,662 trips to ballot drop boxes between the early morning hours of 12AM and 5AM, potentially unloading hundreds of thousands of illegally harvested ballots over the course of several weeks.

State Mules Identified Drop Boxes Estimated Illegal Votes
Pennsylvania 1,150 45 275,000 *
Michigan 500 50 125,000
Wisconsin 100 28 14,000
Georgia 250 24 30,000 *
Arizona 200 20 20,000 *
TOTAL 380,000
  • These states showed more illegal votes from this strategy alone than Biden’s winning margin, based on True the Vote’s high bar in defining a mule (at least 10 visits to drop boxes). If the bar is lowered to count those making at least 5 visits, the estimated affected votes increases by more than double. 1

Writer and Director Dinesh D’Souza, who had been relatively silent on election fraud until 2022, said he was swayed by the thoroughness of the data, the fact that it was “enough to tip the election” and “systematic, comprehensive, and well-presented enough” to convince any “reasonable person.”

True the Vote’s Investigation

In a Charlie Kirk interview, D’Souza gave background information about the operation. “True the Vote has done their work in all the key states, and they focused on the heavily Democrat areas of Fulton County, Georgia, Maricopa County, Arizona, the Detroit area of Michigan, the Milwaukee area of Wisconsin, and the greater Philadelphia area in Pennsylvania,” he explained.

Gathering both geo-tracking (cell phone) data and video surveillance, True the Vote captured ballot trafficking activity by 2,000 “mules” in 6 states. These paid vote couriers visited drop boxes late at night, used gloves to conceal their fingerprints, took photos to secure payment, and made multiple trips to multiple drop boxes over multiple weeks. D’Souza points out that the traffickers began wearing gloves just days after a ballot harvesting case in Arizona secured indictments based on fingerprint evidence.

“There’s no question in any of these states that we are witnessing illegal activity,” D’Souza said. “Even in areas where [vote harvesting] was temporarily allowed… in no area was it legal to be paid to deliver votes.”

Furthermore, “Many of these mules are coming from non-profit centers, which are 501(c)(3) organizations, which means they are prohibited from election activities. These are people that have a tax exemption from the IRS conditioned upon them not getting directly involved in electioneering… You’re seeing a coordinated ring of corruption and the evidence for it is decisive,” he added. Kirk later noted that a number of the non-profits were “closely aligned with Stacey Abrams.”

Despite the extensiveness of the evidence — True the Vote has 27 terabytes of data, including 4 million minutes of video and 10 trillion cell phone pings, as well as a whistleblower’s confession — the leftstream media has been dead silent.

“I think this is going to be huge and make a huge difference, but it begins with simply getting the truth out there so that what happened in 2020 becomes undeniable,” D’Souza said in closing.

The film is scheduled to be released in late April 2022.

True the Vote Explains The Ballot Laundering ‘Cartel’

True the Vote’s Catherine Engelbrecht & Gregg Philips also sat down with Charlie Kirk for an illuminating hour long interview detailing their ultra high-tech investigation into an “organized crime” ballot trafficking operation that swung the 2020 election for Joe Biden.

The drop box stuffing activity followed a consistent pattern, Gregg explained. Every operation involved “a set of collectors, a collection point or stash house for all the ballots, the bundling of those ballots, and then the casting of those ballots by, what we were calling, ‘mules’ in the drop boxes.”

“And as we began put the pieces and parts together, it really did dawn on us: ‘Well, this sounds like what’s happening in Atlanta or in San Luis, Arizona’… This was a conspiracy. This was organized crime,” he emphasized.

Catherine describes the “fateful moment” when she turned to Gregg and asked, “How do we take down a cartel?

“That’s when we began to use the terms like stash houses, and drop points, and mules, and trafficking, and voter abuse because that’s what we’re looking at,” she continued.

Focusing on six states, Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Texas, True the Vote spent $2 million to buy publicly available cell phone data that can pinpoint an individual’s location to within a few inches. They then narrowed their search to targets who began visiting drop boxes and NGO offices during the early voting weeks leading up to November 3rd, activity that was contrary to their prior “pattern of life.” In Georgia, the threshold was at least two dozen trips to drop boxes and five visits to a non-profit.

Catherine described their filtering logic, they wanted parameters that were “outside the norm, so aberrant that it would just stick out like a sore thumb in terms of a dataset… We wanted to have such clear margins, such clear lines that we finally settled on groups that were going [to the drop boxes] in Georgia an average of 23 times — so distinctive. And, as Gregg points out, they also had to go to the NGOs — so they had to meet both those criteria a certain number of times for us to really drill down and study.”

Through open records requests, True the Vote acquired and drop box surveillance video (when available), which helped them confirm the trafficking activity. They also evaluated chain of custody documents to identify what a typical day looked like at a given drop box. Those records showed normal ballot drop data punctuated by “spikes” in ballot receipts. This information helped them home in on specific dates and times buried in their 4 million minutes of footage.

“This is how money laundering works,” Charlie observed. “This is not just a one-off thing, this is not some Democrat activist that really wanted Trump gone and might have had a couple friends do this. This was a machine.”

“Which state was the worst offender?,” asked Charlie. “Pennsylvania,” Gregg stated unequivocally. “The worst in every way: 1,155 people met our criteria… in Philadelphia.”

“What’s even more insane,” Catherine said, “is watching the data, watching the pings come across the bridge in New Jersey and into Philly.” The traffickers actually crossed state lines to participate in the fraud. And it wasn’t just in Philadelphia. Two mules in Arizona made their way to Georgia for the runoffs. And a bartender in South Carolina came in to “help out” in Atlanta, Gregg added.

Even more disturbing, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSA) knew about the systematic ballot stuffing and did nothing. “We learned that there were off-duty law enforcement officers, paid for by the Republican Party, that reported all of this. And [the NRSA] just covered it up,” Gregg said.

This was a machine… this is institutional evil.”

— Charlie Kirk

The ballot trafficking fraud begins with dirty voter rolls, Catherine explained. The cartel is feeding off of inflated voter lists, packed with invalid registrations.

For example, in Georgia, the illegal Stacey Abrams-Mark Elias “consent decree pushed Raffensperger to send ballots to both active and inactive voters. The rolls hadn’t been cleaned in two years. We now know that ineligible voter records contributed to 75,000 of the votes in the General and 45,000 votes in the run-off” in Georgia, Catherine said.

“The way that the ballots were collected becomes this multi-tentacled hydra… There’s all manner of ways that those ballots came in but the important take away is that dirty voter rolls allow for a big portion of this grift,” she underscored.

“Who’s running this?,” Charlie asked.

“Our current hypothesis,” Gregg said, “is that there are new money folks, like the Stacey Abrams of the world, who all of a sudden show up in Maricopa Country after the election, arm in arm with the SEIU and others, [where they thank] her for delivering the state… The second piece of this is there are old money ties… to some foundations that started in Chicago back some 80 years ago, in the 1960s.”

“So you’re saying that there’s a foundation, a 501(c)(3), that was potentially funding some of this activity?,” Charlie asked.

“Yes. Many,” Catherine and Gregg responded.

Is there a typical mule profile?, Charlie wondered.

Every county is different, Gregg replied. “We had some incidents at this place in Atlanta called the Bluff, one of the heaviest heroin trafficking places in the U.S., very dangerous, one of the top five most dangerous places in the U.S. We interviewed some people down there… That same night, we also went to 201 Washington Street, which is an advocacy center attached to a church… in downtown Atlanta.”

But “in Arizona, the profile looked a little different,” Catherine noted. “It’s been happening in Arizona for an awfully long time. What we see there are people who really control communities. And you have people at the top of the pyramid coming in and doing everything from building underprivileged housing to controlling the full vertical of the contractors, and the banks, and the financing organizations, and all of those people are participating in rounding up ballots.”

As the ‘2,000 Mules’ movie will soon show, “we have informants who have come forward to describe exactly what happens,” Catherine said.

“And these collectors and these mules are making between $10 and $40 a ballot here in Arizona, according to the testimony we have,” Gregg added.

In Yuma County, Arizona the cartel’s days may be numbered. “There were two ballot harvesting arrests in Yuma. I’m hearing from the grapevine that there might be more happening there,” Charlie said.

“We think so too,” Gregg said. “We believe there will be more [arrests in Yuma]. One of the interesting things about Yuma County, and San Luis in particular, is some of that old money that we talked about earlier… flows into some of these poor border communities.” There, it’s “less about electing a president with these harvesting techniques and more about electing themselves so they can stay in control over all the billions that are flowing in,” Gregg explained.

“We think that here in Arizona your AG and others are tuned in enough to what’s going on down there that you’re going to see some action,” he added.

If elections are not truly fair, we’re not truly free.”

— Catherine Engelbrecht

What Can Be Done?

What can we do to defeat the ballot laundering cartel? The solution has “four pillars,” Gregg explained. We must:

  1. Clean the voter rolls. True the Vote has set up a website, www.iv3.us, that helps citizens review their voter rolls and challenge inaccurate records;
  2. Stop mass mail-in voting and abolish the drop boxes;
  3. Eliminate private funding of elections;
  4. Impose punishments that fit the crimes. “Put some people in jail,” Gregg said. “If you put somebody in jail for 10 years for this, you’ll stop it.”

We may soon start to see Zuckerbucks audits that lead to arrests, according to Gregg. “You’re going to start seeing more and more of what’s happening in Jackson, Mississippi,” he said. “There’s a state auditor in Jackson, his name is Chad White. And he went out and audited some of these officials who were doling out this Zuckerberg money, and there’s been four arrests already in Jackson for stealing the money. I think you’re going to see state auditors, and others all over the country, now start to say, ‘Where did all of this money go?’”

“Zuckerberg money was a huge catalyst,” he continued. “You take dirty voter rolls, you mail everyone an application whether they ask for it or not, whether they’re even legitimately on the rolls or not, and then you provide a means to stuff them in there.”

But “don’t feel helpless,” Catherine encouraged. “We are not victims because victims don’t have a choice. We have a choice, this is happening on our watch. So we can choose to remain complicit and to watch this and watch the [2,000 Mules] movie and go pop a bag of popcorn and sit back and say, ‘Wow this is just horrible,’ and the band plays on. Or we can say, ‘Not on our watch,’ and get involved.”

“We are an exceptional nation that can pull this together and pull it together quickly. We just have to make it a priority… We’ve taken voting for granted, we’ve taken the process for granted, and that has to come to an end… Now is the time to wake up and demand standards locally, and then it will all roll uphill,” she concluded.

Catherine and Gregg plan to release their entire two petabyte data arsenal after the 2,000 Mules premier, which is now scheduled for the first week of May. They’ve also recently located video footage from the 14 cameras inside the Gwinnett County, Georgia counting facilities. “Our intention after the video runs, we’re going to pull the ripcord, we’re going to release all of this.”

Founded in 2009, True the Vote has battled IRS attacks under Obama, lawsuits from Mark Elias and Stacey Abrams, and most recently sabotage from Governor Kemp.

“[Kemp] led a fight alright – against us,” Catherine said. “I personally briefed Kemp’s team,” added Gregg. “They not only refused [to investigate]… they sent one of their henchmen, the guy that runs the GBI, down to the FBI office where our data lived — not to see the data, but to get into the metadata and figure out who the analysts were and then burn me and a couple of my analysts,” Gregg explained. “Releasing it all to the press… They did everything they could to stop us,” Catherine said.

Despite the setbacks and attacks, True the Vote has never given up and has now amassed, arguably, the most comprehensive and incontrovertible evidence to date of a criminal conspiracy to subvert the 2020 election. Please consider supporting these warriors and American heroes at TrueTheVote.org.

Source: Liberty Overwatch’s excellent summary of the Charlie Kirk interview, April 9, 2022.

How to Watch

Theater Special Events: On two days, Monday May 2 and Wednesday May 4, they are renting 250 theaters around the country which will show the movie at the 7 pm showing. You will be able to purchase tickets for these showings from a link that will be posted on the 2000Mules website. This is a LIMITED theatrical release so there will be certain places that aren’t showing the movie in theaters.

Virtual Premiere: On Friday May 6 they are having a virtual premiere. This is a very exciting way for you to buy tickets and log into a live event out of a studio in Las Vegas. This virtual premiere will include exclusive content with President Trump, the screening of the movie, and a live Q&A with Dinesh D’Souza and leading figures in the movie. Additionally, for a higher price, around 300 VIPs will be able to attend this event in person.

Digital Downloads: On Saturday May 7 you will be able to stream the film from two platforms, SalemNow.com and Rumble/Locals.

Details for all of this will be on the website 2000Mules.com soon.

We’re very excited about this movie. 2000Mules exposes the widespread, coordinated voter fraud in the 2020 election, sufficient to change the overall outcome. So get ready!

Dinesh D’Souza
Director and Producer
2000Mules

https://electionfraud20.org/2000-mules/

2000 Mules; Child Sex Trafficking; Neo-Nazi in Ukraine; Soros Dumps more Money in Wisconsin 2022 Election; and More

OAN’s Dan Ball opened his show tonight with his thoughts on 2000 Mules after attending the watch party last night at Mar-a-Lago:

“After watching this movie, I will say this. There’s not one doubt in my mind that this election was rigged. Period. Point blank. End of story. The left can kiss my…

What they did to this country is one of the biggest acts of treason in our nation’s history.”


Child Sex Trafficking Is The Real Pandemic. I know it’s tough to acknowledge the horrible evil that is among us but it’s the only thing to end this once and for all.


Joe Rogan on How the Government Uses Crises to Gradually Take Away Freedom


FBI Documents Reveal US May Have Funded Charlottesville Rioters Through Ukrainian Neo-Nazi Group — Documents Show Ties Between Azov Battalion, US Rioters

George Soros Launders Another $750,000 US Taxpayer Dollars into Wisconsin Midterms as Democrats Gear Up for the Steal

Not making headlines…George Soros dumped $750,000 into the Democratic Party of Wisconsin already this year.

Meagan Wolfe, the administrator of Wisconsin Election Commission (WEC), is also the Chair of the Soros-funded ERIC system.

The Wisconsin Election Commission admits they have 7.1 million in the database but only 3.68 million are eligible to vote. WEC and Sarah Whitt, the “Functional Lead” over the SVRS (Statewide Voter Registration System) under the Government Accountability Board, kept everything in one database. Even dead voters are not separated out. County clerks showed only 2 clicks can make voters active again. Other investigations show data missing in required fields, thousands of identical 1918 birth dates, illegible text entries, missing last names or addresses, up to 25 Voter ID’s for one registration, and other inexcusable issues. Charging $13,500 to investigators who asked for voter data helped hide these atrocities.

They are gearing up for another steal.

Thanks to Assembly Speaker Robin Vos the Wisconsin elections system is still not fixed and Wisconsin has no way to counter this mess.

Not Making Headlines… George Soros Dumps $750,000 into Wisconsin Midterms as Democrats Gear Up for the Steal

Black man confronts a pro-abortion healthcare industry protest.


Attorney Thomas Renz testifies about the Crooks in Washington. If Fauci mouth is open, he is lying

 

Proof of 2020 Election Fraud

D’Souza’s ‘2000 Mules’ Is an Absolute Must-See


D’Souza Film Takes Proof of 2020 Election Fraud to Mass Audience

By Steven Kovac
May 3, 2022 Updated: May 4, 2022

STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich.—A new movie by conservative activist Dinesh D’Souza exposing illegal vote trafficking in battleground states in the 2020 election opened in more than 250 theaters on May 2.

A capacity crowd of about 200 people filled a theater in Macomb County, Michigan, to view D’Souza’s documentary motion picture “2000 Mules.”

The film can be viewed online starting on May 7.

The documentary used cell phone signal tracking, digital geo-fencing, and video surveillance tapes of absentee ballot drop boxes to show that paid intermediaries called “mules” unlawfully gathered and delivered hundreds of thousands of absentee ballots in Democrat strongholds across much of the nation in the 2020 election.

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Part of the crowd exiting the debut of “2000 Mules” in Sterling Heights, Mich., on May 2, 2022. (Steven Kovac/The Epoch Times)

On his way into the Macomb County showing, a retired IT manager, who asked to not be identified, told The Epoch Times that he had heard much about alleged fraud in the 2020 election, but had seen very little evidence.

“I’m open-minded going in,” he said. “I have not yet seen enough proof.”

On his way out of the movie the same man told The Epoch Times, “I am 95 percent convinced. I think law enforcement needs to go after these mules and prove a case against them in court.

“Will this ever happen? I’m not sure because too many people don’t want this to come out. Too many people have too much to lose if it does.”

Jacob Ries, 13, came to see the movie with his parents and grandparents.

“This movie is the compass that will steer and influence the younger generation. It influenced me in the right direction,” he told The Epoch Times after watching the film.

Epoch Times Photo
Union workers Jason Mueller (L), Anthony Stella (2L), Phillip Sinta (2R), and Gary Vallance (R) attend the premiere of “2000 Mules” in Michigan on May 2, 2022. (Steven Kovac/The Epoch Times)

“I know the truth now. It’s the truth the government is trying to hide.”

Jacob’s father, Scott, said he found the film to be “eye-opening” and feared that “our American constitutional republic may collapse from the inside.”

“I would never have thought we would ever live in a country that would do something like this,” Scott said.

Jacob’s grandmother, Sue Vandeberghe said, “This is not about Democrats and Republicans anymore. It’s about right and wrong. It’s about saving our country.

“Yes, saving our country for all people, even those with closed minds and that disagree with us.”

Many Union Members Attend Showing

Retired public utility union member and Republican precinct delegate Gary Vallance said he was 100 percent for D’Souza and what he’s doing.

Looking at the present condition of the country, he said, “I can’t understand why the union is always promoting Democrats.”

Jason Mueller, a UAW member from Wales Township, said, “I’m here tonight to see how and what they were able to steal in the 2020 election.”

UAW member Anthony Stella of Macomb Township said, “We’ve known for a long time that the 2020 election was stolen. I’m here tonight because I want to see exactly how they did it.”

Phillip Sinta, a UAW member from Ferndale and a strong Trump backer since 2016, said of D’Souza, “He is a straight shooter. I trust him to tell the truth. I have seen all of his previous movies.”

Epoch Times Photo
Movie-goers discuss the film “2000 Mules” in Sterling Heights, Mich. on May 2, 2022. (Steven Kovac/The Epoch Times)

Kim Turcott told The Epoch Times, “I’m glad they showed the geo-tracking. We know more now, having seen the movie. I thank God for the people that continue to do these investigations every day.

“Drop boxes are bad and have to go. We’ve got to keep a closer eye on our relatives in nursing homes around election time.”

Jill Rebar admired the use of technology in providing the details of the investigation and wondered what she could do to help.

“I found the movie awesome, interesting, and sad,” Rebar said.

Colleen Kendro said, “Everybody should see this movie no matter who you voted for.”

Paula Badalamente said, “People who don’t know about this stuff need to know.”

A handful of volunteers were in front of the theater circulating a petition demanding the decertification of the 2020 election in Michigan, where the illegal activities of 500 mules were uncovered in Wayne County.

Among them was Vietnam veteran Dan Landon of Saline.

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Standing outside the theater that showed D’Souza’s film, retired teacher Dan Landon circulates a petition to decertify the results of the 2020 election.  (Steven Kovac/The Epoch Times)

Landon, a retired 34-year veteran special education teacher and a member of Michigan’s largest teachers union, said he wasn’t there to see the movie, but to work for change.

“In the 2020 election, I received three applications for absentee ballots mailed to my house with the names of three different people on them—all supposedly living at my address,” he said. “As a Republican poll watcher, I was kicked out on election night, and it took a lawyer to get me readmitted.

“We’ve got to save our country and bring it back the way God intended it to be.”

Movie Premiers in New York

“2000 Mules” also debuted at a Times Square multiplex theater in Manhattan, where the audience erupted in applause as the final credits rolled.

“I think it’s wonderful,” fitness trainer and copy editor Linda Minarik told The Epoch Times.

Minarik sees the documentary as “another avenue” to approach the issue of the integrity of the 2020 election.

Before seeing the movie, she said she had misgivings about the election, caused by evidence of misconduct that she had seen previously.

Minarik said she came to the movie expecting it to make a strong case.

“I was hoping for some proof,” she said.

According to Minarik, the film delivered it.

Asher Schwartz, who declined to share anything about himself other than his name, called the movie “thought-provoking.”

Schwartz said that before he had seen the film, he had leaned toward the conclusion that the election result was illicitly affected.

“If I had to bet my life on it, I’d say it was stolen,” he said.

Schwartz said the evidence presented was convincing, but he still reserved his final judgment on it, noting that it would need to be picked up by law enforcement.

Kelly M. said she was impressed by the movie, although she wished more of the evidence would have been directly shown on screen in order to fortify it against criticism.

One woman, who asked to not be identified for fear of losing business, hoped that more people would see the movie.

She said she was convinced that the election results were illegitimate, even before seeing the film.

“It was ripe for fraud,” she said, because of the unprecedented widespread use of absentee ballot drop boxes.

Unable to reconcile how Trump could perform significantly better in 2020 than in 2016 and lose, the woman said that “it just didn’t make sense.”

Peter Svab contributed to this story.

Steven Kovac

2000 Mules; The Secret Covenant of the Illuminati; Exposing Child Trafficking and Pedophiles; New Findings From Vaccine Microscope & Composition Analysis

2000 Mules


What you hear in this video, known as “The Secret Covenant of the Illuminati” surfaced on the web in 2002.
The Frazzledrip video was found on Anthony Weiner’s laptop and shows Hillary Clinton torturing and killing a young child. Supposedly, this video is in the right hands.

 

 

 



 





Tory Smith was murdered (suicided) for exposing political pedophiles

Thousands of children go missing every year, in every country, and it’s chalked up to runaways or abduction by criminals; another coverup.


Child Trafficking survivor, Katie Groves, speaks out

Dr. Nagase Releases New Findings From Vaccine Microscope & Composition Analysis

The six pointed star is an stellated hexagonal polygon made from upwards and downwards facing intersecting triangles.

It appears in different cultures and it is symbolized by dozens of philosophies throughout the world — but always representing the same meaning: Polarity in Unity.

From this concept whole systems of philosophies arise.

The Hexagram carries the same meaning of the Yin-Yang symbol and many others such as the Ouroboros or the Flower of Life, representing the universal substance which composes all dynamics and structures through its polarized unity. In essence it represents the oneness of everything and how it expresses complementing poles of the same force — from opposing directions perpetual cyclical motion is manifest.

We see this phenomenon in electromagnetism, where its poles creates opposing forces, generating a self-sustaining cyclic motion through balanced contraction and expansion at the same time. From this process all motion and forms are manifest — simple systems become complex in the first place because of this simple polarized dynamic which creates cycles through attraction and repulsion.

This process isn’t made from two things, it is in fact one substance with opposing complementary forces. One pole cannot exist without the other, they are expressions of the same energy.

The universal substance that enables all cycles and polarities to manifest in the dynamics and structures of all systems is known as electromagnetism — the fundamental force of electricity, magnetism and light — all of this things are expressions of a single energy, and they can be converted in all elements needed to create and sustain the cosmos and life as we know it.

All matter is electromagnetic in nature, without it atoms could not make bonds and create molecules that forms our reality or ourselves — this force is what holds us and the entire universe together.

Electromagnetism can be converted into light, electricity, magnetism, heat, cycles, motion and enables all components to be integrated into a single system, creating life

Get Vaxxed or Pay; Pfizer Cherry Picked Data; Biden’s Dirty Dealings; “2000 Mules” Proves Large-scale, Illegal Vote Trafficking Occurred in the 2020 Election; US Government Frets Over Musk-owned Twitter

Rhode Island Bill S.2552 Would Require Residents to Be Vaccinated or Pay Fines & Double Personal Income Taxes

Violating the proposed vaccine mandate would come with a price. Violators would face “a civil penalty of $50 and shall owe twice the amount of personal income taxes.”

Employers would be responsible for enforcement, requiring workers to provide proof or face a $5,000 fine for each unvaccinated worker.


Pfizer’s Cases Gone Missing and Cherry-Picked Subjects: Data Shows 71% of People Tested Were Women. Dr. Naomi Wolf: “52% of the human beings in the world are female, so they’re cherry picking who the subjects are. Why would they leave out men? Well, one obvious answer is men get myocarditis [disproportionately].”

Based on another study the fully jabbed are up to 2x more likely to be hospitalized with Covid-19 and 2x more likely to die of Covid-19. Article (https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/04/24/gov-report-fully-vaccinated-suffering-ade-since-new-year/)


President of Hunter Biden’s Shell Corporation, Rosemont Seneca, Visited White House 19 Times After Creating $1B Fund w/ The Bank of China

https://rumble.com/v12c03h-president-of-hunter-bidens-shell-corporation-rosemont-seneca-visited-white-.html

Hunter Biden’s closest business partner made at least 19 visits to the White House and other official locations between 2009 and 2015, including a sit-down with then-Vice President Joe Biden in the West Wing.

Visitor logs from the White House of former President Barack Obama reviewed by The Post cast further doubt over Joe Biden’s claims that he knew nothing of his son’s dealings.


WHO finds potential link between COVID-19 vaccine and hearing issues


Filmmaker: Documentary Proves Rampant Illegal Vote Trafficking in 2020

By Steven Kovac
April 26, 2022 Updated: April 26, 2022

Filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza believes that evidence presented in his new documentary, “2000 Mules,” proves that large-scale, illegal vote trafficking occurred in the 2020 election.

D’Souza told The Epoch Times: “2000 Mules will settle the issue beyond a shadow of a doubt by using two powerful, independent modes of investigation. The evidence is so conclusive, so decisive, that it leaves nothing to argue about.”

The film opens in 300 theaters on May 2 and May 4.

D’Souza, who is a contributor to The Epoch Times, said an investigative team used cellphone tracking and video footage to prove that unauthorized intermediaries called “mules” collected thousands of absentee ballots from voters and deposited them in drop boxes for money, which is illegal in all 50 states.

Cellphones emit a unique and identifiable signal or “ping.” Trillions of pings were analyzed by investigators to reconstruct the movements of thousands of mules as they went about their work in the weeks prior to the 2020 presidential election, the documentary claims.

“Who would have ever thought that investigators could look back in time and discover such things?” D’Souza said.

Epoch Times Photo
Dinesh D’Souza attends the premiere of Lionsgate Films’ “America” at Regal Cinemas L.A. Live in Los Angeles on June 30, 2014. (Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)

Investigators also sifted through millions of minutes of video surveillance footage and were able to capture on tape numerous mules stuffing absentee ballot drop boxes, D’Souza said. The videos show the mules taking selfies of themselves as proof of services rendered to their employers in order to be paid, he said.

“Not all the drop boxes were under video surveillance, but enough were to provide incontrovertible evidence, much obtained from government entities,” he said. “’2000 Mules’ contains a lot of never-before-seen footage depicting glove-wearing mules moving from county to county delivering absentee ballots to drop boxes, often in the dead of night.”

Much of the film focuses on the state of Georgia, where, according to True the Vote—the organization that conducted the investigations—242 metro Atlanta mules made 5,668 stops at drop boxes during elections in late 2020.

drop box ballot
Residents drop mail-in ballots in a ballot box outside of the Tippecanoe branch library in Milwaukee, on Oct. 20, 2020. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Similar illegal activities were found in Arizona, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Michigan, according to the group. True the Vote estimates that at least 4.8 million votes were trafficked nationally. The studies were funded by the human rights organization First Freedoms.

Election fraud has been committed by both parties throughout U.S. history, and therefore “cannot be considered abnormal,” D’Souza said. “The Democrats have a particular history of committing specialized election fraud in urban areas.

“The COVID-19 pandemic created an opportunity to do fraud on a scale not imagined before. The avalanche of absentee ballots sent out and the drop boxes presented much greater opportunity.”

D’Souza said he’s worried about the Democrats’ push to centralize how elections are conducted at both the state and national levels.

“A united Republican opposition is the only thing thwarting Biden, Pelosi, and the Democrats from enacting their plans,” he said. “Across America, the Democrats are trying to get rid of election security measures imposed by the states. They want to legalize fraud.”

The infusion of private money to help pay for elections is something D’Souza finds “very disturbing.”

“The money is largely coming from nonprofits funded by billionaires like Zuckerberg. They pose as politically neutral, which they are not.

“Localities were pressured by the nonprofits to have things like drop boxes as a condition for receiving millions of dollars in grant funding.”

D’Souza said that in November 2020, nonprofits paid for programs and advertising that actively encouraged “certain people to come out and vote.”

mark Zuckerberg in congress
Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Financial Services Committee in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 23, 2019. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

According to the Zuckerberg-funded Center for Tech and Civic Life, the money was given to help municipalities cope with public health challenges presented by the pandemic.

“Through the movie ‘2000 Mules,’ we are taking on the ultimate taboo in American politics today—saying that the 2020 election was stolen by systematic, organized fraud committed by the Democrats and the left,” D’Souza told The Epoch Times.

Mindful of the power of cancel culture, D’Souza said great care has been taken to release the film on what he calls “un-cancellable platforms.”

“It’s hard to believe we have reached that point in America, but alas, we have,” he said.

“While I was a writer or a figure in a think-tank, I wasn’t bothered much. It was when I began to reach a wider audience that I became a political target.”

When asked why he’s willing to subject himself to possible cancellation, D’Souza said, “I am defending the system which made it possible for an immigrant from India, a boy at the bottom, to make my way up—a system that makes this kind of upward economic and social mobility possible.”

D’Souza has produced numerous documentaries, three of which are ranked in the top 10 highest-grossing political documentaries of all time.

Steven Kovac

REPORTER

Steven Kovac is an Epoch Times reporter who covers the state of Michigan. He is a former small businessman, local elected official, and conservative political activist. He is an ordained minister of the Gospel. Steven and his wife of 32 years have two grown daughters. He can be reached at steven.kovac@epochtimes.us


US government frets over Musk-owned Twitter

The US government finds cause for alarm in “large social media platforms”
US government frets over Musk-owned Twitter

Billionaire Elon Musk’s acquisition of social media giant Twitter has seen the US government suddenly backing away from its embrace of such mega platforms. “No matter who owns or runs Twitter, the president [Joe Biden] has long been concerned about the power of large social media platforms [and] the power they have over our daily lives,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki stated during a press briefing on Monday after Musk officially bought Twitter for $44 billion.

Elon Musk buys Twitter

Psaki insisted this sudden concern was unrelated to the Tesla tycoon’s latest purchase, claiming “our concerns are not new” with regard to the social media monopolies. Biden, she said, “has long argued that tech platforms must be held accountable for the harm they cause.

The White House spokesperson insisted the administration was continuing to push for the repeal of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which offers platforms that host third-party content immunity from liability for user-supplied content, as well as antitrust and transparency enforcement against the social media behemoths.

We engage regularly with all social media platforms about steps that can be taken,” Psaki claimed, adding that while she was “sure [this] will continue,” there were “also reforms that we think Congress could take.

While there are multiple antitrust cases pending against Facebook, Amazon, Google, and Apple, Twitter has been in the regulatory crosshairs somewhat less often. However, it has received plenty of attention as the former online home of ex-President Donald Trump, from which he was exiled in January 2021 following the January 6 riot at the Capitol while he was still commander-in-chief. Some fear a Musk-led Twitter will give him back his account, though he remains banned from other mainstream social media outlets.

However, Trump told Fox News on Monday he plans to focus on TRUTH Social, his own social media network that debuted earlier this year, and would not return to Twitter even if Musk reinstated his page. Trump has also been a vocal supporter of repealing Section 230, which would align him with the White House if Psaki’s statements reflect the administration’s genuine position.

However, the Biden’s team have in the past praised such monopolistic platforms, admitting government officials had personally flagged ‘misinformation’ related to Covid-19 on Facebook, even while calling on the tech giants to do more to silence unauthorized viewpoints.

Musk has promised to make free speech central in his takeover of Twitter, and took the unusual step of calling for his “worst critics” to stay on the service, insisting this is “what free speech means.”

While his purchase had some on the platform frothing mad, Twitter stock was up 6% on the announcement of the acquisition.

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