BIDEN WATCH: 7.30.22 - Government and media colluding to censor free speech

 Government and media colluding to censor free speech - Bill Wilson – www.dailyjot.com Against the backdrop of a federal district court judge allowing a case to move forward citing Joe Biden and other high ranking government officials and media companies withcollusion to suppress free speech, the Media Research Council (MRC) has released a study identifying over 144 million instances of censorship by big tech media in just the first quarter of 2022. MRC, a reputable media watchdog, analyzed seven platforms–Facebook,Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Spotify—to determine the number of times that users on social media had information kept from them, what MRC calls “secondhand censorship.” Social media companies are suspected accomplices in the federal collusionlawsuit. Missouri and Louisiana filed the collusion suit in US District Court against Government Defendants consisting of Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Jennifer Rene Psaki, Vivek H. Murthy,Xavier Becerra, Department of Health and Human Services, Anthony Fauci, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Alejandro Mayorkas, Department of Homeland Security, Jen Easterly, Cybersecurity andInfrastructure Security Agency, and Nina Jankowicz. The suit alleges that “Government Defendants have colluded with and/or coerced social media companies to suppress disfavored speakers, viewpoints, and content on social media platforms by labeling the content “disinformation,” “misinformation,” and “malinformation.”” The states provided examples of suppression of free speech, which included: The Hunter Biden laptop story prior to the 2020 Presidential election; Speech about the lab-leaktheory of COVID-19’s origin; Speech about the efficiency of masks and COVID-19 lockdowns; and Speech about election integrity and the security of voting by mail. In addition the State’s complaint, “sets forth actions by specific Government Defendants thathave been taken to suppress free speech. Plaintiff States allege that free speech is the bedrock of American liberty, and Government Defendants are in violation of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in attempting to suppress free speech by labelingthe speech as “misinformation.”” In allowing the case to go forward, Judge Terry A. Doughty reviewed previous unsuccessful cases that were blocked because of the technicality of “lack of standing” and concluded: “If Missouri and Louisiana do not have standing under the facts alleged, when would anyone ever have standing to address these claims? In conclusion, the Court finds that the Plaintiff States have standing and that this Court has the judicial power to hearthis case.” It’s interesting that the MRC study used many of the same examples of censorship in its analysis as are listed in the Missouri and Louisiana lawsuit. Free speech is central to Christianity. The Apostle Paul prayed in Ephesians 6:20 that he “mayspeak boldly, as I ought to speak.” These studies and court tests ultimately are essential to Constitutional protection of religious free speech. Sources: https://ago.mo.gov/docs/default-source/press-releases/08916881989.pdf?sfvrsn=746ae69_2 https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/free-speech/brian-bradley/2022/07/20/secondhand-censorship-effect-real-impact-big-techs ------------------------- Guess Who Is Buying Up Farmland All Over The United States? -by Michael Snyder - http://endoftheamericandream.com/guess-who-is-buying-up-farmland-all-over-the-united-states/ Those that control our food supply wield an immense amount of power. Small family farms have been integral to the success of the United States all throughout our history,but now such farms are being gobbled up at a staggering pace. Corporate behemoths, foreign interests and eccentric billionaires are voraciously buying up farmland, and many consider this development to be extremely alarming. The farming industry is being systematicallyconsolidated, and a lot of people have pointed out that some of the new owners may not have our best interests at heart. This needs to become a major political issue, because our national security is truly at risk. This week, the purchase of �hundreds of acres of North Dakota farmland� just 20 minutes from one of our most important Air Force bases is making headlines all over the world� A Chinese company purchased hundreds of acres of North Dakota farmland mere minutes from a major US Air Force base, prompting national security fears as the communist countryadds to its nearly 200,000 acres of US agricultural land worth $1.9 billion. The China-based food producer, Fufeng Group, plans to build a corn-milling plant on its newly acquired 300 acres of land in Grand Forks, just 20 minutes down the road fromthe Grand Forks Air Force Base, where some of the nation�s most sensitive drone technology is based. The Fufeng Group insists that there are no ulterior motives for this purchase. But is it really wise to allow the Chinese to set up shop so close to a base that is being described as �the backbone of all US military communications across the globe�?� The purchase raised suspicions from military officers, national security experts and lawmakers alike. The move could give China unprecedented access to the goings-on at the Air Force base, which also has a space-networking center that�s been characterized as �the backboneof all US military communications across the globe,� according to CNBC. Personally, I think that we are absolutely nuts to allow this to happen. If the shoe was on the other foot, the Chinese would never even think of compromising their national security in such a manner. And allowing the Chinese to gobble up big chunks of our best agricultural land is absolutely inexcusable. According to U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer, China has been �continuallybuying up more and more of the U.S. food supply chain�� �On the farm side, we see China continually buying up more and more of the U.S. food supply chain. Now, we grow a lot more food than we consume and we�re happy to sell itto hungry people around the world. We�re very good at that. But when the supply chain becomes more captive, not only to foreign ownership but to foreign adversaries like China who have demonstrated that they�re not to be trusted with supply chains. We justwent through a pandemic that exposed a lot of that. I�m just not very comfortable with the Chinese Communist Party controlling so much of our supply chains. Food supply, energy supply, pharmaceutical supply, those are all that�s all part of national security.� As of three years ago, the Chinese had already accumulated 192,000 acres of U.S. farmland. We have not been given a more recent figure than that, but what we do know is that the Chinese spent a whopping 6.1 billion dollars on real estate in the United States duringone recent 12 month period� Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has vowed to crack down on �undue influence from rogue states� like China in response to Chinese businesses reportedly buying up large tracts offarmland. DeSantis was asked about a recent report by the National Association of Realtors which found that Chinese real estate investors spent $6.1 billion on American real estateover a 12-month period that ended in March � more than any other group of foreigners. Why would we allow something like this to happen? Nobody else should be allowed to purchase our farmland. Other countries have such laws, and we should too. On another note, at just about the same time the Chinese were making their new purchase of farmland in North Dakota, an extremely well known billionaire was making an evenlarger purchase in the same state� Bill Gates� $13.5 million investment in 2,100 sprawling acres of North Dakota land has raised questions � as the purchase coincided with a controversial Chinese company buying370 acres of farmland just 40 miles away. Why does Bill Gates just keep buying more farmland? We have never received a satisfactory answer to that question. At this point, Bill Gates owns more acres of farmland in the U.S. than the Chinese do. In fact, Bill Gates has become the �largest private farmland owner� in the entire country� Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) sent a letter to House Agriculture Committee chairman David Scott (D-Ga.), requesting that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates testify before the committeeregarding the billionaire�s large farmland purchases. Gates is the �largest private farmland owner� in the United States, possessing almost 270,000 acres of farmland in 19 states, the July 20 letter states. The average farm sizein 2021 was only 445 acres, Johnson said citing data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture�s Economic Research Service. Gates�s farmland holdings in the United States are a �significant� portion that the committee �should not ignore,� while asking that thebillionaire be brought in to testify about his �farming interests and practices.� Owning so much of our farmland gives Bill Gates a tremendous amount of power over our food supply. What does he intend to do with such power? As I keep warning my readers, a major global food crisis has already begun, and we are being warned that nightmarish famines could soon break out all over the planet. So control over food production matters more than ever, and many are concerned that it is increasingly falling into the wrong hands. The number of farms in the U.S. has been steadily shrinking. In 1900, there were 5.7 million farms in the United States. Today, there are only about 2 million farms in the United States even though our population is now much larger. With each passing year, more small fish are being acquired by bigger fish. This is a trend that should deeply disturb all of us. Allowing the Chinese, gigantic corporate behemoths and eccentric billionaires such as Bill Gates to buy up our farmlandis a really bad idea, but so far very few of our politicians seem interested in stopping them. ------------------ General Public Completely Unaware How Digital Currencies Will Change Our Society � Tyler Durden - https://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=5486 The value of Bitcoin and NFTs may have fallen over the past year, but a different approach to cryptocurrency is growing in popularity around the world while showcasing a totallydifferent face of the blockchain. As Statista's Katharina Buchholz details below, central bank digital currencies are controlled by governments like traditional currencies are and therefore represent the polaropposite of the idea of decentralized, non-traceable bitcoins. Several small nations have launched central bank digital currencies, and several more populous countries are getting ready to jump aboard a different crypto hype train. According to the Central Bank Digital Currency Tracker by Atlantic Council, CBDCs have launched in several Caribbean nations such as the Bahamas, Grenada, Dominica and SaintLucia. The Sand Dollar of the Bahamas was the first central bank digital currency of the world upon its launch in 2019 and cleared the way for a rapid adoption around the region's small nations. The Chinese digital Yuan pilot made headlines in April 2019, but the project has not moved on since. Like Nigeria, China has a solid digital and mobile payment infrastructure.Large parts of the two countries' populations leapfrogged card payments and went straight from cash to digital payment options, which became hugely popular - may they be app or text-based. In developing countries, central banks also consider the potentialof digital currencies reaching the unbanked. Another reason for some governments to champion official digital currencies is the collection of data. Ubiquitous digital payments and tight government surveillance have ledto a plethora of payment data already available to Chinese administrators. This knowledge on how people spend money will only grow with the implementation of the digital Yuan, even though the country's central bank has said it will limit traceability and createwhat it calls "controllable anonymity." With the launch of the digital currency, every Yuan in circulation will either exist as physical or as digital currency. Analysts expect the Chinese government to raise theamount of digital currency in the future, thereby lowering the amount of physical currency available in the market. Some even think China plans to make all Yuan digital at one point. Other countries which are in a CBDC pilot phase include Russia, Thailand, Malaysia, South Korea, Sweden, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. It is unclear, however,which program could see a proper launch next. Concrete plans to launch a CBDC were recorded by the source in Canada, Australia, Brazil and India, among others. The digital Euro is also in its development phase, with a pilot scheduled for 2023 in participating nations. As Alt-Market's Brandon Smith detailed previously, with the introduction of CBDCs in the wake of a stagflationary crash, the central banks could call for a new global networkof currencies to "stop such a crisis from ever happening again." The BIS and the IMF will be ready and waiting in the wings with the SDR basket, or something very similar. The bankers will remove all physical money over a short period oftime and a global digital system will take over. All privacy in trade will be gone, except for those people involved in barter, black markets and commodities. The advent of CBDCs could also mean that money and economic participation will become privileges, not rights. Digital trade could be tied to a social credit system, much likethe one that exists in communist China. Want access to your checking and savings accounts? Better not say anything critical of the establishment, or you could be reported by a neighbor or stranger by cell phoneapp and have your money disappear in seconds. The onus will then be on you to prove that you are "loyal" and get access back. You are guilty until proven innocent. Maybe you don't want to take the next untested mRNA vaccine for the next dubious pandemic threat? You'll have little choice if your ability to function economically is controlleddigitally. This is the world we are facing if we allow central banks to fully digitize money and trade. It is a nightmare environment of complete authoritarianism. The public at largeis mostly unaware of the incredible danger inherent in CBDCs and they must be educated before the current crisis grows so large that they can no longer focus on anything other than their own problems. ----------------------- Selling oil to China at bargain prices - Bill Wilson � www.dailyjot.com Joe Biden was exposed last month for selling part of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to a communist Chinese company with ties to his son Hunter while Americans are sufferingfrom his energy-policy induced inflation. Well, Biden�s at it again. According to Department of Energy disclosures, the sales to Unipec America continued in July with another 950,000 barrels for an ongoing tally of nearly six million barrels. Unipec Americais the trading arm of Sinopec, owned by the Communist Chinese government, in which Joe Biden�s son Hunter has held up to a ten percent business ownership. Hunter Biden�s lawyer says Hunter no longer holds a stake in the company. Chinese documents say otherwise. Moreover, an analysis by the Epoch Times indicates that Unipec America is buying the oil from the SPR at prices less than the highest bids�meaning there is at least the appearancethat the Biden family is benefiting from the sale of America�s strategic petroleum reserves to communist China while Americans suffer. The Epoch Times reports: �Sales to Unipec appear to fall in the lower price range among the successful buyers�For the 2021contract, Unipec paid about $63 for each barrel, about $7 lower than the trading price at the time, and more than $2 short of the highest price from other buyers in the sale. The April and July purchases cost Unipec $103.30 and $119.50 per barrel, respectively.The highest prices offered, by comparison, were $111.25 and $125.10.� The Washington Free Beacon reported in June that BHR Partners, a private equity firm Hunter Biden cofounded in 2013, �bought a $1.7 billion stake in Sinopec Marketing in 2015.Biden at one point owned a 10 percent stake in BHR Partners through his wholly owned firm, Skaneateles, LLC�Chinese business records still list Biden�s firm as a BHR shareholder, and Washington, D.C., records still show Biden as the firm�s owner.� The entireescapade has caught the eye of 10 members of Congress, Led by Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC). They sent a letter to Joe Biden documenting the Unipec deal among others, and concluding: �These allegations are severely unsettling, and if true, may even constitute animpeachable offense under the �bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors� clause of Article 2 of the Constitution.� The letter asked that specific information be provided the congressmen by July 25 and warned: �Those in power, especially our commander-in-chief, must think about how theiractions impact the people they were elected to serve. The purpose of the SPR is �primarily to reduce the impact of disruptions in supplies of petroleum products� and supply crude oil to Americans during times of national emergency. The oil within the StrategicPetroleum Reserve was intended for the American people, not for adversarial countries, and certainly not to make the Biden Family richer at a time when our citizens are paying almost $5.00 a gallon for gasoline and $6.00 for diesel.� 1 Thessalonians 5:22 exhorts, �Abstain from all appearance of evil.� Biden�s actions not only appear evil, they are, say it with me�Stupidocrisy. ---------------------------------