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Facebook 'Whistleblower' donated 36 times to Democrats, including to anti-primary extremists and AOC

Natalie Winters, Raheem Kassam
The National Pulse
Mon, 04 Oct 2021 00:00 UTC
Francis Haugen
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Francis Haugen
Facebook "whistleblower" Frances Haugen is a longtime Democrat donor, supporting campaigns for far-left extremists such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She has also donated money to activist groups actively attempting to derail the U.S. primary process that allows ordinary members of the public to beat out establishment, career politicians, The National Pulse can reveal.

Blowing the Establishment.

Haugen's "whistleblowing" has been lauded by the corporate media: a sure sign that rather than being a sole actor attempting to call out corporate abuse, she is likely backed by some hefty interests. Haugen first anonymously leaked internal documents before revealing her identity and calling for mass censorship on the Facebook, but only of political ideas she opposes.

The National Pulse has thus far identified 36 donations from Haugen during her time as an employee of Facebook, Pinterest, and Gigster. All of the donations, which total nearly $2,000 since December 2016, have gone to Democrats including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Comment: Is she a 'useful' tool trotted out to disguise a power play? There is certainly enough probability and speculation to confirms this. The trick is to poke the problem in order to disguise a particular recourse that serves a particular faction.

See also:
Greenwald: Democrats and media do not want to weaken Facebook, just commandeer its power to censor

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Arizona AG: Border agent purge at pro-immigration DHS

Jack Gournell
Newsmax
Tue, 05 Oct 2021 03:37 UTC
Brnovich
© AP
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich
The Department of Homeland Security appears to be "purging" leaders who speak the truth about the immigration crisis at the southern border, Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich wrote in a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday.

In the letter, first reported by The Washington Examiner's Paul Bedard, Brnovich pointed to the ouster of U.S. Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott and the reassignment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement deputy Enrique Lucero.
Scott had criticized President Joe Biden's border policies that he said have resulted in the recent record illegal border crossings.

Lucero had warned that the Biden policy of pausing deportations would cut Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests by half.
Brnovich said in the letter:
"At a time when we need them most, DHS seems to be purging qualified leaders who have attempted to uphold the rule of law. Those actions only lead to more chaos and further empower the cartels who now control both sides of the border."
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Quenelle - Golden

Polexit? Polish court rules EU push for LGBT laws & legal reform incompatible with its constitution


The Guardian
Thu, 07 Oct 2021 16:54 UTC
Morawiecki
© Radek Pietruszka/EPA
The Polish prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki, arriving at an EU-western Balkans summit in Slovenia on Wednesday.
Poland's constitutional tribunal has ruled that some EU laws are in conflict with the country's constitution, taking a major step towards a "legal Polexit", in a decision that could have far-reaching consequences for Warsaw's EU funding and future relations with the bloc.

The tribunal, whose legitimacy is contested following multiple appointments of judges loyal to the ruling nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party, said on Thursday some provisions of EU treaties and EU court rulings clashed with Poland's highest law.

"This is a legal revolution," said René Repasi, professor of international and European law at Erasmus university in Rotterdam. "Admittedly it's a captured court, but this is furthest step towards a legal exit from the EU ever taken by a national court."

Comment: Poland's objections to EU supremacy reveal just how much power other member states gave away. And, if we look at 'developments' in those other countries, one can understand why Poland wants to stop their country going the same route:

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Sheriff

Natural gas prices plunge as Putin says Russia will boost supplies to Europe


RT
Thu, 07 Oct 2021 09:30 UTC
gas pipeline
© AP / Pavlo Palamarchuk
The price of gas futures in Europe has plunged nearly 22%, below $1,000 per 1,000 cubic meters, on news that Russia is willing to ramp up supplies to the continent. Gas prices nearly reached $2,000 a day earlier.

According to trading data from the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the price of November gas futures on the Dutch TTF index started trading at almost $1,260 per thousand cubic meters on Thursday, then briefly jumped to $1,370 at 6:13am GMT and later showed a steady decline. By 8am GMT, the price fell to $973 per thousand cubic meters, which is 22% lower than its closing price the day before. On Wednesday, the price of gas in Europe briefly reached a historic high of $1,937 per thousand cubic meters, nearly three times its cost in September.

Gas futures started their decline late Wednesday when Russian President Vladimir Putin said the country would boost supplies to Europe.

Comment: Leaders in the EU & Britain should be breathing a sigh of relief as Russia, yet again, comes to the rescue; and citizens should be pressing them to reconsider their relationship with the US because, at the last minute, it made another attempt to sabotage their access to an affordable and desperately needed source of gas by slapping sanctions on companies necessary for the pipelines completion: Also check out SOTT radio's:


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Russia is fulfilling ALL its contractual obligations for gas orders & is NOT to blame for soaring prices - Merkel

Jonny Tickle
RT
Thu, 07 Oct 2021 11:11 UTC
Merkel
© AFP / HENDRIK SCHMIDT
(L) The double shut-off valves are installed between the pipe systems of the gas receiving station of the Nord Stream Baltic Sea pipeline. Getty Images / Jens Büttner; (R) German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has rejected suggestions that the increased price of gas is due to Russian policy, and is instead pointing the finger at European Union policy, asking whether the bloc could have acted differently.

Speaking on Wednesday, Merkel noted that Russia has never refused to deliver gas and has fulfilled its contractual obligations.

"That's why we should ask the question: was enough gas ordered, or is the high price at the moment maybe the reason for not ordering so much?" Merkel asked, according to London's Financial Times.

Comment: Britain and the EU have the gamut of excuses, including blaming Russia, and a lack of employees in numerous sectors, but citizens only have so much patience, and it's bound to wear rather thin when people are cold, and hungry:

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Pirates

Dutch court dismisses call to scrap 'corona pass' mandate


Reuters
Wed, 06 Oct 2021 11:37 UTC
Rutte
© REUTERS/ Matthias Rietschel
Netherlands' Prime Minister Mark Rutte speaks during the gala event after the opening ceremony of the exhibition "Johannes Vermeer. Vom Innehalten" in Dresden, Germany, September 9, 2021.
A Dutch court on Wednesday dismissed a call to scrap the 'corona pass' required to enter restaurants, bars, museums, theatres and other public places in the Netherlands.

The court in The Hague said the government had the right to demand proof of a COVID-19 vaccination or a recent negative coronavirus test to limit the spread of the coronavirus as most other social distancing measures were lifted last month.

Comment: Notably, the Dutch political situation this year has been marred by scandal: "Unprecedented injustice": Dutch government quits over tax subsidy scandal

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Black Cat

'Whistleblower' Haugen was part of Facebook team that spiked Hunter Biden laptop story

Nick Monroe
The Post Millennial
Thu, 07 Oct 2021 17:12 UTC
Haugen
© Drew Angerer/AFP/Getty Images
Facebook 'whistleblower' Frances Haugen hearing
The civic integrity department in October 2020 had Frances Haugen — a left-leaning activist who declared her own war against "misinformation."

The Facebook civic integrity team that leftist activist whistleblower Frances Haugen was a member of, worked to counter misinformation about the 2020 election.

Which in October of last year meant making the decision to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story and the New York Post's reporting on it.

Project Veritas whistleblowers haven't gotten the same mainstream media attention and praise as Frances Haugen has, after coming out publicly to 60 Minutes earlier this week.

Comment: Conservative podcaster Dan Bongino makes an interesting observation on Haugen's testimony (includes ads):



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The elites' battle for the Future America

Charles Hugh Smith
Of Two Minds
Mon, 30 Aug 2021 14:41 UTC
Elites at a Hampton party
No nation can produce less of lesser quality, and squander more on infinitely greedy and corrupt elites, all funded by issuing trillions of new units of currency, and imagine that this asymmetry will never have consequences.

As I have often noted, historian Michael Grant identified profound political disunity in the ruling class as a key cause of the dissolution of the Roman Empire. Grant described this dynamic in his excellent account The Fall of the Roman Empire, a book I have been recommending since 2009.

I've been writing about the fractures in America's ruling elites for many years, as well as the erosion of the foundations of society that lead to systemic collapse, for example, Collapse, Part 2: The Nine Dynamics of Decay (June 2015), Going to War with the Political Elite You Have (May 14, 2007) and The Conflict within the Deep State Just Broke into Open Warfare (March 10, 2017)
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Eye 1

Bringing Facebook to heel: A system-connected 'whistleblower' and a 'for the children' narrative mask a bid for political control

Nebojsa Malic
RT
Wed, 06 Oct 2021 16:48 UTC
facebook cracked glass
© Reuters / Dado Ruvic
Politicians always couch power grabs in talk of safety or protecting children. If something looks too good to be true, that's because it is. Both of those truisms apply to the case of Facebook 'whistleblower' Frances Haugen.

Haugen came seemingly out of nowhere to testify before the Senate on Tuesday, yet she revealed nothing besides well-rehearsed bromides about the Menlo Park behemoth putting "profits over people" and somehow endangering Our Democracy by refusing to police misinformation, or something. Stunning and brave!

She also landed a 60 Minutes interview over the weekend, got instantly verified on Twitter, and received praise from the extremely online Democrats (aka the 'Resistance' during the Trump era) for her stunning bravery. Her advice to the Senate wasn't to break up Facebook, either, but to turn it into an arm of the government - for the "common good," of course, and to protect the children.

Comment: Folks aren't buying it





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Brick Wall

COVID-19 detention camps: Are government round-ups of resistors in our future?

John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute
Thu, 28 Oct 2021 00:00 UTC
covid camps
It's no longer a question of whether the government will lock up Americans for defying its mandates but when.

This is what we know: the government has the means, the muscle and the motivation to detain individuals who resist its orders and do not comply with its mandates in a vast array of prisons, detention centers, and FEMA concentration camps paid for with taxpayer dollars.

It's just a matter of time.

It no longer matters what the hot-button issue might be (vaccine mandates, immigration, gun rights, abortion, same-sex marriage, healthcare, criticizing the government, protesting election results, etc.) or which party is wielding its power like a hammer.

The groundwork has already been laid.

Under the indefinite detention provision of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the President and the military can detain and imprison American citizens with no access to friends, family or the courts if the government believes them to be a terrorist.

So it should come as no surprise that merely criticizing the government or objecting to a COVID-19 vaccine could get you labeled as a terrorist.
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