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State Department Threatens Congress Over Censorship Programs
Racket News ^ | 17 Feb, 2024 | MATT TAIBBI

Posted on 02/18/2024 6:04:30 AM PST by MtnClimber

A year after its censorship programs were exposed, the Global Engagement Center still insists the public has no right to know how it's spending taxpayer money.

“You can look, but don’t touch!”

The State Department is so unhappy a newspaper published details about where it’s been spending your taxes, it’s threatened to only show a congressional committee its records in camera until it gets a “better understanding of how the Committee will utilize this sensitive information.” Essentially, Tony Blinken is threatening to take his transparency ball home unless details about what censorship programs he’s sponsoring stop appearing in papers like the Washington Examiner:

The State Department tells Congress, which controls its funding, that it will only disclose where it spent our money “in camera”

A year ago the Examiner published “Disinformation, Inc.”, a series by investigative reporter Gabe Kaminsky describing how the State Department was backing a UK-based agency that creates digital blacklists for disfavored media outlets. Your taxes helped fund the Global Disinformation Index, or GDI, which proudly touts among its services an Orwellian horror called the Dynamic Exclusion List, a digital time-out corner where at least 2,000 websites were put on blast as unsuitable for advertising, “thus disrupting the ad-funded disinformation business model.”

The culprit was the Global Engagement Center, a little-known State Department entity created in Barack Obama’s last year in office and a surprise focus of Twitter Files reporting. The GEC grew out of a counter-terrorism agency called the CSCC and has a mission to “counter” any messaging, foreign or domestic as it turns out, that they see as “undermining or influencing the policies, security, or stability of the United States.” The GEC-funded GDI rated ten conservative sites as most “risky” and put the Examiner on its “exclusion” list, while its ten sites rated at the “lowest level of disinformation” included Buzzfeed, which famously published the Steele Dossier knowing it contained errors and is now out of business...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: actofwar; arresttonyblinken; firstamendment; gec; globalengagement; leftism; psychologicalwarfare; tonyblinken
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1 posted on 02/18/2024 6:04:30 AM PST by MtnClimber
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disinformationindex.org:

The ten lowest-risk online news outlets

NPR.org (Risk level: Minimum)

APNews.com (Risk level: Minimum)

NYTimes.com (Risk level: Minimum)

ProPublica.org (Risk level: Minimum)

Insider.com (Risk level: Low)

USAToday.com (Risk level: Low)

WashingtonPost.com (Risk level: Low)

BuzzFeedNews.com (Risk level: Low)

WSJ.com (Risk level: Low)

HuffPost.com (Risk level: Low)

The ten riskiest online news outlets

NYPost.com (Risk level: High)

Reason.com (Risk level: High)

RealClearPolitics.com (Risk level: High)

DailyWire.com (Risk level: High)

TheBlaze.com (Risk level: High)

OANN.com (Risk level: High)

TheAmericanConservative.com (Risk level: High)

TheFederalist.com (Risk level: Maximum)

Newsmax.com (Risk level: Maximum)

Spectator.org (Risk level: Maximum)

2 posted on 02/18/2024 6:04:45 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

They never even heard of the places I use—for sure they would be banned if they got on to the Deep State radar.


3 posted on 02/18/2024 6:07:06 AM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: MtnClimber

This nation is becoming more Orwellian by the hour.


4 posted on 02/18/2024 6:08:35 AM PST by Bookshelf
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To: MtnClimber

Tony Blinken is a Blinken Idiot


5 posted on 02/18/2024 6:10:07 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: MtnClimber

Were I still in the USAF, and were I ordered to bomb the state department, I’d reply that they wouldn’t even have to pay me to off that motly collection of losers.


6 posted on 02/18/2024 6:10:33 AM PST by Da Coyote
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Censorship......I can’t recommend Tucker’s recent interview of Mike Benz highly enough.


7 posted on 02/18/2024 6:12:39 AM PST by hecticskeptic
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To: MtnClimber

according to the CONSTITUTION Congress controls the purse strings on virtually EVERYTHING government. IF this Congress had the balls of even the new definition of “a woman” they would shut the money off yesterday until there was full disclosures of everydamnthing this B.S. entity is involved in. info mean EVERYTHING! “the worst enemy of a Free People is a shadow government angling for control” L.Star


8 posted on 02/18/2024 6:15:12 AM PST by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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One of the main features of the "continuing resolution", put in place by Obama and others, is it removes the power of the purse from the House of Representatives and the Congress in general.

Thus the continuing media onslaught of pass the Continuing Resolution to "keep the government operating".

9 posted on 02/18/2024 6:22:15 AM PST by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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To: MtnClimber

Blinken is a danger to America. We must get him replaced asap. There’s far too much raw power in washingtonDC for us to allow men of his propensities to be anywhere near it.

“’Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.“. John Adams (a “founding father” and second president of the United States )


10 posted on 02/18/2024 6:34:57 AM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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Blinken and his State Department apparatchiks continue their program of giving aid and comfort to the domestic and foreign enemies of the United States.

Only their trial, conviction, and sentencing will bring justice to their treachery.


11 posted on 02/18/2024 6:38:00 AM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: MtnClimber
Perhaps the most important video you will watch today is this interview by Tucker Carlson with Mike Benz on how our government has become our worst nightmare by completely usurping the First Amendment and, by a fortiori, our national elections. After listening to Mike Benz it's clear our government is the worst enemy imaginable of free people as it continues to use our taxpayer resources to strip us of any semblance of representative government. It's now clear to me that we will need a bottom-up people's revolution in this Country because the tyranny is so ingrained and sweeping in scope that no single individual, including Trump, will be able to strip away the Administrative State's deep-seated tentacles that now exercising control over us.
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1758529993280205039
12 posted on 02/18/2024 6:43:24 AM PST by iontheball
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To: MtnClimber
We have no voices in DC except for our distinctly American criminal class.
13 posted on 02/18/2024 6:57:08 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: MtnClimber
Some curiosity about this organization is answered:
whois query

Domain: disinformationindex.org
Registrar: Squarespace Domains II LLC
Registered On: 2018-04-11

Of the nameservers: ns-cloud-b1.googledomains.com

Organization: Contact Privacy Inc. Customer 7151571251
State: ON
Country: CA -- Canada

It says of itself: "GDI is a not-for-profit organisation." It additionally says, "The majority of GDI’s work is about identifying sites that are supported by hostile state actors." And "GDI is a small, independent, global not-for-profit organisation." By its own statement, most of the staff is European.

Source: About

So what and specifically who defines "hostile state actors?"

Notice the "wiggle words." They say of themselves, "Disinformation Index Ltd, a company limited by guarantee and registered in England & Wales with company number 11297397; and/or Disinformation Index Inc, a nonprofit nonstock corporation with public charity status incorporated in Delaware and operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986; and/or GDI Global Disinformation Index gUG, a nonprofit limited liability company (tax number 27/613/05773) with registered office in Berlin, which exclusively and directly pursues charitable purposes within the meaning of the section 'tax-privileged purposes' of the German Fiscal Code."

Additionally, "Responsible Person -- Means Jo Jenks, person responsible for data protection within GDI, contactable at the following mailing address: Disinformation Index Ltd, 4 Emmanuel Court, Reddicroft, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands B73 6AX, UK"

Privacy Statement

One may thereby conclude that this is, at the minimum, a globalist entity. Among those funding, unsurprisingly Soros' Open Society folks.

Interesting that the website obtained a privacy service in CANADA to shield its registrant.

Also interesting that most of its staff are European, the next largest group US-based. It relies on Google, of which this morning's posts mentioned: Microsoft, Google, Amazon and tech peers sign pact to combat election-related misinformation

Isn't the vocabulary these "tech giants" employ interesting? Telling? C O M B A T

14 posted on 02/18/2024 6:59:13 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: MtnClimber

Hochul may change her tune if the U.S. truckers ban together to boycott New York as a delivery destination.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/breaking-report-truckers-plan-stop-shipments-nyc-response/


15 posted on 02/18/2024 7:00:18 AM PST by iontheball
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To: iontheball

This was posted in error.


16 posted on 02/18/2024 7:01:56 AM PST by iontheball
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time
Microsoft, Google, Amazon and tech peers sign pact to combat election-related misinformation

Isn't the vocabulary these "tech giants" employ interesting? Telling? C O M B A T

They are conducting a color revolution. They probably call it "The Brown Revolution".

17 posted on 02/18/2024 7:16:08 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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--- "They are conducting a color revolution. They probably call it 'The Brown Revolution'."

Fundamental transformation, so said somebody....

But then again, that same jackass also said, upon his election, "this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal."

18 posted on 02/18/2024 7:30:30 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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B-but doesn’t democracy die in darkness?


19 posted on 02/18/2024 8:03:54 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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Congress needs to pimp slap them. The very idea of a department telling Congress how it’s going to be, and threatening them. Congress is the superior branch of government if it wants to be. Republicans can zero out their budget…. But refuse. So this is how you get treated.


20 posted on 02/18/2024 8:12:25 AM PST by DesertRhino (16 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI)
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