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...
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)
They never even heard of the places I use—for sure they would be banned if they got on to the Deep State radar.
This nation is becoming more Orwellian by the hour.
Tony Blinken is a Blinken Idiot
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.
Censorship......I can’t recommend Tucker’s recent interview of Mike Benz highly enough.
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
Thus the continuing media onslaught of pass the Continuing Resolution to "keep the government operating".
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 )
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.
whois queryOne may thereby conclude that this is, at the minimum, a globalist entity. Among those funding, unsurprisingly Soros' Open Society folks.Domain: disinformationindex.org
Registrar: Squarespace Domains II LLC
Registered On: 2018-04-11Of the nameservers: ns-cloud-b1.googledomains.com
Organization: Contact Privacy Inc. Customer 7151571251
State: ON
Country: CA -- CanadaIt 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"
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
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/
This was posted in error.
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".
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."
B-but doesn’t democracy die in darkness?
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.
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