Watch Lara Logan's segment just this morning in Washington, D.C., at Senator Ron Johnson's roundtable discussion 'Federal Health Agencies and the COVID Cartel (13 minute YOUTUBE video, TRANSCRIPT BELOW).
Posted on 02/27/2024 5:18:03 PM PST by ransomnote
Watch Lara Logan's segment just this morning in Washington, D.C., at Senator Ron Johnson's roundtable discussion 'Federal Health Agencies and the COVID Cartel (13 minute YOUTUBE video, TRANSCRIPT BELOW).
[H/T Jane Long, edie1960]
In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled The MAGA/America 1st Memorandum ~~ February 2024 Edition, Jane Long wrote: Bless you, edie, for (always seeming to) find the vids/transcripts!!
This is a LONG post ... but, SO worth the read and archiving. It took me some time to attempt to break into readable paragraphs. There are, no doubt, spelling and grammatical errors.
Lara Logan is a true patriot. God bless her for having the courage to stand up to the behemoth we’re facing, with the lying and corrupt media, politicians, and, NGOs. Here is the transcript of Lara Logan’s Senate testimony ....
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Our next presenter is Miss Lara Logan. Lara Logan is a award-winning investigative journalist former 60 Minutes correspondent and chief foreign correspondent and chief Foreign Affairs correspondent for 60 minutes, and, host of The rest of the story with Lara Logan.
Miss Logan: thank you Senator Johnson ,,, hello everybody I was asked to testify on media censorship and uh the First Amendment the importance of free speech and I do want to say that it is an honor and a privilege to be here with all of you and with you Senator Johnson thank you for hosting this uh Rogue committee.
It’s important to all of us because of everything discussed today that we address the um the vital principles and values that exist really only in the United States of America and that said these are the worst of times for the media in this country we live in the age of information Warfare, where propaganda is not simply a weapon, it is the entire field of battle.
This is a war for our minds, that is aided by advanced technology. And, we have never been here. Not in all of human history. It is a moment when we as journalists should Stand Together, United, irregardless of politics.
We should fight for the truth and we should fight for freedom. Yet, not very long ago, we allowed one of our own, Tucker Carlson, to be branded as a traitor, simply for doing his job. In fact, there were many so-called journalists who were leading the charge against Tucker,
accusing him of treason for the simple fact of interviewing the president of Russia Vladimir Putin. And, to my knowledge, there was not a single Legacy Media institution that spoke up.This was more than a politically motivated attack on one man it was a betrayal of the most sacred principles of a free press. And, my media colleagues know this to be true, no matter what they say my fear is, that they either no longer care, or, that they lack the moral courage to be honest, including with themselves. I have worked at the highest levels of the media as a full time correspondent for 60 Minutes, Chief foreign correspondent for CBS News, Chief Foreign Affairs correspondent for for CBS news, that was my home for 16 years, and, as a journalist I have sat down with world leaders, mass murderers and terrorists.
And, I have held people on both sides of the aisle accountable. I have seen suffering and I have faced evil. And, I have walked through the fires of hell hell on distant battlefields. I faced my own death at the hands of a mob of some 200 men, in Egypt, when I was gang raped and sodomized, and, beaten almost to death, while on assignment for 60 minutes.
And yet, for almost a decade, I have been targeted and falsely branded, and, accused of many things that I did not do. They have attacked my work, my character, my sanity, and, my marriage.
And, I am not alone. We are many, and, we will not give up, and, we will not give in, to those who wish to censor the idea of free speech in America, and, all over the world.
Media companies, institutions, and, journalism schools have failed all of us. And, for too long we have allowed nonprofit organ organizations to masquerade as nonpartisan media watchdogs, when in fact, they are little more than highly paid political propagandists, and, assassins, whose entire reason for being is to crush anyone who stands in their way. And, along with them, the long held and cherished ideas of free speech free thinking and free minds.
This is a blood sport for them, their political allies, and, their Puppet Masters They know how to kill a journalist without murdering
them. We call it cancel culture. In truth it is a death sentence, and they get away with it because they have information dominance.Some are strong enough to survive, but, only a few like Glenn Greenwall, Tucker Carlson, Matt taibi...only a few like them are able to reach greater Heights and Thrive.
These nonprofits that I’m talking about are part of a vast censorship Network that includes government agencies. They use deception to mask their actions with lofty goals like preventing the spread of misinformation disinformation hate speech.
They use phrases like protecting democracy and make no mistake words matter the media is collaborating with government agencies and operatives to censor and shape the information Battlefield to justify certain actions
For example, when the president of the United States threatens the unvaccinated saying our patience is wearing thin and accuses them of putting communities at risk his words are designed to justify hatred censorship and intimidation. And, when the vice president compares January 6 to 911 and pearl habor, it is a predicate to silence the opposition and justify the weaponization of the justice system.
We are already witnessing another shaping operation, to influence the
outcome of the 2024 election. This time, with the false claim that if one side wins, it will be the end of democracy.This lie contrived to ensure a particular outcome and to sabotage free speech, yet again, Overseas taxpayer funds from hard working Americans are being doled out by contractors, under the office of transition, in initiatives at us...Aid or the state department bureaucracy Bureau of democracy human rights and labor.
These contractors - many of them ideological zealots, who are not even US government officials - often make over a quarter million dollars a year and are outside the reach senator of yourself and committees like this.
They hand out taxpayer dollars to programs that are shaped by highly partisan. NGOs Who hide behind terms like interreligious dialogue when in fact they are funding Muslim schools that train Islamic terrorists like they did in Malaysia. Another example is humanist International. Through them, the state department is funding atheism grants that actively cultivate an atheist advocacy Network in Nepal.
This is not just to attack religion and manipulate foreign politics - it is an attack on Free Speech faith and God.
While propaganda and censorship are not new technology, means of unprecedented power and reach in the hands of a few companies like Facebook Instagram and Google, as you have heard many times
today, have been allowed to amass Monopoly power. And, as a result, they not only reach billions of people across the world, every second of the day they have absolute control over what we see and what we
hear imagine those tools in the hands of lenon Stalin Mau Hitler.When I became a journalist, more than 35 years ago, we were under emergency restrictions in apartheid South Africa. And, I was a 17 year
old Public Safety and Security, were the weapons of state census. Ours was the truth. We had no Bill of Rights, no Constitution, no First Amendment, no Declaration of Independence. And, journalists would have to hide their footage from the security police, sometimes sewing the tape into their mattresses, at home, so they could not be seized and used to identify and Target.The protesters that we had filmed the light of Freedom that set fire to our hearts in South Africa was lit thousands of miles away. it was lit right here, where we sit today, in the United States of America, when the founding fathers put freedom of speech first. It was not by chance it was by Design. The rights that followed were, in part, created to protect the First Amendment. Without it, they knew that freedom itself would perish.
I am reminded today of the words spoken by the British foreign secretary sir Edward gray, in 1914, at the beginning of the first world war. He said, “the lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our life time”.
We are once again watching the lights of freedom. They’re going out, here, and all over the world. And, it is up to us to determine if they will be lit, again, ever.
Thank you Senator Johnson, I’m ready to take your questions.
Thank you Ms Logan, we’re only have a few seconds can you said you’ve been targeted over the last 10 years. Can you describe what
precipitated your targeting?Yes, I’m reporting the truth about Benghazi. I was attacked by one of those NGOs that masquerades as a nonpartisan Watchdog, in violation of its 5013c status. It occupies a highly partisan position. I’m talking about Media Matters for America.
I’m sure there’s many doctors in this room, scientists who’ve been attacked by the same people, the same people that run that. David Brock, for example. Another political assassin, now runs an
organization called facts first USA, which is designed to make sure that your research, Dr hazan, never reaches the people or the public.There are other organizations like defeat disinfo, which claims to be a pac, that goes off to disinformation - particularly set up to Target covid - and throughout.
Companies with General Stanley mccrystal, and the other people that advise that organization. But, what you know, Senator Johnson, it’s not a secret that these organizations exist.
What is not widely known and talked about, is that is paid for by us. it’s paid for by the taxpayer, in your Omnibus spending bills that get shoved through the house and the Senate, against the will of the people of
this country.There are cutouts for these NGO. And, what they do is they
launder this money. They pass it from one NGO, to the next, in the name of preventing the spread of disinformation. They censor, silence, intimidate and punish.I said that this is a death sentence for journalist. It’s how you murder a journalist without killing them. It’s how you murder a scientist without killing them. iI’s how you you murder a doctor without killing them. It’s how you murder the vaccine injured, when they haven’t died, yet.
It’s how you finish them off, and, everybody else in their family. And, it’s time for people in this building, who come to work every day here, who are here to serve us - this is the only country where We the People are the government - this is a government for the people of the people and by the people. And the same is said for so-called journalists. D Victory - this man has been targeted for simply going to the FDA hearings and
filming them. When they approved the vaccines. Just filming them, not doing a thing, and putting that out, and, showing people there is no real approval process. That they didn’t actually do their jobs. And, for that, he’s been targeted for years...long before Covid ever hit.So, it’s time now for us to stop taking taxpayer funds to slit our own throats.
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Thanks for posting ‘note. Very good segment with Lara Logan. I saw it earlier today. BUMP!
Awesome!!
Thank you for posting a thread … this is a MUST WATCH/MUST read!
Bannon today was trying to get Laura to be part of the federal government.
Her reply “I’d rather shovel goat shit.”
Don’t blame her.
Her parents did a great job!!!
Thanks for posting.
Thank you!!
She is so courageous!
👍👍 🥰
Lara Logan is awesome.
I agree. One brave and tough person.
There’s a Pharma Cartel out there.
Thanks for posting Note! Yeah, I watched the whole four-hour presentation yesterday. It was posted on The Highwire. Very interesting, heartbreaking, and concerning insights were presented.
The world takes on its display of power. It’s always been the common, simple fellow with one, small, smooth stone that wins, and it’s only because the Creator is on his side.
Bravo!
I didn’t know how brutalized she was in the Middle East. What monsters. My goodness. My Good Lord.
Yes....just horrific, what happened to Lara, in the ME.
Her resume is sterling ... yet, the lying, corrupt MSM/left has gone after her, relentlessly, for reporting the TRUTH about Benghazi.
She’s been a force of reckoning, ever sense. God bless her.
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