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(0:00) Introduction (1:20) What Are NGOs? (5:11) The 3 Levels of The Blob (9:00) Why the CIA Was Really Created (21:41) Why So Many American Companies Are Wrapped up in the NGO Madness (24:02) George Soros’ Open Society Foundation (30:54) Foreign Governments’ Failed Attempts to Escape NGO Control (36:58) The Dark Side of America’s Global Domination (42:14) The Soros Connection to the State Department Is Deeper Than You Think (50:33) How the CIA Controls the Education System (58:03) The Anti-American Agendas American Taxpayers Are Funding (1:01:19) What You Should Know About the US Institute of Peace (1:11:57) What DOGE Found...

After you finish this blog, you’ll be asking the million-dollar question: Why is Chief Justice John Roberts hanging out with the Deep State’s #1 color revolution architect? Turns out the left’s favorite “Republican” has some very interesting buddies. According to Norm Eisen—the man who practically wrote the Deep State’s playbook on color revolutions, all things anti-Trump, and lawfare in the US—he and Chief Justice John Roberts are not only good pals, but they even spent a week together in the Czech Republic. According to Norm, the two BFFs were there working on “American rule of law” issues. Hmm… Norm was...

What happens when we find out that much of what we believed or assumed is completely wrong? One of the greatest accomplishments in entertainment history remains Orson Welles War of the Worlds. His 1938 production was so skillful, so brilliantly produced that hundreds if not thousands of people believed that Earth had been invaded by Martians and ran from their homes in terror. Welles had to reassure listeners that the radio broadcast was only a program and that there was no fighting between the aliens and US army forces. How did those who drove out of New Jersey in panic...

Major AI service providers continue to deploy content moderation algorithms designed to suppress and manipulate viewpoints, actively enforcing censorship under the guise of moderation. From Foreign PsyOps to Domestic Thought Control The censorship and content manipulation we see today did not emerge organically—it was the result of government-directed psychological operations (PsyOps) repurposed for domestic control. What was once used in foreign influence campaigns to destabilize adversarial regimes or control narratives abroad was turned inward—against the American people. The Twitter Files, exposed by investigative journalists Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger, provided irrefutable evidence that U.S. government agencies used taxpayer dollars to...

Just how bad were the workings of USAID, which is now in the process of being shut down by DOGE and President Trump?Tucker Carlson has a long interview with Mike Benz, a former State Department cyber affairs official, who seems to know the granular workings of USAID activity, which was essentially used as a slush fund for Democrat priorities -- open borders, Black Lives Matters riots, Soros district attorneys, color revolutions, the drug trade, COVID, the big corporations, transgender surgeries, censorship and media bankrollings, missing Ukraine cash, and the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax.Video at link. It shouldn't surprise anyone that...

Mike Benz on how USAID spent tens of millions of dollars of US taxpayer funds to remove Jair Bolsonaro from power and end free speech in Brazil: “When populist waves swept the world within the U. S. in 2016 with Trump and with what happened all over Europe with Marine Le Pen and Matteo Salvini and Nigel Farage, USAID declared censorship holy war against every single populist group, including Bolsonaro. Steve, I’m telling you right now, if USAID did not exist, Bolsonaro would still be the president of Brazil and Brazil would still have a free and open internet. It...

How the State Department created and runs an all government effort to maintain the American Empire which has now turned its guns on populism Summary: In this Analysis, Mike Benz discussed George Kennan's 1948 Memo "The Inauguration of Organized Political Warfare" This Memo was Top Secret but declassified in 2005. CIA ran a highly successful whole of government operation aimed at rigging the Italian election April 18, 1948 to prevent the election of a communist and assure the election of the US's favored candidate. George Kennan wrote the "The Inauguration of Organized Political Warfare" on the heels of that to...

Today, America First Legal (AFL) released documents from litigation against the U.S. Department of State’s Global Engagement Center (GEC), exposing the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)’s internal “Disinformation Primer.” Foundation for Freedom Online (FFO), founded by Mike Benz, analyzed these documents and discovered that: The US Agency for International Development (USAID)’s Center on Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance (DRG) created an internal “Disinformation Primer” that revealed the agency’s explicit praise for private sector censorship strategies and proposed additional censorship practices and techniques; USAID’s censorship proposals were aimed at influencing private-sector technology companies, media organizations, education ministries, national governments,...

[H/T aMorePerfectUnion]Alessandro Palombo@0x_ale Mike Benz just revealed everything.On JRE, he exposed:- Why USAID is a tool for control, not aid- How “democracy” was redefined to silence you- The chilling truth behind Pentagon-backed censorshipI've never seen Joe Rogan so quiet...Here are 8 must-see highlights: Alessandro Palombo @0x_aleDec 91. The Ukraine CoupBenz explained how the 2014 Ukraine coup wasn’t just a geopolitical event, it was a testing ground.The CIA used tools to combat media influence in the region, but…Post-2016, these tools weren’t just used for foreign regimes...ransomnote: Link to 3 minute x.com Part 1 video segment: https://x.com/0x_ale/status/1866210734730002685?s=46 Alessandro Palombo @0x_aleDec 92. “Democracy”...

Mike Benz is a former official with the U.S. Department of State and current Executive Director of the Foundation For Freedom Online, is a free speech watchdog organization dedicated to restoring the promise of a free and open Internet. Drop the Mic

Patrick Bet-David and Mike Benz break down the shocking measures allegedly considered by establishment elites to influence the 2024 election. From internet censorship to counterinsurgency tactics, Benz unveils the strategic playbook of those aiming to control the American political landscape.

On Saturday, the CEO of the popular messaging app Telegram was arrested at Le Bourget airport in France for refusing to comply with the country’s censorship laws.Pavel Durov, 39, was arrested on the tarmac as he got off his private jet from Azerbaijan.On Saturday evening Mike Benz, the founder and Executive Director of the Foundation for Freedom Online released a video explaining who he believes is behind this arrest – The US State Department.Benz is an authority of the Deep State and the US government operations in Europe and abroad.Mike Benz:SNIPOne of the things they’re talking about in the space...

Foundation For Freedom's Mike Benz in an interview on 'The War Room' podcast said four-letter agencies are killing the ability to operate an independent website by selectively discriminating. (snip) BENZ: Yeah. We have a program known as media development or media sustainability at the State Department and at USAID.USAID plays a major role in this. In fact, folks can look this up. We have an institution known as Internews, which is a, basically the classic definition of what the CIA got busted doing in the 1950s to the 1970s with Project Mockingbird.But about a third of the National Endowment for...

Mike Benz reveals how the same State Department employees who ran Hillary's color revolutions that started Arab Spring with internet censorship and misinformation used their tools against Trump. He talks about the mission of the Atlantic Council with seven former CIA Directors on its board are in on the internet manipulation. And much, much more. The best part starts at 39 minutes.

Are America’s intelligence agencies being used to silence citizens and influence elections? Mike Benz, Executive Director of the Foundation for Freedom and a former State Department official, explains who he views as the main actors behind the industry of Big Tech censorship and what should be done to preserve freedom of speech in the U.S.

Government-Backed Censors Who Rigged The 2020 Election Are Now Stealing 2024Tucker Carlson’s interview with Mike Benz should be a wake-up call for all Americans that our government is waging war on us.If you didn’t see Tucker Carlson’s interview last week with Mike Benz, you need to take an hour and watch the whole thing. In a mind-bending narrative about the emergence of what Benz calls “military rule” through an online censorship industry in the U.S., he lays out in startling detail just how corrupt and tyrannical the U.S. defense and foreign policy establishment has become. Most importantly, Benz, the executive...

"All of the internet free speech technology was initially created by our national security state. VPNs to hide your IP address, TOR and the dark web to be able to buy and sell goods anonymously, and encrypted chats. All these things were created as DARPA projects or joint CIA/NSA projects to be able to help intelligence-backed groups to overthrow governments that were causing problems to the Clinton administration, Bush administration, and Obama administration." "This plan worked magically from about 1991 to about 2014 when there began to be an about-face on internet freedom and its utility." "Later, NATO was publishing...