‘I am starting to think I need to file a First Amendment lawsuit over that insane bulletin from the Department of Homeland Security on Feb. 7.
In case you’ve forgotten, that report – a public declaration of the federal government’s official view of terrorism – called the top terrorist threat to the United States:
false or misleading narratives, which sow discord or undermine public trust in U.S. government institutions.
Their words, not mine.
Trying to “undermine public trust in U.S. government institutions” is now a terrorist act?
Then I’m a terrorist.
Especially since the bulletin specifically mentions COVID-19: there is widespread online proliferation of false or misleading narratives regarding unsubstantiated widespread election fraud and COVID-19.
There’s that word “misleading” again. As this White House has made clear, “misleading” facts are those that lead people to opinions of conclusions it doesn’t like.
No, no one has knocked on my door or threatened to arrest me.
But that does mean the government is not targeting me – along with other prominent Covid and vaccine skeptics. Per the bulletin, the Department of Homeland Security in 2021 expanded its evaluation of online activity as part of its efforts to assess and prevent acts of violence.
The government has other tools against people it classifies as terrorists too, including plenty of secret ones.
And remember, to be a terrorist under these terms, your speech simply has to “potentially inspire acts of violence.”
Potentially.
If this isn’t a government effort to discourage lawful speech, I don’t know what is. The question is whether it is so broad and dangerous that I can prove it will have a chilling and unconstitutional effect on me (and other people) even if I do not know I am being targeted. It feels like a form of prior restraint, all the worse for being so broad.
Will courts agree? There may be only one way to find out.
With exquisite timing, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has seized the opportunity of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine to warn of impending doom – not from Putin’s putting Russia’s nuclear forces on high alert, but from countries failing to reduce their carbon emissions.
“Climate change is killing people,” said Helen Adams of Kings College London, who co-authored the UN’s latest climate report, released four days after Russian tanks backed by missiles and helicopter gunships opened fire on both Ukrainian soldiers and civilians. “Today’s IPCC report is an atlas of human suffering and a damning indictment of failed climate leadership,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a statement. “With fact upon fact, this report reveals how people and the planet are being clobbered by climate change.”
“The cumulative scientific evidence is unequivocal: Climate change is a threat to human well-being and planetary…
Would you be surprised if China used TikTok to steal data? If you are, there’s one question that I must ask you and that is ‘Where have you been living?”
Between TikTok in the states and My 2022 at the Olympics, China is wielding the weapon of cultural manipulation.
Social media is a tool that China is using shamelessly to bring out the cultural rot in our society.
TikTok, the social media platform ruled by influencers and their followers, is having a deleterious effect on the mental health of those who use it. It is especially bad for younger users and teens who are introduced to inappropriate explicit videos, dark content with dangerous and harmful trends, and accounts devoted to the demonic. Most importantly, TikTok is used as a tool for Chinese propaganda.
Influencers are rewarded for doing the dumbest, shallowest, and most sordid videos. It’s all part of the plan.
In China, the Beijing-based company ByteDance runs the Chinese version of TikTok called Douyin. It is night and day different from the American…
‘ANTARCTIC FLOWERING PLANTS “A CLIMATE WARNING”: Scientists from Italy and UK have been studying the plants on Signy Island, a small island near Antarctica. They found two native flowering plants named Deschampsia antarctica and Colobanthus quitensis have increased their growth rate and range of habitation over the past decade. They are low growing grasses that grow in clumps on an otherwise rocky, snow-covered island. Researchers suggest the increased grow rate and expansion is the result of warmer summer temperatures and less trampling by fur seals. Whilst the changing conditions are good for these two plants the researchers are concerned that increased temperatures may allow non-native species to gain a foothold and cause “irreversible biodiversity loss and changes to these fragile and unique ecosystems”. They concluded that if global warming proceeded according to the worst case scenario proposed by the IPCC “Earth’s climate by as soon as 2030 could resemble warmer periods such as those recorded during the mid-Pliocene”. References: Science Alert 19 February 2022, Current Biology 14 February 2022, doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.01.074. ED. COM. These researchers admit the earth has been warmer in the past. Whilst we don’t agree with the evolutionary timetable that places the Pliocene warm period millions of years ago, we agree there is ample evidence in the fossil record of a warmer world with lush vegetation in the past. So why do these researchers complain about new warming and new growth? A warm environment with plenty of lush vegetation makes for a better place for living things than the present cold, barren environment of the islands around Antarctica. Similar changes have happened in the northern hemisphere, where we know from history some frozen wastelands, such as Greenland and Iceland were once warm enough for people to live and grow crops. The dire predictions about “non-native” species moving in exposes the hypocrisy of modern environmentalists – they believe in evolution, which is a process of survival of the fittest. The whole concept of “native” species assumes these plants evolved here and cannot live anywhere else. The reality is these plants survive here because others can’t, and there is no reason they could not or should not grow somewhere else given the opportunity. Currently these two Antarctic grasses are the fittest, but if the climate changes and other plants can move in, the new more successful ones will be the fittest. Again, we are left with the hypocrisy of environmental evolutionists – they claim to believe in continual evolution, but they don’t want anything doing it! The IPCC’s latest report, with all its dire predictions, came out in August 2021 and has now been endorsed by the United Nations.’https://creationresearch.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/Enews/enews-20220303.pdf