‘Misinformation’ efforts by Biden-Harris White House included the creation of ‘counter-messages’

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Biden regime spent $267 million on ‘misinformation’ and ‘disinformation’ research grants –‘Misinformation’ efforts by Biden-Harris White House included the creation of ‘counter-messages’ | 9 Dec 2024 | A new report by Open the Books, a nonpartisan government watchdog, has revealed that since 2021, the Biden regime has spent hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on research related to “misinformation,” a significant rise compared to the first Trump administration. The increase in spending raises serious concerns about civil liberties and free speech online, especially on social media platforms, where much of the Biden administrations’ efforts were directed. Since 2021, the Biden-Harris White House has spent at least $267 million on research grants and contracts related to “misinformation” or “disinformation.”

Biden Education Department spent over $1 billion on DEI grants – report | 12 Dec 2024 | The U.S. Department of Education spent at least 1 billion on grants advancing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in hiring, programming and mental health training in America’s schools since 2021, according to a new report. Parents Defending Education “PDE”, a right-leaning organization that pledges to “reclaim our schools from activists imposing harmful agendas,” shared its new report exclusively with Fox News Digital. Researchers at the organization pored through nearly four years of publicly available data from the Department of Education to determine the number of grants and the dollar amount awarded to students and school districts for grants that had a clear DEI “motive.” From 2021 to present, they found the Biden administration awarded 229 grants across 42 states and Washington, D.C. that met that criteria.

NATO Secretary-General Calls on Europe to Shift to ‘Wartime Mindset’ | 12 Dec 2024 | On Thursday, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said that Europe must enter a “wartime mindset” while speaking to security experts and analysts at the Carnegie Europe think-tank in Brussels. “It is time to shift to a wartime mindset,” Rutte said at the meeting Thursday, according to the AP. “It’s time to shift to a wartime mindset and turbocharge our defense production and defense spending,” Rutte said. He stated that a “wartime mindset” is needed to “prevent war.” Taking a page out of George Orwell’s 1984, Rutte essentially insinuates that “war is peace.” Rutte failed to mention how the West provoked the war in Ukraine via the 2014 coup.

U.S. pays $20 billion into Ukraine loan fund | 10 Dec 2024 | The U.S. Treasury Department announced on Tuesday that it had disbursed a 20 billion loan for Ukraine, backed by interest from frozen Russian assets. The funds, which cover around half of Kiev’s current deficit, are part of a broader 50 billion G7 loan deal. The EU will contribute an additional 20 billion to this fund, while G7 members Britain, Japan and Canada will add another 10 billion, for a total of 50 billion that Ukraine will theoretically [never] repay over 40 years. By handing over the m-ney before President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January, the Treasury Department has ensured that Trump will not be able to cancel or amend its terms, a step that would be potentially be taken as leverage to force Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky to negotiate a peace deal with Moscow.

Israel preparing to strike Iranian nuclear sites – media –Events in Syria have created a window of opportunity, sources have told Times of Israel | 12 Dec 2024 | The Israeli Air Force is carrying out preparations for “potential strikes” on Iranian nuclear facilities, military officials have told Times of Israel. West Jerusalem believes that the surprise takeover of Syria by jihadist rebels has weakened Tehran’s position in the region, which could prompt Iran to speed up its atomic program, the outlet said. Meanwhile, Israeli airstrikes have taken out most of Syrian air defenses, clearing the way for an operation against Iran. Tehran has long insisted that its nuclear program is peaceful and civilian in nature, contrary to allegations by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Iran has sought an atomic bomb.

Israel refuses to leave Syria buffer zone | 12 Dec 2024 | Israeli troops will remain in the UN-patrolled buffer zone between Israel and Syria, a foreign ministry spokesman said on Thursday. The statement came after France and the UN, along with a number of countries in the region, called on West Jerusalem to withdraw its troops from the demilitarized area. On Tuesday, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) would establish a temporary “sterile defense zone” in southern Syria to prevent any “terrorist threat” after the fall of former Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government… France and the UN condemned the move in separate statements, both calling it “a violation” of the disengagement agreement, with each urging Israel to respect’s Syria’s territorial integrity.

Drones spotted over main U.S. military base in Europe – Der Spiegel | 13 Dec 2024 | Unidentified drones have repeatedly flown over the Ramstein Air Base in western Germany, Der Spiegel has reported, citing security sources in Berlin. UAVs have also been spotted over facilities owned by chemicals giant BASF and arms maker Rheinmetall. Ramstein Air Base was built shortly after WWII and has long been the main US Air Force hub on the continent. Several drones were detected over the facility in the evening of December 3 and the following day, according to a classified German security report quoted by Der Spiegel on Friday. “At the beginning of December, there were several sightings of small unmanned aircraft in the area and above Ramstein Air Base,” a base spokeswoman told the magazine.

Trump explodes over ‘mystery drone’ invasion and sends Biden an ominous warning: ‘Shoot them down’ | 13 Dec 2024 | Donald Trump has demanded the drones flying over multiple US states be shot down by the Biden White House after days of mysterious sightings across the sky. Numerous “SUV-sized” craft first appeared in New Jersey in mid-November, and have since spread to New York, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. The first sightings were over the U.S. Army’s Picatinny Arsenal and President-elect Donald Trump’s golf course in Bedminster, which raised concerns the drones are part of a spy campaign.

Drone crashes into NJ homeowner’s backyard – as panic over mystery sightings grips state | 13 Dec 2024 | A drone fell out of the sky and crashed into a New Jersey homeowner’s backyard Thursday night, authorities confirmed — as the unexplained phenomena continue to rattle residents in the Garden State. The aircraft smashed down in a residential area of Pequannock Township in Morris County around 8:45 p.m. Thursday, according to police and dispatch audio. Officials determined the craft was “a hobby or toy type of drone” and “not a large commercial or military grade drone,” the Pequannock Police Department told The Post. It comes on the heels of New Jersey cops warning of possible “copycats.”

‘Shoot them down already!’: NJ legislators frustrated by State Police drone briefing | 12 Dec 2024 | Despite weeks of investigation, New Jersey authorities still don’t know where the mystery drones are coming from, who’s operating them, or where they are taking off or landing from, state lawmakers were told at a briefing Wednesday. “The one thing that I feel confident about coming out of that briefing is that the federal and state governments know very little about the situation,” said Assemblyman Paul Kanitra, R-Ocean. “Every single person [at the briefing] was varying degrees of irate, angry, horrified and scared.” “We know nothing. PERIOD,” said Assemblywoman Dawn Fantasia, R-Sussex, in a post on X, the social media platform, after the meeting. “To state that there is no known or credible threat is incredibly misleading.”

Over three hundred vials of deadly virus samples go missing from lab | 10 Dec 2024 | Hundreds of deadly virus samples are missing from a laboratory in Australia, the Queensland government announced on Monday. The government has instructed Queensland Health — Australia’s public health department — to launch an investigation into what’s being described as a “major historical breach of biosecurity protocols,” according to the online media statement. It was reported that 323 vials of multiple infectious viruses — including Hendra virus, Lyssavirus and Hantavirus — went missing from Queensland’s Public Health Virology Laboratory in August 2023… “The pathogens reported missing are all high-consequence and could pose a threat to the public,” he Sam Scarpino, Ph.D., director of AI and life sciences at Northeastern University in Boston, told Fox News Digital.

Beef, milk supply tainted with new BlackRock-backed animal drug called Bovaer that claims to stop climate change | 5 Dec 2024 | A new drug called Bovaer is being slipped into the U.S. food supply as a means to stop climate change, or so we are told. Beef and dairy cattle are eating the drug, made by DSM-firmenich — BlackRock is a major shareholder in DSM-firmenich — as part of an effort by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN) to decrease animal methane releases and thus cool planetary temperatures. The idea was hatched back in 2006. The FAO started fear-mongering about cattle casting a “long shadow” with their flatulence, which comes out slightly warm and stinky much to the chagrin of the globalists who fear that the weather might get too hot if something is not done to cap those smelly fumes. A report issued at that time by the UN claimed that livestock is responsible for 18 percent of the world’s greenhouse gases.

IG Horowitz Releases January 6 Report – Claims FBI Had 26 Confidential Human Sources at U.S. Capitol | 12 Dec 2024 | Inspector General David Horowitz released his much-anticipated January 6 report on Thursday. Here is the full report released by Biden’s DOJ on the Confidential Human Sources who were working the crowd on January 6, 2021, at the US Capitol in Washington, D.C. It has been widely reported that the violence would not have taken place or reached the fever pitch that it did if Nancy Pelosi brought in the National Guard as President Trump requested days before the planned protests and rallies. In the IG report released today, the DOJ admits to 26 “confidential human sources” working that day inside the Trump protest at the U.S. Capitol. The IG Report ignored how man “undercover employees” were also at the U.S. Capitol that day.

FBI Director Christopher Wray Announces Resignation Ahead of Trump’s Term | 11 Dec 2024 | FBI Director [traitor] Christopher Wray confirmed the rumors on Wednesday, previewing his plans to resign ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s second term. According to the Washington Post, Wray — who replaced anti-Trumper James Comey in 2017 — made the announcement during a town hall with what the outlet described as the “FBI workforce.” Wray maintained that his stepping down is the best option for the FBI as a whole. Wray’s announcement follows a report from the Washington Times revealing that the FBI director did not want to be fired right before Trump comes into office, as the President-elect has already announced his nomination of Kash Patel for the position.  

Donald Trump Rings NY Stock Exchange Bell as He’s Named TIME Magazine’s ‘Person of the Year’ | 12 Dec 2024 | President-elect Donald Trump just can’t stop winning. On Thursday he rang the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange as he was confirmed TIME Magazine’s “Person of the Year” and was met by cheers and applause from the trading floor as well as cries of “USA…USA.” Trump was on Wall Street to mark the ceremonial start of the day’s trading in a gesture first performed by President Ronald Reagan back in the mid-1980s. Before he rang the opening bell at 9:30 a.m., Trump spoke at the Exchange and called it “a tremendous honor.”

Sen. Josh Hawley: Democratic Plan Is Amnesty for 13M Illegals to Flood Workforce | 11 Dec 2024 | Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) said Democrats are hoping to give amnesty to some 13 million illegal aliens to flood the United States workforce with low-wage foreign workers with whom working and middle class Americans must compete for jobs. During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this week, Hawley blasted a Democrat witness for his pro-amnesty position despite the majority of Americans supporting deportations. “Why would you want American citizens and those who are here lawfully to have to compete against illegal immigrants?” Hawley asked the witness.

Pelosi hospitalized in Luxembourg after sustaining injury | 13 Dec 2024 | Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was hospitalized for evaluation in Luxembourg after sustaining an injury during a trip with a congressional delegation, her spokesperson said Friday. It remains unclear what type of injury Pelosi, 84, sustained. Her spokesperson said the California Democrat is “currently receiving excellent treatment from doctors and medical professionals.” “While traveling with a bipartisan Congressional delegation in Luxembourg to mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi sustained an injury during an official engagement and was admitted to the hospital for evaluation,” the spokesperson, Ian Krager, said in a statement.

Capitol Police arrest man accused of assaulting Rep. Nancy Mace | 10 Dec 2024 | Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) said she was “physically accosted” at the US Capitol building complex Tuesday by a transgender rights activist who was later arrested by Capitol Police. “I was physically accosted at the Capitol tonight by a pro-tr*ns man,” the congresswoman wrote on X. “One new brace for my wrist and some ice for my arm and it’ll heal just fine,” Mace added, suggesting she suffered minor injuries as a result of the incident. Capitol Police said James McIntyre, 33, was arrested inside the Rayburn House Office Building in connection with the incident.