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Thanks to the latest release of the Twitter Files, we now know without a doubt that the entire Russia disinformation racket was a massive disinformation campaign to undermine US elections and perhaps even push regime change inside the United States after Donald Trump was elected president in 2016.

Here is some background. In November, 2016, just after the election, the Washington Post published an article titled, Russian propaganda effort helped spread fake news during election, experts say. The purpose of the article was to delegitimize the Trump presidency as a product of a Russian disinformation campaign.

There is no way to know whether the Russian campaign proved decisive in electing Trump, but researchers portray it as part of a broadly effective strategy of sowing distrust in US democracy and its leaders, wrote Craig Timberg. The implication was clear: a Russian operation elected Donald Trump, not the American people.

Among the experts it cited were an anonymous organization called Prop Or Not, which in its own words claimed to identify more than 200 websites as peddlers of Russian propaganda during the election season, with combined audiences of at least 15 million Americans.

The organizations report was so preposterous that the Washington Post was later forced to issue a clarification, even though the Post provided a link to the report which falsely accused independent news outlets like Zero Hedge, Antiwar.com, and even my Ron Paul Institute as Russian disinformation.

The 2016 Washington Post article also featured expert Clint Watts, a former FBI counterintelligence officer who went on to found another outfit claiming to be hunting Russian disinformation in the US, the Hamilton 68 project. That project was launched by the Alliance for Securing Democracy, a very well-funded organization containing a whos who of top neocons like William Kristol, John Podesta, Michael McFaul, and many more.

Thanks to the latest release of the Twitter Files, Matt Taibbi reveals that the Hamilton 68 project, which claimed to monitor 600 Russian disinformation Twitter accounts, was a total hoax. While they refused to reveal which accounts they monitored and would not reveal their methodology, Twitter was able to use reverse-engineering to determine the 600-odd Russian-connected accounts. Twitter found that despite Hamiltons claims, the vast majority of these Russian accounts were English-speaking. Of the Russian registered accounts numbering just 36 out of 644 most were employees of the Russian news outlet RT.

It was all a lie and the latest Twitter Files release confirms that even the woke pre-Musk Twitter employees could smell a rat. But the hoax served an important purpose. Hiding behind anonymity, this neocon organization was able to generate hundreds of media stories slandering and libeling perfectly legitimate organizations and individuals as Russian agents. It provided a very convenient way to demonize anyone who did not go along with the approved neocon narrative.

Twitters new owner, who has given us a look behind the curtain, put it best in a Tweet over the weekend: An American group made false claims about Russian election interference to interfere with American elections.

The whole Russia disinformation hoax was a shocking return to the McCarthyism of the 1950s and in some ways even worse. Making lists of American individuals and non-profits to be targeted and cancelled as being in the pay of foreigners is despicable. Such fraudulent actions have caused real-life damages that need to be addressed.

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Thanks to the latest release of the Twitter Files, we now know without a doubt that the entire Russia disinformation racket was a massive disinformation campaign to undermine US elections and perhaps even push regime change inside the United States after Donald Trump was elected president in 2016.

Here is some background. In November, 2016, just after the election, the Washington Post published an article titled, Russian propaganda effort helped spread fake news during election, experts say. The purpose of the article was to delegitimize the Trump presidency as a product of a Russian disinformation campaign.

There is no way to know whether the Russian campaign proved decisive in electing Trump, but researchers portray it as part of a broadly effective strategy of sowing distrust in US democracy and its leaders, wrote Craig Timberg. The implication was clear: a Russian operation elected Donald Trump, not the American people.

Among the experts it cited were an anonymous organization called Prop Or Not, which in its own words claimed to identify more than 200 websites as peddlers of Russian propaganda during the election season, with combined audiences of at least 15 million Americans.

The organizations report was so preposterous that the Washington Post was later forced to issue a clarification, even though the Post provided a link to the report which falsely accused independent news outlets like Zero Hedge, Antiwar.com, and even my Ron Paul Institute as Russian disinformation.

The 2016 Washington Post article also featured expert Clint Watts, a former FBI counterintelligence officer who went on to found another outfit claiming to be hunting Russian disinformation in the US, the Hamilton 68 project. That project was launched by the Alliance for Securing Democracy, a very well-funded organization containing a whos who of top neocons like William Kristol, John Podesta, Michael McFaul, and many more.

Thanks to the latest release of the Twitter Files, Matt Taibbi reveals that the Hamilton 68 project, which claimed to monitor 600 Russian disinformation Twitter accounts, was a total hoax. While they refused to reveal which accounts they monitored and would not reveal their methodology, Twitter was able to use reverse-engineering to determine the 600-odd Russian-connected accounts. Twitter found that despite Hamiltons claims, the vast majority of these Russian accounts were English-speaking. Of the Russian registered accounts numbering just 36 out of 644 most were employees of the Russian news outlet RT.

It was all a lie and the latest Twitter Files release confirms that even the woke pre-Musk Twitter employees could smell a rat. But the hoax served an important purpose. Hiding behind anonymity, this neocon organization was able to generate hundreds of media stories slandering and libeling perfectly legitimate organizations and individuals as Russian agents. It provided a very convenient way to demonize anyone who did not go along with the approved neocon narrative.

Twitters new owner, who has given us a look behind the curtain, put it best in a Tweet over the weekend: An American group made false claims about Russian election interference to interfere with American elections.

The whole Russia disinformation hoax was a shocking return to the McCarthyism of the 1950s and in some ways even worse. Making lists of American individuals and non-profits to be targeted and cancelled as being in the pay of foreigners is despicable. Such fraudulent actions have caused real-life damages that need to be addressed.

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Ron Paul, a former Texas congressman, presidential candidate and the father of Sen. Rand Paul, suffered an apparent stroke-like illness in the middle of a livestream Friday afternoon.

Paul, 85, who was livestreaming his weekday Liberty Report broadcast on YouTube, has been hospitalized for precautionary reasons, Fox News reported.

Message from Ron Paul: I am doing fine. Thank you for your concern, he tweeted just before 3 p.m. alongside a photo of him in a hospital bed, smiling and giving a thumbs up.

A clip of the disturbing medical episode was first tweeted out by the outlet Intelwave.

The live episode may have been a blessing in disguise, the outlet added in a subsequent tweet.

Echoing the sentiment of one of my associates, Im glad it happened live where someone noticed immediately and could get him medical help rather than it happening and him only being found hours later, the tweet said.

Paul ran for president three times, first as a Libertarian in 1988. He then threw his hat in the ring as a Republican in the 2008 and 2012 presidential primaries.

Paul was in the middle of talking about free market economists when he begins to slur his words, according to saved clips of the livestream.

We have to get rid of that and its a burd a burd, he struggles to say before his speech becomes unintelligible.

The YouTube stream was quickly taken down afterward.

Reps for Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Ron Paul were not immediately available for comment.

The Pittsburgh-born, former pol and physician is a longtime Libertarian and advocate for a free market and small government.

He retired from his five-decade congressional career in 2013 long enough to become the first member of Congress ever to serve at the same time as their child, when Rand Paul was elected to the Senate from Kentucky in 2010.

But he has remained a political firebrand, whether he was insisting that the 9/11 attacks were motivated by U.S. involvement in the Middle East or arguing against COVID-19 quarantines as a restriction of civil liberties.

As recently as April, in a broadcast of his Liberty Report, he called on President Trump to fire Dr. Anthony Fauci, calling the top White House infectious disease expert a fraud for predicting inaccurately, it turned out that initial predictions of as many as 240,000 U.S. coronavirus deaths were too high, and that fatalities might top out at only 60,000.

U.S. deaths hit 200,000 this week.

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The Zelenskyy regime is desperate. It is reportedlylosing more than 300 soldiers a dayin eastern Ukraine. The latest effort by the doomed regime to throw men and foreign war materiel at a slow and overpowering Russian advance in Donbas will completely fall apart.

The regime is now busy abducting potential bullet stoppers in the Zakarpattia Oblast (Ruthenia), situated in the Carpathian Mountains of southwestern Ukraine, between Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania.

Due to heavy losses, which exceed all previous ones, radical methods are used to replenish the numbers [of troops]. According to local sources, the Ukrainian authorities plan to call up 10,000 people from Transcarpathia by spring, Hungarian journalists toldEuroWeekly.

The Zelenskyy regime has apparently taken a page from the British Royal Navy during the Age of Sail. The British employed press gangs to crew ships during war and peacetime. Refusal to be impressed resulted in a one-way trip to the gallows.

Almost every settlement in Transcarpathia has been for several days now undergoing forced conscription into the army. In the area of the city of Berehove, in Nagysholes, on Sunday the market was surrounded. 70 people were taken away from there, the post continues.

The forced conscription of ethnic Hungarians in Transcarpathia has a political aspect. Viktor Orbn, the PM of Hungary, is a critic of the war in Ukraine.

There is a sort of purposeful policy, which besides narrowing the rights of all minorities, tries to portray the Hungarian minority as the enemy in Ukrainian public opinion,Laszlo Brenzovics, the only ethnic Hungarian in the Ukrainian parliament, told the Associated Press in 2018.

The ultranationalists of Ukraine believe all ethnic minoritiesRomanians, Belorussians, Crimean Tatars, Bulgarians, Hungarians, Poles, Jews, and Armeniansare untermenschen that must be ethnically cleansed.

The current situation is clearly among the worst ones,Trnok Balzswrote in 2021, prior to Russias SMO.

The USG, the UK, and the Europeans are not worried about nazi-ultranats persecuting and ethnically cleansing minorities. The USG is obsessively concerned with making sure its crumbling empire and its devalued fiat dollar remains king in a unipolar world. Everything else, including the welfare of the American people, comes in a distant second.

If resisting Russia requires the crime of kidnapping Hungarians by nazi-ultranats in Transcarpathia and shipping them to die in a Russian military boiler (a cauldron, or encirclement), that is the price the USG believes innocents must pay for its futile and criminal effort to remain top dog perched on a mountain of rotting corpses.

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As we learn more and more from the Twitter Files, it is becoming all too obvious that Federal agencies such as the FBI viewed the First Amendment of our Constitution as an annoyance and an impediment. In Fridays release from the pre-Musk era, journalist Matt Taibbi makes an astute observation: Twitter was essentially an FBI subsidiary.

The FBI, we now know, was obsessed with Twitter. We learned that agents sent Twitter Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth some 150 emails between 2020 and 2022. Those emails regularly featured demands from US government officials for the private social media company to censor comments and ban commenters they did not like.

The Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF), a US government entity that included the FBI as well as other US intelligence agencies expressly forbidden from domestic activities, numbered 80 agents engaged regularly in telling Twitter which Tweets to censor and which accounts to ban. The Department of Homeland Security brought in outside government contractors and (government-funded) non-governmental organizations to separately pressure Twitter to suppress speech the US government did not like.

US Federal government agencies literally handed Twitter lists of Americans it wanted to see silenced, and Twitter complied. Let that sink in.

This should be a massive scandal and likely it would have been had it occurred under a Trump Administration. Indeed, Congress would be gearing up for Impeachment 3.0 if Trump-allied officials had engaged in such egregious behavior. But since these US government employees were by-and-large acting to suppress pro-Trump sentiment, all we hear are crickets.

What is interesting about these Twitter revelations is how obsessed the FBI and its government partners were with satire and humor. Even minor Twitter accounts with small numbers of followers were constantly flagged by the Feds for censorship and deletion. But knowledge of history helps us understand this obsession: in Soviet times the population was always engaged in joking about the ineptitude, corruption, and idiocy of the political class. Underground publications known as samizdat were rich with satire, humor, and ridicule.

Tyrants hate humor and cannot withstand satire. That is clearly why the FBI (and CIA) was determined to see a heavy hand raised against any American poking fun at the deep state.

There is good news in all of this, however. As Constitutional Law Professor Jonathan Turley wrote over the weekend, a new Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll found that even though the mainstream media has ignored the Twitter files, Americans have not. Nearly two-thirds of respondents believe that Twitter was involved in politically-motivated censorship in advance of the 2020 election. Some 70 percent of those polled believe Congress must take action against this corporate/state censorship.

As Professor Turley points out, although the First Amendment only applies to the US government, it does apply to agents or surrogates of the government. Twitter now admits that such a relationship existed between its former officials and the government.

So now we have proof that the FBI (along with US intelligence agencies and the Department of Homeland Security) have been acting through private social media companiesto manipulate what Americans are allowed to say when they communicate with each other.

Is there anything more un-American than that? Personally, I find it sickening.

We do not need the FBI and CIA and other federal agencies viewing us as the enemy and attacking our Constitution. End the Fedand End the Federal Bureau of Investigation!

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Those searching for an explanation of why there was no red wave giving Republicans huge gains in Congress in this years midterm election should compare this years election with the midterm election of 2010. In 2010, Republicans gained a net 63 House seats. While Republicans then did not gain control of the US Senate, they did gain six Senate seats.

These Republican victories in 2010 were propelled by the Tea Party and the liberty movement. These movements became prominent during the waning days of the Bush administration. The liberty movement was advanced by grassroots supporters of my 2008 presidential campaign. The liberty movements focus was, and is, on restoring constitutional government in all areas, ending our interventionist foreign policy, and changing our monetary policy by auditing and ending the Federal Reserve and legalizing alternative currencies. Early on, the Tea Party largely focused on opposition to the 2008 bank bailouts.

There was overlap between the liberty movement and the Tea Party as many members of both groups fought for auditing and ending the Fed, ending bailouts, and preventing Congress from passing Obamacare.

Many Republican candidates in 2010 appealed to Tea Party voters by not just promising to repeal Obamacare. They also promised to work to restore limited, constitutional, fiscally responsible government in all areas. In contrast, in 2022 the average Republican candidate offered little in the way of a substantive agenda. In fact, few Republicans called for reversing President Bidens massive spending increases, much less for restoring the federal government to its constitutional limitations. Despite the controversy over new critical race theory and transgender related policies in government schools, there has not been a renewed push to shut down the Department of Education.

Many Republican candidates in the 2022 midterm election also failed to make an issue out of their Democratic opponents support for mask and vaccine mandates and other instances of covid tyranny. Those who did oppose the covid tyranny, such as Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and my son Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, won landslide victories.

The Tea Partys success in forcing the Republican Party to focus on a more pro-liberty, limited government agenda was short lived. Soon after the 2010 election, the Republican establishment returned to its big spending ways. Spending and debt continued to rise under President Trump and a Republican Congress. Republicans even failed to deliver on their signature promise: repealing Obamacare.

The 2010 midterm election showed that people will respond to candidates offering serious pro-liberty ideas and policies. However, the Tea Partys rise and fall also shows the danger facing ideological movements that become too close with one political party. These movements will start pulling their punches when one of our team begins casting bad votes. The argument goes that we must support big government Republicans or we get REALLY big government Democrats.

Fortunately, the liberty movement has remained committed to principles. As the failure of the welfare-warfare state to deliver peace and property and the failure of the Federal Reserve to fulfill its mandate of ensuring stable prices and low unemployment become clear, more Americans will join the liberty movement. Support for the liberty movement will accelerate when the inevitable economic meltdown occurs. This meltdown will be precipitated by a collapse in the dollars value and the rejection of the dollars world reserve currency status. It will bring the end of the welfare-warfare state and the fiat money system. Hopefully, the liberty movement will ensure the welfare-warfare state and fiat money system are replaced by a return to limited constitutional government, individual liberty, and peace.

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