Spending Bill Would Have Been Lifeline for Censorship (Connecting the Dots: NewsGuard, Oxford University, The State Department, The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) & Soros Funding, All Networking)
Newsmax.com
By
Charlie McCarthy | Thursday, 19 December 2024 10:33 AM EST
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/censorship-shutdown-donald-trump/2024/12/19/id/1192249/
A
State Department program that
allegedly works to suppress conservative media and Americans' free speech
appeared to be headed for termination until the latest continuing resolution
(CR) appeared before Congress.
Department
lawyers last week said the Global Engagement Center (GEC) will
"substantially likely" be terminated on Dec. 23, nearly a month
before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.
In
fact, the GEC's authorization was not renewed under the National Defense
Authorization Act, the annual defense bill that passed the House on Dec. 11.
However,
the bipartisan continuing resolution spending plan heralded by Speaker Mike
Johnson, R-La., to avert a partial government shutdown included a one-year
extension for the GEC.
The
CR since has been scrapped after House Republicans, Trump, and X owner Elon
Musk joined in criticizing
the deal.
Musk
on Wednesday shared influencer Mario Nawfal's X post saying that the 1,547-page
CR extended GEC for a year.
"They
want to spend YOUR tax dollars on censoring YOU!!" Musk wrote while
sharing Nawfal's post.
Texas
Attorney General Ken Paxton, The Daily Wire, and The Federalist in February
filed a joint lawsuit against the Biden administration's State Department over
its alleged funding of technologies that essentially work to blacklist
conservative media outlets.
Democrats
and mainstream media outlets claim GEC tracks and combats foreign
disinformation operations. But after the since-debunked Russian conspiracy
connection to the 2016 Trump campaign, GEC focused on targeting free speech
content on social media platforms.
"[P]laintiffs
allege that the GEC's funding, promoting, and marketing of internet
'risk-raters' Global Disinformation Index [GDI] and NewsGuard amounted to First
Amendment-violating censorship-by-proxy," Benjamin Weingarten, editor at
large at RealClearInvestigations, wrote in the New York
Post.
"These
groups aim to purge purported mis- and disinformation by threatening the
business models of outlets that publish news and views they deem
illegitimate."
Before
the House Small Business Committee in June, Weingarten testified that GEC's
funding and support of GDI and NewsGuard meant the government "had
effectively abridged freedom of speech and of the press — with our tax dollars,
and via a foreign-facing entity."
Brendan
Carr, Trump's pick for Federal Communications Commission chair, has said we
must "dismantle the censorship cartel" and is probing NewsGuard.
Biography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Gordon_Crovitz#Biography
In
March 2018, Gordon Crovitz and Steven Brill, partnered to form a new for-profit
company, NewsGuard,[10] which claims to fight "fake news" by
providing reliability ratings for over 7,500 U.S. websites to help online
readers distinguish between legitimate news sources and those allegedly
designed to spread misinformation. NewsGuard was launched on August 23, 2018.
Crovitz
is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Chicago.[1] He received a law
degree as a Rhodes Scholar from Wadham
College of Oxford University and later a law
degree from Yale Law School.
NewsGuard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewsGuard
Connecting
the Dots:
L. Gordon Crovitz was
a founder and co-CEO for NewsGuard and an Oxford University
Rhodes
Scholar.
Walter Isaacson was
an Oxford University Rhodes scholar and is the president &
CEO for the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Michael K. Powell is a
trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), Colin L. Powell’s son,
the president & CEO for the National Cable & Telecommunications
Association and was the chairman for the Federal Communications
Commission (FCC).
Federal
Communications Commission (FCC) regulates U.S. outlets
for broadcast.
Julius Genachowski was the chairman
for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), a law school
friend of Barack Obama and is a senior fellow at the Aspen
Institute (think tank).
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for
the Aspen Institute (think tank).
George Soros was the chairman for
the Foundation to Promote Open Society and is the founder &
chairman for the Open Society Foundations.
Open Society Foundations was a funder for
the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).
Madeleine K.
Albright is an honorary director at the Atlantic Council
of the United States (think tank) and was a secretary for the U.S.
Department of State.
Elizabeth Frawley Bagley is a
director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank) and
was a special representative for global partnerships for the U.S.
Department of State.
James A. Baker III is
an honorary director at the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank) and was a secretary for the U.S. Department of State.
Richard L.
Armitage is a director at the Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank) and was a deputy secretary for the U.S.
Department of State.
Esther Brimmer is
a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank)
and was an assistant secretary for the U.S. Department of State.
R. Nicholas Burns is
a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank)
and was an undersecretary for the U.S. Department of State.
Richard R. Burt is
a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank)
and was an assistant secretary for the U.S. Department of State.
Kenneth W. Dam is
a lifetime director for the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank) and was a deputy secretary for the U.S. Department of
State.
Paula J.
Dobriansky is a director at the Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank) and was an undersecretary - democracy & global
affairs for the U.S. Department of State.
Stuart E.
Eizenstat is a director at the Atlantic Council of the
United States (think tank) and was an undersecretary for the U.S.
Department of State.
Robert S. Gelbard is
a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think
tank) and was an assistant secretary for the U.S. Department of
State.
Robert D. Hormats is
a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank)
and was an undersecretary for the U.S. Department of State.
Reuben Jeffery
III is a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank) and was an undersecretary for the U.S. Department of
State.
James L. Jones
Jr. is a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank) and was a special envoy for Middle East Security for the U.S.
Department of State.
Henry
A. Kissinger was a director at the Atlantic Council of the
United States (think tank) and a secretary for the U.S. Department
of State.
Thomas R. Nides is
a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank)
and was a deputy secretary of state for the U.S. Department of State.
Carlos Pascual is
a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank)
and was a special envoy, international energy affairs for the U.S.
Department of State.
Thomas R.
Pickering is a director at the Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank) and was an undersecretary for the U.S.
Department of State.
Colin L. Powell was
an honorary director at the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank) and a secretary for the U.S. Department of State.
Condoleezza Rice is
a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank)
and was the secretary for the U.S. Department of State.
George P. Shultz is
an honorary director at the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank) and was a secretary for the U.S. Department of State.
William H. Taft
IV is a lifetime director at the Atlantic Council of the
United States (think tank) and was a legal adviser for the U.S.
Department of State.
Ellen O. Tauscher is
a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank)
and was a special envoy for strategic stability & missile defense for
the U.S. Department of State.
Melanne Verveer is
a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank)
and was an ambassador-at-large for global women's issues for the U.S.
Department of State.
Peter Bass was
a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank)
and was a deputy assistant secretary for the U.S. Department of State.
William J. Burns was
a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank)
and was a deputy secretary for the U.S. Department of State.
Warren
Christopher was an honorary director at the Atlantic Council
of the United States (think tank) and a secretary of state, secretary for
the U.S. Department of State.
Chas. W. Freeman
Jr. was a director at the Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank) and a principal deputy assistant secretary for
the U.S. Department of State.
Janet G.
Mullins Grissom was a director at the Atlantic Council of the
United States (think tank) and an assistant secretary for the U.S.
Department of State.
Marc Grossman was
a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank)
and an undersecretary for the U.S. Department of State.
Alexander M.
Haig Jr. was an honorary director at the Atlantic Council of
the United States (think tank) and a secretary for the U.S.
Department of State.
Richard C.
Holbrooke was a director at the Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank) and a special envoy to Afghanistan, Pakistan, assistant
secretary for the U.S. Department of State.
William A. Nitze was
a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank)
and a deputy assistant secretary for the U.S. Department of State.
Torkel L.
Patterson was a director at the Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank) and a deputy assistant secretary for the U.S.
Department of State.
Susan E. Rice was
a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank)
and an assistant secretary for the U.S. Department of State.
Rozanne L. Ridgway was
a co-chair for the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank)
and an assistant secretary of state for Europe & Canada for the U.S.
Department of State.
Stanley O. Roth was
a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank)
and an assistant secretary for the U.S. Department of State.
Anne-Marie
Slaughter was a director at the Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank) and a director of policy planning for the U.S.
Department of State.
James B.
Steinberg was a director at the Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank) and a deputy secretary for the U.S. Department
of State.
John C. Whitehead was
a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank)
and a deputy secretary for the U.S. Department of State.
Colin L. Powell was
an honorary director at the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank) a secretary for the U.S. Department of State and Michael
K. Powell’s father.
Michael K. Powell is Colin
L. Powell’s son, the president & CEO for the National
Cable & Telecommunications Association, a trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank) and was the chairman for the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC).
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder
for the Aspen Institute (think tank).
George Soros was the chairman for
the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Julius
Genachowski is a senior fellow at the Aspen Institute (think tank),
a law school friend of Barack Obama and was the chairman for
the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
Walter Isaacson is
the president & CEO for the Aspen Institute (think tank) and was
an Oxford University Rhodes scholar.
L. Gordon Crovitz was
an Oxford University Rhodes Scholar and a founder and co-CEO for NewsGuard.
James M. Manyika
was a research fellow at Oxford University and is a trustee at the
Aspen Institute (think tank).
Giulio Tremonti is
a fellow at Oxford University and a trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank).
John Brademas was
an Oxford University Rhodes scholar and a lifetime trustee at
the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for
the Aspen Institute (think tank).
George Soros was the chairman for
the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
and
is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations.
Open Society Foundations was a funder for
the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).
Henry
A. Kissinger was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute
(think tank), a director at the Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank) and a secretary for the U.S. Department of
State.
Elizabeth
Frawley Bagley is a director at the Atlantic Council of the
United States (think tank),
an
advisory council member for the Acumen Fund and was a special
representative for global partnerships for the U.S. Department of State.
Andrea Soros is a director at
the Acumen Fund and her father is George Soros.
George Soros is Andrea Soros’s father.
Resources:
Past Research
European
Commission PDF Timeline on the Roadmap on Vaccination from 2018 – 2022. Last
update Q3 2019. (This is the missing link in my research) (Past Research on Oxford University Rhodes scholar’s)
Tuesday,
February 1, 2022
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2022/02/european-commission-pdf-timeline-on.html
Rep.
Ken Buck on D.C.’s Swamp: Politicians Are ‘Bought with Taxpayer Dollars’
(Researchers Note: Follow the Money!) (Past
Research on the U.S. Department of State)
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2017/04/rep-ken-buck-on-dcs-swamp-politicians.html
FCC
Chairman Joins Obama to Control Internet (Past
Research on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC))
Wednesday,
January 14, 2015
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2015/01/fcc-chairman-joins-obama-to-control.html
Smaller
Bites – Connecting the Dots: Henry Kissinger & Soros Funding (Past Research on Henry Kissinger)
Wednesday,
November 29, 2023
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2023/11/smaller-bites-connecting-dots-henry.html
Boehner
Finally Caves, Will Appoint Special Committee (Past
Research on Elizabeth Frawley Bagley)
Saturday,
May 3, 2014
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