Did you think there was something wrong with the 2020 election? If you do, did you say anything on Facebook about your doubts? You could be in big trouble with the FBI. According to a story in the New York Post, September 14, 2022, “Facebook has been spying on the private messages and data of American users and reporting them to the FBI if they express anti-government or anti-authority sentiments — or question the 2020 election — according to sources within the Department of Justice.
Under the FBI collaboration operation, somebody at Facebook red-flagged these supposedly subversive private messages over the past 19 months and transmitted them in redacted form to the domestic terrorism operational unit at FBI headquarters in Washington, DC, without a subpoena.
‘It was done outside the legal process and without probable cause,’ alleged one of the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
‘Facebook provides the FBI with private conversations which are protected by the First Amendment without any subpoena.’
These private messages then have been farmed out as ‘leads’ to FBI field offices around the country, which subsequently requested subpoenas from the partner US Attorney’s Office in their district to officially obtain the private conversations that Facebook already had shown them.
‘It was a waste of our time,’ said one source familiar with subpoena requests lodged during a 19-month frenzy by FBI headquarters in Washington, DC, to produce the caseload to match the Biden administration’s rhetoric on domestic terrorism after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
The Facebook users whose private communications Facebook had red-flagged as domestic terrorism for the FBI were all ‘conservative right-wing individuals.’
‘They were gun-toting, red-blooded Americans [who were] angry after the election and shooting off their mouths and talking about staging protests. There was nothing criminal, nothing about violence or massacring or assassinating anyone.
‘As soon as a subpoena was requested, within an hour, Facebook sent back gigabytes of data and photos. It was ready to go. They were just waiting for that legal process so they could send it.’
Facebook denied the allegations yesterday.
In two contrasting statements sent one hour apart, Erica Sackin, a spokesperson at Facebook’s parent company, Meta, claimed Facebook’s interactions with the FBI were designed to ‘protect people from harm.’
In her first statement, she said: ‘These claims are false because they reflect a misunderstanding of how our systems protect people from harm and how we engage with law enforcement. We carefully scrutinize all government requests for user information to make sure they’re legally valid and narrowly tailored and we often push back. We respond to legal requests for information in accordance with applicable law and our terms and we provide notice to users whenever permitted.’
In a second, unprompted ‘updated statement,’ sent 64 minutes later, Sackin altered her language to say the claims are ‘wrong,’ not ‘false.’
‘These claims are just wrong. The suggestion we seek out peoples’ private messages for anti-government language or questions about the validity of past elections and then proactively supply those to the FBI is plainly inaccurate and there is zero evidence to support it,’ said Sackin, a DC-based crisis response expert who previously worked for Planned Parenthood and ‘Obama for America’ and now leads Facebook’s communications on “counterterrorism and dangerous organizations and individuals.”
The Facebook spokeswoman didn’t tell us how reporting these people to the FBI was supposed to protect them from harm.
Even if there was no basis for the charge that the 2020 election was rigged, people who think that it was have a right to express their opinions. That’s how a free society works. But of course the lunatic and criminal left knows that the election deniers are correct. That’s why they are so anxious to suppress them. They know that if enough people are exposed to the truth, and the deniers’ arguments are looked at fairly, this could blow the brain-dead Biden government out of the water. That’s why they want to prevent to truth from coming out.
As the late great Bill Sardi pointed out, the fraudsters privately admitted what they had done, using veiled language they thought patriots wouldn’t be able to figure out. “Molly Ball, biographer for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and political writer for Time Magazine, pens these self-indicting words in the Jan 15, 2021 issue of Time Magazine:
‘There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes, one that both curtailed the protests and coordinated the resistance from CEOs. Both surprises were the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans. The pact was formalized in a terse, little-noticed joint statement of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO published on Election Day. Both sides would come to see it as a sort of implicit bargain–inspired by the summer’s massive, sometimes destructive racial-justice protests–in which the forces of labor came together with the forces of capital to keep the peace and oppose Trump’s assault on democracy.
‘The handshake between business and labor was just one component of a vast, cross-partisan campaign to protect the election–an extraordinary shadow effort dedicated not to winning the vote but to ensuring it would be free and fair, credible and uncorrupted.
‘They got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding…. They successfully pressured social media companies to take a harder line against disinformation and used data-driven strategies to fight viral smears.
‘This is the inside story of the conspiracy to save the 2020 election, based on access to the group’s inner workings, never-before-seen documents and interviews with dozens of those involved from across the political spectrum. It is the story of an unprecedented, creative and determined campaign whose success also reveals how close the nation came to disaster.
‘That’s why the participants want the secret history of the 2020 election told, even though it sounds like a paranoid fever dream–a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information. They were not rigging the election; they were fortifying it.
‘The Fight Back Table, a coalition of ‘resistance’ organizations, had begun scenario-planning around the potential for a contested election, gathering liberal activists at the local and national level into what they called the Democracy Defense Coalition.
‘Protecting the election would require an effort of unprecedented scale.’”
The left conspiracy to suppress the truth about the election depends on the mass media, which denounce any attempt to expose the fraud. Paul Craig Roberts neatly skewers the media: “The Presstitutes Speak With One Voice. They are unanimous that there was no vote fraud committed by Democrats and that a record number of Americans voted for a president suffering from mental confusion whose campaign rallies went unattended.
If the presstitutes are so confident that there is no evidence to back the legal challenges, why are the prostitutes working overtime to discredit the challenges in advance? All presstitutes are in denial that there is any evidence of fraud. Why not just wait for the challenges to fail? Why all the whistling in the dark?
The Boston Globe, for example, claims that no election officials doubt the validity of the vote and that Trump ‘has launched a series of long-shot legal challenges in several state aimed at casting doubt on election results, despite no evidence of voter fraud.’
Even the financial news site, Bloomberg, has falsely declared that there is ‘no evidence of wrongdoing.’ How can the media know until the charges are investigated?
If fraud is not a possibility, why has the Georgia Secretary of State ordered a hand recount of the presidential race?
Why did Supreme Court Justice Alito order Pennsylvania election officials to segregate and separately count ballots that arrived after election day? Alito ordered the late ballots be kept ‘in a secure, safe and sealed container separate from other voted ballots.’
If there is no evidence of fraud, what is the point of such an order?
If there is no fraud, what is the basis of the legal challenges being filed by White House Counsel Giuliani? A former US Attorney who presided over high profile cases is not going to squander his reputation by filing legal challenges with no evidence.
There is plenty of evidence. The only question is whether the Republican Party and the courts have the stomach for the devastating blow to America’s reputation of proving that the Democrats with the complicity of the media stole a presidential election. The Republicans might be more inclined to protect America’s reputation than Trump’s presidency, and the courts could worry that establishing election theft would undermine Americans’ confidence in their system and lead to political instability.
Leaders have had to deal with these kinds of concerns before. Everyone on the Warren Commission knew that Oswald was not the assassin of President Kennedy, and the 9/11 Commission knew that the official story was false. The 9/11 commission chairman, co-chairman, and legal counsel later wrote books in which they said that information was withheld from them and that the committee was set up to fail.
It was impossible to tell the public in the wake of the Cuban Missile Crisis with the Soviet Union that their president had been assassinated by the US Joint Chiefs and CIA with the complicity of the Secret Service. The Warren Commission understood completely that destroying the public’s confidence in military and security leaders at a time of such tension with the Soviet Union would have been disastrous. The same for 9/11. The commission was not under any circumstances going to tell the public that it was a false flag attack necessary to launch two decades of war in the Middle East.
It is certainly the case that red state America knows the election was stolen, so withholding known information is not going to prevent a split in the country. It will simply make it worse by giving red state America proof that the system is broken and cannot be fixed.
Nevertheless, Republicans and courts might not realize this, and even if they do they might not want to be the ones who pull the trigger.
Karl Marx said that audacity, if audacious enough, works, and Lenin proved it. This, I believe, is what the Democrats and presstitutes are relying on.”
If we spread the word about this fraud, we can strike a blow at the soft underbelly of brain-dead Biden and his cohorts. This is what the great and heroic Murray Rothbard would want us to do.
About the Author
Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. [send him mail], former editorial assistant to Ludwig von Mises and congressional chief of staff to Ron Paul, is founder and chairman of the Mises Institute, executor for the estate of Murray N. Rothbard, and editor of LewRockwell.com. He is the author of Against the State and . Follow him on Facebook and Twitter.
Image by Tyler Merbler, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Article cross-posted from Lew’s blog.
Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
Families looking for a straightforward place to start can visit Heaven’s Harvest and use promo code Patriot for 15 percent off long-term storable food. The forecasts may yet soften, the strait may yet reopen, and we should pray they do. But hope is a fine thing to hold and a foolish thing to eat.
I don’t do Fakebook and BTW… Eff the Eff Bee Eye!
What’s “Facebook”?
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The reason I post under a pseudonym, using an email address that is randomized and untraceable, through a VPN service that does not keep logs (and a few other security measures I won’t share) is because I post TRUTH.
Truth like:
– gender identity is delusion and not based on science
– “trans”gender is a scientific (biological, genetic) impossibility
– gender and biological sex are EXACTLY the same thing. And always have been
– at the moment of conception a unique HUMAN life is formed. This life (like our own) requires a specific environment and nutrition to thrive. Willfully damaging feeding them poison or removing them from their sustaining environment without preparation for surviving in their new environment is MURDER
– climate change is NOT at the mercy of CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere
– CO2 levels created by man are INCAPABLE of impacting anything related to CO2 concentrations as humans only contribute 4% of all the CO2 there is (96% is naturally caused/occurring), and CO2 is only 0.04% of the atmosphere.
– democrats are the domestic enemy of the United States, its citizens, and its Constitution
– the COVID “epidemic” was an overblown hoax (claims that the flu took a 2 year hiatus during the pandemic is ludicrous and lends credibility to the claim that MUCH of what was diagnosed as “COVID” was actually the flu)
– the claimed death rate for COVID has been massively inflated: the NET INCREASE in deaths from all causes during the height of the pandemic was STATISTICALLY ZERO. The same number of people died that year as die every year.
– the mRNA jabs are NOT vaccines, do NOT actually prevent the disease, do NOT decrease severity of the disease, and are NOT safe as they cause autoimmune reactions and disorders at an alarming rate
Truth like that.
Truth is not afraid of examination, able to defend itself against lies.
But those telling the truth sometimes have to obfuscate their identities so they can continue to tell the truth.
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You nailed it.
Today, almost exactly six weeks before the midterm election, Facebook locked my account(s) and demanded a copy of my gov’t issued ID to unlock them (which ain’t happening). This was very out-of-the-blue. I’ve had these accounts (including Messenger) for over 12 years.
Why do you suppose they took this action?
Wow, nice job tying in a simple election fraud/coup into those deeper hardcore conspiracies…
really makes election integrity people look more nutty.
‘Facebook provides the FBI with private conversations which are protected by the First Amendment without any subpoena.’
This is simply not true.
Every time you log onto Facebook, you agree to the TOS. You agree to give any and all ownership of anything and everything you post on or through Facebook to Facebook. That pic you posted of your grandkid? FB owns it now and has right to use it if they choose to.
Nothing you do on Facebook is protected by the First Amendment, as Facebook is not the government, and the 1st restricts the Government.
What Facebook is actually doing is; along with the FBI, is skating around the 4th amendment to illegal search and seizure. FB is acting on behalf of the FBI. BestBuy was busted doing this a few years ago on people laptops sent in for repair.
One has to ask. As hard as the left is going at blocking voter problem investigations, you would think they would have used the media and big tech to overturn 2016 with the same said investigations. The reason they don’t, is that they cheated like hell in that one and still lost and they do not want any investigations to show that. In 2020 they went even harder and won by some 160,000+- votes (in states that spent weeks counting which has never before been seen)out of 150 million cast. All I can say, is you ain’t seen nothing yet. I wouldn’t be surprised if they win super majorities in both houses and flip half the red states to blue.
A corporation working ‘hand in glove’ with the government is Mussolini type fascism.
I shut down my fascistbook account over a years ago because they suspended me for calling harris what she is, a WHORE. These fascists can all pound it and kiss off.
That’s fine… what this means is the biggest election deniers, the left and the Dem’s, can NO LONGER CONTEST ANY ELECTION… denying the results of an election is now UN-AMERICAN (their words, not mine)… So, we must now force them to live by the same standard. What this means is that stealing an election just became very simple. I hope the Republicans are paying attention… I’m a member of NO party… but, what’s sauce for the goose, is sauce for the gander. It’s only fair, it seems, if both sides cheat equally. A pox on all politicians and their corrupt parties.