Media ‘Pounce’ To Cover Up Kamala Harris’ Plagiarism Scandal

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The Contrarians Were Right About Covid Hysteria

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NPR boss accused of being something far more impactful than just another radical World Economic Forum anointee



A Peabody Award-winning senior business editor who worked for NPR for 25 years penned a damning exposé earlier this month, confirming critics' suspicions that NPR is a Democratic propaganda machine.

For speaking truth to power, Uri Berliner was suspended. He later resigned, writing, "I cannot work in a newsroom where I am disparaged by a new CEO whose divisive views confirm the very problems at NPR I cite in my Free Press essay."

The CEO who drove out this "EV-driving, Wordle-playing, tote bag-carrying coastal elite"-styled liberal is Katherine Maher.

Maher, a censorious alumna of the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leader program, was announced as the president and CEO of the company in January. She previously served as CEO of Wikipedia's parent company, Wikimedia, and worked at the National Democratic Institute, which is primarily funded by George Soros' Open Society Foundations.

Blaze News previously explored some of the Orwellian revisionism that took place at Wikipedia under her leadership — where she made clear that "our reverence for the truth might be a distraction that is getting in the way of finding common ground and getting things done" — and also recently highlighted some of her radical, race-obsessed comments online.

It appears, however, that beside her complicated relationship with the truth, her knack for spotting racism in unlikely places, and her apparent intolerance for dissenting views, Maher might also be a bit player in the regime-change business.

Christopher Rufo recently suggested in City Journal that Maher may have been involved in various color revolutions abroad — and may now be involved in one stateside.

Color revolutions — such as the 2003 Rose Revolution in Georgia, the 2005 Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan, and Ukraine's Orange Revolution in 2004 — are political upheavals aimed at toppling supposedly illegitimate or abusive regimes and replacing them with supposedly liberal democratic regimes. In many cases, the revolutionaries appear to have been afforded help and direction by state actors and/or by non-governmental organizations, such as the outfits Maher has worked with.

Rufo noted, "The West's favored methods of supporting Color Revolutions include fomenting dissent, organizing activists through social media, promoting student movements, and unleashing domestic unrest on the streets."

Maher apparently toured the ground zeroes of various regime changes in recent years as they were unfolding.

Rufo claimed that beginning in 2011, the NPR CEO, who has a degree in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and has studied in Syria and Egypt, "traveled numerous times to Tunisia, working with regime-change activists and government officials. In 2012, she traveled to a strategic city on the Turkey-Syria border, which had become a base for Western-backed opposition to Bashar al-Assad. That same year, she traveled to Libya, where the U.S. had just overthrown strongman Muammar Gaddafi."

During her tour of toppled or toppling regimes in 2011 and for years afterward, Maher worked for the National Democratic Institute, which Rufo suggested was "a government-funded NGO with deep connections to U.S. intelligence and the Democratic Party’s foreign policy machine."

The Guardian indicated in 2004 that the NDI, founded in the early 1980s after Congress created the National Endowment for Democracy, was among the supposed NGOs dispatched by the U.S. to Ukraine and other nations to help "enginee[r] democracy through the ballot box and civil disobedience."

National security analyst J. Michael Waller suggested, "NDI is an instrument of Samantha Power and the global revolution elements of the Obama team."

"It has gone along with, and been significant parts of, color revolutions around the world. It is very much a regime-change actor," added Waller.

Waller told City Journal that Maher was "part of a revolutionary vanguard movement."

Rufo appears convinced the woke CEO has since turned her sights from the Orient to the United States.

According to the New College of Florida board member, the "summer of rioting following the death of George Floyd, which ushered in the new DEI regime, was in many ways a domestic Color Revolution."

Rufo did not produce a smoking gun concerning Maher's possible direct role in the DEI revolution while at Wikipedia, "a key strategic way station ... [that] defines the terms, shapes the narrative, and launders mostly left-wing political ideologies into the discourse, under the guise of 'neutral knowledge.'"

However, he noted that Maher, a longtime BLM supporter, made clear the general policy at Wikipedia was to "eliminate racist, misogynist, transphobic, and other forms of discriminatory content" and elsewhere highlighted her aim of rebelling against the idea of "radical openness," which she associated with a "white male Westernized construct."

With Wikipedia still operating a "closed loop that operates surreptitiously, using its reputation for unbiased knowledge as a cover for its own disinformation," Rufo intimated that Maher has moved on to another key component in the "American Color Revolution" underway: NPR.

NPR "has formative power in many culture-shaping institutions and increasingly represents the voice of blue elites. It is state radio, in the Soviet sense: it produces propaganda to advance its own cultural power and move the nation toward a desired end-state," wrote Rufo.

Berliner previously highlighted how Maher's predecessor was already active in this regard.

"When it comes to identifying and ending systemic racism," former NPR CEO John Lansing allegedly noted in a company-wide article, "we can be agents of change."

"America's infestation with systemic racism was declared loud and clear: it was a given. Our mission was to change it," Berliner wrote earlier this month.

Maher, an apparent agent of change, wrote in a December 2010 NDI blog post, "Control over the flow of information in a closed society can be tantamount to control over the state."

Rufo indicated that Maher's remarks in the blog post, which concerned an electoral crisis in the Ivory Coast that led to civil war, were "more descriptive than prescriptive." Nevertheless, "[t]he production of media works in Cote d’Ivoire as it does in America; the difference is only a matter of scale and complexity."

Responding to the City Journal piece, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrote, "I don't know if she is actual CIA, or just ideologically aligned. What is clear though is that she will assiduously advance establishment narratives."

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Vivek Ramaswamy addresses BIGGEST CONTROVERSIES about his past



There’s no question that 2024 GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has been reflecting the voice of disgruntled Americans who no longer trust that the government is operating in their best interest.

However, there have been several controversies surrounding his campaign — and Glenn Beck wants answers.

Luckily, Vivek doesn’t shy away from controversy and sat down with Glenn to address the rumors.

“A Wikipedia editor alleges that you paid to have your Wikipedia page edited to remove you receiving the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans and your role in Ohio’s COVID-19 response team,” Glenn starts. “Is that true, and if it is, why?”

Vivek explains that before he ran for president, “there were a lot of falsehoods” on his Wikipedia page.

These falsehoods included everything from details about his birth to his wife’s name.

“So, before I ran, yes, I wanted to make sure that the public was aware of exactly what the right facts were,” he explains.

As for the COVID-19 response team in Ohio, Vivek claims that "there wasn’t actually ever a formally titled body.”

“There was a lieutenant governor in Ohio, who remains a friend of mine to this day, who asked me if he could call me from time to time to get basic advice through the process,” he says. “I helped him with the reopening plan. That was a short version of the help that I provided him. So I’m actually proud of that.”

Vivek also explains that he was “pro-reopening” and that he was always “dead set against” lockdowns and mandates.

As for the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, he explains that he received that scholarship at the age of 24 but that, much to his chagrin, it was listed at the top of his accomplishments on Wikipedia until recently.

“At the age of 37, having achieved a lot of things,” Vivek explains that he didn’t want the first thing on his Wikipedia page to be a “random scholarship” he got at the age of 24. “That’s manipulation,” he says.

“One of the things I’ve learned in this process, Glenn, is there's a lot of left-wing media manipulation, but there’s media manipulation 360 degrees, driven by, not just fake-news media, but a lot of fake, establishment candidates too, who are threatened by my rise.”


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Extensive Edits To Hunter Biden’s Wikipedia Page Prove Site’s Extreme Bias

Wikipedia is a cesspool of partisans that enables outside sources to retroactively scrub its pages and lace its articles with propaganda.

'Can't trust that site anymore': Wikipedia ridiculed for labeling brief Twitter suspension of journalists as 'Thursday Night Massacre'



Wikipedia was absolutely lampooned for labeling the brief Twitter suspension of a handful of journalists and commentators as the "Thursday Night Massacre."

On Thursday evening, Twitter suspended the accounts of CNN's Donie O’Sullivan, the New York Times' Ryan Mac, the Washington Post’s Drew Harwell, leftwing journalist Aaron Rupar, and liberal commentator Keith Olbermann.

The social media users allegedly violated Twitter's terms of service against doxxing the real-time location of individuals.

Musk proclaimed, "They posted my exact real-time location, basically assassination coordinates, in (obvious) direct violation of Twitter terms of service. Criticizing me all day long is totally fine, but doxxing my real-time location and endangering my family is not."

However, Musk reinstated the suspended accounts at 12:18 a.m. on Saturday.

Leftwing pundits and liberal media outlets suffered a complete meltdown over the short suspension.

Axios described the suspensions as "unprecedented," and said it was a "media flashpoint."

A United Nations spokesperson was "very disturbed," and claimed the temporary bans were a "dangerous precedent."

Vera Jourova, the European Commission’s vice president for values and transparency, threatened sanctions.

CNN threatened to "revaluate" its relationship with CNN.

The Duty to Warn Twitter account – a self-proclaimed "association of mental health professionals warning NOW about TrumpISM" – compared the suspension to the notorious 1938 Nazi attack on Jews known as Kristallnacht.

\u201cThis account is run by an \u201cassociation of mental health proffesionals.\u201d They\u2019re comparing democrat activists getting temporarily suspended for doxxing, to Kristallnacht. Unreal\u201d
— Libs of TikTok (@Libs of TikTok) 1671225122

Wikipedia reacted to the news of the suspended journalists by launching a page titled: "Thursday Night Massacre (Twitter)."

The online encyclopedia dedicated two different pages and 2,800 words to the suspension that lasted less than 48 hours.

"The phrase 'Thursday Night Massacre' was a trending topic on Twitter following the suspensions; news site Mediaite also used the phrase in a headline describing the suspension and subsequent fallout, and it has since become a common term for representing the incident," the Wikipedia entry reads.

\u201cWikipedia is just a far-left blog\u201d
— Pillows \ud83c\udf85\ud83c\udffb Slippers \ud83c\udf84 (@Pillows \ud83c\udf85\ud83c\udffb Slippers \ud83c\udf84) 1671304096

Twitter reactions lampooned Wikipedia for the overly dramatic categorization of the brief Twitter suspensions.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk: "A two day suspension of maybe 7 accounts for doxxing got an actual Wikipedia page!? Wikipedia is controlled by the MSM journalists. Can’t trust that site anymore."

Commentator Jack Posobiec: "Wikipedia is just a far-left blog."

TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk: "Wikipedia editors have taken a one-day tiff over Twitter doxing policies and made it an article twice as long as the Declaration of Independence."

Anarchist Michael Malice made a comparison to the George Floyd protests: "Wikipedia: 7 accounts getting suspended – 'massacre," 14,000 arrests, 19 dead, biggest national guard deployment ever – 'protests.'"

Last year, Wikipedia's cofounder Larry Sanger warned that the internet encyclopedia has a major bias issue and spews propaganda.

"Because there is a lot of influence, Wikipedia is known now by everyone to have a lot of influence in the world," Sanger said. "If only one version of the facts is allowed then that gives a huge incentive to wealthy and powerful people to seize control of things like Wikipedia in order to shore up their power. And they do that."

Wikipedia changes editing rules as users fight over definition of 'recession'



Wikipedia has implemented restrictions for new and unregistered users who try to edit its page about recession. According to The Hill, new users and anonymous users will be able to make changes to the recession page, but their edits will be subject to review from volunteer editors.

The definition of recession has been under intense debate since last week, when the Commerce Department revealed U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) fell by an annualized rate of 0.9% during the second quarter of 2022. This followed a 1.6% contraction in the first quarter with an annualized rate of 1.6%.

Traditionally, two consecutive quarters of decreasing GDP — which measures the goods and services a country produces — is considered a recession. However, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has denied the U.S. is in a recession. During a recent appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press," Yellen stated, "This is not an economy that's in recession. But we're in a period of transition in which growth is slowing and that's necessary and appropriate and we need to be growing at a steady and sustainable pace." President Biden has similarly said that the current economic situation “doesn’t sound like a recession.”

Despite the common understanding of recession, there is no formal, universally accepted definition of recession. As The Hill notes, the National Bureau of Economic Research is the organization tasked with officially declaring a recession. The NBER defines a recession as “a significant decline in economic activity that is spread across the economy and lasts more than a few months.” NBER often waits until long after a recession has begun to declare that a recession is indeed under way, according to Fortune.

As UnHerd reports, until July 11, Wikipedia included in its definition of a recession “two negative consecutive quarters of growth.” But as of July 25, any mention of “two negative consecutive quarters of GDP growth” was removed from the definition section. According to the page’s revision history, users edited the page more than 180 times last week. The page received just 24 revisions in 2022 prior to last week.

Critics have accused Wikipedia of trying to erase the popular definition of recession to align itself with the Biden administration. The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that operates Wikipedia, has responded to these criticisms and defended the measures taken to restrict editing of the recession page. “It’s not uncommon for topics in the news to receive sudden interest on Wikipedia. Volunteer editors know this, and have created tools and mechanisms for responding to an influx of edits on articles that are in the public eye,” a spokesperson for the Wikimedia Foundation said. “Protecting an article is one common tool they use.”