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Who hired Rob Flaherty? Who served in a position understood to be even more powerful in a presidential administration than Ron Klain's Chief of Staff position?

Jessica Hertz. Former Facebook regulatory counsel who's work entailed coordination with government officials to implement regulations, directives and mandates. Former Obama administration official. Former law clerk to Justice Sotomayer (who later officiated her wedding). She headed up Biden's transition team, staff search - every single major Biden administration personnel hiring decision and appointment nomination went through her. And then she became the president's Staff Secretary, a lawyer's job once held by John Podesta in the Clinton administration. More powerful administration job than even a Chief of Staff. If you don't know who Jessica Hertz is you ought to. And if she isn't at the center of any Biden administration censorship activity investigation, even the suppression of the Hunter Biden Laptop story before the 2020 election then investigative malpractice is being done with no real ongoing search for truth and culprits. Get to know her through reading each one of these links. The dots connect themselves:

https://web.archive.org/web/20201001160154/https://www.law.columbia.edu/faculty/jessica-hertz

https://nypost.com/2020/10/01/joe-biden-hires-facebooks-jessica-hertz-for-transition-team/

https://www.vox.com/recode/22206646/joe-biden-jessica-hertz-facebook-staff-secretary-big-tech

https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/bidens-progressive-appointees-watch-out-below-the-radar/

https://bluetent.us/articles/governing/cass-sunstein-biden-white-house-oira/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10086113/Bidens-staff-secretary-quits-Former-lawyer-Facebook-leave-White-House-coming-days.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20221011171855/https://news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and-practice/ex-biden-facebook-attorney-joining-shopify-as-general-counsel-1

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We need a bigger boat to sink the Censorship Industrial Complex. What's the biggest battleship we have in our fleet? We need at least 10 of those.

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Right! The biggest battleship we have in our fleet is the brightest spotlight we can shine. We need at least ten of those!

I know you wrote about Flaherty, too. But I encourage you and all who write about him, his activities and messages that have come to light to look at who hired him in and put him into that role to do that harm to our Constitution in the first place. And that person is Jessica Hertz. It's like building a case against the mob, follow the trail to the top. Even Hertz isn't the top. But there's no closer person to a president inside the formal office of the president. You can't go any higher than Hertz than the president, himself. Except for those outside the formal office of the president, who's puppet strings reach into a White House. Like, say, Obama. And she was a part of that administration, too.

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I agree. I just assume it's a "given" that all the key appointees were recommended for their positions by other key "club members" ... for a good (meaning "terrible") reason.

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Take down Ray McGovern's Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-Media-Academia-Think Tank complex and multiple demons will fall with it.

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Thank you, Freedom Fox. You're a treasure.

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Damn, Fox. You are determined to show us how deep the rabbit hole goes. Not sure I really want to know!

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Right!

Hertz's rabbit hole goes even deeper. Much deeper. She's not only a lawyer but also a behavioral scientist. She's a Cass Sunstein protege. Author of "Nudge" the method of psychological coercion and manipulation that's been weaponized to manufacture consent for totalitarianism. A constitutional lawyer and behavioral scientist. The Science (TM) that informs the propagandists and censors. Cass Sunstein's wife is Samantha Power, Director of USAID, the global (and domestic) color revolution planners proficient in media manipulation (censorship and propaganda, agitprop) and fake pandemic specialists, also a lawyer and behavioral scientist. While he was the head of OIRA, Sunstein streamlined the federal government's coordination within all its agencies and their state and local counterparts, as well as corporate and media partners - with Jessica Hertz at his side for much of it. Critical to collaborate a singular pandemic response, top-to-bottom in government, media and industry, comprehensive information control system. Couldn't have been done without his (and her) preparatory work. Now teaching constitutional law at Harvard to future lawyers, prosecutors and judges, recently wrote a book, "How to Interpret the Constitution," a guide to using linguistics for judicial rulings to make the Constitution say "Freedom is Slavery."

Her rabbit hole goes deep and sideways. Censorship and propaganda is Hertz's specialty!! But we have to know where they are and who's in them to flush the varmints out in the open. To be disposed of like the varmints they are.

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GREAT job of research, Freedom Fox, thank you! I remember seeing Samantha Power on John Stewart's The Daily Show years ago - she made my skin crawl and I had no idea who she was. Didn't know she was married to Cass Sunstein or how much power she has. Wow.

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Dude. The whole "nudging" behavioral science stuff is the most disturbing thing. Thanks again!

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Blloomberg law link is NG.

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Thanks - I see they dead it on loading, starts to display then says page not available. Try this link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20221001194144/https://news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and-practice/ex-biden-facebook-attorney-joining-shopify-as-general-counsel-1

I found that if I stopped it from loading as soon as the text begins displaying it stops the script that dead pages it.

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" counsel who's work entailed "

The word you're groping for is "whose". "Who's" is a contraction of "who is", not the possessive form of "who".

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When has there ever been a totalitarian regime that didn't resort to censorship? Authoritarians also commit systemic election fraud until they can remove the mask covering their horrific visage and end elections entirely, or turn them into a ludicrous charade evident to even the most credulous, tightening their grip on power by overtly terrorizing citizens thereafter (see DC's January 6 prisoners).

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When did censorship begin? Quote "This will be the last time you hear from me. My opposition has purchased all of the mainstream media" - Nikola Tesla's Autobiography, My Inventions, 1919. Part 1 https://youtube.com/watch?v=O6UJvNqOj3M Part 2 https://youtube.com/watch?v=d-1sbAPLPf8 (Previous to that, Edison's men burnt down Tesla's 5 story lab in 1895, then JP Morgan staged the supply chain crisis in 1903 to stop the construction of Wardenclyffe, then in 1907 JP Morgan staged a banking crisis to bankrupt Westinghouse & Tesla, then JP Morgan sunk the Titanic to kill John J Astor, Nikola Tesla's final financier) @teslaleaks.com THE MAGICAL INVENTIONS OF NIKOLA TESLA https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/4879ab53-7e33-48ce-94dd-a01709b6cb1a/The%20Magical%20Inventions%20of%20Nikola%20Tesla.pdf

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Thank you for this! This info is worth gold!!

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Totalitarian regimes can't come to exist without censorship.

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Thank you for this! This Rob Flaherty needs to be figuratively flayed and imprisoned and his Mob boss, Joe Biden, impeached.

I wrote my own piece on this yesterday, focussing on just one Facebook paragraph that tells everyone what that company did to keep Big Brother happy. I hope everyone who cares about "free speech" reads this paragraph.

https://billricejr.substack.com/p/i-hope-americans-read-just-one-paragraph?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2

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Thanks for reporting on this crucial issue. May Flaherty be held accountable before the law, and Biden also.

Relatedly:

US Rep. Nancy Mace Speaks at Oversight Hearing on Twitter Censorship

posted February 8, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDJJ483kvGQ

TRANSCRIPT - EXCERPT

REP. NANCY MACE: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The Twitter files* were not just about Hunter Biden's laptop, Twitter files make it apparent Twitter worked overtime to suppress accurate covid information. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya** is a professor of medicine at Stanford who once tweeted an article he wrote about natural immunity. Thanks to Elon Musk's release of the Twitter files we learned some of his tweets were tagged with the label of Trends Blacklist. Apparently the views of a Stanford doctor are disinformation to you people.

I along with many Americans have long-term effects from covid. Not only was I a long hauler but I have effects from the vaccine. It wasn't the first shot but it was the second shot that I now developed asthma that has never gone away since I had the second shot. I have tremors in my left hand and I have the occasional heart pain that no doctor can explain and I've had a battery of tests.

I find it extremely alarming Twitter's unfettered censorship spread into medical fields and affected millions of Americans by suppressing expert opinions from doctors and censoring those who disagree with the CDC. I have great regrets about getting the shot because of the health issues that I now have that I don't think are ever going to go away. And I know that I'm not the only American who has those kinds of concerns.

Another example of what Twitter has done to censor folks is uh from Dr. Martin Kulldorff*** a Harvard educated epidemiologist who once tweeted "covid vaccines are important for high-risk people and their caretakers. Those with prior natural infection do not need it, nor children." The Twitter files reveal this tweet was deemed false information because it ran contrary to the CDC. So my first question this morning of Ms. Gadde,**** may I ask of you, where did you go to medical school?

VIJAYA GADDE: I did not go to medical school.

REP. NANCY MACE: I'm sorry?

VIJAYA GADDE: I did not go to medical school.

REP. NANCY MACE: That's what I thought. Why do you think you or anyone else at Twitter had the medical expertise to censor a doctor's expert opinion?

VIJAYA GADDE: Our policies regarding covid were designed to protect individuals. We were seeing—

REP. NANCY MACE: You guys censored Harvard-educated doctors, Stanford-educated

doctors, doctors that are educated in the best places in the world and you silence

those voices. My next question is, did the U.S. government oh, excuse me I have another chart I want to show you Ms. Gadde. I have another tweet by someone with a following of a full 18,000 followers. This person put a chart from the CDC on Twitter, it's the CDC's own at data so it's accurate by your standards, and you all labeled this as misleading. You're not a doctor, right, Ms. Gadde?

VIJAYA GADDE: No I'm not.

REP. NANCY MACE: OK. What makes you think you or anyone else of Twitter have the

medical expertise to censor actual, accurate CDC data?

VIJAYA GADDE: I'm not familiar with these particular situations.

REP. NANCY MACE: Yeah I'm sure you're not, but this is what Twitter did, they labeled this as inaccurate. It is the government's own data. It's ridiculous that we're even having to have this conversation today. It's not just about the laptop, this is about medical advice that expert doctors were trying to give Americans because social media companies like Twitter were silencing their voices. I have another question, my last one for you Ms. Gadde. Did the U.S government ever contact you or anyone at Twitter to pressure Twitter to moderate or censor certain tweets, yes or no?

VIJAYA GADDE: We have a program—

REP. NANCY MACE: Did the U.S government ever contact you or anyone at Twitter to censor or moderate certain tweets, yes or no?

VIJAYA GADDE: We receive legal demands to remove content from the platform from the U.S government and governments all around the world, those are published on a third

party website and anyone can review them.

REP. NANCY MACE: Thank God for Matt Taibbi* thank God for Elon Musk for allowing to show us in the world that Twitter was basically a subsidiary of the FBI, censoring real medical voices with real expertise that put Real Americans lives in danger

because they didn't have that information.

4:14

[END OF EXCERPT]

# # #

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:

Nancy Mace is a Republican representing South Carolina's First Congressional District

Her webpage is https://mace.house.gov

Her YouTube page is https://www.youtube.com/@RepNancyMace/

* The Twitter files were Twitter's internal documents on censorship which Twitter's new owner, Elon Musk, gave to two independent journalists, Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss. See

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598822959866683394

and see

https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1601007575633305600

** Dr. Jay Bhattacharya https://profiles.stanford.edu/jay-bhattacharya

He is a co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration which states "As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies, and recommend an approach we call Focused Protection." https://gbdeclaration.org

*** Dr. Martin Kulldorff. According to https://brownstone.org/author/martin-kulldorff/

"Martin Kulldorff is an epidemiologist and biostatistician. He is Professor of Medicine at Harvard University (on leave) and a Fellow at the Academy of Science and Freedom. His research focuses on infectious disease outbreaks and the monitoring of vaccine and drug safety, for which he has developed the free SaTScan, TreeScan, and RSequential software. Co-Author of the Great Barrington Declaration."

**** Vijaya Gadde is former chief legal officer of Twitter.

* Matt Taibbbi is an investigative journalist who reported on the Twitter files. His blog is https://www.racket.news/about

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We need to realize that this is an information war. It’s the elite against all of humanity. Unless they can keep us under their evil spell we can destroy them. It’s why platforms like Substack are are so critical.

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And yet nothing will be done to change it. The system has been corrupted for quite some time. For us paying attention can see it as plain as day.

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What excellent writing!

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No doubt our government hates us because at some point the citizens will realize that they do not need any form of government to live and survive well and happy.

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Thank you for posting this. Outrageous.

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When did censorship begin? Quote "This will be the last time you hear from me. My opposition has purchased all of the mainstream media" - Nikola Tesla's Autobiography, My Inventions, 1919. Part 1 https://youtube.com/watch?v=O6UJvNqOj3M Part 2 https://youtube.com/watch?v=d-1sbAPLPf8 (Previous to that, Edison's men burnt down Tesla's 5 story lab in 1895, then JP Morgan staged the supply chain crisis in 1903 to stop the construction of Wardenclyffe, then in 1907 JP Morgan staged a banking crisis to bankrupt Westinghouse & Tesla, then JP Morgan sunk the Titanic to kill John J Astor, Nikola Tesla's final financier) @teslaleaks.com THE MAGICAL INVENTIONS OF NIKOLA TESLA https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/4879ab53-7e33-48ce-94dd-a01709b6cb1a/The%20Magical%20Inventions%20of%20Nikola%20Tesla.pdf

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That the government censored information damaging to their purported goals is about as surprising as the historical realization that, "there's gambling at Rick's!" Unfortunately, the deceit will likely not result in massive changes to either political behavior or public understanding.

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It's a massive protection racket ... I think the real goal is to silence and bully people who might lead any secession efforts. The "secession" threat is really the ultimate "check" on absolute power. That option is probably off the table because there's no one as crazy (or brave) as Patrick Henry or Thomas Paine around in America anymore.

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The “Censorship Industrial Complex” is s subset of Ray McGovern's Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-Media-Academia-Think Tank complex.

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