The Highwire with Del Bigtree - U.S. SETS UP NEW ‘MINISTRY OF TRUTH’

Episode Date: May 14, 2022

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In China, they do have a green health code. And this is something that they use. It's kind of a glorified vaccine passport. And this, if anybody wants to really read about what it entails, this article here, it says, not easy being green. China's health codes define COVID-era life. So right now in Beijing, for instance, travel in and out of the city by plane or train or even via road because they have spot checks.

You need a negative nucleic acid test and you have to have a green health code. So for example, this is an app, this health code is an app that people have to have on their phone. Now, it's not mandatory, but in order to travel, in order to go into stores, including grocery stores and pharmacies, you need to have a green, I guess, color on this health app. So for instance, if someone has this on their phone and they go into an area unbeknownst to them that has a high transmission rate of this COVID, this phone goes to red and they have to go get tested and they can't get in any place. or if they go to a pharmacy and they buy something related to COVID, such as like maybe vitamin D or zinc or if Ivermectin, if they have it over the counter over there, I'd highly doubt that, but maybe they do. That automatically leads to a red code.

Or I would imagine, you can imagine where this was going with all of the, you know, in a restaurant. You know, we're all, I was saying when we're all taking the picture of the menu, what are you signing up for there? Well, obviously, they can track our phones into places. So if you went into a restaurant and someone had an outbreak, I'm sure. your phone would go red. I mean, that's some futuristic stuff and the technology is here, folks. It's with us now. Yeah, it's geolocation tracking. And, you know, describing that, we think that's really bad there. And, you know, over here, United States, we're fighting back against just a vaccine passport, which is part of that green code system in China. But really, in America,

the nuts and bolts of that is being erected underneath our feet. And this, is evidenced by a recent FOIA documents from the CDC obtained by motherboard. Here's the headline. CDC tracked millions of phones to see if Americans followed COVID lockdown orders. Now, this was something we didn't know what was happening during the lockdown, but the CDC allegedly paid $420,000 to a company called SafeGraph for access to a year of data. This appeared to be a test, but, I mean, it's a lot of phones. They had 20 million phones, and they use their geolocation. And apparently they use this. The CDC created an open-ended list to monitor curfews, neighbor-to-neighbor visits, churches, kids going in and out of school, people's visits

to the pharmacy. This is highly, highly alarming. And the CDC was paying for this with money from the COVID relief fund. And this is what they're looking at. This is what the CDC was doing. So this is something that was hypothetical. In fact, in their funding document, they said something like, this needs to be expedited because it is to get this up and running because it was so important. So these are things, you know, obviously China, if it is doing these things, it can do it much faster because it's an authoritarian government, as Justin Trudeau once said. He likes their basic dictatorship. But here in the U.S., it appears to have to, you know, inch along and inch along and inch along,

even in the dark, even in these shadows and these FOIA requests really reveal these things. I mean, just look at what you're saying. The exact technology China is using to turn. your phone red so that everywhere you go or try to use it, you're going to have to say, I'm not one of the healthy people, I've been in a dangerous zone. That technology was already tracking our phones everywhere we're going and could track every single one of us and could easily have lit up our phone or even put off an alarm should we step into the wrong space. That technology is all there. The only thing holding it back is this pesky little problem

they have called the Constitution of the United States of America, which is clearly under attack in many forms. And every day we're accepting these things, we're sliding closer and closer to being just like China. Right. And as the writer from the economist said, Chinese censors used this digital disappearing ink to monitor speech and censor speech.

And you may have seen the news over here, but a similar thing looks like it's starting to be erected. Take a look at this. The Department of Homeland Security is setting up a disinformation governance board The Department of Homeland Security unveiling a disinformation governance board, a new push with one wide-reaching goal. You prevent disinformation and misinformation from traveling around the country in a range of communities. Can you clarify what exactly is this? What exactly will this disinformation governance board do?

The fact is that disinformation that creates a threat to the security of the homeland is our responsibility. to address. You just have to flood a country's public square with enough raw sewage, plant enough conspiracy theorizing that citizens no longer know what to believe. White House Press Secretary Jen Salki laid out a number of areas. Biden administration sees misleading information as a problem. Serious questions are being raised today about how the board will determine what is misinformation, as we learn more about who is leading it.

There's this woman, Nina Jankwitz, who is going to be in charge of the board. The woman you noted has extensive experience and has done extensive work addressing disinformation. The ring is really quite ferocious. It's when a hoaxter takes some lies and makes them sound precocious by saying them in Congress or a mainstream outlet so disinformation's origins are slightly less atrocious. She will be deciding what's true and she will be deciding what gets later. as fake.

Nina Jankewitz, I'm wondering if you're, you've more information on her today. There's been some TikToks that she has put out. One line stood out to me, there's laundering disinfo, we should really take note and not support their lives with our wallet, voice or vote. They're laundering disinfo and we really should take note and not support their lies with our wallet voice or vote. She has testified before Congress testified in Europe. She has done, worked closely with the Ukrainians and has unique

expertise, especially at this moment we're facing. It's how you hide a little, I'd lie, it's how you hide a little, idle, little, it's how you hide a little, hiring decisions are up to the Department of Homeland Security, but this is a person with extensive qualifications. By saying that it seems likely less atrocious. It appears that the head czar of misinformation, I would guess, went to theater school.

Yeah, Wikipedia page says her interests are music. All right. Well, this is Nina Jakewitz. Yeah, and she's Homeland Security's disinformation governance board leader now. And it's interesting how this came about. So this wasn't announced with a bang. In fact, it was kind of a whimper. So we had the secretary head of DHS, Alejandro Mayorkas. He was in front of Congress during kind of just a routine hearing on immigration at the border. And he let slip or maybe purposely try to float it in. there we don't know that well oh we also do have this governance board for

disinformation that we just started and the backlash was immediate so here's the headlines directly after that hearing Homeland Security Head says they could have done a better job explaining the disinformation board the DHS rapidly raced to put up a fact sheet on their website because so many people were asking questions and here's that fact sheet if we want to read it DHS internal working group protects free speech and other fundamental rights when I addressing disinformation that threatens the security of the United States. So we have basically a domestic law enforcement agency announcing that it has power to decide what is, you know,

information that is true and what is false. And does the members of this get elected by Congress, they need to be approved, the directors need to be approved? We don't know. Will the department, this department have cabinet members, oversight. We don't really know any of this information. we have a fact sheet. It kind of reminds me of the vaccination trials early on with phase two and threes where they just show that they give us the press release, the safety data by press release instead of the actual studies. So who is Nina Jankwitz?

Well, there's people that did some research on this. And we look back into AP Associated Press and kind of just get a background on who she is and what her affiliations are. How does she feel about political affiliations? How does you feel about coronavirus, measures and things like that. This was in 2020. This was the AP when the headline, AP explains Trump seizes on dubious Biden Ukraine story.

So this was 20 days before the election. This was when the Hunter Biden laptop came out by New York Post. And it writes here in the AP, the actual origins of the emails are unclear. And disinformation experts say there are multiple red flags that raise doubts about their authenticity, including questions about whether the laptop actually belongs to Hunter Biden. says Nina Jankowicz, a fellow at the nonpartisan Wilson Center in Washington. So here she's being quoted as an expert. Now she says about the laptop, we should view it as a Trump campaign product,

Jankewit said. So there's her piece on that, which is, you know, really interesting because as we know now, that that was a true story. We do know that the repairman was a real person. He did have this computer. He gave it to several news outlets that sat on this, didn't do anything. New York Post was the one who posted it. And as we reported, and so many others reported at the time, it was immediately censored

from Twitter and Facebook as disinformation. Wow. Yeah. And so in 2020, March on Nia Jinkwa's Twitter feed, this was, you know, obviously during the COVID lockdowns, things were kind of tense then. She was talking about going out for a walk. She was seeing people that weren't social distancing, and she was telling stories about people not, you know, staying apart six feet.

She finally says this. Anyway, long story short, I think we as a country might be too free-spirited, to put it diplomatically, to comply with social distancing recommendations unless they're forced upon us. So force away, lock us down. People are not taking this seriously. Obviously, probably not a big fan of the Great Barrington Declaration. Has she ever revealed, you know, I mean, what her political affiliations are? because, I mean, certainly, the idea of a ministry of truth here in the United States of America is as chilling as it was in 1984, the novel. But certainly you would want someone that is completely unbiased, not politically affiliated, yet the Hunter Biden laptop seems to, I mean, that Trump statement that this is a Trump manufacturer. I mean, it does sound like she has a political bias, which seems like it would be incredibly dangerous.

Is there any background into that that we know of? Yeah, not directly, but, you know, they're the Hunter and Biden laptop piece. And then also she did seem to throw some support behind the Steele dossier. This was, you know, right before the election, the Trump election, there was an ex-M.I6 UK spy chief, Christopher Steele. He was funded by the DNC to put together the steel dossier. And it was purportedly showing collusion between the Trump administration and the government of Russia. although this has been discredited. So at the time she was calling this person, you know, an expert on disinformation and she was tweeting about him. So nothing directly, but, you know, there are some stories that have been, you know, miss info that she, I guess, fell for in the past. So it's kind of interesting, it's kind of interesting that there seems to be some type

of leaning in certain directions. Yeah. But when White House Press Secretary, Jen Saki, was pushed on this disinformation board, She passed the buck and said it was a Trump artifact. Again, with this excuse. So this was the headline here. DHS's disinformation governance board is a continuation of work that was done under the prior administration. Now, the prior administration, we have Chad Wolf.

He was the secretary under Trump for Department of Homeland Security. He immediately took to Twitter and wrote this after that comment. He said, W.H. White House wrong again. New DHS disinfo board is not the same. as effort to during the Trump administration. We focus primarily on foreign influence in elections, not domestic speech. New board is located in the secretary's office and has much broader authority than anything under CISA authorities. So wrapping this up, I mean, this pushback has been so fast against this board. Within a week, we come to this article here. We have Senator Tom Cotton. He is

putting forward a bill. He leads a GOP bill to defund Biden's DHS Disinformation Board. So he's getting signatures on that. And they're trying to defund this and anything that looks like it. So even if this board goes away tomorrow, if anything pops up that even looks like it with a different name, no funding for it. So this might be a move in the right direction. But this story is moving pretty fast. But what I think is really the dot connecting piece on this is just last week before this governance board came out in the United States, the European Union voted in a very, very similar, I would say even stronger act, a law. It's called the Digital Services Act. This was the headline out of there. It said new EU power to find big tech billions and cracked down on

hate speech and disinformation and harmful content. So they're able to directly go into big tech and tell them what to, what to censor, what not to center. They're able to find big tech a percentage of their yearly revenue if they don't comply, which, you know, it could be billions of dollars. So of course, Big Tech is going to, so this thing has some teeth in the European Union, and that's going to cover 27 of its member states where here in the U.S. is kind of, you know, it's kind of like a backdoor deal. This thing was hoping to be erected without anybody really knowing. But there is major.

So let me understand this. So in the EU, because, I mean, look, the high wire, you know, we obviously play the EU. We're all over Europe. I want to, you know, sort of look out to all of our viewers in Europe. And just thank you for tuning in here for the truth as we can find it. But you're saying social media platforms there, should they play a video by the high wire? If the government says take that down,

that's disinformation. If that social media company doesn't do it, they could be fined large percentages of their annual revenue for not taking it down. Is that essentially how that law works? That's my understanding. I do believe the law covers obviously the big ones, the Twitters, the Facebooks, the YouTube's,

even Google, perhaps even search engines. I don't know how it governs the gabs out there, the rumbles, and there's so many other... I would imagine the same exact way. I mean, how would they be free? I mean, they're a social media company. I just want to use this moment to say, you know, when we're asking you to sign up to our newsletter, it's, you know, we're not... There's no advertising going on. I'm not selling you diapers on the side or anything like that.

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