Hello everybody and thank you for tuning in to the weekly report.

Doge and the Global Engagement Center.

In the book Crisis and Leviathan, libertarian thinker Robert Higgs

pointed out that the state uses crises to ratchet up its power and control over citizens.

With each new crisis, often directly or indirectly

caused by the state itself, government grows and our freedom shrinks. The root cause of the

September 11, 2001 attacks was U.S. interventionism. For example, as I said in a presidential debate,

a few years later, they came over here because we were over there. But instead of looking

to that root cause, it was determined that the real problem was not enough government.

So taking advantage of the crisis, Congress created a director of national intelligence,

a Department of Homeland Security, and passed the Patriot Act.

The Russia Gate crisis was invented by the Hillary Clinton campaign as a dirty trick to use against

Donald Trump in the 2016 election campaign. It may not have defeated Trump, but it hobbled his presidency,

the result of this manufactured claim that the Russians and Chinese

and Iranians are meddling in our affairs and manipulating our elections is that the federal government

determined that the First Amendment no longer applies to us.

They have decided that consuming certain media should not be allowed

for our own safety. So they have denied Americans the right to access media from countries

the U.S. government considers enemies. In the name of fighting imaginary foreign medley in our elections,

it's Americans who find their rights are curtailed. They even created an entire government

entity within the State Department, the Global Engagement Center. Right after the phony Russia Gate operation was launched, to recognize, understand, exposure,

counter foreign state and non-state propaganda and disinformation on efforts aimed at undermining

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