The Plot to Seize The Truth

“Their hatred is but proof that I am speaking the truth…” ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ March 14, 2024  |  [Sign Up]( The Plot to Seize The Truth “I know that my plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but proof that I am speaking the truth?” – Socrates, in Plato’s Apology, before he ingested hemlock [Special Reminder: In case you missed our late-day announcement yesterday, [The Real October Surprise]( The Essential Investor has merged with legacy contributors to Agora Financial. The new, larger, more inclusive project is called The Grey Swan Investment Fraternity. If you’re interested in the scope and benefits of our new endeavor, please see what prompted us to merge [here](. If you’ve been a member of The Essential Investor, please keep an eye out for your new benefits.] Dear Reader, March 14, 2024 – News came late yesterday that the House passed the “TikTok Divestment” bill by a substantial majority. H.R. 7521, laboriously titled “The Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act,” passed with 352 votes for and 65 against, with one vote abstaining. Among those voting against, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) registered his dissent at the podium. "There's some of us who feel that,” Massie declared, “intentionally, or unintentionally, this legislation to ban TikTok is actually a ‘trojan horse’.” “The so-called TikTok ban," would give the President the power to "ban websites" not just apps. Massie: We are concerned that there are First Amendment implications here. Americans have the right to view information, and don't need to be protected by the government from information. If you think this isn’t a Trojan horse and will only apply to TikTok and foreign-adversary social media companies, then contemplate why someone thought it was important to get a very specific exclusion for their internet based business written into the bill… Massie included on X a picture of the portion of the bill that excludes certain unnamed  companies from the ban: Geez, who might that be? Massie’s concern is the fact that the bill leaves it up to the executive branch to determine exactly “who” would be excluded from the ban... and who wouldn’t be. “This is both a free speech issue and a matter of limited government vs. legislative overreach that appears to set the stage for widespread abuse,” writes a commenter on Zero Hedge, who is covering the bill as it makes its way through Congress.  “TikTok isn’t going to be banned,” Sean Davis of the Federalist posted on X, “because neither the CCP-run Chinese government nor the CCP-owned U.S. government wants to lose such a valuable tool for spying on Americans and poisoning the minds of their children. Instead, the corrupt U.S. intelligence bureaucracy wants control of TikTok, which is why it included the divestment mandate.” With the majority vote in the House, the TikTok ban now moves on to the Senate where it is expected to also pass with bi-partisan support. Today, we’re picking up on a theme. CONTINUED BELOW... >>ADVERTISEMENT<< 2024 – The Real Election Year Surprise In 2016, the October Election Surprise was Hillary Clinton’s email scandal… In 2020, the October Election Surprise was the suppression of all the dirty material on Hunter Biden’s “forgotten” laptop… Now, in 2024, we’re forecasting an October Election Surprise that almost no one sees coming — and this time it’ll be way more devastating than anything you’ve seen before. [Click here to learn about 2024’s real October Election Surprise »]( It’s not at all what you think. CONTINUED... We were amused when the Biden administration tried to establish its own “ministry of truth” several years ago. The Orwellian “Disinformation Governance Board” (DGB) was rather ill-fated from the beginning. The”advisory” board was established by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on April 27, 2022. Its official purpose was “to protect national security by disseminating guidance to DHS agencies on combating misinformation, malinformation, and disinformation that threatens the security of the homeland.” Secretary of the DHS, Alejandro Mayorkas, was the spokesperson responsible for dictating solutions to “specific problem areas” of “false information propagated by human smugglers encouraging migrants to surge to the Mexico–United States border, as well as Russian-state disinformation on election interference and the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.” At least, that’s the official DHS version posted on the Wiki page dedicated to the board’s intentions. As innocuous as those intentions were professed to be, its establishment raised the ire of many a free speech advocate and civil libertarian. Notably the “anti-vax mandate” crowd. Government and private sector collusion? We remember at the time interviewing a friend of ours for the Wiggin Sessions. Jeff Hays, who also makes documentary films, had raised the money for, helped write, and then directed a doc about Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s book “The Real Anthony Fauci.” As you can imagine, Kennedy’s book was critical of Dr. Fauci’s role leading up to and during the pandemic. Kennedy has long been suspicious of vaccine mandates and, before launching his 2024 presidential campaign, served as chairman of the Children’s Health Defense Fund, an influential anti-vaccine organization. During the pandemic, the fund accused the United States government, including Dr. Fauci, of supporting research on a vaccine as part of a plan to increase revenues for the pharmaceutical industry. The interview we did with Hays was about the making of the film, mostly, because that’s what I was interested in at the time. But then… the interview became the first of our Wiggin Sessions to be removed from YouTube because of sensitive content Jeff and I discussed. The issue of government censorship was hot, hot, hot at the time. A couple weeks after it was established, on May 18, the Disinformation Governance Board was put on “pause.” Board head Nina Jankowicz stepped down in the face of public scrutiny. Then, on August 24, the DHS officially pulled the plug, disbanding the board altogether.  It’s hard for us to think the TikTok ban isn’t an attempt to write into law what the executive branch sought to achieve with its board of disinformation. “Every right the government has ever taken away was removed under the false pretense of national security,” RFK, Jr. commented on the TikTok “ban” (which we noted yesterday). “Remember that [now] when members of Congress give Joe Biden the power to remove any app from your phone.” So it goes, Addison Wiggin, The Wiggin Sessions P.S. Elon Musk, of the oft-criticized X, has also spoken out against the TikTok ban over free-speech concerns. Yesterday, he made headlines for canceling a deal with Don Lemon, a former CNN host who had been fired from the network for saying on air that Nikki Hailey was “past her prime.” Lemon was ready to launch a new network using X as a distribution platform. Musk granted an interview with Lemon as part of the run-up to the launch. During the interview Lemon pressed Musk on his “free-speech” views, specifically about allowing white supremacists to conduct “hate speech” on the platform. Musk canceled his involvement with Lemon, suggesting the idea for Lemon’s show was “basically CNN on X” which he no longer agreed to support. Lemon is still free to use X like any other contributor.  P.P.S. A well-meaning reader, Bill D, also pointed out the X post that Musk commented on regarding Biden’s directive to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency. Musk began his post “Treason Indeed!” with the comment that the Biden administration was “importing voters.” Reader Bill says the plan to fly 320,000 undocumented workers to 43 U.S. cities has been disproven as a “right wing” trope. And [provided this article on Snopes.com as proof:]( Here’s the meat of Snopes’ conclusion: The CIS report, and its assertions, gained significant exposure when the Daily Mail covered it and Elon Musk shared the Daily Mail article on X (formerly known as Twitter). Former U.S. President Donald Trump also repeated the claim in his Super Tuesday victory speech on March 5, 2024. The central assertions made by Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), a conservative think tank, repeated by the Daily Mail or others, were that: - A Biden administration program was responsible for flying 320,000 migrants directly into the United States between January and December 2023. (True) - The program was a secret whose details were discovered by an outside group. (False) - The program allowed unvetted aliens to enter the United States. (False) - The U.S. government admitted that the program was a national-security risk. (False) - Such a program could affect U.S. politics by altering voter demographics. (False) Of these five claims, only the first was true. P.P.S. “I'm still waiting for an expose,” Bill also writes “of the profit made from refilling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve at lower prices. Oh, and your coverage of the budget submitted to Congress that cuts the deficit by $3 trillion.” “Nah, you've got axes to grind and aren't interested in honest reporting,” he concludes. Bill’s convinced we’re cherry-picking news items to “report” in our daily missives because we’re running a secret campaign to pander to you… a pro-Trump reader. What do you think? Are we cherry-picking news items? Are you a Trump supporter? How about Biden? Please send your literate response to: addison@greyswanfraternity.com. 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