Laurence Silberman – HISTORY HEIST

NY Times v. Sullivan Decision: The 1st Amendment Prohibits Damages to Public Figures for Defamation unless Resulting from “Actual Malice”

LeeF March 9, 1964 April 8, 2023

The 1964 decision in New York Times v. Sullivan has since protected many media outlets from lawsuits in spite of their intentional ‘hit pieces.’ D.C. Circuit …

World Food Program Warns of Global Fertilizer Crisis

1 year ago

The UN World Food Program warned Monday that the food crisis is being compounded by a fertilizer crisis. “If we don’t get fertilizers moving, you’re not going have just a food pricing problem, like we’re facing right now. You will have a food availability problem in 2023,” World Food Program Executive Director David Beasley said at an IMF conference hosted by Saudi Arabia on tackling food insecurity. “And when that happens, it will be hell on earth. It will be tragedy upon tragedy.” He explained that half of … Read More

Rasmussen Poll: 85% of Americans Oppose Explicit Child Books in Elementary School Libraries

1 year ago

Voters overwhelmingly oppose sexually explicit books in public school libraries, and believe schools have an obligation to inform parents what their children are being taught. A new national telephone and online survey by Rasmussen Reports and the Capitol Resource Institute finds that 89% of Likely U.S. voters think it is important that public schools fully inform parents about what is being taught to their children in classrooms, including 70% who say it is Very Important. (To see survey question wording, click here.) Sixty-nine percent (69%) of voters believe books … Read More

Ecuadorean President Moreno Ends Gov’t Fuel Subsidies Causing Spike in Gas Prices, Protests

4 years ago

On October 3rd, 2019, President Lenín Moreno announced the enactment of Decree 883 which effectively ended decades of government fuel subsidies, causing the price of gasoline and diesel to jump sharply overnight. In a televised speech on Oct. 3, Moreno announced executive order 883 which “liberates the price of diesel and extra gasoline,” justifying his decision by saying that the Ecuadorean state allocates more than US$1.3 billion a year in fuel subsidies. A day later prices increased by 25 to 120 percent, as the gallon of gasoline will … Read More

Report: ‘Nonpartisan’ Group Aiding Lawyers for ‘Whistleblower’ Tied to Democrats, Far-Left Organizations

4 years ago

Whistleblower Aid, a small nonprofit helping the lawyers for the so-called whistleblower at the center of the impeachment movement targeting President Donald Trump, is heavily tied to far-left activist organizations and Democratic politics. One of the co-founders of Whistleblower Aid previously worked at several liberal activist organizations financed by billionaire activist and Democratic Party megadonor George Soros. The other co-founder currently leads a separate organization that boasts on its four-person advisory board John Podesta, who led Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, served as Chief of Staff to Bill … Read More

President Trump Activates the U.S. Marine Reserves to Respond to an “Emergency within the United States,” Citing “Threats to the Homeland.”

4 years ago

In an unprecedented move, President Trump has activated the U.S. Marine reserves to respond to an “emergency within the United States,” citing “threats to the Homeland.” The main body of the following report first appeared at NaturalNews.com, who is working with Infowars.com on this earth-shaking report. BREAKING NEWS UPDATE concerning a directive involving the United States Marine Corps reserve units via MARADMINS number 550/19, signed on Oct. 3, 2019, authorized by Brigadier General Daniel L. Shipley, Director, Manpower Plans and Policy. Notably, Brigadier General Daniel L. Shipley was … Read More

Report: Another ‘Whistleblower’ Takes Aim at Trump — This Time from IRS

4 years ago

An Internal Revenue Service (IRS) bureaucrat has filed a so-called “whistleblower” complaint claiming he received information that at least one Treasury Department political appointee moved to “improperly interfere” with the annual audit of President Donald Trump or Vice President Mike Pence’s tax returns, according to the Washington Post. The Post, citing multiple anonymous sources, cannot provide key details of the complaint due to privacy laws that prohibit the disclosure of details concerning tax return filings. The complaint’s existence was revealed in court filings earlier, though it failed to … Read More

Four Police Officers Stabbed to Death in Paris HQ by Fellow Officer who Converted to Islam and Heard Voices the Night Before Attack

4 years ago

“Attack at the Prefecture: what is known about the assailant,” translated from “Attaque à la Préfecture: ce que l’on sait de l’assaillant,” BFMTV, October 3, 2019 (thanks to BD): Four police officers were killed on Thursday at the police headquarters in Paris. The attacker was shot. He was an administrative official in that préfecture….According to reports, the assailant had converted to Islam 18 months ago. Martin says Oct 3, 2019 at 1:28 pm DAILY MAIL – Deaf Islamic convert is named as Paris police HQ attacker: Computer scientist … Read More

Apple CEO Tim Cook Blacklists Hong Kong Protest Tracking App

4 years ago

Apple CEO Tim Cook, after blacklisting an app tracking Hong Kong protest and police activity over a week earlier (Oct 3rd), defended the company’s decision. One Hong Kong legislative counselor commented, “We Hongkongers will definitely look closely at whether Apple chooses to uphold its commitment to free expression and other basic human rights, or become an accomplice for Chinese censorship and oppression.” Bloomberg reports that Apple CEO Tim Cook has defended the company’s decision to remove the HKmap.live app from its store, stating that they had received “credible … Read More

The Wall Street Bailout: A Financial Coup d’etat

15 years ago

The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act and Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), commonly referred to as a “bank bailout,” authorized the US Secretary of the Treasury to spend $700 billion (actually spent more than double that) of taxpayer dollars to purchase distressed assets, especially mortgage-backed securities (MBS). Instead, the funds were given to foreign and domestic banks to offset their risky MBS, OTC derivatives and other losses. The bank bailout set a precedent of socializing losses but keeping gains private. The Act effectively bound the fate of the U.S. Treasury to … Read More

President Clinton Confirmed that 4000 Human “Experiment[s] Conducted from 1945” Were Covered Up

28 years ago

On October 2, 1995, President Clinton confirmed that 4000 “experiment[s] conducted from 1945” were covered up by officialdom for “fear of embarrassment”. Even in the midst of such an apology, the severity of the crime is trivialized by such language: embarrassment must surely have ranked quite low among the concerns of the men and women involved with inhuman experiments which might, were justice to be served, have qualified them for the death penalty. Given that violations of the Hippocratic Oath, every standard of medical ethics, Article 7 of the International Covenant on … Read More

The Verdict of the Trial of the Century: OJ Simpson …Not Guilty of Murdering wife Nicole Brown Simpson or Ron Goldman. Was He Really Innocent?

28 years ago

On June 12, 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were found stabbed to death outside Nicole’s condo in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles. Simpson was a person of interest in their murders. Simpson did not turn himself in, and on June 17 he became the object of a low-speed pursuit by police while riding as a passenger in the white 1993 Ford Bronco SUV owned and driven by his longtime friend Al Cowlings. TV stations interrupted coverage of the 1994 NBA Finals to broadcast the incident live. With an estimated audience of 95 million people, the event was described as “the … Read More

The Iran Contra Affair First Revealed when Pilot Eugene Hasenfus is Shot Down Over Nicaragua While Delivering Arms & Cocaine to the Contras

37 years ago

The (Iran) Contra affair is first revealed on this date when pilot Eugene Hasenfus is shot down over Nicaragua while delivering arms to the Contras (and quite likely cocaine if it had made its way back to the U.S.). Hasenfus admits to being CIA, a claim immediately publicly refuted by CIA insiders as General John Singlaub of the American Security Council and Elliott Abrams of the State Department. On March 16, 1986, President Ronald Reagan went on national television to make a desperate pitch for the restoration of congressional aid to the … Read More

Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation which Set the Precedent for America’s National Day of Thanksgiving …and the Woman Behind…

160 years ago

Secretary of State William Seward wrote it and Abraham Lincoln issued it, but much of the credit for the proclamation should probably go to a woman named Sarah Josepha Hale. A prominent writer and editor, Hale had written the children’s poem “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” originally known as “Mary’s Lamb,” in 1830 and helped found the American Ladies Magazine, which she used a platform to promote women’s issues. In 1837, she was offered the editorship of “Godey’s Lady Book,” where she would remain for more than 40 … Read More

Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation: America’s First Federal Thanksgiving

234 years ago

On October 3rd, 1789, following a resolution of Congress, President George Washington proclaimed Thursday the 26th of November 1789 a day of “public thanksgiving and prayer” devoted to “the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be.” Reflecting American religious practice, Presidents and Congresses from the beginning of the republic have from time to time designated days of fasting and thanksgiving (the Thanksgiving holiday we continue to celebrate in November was established … Read More