Michael Shellenberger

5 days ago | public.news | Michael Shellenberger

Ulrike Guérot received an unsettling phone call in early August 2022. An old friend from her past, someone closely tied to intelligence circles whom she hadn’t seen for nearly two decades, urgently invited her to coffee. At that meeting, he told her, "You need to be very careful now, Ulrike. They're going to eradicate you — shut you out of the public sphere."Initially, Guérot dismissed the warning. A single mother of two without significant power or wealth, she believed she posed no threat.

1 week ago | public.news | Michael Shellenberger

Since taking office, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has taken a series of actions to push back against growing foreign government demands to censor American citizens and American technology companies like Google, Meta, and X. In April, Rubio shut down the State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC), which had funded censorship advocacy by the Global Disinformation Index, a UK-based NGO with ties to the Intelligence Community.

2 weeks ago | public.news | Michael Shellenberger |Catherine Herridge |Alex Gutentag

The Biden Administration labeled Americans who opposed the COVID-19 vaccination and mask mandates as “Domestic Violent Extremists,” or DVEs, according to newly declassified intelligence records obtained by Public and Catherine Herridge Reports. The designation created an “articulable purpose” for FBI or other government agents to open an “assessment” of individuals, which is often the first step toward a formal investigation, said a former FBI agent.

3 weeks ago | climatedepot.com | Marc Morano |Michael Shellenberger

https://www.public.news/p/china-can-cause-blackouts-in-us-andGovernments around the world are investigating and banning Chinese inverters after radio and backdoor kill switches discoveredIt sounds like the far-fetched plot of a cheesy James Bond movie: the Chinese military causes civilization-crippling blackouts around the world, plunging cities from San Francisco to Berlin to Seoul into chaos, while invading Taiwan. Hospitals stall. Subways freeze. Data centers go dark. But it’s not far-fetched.

3 weeks ago | public.news | Michael Shellenberger

By now, many people have already concluded that former President Joe Biden was mentally unfit to be president. We all saw for ourselves in the debate with Trump last June, moderated by CNN’s Jake Tapper, how disoriented he could be. But it is truly shocking to hear the audio of Biden trying and failing to answer basic questions in interviews for Special Counsel Robert Hur’s investigation into the former president having taken home classified records in 2017.