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The Internal Revenue Service is being sued for violating the freedom of speech, free exercise and equal treatment requirements of the U.S. Constitution against two churches and a couple of conservative nonprofit organizations with tax-exempt status – while ignoring rules violations from leftist organizations.

It was, of course, during Barack Obama's administration that the IRS was caught scheming, and acting, against conservative organizations as Obama was seeking re-election, by delaying and rejecting their applications for tax status so that they would not be able to speak about Obama's extremist agenda during the campaign.

The result was a series of lawsuits, settlements, public admissions of misbehavior by the IRS and more scandals.

And WND reported more than a year ago that that was Lois Lerner, Part 1, when she pled the Fifth before Congress, was found in contempt and given a free pass by Obama.

That report said conservatives at that time were warning that Lois Lerner, Part 2, was coming.

It was because the IRS under Joe Biden, like the IRS under Obama, "subjected an elections nonprofit to a battery of prying questions about its policy positions, language choices and methodology for arriving at correct opinions and conclusions prior to peremptorily rejecting its application for tax-exempt status without appeal."

The first round found the feds attacking Christians and Tea Party organizations under Obama. Eventually the federal government had to pay out millions to the groups it damaged.

The second round was triggered by Washington's attack on a group called Adams, Baldwin, and Covey Foundation.

"Founder Phill Kline charged the IRS has demanded answers to questions like, 'Have you held [a] particular position or view on certain issues or topics? If you do, please detail the position or views of your organization,' and 'Do you have any policy/policies or guidance in place to avoid unsupported opinions or conclusions and inflammatory language in the activities?'"

Kline told the feds to provide the justification for such questions, and explain whether those were being directed at other organizations, too.

Kline warned at the time it was evidence of Biden's belief he can "license thought and speech."

Now a report by the Epoch Times says the new lawsuit is over the IRS actions against conservatives, even while it imposes "no repercussions" on "left-leaning" publications that support Democratic political candidates "in violation of the IRS Code."

The complaint "cites examples of nonprofit media organizations appearing to endorse President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and other political figures, as well as church leaders praising Biden, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and former President Barack Obama during services while they were candidates for president."

"Plaintiffs believe that the activity described … demonstrates ongoing, open, and obvious violations of the [law] by churches friendly to Democrat candidates," the complaint states, according to the report. "However, plaintiffs contend that all such activity is constitutionally protected. Plaintiffs only seek the freedom to engage in similar activity."

In 2020 Cornerstone Chapel in Leesburg, Virginia, was punished when its pastor told members to vote in line with the values in the Bible, and confirmed the Republican platform was closer than the Democrats.

Then a group called "Christians Engaged" was refused tax-exempt status because its teachings were "typically affiliated with the [Republican] party and candidates," although that decision later was overruled.

But the lawsuit said there's no evidence of any investigation, much less adverse action, against any "Democrat-affiliated nonprofit."

The case also points out since the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling all corporations organized under any section but the nonprofits' 501(c)(3) may support or oppose candidates.

The action is pending the federal court in Texas.

"The plaintiffs in the case are the National Religious Broadcasters, Sand Springs Church, the First Baptist Church Waskom, and the Intercessors for America, a national prayer group," the report said.

David Kallman, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, said, "We are not asking the court to restrict the rights of … churches and other liberal organizations, even though they continuously violate the Johnson Amendment without repercussions from the IRS. We just want the same standard to be applied to all churches and 501(c)(3)s."

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The People's Republic of China's Defense Ministry announced Monday the Chinese Navy and Air Force will be conducting "Northern/Interaction-2024," which are joint military exercises with Russian forces which will take place in the Sea of Japan, and the Sea of Okhotsk this month.

"The exercise aims to deepen the level of strategic coordination between the Chinese and Russian militaries and enhance their abilities to jointly respond to security threats," the announcement states.

Since Russia first invaded Ukraine in 2021, China has quickly become one of Russia's largest purchasers of oil and gas, in return supplying electronics that provide multiple uses for both citizens and military applications.

China is currently at odds with several of its neighbors, including Taiwan, over which China is attempting to claim dominion, stating the self-governed island nation historically belongs under the yolk of China. Beijing has repeatedly hinted it will not hesitate to use force, and has threatened multiple times to invade Taiwan.

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JERUSALEM – Amid all the hullabaloo of a supposed hostage deal that never was between Israel and Hamas, the situation regarding Iran's increasing proximity to achieving its nuclear goals have until recently flown somewhat under the radar. However, over the last week or so, several stories have emerged about just how close Tehran is to revealing it, too, has joined the nuclear weapons club.

On Wednesday, foreign policy analyst Walter Russell Mead argued the next administration – whether Republican or Democrat – would likely need to confront a nuclear-armed Iran, or take steps to prevent it from obtaining nuclear weapons, according to the Jewish Insider.

"My guess is that the next president will likely face a nuclear Iran – or face the alternative of war with Iran or accepting a nuclear Iran," Mead said in remarks at the American Enterprise Institute. "I don't think either candidate really knows what they would do under those circumstances, but I think that is something they are very likely to face."

Other outlets including the Free Press and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies have similarly posited Tehran's acceleration toward confirming its development of nuclear weapons. The so-called civilized West has attempted with varying levels of success to either deal decisively or placate Iran's nuclear ambitions for more than two decades. In an article for Slate magazine in 2010, English-American polemicist Christopher Hitchens wrote the following:

"When the day comes that Tehran can announce its nuclear capability, every shred of international law will have been discarded. The mullahs have publicly sworn – to the United Nations and the European Union and the International Atomic Energy Agency – that they are not cheating. As they unmask their batteries, they will be jeering at the very idea of an 'international community.' How strange it is that those who usually fetishize the United Nations and its inspectors do not feel this shame more keenly."

It could cogently be argued the notion of "international law" has already been discarded, especially since the events of Oct. 7, although the overall point about Iran's clear intentions and their flouting of the rules governing the production of nuclear weapons still holds true.

Michael Rubin, director of policy at the Middle East Forum, responded to questions from WorldNetDaily saying it was "almost inevitable" Iran will get the bomb.

"The question is whether they believe they gain more by dragging out the process and the degree to which they fear isolation following a nuclear breakout. The strategic question is whether the United States can delay Iran's nuclear acquisition until after the regime falls. After all, the problem is less an Iranian nuclear bomb, than a nuclear bomb wielded by those embracing Ali Khamenei's ideology."

In a tantalizing response regarding Mead's contention about the next U.S. president having to contend one way or another with a nuclear Iran, Rubin said the parlous condition of the Islamic Republic, which he labeled "terminally ill," might cause the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC, to simply throw caution to the wind and attempt to attack Israel with nuclear weapons.

"If the regime is collapsing anyway, what is to stop them doing that," he asked rhetorically.

The International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA, released two reports in late August regarding Iran's nuclear advances and non-compliance with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, or NPT. The reports indicate "Tehran has added to key enriched uranium stockpiles and installed hundreds of fast uranium enrichment centrifuge machines. This provides the regime with the ability to rapidly make fuel for up to 15 nuclear weapons, according to new estimates issued by the Institute for Science and International Security," as reported in an FDD news brief.

The IAEA's 35-nation Board of Governors met Monday to discuss Iran's continued failure to comply with the organization's censure resolution of June 2023. The resolution demanded that Iran "cooperate with the IAEA to resolve a multi-year investigation into the regime's nuclear weapons work, reinstate access for key agency inspectors, permit enhanced IAEA monitoring, and provide details on missing nuclear material and the construction of new nuclear facilities."

Meanwhile, neither the United States nor its European partners seem likely to censure Iran at the next IAEA meeting, i.e. they seem consigned to the reality of the worst global state sponsor of global terrorism being able to hold the world to ransom due its possession of nuclear weapons.

"Facts are stubborn," said FDD CEO Mark Dubowitz. "Most of Iran's nuclear weapons expansion has occurred since the election of Biden-Harris and their decision to abandon the pressure strategy of the previous administration."

None of this is conjecture, and recently translated Iranian parliamentary documents detail how Tehran is significantly expanding the funding and military pursuits of the Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research, known by its Farsi language–based acronym, SPND.

"While the new Iranian legislation doesn't specifically mention nuclear bomb development, it clearly states that SPND's mandate is to produce advanced and nonconventional weapons with no civilian oversight," according to the Free Press. "The legislation states that 'this organization focuses on managing and acquiring innovative, emerging, groundbreaking, high-risk, and superior technologies in response to new and emerging threats.'"

The SPND is home to nuclear scientists, at least six of whom Israel has been accused of assassinating. This includes Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, regarded as the chief of Iran's nuclear program, who was killed in a daring operation in November 2020, which seemed to leap straight from the pages of a spy novel. Israel allegedly attempted to take out a sixth scientist as well, although that operation was unsuccessful.

This is also not to forget Mossad agents exfiltrated a half-ton of documents from a Tehran warehouse, which Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used liberally in a presentation where he charged Iran with flat out lying about its nuclear ambitions – and he had the receipts to prove it. Rubin said Israel's purported actions had succeeded in delaying Iran's development of nuclear weapons, although he added the West's tendency to "kick the can down the road," does eventually lead into a cul-de-sac.

Indeed, even the U.S. is perturbed by Iran's seemingly brazen dash for the bomb. In July, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), a top intelligence body, released a report saying it could no longer verify Iran's nuclear pursuits were for strictly civilian purposes. This seems like an extraordinary admission that Iranian claims of the peaceful use of nuclear power were taken at face-value.

Is Iran using Middle East instability as a shield for nuclear development?

There are also concerns in Washington and Jerusalem in particular that Iran is using the current situation in the Middle East, which it has deliberately fostered, to create a smoke screen for its nuclear ambitions. And if it succeeds in manufacturing nuclear weapons, many of the options – including military – still just about on the table will immediately be swept from the board.

Ironically, the relative ease with which U.S., Israeli, French, British, and other coalition partners managed to knock its ballistic missiles out of the sky in its unprecedented April 13 assault on Israel, may have worked to focus minds on the nuclear option even more intensely.

Also, between the recent Iranian presidential election – called after the death of Ebrahim Raisi in a May helicopter crash – and the upcoming U.S. presidential election, nuclear diplomacy has largely been stalled. This does not mean, however, the stockpiling of highly enriched uranium, nor the refinement of fissile material has been similarly paused. Evidence would suggest quite the opposite. Senior U.S. officials now say Tehran could produce weapons-grade fuel in just a few weeks. Iran has also moved ahead with developing a potential delivery system for an atomic weapon: test-firing the long-range Simorgh carrier rocket in January, reported the Free Press.

The elevation of one or other of the U.S. presidential candidates will produce wildly different approaches to the Iran nuclear problem; a President Harris will seek, like her predecessors, to return to the negotiating table and reanimate the failed Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Meanwhile, President Trump 2.0 will inevitably seek to reinstate his maximum pressure policy, immediately cutting off billions of dollars in petro-dollars and other revenue, which the Biden-Harris administration has with criminal alacrity given to Tehran. As Mead points out, by the time January comes around it might be too late to do anything about it anyway.

And what of Israel? Rubin is under no illusions as to how difficult taking out Iran's nuclear facilities would be: "The danger is that Israel can start such an operation but not finish it, simply because Iran is much larger than Iraq and Syria [Israeli fighter jets managed to take these out in one go], and its nuclear program much more dispersed. We're not talking a single sortie but rather well over a thousand, especially given the need to take out command-and-control, anti-air defenses, and enemy airfields."

However, he was unequivocal about what any Israeli leader would decide to do if Iran threatened the Jewish state. "Make no mistake, though. If Israel faces an existential threat, it will do what it needs to do; it is not simply going to acquiesce to its own destruction."

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One major city's scheme that allowed a Christian pastor to be arrested, twice, because crowds in the streets were triggered to hostility by his words has been struck down.

The demise of Seattle's "heckler's veto" agenda comes in a consent order that was entered this week in a case brought by First Liberty Institute on behalf of Pastor Matthew Meinecke.

"Meinecke was censored and arrested on two separate occasions in 2022 for simply reading the Bible to others because his gospel-oriented message triggered hostile reactions from activists," the legal team explained.

But now in the order, which affirms a "complete victory" for the pastor, Judge Barbara J. Rothstein has granted Meinecke "permanent injunctive relief from the unconstitutional police policy, compensatory damages for the wrongful arrests, and nominal damages for the constitutional violations, along with reasonable attorney fees and expenses," the institute reported.

"This result is only fitting. The government should never silence the speech of a citizen just because an audience dislikes what it's hearing," explained Nate Kellum, senior counsel. "Pastor Meinecke is thrilled to put this case behind him and get back to sharing the gospel on the streets of Seattle."

The fight erupted just a little over two years ago when Meinecke traveled to the downtown Seattle area to read his Bible aloud, hold up a sign, and hand out literature to those who wanted it.

The events first happened at a pro-abortion rally.

"Despite his evangelistic and peaceful intent, some individuals in the crowd, including Antifa members, did not receive the message well. They took Meinecke's Bible away from him, ripped out pages from it, knocked Meinecke down, and took one of his shoes," the institute confirmed.

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Four men residing in Delaware have been charged with an international sextortion and money-laundering scheme, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

The sextortion plot targeted thousands of victims throughout the U.S., Canada and United Kingdom. The four accused were arrested or self-surrendered between Aug. 20, and Sept. 5.

According to an unsealed indictment, Sidi Diakite, 30; Almamy Diaby, 22; Abdul Aziz Sangare, 26; and Abdoul Aziz Traore, 31; allegedly posed online as young females, initiating conversations with young men – some of who were minors – and offered to provide or did provide, sexual photographs, video recordings, webcam, or live cam sessions to their online victims.

During these sessions with their victims, the con artists would record their victims as they exposed their genitals and engaged in sexual activity. They allegedly then used these images to extort money from the victims.

"The conspirators thereafter sent the victims copies of the victims' fraudulently obtained sexual images and threatened to distribute the victims' sexual images to the victims' friends, family members, significant others, employers, and co-workers, and to publish the victims' sexual images widely online, unless the victims transferred funds to designated recipients," according to the DOJ.

The four conspirators allegedly engaged in cyberstalking, interstate threats, extortion, money laundering, and wire fraud – successfully extorting approximately $1.9 million from victims through the use of CashApp and Apple Pay.

The indictment further alleges the four men operated infrastructure to transfer the extorted funds outside of North America to other conspirators located as far as the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, which is on the Ivory Coast of Africa.

In April, two women were also arrested for being part of the extortion scheme, with crimes going back as far as May 2020. Hadja Kone, 28, was arrested in Wilmington, Delaware, while Siaka Ouattara, 22, was arrested by Côte d'Ivoire authorities.

If convicted, the conspirators are facing a potential maximum sentence of 20 years in prison for each conspiracy count, a maximum sentence of 20 years for each money laundering count, and 20 years in prison for each wire fraud count.

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The governor of Pennsylvania has issued an executive stripping state employees of their First Amendment rights and the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression says it is looking forward to fighting him in court.

The FIRE explains that Josh Shapiro's "sweeping executive order" insists that public employees, even when not on duty, now are gagged from expressing any opinion that someone, somewhere, somehow, could define as "scandalous" or "disgraceful."

The Fire called that "an impossibly vague restriction effectively prohibiting wide swaths of speech protected by the First Amendment."

"Free speech is the keystone of our democracy, and today it's threatened in the Keystone State by Gov. Shapiro," explained Aaron Terr, the foundation's chief of public advocacy. "No elected official can slap a gag order like this on state workers. This is an abuse of power, and we're looking forward to challenging this flagrant government overstep in court."

The organization noted that the gag order is for "teachers to toll booth operators, librarians to linemen" and is "flatly unconstitutional."

The foundation sent a letter a few weeks ago expressing concern about the flagrant outrage, but Shapiro's office refused to respond.

Now the organization is going public.

"The state is strategically putting all the chess pieces in place to punish everyday Americans for nothing more than saying something the government doesn't like," charged Terr. "Our job is to smack those pieces off the board before someone gets fired for speaking their mind."

The FIRE explained, "Broad and subjective terms like 'scandalous' and 'disgraceful' reach a vast array of speech protected by the First Amendment. FIRE explained in its Aug. 5 letter that although the state exercises significant authority over its employees' speech when they speak as part of their job duties, government employees still have robust First Amendment rights to speak as citizens on important issues."

And, in fact, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, whose decisions are binding on the state, earlier blocked a state agency enforcement of an agency's ban on workers wearing political masks.

Concern that that would be a problem was "merely conjectural," it said.

"This isn't a close call. Pennsylvania's expansive restriction on state employees is unconstitutional. If the executive order is not promptly amended, FIRE looks forward to challenging it in court to defend public workers' crucial First Amendment rights," the foundation warned.

The problem is because months ago Shapiro "quietly inserted" the vague censorship language into his administration's code of conduct.

"The revision ensnares not only conduct, but speech — a departure from a preexisting management directive that used the same language but didn't clearly include expression," the report said.

His administration then followed with a warning about "antisemitism, Islamophobia, and other forms of hate speech."

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Just as President Donald Trump and 2024 Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris were heading into Tuesday night's debate, she has been making a lot of promises.

For "Day One."

She's been boasting of how she'll have policies ready to institute on the border, on inflation, on crime and more.

But her Republican opponents are pointing out the reality: that for her "Day One" was in 2021, and she has not done what she says she wants even though she's been in power since that time.

The Trump campaign's criticisms are in a new video:

After an opening featuring Harris claiming her plans for "Day One," JD Vance is revealed to have explained, "Kamala, Day One was January of 2021."

Trump noted it was "three-and-a-half years ago."

And regarding her so-called plan?

"Why hasn't she done it?"

News clips then point out crime rates have skyrocketed, inflation has exploded, mass border crossings been unchecked – all while Harris was part of the Biden-Harris administration, in power in the White House.

Brian Hughes, a senior adviser to the Trump campaign, said, "Kamala Harris has been in the White House for an unimaginable American decline. Basic goods cost more, illegal migrant crime ravages our communities, and we have lost our role as the global leader whose strength brings peace. Her Day One came and went years ago, and she can't hide from that."

The Trump campaign noted, "She passed spending plans that even Democrat economists say have exploded inflation making basic life unaffordable for many families. She sat back as her open border policies brought in more than 20 million illegal migrants and fueled drugs, rape, and murder in every community. She was 'the last person in the room' ignoring the warnings of a disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal killing 13 uniform servicemembers, abandoning allies and US citizens, and embarrassing our nation on the world stage."

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Kamala Harris failed right out of the gate in the presidential debate Tuesday night with President Donald Trump.

By declining to answer the question – on the topic of signal importance to Americans, the Biden administration's failed economy has included some 21% inflation for American consumers and sky-high prices for housing, food, and energy.

She asked if she believes Americans are "better off" now, following the nearly four years of Biden and Harris influences, than they were before, but she didn't answer.

She instead boasted about being raised "as a middle-class kid," and claimed that Trump's economic plans would cost American families $4,000 a year more, not acknowledging that the Biden-Harris inflation cost Americans many times that.

She wants to give tax cuts to families and small businesses, not identifying how she would cover those costs.

She blasted Trump for a poor economy and a health catastrophe that developed at the end of his term; apparently blaming the GOP candidate for the COVID-19 pandemic and its results.

Kamale repeatedly smirked, laughed and pursed her lips while Trump was speaking, in an auditorium where there was no audience.

Trump pointed out his tariffs generated billions for the United States and he would resume them. Some of them, he pointed out, the Biden-Harris regime even kept.

He called inflation a "country-buster."

"It's been a disaster for people," he said.

On abortion, Trump explained he appointed Supreme Court justices who returned the abortion decisions to voters in the states, which is what people have wanted for years.

Harris repeatedly lied that Project 2025 belongs to Trump, a plan that he had no part in, and has disavowed.

Harris said she wants to return to the limits of Roe v. Wade, the faulty precedent created by the Supreme Court in 1973, a ruling that essentially provides for literally no limits on abortion.

In fact, Trump cited the words of ex-Gov. Ralph Northam of Virginia who described how his support for abortion extended to setting a baby born alive aside, then having a consultation with doctors and the mother, and then deciding what to do with the child.

That specifically suggests an execution after birth.

He challenged Harris to answer whether she would allow an abortion in the eight, or ninth month, or after.

Harris tried to use her own party's lawfare cases against Trump to embarrass and hurt him. Her party, in fact, has weaponized the Department of Justice and other Democrat prosecutors to create cases against Trump.

Probably the major case was dismissed; others are on appeal and legal experts have condemned the Democrats for their campaign to create claims against Trump.

He responded, "It's called weaponization. They weaponized the Justice Department. Every one of those cases…"

He cited the "total victory" he had in the "documents" case, and when Harris claimed Trump said he would "terminate" the Constitution, he noted, "She's the one who weaponized. I probably took a bullet to the head because of the things they said about me. They are the ones who are a threat to democracy."

On the topic of the Jan. 6, 2021, protest-turned-riot at the U.S. Capitol, Trump took the opportunity to interject with, "I'm speaking … sound familiar," referring to Harris' own penchant for using that same term.

Trump was asked if there was anything he regretted about that day, he pointed out he made a speech, and knew the day's events could be volatile, so he contacted Nancy Pelosi and the Washington, D.C., mayor to offer 10,000 troops to maintain security.

He pointed out that they refused.

"They rejected me," he said. He noted Nancy Pelosi's own daughter has released a video in which Pelosi admits she "is fully responsible for what happened."

Harris said she was at the Capitol that day as "acting senator."

She accused Trump of inciting a "violent mob" to attack the Capitol.

She said he was "indicted and impeached" for that, but failed to note that that impeachment in the House was overturned by Trump's acquittal on those charges in the Senate.

Then she brought up the Charlottesville lie. That is a oft-repeated Democrat falsehood about Trump's comments regarding a race issue in that city. The Democrats' claim that he praised KKK-type radicals has been debunked even by the leftist Snopes.

Harris claimed that Trump's inability to "process" that he lost the 2020 race was worrying, to which Trump said the court cases that drew praise from Democrats were decided on technicalities, which in fact is what happened.

Most of the Trump campaign's challenges to the 2020 results ended up being dismissed, often by leftist judges, on issues such as standing.

On the Hamas terror against Israel, Harris said Israel has a right to defend itself, but complained that Palestinian "children, mothers" were being killed.

"We must chart a course for a two-state solution," she said, insisting on security of Israel and the Palestinians, equally.

Trump said the conflict never would have happened if he had been president. Likewise, he said, Putin never would have invaded Ukraine.

"She hates Israel. She wouldn't even meet with Netanyahu when he went to Congress," he said. "She went to a sorority party. She hates Israel. At the same time she hates the Arab population…:"

He pointed out the tens of billions of dollars the Biden administration gave to Iran, which is the prime sponsor of terror in the Middle East.

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Google, and other tech behemoths, long have been thought to be in Kamala Harris' camp, advocating for her and for the leftist ideologies that she adopts and promotes, and imposing an anything-but-neutral agenda on users.

Now we know for sure. From the mouth of an insider:

Dakota Leazer, a Google company growth strategist, is on video explaining, "Google was essentially promoting through its ads rhetoric that was very pro-Kamala."

Appearing in an undercover video released by James O'Keefe, he says Google has been actively coordinating with the leftist campaign of Harris, who was picked by Democrat party elites to replace the aging and failing Joe Biden.

He said it has been manipulating its search engine advertisements to favor her in the 2024 election.

"It seemed to link out to legitimate news publication sites. So, it seemed like it was an ad from PBS, but it was really an ad for the Kamala campaign," he said, a deception that would make users "believe they were reading unbiased reports from reputable sources," the report from O'Keefe confirmed.

"Leazer also confesses that Google's primary objective is to generate ad revenue through fear-based content, explaining, 'I think whatever demographic is most fearful is going to be most profitable,'" the report said.

O'Keefe reports, "According to Leazer, the left currently represents the most fearful demographic, which is why Google has been pushing pro-Kamala narratives for profit, explaining, 'I think right now the left is more fearful than the right is.'"

O'Keefe revealed that shortly after the video was released, Leazer deleted his TikTok videos, "including the ones where he is seen wearing Google merchandise. He has also removed his bio and contact information. This follows his exposure on hidden camera, where he admitted Google has been coordinating with the Kamala Harris campaign and manipulating search engine ads to favor her in the 2024 election."

A report at the Gateway Pundit said the video from O'Keefe Media Group follows on reports that Harris was editing news headlines with Google search ads "to make it appear major news outlets such Reuters, CBS News, CNN, NPR and AP are on her side. While these major news outlets are shilling for Harris, her campaign edited the news headlines without the outlets' consent or knowledge."

In fact, WND reported when Harris was caught lying in her campaign promotions, a family whose broadcast outlet was abused and whose reputation possibly damaged announced it was considering legal action.

The scenario was that the Harris campaign had been buying online ads and making up headlines and story descriptions, then using the names of established publications in the ads. The ads link to real news organizations, but those stories don't support the headlines being fabricated by the Harris campaign.

The Daily Caller reported it is WDAY Radio, a broadcaster based in Fargo, N.D., that was reviewing its options for legal action.

The report noted "the Kamala Harris campaign deceptively edited WDAY headlines to make it look like they supported her in an ad campaign."

Harris's campaign has taken advantage of the names of publishers including NPR, CNN, the Guardian, Independent, Reuters, AP and WDAY, the report said.

"We feel insulted and violated by what was done here," explained Steve Hallstrom, president of Flag Family Media, which owns WDAY, in an interview with the Daily Caller.

"You have a political campaign that used our news brand and our URL to effectively lie to people about the headline we wrote. They lied to every single person that saw that ad. It's misleading, it's dishonest, and it hurts us as the company, our news brand. So as of today, we're starting to make some calls here. We are considering all of our options here, including legal action," he said.

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JERUSALEM – A top U.S. official warned Monday that a full-blown war between Israel and Iran's Shia Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah, would have devastating implications for the region, possibly leading to tens of thousands of deaths on both sides of the Israel-Lebanon border.

Speaking at the Middle East America Dialogue (MEAD) summit in Washington, D.C., the official said there could be "catastrophic and unforeseen consequences," while also highlighting the likely end of the war via a diplomatic solution, which on balance would not look significantly different from the current situation.

While cautioning against all-out war, the official – who thought it could be staved off – freely admitted the current situation in northern Israel was intolerable, with Hezbollah maintaining its constant rate of fire of several – and in some cases tens of missiles and drones – per day being fired over the border.