New York Governor Kathy Hochul continues to ratchet up the censorship in her state since the latest war in Israel began, once again claiming that these latest measures are to curb the purported spike in antisemitism and anti-Islamic in the state and online. Hochul has now signed an executive order that will force all K-12 schools to teach courses on spotting “conspiracy theories,” and mis- and disinformation.
Hochul has already been implementing “anti-hate” policies these past weeks. On October 31st she said she would be moving funds to address hate crimes in the state, saying New York has “zero tolerance” for hate, outlining new anti-hate police investments; outlining a series of steps ‘to root out hate — directing $75 million toward the prevention of hate crimes, expanding the state police unit that monitors threats on social media, and ordering a comprehensive review of anti-discrimination policies at the City University of New York.’
Last Monday, November 13th, Hochul revealed the state has been “collecting” data from “surveillance efforts” on social media, and is in the process of clamping down on what can be said online in the state, along with adding staff to the “Joint Terrorism Task Force.” She said during a media release:
Also, we’re very focused on the data we’re collecting from surveillance efforts. What’s being said on social media platforms. And we have launched an effort to be able to counter some of the negativity, and reach out to people when we see hate speech being spoken about on online platforms.
Our media analysis, our social media analysis unit, has ramped up its monitoring of sites to catch incitement to violence; direct threats to others, and all this is in response to our desire, our strong commitment, to ensure that not only do New Yorkers be safe, but they also feel safe because personal security is about everything for them.
Now the Governor is at it again and is now forcing New York state schools to teach students what they deem as conspiracies, and mis- and disinformation. During a speech today Hochul explained how this will be deployed, along with more ways to crackdown on hate crimes and speech, in the present and in the virtual world.
Here is what she said per an official transcript of her speech:
Good morning, everyone. First of all, I want to acknowledge our Commissioner of Homeland Security and Emergency Services, Jackie Bray, who you’ll be hearing from. Sheikh Musa has joined us. We’ll be hearing from him momentarily. Eric Goldstein from the UJA Federation as well. And I also want to welcome all of you.
Across our state, New Yorkers are afraid. If they have family or friends in Israel, in Gaza, other places, they’re afraid for their safety. At home, many people are wrestling with the fear for the first time ever sometime in their lives of being the victim of a hate crime. I wish I could tell you these concerns were misplaced, but tragically the data all across America is showing that hate crimes have surged in the last six weeks.
Since October 7, there has been a 400 percent increase in threats against Jews, Muslims, and Arabs. And make no mistake, we’ve not stood idly by. My number one priority has been and will continue to be protecting the safety of our residents. That’s why I want to inform you about some of the actions that we’re taking to keep New Yorkers safe from extremism and violence.
We have a four pillar plan. It’s comprehensive and it’s far reaching. First of all, we’re strengthening physical security of locations. We’re also making the digital world safer by identifying credible, online threats. And we’re also calling out social media companies who have failed their responsibility to create a safe, public square. And creating resources and toolkits for parents and schools alike.
First, let me share how we’ve already taken action to protect our vulnerable communities safe, and to protect physical security. Two weeks ago, I told New Yorkers we were activating law enforcement to protect them. We mobilized State Police to protect at risk sites. We established a hate and bias reporting hotline. We made $50 million available for local law enforcement, $25 million to protect vulnerable locations.
We also encouraged the use and understanding of our red flag laws to ensure that guns don’t get into the hate filled hands of individuals looking to do harm to others. That’s just the start. Let’s talk today about what we’re trying to do to make the digital world safer. We know that social media is an emotion amplifier. If the emotion is love, and that’s amplified, that is a good dynamic. If the emotion is hate, and that’s amplified, that’s the chaos that we’re falling into today.
It can also amplify the hate that just boils up from this toxic stew of ignorance, and it becomes festered online. So we’re creating strategies, for the first time ever, to help identify hate at the source and prevent crimes before they occur. As I’ve often said, I’d rather be in the business of preventing crimes than solving them.
And that’s where our threat assessment and management teams come in – the TAM teams. This is an initiative I actually launched over a year and a half ago in the aftermath of the Buffalo Massacre after a racist shooting by a white supremacist who targeted 10 of my neighbors. That’s when we activated more surveillance of critical threats for harm online.
They work to track and stop violent acts of hate before they happen. And today, I’m announcing $3 million in additional investment to ensure that every single college campus now has these in the State of New York. So let me be clear. These teams are working to identify violent threats. They’re not looking at your Instagram sunset post or your tweets about your favorite football team.
And they’re not here to penalize anyone for their political views. They have a simple goal, to find out what’s driving hateful behavior and intervene early before harm is done. And to give people who are being radicalized online an off ramp. They work with mental health professionals, establish reporting systems, so classmates and others can raise red flags and train adults on how to spot the warning signs.
We have 36 county-based TAM teams right now. Again, these are the threat assessment and management teams. They’re already tackling over 50 cases now as we speak. But that’s just one strategy to help protect New Yorkers online. We’re building off the success of other initiatives. We already use targeted ads to encourage people to anonymously seek help from trained counselors. We have that going on as we speak.
But also, help parents understand what’s available to them. If they start seeing signs that their own child could be radicalized online, because I assure you, most parents are never aware. And we’re also continuing to train our mental health professionals in de-radicalization strategies. But here’s the truth, so much of this hate originates on social media platforms like TikTok who refuse to take action necessary to protect our children and young people.
Just look at what happened this week. A prominent message, shared on TikTok, was one from none other than the mastermind of the 9/11 massacre of thousands of New Yorkers, Osama bin Laden. It was shocking to see young people extolling the virtues of a terrorist kingpin. That only proves the power that social media has over our young people. And therefore, they have a responsibility.
I refuse to accept this as the new status quo. That’s why I’m pushing back against these companies, pushing back hard. And as the steward of the 21st Century public square, TikTok and other social media companies, they must start to regulate vile hate speech that originates on their platforms.
They say they do this, but it’s a responsibility they’ve obviously neglected to uphold. That’s why I’ve called out the leadership of every major social media company to express not just my indignation, but to demand that they take concrete action to reduce the sickening hate that is being spread on their sites.
They need better oversight, they need larger moderation teams, and greater transparency. And I told them that in a letter that I’ll be releasing to all of them today. I’m expecting a response. I’m expecting a response from all of them.
Now you know what we’re doing in our attempt to stop hate on social media. I want to be clear about what we’re not doing. We’re not preventing anyone from exercising their First Amendment rights to speak. We’re not preventing anyone’s right to peacefully assemble. We’re not blocking anyone from expressing opposition or support for political or military action in the Middle East. That’s what we’re not doing. But we’re not tolerating the spread of hate. That’s the difference.
And the final component of our efforts centers around empowering educators and parents about the power of these radicalization efforts, and how to take steps for de-radicalization, to dial down the temperature, to bring back some sense of calm and normalcy that seems to be so evasive these days.
Let’s start with our schools. Today I’m directing the Director of the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services to develop media literacy tools for K-12 in our public schools. This will teach students, and even teachers, to help understand how to spot conspiracy theories and misinformation, disinformation, and online hate. Start talking about what we’re seeing out there. Give the teachers the tools they need to help these conversations in school.
And by teaching younger New Yorkers about how to discern between digital fact and digital fiction, we can better inoculate them from hatred and the spread of it and help prepare them for a very fast moving and often confusing world.
And now I want to speak to parents directly. As a mom, I know as we approach this holiday season, Thanksgiving, it offers a meaningful and sometimes rare opportunity to gather everyone around the table – your children, younger, high school students, college kids who may be home for the first time since they left you in August. I encourage you to talk to your kids, not just about the rise in hate, but listen to them too.
Ask them what’s going on in their school and on their campuses and what their friends are talking about. Be the adult in the room. Listen to them, but help them find the path. What are they seeing? What does it feel like? Are they subjected to this? Are they seeing their classmates being so hurt by vile speech and signs at protests? How does it make them feel? Encourage your children, especially the older ones. Don’t just be a bystander, be an upstander. Stand up for your classmates, stand up for your friends.
And talk about engaging each other in a respectful, tolerant way because the lessons that are being taught now, what young people are absorbing and understanding, will be with them for the rest of their lives. This is a time of great influence on our young people. And parents have a responsibility and an opportunity to guide them to do what’s right so as adults, they understand the beauty of diversity, celebrate our differences. But also, if you’re a parent who’s worried about the path your child is on, you’re seeing things, you’re hearing things, you’re anxious, there are opportunities for you as well.
Explain to your children the difference between disagreeing on a policy that a government may take and displaying hate toward an entire group of innocent people. There is a difference. And counselors are available to help parents as well with the messaging, how you help reduce the tension.
The only way that New York State stands true to our core values of tolerance and inclusivity is for all of us to do our part to create the kind of society we want to live in. At the end of the day, what is New York but a place that’s comprised of people from all over the world? They come here because they’re persecuted elsewhere. They came here for a better life. Jewish, Muslim, Arab, Black, Brown, White, young, old – it doesn’t matter. They all came here. They’re living here, and there’s so much out there that should bring us together instead of driving us further apart. We don’t always have to agree with each other. I don’t expect we will. Most people don’t agree with the person sitting across them at the Thanksgiving dinner table. But that’s all right. Just do it with respect and a foundation of understanding and love.
And honestly, that’s what the majority of New Yorkers are doing. Most of us walk through the world with care in our hearts and reject hate wherever it appears. That’s why I will not allow our state to be defined by the angry few that peddle in hate and violence. Instead, as Governor, I’ll continue to remind us of our shared values so going forward, we’ll be defined by how we come together to condemn, with one voice, the evils of antisemitism and Islamophobia, which are so rampant today.
As always, the nation, and indeed the world, are watching, waiting for New York to lead. And that’s exactly what we’re doing here today. Thank you.
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[11] Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him. [12] As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths. Isaiah 3:11-12
This deranged woman is on a tear lately, just running at full steam to keep stripping away free speech and basic liberties. Normally it’s done very softly and subtly, but she’s just taking chunks all at once.
As far as I am concerned, she and the state are just making up these numbers of cases of so-called “hate.” I’m sure tensions are high between Jews and Muslims, and plenty of regular Americans, but this is so obviously a power grab to further indoctrinate and oppress the people.
Again, and will continue to keep harping on, that this is part of this new War on Terror 2.0 that mirrors what came of the false flag that was 9/11. SEE: The War On Terror 2.0: Israel’s Foreign Ministry Parrots George Bush, Says ‘You Are Either Standing With Israel Or You Are Standing With Hamas’
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Seems like it would be more beneficial if this governor focused her attention on, let’s say, pressuring the mayor of NYC to clean up the rat and garbage-on-the-street problem they have there, rather than tell families what they should be talking about at their Thanksgiving meal.
Then she would need to practice what she preaches. The revenue they bring in goes in their pockets instead of to what it should go to, like cleaning up their districts They’re all such corrupt crooks.
Boy, she thinks that she is a god doesn’t she; with the crap she’s peddling there isn’t enough dump trucks in NY to pick it all up.
How in the heck did she get elected? She closed her comment section, so she can’t be too popular.
1 Timothy 5:14 I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
from the true and only word of God the KJV Bible
Democrats have this whole country TIGHTLY by the balls.
So what they are saying is the NWO and globalism and open borders, and leftism, etc. are Jewish ideas. I knew there was a reason why I don’t like Jews. NWO is really JWO.
Romans 11:28 As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sakes.
They don’t run the world, and not all Jews are in deep sin either. My Savior Jesus Christ was a Jew…
Romans 9:4 Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; [5] Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
Don’t be a Jew hater. It won’t go well for you. He will bless those who bless them and curse those who curse them. Don’t believe everything you read that is negative about the Jews.
Part of the big antichrist set-up. The Lord is allowing this trial which exposes who believes his word & trusts him or not, who has the Holy Spirit and who that other unholy & impure, deceptive, impositional etc spirit.
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The missing note amongst the protected classes, supposedly ‘all’: is hate against the King James Bible believers and that church in which there is neither Jew nor Gentile …Colossians and Galatians: antichrist hate against the truth exposing BOTH the kinds of fake craft Jews, with & without Jewish blood, as well as every other devilish idolatrous humanist cult such as Mohammed’s, that of the conditional fornicator & sodomite, pedophile, thief and murderer communing with devils & creating a karmic ‘god’ joined to them……is A-OK.
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NWO, globalism, open borders come in both left and right arms of Rome’s idolatrous system & all her connected lesser crony cult appendages & covert operators.
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2Pe 1:19 ¶ We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
2Pe 1:20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
2Pe 1:21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
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1Jo 3:13 Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
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Re 2:6 But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
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Re 2:15 So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate.
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Craft Jewry and craft Romanism are partnered in the whore, but only the Jews have promise of an especial saved remnant. Rome’s always been about stealing & usurping that place & the promises, & ever the head….not the tail, of the antichrist globalist fornicating union.
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You can see all these Augustinian types going into what they call their ‘parallel communities’ and ‘economies’ with all manner of idolators & unbelievers. Ultimately, they will go with Rome, and are already falling back to her eschatology & doctrines of devils & idolatrous humanism with its science falsely so-called. Twisting truth and the word of God into pretzels philosophically to justify themselves.
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Remember that it says a fire will come out of him and devour….Eze 28:18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.
Eze 28:19 All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.
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Isaiah 14 speaks of an astonishment, too, when that spirit and counterfeit is finally exposed.
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And John marveled…
Re 17:16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
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But then Armageddon….
She is nasty garbage.
She is a narcissist female Hitler. She will pay for her crimes some day, if not in this world, in the one where she will spend her eternity and that’s not a good place to be.
She is a narcissist Hitler. Someday she will be punished for her crimes, even int his world, or the one where she will be spending eternity and that is not a good place, unless she repents and comes to the Lord before she breathes her last breath.
This is the 2nd time I posted this, so it may show up twice, cause I don’t see it anywhere else right now. duh