Writer Jacob Siegel has talked to UnHerd‘s Freddie Sayers about America’s new censorship complex. In a 13,000 word essay for Tablet, Siegel (pictured) explains how ‘disinformation’ is an invention that has morphed into a tool of governance. He told Sayers:
Disinformation is a means by which the Government in cooperation with private tech companies and civil society, NGO groups, censors, uses extra-legal means to censor political discourse around issues like Covid vaccinations, lockdowns, the elections. And in the U.S., it’s a free-for-all. It’s a blank cheque to censor anything. So on one level, disinformation is ostensibly censorship in order to protect national security. In a larger sense, that machinery of censorship is not opportunistically looking to erase certain things from the public record that are unflattering to political elites. It’s actually rather more than that. It is a means of governance. It is a system of power. It is its own system of power, outside of the formal, official — in the U.S., constitutional — means by which the Government is supposed to operate.
How did this ‘tool of governance’ become so mainstream, asks Sayers? The U.S. Government, Siegel points out, has long engaged in promoting disinformation of its own, but the ‘war on disinformation’ was begun by Barack Obama. One of the last things the former President did while in office was sign into law the ‘Countering Foreign Disinformation Act’, which fully committed the U.S. to a counter-disinformation campaign, which according to Siegel “was really always in spirit, and very quickly in practice as well, an information war directed against the American people”.
Siegel continues:
There was originally this foreign dimension… But from the very beginning, ‘foreign’ is a kind of ruse that’s setting up what is actually a much larger, effectively omni-directional structure, because the internet is global, that can censor anywhere but which is, in practice, focused on the domestic political environment inside the U.S. and specifically on this populist surge, which is taken as an existential threat by the ruling party officials in the U.S. who see populism in truly apocalyptic terms.
Siegel argues that the consequences of this censorship for American society should not to be minimised:
The system of secrecy and the Government’s own promotion of conspiracies, like the idea that Donald Trump was an agent of Vladimir Putin or a Russian stooge, which the U.S. intelligence agencies promoted. It’s not simply that they are wrong or pernicious, or that this reflects corruption. They actually drive people crazy. They deranged the political system. They ruin the ability for people to engage sanely and transparently in their own politics.
Worth reading (and watching) in full.
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Well when you take a vaccine that is programs your cells to create the toxin created by a virus throughout your body with very little control this will happen…
These days I wonder what a virus is because the last time I checked coronaviruses were pretty harmless common colds and now we have a killer pandemic from one?
Oh thats right, its all a lie and they are making it up as they go along…
The truth will come out when the seasonality of coronaviruses kicks in over the winter months. If we’ve already gone from 99% to 77%, I think we’re in for a rude awakening as it begins to dawn on people that the vaccination drive has not been nearly as effective as made out.
Who knows, maybe there’ll also be a new found appreciation that 99% of people are completely fine after being infected anyway and we have to move on…we’ve got 3 people off work just now with symptoms of a runny nose for pete’s sake!!!!
It would be interesting to compare the vaccinated and unvaccinated for hospitalisations, intensive care admissions and deaths for ANY reason, not just “covid” (ie a positive pcr test result). I suspect a much less favourable picture might emerge. Is it just me, or do there seem to be a whole lot of (vaccinated) people ill with a wide range of health issues at present?
Yes! That’s exactly what I’m seeing, but they are all absolutely vehement that it has nothing to do with the experimental unlicensed drug they just had injected into them
Since the beginning of this year, among my vaccinated acquaintances and friends there has been one death from a stroke, one minor stroke, one major bleeding episode, one person diagnosed with fibrosis of the lungs who was perfectly healthy last year, one person, single jabbed, who had high numbers of inflammation markers in her blood which three courses of antibiotics failed to shift and several people “testing positive” for Coronavirus.
Am I being overly suspicious?
I’m a bit worried about spike protein shed myself (though I heard pine needle tea can help), and T worry that “vaccines” and NPI’s could create the conditions for worse variants. I wonder how things are going in South Dakota – and Belarus (even if they are threatening to invade the Baltic states).
yes
The Israeli data confirms all cardiac anecdotal evidence.
I suspect that we will now live in an era of generally very poor health, with the cult members adamant that it has nothing to do with the vaccination or boosters they keep having. This is going to get very interesting, and I still believe they will somehow blame us lot for it all!
Not just you.
We really need to see figures for vaxxed and unvaxxed in fairly narrow age bands, with information about their state of health, what else they were ill with. I’m sure we never will. The government are not in the slightest bit interested in vaccine efficacy, or any other covid related data.
Now surely “our” NHS” wouldn’t cover it up, would they?
I don’t like the sound of this.
Microchips for September? Because drugs, vaccines and the mark of the beast are the way out of this (or not)…
Hotel California springs to mind.
And I ask again, what do scientists independent of pharmaceutical companies and their proxies have to say about the vaccines?
Is this the ventilator treatment that Doctors stopped using in the US because they discovered its use was lethal to the patients in some instances?
My experience at the moment is that pretty much all of the vaccinated people I know are all getting sick with covid! Which is privately very amusing as they are all committed Guardian reading covid cult members.I just had covid, as an unvaccinated persons, and suffered four days of very mild sniffles! They simply don’t work!!
Antibody Dependent Enhancement, anyone?
Guardian readers? Maybe they don’t like work…
Give me an “A”
Give me a “D”
Give me an “E”
What’s that spell?
Content that’s banned from social media!
The good news at least for team apocalypse is that at least now they will get the “dark winter” they were pining for. Yeah Team Apocalypse!
Woooooo! Oh my god.
My missus and I were double vaccinated in May (alright, stop shouting at me!). Three weeks ago she had summer cold symptoms and tested positive. Probably the very transmissible Delta variant, so transmissible that I didn’t get it!
I had a very very mild dose back in March 2020 which has probably served me better than artificial jabs.
So the point of the vaccine, sorry, experimental gene therapy, is what exactly?
I’ve said it before, but the point of the “vaccine” is
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
A coup d’etat, without people even realising. The perfect crime?
You can NEVER drug/jab a body back to health. Medicine is meant as a support while you heal.
The figures show that old people die.
We simply cannot allow that to happen! (….I’m old’ish)
That’s good news isn’t it? The 3rd shot might not cause blood clots.. but may cause infertility, autoimmune disease, heart damage and early death.. I expect by the 6th or 7th shot you actually become younger and you develop superhero powers.
The 8th shot may undo all the mistakes you have made in life.. by the 9th shot you are a millionaire, by the 10th shot you own your own home and your children are perfect. By the 11th shot your mother and father are rich and you are at Eton, with not an original or sensible or decent thought in your head, ready to run the country into the ground because ‘save the planet’…
By the 12th shot, you live as long as a greenland shark.
Are they the ones who got mistaken for the Loch Ness Monster?
maybe.. they live perhaps to be 500… cold temperatures and slow metabolisms are good for health it seems.. that and sharks are some 400 million years old, surviving whatever killed the dinosaurs.. their immune systems are such that they don’t seem to suffer much illness.. bats on the other hand also don’t suffer much illness, yet apparently they harbour lots and lots of viruses.. despite a high metabolism and body temperature their immune system doesn’t go cytokine crazy.. some species can live 30 odd years.. with very little illness..
Bow whales possibly reach 300 plus years… again, well developed immune system that has developed over 50 million years.. good thermoregulation, slow metabolism.. less wear and tear…
I expect they’ll miss the 13th and go straight for 14th – just in case…
“This phenomenon warrants further investigation.” Well, I never! What a surprise! How about buying an old banger from the guy down the road, and relying on it to get along? A similar level of trust, perhaps.
You jest, but I know many, many people who have bought cars on the basis of a promise of reliability. I try to point out that such a promise is meaningless, since you cannot buy a car that WIL BE reliable since no one knows what will happen to it tomorrow, you can only buy a car that HAS BEEN reliable, but surprise surprise, they prefer the comfort of the meaningless promise…
Did anyone else notice the headline in the Telegraph a few days ago – cardiac events at home surge by over 30%. They were blaming lockdowns but it put me in mind of something else…