Voltaire, the clearest of Enlightenment thinkers, wrote in 1765: “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
250 odd years later, these words resonate possibly louder now than they did then. Controlling ‘the Narrative’ via propaganda and suppression of dissent has always been central to enacting tyrannical measures, but never before have those in power had at their disposal such potent levers of ubiquitous modern technology and communication to enforce global censorship. As the world begins to wake up to the devastating effects of the past three years surrounding the emergence of COVID-19 and the response measures enacted by our governments, it is now beyond doubt that this censorship has cost the lives and livelihoods of millions of people across the globe.
The harms that resulted because debate around the Government’s disastrous response was shut down are legion – increased poverty, lower education achievement, loss of employment, closure of small businesses and deaths from other diseases to name a few. Most of this was, and is, entirely predictable and the potential harms were highlighted from the beginning by concerned experts across many disciplines, including numerous highly credentialed doctors and scientists. It is hard to know where to start with the examples of deliberate, coordinated attacks on medical experts who were merely expressing opinions on what they were witnessing in their hospitals, based on what they had been taught, or how they were successfully treating Covid patients. But perhaps one of the first and most blatant blows to the pursuit of truth came in the collusion of Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. Francis Collins, Sir Jeremy Farrar, Sir Patrick Vallance, Sir Chris Whitty and their cohort to squash dissenting views on lockdowns and smear the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration (GBD) as “fringe epidemiologists”.
In an email to Fauci about the GBD, Collins wrote: “There needs to be a quick and devastating published take down of its premises.” The pattern was already set – ad hominem attacks on anyone who contradicted ‘the Narrative’, suppression and censorship across multiple social media platforms and perhaps most sinister of all, threats of professional tribunals and the removal of credentials and licences to practise medicine. By making examples of those brave enough to speak up, a culture of fear and censorship has muted the very people that you would expect to speak up for their patients.
The weaponisation of fear was allowed to go into overdrive when these same individuals and organisations dismissed and buried the emergence of information regarding very successful early treatment protocols from doctors treating patients earlier in 2019 and the first quarter of 2020, with what they saw (as they were taught) in front of them in symptomatic patients. Instead of trying to allay the public’s fears, medics, scientists, academics and others were discouraged from and even threatened for entertaining the possibility that generic medicines with impeccable safety records could be used in sequence to successfully treat the symptoms of COVID-19. With hands tied, mouths gagged and principles firmly pushed aside, doctors were instructed by those in authority to send their patients home with no treatment protocol and tell them, in not so many words, only to come back when their lips turned blue from lack of oxygen.
In the place of what was commonly understood to be the ‘scientific method’ – fully open and transparent, always challenging at the edges – came an industry of ‘fact checkers’ deployed by media organisations and social media platforms. This gave rise to the absurdity of an army of generally under-qualified and anonymous employees making pronouncements on the veracity of the claims of professors, Noble prize winners and other highly qualified and questioning people. Big Tech companies cloaked themselves with a thin illusion of impartiality when in reality Government agencies were directing policy and decisions behind the scenes. Here again the manipulation of discourse was ensured by the introduction of a whole new vocabulary of ‘misinformation’ and ‘disinformation’. Pejorative terms designed to stop debate in its tracks – ‘conspiracy theorist’, ‘anti-vaxxer’, ‘Covidiot’ – made frequent appearances in the mainstream media and by force of repetition helped suppress the appetite of the public at large to dare to engage in any independent critical thought of their own.
Yet in the past few weeks many of these fearless medics and scientists have once again found themselves able to engage in the public conversation. What changed?
The acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk has thrown a spanner in the works of those who endorse censorship to reinforce ‘the Narrative’. Using his business smarts, Mr. Musk is doing a full audit of his new company and sharing the results with the rest of the world. Exposing the shenanigans of the previous management (‘Twitter 1.0’) both draws a line under the corruption that took place and sets the direction of travel towards ensuring that Twitter becomes a trusted platform and, to quote Mr. Musk, the “town square” for open debate, information, networking and commerce (‘Twitter 2.0’).
Having had a chance to look under the bonnet of Twitter, Elon Musk said:
Almost every conspiracy theory that people had about Twitter turned out to be true. Is there a conspiracy theory about Twitter that didn’t turn out to be true? So far, they’ve all turned out to be true. And if not, more true than people thought.
Government collusion via the FBI and other agencies can no longer be denied. Money has been exchanged between Government agencies and Big Tech to selectively dial down or dial up voices on social media in support of the current political narrative. If this is true for Twitter, we can likely extrapolate across all Big Tech companies, while mainstream media are known to receive multi-year Government advertising contracts for hundreds of millions of dollars, compromising their ability to operate in the best interests of their users.
To celebrate the restoration of previously censored accounts and the renewal of free speech online, on Sunday January 8th 2023 at 3pm EST USA, 8pm London, we will be hosting a Twitter Spaces event: “Censorship Killed Millions. Free Speech Saves Lives.” Join us to hear the censorship stories of several public figures, including Dr. Robert Malone, Dr. Ryan Cole, Steve Kirsch, Prof. Thomas Borody, Dr. Sabine Hazan, Dr. Jackie Stone, Dr. Richard Urso and more.
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We already live under a form of socialism. The country’s biggest employer, by far, is the social healthcare system. The bloated public sector represents 45% of the economy, and rising. The State has regained total control of the energy supply via the price cap which shows no sign of being scrapped despite wholesale gas prices being back to pre-conflict levels.
What the Tories appear to be doing is fusing the socialist state sector with a dwindling private sector to create some kind of Technocratic Totalitarian State which reaches its tentacles ever further around the necks of private citizens. CBDC’s and internet censorship will only make this worse. A Labour Government will do much the same.
Labour will do much the same at an accelerated pace. It’s curious how Jeremy Corbyn was smeared to within an inch of his career. Wrong type of socialist?
Interestingly, Nazism was likened to the cult of Shiva.
Corbyn just wasn’t as good at hiding his loathing for this country.
I loathe Corbyn and his Muzzie-love. But his cardinal sin was being critical of the Jews who are nested in every nook and cranny of governance, pharma, finance, media etc. See Rona for more info. Goyim who criticise the Jew master are banished.
The NHS is the key to it all. It is not even seen as socialist and that means it is difficult to do anything about it.
Of course, if they actually drilled for oil and gas and started fracking, prices would come down. And Labour are worse, with Starmer saying he’ll ban all drilling. Talk about an oncoming storm!
Unless Sunak also plans to rise taxes, taking money out of our left pocket and putting it back in our right pocket isn’t a proper description. If the government would really subsidise food, this would amount to an indirect tax reduction, ie, government indirectly giving some of the money it’s taking anyway back to the people it has been taken from.
Uncle Klaus and Uncle George have issued their instructions – he will follow orders.
That is the top and bottom of what is going on. A wee hors d’oeuvre to whet the national appetite for Universal Basic Income.
He must think we are firkin blind as well as stupid.
How have we allowed this unelected puppet of a Hindu to be living at No 10..
Starkey was being kind with his remark..
I could go a lot further…
It worked so well for Chavez and Maduro in Venezuela.
Tory party leadership and policies have been Blairite since at least Cameron. They can rot in hell as far as I’m concerned.
Is it terribly bad to feel like I want to smear excrement all over his silly face? And I suppose just having written this marks me out as definitely a racist, because he’s not got “white” skin or something. Never mind that I am referring to how silly his truly silly ideas are, regardless of his race or anything else. I couldn’t care less where his ancestors “came from”. He’s an idiot.
Never mind this stupid stinking Rich WEF puppet ! HAS anyone seen the Speech Dr David Martin gave at the EU this month chronicling the near 60 year development of covid 19 by America ! More info please ??? This has to be a game changer !!!..
A neologism I produced after hearing this: Food Rishioning.
OK Sushi – give one example anywhere in time or place where caps on food (or indeed anything) have not resulted in shortages of that/those product(s) and a black market.
Energy prices have been capped and guess what – we have an energy supply problem.
All his policies are socialist and that is because Cameron turned the Tory Party into a socialist party. Once socialism appears in any country it cannot be reversed because more and more people vote for benefits. This means that polticians have difficulty getting elected if they don’t rob the responsible to hand money to the irresponsible.