I have referenced two people in the vanguard of the fight to counter government censorship. Both got together for a joint interview on the subject of the Censorship Industrial Complex and the shapes it is taking today. Here are Jacob Siegal and Michael Schellenberger talking with Freddie Sayers:
So, some have inquired, ‘are you kidding me, you’re promoting RFK Jr?; anti vax, conspiracy theories and all?” Answer, I’m not promoting anyone or anything other than restoration of the Bill of Rights which as we have thus far shown is under unprecedented threat. Bobby Kennedy happens to be doing more than most to restore those rights. Because of that he has been targeted more viciously than most by the Censorship Industrial Complex and its propaganda arms. That is the main point of his relevance to this investigation. The following video gives a little perspective – not shared by mainstream media. Note that the government stooges at Google have implanted the following notice in the top left hand corner of the screen “COVID-19 vaccine – Get the latest information from the CDC.” Big brother just cannot give it a rest.
I ended the last post Censoring Science: Coerced Consensus with a clip from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claiming the Biden White House immediately after inauguration coerced Facebook to censor Kennedy. He has so far proven as much in courts. Two days after that post, the House of Representatives Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government issued a report backed by a plethora of documents proving the White House application of coercion to censor against virtually all major internet platforms. The report sums it up as follows:
Now, having obtained and reviewed tens of thousands of emails and other relevant nonpublic documents, the Committee and Select Subcommittee can provide a more complete picture of how and the extent to which the Biden White House coerced companies to suppress free speech.
• Big Tech Changed Their Content Moderation Policies Because of Biden White House Pressure. The Biden White House pressure campaign largely succeeded in 2021. In the weeks and months following the start of the White House pressure campaign, Facebook, YouTube, and Amazon all changed their content moderation policies. The White House pressured companies to censor information that did not violate their content moderation policies at the time. The best evidence to assess why content moderation policies were changed is to review relevant email correspondence and other documents at the time of the policy change. Indeed, both Facebook and Amazon referred to the Biden White House’s efforts as “pressure.” Here is a subset of key documents first obtained by the Committee and Select Subcommittee pursuant to subpoena:
o In March 2021, an Amazon employee emailed others within the company about the reason for the Amazon bookstore’s new content moderation policy change: “[T]he impetus for this request is criticism from the Biden Administration about sensitive books we’re giving prominent placement to.”
o In March 2021, just one day prior to a scheduled call with the White House, an Amazon employee explained how changes to Amazon’s bookstore policies were being applied “due to criticism from the Biden people.”
o In July 2021, when Facebook executive Nick Clegg asked a Facebook employee why the company censored the man-made theory of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the employee responded: “Because we were under pressure from the [Biden] administration and others to do more. . . . We shouldn’t have done it.”
o In August 2021, an internal Facebook email explained why the company was developing, and ultimately implementing, new content moderation policies: “[Facebook’s] Leadership asked Misinfo Policy . . . to brainstorm some additional policy levers we can pull to be more aggressive against . . . misinformation. This is stemming from the continued criticism of our approach from the [Biden] administration.”
o In September 2021, after receiving months of criticism for not censoring non-violative content, YouTube shared with the Biden White House a new “policy proposal” to censor more content criticizing the safety and efficacy of vaccines, asking for “any feedback” the White House could provide before the policy had been finalized. The White House gushed: “at first blush, seems like a great step.”
The work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics
Michael Chricton
Think about the above statement for a moment. In this day and age, one could easily believe the opposite to be true. Afterall, we are consistently hammered by the mainstream media, formal education, politicians and government bureaucrats with the idea that science is all about consensus. Then they pull the cruel trick of monopolizing pharmaceutical funding, and between the government and Big Pharma coerce the medical profession into ‘consensus.’ In fact, virtually every foundational advance in science was at first condemned by the ‘professional’ communities of the time as purveying rank, dangerous heresy. Study the histories of Harvey, Galileo, Copernicus, Newton, Da Vinci, Tesla to name just a few. To believe these times are different is the height of arrogance and recency bias. Today the levers of coerced consensus are so centralized and politicized, we have rank politicians and bureaucrats dictating medical science.
When science is captured by political power, consensus is coerced by the power that reigns and conflicting views are repressed into silence. When science is so censored a dark age of sorts is entered. Pursuit of truth is penalized. Propagation of propaganda no matter how false is rewarded. People suffer, people die needlessly.
The Censorship Industrial Complex (CIC) has let loose its central factchecking certification outfit, one which we have demonstrated to be engaged in unqualified and politically motivated thought policing (see last several posts), upon the field of science.
Veteran journalist John Stossel said, “Facebook’s Poynter Institute censors are now the enemy of open debate.” Stossel himself was censored by the folks at Poynter. He dug in deeper and found a number of leading voices in the scientific community were also censored for not following New Liberal Order (WHO, NIH, et al) narratives, most particularly concerning COVID-19. Virtually all of those narratives have since been thoroughly discredited as rank, false propaganda. Watch Stossel’s findings here,
Probably the most blatantly fraudulent science-related truth that Poynter’s IFNC (International Factchecking Network) sought to discredit as an alleged lie, concerned the origin of the COVID-19 virus. In early 2000 many leading, credible scientists and medical professionals stated the most obvious, simple, occam’s razor explanation for COVID 19’s origin. That was a leak from a corona virus experimental laboratory in the virus’ origin city Wuhan China. It was common knowledge that such novel corona viruses were not only being studied there, but were being intentionally altered to make them as virulent and unstoppable as possible. Soon professionals who suggested we investigate the lab leak probability, and anyone who quoted them or reported on them, found themselves censored by Facebook, Youtube (Google), and Twitter, not to mention every mainstream media outlet doing the bidding of the New Liberal Order (read, Deep State or Big Brother).
Poynter’s IFCN (and its predecessor Poltifact) was front and center. As early as May 15, 2020 Politifact published: “Speculation about the origin of the novel coronavirus has spread online since the beginning of the pandemic, with Facebook posts and tabloids making baseless claims the virus was created in a lab.” It was instrumental in having the designated ‘lie’ scoured from the internet. They stayed on it like white on rice for years playing whack a mole on purveyors on the truth of the matter, attempting to discredit them as if they were Poynter’s familiar target, the Scientologists. They labelled them as conspiracy theorists, science deniers and the like. As a result billions of people were kept in dark delusion about the virus’ origin until long after the Big Pharma controlled WHO/NIH (World Health Organization/National Institutes on Health) ‘handling’ of the crisis thoroughly upended their lives. Only when it became such common knowledge as to far exceed consensus did the censors relent.
The CIC and Poynter went on to silence thousands of competent and learned professionals, including dozens of the world’s leading experts in infectious diseases. They were muted and discredited for attempting to save lives by pointing out the following, now generally accepted truths:
Closing schools creates more harm than leaving them open under the circumstances of the virus in question.
Wearing masks has little, if any, effect on stopping the spread of the virus, and also has a number of detrimental effects.
There are a number of effective treatments for COVID-19; including long-proven safe and already authorized drugs.
The U.S. government at the direction of NAIAD Director Anthony Fauci was actively suppressing the promotion of those effective treatments,
U.S. government agencies under the effective control of Fauci suppressed millions of doses of the effective medicines Fauci refused to acknowledge or fund the further study of.
The U.S. government was flat out lying when it guaranteed (including President Biden) that the government-funded vaccine would stop the spread of the virus.
The U.S. government was flat out lying when it said it would be a ‘one-shot wonder’, one jab and magically the virus would be defeated.
The U.S. government was bending or breaking all the usual precautionary rules to assure vaccine safety by bum rushing authorization through at the behest of big pharma.
The U.S. government helped Big Pharma conceal from the public numerous incidences of adverse side effects of the vaccine.
The CIC worked feverishly on multiple fronts to coerce consensus to agree with the unholy alliance between the WHO/NIH (virtually all of its components) and Big Pharma. They condemned and attacked anyone uttering any of a-i above. They simplified and personalized their propaganda narrative by anointing the most powerful figure at NIH as ‘the’ authority of authorities who trumped anyone and anything that refuted the narrative. That was head of National Institute for Infectious Diseases (NIAD), Anthony Fauci. They coerced consensus by silencing all dissenting opinions, and by the vicious shaming and marginalizing of anyone whose voice was heard in spite of the censorship efforts.
The NLO’s propaganda campaign was so weak on science, its chief spokesperson was reduced to insisting that when the rubber meets the road, he doesn’t require proof or support for his positions. Fauci proclaimed on national television that those espousing any or all of a-i above:
“But they’re really criticizing science, because I represent science. That’s dangerous.”
No, what is dangerous is when a conflicted, corrupt, unelected lifetime-bureaucrat can cause a dark age of sorts – that costs hundreds of thousands of lives – by usurping the right to dictate what is and what is not science at the behest of his big pharma sponsors. That result could only be obtained by the pervasive and systematic application of censorship. And to be sure, Poynter’s International Factchecker Network and Politifact dutifully toed the white line by referring to Fauci more than 200 times in citing what the ‘truth’ of various matters was. If they were doing actual ‘fact checking’ they would refer to ‘facts’ not the opinions and dictates of a single functionary.
All of a-i above is documented in exquisite detail in Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s book The Real Anthony Fauci. This is not some random person’s uniformed opinion. Kennedy, a long-time renowned environmental lawyer, has presented the public with a 448 page legal brief. It includes more than two-thousand factual citations. Kennedy demonstrates how Fauci lead a Big Pharma/NIH/WHO campaign to discredit any viable treatment for COVID-19 (of which there were several) in favor of promoting a single shot saves all vaccine. He proves that even if one considers the vaccine effective (for which there is ample evidence to the contrary) still hundreds of thousands if not millions of lives were lost by discouragement and prevention of immediate available treatments by Fauci/Big Pharma/NIH/WHO. He supports that case with evidence of the same pattern of practice being carried out by Fauci and his Big Pharma brethren in response to the AIDs outbreak of the 1980’s. He also provides ample evidence of the motive for the coercion of consensus at the expense of millions of lives.
You may be inclined to dismiss Kennedy as the “anti-vaxxer” and “conspiracy theorist” the CIC and mainstream media has sought to dismiss him as. Before we address the tar and feathering of Mr. Kennedy and his free-thinking kind, perhaps your interest to continue will be piqued after you watch the following short clip. It demonstrates just how prescient Kennedy was – even speaking off the cuff – about the principle WHO/NIH/Big Pharma claims used to get the populace to reject real medical treatment and rely solely on the multi-hundreds-of-billions-of-dollars Covid-19 vaccine:
This is quite something to watch. Worth all 3 minutes.
As the whole Covid train wreck began to unfold, Kennedy made these PREDICTIONS about Fauci, Gates and the vax rollout BEFORE it happened.
Regardless of how you feel about Kennedy’s positions and ideas, one thing is indisputable, the First Amendment to the Constitution guarantees his right to air them, and guarantees you the right to hear them if you wish. But, that is not what the New Liberal Order believes and it does not act according to that principal. Probably the NLO’s most compliant U.S. President to date immediately upon taking office sought to silence Kennedy using the full force of the United States Government censorship apparatus. Fortunately, to date that effort has proven unsuccessful. Hear the details:
Ever wonder why the spike in violent crime including but not limited to mass murders of school children?
Ever wonder why the mass apathetic compliance to the Military Industrial Complex waging ever increasing (and ever more taxing) forever war across the planet?
Ever wonder why more than half the population can look on bleary-eyed while virtually all of our rights, ratified as God-given in the Bill of Rights more than 230 years ago, are being systematically stripped by the Uniparty Neo-Liberal Order?
Consider this for a moment:
To the degree we value Artificial Intelligence, we devalue Intelligent Life.
Are we the proverbial frogs complacently sitting in the water that is incrementally heating toward a boil?
Biden signed the Act extending section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, expanding the power to turn citizens into informants/raiders en masse with no warrant requirements. Here is how your elected Senators and Representatives voted.
If the International Factchecking Network (IFNC) run out of the Poynter Institute in St Petersburg Florida was sticking to the facts it might not be posing the existential threat to our society that it currently does. Neither would the Mainstream media (MSM) in general. But, neither of them have ever let the facts get in the way of their mission. Both are fond of saying “we can disagree on how we view the facts, but we cannot disagree on what the facts are.” The truth is, MSM and IFNC and the Censorship Industrial Complex (CIC) they pimp for are really concerned with the conclusions people make and will manipulate the ‘facts’ to implant those conclusions in their minds. I witnessed Poynter and its Times do this for decades in order to smear and marginalize a group of people it took issue with, the Scientologists. Now, they practice their trade on political opponents on an international level.
Fact checking has been foisted upon us as a pseudo-scientific process for determining what our minds ought to process and ought not to. MSM and IFNC have invented the title ‘factchecker’ and incessantly used it as if it were a profession for which one took a prescribed university course of education to earn a degree. In fact, certified IFNC factcheckers have zero credentials. Worse, in most cases they have anti-credentials. That is, their only claim to entitlement is that they are reporters. Think about it. Reporters are literally the least trusted profession in the world when it comes to facts. A recent Gallup poll found that the percentage of Americans who have a great deal of confidence in the media is 7%. That is about the same percentage of Americans who own more than 50% of its wealth. That is about right – the media, by survey, is the tool of the Plutocrats to keep the real people ignorant so that they remain in their peasant places.
What reporters do have that hard-working honest people do not, is practiced expertise in the art of deception. They are expert at sophistry. (Sophistry: a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning. – Dictionary.com)
When you combine that trick with the sleight of hand of calling opinions, theories and ideas ‘facts’ that can be judged on an objective basis by some authority on high, an upside-down Orwellian world obtains. No longer are they banning falsehood, they are banning prohibited ways of thinking. They are controlling thought.
Let us take an example from IFNC itself to show the depth of deception with the unelected thought authorities at Poynter.
The media industry loves to shower itself with honors and credentials with which to lord over its subjects. The pinnacle of MSM self-love is the Pulitzer Prize. Poynter Institute won one in 2009 for the handiwork of its IFNC predecessor and now partner Politifact. The Prize was awarded for its fact checking work during the 2008 Presidential election. As you may recall one of the most contentious issues in debate in 2008 was whether Obama’s universal healthcare proposal would include the right to keep the plan you were already on. An army of health care analysts claimed that under the vague campaign health care proposal of Obama it was very likely impossible that one would retain the right to choose his own doctor; and that it was very clearly impossible to confirm it without the entire proposed system set forth in detail.
Nonetheless, Politifact’s (and later IFCN) head Angie Holan decided as a matter FACT that Obama’s unlikely promise was a ‘fact’, publishing on October 8, 2009:
“Under Barack Obama’s health care proposal, “if you’ve got a health care plan that you like, you can keep it…
…we rate his statement True”
First realize that clearly this was not a factual dispute. It was a matter of opinion. And an opinion about whether someone would do what he promised despite a slim probability. But, as noted in the last post, the New Liberal Order – through IFNC – treats opinion as fact when it suits its purpose. And the NLO decided Obama was the chosen one, and so had factchecking central (Poynter’s Politifact – now IFNC) turn Obama’s promise into a fact. It was for this type of flat-out partisanship that Pulitzer awarded its prize for “factchecking.”
So wrong was Poynter’s Politifact that it became a huge campaign issue in 2012. By then everybody seemed to understand the Pulitzer-prize winning fact confirmation was fraudulent, except for its perpetrator Politifact. The political hack nature of Politifact is evidenced by the fact that it remained silent about its fraud until after the 2012 election. Only when the chosen one was back in office did they deign to acknowledge the error.
When it no longer mattered to its political purposes, Politifact (and IFCN) head Angie Holan finally penned the article “Lie of the Year: ‘If you like your health care plan, you can keep it’’
Holan had the chutzpah to call the Pulitzer-prize winning FACT verification of the year 2008 “a catchy political pitch” and a “breezy assurance”, instead of the fact it had certified. Instead of even acknowledging her and Poynter’s error (and fraudulent Pulitzer) she condemned Obama for intentional dishonesty. Like the psychiatrist who can never lose an argument by use of the device of judging his opposition “crazy”, such is the arrogant nature of the Censorship Industrial Complex. It is never wrong, and you are never right if you do not slavishly go along with its certified narratives. Opinions (even potentially fraudulent misrepresentations) are fact when it suits their purpose. And when they become debunked, the self-appointed judges of thought rewrite history.
Roy observed that “It’s more than a bit precious for Holan—a self-appointed Arbiter of the Truth—to declare as a “Lie” a statement that she herself once declared to be “True” without even acknowledging the fact that she had done so… That we can’t count on PolitiFact to even admit it was wrong tells you everything you need to know about the group.”
Indeed. And yet 11 years after the exposure, Holan and Poynter have been rewarded for dutifully calling false promises fact when it suits the New Liberal Order’s purposes. They have been granted millions of tax-exempt dollars to serve as the global Ministry of Truth and as the “certifier” of truth arbiters across the world. This is something even worse than the Peter Principle, wherein incompetence is rewarded by promotion in a bureaucracy. This is not mere incompetence. This is promotion for carrying out intentional fraud and deceit for the New Liberal Order: The Poynter Principle.
For our purposes, the event captures opinion checking in the name of fact checking. The former is in no fashion objective. It chooses ‘proper’ ways to look at things or think about things while banning others. In that regard it monitors and controls how you think, your very thought processes. It is beyond mere deception and dishonesty. The CIC through Poynter has entered the realm of thought policing and mind control.
According to Edward Snowden we are literally on the precipice of effective cancellation of the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution and its attendant rights to privacy.
The NSA is just 𝗗𝗔𝗬𝗦 from taking over the internet, and it's not on the front page of any newspaper–because no one has noticed. https://t.co/qp5BimwOjI
Do you think the “liberal” Democrats will save the day? Here is what the White House recently put out on the pending legislation, helping to push it through the House of Representatives:
With the ruling party frantic that the First Amendment curtails its censorship efforts and that the Fourth Amendment hinders its domestic spying operations, please read the handwriting on the wall. 1984 is upon us.
I ended the last regular post, What Is Wrong With Western Civilization, with the suggestion to read Jacob Siegel’s ‘Invasion of the Fact-Checkers’ in The Tablet. In summary, Mr. Siegel details the following:
A “Ministry of Truth” – ala Orwell’s 1984 – has arisen and plays a large role in determining what most of the populace reads and hears.
The Ministry covertly operates as a sort of Censorship Industrial Complex (CIC) under the euphemism “fact-checking.”
One of the “fact-checking” pioneers in Mainstream Media (MSM) was the Tampa Bay Times’ Politifact begun in 2007.
In fact, the Tampa Bay Times was and is a possession of the ‘not for profit institute’ for media ‘studies’, the Poynter Institute.
Poltifact has morphed into Poynter’s International Fact Checking Network (IFCN).
Not only does IFCN serve as the hub for “authoritative” determinations of what constitutes ‘truth’, it trains and certifies censors across the world – with more than 100 new Ministry of Truth branches globally, and counting.
The censorship efforts are funded with many millions of dollars from the plutocratic elite and your taxpayer dollars and essentially “proclaims that America’s ruling bureaucrats at the FDA,NIAID, CDC, the FBI, the CIA, the Fed – and the entire alphabet soup of government agencies – along with the ruling Democratic Party, are never wrong about anything.
IFCN (and its Poynter overlords) are shockingly incompetent and predictably prejudiced in ‘fact-checking’, rendering a system that amounts to global, organized political censorship.
The Censorship Industrial Complex grew out of an obscure branch of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) called Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). It was originally formed to help prevent cyberattacks on traditional infrastructure such as bridges, airports, utilities, electric grids. However, in reaction to President Trump’s election in 2016, Obama’s outgoing DHS Chief designated voting systems as critical infrastructure to fall under CISA’s jurisdiction. Over the next four years CISA became a hub for coordinated government censorship efforts. The unconstitutional efforts were justified by claiming “voting infrastructure” apparently included each individual’s mind which had to be protected from disinformation, first foreign and then domestic. No joke, CIC luminaries have spoken of cleaning ‘neurological infrastructure’; that means your brain. Clean brain = Brainwashing.
During the lead up to the ’22 mid terms DHS announced the formation of a full-blown Ministry of Truth called Disinformation Governance Board. The public outrage that engendered resulted in the Board being scuttled. Nonetheless, CISA in coordination with a number of federal agencies picked up the censorship work in earnest – recruiting and utilizing a number of non-government agencies to do the unconstitutional work it wished done. Most of the censorship work was done through cooperation of big tech platforms including Facebook, Twitter, and a dozen or so more. Tens of millions of postings by Americans were deleted, hundreds of millions of postings were partially censored by limiting their visibility and distribution.
That there is a virtual Ministry of Truth operating ought to shock the sensibilities of anyone even vaguely familiar with the United States Bill of Rights. The idea itself is anathema to the very foundation of this country. Unfortunately, even this concern cannot be taken for granted. The most recently appointed Justice of the United States Supreme Court openly expressed dismay that the 1st Amendment to the Constitution might be used to ‘hamstring’ the US government’s censorship efforts. It was once taught in grade school that the very purpose of the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment was to not just hamstring but make impossible any efforts by the government to censor American citizens.
That the Poynter Institute was chosen to lead the censorship/propaganda efforts raises more concerns. As we shall see, the inmates are literally running the asylum.
I have twenty years of experience dealing face to face with Poynter and its own propaganda arm, the Tampa Bay Times. Why, because Poynter and its Times have been avowed enemies of the Church of Scientology for the past 50 years. As such, I have had occasion to deal directly with the Chairmen of the Board and Editors of both Poynter and its Times for the past forty years. That includes Andrew Barnes (1984-2007), Paul Tash (2008-2022) and Neil Brown (2022 to the present). I have communicated with each of them. I can confidently state that the Poynter/Times board and its three continuous rulers over the past 4 decades are some of the most elitist, virtue-signaling folks I have ever encountered. They wield their newspaper and Poynter’s influence like a battle axe and do so in an arrogant fashion. The halls of Poynter management ooze with sanctimony.
They were practiced at the arts of censorship, propaganda, shaming, and marginalizing many years before it became vogue as it is today. They treat opinion as fact when it suits their purposes, and they treat fact as opinion when it is inconvenient to their aims. They are pros at the techniques of identity politics and smear by association. That is, they condemn a class of people and continuously reinforce it with opinion dressed up like fact, label one as part of that class, then crush the person for carrying that label. In the case of Scientology they played it both ways. Many stories were written on the shortcomings of individual Scientologists. Not church staff members or members of the clergy; Just persons whom they identified as believers or practitioners of the religion. The only ‘newsworthy’ criterion was the fact of a Scientology affiliation. Each story was sure to smear the person for being involved with Scientology and smear Scientology for having impliedly created such a creature. A ‘heads we win, tails you lose’ set up. It was the ‘fake news’ phenomena in practice, decades before the term was even coined.
The Poynter/Times anti-Scientology contingent’s grip on the “fact checker” censorship industrial complex is significant. IFNC is the sanctioning entity for all ‘fact-checkers’. “Factchecker” is a newly created ‘profession’ that requires absolutely no expertise. The only requirement is a steadfast commitment to enforcing by any means necessary the approved narratives of the Neo Liberal Order. They train fact checkers to understand those narratives and in sophistry tactics which find any ‘facts’ not aligning with the narratives to be ‘false.’
The head of IFNC is Angie Holan. She graduated to that position from a stint at the Times’ Politifact – the original ‘fact checker’. It was at Politifact that she helped Poynter win a Pulitzer Prize for ‘fact checking’. Ironically, the most significant verified ‘fact’ leading to the award was later recognized to be “the lie of the year” (such a remarkable story warrants a separate post). As a fledgling Poynter/Times acolyte, she ‘fact checked’ at least one anti-Scientology propaganda piece. The story smeared Scientology by labelling a member of the religion as a slumlord because of code violations in a rental property he had recently purchased. He was no more in violation than many other landlords, and far newer to the ranks than most. But, he was a Scientologist, so knives out.
The story falsely claimed the individual was at an even ‘higher Scientology training level’ than a certain celebrity, who also happens to be a Scientologist, apparently for the purpose of also smearing the prominent Scientologist and garnering itself more attention for its hit piece. The target of the piece was not a member of the Scientology clergy nor an employee of the church. He was labelled and his religion slammed because he was a member of that religion. Imagine, Jewish Slumlord Exposed? Or, Catholic Slumlord Scandal? Or Hindu Slumlord Shame? It is a microcosm of the Mainstream Media’s smear modus operandi. The Scientologist is smeared and shamed for being associated with Scientology. Scientology is smeared and shamed for the alleged acts of a believer. Prominent Scientologists are smeared by association with both. This is critical to understanding what the CIC is now doing politically. The same tactics are applied to any political views that clash with NLO orthodoxy. Label, smear, shame, and convict others by association.
The reporter Ms. Holan fact checked was the then Scientology beat reporter. That’s right, the Poynter’s Times had then as it has today a beat to single out a single religion for frying whenever one of its members – no matter how lax in his or her participation or membership – commits a transgression. The reporter, Rob Farley, was all over the Clearwater community (the site of Scientology’s Florida headquarters). He ran a series of stories about the ramblings against Scientology of a homeless, jobless drug addict. The addict soon recognized for the first time in his three decades of life he could be elevated to semi-celebrity status by merely being anti-something he had no personal knowledge about. And so, at the Poynter Institutes’ behest he went in whole hog. Until, apparently overwhelmed with guilt he committed suicide.
Where is Mr. Farley now? He is the Deputy Managing Editor of FactCheck.org. His organization is ‘certified’ as reliable by, none other than the Angie Holan-lead International Fact-checking Network. Deputized to censor you by the ‘very best people’ at the helm of the Poynter Institute.
These are the people who have been designated by your government to determine what ideas are worthy of dissemination and what ideas will be suppressed. Factchecking is a euphemism for propaganda dissemination and censorship. In our next installment we will demonstrate how Big Brother’s arbiters of truth are far more concerned with controlling your thoughts than assisting you on issues of credibility.
In response to a corrupt judiciary complying to U.S. New Liberal Order/CIA efforts to force X to practice censorship in the second most populous Western Hemisphere country (Brazil), Elon Musk posted the following on Saturday:
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
We are lifting all restrictions. This judge has applied massive fines, threatened to arrest our employees and cut off access to 𝕏 in Brazil.
As a result, we will probably lose all revenue in Brazil and have to shut down our office there.
But principles matter more than profit.
5:31 PM · Apr 6, 2024
Here is a report from Michael Shellenberger on the situation from Brazil:
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Elon Musk Is All That Stands In The Way Of Totalitarianism
Last night, around 8 p.m. local time in São Paulo, Brazil, Federal Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes announced a criminal investigation into Elon Musk, the owner of X, formerly known as Twitter, for allegedly… pic.twitter.com/cAFkVphWyc
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) April 8, 2024
You might ask, why the gratuitous conspiracy theory finger pointing at US Intelligence/State Department instigation? In fact, the assignment of causation is as factual as can be. Hear former State Department official Mike Benz connect the dots:
Know who to blame for what’s happening to X in Brazil right now? The US State Department. pic.twitter.com/SysHFiXezQ
Think he is making it up? You can leave it at that, write us all off as chicken littles and go back to your Matrix-like dream world. Or you can take the red pill and find out what’s what. Read and see it in their own words, coming out of their own arrogant mouths:
Wake up, people! We are next. Dig in a little and you will see that this is the direction the United States is headed in. Lose X, and we’ve effectively repealed the First Amendment to the Constitution.
Moving On Up a Little Higher 