Eric Zuesse, originally posted at Strategic Culture The dictatorship manages information both by deceiving the public to believe what the regime itself knows to be actually false (such as that Saddam Hussein might be only six months away from having an atomic bomb), and also by removing the lie from its ‘news’-media as soon as […]
NY Times wants Reality Czar. Is NYT a puppet of Putin? ****News Topic 274***** NY Times Calls For Biden to Appoint “Reality Czar” to Fight “Misinformation” NY Times Calls For Biden to Appoint “Reality Czar” to Fight “Misinformation” The New York Times has amplified claims by “experts” who are calling for Joe Biden to appoint […]
Cynthia Chung “Politicians, Priests, and psychiatrists often face the same problem: how to find the most rapid and permanent means of changing a man’s belief…The problem of the doctor and his nervously ill patient, and that of the religious leader who sets out to gain and hold new converts, has now become the problem of …
The Census and Facebook: Working Hand-in-Glove to Censor the Internet
by James Bovard
The same agency that once helped the Army round up Japanese Americans has now achieved protected status on social media.
Recall when Lev and Igor were caught laundering Russian money into the Trump campaign and the campaign of dozens of Republicans in Congress? Yesterday, Christian Berthelson reported that Lev-- one of the Giuliani criminal associates was handed a million bucks from Putin in September "a month before he was charged with conspiring to funnel foreign money into U.S. political campaigns.
The irony is almost too much to bear now.
This week, Silicon Valley giant YouTube has taken a string out of China’s bow by deplatforming some 210 channels for posting content criticizing the recent Hong Kong protests, claiming that channels were somehow “sowing political discord” on behalf of the Chinese government.
How do you explain the fact that the John Birch Society used 1984 as its main office telephone number in the 1960s? Or that both Animal Farm and 1984, are force-fed to virtually the entire western world in people’s formative years in their teens, even as Big Brother jacks up repression and surveillance, and pursues ever more cruel and senseless wars?
A look at Orwell’s weaknesses reveals how Big Brother turn the tables on him, getting the last laugh.
