3 Crises – Wars, Bank Failure and Censorship

Gagging and de-platforming is the exclusive tool of those who would destroy

Apr 28, 2023

The money men are allergic to any opposition, wherever it’s located
The interconnected Gomorrah of Babel exterminates identity
Localised, decentralised, identified speech is the nightmare of tyrants everywhere

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Apr 28, 2023

What ties war in Ukraine, the latest revelations of biolabs in Sudan, the crisis in the banking system, and Fox News decision to cut ties with two populist hosts Tucker Carlson and Dan Bongino?

What is and what is not?

Billionaires’ backs are against the wall… while they fund their own firing squad.

They may control the opposition — as Lenin said, “The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves” — but doesn’t mean they’re not scared.

Now is the point where they are most dangerous because, when cornered, they are capable of anything.

War, depopulation, mass starvation... tyrants have done all of these in the past, so it is only ignorance of history that prevents many people from seeing what happens when empires fall.

What they don’t want is prime time presenters critiquing their actions in real time. Ball-by-ball commentary is for the bread and circuses, the arenas of diversion. The oiler-bankers, the billionaires, the owner-investors — however you call them — reject the offer of the same spotlight.

Two popular hosts are merely the posterboys for a much broader censorship operation. These two men apart, the bigger audiences are in the alt media. Pick your threshold but the Twitter Files released by Elon Musk suggest any site with an audience over a few 10,000s attracts the attention of the Feds.

If that’s too gloomy, look at it another way: the above, was driven by the desire to centralise control. That same tendency also applies to data and information on the internet, and proposals for central bank digital currencies (CBDC).

The Internet, we were told, would diversify control and make information freely available the masses. But networks flow both ways. If diversified nodes connect to a small number of points, or come under the control of a few regulatory or corporate forces, the Internet is just as likely to constrict information as to spread it.

You don't have to burrow far into the real story of Google and Facebook to know that they grew out of state surveillance projects. [1]

The process of centralisation has its own logic. Bitcoin’s transparent algorithms were supposed to embody trust and thus promote democracy but it, too, has failed to keep the decentralisation promise. [2]

Banks have become an arm of information centralisation: they have become the latest police force, snooping on your transactions, poking you with questions and telling you what you can and cannot do. CBDC would take this to a new level, replacing the anonymity of cash with payment systems that can be controlled, tracked and limited.

Centralised control of spending means governments could tie your right to travel, or eat, to some other demand — like giving up your car or taking an experimental injection.

Once trapped in such a system your opinion, or objection, would be irrelevant. In order to entrap you, however, to persuade you agree to let it happen, governments need to lie and bamboozle you. That's where centralised control of information comes in.

The billionaires, the governments and their handlers do not want anyone telling you that war in Ukraine is not about protecting democracy but rather a pretext to suppress dissent at home; informing you of the freedoms you will lose; and that the crisis has come about because governments are about to break their promises on retirement, welfare and medical services.

That is why the media must be brought under ever-more tight and uniform control, and that is why we just witnessed the unprecedented move by Fox to take out the number one television commentator at the top of his game.

BlackRock owns 15 per cent of Fox Corporation, just behind the Murdochs with 19 per cent, but with Vanguard it owns more than the fetid family.

It wasn’t because of Carlson’s speech at Heritage Foundation, where he called abortion a death cult and called for prayer.

It’s certainly not the allegations of misogyny and anti-Semitism from a producer who did not even work in the same office — she in New York, he broadcasts from Florida. It has since turned out she never even met Carlson.

It was his comments on the Ukraine war and the Covid injection. He can speak for himself: “the other channels took hundreds of millions of dollars from big pharma companies and then they shilled for their sketchy products on the air and at the same time they maligned anyone who was sceptical of those products.”

Privileged perch

Mint Press does a cogent take down of Tucker Carlson, holding him to his early statements (though they didn't actually get to speak to him Carlson). [3]

The article was published over a year ago, and misses how the past three years have changed the game. It is one thing to have a father close to the CIA and to inherit his gung-ho view of America’s right to do what it wants.

It is another thing to witness the U.S. military, and the stability of the country itself, being undermined by a syndicate that is clearly trying to hide its connections and disguise its objectives.

Carlson’s pedigree at one time convinced the globalist-connected Fox company, and its mockingbird minders, that they could trust him. Carlson sang a very different tune these past 12 months.

There are two possibilities: that he played the role of a pie bird, such as you use in a pastry, to vent the steam and reduce the pressure in society; or Tucker matured and learned that the world is not the game of goodies and baddies, soldiers and spies into which he was born.

Again, let him speak for himself:

“For too long I participated in the culture where, 'anyone tho thinks outside these pre-prescribed lanes is crazy, is a conspiracy theorist,' and I really regret that, I'm ashamed. Partly it was age, partly it was the world that I grew up in. You might look at me and say, 'you're part of the means of control,' well that's obvious to you because you're 28 but I just didn't see it...
They're not here to inform you. Even on the big issues that matter like the economy, war and Covid, their job is not to inform you. They are working for the small group of people who actually run the world; they're their servants, the Praetorian Guard and we should treat them with maximum contempt.”

He may learn that we are not about saving the system, but planning what we build in its place. We shall require a philosophy that is much more complex than the world he grew up in, and the one that his former bosses at Fox represent, based on the endless centralization of wealth and control.

Information bubble

In Jun 2021 we wrote, “Never, outside of wartime, have we seen such an outsize presence of the intelligence services on the media landscape.” Well, now we know why. We are at war.

The author’s father was a British diplomat who gathered information on the ground from the Biafran war in 1967, the Grenadian revolution in 1979, and Somalia in the early-1980s. Those carefully written reports, sometimes compiled at personal risk, belong to an age that’s increasingly been replaced by think-tank driven policy and ideological reflex.

Grappling with reality is called a process of trial and error. That is passé. It has been replaced by the fashion for managed outcomes -- “defining organisational goals, measuring performance, and continuously managing in line with those goals and measures” – which now dominates bureaucratic thinking.

Information gathering has suffered in the modern age. Government policymakers are taking information, at Defense and State Department level, from crowdsourcing or absorbing at face value what they’re told by Ukraine.

The narrative is is packaged for public consumption by “Internet sleuths” like Bellingcat, financed by the Atlantic Council, and working for NATO. Using what they claim to be “digital forensics,” they create a story line that is fed to the state-corporate media, which policymakers and politicians read before they vote in Congress.

Fact checkers, censors from three-letter agencies, and psychologists working to manipulate public behaviour are some of the other ways in which narrative replaces reality.

The problem with managed outcomes is that narrative is all, rendering facts interchangeable, relative and replaceable. The solution is decided in advance and reality is bent towards it. Numerous documents confirm this, including the Mindspace document published in 2010 by the Institute for Government.

The result is crazy people doing dangerous things, and there lies madness.

The timing

Last week we discussed the pivot to Africa but it’s worth another look given likely U.S. involvement in the brooding civil war in Sudan.

ast month, shortly before he welcomed the Chinese leader Xi Jinping, president Vladimir Putin addressed a conference of African leaders. Putin said that Africa, like Russia, “defends traditional moral values” by “resisting the neo-colonial ideology imposed from abroad.”

Moscow is courting the continent’s leaders ahead of the second Russia–Africa Economic and Humanitarian Forum, to be held in St Petersburg in July. Like China, it seeks to increase its influence through the offer of economic, infrastructural and military aid.

But it was the visit by the head of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Mohamad Hamdan Dagalo, aka Hemeti, to Moscow on the eve of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in Feb 2022, that caught the eye of the U.S. State Department.

In particular Victoria Nuland’s eye.

It signaled Russia’s favour for Hemeti over his former ally and rival general Abdel Fattah al-Burhan. The U.S. accuses Hemeti of working with private military contractors the Wagner Group who have provided security for other countries in the continent such as Mali.

Sudan is an entrepôt on the Red Sea for the Sahel region – a strip across the broadest part of Africa, from Eritrea and Sudan, through Chad and northern Nigeria, Niger, Burkina Faso to Mali and Mauritania.

Russia’s use of mercenaries is not unique. The US hires them for client governments in war zones, as it did in Somalia in 2011 with Bancroft Group. [4]

In Aug 2022, the U.S. appointed an ambassador to Khartoum for the first time in a quarter-century. The U.S. promptly warned Sudan against completing a lease with Russia for a naval base. Then the U.S. began the familiar process of calling for democracy and a transition away from military rule.

In Feb 2023 the U.S. sent nearly $300 in humanitarian aid to Sudan, while Russia secured a deal for the naval base, at the very moment that the country’s political system was in transition.

Nuland visited Sudan on Mar 9^thto “discuss democracy.” This would likely be the same type of discussions of democracy she held in Ukraine just before the Maidan coup of 2014. On that occasion, the duly elected but pro-Russian president was overthrown and Nuland was recorded speaking to the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, about whom to install as prime minister – the famous call about “Yats” or Arseniy Yatsenyuk.

In mid-April conflict kicked off between Hemeti and Burhan.

https://twitter.com/vrosen11/status/1650296029798096898?s=20

The journal Foreign Policy carried the headline on Apr 20: “In Sudan, U.S. Policies Paved the Way for War; A misguided effort to integrate the RSF into the Sudanese Armed Forces led to a tragic but predictable conflict.”

Sudan is dependent on food imports — 85 per cent of its wheat comes from Russia and Ukraine – as Undercover DC notes. Like Somalia and Ethiopia, during the Cold War sought to walk a line between Soviet and U.S. assistance and influence. [5]

In addition, Sudan’s National Public Health Laboratory comprises “reference laboratories related to the control of some diseases such as polio, measles, tuberculosis, malaria and AIDS,” according to its website.

Metabiota, a company linked to Hunter Biden, conducts viral surveillance for the PREDICT program in Africa (Rwanda; Uganda; Tanzania; Cameroon; Congo (Kinshasa); Congo (Brazzaville); Gabon)

Ebola was “discovered” in 1976, but only 2000, cases have been recorded. In 2007 the Zaire strain “crossed the continent from Sudan, Congo and Uganda,” as Reuters reports.

Nathan Wolfe is Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Metabiota, and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, in an article linked bushmeat traders in southern Sudan to future pandemics. [6]

Uganda saw an outbreak of Sudan ebolavirus (SUDV) in Nov 2022 in Kassanda district.

Essential reading

This is a contribution that is essential reading, and whose bona fides beat all others: An Insider’s Guide to “Anti-Disinformation.”

Andrew Lowenthal spent more than two decades defending digital rights, and watched as peers and partner organizations switched to an opposite mission called "anti-disinformation."

“My name is Andrew Lowenthal. I am a progressive-minded Australian who for almost 18 years was the Executive Director of EngageMedia, an Asia-based NGO focused on human rights online, freedom of expression, and open technology. My resume also includes fellowships at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center and MIT’s Open Documentary Lab. For most of my career, I believed strongly in the work I was doing, which I believed was about protecting and expanding digital rights and freedoms.
In recent years, however, I watched in despair as a dramatic change swept through my field. As if all at once, organizations and colleagues with whom I’d worked for years began de-emphasizing freedom of speech and expression, and shifted focus to a new arena: fighting ‘disinformation’.” [7]

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