Censorship Is About Money And Power

Truth & Servitude Part 2. From propaganda to crackdown: follow the dosh

Apr 22, 2024

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Media hides the AI-run cybernetic society that leads to Utopia, or its opposite
There is a cause behind centralised thought - but is it love, peace and equity?
The money trail tells a tale of profit over people
U.S. gov empowered to seize private property if alleged you serve a foreign entity
TikTok bill 7521 gives power to the Executive to ‘compel divestiture’
State-corporatist media seeks to ‘make everyone comfortable’ in group think
That’s not a world that most would sign up for. So the people are not being asked
Thoughtcrime, per Orwell, prevents discussion of, and opposition to, the state
Here’s - cigar-chomping, arms-dealing, state-busting Mr Big - looking at you

Part 1: Truth & Servitude Part 1 – NPR's Katherine Maher: Corporate censorship complex unveils its latest asset (Apr 20, 2024)

Part 3: Censors Toy With Global Blackout - Australia and Brazil seek to silence internet (Apr 25, 2024)

(2,700 words or about 13 moments of your company.)

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The coming propaganda blitz has an underlying agenda so obvious it is hard to put down on paper, because it is everywhere and yet banal.

Democracy is being crushed in the name of saving democratic institutions. The people's voice, if heard just once each four years, must now be eliminated.

Consent is to be manufactured, polarisation punished, and everyone made comfortable in group think (to “make someone comfortable” being the hospital euphemism for euthanise).

If you cannot see a dialectic — problem, reaction, solution; divide and rule; the bread and circuses — take off those rose spectacles right now and subscribe.

Faced with something so grim, only humour cuts to the chase.

Politicians behave like they are reading from a script. These pretty boys and girls know little about the world, absolutely nothing about strategic politics — and yet how loudly they demand we fight Russia, Iran, China to “support our way of life."

Three years ago they didn't know NATO from their elbow.

We cling to the absurd notion that Western nations are guided by statesmen who care for the economic interest of their people, says Harry Vox acidly:

"There is this mish-mash of former states that have been taken over but a bunch of, like, hotties and other scumbags that Klaus Schwab has selected because of his sexual preference."

They are placeholders to advance Schwab’s mantra of public-private partnership; corporate profit combined with the government's monopoly on violence: "The government holds you down; the corporation sticks it in you."

Or as Ned Beatty put it in Paddy Chayefsky's Network (1976):

"There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West… It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today."

As Paul Cudenec states, “authority is wielded in the interests of a group which neither identifies with the people as a whole nor is prepared to be guided by its wishes.” It imposes its goals by persuasion, propaganda and deceit, and if necessary physical violence. [1]

See Bloody Thoughts – The people against the ‘elites’ and other psychiatric patients (Feb 22, 2022)

We let it happen

Universal rights, starting with property, are being overthrown, quashed and cancelled. People are broken down into ever-smaller groups based on identity.

The U.S. House of Representatives has taken measures which allow it to fund proxy wars in perpetuity by seizing private property.

Last weekend it slipped the so-called TikTok bill 7521 into the Ukraine-Israel aid bill. Under the guise of countering Chinese influence and TikTok specifically, this gives power to the Executive to "compel divestiture."

This lets the government force the sale of tangible and intangible assets — real estate, stock holdings and investments. Crucially, it centralizes this power in the Executive arm of government, giving the president power to seize anyone's assets; not only foreigners but citizens.

In March senator Marco Rubio also introduced the Sanctions Recovery Act S.3913 to incentivise the Treasury to go after the assets of foreigenrs, by letting the Treasury recover its costs from those assets.

It is already indicting citizens under the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), seizing their assets, and using them to fund the war in Ukraine.

The U.S. Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) defines "foreign agents" as individuals or entities engaged in domestic lobbying or advocacy for foreign governments, organizations, or persons. They must register with the Department of Justice (DOJ) and disclose their relationship, activities, and related financial compensation.

Together these measures make possible the continuous funding of proxy wars (the last time the U.S. declared war was 1942) by expropriating private property.

The Departments of Justice and Commerce, together with the U.S. Treasury, have what they call the Kleptocapture Task Force.

In May 2023 a court in the southern district of New York targeted Russian dual-citizen Konstantin Malofeyev in a sealed (secret) indictment, seized his Texas bank account containing $5.4 million, and unsealed (informed the public) only once the deed was done.

This power has been centralised under the authority of the president. And it applies to anyone.

Enemy of the people

The attitude of the U.S. government and the media-bureacrat class is captured in the words of state broadcaster Radio Free Europe:

"Malofeyev, a Kremlin-connected media tycoon who is openly infatuated with Russia's imperialist, Orthodox heritage, has been under Western sanctions since 2014 for his role fomenting uprisings in parts of southern and eastern Ukraine and facilitating Russia's occupation of Ukraine's Crimea region."

Whatever you think of Russian monarchists, consider the language: "openly infatuated with Russia's imperialist, Orthodox heritage."

Close your eyes and you can hear Chairman Mao railing against the capitalist U.S. aggressor and the "running dogs of imperialism."

The clampdown

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