"We are living in Mad Societies now" - a thread

[Henosis Sage]

"We are living in Mad Societies now and it's going to continue over the long term" Editor-in-Chief, Joe Lauria of Consortium News

[ CN was founded by Robert Parry of Iran-Contra re[orting fame - about Amercia's deep involvement in Fascist Neo-Nazi Military regimes in South Central America ]
30 mins video interviews
George Galloway speaks to CN Editor Joe Lauria about censorship and the war in Ukraine. Security analyst Mark Sleboda adds perspective on the origins of the war.
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/19/watch-lauria-galloway-on-censorship-over-ukraine/

NATO is not just traditional weapons of war but a vast regiment of journalists whose salary and status is absolutely determined by the gusto with which they prosecute NATO's war. Over the Ukraine there isn't even a tiny chink in the armor, it is an ironclad consensus.

Using their control over Big Tech, they are literally book-burning in a frenzy of cancellation and de-platforming. NATO has all the big guns. We've talked to Consortium News' distinguished Editor-in-Chief, Joe Lauria, on this worrying development.
PLUS
The conflict in Ukraine didn't just begin last month or even last year, but eight long and bloody years ago, and 14,000 Ukrainian citizens were slaughtered there (~80% civilians in rebel Donbas region) . Not by Russia but by other Ukrainians, by the Ukrainian armed forces and their vanguard in the Neo-Nazi [Azov} battalion.

But not a lot of people know that, and those that do are determined to conceal it. We explore the history of this conflict with Security Analyst Mark Sleboda.

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HISTORY (from the dark side - lol)

Current events have brought a renewed focus on the Donbass, a historical region on the border of Ukraine and Russia. By the standards of history, this area has emerged quite recently, and has always stood a little apart. It’s important to understand its evolution when viewing this crisis, which began in 2014.
https://www.rt.com/russia/552285-donbass-russia-ukraine-history/

Zelensky aide blames conflict with Russia on ex-president Poroshenko
Ingraining NATO aspirations in the country’s constitution is among the causes of the conflict, a presidential aide has claimed
The clause, outlining Kiev’s pathway to becoming a full-fledged member of the EU and US-led NATO alliance, was added into Ukraine's constitution in February 2019 and shortly before presidential elections. While the move was a pure PR stunt for the former president, it turned out to have long-lasting consequences, Arestovich told local media.
Under Poroshenko, the desire to join NATO was also incorporated into the country’s military doctrine in 2015. That document also formally established Russia as a “military adversary” of Kiev.
https://www.rt.com/russia/552297-poroshenko-nato-ukraine-conflict/

CHINA ...
Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng said that globalization should not be “weaponized” while military bloc politics must be “rejected,” a day after US President Joe Biden warned his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping of “consequences” if Beijing supported Russia's military action in Ukraine.

Speaking at the Fourth International Forum on Security and Strategy in Beijing on Saturday, the Chinese official agreed with Moscow’s assessment that NATO’s unchecked expansion in Eastern Europe and the failure to address Russia’s national security concerns paved the way to the current crisis, saying that a simple “commitment of no eastward expansion could have easily ended the crisis and stopped the sufferings.”

“Instead, one chose to fan the flames at a safe distance, watching its own arms dealers, bankers and oil tycoons make a fortune out of the war while leaving people of a small country with the wounds of war that would take years to heal,” he said.

NATO’s pursuit of “absolute security” leads to “absolute non-security,” Le added.
https://www.rt.com/news/552317-china-nato-russia-consequences-unimaginable/

GEORGE GALLOWAY - former UK Labour Party MP - strident peace activist - VERY ANTI-IRAQ WAR IN 2003
End of Western domination?
ome 500 years of Western domination is rapidly coming to a close, accelerated by the great decoupling underway due to events in Ukraine. The West should remember that it constitutes just 10% of the population of the world, though history has taught that 10% to believe they are the international community. In truth, the West is the periphery of the new Eurasia. Joining us now is a leading theorist of these tectonic changes, Professor Glenn Diesen of the University of South-Eastern Norway.

There’s no longer a pretense in European countries, let alone North America, that this is not a NATO-Russian confrontation in Ukraine. European countries in particular are stuffing mercenaries and high-tech weapons into a non-NATO country resisting the very country that NATO was set up to confront. Full-scale economic warfare has been unleashed against Russia, whose minimal demands in the words of Sergey Lavrov have been rejected. We’ve asked a veteran war journalist, Elijah Magnier, from the heart of the European Union, to explain more about the situation.
https://www.rt.com/shows/sputnik/551740-end-western-domination-ukraine/

[Henosis Sage]

"We are living in Mad Societies now and it's going to continue over the long term" Editor-in-Chief, Joe Lauria of Consortium News
[ CN was founded by Robert Parry of Iran-Contra re[orting fame - about Amercia's deep involvement in Fascist Neo-Nazi Military regimes in South Central America ]
30 mins video interviews
George Galloway speaks to CN Editor Joe Lauria about censorship and the war in Ukraine. Security analyst Mark Sleboda adds perspective on the origins of the war.
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/19/watch-lauria-galloway-on-censorship-over-ukraine/
NATO is not just traditional weapons of war but a vast regiment of journalists whose salary and status is absolutely determined by the gusto with which they prosecute NATO's war. Over the Ukraine there isn't even a tiny chink in the armor, it is an ironclad consensus.
Using their control over Big Tech, they are literally book-burning in a frenzy of cancellation and de-platforming. NATO has all the big guns. We've talked to Consortium News' distinguished Editor-in-Chief, Joe Lauria, on this worrying development.
PLUS
The conflict in Ukraine didn't just begin last month or even last year, but eight long and bloody years ago, and 14,000 Ukrainian citizens were slaughtered there (~80% civilians in rebel Donbas region) . Not by Russia but by other Ukrainians, by the Ukrainian armed forces and their vanguard in the Neo-Nazi [Azov} battalion.
But not a lot of people know that, and those that do are determined to conceal it. We explore the history of this conflict with Security Analyst Mark Sleboda.
===========
HISTORY (from the dark side - lol)
Current events have brought a renewed focus on the Donbass, a historical region on the border of Ukraine and Russia. By the standards of history, this area has emerged quite recently, and has always stood a little apart. It’s important to understand its evolution when viewing this crisis, which began in 2014.
https://www.rt.com/russia/552285-donbass-russia-ukraine-history/
Zelensky aide blames conflict with Russia on ex-president Poroshenko
Ingraining NATO aspirations in the country’s constitution is among the causes of the conflict, a presidential aide has claimed
The clause, outlining Kiev’s pathway to becoming a full-fledged member of the EU and US-led NATO alliance, was added into Ukraine's constitution in February 2019 and shortly before presidential elections. While the move was a pure PR stunt for the former president, it turned out to have long-lasting consequences, Arestovich told local media.
Under Poroshenko, the desire to join NATO was also incorporated into the country’s military doctrine in 2015. That document also formally established Russia as a “military adversary” of Kiev.
https://www.rt.com/russia/552297-poroshenko-nato-ukraine-conflict/
CHINA ...
Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng said that globalization should not be “weaponized” while military bloc politics must be “rejected,” a day after US President Joe Biden warned his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping of “consequences” if Beijing supported Russia's military action in Ukraine.
Speaking at the Fourth International Forum on Security and Strategy in Beijing on Saturday, the Chinese official agreed with Moscow’s assessment that NATO’s unchecked expansion in Eastern Europe and the failure to address Russia’s national security concerns paved the way to the current crisis, saying that a simple “commitment of no eastward expansion could have easily ended the crisis and stopped the sufferings.”
“Instead, one chose to fan the flames at a safe distance, watching its own arms dealers, bankers and oil tycoons make a fortune out of the war while leaving people of a small country with the wounds of war that would take years to heal,” he said.
NATO’s pursuit of “absolute security” leads to “absolute non-security,” Le added.
https://www.rt.com/news/552317-china-nato-russia-consequences-unimaginable/
GEORGE GALLOWAY - former UK Labour Party MP - strident peace activist - VERY ANTI-IRAQ WAR IN 2003
End of Western domination?
ome 500 years of Western domination is rapidly coming to a close, accelerated by the great decoupling underway due to events in Ukraine. The West should remember that it constitutes just 10% of the population of the world, though history has taught that 10% to believe they are the international community. In truth, the West is the periphery of the new Eurasia. Joining us now is a leading theorist of these tectonic changes, Professor Glenn Diesen of the University of South-Eastern Norway.
There’s no longer a pretense in European countries, let alone North America, that this is not a NATO-Russian confrontation in Ukraine. European countries in particular are stuffing mercenaries and high-tech weapons into a non-NATO country resisting the very country that NATO was set up to confront. Full-scale economic warfare has been unleashed against Russia, whose minimal demands in the words of Sergey Lavrov have been rejected. We’ve asked a veteran war journalist, Elijah Magnier, from the heart of the European Union, to explain more about the situation.
https://www.rt.com/shows/sputnik/551740-end-western-domination-ukraine/

Social media has been Weaponised

[Henosis Sage]

Post by Henosis Sage

"We are living in Mad Societies now and it's going to continue over the long term" Editor-in-Chief, Joe Lauria of Consortium News
[ CN was founded by Robert Parry of Iran-Contra re[orting fame - about Amercia's deep involvement in Fascist Neo-Nazi Military regimes in South Central America ]
30 mins video interviews
George Galloway speaks to CN Editor Joe Lauria about censorship and the war in Ukraine. Security analyst Mark Sleboda adds perspective on the origins of the war.
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/19/watch-lauria-galloway-on-censorship-over-ukraine/
NATO is not just traditional weapons of war but a vast regiment of journalists whose salary and status is absolutely determined by the gusto with which they prosecute NATO's war. Over the Ukraine there isn't even a tiny chink in the armor, it is an ironclad consensus.
Using their control over Big Tech, they are literally book-burning in a frenzy of cancellation and de-platforming. NATO has all the big guns. We've talked to Consortium News' distinguished Editor-in-Chief, Joe Lauria, on this worrying development.
PLUS
The conflict in Ukraine didn't just begin last month or even last year, but eight long and bloody years ago, and 14,000 Ukrainian citizens were slaughtered there (~80% civilians in rebel Donbas region) . Not by Russia but by other Ukrainians, by the Ukrainian armed forces and their vanguard in the Neo-Nazi [Azov} battalion.
But not a lot of people know that, and those that do are determined to conceal it. We explore the history of this conflict with Security Analyst Mark Sleboda.
===========
HISTORY (from the dark side - lol)
Current events have brought a renewed focus on the Donbass, a historical region on the border of Ukraine and Russia. By the standards of history, this area has emerged quite recently, and has always stood a little apart. It’s important to understand its evolution when viewing this crisis, which began in 2014.
https://www.rt.com/russia/552285-donbass-russia-ukraine-history/
Zelensky aide blames conflict with Russia on ex-president Poroshenko
Ingraining NATO aspirations in the country’s constitution is among the causes of the conflict, a presidential aide has claimed
The clause, outlining Kiev’s pathway to becoming a full-fledged member of the EU and US-led NATO alliance, was added into Ukraine's constitution in February 2019 and shortly before presidential elections. While the move was a pure PR stunt for the former president, it turned out to have long-lasting consequences, Arestovich told local media.
Under Poroshenko, the desire to join NATO was also incorporated into the country’s military doctrine in 2015. That document also formally established Russia as a “military adversary” of Kiev.
https://www.rt.com/russia/552297-poroshenko-nato-ukraine-conflict/
CHINA ...
Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng said that globalization should not be “weaponized” while military bloc politics must be “rejected,” a day after US President Joe Biden warned his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping of “consequences” if Beijing supported Russia's military action in Ukraine.
Speaking at the Fourth International Forum on Security and Strategy in Beijing on Saturday, the Chinese official agreed with Moscow’s assessment that NATO’s unchecked expansion in Eastern Europe and the failure to address Russia’s national security concerns paved the way to the current crisis, saying that a simple “commitment of no eastward expansion could have easily ended the crisis and stopped the sufferings.”
“Instead, one chose to fan the flames at a safe distance, watching its own arms dealers, bankers and oil tycoons make a fortune out of the war while leaving people of a small country with the wounds of war that would take years to heal,” he said.
NATO’s pursuit of “absolute security” leads to “absolute non-security,” Le added.
https://www.rt.com/news/552317-china-nato-russia-consequences-unimaginable/
GEORGE GALLOWAY - former UK Labour Party MP - strident peace activist - VERY ANTI-IRAQ WAR IN 2003
End of Western domination?
ome 500 years of Western domination is rapidly coming to a close, accelerated by the great decoupling underway due to events in Ukraine. The West should remember that it constitutes just 10% of the population of the world, though history has taught that 10% to believe they are the international community. In truth, the West is the periphery of the new Eurasia. Joining us now is a leading theorist of these tectonic changes, Professor Glenn Diesen of the University of South-Eastern Norway.
There’s no longer a pretense in European countries, let alone North America, that this is not a NATO-Russian confrontation in Ukraine. European countries in particular are stuffing mercenaries and high-tech weapons into a non-NATO country resisting the very country that NATO was set up to confront. Full-scale economic warfare has been unleashed against Russia, whose minimal demands in the words of Sergey Lavrov have been rejected. We’ve asked a veteran war journalist, Elijah Magnier, from the heart of the European Union, to explain more about the situation.
https://www.rt.com/shows/sputnik/551740-end-western-domination-ukraine/

Social media has been Weaponised

Everything they accused Donald Trump, Putin, and Russia of doing-- THEY are all guilty of.

[Henosis Sage]

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"We are living in Mad Societies now and it's going to continue over the long term" Editor-in-Chief, Joe Lauria of Consortium News
[ CN was founded by Robert Parry of Iran-Contra re[orting fame - about Amercia's deep involvement in Fascist Neo-Nazi Military regimes in South Central America ]
30 mins video interviews
George Galloway speaks to CN Editor Joe Lauria about censorship and the war in Ukraine. Security analyst Mark Sleboda adds perspective on the origins of the war.
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/19/watch-lauria-galloway-on-censorship-over-ukraine/
NATO is not just traditional weapons of war but a vast regiment of journalists whose salary and status is absolutely determined by the gusto with which they prosecute NATO's war. Over the Ukraine there isn't even a tiny chink in the armor, it is an ironclad consensus.
Using their control over Big Tech, they are literally book-burning in a frenzy of cancellation and de-platforming. NATO has all the big guns. We've talked to Consortium News' distinguished Editor-in-Chief, Joe Lauria, on this worrying development.
PLUS
The conflict in Ukraine didn't just begin last month or even last year, but eight long and bloody years ago, and 14,000 Ukrainian citizens were slaughtered there (~80% civilians in rebel Donbas region) . Not by Russia but by other Ukrainians, by the Ukrainian armed forces and their vanguard in the Neo-Nazi [Azov} battalion.
But not a lot of people know that, and those that do are determined to conceal it. We explore the history of this conflict with Security Analyst Mark Sleboda.
===========
HISTORY (from the dark side - lol)
Current events have brought a renewed focus on the Donbass, a historical region on the border of Ukraine and Russia. By the standards of history, this area has emerged quite recently, and has always stood a little apart. It’s important to understand its evolution when viewing this crisis, which began in 2014.
https://www.rt.com/russia/552285-donbass-russia-ukraine-history/
Zelensky aide blames conflict with Russia on ex-president Poroshenko
Ingraining NATO aspirations in the country’s constitution is among the causes of the conflict, a presidential aide has claimed
The clause, outlining Kiev’s pathway to becoming a full-fledged member of the EU and US-led NATO alliance, was added into Ukraine's constitution in February 2019 and shortly before presidential elections. While the move was a pure PR stunt for the former president, it turned out to have long-lasting consequences, Arestovich told local media.
Under Poroshenko, the desire to join NATO was also incorporated into the country’s military doctrine in 2015. That document also formally established Russia as a “military adversary” of Kiev.
https://www.rt.com/russia/552297-poroshenko-nato-ukraine-conflict/
CHINA ...
Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng said that globalization should not be “weaponized” while military bloc politics must be “rejected,” a day after US President Joe Biden warned his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping of “consequences” if Beijing supported Russia's military action in Ukraine.
Speaking at the Fourth International Forum on Security and Strategy in Beijing on Saturday, the Chinese official agreed with Moscow’s assessment that NATO’s unchecked expansion in Eastern Europe and the failure to address Russia’s national security concerns paved the way to the current crisis, saying that a simple “commitment of no eastward expansion could have easily ended the crisis and stopped the sufferings.”
“Instead, one chose to fan the flames at a safe distance, watching its own arms dealers, bankers and oil tycoons make a fortune out of the war while leaving people of a small country with the wounds of war that would take years to heal,” he said.
NATO’s pursuit of “absolute security” leads to “absolute non-security,” Le added.
https://www.rt.com/news/552317-china-nato-russia-consequences-unimaginable/
GEORGE GALLOWAY - former UK Labour Party MP - strident peace activist - VERY ANTI-IRAQ WAR IN 2003
End of Western domination?
ome 500 years of Western domination is rapidly coming to a close, accelerated by the great decoupling underway due to events in Ukraine. The West should remember that it constitutes just 10% of the population of the world, though history has taught that 10% to believe they are the international community. In truth, the West is the periphery of the new Eurasia. Joining us now is a leading theorist of these tectonic changes, Professor Glenn Diesen of the University of South-Eastern Norway.
There’s no longer a pretense in European countries, let alone North America, that this is not a NATO-Russian confrontation in Ukraine. European countries in particular are stuffing mercenaries and high-tech weapons into a non-NATO country resisting the very country that NATO was set up to confront. Full-scale economic warfare has been unleashed against Russia, whose minimal demands in the words of Sergey Lavrov have been rejected. We’ve asked a veteran war journalist, Elijah Magnier, from the heart of the European Union, to explain more about the situation.
https://www.rt.com/shows/sputnik/551740-end-western-domination-ukraine/

Social media has been Weaponised

Everything they accused Donald Trump, Putin, and Russia of doing-- THEY are all guilty of.

The USA's puppet fascist regime in Ukraine just banned eleven opposition parties.

No one will complain about that.

All 11 parties must be pro-Russian spies or sumptin' even worse!

[Henosis Sage]

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"We are living in Mad Societies now and it's going to continue over the long term" Editor-in-Chief, Joe Lauria of Consortium News
[ CN was founded by Robert Parry of Iran-Contra re[orting fame - about Amercia's deep involvement in Fascist Neo-Nazi Military regimes in South Central America ]
30 mins video interviews
George Galloway speaks to CN Editor Joe Lauria about censorship and the war in Ukraine. Security analyst Mark Sleboda adds perspective on the origins of the war.
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/19/watch-lauria-galloway-on-censorship-over-ukraine/
NATO is not just traditional weapons of war but a vast regiment of journalists whose salary and status is absolutely determined by the gusto with which they prosecute NATO's war. Over the Ukraine there isn't even a tiny chink in the armor, it is an ironclad consensus.
Using their control over Big Tech, they are literally book-burning in a frenzy of cancellation and de-platforming. NATO has all the big guns. We've talked to Consortium News' distinguished Editor-in-Chief, Joe Lauria, on this worrying development.
PLUS
The conflict in Ukraine didn't just begin last month or even last year, but eight long and bloody years ago, and 14,000 Ukrainian citizens were slaughtered there (~80% civilians in rebel Donbas region) . Not by Russia but by other Ukrainians, by the Ukrainian armed forces and their vanguard in the Neo-Nazi [Azov} battalion.
But not a lot of people know that, and those that do are determined to conceal it. We explore the history of this conflict with Security Analyst Mark Sleboda.
===========
HISTORY (from the dark side - lol)
Current events have brought a renewed focus on the Donbass, a historical region on the border of Ukraine and Russia. By the standards of history, this area has emerged quite recently, and has always stood a little apart. It’s important to understand its evolution when viewing this crisis, which began in 2014.
https://www.rt.com/russia/552285-donbass-russia-ukraine-history/
Zelensky aide blames conflict with Russia on ex-president Poroshenko
Ingraining NATO aspirations in the country’s constitution is among the causes of the conflict, a presidential aide has claimed
The clause, outlining Kiev’s pathway to becoming a full-fledged member of the EU and US-led NATO alliance, was added into Ukraine's constitution in February 2019 and shortly before presidential elections. While the move was a pure PR stunt for the former president, it turned out to have long-lasting consequences, Arestovich told local media.
Under Poroshenko, the desire to join NATO was also incorporated into the country’s military doctrine in 2015. That document also formally established Russia as a “military adversary” of Kiev.
https://www.rt.com/russia/552297-poroshenko-nato-ukraine-conflict/
CHINA ...
Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng said that globalization should not be “weaponized” while military bloc politics must be “rejected,” a day after US President Joe Biden warned his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping of “consequences” if Beijing supported Russia's military action in Ukraine.
Speaking at the Fourth International Forum on Security and Strategy in Beijing on Saturday, the Chinese official agreed with Moscow’s assessment that NATO’s unchecked expansion in Eastern Europe and the failure to address Russia’s national security concerns paved the way to the current crisis, saying that a simple “commitment of no eastward expansion could have easily ended the crisis and stopped the sufferings.”
“Instead, one chose to fan the flames at a safe distance, watching its own arms dealers, bankers and oil tycoons make a fortune out of the war while leaving people of a small country with the wounds of war that would take years to heal,” he said.
NATO’s pursuit of “absolute security” leads to “absolute non-security,” Le added.
https://www.rt.com/news/552317-china-nato-russia-consequences-unimaginable/
GEORGE GALLOWAY - former UK Labour Party MP - strident peace activist - VERY ANTI-IRAQ WAR IN 2003
End of Western domination?
ome 500 years of Western domination is rapidly coming to a close, accelerated by the great decoupling underway due to events in Ukraine. The West should remember that it constitutes just 10% of the population of the world, though history has taught that 10% to believe they are the international community. In truth, the West is the periphery of the new Eurasia. Joining us now is a leading theorist of these tectonic changes, Professor Glenn Diesen of the University of South-Eastern Norway.
There’s no longer a pretense in European countries, let alone North America, that this is not a NATO-Russian confrontation in Ukraine. European countries in particular are stuffing mercenaries and high-tech weapons into a non-NATO country resisting the very country that NATO was set up to confront. Full-scale economic warfare has been unleashed against Russia, whose minimal demands in the words of Sergey Lavrov have been rejected. We’ve asked a veteran war journalist, Elijah Magnier, from the heart of the European Union, to explain more about the situation.
https://www.rt.com/shows/sputnik/551740-end-western-domination-ukraine/

Social media has been Weaponised

Everything they accused Donald Trump, Putin, and Russia of doing-- THEY are all guilty of.

The USA's puppet fascist regime in Ukraine just banned eleven opposition parties.
No one will complain about that.
All 11 parties must be pro-Russian spies or sumptin' even worse!

A decade ago today, NATO’s assault on Libya began & the most developed country in Africa as per the UN’s Human Development Index was crushed. It was whitewashed as a humanitarian intervention & supported by everyone from Anthony Bourdain to Ken Roth & a host of ‘Left’ luminaries.

19 years ago today, the Iraq War -- the worst crime of the 21st century -- began.

Its perpetrators have faced zero consequences. The occupation continues to this day.

[Henosis Sage]

On Monday, 21 March 2022 at 01:37:26 UTC+11, Henosis Sage wrote:
If you use Twitter and engage with the subject of the war in Ukraine, you've probably noticed a verified account called The Kyiv Independent pop up while you're scrolling through your feed which puts out highly biased content in favor of the Zelensky regime and the western powers which support it.

If you're using a desktop browser, it will usually look like this: Loading Image...

Do you see the gray text in the top left-hand corner of the image which says "War in Ukraine"? That's a Twitter "Topic" that the page's algorithm has recommended to me without my having subscribed to it, where posts from The Kyiv Independent feature prominently. This Topic is being aggressively pushed on Twitter users around the world, showing up over and over again in their feed until they adjust their settings to remove it.

As Pedro Gonzales recently documented in Human Events, The Kyiv "Independent" was slapped together a few months ago with what the Committee to Protect Journalists called "an emergency grant from the European Endowment for Democracy.”

The European Endowment for Democracy is a spinoff of the US government-funded “NGO” National Endowment for Democracy, which according to its own co-founder was set up to do overtly what the CIA used to do covertly, namely orchestrate coups and manage narratives to advance US interests. A page on an NED website says that "All EU member states are members of EED’s Board of Governors, together with members of the European Parliament and civil society experts."

So this is a media outlet funded by a government-run “NGO” being forcefully pushed in front of millions of western eyeballs by a major Silicon Valley corporation that people have come to rely on for getting information about the world. In the same way Silicon Valley facilitates government censorship by proxy, it also facilitates government propaganda by proxy.

The Globe and Mail reports that the Canadian government also put $200,000 toward Kyiv Independent's funding. The outlet is being so loudly amplified by Twitter that not only has its Twitter account secured nearly two million followers since its creation in November, but one of its reporters (who calls the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion his "brothers in arms") has gained a million followers since the start of the Russian invasion.

https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1500627334319255555

Do you see how sophisticated just that one tiny component of the US-centralized empire's propaganda campaign is? How many seemingly disparate and unrelated elements it has? Multiple countries, NGOs, an ostensibly independent social media platform, an ostensibly independent news outlet. It's very difficult to see how any of it connects at all if you don't know where to look. And almost nobody knows where to look.

This highly advanced perception management operation is happening all around the world about any issue the empire has a vested interest in. As anti-imperialist author and podcaster Justin Podur recently put it,

"The US Empire is based on the mastery of storytelling. Making reality through propaganda."

https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/people-overestimate-the-us-war-machine?s=w

CIVILIZATION IS LONG DEAD

[Henosis Sage]

Post by Henosis Sage
If you use Twitter and engage with the subject of the war in Ukraine, you've probably noticed a verified account called The Kyiv Independent pop up while you're scrolling through your feed which puts out highly biased content in favor of the Zelensky regime and the western powers which support it.
If you're using a desktop browser, it will usually look like this: https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd2e76442-be8b-4a9d-85e9-eaa4020a5c2c_704x405.png
Do you see the gray text in the top left-hand corner of the image which says "War in Ukraine"? That's a Twitter "Topic" that the page's algorithm has recommended to me without my having subscribed to it, where posts from The Kyiv Independent feature prominently. This Topic is being aggressively pushed on Twitter users around the world, showing up over and over again in their feed until they adjust their settings to remove it.
As Pedro Gonzales recently documented in Human Events, The Kyiv "Independent" was slapped together a few months ago with what the Committee to Protect Journalists called "an emergency grant from the European Endowment for Democracy.”
The European Endowment for Democracy is a spinoff of the US government-funded “NGO” National Endowment for Democracy, which according to its own co-founder was set up to do overtly what the CIA used to do covertly, namely orchestrate coups and manage narratives to advance US interests. A page on an NED website says that "All EU member states are members of EED’s Board of Governors, together with members of the European Parliament and civil society experts."
So this is a media outlet funded by a government-run “NGO” being forcefully pushed in front of millions of western eyeballs by a major Silicon Valley corporation that people have come to rely on for getting information about the world. In the same way Silicon Valley facilitates government censorship by proxy, it also facilitates government propaganda by proxy.
The Globe and Mail reports that the Canadian government also put $200,000 toward Kyiv Independent's funding. The outlet is being so loudly amplified by Twitter that not only has its Twitter account secured nearly two million followers since its creation in November, but one of its reporters (who calls the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion his "brothers in arms") has gained a million followers since the start of the Russian invasion.
https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1500627334319255555
Do you see how sophisticated just that one tiny component of the US-centralized empire's propaganda campaign is? How many seemingly disparate and unrelated elements it has? Multiple countries, NGOs, an ostensibly independent social media platform, an ostensibly independent news outlet. It's very difficult to see how any of it connects at all if you don't know where to look. And almost nobody knows where to look.
This highly advanced perception management operation is happening all around the world about any issue the empire has a vested interest in. As anti-imperialist author and podcaster Justin Podur recently put it,
"The US Empire is based on the mastery of storytelling. Making reality through propaganda."
https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/people-overestimate-the-us-war-machine?s=w
CIVILIZATION IS LONG DEAD

Caitlin Johnstone ⏳
@caitoz
Calling this a "proxy war" between Russia and the United States or calling Kyiv a "puppet regime" of Washington is strictly taboo now. That Ukraine has lacked independent agency in this war and the events leading up to it is something you are simply not allowed to say.

Well, I'm saying it. This is a proxy war. Kyiv is a puppet regime. Ukraine does not have independent agency in any meaningful way. This is not the fault of the Ukrainian people, who are obviously far and away the greatest victims of the Russian invasion, but of the giant western power structure which deliberately worked to take away the nation's agency many years before the invasion took place.

I mean, my god. The US and its allies are pouring billions of dollars worth of weapons into Ukraine from around the world, the CIA has been training Ukrainians to kill Russians, the US intelligence cartel is directly sharing military intelligence with Kyiv as we speak, and this follows US-backed coups in Ukraine in 2014 and in 2004 before that.

This is a proxy war. This is exactly the thing that a proxy war is. The only "agency" Ukraine has is the Central Intelligence kind.
https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/the-only-agency-ukraine-has-is-the?s=w

Zelensky is going off the deep end yesterday at NATO never admitting Ukraine would not/never be allowed into NATO [ which is precisely their position then and now] but instead neither NATO, EU member states or the US Biden ever said so explicitly to Russia/Putin... last year or this year ...

Had they done so the current war would never have started.

Also not reported in western media propaganda streams is reports ex Putin that UKRAINE had placed 60,000 active military troops with arms into the eastern Donbas region to begin an full on invasion of the two self-declared republics for a major attack to take back full control .... when? Late 2021 and january 2022 ....

of course facts don't matter on propaganda spin and narratives from either side ... no one knows the truth.

[Henosis Sage]

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If you use Twitter and engage with the subject of the war in Ukraine, you've probably noticed a verified account called The Kyiv Independent pop up while you're scrolling through your feed which puts out highly biased content in favor of the Zelensky regime and the western powers which support it.
If you're using a desktop browser, it will usually look like this: https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd2e76442-be8b-4a9d-85e9-eaa4020a5c2c_704x405.png
Do you see the gray text in the top left-hand corner of the image which says "War in Ukraine"? That's a Twitter "Topic" that the page's algorithm has recommended to me without my having subscribed to it, where posts from The Kyiv Independent feature prominently. This Topic is being aggressively pushed on Twitter users around the world, showing up over and over again in their feed until they adjust their settings to remove it.
As Pedro Gonzales recently documented in Human Events, The Kyiv "Independent" was slapped together a few months ago with what the Committee to Protect Journalists called "an emergency grant from the European Endowment for Democracy.”
The European Endowment for Democracy is a spinoff of the US government-funded “NGO” National Endowment for Democracy, which according to its own co-founder was set up to do overtly what the CIA used to do covertly, namely orchestrate coups and manage narratives to advance US interests. A page on an NED website says that "All EU member states are members of EED’s Board of Governors, together with members of the European Parliament and civil society experts."
So this is a media outlet funded by a government-run “NGO” being forcefully pushed in front of millions of western eyeballs by a major Silicon Valley corporation that people have come to rely on for getting information about the world. In the same way Silicon Valley facilitates government censorship by proxy, it also facilitates government propaganda by proxy.
The Globe and Mail reports that the Canadian government also put $200,000 toward Kyiv Independent's funding. The outlet is being so loudly amplified by Twitter that not only has its Twitter account secured nearly two million followers since its creation in November, but one of its reporters (who calls the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion his "brothers in arms") has gained a million followers since the start of the Russian invasion.
https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1500627334319255555
Do you see how sophisticated just that one tiny component of the US-centralized empire's propaganda campaign is? How many seemingly disparate and unrelated elements it has? Multiple countries, NGOs, an ostensibly independent social media platform, an ostensibly independent news outlet. It's very difficult to see how any of it connects at all if you don't know where to look. And almost nobody knows where to look.
This highly advanced perception management operation is happening all around the world about any issue the empire has a vested interest in. As anti-imperialist author and podcaster Justin Podur recently put it,
"The US Empire is based on the mastery of storytelling. Making reality through propaganda."
https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/people-overestimate-the-us-war-machine?s=w
CIVILIZATION IS LONG DEAD

Caitlin Johnstone ⏳
@caitoz
Calling this a "proxy war" between Russia and the United States or calling Kyiv a "puppet regime" of Washington is strictly taboo now. That Ukraine has lacked independent agency in this war and the events leading up to it is something you are simply not allowed to say.
Well, I'm saying it. This is a proxy war. Kyiv is a puppet regime. Ukraine does not have independent agency in any meaningful way. This is not the fault of the Ukrainian people, who are obviously far and away the greatest victims of the Russian invasion, but of the giant western power structure which deliberately worked to take away the nation's agency many years before the invasion took place.
I mean, my god. The US and its allies are pouring billions of dollars worth of weapons into Ukraine from around the world, the CIA has been training Ukrainians to kill Russians, the US intelligence cartel is directly sharing military intelligence with Kyiv as we speak, and this follows US-backed coups in Ukraine in 2014 and in 2004 before that.
This is a proxy war. This is exactly the thing that a proxy war is. The only "agency" Ukraine has is the Central Intelligence kind.
https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/the-only-agency-ukraine-has-is-the?s=w
Zelensky is going off the deep end yesterday at NATO never admitting Ukraine would not/never be allowed into NATO [ which is precisely their position then and now] but instead neither NATO, EU member states or the US Biden ever said so explicitly to Russia/Putin... last year or this year ...
Had they done so the current war would never have started.
Also not reported in western media propaganda streams is reports ex Putin that UKRAINE had placed 60,000 active military troops with arms into the eastern Donbas region to begin an full on invasion of the two self-declared republics for a major attack to take back full control .... when? Late 2021 and january 2022 ....
of course facts don't matter on propaganda spin and narratives from either side ... no one knows the truth.

outside the beltway ....

Ukrainian leftist criticizes Western war drive with Russia: US is using Ukraine as ‘cannon fodder’

A left-wing peace activist raised in Ukraine explains how the US government created the crisis, backing two coups in a decade, fueling a devastating civil war, and exploiting his nation as a proxy against Russia.
https://multipolarista.com/2022/03/14/ukrainian-leftist-war-russia-us/

[Henosis Sage]

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Post by Henosis Sage
If you use Twitter and engage with the subject of the war in Ukraine, you've probably noticed a verified account called The Kyiv Independent pop up while you're scrolling through your feed which puts out highly biased content in favor of the Zelensky regime and the western powers which support it.
If you're using a desktop browser, it will usually look like this: https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd2e76442-be8b-4a9d-85e9-eaa4020a5c2c_704x405.png
Do you see the gray text in the top left-hand corner of the image which says "War in Ukraine"? That's a Twitter "Topic" that the page's algorithm has recommended to me without my having subscribed to it, where posts from The Kyiv Independent feature prominently. This Topic is being aggressively pushed on Twitter users around the world, showing up over and over again in their feed until they adjust their settings to remove it.
As Pedro Gonzales recently documented in Human Events, The Kyiv "Independent" was slapped together a few months ago with what the Committee to Protect Journalists called "an emergency grant from the European Endowment for Democracy.”
The European Endowment for Democracy is a spinoff of the US government-funded “NGO” National Endowment for Democracy, which according to its own co-founder was set up to do overtly what the CIA used to do covertly, namely orchestrate coups and manage narratives to advance US interests. A page on an NED website says that "All EU member states are members of EED’s Board of Governors, together with members of the European Parliament and civil society experts."
So this is a media outlet funded by a government-run “NGO” being forcefully pushed in front of millions of western eyeballs by a major Silicon Valley corporation that people have come to rely on for getting information about the world. In the same way Silicon Valley facilitates government censorship by proxy, it also facilitates government propaganda by proxy.
The Globe and Mail reports that the Canadian government also put $200,000 toward Kyiv Independent's funding. The outlet is being so loudly amplified by Twitter that not only has its Twitter account secured nearly two million followers since its creation in November, but one of its reporters (who calls the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion his "brothers in arms") has gained a million followers since the start of the Russian invasion.
https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1500627334319255555
Do you see how sophisticated just that one tiny component of the US-centralized empire's propaganda campaign is? How many seemingly disparate and unrelated elements it has? Multiple countries, NGOs, an ostensibly independent social media platform, an ostensibly independent news outlet. It's very difficult to see how any of it connects at all if you don't know where to look. And almost nobody knows where to look.
This highly advanced perception management operation is happening all around the world about any issue the empire has a vested interest in. As anti-imperialist author and podcaster Justin Podur recently put it,
"The US Empire is based on the mastery of storytelling. Making reality through propaganda."
https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/people-overestimate-the-us-war-machine?s=w
CIVILIZATION IS LONG DEAD

Caitlin Johnstone ⏳
@caitoz
Calling this a "proxy war" between Russia and the United States or calling Kyiv a "puppet regime" of Washington is strictly taboo now. That Ukraine has lacked independent agency in this war and the events leading up to it is something you are simply not allowed to say.
Well, I'm saying it. This is a proxy war. Kyiv is a puppet regime. Ukraine does not have independent agency in any meaningful way. This is not the fault of the Ukrainian people, who are obviously far and away the greatest victims of the Russian invasion, but of the giant western power structure which deliberately worked to take away the nation's agency many years before the invasion took place.
I mean, my god. The US and its allies are pouring billions of dollars worth of weapons into Ukraine from around the world, the CIA has been training Ukrainians to kill Russians, the US intelligence cartel is directly sharing military intelligence with Kyiv as we speak, and this follows US-backed coups in Ukraine in 2014 and in 2004 before that.
This is a proxy war. This is exactly the thing that a proxy war is. The only "agency" Ukraine has is the Central Intelligence kind.
https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/the-only-agency-ukraine-has-is-the?s=w
Zelensky is going off the deep end yesterday at NATO never admitting Ukraine would not/never be allowed into NATO [ which is precisely their position then and now] but instead neither NATO, EU member states or the US Biden ever said so explicitly to Russia/Putin... last year or this year ...
Had they done so the current war would never have started.
Also not reported in western media propaganda streams is reports ex Putin that UKRAINE had placed 60,000 active military troops with arms into the eastern Donbas region to begin an full on invasion of the two self-declared republics for a major attack to take back full control .... when? Late 2021 and january 2022 ....
of course facts don't matter on propaganda spin and narratives from either side ... no one knows the truth.

outside the beltway ....
Ukrainian leftist criticizes Western war drive with Russia: US is using Ukraine as ‘cannon fodder’
A left-wing peace activist raised in Ukraine explains how the US government created the crisis, backing two coups in a decade, fueling a devastating civil war, and exploiting his nation as a proxy against Russia.
https://multipolarista.com/2022/03/14/ukrainian-leftist-war-russia-us/

On this FINAL episode of Going Underground, we speak to former secretary of state Colin Powell’s chief of staff, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson. He discusses the context of Russia’s invasion, citing NATO expansion after the fall of the Soviet Union as one of Washington’s greatest strategic mistakes. He addresses the deepening international isolation of Russia and President Vladimir Putin, calling it ‘insane’. He outlines what a diplomatic solution needs to look like in order for there to be peace in Ukraine, his belief that NATO and the CSTO should be scrapped in favour of a united European security infrastructure, and much more!
https://www.rt.com/shows/going-underground/552175-russia-invasion-nato-expansion/

[Henosis Sage]

Post by Henosis Sage

Post by Henosis Sage

Post by Henosis Sage

Post by Henosis Sage
If you use Twitter and engage with the subject of the war in Ukraine, you've probably noticed a verified account called The Kyiv Independent pop up while you're scrolling through your feed which puts out highly biased content in favor of the Zelensky regime and the western powers which support it.
If you're using a desktop browser, it will usually look like this: https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd2e76442-be8b-4a9d-85e9-eaa4020a5c2c_704x405.png
Do you see the gray text in the top left-hand corner of the image which says "War in Ukraine"? That's a Twitter "Topic" that the page's algorithm has recommended to me without my having subscribed to it, where posts from The Kyiv Independent feature prominently. This Topic is being aggressively pushed on Twitter users around the world, showing up over and over again in their feed until they adjust their settings to remove it.
As Pedro Gonzales recently documented in Human Events, The Kyiv "Independent" was slapped together a few months ago with what the Committee to Protect Journalists called "an emergency grant from the European Endowment for Democracy.”
The European Endowment for Democracy is a spinoff of the US government-funded “NGO” National Endowment for Democracy, which according to its own co-founder was set up to do overtly what the CIA used to do covertly, namely orchestrate coups and manage narratives to advance US interests. A page on an NED website says that "All EU member states are members of EED’s Board of Governors, together with members of the European Parliament and civil society experts."
So this is a media outlet funded by a government-run “NGO” being forcefully pushed in front of millions of western eyeballs by a major Silicon Valley corporation that people have come to rely on for getting information about the world. In the same way Silicon Valley facilitates government censorship by proxy, it also facilitates government propaganda by proxy.
The Globe and Mail reports that the Canadian government also put $200,000 toward Kyiv Independent's funding. The outlet is being so loudly amplified by Twitter that not only has its Twitter account secured nearly two million followers since its creation in November, but one of its reporters (who calls the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion his "brothers in arms") has gained a million followers since the start of the Russian invasion.
https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1500627334319255555
Do you see how sophisticated just that one tiny component of the US-centralized empire's propaganda campaign is? How many seemingly disparate and unrelated elements it has? Multiple countries, NGOs, an ostensibly independent social media platform, an ostensibly independent news outlet. It's very difficult to see how any of it connects at all if you don't know where to look. And almost nobody knows where to look.
This highly advanced perception management operation is happening all around the world about any issue the empire has a vested interest in. As anti-imperialist author and podcaster Justin Podur recently put it,
"The US Empire is based on the mastery of storytelling. Making reality through propaganda."
https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/people-overestimate-the-us-war-machine?s=w
CIVILIZATION IS LONG DEAD

Caitlin Johnstone ⏳
@caitoz
Calling this a "proxy war" between Russia and the United States or calling Kyiv a "puppet regime" of Washington is strictly taboo now. That Ukraine has lacked independent agency in this war and the events leading up to it is something you are simply not allowed to say.
Well, I'm saying it. This is a proxy war. Kyiv is a puppet regime. Ukraine does not have independent agency in any meaningful way. This is not the fault of the Ukrainian people, who are obviously far and away the greatest victims of the Russian invasion, but of the giant western power structure which deliberately worked to take away the nation's agency many years before the invasion took place.
I mean, my god. The US and its allies are pouring billions of dollars worth of weapons into Ukraine from around the world, the CIA has been training Ukrainians to kill Russians, the US intelligence cartel is directly sharing military intelligence with Kyiv as we speak, and this follows US-backed coups in Ukraine in 2014 and in 2004 before that.
This is a proxy war. This is exactly the thing that a proxy war is. The only "agency" Ukraine has is the Central Intelligence kind.
https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/the-only-agency-ukraine-has-is-the?s=w
Zelensky is going off the deep end yesterday at NATO never admitting Ukraine would not/never be allowed into NATO [ which is precisely their position then and now] but instead neither NATO, EU member states or the US Biden ever said so explicitly to Russia/Putin... last year or this year ...
Had they done so the current war would never have started.
Also not reported in western media propaganda streams is reports ex Putin that UKRAINE had placed 60,000 active military troops with arms into the eastern Donbas region to begin an full on invasion of the two self-declared republics for a major attack to take back full control .... when? Late 2021 and january 2022 ....
of course facts don't matter on propaganda spin and narratives from either side ... no one knows the truth.

outside the beltway ....
Ukrainian leftist criticizes Western war drive with Russia: US is using Ukraine as ‘cannon fodder’
A left-wing peace activist raised in Ukraine explains how the US government created the crisis, backing two coups in a decade, fueling a devastating civil war, and exploiting his nation as a proxy against Russia.
https://multipolarista.com/2022/03/14/ukrainian-leftist-war-russia-us/

On this FINAL episode of Going Underground, we speak to former secretary of state Colin Powell’s chief of staff, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson. He discusses the context of Russia’s invasion, citing NATO expansion after the fall of the Soviet Union as one of Washington’s greatest strategic mistakes. He addresses the deepening international isolation of Russia and President Vladimir Putin, calling it ‘insane’. He outlines what a diplomatic solution needs to look like in order for there to be peace in Ukraine, his belief that NATO and the CSTO should be scrapped in favour of a united European security infrastructure, and much more!
https://www.rt.com/shows/going-underground/552175-russia-invasion-nato-expansion/

The US is imposing visa restrictions on Chinese officials in order to punish Beijing for alleged repression, intimidation and harassment of human rights activists and dissidents, both in China and around the world, the State Department said on Monday. As examples, Secretary of State Antony Blinken cited “genocide” of Uighurs and repression in Tibet and Hong Kong.

China is “attempting to intimidate, harass, and repress dissidents and human rights defenders inside and outside,” Blinken said, adding that “perpetrators of human rights abuses must continue to face consequences.”
https://www.rt.com/news/552428-blinken-sanctions-china-human-rights/

WTF?

JUILAN ASSANGE WIKILEAKS?

HOUTHIS IN YEMEN?

20 YEARS IN AFGHANISTAN?

STEALING $7 BILLION OF AFGHANI RESERVE BANK?

MANIPULATION OF UKRAINE ET AL AND NATO FOR DECADES?

[Henosis Sage]

On Tuesday, 22 March 2022 at 13:43:56 UTC+11, Henosis Sage wrote:

an addendum .... fwiw .... on the social political implications of this crazy Ukrainian war/reaction -- but it also applies to Eckankar history ... the distortions, what was done to people who exposed previously hidden unknown information not liked by the powers that be ... be they officials like Harold, or self-appointed gatekeepers like Doug marman, or a kinpa / matt sharpe, or a JR Clarke (opus dei and other sock puppet nyms) and the Robs of this world and all those kinds of " well meaning - fight the good fight" folks on BRIGHT FUTURE etc on a.r.e. and in local Stasnags all those years ago ..... most i suspect have also probably left Eckankar as well by now .... i am also thinking of all the sites online that have disappeared over the years and all the eckankar history related info there was now all gone -- then one day google groups will be expunged of old data too .... then all that will be left is official info channels and the likes of marman's distorted biased non-factual fictional opinionated waffle ...... the truth will no longer exist in written form ..... lanes works too and the first hand commentaries will be disappeared too ....




short quote with ref - worth a read imho

Chuis Hedges: On Being Disappeared

Are we a more informed and better society because of this wholesale censorship? Is this a world we want to inhabit where those who know everything about us and about whom we know nothing can instantly erase us? If this happens to me, it can happen to you, to any critic anywhere who challenges the dominant narrative. And that is where we are headed as the ruling elites refuse to respond to the disenfranchisement and suffering of the working class, opting not for social and political change or the curbing of the rapacious power and obscene wealth of our oligarchic rulers, but instead imposing iron control over information, as if that will solve the mounting social unrest and vast political and social divides.

The most vocal cheerleaders for this censorship are the liberal class. Terrified of the enraged crowds of QAnon conspiracy theorists, Christian fascists, gun-toting militias, and cult-like Trump supporters that grew out of the distortions of neoliberalism, austerity, deindustrialization, and the collapse of social programs, they plead with the digital monopolies to make it all go away. They blame anyone but themselves. Democrats in Congress have held hearings with the CEOs of social media companies pressuring them to do more to censor content. Banish the troglodytes. Then we will have social cohesion. Then life will go back to normal. Fake news. Harm reduction model. Information pollution. Information disorder. They have all sorts of Orwellian phrases to justify censorship. Meanwhile, they peddle their own fantasy that Russia was responsible for the election of Donald Trump. It is a stunning inability to be remotely self-reflective or self-critical, and it is ominous as we move deeper and deeper into a state of political and social dysfunction.

What were my sins? I did not, like my former employer, The New York Times, sell you the lie of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, peddle conspiracy theories about Donald Trump being a Russian asset, put out a 10-part podcast called the Caliphate that was a hoax, or tell you that the information on Hunter Biden’s laptop was “disinformation.” I did not prophesize that Joe Biden was the next FDR or that Hillary Clinton was going to win the election.

This censorship is about supporting what, as I.F Stone reminded us, governments always do – lie. Challenge the official lie, as I often did, and you will soon become a nonperson on digital media. Julian Assange and Edward Snowden exposed the truth about the criminal inner workings of power. Look where they are now. This censorship is one step removed from Joseph Stalin’s airbrushing of nonpersons such as Leon Trotsky out of official photographs. It is a destruction of our collective memory. It removes those moments in the media when we attempted to examine our reality in ways the ruling class did not appreciate. The goal is to foster historical amnesia. If we don’t know what happened in the past, we cannot make sense of the present.

https://scheerpost.com/2022/03/28/hedges-on-being-disappeared/

[Henosis Sage]

an addendum .... fwiw .... on the social political implications of this crazy Ukrainian war/reaction -- but it also applies to Eckankar history ... the distortions, what was done to people who exposed previously hidden unknown information not liked by the powers that be ... be they officials like Harold, or self-appointed gatekeepers like Doug marman, or a kinpa / matt sharpe, or a JR Clarke (opus dei and other sock puppet nyms) and the Robs of this world and all those kinds of " well meaning - fight the good fight" folks on BRIGHT FUTURE etc on a.r.e. and in local Stasnags all those years ago ..... most i suspect have also probably left Eckankar as well by now .... i am also thinking of all the sites online that have disappeared over the years and all the eckankar history related info there was now all gone -- then one day google groups will be expunged of old data too .... then all that will be left is official info channels and the likes of marman's distorted biased non-factual fictional opinionated waffle ...... the truth will no longer exist in written form ..... lanes works too and the first hand commentaries will be disappeared too ....
short quote with ref - worth a read imho
Chuis Hedges: On Being Disappeared
Are we a more informed and better society because of this wholesale censorship? Is this a world we want to inhabit where those who know everything about us and about whom we know nothing can instantly erase us? If this happens to me, it can happen to you, to any critic anywhere who challenges the dominant narrative. And that is where we are headed as the ruling elites refuse to respond to the disenfranchisement and suffering of the working class, opting not for social and political change or the curbing of the rapacious power and obscene wealth of our oligarchic rulers, but instead imposing iron control over information, as if that will solve the mounting social unrest and vast political and social divides.
The most vocal cheerleaders for this censorship are the liberal class. Terrified of the enraged crowds of QAnon conspiracy theorists, Christian fascists, gun-toting militias, and cult-like Trump supporters that grew out of the distortions of neoliberalism, austerity, deindustrialization, and the collapse of social programs, they plead with the digital monopolies to make it all go away. They blame anyone but themselves. Democrats in Congress have held hearings with the CEOs of social media companies pressuring them to do more to censor content. Banish the troglodytes. Then we will have social cohesion. Then life will go back to normal. Fake news. Harm reduction model. Information pollution. Information disorder. They have all sorts of Orwellian phrases to justify censorship. Meanwhile, they peddle their own fantasy that Russia was responsible for the election of Donald Trump. It is a stunning inability to be remotely self-reflective or self-critical, and it is ominous as we move deeper and deeper into a state of political and social dysfunction.
What were my sins? I did not, like my former employer, The New York Times, sell you the lie of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, peddle conspiracy theories about Donald Trump being a Russian asset, put out a 10-part podcast called the Caliphate that was a hoax, or tell you that the information on Hunter Biden’s laptop was “disinformation.” I did not prophesize that Joe Biden was the next FDR or that Hillary Clinton was going to win the election.
This censorship is about supporting what, as I.F Stone reminded us, governments always do – lie. Challenge the official lie, as I often did, and you will soon become a nonperson on digital media. Julian Assange and Edward Snowden exposed the truth about the criminal inner workings of power. Look where they are now. This censorship is one step removed from Joseph Stalin’s airbrushing of nonpersons such as Leon Trotsky out of official photographs. It is a destruction of our collective memory. It removes those moments in the media when we attempted to examine our reality in ways the ruling class did not appreciate. The goal is to foster historical amnesia. If we don’t know what happened in the past, we cannot make sense of the present.
https://scheerpost.com/2022/03/28/hedges-on-being-disappeared/

YEAH .... PS

The goal is to foster historical amnesia. If we don’t know what happened in the past, we cannot make sense of the present.

“The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen,” Hannah Arendt warned. “What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship [OR ECKANKAR OR MANIPULATIVE CULT] to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed?
" If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. This is because lies, by their very nature, have to be changed, and a lying government [A LYING ECKANKAR - A LYING TWITCHELL AND KLEMP ] has constantly to rewrite its own history. [ THAT IS WHAT HAPPENED FROM THE BEGINNING TO NOW .... MARMAN TOO CONTINUES HIS DISTORTIONS AND FICTIONAL MADE UP BIASED HISTORY ]
" On the receiving end you get not only one lie—a lie which you could go on for the rest of your days—but you get a great number of lies, depending on how the political [POWER BASE] wind blows. And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please.”

https://scheerpost.com/2022/03/28/hedges-on-being-disappeared/