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It is evident that propaganda has long served as a tool of statecraft throughout history. Examples abound, from Patriot pamphlets like Thomas Paine's "Common Sense," which swayed public opinion towards independence from British rule, to the Civil War-era posters and newspapers used by both the Union and the Confederacy to recruit soldiers and advance their respective causes.
With the emergence of television, American broadcast companies were initially established by veterans of the Office of War Information from WWII. This trend continued into the 1950s through relationships like Operation Mockingbird, extending into subsequent decades via entities like the National Endowment for Democracy (a CIA cutout) and the privatization of intelligence capacities. Continued backdoor relationships with media giants like the Washington Post and the New York Times are increasingly obvious. This infrastructure has historically worked to advance the interests of the plutocracy until the advent of social media platforms, which began to eclipse legacy structures in 2016.
Recall that social media didn't exist in 1991 when the World Wide Web was released to the public. Facebook emerged in 2004, followed by Twitter, YouTube, and smartphones in 2007. During those early years, dissidents, citizen journalists, and influencers lacked the massive followings or subscribers to rival mainstream media. However, by 2014, the rise of independent voices operating within a mature ecosystem was deemed an existential threat to 70 years of unified foreign policy. From Truman to Trump, the agenda set by those who control the nations was about to become undone. Uh-oh.
Hence the rise of a multibillion-dollar censorship industry, aligning with the Military Industrial Complex, government, private sector, civil society organizations, and a vast network of media allies and professional fact-checkers—self-appointed sentinels surveilling every word on the internet. With Trump’s win in 2016, an entire class of seasoned professionals, anticipating career promotions, found themselves on the edge of marginalization. Implied career advancement, anchored in the assumption of a Hillary Clinton presidency, vanished with the swish of the MAGA wand.
Subsequently, individuals from Hillary’s State Department transitioned directly to the Atlantic Council, NATO’s political arm and one of the Biden Administration’s significant political backers. A group of bureaucrats skilled in pressuring governments for sanctions against Russia took their international efforts to European governments, urging them to enact censorship laws against populist groups. This action subsequently affected affiliates of populist groups in the United States.
Moreover, through the Atlantic Council, a trans-Atlantic flank attack on free speech was initiated by mirroring European censorship laws in the United States, ushering in the era of automated censorship. Leveraging ISIS-fueled censorship, the Council advocated for measures to be enacted by social media and tech companies, threatening them with fines that could bankrupt these companies if they failed to comply.
AI-based technology, Natural Language Processing, was developed to scour the internet, analyze language, map out a vast topography of words used by online communities, and target individuals deemed worthy of censorship. Originally created by DARPA to combat ISIS, this same instrument of mass deletion was weaponized against COVID skeptics or individuals deemed undesirable by the Department of Defense.
The ability to censor tens of millions of posts with a few lines of code was developed by thought leaders, political scientists, and experts in quantitative and computational skills. Federal government grants are now allocated to 60+ universities to develop censorship algorithms targeting inflammatory language on topics such as COVID, vaccine mandates, election results, mail-in-ballots, masks, vaccine adverse effects, etc. This is how groups with thousands of vaccine injury stories vanished from Facebook with the flick of a switch. This is how posts related to the 2020 Election fraud were taken down with the click of a mouse.
Make no mistake, our own government, through mechanisms inserted via the Department of Homeland Security, CIA conduits, NATO, NSA, Pentagon, and State Department, collaborated with the EU to craft censorship laws in the name of democracy. Furthermore, through CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) tracking, any form of mis, dis, or malinformation was considered a cybersecurity threat. Because elections were deemed critical infrastructure, a person posting about vote by mail ballot irregularity on social media was as dangerous as a bad actor targeting our power grid.
In other words, citizens posting and tweeting mail-in-ballot cheating were deleted because telling the truth undermined public confidence in a free, fair, and transparent election. This daunting apparatus was in place to defend democracy. My question is, what democracy? Because it certainly is not the one you and I participated in 2020 … see where this is going?
They feared that the people, the citizens of their own country, would get their way and they went to war against that.
Tucker Carlson
Father in Heaven:
Pierce the hearts of world leaders and policymakers so they may abandon this unrestrained pursuit of power and control. Shine a light upon the conscience of those who are unwitting instruments perpetrating this nefarious agenda. Release your Heavenly Host to do battle against the powers and principalities that seek to enslave humanity.
Holy Spirit, quicken the souls of those who are yet asleep to the tentacles of manipulation and release them from the web of confusion surrounding them. Help them break free from the chains of illusion so the numbers of those understanding the reality of our situation continues to grow.
Lord, grant us the strength to resist the forces that seek to silence dissent and stifle free speech so we may continue to defend the freedoms and liberties granted by our US Constitution.
Forgive us for acts committed in the name of our country, as we pray for restitution and justice for the people and nations injured by these agendas.
In Jesus name.
Amen.
Fact check: Go to YouTube and search for “Mockingbird Media Montage”. I found nothing from 2020 onwards. Check this out on Rumble, where speech still is free:
https://rumble.com/v1gdnxz-this-is-extremely-dangerous-to-our-democracy.html
Here is an old one that postulates why Trump is their problem:
https://prayingmantis.substack.com/p/war-is-a-racket
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