patrick.net

https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/former-top-cia-analyst-condemns-fbi

Former Top CIA Analyst Condemns FBI For Censorship & Misinformation
"Joe McCarthy would have loved to have that kind of control," says Martin Gurri, author of the seminal 2018 book, "The Revolt of Public," about government influence over Twitter. ...

The Internet in general, and social media in particular, argues Gurri, mean that the elites can no longer control the public conversation as they once could. They struggle to “manufacture consent.” Anybody can start a Substack or Twitter account, and anybody can go viral. That technological revolution is resulting in political revolutions. ...

I come from Cuba. When did it happen that protecting democracy entails Chinese methods of handling information? What happens in China is what happens here. Somewhere a party hack comes to you and says, “That’s not the word to use,” or “The party doesn’t want that opinion.” And Twitter became an instrument of control for the state and the party in power.

I’ll try to put it in a bigger context. What you’re seeing is a reaction to the revolt of the public. This is the elites saying we want to return the information sphere to the front page of the New York Times to circa 1975. And that’s where it gets weird. You use moral shaming with BLM. You use medical panic with covid. And, last of all, you bully people. The FBI comes at you and says, “Can you take this down? And what about this and that and the other thing?”

https://slaynews.com/news/pfizer-executive-pressured-twitter-censor-natural-immunity-information/

Pfizer Pressured Twitter to Censor Natural Immunity Information

https://notthebee.com/article/document-shows-the-white-house-pressuring-facebook-to-censor-tucker-carlson-for-vaccine-hesitancy

The White House emailed Facebook to ask the company to censor Tucker Carlson because he voiced independent thoughts about the vax

https://theconservativeweekly.substack.com/p/released-emails-reveal-pfizer-board

Released Emails Reveal Pfizer Board Member Pressured Twitter to Censor Vaccine Criticism

In May 2021, emails revealed that Scott Gottlieb, a Pfizer board director and former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner, had sought help from the social media platform Twitter to censor vaccine related tweets. This was seen as an attempt to manipulate public opinion around vaccines, which has raised concerns about pharmaceutical companies’ influence on the internet.

https://slaynews.com/news/facebook-bans-all-content-supportive-pro-bolsonaro-protests-brazil/

Facebook Bans All Content Supportive of Pro-Bolsonaro Protests in Brazil

Why?

This guy was absolutely correct, yet he is still banned by Twitter:

https://www.westernjournal.com/dad-says-fema-tried-bribe-teen-sons-post-vaccine-death-refused-went-public/

January 16, 2023 at 1:46pm
Ernest Ramirez says he wanted to do the right thing for his son, so he decided to have 16-year-old Ernesto take the COVID-19 vaccine.

After all, what was the harm? Ramirez was told the vaccine was 100 percent safe.

Five days later, on April 24, 2021, his son died from complications related to an enlarged heart, Ramirez told LifeSiteNews.

Soon after his son’s death, Ramirez says, he received a call from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. According to him, agency officials asked him to change the cause of death for his son to “COVID.”

Ramirez says they offered to help him financially in exchange for doing so. ...

“Seven months later, after FEMA contacted me and asked me to change the cause of death [of] my son to COVID so that they could help me financially, I told them I would never do that,” he said at the rally.

“I would definitely never disrespect my son in that way.”

FEMA’s website says the agency provides as much as $9,000 toward funeral expenses in cases where “death was attributed to COVID-19.

https://twitter.com/TheChiefNerd/status/1613940759996293121?ref_src=patrick.net

Chief Nerd
@TheChiefNerd
Ernest Ramirez on How FEMA Tried to Coerce Him to Change the Cause of Death for His Son After He Died From the Pfizer Vaccine

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/if-you-dont-like-the-data-stop-reporting

if you don't like the data, stop reporting it? ONS edition
there has been a worrying trend of data series being eliminated by health agencies when they trend against covid vaccines. it's time we demanded to know why. ...

this same trend has been much in evidence from canada and australia to the CDC who infamously stopped reporting all manner of all causes deaths for months on end to do “system maintenance” in the middle of a declared emergency. what they brought back online raised more questions than it answered.

most agencies will not even report all cause mortality by vaccine status at all, much less in a format that allows you to measure it from jab one and not from “last jab +14 or +21” which can be so badly misleading.

it’s honestly incredibly jarring when you actually step back and see the totality:

during the most allegedly dangerous pandemic in decades in which countless rushed and high-cost “mitigations” from lockdowns to distancing to travel bans to masking and warped speed vaccines with never before approved in humans methods of action, the agencies who have the information needed to assess the efficacy of these interventions have been systematically suppressing and slanting the data.

https://www.eugyppius.com/p/the-american-centers-for-disease?publication_id=268621&post_id=97222528&isFreemail=true

It’s interesting to consider that the CDC was founded in 1946 as an outgrowth of a malaria eradication programme, and that it took less than three generations for it to metastasise from those small beginnings into the hypervaccinating mass-containing thought-policing pharmaceutical scam-promoting multidimensionally tentacled tumorous vampire squid that it is today. With every crisis, every crusade and every bad flu season, it’s gotten just a little bigger, a little more comprehensive, down to the present moment, in which it’s soliciting an algorithm that will identify opinions it doesn’t like, in advance of anyone even having heard of them.

https://endtimeheadlines.org/2023/01/watch-man-wearing-jesus-saves-t-shirt-at-mall-of-america-ordered-to-take-it-off-or-leave/

https://slaynews.com/news/canada-launches-major-taxpayer-funded-effort-censor-public-online/

Canada’s government has launched a major taxpayer-funded effort to censor the Canadian people online, arguing that “disinformation” is threatening the nation’s “democracy.”

The Canadian government is pumping millions of tax dollars into “research projects” that claim to “combat online disinformation.”

A total of 16 such schemes will receive a whopping $1.2 million of taxpayer money each.

In an announcement about the move, the federal government’s Department of Canadian Heritage justified the effort by insisting that censoring the public online is “essential” to “preserve democracy.”

Where they define "disinformation" is any true information that exposes the lies of people in power.

https://slaynews.com/news/facebook-gave-cdc-de-facto-access-censor-misinformation/

Facebook Gave CDC De Facto Access to Censor ‘Misinformation’

They were censoring truth about the dangerous and ineffective vaxx in order to get more people take it, resulting in many more deaths.

Facebook censorship caused mass death.

https://www.bild.de/politik/inland/politik-inland/enthuellt-geheim-gipfel-mit-facebook-und-google-liess-die-regierung-unliebsame-c-82666226.bild.html

The big question: Was the federal government involved in this restriction of freedom of expression in Germany?

Now it comes out: There was a secret corona summit between the federal government and US corporations, which had the fight against allegedly false information on the agenda.

Patrick says

Facebook censorship caused mass death.

Not just Facebook. The entire corporate media did this, as did Google, and Twitter. Our government colluded in this, our FBI did this.

10 years ago I felt, maybe, there was a systemic corrupt system running not only our government but our major companies. Today, it's quite easy to see it. We really are in a totalitarian dictatorship.

Our defense is the First Amendment. If that goes down, it's going to lead to civil war in time. The people who own weaponry are NOT going to give them up, and they are the ones, who BY FAR control the means of food production. It will be a war between urban and rural populations, and the rural populations have far more ex military than the urban areas. I will starve to death in the conflict. This is why the communists in Russia attacked food production first. Bill Gates is a major farm owner, but in a civil war, law will be irrelevant.

Patrick says

https://www.bild.de/politik/inland/politik-inland/enthuellt-geheim-gipfel-mit-facebook-und-google-liess-die-regierung-unliebsame-c-82666226.bild.html

The big question: Was the federal government involved in this restriction of freedom of expression in Germany?

Now it comes out: There was a secret corona summit between the federal government and US corporations, which had the fight against allegedly false information on the agenda.

German government uses the 3rd reich as a perma excuse for censoring and other totalitarian meausures. Similar to raycysm here. Germans are bigger sheeple than US citizens though, I don't expect any uprising there. They even just fired the defense minister who was blocking the sending of tanks to corrupt Ukraine, the new one is on board with the global agenda and declared war on russia. The people have been brainwashed and thus no power. You have to give props to the globalists marxists as they turned one of the most pacifist/peaceful nations (post WW2 due to WW2 guilt/wounds) into active warmongers again, first kosovo, now ukraine. We are at war with Eurasia!

https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/1619401307433095168?ref_src=patrick.net

Lee Fang
@lhfang
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Jan 28
The “Hamilton 68” dashboard was a high level scam to falsely accuse Russian influence behind everything. Their entire opaque system was a fraud, and virtually every media outlet fell for it. Everyone from NYT to Mother Jones should post a correction:

Patrick says

The “Hamilton 68” dashboard was a high level scam to falsely accuse Russian influence behind everything. Their entire opaque system was a fraud, and virtually every media outlet fell for it. Everyone from NYT to Mother Jones should post a correction

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1622739987031552002?ref_src=patrick.net



https://www.state.gov/bureaus-offices/under-secretary-for-public-diplomacy-and-public-affairs/global-engagement-center/

Patrick says

heir entire opaque system was a fraud, and virtually every media outlet fell for it.

They didn't fall for it, they had an excuse to report on something they knew was false.

You don't work as a journalist, your job is not to know what is going on, yet you do and you knew this was bullshit. Do you think "journalists" are so much more uniformed than YOU are, when you do this shit in your spare time?

That was my problem for a long long time, I thought I was "smart". I'm not smart. I'm simply not stupid, and although I'm far more educated than journalists are in some ways, I am not more educated about what is going on in the world than they are. They just lie about what is going on in the world. Their job isn't to inform the public, it's to propagandize the public. Don't make the mistake of thinking journalists are stupid and befuddled, they aren't. They are dishonest.

They are active, intentional, liars. That's their actual job. They are to "journalists" like "fact checkers" are to people actually checking facts. Fact checkers don't check facts, and journalists don't do journalism.

https://mattiasdesmet.substack.com/p/the-psychology-of-totalitarianism-70c

On January 25, 2023, Ghent University banned the use of my book The Psychology of Totalitarianism in the course “Critique of Society and Culture”. That happened in the aftermath of a media storm that erupted in September 2022 following my interviews with Tucker Carlson and Alex Jones. ...

I continued articulating my own opinion anyway, but not without consequences. I was kicked out of the consortium for clinical psychology of the Faculty of Psychology in 2021. The rationale was that my colleagues no longer wished to associate with me due to my public statements about mass formation during the corona crisis. That was pretty honest and straightforward language: excommunication for dissent opinion.

In September last year, another step was taken. This was when the Faculty of Psychology decided to investigate my scientific integrity and whether the teaching material I use in the course “Critique of Society and Culture” is of adequate quality.

This procedure against me, which eventually led to the banning of my book in January 2023, is quite complex. It reads a bit like Franz Kafka.

https://twitter.com/ClownWorld/status/1623726296579858433?ref_src=patrick.net

https://notthebee.com/article/montana-is-preparing-to-forbid-schools-from-punishing-students-if-they-refuse-to-submit-to-transgender-ideology

https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/the-pain-of-listening-to-twitter

I am witnessing, as I see them seated primly in rows in a Congressional hearing room, the very faces — the somber, ill-cut but costly blue suits, the bad wire-rimmed glasses, the judgmental expressions — of those who were personally responsible for the misery, trauma, reputational damage, shattered dreams, and loss of income, in my one life, over the course of last two and a half years.

Here at last are the very people who took it upon themselves, or who oversaw their colleagues, to single me out, to collude with the White House, and with Carol Crawford of CDC, and with DHS perhaps, to suspend me — following an accurate tweet of mine that warned women of menstrual harms following mRNA injection. ...

There, onscreen, present at last, is Yoel Roth, “Former Twitter Head of Trust & Safety” - with that oddly prim, pursed mouth that these technocrats all seem to have; with those fingertips touching each other, presenting himself as if he is the moderator of reality itself, and as if he finds himself in the presence of something that smells bad. ...

There is Anika Collier Navaroli, “Former US Safety Policy Team Senior Expert,” talking about “dangerous speech”. There is her pale-gray jacket, her earnest if not bullying posture, as she leans forward, passionately describing the terrifying nature of freedom of speech. ...

There is former Twitter counsel, former “head of legal, policy and trust” at Twitter, Ms Vijaya Gadde, with her slightly more polished look and her sapphire-colored jacket; a package that proves however only that pure evil can be as well dressed and coiffed as not. There Ms. Gadde is, prevaricating when Rep Nancy Mace (R-SC) asks her directly if Twitter ever censored Americans pursuant to demands from the Government. After Ms. Gadde’s mumbled gibberish in response, haplessly phrased in the passive voice, Rep Mace thanked Ms Gadde for admitting that Twitter had become a “subsidiary” of the FBI in illegally violating the First Amendment rights of Americans. ...

These are the people who decided to remove the accurate tweet of mine about menstrual symptoms subsequent to MRNA vaccines, that could have saved millions of women from the current agony and infertility that they now endure. These are the people who obeyed the instructions of their colleagues in government to censor me.

Nothing will change unless Roth, Navaroli, and Gadde are hanged for conspiring with the FBI to violate the First Amendment and for undermining US elections far beyond anything the Russians actually did.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/equality-not-elitism/disinformation-group-secretly-blacklisting-right-wing-outlets-bankrolled-state-department

Disinformation Inc: State Department bankrolls group secretly blacklisting conservative media
By Gabe Kaminsky, Investigative Reporter February 09, 2023

The Department of State has funded a deep-pocketed "disinformation" tracking group that is secretly blacklisting and trying to defund conservative media, likely costing the news organizations vital advertising dollars, the Washington Examiner can confirm.

The Global Disinformation Index, a British organization with two affiliated U.S. nonprofit groups, is feeding blacklists to ad companies with the intent of defunding and shutting down websites peddling alleged "disinformation," the Washington Examiner reported . This same "disinformation" group has received $330,000 from two State Department-backed entities linked to the highest levels of government, raising concerns from First Amendment lawyers and members of Congress. ...

The Washington Examiner revealed on Thursday that it is on this exclusion list. The list includes at least 2,000 websites and has "had a significant impact on the advertising revenue that has gone to those sites," said GDI's CEO Clare Melford on a March 2022 podcast.

GDI has identified that the 10 "riskiest" news outlets for disinformation are the American Spectator, Newsmax, the Federalist, the American Conservative, One America News, the Blaze, the Daily Wire, RealClearPolitics, Reason, and the New York Post.

https://euphoricrecall.substack.com/p/the-twitter-files-part-xvi-unrolled

https://slaynews.com/news/elon-musk-warns-joe-biden-this-is-a-serious-attack-on-the-constitution-by-a-federal-agency-a-shameful-case-of-weaponization-of-a-government-agency-for-political-purposes-and-suppression-of/

Elon Musk has fired back after a blockbuster report exposed the efforts by Democrat President Joe Biden’s Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to harass the Twitter boss and his company.

The House Judiciary Committee blew the whistle on the FTC’s attempt to harass Musk in a new report.

The Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government released an interim report titled, “The Weaponization of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC): An Agency’s Overreach to Harass Elon Musk’s Twitter.”

The report details new, nonpublic information that shows how the federal government weaponized its authority against Twitter in the wake of Elon Musk’s acquisition of the company.

The FTC sent over a dozen demand letters to Twitter that make more than 350 specific demands of Twitter.

The information shows how the FTC has been attempting to harass Twitter and pry into the company’s decisions on matters outside of the FTC’s mandate.

https://notthebee.com/article/schumer-says-rupert-murdoch-must-stop-tucker-carlson-from-going-on-tonight-because-our-democracy-depends-on-it

Chuck Schumer Says Rupert Murdoch Must "Stop Tucker Carlson From Going on Tonight" Because "Our Democracy Depends on It"

Maybe Schumer's life depends on the public not finding out that he helped to organize and certify a clearly fraudulent election and then jailed innocent Americans for protesting it by inviting them into the Capitol with open doors and compliant police, and then arresting them for accepting the invitation.

Just a theory.

https://notthebee.com/article/the-british-woman-that-was-arrested-for-praying-silently-gets-arrested-for-praying-silently-again

The British woman that was arrested for praying silently last year was just arrested AGAIN for praying silently

So... they're censoring praying silently in the wrong place?

https://notthebee.com/article/the-us-government-is-demanding-the-names-of-all-the-journalists-who-worked-on-the-twitter-files-which-revealed-unconstitutional-collusion-between-government-and-big-tech

https://thespectator.com/topic/politico-war-words-media-politics-gender/

Revealed: Politico’s banned words
Inside one media company’s surrender to progressive pieties

Paywall, but NotTheBee.com has the banned words:

Courtesy of Amber Athey at The Spectator, here are the words and phrases banned at mainstream outlet Politico:

Mankind
Man-made
Manhunt
Crack the whip: unacceptable because of origins in slavery
Waiter or waitress: server should be used instead
Biological gender, biological sex, biological woman, biological female, biological man, or biological male
Illegal immigrant or illegal alien
Cake walk: "originated during slavery" and thus perpetuates "racist motifs"
In reference to illegal migration: onslaught, tidal wave, flood, inundation, surge, invasion, army, march, sneak and stealth
Anchor baby
Chain migration: this is a term used by "immigration hard-liners"
Peanut gallery: "the cheapest seats often occupied by Black people and people with low incomes"
Third-world countries: too "derogatory"
Oh, it does not end there. Politico reporters are also not allowed to say that a transgender person "identifies as" a certain gender, or describe the current situation at the border as a "crisis." The guide also warned reporters to make sure not to portray migrants as a "negative, harmful influence."

Want some more? "Pro-choice" is frowned upon in favor of "abortion rights supporter," and (of course) "pro-life" is outlawed, with "anti-abortion" taking its place. "Late-term abortion" is also a no-no; reporters are told to use "abortion later in pregnancy."

If you're not banging your head against the wall yet, consider the following two paragraphs:

"When describing abortion issues, consider using gender-neutral language like ‘people who seek abortions' or ‘patients who seek abortions' rather than ‘women who seek abortions,' as there are non-female-identifying people who are able to become pregnant.

"Generally, avoid references to a transgender person being born a boy or girl, and opt for phrasing such as ‘identified at birth as boy/girl,'" cautioned the guide. "A person's biology does not take precedence over their gender identity, and such oversimplifications can invalidate the person's current, authentic gender." It also urged reporters to "consider using gender-neutral language like ‘pregnant people' or ‘people using birth control'… as there are non-female identifying people who are able to become pregnant, require reproductive healthcare, etc."

Since we can't get out of here without touching on race, of course, Politico's guide mandates a capital B when writing "black," but, "Unlike Black, white should not be capitalized in any instances."

IN ANY INSTANCES -- GOT IT??

Amazing. As Athey notes towards the end of her piece, "Thanks to the constant complaints by woke staffers, transgender coverage at Politico now reads like pure propaganda rather than well-informed and reasoned reportage."

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/confirmed-department-of-defense-paid-far-left-newsguard-749387-to-censor-the-gateway-pundit-and-conservative-media/

Confirmed: Department of Defense Paid Far-Left Newsguard $749,387 to Continue to Censor The Gateway Pundit and Conservative Media ...

Today we found out the United States Department of Defense was using taxpayer dollars to censor conservatives and independent media online.

The DOD awarded $749,387 to Newsguard in September 2021.