The Machiavellian Trinity
How Media Exploitation, UN Deception, and Information Warfare Eroded Our Liberties
The modern tyranny we face today is the sinister offspring of three critical developments - a Machiavellian trinity that has eroded our fundamental liberties and paved the way for the subjugation of humanity.
First, the post-war era witnessed the West's campaign of media exploitation, an attempt to undermine the Soviet communist regime through the dissemination of Western propaganda. The USA-funded Freedom Radio in Europe was a flagrant embodiment of this agenda, a megaphone for globalist indoctrination masquerading as a beacon of liberty.
Secondly, the 1948 UN Declaration on Human Rights and the 1966 UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, ostensibly noble instruments, served as Trojan horses for undermining national sovereignty. Under the guise of “self-determination” enshrined in Article 1, these documents paved the way for the erosion of state power and the imposition of a globalist, neo-colonial order.
Finally, the Gerasimov doctrine, a manifesto that elevated media propaganda to a position of primacy over military invasion, solidified the West's embrace of psychological warfare. With cynical calculation, this doctrine espoused the “superior power” of manipulating populations through information warfare, a sinister strategy that assigns a staggering 4:1 priority over conventional warfare.
“The importance of controlling the information space and the real-time coordination of all aspects of a campaign, in addition to the use of targeted strikes deep in enemy territory and the destruction of critical civilian as well as military infrastructure.”—Gerasimov doctrine
This malignant modus operandi was laid bare in the NATO/EU's war in Yugoslavia, where the lockstep conformity of the mainstream media, the deployment of US PR agencies, and the unconscionable bombing of the Belgrade television station exposed the true face of globalist “liberation.”
Today, in Ukraine, we bear witness to the apotheosis of this information war, a spectacle so “effective” that when the narrative falters, the warmongers cannot reconcile their own military failures. Thus, artificial support for the conflict goes hand in hand with devastating human and infrastructure losses, a grim testament to the globalists’ callous disregard for human life in pursuit of its hegemonic ambitions.
The transition from the “freedom agenda” as a tool of foreign policy to the exploitation of media for control and censorship, both at home and abroad, can be traced back to the 2014 coup in Ukraine against the elected government and the subsequent counter-move in Crimea. When the hearts and minds of the people of Crimea overwhelmingly voted to join the Russian Federation, it marked the last straw for the concept of free speech on the internet in the eyes of NATO – or so they perceived it. The fundamental nature of war changed at that very moment.
What followed was a profound and sweeping change in domestic politics, media, and law, which all Western so-called “democracies” have experienced in spades in recent years.
Yet, one cannot help but wonder: did anyone at NATO or the State Department pause for a moment to reflect on the gravity of their actions? Did they ask themselves, “Wait a second, have we just identified our new enemy as democracy within our own countries?” Alas, such introspection seems to have fallen victim to the relentless pursuit of power and control.
The entrenched state-corporate censorship and cancellation apparatus is a well-oiled machine, greased by the corporate stranglehold on virtually every sector of modern society. These corporate overlords have their tentacles firmly wrapped around the economy, media, healthcare, military, business, and cutting-edge technology. In this world, the illusion of choice and freedom is nothing more than a cruel façade.
These corporate puppeteers are themselves mere pawns in a grand chess game played by their supra-national masters. The United Nations, World Health Organization, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and the self-aggrandizing World Economic Forum pull the strings from their ivory towers, far removed from the reach of pesky national electorates and their supposed “governments.” Democracy is just a cute buzzword they throw around to pacify the masses.
The very nature of these self-serving corporations, with lifespans that dwarf those of the individuals who temporarily “control” them, ensures that their elitist functionaries are nothing more than cogs in an unaccountable machine. They're swept along by the currents of power they've created, unable to steer the ship even if they wanted to. And let's be real, they don't want to. Why would they relinquish their iron grip on society?
No amount of counter-information, objection, public opinion, or the inconvenient charade of elections can bring these corporate behemoths back down to earth. They've insulated themselves from the will of the people, creating an impenetrable fortress of control. The masses are left to wallow in their own powerlessness, watching helplessly as their so-called “democracy” is reduced to a footnote in the annals of history.
Google's origins can be traced back to a DARPA (the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) grant awarded to Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were Stanford PhDs. Their funding emerged as part of a joint CIA-NSA program aimed at charting how “birds of a feather flock together online” through search engine aggregation. Just one year later, they launched Google and swiftly transformed into a military contractor.
Their ascent was further fueled by the acquisition of CIA satellite software, granting them the ability to offer Google Maps and harness the power of free speech on the internet as a means to circumvent state control over media in regions like Central Asia and beyond.
Ironically, much of the internet free speech technology we know today was initially created by our very own national security state – VPNs (virtual private networks) to hide IP addresses, tools to navigate the dark web and buy/sell goods anonymously, and end-to-end encrypted chats, among others. These innovations were born as DARPA projects or joint CIA-NSA endeavors, designed to aid intelligence-backed groups in overthrowing governments that posed problems for administrations from Clinton to Bush to Obama.
Just as vote-counting systems were developed to rig elections in countries where regimes were targeted by the USA, these very tools were then turned against domestic “democratic” elections, subverting the will of the people in the name of preserving power and the illusion of security.
The surveillance infrastructure, initially stationed in Germany and Central and Eastern Europe, served as a psychological buffer zone, a staging ground for the manipulation of minds. Its primary objective? To enable the military-industrial complex to work hand-in-glove with social media behemoths, censoring Russian propaganda while simultaneously silencing domestic right-wing populist groups in Europe that dared to rise in power amidst the migrant crisis.
One of the setbacks for these self-proclaimed “rulers of the world” was the Brexit referendum of June 2016, when the British people, in a stunning act of defiance, voted to leave the European Union. This result sent shockwaves through the establishment, deeply unsettling the very Prime Minister, Cameron, who had unwittingly unleashed the forces of popular sovereignty by instigating the vote.
However, the globalist puppet masters have orchestrated a brilliant coup. They've strategically placed their willing and power-hungry minions, plucked from the remnants of former British colonies, into positions of authority within the very heart of the British establishment. These eager puppets, driven by an insatiable desire to rule over their former colonial masters, dance to the tune of their globalist overlords.
It's a masterful stroke of manipulation, for any criticism directed towards the actions of these carefully selected individuals can now be conveniently dismissed as nothing more than blatant racism. The globalists have effectively shielded their pawns from scrutiny, hiding behind the facade of diversity and inclusion. They've weaponized the language of social justice, twisting it to serve their own nefarious purposes.
The irony is palpable. The once-colonized have become the colonizers, but this time, they serve the interests of a shadowy cabal of globalists rather than their own people; they serve the same people that sought to colonize their countries 167 years ago.
These puppets, intoxicated by the allure of power, have willingly sold their souls to the highest bidder. They've become the very embodiment of the oppressive systems they claim to fight against.
Following Brexit, at the 2016 Warsaw Conference, NATO formally amended its charter to expressly commit to hybrid warfare as its new capacity. This marked a profound shift, a betrayal of its supposed mandate, as the alliance transitioned from decades of conventional warfare centered around tanks to an explicit capacity-building for censoring tweets deemed as originating from Russian bots.
Notably, the targets extended far beyond Russian propaganda, encompassing any dissenting voice that dared to challenge the elitist globalist agenda. Brexit groups, Matteo Salvini's movement in Italy, and similar populist forces in Greece, Germany, and Spain, found themselves in the crosshairs of this insidious campaign of suppression.
The establishment's persistent association of any opposition to their nefarious plans with Russia was, of course, a blatant exercise in gaslighting, a desperate attempt to discredit and marginalize those who dared to question their authority.
The UN Declarations, once heralded as a beacon of hope for a more peaceful world, have instead become a suffocating straitjacket, constraining the military options available to imperialist powers. Gone are the days when a nation could brazenly seize control of another, as the United States did with the Philippines in 1898. Now, any military action must be cloaked in the guise of political legitimacy, with the invading force desperately seeking the approval of the subjugated population. It's a farcical dance, a thin veneer of consent masking the brutal reality of occupation.
The line between foreign and domestic policy has become increasingly blurred, with the fraudulent claims of the Democratic Party and the Deep State enabling agencies like the State Department, the Defense Department, and the CIA to operate with impunity on US soil. Under the pretext of combating the phantom menace of “Russian disinformation,” these entities have been given free rein to meddle in the democratic process, all in the name of protecting it. The irony is as thick as the web of deceit they weave.
The Russia-gate attack on Trump served as a convenient smokescreen for the State apparatus to pivot towards censorship and the suppression of dissent. With billions of dollars at their disposal, this unholy alliance of the military-industrial complex, government agencies, private sector mercenaries, and a vast network of media allies and self-appointed fact-checkers has become a modern-day Inquisition, policing every word uttered on the internet. They are the Sentinel Class, the self-appointed guardians of truth, determined to silence any voice that dares challenge the official narrative.
The Global Engagement Center, led by Rick Stengel, a former journalist turned “propaganda chief,” epitomizes the hypocrisy of the State corporatist agenda. Once a self-proclaimed champion of free speech, Stengel now wields his power to crush dissent, seeing the internet as a threat to the government's control of the narrative. Rather than engaging in honest discourse, they resort to censorship and propaganda, labeling any dissenting opinion as “unproven” or “without evidence,” a tactic as transparent as it is despicable.
The Atlantic Council's pressure on European governments to enact censorship laws, exemplified by Germany's Netz DG, has ushered in an era of automated censorship, where artificial intelligence becomes the arbiter of acceptable speech. These weapons of mass deletion, capable of silencing millions with a few lines of code, are a grotesque perversion of technological progress, reducing complex political discourse to a binary of conformity or oblivion.
The corruption of academia is equally appalling, with over 60 universities receiving federal grants to aid in the censorship effort. The once hallowed halls of learning have become little more than extensions of the government's propaganda machine, with research and teaching distorted to serve the interests of the State. The government-academic complex, a twisted mirror image of Eisenhower's military-industrial complex, is a cancer eating away at the very foundations of intellectual integrity and academic freedom.
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the insidious machinations of the medical-pharmaceutical industrial complex, as they seek to silence and suppress any dissenting voices that dare to question the official narrative. Legitimate concerns about the origins of the virus, the devastating economic and social costs of lockdowns, and the alarming rise in vaccine-related infections and deaths have been met with a concerted effort to censor and discredit those who speak out.
The “Virality Project”, a tool of oppression masquerading as a public health initiative, has meticulously mapped 66 different narratives that challenge the status quo. By breaking down these claims into their constituent parts and feeding them into machine learning models, the project has created a global surveillance system that allows them to swiftly identify and suppress any information that threatens the interests of the Pentagon or the likes of Tony Fauci. With the power to silence tens of millions of voices at the click of a button, the “Virality Project” is a chilling reminder of the dystopian reality we now inhabit.
The same tactics of censorship and suppression were deployed during the 2020 election, as the deep state sought to quash any doubts about the legitimacy of mail-in ballots. The mere act of questioning the integrity of the voting process was deemed a “cyber attack” on critical infrastructure, a ludicrous claim that flies in the face of democratic principles. Yet, when Hillary Clinton challenged the outcome of the 2016 election, which she lost, there was no similar outcry from the powers that be. The hypocrisy is as staggering as it is unsurprising.
The rise of the internet and social media has posed an existential threat to the Deep State, the political class, the mainstream media, and the military-industrial complex. As alternative narratives gain traction and compete with the legacy news media, the globalists have grown increasingly desperate to maintain their grip on power. The German Marshall Fund's meeting in 2019, where a four-star general lamented the prospect of the New York Times being reduced to a medium-sized Facebook page, is a telling example of their fear and desperation.
In the early days of social media, from 2006 to 2014, dissident groups lacked the critical mass to challenge the dominant narrative effectively. The State Department, the Defense Department, and the intelligence services held sway, their deep pockets ensuring that their version of events prevailed. But as the ecosystem matured and alternative voices gained a foothold, the entire international order, carefully crafted over 70 years from Truman to Trump to Biden, found itself on the brink of collapse.
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Every positive initiative by initially well-meaning people, which is most of us, has been taken over by self-seeking power-hungry individuals. It is the sociopaths among us that we do not recognize till they have worked themselves into top levels that are always the problem in my view. The initial ideas nearly always had greater good in mind but seeing an opportunity that the public was behind these people quickly race to be the loudest supporter with the goal of being the recognized leader of movement. If we recognize these individuals for what they are, the rest would actually be beneficial with them tossed out of leadership.
"Legitimate concerns about the origins of the virus, the devastating economic and social costs of lockdowns, and the alarming rise in vaccine-related infections and deaths have been met with a concerted effort to censor and discredit those who speak out."
There is no virus.