Censorship – Scott Lazarowitz's Blog

The Biden DHS wants to impose some kind of new agency to go after “disinformation” that some critics have referred to as the new Orwellian “Ministry of Truth.” But the Obama regime had already imposed such a totalitarian censorship agency.

I wrote this post on December 27, 2016, that was after that presidential election between Trump and Hillary, and as the Washington Pest and other “news” i.e. propaganda outlets were on their way to disseminate the fake news about “Trump-Russia collusions” to try to reverse the outcome of the 2016 election.

Here is that post, The Feds’ New “Ministry of Truth”:

Many people are worried now about the new federal “Ministry of Truth,” which supposedly will be imposed on us now that Obama has signed H.R. 5181, the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act, that includes a federal “Center for Information Analysis and Response.” Such an agency, according to WND, will use taxpayer funds to infiltrate educational institutions and news media to aid government bureaucrats to determine what is the real truth and what is “fake news.” Like we can trust bureaucrats and their media and academia sycophants who propagandize daily — dishonestly promoting everything from the Iraq War to ObamaCare — to let the American people know what the “truth” is!
But I don’t think such an agency will last very long. There is something called the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. (Yes, it’s still the “law of the land,” when I last checked, regardless of the court kooks and degenerates who rubber-stamp bureaucrats’ insatiable cravings for power.) And the First Amendment states:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”
I am hopeful that courts will overturn this new law as unconstitutional, unless Donald Trump thinks he can benefit from such an agency as long as it still exists and exerts power. So far, he has demonstrated NO understanding of the concept of freedom of speech, as well as freedom of trade, free markets, and all the rest. If we’re lucky, someone might give him a copy of the U.S. Constitution and he might actually read it and get some analyses from constitutional lawyers such as Jonathan Turley and John Whitehead. (But, being the realist that I am, I’m not holding my breath.)

News and Commentary Not the Official Narrative

Edward Alvarez: Why We Should Not Admire Zelensky

Paul Joseph Watson: Zelensky Critic Arrested in Spain on Orders of Ukrainian Government

Vasko Kohlmayer: The Vaccine Passport: Gaslighting of an Egregious Kind

Daniel Lacalle: The Chinese Slowdown: Much More Than Covid

Children’s Health Defense: Pilots Injured by Covid Vaccines Speak Out: “I Will Probably Never Fly Again”

Joe Lauria: PayPal Cancels CN Account; May Seize Balance

Nick Turse: U.S. Didn’t Expect Major Explosions When an ISIS Bomb Factory Was Bombed

And Gateway Pundit: Tech Giants Are Censoring, Blacklisting and Banning Posts on the “2000 Mules” Ballot Trafficking Documentary Across Social Media Platforms, and Investigator Gregg Phillips: FOX’s Lawyers Are Keeping “2000 Mules” Off of the Channel

More News and Commentary

Ryan McMaken: You Support Ukraine’s Independence? Then You Support Secession.

Megan Redshaw: Moderna Asks FDA to Authorize Covid Vaccines for Kids Under 6, Changes Efficacy Claims to Meet Guidelines

Andrew Napolitano: The Problems With Disney and Florida

Nathan Stone: Don’t Be Afraid to Call It Grooming

Hans-Hermann Hoppe: Decentralized and Neutral

The Last Refuge: The Media Meltdown Over the Possibility of Free Speech Twitter is Very Revealing, Meanwhile Twitter Employees Fear Loss of Censorship Mechanisms and Leaked Audio of Twitter Executive Reaction, and Deep State Response, Dept of Homeland Security Will Establish Disinformation Board with Obvious Agenda

Breitbart: GOP Rips ‘Dystopian’ DHS Plans for Disinformation Governance Board, ‘Orwellian Abuse of Power’ by Biden Admin

Michelle Malkin: Orrin Hatch’s Beltway Barnacle Legacy

Igor Chudov: Moderna Knew Vaccinated People Will Never Acquire Proper Immunity after Breakthrough Infections

Madhava Setty: FDA Rubber-Stamps Remdesivir for Infants Without Evidence of Safety, Efficacy

Doug Bandow: Our Dangerous Donbas Dalliance

Jacob Hornberger: JFK’s Rejection of the Anti-Russia Animus

Joseph Solis-Mullens: Where the Truth Is Hidden: Debating the Current State of the US Armed Forces

Charles Burris: From Darwin To Hitler: The Origins of Scientific Racism

Jon Rappoport: My New Podcast: Kill-Shot Psychiatry, George Carlin, Hero Peter Breggin

And John Kline: The Judges and Judicial Rulings at the Heart of Wokeness

A Worldwide Mental Health Crisis

In China specifically Shanghai the crazed government bureaucrats have ordered once again the people to stay in their homes, for no good reason.

Well, their “reason” is a “zero tolerance Covid” which is ridiculous, given that just like seasonal influenza we will never completely get rid of “Covid-19.” And we have known since at least March or April of 2020 that Covid-19 has an infection fatality rate of .1 to .2% or between one-tenth and two-tenths of one percent.

The rulers in China must know the truth, and would have to be inflicting this form of torture on the people for illicit purposes. It just makes no sense to rational people.

So, are the Chinese bureaucrats just trying to drive their own people crazy? What are they, sadists? Most government bureaucrats are sadistic psychopaths, especially here in the U.S. And that’s the truth, as Edith Ann would say.

And in the U.S. there are very simple-minded people who gullibly believe what government bureaucrats like Fauci tell them. Even though the CDC said early on that they would be counting non-Covid deaths as “Covid deaths” to exaggerate the threat of Covid. And medical authorities continued to use bogus PCR tests that we know give false positives to artificially inflate the number of “cases.”

The shysters also redefined the word “case” as not just someone who is actually sick with actual symptoms but anyone who tests positive for “Covid” regardless of having symptoms. So everybody out there now, all the dumb people especially, just go along with this testing regime, keep sticking long things up your nostrils like morons for no good reason. Yay!

How stupid is all this? And they continue to do this testing stuff as though the tests are legitimate, and as though we’re really dealing with a deadly pandemic, which it hasn’t been, or at least not any worse than the average flu season, in reality (if “reality” means anything anymore).

But the lies of the official government narrative are what are believed, despite no science or facts behind the lies. The corporate media have been disseminating the lies, the propaganda of fear-mongering, along with the medical establishment and academia. This crap has been going on for two years now. Are you having fun yet, sadists out there?

Sad, the really dumb people in Amerika, easily manipulated and exploited by bureaucrats and media propagandists, call for others to be confined to house arrest especially if the victims haven’t been “vaccinated,” with the ignorant and naive believing that the mRNA “vaccine” prevents infections and transmission of virus when it does no such thing and wasn’t intended to.

The really dumb people want others jailed, tortured and murdered for not following authoritarian Covid protocols, for not getting a dangerous experimental drug injection or wearing a suffocating face muzzle. So the really dumb people (and there are many of them) are the real fascists of society.

And now we have Elon Musk who might buy Twitter because he wants, or says he wants, to restore freedom of speech and tolerance of dissent in social media.

But the authoritarian fascists out there who can’t stand the thought of tolerating or even hearing other points of view, are showing their true colors, their opposition to freedom of speech and diversity of thought and opinion, in their screaming about Musk possibly owning Twitter.

How bad is all this going to get in Amerika, or the world? Will we reverse this trend?

Important Articles

Jonathan Turley: Freedom is Tyranny: Robert Reich Goes Full Orwellian in Anti-Free Speech Screed

Robert Batemarco: Sovereign Immunity Is Antilaw: The State Must Make Restitution to Its Victims

Joseph Mercola: FDA and Pfizer Knew Covid Shot Caused Immunosuppression

Ryan McMaken: New Covid Study Shows Lockdown-Heavy States Had Some of the Worst Health Results

David D’Amato: World Leaders Must Turn Away From Nuclear Arms

TJ Martinell: Ukraine War Shows How Far U.S. Has Strayed from George Washington’s Foreign Policy

Jacob Hornberger: The Biggest Threat to Our Freedom and Well-Being

Michelle Malkin: Pedophiles, Perversity and Groomers in Plain Sight

Stephan Kinsella: Hans-Hermann Hoppe on SERVUS TV: On State, War, Europe, Decentralization and Neutrality

Ted Galen Carpenter: McCarthyism Re‐Emerging Stronger than Ever in Ukraine Policy Debates

Tess Lawrie: WHO Global Pandemic Agreement Would Supersede Individual Nations’ Constitutions

Laurence Vance: Republicans Miss the Real Issue Regarding TSA Scanners

Citrix News: The Whitmer Case & the FBI’s PATCON Legacy

Glenn Greenwald: Western Dissent from U.S./NATO Policy on Ukraine Is Small, Yet the Censorship Campaign Is Extreme

Jack Hellner: Earth Day Is Coming Up. It Is a Good Time to Remind the Public What the Predictions Were 52 Years Ago

Steve Kirsch: The More You Vax, the Weaker Your Immune System Becomes

And Gateway Pundit: Man Who Discovered Ballot Trafficking Operation In Yuma County Handed Evidence To AG Brnovich BEFORE 2020 General Election: “They Could Have Stopped This.”

So What Else Has Been Happening During the Obsession with the Will Smith-Chris Rock Slap?

Here’s what you’ve been missing:

Dave DeCamp: U.S. Weapons Makers See Longer-Term Benefits of War in Ukraine, and Congress Expected to Increase Biden’s $813 Billion Military Budget Request

William Astore: What Would It Take for Military Spending in America to Go Down?

Ryan McMaken: NATO: Our International Welfare Queens

Jacob Hornberger: Another Excuse for More Gun Control

John Whitehead: A Vicious Cycle in Blue: Police Violence Kills Three People a Day

Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams: Bucha Massacre: War Crime or False Flag? (video)

Brian Shilhavy: Merck’s Gardasil Vaccine Continues to Kill and Maim Young Girls as Two New Lawsuits are Filed

Joseph Mercola: DuckDuckGo Embraces Censorship, Destroys Brand

Children’s Health Defense: Heart Damage Found in Teens Months After Second Pfizer Shot, Study Shows

Daniel Horowitz: Kavanaugh Deals Crushing Blow to Religious Liberty in Military

Laurence Vance: Ukraine and Taiwan

Cynthia Chung: How the Ukrainian Nationalist Movement Post-WWII Was Bought and Paid for by the CIA

Rick Sterling: Rand Report Prescribed U.S. Provocations Against Russia and Predicted Russia Might Retaliate In Ukraine

Steve Kirsch: $1M Reward for a CDC or FDA Whistleblower

Paul Alexander: Covid Vaccine-Related Myocarditis Was Never “Mild”

James Bovard: Corrupt Federal Statistics Cover Endless Cons

Post Millennial: Watch: Jordan Peterson and Andy Ngo Discuss Antifa and the Rise of the Violent Left

And Gateway Pundit: U.S. Postal Service Refuses to Release Investigative Report on Whistleblower Truck Driver Who Hauled 288,000 Suspicious Ballots Across State Lines Before 2020 Election

The Latest Realistic Commentary on the Russia-Ukraine Issue

There are many people now who are ignorantly and stupidly just repeating propaganda and the anti-Russia talking points of the warmongers who want to continue expanding U.S. government and military overseas, and apparently want World War III. I am just here and watching all this unfold. The mindless crap is unbelievable.

Meanwhile, Laurence Vance discusses what Americans should do if they are concerned about Ukraine.

Jonathan Turle y has a great post about the politicians and commentators labeling war opponents as “traitors.” And the artistic venues like the Metropolitan opera kicking long-time opera stars off the stage because they will not sufficiently denounce Vlad Putin. Really, Peter Gelb? You take after Joseph McCarthy, apparently? And it seems that Claire McCaskill, Alyssa Farah, Ana Navarro, and Whoopi Goldberg, of MSNBC, CNN and “The View” all must have a cumulative IQ of about 75, if that much.
David Stockman has this historical summary of the Russia-Ukraine situation, with his own usual witty commentary mixed in. And Joseph Solis-Mullen has some unpleasant facts that we’re not supposed to say about the war in Ukraine.

And Jacob Hornberger reminds us of JFK’s rejection of the national security state’s anti-Russia animus.

More Real News and Commentary

Gateway Pundit: Additional Data Corroborates Excess Deaths Among Millennials Since the Experimental Vaccines Were Mandated – Confirms Covid is Not the Cause

Steve Kirsch: More Data Showing the Covid Vaccines Make People More Vulnerable to Infection

William Jacobson: Conservative Speaker Targeted at Yale Law School: “This wasn’t a protest. This was physical intimidation”

And Brian Wang: Simple Counting Shows China Cannot Successfully Invade Taiwan

Why Is Putin Invading Ukraine?

March 14, 2022

During this time of international crisis, the Putin-Russian invasion and attack on Ukraine and a possible World War III and nuclear holocaust, I am wondering why exactly Vladimir Putin is invading Ukraine. “WTF,” as it were.

But because of government/media censorship and propaganda people are in the dark as to the threat that Putin perceived from Ukraine’s possibly joining NATO and its being right up close to Russia.

But the whole thing just doesn’t make sense in any case. And I heard Glenn Beck on the radio recently expressing this. The Last Refuge has an article on how most people also think that things don’t add up on the Ukraine narrative.

The Last Refuge also notes the censorship that is taking place by a desperate government/media complex in its attempt to control the narrative. Yet, the American people can sense that something isn’t right, and that what we’re being told isn’t the whole story, or may not even be factual in any way.

Because of government/media propaganda and misinformation, most people believe the government’s narrative about Russia and Ukraine, and that is why most people support sanctions against Russia even if it means higher gas prices.

And because of the same government and media liars, most people still believe the “Trump-Russia collusions” narrative, despite its being debunked. Most people are probably still convinced that Covid has been a serious threat to the health and life of more than the .5% of the population that it actually does threaten, thanks to government and media liars. So we shouldn’t be surprised about the influence that the anti-Russian propaganda has on the majority of the people.

Now, even if the Ukraine regime is also a bad actor in its relationship with the Donbas, I think that Putin’s invasion into what seems like all of Ukraine and all his destruction and violence is obviously a bit overkill. Ya think.

And how to explain Putin’s invasion and overkill? My own conclusion is that he’s being coerced or threatened or blackmailed in some way by the globalists/interventionists/CIA to exploit the Donbas situation and start a whole new war, that I think the CIA just wants as an excuse to keep the military-industrial-intelligence-security complex gravy train going.

These people in Warshington love war, death and destruction, and they hate peace, Democrat and Republican. “War is the health of the State,” and all that. After all, these are the real reasons, I believe, that George H.W. Bush started his first war in 1991, imposed sanctions and no-fly zones, and provoked retaliation and blowback, including the 9/11 that would never have happened otherwise.

But now, because statist interventionists are such utter morons, bordering on retarded, this time their little schemes may very well end up as a nuclear ending to society as we know it. Oh, well.

Not Government Propaganda

Jonathon Van Maren: How Mainstream Media Are Lying to the Public about New Laws to Protect Kids from the LGBT Agenda

Linda Bonvie and Bill Bonvie: In a Startling “Request for Information” Reminiscent of Soviet Totalitarianism, the Surgeon General Asks the Public and Big Tech to Turn in Doctors and Neighbors for Covid “Misinformation.”

Jacob Hornberger: Sanctions Kill Innocent People and Also Destroy Our Liberty

Michael Boldin: Equitable Sharing: 40 Years of Federal Theft Through Civil Asset Forfeiture

Project Veritas: New York Times Reporter Discusses CIA / NSA Sources; ‘Ridiculous Pee Tape Didn’t Exist’ … ‘Crazier Leftist Sh*t’ Influences Reporting

Emerald Robinson: The Pfizer Covid Vaccine Only Has 1,291 Side Effects!

Veronika Kyrylenko: “Greatest Fraud in History”: Doctors Sue Federal Government Over Covid Vax

Celeste McGovern: CDC Head Laughs about Having Had “Too Little Caution and Too Much Optimism” in Now-Failed Covid Vaccines

Alex Newman: Maryland Lawmakers Plot Homeschool “Council” to “Advise” State

Jordan Schachtel: Erasing History: Big Tech’s Campaign to Mop Up 2 Years of Covid Tyranny

Paul Sperry: Ukraine Worked With Democrats Against Trump in Election 2016 to Stop Putin. That Bet Backfired Badly.

Southern Catholic Mom: The Bill Sardi I Remember

Jonathan Turley: SDSU Professor Removed from Courses for Using Racial Terms in Course on Racism

And Infowars: Pfizer CEO Backpedals, Claims Pressured Into Producing ‘Counterintuitive’ mRNA Injections

Facebook Allows Expressed Threats against Russians, Reuters Attempts to Hide Facebook’s Double Standard

As Daniel McAdams reports, Fakebook and Instagram are temporarily allowing users to advocate violence against Russians. And that’s anyone who is Russian, not just Russian soldiers invading Ukraine.

Daniel posted a Reuters tweet that reads, “EXCLUSIVE Facebook and Instagram to temporarily allow calls for violence against Russians” with a link to its own article, which is now taken down. Hmm, I wonder why? But I found the article on the Wayback Machine.

But now I am seeing the Reuters article up again, although with changes.

The Reuters tweet-linked article headline, according to the Wayback Machine, reads, “Exclusive: Facebook will temporarily allow posts calling for violence against Russians, calls for Putin’s death”.

And the changed article headline now reads, “Facebook allows war posts urging violence against Russian invaders”.

The changed article now includes a statement by Fakebook a.k.a. Statebook, but even the statement clarifying the initial policy statement is contradictory.

Here is part of the added statement by Facebook:

“As a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine we have temporarily made allowances for forms of political expression that would normally violate our rules like violent speech such as ‘death to the Russian invaders.’ We still won’t allow credible calls for violence against Russian civilians,” a Meta spokesperson said in a statement.

“won’t allow credible calls for violence against Russian civilians”

But further down in the updated Reuters article, the quoted Facebook email to moderators reads in part:

“We are issuing a spirit-of-the-policy allowance to allow T1 violent speech that would otherwise be removed under the Hate Speech policy when: (a) targeting Russian soldiers, EXCEPT prisoners of war, or (b) targeting Russians where it’s clear that the context is the Russian invasion of Ukraine (e.g., content mentions the invasion, self-defense, etc.),” it said in the email.

“…to allow T1 violent speech that would otherwise be removed under the Hate Speech policy when…or (b) targeting Russians where it’s clear that the context…”

That (b) clause isn’t going with the “EXCEPT,” but continues from the (a) clause, referring to what is allowed. So, “targeting Russians” means … Russians. Not soldiers.

As Daniel McAdams notes,

It is very clear that we are not progressing as a society toward ever-more liberal values. We are regressing to a violent, feral state. Endlessly looking inward for enemies to destroy. “Anti-vaxxers,” Trump voters, and now just plain old everyday Russians. Kill them. They are evil. Is this OK?
Facebook, a de facto arm of government, is now encouraging calls for violence against innocent people who happen to be of a particular race or ethnic background or linguistic group.
Race-hate of an unpopular ethnic and religions group? Haven’t we seen this horrific movie before?

The Last Refuge has more on this public relations train wreck.