Coronavirus, Propaganda and States of Fear

March 2020, Dr. Colin Alexander1Senior Lecturer in Political Communications within the School of Arts and Humanities at Nottingham Trent University anticipated twenty ‘plays’ the British Government would use in its Covid propaganda – mirroring the wartime propaganda ‘playbook’ developed during the First and Second World Wars.

December 2021, in a PANDA Open Science meeting, he recapped before giving – in my opinion, one of the better talks on the psychology of what we are all being put through.

Ever heard of “self-haunting”? Me neither. But it explains a lot.

How will the Covid-critical be treated in a post-pandemic society? Unsure. But there are worrying undercurrents.

Both reckoning and reconciliation are needed.

Here is his original video from March 20202From Nottingham Trent University website.

… one of the highest achievements for the propagandist within the dissemination of mass communications is the successful transfer of a contested subject with a multitude of legitimate positions into the realm of public consensus wherein the vast majority consider alternative positions to be illegitimate and where some don’t even realise that alternative positions exist at all.

Colin Alexander, Jan 2021

Also here’s an article from July 2021 in which he explains why the UK’s “Freedom Day” is another example of Covid propaganda – and why greater ‘propaganda literacy’ amongst the public is important.

Joe Rogan talks with Maajid Nawaz

I found this a horrifying listen. But couldn’t help admiring his research and presentation, and kept thinking THIS is what good journalism looks like.

We are in a war. Between centralisation and decentralisation. Take it from someone who once fought (non-violently) for a totalitarian way of living.

Double-jabbed, former UK call-in show host Nawaz was once an Islamist revolutionary, trained in ideological warfare – the deconstruction of a country for the purpose of destroying it from within. So he knows the signs.

After describing his activism and imprisonment he warns about mission creep, the weaponisation of language, the deliberate shutting down of those seeking truth and widespread sowing of confusion.

Finally he discusses (‘with receipts’)1Fair play to Rogan who plays devils advocate well how Covid has been a red herring – and a key step on the way to the centralised, totally controlled life some actors 2who publicly share their plans and say they have penetrated governments worldwide – 50% of the Canadian parliament being one example want for us all.

… people in power… have told us what they want to do next… Central Banking Digital Currency… programmeable… controlled centrally… so that you can’t buy certain foods, or if you do something that your employer doesn’t like… you won’t be able to spend your money. In other words it’s not money. They’re vouchers! … ‘only spent on essentials or goods which an employer, or government, deems to be sensible’… because the passport infrastructure is in place, you bring in that digital currency and you’ve got this total control

Maajid Nawaz, Joe Rogan Experience #1780 (from c 02:07:00)

Spotify: The Joe Rogan Experience #1780

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Young Hearts 1-12

In August 2021 “checkur6” began a series called “Young Hearts” highlighting cases of people suffering Covid injection injuries – including death. By February 18th, 2021 they had posted 12 such videos.

AllTheWorldsAStage compiled them in to one:

As you watch remember you are supposed to believe:

  1. These injections are “safe and effective”.
  2. These injuries and deaths are purely coincidental.
  3. The media are ignoring or downplaying them so there’s nothing to worry about.
  4. Your Government, and the pharmaceutical companies they indemnify from liability for injuries and deaths caused by these products, would never cut corners and are always acting in your best interest – even when obfuscating or hiding data from you, destroying your familial and societal life, breaching the Nuremberg Code and denying you your human rights.

Justin Trudeau Destroyed Canada to Extend Policies That Have Already Failed

According to data and chart guy, Ian Miller.

He seems to make a good case. What do you think?

(P.S. He’s not saying it out loud, but his charts of the Canadian provinces, and Iceland, are each “black swans“. Ordinarily in science just one black swan would vanquish a hypothesis. But despite there now being quite a flock of them disproving COVID policies, some people still religiously follow The ScienceTM… even as it destroys them, their families, friends… and countries.)

“I want to live in a community, not a collective”

Me too, David Thunder.

Thunder’s well thought-out comparative piece shows how collectives are not healthy places to be. Unless you live at the top, defining what the ‘greater good’ is and determining what the collective is to do to achieve that ‘good’.

There are numerous historical examples of the horrors of collectivism. But there are emerging modern day examples too. Like Canada.

There politicians have just declared an emergency and announced that anyone protesting their dictates, and supporters of those protesters, can be fined, arrested and have their bank accounts tampered with – for supporting terrorism.

It no longer matters that those politicians were, and are, creating a climate where they and the media, police, colleges, hospitals, shops and more can infringe on human rights for ‘the greater good’ – with no direct consequences for them.

It also no longer matters that the measures they imposed (masks, distancing, injections, privilege passes etc) were, and still are, demonstrably useless at managing the virus. 1See Ian Miller’s latest analysis and charts from Canada.

The spirit of collectivism is alive and well in political leaders like Trudeau, Macron, Sánchez, Biden, Ardern, Daniel Andrews (premier of Victoria, Australia) and plenty of other public officials, and they have made a scary amount of progress in installing collectivism as the reigning philosophy of their governments.

We Must Dare to Dream and Hope for a Better World

But we cannot afford to give up hope or resign ourselves to defeat. We must give ourselves the chance to dream and hope, against all odds, for a better world, just as civil rights activists like Mahatma Ghandi and Martin Luther King did. We need to open up our imagination to what is best and most inspiring in humanity. We need to think beyond this dark moment in our history, when cruel, inhumane, and anti-scientific authorities seem to rule the roost.

We must engage in forward-looking thinking, and dare to conjure in our mind’s eye the sort of society we want to live in, and the sort of society we want our children and grandchildren to grow up in, once authoritarian and collectivist governments finally collapse under their own weight.

David Thunder, Feb 18th

“Science is a wicked, competitive business”

… according to Dr. Robert Malone1At 11:04 during his January 6th interview with Patrick Bet-David – just a few days after his now-famous Joe Rogan interview aired and triggered an acceleration of censorship.2The original livestream happened on YouTube, but is no longer there. Apparently it violated the company’s Community Guidelines. However the Wayback Machine snapped it on Jan 7th (it may take a while to load and does not include a copy of the video itself – but confirms the livestream happened and had been seen 64,396 times by the time the snapshot was taken.

As I listened… and watched the PBD team do live searches to check some of Malone’s assertions… I marvelled at the horrible repressive, disrespectful, corrupt, truth-fearing world we have created.

We need a better world.

Urgently.

Here’s “The History of mRNA Vaccines” on Dr. Malone’s website – with links to his original papers and patents.

Here’s the Canadian Covid Care Alliance video Malone mentioned.

Here’s the joint interview with Desmet and McCullough he spoke of.3I am no longer using the term psychosis but will leave it on my site for the record.

The “What If…” substack article in which Malone highlights the 40% excess death rate reported by a life insurance company.4The Margaret Menge source article Malone links to in this piece might not be viewable from the EU for GDPR reasons. But EU readers can view it on The Waybacck Machine.

The Mary Beth Pfeiffer article about the 40% excess deaths in the 18-64yr age cohort (a cohort not expected to die as much as they seem to have done). Graph from the same:

This graph, provided by OneAmerica insurance company, represents publicly reported death rates from the CDC for 18-64 age groups from 2019-21. It demonstrates trends and the significant impacts of COVID-19 that an Indiana-based insurance company says are reflected in “huge” and unprecedented death rate increases among working-age people in the U.S.
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    The original livestream happened on YouTube, but is no longer there. Apparently it violated the company’s Community Guidelines. However the Wayback Machine snapped it on Jan 7th (it may take a while to load and does not include a copy of the video itself – but confirms the livestream happened and had been seen 64,396 times by the time the snapshot was taken.
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    I am no longer using the term psychosis but will leave it on my site for the record.
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    The Margaret Menge source article Malone links to in this piece might not be viewable from the EU for GDPR reasons. But EU readers can view it on The Waybacck Machine.

404

On the internet 404 usually indicates a problem with a website.

But today on the internet it is also the number of athletes whose sudden deaths have been recorded on this ever-growing page of Good Sciencing.1Wayback snapshot for posterity

I see some Twitter remarks by my compatriot, former soccer player Gary Dempsey, are pictured also.

I wonder if Twitter will caution or ban him for talking about his experience and feelings? Because that kind of sharing could create vaccine hesitancy – something no longer condoned by the private companies and governments determining what we, the people, are free to speak about.