TERRORISM AS A WESTERN STATE ENTERPRISE

What’s the difference between engaging others to wage your wars overseas if you are a western state to those who do it at the highest level of ISIS or al-Qaeda?

There is very little in fact.

The U.S. State Department and UK Foreign Office use the same kind of subterfuge as the terrorist leaders. You naturally do it behind closed doors, away from the public eye... secrecy is of course your prime concern and you do your utmost to maintain that secrecy.

Naturally none of those in leadership positions do the dirty work themselves. They find others who will commit their murderous acts for them. This they will pay for in one form or another.

On the private terrorist side the money and support comes from donations by like minded individuals and entities who have something to gain from it. This gives a multiple degree of anonymity to the enterprise. On the state terrorist side much the same occurs via the secrecy in depth provided by the CIA-NGO relationship.

Each of these two terrorist entities employs public relations and propaganda to boost their support and win recruits to the cause. Each uses every device available to provide only those narratives that strengthen their cause and each omits any fact or factor mitigating against it.

Both are utterly cynical in their callous disregard for human life and willingness to use any lie available through whatever channels are available to them. The use of false flag atrocities is simply one of many tools each side uses to gain ground, win positive publicity and arrange attacks upon their enemies.

The fact is that both those usually referred to as terrorists and their supposed enemies within the western elite establishment are birds of a very similar feather. So, it should be no surprise to anyone that they sometimes flock together.

In Syria, as revealed by John Kerry in an unauthorized recording, the USA was happy to see their terrorist brothers gain ground. This game plan had been used before of course, against the Soviet troops in Afghanistan so that playbook was long written and well-thumbed.

By assisting other state terrorists and state sponsors of terror such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and Turkey the USA and UK were able to infiltrate Syria with tens of thousands of militants eager and willing to create the necessary amount of chaos to destroy all semblance of law and order there. The state terrorists above had essentially merged as one force with the terrorists they financed, trained and armed.

The only thing stopping most people from adding two and two as above is a totally misplaced concept regarding the integrity of their leaders. Though at home their politicians are held in extremely low regard and known to be serial liars and as incompetent as they are untrustworthy. However, for some unknown reason, in the eyes of these same observers they suddenly become paragons of truth and eminently trustworthy when, ostensibly in their name, they instigate death, destruction and utter chaos overseas.

The fact is that ALL western politicians are cynical manipulators imbued with total self-interested and invested in ever Machiavellian scheme that strikes them as the best way to attain their goals. All talk of spreading democracy, freedom and western liberal values is as much hogwash as their stump speech promises on attempting to get their sorry asses elected. In truth they are simply state terrorists on the make, truly brothers and sisters of their counterparts in ISIS or al-Qaeda.

Through the terrorism of lies and activist subversion they instigate the conditions for mass death and destruction just as do those they point at in far off lands as the TRULY evil terrorists. The truth is they are no better and in fact in one major factor they are much WORSE. Though the terrorists OVER THERE do claim to be doing good (spreading their religious tenets for the benefit of others) while the terrorists of the western elites claim the to do the same with other goals) overall the terrorists have a more direct connection to their crimes.

Western state terrorists and their allies in the Middle East manufacture a far higher level of pretense and engineer themselves to be divorced from their murderous acts to a far greater degree. They in fact pose as virtual saints while engaging others to perpetrate mass slaughter. This is perhaps the only real significant difference between them.

Otherwise these self-sanctified western elites are merely the chief executives, rather than the head jihadists, of their terrorist state enterprises.

 

WHAT HAPPENED IN SYRIA IS PLANNED FOR XINJIANG, CHINA TOO

It is one of the great mysteries of this world how the establishment agencies of the western world can keep on using the same playbook on other nations to destabilize them yet those who point this out are so few in number.

Normally you might expect that journalists would step forward to do this, however true investigative journalists in the mainstream now hardly exist, if they exist at all.

Robert Fisk was one of the last. Fisk was barely tolerated within the mainstream toward the end of his life due to his tendency to portray all aspects of the things he saw. When the great man died the glowing obituaries in mainstream news outlets were notable by their absence. John Pilger is another vastly experienced investigative journalist who just clings on to mainstream exposure by the skin of his teeth.

These men presented an awkward problem for the editors of mainstream news organizations and their owners, they had this inconvenient attitude that they would state the facts as they were no matter who they offended, which toes they stepped on or what agendas they risked interrupting.

Regarding Syria, both Fisk and Pilger fearlessly stated the facts as they saw them. It was notable that when they did so this was a barely welcome occurrence if welcome it was at all. The vast majority of so-called journalists tended to portray them as having a somewhat strange take. Being fixed to their desks in each case and quite unknown out in the field they much preferred the standard narrative as delivered by State Department or Foreign Office,

Now, in Xinjiang there is no Fisk to report and the last article published on John Pilger’s website was in December of last year so it seems he is at last tiring of the fray.

However, new young investigative journalists have risen to take their place. But not in the mainstream. Mainstream news appears to have given a collective sigh of relief that all earlier awkward customers in the field of journalism have now departed completely from their ranks. The vital new journalistic blood is all in the independent arena of YouTube and elsewhere, those such as Max Blumenthal, Aaron Maté, Ben Norton, Anya Parampil and Daniel Dumbrill. Max and Daniel in particular are focusing on the issue of the Uyghur minority in Xinjiang, the issue which the West clearly hopes will open a geopolitical fissure in China they can exploit to maximum effect.

Max and Daniel are busily exposing the holes in the narratives being created around the Uyghur Muslims and giving repeated warnings that many in the western world are having their emotional vulnerabilities exploited mercilessly to the potential detriment of millions.

Currently fortunes are being spent to buy and amplify the voices of those attempting to create the maximum possible chaos within this region of China. Myriad activists, many of them linked to organizations advocating, sponsoring and financing terror are being aided and abetted by western NGOs such as the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), the agency set up to perform the task the CIA used to in this field.

An extremely well-heeled campaign to assert fabricated narratives about the situation in Xinjiang is in place. It has immense power to manipulate minds via the complicit agreement of mainstream media to provide a direct channel of access to the public mind.

We have seen all this before. Yet, due to the general public's eyes and ears remaining largely invested in a habitual reliance on mainstream media the necessary awareness of the depth of conditioning going on is to all intents and purposes absent. At least this is how things appear. We cannot truly know as public opinion is not reported on such issues. The only mouthpieces to gain exposure are those within mainstream press and televisual media.

The elites of the western world have almost succeeded in their goal of creating a captive audience only hearing and seeing those aspects of fabricated realities they wish that audience to be exposed to. Their only bugbear interrupting this vacuum chamber system of indoctrination are the few souls on social media who continue to attempt investigative journalism interested in discovering the realities within each issue.

How long they will be permitted to do this is a moot point currently as those few souls doing this work are increasingly being accused of spreading misinformation. I leave it to yourself to fully grasp the immense irony behind this accusation.

As to what is really happening in Xinjiang, the facts of which you will not hear from mainstream news outlets, goes something like this:

The Xinjiang region of China has a turbulent history going back many hundreds of years. Various peoples have occupied and ruled various parts of it down the centuries, the Mongols, the Uyghurs, the Han Chinese. It has changed hands many times, finally ending up as an integral part of China.

It could be said that the constant changing of hands there is still in progress. Certainly a section of the Uyghur community wish this and are willing to do almost anything to make it happen. Many dreadful terrorist acts took place there some few years ago, hundreds were killed, both Uyghur and Han Chinese, innocent civilians mown down by trucks or blown apart by bombs.

A group seeking the overthrow of governance in Xinjiang (what they refer to as East Turkestan) was formed in the late 1990s and was then placed on the U.S. list of terrorist groups. It’s name is the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM). The State Department concluded last year that it no longer exists and it was taken off the U.S. list of terrorist organizations. How this conclusion was arrived at was not stated.

This from the United Nations Security Council in 2011:

‘Among the violent acts committed by ETIM members were the blowing up of the warehouse of the Urumqi Train Station on 23 May 1998, the armed looting of 247,000 RMB Yuan in Urumqi on 4 February 1999, an explosion in Hetian City, Xinjiang, on 25 March 1999 and violent resistance against arrest in Xinhe County, Xinjiang, on 18 June 1999. These incidents resulted in the deaths of 140 people and injuries to 371.’

According to the United Nations, ETIM has received support from the Taliban, al-Qaeda, and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and is still listed by the UN Security Council as a terrorist organization.

Guantanamo had a number of Uyghur prisoners presumably found on the various battlegrounds in Afghanistan and Iraq.

A significant number from the Uyghur population have also fought against the Syrian government during the last decade. They will undoubtedly have had training in all the dark arts of the terrorist trade such as the manufacture and operation of suicide vests and IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices), with possible knowledge of surgically implanted body bombs, chemical/biological weapons and dirty bombs.

The province of Xinjiang has a border with Afghanistan where it is known that many Uyghur fighters operate. There can be little doubt that the transfer of such people back and forth is a common occurrence.

During the time when the Soviet Union had troops in Afghanistan and China was a rival power it set up training camps within Xinjiang which served as a conduit supplying fighters to drive the Russian troops from the centers of power in Afghanistan.

Finally, a relationship began between certain Uyghur Imams and those within the Wahhabi sect of Islam in Saudi Arabia. This resulted in a schism between the more traditional Muslim majority and the new, more radical form of Islam as represented by the Imams moving to the radical version as personified by the Wahhabi leadership. New mosques dedicated to Wahhabi precepts were built financed by Saudi Arabian sources in Xinjiang. You will know well by now I’m sure how the Wahhabi form of Islam leans toward the use of violence again unbelievers.

There can be few that doubt that the Communist government of China and indeed the Chinese people themselves would be a main target as unbelievers to such people. A target too for radical Christians, particularly within the United States who are known to have been active against China elsewhere, such as in Hong Kong.

The main source of so-called news concerning the accusations against the Communist Party of China is himself an extreme example of Christian radicalism, Adrian Zenz.

These are the past and present elements that have resulted in action being taken by the Chinese government to bring a permanent level of stability and safety to the region and the central clues regarding forming a complete picture of events there unavailable through western political circles and mainstream media news.

The end goal is the undermining of the present system of governance in China and its replacement with a form that the United States and its allies find agreeable.

There is no true concern for the well being of the Uyghur minority in Xinjiang. None at all. They are simply a tool to be used, as were the diverse groups of militants in Afghanistan, Libya and Syria. The use of proxy forces is more financially acceptable for the U.S. and UK governments and in terms of deniability and losses of their own troops. Using activists in combination with mainstream media at home and in addition controlling the narrative through the work of NGOs by omitting all inconvenient facts as described above, a virtual vacuum chamber of conditioning “news” can be created.

The great danger now is that all those pointing out the full facts, those who have significant followings on social media such as Max Blumenthal and Daniel Dumbrill will now be focused upon with campaigns to remove their presently very successful platforms and terminate their effect.

Western elites wish to create the same effect as they created to a significant degree in Syria. The desire is to so demonize the target that western elite narratives become unassailable in the public mind as solid fact on both a conscious and subconscious level. With this being the case they can create the maximum degree of chaos within the target location while maintaining a facade of respectability, probity and utmost integrity.

This is what was done in Syria and it is what is occurring in regard to Xinjiang using the Uyghur people as the primary tool to sow maximum death, destruction, instability and chaos before moving on to the next target as planned.

 

JUST *HOW* MANY FUCK-UPS CAN ONE SINGLE NATION CAUSE?

It’s almost as if the United States wants an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records.

The number of entries could well run into double figures in fact. It would depend only on the number of categories created.

1. World Record for number of countries attacked/invaded contrary to international law: USA

2. World Record for blowing most number of civilians into tiny bloody pieces: USA

3. World Record for number of countries undermined through assassinations & coups: USA

4. World Record for number of lies told prior to attacking & invading nations: USA

5. World Record for widest reach of propaganda through media worldwide: USA

6. World Record for killing most civilians in shortest time (Hiroshima/Nagasaki): USA

7. World Record for using mental patients and prison inmates for experimentation: USA

8. World Record for comprehensive genocide of a native population & in shortest time: USA

9. World Record for using most slaves with least conscience for longest time possible: USA

10. World Record for dominating the world for longest duration despite all the above: USA

And, though there will never be such a category, the World Record for being responsible for so many criminally heinous acts and yet perpetually talking of itself as the bringer of naive sweetness and light, the epitome of decent values, plus freedom and democracy for all.

Records for hypocrisy, criminality, state terrorism, pornography, drug addiction, corporate and political corruption, murders by police, racism and many more would be falling again and again in our alternate book of world records... all certainly “won” by the USA.

But the most significant World Record of all would undoubtedly be the last to be listed here.

The record for the longest time one nation can cause this many criminal acts, war crimes, campaigns of unconscionable slaughter, destabilization, destruction and all in all the most evil acts by a single nation and litany of perpetual fuck-ups and still portray itself as a nation imbued with exceptional purity of intent and the right, in perpetuity, to judge all others.

It must surely be that this last World Record will never, ever, be beaten.

 

THE WEST WON’T CHANGE CHINA OR RUSSIA AND IS INSANE TO TRY

China has the most successful economic system the world has ever seen and Russia is rising to join her. China’s economic success has fueled a revolution in life chances for the Chinese also, bringing millions out of poverty year on year for the past thirty years. Russia too has the same ambitions and her economy is also continually rising.

‘It it ain’t broke why fix it?’, as the saying goes.

But the elites of the western world are determined to change China into some oddball version of their own societies with all that would entail.

Just imagine that for a moment.

Imagine what that would mean for China (and Russia for that matter) in both the short and long term.

Conceive of the chaos for a moment of what these western elites want to unleash on China and Russia. Consider the emboldening of the kind of self-interested crooks that often come to power (calling themselves politicians) in the West. Think of the rise of corporate power as seen in the West. Think too of the enormous criminality of all kinds as seen in the West, the corruption, the graft, the influence of the mafia of pornographers, illegal drug manufacturers etc. etc. etc.

Western elites are willing to use any issue, any deception and any means to effect the deconstruction and reconstruction of China (and Russia also). In one example, by attempting to dismantle the present political structure of China through spreading phony human rights abuse and stirring anarchic activist movements in China western elites are being completely cynical. They seek to maximize the spread of chaos, to empower the most destructive, greedy and ambitious Chinese (and Russian) individuals to generate whatever division and destruction of harmony may be fomented within all nations (including China and Russia) targeted for regime change.

You will surely know the U.S./UK playbook by now.

They use the enormous budgets and manpower of the CIA and MI6, they use the surveillance technologies of the NSA and GCHQ, they deploy all the dirty tricks that the State Department and Foreign Office can muster via a plethora of NGO troublemakers and activists both outside and inside China and Russia, they accept the willing complicity of new networks like CNN and BBC to muster support for the whole process at home and attempt to hit both China and Russia with everything they’ve got.

This is war. And the Chinese and Russian leaderships knows it.

Why do you think the tone of Chinese and Russian spokesmen and women has toughened up recently? Why, at the recent Alaska meeting between top officials, including Antony Blinken and their Chinese counterparts was a new, more abrasive atmosphere seen to emerge between the two sides?

Instead of merely taking the usual holier-than-thou statements from the USA, with all their usual patronizing and accusatory tone with quiet rebuttals, Chinese officials took a different tack. They responded in kind. They went onto the attack.

And there is of course plenty about the West and its elites to attack.

The USA, UK and many European nations are in various stages of crisis. A general warmongering nature that has cost hundreds of thousands of lives in recent years, a cynical use of lies to justify waging them, failure to effectively deal with the coronavirus, racial discord, police violence, political upheaval massive national debts, crumbling infrastructure, societal decay and so much more.

All the above while China quietly expands her economy (the only major nation to do so during 2020) finds new trading partners and creates the most sophisticated, efficient and unifying trading network since the Silk Road, the Bridge and Road Initiative (BRI). The BRI will eventually span innumerable nations all the way from China on its way to the heart of Europe. China is assisting all nations along the route with finance for huge infrastructure projects on both land and sea from new railway links, lines and stations to motorways and renewed sea ports.

The elites of the West will fail to stop China in its quest to increase its ability to trade and create ever better relationships. They will also fail to halt the increased influence China will have through those relationships.

Always keep in mind which nations raised the alarm when the USA and UK were determined to start their endless wars in the Middle East, the nations that would not submit to the powerful propaganda of that time but raised sensible objections and called for other means to be deployed other than war to resolve the issues involved. They were not heeded. But history has shown who was right and who was so utterly wrong. Those who stood up to be counted for a peaceful solution at that time were China, Russia and France.

The above is important as it negates the fears of some that China, by far the most powerful of the three in economic terms, will act just as the USA and UK have in their belligerent arrogance and warmongering blood lust, seeking to dominate, manipulate, threaten and control. China has in my opinion shown that it is not in the least interested in the hegemony the western elites quite obviously long for.

China wishes to trade. To invest. To make agreements. To acquire resources she needs and in return assist in helping nations develop their economies in a win-win bargain where coercion, threat and bullying play no part.

A by-product of the continuing economic rise of China will be the coincident decrease in belligerent U.S./UK influence. By creating a new standard of international cooperation through agreements beneficial to both parties China offers a far better and more equitable, more trustworthy and equal arrangement where it becomes a far, far better partner than the U.S./UK with all their colonial baggage could EVER offer.

China, along with Russia as a close partner and long-time friend are the rising stars of the world potentially being born before our eyes. We may soon see the highly malignant domination of the West, with its history of genocide, slavery, colonialism, exceptionalism, racism, patrician snobbery, threat and an ever-present poison of great power manipulation, subside and fade from view.

This is the promise of China and that of Russia also. The two primary forces for peace through agreement and respect for international law and the sovereignty of nations in our world today. They can herald a new geopolitical paradigm and make possible the dream in many minds held so long now, for a world unified in peace, a peace gained through agreement and tolerance of diversity.

The USA and UK along with their allies are attempting to circumvent this possible reality. They wish to retain and expand their ability to dominate others, manipulate events, to retain their ability to threaten, cajole and twist arms to get what they want. If they get their way we will se a world continually at war, riven by the kind of chaos we have seen these two powers create so often both in the distant and recent past. If they succeed in undermining China and Russia they will endeavor then to fix their power in perpetuity creating a system of full spectrum dominance worldwide with which to control the world. By surveillance and the elite power of mainstream media propaganda, by forcing nations to comply with their needs and commands they will create a prison planet of total intolerance here.

Only China has the economic power to effect the fundamental change in present geopolitical circumstances and free us from the pernicious, ingrained, unconscionable and habitual methodologies of the USA, UK and their allies.  Russia no longer has the economic power of the Soviet Union (this was seen to by the same kind of western elites no matter what you think of their motives). However, Russia stands with China in her view of what a truly civilized world would look like. The mutual respect among nations and willingness to work together to resolve differences through negotiation, compromise, agreement and the discovery of new ways to create a better future would be key. War would no longer be seen as anything but an absolutely last resort. Just as was advocated by Russia and China when the dogs of war in the West could hardly restrain themselves... and ultimately could not.

The elites of the West won’t stop attempting to weaken China, to hinder here and Russia too. The mentalities involved are too fixed, too solidly ingrained. Happily China will remain largely unaffected and shows no sign of any significant slowing of her rise. If China was not as she is there is no possible way Russia could achieve what is necessary alone. Together the future has the potential to be open-ended toward something wholly extraordinary.

The West should not oppose them, but join them in creating the world most of us have always hoped we might live to see. A world at peace, where unity of purpose is the most obvious virtue, rather than the competitive war of diverse and opposing ambitions, which is currently its most obvious vice.

THE WEST WON’T CHANGE CHINA OR RUSSIA AND IS INSANE TO TRY.

 

CAN WE HEAR SOME APPLAUSE FOR THE DEATH GAMES WINNER?

The odds were stacked in the favor of what was clearly going to be the undoubted winner.

Other efforts were overwhelmingly puny by comparison.

The outcome had never seriously been in doubt. The track record of the victor had been so impressive.

Across every activity involved, with every discipline brought to bear and with each weapon deployed, the death count clocked up had left the mouths of spectators wide open.

The enthusiasm with which targets were blown apart was so evident in each theatre of war encountered.

Supported and encouraged at every stage by a vast army of supporters, including loyal news media, nothing could stand in the way of their ultimate success.

This was a team effort however, with every team member allied in coordination for maximum effect engendering a most efficient and effective kill rate.

With a supremely effective public relations campaign providing moral support and a backdrop of confidence behind them they managed to sweep all opposition before them.

Now with innumerable wins across Latin America and the Middle East under their belt the winners are fully hyped up and ready for their next big win. They are locked, loaded and raring to go. Mopping up the next opposing teams ought to be easy the team coach was heard to say. He certainly expects flowers to greet them on both arrival and departure as the Death Games continue on to their third season next year.

These guys will be hard to beat.

What they lack in brain power they certainly make up for in fire power!

So here they are, brushing smatterings of blood from their hands and clothes they bow to the massive applause as they enter the 'New Coliseum’, valiant modern gladiators of the gun.

Those who are about to die salute you!

 

A CONVERSATION: WHAT IS ALL THE FIGHTING FOR?

Why is humanity still dogged by discord and war?

At its most basic and banal it is a quarrel over power, and over resources, status and influence.

At its furthest extreme it is about global dominance.

Who fights these wars?

A tiny elite who invent justifications for all their crimes.

Isn’t international law as embodied in the United Nations and International Criminal Court there to protect the rest of us from these excesses by our elites?

It is and they are. However, certain powers believe they have a cause or causes which take precedence over international law and those institutions that uphold it.

Who gave them permission to overrule and circumvent international law and those who support it?

No one.

Why then are they tolerated to act this way? Why, when they conceive themselves above all laws and may break them at any moment should we then continue to live in fear of them?

Because they possess the power to do this with full immunity from international law. And because the media of their states predominantly favors their ability to do this.

Isn’t this a form of unaccountable dictatorship?

Clearly it is.

Doesn’t anyone point this out?

There are people who do, yes. However, they often exist in nations that those who currently have supreme power say are imperfect. Others exist within the most powerful nations.

Why are their words not more widely listened to and acted upon?

Because all such people are accused of spreading misinformation and their criticisms are negated. And because the institutions who might act upon this information are largely funded by those who they would have to act against.

So there is no hope for peace? The fighting will go on?

Not until the issues we have discussed are resolved and yes, the fighting appears destined to continue, at least for the moment.

You mean there is a glimmer of hope these issues may be dealt with in some way?

There is.

If another power becomes influential enough, with enough economic strength to match and perhaps overtake that of the aggressing power and that power has an ethos of finding agreement than waging war then yes, peace may at last come.

And there may be a tolerance of each other?

Yes.

And we may find common ground with each other?

Yes.

And we may work together in unity to solve our common problems?

Yes.

And if your one hope you mention does not come to pass?

Then we will fight on... quite probably forever.

HOW HAVING AN ALTERNATIVE OPINION TO THE WESTERN ESTABLISHMENT CAN BECOME A CRIME

A them and us environment within mass media is rapidly gaining ground across the western world.

The ‘them’ consists of the traditional establishment individuals and entities, the government, the most popular news broadcasters and those who occupy some position of power across the primary nodes of influence.

The ‘us’ consists of the rest of us essentially. Some of ‘us’ rely on the above establishment individuals and entities to tell them what’s true, what’s factual, what’s real news, what are real issues worth talking about, and what is not.

For ‘them’ things are pretty cut and dried. They decide what the truth is and then they relay that truth to ‘us’.

Now those in the establishment camp along with those who look to ‘them’ for the truth have a problem.

There is a minority section within ‘us’ who have become highly skeptical regarding the ability and/or wish of ‘them’ (our establishment elites) to tell (or tell ‘us’) the truth. This minority is now rapidly being seen as committing a crime, almost a crime against humanity, in communicating this skepticism and what’s more communicating their own view on what’s true.

This has in the past being known as having an opinion.

Of course having an opinion doesn’t mean it can be relied upon as pointing to anything inherently true or factual. Hasn’t decade after decade of America right-wing shock jocks spewing everything idiotic under the sun proven this time after time after time? But did anyone seek to shut them down, insane as they were? Warmongering and racist as they often were? If there was a call to do so I didn’t hear it. (Of course many people might have wished this to have taken place but I suspect that in the end leaving it to grown adults to make up their own minds was ultimately the better option.)

With the advent of social media platforms such as YouTube things have been taken to another level. There are a growing number of ‘us’ there giving a different take that the establishment ‘them’. These pundits, observers, analysts, commentators and communicators are often HIGHLY skeptical of establishment narratives (and by this point, considering all the known establishment lies over the last two decades it is hardly surprising).

It wouldn’t matter to the powers-that-be if these commentators were talking within a virtual vacuum chamber with only a few listening... but there lies the problem. Many have large audiences who tune in regularly and even contribute financially to these channels broadcasting an alternative message to the mainstream. They are becoming increasingly successful and influential.

Therein lies the bundle of problems that are increasingly beginning to irk those in the ‘them’ category. The success of alternatively-thinking voices threatens the relied-upon and much-deployed potency of establishment narratives. In future years these unregulated voices may even threaten the continuing high income enjoyed by the major media channels.
This is why we are likely to see an increasing number of calls to regulate the outlets such voices can now be heard on in even more stringent fashion than now. Or even remove them completely from each and every one of the major social media channels they now broadcast from.

This very process has been underway for some time now.

As Kim Iversen has said in a recent video, this is to a large extent what was seen in the “evolution” on Cable TV in the USA. When it first arrived it was largely unregulated and much more varied content could be seen there than on the mainstream TV channels. This caused uproar among a section of ‘us’ that voiced their outrage that sexual content in particular should not be so easily available to their young. Over subsequent years Cable TV was then gradually tamed and sanitized.

The ability to experience alternative views that contradict the generally agreed-upon views within the establishment elites and their adherents is being eroded. Currently it is still in reasonably healthy shape with many successful observers able to communicate their opinions, analyses, theories and investigative reporting direct to the eyes and ears of those with a mobile phone, laptop or Internet TV. Gradually however, as Kim Iversen has related on many occasions, the net of censorship is being widened to include more and more topics. Those ‘opinion criminals’ (a term I may use often in future) who deign to express themselves on these topics are being demonitized (receive no income for videos containing banned topics) and may even be removed from a social media platform for continued “criminal” behavior.

This is certainly the direction of travel. And, as Kim Iversen revealed on one of her recent shows certain members among the establishment elite are identifying such people communicating their own views successfully to others are going to be characterized as spreading misinformation. Anything that comes from Russia, China and indeed from anyone repeating views that are not at least closely aligned with western establishment narratives if not mirroring them 100% will be labelled as misinformation. With this kind of framing why would they tolerate it? Why would they tolerate Kim Iversen, Max Blumenthal, Abby Martin, John Pilger, George Galloway, Jimmy Dore, Lee Camp, Aaron Maté, Ben Norton, Anya Parampil or any of the increasing number of alternative voices? You can see the next step clearly that would enter their minds. If this activity is inherently wrong, deceiving and bad for society why should they tolerate it?

And then you have it. In the societies that conceive themselves to be the absolute epitome of free speech... having an opinion which doesn’t fit that of the establishment... becomes a crime.