THE USE OF KNOWLEDGE IS POWER

In A Time Of Universal Deceit, Telling The Truth Becomes A Revolutionary Act. (Orwell)

ALL TRUTH PASSES THROUGH THREE STAGES; FIRST, IT IS RIDICULED, SECOND, IT IS VIOLENTLY OPPOSED, THIRD, IT IS ACCEPTED AS BEING SELF-EVIDENT. (Arthur Schopenhauer)

I WILL TELL YOU ONE THING FOR SURE. ONCE YOU GET TO THE POINT WHERE YOU ARE ACTUALLY DOING THINGS FOR TRUTH'S SAKE, THEN NOBODY CAN EVER TOUCH YOU AGAIN BECAUSE YOU ARE HARMONIZING WITH A GREATER POWER. (George Harrison)

THE WORLD ALWAYS INVISIBLY AND DANGEROUSLY REVOLVES AROUND PHILOSOPHERS. (Nietzsche)

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Friday, September 22, 2023

Why are People so Obedient? – Compliance and Tyranny

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“And the word “courage” should be reserved to characterize the man or woman who leaves the infantile sanctuary of the mass mind.”Sam Keen, Fire in the Belly

In the privacy of our minds many of us disagree with the ideologies, political agendas, and government mandates of our day, yet in public we comply. We do what we are told, say what is politically correct, and justify our hypocrisy by telling ourselves that we are powerless to change society, and so we might as well blend in with the crowd. In this video, we explain why publicly conforming to what we privately disagree with makes us complicit in tyranny, and why each of us has far more power to influence society than we have been led to believe.

In the 1950s, the social psychologist Solomon Asch conducted an experiment which demonstrated the degree to which individuals will reject what they think is true in order to conform to the majority. In the experiment, Asch showed a test subject two cards. On the first card was a single line, and on the second card were three lines, A, B, and C, with only line C being the same length as the line on the first card. Asch instructed the test subject to state which line on the second card was the same length as the line on the first card. However, before the test subject gave an answer, they witnessed 7 confederates – or individuals who were in on the experiment – state that line B was the same length as the line on the first card. Rather than state the obvious truth, the test subjects gave the same wrong answer as the group 37% of the time, and of the 123 test subjects who took part in this experiment, two thirds went along with the group at least once. Asch’s experiment confirms what philosophers have been reiterating for thousands of years: for most human beings conforming to what others say and do – no matter how objectively false or absurd – takes precedence over adapting to reality and discovering the truth.

In reflecting on Asch’s experiment, the psychologist Todd Rose explains:

“…we care about being in the numerical majority even when we don’t necessarily care about the group and even when the group opinion is merely an illusion. Acting on instinct, in social situations our brains don’t actually bother to make the distinction between appearance and reality…Even in the absence of intentional pressure or incentives, we like to go along with what we think is the consensus because, quite simply, we’re biologically wired to do so.”

(Todd Rose, Collective Illusions)

Our inclination to go along with what we think is the consensus makes us vulnerable to propaganda and easily manipulated. For one of the primary ways that governments, corporations, and global institutions influence public opinion and shape mass behavior is by manufacturing illusions of consensus.

Read full transcript here.

Monday, September 11, 2023

Respect and Love for Others

The five dimensional world

Consciousness and Oneness is a state of mind, ideally suited as a weapon for liberation from our centuries of oppression and slavery. Every human being has the right to freedom, to go where they want. There are no laws or rules in the Universe; only respect and love for others and nature, is the basic rule for all.

In the emerging five-dimensional world, time is eternity, without hurry, time pressure, or limit.

Who we really are is hidden from us under veil. Our spiritual nature is our only true form. This is why the Deep State oppressors spend a lot of time and money to make people forget everything. They use subtle techniques to keep us captive. That’s where the real magic lies. If you cannot see through this, you are defeated. It is all an illusion. Soon people will discover their true identity, who and what we really are and what is really going on right now.

This is also why only one-third of the world’s population passes the 5D final exam. Two thirds have to retake the 3D school on another 3D planet, because planet Earth has already started its ascension to 5D which will be completed within a few years.

The final breakthrough to total liberation of planet Earth will come, once the mob wakes up and sees who and what the Deep State cabal and governments are and how they have been hiding. The mob must be able to look its enemy in the eye to convince themselves who their oppressors are!

When, people revolt en masse they have understood that they have been lied to for years by their authorities, as recently regarding life-threatening Covid injections, which are neither safe nor effective, as was told. Healthy people drop dead after their vaccinations. This genocide becomes the juncture of total destruction of Big Pharma and the medical cartel.

Your consciousness is the password to enter the world of the 5th Dimension. You possess this key the moment your consciousness tells you; do it! or, fail! At that moment, you will be alone!

No one will judge you or reward you. But you will feel it when you have really succeeded. It is the end of an era! And the beginning of a new era.

Remember; The Pléiadiens are the masters of light, consciousness and ascension they are our benevolent companions in the evolution of humanity on Earth!

They speak clearly higher truths to us, in a down-to-earth manner and in easily understandable language!

The information they bring, is pure light and coded in such a way that dormant DNA strands are activated and the level of consciousness is raised!

There is nothing more true than ‘what is’, for the higher light of which we speak consists of eternally universal akashic data and is the ultimate truth!

When this light enters the body, factual data begins to activate and change! This new light data activates the cellular DNA and causes much larger or more complex streams of information to flow differently through the body on a cosmic level through the DNA strands!

Then this newly higher data becomes available to consciousness, increasing consciousness and levels of knowledge tremendously!

Below, extraterrestrial correspondent Vital Frosi reports on the arsenal of virtues acquired in previous lives.

Beloveds!

You are a gold-digger from the Stars, who has come to this Planet to search for what is most valuable, not only for you individually, but for your entire Monad and, according to the Creator’s Plan, to take this experience to the infinite Cosmos.

Earth as soul school is designed to be one of the most difficult, but also one of the most desirable schools of the many that make up the ladder of ascension and evolution. Here, everyone is tested by the most difficult trials a conscious being can experience.

In fact, the greatest obstacle that every soul has to overcome here is the spreading of the small flame of Light they carry with them until the Planet can be fully illuminated, as Earth has evolved within a level of almost complete energetic and frequency darkness.

As a World of trials and reconciliations, the souls who signed up for the apprenticeship also came with the task of spreading the Light. They all knew the real difficulties they would face here and also the long time to come, before the removal of darkness heralded the end of this great Cycle.

Since the formation of planet Earth, its geographical position has been within the edge of the Milky Way galaxy, in the Orion Arm, and this is also the reason for the low incidence of Photonic Light. Maintaining a minimum of light here for eons was part of the plans of those souls who landed here forever.

You are one of these souls. Your mission for that reason alone is grand, not to mention all the other goals that will bear fruit in the infinity of time.

You were given the mission to anchor the Light here, but you also had the freedom to choose within an infinity of other possibilities, which now provide you with the conditions of an ASCENDED MASTER STATUS.

Of course, this level is reached only by souls ready for ascension.

As an incarnated soul, everyone has the same capabilities, even in different lives, but the curriculum is the same for everyone. Free will is the master law that determines what each soul wants to experience individually and collectively in each incarnation.

But the great treasure to be mined is undoubtedly the set of virtues it will carry as soul baggage, since it is immortal. Even if you dis-incarnate hundreds of times, everything is imprinted in your etheric body and persists in your subconscious every time you reincarnate.

The soul is your own consciousness. So during successive reincarnations, even with the veil of oblivion, you carry with you the unconscious impressions of past experiences and also possess the corresponding tendencies. This means that if you could remember your past lives, you can see that everything is a continuation.

The intervals between one existence and the next allow the soul to recover this memory, to make a self-assessment of the journey and to draw up a plan for a new incarnation, setting itself the goal of learning the lessons that remain to be learned and correcting the mistakes made earlier.

Even when later reincarnates forget it again, a Natural Law of the Worlds exists that allows every part of this Plan to reach you at the exactly right time to the extent you asked for before you reincarnated.

To sum this all up a little, let us say that the great patrimony to be accumulated during successive incarnations is always the same, in other words, everyone’s ultimate goal is to accumulate the set of virtues necessary for the soul’s ascension.

It is these virtues that are acquired and imprinted on each soul that build the necessary frequency to provide a safe channel for crossing the dimensional bridge that will take the soul to the New Earth, to leave behind the World of Reconciliations and Trials once and for all, as the soul ascends to a World of Regeneration.

VIRTUES ARE THE HERITAGE OF THE SOUL

Nothing and no one can take away or subtract this treasure because it is not transferable. The soul is the tip of the scales when weighing your frequency as you enter the Ascension Portal. Therefore, we should also remember one of the sayings of Christ Jesus during His time among the incarnated:

“Build treasures in Heaven, for those built on Earth will not belong to you.”

To attain the inheritance of virtues, the soul, while incarnate, is subjected to an infinity of trials and atonements, and this is not easy for anyone. This is why the treasure, when earned, is so valuable. So valuable that it gives you the right to inhabit higher worlds, as well as acquire the title of Ascended Master.

In fact, the ascended soul who possesses such treasures will attach no importance to such distinctions, because the virtues they have earned already allow them to feel worthy, without the selfish vanity common on Old Earth.

Once you have conquered this inheritance, there is nothing left for the soul to do in a World of Trials and Reconciliations. Many of you have already reached this evolutionary stage and in this current incarnation you will be able to make the ascent.

All the virtues you achieved in previous lives will now manifest. It is part of the revelations, for even you could not know your true potential from before.

You are much more than you think. The arsenal of virtues you have acquired will gradually come into light, and even though this may serve as a final test at some point, you just have to remain steadfast in your ethical and moral intentions, because we are on the last leg of the great journey, and that means mining is over.

Don’t waste your treasure now. It has cost you a lot to obtain it. It is your soul baggage, so no one can take it away from you, but any distraction risks leaving it by the side of the road.

Take good care of your possessions!

I am Vital Frosi and my mission is enlightenment!

Namaste!

Unveiling the Secrets 

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The Book of Enoch, Fallen Angels and The Great Flood

Wednesday, July 5, 2023

Parliament panel chief suggests keeping tribals out of Uniform Civil Code

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NEW DELHI: BJP MP Sushil Kumar Modi, chairman of the parliamentary committee on law and justice, on Monday suggested keeping tribals from the northeast and other parts of the country out of the purview of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) even as opposition parties questioned the timing of fresh consultations on the controversial issue.

At the panel's meeting, Modi said the northeast, which was governed as per provisions mentioned in Article 371 of the Constitution, and tribal areas mentioned in the Sixth Schedule should be exempted from the UCC.

Most members of the panel said parties would be able to submit their formal response on the issue only after the government presented a draft proposal. Even as Modi said this was only the first in a series of meetings on UCC, Congress MPs are learnt to have asked if the review of personal laws, or implementation of UCC, would end up challenging the freedom of religion in the country.

19L suggestions came in on UCC: Officials

The House panel had also summoned officials of the law ministry and the Law Commission for the discussion.

Sources said Congress also raised the Centre's opposition to same-sex marriage in the Supreme Court, where the government argued that marriage is "inherently connected with one's religion". Senior advocate and Congress MP Vivek Tankha is learnt to have said that since the government had argued that marriage formed a part of personal laws, would implementation of UCC not hurt people's sentiments and their religious freedom.

In separate written statements, Tankha and DMK MP P Wilson asked Law Commission member-secretary K Biswal why the panel had invited public comments when the previous Law Commission, the term of which ended on August 31, 2018, had described UCC as "neither necessary not desirable" at this stage.

BJP member Mahesh Jethmalani made a strong defence of UCC, citing Constituent Assembly debates to assert it was always considered imperative. However, there were others who pointed out that UCC should be more of a "voluntary" participation, adding that B R Ambedkar too wanted that to prevail.

It was learnt that law ministry officials gave a powerpoint presentation on the consultation process.

Law Commission officials said 19 lakh suggestions were received on the consultation started by it following a public notice on June 13. The exercise will continue till July 13.

Sources said 17 out of 31 members of the panel attended the meeting. Parties such as TMC and NCP were among those who did not attend.

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Monday, June 26, 2023

Indian Youth, Brain Drain and Geopolitics

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Foreign Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar - Indian Youth, Brain Drain and Geopolitics

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In this exceptional episode of The Ranveer Show Podcast, we are pleased to welcome one of the most prestigious personalities of the Government of India, Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar. 
 
He is an Indian diplomat and politician, serving as the Minister of External Affairs of the Government of India. In this informative episode, Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar talked about topics that are closely related to Geopolitics. 
 
He shares his experience of working with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and what are the challenges he has to face as the Minister of External Affairs. 
 
He further discusses the Role of Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing in the field of Geopolitics and put light on the situation of Brain Drain in the Country.

Tuesday, June 6, 2023

The Russian president is not the real Vladimir Putin. What is going on?


In 2010 the real Putin disappeared for a while, and was replaced by an entirely different man. He was radically distinct, not only in his physical appearance, but even more so in his beliefs and viewpoints. Significant facial differences are: 

✔︎ The new Putin has eyes half the size of his predecessor.

✔︎ The nose bridge of the real Putin was longer, more straight and sharper.

✔︎ The lips of the first Putin were touted, and sharper.

✔︎ The old Putin had distinct dark eye bags, while the new Russian president has no eye bags whatsoever. 

✔︎ The head of the new Putin is more round.


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Especially the eyes stand out to me: the old Putin had really big eyes, that often looked troubled. You could tell he was not happy. The new Putin is diametrically the opposite: his eyes are about twice as small, and have generally a kind, peaceful look. You will often see this new Putin with a calm, confident smile. Not at all the troubled man the first Putin appeared to be. 

Of course the media tries to cover this up with claims of plastic surgery, as they serve the purpose of keeping the population in a perpetual state of total ignorance.

But plastic surgery can't replace somebodies eyes, making them twice as big. Nor does it change your personality, and your political beliefs.

The most profound difference in the new Putin is, that, while his predecessor was a Young Global Leader from the World Economic Forum, trained to promote the globalist agenda of a one world government, the new Putin has become the opposite of that. 

He openly opposes the globalist agenda, and calls for the preservation of sovereign nations. 

Here are few public statements by the new Vladimir Putin:

"The model of total domination by the so-called golden billion is unfair. Why should this golden billion, which is only part of the global population, dominate everyone else and enforce its rules of conduct that are based on the illusion of exceptionalism?

It divides the world into first and second-class people and is therefore essentially racist and neo-colonial. The underlying globalist and pseudo-liberal ideology is becoming increasingly more like totalitarianism and is restraining creative endeavour and free historical creation."

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"Vladimir Putin" - President of Russia

These strong statements against a tyrannical one world government run by the elites, make me wonder if Putin might be replaced by good entities, who are now using the position of the Russian president to fight against the worldwide criminal elites, and their nefarious agenda of world domination.

It sure is telling that the elites have been trying to incite a nuclear war with Russia, the past decade.

Also the unprecedented worldwide mass indoctrination campaign that was launched against Russia, when they began taking out the Nazi armies, biological weapon labs, and deep state criminal government in Ukraine, while exposing how Ukraine is the center of a worldwide network of drug dealing, human trafficking, and money laundering, is quite meaningful.

Our in depth report about Ukraine is mind blowing. Make sure to read it.


The reason I bring these replacements of politicians to your attention, is to make you aware of the fact that you are watching a worldwide show. Both "good guys" and "bad guys" are playing a game behind the scenes, with the world population as the audience. Nothing is what it seems. I encourage you to stop blindly believing anything you hear on the news. Do your own research, think for yourself, depend on the One who never lies, and be a person of truth.

I believe there are significant operations going on behind the scenes of what the public knows, to take down the criminals who are trying to enslave humanity.

Read more about this white hat military intelligence operation to save the world.

"It is my solid conviction that humanity will not be destroyed by the satanic elites, that try to impose a one world government through organized pandemics, fabricated climate change, and other orchestrated disasters, which are used to seize all rights and freedoms from humanity, under the guise of "keeping you safe". This is not the "end of the world". As "Putin" is saying, they are working with all their strength to prevent this take over of humanity by globalist elites.

No matter how much the West and the supranational elite strive to preserve the existing order, a new era and a new stage in world history are coming. 

Only genuinely sovereign states are in a position to ensure a high growth dynamic and become a role model for others in terms of standards of living and quality of life, the protection of traditional values and high humanistic ideals, and development models where an individual is not a means, but the ultimate goal."

"Vladimir Putin" - President of Russia

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The weight of these words probably evades most readers. When he talks about the "supranational elites", he refers to the financial entities that rule over the nations, through control of politicians, news media, technology, etc. These elites are also called "The Cabal" and they are responsible for most suffering and misery in our world. 

You can learn more about this cabal, in the documentary below. Make sure to watch it.

ELITES that terrorize humanity

This is how the world has been operating for a very long time: concealed financial elites pulling the strings of puppets in governments. The World Economic Forum is a major player in this scheme, which has an official and outspoken agenda for total world domination.

This replacement "Putin" is announcing the end of that dark era. The power must go back to "genuinely sovereign states", which means nations that are not controlled by unelected elites. 

That means the restoration of true democracy, instead of the puppet theatre we have been witnessing for so many decades, where elections worldwide were rigged to position puppets of the elites in all governments.

We have a long way to go, but I believe there is hope. Let's all do what we can, to further this process of exposing the criminal elites, and build towards a world of freedom, truth and goodness.

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Tuesday, April 4, 2023

"Don’t spare the corrupt, however powerful"

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04 April 2023

NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi on Monday did not mince words while extending full backing to central probe agencies, saying the Centre doesn’t lack the “political will to fight corruption” and officers should act against the corrupt, however powerful, without hesitation. 

At a gathering to mark the 60th year of CBI, the PM asked officers not to be deterred by the power of the corrupt and the ecosystem created by them to tarnish the image of investigating agencies.

They (corrupt) have been part of the government and system for years. Even today they are in power in some states... but you have to focus on your work. No corrupt person should be spared. There should be no laxity in our efforts. This is the wish of the country, of the countrymen,” he said.

This is the second time in recent days the PM supported action by central probe agencies amid allegations they are being used as handmaidens of the Centre, and days after some opposition parties moved the Supreme Court against “misuse” of these agencies.

'Graft no ordinary crime, snatches rights of poor'

At the CBI's diamond jubilee celebrations on Monday, PM Modi mentioned how the investigating agency has instilled trust amongst common citizens through its work. "CBI's name is on everyone's lips. It is like a brand for truth and justice. The agency's chief responsibility is to rid the country of corruption which is not an ordinary crime. It snatches the rights of the poor, begets many other crimes and is the biggest obstacle in the path of justice and democracy," he said.

The PM said India inherited a legacy of corruption at the time of Independence and lamented that instead of removing it, some people kept nourishing this malady. "There was a competition under way on who will set a new record of corruption," he said. The scams and the prevailing sense of impunity led to the destruction of the system, and an atmosphere of policy paralysis brought development to a standstill.

He said Internet banking and UPI stand in stark contrast to the earlier malaise of "phone banking" malaise, where loans worth thousands of crores of rupees were sanctioned on the basis of phone calls from influential people.

The PM mentioned that the Fugitive Economic Offenders Act had so far enabled confiscation of properties of fugitive offenders, worth about Rs 20,000 crore.

Highlighting the benefits of direct benefit transfer (DBT), he said around Rs 2.25 lakh crore was saved from going into wrong hands as beneficiaries were getting their full entitlement with the trinity of 'Jan Dhan, Aadhaar, and Mobile'. Over 8 crore fake beneficiaries have been removed from the system, he added.

Modi said the government had so far transferred Rs 27 lakh crore to the poor. "Even a Prime Minister once said, for every rupee sent out to the poor, only 15 paise reaches them. Going by this, Rs 16 lakh crore of this amount would have already disappeared," he remarked.

He said interviews were abolished in Group C and Group D services at the Centre to weed out corruption.

Modi said India's economic power is growing while those who create obstacles are also rising. He warned that attacks on India's social fabric, its unity and brotherhood, and its economic interests and institutions would also increase.

The PM also launched the agency's Twitter account besides three offices in Nagpur, Shillong and Pune.

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THE INVISIBLE ENEMY


The fourth generation warfare is a war to be fought by policemen, they would have to fight against an invisible enemy and their battleground would be the civil society. 
 
This war will be difficult as they (policemen) will have to protect the people too. 
 
If you are not able to manage internal security, everything goes. If you win, the country wins and if you lose, the country loses. 
 
We will have to tackle issues like cyber security threats and banking frauds. 
 
Be guided by Lord Buddha’s last saying, ‘Aatma Deepobhava’, which means, 
 ‘be your own light’
 
(Ajit Dovel, India on 01 November 2015)

Thursday, February 23, 2023

US State Department explains cutting ties with Soros-funded group


The US State Department said on Tuesday that it has pulled funding from the George Soros-backed Global Disinformation Index (GDI), after it was revealed that the organization was working to deprive conservative media outlets of advertising revenue.

GDI is a UK-based nonprofit that describes its mission as “disrupting the business of disinformation.” It does this by compiling lists of “high-risk” news and information outlets – predominantly right-leaning and anti-liberal – and passing these on to advertisers, which in turn refuse to run ads on the sites. 

According to a recent investigation by the Washington Examiner, GDI received more than $200,000 from the National Endowment for Democracy and around $100,000 from the Global Engagement Center, both entities of the US State Department. The funding is in addition to undisclosed amounts from billionaire financier Soros and the UK Foreign Office, both of which are listed as donors on its website.


This is the second part of a Washington Examiner investigative series about self-styled 'disinformation' tracking groups that are cracking down on conservative media and part of a lucrative operation that aims to defund disfavored speech. To read part one, click here.

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.

DISINFORMATION INC: MEET THE GROUPS HAULING IN CASH TO SECRETLY BLACKLIST CONSERVATIVE NEWS

"Any outfit like that engaged in censorship shouldn't have any contact with the government because they're tainted by association with a group that is doing something fundamentally against American values," Jeffrey Clark, ex-acting head of the Justice Department's Civil Division, told the Washington Examiner. "The government or any private entity shouldn't be involved with this entity that's engaged in conduct that is either legally questionable or at least morally questionable."

GDI compiles a "dynamic exclusion list" that it feeds to corporate entities, such as the Microsoft -owned advertising company Xandr, emails show. Xandr and other companies are, in turn, declining to place ads on websites that GDI flags as peddling disinformation.

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.

"They might consider TAC a ‘high-risk’ publication because we have consistently taken on the bipartisan establishment’s sacred cows, whether it's the war in Iraq, nation-building in Afghanistan, or the harm done by free trade and open borders — and we’ve been proven right time and time again," Emile Doak, executive director of the American Conservative, told the Washington Examiner. "They know they can't say we're wrong, only that we're biased and 'high-risk,' so we will wear that designation as a badge of honor."

One member of GDI's advisory panel, who was granted anonymity to speak candidly, told the Washington Examiner it "sounds plausible" that any website on the "riskiest" list is also on the exclusion list. The member claimed they haven't helped craft the exclusion list and said "disinformation" labeling could potentially be seen as censorship.

The first State Department-backed group that has supported GDI is the National Endowment for Democracy, a nonprofit group that receives nearly all of its funding from annual congressional appropriations.

According to financial statements, the NED received over $300 million from the State Department in 2021. Critics have argued that the endowment, which Congress authorized in 1983, is essentially a government grantmaking body despite its legal status as a private entity.

In 2020, the NED granted $230,000 to the AN Foundation, GDI's group that also goes by the Disinformation Index Foundation, documents show.

The grant was to "deepen understanding of the challenges to information integrity in the digital space" in Africa , Asia, and other foreign countries, to "assess disinformation risks of local online media ecosystems," according to the NED, which noted that GDI would compile "risk ratings" for ad companies and others to assess "risks that arise from funding disinformation."

The NED's board of directors "controls" how it spends congressional appropriations, according to the nonprofit group's website. That 23-member board includes liberal journalist Anne Applebaum, who also sits on GDI's advisory panel, ex-Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun, House Republican Conference Chairwoman Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), and Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX).

Former NED directors also include Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass , a Democrat, as well as ex-Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (D-FL) and Peter Roskam (R-IL), according to tax forms filed in 2020.

The federal government could run into legal trouble depending on the extent to which it’s paying or directing GDI to "censor information, pressure publications to censor, or pressure advertisers not to publish, in a way that harms U.S. citizens or companies," Ilya Shapiro, director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute, told the Washington Examiner.

But GDI's ties to the government extend far beyond the NED.

GDI has also disclosed taking money from Disinfo Cloud, an unclassified and defunct platform through the State Department's Global Engagement Center. Disinfo Cloud was used between 2018 and 2021 by Congress and over a dozen federal agencies, including the Departments of Defense, Energy, Treasury, and the FBI , according to the State Department.

The GEC aims to "counter foreign state and non-state propaganda and disinformation efforts aimed at undermining or influencing the policies, security, or stability of the United States, its allies, and partner nations," according to its website.

In 2018, the GEC began funding Disinfo Cloud, a State Department spokesperson told the Washington Examiner. The GEC awarded roughly $300,000 to an investment group called Park Advisers, which fights "disinformation, terrorism, violent extremism, hate speech" to manage Disinfo Cloud, the spokesperson said.

Park Advisers implemented Disinfo Cloud "to provide the U.S. government and its partners with a database of the tools and technologies available to help push back against foreign propaganda and disinformation," according to its website, which links to Disinfo Cloud's former landing page that has since been pulled off the internet.

In September 2021, the GEC and Disinfo Cloud announced that the Global Disinformation Index and two groups would split a $250,000 grant award as part of the U.S-Paris Tech Challenge. The challenge aimed "to advance the development of promising and innovative technologies against disinformation and propaganda" overseas, records show.

The Washington Examiner was unable to locate public documents reflecting the precise sum that GDI pocketed from this award. However, a State Department spokesperson said that GDI received $100,000 of the $250,000 award, which the GEC first paid to Park Advisers.

"If the Department of State, or any other government agency, is giving taxpayer money to shadowy organizations who are putting their thumbs on the scale of who gets heard and who doesn’t, it is a significant First Amendment violation," said David Warrington, an attorney for Dhillon Law Group. "The government is not supposed to be picking winners and losers in the free speech arena, regardless of whether they do it directly or by proxy, as appears to be the case here."

Two members of Congress told the Washington Examiner that they intend to investigate how the federal government is using taxpayer dollars when it comes to "disinformation" initiatives.

"Last year, under tremendous bipartisan pressure, I refused to reauthorize the Global Engagement Center because such a step seemed premature," said Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. "The most recent allegations, if verified, confirm the need for a strict accounting of all U.S. taxpayer funds going to the GEC."

Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), similarly, said in a statement that the Biden administration is "knee deep" in left-leaning efforts to "crack down" on speech.

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"House Republicans will be hauling these bad actors before Congress, and I absolutely support legislation to ban federal funding of anti-free speech groups," he told the Washington Examiner, referring to private sector actors and certain federal officials.

Thursday, January 26, 2023

VANDEMATARAM

 

Mother, I bow to thee!
Rich with thy hurrying streams,
bright with orchard gleams,
Cool with thy winds of delight,
Dark fields waving Mother of might,
Mother free.

Glory of moonlight dreams,
Over thy branches and lordly streams,
Clad in thy blossoming trees,
Mother, giver of ease
Laughing low and sweet!
Mother I kiss thy feet,
Speaker sweet and low!
Mother, to thee I bow.

Who hath said thou art weak in thy lands
When the sword flesh out in the seventy million hands
And seventy million voices roar
Thy dreadful name from shore to shore?
With many strengths who art mighty and stored,
To thee I call Mother and Lord!
Though who savest, arise and save!
To her I cry who ever her foeman drove
Back from plain and Sea
And shook herself free.

Thou art wisdom, thou art law,
Thou art heart, our soul, our breath
Though art love divine, the awe
In our hearts that conquers death.
Thine the strength that nervs the arm,
Thine the beauty, thine the charm.
Every image made divine
In our temples is but thine.

Thou art Durga, Lady and Queen,
With her hands that strike and her
swords of sheen,
Thou art Lakshmi lotus-throned,
And the Muse a hundred-toned,
Pure and perfect without peer,
Mother lend thine ear,
Rich with thy hurrying streams,
Bright with thy orchard gleems,
Dark of hue O candid-fair

In thy soul, with jewelled hair
And thy glorious smile divine,
Lovilest of all earthly lands,
Showering wealth from well-stored hands!
Mother, mother mine!
Mother sweet, I bow to thee,
Mother great and free!

(Vande Mataram was originally written in Bengali and was part of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s novel Ananda Math.This is a popular translation by Sri Aurobindo.The poem has a significant effect on providing inspiration during Indian independence movement and it was adopted as National Song of India in 1952. SOURCE)

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Monday, January 16, 2023

The Media Matrix

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Media. It surrounds us. We live our lives in it and through it. We structure our lives around it. But it wasn't always this way. So how did we get here? And where is the media technology that increasingly governs our lives taking us? 

This is the story of The Media Matrix.

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Thursday, December 1, 2022

Jihad Afzal - Jihad Against One's Senses - Not Against Innocent Civilians


Ulemas Have A Key Role In Promoting Tolerance

01 December 2022

NEW DELHI: In a strong message to counter radicalisation and misuse of religion, National Security Adviser Ajit Doval while emphasising the role of Ulemas (religious scholars) of India and Indonesia in promoting tolerance and harmony said that “we need to work together to develop common narratives on de-radicalisation". He highlighted how despite overcoming the challenges to a considerable extent the phenomenon of cross-border and ISIS inspired terrorism continues to pose a threat.

“While we have overcome the challenges to a considerable extent, the phenomenon of cross-border and ISIS inspired terrorism continues to pose a threat. Cooperation of the civil society is essential in countering the threat from ISIS inspired individual terror cells and returnees from theaters like Syria and Afghanistan,” Doval said.

Doval was speaking at the inaugural session of a seminar organised by the India Islamic Cultural Centre in Delhi on the “role of ulemas in fostering a culture of inter-faith peace and harmony in India and Indonesia”. Addressing the Indonesian delegation of Ulema led by their coordinating minister for political, legal and security affairs, Mohammad Mahfud MD, the NSA asserted that everyone is well aware of the fact that both our countries have been victims of terrorism and separatism.

He emphasised that the Ulemas play a very important role in Islamic society and their role in promoting tolerance, harmony and peaceful co-existence will bolster the fight against “violent extremism, terrorism and radicalisation.”

Doval asserted that countries like India and Indonesia, with their experience of multi-faith harmony and co-existence, can send a joint message to the world to eschew violence and conflict. “This will be a powerful symbol of the determination of two large countries (together we have 1.7 billion of the world population) to preserve and promote the true values espoused by religion,” he added. Doval also highlighted the fact that Indonesia is the world’s largest Islamic country and India is home to the third largest Muslim population in the world.

He asserted that “none of the ends for which extremism, radicalisation and the misuse of religion are employed are justifiable on any ground”. “This is a distortion of religion against which all of us need to raise our voices,” added.

Highlighting that extremism and terrorism is against the very meaning of Islam because “Islam means peace and well-being”, Doval said that “opposition to such forces should not be painted as a confrontation with any religion”. 

“Islam ordains that the most excellent form of Jihad is "Jihad Afzal" - that is, Jihad against one's senses or ego - and not against innocent civilians,” he added.

He also said that there was a need to counter disinformation and propaganda that can impede peaceful co-existence among the followers of different faiths. 

He sought special focus on youth as they are often the primary target of radicalisation. “The Ulema must also be adept in the use of technology and utilise various technological solutions to thwart the evil designs of propaganda and hate,” he added.

A joint press statement released after the day long deliberations at the seminar emphasised that “noting the key role of Ulema and other religious leaders as well as education in countering radicalisation and extremism, the participants agreed on the need to work together to develop common narratives on de-radicalisation.” The statement denounced “all hate speech, prejudice, propaganda, demonisation, violence, conflict and condemned the misuse of religions for these ends.” 

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Secret societies: Harmless members-only clubs or dire threats to democracy?


A curious feature of our modern times is the number of secret societies operating in our midst, setting the global agenda behind closed doors

“The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings.” (John F. Kennedy, April 27, 1961)

Long before the fiction writer Dan Brown arrived on the literary scene with his stories of esoterica, people have been intrigued with the idea of secret societies working in the shadows, carrying out evil plots against them. On this score, it would be hard to beat the Freemasons.

Here is a group of characters that has piqued the imaginations of men throughout the centuries. Back in 1798, John Robison, a professor of Natural Philosophy, and Secretary to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, published a book that made a big splash throughout Europe. The publication carried the lengthy title, ‘Proofs of a Conspiracy against All the Religions and Governments of Europe, Carried on in the Secret Meetings of Freemasons, Illuminati and Reading Societies.’ Had John Robison attempted to publish such a book in our day, he would have been quickly written off as a conspiracy theorist nut job along the lines of Alex Jones. But in 1798, the book was taken quite seriously.

Robison, himself a Mason, attempted to prove that not only the French Revolution, but many other historic events of the day were the result of this secret fraternity’s machinations.

“I have seen this Association exerting itself zealously and systematically, till it has become almost irresistible: And I have seen that the most active leaders in the French Revolution were members of this Association, and conducted their first movements according to its principles, and by means of its instructions and assistance, the formerly requested and obtained. And lastly, I have seen that this Association still exists, still works in secret, and that not only several appearances among ourselves show that its emissaries are endeavoring to propagate their detestable doctrines among us…” 

Aside from the question of whether Robison was correct in his accusation is an equally important one: if the freemasons are really up to no good, are they continuing with their shenanigans today?

A lot of people believe they are, and many are speaking out with revelations of various levels of believability. Many are dismissed as conspiracy theorists (which, in turn, reinforces the belief of many others in the secret societies’ willingness to ‘throttle the truth’). Former singer-songwriter and winner of The X Factor Australia, Altiyan Childs, for example, shared a five-hour video where he proclaims that nearly every Western institution has been infiltrated by the Freemasons, to the point where it is nearly impossible to rise to high office – from the world of entertainment to politics and everything in between – without the silent nod of this international fraternity. That video has been viewed nearly four million times.

While it may be easy to laugh off such outlandish claims based on the ‘Illuminati’ and other such groups, there are other societies that make no secret about their secrecy, and have a much more tangible claim to controlling the world. 

World Economic Forum

If there were a reigning king of secret societies today, the title would undoubtedly go to the World Economic Forum. Founded in 1971 by the German engineer and economist Klaus Schwab, the foundation, which brings together the top 1,000 most powerful corporations in the world, views its mission as "improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic, and other leaders of society to shape global, regional, and industry agendas." Democratic procedure doesn’t seem to have a place in this formula.

As the author and social critic Nick Buxton described the annual confab, held in the mountains of Davos, Switzerland, “this unaccountable invitation-only gathering is increasingly where global decisions are being taken and moreover is becoming the default form of global governance.” 

Schwab has gone on record as saying that “the sovereign state has become obsolete,” and that in order to fill the power void there needs to be a “global issue alliance” apparently with himself at the helm.

Not only does Davos serve as an elitist cocktail party for “improving the state of the world” far from the prying eyes of humanity, it also works to “penetrate” governments around the world with their self-taught protégé.

“So we penetrate the cabinets”.Here is Klaus Schwab in 2017 discussing how the WEF have penetrated governments with its young global leaders - like Justin Trudeau.pic.twitter.com/07M6LDPHot

— James Melville (@JamesMelville) February 1, 2022

“What we are really proud of now is the young generation, like Prime Minister [Justin] Trudeau,” Schwab boasted back in 2017, who make it possible for us to “penetrate the cabinets” of governments around the world.

The Davos leader then provided an example, saying he had “attended a reception for Prime Minister Trudeau and I saw that half or his cabinet or even more are from the Young Global Leaders program of the World Economic Forum.”

It does not require much imagination for regular folks - never mind the conspiracy theorists - to find something nefarious about the most powerful people on the planet “penetrating” governments with their specially trained representatives. And that’s exactly what happened with the introduction of the Covid-19 pandemic – many people saw it as a fabricated emergency to not only deprive millions of people of their livelihood, but to further enrich the very individuals who make up the ranks of the Davos group (the forced lockdowns on people and private businesses caused one of the largest transfers of wealth in human history as only the very largest companies could survive under such conditions).

There were other reasons to be suspicious. In October 2019, the WEF, together with Johns Hopkins University and the Bill & Melissa Gates Foundation, held a tabletop seminar entitled Event 201 that described what would happen in the event of a global pandemic. Three months later, everything that the simulation described – from the lockdown of entire countries, to businesses being forced to close down – came to pass with the arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Of course, this is not to say that Klaus Schwab and the Davos elite took advantage of a deadly pandemic to enrich themselves, but many people believe just that – or are at least suspicious about a secretive organization pushing for a ‘Great Reset’. Those two words have become the trigger word for many – while the WEF presented them as a benevolent post-Covid economic recovery plan, detractors pointed to a 2016 video released by the Forum as a prediction of the future and featuring the ominous words “You'll own nothing. And you'll be happy.” The plan, they claim, is to enact a new global world order.

Skull and Bones

In a non-descript building (for a full view of this structure, which is dubbed ‘the Tomb’ – and for good reason – check out the video) on the campus of Yale University is the home of Skull and Bones, a secretive fraternity that first appeared on the scene in 1832 (women were not granted membership into Skull and Bones until 1992).

Skull and Bones, which is also known as The Order, Order 322 or The Brotherhood of Death, is notoriously selective in determining who can become a so-called ‘Bonesman.’ The society selects new members among students every spring as part of its so-called ‘Tap Day’ when just 15 seniors are invited.

Despite its intense exclusivity, many members have ascended after graduation to positions of prominence in the world of intelligence, business and government. Three of them—William Howard Taft, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush—went on to become U.S. presidents. This was the cause of an awkward moment in the 2004 United States presidential election between George W. Bush and John Kerry, both members of Skull and Bones.

The late NBC journalist Tim Russert confronted both men as to their membership in the organization and ‘what that means for America.’ Bush just chuckled and said, “It’s so secret we can’t talk about it.” Kerry responded almost the same, saying he could not speak about his membership “because it’s a secret.” And with that the American people were forced to choose between two men from opposite sides of the particular spectrum who shared secrets the voter would never know about.

Bilderberg

This group got its name from the Bilderberg Hotel, located in Oosterbeek, Netherlands, where the Bilderbergs had their first meeting in May 1954. But unlike Skull and Bones, Bilderberg is very much global in scope. In fact, it is so global that one of the conspiracy theories it must contend with is that it is trying to create a one world government.

Denis Healey, one of the original founders of the group, lent credence to that theory when he told a journalist: "To say we were striving for a one-world government is exaggerated, but not wholly unfair. Those of us in Bilderberg felt we couldn't go on forever fighting one another for nothing and killing people and rendering millions homeless. So we felt that a single community throughout the world would be a good thing." 

The invitees tend to hail from a narrow spectrum of occupations – CEOs, finance ministers and heads of state. For the one or two journalists who receive an invitation, the privilege is largely symbolic since they are not permitted to write about what they see and hear. Bilderberg releases an annual list of those who will attend and the subjects they’ll discuss, but beyond that, little leaves the walls of the hotel. 

So here we are left with the question: is there any place for secret societies inside of our democracies, especially when the members of these groups are always working on behalf of their own special interests? The answer seems obvious, but as it stands there are no laws on the books that prevent people – even those who say they represent us – from meeting together in private. As a result, the only option for the common folk is to protest these back-door meetings at every opportunity. And that is all.