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Propaganda

Echoes From History

“Safe and effective” vaccines rolled out against swine flu in 1976 that subsequently turn out to be damaging to several hundred people, particularly with neurological disorders such as Guillain-Barre Syndrome.1). The eerie similarities are hard to ignore.2)

Government COVID Propaganda

UK Office for National Statistics

Office for National Statistics admits just 6,000 people died of Covid-19 in England and Wales between Feb 2020 and Dec 2021 - The Expose - January 20, 2022

In response to a freedom of information request the Office for National Statistics has admitted that just 6,183 people actually died of Covid-19 in England and Wales between February 1st 2020 and 31st December 2021, exposing the 150,000 death toll constantly repeated by the Government, Scientific Advisors, and the mainstream media as an extraordinary lie.

The freedom of information (FOI) request politely asked the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to supply the number of deaths solely caused Covid-19, where Covid-19 was the only cause of death listed on the death certificate.3) 4) ***NOTE - Expose link has great charts to add as images FOI Ref- ​FOI/2021/3240 5)

Union of Concerned Scientists- Disinformation Playbook 2017

Here are five of the most widely used “plays” and some of the many cases where they have been used to block regulations or minimize corporate liability, often with frightening effectiveness—and disastrous repercussions on public health and safety. (example case studies for each are partial list)

1. The Fake - Conduct counterfeit science and try to pass it off as legitimate research

How Georgia-Pacific Knowingly Published Fake Science on the Safety of Asbestos 6)

Merck Manipulated the Science about the Drug Vioxx 7)

2. The Blitz - Harass scientists who speak out with results or views inconvenient for industry

GlaxoSmithKline Tried to Silence the Scientist Who Exposed the Dangers of its Drug Avandia 8)

Syngenta Harassed the Scientist Who Exposed Risks of its Herbicide Atrazine 9)

3. The Diversion - Manufacture uncertainty about science where little or none exists

How the American Chemistry Council Sowed Uncertainty about Formaldehyde Risks 10)

The Indoor Tanning Association Used Misleading Ad Campaigns to Distort Skin Cancer Science 11)

4. The Screen - Buy credibility through alliances with academia or professional societies

Purdue Pharma’s Use of Hospital, Academic Ties Helped Fuel Opioid Crisis 12)

Philip Morris Funds University Research—with Strings Attached 13)

How Coca-Cola Disguised Its Influence on Science about Sugar and Health 14)

Alcohol Industry Funds Government Study - In June 2018, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) shut down a $100 million clinical trial comparing drinkers and non-drinkers after reports that NIH officials had solicited funding from the alcohol industry.15)

5. The Fix - Manipulate government officials or processes to inappropriately influence policy

Pfizer Pressured the FDA to Downplay the Risks of Its Arsenical Animal Drug 16)

How Dow Chemical Influenced the EPA to Ignore the Scientific Evidence on Chlorpyrifos 17) 18)

Drivers of Propaganda

Independent Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours [[SPI-B]] - UK

SPI-B provides behavioural science advice aimed at anticipating and helping people adhere to interventions that are recommended by medical or epidemiological experts.

SPI-B provides independent, expert behavioural science advice to the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies SAGE, which in turn advises ministers and officials across government. 19)

SPI-B whistleblowers

Now recently, The Telegraph reported on revelations that members of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviour have openly admitted that their work in using psychology to influence the public Covid reaction was ‘unethical’ and ‘totalitarian.’

“Scientists on a committee that encouraged the use of fear to control people’s behaviour during the Covid pandemic have admitted its work was “unethical” and “totalitarian”. Members of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviour (SPI-B) expressed regret about the tactics in a new book about the role of psychology in the Government’s Covid-19 response.

SPI-B warned in March last year that ministers needed to increase “the perceived level of personal threat” from Covid-19 because “a substantial number of people still do not feel sufficiently personally threatened”. 20)

These can't all be mere slips of the tongue…can they?

Hollywood Propaganda

The film is called Theaters of War How the Pentagon and CIA Took Hollywood. The Director, Editor, and Narrator is Roger Stahl. The Co-Producers are Matthew Alford, Tom Secker, Sebastian Kaempf. They’ve provided an important public service.

In the film we see copies of and hear quotations from and analysis of much of what has been uncovered, and learn that thousands of pages exist that nobody has yet seen because the military has refused to produce them. Film producers sign contracts with the US military or CIA. They agree to “weave in key talking points.” While unknown quantities of this sort of thing remain unknown, we do know that nearly 3,000 films and many thousands of TV episodes have been given the Pentagon treatment, and many others have been handled by the CIA. In many film productions, the military effectively becomes a co-producer with veto power, in exchange for allowing the use of military bases, weapons, experts, and troops. The alternative is the denial of those things. 21)

US Government Fact Check Authorities

See also Fact-Checkers

Voice of America

It’s been a year since the U.S. government joined the ranks of Politifact, Factcheck.org and the Washington Post fact-checker in publishing dispassionate news analysis in the decisive ratings format: “true,” “false,” or “misleading.”

But its product—amplified in government-controlled foreign media environments through social media and video—focuses on what is now called “disinfo news.” It breaks down questionable statements put out by Russian officials on topics ranging from misidentified military weaponry to the Russian elite’s special privileges.

The impact is becoming apparent, according to Jim Fry, the veteran of commercial television news who is managing editor of Polygraph.info. “The VOA has never had a fact-check tool,” he said during an interview with Government Executive in Polygraph.info’s Washington shop. “We’re approaching it like a startup,” staffing up gradually, he said. “It’s exciting to try new things and see what works.”

Polygraph.info’s website says it serves as “a resource for verifying the increasing volume of disinformation and misinformation being distributed and shared globally.” Complimented by a Russian-language sister site called factograph.info, VOA’s digital editorial tool builds on the success of its year-old Russian-language television network Current Time TV. That 24/7 programming to counter Russian disinformation and Iranian censorship was recently praised by the Broadcasting Board of Governors as an example of how the larger BBG is now “at the forefront of National Security Strategy implementation.”

But in running Polygraph.info, which launched at the end of the Obama administration, Fry is careful to stress that “We’re U.S. government employees, but first and foremost, we are journalists.” The reporters and editors operate behind a legal “firewall” that shields them from direct influence by the sometimes politically disputatious broadcast agency’s top officials.

Hence, the zigs and zags of U.S. policy—from the Obama administration’s hopes for a “reset,” to tensions over Vladimir Putin’s expansionism, to Monday’s Trump administration expulsion of Russian diplomats—affect the BBG, but not its news operations, Fry said. BBG’s agenda “may affect our resources,” he acknowledged, but his reporting team doesn’t “counter disinformation,” as much as “cover it.”22)

National Endowment for Democracy - NED

Inside America’s meddling machine: NED, the US-funded org interfering in elections around the globe

Dozens of case studies featuring NED propaganda and CIA coups. 23)

NGO Propaganda History

Almost four years of mainstream media hype about “fake news” and “Russian meddling” propaganda has brought to the world exactly what they were intended to bring: an effective mechanism for internet and social media censorship.

In the center of this move toward global discourse control is an organization called the Poynter Institute, home to the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), a body created to coordinate, promote and train dozens of fact-checkers from around the world.

The IFCN and many non-profits working in the same field are funded by the big capitalist “philanthropists” of our era, like George Soros, Pierre Omidyar, Bill Gates, and even the Koch brothers…but also by the US Department of State and a shady “aid” – in reality, political meddling – organization, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), historically linked to the CIA and regime change operations.

Google and Facebook – itself tied to the warmongering Atlantic Council and its “Digital Forensic Research Lab” – are also associated with Poynter, by funding and partnerships to fight “fake news” (including the development of an “automated” fact-checking program for the upcoming 2020).

The marriage between Poynter’s IFCN, politically inclined billionaires, the State Department – and the whitewashed public face of the Deep State – suggest that the institute is probably working in what Nelson Poynter, its founder, worked on for a key part of his life: propaganda and censorship for the US government…

Nelson Poynter was recruited by the OWI with his wife Henrietta, who worked as assistant program chief under Elmer Davis, head of the agency. She came up with the name for the “Voice of America”, the famous psychological war operation of the US government.

The radio project was established in February 1942 and soon grew to be the most important US overt propaganda arm of the Cold War.

Unlike his wife’s job, Poynter’s regarded not radio – or his previous line of work, journalism – but movies. In 1942, the OWI’s Bureau of Motion Pictures (BMP) set up office in Hollywood, naming Poynter as its head. His mission was to act as liaison between the agency and the owners of Warner Brothers, Twentieth Century Fox, MGM and the other big studio names.24)

Corporate Funding

The two pioneering fact-checking organizations are affiliated with nonprofit groups. Based at the University of Pennsylvania, FactCheck.org was established by the nonprofit Annenberg Public Policy Center. Although it now accepts donations from the public, the private Annenberg Foundation has been its main benefactor, giving the project $87,502,844 since 2004.

Its competitor PolitiFact is a project of the Tampa Bay Times, which is owned by the Poynter Institute for Media Studies Inc., a 501©(3) nonprofit. According to its IRS filings, in 2014 Poynter had 51 employees, $4.7 million in revenue, a budget of $6.9 million, and $38.2 million in assets. Poynter’s president is Timothy A. Franklin, who joined the organization in 2014 after serving as managing editor of Bloomberg News in Washington, D.C.

Major philanthropies funding Poynter include the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation ($7,535,000 since 2003); Ford Foundation ($2,415,000 since 2000); Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation ($2,190,000 since 2009); Peter and Carmen Lucia Buck Foundation Inc. ($300,000 since 2013); Tides Foundation and Tides Center ($275,053 since 2008); Omidyar Network Fund Inc. ($150,000 since 2013); Carnegie Corp. of New York ($150,000 since 2009); and Annie E. Casey Foundation ($140,000 since 2006). Though FactCheck.org is the granddaddy of such websites, it has been eclipsed recently by PolitiFact in attention from mainstream media outlets, which use the two sites to supplement their reporting. 25)

Reuters - Trusted News Initiative

Thu Nov 25, 2021 | 9:33am EST UK data shows good safety of COVID-19 vaccines in pregnancy 26)

PolitiFact COVID Fact Check

Full collection of social media posts rated true -false with reporter who “fact-checked”

Examples-

“You are 17 times more likely to go to the hospital if you’re not vaccinated, 20 times more likely to die.” Jen Psaki stated on January 10, 2022 in a White House press briefing rated 100% TRUE By Madison Czopek • January 12, 2022

“Six-month Pfizer data show COVID vaccine causes more illness than it prevents.” Blog post rated 100% FALSE Pants on FIRE By Tom Kertscher • January 3, 2022

“When children are given vaccines for COVID-19, “a viral gene will be injected into your children's cells. This gene forces your child’s body to make toxic spike proteins. These proteins often cause permanent damage in children’s critical organs.” TikTik post rated 100% FALSE by By Monique Curet • January 6, 2022

“Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said “Two doses of the vaccine offers very limited protection, if any.” Instagram post rated 70% FALSE By Jill Terreri Ramos • January 14, 2022

If you have “natural immunity,” getting vaccinated against COVID-19 “is more likely to harm you severely.” Facebook post rated 100% FALSE by Ciara O'Rourke • January 7, 2022

“Fully vaccinated Australians in hospital for COVID-19 surpass unvaccinated” Bloggers rated 50% TRUE By Madison Czopek • January 14, 2022 27)

Global Fact Check Alliance

More than 80 fact checking organizations are calling on YouTube to address what they say is rampant misinformation on the platform. By Associated Press - Jan. 12, 2022

The fact checkers are all members of the International Fact Checking Network and include Rappler in the Philippines, Africa Check, Science Feedback in France and dozens of other groups.

They lambasted YouTube, saying it frames discussions about disinformation as a “false dichotomy” of deleting or not deleting content.

Displaying fact-checked information is more effective than deleting content, the fact checkers wrote. 28)

Propaganda Professionals for Hire

How PR Giant Publicis Promotes Greed, Deception on Behalf of World’s Most Powerful

The vast activities of the Publicis Groupe demonstrate how the tentacles of greed, profit and privilege connect the catastrophic agendas of the most powerful enterprises on Earth.

With headquarters in France, divisions in many countries around the world and decades of global experience in handling people, minimizing crisis and marketing products, the Publicis Groupe continually upgrades its methodologies.

Using sophisticated social psychology and incorporating the cutting edge of artificial intelligence, Publicis PR experts are masters of damage control, the manipulation of words and people, and of selling the unsellable.

Some of the largest, most prominent clients within these “solution hubs” and “partners” include-

The World Economic Forum, proponents of the so-called Great Reset. The U.S. government, including the General Services Administration, the Department of Homeland Security and the National Institutes of Health. Phillip Morris International, makers of Marlboro cigarettes. Newsguard, a media company with intelligence community support, advising news websites on claimed objectivity. Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a politically driven service consistently attacking anyone who raises questions about vaccine efficacy or safety. Facebook and Tik-Tok. PepsiCo, producer of Pepsi-Cola and Frito-Lay snack foods. Audi, Mercedes Benz and Toyota, Peugeot, Citroën and the Stellantis Group of automakers, including Fiat, Chrysler, Opel/Vauxhall, Maserati, Lancia, Alfa Romeo, Jeep Dodge. Google. Amazon. Disney. CitiBank, Bank of America, Visa. Microsoft Corporation. Saudi Aramco, the government-owned oil company and most profitable business in the world. Monsanto, controversial producer and proponent of GMOs and pesticides,and a subsidiary of Bayer. Walmart, Rite Aid and CVS Health (owners of Target pharmacies), all of which are major sales points for COVID vaccines. GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer Consumer Healthcare, Abbott, Allergan, Merck, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, Sanofi, Bayer, and other pharmaceutical giants, including Purdue Pharmaceuticals, makers of Oxycontin.

Publicis’ third-largest mutual fund holder is Vanguard, an investment giant that provides capital for a broad range of companies, including those producing military weaponry and having poor environmental records. Vanguard is also the largest investor in Big Media and Big Pharma 29)

==== Vaccine Side Effects One in a Million

updated April 13, 2021

https://web.archive.org/web/20211008160251/https://graphics.reuters.com/HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/VACCINE-EFFECTS/xegvbglkrpq/

https://web.archive.org/web/20211008160251/https://graphics.reuters.com/HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/VACCINE-EFFECTS/xegvbglkrpq/

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