26 October 2024
In Courageous Discourse substack John Leake writes:
"Ursula von der Leyen advocates "pre-bunking" in the public forum to "vaccinate" people against "disinformation"...
EU President Ursula von der Leyen just joined the ranks of former Senator John Kerry and other globalist ghouls in declaring war on that keystone of democracy, free speech by perversely proclaiming that the EU citizenry needs to be “vaccinated against disinformation.”
Like every censor in history, she characterizes her censorship program as a means of expunging erroneous information and ideas from public discourse. By using the word “disinformation,” she implies that she and her clique are already the sole possessors of the truth about everything, and that everyone who has and shares heterodox ideas is necessarily in error.
Her entire premise is FALSE for the following reasons:
1). Knowledge about the world is constantly evolving through constant inquiry, discussion, and dissemination. Knowledge is NOT a static thing. This is why countries with stifling censorship regimes have experienced intellectual, scientific, and artistic stagnation. Their rulers try to freeze the human mind in its state at their moment in history.
2). NO state, university, or ecclesiastical committee has ever been in possession of the full truth of any matter. Official orthodoxies have always been challenged by heterodox thinkers. Indeed, virtually every major advance in human insight has been performed by heterodox thinkers.
3). As John Milton observed in his 1644 pamphlet, Areopagitica, contending with error is an intrinsic part of learning and discovery. We literally learn by making mistakes and correcting them. If free speech is suppressed for the objective of preventing the propagation of erroneous thought—or “vaccinating against it”—it will become extremely difficult if not impossible for people to learn and discover.
4). Without a single exception in history, the people who hold power always advocate the orthodoxy that sustains and extends their power and that of their friends and supporters.
Ursula von der Leyen is the quintessence of this principle.
As president of the EU, she conducted secret negotiations with Pfizer CEO to purchase a 20 billion Euros of Pfizer’s fraudulent and dangerous vaccine so that it could be inflicted on all the citizens of the European Union.
She is currently under criminal investigation for her conduct in this affair that has come to be known as Pfizergate.
It takes a special kind of chutzpah for a powerful state official who is probably guilty of committing a major crime - a crime that has been systematically and ruthlessly concealed - to lecture the public about the need for censorship.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd8TqAur-wE
When mentioning 'prebunking' what she is is apparently talking about is teaching people the critical thinking skills that will enable them to spot common manipulation techniques. Of course, we know that in practice, any training program she and her fellow globalists approve of, would exempt the biggest purveyors of misinformation and disinformation (they're the same thing BTW,) -- government and their slavishly devoted mainstream media propagandists -- from being subjected to any critical examination, and be aimed only at alt_media and those few brave journalist who dare to question the official narratives.
Not long after the world became familiar with terms coronavirus and COVID-19, the World Health Organisation (WHO) coined another word: "infodemic" — an overabundance of information and the rapid spread of misleading or fabricated (aka truthful) news, images, and videos. Like the virus, we were told misinformation (aka disinformation,) it is highly contagious and grows exponentially like a cancer. It also complicated COVID-19 pandemic response efforts.
“We’re
not just battling the virus,” said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom
Ghebreyesus. “We’re also battling the trolls and conspiracy theorists
that push misinformation and undermine the outbreak response.” Misinformation? That the vaccines don't work?
Proliferating misinformation — even when the content is, in a best-case scenario, harmless — can have serious and even social and lethal health ramifications in the context of a global pandemic the WHO, backed by national governments and mainstream media told us before reiterating the lie that "The vaccines are 100% safe and effective."
In some countries it was alleged in WHO reports, rumours about impending food scarcity prompted people to stockpile supplies early on in the epidemic and caused actual shortages. In the United States of America, a person passed away from ingesting a fish tank cleaning product containing chloroquine after reports mentioned hydroxychloroquine as a possible - yet unproven - remedy for treatment of COVID-19. In the Islamic Republic of Iran, hundreds died after drinking methanol alcohol that social media messages said had cured others of the coronavirus. This is the kind of dangerous misinformation that WHO is most worried about.
While worrying about such scare stories for which little or no evidence was ever presented, the WHO, in the name of banishing misinformation was urging governments to ban long established and provenly safe drugs like Ivermectin and hydroxchloroquine (previously known as quinine,) on the grounds that they were unsafe and ineffective. Before being found by doctors to be far more effective than the mRNA vaccines, both these drugs had been recommended by the WHO as safe and effective remedies for various viral illnesses.
It was the WHO, the EU, the United Nations and national governments that spread misinformation and disinformation in order to scare and coerce members of the public to accept an improperly tested and highly suspect vaccine.
Misinformation in the form of scare stories bades on fraudulent data has also proliferated in conntion with climate change, wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, talk of the 'next pandemic', and so on.
The wise work on the assumption that all information released by government, big business and those Non Government Organisations, unelected bodies like the World Economic Forum that have somehow gained influence over government policy and are busy advancing their globalist agendas, is untrue or at best only contains just enough truth to give it some credibilility. This is why they are so eager to silence the voices that question their narratives.
Sorrty Ursula but it's you that is a kind of infectious disease.
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