“We need to take certain actions there to prevent Uncle Bob from sharing misleading information at the Thanksgiving table.”
Live from Manhattan, where the World Economic Forum boasts comfortable digs in a luxurious midtown tower on Madison Avenue, the WEF’s Tackling Disinformation forum began.
“With increasing fears about the cost of living – exacerbated by the pandemic and the energy crisis – it is now more critical than ever to tackle disinformation head-on,” the WEF explained.
What do costs of living have to do with state and corporate censorship? As prices rise and standards of living drop, and the WEF’s slogan of “I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better” will only have been proven two-thirds true, the peasants may get restless.
Peasants like Uncle Bob whom the WEF is deeply concerned about. Very deeply.
“We need to take certain actions there to prevent Uncle Bob from sharing misleading information at the Thanksgiving table,” Claire Wardle (She/Her) PhD explicated in a chummy Brit accent over Zoom. Wardle sits on the WEF’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of Information and her vision of the future has little room for Uncle Bob saying whatever he likes at the Thanksgiving table. A holiday created by pilgrims fleeing England and people like Wardle.
Forget nukes, dictatorships and pandemics. All of these threats pale compared to Uncle Bob having a hearty helping of turkey and yams before repeating something not vetted by the UN.
Uncle Bob has long been the bete noire of Wardle who has become a full-time expert on speech she doesn’t like. Much of that speech is being produced by ‘Uncle Bobs’ around the country and the world. A former social media boss at the UN refugee agency, Claire, with an armful of useless degrees in things like communications, political science and a degree in American Studies from a British school in Yorkshire, found her true calling in life. Fighting Uncle Bob.
A year before Trump and Brexit panicked the elites, like those at the WEF, into realizing that unless they got on with censoring the internet people would think and do all sorts of things they don’t approve of, Claire Wardle ‘co-founded’ First Draft News to fight ‘fake news’. The actual co-founders of First Draft were George Soros, the Ford Foundation, Google, Facebook and Twitter. If you liked the idea of a handful of tech monopolies, billionaires and foundations determining what you were allowed to think and read, First Draft was absolutely for you.
From the Manhattan street whose name has been lent to advertising lies, Adrian Monck, a former British TV correspondent who heads “social engagement” for the WEF, was all in.
“We’ve learnt quite a lot, haven’t we, in the decades and hundreds of years of history of information and journalism, which is that you do need to have checks,” Monck rambled.
By “we”, Monck means Russia, China and WEF trustees like Al Gore, Christine Lagarde, head of the European Central Bank, Larry Fink, the man with the BlackRock boot on the nation’s economy, the Queen of Jordan, a senior minister of Singapore, and Zhu Min, former deputy governor of the People’s Bank of China and IMF honcho who worked on the UN’s Agenda 21.
Only tyrants need checks on speech. But these days tyrants don’t need to wear military uniforms or give speeches from balconies. They just skim some of the dregs of elite overproduction and hire them to come out and explain why tyranny is good for us.
“You know, we partnered with Google, for example, if you Google climate change, you will, at the top of your search, get all kinds of UN resources. We started this partnership when we were shocked to see that when we Googled climate change, we were getting incredibly distorted information right at the top,” Melissa Fleming, the Under-Secretary for Global Communications at the United Nations at WEF, cheerfully told Monck.
Fleming, the only attendee who deigned to come in person instead of on Zoom,.urged, “We need to find where people are searching and get there first.”
Or to update Smirnoff’s act, “Under the UN, the internet searches you.”
Then the UN official boasted, “We own the science and we think that the world should know it and the platforms themselves also do.”
Science now belongs to a woman with degrees in broadcast journalism and German Studies.
But that’s how it works now. A vast network of multinational organizations control the world. And their foot soldiers are otherwise unemployable people who have degrees in saying things now tasked with getting people to stop saying things.
Or as the Germans called it, the Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. Or, simply, Propagandaministerium. It’s a bit long, but nicely encapsulates it. When Fleming chats with WEF founder Klaus Schwab, she can put her German Studies degree to use and mention it.
Also participating in the propagandaministerium was Rachel Smolkin: a senior VP at CNN.
“Many people have no sense of all of those checks and balances in the newsroom. They have this idea that Rachel has a thought and she just puts it out. She just happens to work at CNN. And she’s a mouthpiece of the liberal elite. No,’ Wardle complained.
The idea that a WEF forum featuring a UN official, a CNN VP from Arlington, Virginia, and officials of an organization based out of Geneva broadcasting from Madison Avenue are mouthpieces of the “liberal elite” is a dangerous piece of disinformation that needs to be stamped out before Uncle Bob shares it after finishing his apple pie.
The lovefest was mutual.
“Claire did such a good job with the framing of this as polluted information,” Smolkin gushed. “It becomes very complicated when there is not an agreed upon set of facts and a single narrative.” Complexity is the premise of free speech. Totalitarian societies have a set of “agreed upon facts” and anyone who doesn’t agree with them goes to prison.
Or is forced to watch CNN. Which is much the same thing.
“It can be quite dangerous to people who are taking in that polluted information,” Smolkin evinced concern for people hearing that the 2020 election was rigged or abortion is bad.
That Smolkin’s examples of “polluted information” that pose a danger to people are all partisan lefty talking points should in no way lead you to think that she’s a mouthpiece of the liberal elite.
What are you an ‘Uncle Bob’ or something?
How do we “detoxify, or de-pollute, this kind of information sphere?” Monck asked.
Having coined the metaphor of “polluted” speech that is actively “dangerous” to those who take it in, the next step is to clean up all that bad speech and prevent it from harming anyone.
Don’t call it censorship, it’s environmental management.
Trying to get into the heads of the ‘Uncle Bobs’ out there, the Exeter College grad tries to envision “some people watching this” and saying, “You’re part of these institutions that I didn’t vote for. I didn’t choose. I didn’t pick. I didn’t have a say in the editorial policy at CNN. I didn’t get to pick the faculty at Brown or vote for the UN leadership or the World Economic Forum.”
It’s a good question with no meaningful answer. The familiar cycle of tyranny cracks down harder on public opposition, generating more resistance which leads to more ruthless tactics. Occasionally regime lackeys get together to discuss how they can win over the people they’re shooting in the streets while piously repeating that their mission is to make the world a better place. We’re just a bunch of unelected elites trying to run people’s lives? Why won’t they let us?
If you have a question you can’t answer, there’s either something wrong with it or with you.
The UN, the WEF and all the other failed multinational institutions that ultimately offer little more than Communism without the uniforms and flags, but with sizable investment portfolios can’t answer their question because there’s something wrong with them, but they keep on asking.
The multis believe that Uncle Bob poses a threat to them. They want to know how to stop him. But the only reason Uncle Bob is a threat is because they want to run the world and his life.
Maybe they should rethink that.
Or they could continue holding Madison Avenue conferences on disinformation which essentially ask, “Will no one rid us of this meddlesome Bob”?
milo minderbinder says
You may be an ambassador to England or France
You may like to gamble, you might like to dance
You may be the heavyweight champion of the world
You may be a socialite with a long string of pearls
But you’re going to have to serve somebody, yes indeed
You’re going to have to serve somebody
Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you’re going to have to serve somebody
Bob Dylan – Gotta Serve Somebody
The WEF would like you to believe that “they” are your master, and you “will” serve them.
somehistory says
Thanks for the Dylan. He was right in that.
the wef fools have a lot to learn about *serving*….they should be more concerned about themselves as whom they are serving.
somehistory says
Past tyrannies had children at the dinner table listening to their family members and reporting on the conversation.
This is an old tactic. Now, the kids are being thoroughly indoctrinated to believe they can change from boy to girl, from girl to boy or maybe even to a grasshopper (which is how the Bible describes humans) if only they allow the guys in white coats to bring sharp knives into their young lives. And that they are damaged goods if they are darker in skin tone, and damagers if they are White and the Whites can never reform or repent enough to matter…which word only applies to the lives of Blacks.
So, the kids sit at the little kid’s table and listen as Uncle Bob and Aunt Minnie speak about when they were kids and things were different; all of which conversation they will report to their parent’s superiors…
which persons will include the freak dressed as a woman, but showing his male parts at the library read, and the *teacher* who regales the class of three year old children with stories about his husband and his sister and his sister’s wife all going on a retreat and next time, “we’ll take a group of you kids with us.” Or the *teacher* who relates how the doctor told him he was a boy, but he was really a giant leaping lizard and now he can live with his best partner, a snake.
It’s been that way before…in other tyrannies…because tyranny is always from satan the devil.
CogitoErgoSum says
They gather together to give thanks (to whom? themselves?) that they are not like Uncle Bob. Yet they need to invite Uncle Bob because he’s the only one who can make them laugh and feel good about themselves. Also, if he weren’t there they would have no excuse for baking a turkey instead of heating up a few cricket patties and other assorted dishes made from insects and worms, smothered in soy sauce and to be washed down with plenty of soy milk. All of which will kick off a month-long holiday season in celebration of something else in which they do not believe.
somehistory says
this line: ” “It becomes very complicated when there is not an agreed upon set of facts and a single narrative.” shows just how dangerous they are. It’s not *thinking* in the real sense of the word, but they are engaged in *feeling* the ways they can persecute those who don’t “agree” with their “set of facts” and keep to their “narrative.”
they need Uncle Bob and his ideas in order to feel they have a purpose.
And you are right…they need him so they can have real food instead of what they want the rest of us to eat., which even then they will deny us if we don’t stay with their “single narrative.”
they have to find out for what we search and “get there first” so they can keep us from finding the Truth.
gravenimage says
Exactly, Somehistory. The demand that there should be a “single narrative” in a free (supposedly free) society is grotesque. *Of course* people should have the right to non-violently disagree with each other.
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Somehistory.
somehistory says
Kind of OT; the selective service has reminded parents that their sons, even if an only son, has to register for the draft when he turns 18 and includes those who are pretending to be girls.
gravenimage says
Isn’t that “transphobic”? 🙂
somehistory says
“Oh what a tangled web they weave, when first they practice to deceive.”
gravenimage says
UN, WEF Want to Save the World From Uncle Bob
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What kind of crap *is this*? Ol’ uncle Bob has every right to say what he thinks at the Thanksgiving table. In fact, dealing with relatives with whom you may not always agree politically and philosophically is a core part of the holiday for most Americans.
More:
“We need to take certain actions there to prevent Uncle Bob from sharing misleading information at the Thanksgiving table.”
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You cannot censor uncle Bob in a free society–and should not try to. If the family gets tired of listening to uncle Bob, in most cases they’ll just watch a football game or go out and see a movie.
More:
“With increasing fears about the cost of living – exacerbated by the pandemic and the energy crisis – it is now more critical than ever to tackle disinformation head-on,” the WEF explained.
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Are they now saying that it is illegal to discus the pandemic and energy costs at your own table–whatever your take may be? Chilling stuff.
More:
What do costs of living have to do with state and corporate censorship? As prices rise and standards of living drop, and the WEF’s slogan of “I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better”
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I had to look this up–yes, this slogan is a real thing. It seems to have been coined by Danish politician Ida Auken. As she’d have it, you literally don’t even own the clothes on your back–they are ordered for the occasion and then used by other people.
We know how this works–no one has any incentive to take care of things. Those clothes would be abused, lost, and stolen outright. There is no indication of who would pay for those clothes and other items–I guess the collective society.
I own things and we have privacy. We own our own home, and are proud to do so.
There are fools positing the idea that one need not have an apartment or own anything, but just crash in random places and pick up bikes on the street. We see how well this has worked in hippie communes–not very well–and worse, in every Communist society. It *isn’t pretty*.
tim gallagher says
I had heard the name of this organisation, gravenimage, but took no notice of it and knew pretty much nothing about it until Rowan Dean, one of the three presenters of the “Outsiders” program on Sky News here in Australia began to talk a lot about it. He sees it as a bunch of dangerous elitist scum who want to dictate the way the unimportant average people have to live. He often had that quote about how nobody would own anything but we’d all be happy and I could not believe what utter bullshit that was. That notion seemed to me to be completely at odds with human nature. These wankers are definitely off on some other planet. Nutty totalitarian scum they seem to be to me. From what is mentioned on “outsiders” they seem to have all sorts of bizarre notions about the way human beings should live their lives.
Michael Copeland says
“You’ll own nothing” results in everyone’s being a tenant.
Tenants do not look after things.
They do not own them, so why bother?
Michael Copeland says
Translation, what the WEF really mean:
“We’ll own everything, and we’ll be happy.”
Michael Copeland says
There is an excellent video by Tim Gielen, titled “Monopoly”:
https://www.timgielen.com/en/videos-en/
James Lincoln says
Yes, Michael.
That’s the same reason that airport rental cars never get washed before they are returned.
somehistory says
So you get back your deposit; and so things will continue to work right even if the landlord never has anyone make repairs.
tim gallagher says
Thanks for the comments, Michael, James and somehistory. I can’t remember a lot of the bizarre ideas that Rowan Dean has mentioned that these elitist bullies have in mind for all the unimportant little people of the world. I think everybody was going to have a microchip implanted and other sickening ideas. Apparently, some of the leading politicians these days, I think Ardern is one, maybe Trudeau, are graduates from the WEF. These wankers probably won’t get far with their schemes, but my reaction to the crap they have in mind was to think, I’m 72 years old and I’m so glad that I’ll be dead before all this garbage happens. As I said about people not owning anything, it seems totally opposed to human nature. The own nothing life of a Christian or Buddhist monk is a life that only suits a few people.
gravenimage says
Michael, tenants often do look after things. I rented for years before we were able to buy our home, and was always a good tenant. But what this group is suggesting is not tenancy–that is, having a background check, signing a lease, and renting (say) apartment 1B at 123 Main Street. There is some accountability in that, especially if the tenant wants to get their security deposit back and get a good recommendation when they move.
But what this group is suggesting has less in common with renting an apartment and more in common with crashing in a squat–and we know generally how places like this are treated.
gravenimage says
Thanks for that background, Tim. I had not heard of this group until now–but I certainly am familiar with their type.
tim gallagher says
Yes, I had only heard of the name, World Economic Forum, gravenimage, and knew that they got together for a regular meeting. I had no interest in it, but Rowan Dean has been hammering away at them and the Great Reset (I think that’s the term) that they have in mind for the way people should live life and how the world economy should be run and I have sort of taken it in a bit. I find it all so bizarre that I have kind of tuned it out since I do think that, at my age, it is not a world, a horrible world that I will have to live with. It is a bit like what might happen to Australia as China comes to totally dominate our part of the world. I often say to people that if I was a young person, I might start to think about some other country to live in, much as I love Australia as a place to live, but as I am old I’m not bothered. Every Australian that I say this to seems to think that it makes sense. China is definitely a big worry for Australia’s future. This WEF do seem like a bunch of elitist bullies who look down their noses at most of the human race and want to dictate to everyone how life should be lived..
somehistory says
tim, k. schwab said, on video, to the effect that “we have our people in all of the governments.”
When I first heard the “you’ll own nothing and be happy,” people were claiming it was a conspiracy theory and that no real person had said it nor was there any intention of making it happen. It seems to be a part of the agenda 30
tim gallagher says
I haven’t bothered to look it up, somehistory, but I do know that Rowan Dean has mentioned quite a few high up politicians who have been part of the WEF young people’s crowd or some such thing. I may be wrong, but I do think that New Zealand’s Ardern and Canada’s Trudeau had something to do with it, and there were others. As I said, I can’t muster much interest in this WEF mob. If I had children or grand children I’d probably be more concerned. I do loathe everything I hear about this WEF mob. It is interesting to hear Schwab speaking. It is wrong to judge him on his voice and appearance, but his accent does make him sound like some type of villain from a James Bond movie. He does sound sinister.
gravenimage says
Chilling stuff.
somehistory says
From My London: “Elderly couple given antisocial behaviour warning by council after ‘arguing with neighbours over tea and biscuits'”
The wef members are grinning ear to ear.
VictorMc says
I have a golden rule.
I NEVER read anything that starts with a headline which includes the letters UN.
They are all bent.