The ‘Misinformation’ Boondoggle: How the EU-Led Censorship-Industrial Complex Shields Approved Narratives from Scrutiny
As the year draws to a close, the guardians of climate orthodoxy have once again unleashed their ritual howls of indignation at the actions of the Trump administration. In a Guardian op-ed last week, Bob Ward and Michael Mann – attack dogs of the alarmist establishment – likened the US Government’s decision to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) to tyranny, “paid for” by fossil fuel interests. Their piece opens with the extraordinary claim that the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin “would have understood and even appreciated” Trump’s actions.
They accuse President Trump of suppressing climate science, invoking the spectre of Lysenkoism – that infamous episode in which ideology trumped empirical inquiry under Stalin’s regime. The irony is exquisite, even if lost on its authors. Here are two figures who have spent their careers calling for the cancellation of dissenters, now projecting their own sins onto a political leader intent on liberating science from ideological captivity.
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Maybe, just maybe the tide will turn in 2026, there are little wrinkles in the sand now and again. The fairies at the bottom of Millibrain’s garden are a fixture though.
Thank you for an excellent and well written summary of the dire situation the west is now in. Trump, for all his faults, and his team are doing their best to clear up the mess the west is in but the rest are merely doubling down on the root causes of western decline. The situation in Ukraine has highlighted a rift between the western powers and the rest of the world and the rest are setting up alternative means of exchange and control to the detriment of the west. People talk about the Orwellian suppression of free speech, but I think it is more Orwellian than people realise. The world is polarising in such a way that Europe is increasingly looking like Airship One.
So if the censors refuse to allow free speech they then must be censored, it’s a doom loop but inevitable. But defunding a research centre is not censorship, it is simply a function of resource allocation by government.
The number of dissidents is increasing, I think it will become exponential in the not too distant future. Perhaps Orwell was out by 44 years and 2026 will prove to be the inflection point.
The censors are facilitated by our large bien-pensant, “educated”, middle class “intelligensia” who see the censors as virtuous people (like them) who are trying to make the world a better place, and see completely freedom of speech and information as dangerous, because the “wrong” ideas might get traction if given publicity.
Trump classified NASA and a few other agencies as ‘spy agencies’.
Let that sink in. Not a Space Agency is really a CIA-spy agency. Twas always thus, at least the Drumpf admits it.
How about those fake ISS videos – can you tell me why objects are falling in 0G? Nah, we don’t respond to deniers and fascists.
The fake moon landings (honestly a bad joke and worse photos, videos). No FOI requests (hey dude can you send me the telemetry from the Van Allen radiation belts? What? Oh you don’t reply to ‘conspiracy theories’? Nice.
Digital ID, the Rona plandemic, Climate bullshit, etc etc.
As if the UK is any better than the German Empire which is just a rump of the US military empire.
The UK is worse off in many ways than the German Empire qua ‘speech’ and ‘rights’ (those ‘rights’ disappeared in 5 mins during the Rona scamdemic).
Well NASA do send up spy satellites so good use of semantics may excuse them.
The EU exists solely to perpetuate itself and expand its control. Most member governments are supine and happy with that but a few are resisting
That is the case with all bureaucracies. Let’s see how the Trump administration turns out. It does seem to be singing a new song…hope springs eternal.
Most of the EU countries have very recent experience of democracy. Within living memory, most were either Fascist or Communist and before that they had tyrannical authoritarian Governments. They do not have a tradition which includes freedom of speech.
They have simply reverted to type. And the British Establishment, instead of resisting the various European tyrannies, as it has in the past, has decided to join in.
I hope Trump continues to inflict punishment on the censors and steadily ups the ante – particularly on Two-Tier and Labour.
i agree, I won’t criticise them for it but Central Europe is periodically taken apart and reassembled, they’ve gotten used to it so in some ways may be desensitised. But it does amaze me that they’ve let the Soviet Union MkII in through the back door whilst their “arch enemy”, Russia is now somewhat conservative and market orientated.
“Most of the EU countries have very recent experience of democracy”
That is true and especially for the former Soviet satellite states. But for precisely the same reasons, the citizens of those states ( Baltics, Poland, Romania of my acquaintance) are far more aware of what is going on there, and here in the UK having recently lived through tyrannical censorship rule.
Yes some are aware but from my experience most think the EU is the pinnacle of democracy. I’ve explained a length how the EU works and they still won’t accept it. I’ve shown them the relevant articles of the TEU and TFEU and they just wave it away I’m afraid. But I think it may be sinking in. I’ve asked them how they contact their MEP and if that MEP could raise and issue in the parliament and they glaze over.
I think it’s because the commissars in the EU know how to make a turkey look like a dove. None seem to be aware of the restrictions put on dissidents such as Jacques Baud, but the real reason I think is that compared to the Soviet period things are quite good, they can’t grasp that things in the pre 2004 countries are worsening very dramatically and most have not been subjected to mass immigration. Perhaps the reason for that is they don’t have over generous benefits systems.But it is changing and fast.
Big Urse must be the worst example of politicians failing upwards. Whether as German defence minister forgetting to buy rifles or her billions wasted on Pfizer poison done on her phone with her CEO friend, the attempt to grab Russian bank deposits illegally, to sanctioning historians by bank raids and travel bans, this dodgy bint with her immaculate hairdo needs to be put away where she can do less harm.
Her preemptive censoring of the truth is the clearest sign yet of her dishonest personality.
They talk of DEMOCRACY but stand at podiums preaching their save the planet eco socialism, never having been elected by anyone. No one voted for Ursula, she was simply appointed. Yet brainwashed dreamers in the UK want back into the EU to be governed by these technocrats they never elected and mostly never heard of…..How are people so dumb? Mainly because the Consolidated Media have manipulated them.
Always FOSSIL FUELS are the DEVIL but RENEWABLES are all SWEETNESS AND LIGHT. ——What matters more to the Alarmist Movement are slogans, language and tone. Evidence and content not so much. The rules of the Alarmist Regime are (1) URGENCY. (2) MORALITY and (3) ALL SCIENTISTS AGREE.
The task at hand for all the eco Socialists like the IPCC, NASA, NOAA, THE BOUGHT AND PAID FOR CONSOLIDATED MEDIA, UNIVERSITIES etc etc, is to produce studies, reports and findings than can be put into News Headlines and then on into Legislation and Public Policy.
The NARRATIVE is what is important and accuracy truth and evidence come a distant second.
Science done properly together with proper free speech are a golden standard for finding out what is true.
Those that seek to secure their position by undermining free speech and proper science must therefore fear what may be found out.
You wonder what could have been achieved with all the money wasted on trying to prove global warming.
Ah, yes – Bob Ward, the attack dog of the ecofascist Grantham Institute for Global Warming Bollocks. He regularly launched complaints to the regulator over articles the late great Christopher Booker wrote in the Telegraph. He never won a single one. The process was probably the punishment but then you can never rule out that these morons believe what they spout. It also was intended to make the Telegraph think twice about publishing articles critical of the global warming ideology.