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Starting a new (long-term occasional) thread. Orwell's 'Looking Back on the Spanish War' outlined his fear of the obliteration of objective truth & the suppression of free thought. This remains one of the key messages of 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' - a warning not to let it happen...
... yet it is happening, & one of the most obvious manifestations of this today is the use of allegations of anti-Semitism to defame & silence critics of virtually anything that is not desired by our neoliberal plutocracy. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/13/antisemitism-executive-order-trump-chilling-effect
Instantiating a new #ThoughtCrime https://twitter.com/CFoI/status/1206298479376531457?s=20
"Harsh criticism of Israel — even if it involves questioning the existence of a Jewish state — is speech protected by the 1st Amendment." https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-12-12/trumps-order-on-campus-anti-semitism-could-undermine-free-speech
The Syria situation is another area where the narrative has been actively constructed & controlled. Two and two are five - you are obliged to believe that. https://twitter.com/MaxAbrahms/status/1206673827721285632?s=20
Some astonishingly circuitous & dubious reasoning here! #TwoAndTwoAreFive
https://www.thejc.com/comment/columnists/don-t-fall-for-bogus-claims-of-islamophobia-1.494367
https://www.thejc.com/comment/columnists/don-t-fall-for-bogus-claims-of-islamophobia-1.494367
Morality manipulation: "they fall back on magical thinking – carbon offsets, cap and trade, carbon taxes, and other schemes and scams that essentially amount to bribing the climate into staying put" https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1207046559352999937?s=20
The US descending into some form of Lysenkoism. #Newspeak #CrimeThink
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/cdc-gets-list-of-forbidden-words-fetus-transgender-diversity/2017/12/15/f503837a-e1cf-11e7-89e8-edec16379010_story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/cdc-gets-list-of-forbidden-words-fetus-transgender-diversity/2017/12/15/f503837a-e1cf-11e7-89e8-edec16379010_story.html
Minitrue wishes to disable alternative perspectives. https://twitter.com/guyverhofstadt/status/1207640694321549317?s=20
Syria chemical attack most likely staged. https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1207679609619329027?s=20
PsyOps, disinfo campaigns etc. are nothing compared to this, obviously. https://twitter.com/business/status/1208046281542787075?s=20
Was feeling the same watching BBC headlines. https://twitter.com/markcurtis30/status/1212323162194632708?s=20
One could easily reframe this debate about State-sponsored violence: can we 'cure' people of their support for State-sponsored political violence? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50967100
Nice piece on the British 77th Brigade info-wars unit. https://twitter.com/DCKennard/status/1212782088056909826?s=20
This interview with Nils Melzer definitely belongs in this thread: as Orwell feared, the obliteration of objective truth is now policy. https://www.republik.ch/2020/01/31/nils-melzer-about-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange
A pandemic presents new opportunities for appreciating how little we actually know (and how little we are told). https://twitter.com/EpsilonTheory/status/1226978654359638016?s=20
Would never happen in today's social media world! 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/national-security/cia-crypto-encryption-machines-espionage/
Archetypal PsyOp, specifically to foment regime change, which is a breach of Article 1 of United Nations Charter. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/revealed-british-government-covert-propaganda-campaign-syria
Another timely addition to the 'truth' thread: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/journal-plague-year-180965222/
One for the thread. https://twitter.com/Machiavellecon/status/1244976609876217856?s=20
… and this. 'Truth' in the age of pandemic. https://twitter.com/Machiavellecon/status/1244935045997092864?s=20
Fox News really is Trump's 'Ministry of Truth'. https://twitter.com/BadFoxGraphics/status/1246022597831274501?s=20
FWIW, when a government spokesperson says something is "disinformation" it is *not* a denial that the information is correct: they are well-schooled in such pseudo "denials". https://gcs.civilservice.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/RESIST_Toolkit.pdf
Fascinating thread by @jdpoc (HT @PDWriter) on fake NHS accounts promoting herd immunity. Link to whole thread which - another think I've just learned - gets shadow-banned by Tw*tter if it's inconvenient to someone in power! https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1252266724449230848.html
Great thread on what appears to be high-level misdirection demanded by the govt re PPR procurement. We really are getting Orwellian. https://twitter.com/davidallengreen/status/1252683231981338626?s=20
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