Starting a new (long-term occasional) thread. Orwell& #39;s & #39;Looking Back on the Spanish War& #39; outlined his fear of the obliteration of objective truth & the suppression of free thought. This remains one of the key messages of & #39;Nineteen Eighty-Four& #39; - a warning not to let it happen...
Instantiating a new #ThoughtCrime https://twitter.com/CFoI/status/1206298479376531457?s=20">https://twitter.com/CFoI/stat...
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">https://twitter.com/MaxAbrahm...
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/c...
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">https://twitter.com/RT_com/st...
Minitrue wishes to disable alternative perspectives. https://twitter.com/guyverhofstadt/status/1207640694321549317?s=20">https://twitter.com/guyverhof...
Syria chemical attack most likely staged. https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1207679609619329027?s=20">https://twitter.com/caitoz/st...
PsyOps, disinfo campaigns etc. are nothing compared to this, obviously. https://twitter.com/business/status/1208046281542787075?s=20">https://twitter.com/business/...
Was feeling the same watching BBC headlines. https://twitter.com/markcurtis30/status/1212323162194632708?s=20">https://twitter.com/markcurti...
One could easily reframe this debate about State-sponsored violence: can we & #39;cure& #39; people of their support for State-sponsored political violence? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50967100">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-5...
Nice piece on the British 77th Brigade info-wars unit. https://twitter.com/DCKennard/status/1212782088056909826?s=20">https://twitter.com/DCKennard...
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤷‍♂️" title="Man shrugging" aria-label="Emoji: Man shrugging"> https://twitter.com/khoosh_/status/1216782662968455168?s=20">https://twitter.com/khoosh_/s...
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">https://www.republik.ch/2020/01/3...
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">https://twitter.com/EpsilonTh...
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">https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/reve...
Another timely addition to the & #39;truth& #39; thread: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/journal-plague-year-180965222/">https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/j...
One for the thread. https://twitter.com/Machiavellecon/status/1244976609876217856?s=20">https://twitter.com/Machiavel...
… and this. & #39;Truth& #39; in the age of pandemic. https://twitter.com/Machiavellecon/status/1244935045997092864?s=20">https://twitter.com/Machiavel...
Fox News really is Trump& #39;s & #39;Ministry of Truth& #39;. https://twitter.com/BadFoxGraphics/status/1246022597831274501?s=20">https://twitter.com/BadFoxGra...
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">https://gcs.civilservice.gov.uk/wp-conten...
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">https://twitter.com/davidalle...
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