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The Censorship of the Laptop from Hell in Context, by Tony Hall

4-11-2020 < UNZ 18 1221 words
 

Matt Taibbi commiserated with Chris Hedges on his Russia Today platform. The two well-known journalists exchanged views on the body blow inflicted on the quality of journalism in America. They agreed that great injury had been done by the large scope of MSM efforts to censor information with great potential to drag down the electability of the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate.


Kevin Macdonald responded by noting the failure of Taibbi and Hedges to contextualize their alarm by acknowledging the major role of the Jewish political lobbies such as the ADL in limiting press freedoms.


The role of these limitations is stifling, for instance, legitimate debate on the gross inequities permeating Israeli treatment of Palestinians. Another result of this limitation is the failure of most public intellectuals to do due diligence when it comes to considering the role of false flag terrorism as a means of influencing public opinion in favour of Israel and against Muslims and Arabs. The Mother of all such acts of false flag terrorism occurred on September 11, 2001.


The credibility of many public intellectuals has suffered because of their failure to give close consideration to the lies and crimes of 9/11. Hedges and Taibbi have much company in failing to notice there is no genuine consensus among scientists, academics and various flavours of public intellectual when it comes to the subject of 9/11.


Who are the real 9/11 culprits? How did they do it? Who benefited? What global interactions developed after Sept. 11, 2001 because of the way the 9/11 events both happened and were perceived to have happened?


Many lists of prominent writers and pundits have been published identifying those that were and remain conveniently AWOL on the mostly unspeakable subject concerning the origins of the so-called Global War on Terror. The GWOT was quickly engineered as first and foremost a Global War on Muslims to serve the interests of Israel.


Inevitably, close consideration of the evidence in and around the 9/11 fiasco leads into the forbidden territory that is zealously gatekept by the Israel Lobby with its enormous role in intelligence agencies, media and public policy (for starters). The fatwa on discussing 9/11 in the venues where Hedges and Taibbi have thrived amounts pretty much to the manifestation of a Zionist power of veto over who can or cannot communicate in all sorts of media venues reaching large audiences.


Those who agree to remain basically blind to the huge geopolitical implications of the 9/11 false flag and its ongoing cover up include Snowden and Assange and Greenwald.


Then there are those such as Pilger and Escobar and Atzmon who cautiously weave around the edges of the forbidden subject trying, rather ingeniously sometimes, to avoid stepping on landmines. They sometimes imply blame even as they tend to escape the “gotcha” thuggery characterizing the custodians of the foundational Islamophobia-inducing interpretation of 9/11. Is Kevin Macdonald himself a part of this group of prevaricators?


The base explanation fed to the world by Ehud Barak on the very morning of 9/11 has been coercively sustained to this day as a core legend supporting some of the main tenets of the empire of lies, the axis of deception that Taibbi and Hedges rightly identify. Taibbi along with, for instance, Noam Chomsky and Alexander Cockburn took their complicity with the 9/11 fraud one step further. They have conducted ad hominem attacks on the character of the much maligned “truthers” who perhaps were fashioned as prototypes for today’s “deplorables.”


The infiltration, subversion and exploitation of the so-called 9/11 Truth Movement weaves through the matrix linking many careers including those of Cass Sunstein, Alex Jones and the ultimate Infowars operative, Donald Trump. Where others saw conspiracy theories, President Trump saw fake news.


The practitioners of fake news are presently on full display. They are allied in their resort to the dark science of collaborative propaganda as part of the deployment of many weapons of subversion to annihilate the remains of US democracy. These weapons include an illicit media monopoly now springing into gear to steal the presidential election away from Donald Trump and a massive upsurge of hopeful deplorables.


I found it difficult to listen to Chris Hedges with his RT badge bemoaning the lack of “real journalists” who derive their conclusions from unrelenting reckoning with genuine evidence, no matter how menacing this evidence might be to the status quo. A self-declared intellectual descendant of Rosa Luxenbourg, Hedges has taken over the role formerly played by Left’s godfather, Noam Chomsky, especially at New York’s annual Left Forum. Funded generously by the Soros-styled Rosa Luxembourg Stiftung, the Left Forum has repeatedly banished those whose alleged “conspiracy theorists” formed the basis of important academic sessions. These sessions looked at a variety of false flag psychological operations including 9/11. The spurned public intellectuals, including me, responded to the purges of Hedges and his entourage by leaving the Left Forum to found our own Left-Out Forum.


The propaganda swirling around the allegedly new coronavirus, the lockdowns, the fake “case numbers,” and the World Economic Forum’s “Great Reset” is being safeguarded by an enlarged and rejuvenated set of media gatekeepers. The purpose of this gatekeeping is to muzzle and probably criminalize those who do not adhere to the party line of what Hedges and Taibbi rightfully describe as the “one-party informational system.”


Mark Crispin Miller is one of the first of the academics to be singled out for ritual defamation for his COVID commentaries. Long a pillar of the Media Department at New York University, Prof. Miller is an astute and widely published expert on propaganda whose many specialties include election fraud.


By not drawing the line at the nonsense fobbed off as the official explanation of the 9/11 debacle, the supposed A Team of ADL-approved public intellectuals contributed significantly to corrosion of the journalist system whose demise has been so persuasively flagged especially by Glenn Greenwald. Greenwald’s unwillingness to go along with the media’s masking of the Biden scandal was marked in his recent resignation from the Intercept.


The gutting of the credibility of our main media systems puts us even more thoroughly in peril at the very moment when we are facing the unmistakable harbingers of mass enslavement directed our way in the name of public health and the Great Reset. The emergency measures keep piling up as plans are being pushed ahead for digital monitoring and mass arrests leading to mass incarcerations in so-called quarantine camps.


Another theatre of preparation for the current scam was the HIV-AIDS fiasco whose main architect and entrepreneur was Anthony Fauci. Like an understanding of 9/11, an understanding of the HIV-AIDS manipulation forms some of the background necessary for realistic evaluations of the current COVID scheme. As with HIV-AIDS, the COVID scam seems to involve developing real or imaginary designer germs to create mass hysteria, compliant human automatons and controlled communications networks.


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