Debunking 'disinformation'

There is more irony. The penetration - a precise word in Herr Schwab's global governance lexicon – of "Woke"/identity ideology has become a colossal money spinner. What large money-making organization nowadays can survive if it does not indoctrinate its workforce about adhering to a "correct" and "respectful" stance on the treatment of ideas about the legally privileged communities?

This powerful influence is intensified by an all-pervasive self-absorption or narcissism in young people entering adulthood and a corresponding decline in the terribly old-fashioned notion of common sense. There appears to be a sizeable cohort of angry young folks who feel deeply that simply to believe passionately that something is virtuous makes it true, and thus beyond dissent. This produces cry-baby like demands for "trigger warnings" to prevent exposure to "harmful" or "hurtful" speech, and the public spectacle of hysterical abuse aimed at university teachers who have the temerity to disagree, or to ridicule identity ideology. The shrieking students are incapable of understanding the categorical difference between fact and opinion.

Recently, the WEF has jumped on the "harm" bandwagon. Its urgent very detailed fear-mongering campaign in collaboration with a collection of its organizational allies focusses on "harm" being the slightest subjective discomfort.

The grim ideological determination to shut people up by distracting attention from the truth is demonstrated in the bizarre case of the Biden Administration's secret establishment within the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) of an advisory Disinformation Governance Board (DGB) under DHS Secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas. Its stated function was to protect national security.

Its existence was publicly revealed in April 2022 at a US Congressional Committee hearing. George Orwell would roll his eyes if told about the ensuing public row which involved the disclosure of a satirical adaptation of the Mary Poppins song Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious by the inaugural DGB Executive Director Nina Jankowicz skiting about her job. One of her US critics described her as "a human geyser of disinformation".

However, Orwell would have recognized the ghastly Ministry of Truth reality in the DHS accompanying "Fact Sheet" which recorded the establishment of a missionary six-member "DBG Disinformation Best Practices and Safeguards Subcommittee" of the 36-member Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC). It was given the "Tasking" (probably used in its military sense) of recommending how to suppress disinformation ("transparently", of course), and increase the trust of key stakeholders. On 18 July 2022, that Subcommittee released what it called its "Final Interim Recommendations". As a result of the ensuing furore, the DHS threw in the towel. Secretary Majorkas terminated the DGB and rescinded its Charter effective 24 August 2022 saying that it had been done in the interests of the "civil liberties of the American people and promoting transparency in our work".

The rapid viral-like spread of the WEF claim that disinformation is causing grave "harm" should not be dismissed as mere hyperbole. The recent claim by the New Zealand Prime Minister in an address to the UN General Assembly that "disinformation" had, literally, become "a weapon of war" ought to be heeded as a warning that the WEF and its authoritarian devotees are absolutely determined to put an end to dissent. It will be interesting to see what, if any, interest Australia's human rights establishment displays on this attitude to war.