Stupid and all as this report is, its main recommendations and approaches will work its way into law both at the national Irish level and at the European Union level as well.
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The government of Ireland’s 55 page counter disinformation strategy, available for free download here, is worth perusing to show how pervasive and thorough Von der Leyen’s emerging censorship web is. The first thing that critical readers might note is that there is no mention of Irish sources of disinformation, but that Russian sources of disinformation are mentioned five times.
In addition to that blatant show of Russophobia, its obsession with Moscow shows that this report is not only lop-sided, biased and partisan but that it comes up short in the empirical stakes as well. Though one might imagine that such a government funded report would give example after example of mis-information to bolster its case, that would be to mis-interpret its function, which is to put in place the censorship pillars on which not only Ireland but all of von der Leyen’s Europe will rest. Far better to close the angle, forget specific examples of mis-information and prattle on with catechisms of pseudo scientific cliches.
Thus, though there is no mention of the recurring patterns of NATO false flag operations that other SCF contributors frequently draw attention to, there are lists after lists of the pillars that must be legislated for to make not only Ireland but all of Europe safe again from the free flow of information.
The table of contents shows how the report is neatly divided into a number of sections to achieve von der Leyen’s aims. We first of all have an overview of the issue, explaining how Ireland is challenged by disinformation and how Ireland and Europe must respond, presumably by banning Russia Today, which I can now only get by using a VPN. Although an empirical or applied approach might devote a line or two to the mortal challenge Russia Today or SCF’s excellent Bruna Frascolla poses to us all, there is none of that. Instead, we must accept that Russia Today and Bruna Frascolla are coming for our jugulars and only von der Leyen and her Irish-based minions can save us from them, which is rather odd as I find the information to noise ratio much higher in them than I do in the Irish or British media.
So much for their silly overview. The next section spells out five principles through which counter-information will be fought. These essentially amount to the European Union agreeing on a narrative and that narrative being bolstered from the local level right up to von der Leyen herself. No matter whether it is Israeli war crimes in Gaza or NATO war crimes in Ukraine and Syria, all parties will spread the agreed narrative and gang up on those, who might suggest subversive counter-narratives regarding Hunter Biden’s lap top, von der Leyen’s Covid 19 vaccine profiteering and so on. Regarding Covid 19, the views of paid political and scientific hucksters will be accepted and those with alternative views will be punished on whatever pretext best suits the particular situation.
Although freedom of expression will be guaranteed, that freedom will not extend to those heretics, who question the prevailing narrative and who thereby put the entire clown show at risk. “Resilience and trust” in the powers that be will be drilled into the masses and the civil society networks they work though and “corporate accountability and regulatory enforcement” will further cement the narrative into our collective psyche. As in all quasi-military campaigns, there will be “cooperation, collaboration and coordination”, otherwise known as C3 or command, control and communications by the U.S. Military. Finally, there will be punishments as a matter of principle for dissenters and other heretics.
The next main section is on legal and other considerations and obligations, which amount to codifying all this censorship into law not only in Ireland but in the entire European Union as well. The final section lists nine major commitments this lot hope to achieve in their efforts to blinker European society, much like how those planning a military campaign might enumerate their mid-term goals. A number of appendices list the large number of civil service bodies involved in this idiotic exercise, as well as what words like algorithm, hate and reach mean.
Although the paper could and should be dismissed for the tripe that it is, its objective in solidifying censorship throughout Europe cannot be so easily dismissed because we have seen this tactic used again and again, going at least as far back to the early days of Bellingcat‘s Eliot Higgins, a seller of ladies’ lingerie, whose NATO endorsed military expertise was shredded in this and similar articles.
Although Higgins is an uneducated oaf, he is not all that different from the British and Irish jokers, who wrote up this report as they both serve their NATO masters by delivering the key message (disinformation by Higgins and the need for more stringent laws by the other) and camouflage their blanket ignorance with meaningless jargon, sanctimonious recourse to their own moral righteousness and an entire legacy media that amplifies and reinforces their every utterance.
Stupid and all as this report is, its main recommendations and approaches will work its way into law both at the national Irish level and at the European Union level as well, and thereby contribute to strangling not only debate within Ireland but the entire European Union itself.
Much worse than that, perhaps, is it helps ensure NATO will never be called to account for its ongoing war crimes in Syria, where, much like Libya before it, Alawite women are being sold as sex slaves, and Gaza, where no foreign journalists are allowed to operate. And, though places like Syria and Gaza might seem a long way from Ireland and the rest of the European garden, they are that bit further because reports like this stifle anyone who might help expose the crimes being committed by NATO and its proxies and apologists there this very day.
