Warning! The content of this blog is harmful to citizens of
the European Union and therefore such people are requested not to read any
further and to report the content of this blog to the European Commission’s
Directorate-General for Truth – in the European Commission’s Eurospeak – DG
TRUE. The content is not however harmful to citizens of non-EU countries.
On April 18 2019 the BBC News web site reported that in the UK the Social Network Facebook had banned from
their platform, UK
far right groups and their leaders. The article also mentioned that some far
right people had already been banned. What the article did not report, was that
since the beginning of 2018, the European Commission has been pressuring and
threatening Social Network operators to take action against – well anyone in
effect who hold opinions that they, the European Commission do not agree with.
Their Eurospeak for this is: people with ideas that are harmful to citizens of
the European Union. The term used to separate, classify and dehumanise people
whose thoughts are harmful to citizens of the European Union, is Euro-sceptic Populists.
Some of those organisations banned are legitimate registered
political parties who field candidates in elections. One even managed once have
a candidate elected to the European Parliament! What on earth is going on! What
about our laws in the UK that make illegal, expression of hatred toward someone
on account of that person’s colour, race, disability, nationality (including
citizenship), ethnic or national origin, religion, gender identity, or sexual
orientation? Do we now need new laws that make illegal, actions by unelected and
unaccountable bodies that threaten our right to free speech?
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the
death your right to say it,” wrote Evelyn Beatrice Hall in her book The Friends of Voltaire. When did this
cease to be a principle of European democracies? It’s just one example of the
way democracy in the EU Member States is being slowly eroded – destroyed – by
the unelected and unaccountable European Commission. Remember the frog in the
water that did not notice the temperature being slowly raised. By the time it
did it was too late.
A
quote from a European Commission Press Release: “One underlying concern is that
populist parties could harness eurosceptic, anti-migration sentiments to ride
to the polls with the help of misleading social media campaigns.”
Is
this blog that you are now reading (I hope that you are not an EU citizen!) part
of a misleading social media campaign? Answer according to what you believe.
Another quote from a European Commission Press Release: “On
World Press Freedom Day we celebrate the essential role of a free press not
only as a conveyor of reliable accurate news, but as a pillar of democracy.”
Is this blog the output of a free press acting as a conveyor
of reliably accurate news? Actually it would be comment and analysis!
Media studies people might well ask: since when have the
free press being a conveyor of reliably accurate news? They would say that the
press do not report facts in a reliably accurate way, but use facts to socially
construct reality – to implant and reinforce ideas in their readers’ minds,
according to journalist’s understandings of their target audience. Sorry if
that is too complex for all you True-Truth
people in the City of the Golden Stars,
but by your own admissions and actions, the European Commission is ignorant and
incompetent when it comes to matters of the Social Sciences, Humanities and the
Arts. And then there is the separate issue of press bias!
The opinions of far right groups and individuals are often
very repellent, but a pillar of democracy is the right to freedom of
expression, which the European Commission, and the European Commissar with the
weighty title, The High Representative of
the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, is seeking to deny to
such people. These are the actions of an authoritarian regime, somewhat similar
in fact to what was seen in the early days of Bolshevik Russia and the Third
Reich, where these regimes did not implement their authoritarian systems in one
go, but gradually removed freedoms and rights, using reasons similar to those offered
by the European Commissar with the above weighty title: “[…] it is our duty to
protect this space [of open free debate] and not allow anybody to spread
disinformation […]. If you look at the history of the Third Reich you will
discover that they too recruited the free press to self-censor itself, or to
put it another way – the European Commissar’s way – “[…] mobilising the private
sector to deliver on its commitments […]”.
Disinformation – does that include the stream of
disinformation that pours forth from the European Commission in the form of false
[propaganda] reports on the so-called (claimed) excellent research undertaken
in European Commission funded research projects and the reporting of such in
publications like Research*eu? On the
matter of the claimed excellence, do you know what is implied by the term regression to the mean?
In the April 2019 issue (#81) of Research*eu, the article with the title Ultracold Neural Atoms helped Overcome the long-standing Challenge of
Building Quantum Systems would be known in the world of science as a scientific fraud because it misrepresents
the results of scientific research. Specifically, it creates a disinformation
in many ways through the discourses evident in the article. One of these
discourses misleadingly presents the research as being European, which it is
not. The research reported is in fact American in its entirety – it was
undertaken at American universities and institutes, largely by Americans, with
the small involvement of a European researcher with a Marie Curie fellowship
who undertook some research under supervision of the American researchers.
This piece of European Commission disinformation was most
likely also written by a journalist! Journalists in the Soviet
Union and the Third Reich also undertook this type of reporting –
false! Fake News!
Thus do we agree with the European Commissar, with the
previously mentioned weighty title, when she says that: “Investigative
journalism fulfils a necessary watchdog role that assists in holding
governments and institutions, at all levels accountable for their actions and
obligations.”
Thus do we investigate the European Commission and call it to
account – no-one else does this because, it is not accountable to anyone –
unaccountable power, just like that found in Moscow
and Berlin in
the 1930s. Don’t believe me – check the treaties. We did! It is called fact
checking. Well known to journalists apparently, except those who work for the
European Commission it seems.
Thus to the matter of the so-called Euro-sceptic Populist parties – they are Euro-sceptic for very good
reasons and this election is an opportunity for the people of Europe to
reassert their right to political self-determination which is, through stealth,
being slowly taken away from them. History seems to be repeating itself,
including people going blah, blah, blah,
about freedom and democracy. Have you noticed that, the less democratic regimes
are in nature, the more they talk about democracy and freedom, and that most
(if not all) authoritarian and totalitarian regimes had (have) parliaments, so
that the authoritarian leaders can look democratic and be applauded by the elected
ones who (apparently) represent the regime’s citizens, but who just vote on
that which is handed down by the regime? I refer you to that body known as the
Supreme Soviet – the USSR Parliament. Did you even know that the USSR had an elected parliament whose job it was
to vote on (accept) legislation created by technocrats in Moscow ?
We end by quoting from Hannah Arendt’s book The Origins of Totalitarianism: “The
ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced
Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e.
the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e. the
standards of thought) no longer exist.” Sounds like she is talking about the
European Union!
As you cannot burn electronic content, you will have to have
it removed from the internet. Not so easy is it? Thus are the authoritarians
frightened. Thus do they look to the internet companies to do their dirty work
for them! What will history say about these companies?
