EDITORS—Active Measures discusses the arrests of journalist Richard Medhurst in the UK and Telegram CEO Pavel Durov in France, as the climate of censorship and systemic elimination of free speech grows in the name of protecting the people from “misinformation”. Of course, it is the ruling elites who reserve the right to define and change anytime they wish) the definition of “disinformation”.
CITIZENS’ MEDIA
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PAUL EDWARDS—She is, in her national career, a placeholder, a cypher, a nullity. What does she stand for, if anything? All we know is she stood for Joe Biden, and it’s all we may ever know. That’s why the spectacle of the DNC Cosmic Salvation Fest is so preposterous: it was the ascension and sanctification of an unknown quantity.
Elevated by a Deus Ex Machina of Democrat billionaires, she is packaged and sold as an amalgam of hollow symbols and infantile memes. Instead of articulate positions on Ukraine and Gaza, she offers laughter, cheers, giggles and fandom. She replaced independent Press with vacuous, jejeune “influencers” who minced as if on a lark to a rave. She uses her sex and color to draw adulation from idiots, as if they guaranteed policy.
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ALEX KRAINER—Time magazine described the “vast, cross-partisan campaign to protect the election” consisting of “shadow campaigners,” whose “work touched every aspect of the election.” For example, the article explains that, “They got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding. They fended off voter-suppression lawsuits, recruited armies of poll workers and got millions of people to vote by mail for the first time. They successfully pressured social media companies to take a harder line against disinformation and used data-driven strategies to fight viral smears.”
Time magazine revealed all this, and much more, but did so on the pretense that this vast conspiracy was organized not to steal the elections for Joe Biden, but to protect American democracy.
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CHRISTINA MAAS—What’s Durov’s crime, you ask? Well, it depends on which bureaucrat you ask. According to the official indictment, he’s guilty of everything short of kicking puppies—fraud, drug trafficking, organized crime, encouraging terrorism, and, just for good measure, providing encryption. The French authorities must have felt ambitious that day, throwing in the entire criminal code just to be sure. Let’s not forget that this whole circus started because Durov reportedly had [stood firm in his support of] free speech. Apparently, in 2024, that’s enough to get you a one-way ticket to a Parisian jail cell.
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ERIC ZUESSE—Numerous polls show that trust in the news-media is very low in the United States; and, so, one might hope that the misrepresentations that have been mentioned here as being represented in America’s mainstream media, won’t shape the opinions that are held by America’s voters. But these opinions are actually supported bipartisanly in not only the megadonors to both Parties, but in the voters for both Parties; so, despite Americans’ distrust of the ‘news’ that they read and hear, they actually accept the basic agenda of both the Republican and the Democratic Parties’ ‘news’-media, as-if it weren’t the propaganda that it is. In other words: overwhelmingly, Americans accept being deceived by, and on behalf of, the billionaires, whose agents have deceived them. There is no downside to lying, in and about American politics. It almost always works.