Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche wrote: “Underneath this reality in which we live and have our being, another and altogether different reality lies concealed.”

What does this mean at a democratic level? 

It could mean (and it does) that the government of the people by the people is a surface distraction.

THIS IS WHAT we EXPOSED in the cartoon about the devious inauguration speech by George H W Bush (https://yourdemocracy.net/drupal/node/43837):

"For the first time in this century, for the first time in perhaps all history, man does not have to invent a system by which to live. We don't have to talk late into the night about which form of government is better. We don't have to wrest justice from the kings. We only have to summon it from within ourselves." 

Gus added on the cartoon: "I will distract you with democracy — so you can be ruled by me"….

George H W Bush was a devious-devious-devious man. He ran the CIA — after having joined when about 18 (according to some people). The CIA is the most devious organisation in the world. It is the tool with which, the USA conquer the minds of other people and eliminate dissent in other countries. We know this. WE SHOULD BE HORRIFIED! But most people don’t care...

 “This reality” (of the first part in Nietzsche’s quote) is a pleasant enough surface, while below, in the dirty waters of the pond (the swamp), the corrupt and deceitful state operates with the most nefarious intent. This is the concealed reality of your government at work, often presented to you as protecting you from  — enemies, diseases and poverty. 

It is twisted. It buys favours from a few and tell lies that bubble along like swamp gas, and you believe that the little lights that burn it off are little fairies walking on water. Governments ARE NOT THE PEOPLE. THEY are dangerous institutions which have many information departments designed to make you believe in fairies… From statistics to media, spy shops, education and cultural endeavours, you shall believe in fairies. 

Even the arts taught in design schools are part of the continued conformity to a limited plagiarised diversity while WE, the people, float on a reflection of abstracted beauty….

Beneath the water line, most of the operators steal, destroy and profit against the will of the people, like rats in sewers. At least the rats have natural standards. The nasty operators of the depth below won’t hesitate to destroy you if you don’t row your little boat for a buck. And they only “protect you” because they need you to pay for their massive armies designed to conquer the world…. You should be horrified but you won’t be. 

Your little boat, gliding along the surface, is prettied with flowers and ribbons, and, reclining on the back seat, you only see vision of the tranquil skies, with rainbows to boot. All is well, as the only thing you have to do is row a little more to move forward and make another buck. Most of the other people are in similar boats, rowing where their democratic wishes fancy. What looks like a choice is a mirror. 

From time to time your rowboat has a leak and you plug it with beliefs. You should know that what is below is suspect as the incoming water is black, dirty and full of germs… Beliefs are good to plug leaks coming from the concealed reality…. You should be horrified, but you believe that all is well….

On this little site, yourdemocracy.net, we have endeavoured to reveal the concealed reality, hidden like the hull of a ship below the “Plimsol line” as we refer to quite often… We are not the only people exposing this “concealed reality", yet we do it in our own way and we hope we manage, so you don’t place your hand in the water, and get your arm taken away by the sharks below...

What’s in it for us, here?  Mostly brickbats and torrid un-healable arguments with friends. 

What are opinions without facts? Religions…

What are opinions with facts? Relative knowledge…

Religions tend to manufacture fake facts to create “absolute” knowledge.

Biden is a Catholic…. God is the biggest fakery of all… Biden is a fake. This is a (true) sophism…

Tulsi Gabbard (D), a former US representative for Hawaii, argued that former US President Barack Obama – not President Joe Biden – is behind the federal effort to establish a Disinformation Governance Board (DGB).

“Biden is just a front man," Gabbard said on Twitter Sunday. "Obama, April 21: social media censors 'don’t go far enough,' so the government needs to step in to do the job.” [We remember Obama’s "truth" here]….

She then compared the planned DGB to George Orwell’s ‘Ministry of Truth,’ one of four ministries of the government of Oceania in “Nineteen Eighty-Four.”

“Six days later, Homeland Security rolls out the 'Ministry of Truth' (aka Disinformation Governance Board),” Gabbard tweeted.

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The awful reality is thus concealed by POWERFUL fakery. And the fakers are excellent in manufacturing the fakery. They will even make you believe that the true reality is a fake. They are good at this bullshit because they are FORCEFUL... THEY BULLY… THEY CAJOLE... THEY OWN THE ILLUSIONS CHANNELS — the media, the movies, even the cultural discussions... 

We, the people, can live happily with fakery… Many people do and don’t care as long as the sausage is cooked to perfection. Perfection is often deceitful death…. Deceit is hidden in the ability/inability to make manipulated decisions that we end up making anyway WITHOUT CARE. The choice is between the Blue Pill and the Red Pill. Both are the same bullshit with a slightly different amount of placebo.

So what is left for us to enjoy life, without losing our integrity? And do we really need to understand anything if we are happy by not knowing?

Do we fight the monsters below with the hope of not rocking our boat? And are WE the monsters below in a reverse image of ourself for having played the game without becoming aware of the deceit in our own self, because we vote for the bastards below? 

While we vote we fed the monsters in the swamp, though some of them live in the villas above our little pond.…

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From Unz:

I suspect that many readers will have seen the opening monologue of the Tucker Carlson Tonight program of Thursday, April 28. For seventeen minutes Carlson took direct aim at the latest advance of the Biden administration and the managerial state in their incremental assumption of authoritarian power over not only over what Americans read or see, but how they think: the creation of a new agency within the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Disinformation Governance Board.

Here is the clip, and it’s a message that should send chills down the backs of every American who is at all concerned about what has happened and is happening to our country…and about those supposed guaranteed rights of speech under the Constitution.

https://www.unz.com/article/the-disinformation-board-politifact-and-the-end-of-free-speech/

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 PayPal has canceled Consortium News‘ account without any prior notice or due process and with virtually no explanation. 

As Consortium News is today launching its Spring Fund Drive, it has lost one of its most important ways for its viewers and readers to show their support through donations.  Clicking on the yellow PayPal donate button on our home page now yields this message:

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PayPal has sent an email to CN that says: 

“You can’t use PayPal anymore. … We noticed activity in your account that’s inconsistent with our User Agreement and we no longer offer you PayPal services. … Because of potential risk exposure, we’ve permanently limited your account. You’ll no longer be able to use the account for any transactions.”

The message says that “any money in your PayPal balance will be held for up to 180 days,” after which, “if applicable, we’ll email you with information on how to withdraw any remaining money.”

No Prior Notice or Explanation

There was no prior notice sent nor was Consortium News afforded any due process. A PayPal customer service agent confirmed in a telephone call on Sunday that the “back office” gave no specific reason for “permanently limiting” CN‘s account other than that an “investigation and review” of CN‘s “history found some potential risk associated with this account.”   

She said the “potential risk” from CN is “not exactly specified by the back office.”  The agent said, “It has something to do with the history of this account.”  Asked whether any agency, government or private, or any individual had complained to PayPal about CN, the customer service agent replied, “I don’t see any existing case.” 

The agent could not explain why Consortium News was given no notice or any due process, but promised to ask the “back office” to contact CN to explain. 

Regarding the $9,348.14 balance in CN‘s PayPal account, the agent said that after a 180-day review PayPal would decide whether to return it. “If there was a violation,” she said “it is possible” the money could be kept as “damages” to PayPal.  Violations under the Restricted Activities of the User Agreement  include providing “false, inaccurate or misleading information” to PayPal, other PayPal customers “or third parties.” 

Given the current political climate it is more than conceivable that PayPal is reacting to Consortium News’ coverage of the war in Ukraine, which is not in line with the dominant narrative that is being increasingly enforced. Last week PayPal also froze the account of the alternative news site MintPressNews.

PayPal was sued in California in January in a class action for similarly shutting down accounts.  

Joe Lauria is editor-in-chief of Consortium News and a former U.N. correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, and numerous other newspapers, including The Montreal Gazette and The Star of Johannesburg. He was an investigative reporter for the Sunday Times of London, a financial reporter for Bloomberg News and began his professional work as a 19-year old stringer for The New York Times.  He can be reached at [email protected] and followed on Twitter @unjoe 

https://consortiumnews.com/2022/05/01/paypal-cancels-cn-account-may-seiz...

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DID I SAY YOU SHOULD BE HORRIFED?…. The fake and the controller of fake are now preventing the truth to be out.  The sharks control the financial conduits of the system which we believe was honourable. WE WERE WRONG. THE BASTARDS ARE DISHONEST LIARS... WE SHOULD BE HORRIFIED!!!!!!!!

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ULVER CITY, CALIFORNIA – As the bloody conflict in Ukraine continues to escalate, so does the online propaganda war between Russia and the West. A prime example of this is the White House directly briefing influencers on popular social media app TikTok about the war and how to cover it. As the crisis spirals out of control, Americans have turned to TikTok to view real time videos and analysis of the invasion. With the app estimated to have around 70 million U.S. users, the White House is keenly aware of its impact. “We recognize this is a critically important avenue in the way the American public is finding out about the latest … so we wanted to make sure you had the latest information from an authoritative source,” President Joe Biden’s director of digital strategy, Rob Flaherty, told 30 top TikTok influencers.

TikTok itself has taken steps to align itself with U.S. government policy, deleting more than 320,000 Russian accounts and removing at least 41,000 videos peddling misinformation about the war. In addition to this, it has placed warning labels marked “Russia state-controlled media” on 49 accounts linked to the Russian government. Like other big social media platforms, it has not done the same to Western state-owned outlets such as the BBC, RTÉ, or the CBC.

All this is a far cry from 2020, when President Donald Trump signed an order that would shut down TikTok within 45 days unless it was sold to an American buyer. The Chinese-owned platform, the U.S. government alleged, posed a severe national security threat to the United States. Although TikTok is a Chinese company, it is, ironically, completely blocked inside China, their domestic market being served by a sister app, Douyin, which functions in a similar way but is separated by the Great Firewall. Thus, there is no contact or overlap between the two. After Douyin’s success in China, its parent company ByteDance launched a global platform.

ByteDance first reached a deal to sell TikTok to Microsoft, then to Oracle and Walmart. Yet the new Biden administration, without explanation, quietly dropped the sale requirement indefinitely in early 2021, saying in a court filing that it had begun a review of security concerns cited by the Trump administration.

That decision left buyers and onlookers alike perplexed. Yet studying the backgrounds of dozens of key TikTok employees brought on since the 2020 scare suggests that, instead of destroying TikTok, perhaps the U.S. national security state has co-opted it instead.

High-placed NATO recruits

Since 2020, there has been a wave of former spooks, spies and mandarins appointed to influential positions within TikTok, particularly around content and policy – some of whom, on paper at least, appear unqualified for such roles.

For example, while simultaneously being the Content Policy Lead for TikTok Canada, Alexander Corbeil is also the vice president of the NATO Association of Canada, a NATO-funded organization chaired by former Canadian Minister of Defense David Collenette. In order to join TikTok, Corbeil left his job at the SecDev Foundation, a U.S. State Department-funded security think tank. Corbeil’s work focused on Middle Eastern security and in particular on the war in Syria and what NATO’s role should be.

Another NATO-linked new recruit is Ayse Koçak, a Global Product Policy manager at the company. Before joining TikTok last year, she spent three years at NATO. Like Corbeil, Koçak had special expertise in Middle Eastern politics, including a year’s tour in Iraq as the organization’s deputy senior civilian representative.

Foard Copeland, who works on TikTok’s trust and safety policy, is also an ex-NATO man. Copeland previously worked as a desk officer for NATO, as well as for the Department of Defense. Between 2011 and 2021, he also worked for U.S. contractor Development Alternatives Incorporated (DAI), spending much of that time in Afghanistan. DAI has long been accused of being a CIA front group, perhaps with some justification. In 2009, for example, DAI agent Alan Gross was arrested in Cuba and sentenced to 15 years in prison for spying, espionage, and his part in efforts to destabilize the government.

Perhaps the most worrying NATO alumnus, from a public perspective, is new Feature Policy Manager Greg Andersen. According to his own LinkedIn profile, until 2019, Andersen worked on “psychological operations” for NATO. This fact, according to MintPress contributor Lowkey, was removed after his tweet raising concerns about the relationship between big tech and the national security state went viral. 

https://www.mintpressnews.com/nato-tiktok-pipeline-why-tiktok-employing-...

SHOULD we BE HORRIFED? beyond our wits !!!!

Meanwhile they keep JULIAN ASSANGE IN PRISON… and the Main stream media isn’t horrified…. This should make you really angry at the media that feed you news daily, like factory engineered ersatz powder of pseudo-proteins so your dump is regular daily…

The list of the monsters below is huge and encompasses all the neocons and warriors in both parties.

“Hey guys, the sausages are burnt ! Some people love burnt sausages and love the Disinformation Governance Board.

YOU SHOULD BE HORRIFIED! AND WE’RE NOT HORRIFIED ENOUGH…

We, here, try our best at being horrified, but is it enough....? 

JULIAN ASSANGE IS STILL IN PRISON…..