by PAUL COLLITS – MAINSTREAM media in Australia has become too controlling and needs to be broken up, according to Federal Senator Gerard Rennick.
He said politicians and the media were working “hand in hand” to push lies and suppress alternate points of view.
- They believe government is benign and that manufactured non-problems require State solutions.
- It’s beginning to look as though when Murdoch says “jump”, Dutton asks “how high?”
- Who knows how a future government might extend this tyranny.
Despite Rennick’s unfortunate decision to establish yet another micro freedom Party, he remains a prime source of good information, common sense and perspicacity.
Not being a regular reader of the Murdoch press, I totally missed the fact that in May 2024, News Corp ran a campaign called “Let them be kids” about the evils of social media. Rennick has called our attention to it.
WEIRD
Following the recent weird attack by ABC Chairman Kim Williams – a former Murdoch employee – on social media, the coming social media age verification regime now makes total sense to me.
And what a bizarre unity ticket. Murdoch and the ABC have joined together in a full-frontal hit job on alt-media.
All the while hiding their real motivation behind something seemingly benign.
Here is Gerard Rennick: “Unfortunately, because politicians need the mainstream media to push their lies they work hand in hand to suppress alternate points of view.
“It’s worth noting that Newscorp was at the forefront of pushing COVID jabs and no-jab-no-pay in regard to vaccines.
“The long-term impact of this coercion has backfired as people have become wary of the no liability for Big Pharma while the individual bears all the risk.
“Big Pharma need Big Media work together for profit and control as well.
“There is no doubt mainstream media needs to be broken up in this country. They have become too powerful and controlling.”
All valid points, but for the moment let’s focus on the social media issue.
Bernard Keane of Crikey, not normally quoted in these parts unless in anger and with accompanying vitriol, has also weighed in.
“Watching News Corp pretend to care about children is like watching a drunk driver try to stick to the road rules. Although, drunks can try to claim diminished responsibility. News Corp knows exactly what it’s doing,” he said.
Yes, I know that Crikey is maniacally obsessed with Murdoch’s media organs but on this Keane is right.
It is useful to be reminded of the News Corp nanny State campaign and what is likely behind it. Corporatism and the desire to disarm media competitors.
TILTING
Are Rennick and Keane, themselves not natural allies, tilting at windmills on this?
No, the Murdoch campaign “Let Them Be Kids” argued explicitly for age increases for social media use. It was their idea. And it led pretty directly to the Albanese-Dutton legislation. Another weird unity ticket.
Of course, there were those who supported Murdoch’s campaign among the professional caring class.
Loud and influential voices quoting bogus “research”, well paid ally-academics and skewed polling to create a moral panic and then offer a fascist solution all played their part.
Perhaps those asked in surveys about social media age restrictions might also have been asked about the potential use of digital ID for all people wanting to access social media. That may have altered the rigged outcomes of the poll.
If this moral panic doesn’t sound familiar, hark back to, say, March 2020 to see the pattern.
Prove him wrong, someone. Murdoch executives should be in jail for industrial scale manslaughter – and now they have done this to us.
Of course, Dowd’s 15m includes many children who were not remotely threatened by COVID but were forced or pressured to take the jab. By the very same political Parties now feigning concern about the welfare of children.
The State injectables were forced upon us by cowering governments controlled by puppeteer media barons who were themselves the puppets of the Big Pharma companies who keep the legacy media afloat.
Of course, there is something else familiar about the emergent “let them be kids” world view, something that we saw during the COVID madness.
It is the willingness of people to hand over their freedoms and decision-making to the State, without asking questions and without considering the consequences.
USELESS
We were willing to wear useless masks, to get the death jab, to stay in our homes, to accept being banned from churches, to brand non-conformists granny killers, to line up all the way around the block to get a useless PCR test, to sign over our privacy through contact tracing machines, to suffer five-kilometre travel restrictions, to hand over a trillion in taxes to ScoMo to hose it up against the wall. And the rest.
This campaign should have been called “let everyone be treated like kids”.
Perhaps newspapers and the ABC should be made (somehow) to stop 13-to-16 year-olds from accessing the anxiety-inducing climate lies they regularly tell.
Australia has form on this. On handing over our freedoms and responsibilities to the State, without demur. Or to corporations, in the case of our willingness to trade privacy for convenience in the matter of smart phones.
Prove him wrong, someone. Murdoch executives should be in jail for industrial scale manslaughter – and now they have done this to us.
Of course, Dowd’s 15m includes many children who were not remotely threatened by COVID but were forced or pressured to take the jab. By the very same political Parties now feigning concern about the welfare of children.
The State injectables were forced upon us by cowering governments controlled by puppeteer media barons who were themselves the puppets of the Big Pharma companies who keep the legacy media afloat.
Of course, there is something else familiar about the emergent “let them be kids” world view, something that we saw during the COVID madness.
It is the willingness of people to hand over their freedoms and decision-making to the State, without asking questions and without considering the consequences.
We were willing to wear useless masks, to get the death jab, to stay in our homes, to accept being banned from churches, to brand non-conformists granny killers, to line up all the way around the block to get a useless PCR test, to sign over our privacy through contact tracing machines, to suffer five-kilometre travel restrictions, to hand over a trillion in taxes to ScoMo to hose it up against the wall. And the rest.
This campaign should have been called “let everyone be treated like kids”.
Perhaps newspapers and the ABC should be made (somehow) to stop 13-to-16 year-olds from accessing the anxiety-inducing climate lies they regularly tell.
Australia has form on this. On handing over our freedoms and responsibilities to the State, without demur. Or to corporations, in the case of our willingness to trade privacy for convenience in the matter of smart phones.
BRICK
This attack on free access to the internet is merely another brick in the erection of the tyrannical wall. Some might argue that the undoubted addiction of many to social media is itself part of the problem. Maybe, but ever more State and corporate surveillance and control are not the answer. They are never the answer.
But back to the unexpected anti-social media allies, Williams’ ABC and Murdoch.
It is no coincidence that both News Corp and the ABC have the word “corporation” in their titles, or that they work hand in glove with the Big State. It calls something else to mind.
When defining fascism, why not go to the Big Guy himself? Mussolini weighed in: “Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of State and corporate power”.
Right from the horse’s mouth. It is all of a piece with globalist agendas and the public health tyranny. Fascism in the 1930s was pretty popular, too, in the countries that practiced it.
Which brings us to Peter Dutton and his embrace of the age restriction legislation. It is beginning to look as though when Murdoch says “jump”, the Liberal Party asks, “how high?” Certainly, this has occurred on this issue, this year.
Peter Dutton must feel that he needs Murdoch’s papers on side to win the next election. He knows he won’t get Kim Williams’ vote and that of the ABC crowd.
What else could explain Dutton’s manic support for this crazy legislation and our coming ever closer of the panopticon?
Of course, digital ID itself was originally a (Liberal) Paul Fletcher idea. And it was Dutton’s own department (under ScoMo) that commissioned fact checkers who went after anti-vaxxer dissidents during the plandemic.
I tend to think that the world will look at us with contempt rather than in awe, as some seem to be suggesting, over our rush to internet fascism.
Global reactions to our “world first” legislation seem, at best, decidedly mixed.
Peter Dutton won’t care what the rest of the world thinks. He just wants to win government.
Nor will Kim Williams, who wants to shut Joe Rogan down. Nor will Albo and Michelle Rowland, who just like centralised State control over people. Nor will Rupert Murdoch, who just wants social media fenced in.
This smells like convergent opportunism practised by many bad actors, all with their own agendas, and serial sneaks never letting an engineered “crisis” go to waste. Just like COVID.
The Government doesn’t even seem exactly to know which companies will be dragooned into doing their surveilling for them – or how age verification will work.
Dutton and all of the other champions of this rubbish legislation do not care how it is done, despite mumblings about not accepting digital ID. We should, though. And, for once, vote accordingly.
HASTY
Meanwhile, YouTube – not mentioned by Commissar Rowland, at least not so far – has responded to the “world first” legislation: “We are disappointed by the Australian Parliament’s hasty passage of this Bill.
“Online safety is crucial, but effective regulation requires consultation and careful consideration.
“This rushed legislation overlooks the fundamental differences between services and the unique benefits these can deliver to Australian youth.
“We urge the Government to swiftly follow through on their commitment to preserve access to services that ‘operate with a significant purpose to enable young people to get the education and health support they need’ and pass legislative rules that clearly exempt YouTube, thereby providing certainty to Australian families, creators, teachers, and educators.”
Interesting points. Self-serving, for sure. And ironic, too, given YouTube’s own, well-known record of censorship and doing the bidding of Big Pharma and Big Government.
But there is much more in play here. Who knows how a future government might extend this sold-as-benign, perhaps widely supported piece of tyranny to all sorts of other areas of internet access and surveillance in the future?
The direction of travel is decidedly not benign.
Let us all be made kids. Surveilled and mute in the face of Big Brother and of our smiling oppressors.PC
WHY YOU ARE NOT GETTING TRUTH FROM ANY MAINSTREAM MEDIA EMPIRES >
6 Companies Control 90% of What You Read, Watch and Hear. Here’s Why You Should Care.
15 April, 2022
Ever-mounting media consolidation has narrowed the perspectives the public is privy to. Ownership and funding of these corporations are riddled with conflicts of interest and Big Tech companies are outright censoring and demonetizing independent outlets.
“When most of the news is controlled by six corporations, and Internet traffic is controlled by five or six companies that privilege those companies under the auspices of fighting ‘fake news,’ you can lie with impunity.
And worse, because we’re a fragmented audience, if I’m being lied to every single day by The Washington Post, I’m not going to turn on Fox or read The Wall Street Journal to hear I’m being lied to. I’m going to be in my little information bubble.”
As these media corporations continue to expand their power, they rake in ever-growing profits — which then translates to more political influence. Not only do owners of media giants contribute money directly to campaigns, but their outlets control the discourse around them. And the larger the conglomerate, the more easily and effectively they can lobby to kill regulations and pass laws that further their domination.
But this consolidation of power extends beyond just monopolies and mergers galore — compounding the issue are shared board members. All media corporations have a board of directors, which is responsible for making decisions that support the interests of stakeholders.
PLEASE READ FULL ARTICLE >
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/6-companies-control-90-percent-read-watch-hear-why-care/
“Who Owns the World?” A Small Group of Big Money
By Peter Koenig
Global Research, February 26, 2024
Who Owns the World” is the title of an extraordinary documentary, describing how Big-Big Money controls not only every aspect of your life, but has a stranglehold on every government, the political UN body, as well as every UN agency, and all industries and services of this globe.
These largest investors are BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street.
These same investment groups also control over 90% of the world’s major media.
Even Rupert Murdoch’s media empire is majority owned by BlackRock / Vanguard.
It is therefore no miracle that hardly any news penetrates the walls of secrecy about these major shareholders of every aspect of human life and life-related activities and businesses.
They control politicians, geopolitics and military deployments.
It is a monopoly that can literally not be opposed by traditional means. They have also invented the “rules-based order” — overruling every international and national law at their will.
They know no limits, no ethics and adhere to no human or human rights standard. POWER is them.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/who-owns-world-small-group-big-money/5850681
Blackrock do not control Murdoch media, or Newscorp, or Fox, that is unless something happened over night which the Blackrock controlled media haven’t caught up with yet, which seems rather unlikely.