THE FAKE NEWS PHENOMENON
“Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, ‘If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.’” (John 8:31-32)
The irony here is pretty rich. The Mainstream Media as represented by the New York Times and the Washington Post – along with internet giants Google, Facebook and YouTube are targeting what they say is “Fake News.” The social media sites want to ban ‘Fake News’ from their forums. The Times and the Post are lobbying for government oversight – a kind of reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine. [So if your station runs 3 hours of Rush Limbaugh – it also has to run 3 hours of some liberal wack-job who’s going to lose you money.] That’s just a bad idea that Reagan wisely took off the table years ago.
The basic message behind all of this is that the internet is warping public opinion. So the Global Elites are sending the message that ‘Fake News’ is responsible for the rise of populism around the world; for Brexit, the exiting of Britain from the EU; the election of Donald Trump over the hand-picked globalist choice of Hillary Clinton; and the reaction of native Europeans who resent and want to resist losing their national homelands to non-assimilating Islamists who are bringing with them a huge uptick in rapes, violence and crime of all sorts. This is by no means an American phenomenon alone. German Chancellor Angela Merkel who is more than happy to take in gobs of Islamists, is now getting in the act as reported by the French Press Agency. “German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned on Wednesday against the power of fake news on social media to spur the rise of populists, after launching her campaign for a fourth term. Speaking in parliament for the first time since her announcement Sunday that she would seek re-election next year, Merkel cautioned that public opinion was being ‘manipulated’ on the internet.” Of course like any good globalist, Merkel has a solution; government regulated speech.[i]
The Daily Bell offers some good insights into the maneuverings of the dominant globalist powers that are seeking to destroy nationalism across the planet and set up world government in its place. The manipulation of public opinion is being orchestrated by “elite controllers” who put forth “fear-based propaganda designed to convince people that they are running out of food, water, a stable climate, etc. The solution is inevitably more government – either domestically or globally. Elite themes reinforce people’s inclination to look toward government – the bigger, the better – to protect them. The goal evidently is world domination via government that is inevitably controlled discreetly by elite forces.” So now the Global Elite, using Mainstream Media as their tool, is mischaracterizing the truly nationalist trends that are emerging throughout the planet by calling them ‘populism.’ That “populism is presented as racist, greedy, insular and ignorant.” [How else could you have Brexit or Trump?] And it is ‘Fake News’ that is driving its existence. In contrast to ‘Populism’ the Elites are offering ‘Globalism.’ “Globalism, in contrast to populism, is to be seen as positive and prosperity enhancing – and only under attack because it has not distributed its benefits equally.”[ii] Of course, all of this is nothing but a part of a gigantic psyop (psychological operation) aimed at influencing the reasoning, behavior and voting patterns of the public.
The irony in all of this is that the very people that are sounding the alarm of ‘Fake News’ sites – Mainstream Media – are the very people engaging in creating the overwhelming majority of actual Fake News stories. Dave Hodges, author of The Common Sense Show, is a “former therapist and instructor in the realm of sociology, psychology, research methods and statistics.” He breaks down for us what he sees as the “frighteningly effective [and] brainwashing and psyops techniques” being used against the American public. He believes we are “are being conditioned and even brainwashed to accept the New World Order and one world governance which is devoid of any Christian principles.” He offers a short analysis at some of the psychological techniques employed by the Globalist-Elite Media during the recent election.
- “Group Think – This is a strategy where a ‘fake’ bandwagon effect is promoted. The strategy works by getting the consumer of mainstream media news to believe that a specific opinion is shared by the MAJORITY of the population and that any belief to the contrary, is lunacy.” An example of this was the numerous fake polls which all showed Trump losing – and were all incredibly wrong. [You can easily get fake numbers by just sampling groups of people you know will vote a certain way.]
- “Confirmation Bias – We are inundated with the message that Donald Trump is xenophobic, racist, sexist, etc.”[iii] For about half of the country, this is a big lie with some sticking power. Joseph Goebbels, the Minister of Propaganda for Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945 summed up the theory behind government use of this technique. “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”[iv]
- “Learned Helplessness” – Once you believe you cannot change a situation – you will stop trying. The constant refrain that Trump had no chance at winning was aimed at discouraging his supporters from turning out at the polls.
- “Cognitive Dissonance – In the face of contradictory facts in which one’s world view (i.e. paradigm), is challenged, the person’s ultimate psychological safety weapon, denial, takes over. The person stubbornly holds to [an] old belief system in the face of uncompromising and substantiated facts to the contrary.[v] About half the country refused to process the ‘new’ information regarding Secretary Clinton. Not even the mounting evidence of Hillary Clinton’s complicity in numerous illegal activities – (email scandals, Benghazi, Clinton Foundation pay-to-play, Vince Foster’s murder, etc) – could change their minds.
This is all part of a psychological war designed to move populations – here in the US as well as overseas – to accept the move toward a New World Order replete with mechanisms of Global Government. There is only one antidote: To abide in the Truth. In John 14:6 Jesus says: “I am the way, the truth and the life.” And there is no other way to the Father. In John 8, quoted above, Jesus points out that only the Truth can set us free. This is war between the psychological enslavement offered by the Globalists – and the Truth-based freedom offered by the Creator to those who become the disciples of His Son. Sounds like an easy choice to make.
[i] Angela Merkel Warns Against Fake News Driving Populist Gains, NDTV / Agence France Presse, November 23, 2016
[ii] From Populism to Fake News – The Psyop Continues, The Daily Bell, November 24, 2016
[iii] Dave Hodges, The Psychology Behind “Fake News” In America, The Common Sense Show, November 19, 2016
[iv] Quote taken from: Joseph Goebbels: On the “Big Lie”, Jewish Virtual Library, monitored November 25, 2016
[v] Dave Hodges, The Psychology Behind “Fake News” In America, The Common Sense Show, November 19, 2016
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