If you wondered why legacy media reporting is all the same, here's why: the German gov't payed journalists via the intelligence services, as a parliamentary enquiry by the AfD shows
After reading every word of the Twitter Files and listening with revulsion to the hearing of the Committee on the Weaponization of the Government, it is disconcerting but not totally surprising to find out that the particulars of the German version of the American dystopia are so similar. Same story In the UK, where journalism is an arm of intelligence services. I tremble for the future of my children and thank heaven for the alternative press and Substack.
There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not forget this, Winston— always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine *a needle being jabbed into a human shoulder* — forever.
I have to wonder if this is legal or constitutional in Germany?
That a political party might hire journalists for puff pieces is nothing special, but when it does so as part of governement, well it's not the same thing.
Then again, being swedish I'm so used to things like this I just feel jaded and a sense of "Well that's just normal, what's the fuss?".
I’m with you 😊🙏 and yes it’s our future!
After reading every word of the Twitter Files and listening with revulsion to the hearing of the Committee on the Weaponization of the Government, it is disconcerting but not totally surprising to find out that the particulars of the German version of the American dystopia are so similar. Same story In the UK, where journalism is an arm of intelligence services. I tremble for the future of my children and thank heaven for the alternative press and Substack.
There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not forget this, Winston— always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine *a needle being jabbed into a human shoulder* — forever.
Fabian Spieker, 2021
Ehy Prof, you made me cry a second time in few days!! 😉
Wonderful piece, love it, I did publish the italian translation today.
What else I can say: "resistance, resistance, resistance!" like that great Prosecutor said the day he retired.
P.S.
Forget to have any italian party do that kind of enquiry here...
"If you can't tell what the product is that's being sold, it's you."
"Free" press...
Not actually that much money. I'm guessing there was more influence wielded, somehow. But thank you !
I have to wonder if this is legal or constitutional in Germany?
That a political party might hire journalists for puff pieces is nothing special, but when it does so as part of governement, well it's not the same thing.
Then again, being swedish I'm so used to things like this I just feel jaded and a sense of "Well that's just normal, what's the fuss?".
Neocon warmongers shaping humanity into a machine.