Wikipedia: A Disinformation Operation?
from Swiss Propaganda Research
Credit: iStock
Wikipedia is generally thought of as an open, transparent, and mostly reliable online encyclopedia. Yet upon closer inspection, this turns out not to be the case.
In fact, the English Wikipedia with its 9 billion page views per month is governed by just 500 active administrators, whose real identity in many cases remains unknown.
Moreover, studies have shown that 80% of all Wikipedia content is written by just 1% of all Wikipedia editors, which again amounts to just a few hundred mostly unknown people.
Obviously, such a non-transparent and hierarchical structure is susceptible to corruption and manipulation, the notorious “paid editors” hired by corporations being just one example.
Indeed, already in 2007, researchers found that CIA and FBI employees were editing Wikipedia articles on controversial topics including the Iraq war and the Guantanamo military prison.
Also in 2007, researchers found that one of the most active and influential English Wikipedia administrators, called “Slim Virgin”, was in fact a former British intelligence informer.
More recently, another highly prolific Wikipedia editor going by the false name of “Philip Cross” turned out to be linked to UK intelligence as well as several mainstream media journalists.
In Germany, one of the most aggressive Wikipedia editors was exposed, after a two-year legal battle, as a political operative formerly serving in the Israeli army as a foreign volunteer.
Even in Switzerland, unidentified government employees were caught whitewashing Wikipedia entries about the Swiss secret service just prior to a public referendum about the agency.
Many of these Wikipedia personae are editing articles almost all day and every day, indicating that they are either highly dedicated individuals, or in fact, operated by a group of people.
In addition, articles edited by these personae cannot easily be revised, since the above-mentioned administrators can always revert changes or simply block disagreeing users altogether.
The primary goal of these covert campaigns appears to be pushing Western and Israeli government positions while destroying the reputation of independent journalists and politicians.
Articles most affected by this kind of manipulation include political, geopolitical and certain historical topics as well as biographies of non-conformist academics, journalists, and politicians.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, a friend of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and a “Young Leader” of the Davos forum, has repeatedly defended these operations.
Speaking of Davos, Wikimedia has itself amassed a fortune of more than $160 million, donated in large part not by lazy students, but by major US corporations and influential foundations.
Moreover, US social media and video platforms are increasingly referring to Wikipedia to frame or combat “controversial” topics. The revelations discussed above may perhaps help explain why.
To add at least some degree of transparency, German researchers have developed a free web browser tool called WikiWho that lets readers color code just who edited what in Wikipedia.
In many cases, the result looks as discomforting as one might expect.
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Additional References:-
- CIA, FBI computers used for Wikipedia edits (Reuters, 2007)
- Wikipedia and the Intelligence Services (OhMyNews, 2007)
- Spies in Wikipedia (Computerra Magazine, 2007, archived)
- What we know about SlimVirgin (Wikipedia Review, 2007, archived)
- Wikipedia and the Spooks – The Remake? (Intel Today, 2018)
- The Mystery Wikipedia Editor Targeting Anti-War Sites (ML, 2018)
- Wikipedia: Rotten to the Core (Helen Buyniski, 2018)
- Time to ditch Wikipedia? (Five Filters Analysis, 2018)
- Wikipedia Editing Scandal Continues (Neil Clark, 2019)
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I think Wiki is invaluable, BUT for ironic reasons….
Wikipedia is definitely a disinformation, propaganda and false-history-cementation website.
Wikipedia doesn’t say Osama bin Laden is accused of masterminding the events of 9/11, it says he DID (as an absolute fact) mastermind the events of 9/11.
Wikipedia doesn’t say Lee Harvey Oswald is accused of assassinating JFK, it says he DID (as an absolute fact) assassinate JFK.
Statements of compulsively lying U.S. government agencies like the CIA & FBI (and their pals) are essentially gospel on Wikipedia.
That should tell you all you need to know.
And it’s not just Wikipedia.
There is an extremely strong pattern of “of the people” projects & movements turning out to be “control the people” projects & movements.
As of writing this, it looks like Firefox is about to join the list.
I’ve caught them fronting all kinds of absurd things at their Sirhan Sirhan entry. Time and again
Still, much you can use if it’s not a controversial issue.
You just need to know your subject and cross-check like crazy.
Unfortunately few, or no, other sites have such a compendium of information.
CAVEAT LECTOR!!
I love Wikipedia for people psyops. It always gives you the clues.
Exactly!
It is obvious that Israel would be in there lying about their multiple assassinations, genocide and war crimes in the last 75+ years.
I love Wikipedia for people psyops. It always gives you the clues.
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I see it now. Thanks.
I’ve been a Wikipedia editor for many years, editing under numerous guises. I first fell out of favour with ‘the project’ when I came up against and editor who was hell-bent on removing all references to “British Isles” from the encyclopedia. He was eventually stopped in his tracks, but not before an enormous amount of collateral damage. I now edit mostly as what they describe as ‘an IP editor’. This has demonstrated to me one of the worst aspects of Wikipedia: a complete disregard for one of the founding principles, that “anyone can edit Wikipedia”, or as Jimmy Wales says, “you can edit this page right now!” No you can’t. At least, not if it’s a page that’s in any way important. Most major articles are now permanently protected from IP editors, usually by bum administrators with an agenda of making the project an account-only entity. They protect an article… Read more »
Which ’eminent experts in the field’ have been banned from editing the ‘Global Warming’ section? Nigel Lawson? Bjorn Lomborg? Hapless Happer?
Some of the people who used to be listed here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_scientists_who_disagree_with_the_scientific_consensus_on_global_warming
Note – USED to be listed here….
This link still has the list:
https://web.archive.org/web/20191115154603/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientists_who_disagree_with_the_scientific_consensus_on_global_warming
Anyone know if this ‘web archive’ site holds stuff indefinitely, thereby rendering such wiki deletions ineffective?
Yes, it does.
But always add the page to archive.is as well, to improve the odds of it remaining in existence.
I think the only thing you can do – and encourage others to do – is always to check the references and try a few other sites as well i.e. cross reference. I sometimes go to Powerbase and Wikispooks – although every site I visit usually throws up some bias or other and, if you note those, you ought to be able to piece together a more credible picture than otherwise.
I once tried to alter the Graun’s Wikipedia entry.
I changed Left wing to neoliberal.
I was banned.
Let’s just not forget that there are plenty of non-controversial topics out there, and if you want some details about when Copernicus was born and the political circumstances of his time, Wikipedia will do nicely for a quick look.
I don’t think anybody in their right mind would turn to Wp for information on The Guardian or the BBC…
Nothing surprising in this. I’d be surprised if it wasn’t manipulated. I go by a simple philosophy: there’s only one truth – there isn’t one. But you’ve not mentioned the main area of manipulation – culture itself. As a case in point, one of my interests concerns the unexplained, where I do not debunk, but attempt rational explanation. Culture dictates scepticism on such subjects throughout Wiki. How about you lot? Atlantis, Loch Ness Monster, the Poltergeist.
keyudos
How many Anthony Norths are there?
“How many Anthony Norths are there?”
Depends what size you want.
What? Globally? Several hundred I’d have thought. But I’m THE Anthony North. What’s your point?
Like you Anthony, I seek the essence of truth wherever I might find it. For this I have rules: In assessing the truth of reports I use a couple of mantras: • Always follow the money • There is never such a thing as a coincidence. • Never underestimate the evil of the powers that be • Occam’s Razor In March 2013 the Cyprus bank crisis turned out to be a test run for the ‘Bail-in’ process to protect banks during a future bank run. It had been modelled earlier. My book starts with the Cyprus event. https://www.theburningplatform.com/2020/03/07/the-financial-jigsaw-issue-no-94/ This time we have Event 201 in October 2019 and a release of the exact same postulated virus in November 2019 – coincidence? I think not. https://www.hopkins-cepar.org/on-alert/two-different-drills-with-two-different-goals We know that the central banks know that the global economy was due to crash – all they needed was cover – follow the money.… Read more »
Unfortunately the same can be said for all for profit information services these days with the Guardian being one of the worst as far as the fake news business goes.
William Connolley, a member of the British Green Party and climate modeller, aggressively edited Wikipedia pages on global warming (more than five thousand) to push the Climate Change catastrophe narrative. Connolley claims to have a doctoral degree, although there is no evidence for this.
It would have been nice if the person who down voted this comment had left a reply, pointing out what they disagreed with.
Not sure what Billy’s politics are: you’d best ask Pamela & if the answer is
‘Not on the nine o’clock news’ >>> I blame Greta . . .
Groupthink breaking down?
My guess is that it might be because you wrote: “ Connolley claims to have a doctoral degree, although there is no evidence for this“.
I don’t know of this person, but he’s apparently got a DPhil from St Edmund Hall at the University of Oxford.
Furthermore, to be Senior Scientific Officer in the British Antarctic Survey you’d need to be a PhD, they don’t just send anyone out there nor freely hand out senior titles.
Are you saying this is untrue? If so, on what basis?
The anthropogenic climate destabilisation catastrophe scenario deserves to be ventilated. The MSM and the various denialist disinformation sites certainly won’t-in fact they deny that the destabilisation is even happening, as climate and weather disasters grow rapidly. In fact the ‘catastrophe’ scenarios of various intensity from calamitous to Near Term Human Extinction are utterly unarguable, save with sophistry, casuistry and outright disinformation.
Of course.
I invite other AAPA (awake and paying attention) people to join me in a comprehensive boycott of Wikideceivia. I make a point of NEVER consulting it, on any topic at all, on the principle that anything pulled from a toxic sewer is near-certain to be contaminated, however apparently non-controversial it may seem to be. And how would we ever be able to tell which stuff is sound and which is shite? It’s not as if scientists and academics have simply never been caught in intellectually-corrupt practices in recent times, is it? On the same principle, I invariably refuse to accept Wikideceivia as an information-source offered by others. I hold to a variant of the famous motto (questionable grammar and all) ascribed to the Roman senator Cato the Elder: Wikideceivia delenda est! (Wikideceivia must be destroyed!) Have no truck with it on any excuse. When you swear a total, permanent shunning/boycott,… Read more »
PS: For a small avalanche of chapter-and-verse evidence of just how corrupt JWales is – and therefore how toxic the Wikideceivia sewer is – see Amarka’s comment below.
Wikideceivia delenda est!
You dson’t have to come up with cute but derogatory names for it. Just use a bit of common sense. I use Wikipedia for a lot of day to day information, most of it technical, some of it historical. All this can be described as ‘non-controversial’. I obviously tread very carefully should I look up contemporary topics – contested science, current affairs and politics — because they’re not only controversial but their veracity is usually a matter of opinion, which in this day and age is often ‘who can shout the loudest’.
You don’t condemn all books because a lot of what’s published is crap so why dump on this publishing medium?
Good luck with your dips into the cesspit, Martin. Scrub off well after each contamination! Check Amarka’s post below, and see whether you still think that JWales’s racket should get ANY patronage at all. Not by me. Not a chance. Patronise a CIA/zionist deception racket – on any topic at all? You can not be serious!
Wikideceivia, wikideceivia, wikideceivia delenda est!
Thinks: ‘Or would it be even more ‘cutesy’ to spell it Wikideceive-ya; just to make it dead clear even to the intellectually-challenged?’ :0)
…but I have just looked up the article on solar panels to check on the equivalent circuit or these devices. Its hardly a sewer of Zionist mis-information.
FWIW — Even the CIA even publishes useful summaries of things like the economic output of countries, information that’s useful for researchers that’s non-controverisal. You just need to know where the edge is likely to be and avoid that territory.
PS: Sorry, my error. My response just above should have been placed here.
I stand by my decision: NEVER look at Wikideceivia. It’s a cesspit of deceit. Nothing it offers can ever be trusted. Good luck with sifting the – alleged – echt gold from the toxic turds. And it’s not as if all knowledge is shut away from us if we can’t use the JWales cesspit. Once known to be a liar, always suspect thereafter. There are plenty of other, less dishonoured sources.
Wikideceivia delenda est!
‘To add at least some degree of transparency, German researchers have developed a free web browser tool called WikiWho that lets readers color code just who edited what in Wikipedia.’ – is there a version available for the Guardian, because it may well reveal the extent to which their geopolitical output is a direct transcript of intelligence community briefings? Essential article by the way – proof, if proof were needed, that info’ wars are currently running at full tilt. In fact we have now reached a stage where any sizeable information entity (controlled by corporations) must be assumed to be tainted until proven otherwise. The internet still tolerates plurality of opinion but what it won’t accept are informations streams that reach a wide audience without being filtered through various forms of censorship or psych-op. I linked to this doc on the recent Skripal thread because it explains how any event… Read more »
The video is blocked here in France by someone called ‘syndicadoFilms’ for ‘copyright reasons’.
Beautiful.
Can’t wait for the Russian ‘wiki’ to go live and fuck MrWales right off.
SPR are tops at this stuff hope they are doing a follow up to the MSM propaganda multiplier for ALT-MEDIA sites.
For Israel’s prime minister to become a de-facto President of the United States of america, intense behind-the-scene lobbying is required. Extreme public opinion massage certainly seals the deal!
The Zionists are now running Foreign Affairs departments in virtually all Western countries (anybody know any exception?). Could this happen without a tsunami of deception and lying?
In the USA the Zionists control politics, the MSM, the Departments of State, Treasury and Justice and the Federal Reserve. This commonplace observation was considered unacceptable, yesterday. Why?
Like everything on the internet a case of caveat emptor applies, whether it be a MSM article, a blog, a shop, Google, Wikipedia or even Off Guardian. 😉
If I am interested in a subject I always cross check as far as I can and if I am very interested I try to get all the way back to the original source. Of course, too many of us simply do not have the time let alone inclination.
But the article is correct, Wikipedia is grossly contaminated. It is a useful reference for general biographies (caveat emptor again, whether it is Wiki or a book), hard science and technology (except for some areas like climate ‘science’) but for anything that is relevant or in any way controversial it is always highly suspect.
Especially OG.
Has CI5 written all over it.
😉 😉
You’re absolutely right. Wikipedia has its uses and I have found it a good starting point on many topics – as long as you realise their pro-American ‘deep state’ agenda. Ditto for Quora.
Wikipedia is a crock of misinformation – it always has been. Adopt the large pinch of salt stance when reading and never rely on it for accuracy. Example:- Wiki page for a certain railway station (closed in the Beeching corruption era) has a photo claiming to be the station ….. it is a house next to the local village shop (also closed). A simple, non-life-threatening error …. but it is there for all to see. Wiki is an aid, that is all and much like the MSM, it is a propaganda tool. Nobody fact checks the fact checkers and if we choose to, we will allow the rewriting of history. Just look to google maps to find Palestine.
As for RationalWiki – what a manipulative pile of .
what a manipulative pile
“sceptic” forums in general, tend to be instinctive defenders of the Official Story. It would be interesting to understand the psychological processes in operation, wherein nonsensical “science” is used to support the most unscientific conclusions imaginable; the 9/11 event being, as always, a paradigmatic example.
Presumably, many of their inhabitants are on somebody’s payroll, with the usual consequences for understanding evidence and arguments that might get you removed from that payroll.
It’s almost synchronistic that you’d post this article after milosevic replied to a comment of mine seriously citing it as a valid “source” to “disprove” the overwhelming proof that 9/11 was a Nuclear Event . Maybe he works there as an editor in his spare time.
— here’s that reference again, you disinfo shill.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke_detector#Ionization
Why don’t you add some of your Hollywood favourites to ingratiate yourself ? Of course, if you were serious you would want to discuss the contents of WTC7, more specifically … (apart from all the security agencies and inland revenue services), the SEC investigations into Enron, Monsanto, GEC, harmonised with BP/USD.o.D interests & HAARP and their engineering of the weather, bankrupting many US farmers in the process of experimenting and then moving in with GMO crops onto land plagued by an engineered successive years of drought, with drought resistant seed, whilst speculating with the first ever Weather Derivative Fund investments, on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange … all questions & subjects milosevic prefers to avoid, at any cost, eh milo. ? ! Just project & transfer onto others, shouting disinformation shill, quoting wikipedia & Hollywood, youtube & google, all controlled arenas of opposition, like Chomsky & MIT… c’mon milosevic, you can… Read more »
How about discussing the science of engineering the weather?
How about you go f*** yourself, you CIA disinfo troll?
‘Classy’ response, milosevic, lower class, naturally. At least if I’m gonna’ do that, I’ll supply a link that refutes the disinformation anybody like you or WHBonney may furnish. So, to be perfectly clear: milosevic maintains that the weather cannot be and was never engineered, with cloud seeding and the micro-radio-wave heating of the ionosphere, (warping its’ form), purely figments of my imagination and of course, Lockheed Martin’s wild imagination before the Beijing Olympics in 2008 ! ? Given that the Chinese Government & Scientists openly ADMIT working with Lockheed Martin & FIVE HUNDRED installations on the North Face of the Himalayas and RT & others reported on this, many years ago… Milosevic appears to be on the wrong side of proven science & history confirmed, including the history of Bernard Eastlund’s warnings made public and indeed the official 1997 US D.o.D. policy & military strategy to control the food supply… Read more »
to be perfectly clear: milosevic maintains that the weather cannot be and was never engineered
Milo insists that HAARP is harmless and could not possibly be in anyway responsible for any elements of Climate Change
Clearly, milosevic has an agenda of ‘Total Denial of any Geo-Engineering’
so, you’re not only a disinfo shill, but also a liar, because I’ve never mentioned the subject.
but keep pursuing your CIA controllers’ agenda: disrupt, divert, derail. and then when people notice, tell some lies, and hope that fixes the problem.
good doggie, here’s your bone.
“…Brian Steere, (Binra)…”
Figures.
Ahh the Case of the Pot of accusing the Kettle. Tell me milosevic did your brain suffer much before it died?
— still no comment about the radioactive elements commonly present inside smoke detectors, then.
A nearly universal feature of disinfo shills is that they can’t respond to arguments which would tend to refute their claims. That would require a revision to the script, and the agency budget apparently doesn’t allow for that — it’s the quantity of disinfo that counts, not the quality. Hence, idiotic claims that either nobody died at the WTC (Petra/Flaxgirl), or that the demolition was done with nuclear explosives.
Keep up the good work. Your CIA masters are counting on you.
I already responded. Now go fuck yourself.
no, you didn’t. but please, tell us some more lies, like your disinfo colleague “Tim Jenkins”.
Woo Hoo😀👍 milosevic’s sock puppet team DVed me.
— yes, that’s right, more lies like that one, please. whatever you think “DV” means — I have no idea.
Some might have heard about the riots that happened in New Delhi on Feb. 25 & 26th during the PM Modi – president Trump meet just a few km away. A whole Fake news campaign was organized around that trying to blame….. Modi’s own BJP for that.
Here the exposure of Wikipedia editor DBigXray – an India guy who hates Modi.
because of his level at Wikipedia, his edits are not challenged. After making such edits, he protects the pages so others cannot rectify the lies he has spread.
Hinduphobia rears its head….
The Great Axis of Islamophobia-the USA, Israel and Modi’s little fascist Hindutva failing state. Keep the hate flowing Antsie-it suits you.
The only axis I see is USA, UK, KSA: keeping the dollar afloat on Arab oil and gas.
Right
This is a great article. I would like to add:
If Americans Knew: https://youtu.be/TAzBsVzYH1o
Astroturf and manipulation of media messages | Sharyl Attkisson | TEDxUniversityofNevada
https://youtu.be/-bYAQ-ZZtEU
I’d forgotten about the site If Americans Knew, tho I usually go on Mondoweiss or Electronic Intifada…
Appreciate this quite chilling video showing where the endgame of these bastards is at:
The complete disappearance of the Palestinians, the complete silencing of any criticism of Israel’s barbarity and war crimes, and mass groupthink when it comes to Israel and the Middle East.
Just straight out fascism.
I’m only surprised most Western countries havn’t already introduced laws making it a hate crime to criticise Israel.
That day is coming M. You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to see where all this is heading.
I know about the situation in France and in large swathes of the United States, like Texas for example.
You can find out whatever it is you’re supposed by the establishment to know about any given topic by looking at Wikipedia. ‘Nuff said!
Wikipedia isnt the first encyclopaedia to publish disinformation.
We can be sure that most of the paper encyclopaedias have been owned and edited by very conservative individuals and organisations. An ‘old boys’ network in many cases.
In a world of self interest and greed it’s hard to know who can be trusted.
True. You should read what the vaunted Encyclopedia Britannica has to say about 9/11. They accept the fantasmagorical ‘explanation of what happened by the commission without question.
On a common garden level I note that living history is an incendiary thing to seek to write – try it with your family. His story, her story – whats with the narrative struggle for identity – as if the one who judges last above all other judgement? Greed is for those who can never have enough, most know it as restlessness – or driven compulsive thought and habit. Seeking control of the narrative is also learning to operate under narrative controls. When was the golden age of free speech? The self-inflated belief in a fantasy leads to outrage when it pops. I am not writing to condone malice – but to open the dialogue to include the otherwise invisible structuring of thought and consciousness. Truth – as I use the word is always also an inner resonance of alignment and purpose and not an Object to be fought over… Read more »
Point made Binra, but verbosity IS the enemy of clarity.
verbosity IS the enemy of clarity.
— on the other hand, verbosity is the friend of disruption, diversion, and derailment.
although the output of the “Binra” operation has improved, recently; it’s lost the obviously machine-generated quality that it used to have. The algorithms must have been improved, or the amount of human supervision increased.
Binra an IA ?
Nah.
He/she is just one of those folks who like to showcase their erudition.
The Sleepwalkers will not be woken by a flood of syllable heavy jargon.
Is that erudition, or just an endless fountain of meaningless verbiage?
compare:
http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/
Gobbledegook for the self important Milo.
It’s not as dangerous as the spin the psychos spew out.
— it’s the sheer QUANTITY of gobbledygook that suggests that it must be largely machine-generated. (the Po-Mo generator, above, never gets tired, or runs out of jargon.)
I couldn’t manage to produce that volume of meaningless nonsense, continuously, day after day, month after month, no matter how delusionally self-important I felt.
Could you? Could anyone?
OCDers perhaps?
Winston had finished his bread and cheese. He turned a little sideways in his chair to drink his mug of coffee. At the table on his left the man with the strident voice was still talking remorselessly away. A young woman who was perhaps his secretary, and who was sitting with her back to Winston, was listening to him and seemed to be eagerly agreeing with everything that he said. From time to time Winston caught some such remark as ‘I think you’re so right, I do so agree with you’, uttered in a youthful and rather silly feminine voice. But the other voice never stopped for an instant, even when the girl was speaking. Winston knew the man by sight, though he knew no more about him than that he held some important post in the Fiction Department. He was a man of about thirty, with a muscular throat… Read more »
Not all duckspeak is bad.
https://www.dumbofeather.com/articles/michael-leunig/
I do not speak to the sleeping – but to the waking. You may engage in the futility of trying to change the will of others as if to vindicate your own – and MUST do so until you recognise it is not only futile but at cost of your own awareness of being. That which is already moving – is seeking and finding according to the stirring and prompting of a rising awareness. The ego is the attempt to take credit for, and exercise control over life as a pre and post judgmental reaction and response. The ego steals your life by substitution with surrogate reality. But only with the power you give it in the wish to be judge, definer and determiner of your own reality. I had read and experienced and opened a lot, before I came to realise it was all a sandcastle. You wake as… Read more »
If you had any specific point I would respond. Every word or phrase comes to me from the simple desire to give expression to an ‘insider’ view – in concert with outer perceptions or interpretations. Not insider to cabals or cartels – but inside the human psyche. Perhaps you are not aware of the structure through which your thought and response are framed? The manipulations in play COULD be educating you as to the way the mind is structured – but you still think you are the exception? (This is an other way of describing the belief ‘slavery is freedom’ but at a deeper root than Orwell’s mythology) I am interested to uncovering fresh and embracing perspective rather than persisting the same old and tired identity conflict. This means addressing what runs beneath our reality presumptions, beliefs and mutually reinforcing definitions. Yet the mind of identity conflict is founded on… Read more »
Our thoughts are like chattering monkeys.
Douglas Harding’s simple explanation:
http://www.headless.org/english-welcome.htm
Then stop identifying with them as ‘our’ or ‘me- thoughts’. If I were posting ‘my thinking’ it would be all about me. The mad monkey house is ‘all about me’ and reads everything as the output of the competition of me-narratives. The point of releasing chatterbox is not become a vacuous assertion of non dual ‘me’, but to become an instrument of wholeness of being. Thoughts have no more power than you give them. If you give them the power to judge or determine reality you give them the power to conflict or oppose reality – and – in case you forgot – that includes You. My comment on relational space is that without willingness to listen, there is no communication. Only a seeming communication of separate ‘me-thinking’ in search of me-defence reinforcement. “On having no head” is direct to the realisation that where you THINK your head to be… Read more »
Your writing is so convoluted Binra that it is almost impenetrable for most folks.
Open up to the simplicity of Truth.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TrxRgpsrpGg
— maybe that’s because it’s completely meaningless. just endless verbiage, to distract from discussion about the real world and real issues.
I do – and I write from there.
“No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance.”
~ Alan Bullock, in Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives
I met Barry Long way back when. If the shoe fits… wear it. I do not ‘think’ to generate posts – so much as align in relational willingness and flow. The presumption that you should stop thinking is an endless spiritual absurdity if taken as a process by which to GET something, Just release invested identity in whatever is not aligned to your consciously accepted purpose – Now – and be an open conduit for being whole in whatever you do – as the acceptance of wholeness of being instead of a filtered and distorted translation to the terms of your construct. (through a glass darkly) No matter how sussed your ‘construct’ it cannot be ‘applied’ but you can devote your life to the wish and belief you can. Just be still. Alight in the grace of the Movement of your being that includes your self-awareness as noticing That You… Read more »
‘When the student is ready the teacher appears’
After attending several of Barry’s talks I have lived in a flood of creativity.
Bless him.
indeed, Wikipedia isn’t the first encyclopedia to publish disinfo, but it IS the first to insinuate itself into the very fabric of the internet. what do you think Alexa & Siri consult when you ask them a question? what does Google throw up in its “knowledge boxes” in response to a search query? Wikipedia has a far greater reach than any of the encyclopedias of old, & people are consuming its lies when they do not realize it (whereas in the past no one ever “accidentally” consumed Britannica or Encarta). it also purports to be crowd-sourced when it is very clearly an intelligence operation, as reading any of the pieces linked in the above article will tell you (especially mine! also available in an easily-digestible video version version).
Thanks Helen. I have only recently found your work.
Along with Caitlin Johnston, Chris Hedges and sites like this, I feel better informed.
Keep shaking the cage.
Yikes. imagine being so utterly delusional you actually think something as undeniably heavily left-leaning as “Wikipedia”, is controlled by conservatives. It’s really astonoshing how far removed from reality you people are, what are you gonna say next – mainstream media is run by conservatives as well. All you need to do is look at some political articles relating to non-liberal subjects, Trump especially. The bias is blatant, to actually deny this is beyond lunacy.
And no matter where you are on the political spectrum, unless you’re a complete idealological puppet without a critical mind, you would acknowledge this AND you should be bothered by it. Wikipedia is just one of the global corporations who is pushing a leftist agenda. Step outside your tiny intellectual bubble and just look at the facts instead, and less time inside your idealogue self-affirming echo chamber
one of many examples specified here: https://larrysanger.org/2020/05/wikipedia-is-badly-biased/
More detailed and sourced info on this topic:
Wikipedia: Rotten to the Core
https://helenofdestroy.com/index.php/49-wikipedia-rotten-to-the-core
Wikipedia: J’Accuse
https://helenofdestroy.com/index.php/58-wikipedia-j-accuse
Wikipedia: the Modern Delphic Oracle
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Wikipedia Beats Turkey, but It’s No Win for Free Expression
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Wikipedia: J’Accuse
Jimmy Wales: Porn-Peddler-cum-Paid-Hasbara-Agent In a revelation that will no-doubt raise eyebrows amongst Wikipedia users, in 1996 Jimmy Wales co-founded an online Internet portal called Bomis which sold porn and explicit material to users. The following, actually taken from the Wikipedia article for Bomis(2) adds context: Bomis became successful after focusing on X-rated media. “Bomis Babes” was devoted to erotic images; the “Bomis Babe Report” featured adult pictures. Bomis Premium, available for an additional fee, provided explicit material. “The Babe Engine” helped users find erotic content through a web search engine. The advertising director for Bomis noted that 99 percent of queries on the site were for nude women. Even the New York Times reports that the creation of Wikipedia was financed by Wales’ earlier porn venture,(3) whereby he would literally hand deliver cheques from Bomis porn revenues in order to keep Wikipedia’s servers running. On a perhaps related but definitely… Read more »
Well, if you ignore the treatment of Palestinian women, imprisoned, tortured, subject to forced nakedness at check-points, their children routinely murdered, their houses destroyed etc, the victims of Israel’s booming sex-trafficking and pornography businesses, the orthodox and ultra-orthodox women afflicted by Talmudic subjection, and poor Israeli women living in the second most unequal country in the OECD, then the remaining Israeli women probably have it pretty good, living comfortable lives on stolen land.