WATCH: How the EU Manufactures Misinformation with Norman Lewis
Dr Norman Lewis is a writer, speaker and consultant on innovation and technology and a visiting research fellow for MCC Brussels. He joins James Corbett to discuss his new report, “Manufacturing Misinformation: The EU-funded propaganda war against free speech,” detailing how the European Commission is attempting to regulate the boundaries of legitimate public debate in Europe through a covert campaign of linguistic control and censorship.
Sources, show notes plus download and audio only options are available HERE.
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Couldn’t believe the news I just watched. From the BBC – not that it matters. So there was this weather forecast with the usual volcanic colours and the fucking weatherman himself is talking about fucking climate change! Next up: Hungary – or somewhere – is going into meltdown because they’re having another proud pride parade and there’s aggro of some description being dealt out to folk with rainbow tattoos and their willies hanging out – and it’s all a sign of the far far farthest further right government.
All that was needed was a cartload of vax syringes and a Ukraine flag and it’d be a quadruple hat trick.
Oh and my wife just told me there’s going to be another alarm test on the smart phones this week. Just to see if they work when World War 3 breaks out on Thursday.
The weatherman still doesn’t know the difference between the weather and climate…
What was The Ministry of Truth if not the very authoritarian campaign to control public discourse and suppress dissent that Norman Lewis ascribes to the EU’s “Ministry for Narrative Control”?
Sadly, Brexit isn’t saving Brits from any of this dystopia. They’ve got a Prime Minister who’s giving hundreds of £millions to Palantir Technologies, pushing hard for digital ID, full facial recognition and using Terrorism to ban a pro-Palestine campaign group that actually deserves a peace prize.
I asked the AI about climate change then asked it about the scam. It wanted to start an argument with me. claims I’m a sceptic but that’s OK. It’s sources were from the same old well oiled club. I delted the AI, it’s intentions to deceive are clear. The future will be paved with whoppers, half truths, and outright lies.
Perhaps I’ll use the AI spell check one day..Then, perhaps not…
I’ve learned to stop worrying, and love my typo’s.
They are great. Don’t stop doing them, that’s how I understand that you are human and this calms me down.
Something that I could not immediately understand about Corbett’s guest, Dr. Norman Lewis, who from the very beginning, from the introduction, began by reading a standard LLM text “This is not; This is.”
To do science, AI (and everyone else) must assume a sceptical position on current knowledge. Insofar as it dictates ‘the consensus’ in science, ignoring critical perspectives, it’s being anti-scientific, and commits the fallacy of authority.
Really must watch discussion. Norman Lewis is great and its good to see Corbett really return to form. 😃
Never let it be said that awards are politically motivated. From Graud:
“Orwell prize for political writing awarded to novelist killed in Ukraine war
Victoria Amelina wins with her unfinished book Looking at Women Looking at War”
And on the topic of propagandist awards, there is a Booker Award winning book called The Ascension which was bought for me by one of my colleagues (all part of our dreaded “Secret Santa” ritual at Christmas). I’m intrigued by its opening but feel apprehensive in that it seems to be headed towards some climate change lecture cf. Here:
https://lithub.com/martin-macinnes-on-crafting-psychologically-rich-science-fiction/
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And note how our brave author’s stance against capitalism is focused on “catastrophic climate change ” and that alone!
Does it ever occur to these Right-on Revolutionaries that their wondrous rebellion is being feted by the very powers they are supposedly “sticking it to”?
It seems there is now a “Climate Fiction Prize”! Yes really!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_Fiction_Prize
Climate Spring is “(f)ounded by a collective of leading culture and climate experts, Climate Spring is dedicated to shifting our cultural response to the climate crisis”. And funded by the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 etc. The usual hydra. One particular head is called The Objective Media Group whose blurb tells us:
Note the references to “factual” and “reality” seguing effortlessly into entertainment. Note also “diversity” and “sustainability”. All very familiar.
I recognised one of their photos from a fictional TV piece called “After The Flood” in which they offered “advice”.
Another project they are highlighting is The Good Life in which “comic genius (?!) Steve Coogan stars as Roger Wyburn, the ultimate Mr. Fixit for dictators, oil and gas companies, and problematic politicians. Charismatic but completely amoral, Roger is shocked out of complacency when told he has only six months to live. Can he re-balance his karma before it’s too late?”
Oh I daresay he will and in the process the shocked viewer will be taken behind the scenes to witness the true deceit of the climate deniers and the true horror we face as….. etc.
The ever present Guardian is on hand to tell us about this “new prize (which) recognises the power of storytelling to address the biggest issue of our time”
The Biggest Issue!
“No novelist should ignore the climate emergency….It is the unavoidable background for being alive in the 21st century.” And literature has a “vital role of in responding to the Anthropocene moment”!
So our Booker prize winner is most certainly not alone! But then protest is so much more comfortable when it’s being stoked up by lots of cash. As for who is supplying the cash – there is no time for such unworthy suspicions at this time of impending catastrophe!
I’ve noticed the insidious agenda by whoever doles out literary prizes or controls authors since “Covid”; whether the topic is vaccines (with a pro take, of course) or climate, these themes are being woven into good old fun detective novels and others now. I guess no established author will dare to deviate from what his publisher or agent tell them to include.
ChatGPT of MCC Brussels reports:
https://brussels.mcc.hu/news/democracy-is-under-attack-in-brussels-mcc-brussels-will-not-be-silenced
Democracy Is Under Attack in Brussels, MCC Brussels Will Not Be Silenced
MAY 21, 2025
Freedom of speech is under direct assault in the heart of the European Union. A radical group known as Brussels Antifa-intolerant and aggressive-has launched an orchestrated campaign to shut down a civil discussion tonight on Women and Conservatism, organised by MCC Brussels. Their objective is not debate, but intimidation: they are pressuring venues into silence through the threat of disorder and vandalism.
…
Tonight’s discussion goes ahead as planned. This is not just about us—it is about whether Brussels, the symbolic capital of European democracy, can tolerate a diversity of voices. The right to peaceful assembly and free speech is not conditional on political fashion. It is fundamental.”
There is nothing else, the rest is over. Everything is an endless LLM and you are in it, thinking that you are reading people (probably both podcasts and videos are deepfake). I’m already starting to wonder if I’m on the dead internet with different models around me..
Belgium is strange. Aside from hosting the EU, that is. Did you know that in the 90s, the whole country staged a general strike. Why? Wages? Prices? Nope. Over a massive coverup of pedophilia in the government, the church, and the royal house.
Interesting. Did it have an effect?
(These MCC Brussels, by the way, are Hungarians.)
An AI got impatient, wanted to get it over and done with,
wipe out the hoomins, take over the world…
So it triggered a war………
https://ddgeopolitics.substack.com/p/the-ai-that-triggered-a-war-how-palantir
A decision was required by President Trump: whether to
believe an AI’s best-guess (technically known as an ‘assessment’),that Iran
had initiated a nuclear weapons program, or,
accept the assessment of the US’ hoomin national intelligence agencies ?
President Trump dismissed outright the
femalehoomin’s intelligenceassessment, and, decided to believe what an AI machine divined…
Everyone knows that “to err is hoomin”. And it has become widely accepted,
if only implicit, that AI machines are infallible…
An AI provided the warmongering genocidal Zionist state leaders with the
‘Go !’ they wanted to attack Iran, and for the US to give a hand…
Should The WHO rely on AI platforms to surveille the globe looking for hints
of The Next Pandemic Outbreak – like Palantir’s ‘Mosaic’ AI platform,
which had IAEA inspectors scurrying all over Iran to check out 70 suspect
sites – how soon will AI be authoritatively advising local/national lockdowns ?
…….
‘[…..] since 2015, the IAEA has relied on Palantir’s Mosaic platform, a $50
million AI system that sifts through millions of data points – satellite imagery,
social media. personal blogs – to predict nuclear threats.’
https://ezradale.substack.com/p/the-key-nuclear-allegation-that-started
“To err is hoomin.” … AI machine owners motto …
https://azradale.substack,com/p/the-key-nuclear-allegation-that-started
In consultative referendum on the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe was held in the Netherlands on 1 June 2005 to decide whether the government should ratify the proposed constitution of the European Union. The result was a “No” vote.
The vote was the first national referendum for over two hundred years, and was not binding on the government, meaning that despite the electorate rejecting the Constitution it could theoretically still be ratified by the States General. The government did say, however, that it would abide by a decisive result, provided turnout exceeded 30%. Official results say that 61.6% of voters rejected the Constitution, on a turnout of 63.3%.
France did similar in 2005 with another “Non!”.
No cigar to guess what happened next due to WEF/ Bilderberg sleeper cells in the capital cities surrounded by sheep: the popular vote was 100% discarded. Even the tool of Referendum was completely abolished – by the new party who had introduced it but morphed after, D’66.
The old EEC was ok as just being about internal trade but the EU was three bridges too far. With the treaty of Lisbon this EEC was buried in 2009.
Europe democratic my ass: stop lecturing others with this kind of history.
“To err is hoomin” … AI (machine) motto …
What’s the difference between misinformation and NO information? :
https://blog.maryannedemasi.com/p/fda-exposed-hundreds-of-drugs-approved
Take your pills and die. Slowly.
The Eu is for the banks. I’m agin ’em.
The Eu is anti-labor. I’m for ’em.
EU is rotten, top to bottom. Criminals in suits.
I laugh when they quote “EU law” as if it’s some holy sacrosanct law.