WE SHOULD HAVE PAID ATTENTION WHEN WE WERE WARNED
When one of the most highly respected American Presidents, Dwight David Eisenhower, used his televised farewell address to the nation, to warn us of the encroaching threat of corporate power, we should have paid attention. When executives for some of the largest corporations in the world were found guilty of lying to the world over the safety of
their products that killed hundreds of thousands of people – in America alone - for over 50 years, we should have paid attention. HOW A CORPORATE PLAN WORKED, AND HOW IT ENDED
There is no better example of a highly successful corporate campaign of lies, deception, and manipulation, to hide what amounted to crimes against humanity, during the 50-year long campaign of the to***co companies to prevent the public from learning how smoking was causing cancer, something their own scientists had informed them of in the 1940s. In the end, it was not our government or our regulatory agencies that stopped the carnage of big to***co, nor was it the medical institutions that had been making billions off treating the victims of smoking caused cancer. Many doctors, and even the AMA, had assured the public there was no evidence smoking caused cancer, while they were receiving millions as “donations” from to***co companies. It was a lone whistleblower and a courageous group of broadcast journalists who put the facts before the American people, forcing the hand of the same government officials who had taken millions in what amounted to campaign bribes from to***co companies for decades. The to***co companies had created a playbook of how to use their financial, political, and advertising power to neutralize anyone who attempted to expose the truth about their products, and if that failed, they used a virtual army of some of the highest-paid attorneys in the world to threaten, intimidate, and financially destroy anyone who dared to question there carefully constructed campaign of misinformation. Among the stable of captive specialists with impressive titles to their names were research scientists paid to create studies and reports showing there was no link to cancer from to***co. But today, we all know the truth, as a result, smoking dropped from over 40% in 1990 to 14% in one of the latest reports, saving countless thousands more lives. TODAY'S CORPORATIONS HAVE A SMARTER PLAYBOOK
Following the guide book created by the to***co companies, and learning from their mistakes, other corporations and financially powerful organizations have taken the art of information control several steps further, turning our news media and our regulatory agencies into a captive force working to keep the public from information they do not want exposed. What they learned was that while the to***co companies had been highly successful in keeping the media in line, by paying millions in advertising to most networks and major publications, it had not been enough to prevent one highly regarded group of journalists from crashing the house of cards big to***co had relied on. Nor was the stable of politicians the to***co companies owned able to stop the tidal wave of lawsuits that all but destroyed the to***co industry. What needed to be done was outright ownership of the media, so the only story that would be told was what they wanted the public to believe, and today, six major corporations own an estimated 90% of the major media. They also needed to make sure any whistleblowers would face severe financial penalties, total blacklisting of their carriers, along with heavy ridicule and condemnation from the media they own and a legion of paid “experts”, and government agencies they control. But today, one more thing was needed, control of the Internet. "HE WHO CONTROLS THE STORY, CONTROLS SOCIETY"
As the Greek philosopher, Aristotle once said, "He who controls the story, controls society.", and today the largest engine for storytelling is the Internet. The Internet is the last bastion of free public information, and it is now fully under attack from several angles. First is the recent threats directed at the heads of companies like Google, Facebook, Pinterest, and others, when during recent Congressional hearings on concerns over the size and influence of such companies, Congressman Adam Schiff told the owners and corporate heads of these companies they needed to start blocking “false” news and information getting to the public, or, as Congressman Schiff put it, maybe the government would have to break up their businesses. In other words, a US Congressman resorted to extortion to force Internet companies to comply with government censorship, and they all got the message, with some, such as Google, fully on board with the agenda. Beyond direct government interference, is the millions of advertising dollars now pouring into the pockets of the largest social media and search engine tech companies - using the to***co playbook as a guide. But they are beginning to lose the battle of corporate-sponsored misinformation and censorship, and they know it. For them, the game has taken on a more desperate struggle for control of minds and imposition of corporate values over human values. The question is - just how far they are willing to go, this time, to protect their financial empires, how many more lives will be victims of corporate greed, and at the end, who will be in control of the final story? ARE WE PAYING ATTENTION NOW? This website is dedicated to helping the thousands of dedicated online journalists, health professionals, and ordinary people who are making sacrifices from their lives and resources to get the truth to the rest of us. What years of personal research have taught me is when you are at the bottom of a rabbit hole, it is the sane world that seems upside down, What we know is there are many forces in this world, wanting to keep us all at the bottom of a well-constructed highly fabricated rabbit hole, where the truth is treated as insanity, and insanity is said to be the truth. The question for us is, are we going to let them succeed in doing what the to***co companies succeeded in doing for 50 years, and put us all back to sleep believing we can trust the experts and media stories being told, or are we ready to listen to what President Eisenhower and countless others have been trying to tell us, before it’s too late?
