Showing posts with label fake news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fake news. Show all posts

Sunday, 9 August 2026

Distortions


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Here is another example of misinformation from those who are seemingly on our side. Maybe he was thinking this and he never actually said it. If we perpetuate this fabrication in an effort to disparage the WHO, we leave ourselves open to ridicule. Here is Gemini's analysis:


Here is a direct analysis of the veracity of the information presented in the file named "Screenshot 2026-08-10 at 10.08.42.png".

The Verdict: False/Misattributed

The image contains a mixture of historical fact and a fabricated quote. While the man pictured, Brock Chisholm, was indeed the first Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), he never said or wrote the quote attributed to him in the image.

Here is a breakdown of the facts regarding this image:

1. The Persona (True)
Brock Chisholm was a Canadian psychiatrist, medical practitioner, and the first Director-General of the WHO, serving from 1948 to 1953.

2. The Quote (False)
There is no historical record in any of Chisholm's speeches, lectures, or writings of him saying: "To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men, their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas."

3. The Origin of the Misquote

The text in the image is a highly distorted summarization of Chisholm's actual views, created by his critics and later falsely presented as a direct quotation.

Chisholm was a highly controversial figure in his time. Following the devastation of World War II, he delivered the William Alanson White Memorial Lectures in 1946 (later published in the journal Psychiatry). In these lectures, he expressed views that shocked many conservative commentators of the era:

On Dogma and Morality: He argued that strict adherence to rigid religious dogmas and traditional concepts of "right and wrong" caused psychological neuroses and contributed to the behavioral rigidity that leads to war.

On Patriotism: He advocated that to prevent future global conflicts, humanity needed to develop a sense of global citizenship that superseded strict national loyalties.

During the 1950s, political critics and conservative groups strongly opposed his ideology. They summarized his complex, psychological arguments into hostile talking points. Over the decades, one of these critical summaries was mistakenly (or intentionally) put into quotation marks and attributed directly to Chisholm, which is what circulates in internet memes like the one in your screenshot today.

Wednesday, 15 March 2017

Clif High versus the GoogleBeast

I've only recently stumbled across Clif High, his predictive linguistics and his ALTA reports. This is what he says about his predictive linguistics:
Predictive Linguistics is a field that I pioneered in 1993. The software and lexicon has been in continual change/update mode since. This is due to the constantly changing nature of language and human expression. Predictive Linguistics works to predict future language about (perhaps) future events, due to the nature of humans. It is my operating assumption that all humans are psychic, though the vast majority do nothing to cultivate it as a skill, and are likely unaware of it within themselves. In spite of this, universe and human nature has it that they 'leak' prescient information out continuously in their choice of language. My software processing collects these leaks and aggregates them against a model of a timeline and that information is provided in this report. The ALTA report is an interpretation of the asymmetric trends that are occurring even this instant as millions of humans are typing billions of words on the internet.
It's an intriguing idea but does it work? Well, I've read through his 2017 ALTA report and I'll wait and see how things pan out. Regardless of that however, his latest YouTube video about the way Google is surreptitiously undermining revenue to alternative news sites is quite illuminating. Of course, it's what we expect Google would be doing but it's interesting to have how it's doing it explained so clearly. He writes as an accompaniment to his video:
The masters of the big G spot have instructed the working metal heads in the bowels of the googlebeast to ratchet down the valves on alt media under the guise of a plan that we call here the 'golden showers' such that traffic dries up and we all blow our way into history. One of my thoughts, as this is all being done with algo's that have to work on linguistic structures, is to deliberately alter our own language patterns in videos and written material. Now, please note, this tactic is NOT trying to escape their algo, but rather, in a guerrilla 'fighter' fashion, we use this approach to derail the intent of the algo, and to co-opt it into 'being our bitch'.