The Deceit of Information Integrity
Benjamin Franklin is credited with the quote, “Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.”
Despite being entirely on the subject of censorship, you will never find the word in the article, “Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change”. The editorial appears on the website of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization more commonly referred to as UNESCO. Instead, they refer to censorship as “information integrity”. Political progressives routinely formulate words and terms into innocuous euphemisms.
UNESCO, the United Nations Secretariat, and the Government of Brazil, jointly pursue, through the above initiative, the following objectives::
Establish and manage a Global Fund for Information Integrity on Climate Change to fund in-depth research and strategic advocacy and diplomacy actions that contributes to exposing and dismantling climate-related disinformation
Promote information integrity on climate change in the international institutional agenda and establish specific goals as well as common lines of action.
Strengthen global information integrity and tackling misinformation by supporting public communications campaigns, civil society, and scientific groups worldwide, and engaging key audiences and stakeholders.
Naturally, any information exclusive of anthropogenic climate change advocacy will be flagged by selected partners. A Global Fund has been established to pay these “partners” for information identified as opposing or conflicting to their political cause.
The 2025 UN Climate Change Conference (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) COP 30) will be assembled in November 2025 in Belém, Brazil. The city of Belém is located 1500 miles north of Rio de Janeiro and is considered the gateway to the Amazon River. The COP 29 was held in Baku, Azerbaijan last November, had in excess of 67,000 participants, and their only accomplishment seemed to be the subject censorship initiative.
The reason for the Brazilian government’s involvement is the progressivism of Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva who assumed office in January of 2023 despite spending time in prison in 2017 for fraud and corruption. Had he not defeated his conservative predecessor Jair Bolsonaro in a dubious, scandalous election there would be no affiliation or partnering with the Brazilian government.
At a recent World Economic Forum disinformation seminar, Melissa Fleming, Head of The United Nations Department of Global Communications when talking about “information integrity” said, “We are becoming more proactive, we own the science and the world should know it.” At that same seminar, she also advised that the UN had partnered with Google to display UN-approved search results first or at the top.
It is amazing the lengths people will go to attain and retain power and privilege. Lies, immoral dishonesty, and excoriating any opposition irrespective of facts and reality have become standard progressivist fare. Censorship grows out of fear - suppressing information or expression creates the unease of potentially suffering unwanted consequences. Limiting or destroying contrasting ideas or viewpoints lets authoritarians maintain control.
Richard Lindzen, an atmospheric physicist and Professor Emeritus at MIT, has said, “ What historians will definitely wonder about in future centuries is how deeply flawed logic, obscured by shrewd and unrelenting propaganda, actually enabled a coalition of powerful special interests to convince nearly everyone in the world that CO2 from human industry was a dangerous, planet-destroying toxin. It will be remembered as the greatest mass delusion in the history of the world – that CO2, the life of plants, was considered for a time to be a deadly poison”
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