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Once upon-a-time, not too long ago, “artists,” creative free thinkers, challenged and protested nearly everything the government imposed upon them.
Now, beholden to their corporate masters, inflated with arrogance and ignorant of hard data and scientific facts, today’s “artists” do everything Big Brother says… and attack those who disagree. Fully vaccine impregnated, they are now true champions of Donald Trump’s Operation War Speed full inoculation drive.
Making the headline news in Dumfukistan, aka, The United States of American, anti-Vietnam War era rockers sparked protests and boycotted the streaming platform of Spotify that hosts the popular podcast host, Joe Rogan.
They accused Rogan of peddling COVID-19 misinformation after interviewing two medical experts who do not buy the “official” government line or the mainstream media narrative on the virus.
Neil Young—the out-of-shape “Rockin’ in the Free World” hypocrite—who started the anti-Rogan protest, was quickly supported by Joni Mitchell and then his former compatriots Crosby, Stills, and Nash.
“They can have [Joe] Rogan or Young,” he wrote. “Not both.”
Young’s letter attracted a lot of media attention and prompted the podcaster to post a 10-minute video explaining the show’s format and his hope that a free-wheeling conversation can take place with alternative views.
“While we always value alternate points of view, knowingly spreading disinformation during this pandemic has deadly consequences,” Crosby, Stills, and Nash said in a statement. “Until real action is taken to show that a concern for humanity must be balanced with commerce, we don’t want our music—or the music we made together—to be on the same platform.”
Rolling Stone first reported on a letter that Young sent to his management team that said he wanted his music pulled from the streaming service. The letter came after Rogan defended interviews with Dr. Peter McCullough, a notable cardiologist, and Dr. Robert Malone, an infectious disease specialist.
Rogan defended the interviews and pointed to his guests’ resumes. McCullough has been widely published and Malone is considered one of the leading founders on mRNA technology, which is used in the Pfizer and Moderna jabs.
“I’m going to do my best, in the future, to balance things out…I’m going to do my best,” he said. “But my point of doing this, always, is just to create interesting conversations and ones that I hope people enjoy.”
Spotify has stood by the podcaster who attracts about 11 million listeners each episode and is the company’s main draw. While Rogan critics were unable to get him off the air because Spotify couldn’t care less what these has-been rockers think about Rogan, the latest N-word controversy could spell trouble for Rogan… he has a target on his back.
Critics located repeated past use of the N-word on his podcast. Rogan called the video the “most regretful and shameful thing I’ve ever had to talk about publicly.”
“I know that to most people, there is no context where a white person is ever allowed to say that word, never mind publicly on a podcast. And I agree with that now. I haven’t said it in years. But for a long time… instead of saying the N-word, I’d just say the word. I thought as long as it was in context, people would understand what I was doing.”
Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson came out in support of Rogan during the early stages of the controversy, but has since backed away from the host. Johnson said he was not aware of his N-word use prior to his comments in support “but now I’ve become educated to his complete narrative. Learning moment for me.”
When a celebrity refers to something as a “learning moment” that means complete meltdown. The scavengers are out and believe they have Rogan on the ropes.
TREND FORECAST: Long before COVID War censorship, as we have been forecasting and reporting for decades, “free speech is dead.” We are only “free” to repeat the junk-food news shoved down our throats by Presstitutes who sell the lies of government murderers and thieves.
See:
- “MEDIA CENSORSHIP TRENDS ESCALATE” (19 Sep 2018)
- “YOUTUBE: NO FREEDOM OF SPEECH. BELIEVE WHAT WE TELL YOU!” (5 Oct 2021)
- “YOUTUBE BANS THE SCIENCE AGAIN” (21 Sep 2021)
Censorship trends will continue to escalate as governments grab more power from the people and large corporations further consolidate the mainstream media and the Internet.
TRENDPOST: And on the coronavirus front we live in a society where health officials have spread lies and misinformation. (See “CDC’S VAX STATS ARE FUBAR,” “A TALE OF TWO STUDIES: CDC LYING?” “GOVERNMENT: FREE SPEECH IS BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH” and “NEW CDC CLAIM: ‘TWO MASKS BETTER THAN ONE’.”)
TRENDPOST: As we have long noted, “Dumb Enough to Believe Bush’s Wars, Dumb Enough to Believe the COVID War.” On 21 May, an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine by doctors and medical experts from Harvard Medical School; the Division of Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital; Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute; and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA, stated:
“Public health authorities define a significant exposure to Covid-19 as face-to-face contact within 6 feet with a patient with symptomatic Covid-19 that is sustained for at least a few minutes (and some say more than 10 minutes or even 30 minutes). The chance of catching Covid-19 from a passing interaction in a public space is therefore minimal. In many cases, the desire for widespread masking is a reflexive reaction to anxiety over the pandemic.”