2021-12-14
Astroturfing: "The disguising of an orchestrated campaign as a "grass-roots" event – i.e., a spontaneous upwelling of public opinion" - Wiktionary.
Yes, I had to look it up - so I figured I would save you the bother.
Effectively the creation of a fake grass-roots movement. It seems to me that there could be a great many candidates for this "accolade".
"The art of it is to try to make it look as though there are ordinary people pulling the strings ... the whole goal is to make you feel like you're an outlier on some topic when you're not ... feel as though you're the only one that thinks a certain thing which actually may be a majority feeling or opinion or conclusion ... "
"... we know ... that this is a multi-billion dollar industry ... "
This is about the art of manipulation of public opinion, an art which has really come to the fore these last two corona years, after being previously used in the background without attracting too much attention.
A very interesting conversation.
"... there is really no line any more ... between the people making the decisions within the administration of these agencies and the vaccine industry or the pharmaceutical industry, they are so inter-twined ..."
(67 minutes)
And here (courtesy of Resistance GB) is a guy in Parliament Square who has indeed woken up.
The awakening is happening.
