The Rise of the Western Anti-Democracies

One-party authoritarian regimes silencing mass populations and incarcerating critics or unwelcome voices are now a norm in the West. Are we seeing the rise of self-proclaimed democracies that are decidedly anti-democratic?

The Rise of the Western Anti-Democracies
“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.” ― Isaac Asimov

India went through a terrible colonial rule. It is estimated that 1.8 billion Indians died during that authoritarian regime imposition.

$45 trillion was plundered from India. That was the finding of Utsa Patnaik's study. What most do not focus on is that had India not been colonized, its GDP in 2003 would have been $232 trillion! Just for context, the GDP of the USA in 2022 was $25.44 trillion! India's economy would have been at least 10 times the American economy today!

THAT was the REAL cost of colonialism.

So if you check the GDP per capita, we are looking at an era of colonial plunder followed by socialist stagnation. It was only recently - since 1992 - that the free market capitalist economic ways took over the Indian economy.

And it shows.

It was the United Kingdom that prided in itself on giving India (and the other colonized countries), the "Rule of Law" and a "modern civilization and education system."

Those who tortured us ended up convincing us that it was for our own good.

That is how colonial enterprise cloaked in altruistic mumbo-jumbo works.

It is about wealth. Earned or plundered. The latter underscores power.

And, that is an intoxicating cocktail for countries to resist.

The world has changed over the years.

But the ambitions and the ruthless savagery of the elite few in the world has not.

We are now looking at an interesting state of world affairs.

The Western anti-democracies are using every tool and subjugation technique to crack down on democracy (in other countries and their own). Why?

Because they want to protect the new business model that profits from control!

Let us look at each piece in detail.

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Mass Subversion of the Society

During a discussion with Bill Maher, Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi was discussing the illegals who are coming the US and the benefits they are getting.

Nancy Pelosi posits that: "Immigration had always been a bipartisan always."

Maher then counters: "Not free houses."

Taken aback, Pelosi goes onto her American dream sequence: "It's not free houses, it's the American dream being available to more people."

She keeps at it throwing in Ronald Reagan and George HW Bush only to be countered again by Maher.

Maher slips in: "But, this is for the undocumented."

At this moment, Nancy Pelosi lets out the secret that the Democrat leaders have not been saying out loud: "I would like to move them to documented."

Bottomline: They are paving the way to give amnesty to over 20 million illegals!

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Let us say it the way it is - The Deep State, which has the Democratic Party as its lead weapon, is working overtime to bankrupt the United States of America to establish one-party control and then use the military assets to control the world!

This is in the US.

The 'Mandate' for Silencing

In other countries - like Brazil - for example, the infiltration by such forces is openly silencing the voice of people.

Source: Brazil block on Elon Musk's X comes into effect after judge's order / Economic Times

But that was not enough. He has put a fine of $8900 for anyone who uses a VPN to use X. That is how much the new establishment is afraid of X in Brazil.

He threatened a fine of 50,000 reais ($8,900) to anyone who used "technological subterfuges" to get around the block, such as a VPN. The judge also demanded Google, Apple and internet providers "introduce technological obstacles capable of preventing the use of the X application" and access to the website – though he later walked back that order. The social media platform has more than 22 million users in Brazil. (Source: Brazil block on Elon Musk's X comes into effect after judge's order / Economic Times)

Whoa!

Just for context - Brazil has a total population of 217 million. 22 million users are on X. That is 10% of Brazil's citizens have been silenced by a judge in a matter of a few minutes.

That is how powerful this establishment is. It can silence millions in a flash without any repercussions.

Just remember this when you think of India and what can be done IF the power falls into the hands of those few in the deep state.

In the United States, Kamala Harris is already planning to shut Elon Musk down!

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Many people call all this a work of the Deep State.

What is this Deep State?

Here is a quick primer.

What is the Deep State and What does it do?

The concept of the "Deep State" refers to a group of powerful, wealthy elites who allegedly control global events and policies from behind the scenes. This group is said to operate through a hierarchical structure resembling a pyramid, with a small number of individuals at the top, such as the Rothschild Family, the Pope, the British Royal Family, and the Rockefeller Family. Below them are layers of influential people, including wealthy families, business leaders, bankers, and government officials.

The Deep State is often associated with terms like Globalist, Cabal, Elites, and New World Order, which are considered synonymous. They are believed to issue directives on global policies, such as immigration and international aid, which are then implemented by lower-tier members.

Several groups are purportedly linked to the Deep State, including Freemasonry, Jesuits, Skull & Bones, Bohemian Grove, and organizations like the Bilderberg Group and the Trilateral Commission. Additionally, institutions like the World Economic Forum, IMF, World Bank, UN, and WHO are thought to be under its influence to carry out its agenda. However, the existence and influence of the Deep State are widely debated and considered a conspiracy theory by many.

(Source: X Post)

The influence of the "Deep State" on global policies that one can gauge from the events have significant implications:

  1. Erosion of Democratic Processes: If a secretive group of elites is directing global policies, it undermines democratic institutions and the power of elected officials. This could lead to a loss of public trust in governments and democratic systems.
  2. Concentration of Power: The idea of a Deep State suggests that a small group holds disproportionate power over global affairs. This concentration could lead to policies that favor the interests of the elites over the general population, exacerbating inequality and limiting opportunities for broader participation in decision-making.
  3. Lack of Accountability: With decisions being made behind closed doors, there would be little transparency or accountability. This lack of oversight could result in policies that are not in the public interest, with few mechanisms to challenge or change them.
  4. Influence on Globalization: The Deep State is often linked to globalization, with claims that it directs economic and political integration for its own benefit. This influence could shape trade agreements, international law, and economic policies in ways that prioritize corporate interests over national sovereignty or local needs.
  5. Impact on Sovereignty: Countries might find their sovereignty compromised if they are pressured or coerced into adopting policies dictated by the Deep State. This could affect immigration, defense, and economic policies, among others.
  6. Social and Political Instability: Belief in a Deep State can contribute to social unrest and political polarization, as groups may feel marginalized or oppressed by unseen forces. This can lead to increased conspiracy theories, distrust, and division within societies.
  7. Manipulation of Public Discourse: Control over media and information channels, as suggested by Deep State theories, would allow for manipulation of public opinion and discourse, potentially stifling dissent and promoting specific narratives.

We will now go through several scenarios that strongly point in one direction for the world.

Are we ready to acknowledge the subversion that we are all being subjected to?

The major COVID Cover-up

Let us start with the most devastating catastrophe to hit the world in the last 100 years. COVID-19!

That was the time when authoritarian diktats of the Western regimes were prevalent. Social media platforms were censoring information. The mainstream media, like even the National Geographic, were carrying "reports" with imposing visages of Anthony Fauci declaring the theory that the COVID virus came from a Chinese lab - "lacking scientific evidence."

Anything to the contrary was considered disinformation.

In February, Facebook explicitly banned the claim, as part of a broad policy update aimed at “removing more false claims about Covid-19 and vaccines”. In a public statement at the time, it said: “Following consultations with leading health organizations, including the World Health Organization (WHO), we are expanding the list of false claims we will remove to include additional debunked claims about the coronavirus and vaccines.” Anyone posting claims that Covid-19 was “man-made or manufactured” could have seen their posts removed or restricted, and repeatedly sharing the allegation could have led to a ban from the site entirely. (Source: "Facebook lifts ban on posts claiming Covid-19 was man-made" / The Guardian)

There was one narrative and anything to the contrary in public was thrown out.

Until formal investigations were launched by the political opposition in the US. Basically, the Republicans were pushing for clarity.

Oh, and those "debunked claims"? Well it turns out, they weren't quite debunked. Just enforced narratives!

First, we saw that in January 2022, Intercept ran a piece based on documents and evidence obtained by its team about how the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the Wuhan University Center for Animal Experiment, and their partner, the U.S.-based nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance, have been involved in what the U.S. government classifies as "gain-of-function research of concern." This type of research intentionally enhances the pathogenicity or transmissibility of viruses to facilitate their study.

Documents obtained by The Intercept contain new evidence that the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the nearby Wuhan University Center for Animal Experiment, along with their collaborator, the U.S.-based nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance, have engaged in what the U.S. government defines as “gain-of-function research of concern,” intentionally making viruses more pathogenic or transmissible in order to study them, despite stipulations from a U.S. funding agency that the money not be used for that purpose. Grant money for the controversial experiment came from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which is headed by Anthony Fauci. The award to EcoHealth Alliance, a research organization which studies the spread of viruses from animals to humans, included subawards to Wuhan Institute of Virology and East China Normal University. The principal investigator on the grant is EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak, who has been a key voice in the search for Covid-19’s origins. (Source: NIH Documents Provide New Evidence U.S. Funded Gain-of-Function Research in Wuhan / The Intercept)

In 2024, Lawrence Tabak, the principal deputy director of the NIH, confirmed that U.S. taxpayer funds were used to finance gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) via a grant to EcoHealth Alliance.

This revelation contradicted the earlier denials from government health officials, like Dr. Anthony Fauci. They had us believe that no such funding had taken place.

The admission was made during a congressional hearing where Tabak was questioned about an NIH grant to the EcoHealth Alliance that facilitated experiments at the WIV.

Source: NIH official finally admits taxpayers funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan — after years of denials / NY Post

It is important to remember the toll that the world bore of this "gain-of-function" research.

Source: Global numbers / US Numbers

So you see what really happened?

US taxpayers funded the death of over 7 million people globally and over 1 million Americans for something that the health officials at the highest level in the US were covering up. Why?

If one had freedom of speech, in any other era and for any other country doing it - such an act would have been called a Bio-terror Genocide!

In the double-speak of the American establishment, it is normalized as "gain of function research."

A subterfuge that was pushed by the state and enabled by the control and connivance of the social media platforms.

Now let us move to other stories that show the real structure of the world that we live in today.

Hunter Biden Laptop Story

This was the most bizarre cover-up seen in our lifetimes.

A laptop that was said to be belonging to Hunter Biden, son of then-presidential candidate Joe Biden, was left at a computer repair shop in Delaware in 2019. The laptop's hard drive contained emails, documents, photos, and other data. The New York Post published a front-page story on October 14, 2020, presenting emails from the laptop that clearly showed corruption involving Joe and Hunter Biden. The story claimed to reveal questionable business dealings, particularly related to Ukraine and China.

Source: New York Post

But this story in New York Post was censored.

Heavily!

No one was even allowed to share it on social media. Twitter, for example:

  • Blocked users from sharing links to the New York Post story.
  • Prevented users from posting or sharing images of the emails from the laptop.
  • Temporarily locked the New York Post's Twitter account

Facebook on the other hand,

  • Reduced the distribution of the story on its platform while third-party fact-checkers reviewed it.
  • Did not completely ban the sharing of the article, but limited its algorithmic spread

Later, Zuckerberg admitted to doing that and also that he now believed it was wrong.

The New York Post alleged leaked emails from Hunter Biden's laptop showed the then vice-president was helping his son's business dealings in Ukraine. Facebook and Twitter restricted sharing of the article, before reversing course amid allegations of censorship. Zuckerberg said that getting the decision wrong "sucks". (Source: Zuckerberg tells Rogan FBI warning prompted Biden laptop story censorship / BBC)

Sucks?! Really?!

They shut down accounts, they silenced a critical story on the eve of the Presidential election that was about the candidate who became the President! What "sucked" for Zuckerberg, should have been called for what it actually was - Election Interference!

The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability held a hearing titled “Protecting Speech from Government Interference and Social Media Bias, Part 1: Twitter’s Role in Suppressing the Biden Laptop Story.”

These were the main takeaways.

Source: "The Cover Up: Big Tech, the Swamp, and Mainstream Media Coordinated to Censor Americans’ Free Speech" / Committee on Oversight and Accountability

Social media companies were just an extension of the FBI, which itself was carrying out the political agenda of the Democrats.

And, this did not stop at suppressing a vital piece of information in the run up to the Presidential election, but it went further. There was a concerted attempt to silence the only opponent in the race against the Democrats!

Russia-Gate and Trump Collusion Disinformation

In 2017, special counsel Robert Mueller started an investigation. They examined 45th U.S. President Donald Trump concerning Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.

Source: Wikipedia

Two grand juries were used.

So far, there are two known grand juries, one in DC and one in Virginia, tasked with hearing testimony and reviewing evidence into Mueller probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election and whether the Trump campaign collaborated with Moscow. (Source: Business Insider)

The investigation concentrated on three main areas:

  1. Russian interference in the 2016 elections.
  2. Connections between Trump associates and Russian officials, including possible espionage activities.
  3. Potential obstruction of justice by Trump and his associates.

The investigation concluded in 2019 with the verdict that there was no evidence indicating that President Trump or his aides coordinated with the Russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 election.

Although insufficient evidence was found to charge a criminal conspiracy, several campaign members were indicted, such as National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

Source: "Mueller finds no proof of Trump collusion with Russia; AG Barr says evidence 'not sufficient' to prosecute" / NBC

In total, the investigation led to charges against 34 individuals and 3 companies, resulting in 8 guilty pleas and one conviction at trial. The report did not make a definitive conclusion on obstruction of justice due to a Justice Department policy that prevents indicting a sitting president. Nevertheless, Attorney General William Barr highlighted ten instances that could be considered potential obstruction.

After this, in May 2019, Attorney General William Barr appointed John Durham, then the U.S. Attorney for Connecticut, to review the origins of the FBI's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. Durham was tasked with examining the government's collection of intelligence about interactions between the 2016 Trump presidential campaign and Russians.

Source: Opening letter of the Durham Report, delivered to Attorney General Merrick Garland / Wikipedia

In October 2020, shortly before the presidential election, Barr elevated Durham to the status of special counsel. This appointment ensured that Durham could continue his investigation even if Trump lost the 2020 election, which he eventually did!

Source: Trump-Russia: what we know about the Durham investigation of an investigation/ The Guardian

Durham's investigation lasted four years and resulted in a 306-page report released on May 15, 2023.

Durham concluded that the FBI should not have initiated a full investigation into the connections between Trump's campaign and Russia during the 2016 election. He discovered that the FBI relied on "raw, unanalyzed, and uncorroborated intelligence" to start the "Crossfire Hurricane" investigation. The report indicates that the FBI did not "uphold their important mission of strict fidelity to the law" during this investigation. Durham criticized the bureau for showing a "serious lack of analytical rigor" in handling the information they received, particularly from sources with political affiliations.

Durham’s 300-plus page report also states that the FBI used “raw, unanalyzed, and uncorroborated intelligence,” to launch the “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation into Trump and Russia but used a different standard when weighing concerns about alleged election interference regarding Hillary Clinton’s campaign. The special counsel, however, did not recommend any new charges against individuals or “wholesale changes” about how the FBI handles politically charged investigations, despite strongly criticizing the agency’s behavior. “Based on the review of Crossfire Hurricane and related intelligence activities, we conclude that the (Justice) Department and FBI failed to uphold their important mission of strict fidelity to the law in connection with certain events and activities described in this report,” Durham wrote. The report also concludes that “at least on the part of certain personnel intimately involved in the matter” there was “a predisposition to open an investigation into Trump.”(Source: Special counsel John Durham concludes FBI never should have launched full Trump-Russia probe / CNN)

What does this all mean?

So basically, yes Russia may have done its own digging and hacking into the US elections - exactly as the US does in elections of other countries - but there was no collusion between Donald Trump's staff or him and the Russians. Yet, a whole propaganda was unleashed in the US that was full of disinformation. All this when any counter to the Russia-Trump collusion story was being tagged as disinformation on the social media platforms!

That is how blatant it was.

Silencing Speech and Social Media Persecution

On July 29, Axel Rudakubana used a kitchen knife to enter a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport.

He then proceeded to stab and kill three young girls: Bebe King, aged 6, Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7, and Alice Dasilva Aguiar, 9.

The incident also left eight children and two adults injured.

This left the local community in absolute shock! Since he was from an immigrant background, information started circulating in the media that Rudakubana was an illegal immigrant who arrived in the U.K. by small boat.

The fact was that he wasn't an illegal immigrant.

He was born in Cardiff, Wales, although his parents did immigrate from Rwanda.

Soon, widespread riots erupted across the U.K.

That is when the UK police and law enforcement started picking up people for social media posts.

Nathan Thompson, a 25-year-old from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, received a 16-month suspended sentence after pleading guilty to charges related to offensive tweets. (Source: Newcastle man sentenced in court for offensive tweets)

Then, a 55-year-old woman was detained for sharing a social media post falsely claiming the suspect was "an asylum seeker who arrived in the UK by boat last year and was on an MI6 watch list." (Source: “Think before you post”: The U.K. is now jailing people for social media comments)

Where will this end?

These were just normal lay people in a highly fractured and deeply divided society where attacks on both adversarial communities have seen a rise.

But theauthoritarian boots of regimes are not confined to acting against normal citizens. They are growing more blatant and ruthless.

Arresting Tech Entrepreneurs

Consider this -

A technologically progressive nation, deeply rooted in capitalism and religious faith, is negotiating the liberation of one of its citizens—a renowned entrepreneur, originally an immigrant, who has been wrongfully detained by a state known for its far-left, anti-democratic ideology.

Any guesses on which is the "Conservative Capitalist" country and which is the "Far Left Anti-Democratic" country?

The Conservative Capitalist is not the United States. It is the UAE.

The Far-left anti-democratic is not the Soviet Union or an Eastern European country. It is France.

Pavel Durov moved from Russia when he sold his stake in VKontakte - a social media networking platform in 2014. He started residing in UAE in 2017 and in 2021 was given citizenship.

Source: Telegram CEO's arrest spotlights UAE’s investment-based citizenship laws / AL-Monitor

The police in France arrested Durov on 24 August at Le Bourget airport outside Paris and was also accused of refusing to cooperate with authorities in sharing information, money laundering, and providing cryptographic services to criminals.

Source: Telegram messaging app CEO Durov arrested in France / Reuters

Now, this sparked a major geopolitical row between the UAE and France.

UAE had signed a $20 billion deal with France for 80 Rafale fighter jets. It threatened to cancel it.

Source: UAE Halts $10B Jet Deal, Demands Telegram’s Pavel Durov Release / Coinpedia

Also, read.

UAE suspends deal to buy fighter jets from France over Telegram CEO’s arrest: Report
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and French aerospace giant Dassault have a deal for the supply for 80 Rafale fighter planes

What is particularly disturbing is the sudden call for jailing the tech entrepreneurs in the so-called liberal media.

The Guardian, for example, has started a campaign of its own to normalize the arrest of tech social media owners.

Here is an opinion piece on August 12th, where Bruce Daisley calls for arresting Elon Musk and using it to bend him to the dictates of European politicians.

Source: The Guardian August 12th

Not satisfied they followed it up with another call to arrest Elon Musk and Zuckerberg.

Source: Arresting Telegram’s Pavel Durov could be a smart move. Tech bosses care more about themselves than you / The Guardian

Such a call for arresting entrepreneurs to enforce censorship on platforms would have been unthinkable some years back.

Mike Solana, Editor-in-Chief of Piratewires articulated it very well.

To even call the current scenario bizarre will be a tremendous understatement.

The times, the politics is very strange as we cross the halfway mark in 2024. Those batting for the freedom of speech of normal citizens are not the Europeans or the Americans. But the Emiratis!

And the strange thing is that Telegram was the backbone of many pro-democracy protests around the world. Shaun Maguire wrote in his X article about it.

Source: The World is underestimating the significance of the Pavel Durov arrest / X Article

And what is even stranger is that Pavel Durov's entire life's work has been to battle against authoritarian regimes. In 2022, he was up against Russians where he was trying to save the private data of Ukrainians.

Am sure he must be thinking what has he really been fighting for and against.

The new authoritarians today are the Europeans and the Americans.

In such a world, it is no wonder that such anti-democratic democrats are now creating monopolistic states. No counter is possible and no criticism is tolerated.

One Party States

California is a prime example of such a phenomenon.

The Democratic Party has established a firm grip on California politics over the past few decades. Here are three main indicators.

  • Democrats have held the governorship since 2011.
  • The party has maintained a majority in the state legislature since 1996, eventually reaching supermajority status.
  • California has voted for the Democratic presidential candidate in every election since 1992, with margins becoming increasingly lopsided
Source: How Has Party Voting Changed in California? / Public Policy Institute of California

Here are two more graphs that show how comprehensively this state has been taken over by one party.

Consider these figures, which further establish how California is a majoritarian Democrat state.

As of January 2024, voter registration statistics show (Source: Report of Registration as of January 5, 2024)

  • 46.76% of registered voters are Democrats
  • 24.16% are Republicans
  • 21.95% have no party preference

What is true of California today - through the "hard work" and subterfuge in the last few decades could be the ultimate dream for the Democrats-backed Deep-State group in the coming decades for the whole world!

Is One-Party Communism the New Form of "Western Democracy"?

Look at the scenario again.

  1. Orchestrating mass killings and normalizing it
  2. "Winning" election through mandated information suppression
  3. Targeting political opponents via media-backed disinformation
  4. Silencing Free Speech
  5. Arresting Tech Entrepreneurs for platforms allowing Free Speech in order to control conversations

Does this really sound like democracy to you?

Is this the picture of democracy that comes in your mind when you read the propaganda from Europeans and Americans on the virtues of this system?

Or, does this look more like Chinese-style one-party oligarchic ruthless regime?

Quite honestly, it has become impossible to call the current Western establishments as democracies anymore.

No matter how much you beautify this turd, it still stinks!

And, that is the point here.

What is being unleashed on the citizens in countries like North Korea and China is being planned for the citizens of the US and Europe.

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