Spiritual Censorship and Suppression Archives - The Conscious Reporter

Exposing Manipulative Media Techniques that Restrict Spiritual Freedom

David — Fri, 29 May 2015 05:05:56 +0000

The use of propaganda and negative framing techniques is rampant in both print and broadcast media. These techniques are used to portray alternative spirituality in a negative light, manipulating mass media consumers to fear and despise new religious movements as a criminal evil to be avoided at all costs. This article examines the framing techniques used to harm ...

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Spirituality in the New World Order: Is a One World Religious Authority in Formation?

Matthew Osmund — Sat, 14 Mar 2015 11:14:01 +0000

Last September, Israel’s ex-President Shimon Peres asked Pope Francis to head a future “UN of religions”, a proposed organisation with “unquestionable” authority to proclaim God’s will. Peres argued globalising faith under a single world authority is required to combat terrorism. Is this concept, which has major implications, really about peace, or is there a darker ...

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Je Suis Hypocrisy? Selective Free Speech and the Secular Inquisition in France

Matthew Osmund — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 08:30:36 +0000

The brutal Paris attacks have been rightly condemned. Yet the tragedy has been exploited to undermine the very right it’s become an emblem for – freedom of expression – while details contradicting the official narrative are suppressed. This article examines the wider agenda behind the selective defence of free speech in the aftermath, and how ...

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Mass Media Cult Scare: How the “Free Press” Targets Spiritual Minorities

David — Sat, 09 Aug 2014 09:49:29 +0000

Mass media outlets around the world are overwhelmingly negative towards small spiritual groups. This article explores the origin of this bias and the harm caused by positioning all new religious movements as criminal groups or dangerous “cults” which should be feared and despised. For over 30 years positive media coverage for small spiritual groups has ...

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The Conscious Reporter has been under Cyber Attack

The Conscious Reporter — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 05:03:40 +0000

It recently became apparent The Conscious Reporter has been targeted by sustained cyber-attacks. The unknown assailants were bombarding this website with relentless Denial of Service/Distributed Denial of Service (DoS/DDoS) attacks to cripple and crash the site. Denial of Service attacks flood a website with communication requests to overload its server, slowing the site down for ...

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Six Ways to Overcome the Discriminatory Filtering of ‘Alternative Beliefs’

Matthew Osmund — Sat, 02 Aug 2014 11:26:56 +0000

It’s a growing problem: Commercial web filters rigged for cyber-segregation, installed on public internet connections, and set to selectively block alternative spiritual beliefs. Here are six ways to counter this insidious slide into oppressive discrimination and censorship. Following my previous report on how web filters are often rigged and used to selectively target and block ...

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Spiritual freedom in the West: Are we drifting into a culture of suppression?

David — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 08:59:12 +0000

Increasingly in the West practitioners of alternative spirituality are subjected to discrimination and censorship. It’s sobering to look at the possible outcomes of living in a society where spiritual freedoms are heavily restricted. This article looks at the Chinese government’s oppression of spirituality as an example, to illustrate why we should not take our spiritual ...

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Web filters and Alternative Spirituality: The Selective Censorship of ‘Alternative Beliefs’

Matthew Osmund — Sun, 20 Jul 2014 06:42:37 +0000

Commercial web filters are often rigged to selectively target alternative spirituality and beliefs. Sites like this one can be classified, segregated and blocked under an “alternative spirituality/belief” category, which is often described negatively. The widespread use of filters to block alternative beliefs on public networks, while allowing access to traditional/mainstream beliefs, raises issues of censorship, ...

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Total View Interview: Web of Deceit – Bilderberg and UK Internet Censorship

Matthew Osmund — Sun, 20 Jul 2014 04:37:31 +0000

Jenny Alswinn interviewed me on Total View recently about my article ‘Web of Deceit: The Bilderberg Group and Elite Powerbrokers Linked to the UK’s Stealth Internet Censorship Coup‘. We discussed the deception, major players and elite connections behind the UK’s web filtering scheme, the threat of creeping censorship and spiritual suppression, and some issues and recent ...

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Web of Deceit: The Bilderberg Group and Elite Powerbrokers Linked to the UK’s Stealth Internet Censorship Coup

Matthew Osmund — Mon, 02 Jun 2014 06:47:03 +0000

As a curtain of censorship falls over the UK internet, this special investigation uncovers the deception and elite players behind the murky system of corporate web filters, which block far more than pornography. Disturbingly, the trail points back to a notorious and controversial elite cabal – the ultra-secretive Bilderberg Group. The UK’s sweeping internet censorship ...

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