DARK ANGELS STIRRED

Jones Bay, Sydney, Tim Ritchie

Dark angels stirred. They were not used to having their power questioned.
Your life is in our hands.
Fate has brought us together. 
We've got the salient points. We will help you. 
Lifestyle, lifestyle. If only they could move on from their hunt for vulnerability. From their original instructions: Destroy him.
These corrupt elements of government, unknown to the general public, would have passed largely unremarked if they hadn't decided on a step too far: too assault the nation's Fourth Estate. To target, manipulate and control the nation's journalists in a desperate effort to control the public debate. 
Not to create a vibrant, lively democracy, but to control a slave population. 

Instead the military trained idiots in command decided to stir the nation's wordsmiths by attempting to hold them in check.
The hornet's nest. Those with the power to spread ideas. 

Many were easily controlled. They all needed a job, a paycheck at the end of the week day. To feed their families and maintain their status. 

To suck up to the editor and fulfill the mission of the day. 

What passed for news. 

It had long been rumoured that the agencies had officers secreted throughout the nation's media organisations, some climbing high up the ladders. 

The nation could not have got so bad without deliberate orchestration. 

The media could not have got so bad without deliberate orchestration.

ASIO, for one, had a long history of interfering in the nation's media. 

Historically, for the taxpayer funded ABC, it was a simple matter. Security vetting.

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation had long since abandoned its central task of telling the story of the country's people, and instead become the propaganda wing of the central government. That it veered left in much of its analysis was no sign of independence. 

As is the nature of news, much of the bias is evident in the central question of story selection.

The government has the ABC in its pocket, simply because they pay a ludicrous $1.2 billion a year to fund a poor quality of journalism purveyed by an inept and poorly administered "news" organisation. So the public can watch replays of Antique Roadshow and Midsomer Murders, and fall ever more deeply into the slumber of Australian society.

Malleable, easy to manage. Send them off to work. Harvest their money. Leave them snoring on the couch.  

Its shifting through a narrow field of left wing concerns, climate change, feminism, refugees, indigenous disadvantage, was exactly what the the Deep State wanted to justify their massive multi-billion dollar programs; for the Deep State was deeply left. 

Yet for all their efforts, the Deep State, plump on their fat cat public service salaries, had zero understanding of the country and its people. 

On the other side of a not very high fence lay the News Limited press, blatant in its campaigning bias for the right wing of the Liberal Party; evident in tabloid headings across the nation every single day. News had 70% reach into the newspaper market. Who was in whose pocket, was Rupert Murdoch in the Liberal Party's pocket, or the Liberal Party in Rupert Murdoch's pocket, was a moot point. 

While Fairfax has been so defanged, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, so lost their  news edge so long ago, perhaps all one can do was wonder. 

None of the original impulses that once drove journalists, if not the administrators, were evident. The desire to tell a people's story, to expose abuse of power, to write beautifully, to experience the sting of exposure and a cracking yarn, none of it lay evident in the limp-wristed efforts that lay on people's doorsteps and piled high in news agencies. 

That all this effort to neutralise the nation's media meant the public turned off in droves,  that all this effort destroyed the effectiveness very vehicle through which the government once communicated, was lost on the apparatchiks. 

And that the mainstream media's loss of credibility meant people simply shifted to more democratic, more dynamic forms of media, that, too, was lost.

This impoverishment of the debating society which should be a central tenet of a healthy cultural cultural life. The excision of language a central tent. If you don't have the words you don't have the concept.

Workplace ‘diversity consultants’ are charging Australian companies up to $1800 an hour to warn employees about the dangers of using “non-inclusive” language such as “mum” and “guys”.
It has been revealed the Diversity Council of Australia (DCA) has been charging companies $3600 for a two-hour program delivered by “experienced DCA staff and consultants” to educate companies about “the power of words” at work.
The move is all part of the new #WordsAtWork campaign launched by the DCA, which aims to “spark a conversation about how even seemingly innocuous language can exclude minority groups”.
The DCA is headed by former Australian of the Year and retired Lieutenant General, David Morrison, who launched the campaign that is calling on people to think about the impact of their language, particularly ‘throwaway’ or ‘subtle lines’.
The move is the latest in a shift of PC momentum in Australia, which has seen the ABC publish pieces on the destruction of ‘gendered language’, Commonwealth Games volunteers addressed about ‘tolerance’ and Qantas directing staff on “appropriate language” to use in the workplace.
Diversity council launches campaign, TOTT News, 21 March, 2018.

A paranoid, dishonest government could not trust its own public servants. Much less the rabble, that public they were allegedly designed to serve. 

Leave it to us, the PsyOp officers said. 
Nobody can breach our power. 
But Old Alex forgot, the people forgot, that they, too, had power. 
To take back their destinies. And the nation's destiny. 
To cut the umbilical chord of compassion and discontent.
But I love you. 
They circled. They flapped their dead air wings. 
They knew they had done wrong.
They knew they were incompetent. 
I've always had doubts about their honesty, a former, senior diplomat told him.
Well everyone had doubts about their honesty these days.
No one trusted government. No one trusted the state's operatives. 
And those jobworths, decent, some of them, knew, already, the bureaucracies they served were increasingly monstrous. Not fit for purpose. Not fit to serve. 
"You don't know the half of it."
No, but he could sense in the gathering folds, in the slide towards a totalitarian state, just how malleable the populace were, and just how full of ill-intent were the overlords. 
Some had religious motive. Some were just greedy. 
Some were mentally lazy, and some just liked power. Money and power.
The sole object of surveillance was harassment and intimidation, to create a conformist population. 
"We've been monitoring him for a long time. It's coming to a head, I can sense that."
Where did any of it end? 

THE BIGGER STORY:

A suicide bomber linked to Islamic State struck on the road to a Shiite shrine in Afghanistan's capital on Wednesday, killing at least 33 people as Afghans celebrated the Persian New Year, authorities said.
Wahid Majrooh, spokesman for the Public Health Ministry, said 65 others were wounded in the attack, which was carried out by a bomber on foot.
Islamic State claimed responsibility in an online statement, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors militant websites. The group said the attack targeted "a gathering of Shiites celebrating Nowruz," the Persian New Year.
Nowruz is a national holiday in Afghanistan, and the country's minority Shiite Muslims typically celebrate by visiting shrines. The Sunni Muslim extremists of Islamic State have repeatedly targeted Shiites, whom the militants view as apostates deserving of death.
Kabul has recently seen a spate of large-scale militant attacks by both the Taliban and the Islamic State. In late January, a Taliban attacker drove an ambulance filled with explosives into the heart of the city, killing at least 103 people and wounding as many as 235.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in a statement condemned Wednesday's attack, calling it a "crime against humanity."

U.S. Ambassador John R. Bass said he was saddened by the "shameful" attack.