by Patrice Greanville for the Greanville Post
Taking no chances, CBS also manages to denigrate the brave Syrian Arab Army, just about one of the most heroic forces fighting ISIL and other brutal terrorists in the Middle East.
The Treachery of The Western Media
Patrice Greanville
There’s a mystery at the heart of American journalism. How can normally mediocre ignoramuses—I refer to the rank and file of US media, especially television (yes, in case you haven’t noticed, the overwhelming majority of US journalists are ignorant and arrogantly proud about it, too)—suddenly become virtuosi of insidiousness and underhanded manipulation—which requires some brains and a talent for finesse— when it comes to squeezing the truth out of any story that interests the empire? Who does the actual massaging? The editors? The owners? The highest councils of the ruling class via their multiple indirect channels, think tanks and pundits? Are the on-camera reporters who impersonate journalists briefed beforehand on what questions to throw at the victims? Are they coached about the proper intonations to use…the pregnant pauses, the studied reaction shots? Or has the profession reached such a level of robotic indoctrination that the practitioners really need not much ad-hoc preparation to perform their loyal duties to the deep state, having become accomplished actors?
Such questions come to mind when we observe the almost uniformly disgraceful, in fact downright Orwellian, coverage of events in the Middle East, particularly Syria, where Washington’s Neocons are obsessed with the toppling of Bashir al-Assad, and equally sensitive places, like Ukraine, where the Anglo-Zionists are still busy trying to build a beachhead to harass and strangle Russia. (Equivalent plans are afoot for China and Iran, of course, even if not so transparently admitted.) There are distortions galore everywhere else, for that matter, but we will keep the focus only on Russia and Syria on this post.
BELOW: VIDEO OF 60 MINUTES CLIP (Please be patient with all the commercial garbage that American TV programs put in front of the actual material.)
http://www.greanvillepost.com/videos/60%20Mins-Hatchet%20(2)%20job%20on%20Russian%20in%20Syria.mp4
Here’s the lowdown on this topic.
On 10 January 2016, the American CBS television newsmagazine 60 Minutes, the network’s flagship program, showed a segment purporting to describe the scale, purposes, and effect of the Russian military intervention in Syria.
The report, focusing on the Latakia air force base, which the Russians have substantially overhauled and hardened, was filed ostensibly by one of their regular correspondents, Mike Whitaker. I say “ostensibly” because Whitaker is only the tip of a large enterprise of deception with many hidden and anonymous participants. CBS is, after all, along with the rest of the American and in general Western television networks, a major disinformation factory serving the strategic needs of the Anglo-Zionist empire.
The object of this repugnant exercise in blatant propaganda was to reinforce America’s current disinformation campaign slandering the Syrian government, and more broadly Russia, correctly perceived by the Anglo-Zionists as the chief supporter of Bashir al-Assad and a major competitor in world affairs. As usual, the not too subtle (but by repetition effective) high-handed falsifications sought to convince the clueless American public of the following:
(1) That Assad is not popular and rules by terror. Ergo, Assad must go, or, better, end up like Gaddafi;
(2) That Assad is not motivating the people, and therefore, to better fight ISIS, he must leave;
(3) That Assad himself caused this war by being a tyrant, and that by his ruthless, criminal attacks on civilian populations—notice CBS’ Whitaker obliging mention of the “barrel bombs” fraudulent charge (1)—he has alienated his people and the international community of nations who now rightfully demand his departure;
(4) That the Russians are in Syria not to fight ISIS but to prop up Assad, and to do some imperialistic chest-thumping of their own.
Leaving aside the fact the last invidious imputation is a case of irrefutable projection—the empire’s media henchmen cannot conceive of anyone doing something for decent or even noble purposes—the proposition that fighting the enemies of Assad and helping him to stay in power at the same time are mutually exclusive is fallacious upon simple inspection. Fighting ISIS and its many arms and imitators in the region is indeed not only a legitimate purpose but one that is inseparable from objectively strengthening President Assad’s hand. This is self-evident to any semi-alert observer, besides being a desirable outcome, because Assad represents the only sane agent in the mix whose removal would immediately collapse Syria into a bigger chaos and tragedy than it already is.
CBS and its minions, along with its colleagues in the industry, are obviously not concerned with such trifling things, their purpose being solely to mislead and obscure otherwise transparent- facts. Self-contradictory statements, even laughable ones—always delivered with the practiced air of stern authority—do not faze such actors. After all, what do they have to worry about? For decades, the powers that be and their agents have banked for their impostures and crimes on the disturbing fact that anything flies when addressing the US public, whose vast majority understand absolutely nothing about foreign policy matters (and next to nil, also, about domestic matters). Syria, despite the barrage of “news” on the subject, provides no exception. The only thing that gets through to the dumbed-down US population is what the opinion manipulators want it to see, that, yea, Assad is a bad guy. A very bad guy.
It’s hardly surprising, therefore, that Washington’s main meme to denigrate the Russians, that they are not in Syria to fight the “real” terrorists and ISIS (whose actual paternity no Western media outlet ever acknowledges), but “just to prop the tyrant Assad, for motives that remain forever murky, a clearly false dichotomy, remains unchallenged.
So, let us offer these poor, willfully obtuse people some help, and in the spirit of Socrates, ask the following question:
If Washington and its cynical accomplices in the Gulf, NATO, and especially Turkey, executing the Anglo-Zionist Neocon script, have created, recruited and mobilized proxy armies of terrorists and mercenaries—ISIS and a multitude of other groups—with the express and self-evident, single-minded purpose of overthrowing Assad, and do the empire’s bidding in the region (a filthy imperialist scheme that the Russians are now fighting and successfully destroying)…who, besides these terrorists already mentioned is threatening Assad? The simple answer, no matter how hard we look, is no one, of course, except in the duplicitous disinformation mind of the American spin-masters, who at every turn show their utter contempt for the intelligence of the USer population.
In that regard, as previously mentioned, their confidence may be grating but is not unfounded. After many generations of a press and political class dedicated to the evasion of reality, a civic culture grounded in mendacity, the nonstop injection of self-serving lies and tons of escapist spectacles, the US has become a society in which massive ignorance and intellectual indifference to facts reigns supreme. Nobody cares, everyone is into his or her “own thing” whatever the hell that may be at the moment, sports, the Kardashians, struggling with the rent or unemployment…whatever may be preoccupying the mass mind, while matters of supreme import go begging for serious attention, leadership, and remedial action.
This is a political soil ideal for plutocratic usurpers to flourish, and they have.
Pathetic lies and attacks on common sense that a slightly more alert public would have little trouble disarming go practically unchallenged in America. This is the cross the world bore for much of the 20th century and is still bearing.
I say “practically” because I stay away from absolutistic statements, as a matter of discipline. But the sorry fact is that the system’s lies do go unchallenged. Dissenting voices have been completely and totally eradicated from the mass mind, and true dissenters, of the genuine leftist or anti-imperialist kind, are safely confined to an information ghetto.
Such critics never had a foothold in the national debate in the first place. That’s why at least since the close of WW2 the US has committed dozens of international crimes of the highest order with total impunity, and the end of this orgy of hypocrisy and brutality is still not in sight, even if the steady rise of Russia (and China) as world players offers hope to humanity.
A better educated and less intellectually lazy populace, more aware of the rapid disintegration of the last shreds of their democracy, never as vibrant as their propaganda would have it, would not have permitted such processes to take place. A public that really understood the US role in the world would have stopped the plotters and warmongers in their tracks. There would have been no Korean War, no Vietnam, no overthrow or lethal harassment of legitimate governments in dozens of nations, from Chile to Iran to Nicaragua and beyond; no ruthless invasions and destruction of Iraq and Libya on transparently trumped-up charges, with a horrid aftermath that counts ancient civilizations now in ruins and millions of victims, dead or displaced; no spawning of Islamic lunatics and reactionaries, first to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan and turn the clock back on a culture that badly needed social justice and modernity, and more recently to aid the empire’s utterly hypocritical interventions in Syria and Ukraine, both of which have quickly turned these two nations into fully dysfunctional states.
Given the literally catatonic state of US public opinion, the grating indifference and bovine passivity one observes in America toward one and all insults hurled at the ordinary citizenry by the powers that be, one really has to wonder why these creeps at the top even bother to keep up the façade, that there’s a vibrant national political culture in the United States, and more importantly, that the rulers are afraid of what the brainwashed masses might actually think—or do. With independent thinking so effectively neutralized, that conceit, superfluous as it is, may be the crowning glory in the history of American propaganda. But friends, what do you know, times are a-changing.
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APPENDIX
A more credible look at the Russian operation in Syria
| ISIS lost most of its ammunition & heavy vehicles in Russian airstrikes |
Published on Oct 13, 2015, the above video post on YouTube carries the following explanation:
Islamic State militants have lost “most” of their ammunition, heavy vehicles and equipment in Russian airstrikes, the Defense Ministry said Tuesday. At least 86 ISIS targets were hit during 88 sorties in the last 24 hours.
COMMENT: Its clear that if NATO was collaborating with Russia instead of playing obstruction games and surreptitiously defending ISIL, the terrorist threat in the Middle East and elsewhere would be promptly eliminated.
Sukhoi Su-24M and Su-34 bombers, together with Su-25SM ground support aircrafts targeted Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) sites in the provinces of Raqqah, Hama, Idlib, Latakia and Aleppo, according to the ministry. The jets hit command posts, ammunition and armament depots, military vehicles, plants producing explosives, field camps and bases.
Su-24M bombers also targeted an IS field headquarters near the city of Anadan in the province of Aleppo from which the terrorists coordinated their activities. There was an ammunition depot at the site, the ministry said.
One more IS field post was destroyed near the city of al-Bab in Aleppo Province. According to intercepted communications, the militants suffer from shortages of ammunition, small arms and grenade guns. Several commanders allegedly say they will withdraw their units unless their ammunition needs are satisfied.
“Russian airstrikes resulted in the elimination of the majority of ISIS ammunition, heavy vehicles and equipment,” the Defense Ministry tweeted.
Far from being ineffective, as CBS claims, the Russian deployment in Syria has been an unqualified success, especially considering the limited scope of the military assets brought to bear. That is a fact that makes NATO commanders green with envy. Of course, you are unlikely to hear that from the docile US networks, even if some of the American military are frank enough to admit it.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Patrice Greanville serves as editor in chief of The Greanville Post. He regards the Western machinery of disinformation as one of the main obstacles to the survival of the planet and the securing of a just social peace, anywhere it may manage to show its face.
I gave up trying to watch this MSM drivel for 2 reasons:
1) Getting 1 second of video every 20 seconds and having to watch the revolving icon is like Chinese water torture.
2) I have not watched television for 28 years.
For the masses, an antidote to being played like a fiddle with this toxic fiction is to follow #2.
Sadly they won’t.
I have not watched television for 28 years.
I stopped in 15 years ago, and it was one of the best decision in my life!
For me too! It’s almost like gaining another life when you rid yourself of the insidious TV addiction.
It’s now painful to watch the phony blather, blatant spin and low signal to noise ratio on the odd occasion when, at risk otherwise of being a social outcast, you are obliged to suffer the idiot screen. On a recent ‘happening right now’ sensational newscast within 20 minutes of speculation, waffle and moronic commercials there were precisely 11 seconds of actual information. Just 11 seconds worth repeated endlessly and that may have been wrong for all I know.
Otherwise intelligent friends and colleagues nod their heads knowingly as they repeat the latest MSM TV propaganda meme to me. I feel sometimes like I live in a parallel universe to them with no means to penetrate the thick layers of MSM talking points with which they are insulated.
Almost all of them will agree that you can’t believe anything governments and the media tell you but seem oblivious to the fact that they are doing exactly tthat -unconditionally believing everything they are told. What hope is there?
same here! it was 2001 and my tv set had to hit the bins.
i refused to have it donated as i did not wish it on anyone else, plus, i relly wanted to hear the sound of it breaking against the hard surface.
i never looked back.
curious how quickly the decontamination works.. i could also recommend zeolite clinoptilolite for more thorough mind and body detox.
My guess is a lot of people reading Saker quit MSM a long time ago. I don’t have a TV.
Stopped watching pindo tv in the 2nd half of the 90’s. Didn’t watch it much before that, since most of the shows I did appreciate were not american in origin and were not common. The pindo produced govno was pretty much universally that, govno, and not worth the time. And also incidentally, a reliable indicator of the sort of lowest common denominator level zionazis and others of that rightwing whacko club, would like to dumb down their colonized populations.
I think blue did similar. He generally made good comment.
Did I miss something? the last time he took leave was because of a cat’s demise. Did I miss a pronounced reason for his absence?
When my TV died a few years ago I just phoned the “service” provider and told them to discontinue my account, saving about $65 dollar a month for donating to worthy causes like the Saker. When they asked why, I said because there is no news on the “News”, nothing to learn on the “Learning Channel”, no history on the “History” channel, nothing to discover on the “Discovery”channel, and so forth. Canadian (recycled US) TV is just a parade of morons in motor cycle shops screaming at each other in “Reality” shows where nothing is real.
As for 60 Minutes, the Charlie Rose Show, and other quasi-“investigative journalism”, it’s enough to make a maggot puke, as shown so well in the clip attached to this article.
Fortunately we have (for the moment) websites like the Saker, WSWS, TASS, South Front, PCR, and a thousand others to provide some real information, until the Empire decides the value of monitoring them and their viewers and comments is outweighed by the damage they are doing undercutting the “Official Party Line” and cuts the umbilical cord.
Since the current readership of such websites is currently negligible, they are tolerated as providing useful Intelligence on the opposition. When (if) the readership numbers start to become worrisome, they can be cut off with the flick of a switch at a few key network backbones.
The russian defense ministry held a short press conference with good info about the lies of western media, including the “syrian observatory of human rights”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MNdt376cFI
Automatic translation works quite well in that yt-video.
I can’t make auto-translate work, which is a shame as I’d like to have heard it.
“There’s a mystery at the heart of American journalism. How can normally mediocre ignoramuses—I refer to the rank and file of US media, especially television (yes, in case you haven’t noticed, the overwhelming majority of US journalists are ignorant and arrogantly proud about it, too)—suddenly become virtuosi of insidiousness and underhanded manipulation—which requires some brains and a talent for finesse— when it comes to squeezing the truth out of any story that interests the empire? Who does the actual massaging? The editors? The owners? The highest councils of the ruling class via their multiple indirect channels, think tanks and pundits? Are the on-camera reporters who impersonate journalists briefed beforehand on what questions to throw at the victims? Are they coached about the proper intonations to use…the pregnant pauses, the studied reaction shots? Or has the profession reached such a level of robotic indoctrination that the practitioners really need not much ad-hoc preparation to perform their loyal duties to the deep state, having become accomplished actors?”
It’s not really a mystery.
American “journalists” are only representative of Americans as a nation.
And the United States of America’s paramount virtue is deception–not the rule of law, not human rights, not democracy, and certainly not freedom.
As such, Americans lie as a matter of instinct.
It is simply part of their nature.
Manipulation and deceit are such integral facets of American culture that they have become normalized and can be performed without great effort or thought.
How else could a nation that was founded upon the enslavement of Africans and the genocide of Native Indian people deceive itself–and indeed much of the world–that the United States is the “Land of the Free.”
This idea of American freedom is the foundational lie of the USA.
It is the bedrock deception upon which all the other limitless lies of America are founded.
Anon, the greatest Yankee deception is their own self-deception. No population in history has been as successfully brainwashed to believe utter idiocies, like US ‘Exceptionalism’ and ‘Our Moral Values’, than the US public.
Greetings Mulga,
There are no, nor has there ever been, ‘exceptional’ countries or people, anywhere, ever.
Sometimes, in our world an exceptional ‘individual’ arises…some are exceptionally good and some, are exceptionally evil.
Thinking one, or one’s country is exceptional, is the grave psychological problem of a narcissist. And woe! to an an entire nation that thinks that theirs, is an “exceptional” country.
“And I would rather disagree with a case he made on American exceptionalism, stating that the United States’ policy is “what makes America different. It’s what makes us exceptional.” It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation. There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy. Their policies differ, too. We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord’s blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal”
—–President Putin
Regards,
Carmel by the Sea
Strangely enough the USA shares that narcissistic self-adoration with Israel, of course, and, more pathetically, with certain elements among the English, which makes them a nuisance in the EU, and very amusing. Interestingly, too, the Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt, a friend of that greasy eminence of the Zionazi neo-conservatives, Leo Strauss, was useful as a source of juridical precedence for the legal fascists of the Bush regime, when they were searching for excuses not to observe inconveniences like the Torture Convention, with his doctrine of the Leader, aka Fuhrer, as the ‘exception’ to the rule of law. I’m pretty certain that’s what Uncle Satan and his minions really mean by ‘exceptionalism’. The rules of law, morality and human decency don’t apply to them, as we can plainly see.
Mulga,
Here is an article for you.
Judaization of America Reaching Absurd Levels
http://www.boldfacenews.com/judaization-of-america-reaching-absurd-levels/
Carmel, it’s the same here in Australia. I would imagine that something between a quarter and a half of the ‘human interest’ stories broadcast are about Jews, and ‘Holocaust’ stories are a particular favourite. From about something less than 1% of the population. Need I say that the stories are always cloyingly, unctuously, reverential, attesting to all their well-known and, frankly, unique virtues.
Needless to say Jews are represented in the MSM always as clever, funny, ‘savvy’ and ‘cool’, and our over-abundance of Jewish billionaires (about 50% I think) are beyond criticism. The usual close adherence to the doctrine and dogma of the ‘Holocaust’ religion prevails, and the ‘unworthy victims’ of human cruelty, the Gypsies, Soviets, Poles, Chinese, Armenians, Herrero, native peoples everywhere, Bengalis killed by Churchill in the 1940s, Congolese, under Leopold and now etc, are all virtually ignored and unknown. Curiously, in contrast to the worship of this ‘unique’ foreign genocide, the Right, who worship Israel (on the surface), have expended considerable effort over recent decades denying the genocide of the indigenous people of the country, and driving their persecution, in recent years, to levels not seen for some decades, with record incarceration levels and child removals.
Naturally drawing attention to this weird disproportionality in attention to human suffering is utterly verboten. This situation, so well-known and entrenched in the West, has led some Jews to act in a manner that, if carried out by any other group would be laughed out of court. They have confected a ‘wave of antisemitism’ out of thin air, by construing every argument between a belligerent Jew and a defender of the Palestinians, as a pogrom. This is made quite easy by the MSM, particularly the 70% dominant Murdoch cancer, being 100% in thrall to the Israel Lobby.
This drive to control seems inherent, it has recurred so often in history. Personally I refuse to treat Jews in any way differently, as individuals, from any other humans. But I know from simple observation, from the testimony of some Jews themselves and from history, that not all Jews think of non-Jews in similar fashion. It is a very great worry to live in a country where a basically alien elite, whose first loyalty is clearly to a nasty, racist, terror state far away, has so much power, and uses it so assiduously. The power of local economic elites, as I said rather dominated by Jews, is quite bad enough, but this religious and cultural based supremacism is even more questionable. What makes it even worse, more sinister and more dangerous, is that it is unmentionable. We hear an awful lot about Jewish achievement, which, indeed, given their gift for study and nepotism, is great and much of it positive for society, but we live in that weird dream-world where no Jew is ever guilty of crime, misdemeanour, venality or even error.
AmeriKans have to feel that when they are using their overwhelming military might on some poor hapless citizens of the 3rd world, they are only doing it to right some grievous wrong, or helping some oppressed people under the thumb of some tyrant, or heading off a WMD attack on der Homeland. When meanwhile all they are doing is getting duped into supporting the globalist agenda.
Mulga, the Pindos believe in self-worshipping lies and imbecilities because their totally parasitic existence on this planet hasn’t been ended yet. If you compare the Pindos to the Germans, it becomes conspicously clear what an indelible mark is left on the national psyche by a resounding imperialist defeat at the hands of a supposedly inferior people. Again: Pindostan is a God-awful, rotting White Trash Empire that will start cannibalizing itself as increasing parts of the world stop feeding it.
” Manipulation and deceit are such integral facets of American culture …” >>
Well they inherited this from their origin i.e. AngloSaxons who have been the true masters of deception and manipulation.
Dear anonymous:
You are quite right that American culture—the malignant offshoot of British culture—the land that Napoleon dismissively called a land of priggish shopkeepers—is a civilization brewed and marinated in lies, from its foundational myths to this day. Not in vain was Britain called by savvy observers “Perfidious Albion.” English policy has always been devious and sanctimonious, supremely good at enrolling others to do their fighting, something the Americans inherited big time and now practice on steroids across the globe.
However, the “mystery” I was referring to was not the fact these media critters lie out of moral bankruptcy, ignorance and careerism, or because mendacity is simply pervasive in American culture. That is indeed no mystery. I spoke of a “mystery at the heart of American journalism” referring to the yawning gap that exists between the appalling mental mediocrity of most of these idiots and their surprising finesse when it comes to delivering lies that matter to the empire. Or maybe it is that those who do make it to the top of this profession in America (and much of the West, starting with the Brits) ARE proficient actors.
Not much of a secret; there is a huge difference between being merely glib, and being intelligent and/or knowledgeable.
The former, along with a copious amount of hair spray, is all that is needed to obtain a well-paid position with the US propaganda machine laughingly referred to as “The Nightly News.”
Look at the unholy three:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/Unholy_three.png
(1953)
Floridated water to reduce drive and intelligence.
Enforced vaccinations Polio Serum (Vaccine)
Full of mercury and aluminium and other heavy metals.
Mental Hygiene:
Psychology and psychiatry:
Mental Hygiene is a subtle and diabolical plan of the enemy to transform a free and intelligent people people into a cringing horde of zombies.
Note the ‘Uninformed Public’ tag.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/30017669?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
The US people fought all the way but with complete control of mass media and enforced heavy metal injections and flouridated water their subjegation was inevitable.
This shows the integrity of 60 Minutes. LOL!
Friends say she has a bubbly personality . .
The usual contortions and distortions from Western MSM.
Remember Western MSM accounts of Slobodan Milosevic’s “notorious” speech at Kosovo in 1989?
http://www.hirhome.com/yugo/milospeech.htm
Western academics in general are equally complicit and dishonest.
British historians will usually insinuate that the only reason Soviet soldiers fought the Nazi invaders so stubbornly was because they were afraid of Stalin and the NKVD.
Not because of patriotism or to protect their families and fellow citizens from atrocities and extermination of course.
God, yes, Verami. Reported by the vermin at the BBC as bloodthirsty, chauvinistic, threats and menaces, it was, in fact, quite the opposite. But as far as I know, the lies remain uncorrected, like all the others. I have become convinced, over the years, that the liars and hypocrites of the Western MSM are among the vilest specimens of the genus Homo ever to exist-and that covers a lot of nasty territory.
In France we have a law which prohibit the contestation of the official history of WWII and more precisely about the mass killing of one category of the population for it’s religion…
Dunno Why They need This kind of laws…
Very distasteful stuff, what bullshit.
At one point he even mentions that Russia seems to be more busy bombing Al Nusra/Al-Qaeda than just ISIS as if theres something wrong with that? Jeez did he hear about 9/11?… are Al-Qaeda now the good guys or something – bizarre?
All those pregnant pauses, dubious insinuations without actually saying anything, presenting no facts, no proof just insidious insinuations what a creep.. making snide remarks when he’s off camera behind peoples backs like some unpleasant school boy! – amateur hour or what?
Decay and rot of the Empire seems to be entering advanced stages?
Where do they get these hollow muppets from?
No soul!
But, Mike, al-Nusra is in an open alliance with Israel, so bombing them must be ‘antisemitic’. Nothing grabs a Western MSM scum-bag’s attention more that the threat of the career-ending ‘antisemite’ slur, except the opportunity to kiss any Zionazi posterior shoved in your face. And, for God’s sake-don’t forget to smile as you do so!
y Patrice Greanville
Brilliant honest informative & well written essay. Get it out to as many people as possible.
Leaflets to crowded areas – colleges, etc. if possible.
Will send it to my mailing list.
PJA
What a corruscating, super-articulate article!
I feel like my brain-pan has been scoured clean.:)
This highlghted link is actually a fantastic read and ties together so much stuff – of course with double speak:
books.google.co.uk – Alaska Mental
But please remember that very often the common Jewish person was also being poisoned at the same time but this is a calmly executed Jewish Zionist plot.
‘there is already widespread concern about the possibility of biological and chemical tampering with what has until now been considered the immutable essence of man. Human conduct, some argue, can be predetermined and subjected to deliberate control. Man is increasingly acquiring the capacity to determine the sex of his children, to affect through drugs the extent of their intelligence, and to modify and control their personalities. Speaking of a future at most only decades away, an experimenter in intelligence control asserted, “I foresee the time when we shall have the means and therefore, inevitably, the temptation to manipulate the behaviour and intellectual functioning of all the people through environmental and biochemical manipulation of the brain.” ‘
Zbigniew Brzeziński, Between Two Ages: America’s Role in the Technetronic Era P12
As mentioned there is a massive class warfare aspect to this.
Anon, the genetic manipulation of humanity is just the latest phase in the Western elite’s obsession with eugenics. They see it as the perfect opportunity to create a 1% of ubermenschen, and the rest completely disposable untermenschen, the proverbial ‘useless eaters’. And in a world where production is dominated by automation, robotisation and computerisation, and mass consumption is no longer required, the elite far more preferring financial speculations, the 99% simply become a threat to elite rule. And you know where that will lead us.
Couldn’t agree more Mulga…apart from your mention of the “Western Elite”
I can see no good reason why the Russian/Eastern (or any other) elite would not be similarly motivated.
Because of that I can only see the primary interest of this blog (the multipolar world) as a futile conversation.
The real enemy is the elite – all elite’s. It is a class war.
UBob’s recent proclamation (re: a human trait to bow the knee to the powerful and the best we can accept is the benevolence of a kindly monarch who doesn’t trust his own type too much) is a further description of this futile conversation.
A little strangely, he then described that change can only come through violence. Other related comment was to become a 5th col to the 5th col.
Well I know we need to do something but until we realise what the real problem is that will be similarly futile.
I agree, Anon, and definitely see Russia, China, Iran etc as the lesser evil. But markedly lesser evils, and much of their evil forced upon them by the relentless aggression of the boundless evil that is ‘Western Free Market capitalist ‘Civilization’. I see the only slim hope of human survival beyond, say 2050, to lie in the collapse of the West, the final implosion of debt-fueled capitalist neoplastic growth, and the rise of a multi-polar world based on radical egalitarianism and absolute prioritisation of maintaining the planet’s habitability for our species. Capitalism, in any form, is diametrically antithetical to all those requirements. The more I contemplate it, the more the transition seems absolutely impossible, but as Casals said, ‘The situation is hopeless-we must take the next step’.
Well, at least that got a :-)
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An excellent contribution. The basic parameters of the Western MSM as a propaganda system serving the interests of its owners were outlined in Chomsky and Herman’s ‘Manufacturing Consent’, twenty-five years ago. It built on work by others like Alex Carey, and is an exercise in ‘the bleeding obvious’.
In the years since the Western MSM has become even more concentrated in ownership, disproportionately by Zionazis (eg the Guardian tragic farce) and ever more nakedly partisan and biased. The print MSM in this country, for example, is 70% controlled by one of the most evil media Bosses, Murdoch. Murdoch first showed his features here forty years ago with his evil campaign to destroy the Whitlam Government.
I know first-hand how the MSM has become an uniformly Rightwing moral sewer. My father and sister worked for Murdoch, my father inherited from another MSM empire, that of Frank Packer, and my sister employed after university. My sister left after a few years, sickened by working with real scum, to become a free-lance, whereas the old man rose to an editorial position where he wasn’t required to sell his soul, but didn’t rock the boat either. They could regale you with numerous stories of editorial interference, and careers terminated for Thought Crime, particularly in regard to Israel and loyalty to the USA.
The process today seems to be dominated by careful selection for ideological correctness, and ruthless culling. It has resulted in a MSM characterised by complete Rightwing Groupthink and Newspeak, and a real gift for lying, hypocrisy, selective memory and blindness and vilification of enemies of the Right, plus the psychotic arrogance so often encountered in Rightwingers.
Plainly the MSM operates to consolidate elite, ie Rightwing rule. All coverage is ideologically monocultural. Dissent from the ‘Washington Consensus’ has long been utterly purged. And, particularly in the tabloid press, TV and talk-back radio, the main products are greed, fear and hatred of any group deemed to be a danger to the Bosses’ total control ie unions, environmentalists, and anti- ‘Free Market’ economists, scientists and politicians. The promotion and fomenting of fear and hatred is seen as a good tactic to garner the votes of the dumber and more vicious losers, who can be distracted from noticing that the real architects of their loser lives are the rich parasites who control their brainwashing.
Mulga,
While portraying the MSM space in your country, you have actually very nicely summed up the way “Media business” works everywhere in the world. (Even after reawakening, in Russia, still MSM tries to behave in the same way as you noted. And in other countries like India, the aristocrats-oligarchs and other elites control 100% of MSM).
Mulga: Thanks for a brilliant comment and summation. You touch all the necessary bases.
“The promotion and fomenting of fear and hatred is seen as a good tactic to garner the votes of the dumber and more vicious losers, who can be distracted from noticing that the real architects of their loser lives are the rich parasites who control their brainwashing…”
Just superb.
Thanks, Patrice. I enjoyed your article immensely. More power to your arm!
60 minutes is sort of the nyt or wp of pindo “news” television. They produce the sort of zionazi propaganda designed bamboozle the college educated pindo.
I don’t know how you can watch this kind of TV. It’s been 15 years of avoiding the boob tube for me. I would get too angry or too disgusted listening to these morons. Thankfully I’ve weaned myself off of it and I don’t even take a peak and revisit it for old times sake. I appreciate people reporting on it and trying to wake people up to the deception, but why bother? You’re either a slave to the matrix or you’re not. Effort is better spent telling people it’s all crap and to just stay away. Trying to articulate how they go about propagandizing us is just feeding the beast. Mostly we just need to train people to walk away. These so called reporters are lost in the matrix and are no help to anybody.
I really think the job is to detach to the point that it doesn’t even interest you anymore. Let them blather. People are waking up. If you don’t feed the media beast, they will go away. That’s really the only thing we can do in this situation. Psychically, if you are not feeding the system, you develop an inner sense that you have already won, and by winning you realize how much your non participation ripples through the matrix and influences the future and other people. I think this is really how things change. If enough people make a powerful inner statement of non-participation, the system will self-destruct on its own.
ditto Canadian newspaper
http://russia-insider.com/en/media-criticism/canadas-largest-newspaper-opens-2016-uninformed-salvo-against-russia/ri12285
also al jazeera mainly uses Syrian Observatory too…………….yuk
Dear Patrice Greanville,
Thank you very much for your excellent article. Welcome to the Saker community and the Resistance Against the Empire.
I will not watch the 60 mins piece, as I stopped watching programmes like that years ago and prefer your analysis and the RT on the ground facts.
Rgds,
Veritas
Thank you very much Veritas. Our own motto reads, Justitia et Veritas Omnia Vincunt. If you are interested, the Greanville Post main site has an amplified version of this essay, and also a companion piece, The Syria famine story revisited: CBS and the rest spread bald-faced lies—as usual. It might be worth a look. http://www.greanvillepost.com/2016/01/20/the-syria-famine-story-cbs-and-the-rest-spread-bald-faced-lies-as-usual/
I deeply appreciate the Saker’s fraternal invitation, which we naturally reciprocate. As for the Saker audience, none are better.
Patrice, have you seen any of the articles on Syria at ‘Global Research’, by Tim Anderson, an Australian academic? They are excellent, and Anderson is an interesting character, reviled by the Right, vilified by the Murdoch MSM cancer, and fitted up by the ‘authorities’ back in the 70s for the infamous Hilton Hotel bombing, for which he and other Ananda Marga members were framed (the real culprits were almost certainly the security forces).
The key thing to bear in mind-though this is often overlooked- is that America and its instutions, for all intents and purposes, are “occupied”.
The Media, Congress, etc, etc.
Occupied by an alien or foreign entity that has objectives and desires that are often diametrically opposed to the interests of the average American who is kept ignorant and clueless, by being fed a steady diet of lies, misinformation and half-truths.
Media operatives like Bill Whitaker are kept on a short leash, and given the fact that the US Media is 100% Zionist-controlled- any deviation from the approved narrative, means immediate dismissal and banishment for people like him. They live and lie in fear.
They don’t necessarily believe what they are saying, but they feel compelled to say it, because they know bad things will happen if they don’t. Where else is he gonna work in US media not under the control of the same folks who own CBS?
Americans need to get their priority right and first “save themselves”, before they consider saving anyone else.
I enjoyed this article, thanks Patrice.
And who owns CBS and the rest of the media?
Hello! hello! hello!
http://www.councilforthenationalinterest.org/new/israeli-newspaper-jews-do-own-the-media/#.Vp-uflIrVpU
Regards, regards, regards,
Carmel by the Sea
It does not matter who owns what, as long as you have money you can silence anyone. Facebook has been censoring all pro Syrian and Lebanese accounts, they deleted some large outlets as well. Someone must have called up zucky and told him they would buy a few million of his shares and boom.. banned… Why anyone would use the likes of a social media to report on news is beyond me, but it seems people find it easier to keep track.. But then you have this so called freedom of speech or not.. That’s the problem aint it, with western culture.. you have freedom, until you disagree and then they ban you.. That freedom only works as long as you follow the script and it is now a lot more than the job.
And about the patriotic soldiers.. they would die for our rights.. Well more bull.. Who would go die for some rich guys right to loot and pillage more disadvantaged people.. If you supported the troops you would not support them in their role to oppress and cause such havoc the world over.
Which actually means you support their actions and policy of pillaging others.
I certainly concur with those who profess their disgust, anger at, and alienation from the product served by the corporate media—who in his/her right mind would enjoy eating mental manure of the most malicious kind every hour of the day?
That said, having been a radical media analyst for more than 4 decades, I write and present these instances because activists —let alone the average person who may read these articles—need analyzed evidence to sharpen and advance their own mental liberation, and materials to show others less enlightened what their beloved government is doing in their name. In short this is no cavalier exercise in empty masochism.
Second, I force myself to watch these revolting examples of pseudo journalism because someone on our side has to. They provide us with ammo in our own information war against the empire and its zillion of minions, presstitutes and pundits, and keep us current with the latest modalities and techniques in the packaging of their lies, as well as how their mendacious memes are being played and where against the larger evolving culture.
Quite often, too, a discerning eye can see well ahead of maturation what’s being brewed in the deepest folds of the deep state when a certain propaganda tack is advanced against a particular subject. For as many of you know, almost nothing that the MSM does in the realm of political information is innocent of the original sin: everything must serve the anglo-zionist empire in some way or it doesn’t get shown. Thus, maybe semi-inadvertently, the empire does show its hand. It’s a gift we should not ignore.
Know thy enemy, said the Chinese sage eons ago. It’s useful for us to remember that maxim. Wars are dirty, horrible, tedious business at times. With a monster with a million heads working 24/7 to derail humanity, we need to maintain our focus at all times.
Fadel says strong rumors the Syria “peace” talks for Jan 25 Geneva will not go ahead, because the winds of war are not turning there in a direction the Ziocons want!
http://syrianperspective.com/2016/01/why-turkey-saudi-arabia-and-qatar-must-not-attend-geneva-conference-should-there-be-a-conference.html
The rumors are that the Geneva Conference, which would supposedly bring together all parties involved in the Syrian conflict with the exception of certain “terrorist” groups, is not going to take place in late January as promised. We expected such a delay because of the sea-change which has taken place on the battlefield, a change so vast in its implications that the parties who most support the ouster of Syria’s legitimate leadership simply have lost their bearings and need time to reconfigure their tactics and strategies. In a sense, it could be said that nations like Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar have misplaced their compasses, both objectively and figuratively.
ISIS Gets 2015 Profit-Sharing & Performance Bonus:
ISIL Forced to Halve Its Militants’ Monthly Salaries in Tough Times
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorist group has announced plans to halve the monthly salaries of its members in Syria and Iraq.
The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor, a Britain-based group close to Syria’s foreign-backed opposition, published what it said was an ISIL statement announcing the cuts.
“Because of the exceptional circumstances that the Islamic State is passing through, a decision was taken to cut the salaries of the mujahedeen in half,” the Arabic statement said, according to AFP.
http://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2016/01/20/976867/isil-forced-to-halve-its-militants-monthly-salaries-in-tough-times
Does anyone know what to think of this article?:
Air drop food to starving Syrians, UN tells Britain
It starts with: The United Nations has given approval to Western countries including Britain to carry out air drops over besieged Syrian towns without regime permission, The Telegraph can disclose.
Only the UN security council could make such a determination and with the Syrian Governments approval as they are recognised members of that den of thieves and it’s victims.
RR
They will be arms supplies, I would imagine. Perhaps the very reason behind the ‘starvation’ lies, or at least a major factor.
Welcome and thanks for an incisive, biting expose of the Liars’ Club.
And I think we as an expanding counter-community to that should take some responsibility for it happening.
I recall Putin being interviewed by Charlie Rose. I enjoyed it despite the flaws because Putin was so masterful with his counter-narrative; he had the facts, was confident, friendly, relaxed and even funny.
He serves as a role model for us but we have to take it deeper. People are not stupid. When they hear deep truth, they may not like it and disagree but it’s like a seed that gets planted in good soil. I am of the opinion that deep down everyone is good in some way although he or she may be covered with mountains of corrosive conditioning.
I have yet to see an integrated, powerful meta-story that would move people to resist the empire, say for example the Christian story that converted the empire of its time.
The old stories are not doing it; they’ve outlived their time. The Russian, Syrians, Iranians and Hezbollah are doing their part on the ground but in the virtual world of information that is based on lies we need a new set of gospel writers who can retain what is priceless in the old and weave it into the new world that is trying to be born even as it is being bombed into oblivion.
Force Is how they have done it largely. Overtly at times and covertly at others. That and the monopoly on force. Look at labour history in the USA. Organized labour has always been confronted by force. Look at the Red Scare in the 20’s. For the intellectual labourer there has always been the threat of prison. McCarthyism in the 1950’s and the Communist Witch hunts. Look at the 60’s and the civil rights and anti war movements were met with force. Look at the assassinations where even a redistribution of wealth suggested by leaders were met with force.
How do those people in the newsroom do it? They do it or else. They have spent a life time “getting over” by hook or crook and corruption is glamourized and also rewarded in America.
Look at occupy…without even demands consisting largely as a propaganda stunt….met with force. I will credit that movement for bringing into consciousness of the 1% vs the 99% but here the ability to do something about it on the domestic front is nulfied as it is “International Banksters” that are responsible. Trump is going to put an end to all of that and make America Beautiful Again.
” And then there is the ideological component…..where even here it is woven through the discourse. Given the literally catatonic state of US public opinion, the grating indifference and bovine passivity one observes in America toward one and all insults hurled at the ordinary citizenry by the powers that be…”
That is like saying “the annexation of Crimea” What is the difference from an ideological or propaganda perspective. The message is again driven home. “You are powerless group of useless eaters” Why bother.
RR
Been lurking here for some time but was slow to jump into the fray. I love this site and treasure the knowledge it’s helped me gain. Very briefly, I wanted to share another important piece of propaganda released by a man whom even the slightest vestigial trace of justice and instinct, were the western world possessed of it, we would class an outlaw: George Soros.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-01-20/george-soros-europe-verge-collapse
Just a taste: “That is why I trained myself to look at the dark side. It has served me well in the financial markets and it is guiding me now in my political philanthropy. As long as I can find a winning strategy, however tenuous, I don’t give up. In danger lies opportunity. It’s always darkest before dawn.”
A long, engrossing look at the dark side, I’d say.
Seymour Hersh, one of the best-known U.S. investigative journalists and one most likely to understand the inner workings of the U.S. government answers “I HAVE NO IDEA!”
Petri Krohn, the reason that Obama has crucified Syria is as plain as day. As the ‘first Jewish President’, as Abner Mikvah declared him, he is, naturally, dedicated to the Oded Yinon Plan, that envisages Syria smashed into four mutually antagonistic statelets, the better for the Zionazis to ‘redeem’ more pf the God-ordained lebensraum in Syria. As the Deputy Speaker of the Knesset asserted on TV in Israel just a week ago or so, Damascus actually belongs to the Jews-Yahweh says so.
really needs to go into an uptodate Syria crisis report………….
Terrorists have increased their activities ahead of the next week’s inter-Syrian talks, with insurgents in the Syrian province of Aleppo receiving reinforcements from Turkey, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said.
The much-anticipated talks between the Syrian government and different opposition groups are scheduled to take place in the Swiss city of Geneva on January 25.
“Unfortunately, in recent days, it’s especially noticeable that ahead of the planned start of the inter-Syrian negotiations in Geneva the activities of terrorist groups have intensified. Obviously, they’re trying to turn the tide in their favor on the battlefield,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said during a briefing in Moscow.
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Al-Qadam district south of Damascus © RT Arabic500 families returning home as ISIS & Nusra jihadists withdraw from Damascus suburbs
According to Zakharova, Attempts to launch counter-attacks against the government forces were performed by Al-Nusra Front and Ahrar ash-Sham groups, which “got serious reinforcements from Turkey.”
The increased activity of the terrorists was witnessed in several suburbs of Damascus, Homs and Idlib provinces of Syria, she added.
Russia will continue providing humanitarian assistance to the civilian population in Syria, Zakharova stressed.
She reiterated that Russia’s Emergencies Ministry has performed 30 flights “not only to Syria, but also to Lebanon and Jordan” in January, delivering 600 tons of food and essentials for those affected by the conflict.
Besides humanitarian assistance, “Russia has also been involved in evacuation of citizens who want to leave dangerous areas,” she added.
Zakharova said that Moscow was “surprised” by recent comments from Washington, in which “representatives of the US State Department said that they don’t see Russia’s efforts in regard to providing humanitarian aid to Syria.”
“This is very strange, especially since the State Department allegedly sees everything, including Russian tanks that are being flown in or crawling into the territory of other states, but there’s no humanitarian aid in sight,” she said.
Read more
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry shakes hands with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov before their meeting on Syria, in Zurich, Switzerland, January 20, 2016. © Jacquelyn Martin‘We’ll fight ISIS until its complete annihilation’ – Russian FM Lavrov after Kerry talks
Zakharova said that Russia is concerned over Ankara’s increased military incursions into Syria, adding that “it cannot be ruled out that… fortifications [built by Turkey] along the Syrian-Turkish border may be used by militant groups as strongholds.
“While all parties involved pin their hopes on the start of a meaningful and… inclusive dialogue between the Syrian government and the opposition, external forces continue to help militants in Syria, including terrorist groups, providing them with arms and ammunition,” she stressed.
https://www.rt.com/news/329675-aleppo-militants-reinforcements-turkey/
and similar
MOSCOW, January 21. /TASS/. The Syrian government has dispatched an official message to the UN secretary-general and Security Council president an official message containing evidence of Turkey’s crude violations of its sovereignty, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson Maria Zakharova said on Thursday. “On January 17 Syria sent an official message to the UN secretary-general and UN Security Council president containing evidence of Turkey’s gross violations of Syria’s sovereignty,” Zakharova said. “Turkish troops have repeatedly intruded into Syria’s border areas.”
More:
http://tass.ru/en/politics/851261
sense of it all hotting up, especially since
With peace negotiations to begin next week, and with almost no bargaining chips left to play with, Erdogan has decided to send Turkish forces into Syria.
Turkey has seized the ISIS-controlled town of Jarabulus, but faced no resistance, according to reports:
Eyewitnesses to the incursion reported that the Turkish forces have not encountered any resistance from ISIS fighters in the area. These reports once again raise the question of possible collaboration between Turkey and ISIS aimed at halting the advance of the Kurdish militias in north Syria.
plus rus ambassadeur being called by Uk over its ‘role’ ie VP ordering? being involve dan assassination of Litvinenko—-
http://fortruss.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/litvinenko-what-really-happened.html
and http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/discredited-litvinenko-judge-sends-parliament-untrustworthy-verdict/ri12340
surely such UK actions could lead to serious international repercussions-like as at start of ww1???????
Rus, send all UK governmental reps home asap…………no more games………hope ambassadeur makes public false accusations…………………….Uk justice system flawed etc
MOSCOW, January 16. /TASS/. Russia’s Defence Ministry has expressed its bewilderment over the French defence minister’s remarks on Russia’s Aerospace Force’s activities in Syria. “The main and only goal of the Russian operation in Syria remains destruction of the largest hotbed of international terrorism which almost succeeded last year to absorb the whole territory of the United Nations’ member country,” the Russian defence ministry’s spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov said on Saturday. READ ALSO Russian General Staff: Syrian opposition actively helped in freeing one of IS strongholds “It is not Russia that bears responsibility for creation of that hornet’s nest but today’s critics who have been supporting and arming Islamic ‘opposition’ groups since 2011,” the general said. Besides, the general said that effectiveness of the Russian air strikes could be assessed “with the help of tangible hundreds of cities, towns and villages liberated by Syria’s armed forces and the country’s patriotic opposition and with the help of thousands of square kilometres of the Syrian land freed from terrorists.” “So we do not need to be those who have to persuade Paris of effectiveness of our actions against terrorists in Syria but those must do it who promised to avenge for the deaths of French nationals on November 13, 2015,” Konashenkov said.
More:
http://tass.ru/en/politics/850121
yet humble pie from France?
PARIS, January 21. /TASS/. France is ready to cooperate with Russia in Syria focusing on the fighting against the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group, French President Francois Hollande said on Thursday. “I would like us to strengthen cooperation and coordination with Russia to act against the IS, but only against the IS, because this is our enemy,” Hollande said. “I told Vladimir Putin we should exchange information and hit the terrorist organization into the heart without putting the moderate opposition in complicated conditions,” the president said.
More:
http://tass.ru/en/world/851256
I don’t think so-it is conditional offer -remember French Amb to UNSC really slamming into Rus and Syria the other day……….
yet more
quoting in full cos important, but mods shorten if you wish
LONDON, January 21. /TASS/. The conclusions of the UK public inquiry report into the murder case of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko will damage the Russian-British bilateral relations, Russian Ambassador to London Alexander Yakovenko said on Thursday after being summoned to the British Foreign Office where he was informed about the final report into the circumstances of Litvinenko’s death published in London. READ ALSO UK inquiry says Russians Lugovoy, Kovtun poisoned Litvinenko “This gross provocation of the British authorities cannot but damage our bilateral ties,” the diplomat said after visiting the Foreign Office. “We consider the Litvinenko case and how it was ‘closed’ as a flagrant provocation by the British authorities,” Yakovenko said. According to the diplomat, it is inadmissible to suspect that Russia is allegedly linked to the death of Alexander Litvinenko. “It is absolutely inadmissible for us that the Russian state is suspected of links to Litvinenko’s death,” the Russian diplomat said. Britain’s actions on Litvinenko case create dangerous precedent The use by the British side of legal arrangements in political games creates a dangerous precedent, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mariya Zakharova said Thursday after Britain made public a report of a public investigation into the circumstances of Russian Federal Security Service defector Alexander Litvinenko’s death. READ ALSO Alleged offender in Litvinenko probe says London relied on forged evidence “The actions of the British side,” Zakharova said, “create a dangerous precedent of using internal legal mechanisms for a politically biased and non-transparent investigation with results determined beforehand, fully replacing by that objective court proceedings and making just an ordered politicized farce out of a normal court process.” The Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman recalled that “the Russian side has repeatedly voiced its interest in an objective and unbiased investigation of the causes of death of not only Litvinenko but in general Russian nationals [and there are many of them], who, under various circumstances, including very strange ones, have regularly died and keep dying in Great Britain.” “The fact that as an interested side, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation actively took part in an open coroner’s investigation, which was earlier conducted in line with British laws on the territory of Great Britain, testifies to that,” Zakharova said. READ ALSO Moscow calls London’s investigation into Litvinenko case politically motivated “As is known, this notorious ‘public investigation’ was started after the suspension of the coroner’s investigation, which, by all appearances, did not give the British authorities the outcome they were seeking,” she said. “At that, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation was forced to give up participation in that ‘public investigation’ solely due to its non-transparency and inevitable politicization of the court process,” Zakharova said. “As a result, our assumptions were fully justified,” she said. “The process was non-transparent, secret, classified to the maximum and of course maximally politicized.”
More:
http://tass.ru/en/politics/851313
Lumping all citizens of the Metropole into one boat is just as wrong changed so less rude. Mod TR as the Propaganda and Indoctrination Systems that oppress them. I’m a mindless drone, so why should I respond with civility? Currently, millions of citizens like me are saying No! to the crap they’re being forced to accept. But in the author’s universe, we don’t exist. In some respects, that’s the same attitude as the Governor of Michigan’s regarding the citizens of Flint.
So, not accepting tarring us all with the same brush is “rude”? We’re supposed to docilely become supine and not object to such asinine treatment?! What makes the author’s attitude toward his audience any different from that of those he denigrates?
Bbc 2 newsnight now running a bit re Navalny corruption film ??????by john sweeney…..day after Litvinenko stuff …..hmmmm
I remember watching my sisters watching TV one saturday morning in 1965, and realizing that this is really bad for you. I could see them just going limp and sort of getting the energy sucked out. I jumped on my bike and rode for miles in the country. During the 80´s it seemed adequate to get my news from the Comic News (news had become parody by then). But now, its become so toxic! I was waiting for some sushi take out yesterday, and had to watch 3 Katy Perry videos in a row. I´m still totally weirded out. I can´t believe people voluntarily put such toxic stuff in their eyes. Later,
I was in a waiting room, chatting with the Mexican lady sitting next to me. We were talking about diet and food as medicine, a nice chat, then she said, “it seems like they are doing genetic experiments on the population in the US”. People are so perceptive here(I live in México now), they can think. Some of the most educated people I know in the US have simply lost the ability to reason.
Thank goodness for Counterpunch, Popular Resistance, Black Agenda Report and a few other sites.
The post-truth era is simply not here precisely yet. Refactual’s intention can be to clear the perplexity between fact and thoughts and opinions. Just how fine do we do? Check us out!
https://refactual.com/2017/01/17/is-facebook-addictive/