By Larry Romanoff for The Saker Blog
The Globe & Mail is a respectable broadsheet long recognised as Canada’s national newspaper. Some years ago, the Globe published an article detailing the atrocities then being committed against the Arabs in Palestine. The article wasn’t inflammatory or ideological, but simply an accurate chronicle of events the editors believed should be brought to the attention of the world. The very next morning, the entire top half of the front page of the Globe carried a huge photo of a Jewish soldier giving candy to a supposedly Palestinian child, with text to match. You don’t need an imagination to know what must have happened behind a closed door somewhere. The date was 1983 and, in the 38 years since then, the Globe hasn’t published a single article that was critical of either the Jews or of Israel. Much the opposite, in fact. One of their more celebrated pieces was titled, “Shmeck the Halls”, a story about how two Jewish songwriters “created Christmas”. (1)
It is widely-known that a relatively small handful of people, all Jews, either own or exercise virtual total control over all Western (and much other) media. This includes not only newspapers, but radio and TV stations and networks, plus most recognised magazines, virtually the entire book publishing industry, all of the social media and related internet platforms like Wikipedia and Google, as well as 90% of Hollywood which includes both motion pictures and television programs. The people involved do not like this information stated publicly, but the facts are not in dispute and indeed Jewish publications boast privately about the extent of their ownership of the media as well as of their control of movies and television.
Philip Weiss wrote an article in Mondoweiss titled, “Do Jews Dominate in American Media? And So What If We Do?” (2) In his article, he inserted this observation and quotation: As former CNN correspondent Linda Scherzer has said, “We, as Jews, must understand that we come with a certain bias … We believe in the Israeli narrative of history. We support the values that we as Americans, Westerners, and Jews espouse. Thus, we see news reporting through our own prism.” (3)
Yes, and that isn’t necessarily a bad thing, depending of course on the orientation of the facets of that prism. Much of the reporting through that “Jewish prism” is harmless, while some of it is helpful. In fact, much of the second and third tier of the Internet consists of platforms that provide us with our only alternative sources of publication and information, and are operated mostly but not entirely by Jews. The Unz Review, Global Research and many similar. Without these, our world would be one-dimensional. The problem is that, aside from the ‘helpful prisms’, the vast majority of these Jewish contributors are low-level conscripts. I don’t mean to denigrate their abilities or contribution; merely to state that they are nowhere near the top of the pyramid where the “values” are decided and the narratives constructed. And it is the top of the pyramid that requires our focus.
In the comments section of my article Propaganda and the Media – Part 1, one reader related the following paragraph by Michael Cieply:
By and large, talented reporters scrambled to match stories with what internally was often called “the narrative”. We were occasionally asked to map a narrative for our various beats a year in advance, square the plan with editors, then generate stories that fit the pre-designated line. The bigger shock came on being told, at least twice, by Times editors who were describing the paper’s daily Page One meeting: “We set the agenda for the country in that room.” (4) (5)
This is the real issue: The NYT are not in the business of reporting news but of creating and then editorialising it with ideology, with ‘viewpoints’, and with their ‘agenda for the country’. And they aren’t alone. Within these parts of the Jewish-owned media scaffolding, there exists a commonality, a synchronicity, a simultaneity, a shared identity, that does not originate within these scattered pieces of the media herd but comes from somewhere higher in the pyramid, from a central source quietly operating behind the scenes in Europe. It cannot be otherwise: When every newspaper in the Western world and much of the rest can repeatedly report on the same events in the same way with an astonishing total uniformity, this cannot possibly be random and cannot be attributed to use of a newswire service. Someone, somewhere, as Bernays was so fond of saying, is “pulling the wires which control the public mind.” (6)
As evidence (admittedly circumstantial but obviously also powerful), consider the hate campaign against China that has been running at full speed for the past at least 18 months in every Western country, and this gleeful review of the results which reflects only three countries of the many where similar programs and polls have been conducted:
Ask yourself: how could it happen that virtually every editor and TV newsroom director in the West (and in much of the rest of the world) would, without external contact or instruction, independently and simultaneously decide to mount an intense, unremitting, and relentless negative campaign against China and everything Chinese? How would it happen that similar unanimous and simultaneous demonising campaigns were mounted against Iraq and Libya prior to their invasion and colonisation? Against Russia, Cuba and North Korea? Against Venezuela today? How is it that an enormous swath of these media outlets, not only newspapers but including (apparently unrelated) television networks and magazines would have the same story to tell us about ZIKA, all unanimous with cries for Latin America to relax its abortion restrictions?
As I stated in Part 1 of this series, the important point is that these ‘media floods’ as I call them do not and cannot happen by accident. These circumstances are planned meticulously, and implemented with strategies carefully chosen according to Freud’s theories to create public discomfort and emotional pressure for acceptance of ‘the agenda’, to manipulate public attitudes on political, social, and commercial issues – in fact “pulling the wires which control the public mind.”
Sometimes the agenda is for the benefit of their countless hundreds of huge multinationals, many more than you might imagine, many controlled in ways you might not imagine. As one example the Jewish Wallenberg family has been reliably fixed as controlling more than 40% of the stocks listed on Sweden’s exchange, as well as about 40% of the GDP of the nation. One detailed and extensively-documented study concluded that fewer than 150 corporations controlled at least 40% of everything on the world’s listed stock markets. (7) (8) The first link gives an excellent summary, with links to important sources.
Most of the multi-nationals you know so well, and a great many you may not know, are in this incestuous grouping, controlled mostly by privately-owned banks, related hedge funds and similar. But the statistic omits the essential point and the reality of this condition, because it is not the 150 companies who control virtually everything and who set the international corporate ‘agenda’, but the ultimate beneficial owners of those companies – real people with names. As an example, if Berkshire-Hathaway buys Coca-Cola, it is not “Berkshire-Hathaway” that sets the agenda for Coca-Cola to liquidate union organisers in Latin America; it is Warren Buffett who does that.
As another example, much effort has been made to tally the assets of the Rothschild banking family. A creditable result obtained some years back with an estimate of between 6 trillion and 7 trillion US dollars, with many of the European Jewish banking families being similar. Since that time, I have obtained a graphic that displays the vast holdings of the Rothschilds. It appears similar to a corporate organisation chart, with small boxes and lines indicating the holdings and the directions of control. To print this graphic in the smallest readable type, would require a sheet of paper 1/2 a square meter in size. It was recently reported that Rothschild established a new bank simply to hold his accumulation of arable land that has been acquired in so many nations.
In a brief abstract taken from a database of Chinese scientific and technological journals; The Age of Innovation 2013 Issue 6; 95-97 pp. 3 of 1003, the text says: Rothschild was “sitting on a $6 billon fortune in the 1850s, and was known (in China) as “the enemy”. It even accurately addresses the deep Jewish influence on the US government at the time: “The Democratic Party belongs to the Morgan family, and the Republican Party belongs to the Rockefeller family.” Rockefeller and Morgan, however, belonged to Rothschild.”
This is admittedly speculative because hard facts are seldom available and because of the intense secrecy and use of so many tax havens, but my updated estimate of the accumulated wealth of the Rothschilds is between 20 trillion and 30 trillion US dollars. You can imagine the power associated with wealth of this magnitude, including political power which has existed and grown for centuries.
Much has been written, and many tallies presented, of “The Richest Man in the World”, an honor alternating for years between Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Carlos Slim and, more recently, Jeff Bezos. This has all been false propaganda emanating from the same source as every item on the ‘agenda’, Rothschild and the Jewish banking families of Sassoon, Warburg, Montefiori, and many others disappearing entirely from view and apparently non-existent. We have many Jewish websites ‘debunking’ the fiction of Jewish banking families being wealthy, and Wikipedia tells us that the Rothschilds were once rich but they so freely distributed their wealth among their many children and are now merely middle-class Europeans. This silence, and the associated fiction, is one part of the ‘agenda’ emanating from the central core.
As one quick example, Canada, through its cleverly Jewish-controlled central bank, has paid these European bankers more than one trillion US dollars in interest during the past 30 or 40 years. And this is only one of dozens of central banks they control. The real truth about the ‘richest man’ that no medium anywhere has had the courage to state openly, is that compared to these European Jewish bankers, Bill Gates is pocket change. The interest alone that these people earn each year from these central banks is far more than Gates’ entire wealth, and this isn’t accounting for the revenue deriving from their hundreds of huge multi-national corporations.
Rothschild’s Sanofi-Aventis-Connaught is perhaps the largest manufacturer of vaccines in the world. If a few members of this elite group stand to benefit from the sale of COVID-19 (or other) vaccines, their close media partners will cooperate to heavily promote vaccinations, while elected officials will legislate them as compulsory, with their controlled governments scheming ‘vaccination passports’ to ensure sales (one of the ‘benefits’ of democracy), while relieving the vaccine makers of all liability. They will heavily pressure poor governments into the purchases and will utilise every portion of the UN, including the World Bank and IMF as well as the WHO, to tie loans and other assistance to these purchases – while stipulating the avoidance of such vaccines not manufactured by their group, such as those from China and Russia, the media helpfully denigrating these as ‘untested’ and ‘ineffective’, with the UN and various Western governments helpfully withholding approvals. It’s a very small club.
Certainly, members of this media herd can determine an agenda on local matters, though they would be working in concert, but not so for international and serious geo-political affairs – which would be above their level. In simple terms, neither the NYT nor the Huffington Post would decide on their own that Libya should be invaded and colonised, and all its gold and oil seized by a few European bankers and industrialists. If they were to attempt such a maneuver, they would be alone, and likely held to ridicule. But when the entire list of international media sources suddenly and simultaneously espouses this agenda, we know it originated in a central source with ‘the agenda’ delivered to media lieutenants for execution.
Much of the agenda, as you already know, is geo-political, and has existed in its present form for nearly 100 years. It began with Lippman and Bernays in marketing both world wars (9), and continued most notably when on June 5, 1989, every one of these media sources unanimously carried the same story about China’s student demonstration in Tiananmen Square – a story that has been proven totally false even by the US Embassy itself (10).
The uniform agenda was fully evident during the media floods preparing the world for the invasion and total confiscation of the assets of Iraq and Libya, and it is much in evidence today in their current Anger Campaign against China (11). We have COVID-19 “escaping” from a Chinese lab, the “genocide” occurring in Xinjiang, the travesties in Tibet, the “democracy” protests in Hong Kong, the threatened invasion of Taiwan, China’s “military threatening” of all South-East Asia, China’s “militarisation” of the South China Seas. We have Huawei, Tik-Tok and WeChat (12); we have accusations of cyber-spying. We have “questionable Chinese economic data” (13) prepared by “authoritarian dictators” desperate to cling to their “tenuous grip on power”.
The Jewish columnist Jonathan Kay of Canada’s Jewish-owned National Post tells us “China’s ruthless foreign policy is changing the world in dangerous ways”, that “unlike the US”, “China doesn’t even pretend to operate on any other principle except naked self-interest.” (14) We have Roderic Broadhurst in the SCMP telling us that “Corruption is a byproduct of Chinese party-state’s defective genes” (15). Jewish historical websites (16) and the NYT (17) are today telling us the Bubonic Plague that killed 30% of the population of Europe actually originated in China, as did the Rockefeller Medical Institute’s 1918 “influenza” pandemic that killed as many as 100 million people. Today, China is “stealing our secrets” while “enslaving the world”, has no “rule of law” and is “choking on its own success” in cities that are “barely livable” and inhabited by only children who have no future.
The established ‘agenda’ includes at its core an upheaval of the world’s educational, social, sexual, religious, and family values. In an earlier essay titled “Connecting the Dots” (18), I stated the following: It often happens that events we view as isolated occurrences are connected as integral parts of a much larger picture, often as part of a wide-ranging plan, and frequently with important social, economic, and/or political implications which become evident only when seen in total.” We must today make a sincere effort to connect related events and see them as portions of the overall plan that they are.
As one example of the determined indoctrination efforts to re-vamp our social and sexual values, Canada is passing new legislation (the country’s only new legislation of consequence) to lower (and then eliminate) the age of consent for anal sex while adopting striking new measures for “assisted dying” of family members, especially those who either cost money or have money to distribute. Canada’s British Columbia government officially endorses sexual “Glory Holes” (19) (20), releasing a detailed 16-page brochure with tips on how to best use, and offers new tips for masturbation & orgies. The new tip sheet was inspired by a document released earlier by the health authority of New York City (21), and sharing “some invaluable insights on how to stage orgies . . . amid the pandemic”. Pornhub, the world’s largest pornographic website, located in Montreal, Canada, (22) (23) has become mainstream media with the apparent silent approval of Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Certainly, he’s had nothing negative to offer, in spite of the outrage that website has caused for egregious violations.
In its ‘Entertainment’ section, the Huffington Post helpfully advises on the best places for women to find pornography online (24), along with another article advising that “Swinging is back” and how to assess “if it’s right for you” (25). In other parts, pedophilia, incest and sex parties are being promoted. ABC discusses young girls repaying their student loans by being a “sugar baby” (26), working to separate sex and morality by encouraging young girls to prostitute themselves. Such a discussion in the mainstream media serves not only to legitimise but to “approve” of these attitudes.
Add these to the continuous flood of the alphabet soup of “sexual preferences” being promoted today, and try to see this as one enormous propaganda campaign being flogged worldwide as one portion of the “agenda” determined and promulgated by these same people. With the power of the mass media, they are in fact dictating the new attitudes and points of view to be accepted, while censoring and condemning contrary opinions.
I stated earlier that the US media function as the microphone of the US State Department, full partners in scripting propaganda campaigns to achieve foreign policy objectives. But it is crucial to understand that the Americans are not leading these international geo-political, social, and moral assaults. They are merely functioning as the Bankers’ Private Army to accomplish the objectives of a group of European-UK elites who are always in the shadows and led by one who, like Voldemort, is “he who must not be named”.
The marketing control of this agenda is near total. We have not only the newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations and book publishers, but the social media have been 100% conscripted into this agenda. Scores of websites, including some very prominent ones, have been ‘de-platformed’ by Google, to the extent their contents almost never appear in searches. Facebook and Twitter have become quite aggressive in censoring and silencing all dissenting voices to the extent that even mentioning an author’s name or listing the URL of an article is now flagged as “false news” and either prohibited or deleted. The so-called “fact-checkers” are doing their part to trash anyone escaping the censorship net.
Again, pause for a moment to think of all the persons who must be involved to accomplish such results. How many individuals in which places must be involved to ensure either an unremitting flood of propaganda or a complete blanket of silence, and ask yourself what is the source of their power to do this.
The connection you need to make is that all of these agenda categories, and many more, emanate from the same source. It is not ‘the media’ who want to invade Iran and confiscate the country’s oil. It is not the NYT journalists who want to destroy China and Russia or the WSJ editors who are determined to initiate World War III. It is not Arianna Huffington who wants you to become sexual perverts and abandon your moral, social, religious, and family values. These media people are tools for distributing the propaganda and manipulating public opinion according to the various items currently on ‘the agenda’. Media editors and columnists are lieutenants; they receive instructions and act on them. It happens because the relative handful of real, live people who set the agenda have unshakeable ethnic and philosophical bonds with the media owners and editors to ensure cooperation in their mutual view of the world. They all belong to the same small club and share the same ‘interests’ and ‘values’. This is all part of one thing, emanating from a small group of real people with names.
In an earlier article titled “Humanity at the Crossroads” (27), I began with this statement:
“Humankind is at a cusp, a point of transition between two different states of governance and existence. The world today is like a sack being slowly filled while the string around the opening is pulled increasingly tighter to prevent the contents from escaping confinement. The shadows of this future are everywhere to be seen but even the keenest of observers tend to view the portents not as the warnings they are, but instead regard all these pieces of one despairing puzzle as disconnected and unrelated events. In this essay, we will take a look at where our world is going, how it is going there, and why it is going there.”
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Mr. Romanoff’s writing has been translated into more than 30 languages and his articles posted on more than 150 foreign-language news and politics websites in more than 30 countries, as well as more than 100 English language platforms. Larry Romanoff is a retired management consultant and businessman. He has held senior executive positions in international consulting firms, and owned an international import-export business. He has been a visiting professor at Shanghai’s Fudan University, presenting case studies in international affairs to senior EMBA classes. Mr. Romanoff lives in Shanghai and is currently writing a series of ten books generally related to China and the West. He is one of the contributing authors to Cynthia McKinney’s new anthology ‘When China Sneezes’, Chapt. 2 “Dealing with Demons”.
His full archive can be seen at https://www.moonofshanghai.com/ and http://www.bluemoonofshanghai.com/
He can be contacted at: 2186604556@qq.com
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Notes
(2) https://mondoweiss.net/2008/02/do-jews-dominat/
(3) http://www.ujc.org/page.html?ArticleID=78802
(5)https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/stunned-trump-york-times-finds-205904328.html
(6) Bernays and Propaganda – Part 1 of 5
http://www.bluemoonofshanghai.com/politics/1562/
(8) https://www.forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin/2011/10/22/the-147-companies-that-control-everything/
(9) http://www.bluemoonofshanghai.com/politics/1582/
(10) https://www.moonofshanghai.com/2020/04/tiananmen-square-failure-of-american.html
(11) https://www.moonofshanghai.com/2020/08/blog-post_49.html
(12) https://www.moonofshanghai.com/2020/08/huawei-tik-tok-and-wechat-august-8-2020.html
(15) SCMP.com; 12 December, 2013
(16) http://www.jewishhistory.org.il/history.php?startyear=1340&endyear=1349
(17) http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/01/health/01plague.html
(18) https://www.moonofshanghai.com/2020/06/connecting-dots-june-24-2020.html
(19) https://www.rt.com/news/495509-canada-covid-glory-hole/
(20) pic.twitter.com/sS7vmFuCDa
(21) https://www.rt.com/usa/491458-new-york-covid-sex-tips/
(22) https://www.ibtimes.com/sexual-abuse-victims-urge-canada-investigate-pornhub-3156530
(24) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/best-porn-for-women-online_564f71f9e4b0258edb316a5a
(25) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sandra-lamorgese-phd/swinging_b_8884220.htm
(26) https://abcnews.go.com/US/paying-student-loans-sugar-baby/story?id=72175621
(27) http://www.bluemoonofshanghai.com/politics/2331/ Humanity at the Crossroads
The original source of this article is The Saker Blog
Copyright © Larry Romanoff, Moon of Shanghai, Blue Moon of Shanghai, 2021
Bravo Mr. Romanoff, bravo!
Here in the USA we have the Mighty Wurlitzer, controlled by CIA(Mossad) since the day after forever. Operation Mockingbird was a large-scale operation that began in the early years of the Cold War which attempted to manipulate news media for propaganda purposes. It engaged in “propaganda, economic warfare; preventive direct action, including sabotage, anti-sabotage, demolition and evacuation measures; subversion against hostile states, including assistance to underground resistance groups, and support of indigenous anti-Communist elements in threatened countries of the free world.” (Spartacus Educational).
Its crowning achievement was promoting the “official” narrative of 9/11, which was the pretext for all the wars of this century, all for Israel. The fable that Osama bin Laden, holed up in a cave in Afghanistan, directed 19 Arabs armed with box cutters to attack the USA by commandeering airliners has been debunked every which way from Sunday. If you remember, pictures of these so-called hijackers were plastered all over the MSM within hours of the attacks, way before an evidence-based investigation could possibly have been done. That the USA had embarked on the destruction of “seven countries in five years” that led to the murders of millions of Moslems was completely suppressed. These wars have bankrupted the USA both financially and morally.
Benjamin Netanyahu predicted all of this in 1990 when he bragged, “America is a golden calf, and we will suck it dry, chop it up, and sell it off piece by piece until there is nothing left but the world’s biggest welfare state that we will create and control. How right he was.
The Anglo Zionist Media dominates the world media.
They set the political agenda and even define political “reality” itself for much of the world.
As such, they are able to impose their warped value system and unreality on the masses of sheeple throughout the planet–which they disguise behind the greatest of all lies called “Freedom and Democracy” or simply “Defending Our Values.”
What these vaunted values truly are, however, can be found in the Anglo Zionist mass murder, rape, and destruction of Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Serbia–and attempted exterminations of Syria, Palestine and many other nations.
Destruction disguised as “Democracy.”
Fascism concealed as “Freedom.”
That is who the Anglo-Zionists and their media mouthpieces truly are.
As Malcolm X once said: “The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses. The press is so powerful in its image-making role, it can make the criminal look like he’s a the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. This is the press, an irresponsible press. It will make the criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
This quote describes the self-styled “Free Press” in its essential character.
RE: Anonymous on May 21, 2021 · at 10:20 am EST/EDT
“The Anglo Zionist Media dominates the world media. “
“As Malcolm X once said: “The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses. “
Assumptions/beliefs even with the condiment of great men are not necessarly valid, except as illustrations of assumptions/beliefs, given that the universe and phenonemena within it, are laterally dynamic in present perception predicated upon present modes of testing.
Thank you for your cooperation in illustrating that efforts at “Establishing and Controlling the Narrative”, and/or to affect “Full spectrum dominance”, and/or “The end of history” are the dances of useful fools attempting to deny time.
Are you trying to convince people that the Anglo Zionist media does not dominate the world media and control the minds of the sheeple throughout the globe?
If so, you are evocative of the truism: “The greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing the world that he did not exist.”
RE: Anonymous on May 21, 2021 · at 7:47 pm EST/EDT
“Are you trying to convince people that the Anglo Zionist media does not dominate the world media and control the minds of the sheeple throughout the globe?”
(Removed insult,please do not violate the rules by insulting fellow posters,MOD)
The purpose was to catalyse responses such as yours to illustrate the reliance of some on assumptions/beliefs, affording others opportunities to reinforce their assumptions/beliefs if so minded, to ignore them if so minded, to analyse them if so minded, to attempt to challenge their assumptions/beliefs if so minded, thereby illustrating some aspects of “communication”.
You are one who apparently is engaged in efforts to convince others and yourself of “truisms”, contempt of “sheeple” and exceptionalism, illustrating attempts to “Establish and Control the Narrative”.
Thank you for your cooperation – another illustration of communication – and illustration that
“The conflation of attempt with achievement is popular in fantasy lands.”
RE: Establishing and Controlling the Narrative
The conflation of attempt with achievement is popular in fantasy lands.
“we see news reporting through our own prism.”
This could be extended outwith “news reporting” but still deflects/obfuscates : how is our “own prism” derived since “own prism” has inherent connotations of multiplicity of prisms, since even in the simplest interaction at least two persons are required as a minimum.
““We set the agenda for the country in that room.”
This statement carries connotations that multiplicity of prisms don’t exist and that “we” have sole agency in setting “the agenda” a.k.a framing the prism thereby seeking to deny that “we see news reporting through our own prism” – A reiteration of Mr. Rove’s mantra of We are an Empire, We create our own reality to which others react” – an invitation to “believers” to continually go round and round the mulberry bush.
“pulling the wires which control the public mind.”
Mr. Bernes and his associates were making a sales pitch in coercive social relations self-designated as “The United States of America” to an audience who believe that such purpose was achieveable, but if not perhaps the purpose may be achieveable with a section of the public, without the extension of the public’s mind.
Some still believe that and some of some even believe that such purpose has been attained, despite myriad efforts in testing the hypothesis including but not limited to MK Ultra – Ultra replicating a widely held connotation in some social relations that bigger is better.
No one lives in a vaccum and hence life/time is laterally dynamic – no man/(woman) is an island – but all men (women) and their perceptions are functions of their interactions with others thereby facilitating a multiplicity of prisms, including but not limited to, when men/(women) pay for groceries at the supermarket checkout.
” We must today make a sincere effort to connect related events and see them as portions of the overall plan that they are.”
“Why, how, in which context and for what purposes ?
For example if the purpose is to drown a drowning man with the minimum of blowback in a context of “ coercive social relations self-designated as “The United States of America” to an audience who believe that such purpose -(control the public mind) – was achieveable, but if not perhaps the purpose may be achieveable with a section of the public”:
The purpose of minimising blowback could be achieved by not trying to “educate” the (believing) “section of the public” since tourists in a war zone even with benefit of a guide book,don’t tend to enjoy continued well-being, or well; being, despite some of we the people believing that truths are self-evident, whilst some in emulation of bigger is better, resort to notions more words on invented assumptions/frames renders constructions more plausible.
Testing hypotheses are often to be encouraged, including to those immersed in trust the source trust the data, who tend to conflate wishes with plans.
The First Law of Journalism:
“In all press systems, the news media are instruments of those who exercise political and economic power.”
Will “political and economic power”, retain control over the news, or will “uncontrolled news” change the political and economic power structure? The coming years will show. The press maintains the Empire’s narratives.
What is the Invisible Nerve Center of your Media System?
The Global Financial Syndicate through MONETARY IMPERIALISM controls our money, media, markets, military… mankind
Whoever owns the money OWNS the world.
Whoever owns the media owns the minds.
Whoever owns the markets owns the value.
Today slavery is less about people owning other people, instead, it is about exploiting and controlling through money.
“The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another’s labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live.”
– Leo Tolstoy
Why are you okay in being ENSLAVED by the monetary imperialism?
https://swprs.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/cfr-media-network-hdv-spr.png
https://swprs.org/the-american-empire-and-its-media/
https://swprs.org/the-propaganda-multiplier/
https://swprs.org/media-navigator/
Max on May 21, 2021 · at 11:36 am EST/EDT
From this date time stamp above it appears you posted a comment.
Within this comment you assert
“The press maintains the Empire’s narratives.”
whilst by broadcasting this comment you illustrate that
The press attempts to maintain the Empire’s narratives but does not render these attempts into achievements in all instances.
Coercive social relations encourage subject/objectness which some use in furtherance of asserting their
it- wasn’t-meness sometimes designated for purposes of alibi as victimhood.
Thank you for your cooperation in illustrating some of the components in the petri dish of the opponents’ culture.
@ MagdaTam on May 21, 2021 at 11:56 am
What are the few key dimensions that aren’t covered by the press, educational system, various organizations…?
Please share an article from the MSM that exposes monetary imperialism and enslavement.
“Asking the right question is half the answer”
– Aristotle
RE: Max on May 21, 2021 · at 1:29 pm EST/EDT
““Asking the right question is half the answer”
– Aristotle”
Whilst testing the question through implementation derives further questions to facilitate transcendence, evaluation being a function of purpose and facility, whilst the ignorance of opponents has utility in rendering them complicit in their own transcendence.
that these people earn each year from these central banks is far more than Gates’ entire wealth, Excellent. The following passage confirmed my own suspicions: that so called “richest people in the world” such as Gates and the Queen are hired fronts to divert attention from the really rich:
“Rothschild was “sitting on a $6 billon fortune in the 1850s, and was known (in China) as “the enemy”. It [a Chinese archive] even accurately addresses the deep Jewish influence on government at the time: “The Democratic Party belongs to the Morgan family, and the Republican Party belongs to the Rockefeller family.” Rockefeller and Morgan, however, belonged to Rothschild.”
The author continues: “my updated estimate of the accumulated wealth of the Rothschilds is between 20 trillion and 30 trillion US dollars.” He concludes that the interest alone that these people earn **each year** is far more than Gates’ entire wealth”.
He names names among this tight cabal, but they are only Jewish names. Are there no global crime families or crime syndicates of this magnitude among the Gentiles — Bush, for instance?
Your article, I am glad to say, is correct.
As a young man I stumbled upon a passage, in its original form written nearly 2,000 years ago. The implications of which, if materialized, within my lifetime, would prove that not only was the author correct, but that I also could not accept the prevailing notion of the author’s nonexistence. Please bear with me, it’s in Arabic and to make its meaning transparent, I need to quote many different translations in English.
Sahih International: Every soul will taste death, and you will only be given your (full) compensation on the Day of Resurrection. So he who is drawn away from the Fire and admitted to paradise, he indeed is triumphant. And what is the life of this world except the enjoyment of delusion.
Pickthall: Every soul will taste death. And ye will be paid on the Day of Resurrection only that which ye have fairly earned. Whoso is removed from the Fire and is made to enter paradise, he indeed is triumphant. The life of this world is but comfort of illusion.
Yusuf Ali: Every soul shall have a taste of death: And only on the Day of Judgment shall you be paid your full recompense. Only he who is saved far from the Fire and admitted to the Gardens will have attained the object (of Life): For the life of this world is but goods and chattels of deception.
Shakir: Every soul shall taste of death, and you shall only be paid fully your reward on the resurrection day; then whoever is removed far away from the fire and is made to enter the garden he indeed has attained the object; and the life of this world is nothing but a provision of vanities.
Muhammad Sarwar: soul is destined to experience the agony of death. You will receive the recompense for your deeds on the Day of Judgement. To be saved from the fire and admitted to Paradise is certainly a great triumph. The worldly life is no more than a deceitful possession.
Mohsin Khan: Everyone shall taste death. And only on the Day of Resurrection shall you be paid you wages in full. And whoever if removed away from the Fire and admitted to Paradise, he indeed is successful. The life of this world is only the enjoyment of deception (a deceiving thing).
Arberry: Every soul shall taste of death; you she shall surely be paid in full your wages on the Day of Resurrection. Whoever is removed from the Fire and admitted to Paradise, shall win the triumph. The present life is but the joy of delusion.
No matter which version I looked at the same idea about “Life” kept appearing:
“What is the life of this world except the enjoyment of delusion,”
“The life of the world is but comfort of illusion,”
“For the life of this world is but goods and chattels of deception”
“The life of this world is nothing but a provision of vanities,”
“The worldly life is no more than a deceitful possession,”
“The life of this world is only the enjoyment of deception (a deceiving thing),”
“The present life is but the joy of delusion,”
Just as this passage taken out of the Qur’an (3:185) and Larry Romanoff imply there is something out there intending deception to take place on all of us. The implication are for us to accept this reality and act accordingly, time permitting.
Thank you.
The article by Larry Romanoff
Even though I said, “there is something out there intending deception to take place on all of us,” the unspoken elephant in the room masquerading as “something” Larry Romanoff already correctly identified as Satan, (or Lucifer, or Shitan (Arabic)) in his part 2.
It does not take much research into dark societies to unearth this simple truth, they will try to obscure it on the surface (as this is how they operate) but go a little further and you will find it.
It was once said the greatest feat Satan ever accomplished was to make you think he does not exist, hence secular Universities, secular governance, secular imposed sciences, the secular list never stops, all designed to make you (gullible public) look like a fool if you think God or Satan actually exists.
All this intended to lead us to the same place he is going (Hell)
We are all at the same crossroad.
If one can figure out that God exists and Satan also exists the last thing he wants you to connect is his handiwork or fingerprint in Modern Western Civilization, especially its culture.
Look no further then the founder of the Church of Satan California USA, Aleister Crowley. He espoused the television as the actual mechanism to bring their belief system into your house.
I can’t make this stuff up guys.
Bostonian, I can confirm from my own experience your post about Satan’s slickest trick being to convince us that he does not exist. I am an agnostic but this text from St.Paul, which was pointed to me by a Christian friend, suddenly struck me as being literally true: Evil has a cosmic dimension.
Ephesians 6 verse 12
“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against a spiritual wickedness in high places.”
οὐκ ἔστιν ἡμῖν ἡ πάλη πρὸς αἷμα καὶ σάρκα, ἀλλὰ πρὸς τὰς ἀρχάς, πρὸς τὰς ἐξουσίας, πρὸς τοὺς κοσμοκράτορας τοῦ σκότους τούτου, πρὸς τὰ πνευματικὰ τῆς πονηρίας ἐν τοῖς ἐπουρανίοις.
PS to clarify, I appended the Greek original so one can check the English translation. In my view the English version “in high places” could be taken to mean “high courts” on earth but Greek ἐπουρανίοις means Heavenly Realms, and is so translated in Ephesians 1:1-3. The modern English translation of Ephesians 6:12 as “high places” lowers our guard by diminishing the Cosmic urgency of our earthly wrestling against Satan.
Just to be clear by secular I mean Godlessness. Modern Western Civilization did not arrive here by accident.
See lectures on by Sheik Imran Hosein on the appearance of dijaal (the Anti Christ) in three stages, diliniating 3 distinct stages of pax Britanica, Pax Americana, and a pax appearing in the holy land to rule over us ( not here yet).
Also any Hadith, or recorded saying of the last Prophet ( peace be upon him) on the end times, or the minor or major signs of the day of judgement will be enlightening, some are symbolic in nature any may need some interpretation, Sheik Imran Hosein is the only scholar I have come across who consistently seems gets their interpretation right.
It is my understanding that Zionists have been planning all three stages for the return of their Messia. They were sent Prophet Jesus Christ but rejected him.
Now they will get the Anti- Christ Dijaal instead.
Prophet Isa, or Prophet Jesus Christ (peace be upon him) is coming back according to Hadiths on this subject, and it is very clear what he will be doing when he gets back (see Hadiths on this subject).
I think it’s important to mention something about the ownership of the Globe and Mail. It is not Jewish, it is Canadian-British, David Thomson and his family, who are the richest family in Canada.
https://www.forbes.com/profile/david-thomson/?sh=70c5f0dc5628
The family’s biggest holding: more than 320 million shares of Thomson Reuters, where David Thomson serves as chairman.
The family also holds a stake in telecom giant Bell Canada and own the Toronto-based Globe and Mail newspaper.
That Jewish soldier had to give out a large piece of very sweet candy in exchange for the change in editorial coverage, I’m just guessin’.
FWIW, overheard in a bar one afternoon, the Thomson family has a house on some island in the Caribbean beside some Rothschilds.
How can you beleive Forbes writings about a billionaire? Are you a troll, or naive?
David Thomson has no idea about the business he has and is not managing it – he is a rich figurehead owning Woodbridge Company, a major shareholder there, which also happens to has complex and opaque structure – like hiding who is behind it with fiduciary deeds, a very common thing in Canada btw, and many offshore companies behind the fiduciaries, including ones in Liberia, Virgin islands etc. I’m sure this is not widely discussed in his media
It is just a ridiculous suggestion to beleive media claims for one of the largest media owners. It is like beleiving public companies on the NYSE are controlled by shareholders – they are not, they are controlled by few individuals (usuallly from you know which tribe), who have supershares – they are issued special shares with super voting rights who can outvote regular shareholders with minimal ownership and that is how the boards of directors and management are controlled.
Larry is close to the truth, you are not.
Naive troll, you seem to have explained in your ‘ridiculous suggestion’ paragraph how Thomson does in fact exercise control.
Leverage, baby!
Further, I happened to be an avid consumer of Canadian news back in ’83 and I remember the front page spread that Larry mentions. It was a power play — and a well-executed one at that. Although I’m not a billionaire-groupie, I’ll raise my hand and salute to Chairman Thomson over that!
Recently, Human Rights Watch, a known spook run NGO, has been critical of Israel and pro palextinian marches around the world have not been kettled or otherwise attacked by the state, except in France. I wonder why these anomalies have happened.
Perhaps Nuttyahoo has offende someone higher in the food chain, or perhaps Israel is to be thrown to hte wolves.
Perhaps Nuttyahoo has offende someone higher in the food chain, or perhaps Israel is to be thrown to hte wolves.
That’s what I’ve been wondering too, as press coverage has been surprisingly negative concerning Israel’s latest misadventure in Gaza. But I’m still expecting a plot twist somewhere along the line. I can’t see them actually abandoning the Izzies anytime soon.
Such an awesome piece of reporting,and only available because the author lives in China. If he lived in the West he would have been silenced long ago.
“It is widely-known that a relatively small handful of people, all Jews, either own or exercise virtual total control over all Western (and much other) media. This includes not only newspapers, but radio and TV stations and networks, plus most recognised magazines, virtually the entire book publishing industry, all of the social media and related internet platforms like Wikipedia and Google, as well as 90% of Hollywood which includes both motion pictures and television programs. The people involved do not like this information stated publicly, but the facts are not in dispute and indeed Jewish publications boast privately about the extent of their ownership of the media as well as of their control of movies and television”.
Yes,this is widely known to people that study it,but almost unknown to those that don’t study it (probably 90% or more of the general public).And if you talk about it,you are accused of anti-Semitism right from the start to shame and silence you. And let me say,the author’s research while astonishing as it is. It doesn’t go far enough in calculating that influence in our society. Because for every top person involved in this. There are numerous lower tiers also there that help to keep the control functioning. In the media not just the bosses are Zionist Jews,but under them layers of editors,reporters,news anchors,”experts” reported on,or brought in for interviews. In the entertainment field (Hollywood),not only the studio owners are Zionist Jews,but the directors,script writers,many of the actors,etc,etc,as well.And unmentioned in the paragraph is the educational systems and politics.The teaching field,from heads of teachers unions,to important teachers and professors.The entire educational system in the US at least,if not the entire West (and outside the West) is over staffed with Zionist Jews.The political system is awash in candidates taking money (i.e. brides) from those elements.As well as in some cases they are the politicians themselves. Boris Johnson is half-Jewish and spend part of his youth in Israeli Kibbutz’s.The US VP is married to a Zionist Jew.And there are many Zionist Jews in the US Congress. And when the politician themselves isn’t a Zionist Jew their staff leaders are. One of the new Democrat Zionist Jewish Senators got his start as a staffer for a non-Jewish politician. So yes,the Israeli control of societies using Zionist Jews (and brainwashed others,a story in itself),is even more pervasive than many can imagine.
Before we just label this as a “Western” problem. In Ukraine with less than 1/2 of a percent of Jews in that country.And a long history of monstrous anti-Semitism. In this modern age all but one of the vastly wealthy oligarchs that control the national economy are Jewish. The last 2 pro-US Presidents have been Jewish. The PM’s and some other cabinet officials have been Jewish.And even some of the neo-nazi element have been shown to have Jewish backgrounds. And no,Russia doesn’t get off the hook there either. Many (the vast majority) of the extremely wealthy and influential oligarchs there are of Jewish background. And many others in the “Nomenklatura” also have Jewish backgrounds. From business,the media,to education,and to the arts,they are very well placed in Russian society.It would seem that only in some areas of Asia and Africa are Zionist Jews not influential in those societies. And still there is a threat of the use of bribery to buy the influence not gainable by birthright.Which explains why the author is still allowed to write the truth in this article,his living in China.
An easy current example: https://www.rt.com/news/524410-qureshi-cnn-antisemitic-slur/
‘He who must not be named’
Freemasonry has a secret word that under the threat of death no one is supposed to reveal lol? That name refers to ‘here is the builder?
Builder of what exactly? A rebuilt Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem of course! Something which I truly don’t understand really given they do not want to be refered to as a synagogue?
It is all so Beastly and Satanic. The source of all their power these bankers.
As fir Freemasons just dupes and suckers really.
You started with Canada and flipped to USA without mentioning who owns the major outlets like Indigo; nor who has the Oligarch money in Canada, nor the role of Quebec and its Mafiosi.
It is as if you want to avoid treading on Canadian toes, but now that Canada is so far from its Scottish Presbyterian roots as one could imagine it is free-floating on a miasma of Ukrainian renegades and excessively rich families who view Canada as a vehicle rather than a location
Another excellent article. Well done and informative
thank you, larry romanoff, for this beautiful important piece of writing. thank you, saker, for publishing this. a seminal share.
Footnote 7 is wrong. The Wallenbergs are Swedish, not Jewish. And 8 is highly misleading- sure, the big custody banks like State Street and Citi etc. “control” all the companies – they hold shares of stock on behalf of their owners (a lot of whom are non-top-1 percent individuals), like mutual funds.
A friend posted a letter to Biden from a Jewish Palestine supporter:
“Dear President Biden,”
“I am writing to you about Gaza, a place that I have studied and written about for the last 35 years, a place that I consider another home, filled with the kindest and most generous people you will ever meet—have you ever been there? But I am writing not only as a scholar of the region but as a Jew and one whose parents survived Auschwitz”………………..
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/05/21/a-letter-to-biden-on-gaza/?fbclid=IwAR3V8pLo8T3VilPBlCwe7Ij750zoTR2EWKh-TKSUyl23Dy9P0Ut0gCxo5-s
In 1990 Netanyahu said that “America is a golden calf and we will suck it dry, chop it up, and sell it piece by piece until there is nothing left but the world’s biggest welfare state.” How right he was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K84HkfUcEE
I have great respect for Mr Romanoff’s writing, & the cited essay “Humanity at the Crossroads” is an interesting & insightful article, yet in it, I detect a common fallacy which is common amongst some of the best commentators & analysts of various western iterations of imperial & colonial power projection. There is often an apriori assumption that western powers, such as the US, are all powerful, & whatever they – or their ruling classes – plan for the world, so it will be. I don’t have time to write a long analysis on why this is a seriously misguided view, I will just offer a brief commentary on a couple of points. One, the collective west would have lost its dominant standing in the world 100 years ago with the end of World War 1, were it not for the US taking on the mission. Two, the US was not a planned project, North America in its entirety would remain in the British commonwealth had Britain had its way, the US emerged as an independent power within the western hemisphere which then added another century on to the dominant position of the collective west in the world. The point being that the US is visibly imploding & its power in the world rapidly evaporating, it will not be the US, or the collective west, that dictate to the world for much longer how the world will be. I will not be around to see it, but I suspect 100 years from now the world will be a very different place and various “new world order” projects that the west once intended to impose on the world will be viewed with wry amusement, or a sense of relief, ala Hitler, that they were just not able to realise their plans.
Would you consider that the implosion of the U.S. is part of the bigger plan? They want and need one world currency which they control totally and they need everyone, including the U.S. (and by that, I mean not just the government but the society at large) to be subjugated.
This seems to me a very good article and well woth reading (have as yet only trottet throug one third), Bút i mist take issues with anti-Jewieh innacuracies such as this one:
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“As one example the Jewish Wallenberg family has been reliably fixed as controlling more than 40% of the stocks listed on Sweden’s exchange, as well as about 40% of the GDP of the nation. ”
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I used several hour to escuew and look up all I could find about the wallenberg family on the Internet (never mind the zionist-ridden Wikipedia) in Norwegian, Swedish, Yiddish, Hebrew and Finnish language versions. With the exception of one possible Jewesss with a German-language aristocratic (Junker) family name, none of the super.rich Wallenbergs seem to have had any bloodline connections to Jewishness or Zionism,
One should not overdo the overdue influence of Jewish or Zionist influence in North Atlantic Commercial and financier circles: Enough should suffice!
@ anonymous May 21, 11:03 EST
“The Wallenbergs are Swedish, not jewish”
The Wallenbergs are as jewish as gefilte fish. Their motto is; ‘Esse non videri’ ‘att verka utan att synas’ ’to operate without being seen’
Going back at least 300 years, the Wallenberg family in Sweden have had a powerful influence in Banking and the means of production. During WWII they accumulated vast sums of money by supporting both the nazis and the allies. “The Wallenbergs are the common dominator in all places where there is conflict, supporting both sides. Divide and conquer. They come in the form of what we call the ‘Deep State’
https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/597843
For an in depth study of the Wallenberg Family see here (Eng. subs);
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXfYbyKYkmM
A Swedish blogger makes a short and to the point summary of who rules Sweden… and beyond: (yandex transl.)
“Wallenberg-owned/controlled Kivra supports Wallenberg-owned/controlled Astra Zeneca via Wallenberg-owned/controlled Ericsson digital telecom infrastructure so we with it now that with the digitally controlled vaccine passport of Wallenberg can fly with Wallenberg-owned SAS and pay the ticket with the fully controlled digital payment infrastructure of Wallenberg (with friends) unless yours by Wallenberg (and friends) via their banks issued BankID which from april-21 can be arbitrarily withdrawn by Wallenberg-owned/controlled (and friends’) Banks completely legal.
Wondering if our elected representatives really make reasons for their salary, it almost seems that privately owned profit-maximized businesses take care of a lot of the business.
But if you feel a bit dull reading this, you can join Wallenberg-owned Bromma hospital, and Share this on Twitter for example via Wallenberg’s part-owned Amazon Web Service (Ericsson AWS), which has some of its largest server farms in Sweden with ”free” power.”
So what is Larry suggesting about this central core? Nothing, he’s just exposing the surface.
It will be a real pain to name the people there, and this will reqire the resources of a state or large organisation.
How to do it?
Most media is owned by shareholders which are in theory public. In fact, they are not – as I mentioned above, few shareholders with super voting rights exercise control over the management and boards of directors. Those holders of special shares are the ones who matter, and you do not know them because companies are not obliged to report that. However, top managers know that very well, but if you are a regular office worker, you just do what your boss says and have no idea why he sudenly has strange ideas.
So exposing supersharehlders is complex enough – the structure hiding them is usually layered behind several offshore entities (which are quite cheap – about $3-$12K per year per offshore company & account keeping). This way, even if one offshore destination is busted (aka Cypruss is forced by EU some day to reveal its registers), the other offshore jurisdictions will hardly suffer the same fate at the same moment – Panama and Virgin islands will still keep the secret. So the multilayerd structure is hard to break and the sharholders are better protected. Imagin this – John is owner of entity X in Panama, which in turns owns entity Y in Virgin island, whcih owns entity Z in the US.
Moreover, having an offshore account allow your company to say that the physical person – the ultimate beneficial owner, is the guy that is registered as company owner at the offshore destination. This person of course is nominally owner of thouands of companies, he gets fees from being a nominal owner. So the owneyr of Y will be listed as owner in the share registry, not the owner of X.
Having said that, another layer of secrecy is the one made possible by the Big guys – Blackrock, Vanguard, Fidelity, that own most of the US market, by investing newly printed money and US citizens pensions.
Those funds are on paper the ones who can change the boards of directors and managemen committees of most companies, just because the sheer size of their holdings – for many companies, they even have more shares than the usual supershareholders mentioned above with supervoting rights.
But in reality, the Big guys very rarely send representatives at shareholder meetings and they vary rarely interfere in management. They mostly invest in each other and trade with insider information, and get free money from the US government, bribing back state officials either with cash under the table or with info about stocks – this is their core business. They are another line of defence that has absolutely no interest in shaking the shareholder boat.
So in order to expose some of the real people controlling the media, you will need literally an assault team that can penetrate the offices of lawyers that do the offshore paperwork for the media.
This will most probably not be enough, as the offshores will limit the information leaks, and you will probably need to literally send team to visio offshore locations and collect data from the registries in those jurisdictions – this means use of specially trained people. Luckily, the offshore zones have weak police forces, so the main issue will be logistics and bribes, not so much actual shooting & killing.
The operation will most probably need to involve getting a very good cyberattack team to work on this front and get as much data as possible again from both lawyers and offshore registers.
This will probably not be enough, as one will need to know which data centers host this accounts and registry information, so a team can go and physically get hard drives from somewhere. Even getting information about datacenters location is difficult, for this exact reason.
So, unless there’s a state or an organisation that is able to do he above, including financing, traning of people, offices, plane tickets, guns etc., it is absolutely useless to try to change the globohomo agenda – it will continue and get worse. The winging and bitching in internet won’t change it. The people behind it know it, and they know we don’t know them. And we won’t probably know them as most of us are just internet warriors.
Dear Naive Troll
(I can not believe you actually chose this name)
Larry Romanoff, to dumb this explanation down, is simply trying to humbly help you, me, or anyone who will listen.
It is not his job to take you hand and guide you through the rest of your life.
You have to do that on your own. He has done his job already, he has spoken the truth… it is time for us to pick up the pieces he has laid down and run with it. The clock is already ticking, whether you like it or you don’t.
Sorry Naive Troll, I meant your hand, not you hand.
China, Iran and Russia versus the hopeless west and its one world agenda Someone will pay and it will not be these 3.
marginally off topic, but somewhat related: there are real dangers – not only loss of job and livelihood – but loss of life itself in case of being too ´contrary´ towards the ´agenda´- just to name some who died (incidentally all Germans) suspicious deaths – Uwe Barschel (vice Chancellor), Jürgen Mölleman (another vice chancellor) and last but not least a former FAZ journalist Udo Ulfkotte… all suicides, so it is said.
The writings of Mr Romanoff are thought provoking, well written, easy to follow sentences. Hopefully – internet and blogs will not be as easily controlled as other mass media.
Excellent article. It seems so obvious and has seemed so obvious for so long that most of the media is controlled from the same source. But as he so well pointed out, it isn’t the media or even the government who are the source of the problem. They are mere tools of those calling the shots. It is the ones who must not be named! How can they be dealt with as real people?
And what about all of the near entire societies who, over time, have been so indoctrinated by these unnamed ones that they support the evil agenda? There is not a human way to fix it, at least not in the short term as far as I can see.
Thank you to the writer/researcher for this excellent overview.
So with that said, can we only complain and cry, at least here in the West?