In the 1980s I was an activist promoting New Zealands nuclear free status. I became aware of the clever psychological warfare tactics that were being used against us then. I have tried for40 years to awaken those around me but to no avail. I now feel emotionally spent as we drift towards the nuclear holocaust and ecological global collapse we tried so hard to avoid. For a brief period in the 1990s I thought sanity might prevail. The propaganda is just too strong, the Western leadership is utterly evil
Com'on man! Identify them! It's the Oligarchy! Lately George Soros name has been coming up. Looks like he's hired Seymour Hersch to work at the NY review of books.
The funding to discover this "truth" came from Soros.
We gotta start realizing it is the just over 600 billionaires in the US that make this all happen. Yeah, the CIA etc. play a significant role, but they gotta get paid from someone.
"There are other functions, however, some of them more legitimate than others. One is to run secret wars... Another thing is to disseminate propaganda to influence people's minds. And this is a major function of the CIA."
This one's by Frank Snepp. The planting stories and using "journalists" part should be all that's required for thinking people to appreciate what's been going on throughout decades. But it hasn't happened. And it won't. The dumbing down of the populace has done wonders.
When you research the establishment of the CIA you realise that it is an international organisation which does not have an allegiance to any country. Its operatives are, generally, Jesuit educated, Vatican obedient.
Then you look into the Vatican and learn who established THAT.
This is when you encounter the Black Nobility, and wish you hadn't, because that is when your illusions about living in the "free world" dissolve completely.
I don't think I want to start down this rabbit hole. Not that you are misleading us, but I just don't think I can deal with it at the moment.
The media is simultaneously reporting that Russia Bombed the Mariupol Theater; used artillery to destroy it; sent in special forces; that the Azov set up a false flag and blew it up with High Explosives; that no one died; that thousands died (in building with only 658 seats.)
The only consistency is the Oligarchy is lying. Heck, maybe there isn't even a war going on.
In practical terms it hardly makes sense to dive into such esoteric themes. People struggle to comprehend much simpler, in-your-face and seemingly on the surface, happenings. To ask them for any more than that is fruitless.
People should be permitted to decide for themselves what they are capable of reading and understanding. You need to remember that you speak for yourself, not the world. If you struggle to comprehend my work, that is YOUR problem! Do not assume that everyone lacks the IQ necessary to follow my research and confirm it with a few clicks.
You replied to me, I replied to you. Others can decide for themselves.
As for reality - brain surgery and nuclear physics are also reality. Why not discuss them here too. I think we need to learn to walk first before we can run.
Reality is what slaps you in the face after months and months of narrative. Reality is millions of vaccine injuries and hundreds of thousands of deaths. It's going to be really hard to cover up the steep rise in all cause mortality among the young and middle aged.
'Millions of vaccine injuries' my ass. If there were no vaccines in the world, you would already be dead. Vaccines have defeated small pox, rubella, tuberculosis, polio, and many other deadly diseases. Vaccines are safe. Your ridiculous rhetoric is not.
There have been more than a million suspected vaccine injuries (adverse events) reported to VAERS for Covid-19 vaccines. That's US only and does not account for the Under-Reporting Factor (URF) inherent in any passive data collection system. I don't know what the totals are for UK's yellow card system or the EU's data collection system, but we're already over the million threshold I wrote of. VAERS data for Covid-19 vaccines are more than twice the total for all other vaccines since the VAERS database was created. Insurance companies have reported huge increases in all cause mortality for 2021, coincidentally after the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines in late 2020. Embalmers have reported extracting very long fibrous clots obstructing the flow of embalming fluid, a phenomenon they had never seen before.
Tuberculosis is an infectious bacterial disease for which there is no vaccine. It is treated mainly with antibiotics, but there are new resistant strains emerging. It has not been “defeated.”
Polio—also undefeated—hangs on in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan, and there have been some recent reports that cases may appear in Ukraine due to the unsanitary conditions caused by war (but will, of course, have nothing to do with the 20+ secret U.S. funded biolabs there.)
According to the WHO, there were 49,136 cases of Rubella reported in 2019 (the latest year for which data is available). That is a 47% increase over 2018. Apparently the news of Rubella's defeat may have been exaggerated.
In regard to smallpox, the CDC website states that while there have been no naturally occurring cases since 1980, “Smallpox research in the United States continues and focuses on the development of vaccines, drugs, and diagnostic tests to protect people against smallpox in the event that it is used as an agent of bioterrorism.” So, based on the CDC's stellar performance in handling the COVID-19 pandemic, no worries. What could possibly go wrong?
BTW, 13inches, let me guess that your Nomme de Blog does not refer to your shoe size.
I'd mentioned & cited supporting links, pertaining to thrombotic microangiopathy mRNA-1273 side-effects, so I'm prejudiced. But, NY1's crawl, nearly a YEAR late, now warned delaying any second shot 60 days. So, yeah, much of what we're told is just intentionally blatant LIES?
Yeah, people like 13inches accepted the lies about issue #1. Months or years later, corporate media admits, "We lied about issue #1. We apologize and promise never to do it again."
People like 13inches then accepted the lies about issue #2. Months or years later, corporate media admits, "We lied about issue #2. We apologize and promise never to do it again."
People like 13inches then accepted the lies about issue #3. Months or years later, corporate media admits, "We lied about issue #3. We apologize and promise never to do it again."
People like 13inches then accepted the lies about Covid-19 "safe and effective vaccines".
It's an abusive relationship, but people like 13inches are in co-dependent and will never accept that they are abused.
That the mRNA was pulled for young males, second doses delayed for us olds & not given to us survivors in: Germany, France, Spain, Israel... was common knowledge, everywhere but the US. This was a YEAR earlier! This is fucking CRIMINAL, as so much in our Idiocratic duopoly. Since mostly poor workers got fucked-up, indentured by surprise ER, ICU or mortuary bills, it's not mentioned by our six media outlets.
I keep reading rumors about the Covid Vaccines, but there is nothing I've read that I find more convincing than the Ivermectin claims to cure it. It's just a question of filling up one's brain with so much repetition that at some point you just can't fight it any longer.
Great stuff. I thought the Tweet by Justin Podur about creating stories was right on the money.
Storytelling can definitely be used for either good or bad, whether poets, prophets, writers, or the oligarchy. They all understand how mythos can shape the imagination, which then colors how people think about countless other things. It in many ways determines how people think and view reality at a much deeper level than any kind of didacticism or lecture. I find that a good deal of Hollywood and the streaming services also function in tandem with the msm as one great "priming" machine.
All this stuff also makes Plato's question about banning the poets from the Republic more interesting and nuanced for me. The average academic tends to treat Plato's questions are purely literal, as if Plato is some kind of Kim Jon Un saying poets must be panned with no nuance, no irony, nothing? It doesn't sound like the Plato I know, and yet this is the popular take.
I would argue that Plato understood in his own way the kind of thing we are now faced with. He was trying to make a more subtle point about the power of narratives, imagery, story-telling, which in their day was largely in the hands of the poets and raphsodists who spread the stories among the people. For, if one wanted to change opinion and direct people in a different way, they would seek to introduce the kinds of stories that would support that, or discourage the kind of things they sought to suppress. Plato seems to have had a deep understanding of the power of narratives, and so was introducing a polemic to get people to think more seriously about how our reality is constructed and influenced on these more subtle and deeper levels.
After reading a few books by Richard Bandler on hypnosis and trance (a very sketchy guy, co-creator of Neuro Linguistic Programming, and also considered one of the world's leading hypnotists), I've recently come to a better understanding of how some of the more subtle "priming," "predictive programming" and other hypnotic techniques are applied to modern propaganda.
These techniques in their most modern form are powerful because they are subtle and people don't realize they're being given suggestions. In many ways, the increase in the effectiveness in propaganda is largely a result of its becoming more artfully subtle, but also using hypnotic techniques, including the "illusion of choice," hypnotic "binds," "sequences," the power of suggestion, and a conscious understanding of how "altered states." In the case of "sequences," imagine me starting my speech by first talking about images of children being killed, crying mothers, and THEN talking about the possibility of no fly-zones and other alternatives. Even just these same two points in the reverse order doesn't have the same effect, because the first set of images are to induce the altered state, getting someone to becoming emotionally more involved, with their sensitivity heightened, and THEN introducing the other idea. Sequence is very importance in hypnosis.
However, Bandler points out that hypnosis is also a natural part of life. We experience altered states everyday in our lives, from walking (no one has to think about each step they take, automatic i.e. unconscious processes do that for us), to driving, to thinking about and imagining images from the past or future. By knowing exactly how to word things and using the proper sequences and "frames," it becomes easier to consciously guide altered states, especially when one knows how to give "cues" and "prime" people with different images and linguistic formulations. "Experts say," "most experts agree," "there is a consensus," "the benefits outweigh the risks" - each of these phrases makes use of subtle behavioral insights. "Experts say" is what social engineers and behavioral scientists would refer to as the "leveraging of authority" - the idea being that when we are faced with something where we don't consider ourselves "experts," for example going to see a doctor, the mind is prone to taking mental "shortcuts" as a risk-benefit decision i.e. you're likely better off taking the doctor's opinion than just doing your own thing based on your own personal theory. "Most experts agree" and "there is a consensus" is a pretty overt appeal to group-think, but in behavioral science terms, it's a form of "social proof" i.e. most people believe this and it seems reliable, thinking otherwise is more uncertain, presents more uncertainty, which the mind automatically seeks to avoid.
Stories and narratives are framed in a way that most efficiently and quickly leverages these various elements, from altered states to social proof to the preference for avoiding potentially large losses (whether real or imagined) over potentially minor gains.
The question remains how to get folks who are steeped in a propaganda souffle to realize it? I find an inability to think and a satisfaction with the status quo -- along with an unhealthy dose of partisanship -- is what so often roots them there in the first place. Unfortunately being spoon fed is just so damn convenient while crawling out requires a lot damn work, on purpose.
This Ukrainian-turned-Nazi thing is going to be dealt with and I doubt there will be a country "Ukraine" anymore. The Lenin's creation is going down and the de-Communization will be complete.
The problem is how the West's going to turn it into their victory. They cannot continue pushing infinitely unless they're ready for WWIII.
Wasn't this the same amalgam of MI6, CIA, Atlantic Council & CFR oligarch thug funding sources silencing Bezos' Prop'RNot, Brock's CTR & get Assange RussiaRussiaRussia BS scams, libruls were told, they all HAD to buy-into, or Tinkerbell would DIE? Cui bono?
To add to Caitlin's cite of Michael Parenti's observation that what is not reported and reiterated endlessly in the media - does not exist, is, as she observes, the fact that what much of what is reported is also excluded from day to day reality, as though it never happened. We select or base our cognition of reality, as the ace propaganda expert, Freuds's nephew Edward Bernays discovered, on what the authorities say it is. The US can kill a million people in Iraq, almost without notice and certainly without any great and lasting uproar in the halls of power, when they present no existential risk whatever except in the minds of the extreme paranoid. But the same power brokers are ready to see atrocity in the actions of Russia even as it faces a real existential threat in a US, NATO dominated West and affiliated shaping of the domestic and foreign policy of Ukraine, a country it borders. It is a magic curtain over the mind of the West, a magician's act with tricks and magic wands to cancel adversaries by the application of ridiculous numbers of sanctions, prohibitions and denunciations. But, as economics have noted, these fools seem to have forgotten that the world these days is almost totally integrated in neoliberal, globalist policy. The manufacture of almost all complex items is a team effort- many countries are intimately involved. If too many economies are crippled, the whole edifice could come to a standstill. That is the kind of effect no amount of propaganda, semantic maneuver, or sleight of mind can adequately cover-over or misrepresent.
In the 1980s I was an activist promoting New Zealands nuclear free status. I became aware of the clever psychological warfare tactics that were being used against us then. I have tried for40 years to awaken those around me but to no avail. I now feel emotionally spent as we drift towards the nuclear holocaust and ecological global collapse we tried so hard to avoid. For a brief period in the 1990s I thought sanity might prevail. The propaganda is just too strong, the Western leadership is utterly evil
Money, there’s too much money to be made.
Com'on man! Identify them! It's the Oligarchy! Lately George Soros name has been coming up. Looks like he's hired Seymour Hersch to work at the NY review of books.
Then there's this report about Kolomoyskyy who "owns" Zelensky: https://kanekoa.substack.com/p/how-one-ukrainian-billionaire-funded?s=r
The funding to discover this "truth" came from Soros.
We gotta start realizing it is the just over 600 billionaires in the US that make this all happen. Yeah, the CIA etc. play a significant role, but they gotta get paid from someone.
This John Stockwell video about CIA workings is illuminating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK1tfkESPVY
"There are other functions, however, some of them more legitimate than others. One is to run secret wars... Another thing is to disseminate propaganda to influence people's minds. And this is a major function of the CIA."
Very useful, especially for "normies," since it comes from the horse's mouth hahaha.
Thanks for sharing.
This one's by Frank Snepp. The planting stories and using "journalists" part should be all that's required for thinking people to appreciate what's been going on throughout decades. But it hasn't happened. And it won't. The dumbing down of the populace has done wonders.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwerBZG83YM
When you research the establishment of the CIA you realise that it is an international organisation which does not have an allegiance to any country. Its operatives are, generally, Jesuit educated, Vatican obedient.
Then you look into the Vatican and learn who established THAT.
This is when you encounter the Black Nobility, and wish you hadn't, because that is when your illusions about living in the "free world" dissolve completely.
https://francesleader.substack.com/p/who-rules-the-world?s=w
I don't think I want to start down this rabbit hole. Not that you are misleading us, but I just don't think I can deal with it at the moment.
The media is simultaneously reporting that Russia Bombed the Mariupol Theater; used artillery to destroy it; sent in special forces; that the Azov set up a false flag and blew it up with High Explosives; that no one died; that thousands died (in building with only 658 seats.)
The only consistency is the Oligarchy is lying. Heck, maybe there isn't even a war going on.
One Brit recently published an hilarious sequence of videos in which he was travelling around Ukraine trying to find the war!
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1500175827161554946.html
That's funny!
In practical terms it hardly makes sense to dive into such esoteric themes. People struggle to comprehend much simpler, in-your-face and seemingly on the surface, happenings. To ask them for any more than that is fruitless.
Since WHEN was reality "esoteric"?
People should be permitted to decide for themselves what they are capable of reading and understanding. You need to remember that you speak for yourself, not the world. If you struggle to comprehend my work, that is YOUR problem! Do not assume that everyone lacks the IQ necessary to follow my research and confirm it with a few clicks.
You replied to me, I replied to you. Others can decide for themselves.
As for reality - brain surgery and nuclear physics are also reality. Why not discuss them here too. I think we need to learn to walk first before we can run.
I have been running for a decade..... where have you been?
Reality is what slaps you in the face after months and months of narrative. Reality is millions of vaccine injuries and hundreds of thousands of deaths. It's going to be really hard to cover up the steep rise in all cause mortality among the young and middle aged.
Reality is when there is no more Azov battalion.
'Millions of vaccine injuries' my ass. If there were no vaccines in the world, you would already be dead. Vaccines have defeated small pox, rubella, tuberculosis, polio, and many other deadly diseases. Vaccines are safe. Your ridiculous rhetoric is not.
Here's more: https://rumble.com/vwfu7j-edward-dowd-explains-bombshell-fraud-charge-re-pfizer-hiding-deaths-data.html?mref=6zof&mrefc=4
Do try to keep up .
There have been more than a million suspected vaccine injuries (adverse events) reported to VAERS for Covid-19 vaccines. That's US only and does not account for the Under-Reporting Factor (URF) inherent in any passive data collection system. I don't know what the totals are for UK's yellow card system or the EU's data collection system, but we're already over the million threshold I wrote of. VAERS data for Covid-19 vaccines are more than twice the total for all other vaccines since the VAERS database was created. Insurance companies have reported huge increases in all cause mortality for 2021, coincidentally after the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines in late 2020. Embalmers have reported extracting very long fibrous clots obstructing the flow of embalming fluid, a phenomenon they had never seen before.
Wake up, sleepy head. Edit: https://vaersanalysis.info/2022/03/18/vaers-summary-for-covid-19-vaccines-through-3-11-2022/
Tuberculosis is an infectious bacterial disease for which there is no vaccine. It is treated mainly with antibiotics, but there are new resistant strains emerging. It has not been “defeated.”
Polio—also undefeated—hangs on in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan, and there have been some recent reports that cases may appear in Ukraine due to the unsanitary conditions caused by war (but will, of course, have nothing to do with the 20+ secret U.S. funded biolabs there.)
According to the WHO, there were 49,136 cases of Rubella reported in 2019 (the latest year for which data is available). That is a 47% increase over 2018. Apparently the news of Rubella's defeat may have been exaggerated.
In regard to smallpox, the CDC website states that while there have been no naturally occurring cases since 1980, “Smallpox research in the United States continues and focuses on the development of vaccines, drugs, and diagnostic tests to protect people against smallpox in the event that it is used as an agent of bioterrorism.” So, based on the CDC's stellar performance in handling the COVID-19 pandemic, no worries. What could possibly go wrong?
BTW, 13inches, let me guess that your Nomme de Blog does not refer to your shoe size.
Welcome to Caitlin’s substack.
I'd mentioned & cited supporting links, pertaining to thrombotic microangiopathy mRNA-1273 side-effects, so I'm prejudiced. But, NY1's crawl, nearly a YEAR late, now warned delaying any second shot 60 days. So, yeah, much of what we're told is just intentionally blatant LIES?
https://mronline.org/2022/03/19/the-nyt-now-admits-the-biden-laptop-falsely-called-russian-disinformation-is-authentic/
https://kanekoa.substack.com/p/how-one-ukrainian-billionaire-funded?s=r
https://thegrayzone.com/2022/03/18/bombing-mariupol-theater-ukrainian-azov-nato-intervention/
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2022-03-20/world-war-iii-is-here-but-its-not-what-we-expected/
https://mobile.twitter.com/briebriejoy/status/1504450407103451139
Yeah, people like 13inches accepted the lies about issue #1. Months or years later, corporate media admits, "We lied about issue #1. We apologize and promise never to do it again."
People like 13inches then accepted the lies about issue #2. Months or years later, corporate media admits, "We lied about issue #2. We apologize and promise never to do it again."
People like 13inches then accepted the lies about issue #3. Months or years later, corporate media admits, "We lied about issue #3. We apologize and promise never to do it again."
People like 13inches then accepted the lies about Covid-19 "safe and effective vaccines".
It's an abusive relationship, but people like 13inches are in co-dependent and will never accept that they are abused.
That the mRNA was pulled for young males, second doses delayed for us olds & not given to us survivors in: Germany, France, Spain, Israel... was common knowledge, everywhere but the US. This was a YEAR earlier! This is fucking CRIMINAL, as so much in our Idiocratic duopoly. Since mostly poor workers got fucked-up, indentured by surprise ER, ICU or mortuary bills, it's not mentioned by our six media outlets.
I keep reading rumors about the Covid Vaccines, but there is nothing I've read that I find more convincing than the Ivermectin claims to cure it. It's just a question of filling up one's brain with so much repetition that at some point you just can't fight it any longer.
Great stuff. I thought the Tweet by Justin Podur about creating stories was right on the money.
Storytelling can definitely be used for either good or bad, whether poets, prophets, writers, or the oligarchy. They all understand how mythos can shape the imagination, which then colors how people think about countless other things. It in many ways determines how people think and view reality at a much deeper level than any kind of didacticism or lecture. I find that a good deal of Hollywood and the streaming services also function in tandem with the msm as one great "priming" machine.
All this stuff also makes Plato's question about banning the poets from the Republic more interesting and nuanced for me. The average academic tends to treat Plato's questions are purely literal, as if Plato is some kind of Kim Jon Un saying poets must be panned with no nuance, no irony, nothing? It doesn't sound like the Plato I know, and yet this is the popular take.
I would argue that Plato understood in his own way the kind of thing we are now faced with. He was trying to make a more subtle point about the power of narratives, imagery, story-telling, which in their day was largely in the hands of the poets and raphsodists who spread the stories among the people. For, if one wanted to change opinion and direct people in a different way, they would seek to introduce the kinds of stories that would support that, or discourage the kind of things they sought to suppress. Plato seems to have had a deep understanding of the power of narratives, and so was introducing a polemic to get people to think more seriously about how our reality is constructed and influenced on these more subtle and deeper levels.
After reading a few books by Richard Bandler on hypnosis and trance (a very sketchy guy, co-creator of Neuro Linguistic Programming, and also considered one of the world's leading hypnotists), I've recently come to a better understanding of how some of the more subtle "priming," "predictive programming" and other hypnotic techniques are applied to modern propaganda.
These techniques in their most modern form are powerful because they are subtle and people don't realize they're being given suggestions. In many ways, the increase in the effectiveness in propaganda is largely a result of its becoming more artfully subtle, but also using hypnotic techniques, including the "illusion of choice," hypnotic "binds," "sequences," the power of suggestion, and a conscious understanding of how "altered states." In the case of "sequences," imagine me starting my speech by first talking about images of children being killed, crying mothers, and THEN talking about the possibility of no fly-zones and other alternatives. Even just these same two points in the reverse order doesn't have the same effect, because the first set of images are to induce the altered state, getting someone to becoming emotionally more involved, with their sensitivity heightened, and THEN introducing the other idea. Sequence is very importance in hypnosis.
However, Bandler points out that hypnosis is also a natural part of life. We experience altered states everyday in our lives, from walking (no one has to think about each step they take, automatic i.e. unconscious processes do that for us), to driving, to thinking about and imagining images from the past or future. By knowing exactly how to word things and using the proper sequences and "frames," it becomes easier to consciously guide altered states, especially when one knows how to give "cues" and "prime" people with different images and linguistic formulations. "Experts say," "most experts agree," "there is a consensus," "the benefits outweigh the risks" - each of these phrases makes use of subtle behavioral insights. "Experts say" is what social engineers and behavioral scientists would refer to as the "leveraging of authority" - the idea being that when we are faced with something where we don't consider ourselves "experts," for example going to see a doctor, the mind is prone to taking mental "shortcuts" as a risk-benefit decision i.e. you're likely better off taking the doctor's opinion than just doing your own thing based on your own personal theory. "Most experts agree" and "there is a consensus" is a pretty overt appeal to group-think, but in behavioral science terms, it's a form of "social proof" i.e. most people believe this and it seems reliable, thinking otherwise is more uncertain, presents more uncertainty, which the mind automatically seeks to avoid.
Stories and narratives are framed in a way that most efficiently and quickly leverages these various elements, from altered states to social proof to the preference for avoiding potentially large losses (whether real or imagined) over potentially minor gains.
Keep the flags in the closet and trust very little of what you see and hear. Hugs.
Twitter is a cess pit. Nobody with a functioning brain uses it any more.
Censorship, cancel culture, 77th Brigade and MSM propaganda has destroyed Twitter.
In words of Patrick Lawrence, Russia's special operation in Ukraine is "Regrettable but necessary."
https://thescrum.substack.com/p/the-casualties-of-empire?s=r
War criminals here are Biden and the US War uni-party (both D and R)
Amazing article Caitlin. Thank you.
The question remains how to get folks who are steeped in a propaganda souffle to realize it? I find an inability to think and a satisfaction with the status quo -- along with an unhealthy dose of partisanship -- is what so often roots them there in the first place. Unfortunately being spoon fed is just so damn convenient while crawling out requires a lot damn work, on purpose.
I feel like I’m gonna snap!
This Ukrainian-turned-Nazi thing is going to be dealt with and I doubt there will be a country "Ukraine" anymore. The Lenin's creation is going down and the de-Communization will be complete.
The problem is how the West's going to turn it into their victory. They cannot continue pushing infinitely unless they're ready for WWIII.
MAURIPOL
https://youtu.be/3rZK7o-pyw8
Information I came across recently
The CIA'S COMEDIAN and Off shore banking
https://youtu.be/Pp0WWZbNGq4
UKRAINE
- What your not being told
https://youtu.be/fWkfpGCAAuw
The Hidden Truth about Ukraine pt 1 ( English subtitles)
https://youtu.be/wR1NFI6TBH0
Pt 2
https://youtu.be/V0rR2Fh1zWI kip
🔗Full video (🇬🇧 sub): https://t.co/OcbuqihgEZ https://t.co/J2Buy6rYt3 https://twitter.com/mission_russian/status/1501585783454584839?s=20&t=MiHlXYSY6nvivVz5vmDL8w
https://twitter.com/i/status/1497747535783411714
Always a grift with ‘people’ like Caitlin.
Why do people like this always believe that everyone else should pay to financially support them?
How can you trust the motives of someone who cares more for the financial income, than the truth?
Wasn't this the same amalgam of MI6, CIA, Atlantic Council & CFR oligarch thug funding sources silencing Bezos' Prop'RNot, Brock's CTR & get Assange RussiaRussiaRussia BS scams, libruls were told, they all HAD to buy-into, or Tinkerbell would DIE? Cui bono?
https://thegrayzone.com/2022/03/18/bombing-mariupol-theater-ukrainian-azov-nato-intervention/
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2022-03-20/world-war-iii-is-here-but-its-not-what-we-expected/
https://mobile.twitter.com/briebriejoy/status/1504450407103451139
https://nypost.com/2022/03/17/hunter-bidens-infamous-laptop-confirmed-in-new-york-times-report/
To add to Caitlin's cite of Michael Parenti's observation that what is not reported and reiterated endlessly in the media - does not exist, is, as she observes, the fact that what much of what is reported is also excluded from day to day reality, as though it never happened. We select or base our cognition of reality, as the ace propaganda expert, Freuds's nephew Edward Bernays discovered, on what the authorities say it is. The US can kill a million people in Iraq, almost without notice and certainly without any great and lasting uproar in the halls of power, when they present no existential risk whatever except in the minds of the extreme paranoid. But the same power brokers are ready to see atrocity in the actions of Russia even as it faces a real existential threat in a US, NATO dominated West and affiliated shaping of the domestic and foreign policy of Ukraine, a country it borders. It is a magic curtain over the mind of the West, a magician's act with tricks and magic wands to cancel adversaries by the application of ridiculous numbers of sanctions, prohibitions and denunciations. But, as economics have noted, these fools seem to have forgotten that the world these days is almost totally integrated in neoliberal, globalist policy. The manufacture of almost all complex items is a team effort- many countries are intimately involved. If too many economies are crippled, the whole edifice could come to a standstill. That is the kind of effect no amount of propaganda, semantic maneuver, or sleight of mind can adequately cover-over or misrepresent.