Special type of evil? The cruel joke is that careerism is the most mundane type of evil, and I have seen it fester as a corrosive force in the several quite diverse areas of society in which I have toiled during my life. It takes a standard form: the get-along, go-along shite-heads who, outwardly declare themselves to be independent thinkers, actually plot beneath the surface to wangle their way into the good graces of those in power because advancement is the priority. It's a nasty skilled-liars game that sickens me as much today as it did when I was 20. Folks who rise at corrupt orgs like CNN and WAPO are quintessential exemplars.
Don't forget to include Fox News and EVERY other mainstream outlet. They're just as complicit, Tucker Carlson is the Cooper Anderson CIA-controlled asset on "that side of the tracks."
We live in a false paradigm from cover-to-cover. It's a religious thing tho, so we're screwed, as it's difficult to jar people from their religious underpinnings/foundation.
Yes, the left/right paradigm is a false one designed so that you and I will fight each other, and thereby prevent us from teaming up against the powers that shouldn't be.
There is definitely a Left and definitely a Right. It is not a false paradigm. A true Leftist and a true Rightist will have fundamental disagreements on significant material issues. You want to be Left. The problem is in America people can actually be told (and believe it) that the Democratic Party are 'commies' or 'crazy leftists' when in fact the Democrat establishment is about as Right wing as the Republicans when it comes to material issues of war, healthcare, finance, privatization, criminal justice, and state power. The paradigm is not false, it is just that we are so poorly educated and equipped politically and have no actual Leftist representation in the institutions of power.
For starters the foreign policy of every administration has been identical since LBJ. You know, the guy that took over after JFK was killed.
Every government dangle things like abortion, same sex marriage, the LGBT, legalizing drugs etc. issue and more, in front of their population to stir things up. It used to be alcohol, crime, busing of school kids, the right to sit anywhere on a bus, the right to walk into any restaurant or public toilet and so on. and so on. All of these are important issues, yes.
The fact still remains that because some of us are programmed to support these things, and some of us are programed to vehemently oppose them, they are dangled in front of us when the powers that shouldn't be need to distract us from the even more important issues.
For instance they kept white and black parents at each other's throats while the powers that shouldn't be sent the sons of both black, white and Hispanic parents to SE Asia to die for Coca-Cola, among others.
During the eighties they blamed AIDS on gay, monkeyfucking Haitians, so all of a sudden we directed all our hatred towards gays instead of the powers that shouldn't be.
During the early nineties they perfected the "Support Your Troops!" meme which was instrumental in killing the anti-war movement.
It is all just one agenda, and the powers that shouldn't be own the media and play half of the global population up against the other half to further that agenda.
THAT is what I mean by the left/right paradigm being a false construct. I am not ignorant of the difference of so-called leftist- or rightist issues.
To those of you who pressed the heart button under my comment please click on my avatar to read an improved version of it called "The False Left/Right Paradigm".
WHO is Columbia University’s Sophie Fullerton? Other than (according to FB) that she "loves to sing, act, write...basically any medium she can use to tell a story! We need more stories!"...
Well -- she is "a human rights researcher specializing in systemic misinformation in mass media" at Columbia University. And a lecturer of international politics and human rights; researcher on conflicts....
One more among zillions of immoral, despicable characters on payroll of Deep State at a major US university.... It would be great to learn more -- her department, supervisor, etc.
A HUGE part of the problem as related, that almost no one sees, is how those that control that "paradigm" or whatever we call it for sake of discussion, have created a society, using the control of currency, under which people can profit from it, and in doing so, bolster that paradigm.
That's probably a little general so I'll use an analogy.
Why is it that bankers and financial people get paid so well? The "paradigm" answer is that they work hard and push along the mechanism of "capitalism." I'll also assume that anyone reading further realizes that what we term capitalism is merely a system of control designed by the perps pulling off PSYOP19.
But the answer is not because they work harder or help the economy, rather, at the core, they've assisted the Central Banking Cabal and the network of corporations that they own, including corporatized governement (which most people are clueless about), and such as BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard at the top, but on down as well.
Doctors we're told are "brilliant" arbitrarily much like cops (the 'boots on the ground' tool of tyranny) are arbitrarily termed "heroes" regardless of the horrors either perpetrate upon others. Then ones that do are "bad cops" or exceptions, with people not realizing how many "exceptions" there are.
Anyone that's been paying attention realizes that those are false narratives. I mean look at all the doctors that arbitrarily take instruction (aka "following orders") on administering harmful or even lethal injections to people. Most doctors don't keep up by reading trade journals or continuing their education. Cops, taking an oath to honor and uphold the Constitution don't even know what the Bills of Rights, much less specifially the 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 5th Amendments are, either that or they ignore them.
In short, the Tyranny pays handsomely. In the DC area the number of people that gripe about our government yet who draw pay, far more than they should in most cases despite narratives, work for and further along the very companies, departments, and agencies that they claim to stand against.
People, our society, our world, has been demoralized, meaning that God has been driven from society. There is no moral basis anymore. This is no more evident than in the above.
Plain and simple, we, and I'm talking to the vast majority of people claiming to be followers of Christ, who really worship mammon, otherwise they wouldn't be disobeying God for that mammon.
"Give me the power to issue currency in a country, and I care not who makes its laws."
- Mayer Amschel Rothschild -
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.”
- Thomas Jefferson -
"Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin... Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them but leave them the power to create money, and, with the flick of a pen, they will create enough money to buy it back again... Take this great power away from them and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear and they ought to disappear, for then this would be a better and happier world to live in... But, if you want to continue to be a slave of the bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let the bankers continue to create money and control credit."
- Josiah Stamp -
Then I remember a picture I saw somewhere on the www of Jesus kicking the table where the money changers were sitting and counting in a Synagogue with the text below: The First Occupy Demonstration.
To the best of my knowledge the police force was a US invention to keep the upper class safe from the newly freed slaves. In most of the United States that mindset is still alive and well.
As far as the undeniable corporate contoll of government goes....... Just look at what Anthony Fauci has done to neuter various government agencies that are supposed to oversee a particular industry. You can read about it in RFK junior's book "The Real Anthony Fauci". Here is another quote regarding just that.
"Fascism should rightly be called corporatism. It is, after all, the merger of corporations and the government."
- Benito Mussolini -
The majority of people in the western hemisphere have stopped thinking about anything more than what is in their immediate surroundings. They have been very successfully dumbed and numbed down by global corporate media. They even worship the builders of their prison, Bill Gates and Elon Musk, to name just two.
It's what CJ Hopkins refers to as GloboCap. What's missing in his works is a spiritual element, Christ, but without that it becomes difficult to make sense of it all. As I tell people, you cannot claim to believe in Satan but reject Christ, at least not with any credence.
As to Fauci, and as you know, the medical establishment and its SYSTEM are also likewise controlled and are part of the same monolithic leviathan mechanism.
Which is why I told people upon this particular scenario beginning, why would you let your enemy inject you with anything. That didn't go over well until well after it unfolded.
Someone directed me to this site, which is excellent and saves me a lot of work in terms of documentation for passing along. This piece in particular.
Great point. Hannity is as well, and so was Limbaugh. In fact, Limbaugh, at least for a time, was a Trilateralist. He even bragged about it one day and his having to take a week off for a "super secret meeting," before coming back from a break sounding like Howard Beale after his meeting with Arthur Jensen ("god") in the movie Network, never mentioning it again. LOL
I'd pay some good money for that clip of his show. I've searched for it for years and could never find it.
Limbaugh was behind all of the *FTAs that sent our manufacturing packing out of our country. I do believe that Limbaugh was simply so full of himself that he was easy pickings for the Global Elites, and his prior history testifies to that as well. He was a narcissist.
Jimmy Dore has been on Tucker Carlson several times. Because, Carlson is the only person on mainstream media who will have Jimmy on his show. The same thing is true of Glenn Greenwald. You take your help where you can find it.
And as far left as I am, I sometimes watch Tucker Carlson after I found out about his show from Jimmy Dore.
Anything that focuses on the POLITICAL aspects of things, is of little (never say never) or no use/value. Our westernized political SYSTEM is a tool of mankind's greatest enemy.
There are NO ANSWERS/SOLUTIONS in politics. So why waste time there? Most people do, but it's a fool's game. The ENTIRE political aparatus is controlled, top to bottom. By whom? LOL, well, therein lies the key. But most people don't want to know since it rubs their existing world-view in entirely the wrong way, even to the extent that they've absorbed the immoral into their moral views, thereby terminally corrupting it and therefore themselves to at least some extent.
Controlled opposition controls and prevents revelation of the truth.
Truth exposes lies, falsehoods, and those seeking to control.
Politics/Political-activity is the executive branch (as it were) of Control!
They also rationalize their behavior, telling themselves that their lying in the long term serves the better good. Hard to understand it in this case, since the war in Syria is a dirty, dirty war. If you are involved in any way, you would have to be a moron not to be aware of it. Have people forgotten the 15 year old Kuwaiti actress who cried her eyes out as she spewed lies about babies dashed to the floor by Iraqi soldiers to sell the gulf war? They didn't even vet her before hand and later you find out she was the daughter of a Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States. That was disgusting. I don't know how twitter can knock you off for having the perception that they have primed this child to lie. It's blatantly obvious that she is reading from a script, and doesn't even understand what she's saying, but regardless, one should certainly have the right to their perception of things. I'm not on twitter, thank God.
WHO is Columbia University’s Sophie Fullerton? Other than (according to FB) that she "loves to sing, act, write...basically any medium she can use to tell a story! We need more stories!"...
Well -- she is "a human rights researcher specializing in systemic misinformation in mass media" at Columbia University. And a lecturer of international politics and human rights; researcher on conflicts....
One more among zillions of immoral, despicable characters on payroll of Deep State at a major US university.... It would be great to learn more -- her department, supervisor, etc.
When Columbia's grad students striked, when they'd ignored rape of undergrads, when right wing crazies cancelled Muslim, lefty or anti-apartheid Jewish professors; even smug Noo-Yawk librulz noticed NYT's masthead, CSJ and Columbia University was as copie & paste as the Gray Lady's headlines, and WaPo, and WEF, and CNN, and Comcast, and Disney...
When Bezos bought The Washington Post, I'd hopes He'd rid 'Murika of annoying "journalism," contentious contradiction of Ihor Kolomoyskyi's Prop'RNot stomp-down of dissent, whistleblowers, consensus reality or troublesome FACT (like, buying-up ProPublica, flipping Intercept, CounterPunch or finishing-off David Brock's "Correct The Record" scam to wipe-out Lefty blogosphere thought-crime now SEOd down Google's memory hole?) If you go to look ANY of this coup up, ALL YOU'LL SEE on Google is WEF/ Atlantic Council / CFR cut & paste echo-chamber rants about Russian troll farms depriving Hillary of fracking 50K more wells?
I'm BeliTsari there, too... for now! Despite iPhone clutching yuppie HORROR at "increased Hate & anti-vax/ war-to-save-fracking from Pootin" I'm kinda noticing, it's precisely what you'd expect from the biggest money-losing tech-oilgarch emerald mine owner's scion, to remote control a proxy war to save fracking & dilbit Ponzi schemes? I've gotten moderated-off a COVID Precautions board (for quoting my PCP & cardiologist) but I can still dis & cite my total incredulity that folks ignore Hyundai/Kia, Geeley, Nissan PH/EV for his ridiculously blatant attempt to distroy REAL AGW-mitigating equities by selling rich honkeys on a virtue-signalling baubel while the earth burns?
The root problem causing most of our other problems is that our main operating system (government/schools/media) have been corrupted.
If you tell us the kind of systems that govern over you, we can accurately predict your quality of life. If those systems are corrupted then so are you (and your families).
It is time to organize with other like minded individuals and fix them.
We know the solutions. Decentralize everything. Demand transparency in systems. And most efficiently, weaponize the tyranny of the masses back onto the people corrupting our systems to end this Global Agenda.
When Bezos bought the WaPo I had high hopes that he would actually make a world-class newspaper out of the old Mockingbird headquarters. I worked at Amazon for 9 years, and saw him do some far more amazing things than that. Instead he's just left it alone to remain the voice of the DC establishment, I've been **very** disappointed.
Don't think for a moment that he really "began Amazon selling books out of his garage" anymore than that dickhead semi-moron Zuckerberg started facebook on his own. Both were entirely aided by our corrupt government via the CIA, the world's greatest ever "right hand" of Satan.
When that satanic psychopath douchenozel Schwab tells us that we'll rent everything and have it delilvered and be happy, what do you think the initial model for that is? Amazon.
I'm starting to think that the vast majority of people will be happy, just give 'em a set of Virtual Reality goggles (or whatever those damn things are), cheap demoralized entertainment, a comfy chair, and a 32 oz. high-fructose corn syrup Slushy every few hours, and BINGO!!!
I live in Seattle, and have met people who worked in that garage, selling books. He really did start that way, there was nothing revolutionary about it, he just did a better job of it than anyone else in the online-ordering business and succeeded far beyond anything he imagined.
Good 'ol CNN, whose ratings are beneath that of the Cartoon Channel. A current joke [not to be heard on the late-night TV shows] is that there are now more variants of COVID than CNN has viewers. CNN continues to be giggled out of existence. That's [real] good news.
And how does CNN [and other news organizations] get away with this shit? It's because sleaze is not illegal.
The programs on the Cartoon Channel are more honest. The honesty lies in their not expecting you to believe the contents of what they publish. The movie "Network" was a message of what was to come.
That assumes that there's any honesty whatsoever in the ENTIRELY CONTROLLED (by NWO ilk) mainstream media. I mean seriously, even Alex Jones (formerly Bill Hicks) and Joe Rogan are Time-Warner paid-by controlled assets, and Time Warner's under the CIA's thumb.
Have you ever heard the term limited hangout? Click on my avatar, and you'll find what I've written about it.
Glenn has been on TC at least four times to my knowledge, and he is perfectly honest when he is there. He is perfectly onboard when it comes to the official conspiracy theory when it ccmes to 9/11, and he ridicules and belittles anyone who disagrees with him on that subject. That makes him a particularly dangerous propagandist.
Alex Jones, Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi are just three examples of which there are scores.
We need, as a world, to get to the why/how of your stuff. Until we do, ...
In short, it'll never happen. The PTB are lightyears ahead of us in terms of planning, while using our "discoveries" as further cover for their next steps.
I'm convinced that people are only going to complain when their money and ability to do the most superficial things in life are taken.
"I'm convinced that people are only going to complain when their money and ability to do the most superficial things in life are taken."
By the time "You'll own nothing, and be happy!" happens it'll be too late. I'm afraid it's too late already. When this particular cozy little corner of Substack reaches critical mass it will end up in the internet graveyard like Facebook, Twitter and the others. Mark my words.
But it's because people think that they know everything and cannot be convinced of anything that's not presently in their world-view. ... until it happens of course, and the perps know this, and they know that it's too late by then, if in fact we even catch on to the core things, not merely the surface things, such as "vaccines cause death and harm," which is a surface thing, not a core thing.
Someone wrote a piece recently that I merely skimmed, but it was to the effect that lawsuits and political action are too little too late. It may have been up on LewRockwell today. Not sure.
As long as the central bank currency, digital or not, and it's already digital in many ways, is the basis upon which our economy(ies) exist, there is no hope of wresting liberty away from our captors, who now seek to kill most of us.
I will say this, that for that very very few true followers of Christ, this is a remarkably interesting time. We are at the end of the "thousand year" period, Rev. 20:7-9 is about to or in the process of playing out (IMO it's blatant for those that know about CERN and all the other satanic symbolism pervasively rampant throughout pop-culture), and as such, Christ is on the cusp of his return and about to wrap things as such up.
Yeah, they're all mainstream products. That's why I can't take reading much from them anymore. We're on the doorstep of societal destruction and the earth morphing into the HQ for hell, all but literally and perhaps even literally, and the things that people fill their minds with.
Then the hypocrisy, they slam Hollywood for the pedos that are rampant within the city and industry, and yet they keep feeding that beast with their money. Whatever anymore ...
BTW, your blog, while good, only scratches the surface. Let me know if you want contributors. Not sure I'm interested these days, because people don't seem to want the truth, but I write anyway for others, it's suitable for publishing.
Thank you. I'm not as good at writing as Caitlin is, just to name one. Not to mention her productivity. I have only been here for two months, and started writing a month ago. So yes, I am well aware of the fact I have only scratched the surface.
The three main subjects at the core are the creation of the Federal Reserve System, the creation of the Council on Foreign Relations and finally the assassination of JFK. The three parts things needed to hijack the US, and subsequently the entire planet (which is their goal).
They get away with it because there is a significant segment, or should I say a large segment of the American people who buy these lies, and therefore are less likely to see how primed this child was as she read this script.
A couple of years before Covid I was in the library waiting for a friend who was going to be a bit late, so I wondered into a book discussion group. The Librarian was reading from a book and eliciting comments and discussion, then she read a passage where the author felt that presidents were basically decent and honest people, that conveyed truth as they saw it. I immediately asked, about Bush/Cheney and the war in Iraq, and those weapons of mass destruction that weren't there? People popped in with, yes there were weapons, but they got rid of them before the war. I couldn't believe it, and I hate to admit it but I thought their holding on to such a lie was in part due to their more advanced age, many in their late seventies and early eighties. They were educated people living in an upscale neighborhood. I guess they were holding on to their encapsulated perfect world. I don't get it, because even as a kid I didn't like adults white washing my world for me.
Yep, one of the examples I'm sure many can come up with. It's why I question any sort of "remedy" somebody voices up for the human condition. It is what it is.
There can be no hope for most to change their minds based on pure mental exertion. They'll only understand it via their stomachs - the more literally the faster it happens. Even that does not guarantee their understanding the cause. It'll just change their behavior to satisfy their immediate needs.
They get away with exponentially blatant lies (frequently, costing MILLIONS of lives & tens of millions of citizens, destroyed, debilitated, indentured into a Dickensian nightmare of virtual sharecropping, while dying of PASC; forced to work through cytokine storm, then organ failure) BECAUSE boss, landlord and creditors gain advantage & petit-bourgeois PMC. Creative Class & yuppie liberals' stock portfolios jumped ~120% as that 1st million died in the States?
I'm thinking of Bob Clampett & Isadore "Friz" Freleng's era. Stoned boomer kids watched these, high on Saturday morning (usually, miscegenating) while white-flight suburbanite yuppie kids watched bad, stupid, racist & reactionary Hannah Barberra CRAP. I can usually tell the difference WELL before they open their unmasked mouth? CNN's simply Time Warner Discovery's Sunday morning version? While we're STILL watching Boris & Natasha (or bad Gene Autry science-fiction serials?)
In the States CNN only copied WWI Belgian nun propaganda (as, I'm sure Franklin did, to encourage hunting Lenape & Mingo with settler's slave-chasing hounds, smallpox blankets & poisoned crops?) Amy Goodman had dumped all actual journalists opposing Bellingcat, Guardian... basically rip & reading MI6, Israeli Turkish or Saudi spin on various purported government gas attacks, with White Helmets rescuing little kids from evil Russians.
There’s a reason they use images of helpless women and children. They’re trying to induce an emotionally altered state where people don’t think, but they feel the pain, they experience pity.
That forms the opening sequence of the induction. Then come the platitudes and general statements used to build agreements, and then the new suggestions.
Aristotle already laid out the basis of these techniques in The Rhetoric.
To quote:
“We will now state what things and persons excite pity, and the state of mind of those who feel it. Let pity then be a kind of pain excited by the sight of evil, deadly or painful, which befalls one who does not deserve it; an evil which one might expect to come upon himself or one of his friends, and when it seems near.”
The Rhetoric, Book II, Part VIII – Aristotle
They find the right images, they use techniques to help build agreement, then new “suggestions” are introduced.
Empires have been using the same tricks for a while.
Always be suspicious of especially lurid allegations, as this is an age-old tactic to cause a rush to judgment.
Not to mention lurid allegations are used to shut down debate "you're defending child molesters/dictators/whatever!" by assuming as true that which you claim to prove
It's called 'atrocity propaganda', and apparently is an actual Marketing career path one can take if they have an utter lack of morals and no conscience at all. Ukraine had to fire their atrocity propagandist after her inventions got so outrageous (Russians raping babies to death) that not even the NYT would print them.
WHO is Columbia University’s Sophie Fullerton? Other than (according to FB) that she "loves to sing, act, write...basically any medium she can use to tell a story! We need more stories!"...
Well -- she is "a human rights researcher specializing in systemic misinformation in mass media" at Columbia University. And a lecturer of international politics and human rights; researcher on conflicts....
One more among zillions of immoral, despicable characters on payroll of Deep State at a major US university.... It would be great to learn more -- her department, supervisor, etc.
They're well paid for little hits of calming dopamine, little WHITE lies that fit retired yuppie liberal's sneeringly brainwashed Cannon Film's stereotypes: corageous White helmets, squirting lethal Rooski nerve gas from kid's eyes?
That is the crux of the matter: the empire will use children to advance its agenda while at the same time bombing the countries of those children, killing whoever gets in the way. It is sick, but that is because it is evil. We have to accept the fact of evil in the world, and stop acting like it does not exist. The mindset that others and yourself are not capable of it makes you an unwitting instrument for it.
It's an old ploy- "out of the mouths of babes" - and confirms what the gullible or biased want to believe or want you to believe: The Kuwaiti princess , great actor, posing as a Kuwaiti who testified to Iraqi obsession with incubators - "they threw them (infants) onto the cold hard floor" - it hardened the public against Iraq and facilitated the Iraq war. False testimony to a CBC reporter of being raped by Serbians (the unpopular group) in Bosnia Herzegovina which facilitated the attacks on Serbia and the "independence" of Kosovo. It's endless, and if you have any sense, check all such reports carefully as well as what agenda they might serve.
Just a reminder you can't wake someone pretending to sleep. I stopped using social media for the benefit of my mental health a couple years ago and it's been wonderful. I recently waded back into Twitter ever so slightly and I've seen the responses you get. How many bots? How many useful idiots calling you a useful idiot? Hard to tell. I am still very reluctant to post just because it's designed to demoralize anyone disagreeing with the billion dollar narratives, and there's so little actual conversation to be had from it. Nevertheless I appreciate your courage in speaking the truth regardless.
Or that time the US induced the fraudulent testimony of an ambassador’s daughter about Iraqi soldiers ejecting Kuwaiti babies from their incubators and leaving them on the cold ground to die? The short memory of the gen pop of the US has led to repeated war atrocities for countless innocent people abroad, as well as US soldiers used as enforcers for the US corporate mafia.
“The baby-incubator story is back in the news because of the January disclosure in the American press that the teen-age Kuwaiti girl who testified before the Congress members, and was identified at the time only as Nayirah, is the daughter of Sheik Saud al Nasser al Sabah, Kuwait’s ambassador to the United States. She claimed to have observed the disputed incident at Al Addan Hospital outside Kuwait City, where she was a volunteer.”
It's crazy how people form any narrative they want. People who obfuscate the deeper truth love to use words like evil. They also love short one liners (screenshots) rather than the full reasoned argument. The irony here is that endless war is indisputably evil yet they turn it around.
CiaNN's Bana Alabed, 7 years old: ‘’Beace for Sirya’’ . . . .
I seriously wonder - what it will take, before the world's populations becomes fully aware of the stone cold fact, that the patently rogue United States of America [where Corporations are ’Persons’ and Money is ’Free Speech’], has been and continues to be - the greatest clear and present danger to ANY semblance of global peace and stability that has EVER existed, NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST??? . . .
My dear Caitlin, I think you're losing too much energy and time with someone who doesn't deserve the least attention. Whatever you say it's useless. They will never listen to you...
The root problem causing most of our other problems is that our main operating system (government/schools/media) have been corrupted.
If you tell us the kind of systems that govern over you, we can accurately predict your quality of life. If those systems are corrupted then so are you (and your families).
It is time to organize with other like minded individuals and fix them.
We know the solutions. Decentralize everything. Demand transparency in systems. And most efficiently, weaponize the tyranny of the masses back onto the people corrupting our systems to end this Global Agenda.
All systems get corrupted because humans are corruptible. When a critical mass of the people stop being greedy, stop lying and stop judging others while ignoring their own behavior, then we will have better leadership.
The system has been corrupted. Even a system can be useful. Civilization requires order, and collaborative effort from citizens. Or else it will simply devolve into barbarism, or gross inequalities.
For me, the problem isn't a system or a governance per se, it's the corruption of a given system and governance.
Of course, most middle classes are parasitic like that, believe they are entitled to exist, and believe they are also entitled to a system that facilitates their existence. Under those conditions it's too easy, almost instinctive, to rehash the same tired Protestant cliché mythology, perhaps with a New Age splash, that entitles you to the labor of others against their will.
Are all retirees moralistic parasites? Is retirement a mistake? I think Caitlin's right about the current crop of elders.
Most Americans work there asses off most of their life. 40+ hours a week. Many two jobs. And every decade, since about the 80s, they've been getting less and less back for their work. Less sick leave, less relative pay - less dignity for the work they do.
You've bought into the Koch Brother's propaganda - that the parasites in American society are the poor and the elderly. It's a pretty disgusting, and fallacious view. The real parasitic class are the uber wealthy 1% Americans who now control more wealth than the bottom 90% of Americans combined. That is your parasitic class.
ps: Most elderly people who are barely surviving on Social Security right now paid into the system via direct deductions from their paystub work checks ... FOR MOST OF THEIR WORKING LIVES. In addition to the taxes they paid.
You pretend you don't know that. You're just another tool for the Elites.
They work their asses off because parasites like you uphold the Order that maes it possible. Without capitalism and the very same private property that gives you the license to steal their food and call it "retirement income", they wouldn't be enslaved.
You want to preserve the system that makes the Kochs possible. Therefore, YOU are the enemy and no amount of partisan cope is going to change that.
Special type of evil? The cruel joke is that careerism is the most mundane type of evil, and I have seen it fester as a corrosive force in the several quite diverse areas of society in which I have toiled during my life. It takes a standard form: the get-along, go-along shite-heads who, outwardly declare themselves to be independent thinkers, actually plot beneath the surface to wangle their way into the good graces of those in power because advancement is the priority. It's a nasty skilled-liars game that sickens me as much today as it did when I was 20. Folks who rise at corrupt orgs like CNN and WAPO are quintessential exemplars.
Don't forget to include Fox News and EVERY other mainstream outlet. They're just as complicit, Tucker Carlson is the Cooper Anderson CIA-controlled asset on "that side of the tracks."
We live in a false paradigm from cover-to-cover. It's a religious thing tho, so we're screwed, as it's difficult to jar people from their religious underpinnings/foundation.
Yes, the left/right paradigm is a false one designed so that you and I will fight each other, and thereby prevent us from teaming up against the powers that shouldn't be.
There is definitely a Left and definitely a Right. It is not a false paradigm. A true Leftist and a true Rightist will have fundamental disagreements on significant material issues. You want to be Left. The problem is in America people can actually be told (and believe it) that the Democratic Party are 'commies' or 'crazy leftists' when in fact the Democrat establishment is about as Right wing as the Republicans when it comes to material issues of war, healthcare, finance, privatization, criminal justice, and state power. The paradigm is not false, it is just that we are so poorly educated and equipped politically and have no actual Leftist representation in the institutions of power.
For starters the foreign policy of every administration has been identical since LBJ. You know, the guy that took over after JFK was killed.
Every government dangle things like abortion, same sex marriage, the LGBT, legalizing drugs etc. issue and more, in front of their population to stir things up. It used to be alcohol, crime, busing of school kids, the right to sit anywhere on a bus, the right to walk into any restaurant or public toilet and so on. and so on. All of these are important issues, yes.
The fact still remains that because some of us are programmed to support these things, and some of us are programed to vehemently oppose them, they are dangled in front of us when the powers that shouldn't be need to distract us from the even more important issues.
For instance they kept white and black parents at each other's throats while the powers that shouldn't be sent the sons of both black, white and Hispanic parents to SE Asia to die for Coca-Cola, among others.
During the eighties they blamed AIDS on gay, monkeyfucking Haitians, so all of a sudden we directed all our hatred towards gays instead of the powers that shouldn't be.
During the early nineties they perfected the "Support Your Troops!" meme which was instrumental in killing the anti-war movement.
It is all just one agenda, and the powers that shouldn't be own the media and play half of the global population up against the other half to further that agenda.
THAT is what I mean by the left/right paradigm being a false construct. I am not ignorant of the difference of so-called leftist- or rightist issues.
Understood, and agreed!
To those of you who pressed the heart button under my comment please click on my avatar to read an improved version of it called "The False Left/Right Paradigm".
An outstanding update - also as Consortium News
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/01/19/caitlin-johnstone-a-psyop-operator/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=1b6aff3a-99ea-4ed9-bd61-73d4b0e68bd1
WHO is Columbia University’s Sophie Fullerton? Other than (according to FB) that she "loves to sing, act, write...basically any medium she can use to tell a story! We need more stories!"...
Well -- she is "a human rights researcher specializing in systemic misinformation in mass media" at Columbia University. And a lecturer of international politics and human rights; researcher on conflicts....
One more among zillions of immoral, despicable characters on payroll of Deep State at a major US university.... It would be great to learn more -- her department, supervisor, etc.
Your comment got me thinking.
A HUGE part of the problem as related, that almost no one sees, is how those that control that "paradigm" or whatever we call it for sake of discussion, have created a society, using the control of currency, under which people can profit from it, and in doing so, bolster that paradigm.
That's probably a little general so I'll use an analogy.
Why is it that bankers and financial people get paid so well? The "paradigm" answer is that they work hard and push along the mechanism of "capitalism." I'll also assume that anyone reading further realizes that what we term capitalism is merely a system of control designed by the perps pulling off PSYOP19.
But the answer is not because they work harder or help the economy, rather, at the core, they've assisted the Central Banking Cabal and the network of corporations that they own, including corporatized governement (which most people are clueless about), and such as BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard at the top, but on down as well.
Doctors we're told are "brilliant" arbitrarily much like cops (the 'boots on the ground' tool of tyranny) are arbitrarily termed "heroes" regardless of the horrors either perpetrate upon others. Then ones that do are "bad cops" or exceptions, with people not realizing how many "exceptions" there are.
Anyone that's been paying attention realizes that those are false narratives. I mean look at all the doctors that arbitrarily take instruction (aka "following orders") on administering harmful or even lethal injections to people. Most doctors don't keep up by reading trade journals or continuing their education. Cops, taking an oath to honor and uphold the Constitution don't even know what the Bills of Rights, much less specifially the 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 5th Amendments are, either that or they ignore them.
In short, the Tyranny pays handsomely. In the DC area the number of people that gripe about our government yet who draw pay, far more than they should in most cases despite narratives, work for and further along the very companies, departments, and agencies that they claim to stand against.
People, our society, our world, has been demoralized, meaning that God has been driven from society. There is no moral basis anymore. This is no more evident than in the above.
Plain and simple, we, and I'm talking to the vast majority of people claiming to be followers of Christ, who really worship mammon, otherwise they wouldn't be disobeying God for that mammon.
What comes to mind first now are three quotes.
"Give me the power to issue currency in a country, and I care not who makes its laws."
- Mayer Amschel Rothschild -
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.”
- Thomas Jefferson -
"Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin... Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them but leave them the power to create money, and, with the flick of a pen, they will create enough money to buy it back again... Take this great power away from them and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear and they ought to disappear, for then this would be a better and happier world to live in... But, if you want to continue to be a slave of the bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let the bankers continue to create money and control credit."
- Josiah Stamp -
Then I remember a picture I saw somewhere on the www of Jesus kicking the table where the money changers were sitting and counting in a Synagogue with the text below: The First Occupy Demonstration.
To the best of my knowledge the police force was a US invention to keep the upper class safe from the newly freed slaves. In most of the United States that mindset is still alive and well.
As far as the undeniable corporate contoll of government goes....... Just look at what Anthony Fauci has done to neuter various government agencies that are supposed to oversee a particular industry. You can read about it in RFK junior's book "The Real Anthony Fauci". Here is another quote regarding just that.
"Fascism should rightly be called corporatism. It is, after all, the merger of corporations and the government."
- Benito Mussolini -
The majority of people in the western hemisphere have stopped thinking about anything more than what is in their immediate surroundings. They have been very successfully dumbed and numbed down by global corporate media. They even worship the builders of their prison, Bill Gates and Elon Musk, to name just two.
To a T!
It's what CJ Hopkins refers to as GloboCap. What's missing in his works is a spiritual element, Christ, but without that it becomes difficult to make sense of it all. As I tell people, you cannot claim to believe in Satan but reject Christ, at least not with any credence.
As to Fauci, and as you know, the medical establishment and its SYSTEM are also likewise controlled and are part of the same monolithic leviathan mechanism.
Which is why I told people upon this particular scenario beginning, why would you let your enemy inject you with anything. That didn't go over well until well after it unfolded.
Someone directed me to this site, which is excellent and saves me a lot of work in terms of documentation for passing along. This piece in particular.
https://biblicisminstitute.wordpress.com/2015/07/28/how-the-ashkenazi-jews-conquered-the-west/
Every paradigm is.
Tucker is definitely CIA. He know plays the role Hannity played during the Irak war.
....., and what does that make Greenwald?
Great point. Hannity is as well, and so was Limbaugh. In fact, Limbaugh, at least for a time, was a Trilateralist. He even bragged about it one day and his having to take a week off for a "super secret meeting," before coming back from a break sounding like Howard Beale after his meeting with Arthur Jensen ("god") in the movie Network, never mentioning it again. LOL
I'd pay some good money for that clip of his show. I've searched for it for years and could never find it.
Limbaugh was behind all of the *FTAs that sent our manufacturing packing out of our country. I do believe that Limbaugh was simply so full of himself that he was easy pickings for the Global Elites, and his prior history testifies to that as well. He was a narcissist.
"Tucker Carlson is the Cooper Anderson CIA-controlled asset on "that side of the tracks." "
....., which ought to speak volumes of the fact that Glenn Greenwald has been on Tucker Carlson several times.
Jimmy Dore has been on Tucker Carlson several times. Because, Carlson is the only person on mainstream media who will have Jimmy on his show. The same thing is true of Glenn Greenwald. You take your help where you can find it.
And as far left as I am, I sometimes watch Tucker Carlson after I found out about his show from Jimmy Dore.
Dore dwells in the mainstream too.
[Deep sigh] ...
It's disheartening how so few people truly understand who really runs this country.
Anything on MSM is either an unwitting prop/tool, or in on it.
That comment sounds like controlled opposition. I applaud when the alternative media get to express themselves to any audience.
Anything that focuses on the POLITICAL aspects of things, is of little (never say never) or no use/value. Our westernized political SYSTEM is a tool of mankind's greatest enemy.
There are NO ANSWERS/SOLUTIONS in politics. So why waste time there? Most people do, but it's a fool's game. The ENTIRE political aparatus is controlled, top to bottom. By whom? LOL, well, therein lies the key. But most people don't want to know since it rubs their existing world-view in entirely the wrong way, even to the extent that they've absorbed the immoral into their moral views, thereby terminally corrupting it and therefore themselves to at least some extent.
Controlled opposition controls and prevents revelation of the truth.
Truth exposes lies, falsehoods, and those seeking to control.
Politics/Political-activity is the executive branch (as it were) of Control!
Food for thought. : )
So who is in control and do you have evidence that you can summarize succinctly? I will not click on links.
They also rationalize their behavior, telling themselves that their lying in the long term serves the better good. Hard to understand it in this case, since the war in Syria is a dirty, dirty war. If you are involved in any way, you would have to be a moron not to be aware of it. Have people forgotten the 15 year old Kuwaiti actress who cried her eyes out as she spewed lies about babies dashed to the floor by Iraqi soldiers to sell the gulf war? They didn't even vet her before hand and later you find out she was the daughter of a Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States. That was disgusting. I don't know how twitter can knock you off for having the perception that they have primed this child to lie. It's blatantly obvious that she is reading from a script, and doesn't even understand what she's saying, but regardless, one should certainly have the right to their perception of things. I'm not on twitter, thank God.
An outstanding update - also as Consortium News
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/01/19/caitlin-johnstone-a-psyop-operator/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=1b6aff3a-99ea-4ed9-bd61-73d4b0e68bd1
WHO is Columbia University’s Sophie Fullerton? Other than (according to FB) that she "loves to sing, act, write...basically any medium she can use to tell a story! We need more stories!"...
Well -- she is "a human rights researcher specializing in systemic misinformation in mass media" at Columbia University. And a lecturer of international politics and human rights; researcher on conflicts....
One more among zillions of immoral, despicable characters on payroll of Deep State at a major US university.... It would be great to learn more -- her department, supervisor, etc.
When Columbia's grad students striked, when they'd ignored rape of undergrads, when right wing crazies cancelled Muslim, lefty or anti-apartheid Jewish professors; even smug Noo-Yawk librulz noticed NYT's masthead, CSJ and Columbia University was as copie & paste as the Gray Lady's headlines, and WaPo, and WEF, and CNN, and Comcast, and Disney...
Exactly. It's a nasty skilled-liars game and enough people could ruin it for everyone, if only we wanted to.
Agreed 100%.
When Bezos bought The Washington Post, I'd hopes He'd rid 'Murika of annoying "journalism," contentious contradiction of Ihor Kolomoyskyi's Prop'RNot stomp-down of dissent, whistleblowers, consensus reality or troublesome FACT (like, buying-up ProPublica, flipping Intercept, CounterPunch or finishing-off David Brock's "Correct The Record" scam to wipe-out Lefty blogosphere thought-crime now SEOd down Google's memory hole?) If you go to look ANY of this coup up, ALL YOU'LL SEE on Google is WEF/ Atlantic Council / CFR cut & paste echo-chamber rants about Russian troll farms depriving Hillary of fracking 50K more wells?
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/12/site-behind-washington-posts-mccarthyite-blacklist-appears-to-be-linked-to-ukrainian-fascism-and-cia-spying.html
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/12/02/counterpunch-as-russian-propagandists-the-washington-posts-shallow-smear/
https://consortiumnews.com/2016/11/27/washington-posts-fake-news-guilt/
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/the-washington-post-blacklist-story-is-shameful-and-disgusting-115978/
https://www.propublica.org/article/infamous-russian-troll-farm-appears-to-be-source-of-anti-ukraine-propaganda
Yeah, and what are your hopes for Twitter after the new boss entered their office? Honestly!
I'm BeliTsari there, too... for now! Despite iPhone clutching yuppie HORROR at "increased Hate & anti-vax/ war-to-save-fracking from Pootin" I'm kinda noticing, it's precisely what you'd expect from the biggest money-losing tech-oilgarch emerald mine owner's scion, to remote control a proxy war to save fracking & dilbit Ponzi schemes? I've gotten moderated-off a COVID Precautions board (for quoting my PCP & cardiologist) but I can still dis & cite my total incredulity that folks ignore Hyundai/Kia, Geeley, Nissan PH/EV for his ridiculously blatant attempt to distroy REAL AGW-mitigating equities by selling rich honkeys on a virtue-signalling baubel while the earth burns?
FWIW: Garland Nixon thinks Musk bought Twitter because he's afraid of dying in a Nuclear War.
The root problem causing most of our other problems is that our main operating system (government/schools/media) have been corrupted.
If you tell us the kind of systems that govern over you, we can accurately predict your quality of life. If those systems are corrupted then so are you (and your families).
It is time to organize with other like minded individuals and fix them.
We know the solutions. Decentralize everything. Demand transparency in systems. And most efficiently, weaponize the tyranny of the masses back onto the people corrupting our systems to end this Global Agenda.
Please, give this some thought: https://open.substack.com/pub/joshketry/p/weaponized-direct-democracy-the-kryptonite?r=7oa9d&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
When Bezos bought the WaPo I had high hopes that he would actually make a world-class newspaper out of the old Mockingbird headquarters. I worked at Amazon for 9 years, and saw him do some far more amazing things than that. Instead he's just left it alone to remain the voice of the DC establishment, I've been **very** disappointed.
He's part of the entire charade going on today.
Don't think for a moment that he really "began Amazon selling books out of his garage" anymore than that dickhead semi-moron Zuckerberg started facebook on his own. Both were entirely aided by our corrupt government via the CIA, the world's greatest ever "right hand" of Satan.
When that satanic psychopath douchenozel Schwab tells us that we'll rent everything and have it delilvered and be happy, what do you think the initial model for that is? Amazon.
I'm starting to think that the vast majority of people will be happy, just give 'em a set of Virtual Reality goggles (or whatever those damn things are), cheap demoralized entertainment, a comfy chair, and a 32 oz. high-fructose corn syrup Slushy every few hours, and BINGO!!!
I live in Seattle, and have met people who worked in that garage, selling books. He really did start that way, there was nothing revolutionary about it, he just did a better job of it than anyone else in the online-ordering business and succeeded far beyond anything he imagined.
... not sure what your living in Seattle has to do with it. I'm guessing you're a paid fed or troll.
OK ...
Hello, I'm Bill Gates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVoviEndq0Q
Bill Gates started Microsoft from his garage. I saw it on TV.
And the fucking effort that was!
Good 'ol CNN, whose ratings are beneath that of the Cartoon Channel. A current joke [not to be heard on the late-night TV shows] is that there are now more variants of COVID than CNN has viewers. CNN continues to be giggled out of existence. That's [real] good news.
And how does CNN [and other news organizations] get away with this shit? It's because sleaze is not illegal.
The programs on the Cartoon Channel are more honest. The honesty lies in their not expecting you to believe the contents of what they publish. The movie "Network" was a message of what was to come.
"More honest." LOL
That assumes that there's any honesty whatsoever in the ENTIRELY CONTROLLED (by NWO ilk) mainstream media. I mean seriously, even Alex Jones (formerly Bill Hicks) and Joe Rogan are Time-Warner paid-by controlled assets, and Time Warner's under the CIA's thumb.
Have you ever heard the term limited hangout? Click on my avatar, and you'll find what I've written about it.
Glenn has been on TC at least four times to my knowledge, and he is perfectly honest when he is there. He is perfectly onboard when it comes to the official conspiracy theory when it ccmes to 9/11, and he ridicules and belittles anyone who disagrees with him on that subject. That makes him a particularly dangerous propagandist.
Alex Jones, Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi are just three examples of which there are scores.
We need, as a world, to get to the why/how of your stuff. Until we do, ...
In short, it'll never happen. The PTB are lightyears ahead of us in terms of planning, while using our "discoveries" as further cover for their next steps.
I'm convinced that people are only going to complain when their money and ability to do the most superficial things in life are taken.
"I'm convinced that people are only going to complain when their money and ability to do the most superficial things in life are taken."
By the time "You'll own nothing, and be happy!" happens it'll be too late. I'm afraid it's too late already. When this particular cozy little corner of Substack reaches critical mass it will end up in the internet graveyard like Facebook, Twitter and the others. Mark my words.
Agreed
But it's because people think that they know everything and cannot be convinced of anything that's not presently in their world-view. ... until it happens of course, and the perps know this, and they know that it's too late by then, if in fact we even catch on to the core things, not merely the surface things, such as "vaccines cause death and harm," which is a surface thing, not a core thing.
Someone wrote a piece recently that I merely skimmed, but it was to the effect that lawsuits and political action are too little too late. It may have been up on LewRockwell today. Not sure.
As long as the central bank currency, digital or not, and it's already digital in many ways, is the basis upon which our economy(ies) exist, there is no hope of wresting liberty away from our captors, who now seek to kill most of us.
I will say this, that for that very very few true followers of Christ, this is a remarkably interesting time. We are at the end of the "thousand year" period, Rev. 20:7-9 is about to or in the process of playing out (IMO it's blatant for those that know about CERN and all the other satanic symbolism pervasively rampant throughout pop-culture), and as such, Christ is on the cusp of his return and about to wrap things as such up.
Yeah, they're all mainstream products. That's why I can't take reading much from them anymore. We're on the doorstep of societal destruction and the earth morphing into the HQ for hell, all but literally and perhaps even literally, and the things that people fill their minds with.
Then the hypocrisy, they slam Hollywood for the pedos that are rampant within the city and industry, and yet they keep feeding that beast with their money. Whatever anymore ...
BTW, your blog, while good, only scratches the surface. Let me know if you want contributors. Not sure I'm interested these days, because people don't seem to want the truth, but I write anyway for others, it's suitable for publishing.
Thank you. I'm not as good at writing as Caitlin is, just to name one. Not to mention her productivity. I have only been here for two months, and started writing a month ago. So yes, I am well aware of the fact I have only scratched the surface.
The three main subjects at the core are the creation of the Federal Reserve System, the creation of the Council on Foreign Relations and finally the assassination of JFK. The three parts things needed to hijack the US, and subsequently the entire planet (which is their goal).
Those are still surface items. : ]
They get away with it because there is a significant segment, or should I say a large segment of the American people who buy these lies, and therefore are less likely to see how primed this child was as she read this script.
It's worse than that - large segment is actually fine with any lies achieving the ends aligned with their worldview.
A couple of years before Covid I was in the library waiting for a friend who was going to be a bit late, so I wondered into a book discussion group. The Librarian was reading from a book and eliciting comments and discussion, then she read a passage where the author felt that presidents were basically decent and honest people, that conveyed truth as they saw it. I immediately asked, about Bush/Cheney and the war in Iraq, and those weapons of mass destruction that weren't there? People popped in with, yes there were weapons, but they got rid of them before the war. I couldn't believe it, and I hate to admit it but I thought their holding on to such a lie was in part due to their more advanced age, many in their late seventies and early eighties. They were educated people living in an upscale neighborhood. I guess they were holding on to their encapsulated perfect world. I don't get it, because even as a kid I didn't like adults white washing my world for me.
Yep, one of the examples I'm sure many can come up with. It's why I question any sort of "remedy" somebody voices up for the human condition. It is what it is.
There can be no hope for most to change their minds based on pure mental exertion. They'll only understand it via their stomachs - the more literally the faster it happens. Even that does not guarantee their understanding the cause. It'll just change their behavior to satisfy their immediate needs.
I didn't mention it but they also supported our bombing of Japan during the second world war. Yuck!
Icing on the cake.
They get away with exponentially blatant lies (frequently, costing MILLIONS of lives & tens of millions of citizens, destroyed, debilitated, indentured into a Dickensian nightmare of virtual sharecropping, while dying of PASC; forced to work through cytokine storm, then organ failure) BECAUSE boss, landlord and creditors gain advantage & petit-bourgeois PMC. Creative Class & yuppie liberals' stock portfolios jumped ~120% as that 1st million died in the States?
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/01/links-1-16-2023.html#comment-3837369
Thanks for that link.
IMO the old Merrie-Melodies Bugs Bunny era cartoons blow CNN ratings away. Too bad they don't have such a channel.
Now, don't go splitting hares. :-P
LOL, good one.
"Step right up you're doing fine.
I'll pull your beard you pull mine. ..."
:50 second mark ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuBbqR3pj1U
I'm thinking of Bob Clampett & Isadore "Friz" Freleng's era. Stoned boomer kids watched these, high on Saturday morning (usually, miscegenating) while white-flight suburbanite yuppie kids watched bad, stupid, racist & reactionary Hannah Barberra CRAP. I can usually tell the difference WELL before they open their unmasked mouth? CNN's simply Time Warner Discovery's Sunday morning version? While we're STILL watching Boris & Natasha (or bad Gene Autry science-fiction serials?)
Yes, the Freleng era was the best. Of course Mel Blanc ...
Interesting juxtoposition/analysis otherwise.
In the States CNN only copied WWI Belgian nun propaganda (as, I'm sure Franklin did, to encourage hunting Lenape & Mingo with settler's slave-chasing hounds, smallpox blankets & poisoned crops?) Amy Goodman had dumped all actual journalists opposing Bellingcat, Guardian... basically rip & reading MI6, Israeli Turkish or Saudi spin on various purported government gas attacks, with White Helmets rescuing little kids from evil Russians.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WkRylMGLPMU
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_xcsH2EJOis
https://theintercept.com/2019/02/09/douma-chemical-attack-evidence-syria/
There’s a reason they use images of helpless women and children. They’re trying to induce an emotionally altered state where people don’t think, but they feel the pain, they experience pity.
That forms the opening sequence of the induction. Then come the platitudes and general statements used to build agreements, and then the new suggestions.
Aristotle already laid out the basis of these techniques in The Rhetoric.
To quote:
“We will now state what things and persons excite pity, and the state of mind of those who feel it. Let pity then be a kind of pain excited by the sight of evil, deadly or painful, which befalls one who does not deserve it; an evil which one might expect to come upon himself or one of his friends, and when it seems near.”
The Rhetoric, Book II, Part VIII – Aristotle
They find the right images, they use techniques to help build agreement, then new “suggestions” are introduced.
Empires have been using the same tricks for a while.
Always be suspicious of especially lurid allegations, as this is an age-old tactic to cause a rush to judgment.
Not to mention lurid allegations are used to shut down debate "you're defending child molesters/dictators/whatever!" by assuming as true that which you claim to prove
It's called 'atrocity propaganda', and apparently is an actual Marketing career path one can take if they have an utter lack of morals and no conscience at all. Ukraine had to fire their atrocity propagandist after her inventions got so outrageous (Russians raping babies to death) that not even the NYT would print them.
The story goes that western do-goodera wanted to help the alleged victims, and it became an embarrassment when Ukraine was unable to produce any.
An outstanding update - also as Consortium News
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/01/19/caitlin-johnstone-a-psyop-operator/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=1b6aff3a-99ea-4ed9-bd61-73d4b0e68bd1
WHO is Columbia University’s Sophie Fullerton? Other than (according to FB) that she "loves to sing, act, write...basically any medium she can use to tell a story! We need more stories!"...
Well -- she is "a human rights researcher specializing in systemic misinformation in mass media" at Columbia University. And a lecturer of international politics and human rights; researcher on conflicts....
One more among zillions of immoral, despicable characters on payroll of Deep State at a major US university.... It would be great to learn more -- her department, supervisor, etc.
They're well paid for little hits of calming dopamine, little WHITE lies that fit retired yuppie liberal's sneeringly brainwashed Cannon Film's stereotypes: corageous White helmets, squirting lethal Rooski nerve gas from kid's eyes?
https://mobile.twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1428855884554321924?lang=en
That is the crux of the matter: the empire will use children to advance its agenda while at the same time bombing the countries of those children, killing whoever gets in the way. It is sick, but that is because it is evil. We have to accept the fact of evil in the world, and stop acting like it does not exist. The mindset that others and yourself are not capable of it makes you an unwitting instrument for it.
What a special type of fraudster! Is Sophie where the term Sophistry originated? /s. Let’s call it Sophiestry.
It's an old ploy- "out of the mouths of babes" - and confirms what the gullible or biased want to believe or want you to believe: The Kuwaiti princess , great actor, posing as a Kuwaiti who testified to Iraqi obsession with incubators - "they threw them (infants) onto the cold hard floor" - it hardened the public against Iraq and facilitated the Iraq war. False testimony to a CBC reporter of being raped by Serbians (the unpopular group) in Bosnia Herzegovina which facilitated the attacks on Serbia and the "independence" of Kosovo. It's endless, and if you have any sense, check all such reports carefully as well as what agenda they might serve.
It seems like whenever there is moral rot, there is always a lie first.
Yes, a framework of lies that often takes the form of beautiful lacework - and people fall for it in droves
Just a reminder you can't wake someone pretending to sleep. I stopped using social media for the benefit of my mental health a couple years ago and it's been wonderful. I recently waded back into Twitter ever so slightly and I've seen the responses you get. How many bots? How many useful idiots calling you a useful idiot? Hard to tell. I am still very reluctant to post just because it's designed to demoralize anyone disagreeing with the billion dollar narratives, and there's so little actual conversation to be had from it. Nevertheless I appreciate your courage in speaking the truth regardless.
I stopped using Twitter about a year ago. Man do I have a lot more time now, and am far less angst driven. One of the best moves I've made in years.
Seattle public schools recently filed a complaint against social media. We'll see how it goes.
https://www.seattleschools.org/news/social-media-case/
Or that time the US induced the fraudulent testimony of an ambassador’s daughter about Iraqi soldiers ejecting Kuwaiti babies from their incubators and leaving them on the cold ground to die? The short memory of the gen pop of the US has led to repeated war atrocities for countless innocent people abroad, as well as US soldiers used as enforcers for the US corporate mafia.
“The baby-incubator story is back in the news because of the January disclosure in the American press that the teen-age Kuwaiti girl who testified before the Congress members, and was identified at the time only as Nayirah, is the daughter of Sheik Saud al Nasser al Sabah, Kuwait’s ambassador to the United States. She claimed to have observed the disputed incident at Al Addan Hospital outside Kuwait City, where she was a volunteer.”
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-03-06-mn-3337-story.html
Yep, my mind also went right to the Kuwait incubator baby story. Just amazing.
America's special evil extends to overthrowing the government of Australia. I only discovered this yesterday.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/23/gough-whitlam-1975-coup-ended-australian-independence
Is this the correct Ms. Fullerton? Interesting "career" path for a "lecturer" at Columbia, no?. Look:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sophie-fullerton-16013820a/
I'd be curious to know how this Twitter "dispute" began.
It looks like the little Syrian girl's testimony is not the only thing about the related attack on Caitlin that's "not real".
It's unsettling that this person is "teaching" college students.
Shades of Joseph Mifsud here.
It's crazy how people form any narrative they want. People who obfuscate the deeper truth love to use words like evil. They also love short one liners (screenshots) rather than the full reasoned argument. The irony here is that endless war is indisputably evil yet they turn it around.
CiaNN's Bana Alabed, 7 years old: ‘’Beace for Sirya’’ . . . .
I seriously wonder - what it will take, before the world's populations becomes fully aware of the stone cold fact, that the patently rogue United States of America [where Corporations are ’Persons’ and Money is ’Free Speech’], has been and continues to be - the greatest clear and present danger to ANY semblance of global peace and stability that has EVER existed, NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST??? . . .
Abusing children like this is akin to engaging in pedophilia.
Speaking of pedophilia, how many times did Bill Clinton, Gates and Trump take rides on the Lolita Express?
Their Stans don't care.
My dear Caitlin, I think you're losing too much energy and time with someone who doesn't deserve the least attention. Whatever you say it's useless. They will never listen to you...
The root problem causing most of our other problems is that our main operating system (government/schools/media) have been corrupted.
If you tell us the kind of systems that govern over you, we can accurately predict your quality of life. If those systems are corrupted then so are you (and your families).
It is time to organize with other like minded individuals and fix them.
We know the solutions. Decentralize everything. Demand transparency in systems. And most efficiently, weaponize the tyranny of the masses back onto the people corrupting our systems to end this Global Agenda.
Please, give this some thought: https://open.substack.com/pub/joshketry/p/weaponized-direct-democracy-the-kryptonite?r=7oa9d&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
The problem isn't government - civilizations are based on good governance. The problem is corruption and moral rot.
Curruption is not only a personal affair, it's the system that leads to curruption. So the point must be the system taht we have to change.
All systems get corrupted because humans are corruptible. When a critical mass of the people stop being greedy, stop lying and stop judging others while ignoring their own behavior, then we will have better leadership.
The system has been corrupted. Even a system can be useful. Civilization requires order, and collaborative effort from citizens. Or else it will simply devolve into barbarism, or gross inequalities.
For me, the problem isn't a system or a governance per se, it's the corruption of a given system and governance.
Of course, most middle classes are parasitic like that, believe they are entitled to exist, and believe they are also entitled to a system that facilitates their existence. Under those conditions it's too easy, almost instinctive, to rehash the same tired Protestant cliché mythology, perhaps with a New Age splash, that entitles you to the labor of others against their will.
Are all retirees moralistic parasites? Is retirement a mistake? I think Caitlin's right about the current crop of elders.
Most Americans work there asses off most of their life. 40+ hours a week. Many two jobs. And every decade, since about the 80s, they've been getting less and less back for their work. Less sick leave, less relative pay - less dignity for the work they do.
You've bought into the Koch Brother's propaganda - that the parasites in American society are the poor and the elderly. It's a pretty disgusting, and fallacious view. The real parasitic class are the uber wealthy 1% Americans who now control more wealth than the bottom 90% of Americans combined. That is your parasitic class.
ps: Most elderly people who are barely surviving on Social Security right now paid into the system via direct deductions from their paystub work checks ... FOR MOST OF THEIR WORKING LIVES. In addition to the taxes they paid.
You pretend you don't know that. You're just another tool for the Elites.
They work their asses off because parasites like you uphold the Order that maes it possible. Without capitalism and the very same private property that gives you the license to steal their food and call it "retirement income", they wouldn't be enslaved.
You want to preserve the system that makes the Kochs possible. Therefore, YOU are the enemy and no amount of partisan cope is going to change that.