Another shooting today, in America and this time a woman did the killing, 3 children, 3 adults and she herself was killed. Biden will come on and provide some room in his speech to talk about our need for gun control. Too bad he doesn't have the same regard for the killing of hundreds of thousand if not millions he and his fellow comrades in government have killed in other countries, as well as those young Americans they have sent to carry out the killings have also died. Well, in that regard no amount of weapons seem enough as they constantly feed the war machine. They of course will never see the hypocrisy they are mired in, or maybe they do, I'm sure they do, but don't give a good god damn.
Hell, the United States government is quite happy to arm such people, as long as they cause mayhem in Syria (various "vetted moderate rebels", lol), Afghanistan ("Afghan National Resistance"), or Ukraine (assorted neonazi paramilitaries) or other such countries.
For that matter, am I truly the only cat who remembers that the Christchurch, New Zealand shooter liked to hang out with his Nazi buds in Ukraine, as did the Buffalo shooter? Both of these individuals liked to sport the same "sonnenrad" symbol and swastikas also so beloved of Ukrainian "democratic freedom fighters".
This pesky little coincidence caused the internet to twist itself into knots, trying to explain why a sonnenrad was Very Very Bad when it was sported by a neonazi in the US or New Zealand, but the same sonnenrad was a Symbol Of Muh Freedom when a neonazi in Ukraine wore it. This lasted for a couple of days before the humans got distracted by some other shiny object.
Well, don't disagree with you or Feral, but in listening to their endless compassion about the lives lost today, just makes you think a sliver of that would be nice to hear in regard to the children we have killed in our middle eastern wars and now in Ukraine, and elsewhere. Just read Mate's post on Douma, lots of children killed in that chemical attack. I know the White Helmets perpetrated that slaughter to give further justification for the overthrow of Assad. I remember their bodies in heaps, and was talking to a "friend", another recently retired teacher at the time, and I referenced the heaps of children lying on the ground. She said, "So what, they're Muslims." I slammed the phone in her ear, and that comment sitting on many other insensitive statements ended our relationship. Americans I think in particular have no global perspective on the world, not even when it comes to children. Maybe if Americans were encouraged to have a greater global perspective they wouldn't let their politicians turn the world into a killing field.
During the Iraq war I was very involved in the anti-war movement, but unfortunately it went no where. Out to lunch with a mixed bunch we started talking about the war, and one person gave it her full support, a therapist. I was surprised at her support for this war, and asked about all the children killed, and she said, "I hope every last one of them are." I simply cut her out of my life, and it wasn't a decision made purposely. Also a friend who was a former nun claimed she wanted to see every last Muslim child and baby dead. She went as well. When I was a child, 5, a friend and I crossed the street into Central Park, absolutely forbidden, and went down to a local lake. A boy, maybe 16, wearing a man's shoe killed three little boys, maybe 5, or 6, or younger. Two didn't put up a fuss, a fight, when he forced their heads under water, and quickly drowned, gone, but one did. He pleaded for his life, but the big boy with the man's shoe pushed him under again, and again until he was drowned. He slipped away, his small white shirt a sail that took him away from the shore line slowly. Murder and violence became very real for me that day.
I find it an astounding example of the power of branding, groupthink or perhaps just cult behavior that NYT has been shown numerous times to parrot conscious lies or simply just be dead wrong, and yet its readers continue to trust the NYT blindly.
Phew, let-er-rip. The number of ways in which The Grey Lady is rotting and corrupt is getting difficult to detail. You did a pretty good job here. Years ago while walking through a summer arts fair I walked past a table where a woman was , rather agressively, hawking subscriptions to The NYT, her pitch had a lot to do with "being intelligent". Long story short, I literally laughed at her and hit her with something similar to, but not near as articulate, as your article. You could have knocked her over with a feather I think, she looked shocked to the core, as if she was being addressed by a Googly Eyed Martian. In the years following I get the sense that maybe there are a few more Googly Eyed Martians about, I sure hope so, you are one the more outspoken and effective, so Thanks as ever.
The NYT is the warmongering rag of choice of the boutique liberal class, who bring not a grain of skepticism to anything written in blood on its pages. When it comes to the narratives of power and the proclamations of public officials, liberals run to the foxes to get the scoop on the chicken situation.
The quote from the New York Times on the failure to "persuade or compel China to abide by U.S. rules" was actually not from the editorial board -- even worse, it was from Antony Blinken, presently serving as Secretary of State, emulating his mentor, the genocidalist Madeleine Albright. Great column today!
The NYT, like every single Ukraine supporter I know, is addicted to war porn. Makes sex porn addicts look saintly. I am shocked at the BIPARTISAN gloating over pictures of war porn - looks like they are quite kindred to Zelensky and his Nazis. And it has occurred to me that the US/EU (especially Germany)/UK have a festering hate and resentment about what Russia accomplished in WWII. I will always remember that the US nuked two cities full of civilians - not to win a war, but to try and impress Russia. IMO, the NYT and The West are slavering over the possibility of nuking Russia. They do not give a flying f*** about civilians in any country whatsoever.
As Sartre said -you become what you do, and, a strange phenomenon regarding that maxim: some public officials, newscasters and politicos, are starting to take on the look of insects. My imagination, I guess. But what I can't absorb is the presumed sheepiness of the people on whom all this is declared:
I mean, have you ever witnessed, outside of Hitler film clips, the utter authoritarianism of people like Scholz, Baerbock, Ursula Vanderleyen? In effect, "You are going to starve and freeze In the dark, aaand - shut the hell up about it. See? - because we're fighting a proxy war, a gladiatorial contest against Russia, and will win if we will it. We have become Merlin". Macron barely wins a vote of non-confidence, which means - unless you're a bureaucrat and obsessed with technicalities - that he doesn't have the confidence of the people. But does he give a damn? And they call this "order" as opposed to "chaos", and "democracy", as opposed to - what, exactly? Australia, a small country, is sucked into the vacuum caused by this insanity - but who isn't? It is time for the people to stand up before we are forced to look down at the ground, permanently, like slaves.
Also note the wording: "If war with China breaks out" like it's an attack of measles or a tornado. It would be more honest to say, "Officials are concerned that they can't attack China yet because they might run out of missiles and stuff too soon." Note that in the first cold war, US officials lied very hard about an imaginary "missile gap" to get Congress to appropriate more money for weapons. Ellsburg names a time when he looked into a dispute between agencies about whether the USSR had (well shit I don't remember numbers well but it was something like) 100 or 200 of some kind of nuclear weapon, while the US had only maybe 100. Ellsburg discovered that the USSR had--four. The Pentagon was always howling about the desperate failure to match the USSR, when it always had more than the USSR (and it's childish idiocy to think it matters whether you have enough to kill everyone on Earth twice over or four times over,m while the other side has enough to do it only once). It's possible that the Pentagon actually doesn't have a huge advantage in weapons now, though, despite spending FAR more than any imagined adversary--because corruption has gotten so extreme, weapons makers have found they can make up numbers, deliver defective equipment, deliver things that exist only on paper, charge fifty times a reasonable amount for a thing...with no consequences.
It's a little hard to talk about these things because the very existence of nuclear weapons is so insane. The fact that people accept the notion that war is normal, that the US is always at war, despite the fact that no one is actually threatening us in any military way. As for the real "threat" of China superseding the US economically and diplomatically--so what? But I've read that a big issue is that the US is hugely in debt to other countries, a trade balance way in the red, and has gotten away with this for many decades (no IMF structural adjustment for it) due to its control of the IMF & World Bank and through the petrodollar. But all that is fraying...maybe the bankers are panicked about debts coming due with no way to use bullying instead of paying.
I have boycotted the NYT ever since Nov 2017, when the lead article declared men biologically inferior to women. Before long extended this boycott to all mainstream media. Recently I strayed back there. It's much worse now. These people are on the Highway To Hell.
“It is a plague upon our world, and it should be destroyed, buried, and peed on.” You left out “spit on”. The NYT is a cancer on the body politic, can’t think of a better way to say it. Its prestige is the problem. It’s influential out of proportion to its worth as a news source only because it seems to have an unlimited stock of cachet no matter how bad it is, no matter how often it shows us what it’s there for. But keep saying what you just said here. That’ll go farther than standard media criticism at this point toward dethroning this behemoth unworthy of anyone’s respect.
I am against war and propaganda. Even so, I don't see how the U.S. is supposed to win any wars, especially against a nuclear China. Because of our dishonest media, pharma industry, and our stupid food pyramids, "healthy plate" schemas, etc., we are:
* fat
* sick
* nearly did
* vaxxed with things that aren't vaccines, but are "gene therapies"
* propagandized into all of the above;
* in debt personally;
* afraid of our neighbors giving us covid, which the shot doesn't prevent;
* have weak hearts from the vax;
* the losers of Vietnam, Afghanistan, and the Iraq Wars;
* divided by our uni-party against ourselves. Liberals, I am a conservative, but I love you. I am done being divided by cable news;
* And our national debt is $31.6 trillion. I remember when it was ONE TRILLION. We are stupid.
We don't win wars. We tax and inflate the money until it all goes to the criminals at the top, like Bush and Obama. Sorry, I'm cynical, now.
I've always felt the NY Times was dishonest. What I never could understand was: back in the 1980s and 2008, liberals were the peace party. I still can't get used to liberals being in favor of every war they see. But they are.
I just don't get how we can win any wars. It must be easy for sedentary editors at the Times to tell someone else to go fight.
The point isn’t to win wars. The point is to lie and lie and lie to scare the public until it is sated with fear and hatred of ...(fill in the blank). The belligerent global posturing is meant to goad our “enemies” into overt displays of defensiveness which our leaders call provocations. This keeps the 7 trillion dollar defense budget from ever being shrunk.
Sadly, you're probably right. I've been thinking that must be the purpose. I get shocked all the time that people put money above morals, but it happens all the time.
Exactly - I"ve done similiar lists to what you just did.
My take on it is that the global capitalism's empire insiders, let's call them the Davos globalists, because that is where the cartel has headquartered their global operations, these elites are essentially working a global game and have done for the last 1,000 years, the families behind the power can be tracked via the royal families of the western monarchies, from Britain to Russia the are all the same family members - and their banking families of Europe, Britain, and later America - this is the core insiders of global capitalism.
And they move their operations around to suit their ability to make money often using war for genoicide and profits - funding both sides, so no matter who wins and loses they win.
And the pit the citizens of nations against each other and profit from both sides.
I believe the globalists have made up their mind they want China as their manufacturing base for the next x00 years - and so they are orchestrating the destruction of our western citizens who want to live in peace, with freedom and representative democracy - which they are busy destroying.
This is not China versus the west.
This is Xi Jinping and Putin on the globalists team waging war on their own citizens as well as waging war on the west.
They want to kill off the pesky democratically minded western population - especially the middle classes - which is what Karl Marx who lived and wrote his doctrine in the middle of the greatest monarchial fascist empire in history, the British Empire, but not a word to say about the true capital fascists at the top - he was talking about the pesky bouregoise the middle classes that wanted freedom from slavery under fascist kings and public private partnerships of the richest families and corporations.
And this is what the UN-WEF partnership represents - a return to monarchial style fascism.
And the western citizens are in the way so they are killing us off - and in fact have been doing it since 1946
It's time to stop "feeding the war machine" and work harder to STARVE THE WAR MACHINE.
First step: EXPOSE the propaganda and the propagandists. Caitlin is doing a good job here of revealing the connections between the NYT and the War Machine. Second step: STARVE THE PROPAGANDISTS. This can be done with a general boycott of the NYT and its subsidiaries. Third step: REVEAL THE PROPAGANDA every chance you get. Friends don't let friends believe propaganda!
"The nation's paper of record" got that title because it consistently prints the things that the ruling establishment wants to see in print.
Another shooting today, in America and this time a woman did the killing, 3 children, 3 adults and she herself was killed. Biden will come on and provide some room in his speech to talk about our need for gun control. Too bad he doesn't have the same regard for the killing of hundreds of thousand if not millions he and his fellow comrades in government have killed in other countries, as well as those young Americans they have sent to carry out the killings have also died. Well, in that regard no amount of weapons seem enough as they constantly feed the war machine. They of course will never see the hypocrisy they are mired in, or maybe they do, I'm sure they do, but don't give a good god damn.
Hell, the United States government is quite happy to arm such people, as long as they cause mayhem in Syria (various "vetted moderate rebels", lol), Afghanistan ("Afghan National Resistance"), or Ukraine (assorted neonazi paramilitaries) or other such countries.
For that matter, am I truly the only cat who remembers that the Christchurch, New Zealand shooter liked to hang out with his Nazi buds in Ukraine, as did the Buffalo shooter? Both of these individuals liked to sport the same "sonnenrad" symbol and swastikas also so beloved of Ukrainian "democratic freedom fighters".
This pesky little coincidence caused the internet to twist itself into knots, trying to explain why a sonnenrad was Very Very Bad when it was sported by a neonazi in the US or New Zealand, but the same sonnenrad was a Symbol Of Muh Freedom when a neonazi in Ukraine wore it. This lasted for a couple of days before the humans got distracted by some other shiny object.
Well, don't disagree with you or Feral, but in listening to their endless compassion about the lives lost today, just makes you think a sliver of that would be nice to hear in regard to the children we have killed in our middle eastern wars and now in Ukraine, and elsewhere. Just read Mate's post on Douma, lots of children killed in that chemical attack. I know the White Helmets perpetrated that slaughter to give further justification for the overthrow of Assad. I remember their bodies in heaps, and was talking to a "friend", another recently retired teacher at the time, and I referenced the heaps of children lying on the ground. She said, "So what, they're Muslims." I slammed the phone in her ear, and that comment sitting on many other insensitive statements ended our relationship. Americans I think in particular have no global perspective on the world, not even when it comes to children. Maybe if Americans were encouraged to have a greater global perspective they wouldn't let their politicians turn the world into a killing field.
During the Iraq war I was very involved in the anti-war movement, but unfortunately it went no where. Out to lunch with a mixed bunch we started talking about the war, and one person gave it her full support, a therapist. I was surprised at her support for this war, and asked about all the children killed, and she said, "I hope every last one of them are." I simply cut her out of my life, and it wasn't a decision made purposely. Also a friend who was a former nun claimed she wanted to see every last Muslim child and baby dead. She went as well. When I was a child, 5, a friend and I crossed the street into Central Park, absolutely forbidden, and went down to a local lake. A boy, maybe 16, wearing a man's shoe killed three little boys, maybe 5, or 6, or younger. Two didn't put up a fuss, a fight, when he forced their heads under water, and quickly drowned, gone, but one did. He pleaded for his life, but the big boy with the man's shoe pushed him under again, and again until he was drowned. He slipped away, his small white shirt a sail that took him away from the shore line slowly. Murder and violence became very real for me that day.
Populism is an elite word: it means you are popular when you shouldn’t be. Seems to be the opposite side of the same coin. Yes?
Sheeple, new word for me, excellent, thanks
It’s fulsome, it captures both people and sheep.
I find it an astounding example of the power of branding, groupthink or perhaps just cult behavior that NYT has been shown numerous times to parrot conscious lies or simply just be dead wrong, and yet its readers continue to trust the NYT blindly.
*USA punches China in the face*
China: "You asshole!"
Bystander: "USA, why did you punch China?"
USA: "Because it called me asshole!"
Phew, let-er-rip. The number of ways in which The Grey Lady is rotting and corrupt is getting difficult to detail. You did a pretty good job here. Years ago while walking through a summer arts fair I walked past a table where a woman was , rather agressively, hawking subscriptions to The NYT, her pitch had a lot to do with "being intelligent". Long story short, I literally laughed at her and hit her with something similar to, but not near as articulate, as your article. You could have knocked her over with a feather I think, she looked shocked to the core, as if she was being addressed by a Googly Eyed Martian. In the years following I get the sense that maybe there are a few more Googly Eyed Martians about, I sure hope so, you are one the more outspoken and effective, so Thanks as ever.
The NYT is the warmongering rag of choice of the boutique liberal class, who bring not a grain of skepticism to anything written in blood on its pages. When it comes to the narratives of power and the proclamations of public officials, liberals run to the foxes to get the scoop on the chicken situation.
The quote from the New York Times on the failure to "persuade or compel China to abide by U.S. rules" was actually not from the editorial board -- even worse, it was from Antony Blinken, presently serving as Secretary of State, emulating his mentor, the genocidalist Madeleine Albright. Great column today!
The NYT, like every single Ukraine supporter I know, is addicted to war porn. Makes sex porn addicts look saintly. I am shocked at the BIPARTISAN gloating over pictures of war porn - looks like they are quite kindred to Zelensky and his Nazis. And it has occurred to me that the US/EU (especially Germany)/UK have a festering hate and resentment about what Russia accomplished in WWII. I will always remember that the US nuked two cities full of civilians - not to win a war, but to try and impress Russia. IMO, the NYT and The West are slavering over the possibility of nuking Russia. They do not give a flying f*** about civilians in any country whatsoever.
As Sartre said -you become what you do, and, a strange phenomenon regarding that maxim: some public officials, newscasters and politicos, are starting to take on the look of insects. My imagination, I guess. But what I can't absorb is the presumed sheepiness of the people on whom all this is declared:
I mean, have you ever witnessed, outside of Hitler film clips, the utter authoritarianism of people like Scholz, Baerbock, Ursula Vanderleyen? In effect, "You are going to starve and freeze In the dark, aaand - shut the hell up about it. See? - because we're fighting a proxy war, a gladiatorial contest against Russia, and will win if we will it. We have become Merlin". Macron barely wins a vote of non-confidence, which means - unless you're a bureaucrat and obsessed with technicalities - that he doesn't have the confidence of the people. But does he give a damn? And they call this "order" as opposed to "chaos", and "democracy", as opposed to - what, exactly? Australia, a small country, is sucked into the vacuum caused by this insanity - but who isn't? It is time for the people to stand up before we are forced to look down at the ground, permanently, like slaves.
Also note the wording: "If war with China breaks out" like it's an attack of measles or a tornado. It would be more honest to say, "Officials are concerned that they can't attack China yet because they might run out of missiles and stuff too soon." Note that in the first cold war, US officials lied very hard about an imaginary "missile gap" to get Congress to appropriate more money for weapons. Ellsburg names a time when he looked into a dispute between agencies about whether the USSR had (well shit I don't remember numbers well but it was something like) 100 or 200 of some kind of nuclear weapon, while the US had only maybe 100. Ellsburg discovered that the USSR had--four. The Pentagon was always howling about the desperate failure to match the USSR, when it always had more than the USSR (and it's childish idiocy to think it matters whether you have enough to kill everyone on Earth twice over or four times over,m while the other side has enough to do it only once). It's possible that the Pentagon actually doesn't have a huge advantage in weapons now, though, despite spending FAR more than any imagined adversary--because corruption has gotten so extreme, weapons makers have found they can make up numbers, deliver defective equipment, deliver things that exist only on paper, charge fifty times a reasonable amount for a thing...with no consequences.
It's a little hard to talk about these things because the very existence of nuclear weapons is so insane. The fact that people accept the notion that war is normal, that the US is always at war, despite the fact that no one is actually threatening us in any military way. As for the real "threat" of China superseding the US economically and diplomatically--so what? But I've read that a big issue is that the US is hugely in debt to other countries, a trade balance way in the red, and has gotten away with this for many decades (no IMF structural adjustment for it) due to its control of the IMF & World Bank and through the petrodollar. But all that is fraying...maybe the bankers are panicked about debts coming due with no way to use bullying instead of paying.
It's the war loving neocon's wet dream.
I have boycotted the NYT ever since Nov 2017, when the lead article declared men biologically inferior to women. Before long extended this boycott to all mainstream media. Recently I strayed back there. It's much worse now. These people are on the Highway To Hell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l482T0yNkeo
“It is a plague upon our world, and it should be destroyed, buried, and peed on.” You left out “spit on”. The NYT is a cancer on the body politic, can’t think of a better way to say it. Its prestige is the problem. It’s influential out of proportion to its worth as a news source only because it seems to have an unlimited stock of cachet no matter how bad it is, no matter how often it shows us what it’s there for. But keep saying what you just said here. That’ll go farther than standard media criticism at this point toward dethroning this behemoth unworthy of anyone’s respect.
And she was being charitable 🤣 so true
Like your realistic view of the NYT.
No think left in the Think Tanks are far as I can see.
This crowd is actively composting themselves in Our Ironic Revolution which wasn’t planned on by any Tank!
Journalism students, exploring the idea of "manufacture of consent", should be assigned the deconstruction of any given day's front page of this rag.
I look at it to to keep track of the manipulations, the subplots, of the current narrative.
(And of course the real estate section to see which apartment the couple with only 400K downpayment will choose from among the choices shown.)
Maybe this lovely snapshot will convince people they've been lied to forever!!!
I am against war and propaganda. Even so, I don't see how the U.S. is supposed to win any wars, especially against a nuclear China. Because of our dishonest media, pharma industry, and our stupid food pyramids, "healthy plate" schemas, etc., we are:
* fat
* sick
* nearly did
* vaxxed with things that aren't vaccines, but are "gene therapies"
* propagandized into all of the above;
* in debt personally;
* afraid of our neighbors giving us covid, which the shot doesn't prevent;
* have weak hearts from the vax;
* the losers of Vietnam, Afghanistan, and the Iraq Wars;
* divided by our uni-party against ourselves. Liberals, I am a conservative, but I love you. I am done being divided by cable news;
* And our national debt is $31.6 trillion. I remember when it was ONE TRILLION. We are stupid.
We don't win wars. We tax and inflate the money until it all goes to the criminals at the top, like Bush and Obama. Sorry, I'm cynical, now.
I've always felt the NY Times was dishonest. What I never could understand was: back in the 1980s and 2008, liberals were the peace party. I still can't get used to liberals being in favor of every war they see. But they are.
I just don't get how we can win any wars. It must be easy for sedentary editors at the Times to tell someone else to go fight.
Or get nuked.
The point isn’t to win wars. The point is to lie and lie and lie to scare the public until it is sated with fear and hatred of ...(fill in the blank). The belligerent global posturing is meant to goad our “enemies” into overt displays of defensiveness which our leaders call provocations. This keeps the 7 trillion dollar defense budget from ever being shrunk.
Sadly, you're probably right. I've been thinking that must be the purpose. I get shocked all the time that people put money above morals, but it happens all the time.
Exactly - I"ve done similiar lists to what you just did.
My take on it is that the global capitalism's empire insiders, let's call them the Davos globalists, because that is where the cartel has headquartered their global operations, these elites are essentially working a global game and have done for the last 1,000 years, the families behind the power can be tracked via the royal families of the western monarchies, from Britain to Russia the are all the same family members - and their banking families of Europe, Britain, and later America - this is the core insiders of global capitalism.
And they move their operations around to suit their ability to make money often using war for genoicide and profits - funding both sides, so no matter who wins and loses they win.
And the pit the citizens of nations against each other and profit from both sides.
I believe the globalists have made up their mind they want China as their manufacturing base for the next x00 years - and so they are orchestrating the destruction of our western citizens who want to live in peace, with freedom and representative democracy - which they are busy destroying.
This is not China versus the west.
This is Xi Jinping and Putin on the globalists team waging war on their own citizens as well as waging war on the west.
They want to kill off the pesky democratically minded western population - especially the middle classes - which is what Karl Marx who lived and wrote his doctrine in the middle of the greatest monarchial fascist empire in history, the British Empire, but not a word to say about the true capital fascists at the top - he was talking about the pesky bouregoise the middle classes that wanted freedom from slavery under fascist kings and public private partnerships of the richest families and corporations.
And this is what the UN-WEF partnership represents - a return to monarchial style fascism.
And the western citizens are in the way so they are killing us off - and in fact have been doing it since 1946
It's time to stop "feeding the war machine" and work harder to STARVE THE WAR MACHINE.
First step: EXPOSE the propaganda and the propagandists. Caitlin is doing a good job here of revealing the connections between the NYT and the War Machine. Second step: STARVE THE PROPAGANDISTS. This can be done with a general boycott of the NYT and its subsidiaries. Third step: REVEAL THE PROPAGANDA every chance you get. Friends don't let friends believe propaganda!