Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): The thing is there’s only so much propaganda spin you can put on the murder of thousands of children. With other imperial military actions the propagandists had an easier time spinning things. Oh no those evil communists are taking over South Vietnam, we need to stop them! Oh no Saddam’s got WMDs, we need to get him! Oh no Gaddafi’s gonna rape and kill all those Libyans, we have a responsibility to protect them!
As a Jewish woman whose memories go back to WW2, I am especially horrified and shamed by the behavior of Israel. I was born in the U.S. and most of my life has been devoted to learning and trying to awaken people to the criminality of my own country, it's strong ties to the formationof nazi Germany amd haven't devoted that much interest to Israel. What I feel is that our entire lives (or most of mine) we've been told that men are the "natural leaders". They are the ones who "naturally led" the Jewish people to occupy an already occupied country and everything that has ensued since. Was it deliberate? Was there no other land available? It's also hard not to believe the attack on Israel wasn't a false flag with the intent of believing Netanyahu's insane reaction to it is defensible. I also think that unless we all somehow find a way to remove this toxic patriarchal thinking we've all been programmed to accept , human life on earth is doomed. And if we must hate someone, we need to learn to focus on our real enemies, our so-called leaders whose arrogance belies their ineptitude. They are making of our Mother Earth a place hostile to all life.
Some tipping point of narrative collapse seems to loom, for both the apartheid state and the Empire. Probably already past with the Gaza genocide, the world is done with their BS.
These photos shocked the conscience of the world, stoked a massive Vietnam anti-war movement and shamed military and US government officials.
Yet today, thousands of victims - thousands every day! - and we get crickets, small protests, and actual open support by government officials and so called "progressives".
"Propagandists are used to having a lot more wiggle room to work with than this."
Oh, they're trying, all right, frantically spinning, playing lawyer games with words, blaming victims and trying to convince us that blacknis white and the murderers of children really are the victims, here.
"The fact that the US and its allies are helping Israel murder children by the thousands is a giant glitch in the narrative matrix."'
This is fantastic--there are more holes in the western propaganda narrative than Swiss cheese! The only fear I have is that the narrative has been manipulated for so long and the western so-called "democracies" (*cough, cough*) have brainwashed their peoples into believing everything their governments do is for the "good" of all. Anyone who resists that narrative is cancelled and shut down and censored. Until EVERYONE has become "unbrainwashed" in the west, we'll still have people cheering on genocide and the murder of children. These sociopaths who manipulate the thought processes of others just can't seem to help themselves. The money and potential resource grabs might be too irresistible.
We have to fight both the narrative manipulation AND the evils of capitalism to shut down the MIC and the Endless War forever.
Yes, but pig pharma has gotten away with murdering children over the last 50 years with their poison vaccines. There are more than one gang of murdering scum on the planet. Some in plain view and others hidden in the shadows like cowards.
WHAT the United States is doing, openly helping, "murdering children by the thousands" somewhere else, is showing the people of the US that if they do it in Gaza, they'd do it anywhere, even to it's own people... well like they already have done in Lahaina.
Any "civilized" community (in the loosest & most general sense) that has private or public (or both) media & educational institutions for children or adults is involved in propaganda about that community's past, present, & future. Public relations, socialization, enculturation, & private and public education, political, ideological, & religious evangelism are all propaganda. Every "civilization", from the smallest to the largest, is intellectually & emotionally built upon a foundation of propaganda, & the meaning of every event in the world has to be spun to capture it within that civilization's ideological mesh. Public opinion is propaganda & needs to be constantly spun & re-spun to ensure a smooth & superficially credible ideological narrative, and it needs to be done daily in all the media & social institutions (schools, churches etc., company meetings with administrators, etc.). That's why thoughtful people carefully choose their tone, words, & delivery style whenever they communicate with others. Humans are always attempting to persuade others of something or other; when we do that, we're putting propaganda spin on our messages.
“…. But something is moving underneath it all. Something big. The empire has done irreparable harm to its ability to keep everyone sleeping and complacent going forward. A healthy world may be in our future yet….”
While this is very true, let’s see how it goes. As long as people continue to subscribe to the imperial mass propaganda machine called “social media”, they are at risk of the empire adapting new strategies to manipulate them.
. . . following the British Tradition of killing children . . .
“The earliest evidence located by QI appeared in a 1683 book by an English historian named John Nalson titled “An Impartial Collection of the Great Affairs of State from the Beginning of the Scotch Rebellion in the Year MDCXXXIX to the Murther of King Charles I”. While discussing warfare in Ireland the author stated that barbarities were committed by combatants on all sides. He also stated that one of his relatives who had served in the military heard the motto spoken during battle. Boldface has been added to excerpts:[1]
. . . I have heard a Relation of my own, who was a Captain in that Service, Relate, that no manner of Compassion or Discrimination was shewed either to Age or Sex, but that the little Children were promiscuously Sufferers with the Guilty, and that if any who had some grains of Compassion reprehended the Soldiers for this unchristian Inhumanity, they would scoffingly reply, Why? Nits will be Lice, and so would dispatch them . . .”
I believe the phrase “ Nits will be Lice” was last used by the American troops in the 1800’s of the Sioux wars . . .
As a Jewish woman whose memories go back to WW2, I am especially horrified and shamed by the behavior of Israel. I was born in the U.S. and most of my life has been devoted to learning and trying to awaken people to the criminality of my own country, it's strong ties to the formationof nazi Germany amd haven't devoted that much interest to Israel. What I feel is that our entire lives (or most of mine) we've been told that men are the "natural leaders". They are the ones who "naturally led" the Jewish people to occupy an already occupied country and everything that has ensued since. Was it deliberate? Was there no other land available? It's also hard not to believe the attack on Israel wasn't a false flag with the intent of believing Netanyahu's insane reaction to it is defensible. I also think that unless we all somehow find a way to remove this toxic patriarchal thinking we've all been programmed to accept , human life on earth is doomed. And if we must hate someone, we need to learn to focus on our real enemies, our so-called leaders whose arrogance belies their ineptitude. They are making of our Mother Earth a place hostile to all life.
Some tipping point of narrative collapse seems to loom, for both the apartheid state and the Empire. Probably already past with the Gaza genocide, the world is done with their BS.
"When choosing sides, take care not to choose genocides." - Ned B.
One Buddhist Monk self immolating:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thích_Quảng_Đức
One napalmed your girl
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phan_Thi_Kim_Phuc
One military execution head shot:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42864421
These photos shocked the conscience of the world, stoked a massive Vietnam anti-war movement and shamed military and US government officials.
Yet today, thousands of victims - thousands every day! - and we get crickets, small protests, and actual open support by government officials and so called "progressives".
What happened?
American troops are killing children in Gaza.
tasnimnews.com/en/news/2023/10/28/2979369/5-000-us-troops-involved-in-israeli-land-war-on-gaza-exclusive
"Propagandists are used to having a lot more wiggle room to work with than this."
Oh, they're trying, all right, frantically spinning, playing lawyer games with words, blaming victims and trying to convince us that blacknis white and the murderers of children really are the victims, here.
Where are the “yOu’Re a HaMaS aPoLoGiSt” commenters today?
The only way anyone can say that is if they refuse to actually read what you’re saying.
"The fact that the US and its allies are helping Israel murder children by the thousands is a giant glitch in the narrative matrix."'
This is fantastic--there are more holes in the western propaganda narrative than Swiss cheese! The only fear I have is that the narrative has been manipulated for so long and the western so-called "democracies" (*cough, cough*) have brainwashed their peoples into believing everything their governments do is for the "good" of all. Anyone who resists that narrative is cancelled and shut down and censored. Until EVERYONE has become "unbrainwashed" in the west, we'll still have people cheering on genocide and the murder of children. These sociopaths who manipulate the thought processes of others just can't seem to help themselves. The money and potential resource grabs might be too irresistible.
We have to fight both the narrative manipulation AND the evils of capitalism to shut down the MIC and the Endless War forever.
Yes, but pig pharma has gotten away with murdering children over the last 50 years with their poison vaccines. There are more than one gang of murdering scum on the planet. Some in plain view and others hidden in the shadows like cowards.
WHAT the United States is doing, openly helping, "murdering children by the thousands" somewhere else, is showing the people of the US that if they do it in Gaza, they'd do it anywhere, even to it's own people... well like they already have done in Lahaina.
https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2023/10/28/2979369/5-000-us-troops-involved-in-israeli-land-war-on-gaza-exclusive
https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2023/10/29/israel-pounds-gaza-with-u-s-heavy-bunker-busting-bombs-erdogan-speaks-of-a-cross-vs-crescent-war/
https://www.rt.com/news/585895-hamas-hostages-iran-release/
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/hamas-vows-release-8-russian-israeli-hostages-after-talks-moscow
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-invasion-of-gaza-operation-cast-lead-part-of-a-broader-israeli-military-intelligence-agenda/11606
The mask of colonialism is being ripped off. Seeing what's beneath is horrible.
Any "civilized" community (in the loosest & most general sense) that has private or public (or both) media & educational institutions for children or adults is involved in propaganda about that community's past, present, & future. Public relations, socialization, enculturation, & private and public education, political, ideological, & religious evangelism are all propaganda. Every "civilization", from the smallest to the largest, is intellectually & emotionally built upon a foundation of propaganda, & the meaning of every event in the world has to be spun to capture it within that civilization's ideological mesh. Public opinion is propaganda & needs to be constantly spun & re-spun to ensure a smooth & superficially credible ideological narrative, and it needs to be done daily in all the media & social institutions (schools, churches etc., company meetings with administrators, etc.). That's why thoughtful people carefully choose their tone, words, & delivery style whenever they communicate with others. Humans are always attempting to persuade others of something or other; when we do that, we're putting propaganda spin on our messages.
Everybody should read the following letter to the editor, probably one of the best ever written and one we should share widely.....
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/10/28/letter-to-the-editor-settler-colonialism/?unapproved=466330&moderation-hash=40a137e3a279940b4ba5d0033682bc5c#comment-466330
“…. But something is moving underneath it all. Something big. The empire has done irreparable harm to its ability to keep everyone sleeping and complacent going forward. A healthy world may be in our future yet….”
While this is very true, let’s see how it goes. As long as people continue to subscribe to the imperial mass propaganda machine called “social media”, they are at risk of the empire adapting new strategies to manipulate them.
Let’s see.
. . . following the British Tradition of killing children . . .
“The earliest evidence located by QI appeared in a 1683 book by an English historian named John Nalson titled “An Impartial Collection of the Great Affairs of State from the Beginning of the Scotch Rebellion in the Year MDCXXXIX to the Murther of King Charles I”. While discussing warfare in Ireland the author stated that barbarities were committed by combatants on all sides. He also stated that one of his relatives who had served in the military heard the motto spoken during battle. Boldface has been added to excerpts:[1]
. . . I have heard a Relation of my own, who was a Captain in that Service, Relate, that no manner of Compassion or Discrimination was shewed either to Age or Sex, but that the little Children were promiscuously Sufferers with the Guilty, and that if any who had some grains of Compassion reprehended the Soldiers for this unchristian Inhumanity, they would scoffingly reply, Why? Nits will be Lice, and so would dispatch them . . .”
I believe the phrase “ Nits will be Lice” was last used by the American troops in the 1800’s of the Sioux wars . . .
So it goes . . .