Trump scored some points by talking about empire and globalization in his 2016 campaign. It showed he was capable of listening to voters and responding to their interests, which is pretty radical in modern American politics. That it was all hot air was pretty obvious but somehow it's still better than Biden's only plausible 2020 promise, which was to not be Trump. Ok, two plausible promises if you include the nothing will fundamentally change thing that was supposed to be in private with high end donors.
But omg, effing ell, etc., what a ghastly embarrassing match up they were in 2020. Member the debates? jeezers that was bad.
It was horrific. Why can't we just have an eggplant as POTUS? I think it would be better and after four years we could replace it with another and make Baba Ganoush with the ripe one leaving office.
"President Biden used the phrase "Putin's price hike" again in a reaction to Friday's Consumer Price Index report revealing continued high inflation, showing once again that the US government believes Americans are idiots."
One thing the US government does happen to get right: quite a few Americans are ignorant.
"To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant." ~Amos Alcott
Yes, I agree; it takes time to dig up the information necessary to understand what is really going on in the world politics and a lot of us don't have it.
That's why I find it very useful to have a high quality and trustworthy source of information like this blog.
Ignorant, trusting or both? I make an effort however I am privileged with a bit of time to fact check what I should have to, Caitlin I no longer have to fact check. Caitlin=Golden Rule : )
you forgot self-serving. If they really looked, then they might find out how much of their life is subsidized by abusing people, animals and the environmental ecosystems around the world. Better to accept the tender loving sniffs of Biden than wake up and smell the blood.
People still believe that Putin had kopromat pee pee tapes on trump, Biden got 81 million votes and is not senile, and masks and jabs slow the spread so at this point they will believe anything.
I suspect that far less people actually "believe" much of what's being said... I think a lot of people simply feel utterly powerless and have no idea what to do about anything. Murkans are dumbed down, unempowered and worn out, physically, spiritually, and intellectually. This is after decades of training. They need leadership. And here WE all are, gathering ONLINE, we're not even visible "IRL" and those who need us most don't even know where we are.
Yeah, but it's not just Americans. It's a worldwide phenomenon, or a feature of civilization I would say. The unwashed are brainwashed and beaten down by the wealthy elite oligarchs who rule this planet and have since the advent of civilization.
There is nothing "viral" in the air. Did you know, contagion has never been proven? I know, it took me some time to get my head around that, but I've learned more science in the past two and a half years than I've EVER learned in school... What's in the air that's causing us to have sickness? Most likely it's EMF's, although I don't consider bioweapons to be out of the question. But I think since EMF's are ubiquitous these days, it's a far more likely culprit... And it's interesting, too, that the symptoms of EMF poisoning are the SAME as the symptoms of "Covid."
Wot, are you frightened by what I said? Or you think it's a joke? You can wear a mask all day, all night, and I won't stop you. But I do have a bridge to sell you. Because terror-stricken sheep are far more of a problem than those who can actually think.
I have noticed that too, over the last three weeks people are no longer to say out loud the king has no clothes. Is this the tipping point of truth and the end of u.s. (lower case for disrespect) empire building?
Thanks for your ongoing work and pointing out the elephant in the room Caitlin, or world stage ...
I’m so over the spin doctors 👿😏 if I want the truth I listen to truth tellers not those western leaders and EU leaders who’ve had their own agenda all along ... 🥱.
Caitlin Johnstone nails it once again. Mass propaganda is pernicious, pervasive, and pluripotent. Writers like Caitlin are essential, not just for calling out state-sponsored bullshit but because she mercilessly breaks the plutocracy's complicated misdirections into simple base elements everyone can understand.
Would propaganda be enough, on its own, to sustain the rapacious global empire? Is it simply a case of show the truth, expose the sociopath elite, watch the revolution? I suspect not. I'm thinking there's two further obstacles to fomenting widespread resistance, two factors the ruling class bet their very existence on being able to exploit: path of least resistance and insensible imperative conceit.
It would be very interesting to read CJ's insight - and ideas for solution - on these twin evils.
Path of least resistance handicaps us all. It's another piece of our evolutionary toolkit that probably helped our ancestors survive but has been completely subverted by the modern world. Path of least resistance covers fear of change, aversion to expressing real freedom, preference for the sham security of demagogues, nationalism, and the reductio ad wanker of binaries like right/wrong, good/bad, ingroup/untermensch. Path of least resistance is the perpetual crude oil state power (and corporate consumer capitalism) uses in its propaganda refineries to manufacture consent (and sell us shiny crap).
Insensible imperative conceit is harder to describe - at least for a non-writer like me. Insensible means not seeing or hearing or allowing yourself to be exposed to truth/facts reality or some other person is trying to present. Imperative because time is short and we're driven by perceived urgency of getting from A to B without risk wasting time on possible distractions. Conceit because we think we know what's best and we see unfamiliar or uncredentialed sources of new information as a personal affront. "Who do you think you are to try to educate me?" and "I don't have time to listen to your quibbles, let alone debate them." The perceived toxicity of social media is caused more by our own insensibility than any outrage algorithm or trolling. We complain to avoid having to question ourselves, because conceit wants us blameless and urgency leaves us brainless.
So, in short, it'd be fascinating to see an exploration of these propaganda facilitating aspects of empire mass control. It feels like we need to deal with both path of least resistance and insensible imperative conceit, as well as laying bare the lies of the elite, if we're going to push back on the neocon-neoliberal cartel of doom.
I agree, I wrote this in reply to a comment above, I would add, control. Is the control of Russian natural resources a key to climate tipping point? Wind and Solar will never produce the energy we need at even past consumption rates. There is only one energy resource that can and empire would only be comfortable with absolute control?
You're right that there's a factor of natural resources, but it has to do with WEALTH and POWER, not climate change. The US has a very skanky empire/hegemony that consists of militarily smashing other countries in order to economically smash them into giving up their resources... It's been done over and over and over and over... And Russia has the ability to UNDO the US hegemony, and so does China, and that is why both countries are a THREAT. Simple as that, in a general overview kind of way.
The 2nd Iraq war was about putting that countries resources under control of Western firms. The current Ukraine war is about removing Russian resources from competing in the markets of those firms.
I would add, control. Is the control of Russian natural resources a key to climate tipping point? Wind and Solar will never produce the energy we need at even past consumption rates. There is only one energy resource that can and empire would only be comfortable with absolute control?
Not true. Iraq's resources are not under Western control. In fact, the two countries who have made out like bandits in Iraq without spending any money or blood, have been Russia and China. It boggles the mind.
****The Iraq-China relationship dates to when Beijing was selling Baghdad weapons in the 1960s and 1970s while Iraq supported its claim to a seat on the UN Security Council. Relations developed further during the 2000s, after Saddam Hussein’s regime was toppled. China, along with Russia, was fiercely opposed to the Iraq War, yet it became one of its main beneficiaries.
In 2008, the China National Petroleum Corporation signed a huge production deal with the Iraqi government and became the first foreign firm to do so since the war. In 2013, China bought almost half of Iraqi oil production. During these years Iraq acquired Chinese drones to fight ISIS, supported the Hong Kong national security law at the UN and defended China’s treatment of Muslims in Xinjiang.****
If America or the West invaded and occupied Iraq for its oil reserves, how do you explain this? This, amongst other things, contradicts the oil reserves thesis as the reason for invasion and occupation.
Do you believe that's the only publication presenting the FACT that China was one of the main beneficiaries of the Iraq invasion and occupation? Are you interested in the TRUTH or not?
Are you trying to tell me that YOU have the truth, that I should simply accept that because YOU are saying it's the truth, and I should do this RIGHT NOW? I will not be bullied by you or anyone else into accepting anything. You're giving me ONE source and so, because you are you, I need to just believe you. You have much to learn about how things work. Are YOU interested in the truth, or are you more interested in being RIGHT? End of conversation.
To understand propaganda, I go to the early master of propaganda, Adolf Hitler. Hitler said he learned about propaganda from the Western business advertising techniques who were the OG masters of propaganda. In discussing the efficacy of soap ads, he says, "What, for example, would we say about a poster that was supposed to advertise a new soap and that described other soaps as 'good'? We would only shake our heads. Exactly the same applies to political advertising."
Hitler's tips for effective propaganda from Volume 1, Chapter 6, of the book Mein Kampf:
~ take a one-sided attitude toward every question.
~ repeat only the simplest ideas and repeat them thousands of times so that in the end you must always say the same thing.
~ an audience can only comprehend a slogan, and the slogan must be presented from different angles, but the end of all remarks must always and immutably be the slogan itself.
~ don’t make half statements that might give rise to doubts.
~ don’t weigh and ponder the rights of different people, but exclusively emphasize the one view which you have set out to argue for.
~ don’t make an objective study of the truth, as it may favor the opposition by its fairness, therefore only serve your own view, always and unflinchingly.
~ load every bit of blame on the shoulders of the opposition, even if this does not correspond to the true facts.
~ limit your presentation to a few points, devised exclusively for the general audience and carried on with indefatigable persistence.
[lastly]
~ EVEN THE MOST OUTLANDISH CLAIMS WILL EVENTUALLY BE BELIEVED THROUGH THE CONTINUITY AND SUSTAINED UNIFORMITY OF THEIR APPLICATION.
Hitler quotes:
"But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success."
"All advertising, whether in the field of business or politics, achieves success through the continuity and sustained uniformity of its application."
"At first the claims of the propaganda were so impudent that people thought it insane; later, it got on people's nerves; and in the end, it was believed."
"The purpose of propaganda is not to provide interesting distraction for blasé young gentlemen, but to convince, and what I mean is to convince the masses. But the masses are slow-moving, and they always require a certain time before they are ready even to notice a thing, and only after the simplest ideas are repeated thousands of times will the masses finally remember them."
Mind control, plain and simple, and they do understand how to wield that tool. A way to tell truth from lies is to use your body like a pendulum: when you hear truth, your body will feel expansive, tingly, open, etc. When you hear lies, your body will feel contracted, constricted, closed, etc. I know it sounds weird, but try it out by saying your name and seeing how you feel in your body. Then say "my name is _____, with a blatant lie, and see how your body feels in response. It works. This is how you bypass the mind, which can be easily manipulated.
It's true. Have you read Biden's Green Book? He wants every household to have chickens and cages to house those chickens and people eat this sh*t up. It's mind control, I tell you.
Biden is the greatest charlatan in the history of American charlatans. It seems as though it is a requirement to be a lying warmonger and charlatan to hold that position in Washington. Clinton, Nixon, Bush, Obama, Trump and now the feeble-minded Biden. What a bunch.
Well Biden takes the cake and before he is through, he may have started a war from which there may not be a recovery.
By way of a example of how the US slide downhill is well under way we see the US located "Summit of the Americas", another Biden initiative, where he and Blinken decided not to invite three of the South American countries involved and as a result, we saw another four countries decide not to attend. That’s 7 down. Something of an anti-climax, eh?
Just who does Biden think he is that he can dismiss out of hand three countries that are part of South America? Well we all know why Cuba missed out. They have been part of a hateful US campaign for over 6 decades, previously a stronghold of American criminals running gambling organisations in a country that chose to be independent from US dictates. Then there is Nicaragua who have little in common with the USA and choose to remain that way. The US has given them hell for decades. It refuses to toe the US line, hence no invitation.
Then there is Venezuela, with over 1500 years of oil reserves, and the USA with just 11 years. Think on that one….just for a minute…. and then relate that to most of the troubles in the world. Now can't have that can we, says Biden. We want that oil and are doing all we can to get it by sanctioning Venezuelans to death just as in the Middle East we are stealing Syrian oil every day.
Next Summit, for the countries in South America, find your own venue and give the USA a miss. Change the name also to "Summit of the South American Continent".
So "Putin's price hike" means what exactly. It means the ruble has firmed as a currency, whereas the US dollar, backed as it is with a 30 trillion dollar debt, is fast becoming a currency losing value, which will continue. Throw into the mix the next US war target, China (keep your eyes on the Pacific), and with the value of China's trade, they can do nothing but increase through manufacturing alone. But then, when you add trade to that mix, a country hard to toss who will demand and get the world’s respect. Now if China and others decide to replace the dollar as the major international trading currency, it is goodnight to US dominance and hello to China's new place as #1 in the world. I think that nothing can change that from happening. Right now, it could be a cooperative venture but not when one party is the”exceptional” USA, and we all have seen what that means since 1945.
Support for such a dramatic move as a new international trading currency is strong. So many countries remember US sanctions, arrogantly installed to benefit the US in matters of commercial advantage. You don't need a long memory as they are still in place today in so many countries around the world. Russia currently being US target #1. But if the Russian ruble is having a substantial move up and the US dollar has nowhere to go but down, down, down (with increasing debt), who is winning that battle?
The naivety (or should that be “arrogance”) of Biden and his bunch is astounding.
There is no country that will feel "Putin's price hike” (another Bidenism), as much as the US itself and when their unemployment rate hits 10 %, (all it will take is time), perhaps the citizens walking the streets of America looking for work, may decide to show their lack of appreciation for corrupted and warmongering US presidents and a corrupted-by-Israel Congress and storm the Congress again, seriously this time.
What else can you do when you are hungry and unemployed with no prospects for improvement.
A once highly respected country now in the fist stage of its death rattles
That might be a line to pursue in your hot steamy sexcapade re Stalin/Hitler. Which page are you on now?
Helpful hint: listen to that fantastic punk group of All Times - Pussy Riot - for inspiration. One of their artists pushed something in her vagina while visiting some grocery in Moscow, all in the name of the Fight for Freedom(TM). More food thought for you.
Yes, Biden certainly is an embarrassment, along with our entire government and all those who go along with this insanity of hating Putin, hating Russia, hating China, and shouting "USA! USA!" like a bunch of effing brain-dead parrots on ecstasy... But it's NOT Biden. It's not even the US government. Who is actually pulling the strings? It's the Globalist Oligarchs, folks. Biden is a tool, the US govt. is a tool, all for people like Boil Fucking Grates, and Klown Fucking Schwab. Look at it this way: If the people behind the globalist agenda are willing to commit GENOCIDE with a fake vaccine, even of CHILDREN, why would causing a vast food shortage (yes, it's deliberate, hello!), painful (and rising) inflation, a climate hoax, and all the rest of their pure bullshit-- why would they hesitate to pinch us, physically or in the wallet? The answer is, they won't hesitate... This is a planned demolition of our country, all because they are INSANE, delusional parasites wanting to RULE over us, and the entire world, and be worshiped like GODS, and who have caused ALL this economic hell we're going through because of fiat currency, ie pathological GREED. Okay, got it? Now let's put an END TO THIS INSANITY. Do Not Comply. Let's take down the 5G towers, stop doing as we're told, like idiot monkeys, and reconfigure the power structure locally. Grow your own food, start NOW. Get back into our communities, and make connections IN REAL LIFE. Stop being manipulated! WE OWE THESE PARASITES NOTHING.
The only reason we're having a "pandemic" at all is the claim of "cases" of Covid. It's well-known now that the PCR does not diagnose illness or infection. So, the "pandemic" is a pandemic of the PCR giving us "cases." This is not about viral infections. It's about false "cases" and lies and EMF's, like 5G and lesser "G's" generally. If you have graphene in a jab, and then are given a dose of 5G, you're gonna have troubles. If not for the PCR "pandemic" LIE, and the lockdowns, and the TERROR caused by a "virus," we'd not have been quite so eager to take an experimental jab...
Thank you Caitlin, always educating. I like to think I am informed, intelligent and open minded. How this all evolves feels more and more like a 50 yr. old Sci-Fi novel. Working in dark matter science I can believe the truth can be found. Humans make me crazy, but I have you : )
You are right the cosmic ray rate at sea level is 1 per 2cm per min. That is why Oscura will operate in SnoLab Canada 2 mile deep Nickel mine where the rate is .27 cosmic rays per DAY : )
Good explanation of The Illusory Truth Effect, and well-spotted! We are all the subjects of a very sophisticated military grade propaganda operation - but this one is so simple (and so obvious once you start seeing it!)
There are a whole lot of ways to explain what has happened to people's brains over the past 2+ years: guilt/shaming, the weaponisation of caring, social conformity, etc etc.
But looking back, sheer repetition probably played the biggest role.
Even intelligent and well-educated people - people who I used to have intelligent discussions with - seem to have been brain-washed. In fact, especially the intelligent and well-educated ones.
It still puzzles me, and from time to time, when I get some new idea about it, I ponder on it some more.
The other thing to ponder, is why some people are able to resist this sort of brainwashing.
I think, besides being innately prone to contrarianism, a big factor is finding a like-minded community.
Because like the days of the Grand Inquisition, when heresy was aggressively sought out and punished, it is very hard for even the most independent thinker to hold their views and stay sane when they feel totally alone.
Biden is an embarrassment.
Biden needs to be impeached along with Kamala Harris and the worst Speaker of all time, Nancy Pelosi.
I agree they’re terrible.
More than an embarrassment, he’s a sellout and a traitor.
He is a gaffing buffoon but not quite as embarrassing as McDonald Trump.
Trump scored some points by talking about empire and globalization in his 2016 campaign. It showed he was capable of listening to voters and responding to their interests, which is pretty radical in modern American politics. That it was all hot air was pretty obvious but somehow it's still better than Biden's only plausible 2020 promise, which was to not be Trump. Ok, two plausible promises if you include the nothing will fundamentally change thing that was supposed to be in private with high end donors.
But omg, effing ell, etc., what a ghastly embarrassing match up they were in 2020. Member the debates? jeezers that was bad.
It was horrific. Why can't we just have an eggplant as POTUS? I think it would be better and after four years we could replace it with another and make Baba Ganoush with the ripe one leaving office.
I don't see how that could be worse then what we get. I'd take an egg salad sandwich from a truck stop bathroom vending machine over that.
Those weren't debates. More like controlled press conferences.
It’s a Herculean competition, who is more embarrassing.
I'm ready for a President and an Administration that are not embarrassing.
President Kamala Harris.
Nope, not her.
She’s the heir apparent.
The more the hair sniffing public pedophile and father of a repeat pederast keeps blaming Putin, the bigger a loser he's painting himself to be.
"President Biden used the phrase "Putin's price hike" again in a reaction to Friday's Consumer Price Index report revealing continued high inflation, showing once again that the US government believes Americans are idiots."
One thing the US government does happen to get right: quite a few Americans are ignorant.
"To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant." ~Amos Alcott
To be fair, most people simply don't have the time necessary to read deeply into current affairs.
Yes, I agree; it takes time to dig up the information necessary to understand what is really going on in the world politics and a lot of us don't have it.
That's why I find it very useful to have a high quality and trustworthy source of information like this blog.
Ignorant, trusting or both? I make an effort however I am privileged with a bit of time to fact check what I should have to, Caitlin I no longer have to fact check. Caitlin=Golden Rule : )
you forgot self-serving. If they really looked, then they might find out how much of their life is subsidized by abusing people, animals and the environmental ecosystems around the world. Better to accept the tender loving sniffs of Biden than wake up and smell the blood.
Cowards. We have to show them how to be decent human beings, and real patriots.
The Proud Boys are a case in point. How they can be proud is anyone's guess but we can be certain arrogant ignorance is at the core of it.
People still believe that Putin had kopromat pee pee tapes on trump, Biden got 81 million votes and is not senile, and masks and jabs slow the spread so at this point they will believe anything.
I suspect that far less people actually "believe" much of what's being said... I think a lot of people simply feel utterly powerless and have no idea what to do about anything. Murkans are dumbed down, unempowered and worn out, physically, spiritually, and intellectually. This is after decades of training. They need leadership. And here WE all are, gathering ONLINE, we're not even visible "IRL" and those who need us most don't even know where we are.
Yeah, but it's not just Americans. It's a worldwide phenomenon, or a feature of civilization I would say. The unwashed are brainwashed and beaten down by the wealthy elite oligarchs who rule this planet and have since the advent of civilization.
Be the salmon and swim against the current… be strong 🥰🕊
A properly fitted high-filtration mask does slow spread. That's why I use one when I have to breath air that I don't trust.
There is nothing "viral" in the air. Did you know, contagion has never been proven? I know, it took me some time to get my head around that, but I've learned more science in the past two and a half years than I've EVER learned in school... What's in the air that's causing us to have sickness? Most likely it's EMF's, although I don't consider bioweapons to be out of the question. But I think since EMF's are ubiquitous these days, it's a far more likely culprit... And it's interesting, too, that the symptoms of EMF poisoning are the SAME as the symptoms of "Covid."
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8yoOfHfCQ0w
Wot, are you frightened by what I said? Or you think it's a joke? You can wear a mask all day, all night, and I won't stop you. But I do have a bridge to sell you. Because terror-stricken sheep are far more of a problem than those who can actually think.
Why do you hate China so much?
I don’t hate China, I hate the CCP. You’d hate them too if they did to your family what they did to mine.
No one is buying that shit anymore ...
That must be some neighborhood you live in.
I have noticed that too, over the last three weeks people are no longer to say out loud the king has no clothes. Is this the tipping point of truth and the end of u.s. (lower case for disrespect) empire building?
Thanks for your ongoing work and pointing out the elephant in the room Caitlin, or world stage ...
I’m so over the spin doctors 👿😏 if I want the truth I listen to truth tellers not those western leaders and EU leaders who’ve had their own agenda all along ... 🥱.
We are family on the same path : )
I noticed prices going up on things I buy early last year. Anyone that swallows the shit he is shoveling deserves to choke on it.
The cause, Bailouts of Finance Capital. With repeated bailouts they are free to rape and pillage. Zero interest rates to the 1% are our doom.
Indeed, and zero taxes! And war profits forever....
Try not to blame the victims toooo much.
Caitlin Johnstone nails it once again. Mass propaganda is pernicious, pervasive, and pluripotent. Writers like Caitlin are essential, not just for calling out state-sponsored bullshit but because she mercilessly breaks the plutocracy's complicated misdirections into simple base elements everyone can understand.
Would propaganda be enough, on its own, to sustain the rapacious global empire? Is it simply a case of show the truth, expose the sociopath elite, watch the revolution? I suspect not. I'm thinking there's two further obstacles to fomenting widespread resistance, two factors the ruling class bet their very existence on being able to exploit: path of least resistance and insensible imperative conceit.
It would be very interesting to read CJ's insight - and ideas for solution - on these twin evils.
Path of least resistance handicaps us all. It's another piece of our evolutionary toolkit that probably helped our ancestors survive but has been completely subverted by the modern world. Path of least resistance covers fear of change, aversion to expressing real freedom, preference for the sham security of demagogues, nationalism, and the reductio ad wanker of binaries like right/wrong, good/bad, ingroup/untermensch. Path of least resistance is the perpetual crude oil state power (and corporate consumer capitalism) uses in its propaganda refineries to manufacture consent (and sell us shiny crap).
Insensible imperative conceit is harder to describe - at least for a non-writer like me. Insensible means not seeing or hearing or allowing yourself to be exposed to truth/facts reality or some other person is trying to present. Imperative because time is short and we're driven by perceived urgency of getting from A to B without risk wasting time on possible distractions. Conceit because we think we know what's best and we see unfamiliar or uncredentialed sources of new information as a personal affront. "Who do you think you are to try to educate me?" and "I don't have time to listen to your quibbles, let alone debate them." The perceived toxicity of social media is caused more by our own insensibility than any outrage algorithm or trolling. We complain to avoid having to question ourselves, because conceit wants us blameless and urgency leaves us brainless.
So, in short, it'd be fascinating to see an exploration of these propaganda facilitating aspects of empire mass control. It feels like we need to deal with both path of least resistance and insensible imperative conceit, as well as laying bare the lies of the elite, if we're going to push back on the neocon-neoliberal cartel of doom.
I agree, I wrote this in reply to a comment above, I would add, control. Is the control of Russian natural resources a key to climate tipping point? Wind and Solar will never produce the energy we need at even past consumption rates. There is only one energy resource that can and empire would only be comfortable with absolute control?
You're right that there's a factor of natural resources, but it has to do with WEALTH and POWER, not climate change. The US has a very skanky empire/hegemony that consists of militarily smashing other countries in order to economically smash them into giving up their resources... It's been done over and over and over and over... And Russia has the ability to UNDO the US hegemony, and so does China, and that is why both countries are a THREAT. Simple as that, in a general overview kind of way.
I wouldn't call you a "non-writer." Are you saying that because you're not paid to do it? Don't inhale that capitalist bullshit! I like your comment.
The 2nd Iraq war was about putting that countries resources under control of Western firms. The current Ukraine war is about removing Russian resources from competing in the markets of those firms.
I would add, control. Is the control of Russian natural resources a key to climate tipping point? Wind and Solar will never produce the energy we need at even past consumption rates. There is only one energy resource that can and empire would only be comfortable with absolute control?
I've finally realized that "climate change" is a hoax, too. Pretty much everything we're told by the "authorities" is bullshit.
Not true. Iraq's resources are not under Western control. In fact, the two countries who have made out like bandits in Iraq without spending any money or blood, have been Russia and China. It boggles the mind.
Where are you getting THAT?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/u-s-warns-iraq-it-risks-losing-access-to-key-bank-account-if-troops-told-to-leave-11578759629
Straight from an impeccably MSM source
Cheers.
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-695713
****The Iraq-China relationship dates to when Beijing was selling Baghdad weapons in the 1960s and 1970s while Iraq supported its claim to a seat on the UN Security Council. Relations developed further during the 2000s, after Saddam Hussein’s regime was toppled. China, along with Russia, was fiercely opposed to the Iraq War, yet it became one of its main beneficiaries.
In 2008, the China National Petroleum Corporation signed a huge production deal with the Iraqi government and became the first foreign firm to do so since the war. In 2013, China bought almost half of Iraqi oil production. During these years Iraq acquired Chinese drones to fight ISIS, supported the Hong Kong national security law at the UN and defended China’s treatment of Muslims in Xinjiang.****
If America or the West invaded and occupied Iraq for its oil reserves, how do you explain this? This, amongst other things, contradicts the oil reserves thesis as the reason for invasion and occupation.
Hmmm. Jerusalem Post, huh? And would you say Israel is an ally of China? Or maybe an ally of... the US?
Do you believe that's the only publication presenting the FACT that China was one of the main beneficiaries of the Iraq invasion and occupation? Are you interested in the TRUTH or not?
Are you trying to tell me that YOU have the truth, that I should simply accept that because YOU are saying it's the truth, and I should do this RIGHT NOW? I will not be bullied by you or anyone else into accepting anything. You're giving me ONE source and so, because you are you, I need to just believe you. You have much to learn about how things work. Are YOU interested in the truth, or are you more interested in being RIGHT? End of conversation.
To understand propaganda, I go to the early master of propaganda, Adolf Hitler. Hitler said he learned about propaganda from the Western business advertising techniques who were the OG masters of propaganda. In discussing the efficacy of soap ads, he says, "What, for example, would we say about a poster that was supposed to advertise a new soap and that described other soaps as 'good'? We would only shake our heads. Exactly the same applies to political advertising."
Hitler's tips for effective propaganda from Volume 1, Chapter 6, of the book Mein Kampf:
~ take a one-sided attitude toward every question.
~ repeat only the simplest ideas and repeat them thousands of times so that in the end you must always say the same thing.
~ an audience can only comprehend a slogan, and the slogan must be presented from different angles, but the end of all remarks must always and immutably be the slogan itself.
~ don’t make half statements that might give rise to doubts.
~ don’t weigh and ponder the rights of different people, but exclusively emphasize the one view which you have set out to argue for.
~ don’t make an objective study of the truth, as it may favor the opposition by its fairness, therefore only serve your own view, always and unflinchingly.
~ load every bit of blame on the shoulders of the opposition, even if this does not correspond to the true facts.
~ limit your presentation to a few points, devised exclusively for the general audience and carried on with indefatigable persistence.
[lastly]
~ EVEN THE MOST OUTLANDISH CLAIMS WILL EVENTUALLY BE BELIEVED THROUGH THE CONTINUITY AND SUSTAINED UNIFORMITY OF THEIR APPLICATION.
Hitler quotes:
"But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success."
"All advertising, whether in the field of business or politics, achieves success through the continuity and sustained uniformity of its application."
"At first the claims of the propaganda were so impudent that people thought it insane; later, it got on people's nerves; and in the end, it was believed."
"The purpose of propaganda is not to provide interesting distraction for blasé young gentlemen, but to convince, and what I mean is to convince the masses. But the masses are slow-moving, and they always require a certain time before they are ready even to notice a thing, and only after the simplest ideas are repeated thousands of times will the masses finally remember them."
http://www.mondopolitico.com/library/meinkampf/v1c6.htm
Mind control, plain and simple, and they do understand how to wield that tool. A way to tell truth from lies is to use your body like a pendulum: when you hear truth, your body will feel expansive, tingly, open, etc. When you hear lies, your body will feel contracted, constricted, closed, etc. I know it sounds weird, but try it out by saying your name and seeing how you feel in your body. Then say "my name is _____, with a blatant lie, and see how your body feels in response. It works. This is how you bypass the mind, which can be easily manipulated.
It's true. Have you read Biden's Green Book? He wants every household to have chickens and cages to house those chickens and people eat this sh*t up. It's mind control, I tell you.
Who said it? If you repeat a lie often enough and loudly enough, people will start to believe it.
George Washington and James Madison
Jefferson was a poet, but he was also a self-serving coward.
Biden is the greatest charlatan in the history of American charlatans. It seems as though it is a requirement to be a lying warmonger and charlatan to hold that position in Washington. Clinton, Nixon, Bush, Obama, Trump and now the feeble-minded Biden. What a bunch.
Well Biden takes the cake and before he is through, he may have started a war from which there may not be a recovery.
By way of a example of how the US slide downhill is well under way we see the US located "Summit of the Americas", another Biden initiative, where he and Blinken decided not to invite three of the South American countries involved and as a result, we saw another four countries decide not to attend. That’s 7 down. Something of an anti-climax, eh?
Just who does Biden think he is that he can dismiss out of hand three countries that are part of South America? Well we all know why Cuba missed out. They have been part of a hateful US campaign for over 6 decades, previously a stronghold of American criminals running gambling organisations in a country that chose to be independent from US dictates. Then there is Nicaragua who have little in common with the USA and choose to remain that way. The US has given them hell for decades. It refuses to toe the US line, hence no invitation.
Then there is Venezuela, with over 1500 years of oil reserves, and the USA with just 11 years. Think on that one….just for a minute…. and then relate that to most of the troubles in the world. Now can't have that can we, says Biden. We want that oil and are doing all we can to get it by sanctioning Venezuelans to death just as in the Middle East we are stealing Syrian oil every day.
Next Summit, for the countries in South America, find your own venue and give the USA a miss. Change the name also to "Summit of the South American Continent".
So "Putin's price hike" means what exactly. It means the ruble has firmed as a currency, whereas the US dollar, backed as it is with a 30 trillion dollar debt, is fast becoming a currency losing value, which will continue. Throw into the mix the next US war target, China (keep your eyes on the Pacific), and with the value of China's trade, they can do nothing but increase through manufacturing alone. But then, when you add trade to that mix, a country hard to toss who will demand and get the world’s respect. Now if China and others decide to replace the dollar as the major international trading currency, it is goodnight to US dominance and hello to China's new place as #1 in the world. I think that nothing can change that from happening. Right now, it could be a cooperative venture but not when one party is the”exceptional” USA, and we all have seen what that means since 1945.
Support for such a dramatic move as a new international trading currency is strong. So many countries remember US sanctions, arrogantly installed to benefit the US in matters of commercial advantage. You don't need a long memory as they are still in place today in so many countries around the world. Russia currently being US target #1. But if the Russian ruble is having a substantial move up and the US dollar has nowhere to go but down, down, down (with increasing debt), who is winning that battle?
The naivety (or should that be “arrogance”) of Biden and his bunch is astounding.
There is no country that will feel "Putin's price hike” (another Bidenism), as much as the US itself and when their unemployment rate hits 10 %, (all it will take is time), perhaps the citizens walking the streets of America looking for work, may decide to show their lack of appreciation for corrupted and warmongering US presidents and a corrupted-by-Israel Congress and storm the Congress again, seriously this time.
What else can you do when you are hungry and unemployed with no prospects for improvement.
A once highly respected country now in the fist stage of its death rattles
Biden has nothing on Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and crew.
Well, none of them were puppets with dementia...
And none of them grabbed pussy like Trump.
That might be a line to pursue in your hot steamy sexcapade re Stalin/Hitler. Which page are you on now?
Helpful hint: listen to that fantastic punk group of All Times - Pussy Riot - for inspiration. One of their artists pushed something in her vagina while visiting some grocery in Moscow, all in the name of the Fight for Freedom(TM). More food thought for you.
Yes, Biden certainly is an embarrassment, along with our entire government and all those who go along with this insanity of hating Putin, hating Russia, hating China, and shouting "USA! USA!" like a bunch of effing brain-dead parrots on ecstasy... But it's NOT Biden. It's not even the US government. Who is actually pulling the strings? It's the Globalist Oligarchs, folks. Biden is a tool, the US govt. is a tool, all for people like Boil Fucking Grates, and Klown Fucking Schwab. Look at it this way: If the people behind the globalist agenda are willing to commit GENOCIDE with a fake vaccine, even of CHILDREN, why would causing a vast food shortage (yes, it's deliberate, hello!), painful (and rising) inflation, a climate hoax, and all the rest of their pure bullshit-- why would they hesitate to pinch us, physically or in the wallet? The answer is, they won't hesitate... This is a planned demolition of our country, all because they are INSANE, delusional parasites wanting to RULE over us, and the entire world, and be worshiped like GODS, and who have caused ALL this economic hell we're going through because of fiat currency, ie pathological GREED. Okay, got it? Now let's put an END TO THIS INSANITY. Do Not Comply. Let's take down the 5G towers, stop doing as we're told, like idiot monkeys, and reconfigure the power structure locally. Grow your own food, start NOW. Get back into our communities, and make connections IN REAL LIFE. Stop being manipulated! WE OWE THESE PARASITES NOTHING.
I love China and how it has handled the pandemic. I think America should emulate it, in fact.
Oh, the PCR pandemic?
PCR?
Are you saying you don't know what a PCR is?
I know what it is, of course. But what is the PCR pandemic and how does it relate to China's approach to the pandemic?
The only reason we're having a "pandemic" at all is the claim of "cases" of Covid. It's well-known now that the PCR does not diagnose illness or infection. So, the "pandemic" is a pandemic of the PCR giving us "cases." This is not about viral infections. It's about false "cases" and lies and EMF's, like 5G and lesser "G's" generally. If you have graphene in a jab, and then are given a dose of 5G, you're gonna have troubles. If not for the PCR "pandemic" LIE, and the lockdowns, and the TERROR caused by a "virus," we'd not have been quite so eager to take an experimental jab...
I hope you’re joking...
Thank you Caitlin, always educating. I like to think I am informed, intelligent and open minded. How this all evolves feels more and more like a 50 yr. old Sci-Fi novel. Working in dark matter science I can believe the truth can be found. Humans make me crazy, but I have you : )
Are you really looking for dark matter? If so, two words to really test your open-mindedness: electric universe.
Just messing with you—Biden told me that Putin hid the dark matter.
You are right the cosmic ray rate at sea level is 1 per 2cm per min. That is why Oscura will operate in SnoLab Canada 2 mile deep Nickel mine where the rate is .27 cosmic rays per DAY : )
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.10518 I'm the only Andrew
lol
Good explanation of The Illusory Truth Effect, and well-spotted! We are all the subjects of a very sophisticated military grade propaganda operation - but this one is so simple (and so obvious once you start seeing it!)
There are a whole lot of ways to explain what has happened to people's brains over the past 2+ years: guilt/shaming, the weaponisation of caring, social conformity, etc etc.
But looking back, sheer repetition probably played the biggest role.
Even intelligent and well-educated people - people who I used to have intelligent discussions with - seem to have been brain-washed. In fact, especially the intelligent and well-educated ones.
It still puzzles me, and from time to time, when I get some new idea about it, I ponder on it some more.
The other thing to ponder, is why some people are able to resist this sort of brainwashing.
I think, besides being innately prone to contrarianism, a big factor is finding a like-minded community.
Because like the days of the Grand Inquisition, when heresy was aggressively sought out and punished, it is very hard for even the most independent thinker to hold their views and stay sane when they feel totally alone.