"Apse in his cathedral mind." In other words, a largely empty, echoey space, inside a larger, even empiter, echoey space. And what IS there is strictly reflective of a certain dogma, to the exclusion of all others.
We aren't by any means the first. You could, for example, have people who ran the British colonial administration, who may have been very decent and moral people in their private lives, yet doing monstrous things as part of their jobs and sleeping like babies.
A thinking, educated and well-read person does not believe a single word of the American (Western European) media. The fact that the media financed by the USA is already the II. Since World War II, it has been constantly inciting wars and uprisings, and I would like to give an example from my family's life. My father was a well-known and successful Hungarian athlete who took part in the 1956 Hungarian uprising, for which he was imprisoned, and was only able to escape to the West thanks to a Russian officer who liked sports. When the revolution failed under the tracks of the tanks of the Soviet empire, Radio Free Europe, in the hands of the USA, encouraged the Hungarian revolutionaries to fight and said the soldiers of the Free World, led by the United States, were already near the border. As we know since then, the United States told the Soviet leadership through secret channels to calmly "sort things out" because they have no intention of interfering ! So they knew that there was no hope for the resistance, but the lives of the Hungarian resistance fighters did not matter to them ! Just as it doesn't matter now how many young Ukrainians will be sacrificed in the slaughterhouse, the bottom line here is that at any cost, even millions of Polish, Romanian, Baltic young men, just do harm to the Russians ! For anyone who has even an iota of doubt about the bloodthirstiness of US politicians, let me remind you of the statement of former US politician Madelein Albright :
“We heard that half a million [Iraqi] children died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima,” Stahl asked, “and you know, is it worth the price?
“I think it's a very difficult choice,” Albright replied, “but the price, we think, is worth the price.
Well, I don't think it directly benefited the people of the USA, but that wasn't the goal either ! As we can ask the question, what did the "Colored Arab Spring" do for the people of the USA ? Again, nothing, but he resolved that there should not be a powerful power in the Middle East that could endanger the interests of the state of Israel ! And this, as I quoted Mrs. Madelein Albright in my post above, the US leadership (which does not really represent the interests of the US people, for decades now) was worth the death of any number of Iraqi children and even millions from the Middle Eastern Arab worlds ! I ask how many Americans took to the streets to say that the systematic killing of the Yemeni people with US weapons and US support is enough ? I don't know of a single case ! I know from personal experience that the average US citizen is kind and helpful ! But what did they do to ensure that the aid (including mine) for the victims of the terrible earthquake in Syria reached the miserable suffering people ? While the US government prevents all aid from reaching the suffering ! What kind of people are these ?
The American media empire is owned and operated by corporate America, under orders from the US Government, who is effectively doing the same thing Hitler did during WWII when he gave all German citizens a free transistor radio to spread lies, disinformation, misinformation and every other imaginable type of propaganda. Stop reading and listening to the news as well as stop relying on the tel-LIE-vision for truth. Instead, listen and read what writers and journalists say about what's going on in our world like Caitlin is doing. 👍👏
I'm more inclined to think said orders come from Big Money. If they stop buying advertising in your medium then you're in trouble. When the Internet killed classified ads the papers were no longer reader supported. Only enterprises entirely reader supported can be trusted.
'Western News Media Exist To Administer Propaganda'. I think most of you readers understand that bit Caitlin, that's why we read your work - as an antidote.
The English political comedy "Yes Prime Minister" did a good take on understanding the media, which is easily found via a quick search of Youtube.
Western malice is positively vertiginous: this gang would shoot itself in the head if it thought the bullet would exit their head and penetrate Russia's. The G 7, held, of all places in Hiroshima - what short memories the Japanese have - is sanctioning Russian aluminum, copper, nickel and diamonds- ensuring that the prices for these commodities, along with gas and oil, will go sky high.
But that's all good- more money in the pockets of Western elites, at the expense of the populaces.
It has gone beyond propaganda to mind control. Populations are completely passive to the lies of the war mongers and accept perpetual war as part of the times we live in.
The US has its independent media to break the spell of lies. Here in Canada there is no alternative media, its straight out NEWSPEAK . We are the ultimate colonized country and powder monkey to the empire's wars.
Duh! Recently Western News Media has become so unhinged and farcical that they run the danger of losing even low-information citizens, hence push towards censorship. Interesting times.
“…."Psyops" is short for psychological operations, the component actions in psychological warfare, which becomes more important in cold war conflicts between nuclear powers who can't confront each other directly…..”
RAND Corp has laid out how they can use this as a means of social control, and not even related to cold war really. Just purely how media in the current age can be used to control the masses by governments.
Also the con game is much deeper than just the false media like Bellingcat or the “think tanks” used to promote lobbyist agendas in the media. The con game also includes many phony “consultancies”, such as the one that spread the dubious narrative about Uyghurs into the NGO and media. And phony NGOs like the NED and USAID, also used to promote and spread state agenda and narratives.
The entire landscape is information gathering and analysis is riddled with these false fronts. It’s far beyond the media.
Worse yet, as has been reported recently the Pentagon is now getting its hooks into academica.
So before long there will be no almost no source of knowledge and information that we can rely on. All of this done by basic plain old means. No need fo “AI” or whatever.
My niece Sarah speaks Uygher and Mandarin and spent five years in Urumqi interviewing the people. I can assure you that the Uyghers are oppressed. I went to Xinjiang and saw it for myself.
Anyone who has live in the US can assure you that African Americans are oppressed and we are all aware that the agents of the state aka “police” uses them for target practice on the streets as well as slave labour in prisons where laws against slavery do not apply to them.
At the time I visited Xinjiang there was no concern in the West about the subject. Only after relations with the West deteriorated was this raised.
It's always like that. And sanctions never have any positive effect on human rights. Instead they worsen the lot of the people they are ostensibly helping.
And that dear friends, is its only reason for existence. Because 99% of the news, whatever it may be, has no bearing on your life (excepting local events of concern), I feel it can be ignored. I do and have for decades.
He tried to govern in a bipartisan manner and the Ds would have none of it.
It reminded me a lot of the Carter presidency. He tried to act in the public interest. DC united against him. They particularly didn't like his vetoing of useless water projects and further development of some failed warplane.
It may have appeared that the Ds wouldn't allow him to govern in a bipartisan manner, but the reality is that it was the puppet masters (i.e., the Deep State and the international banking cartel, centered in the City of London) wouldn't allow him to Make America Great Again. Simply put, a Great America is the last thing these people want. Rather, they want One World Government, and destroying the U.S. as a nation is critical to their plans.
And yet millions sit down daily to get their dose of “news”. It’s kind of an addiction to many. They wouldn’t know what to do around meal time if they didn’t have the “stories from around the world” time.
Great analysis Caitlin, as usual. I first became aware of Bellingcat during the press fiasco with MH17 and again with the false flags in Douma. Bellingcat and White Helmets go hand-in-glove.
BellingCat had a minor role in a recent international thriller novel written by a "former intelligence agent." These are classic propaganda tools, since they're just fiction, but popular. CFR's house magazine devoted an issue to the amazing Icelandic economy, three months before the entire house of cards collapse. They think they're in control, but they are log rolling in a cataclysm.
"Apse in his cathedral mind." In other words, a largely empty, echoey space, inside a larger, even empiter, echoey space. And what IS there is strictly reflective of a certain dogma, to the exclusion of all others.
When you pull off the mask off a sociopath, there is only the Will To Power. There's literally nothing else there.
We aren't by any means the first. You could, for example, have people who ran the British colonial administration, who may have been very decent and moral people in their private lives, yet doing monstrous things as part of their jobs and sleeping like babies.
Perfectly put.
A thinking, educated and well-read person does not believe a single word of the American (Western European) media. The fact that the media financed by the USA is already the II. Since World War II, it has been constantly inciting wars and uprisings, and I would like to give an example from my family's life. My father was a well-known and successful Hungarian athlete who took part in the 1956 Hungarian uprising, for which he was imprisoned, and was only able to escape to the West thanks to a Russian officer who liked sports. When the revolution failed under the tracks of the tanks of the Soviet empire, Radio Free Europe, in the hands of the USA, encouraged the Hungarian revolutionaries to fight and said the soldiers of the Free World, led by the United States, were already near the border. As we know since then, the United States told the Soviet leadership through secret channels to calmly "sort things out" because they have no intention of interfering ! So they knew that there was no hope for the resistance, but the lives of the Hungarian resistance fighters did not matter to them ! Just as it doesn't matter now how many young Ukrainians will be sacrificed in the slaughterhouse, the bottom line here is that at any cost, even millions of Polish, Romanian, Baltic young men, just do harm to the Russians ! For anyone who has even an iota of doubt about the bloodthirstiness of US politicians, let me remind you of the statement of former US politician Madelein Albright :
“We heard that half a million [Iraqi] children died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima,” Stahl asked, “and you know, is it worth the price?
“I think it's a very difficult choice,” Albright replied, “but the price, we think, is worth the price.
Now it's the Ukrainian children's turn!
I wondered, what exactly did this "price" buy for the USA?
The idea was that the suffering of the Iraqis would compel them to overthrow Saddam. This did not happen. So the whole thing was a murderous waste.
Well, I don't think it directly benefited the people of the USA, but that wasn't the goal either ! As we can ask the question, what did the "Colored Arab Spring" do for the people of the USA ? Again, nothing, but he resolved that there should not be a powerful power in the Middle East that could endanger the interests of the state of Israel ! And this, as I quoted Mrs. Madelein Albright in my post above, the US leadership (which does not really represent the interests of the US people, for decades now) was worth the death of any number of Iraqi children and even millions from the Middle Eastern Arab worlds ! I ask how many Americans took to the streets to say that the systematic killing of the Yemeni people with US weapons and US support is enough ? I don't know of a single case ! I know from personal experience that the average US citizen is kind and helpful ! But what did they do to ensure that the aid (including mine) for the victims of the terrible earthquake in Syria reached the miserable suffering people ? While the US government prevents all aid from reaching the suffering ! What kind of people are these ?
The American media empire is owned and operated by corporate America, under orders from the US Government, who is effectively doing the same thing Hitler did during WWII when he gave all German citizens a free transistor radio to spread lies, disinformation, misinformation and every other imaginable type of propaganda. Stop reading and listening to the news as well as stop relying on the tel-LIE-vision for truth. Instead, listen and read what writers and journalists say about what's going on in our world like Caitlin is doing. 👍👏
I'm more inclined to think said orders come from Big Money. If they stop buying advertising in your medium then you're in trouble. When the Internet killed classified ads the papers were no longer reader supported. Only enterprises entirely reader supported can be trusted.
'Western News Media Exist To Administer Propaganda'. I think most of you readers understand that bit Caitlin, that's why we read your work - as an antidote.
The English political comedy "Yes Prime Minister" did a good take on understanding the media, which is easily found via a quick search of Youtube.
Western malice is positively vertiginous: this gang would shoot itself in the head if it thought the bullet would exit their head and penetrate Russia's. The G 7, held, of all places in Hiroshima - what short memories the Japanese have - is sanctioning Russian aluminum, copper, nickel and diamonds- ensuring that the prices for these commodities, along with gas and oil, will go sky high.
But that's all good- more money in the pockets of Western elites, at the expense of the populaces.
I have lived in Japan and can assure you the war is well remembered. There are traces of it still in your face every day.
Hiroshima is a real city with real people and it was their turn to get a favor, I'm sure.
You are right in a sense, but hosting G7 seems ironic. I'd stay there hell away from them.
I suspect that the decision was entirely intentional.
"We can spit in your faces and you'll smile politely and take it because you are our little bitches!"
That the western MSM uncritically reports fantastic Ukrainian claims of victory after victory should tell you all you need to know.
It has gone beyond propaganda to mind control. Populations are completely passive to the lies of the war mongers and accept perpetual war as part of the times we live in.
The US has its independent media to break the spell of lies. Here in Canada there is no alternative media, its straight out NEWSPEAK . We are the ultimate colonized country and powder monkey to the empire's wars.
Rebel Media is based in CANADA. zionist though...
Duh! Recently Western News Media has become so unhinged and farcical that they run the danger of losing even low-information citizens, hence push towards censorship. Interesting times.
“…."Psyops" is short for psychological operations, the component actions in psychological warfare, which becomes more important in cold war conflicts between nuclear powers who can't confront each other directly…..”
RAND Corp has laid out how they can use this as a means of social control, and not even related to cold war really. Just purely how media in the current age can be used to control the masses by governments.
Also the con game is much deeper than just the false media like Bellingcat or the “think tanks” used to promote lobbyist agendas in the media. The con game also includes many phony “consultancies”, such as the one that spread the dubious narrative about Uyghurs into the NGO and media. And phony NGOs like the NED and USAID, also used to promote and spread state agenda and narratives.
The entire landscape is information gathering and analysis is riddled with these false fronts. It’s far beyond the media.
Worse yet, as has been reported recently the Pentagon is now getting its hooks into academica.
So before long there will be no almost no source of knowledge and information that we can rely on. All of this done by basic plain old means. No need fo “AI” or whatever.
In these days of social media AI is needed to shut down wrongthink immediately, before even one person might see it. This has been going on for years.
"the dubious narrative about Uyghurs"
My niece Sarah speaks Uygher and Mandarin and spent five years in Urumqi interviewing the people. I can assure you that the Uyghers are oppressed. I went to Xinjiang and saw it for myself.
Thanks for your assurance.
Anyone who has live in the US can assure you that African Americans are oppressed and we are all aware that the agents of the state aka “police” uses them for target practice on the streets as well as slave labour in prisons where laws against slavery do not apply to them.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/27/slavery-loophole-unpaid-labor-in-prisons
However i have not seen any exports from the US banned, nor boycotted, by any of the same NGOs or governments that talk about Uighur oppression.
You figure the curious absense of this from the narrative, while we are banged over the head across the planet about Uyghurs.
That is how narrative control works
At the time I visited Xinjiang there was no concern in the West about the subject. Only after relations with the West deteriorated was this raised.
It's always like that. And sanctions never have any positive effect on human rights. Instead they worsen the lot of the people they are ostensibly helping.
And that dear friends, is its only reason for existence. Because 99% of the news, whatever it may be, has no bearing on your life (excepting local events of concern), I feel it can be ignored. I do and have for decades.
OK. Though I am curious what you are up to here.
It wil forever be one of the greatest tragedies of the Trump victory that any semblance of objectivity in the media died on election day, IMO.
He tried to govern in a bipartisan manner and the Ds would have none of it.
It reminded me a lot of the Carter presidency. He tried to act in the public interest. DC united against him. They particularly didn't like his vetoing of useless water projects and further development of some failed warplane.
It may have appeared that the Ds wouldn't allow him to govern in a bipartisan manner, but the reality is that it was the puppet masters (i.e., the Deep State and the international banking cartel, centered in the City of London) wouldn't allow him to Make America Great Again. Simply put, a Great America is the last thing these people want. Rather, they want One World Government, and destroying the U.S. as a nation is critical to their plans.
And yet millions sit down daily to get their dose of “news”. It’s kind of an addiction to many. They wouldn’t know what to do around meal time if they didn’t have the “stories from around the world” time.
Great analysis Caitlin, as usual. I first became aware of Bellingcat during the press fiasco with MH17 and again with the false flags in Douma. Bellingcat and White Helmets go hand-in-glove.
"Louise Mensch is the Sy Hersh of our time"! Imagine thinking that was a smart thing to write!
Great article Caitlin, nice to have you back in my inbox
BellingCat had a minor role in a recent international thriller novel written by a "former intelligence agent." These are classic propaganda tools, since they're just fiction, but popular. CFR's house magazine devoted an issue to the amazing Icelandic economy, three months before the entire house of cards collapse. They think they're in control, but they are log rolling in a cataclysm.
I just wish Buttigieg would dedicate an apse in his mind to his job. I’m sure the residents of East Palestine would want the same.