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Sheeple
Just following orders…
You are the research!
Sept 18, 2022
The establishment wants you to drink up the fantasy the Monarchy embodies the ābest of Britainā. Itās the opposite. Itās the enduring embodiment of the worst of Britain: inherited wealth + privilege, a rigid class system, structural racism, imperialism, and unaccountable power.
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Why do you believe what you believe? Some people have a really solid answer to that question, but much of the population never thinks much about deeper questions such as this.
In fact, for most Americans it is simply easier to let others do their thinking for them.
Today, most of us spend multiple hours each day absorbing information through a screen, and most of the content that is fed to us through our televisions, phones, tablets and computers is controlled by the elite. And if you allow anyone to feed information into your mind for several hours every day, it is going to have a dramatic impact on how you view the world.
When I was younger, one of my favorite movies was āThe Matrixā, and I think that it is a really good metaphor for what is going on in our society today. In the film, nearly the entire human population was plugged into a system which continuously fed a computer-generated reality into their minds that wasnāt real at all.
Later on, I eventually came to realize that we are willingly doing the same thing to ourselves. Our personal interactions with one another are extremely limited, but we willingly āplug inā to the enormous matrix of news, information and entertainment that the elite have constructed for many hours each day.
According to numbersĀ that were released earlier this year, the average American spends more than three hours watching television and more than three hours on mobile devices every single day:
“Itās official: This year marks the first time that Americans will spend more time staring down at their phones and tablets than they will watching television.
“The average U.S. adult will spend three hours and 43 minutes on mobile devices this year, according toĀ EMarketer Inc., which is eight minutes longer than the three hours and 35 minutes that will be spent in front of the TV.”
If Americans from previous generations could visit our society right now, they would probably be horrified that we are all constantly staring at our screens like some sort of zombies.
And perhaps it wouldnāt be so bad if we were feeding our minds healthy things, but instead most of what we are absorbing is garbage that has been produced by the elite.
Today, nearly all of the news, information and entertainment that Americans consume is produced by a small cluster of giant corporations. The following summary of the current state of affairs comes fromĀ Wikipedia:
“In the United States, movie production has been dominated by major studios since the early 20th century; before that, there was a period in which Edisonās Trust monopolized the industry. The music and television industries recently witnessed cases of media consolidation, with Sony Music Entertainment’s parent company merging their music division with Bertelsmann AGās BMG to form Sony BMG and Tribuneās The WB and CBS Corp.ās UPN merging to form The CW.
“In the case of Sony BMG, there existed a āBig Fiveā (now āBig Fourā) of major record companies, while The CWās creation was an attempt to consolidate ratings and stand up to the āBig Fourā of American network (terrestrial) television (this despite the fact that the CW was, in fact, partially owned by one of the Big Four in CBS).
“In television, the vast majority of broadcast and basic cable networks, over a hundred in all, are controlled by eight corporations: Fox Corporation, The Walt Disney Company (which includes the ABC, ESPN, FX and Disney brands), National Amusements (which includes CBS Corporation and Viacom), Comcast (which owns NBCUniversal), AT&T (which owns WarnerMedia), Discovery, Inc., E. W. Scripps Company, Cablevision (now known as Altice USA), or some combination thereof.”[92]
There Were 88 Media Companies… Now There Are 6 ā All Get Their News from Rothschild
When you have an almost totally monopoly on news, information and entertainment, it is not too difficult to manipulate a society. At this point, most of the population is made up of extremely pliable āNPCsā that are more than happy to go along with whatever āsocietal normsā are set by the elite.
The term āsheepleā has been used to describe those that allow the elite to do their thinking for them, and we need to do what we can to help those individuals wake up and to get them to start thinking for themselves.
Let me give you an example of the immense power of the media.Ā OneĀ recent surveyĀ found that those that watch Fox News tend to think that the U.S. economy is in great shape, while those that watch MSNBC tend to be quite pessimistic about the economy:
“American voters face the same set of economic facts, from low unemployment to the risks from a trade war, but the surveyās index of overall sentiment ā at 108 just above the 100 line that separates positive from negative impressions of the economic outlook ā masked the huge divide between those who approve of Trump, whose views measured a far rosier 136, and those who disapprove of the president, with a reading of 88.
“The results, weighted by factors like age, race and sex, to be nationally representative, were similarly skewed based on media consumption. Viewers of conservative-leaning Fox News registered 139 for current sentiment about the economy; viewers of MSNBC, an outlet often critical of Trump, registered 89. Readers of the New York Times sat in the middle at 107, near those who get their news from Facebook (110) and Twitter (112).”
But the truth is somewhere in between.Ā We havenāt officially had a recession in recent years, but the U.S. economy has definitely not been āboomingā either.
In fact, we havenāt had a full year of 3 percent GDP growth since the middle of the Bush administration. That is the longest stretch of slow growth in American history by a very wide margin, and now it appears that the next recession is rapidly approaching.
And without a doubt, tens of millions of American families are deeply struggling right now.Ā As I notedĀ yesterday,Ā 50 percent of all American workers make less than 33,000 dollars a year, and a survey that was just released found that 70 percent of Americans āhave cried about moneyā:
“Pass along the tissues, because Americans arenāt afraid of letting the tears roll when it comes to finances.
Seven in 10 Americans said they have cried about money in their lifetimes, according to a recent online survey of 1,004 Americans by Compare Cards.com. Many cited worries over their job or making ends meet.
And household debt, which peaked at $13.86 trillion in the second quarter, weighed the heaviest on Americans. Almost a third admitted to crying over this looming concern, according to the survey.”
One of the reasons why my articles upset so many people is because I just donāt follow the herd.
In this day and age, it is absolutely imperative that we all learn to think for ourselves.Ā Because if you donāt actively take control, the elite will be more than happy to do your thinking for you.
Question everything. Everyone that is feeding you news, information and entertainment has an agenda, and in most cases it is not a positive agenda.
We are in a battle for hearts and minds, and the elite have an overwhelming edge because of the colossal system that they have created.
But we have the truth on our side, and in the end the truth shall prevail.
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byĀ Dean Henderson
July 15, 2019
We live in a world where reality has been subjugated and inverted. The laws of nature have been trampled upon by a clique of parasitic hoarders who have hoodwinked the vast majority of people into accepting a life of hardship and bondage as a result on an inter-generational reign of terror meted out by these well-dressed entitlement-demandingĀ bloodsuckers.
Surrounded by a cast of uniformed magicians in fuzzy hats who march around reinforcing the terror trance, theseĀ āroyalāĀ family welfare cases depend on humanity remaining under the illusion that people who live in castles should be respected rather than reviled. This illusion is etched ever deeper into the human psyche viaĀ assassinations,Ā terror attacks,Ā coupsĀ and theĀ occasional world war.
The court magicianĀ FreemasonsĀ are instructed by the Privy Council to obfuscate, confuse, divide and indoctrinate society.
Their job is to create an artificial reality which perpetuates the medieval story line that these royal thieves and pirates are justified in their history of barbarism to the point that they should be the most respected and deferred to members of society. If you rob a liquor store they call you a thief. But if you rob a nation they call you a king.
So long as theĀ black magiciansĀ can keep this fake reality going, the royals and their coterie can continue along their bloody path, concentrating all the wealth of the planet in their undetectable offshore coffers. This while the peasants fight one another, always pointing the finger at some black magician-concocted villain.
A good example of this was seen recently when the lower-case villain Trump visited the UK. To the Privy Councilās delight, the confused peasants busied themselves readying their placards to denounce the assigned villain, whilst completely ignoring his royal parasite hosts who, via Cambridge Analytica, put him in charge of theirĀ United States CorporationĀ colonyĀ to play the necessary villain role.
Here the parasites use Trump as a shield who can like a magnet attract all the negative energy and attention away from the perps. The black magicians use their media (medium) to gin up this negativity. Finally, the parasites harvest this negativity and feast on it, having put another one over on the sheeple.
This methodology is used over and over in society by theĀ Luciferians. Create chaos, anger, resentment, envy and outright war between and among the masses; then harvest the negativity and bloodshed to reinforce the mass-terror simulation grid which keeps the sub-consciously cued peasants cowed towards the royal perpetrators of the terror.
All the while kings and queens remain in the eyes of most water-treading suckers, something to strive to become. Just look at any deck of cards. Or at the popularity ofĀ Game of Thrones. Or at bed sizes. Or at who runs a beehive.
ThisĀ black magic inversion of languageĀ is everywhere and in our faces. They even call it āthe Queenās Englishā for Christās sake.
If we are to reclaim this world and revert back to the paradise that it once was, we must reject the spells of the Privy Councilās black magicians and begin to think and talk like real human beings again. Black must be black and a tree a tree.
Human nature is good, just like nature itself. This is the biggest of all magician lies. It is this royal parasite-created artificial reality which shields evil behind mesmerizing pomp and circumstance which must be shouted down, mocked and completely rejected if we are to revive paradise under natural law.
Paramount to this is breaking out of their mass terror simulation, which with the advent of artificial intelligence will become more pervasive and sophisticated. There is nothing to fear and no reason to fight one another, divide into camps, or jump on the latest outrage/negativity bandwagon.
Parasites are most easily killed byĀ cutting off their food supply.
Dean Henderson is the author of five books: Ā
- Big Oil & Their Bankers in the Persian Gulf: Four Horsemen, Eight Families & Their Global Intelligence, Narcotics & Terror Network;
- The Grateful Unrich: Revolution in 50 Countries;
- Stickinā it to the Matrix;
- The Federal Reserve CartelĀ and
- Illuminati Agenda 21: The Luciferian Plan to Destroy Creation.
How People Become Easily Controlled By Tyrants
“They (tyrants) are in most cases cowardly.Ā They prefer to get what they want through subversion and trickery, and they run from direct confrontation.Ā They prefer to use other people (useful idiots) as weapons or shields rather than risk facing off with their ideological opponents.Ā As parasites, they focus on the weak-minded or the fragile.”
Sept 5, 2018
The question often arises in liberty movement circles as to how we get to the point of full-blown tyranny within a society.Ā There are numerous factors that determine this outcome, but through all the various totalitarian systems in history there are common denominators ā elements that must be there for tyrants to prevail.Ā When we can identify these common elements in an objective manner, we make it far more difficult for despotic structures to stand.
This is a very complex issue, but Iāll break it down as best as Iām ableā¦
The Psychology Of The Tyrant
To come to terms with how tyrants control society, we must first examine how the mind of a tyrant operates, because these people do not in most cases think the way average human beings think.Ā It is one of the few cases in which I would encourage people to āotherizeā another group. Tyrants are psychologically abnormal to such an extreme that is difficult to classify them as human.
I believe the key to understanding the motivations of tyrants and where these people come from rests on our understanding of narcissistic sociopathy.Ā I wrote about this extensively in my article āGlobal Elitists Are Not Human,ā so I will only give a summary here.
Narcissistic and sociopathic traits, like many psychological traits, are inborn.Ā They are present in about 5% to 10% of any society at any given time.Ā In the vast majority of cases, these traits remain ālatentā and do not affect a personās actions or relationships to a great extent. Ā In a minority of cases, however, narcissism and sociopathy become the defining factors of a personās psyche.Ā This occurs in less that 1% of a population.
To be clear, not all narcissists are sociopaths and not all sociopaths are narcissists.Ā There are people who are low-level narcissists who excel in society and retain a conscience.Ā There are low-level sociopaths in society that serve important functions in careers that empathetic people would find difficult, such as certain jobs in the military, or in the medical field.Ā What I am referring to here are HIGH LEVEL narcissistic sociopaths ā the kind of people who become murderers, rapists, pedophiles, and yes, tyrants.
A sociopathic narcissist is motivated by personal desire only.Ā They are incapable of empathy for others and see people as a kind of food and fuel source rather than fellow travelers in life.Ā They consider their lack of conscience as an evolutionary advantage; a tool that helps them to survive and thrive by trampling, stealing, manipulating and killing if necessary without guilt or regret.
You would think these creatures would be easy to pick out in a crowd, but it is not always so simple.Ā They have the ability to mimic behaviors of those around them in order to appear more human.Ā Sometimes this does give them away because they canāt help but parrot or steal behaviors and mannerisms from people they meet to the point of obviousness.Ā For those inexperienced with narcissistic sociopaths, though, the tactic works for a time, because what people think they see is someone just like them; a reflection.Ā Imagine it as a survival mechanism, like a chameleon.
For some tyrants, the ability makes them endearing to the public for a time.Ā They can be many things to many groups, and their ability to lie convincingly is exceptional.Ā They climb the ladder of success quickly, and build systems that allow them to prosper.Ā They do have doubts and weaknesses, though.
They are in most cases cowardly.Ā They prefer to get what they want through subversion and trickery, and they run from direct confrontation.Ā They prefer to use other people (useful idiots) as weapons or shields rather than risk facing off with their ideological opponents.Ā As parasites, they focus on the weak-minded or the fragile.
They desperately want admiration from the very people they victimize.Ā Therefore, they are constantly forced to play roles in order to appear normal.Ā They do not like this.Ā They feel that it is below their station in life to pander, and they are convinced that they should be worshiped as they are, not worshiped for the fraudulent image they have constructed.Ā They want to ācome out of the closet,ā in a sense, as a narcissistic sociopath, but if they do under a stable social climate they will be shunned or burned at the stake.Ā They sometimes band together for protection, and are willing to work with each other as long as there is mutual benefit.
Thus, these āpeopleā seek to create chaos, and then to reorder society to act more like they act, or think more like they think.Ā When the masses have been convinced to abandon conscience, then the monsters can come out into the light of day without fear.
Here is how they achieve this goal, and how average people help them do itā¦
False Assumptions
Almost all bad situations start with false assumptions based on bias rather than facts or evidence.Ā The most dangerous assumption when it comes to tyranny is to say āwe are in the right, therefore we are not supporting tyranny.āĀ The question that needs to be asked, though, is are they really ārightā according to the facts?Ā If the answer is āno,ā then they are probably fueling a tyrannical system.
First and foremost, many human beings want to be ārightā more than they want to be correct.Ā That is to say, they are happy to āwinā arguments and conflicts regardless of whether or not the truth is on their side.Ā This bias is the root of many catastrophes in history.
This is not to say that they donāt have a conscience.Ā Most people in fact do have a conscience that tells them their assumptions are wrong, but they can still commit acts of stupidity and atrocity.Ā This is where tyrannical manipulators tend to help them along.
Tyrants find great joy in creating all kinds of logical fallacies, mental gymnastics and morally relative sales pitches in order to convince a group of people that their wrong assumptions are right.Ā The truth becomes foggy and evidence becomes unnecessary.Ā In this state of mind, when individuals melt together into a mob, assumptions become cult dictates and āwinningā becomes paramount.Ā False assumptions and biases can be used to turn normal upstanding people into monsters, all because they refused to accept that their ideological position was flawed; all because they were afraid to feel embarrassed or admit they had been conned.
False Sides
The taking of sides in political discourse is natural and normal.Ā Even when people are entirely honest about the facts on hand and agree on basic principles of human decency and freedom, they will STILL disagree on what solutions should be used to deal with the problems in front of them.Ā This creates a spectrum within society that is ever-present; it cannot be helped or avoided.Ā Tyrants understand the basis of this spectrum and try to use it to their advantage to manipulate people away from thoughtful discourse and towards mindless conflict.
Tyrants exploit the masses more easily when people assume that corrupt political and social leaders are working for ātheir sideā against the āother side.āĀ Often these leaders can be bought or threatened into subservience.Ā Tyrants then use them to drive the spectrum to the furthest opposites, until both sides adopt an attitude of zealotry.
This happens not only in politics, but in geopolitics, as entire nations are driven to war with each other by puppet presidents and governments over engineered conflicts that only ever benefit the cabal of tyrants behind the curtain.
Zealotry And False Narratives
I view zealotry as a kind of psychological disease that is actually communicable ā it spreads like a virus through a culture until everyone is infected.Ā Zealotry happens when a person embraces an ideology to the point that it overrides their personality and their soul, and they are no longer able to think clearly as an individual.Ā This includes considering the possibility that they are on the wrong side of history and morality.
Zealotry on a mass scale depends on a number of dominoes set in succession.Ā The threat of civil breakdown and economic suffering helps.Ā Ideological opponents must be painted as an eminent and vile threat to the very fabric of society.Ā In some cases they are a real and created threat (controlled opposition); in other cases they are a paper tiger meant to drive another group to support tyrannical measures.
Tyrants build false narratives.Ā This is what they do best.Ā They encourage people to unknowingly become villains, or they accuse innocent groups of villainy in order to sow division.Ā They need all sides to see everyone else either as an ally or an enemy.Ā There is no in-between.Ā If a person does not conform to the views of the zealot, then he must be immediately treated as a threat.Ā This causes an endless echo chamber which destroys all dissent or disagreement, no matter how rational.
Zealots operate primarily on fear, making them easy prey for tyrants.Ā And as some nerd somewhere once said, āFear is the mind killer; fear is the little death that brings total obliteration.ā
Apathy And False Hope
More than anything else, tyrants desire an apathetic population.Ā Apathy breeds complacency and inaction, and it also encourages delusional thinking.Ā Apathetic people tend towards the philosophy of pacifism as a means to vindicate their own behavior, but this is merely a mask designed to hide their fear.Ā They might fear suffering, they might fear loss, they might fear failure, but they certainly have fear, and it stops them from standing in the way of developments that they know are evil in nature and that require an aggressive response.
Apathy can also be bred into a society through the use of false hopes.Ā Tyrants conjure scenarios in which the public is made to believe positive āchangeā is about to take place, usually through politics.Ā But, there will be no change for the better beyond the cosmetic.Ā Things only get worse.Ā In this process of conditioning, tyrants raise up the hopes of the masses, and then dash them to the ground over and over, until the public gives up.
The problem is not that things cannot change for the better, but that the public keeps playing by the rules of a game fabricated by the very people who are causing their misery.Ā Stepping outside the constraints of that game requires us to take matters into our own hands rather than waiting around for others to make changes for us.Ā It requires risk.Ā If the farce of tyranny is to ever end, all awake and aware people will have to take many risks.
I have heard it argued that tyranny is a natural and inevitable product of human society.Ā That tyrants cannot be avoided, that they will always exist and any attempt to remove them will result in them only being replaced with other tyrants.Ā This is the pinnacle of the pathetic mindset.Ā It is the dark void of nihilism.
One could also argue that there is no point to washing ourselves because we are just going to get dirty again tomorrow.Ā But these people would eventually die of disease.Ā If tyranny is a human constant, then rebellion must also be a human constant, otherwise, humanity dies or is turned into something unrecognizable.
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Source: We the Sheeple: the Blind Reading the Blind
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December 8, 2017
Photo by Daniel Lobo | CC BY 2.0
Shortly after the fall of Communism in the Soviet Union, then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Colin Powell, made a candid confession to the Army Times, āIām running out of demons, Iām running out of villains. Iām down to Castro and Kim Il Sung.ā Amid the general bonhomie of the military interview, Powell nicely encapsulated a central truth of empire: it doesnāt want peace. Never did. Imperialism, the monopoly stage of capitalism, is based on conquest. Peace is little more than an aftermath in the imperialist vision. It is the dusty rubble-strewn silence that descends on Aleppo when the jihadists have been bussed out. It is the silent pollution of the Danube when the NATO jets have flown. It is the quiet that settles on the Libyan square once the slave auction has concluded. Peace is an interlude between the birth of avarice and the advent of aggression. Little else.
If Powell confessed empireās disinterest in peace, he also expressed the need of the imperials state for a steady supply of new enemies. Conflict is the lifeblood of imperial capitalism. It is how the ruling class further enriches itself. It is how the global elite expand their dominion over the planet. Those who will not pay tribute under threat of menace, must ultimately face the menace. But this truth, that the imperial state is the carmine tip of elite expropriation, must not be aired among the hoi polloi. It is the unseemly underbelly of power and if it were widely understood it would hack away the legitimacy of the state, which is only justified by its nominal commitment to the welfare of the nation. That claim only appears legitimate in the face of some grim and ghastly threat. Powell understood that with the nasty specter of the evil empire crumbling to ash on an Asian plain, a spine-chilling new antagonist would have to be invented to replace it.
Enter the specter of Islamic terror. Islamic terrorism is largely the product of American terror. It is wittingly conjured into being through our wanton destruction of Muslim societies. We did not attack Muslim nations in order to produce a new enemy. We attacked them to extend our control of natural resources, shape the trade routes of the future, and expand the reach of global capital. But the epiphenomenon of terrorism was both predictable and embraced as a casus belli. It is the hobgoblin used by ruling class media to frighten western populations into acquiescence with the westās warlike vision for global hegemony.
But western populations have of late grown weary of the terrorist scourge and the endless storylines of restive migrants doing the dirty work of mysterious jihadists on the Disneyfied streets of western capitals. Jets into skyscrapers. Cars into crowds. Backpacks in corners of concert halls. High-rise shotgunners spraying bullets into public squares. Terror fatigue is spreading across a western world that could only sustain permanent stress levels for so long. Thankfully, for the managers of empire and its media flacks, a reborn Russian state, rising from the ashes of a capitalist looting spree, has provided a second narrative front in the war for the mind of the west. A different visage emerges. Not the bearded votary narrating a death wish to a shaky cam. But a Muscovite in a bespoke suit with a supercilious grin on his sly poker face. The optics are different, but in a media environment of constant overexposure, that is a good thing.
Both terrorism and a revanchist Russia represent figments of horror in the minds of western citizens. They are the bĆŖte noire with which we can shape our worldview and pepper our cocktail conversations. We do not realize that Islamic terror is largely a product of American terror. We do not see that American aggression provokes Russian self-defense. As such, these orientalist caricatures represent the hypocrisy of imperial neoliberalism, which is forever flying the false flag of economic justice and democratic freedom over its just-conquered capitals. Inhabitants of those broken cities know better, as their standard of living plummets and their dictators are replaced by juntas. They know the west is like Joseph Conradās sepulchral city, where an alabaster exterior hides a crypt of rotting flesh. That is the real vision that western media works so feverishly to disguise, one no sane person could stomach. Thatās why the media must craft fresh Frankensteins at such a feverish pace. Fairy tales of secular missionaries bringing the gift of free-market democracy to the benighted tribes of the east.
Globalization and Its Discontents
The terminology of that fairy tale is telling. The term āglobalizationā has been used as a portmanteau containing all of the sly nuance of neoliberalism. Globalization is the rush of capital into every conceivable crevice of the planet in search of profitable new ventures. Unfortunately, markets must be pried open with war when rhetorical picklocks donāt suffice. The term āhumanitarianā is the masque we now affix to the gruesome face of war whenever we must attack some recalcitrant socialist backwater. What we used to call a ācivilising missionā in Africa, we now call a āhumanitarian interventionā in the Middle East. Historians call that āprogress.ā
The effect of this noble-minded fustian is to pacify a population and to marginalize anyone who attempts to reveal the true character of imperial action. Who would oppose a globalizing force of open markets that promise to bring ādevelopingā and āemergingā nations online and on par with our post-industrial west? Those who do can hardly explain the extractive nature of neoliberal globalization or its deindustrializing effect on developing economies before they are skewered by the flagbearers of humanitarianism. Who would deny the righteous cause of intervening to halt imminent genocide? One has barely called into question whether genocide is actually imminent before being fleeced by the rhetorical guardians of the westās civilizing mission. The righteous R2P. One has hardly breathed a word of how the āwar on terrorā is largely generated by the state terror we inflict on other nations before being rubber-stamped a traitor and told to leave the country (if you donāt like it).
The fable must be accepted. We are spreading freedom and equality. Simple as that. End of story. Say that the United States is the greatest counter-revolutionary force in the world, and be branded a traitorāby the counter-revolutionaries. Wherever democratic freedom rears its ugly head, you can be sure that U.S. media flacks, as well as special forces, drones, proxy terrorists, and battalions are on hand to crush what they claim to defend.
Softening the Blow
The fairy tales are told by the mainstream media, shamelessly so. The Wolf Blitzers of the world devote themselves to the slavish production of fresh threats. The liberal MSM is represented today by outlets such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, CNN, MSNBC, and NPR. These ciphers take the crude evasions of the White House, State Department, Pentagon, and intelligence agencies, and camouflage them. They dress them in muted tones that dampen the drama of blast craters. They massage the story to elide the facts that might produce introspection or taint the purity of our self-image. Self-criticism is inappropriate, but the righteous condemnation of other nations is a moral mandate. Print everything in classic fonts, with well-designed column widths, and add in world-class photography that turns ruination into artistic representation. This is the manna consumed by the acolytes of exceptionalism.
Nothing better embodies the empty ruse of liberalism than the bulky deadwood of the Times. There is of course the elitist coverage of mini-breaks in distant villas, where war-torn peasant societies repair their communities round a communal table. There are the heady profiles of the latest restaurant trends, where the bearded Brooklyn chef with neck tats touts his vegan currywurst to the gentrified hood. There is the fastidious theater review and the effusive real estate forecast. Filler aside, readers will be reminded that war is necessary when America wages it; globalization is inevitable when it means free markets, and free markets mean individual freedom; multiculturalism and mass immigration are desirable to all, irreversible, and a moral imperative; and inscrutable new alien threats are profiled with an Orientalistās hopeful but ultimately worrisome and mystified gaze. Little mention is made of the fact that our conflicts are provably imperial resource wars; that in nearly every port of call our country wages counter-revolutionary battles that stifle liberation and independence; that globalization has wrecked the American standard of living through labor arbitrage and offshoring; that immigration ought not to be coupled with austerity unless the objective is race wars; that the lives of women, LGBTQ, and people of color are collateral damage in the crosshairs of empire; or that American capitalism has no interest in delivering jobs, living wages, or upward mobility to its extant population, let alone its newest members.
When these mostly taboo subjects are noted, they are presented as a perplexing side effects of a noble project of laissez faire globalization. They are unfortunate but must not be rashly addressed. Better to endlessly maintain the status quo as one wrestles with the philosophic implications of global capitalism. This was Obamaās favorite tactic. Open a dialogue, but donāt change anything important. This dissembling attitude was beautifully expressed in a recent Twitter thread which detailed seventy years of Times articles proclaiming a dizzying succession of reform-minded princes in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where the patriarchyās misogynist grip on power is as firm as ever, as is Washingtonās backing. The last post in that thread noted Thomas Friedmanās sycophantic paean to the new idol of Saudi imperialism, Mohammed Bin Salman, or āMBSā to his fawning admirers. Friedmanās article was printed last week.
When not absorbing the high culture of the Times literary supplement, one finds the corporate liberal Democrat happily digesting bite-sized reports from the National Public Radio (NPR). Here the adherence to the state view is no less vigilant than in print. Thus when NPR interviews a CIA psychologist who tells us that whistleblowers are either psychopaths, narcissists, or lingering in some irresponsible adolescence, the ānational security correspondentā fails to challenge these claims. And when Australian broadcasting interviews Hillary Clinton, it allows the venal egotist to smear WikiLeaks as a Kremlin tool and call Julian Assange a narcissistic opportunist without the slightest resistance. Questions about the shady dealings of the Clinton Foundation are feebly set aside at the merest sign of discomfort by Madame Secretary. And Times op-ed writers like Friedman can happily call for support of al Qaeda, destroying target societies, and cheerlead more global wage leveling by chastising workers for not falling in lockstep with the elitist program.
These are the signs of a dead discipline. The mainstream media is no longer adversarial. It takes the official story at face value. It has abdicated its proper role in a democratic society, which is partly why we are no longer a democratic society. As Princeton University has explained, we are effectively a plutocracy. Thanks to the MSM, though, most of us continue to believe the rhetorical platitudes of our corrupt leaders. Media is one of our numberless emasculated institutions, which are now authoritarian and warlike. (See liberal faith in the Mueller investigation, led by a neoliberal imperialist who fought to crush Vietnamese socialism and led the FBI, one of the most regressive and criminal organizations in the world.) Like readers who still place a naive faith in the government, MSM writers continue to believe they are doing independent journalism in the service of truth (āDemocracy dies in darkness,ā the Post implores us). But real journalism accepts nothing at face value. It is the Socratic voice that unsettles the consensus.
Bot Bylines
Instead of incisive journalism that digs, defies, and holds power to account, we get self-censoring media automatons pampering oligarchs and pretending that all good-thinking people care deeply about the state of the state. Listen to the soothing language of the New York Times on the supposedly earth-shaking Russian influence campaign on social media. It hits all the right notes without seriously challenging the narrative. Note how it bleeds concern. This kind of journalism is a palliative for the conscience of a liberal. Ah, the āthorny debatesā inside Facebook, no doubt had āin good faith,ā and subject to āfateful misunderstandings,ā if Ken Burns were documenting it. āExecutives worryā and there is considerable āhand-wringingā afoot in good faith efforts to wipe out āfake news.ā
Even the protagonists of the story are usefully quoted. Facebook lawyers, commenting on the miniscule purchase of ads over a two-year period from accounts with even the most tenuous Russian connection, much of it after the election, much of it not even mentioning presidential candidates, and the creation of bots to grow click farms, recoiled in horror and called the knowledge ādeeply disturbingā and āan insidious attempt to drive people apart.ā This is theater for the masses. Cue the organ grinder.
The goal of this domestic conditioning is to remove the democracy from democracy. The objective is to create a hollow shell of a democratic society, representative on the outside, plutocratic on the inside. The marble tomb inhabited by necrosis. This is deliberate. Read Alex Careyās Taking the Risk Out of Democracy for a nice overview of how Americaās collective conscience has been shaped by corporate forces. Why? Because we are the enemy. The enemy is our freedom of thought and speech, because that is what inevitably leads to democratic, socialist, or communist change that benefit the people as a whole, not just the vanishingly small margin of corporate elites who promote and profit from war, conquest, and rule. The problem with democracy is that it isnāt very profitable for capital. Socialist countries tend to emphasize social services. It is extremely hard to make money delivering quality social services to the poor. Really, the only way to make money off of social services is to deliver inadequate social services to the middle class for extravagant fees. See Barack Obamaās Affordable Care Act for a master class in this technique. Monopoly capitalism is incompatible with actual democracy. To the degree that a truly democratic society can have free markets, they must be strictly regulated, prevented from reaching monopoly status, and completely walled off from public institutions. Otherwise, they will cannibalize those institutions, reshaping them as rubberstamp organs of elite profit.
As it is, democracy is merely the mask that disguises the engines of imperialism. It is useful in this regard because, unlike socialism, democracy makes no serious claims on the means of production. It depoliticizes the most political issue of all: economics. Thus the manufacture of enemies, job one for the ruling class media, always targets socialist-leaning nations that sense the need for economic justice alongside social justice. Even if they are mixed economies that provide space for open markets, like Venezuela. It makes no difference. We mustnāt tolerate the slightest majoritarian impulse in the economic arena. All such beliefs must be terminated. We must be refashioned as foot soldiers of exploitation. To this end, western propaganda outlets have made psychologist Erich Frommās warning sound less like prophecy than predestination, āThe danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.ā
Can someone explain to me why this Colbert dude is funny? I just don’t get it.
Ordinary Americans are not buying the anti-Russian conspiracy.
Source: UNCENSORED: These YouTube comments show most Americans are NOT buying into the anti-Russia agenda
theduran.com
June 15, 2017
Stephen Colbertās recent interview with film-maker Oliver StoneĀ Ā is a surprisingly good encapsulation of everything wrong with the Russophobia that has gripped America since the middle-years of the Obama administration, a phenomenon which has vastly accelerated since Hillary Clinton labelled the winning candidate, now POTUS Trump as a man compromised by āRussian linksā which are totally non-existent by any objective standard.
There is much to objectively praise and criticise about Trump, but the idea that he is āin it for Russiaā is not only a sign of the childishness and pettiness which has run rife in US politics thanks to the Democratic party of Hillary Clinton along with their neo-con fellow travellers, but it is also symptomatic of America needing a foreign enemy to avoid tackling its burning internal issues.
It is not in Russia where a crazed opposition supporter has been radicalised by a violent mainstream media and ends up shooting a prominent Congressman. No, this terrorist atrocity happened in the United States.
It is not Russia where the opposition are trying to undermine the legitimacy of a democratically elected President, that is happening in the United States.
As Donald Trump rightly said during his campaign, it is foreign wars, particularly in the Middle East that is bankrupting America while bridges collapse, airports decay and infrastructure is reduced to third world standards.
But for the mainstream media, rather than take action about these domestic problems, it remains important to lambaste Russia not based on any objective criticism but based on vague, false and cartoonish notions that Vladimir Putin is somehow evil, though no one in the American mainstream mediadĀ is able to articulate just why they believe that.
Stephen Colbert mocked Oliver Stone throughout a deeply sardonic interview. What was the mockery for? Because Oliver Stone interviewed Putin without an agenda. Stone said very clearly to Colbert that he set out to find out what Putin has to say and to do so with the respect the leader of a great super-power deserves. Colbert wanted Oliver Stone to be Steven Colbert. Stone had the audacity to be himself and to allow the Russian President to speak openly and honestly rather than cut him off every few seconds with boring MSM talking points.
Colbertās interview may have scored him points with members of the DNC and Iām sure it was popular in the McCain household. But for ordinary Americans, comments on Colbertās Youtube interview show that people are not buying into the MSM anti-Russian agenda.
Here are just some examples of ordinary American television viewers expressing their support for both Oliver Stone and President Putin.
But the real tragedy is that Americaās foreign policy is being dictated by those who agree not with Stone or the overwhelmingly supportive comments of Stoneās attempt to speak respectfully with Putin, but with Colbert, the snide man who thinks that international relations should be about frivolous point scoring and arrogant cynicism.
Now content with just losing the 2016 US Presidential election, the supporters of Hilary Clinton and her anti-Russian elite friends want to hammer home a dead message, something that really amounts to little more than beating a dead horse.
This is one of the reasons Hillary Clinton lost the election. Hillary Clinton ran against the President of Russia, Donald Trump ran to be President of the United States. The choice was obvious and the better man won.
Everybody knows by now that conservatives are not too bright, they are ugly, they smell, and their mothers dress them funny.
“That this movement is a threat to Western values is transparent.”
Source: Stop Legitimizing ‘Conservatism’: It’s Not an Ideology ā It’s a Goddamn Death Machine
anonymous-news.com
(Common Dreams) Thereās no end to the maladies that ail American politics these days.Ā It would, indeed, be far easier and quicker to identify whatās working than to itemize the travails that bedevil our pathetic polity in 2017.Ā Altogether, if this country was a piece of art it would have to combine the orderliness of Pollock with the perceptual logic of Dali, all rooted in the joyful well-being of Hieronymous Bosch, in order to do justice to our times.
For those of you who for some reason always wanted to know what it looks like when an empire cracks apart, Iāve got some lovely news for you:Ā A certain North American specimen, not generally known for its generosity, is nevertheless happy to oblige you today.Ā Truly, the full catalog of Americaās political woes could crash Amazonās entire array of server farms, and most of us are struggling enough with chronic nausea these days such that revisiting all these horror stories again is way too depressing to contemplate.Ā So I wonāt.Ā But there is one thing that inflames my tortured mind more than any of these items ā perhaps because it is the one thing that explains them all.
Here it is:Ā I am sickened to live in a society that treats a malignant illness as just another legitimate point of view, when in fact itās the very disease that is killing us.Ā We donāt treat a heroin epidemic as an innocuous choice that some may opt for and some may reject.Ā We donāt treat cholera as just another flavor of ice cream that some prefer while others go for strawberry.Ā And we donāt welcome Nazism as a legitimate belief system that deserves the same consideration as any other old model of race relations a society might adopt.Ā So why do we treat āconservatismā like some harmless cup of tea that some choose over Earl Grey or Jasmine?Ā
āThat this movement is a threat to Western values is transparent.ā
Iām dead serious.Ā And I mean like, literally, dead serious, because if weāre honest about it, that which goes by the name of conservatism today is not an ideology ā itās a death machine.
Maybe there was once a responsible, legitimate (if misguided and merely moderately deceitful) ideology by the name of conservatism ā I donāt know.Ā Regardless, weāre not talking about Dwight Eisenhower or Gerry Ford here.Ā Weāre talking about societal hemlock.Ā And itās been that way for a generation or two, but of course now the threat from this monstrosity is no longer just a moral disaster, itās a full-blown existential crisis, wrapped inside a suicide vest.
Death machine, huh?Ā Maybe youāre thinking, āSure, those Trump idiots are completely bonkers, but calling them a willful agent of the apocalypse is little extreme.Ā I mean, artistic license is a good thing, but cāmon manā¦āĀ Sorry.Ā Iām not kidding.Ā Iām being quite literal.Ā This is a belief system which is bringing death to thousands-year-old traditions of Western values, to democracy, to the country, to peopleās lives, to the truth, and to the planet.Ā Because of the threat this represents, we need to stop treating āconservatismā as just another legitimate ideological choice.Ā Itās not.Ā Itās a murder weapon metastasized to global proportions.
That this movement is a threat to Western values is transparent.Ā Todayās so-called āconservativesā are the enemy of equality, human rights and liberty (despite their protestations to the exact contrary).Ā They instead embody elitism, bigotry and repression.Ā They donāt stand for gay rights any more than they ever did for civil rights back in the day, or equal pay for equal work.Ā They worship power and its use to colonize others abroad while repressing dissent at home.Ā Five minutes at any given Trump rally last year would have made that clear enough.Ā But in case the message was somehow lost, one look at our fearless leader and his fawning relations with the likes of Putin, Erdogan and Duterte, combined with the shattering of the Western alliance with leaders like Angela Merkel and those of other (once-)allied democracies tells you all you need to know.
And no, itās not just one buffoon weāre talking about here.Ā While a number of right-wing pundits have ā to their partial credit ā repudiated Trumpism, there are loads of problems with that alibi for their movement.Ā First, a whole lot of other folks have not disowned the walking crime scene that is the Trump White House.Ā Second, these are pundits ā hardly a single Republican officeholder in Washington has found it ethically necessary to distance him or herself from the moral abyss DBA an orange-haired gorilla in a Brioni suit.Ā Most importantly, however, Trump is far less the historical aberration from the tendencies of the last four decades than he is the expression of its logical outcome.Ā The right has been trucking in racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, military aggression, environmental destruction and armed robbery of the 99 percent going back at least as far as William F. Buckley and Ronald (Jesusā Kid Brother) Reagan.Ā Methinks the ladies of the conservative intelligentsia (pardon the oxymoron) doth protest too much when they seek to distance themselves from an administration whose only difference from its Republican predecessors is the grotesque overtness of its toxicity.Ā (Especially when it doesnāt take a Svengali to see that this administration is going to jail, and that its place in history will make Nixon look like Abraham Lincoln by comparison.Ā It aināt too brave to want to make sure your name isnāt associated with that particular catastrophe.)
Speaking of the rest of the GOP, they are even more liable for the destruction of American democracy than is McDonalds Stump himself.Ā Democracies, of course, are built on such requisite features as constitutions, elections, fixed institutions with defined powers, and so on.Ā But underlying all of that is something of even greater importance, a political culture that forms the fabric and the foundation upon which any democracy must be built.Ā This foundation silently and implicitly stipulates the rules of the game and the boundaries of permissible behavior, and without it, there can be no functioning democracy.Ā It is defined by elements such as a shared national identity that supersedes partisanship, an understanding that certain principles must be protected ā even at the cost of oneās own political fortunes ā in order for the system to survive, and a basic level of trust such that one can hand over the keys of government to the other side without fearing that that new government will become a weapon used against the losers of an election, while at the same time believing that the next election will provide a genuine opportunity to return to power.Ā These are the least tangible aspects of what sustains a functioning democracy, but they are also the most crucial.Ā After all, you can have a formal written constitution or not, you can have a president or a prime minister, you can have two parties or many, you can have powerful states within a national government or not.Ā In all these profound ways the British system differs from the American one, but nobody would claim that the UK is therefore not a democracy.Ā What matters at the end of the day is the political culture of mutual respect and trust, the norms and the self-imposed restraints that form the fabric and foundation of a functioning democratic political culture.
And this is precisely what āconservativesā have not been conserving for forty years now, but rather instead destroying.Ā The necessity of preserving this crucial political culture is why impeaching a president for lying about a personal sexual relationship matters.Ā It is why five conservative members of the Supreme Court breaking all their own internal rules and supposed principles in order to install their guy in the White House matters.Ā Itās why using the countryās racial divide to win elections matters.Ā Itās why relentlessly employing the filibuster to block every item on the agenda of a president from the other party ā even those items that you supported yourself only yesterday ā matters.Ā And why it matters when you then alter filibuster rule when itās used in the same way against you.Ā This is why radical gerrymandering matters.Ā This is why targeted voter suppression of the other partyās base in order to prevail in elections you couldnāt otherwise win matters.Ā This is why refusing to act on a Supreme Court nomination for a year in order to get the nominee you want instead matters.Ā And its why falsely claiming elections are rigged matters.
I have nothing particularly nice to say about the feeble and ineffectual (on a good day) Democratic Party, and especially its last two presidents.Ā But all of the above examples of the undermining of American democracy in our time come from the Republican Party and the supposedly conservative folks who inhabit it.Ā For all the many failings of the Democrats, there is no equivalent to any one of these items on their side of the aisle, let alone an equivalent to all of them.Ā The upshot is that rather than conserving the Foundersā democratic system that conservatives are forever cynically clothing themselves in, they are in fact destroying it.Ā This is not death by a thousand cuts, but rather death by relentless saber slashes.
Conservatism is also death in a quite literal sense, as well.Ā Just ask the million or so Iraqis who perished because of the rightās war of choice justified by lies.Ā Er, oops, wait a secondā¦Ā Turns out you canāt ask them, because theyāre dead, killed by conservatives.Ā But you could ask the tens of thousands Americans who are alive today because of Obamacare ā which conservatives have fought relentlessly ā and who may be dead tomorrow if the GOP manages to kill what skimpy health care protections Americans now enjoy.Ā Or you can ask the workers who will be dying because the conservative movement is so determined to remove any sort of workplace safety regulations from providing them even modest protection.Ā Or those who whose lives will be sacrificed in order to destroy the (woefully) basic environmental standards that have been built up over the last half-century.Ā If you want to know what conservatism means for our environment and health, look no further than Flint, Michigan.Ā The story that nobody in the media bothers to tell about that insane catastrophe is why it happened.Ā The reason that āFlintā has now become shorthand for environmental meltdown and lethal governmental buffoonery is that conservatives in Michiganās government ā who fervently ābelieveā in local control, mind you ā passed legislation allowing the state to simply take over control of municipalities whenever it saw fit, despite the electoral choices of voters in those communities.Ā Thatās what the conservative Snyder administration then proceeded to do in Flint, and the rest is history.Ā By the way, their justification for doing so was that Flint was being mismanaged, so they ā wait for it, now ā had to come in and get it right.Ā You canāt make this shit up.Ā And if you did, you could never find anyone in Hollywood willing to make a movie out of it, on account of its absurdly ridiculous improbability.
āBy treating conservatism and conservatives as reasonable and acceptable we not only legitimize the unspeakable, we massively enhance its likelihood of successfully killing us.ā
But weāre not done yet.Ā Conservatism also means death to the truth.Ā Of course, when it comes to Herr Bloated Pumpkinhead and the current administration, the scale of dishonesty is absolutely epic.Ā It is literally no exaggeration to say that a consumer of any generic statement by this White House would be more likely to know the truth by simply assuming its opposite is the case, than he or she would by accepting any given tweet or Spicerism as fact.Ā No wonder Orwell is selling like hotcakes these days.Ā This is a true ā2+2=5ā³ moment, Winston.
Itās hardly surprising that a career New York City real estate developer who has spent a lifetime doing little but shameless self-promotion and fabricating scams running the gamut from bottled water to bottled diplomas would be unable to speak truthfully about nearly anything.Ā And of course, when we say āanythingā here, we meanā¦ anything.Ā Whatās somewhat astonishing and most definitely disturbing, however, is the reaction that his compulsive tendency to lie produces among the roughly forty percent of Americans who form his political base.Ā What has gone so wrong in the lives of these āconservativesā that they not only tolerate being lied to incessantly, but actually crave it?Ā This is not the place for an extended discussion of that question, but suffice it to say that conservatismās appeal among the public ā including many whom it harms the most ā cannot be understood outside the realm of political psychology.Ā One might view these ācomfortably numb-nutsā as the rightful inheritors of Americaās storied Know Nothing tradition, but in fact thatās too generous a label, since it turns out that it is actually possible in this world to know less than nothing if youāre willing to work hard enough at it.Ā When you believe that Iraq really had WMD, or that cutting taxes on billionaires will get you a sweet job, or that Donald Trump has your back, well then, graduating to the status of being a full-blown Know Nothing truly is something for which you are well-positioned to aspire.
This is where, alas, the Founders got it wrong, with their Enlightenment model of rationally calculating citizens.Ā A good hundred million plus Americans have literally lost their minds in our time and, in order to soothe the resentments torturing their savage souls, they are taking down the country around their heads as they descend into an emotionally satisfying madness.
Or, at least it used to be the country they are taking down.Ā Now itās the world.Ā With the presidentās destruction of the Paris climate change accord, American conservatism is now bringing it on a planetary scale.Ā Could this possibly be more jaw-dropping in its sheer stupidity?Ā We are talking here about a phenomenon that literally threatens life on this planet, and conservatives ā who are otherwise so consumed with fear so much of the time ā insist on rejecting slam-dunk scientific evidence and making sure that we perish instead.Ā Again, the pathological psychology of these folks is the only way to understand such a suicide mission, such an act of terrorism on a global scale.Ā The presidentās speech was entirely laced with the rhetoric of bogus grievance ā about how the United States is the laughing stock of the world because weāre being duped and cheated by smarter, tougher, more cynical countries, and blah, blah, freaking blahā¦Ā Apart from the sheer absurdity of this trope on the basis of any sort of actual logic or fact, there remains this outstanding question:Ā Even if it was all true, who the hell cares?Ā If the planet winds up being destroyed, does it really matter whether in the preceding years one countryās GDP grew a half-percent slower than that of some other countries?Ā Whatās that old line about deck chairsā¦?Ā Could there be any other accurate term for a belief system that so jeopardizes an entire planet than ādeath machineā?
We need to stop fooling around with this shit.Ā Smallpox is not just another disease.Ā Totalitarianism is not just another political system.Ā Nuclear war is not just another form of conflict.Ā And what calls itself āconservatismā today is not just another form of legitimate, maybe-theyāre-right-maybe-theyāre-wrong, ideology.
All of these are life-threatening pathologies of epic proportion.Ā Itās bad enough that we have to expend so much energy to keep them at bay.Ā But, by treating conservatism and conservatives as reasonable and acceptable we not only legitimize the unspeakable, we massively enhance its likelihood of successfully killing us.
Todayās āconservatismā is not an ideology ā itās a goddam death machine.Ā And we should welcome it into our homes and communities every bit as much as we would the Black Plague.
It’s not that difficult to understand: The Brits who voted for May are sheeple easily indoctrinated by the media, religion, that actually believe in the rancid smelly Royal parasites propaganda.
Those who voted for Corbyn are the only free thinkers of Britain.
You’re welcome.
Source: Britain’s Real Terror Apologists
sputniknews.com
June 11, 2017
Despite a vicious smear campaign to denigrate Britain’s Labour leader as a “terrorist sympathizer,” Jeremy Corbyn still pulled off an amazing achievement in the general election.
Hardly has a politician inĀ any Western state been so vilified withĀ character assassination, and yet he has proven toĀ be most popular Labour leader inĀ Britain sinceĀ the Second World War.
After weeks ofĀ trailing his Conservative rival Theresa May inĀ the polls, Corbyn’s socialist manifesto appealed toĀ a record number ofĀ voters ā closing the gap betweenĀ the parties toĀ only two percentage points behindĀ the Tories.
UK 2017 general election results
Official results
value, %
1
Conservatives (Con)
Theresa May
42,4
Ā
2
Labour (Lab)
Jeremy Corbyn
40
Ā
3
Liberal Democrats (LD)
Tim Farron
7,4
Ā
4
Scottish National Party (SNP)
Nicola Sturgeon
3
Ā
5
UK Independence Party (UKIP)
Paul Nuttall
1,8
Ā
6
Others
Ā
5,3
Ā
Seats won
318
12
Con
262
33
Lab
12
3
LD
35
19
SNP
0
1
UKIP
23
4
Others
326 seats required for a majority
This was inĀ spite ofĀ a concerted media campaign toĀ destroy Corbyn inĀ the eyes ofĀ the British public asĀ a “terrorist stooge.” The irony here is that the Conservative party is forming a governing coalition withĀ a little-known Northern Ireland party whose history is steeped inĀ British state terrorism. (More onĀ that inĀ a moment.)
For Corbyn, the election outcome was a stunning moral victory. For Prime Minister May it was a humiliating defeat. The Conservatives lost their overall majority inĀ the British parliament and now they have toĀ rely onĀ this reactionary fringe party fromĀ Northern Ireland toĀ form a government.May called the snap election because she thought her party would increase its majority and also because she calculated that Corbyn’s socialist direction ofĀ Labour would be wiped out. Many Blairite naysayers inĀ his own party thought so too.
The oppositeĀ happened. The British public largely rejected May and her neoliberal capitalist, pro-austerity, pro-NATO policies. They instead rallied behindĀ Corbyn. Granted, the Tories still won the election ā only narrowly ā butĀ the surge inĀ support forĀ Labour underĀ Corbyn means that he has galvanized a party that stands a strong chance ofĀ winning if another election is called. And that could be soon, perhaps inĀ the coming months owing May’s shaky ad hoc government collapsing.
Another riveting factor inĀ all this is that Corbyn’s success came amidĀ a torrential Tory and right-wing media campaign toĀ denigrate him asĀ a terrorist sympathizer. The propaganda onslaught was conducted forĀ months sinceĀ May called the election back inĀ April. And it grew toĀ a frenzy asĀ election day approached last Thursday, especially when the opinion polls showed Labour steadily whittling away the earlier Conservative support.The day beforeĀ the public went toĀ the polling booths, the Daily Mail ran the front page headline: “Apologist forĀ terror,” withĀ Jeremy Corbyn’s photo below. It looked likeĀ a “wanted poster” fromĀ the Wild West. The only thing missing was the subhead withĀ the words: “Wanted dead or alive.”
The scurrilous allegation pounded overĀ and overĀ by the largely pro-Conservative British media that Corbyn is “soft onĀ terrorism” stems fromĀ his otherwise principled history ofĀ campaigning onĀ international justice and peace.
Over his 35 years asĀ an MP, he has voiced consistent support forĀ Palestinian rights underĀ illegal Zionist occupation; he has supported Hezbollah resistance againstĀ Israeli and American aggression; and duringĀ the conflict inĀ Northern Ireland, Corbyn gave a voice toĀ Irish Republicans who were being assailed byĀ British military violence.Many other international causes could be mentioned, such asĀ Corbyn opposing British government weapons dealing withĀ the despotic Saudi regime which is propagating terrorism inĀ Syria, Iraq and Yemen.
He has also campaigned toĀ abandon nuclear weapons and is critical ofĀ NATO’s reckless expansion inĀ Europe, which have earned him the jingoistic pillorying byĀ the British establishment of “being soft onĀ Russia.”
Corbyn has never condoned terrorism. Rather he has always sought toĀ properly put it inĀ a wider context ofĀ other parties also, unaccountably, using terrorism and thus fueling conflict.
This brings us toĀ so-called Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) fromĀ Northern Ireland whose 10 MPs Theresa May’s Tories are now relying onĀ to form a government. This party was formed inĀ the early 1970s byĀ the firebrand Protestant preacher Ian Paisley. While Paisley mellowed inĀ later years beforeĀ his death inĀ 2014, he spent most ofĀ his career preaching vile hatred againstĀ Catholics and Irish Republicans, whom he saw asĀ a threat toĀ the political union betweenĀ Northern Ireland and the rest ofĀ Britain. In British-run Northern Ireland, it wasn’t acceptable toĀ have a democratic aspiration forĀ an independent Ireland. You were either a pro-British unionist or a “threat.” So much forĀ British democracy.Senior members ofĀ Paisley’s pro-British party played a crucial role inĀ smuggling massive caches ofĀ weapons intoĀ Northern Ireland duringĀ the 1980s toĀ illegally arm unionist paramilitaries. These paramilitaries went onĀ to murder hundreds ofĀ innocent people simply because they were Catholics, who tended toĀ be Republican. A favored tactic ofĀ these paramilitaries was toĀ storm intoĀ pubs and homes and indiscriminately mow people downĀ with assault rifles.
One notorious pro-British killer was Gusty Spence who belonged toĀ the Ulster Volunteer Force paramilitary. He later expressed remorse and deplored Ian Paisley, the DUP founder, asĀ the person who incited him toĀ murder innocent Catholics due toĀ his sectarian hate speech.
The paramilitary murder gangs were not just supported covertly byĀ members ofĀ the DUP. The British government ofĀ Margaret Thatcher ā Theresa May’s predecessor and political heroine ā orchestrated these same death squads inĀ a covert policy of “dirty war.”British military intelligence colluded withĀ the pro-unionist militants toĀ assassinate Republican politicians and ordinary Catholics alike inĀ a covert policy ofĀ state-sponsored terrorism. The objective was toĀ terrorize people inĀ submitting toĀ British rule overĀ Northern Ireland, rather thanĀ allowing the island country toĀ become united and independent.
The British government provided intelligence and cover forĀ the death squads and the unionist politicians had helped supply the AK-47 assault rifles and Browning handguns smuggled fromĀ Apartheid South Africa.
This secret dirty war policy ofĀ the British government and their unionist proxies inĀ Northern Ireland has been uncovered byĀ investigative journalists such asĀ Paul Larkin (see his groundbreaking book “A Very British Jihad: Collusion, Conspiracy and Cover-up inĀ Northern Ireland”); asĀ well asĀ human rights campaign groups likeĀ Belfast-based Relatives forĀ Justice and Pat Finucane Centre.
Ā© REUTERS/ Peter Nicholls
Not even the present government ofĀ Theresa May can deny this murderous legacy inĀ Ireland, although there is a determined silence now asĀ she fights forĀ her political survival inĀ the wake ofĀ the British election disaster.It is a proven fact that May’s Conservative party and the unionist politicians whom she is now partnering withĀ to govern Britain were complicit inĀ terrorism.
Northern Ireland has sinceĀ gained a peace settlement inĀ which unionist and republican politicians have been able toĀ work together toĀ form a local governing administration. The Irish peace process was possible partly because ofĀ the courageous and principled intervention byĀ British politicians likeĀ Jeremy Corbyn.
Corbyn has never apologized forĀ terrorism. He has sought toĀ overcome it byĀ making politics work. The same cannot be said forĀ Theresa May’s Conservative party. It was an accomplice and an apologist forĀ a covert policy ofĀ state-sponsored terrorism duringĀ Northern Ireland’s recent 30-year conflict.
The very party whom she is now allied withĀ for governing Britain ā the DUP ā were also apologists forĀ paramilitaries who routinely smashed their way intoĀ family homes and slaughtered victims inĀ cold blood inĀ front ofĀ their loved ones.
The ongoing muted policy ofĀ May’s government and her unionist proxies aboutĀ their murderous legacy inĀ Ireland is a testimony toĀ who the real apologists forĀ terror are.
The views expressed inĀ this article are solely those ofĀ the author and do not necessarily reflect the official position ofĀ Sputnik.
Baizou has basically become the go to word for Chinese social media users, who want to trash other people in online debates.
Daniel Lang
May 17th, 2017
After the last election, the far-left in our society became a laughing stock. The social justice warriors, the progressives, the regressive left; whatever you want to call them, they became a joke after Trump was elected. And it wasnāt because they lost the election. It was because of how they reacted to losing. We all witnessed what amounted to a nationwide temper tantrum on November 9th. And in the weeks that followed, it became apparent that these people arenāt just childish. They are freaking insane.
However, it may surprise you to learn that these people arenāt just a joke in America. They are the laughing stock of the world. They are looked down upon, even in countries where they donāt have a significant presence.
In China for instance, they have a word for these people. They are called ābaizuoā or the āwhite leftā on social media. Which is interesting, because even though China has its fair share of socialists and communists, they donāt have a direct equivalent to our liberal snowflakes. Most of the Chinese are still fiercely nationalistic and anti-immigrant, regardless of political affiliation. That country just doesnāt have a large population of politically correct, affluent liberals (presumably, they were all killed off during the Great Leap Forward). So what does this term mean to the average Chinese citizen?
It might not be an easy task to define the term, for as a social media buzzword and very often an instrument forĀ ad hominemĀ attack, it could mean different things for different people. A thread on āwhy well-educated elites in the west are seen as naĆÆve āwhite leftā in Chinaā on Zhihu, a question-and-answer website said to have a high percentage of active users who are professionals and intellectuals, might serve as a starting point.
The question has received more than 400 answers from Zhihu users, which include some of the most representative perceptions of the āwhite leftā. Although the emphasis varies,Ā baizuoĀ is used generally to describe those who āonly care about topics such as immigration, minorities, LGBT and the environmentā and āhave no sense of real problems in the real worldā; they are hypocritical humanitarians who advocate for peace and equality only to āsatisfy their own feeling of moral superiorityā; they are āobsessed with political correctnessā to the extent that they ātolerate backwards Islamic values for the sake of multiculturalismā; they believe in the welfare state that ābenefits only the idle and the free ridersā; they are the āignorant and arrogant westernersā who āpity the rest of the world and think they are savioursā.
Baizuo has basically become the go to word for Chinese social media users, who want to trash other people in online debates. Itās also frequently used to make light of what is viewed in China, as the inherent weakness of western democracies. So not only has the far-left made themselves into a joke, theyāre making everyone else who supports Western civilization look bad all around the world.
It just goes to show, the people who speak the loudest in society often become the face of that society, even if most sane people arenāt taking them seriously anymore.
It’s hopeless people! This explains TV, organized sports, religion, politics, and so much more!
Are you a Sheeple? Take the Sheeple Quiz and find out
Source: Are you a Sheeple? Take the Sheeple Quiz and find out – NaturalNews.com
With permission from
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
May 16, 2011
Have you herd about the Sheeple Quiz? Although most NaturalNews readers will easily beat it, it’s a fun quiz to find out how smart (or gullible) your friends really are. So let ’em take the Sheeple Quiz! And then you’ll know whether they’re independent thinkers or just zombie-minded sheeple like the rest of the flock.
Here’s the quiz. Choose “A” or “B” as the answer for each question, then check your score below.
The Sheeple Quiz
#1) The purpose of the mainstream media is to:
A) Keep you informed.
B) Feed you misinformation while keeping you distracted from the real issues our world is facing.
#2) Social Security is:
A) A financial safety net that makes sure people have a retirement income.
B) A government-run Ponzi scheme that requires more and more people to keep paying in just to stay afloat and will ultimately collapse into total bankruptcy.
#3) The fluoride dripped into municipal water supplies is:
A) A naturally-occurring mineral.
B) An industrial chemical waste byproduct.
#4) When you donate money to find the cure for cancer, that money goes:
A) To fund research programs that assess actual cancer cures for the purpose of freely sharing them with the public.
B) To fund mammogram campaigns that actually irradiate women’s breasts, causing the very cancers that earn huge profits for the cancer treatment industry.
#5) The national debt is:
A) Under control and will be paid off in a few years.
B) Out of control and will spiral into a runaway debt collapse.
#6) GMOs will:
A) Feed the world and prevent starvation.
B) Threaten the future of life on our planet through genetic contamination and widespread crop failures.
#7) The FDA protects:
A) The people from dangerous medicines.
B) The financial interests of the drug companies.
#8) The EPA’s real agenda is to:
A) Protect the environment.
B) Protect the financial interests of the chemical companies whose toxic products destroy the environment.
#9) The Federal Reserve functions to:
A) Stabilize the economy and keep America strong.
B) Loot the economy and control America’s economy for the interests of the few.
#10) The purpose of TSA checkpoints at airports is to:
A) Keep air passengers safe and secure.
B) Indoctrinate Americans into surrendering to police state invasions of their privacy.
#11) The practical function of the U.S. Supreme Court is to:
A) Protect the constitutional rights of the citizens.
B) Legitimize federal tyranny over the People by ignoring the Constitution and its Bill of Rights.
#12) Vaccines are based on:
A) Gold standard science that conclusively proves their safety and effectiveness.
B) Quackery and fraud combined with a persistent medical mythology that utterly lacks a factual basis.
#13) Herbs and superfoods:
A) Are medically useless and cannot treat, prevent or cure any disease.
B) Contain powerful plant-based medicines that can help reverse and prevent disease.
#14) In Libya, Afghanistan and Iraq, America:
A) Led a humanitarian effort to save innocent people from tyranny.
B) Waged an illegal imperialist war to occupy foreign nations and control their oil.
#15) The U.S. Bill of Rights
A) Grants you rights and freedoms.
B) Merely acknowledges the rights and freedoms you already possess.
Score your Sheeple Quiz
To score your Sheeple Quiz, simply count the number of times you answered “A” to the questions above.
If you answered “A” 10 times or more…
You are a total news-watching, gullible fairytale swallowing Sheeple! Be sure to keep taking those medications and watching more network news. Don’t bother thinking for yourself because you seem to be incapable of accomplishing that.
If you answered “A” fewer than 10 times…
You are sadly Sheeple-minded but there is hope for your rescue. Learn more about the world around you and train yourself to think critically so you can depart from the herd mentality.
If you answered “A” fewer than 5 times…
You are an unusually intelligent free-minded thinker who questions the world around you and doesn’t buy into the usual propaganda. You still got suckered on a few items, so there’s more yet to learn. But you’re on the right track!
If you answered “A” exactly zero times…
You are the complete opposite of a Sheeple. You’re independent minded, well informed and probably a regular reader of NaturalNews.com. Stay on track and question events in the world around you. Eat more superfoods to maintain your healthy immune system and cognitive function. Avoid the toxic chemicals in foods, medicines and lawn care products. Keep reading the alternative press and voice your intelligent views to others willing to listen. (But don’t waste your time on those who aren’t.)
Thank you for taking the Sheeple quiz here on NaturalNews.
Let me know what you think. I believe it’s astonishing. It was right under our eyes all this time. They don’t even hide it anymore.
This reinforces the theory that humans are being ruled and farmed by aliens which use our so-called leaders to do their bidding.
In this News Shot, Joe discusses accurate predictions Oliver Stone has made and his recent commentary on our current state of affairs.
Source: Video: Oliver Stone Unleashes on the Deep State and Mockingbird Puppets | The Daily Sheeple
April 21, 2017
Academy Award-winning director Oliver Stone has been expressing his disappointment with President Trump and disgust for The Deep State (and Americaās willful ignorance) on social media.
In this News Shot, Joe discusses accurate predictions Stone has made and his recent commentary on our current state of affairs.
Tales from the Conspiratum 