It is standard practice in all western nations to have "secret police" personnel present in all major national news organisations; it was set up like that during the WW2 so that newspapers, radio and the TV-industry to come would be suited to propaganda, to create a cohesive messaging-apparatus and to fight off defeatism and attempts at splintering unity around issues relating to the war.
It really isn't a secret either, it's just not spoken about.
The publicly stated reason when or if such personnel is exposed is usually that massmedia must be in line governement policy in an emergency so that the state can utilise the media network to reach people with critical information.
After the Cold War, it is quite natural that this wold instead come to be utilised the way we've been seeing it since ca 1995.
I only know of it as the US propaganda broadcaster during the Cold War, I'm afraid. either it was off the air here or our state radio crowded it out - private broadcasting was illegal until the late 1980s/early 1990s.
It was broadcast here in the late 1940s and 1950s but that's before my time.
That's how I know it as well. It was known propaganda passed off under the guise of helping the poor Europeans and Russians understand how they would be better off if they overthrew their "dictators". But that was not as overt as actually going in and bombing the dictator and, consequently the whole infrastructure of a country out of existence. It was a kinder, gentler time????
I don't mean propaganda as a pejorative - naturally, during a conflict, all information becomes propaganda and should be viewed as such.
Since we sat smack bang inbetween the US/USSR power-spheres and were split down the middle internally, /and/ had our corporate, union and party owned media on top of the state media, it comes naturally to my generation to view all media somewhat sceptically.
Our elders, not so much and the youngers not much too - the young instead views media as just another sales pitch for something or other.
I like getting your take on these things. Of course, I knew about where Sweden is located, close to USSR, but I didn't think about how that affected everything.
The Voice of America is still at it. I do mean propaganda as a pejorative in this case.
I retired from Los Alamos National Lab. I was a tech there from '75 to '94. I got a "cold warrior" pin recently that I can wear. hahahahha.
Oh, okay. Well the American people never greenlit this AND it is against the foundational legal tenets of our government. That's all. We don't need a secret police. We don't want a secret police. We shall abolish our secret police. F**k the secret police.
Heck, the IC practically runs the mainstream media. I guess the good news is that they're not very good at it - they're going broke as millions of viewers and subscribers abandon them.
I used to think the media was the propaganda arm of the DNC, but now I think the DNC might be the political arm of the media (and the people who actually run it).
The DNC work for the vast unelected Blob inside the Beltway. Their job is to act as gatekeepers to make sure that no independent candidate gets into office.
I think the actual authority originates in corporate boardrooms (or more specifically, the central reserve banks), and that they wield power over ordinary Americans through the vast, unelected regulatory and law enforcement bureaucracy in DC (and state capitols). The IC is their "operations" arm, and the media is its propaganda arm. That puts the media near the bottom of the heirarchy chart. Just my observations . . . which are subject to revision without notice.
This is NOT the way it should be. Someone needs to file a criminal complaint against these agencies for overreach and unprofessional tampering. I would do it, but I don't know how. So I will ask my US Senators.
SC - "In other weekend news... And in the least shocking news this week" The nature of the stories, and your segue's... I am somehow pleasantly reminded of this... https://youtu.be/BjRqj_STFFM?
"Biden wants people to know most of the money he's seeking for Ukraine would be spent in the US." It seems most of the money I'm making anymore goes to China...
What he means is the US defense contractors will be paid with your money to manufacture weapons and ammunition, which will then be given to Ukraine for free. Who benefits? I think we can figure that out.
it seems they're not out to win a war, they just want forever-war (steady return on investments). whatever happened to the activism embedded in the famous 1960s slogan 'Make Love Not War'....
Ukraine has signed over 1/3 of its farmland (the best in the world) to subsidiaries of Blackrock as security for the money.
And the money Ukraine gets from the US and the EU goes to /buying/ the weapons from the US manufacturers.
In return, all the contracts for the eventual rebuilding are in the hands of US contractors, this was a condition for the US sending any "aid" in the first place.
Blackrock and others in there sphere gets richer, you get poorer (well, I should say we, my governement is also part of it) and the russians and ukrainians get to kill hundreds of thousands of each other.
You can see that the woman "interviewing" O'Leary is impenetrable. You are not getting any points that don't suit her narrative through that skull.
From comments I've received from Europeans in response to my comments about my experiences in Russia, I have an idea they may not be up to date on what our cities look like here now.
Seeing the beggars stationed all over Santa Fe, Espanola, and, I assume, Albuquerque is disheartening. Add that to the more or less continual gray skies when they were once blue and sunny, and you have a fairly depressing scenario. That's part of the reason why Tucker Carlson's visits showing normal city life in Moscow looked pretty good and similar to what we experienced 12 years ago. Too much cold and snow though.
Albuquerque looks far, far worse than at any other point in my nearly 35 years here. There are homeless absolutely everywhere. It's insane. Parts of town used to be nicknamed "The War Zone" (due to the gang violence activity) and now those parts of town actually *look* like one. The big main Wal-Mart that's been at roughly Zuni / Central and San Mateo ever since I moved here (at one location, and then another they purpose built just across the street) *closed* due to the amount of theft, hassle, and grief they were getting. The Walgreens a block down, at actual Central and San Mateo is *also* closing.
I had a small victory at the legislature. The so-called seed clouding bill did NOT pass after all. Yay. They'll revisit it next session if there's anything left of NM - hyperbole here.
If they stop the spraying altogether, Dane Wigington predicts the stored heat and dehydration will REALLY heat things up at least for a while. He thinks earth will heal itself if left to it. We saw the excess heat last summer when our monsoons were shifted from July and August to May and then later to late Sept. Maybe it's all just an illusion.ha.
The NZ data shows that in the month November 2023, mortality data shows 5x vaccinated accounted for about 30% of the deceased. It seems to me that 30% of NZ population having 5x vaccinations is too high a percentage. These 5x mortality data could be a huge signal on vaccine related mortality.
VOTERS ARE DANGEROUS FOR DEMOCRACY! I saw a video where talking heads on TV spouted off the same opinion, so I guess it must have gone out in the talking points.
Wow, that Kevin O'Leary one... I can't stand to watch many of these all the way through, but that was fucking brutal. Even the CNN anchor couldn't rouse herself to put up much of a defense.
Must read, imo.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/02/24/the_five_most_important_political_figures_of_the_2024_campaign_150553.html
It's getting hard not to start jumping for joy!
https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2024/02/23/argentina-milei-introduce-bill-jailing-anyone-who-orders-central-bank-print-money-cover-deficit/
They "confiscated" Catherine Herridge's entire files?
Wait...what?
Yup.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4481433-cbs-faces-uproar-after-seizing-investigative-journalists-files/
Anywho,
https://issuesinsights.com/2024/02/23/weve-reached-the-tipping-with-trump/
Mark Hamill?!
Were humble I your reluctant editor, I would say, watch it here. You're in danger of "digging too deep".
Mark Hamill responding to Tristan Snell.....so like a two-fer.
Oh, yeah! I dint notice that!
Edit: Good thing I am not your editor...
There was a time when I liked Mark Hamill but he has been ruined by TDS and Twitter. It's exposed him as the shitlib he always was.
I want to show you this.
https://publicintegrity.org/accountability/memo-suggests-fbi-had-mole-inside-abc-news-in-1990s/
It is standard practice in all western nations to have "secret police" personnel present in all major national news organisations; it was set up like that during the WW2 so that newspapers, radio and the TV-industry to come would be suited to propaganda, to create a cohesive messaging-apparatus and to fight off defeatism and attempts at splintering unity around issues relating to the war.
It really isn't a secret either, it's just not spoken about.
The publicly stated reason when or if such personnel is exposed is usually that massmedia must be in line governement policy in an emergency so that the state can utilise the media network to reach people with critical information.
After the Cold War, it is quite natural that this wold instead come to be utilised the way we've been seeing it since ca 1995.
It's sad but that's the way the game is played.
I''m curious, Rikard, if you ever heard Voice of America in Sweden. What did you make of it if you did?
I only know of it as the US propaganda broadcaster during the Cold War, I'm afraid. either it was off the air here or our state radio crowded it out - private broadcasting was illegal until the late 1980s/early 1990s.
It was broadcast here in the late 1940s and 1950s but that's before my time.
That's how I know it as well. It was known propaganda passed off under the guise of helping the poor Europeans and Russians understand how they would be better off if they overthrew their "dictators". But that was not as overt as actually going in and bombing the dictator and, consequently the whole infrastructure of a country out of existence. It was a kinder, gentler time????
I'm in a bummed out mode today.
I don't mean propaganda as a pejorative - naturally, during a conflict, all information becomes propaganda and should be viewed as such.
Since we sat smack bang inbetween the US/USSR power-spheres and were split down the middle internally, /and/ had our corporate, union and party owned media on top of the state media, it comes naturally to my generation to view all media somewhat sceptically.
Our elders, not so much and the youngers not much too - the young instead views media as just another sales pitch for something or other.
I like getting your take on these things. Of course, I knew about where Sweden is located, close to USSR, but I didn't think about how that affected everything.
The Voice of America is still at it. I do mean propaganda as a pejorative in this case.
I retired from Los Alamos National Lab. I was a tech there from '75 to '94. I got a "cold warrior" pin recently that I can wear. hahahahha.
Oh, okay. Well the American people never greenlit this AND it is against the foundational legal tenets of our government. That's all. We don't need a secret police. We don't want a secret police. We shall abolish our secret police. F**k the secret police.
I hear you. And I agree.
Abolish the secret police.
Interesting link, Sheila.
After the past 4 years, it's hard to doubt that the Deep State has its clutches deep into ABC, CBS, and NBC News.
Heck, the IC practically runs the mainstream media. I guess the good news is that they're not very good at it - they're going broke as millions of viewers and subscribers abandon them.
I used to think the media was the propaganda arm of the DNC, but now I think the DNC might be the political arm of the media (and the people who actually run it).
The DNC work for the vast unelected Blob inside the Beltway. Their job is to act as gatekeepers to make sure that no independent candidate gets into office.
I think the actual authority originates in corporate boardrooms (or more specifically, the central reserve banks), and that they wield power over ordinary Americans through the vast, unelected regulatory and law enforcement bureaucracy in DC (and state capitols). The IC is their "operations" arm, and the media is its propaganda arm. That puts the media near the bottom of the heirarchy chart. Just my observations . . . which are subject to revision without notice.
Now the FBI runs the newsroom :/
This is NOT the way it should be. Someone needs to file a criminal complaint against these agencies for overreach and unprofessional tampering. I would do it, but I don't know how. So I will ask my US Senators.
LOL. Actually doing anything at all is better than doing nothing.
SC - "In other weekend news... And in the least shocking news this week" The nature of the stories, and your segue's... I am somehow pleasantly reminded of this... https://youtu.be/BjRqj_STFFM?
I remember that! When SNL was good instead of just another tool.
"Biden wants people to know most of the money he's seeking for Ukraine would be spent in the US." It seems most of the money I'm making anymore goes to China...
What he means is the US defense contractors will be paid with your money to manufacture weapons and ammunition, which will then be given to Ukraine for free. Who benefits? I think we can figure that out.
it seems they're not out to win a war, they just want forever-war (steady return on investments). whatever happened to the activism embedded in the famous 1960s slogan 'Make Love Not War'....
Not for free, though.
Ukraine has signed over 1/3 of its farmland (the best in the world) to subsidiaries of Blackrock as security for the money.
And the money Ukraine gets from the US and the EU goes to /buying/ the weapons from the US manufacturers.
In return, all the contracts for the eventual rebuilding are in the hands of US contractors, this was a condition for the US sending any "aid" in the first place.
Blackrock and others in there sphere gets richer, you get poorer (well, I should say we, my governement is also part of it) and the russians and ukrainians get to kill hundreds of thousands of each other.
Global corporate capitalism, same as it ever was.
Remember that?
Me neither.
Great title for your first book.
“That’s it… just let it out…”
Sweet, suffering Jesus… where do I start?
You can see that the woman "interviewing" O'Leary is impenetrable. You are not getting any points that don't suit her narrative through that skull.
From comments I've received from Europeans in response to my comments about my experiences in Russia, I have an idea they may not be up to date on what our cities look like here now.
Seeing the beggars stationed all over Santa Fe, Espanola, and, I assume, Albuquerque is disheartening. Add that to the more or less continual gray skies when they were once blue and sunny, and you have a fairly depressing scenario. That's part of the reason why Tucker Carlson's visits showing normal city life in Moscow looked pretty good and similar to what we experienced 12 years ago. Too much cold and snow though.
Albuquerque looks far, far worse than at any other point in my nearly 35 years here. There are homeless absolutely everywhere. It's insane. Parts of town used to be nicknamed "The War Zone" (due to the gang violence activity) and now those parts of town actually *look* like one. The big main Wal-Mart that's been at roughly Zuni / Central and San Mateo ever since I moved here (at one location, and then another they purpose built just across the street) *closed* due to the amount of theft, hassle, and grief they were getting. The Walgreens a block down, at actual Central and San Mateo is *also* closing.
All of this is just sad.
I had a small victory at the legislature. The so-called seed clouding bill did NOT pass after all. Yay. They'll revisit it next session if there's anything left of NM - hyperbole here.
If they stop the spraying altogether, Dane Wigington predicts the stored heat and dehydration will REALLY heat things up at least for a while. He thinks earth will heal itself if left to it. We saw the excess heat last summer when our monsoons were shifted from July and August to May and then later to late Sept. Maybe it's all just an illusion.ha.
Yes. That CNN "interviewer" is dumb as a rock. Hard to believe she's a law school grad. Must have gone to DEI-comptomised Harvard. Lol.
Murder Assisted by Insane "Doctors"
Check out the first chart in Steve Kirsch's post https://kirschsubstack.com/p/new-zealand-oia-request-reveals-the
The NZ data shows that in the month November 2023, mortality data shows 5x vaccinated accounted for about 30% of the deceased. It seems to me that 30% of NZ population having 5x vaccinations is too high a percentage. These 5x mortality data could be a huge signal on vaccine related mortality.
"Chaos," the man says?
Here's some more!
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4480690-a-no-labels-unity-ticket-could-be-catastrophic-for-american-democracy/
VOTERS ARE DANGEROUS FOR DEMOCRACY! I saw a video where talking heads on TV spouted off the same opinion, so I guess it must have gone out in the talking points.
...."OUR" democracy.
Independents are independent extremists now.
Man... you're not wrong, but you are not enhancing my calm.
*opens another beer*
Wow, that Kevin O'Leary one... I can't stand to watch many of these all the way through, but that was fucking brutal. Even the CNN anchor couldn't rouse herself to put up much of a defense.
> "These findings are reassuring because they didn't find anything else."
Holy fuckballs, I literally cannot imagine what it's like inside the brain of that NPC fuck-pumpkin.
"NPC fuck-pumpkin." 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Thanks for that laugh! I always need a good laugh.
It's reassuring because it's just the stuff they didn't tell you about originally! Whew!