A critical review of local and world news. This blog originally commented on the Moncton Times and Transcript but has enlarged its scope.
Friday, January 28, 2022
The Gates iof Hell
Just a couple of themes to understand.
Our newspapers are liars. They always have been since their origin in the late 19th century. The earliest newspapers were, as they had to be, created by rich people. So they were used by the very wealthy as propaganda to benefit them.Notable was the British coverage of a British attack on Germany in the late 1920s. This was before Hitler. The British army invaded Germany and plundered it into poverty. (Indeed, that is what gave an unkown Hitler his opening.) There was no excuse for what the British did. And that attack is what brought an obscure Hitler to power. Really. World War Two was created by the British.
In the U.S, the greatest creator of lying newspapers was Randolph Hearst.
All of this also went on in Canada where the current butcher of news is the Irving family of New Brunswick that makes it's money out of oil and out of stealing money from the public purse. They own all the news media in New Brunswick. And, oh, they are liars. I think it safe to say that New Brunswickers are the worst informed people of all Canada.
Honest journalists get fired. That's why we've seen such a rise of web sites dedicated to honest reporting. And typically operated by honest journalists who got fired for being honest
Just before 1900 Canadian troops went to fight for the British side in the Boer War in South Africa.
Why?
This was a British war against a very inferior enemy. Britain didn't need Canadian help. (Indeed, the Canadians spent much of their time as baby sitters.) But Britain was setting up Canada for the war in Europe that it knew was coming. It wanted the whole empire in on this one.
Another sample of news as propaganda? The U.S. and Canadian news media got all excited over the evils of Afghanistan. (What evils) So we sent troops there for 14 years. What the hell did that do for us ? And our press wet it pants with excitement when the bodies of the dead came back. But they never did tell what we did - the mass murder of civilians, of children, of babies in a war that had nothing to do with us. I can't recall a single example of any of our news media mentioning that.
Oh, our papers went wild with the story of a Chinese tennis player who, it was said, was raped by a Chinese government official. But in all these years, I have not seen the sordid story of Canadian (and American) rapists, huge numbers of them - and including, in Canada's case, several generals and an admiral. What we get isn't news. it's propaganda. The Canadian and American armies are both notable for their rapes of Canadian and American military women.
I shall always remember a war (against Guatemala). This was a very Christian country. The U.S. used the CIA to mass murder priests, nuns, missionaries. Our news media never mentioned it. One of the victims was a Canadian missionary from the same town as New Brunswick's Irving family. No Canadian paper ever mentioned that.After many years, the missionary's body was discovered.
And nobody said a word. (And I almost got fired from my half hour radio spot for mentioning it.) Years after his death, his body was brought to Canada and buried in the Catholic church cemetery just walking distance from the Irving church. But the Irvings, of course, have never given a damn, and their news media never carried the story. Nor have American news media ever told the story of the mass murder in Guatemala that murdered thousands priest, nuns and missionaries.
Our news media are, almost all of them, liars. The only exceptions are the ones operated by journalists who write on the web - like this. Don't waste your time reading (or listening to) our commercial news media.
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The U.S. may well be headed for a very big crash. In 1945, the U.S. was planning to conquer the whole world. But that didn't last long. Since then, the U.S. has been in steady decline. It has also been confused. It is now on the edge of collapse. It is plagued by internal differences.
Watch for a hell of a lot more violence. And a war in China? for a start, the war on China will be a war to destroy China - nothing else. But China now has nuclear power of it's own. And some of it is quite superior to the American equivalent. We cannot bomb China without getting bombed back.
MMean
The U.S. itself is heading for one hell of a crash because of it's horrible treatment of it's own people. A split of the U.S. is quite possible - almost certain.
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