Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
Presstitute is a contraction of press prostitute. It is a term that has come into widespread use to describe the media’s service in behalf of the narratives of the corrupt Western ruling Establishment. That the presstitutes serve the material and political interests of their Establishment owners is completely obvious. But the media did not give up its integrity for material interests alone. The media have become acolytes to the religious ideology of “social justice.“
In the Winter 2021 issue of the Manhatten Institute’s City Journal, Martin Gurri explains that the media have abandoned all pretense of objective reporting, because the media, or enough of it, believe that objectivity upholds systemic racism and defeats social justice.
The ideology of systemic racism is institutionalized in the US educational system and in the NY Times “1619 Project.” (See: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2021/02/22/the-demonization-of-white-americans-is-official-educational-corporate-and-government-policy/) This ideology comprises the mind-set of the woke generation and accounts for the media’s disregard of facts and intolerance of other views. According to the ideology, as white people are systemic racists, social justice can only be obtained by overthrowing whiteness. This overthrow is now the purpose of the media.
Gurri points out that newspaper owners and editors bought into this as a business model to sell a creed and an agenda to like-minded online subscribers. The liberal/progressive/left can conveniently go online to get their hate fix for the day. This tells you all you need to know about the NY Times’ subscribers.
Trump’s election in 2016 was a boon for the launch of the new post-journalism. During Trump’s four years the NY Times digital subscriptions increased by 600%. Gurri writes that the intent of ideological journalism is not to report factual reality and inform the public, but to foment and justify hatred of the enemy.
Russiagate provided the narrative. Gurri reports that a Google search turned up 3,000 NY Times Russiagate articles—multiple articles per day–during Trump’s four years. “This was journalism as if conducted under the impulse of an obsessive-compulsive personality. Virtually every report either implied or proclaimed culpability. Every day in the news marked the beginnings of the Trumpian End Times.” The NY Times organized its newsroom in behalf of a single story that turned out to be empty. Under the rules of real journalism, the NY Times experienced the embarrassment of massive failure, but under the new rules the NY Times was wildly successful in fomenting hate and establishing the narrative.
Fomenting hate is now what the media does—all of it: not only the NY Times but also CNN, NPR, MSNBC, Washington Post, and the rest. All of the hate targets are still around—Trump, whiteness, Russia, Iran, China—and are likely to be for some time. If these targets wear out and fail to bring in digital subscriptions, what woke infraction will bring forth the new target?
Meanwhile post-journalism’s targeting of Trump and Trump supporters will eventually radicalize white people and further divide the country. The demonizations of Russia, Iran, and China will lead to war and humiliating defeat for America. The dollar will lose its world currency role, and the US will be unable to pay its bills.
Those of us who can see it coming will be silenced for unapproved speech while our country goes to hell.
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Speaking of social justice; we should have a “white people stay home month”, and see how the country fares. That would certainly pass out some justice.
Most of those driving this insanity are white.
Being Truly ‘Woke.’
woke
/wōk/
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verb
past of wake
adjectiveINFORMAL•US
alert to injustice in society, especially racism.
“we need to stay angry, and stay woke”
Let’s get one thing straight, so called ‘woke’ culture is not an awakening to a higher level of consciousness. It is the formalization of a deep seated anger and hatred toward civil society particularly any aspect of culture associated with the white race. We know that ‘systemic’ racism is a false bugaboo that is being used by the left wing of the establishment to destroy civil society. If systemic racism existed in America then Barack Obama could never have been elected President. Yes, vestiges of the old racism remain but they are small compared to what they used to be. What ‘systemic racism’ really means is the weaponization of victimhood as a way to achieve political, social and economic ends. Most of my friends of African-American descent have not bought into the ‘Woke’ movement. Interestingly a good chunk of the ‘woke’ movement is comprised of white kids. ‘Higher education’ has managed to instill in them a sense of guilt and self loathing.
“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it’s yours.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Let me tell you what being ‘Woke’ is all about. A whole generation of Americans woke up to injustice following the events of November 22, 1963 when our beloved President was Assassinated in Dallas Texas. That tragic blow awakened my generation and led us to question the hand me down assumptions of the establishment. We have been questioning those assumptions ever since for the Assassination of the President awakened within us the ability to think for ourselves and question the official narrative of the establishment and the corporate media. The failed and ridiculously flawed ‘Warren’ report only threw gas on the deception and ignited a raging fire of distrust for authority within our souls. From 9-11-2001 to 1-6, 2021 we can smell a rotten egg from a mile away. We now know that the ghost of democracy sleeps with the fishes. This distrust for authority is well founded when we now look back on the Assassinations of Dr. King and RFK as well as the loss of our treasure in an unnecessary war in Southeast Asia. These state sponsored events only reinforced our distrust. President Kennedy’s commencement address at American University in June of 1963 should be read by every American and highlights not only why he was killed but also the hope and promise that we lost on that beautiful November day in Dallas.
“I have, therefore, chosen this time and this place to discuss a topic on which ignorance too often abounds and the truth is too rarely perceived–yet it is the most important topic on earth: world peace. What kind of peace do I mean? What kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children–not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women–not merely peace in our time but peace for all time.”
-JFK Commencement Address at American University, June of 1963
What we lost on that day is beyond words. A piece of us died with President Kennedy. We have never been the same. You want ‘woke’ culture? Well then, wake up for real as we did that sad November day.
Unpossible
If we can dream it…we can do it. Kennedy was presenting us with the idea that we can do better and surely we can.
Only if you believe in Heaven.
The Kingdom of heaven is within.
Yes, the Kingdom is internal (“within you”). It is also external, historical, earthly, and eternal. There is no contradiction here. The kingdom of God is wherever God reigns … or, everywhere and at all times.
At least that’s what I think the Bible teaches. I could be wrong ….
I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Do you list them in chronological order?
“At least that’s what I think the Bible teaches. I could be wrong….”
Up until my dad took ill with a cancer, I lived a life of rebellion and debauchery….all while ‘knowing’ my ticket to sin had already been paid. Tramplin’ under foot the blood of the covenant, so to speak (and yet I learned somewhat of a deeper meaning to that just a couple days ago)
What a FOOL I was.
When he was put to dirt, I started in on my Bible (which was a KJV given to me some 30 yrs earlier, still yet to be opened). I listened/read men who have studied the Word for longer than I will be alive….gleaning what I felt rang true-like the sound of a twelve lb. sledge on a wedge.
And what held the purest ring were the little ‘g’ gods, and the genetic tampering with Big G’s creation…a Divine Council that sought their own……..crazy schitt I never heard from my Lutheran preachers….
What a FOOL I am?
annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum <<—-====
Even as I type this to a Templar Avatar…lol
Your journey to faith is a short, but wonderful, read.
Thanks, Stucky…but I was born into ‘faith’, it was answers that I was lookin for.
How could a loving God deny one of his servants a few short years with his only grandchild? But allow him the chance to slowly die while the first months of life began in front of his hungry eyes? (I’ve had the ‘opportunity’ to attend a young mother’s funeral, and watch her six month old baby she named Grace, grow up)
I remember my dad stopping to pickup up a hitchhiker-a smelly old man that sat right next to me in the back seat. Turned out he was an area resident whose truck had broken down a mile or so off the highway.
The thing that stuck with me was my mother’s attitude towards it, and my dad’s response that shut down further talk….”you’ve got to give a man a chance to show his colors, Mother !”
annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum <—-====
And the fact that it is internal is our saving grace. It is not a place. It is a state of heart and mind available to all people regardless of race, color or creed.
Keep on keepin on my friend.
Huh! More “water is wet” observations from PCR.
are you being insouciant?
Does Interessengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie AG make a dessicant?
Why yes, yes it does. I hope Llpoh isn’t around, I don’t want him accusing me of calling him Hitler…
I think you can trace Monsanto technology to Germany, but haven’t tried. Do you realize we brought 1500 German scientists who worked for Hitler in the camps to this country to do research for the US government?
Of course you do. Because we wanted to do it too.
IG Farben/Bayer/Rockefellar connection. If we dug deep enough, I’m sure Monsanto is connected in there, too.
THIS LESSON OF HISTORY CANNOT BE FORGOTTEN
I’m well aware of the German scientists brought over here after the war. Monsanto is an evil entity despite what Llpoh wants to claim, and the Bayer/Monsanto merger is an example of history repeating….
It was Bayer, together with two other chemical giants, BASF and Hoechst, which developed the terrible chlorine gas used in World War I. In 1925, the three formed a giant cartel, IG Farben, which became the world’s leader in pharmaceuticals, dyes, and chemicals.
Operation Paperclip, for those who may not know:
https://www.operationpaperclip.info/
Operation Trust:
https://www.sgtreport.com/2021/01/q-anon-bears-striking-resemblance-to-bolshevik-psy-op-from-1920s-known-as-operation-trust/
annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum <—-===== rings within rings within rings
OK, great.
Time to order some, because when it rains, it pours, and baby, it’s raining buckets – so much so that the foundations of the West are rotted.
Our patience has its limits. One day, we’ll rebuild that levee and stop the dirty, filthy water!
Silly, you don’t have to buy dessicant, you can make your own…
Russia!
Russia!!
Russia!!!
Russia!!!!!!!!!
Our biggest enemy EVAH!!!
I keep coming back to stories from the kulaks too.
No one was allowed to discuss the F-word (famine.)
Here, no one is allowed to discuss Dementia.
Yikes.
I did not catch that.
Did you catch my oblique reference below or did you miss that as well?
It’s kind of a double entendre wrapped in a metaphor – like marzipan with a crunchy nougat.
I’m talking Russia 1929 to 1932, perhaps twelve years later.
Like NOW is twelve years post 9-11 and the Patriot Act.
I just realized that you’re Maggie, unless I’m mistaken. Am I?
I did not catch that difference at first. Thanks for clarifying.
Kid, my comments are like butter – better when clarified.
Now show us those gams for good measure.
That isn’t what he’s saying. He’s pointing out what was done to Russia Russia Russia and the parallels to what is happening right in front of our faces.
Yes, I understand that now.
I really must stop drinking so early in the morning.
Russia?
Um, I daresay he’s talking about the Bolsheviks and Lenin and how they took over and destroyed a nation. I also daresay he’s pointing out the parallels between the Bolsheviks and the Great New American Woke Cancel Culture and Glorious Police State it has spawned.
Comrade: You will love your new masters and the new and Grand USSA! Or else…..
Journalism? Is that the new code word for propaganda? This is racist….not sure how or why but hey, it has to go…
This one too!
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