Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
The English language Russian media organizations, RT and Sputnik, and the new online and I think print newspaper, The Epoch Times, provide news and information that never appear on CNN, MSNBC, over NPR, or in the New York Times, but their reporting could be much better.
The problem for RT, Sputnik, and Epoch Times is the power of the official narratives. The official narratives are so ingrained that it is difficult to communicate outside them. Moreover, many of the editors and journalists for these alternative media organizations are hesitant to step too far outside the narrative as they exist under Washington’s threat of being closed down. Additionally, it is difficult even for alternative journalists to get their minds outside the box and present entirely different narratives.
As an example consider the October 29, 2021 report in RT that the US “intelligence community,” an oxymoron, has concluded that Covid-19 is neither genetically engineered or a bioweapon, but may change its mind if China doesn’t open its laboratories to US “intelligence.”
https://www.rt.com/news/538901-us-intel-china-covid-warning/
RT has performed the service of showing that Washington’s “intelligence report” serves the function of providing another threat to China in addition to putting Taiwan in the UN and sending US Navy ships through waters claimed by China. However, the RT report fails by not challenging the intelligence community’s conclusion.
Released NIH grant documents show clearly that the US through Fauci at NIH was funding gain-of-function research at the University of North Carolina. Many experts consider gain-of-function research, which is research to increase the ability of a virus to spread, to be bioweapon research. When controversy arose, Fauci switched the funding to the Chinese lab in Wuhan. This is not a conspiracy theory. This is what the official documents show. Senator Rand Paul has tried to make an issue of it, but the presstitutes do not cooperate and neither do the Republicans. https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2021/10/31/should-fauci-face-the-death-penalty/
Republicans refuse to make this an issue, just as they refuse to make issues of President Kennedy’s assassination, 9/11, the invasions of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and intended invasion of Syria, because to point a finger at the US government offends their sense of patriotism. As Donald Trump blamed China for Covid and as Trump supporters, the backbone of the Republican Party, call Covid the Chinese Communist Party disease, Republicans are locked into the narrative. Generally speaking, Americans are always more comfortable pointing their finger abroad.
But RT isn’t locked into the narrative and could have exposed the false “US intelligence community” report on the basis of the NIH grant documents that are in the public record. But RT did not. Perhaps it was too much work, or perhaps RT feared Washington’s response. RT has already been forced to register as a “foreign agent,” and has to worry about being closed by Washington. A free press is not something that any Western government any longer looks on with favor. If you doubt this statement, just look at Julian Assange’s treatment. https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2021/11/02/if-they-destroy-the-free-press-they-destroy-the-world-roger-waters-says-after-uk-court-adjourns-to-rule-on-assange-extradition/
When I read alternative media I almost always see elements of official narratives, such as the official numbers of Covid cases and deaths, accepted and woven into the story as true. The influence of those controlling the narratives extends into the alternative media. Few want to be pilloried and discredited as kooks, conspiracy theorists, racist, anti-semite, domestic terrorist, Holocaust denier, anti-vaxxers, and other epithets that daily grow in numbers.
Too few Americans have caught on that an explanation dismissed with an epithet is likely a true explanation. People whose minds are governed by controlled explanations are people who live in The Matrix. And that is where our rulers intend to keep us.
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The junta is running the government, but who’s running the junta?
Think Rothschild!
Well, that’s the problem , the media is just part of the corrupt D.C. cesspool. Big tech runs interference by censoring any opinion that don’t want discussed under the guise of disinformation. If it weren’t for ‘alternative’ internet sites we all would be fed the mainstream propaganda.
At the moment, my wife is fighting with an old classmate on social media. Very obvious the guy gets his’ facts’ from CNN/MSNBC etc. Clueless bastard why she wastes her time fighting with this brainwashed idiot is beyond me.
BTW the guy ‘immigrated’ here from Germany misses their caring social system.. “Trump was so mean”, blah blah blah
Don’t forget the “Fact checkers”.
Arguing with an idiot is like giving medicine to the dead.
… or casting pearls before swine.
My interest in this particular topic began while I was still doing stand-up. Every single day I would scour the news looking for material for jokes. I remember clearly when I read this story and what my first thoughts were-
https://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/08/us/alaskan-victim-of-1918-flu-yields-sample-of-killer-virus.html#:~:text=Researchers%20at%20the%20Armed%20Forces,genetic%20material%20from%20the%20flu.
Okay, won’t allow a hyper-link, can’t say as I blame them as the are, after all, the official newspaper of The Narrative, so here’s a little C&P.
“A specimen of the influenza virus that killed 21 million people in the 1918 worldwide epidemic has been recovered from the frozen remains of a flu victim buried in Alaska.
Researchers at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology announced on Thursday that biopsy samples from a corpse exhumed from a cemetery in Brevig Mission, Alaska, contained genetic material from the flu.
Experts have said that analyzing the genetic pattern of the 1918 virus will help scientists learn how it was able to kill so many people and will help them prepare vaccines against the virus if it resurfaces.”
But of course. Always with an eye on the health and the safety of the hoi polloi.
I remember this and thought it was like playing with fire. I notice that the media loves to talk about the Wuhan lab but doesn’t mention the labs that are in the U.S.
That’s true. We should focus on that more. It wasn’t just China.
One of the more troubling readings I came across last year when following the biking biologist’s travails for trying to teach biology was the one that suggested Fauci suppressed cancer cures and preventions because of the big profits from Big Pharma associated with cancer treatment programs.
I believe the man is evil and has collaborated and colluded with every NGO acting as if they are nation states (Gates, Soros, Clintons, others) as well as Big Pharma and Biden’s whores to position himself as the savior of the whole world when all the masses are vaccinated fully and forced to beg for the shot every few months in order to continue to function.
Of course the new vaccine is designed to welcome the boosters by producing spike proteins that will kill off whatever is left of the immune system until the system is so weakened the person dies.
Now that we do know they really are trying to kill us, or at least the self-selected vaccinated bunch of us, I am expecting cancer numbers to rise.
Cancer really is a malignant virus that kills every cell it touches, if possible.
Yet, our bodies are designed to fight and kill cancer as long as we consume the right minerals and nutrients from plants and animals consuming the right minerals and nutrients. In the Himalayas there are still uncontaminated stretches of land where the best plants are grown for medicinal purposes. I wonder if Bill Gates is buying farmland there? I hope not.
For a while I did the essential oils thing, learning how to distill my own herbs. I believe there are medicinal uses in many plants and I bought a few books I plan to read one day but never will. Instead, I use the index to find the plant I am interested in and decide whether it is best dried or distilled.
Ajuga, my current crop of interest, can be useful either way.
I know at least four people who claim to have cured their late-stage cancers using plant oils, distilled from cannabis or other medicinal plant.
Rick Simpson’s oil has worked for a lot of people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBsIEqw7EZE
This method works for most plants. I saved rose petals for a while (stopped by the flower shop and got her droopy unbloomed rosebuds)… it takes thousands and thousands of rose petals to make the tiniest bit of pure oil, but you want something to make you feel better?
I picked up two big bottles of Everclear last night. (I don’t trust the rotgut the hillbillies around here make) and have a box of frozen roses to distill.
Have a nice day, Funny Farmer… just some rambling thoughts after reading your comment and perusing this fascinating list:
https://www.genocidewatch.com/tenstages
Why point to Fauci?
Mass delusions have lead to suppression of any usage of DDT in the early 1970’s, resulting in minimum 50 million entirely avoidable deaths since.
And we still haven’t found a different, effective way to suppress (or cure) Malaria.
Cancer most certainly has a cure. I would say that it is a fungus rather than a virus. I have a couple of friends who have cured their own cancer using natural methods. I will do the same if I am ever diagnosed. Sugar consumption is cancer’s best friend. Also, a body chemistry that is acid instead of alkaline will help cancer to thrive. Royal Raymond Rife cured cancer in the 1930’s using resonant frequencies. His lab was raided by government goons, and his research and the Rife frequency machine were stolen from him. Cancer is a for-profit BUSINESS which will never be cured by allopathic medicine, as a cure would cause them to lose their customers and their astronomical profits. Gotta keep those shareholders happy.
The anatomy of the USA matrix:
1895 Gustave Le Bon
Wrote the book “The Crowd”. Studied by Sigmund Freud, Walter Lippman and Edward Bernays.
“Social conformity literally causes the brain to rewrite reality.”
Preceding the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 (Which prohibited the US government from using propaganda on it’s own citizens) was the 1917 Committee On Public Information (CPI)
In World War I, President Woodrow Wilson started an agency for governmental propaganda. It became the precursor and template of today’s governmental manipulation of information which often creates fictions and promotes those in power.
The first governmental propaganda agency was created just eight days after the USA entered World War I and only existed for 1.5 years, but it became the template for how the government can manipulate information to steer public opinion, says Dr. Hamilton The Committee on Public Information (CPI) was America’s first and only ministry of propaganda but it left a powerful legacy.
Then came the Smith-Mundt Act which basically overturned the Committee on Public Information and thus made propaganda illegal again.
Fast forward to 2012, then came the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act, reversing yet again the law on propaganda.
“HR 5736-A bill to establish an orwellian Truth Ministry”
May 10th 2012
HR 5736
HR 4310 (NDAA) Pages. 326-328
U.S. media is subject and mandated to Smith Mundt Modernization Act (HR 5736) of the National Defense Authorization Act. It legalizes a longstanding federal law that made it illegal for the US Department of State to share domestically the internally-authored news stories sent to American-operated outlets broadcasting around the globe.
In other words they could use propaganda everywhere but here on US soil against Americans. It’s section 501 of the NDAA or the Smith Mundt Modernization Act (HR 5736). It overturns the Smith-Mundt Act. It abolishes the stipulation that the U.S. Had to leave it’s propaganda just overseas. It now allows the government to use propaganda on it’s own citizens. People here criticize Russia, China and North Korea because their media is state run. Well now, since May 10, 2012 the USA’s is too!
Why do you need a broadcasting board of governors, i.e. a government agency, if your media is not state run?
The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act does not stop at local news, it expands to all sources offering ‘information,’ including (and not limited to):
radio
internet
movies
social media
socíal netwørks
This also means that the government can create “sock puppets,” (term used in internet espionage). Sock puppets are generated to impersonate private citizens, thus disguising affiliations related to government or corporate agendas.
Because of this, sock puppets can release false information in whatever form the general public uses. (facebook, twitter, reddit, wordpress, youtbe etc.)
Manufactured Consent:
A book by Walter Lippmann “Public Opinion” written in 1921. In which he described the manufacture of consent as a revolution in the practice of Democracy. What it amounts to is a technique of control and he said this was useful and necessary because the common interest the general concerns of all people elude the public.
So who really controls the media?
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, that is, the class which is the ruling material force in society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it.”
Information on the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act is still widely available, so I’ve tried using it to encourage others to wake up. I’ve encouraged them to look it up for themselves (some don’t trust the source if a link is sent to them). All I get as a response is that fluoride stare. The government is telling you that they made it legal for them to lie to you, and it doesn’t even register. This is a display of genuine mind control or brainwashing, take your pick.
It’s an incredible example of cognitive dissonance, learned helplessness and Stockholm syndrome all rolled into one.
The news put out is the opinion/thinking of the owners. apparently, the fact that Communism doesn’t work hasn’t occurred to them. they’re not big on free speech either.
The narrative of “normal” is paper thin, reality will become fact again when the power grid goes down in winter, energy costs skyrocket and your neighbors start eyeing your family pet as a source of protein. The Fourth Turning is nearing its apex; did you really think the Deagel Report and the Georgia Guide Stones were not NWO prophesy.
The media will inform them that it is normal for these types of things to happen from time to time, just obey us and we’ll all get through this together. A dose of hopium can go a long way.
If one knows who to access in the alternative media one can be well informed. What is encouraging is that more and more people are catching on and getting the message. Word of mouth is often more powerful than the news on TV. The sheeple will always be the sheeple and will follow Dr. Fadouchi and Joe Bitten over the the cliff that is the reality. Thanks to people like Dr. Roberts, Jon Rappaport, Bill Sardi, Joe Mercola, RFK and many others the alternative media is making a huge impact. Keep up the good work! Let’s Go Brandon!
I have been wondering why alternative news sites continue to claim there have been 700,000 deaths in the US from the kung flu. Fox News, OAN, Newsmax plus conservative websites do the same. Also the PCR tests that are NOT diagnostic tests with a 95% false positive rate but no pushback on those either which is driving this insanity to begin with. Stop using the words leftists use you morons and start pushing back on their nonsense. There is one thing all communists have in common- they all lie all the time.
Dude of course we’re blaming China.
IT WAS MADE IN CHINA. They could have very easily said “No, we won’t”, but they didn’t so now we have to deal with the shit that came as a result of Covid being created. China’s fault. And whoever paid them. They’re all a bunch of murderers who deserve death or life in prison.