Putin & Trump and Journalists

[Jochen Stremmel]

Wow!

2017-01-28 13:24 GMT+01:00 ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com>:

> The suffering, the murder of countless children of women, of men, the
> destruction of property, of the good earth, its waters and plants and
> beasts, the waste of resources and monies, the fractioning and
> sullying of cultures and peoples is far worse than the propaganda
> reports. The barbarism of Assad and Putin is far worse than anything
> that has been reported by  anyone thus far. How do I know this? It
> doesn't seem to make sense since all sides are out to exaggerate the
> war crimes of their enemies while making themselves out as saviors or
> at least on balance the better devils in a battle that must be waged.
> This war is not merely a figment of mass propaganda and mass media
> simulations. It is not a war game. It is not rhetoric and images. The
> rhetoric, the images, the mass media feeds from embedded propagandists
> paid for with Western greed and US Empire, do not exceed the
> real-world suffering and barbarism. This is not a chessboard of
> deterrence where pivots and real-politic are the real war, what's
> really going on. What's goin on as Marvin Gay says, is that, "there's
> too many of us dying." We once believed that war was not the answer
> and that deterrence might save us because war was unthinkable,
> unwinnable, had become more rhetorical, a way to manage the masses
> through the mass deception media, a machine of the establishment and
> the military complexes to manufacture the illusion of consensus, to
> produce, mass produce and re-produce attitudes and cultures that would
> make war cold and prevent world war, and that the difference between
> words and war, between what was going down in SE Asia and what was
> produced for the audience, the TV-war, and eventually in the Gulf Wars
> and elsewhere, where the President of the US would view the film of
> the assassination of the chosen goat in Pakistan while the nation and
> the world watched the President watch the brave special forces in
> night vision screens, from cameras on their helmets, watch the
> frontlines, edited and clipped, augmented and enhanced, countered and
> counterpunched by soldiers who were sworn to secrecy and to a band of
> brotherhood that with lawyers and money was broken and sold in books
> and films and blood and brotherhood and medals and honor and phony
> propaganda simulated. What war? What reality? Where is the truth?
> Behind, beneath, embedded in the images and words? John Lennon says,
> "Just give me some truth!" The images are often more powerful than the
> dying and killing because the truth is measured by the impact a lie
> has on opinions.  Unless you are not viewing it but doing it. In which
> case, belligerent deeds trump bellicose words and images every time.
> It's a slippery slope that Thomas has veered onto here because his
> analysis implies that the dying and killing, the barbarism of Putin
> and Assad can't be measured or condemned because there is no truth we
> can count from, no truth we can stand on. Who knows what's goin on?
> There's too many of us dying. We know this much is true.
> >
> > This is certainly true but does not go far enough. The "activists",
> > "civilian defense workers" and "citizen journalists" who provide
> information
> > to the Western media are not only embedded with the rebels but have been
> > prepared for this job and are paid enormous sums by the West to perform
> it.
> >
> > The Western mainstream media duly report everything these embedded
> citizen
> > journalists or first responders tell them as fact. The White Helmets have
> > produced hundreds of fake photographs of children "pulled from the
> rubble".
> > Even if it isn't explicitly mentioned, through their publication by
> > supposedly respectable newspapers like the NYT, the Guardian or Die Zeit
> > these fake photographs have become documents of Russian and Syrian
> barbarism
> > in the public perception. Politicians then quote from the newspapers and
> add
> > some buzzwords: Guernica, Ruanda, Srebrenica. A German talkshow host even
> > managed to mention the Holocaust...
> >
> > This is war propaganda of the highest order, provided as a public
> service by
> > an enormously sophisticated and well-oiled propaganda machine. It is
> Frank
> > Wisner's "mighty Wurlitzer" on steroids.
> > research on the sources of funding for the White Helmets and the Aleppo
> > Media Center is solid. Please note also that, while many of the
> photographs
> > taken by the White Helmets are certainly fakes, some are not. Nobody
> denies
> > that many children have actually been wounded and killed during the
> bombing
> > of East Aleppo.)
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