Bulletin N° 967
Subject: The Impossible Mystification of Being.
April 10, 2021
Grenoble, France
Dear Colleagues and Friends of CEIMSA,
The second part of Neil Postman’s book, Amusing Ourselves to Death, Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985, 2005) focuses on our post-oral and post-typographic culture, which he calls “The Age of Show Business” and represents the “and now . . . this” world view of discontinuity embodied by Television culture, an “offspring of the intercourse between telegraphy and photography.” (p.79)
There is no more disturbing consequence of the electronic and graphic revolution than this: that the world as given to us through television seems natural, not bizarre. For the loss of the sense of the strange is a sign of adjustment, and the extent to which we have adjusted is a measure of the extent to which we have been changed. Our culture’s adjustment to the epistemology of television is by now all but complete; we have so thoroughly accepted its definition of truth, knowledge, and reality that irrelevance seems to us to be filled with import, and incoherence seems eminently sane. And if some of our institutions seem not to fit the template of the times, why it is they, and not the template, that seem to us disordered and strange.
It is my object in the rest of this book to make the epistemology of television visible again. I will try to demonstrate by concrete example that television’s way of knowing is uncompromisingly hostile to typography’s way of knowing; that television’s conversations promote incoherence and triviality; that the phrase ‘serious television’ is a contradiction in terms; and that television speaks in only one persistent voice – the voice of entertainment. Beyond that, I will try to demonstrate that to enter the great television conversation, one American cultural institution after another is learning to speak in its terms. Television, in other words, is transforming our culture into one vast arena for show business. It is entirely possible, of course, that in the end we shall find that delightful, decide we like it just fine. That is exactly what Aldous Huxley feared was coming fifty years ago.(pp.79-80)
Postman begins Part 2 of his book by making a distinction between technology and medium.
We might say that a technology is to the medium as the brain is to the mind. Like the mind, a medium is a use to which a physical apparatus is put. A technology, in other words, is merely a machine. A medium is the social and intellectual environment a machine creates.
Of course, like the brain itself, every technology has an inherent bias. It has within its physical form a predisposition toward being used in certain ways and not others. Only those who know nothing of history of technology believe that a technology is entirely neutral.. . .
Every technology has an agenda of its own. It is, as I have suggested, a metaphor waiting to unfold. The printing press, of example, had a clear bias toward being used as a linguistic medium. It is conceivable to use it exclusively for the reproduction of pictures. And, one imagines, the Roman Catholic Church would to have objected to its being so used in the sixteenth century. Had that been the case, the Protestant Reformation might not have occurred, for as Luther contended, with the word of God on every family’s kitchen table, Christians do not require the Papacy to interpret it for them. But in fact there never was much chance that the press would be used solely, or even very much, for the duplication of icons. From its beginning in the fifteenth century, the press was perceived as an extraordinary opportunity for the display and mass distribution of written language. Everything about its technical possibilities led in that direction. One might even say it was invented for that purpose.
The technology of television has a bias, as well. It is conceivable to use television as a lamp, a surface for texts, a bookcase, even as radio. But it has not been and will not be so used, as least in America. Thus, in answering the question, What is television?, we must understand as a first point that we are not talking about television as a technology but television as a medium. There are many places in the world where television, though the same technology as it is in America, is an entirely different medium from that which we know.. . .
Our television set keeps us in constant communication with the world, but it does so with a face whose smiling countenance is unalterable. The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matters but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining, which is another issue altogether.
To say it still another way: Entertainment is the supra-ideology of all discourse on television. No matter what is depicted or from what point of view, the overarching presumption is that it is there for our amusement and pleasure.. . .
The single most important fact about television is that people watch it, which is why it is called ‘television.’ And what they watch, and like to watch, are moving pictures – millions of them, of short duration and dynamic variety. It is in the nature of the medium that it must suppress the content of ideas in order to accommodate the requirements of visual interest; that is to say, to accommodate the values of show business.
. . .
Our priests and presidents, our surgeons and lawyers, our educators and newscasters need worry less about satisfying the demands of their discipline than the demands of good showmanship. Had Irving Berlin changed one word in the title of his celebrated song, he would have been as prophetic, albeit more terse, as Aldous Huxley. He need only have written, There’s No Business But Show Business.(pp.84-98)
Chapter 7, bares the title, “Now . . . This,” an announcement which postman explains is central to the thesis of this book.
The American humorist H. Allen Smith once suggested that of all the worrisome words in the English language, the scariest is ‘uh oh,’ as when a physician looks at you X-ray, with knitted brow says, ‘Uh oh.’ I should like to suggest that the words which are the title of this chapter are as ominous as any, all the more so because they are spoken without knitted brow – indeed, with a kind of idiot’s delight. The phrase, if that’s what it may be called, adds to our grammar a new part of speech, a conjunction that does not connect anything to anything but does the opposite: separates everything from everything. As such, it serves as a compact metaphor for the discontinuities in so much that passes for public discourse in present-day American.
‘Now . . . this’ is commonly used on radio and television newscasts to indicate that what one has just heard or seen has no relevance to what one is about to hear or see, or probably to anything one is ever likely to hear or see. The phrase is a means of acknowledging that fact that the world as mapped by the speeded-up electronic media has no order or meaning and is not to be taken seriously. There is no murder so brutal, no earthquake so devastating, not political blunder so costly – for that matter, no ball score so tantalizing or weather report so threatening – that it cannot be erased from our minds by a newscaster saying, ‘Now . . . this.’. . .
I should go so far as to say that embedded in the surrealistic frame of a television news show is a theory of anticummunication, featuring a type of discourse that abandons logic, reason, sequence and rules of contradiction. In aesthetics, I believe the name given to this theory is Dadaism; in philosophy, nihilism; in psychiatry, schizophrenia. In the parlance of the theater, it is known as vaudeville.
The result of all this is that Americans are the best entertained and quite likely the least well-informed people in the Western world.. . .
Much depends here, of course, on what is meant by being informed. . . . [I]n America everyone is entitled to an opinion, and it is certainly useful to have a few when a pollster shows up. But these are opinions of a quite different order from eighteenth- or nineteenth-century opinions. It is probably more accurate to call them emotions rather than options, which would account for the fact that they change from week to week, as pollsters tell us. What is happening here is that television is altering the meaning of ‘being informed’ by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. I am using this word almost in the precise sense in which it is used by spies in the CIA or KGB. Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information – misplaced, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information – information that creates the illusion of knowing something but which in fact leads one away from knowing. In saying this, I do not mean to imply that television news deliberately aims to deprive Americans of a coherent, contextual understanding of their world. I mean to say that when news is packaged as entertainment, that is the inevitable result. And in saying that the television news show entertains but does not inform, I am saying something far more serious than that we are being deprived of authentic information. I am saying we are losing our sense of what it means to be well informed. Ignorance is always correctable. But what shall we do if we take ignorance to be knowledge? (pp.99-108)
The author concludes his discussion in this chapter of the “Now … this” world of television, where “the fundamental assumption . . . is not coherence but discontinuity, [and where] contradiction is useless as a test of truth or merit, because contradiction does not exist” with an observation of the effect it has had on the public mind. (pp110)
My point is that we are by now so thoroughly adjusted to the ‘Now … this’ world of news – a world of fragments, where events stand alone, stripped of any connection to the past, or to the future, or to other events – that all assumptions of coherence have vanished. And, perforce, has contradiction. In the context of no context, so to speak, it simply disappears. And in its absence, what possible interest could there be in a list of what the president says now and what he said then? It is merely a rehash of old news, and there is nothing interesting or entertaining in that. The only thing to be amused about is the bafflement of reporters at the public’s indifference. There is an irony in the fact that the very group that has taken the world apart should, on trying to piece it together again, be surprised that no one notices much, or cares.. . .
I do not mean that the trivialization of public information is all accomplished on television. I mean that television is the paradigm for our conception of public information. As the printing press did in an earlier time, television has achieved the power to define the form in which news must come, and it has also defined how we shall respond to it. In presenting news to us packaged as vaudeville, television induces other media to do the same, so that the total information environment begins to mirror television.
. . .
And so, we move rapidly into an information environment which may rightly be called trivial pursuit. As the game of that name uses facts as a source of amusement, so do our sources of news. It has been demonstrated many times that a culture can survive misinformation and false opinion. It has not yet been demonstrated whether a culture can survive if it takes the measure of the world in twenty-two minutes. Or if the value of its news is determined by the number of laughs it provides.(pp.111-113)
In Chapter 8, Postman discusses the negative effect evangelical television programs has had on spiritual growth, and in Chapter 9 he looks at the extent to which television commercials have shaped political discourse in the US.
Among those lessons [learned from TV commercials] are that short and simple messages are preferable to long and complex ones; that drama is to be preferred over exposition; that being sold solutions is better than being confronted with questions about problems. Such beliefs would naturally have implications for our orientation to political discourse; that is to say that we may begin to accept as normal certain assumptions about the political domain that either derive from or are amplified by the television commercial. For example, a person who has seen one million television commercials might well believe that all political problems have fast solutions through simple measures – or ought to. . . . Or that argument is in bad taste.
. . .
Although it may go too far to say that the politician-as-celebrity has, by itself, made political parties irrelevant, there is certainly a conspicuous correlation between the rise of the former and the decline of the latter.(pp.131-133)
This chapter ends with the warning that, today, we have more to fear from information disseminated by corporations than from government restraints.
The fight against censorship is a nineteenth-century issue which was largely won in the twentieth. What we are confronted with now is the problem posed by the economic and symbolic structure of television. Those who run television do not limit our access to information but in fact widen it. Our Ministry of Culture is Huxleyan, not Orwellian; it does everything possible to encourage us to watch continuously. But what we watch is a medium which presents information in a form that renders it simplistic, nonsubstantive, nonhistorical and noncontextual; that is to say, information packaged as entertainment. In America, we are never denied the opportunity to amuse ourselves.(p.141)
Chapter 10 is devoted to a discussion of the state of public education, under the assault of ubiquitous television commercials.
We face the rapid dissolution of the assumptions of an education organized around the slow-moving printed word, and the equally rapid emergence of a new education based on the speed-of-light electronic image. The classroom is, at the moment, still tied to the printed word, although that connection is rapidly weakening. Meanwhile, television forges ahead, making no concessions to its grand technological predecessor, creating new conceptions of knowledge and how it is acquired. One is entirely justified in saying that the major educational enterprise now being undertaken in the United States is not happening in its classrooms but in the home, in front of the television set, and under the jurisdiction not of school administrators and teachers but of network executives and entertainers. I don’t mean to imply that the situation is a result of a conspiracy or even that those who control television want this responsibility. I mean only to say, like the alphabet or the printing press, television has by its power to control the time, attention and cognitive habits of our youth gained the power to control their education.
This is why I think it accurate to call television a curriculum. As I understand the word, a curriculum is a specially constructed information system whose purpose is to influence, teach, train or cultivate the mind and character of youth. Television, of course, does exactly that, and does it relentlessly. In so doing, it competes successfully with the school curriculum. By which I mean, it damn near obliterates it.(pp.145-146)
Postman concludes his book with an essay entitled “The Huxleyan Warning,” in which he focuses on the “hidden” ideological content of technology, as opposed to explicit ideological writings, of say Marx or Hitler. In this brief treatise on technological determinism, he writes:
Who could have suspected then that the automobile would tell us how we were to conduct our social and sexual lives? Would reorient our ideas about what to do with our forests and cities? Would create new ways of expressing our personal identity and social standing?
But it is much later in the game now, and ignorance of the score is inexcusable. To be unaware that a technology comes equipped with a program for social change, to maintain that technology is neutral, to make the assumption that technology is always a friend to culture is, as this late hour, stupidity plain and simple. Moreover, we have seen enough by now to know that technological changes in our modes of communication are even more ideology-laden than changes in our modes of transportation. Introduce the alphabet to a culture and you change its cognitive habits, its social relations, its notions of community, history and religion. Introduce the printing press with movable type, and you do the same. Introduce speed-of-light transmission of images and you make a cultural revolution. Without a vote. Without polemics. Without guerrilla resistance. Here is ideology, pure if not serene. Here is ideology without words, and all the more powerful for their absence. All that is required to make it stick is a population that devoutly believed in the inevitability of progress. And in this sense, All Americans are Marxists, for we believe noting if not that history is moving us toward some preordained paradise and that technology is the force behind that movement.(p.157-158)
Postman checks his pessimism at the end of the book: The only hope he sees is to engage in the attempt to make print-based public education relevant to the crisis at hand.
The desperate answer is to rely on the only mass medium of communication that, in theory, is capable of addressing the problem: our schools. This is the conventional American solution to all dangerous social problems, and is, of course, based on a naive and mystical faith in the efficacy of education. The process rarely works.. . .
It is the very principle of myth, as Roland Barthes pointed out, that it transforms history into nature, and to ask of our schools that they engage in the task of the de-mythologizing media is to ask something the schools have never done.
And yet there is reason to suppose that the situation is not hopeless. Educators are not unaware of the effects of television on their students. Stimulated by the arrival of the computer, they discuss it a great deal – which is to say, they have become somewhat ‘media conscious.’ It is true enough that much of their consciousness centers on the question, How can we use television (or the computer, or word processor) to control education? They have not yet got to the question, How can we use education to control television (or the computer, or word processor)?But our reach for solutions ought to exceed our present grasp, or what’s our dreaming for? Besides, it is an acknowledged task of the schools to assist the young in learning how to interpret the symbols of their culture. That this task should now require that they learn now to distance themselves from their forms of information is not so bizarre an enterprise that we cannot hope for its inclusion in the curriculum; even hope that if will be placed at the center of education.(pp.162-163)
We have never had greater need for quality education and commitment to authentic communication.
Sincerely,
Francis Feeley
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Professeur honoraire de l'Université
Grenoble-Alpes
Ancien Directeur de
Researches
Université de Paris-Nanterre
Director of The Center for the Advanced Study
of American Institutions and Social Movements
(CEIMSA-in-Exile)
The University of California-San Diego
http://www.ceimsa.org
a.
« Science Says »
https://www.corbettreport.com/sciencesays/
with James Corbett
(1:11:54)
On Totalitarian America
with Dr Sheldon Wolin
(1:27:20)
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b.
Des réponses sur http://totum.page
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"Elle
est Pfizer"
(en trio mais à quatre)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6u64wRbZGk
par Les Goguettes
(4:35)
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The Covid-19 Celebrity Humanitarianism – Sean Penn and the Great Reset
by Vanessa Beeley
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“Lab-Leak Hypothesis Could Reveal EPIC Screwup
Of US, Fauci AND China”
with Saagar Enjeti
(10 :22)
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c.
Faced with ICC Investigation, Apartheid Israel Asserts Moral
Superiority
Over The Victims of Its Terror
by Miko Peled
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An Old Green Colonial Trick: Israel Masking Land Grabs as Environmental
Conservation
https://www.mintpressnews.com/israel-masking-al-walaja-land-grabs-environmental-conservation/276441/
by Jessica Buxbaum
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OUTCRY TO THE WORLD, FROM ISRAEL!!!
with Ilana Rachel Daniel
(25 :48)
Ilana Rachel Daniel came with an emotional
outcry for international help from Jerusalem, the capital of Israel. At record
speed, the government is vaccinating the entire population - including pregnant
women and children - against the coronavirus.
"Civil rights are put aside and people are not allowed participation in
multiple places in society unless they've been vaccinated or in some places of
work, after repeated PCR testing every 2-3 days," told Ilana to Flavio Pasquino in the
BLCKBX studio via a live stream connection, who tracked down Ilana after an - even - more emotional audio clip on
Telegram. Ilana talks about the Green Pass, the Freedom Bracelet, the mRNA vaccine
and human rights violations. "Reminiscent of Fascism," said Ilana Rachel who emigrated from the US to Jerusalem some 25
years ago.Ilana Rachel is active in Jerusalem as a
health advisor, activist and information officer for a new political human
rights party (Rappeh) that is heavily opposed by the
regime. Censored ruthlessly in both mainstream and social
media and with members of the party thwarted in their daily lives.
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Isabel Maxwell: Israel’s “Back Door” Into Silicon Valley
by Whitney Webb
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Halte à la criminalisation
du mouvement de solidarité avec la Palestine
Date : Fri, 2 Apr 2021
Communiqué Collectif National pour une Paix
Juste et Durable entre
Palestiniens et Israéliens (CNPJDPI) : Halte
à la criminalisation du
mouvement de solidarité avec la Palestine
Le député Patrice Perrot, de La République En
Marche, a adressé une
question écrite à Gérald Darmanin,
ministre de l'Intérieur, afin de
demander la dissolution du Collectif Palestine Vaincra de
Toulouse.
Cette demande est un copier / coller d’une
demande de dissolution de ce
collectif adressée notamment au ministre de l’Intérieur et au
ministre
de la Justice, émanant de NGO Monitor, officine de l’État
d’Israël.
Cette demande sans fondement fait écho au
fait qu'Israël vient
dedéclarer "terroriste" le réseau Samidoun (dont fait partie le
Collectif Palestine Vaincra), organisation
internationale qui lutte pour
la libération des
milliers de prisonniers politiques palestiniens.
Cette démarche est directement inspirée par
la stratégie et les propos
du gouvernement israélien et de ses relais en France. Elle
s'inscrit
dans le cadre des ingérences répétées et scandaleuses
d'Israël dans les
affaires de la France. Un autre exemple récenten est le courrier envoyé
par l'ambassadeur d'Israël à la Maire de Strasbourg qui
vient,
courageusement, avec son Conseil municipal, de refuser d'adopter la
définition IHRA de l'antisémitisme qui vise à empêcher la critique
de la
politique israélienne et
les actions de solidarité avec le peuple
palestinien.
Le CNPJDPI (Collectif National pour une Paix
Juste et Durable entre
Palestiniens et Israéliens) dénonce cette
attaque indigne contre la
liberté d'expression et d'association et demande au gouvernement
français de ne pas y donner suite.
Il dénonce les ingérences inadmissibles
d'Israël, qui viole
régulièrement le droit international et qui veut dicter sa loi en
France. Trop souvent, des députés français se
font les relais de ces
ingérences. Le CNPJDPI demande qu'il soit mis fin à ces pratiques.
Le CNPJDPI rappelle que l'impunité d’Israël
et les complicités dont il
bénéficie trop souvent sont les principaux appuis d'une occupation et
d'une colonisation qui s'aggravent depuis des décennies.
Paris, le 2 avril 2021
Membres du Collectif national pour une paix
juste et durable entre
Palestiniens et Israéliens signataires :
Agir Contre le Colonialisme Aujourd’hui
(ACCA) – AFD International –
AILES Femmes du Maroc - Alternative
Libertaire (AL) - Américains contre
la guerre (AAW) - Association des Travailleurs Maghrébins
de France
(ATMF) - Association des Tunisiens en France
(ATF) - Association France
Palestine Solidarité (AFPS) - Association
Nationale des Elus Communistes
et Républicains (ANECR) - Association pour la Taxation des
Transactions
financières et pour l’Action Citoyenne (ATTAC) - Association pour
les
Jumelages entre les camps de réfugiés
Palestiniens et les villes
Françaises (AJPF) - Association Républicaine des Anciens
Combattants
(ARAC) - Association Universitaire pour
le Respect du Droit
International en Palestine (AURDIP) -
Campagne Civile Internationale
pour la Protection du Peuple Palestinien (CCIPPP) –
ConfédérationGénérale du Travail (CGT) - Cedetim /
IPAM - Collectif des
Musulmans de France (CMF) - Collectif Faty Koumba : Association des
Libertés, Droits de l'Homme et non-violence -
Collectif
interuniversitaire pour la coopération avec les Universités
Palestiniennes (CICUP) - Collectif
Judéo-Arabe et Citoyen pour la
Palestine (CJACP) - Collectif Paix Palestine
Israël (CPPI Saint-Denis) -
Comité de Vigilance pour une Paix Réelle au
Proche-Orient (CVPR PO) -
Comité Justice et Paix en Palestine et au
Proche-Orient du 5e arrt
(CJPP5) - Droit-Solidarité – Ensemble ! -
Europe Ecologie les Verts
(EELV) – Fédération des Tunisiens pour
une Citoyenneté des deux Rives
(FTCR) - Fédération Syndicale Unitaire (FSU)
– Forum Palestine
Citoyenneté - Génération Palestine - La
Courneuve-Palestine - le
Mouvement de la Paix - les Femmes en noir -
Ligue Internationale des
Femmes pour la Paix et la Liberté, section
française de la Women’s
International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) (LIFPL) - Mouvement
contre le Racisme et pour l’Amitié entre les Peuples (MRAP) -
Mouvement
Jeunes Communistes de France (MJCF) -
Organisation de Femmes Egalité –
Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste(NPA) - Parti
Communiste des Ouvriers de
France (PCOF) - Parti Communiste Français
(PCF) - Parti de Gauche (PG) -
Parti de l'émancipation du peuple - Participation et Spiritualité
Musulmanes (PSM) – Socialistes pour la Paix –
Sortir du colonialisme -
Syndicat National des Enseignements de Second
degré (SNES/FSU) - Une
Autre Voix Juive (UAVJ) - Union Juive
Française pour la Paix (UJFP) -
Union des Travailleurs Immigrés Tunisiens
(UTIT) - Union Nationale des
Etudiants de France (UNEF) - Union syndicale Solidaires
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Israel lashes out as ICC okays
war crimes probe
by Maureen Clare Murphy
Palestinian human rights groups
welcomed the ICC’s determination of territorial jurisdiction as a “critically
important step” towards ending Israeli impunity.
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Make HUMAN CLONING
Great Again
https://www.bitchute.com/video/I8bO_jjPKl8/
with reallygraceful
(8:02)
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Cold War On Trial: Truth Commission Details
Horrible Crimes Akin to Native American Genocide and Slavery
by Jeremy Kuzmarov
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d.
CIA Pressured Yemen to Release al-Qaeda Leader From
Prison
https://www.mintpressnews.com/leaked-cia-pressured-yemen-release-al-qaeda-anwar-al-awlaki/276327/
by Alexander Rubinstein
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Vanessa Beeley Interview Inside
The West's Illegal Yemen Occupation And CIA Caught Rescuing al-Qaeda
https://www.bitchute.com/video/ddLdVBFwdd1Y/
with Vanessa Beeley
(1:08:11)
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Kremlin says situation
in Donbass ‘frightening’ as Ukraine calls on NATO
https://www.rt.com/russia/519963-kremlin-situation-donbass-conflict/
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e.
Deep American Roots of the
Atlanta Shootings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_BiS9ozDUM
with Chris Hedges and May Jeong
(26:31)
May Jeong's op-ed The Deep
American Roots of the Atlanta Shootings - The victims lived at the nexus of
race, gender and class, was published in The New York Times on March 19, 2021. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/19/op...
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"The New Feudalism"
with Anand Giridharadas
and Rob Johnson
(20:42)
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f.
Politics After
Trump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69pEzsfX8Aw
with Chris Hedges
(1:28:34)
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"AOC Calls Biden Critics "Bad Faith Actors" To Shield
Establishment"
with Jimmy Dore
(22:37)
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Exposing Biden’s SECRET Plans !!!
https://www.corbettreport.com/episode-397-exposing-bidens-secret-plans/
with James Corbett
(55:54)
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Joe Biden a “WARMONGERING, SOCIOPATHIC LIAR', Media Owned by
Military-Industrial Complex”
with Jimmy Dore
(14:54)
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“Biden's
Infrastructure Plan: A Critique”
with Richard Wolff
(8:05)
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Hypocrts and Frauds:
Kamala Meets With Bill Clinton About Women's
Issues ?!?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlwymP1Lpu8
with Jimmy Dore
(11:08)
The ‘Obamanauts’
are rebranding as evil
https://mailchi.mp/jacobinmag.com/m4a-551046?e=997d6d360e
by Luke Savage
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g.
Hell hath no fury like a superpower in decline
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56489.htm
by Graham E.
Fuller
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Thoughts On The Iraq Invasion
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56486.htm
by Caitlin
Johnstone
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The US Weaponizes ‘Human Rights’ Against
Nations Like China
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56494.htm
by Caitlin
Johnstone
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China, Russia agree to work together against ‘illegitimate’ sanctions
by Amber Wang
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The Urgent Need for
a Biden-Putin Summit
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56496.htm
by Norman
Solomon
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China & Iran sign MASSIVE 25-Year $400BN infrastructure for oil
deal"
The Duran
(37:19)
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Chinese Defense Spending Games
with Richard Wolff
(7:05)
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What is behind China and Iran's
'strategic' deal?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBdyFY6isP8
with Dareen Abughaida
(25:00)
It's been in
the works since 2016, and dubbed a 'comprehensive strategic partnership'. The
deal signed between China and Iran is expected to boost their long-standing
economic and political alliance. The cooperation will cover a wide range of
Chinese investments in Iran's most important sectors, including energy and
infrastructure. It's the first long-term agreement of its type to be signed by
Iran with a major world power. And comes at a tough time for Iran's economy
that's been devastated by U.S. sanctions. What do both countries stand to gain?
And should people be worried, in the Middle East and beyond?
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h.
A Brief List Of U.S. Official Russia Claims
That Proved To Be Bogus
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56468.htm
by Matt Taibbi
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Really Graceful on Syria
https://www.bitchute.com/video/6eO0YreGI7Z8/
(14:47)
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How Do Big Media Outlets So Often "Independently Confirm"
Each Other's Falsehoods?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56461.htm
by Glenn
Greenwald
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Biden Picks Kamala Harris to Carry the Carrot and Stick in Central
America
by Raul Diego
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“Did the US Slow Japan's
Economy?”
with Richard Wolff
(8:29)
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i.
Chomsky on Terence McKenna, Sam
Harris, GPT3, Cryptocurrencies, Kierkegaard, Neuralink, & Hofstadter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6MU5zQwtT4&t=482s
(1:14:48)
Noam Chomsky talks about group selection, his own
death, the Piraha language, and more, it his widest
varied interview yet.
+
“Gaslighting” : How Leftists Demonize And Demoralize Their Opposition
by Brandon Smith
We have all heard
this time honored cautionary mantra: “All governments lie”.
It’s not a
theory, it is a fact that history has proven time after time.
I would only
expand on the rule and say this: All governments, all corporations, all
corporate media, all think tanks, and all corporate funded activist groups lie. There is a
reason why public trust is at all time lows for the
majority of these organizations, and it’s not because they are managed by good
and honest people.
If you operate on the assumption that these groups are
lying to you most of the time then you will find yourself on the right side of
history.
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“Julian Assange
EXPOSED The Media Machinery Behind The Wars!”
with Fidel Narvaez
(13:23)
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Hidden in Plain Sight: The Shocking
Origins of the Jeffrey Epstein Case
(Investigative series, Part 1 of 4)
by Whitney Webb
Epstein is only the latest incarnation of a much
older, more extensive and sophisticated operation that offers a frightening
window into how deeply tied the U.S. government is to the modern-day equivalents
of organized crime.
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Epstein Victim Maria Farmer Speaks
with Whitney Webb
https://www.bitchute.com/video/LXHXDNDFVCNS/
with Whitney Webb
(2:43:20)
Whitney Webb
has moved from -Mint Press News- to -The Last American Vagabond-. She and Maria
bring us this bombshell. Sound's been improved for these recordings: connection
hiccups, dead air, and unrelated conversation have been edited out where
possible--ending on a note that ought inspire us all to fight where and how we
can regardless how much darkness distends around us.
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k.
All Roads Lead to Dark Winter
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2020/04/investigative-series/all-roads-lead-to-dark-winter/
by Whitney Webb
The leaders of two controversial pandemic simulations
that took place just months before the Coronavirus
crisis – Event 201 and Crimson Contagion – share a common history, the 2001 biowarfare simulation Dark Winter. Dark Winter
not only predicted the 2001 anthrax attacks, but some of its participants had
clear foreknowledge of those attacks.
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We are living through a time of fear
– not just of the virus, but of each other
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56492.htm
by Jonathan Cook
+
After a Year Under Lockdown, Will
Our Freedoms Survive the Tyranny of COVID-19?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56499.htm
by John W. Whitehead & Nisha
Whitehead
+
Developers of Oxford-AstraZeneca
Vaccine Tied to UK Eugenics Movement
by Jeremy Loffredo and Whitney
Webb
The developers of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine have
previously undisclosed ties to the re-named British Eugenics Society as well as
other Eugenics-linked institutions like the Wellcome
Trust.
+
A neuroscientist writes on
AstraZeneca fears
https://euobserver.com/opinion/151344
by Nayef Al-Rodhan
+
Truth about mortality rates
https://www.bitchute.com/video/y3IoIaNoOcFM/
Tony Robbins interviews Dr. Michael Levitt, Nobel Laureate
and Stanford Professor
(21:18)
+
Smoking gun #1: ‘The SPARS Pandemic Scenario,’ crafted in 2017,
foretells EXACTLY all that we’ve been going through
by Mark Crispin Miller
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Smoking gun #2: UK government used ‘covert
tactics’ to terrify the British people into locking down against ‘the virus’
by Mark Crispin Miller
l.
Freedom Talk with Dr Kaufman, Tom
Cowan & Co.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/d3zczXW17B6b/
with Tom, Stefen, Andy and Dean
– Zoom Meeting on March 4, 2021
(1:08:12)
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Dr. Andrew Kaufman in Extremely
Meaningful Interview
https://www.bitchute.com/video/Kv0RbCEB2HtY/
with Ryan Cristian – March 15,
2021
(1:37:16)
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“Don't Get
The 'vaccine' Until You See This”
https://www.bitchute.com/video/5GTr2npKFgji/
with Dr. Reid Sheftall
(45:07)
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Pfizer’s Experimental Covid-19
Vaccine—What You’re Not Being Told
by Johnny Vedmore
Pfizer’s long history of scandals, and the fact that
they have never been held to account for their crimes, continues to be ignored
by the media, even as its experimental mRNA vaccine candidate for Covid-19
draws ever closer to US government approval.
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10 Facts From
the UK Government Pfizer Vaccine Guidance that Promote “Vaccine Hesitancy”
by Johnny Vedmore
Official government guidance has been released in the
United Kingdom to assist healthcare professionals in administering the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine BNT162b2. While the UK government goes to
war against supposed misinformation, the official narrative is clearly based on
very little to no supporting data from incomplete clinical trials. This article
examines the document “Reg 174 Information for UK
Healthcare Professionals” and narratives being pushed in the mainstream media
that directly contradict that document.
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Daniel Korski:
The Intelligence-Linked Mastermind Behind the UK’s
Orwellian Healthtech Advisory Board
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2020/10/investigative-reports/korski/
by Johnny Vedmore
As a futuristic, hi-tech dystopia increasingly takes
shape around us, the concept of the Panopticon is
more relevant than ever as it functions as the underpinning of the ever-growing
mass surveillance grid.
SAGE Document Reveals 'Covert' Propaganda to Scare
British Into Staying Home in Lockdown
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Rand Paul "Pages" Fauci
With CDC Confirmation That Vaccinated And Recovered
Cannot Pass On COVID
by Steve Watson
Senator Rand Paul
shared video Wednesday of CDC Director Rochelle Walensky
announcing that new data suggests vaccinated and recovered people do not carry
Covid-19.
Paul directed his comments at
White House chief medical advisor Anthony Fauci,
writing “paging Dr Fauci: please end the mask
theater now that cdc admits
evidence that the vaccinated do not carry the virus.”
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What Doctors Don’t Tell You:
“Study finds Covid-19 is no random killer”
(Only people who have one of four chronic health problems is likely to die from the virus, a major new study has
confirmed.)
https://www.wddty.com/news/covid-19-is-no-random-killer-study-finds/
from JAMA Network
The ‘big four’ are heart disease, breathing
or kidney (renal) problems, or cancer—and these risks are
magnified if the person is also obese, or is suffering from several of
the diseases at the same time. Age also plays a part, but again only if the
patient has one of the four health problems.
Researchers from the University of East Anglia
reviewed 52 studies—involving more than 100,000 Covid
patients—to discover that the four diseases were common in the most serious Covid cases, either needing intensive care, ventilator
support or went on to die.
People with more than one of the chronic problems were
the most likely to need emergency care. Obesity acted like a magnifier, and
further increased the risk of death in those with one of the four diseases.
Lead researcher Dr Vassilios
Vassiliou says the study is the largest that has so
far been carried out on severe Covid cases. The
research “gives us the really big picture. . .it is
the most comprehensive study of its kind to date,” he said.
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m.
What Newsweek Conveniently Failed to Mention About
“Continuity of Government”
by Whitney Webb
+
The U.S. Intelligence Community, Flouting Laws, is Increasingly
Involving Itself in Domestic Politics
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56498.htm
by Glenn
Greenwald
+
The Native Land of the Hypocrite
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56500.htm
by M. Reza Behnam
+
“Emergence of the Global Police State”
with Chris Hedges and William I. Robinson
(27:22)
+
WEF Warns of Cyberattack Leading to Systemic
Collapse of the Global Financial System
by Whitney Webb
+
When Economic Systems Fail
with Richard Wolff and Rob Urie
(28:50)
+
Why Amazon Unionization Failed in Alabama
with Richard Wolff
(6:48)
+
Corporate Capital Used Immigration to Undercut US Working Class Power
with David Harvey
(5:22)
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Militarism is tied to the capital's profit motive
with Rob Urie & Richard
Wolff
(2:57)
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n.
Join the #ExposeBillGates day of action - The time to stand against this technocrat
ic tyranny is now
https://www.bitchute.com/video/Ul6CDMPcppip/
with Ryan Christian and Derrick Broze
(8:37)
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You
Wouldn't Take The Vaccine If You Knew GATES History
https://www.bitchute.com/video/0UycSt2a3iuH/
with Dekara Adil
and Shuva Das
(40:32)
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You Can’t Win. Don’t Even Try!
https://www.corbettreport.com/you-cant-win-dont-even-try/
by James Corbett
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o.
The Illusion Of
Safety Trials, COVID Isolation, Vaccine Side-Effects
https://www.bitchute.com/video/sSe24mvny1vu/
with Ryan Cristian
(2:26:32)
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After a Year Under Lockdown, Will Our Freedoms Survive
the Tyranny of COVID-19?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56499.htm
by John W.
Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead
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p.
Palestine in Pictures: March 2021
https://electronicintifada.net/content/palestine-pictures-march-2021/32666
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Does Israel flood Gaza's farms?
https://electronicintifada.net/content/does-israel-flood-gazas-farms/32611
by Amjad Ayman
Yaghi
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Butler University blocks Angela Davis event
by Nora Barrows-Friedman
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q.
Global Britain, Global Delusions
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56479.htm
by Finian Cunningham
+
14 signs the UK is becoming a modern
fascist state
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56474.htm
by Steve Topple
+
The 'Rules-based international
order' is dead & unless West finds new way to accommodate Russia &
China, it will reap a whirlwind
https://www.rt.com/russia/518885-international-order-west-relations/
by Glenn Diesen, Professor
at the University of South-Eastern Norway, and an editor at the Russia in
Global Affairs journal
+
France hid impact of French
Polynesia nuclear tests, report says
Gregory Boissy/AFP
Almost
‘entire population’ of the territory infected by tests carried out from 1966 to
1996, investigation claims.
+
Presentation of Adams Award &
Stephen Cohen Tribute
https://consortiumnews.com/2021/03/21/watch-presentation-of-sam-adams-award-stephen-cohen-tribute/
with Annie Machon and Ray
McGovern
(32:27)
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From: CovertAction
Magazine [mailto:info@CovertActionMagazine.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2021
Subject: Still Unsolved: the Great Crime that Triggered the 1994 Rwandan
Genocide
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r.
Interview With: Broc West - Video Editor of The Corbett Report & The Last American Vagabond TLAV
https://www.bitchute.com/video/EQ1yQ8ZPrJ31/
with Nicholas Peter Urgero
(55:44)
+
Economic Update:
Dems' Self-Promotion VS Hard Economic Realities
with Richard Wolff and Bob Hennelly
(29:50)
+
“Time to Rethink
Market Capitalism?”
with Steve Paikin
and Mark Carney, former governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England
(27:53)
Debunking Myths About China's Economy
with Yukon Huang
(1:05:18)
+
“Life and Life Only”
https://www.corbettreport.com/interview-1627-james-corbett-on-life-and-life-only/
with Antony Rotunno
and James Corbett
(1:24:13)
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s.
"Just block out the sun, what could go wrong?"
with reallygraceful
(7:10)
This video is about solar geo-engineering and the June 2021 plans to
“spray millions of tonnes of chalk into the stratosphere,
in an attempt to ‘dim the sun’ and cool the Earth", and the latest update
on this project, as it's been cancelled for Sweden. dear
fact checkers: no one is alleging anyone is completely blocking out the sun.
+
April Open Thread
https://www.corbettreport.com/april-open-thread/
by James Corbett
+
Stand in
the Park – #SolutionsWatch
https://www.corbettreport.com/stand-in-the-park-solutionswatch/
with James Corbett
It is a sign of a sick society when people are told to stay indoors,
avoid breathing fresh air and receive experimental medical interventions for
their health. If the benefits of fresh air and natural
sunlight for human health has to be debated, is their
any hope left for our civilization? After watching me stand in the park in
today's episode of #SolutionsWatch, I highly
recommend you turn off your electronic device and try it for yourself.
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t.
From: Veterans For Peace
[mailto:vfp@veteransforpeace.org]
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2021
Subject: VFP eNews: Shut Down Creech!
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u.
From: Le Mouvement de
la Paix [mailto:communication@mvtpaix.org]
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2021
Subject: Proche-Orient :
Visioconférence avec George Corm le 27 avril
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v.
From: National Security Archive [mailto:nsarchiv@gwu.edu]
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2021
Subject: Crises, Alerts, and DEFCONS, 1961-1976 – Part II
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w.
The US Is Waging Neoliberal Forever Wars
https://jacobinmag.com/2021/04/forever-wars-biden-afghanistan-iraq-antiwar
an interview with Anand Gopal
As the US military increasingly outsources the most important parts of
war, American imperialism has evolved into something that can’t be measured
merely by counting the number of boots on the ground. But it’s still highly
profitable for corporate elites and spreads death and misery around the globe —
and it still must be dismantled.
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x.
“A Brief History
of Logic”
with professors A.C. Grayling,
Peter Millican, Rosanna Keefe
(BBC audio, 42:02)
Logic, the study of reasoning and argument, first became a serious area
of study in the 4th century BC through the work of Aristotle. He created a
formal logical system, based on a type of argument called a syllogism, which
identified valid and invalid forms of argument and remained in use for over two
thousand years. In the nineteenth century the German philosopher and
mathematician Gottlob Frege
revolutionised logic, turning it into a discipline
much like mathematics and capable of dealing with, expressing, and analysing nuanced arguments. His discoveries influenced the
greatest mathematicians and philosophers of the twentieth century and
considerably aided the development of the electronic computer. Today logic is a
subtle system with applications in fields as diverse as mathematics,
philosophy, linguistics and artificial intelligence. Melvyn Bragg discusses
logic and its history in this BBC episode of In Our Time with guests A.C.
Grayling, Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck,
University of London, Peter Millican, Gilbert Ryle
Fellow in Philosophy at Hertford College at the University of Oxford, and
Rosanna Keefe, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sheffield.
+
“An Investigation into the Dialectical Method of Karl Marx”
by Bertell Ollman
Being extracts from Chapter 5 of “Dance of the
Dialectic.”