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"There are reasons why Israeli propaganda is no longer able
to effectively influence public opinion ..."
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: March 22, 2024, 1:20 pm
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Agelbert NOTE: Everything you read in the November 14, 2023
article below is even more pertinent today, March 22, 2023, as
the graphic and and today's article conclusively proves:
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March 22, 2024 By 🕯️🗽 Palestine Chronicle
Staff
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[center]‘By Mistake’
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November 14, 2023 By 🕯️🗽 Ramzy Baroud &
🕯️🗽 Romana Rubeo
[center]Mein Kampf in Gaza
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/>ISIS Flags in Israel?
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/>Hasbara is Falling Apart
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SNIPPET:
Firstly, is that Palestinians and their supporters have managed
to ‘cancel’ Israel using social media which, for the first time,
overwhelmed the organized propaganda campaigns often engineered
on behalf of Israel in corporate media.
An analysis of online content on popular social media platforms
was conducted by the Israeli influencer marketing platform,
Humanz. The study, published in November, admitted that “while
7.39 billion posts with pro-Israeli tags were published on
Instagram and TikTok last month, in the same period 109.61
billion posts with pro-Palestinian tags were published on the
platforms.” This, according to the company, means that
pro-Palestinian views are 15 times more popular than pro-Israeli
views.
Secondly, independent media, Palestinian and others, offered
alternatives to those seeking a different version of events to
what is taking place in Gaza.
A single Palestinian freelance journalist in Gaza, Motaz Azaiza,
has managed to acquire more than 14 million followers on
Instagram over the course of a single month because of his
reporting from the ground.
Thirdly, the ‘surprise attack’ of October 7 has deprived Israel
of the initiative, not only regarding the war itself, but also
the justification for the war. Indeed, their genocidal war on
Gaza has no specific objectives, but also has no precise media
campaign to defend or rationalize these unspecified objectives.
Therefore, the Israeli media narrative appears disconnected,
haphazard and, at times, even self-damaging.
And, finally, the sheer brutality of the Israeli genocide in
Gaza. If one is to juxtapose Israeli media lies with the
horrific Israeli crimes committed in Gaza, one would find no
plausible logic that could convincingly justify mass murder,
displacement, starvation and genocide of a defenseless
population.
Never has Israeli propaganda failed so astoundingly and never
has the mainstream media failed to shield Israel from the global
anger – in fact, seething hatred – for Israel’s ugly apartheid
regime. The repercussions of all of this will most certainly
impact the way that history will remember the Israeli war on
Gaza, which has, so far, killed, and wounded tens of thousands
of innocent civilians.
A whole generation, if not more, has already built a perception
of Israel as a genocidal regime and no number of future lies,
Hollywood movies or Maxim Magazine spreads will ever lessen that
in any way.
Full article:
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Resisting 😈 Zionist Corrupted PEN America 🐍
Brainwashing Propaganda
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: March 24, 2024, 1:22 pm
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March 23, 2024 by 🕯️🗽🕊️
Chris Hedges
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[center]In May 2013 I resigned from PEN America over the
appointment of former State Department official 🐍
[glow=red,2,300]Suzanne Nossel[/glow]. A decade later,
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SNIPPET:
PEN America may continue to exist, indeed its obsequiousness to
governmental and corporate power will probably assure its
funding, but it is a hollow brand used to
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/>justify the crimes and lies of the U.S. government and Israel.
The best writers in the Soviet Union refused to join the Union
of Soviet Writers or were expelled. Those left were
propagandists, third rate writers and careerists. PEN America is
fast becoming its doppelgänger.
Full article:
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EXCELLENT COMMENT:
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Liana Chenoweth Kornfield March 24, 2024
Thank you so much for writing this! I did not know. I encouraged
my young fledgling granddaughter to join them 10 years ago
because of all those members I respected (sounds like most now
gone from PEN). I will forward this to her.
I'm wondering how someone the likes of Nossel can fool so many
smart intelligent people - at PEN, at Amnesty, etc.? She must be
one of the growing number of very smooth, very convincing
charismatic narcissistic sociopaths this country is producing in
all fields in these convoluted and morally stunted times. When
such people target you, their cunning and utter (appearance of)
belief in whatever they are saying sound completely convincing.
(maybe she has wealth and certainly potential donor connections
as well.) I think of the sorcerer Saruman (Trump, Biden, et al)
speaking from his tower, his voice impossible to resist, but the
trees of the forest warning that his mind was made of "metal and
wheels" (CEO in modern parlance) from long study of the arts of
his enemies in the Empire of Sauron.
I'm surprised she (as PEN) didn't say: "“our 'thoughts and
prayers are with' the suffering endured by so many Palestinian
civilians in Gaza.” The systematic tools of seduction, control
and overreach into all areas of the arts, writing, educational
institutions, media, by this Military Industrial Colonial Empire
are truly frightening. I'm reminded of my Palestinian friend,
Salam Khalili, a journalist and artist in East Jerusalem who
wrote and painted what he saw, for which he was arrested right
after the 1967 six day war and tortured in prison for 7 years
(freed by Amnesty and later dying young from of his wounds). He
said that for years the IDF would break into artists/writers
homes in the middle of the night and confiscate and burn all of
their art, printing presses, and also that for many years
artists were not even allowed to use red, black, white or green
paint!
We need to take what has happened to PEN, the media, and the
book banning now taking place very seriously - for the future,
for Life on Mother Earth and especially as empowered responses,
like the letter to PEN you describe, to the martyrdom of our
brothers and sisters in Gaza. Countless people around the world
are waking up because of the Palestinians! This has never
happened before on this scale.
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... why my dander gets up every time all this happy talk about
the "enlightenment" giving us all this
"progress"
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: April 18, 2024, 8:29 pm
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Thread Source: Tuesday, March 26, 2024 How The
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AGelbert > milo
"Enlightenment ideas were a giant step of evolution over what
came before."
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🤔 You need to read a bit of Tolstoy to understand how
much hypocrisy was packaged in the "Liberty, Equality,
Fraternity" 🗽 "Enlightenment" happy talk.
The Death of Ivan Ilyich. The Famous and Classic Novella by Leo
Tolstoy
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Here's a shorter one that cuts to the CHASE, so to speak:
Diary of a Lunatic. By Leo Tolstoy
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milo > AGelbert
Listening to Ivan Ilich now. Not seeing any connection. Will
slog through some more before giving up.
AGelbert > milo
The reality based punch lie is in the last 10 minutes. 😉
The message is that all the behaviors and aspirations highly
valued by educated civilized human society (e.g. well paying
career, disciplines, studies, peer group acceptance, etc.) to
make things work for our benefit are given unwarranted (to put
it mildly) paramount importance while the behaviors that
actually promote social harmony, like altruism, are considered
"foolish".
We are ALL going to be in Ivan's position sooner than we wish to
accept. If you are bored with Ivan's life before he got sick, it
is probably because you saw nothing untoward about it. Tolstoy
completely disagrees with that perception. I find no fault in
Tolstoy's sound logic and reasoning.
Cat's Paw
There ought be a good source of indoctrination!!
Indoctrination isn't a bad word.
It's the teaching of dogma.
It's catechism of any creed!
AGelbert > Cat's Paw
True, but that isn't the problem.
The problem is that teaching someone a socially constructive
doctrine is not (see: Mens rea) differentiated from teaching
someone a socially destructive one.
The morally bankrupt propagandists out there are experts at
using euphemistic legerdemain to cloud an issue so the socially
destructive behavior of TPTB remains unchallenged among the
populace.
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Degrading the Critical Thinking Skills of the populace is
integral to the modus operandi of the media controlled by TPTB.
These media water carriers for language obfuscation have gotten
so Orwellian that critical thinkers exposing media legerdemain
are continuously being attacked as being "conspiracy theorists",
"truthers", "tin foil hat wingnuts", etc. ad nauseum. 😠
When TPTB cannot just completely discredit a claim that the
media has told a bold faced LIE about something (e.g. Hamas
"sexual violence" on October 7, 2023), they become more cleverly
nuanced in order to DISTRACT the public from the irrefutable
EVIDENCE of MENS REA, in this case by Israel and the U.S., using
MORE LIES about Hamas "atrocities" on October 7, 2023 to HIDE
THE FACT that MOST ISRAELIS DIED ON October 7, 2023 from IDF
helicopter and tank fire.
The moment it 📢 gets out there that Hamas DID NOT kill
most of the Israeli civilians on October 7, 2023, but Israel
decided to kill a MASS of Israelis (SEE: Hannibal "Doctrine") so
they could blame it on Hamas and use it to "justify" Genocide,
the Israeli ☠️ ZioNazis would be exposed as the
most 😈vicious PACK OF EVIL BASTARDS ON THE PLANET!!!
You probably think there is NO WAY Israel would stoop so low,
right? Well, that assumption is evidence of how "😈
successful" media legerdemain efforts by TPTB have been.
😞
But, YEAH, the IDF killed most of the Israeli civilians on
October 7, 2023!!!
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And YEAH, the reason the 😈 top dogs in Israel
authorized, after the attack began, the "Hannibal Doctrine" to
DO THAT is because they wanted their EXCUSE to go full FINAL
SOLUTION on Gaza.
But because of media legerdemain, doubletalk and deliberately
repeated slander against Hamas by most of the media, most people
think that is a "conspiracy theory".
The following podcasts and articles show the truth of this
matter and how, even Aljazeera, a voice normally defending
Palestinians against Israeli lies, is hiding from the public how
CRMINALLY Orwellian the statements and actions of Israel ARE:
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Israeli security forces, not Hamas, caused the most Israeli
civilian fatalities on October 7, 2023, that were then utilized
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Cat's Paw > AGelbert
You have put a lot of thought into it. So did the founders. John
Locke was dedicated to education. And they were all students of
his. Jefferson certainly was.
I would teach history about the Magna Carta, about the English
civil war, about its refugees becoming our pilgrims, Puritans,
and Quakers.
And explain the importance of the Declaration of Independence,
and the constitution.
AGelbert > Cat's Paw
Yes, those worthies all were deep thinkers and knew quite well
the human history of stealing anything that isn't tied down from
the "competition". This knowledge structured their positions and
writings.
I have always been impressed, in a negative sort of way, with
how educated men could write the reasonable statement that "All
men (i.e. mankind) are created equal" and methodically continue,
as their acquisitive parents and teachers taught them, to behave
as if they believe not a word of it applies to any but land
owning fellow European Colonists in what is now the USA.
So, yeah, lots of great writing, but hardly anybody walking the
written rhetorical flourishes laced egalitarian happy talk
sentiment.
But then, I shouldn't have been taken aback by the apparent
practiced hypocrisy. The disconnect between words and actions is
more in our faces today, but the hypocrisy is the same.
Every one of those worthies you mentioned were all rigorously
schooled in reading the Judeo-Christian Bible BETWEEN THE LINES,
so as to be able to l "justify" their practiced contradiction to
absolutely every egalitarian admonition in the Scriptures.
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By the time Locke, Jefferson, and many Quaker and Pilgrim
leaders, for that matter, had reached the age of 18, they had
learned what to SAY, while also learning what to, in obvious
contradiction to everything they SAID AND WROTE (except for
their peer group of "right" people), DO, no matter how many
peasants, Injuns, etc. you were exploiting to make money "for
God and Country".
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The corruption in the USA is so advanced, that I do not see how
we are going to survive from the moral depravity of TPTB.
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Collectivist Action > milo
"We didn't achieve a classless, egalitarian society in a single
step"
Now, that's something I'd expect Bernie Sanders to say.
(Coincidentally, he's voting for Biden also.)
We're still light-years away , perhaps, from achieving a
classless, egalitarian society.
The difference between myself and Bernie is that I, and others,
think that, the founding fondling fathers, collectively, not
only had NO desire to create an egalitarian society, they also
were adamantly against it.
Nevertheless, that remains the PERMANENT mission of many of us
on the left.
AGelbert > Cat's Paw
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Our Republic ceased to exist as soon as the cork was put on the
maximum Rep Count in Congress over a century ago.
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What is under threat NOW to
we-the-oppressed-people-of-this-OLIGARCHY is the last paltry
chance to live a life of dignity.
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