tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18389680.post6973678790785542934..comments2024-03-27T19:17:30.633+01:00Comments on stan van houcke: BBC Propagandastanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02966505503468040742noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18389680.post-71732298794391380282017-01-02T10:27:50.499+01:002017-01-02T10:27:50.499+01:00"Watergate was a perfect example the press wa..."Watergate was a perfect example the press was subordinated the power. The Watergate exposures happened to take place at exactly the same time as another set of exposures namely the esposures of COINTELPRO. It's interesting I have to explain that(to you)....,because it's vastly more significant than Wategate;that already makes my point. COINTELPRO was a program of subversion,carried out not by a couple of petty crooks but by the national political police,the FBI under four administrations........it was aimed at the entire new left, at the women's movement, the whole black movement, it was extremely broad....Watergate was a case where half of US power defended itself against a person who had obviously stepped out of line, and the fact the press thought that was important shows they think powerful people are to be able to defend themselves.Now whether there was a matter of principle involved happens to be easily checked in this case....One tiny part of the COINTELPRO was far more significant in terms of principle,and if you look at the whole program it's not even a discussion.....COINTELPRO,there couldn't be a more dramatic example of the subordination of the educated opinion to power here in England as well as in the United States"<br />"On any of those examples you can demonstrate that there's a severe distortion of what the fact of the matter are,this has nothing to do with left and right as I've been stressing and it has left the population pretty confused and marginalised.<br />A free press would just tell you the truth......"Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18389680.post-60315441443976559362017-01-02T10:27:18.161+01:002017-01-02T10:27:18.161+01:00In de link hierboven dus
Noam Chomsky at his be...In de link hierboven dus <br /><br />Noam Chomsky at his best. "A free press would just tell you the truth."<br /><br />"There's a filtering system that starts at kindergarten,...all the way through ,not 100 % but pretty effective...It selects for obedience and subordination "(-" So stroppy people won't make it to positions of influence?")"behaviour problems ...'he doesn't get along too well with his colleagues'....etc" <br />"I know some of the best and best known investigative reporters in the United States ...who's attitude towards the media is much more cynical than mine.In fact they regard the media as a sham and they know and they consciously talk about how they try to play it like a violin.If they see a little opening they try to squeeze something in that ordinarily wouldn't make it through...."<br />(-"How can you know I'm self censoring?") "I'm sure you belief anything you're saying.But what I'm saying ,if you believe anything different,you wouldn't be sitting where you're sitting....."<br />"Up intill the 1960's there was indeed a kind of social democratic press which sort of represented much of the interests of working people ,ordinary people and so on....by the '60's that was all gone.And it disappeared under the pressure of capital resources.What was left was overwhelmingly the sort of centre to right press.Let's take the Vietnam War... In the British press,just check how many times the american war in Vietnam was described as a US attack against South(!)-Vietnam(-ese civilians) beginning with outright aggression in 1961 and escalating in massive aggression in 1965(napalm etc.). If you can find 0,001% of the coverage saying that ,you'll surprise me....In a free press a 100% of the press would've been saying that....Now that's just a matter of fact. It has nothing to do with left and right"<br />(-"The Gulf War.Looking at the press in Britain.... I was very,very well aware of the anti Gulf War dissidents,the no blood for oil campaign.")<br />"No, that's not the dissidents. Saddam Hussein's attack on Kuwait took place on august 2. Within a few day the great fear in Washington was that Saddam Hussein was going to withdraw and leave a public government....The US and Britain therefor moved very quickly to try to undercut the danger of withdraw,by late august negotiation offers were coming from Iraq,calling for a negotiated Iraqi withdrawal. The press would not publish it, here. It never published it in England.To my knowledge the first reverence to this in England is actually an Article I wrote in the Guardian,which was in early in January..."<br />Ronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18389680.post-70698495517639705592017-01-01T12:38:38.162+01:002017-01-01T12:38:38.162+01:00There was no “penetration of the US electricity gr...There was no “penetration of the US electricity grid.” The truth was undramatic and banal. Burlington Electric, after receiving a Homeland Security notice sent to all US utility companies about the malware code found in the DNC system, searched all their computers and found the code in a single laptop that was not connected to the electric grid.<br /><br />Apparently, the Post did not even bother to contact the company before running its wildly sensationalistic claims, so they had to issue their own statement to the Burlington Free Press which debunked the Post’s central claim (emphasis in original): “We detected the malware in a single Burlington Electric Department laptop NOT connected to our organization’s grid systems.” Glenn GreenwaldRonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18389680.post-71250000472064759182017-01-01T12:24:23.295+01:002017-01-01T12:24:23.295+01:00Once again....Fake News by the Washington Post
&q...Once again....Fake News by the Washington Post <br />"Russia Hysteria Infects WashPost Again: False Story About Hacking US Electric Grid" ,Glenn Greenwald<br />http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2016/december/31/russia-hysteria-infects-washpost-again-false-story-about-hacking-us-electric-grid/ Ronnoreply@blogger.com