Listen to a reading of this article: The best western journalists are overwhelmingly despised while the worst are acclaimed millionaires. Western civilization is built on lies, dependent on lies, powered by lies. Don't seek widespread approval. It's worthless.
As an Australian I will never forgive successive governments in this often feeble country for not going to bat for (supporting) Julian Assange. Yes, we have a selection of parliamentarians who have made their point of view clear as to the need we have to show some maturity and discard our grovelling subservience to the now disrespected Unites States with AUKUS now being the possible vehicle for WWIII.
One can't help noticing, yet again, that this will not be in the US geography but once again a long way away from any likely US mainland fallout from a war which, if located off the coast of the USA would at least have some of the realistic population concerned about their safety. Perhaps thinking differently about the totally feeble-minded Biden and his Neocon entourage, now in the thousands as he does their bidding and as always, supported by his military/industrial buddies, making a big dollar off all the US-generated hype. That's what it is all about, surely. Money, power, hegemony.
The effort made by Julian has been the only real example of truth in any writing on the US-initiated wars he addressed, the crimes committed by America and the general attitudes of NATO, US henchmen as they have become, one and all. Just observe the comments from those NATO countries, dancing to the US tune of lies and more lies and putting themselves at risk should they take a foolish action, in error or on purpose by creating a climate which requires Russia to respond. forcefully. It is easy to make a mistake. One Ukrainian mistake killed hundreds. Remember Malaysian Flight MH17, when Ukraine shot down an airliner? No, it wasn't Russia. As Secretary of State, John Kerry said (just once and never repeated it) "we know where the missile was fired from" (or similar).
Yes, we know you do.Keeping that detail a secret was just another lie, now the order of every day in the West.
Journalists have lost people's respect throughout the world and the compliance by media owners to submit to the dictates of the US is just one more example of the frightening state of the truth in the world today.
WWII showed us the effectiveness of the likes of Joseph Goebbels in controlling the thinking of the masses in Germany. This is now well overshadowed by the Western Media under instructions from the US secret army, the CIA, found under any rock in any country of their choosing where dirty deeds are the order of the day.
As well the double standards of organisations like The Guardian in being a user of Julian's material for so long and then, after his show trial arrest, showing that their loyalty to him as a source of the truth for so long was not worthy of any loyalty at all. Their behaviour stands condemned by all.
This is a fact, no doubt of it. Even Biden's bumbling is contrived - not on his part, he is well past his prime, but the image of the well-meaning, benign father figure is purposeful: he is a softie, but will do the right thing if pushed, in this case concerning Russia. He is made in the mold of Jimmy Carter, an old American stereotype that belies his murky record on Burisma, and what looks like political manipulation in a foreign country known for corruption. The US and West have proven themselves corrupt on the Assange issue alone, were there not a mountain of previous and subsequent evidence of corruption and inhuman malfeasance. How much longer are we going to accept this systems as democratic, when it resembles Ancient Rome more than anything else. Mussolini coined the word "fascist" from the emblem of that country, and it has little to do with jackboots or salutes: the Roman soldier wore tunic and sandals, and war was the coin of the realm. They had a voting Senate, but the vote was mainly for and about elites who profited the most from war. Sound familiar?
Basque journalist Pablo Gonzalez has been incarcerated incommunicado in Poland since February 28th. His family have started a petition in change.org "Respeten los derechos del periodista Pablo González, detenido en Polonia el 28 de febrero"
I’m convinced they want to kill off most of humanity to save the earth from climate change since colonizing mars isn’t happening quick enough for the ruling class.
A nuclear war would kill off most, but likely not all (especially not the rulers in their bunkers) of humanity. Whoever is unlucky enough to survive will be enslaved by the ruling class just like they are today but way way worse with the threat of violence if one steps out of line completely overt. Think of jews during the time of the pharaohs building pyramids, or the trans Atlantic slave trade. Brutality is the point. We will revert to the divine right of kings, but rather than a monarchy we will have the billionaire kings of industry - and they will “deserve” their billions because they “saved” those of us who remain.
I sound like a crazy q anon conspiracy theorist, and it’s funny because that’s the brush they paint anyone with who speaks up regarding their suspicions of the elites. For the record I hate trump and biden, and no, Hillary doesn’t eat babies and drink their blood or whatever wild shit those psychos believe.
Generally agree Caitlin, but why limit this to Western journalists? I live in Japan, and have taught top-notch, multilingual exchange students from Communication University of China ... but can not name any top notch journalists from the Far East.
Brown University educated Hiroko Kuniya (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroko_Kuniya) was a pretty good muck-raking social commentator and critic on Japan's tax-funded NHK television ... for awhile. But going off-script while interviewing a politician from the ruling LDP got her sacked and replaced by a string of pretty faces. From what I hear, neither Koreans nor Chinese would have gotten that close to the truth through state sponsored television.
With quite a few open protests, but little coverage, the Japanese corporate nation-state will be putting former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to rest tomorrow. One reason for the protests are bits and pieces of his legacy regarding individual human rights (or rather, lack of).
For example, the State Secrets Law rammed through by the supermajority Abe-led government allows no limit on how long the govt. can keep information from the citizenry, and the Japanese version of FOIA is a Kabuki show. https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20191217/p2a/00m/0na/008000c
Still searching, but have not found any Far Eastern equivalence of substack.
Just a modest suggestion, but cutting the first word from — ''Western civilization is built on lies, dependent on lies, powered by lies. Don't seek widespread approval. It's worthless.'' — would improve the accuracy, but possibly black-pill the implications of your insight. Keep up the good fight.
I guess it’s no surprise that this link https://dilyana.bg/ to investigative journalist Dilyana Gaytandzhieva can’t be shared easily on social media. It just confirms what I suspect.
Yep. For 17 continuous years, I have yet to meet anyone in the USA - including my family, friends, neighbors — who fail to fall back on their get-out-of-jail-free-card dismissive response to my criticisms of this nation (both the policies of the govt and the ordinary american’s willingness to minimize this country’s record of committing atrocities) with —
“Oh, but we’re not as bad as so & so”.
As if that argument is even relevant.
As Catherine Austin Fitts has reiterated many times — Americans feel compelled to look in our mirrors and tell ourselves the
“I-am-good” story.
Not surprising that we’ve failed to hold those criminal psychopaths, sociopaths, Cluster-B, Dark Triad, covert & overt narcissists and petty tyrants in our own personal lives accountable and responsible for their vile, malicious, vicious deeds of destructions — much less those in positions of power; we can’t even hold OURSELVES accountable for our own individual personal transgressions.
We have got to be individually and collectively the most narcissistic nation EVER!!
And, as narcissists always do, we will never apologize, acknowledge or admit the truth— or avoid blaming everyone but ourselves for our contemptible desire to dominate and control every life form in the universe.
I sincerely pray that whatever fate we have incurred in our arrogance and hubris falls upon us exclusively with little to no fall-out on others.
I am soo glad and grateful to you for being able to articulate all that I have been feeling and expressing (in my less articulate way) to others for years.
This country is a failure.
We are the quintessential example to the world of what NOT to do — of what NOT to value — of what NOT to be.
We are NOT a role model that anyone anywhere should copy or imitate or follow.
I still say — BDS the US!!
We like to claim — we are the “light” of the world.
And we are. Only the “light” we are aligned with is the Luciferian Light.
You know. The blindingly brilliant white light that blinds us so we cannot see.
Close your eyes and imagine brilliant white light.
What can you see?
When I close my eyes and imagine that form of light, I can’t see anything except light.
Which means I can’t see anything lurking or hiding within that light.
Now imagine impenetrable dark blackness. What can I see?
I can see absolutely nothing.
The same blindness either way.
The pinkish golden light allows me to SEE clearly all that would be hidden by Luciferian light and dark.
Using Ian MacGilchrist’s descriptions of the attributes of the left and right brain’s hemispheres —I am suggesting that the blinding white light is synonymous with the left brain hemisphere and the golden pinkish light is synonymous with right brain hemisphere.
I see the collective consciousness of this nation as aligned with the left brain hemisphere light.
Which I translate to —
Being reasonable with evil.
We are committed to being reasonable with evil.
For and bah humbug on us.
Thanks for hearing my cry in this wilderness of woe.
Much love to you Caitlin and eternal thanks for stating the truth and—
You have once again fully highlighted the activities of the Criminal Elite. The very issue of the "Bootlicker" problem is what would solve a big part of the problem. If only they would wake up and smell the shit they are standing in! I am in utter despair since people I know to have a bit of intelligence still cling to the same excuses. It's always the other guys fault and in this case Putin! That big "BUT" you have mentioned is brought out every time. I have stated the obvious of the rush to nuclear destruction and it brings out silence or the other guy! Tell them these criminals have purposely not gone to the table to discuss the matter and silence or disbelief! We are done for since no one will put these thugs in the prisons they made for us and this false belief that they have our best interest at heart will be our doom.
Yes and you discover those who smile slyly in your face as they manipulate you are serial abusers & stone, cold psychopaths. Discovering that nation states, corporations and institutions can be run by psychopaths means we have grown up politically speaking. Time for sane adults to stand up or it is all over.
Hard to see how they will succeed with fantasies to take over the world, with lying, living in the social darkness , ignoring everyone else, and killing millions of people in real life scenes to fulfill these fantasies of domination.
These people don’t do well in real life so
I’d say death is awaiting for these minds. No worries here that Life itself will have to pay for so serious a moral transgression into the primitive.
308,000 Timorese lost their lives under Suharto, almost half the total population: Carter's attitude was cynical. Motivation can't remove such a stain, nor that of brutal S American dictators.
As an Australian I will never forgive successive governments in this often feeble country for not going to bat for (supporting) Julian Assange. Yes, we have a selection of parliamentarians who have made their point of view clear as to the need we have to show some maturity and discard our grovelling subservience to the now disrespected Unites States with AUKUS now being the possible vehicle for WWIII.
One can't help noticing, yet again, that this will not be in the US geography but once again a long way away from any likely US mainland fallout from a war which, if located off the coast of the USA would at least have some of the realistic population concerned about their safety. Perhaps thinking differently about the totally feeble-minded Biden and his Neocon entourage, now in the thousands as he does their bidding and as always, supported by his military/industrial buddies, making a big dollar off all the US-generated hype. That's what it is all about, surely. Money, power, hegemony.
The effort made by Julian has been the only real example of truth in any writing on the US-initiated wars he addressed, the crimes committed by America and the general attitudes of NATO, US henchmen as they have become, one and all. Just observe the comments from those NATO countries, dancing to the US tune of lies and more lies and putting themselves at risk should they take a foolish action, in error or on purpose by creating a climate which requires Russia to respond. forcefully. It is easy to make a mistake. One Ukrainian mistake killed hundreds. Remember Malaysian Flight MH17, when Ukraine shot down an airliner? No, it wasn't Russia. As Secretary of State, John Kerry said (just once and never repeated it) "we know where the missile was fired from" (or similar).
Yes, we know you do.Keeping that detail a secret was just another lie, now the order of every day in the West.
Journalists have lost people's respect throughout the world and the compliance by media owners to submit to the dictates of the US is just one more example of the frightening state of the truth in the world today.
WWII showed us the effectiveness of the likes of Joseph Goebbels in controlling the thinking of the masses in Germany. This is now well overshadowed by the Western Media under instructions from the US secret army, the CIA, found under any rock in any country of their choosing where dirty deeds are the order of the day.
As well the double standards of organisations like The Guardian in being a user of Julian's material for so long and then, after his show trial arrest, showing that their loyalty to him as a source of the truth for so long was not worthy of any loyalty at all. Their behaviour stands condemned by all.
And so it is still today.
If they're not on the Ukrainian and US State Department's mutual hit list (funded by the US tax payer) well, you can't trust their reporting.
Disagree with not a single thing you said.
This is a fact, no doubt of it. Even Biden's bumbling is contrived - not on his part, he is well past his prime, but the image of the well-meaning, benign father figure is purposeful: he is a softie, but will do the right thing if pushed, in this case concerning Russia. He is made in the mold of Jimmy Carter, an old American stereotype that belies his murky record on Burisma, and what looks like political manipulation in a foreign country known for corruption. The US and West have proven themselves corrupt on the Assange issue alone, were there not a mountain of previous and subsequent evidence of corruption and inhuman malfeasance. How much longer are we going to accept this systems as democratic, when it resembles Ancient Rome more than anything else. Mussolini coined the word "fascist" from the emblem of that country, and it has little to do with jackboots or salutes: the Roman soldier wore tunic and sandals, and war was the coin of the realm. They had a voting Senate, but the vote was mainly for and about elites who profited the most from war. Sound familiar?
Basque journalist Pablo Gonzalez has been incarcerated incommunicado in Poland since February 28th. His family have started a petition in change.org "Respeten los derechos del periodista Pablo González, detenido en Polonia el 28 de febrero"
This is the way it always has been. People in power want fawning courtiers and dutiful stenographer, not truth.
The reaction to "The Prince" is most instructive.
I’m convinced they want to kill off most of humanity to save the earth from climate change since colonizing mars isn’t happening quick enough for the ruling class.
A nuclear war would kill off most, but likely not all (especially not the rulers in their bunkers) of humanity. Whoever is unlucky enough to survive will be enslaved by the ruling class just like they are today but way way worse with the threat of violence if one steps out of line completely overt. Think of jews during the time of the pharaohs building pyramids, or the trans Atlantic slave trade. Brutality is the point. We will revert to the divine right of kings, but rather than a monarchy we will have the billionaire kings of industry - and they will “deserve” their billions because they “saved” those of us who remain.
I sound like a crazy q anon conspiracy theorist, and it’s funny because that’s the brush they paint anyone with who speaks up regarding their suspicions of the elites. For the record I hate trump and biden, and no, Hillary doesn’t eat babies and drink their blood or whatever wild shit those psychos believe.
Generally agree Caitlin, but why limit this to Western journalists? I live in Japan, and have taught top-notch, multilingual exchange students from Communication University of China ... but can not name any top notch journalists from the Far East.
Brown University educated Hiroko Kuniya (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroko_Kuniya) was a pretty good muck-raking social commentator and critic on Japan's tax-funded NHK television ... for awhile. But going off-script while interviewing a politician from the ruling LDP got her sacked and replaced by a string of pretty faces. From what I hear, neither Koreans nor Chinese would have gotten that close to the truth through state sponsored television.
With quite a few open protests, but little coverage, the Japanese corporate nation-state will be putting former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to rest tomorrow. One reason for the protests are bits and pieces of his legacy regarding individual human rights (or rather, lack of).
For example, the State Secrets Law rammed through by the supermajority Abe-led government allows no limit on how long the govt. can keep information from the citizenry, and the Japanese version of FOIA is a Kabuki show. https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20191217/p2a/00m/0na/008000c
One will find no Far Eastern version of Julian Assange or Ed Snowden. But hey, we can get new Beatles footage ... http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20220925_12/
Still searching, but have not found any Far Eastern equivalence of substack.
Just a modest suggestion, but cutting the first word from — ''Western civilization is built on lies, dependent on lies, powered by lies. Don't seek widespread approval. It's worthless.'' — would improve the accuracy, but possibly black-pill the implications of your insight. Keep up the good fight.
Cheers from Japan Caitlin,
— steve
I guess it’s no surprise that this link https://dilyana.bg/ to investigative journalist Dilyana Gaytandzhieva can’t be shared easily on social media. It just confirms what I suspect.
What we need now is intellectual bravery:
https://joshketry.substack.com/p/what-we-need-now-is-intellectual?r=7oa9d&utm_medium=ios
Yep. For 17 continuous years, I have yet to meet anyone in the USA - including my family, friends, neighbors — who fail to fall back on their get-out-of-jail-free-card dismissive response to my criticisms of this nation (both the policies of the govt and the ordinary american’s willingness to minimize this country’s record of committing atrocities) with —
“Oh, but we’re not as bad as so & so”.
As if that argument is even relevant.
As Catherine Austin Fitts has reiterated many times — Americans feel compelled to look in our mirrors and tell ourselves the
“I-am-good” story.
Not surprising that we’ve failed to hold those criminal psychopaths, sociopaths, Cluster-B, Dark Triad, covert & overt narcissists and petty tyrants in our own personal lives accountable and responsible for their vile, malicious, vicious deeds of destructions — much less those in positions of power; we can’t even hold OURSELVES accountable for our own individual personal transgressions.
We have got to be individually and collectively the most narcissistic nation EVER!!
And, as narcissists always do, we will never apologize, acknowledge or admit the truth— or avoid blaming everyone but ourselves for our contemptible desire to dominate and control every life form in the universe.
I sincerely pray that whatever fate we have incurred in our arrogance and hubris falls upon us exclusively with little to no fall-out on others.
I am soo glad and grateful to you for being able to articulate all that I have been feeling and expressing (in my less articulate way) to others for years.
This country is a failure.
We are the quintessential example to the world of what NOT to do — of what NOT to value — of what NOT to be.
We are NOT a role model that anyone anywhere should copy or imitate or follow.
I still say — BDS the US!!
We like to claim — we are the “light” of the world.
And we are. Only the “light” we are aligned with is the Luciferian Light.
You know. The blindingly brilliant white light that blinds us so we cannot see.
Close your eyes and imagine brilliant white light.
What can you see?
When I close my eyes and imagine that form of light, I can’t see anything except light.
Which means I can’t see anything lurking or hiding within that light.
Now imagine impenetrable dark blackness. What can I see?
I can see absolutely nothing.
The same blindness either way.
The pinkish golden light allows me to SEE clearly all that would be hidden by Luciferian light and dark.
Using Ian MacGilchrist’s descriptions of the attributes of the left and right brain’s hemispheres —I am suggesting that the blinding white light is synonymous with the left brain hemisphere and the golden pinkish light is synonymous with right brain hemisphere.
I see the collective consciousness of this nation as aligned with the left brain hemisphere light.
Which I translate to —
Being reasonable with evil.
We are committed to being reasonable with evil.
For and bah humbug on us.
Thanks for hearing my cry in this wilderness of woe.
Much love to you Caitlin and eternal thanks for stating the truth and—
REFUSING to be reasonable with evil. 🧚♀️
You have once again fully highlighted the activities of the Criminal Elite. The very issue of the "Bootlicker" problem is what would solve a big part of the problem. If only they would wake up and smell the shit they are standing in! I am in utter despair since people I know to have a bit of intelligence still cling to the same excuses. It's always the other guys fault and in this case Putin! That big "BUT" you have mentioned is brought out every time. I have stated the obvious of the rush to nuclear destruction and it brings out silence or the other guy! Tell them these criminals have purposely not gone to the table to discuss the matter and silence or disbelief! We are done for since no one will put these thugs in the prisons they made for us and this false belief that they have our best interest at heart will be our doom.
Yes and you discover those who smile slyly in your face as they manipulate you are serial abusers & stone, cold psychopaths. Discovering that nation states, corporations and institutions can be run by psychopaths means we have grown up politically speaking. Time for sane adults to stand up or it is all over.
Hard to see how they will succeed with fantasies to take over the world, with lying, living in the social darkness , ignoring everyone else, and killing millions of people in real life scenes to fulfill these fantasies of domination.
These people don’t do well in real life so
I’d say death is awaiting for these minds. No worries here that Life itself will have to pay for so serious a moral transgression into the primitive.
Love you Caitlin! Nice straight speech!
I did translate in italian and posting in few minutes on my Substack blog!
308,000 Timorese lost their lives under Suharto, almost half the total population: Carter's attitude was cynical. Motivation can't remove such a stain, nor that of brutal S American dictators.