Dad and the Untold History of Palestine and Israel I'm publishing this on Dad's birthday, seven years after his passing. It's a kind of tribute to his legacy and character. Most of my life was spent trying to hide from his overbearing pragmatism and bullying. Dad was very much a practical man with a real world orientation to getting things done. I was a dreamer and an idealist. After finishing school, I couldn't wait to escape to the other side of Canada and make a life there. Nearly thirty years later, I returned. Dad and I got to know each other again as different people and we became closer than we had ever been before. Things and perceptions do change. We learn things.that were not as we thought or as we were told. Both of us changed and adapted to the fresh reality, and that change of perception provided me with many wonderful years of a relationships with a man who was not only my father, he became a friend and comrade too. I grew up with the perception of Israel being a heroic underdog project in the face of violent and backward religious zealots. There was endless media that romanticized Israeli courage and innovation - movies like Exodus with Paul Newman - and TV news coverage of Middle East wars that reinforced the idea that God was naturally on the side of Israel. It was all propaganda, and it persisted as long as TV and movies were monopolized by a handfull of people who had reason to shape public perception in favor of Israel. But now there is the Internet and with it, independent journalists who have the resources to tell a different version of the truth. In his final years, I was amazed to see how receptive Dad was to hearing my point of view on various subjects, even when they challenged his views. He really did try to understand and sometimes he even came around. True to his nature, that was indeed practical. After all, what's the point of clinging to ideas when doing so in the face of contrary evidence can distance you from the love of family? Attached to this post is a twenty minute video, The Untold History of Palestine and Israel. If you click on the Einstein meme, you'll be able to see a two minute clip to get a taste of it. It will propably conflict with everything that you thought you knew about the Israelis and Palestinians. We were all raised with Israeli propaganda and shared it as the indisputable consensus of truth. Me too, up until five or six years ago when I started to listen to the other side of stories. Since then, for me nothing has been indisputable and I've discovered why so many people now say we live in an Empire of Lies. It takes courage and integrity to listen to ideas that challenge authority and the consensus of all those around you. If you dare even speak of them, you will risk ridicule and shunning from the majority of people who adopt their beliefs on the basis of primitive tribalism, the philosophy of 'Go along to get along.' ... even if that means WW3. Dad was a very practical man in his later years. He dropped his ideologies and fixed beliefs in order to hear with his heart. Watch the whole video on YouTube by clicking here: The Untold History of Palestine and Israel.
CBC propagandists are ignorant, brainwashed and without humor On his Twitter channel, I challenged CBC reporter, Evan Dyer, on his brainwashed Haiti narrative and pointed him to Dan Cohen (@DanCohen3000) who is an independent journalist with first-hand Haiti knowledge and experience. Dyer responded with a propaganda document from the NED (CIA) and a smear of Dan for his T-shirt. What do you see here: a minion from a Russian meme factory or a journalist mocking Russiagate - the american govt plot to make you hate Russia? Hint: #BrainwashedBrainwashers like @EvanDyerCBC just don't get it. Another hint: that's a Cub Scout salute.
Ukrainian spokestranny fooled into exposing western propaganda This is pretty damned funny, unless you're refusing to believe you've been brainwashed by overwhelming nato propaganda. From the Twitter feed of @wyattreed13 - Wyatt Reed of @thegrayzonenews. After threatening to "hunt down" so-called "Russian propagandists" around the world, Kiev's infamous spokesperson Sarah Ashton-Cirillo was fired, then rehired. Now Cirillo is likely to be fired once again after being fooled by Russian pranksters posing as former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. In the conversation, Cirillo: Admits their company has been reduced to 14 soldiers by disastrous counter-offensive Claims“Russians are not European… Russians are Asian. Ultimately they do come from the Mongols, they come from a grouping of people who want to be slaves.” “I wish the rest of Europe and the Western world understood that we are protecting European values and Western values... These people [Russians] are not human. They are enemies of humanity.” Claims Dugin’s daughter “wasn’t some woman who accidentally killed. This was an evil creature who died a death they deserved.” Admits decision to fire Cirillo was “political” and came “the highest level” — so high that it didn’t come from Ukraine itself but “New York.” Claims they were fired because they served as the “expert witness” in trial of fellow U.S. citizen Gonzalo Lira. “The Republicans are trying to use the case of Gonzalo Lira —the ‘Russian asset’ that I testified against — as to try to say we don’t like free speech.” “I do believe that they were very angry in Washington that I was being talked about with Gonzalo Lira, that the two Americans were being discussed, and [the Ukrainians] were told, ‘make it go away.’” “Because I made it clear: Russian propagandists will be hunted down.” Acknowledges that the Kiev regime's constant lies are jeopardizing relations with other Western states: “If we are making promises we can’t keep and not being realistic, our partners can’t trust us.” “One of the problems is that the messaging that we have coming out is truly fantastic [based in fantasy].” “That’s good for fighting the Russians. It’s not good when we’re using this in discussions with our partners in Washington, our partners in Brussels, and our partners in especially the Eastern European nations.” Throws Zelensky under the bus — “it’s been 19 months. It’s not about theatre anymore. It’s not about populism on the world stage.” Brags about personally convincing the Kiev regime’s “partners” at CNN to self-censor their coverage of foreign mercenaries in Ukraine. But when asked later about the British merc recently executed by his own people, Cirillo's tune changes. “We have a terrible problem with most foreign fighters here because they are just a step above mercenaries, and they come here because all they know is warfare.” “And while I defend them in public, in private I know many of them have very far-right leanings, so there’s some Nazi groups… many of them are doing this because they have no lives in their own countries.” “We have security risks, and more importantly we have morale and psychological issues because foreign soldiers are here for the money — most of them.” “And those people are gonna be the ones that are willing to engage in drugs, willing to engage in fundraising where they’re putting the money in their own pocket.” “It did not surprise me that someone was murdered. What surprises me is that we’re still allowing this to happen.” Claims Maria Butina was a “terrible spy” and “a step above a whore,” and insists she her current political position was a reward from Putin, which is “the reason that we know the [Russian] Duma can never be taken seriously.” Then, after being offered a (fake) deputy position Ukraine’s rubber-stamp legislature by (fake) Poroshenko, Cirillo takes the bait, literally jolting upright and immediately accepting: “Wow, sir. I would be honored, sir.”
Sieg Vile - Brainwashed Canadian politicians salute nazis! A big part of my Whitside childhood was listening to the old folks commiserate about adventures and politics during WW2. Pappy Gilbertson was one of the heroes of the Battle of Britain. Uncle Bill flew against Nazis in North Africa and Italy. At the time I had no trouble identifying good guys and bad guys. It was constantly drilled into me that nazis were evil war criminals. Apparently there is now some doubt. Since WW2, we have been afflicted with seventy plus years of overwhelming Cold War propaganda that has distorted history in order to keep Canadian citizens sufficiently hateful towards Russians.Now that brainwashing has so infested Canadian minds that our so-called leaders are now giving standing ovations in parliament to SS nazis. Canada's politicians and mainstream journalists are more brainwashed than the rest of us because they are richly rewarded with money, connections and power to believe what they're told. Canadian citizens are simple people who just want to work hard and provide a good life for their children without getting stuck in the mud of politics. Unfortunately, choosing that path makes them simpletons who are easily manipulated. I know because I was in that head space for most of my life. I was a brainwashed simpleton too. Yes, it takes some nerve to tell the vast majority of Canadians that they're all brainwashed but there is prescedent and reason. After all, 70+ million Germans in 1938 were convinced that it was the rest of the western world that was deluded and brainwashed, not them. They knew they were the good guys ... just as most Canadians do now. How do Canadians know they're the good guys now? Their TVs, radios and newspapers tell them so. And political leaders assure them Russia's dictator Putin is evil, insane or both. It seems such an overwhelming and obvious consensus, how could any sane citizen doubt it? You would have to be crazy to risk losing friends and family relations to tell everyone else they're deluded. But here I am doing just that. The machinations, reasons and perpetrators of this grand deception are too much to convey in this short post. My only hope is to use the nazi fiasco in parliament to nudge you into considering that something is really wrong, and the possibility that you are not invulnerable to propaganda and brainwashing. I suspect that my family is in denial about how close we are to fighting in a real war once again. Before you send your kids off to fight in Ukraine, you might want to give an ear to anti-war journalists who are questioning american and nato propaganda. Such research is tedious and won't be respected by those around you but it may save you from severe disillusionment and heartbreak.
america lost the arms race to Russia I was raised on american and british propaganda. And, because of that, I believed I was blessed with the same kind of exceptionalism exhibited by John Wayne and all the other WW2 war heroes of movies and TV. 60+ years later, I now know all those stories of WW2 were mostly lies. america and britain did not win the war as I was told by my parents and by Hollywood. Russia and the Soviet Union defeated Nazi Germany while sacrificing 25 milion of its citizens in the effort. Not only that, Russia was then such an immediate threat that Japan decided to capitulate ... before america gratuitously and sadistically dropped its atomic bombs murdering around two hundred thousand civilians.. Andrei Martyanov is now a loyal american living in the Seattle area. He immigrated from Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union..But before that he was an officer in the Russian navy. Despite his loyalty to america, he is now writing books and podcasting about military strategy and doctrine. It doesn't take long to understand he is indeed an expert and that he has little respect for military and political leaders in the west. I believe him when he says western military leaders are uneducated and incompetent, if not corrupt flunkies of the Military Industrial Complex.. Despite second-rate opponents, america has not been on the winning side of a war since WW2 despite many invasions and despite its obscene investment in weapons and bases around the world. And now we learn america has lost the arms race to Russia. For those of us who were able to shed the blinders of Hollywood propaganda, our world has been turned upside down. america, britain and Canada are no longer automatically assumed to be the good guys or even competent. How could america lose the arms race when taxpayers spent so much money? I can only assume now that we were robbed by military contractors. Russia now has the best weapons plus the industrial infrastructure to produce the greatest quantities. Incompetent leaders in the west destroyed our capacity for industrial warfare by off-shoring such industry to China. But those same idiots provoke war with incessant efforts to destabilize Russia with encroachment, sanctions, and sponsored rebellions. And worse, with war propaganda aimed at its own citizens - you and me. We've all been brainwashed; only now, some of us are turning away from 'normal' news journalists (eg CBC, Globe&Mail) to find the truth from citizen journalists like Andrei Martyanov, The Grayzone or Jimmy Dore. As I said, our world is upside down when we learn to give more respect to a pothead comedian like Jimmy Dore than to establishment media. (Establishment media that is all subsidized heavily by the government.) Please follow Andrei Martyanov's videos on YouTube to learn for yourself whether you can trust what he says. And stop trusting the CBC and similar sources when they tell you anything about Russia or China. If you, your family and friends are all swayed by american propaganda, then there is little reason to think the people brainwashing you aren't brainwashed as well.
A Challenge to Brainwashed Brainwashers from Steve Kirsch When confronted with uncomfortable truths, a favorite expression of complacent simpletons is "Oh well, what can you do?" Well, here's something you can do: you can accept the challenge from Steve Kirsch. Better yet, you can urge authorities and media demagogues to accept his challenge. Wikipedia (hardly a source to be trusted) will tell you that Steven Kirsch "is an American entrepreneur. He has started several companies and was one of two people who independently invented the optical mouse. Kirsch has been both a philanthropic supporter of medical research, and a promoter of misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines." Yeah, right. In other words, no need to think or research for yourself - just trust the authorities. Obviously this is not good enough for millions of Canadians so a growing number of critics are becoming braver in challenging authorities who are drunk on their own brainwashing. It's time to put up or shut up. Here's the challenge: if you or any other expert on Covid propaganda thinks that you can actually prove his 'disinformation' wrong, Kirsch is eager to debate you publicly. The goal is simply to find the truth. In particular, you are invited to debate his most contentious charges: Vaccines are killing people The medical community is inept; how could it not acknowledge that vaccines cause autism? Vaccines cause autism and other chronic health conditions There are no studies that compare the FULLY unvaccinated with the FULLY vaccinated that shows statistically significant better health outcomes for the FULLY vaccinated on a broad range of health conditions (i.e., chronic diseases). The COVID vaccines have killed more people than they’ve saved Masks don’t work Social distancing doesn’t work Lockdowns did more harm than good Mandates are unethical The government of Canada is being pressured to abandon democracy and surrender to tyrannical edicts from the World Health Organization in the event of future pandemics. Are you really ready to surrender your future health based on trust and the silly hope that powerful, monied interests would never abuse your trust? Especially when they have been so wrong about so much and are afraid to debate.
Brainwashed Brainwasher: the best and most hilarious example ever Learning the truth about propaganda can be really funny. Most of the so-called journalists, politicians and others lying to us daily are not doing so knowingly. Although they spread the brainwashing, they are as brainwashed as most of their audiences.They simply trust their bosses, the politicians they interview, the military and intelligence sources that are their sole sources of information. Like everyone else, they refuse to believe that respected officials would lie to them. Here we have an example of a woman who got herself into a job as Communcations Director for the National Endowment for Democracy mainly because she didn't ask her employers any awkward questions. As the Communications Director, it's her job to inform journalists about the work of NED. So she's a brainwashed brainwasher brainwashing other brainwashed brainwashers. What better way to convince people of a lie than to actually believe it yourself? In complete naiveté, she approached journalists at the Grayzone to ask why they kept claiming her organization was associated with the CIA. After all, her superiors, mainstream journalists and everyone else around her said that was ridiculous.
Why Do You Trust the Lying Mainstream Media? User Rating: 4 / 5 Total Votes: 1 Self-righteous Canadians can't imagine why large numbers of their fellow citizens are disappointed with them. Well, here is about eleven minutes of authorities and media figures condemning people like me for resisting vax hysteria and mandates. Our friends and families chose to believe these overpaid brainwashed brainwashers and treat resisters like morons or traitors - with nothing but blind subservience to authority to guide them. Since then, report after report has come out to prove our resistance was correct. We were never a threat to the health of anyone. And we vax resisters did not overburden the health system. Meanwhile, many of those who believed the endless lies of government authorities - and still do in the case of other issues such as war - have suffered from vaccine injuries and the economic impacts of lockdowns. Most of us who were treated like selfish idiots want to heal the wounds. I, for one, am not looking to rub anyone's nose in their arrogance or poor judgement.But it would be nice to get back to some semblance of normalcy where we can actually discuss ongoing threats to democracy and freedom with respect and patience.
Brainwashing and Anticipatory Systems All mobile living things have an anticipatory system to model their world in order to avoid danger and to find resources. In humans, it operates at an unconscious level and it anticipates social as well as natural dangers. The reason people don't want to know about truths that challenge their mental models is that they unconsciously anticipate the social dangers entailed in changing their minds. They then rationalize their denial and resistance to contrary information by invoking the authority of consensus or any vaguely plausible explanation. We are victims of our evolutionary psychology. While Rosen's book is generally available in online bookstores, it is rather technical and very expensive (about $235 CA). A.H. Louie, a mathematical biologist in Ottawa, has produced a short expository introduction to Rosen's theory: Robert Rosen's anticipatory systems. As far as I know, neither Rosen nor Louie have extrapolated their research into the domain of propaganda psychology. I have done that on my own to provoke discussion and because it seems like a valid inference to me. You can learn more about Louie and his work in relational biology at ahlouie.com.
Eleven Minutes of Media Falsehoods User Rating: 4 / 5 Total Votes: 1 The first rule of propaganda is to repeat it incessantly. So it becomes 'normal' as if everyone believes it, not just the overpaid hacks spewing it. The Grayzone collected all the clips from MSNBC of their so-called journalists lying about a Russian disinformation campaign and pointing to 'Hamilton68' as their source. It's overwhelming to the point of being sickening. Read the whole story behind this video at Racket News, the website of Matt Taibbi, the heroic journalist exposing the american government campaign to demonize Russia and lead us into war.
Admitting We've Been Brainwashed Requires Effort, Courage and Humility I would love to say that I'm no longer brainwashed. But every time I do, my nose gets rubbed in my own hubris. I recently made an offhand comment about the failure of Soviet-style central planning but, fortunately, I was corrected by friends who shed a light on the issue where I never really looked before. Being brainwashed is forgiveable I suppose. After all, seventy plus years of Cold War propaganda has left me - and everyone I know - with a lot of unquestioned bad habits of thought. Most people can't see it. They refuse to even entertain the question and, in fact, they double down on denial of government/media brainwashing when challenged. It just sounds too crazy to them. They think it's impossible that all their friends, family and neighbors could be deluded. They can't imagine that their elected representatives or their trusted news sources could be similarly deluded. Or worse, be in on the brainwashing. Then they look at those promoting contrary narratives - the Trumpers or the Freedom Truckers or the Putin apologists - and that settles the issue for them. Only deplorables doubt official narratives. They know they're not brainwashed because their corporate news sources reassure them that they're not. It doesn't occur to them to wonder about how much influence governments have over the media - directly and indirectly. Maybe they don't know how much the media, especially newspapers in Canada, depend on govenment subsidies, not to mention access to critical information. The fact is everything is stacked against individuals questioning propaganda that is supported by overwhelming consensus. Attached to this post, are a couple of the most important documents released lately on this issue. They provide details and insight on revelations coming from Twitter executives about how the social media company was pressured by american government agents and politicians to help manufacture Russiagate in order to demonize both Donald Trump and Russia. If you don't know that the FBI investigation into Russian collusion with the Trump campaign cleared them both, it's because that news was largely hidden from you. These articles tell the story, if only you'll give them a chance. (And don't you dare dismiss me as a Trump supporter; I'm not.) But that's my point with this post; there is a lot of reading required - and reflection - that goes against what brainwashed people think they know. And it doesn't stop there; if officials and journalists will misrepresent one story, there are likely many more like them. The cognitive dissonance is personally formidable; it's so much easier to just accept what everyone else accepts as true. But the social dissonance is even worse. If you change your mind because you've learned something new, you will risk the same kind of shaming and alienation that you have heaped on the believers of 'fake news' yourself. It's hard to imagine the courage required on top of all the hard work. The final barrier to questioning your brainwashing is the embarrassment of admitting that you've been wrong for so long. Fortunately, you're in good company; almost everyone has been fooled including the brainwashed brainwashers who have invested their careers in sharing unquestioned delusions with their vast audiences. It will be even harder for them to find the humility to consider that the truth is more important than their personal esteem.
The origin of "self-deceived deceivers of war" Well, so much for thinking 'Brainwashed Brainwashers' was original. As I learned from this article by Andrew Bacevich, the idea originated with Hannah Arendt. At least I'm in most excellent company trying to reason through the psychology of propaganda and brainwashing. The question either phrase poses to us - especially for journalists - is why don't we give counter arguments more weight before imposing official narratives on trusting audiences? There are sound scientific reasons and research that provide answers. Unfortunately, they're not easy reading unless, like me, you're fascinated by such things. And that, in itself, is part of the issue. Research is not easy for most people, especially when findings counter what you already know - or think you know. Worse, in the back of our minds when confronted with challenging new information, we suspect that if we are convinced by it, the new information will become an onerous burden; we will be forced to admit we were fooled in the first place and now have to change our mind. Is that easy to do when we have already showered our beliefs on friends and family? Of course not. We will feel like a fool. Worse, we will be shamed and ostracized by those around us just as we shamed and ostracized others who doubted our beliefs. The thought of sounding like a Trump deplorable or a Freedom Trucker is just too much for most people. So they refuse to even consider contrary information and retreat into the safety of consensus reality espoused by the Brainwashed Brainwashers of corporate media. Imagine how much harder it is for so-called journalists who have made a career of avoiding the truth and whose paycheck depends on not questioning the positions of their employers or understanding the truth. At the bottom of this is another question: who is feeding the BBs and self-deceived deceivers with the false narratives in the first place? There must be a select few at the top of the food chain who are crafting the lies and expecting the BBs to sell them to audiences without questioning - no matter how ridiculous. The workings of our minds are so ephemeral and slippery it's hard to really know, even if we're talking about ourself. The one person we lie to more than any other is our self. Read the story at the Boston Globe website: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/03/13/opinion/self-deceived-deceivers-war/
Tucker Carlson Exposes January 6 Committee’s Lies From video presented on TV news of the January 6, 2021 Washington Capitol protest/riot, we were given the impression that there was a violent insurrection underway. If, however, you saw all of the video shot that day - not just the video cherry-picked to emphasize violence and ignore the obvious complicity of the police - you would not get the same impression. Tucker Carlson of Fox News was provided with all of the video and he used it to make exactly this point on his show. TV network news producers, in league with anti-Trump politicians and bureaucrats, conspired to destroy the credibility of the former president's support base by feeding the public with an incriminating but fake video narrative. In this half-hour clip from the Jimmy Dore Show, Jimmy and Max Blumenthal of the GrayZone review Carlson's exposé. The discussion offers insights of critical media analysis and generally provides a wonderful education on the duplicitous mainstream media that about half of our country still trusts for the truth. Watch the analysis of Jimmy Dore and Max Blumenthal at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4cB5DVOc-c
Games Tackle the Villainy of Propaganda Gamers will sense the deceptions of #BrainwashedBrainwashers before propaganda-addled TV audiences. And they'll have fun learning how. "Games are great tools for asking questions. It's fine to try to tell people to seek out the source material behind the stories they read online, but the average person doesn't do that. Games about disinformation create spaces where there is a heavy focus on being critical about social media, and a reward for demonstrating an understanding of how disinformation works." Read the whole article at https://www.gamesindustry.biz/games-tackle-the-villainy-of-propaganda
Nord Stream Sabotage - Lying by Omission Perhaps the one news story that most incriminates american political manipulation is the blowing up of the Nord Stream Two pipeline. Esteemed journalist Seymour Hersh revealed details of how american navy divers planted the bombs and how Norwegian agents later triggered it. Most citizens in the West never saw this reporting in their TV and radio news or newspapers. They never heard or saw any discussion of what it means when an ally destroys another allie's critical infrastructure in order to force compliance with the american Deep State war agenda. Sadly, citizens simply accept this news void as a sign that it's not important. If they thought about it for even a moment, they would realize their opinions and beliefs are being manipulated. Read the full story at FAIR, the journal of the national media watch group.
The Key to Freedom from Propaganda - Brainwashed Brainwashers The key to imperialist propaganda agendas are the #BrainwashedBrainwashers - journalists who buy into Deep State narratives because their jobs and community prestige depend on not challenging either their bosses or their audience. We must work to flip them. This, however, raises a big issue with the term 'brainwash'. No one wants to think they're brainwashed even though we all are in one way or another. If we insist that the word 'brainwashing' is pejorative, then it will be denied; no one will reflect on their own experience of it, let alone change. Don't shoot the messengers; wake them up gently. Their incomes, communities, lifestyles and self-worth depend on sleeping on the job. “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair
Elephants in the Canadian Election Interference Room Talk about hysteria over Chinese election interference ignores the greatest sources of propaganda and interference in Canada. So-called journalists see and write only what keeps their paychecks coming.