The font of all knowledge, sorry: propaganda …

 

As you, dear readers, know or have suspected: I’m not a great fan of the MSM and the way they ‘report’, nudging and spinning news items, always preferring gossip, i.e. leaks from ]sources’, to doing their own research. One of my pet peeves (I’m polite here …) is that the whole lot of formerly independent papers are looking more and more like things out of 1930s Germany, following scripts given by the almighty propaganda ministry. On top of that, all those powerful chief editors, correspondents and columnists, happily trying to force U-Turns on the PM, working for ‘regime change’ – these powerful people seem to be afraid to publish something when apparently there is no ‘guidance’.

Today’s papers are a case in point (see here), or rather: this morning’s print editions. I cannot fathom why the whole bunch went with “Poison Nurse in the dock” while surely the news from Kiev ought to have taken the top spot? After all, Russia was shelling the whole country since early yesterday morning. There was even a video which made the rounds, of the BBC ‘Kiev correspondent’ ducking when he heard explosions – here, if you must – but nooo:  ‘poisonous, baby-killing nurse is what we need to be exited about this morning. Only the DM and the Guardian gave ‘Teh War’ top billing.

 

Back to the Ukraine, yesterday’s bombardment and the shamelessness with which this is reported, for example on the front news page of the BBC. Here’s a screenshot taken early today:

Side-by-side ignorant readers are told that, yes, brutal Russia attacked \innocent’ civilians but actually Russia is ‘exhausted’ according to GCHQ. The DM however must take the prize for outright, blatant propaganda. Their online frontpage is topped by this headline:

“’Desperate’ Putin’s double trouble: UK intelligence chief says Russian despot is losing support at home and his ‘exhausted’ troops are running out of supplies – as defiant Zelensky taunts Kremlin that missile barrage which killed 11 will not break Ukraine” (link)

Could someone please explain to me why it is that ‘11 killed’ in those attacks  yesterday are so brutal on the one hand while on the other nobody in the West and the Western media ever mentioned the people killed by Ukrainian shelling on a daily basis in the Donbas region, for eight years? Is ‘collateral damage’ acceptable when it occurs due to western or in this case Ukrainian bombardments? 

Moreover, according to The Times, this was ‘carnage’ (link, paywalled). I don’t need to point out that the eight years of continuous shelling of the Donbas region by the ukraine was never ‘carnage’, it wasn’t even worthy of reports in our unbiased MSM.

Here’s another question: why is it that those of us who inform ourselves elsewhere knew already yesterday morning that Elensky had been ‘taken to a safe bunker somewhere in Western Ukraine’ and that his ‘defiant video’ was produced in a safe studio? Here’s a quote from the DM:

“A defiant Volodymyr Zelenksy branded Russia a ‘terrorist state’ after the attack and said it showed the Kremlin is desperate as it is ‘not capable of opposing us on the battlefield’. In a video taunting his counterpart, President Zelensky said that despite the strikes Ukraine had managed to shoot down half of the missiles and drones aimed at his country, adding his people ‘cannot be intimidated’.” (link)

People more informed in military matters than I am pointed out yesterday that much of the damage shown in ‘official Ukrainian’ videos were caused by malfunctioning Ukrainian air defence systems. Here’s another quote (my emphasis):

“Putin claimed yesterday that the missiles were aimed at military, energy and communications networks, but Ukraine says they actually hit power plants and busy civilian areas. The attacks are thought to be retaliation for an attack on the Kerch Bridge on Saturday which linked the annexed region of Crimea to the Russian mainland.” (link)

Might we infer that, actually, Putin didn’t just ‘claim’ but that ‘power plants’ were indeed hit? Interesting … but irrelevant because Elensky can easily repair all that damage, correct? He’ll use those latest weapon systems sent by the West for those urgent repairs, correct? 

Rounding up my ongoing critical analysis of the way our beloved MSM operate, here’s a another point in case. Reporting on a speech the GCHQ chief, Sir Jeremy fleming, will give today, the BBC and DM picked out and headlined a remark about ‘Russia is exhausted’ (see here and here). The DT’s headline goes just a bit further, mentioning China:

“Russian people turning on Vladimir Putin and his war, UK spy chief says – Head of GCHQ says public are realising president ‘has badly misjudged’ conflict and also raises concerns over China’s ‘military might’” (paywalled link)

Obviously we must trust the sage analysis of the GCHQ chief, not least because normal Brits are unable to check out news from Russia for themselves, thanks to that ‘iron curtain’ cutting us off from accessing Russian media ever since February this year. Sanctions, you understand, and in any case we plebs would become distrustful and fall prey to Russian propaganda if we were permitted access.

One can still access the English site of the Russian news agency TASS where there’s a compilation of reports on the military operations in the Ukraine (link). Of course, Elensky and the western helpers in the military and meejah won’t be affected by the loss of electricity which still affects 300 localities (link), because ‘priorities’ need to be observed.

Unlike the DT which referred to ‘China’ only as by-the-by in their headline,  The Times went with just that point in theirs: “GCHQ chief Sir Jeremy Fleming: We must tackle China’s plans to cripple satellites” (link, paywalled). Well, with Russia and Putin ‘on the ropes’ according to GCHQ, “we” must look for new dangers:

“Sir Jeremy Fleming, the director of GCHQ, will warn that Beijing is believed to be building a powerful anti-satellite capability that will rival GPS and deny other countries access to space if there is a war. […] China’s development of such technologies could represent a “huge threat to us all” as its Communist Party dictatorship seeks to use key developments to tighten its grip on power at home and spread influence abroad, he will add. Other concerning technology being developed by China includes its creation of a centralised digital currency, which could allow the state to monitor bank transactions of users.” (link, paywalled)

“We” in the form of the BoE are of course not developing a ‘centralised digital currency’, are we! “We” are of course also a space-faring nation whose ‘access to space’, whenever we do get around to creating something, will be denied by China. So are we being prepared for a preemptive strike against China even as we face a deep economic crisis and a crisis in energy supplies?

At least, reading between the lines, “we” won’t need to pay much attention to Russia which is on its knees and will be defeated by ‘defiant’ Elensky, wit the help of a couple more HIMARs and an ‘air defence system’ provided by Biden. Or are we?

Here’s a retired NATO commander, quoted in The Times: “Arm Europe for war with Russia, retired commander tells Nato” (link, paywalled). Yes, Sir – we can surely do that while we’re running out of electricity, gas and petrol! I’m sure we plebs will be delighted to bear blackouts and more inflation. Never mind though that we don’t have a proper arms industry and that we’ve given away most of our weapons now being smashed by Russia in the Ukraine. And let’s not mention China where important components of such weapon systems are being manufactured …

When I read the ponderous pronouncements of such ‘chiefs’, NATO, GCHQ: no difference, and when I observe the slavish kow-towing of our MSM in front of such ‘experts’, I ask myself if all those august people actually believe a word they say or if this is just more fear porn theatre, produced to entertain us thick peasants.

Mind you – I would like to know what specific thing I must be afraid of today: Russia, China, a new pandemic, blackouts, more inflation? We need more guidance!



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