Ukraine coverage has gone down significantly.
Russia and Iran stirred some shit up in Israel knowing how predictable the global response would be. Suddenly out of ‘nowhere’ Hamas has North Korean weapons and state level intelligence information.
Elon Musk is a pro-Russian muppet.
100% Everything going on right now is to diminish focus and support for Ukraine.
It’s weird how Putin and Kim met and then Hamas had some North Korean weapons huh
lil’ baby bibi needed a distraction. Hamas were useful idiots. end of story.
The war has slowed down too. It’s doesn’t need some kind of conspiracy for the media to jump on the next exiting event when the previous one grows stale.
Very possible this is it although I feel like that isn’t too far off the agenda.
No doubt though that Putin is benefiting from the current Gaza situation.
There is always more than one thing going on.
You’re just going to hear mostly about the thing that’s making the people who are telling you the most money. This would be less of an issue if you had a truly independent media as opposed to a capital dependent one.
It’s not too much better with independent, publicly funded media, like in parts of Europe.
Those are not independent, those depend on the state securing their finances.
In Germany (and other parts of Europe), there are systems in place to prohibit dependence of the broadcasters On the government.
The Austrian broadcasting service (ORF) is known to be quite sceptical of the conservative government. The former chancellor of Austria actually wanted to coopt it, like Orban did in Hungary and failed to do so. That’s basically, why he’s the former chancellor.
You can compare it to the European Central Bank, or the FED.
It’s not resistant to nepotism, but it’s way better than the corporate hellscape you see in the US media.
It’s quite telling that in Austria the far right wants to stop financing the ORF altogether by talking about how the population is forced to pay ORF fees and that it has a left wing bias.
I think that’s the same in all European countries, at least it is in Denmark. I guess the old adage is true, the truth has a left wing bias.
Same for Canada. “Why’s should I pay taxes for this news service I always disagree with?”
Didn’t Chomsky also note the supposed “left wing bias” in “Manufacturing consent”?
The government is forcing the people to pay for the public broadcasting. That’s why they are inherently dependant on the government. Something that’s literally funded by the government can not be independent from the government.
I’m living in Germany actually. Don’t get me wrong, I like the ÖRR as alternative to private media. But to say it’s independent from the government is really naive.
I’m not claiming that it’s completely independent. But there are safeguards preventing direct influence of parliament on the media.
So, yes: it depends on the state, but it’s not (directly) influenced by the executive/legislative/judicative branches of government.
Unfortunately there is no one calling the shots. We’re all just drifting.
Billionaire doing the wrong thing is just a really simple story that journalists know how to write. The rest of the world is a convoluted mess.
I mean, I halfway agree with you. The World Economic Forum meets up annually. It’s a real sanitized name for entrenched wealth, sounds super official, like a neighborhood bus line that fancies itself the “generic county transit authority”. I too can call myself an authority on something but that doesn’t make it so. Lol.
No one attending was voted into power, all but a handful were born into it. There doesn’t need to be any one person in charge when all their motivations already align. Humanity is not inherently hierarchle. So they shmooze, exchange tips, fuck each other wives while wearing masks to hide who they are (you really think Kubrick would’ve made Eyes Wide Shut if he didn’t know that that kind of shit happens irl. Theyl discuss strategies on how to fuck over everyone else on the planet so they’ll never have to sweat a drop from hard work unless they want to. They share Panama paper worthy plans and stories from their trips to whomever replaced Epstein. Cuz someone did. I trust the rich two things only, one is be callously, obscenely greedy as fuck and the other: the world’s largest collection of pedophiles and rapists. When you can buy anything, including people’s children’s innocence, with no consequences, what’s left to buy? Nothing. Nothing but
Power.
id totally give up a genies wish to make everyone attending their annual event, and their entire poison pill blood line, teleport to the bright side surface of mercury, immediately.
My 2nd wish would be to rapture every Christian to the heliopause.
Humanity would be so much better off, idk if I even need the 3rd wish then
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whered he break it down, link?
I’m not 100% sure, but I’m pretty sure the meme and OP are both referring to Chomsky’s Manufacturing Consent.
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list other techniques
It’s not really hard.
There’s straight up disinformation, doublespeak, dogwhistles, reliance on fallacy, appeals to authority fear and prejudice, ad hominems, cherry picking, demonization/dehumanization of opponents, etc.
He is just another of the right wing wack jobs’ boogie men. The mention of his name is meaningless.
Syria is still an issue also.
Also Uighurs in China.
Ukraine? Sudan? Myanmar? Yemen? Take your pick.
I’m pretty sure half of Africa is couping or genociding or both.
We’re about to see another Hotel Rowanda if that’s your interest
Genocide in Africa? Which country this time?
Sudan. Ethiopia. Mali. Congo. Somalia. Take your pick.
Rowanda again as well
Yes, the antisemitism is being focused on to manufacture consent for Israel. It’s not (and can’t be) deep. Liberals equate supporting Israel as supporting the Jewish people, so criticizing Israel is antisemitism. And then they point out all the antisemitism like that supports their argument.
Maybe it’s being focused on because there’s literally Nazi flags being marched down streets in Wisconsin and synagogues being shot at, along with Jewish schools in Canada… I’m sure you don’t have to look too hard to find more examples.
Like you can’t actually deny there’s a wild increase in Antisemitism right now even if you want to claim it’s being used as cover for Israel.
Eta I’m admittedly sensitive to this right now… there was a house that was shot up on my street last month that the cops are investigating as an Antisemitic hate crime because the victim was, at least according to the police, followed home from a pro Israel rally earlier in that day.
There absolutely is an increase in antisemitism, and it’s fucking shitty that that’s not being talked about. Instead we’re policing the voices of protestors, raising anything said, regardless of intent, to be antisemitic. They literally automatically talk about protestors when talking about the rise in antisemitism, when it’s just the freaking nazis again. Can’t talk about the nazis, nope, gotta be those protestors who just don’t want to watch another goddamn Genocide without saying anything.
In my City, it was not a Nazi who followed the Jewish girl home and shot at her. It was a protester. In new York it’s not Nazis accosting Jews on the streets it’s people carrying pro Palestine flags.
I don’t see Nazis marching in rallys with signs saying 'clean the world of Jews ’ which is an age old Antisemitic trope out of the Elder’s of Zion. Those are supporters of Palestine. Chanting gas the Jews in Sydney was done in a crowd of Palestine supporters.
I’m not saying Nazis aren’t a problem at all. I’m pointing out they’re part of the problem and the bigoted sentiments clearly being exhibited by the supporters of Palestine is also a part of it and that absolutely needs to be discussed. If you believe what you’ve written that Antisemitism is a growing problem, then I’d ask you to start looking at the people around you and how they’re displaying their messages. You don’t have to look far to see the hate.
Thank God some people still know what’s up.
I can think Elon Musk is a shitter, more racist version of Lex Luthor at the same time I think Israel is run by bloodthirsty monsters.
There is ALWAYS far more things going on than what is reported and focused on. We literally cannot report on everything
This is some pseudo deep bs
@Custoslibera there’s always something else going on and chess pieces moving. Conflicts like these are when countries like RS and CN know they aren’t in the spotlight and are making moves. Also groups that are aligned with Iran and not in the immediate vicinity of Israel…
My opinion. The Israel situation is being popularized because they want to divide and distract the people from the issues in their own countries caused by unregulated capitalism
Oh my God please fuck off with this. Not everything single fucking issue is related to capitalism. You guys need to chill the fuck out and find some new hobbies.
Fr, what in the world are these comments
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Azerbaijan.
Also, Armenia. That one mighty have been a typo, though.
You had me with the important information of your first sentence, but then you lost me with the obvious lie that is your second sentence.
Here is their population, as you can see it’s only going up. Genocide is when you mass kill them, aka it goes down a lot.
No, genocide is when you systematically kill people of a specific nationality, race or ethnicity. High birth rates and other unrelated causes of population increase don’t erase the crime against humanity that is genocide.
