We live in a civilization that’s so pervasively steeped in lies and manipulations that the only way to have a truth-based relationship with reality is to drop all your assumptions and premises about what’s true and begin examining everything from the very beginning with fresh eyes.
Over the last 8 years, the Mirror has had so many moronic idiots complain with statements like, “That’s journalism 101” or “That’s what they teach you in J-School”. Most of these idiots work for the public school system, so there’s that. What these losers never understood was that The Mirror is punk rock, it’s how we were raised, and like Lampooners, we know all about the importance of stupid and futile gestures—and everything we do sort of leads back to what Joe Strummer said, “Punk ain’t the boots or the hair dye. I’ve been asked to define it many times so I’ve actually thought about it for a couple of seconds. It must be the attitude that you have, that approach to everything in life with that attitude.”
One of the weirdest things to happen last year was the entire western political/media class deciding to start pretending Ukrainian Nazis aren’t Nazis based on literally nothing whatsoever, just because it’s convenient, and a substantial portion of the population is playing along.
“They are clearly protecting Hunter Biden, and Joe Biden at the Justice Department and it’s pretty bad that it’s a bag of cocaine that’s finally getting peoples’ attention when Joe Biden is compromised.” – Mike Davis.
HUGE: Capitol Police Chief told Tucker Carlson that the J6 crowd was loaded with Federal agents. Fox fired Tucker before he could air the interview The Biden regime doesn’t want the country to know the truth about J6. Was it a highly coordinated federal operation?
History Note: On July 9, 2019 Kamala Harris condemned Jeffrey Epstein’s law firm’s work on his behalf but the same day, Harris’ husband headlined a Chicago fundraiser for her campaign that was hosted by six partners of that firm, Kirkland and Ellis, according to an invitation obtained by AP.
The Supreme Court’s ruling on student loans saved taxpayers more than half a trillion dollars. But the fight continues since the Biden admin is investigating every nook and cranny of purported authority to provide debt amnesty to its favored scumbag constituency.
Deep thoughts: It’s strange to hear people standing up for the right of the government to spread covid misinformation. I mean who do they think is going to censor the government, the government? — Jay Bhattacharya
Questions: Ask who benefits from the continued emphasis on culture wars over class war. Ask who benefits from people being continually herded into two mainstream political factions which both support empire, oligarchy and authoritarianism. Ask who benefits from the mass media continually focusing on the misdeeds of nations their government doesn’t like while ignoring their own government’s abuses of the needful, the marginalized and the disobedient. Ask who benefits from ordinary people being too busy getting the bills paid to learn about what’s going on in the world. Ask who benefits from those who ask these questions being labeled crackpots and conspiracy theorists.
Idiot alert: The Ukrainian counteroffensive is going so poorly that Joe Biden is now planning to send over cluster bombs to Ukraine Yes, a weapon banned by treaty in over 100 countries is now being sent by the US to exacerbate a potential WW3. Boy Howdy!
More…The US defended a plan to send Ukraine cluster munitions for its counteroffensive against Russian forces as rights groups questioned the decision to use the weapons, which are prohibited by more than 100 countries https://reut.rs/3D685fq
Around the world, politicians say we must protect vulnerable communities through censorship and warrantless spying, but that’s a grotesque lie. No movement for human liberation or progress has ever succeeded by censoring its opponents. Never. Oppressors censor, not liberators.
More Lies: Facebook Meta claims that over 10 million people had signed up for its Twitter competitor, Threads, in what CEO Mark Zuckerberg framed as a “friendly” alternative to the little blue bird.
As journalist Michael Shellenberger notes,”Within a few hours of launching, Threads was already secretly censoring users and not offering them the right to appeal.Meta is already too powerful. One company controls what much of the public is allowed to see. And if Threads succeeds, it will have 80% of the global market outside of Russia and China, according to one industry insider. As such, it’s reasonable to expect that Meta will censor precisely the same way the large news media corporations, including the New York Times, and corporate advertisers want it to. More censorship is what the mainstream news media, big corporations, and their celebrity pitch people have been demanding. …additionally, Unlike Twitter, Threads collects data about “Health & Fitness,” “Financial Info,” “Sensitive Info,” and “Other Data.” What’s ‘other data’?” Shellenberger further noted that within hours of launching, Threads was already secretly censoring users and not offering them the right to appeal.
UPDATE: Woke ice cream company Ben & Jerrys’ British parent company Unilever has lost $2.5 billion in market cap since their 4th of July message in which they came out against the existence of the greatest country in the world on her birthday. Ice cream company Ben & Jerry’s sparked outrage with a July 4th tweet calling for the United States to return ‘stolen indigenous land’ starting with giving Mount Rushmore back to the Lakota Sioux tribe.
Take a second to think: Any time you are presented with a narrative about how things are in a way that asks you to believe it, question who would benefit from that belief, whether it’s a large-scale narrative about the world, or a small-scale narrative about yourself and your own life.
Salon
“They lied about Afghanistan. They lied about Iraq. Now they’re lying about Ukraine”
Story by Chris Hedges
8 July 2023
And what of the Ukrainian democracy we are fighting to protect?
Why did the Ukrainian parliament revoke the official use of minority languages, including Russian, three days after the 2014 coup?
How do we rationalize the eight years of warfare against ethnic Russians in the Donbass region before the Russian invasion in February 2022?
How do we explain the killing of more than 14,200 people and the 1.5 million who were displaced, before Russia’s invasion took place last year?
How do we defend Zelenskyy’s decision to ban 11 opposition parties, many of them on the left, while allowing fascists from the Svoboda and Right Sector parties, as well as the Banderite Azov Battalion and other extremist militias, to flourish?
How do we defend the decision by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to ban 11 opposition parties, including the Opposition Platform for Life, which had 10 percent of the seats in the Supreme Council, Ukraine’s unicameral parliament, along with the Shariy Party, Nashi, Opposition Bloc, Left Opposition, Union of Left Forces, State, Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine, Socialist Party of Ukraine, Socialists Party and Volodymyr Saldo Bloc?
How can we accept the banning of these opposition parties — many of which are on the left — while Zelenskyy allows fascists from the Svoboda and Right Sector parties, as well as the Banderite Azov Battalion and other extremist militias, to flourish?
How do we deal with the anti-Russian purges and arrests of supposed “fifth columnists” sweeping through Ukraine, given that 30 percent of Ukraine’s inhabitants are Russian speakers?
How do we respond to the neo-Nazi groups supported by Zelenskyy’s government that harass and attack the LGBTQ community, the Roma population and anti-fascist protesters, and threaten city council members, media outlets, artists and foreign students?
How did that happen Ben & jerries dove Magnum Breyers Vaseline to a British company 10 companies control all the products we use
And speaking as a VEET NAM veteran who bought DEMOCRAT LBJ’s lies:
Salon
“They lied about Afghanistan. They lied about Iraq. Now they’re lying about Ukraine”
Story by Chris Hedges
8 July 2023
The playbook the pimps of war use to lure us into one military fiasco after another, including Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and now Ukraine, does not change.
Freedom and democracy are threatened.
Evil must be vanquished.
Human rights must be protected.
The fate of Europe and NATO, along with a “rules-based international order” is at stake.
Victory is assured.
The results are also the same.
The justifications and narratives are exposed as lies.
The cheery prognosis is false.
Those on whose behalf we are supposedly fighting are as venal as those we are fighting against.
And speaking of Biden’s on-going BULL**** spew about fascist Ukraine:
Salon
“They lied about Afghanistan. They lied about Iraq. Now they’re lying about Ukraine”
Story by Chris Hedges
8 July 2023
But this proxy war in Ukraine is designed to serve U.S. interests.
It enriches the weapons manufacturers, weakens the Russian military and isolates Russia from Europe.
What happens to Ukraine is irrelevant.
Once the truth about these endless wars seeps into public consciousness, the media drastically reduces coverage.
The military debacles, as in Iraq and Afghanistan, continue largely out of view.
“Third, most of the money that’s been appropriated for Ukraine security assistance doesn’t actually go to Ukraine.”
“It gets invested in American defense manufacturing.”
“It funds new weapons and munitions for the U.S. armed forces to replace the older material we have provided to Ukraine.”
“Let me be clear: This assistance means more jobs for American workers and newer weapons for American service members.”
By the time the U.S. concedes defeat, most barely remember that these wars are being fought.
The pimps of war who orchestrate these military fiascos migrate from administration to administration.
Between posts they are ensconced in think tanks — Project for the New American Century, the American Enterprise Institute, Foreign Policy Initiative, Institute for the Study of War, the Atlantic Council and the Brookings Institution — funded by corporations and the war industry.
Once the Ukraine war comes to its inevitable conclusion, these Dr. Strangeloves will seek to ignite a war with China.
These pimps of war con us into one conflict after another with flattering narratives that paint us as the world’s saviors.
They don’t even have to be innovative.
The rhetoric is lifted from the old playbook.
We naively swallow the bait and embrace the flag — this time blue and yellow — to become unwitting agents in our self-immolation.
Since the end of the Second World War, the government has spent between 45 to 90 percent of the federal budget on past, current and future military operations.
It is the largest sustained activity of the U.S. government.
It has stopped mattering — at least to the pimps of war — whether these wars are rational or prudent.
The war industry metastasizes within the bowels of the American empire to hollow it out from the inside.
The U.S. is reviled abroad, drowning in debt, has an impoverished working class and is burdened with a decayed infrastructure as well as shoddy social services.
Wasn’t the Russian military — because of poor morale, poor generalship, outdated weapons, desertions, a lack of ammunition that supposedly forced soldiers to fight with shovels, and severe supply shortages — supposed to collapse months ago?
Wasn’t Putin supposed to be driven from power?
Weren’t the sanctions supposed to plunge the ruble into a death spiral?
Wasn’t the severing of the Russian banking system from SWIFT, the international money transfer system, supposed to cripple the Russian economy?
How is it that inflation rates in Europe and the U.S. are higher than in Russia despite these attacks on the Russian economy?
Wasn’t the nearly $150 billion in sophisticated military hardware, financial and humanitarian assistance pledged by the U.S., EU and 11 other countries supposed to have turned the tide of the war?
How is it that perhaps a third of the tanks Germany and the U.S. provided were swiftly turned by Russian mines, artillery, anti-tank weapons, air strikes and missiles into charred hunks of metal at the start of the vaunted counteroffensive?
Wasn’t this latest Ukrainian counteroffensive, which was originally known as the “spring offensive,” supposed to punch through Russia’s heavily fortified front lines and regain huge swathes of territory?
How can we explain the tens of thousands of Ukrainian military casualties and the forced conscription by Ukraine’s military?
Even our retired generals and former CIA, FBI, NSA and Homeland Security officials, who serve as analysts on networks such as CNN and MSNBC, can’t say the offensive has succeeded.
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Won’t get fooled again?
Yeah, right!
So spot on. Thank you for continuing to tell the truth no matter what. Good on you.