Caitlin
Johnstone zal waarschijnlijk wel de persoon zijn die zich in de VS
het meest heeft geërgerd aan het eren van oorlogsmisdadiger John
McCaine. Niet vreemd dus dat ze woedend is over de hysterische
aandacht voor een paar seconden video van de begrafenis ceremonie,
waarin massamoordenaar George W. Bush snoep geeft aan Michelle Obama.
Lees
het artikel van Johnston en verbaas je over de smerige propaganda die
de begrafenis van oorlogsmisdadiger McCain omgaf. Overigens dit geldt
bepaald niet alleen voor de VS, ook in de EU en daarmee in Nederland doet men alsof een tweede Nelson Mandela is gestorven i.p.v. een doortrapte oorlogshitser en
oorlogsmisdadiger…….. (daarmee was McCain tevens een grootlobbyist voor het militair-industrieel complex dat veelvuldig politici financieel steunt, bijvoorbeeld voor het voeren van campagne voorafgaand aan verkiezingen in de VS……)
In het artikel gaat Johnstone o.a. in op het dagelijks hersenspoelen van de VS bevolking, een indoctrinatie die erop is gericht zoveel mogelijk oorlog te voeren en schoften als McCain op te hemelen als moreel hoogstaande vredestichters…… E.e.a. uiteraard mogelijk gemaakt door politici en vooral de reguliere (massa-) media*, die zo lopen te schreeuwen over ‘fake news’ (nepnieuws), maar ondertussen ongegeneerd propaganda maken voor het terroristische buitenlandbeleid van de VS en letterlijk liegen dat het gedrukt staat over de illegale oorlogen die de VS (met de NAVO aan de hand) voert in landen waar het niets, maar dan ook helemaal niets heeft te zoeken…..
The
Internet Loses It Over Bush Sneaking a Piece of Candy to Michelle
Obama
September
3, 2018 at 12:07 am
Written
by Caitlin
Johnstone
(CJ Opinion) — As
of this writing, a tweet by disgraced
Broadway fraud convict Roland
Scahill has 90 thousand shares and 362 thousand likes, which if
you’re not used to Twitter is a ridiculously high amount that
nobody generally hits. The tweet features nothing but four seconds of
video footage from the John McCain funeral, and the caption “George
W. Bush sneaking a piece of candy to Michelle Obama is warming my
heart.”
George W. Bush sneaking a piece of candy to Michelle Obama is warming my heart .
That’s
it. That’s all it took to win Twitter for the day. Those four
seconds of footage have been circulated around TV news stations to
‘ooh’s and ‘ahh’s of fawning establishment pundits yammering
incessantly about how the death of War Hero John McCain™ has let
everyone Put Aside Our Political Differences™ and Come Together As
Americans™ to celebrate the life of a man who dedicated
his entire political career to sowing
death, suffering and devastation at
every opportunity. A war criminal giving a piece of candy to the wife
of another war criminal at the funeral of a war criminal is all it
took to get mainstream American brains gushing with dopamine and
oxytocin.
Because
that’s how compartmentalized Americans are from the reality of what
war is and what it means. The explosions, the screams, the charred
and shredded human bodies, the chaos and displacement and all the
suffering, terrorism, slavery and rape that necessarily always comes
with it, the million Iraqis killed under Bush, the unfathomable
humanitarian disasters created in Libya and Syria under Obama, all
the devastation created in all
the military interventions McCain
helped push for, all of that is so peripheral and distant in American
consciousness that it can be dismissed with a wave of the hand and a
piece of fucking candy.
And
it isn’t really their fault. The more woke Americans who’ve grown
to resent their brainwashed countrymen hate it when I say this, but
it isn’t. It’s not a coincidence that the nation with the
most powerful military in the history of civilization and the most
billionaires in the history of civilization also happens to have the
most sophisticated propaganda system in the history of civilization,
and that propaganda system is pointed at them from a very early age
to normalize the war machine that is used to protect the empire of
the billionaires.
The
United States is the most important player in the imperial alliance
centralized around it, and therefore its citizenry are necessarily
the most propagandized people on earth. You can’t have the populace
of such an important nation suddenly demanding that troops be brought
home and the resources being spent on bombs be spent eliminating the
economic inequality on
which your empire depends instead,
so you’ve got to get into their minds early and aggressively to
manipulate the way they think about war. Everything from flag
worship to
the fetishization
of military personnel to Pentagon-controlled
Hollywood movies are
used from early childhood to install the assumption that their
nation’s bloated military budget is only ever going toward good and
never evil, and to prime their minds for the war propaganda they will
be fed by the plutocrat-owned news media.
McCain killed people in Vietnam and supported killing people elsewhere. GWBush killed 1 million Iraqis and Obama killed thousands and brought slavery to Libya. But Bush gives Michelle Obama a piece of candy so let’s just forget about all that.
Day
after day after day after day, from when they are small until their
dying breath, the American psyche is pummeled with this relentless
assault upon its natural sense of empathy and reason. So it’s
understandable that every now and then one of them snaps and shoots
up a building full of people, inflicting the same kind of mass murder
at home they’ve been trained to accept as normal abroad. And it’s
understandable that they’d be duped into thinking the monstrous
evils that have been inflicted upon our world by Bush, Obama and
McCain (and Henry Kissinger, who also
made an appearance at
the funeral) are innocent little oopsie-poopsies which pale in
comparison to something so monumentally heroic as correcting a woman
who called Obama an Arab once, or sharing a piece of candy.
But
if Americans are ever going to escape from the chains of oligarchy,
they’re necessarily going to have to cease consenting to
imperialism. Without their resources being funneled into hundreds of
bases and countless military and intelligence operations overseas,
there’d be a chance to fix America’s infrastructure and make sure
everyone gets what they need. Without the US economy being propped up
with the barrel of a gun to ensure the success of globalist agendas,
Americans would have a chance to create a real economy based on real
things that they themselves own and control. Without the ability to
use the US war machine to advance their agendas, the oligarchs who
control America’s economy, government and media will be unable to
rule over the increasingly wealthy and powerful masses. Without the
best technology and the brainpower of the brightest Americans being
sucked up into the war machine, the nation’s most creative minds
will lose their incentive to point their ingenuity at death and
destruction, and can point it at useful innovations instead.
And
then the propaganda machine which
holds the whole empire together will
be useless and impotent, and the shackles on American minds will
crumble. And the rest of the empire will follow.
We live in a media culture that basically says that even if Henry Kissinger, George W. Bush & Dick Cheney show up to a nationally televised political event, it is uncouth to even gently mention the wars they initiated & the thousands of deaths their decisions are responsible for.
The
first step in this direction is to cease normalizing the monsters who
facilitate human butchery around the world. Stop believing they need
to be regarded as “heroes” just because they wore a uniform at
some point. Stop believing that it’s ever okay to push for needless
wars which butcher innocent men, women and children. Stop believing a
man can facilitate the slaughter of a million people and not have
that clearly be his single defining legacy. Stop believing that it’s
worse to criticize a warmonger than it is to be a warmonger.
Because
if it’s up to the bastards who rule us currently, they’ll happily
keep shushing us into polite silence while continuing to march us
along our current ecocidal, omnicidal trajectory until it gets us all
killed. They’ll make saints of warmongering empire loyalists and
uphold their murderous lives as exemplary and virtuous, and if we say
we want to move things in a different direction we’ll be shouted
down with buzzwords about heroism and decency until we shut up. If we
leave it up to these pricks, we’ll become the first species to go
extinct due to politeness.
Stop
letting them normalize and elevate people who embody the very essence
of the imperial oppression machine. Stop letting them humanize
psychopathic war whores. Stop letting them twist this into a
conversation about respecting those with different political opinions
and make it about what it is: the mass murder of innocents for power
and profit. Refuse to be reprimanded into polite silence. Refuse to
die of politeness. Seize control of the narrative and force sanity
into our imperiled world.
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Opinion
by Caitlin
Johnstone /
Republished with permission / Medium / Report
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* Al moet niet vergeten worden dat ook tv series en films, gemaakt in de VS, hard meewerken aan het hersenspoelen van de VS bevolking (en de bevolking van andere westerse landen)…….
Zie ook:
‘McCain terminaal ziek: vier als het zover is zijn dood luidruchtig, niets om je voor te schamen‘
‘McCain oorlogsmisdadiger >> massaal ten onrechte geëerd na z’n dood‘
‘John McCaine: politieke helden zijn op den duur meestal teleurstellend‘
‘Arabieren en Afghanen zijn bepaald niet bedroefd om de dood van McCain……‘