Caitlin
Johnstone publiceerde gisteren een artikel
met de titel ‘Don’t Laugh: It’s giving Putin What He Wants’.
In haar
artikel schenkt Johnstone aandacht aan wat Olga Robinson van het
Britse propaganda apparaat BBC heeft gesteld: Rusland gebruikt (ze bedoelt: misbruikt) humor
om wat westerse regeringen haar ten laste leggen, te ridiculiseren >> ofwel humor om de ten laste leggingen die zijn gemaakt in het Russiagate sprookje……
Robinson noemt dit een vorm van ‘trolling…’ ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! (het zal haar bedoeling niet zijn, maar de leugens van Robinson en die van de BBC in het algemeen, zijn regelmatig uiterst humoristisch, zoals deze stompzinnige insinuatie!)
In feite
beschuldigt Robinson Rusland van het gebruiken van humor tegen de
enorme berg aan leugens over zaken als Russiagate, het Brexit
referendum en het onafhankelijkheidsreferendum van de Catalanen, waarin Rusland ‘met haar manipulaties’ de beslissende factor was, die tot de gewenste winst leidde…… Ofwel Rusland heeft Trump het presidentschap gegeven en heeft de boel
zo gemanipuleerd dat de voorstanders van de Brexit het referendum
wonnen en het Catalaanse referendum positief uitviel voor de
onafhankelijkheidswens van de bevolking in die ‘Spaanse provincie’.
Robinson
heeft het gore lef e.e.a. te stellen terwijl er voor al deze zaken
niet één steekhoudend bewijs is gevonden en dat na 2 jaar lang
Rusland demoniseren door o.a. de BBC en de rest van de westerse reguliere media in
het groot (uiteraard gesteund door het grootste deel van de westerse
politici die de leugens keer op keer blijven herhalen…..)
Inderdaad
Robinson als je in acht neemt wat jij en de BBC al hebben durven zeggen en
schrijven over Russiagate, kan je veelal niet anders
dan lachen, keihard lachen!!!
Don’t
Laugh : It’s Giving Putin What He Wants
The
BBC has published
an article titled
“How Putin’s Russia turned humour into a weapon” about the
Kremlin’s latest addition to its horrifying deadly hybrid warfare
arsenal: comedy.
The
article is authored by Olga Robinson, whom the BBC, unhindered by any
trace of self-awareness, has
titled “Senior
Journalist (Disinformation)”. Robinson demonstrates the
qualifications and acumen which earned her that title by warning the
BBC’s audience that the Kremlin has been using humor to dismiss and
ridicule accusations that have been leveled against it by western
governments, a “form of trolling” that she reports is
designed to “deliberately lower the level of discussion”.
Turns out jokes are a Russian disinformation conspiracy.
Is nothing safe? What will those barbarian Others think of next? Weaponizing our tears? bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…
How Putin’s Russia turned humour into a weapon
Russia’s government wants people to have a laugh – as long as it’s at its opponents’ expense, and not Mr Putin’s.
“Russia’s
move towards using humour to influence its campaigns is a relatively
recent phenomenon,” Robinson explains, without speculating as to
why Russians might have suddenly begun laughing at their western
accusers. She gives no consideration to the possibility that the
tightly knit alliance of western nations who suddenly began
hysterically shrieking about Russia two years ago have simply gotten
much more ridiculous and easier to make fun of during that time.
Couldn’t
possibly have anything to do with the emergence of a demented media
environment wherein everything around the world from French protests
to American culture wars to British discontent with the European
Union gets blamed on Russia without any facts or evidence. Wherein
BBC reporters now
correct guests and caution themagainst
voicing skepticism of anti-Russia narratives because the UK is in “an
information war” with that nation. Wherein the same cable news
Russiagate pundit can claim that both Rex
Tillerson’s hiring and his
later firing were
the result of a Russian conspiracy to benefit the Kremlin.
Wherein mainstream
outlets can
circulate blatantly false information about Julian Assange and
unnamed “Russians” and then blame the falseness of that
reporting on Russian disinformation.
Wherein Pokemon
Go,
cutesy Facebook memes and $4,700
in Google ads are
sincerely cited as methods by which Hillary Clinton’s $1.2 billion
presidential campaign was outdone. Wherein conspiracy theories that
Putin has infiltrated the highest levels of the US government have
been blaring
on mainstream headline newsfor
two years with absolutely
nothing to
show for it to
this day.
Nope,
the only possibility is that the Kremlin suddenly figured out that
humor is a thing.
The
fact of the matter is that humorous lampooning of western
establishment Russia narratives writes itself. The hypocrisy is so
cartoonish, the emotions are so breathlessly over-the-top, the
stories so riddled with plot holes and the agendas underlying them so
glaringly obvious that they translate very easily into laughs. I
myself recently
authored a satire piece that
a lot of people loved and which got picked up by numerous alternative
media outlets, and all I did was write down all the various
escalations this administration has made against Russia as though
they were commands being given to Trump by Putin. It was extremely
easy to write, and it was pretty damn funny if I do say so myself.
And it didn’t take any Kremlin rubles or dezinformatsiya from St
Petersburg to figure out how to write it.
“Ben
Nimmo, an Atlantic Council researcher on Russian disinformation, told
the BBC that attempts to create funny memes were part of the strategy
as ‘disinformation for the information age’,” the article warns.
Nimmo, ironically, is
himself intimately involved
withthe
British domestic disinformation firm Integrity Initiative, whose
shady government-sponsored
psyops against the
Labour Party have
sparked a national scandal that is likely far
from reaching peak intensity.
“Most
comedy programmes on Russian state television these days are anodyne
affairs which either do not touch on political topics, or direct
humour at the Kremlin’s perceived enemies abroad,” Robinson
writes, which I found funny since I’d just recently read an
excellent essay by
Michael Tracey titled “Why has late night swapped laughs for
lusting after Mueller?”
“If
the late night ‘comedy’ of the Trump era has something resembling
a ‘message,’ it’s that large segments of the nation’s liberal
TV viewership are nervously tracking every Russia development with a
passion that cannot be conducive to mental health – or for that
matter, political efficacy,” Tracey writes, documenting numerous
examples of the ways late night comedy now has audiences cheering for
a US intelligence insider and Bush appointee instead of challenging
power-serving media orthodoxies as programs like The
Daily Show once
did.
If
you wanted the opposite of “anodyne affairs”, it would be
comedians ridiculing the way all the establishment talking heads are
manipulating their audiences into supporting the US intelligence
community and FBI insiders. It would be excoriating the media
environment in which unfathomably powerful world-dominating
government agencies are subject to less scrutiny and criticism than a
man trapped in an embassy who published inconvenient facts about
those agencies. It certainly wouldn’t be the cast of Saturday Night
Live singing “All I Want for Christmas Is You” to a framed
portrait if Robert Mueller wearing a Santa hat. It doesn’t get much
more anodyne than that.
Russia
makes fun of western establishment narratives about it because those
narratives are so incredibly easy to make fun of that they are
essentially asking for it, and the nerdy way empire loyalists are
suddenly crying victim about it is itself more comedy.
When Guardian writer Carole
Cadwalladr began
insinuating that
RT covering standard newsworthy people like Julian Assange and Nigel
Farage was a conspiracy to “boost” those people for the
advancement of Russian agendas instead of a news outlet doing the
thing that news reporting is, RT rightly made
fun of her for it. Cadwalladr
reacted to RT’s mockery with a claim
that she was a victim of “attacks”,
instead of the recipient of perfectly justified ridicule for
circulating an intensely moronic conspiracy theory.
Ah
well. People are nuts and we’re hurtling
toward a direct confrontation with
a nuclear
superpower.
Sometimes there’s nothing else to do but laugh. As Wavy Gravy said,
“Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you
don’t have a sense of humor it just
isn’t funny anymore.”
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December 16, 2018 at 2:51 am |
Tags: BBC, comedy, disinformation, humour, laughter, propaganda, Putin, Russia |
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‘NewsGuard, het nieuwste wapen van Big Brother VS tegen de alternatieve media‘
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‘Bedrijf dat voor ‘Russische bots’ waarschuwde, heeft een leger met nep-Russische bots‘
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‘Russiagate en Assange: The Guardian wordt nu zelfs door collega’s voor zot uitgemaakt‘
‘Russiagate? Britaingate zal je bedoelen!‘
‘New York Times ‘bewijzen’ voor Russiagate vallen door de mand……‘
‘Facebook gebruikte ‘fake news’ beschuldiging om de aandacht voor schandalen af te leiden‘
‘Politico rapport bevestigt: Russiagate is een hoax‘
‘Obama gaf toe dat de DNC e-mails expres door de DNC werden gelekt naar Wikileaks….!!!!‘
‘FBI, de spin in het Russiagate web……..‘
‘‘Russiagate’ een complot van CIA, FBI, Hillary Clinton en het DNC………..‘
‘‘Russiagate’ een verhaal van a t/m z westers ‘fake news…..’‘
‘Russiagate sprookje ondermijnt VS democratie en de midterm verkiezingen‘
‘Britse en VS manipulaties van verkiezingen en stimulatie van conflicten middels psychologische oorlogsvoering‘ (voor VS manipulaties van verkiezingen elders, liggen er ‘metersdikke’ dossiers, o.a. in te zien op WikiLeaks)
‘FBI Director Comey Leaked Trump Memos Containing Classified Information‘
‘Publicly Available Evidence Doesn’t Support Russian Gov Hacking of 2016 Election‘
‘Murray, ex-ambassadeur van GB: de Russen hebben de VS verkiezingen niet gemanipuleerd‘
‘Mocking Trump Doesn’t Prove Russia’s Guilt‘
‘CIA deed zich voor als het Russische Kaspersky Lab, aldus Wikileaks Vault 8…..‘
‘WikiLeaks: Seth Rich Leaked Clinton Emails, Not Russia‘
‘Hillary Clinton en haar oorlog tegen de waarheid…….. Ofwel een potje Rusland en Assange schoppen!‘
‘VS ‘democratie’ aan het werk, een onthutsende en uitermate humoristische video!‘
‘Russia Is Trolling the Shit out of Hillary Clinton and the Mainstream Media‘
‘Campagne Clinton, smeriger dan gedacht…………‘ (met daarin daarin opgenomen de volgende twee artikelen: ‘Donna Brazile Bombshell: ‘Proof’ Hillary ‘Rigged’ Primary Against Bernie‘ en ‘Democrats in Denial After Donna Brazile Says Primary Was Rigged for Hillary‘)
‘Rusland zou onafhankelijkheid Californië willen uitlokken met reclame voor borsjt…….‘
‘Alarm Code Geel: Lara Rense (NOS) voedt Rusland-haat‘
‘‘Russiagate’ een nieuwe ongelooflijke aanklacht van de Democraten…….‘
‘VS demoniseert Russiagate critici als Jill Stein…..‘
‘De Russiagate samenzweringstheorie dient de machthebbers………‘
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