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Thursday, July 31, 2025

Manufacturing Consent: MSM's 5 Filters

Manufacturing Consent is a book, but there's a movie, too: Manufacturing Consent (film). We are being lied to all the time, assured we have a participatory democracy when what we have is a delusion giving us the illusion of control and choice.

Friday, July 4, 2025

Uncle Freud: Bernays' PR mind control

Sunday, November 5, 2023

US, world have gone Pro-Palestine (video)

Sheldon S., Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon, Wisdom Quarterly; Noam Chomsky (Free Will)

France has declared Israel is acting like a settler colonial power and has condemned this "colonialism" (the setting up of a country on top of a people by people from somewhere else, who rather than creating a colony instead choose to settle in a new place themselves). This is significant because there are more Jews in France than anywhere else in Europe.

But there are ten times more Muslims living in France than Jews, so even there they are a despised social minority. Even in the State of Israel, they could not manage to be more than 50% of the population except by expelling most of the population and begging, bribing, and guilting Jews from around the world (but particularly Ashkenazi Jews from Europe, the US, and other Western countries) to move to "the new homeland."

Mostly, people did not want to move there but were enticed with stolen land and lots of government subsidies. Jews from elsewhere felt treated as badly as Arabs from there and were not happy with the treatment they had been receiving from the biased Israeli government and society.

VIDEO: Tens of thousands of Americans descend on Washington, DC, in support of Palestinians: 'This is breathtaking, and it's amazing' (msn.com)
VIDEO: Pro-Palestinian crowds try to storm US base in Turkey
Palestine lobby in the United States of America
American college kids overwhelmingly pro-Palestine without being antisemitic, but Semites say, "We're the victims, everyone hates us, and they approve of what Hamas did to us"

Sunday, October 22, 2023

Israel's "Roadmap to Apartheid" (video)

Journeyman Pictures, 10/18/23; BabyGirl; Pfc. Sandoval, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Shocking insight into Israel's Apartheid

Sorry, Imam, it's just that the Rabbi here and I have many of the same fans in the USA.

(Journeyman Pictures) With a comparison between apartheid South Africa and Israel's displacement of Palestinians from Palestine, this documentary traces the future of one conflict from the past of another.

Weaving the history of apartheid into the complex issues facing Jewish Israelis and non-Jewish Palestinians, it highlights the frighteningly similar laws and tools used by Israel and racist apartheid-era South Africa.

It's a dark picture of the present but offers hope based on the peace that South Africa eventually found.

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Noam Chomsky destroys the idea that "Israel" has some special right to be settler colonialists

(BabyGirl) Oct. 15, 2023: Dr. Chomsky is Jewish and a famous social scientist (co-author of Manufacturing Consent), an MIT linguist, and a public intellectual revered in most of the world, purposely ignored in the U.S. (except maybe on Amy Goodman's Democracy Now! or a Hollywood movie about him but not about his research or political opinions).

Does Israel care about anything he says? It seems that unless a Jewish person tows the Zionist party line, they're as good to Israel as an Arab. And the only good Arab is a... Yeah, so, it seems certain neither the US nor its illegal occupation project in the Middle East cares what this famous Jewish analyst has to say.

Full video: DEBATE: Israel-Palestine with Dr. Noam Chomsky...
Transcript (follow along using the transcript)

Tuesday, September 5, 2023

How to sell a war to Americans (video)

Johnny Harris, 9/6/23; Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

How to sell a war to the American people

(Johnny Harris) Sept. 6, 2023: The secret memo that tells the TRUE story of the U.S. War on Iraq.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Intro
2:00 Ad Read
4:21 Find Something to Bomb
9:32 The Public Sales Pitch
12:35 Fixing the Intel
14:47 U.N Inspections and Colin Powell’s Final Push
17:57 Invasion
20:06 Credits

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This is the second episode of the Eyes Only series, where leaked and declassified documents are used to understand what’s really happening behind the scenes. Get answers to questions like:

How do politicians wield influence?
What can documents teach us about their decisions and motivations?
And what do the powerful say to each other when they think nobody is listening?

This episode explores the run up to the war on Iraq and how the illegal U.S. invasion of Iraq and the removal of Saddam Hussein was planned [long, long before a pretext was invented to justify war but the public was told it was planned] within hours of the 9/11 [false flag operation].

Leaked and declassified documents are used to tell the story of an influence campaign waged by senior Bush administration officials, despite internal reports admitting that they had no evidence of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq.

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Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Pussy Riot, Noam Chomsky: US+USSR evil

Has Nadya been made a tool and dupe of the West, used as anti-Putin propaganda the way FEMEN's nudity was used to promote the West's interests? To say Pres. Putin is bad is not in any way meant to suggest that Biden or Trump are good.

Pussy Riot creator Nadya reveals Noam Chomsky's shocking comparison between US evil and USSR evil

(Forbes Breaking News) May 21, 2023. On "Forbes Newsroom," feminist art collective Pussy Riot creator Nadya Tolokonnikova spoke about the evil of Russian Pres. Vlad [the Impaler] Putin, and discussed the absurd comparison made by Noam Chomsky of the U.S. being evil like Russia is.

Pussy Riot's Nadya put on Russia's Most Wanted Criminal Suspects List

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Friday, March 10, 2023

Manufacturing Consent (Noam Chomsky)

Chomsky's Philosophy, Oct. 15, 2015; Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

(Chomsky's Philosophy) This is a summary of MIT Prof. Noam Chomsky's analysis on how the corporate mainstream media functions to "manufacture" consent.

The CIA called it Operation Mockingbird.

This means on behalf of the elite in a society, it sets the agenda, topics, debate parameters, perceptions, and constructs the narratives we are fed.

It is the consent of the ruled in a culture, particularly a nominal democracy, that the media is after. Rather than soliciting our "consent" at the end of a gun (in harsh 1984 style), prodded by a militarized police agent's billy club or threats of violence, we are fed propaganda, deceived, and pacified (smiley face Brave New World Order style).

This is an excerpt from the documentary (based on the book Manufacturing Consent) Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992). Watch it here: • VIDEO

Tuesday, December 26, 2017

News of the Day: Kaepernick, Trump...(video)

Amy Goodman (democracynow.org, 12/26/17); Ashley Wells, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

2017 in Review: Allan Nairn on Trump’s “rightist revolution” and the social movements pushing back

Allan Nairn: United States tries—but fails—to stop Hondurans from protesting state-sponsored election fraud

Allan Nairn: by recognizing Jerusalem as capital of Israel, Trump drops “pretense of neutrality”

Noam Chomsky in conversation with Amy Goodman on Trump, nukes, North Korea, climate change and Syria

Rashid Khalidi: U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital means it cannot be a peace broker

Stoked! Journalist Alexei Wood and first J20 defendants found “not guilty” as 188 still face trial

Spain's Catalan separatists win slim electoral majority despite jailing and exile of pro-independence leaders

DACA recipients’ message to Democrats: stop playing with our lives, and pass a clean DREAM Act now

Jailhouse interview: Denied asylum, Mexican reporter Emilio Gutiérrez faces death if ICE deports him

Saturday, October 8, 2016

Nazis: Purpose of U.S. Space Program (video)

Free Speech TV (Zohar StarGate TV); Pfc. Sandoval, Pat Macpherson, Wisdom Quarterly

Patriotism: ~~German~~ U.S. glory uber alles

The glory days of NASA are over. Today the military-industrial complex is marching toward world dominance through space technology on behalf of global corporate interests. To understand how and why the space program is being used to fight all future wars on earth from space, it's important to understand how the public has been misled about the origins and true purpose of the space program. This video tells the story of the history of the U.S. space program and reveals how the military has taken over the program to move the arms race into space.

Sunday, June 12, 2016

Orlando, Florida: Manchurian Candidate

Pat Macpherson, Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon, Ashley Wells, et al., Wisdom Quarterly UPDATED

AJ+ has been co-opted to seem like an objective news source: Attack in Orlando, Florida

(Stefan Molyneux)

(DemocracyNow.org) Deadliest attack ever on LGBT community claims 50 in mostly Latinos

Goodness, what is the government up to now?

Darkness (nescience) is the greatest fear. We can only be kept in the cages we do not see. Here is a brief history of human enslavement -- up to and including our own.

There's an old movie with Frank Sinatra, remade with Denzel Washington, called "The Manchurian Candidate" that tells about how the government gets things done. It creates a false problem that it can "solve" with a pre-planned program. David Icke talks about this repeatedly as a "Hegelian dialectic."

Say you want to confiscate guns. The citizens will never allow it. So to gain their consent -- too manufacture their consent, as Noam Chomsky would say -- you create a problem you tell everyone you're trying to solve. You can get Manchurian Candidates to shoot up schools, churches, gay night clubs or anywhere to instill terror. Then you get turncoat soldiers and police to violate their oath and work against the people.

USA number one in gun and arms sales

It's not "the government." There's no such thing as "the government." Government is compartmentalized. Various compartments are corrupted, serving the interests of donors and funders, business interests. And no business is more profitable than the military-industrial complex. There will be no refunds for confiscated guns, so the more that can be sold right now, the better for business.

I love police work and killing "bad" guys.

It's right up there with illegal drugs and pharmaceuticals, the medical industry and cure prevention (there's so much more money to be made in endless "treatments" that cure nothing), the prison industry and mass incarceration...and, of course, the entertainment-industrial complex. That's the team of big business and entertaining propaganda. It's not limited to Hollywood, it's every PR firm in the country the powers that be opt to hire.

I love police work and killing "bad" guys (DM).

Want to restrict civil liberties? Engage in a little government-sponsored "terrorism." Blame it on "the terrorists," whether it's Lone Wolves on pharmaceuticals, the Muslims on jihad, disgruntled employees on a rampage, frustrated college students on a bender, or pretty vixen in an MK Ultra program, they are all acting as Manchurian Candidates when they do what they're programmed to then commit suicide by cop or by a secret gun they have tucked away.

Latin night at the gay nightclub (TU)

Police in paramilitary gear as SWAT or beat cops are usually not involved in the plan. They enact their training like amoral idiots, "Just doing my job, which is to shoot who I'm told." How often are trainings/simulations going on nearby? Even 9/11 had a simulation going on, that way the command and control center can make sure things get done without getting out of control.

Well armed Security Officer Omar Mateen shoots Florida club goers (indianexpress.com)

Guns are cool, man (truthuncensored.net).

Omar Mateen, security officer. American man shoots 100, kills 50, worst shooting ever? He's an American citizen, he's an Afghan, he called 911 to make sure everyone would know this is IS/ISIS (the Boogeyman, Emmanuel Goldstein, the Cold War Communists, the Blob), how ridiculous do the tactics have to get? Guess those Lone Wolf journal/diary entries and UCLA "kill lists" we're getting too unbelievable.

Lose sleep that some part of the government is doing something, but not that gun nuts are going crazy. Terror, the fear the plan was made to inspire, is being counted on. So be afraid, be very afraid. Yawn. How predictable do these staged events have to get with full mainstream media complicity? It'll be all over the news shows and NPR tomorrow. The revolution will not be televised but the pseudo-revolution is on all the channels right now.

(Lisa Haven) Panic, people, panic. This is it! The gov't is going to...

Bizarre Events Strike America as Bilderbergs Suspiciously Meet—Major Conspiracy Underway! (Lisa Haven)
Millions Will Die: Sick Secret The Elite Don’t Want You Knowing About (Lisa Haven)
VIDEO: Muhammad Ali's funniest moments
Kinnewick Man (The Ancient One) was not Native American but because the Smithsonian and US government conceal the real history of life on this planet and because of past atrocities and grave robbing in the American genocide of its indigenous population, the 9,000 year old bones will be returned to them for internment and scientists will not have them to poke and prod and research, which could have led to figuring out the truth of Indian giants, six fingered red heads, Sasquatches, Hobbits, and the rest which the Smithsonian is determined to keep in the realm of "mythology"

The Western, English-speaking world follows the same script: white rule, take the natives down.

Why are there so many Maori in New Zealand's prisons? We go inside a prison to tell the stories of the Maori men living their lives "behind the wire."
Going undercover as a sex worker A photojournalist describes how she posed as a prostitute to follow the trade in human flesh.

Monday, March 2, 2015

POLICE STATE: Russia, Israel, USA (video)

Pat Macpherson, Seth Auberon, Ashley Wells, Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly; Associated Press

(GoViral, March 1, 2015) Dramatic video captures LAPD gang beating and murder of citizen.

Woman lays flowers where Nemtsov, a charismatic Russian opposition leader and sharp critic of Vlad Putin, was assassinated on Friday, Feb. 27, 2015 near the Kremlin. Sunday, March 1, 2015 saw large demonstrations as mourners converged on Moscow for the veteran liberal. They carried flowers, portraits, and white signs that read, “I'm not afraid” (AP).

Let's look at three police states: Russia, Israel, and...wait, there was one more. But the mainstream media, like the smiley face spin doctors at the massive Associated Press (ap.org) manipulate, massage, and distort the news so well it serves as propaganda. Readers don't know they're living under oppressive regimes. Until the guns come out, until the pat downs at the airport get carried away, until the courts become involved, until it's nearly too late to do anything about it.

The story should read something like this before the magic fairy dust of AP editors is applied and police are cast as the helpless responders rather than the agents that cause this and similar situations then use an excuse like "He touched my gun, so we had to fill him full of lead, because I gotta get home tonight":

Angel and angel, hooray for our side!

Three (or more) LAPD officers conspired to beat, abuse (torture by stun gun and batons), and murder a homeless and helpless citizen in LA's impoverished and freezing cold Skid Row.

First they harass, accuse of some neighborhood crime as their pretext for the search of his person and seizure of his property and abuse of his body and civil rights. As the LAPD gang jump him, they are not satisfied with his level of surrender as three fully armed and deadly trained paramilitary soldiers take on a weak and tired street urchin. Back is present and more is on the way, but never mind that, he "resisted" our beating and flinched when electrocuted repeatedly by our shock pistol (euphemism: stun gun) and its disorienting and traumatic jolts.

(Democracy Now) DN welcomes Prof. Noam Chomsky to discuss Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's lecture to Congress by invitation of the Republicans. LAPD kill man after gang beating and electrocuting him.

Three Los Angeles police officers shot and killed [should read "shot to kill" because they do not give any kind of warning or wounding shots but intend to murder when they discharge their firearms just as they have practiced to kill so many times before on the firing range] a man on the city's Skid Row as they wrestled with him on the ground, a confrontation captured on video that millions viewed online.

(The Clouds) There were many more murderers and co-conspirators on the scene doing the gang beating, electrocuting, torturing, intimidating, and depriving the citizen of his civil liberties as extended video reveals. The surprising thing is not that this happened but that this is business-as-usual. "Rogue cops!" Not "rogue cops." This is how they're trained and what they tell and encourage each other to do, and their chain of command gives them the go ahead and free passes again and again.

Christian cathedral, Kremlin (AP)

Authorities say the man was shot [notice that the man was shot, not that the police shot the man? Why? The agency is placed on the man, the cause of all this, and implicitly already sets up the police as victims, mere responders to the situation, never the agents, the causes, the abusers who take their abuse all the way to judge, jury, and executioners] after [allegedly] grabbing for an officer's gun.

[Now why would they leave the "allegedly" out when it does not serve the narrative the objective media is presenting before any investigation has gone on. The video does not show any such thing, but it does show their brutality, which they the LAPD escalate to murder. They chose to then proceeded to shoot a man to death, well knowing they will never be prosecuted for any criminal or human rights violation.]

Authorities say [authorities? oh, perpetrators who murdered the man then excused their murderous actions by using a well tested pretext to justify their fear for their life which then makes it okay and within policy to kill] the man was shot [again the man was shot, not the "authorities shot the man they say was"] grabbing for an officer's gun.

[And he was shot only after allegedly grabbing in the direction of a pistol when he was being jumped, electrocuted, beaten, punched, held down, intimidated, given multiple and conflicting and therefore impossible orders to follow. Until one lives as a discriminated against group in a society, one will never understand what it means to be unable to do what one is ordered because whether you try your best to do it or not, you lose.

Those not in such a position will necessarily say, "He should have just... like I would have done" and one immediately, without realizing it, sides and defends murderers who depend on this "benefit of the doubt" to continue tormenting and killing whomever they think needs it.]

Noam Chomsky says, By opposing Iran nuclear deal, Israel’s goal isn’t survival — it’s regional dominance

People carry huge banner reading, "Those bullets [are] for everyone of us. Heroes never die!" as they march in memory of assassinated opposition leader Boris Nemtsov near the Kremlin, in Moscow, central Russia (AP).

After the shooting [after the grabbing and after we killed him], police are seen drawing their batons and warning an angry crowd to step back. [Ah, this proves they should have killed him because of what other people, bystanders and eyewitnesses, did in reaction to their abuses and vulgar displays of naked brutality.] Several [not like they can be counted by replaying the video] shouted at the officers, accusing them of going too far.

[See, they (the crowd) are the agents, not the police; they are doing, and police are only responding to them. Police never do anything; they're the "victims" in all this, dontcha know? The trick the AP editors and all mainstream media outlets play is one of linguistics. Where is the emphasis placed? Where is the agency placed? Where are we being led? Whom are they defending? Again and again, they defend the power structure, right or wrong, good or bad, always defend and promote the power.]

Charlie Beck LAPD Chief Apologist (AP)

Prior to any conclusions by any investigation, LAPD Chief Apologist Charlie Beck makes sure to taint the pool of witnesses and push forward a narrative blaming the victim and absolving the murderers. Why is he allowed to get away with this? He refuses to release the two body cam videos and audios unless he is forced to do so by a trial. But he feels free to give his opinion, show blow up pictures of nothing that he says he thinks could possibly show that his officers are completely justified in killing. Every uncomfortable question is treated the same way: We'll have to let the investigation take place before I am comfortable answering that.

The violence Sunday had echoes of the August police shooting [and murder] of 25-year-old Ezell Ford, whose death [his death, not their killing of him] in a struggle with Los Angeles officers brought demonstrations in the city. Ford was unarmed, but police said he was shot [he was shot not they shot him] only after [after, after, they are always on the back leg responding, never doing anything themselves, never deploying their killing tactics which they train for so much] [allegedly] reaching for an officer's gun.

[So the lesson here is I can kill you and have a right to kill you and not you or anyone can do anything about it IF 1) I'm an officer and 2) I say you were reaching for a gun, which at best could only mean you did something I interpreted or am now lying about to say that's what I thought because I know if I say that I won't get in trouble.]

In Sunday's incident [the crime belongs to the day of the week, not the officers who committed it], witnesses told the Los Angeles Times that the man is known on the street as "Africa" and that he had been there for four or five months amid the tents, sleeping bags, and trash of Skid Row, where many of the city's homeless stay.

My allegiance to military-industrial complex!

[Those witnesses and homeless sure are given agency, linguistically at least. They claim things and they, in a sense, choose to live amid the trash which means, you know, they're asking for it. And police are giving it to them all the way to the coroner's department. What about race? Many may miss the fact that the LAPD as an organization is institutionally racist, so its individual members behave in racist, biased, discriminatory ways even if they are nice and kind and open minded on their own. Moreover, AP readers will become more and more biased and racist as they read more and more spin on events such as this. The AP spins all stories not just in favor of the LAPD but also the military-industrial complex in general.] More

Autopsy shows Los Angeles police shot [hit] man 3 times An autopsy report released on a 25-year-old black man [named Ezell Ford] killed in a confrontation with LAPD appears to affirm initial statements by officers about the struggle...
Israeli PM Netanyahu's speech to U.S. Congress is already controversial (NPR or National [Jewish-oriented] Public Radio)

Hey, AP, what can you tell us about Russian Dictator/Oligarch Putin and U.S.-trained War Criminal/Israeli Dictator Netanyahu?

Assassination in Russia may mean end of world

Boris Nemtsov, a former Russian deputy prime minister, and current opposition leader addresses demonstrators during a massive rally to oppose president Vladimir Putin's policies in Ukraine, in Moscow, Russia (AP).

Hitler bad, Putin

Last night on Coast to Coast Christian predictions were aired on how the state-sponsored assassination of Russian Jew Boris Nemtsov will lead to Putin invading Ukraine and NATO (along with us the U.S.) being drawn in to what becomes a massive world war. Messianic savior returns. We all die. Christianity wins. God starts doling out the eternal punishments. Help, AP, help! Help us hate Russia and Vlad Putin and love Israel and Bibi Netanyahu. Help us cheerlead pre-emptive, imperial war on Iran, Palestine, and the rest of the geopolitical Middle East! *Sarcasm*

Thousands converged Sunday in Moscow to mourn assassinated veteran liberal politician Boris Nemtsov, whose killing on the streets of the capital has shaken Russia’s opposition. They carried flowers, portraits, and white signs that read, “I am not afraid” (AP).

Ugly Netanyahu: Noam Chomsky says, By opposing Iran nuclear deal, Israel’s goal isn’t survival — it’s regional dominance

Sec'y of State Kerry tries to dampen fuss over PM Netanyahu's provocative speech (AP)

What's in it for Israel?
Sheldon S., Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly

People are so disgusted with Bibi Netanyahu, and not only in Los Angeles this time. In Tel Aviv, Washington, D.C., across the country. A bombastic prime minister on his last days in office -- but we predict he will manipulate Israeli politics to keep going on indefinitely in office even if he loses the next election if the opposition fails to form an alliance party and it defaults back to him -- comes to lecture and preach to tell the USA what it better do. The USA better give Israel the 30 billion it promised this year which is used to buy more weapons to commit more war crimes against native Palestinians and neighboring Muslims and others.

Should the U.S. continue to fund terrorism?

The release of this money is illegal according to U.S. law because we know it is being used to commit war crimes and crimes against humanity. We are not allowed to arm or fund terrorist states or states engaged in terrorism. Israel is engaged in terrorism, illegal settlements, human rights abuses, torture, illegal displacement, and is planning far worse. Not only will it keep corralling Palestinians and exterminating them or driving them out like the early U.S. did Native Americans, it would love to do something much more hawkish.

If only I had made you president, Mitt! - Yeah

Prime Minister Netanyahu, his conservative party in Israel, and his allies in the U.S. Republican party with plenty of Democratic backers want to attack Iran. The U.S. is engaged in a negotiation instead, and this is what has Netanyahu so riled up. No, let's attack them instead! he is demanding. Let's do everything we can to be against them. Of course, the U.S. isn't doing Iran any favors. It's a trick for Iran, but Netanyahu wants blood and violence and "Hate They Neighbor" is his motto. Why make deals when Israel can just deploy a nuclear weapon, one of its own or one borrowed from the U.S., and really stick it to Iran?