https://www.globalresearch.ca/all-american-lie-factory/5787836
The All-American Lie Factory.
Government and the media work together to promote war on Russia
There are some things that I believe to be true about the anarchy that purports to be US foreign policy. First, and most important, I do not believe that any voter cast a ballot for Joe Biden because he or she wanted him to relentlessly pursue a needless conflict with Russia that could easily escalate into a nuclear war with unimaginable consequences for all parties. Biden has recently declared that the US will support Ukraine “until we win” and, as there are already tens of billions of dollars of weapons going to Ukraine plus American “advisers” on the ground, it constitutes a scenario in which American and Russian soldiers will soon likely be shooting at each other. The President of Serbia and columnists like Pat Buchanan and Tulsi Gabbard believe that we are already de facto in World War 3 and one has to wonder how the White House is getting away with ignoring the War Powers mandates in the US Constitution.
Second, I believe that the Russians approached the United States and its allies with some quite reasonable requests regarding their own national security given that a hostile military alliance was about to land on its doorsteps. The issues at stake were fully negotiable but the US refused to budge on anything and Russia felt compelled to take military action. Nevertheless, there is no such thing as a good war. I categorically reject anyone invading anyone else unless there is a dire and immediate threat, but the onus on how the Ukraine situation developed the way it did is on Washington.
Third, I believe that the US and British governments in particularly have been relentlessly lying to the people and that the media in most of west is party to the dissemination of the lies to sustain the war effort against Russia in Ukraine. The lies include both the genesis and progress of the war and there has also been a sustained effort to demonize President Vladimir Putin and anything Russian, including food, drinks, the Russian language and culture and even professional athletes. The latest victim is a Tchaikovsky symphony banned in Canada. Putin is being personally blamed for inflation, food shortages and energy problems which more properly are the fault of the Washington-led ill-thought-out reaction to him. There is considerable irony in the fact that Biden is giving Ukraine $1.7 billion for healthcare, while healthcare in the US is generally considered among the poorest in the developed world.
I believe that Russia is winning the war comfortably and Ukraine will be forced to give up territory while the American taxpayer gets the bill for the reckless spending policies, currently totaling more than $60 billion, while also looking forward to runaway inflation, energy shortages, and, in a worst-case scenario, a possible collapse of the dollar.
The toll coming from constant warfare and fearmongering has also enabled a steady erosion of the liberties that Americans once enjoyed, including free speech and freedom to associate. I would like to discuss what the ordinary concerned citizen can do to cut through all the lies surrounding what is currently taking place, which might well be described as the most aggressive propaganda campaign the world has ever seen, far more extensive than the lying and dissimulation by the White House and Pentagon officials that preceded the disastrous Iraq war. It is an information plus propaganda war that sustains the actual fighting on the ground, and it is in some senses far more dangerous as it seeks to involve more countries in the carnage while also creating a global threat perception that will be used to justify further military interventions.
Part of the problem is that the US government is awash with bad information that it does not know how to manage so it makes it hard to identify anything that might actually be true. Back in my time as an intelligence officer operating overseas, there were a number of short cuts that were used to categorize and evaluate information. For example, if one were hanging out in a local bar and overheard two apparent government officials discussing something of interest that might be happening in the next week, one might report it to Washington with a source description FNU/LNU, which stood for “first name unknown” and “last name unknown.” In other words, it was unverifiable hearsay coming from two individuals who could not be identified. As such it was pretty much worthless, but it clogged up the system and invited speculation.
My personal favorite, however, was the more precise source descriptions developed by military intelligence using an alphabet letter followed by a number in a sequence running from A-1 to F-6. At the top of an intelligence report there would be an assessment of the source, or agent. A-1 meant a piece of information that was both credible and had been confirmed by other sources and that was also produced by an agent that had actual access to the information in question. At the other end of the scale, an F-6 was information that was dubious produced by a source that appeared to have no actual access to the information.
By that standard, we Americans have been fed a lot of largely fabricated F-6 “fake information” coming from both the government and the media to justify the Ukraine disaster. Here is how you can spot it. If it is a newspaper or magazine article skim all the way down the text until you reach a point towards the end where the sourcing of the information is generally hidden. If it is attributed to a named individual who indeed indisputably had direct access to the information it would at least suggest that the reporting contains a kernel of truth. But that is almost never the case, and one normally sees the source described as an “anonymous source” or a “government official” or even, in many cases, there is no source attribution at all. That generally means that the information conveyed in the reporting is completely unreliable and should be considered the product of a fabricator or a government and media propaganda mill. When a story is written by a journalist who claims to be on the scene it is also important to check out whether he or she is actually on site or working from a pool operating safely in Poland to produce the reporting. Yahoo News takes the prize in spreading propaganda as it currently reproduces press releases originating with the Ukrainian government and posts them as if they are unbiased reporting on what is taking place on the ground.
Another trick to making fake news look real is to route it through a third country. When I was in Turkey we in CIA never placed a story in the media there directly. Instead, a journalist on our payroll in France would do the story and the Turkish media would pick it up, believing that because it had appeared in Paris it must be true even though it was not. Currently, I have noted that a lot of apparently MI-6 produced fake stories on Ukraine have been appearing in the British media, most notably the Telegraph and Guardian. They are then replayed in the US media and elsewhere to validate stories that are essentially fabricated.
Television and radio media is even worse than print media as it almost never identifies the sources for the stories that it carries. So my advice is to be skeptical of what you read or hear regarding wars and rumors of wars. The war party is bipartisan in the United States and it is just itching to seize the opportunity to get a new venture going, and they are oblivious to the fact that they might in the process be about to destroy the world as we know it. We must expose their lies and unite and fight to make sure that they can’t get away with it!
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https://stephenlendman.org/2022/07/27/hegemon-usas-dismal-state-updated/
Hegemon USA’s Dismal State Updated
Count the ways.
Hegemon USA is waging forever war on humanity at home by kill shots and elimination of what little remains of greatly eroded freedoms, as well as abroad by forever wars by hot and/or other means.
Its proxy war on Russia risks crossing the line to direct confrontation with nukes.
It’s heading in the same direction against China — Iran and other independent nations as well on hegemon USA’s target list.
The Biden regime destroyed public health by its depopulation agenda at home and worldwide.
It’s trampling on it further by rolling out a monkeypox scam — with more of the same likely ahead.
The US economy is in recession, heading toward protracted Main Street Depression conditions.
Soaring inflation may rise to the highest level in US history by money printing madness — exacerbated by unparalleled sanctions war on Russia.
All Western politicians lie and mass deceive with diabolical aims in mind.
Nothing they say can be taken at face value, especially not from undemocratic Dems.
Ignoring the nation in recession, the Biden regime moved the goalposts — by changing the definition, a fake news White House statement, saying:
“What is a recession?”
“While some maintain that two consecutive quarters of falling real GDP constitute a recession, that is neither the official definition nor the way economists evaluate the state of the business cycle (sic).”
“Instead, both official determinations of recessions and economists’ assessment of economic activity are based on a holistic look at the data—including the labor market, consumer and business spending, industrial production, and incomes (sic).”
“Based on these data, it is unlikely that the decline in GDP in the first quarter of this year—even if followed by another GDP decline in the second quarter—indicates a recession (sic).”
On Tuesday, Biden regime press agent NYT defied reality by falsely claiming that “it’s hard to say” if the US economy is in recession (sic), adding:
“The US is not in a recession (sic).”
“Most (paid to lie and mass deceive TV talking head) economists don’t think the US” is in recession (sic).
But they’re not sure (sic).
According to fake news by Harvard economist, Jeffrey Frankel:
“A month ago, I was writing that it was very unlikely that we are in a recession (sic).”
“If I had to write that now, I would take out the ‘very (sic).’ ”
The vast majority of TV talking head economists and market analysts make similar comments.
Privately, their views are highly likely to be much different.
Unemployment is much higher than officially reported numbers.
Most jobs created are part-time or temp rotten ones, paying poverty and sub-poverty wages.
Consumer confidence is rock-bottom for good reason.
Economist John Williams pulls no punches, his latest report saying the following:
“Economic, inflation, monetary and political circumstances all continue to show intensifying systemic instabilities and sharp, meaningful near-term deterioration, with rapidly mounting risk of extremely negative, inflationary, economic and financial market turmoil.”
When Q II GDP is reported on Thursday, Williams expects it to show economic contraction, signaling recession following Q I’s decline, adding:
“How can the US economy be fully ‘recovered’ and booming” as the Biden regime, the Wall Street controlled Fed and most TV talking head analysts claim when growing evidence shows otherwise.
There are plenty of reasons why things are deteriorating.
New and existing home sales are declining sharply.
April, May and June industrial production declined.
For 8 consecutive months, construction spending has been declining.
Along with 17.3% inflation, not the phony officially reported 9.1%, producer prices for finished goods are the 2nd highest in US history.
Final demand producer prices at 11.3% are near an all-time high of 11.6%.
In June, “net of inflation…real retail sales fell into quarterly and annual contractions,” Williams explained.
The Conference Board index of leading economic indicators declined 4 straight months.
Growing numbers of US workers are filing for unemployment benefits.
Around half of small businesses are at risk of shutting down.
Rosy scenario proponents are wearing blinders.
Analyst Nick Giambruno explained some disturbing numbers with money printing madness in mind, saying:
If earn a dollar a second, you’ll have a million (pre-tax) in 11 days.
At that pay rate, you’d need “31,688 years to make a trillion dollars.”
Senator Everett Dirksen reportedly once said:
“A billion here, a billion there. Pretty soon you’re talking about real money.”
Substitute trillion for billion today.
Giambruno explained that it took the US over 227 years since 1776 to print $6 trillion.
Yet in months after the phony 2020 flu/covid shutdown over nothing on the Trump regime’s watch, the corrupt Powell Fed printed over $6 trillion, the most massive amount of money printing madness in US history by far.
And with it, the Wall Street controlled Fed unleashed out-of-controlled inflation — monetary madness exacerbated by unparalleled sanctions war on Russia the twin culprits.
And what’s unleashed won’t be easily or quickly contained — other than by data rigging, what’s longstanding practice throughout the West, especially in the US.
And this startling statistic, Giambruno explaining:
From the republic’s inception “(i)t took until 1981 for the US…to rack up its first trillion in debt.”
“(T)he second trillion only took four years…trillions (more) in increasingly shorter intervals.”
The US Debt Clock.org shows the enormous damage done.
The US National Debt today stands at $30,605.9 trillion — and rising second-by-second, hour-by-hour, 24/7.
At a rate of $1 dollar a second earned, “it would take over 966,484 YEARS to pay off the US federal debt,” said Giambruno, because of its enormity.
And that’s if no further debt was added, what’s clearly not the case.
It continues to mount exponentially.
With Wall Street controlling the nation’s money and lawmakers spending it like drunken sailors on a binge, what’s going on is “legalized counterfeiting,” Giambruno stressed.
President Woodrow Wilson, a Princeton graduate, one-year law student and PhD in history signed the infamous Federal Reserve Act into law — pre-Christmas eve on December 23, 1913 when he thought no one was paying attention.
When it was too late to matter, he expressed forked-tongue regret, saying:
“I have unwittingly ruined my country,” calling the US:
“One of the worst ruled…most completely controlled governments in the civilized world (run by) a small group of dominant men” — with him top dog as president.
Wilson gave Wall Street crooks control of the nation’s money, the supreme power over all others.
They’ve maintained control from then to the present day — serving themselves, likeminded corporate crooks and complicit politicians like Wilson, his successors, the vast majority of congressional members, key US bureaucrats and federal judges, especially the Supremes.
The National Debt ballooned to where it’s impossible to repay, especially with trillions more added to the bloated total.
In fighting inflation, the Fed is hamstrung.
It has to raise interest rates without going too far.
Setting them at a level needed to fight inflation would bankrupt the economy.
The only solution is “reset(ting)” the system by replacing current monetary policy, according to Giambruno.
In whatever way it’s done, special interests will benefit at the expense of most others — by transferring more of the nation’s wealth from Main Street to the rich, powerful and well-connected.
That’s part of what the diabolical Great Reset is all about.
It’s not a pretty picture and could happen sooner, not later.
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