This is how mindbogglingly corrupted the media are really, how much of a hate-propaganda organ they are, with an added dose of lazy spinelessness.
Very recently, shortly before the U.S. presidential election's results were expected, I heard a host (or pundit? - the borders are very fluid there) say on German 'public' TV evening news that both Clinton and Trump would be problematic/inconvenient for Germany/Europe: Clinton because she might demand us to provide military forces for their wars, Trump because he could improve relations with Russia.
Yes, he said it like that. What an inconvenience that would be, to not be able to regard Russia as an enemy, a villain, but to have good relations with them. Apart from the glaring opposites of opposition and cooperation both being villified there, actually this is expressing a view of Russia being the eternal and core villain beyond change or complexity, no ability to discriminate and looks at the various facets of a country. It is saying: Russia is evil, so any cooperation with them is bad.
This is textbook hate propaganda. It is incitement. And incitement is a crime according to German law. But that law is never applied to that side of hatemongers. They're only using it as a weapon against their hate-competitors; those who have the audacity to openly (and often sincerely) express their negative attitudes towards others, those others being the allies of this propaganda establishment.
But the game of distracting from inconvenient self-knowledge by projecting it onto others is very popular. And so you often hear the view expressed like: "China really has censorship and propaganda. We are not perfect, but we are angels compared to them."
The sad irony is that those who say that are much greater devils, for they conceil, use trickery, lies, deception. In China, censorship is actually not a secret at all, it's at least in part more like official policy to filter out certain foreign cultural influences.
While those who play the accuser try everything to pretend they don't do what they accuse others of.
Media censorship in the West is at an appalling level, supported by the convenient ignorance of the masses.
I will end on an anecdote to put things in perspective: Recently someone made a remark about elections manipulation and all the democracy talk and the accusations against countries like Iran. The remark was that it should make us stop and wonder that unlike many targets of accusation by the USA, the USA is the country which refuses international observers at their elections to ensure a democratic process. And their domestic issues with democracy aren't even a secret. But people get angry when you speak out the obvious truth. They consider it a personal attack of their convenient denial.
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Thursday, November 10, 2016
Monday, May 4, 2015
WTF - What the fascism?!
There was this noise being made over a biker gang (Night Wolves) loyal to Putin and devoted to christian-orthodox values and doing charity work and such. They were doing a tour from Russia to Germany, to pay their respects at former concentration camp sites and such, honoring the sacrifices of World war II. You can read up the details if you're intetested.
They were denied passage through Poland (surprise, haha) and thus had to take a detour. The German corporate media of course distorted the reasons for that in their usual propaganda crusade.
Still, even Spiegel Online allowed themselves to mock Chancellor Angela Merkel for all the fuss that Germany is making about it because of the Night Wolves' Putin-loyalty, in the context of the current very active anti-Russia incitement done by the propaganda press and government. They insinuated that she must be jealous of Putin because Germany only has an organized-crime biker gang "Hells Angelas" to show.
Well, and now, without any context whatsoever, a local newspaper here published a drawing by an author who apparently buys into all that incitement, too, and seems inspired by the rock bottom Charlie Hebdo level of 'satire'. They put that drawing on their "viewpoints" page, which appears to contain commentaries, without any further context. Just that drawing, as you see it here:
You have to understand, there's still tons of political correctness in Germany, and depictions of swastika without a very good reason are even forbidden. And here we have a German newspaper just publishing that drawing, insinuating the complete opposite of what the Night Wolves stand for, and in that way putting themselves in an interesting position that matches the other hypocrisy going on like e.g. the German government supporting Ukrainian neonazi soldiers or news media allowing Ukrainian politicians to talk about the nazis in a positive light using distortions of history, without being corrected. It's all about who the enemy of the day is and what benefits the own agenda. Germany has learned a lot from the USA in regards to outrageous double-standards.
What the newspaper (Weser Kurier) did here is on the same level as if they had published a picture of Angela Merkel with a drawn-on Hitler moustache. It is very immature in its intellectual depth and very troubling in its implications. But just one of many examples of incitement by the German press against Russia/Putin (personalized incitement is always easier), as documented aplenty by http://propagandaschau.wordpress.com
By the way, incitement is a legally relevant offense in Germany, too. While opposers of government policy are easily being accused of it, the corporate press basically commits this criminal act day-in day-out, in great severity and audacity. It's very similar to the double standards in the Charlie Hebdo affair, where one and the same thing is either called "freedom of press" or "incitement", depending on its loyalty towards the government line.
There is so much hypocrisy going on, it is mindboggling.
It is so damn easy to make critique that matches the criminal government line. This is not my understanding of what defines an intellectual. (Then again, even Noam Chomsky can make statements so incredibly dumb that it makes your jaw drop.)
They were denied passage through Poland (surprise, haha) and thus had to take a detour. The German corporate media of course distorted the reasons for that in their usual propaganda crusade.
Still, even Spiegel Online allowed themselves to mock Chancellor Angela Merkel for all the fuss that Germany is making about it because of the Night Wolves' Putin-loyalty, in the context of the current very active anti-Russia incitement done by the propaganda press and government. They insinuated that she must be jealous of Putin because Germany only has an organized-crime biker gang "Hells Angelas" to show.
Well, and now, without any context whatsoever, a local newspaper here published a drawing by an author who apparently buys into all that incitement, too, and seems inspired by the rock bottom Charlie Hebdo level of 'satire'. They put that drawing on their "viewpoints" page, which appears to contain commentaries, without any further context. Just that drawing, as you see it here:
You have to understand, there's still tons of political correctness in Germany, and depictions of swastika without a very good reason are even forbidden. And here we have a German newspaper just publishing that drawing, insinuating the complete opposite of what the Night Wolves stand for, and in that way putting themselves in an interesting position that matches the other hypocrisy going on like e.g. the German government supporting Ukrainian neonazi soldiers or news media allowing Ukrainian politicians to talk about the nazis in a positive light using distortions of history, without being corrected. It's all about who the enemy of the day is and what benefits the own agenda. Germany has learned a lot from the USA in regards to outrageous double-standards.
What the newspaper (Weser Kurier) did here is on the same level as if they had published a picture of Angela Merkel with a drawn-on Hitler moustache. It is very immature in its intellectual depth and very troubling in its implications. But just one of many examples of incitement by the German press against Russia/Putin (personalized incitement is always easier), as documented aplenty by http://propagandaschau.wordpress.com
By the way, incitement is a legally relevant offense in Germany, too. While opposers of government policy are easily being accused of it, the corporate press basically commits this criminal act day-in day-out, in great severity and audacity. It's very similar to the double standards in the Charlie Hebdo affair, where one and the same thing is either called "freedom of press" or "incitement", depending on its loyalty towards the government line.
There is so much hypocrisy going on, it is mindboggling.
It is so damn easy to make critique that matches the criminal government line. This is not my understanding of what defines an intellectual. (Then again, even Noam Chomsky can make statements so incredibly dumb that it makes your jaw drop.)
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