Jimmy Dore Offers a Real Version of the News

Jimmy Dore:

I have friends who still think the TV news is there to inform them & give them “news”. Americans are the most propagandized people on earth & they have no idea they are.

If the TV new actually did inform people about what is going on in the world & who actually runs things it would cause a revolution, which is why they never tell you the truth about anything important.

Their job is to manufacture consent for the agenda of Oligarchy & the handful of Billionaires who actually run things.

They’ve pushed EVERY war in my lifetime. EVERY WAR.

Can you imagine Anderson Cooper coming on TV and saying:

“The government is lying to you about this war, it’s complete bullshit just like Iraq & Vietnam, it’s built on lies to enrich a handful of people at the expense of everyone else, this is about money & power & stealing natural resources for western corporations & everyone should immediately oppose it”.

And STILL people turn to them for news & information as if they’ve turned over a new leaf & rejected their funding from weapons manufacturers, Wall st. & Oil companies.

We are living in a world that is a mixture of Orwell’s “1984” & Huxely’s “Brave New World” & it’s amazing how perfectly comfortable people are with that.

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The Number One Rule When Dealing with Any Organization

We have schools that don’t teach, public health organizations that don’t protect our health, news reporters who are not curious and a Department of “Defense,” an aggressive perpetrator of violence around the world, the world’s biggest bully and propaganda machine. What do each of these institutions have in common? They often fail to do the work they claim to do. Economist Thomas Sowell's advice:

When examining institutions, it is critically important “to distinguish between:

(1) examining issues and institutions in terms of their process characteristics versus

(2) examining them in terms of their proclaimed goals or ideals….

Knowledge and Decisions, Preface to 1996 Edition.

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Apple Censors Jon Stewart and Lina Khan

And this is how the world goes around. Apple has been publicly exposed as a censor in a big way. Stewart, no longer working for Apple, is now free to talk about the problem. Matt Stoller reports:

During the interview with [FTC Chair Lina Khan], [Jon Stewart] said that Apple had blocked him from interviewing her while he was at Apple. "They literally said, please don't talk to her,” he offered.... It’s a wide-ranging interview, in which Khan and Stewart discuss everything from inhalers to antitrust to big tech. And it’s worth watching. But the key moment was when Stewart asked Khan why Apple would do something like that. And she responded, “I think it just shows one of the dangers of what happens when you concentrate so much power and so much decision-making in a small number of companies.”

That is the right analysis. It’s well-known that Apple bars TV producers on its streaming service from commenting on China. When I was in Hollywood last year, censorship on behalf of China by all the streamers, especially Apple, was a constant complaint. There are obvious reasons, as Apple is de facto controlled by the Chinese government.

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Damon Imani Barges into Democrat-Elite Bullshit Sessions to Drop Truth Bombs

Clever and Cathartic mashup by Damon Imani (also available on Rumble):

I'm waiting for the day when Democratic Elites acknowledge that they became adamantly pro-war, pro-censorship, shamelessly partisan, race-obsessed, cheering wide-open totally unregulated borders, anti-empiricist, anti-merit and opposed to hard-earned Enlightenment principles.

For many more examples of how corporate "news" sites work hard to A) prevent you from knowing things that are true and B) deprive you of critical context for stories and C) insist that you believe untrue things, check out the hundred of posts here at DI under the category of "Narratives in Media."

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Sasha Stone: How to Remake America

On a recent podcast, Sasha Stone condemned the Biden administration, offering some words of support for Donald Trump. Unlike Stone, I would never consider voting for Trump. Nor can I in good conscience vote for Biden, as I did three years ago. That said, I very much agree with Stone about the many ways the United States has gone off the rails during the Biden years. An excerpt:

Four words on a red hat. Make America Great Again.

Make America able to take a joke again.

Make America understand basic biology again.

Make America the land of the free and home of the brave again.

Make it okay to be white, a Christian, a male, a Jew, a woman, a mother and American again.

Make Thomas Jefferson a hero again.

Make movies watchable again.

Make America a country where we can still say what we think without fear of banishment, public humiliation or the loss of our jobs.

Make America tolerant again.

Make reality cool again, make it okay to reward merit.

Make it okay to be friends with people you don't agree with.

Lots of the hysteria is happening on both sides. It has to do with algorithms and their effects on our brains and our perception of reality.

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