– USA insulting world’s intelligence (Veterans Today, May 14, 2014):
“They must really think we’re stupid.” That is what people all over the world are saying about the American government and media’s portrayal of world events.
Several weeks ago, an interviewer said to Russian President Putin: “NATO claims the missile shield was not built against you but against Iran.” Putin broke out laughing. When the laughter finally subsided, Putin said: “You really make me laugh. God bless you because it’s almost time to finish the day… indeed it’s already time to go to sleep. At least I get home in good humor.”
Watch the video here: Putin Laughs Right In Journalist’s Face (Video)
No sane person could seriously assert that NATO’s missile shield circling Russia is intended to protect the West from Iran. Yet, that is exactly what NATO – the imperial American occupation army in Europe – tells the world. How stupid do they think we are?
Governments lie. Imperial governments construct vast empires of lies. But in the past, most official lies carried at least a thin veneer of plausibility. Today, the US government and its media echo chamber do not seem to care whether their lies are even slightly credible.
The Ukraine crisis has been a non-stop festival of American lies, each one more ridiculous than the last.
First they told us that the protestors against Ukraine’s legitimate president, Viktor Yanukovych, were heroes who love democracy and hate corruption. In fact, the protestors were an oversized rent-a-mob led by Nazi thugs and Zionist crime oligarchs, bought and paid for by the five billion dollars the US spent undermining Ukraine’s democracy.
Then they told us that the “heroic protestors” were being gunned down by Yanukovych’s forces. In fact, it was NATO’s Operation Gladio snipers who were doing the false-flag shootings.
They claimed that Yanukovych “fled” the presidency. In fact, he was overthrown by a typical CIA putsch while traveling; since he never stepped down, Yanukovych is still the legitimate, democratically-elected president of Ukraine.
They claimed that Putin was “intransigent” for refusing negotiations. In fact, the US insisted that Russia recognize the illegitimate Nazi putsch government in Kiev as a precondition for negotiations – which would have made negotiations moot.
They claimed that Putin was an aggressor in Crimea. The truth is that the people of Crimea voted by a 97% landslide to join the Russian Federation – as was their right under the principle of self-determination, a cornerstone of international law.
They claimed that the anti-Kiev protests in Eastern Ukraine are some kind of Russian plot. The reality is that the people of Eastern Ukraine are up in arms because they have no desire to be governed by an illegitimate regime of NATO terrorists, IMF austerity looters, Zionist crime oligarchs, and Nazi thugs.
They claimed that the anti-Kiev forces were forcing Jews to register themselves. In fact, the “Jews must register” leaflets were another Operation Gladio style false-flag provocation by NATO.
They claimed that last week’s Odessa Massacre was somehow Russia’s fault. In fact, NATO’s neo-Nazi thugs chased pro-Russia protestors into the Trade Unions Building, burned them to death, and strangled survivors trying to escape – the result, intentional or not, of another Operation Gladio false flag provocation.
Here is how the New York Times concealed the truth about the Odessa Massacre: “Violence also erupted Friday in the previously calmer port city of Odessa, on the Black Sea, where dozens of people died in a fire related to clashes that broke out between protesters holding a march for Ukrainian unity and pro-Russian activists.”
As an English teacher at three major American universities, I always instructed students to begin sentences with a specific subject and verb that clearly express “who does what.” In this case, “NATO-backed Nazi thugs” are the who, and “chased pro-Russian protestors into a building and burned and strangled them to death” are the what.
Instead, the New York Times begins its sentence with an abstraction, “violence,” that just somehow “erupted.” We are told that “dozens of people died in a fire,” but we are not told who killed them, simply that the fire was “related to clashes.”
George Orwell, author of “Politics and the English Language,” must be rolling over in his grave.
Does anyone in the world really believe anything John Kerry and the US mainstream media are saying about Ukraine? Expressions like “credulous dupe” do not even begin to describe the type of person who would be taken in by such brazen falsehoods.
Fortunately, there are signs that the world is not as stupid as the American establishment thinks it is. The people of Eastern Ukraine are united in their refusal to kowtow to the criminals in Kiev, and much of the world supports them. At the end of the day, the most economically advanced and strategic part of Ukraine is likely to become a fervently anti-NATO, anti-New World Order bulwark.
US-NATO lies are failing in Ukraine just as they failed in Syria, where President Assad is expected to win re-election on June 3rd and preside over an ever-more-united, ever-more-peaceful nation. The turning point in Syria was the failure of the al-Ghouta false flag in August, which the US and its Zionist lobby unsuccessfully tried to blame on Assad. More recently, another false flag plot by Turkish leaders, who were scheming to attack their own country and blame it on Assad, was exposed.
As in Ukraine, the American narrative about Syria has completely collapsed. The US and its puppets always insisted that the Syrian opposition was peaceful, democratic, and committed to human rights, while Assad’s government was the source of all atrocities. But as the smoke clears, it has become apparent that Syria, like Ukraine, was destabilized by NATO and its Operation Gladio minions.
The trouble in Syria began in the same way as in Ukraine: A mob of NATO hirelings and their deluded followers was sent into the street to be shot at by Operation Gladio false-flag snipers. The shootings were falsely blamed on the government; civil war was incited; and NATO-backed thugs and extremists went to war against the legitimate government – all according to plan. This is what the CIA has been doing all over the world since it overthrew Iran’s Mossadegh in 1953 and Guatemala’s Guzman in 1954.
Today, more and more people around the world are waking up to the manipulations and deceptions of the mainstream US narrative. Yet rather than reining in their falsehoods – the sane response to today’s interconnected hyper-mediated world – our US-NATO imperial masters keep pumping up the lies till they explode.
They must really, REALLY think we’re stupid.
Then again, if they can convince us that 19 debauched pseudo-Muslims led by a terminal kidney patient in a cave in Afghanistan could outwit the world’s most advanced air defense systems and blow up three buildings with two planes, they have good reason to think we are stupid enough to believe almost anything.
Hopeless …
Selling 1 Oz Gold Coin for $25 (when it’s worth over $1,500)
Banning Gold Coins & Confiscating Coins From Safe Deposit Boxes to Help the Economy
People sign petition to “increase inflation to 100%” to cause hyperinflation.
Nobody believes a word they say……the lies, the outright falsehoods are so blatant that nobody can believe them. The history is there, regardless of the words of these mendacious fools, and the Ukraine is Russian, not some other country. Under Obama, the US has lost all respect by the world, let alone our allies.
The US leaders are liars, and their lies are so obvious, that nobody believes them. I don’t know who they think they are kidding. US media isn’t covering any of this, lot of noise, no truth., Fires from the drought in CA., China unhappy about worker rebellion in Vietnam, Evil is flourishing in the world (FOX), they continue to use Gas in Syria against their own people, cutting down the gas tax on Fox, global changes and the military on MSNBC, why not deal with the problem now than kicking the can down the road?, Sony is down on the Stock Exchange, more money stories on Bloomberg…….Egypt is the subject………now China…….not one word on any of this. They fill the airwave with pure noise……no truth. The US media covers no truth whatsoever. The news is boring and insipid.
Propaganda, in order to be effective, has to have some truth to it. In this, the US is failing miserably; it is pure spin and outright lies. Nobody believes the US, abroad or at home.
Foolish and stupid. A shame when the only vestige of truth comes from Fox……they tell enough lies to seem credible. We have fallen a long way in the past fifty years.
The list of topics in the above comment was a list of what was being covered on US media at that moment. It is such a pack of lies………
Good propaganda HAS to have some truth in it in order for it to seem credible………US media has none, and their work has gotten so sloppy, they don’t even try.
One of the reasons Dylan Ratigan Left MSNBC is that the topics of the day were decided early in the morning, and no newscaster had better divert…………the host of Morning Joe was the “decider.”
Needless to say, Dylan didn’t last long.
I am sorry to say Ed Schultz knuckled down……he used to have some credibility………..
Loved the videos, actually thought they were set ups, but then recall my 20 years enjoying the wonderful scenery of the USA and all the conversational experiences I had, leaving me wondering if it was me or them?
Then watching the repetitive churned out TV news & crap programmes where now just marginally over half (32 minutes/hour) the air time is content, and 28 minutes is commercial pressure.
I love the medical product ads, showing models depicted as sufferers of one thing or another, then the picture of health, a life of paradise….then the disclaimers….just lurv the speed the disclaimers are rattled off.
Unfortunately thanks to globalisation, it’s creeping in here.
Yet most of my US peers know what’s going on but don’t want to know, if you get my frift.
As I’ve said before, most Yanks have been deliberately dumbed down, and kept in the dark, then lied to. But as long as they can get a beer & watch the game or go eat, they’re happy….just like chickens.
To Squodgy: I agree with what you say about those that know what is going on, but don’t want to know………there is a lot of that going on. What is even more disgusting is the fact many have children, and they owe them more than this claptrap. It isn’t funny, or amusing.
Staying in the dark may give them a few minutes of being dumbed down (and safe), but it is the opposite.
I wish I could disagree with you, but cannot.
Their idea of humor is to scoff at others, especially the less fortunate…….they are down because they like the welfare benefits???……..it is so sick.
We have gone from a caring nation to one run by criminals. Unless we get rid of them, we are done. The UK political system still gives you some voice, so get rid of yours while you can……..
@Marilyn & Squodgy,
Especially those with small children usually heavily guard & protect their little ‘ideal world’ and do not want to know anything that could have the mere potential (in their eyes) to pull the rug out from under their feet … even if it is information that will be very beneficial for their children’s health and future if only they would integrate it in their lives.
They are not acting logically, or otherwise they would be willing to intake all information that is given and only then make decisions for their life and the lives of their children.
Sadly they are more often than not in ‘breeding behavior’ mode.
For me that realization helped me to understand their actions.
Years ago my mother in law, when discussing ‘libido’ told me she’d rather have a nice cup of tea and a good book.
I laughed.
I don’t now.
The UK political system is the model on which yours was created.
After Oliver Cromwell theoretically transformed the structure of UK Parliament, it didn’t take long for the displaced to re-group and re-establish itself.
Whichever party is in power, it is beholden to the ‘establishment’ which uses the excuse of the Head of State to quell any trend for real democracy, just as they did in Australia with incompetent Gough Whitlam
In other words, just like USA it doesn’t matter who you vote for, because they cannot fulfil any bullshit dreamer promises unless the masters say so.
And who are the masters? Three guesses.