I question the timing. There seems to be a coordinated and full court press from the media on misinformation. It’s most likely related to what will be revealed on the Hunter Biden laptop (NOT THE Jack Maxey version) or some pre-emptive mid-term fortification (or we’re on the verge of another manufactured crisis).
The PBS headlines accompanying that “student lesson” are dripping with irony since they represent the latest disinformation being pushed by the globalists / deep state (see U.S. Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas Greenfield on the atrocities uncovered in Ukraine).
(1) How to fight truth decay through media literacy (PBS)
“While this lesson will center Russia’s disinformation efforts on their own turf and abroad, you may also swap in other topics related to mis- and disinformation, like COVID conspiracy theories, vaccine misinformation and the January 6th insurrection.”
(2) President Barack Obama and Maria Ressa on Disinformation and the Erosion of Democracy (The Atlantic via YouTube)
(2a) Liberal writer claims Hunter Biden laptop ‘not interesting’ (Fox News)
(3) College student rips into CNN anchor over the network’s ‘disinformation’ (Sky News Australia)
Category Archives: Jen Psaki
Weekend 527.1
“When a sieve is shaken, the husks appear; so do one’s faults when one speaks. As the test of what the potter molds is in the furnace, so in tribulation is the test of the just. The fruit of a tree shows the care it has had; so too does one’s speech disclose the bent of one’s mind. Praise no one before he speaks, for it is then that people are tested.”
Sir 27:4-7
Back to the potters wheel for a second…
On the train back to London and a couple of dandies’ (classically trained musicians) were throatily arguing for escalation and US involvement in the Ukraine. I was shocked by the uniformity of thought and believe it’s driven by the same kind of mass hysteria used to harden the COVID response. My intent here isn’t to weigh in on the ethical/moral justifications for escalation, but rather to comment on the perniciousness of groupthink. It’s a formula being perfected by those in power and it will undoubtedly be unleashed on anyone (or any group) countering official narratives once this latest crisis passes. So please beware of politicians who use the phrase ‘global democracy’ because it does NOT mean your individual rights but accepting inflation as a patriotic duty¹ or a regulated thermostat or whatever sacrifice the ruling class requires you to accept next for the public good.
Related
Attitudes via Instapundit
Lindsey Graham doubles down on call for Vladimir Putin’s assassination via NY Post
¹Standing up for our values is not without cost.
Russia / Ukraine Distraction
Don’t get duped by the politicians and the media. Deteriorating economic conditions in the US were not (were not) caused by the situation in Russia / Ukraine. Energy prices, supply-chain issues, and inflation were caused by Biden policies.
Gaslighting: CBS News Wants You to Think Ukraine-Russia Caused Our Economic Problems
The irony of Pelosi using history to defend our involvement in this far-flung conflict is rich. This is the same woman whose party has throatily advocated for the removal of statues and renaming of schools. The democrats have been toppled by their own hypocrisy.
In manifestos and the darkly allusive language of prophecy…
“Across the country, people struggling to make a living — from the propertied gentry to smallholders and labourers — were sick of a ruling class that had become a byword for venality and corruption: frittering away taxpayers’ money; incapable of dealing with the slow collapse in public order; indifferent to even the most modest proposals for reform; ineffective and disunited in every respect — except, apparently, when it came to preserving their own vested interests.”
(1) Fraudsters cash in as Dems shovel out billions and billions in COVID relief (NY Post)
“At times, the centre seemed unable to hold. Politicians urging unity and moderation watched aghast as factions tore at each other, all restraint set aside. This was a landscape littered by murders and executions enacted through fearful self-defence and hungry ambition, and justified with the merest skim of legal process. Speaking the language of populism and clamouring for reform, squabbling elites raised private armies and manipulated widespread public discontent to their own advantage, sparking insurgency and revolt against a battered political establishment. The system of hereditary monarchy itself seemed to teeter on the brink.”
(2) Pelosi Skeptical Of Need To Ban Trading Stock In Congress: It’s About ‘Trusting Our Members’ (HUFFPOST)
Quotes are from The Brothers York by Thomas Penn