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Submitted by Julian Macfarlane.
Fantasy Land
The New York Times would never publish someone like me. On the other hand, I wouldn’t be surprised to see some headline like this, given their penchant for accepting whatever stories “intelligence sources” (anonymous) tell them, despite actual facts screaming “Fiction, fiction”.
If you are like most people you probably check Google News for…ummm… “facts” about the world. The headlines which are neatly arranged in categories with the most important at the top, neatly curated. always including CNN, WaPo and the NYT since these “sources” are like the Bible once was, not to be questioned.
Click on the headlines, however, you find that most are not “news”—but “opinions”: interpretations of events with few links that provide validation.
To a critical thinker, Google News is really Google Stories. They are like a lot of movies and TV series, based on events that really happened–but mostly fiction– infotainment. Convenience store news, nicely packaged but full of additives, genetically modified events, and sweeteners to counter the acid taste of atrocity.
MSM “News” has to appeal to the public imagination, in American conditioned it seems by Marvel and DC Comics – with dramatic heroes, and really nasty Adversaries. Pass the popcorn.
As in TV, you need constant turnover. New storylines. Especially when Reality intrudes, as it does with COVID.
And underneath everything is US State Department catechism, a kind of political religion.
A good example recently is the spate of UFO stories, which are based on sightings by individuals, including military and civil aviation pilots of “anomalies’.
Daddy, Tell Me a Story!
We evolved as simple beings, hunting and gathering about 10 hours week, with the rest of the time for song, dance, play…and especially storytelling–a fun way to explain away the unexplainable and bind us a group—-the web and woof of culture
We are no different today.
The universe is still vast and unknowable – and it is almost certain that beings more intelligent than us exist elsewhere– but so far away we will never meet them. Unless of course UFOs are real, which a lot of people believe. Our ancestors did not let every day realities spoil a good story –modern people don’t either. You may live in Tokyo, New York, London or Moscow—and your campfire may be a dinner table but you are no different from people 35,000 years ago.
As children, we asked our parents to make up stories for us so we could sleep better at night. As adults, we ask the media to do the same, resolving cognitive dissonance, and the contradictions of belief vs reality. The national catechism is that “America” is a beacon of freedom, liberty, democracy – yet history teaches it is nation of also slavery, genocide, and war, and not a representative democracy at all.
Willing suspension of disbelief
A majority of Americans believe alien civilizations exist and half believe aliens have visited Earth.
So it is no surprise that the US government has met public demand with millions of dollars to investigate UFOs.
How this money is actually used is naturally “classified”; it could be just used to collate and curate reports on sightings of anomalies—or it could provide funding for “off the record” or “off the book” ops such as terrorism or drug running. Americans don’t know. And don’t want to know. Ask too many questions and you end up like Assange or Snowden.
National mythologies are built from lies.
George Washington did not cut down a cherry tree. Paul Revere never made that ride in the story. Oh, and Abraham Lincoln did not think black lives matter. As I said, reality is tough meat, it needs to be cooked with the right sauces.
Want to understand American culture? Read the comics.
Super Heroes are mostly ordinary, powerless people until something unexpected happens to them.
And the Big Bads? Obviously, more important to the story than the hero. And requiring a lot of invention.
In reality, ordinary people have no “powers” at all. And the real Big Bads pretend to be heroes.
Media must mediate.
Saddam Hussein and Muammar al-Gaddafi were MSM Big Bads. The American public demanded and got fanciful, if not implausible stories as to their misdeeds – yellowcake, WMD, terrorism, rapes and murder, babies thrown on the floor out of incubators and presumably stamped on.
Not that these people didn’t kill or even torture—but nothing on the scale of the US itself, — which with 4% or the world’s population has 25% of the world’s prison population and has killed more than 20 million men, women and children since 1950.
Iraq and Libya were destroyed: it was their leaders’ fault, of course.
With Hitler and Stalin gone. And Saddam and Gaddafi, there was demand for new Big Bads in Season 2 of the seires. Thank God for Putin and Xi. If they didn’t exist, they would have had to been invented. But what Americans see as Putin and Xi is mostly invented.
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Putin is a dictator, a “thug”, a KGB killer, a latter day Hitler. If he doesn’t like you—you die. Like Skripal or Navalny. OK, those “victims: are alive. Unlike the people on MH17.
Hollywood shows Russians as either bloodthirsty, sadistic spies or bloodthirsty, sadistic Mafia. And we all know about fiendish Chinese tortures.
The best thing is the Putin and Xi don’t ask for royalties from the MSM for their roles in this new drama.
The MSM is always hard at work with new ideas.
NeoNazi coup in Ukraine had to reframed as a “democratic” color revolution. The breakaway and more democratic republics of Donbas and Lugansk as terrorist enclaves, funded by the KGB,–renamed yes, but resurgent as the Russian Gestapo. Putin “invaded” Crimea, somehow persuading over 90% of Crimeans to vote to return to what they had been for centuries – part of Russia.
Mind control?
The American public did not elect Donald Trump in 2016—that was Putin’s doing, his “dirty tricks” subverting American democracy in his quest to destroy the US. Cyberattacks. Terrorism abroad. Why does he do this? BECAUSE HE IS EVIL.
Putin, clearly has “powers”. Are you frightened yet? Hide under the sheets, little one.
That is why it would not surprise me to see a headline from the NYT saying that “intelligence sources” had decided that Putin was an alien. The Ultimate Illegal Alien.
It comes as no surprise that recently the Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid has said that Putin is behind the recent spate of UFO sightings, suggesting indirectly he is an Alien.
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Putin’s Powers
Putin’s somehow uses US sanctions to leverage economic and technological independence in Russia. He has advanced hypersonic weapons beyond American capabilities. He defeated Islamic extremists in Chechnya and Syria, without alienating Israel, Iran and the KSA. Powers.
And he actually denied being a alien when asked this question. Denial just proves it.
Of course, he could be something other than your run of the mill ET. A time traveler? A vampire? Or just Lucifer?
No, I insist he is an alien. Will the NYT accept my article, I wonder?
The west is loosing it and this is the latest evidence. In a normal society, no columnist would write such nonsense for fear of loosing credibility for writing nonsense or casual gossip but the US society is in another level of delusion altogether. How is this even conceivable? Do Aliens exist even before Someone claims that Putin is one?
Ridiculous accusations that no sane person would believe constitute a loyalty test for the Empire’s citizenry. They have to believe the rubbish, especially when it is egregious rubbish, in order to prove themselves loyal. The Skripalnavalny crapaganda proved that quite adequately.
This is Jihadi Colin, by the way.
That is truly “crapaganda”. those that will not believe or propagate this nonsense will automatically be labelled as Kremlin agents.
The “West”? Really? More like the US Empire that still is the only pole in the post-Cold War era (and likely will be no more not be at the end of this year). In reality, when the deciding battle is won by Russia (and our temporary allies), Europe – under the leadership of Germany likely, and with the exclusion of the UK – will abandon ship… POSTHASTE. All they need is a sign of weakness. A missile crisis, as it will likely occur. Or a step back from the meddling in Belarus… a domino effect will ensue in any case. A resonance cascade of sorts.
Wrong. There is no West. What was once the West has been conquered by the racist supremacist global Jewish satanic slave empire dictatorship.
There is no West. What was once the West has been conquered by the racist supremacist global Jewish satanic slave empire dictatorship.
Crumbling pedonazi americant empire is becoming more pathetic by the day…
“Putin is An Alien”…. Only when he $habbats!
Shill,
The CIA projections spam against Putin doesn’t fly anymore.
Also stop self-upvoting your own spam.
I would tell you what is real but the boys and girls and Langley that control the comment section for SouthFront won’t let me.
You’re a paid shill
“nothing can thrive in amerika unless I inflated by hyperbole and gilded with a fine coat of fraud, amerikans cannot think except by means of slogans: they identify garbage as quality. the stupidity and ignorance of amerikans has long been a topic of hilarity in Europe”. Paul Fussell
If you didn’t see it, Russia condemned Israel’s actions, and Putin even suggested Israel’s actions could put Russia at war with Israel, and now the Zionists are scratching their heads. When push comes to shove, Putin shows his cards: He’s a Christian and a Nationalist who loves his country and doesn’t want to make international waves; but, if you provoke him, he will kick you in the teeth, whether you be a zionist American or Zionist Jew.
Terrible lie… you must be damn stupid to even write,imagine Israel-Russian war scenario.Upvoting-comment ratio is not important anymore.Don’t push yourself too hard to seem intelligent
Read the news, you idiot lol. Read Jewish news. Read Russian news. Read international news. That’s all you have to do to see the truth of my comment.
Semantics…he mentioned that the current escalation between Israel and Palestine poses a direct threat to Russia’s security,Not a direct war dumbass.Russia -Israel have family relations over decades.What Putin doing is banal lip-service for fanboys like you and to get status equality with usa-eu-un. This strikingly mirrors Putin’s rhetoric when Russia intervened in Syria in 2015 and is aimed at rallying domestic support for an expanded diplomatic role.
lol @ your dumbassery. Russia’s foreign ministry has declared that Israel is the problem in the middle east. Then Putin says the Israeli actions threaten Russian national security. Then Jewish newspapers acknowledge (Jerusalem Post) that Russia condemned Israel. And you think Putin is a zionist playing 8D chess? You are the village idiot.
Why Putin’s stance? If this link still works (they have a habit of becoming 404), maybe this is why…https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/total-immigration-to-israel-by-country-of-origin There are many interesting stats here. Also, add up the immigrant numbers and you will see that all those from other than former SU combined, barely outnumbers those from the former SU. Putins position is that he will protect Russian people, wherever they live. Possibly this is why he says that he guarantees Israels security. In 2019, 48% of the immigrants to Israel were Russian/Ukrainian. Also, just a day or two ago, he said he would possibly evacuate Russians from GAZA. He especially said Gaza, not Israel. There are no Jews in Gaza and haven’t been since 2005. What Russians in Gaza is he talking about? The only Russian’s near Gaza live in the Israeli side. When one thinks about land theft in Palestine, who are those people that a need a place to live? ‘Jews’ already there or immigrants? At least these numbers offer a perspective on Russian positions.
Only CIA paid shills from Israel/USA the negro-replaced country to come make projections spam on a Russian site.
CIA projections spam is very common in the Jew’s USA.
The negro-replaced USA is the Jew himself going to wars and sending funds to kill Arabs.
are u this stupid? clearly
Well said.
NYT, WashPost, Guardian… toilet paper all of them.
Makes sense to me, Putin has to be an Alien, how else could he be smarter than Joe Biden?
LOL
UFOs are totally real, as long as you use the term in the correct sense: Unidentified Flying Object. I have myself seen three, all of which were Unidentified until I identified them – in two cases with the aid of binoculars – whereupon they ceased to be UFOs.
The first was a brilliant red meteor. It helped in the UFOisation that it was the first meteor I ever saw, and that I was 12 years old. Since then I have seen many meteors, though no more red ones, and I would never make that mistake today.
The second was an uncrewed hot air balloon – a “Chinese lantern” – flying at night. Confirmed by binoculars.
The third was a brilliant speck I saw one day from my window that hovered in the air, dipping and swooping sometimes, but not moving appreciably. With binoculars I saw that it was a kite made of some reflective material, maybe aluminium foil.
The sheeple there are kept scared of possibility of Alien invasion , which very strangely never happened for thousands of years that history has been recorded. Ultimately, the scared, hungry and homeless sheeple will continue with BLM and LGBTI protests and fantastic movies of Aliens while Imperialist will end up with truckloads of $$$$.
With a bit of luck the ‘truckloads of $$$$’ will soon be due to Hyper Inflation and the collapse of the US financial World Reserve Currency boondoggle :)
Putin an alien 🤣 yeah right. 🤣
New? Same crew that was always there same ole story