VGI Archives - older musings, letters, things before VGI ... if you like homogenized mush with no new ideas, stick with the CBC and MSM - if you like good writing and original ideas - lots of good stuff here...
a call to arms ....
Let your life be a friction to stop the machine
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where we could be what we could be
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A Serpent's Tale - Dave's parable about what we are doing to our planet - when you look into the abyss, even if you have no idea what you are doing - be careful - maybe the abyss is looking back ...
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In the 60s we were a few short steps away from the dream of democratic peace and prosperity our ancestors had fought for for centuries - and here we are as the first decade of the 21st century stumbles to an end on the edge of the abyss with nothing but grim in sight as chaos and turmoil threaten from all sides -
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Do you wonder what is happening to our society? This -
They're Building a Box - and You're In It
The Global Financial Meltdown: Forces beyond our control, or the greatest Sting ever?
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
John Maynard Keynes
And a book for younger readers too, Dave's an eclectic sort of person - Aquila
- and for the curious, if anyone cares, a few words on From Hastings to Green Island - the (very) short form story of Dave's own journey..
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The (somewhat erratic) daily observations...
June 2 - Ottawa Morning - Robyn having a patronising discussion with some guy about idiots who think they can do things themselves around the house. We're all, in CBC world, just little munchkins, helpless and relying on Mother to look after us. YOU HEAR THAT CHILDREN????? DO NOT DO THINGS YOURSELF!@!!! you poor children are just not competent, and we have specially trained people to do things for you - not to mention specially trained experts to tell you what to think - you people surely do not want to try to THINK for yourselves, OMG hahahahahahaha!!!!!
>> tobacco companies ordered to pay - more political 'legal' shit - this has nothing to do with anything any intelligent, neutral observer would call 'justice' - just 'politically correct' punishment of someone the PCers have decided they don't like. This kind of thing is accepted as “evidence" - :..."Did you stop to think what a cigarette is? It destroys you — your health is totally destroyed," she said, holding up two photos of her late husband, who died in the summer of 2012 from lung cancer at the age of 68...." - obviously just personal opinion, we all (honest people at least) know people who smoked all their lives with no apparent damage - sure some people die, a lot more don't. But balance has nothing to do when you're on a politically-driven pogrom of some sort - very disturbing how much this goes on anymore, with anything the gov wants to do, and the obviously completely indoctrinated little obey-bots screaming out insults at anyone who dares disagree with dogma and try to speak 'truth'.
May 30 - a new "humor" thing (the idea of CBC 'humor' is laughable in itself) - but they have 'famous people' reading famous lines from old movies in a 'funny' way - starting with 'I love the smell of napalm' - from Apocalypse Now, of course, laughing at the Americans dropping napalm on Vietnam, killing millions, causing birth defects that last to this day - a real laugh. Just as a comparison, what if they dragged up some line from a movie about the German-Jewish holocaust, and tried to play it for laughs? Think that would pass unremarked???? I kind of doubt it. haha. (but for some far, far better humor stuff, as always, try RT - Lee Camp and Redacted Tongith - humor for adults who care about their country, not the CBC shit for dumbed down drones mindlessly supporting the NWO as instructed by the CBC.
they saw her belly!!!!OMFG!!!!! - it's obviously an epidemic. I keep starting comments on stupidity, and they keep getting stupider. You couldn't make this shit up, as they say. If there's any people with functioning brains left out there, you better watch who you associate with - this stuff appears to be contagious.
May 29 - plane kicks off lady for crying baby - fuck, you wouldn't dare make up something like that. ANd from bad to worse - "...by the time the plane returned to the airport from the runway, the child was fast asleep, and passengers were forced to wait 75 minutes while Blackwood's luggage was removed from the flight...." fuck. little minds with authority way, way WAY beyond their ability to use it sanely. The stupidity is spreading.
>> so many stories like this - proving over and over again that the much vaunted 'impartial law' is nothing more than a crap shoot, for those who even have the money to try to use it in the first place. If you're a poor person, of course, the 'law' is just the first tool the wealthy have to run roughshod over you - but once you get into the system, this kind of shit happens all the time, proving beyond any rational argument that it's all just the opinion of the 'judge', and of course judges have different opinions. Crap shoot. We do it so, so much better on Green Island - Montague Student Trial
- and more 'Lookin goood!' and 'lady in red!!' - sexual harassment!!!!!!!!!!!!! - just outrageous over-reaction, and stupidity, and more about what a total farce the 'law' in this country is like. $600,000 fucking thousand dollars?!?!?!?!?!?!?! - just fucking insane. Like getting fired because some head-up-the-ass women can't tolerate a bit of kidding around. The hypocrisy is there too - I am sure there are dozens of instances of this kind of make-female kidding around on the television every day, and I am equally sure pretty much everybody takes them in the spirit they are meant. Pretty crazy too that this guy was drawing $100,000 per year for three years before this was settled - this capitalist/PC government is just too fucking incompetent and stupid to be allowed to continue.
May 28 - the 'even paranoids have real enemies' file - this story - Andrew Coyne, form but not substance of democracy - one of my concerns, of course, and at one point I offered a comment -
"...- I think you're going to be waiting awhile before you get any 'mea culpa's from the media, they're too busy lining up for the various awards they give themselves every year. I've written any number of letters objecting to this, but for some reason they never get printed or acknowledged - i.e. http://www.rudemacedon.ca/vgi/letters/120615-AM-journ-award.html . But with the internet, more and more people are starting to understand how central the media is to the takeover of our country by the NWO-ers, and more and more fighting back - it's no surprise that these faux-journalists are now competing with politicians and lawyers for the least trusted people in our society.." - and the comment box got this red sign, telling me - "We are unable to post your comment because you have been blocked by National Post. Find out more here - interesting - I had a comment accepted earlier, and I tried another comment, just 'testing' a minute later, and it got through - evidently it's just they don't want people reading the letter - kind of irritating, but also interesting - they are paying attention to what I write, and are worried about it .... >> and MORE interesting - I did a 'tiny URL' for the site ( https://tinyurl.com/q2eyclz ) - put it in the message - and it got accepted!! (and they still accept the others - what happened, democratic revolution - interesting - must have cut a bit too close to the bone for one of the mods, who decided to block it ... )
May 26 - no gender designation on birth certificates ????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - fuck, again, the utter fucking stupidity of some of these people desperately trying to show how PC they are is just fucking stunning sometimes (and that includes the people running around calling themselves "journalists" (a fucking nother big laugh) who publicize this shit. fuckfuckfuck. I may have said that before. Sometimes it's the most appropriate word - darn darn DARN!!!! just doesn't seem to have the same weight...). The entire country is going to be up for one of these Darwin awards any day now. The dumbing down is really taking over.
>> working overtime on the box, or just the norm, I guess - EVERY show today is talking about 'the election!!' coming up - theme today, the different advertisements, and how the leaders are performing, etc - deep box stuff, you can have whatever opinion you want about these ads, and the people making them - as long as you really like one, and really dislike another - you're in the box!!!! - and as long as you're in the box - you lose!!!! - it doesn't matter if you like dee, dum or dumber - they're just different heads of one hydra - the people who control the money, who control everything money can buy. Such as politicians and political parties, and not-too-bright citizens.
May 25 - CBC doing its ongoing 'creating the narrative' bit, reminding us all about the upcoming election. The focus today, some ads by the NDP - '..it's all part of an NDP plan to capitalize on recent polls showing the NDP is doing well..' - wow. how in the fuck does she know that???? She didn't quote any sources - the ads 'just appeared', and the polls showing the NDP pretty equal with the rest are only a few days old, so strategies based on those polls must be recent - hmmm. smell test. she's making stuff up - that's what they do, of course, as they 'create the narrative', but this is a bit over the line, methinks. But then again, I'm probably the only person in the country enough out of the box, and paying attention, to notice this, and they obviously don't give a shit what I think or know. Yet. haha.
- the Current - a 'discussion' about the 'conspiracy theory' books on bin Laden's bookshelf - the highly pretentious '911 truth debunker' Jonathan Kay with his utterly infuriating 'I am SOOOO superior' persona - we really gotta get him with a bit of serum one day and get a bit of truth out of him - AM gets ahold of John Perkins (Confessions of an Economic Hit Man), and the most intelligent question she can come up with is 'do you suppose Bin Laden was inspired to pull off the 911 attacks partly based on your writing?' - pushing the propaganda down your throat. only word for these people - evil fucks. Kaye esp putting on a good job of being in the box - everything the US does is wonderful, the Muslims are evil, we in the media are truly wonderful people explaining the world to the nice munchkins, anyone who doesn't believe us is mocked and stupid. etc.
millions of people arrive at Cdn border crossings each month, and they aren't all fully screened!!! complains the CBC "investigative" (sic hahahahahahahaha) branch. Now we need to see their ideas on how people are going to react when every single one of those people, as they seem to desire, undergoes a 2-3 minute document check, and the lineups start stretching for miles, or how much money this is all going to cost, and etc. And when they plan to stop putting PC children at important parts of the news reporting cycle. Woops - sorry - the whole thing is obviously now staffed with such kids, who are obviously hiring themselves over and over again, and think they're doing a great job.
May 24 more utter fucking stupidity from people who cannot think and try to compensate by blindly obeying rules. Way, way too many such people out there causing problems for more normal people who at least try to think.
May 24 - Oh Canada - student disqualified from running for council for saying 'dick' ????????????? WTF as they say?????? - this is really going too far. But then, I've been saying for years, never never think that they can't go lower. I think it was Einstein who said "only two things we know of are infinity, the universe and human stupidity. And I'm not certain about the universe.' - something like that. Smart guy. But it is of course this kind of utterly trivial stupidity the rulers are creating among the peasants, so immersed in trivial navel gazing they have no idea of the rulers above them.
May 23 - related to various earlier postings - When did our society get so sensitive? - Christie Blatchford from the NP - don't usually agree with Ms Blatchford, the leader of the NP pogrom against Ford last year, and any number of other opinions and gossip I considerably disagree with (as with most of the NP writers) - but she seems to be the only columnist allowed in the major parts of the Cdn corporate propaganda media to stand up to Power here, with the utter stupidity of the endless trivial attacks that have been going on the last few years against anybody making even the most trivial jokes involving women and sex - you know, the kind of jokes men have been telling forever, and will continue to tell forever. (and we might note,even the NP editors live in fear of these people, as this column had a VERY short life on the front page of the website, and is not even shown on the 'comment' page a day later - it's still on her page, but not many people will know about it and look for it - a bit worrisome that even the libertarian NP owners are cowed by this kind of political correctness - says a lot about 'power' relations here... and nothing good) So good on ya for that Ms CB. She still doesn't get the real deal though, which is - the 'stop this stuff!!!!' gang has things fundamentally wrong - it is not the misogynists generally telling such jokes, it is somewhat more civilized men who are, and have been, intimidated and treated badly by women in various ways, who are getting some very small measure of revenge through such jokes. The idea women are the 'inferior class' in society is just stupid - in almost every middle class home, the woman quickly establishes her dominance, and in many case she is a rather nasty ruler. Truth. Yes, in some homes the neolithic male beats the woman and kids, and this is certainly something we should be stopping, but to pretend this is the norm out there, and we have to protect all women from all men by such really trivial things as 'stamping out misogynistic humor!!' - is just as idiotic as most of the stuff the PC crowd gets up to, with, apparently, very few of the victims (not the women, the people 'publically shamed' for their failure to understand the vindictiveness of the people putting the Box in place around everyone, and those doing the post-attack piling on) understand
May 22 - emphasizing the trivial - a story Cdns really need to know about - Ireland voting on same sex marriage - all presented as a big serious issue rather than the religious based nonsense it really is, a 'controversy' to get the children excited, divide and conquer, keep your mind away from anything really serious in our country. Always count on the CBC for a daily helping of trivia.
>> and a 'new report' on the Great and Terrible Dalhousie Dental Students Scandal!!!! - what did they do wrong, you ask???? Something the CBC is obviously out to stamp out - a few adolescent-minded students put a few stupid jokes on a facebook page about women - you know, the kind of adolescent stupid jokes men have been telling about women forever - and the CBC, and the loyal followers, went ballistic. Gotta love the double standard - when people make deeply intentionally offensive jokes about Muslims, the CBC is front and center with everyone else telling the offended Muslims to just shut the fuck up, we have 'free speech' here, baby - but get too close to one of the CBC pet things designed to entrap people in childhood LCD behavior forever, such as the Supremacy of radical Feminism - and YOU SHUT THE FUCK UP OR WE'LL TOTALLY FUCKING WRECK YOU BUDDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - and so goes life in the Great and Free Democracy of Canada. haha
the Current - on some amazingly important issues - Ireland votes to allow (or not!!) same sex marriages!!!! In Canada, we speak to some terribly abused teens who are having trouble with wait times to have their breasts removed so they can assume their natural sexual identities!!! As always, the adults move off to RT for a bit of adult conversation. (teens are just not sure of who or what they are yet - they should be allowed to find their own way, but teen angst over pretty much anything is NOT a 'national news' story - unless, of course, you want to emphasize the trivial in order to hide the important - one of the 'charter functions' of the 'new' CBC ...
CBC website 'commentary' - Analysis: Economic inequality: 10 reasons why we can't beat it - serious pseudo 'economic' analysis, for people deeply in the box who like their indoctrination reinforced from time to time - haha, look how smart I am, mom, I knew all that already!! - out of the box, of course, it is evident that this is not going near the root causes of inequality - for very good reasons, because the main reason we have inequality is simply that the entire system is designed to transfer the wealth produced by the working class to the elite, and periodically, as the last few decades, the less sane predators become dominant and aren't happy with their vast wealth, they want more and more and more. Very obviously, we could do a great deal about this, if we had the political will and understanding of what was going on here to fight for a real democracy - but as long as we believe such inequality is 'inevitable', like natural disasters or something, we won't even think about trying. The Box abides. Capitalist corporate propaganda media in action. Lies and dumbing down and gatekeeping. And a completely indoctrinated population believing any shit coming from the CBC like this.
- CBC has new gossip stuff!!! - some NDP lady has been 'outed' - the gossipers are all excited that there is a picture of her with marijuana and a couple of other stupid things from bygone days - fuck, the utter pettiness of what these people, at our fucking CBC of all places, call 'news'. GOSSIP RULES!!!! (kind of ironic, really, like so much they do - they're forever telling us the 'social media' like the internet are not 'serious' and should not be listened to, it's just cute cat pics and silly conspiracy theories haha, and yet every day they show who the TRUE gossipers are ... no credibility at all) - and part of the 'shaming society' they are encouraging - teens are largely controlled by their not-too-bright 'peers' by this kind of shit - adults should know better. The CBC, of course, and the rulers, want to encourage the 'inner child' of everyone for the control power it gives the rulers. More and more examples - the ladies and kid on the planes turned around last year - BIG 'shaming', with so many people piling on, the totally idiotic Dalhousie students being 'shamed' and much worse for some stupid jokes, the FHRITP crap a few weeks back - the 'adults' ruling us are doing a lot of pushing lately, I guess they figure the Box is pretty close to closed, and are rounding up the outliers ..... buhbye world, hello 4th Reich .....
May 21 - 10 Montreal youth arrested on suspicion of wanting to join jihad - ah, the great Democracy of Canada. (not new, of course - way back around 1969 the house I was living in was raided by a whole fucking gang of cops because a certain person "suspected" I was dealing drugs - no proof at all, obviously, since I was not - but they didn't like long-haired kids, so 'suspicion' was more than enough.)
Ottawa Morning - Robyn with some guy from the Fraser telling us that debt is fine, a good thing even, don't worry be happy! - really, debt is good because it builds wealth (fudk the brazenness of their lies is amazing, almost as amazing as the stupidity of the indoctrinated masses who believe such shit) - the people in Canada with debt are actually getting wealthy!!!! - as always, not a word about 'debt with interest' being created out of thin air by commercial banks as the cause of **all** of our financial problems, and we don't actually need to do any of this debt stuff, and a democracy of intelligent, engaged people simply wouldn't do anything so stupid ... nor any talk about how levels of debt, as percent of income, is far, far higher than it was 40 years ago - just a big whitewashing. well, what else would we expect from the CBC, corporate propagandist??
>> this is kind of the complete reversal of a 'democracy' - Steve Campana, Canadian biologist, 'disgusted' with government muzzling - the gov is moving towards the very fascistic policy of 'We will assume whatever you are doing is somehow bad, so you need to clear everything with us before doing it, unless you have specific permission' or something - in a real democracy, if we ever get one, it would, of course, be the complete reverse - whenever some government body decides it wants to do something of **any** importance at all, it would have to get permission from 'we the people' first. haha thoughts over a beer, we know THAT is never going to happen,
>> "news" (read with an appropriately deep and obviously disapproving voice, the one used for naughty children, you can 'hear' the frown, you know) - 'several senators have air flights worth several thousands of dollars - within Canada' - per year !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMFG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - now THAT is NEWS baby!!!! Thank you CBC for watching out for me and my country!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (now if we're talking money things - you know about the two fucking TRILLION!!!!!! these fuckers have been stealing from us????? How about a story here???? (hahahaha just joking!!!!)
- once again, the whole "news" cast is just a bunch of scattered crap - 'report' on some lady getting an incorrect epinephrine dose, something from Syria about ISIS threatening to destroy some ancient artifact (this is important, of course, but you wonder a bit at the focus, when the US is bombing the shit out of everything and nobody worries about it - they destroyed a huge amount of ancient stuff when they 'shock and awe-ed' Iraq a few years back, with only scattered notices. That's the rulers - one rule for us, one for them. (not to mention, of course, that using the excuse of ISIS, and minimum media coverage to minimize the backlash, the US - and probably Canada - are bombing Syria, working with ISIS now as 'Plan C' or something to get rid of Assad .... lesson one - whatever you hear on the corporate propaganda media, it is something other than 'the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth thank you ma'am'...)
May 20 - Island Morning - a little discussion on the 'FHRITP' shit going around - we're ALL such good children!!! - and etc. Not a whisper from the 'other side', or from the 'sanity' side - this is obviously a very small thing, ramped into something big by the media, who then start whining about it. The new CBC - le news c'est moi. (actually, of course, it is, in the deeper way - the CBC acting as the Ministry of Truth is pretty big news that not many people know about yet)
May 19 - >> the Current, showing how caring they are, a big discussion about how to make better refugee camps for all them poor refugees - oddly enough, not a single fucking WORD about the best way to solve anything is, if possible, to stop causing it in the first place - you know, if you're in a hole, stop digging. Canada has been directly involved with a great deal of the middle east refugee crisis, cheering on the destruction of Iraq, directly participating in the destruction of Libya and yugoslavia and Syria, and generally supporting US hegemony and its endless bombing and destruction around the world. You cannot be anything more than massively hypocritical when crying crocodile tears about a problem like this, without admitting your own role in causing the problem. And their solutions are utterly meaningless, well maybe I exaggerate, there were one or two small sort of lesser good ideas - but generally completely in the box, not dealing with anything meaningfull. For of course the root of the problem is capitalism and the utter refusal of the rulers to allow any of the wealth of a country to be spent on good stuff 'we the people' need - we all all fabulously wealthy and could easily deal with all of these refugees if we really wanted to. (it's a bit circular of course - capitalist aggression is causing most of the refugees, so if we got rid of these psychopaths, we wouldn't have most of the war-displaced refugees to deal with in the first place ... haha not going to talk about THAT on the CBC either ..)
- an example of the utter fucking stupidity of the people running our propaganda system these days - Leonid Bershidsky: Exploding rockets and losing hockey teams spoil Putin's Soviet revival - doesn't even bear comment. But notable because of how many Cdns believe this utter shit, stupid dumbed down kids living Sat morning cartoons with 'good guys' and 'bad guys' - and (again very stupidly) believing 'we' are the good guys - every one of them a barrier to getting a decent country underway here.
May 19 - morning 'World Report' - just shaking my head from start to finish - complete garbage, beginning to end - finish - 'google is looking for a new artist to draw its webpage stuff' - ??????????????? What in the FUCK does that have to do with 'national news' Cdns need to know??????? - it's SUCH a contrast, when you have spent an hour or two listening to 'real' stuff of interest to adults - Real News, for instance, a very interesting conversation between Chris Hedges and Robert Scheer (listen to this, and the 'conversation' AM had with Hedges last week), or anything on RT - the latest In the Now (Anissa makes AM Tremonti or Carol Off look like the pretty nasty capitalist propagandists/gatekeepers/mush peddlers they are, personalities of a semi sentient pit bull when they decide they need to discredit something in internetland that's threatening their propaganda), Going Underground, or even Redacted Tonight - I'm not overly thrilled with the comedy stuff of Redacted, but Lee Camp is a host with a real personality, and certainly talks about things from a 'truth' perspective NEVER heard around the CBC. (and Camp is a fucking genius compared to the utter pathetic for-halfwit-teens shit they call 'comedy' now on the CBC (Rick Mercer excepted, of course, he plays as close to the edge as it is possible to play and still get heard on the CBC - but still in the box... Camp is WAY out of the fucking box.)
May 18 - stupidity about sex is pretty worldwide. we ALL have a body, thus there are maybe 3+billion human males and the same number of human females in the world - and we have ALL seen tits and penises and everything else - yet for some reason (actually it's generally religion and power indoctrination, control of 'the people'), we are supposed to react in horror if we actually see one of these things in public, or run around cying 'My life is ruined!!!!!' if somebody catches a glimple of some 'private' part. Utter idiocy - discretion is fine, and privacy, but utter panic or outrage at any display of nudity is really stupid - anyway, all around the world - new rules for Angkor - this gets beyond irony, really, as one of the most beautiful things about the temples is the literally endless number of individual female Aspara dancer carvings in pretty much every temple - every one with small proud and beautiful Asian breasts bared. YOU CAN"T SEE THAT!!!!!
May 17 - CBC story - ISIS is sneaking fighters in to Europe on these migrant ships that are sinking and being turned back and all the rest of it!!!! - actually, this is a story for the 'too fucking stupid to think' gang. These guys are obviously able gangs - why would they put themselves in the middle of a big group of people with no arms, and their fate is either sinking or getting locked up in cages if they actually make land?!?!?!?! - fuck, there's an endless number of boats on the Mediterranean, and it is not a long trip from Africa to Europe, and there is no fucking way they can watch all the coastline - just get a boat with 10 of 50 or 100 ISIS guys, and sneak em on to some deserted beach with all their guns, etc - no sinking, no cages, no way they're getting caught. Fuck. Not immediately clear what this shit is all about - maybe just some new juvie 'news' writer getting little ideas with his 15-year old mind, '"mind" that is to say of course. fuck.
- and the NDP lady from Alberta who had some old pic of her being in some rock band a few years ago, of her in some 'violent sexual' picture - fuck, the gossipers at it again. Photo just that, a 'fun thing' as a kid, we all do it (or those of us with at least some claim to being 'real people' instead of good house niggas which is the preferred NWO citizen - but they are more and more and more trying to make everyone into that image, of good little pollyannas who never did anything wrong, and don't want to - just want to be good little girls and boys, like the nice announces on the CBC, etc, Really worrisome how successful they are being - like the FHRITP shit a few days ago - the MASS of comments on bulletin boards agreeing with the CBC demonizing of these kids, etc. The really amazing over-reaction of the people on airplanes who disagree in some small way with the COMMANDS!!!!! of the airline guards, so they turn the planes around and go home like complete idiots, and all the good little sheeps pile on the 'miscreants', etc etc. I don't wanna be a robot momma!! - nor a good house nigga.
- alright alright, credit where due etc - Enright used to be one of the good guys, and I have no doubt there are some small places in his brain regretting the NWO propagandist that he has become - but he gets a wee tiny bit of freedom he uses sometimes for the beliefs he used to have, and he gave a good defence of Liz May for her 'indiscretion' at the press dinner last week, and the completely idiotic attacks on her by the entire media afterwards. And he gets a wee bit of truth out - this is exactly the kind of thing that has the media in such low esteem in 'real people'.
May 16 - taking a stand on freedom of speech - '...Free expression is democracy...'. Well, sort of anyway - 'FHRITP!!!!' apparently doesn't qualify - although cartoons of Allah having anal sex with boys is perfectly fine. Pretty typical capitalist stuff - if WE do it, it's fine - if YOU do it - SHUT UP!@!!!! and etc. And they also declare a great loyalty to 'Canadians' 'right to know' - which is a bit odd, considering the propaganda and gatekeeping of some pretty important stuff the Cdn corporate press all stand together on - I guess they mean Canadians have a right to know about whatever the media wants to tell them, or something like that. Good box stuff anyway - I mean, surely you can trust your media when they stand so tall and shout so loud about stuff like this - even if they have their fingers and probably toes crossed behind their back. etc The Canadian media - ferociously on guard for THEIR right to all the gossip they can uncover!!!
- good comparison stuff - when you listen to the CBC for awhile, and the endless propaganda and mush, get a sense of what a **real** 'journalism' outlet does - Chris Hedges talking to Robert Scheer, about what's going on in America (and by extension to a large extent in Canada) - this is the stuff citizens need to be thinking about, not how outraged the poor reporter was at some over-spirited idiot shouting FHRITP!!! - this is the point of the corporate media, though - hiding the things we really need to know and talk about behind this massive smokescreen of basically irrelevancies screamed up into 'BIG ISSUE!!!!!'s we all need to talk about - the months long gossip fest about Rob Ford last year being a prime example. It's very clear - with this FHITP shit, or the Ford gossip fest, we have the media creating and managing the pretend-news - with the Real News, Hedges and Scheer and everything else they do (and RT the same), they do what by definition real journalists do - report on things that the people in power don't want reported or talked about - or to the extent they need to be talked about in a pretend democracy, talked about only through a certain filter, so only a certain perspective is offered. And the great success of what they do is reflected in how many people listen to and do as the corporate press tells them to do, and how few people seem to watch places like RN or RT. The most worrisome are out there in large numbers too - 'Oh, I don't listen to things like RT - they're just Russian propaganda' - and they've never listened to it, never compared RT and CBC, they just mindlessly believe as they are told, by those who control them.
May 15 - "news"(haha) - some guy thinks he got a bad deal from some internet airline ticket place - thinks he is due a few hundred bucks - and the CBC thinks this is worth 'national news' coverage. Just fucking unbelievable sometimes, until you grok that this is all spectacle and mush for the dumbed down in-the-box citizen. (again - we've had a couple of trillion stolen by big bank-gov-media collusion about the national debt scam, and never are we going to hear a word of objection from the CBC - but they do all this little irrelevant shit so they can wander around telling people how they really CARE about your money!!!
fuckfuckfuckfuck. again.
More than a decade after he was shot by a notorious gang member under surveillance by police at the time of the shooting, Kofi Patrong has won a hard-fought, roller-coaster of a legal battle for the right to sue the Toronto Police Service for negligence. - 10 years, that's not a 'justice system' it's a bad fucking joke. We do it SO much better where democracy rules on Green Island
more 'we look after our buds!!' fre advertising from the CBC - some guy in Ottawa wrote a book of short stories on the fashion industry - now THERE'S something safe!!! - we can have HIM on the show for a wee chat, now. Imagine how many wouldbe writers there are out there, many, or at least a few not unlike myself trying to write serious books about what is wrong in this country and world, that are never getting any attention because they have no friends on the CBC. In the world that used to be of 'real' journalism, this kind of shit would never be tolerated. The modern CBC, of course, is the very antithesis of 'professional' or 'journalism'.
May 14 - Island morning - the interviewer asking a lobster fisherman what they mean by 'molting' - serious admission they believe they are talking to a dumbed down audience - or maybe just the new reporter, who *knows* he knows more than the audience (one of the peculiar conceits of so many half-witted pretend journalists), that since HE doesn't know, his audience surely doesn't - or the other kind, the 'I am the teacher, and my lesser audience wouldn't know this word, so like a good teacher I will help them!' and etc - not a true adult left in the CBC, I think ... certainly none at the lower levels (as in 'no adults need apply')
AIH - FHRITP!!!! - the Current - more spectacle, mountains from molehills, etc. and other even less nice things. PC social control, for one thing - all over the media, we have commenters - 'Look at we nice children!! We'd never say bad things like that!!!' and etc. Gross exaggeration - this, and things like it, are by and large stupid kids (includes so-called 'adults' with minds still in adolescence, very common) doing stupid things in a place (soccer game) where spirits are high and stupid things are done. To start with the 'misogynist' talk is, well, grossly exaggerated. Grossly - nobody is 'hating women' here, just making a stupid childish insult, probably based first on simple high spirits, finding an outlet here in childish resistance to authority, which any reporter with a mic represents (they'd be less likely to do this to a man because the man might be more likely to pop them in the nose, and stupid kids having fun shouting stupid insults aren't looking for a fight, usually). And just as sort of an aside - this lady, and others, say they 'felt threatened' - and if that is the case, maybe she ought to be looking for another job - reporters - the real ones (which seem to be in seriously short supply these days) - go into dangerous places to get stories, it's part of the job - if they can't hack it, they shouldn't be doing it. Maybe she'd be happier in the cooking column or obits or something., where there's nobody to shout at her.
And do we need to talk about hypocrisy again? I mean blatant, stunning hypocrisy? - a couple of weeks ago, and a couple of months ago, some crazy people got *really* pissed off at being dissed like this, and killed some people - and the CBC, and everyone else, was out there screaming about the rights of 'free speech', even if such speech deeply, **deeply** offended some people. So what's with the double standard? If it's ok for some people to mock Allah, why is it a firing offense attracting the full condemnation of the CBC and other 'right thinking' people here to shout some stupid childish insults, in a FAR more innocent, and limited, way, at a woman reporter???? A bit odd (sarc> that *none* of the CBC commentary I listened to got anywhere near this question .... (haha not really) - and not to mention, why exactly is this a 'big viral thing'?? - because they MADE it a big thing - if they just walk away and ignore it, it's gone, it dies, and there is no big thing at all - so who exactly is responsible for all this?????
(Can you just fucking IMAGINE!!! if they paid anywhere this kind of attention to the fact the banksters et al are stealing $50-60 billion dollars from us all every year!!!!! haha - gives you a good sense of where their priorities are, anyway .... keeping the mushrooms away from real food ...)
May 13 - Globe and Mail - new omnibus bill - opens - "..The Harper government tabled yet another monster omnibus budget bill last week. Not do be outdone, here is yet another editorial decrying these overstuffed bills and their contemptuous disregard for Parliament..." - I've noted the childish level of at least some GM editorials - I guess this is the same guy, some kid who can't be bothered with gramma. (sic) I don't really care what they or anyone do or does in 'social media', but people at the upper levels of national media should be literate. (I am sure you see the problem here???? - who is not to be outdone???? like this - dangling modifiers)
>> Island Morning - I guess they're adding this to their business model at the CBC - 'free' promotions - some 'new Island business' getting a free promo again today (the cuddlery - cute - but when free business advertising becomes 'news' - woops, talked myself into a corner there - can't say anything about 'we're going into bad places', as we've been going deeper and deeper for many, many years now - this is more par for the course, I guess - but it shouldn't be. duh.)
PEI again - the guy is interviewing a candidate who lost by 2 votes, and is asking for a recount - "So what do you hope to achieve with the recount?' - fuck, late night maybe. 'Oh, I don't have any hopes, I'm just doing this for fun!' ?? or maybe 'Oh, we really support the other candidate, so we hope the recount confirms the count' ???? fuck. Cdn journalism schools - big joke. kids playing in the yard pretending to be journalists. They all do it, so it must be taught by equally unqualified people - every time there's some sort of tragedy, somebody gets a mic in their face, with something like 'So how do you feel now that your beloved somebody has been tragically killed?!?' - fuck
May 12 - Ottawa Morning - Robyn talks to some lady from the Canadian Public Service Union, and makes it very clear she is on the side of the government here, bringing up all the Fraser Institute talking points about the overpaid public service, etc. Surprise surprise
May 12 - Island Morning - more free advertising for 'special friends' I guess - some 'app' that finds coupons. Real upbeat story - boy, we just GOTTA have that app!!!! (thanks CBC haha...)
PEI again - the guy is interviewing a candidate who lost by 2 votes, and is asking for a recount - "So what do you hope to achieve with the recount?' - fuck, late night maybe. 'Oh, I don't have any hopes, I'm just doing this for fun!' ?? or maybe 'Oh, we really support the other candidate, so we hope the recount confirms the count' ???? fuck. Cdn journalism schools - big joke. kids playing in the yard pretending to be journalists. They all do it, so it must be taught by equally unqualified people - every time there's some sort of tragedy, somebody gets a mic in their face, with something like 'So how do you feel now that your beloved somebody has been tragically killed?!?' - fuck.
Ottawa Morning - Robyn interviewing a doc who is trying to tell people not to come to the ER if they don't actually have an emergency - she's quite hostile, evidently she believes that if SHE believes her wee new baby has ANY kind of problem she has a fucking RIGHT to get treated RIGHT NOW!!!! - the doc is completely reasonable and clear about his desire to spread the word that if you do not have a real emergency, don't come to the fucking ER, but Robyn isn't to thrilled about it. (point? the CBC people believe THEY are the center of the world, like a child, and THEIR beliefs are what they are there to talk about ...) (somebody should ask Robyn, since she has been part of the CBC support of 'austerity', always asking anyone where the money is coming from if they want their particular thing, the same question - Robyn, you've been supporting 'austerity' as long as you've been on the CBC - so if you want better ER service, where do YOU think the money should be coming from??'
May 11 - the CBC people all a gossip over Liz May's press club speech. she said the f-word!!!! - absolutely zero 'news' here - but of course the CBC isn't about 'news' anymore, it's just gossip and propaganda and mush for the dumbed-down - not to make sure everyone understands the rules about how the children by fuck better color in the lines if they don't want momma all over them, even far out radicals like Liz May, if she wants to ever get back on the CBC again. Which of course she does. She's still head and shoulders above every other MP, in terms of honesty and integrity and plain old intelligence.
- Ottawa morning - doing some story on lack of royalties from mineral extraction, and some guy says 'fart' and the giggles break out, and she tells us how she thought about dropping the whole segment, etc. nice show kids.
>> also a segment on Liz and the f-word (giggle giggle!!) - fuckfuckfuck
>> and later a TV interview - Liz apologizes abjectly - fuck, this is beyond pathetic, the interviewer is like some WCTU biddy, interrogating May - 'I have to ask, as viewers are asking - was alcohol involved?" - ??????????????? fuck - of course everybody was drinking!!! EVERYbody knows that is what happens at these press club things - but you're supposed to lie and say 'oh no no no mama!! I wasn't drinking!!' - fuck, the hypocrisy, as always, of these PC people is just fucking stunning at times. And 'are you going to apologise in parliament?' - 'are you going to resign'? fuck. as I keep saying - never, never think these people can't go lower - they always find a way. the bottomless pit of 'how fucking bad can the CBC get?'. not to mention fucking embarrassing.
Lowe's Canada acquires 13 former Target locations - ?>?????? remind me again - how exactly is this "news" of national importance to Cdns?????? - oh, wait, I see - 'could provide up to 2000 jobs'. Could. mostly minimum wage, part time jobs (they don't tell you that, but .... hey, you know ...). Break out the beers, guys. haha.
May 9 - 'news' - something in Halifax ' ...over x-thousand passengers went through the airport, making a profit of XX$$ ' - the 'new grammar' I guess of the 'new journalists' of the 'new CBC' of the 'new Canada' - kind of embarrassing to call this shit the national broadcaster, to those of us who remember Gzowski
REMEMBER GZOWSKI - new slogan!!!!!
>> more 'news' - some Cdn university football players test positive for dope. ????? 'national news' ??? says a whole lot about the people at the CBC deciding what is 'news', anyway.
May 8 -
Poverty linked to health costs !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! amazing investigative journalism from the CBC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Nobody ever had a fucking CLUE before that poverty was linked to health!!!!!! SO AMAZING!!!!!!!
fuck. what can you say.
May 3 - Enright mocking the Ford years in Toronto as representing the 'non grown up' male - again great irony from the CBC, who have, the last few years, been running the country from the perspective of immature teenage girls, rooted in childish conformity and really nasty vindictiveness at anyone who displeases them, like the Fords .. also, as Enright does, giving themselves great airs - 'Oh, we're the adults here..,' - fuck. fuckfuckfuckfuck
- the sharing economy (webpage here - en passant - this is just a progression from our wonderful capitalist system, which has made us all so happy and prosperous. i.e. - more propaganda and indoctrination maintenance. And lies - early on, one of them tells us, just in case anyone is not sure - 'capitalism, of course, means the private ownership of production' - not said, but the opposite, of course, socialism, means state-owned ownership etc. But that is not what it is all about at all - there has been private ownership of small business more or less forever. Capitalism means, I guess to put it in a nutshell, the ownership of the country by those with the capital. Which is NOT average people. Socialism, or social democracy, means ownership of the country by the people. Pretty big difference - and one I think, after the last 40 years of pretty serious indoctrination, probably less than 1% of the people are aware of. {[[GOOD DECONSTRUCTION MATERIAL if anyone cares}}}
cartoon shooting - interesting that there's not a *word* about the people organising this event, and how 'appropriate' this might have been - just as one of these thought experiment things, try to think of what might happen if some Muslim group organised, with great publicity, some event asking all good Muslims to come along and win a great prize by mocking Jesus, in some place where the fundie so-called 'Christians' were around in large numbers. Certainly there's no excuse for the Muslim crazies to go around shooting people for drawing cartoons of their prophet - but on the other hand, when you have known crazies out there like this, why provoke them needlessly? There's a difference between 'free speech' and wandering around needlessly antagonizing people.
May 1 - law passed to allow asthmatic kid to carry inhaler - this is a really sick country when it gets to the point of allowing school officials to tell the kids they can't carry an inhaler - just so obsessed with controlling everything everybody does - YOU SHALL NOT THINK FOR YOURSELF CITIZEN!!!
Apr 30 - definitely full scale Ministry of Truth stuff planned here - Ottawa Morning has some sweet sounding lady talking about the end of the Vietnam war - 'Oh, we were just always afraid of the communists!!' and etc - again, not a word about the US being responsible for the whole thing, never any analysis from serious, honest people about the idiocy of the 'domino theory' or the entire country inundated with Agent Orange and etc (slightly different perspective here - 40 Years After Vietnam War, Prime Minister Decries 'Barbarous Crimes' of US - he US 'caused immeasurable losses and pain to our people and country,' said Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung - don't wait to hear this lady on the CBC haha) - just the evil commies!!! - same thing going on with Russia now, just the Big Evil - as always, by far the most really frightening part of all of this shit is how many Cdns seem to swallow this history rewriting like mindless robots being reprogrammed. Well, I guess that's what is happening, what has been happening the last 40 years ...
>> gossip from Nepal about so cute baby Yaowree - "news" to the CBC.
Apr 29 - the 40th anniversary of the Vietnam war, talking about all the boat people from there to Canada - not a WORD of analysis about how the US was at the root of all this, the massive loss of life, the ongoing problems. surprise surprise.
>> naked 4-year-old draws police warning - more lunacy - they can't be bothered investigating a break and entry and theft, but let a 4 year old kid play without clothes, and the cops get all crazy. Too many people out there too stupid to survive.
Apr 26 - a promo for the Current - '25 years ago Milosevic was overthrown - now one of the leaders of that revolution is promoting something..' - Ministry of Truth in action, once again, blatantly rewriting history - of course, it was, once again, the US (and little suckpuppy Canada tagging along) bombing Yugoslavia back to the stone age that enabled the overthrow, and some *massive* propaganda from the western media, CBC front and center - and odd we don't hear any stories these days about the Kosova 'liberation' (haha) army still running Kosovo - the most lawless and dangerous country in the world these days, or one of them - Thanks Canada!!!
crying lady - '..is waiting for word from her family's loved one in peril so far away..' - soap opera writers in the newsroom. fuck
Apr 24 - she's said it twice now, about the Kadar case - '..then the judge will have to weight in' or maybe 'weighed' - but of course should by simply 'weigh' - CBC pros in action ...
Apr 23 - girl told to stop reading book on school bus - what can you say?
- Ottawa Morning - some ""reporter"" talking to a guy whose store burned down a few years ago - 'How do you feel?' and etc - fuck. - this is not news, just gossip, and probing questions from the juvenile minded wanting to see if they can make someone cry. Very common these days - I suppose they have to teach something in journalism ("") school, since they sure as fuck aren't teaching journalism.
Apr 21 - Duffy cousin gets $500 for media monitoring - the pettiness of this, from a 'national broadcaster', is stunning. Trying to solidify their hold on 'gossip central for Canada' I guess - teenage girls vindictively going through every detail of someone's life looking for things to criticize. I truly weep for my country these days. GGIRSDC - muchly needed DLP - get at it get at it.
Apr 19 - pretty much finished - judge orders girl vaccinated - when we allow the government to have to power to 'legally' force us to undergo medical procedures we don't want, we've pretty much let them close the field gate. As always, the scariest part is how many Cdns have been so thoroughly indoctrinated they agree with this - trusting their government only wants what is best for them. News flash - a whole lot of Germans in the early 30s thought the same about Hitler. Do you recall how that turned out? Really scary shit - the measles is such an insignificant disease in Canada, there's obviously a lot going on behind the scenes the last few months to get people to get vaccinated - but the few who ask questions are immediately mobbed by witless 'do as you are told!!!'-ers.
Apr 18 - 'angela something, CBC "news", Halifax: '..the allegations are serious and the Brit navy is treating it that way..' - sic. Cdn "journalism" school grads. haha.
Apr 17 - full bore propaganda maintenance - Island Morning doing a 'recap' drive-by on those damned anti-vaxxers, the 'news' 'reminding' us how Syria was gassing its citizens.
>> still on the story from a few days ago about the people trying to get to Italy from Libya - Italy is having problems dealing with them - and not a WORD about how Canada cheered on the destruction of the Gaddaffi government, as our air force assisted in the bombing of Libya. War criminals all. (as always, more realistic analyses are available - Mediterranean drownings result of imperialist wars )
Apr 16 - Putin doing a true 'answer questions from the people' thing, as he does every year, and the CBC, knowing absolutely nothing about it, claims it is just farce, a set up, etc. Just another excuse to slander and demonize Russia and Putin - the irony, to use a very mild word, is that Putin and the Russian media are far, far more open and honest than the CBC propaganda corporate state media, all day every day functioning as the Ministry of Truth for the NWO. (For a good example of how the CBC is nothing more than propaganda and indoctrination maintenance for well-indoctrinated Canadians, have a listen here, where one of the main RT shows has a look at the same Putin phone-in.)
>> the 'new q' - using a small q instead of a big one - and advertised as amazingly creative!!! - fuck.
- and the Cdn MSM endless attack on Duffy, lead by the CBC, is very amazing - not a pretence of impartiality or fairness (well, that could be a small exaggeration, there might be a bit of pretence) - but overall, they're all acting like a gang of smartass kids, they know he's guilty, and are just 'reporting' the trial through a big veil of sarcastic comments. Christie Blatchford of the NP has been particularly 'teenage pissed off vindictive girl' - obviously deeper things going on there she is taking out here - there's almost nothing left in the Cdn media you could even sort of call 'professional'. (GM editorial on new Ontario 'beer rules' being a good case in point - the last media in Canada that even pretended sometimes to be 'professional' putting out over-the-top 'analysis' like this is beyond pathetic.
Apr 15 - Ottawa Morning - big discussion about 'transgender kids' - fuck, a completely idiotic deck chair, but obviously very effective for a society of dumbed down people who have been well indoctrinated to think sex is dirty and to be curious about it. The very idea of a kid being 'sexually confused' is complete nonsense - leave em alone, they'll get over it - but the rulers have obviously seen a GREAT new deck chair to keep a lot of people involved with navel gazing (and the big 'support industry' around them, etc) - and NOT doing anything to make our society actually better - instead of actually helping the few kids with actual issues get through this stuff with as little fuss as problem, they're out there with BIG paddles stirring up the waters - YOU BET YOU HAVE A PROBLEM!!!! EVERYBODY GATHER ROUND!!! and etc.
Apr 13 - fuck, it just gets worse and worse, more juvenile, more useless - 'news' this morning -
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a) - talking about Duffy, and the endless gossip they're getting from his 'daily diary' - '.. not many entries about senate reform, but lots about Swiss Chalet..' {{and obviously a 'talking point' of some kind sent out to everyone - later the PEI 'news' repeats the same thing - appropriate tone of voice (do you believe this?!?), etc }}
- b) Hilary is the front runner - 'but of course she was the front runner last time, and we all know how that worked out..' - this is the kind of shit that qualifies as the 'new news' I suppose - kids running the national broadcaster, needing to show how clever they are - how can you trust anything they say (haha rhetorical question again - you haven't been able to trust the CBC about anything important for a very long time now)
- c) a rather blatant drug company promo - some story about some new 'study' in Toronto says the HPV vaccine is now recommended for boys as well as girls - all read from a script by some lady who obviously is talking to what she sees as a group of grade 4 students, her voice up and down as she sells her lesson ... of course, not a contrary word to be heard, or anything about 'only one study' or what pharma company might be involved here selling something, etc - our citizens don't need to be confused with boring old facts like that, when the CBC is selling something, no sir. Good Cdns, we all know, do as the CBC tells them these days.
- d) - some guy from BC and a 'human entertainment' story, I guess, about some guy in a small accident, and the CBC "reporter" (haha) calling for a comment, the guys says 'Put the Beachcomber back on, and I'll give you a comment' - and the 'main news reader' then gets clever - 'not sure about the Beachcombers, but we'll look into it..' - haha they're so cool at the CBC!!
- fuck just high school level everything - on the CBC - just tragic, on top of pathetic, and dangerous - but absolutely nothing we could call real 'news' anymore (not for a long time, of course)
- gotta get at it GGIRSDC - these people really need to be stopped
- and a bit later - 'leftist leaning writer Gunter Grasse' - have to listen for any use of the term 'right leaning' - don't think those words ever are heard on the CBC, else every time they talk about Harper or any Con stuff they'd have to qualify it, and they never do - odd, no?
Apr 12 - Enright - good box deconstruction - going to the edge of the box, with the topic 'Is western intervention in the mideast a good idea??' - and they open with a bit of history - but then they just lie about important things - '(Iraq, Libya, Syria - all terrible brutal dictators massacring their own people, hated by their people!!' - lies. The US et al were going into these places with only good and altruistic ideas, bringing democracy to those poor people, and etc - lies and lies. In Libya and Syria, the 'revolution' was really local, with only a bit of US support!! - fuck. But well sold, of course, and to a people most of whom already believe the desired dogma, but may have been reading a few things raising some questions where 'real journalism' is found, the net - the 'expert' is some big prof with a good English accent from Britain, selling the official dogma. And who ya gonna believe?? This guy on the CBC, or some nuts on the internet??? haha.
Apr 10 - nice to have friends in the right places, as I've noted often - but I guess it works the other way - when the CBC people decide they don't like you for some reason, you're fair game - some business advertising they make you smarter or something - the CBC says they don't. There are a whole lot of people selling snake oil of various kinds out there - how does the CBC pick someone to go after? (haha - they might look at themselves someday - i certainly hope to - in terms of the propaganda they sell as 'news' - haha)
Apr 7 - fuck the propaganda for stupid people gets worse and worse - some story about some 'massacre' in Iraq by the monster ISIS says something like '..forensic pathologists used to death wiped tears from their eyes..' - fuck, "news"?????? - it's getting past scary - don't give up on the fucking book, boy, you are needed ...
- and of course all of the gossip-erati totally going crazy over the Duffy trial that starts today - gossip on steroids, for the next two months - so happy!!!!!
Apr 5 - Winnipeg beating - 'he made the fateful decision to step in' - they probably think this is good reporting ... inexperienced wouldbe-reporters do stuff like this ...
- some talk on Maritime morning about people staying in the Maritimes - aside from teen slang, she says at one point - 'for time immemorial we've relied on transfer payments..' - good grasp of history there for someone teaching kids at a university. yea. wicked.
> 'news' again - telling the 'bible story' as if it was actually factual - 'jesus died and was then raised from the dead' - buck.
>> Enright show - the propaganda is blindly stupid - 'on the side of Assad, whose family has been slaughtering civilians for decades' -
>> and of course more propaganda 'why are people so afraid??' - sounds interesting, but a complete whitewash - obviously, 'the people' are so afraid because they're all dumbed down to a childhood level where they are less able to deal with fear, and, big reason, the media is all over them every day telling them to be afraid - and although the lady mentions the media as part of the problem for about 10 seconds, Enright moves right on to something else - cover the ass, I suppose, if challenged they can say they mentioned it, but it's all lies. The media is 99% of the problem, not 'one small thing among many' - actually, it's mostly 'our' own fault, for being susceptible, they'd have us believe - good 'in the box' deconstruction if anyone ever wants something to look at -
Apr 4 - "news" - 'to PEI now, where Islanders are still bracing for an election call' - ????? do these people learn about dictionaries in school? you 'brace for' a big storm, but an election??? - and then they 'make their argument' I guess - some interviews with people complaining about 'election signs, and people knocking on your door' - really CBC??? - pushing the line that 'who wants those nasty old elections' ??
Apr 1 - never listen to Radio Noon, but just heard the advert on Ottawa Morning - some health people complaining about cuts, cuts and more cuts - and they tell us they are going to have some 'health economist' on, with the message - get used to it, we still have a terrible deficit, so have to keep cutting. Lies lies and more lies - they must be getting a bit worried about some stories getting around, though, to be doing this ...
>> and then the Current, doing a bit on how municipalities are also feeling serious money problems, and can't look for help from 'the feds' because nobody has any money, so what are we going to do???? - again, in the box, blatant propaganda.
Mar 26 - Ottawa Morning - 15 minute 'discussion' about Syria and ISIS - complete lies and propaganda, stupid people speaking for other stupid people - just scary as hell anymore, I think my chances of getting any serious democracy movement going is pretty much zero - but if there is any chance, every day counts, so get at it - wasting way too much time on the cbc measles show letter =
Mar 24 - "news(haha)" - they inform us the gov is going to 'extend' the 'mission' in Syria (don't want to be too truthful here, I suppose, like 'illegal bombing') - and then we hear from the widow of the soldier killed last year telling us what a good idea it is. There's your 'neutral' news on the CBC!!!
>> Ottawa Morning - nice friends to have, promoting some job-finding business ...
>> they're on now (the Current) about a revolution in Yemen - great! - oh, wait - this is a BAD revolution! The 'rebels' here are 'bad guys', and supported by (low voice) Iran!!! - ohoh. Funny, I know that it's a pretty open secret that the US has been dropping a very large number of drone bombs all over Yemen - is that contributing to any of this???? Well, we don't need to talk about it on the CBC - anyway - can't be important
Mar 22 - Enright doing a hit piece on Putin. Surprise surprise (opening bit - 'A year ago Putin annexed Crimea..' - hmm, seems to me that 'A year ago Crimea held a referendum and chose to join Russia..' would be a tad more accurate - but of course, accuracy and propaganda don't much go together - as always, the most disappointing thing by far is how readily propaganda and Cdn beliefs go together ... ) - the main 'guest' is obviously a top-level 'write bad stuff against Putin' propaganda expert - good deconstruction if anyone wants it ... had to turn it off, worried about blood pressure with the endless lies ..
{happy bday out here in the wilderness ...}
May 18 - don't even know why I do this anymore, same old same old - the propaganda against Russia is just unbelievable in the lies, and the general 'reporting' bordering on the illiterate - teenage girls running the CBC for their friends.
(next day) - either Tues or Wed, on Island Morning, talking about people over 50 getting a checkup for colo-rectal cancer - 'but of course we have to get over the yuck factor' - the dumbed down new CBC citizen - adults, of course, don't have a 'yuck' factor, it's completely a children's thing - and very good evidence of the dumbing down that has been going on the last few decades that so many think this is just normal behaviour for 'adults' - like so much else they do, things for kids on the CBC, the new 'adult kids' doing as momma tells them ..
Mar 17 - the Current 'relooking at the 'annexation' of Crimea - AMT setting herself up as a stats expert - 'you did the poll - how many people did the poll? What was the margin of error?' etc - fuck. - polls she likes, well, no questions at all - but this one, she picks apart (as the 'polling expert' she is - of course, we are supposed to believe all 'journalists' are 'experts' about anything they want to be, as they tell us what we are supposed to believe about anything they want to talk about - creating the narrative as the modern 'ministry of truth' - as always, the most amazing thing is how many Cdns seem too witless to resist this shit.
Mar 16 - "news" haha - 'it seems Putin is alive..' - fuck. gossip gossip gossip ....
>> and then some cub reporter talking about the 3 Brit girls 'caught' trying to join ISIS in Turkey - 'tactics right out of the ISIS handbook, don't fly direct, fly in groups of less than 3', etc - fuck ...
Mar 15 - away for a couple of days - nothing changes - still leading the "news" with 'oh those poor people in Syria - why won't the world help?!?!' - pathetic. And then the 'news' caster, some woman, is all joky about some race car driver talking to Arnold Shwartzen whatever - news for us all.
- and Enright has a little lecture about how the darned ol police are misleading journalists haha sorry ""journalists"" - they spin stories about arresting people (handcuffing lady lawyers and kids for the 'perp walk') as if the journos were just computers to be programmed - Enright showing his age, the brain deterioration that comes from doing as you're told for too long - the 'journos' are part of the game, they're not 'fooled' by this shit - and apparently a lot of the public aren't very fooled either, hence, I suppose, Enright's sad attempt at damage control -
Mar 12 - "news" - report on 'worse for civilians than ever in Syria' - and after that, just lies - not a word of 'mea culpa' - the US, with the full backing of Canada, caused this by supporting 'rebels' trying to overthrow Assad, of course, but now not a word - and the outright lie that Assad 'continues murdering civilians at will dropping barrel bombs - **while the world looks away**' etc - fuck, just nasty, nasty people, trying to get YOU to feel guilty about what they started, and cannot finish because Assad is stronger, and much more popular in his country, than they could handle - I really, really want to expose these people before I die
>> Ottawa Morning - Robyn interviewing somebody about the C-51 bill, but obviously supporting the gov - 'do you like anything about this bill?' - that snarky CBC tone
>> Island Morning - someone from Fair Vote Canada gets 5 minutes - but a very poor spokesperson, raising questions about everyone involved ... there are very strong, very persuasive arguments, she managed none of them - Mitch wasn't exactly friendly to her, but he did give her opportunities she did not, or could not, take
Mar 11 - ' .. you guessed it, the jewels are gone' - 'prison food is not considered haute cuisine' - etc - fuck. news for the Sat morning cartoon crowd. (of course, that's the citizen they've been creating for years ..)
>> Ottawa Morning - ad for Radio noon - talking about 'the mission' in Iraq, as are most others I guess - the thing is, what it actually is, is not a 'mission', it is an international war crime, as have every other bombing we've participated in the last 15 years - it's an illegal attack by our military on another country. And nobody cares.
- the Current looking at 'Generation Z' or whatever - kids. McLuhan perspective, the media is the message - these are just kids, the CBC, as part of the Big Game, just stirring up divide and conquer shit, to keep them from looking at the real source of their problems -
Mar 10 - "news" - of, by and for precocious kids
Mar 8 - little report on the Malaysian plane loss last year - completely amateurish, as they talk about Chinese relatives pushing the Malaysian government, 'something they are not used to..' ??? The reporter knows this, does he??? sure .... just the 'new news' - MY prejudices and opinions are NEWS, jack ...
Mar 5 - Current - a hit piece on homeopathy - blatant hit job, they let the lady defend her experiment, but the guy attacking her is completely ridiculous - 'better ways to spend money' 'hundreds of studies proving nothing to homeopathy' etc - standing completely on sand
Mar 4 - "news" - 70% of Cdns concerned about 'radicalization' and other 'OIMG TERRORISTS!!!!' stuff - what they don't talk about, and won't - the real message about this is the power of propaganda, and the susceptibility of Cdns to it, after 30+ years of endless, ongoing, increasingly powerful indoctrination. - there has to be something bigger going on here - they're really planning some version of Orwell's 1984 Endless War or something, and getting the proles into the places they need to be to make it happen - otherwise this endless litany of story after story about 'radicals' and 'terrorism' etc etc
>>> then the "economics" (fuck..) 'reporter' - 'imagine being a banker today!' - the clever framing of the story, etc - nothing to do with 'reporting', everything to do with the ongoing creation of the narrative. He's not a 'reporter' no!! He is a God of some kind, he knows EXACTLY what is going on - the bankers aren't very bright compared to this guy - he is far above those people, just observing like some omnipotent being, and sharing his unmatchable wisdom with you lucky peasants listening to the CBC. Fuck. And I may well be the only one who sees this shit happening. No, I shouldn't say that - there are others out there aware the media are not to be believed etc.
>> and the 'Boston bombing' trial getting underway - once again we are reminded of the 'official story' - more blatant lies, more evidence of the deep, deep brainwashing of most people -
Mar 3 - CBC all a giggle about some woman 'doing sex acts!!!' (OMG) in the Windsor library via web cam - the reporter, some young woman, is obviously speaking through her little self-righteous pursed lips, disapproving but interested .... and then the CBC is all a gossip about the politician shot in Russia - they never say it directly, but are very, very obviously trying to make everyone believe Putin was responsible. - if you want to hear a very, very graphic example of the CBC propaganda and outright lies they weave this story in, listen to the current today, and then go listen to some RT - beyond amazing, that so many people in Canada apparently believe this outright propaganda - just fairy tales, and that is what the people of Canada are allowing the gov to run foreign policy on (not to mention everything else, of course)
Mar 2 - "news" - somebody (CBC 'correspondent') telling us 'Iran wants to eliminate Israel altogether' - outright fucking lies, starting years ago, now presented as 'historical fact' - one of their big techniques. not to mention just fucking stupid - it's embarrassing any more to be from the country where these halfwits run the 'news'. not to mention the government.
Mar 1 - they're upping the game a bit, maybe they're reading me - Enright is trying desperately to sound like a real journo - doing a good job, but still lots of giveaways. Story on Greece - the 'left wing' gov of course - when was the last time the CBC talked about 'right wing' govs in Canada or the US, or the UK for that matter???? When was that??? - I don't think ever. death of a thousand cuts, endless indoctrination maintenance. etc. - and some guy talking about 'debt', an 'alt economist; of some sort, but still a 'capitalist light' econo - completely in the box, nothing at all dangerous - but sounding very good - good box stuff - the CBC, taking care of the more dangerous elements of our society, and doing a very good job of it ... good deconstruction stuff, if anyone ever gets around to it ...
Feb 27 - "news" - some guy feels bad about seeing someone killed a few years ago. News. The new season of House of Cards starts this weekend - really exciting folks don't y'all miss it now!! "News". The CBC is nothing more than a fucking joke anymore. Tragic joke, of course, considering what it has been part of doing the last few decades.
>> drive by propaganda - they are talking about the MPP who doesn't believe in evolution - and they have a STRONGLY PRO SCIENCE GUY!!!! - talking about how all the stupid anti vaccers ought to be educated, the morons etc, anti vaccers are just as stupid as the morons who don't believe in evolution - little circle jerk, patting each other on the back about how good citizens they are as 'pro science' people, etc etc - gotta work on this, because they are actually anti science
Feb 26 - the 'news' (fuck) people all a flutter about 'young Canadian women going to Syria to join ISIS' !! - it's really pathetic, the level to which 'news' reading has come to - both the 'reader' and the 'expert correspondent' are talking like teenagers talking to other teenagers, voices up and down, a tone of shock and disapproval - and no comparison about 'our' boys being called heroes if they go to fight against ISIS rather than 'for' them - is this some kind of dictatorship where we all have to believe the same thing? (haha rhetorical question, of course - in the modern world, you fucking well **will** think what the CBC wants you to think, or face their wrath ..)
Feb 25 - Island Morning - talk with Con leadership hopefuls - just a bunch of cliches, promising better by more of the same old same old. sad. tragic really.
>> but deeper too, after listening to it all - this is obviously making these three people look and sound good - as the mini-PEI version of the tweedledee-dum shuffle is playing out - no more infighting as the Libs continue doing what they will - time for the Cons to take over - at which time the good talk will finish, and the 'oh woe!!'s begin about no money etc.
Feb 20 - - AM et al talking about 'trolls' making 'discussions' nasty places, and what the nice people might do to discourage them. My personal experience would suggest another explanation, out of the box, of course, so we won't hear of it here on the Current or elsewhere on the CBC - but the great majority of what I see as 'trolls' are those who support the status quo, the government propaganda on anything, and troll around these discussions to attack anyone daring to question what the rulers are up to - any of the recent vaccination articles/discussions would be perfect examples. They are there to steer people away from any rational examination situations like this, which would prove damaging to the propaganda, and devolve them into juvenile name calling sessions where any impartial browser will quickly become uninterested, and thus less likely to get educated away from the propaganda. I suppose they couldn't bring up any examples because they couldn't find any that they could accuse 'out of the box' commenters like myself of 'trolling' - they could lie, of course, or certainly find examples of me getting sucked into a bit of name calling, but any even vaguely impartial perusal would find that the propaganda-supporting trolls are far and away the leaders in this kind of name-calling behaviour. As always, when the truth doesn't support you - just lie. The CBC is well practiced.
Feb 19
Cdns support anti-terror bill - Hitler has the population convinced - he will protect them. he can do as he likes. we're fucked. Sorry, that's a silly thing to say like it's some new thing - we've been fucked for a long time, just getting deeper and deeper ...
Feb 18 - like with the Ford case last year, the CBC decides something is 'right', and they become the strongest advocate for it - Ottawa Morning just did nothing more than a simple hit piece on 'homeopathy vaccines'. No balance, no defence - just 'look at this nutty idea, we have a 'Professor!!!" to tell you why you should not believe in this!!'
Feb 16 - the 'Great Massacre in Halifax Averted!!!! story - lots of interesting things - again we have a non-story story - police prevent massacre!!! - and nothing to back it up other than the police saying they did this. Comments from McKay - we really appreciate the wonderful work of the police - just like Ottawa a while ago - and comments similar from people - so when the police start wandering around ordering people around, the few of us who dare question this will be immediately pariah-ized. And people telling how scared they are that this almost happen - children being manipulated. and etc.
Feb 11 - fuck, the brainwashing is getting more blatant - some kids are presented with a 'scenario' - the damned Russians have nuked the US!!!! - what are we in Canada going to do???? (Ottawa Morning) - fuck, obviously, if a nuke war starts, the chances of Russia starting it are somewhere around nil, the chances of the US starting it are almost certain - but we are NOT going to do 'truth' when propaganda and brainwashing are the goals -
>> speaking of brainwashing - the anti-vac shit continues - 'radio noon' at least the first show going after the few resisting this stuff
>> just found this -
- Current - pro and anti vaccers make their case (
- podcast same show) - the Current, Ms Tremonti claiming to have a conversation between a 'pro'vaccer and an 'anti' vaccer - but it is, of course, just another hit piece - AM very obviously supporting the vaccine, attacking the lady questioning the pro side - who is a sweet little thing, obviously not in any way prepared for the hostile attack of Tremonti. And completely irrational as they all are - they start the show with two or three anecdotes of people who had some problems with Measles - one from years ago about a kid who had been living in Morocco, and got measles, and many years later complications, and an almost laughable actor coughing and telling us how bad he felt, and a 3rd lady whose child could not be vaccinated because of a heart operation and, after listening to the media, she was just terrified her kid was going to be exposed to measles and just die - you nasty old anti-vaccers! - a few minutes later she talks to the lady not wanting vaccinations, and she says she has talked to a lot of people about this - and AM jumps right in - 'But those are only anecdotes, right, not scientific proof?!?' [[ 9:35}} (and then she goes and talks to the lady who lost her brother 'his brain was rotting!' (so Darlene, how do you feel about that (11.00 - anecdote!! - yours are unscientific and we don't need to talk about them - but how do you feel about the lady's anecdote who says her brothers brain rotted because he didn't have protection? - 'well, we don't know his other history' - perfectly reasonable, but the pros just attack - well, do you know all the history of your anecdotal patients? - and etc) - attacks one lady for not being scientific by offering an anecdote, and then offers an anecdote in return!! - I don't think they even realise they do this, they're so arrogant they think they can just patronise and slap the 'antis' around, because they have *all* the 'power' on their side, the government and media, and they can do what they want, 'truth', as any capitalist or propagandist or priest will tell you, is simply whatever you can make people believe - thus, anecdotes are great when they say what WE want them to say - but if YOU use anecdotes, that's just unscientific!! - the whole show, the whole charade these last few weeks, is just the same. AM just gets more aggressive with her attacks on the person, as she does with anyone daring resist doing what the Mother Corp tells them to do. Really fucking irritating listening to this shit- the CBC exposing itself more and more as the nasty, nasty little people they are, beating up on anyone who disagrees with them.
Feb 9 - 'business' digest - 'Greece's new leftist government' - hmm, wonder when the last time was she referred to Canada's or the US 'rightist' govs????? haha just joking - the whole CBC is pretty much a joke anymore
Feb 8 - Enright - propaganda for the handful of box people still with a bit of thinking power left - a long interview with one of the 1% Cdns telling us capitalism is still wonderful, and there are perfectly rational explanations for the problems today, and we can fix them all, so don't panic folks - in the end, no proposed solutions, just some feel-good talk, calm down, don't go looking for other solutions, we're looking out for you guys here at the CBC!!! (back to work tomorrow, now, eh? right ...) - well scripted, of course, as these things tend to be - on message all the time, no really serious problems in Canada, folks, with good ol boys like this, even though they are really rich - just like you and me, all's well ... good ol Canada, eh?
Feb 7 - "news" - 6 people in Toronto diagnosed with measles!!!!! OMG!!!!! - they're treating this like it's the black plague or something - ramping up the fear as best they can, spreading around the guilt, or trying to, and etc -there really is something going on here besides obedient children insisting their little friends do as they're told.
- just saw this at Rabble - you couldn't ask for better proof that there is an organised control of all major media somewhere behind the scenes - this week the 4 major mainstream medias, and Rabble, the main 'alt' site for people who think they are 'progressive', have gone after their readers with the exact same arguments, about having to 'sell' the vaccines better. And again I wonder - this is so obvious to anyone thinking, but nobody else seems to see this - am I really the last comptis mentis person in Canada, or at least Canadian?
Feb 6 - the Current, a bit of a surprise, as they (the CBC) once again are telling us how wonderful the measles vaccine is, and why those who question the propaganda are anti-science nutcases, etc, endangering all of us, the bad people!!! (although they are trying to 'refine' their propaganda - less namecalling, or maybe not less, but now they add on a new argument - 'we have to do better public relations!!!' and etc - 'NOT the CBC' as always has other perspectives that an engaged public needs to be aware of - i.e. Australia vaccine mafia silencing dissent
and
Vaccine kills more than disease - (it's interesting, the guy they interview on the Current isn't even that good of a plant, has trouble pronouncing big words correctly, etc - tough I suppose to find good enough actors these days ... few actually intelligent people are willing to lie to the extent you need to on these issues to push the propaganda, so the second-raters get their chance to be good servants for Master, and get a few bucks and a career push ...
>> and one needs to note, the host here is no 'innocent dupe' but very much involved with a semi-scripted 'interview', making sure the main points they want made get made ...
>> and the 'big sell' - YOU ARE ENDANGERING OUR HERD IMMUNITY!!!! - a new meme in the game the last couple of years, for people who like to think they are intelligent and independent - herd pressure to run off the cliff is a far greater danger, but don't look for THAT talk on the CBC haha.
- must be noted, they try to give the impression that measles is a really deadly disease - but of course, it is not dangerous to most children at all - so leaving, in the end, the big question - why are these people so desirous that everybody gets vaccinated? It is NOT a serious public health problem or danger, so what else is going on here, behind the scenes, where everything important goes on????
>> and MORE! - they have a very obviously (to anyone above the level of Sat morning cartoon propaganda) scripted once again - some lady supposedly once an 'anti'vaccer', who has 'see the light', and tells us all the bad things these people do, etc etc, suitably guided by the host
>> NOT the CBC - a few articles on the problems with the vaccine etc
>> and then - the amazing lies about what is going on in the Ukraine, as the US et al "consider" sending weapons to Ukraine - because, of course, it's not a fair fight when the 'rebels' are armed with all the latest best stuff from Russia - just blatant lies, as far as I can see from much wider reading - but the CBC evidently believes their audience is so in their thrall they can send out any blatant lies, and the passive herd will boo and cheer as demanded ... - some American propagandist allowed several minutes of ranting, lie after lie after lie - just amazing - they do have some 'moderate' guy answering, but the basic message - who the CBC supports and who they don't - is very clear - is Putin a true fucking monster, or just a normal bad guy? Either way - we DO have to stop Russian aggression ... etc.
>> and then Big Friday - a 'discussion' about the language these pretend journos use to talk about the 'news' - in this case, how should they use 'terrorism' - and it is once again just propaganda - the people we talk about (them fucking jihadists!!!!) - are of course very evil people, that's a given - but can we use the word 'terrorist' or 'terrorism'?? - so just a good cop bad cop scenario, in the end. Not a MENTION of the endless terrorist acts of the US, and lately Canada, and other countries under US command all over the world dropping bombs on innocent people, etc etc.
- re Hamas - there is no difference between blowing up a bus in Jerusalem, and blowing up a bus in London - it is terrorism, and we can use the word - but nobody asks - what about sending a drone into a wedding party in Afghanistan, or Yemen - is that terrorism????? - again the CBC pretending to engage an 'issue' good people are worried about, and dragging it into some dead end, pretending to be the good guys. sickening.
- the brazenness of one lady is amazing - 'we have lost credibility because we use these words too much ..' !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - she's lost credibility evidently because of either a terminal need to lie, or just amazing stupidity ....
- in the end, the 'consensus' seems to be that using such words is good, people - they are just being truthful, and of course as journos we have a duty to be truthful - fuck, it's really hard to accept that this kind of truly scummy people even exist in our world, but there they are, being presented as 'real good journsl' on the CBC - lower and lower and lower = there is no end to how far they will continue to fall, until we just stop them.
- one of the most disgusting 90 minutes the CBC has ever done .... and that is a very low bar .... the host is just amazing, the way she pretends to be a real journo, really trying to good stuff, a really caring person etc - the blackness is just oozing out of the computer ...
<<<<<< GOOD BIG DECONSTRUCTION DAY ON THE CBC >>>>>> (not just after you eat, can make a weak stomach barf ... ) {{ALSO - very illustrative Box examples..}}
- gotta stop, my blood pressure is really rising - this is really really bad shit.
Feb 5 - 'things in the Ukraine have never been as bad as now' - and it's all them fucking Russkies fault!!! - the propaganda is getting directed at stupider and stupider people - really fucking scary that so many Cdns seem to be so fucking brain dead that they just buy this fear mongering with no protest -
Feb 4 - Island Morning, some guy from the Globe (expert!!) telling us why some people don't want vaccinations - no rational reasons, just the fear of some simple minded people believing silly internet conspiracy theories etc. Hear that? Are you a stupid person?????? Nonononono sir!!! - I got my vaccination!! etc. CBC corporate government propaganda - absolutely no possible way we could conceive our wonderful doctors and public health people and drug companies would lie or do bad things, children??? My my what silly children! Do as momma tells you baby!!! (the host right on board - these are hard core people, how can we convince them of 'the truth!!!' that we really are doing only good things for the children??? etc etc
- '.. a column of smoke rose into the cold night air..' - new york train crash, as narrated by your CBC reporter - great story telling, eh kids?? ('news'?? whatdat???) - gov Cuomo says various things, all spectacle and emotion, nothing to do with 'news'.
>>> Jordan is seeking revenge!!! - next spectacle story kids!!! THIS is CBC NEWS!!! YEA!!!! - 'Jordan is consumed by grief...' and etc.
Feb 2 - "this could be the day (??) was waiting for!' - some guy released from jail? The 'new way of journalism!!' on the CBC. Just sitting around the table tellin stories with your friends and making them 'interesting' - exaggerating some things (MONSTERS!!!!) not talking about others, a lot of mush and trivialities ...
-- over and over again - some guy came home and smelled gas. BIG STORY PEI!!!! - hear it several times. various other complete mush stories. for a completely mush-brained population, evidently.
Feb 1 - right into the old propaganda - the brother of the Japanese guy who was, they tell us, executed by ISIS, reads a statement telling us how sad he is - and 'the Japanese PM says he will not forgive ISIS.'. Stephen Harper tells us we will not fear terrorists. As above - less and less room to dare disagree with these people - soon they'll be declaring anyone writing like this as a 'terrorist sympathiser' or something. You are free, in a democracy, to think what they tell you to think, about anything important.
- followed with the other main thing we hear from the CBC - spectacle - big super bowl report, which all good Cdns love to watch, of course, along with any other sport - that's why democratic people do, cheer for sports teams and hate terrorists.
"when a snowstorm hits, it is crucial to have a fleet of snowplows - but a small town in New Hampshire has run into a problem - all their fire trucks burned up!!!' - wow. you think they can't really get much worse, and then they do something like this. New we need to know in Canada. - and then this news - sorry ""news"" reading person gets into a long conversation about - what else - the superbowl, about how close it will be, and other things.
- and don't worry about all those stories about the richest 1% having all that money - really, there's LOTS for everyone - and the middle class is fine, just fine!!!! -
Jan 31- a 'story' worthy of extended coverage on the CBC? - some guy from Regina orders a pizza from Toronto for the Superbowl. The CBC - for serious people.
>> The House - becomes more clear what the role of ES is - the rulers *know* there are a lot of progressives pretty skeptical of what they are getting up to, and the more intelligent parts of the CBC are missioned to answer these questions, but in a certain way - people like ES are *supposed* to be 'lefty progressive' types, and they ask the questions the questioning Cdns would ask, or at least the safer ones, and allow the rulers spokespersons to have a free chance to give the official story, and add some details - ES pretends of course to be a 'hard hitting' "journalist' and not taking any shit, but of course it's all scripted (not word for word, they're not that stupid), but the general questions asked, the things that need to be addressed - and voila - there Cdns!!! We have asked the hard questions, and gotten satisfactory answers! - all is well, get back to the 'fun' stuff you really want to be doing!! Gogo!!
Jan 30 - on the BC spill - we hear the name of some lady, and her problems - national news folks!!! - and *her* final expert opinion, 'it will be years before it is cleared up' - there you have it folks, ordinary citizen telling you how it is .. you can rely on her opinion!!
>> 'massive new spy agency legislation to be introduced today' - and faithfully sold by the corporate media, led by the CBC.
>> has anybody besides me seen this? The government tells us which side of any conflict we are supporting - and then you are a criminal or traitor if you support some other side. People killing for one side are heroes, people on the other side are enemies. And YOU have no say in which is which - you, a "free" (haha) Cdn citizen, are **TOLD** which side 'we' support, and that is what you do. Or else they're coming for you. That's freedom and democracy in Canada. SIR YES SIR!!!!
- nice hatchet job on 'the great Nordic countries!!' - bit of deconstruction if you want, about why they would feel a need to do that - generally crap of course, and completely irrelevant - for example, why not a 'myth buster' on how wonderfully amazing capitalism is????? fuck some idiot whining about trivialities in what are very commonly accepted as the best countries in the world, you could do a yearlong series on the many, many very serious problems with the US Great Capitalist Exemplar - haha just joking .. we don't do that, Dave, we're doing propaganda here haha!!! - the mouthbreathers need a bit of support here .. (to be clear - the interviewee is pretty much feet on the ground, it's the CBC guy who is obviously working under instructions to make the Nordic countries look bad ..)
- aww, we're just such a nice country - power of money in politics - simple minded myths for simple minded people, I guess
Jan 29 - CBC getting a bit untruthful - 'news' - 'as CBC revealed yesterday, the Canadian spy agency is ...' - haha, actually, of course, as they do say a bit more truthfully later, Glen Greenwald actually revealed this - obviously, the CBC is following along because when everybody knows something is going on, it would be too obvious what they are up to to not report it, but they do their best to whitewash the story by talking to people who tell us how harmless it really all is, maybe they have been a bit naughty, but really, nothing to worry about folks - oh!!!! - LOOK OVER THERE!!!! ISIS is threatening to kill somebody!!! That's FAR more important folks - and oh look over there - another terrorist killing sometime in Australia!!! FUCKING TERRORISTS!!!! (subliminal message - we need those police able to stop these fucking terrorists - who are you going to trust, those fucking murdering terrorists, or our own police in our own great country??? duhhhh )
>> lesson learned - massive propaganda programs are effective - Canadians concerned about terror attack ..
Jan 28 - Island Morning once again telling Islanders what the Cdn Taxpayers Association thinks about something - with nary a hint of 'right wing' - might be interesting to see how many times the CTA gets mentioned in a year, compared to the (always identified as 'left leaning') CCPA gets mentioned - ten to one maybe??
- Ottawa news - "news" - somebody bought a resort south of Ottawa - ??? huh???? 'news" ????
>> we're hearing lots of shit about how the coming election is 'about the middle class' - but we're not getting any other perspectives, like this - TPP
Jan 26 - mountie funeral in Alberta - and the "news" includes a tribute from a kid about how great cops are. The CBC wants us all to be sure to honor the cops - there's a 'sea of red' across Alberta. Honor your Protectors, citizen. (we just won't talk about things like this.. - at least not on the CBC
>> Island Morning - once again free advertising for their buds - big free promo for some new grocery chain store - nice to have friends ... boy let's get over and check that out Alice!!!
- the lying bastards - the news guy talking about 'the return of parliament' talks about 'an election campaign that seems almost to have started ..' !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - fuck, the CBC has been TELLING people for weeks now that 'the election starts now the election starts now!!!!!' - fuck, do they do this on purpose? Start something, and then stand back innocently pretending someone else doing that????? The rulers are certainly smart enough, although these low level people like this news reader are pretty evidently not smart enough to think for themselves about much at all (you wouldn't sell your soul as these people obviously have if your brain could function at any kind of decent level ..)
>> and the Greece election - a 'far left' party of course - actually, they are very interest, it is most parties in the west which are far right - but we don't want to go anywhere near that truth, so this 'far left' shit is part of the demonisation -
>> "..it seems that Malaysian airlines can't catch a break..' - fuck, now there is how they teach you to talk 'professional journalist' in 'journalism' school these days, I guess.
- Ottawa Morning - more indoc maintenance, in the box stuff - a sob sort of story about the really tough lives our really hard working dedicated MPs have - long hours away from home, working diligently on really hard stuff like budgets and learning about issues, etc - really nice story, all horseshit of course -
Jan 22 - Richard Gwyn has long been known as a flack for the western regime, but this is getting to be a bit much - understanding the Islamic state - various reasons given for the rise of the 'Islamic State' - and not a fucking hint of the countries bombed back to the stone age by the US, destroying progressive stable governments in Iraq, Libya, and doing their best in Syria which has been at least weakened - only hint the outrageous lie that the US tried to do good things with their interference, only purpose to bring democracy to the poor suffering American people. As always, the scary part is that undoubtedly a large number of Cdns don't know any better, and are agreeing with this shit. Something for the Road Show, I guess - can't be let stand like this.
- a bit belated, just came across this - - Enright talking to some soft-spoken, apparently 'impartial expert' about the Hebdo killings, and related things - very, very sophisticated propaganda for the smarter-than-the-average-bear citizen, appearing to touch the bases a smarter, less propagandized citizen would have on the table. But, a bit of deconstruction (these people are *never* that deep - not smart enough) shows that this is just more reinforcement of the basic underlying propaganda - the Muslim countries are a threat, and we need to 'protect' ourselves from them, which, sadly, includes the ever greater presence of cops and our willingness to do as we are told by them immediately in our communities. They touch only in the very lightest way, and then quickly move on, what should be the most important aspect of any discussion here - British and then American involvement in the middle east countries for the last century is at the very root of what is going on today - and even with our interference and promotion of violence, they had still made significant strides in creating good Muslim secular societies - Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya - all doing good things for their people, until the US stepped in and bombed them back to chaos. There were no good intentions here, there were only bad intentions. And secondly, they talk about 'the press', and how it needs to stand for freedom, which all sounds very noble - but in reality, the press is completely central in being the secretariat for the western US hegemony, who very much wants to continue the chaos in the middle east by keeping the idea that they are all terrorists and we need to protect ourselves front and center in everyone's minds when they think or talk about this - a real press would be doing things very differently, first talking about the role of the US in all of this, and secondly stopping the 'we are all in danger' shit immediately, and instead of accusing whole countries of supporting terrorism and the need for us to protect ourselves, talking about how these events are mainly crimes by individuals - and whether the people were 'inspired' by jihadist talk somewhere else, or actually law-enforcement patsies set up for no other reason than to justify the continued police 'security' measures, they need to be investigated by truly competent and impartial authorities, caught, charged, and jailed. If we find evidence that some other government actually supported any of these things (including our own governments doing false flags) then steps ought to be considered as well. But only after some verifiable connection is made clear.
haha don't wait for THIS stuff to be talked about by Enright or anyone else on the CBC ....
- No hazardous materials found - fuck, the whole cop program needs to be identified as something like 'We are now looking for any stupid excuse to massively over-react' - no threat, a minor amount of some chemical, a phone call from a wife - and PANIC !!!!!! - another story on the radio, some kids did a vid 'how to kill you teacher' - and again, massive overreaction. Sure it's stupid - but were they EVER going to do anything? fuck. - but just more excuses to get the citizens more passive, more alert to their own actions (NEVER NEVER NEVER DO ANYTHING THAT THE COPS MIGHT USE AS AN EXCUSE TO GO AFTER YOU!!!!) - and etc. So when the lockdown comes - a whole country of little Rev Niemullers, staying quiet inside, helping no one else, waiting until the gestapo comes knocking.
>> krist, it's noticeably worse this year than last - the whole thing they call 'news' is like something that some semi-precocious high school kids might do, with personal opinion presented shamelessly, and apparently cluelessly, as 'news', the 'reader' reading like a kid, voice full of expression relating to whether the story is (supposed to be) serious, or something lighter, and peppered with 'cool expressions' to let everyone know they're not really taking it TOO seriously - just boring old shit, after all, and the real fun stuff comes later - so much of it just a kind of narrative, telling the other kids what they need to know-believe about what is going on in the world, saving the most time for 'real' stuff like what bands are playing, keeping up with the sports scores all 'real' citizens know about - just a 10 minute bit on PEI about a family with some kids in some sports competition - neat for them, no doubt, but where is the story about some NGO, and the many very selfless people devoting a lot of time to trying to do something useful and meaningful in the community or province? Never to be heard - that is 'outside the box' of the CBC, where propaganda and spectacle and mush fill the airwaves.
- GGIRS looking more necessary - whether the kids will come or not I can't say, but I have to try.
>> the Current - 'Iranian backed rebels are changing the landscape' - butbut - for years now, US backed drone strikes have been murdering people indiscriminately and getting a lot of people really pissed off at the US - guess the CBC doesn't think Cdns need to be thinking about THAT - or any other of the endless US atrocities we read about elsewhere ...
- fuck the 'Ottawa terror suspect case' - bizarre details have emerged (the nice lady cub reporter says) - he was an ophthalmologist, and his wife was a US gymnast - ??????? does that strike you as 'bizarre'??? - fuck, it's the CBC, getting more and more bizarre almost by the minute - scary shit in Canada these days ... - here's the CTV version - absolutely nothing blown up into a 'potential terror threat OMG!!!!!' - according to this kind of stuff, about 99% of us could be treated the same way - mood disorder, pain killers, alcohol - this could be said of what, 50 million Americans? Maybe 100 million? half of the upper middle class would certainly fit - fuck. - and to make it all look serious, they evacuated a whole hotel - it gets self-fulfilling of course, nobody is now going to say they evacuated a hotel because they were trying to engineer a panic, so they'll all get huffy about how real the 'threat' was and etc - as always, the scariest part is how many Cdns apparently take this shit seriously, instread of standing tall in outrage at these antics, which are not just kid pranks but doing some very seriously bad stuff to our society - not sure what is going on over there these days, they may have used some gas or something, apparently nobody else in that entire country understands what is going on, at least the few internet places that have at least somewhat unindoctrinated people writing haven't said anything yet - I know there's quite a lot of things I see over here well outside of whatever koolaid they're drinking en masse over there that nobody seems to see there -
-- and we need to remember, this is not just some rogue government in Canada at work - every English speaking country, and most European countries, are doing the same thing, blowing up small incidents into major 'terrorist threats' and them immediately passing new, more restrictive laws - in Australia here, for example - and England, France, etc etc
>> CBC looking out for we children again! Good momma!!! - some story on pharmacists not playing Momma correctly - they are supposed to tell the children about possible problems with the medication they are getting, because of course in modern Canada, the citizen children are far too fucking stupid to look after themselves, or think for themselves, and these pharmacists are Important Agents of Big Momma - and big momma does want to look after her children, and make sure they are suitably dependent on doing absofuckinglutely nothing without approval from Big Momma. fuck. fuckfuckfuckfuck. The very idea that a citizen might be responsible for looking after themselves, and reading a bit before taking any potentially harmful medication, or asking the pharmacist herself about potential interactions, isn't even mentioned. Of course not - big momma has been brainwashing her children for years to be too stupid to do this, and doesn't want to get anyone thinking that maybe an adult should be at least a bit responsible for things they put in their mouths??>??? nonononononono children, you do NOT think for yourselves, Big Momma is here to tell you what to do ... one reason among many I much prefer Thailand, where you can get more or less what you want over the counter, with minimal hassle in most places none.
- fuck the stupidity that sneaks in is embarrassing - some lady from Ottawa tells us that when you travel to the US, you're going to get a shock as the Cdn dollar is not worth so much - but that's ok, when you come back to Canada, your US money will be worth more, a pleasant surprise. fuck. I guess they're just such nice folks down there they give you money or something - that is, you got the US money by buying it at a premium, so when you cash it in in Canada, you will only get back what you originally bought it for - actually, of course, minus the bank profit - so actually, if you take a hundred bucks to the US, change it to US, bring it back to Canada and change it again, you'll be doing well to get 97-8 bucks. I don't suppose that 10% of Cdns understand that anymore. more and more embarrassing to identify as Cdn these days.
- our new Canada - http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/couple-ordered-to-leave-canada-over-health-care-cost-concerns-1.2200321 - I know a lot of Canadians are pretty disgusted with this - but as a group, we're still voting for politicians who do it, and a lot of people who are very prominent in our country would self-righteously stand up for this shit, in the name of 'fiscal responsibility', like they stand up for all kinds of other equally stupid shit like forcing people to wear seatbelts or helmets. Very, very much not the Canada most of us dreamed about a few decades back.
Jan 25 - "the father of the Japanese man says he is hoping his son is not dead' - this is "news" on the CBC.
>> and then 'local' news - somebody giving a first aid course is 'news' - someone who proposes to teach kids in the maritimes how to break dance is another "story". kids doing kids stuff. (as well of course as the 'terrorist' story - guy had chemicals in his house!!!!!!! - everyone evacuated!!!!!! - no charges, no info from the police - understandable, they have nothing that sounds remotely criminal, let alone 'potential terrorist' - but the drones, fortunately, don't ask questions, just thank the protective farmer for saving them from the terrible bogeywolfs.
>> and next time - Great News!!!!! Some RCMP lady is singing the national anthem at the all star game!!! Aren't we all sooo fucking excited!!! - well, not really - great spin, but some of us are more than a bit concerned at the ongoing militarization of Canada - haven't seen anything quite like this since hitler was doing the same thing in Germany a few years back, militarizing the whole country, getting everybody worked up about how bad people were attacking Germany but by god he would save them!. And of course we all remember where THAT was going. Don't we??? People????
>> and we have just a sweet story about how the 'low dollar' is affecting wedding plans - isn't that something all we children can relate to now??? GOOOD!!!! CBC !!!!! - news we giggly shallow stupid teens find relates to our lives ...
Jan 21 - once again, we are presented with a narrative of what is happening in 'our times' re 'what is the bank of Canada going to do about the dropping dollar' - 'if you're a banker these are challenging times' - there's your CBC 'factual reporting' folks (actually, if you're a banker, you're pretty much on easy street these days in the real world, with that ability to create as much money as you want ...) - not a fucking WORD of anything we could call 'news', just a story for Cdns to learn about what they want us to believe about the current situation of oil prices and dropping loonie. You don't need to figure this stuff out, citizen - we'll TELL you what you need to think!!
- fuck, just listen to the commentary passing as 'news' as they talk about Obama's speech - 'Republicans know he can't do anything 'on their watch'' - he 'speaks like a man with the swagger of nothing to lose' and etc - just blatant narrative and commentary pretending to be 'news' - like everything they do now.
Jan 19 - "news" - 'the RCMP are asking a tough question ...' - and etc - there's virtually nothing anymore that would actually pass as real 'news' - the CBC et al tell what is happening, and what we are supposed to think about it. The perpetual 'tabula rasa', with the media endlessly writing the contents of our brains.
>> now we are officially named - 'the Dalhousie dental scandal' - once again, completely created by the media - a scandal in THEIR eyes, which, of course, good PC citizens believe, and get on the bandwagon, and tell others how terrible it was, etc.
- could be the stupid essay, but most of what happens on the CBC could go there - they're doing a story on Ottawa Morning about Target closing (and everywhere) - and the lady keeps asking 'What do you suppose this will mean for the employees' - I mean fuck, it's like asking the mother of the kid who just got killed 'how do you feel?!?' - oh heck you know Canada has lots and lots of jobs, there won't be any problem, the phone will start ringing and I'll have a great new job in a few days!!! - right. your classic stupid question. by your becoming classic witless CBC junior cub reporter who would have been laughed out of the room if she asked for a job at the real CBC a few decades ago. when we had some real reporters etc.
Jan 18 - just back to the CBC after a couple days away - first thing is some 'comedy' thing - pathetically juvenile, and the audience just laughing like pathetic juveniles along with it. No fucking class at all anymore, with the dumbing down in full swing. Even weekend morning has been going seriously backwards the last few months - think I noted this before - less and less music from when it was real back in the 60s - more and more mush. Some nice mush, but still mush.
>>> and - they're pushing the 'be happy!' stuff more and more too, don't complain about this great country, tell us how happy you are, what makes you happy to live here, etc - pushing a girl on Weekend Mornings singing about how her home on the Fundy shore is the best place she's ever been (followed by 'I love my dog!' - mushy song - be happy folks!!) - and a contest - tell us what brings light to your life (we have Weekend morning flashlights to give away!!!!) - Island Morning is doing the same thing - what's the odds there's something similar going on in many if not all CBC areas?????
Jan 15 - CBC again all worried about 'young men joining ISIS' - it's really quite amazing, to any people who think of themselves as free - very clear message - YOU WILL HONOR WHO YOUR LEADERS TELL YOU TO HONOR, AND HATE WHO WE TELL YOU TO HATE - NO EXCEPTIONS!!!!!! - what could be more indicative of a totally brainwashed population? - clear enough reasons, if real open talk was allowed, it would very quickly become clear that actually Canada has no fucking business at all bombing countries in other parts of the world that represent no danger to us - the propaganda and 'no exceptions!!!' indoctrination must be maintained - thus this continual pushing -
>> crying father of course talking about his lost son -
Ottawa - they're just unbelievably amateurish - some store is closing, and they find a few people to say they never went there much anyway, etc - fuck. "news" on the CBC. This kind of shit wouldn't even get them into a real journalism school.
>> and they're on some thing about some people who went to India for some treatment, and had some problems - and whatever the 'spectacle' part of this, we see that the CBC pretend-cub-reporters present themselves as scientific experts - the different people in the story have different things to say, and here we have sweet Amanda telling us who is to be believed and who is not. dumbed down all the way - I'm a teenager and I know fucking everything!!!! - etc etc
Jan 14 - "news" - fuck, they just turn it all into cute stories for kids - re Paris - "Margaret Harris spoke to a senior citizen who went out for groceries at a bad time!!!!' - wow!!! it's just theater, folks!!! - a story about a lady, going to the store to get olives for her husband - and she didn't even like olives, and more stuff for Chatelaine - fuck, no real journalism school would put up with this stuff - of course, of course, said it a million times before - we don't have ... - and a bit at the end of the crying husband - it's utter shit, but no doubt the lady high school gossip columnist is getting high marks from the propagandists (Margaret Evans of the breathless voice ...)
>> and then more on the terrible Dalhousie dental scandal - the CBC are apparently getting a bit pissed the kids have not been shot yet, or some other really, really bad punishment -
>> and for fuck's sake, on 'national news' some gossip about some mayor in BC - some sexual connection, so the CBC gets their little panties all in a twist - sex scandals - sorry ""scandals"" are almost as good as blood and crying people to the chattering little gossip mongers there ...
>> and here's something we really need - a segment on the Current about how, well, you know them celebrities who advise on diets? You shouldn't listen to them! - serious. Stuff you need, on the CBC.
>> this is kind of scary - is Canada becoming rightwing> - not so much the article, but the comments following, esp the first - "..Nice 'opinion' piece by a leftist nut job. This CBC guy is polar opposite to Fox and Sun networks. ... Why can't we get a news source that is actually middle of the road and factual rather than crazy right or crazy left?" - the piece is, for the modern rightwing press, quite rational, and very centrist - and for someone to scream out 'leftist nut job' can only make you ask, what kind of people is this country creating - somewhat 'second level analysis' would indicate the piece is actually quite overstating its thesis, as obviously Canada is becoming more right wing, more American, less intelligent, that we can even have people like the one who wrote the comment - and the comments are laced with similar ideas. These are truly barbarians - anything less than gangs of hoods fighting openly for domination is considered 'lefty nutcase' politics. We're going to have a lot of trouble with these people if we ever start to take our country back, and need to be ready to deal with them.
Jan 13 - some 'national reporter' from Ottawa having a nice conversation with Matt on Island Morning about how the gov is going to deal with all the 'terrorism' around the world. You people out there be scared! - and thank our gov for protecting us!!
Jan 12 - Ottawa Morning - boy, really pushing it - some 'expert' on telling us we really, really are in great danger from 'self radicalized' muslim crazies (who are, he says with no evidence at all, overseas doing massive amounts of killing (!!!!!)) - very obviously preparing Cdns for new and more stringent police lockdown measures. Be nice, do as you are told, and no problem, citizens.
Jan 11 - all the marches in Canada 'to show support' for something concerning the killings in Paris - seems a bit odd to me - who is organising these things? I would wager pretty much anything there is government pushing and support behind these things - part of the new militarism, we all stand together against terrorism, and you don't want to question this mindless crowd, etc etc - the people running the Nazis 80 years ago knew these techniques well .... and used them very effectively
.. notice the pushing of the spin too - 'this is an attack on Democracy!!!!!' - no it's not, it was a nasty crime, the killing of a few people publishing a satirical magazine by some radicals who did not like what was published - the killers should be treated as dangerous criminals, hunted down and dealt with ('capital' punishment is fine by me) - but that's about it. But the media is seriously pushing this 'attack on Democracy!!!' shit - and why would they be doing this, if they didn't have some plans that involved a lot of guns and bombs ready to send someone's way????? - but they needed an excuse to get 'the people' on board - and of course, knowing how fully they control 'the people' via the media - here we go, kids!
- actually, a lot of this shit going on lately when you think about it, up to and including the 'spontaneous mass protests' against Bill Cosby this week past - get a LOT of people together to protest something, no debate allowed, the 'PCers' have declared some person or persons evil (the Dal dentistry students) - and all right thinking people must stand together and condemn them. No thinking allowed, no questioning or that just puts you on the side of whoever is condemned - and by golly, you don't want this big crowd surrounding you and accusing you of terrible crimes do you?!?!?! no way baby - so join up.
Jan 10 - more on the 'falling price of oil' - a question I have not heard or seen addressed (and don't expect to) - if these people can make a profit at $50 a barrel, which seems obvious because I can't imagine they're selling this essential product they have a monopoly on at a loss - what the fuck is or was going on in recent years past at the far, far higher prices?????? - are/were we seeing a government supported massive monopoly pricing ripoff???? pretty obvious - and understanding that, of course, you carry on to - what the fuck are they actually doing right now? To say 'oh, they saw the light and are giving western consumers a break' - is just to break out laughing. So obviously - this is all about attacking Russia, and Iran - nothing more, nothing less. And we KNOW the corporate media are NOT going there. >> and lots of spinoffs - Cdn governments, among others, are going to be using this as an excuse to cut social programs and services.
Cosby cosby guilty!!
- very obvious from the general tenor of the piece that the CBC has no such stupid ideas as 'innocent until proven guilty', presenting these people as somehow mistaken in their 'beliefs' - no sir, we at the CBC go with the mob - the accusation IS the proof baby
- another story we're not likely to hear on the US-loving CBC - US cops kil at 100 times the rate of other countries - now if this study had found Russia or China or Iranian police were doing all this killing by police, we'd be getting some pretty serious and unhappy people demanding we get out the bombs and get those monsters out of office - but the US? well, you know, if the people don't want to get shot they shouldn't annoy the police, who are just doing their job, etc etc ...
Jan 9 - Island Morning news - fuck, kids reporting to kids, the 'story' on the animal shelter not having doggies is just too cute
>> lovely irony here - everybody screaming about the terrible Muslim jihadists attacking 'free speech' - and apparently not at all aware of this - police monitoring online speech - of course, that is the very essence of elite capitalism - when WE do it, it's great - when THEY do it - it's terrible. Lies and looting - I suppose we could add extreme hypocrisy to that.
Jan 8 - full mode with the social control, as always - more on Cosby in London, with the CBC obviously very upset that some people are daring to go and see him, when the CBC's politically correct gang has declared the accusations against him to be proof he's a bad guy.
>> and something suspicious about the 'spontaneous gatherings' in Toronto and elsewhere showing 'support' for the shooting victims in Paris - 'we stand together against Muslim terrorism!!' and etc -
>> "business" report - deflation noted in Europe - lower prices are bad. ( ????? I know, you might think lower prices would be good - but the capitalist mind just thinks 'OMG! lower profits, etc. that's just how they are)
>> there's been regular 'reporting' on the 'brave Canadians' going somewhere to 'help with the Ebola epidemic' - simple minded hero worship for the Cdn children, one expects, with appropriate 'cool' terminology like 'they take their PPE' - and a new one today - now they are 'clinicians' - boy, there's a word - like 'journalist' and 'parliamentarian' for your SPECIAL people Cdns!!
- 'an attack as exacting as a line on a page' - the current - wow, really ramping up the story
Jan 5 - Ottawa Morning - 'a night of celebration across the country!!!' - Canadian juniors win the world junior hockey championship - a very trivial story overall for adults - but the CBC is speaking to the new dumbed down citizens they have been creating of course, in depth, a lot of kids talking about how excited they are, how great they feel, etc - very obvious - the other major 'story' is telling us that things are heating up in the US between Obama and the Repubs - sit back and watch the show folks!!!! - and of course, this is election year!!!!!! let's ramp up the excitement - will it be tweedle dee?? or dum??? or dumber????? Wow!! So exciting!!!!
Dec 29 - fuck they just can't stay away from it - 'reporting' on the missing Air Asia plane, for no reason at all rather than sensantionalism, they add the 'story' of the father of the captain who is worried about losing his son on the plane. 'news' on the CBC.
Dec 23 -"news" - 'the missing Malaysian airplane may never be found, according to (some person)" - wow. News, in the CBC "newsroom" (cue laughter). Obviously, no person could ever have imagined that scenario, if the great CBC was not on top of things for us.
Ottawa morning - more free advertising for 'friends' - some guy with a website offering legal advice getting the big Xmas present ... what about the million other websites struggling for views???? haha your problem bud. (and we manage to mock 'conspiracy theorists' HAHAHA!!!!! - you sure don't want to be one of THOSE idiots, CBC listener, do you???? HAHAHAHA!!!! - nono!! not me!!! nononono!!! I believe what they tell me on the CBC, sure, sure!!!)
Dec 22 - Black tells some truth, which is just a 'conspiracy theory' to the CBC (laughingly called 'business digest, Island morning)
>> some story about a kid found beaten in the snow - 'warning, you may find details disturbing' - I just mean, what the fuck is this? News for adults or for children??? ............... oh right. sorry. of course.
>> utterly amazing - Canada faces cold war !!!!! - the propaganda that it seems most people believe, so utterly blatant lies and nonsense - NOBODY is threatening Canada, Canada is choosing to strut along beside the US as the world bully - and blatantly saying it is the other guy's fault!!! Putin and Russia are so very obviously the object of the US attacks for years now, and yet they all run around screaming Russian aggression when Putin dares put up the slightest show of resistance - it shows, above all, the depth and strength of the last 30 years of indoctrination that so few people seem able to understand this obvious situation ...
Dec 21 - some 'CBC moment' - Christmas in Britain - directed clearly at the new children of the CBC world - i.e. 'for Christmas in Britain we eat broccoli with dinner - I know, yucky, but it's Christmas so we eat it..' - but fuck, adults like broccoli, and prefer veggies to an endless diet of candy - but the CBC wants everyone to identify first with children, simple-minded, fun-loving, childish tastes in everything - and, most importantly of course, leaving boring important stuff for the adults to take care of, and trusting the adults who speak on the CBC when they tell them things - when adults talk about santa claus, or monsters, the children believe them, no questions asked - Mommy wouldn't lie to us!!! Nor the nice teachers and policemen and journalists and politicians who manage our lives, all for our own good!! We love and trust our teachers!!!' - the good CBC child. Things seem to be escalating - wouldn't be surprised if they all come out of the closet somehow next year, some false flag attack or something, and the Gestapo appear on the streets, the sheep's clothing off etc
>>> and later - 'this is a busy time for Canada Post - it delivers thousands of parcels and packages (!!!wow!) - but millions of letters to Santa!!' - got that kids?? Yes Virginia, there is a Santa don't all we good children believe that, and snuggle down secure in our beddies, knowing Momma Corp is watching over us??? You bet!!!
>> much serious shit going on in the country and world today, and the leading weekly public affairs show (Enright) has a story on Wonder Woman, and some really fucking bad Xmas songs.
Dec 20 - fuck, the House, deep, deep into the propaganda, aka outright, often simply stupid, lies about 'the bad guys' - excellent deconstruction show for anyone interested - can't be bothered here - Solomon obviously directly complicit, as they have an obvious script they are following. One example - they start with Putin's press conference, presenting him as a Big Brutal Nasty Bear!!! - but a completely different presentation - with actual clips rather than fantasies - on RT - you just need to listen to/watch these two things, and it is blatantly obvious who is credible and who is not. CBC - failure at journalism, A+ for propaganda as the Cdn Ministry of Truth. {{ pointing out another idiocy - to say the CBC is 'progressive' and 'anti-Harper' is obviously totally out of touch with reality, listening to something like this - very, veruy obviously the CBC is working with the masters of Canada to spread this horseshit ... and equally obviously, very sadly, only a very, very small number of Cdns seem to understand this.. fuck, I may be the only one . - can't think of anyone else offhand, from the "progressive" side of things, criticizeing the CBC as I do -the hatred of the right for the CBC is just the mindless hatred they have for everything remotely progressive, dating back to Trudeau, so is meaningless in the context I talk about)
Dec 19-20 - the 'big news' about them horrible monsters from N Korea being responsible for hacking somebody, and Sony pulling a movie, etc, is, like so much of the propaganda, just fucking stunning in its essential hypocrisy, not to mention the inevitable dragging out of the various lies about how BAD!!!! they are!!!. No doubt some countries get up to bad things about the US, or others - but the part that really gets me angry is all the finger pointing, with not a word of mea culpa to go along with it - we do it, they do it, that's life in the modern world, with various gangs competing for power - but no, it's all 'Look at those monsters!!!' - and then silence - not a word about how WE do stuff just as bad, and, really, no doubt at all, as the biggest baddest superpower in history, the US gets up to far, far worse stuff than everyone put together, but the finger pointing and accusations etc directed at the US - even when there is a serious report detailing their torture - is utterly minimal from the western media - not a sliver of outrage from the CBC about US torture, not a word about Cdn complicity (I can't listen to all the coverage of course, but in the days since the torture report, I haven't heard the name 'Mahar Arar' once ...) (are we monsters too?????) - and etc. I really don't like this place much at all - sure, sure it's better probably than a lot of countries, but how many times do I have to say 'better than something really bad' is not a very high ambition - I for one want something a great deal better - and I fight as I do because for the last 30 years and more, we have very, very demonstrably been going backwards at an ever increasing rate, and the edge, my friends, is very near, if you don't start waking up pretty soon.
Dec 19 - CBC all a flutter about the killings in Australia - no doubt a terrible thing for the people killed, but fuck, as they say, I don't know what the daily death count is around the world, although some quick googling indicates it's around 150,000 per day - so how is it most deaths are irrelevant, and the chosen few get picked for "WOW LOOK AT THIS!!!!!' treatment from the CBC???? Tribal spectacle for children explains part of it, no doubt - somewhere between 400,000 and 4 million children die from malnutrition in Africa alone every year, slow, lingering, terrible deaths, and basically we never hear a word about them - sure maybe once a year somebody from some aid program will get a short interview on one of the local stations, but basically, we care far, far more about the local sports teams we talk about every day with great enthusiasm than hundreds of thousands of terribly dying children in Africa - or a lot of other countries. And lots and lots of other things - how many innocent people are being killed these days by American and British drones? Funny we NEVER hear a word about those innocent people - maybe they suffer less in the mideast than they do in Australia or Canada or one of we white countries, who knows what goes on in the CBC news-controller's mind these days - they're obviously right-wing enough to be pretty out of touch with real people, and evil enough to happily betray so many people every day with their lies and propaganda and gatekeeping and spectacle and dumbing down.
There's a related element of getting really unpleasant stories out of the short-attention-span minds of the citizens, as well - no need to think about the US torturing 'folks', folks, move on now - HEY!!! LOOK WHAT HAPPENED IN AUSTRALIA OMG!!!!! etc etc - the Dalhousie hysteria is probably related to this - certainly haven't heard anyone on the CBC wondering about Mahar Arar being tortured by the CIA rendition program with the full assistance, and awareness, of the Cdn government - hey, hey, nothing to see here folks OH LOOK AT THE TERRIBLE DALHOUSIE STUDENTS MAKING STUPID JOKES ON FACEBOOK!!!! OMGOMG!! - now THERE is something we can spend a few days getting all self-righteously pompous about - boy, WE never did that on facebook!!!! and etc. we're on the Titanic, and it's going down.
>> and the story about the 'school shooting' in Pakistan - evil fucking taliban!!! - great opportunity for crying ladies (crying lady, sobbing sobbing, my heart is just so hurt for all those poor children in Pakistan..' - fuck, you can only wonder how she feels about half a million kids starving to death in Africa every year - funny the CBC doesn't get on that, the tear potential should be almost endless. haha just kidding). But we get a bit more nuanced, not to say truthful, offering from (surprise surprise!!) RT - Going Underground - in which a rather important adjective is added - 'military' - this was not a 'girls' school or something as they are leading us to believe so we really, really 'get' what endlessly evil fucking monsters those Taliban are, in case anyone ever forgot - no no, it was a *military* school, with Muslim students being trained to go and hunt the Taliban. !!!!! My my. Certainly a terrible thing to be attacking schools anytime, by anyone - but just put your Einstein hat on for a second - if the US decided to get one of their drones over there fired up, and bomb a school with children being trained to be Taliban fighters, how do you suppose the Cdn media would be approaching the story? I could ramble on, but why bother - I leave it to you as an exercise. Try to be truthful!! (hint, can't control myself!!! - would the Canadian media say the Americans accidentally bombed a school of nice children, terrible tragedy, big mistake, investigations are underway, etc etc - or would the immediate spin be 'Taliban military academy taken out by Americans - world a safer place, less terrorists YEEAAAAA AMERICA!!!! - congratulatory quotes from Cdn pols, etc etc)
For earlier ramblings on the state of things:
View From Green Island 14 Nov 1 - Dec 15 2014
View From Green Island 13 Aug 1 to Nov 1 2014
View From Green Island 12 Apr 15 to Aug 1 2014
View From Green Island 11 Nov 15 2013 to Apr 15 2014
View From Green Island 10 Sept 1 - Nov 15 2013
View From Green Island 09 June 30 - August 30 2013
View From Green Island 08 May 2013-end June 2013
View From Green Island 07 Nov 18 2012 - May 14 2013
View From Green Island 06 2012-0715-2012-1120
View From Green Island 05 Nov 15 2011 - July 15 2012
View From Green Island 04 Sept 30 - Nov 15 2011
View From Green Island 03 Sept-Nov 2011
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View From Green Island 01 pre-August 15 2011
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