It presents the alternative view to main stream news but it's really main stream news, controlled opposition.
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I don't disagree with anything you have written and there is nothing you have written which I didn't already know but you are still avoiding my point.
You have given many examples of the Israeli oppression of the Palestinians but you seem unwilling to try to understand this on a more general level. The closest you have come is when you said Zionism is fascism. But the main ingredients of fascism were a dictator, a one party state and anti-liberalism. The Zionists are very diverse and they don't have a dictator. They have many political parties representing all sorts of views. Some Zionists are religious and others are atheists. Some have very liberal attitudes and some of them have medieval attitudes.
Isn't more logical to see the current situation in Israel as an example of what happens when settlers eventually outnumber the indigenous population and make them second class citizens? We have seen this happen so many times in history and I can't think of any exceptions. That is the question I have been trying to get you to answer.
If you can think of some exceptions to this then it would reinforce your argument against Zionists. But if you can't think of exceptions then perhaps we should see the oppression of Palestinians as the inevitable and unfortunate consequence of an indigenous population becoming outnumbered.
Can you relate any of this to the Islamic settlement of Europe? The left wing position on religion has now been reversed by those who decide what left wing and right wing mean. In the past the left wing was strongly opposed to religion and now it is a strong supporter of Islam and any criticism of it is seen as Islamophobia just as any criticism of Zionism is seen as anti-Semitism.
TBG, either you accept that corporate news agencies have their own agenda, their own preferences on how news is handled and disseminated or you don't. I've selected examples to show that this is the case and that it is common practice. You could try doing the research for yourself and I'm sure that you'l find many more examples. It's not just about commission but omission as well, both are useful tools that can be employed to persuade people to think of an issue in a certain way. Look at the propaganda that has been relentlessly pumped out by corporate media with smear campaigns about Jeremy Corbyn? Go and look at the research that the LSE have done on it. See what their conclusions are.
I've been the first to say that they do, when it concerns Russia's perceived national interests. But those issues and subject matter are easily identified. With Press TV it is somewhat different they occasionally come out with some very fine documentaries in much the same way as AL-Jazeera do. With RT you get a lot more involvement and open discussion on geo-political matters, with some fresh and interesting perspectives that we don't tend to get on British media.
That's why you also need the BBC, then you will find the truth out there somewhere :biggrin: It's only information boundaries, not rocket science. Finding out the truth happens every day in a court of law, but when it comes to the media people tend to swallow everything hook, line and sinker from their preferred news source. All media is propaganda and disinformation. You need to disseminate and cross-reference material from a wide range of disparate sources, and learn how to spot what is the truth and what are lies. And don't forget qui bono?
Every issue on there has Russian interest at heart.
Remember a few years ago when Gluey was jumping about wetting his nappy with excitement than Max Keiser was saying the LSE would collapse within a few months. That was clearly disinformation sent to hurt the UK economy but one of your "critical thinkers" was all over it. This isn't an isolated incident of where they have being critical of the UK and it's turned out to be nonsense.
Additionally a number of ex employees have come out and said about the whole thing being propaganda.
One hand washes the other TBG.
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I think you have the wrong end of the stick, SD. I have never denied that such things happen at all. I have my own knowledge of such things in some countries and am interested in anyone else's knowledge in respect of countries other than the UK, the USA, Russia, China and the Middle East. Please don't confuse open questions with complete naivety.
It must be a terrifying existence to know about all this biased media and behind the scenes conspiracies and not be able to do anything about it.
Except to post on a messageboard for a football club who once had someone called Tarki Micaleff play for them.
Tragic.
I was sitting in his dad's restaurant in April 1971, on the very night that it first opened, in Clare Street, Grangetown listening to his father talk about the footballing abilities of the then ten year old Tarki Micallef. Little did I know that night that I would be watching him regularly some years later playing at Ninian Park.
Rodrigo Duterte 'happy to slaughter' addicts as Hitler did Jews - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-37515642
- Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has compared his anti-drug campaign to the Holocaust, saying he would kill as many addicts as Hitler did Jews.
"Hitler massacred three million Jews... there's three million drug addicts. I'd be happy to slaughter them," he said.
At least six million Jews as well as other minorities are known to have been killed by the Nazis. -
Maybe the President hasn't seen enough Hollywood films or sufficient corporate media. The Beeb busted a gut to get the magic figure out.
This Duterte bloke would have risked arrest in Germany and elsewhere for so-called Holocaust denial.