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The truth is worth waiting for.

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12464489/Yevgeny-Prigozhin-new-footage-dismissing-elimination-Wagner.html

evgeny Prigozhin is seen in new footage 'dismissing reports of his elimination': Warlord insists 'everything is fine' in video filmed in Africa during 'the second half of August'

As usual Daily Mail needs forensics!

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See Heidegger: The Introduction of Nazism into Philosophy in Light of the Unpublished Seminars of 1933-1935 by Emmanuel Faye (Author)

https://univ-rouen.academia.edu/EmmanuelFaye

After WWII Karl Jaspers wrote to the Denazification Commission that Heidegger be barred from teaching as a ''mesmerizer'' . And who was the Great Mesmerizer?

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This is so. Heidegger tried to play with the Nazis, Threw his mentor under the bus, with absurd notions of some kind of Socratic state. Then ended up a hermit in the Black Forest. Hannah Arendt never really gave up on him though. Husserl was the better man.

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Seymour Hersh has a legendary reputation as a journalist. However when pressed for details here :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ev4cMILOXc

CGTN anchor Liu Xin interviewed Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour

The Point Special: One-on-one with Seymour Hersh CGTN Mar 12, 2023

he hesitatingly revealed he used a London School of Book editor, and fact checked with the New Yorker, the most virulent anti-Russian, pro-Ukraine outfit . Then how good is his NordStream bombshell?

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The most recent phase of this history is very important, and you left it out :)

From maybe 1920 to 2010, we had a situation where the major newspapers and magazines were the "Reality Studio" (WS Burroughs) where we were all told what to think. Facebook & Google destroyed this system, and now nobody controls the Reality Studio. This is why you see such insane freakouts in favor of censorship, because the invisible censorship of mainstream media is now neutered. Anybody can waltz into the Reality Studio and broadcast some truth.

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Thanks for this. Burroughs' concept of the "reality studio" is, as you say, important, although it is an extension of what Edward Bernays was telling his clients and writing about. I don't think however that Facebook and Google "destroyed" the system -- rather, they extended it. The technology of the Internet has the capability of destroying the system, since it is anarchistic. But Facebook and Google both provided opportunities to curate opinion. Bernays felt, I think, that the 'average" person does not WANT to "think" if it conflicts with their existing biases; they do not want Socratic dialectic. Therefore, control .... is "leading from behind".

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Truth is an inconvenient concept. Narrative is all that matters. And if one doesn't suggest itself (or get assigned by the IC) by an hour before publication deadlines loom, any one will do.

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We are all children. We think in metaphors, stories. "Truth" as Heidegger, pointed out, is behind the metaphors and the stories, hidden.

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“The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.”

― Martin Heidegger

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Which is fine so long as your journalism schools and professionals are up front about that. But they advertise and supposedly have an ethics protocol that precludes lies, fabrications, and deceit.

Telling a story in a readable, even entertaining style is perfect. You and I both do that! But we neither create facts nor massage them into a different story. Needing to dissolve narrative content before comprehension occurs is never justifiable.

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As McLuhan said "the medium is the message". "Journalism" did not exist until newspapers -- then magazines, radio, TV etc. The infrastructure determines content. Determining "truth" is not just collecting facts (evidence), it is oonnecting those facts to re-present reality. This is, of course, how "journalists' define "narrative. Problems occur when the evidence chain is broken or corrupted. True investigative journalists are rare. Most journalists are paid to turn out stories in a very short period of time and in line with editorial druthers.

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Puzzling for sure. As if the truth wasn’t relative to events, only hubris.

Bless their little hearts for the pace that truth keeps is ramping up !

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The truth will "out" as the saying goes. The trouble is the "outing" might take a long time. We are just beginning to learn the truth of WWI and WWII.

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Events don't matter if they don't affect us directly or threaten us. We are simple animals. Not sapient at all.

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Pray tell, but Canadians in Japan could be forgiven for by Bush's Yurpeans - Urinalism is where banksters and Spooks do a giant flushing sound, dutifully reported with awe by yellow Urinalists. Hence the idiom "leak sheet".

There were 2 kings, the last French King, and William of Orange, whose Urinalists reported the weight of the divine dump (in Depardieu's Vattel). Kind of a smelly profession, after work the stink behind the nose must be unbearable. Likely explains the coke addictions.

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Oh, I LOVE that! "Urianlism" I mean. Can I steal that?

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Since the topic is journalism, I refrained from mentioning analysts... Even worse...

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There are analysts and there are anal-ists.

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Sure! I borrowed it from someone who as really p*ssed off during the 2008 Crash... It should be in the Yurpean language dictionary!

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Check MintPress News, War in Niger with Lowkey & David Hundeyin for true a understanding of the machinations

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Read that.

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They support my basic position. However, I will say that France no longer has the means it once had to support "separatist" violence in Africa. Separatism is occuring independent of the French-- or the Americans. One must remember that the political map of Africa is still largely determined by colonial era division of the continent by European powers. It is natural for there to be cultural / national adjustments. as Africa undergoes ethnogenesis, which I wrote about in my article on Poland.

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Nice article pointing out our ancient ways yet unaltered . Charles Dickens wrote for one of the first papers in the 1850’s and he had a way with revealing the truth as an entertainment for one who reads .

The truth doesn’t catch on with this “modern” crowd as if they don’t know what it means.

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Sir Philip Sydney wrote that art must entertain and teach at the same time. By "teach" he meant inculcate values held the educated aristocracy of his time. He wasn't talking about "truth" in the Kantian sense. Or the Socratic sense.

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More like they believe everything is relative, and truth does not exist.

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The analysis of "the strength of weak ties" is spot on. Also the media as mostly entertaiment (especially TV). Corporate media nowadays is almost only presstitutes. Real journalists don't want to even come close to that cesspool.

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Real journalists are rare. They starve to death. But maybe death is better than dishonor. Anyway, I turned down an offer from CNN years ago.

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Good call, I don't believe you would stay long.

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A friend of mine took the job. Didn't stay.

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Journalism used to be an occupation where the journalist described the facts he experienced, which he then put into a consumable form, which was then either accepted by the editor or not. At that time, even what he wrote could contain traces of truth !

The modern concept of the journalist has already changed, it would be more fortunate to call him a propagandist, his task is limited to what the secret service officer of the given country (USA and the West) describes in brief, the journalist has to edit this in his own style, but keeping the essential point ! In the current state, apart from a few rare exceptions, the news reporters are well-paid people who are afraid that if they deviate from the central guidelines, their good salary will end !

I'm already waiting for the day when the Pulitzer Prize will be given to CIA officer John Doe for his valuable news summaries ! :)

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As I have mentioned, my Dad was a journalist, as his Dad had once been for a time. I grew up around journalists. Reporters describe facts as they see them. But figuring out what those facts mean and how they connect to an event of any complexity takes time and a lot of investigation. New outlets want the report yesterday.

So a reporter scribbles some notes, sends it to an editor to fashions a "story" , filling on the many empty spaces with conjecture. During the Vietnam war, I noticed that embedded journalists were carefully vetted and placed. That was harder with photojournalists who just shot what they saw. In later wars, the US was very careful about its embedding to make sure that its journalists showed what they wanted seen -- and did not show what they didn't what they and seen. Of course, nothing is perfect. They also indoctrinated journalists. Still -- news leaks at the seams. People see stuff they are not supposed to.This has been the case in all wars, necessitating careful curatage of information at the public distribution level. Journalists b and large do NOT do forensic analysis. Maybe Seymour Hersh and a few others.

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Great post! It is truly laughable how western media has absorbed the crash into its 'evil Putin' narrative, and pre-emptively dismissed the results of the Russian investigation. I despair at the combined ignorance and arrogance of MSM-believers.

I think you could do with proof reading your posts though, sometimes a bit hard to follow

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“… speculation filled in the gaps and interpretations smoothed over contradictions.” Great phrase – very quotable.

Great article and audio. Wow – you are taking on a lot tackling the Prigozhin/Wagner topic – there is so much around but I look forward to your speculation and interpretation. The answer of course will be a). :-)

On Edward Bernays, here is my contribution …

• The Century of the Self – documentary featuring Bernays et al

https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-century-of-the-self/

or in four parts here:

• The Century of the Self - Part 1: "Happiness Machines"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnPmg0R1M04

• The Century of the Self - Part 2: "The Engineering of Consent"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEsPOt8MG7E

• The Century of the Self - Part 3: "There is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads; He Must Be Destroyed."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub2LB2MaGoM

• The Century of the Self - Part 4: "Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VouaAz5mQAs

Of course Bernays is just one cog in the wheel.

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This is a great documentary - although it glosses over some things. You might be interested in Curtis' new film "HyperNormalization" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3J6rU3NUMM0

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Thank you Julian. I am almost two hours in and have some concerns. The documentary bounced around quite a bit between cyberspace and AI, Donald Trump's investments, Muammar Gaddafi, the hippies and LSD, UFOs and suicide bombers, so I could not get a fix on where it was taking me.

Then at around 1:42:52 it started to lose me with the mainstream narrative that 911 was a suicide bomber attack - “they had come to kill thousands of Americans on their own soil”.

And lost me completely when it gave G W Bush and Tony Blair a free pass and centre stage from 1:45:00 as Bush condemns “the worst leaders” and Blair goes on about WMDs … it then goes on to demonise President Bashar al Assad as he “set out to attack America”. That was nothing but gaslighting.

While I finish, let me share this one back at you …

• PROPAGANDA - DPRK Documentary Reveals Western Psychological Warfare and Brainwashing (English) - 푸옹 Phuong DPRK Daily channel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs9lmzI23hw

Phuong DPRK Daily is a DPRK channel but the documentary was not made by the DPRK as one of the comments will explain.

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Love Adam Curtis. I intend posting all of his again. His latest is shot differently, a montage of video clips showing the Soviet Union before collapse - hypnotising.

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