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January 27, 2017 | Categories: Articles &
Stephen Bannon Is 100% Correct—The Media Is Now The Political Opposition
Paul Craig Roberts
Bannon is correct that the US media—indeed, the entire Western print and TV media—is nothing but a propaganda machine for the ruling elite. The presstitutes are devoid of integrity, moral conscience, and respect for truth.
Read the comments in which morons define freedom of the press as the freedom to lie to the public.
Who else but the despicable Western media justified the enormous war crimes committed against millions of peoples by the Clinton, Bush, and Obama regimes in nine countries—Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Yemen, Syria, Somalia, Palestine, and the Russian areas of Ukraine?
Who else but the despicable Western media justified the domestic police states that have been erected in the Western world in the name of the “war on terror”?
Along with the war criminals that comprised the Clinton, Bush, and Obama regimes, the Western media should be tried for their complicity in the massive crimes against humanity.
The Western media’s effort to sustain the high level of tension between the West and Russia is a danger to all mankind, a direct threat to life on earth. Gorbachev’s warnings are correct.
Yet presstitutes declare that if Trump lifts the sanctions it proves that Trump is a Russian agent. It is paradoxical that the Democrats and the liberal-progressive-left are mobilizing the anti-war movement to oppose Trump’s anti-war policy!
By refusing to acknowledge and to apologize for its lies, euphemistically called “fake news,” the Western media has failed humanity in a number of other ways. For example, by consciously telling lies, the media has legitimized the suborning of perjury and false testimony used to convict innocent defendants (such as Walter McMillian in Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy) in America’s “justice” system, which has about the same relation to justice as genocide has to mercy. If the media can lie about world events, police and prosecutors can lie about crimes.
By taking the role of the political opposition to Trump, the media has discredited itself as an honest critic on topics where Trump needs criticism, such as the environment and his tolerance of oppressive methods used by police. The presstitutes have ended all chance of improving Trump’s performance with reports and criticism.
Trump needs moderating on the environment, on the police, and on the war on terror. Trump needs to understand that “the Muslim threat” is a hoax created by the neoconservatives and the military/security complex with the complicity of the presstitutes to serve the hegemony agenda and the budget and power of the CIA, Pentagon, and military industries. If the US stops bombing and slaughtering Muslims and training and equiping forces to overthrow non-compliant Muslim governments such as Syria, Iraq, and Libya, “the Muslim threat” will disappear.
Maybe Trump will add to his agenda breaking into hundreds of pieces the six mega-media companies that own 90% of the US media and selling the pieces to seperate independent owners who have no connection to the ruling elites. Then America would again have a media that can constrain the government with truth rather than use lies to act for or against the government.
This version reported by King World News has some delicious words from past journalists about how their only job is to lie for the rich:
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts' latest books are The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West, How America Was Lost, and The Neoconservative Threat to World Order.
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The Terror We Give
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We fire missiles from the sky that incinerate families huddled in their houses. They incinerate a pilot cowering in a cage. We torture hostages in our black sites and choke them to death by stuffing rags down their throats. They torture hostages in squalid hovels and behead them. We organize Shiite death squads to kill Sunnis. They organize Sunni death squads to kill Shiites. We produce high-budget films such as “American Sniper” to glorify our war crimes. They produce inspirational videos to glorify their twisted version of jihad.
The barbarism we condemn is the barbarism we commit. The line that separates us from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is technological, not moral. We are those we fight.
“From violence, only violence is born,” Primo Levi wrote, “following a pendular action that, as time goes by, rather than dying down, becomes more frenzied.”
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The burning of the pilot, Jordanian Lt. Muath Al-Kaseasbeh, by ISIS militants after his F-16 crashed near Raqqa, Syria, was as gruesome as anything devised for the Roman amphitheater. And it was meant to be. Death is the primary spectacle of war. If ISIS had fighter jets, missiles, drones and heavy artillery to bomb American cities there would be no need to light a captured pilot on fire; ISIS would be able to burn human beings, as we do, from several thousand feet up. But since ISIS is limited in its capacity for war it must broadcast to the world a miniature version of what we do to people in the Middle East. The ISIS process is cruder. The result is the same.
Terror is choreographed. Remember “Shock and Awe”? Terror must be seen and felt to be effective. Terror demands gruesome images. Terror must instill a paralyzing fear. Terror requires the agony of families. It requires mutilated corpses. It requires anguished appeals from helpless hostages and prisoners. Terror is a message sent back and forth in the twisted dialogue of war. Terror creates a whirlwind of rage, horror, shame, pain, disgust, pity, frustration and impotence. It consumes civilians and combatants. It elevates violence as the highest virtue, justified in the name of noble ideals. It unleashes a carnival of death and plunges a society into blood-drenched madness.
During the Bosnian War of the 1990s, relatives paid enormous sums to retrieve the bodies of their sons or husbands being held by corpse traders on the opposing side. And they paid even more in attempts to secure the release of sons or husbands when they were alive. Such trades are as old as war itself. Human beings, whether in our black sites or in the hands of Islamic militants, are war’s collateral.
Not all hostages or prisoners evoke the same national outcry. Not all command the same price. And not all are slated for release. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), which turned kidnapping and ransom negotiations into an efficient business and took hundreds of captives, held tiers of hostages. Celebrity hostages—including politician Ingrid Betancourt, who was captured while she was running for the presidency of Colombia and who was freed by the Colombian military after being held six years—were essentially priced out of the market. FARC also had middle-priced hostages such as police officers and soldiers and low-priced hostages who included peasants. Celebrity hostages are worth more to all sides of a conflict while they are in captivity. These celebrity hostages—onetime Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro, who was kidnapped and executed by the Red Brigades in 1978, is another example—heighten war’s drama. Saddam Hussein in a cage served this purpose. Celebrity hostages, because the price demanded for their release is so extravagant, are often condemned to death in advance. I suspect this was the case with the American journalist James Foley, who was beheaded in captivity. The proposed ransom was so wildly exorbitant—100 million euros and the release of Islamic radicals being held by the United States—that his captors probably never expected it to be paid.
The Jordanian government is struggling to contain a virulent, if small radical Islamic movement. There is unease among Jordan’s population, as there is unease in the United States about American air assaults on ISIS. The death of the Jordanian pilot, however, bolsters the claims by Washington and Amman that the battle with ISIS is a struggle between democratic, enlightened states (although Jordan is not a democracy) and savage jihadists. And Jordan’s hanging of two al-Qaida members Wednesday was calculated, along with Jordanian fighter jet strikes in Syria on the de facto capital of ISIS, to highlight these supposed differences and intensify the conflict.
Sajida al-Rishawi, one of the two who were hanged, had been on death row since 2005 for her role in the attacks on Amman hotels that left 60 people dead. She had been an associate of the Jordanian-born al-Qaida leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was killed in Iraq in 2006. The tit-for-tat executions by Jordan and ISIS, like the airstrikes, are useful in playing the game of terror versus terror. It fosters the binary vision of a battle between good and evil that is crucial to maintaining the fevered pitch of war. You do not want your enemy to appear human. You do not want to let your population tire of the bloodletting. You must always manufacture terror and fear.
France and most other European states, unlike the United States, negotiate with kidnappers and pay for hostages. This has devolved into an established business practice. The tens of millions of dollars raised by ISIS through kidnapping is a significant source of its revenue, amounting to perhaps as much as half of its operating budget. The New York Times, in an investigation, wrote in July 2014 that “Al Qaeda and its direct affiliates have taken in at least $125 million in revenue from kidnappings since 2008, of which $66 million was paid just last year.” But negotiating and paying ransoms has consequences. While French and other European citizens are more likely to be ransomed, they are also more likely to be taken hostage. But France is spared the scenes that Americans, who refuse to pay, must endure. And because of this France is able to remain relatively sane.
Terror serves the interests of the war mongers on both sides of the divide. This is what happened during the 444-day Iran hostage crisis that took place from 1979 to 1981. And this is why Jordan—unlike Japan, which saw two of its nationals executed but is not involved militarily against ISIS—has reacted with sanctimonious fury and carried out retaliation. It is why Foley’s murder strengthened the call by the war lobby in Washington to launch a bombing campaign against ISIS. Terror—the terror we commit and the terror done to us—feeds the lusts for war. It is a recruiting tool for war’s crusade. If ISIS were not brutal it would have to be made to seem brutal. It is the luck of the fanatics we oppose, and the fanatics in our midst, that everyone’s propaganda needs are amply met. The tragedy is that so many innocents suffer.
Mideast governments allied with the West, including Jordan, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, have watched in horror as ISIS has carved out of parts of Syria and Iraq to create a self-declared caliphate the size of Texas. ISIS has managed through oil exports and the business of hostage taking to become financially self-sufficient. The area under its control has become a mecca for jihadists. It has attracted an estimated 12,000 foreign fighters, including 2,000 from Europe.
The longer the rogue caliphate remains in existence the more it becomes a mortal threat to the West’s allies in the region. ISIS will not invade countries such as Saudi Arabia and Jordan, but its continued existence empowers the discontented and the radicals in those countries, many groaning under collapsing economies, to stoke internal upheavals. The United States and its allies in the region are determined to erase ISIS from the map. It is too destabilizing. Dramas like these, because they serve the aims of ISIS as well as those of the nations seeking to destroy ISIS, will be played out as long as the caliphate exists.
Terror is the engine of war. And terror is what all sides in this conflict produce in overabundance. |
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★官僚顧客勢揃い★
(平成10年2月26日当時) 今は懐かしい、ノーパンしゃぶしゃぶ「楼蘭」 顧客名簿です。この「楼蘭」と言う店はハニートラップの為に作られた店だった! |
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みのもんたさんの二男の日テレ社員が処分保留のまま釈放された。
世間を騒がせたのは、大物司会者の息子が仕出かしたという事件の衝撃に加え、テレビ局の“コネ入社”がクローズアップされたことも大きいだろう。
●絶えない“コネ”の噂
みのさんの息子さんがコネ入社だったかは分からないが、ネット上では以前から著名人の子息やスポンサー企業の経営陣の肉親がアナウンサーや一般社員として勤務している状況を指摘し、コネ疑惑を追及する意見が絶えない。
事実、みのさんは長男もTBS勤務。入社が極めて難しいテレビ局に兄弟がこぞって勤務していたという事実から、憶測が広がってしまうのも無理はないだろう。
どこの局とは言わないけれど、実際、筆者自身も、学生時代に就活していた折、複数の元社員、また社長経験者の大物OBからコネ入社の実態を聞いて嫌な思いをしたものだ。
仄聞した“コネ伝説”で一番面白かったのは90年代初頭の話。「一般枠」で入社した元ディレクターに聞いた話だが、最終面接の日にそれまで一度も顔を合わせたことが無かった学生グループが唐突に出現。
その後、かなり高い確率で内定を得ていたのを見て、その方も「世の中には理不尽というものがあるものだ」とショックを受けたという。
今の時代、さすがにその手の露骨で豪快な選考をやったら週刊誌に書かれちゃうだろうな。さすがバブル時代の名残を感じますね。
わはは。
●コネ社員は無能なのか?
ま、仮にコネ採用が現在もあったと仮定しよう。学生時代は、選考はフェアにすべきと思ったものだが、社会人を十年以上やってみると、必ずしも「コネ入社」を否定はできないと感じる。
新聞社にいた頃から、大学の後輩を中心にマスコミ志望の学生たちから就職相談はしばしば受けてきた。国際交流サークルの幹事長をやってました的な、それこそ常見のアニキが言うところの「意識高い系(笑)」ではなく、本物の「意識高い」系の優秀な学生にもお目見えすることもある。
ただ総じて、二十歳そこそこの学生だから、社会経験は似たり寄ったり。インターンや留学、ボランティア、語学力でアピールしても、決定的な差別化が出来ている方は少ない。
しかも“コネ学生”は無能とは限らない。それどころか一般学生より“優秀”な人も多い。
グローバル企業の重役のご家庭なら帰国子女で語学は堪能だし、著名人の親の友人と子供のころから家族ぐるみで交流なんかしていると、情報もビジネスチャンスも入ってくる可能性がある。
もし、あなたが局の社長だとする。最終選考段階で、あと1人を選ぶということになり、同じ能力で似たような経歴の学生が二人いる。
家庭状況を調べると、一人は地方の商店主の息子さんという早大生。英語弁論サークルで表彰歴もあるらしい。
そして、もう一人は生まれも育ちも東京・港区の慶応ボーイ、お父さんは局にもCM出稿をよくしてくれる東証一部メーカーの専務という。
一応、語学力はTOEICで800点はあるのだとか。さて、あなたの選択はどちらだろうか?
CM収入の確保を優先したいという思惑なら後者だろう。
前者が後者に勝る決定的な差別化ポイントが無ければ、経営者が無難な選択をするのを責められまい。
また、そもそも論としてテレビ局は民間企業なのだから、どういう採用方針を取ろうがその会社の勝手だという意見もある。
実際、知人の元在京キー局社員(今は異業種でご活躍)の方はそういう話を筆者にぶつけてきた。
ただ、さすがに“コネ入社”を否定しない筆者も、これには違和感を拭えなかった。テレビ局は国の許認可事業であり、公共性が高い。“コネ入社”の人間にしか門戸を開かない「身分制社会」が横行するのは好ましくない気がする。
●是非は市場で決めればいい
結局、筆者はその方に「どういう採用をしようが最後は市場が決めるのではないですか?」と申し上げた。コネ社員が主体でも視聴率、利益もろもろ業績が上がれば官軍、コネなし社員ばかりでも業績が低迷すれば敗軍なのである。
ただ、そう考えると、昔から噂されるコネ入社の実態の検証もさることながら、そもそもの人事戦略としてパフォーマンスをあげているのか気になるところだ。
誰でもキー局にそのことを説明させる良い方法がある。ただし、その権利を入手するのは少々出費がいるけどね。
昨日(13年10月3日15時時点)なら、
日テレ(184,800円)、
TBS(127,500円)、
フジ(214,600円)、
テレ朝(224,000円)、
テレ東(224,000円)――
そうです。みな上場しているので株主になって総会で質問すればいい。
勿論、1人株主では舐められて“シャンシャン”とスルーされるかもしれないから、大株主に働きかけるなり、ソーシャルメディアで同志の株主を糾合するなりして「コネ入社の実態と見解、業績との相関関係」の質問を、状況証拠とともに“徒党”を組んで提出する。
文書で回答を要求するなら、総会当日より少し前に提出するのが適当かな。もしかしたら「企業秘密」として回答を拒否するかもしれないけど、特許ほどの機密性があるか疑問だし、そのあたりIRに詳しい方、どうでしょうか?
さてさて、僕はテレビが好きなので応援したい局の株を7年ぶりに買うか検討中ですが、どうしようかなと思う今日この頃です。ちゃおー(^-^ゞ
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