UN Security Team Still Won’t Let Inspectors Visit Douma

Here in Austfailure the Government owned ABC is a clone of the Murdoch cancer. Hardly surprising as Murdoch presstitutes infest its ranks, among both staff and administration, where the chief came straight from Murdochistan to the ABC, and commenced destroying what little of worth was left.
Until 1996 the ABC was sort of like the deceased Guardian, moderately Leftish, but far more balanced than the Rightwing fakestream media, and certainly the insane hate and fear-mongering of the Murdoch sewer. In that year our worst ever Prime Minister, John Howard, came to power, and the ABC was turned into a propaganda organ of the hard Right. The Board was stacked with hard Right thugs, including fanatic enemies of the Left and the ABC itself. Its descent into the mire has proceeded ever since, and today it is simply a mirror image of Murdoch’s hideous flag-shit, the ‘Australian’.
Same old, same old, of course, as the Right has throttled all human decency and rationality throughout the West over the last forty hideous years. However there is a bizarre additional expression of the Right’s essential psychopathy involved. The dedicated racists, climate destabilisation deniers, Indigenous haters, Sinophobes, class haters, misogynists and Islamophobe detritus that read Murdoch’s shite STILL ritually denounce the ABC as ‘Leftwing’, and its apparatchiki as ‘luvvies’, ‘do-gooders’, ‘nanny-state busybodies’ etc, although there has not been a truly ‘Left’ presenter there for decades, ‘Leftwing’ guests are as rare as hens-teeth, the presstitutes all toe the party-line strictly, and once moderately ‘social democrat’ presenters have gone through Blairism and pseudo-Clintonism, to full Imperial Stormtrooper, in a touching display of opportunism and intellectual and moral treachery. We truly are a society with a spiritual, moral and intellectual black hole where our soul was euthanised. It never was as grand a thing as we narcissistically insisted, but it was somewhat egalitarian and selfless, but what it is now is prettily represented by our multi-millionaire bankster parasite PM, Turnbull, in my opinion a narcissist every bit as malignant as Trump, with no moral core but self-interest and an hideous line in barking the latest Imperial dogma, like a true running-dog. In particular he has led an increasingly vicious hate campaign against China, on orders from Thanatopolis DC and Tel Aviv, no doubt, to which the Chinese have retaliated by the simple device of not inviting the scabrous imbeciles of the regime’s Cabinet to China, anymore. This has ignited a new round of racist angst at the impertinence of the Yellow Devils.

i agree entirely with what you say, so please don’t take this the wrong way because the press, Fleet Street as it was once called, have always acted as a propaganda outfit owned by rich people who favoured empire
theres a great scene in the classic film Citizen Kane,the so called breakfast montage, in which Kane is asked by his wife the following;
….but Charles what will the people think?
the people will think exactly what i tell them!
‘Kane’ was based upon the very real news paper baron William Randolph Hearst, who tried to get the film banned, basically the film is about the usual suspects, power, war, money and imperialism and how propaganda is used to form public opinion

Whilst I agree with your initial premise, I think the power of the hegemon rests on several pillars. 1. The ability to dragoon other nations, particularly in western Europe, into what are basically vassal states ruled over by wretched Petainist/Quisling cliques. Western Europe relationship to the US is the same as was the case in France during WW2; a german occupied zone to the north and west and a collaborationist Vichy regime to the east and south. 2. The global reserve status of the US$. The ‘exorbitant privilege’ as it has been called, has allowed the US to pay its debts in its own currency and print money which is accepted by other nations in payment for goods and services. ”It costs only as few cents for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to produce a $100 bill, but other countries have to pony up $100 of actual goods and services in order to obtain one.” (Exorbitant Privilege – Barry Eichengreen) This outrageous free lunch allows the US to run continual balance of payments deficits and simply print money to pay them. Moreover, since the Kissinger-Saudi deal in the 70s when it was agreed that payment for oil was to be exclusively in US$s the subsequent global demand for the currency kept up it value. All of which basically means that the rest of the world is effectively subsiding the US. However, this is coming to an end with the Chinese RMB now challenging the $’s global hegemony. 3. The cultural dimension. As you say the massive propaganda machine in both the formal sense, government and media, and in the cultural sense, Hollywood. 4. The intervention force consisting of the US/NATO bloc and the EU.
I would say that 3 out of 4 of these conditions are beginning to come under increasing pressure. Personally I think the most important crisis for the US is the dollar’s reserve status. The Chinese launch of the gold/convertability-Petro-Yuan is the thin end of the wedge and is slowly and inexorably pushing into economic realms which hitherto been firmly under the control of the dollar.

Two good pieces in two days on the media, apropos Douma. One came the other day from Caitlin Johnstone in the Medium
The other is today’s Media Lens post – first of a two parter.
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