I worked with a number of media asset management companies, like the former T3 Media, which were relied on to provide footage for not only entertainment in television and movies, and such, but also to “news” outlets.

Many of the images we see are not directly related to or from the events in the stories presented.

The public needs to be worried that the largest “news” organizations in the U.S. are largely owned by entertainment companies.
Where does the line get drawn between “fact” and fiction, “news” and “entertainment”?

And further concerned that those entertainment organizations are largely owned by the same Cartel of largest investors (often large investment banks, but further in a highly-convoluted shell-game of cross-ownership).

We are currently witnessing the greatest concentration of wealth amongst a relatively few in modern history.
That wealth concentration is also applicable to assets, including corporate assets.

One can read the words of the “Father of Spin”, Edward Bernays, in his 1928 book Propaganda to perhaps gain a better understanding of the absolute fabrications of “news”:

“In almost every act of our lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons […] who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind, who harness old social forces and contrive new ways to bind and guide the world. ”

“Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.”

“Who are the men, who, without our realizing it, give us our ideas, tell us whom to admire and whom to despise, what to believe about the ownership of public utilities .. about immigration who tell us how our houses should be designed, what furniture we should put into them, what menus we should serve at our table, what kind of shirts we must wear, what sports we should indulge in, what plays we should see, what charities we should support, what pictures we should admire, what slang we should affect, what jokes we should laugh at? ”

“If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, is it now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing it? ”

“If you can influence the leaders, either with or without their conscious cooperation, you automatically influence the group which they sway.”

“But when the example of the leader is not at hand and the herd must think for itself, it does so by means of clichés, pat words or images which stand for a whole group of ideas or experiences.”
-Propaganda (1928)-

“The public relations counsel, therefore, is a creator of news for whatever medium he chooses to transmit ideas. It is his duty to create news no matter what the medium which broadcasts this news. ”
-Crystallizing Public Opinion (1923)-

“If you can influence the leaders…..”
Those “leaders” are not just political leaders, but media, educational, scientific, and other such.

This is a fully-functional, highly-coordinated, well-financed multi-fronted attack.

We are truly living in the Dark Ages of the 21st Century.

For which reason the Corporatocracy State has turned on alt media with a vengeance. All those millions, billions, of dollars spent on counterrevolution (maintaining the status quo) and along comes a bunch of little people, nobodies, and it’s all been for nothing. Unless they can stop the little people with big mouths dead in their tracks. And they do possess the firepower. And for those who think that “Well, We have the internet,” I’m sorry to report: We don’t.

Peter Ford as well.

Absolutely right! But the emphasis is on an ‘attempted’ coup – because it’s unlikely to succeed. Watson just doesn’t have popular support; the PLP would support him but as soon as it comes to actual voting they’ll remember there will soon be a GE and those that want to stay in work will have to reflect on what the membership want.

George Galloway was kicked out of the Labour Party. What for?
Criticising the Iraq war, and he has since been proven right a thousand times over.
The “anti semitic” scam has been used to pick off the people around Corbyn. Ken Livingstone, Marc Wadsworth, Chris Williamson, others, including Jewish members “who are the wrong sort of Jews.”.
And of course to smear Corbyn himself. In the past he has been smeared as a communist spy, a terrorist, and attacked for not bowing deeply enough, not singing loudly enough, or for his clothing. None of this was going anywhere, so now we have the contrived anti Semitism issue.
A serious mistake was made in trying to appease and accommodate the smear merchants. They should have just been called out for the liars they are. There is nothing to apologise for. Williamson should not have apologised.
Nothing is ever enough for these people. They just double down and demand more.
Tom “I Am A Proud Zionist” Watson is now going through years of tweets of Labour Party members with his friends on speed dial at the Board of Deputies and the Mossad Office. They are trying to find anything that they can declare themselves “offended” by.
This is nothing less than a purge of the Left from the Labour Party by the Blairite Backstabbers in an attempt to seize back control.

Robbobbobin

Thank you.

Western Thought – now pan-global, especially at the cognitive elite level – and its modern uncivilisation is but a sky-castle erected on a bunch of propositions; based on a bunch of propositions, based on a bunch of propositions… …based on baseless Foundational and Essential axiomatic separateness.

When compared to the Bodhicitta of mindfulness: the world of discrimination never was.

When we cut off discrimination from the root: nothing is lost. Nothing falls away. Nothing is negated. Nothing is nihilated. Nothing disappears. Nothing appears.

The world is as it always is: Tathata.

Western Thought says nothing about nothing: violently, cruelly, and coercively.

We live in a world of peace: but for our violent description of it.

We are already inter-connected within a communion of diversified life: but for our description of it.

This is a cruel propagandic deception and self-deception.

The medium of transmission, coordination, and communication of violence is language.

We cannot, and need not necessarily, invent a new language. But we could better index propositions of peace and nonduality. We could also better reflect the true embodied experience of reality – and map that experience to the metaphors that we use to communicate. We need not be silent.

The advocacy for the extended Sangha community of peace begins and ends here.

Whether anyone will listen is another matter! 😀

Stonky

Obviously you will not read this: but someone might. You may never have heard of cognitive linguistics, or the wider field of semiotics, but they exist. So does conceptual metaphor theory. These are valid fields of enquiry, from which I draw. Further, there is Buddhism’s own investigations into language, logic and metaphor – which I have studied. There is a remarkable cross-over. Denigration is not negation: language is the key to understanding.

Language has a universal non-metaphoric ’embodied’ core. Our basic movements, orientation (in space-time), and functions can be said to have ‘grammar’. This key conceptual core is used to describe our basic relationship to each other and the environment. As language develops, these ‘domains’ are expanded by ‘cross-domain mapping’. Meaning is said to ‘transact’ to build up metaphoric descriptions. When we get to the level of discussion we are involved in here: geopolitics, geo-economics, propaganda – these concepts are highly metaphoric (referring to concepts which refer to concepts recursively transacting meaningfulness). Language becomes highly subjectivised the more abstract it becomes. These concepts have been highly manipulated by a cognitive elite who control the information flows – and through culture and education – redefine the meaninfulness. Of which they are losing control, and language is being reclaimed and redefined. To a degree.

For my part: I think it would be wise, over time, to redefine language in such a way as it better reflects the realities it is supposed to convey. To do that language has to be ’embodied’. I can’t be bothered to discuss how it became ‘disembodied’ and mind-independent – but it did. What people do not realise is that we are doing ‘Enlightenment’ politics, with outdated metaphors, some of them over 2,000 years old. In the case of ‘mind’: probably as old as language itself. But that is another credible theory – that mind and language are metonymic, co-evolutionary, and symbolically synonymous – for another time.

Meanwhile, if we think that language is ‘objective’, empiric, and referential only to concrete, substantial, separated, independently existent entities – it is not. It is highly metaphoric – one of the major findings of cognitive neuroscience – and covertly subjectivised. As it stands, it is a tool of the cognitve elite. Language itself is the propaganda multiplier.

Accept or dismiss as you want.

“Can’t think what made me think of that.”

Zen tries to put many of the sorts of insights BigB is trying to convey into snapshots that break the conscious mind and render it open to raw perception.

To be fair, ‘propaganda’ as propaganda is a bit 3D chess-like. As I keep saying, you are dealing with brain damaged people……