WATCH: A Mass Media Reading List
On the latest Questions for Corbett, Jackie writes in to ask for another book list, so James obliges by going through the reading list for the new Mass Media: A History online course.
You can see the full reading list, as well shownotes and other links, here.
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Here’s a different sort of “Reading List” – one uniquely appropriate to today’s date.
August Ninth: The Atomic Bomb dropped on Nagasaki, August 9, 1945: Christians Killing Christians in the Name of Christ – Global ResearchGlobal Research – Centre for Research on Globalization
FWIW, I’m truly surprised that this recommendation didn’t provoke responses expressing the fairly popular view in these threads that the US use of nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and for that matter the official claims or narrative promoting the existence of nuclear weapons and arsenals, is still another vast hoax.
Do we really need a course of instruction with a reading list to tell us that the mainstream media is to be avoided at all costs? Some things are prima facie, ipso facto and just plain old common sense self evident.
I would guess there’s probably more to it than that wouldn’t you
No.
What is your problem other than just being disgruntled for the sake of it? You’re implying in mizzley kind of way that Corbett doesn’t talk about Hiroshima. But he does, so what are you doing? It’s weird. Some bloke further down said it looks like the trolls are gunning for him. Is that it? Are you trolling? You’re like someone’s making you pay for this course. Bloody daft
I have collected numerous links just posted into comments at the bottom of my “Community + Links to Alternative COVID & Russia Resources…” page at: https://covidsteria.substack.com/p/community-covid-resources/comments
Will definitely add a comment linking to this article and lists…
Comparing Conspiracy booklists, are we ? Some Conspiracy books worth a read:
The Continuum Concept (In Search of Happiness Lost) – Jean Liedloff;
State of Exception – Giorgio Agamben;
Biology As Ideology (The Doctrine of DNA) – R C Lewontin;
Fear of Life (The Wisdom of Failure) – Alexander Lowen;
Weaponizing Anthropology – David H Price;
The Psychology of Love – Sigmund Freud;
Emotional Armoring – Morton Herskowitz;
Children of the Future – Wilhelm Reich;
Nature and the Crisis of Modernity – Raymond Rogers;
The Age of Myth – Tom Chetwynd…..
The conspiracy that never gets mentioned – given people no option but to read books because There’s Nothing Worth Watching On TV…
freud?!
z library and internet archive  đŸ˜‰ 
I have this creeping fear that one cold night the police are going to bust down my door for the 2 books I got on z-lib.
Simply advise them to get their own account… Saves on doors
the truth will cost you
Why shouldn’t it though? I think consumers of alt media can get a little entitled and cocky and expect people like Corbett to spend hours of their time producing content for no remuneration.
Are we forgetting these people have to make a living? He has to feed his family and pay bills while making these videos. What on earth is wrong with him charging for his time and trouble?
If he opened a shop would you expect to go in and take his stock without paying him?
really? it’s endless repeat. a little goes a long way.
Ten general recommendations: Carroll Quigley – Tragedy and Hope Antony Sutton – America’s Secret Establishment (followed by the Wall St trilogy) John Coleman – Conspirators’ Hierarchy Collins’ brothers – The Ascendancy of the Scientific Dictatorship Webster Tarpley – 9/11 Synthetic Terror William Ramsey – Prophet of Evil (followed by Children of the Beast) Daniel Estulin – Tavistock Institute (folowed by Bilderberg) James Musker – The New World Order and the Beliefs of the Elite David Rothkopf – Superclass Eustace Mullins – The Curse of Canaan (followed by Murder by Injection)* I don’t necessarily agree with everything in any of these books – but there are some particularly egregious sections in Mullins. I’d have added John Hamer’s two Falsification books if he’d footnoted them properly. On culture, add Jay Dyer’s books on Hollywood and Dave McGowan’s and Mark Devlin’s books on Music. These only include books I’ve personally read – other… Read more »
If you don’t mind e-books z-library has plenty of Alfred P. McCoy’s titles:
https://usa1lib.org/s/?q=Alfred+P.+McCoy&e=1
Here’s some news not fit to print:
UK Government confirms COVID Vaccines are deadly as they reveal Mortality Rates per 100k are lowest among the Unvaccinated in all Age Groups
https://expose-news.com/2022/08/09/mortality-rates-lowest-among-unvacinated/
Sorry,off topic.
ABC news Australia: ‘Horror’ story about shunned ex Jehovah Witness.
Gimme a fucking break !
Child’s play compared to being a social leper as one of the unvaxxed.
Off-Guardian is beginning to smell like a honey-pot…
OffG consists of its commentators.
That means you too.
You might be reassured to know that you don’t smell like a honey-pot…
OffG has a choice of publishing anything ‘alternative’ (not wholly in support of the MSM narrative) OR anything not continuing to support untruths, e.g. not articles critical of Covid response that yet accept Covid as true, and not articles critical of Russia/Ukraine that yet accept the conflict as more than staged wrestling.
It seems that OffG has adopted the former policy.
A bit Alex Jonesy.
Read more and troll less obviously you stupid prick – start with this from just a couple days ago wherein covid being NOT REAL is the whole fucking point
https://off-guardian.org/2022/08/05/the-covid-shell-game/
I guess you also managed to miss the articles about fake binaries and the dangers of taking sides over this “war”.
Sure they haven’t called it out as specifically fake, but who has?
Jesus I detest pointless carpers like you
Quite rude of you but I understand the frustration. A very silly comment from Xavier who simply shows he had not read anything or has great bias
The worse that could be said about my comment is that it’s impenetrable to those deficient in logical reasoning skills, who need such things explained at length, with plenty of examples.
Logical reasoning is not a common skill these days, even in the supposedly more astute readership of the OffG comment section.
Where did I say that OffG didn’t post articles that didn’t accept Covid as true?
So your complaint is we don’t do enough articles that say COVID isn’t real? And for this reason you liken us to a honeypot?
What is the ratio? Have you counted? And what would the optimum non-honeypot ratio be?
Do you post similar opinions on other sites or are we especially favored?
The ratio of OffG articles that support untruths vs those that do not is disappointingly high.
Ideally, you wouldn’t publish any articles that supported untruths (or failed to acknowledge ‘elephants in the room’).
I liken you to a honeypot in the sense that initially you publish some non-untruth supporting articles, that are to an extent truth revelatory, and once you have enough bears (truth seeking readers/commenters) attracted to the pot, you steadily reduce such articles, thus retaining the insufficiently intrepid bears. Reputation as a good source of honey continues even so.
You tell me what those ‘other sites’ are, and I’ll let you know.
And ‘untruth’ is, of course, anything YOU choose not to believe?
We certainly do publish a spectrum of opinion on issues that are open to debate – whether there is or is not a “new virus”, for example, but we do our utmost to NEVER publish factually inaccurate information. Our record on covid is unsurpassed for accuracy anywhere.
I notice you did not provide any actual ratios and just clumsily dodged the question about other sites, so it’s looking more and more as if you are some kind of troll or attention-seeker.
But thanks for your time anyway
Honeypot is surely a compliment?
Far nicer than sourpuss
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No, OG consists of the content, we are guests below the line. I like the community and love to read the comments and do every day but we are not OG are we
To me offg has always been a website of three persons who met at the comment pages of the guardian, found out that they were censored over Maidan, then decided to start their own blog, and soon received thousand’s of readers since their stories were copied by zerohedge which is… a honey pot
Truth is, it took me a while…
Some of the commenters look genuine though. And OffG was spot on when all this madness around cv19 started.
Hence, OffG is going in a similar direction to ZeroHedge.
The signal to noise ratio is on the decline.
Is it financial? Is there external pressure to be less ‘off narrative’?
Perhaps, as things obtain a good reputation, and consequently get more popular, they attract more PTB attention and are necessarily de-radicalised.
Perhaps there are well-heeled donors (of PTB descent) that start supporting things like OffG, claiming to be on their side, and then start whingeing that an ever larger audience should be attracted, thus with more accessible (lowest common denominator) articles?
Look, Willem, they published your comment and I think you should give them credit for this. I agree with you, though, there have been a few writers (Writer Roddis, e.g. or that one/off author from Poland) who clearly came with an agenda attached. Of course this blog is being watched and the comments will be scrutinized. That’s fine by me, I don’t think it could be otherwise, or this blog would have been killed long ago.
Among the commentators there are also some who come with an agenda. E.g. they will immediately start getting rude when someone questions Corona Ausschuss or they will never admit the thought that ‘mass shootings’ could be staged. That’s fine by me, too. Anyway we need to sharpen up on the concept of Samisdat literature.
I’ve noticed a real troll surge against the few sites that are not promoting the war. I guess you’re one of them
True. I’ve seen the same thing. The cool thing to do now is talk about the non-war.
These are the days when anything on the internet has to practically walk on eggshells to keep from being labeled “misinformation.” And we’ve seen where that label leads.
I’m surprised OffG hasn’t already been sued by some stooge claiming to have been harmed by “misinformation.” And instead of giving such a stooge a good tongue lashing and sending him on his way, many Courts will take his complaint seriously.
Not that I’d ever want a blog of my own anyway; but I’d certainly never want one nowadays, given the almost rabid insanity sweeping the world in general, the media in particular.
I would say, as a rule of thumb: todays blogs had damned sight better smell like a honey-pot or they could end up on a rubbish heap.
Good points.
You have to be kidding me. Its a sales pitch for a $50 online course from Corbett. I don’t watch his videos and those are free.
I don’t watch them any more either. They’re just too long for the time I have available.
But most of the ones I’ve seen are pretty good.
> I don’t watch his videos and those are free.
I have watched more than a few and I have ended up not watching any more …
Case in point – trolls now turning on Corbett for unspecified reasons, trying to just sow the idea he’s somehow “wrong”, because he’s not selling the war porn
What an ignorant comment