I’m gonna point people to this article anytime they say, “it’s not the phones” that are making our kids miserable
>> The fastest growing sector of the culture economy is distraction. Or call it scrolling or swiping or wasting time or whatever you want. But it’s not art or entertainment, just ceaseless activity.
a REAL genocide is being perpetrated
and people are talking about radical student protests?
are we perhaps secretly reveling in this livestream of cruelty?
is this the actual hallmark of our so-called Western “higher culture”?
BT's Rania Khalek appeared on Piers Morgan Uncensored to debate Israel's destruction of Gaza and invasion of Rafah. It was one against three but she held her own.
The unbelievable stench of Israeli protection and propaganda on Swedish media!
Many years ago, I went to a one day class about the propaganda and how to cover negative stories in a way that changes/modifies the focus from the perpetrator to the victims or at least “bagalitisera” make it to become insignificant.
Swedish coverage of the ongoing genocide in Gaza has been nothing but the steps the guy explained: They have been ignoring the atrocities as much as they can, they have been using question the authenticity of the reports and most tricky and important of them all, try to either start or end the report with something completely unrelated because most people who actually read the story, usually remember only the last 2 paragraphs.
It is like clockwork. every freaking article has been like this, like the have a template or an editor that makes sure the story is written in a way that makes it less damaging.
Most people don’t see them, it is like the reporter is just covering the event of an important conflict, but when you look into it, it is always the same, the last 2 paragraphs are either completely unrelated or end with something less negative (or positive) about Israel.
The latest of these disgusting and outrageous charade was the report on the Swedish “liberal” DN.se, when they finally reported about the mass graves in Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis, they waited until the UN reported about it, and as usual, they used all the usual propaganda methods, when the image of spread dead bodies and the text explaining that 300 bodies were found in Nasser hospital, the first paragraph starting with BOLD says:
Enligt Israel var man tvungen att strida på sjukhusområden eftersom Hamas-terrorister använde dem som baser. Detta förnekas av Hamas.
“According to Israel, it had to fight in hospital areas because Hamas terrorists were using them as bases. This is denied by Hamas.”
Perfectly innocent, isn’t it, but for the person who saw the horrifying images, the story is no longer as horrible, because the good guys (Israel) had no other choice than fighting in and around the hospital because the bad guys (Hamas) was using it to attack the poor innocent Israeli soldiers.
It doesn’t end there, no report of torture, no report of children murdered in groups, no report on people visibly being tortured or traces of recent operations possibly because of Organ theft, nor that some were buried with their catheter attached to their bodies.
No none of those, but instead:
En del kroppar begravdes vid sjukhusen provisoriskt av anhöriga tidigare under kriget, enligt uppgifter till CNN. När man sedan kom för att ge de dödade en permanent grav hade kropparna grävts upp av den israeliska armén, och lagts i massgravar. Enligt CNN ska detta ha skett efter att man tagit DNA-prov för att utröna om det rört sig om det varit kroppar efter de israeler som tagits som gisslan.
“Some bodies were buried in hospitals provisionally by relatives earlier in the war, according to CNN. By the time they came to give the dead a permanent grave, the bodies had been dug up by the Israeli army and placed in mass graves. According to CNN, this was done after taking DNA samples to determine whether they were the bodies of the Israeli hostages.”
So the user will think that Israel didn’t CREATE those mass graves of the innocent Palestinians, but it was just their standard procedure searching for dead hostages on bodies already buried by Palestinians.
And then the last 4 paragraph goes into something completely different, the story of mass graves is completely sidestepped and “forgotten” as something like a footnote in the bigger picture of the good guys (IDF) fighting the bad guys (Hamas) in what seems to be a retaliation for the bad guys shooting rockets at Israel!
Under natten angrep Israel norra Gaza med den tyngsta beskjutningen på veckor, enligt uppgifter från boende där som Reuters talat med. Det beskrivs som en mardrömsnatt med ständig beskjutning.
“During the night, Israel attacked northern Gaza with the heaviest shelling in weeks, according to residents spoken to by Reuters. It was described as a nightmare night of constant shelling.”
And my favorite white wash section comes next:
Israeliska stridsvagnar gjorde en ny inbrytning öster om Beit Hanoun. Beskjutningen ska ha nått skolor där flyktingar tagit skydd.
“Israeli tanks made a new incursion east of Beit Hanoun. The shelling reportedly reached schools where refugees have taken shelter.”
The Israelis don’t attack sschools not refugee camps, and no report of dead or injured Palestinians, but that they Israelis were innocently had to react to Hamas rocket launch an attack that “reached schools”, isn’t it just lovely?
The ending is of course the perfect ending of any negative story about Israel,
Enligt den israeliska armén IDF var angreppen ett svar på raketbeskjutning från norra Gaza. IDF hävdar att man slagit ut avskjutningsramper och dödat flera terrorister under natten.
“According to the Israeli army (IDF), the attacks were in response to rocket fire from northern Gaza. The IDF claims to have knocked out launching pads and killed several terrorists overnight.”
This would have been an innocent co-incident, but when it happens in EVERY freaking negative story about Israel (the few that actually makes the print) follow the EXACT same method.
This is just sickening, remember seeing it in American media like CNN, NYT, WP as well as Reuters and AP, but British media used to be different, but sadly, they seems to have gone to the same class and have the same guidelines, the stories on internet are all (except a few) follow the EXACT same guidelines to control the damage when it is badly needed.
The DN has removed the paywall from their propaganda pages, so you can read it in Swedish or use deepl.com or other translating SW to read it in your language. dn.se/varlden/fn-chef-forfarad…
I'm running at about 20% success rate with starting a pot of steel-cut oats, reminding myself to watch it so it doesn't boil over, getting distracted even though I'm only a foot away (or leaving the room altogether), and hearing the hissss as the pot boils over 🙃
"Rs have quietly launched a legal assault on our elections. While public attention has been focused on Trump’s criminal cases, the GOP has been plotting a bold legal strategy that could have profound consequences for elections and democracy."
@atomicpoet
Its easy to dismiss this as just another unsuccessful #exitScam (aka pumpAndDump or ponzi) but there was much more to this story and we were vocal about it is 2021.
NFT was a #moneyLaundering operation common in the #art world, and a #distraction. In that sense NFT was a raging success. Even on fedi #influencers used #NFT to distract from and malign the non-political sound money #bitcoin.
In 2020, #twitBuyer tried to distract young people with #MemeCoin. That too seems successful.
I asked the PARC veterans of the Medley Interlisp project whether they interacted with Niklaus Wirth during his sabbaticals at the lab. Ron Kaplan shared a funny early 1970s anecdote on a comment by Wirth on what we now call email notifications:
A few minutes ago, I went into the family room to get a memory stick out of my camera. I let the dogs out did something else and came back into my office and sat down. Then I realized that I didn't get the memory stick (irony?), so I got back up and went back to get the stick. I do this a lot with different things. I'll go into a room with a purpose to get something and leave without the thing I wanted. Sometimes, I will have gone back more than once for the same thing before finally successfully putting my hands on the item of interest. I suppose, this is the power of distraction.
“There is never a time when new distraction will not show up; we sow them, so several will grow from the same seed.” - Seneca
"What do you do when your candidate is twice impeached and four times indicted? Apparently, MAGA Republicans will do anything to try and make it look like the score is even ahead of the general election. So here we are."
Voilà : tu as bien là toute la construction politique de ces gens.
Ce n’est pas du complotisme. Mais en accuser ceux qui tentent de les balancer est le dernier clou du cercueil.
Le tout est un récit de la #distraction. Ce à quoi sert la société du spectacle.
D’où le fait que je n’écoute rien de ce qu’ils déblatèrent. Je regarde les actes et je suis l’argent : c’est là qu’ils sont.
Estoy con una angustia que no me cabe en el cuerpo, intentando distraerme con juegos chorras de apenas 2-3 minutos que os he visto a veces por aquí compartiendo resultados, tipo la palabra del día, rhogule, dungleon... ¿me podéis enlazar esos y más de ese tipo para tener localizados para estos momentos?
"[W]e should recognize that the uptick in baseless attacks on Joe Biden and his son is a sure sign of desperation by Republicans. They know the indictments will weaken Trump among Independents, Democrats, and a smattering of Republicans—enough to matter to Trump’s election prospects. The louder they bellow, the more frightened they are."
With bad news for the #Tories expected when the By-election results are announced, isn’t it about time the news media released a story about RAF jets being scrambled to chase off Russian aircraft? #Propaganda#Distraction
the circus that currently performs in finnish government is getting so out of hands that im just waiting for the day it just implodes in on it self like couple billionaires in a submarine.
The government communications published yesterday is only smoke and mirrors, more lies and attempts to polish shit.
It was supposed to address racist Basic Finn ministers not being racist anymore but it ended up being just a overall paper about racism in finland that “is not even that bad”. While BF has commented that they’re not changing anything.
“But they promised not to be racist anymore! That’s the whole deal!”
No, it is not. Basic Finn members have SPECIFICALLY said that is not what it means. It’s just a paper that shuts SPP up so they can start cutting pieces out of the former welfare state known as Finland.