As we inch further into the future and evermore closer to the next, and certainly last, world war, it seems proper to give pause and consider the significance of the fact that much of the information provided on world events is dreadfully compromised by corporate and political propagandists.
Mainstream media, with its exceptional reach, is able to mold the public’s first impression of any global event thereby establishing the ‘official story,’ the one that is repeated again and again during the first moments of a crisis. They capitalize on the immediate shock value of an act of extraordinary violence or unrest to mold public perception into conformity with a narrative that will become the abiding fiction by which any further substantive investigation of the event must be measured against.
9/11 is perhaps the best example of this, as nearly 15 years afterwards, an incredible amount of information and research has become available to the public, at least enough to unseat the official version of events and inspire a deeper investigation, yet contrary reporting is still not taken seriously at all by mainline media outlets.
The news is all about artificially manipulating the context of stories. The thinner the context, the thinner the mind must become to accept it. If you want to visualize this, imagine a rectangular solid. The news covers the top surface. Therefore, the mind is trained to work in only two dimensions. Then it can’t fathom depth, and it certainly can’t appreciate the fact that the whole rectangular solid moves through time, the fourth dimension. – Jon Rappoport
Sometimes the media gets caught fabricating events and twisting reality. Here’s a disturbing look at some of the more recent examples of mainstream media news deceptions, staged events and psy-ops that have been exposed by the international independent press.
Example #1 – BBC stages a chemical weapons attack in Syria to justify NATO invasion.
With BBC reporter Ian Pannell standing amidst a host of crisis victims while on the scene at a small rural hospital in Syria, a supposed incendiary bomb or napalm attack happened, and, as they were filming, a stream of wounded patients began pouring in. A doctor was interviewed on the scene, remarking that a napalm attack had occurred.
One month later as the NATO pressed for military intervention in Syria, the exact same footage was used in a new video report; however, the audio of a crisis doctors statement had been digitally altered. The word ‘napalm,’ had been changed to ‘chemical weapons,’ an obvious deception.
This video ‘…shows both versions are identical and from the same speech. The BBC then digitally altered the words from ‘napalm’ to ‘chemical weapon,’ the exact justification that NATO was finding difficult to prove. [Source]
Watch the analysis of this totally fabricated event for yourself here:
Example #2 – Staged ISIS execution videos and terror stooges.
In 2014, as the Western-supplied mercenary army ISIS was rising to its prominence as the CIA’s most evil proxy army to date, a series of frightening videos emerged of ISIS executioners with heavy British accents sawing the heads off of Western hostages, including freelance journalist James Foley.
Still shot from the James Foley video.
Still shot from the video allegedly showing the fabrication of the James Foley execution.
Graphic videos of the slayings were posted online and shortly afterward, another video emerged online purportedly showing the movie set where the Foley beheading was fabricated. The authenticity of this video is also unverifiable, however; even technical elements in the original video suggest manipulation, and some experts agree that the Foley video is staged.
As reported by The Telegraph UK:
…a study of the four-minute 40-second clip, carried out by an international forensic science company which has worked for police forces across Britain, suggested camera trickery and slick post-production techniques appear to have been used.
The executioner was later identified by intelligence agencies as 23-year-old British rapper Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary; and, like Osama bin Laden, he became a reusable icon in the propaganda campaign in the war on terror. For his media appearances he was given a catchy name, ‘Jihadi John.’ When Jihadi John’s mileage ran out, he was literally ‘evaporated’ by a night-time drone strike in Raqqa, Syria. His death, like Bin Laden’s, was celebrated by many. Another brick in the wall.
‘He walked out of a building and got in the car. We struck it right after with zero collateral damage,’ a counter-terrorism official said. ‘The vehicle was on fire. It was a 100 per cent flawless, direct hit.’ [Source]
‘Jihadi John’ before being ‘evaporated’ by a drone strike.
Marketing materials for the public celebration of the drone striking of Jihadi John. Image source – Mail Online.
If you recall, in the early days of the war on terror, the faces Al Qaeda’s top lieutenants were plastered on decks of playing cards, serving the same purpose as Jihadi John; terror stooges assassinated as needed to maintain public interest in the war on terror.
Example #3 – Scripted, staged and phony local news broadcasts.
In the following clip, which contains numerous examples, CNN and other major news outlets are caught again and again fabricating news reporting with chroma key green screens in network studios, posing as thought they were engaging in front-line war reporting. The use of chroma key is ubiquitous in the mainstream media, and with it they can effectively pull off just about any visual deception.
Have a look at this collage of mainstream news fakery:
In this photo, an ABC news anchor makes the blunder of wearing a green shirt to the taping of an important news segment about Kim Kardashian’s wedding. Let’s also not forget what Hollywood is capable of these days.
Never wear a green shirt to a green screen broadcast. Source
Example #4 – Staged photo-op of political leaders after the Charlie Hebdo massacre on January 7th, 2015.
Politicians and public leaders depend on professional public relations managers to ensure their likability. In 2015, after the attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris, France, leaders from over 40 nations gathered side-by-side with the French president in a much-hyped public display of solidarity against terrorism.
They were shown leading an excited crowd with determined sincerity on their faces, yet when originally unpublished photos of the event were revealed, it was discovered that it was a staged photo-op, not an actual genuine action by these fearless leaders. The wide-angle shot shows them standing alone in a blocked off, heavily guarded side street.
World leaders supposedly leading an excited crowd in the January 11th, 2015 rallies in Paris, France.
Wide-angle photo of the staged event show the true story.
Bonus – Phony, scripted and ridiculous local news broadcasting.
If you’re getting your news from mainstream programming, you know that it’s fake. Because 90% of media in the US is owned by a mere 6 corporations, even the local news programming is pre-packaged and delivered from corporate HQ as either completed news reels or scripts to be read on camera by your favorite, lovable local news anchor.
Comedian Conan O’Brien does a fabulous and hilarious job of demonstrating just how ridiculous and foolish local news casts are. There is little to no authenticity left in nightly news casts. See for yourself:
Final Thoughts
All of this is, of course, nothing new. Almost everything in our world seems to be fake these days. Remember former Secretary of State Colin Powell’s speech at the UN justifying the 2003 invasion of Iraq?
In order to justify the second war on Iraq, Colin Powell showed up at the UN with enough supposed anthrax to kill everyone in the building.
There are other examples as well, including the use of crisis actors which are people who appear in press interviews and on the scenes in multiple public events. The amount of resources that go into creating false realities for the masses is an absurd misallocation of human effort, and an embarrassing assault on human intelligence.
Since the mainstream media is working in concert with the military industrial complex and corrupt governments to push the world over the brink and into all-out war, it’s up to individuals and independent researchers to counter the propaganda and free the minds of those who are ready to wake up.
Read more articles from Dylan Charles.
Dylan Charles is a student and teacher of Shaolin Kung Fu, Tai Chi and Qi Gong, a practitioner of Yoga and Taoist arts, and an activist and idealist passionately engaged in the struggle for a more sustainable and just world for future generations. He is the editor of WakingTimes.com, the proprietor of OffgridOutpost.com, a grateful father and a man who seeks to enlighten others with the power of inspiring information and action. He may be contacted at [email protected].
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Upon reading this article I get the distinct impression the author is looking to blame all of this on the media, and their handlers tricks as a form of escapism. They are not even good at their lies anymore but the real problem is our denial because it would reveal our willing ignorance.
We’ve allowed ourselves to become dumbed down accepting soundbites and phrases that evoke nothing but emotion rather than using in depth analysis with independent critical thinking skills.
Like pavlovs dog we just FEEL things and don’t think at all.
This problem will remain and get worse until we are honest with ourselves and make the first step toward fixing it by admitting we continually play into their hands.
Finding the problem is more important than the solution, and we are still in denial of that.
It’s been proven time and again that they do nothing but lie for their own self serving reasons to promote public opinion and get you to do what they want instead of thinking it through, for yourself, like you should.
The ONLY logical answer is to stop listening to them.
You’re the only one giving them space in your brain.
It is not just critical thinking that is dulled, but feeling also, and we need both! By suppression of feelings, they can then coopt what is allowed and hook it with their propaganda/reality manipulation. A central reason that psychedelics are banned virtually globally is that they can undo the mind control being done to us, and inspire critical thinking, and very much so feeling.
Why do you think that the ‘education’ system has at the top of its curriculum, again globally, the ‘left-brain’ subjects like reading writing and mathematics whilst creative pursuits that involve feeling, like music, drama, and art, and dancing are at the bottom and even totally phased out!
Excellent analysis of what is happening in the public domain. I always used to denounce it has sticking one’s head in the sand and apathy. The truth is, that many who are poor (and their are now some twenty million in the UK) have their own set of problems and some can’t be bothered to seek the truth, others fell they are “one person” and cannot therefore, in their own minds at least, change anything. Then there are the better off who are doing OK and any threat to the status quo is seen as a possible game changer to their self interest and there are those who have wealth and privilege who believe that the world’s problems are SEP (somebody else’s problem) and for the mere minions to waffle on about and finally, there are the bigots who will not allow any facts or truths to alter their pre-conceptions. The Russophobes, the Islamaphobes, the anti Semites, the climate change deniers, etc. etc. they play their part too. Until WW3 knocks them out of their boots, too many people will follow mainstream presstitutes all the way to the brink and beyond till it’s too late.
Thanks for a very good article and hope you can get your message out.
We used to have the red and the yellow press or media. Now we have the green and blue. As Plato used to say, citing Socates in his Republic, the shadows are the reflection of the reality. The problem is that the new reality has no shadows visible to the untrained eye. Without falling into cyissm we have to be more skeptical about what we are told. If we do not see and listen we will be ignorant. Use your judgment to find the truth and the truth will make you free.
Looking at the two crowd pictures, they’re not the same, all of which makes this article highly questionable….