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Pandemic Malarkey: Crooked Timber

Pandemic Malarkey: Crooked Timber Omar Khan It must be dawning on all but the most willfully reality averse that too much of this pandemic has been a Trojan Horse. The aim, globally more than locally, being to terrify us while other agendas are advanced. There are many deceptive slogans with noxious titles like ‘Build Back Better’ and other chirpy banalities beloved of billionaires and bankers, to camouflage what is a Molotov cocktail of factual evasions and perversions as a front for a desperate financial bailout for a dysfunctional financial system with perhaps a dash of social engineering thrown in. Somebody described this as the ‘Good Slave Code.’ Namely: stay at home when told, stand apart as instructed, wear a face muzzle when ordered, go out only when permitted, socialize only when allowed, desire to be tracked 24/7, spy and snitch on anyone not in the cult, vote against your own self-interest, be subservient to authority even when they don’t know what they’re doing and the...

Kyle Rittenhouse: Anatomy of a divisive distraction

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Kyle Rittenhouse: Anatomy of a divisive distraction The teenager’s trial for double murder is a case study in how the media covers a story to distract and divide the public. Kit Knightly How many people reading this think that Kyle Rittenhouse is a white supremacist who shot three black people? Probably more than a few. The truth is that all three of the shooting victims were white. And yet, yesterday, on the day of the verdict being announced, the UK Independent ran this frontpage, describing the victims as black: This is after three weeks of a live-streamed trial in which  one of the victims had actually testified on the stand . Think about that, in the most high-profile trial for years, the press  can’t even be relied upon to get the race of the victims right. Is this an accident? Of course not. It’s all part of a disinformation campaign designed to turn one tragic violent incident into a narrative that serves a bigger agenda by further dividing the public into racial and p...