FINAL REMINDER! Today, 3 pm EST: THOUGHT TALK #3 - NASTY AGENDAS. Live!!! Talk plus discussion.
At the end, the replay link. Now background.
THE CASE OF JOHN PILGER
I first heard of journalist John Pilger through Celia Farber’s very positive assessment right after his recent death: "Real Journalists Are Agents of People." Celia Farber - caring smart courageous. She took on Fauci during the Aids scam - in fact I learned of the Aids scam from her. That cost her enormously in terms of a possible mainstream career - meaning, mainstream financial rewards. She also spoke out, on Swedish media, about the high percentage of rapes in Sweden being done by Muslims (I hope I have this information exactly right) - and the speaking out cost her all her left-leaning Swedish friends. So anyway, Celia Farber - someone I very much respect.
But then I got another piece on John Pilger and my antennae went out - something not quite right going on. It was a reference to Gaza as almost “an open air prison.” No reference to the reasons for why Israel was protecting itself from easy entry by all people from Gaza - namely the large numbers of Israelis murdered by Gazan suicide murderers. I believe we all have the right to safety in our homes, including the country where we live. I looked for that article now - could not find it - but quickly came to another: “he sees the humiliation of Palestinians imposed on them at myriad checkpoints and with a permit system not dissimilar to apartheid South Africa's infamous pass laws.” Again, no reference to why the system is there - so very different from South Africa’s apartheid. But then,I found it, right on John Pilger’s own site: “routine of terror, day after day, has been the ruthless control of almost every aspect of their lives, as if they live in an open prison (italics and bolding mine)."
What could be wrong with this? Well, if I put a lock on my door to keep out unwanted intruders, is the rest of the world suddenly an open air prison?
There is ever so much more. Soon Paul Gregory (who has been very alert to shortcomings of Matt Ehret) sent Oliver Kamm’s detailed account of John Pilger’s extremely numerous dishonesties. The title of the piece: John Pilger was a charlatan and a fraudster. I am attaching a downloadable pdf, where Paul has kindly highlighted passages.
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Something similar recently happened to me around a video someone did not appreciate on the many Islamic battles in contrast to te very few Crusader battles. In this case because Bill Warner did not accept that it was an inside job (“bombs in building”), then clearly the whole video was utterly worthless.
As it has turned out, 9/11 almost certainly was not an inside job - instead was the result of directed energy weapons. However this does not mean anything in terms of the number of Islamic vs Crusader battles.
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GENERAL THOUGHTS
“He has an agenda.” “I know their agenda.” We all know, when we hear something like that, that the agenda is anything but good.
The German authorities who arranged for Reiner’s kidnapping, his being forcibly brought back to Germany - they definitely had an agenda. The German authorities who accepted a complaint against Reiner as criminal though it clearly was a civil matter - they definitely had an agenda. Viviane Fischer, when she tricked Reiner into not appearing at a Corona Committee meeting by claiming it was not happening, and then used that opportunity to make many allegations against him - she definitely had an agenda.
What do we mean if we claim someone has an agenda? It’s against the truth, against the facts. There’s the intent to harm, to impose someone’s will on someone else, against their will, and without just cause. Words like untrustworthy, deceitful, hidden, unspoken, evil, nefarious, underhanded, sly, mean come to mind.
But often it’s not quite like that.
A big concern of mine is agendas many people accept without questioning, agendas from people who believe they are on the side of good, and so the agenda (omitting mentioning some things, stressing others) is just, if they think about it at all, to strengthen something good.
Here’s what I would call an “agenda phrase” - meaning the individual using it wants me to believe something but closer examination would show something very different from what I am intended to believe. “It’s an open air prison.” Or even, the somewhat softer, “It’s almost like an open air prison.”
I'll say more about this on the live event, but now, how do you get to the event?
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I will be starting with the widespread adulation given to journalist John Pilger after his recent death. I was sent a powerful video he had done on the mass starvation in Cambodia. I was impressed. I soon came upon, in another piece of his I was sent, evidence that this was a man with an Agenda he did not want questioned, but wanted to have accepted as The Truth. Then, ever so helpful, into my inbox came a rare dissenting view of Pilger: the article documented lie after lie after lie - lies of omission and of commission.
But Pilger is not someone unusual.
And that brings us to the general topic of AGENDAS.
What agendas have you noticed, questioned, fallen for?
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Posted February 2, 2024