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Cara posted an update 8 years, 7 months ago
Unintended consequences: this story, to me, is illustrating in a kind of “hologram capsule” how so many chickens are coming home to roost in our world. My list below in further comments. (Also, I recommend ignoring the Hollywood glossy presentation if you can – goodness they must be desperate to resort to this)
http://money.cnn.com/interactive/media/the-macedonia-story/
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1. NATO’s 1990s military escapade and rebalakanisation of the Balkans (see for instance here: http://www.david-morrison.org.uk/kosovo/kosovo-humanitarian-catastrophe.htm). Now devolved into gang and drug running badlands, NATO vassal states and those that don’t go along with the drug / NATO agenda have vast social issues such as the 50% youth unemployment reported in the article. Hence, the “fake news” opportunity seems to be a “good” fix for some.
Then there’s the long-consolidated model of the “crime economy” in Southern Italy. But as C. A. Fitts has pointed out, the end game is a race downhill towards poverty. That’s why the Italian mafia “delocalised” to places like Germany.
I can testify that there is a certain type of internet user who is prone to clickbait, occasionally I try to explain how to identify these websites with their “screaming headlines” – based on the “MMS” model, but creating a dialectic opposition in the contents. Divide and rule.
NATO needs such high unemployement amoungst the youth in the countries they are occupying.. otherwise there wont be enough child sex slaves prost1tutes to tend to their needs..or if they dont fall into prost1tution, they can be used as local drug mules.
2. Deliberate misleading and lying, hollowing-out of public discourse to the point where readers believe anything and nothing. Are they surprised that some “bright sparks” see ways to profit from reader ambivalence to mainstream news and search for alternative sources?
3. Related to item 2 above, the ruining of people’s intelligence and critical thinking abilities through social engineering, War-on-everything trauma/fear conditioning, techno-dummification, drug-addling, and (non-)education. Are we surprised that people can no longer discern, reason and respond without emotional triggering?
4. Commercial i sation of everything and every person to the n th, absurd degree whereby the public’s wallet, votes, health, mind are for sale in every way. So, here we have people’s emotional response to “news” as a business model. Is this any different to what the corporate-owned media do?
Aside from all those – and I am sure there are other chickens roosting in this story – it’s so patently obvious that the corporate media is desperately seeking scapegoats and diversions for the “fake news” accusation. To pick a small town in Macedonia of all places…. sigh.
There was a film some years ago “Wagging the Dog” ? Some fake war in Albania…my mind’s hazy on this
I havent seen it either, but yep è- thats the story – President invents a war to get the media off his back about an extra-martial liason…sounds legit.
Baz / Kahlypso and fellow Gizars ..
If you haven’t .. it’s a MUST see …….