The big, bad wolf sneaks up on a little boy and the boy stares directly into the hungry wolf’s menacing yellow eyes…but the little boy does not flinch. The wolf crouches down ready to pounce and says, “Why aren’t you afraid little boy?” The boy says, “I’m more afraid of my own kind than I am of you.”
The death penalty is wrong in principle…but there are some exceptions. Assassins not only kill but are also known to torture. It is not unusual to enlist, extort or dupe low-level assassins to do the ‘dirty work’ for those orchestrating assassinations ‘at the top’…the upper-level assassins. The assassins’ work is too often noted by dead bodies being found with their fingertips and toes clipped off, and found with electric drill holes in their knees, spine, neck, head and elsewhere signifying the victims were tortured before being killed…known as the assassins’ statement. These types of acts are too often associated with government assassins worldwide.
The ‘code of the streets’ is either take the bribe…or take the lead (bullet). When it is too conspicuous to assassinate your target with a bullet then assassinate your enemy’s character. Ancient philosopher, Socrates, said when the debate is lost, slander (character assassination) becomes the tool of the loser.
The founder of the Washington Post Newspaper said, “News media reporting is nothing more than the first draft of history.” Unfortunately, it too often takes decades to find out what really may have happened.
During the 1950’s U.S. President Dwight “Ike'” Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon warned the American people to beware of the suspect, anti-democratic, ‘deep state’ military and law enforcement intelligence agencies in Washington D.C. For decades U.S. ‘deep state’ intelligence agencies assassinated and sabotaged the enemy worldwide by any means necessary, and this also includes using propaganda tools, like character assassination, via the news media and the justice system in America and overseas to eliminate the enemy. At the time no one really paid much attention to the warning from Ike and Nixon.
In the 1960’s U.S. President John Kennedy (JFK) saw firsthand the threat to democracy from U.S. intelligence assassins, as outlined by President Eisenhower before him. However, JFK went even further to protect democracy and America’s citizenry by sending an edict to the U.S. government’s intelligence agencies curtailing, even eliminating many of the military’s and law enforcement’s overreaching powers that U.S. intelligence agencies had been enjoying unencumbered for decades.
Subsequently, some inside U.S. intelligence agencies, like the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and others, critics charge, covertly declared JFK an enemy of the state. It just so happens that JFK was assassinated in 1963 during his first term, reportedly with help from CIA ‘patsies’ Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby. Ruby shot and killed Oswald. A psychiatrist was assigned to determine if Ruby was mentally fit to stand trial at the request of the Warren Commission which was investigating the assassination of JFK. This psychiatrist reportedly had ties to the CIA and he declared Ruby insane and not fit to stand trial before the Warren Commission for killing Oswald. However, everyone who knew Ruby said he was not insane. Ruby was the only evident direct link to possibly unravel and reveal all those who were possibly in on assassinating JFK. Ruby was never allowed to tell the whole story. Ruby was sent to prison, reportedly put in solitary confinement, supposedly for his own protection, and died there soon after.
In 1965, 2nd in command Black Muslim minister and Democrat under Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, was assassinated and no one was ever charged with the crime but today, in 2023 the children of Malcolm X are suing in court the FBI and CIA accusing these U.S. intelligence agencies for having a hand in the assassination since the Black Muslims were characterized and labeled by intelligence assassins as radical revolutionaries. In 1968 Dr. Martin Luther King, a Democrat, was assassinated by an assassin characterized then labeled ‘crazy’ by U.S. intelligence agencies, an assassin who also had curious and still unexplained ties to known assassins elsewhere. Robert Kennedy, JFK’s brother, while running for President as a Democrat, was assassinated in 1968 by an assassin characterized then labeled angry and ‘crazy’. Alabama governor, George Wallace, running for president as a Democrat, was shot 5 times in 1972 paralyzing him from the waist down by an assassin characterized then labeled ‘crazy’. Teamsters Union founder and Democrat, Jimmy Hoffa, was characterized then labeled angry and ‘crazy’ by U.S. intelligence agencies. Hoffa disappeared in 1975. His body has yet to be found.
From 1969 to 1974 Eisenhower’s Vice President, Richard Nixon, was elected U.S. President and Nixon was so popular with voters that Nixon won by 17 million more votes than his challenger received, winning by more votes, so far, than any other president in U.S. history. One could say this made Nixon, at one time, the most popular president in U.S. history. It was then that President Nixon extended what Eisenhower and JFK had started to protect democracy and American citizens from U.S. intelligence agency assassins. Nixon threatened the CIA over the JFK assassination. Nixon’s threat was met with silence from U.S. intelligence agencies.
It was not long before CIA operatives, known as the Watergate burglars, called ‘plumbers’ at the time, were caught doing routine political ‘dirty tricks’ supposedly on behalf of Nixon. Throughout American history both mainstream political parties always partake in political ‘dirty tricks’ during re-election campaigns. Subsequently, after the bungled Watergate burglary, Nixon’s character was assassinated by upper-level U.S. intelligence assassins using low-level political adversaries of Nixon and the assassins’ low-level ‘patsies’ in the news media.
To ‘work’ the Watergate burglary assassination, two newspaper reporters were assigned to the Nixon character assassination story known as Watergate. Unknown to most of us, one of the two reporters assigned to the Watergate assassination story, just prior to becoming a news reporter, was a naval officer working in naval intelligence at the Defense Department. (The U.S. Defense Department was more appropriately known for centuries as the War Department.) Furthermore, the ‘top secret source’ helping the two reporters working the Watergate story had ties to U.S. intelligence agencies. This top-secret source was known surreptitiously, at the time, as ‘deepthroat’, a very appropriate name for a ‘deep state’ U.S. intelligence assassin.
Nixon was the first U.S. president EVER to get run out of office without a congressional trial or democratic vote by the American people. However, after the Watergate burglary in 1972, the ‘deep state’ intelligence assassins in Washington D.C. were already hard at work preparing the political landscape for a new president. They knew they would also have to assassinate Nixon’s Vice President (VP), Spiro Agnew because Agnew was like Nixon and not a ‘deep state’ intelligence ‘patsy’. Critics charge, the ‘deep state’ intelligence assassins went to work in 1972 and trumped up some IRS tax charges on Agnew, like the IRS can do on most any wealthy individual, which forced Agnew to resign in 1973, all according to the ‘deep state intelligence assassins’ plans.
Agnew’s character assassination, and his subsequent resignation, left the window wide open for a ‘deep state intelligence patsy’ to replace Agnew as VP; and subsequently eventually, when the time was right, replace President Nixon as president. With Agnew out of the way now the congressional Watergate hearings proceeded to assassinate Nixon’s character. Nixon’s choice for VP to replace Agnew was Gerald Ford who, at the time, was House Republican Minority Leader and chairman of the Warren Commission ‘in charge’ of investigating the JFK assassination. Before the Watergate assassins ever convened the Watergate hearings to assassinate Nixon’s character, Ford’s Warren Commission had ALREADY declared that U.S. intelligence agencies, like the CIA, had nothing to do with JFK’s assassination thus making Ford the perfect ‘deep state patsy’ to replace Agnew as VP. Not even thinking of ever having his character assassinated during the upcoming Watergate hearings, Nixon mistakenly took the advice from ‘deep state’ advisers in Washington D.C. to make Ford his Vice President when Agnew resigned, and the U.S. Congress overwhelming approved Ford for VP.
After Ford was made VP the congressional hearings on Watergate began and the assassins in the news media proceeded to assassinate Nixon’s character. Nixon was subsequently forced to resign making VP Ford the first person ever to be ‘handpicked’ by the ‘deep state’ in Washington D.C. to become U.S. President without having to get elected by the American people. With Nixon and Agnew out of the way and Ford as President in 1974, the ‘deep state’ U.S. intelligence assassins in Washington D.C. have had unchallenged, unfettered power and influence ever since…until the surprising and inconceivable election of Donald Trump for U.S. president in 2016.
Trump for years had always opposed U.S. involvement in President George W. Bush’s Iraq War and President Obama’s Afghanistan War automatically making President Trump an enemy of the state by the ‘deep state’ intelligence assassins. Somewhat like JFK’s and Nixon’s plan to take control of U.S. intelligence agencies, to get elected Trump promised to ‘drain the deep state swamp’ in Washington D.C., and one of Trump’s first orders of business was hiring retired Army General, Michael Flynn. Both Flynn and Trump wanted a quick end to Obama’s nearly 20-year war in Afghanistan, a war still being waged by the U.S. when Trump took office. Critics charge, hiring Flynn did not sit well with U.S. intelligence assassins.
Flynn had already been fired by President Obama during Obama’s term in office. Flynn had been Obama’s head of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Flynn was fired by Obama for not following the U.S. intelligence ‘patsy’ playbook like all former U.S. presidents had upheld and obediently followed since Ford was president during the 1970’s.
Before Trump took office, Obama told Trump to beware of North Korea’s dictator, Kim Jong-un and stay away from General Flynn. Before Trump took office, Obama also told Trump that U.S. intelligence agencies said an American war against North Korea may be imminent. However, that war never materialized during the Trump administration, primarily, because unlike any president ever before him, Trump went to North Korea and had face to face meetings with North Korea’s dictator Kim Jong-un. After meetings with Trump, Kim never fired another ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead while Trump was president, unlike what happened during presidential administrations ‘before’ and ‘after’ Trump.
An aside, another reason to question the judgment and/or motives of U.S. intelligence agencies, the warmongering U.S. intelligence assassins said in 2002 that Iraq’s dictator, Saddam Hussein, had weapons of mass destruction (WMD), including chemical, biological, even nuclear weapons. Saddam was said to have had developed WMD to keep Iran from taking Iraq. Iran and Iraq had been having costly military conflicts against each other since the 1980’s. Since Saddam possessed WMD, U.S. intelligence assassins convinced President George W. Bush in 2003 to invade Iraq, eliminate Saddam Hussein and settle the Iran-Iraq war once and for all, then subsequently nation build a U.S. style democracy in Iraq. However, U.S. nation building in Iraq was doomed to fail from the start because, unlike what U.S. intelligence assassins believed, inside every Iraqi there was NOT an American trying to get out.
In 2003, if America would invade Iraq, U.S. intelligence assassins had said the Iraqi army would put up a good fight but would quickly fold up like a cheap card table. The Iraqi army did not fold up and the ensuing America-Iraq war surprised everyone by lasting 8 years until 2011, killing and injuring 20,000 American soldiers and reportedly 2.4 million Iraqis were killed in the process. And Saddam’s WMD were never found because they did not even exist, excluding a small find of mustard gas and sarin nerve gas totally unlike what the U.S. intelligence assassins had predicted they would find before drawing America into a costly, unnecessary conflict in Iraq.
Like all presidents before him since Ford was president, President Obama was also a ‘deep state patsy’ for U.S. intelligence agencies when Trump took office in January 2017. Trump defied Obama’s advice concerning General Flynn and instead made Flynn head of all U.S. intelligence agencies, making Flynn National Security Adviser (NSA) to Trump. This sent shock waves throughout the Defense Department because everyone knew that General Flynn knew where ‘all the bodies were buried’ having spent the past 20 years working for ‘deep state’ U.S. intelligence agencies. Consequently, Flynn was declared an enemy of the state and had to be assassinated.
In just weeks after Trump hired Flynn, Flynn was forced to resign as Trump’s NSA when U.S. intelligence assassins assassinated Flynn’s character with ambiguous charges that were filed against Flynn stating Flynn could have been compromised by the Russians during a few phone calls to Russian government representatives prior to Trump winning the election. Furthermore, in 2019 after Trump had been in office 2 years, ‘deep state’ intelligence assassins, through the U.S. Justice Department, appointed special counsel, Robert Mueller, to investigate Trump’s possible colluding with the Russians to steal the 2016 election from presidential hopeful, Hillary Clinton. The ‘deep state’ assassins failed to prove Trump colluded with Russians to steal the election from Hillary, however, in the process and more importantly, they succeeded in assassinating Trump’s character.
An aside, ‘deep state’ intelligence assassins operate by making the ‘practically impossible’ into a ‘plausible possibility’, then subsequently, ‘spin’ any accountability by the U.S. government into ‘plausible deniability’. For example, Russia’s pipeline supplying gas to Europe, Nord Stream 2, finally became operational in 2021. However, it was sabotaged and exploded in 2022. Critics charge the mysterious explosion was sabotage by low-level U.S. military assassins with help from upper-level U.S. intelligence assassins.
U.S. intelligence agencies denied any responsibility for blowing up Nord Stream 2 even though, climate activist, U.S. President Biden said in 2021 the pipeline would never be finished. Then Biden turned around in 2022 and said he would allow Nord Stream 2 to be finished since it was almost already finished anyway when Biden took office in January 2021. However, little did anyone know that just months later in 2021 the pipeline would explode. CNN-TV news said the explosion was the most damaging catastrophe to the planet in 2000 years because it “released an unprecedented amount of greenhouse gas methane enormously damaging the Earth’s climate”. U.S. intelligence assassins feigned ‘plausible deniability’ in the sabotage of Russia’s Nord Stream 2 saying the Russians sabotaged their own pipeline. However, why would Russia sabotage their own pipeline? Everyone knows most all of Russia’s income comes from oil and gas.
Here is another example of ‘plausible deniability’. The U.S. government has OFFICIALLY declared that convicted child trafficker, Jeffrey Epstein, committed suicide while being held in federal custody. However, critics charge, Epstein did NOT commit suicide. Why? This is because too few details have ever been released to the public of exactly what happened to Epstein, including the countless number of pictures that were taken and never released to the public of the Epstein crime scene. This also includes all the needed interviews that were NEVER conducted of everyone in the area when and where Epstein died. No one really cares because no one cares about Epstein and probably no one should. However, if the U.S. government can cover up all the details of how someone died while held in federal custody, critics charge, then nothing and no one is safe from U.S. government assassins if…’it’s your turn’; just like the ‘deep state’ assassins are accused of covering up who sabotaged Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
Today, in 2023, it has already been decided by U.S. intelligence assassins that the current U.S. President, Joe Biden, cannot win re-election in 2024 so Biden is no longer useful to the ‘deep state’ intelligence assassins and must be eliminated. However, Biden cannot be removed using any political blunders that President Biden has participated in so far since taking office in 2021, like the ‘bungled’ American withdrawal from Afghanistan, the lawless U.S. southern border migrant crisis, the unconstitutional coronavirus vaccine mandates, the mistreatment and ‘dumbing down’ of students by the Democrat controlled, national teachers’ union during the covid-19 pandemic public school lockdowns, Biden’s authoring in the highest inflation in the USA in the last 40 years, Biden not stopping fentanyl imports from China through Mexico, the unnecessary, preventable Ukraine war with Russia, not defending U.S. airspace against China aggression, and so on, because these blunders also have the fingerprints of other political leaders and government agencies on them, as well as U.S. intelligence agencies that desperately need to stay in power untouched after Biden is gone.
To eliminate Biden, it must have ONLY Biden’s fingerprints all over it. Enter the well documented ‘Biden family’ ‘pay for play’ schemes taking, what critics call, ‘bribes’ from countries around the world accused of buying ‘political influence’ from the Biden family when Biden was Vice President under Obama. The intelligence assassin ‘patsies’ in the news media and Biden’s political opponents in the Democrat Party will assassinate Biden’s character making him an impotent choice to run for re-election in 2024.
And what will the ‘deep state’ intelligence assassins in Washington D.C. possibly run on in 2024 for the Democrat Party to ensure the democrats win and maintain the U.S. intelligence agencies’ stranglehold on American politics and U.S. taxpayer purse strings? Consider these reasonable possibilities. First, Democrats will promise reparations for all African-Americans to be paid for by wealthy corporations and wealthy taxpayers. And second, Democrats will promise citizenship and voting rights for anyone undocumented and living within America’s U.S. borders. This is one reason why the southern border of the USA has been wide open to all those willing and able to come to the USA illegally for years now.
To win most any election in America these days all the ‘deep state’ needs to win is a majority of African-American and Hispanic votes along with the 30% of the white left-leaning vote that is already always ‘in the bag’ for any progressive politics. Add this to the already left-leaning millennial electorate, as well as having on board the character assassin ‘patsies’ in charge of ‘big tech’ social media and the news media corporate conglomerates that have already been ‘in the bag’ doing the bidding of the U.S. intelligence assassins for over a decade now. Add all this to some other forthcoming Democrat Party election promises and the U.S. intelligence assassins will win a ‘shoe in’ victory in 2024. (If the Republican Party had any sense their party platform to run on in 2024 would at least include a federal mandate for cameras in all school classrooms and school buses and body cameras for all law enforcement officers patrolling our streets in all 50 states. However, odds are, barring some unforeseen, devastating world events, Republicans will not take back the Senate or White House in 2024.)
The U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment was designed by the Founding Fathers to protect the citizens from an uninhibited press (news media) as well as government overreach and control. However, this does not apply to business. Every day big business and big government may be doing what it can to deny American consumers access to information necessary to make good, sound consumer decisions and choices. The First Amendment was also designed so the free press news media was to serve the governed…not the governors. The government’s power to censor the news media was abolished by the U.S. Constitution so that the free press would remain forever free to censure the government.
However, one can hardly imagine that all of those sitting on today’s U.S. Supreme Court in 2023 would ‘unanimously’ all agree to write an opinion to censure the U.S. government. Even more troubling is today’s mainstream news media and social media platforms in America have turned their back on its mission by too often serving the governors…not the governed. The question is why?
Decades ago, news media departments and entertainment divisions of media corporate conglomerates were stand alone and separate entities inside the corporations they represented. However, today, with the ‘consolidation’ of America’s news media departments and entertainment divisions, as well as social media ownership and/or control in the hands of a few, has increased the obedience of desperate journalists to please their bosses. Moreover, now the entertainment division of the corporate media giants control the purse strings of America’s news media departments, consequently, careerist reporters and editors live vicariously through the power of those they cover, rejecting the press’ unique power to hold to account those in power they report on.
It ultimately comes down to lifestyles. In self-preservation the privileged go to war to protect and further their own lifestyles. Consequently, the news media cheers on the privileged for the news media’s own residual ‘material betterment’ and increase in status for themselves. Millions of lives have been destroyed and erased from memory to better the lifestyles of the privileged few.
It used to be accepted in network television news that their news departments would spend lots of money, and thus lose lots of money, in their quest to serve the American people and further democracy. Not too long ago losing lots of money in the process would have been supported by the corporate entertainment divisions which now control the mainstream news departments’ purse strings. This is because decades ago losing money doing news was considered a public service.
However, today, greed rules. Entertainment masquerades as news. Honest news media journalists admit there is bias in news reporting but these days they may just laugh it off as part of the entertainment side of their job. The fine line between “showbiz” and objective news reporting has today probably been irrevocably blurred. News media departments have sacrificed their too costly ‘investigative reporting units’ to maximize profit for the corporate entertainment divisions that now control the news media departments. Consequently, big government is the winner. The abdication of the mainstream news media of their constitutional responsibility to serve the governed, and not the governors, has left a void in holding those in power accountable…a void that has gone unfilled for too long now.
Unlike during the 1960’s through the 1970’s, no longer do today’s news reporters need to take their chances spinning damning information to expose corruption risking their livelihood, their freedom and fortune to get their damning reports to the public…no matter how disinterested and distracted the public may be. Meanwhile, the ‘deep state’ U.S. intelligence assassins have a lust for revenge to stop any leaks that threaten their grip on power. Mainstream news media reporters and social media outlet despots everyday reveal their service to the state and how much they prioritize their own style of life over any service or duty to the public…disregarding the carnage they may be helping to bring about.
Today, journalism and the news media in the U.S. have evolved into nothing more than a propagandist utility used to assassinate for political conflict and competition and, above all, garner big audience ratings. Both mainstream journalism and the news media in America need to be liberated from the propaganda of the liberal and conservative assassins. News today is created from the extreme margins on the fringes, not the center. Truly free media access, devoid of liberal and conservative propaganda, will give a voice back to the voiceless.
However, things are so lopsided now that, critics charge, you could even go so far as to say the mainstream news media is even racially motivated. You would never know it, but black and brown cops may be more racist than white cops. For example, if you go by statistics, black and brown cops kill more ‘unarmed’ black people than white cops. However, what the news media assassins DO focus more on instead is, if a black child is kidnapped it too often is not a highly sought after news story, but when a white child is kidnapped this too often does get way more attention of the mainstream news media compared to if a black child had been kidnapped. Furthermore, black on white violent crimes may get very little coverage while white on black violent crimes too often get day after day attention from what could be a racially motivated news media. Why? It is all because of a combination of promoting a political agenda, and/or the fact that certain types of violent crimes garner higher audience ratings. Ratings mean more advertiser money goes to the news media networks and money drives everything in capitalist corporate America.
These days news media journalist assassins also use what they call “faction news” which is spinning fiction, as if it is a fact, to meet the narrative they are trying to get their audience to ‘buy into’ or believe. Too often the assassins hired in TV news to report the news as on-camera personalities are NOT hired for their credentials for doing outstanding journalism and news stories but are generally chosen as on-camera news reporters because viewers at home like looking at them. A term used to describe on-camera TV news reporters who are NOT that pleasing to look at, “Now there’s a face for radio.” These ‘chosen few’ on-camera news readers and reporters have the ‘gift of gab’, the ‘look’, and the charisma of simply being able to read or report the news to you and you believing what they are reading or reporting; much like how too many Americans choose to vote for their President.
The news media used to be the anti-authoritarian, anti-government, ‘watchdog’, whistleblower assassins but now they seem more like pro-government, fascist ‘lap dog’ assassins. Once known exclusively for exposing elitism in politics and the business world, many news journalist assassins today admit, off the record, at having become elitists themselves. TV news journalist assassins, now virtual celebrities, may too often come across to viewers as smug, aloof, out of touch, rich people. It was a smart idea for the corporate conglomerates to make these so-called journalists into rich people compared to the unwashed masses under them, and dependent upon the corporations to give journalists richer, affluent lifestyles so they will end up thinking ‘like’ the corporations instead of thinking ‘against’ the corporations.
Some news media journalists take home tens of thousands of dollars for just one speech at corporate conglomerate dinners and political lobbying events which by the very nature of human nature corrupts how one thinks and thus shapes and compromises future news stories. Some of these journalists even openly contribute money to political campaign funds which used to be against a news media organization’s code of ethics. Whatever happened to the so-called objective, non-partisan distance reporters were supposed to maintain from legislators and business leaders so news reporters could remain relatively unbiased when reporting news and information? Well-paid celebrity journalists claim they are not affected by the ‘moonlighting’ money they earn at speaking engagements, but just try and convince the public that there is no potential ethical compromise. Perception is reality.
News media journalist assassins have seemingly too often become one with the politicians, business leaders and corporate conglomerates they report on, and we all know where politicians rank for credibility in public opinion polls. Business, industry, lobbyists and politicians may feel they are buying potential immunization from future ‘bad press’ news reports when they pay journalists to do speaking engagements, as well as pay journalists a good, and in some cases, a huge yearly income so journalists can live more like the capitalists that the journalists are supposed to be objectively reporting on and holding accountable for the public…all this in the false hope of furthering democracy in America.
Too often the public may be told more of what suits the media owners and advertisers than what is in the best interest of the public or democracy. Since news media owners and advertisers bankroll the news and entertainment media, it is no surprise that newspapers, magazines, radio/TV broadcast networks, cable TV networks, and social media advertising managers and editors will NOT readily admit that they have been influenced to ‘kill’ (not run) certain news story content that may have a direct, negative effect on media owners, advertisers, corporate and government interests. Unlike in the past, today, it may be in the best interest of all those involved to do news stories that attract advertising revenues, not drive them away. Critics charge this is trading integrity for revenue.
To do anything different reporters may even fear losing their jobs and editors may fear clashing with their owners over advertiser interference, so why risk it? Advertising revenues may influence editorial content so much so today that the public may never get the whole story. Remember, big business upholds their right to free speech but may try to inhibit free speech of others if it may have a negative impact on big business revenues.
So-called ethical, objective news reporters, columnists and influencers sometime may have what they think is a great opinion about something that they would like to get across to the American public. However, because they are supposed to be OBJECTIVE, fair minded journalists and not overtly opinionated, they just cannot come out with a “quote” without an identified source. So, what is a news journalist assassin to do?
The opinionated reporter then needs to figure out a way to get his opinion attributed to some credible source or opinion-maker. This is when the journalist may proceed to call up someone the journalist knows who is already leaning in the direction of the opinion the reporter espouses and then asks the news source something like, “Well, what do you think about this idea or that idea and can I quote you on it for my news report?” If the credible source or opinion-maker likes the reporter’s ideas or opinion, the source may say, “Sure, you can go ahead and attribute that quote to me for your news story” thus making the source a ‘plant’ for the reporter’s news story.
Is this ‘planting of quotes’ as sources an ethical and legitimate objective in news gathering? A truly honest journalist may not always think so. If you plant quotes or answers, what is to keep journalists from planting answers in so-called independent opinion polls, or any other so-called objective journalistic endeavor, to character assassinate perceived enemies? The moral here is, everyone, no matter who he or she is, or what he or she does for a living, everyone has an agenda which cannot help but affect their actions, their judgment and language. This is human nature and cannot be helped no matter how hard one tries.
For example, the revolutionaries in Antifa are anti-fascist and, critics charge, anti-American because Antifa feels that those who vote Democrat or Republican are by their very nature fascist. Also incongruous to traditional western values and ideals, the Chinese communists want to influence the westernized youth worldwide today to become Marxist-Leninists enticing the world’s youth to prefer what the communists/socialists call a ‘different sort of democracy and freedom’ where top-down control-collectivism becomes preferred over hands-off, irresponsible individualism. Marxists-Leninists prefer the safety and security of mandates, structured, limited movement, surveillance, and such over rugged individualism’s unbridled, ‘dog eat dog’ inequities, dangerous living environments and unnecessary stress inherent in exercising individual freedoms where, as an individualist, you are generally left on your own and expected to fend for yourself to survive…or survival of the fittest.
To illustrate collectivism vs. individualism, in China rent control helps keeps costs for families manageable while rent control in the USA also helps control costs for families. However, in the U.S. free enterprise system when rents are not allowed to increase to ‘keep the property up’ then rental units fall in disrepair and become havens for crime activity. In China property values are ‘mandated’ to be kept up by the landlords.
Also, in China, Jack Ma, founded Alibaba which is the world’s largest online retailer. Alibaba is China’s equivalent to America’s Amazon. However, Jack Ma said publicly something unflattering about the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) banking system several years ago. Subsequently, the CCP basically told Jack Ma you no longer work for Alibaba, you work for the CCP now. In China’s style of democracy if you do not comply you disappear…literally. Jack Ma, wisely, now travels and speaks to entrepreneurs throughout Asia as ambassador for Alibaba…and the CCP.
Another illustration, since China imports most all its oil and gas, the CCP is left at the mercy of often wildly fluctuating worldwide oil and natural gas prices. When ‘nat’ gas prices are high, the prices charged to Chinese homeowners are controlled to keep home heating and cooling prices low to homeowners. However, in cold winters in China, to make up the difference between worldwide high ‘nat’ gas prices and low prices being charged to homeowners to heat their homes, in China, the homeowners’ heat is literally turned off late at night to conserve and ‘balance the books’ so to speak to keep heating oil prices affordable for homeowners AND the CCP.
It is no wonder why recently in 2023, the CCP funded research that gas stoves may harm your health. Subsequently, the CCP expected ‘woke’ capitalists worldwide to curtail widespread use of natural gas which would help keep ‘nat’ gas prices low. However, never expect in the next 50 years that the CCP will curtail THEIR use of natural gas. The CCP only gives lip service to ‘going green’ to save the planet and the CCP is NOT on board with doing what it takes to ‘go green’. Every month a brand new, planet polluting, ‘dirty coal’ burning plant goes on-line producing electricity in China, India and elsewhere in 3rd world countries to help bring lower income people up to the middle-income standards and living conditions like those found in and espoused by the USA. So, you cannot blame low income, emerging market countries from striving to bring their lower income citizenry up to middle class living standards. Moreover, it is just not realistic in the next 50 years, or more, for most of the emerging market countries, including China, to ‘go green’; especially when countries like China, Japan, Russia, and those in Western Europe and elsewhere are begging for more people, not less people, to populate their countries with younger workers to replace their countries’ aging populations going into retirement.
Here is another illustration comparing top-down collectivism to rugged individualism. Other than the Chinese speaking out for more individual freedoms, another reason why students revolted at Tiananmen Square in 1989 was to seek more CCP government transparency from the 100 million CCP members who control over one billion Chinese. For example, during the coronavirus pandemic from 2020 through 2022, the CCP said only 5000 people had died from the virus in China. However, those residing inside China say too often there is no transparency when deciphering CCP statistics. To truly calculate the number of coronavirus deaths in China, many Chinese who know the CCP all too well, say you need to add ‘at least’ three zeroes (000) to the total number of 5000 coronavirus deaths being reported officially by the CCP in China. Otherwise, there would not have been the ‘never seen before’ pile up of dead bodies at crematoriums in China during the pandemic from 2020 to 2023. Reportedly around one million Chinese died or disappeared during the Tiananmen Square revolt in 1989, but to this day, the CCP still says absolutely no Chinese died or disappeared during or after the 1989 revolt.
Furthermore, due to lack of transparency by the CCP, it is hard to invest in Chinese companies like Alibaba, Baidu, Pinduoduo and all the rest because the CCP keeps secret all Chinese company financial statistics, so the CCP can literally make up any financial statistics they want the world to see. And if a Chinese company disappoints the CCP it will be punished making the company’s stock prices plummet hurting shareholders worldwide. Statistics are used to lie, and liars use statistics.
In America, research data, research results and statistics are used to assassinate. Assassins in the news media and social media too often may use statistics without the necessary critical inquiry into the ‘stats’ true meaning, then proceed to use the ‘stats’ to, knowingly or unknowingly, assassinate…’pushing’ an agenda that deceives the public and consequently destroys the ability for certain individuals or companies to earn a living, earn revenues or even worse. In return, news reporters expect their viewers and readers to accept and believe what reporters tell you even though the statistics journalists use could collapse under closer scrutiny and investigation. However, this does not matter because the result to intentionally assassinate justifies any means it takes to succeed in the assassination.
Scientific research statistics are too often used loosely by journalists and other influencers as credible sources of information to back-up their news stories, beliefs and/or opinions. However, if a news reporter cannot write a convincing news story compromising available research ‘stats’; then the reporter can simply report the ‘stats’ then say the ‘stats’ prove or illustrate the reporter’s opinion, veiled as fact or something else entirely, and just ‘act as if’ the ‘stats uphold the position held in the news story anyway. This is because the public does not typically scrutinize the tons of information they receive and believe every day. The assassins know they themselves are cunning, vindictive, dominating wolves and the masses are fearful, gullible, submissive sheep to be slaughtered. To prove your point using statistics, simply get rid of all the data and results NOT favorable to your position (agenda) and publish only those ‘stats’ which are favorable to your position like so many in the news media too often do.
Percentages are often used to confuse the public. In causation (cause and effect) scientific research, the data and statistics gathered from it, essentially are nothing more than dressed up, fancy, formal speculation using $100 words. This is because cause and effect research results may typically be asked (by news reporters, politicians, and other influencers) to go way beyond explaining what the actual data demonstrated in the research results. Instead, statistical data gleaned from cause/effect research is too often used to make irrational, illogical ‘mental leaps’ to suggest cause/effect relationships when no cause/effect relationships were proven by the research study.
This “mental leap” consequently makes finding causal relationships using ANY statistical data highly suspect and questionable meaning cause and effect is extremely hard to prove in scientific research. However, ‘correlational’ research showing ‘contributing factors’ that affect an outcome are much easier to prove than proving ‘causation’, or ’cause and effect’. For example, for years, hundreds of research studies have been done to try and prove if TV, movies, video games and/or social media cause violence. Essentially half of the studies proved ‘yes’ they do cause violence, and the other half of the studies proved ‘no’ they do not cause violence. Consensus (of opinion) among researchers now claims that platforms like TV, social media and so on may not CAUSE violence but may CONTRIBUTE to violent acts by those people who have a propensity for committing violent acts, just as reading certain passages from the Holy Bible, or hanging around street gangs could contribute to, but not cause, one to commit acts of violence.
Published, then mass merchandised through mass media outlets, as correlational and/or causation (cause and effect) research results may easily turn into ‘misinformation’ used to assassinate the enemy which is just one step away from superstition. Going beyond the data demonstrated to build a theory is nothing more than statistical manipulation which can be used by character assassins to deceive the public, including deceiving trial juries. No matter if character assassination is done on purpose or not, it can still mislead the public exposed to it.
No matter if a scientific researcher, or U.S. government intelligence agency, or news media reporter assassinates some person or some company’s character and then claims the assassination was an innocent blunder or mistake, do not believe it was all accidental. ‘Accidental manipulation’ of research data and ‘stats’ used by assassins to destroy character is just not believable by claiming it was all a mistake or an accident; like so often claimed.
Statistical research is a science and an art. Unfortunately, subjective statistical manipulations and distortions may be accepted as believable “objective results” by news media reporters. When the distorted, manipulated results fit ‘the agenda’ the assassins want to communicate to the public, then it does not matter if the distorted, manipulated results were knowingly or unknowingly, by mistake or not, then used to manipulate the public and assassinate the enemy.
Statistics fascinate the public. Just think, anyone can get wholesale returns of speculation out of very few facts. Statistics appeal to a fact-finding, fact-minded American culture. Distorted, manipulated statistics can be used in an assassination to sensationalize, exaggerate, confuse, accuse, oversimplify, condemn, lay ‘guilt trips’ or spread rumors, gossip, misjudge, lie, mock, hate, name call and so on.
However, without honest intentions and without understanding the scientific methodology of gathering and evaluating data and statistical research, results can easily be twisted into ‘nonsense’, allowing ‘cheats’, ‘swindlers’ and character assassins to mislead the masses. Character assassins with ‘itchy’ trigger fingers from all walks of life may all too often bow to pressure from ‘higher ups’ then may too often and too easily launch unproven theories from questionable statistical research to eliminate ‘the enemy’ from their perches of power at the behest of the ‘higher ups’ over them.
Now, on a more personal level, it is what reporters do not show, or do not say, that can be used to assassinate character. If you are the possible subject of a news story, what do you do if a news media reporter sticks a microphone in your face and asks you for a comment? Your comment could be used by the news reporter to make you look bad to the reporter’s audience, so if you say, “No comment”, you may end up looking and sounding guilty in the news story even if you are truly not guilty. So, what should you do?
In this case when a news reporter asks you a question, never run or hide and always consider being pleasant and friendly, with a pleasant look and/or pleasant smile on your face if it is appropriate at the time, and simply say, “I’m sorry but there’s just too much to tell you right now, I’m sorry,” and continue walking away pleasantly and unhurriedly, but do not elaborate and do not get off this “there’s just too much to tell” theme. Walking away fast from a reporter is even a subtle body language sign of guilt.
Regardless, no matter what, do not be surprised when you see the news story you were made a part of gets edited into a more negative light than you had ever imagined. Remember, if you simply say, “No comment”, the reporter can turn around and say you did not deny the charges which also suggests guilt on your part. News reporters know all the tricks. Furthermore, if you turn around and demand that the reporter assassin prints or broadcasts a retraction of what was reported, this can be used to re-hash all the charges against you all over again further fanning the flames of your embarrassment and possible guilt. In news reporting you are guilty until proven innocent.
If you are a very important person (VIP)news media interviewers rarely ask the tough follow-up questions to the VIP they interview because if they did they may not get an interview with that VIP ever again if tough lines of inquiry were followed. If news media interview programs on TV and elsewhere do not book important guests to be interviewed the show will lose audience ratings and advertisers will not buy ads on such programs.
Finding solutions to problems on news media interview programs is NOT what news media reporters really care about. They only really care about audience ratings, or the paid circulation of their newspapers, which draws the advertisers which pay the salaries. Everything else is secondary in America. Making money takes precedence over all else first and foremost. Never forget this, despite the ‘do-gooder’ image and noble public service the news media wants you, the audience, to feel like it is presenting and performing. Concerning on-camera interviews, the news media reporters almost always come across as being ‘nice guys’ to the person being interviewed but beware of their disarming ‘tricks’ to assassinate.
For example, the crypto currency king, Sam Bankman-Fried, learned journalism’s ‘dirty tricks’ the hard way in 2023. Sam made the mistake of becoming friends with a news media reporter. News media managers ask the reporters that work for them to always try to become friends with powerful people; just like advertising managers always encourage their ad salespeople to try becoming friends with the advertisers who, in turn as a result, may end up buying more advertising. Subsequently, Sam admitted that he accidentally divulged sensitive information to a news reporter who he thought was a friend, but the reporter assassin turned around and leaked what Sam told him to the public which ultimately contributed to Sam being arrested for crypto fraud. As a result of the reporter’s assassination and Sam’s carelessness trading crypto currencies, Sam Bankman-Fried may end up getting sentenced to 40 years in prison.
Consequently, always watch out for wolves showing up in sheep’s clothing. If a news media reporter ever shows up alone at your door, a camera person may be nearby out of sight and ‘shooting’ (recording) your interaction with the reporter while you are totally unaware of being ‘shot’ (recorded). This can all take place outside your home or place of business; or you could even be recorded on video through your window or a window nearby and the news media reporter may even be wearing a ‘hidden microphone’ recording your voice. The reporter may nonchalantly act like he or she is not really interested in getting you on-camera but only wants a statement. Do not always believe this deception. If you get caught in this type situation try not looking or acting guilty as described earlier.
Then on the evening news you see yourself talking on-camera when you thought you were NOT on-camera at all. If a news media reporter or U.S. intelligence agent comes to you in what sounds like an unofficial, “off the record” capacity and all they want is to ask you a few questions, do not believe it. Critics charge, this is exactly how the U.S. intelligence assassins duped then proceeded to assassinate the character of President Trump’s head of intelligence, General Flynn in 2017. In the news gathering business everything you say and do is ‘on the record’ and can and may be used against you so never let your guard down…or risk getting taken advantage of.
On the other hand, if you know you are being recorded in an interview, watch out that they may cover up the air conditioning vents just to make you sweat and come across on-camera as looking uncomfortable, being agitated or guilty during the interviewer’s intense line of questioning. Another trick is when they interview you with two cameras. One camera operator may say they have to stop recording or taping the interview to fix something which tricks the person being interviewed into thinking ‘both’ cameras have stopped recording so the person being interviewed lets down their guard and hopefully says something they wish they had not said while the second camera continues recording.
Moreover, when the editing process begins after your interview this is when they can just about make you say anything they want which is not what you really said when you did the interview. Just ask anyone who has ever been the subject of a news media interview. You can easily be victimized, assassinated in the editing process.
Oftentimes, it is what they “edit out” of the interview that takes what you said totally out of context, and you end up looking like you meant something else entirely. Is this fair? You agreed to do the interview, consequently, everything is fair game. Obviously, never trust what anyone says about someone else. Only trust what the actual person being questioned says UNEDITED and in CONTEXT. Context means you need to hear all, and we do mean ALL, of the ‘interrelated conditions and parts’ of a discourse that surround what was said by the actual person being questioned which throws light on ‘the TRUE MEANING’ of what was said by the person being questioned. You will likely never get anything unedited or in context from the news media, politicians, business leaders, U.S. intelligence agencies, influencers, and possibly anyone else you come in contact with, due to the inherent corrupt, biased, opinionated and/or easily manipulated nature of humanity.
The unsuspecting audience of the news reporter’s interview may likely believe they are getting a fair and impartial interview when maybe they are, or maybe they are not. If you refuse to do the interview, the interviewer may put a “spin” on the story with little or no regard for your point of view. Generally, there are only two safe ways to deal with news media assassins.
First, stay out of the news. Second, if it is ‘your turn’ to be victimized and/or assassinated by ‘gotcha journalism’, your best bet is put whatever you have to say, “in writing” and do so in a short, friendly, mannerly way, and do not deliver this message on-camera whenever possible.
Unlike assassins who kill their targets, character assassins are too often free to commit the same deed time and time again and may even win the honors of being considered heroes by some segments of society, like Josef Stalin, who ruled Russia from 1924 to 1953. Stalin’s ruthlessness, critics charge, started the Russian tradition of lying about everything. For example, lying to the Russian people and leaders worldwide; lying about everything manufactured or produced in Russia concerning quantity, quality, product reliability and yield. Stalin was also known for showing no gratitude. He said social indebtedness is a sign of weakness and vulnerability.
When Stalin became leader of Russia as a member of the Communist Party and Social Democrat Party in 1924, he went on a mission to assassinate the characters of every Russian leader, including religious leaders, that could possibly ever overthrow him. He did such a good job of character assassination the Russian people told Stalin to “kill them all like mad dogs.” So, Stalin rounded up all the leaders that he had branded as “traitors to the fatherland”, including one leader that once even saved Stalin’s life. Stalin’s savior begged not to be killed and asked Stalin, “Do you know what gratitude is?” Stalin said, “Yes. Gratitude is a disease suffered by dogs”. All Stalin’s political adversaries were quickly assassinated by firing squad. After this event everyone else that wanted to live fell in line and behaved according to Stalin’s expectations whose mantra was ‘if you got ’em by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.’
Stalin ruled Russia unimpeded as a socialist dictator until 1953 when he died by cerebral hemorrhage. He was reportedly responsible for killing at least 9 million (some say 60 million) Russians during his reign of forced labor, starvation and assassinations that started in 1924. Stalin probably killed and tortured more people than even Hitler. Stalin admired Hitler’s grasp of politics and how Hitler assassinated his political adversaries without resorting to terror alone. This was referring to Hitler’s rise to power using propaganda as much or more so than using terror. Referring to Hitler’s use of terror and propaganda to control, Stalin said, “See. Now that’s how you do it.” Stalin was not a man of faith or remorse even on his deathbed. His daughter said when Stalin was on his deathbed his “death agony was horrific, he literally choked to death as we watched.”
An easy death is granted to the just.
A person of character does the right thing even if no one else does…not because you think it will change the world but because you refuse to be changed by the world.
A top money-making Wall Street titan’s independent study of the American news media from 1982 to 2023 found there was ONLY one year, 1989, that the mainstream news media said things overall were good/positive that year while all years prior to and since 1989, the news media said that things in America were overall bad/negative. This good news in 1989 was because the U.S.S.R.’s (Russia’s) Berlin Wall was torn down that separated socialist East Germany from capitalist West Germany. The wall came down due to the Russian socialist system literally going bankrupt ending the world’s ‘Cold War’ with Russia, and NOW most everyone truly believed in 1989 that the world will finally be at peace forever and everyone will prosper. Nothing was further from the truth.
The moral here is do not believe what you hear and only half of what you see. Seventeenth Century philosopher, Pascal said, “Truth is so obscure and falsehoods so established that unless you love the truth you cannot know it. People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs, not based on proof, but based on what they find attractive. If you have a vacuum in your heart ‘darkness’ may fill that hole. In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart. The supreme function of reason is to show that some things are beyond reason. We suffer from two excesses: to exclude reason and to live by nothing but reason” which is why we are too often so willing to be manipulated, ‘bend a knee’, roll over and submit rather than stand.
SUPPLEMENTAL SOURCES: WADAH KHANFAR, FORMER DIRECTOR OF AL-JAZEERA AMERICA 7/30/13 and C-SPAN TV NEWS “BOOKNOTES” 1/21/96