Some of you may have heard of Rutger Bregman, the young historian who went to Davos to advocate for more taxes. His interview with mainstream anchor Tucker Carlson can be viewed here:
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In order to gain more understanding of what's going on in this video, I'd like to take a step back and take a look at where we come from in terms of media influence and mainstream propaganda.
Media and political prostitution were already decried in the '80s by Soviet defector Yuri Bezmenov aka Thomas Schuman.
Here is an exerpt of his Atlanta speech in 1985:
"I just want to show you how much importance Soviet intelligence and Soviet propaganda attaches to such things as the religious cults which slowly destroy the basic moral fiber of your own country, your own religion and your own moral principles."
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He then presents two of his ex co-workers on a picture before continuing:
"Both of them worked together with me in a secret department called research and counter-propaganda. We did neither, what we did was compilation of information on each individual, keeping files on each person who is instrumental in promoting Soviet propaganda. Who can shape public opinion in his country. Create ideologies. Those who promote Soviet ideology will be promoted by us and by your elitist groups, like your tri-laterals and Council on Foreign Relations, like Ford foundation and others I forget, Rockefeller foundation. They will be promoted to positions of power and influence. By bribery, corruption and publicity. Those who resist Soviet propaganda will be listed by KGB for character assassination, defamation, slander, and/or execution. And if you think I'm crazy, please, unplug bananas from your ears, open up your eyes, remember the history."
He then refers to the Vietnamese village of Hue the Soviets occupied for a few days and managed to round up and kill every western sympathiser in town by using a network of informants set up earlier, before concluding:
"Like every normal human being, I refused to be guilty, I refused to believe something that is that horrible, just like some of you refuse to believe what I am saying. Why? Because it's unpleasant. Nobody wants to feel guilty. [...] 15 years later after my defection more than 15 countries went through this massacre. And I'm still considered to be a Cold War maniac. And your beautiful Kissingers, Brzezinskis and Shmissingers are considered to be normal people. Now who is more crazy, please. 15 years and more than 15 countries went through the bloodbath, when I'm still trying to explain to you please wake up."
That was over 30 years ago. Needless to say his efforts were somehow unsuccessful and we now have to deal with the consequences, as in having a gradually dysfunctional reserve currency. Achieving its demise is the end game of pretty much everything you hear and read on a variety of sources, mainstream or not. Two things I'll point out:
- The USSR went down because it got bankrupt as a result of its Afghan campaign and its successor clearly wants the same to happen to the US. They've been going at it for decades through media brainwashing in favor of the wars so it's kind of a little late to do anything about it.
- For this reason I am investing, at least modestly into a form of currency that is bound to appreciate as the dollar depreciates. I'm not saying you should put all your savings into it and mortgage the house or put yourself into debt to buy crypto. Just a few bucks here and there to have something when I grow older. Like a retirement fund that will actually be worth something if I make it there. Not having at least a small percentage of crypto into your retirement portfolio exposes you to to every kind of risk associated with statement 1.