Having read your expose, I can only remark that I wish there were more exposes of the “hall monitors” of the world, with an understanding of what they really are: shady and very immoral/a-moral journalists operating and largely getting their cues from the three letter agencies. They work in psyops, not journalism. Those who have convinced themselves what they’re doing is actual journalism are more embarrassing than those who at least know they are dishonest agents.
There should probably be some kind of website or page where all of these fake and ultimately evil (whether witting or unwitting) journalist profiles are available. I’m not proposing anything like their Stasi tactics, but people have a right to know how many of these fake three letter agency “disinformation” experts there are out there. In reality, it’s like 90% fake journalists, careerists, and grifters, most of whom are manipulated or willingly acting on behalf of “Five Eyes” intel agencies.
Honestly, why not push back? Why not put all these people on the defensive? They are the corrupt (and some even truly evil) disinformation agents. They are the hideous slaves of a disgusting fascist intelligence community.
Why not point this and remind people at every turn? They are worse than opportunists. They are worse than just immoral people. Letting them off with these labels belies their deeper function: propagandists and psyop agents for a totally fascist intelligence establishment that operates on behalf of the most evil centres of power in the West.
So I very much like this profile and hope to see many more, and hope that more honest journalists like yourself, Michael, continue to expose these truly hideous creatures.
Something about the bald-faced lies makes them a lot more disgusting than most people who know or even shamelessly commit a crime or do something immoral, but are at least not trying to convince us that it’s true and morale and that they are the saved and enlightened ones doing it for our own good.
These types of people inhabit a much lower circle of the Inferno. They are infinitely more hideous.
I’m almost tempted to create a new website called either “anti-spook.com” or “empireoflies.com” dedicated to exposing the sheer scope and magnitude of fakeness these new Tower of Babel agents represent.
You're probably right, which is why it's good that people like Michael Tracey are doing it this way. If there's one website where everything is centralized, it's a lot easier to go after and shut down, but what if there's just a general trend and culture of consistently and regularly shining a light on these hucksters and empire of lies fakers?
The latter is a lot more effective and harder to stamp out. The reality is that the bad guys really can't handle a taste of their own medicine. They are fragile. Hence, the constant attempt to whip of ''social media'' frenzies to try and get even the slightest dissenter to ''get in line.'' It's just group dynamics. That's what they're banking on. Stated otherwise, it's in many ways a numbers game... the idea being that most people are ''agreeable'' and don't want any trouble, and so with just the right combination of ''suggestions'' about some thing like potentially being linked to Russian disinformation, such that anyone repeating a given narrative ''might'' be responsible for peddling disinformation. So people stay away from it simply because they don't want any trouble. Then that means there are always a few ''disagreeable'' outliers and dissenters, which with basic ''group dynamics'' the idea is that you can just sort of whittle away the opposition using one or another trick, making an example of people here and there (whether by firing, financial ruin, slander), there then being only a veryyyyyy few remaining outliers which just becomes a question of containment. It's basically all seen in terms this kind of statistical Game Theory.
However, that whole system assumes it has calculated and taken into account every variable, and that there will be no deviations which cause the ''official narrative'' to actually derail. But the devil always overplays his hand... Underlying the whole group dynamics perfect ''Game Theory'' simulation is the cynical idea that really human beings are just dumb and selfish wretched creatures, with only a few real alphas (the oligarchy) who are by their natural superiority in the right to keep all the others in check. That evil Zeusian and prideful outlook is, more than anything, why their designs always end up coming apart sooner or later.
No matter how many cautionary tales and historical examples there are, as the saying goes, ''pride cometh before the fall.'' Their worldview forbids them from recognizing any kind of non-linear creative potential in people, and that especially in times of crises, people really do become capable of creative leaps. History is in many ways defined by these leaps. All this the oligarchy hates and loathes, but also doesn't really understand. Hence, their formulaic and very predictable responses with censorship. They're not actually able to handle the incoming and challenges, so they always opt for the same playbook of snaky (but very formulaic) machinations.
In a word: people going off script, even slightly, can in these kinds of situations unleash major non-linear effects, which is what they're most afraid of and why they need so many ''hall monitors'' at every corner. It's not a sign of strength. It's not a sign of power. It's a sign of fear and weakness. Calling it what it is can go a long way.
Michael........ it’s Ling and his merry band of narrative spewers that have turned their so called”profession” into the stinking, steaming pile of cow flop that it has become. Nobody believes them anymore
It's unfortunately not true that "nobody believes them anymore." I guarantee you that plenty of people absent-mindedly watched Ling's inane CBC segment, found it shrewd and persuasive, and ended up nodding in agreement.
Although people are questioning what they read a lot more, since journalists now have an approval rating close to or worse than politicians. The problem is that they still believe the journalists on "their side".
Most people stopped watching news a long time ago. Whatever they get is from social media mentions, which form a partisan bubble. The impact of people like this is ...limited. Do you think my wife and mother in law, who both vote, have even heard of this guy or ever will?
Scott Ritter’s famous tweet below (April 6, 2022). He was immediately banned from Tweeter – than reinstated and soon again permanently banned without explanation.
Remember, Scott courageously fought US bipartisan War party’s WMD fraud in Iraq from the very start.
“The Ukrainian National Police committed numerous crimes against humanity in Bucha. Biden, in seeking to shift blame for the Bucha murders to Russia, is guilty of aiding and abetting these crimes. Congratulations America…. We’ve created yet another Presidential war criminal !!”
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@DefenceUkraine -- regarding the Tochka-U fired at the train station:
Get the serial number of the missile off the debris. Provide a list of all Tochka-U’s in your inventory by serial number. Prove that missile was never in your inventory.
But you can’t, because it was.. GUILTY !! --- Scott Ritter tweet – April 8, 2022
Amazing what 20 years will do. Back then he was trying to save the world from warmongers, today he's doing the same and the difference is that the mainstream openly wants war, apparently.
"Why would you ever be skeptical of sketchy information coming out of an active warzone inundated with propaganda, information blackouts, and electronic warfare!? Everyone tells the truth in these situations even if it does not benefit them! Unless of course you are the lying bad guy! You're not a bad guy are you? Do not ask questions! We will provide you the answers!"
"Who the Hell was that guy? Some Soviet era propaganda minister or something?"
"Oh, no. That was just a modern corporate media 'journalist'."
The first casualty of war is truth. With all due respect it is shocking to me that at this juncture in history I have more trust and respect for you then “Foreign affairs” and the entire foreign policy “establishment”. Our elites remind me of the famous quote by Talleyrand speaking of the Bourbons, “they had learned nothing and forgotten nothing”. Do they really want a hot war between two nuclear armed nations? Do they forget that a mere 100 years ago Europe sleep walked into a devastating war that slaughtered millions for no discernible reason?? We are truly led by donkeys.
That's not how this is going to go. We're going to keep arming the Ukrainians while this negotiation in Istanbul continues. The negotiation is so that the borders can be settled and Ukraine pronounced a neutral nation. If the Ukrainians balk on this, all of the retreats of the last month will be meaningless. The Russians will perform the attack that they would have done in the first place if they were interested in conquering the Ukraine, which is to close off the western border in a concentric movement. Then just count days till everyone starves and capitulates. If someone tries to intervene, a WMD strike will be delivered within the Ukraine to make the point. If people don't take the hint, more WMDs until either someone wises up or there is a full strategic exchange.
The donkeys just do not realize that Putin was dropping them a lifeline here and still is. The Ukrainians can get a pretty good deal in Istanbul. We just care about killing more Ukrainians apparently.
Wow this Justin Ling character seems like the re-incarnation of Woodward and Bernstein. Investigative Journalism....far out, man.
....or maybe he was deep-throated in a dark parking garage somewhere....just saying.
(full disclosure: I'm snarky tonight and pissed off at the world)
My only real observation: Watching the reactions and media coverage of this war, it's truly breathtaking to me how quickly most of the partisan differences of our 2 political parties have melted away......almost as if they were 2 sides of the same coin.
Hilarious. Appreciated the “full disclosure.” Always good to include a little self-acknowledgment. Doesn’t change the truth of what you’re saying here though
Journalists are sleaze peddlers I love it. Typical of the Canadian broadcasting corporation that they would rely on somebody like Ling, they are a horribly bigoted outfit dedicated to besmirching America and Americans. They have daily stories that could be titled “look how stupid the Americans are”. Ling is a useful idiot, CBC has a political agenda and are overt and repeat liars. Canada is lead by a feckless cabal, don’t let it bother you Michael.
Actually, Foreign Policy is a very left-wing publication connected to the Washington Post, edited by an Indian who was formerly with CNN. I wouldn't pay the slightest bit of attention to anything they put out.
Ya know, I have not yet been accused by anyone of spreading Russian disinformation. I'm feeling kind of left out.*
* Though back in 2020 while she was working on the Elizabeth Warren campaign, my partner asked a fellow Dem activist about Tulsi Gabbard, who was summarily dismissed by the latter as a "Putin stooge." So there's that, I guess.
Ling has been peddling state apologia for years now. If there is a narrative that GloboCap wants disseminated, you can bet on seeing Ling among those jumping to do it. He’s also the same a-hole who was calling for the protesting truckers to be forcibly silenced by the Canadian government and who accused Glenn Greenwald of claiming that there are US bioweapon labs in Ukraine, which is demonstrably false.
Thank you for spotlighting the Very Serious Journalists of the world. Too often, citizens are left to their own devices in choosing which Serious Journalists to follow. We will never have an informed populace if we don't identify Respected Journalists, Serious Journalists and the like. Keep up the good work.
“He is also investigating Russian meddling in Canadian politics” —so he is a BlueAnon mountie, with the beard dye. There is literally zero needed work coming from this person. He spends the daylight hours sowing “buzz” to solicit further assignments of contrived packaged journalizing. In Southern California that occupation is called publicist or PR strategist or social data scientist
Love this.
Having read your expose, I can only remark that I wish there were more exposes of the “hall monitors” of the world, with an understanding of what they really are: shady and very immoral/a-moral journalists operating and largely getting their cues from the three letter agencies. They work in psyops, not journalism. Those who have convinced themselves what they’re doing is actual journalism are more embarrassing than those who at least know they are dishonest agents.
There should probably be some kind of website or page where all of these fake and ultimately evil (whether witting or unwitting) journalist profiles are available. I’m not proposing anything like their Stasi tactics, but people have a right to know how many of these fake three letter agency “disinformation” experts there are out there. In reality, it’s like 90% fake journalists, careerists, and grifters, most of whom are manipulated or willingly acting on behalf of “Five Eyes” intel agencies.
Honestly, why not push back? Why not put all these people on the defensive? They are the corrupt (and some even truly evil) disinformation agents. They are the hideous slaves of a disgusting fascist intelligence community.
Why not point this and remind people at every turn? They are worse than opportunists. They are worse than just immoral people. Letting them off with these labels belies their deeper function: propagandists and psyop agents for a totally fascist intelligence establishment that operates on behalf of the most evil centres of power in the West.
So I very much like this profile and hope to see many more, and hope that more honest journalists like yourself, Michael, continue to expose these truly hideous creatures.
Something about the bald-faced lies makes them a lot more disgusting than most people who know or even shamelessly commit a crime or do something immoral, but are at least not trying to convince us that it’s true and morale and that they are the saved and enlightened ones doing it for our own good.
These types of people inhabit a much lower circle of the Inferno. They are infinitely more hideous.
I’m almost tempted to create a new website called either “anti-spook.com” or “empireoflies.com” dedicated to exposing the sheer scope and magnitude of fakeness these new Tower of Babel agents represent.
Feels like that would be a fun pet project.
Good idea. A central site collating journalistic representatives of the deep state. Caveat emptor
Think you’re on to something there David, get it on Substack and I’ll subscribe. Cheers
Good idea but it wouldn’t last two weeks before being taken down by the web/cloud hosting service
You're probably right, which is why it's good that people like Michael Tracey are doing it this way. If there's one website where everything is centralized, it's a lot easier to go after and shut down, but what if there's just a general trend and culture of consistently and regularly shining a light on these hucksters and empire of lies fakers?
The latter is a lot more effective and harder to stamp out. The reality is that the bad guys really can't handle a taste of their own medicine. They are fragile. Hence, the constant attempt to whip of ''social media'' frenzies to try and get even the slightest dissenter to ''get in line.'' It's just group dynamics. That's what they're banking on. Stated otherwise, it's in many ways a numbers game... the idea being that most people are ''agreeable'' and don't want any trouble, and so with just the right combination of ''suggestions'' about some thing like potentially being linked to Russian disinformation, such that anyone repeating a given narrative ''might'' be responsible for peddling disinformation. So people stay away from it simply because they don't want any trouble. Then that means there are always a few ''disagreeable'' outliers and dissenters, which with basic ''group dynamics'' the idea is that you can just sort of whittle away the opposition using one or another trick, making an example of people here and there (whether by firing, financial ruin, slander), there then being only a veryyyyyy few remaining outliers which just becomes a question of containment. It's basically all seen in terms this kind of statistical Game Theory.
However, that whole system assumes it has calculated and taken into account every variable, and that there will be no deviations which cause the ''official narrative'' to actually derail. But the devil always overplays his hand... Underlying the whole group dynamics perfect ''Game Theory'' simulation is the cynical idea that really human beings are just dumb and selfish wretched creatures, with only a few real alphas (the oligarchy) who are by their natural superiority in the right to keep all the others in check. That evil Zeusian and prideful outlook is, more than anything, why their designs always end up coming apart sooner or later.
No matter how many cautionary tales and historical examples there are, as the saying goes, ''pride cometh before the fall.'' Their worldview forbids them from recognizing any kind of non-linear creative potential in people, and that especially in times of crises, people really do become capable of creative leaps. History is in many ways defined by these leaps. All this the oligarchy hates and loathes, but also doesn't really understand. Hence, their formulaic and very predictable responses with censorship. They're not actually able to handle the incoming and challenges, so they always opt for the same playbook of snaky (but very formulaic) machinations.
In a word: people going off script, even slightly, can in these kinds of situations unleash major non-linear effects, which is what they're most afraid of and why they need so many ''hall monitors'' at every corner. It's not a sign of strength. It's not a sign of power. It's a sign of fear and weakness. Calling it what it is can go a long way.
The Borg Cube delenda est.
Michael........ it’s Ling and his merry band of narrative spewers that have turned their so called”profession” into the stinking, steaming pile of cow flop that it has become. Nobody believes them anymore
It's unfortunately not true that "nobody believes them anymore." I guarantee you that plenty of people absent-mindedly watched Ling's inane CBC segment, found it shrewd and persuasive, and ended up nodding in agreement.
Although people are questioning what they read a lot more, since journalists now have an approval rating close to or worse than politicians. The problem is that they still believe the journalists on "their side".
Most people stopped watching news a long time ago. Whatever they get is from social media mentions, which form a partisan bubble. The impact of people like this is ...limited. Do you think my wife and mother in law, who both vote, have even heard of this guy or ever will?
Good point. Some otherwise smart people I know just repeat mainstream soundbites.
Look at Ling's picture in the headline:
1. Concerned, condescending gaze.
2. Hipster beard.
3. Flannel shirt.
By simply existing, Ling has the ears of 75% of white people who make over $200K.
In a fast-moving interweb everyone with a Photoshop plugin & centralized ideological compliance will be world-famous for 15 minutes
I'm a public school teacher and I work with scores of people who believe every word of this kind of "reporting".
Absolutely true. The only one who are influenced by the product of guys like Ling are people who know they’re being lied to and don’t care
Thank you !! Scott Ritter is now permanently banned on Tweeter -- the truth must be censored and suppressed.
Interview w/Scott Ritter, April 6, 2022, By Don DeBar -- BUCHA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfHohl6gCJY
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Scott Ritter’s famous tweet below (April 6, 2022). He was immediately banned from Tweeter – than reinstated and soon again permanently banned without explanation.
Remember, Scott courageously fought US bipartisan War party’s WMD fraud in Iraq from the very start.
“The Ukrainian National Police committed numerous crimes against humanity in Bucha. Biden, in seeking to shift blame for the Bucha murders to Russia, is guilty of aiding and abetting these crimes. Congratulations America…. We’ve created yet another Presidential war criminal !!”
-----------------------------------------------
@DefenceUkraine -- regarding the Tochka-U fired at the train station:
Get the serial number of the missile off the debris. Provide a list of all Tochka-U’s in your inventory by serial number. Prove that missile was never in your inventory.
But you can’t, because it was.. GUILTY !! --- Scott Ritter tweet – April 8, 2022
Amazing what 20 years will do. Back then he was trying to save the world from warmongers, today he's doing the same and the difference is that the mainstream openly wants war, apparently.
The media wanted war back then as well, it just wasn't considered good form to demonize, blacklist and deplatfrom anti-war types, as it is now.
"Why would you ever be skeptical of sketchy information coming out of an active warzone inundated with propaganda, information blackouts, and electronic warfare!? Everyone tells the truth in these situations even if it does not benefit them! Unless of course you are the lying bad guy! You're not a bad guy are you? Do not ask questions! We will provide you the answers!"
"Who the Hell was that guy? Some Soviet era propaganda minister or something?"
"Oh, no. That was just a modern corporate media 'journalist'."
Give them hell!
The first casualty of war is truth. With all due respect it is shocking to me that at this juncture in history I have more trust and respect for you then “Foreign affairs” and the entire foreign policy “establishment”. Our elites remind me of the famous quote by Talleyrand speaking of the Bourbons, “they had learned nothing and forgotten nothing”. Do they really want a hot war between two nuclear armed nations? Do they forget that a mere 100 years ago Europe sleep walked into a devastating war that slaughtered millions for no discernible reason?? We are truly led by donkeys.
That's not how this is going to go. We're going to keep arming the Ukrainians while this negotiation in Istanbul continues. The negotiation is so that the borders can be settled and Ukraine pronounced a neutral nation. If the Ukrainians balk on this, all of the retreats of the last month will be meaningless. The Russians will perform the attack that they would have done in the first place if they were interested in conquering the Ukraine, which is to close off the western border in a concentric movement. Then just count days till everyone starves and capitulates. If someone tries to intervene, a WMD strike will be delivered within the Ukraine to make the point. If people don't take the hint, more WMDs until either someone wises up or there is a full strategic exchange.
The donkeys just do not realize that Putin was dropping them a lifeline here and still is. The Ukrainians can get a pretty good deal in Istanbul. We just care about killing more Ukrainians apparently.
Wow this Justin Ling character seems like the re-incarnation of Woodward and Bernstein. Investigative Journalism....far out, man.
....or maybe he was deep-throated in a dark parking garage somewhere....just saying.
(full disclosure: I'm snarky tonight and pissed off at the world)
My only real observation: Watching the reactions and media coverage of this war, it's truly breathtaking to me how quickly most of the partisan differences of our 2 political parties have melted away......almost as if they were 2 sides of the same coin.
Hilarious. Appreciated the “full disclosure.” Always good to include a little self-acknowledgment. Doesn’t change the truth of what you’re saying here though
Journalists are sleaze peddlers I love it. Typical of the Canadian broadcasting corporation that they would rely on somebody like Ling, they are a horribly bigoted outfit dedicated to besmirching America and Americans. They have daily stories that could be titled “look how stupid the Americans are”. Ling is a useful idiot, CBC has a political agenda and are overt and repeat liars. Canada is lead by a feckless cabal, don’t let it bother you Michael.
Actually, Foreign Policy is a very left-wing publication connected to the Washington Post, edited by an Indian who was formerly with CNN. I wouldn't pay the slightest bit of attention to anything they put out.
Ya know, I have not yet been accused by anyone of spreading Russian disinformation. I'm feeling kind of left out.*
* Though back in 2020 while she was working on the Elizabeth Warren campaign, my partner asked a fellow Dem activist about Tulsi Gabbard, who was summarily dismissed by the latter as a "Putin stooge." So there's that, I guess.
Ling has been peddling state apologia for years now. If there is a narrative that GloboCap wants disseminated, you can bet on seeing Ling among those jumping to do it. He’s also the same a-hole who was calling for the protesting truckers to be forcibly silenced by the Canadian government and who accused Glenn Greenwald of claiming that there are US bioweapon labs in Ukraine, which is demonstrably false.
Just in case he missed it, I emailed a link to the Creep for your piece on him.
Justin is a 1st class W - ⚓.
Thank you for spotlighting the Very Serious Journalists of the world. Too often, citizens are left to their own devices in choosing which Serious Journalists to follow. We will never have an informed populace if we don't identify Respected Journalists, Serious Journalists and the like. Keep up the good work.
“He is also investigating Russian meddling in Canadian politics” —so he is a BlueAnon mountie, with the beard dye. There is literally zero needed work coming from this person. He spends the daylight hours sowing “buzz” to solicit further assignments of contrived packaged journalizing. In Southern California that occupation is called publicist or PR strategist or social data scientist
Keep it up Michael. This is why I subscribe.