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The World Keeps Turning
The secret to any good magic trick is deception. The audience’s attention is diverted up into the air, while the trick is pulled off under the table. Politics is, in and of itself, a type of magic. How do governments and high-level officials pull off the corruption they do? Everyone else is looking away.
If you could find me an American who isn’t aware of either Coronavirus or Black Lives Matter, I would be shocked. The entire nation is held captive by these era-defining moments. Important as they are, it is imperative that we pay attention to the other events happening in the world around us that have just as much potential to play into future conflicts as Black Lives Matter does.
China is still moving forward with its One Belt One Road initiative. The Nine-Dash Line through the East and South China seas still encircles Taiwan and invites chaos at the behest of a communist superpower. The protests in Hong Kong (yes, remember those?) are still occurring and the methods being used to control those crowds are the same as are being used here. But of course, no one is offended by what’s happening in Hong Kong anymore. The Chinese ranking system and surveillance state has continued to expand. The Uighurs in Northwestern China are still being persecuted. Organs are still harvested from Falun Gong prisoners.
Iran still has its sights set on developing nuclear capabilities. They haven’t forgotten that we killed one of their top generals, Soleimani, this past January. Iranian boats continue to harass U.S. ships in the Persian Gulf, daring our military and challenging our authority in the Middle East. Iran still funds and supports global terrorist groups such as Hamas. And, they fund Iraqi militias in an effort to push the U.S. out of Iraq. Coronavirus cases spread amongst senior Iranian officials revealing the strength of ties between China and Iran in February of this year.
Iran and China are two topics with which I am both educated about and interested in. By no means is this a finite list of everything else going on in the world which we ought to pay attention to. Rather, it is a reminder that the world keeps turning. Our politicians have chosen to keep Black Lives Matter firmly at the center of the Overton window, giving other issues little airtime. The ability to pick and choose what is and isn’t important at any given time isn’t magic. It’s just politics.
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Excellent.
Are the kids still being “put in cages” down there? Are the caravans still flooding across the border? Maybe it’s like the constant black shootings in Chicago – if the press isn’t covering it it’s not happening.
Is Hunter still being paid by the Gas company? Did he ever pay his back child support?
Here’s a story on a Trio collaboration from hell:
https://www.jpost.com/international/russia-china-build-case-at-un-to-protect-iran-from-us-sanctions-threat-630899
It’s not just our politicians. It’s the Chinese Communist Party, which is running a huge “Information Dominance” campaign featuring social media, agitprop and more.
This is from a report by Gregory Copley (interviewed on the topic of the PRC’s development and use of conditioning techniques here) which is excerpted in a Red State article by Elizabeth Vaughn.
Copley (emphasis added):
That needs a conversation of its own.
This is just my amateur stab at why the problem of our press is so hard to combat. Foremost is their attachment to creating a narrative (which gives themselves a noble “purpose”) rather than covering the multi details of reality. But that dovetails with the ease with which unpatriotic political currents can use it to mask their goals.
I read that Floyd was not ”everyman” like Bill Moyers in an interview on the Amanpour show had to say. Floyd may have been trying to improve but at one point in his life he pointed a loaded gun at a pregnant woman in a larceny, I read from other sources. We don’t get the whole truth from big media (not that it justifies bad police training). Everything has to serve a ”story,” but the press uses the fact that the American people don’t have time to absorb a lot of nuanced truth and some of them don’t want anything but simplification anyway. And any who may suspect the complexity is hidden can’t say anything (don’t have the means to respond other than in more obscure realms like Ricochet), and are limited to how they vote. Or to move away from disruptions, which can take years to show up. All that socialism would do is destroy initiative and grind us all down to the same low level. Meanwhile the press is devoted to convincing masses of people that the goal of forced “equality” can result with no cost to the standard of living in spite of all the historic record giving counter-proof. Meanwhile the extremists really don’t care and foreign enemies hope for the worst.
And yet, Trump sat at the helm of the nation and let the cities burn. Why?