24-7 Media and No Valid Information by Paul Craig Roberts!
(2024-04-08 at 23:01:01 )

24-7 Media and No Valid Information by Paul Craig Roberts!

The English language Russian media, such as RT, is better at news reporting than the Western media, but Russian media also supports official narratives, such as the claim that Evgeny Prigozhin, leader of the Wagner Group staged a mutiny against President Putin.

If the Wagner Group had attempted a coup, it probably would have succeeded. "please see here:"

What actually happened is that a small contingent from the group held a march on Moscow to protest the senseless casualties of fighting a war with both hands tied. Prigozhin wanted to get the war with Ukraine over with, not drag it on endlessly and needlessly.

A protest is not a mutiny. The Russian military, jealous of the Wagner Group wanted Prigozhins warriors brought under their control. They used the protest to alarm Putin about a mutiny. Putin, who is unable to admit that his "limited military operation" is a blunder, came down hard on Prigozhin.

The military got what they wanted. Prigozhin died in a mysterious plane crash, and the Wagner Group was dispersed among Russian military units, thus breaking up the best fighting force Russia had.

I have also noticed that RT and Sputnik support United States official narratives, such as the "Jan 6 Insurrection." The explanation for this could be self-censorship by the English language Russian media so that they are not banned from the United States.

If you think about it, the question arises: Do people anywhere in the Western world have a factual understanding of any important event? The assassination of President John F. Kennedy? The Gulf of Tonkin? The 1964 Civil Rights Act? The Soviet collapse? 9-11-01? Saddam Husseins "weapons of mass destruction"? The overthrow and murder of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi? The Maidan Revolution? The Ukrainian-Russian conflict? The Israeli genocide of Palestine? The 2020 United States presidential election? The charges against Donald Trump?

For truth to prevail, honest journalism is required, but as Martin Gurri explained in The City Journal, what the West has is "post-journalism" which consists of advocacy of agendas and protection of the narratives that support those agendas. Facts are no longer part of the picture. The Woke turn to the NY Times, CNN, and NPR to slate their emotions with their hate fix for the day.

Consequently, no one knows what is really happening, not even those who know that something is wrong.
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America Has a Third World Economy by Paul Craig Roberts!

Fridays jobs report, the financial press tells us, "blew past projections," with a monthly jobs gain of 303,000 compared to the 231,000 average over the past year. The Biden economy is gathering steam. "please see here:"

In actual fact the jobs report shows that the United States is continuing its collapse into third worldism.

A first world economy is characterized by high productivity, high value-added manufacturing and industrial jobs.

A third world economy is characterized by low productivity service and government jobs. As I have reported for 30 years, the United States has transitioned from the first to the third world.

The jobs report shows that. In March America lost jobs in primary metal manufacturing, fabricated metal product manufacturing, machinery manufacturing, computer and electronic product manufacturing, computer and peripheral equipment manufacturing, communications equipment manufacturing, semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturing, electrical equipment, appliance, and component manufacturing, furniture and related product manufacturing, food manufacturing, textile product manufacturing, apparel manufacturing, plastics and rubber products manufacturing, leather and allied product manufacturing.

190,000 of the jobs are in services, and 71,000 are in government. In other words, 86% of the jobs gain reflect the third world pattern. The service jobs are in wholesale and retail trade, health care and social assistance, and waitresses and bartenders.

The high tech jobs we were promised in exchange for offshoring United States manufacturing industry are hardly visible and certainly did not provide opportunities for displaced manufacturing workers. Moreover, most tech jobs-AI, robotics, software programs-are aimed at displacing humans from the work force.

The offshoring of United States manufacturing destroyed the middle class, state and local government budgets, the ladders of upward mobility, and concentrated the wealth of the country in one percent of the population.

That one percent itself is a massively wide wealth range from $11 million to 200,000 million, which are certainly not comparable wealth positions.

The difference is the same as between $11 and $200,000. American wealth is concentrated in the hands of multi-billionaires who comprise one-tenth of one percent or less of the population.

The tell-tale sign of a third world economy is the concentration of wealth in the hands of a tiny minority. In the United States this is called "democracy." And an increase in third world jobs is misrepresented as economic progress.

They will never stop lying to us!

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