Hearts & Minds / 2 tors have little choice but to share or acquire values that agree with corporate elites in order to further their careers. “Migrants take ALL new jobs in Britain,” “Migrants trying to kill Brit truckers,” and “True Toll of mass migration on Britain: are the headlines of right-wing newspapers in Britain. You can see the divide and rule strategy at play – and we got Brexit. So emotionally invested in these strategies, the general public TRUTH OR LIES? In the UK, studies never stopped to question these suggest that immigration has a small dubious statements and fight for impact on average wages. what are the real facts. The dangerous rhetoric that Washington and Less than a quarter its media mouthpieces spews out on a daily of the public basis about Russia is replicated in Britain. Supactually believe the ported by no facts or evidence whatsoever, establishment press these gross distortions play into the geopolitiand yet everyone cal card-game that the USA is playing 8,000 has their political miles away from the shores of another nucleperspectives formed ar power so well equipped it could wipe out by a propaganda humanity. In Britain, we allow our politicians machine managed to espouse the same nonsense with no means by media giants whatsoever of defending its own population whilst being located on the doorstep of a nation that could make this small island dust in just a few short seconds. In another example, you would have thought that armed with the reasonable evidence that Britain’s EU referendum might have been rigged by American billionaires, a public uproar would have occurred with a political inquiry called for from on high. But no. The Observer, the newspaper that did have the courage to publish a damning 7,000 word article on the subject is being sued. And nowhere in the media has anyone had the fortitude to question what emerged and what is now known. We, the people have been fully indoctrinated into their narrative and been conned, in this case by omission. Less than a quarter of the public actually believe the establishment press and yet everyone has their political perspectives formed by
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a propaganda machine managed by media giants. They have all the weapons; printed and broadcast media, the internet, social media – they own it all. True editorial independence simply doesn’t exist in mainstream media. Interference from newspaper owners and political parties along with the pressures of corporate advertising revenues drives content, the truth does not. Allegations of government officials pressuring and even threatening editors and journalists is rife in the industry. Indeed, Britain’s secret service MI5, is constantly accused of manipulating the press, whilst the political use of supposedly neutral sources (such as Google, HSBC and George Soros funding fact checker – see Full-Fact.org) results in a systemic bias that exists to completely distort the truth. These platforms now force everyone into “informational bubbles,” commonly known as a self imposed “echo chamber” as if somehow its all our fault. This insidious, pervasive and ubiquitous bubble concentrates a narrative managed by the new commanders of the information war, favouring a pre-ordained establishment conclusion. Just five people own 80 percent of the newspapers we read every day in Britain, they also own TV stations, press agencies, book companies, cinemas and the like – so everything we read or see in Britain is almost entirely influenced by these individuals, none of whom reside in Britain. Today, new political parties or new ideas have to break through establishment defensive barriers never seen before – that of the media platforms which now control and censor the narrative. Posting an article about Google’s 2.7-billion euro fine means the media charitably reporting that, “Google had abused its dominant position by systematically favouring its own shopping comparison service” – which was indeed universally the language used by the media. In reality, this is a global enterprise that rigged the system using criminal intent, who knowingly and fraudulently broke the law, illegally earned billions, ripped off millions of people, tried to kill the compe-