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Ukraine Is the Ruling Class’s Latest Propaganda Ploy
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Posted on 03/25/2022 8:13:44 PM PDT by FarCenter

The war in Ukraine has been dominating headlines for more than a month, but it is still hard for most Americans to grasp what is going on. In part, that’s because most of what is coming out of Kyiv and Moscow is war propaganda. But it’s also because the US ruling class is once more waging information war—against domestic critics and internal enemies.

You can hardly blame the Ukrainians for inventing stories about fighter pilots who single-handedly downed scores of Russian aircraft. The country’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is trying to keep up morale on the home front while soliciting support from Western leaders to fend off Vladimir Putin’s onslaught. For those in power, lying is part of the logic of war.

What isn’t normal is the all-out effort to promote Ukraine’s cause in America—an effort grafted on to a long series of ongoing propaganda campaigns deployed by US institutions and industries against the same target: the American public. These campaigns have used the same methods, personnel, platforms, and even catchwords to deceive, harass, and punish working- and middle-class Americans to the benefit of the country’s increasingly powerful ruling oligarchy.

To help their chosen candidate, Joe Biden, unseat President Donald Trump, Silicon Valley giants blocked an October 2020 New York Post exposé about influence-peddling by Biden’s son Hunter. Fifty former top US intelligence officials characterized the Post’s reporting as Russian disinformation, a claim echoed unanimously and uncritically by prestige outlets. The New York Times repeatedly called the Hunter Files “unsubstantiated,” while National Public Radio’s managing editor for news, Terence Samuels, huffed that “we don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories.”

Even as the Times acknowledged last week that the Hunter emails uncovered by the Post were indeed authentic, the same tech firms are banning videos

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1 posted on 03/25/2022 8:13:44 PM PDT by FarCenter
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To: FarCenter

“Ruling Class” ?? I hate the ter. It implies we have an oligarchy in the USA.


2 posted on 03/25/2022 8:17:48 PM PDT by ARW
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To: FarCenter

nice


3 posted on 03/25/2022 8:19:35 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: ARW

It implies we have an oligarchy in the USA.

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Well....yeah.


4 posted on 03/25/2022 8:21:11 PM PDT by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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5 posted on 03/25/2022 8:21:15 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Cornpop was a bad dude)
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They believe the Crisis governing allows them to Spend like never before which is moving their cause ahead by 40 yrs.


6 posted on 03/25/2022 8:24:13 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Cornpop was a bad dude)
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To: FarCenter

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7 posted on 03/25/2022 8:29:06 PM PDT by sauropod (Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.)
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To: ARW
It implies we have an oligarchy in the USA

Don't we?

In the words of the late, great George Carlin, "it's a big club and you ain't in it."

8 posted on 03/25/2022 8:29:21 PM PDT by markomalley (Directive 10-289 is in force)
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To: ARW

Did you forget the /s tag?


9 posted on 03/25/2022 8:32:07 PM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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Chinese officials announced the seizure of assets controlled by the Chinese wife of American oligarch Mitch McConnell, with close ties to Joe Biden….

Is that what you’re saying? Lol. I agree!


10 posted on 03/25/2022 8:55:07 PM PDT by ARW
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“ Ruling Class” ?? I hate the ter. It implies we have an oligarchy in the USA.”

We have a “donor community”. It would be better to have an oligarchy.


11 posted on 03/25/2022 8:58:58 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Who saves the nation breaks no law)
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To: Bishop_Malachi

“It implies we have an oligarchy in the USA.”

“Well....yeah.”

Yup - with many being in Big Tech; not just amazingly wealthy oligarchs, but oligarchs who also control much of what people are allowed to see & hear.


12 posted on 03/25/2022 9:02:27 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: ARW

I don’t know how to break this to you, but we do.


13 posted on 03/25/2022 9:34:35 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: ARW

Your mother and I were hoping to wait until you were older to tell you.


14 posted on 03/25/2022 9:36:07 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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ROTFLMAO..... that right there is funny.


15 posted on 03/25/2022 11:15:03 PM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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ROTFLMAO..... that right there is funny.
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Yup, pure gold.


16 posted on 03/26/2022 2:32:54 AM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: ARW

Unfortunately, we do. Look at how aligned all of our institutions were against Trump, even the federal government itself.


17 posted on 03/26/2022 3:44:30 AM PDT by oblomov
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“Ruling Class” ?? I hate the ter. It implies we have an oligarchy in the USA.

Some decades ago, I was in a meeting with the head of public relations for a major corporation. I was struck then by his statement that they concentrated on reaching the 10,000 families that really mattered in influencing public opinion.

It has probably shrunk since.

And have you considered how people actually attain high office in the US -- the actual process of becoming a Senator or Governor, rather than the electoral fantasy taught in school civics.

18 posted on 03/26/2022 4:44:07 AM PDT by FarCenter
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The ruling class controls what’s on the media and tells the social media what to promote and what to suppress. They are very skilled at it. The narrative went from covid to Ukraine overnight.

Any time something dominates the headlines, there is an agenda at work and the narrative is a total fabrication.


19 posted on 03/26/2022 5:16:59 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.)
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To: ARW

think: Hollywood, Media Moguls, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, George Soros, Sacklers, you’ll be on the right track as to who counts here.


20 posted on 03/26/2022 7:40:46 AM PDT by euram
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