My (not so) excellent adventure with propaganda at the United Nations in NYC
How many times have you been told straight-up lies to your face? Been
told them so many times that you actually start to believe them?
"Yes, Santa Claus will bring you lots of presents down the chimney,
kid. Now shut up and put out those damn cookies and milk."
I had that very same experience a few days ago -- right in front of the
United Nations building in New York. I saw a small group of people
standing in front of the iconic UN building and waving a huge Syrian
flag. "Those are my kind of people!" I thought. Having been to Syria
and having kept up with all the lies we've been fed about their
president being a bad guy, I was delighted to see protestors who were
actually and finally bringing Truth to Power. http://jpstillwater.blogspot.com/2014/06/not-another-article-on-syria-well-yeah.html
Boy was I wrong!
Those people were paid protestors, hired by Lord-Knows-Who to spread
lies about Syria's President Assad. "Assad is a baby-killer!" They
screamed. Er, no. Americans are the ones who have been murdering
babies-for-oil in Syria since 2011, and in the whole Middle East for
decades as well.
"But Assad is a hero in Syria!" I told them. "They love him there --
because Assad has kept Syria from becoming another Libya." But the
protestors just shoved an obviously-Photo-Shopped leaflet in my hand and
that was that. How can I even begin to fight propaganda like that? I
mean -- seriously? PhotoShop? Me? I can barely figure out how to turn
off and on my computer let alone turn out professional-quality stuff
like that. This was CIA-quality stuff!
Sadly, I just shook my head and went back into the UN gift shop. What else could I do?
I know! I'll go over to the Syrian ambassador's office and try to
cheer him up! Good idea -- except the ambassador wasn't home. But I
did talk to one of his aides. "I'm so sorry that Syria has to go
through all this," I told him, "just because nobody here believes that
this whole tragedy is simply a result of American corporations being
greedy for yet more oil." Yet again. Remember when they lied like a rug to us about Iraq?
http://jpstillwater.blogspot.com/2014/06/press-release-un-blocks-syrian.html
http://jpstillwater.blogspot.com/2014/06/press-release-un-blocks-syrian.html
And remember when Trump ordered the bombing of Damascus in retaliation to
the Douma chemical attack, supposedly ordered by Assad? Well, it turns
out that America's "rebels" (aka al Qaeda) were the ones responsible,
not Syria. "I apologize on behalf of my country," I told the aide. https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/douma-syria-opcw-chemical-weapons-chlorine-gas-video-conspiracy-theory-russia-a8927116.html
I guess that all I can do now is to just to keep on keeping on -- keep on refusing to eat all the lies we are constantly being fed. A buffet of lies. A smorgasbord of lies. A bistro full of lies. A lie-filled comida. And to stop digesting all those other multi-lingual lies we are constantly being served up by our global corporate minders like they were milk and cookies. Sigh.
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