Step into the light.

Submitted by CB on Sat, 05/27/2017 - 11:16am

An informative and profound report by Caitlin Johnstone, May 27, 2017. Included in this report is an in depth interview with Vanessa Beeley.

SYRIA: You Only Hate Assad Because Your TV Told You To

“What we’ve been undergoing to a large extent is a form of psychological abuse, actually, by very narcissistic, hegemonic governments and officials for a very long time. It’s a form of gaslighting where actually our own faith in our ability to judge a situation, and to some extent even our own identity, has been eroded and damaged to the point where we’re effectively accepting their version of reality.” ~ Vanessa Beeley

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Independent investigative journalist Vanessa Beeley has emerged from her latest trip to Syria burning with a new kind of fire. There’s something in her voice and the posture she now takes which conveys a new kind of authority, a sense that she has now seen enough and gathered enough evidence to observe unmasked the full picture of this monster of deceit she’s been fighting.
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Is it possible that there is a power establishment governing your country which is so evil that it would engineer the deaths of children in a false flag attack to manufacture consent for a strategically valuable regime change it’s been seeking for decades? It’s uncomfortable to consider this possibility.
Much easier to believe there’s a depraved nutcase foreigner hurling chemical weapons and barrel bombs at civilians willy nilly who needs to be taken out by Good Guys. Much more difficult to do the rigorous intellectual and emotional work needed to escape from the institutional brainwashing Vanessa Beeley describes in her article “Gaslighting: State Mind Control and Abusive Narcissism” and do the necessary research to get a clear picture of what is going on. But you undeniably have the ability to make that choice, here and now as you finish this article.

Are you the sort of person who can face uncomfortable truths and revise their worldview accordingly, or the type who compartmentalizes and avoids them for the sake of cognitive comfort?

Step into the light.

Edited to give alternative website. Original was
http://21stcenturywire.com/2017/05/27/syria-you-only-hate-assad-because-...

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Submitted by on the cusp on Sat, 05/27/2017 - 12:49pm

For what it is worth

that link flashed a security alert and froze up my computer twice.
I will check out the video, not sure I will be able to read Caitlyn's take on it.

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Submitted by dkmich on Sat, 05/27/2017 - 2:20pm

I went there.

@on the cusp

For what it is worth, it was fine. It isn't Caitlin's site. It just isn't a secure site like c99 wasn't a secure site for a long time. That is likely why your browser is warning you.

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Submitted by CB on Sat, 05/27/2017 - 3:04pm

Here's an alternate website

@on the cusp @on the cusp
https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/you-only-hate-assad-because-your-tv-t...

21st Century Wire posts some very interesting stories that fail to get published by MSM.

http://21stcenturywire.com/about/
About 21st Century Wire

21st Century Wire is News for the Waking Generation™. Founded in 2009, we are a North American and Europe-based, grass-roots, independent hyper blog offering bold news, views and media analysis, working with a core team of writers, researchers, and an array of volunteer contributors who write and help to analyze news and provide a diverse perspective and opinions from around the world. 21st Century Wire writers have appeared internationally on TV, radio and in print, as well as keynote speakers at leading alternative conferences and events.
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MISSION

Aside from the independent media remit, our #1 intention here is to get you thinking, talking and hopefully inspire you to take on an active role yourself, perhaps by creating your own website or information portal. This may be by using free blog software, creating your own podcast, Youtube channel, or just by utilising social networks like Facebook or Twitter.

We oppose internet censorship in all its forms, especially through opaque regimes of control, run by elite committees comprised of ‘experts’ drawn from the Silicon Valley, corporate media, foundation and government-affiliated persons. We believe such measures can only lead to a restriction of free speech and expression in a time when those freedoms are more important than ever.

EDITORIAL POLICY

All articles and posts on this website refer to real and factual news content, as well as legitimate opinion and analysis, either in the form of original articles or aggregated news and editorial content. Every post or article contains source links and credits to either primary or secondary reference material.
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Vanessa Beeley – Associate Editor

A key part of Caitlin's report is Vanessa Beeley's report:
Gaslighting: State Mind Control and Abusive Narcissism
http://21stcenturywire.com/2016/05/26/gaslighting-state-mind-control-and...

Submitted by on the cusp on Sat, 05/27/2017 - 3:24pm

@CB Thank you. I am really

@CB Thank you. I am really interested in this analysis.

#1 #1
https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/you-only-hate-assad-because-your-tv-t...

21st Century Wire posts some very interesting stories that fail to get published by MSM.

http://21stcenturywire.com/about/
About 21st Century Wire

21st Century Wire is News for the Waking Generation™. Founded in 2009, we are a North American and Europe-based, grass-roots, independent hyper blog offering bold news, views and media analysis, working with a core team of writers, researchers, and an array of volunteer contributors who write and help to analyze news and provide a diverse perspective and opinions from around the world. 21st Century Wire writers have appeared internationally on TV, radio and in print, as well as keynote speakers at leading alternative conferences and events.
...

MISSION

Aside from the independent media remit, our #1 intention here is to get you thinking, talking and hopefully inspire you to take on an active role yourself, perhaps by creating your own website or information portal. This may be by using free blog software, creating your own podcast, Youtube channel, or just by utilising social networks like Facebook or Twitter.

We oppose internet censorship in all its forms, especially through opaque regimes of control, run by elite committees comprised of ‘experts’ drawn from the Silicon Valley, corporate media, foundation and government-affiliated persons. We believe such measures can only lead to a restriction of free speech and expression in a time when those freedoms are more important than ever.

EDITORIAL POLICY

All articles and posts on this website refer to real and factual news content, as well as legitimate opinion and analysis, either in the form of original articles or aggregated news and editorial content. Every post or article contains source links and credits to either primary or secondary reference material.
...
Vanessa Beeley – Associate Editor

A key part of Caitlin's report is Vanessa Beeley's report:
Gaslighting: State Mind Control and Abusive Narcissism
http://21stcenturywire.com/2016/05/26/gaslighting-state-mind-control-and...

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

Submitted by QMS on Sat, 05/27/2017 - 9:23pm

same experience

@on the cusp mine froze up twice at 2 different attempts at medium.com

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Submitted by CB on Sat, 05/27/2017 - 10:15pm

Medium.com is a deferent website

@QMS
than 21stcenturywire.com. It is also verified unlike 21stceentury.com. The video has some frozen frames at the beginning where Caitlin is trying to get it running. The video comes from a live feed she did yesterday.

Submitted by Big Al on Sat, 05/27/2017 - 12:50pm

Step into the light, or break on through to the other side.

I've noticed many people when talking about the U.S. war in Syria will make it a point to say that "Assad is evil and must go, but . " They feel the need to not go against the overwhelming narrative painted by the government and the oligarchy's media.

It's like 9/11. I was going to write an essay about Seth Rich and 9/11. People become almost rabid about Seth Rich and the DNC but when it comes to 9/11, remain silent. They don't want to step into that light. Even Johnstone does it, she was saying how the Seth Rich case is so important and needs to stay in the limelight because it can bring the DNC down. What about 9/11?

Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Sun, 05/28/2017 - 5:01am

@Big Al I would bet most people

@Big Al I would bet most people here share your views on 9/11. Maybe not. But the fact that people aren't publishing essays here about 9/11 doesn't strike me as especially significant, given that there's no new information about it that I know of that's been published in the last couple of years. But if it makes you feel better, I'd be happy to step into that light again.

Yes, it looks like controlled demolition to me. I'm not expert enough to say whether it actually was.

Yes, it was suspicious, even in NYC, that people were able to get perfectly framed shots of the disaster out of their apartment windows, in the moment of the disaster happening. Given that it's NYC, I guess it's possible that there were enough aspiring filmmakers with cameras around to get the footage, but it wouldn't be my first reaction if a building had been flown into by a jet and people were dying. The impulse to record a horrific event does seem to trump other responses for some people. But the professional quality of the shots seemed suspicious to me at the time, and still does.

Even if everything else were on the up-and-up, why did the investigation into the hijackers (before 9/11 happened) get stonewalled at Justice? We know of at least two instances where FBI agents were literally on the track of people who ended up hijacking planes, but there was, shall we say, a disconnect between the work of those agents and the people who ran the Justice Department, and the agents' work did not percolate up to the higher levels. As I recall, one of them, Colleen Rowlins, became a whistleblower of sorts.

Even if everything else were on the up-and-up, why did the Bush administration sit on a report entitled Bin Laden Determined to Strike Targets Within U.S., a report that included the possibility of using planes as weapons?

Most importantly of all, as Gore Vidal said (among other things) why did the U.S.' air defenses all along the Eastern Seaboard fail to scramble jets per their standing orders to do so as soon as a plane goes off its scheduled course? And why was there no accountability for this failure? As Vidal also said, "In my day, such a thing would have been occasion for a court-martial."

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

Submitted by CB on Sun, 05/28/2017 - 10:42am

Richard Perle knows the truth of 9/11

@Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal

#2 I would bet most people here share your views on 9/11. Maybe not. But the fact that people aren't publishing essays here about 9/11 doesn't strike me as especially significant, given that there's no new information about it that I know of that's been published in the last couple of years. But if it makes you feel better, I'd be happy to step into that light again. Yes, it looks like controlled demolition to me. I'm not expert enough to say whether it actually was. Yes, it was suspicious, even in NYC, that people were able to get perfectly framed shots of the disaster out of their apartment windows, in the moment of the disaster happening. Given that it's NYC, I guess it's possible that there were enough aspiring filmmakers with cameras around to get the footage, but it wouldn't be my first reaction if a building had been flown into by a jet and people were dying. The impulse to record a horrific event does seem to trump other responses for some people. But the professional quality of the shots seemed suspicious to me at the time, and still does. Even if everything else were on the up-and-up, why did the investigation into the hijackers (before 9/11 happened) get stonewalled at Justice? We know of at least two instances where FBI agents were literally on the track of people who ended up hijacking planes, but there was, shall we say, a disconnect between the work of those agents and the people who ran the Justice Department, and the agents' work did not percolate up to the higher levels. As I recall, one of them, Colleen Rowlins, became a whistleblower of sorts. Even if everything else were on the up-and-up, why did the Bush administration sit on a report entitled Bin Laden Determined to Strike Targets Within U.S., a report that included the possibility of using planes as weapons? Most importantly of all, as Gore Vidal said (among other things) why did the U.S.' air defenses all along the Eastern Seaboard fail to scramble jets per their standing orders to do so as soon as a plane goes off its scheduled course? And why was there no accountability for this failure? As Vidal also said, "In my day, such a thing would have been occasion for a court-martial."

Submitted by mimi on Sat, 06/24/2017 - 3:38am

Belatedly: And did he tell the truth and can he prove it? /nt

@CB

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Submitted by mimi on Sat, 06/24/2017 - 4:10am

Oh no, now I googled Richard Perle and 9/11

@CB @CB
and I don't remember where I saw this, hopping and clicking around (oh, it was on the medium.com site of Caitlin Johnstone):

Your mind is programmable - and if you are not programming it, then someone else will program it for you. - Jeremy Hammond

So, I am reminded of my mother-in-law, who told me a trick how to handle a kid, that gets on your nerves, because it wants to have chocolate and tramples on your nerves demanding it all the time. Give the kid lots of chocolate and make the kid eat it. After a while it can't stand chocolate anymore. And mom gets her peace. And the kid is programmed to get stomach cramps just thinking about chocolate.

So, isn't the online world of news and blogs etc all the chocolate my brain wants to consume? So, the www is giving it to me ... and I ate too much til my body can't stand it anymore and throws up just thinking about the next news video.

Well, I think 9/11 was an accident. Someone screwed up and trusted the wrong source. Nobody wants to admit it. Deny it til we all are dead and then you can read all the "truth" in the history books of the future.

My advice: Never study history.

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Submitted by mimi on Sat, 06/24/2017 - 4:19am

And isn't Caitlin Johnstone's chocolate offerings

@mimi
extra delicious? I am eating her's like crazy. Now I am "programmed". She and me, we are both part of the system. And it's not funny.

Just saying and to be clear.

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Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Sun, 05/28/2017 - 5:12am

@Big Al In my view, there has

@Big Al In my view, there has been nothing "almost rabid" in our discussions of Seth Rich, and I'm not sure why the idea that politicians would murder someone they suspected of whistleblowing is any more rabid than any of a dozen things we regularly discuss on here.

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

Submitted by Linda Wood on Sun, 05/28/2017 - 12:52pm

Or

@Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal
whether the idea that powerful interests would murder someone who was about to provide evidence in a lawsuit about exit polling in the primaries.

http://www.mockingbirdpaper.com/content/local-activist-files-suit-access...

Local activist files suit for access to exit polling data, Dead witness blocks path to truth
Author: Gerry Bello

Local election integrity activist Peter Johnson filed suit in federal court yesterday, July 11, against Edison Media Research Inc. (EMR), a New Jersey company that conducts exit polls that media outlets rely on to report election results.

… The successful prosecution of this suit will provide journalists with a massive trove of data which could be used to substantiate or put the rest the widespread claims of fraud during the 2016 primary process. These claims are based on voter suppression not vote flipping, and the ultimate chain of evidence leads through a recently murdered DNC staffer, to the DNC itself, to the State Department and ultimately Clinton's IT guru Bryan Pagliano.

Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Sun, 05/28/2017 - 1:23pm

@Linda Wood I was using

@Linda Wood I was using "whistleblowing" rather broadly. To my mind, if he was going to testify in court about exit polling shenanigans, that would count as whistleblowing.

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

Submitted by TheOtherMaven on Mon, 05/29/2017 - 11:44am

Seth Rich is not the first "convenient" death

@Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal
There was also the "convenient" accident that took out the guy who was blowing the whistle about black-box voting shenanigans in Ohio in 2004, as I recall. (I can't think of his name offhand, unfortunately - senior-itis.)

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Submitted by on the cusp on Sat, 05/27/2017 - 1:05pm

Big Al, I keep my thoughts

about 9/11 pretty much to myself, so as not to suffer the conspiracy theorist shaming that would ensue.
On the other hand, I do not believe a word in the official accounts of it.
I see the consequences of Homeland Security, the NSA, our loss of privacy, the militarization of police, wars all over the damn globe, torture, black sites, criminalization of whistleblowers, and on and on...
We were not a great democracy before 9/11, but we aren't a democracy at all since then.

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

Submitted by Big Al on Sat, 05/27/2017 - 1:15pm

9/11 is everything at this point which is why they work so

@on the cusp hard at shaming people for doubting the official story. They even call those who question the official story, "truthers". Talk about ridiculous and people fall for it.
To me, that's what separates the wheat from the chafe when it comes to the revolution. People that either believe the official story or will not consider "uncomfortable truths" about 9/11 are not going to be on the right side of the revolution. They're either too stupid, too brainwashed or too chickenshit.
The revolution, that is coming. Yep.

Submitted by Wink on Sun, 05/28/2017 - 10:03pm

But then one would

@Big Al
have to believe that there were more than Lee Harvey Oswald involved in the JFK assassination, and we all know that is horse$h!t. amirite? amirite?

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Submitted by dkmich on Sat, 05/27/2017 - 2:22pm

Sane Progressive is not shy about sharing her 911 thoughts.

@on the cusp

She does a bang up job with truth telling.

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Submitted by on the cusp on Sat, 05/27/2017 - 3:33pm

@dkmich I will research her

@dkmich I will research her videos.
9/11 "truthers" have been put into the same pile of deplorables with Obama is Kenyan/Muslim/chem trails/fake moon landing group.

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

Submitted by TheOtherMaven on Sat, 05/27/2017 - 5:19pm

Some theories are pretty far out

@on the cusp
However, the dump also holds the opinion (which I share) that BushCo had their collective heads so far up their asses that they didn't believe anything *could* happen that they didn't want and intend to happen - and they were shell-shocked to find just how appallingly wrong they were.

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Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Sun, 05/28/2017 - 5:09am

@TheOtherMaven I'm one of those

@TheOtherMaven I'm one of those who believes that the government simply allowed the terrorist act to occur. They knew it was coming (see Bin Laden Determined to Attack Targets Within U.S.) and allowed it to proceed, to the point that investigations into the hijackers (pre-9/11) at the Justice Dept. were stonewalled. Bush/Cheney et al needed a catalyzing event. Remember that Bin Laden said publicly that he was surprised at how well it worked.

However, I'm not prepared to state conclusively that the demolition theory doesn't have legs; it looks to me like it might.

I haven't pursued that because, once you acknowledge that the government is willing to sit on its hands and allow their people to be slaughtered in a foreign attack on its soil, it no longer matters. What's the difference whether they're willing to let foreigners come over here and kill us or whether they themselves actively arranged for us to be killed, in pursuit of justification for all the wars and police state bullshit they wanted?

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"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha

"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver

Submitted by Linda Wood on Sun, 05/28/2017 - 1:07pm

Exactly.

@Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal
The difference between LIHOP theorists, who believe our government Let It Happen On Purpose, and MIHOP theorists, who believe they Made It Happen On Purpose, is pretty thin. I mean, if you allowed it to happen, knowingly, you helped to make it happen.

But yes, there is a difference between LIHOP persons like myself and those who believe there were no hijackers and that there was no involvement by jihadists or the Saudi princes.

I eventually came to believe that the PNAC announcement in advance of the necessity of such an attack was not so much a call for someone to do it but a mea culpa, a realization that at some point their involvement would be found out and that their reason for enabling it was explained by their many position papers.

Submitted by randtntx on Sat, 05/27/2017 - 3:08pm

Thanks CB.

I watched it/read it and probably would not have found it had you not put it here.

Submitted by CB on Sat, 05/27/2017 - 10:40pm

Caitlin recommends the following documentary

HyperNormalisation: Adam Curtis BBC documentary to look at why the world is so hopelessly f*cked

'We have retreated into a simplified and often completely fake version of the world'

Here's trailer:

Here's doc: (I hope it's OK. I'm downloading for viewing later)

Submitted by mimi on Sat, 06/24/2017 - 3:15am

Thank You, belatedly /nt

@CB

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Submitted by Battle of Blair... on Sun, 05/28/2017 - 4:13am

I was telling people about the plan to attack Syria 12 years ago

The Usual Suspects Agenda - Phase II: Attacking Syria

It's World War 4 Stupid! How The Usual Suspects Planned This All Along

You can read my entire The Usual Suspects series there.

Submitted by CB on Sun, 05/28/2017 - 11:03am

Needs a password to view

@Battle of Blair Mountain

Submitted by snoopydawg on Sun, 05/28/2017 - 6:45pm

The answer to this question is

Is it possible that there is a power establishment governing your country which is so evil that it would engineer the deaths of children in a false flag attack to manufacture consent for a strategically valuable regime change it’s been seeking for decades?

Operation Northwoods

In the early 1960s, America's top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba.

Code named Operation Northwoods, the plans reportedly included the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and even orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities.
The plans were developed as ways to trick the American public and the international community into supporting a war to oust Cuba's then new leader, communist Fidel Castro.

Funny how that information was never discussed by the media when this article was published in May, 2001. Or maybe it was and I missed reading it.
I wonder if more people knew about this just 4 months before the 9/11 attacks, would people have put two and two together and question if that was what happened on that day?
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92662&page=1

Submitted by Linda Wood on Wed, 05/31/2017 - 11:52am

I would say

@snoopydawg @snoopydawg
to your question,

if more people knew about this just 4 months before the 9/11 attacks, would people have put two and two together and question if that was what happened on that day?

Yes, I think more people would have seen it that way.