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Journalistic Deceit: An Example Of Why You Can't Trust The News Media.

I was looking at the website for channel 45 news, a local ABC affiliate in Winston Salem NC, when I saw a story in the "Trending" column headlined "Iranian news outlet reports over 36,000 killed in protests, marking historic bloodshed". I've been following reports on the protests since they began, and the number of deaths from the protests has generally been counted in the low thousands, not tens of thousands. So I read further in the story to learn what ABC 45 knew that others didn't. 

The story said "Iranian news site, Iran International, reported on Sunday that over 36,000 people have been killed during the height of the protests that took place earlier this month". There was no explanation of who Iran International is, but at first I assumed it's a news agency within Iran. But if so, why were they reporting ten times more deaths than the Iranian government? I did some digging and found that Iran International is owned by Volant Media, a company based in the United Kingdom. Volant Media doesn't reveal their ownership. But according to Wikipedia, it is "reportedly linked to Saudi Arabia, [and] it (Iran International) is aimed at Iranians and people interested in Iranian news, culture, politics, society and sports. Iran International has been heavily criticized by the Iranian government for actively encouraging Iranians into anti-government protests and riots by spreading fake news and propaganda and has been described as a tool of Mossad by Barak Ravid. During the Mahsa Amini protests on 9 November 2022, the Iranian Minister of Intelligence Ismail Khatib announced that Iran International had been declared a terrorist organization by the Islamic Republic of Iran, accused of inciting riots protesting the government."

"According to Middle East Eye, Iran International is a media platform for the Iranian opposition. The channel is known for raising the profile of Reza Pahlavi, the last heir apparent to the former Iranian throne, by constant coverage and repeatedly interviewing him."

Reza Pahlavi is the eldest son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last shah of Iran who eventually became a bribed puppet of the CIA.

It seems apparent that Iran International is essentially a propaganda agency posing as a legitimate news source. And I suspect if its true ownership could be discovered, we'd see funding from America's CIA, the United Kingdom's MI6, and Israel's Mossad.

We should question why ABC 45, owned by Sinclair Broadcasting, would use a source as obviously biased as Iran International. But they aren't alone. Zionist slop-site 'Breitbart' is also quoting them.

Yes, the same number of victims is repeated by Breitbart, and the source of that number is Iran International. Initially, Breitbart also reported that Khamenei had fled to a fortified bunker, but they've since removed that part of the story. But another news site still makes the claim: The Times of Israel.

They write: "Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has gone into hiding in a Tehran bunker, according to the opposition-affiliated Iran International news site". The news site 'India Today' also made the claim, and also gave credit to Iran International as their source. So in one day we have at least four news sites (and probably hundreds more if you count all the stations owned by Sinclair) that published unverified information portraying the leaders of Iran as horrible murderers.

The point of my post isn't to take sides either for or against Iran. The point is that what at first appears to be a legitimate news article on a local television station's website is in reality a biased story from a sketchy source that seems to have an agenda. And this same source is also being used by other news sites around the world.

The average reader doesn't have the time to find out where their news is coming from. Most find sites they like and then trust they're being told the truth.

But as I've revealed here, when you scratch beneath the surface you often find that what you thought was journalism is actually manipulation.

Ignorance Is Engineered Into The System Of Control.

O Emburrecimento programado: A engenharia da ignorância coletiva.

Programmed Stupidity: The Engineering of Collective Ignorance.

"We live in an era where knowledge is at our fingertips, but understanding has become a rare commodity. The phenomenon of 'programmed stupidity' doesn't emerge as paranoid fantasy, but as an uncomfortable diagnosis: the more access we have to information, the less capacity we develop to filter it, interpret it, and question the ready-made versions handed to us. It's as if they've discovered there's no need to censor ideas when you can simply saturate people's minds with superficial distractions.

The degradation of education, in turn, doesn't seem like an administrative error, but rather a carefully calibrated mechanism. A people who don't master logic, history, reading, or critical analysis become dependent on official narratives, accept any ready-made explanation, and react aggressively to anyone who tries to think differently. They're the ideal population for any power that prefers obedient followers over conscious citizens.

Meanwhile, incessant entertainment turns the brain into a passive receptor. The logic is simple: keep everyone busy, emotional, rushed, and above all, unable to stop and reflect, because reflection is dangerous. Deep thought generates questioning; questioning generates resistance; resistance bothers those comfortable at the top. Thus, collective brutishness stops being a side effect and becomes a precise instrument of domination.

In the end, the great irony is that we don't need explicit dictatorships to limit thought when the people themselves learn to reject complexity and prefer superficiality. 'Programmed stupidity' works because it offers relief: thinking hurts, questioning tires, understanding requires effort. And while many content themselves with the easier version of reality, those who manipulate the mechanisms continue operating in the shadows, always grateful to live in a society that, little by little, has unlearned how to think."

[image and text by Revellati]

Evil People Exploit The Desperate.

[image by Revellati Online]

"Não há negócio maior do que vender as pessoas desesperadas, um produto que garante eliminar o desespero."

English translation:

There's no bigger business than selling desperate people a product that guarantees to eliminate their desperation.

Different Excuse, Same Agenda.

They say history doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes. We were told Iraq had "weapons of mass destruction" and we went to war to find them. None were found, but we stole a lot of oil. Now we're being told Venezuela is flooding America with narcotics, and Trump is threatening war. Will we find any? Or will we just find oil?

The Truth Must Be Spoken.

Israel claimed the world is antisemitic. 

Then it killed 680,000 Semitic people.

(and American politicians cheered)

It Was A Worldwide Jonestown.

"In 2020 the crisis was only to be found in the TV and nowhere in reality. The TV said to inject poison and 2.7 billion did exactly that. It was a worldwide Jonestown and the TV was the leader." -- Jason Christoff

(To learn about the Jonestown massacre of 1978, go to Encyclopaedia Britannica.)