Category: Media

Jeffrey Epstein Didn’t Kill Himself

Media There Goes The Narrative 55 Comments

The Epstein saga is the worst-reported story of all time.

The world’s leading news organizations on a regular basis print easily debunked untruths. Crucial details, like a federal case built on a recovered memory, the chief accuser being an epic fabulist, or nearly a billion dollars in civil claims won by “survivors” who themselves may be “professional recruiters” (as one victim put it to me), are left out of coverage. Almost all of the drama is concentrated in the expectation of revelations around things that still theoretically could be true, like underage hijinks with a Clinton or Trump, or an arrangement with the Mossad, but the absence of evidence of these things is rarely reported.

Inconvenient facts excised, reporters have used remaining details to build the mother of conspiracy tales, a keyhole through which the world may see All The Secrets, except the evidence doesn’t support the marquee. On closer examination, most elements of popular belief about Epstein collapse, leaving a manic, breathlessly wrong legend that’s on track to be remembered as a combination of Salem and The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

Including — everything you ever wanted to know about Virginia Giuffre but they were afraid to tell you.

Conspiracy Theories or Common Sense?

Baiting The Left Media Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 10 Comments

SDA regular, David Murrell, recently posted this in Reader Tips:

JD Vance rebuts Vanity Fair’s anti-Trump hit piece…
…by saying many “conspiracy theories turned out to be true”.

The entire article is well worth a read, in which Vance talks about the “conspiracy theories” of the dangers of masking three year-olds, the media covering up that Joe Biden clearly unable to do his job, Biden trying to throw his political opponents in jail rather than win an argument against them, etc. He sums it up with this: “So, at least on some of these conspiracy theories, it turns out that a conspiracy theory is just something that was true six months before the media admitted it.”

This got me thinking about a recent messaging conversation I had with a longtime friend in Vancouver:

Of course, he never responded to my question, which I posed twice in that thread. Why? Because he is afraid to examine any truth bombs that might burst the protective bubble wrap of ignorance that CBC/CTV/Global have carefully constructed all around his mind … and that of millions of other Canadians. My friend is not a bad person, but he is sooooo incredibly ignorant on most issues. Ironically, his wife is super based. The Covid Plandemic woke her up big time!

Elbows Down!

Gradually Then Suddenly It's Probably Nothing New Governor There Goes The Narrative 21 Comments

Since existing port facilities don’t have the capacity, I fully expect that someone will soon suggest that we access magical new export markets by shipping through Churchill. This is what Canadian exceptionalism actually amounts to: the stubborn insistence that we’re entitled to our dreams no matter how hard reality smacks us in the face.

But a recent announcement from one of Canada’s most successful natural resources exporters, saying that future exports will soon be shipped to overseas markets from a port in the state of Washington instead of Canada’s west coast, has raised fresh questions about whether some key Canadian ports even have the capacity to handle any more of those diversified goods. Any bottlenecks or other inefficiencies would only be magnified if exporters are able to hit Carney’s recent target that Canada will double non-U.S. exports over the next decade.

Clinging To Myths

Climate Cult There Goes The Narrative 20 Comments

Far from sleepwalking into an unmitigated disaster, farmers appear to have adapted quite well to the challenges posed by climate change. Or maybe climate change was just a fiction all along. Note how routine advances in crop genetics and machinery design are presented as responses to climate change as opposed to something that the ag industry, driven by the profit motive, has always done.

Spring wheat, used to make high-quality bread, yielded 58.8 bushels per acre this year, according to the government data release. That’s a gain of 77% from 30 years ago, based on a three-year average. Canola yields nearly doubled, reaching 44.7 bushels per acre, also based on a 1994-1996 average.

While most climate ⁠science paints a bleak picture for global food supply, with a study in Nature this year forecasting ‌up to 40% reduction in North America’s wheat harvest by 2100, the agricultural experts Reuters interviewed said that with climate adaptation strategies the prairies can continue to produce bigger and bigger crops in the future.

Coulda Had A Pipeline

Art Of The Deal Drill, Baby, Drill There Goes The Narrative 12 Comments

Oilprice;

Iraq’s Oil Ministry has revealed that it has sent out exclusive invitations to several major U.S. energy firms to develop the country’s huge West Qurna 2 oilfield following the withdrawal of Russian oil number two Lukoil after Washington ratcheted up sanctions on Moscow. “It’s a huge turnaround in the trajectory it [Iraq] had been headed with Russia and China, marking a massive win for us [the U.S.] and Europe,” a senior legal source who works closely with the U.S. Treasury Department exclusively told OilPrice.com last week. “Stay tuned – there’ll be more of this to come,” he added.

The significance of this sea-change in Iraq’s geopolitical leanings can barely be overstated. Following the increasing perception among the Iraqi people that the U.S. had overstayed its welcome after it removed Saddam Hussein as leader in 2003, Russia and China – in that order – looked to boost their influence across the country for three key reasons. First, it offers a huge repository of oil at the world’s joint lowest average lifting cost of $2-4 per barrel, together with large quantities of associated and non-associated gas. Second, it occupies the geographical heart of the region, lying west of Iran, north of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, east of Jordan and Syria (with its long Mediterranean coastline offering access to further critical sea routes), and south of Turkey (affording an entry into the European continent). And third, it is a key member of the ‘Shia Crescent of Power’ geopolitical arc that stretches from Iran through Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon, where Shia communities and Iran-backed groups exert significant influence over regional politics, economics, and security. In short, if you are a global superpower or wannabe, Iraq is where you need to be.

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