The Media & Their Narratives.

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Here's a fine example of Donald Rumsfeld's quote: "...because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things
we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not
know.

But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history
of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tends to be the difficult ones..."
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The general narrative of the legacy media was that fifteen year-old Shamima Begum was a young girl who left the UK
and went -with two other friends, to Syria in order to fight for ISIS. Later, she was discovered in al-Roj prison camp and
it was revealed that she'd given birth to three children from her Dutch-born IS fighter husband, all of them died.

With the MSM constantly suggesting Begum should be returned to the UK and the public should forgive her juvenile
conduct, her case was presented to the the UK Government's UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid, who tackled the situation
in the high courts and Begum was stripped of her British citizenship.


Amira Abase (from left), Kadiza Sultana and Shamima Begum go through Gatwick airport, south of London,
on 17th Feb. 2015

(Images on the right) Shamima Begum pictured in 2019 in her Islamic clothing and later photographed in March
of 2021 wearing Western attire in Al Roj Camp, in northeastern Syria.


The media jumped on the sensational story of a little Muslim girl and her friends sneaking away to fight for a belief and
then being stuck in an awkward position. The public were urged to comment on the strange set of circumstances and it
seemed the overwhelming consensus was that young Shamima had made her bed and therefore, should lay in it.

Dressed in her black niqab, Ms Begum explained to the BBC camera how she'd been duped by the exciting aspects of
ISIS dogma and that though it was later reported that she'd witnessed beheadings, stitched suicide vests and carried an
AK-47’, she had been just a silly girl reading too-much off the internet.

Now, that narrative is changing.

Shamima Begum: Spy for Canada smuggled schoolgirl to Syria

'Shamima Begum, who fled the UK and joined the Islamic State group, was smuggled into Syria by an intelligence agent for Canada.
Files seen by the BBC show he claimed to have shared Ms Begum's passport details with Canada, and smuggled other Britons to fight
for IS. Ms Begum's lawyers are challenging the removal of her citizenship, arguing she was a trafficking victim.



Canada and the UK declined to comment on security issues.

Ms Begum was 15 when she and two other east London schoolgirls - Kadiza Sultana, 16, and 15-year-old Amira Abase - travelled to
Syria to join the IS group in 2015. At the main Istanbul bus station, the girls met Mohammed Al Rasheed, who would facilitate their
journey to IS-controlled Syria. A senior intelligence officer, at an agency which is part of the global coalition against IS, has confirmed
to the BBC that Rasheed was providing information to Canadian intelligence while smuggling people to IS.

The BBC has obtained a dossier on Rasheed that contains information gathered by law enforcement and intelligence, as well as
material recovered from his hard drives, which provide extraordinary detail about how he operated. He told authorities that he had
gathered information on the people he helped into Syria because he was passing it to the Canadian embassy in Jordan.

Rasheed, who was arrested in Turkey within days of smuggling Ms Begum to IS, told authorities he had shared a photo of the passport
the British schoolgirl was using. The Metropolitan Police were searching for her, although by the time Canada received her passport details,
Ms Begum was already in Syria.

The dossier shows that Ms Begum was moved to Syria through a substantial IS people-smuggling network that was controlled from the
group's de-facto capital in Raqqa. Rasheed was in charge of the Turkish side of this network and facilitated the travel of British men,
women and children to IS for at least eight months before he helped Ms Begum and her two friends.

Ms Begum told the BBC's forthcoming I'm Not A Monster podcast: "He organised the entire trip from Turkey to Syria… I don't think
anyone would have been able to make it to Syria without the help of smugglers. "He had helped a lot of people come in… We were
just doing everything he was telling us to do because he knew everything, we didn't know anything."

Rasheed kept information about the people he helped, often photographing their ID documents or secretly filming them on his phone.
One recording shows Ms Begum and her friends get out of a taxi and into a waiting car not far from the Syrian border. Rasheed also
gathered information about IS, mapping the locations of the homes of Western IS fighters in Syria, identifying IP addresses and
locations of internet cafes in IS-controlled territory, and taking screenshots of conversations he was having with IS fighters.

In one conversation, Rasheed spoke to a man believed to be notorious British IS fighter and recruiter, Raphael Hostey, who says to
him: "I need you to work under me. Officially… I want you to help us bring people in." In a follow-up text, Rasheed asks Hostey:
"Can you explain a little, please?"

Hostey says: "Same thing that you're doing now, but you work for us bringing equipment, bringing in brothers and sisters".
Mohammed Al Rasheed replies: "I am ready, brother." Rasheed was arrested in the Turkish city of Sanliurfa not long after
he had facilitated the girl's journey to Syria.

In a statement to law enforcement, he said that the reason he had gathered information on everyone he had helped, including
Shamima, was because "I was passing this information to the Canadian embassy in Jordan". Rasheed said that in 2013 he
had gone to the Canadian Embassy in Jordan to try to apply for asylum. He said: "They told me they were going to grant me
my Canadian citizenship if I collect information about the activities of ISIS."

The BBC has been able to confirm that Rasheed passed in and out of Jordan multiple times between 2013 and his arrest in 2015.
Tasnime Akunjee, the lawyer for the Begum family, said there will be a legal hearing in November to challenge the removal of
Ms Begum's citizenship and "one of the main arguments" will be that then-Home Secretary Sajid Javid did not consider that
she was a victim of trafficking.

"The UK has international obligations as to how we view a trafficked person and what culpability we prescribe to them for their
actions," he said. Mr Akunjee said it was "shocking" that a Canadian intelligence asset was a key part of the smuggling operation
- "someone who is supposed to be an ally, protecting our people, rather than trafficking British children into a war zone".

"Intelligence-gathering looks to have been prioritised over the lives of children," he said.
Shamima Begum is now held in a detention camp in north-east Syria, her citizenship was taken away in 2019 after she emerged
from the ashes of the so-called IS caliphate. A Canadian Security Intelligence Service spokesman said he could not "publicly
comment on or confirm or deny the specifics of CSIS investigations, operational interests, methodologies or activities".

A British government spokesperson said: "It is our long-standing policy that we do not comment on operational intelligence or
security matters."...'

BBC:

[727Sky]

Maybe it is my age or whatever but IMO very few stories we hear are factual after all the contrived propaganda B.S. is scraped away. I would not shed a tear if they stood her and her ISIS buds up and slit their throats ..eye for and eye and all that biblical stuff !! hahaha

[NightskyeB4Dawn]

Maybe it is my age or whatever but IMO  very few stories we hear are factual after all the contrived propaganda B.S. is scraped away. I would not shed a tear if they stood her and her ISIS buds up and slit their throats ..eye for and eye and all that biblical stuff !! hahaha

Because of “taqiyya” it is expected that Islamist will say whatever you want to hear, and are almost commanded to lie to infidels.

So anything she says will always be suspect.

I am am not saying for one second, that Islamist have a monopoly on lying. If that was the case, everyone would have to be considered an Islamist.

The problem is that lying is be believed by many to be a tenant of Islam, expected, commanded, and rewarded. While in other religions it is frowned upon, to be avoided and punished.

Another reason many also believe that in the end Satan will have his rule on Earth, and Islam will be the one world religion.

I pray if this is to be, that this will happen after I have already left this Earthly plane. If not, I hope my demise will be short and swift.

[Snarl]

I would not shed a tear if they stood her and her ISIS buds up and slit their throats ..eye for and eye and all that biblical stuff !!

Islam will be the one world religion.

Won't happen anytime soon ... no matter how many of 'em the NWO immigrated into the Western World. Lucky for Western Women for sure.

Islam is less a form of religion as it is a form of governance. I lived under its tenants for a little more than 6 months back in the early '80s. To this day I am still impressed by the experience.

As soon as I realized that nary a single Muslim would have a problem ending my life ... given the chance ... I fully embraced the role of Crusader.  Never felt a moment's guilt over any of that either.

[Bloodstained]

Maybe it is my age or whatever but IMO  very few stories we hear are factual after all the contrived propaganda B.S. is scraped away. I would not shed a tear if they stood her and her ISIS buds up and slit their throats ..eye for and eye and all that biblical stuff !! hahaha

That's way too old testament for me. I like forgiveness!

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Maybe it is my age or whatever but IMO  very few stories we hear are factual after all the contrived propaganda B.S. is scraped away. I would not shed a tear if they stood her and her ISIS buds up and slit their throats ..eye for and eye and all that biblical stuff !! hahaha

As to your first line I'll definitely agree with you on that note! For those of us who may still be around just imagine what will be learned 20 years from now on the circa 2020 narratives. Course, that's assuming they don't outlaw reading/writing.

As to old testament punishment style I would refrain on the pawns but, we do need a biblical style purge of those that wield the pen and their deep state bureaucratic cesspool of both gov & corp swamp creatures. 

Short refresher: False Flags and Media Propaganda

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In the particular article above, several questions arise that indicates how little the public know of what seems to be a recruiting
of persuaded followers and acquisition of information of those who wish to join a certain ideology. This may all seem obvious to
many, but the Begum-situation may be a glimpse into the dark world of 'false-flag' creation and how -what we perceive is the
manner we live our daily lives, isn't founded on the typical assumption that our security agencies are believed to function.

In hundreds of previous news-pieces, we were told that a 'terrorist'-group adhering to an extreme version of that religious belief
had been formed by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian who later joined al-Qaeda and became a follower of Osama bin Laden.

Operating in Afghanistan, the public were then informed that ISIS was slowly expanding their control to other areas of the globe.
Deaths were many and often videoed to further the dread of these zealots. Bin Laden became the poster-figure to scare the west
and became the instigator of the Twin Towers attack. Al-Zarqawi died and then Bin Laden was killed and the horrible headlines
faded like Covid on a sunny day.

If we take the BBC's investigation at face-value, it means the Canadian intelligence services -a country that is still a member of
the Commonwealth of Nations, were involved in smuggling a British citizen into a known terrorist organisation for reasons still
to be explained.

So, even after all the UK's media banging-on about how a little girl from Bangladeshi parents had been groomed on-line by a
charming and impressive boy from overseas and then went with her friends to meet him in Turkey and be finally sneaked across
the border into Syria, we now discover all that was utter shite! The journey may have been true, but the background was based
on actions from a fellow-member of the Commonwealth.

Don't get me wrong, this has little to do with Canada as a nation, it shows how fake the established media-outlets are -including
the BBC who also previously wrote articles backing the original Begum-narrative, and also hints at the duplicitous workings of
security agencies from all countries interested in maintaining the terror threat.

Simple questions:
If a lickle girlie-girl from Bethnal Green, East London hadn't been targeted by whoever via the internet, would she have travelled
the hour-long trip to Gatwick Airport, flew the almost five-hours to Turkey and then delivered herself and her two friends into the
hands of total strangers?

What convincement and from who, would allay the media-generated fears of a female Muslim teenager enough that she would
embark on this journey, unless a confidence had been nurtured within the girls' secret-circle that the reported horrors wouldn't
effect Shamima and her cohorts?

Did you ever think of doing this at fifteen years of age, whilst being aware of the media's scary stories of beheadings, rape-rooms
and the accepted perception of women within extreme Islamic dogma?

Would such a (costly) undertaking be merely down to the excitement of living the life of a Jihad's wife and child-bearer? Begum
states: "...We were just doing everything he was telling us to do because he knew everything, we didn't know anything..." in regards
of the Canadian-agent, a victim's narrative. At no point does the girl state she was there to fight for a cause and in a letter supposedly
seen by the BBC from Begum's lawyer...

"...lawyer Mr Akunjee claims the family was not told that Shamima had been interviewed by police when
another girl at the same school left for Syria the previous December. Had they known, he says, the family
would have been able to stop Shamima from following her.

The letter makes the point that police interviewed seven friends of this first Bethnal Green runaway schoolgirl,
whom the lawyer says had been "groomed for exploitation and trafficked internationally". But the police spoke
to these seven girls, including Shamima, Amira and Kadiza, without the knowledge or consent of their parents.

The lawyer says that by questioning the girls without their parents, they were effectively put on notice that "they
were being monitored and would have to leave for Syria immediately"..."

Archived BBC Source:

How did the Police know these seven girls were being groomed on-line for exploitive purposes? How was it that three of that particular
seven actually ceded to the convincing and then managed to travel out of the country after one of the group had fled and no alarm was
raised by Customs? Wouldn't it have been prudent to warn the UK Custom officialdom?
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This part of the whole situation is merely the tip of what is a regular scheme maintained by Government-funded agencies. The trafficking
narrative is a distraction from the simple tasks of moving people from A to B for reasons we're never supposed to know. Whether it is to
use for false-flag operations or some truncated manner of gathering intelligence on an enemy, it does give the public a glimpse into the
world of agencies that we're supposed to trust.

Anyway, Castro's illegitimate-son said he'll look into it.

Shamima Begum: Canada will investigate spy smuggling allegations

'Canada says it will "follow up" claims that one of its spies smuggled three UK schoolgirls into Syria in 2015.
A BBC investigation revealed Shamima Begum, who fled the UK and joined the Islamic State group with two friends,
was smuggled by a Canadian agent.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he will "look at" the accusations to ensure rules were followed. But he defended the
intelligence services, who he said keep the country safe "in a very dangerous world". "The fight against terrorism requires
our intelligence services to continue to be flexible and to be creative in their approaches," Mr Trudeau told reporters at a
news conference on Wednesday.

"But every step of the way, they are bound by strict rules by principles and values that Canadians hold dear, including
around the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and we expect that those rules be followed. "I know there are questions
about certain incidents or operations of the past and we will ensure to follow up on this," he pledged.

Ms Begum is now held in a detention camp in north-east Syria. Her citizenship was taken away in 2019 after she was
discovered at a refugee camp following the collapse of the so-called IS caliphate. Tasnime Akunjee, the lawyer for the
Begum family, is challenging the removal of Ms Begum's citizenship and said "one of the main arguments" will be that
the home secretary did not consider that she was a victim of trafficking.

Can you be stripped of your British citizenship?

He said it was "shocking" that a Canadian intelligence asset was a key part of the smuggling operation - "someone who
is supposed to be an ally, protecting our people, rather than trafficking British children into a war zone". Ms Begum was
15 when she and two other east London schoolgirls - Kadiza Sultana, 16, and 15-year-old Amira Abase - travelled to Syria
to join the IS group in 2015.

The girls met Mohammed Al Rasheed, who would facilitate their journey from Istanbul into IS-controlled Syria.
A senior intelligence officer, at an agency which is part of the global coalition against IS, has confirmed to the BBC that
Rasheed was providing information to Canadian intelligence while smuggling people to IS.

The BBC has obtained a dossier on Rasheed that contains information gathered by foreign law enforcement and intelligence,
as well as material recovered from his hard drives, which provide extraordinary detail about how he operated. He told authorities
that he had gathered information on the people he helped into Syria because he was passing it to the Canadian embassy in Jordan.

Rasheed, who was arrested in Turkey within days of smuggling Ms Begum to IS, told authorities he had shared a photo of the
passport the British schoolgirl was using. The Metropolitan Police were searching for her, although by the time Canada received
her passport details, Ms Begum was already in Syria.

A Canadian Security Intelligence Service spokesman told the BBC he could not "publicly comment on or confirm or deny the
specifics of CSIS investigations, operational interests, methodologies or activities". Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said he
could not "comment on intelligence matters", but added that "at the moment" he did not recognise "what's being reported".

Ms Sultana is believed to have been killed in a Russian airstrike on the then IS held city of Raqqa. The whereabouts of Ms
Abase are unknown...'

BBC:

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I occasionally hear or read established media-outlets -when asked about dubious stories, replying that 'some media'
are sometimes guilty of stretching credulity, but always fail to mention who they are. Maybe it's a case of 'those without
sin, cast the first stone' and the truth won't set them free, but put them out of work.

Here's one -and I'm certainly no gun-expert, that may be an article that takes that trusting-bond between Journalists
and readers, and shows things are not what they seem.

SHARPSHOOTER
Ukraine claims pensioner ‘shot down £74m Russian fighter jet with RIFLE’ as he’s awarded medal for heroism

'Ukraine claims a pensioner shot down a £74m Russian fighter jet with just a rifle in a million-to-one hit.
The old man allegedly took out the Russian Su-34 warplane as it flew over his home in Chernihiv, northern Ukraine.


Valeriy Fedorovych and his 'target.

He reportedly collected debris from the downed jet and now keeps it in his garage. For the astonishing feat, the man
was awarded a medal by the State Border Service of Ukraine. Valeriy Fedorovych's alleged sharp-shooting hasn't been
independently corroborated.

However, footage from around the time of the reported incident shows the £74m plane spiralling as it crashes to earth.
The pensioner wasn't featured in the video.

Hailing his "heroism", Ukraine's State Border Service praised Valeriy for his "assistance in the protection of the state border".
A clip shared by the agency shows the elderly man walking through his devastated home city with a rifle slung over his shoulder.
It is the latest remarkable story of Ukrainian military exploits to emerge from the first six months of the war with Russia.

The story comes on the same day that Ukraine claimed to have destroyed a Russian plane without firing a single missile.
Yaroslav Melnyk, on receiving his Hero of Ukraine award, explained what had happened.

"We found the target, [and] we turned on the backlight radar," he said. "At this time, radar exposure warning signals sounded
in the [Russian invader's] cabin. "He realised that he had turned from being a hunter to being a target.
"This probably stunned the pilot so much he immediately ejected. The plane crashed..."
The incident reportedly took place in Kharkiv, eastern Ukraine, where much of the fighting is now concentrated...'

The Sun:

[BIAD]

I don't have an opinion on Chad Wolf and his occupation, but for Acosta's poor gate-keeping... Ooof!

[Snarl]

I'm certainly no gun-expert, that may be an article that takes that trusting-bond between Journalists
and readers, and shows things are not what they seem.

I'm not either, but the dude is posing with a shotgun ... not something capable of reaching out and touching a jet ... at the obvious height in the middle pic. -chuckle

[Ninurta]

I occasionally hear or read established media-outlets -when asked about dubious stories, replying that 'some media'
are sometimes guilty of stretching credulity, but always fail to mention who they are. Maybe it's a case of 'those without
sin, cast the first stone' and the truth won't set them free, but put them out of work.

Here's one -and I'm certainly no gun-expert, that may be an article that takes that trusting-bond between Journalists
and readers, and shows things are not what they seem.

SHARPSHOOTER
Ukraine claims pensioner ‘shot down £74m Russian fighter jet with RIFLE’ as he’s awarded medal for heroism

'Ukraine claims a pensioner shot down a £74m Russian fighter jet with just a rifle in a million-to-one hit.
The old man allegedly took out the Russian Su-34 warplane as it flew over his home in Chernihiv, northern Ukraine.


Valeriy Fedorovych and his 'target.

He reportedly collected debris from the downed jet and now keeps it in his garage. For the astonishing feat, the man
was awarded a medal by the State Border Service of Ukraine. Valeriy Fedorovych's alleged sharp-shooting hasn't been
independently corroborated.

However, footage from around the time of the reported incident shows the £74m plane spiralling as it crashes to earth.
The pensioner wasn't featured in the video.

Hailing his "heroism", Ukraine's State Border Service praised Valeriy for his "assistance in the protection of the state border".
A clip shared by the agency shows the elderly man walking through his devastated home city with a rifle slung over his shoulder.
It is the latest remarkable story of Ukrainian military exploits to emerge from the first six months of the war with Russia.

The story comes on the same day that Ukraine claimed to have destroyed a Russian plane without firing a single missile.
Yaroslav Melnyk, on receiving his Hero of Ukraine award, explained what had happened.

"We found the target, [and] we turned on the backlight radar," he said. "At this time, radar exposure warning signals sounded
in the [Russian invader's] cabin. "He realised that he had turned from being a hunter to being a target.
"This probably stunned the pilot so much he immediately ejected. The plane crashed..."
The incident reportedly took place in Kharkiv, eastern Ukraine, where much of the fighting is now concentrated...'

The Sun:

It IS possible, but I don't believe this particular story.

In Afghanistan, I saw a muj shoot down a Russian Mi-8 chopper with an ancient Enfield .303 probably left over from Kipling's Afghan war.

here he is:



He's standing on his chopper like a Great White Hunter after a safari. The rifle in his hands is not the one he used - that one he is holding is an SVD Dragunov captured out of the chopper. It seemed a fair trade, I reckon.

The reason I don't believe this particular story is because that is NOT a rifle the gent is holding. It's a shotgun, and I don't believe anyone could take out a fighter jet with a shotgun.

They taught us to take out aircraft with small arms by creating a cone of fire in front of the nose of the bird and letting them fly into it. The muj didn't do that. He got a lucky shot on a hydraulic line.

But a shotgun doesn't have the reach.

.

[Snarl]

guilty of stretching credulity

But a shotgun doesn't have the reach.

Which begs the question: Why sell us a tall tale?

It's the over and over and over about it that gets me ... friggin' Clown World.

[Ninurta]

guilty of stretching credulity

But a shotgun doesn't have the reach.

Which begs the question: Why sell us a tall tale?

It's the over and over and over about it that gets me ... friggin' Clown World.

It was probably an oversight when they were crafting the tale (Ghost of Kiev, anyone?), but most readers won't know a shotgun from sheep shit, so it'll gain traction it does not deserve anyhow.

Kinda like the tale of the nuclear plant that Russians are supposed to be occupying, "someone" is shelling, and everyone is pissing themselves over. If the Russians are occupying it, they sure ass hell aren't shelling themselves, so that leave only Ukrainians as the culprit. Instead of pissing themselves and pumping up the propaganda, why not just stop shelling it and solve that "dangerous" dilemma the easy way?

The entire shit-show is propagandistic smoke and mirrors. If the Ukraine was on the right side of it and an up-and-up "democracy" as advertised, they wouldn't have to make shit up.

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[BIAD]

It was probably an oversight when they were crafting the tale (Ghost of Kiev, anyone?), but most readers won't know
a shotgun from sheep shit, so it'll gain traction it does not deserve anyhow.

I believe the UK media are clearing the boards right now under the guise of the Queen's death (funny how everyone says
THE Queen and not a Queen!) and prepping for their next 'all-stars' fear-porn! The Ukraine-thing is rarely mentioned
except for land retrieved by Zelensky's men!

[BIAD]

It's 2022 and the media are now hinting that the Ukraine have successfully regained all the land up to the Russian border.
So much for waking the great bear. Now it seems that Putin has invested some money in 'influencing' politicians in several
countries since all the way back to 2014.

How much...? Well, three hundred million dollars. A miserly $300, 000 000 in eight years and considering other 'gifts' of cash
given by the west to other realms, one wonders what favours Vlad acquired for his paltry sum!
Or is it just the use of the Bogeyman-name of Russia that makes such payments bad?

Russia covertly spent $300m to meddle abroad - US


Evil Putin.

'Russia has covertly spent more than $300m (£260m) since 2014 to influence politicians in more than 24 countries, the US has
alleged. The Department of State's allegation is based on a declassified US intelligence assessment released on Tuesday.

A senior official from President Joe Biden's administration said: "We think this is just the tip of the iceberg."
Russia has not publicly commented on the issue. Moscow itself has repeatedly accused the US of meddling abroad.

American intelligence "assesses that these are minimum figures and that Russia likely has transferred additional funds covertly
in cases that have gone undetected", said the Biden administration official during a phone briefing.
The official was speaking on condition of anonymity.

The US intelligence assessment released in a cable did not name specific countries or officials believed to have been targeted
by Russia - but said they spanned four continents...'

Archived BBC Article: (more in link)

Is this the same US intelligence that had Trump banged-to-rights on the collusion accusation?!!

[Bally002]

Nek Minnut!

China -v- Taiwan (and the rest of us.)

Bally

[BIAD]

Any sign of a bias...?! (Remember, we're supposed to hold TV Presenters and Journalists in high-esteem!)

BBC takes Martine Croxall off air for potential breach of impartiality over Johnson

'Presenter of news programme The Papers said she was ‘gleeful’ after Boris Johnson pulled out of leadership race...'

'...Last week, the Channel 4 news anchor Krishnan Guru-Murthy was taken off air for a week after he was caught
making an offensive comment off-camera about the Northern Ireland minister Steve Baker. During an off-air moment
after his exchange with Baker last Wednesday, Guru-Murthy was heard to say: “What a cunt.”...'

The Guardian:

[Finspiracy]

There are no leaders, if there is no followers.

There is no authority, if no one obeys.

Just a thought. Never mind.

[BIAD]

I was reading an essay by Ian Wylie in regards of my old place of employment when I recalled a comment from an ex-Editor
and Managing Director of the same newspaper, when I asked why I was being made redundant. Sighing dramatically, the
tipsy superior replied that I had been "a necessary cost" and now could be discarded -along with forty-or-so fellow employees.

One of their requests was that I would show a sub-Editor how to perform my tasks in order to assist in keeping a local periodical
that has been around since 1870. Of course, this part of the conversation was performed with a grateful, solomn affectation.
So I set about explaining to the sub-Editor what I did every evening and how -if the functions were so superfluous, his service
at the newspaper may also slide into the danger-zone. Being a Journalist, he assured me there was no way he could possibly
become 'a necessary or unnecessary cost'.

From Wylie's essay:

"....In the newspapers of Harold Evans’ day, the editor was king. Today, what little power is left in local newspapers lies with
the advertising executives, not the journalists. The salary of an experienced, specialist reporter is viewed as an unnecessary
cost..."
Source:

Ian Wylie continues with blaming the internet for failing community-based newspapers, but could there be another reason?
Journalism is dying... but is a technology entirely to blame?

I guess many of us grew-up believing our own respective countries could sustain their populations with the most vital of fuel.
That of food. Okay... some fare may be imported because of climate and consumer-based reasons, but the masses have
always assumed that the very basics of comestibles were always grown and reared within their own countries.

However, it seems this isn't true. The world obtains its everyday-goods from only two places on the entire globe... unless the
media are not attacking the Devil' as some old-school Journalists liked to think themselves as such and merely writing garbage
to fill columns.

Sky News:

'...According to the latest ONS data, wheat-based products like bread, cereal and pasta had some of the steepest
price rises compared to this time last year, alongside milk, cheese, eggs and yoghurt.

The price of meat, particularly ham and bacon, increased considerably too, alongside olive oil, other vegetable fats,
jams and sauces. On the drinks side, mineral water had the biggest jump in price, followed by fruit juices, coffee and tea.

Why are food prices rising now?
The war in Ukraine has left the UK and other Western countries unable to access both Ukrainian and Russian exports.
This is because Vladimir Putin's forces have prevented goods from leaving Ukraine by sea and the UK has sanctioned
Russian goods altogether.

Combined, the two countries make up a third of global wheat supplies, which are not only used to make bread, cereal and
pasta, but also animal feed, which is vital for meat and dairy production. This drop in global supply drives up prices for all
of those products...'

Source:

So it could be -not only that Journalists have been thrown into the same pit as myself due to the internet, but because their
narratives have become so shallow and transparent. Were you aware that the Ukraine and Russia had been feeding you for
all these years?!

[Ninurta]

Regarding wheat production, Russia and the Ukraine actually account for a combined total of 11.5% of world production, not the 33% claimed:







Those figures are for 2020. Note that China alone accounts for 17%, more than the other two combined.



But wait - there's more!



Going forward, the Russia-Ukraine civil war has thrown sand into the wheel grease, and is affecting wheat market prices. Above that, the dearth of oil production will also affect them. Not just fuel for the combines, but also the fact that most fertilizer is manufactured from oil products as well. A double-whammy. Blame BidenHarris, OPEC+, and of course Russia and the Ukraine for rising prices that can be tracked back to the dearth of world oil supplies.



.While Russia and Ukraine DO have a part to play in the squeeze upon us, they are not all by theri lonesome - the usual suspects are also turning the thumb screws on us.



More information on wheat production: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internatio...statistics

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/08/t...ost-wheat/



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