tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post4875713137086209962..comments2024-03-28T21:56:51.675-04:00Comments on Face to Face: Tulsi campaign to flush out woke imperialists from Democrat party, attract culturally conservative populist crossover votersagnostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-29866063786118911382019-01-23T22:32:53.727-05:002019-01-23T22:32:53.727-05:00Why do people internalize the "nation of immi...Why do people internalize the "nation of immigrants" rhetoric so easily and sincerely? Is it because it somehow helps them rationalize striving/cocooning behavior? There seems to be a connection since a striving cocooner seems like they could be in a very similar mindset to someone fresh off the boat, generally alienated and back-against-the-wall, ruthlessly competitive . Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-71159802754634156832019-01-23T12:12:04.422-05:002019-01-23T12:12:04.422-05:00It appears that the unbiased media has begun unbia...It appears that the unbiased media has begun unbiasedly building consensus for Harris to become the Democratic nominee:<br /><br />https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1087883142772477952<br /><br />https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1087876406829350917<br /><br />Disturbing how the NYT is not so subtly throwing Tulsi under the bus already. <br /><br />https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/us/politics/2020-presidential-candidates.htmlDdRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02765879629552912474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-80724124488730343152019-01-14T17:07:41.952-05:002019-01-14T17:07:41.952-05:00Rania Khalek is like Abby Martin in getting fundin...Rania Khalek is like Abby Martin in getting funding from Russia instead of Qatar, and so being able to spread info about US support for jihadists in the Middle East, and advocate against the continued US presence there. And, to endorse and defend Tulsi Gabbard against her Qatari-controlled detractors.<br /><br />In their recent Unauthorized Disclosure podcast, Kevin Gosztola said he co-hosts a radio show for Sputnik, and that Rania makes social media video clips for In The Now, which is owned by the same parent co. as RT.<br /><br />Since Russia is aligned with the truth-tellers on US policy in the ME, they're one of the few state sources of funding you can get in order to spread info and advocate politically for us to get the hell out of there already.<br /><br />Every time someone accuses them, Abby Martin, et al of being "funded by Russia / Putin / the Kremlin," they and their supporters need to dismiss it with, "You're just a paid puppet of the jihadist elites of Qatar (if liberal) or Saudi Arabia (if conservative) -- no wonder you support the Pentagon and CIA's alliance with the jihadist militias in Syria, Iraq, and elsewhere."<br /><br />The American people are much less tolerant of us getting in bed with ground zero for radical Islamic terrorism, than they are "getting along with Russia" -- as proven by Trump's upset victory in the primaries and the general. If we wanted a hawk against Russia, and a butt boy for jihadism, we'd have voted for Marco Rubio or Crooked Hillary Clinton.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-80609014628701737402019-01-13T16:19:05.303-05:002019-01-13T16:19:05.303-05:00This is all apropos of media leftists attacking Tu...This is all apropos of media leftists attacking Tulsi, who interferes with their Qatari-funded strategy of amping up leftist social issues while advocating for Islamist-friendly foreign policy. She's the opposite -- moderate-to-conservative culturally (and doesn't give these issues importance to begin with), and against the Pentagon/CIA interventions in the Middle East in alliance with SA, Qatar, Pakistan, and other Islamist states.<br /><br />Here's Michael Tracey correcting the record on a Jacobin article slamming Tulsi, and an article from Truth Dig about Jacobin's flagrant Pentagon/CIA Islamist propaganda regarding Syria:<br /><br />https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1084229470087774209<br /><br />https://www.truthdig.com/articles/jacobin-fueling-lies-syria/<br /><br />The fundamental flaw in these media-left sources is their continued primary emphasis on identity rather than material conditions. They take "racism" first, and then foreign policy flows from that. And in their view, Islamism and jihadism are tantamount to Islam in general. So anyone who wants to curb jihadist destabilization of the ME, or of the broader world, is an Islamophobic bigot deep down. And that deep-down identitarian bigotry is what drives them toward their foreign policy views.<br /><br />The reality is that we don't want people's daily material lives destabilized, whether by this group or that group. If it happens to be radical Muslims doing the de-stabilizing, then that's who we need to contain, de-fang, or eliminate.<br /><br />For the identitarians, eliminating bigotry is the primary goal, and foreign policy flows from that. Countering Islamophobia in the West means supporting Islamists in the ME, for example the opposition to the secular Syrian state.<br /><br />This shows that many or most of the media left is not "socialist," in the sense of materialists who are class-first and anti-imperialist, but rather "social justice-ist" in the sense of re-branded and intensified SJWs who put identity first, believe cultural bigotry determines foreign policy, and who are either indifferent to or in favor of imperialism.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-88663822138743803932019-01-13T16:02:47.974-05:002019-01-13T16:02:47.974-05:00This is yet another reason why leftists from the m...This is yet another reason why leftists from the media sector are more in favor of the Reaganite status quo, compared to leftists from purely academic backgrounds, as I detailed here:<br /><br />http://akinokure.blogspot.com/2018/11/academic-left-more-populist-than-media.html<br /><br />The material interests of media leftists depend unusually heavily on Qatari Islamist funding, especially if they don't have mainstream US corporate funding.<br /><br />Academics, in contrast, are supported by US taxpayers via government grants, government-financed student loans that provide the demand for their higher-ed services, and outright salaries if they work for a public university. The US gov writ large is not in the pocketbook of Qatar, so their influence is diluted among academic leftists relative to media leftists, who are more likely to be owned lock stock and barrel by Qatar.<br /><br />The exception on the media left is those who are financed by a left-leaning oil state like Venezuela, who pays for a lot of Telesur, which hosts media leftists like Abby Martin (Empire Files). Chavismo in Venezuela does not depend on Islamism, so they don't care if their Western beneficiaries support a secular Syrian govt against the jihadist opposition and its allies in the Pentagon/CIA.<br /><br />And certainly if media leftists get funding from Russia, via RT, they are getting petro-funding from a govt that is against US imperialism in the ME -- not only to keep a geostrategic rival out of their sphere of influence, but also to keep jihadists from Russia's neighbors from invading and destabilizing Russia. Russia right now is not very left-leaning on social issues, but they don't care if the West adopts socially liberal policies -- if they have to promote left social issues in the West, in order to grab the attention of Western liberals, in order to advance Russia-friendly US foreign policy, then it's a no-brainer for them.<br /><br />Again, no need to do forensic accounting to see who's getting money or influence from Venezuela / Russia vs. from Qatar -- just look at the outlet's stance on Syria. Abby Martin, as a prominent example, worked for outlets funded by both of the good ones and not for outlets funded by the bad one. So she and her fellow travelers are more trustworthy on foreign policy than people from Democracy Now, The Intercept, or Jacobin.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-207296532534324012019-01-13T15:46:23.295-05:002019-01-13T15:46:23.295-05:00Reminder that most media Leftists are controlled b...Reminder that most media Leftists are controlled by Qatari Islamist petro-dollars. Qatar and Saudi Arabia are the twin centers for the spread of radical Islam (Wahhabism / Salafism), with Qatar focusing more on infiltrating civic institutions to enact Islamist policies, and SA focusing more on direct military conflict to impose these policies.<br /><br />So Qatar co-opts informational institutions to spread propaganda, while SA co-opts military-related institutions. Qatar aligns with the media cartel, SA with the MIC cartel. Qatar aligns with Democrats, SA with Republicans.<br /><br />Qatar realized that in order to infiltrate the Western media to spread Islamist propaganda, they had to end the culture war with the West. If Western nations enact gay marriage, raise the minimum wage, or protect their natural environment, what does that matter to Qatar? Their attempted sphere of influence is in the Middle East, so as long as gay marriage etc. does not reach Qatar or the ME -- and it will not, with puritanical Islamists in control of Qatar -- then who cares if it is enacted in the degenerate West?<br /><br />This is how the energy-sector ruling class of Qatar infiltrates Western media. Promote socially liberal policies for the West, while promoting Islamist-friendly foreign policy for the West vis-a-vis the ME. Al Jazeera Plus, targeting the (liberal) American audience, is the most direct form of this strategy, as AJ is Qatari owned and operated.<br /><br />But they clearly have influence over other media outlets, and especially those that are not part of the Big Five corporate media cartel. These non-corporate outlets are financially desperate, and they are willing to sell their souls to the Islamist foreign policy demands of their Qatari benefactors, in order to get funding for socially left-wing views in America.<br /><br />You don't have to do forensic accounting to trace Qatari influence -- this can be very arcane. Just look at who is not part of the corporate media, promotes socially leftist views, but wants to destabilize the secular government of Syria while keeping mum about the jihadist nature of the opposition to Assad.<br /><br />That is a signature of Qatari influence -- who else is socially left-wing (for the West) but has a big fat boner for neocon imperialism in the Middle East?<br /><br />This reveals Democracy Now, The Intercept, and Jacobin as compromised by Qatari wealth or influence. Probably others as well -- these are just the most obvious ones that have a high profile in leftist circles.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.com