{"id":110442,"date":"2018-12-11T06:55:53","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T10:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=110442"},"modified":"2018-12-11T06:55:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T10:55:53","slug":"msm-govt-granddaddies-of-the-conspiracy-theory-fabricated-by-the-cias-mockingbird-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=110442","title":{"rendered":"MSM &#038; GOVT: Granddaddies of the &#8220;Conspiracy Theory&#8221; fabricated by the CIA&#8217;s <i>Mockingbird Media<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-11-at-5.53.04-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110443\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-11-at-5.53.04-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"681\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-11-at-5.53.04-AM.png 681w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-11-at-5.53.04-AM-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 681px) 100vw, 681px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>The Largest Conspiracy Theory Peddlers Are MSM And The US State Department<\/h2>\n<p>Caitlin Johnstone<\/p>\n<p id=\"5fc2\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--figure\">The US State Department has\u00a0<a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StateDept\/status\/1071126011243302912\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StateDept\/status\/1071126011243302912\">issued a statement<\/a>\u00a0accusing the Syrian government of having carried out a false flag chemical weapons attack in northwestern Aleppo with the intent to blame it on the jihadist factions in the region, citing \u201ccredible info\u201d that the public has not been permitted to see. Never mind the known fact that there are\u00a0<a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/southfront.org\/jaysh-al-islam-officially-unites-with-al-qaeda-in-eastern-ghouta\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/southfront.org\/jaysh-al-islam-officially-unites-with-al-qaeda-in-eastern-ghouta\/\">actual, literal Al Qaeda affiliates<\/a>who have\u00a0<a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kurdistan24.net\/en\/news\/7a0f6294-ab7f-4d15-b5af-3ff4b444ab3f\/Syrian-rebels-admit-chemical-use-against-Kurds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.kurdistan24.net\/en\/news\/7a0f6294-ab7f-4d15-b5af-3ff4b444ab3f\/Syrian-rebels-admit-chemical-use-against-Kurds\">admitted to using chemical weapons in Aleppo<\/a>, and who are\u00a0<a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/libertarianinstitute.org\/articles\/syrian-rebels-used-chemical-weapons-throughout-the-war-a-partial-list-of-mainstream-admissions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/libertarianinstitute.org\/articles\/syrian-rebels-used-chemical-weapons-throughout-the-war-a-partial-list-of-mainstream-admissions\/\">known to have used chemical weapons<\/a>\u00a0throughout Syria\u00a0<a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.moonofalabama.org\/2018\/09\/syria-mattis-lacks-state-departments-intelligence-on-al-qaedas-chemical-capabilities.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.moonofalabama.org\/2018\/09\/syria-mattis-lacks-state-departments-intelligence-on-al-qaedas-chemical-capabilities.html\">even by the State Department\u2019s own admission<\/a>: the Official Narrative is that only the Syrian government uses chemical weapons, so the chemical weapons usage must necessarily be a false flag staged by Syrian president Bashar al-Assad.<\/p>\n<p id=\"cc76\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">Except they didn\u2019t use the words \u201cfalse flag\u201d. Despite the accusation being\u00a0<a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/False_flag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/False_flag\">the exact definition<\/a>\u00a0of the thing that a false flag attack is, you won\u2019t see the US government using that term, nor will you ever see it used in this instance by any of the authorized mainstream narrative-framing institutions like CNN or Fox News. This is because the term \u201cfalse flag\u201d is reserved solely for mention when referring to crazy, kooky Kremlin propaganda, as in the insane, unhinged, tinfoil hat belief that terrorists in Syria might possibly have some kind of motive to stage a false flag chemical attack in order to get the US, UK and France to act as their air force in a retaliatory strike against the Syrian government. That kind of false flag would be completely inconceivable to any right-minded empire loyalist, and is forbidden to even think about.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MSM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MSM<\/a> trying to link the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GiletJaunes?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GiletJaunes<\/a> protests to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Russia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Russia<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Putin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Putin<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Only surprising thing is how long it took.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0A0p8dnQiq\">https:\/\/t.co\/0A0p8dnQiq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; OffGuardian (@OffGuardian0) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OffGuardian0\/status\/1071409275858313216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">At the same time we are seeing a push from the mass media to advance a narrative that the\u00a0<a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2018\/12\/05\/yellow-vests-rise-against-neo-liberal-king-macron\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2018\/12\/05\/yellow-vests-rise-against-neo-liberal-king-macron\/\">Yellow Vests protests in France<\/a>\u00a0are due to Russian influence, with\u00a0<a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/rightweb.irc-online.org\/profile\/max-boot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-href=\"https:\/\/rightweb.irc-online.org\/profile\/max-boot\/\">Iraq-raping neocon<\/a>\u00a0Max Boot\u00a0<a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2018\/12\/08\/france-online-extremists-put-centrism-torch\/?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.4d9f356552f2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2018\/12\/08\/france-online-extremists-put-centrism-torch\/?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.4d9f356552f2\">publishing a column<\/a>\u00a0today in the\u00a0<em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0that is based entirely around the talking point that two trending Russian topics on social media have been \u201cgiletsjaune\u201d and \u201cFrance,\u201d and\u00a0<em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">Bloomberg<\/em>\u00a0<a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-12-08\/pro-russia-social-media-takes-aim-at-macron-as-yellow-vests-rage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-12-08\/pro-russia-social-media-takes-aim-at-macron-as-yellow-vests-rage\">putting out an article<\/a>\u00a0blatantly titled \u201cPro-Russia Social Media Takes Aim at Macron as Yellow Vests Rage\u201d. Their entire theory is that since there are people in Russia talking about a major event that everyone else in the world is also talking about, the protests against Macron\u2019s unpopular centrist policies are therefore the result of a conspiracy seeded by Russia.<\/p>\n<p id=\"b825\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">But you\u2019ll never hear this theory about a Russian conspiracy referred to as a \u201cconspiracy theory\u201d by the mainstream press. The theory that Russian elites have conspired to infiltrate the highest levels of the US government has been given serious treatment at the top echelons of media and political influence, despite its lacking any discernible evidence whatsoever, but when they talk about these alleged conspiracies they always make a point of using the word \u201ccollusion\u201d instead. There is no actual difference between the words collude and conspire when used in this way, but the former is used because a deliberate effort has been made to stigmatize the word \u201cconspiracy\u201d while the word \u201ccollude\u201d remains effectively neutral in the public eye.<\/p>\n<p id=\"2132\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">But the fact of the matter is that conspiracy theories have gone mainstream, and there is no legitimate reason to call the authorized, power-manufactured conspiracy theories by a different name than the grassroots narratives like those about 9\/11 or the JFK assassination. Indeed, due to the nature of populist folk narratives there is a lot more publicly available evidence contradicting the official 9\/11 and JFK assassination stories than there is for the establishment Russia conspiracy theories, because those narratives often boil down to nothing more than secretive intelligence agencies saying \u201cThis is true because we said so.\u201d Since grassroots conspiracy theories are unable to rely on empty assertions from authority, they tend to be built upon information that is publicly available.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/yuC_4mGTs98<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">Some people get annoyed with me for using the term conspiracy theory at all, but I insist that the phrase is itself intrinsically neutral: a theory about a conspiracy. The problem is not the phrase, it is the stigma that has been attached to that phrase by establishment media and establishment politicians; shifting to a different phrase to describe theories about conspiracies would only ensure that that phrase becomes stigmatized in the exact same way by the same sort of campaign. This would only ensure the survival of the tactic of regurgitating a pre-stigmatized label in the war of ideas instead of advancing actual arguments. The fact of the matter is that powerful people do indeed conspire, those conspiracies do indeed need to be talked about, and the largest promulgators of conspiracy theories are not Infowars or RT, but mainstream media and the US State Department.<\/p>\n<p id=\"4cad\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">Those who dismiss an idea by calling it a \u201cconspiracy theory\u201d without providing further argumentation are simply admitting to you that they have no argument, and it is right to point this out when they do it, because something being a conspiracy theory doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s not grounded in facts. Some conspiracy theories are good and are backed by solid evidence, some are stupid and are circulated for intellectually dishonest reasons. Once upon a time you would be called a conspiracy theorist for saying the west is arming terrorists in Syria or the DNC is conspiring to ensure the primary victory of Hillary Clinton; those things are now conspiracy facts, as history has vindicated the solid theories which predicted them. Other conspiracy theories are promulgated by dim-witted partisan loyalists for no other reason than dim-witted partisan loyalty, like the aforementioned Russiagate conspiracy theory, or the QAnon conspiracy theory which claims Donald Trump is leading a rebellion against the Deep State as cryptically reported by an anonymous user on 8chan.<\/p>\n<p id=\"1b03\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">Other conspiracy theories are subscribed to simply because they help people escape the cognitive dissonance of conflicting beliefs. For example, a strong believer in capitalism who sees the undeniable signs that a plutocratic class has control of their government, but who cannot accept that this plutocratic takeover was facilitated by a rampant capitalist system which\u00a0<a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@caityjohnstone\/twelve-tips-for-making-sense-of-the-world-43348077cf80\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@caityjohnstone\/twelve-tips-for-making-sense-of-the-world-43348077cf80\">ensures that the greediest sociopaths rise to the top<\/a>, may avoid cognitive dissonance by explaining the existence of the corrupt dominator class with conspiracy theories about Jews or pedovore cults. A liberal who cannot accept that neoliberal empire loyalists like Macron have failed to \u201cmake centrism cool\u201d as\u00a0<a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaxBoot\/status\/875477832624992257\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaxBoot\/status\/875477832624992257\">Max Boot predicted<\/a>\u00a0will avoid cognitive dissonance by explaining the failures of the Church of the Status Quo with conspiracy theories about Russian social media campaigns.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">To defeat populism, America needs its own Macron&#8211;a charismatic leader who can make centrism cool. My take: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AAF1YwTnqb\">https:\/\/t.co\/AAF1YwTnqb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Max Boot \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@MaxBoot) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaxBoot\/status\/875477832624992257?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 15, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">Conspiracy theories, in reality, are nothing more than people\u2019s attempts to explain what is going on in their world. Why Trump got elected. Why things stay shitty despite our perfectly rational attempts to change them. Why voting doesn\u2019t seem to make much difference in the actual behaviors of one\u2019s government. Why we keep marching into stupid wars, Orwellian dystopia and climate collapse despite having every incentive not to. Why the wealthiest of the wealthy keep getting wealthier while everyone else gets poorer and poorer. Some attempts to explain these things will come from a well-informed and intellectually honest place, and some will come from a myopic and intellectually dishonest place. Their individual merits can only be assessed on a case-by-case basis.<\/p>\n<p id=\"9e82\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">And in my opinion the conspiracy theories coming from the world\u2019s most powerful institutions are the most dishonest by far. I saw a recent\u00a0<a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wikileaks\/status\/1071103835018575872\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wikileaks\/status\/1071103835018575872\">post by the WikiLeaks Twitter account<\/a>\u00a0which referred to the corporate media as \u201cthe narrative business pretending to be in the news business,\u201d which is in my opinion a perfect way to phrase it.\u00a0<span class=\"markup--quote markup--p-quote is-other\" data-creator-ids=\"anon\">The real currency of the world is not gold, nor is it bureaucratic fiat, nor even raw military force; it\u2019s narrative control.<\/span>The ability to control the stories people tell about what\u2019s going on in their world means the ability to control how they think, how they vote, how they behave, and how they all agree money and power itself operates within our society. Since\u00a0<a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@caityjohnstone\/society-is-made-of-narrative-realizing-this-is-awakening-from-the-matrix-787c7e2539ae\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@caityjohnstone\/society-is-made-of-narrative-realizing-this-is-awakening-from-the-matrix-787c7e2539ae\">society is made of narrative<\/a>, controlling the narrative is controlling that society.<\/p>\n<p id=\"5fe4\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">Conspiracy theories are a way for those in power to manipulate the narrative without actually giving the public any hard facts and evidence, and the world\u2019s most powerful institutions are increasingly relying on conspiracy theories because they don\u2019t have facts and evidence on their side. And why would they? The same power establishment which deceived the world into destroying Iraq is obviously far too depraved to be able to justify its global hegemony with factual evidence. All they have is narrative control, and\u00a0<a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@caityjohnstone\/msm-is-getting-weirder-more-frantic-and-more-desperate-by-the-day-3b220ea0bb97\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@caityjohnstone\/msm-is-getting-weirder-more-frantic-and-more-desperate-by-the-day-3b220ea0bb97\">they\u2019re starting to lose even that<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@caityjohnstone\/the-largest-conspiracy-theory-peddlers-are-msm-and-the-us-state-department-81c5703d6e65\">https:\/\/medium.com\/@caityjohnstone\/the-largest-conspiracy-theory-peddlers-are-msm-and-the-us-state-department-81c5703d6e65<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}