{"id":54586,"date":"2021-03-02T09:44:13","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T13:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=54586"},"modified":"2021-03-02T09:44:13","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T13:44:13","slug":"the-media-destroyed-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=54586","title":{"rendered":"The Media Destroyed America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts<br \/>\nGlobal Research<\/p>\n<div class=\"postThumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-single-post-thumbnail size-single-post-thumbnail wp-post-image alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Biden-Trumpp-400x225.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Biden-Trumpp-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Biden-Trumpp-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Biden-Trumpp.jpg 660w\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" \/><\/div>\n<p><em>It did not take long for the Lie Machine, aka American media, to create the false news and fake narrative of the \u201cstorming of the US Capitol\u201d on January 6 by a \u201cwhite supremacist insurrection.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Here is an example from Bloomberg Weekend Reading on January 23, 2021: <\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe scenes from the first day of Joe Biden\u2019s presidency unfolded against the backdrop of a devastated U.S. economy, continuing fallout from<i> a white supremacist\u00a0insurrection<\/i>, and a coronavirus death toll surpassing 400,000.\u201d[1]<\/p>\n<p>The fake narrative is accepted everywhere.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It is endemic in the world press.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Even news sources such as RT and Sputnik which endeavor to give us real news instead of presstitute lies have repeated the insurrection story.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump was impeached by the House on the sole basis of this fake news story, and now stands to be tried in the Senate on the same fake news charges.<\/p>\n<p>On the basis of the same fake news story, two Florida banks in which Trump had multi-million dollar deposits closed Trump\u2019s accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Signature Bank in New York also closed Trump\u2019s account.<\/p>\n<p>As did Germany\u2019s Deutsche Bank.<\/p>\n<p>New York mayor <strong>Bill de Blasio<\/strong>, who permitted Antifa and BLM to loot and burn Manhattan, has terminated the city\u2019s contracts with Trump businesses that run ice skating rinks and a carousel in Central Park and a golf course in the Bronx.<\/p>\n<p>The PGA of America voted \u00a0to take the PGA Championship away from Trump\u2019s New Jersey Golf course.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/2-florida-banks-close-trumps-accounts_3668071.html\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Other sources report that conventions are avoiding his hotels and that creditors will not renew loans.<\/p>\n<p>That fake news can have such real world consequences should scare every American to death.<\/p>\n<p>Notice also how the fake news story worsens with each repeat.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0On January 6,<\/span>\u00a0the alleged insurrection was by \u201cTrump supporters.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 By January 23<\/span>\u00a0 Trump supporters had been morphed into \u201cWhite supremacist insurrectionists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The entire world now believes in something that does not exist.<\/p>\n<p>This is an example of what it means to live in The Matrix.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Everyone lives in a false world created by lies repeated endlessly by pressitutes.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling lies are lies that enable Establishment agendas by getting rid of non-establishment explanations and shutting down non-establishment leaders.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Trump had to go because he was in the way of Establishment agendas.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>An example is being made of Trump as a lesson to others who value service to the people higher than service to the Establishment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"_magnetRelConrel_89-4\" data-widget-id=\"rel_89-4\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"magnet-row-rel_89-4\">\n<div class=\"magnet-box-rel_89-4\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"magnet-text-wrapper-rel_89-4\"><a class=\"_magnetRelLkrel_89-4\" title=\"Will the Presidential Election Bring Chaos and an Irredeemably Torn American Political Fabric?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/will-presidential-election-bring-chaos-torn-american-political-fabric\/5727871\" rel=\"nofollow\">Will the Presidential Election Bring Chaos and an Irredeemably Torn American Political Fabric?<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>There is no doubt whatsoever that Trump won reelection.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The accumulated evidence of electoral fraud is overwhelming.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Yet the Lie Machine was able to prevent the evidence being presented and examined.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>All the presstitutes ever said was that \u201cthere is no evidence of fraud,\u201d followed by \u201call who support examining the evidence are enemies of democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other words, democracy is a stolen election.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>If you protest the theft, you are an enemy of democracy.<\/p>\n<p>On December 29, 2020, almost two months after the November presidential election and after almost two months of demonization of Trump for saying the election was stolen, the Gallup Poll reported that its survey found that Donald Trump had displaced Obama as the man most admired by Americans.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/328193\/donald-trump-michelle-obama-admired-2020.aspx\">this<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span>Yet the most admired man lost the election.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that a presidential election could be stolen in plain view, attested to by numerous experts and a thousand signed affidavits, could go unexamined by the media, state and federal attorneys general, courts, and Congress, shows the power of the Establishment and the impotence of the media which, far from free, is in total service to the Establishment. The public never heard about the evidence from TV, newspapers, or NPR.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, in America there is no such thing as democracy.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>An election was stolen and nothing was done about it.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The Establishment was able to eliminate a president who did not serve its purposes and nothing was done about it.<\/p>\n<p>The people learned that their vote means nothing and, therefore, there is no democracy. A government controlled by the Establishment is unaccountable to the people.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps there is a silver lining. It has been a long time since government policy served the public.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The public accepted the situation, because most people believed it was in some way a democratic outcome.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Now they know that \u201cAmerican democracy\u201d was nothing but a mask for Establishment self-interests.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Perhaps the stolen election will serve as a wake-up call to bring the population out of its insouciance.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>There are signs that the Establishment is concerned that it will, thus the new domestic terrorism bill which will be used to criminalize dissent as terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>For those who are indoctrinated by media repetition that \u201cthere is no evidence of electoral fraud,\u201d let\u2019s assume this lie is correct.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The fact remains that the system has failed the people.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Whether the election was stolen or not, 74 million Americans according to the official vote count and 94 million Americans according to expert estimates of Trump\u2019s true vote count believe that the election was stolen.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Yet, the concerns of these millions of Americans were dismissed out of hand as fraudulent claims.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The presstitutes claimed repeatedly that the only fraud was the claim of fraud.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats, the media, and the institutions put in place to ensure a free society failed totally in their responsibility to address the sincere concerns of half or more of the voting population.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>This in itself is a failure of democracy, a failure of the Establishment.<\/p>\n<p>Those who expressed their concerns were not only dismissed but also demonized, threatened and punished as \u201cenemies of democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lesson cannot be more clear:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>An enemy of democracy is all who challenge the controlled explanation.<\/p>\n<p>The US enters the year 2021 as a country that has moved from the list of democracies to the list of authoritarian governments and is rapidly becoming a totalitarian country in which freedom of speech, freedom of association, and due process are dead letter Constitutional protections.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The Gestapo knock at the door, the NKVD knock at the door have come to America.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">*<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Note to readers: please click the share buttons above or below. Forward this article to your email lists. Crosspost on your blog site, internet forums. etc.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article was originally published on the author\u2019s blog site, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2021\/01\/24\/the-media-destroyed-america\/\">PCR Institute for Political Economy<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">Note<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[1] Notice that this is a two for one sentence.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Bloomberg got in the fake news of 400,000 US Covid deaths.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>This figure comes from counting everyone who dies regardless if from Covid, as a Covid death.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The Covid test produces a very high rate of false positives, thus greatly exaggerating the number of infections.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Many experts have pointed this out as did the inventor of the PCR test, but presstitutes have kept a lid on the news.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Now the World Health Organization has finally admitted that the Covid-19 PCR test has a problem. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/who-finally-admits-covid-19-pcr-test-problem\/5735107\">https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/who-finally-admits-covid-19-pcr-test-problem\/5735107<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Featured image is from InfoBrics<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}