#the bethan propaganda

[timdales]

made some silly goofy mbav characters as textpost things . hope u people enjoy

#my babysitters a vampire #mbav #ethan morgan #benny weir #sarah fox #erica jones #knew i was forgetting someone and its rory my bad #also posting this as a chance to get moots haiii #im also that person who made icons i am providing guys #spreading the benny/ethan agenda #the bethan propaganda

[myweddingsandevents]

We're supposed to believe people who repeatedly to prove themselves liars about what the Palestinians are doing on the subject of what the Israelis are doing and whether or not it's genocide. This is obscene. The New York Times is supporting the liquidation of the ghetto.

This is astonishing journalistic malpractice by the New York Times, Jeffrey Gettleman, Adam Sella, Anat Schwartz and the executive editor Joseph Kahn. They made a statement of fact, and claimed they verified it with photo evidence. And they lied. This is unbelievable. Holy shit.

BREAKING: The New York Times claimed extensive "visual evidence" of "targeted genital mutilation" and "inserting of objects [knives and nails] into vaginas" as part of its "mass rape" hoax. This was definitively debunked by the UN report, stating there is no such visual evidence.

The NYT loves this particular fabrication, because it is aimed at terrorizing the reader into submission. The intention is to make you go: "Oh my god. Ok, I submit. I accept the entire hoax now, and do with Gaza what you will." Here is Jill Filipovic laundering it in the NYT:

So there are at least 3 separate articles in the New York Times right now, two of them not opinion but "journalism" pieces having the names of Jeffrey Gettleman, Adam Sella and Anat Schwartz on them, repeating a proven, debunked lie. But the NYT says: We still stand by it all.

In fact it's much worse. The NYT let one of them, Adam Sella the food blogger, write pieces on the UN report that definitively debunks their own claims of "extensive visual evidence" of "targeted gender mutilation". It can't get more shameless than this.

The NYT hired recent comp lit grad food blogger Adam Sella to team up with his uncle's wife and avowed genocidal racist Anat Schwartz to fabricate its biggest hoax since Judith Miller, and now it allows him to launder his hoax via the UN report that explicitly debunks it. Insane!

It wasn't just the NYT who repeatedly laundered this lurid fantasy atrocity propaganda hoax of "knives and nails inserted into vaginas". The Guardian's Bethan McKernan, who produced the most deranged version of the "mass rape" hoax, of course also laundered it:

I say The Guardian's Bethan McKernan, exposed for the genocidal propagandist maniac she is, produced the most deranged version of the hoax because she also laundered tortured forced "confessions" and claims of "video footage":

Yesterday the Israeli regime posted a tortured forced "confession" debunked long ago. No respectable Western media outlet reported it and the UN report also rejected this as evidence only one outlet repeatedly cited this as credible evidence of the "mass rape" hoax: The Guardian

[harryisntstraight]

bethan, you keep posting about fruit and vegetables (first broccoli, now oranges) so I gotta ask: is this harry secretly running your blog in an atempt to make harries eat healthy food?

look i’m not saying jefe is paying me a flat rate wage to post a certain amount of healthy food propaganda catered towards harries on my blog per month but i’m also not NOT saying that

#signofthetimesdeservedbetter

[nathanpenlington]

Books of the year 2019

December – the season of hourly spam email and lists of the ‘best’ things of the year.

My to be read pile is huge, amorphous, and evolving. Every year I make a large indent, and every year it somehow replenishes itself. 2019 was a slow year for reading – with 49 books completed (multi volume works I’ve counted as one. I’ve also not included zines, magazines, ebooks, kids books, etc, in the count, or in this list).

I’ve read quite a few newly published books, but date of publication is not relevant for this list. So, these are the best books to find me in 2019. Four of them could be said to present pretty bleak scenarios, but hey, fiction should hold a mirror to the world, right?

#1 - MFYL (2019)

As you may know if you’ve seen or read any of my work – I love magic. Not just the stuff you might see someone perform at a wedding or Christmas party, but the wider reach of the mystery arts. At the vanguard of pushing magic as an art into new contemporary territory is this book. Written pseudonymously it’s full of theory and practical ideas for an immersive, surprising, surreal, playful, approach to performance that seeks to reinvent what magic can be for a knowing 2020s audience.

#2 – The Electric State - Simon Stålenhag (2018)

An incredible work that combines visionary painted artwork with a cautionary sci-fi narrative. It’s like the best of Ballard and Gibson (and I don’t say that lightly!), that uses a photorealistic approach to illustration to form images that really harden in your brain. It’s haunting and unsettling. There is genius too in setting the story in the 1990s, with futuristic technology that seems possible yet already out of date.

#3 – Roadside Picnic -  Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky (1972)

I don’t really know how it’s taken me so long to get around to reading this, having a cultural influence that’s so wide reaching. Despite being set in the aftermath of an anomalous event, the narrative has a human focus – how humans use and abuse resources, how corrupt bureaucracy operates. While the film Stalker has merits, I genuinely preferred the reach and vision of the book.  

#4 - The Tenant - Roland Topor (1964)

Kafkaesque gets used a lot as a description, but it’s never more appropriate than when applied to Topor. A young man moves into an apartment after the previous tenant tried to comment suicide. From such a seemingly mundane situation the narrative quickly becomes ominous and terrifying, as the new tenant is pursued into madness. Is it a result of paranoia, or something more sinister? Very much part of the absurdist movement of the 50s and 60s.  

#5 - I Hate the Internet - Jarett Kobek (2016)

While this book has elements of early Coupland, when he was at his best, I Hate the Internet is funnier, sharper, and more biting. How can you reclaim your reputation when the internet hates you? Maybe you can’t. As technology has been proven to directly interfere with our lives – think tory propaganda, think Cambridge Analytica – how we control the spread of misinformation in the 2020s is crucial. Let this book be a satirical reminder of how it can affect lives on a more personal level.

  Honourable mentions – because 5 is not enough:

Gef! The strange tale of an extra-special talking mongoose by Christopher Josiffe (2017), The 7th Function of Language by Laurent Binet (2017), and Fun Home by Alison Bechdel (2006), I thought were all outstanding in unique ways.

With a 3-year-old daughter I now read a lot of kids books – and there are some amazing newly publishing books out there. My daughter’s favourites are Bethan Woollvin’s takes on traditional fairy tales, and Jon Klassen’s shape trilogy. 

But one of her most requested ‘read me a story’ books is a lucky charity shop find from early this year – Bamboozled by David Legge (1995): a girl pays her weekly visit to her granddad, who lives in a world that is more Magritte than Magritte, but something isn’t quite right. It’s funny, filled with visual jokes and surreal oddities, and rewards close observation. I’m surprised it’s not more widely known.

And yes, I did read a couple of truly shit books, but please don’t ask me about them. I really need to erase them from my life.

#books #books of the year #2019 #reading #David Legge #Jarett Kobek #Simon Stålenhag #The Electric State #i hate the internet #Bamboozled #Arkady Strugatsky Boris Strugatsky #Roadside Picnic #Roland Topor #The Tenant

[ebenpink]

Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- February 20, 2019 https://ift.tt/2U5HcQZ

Fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are seen together in the village of Baghouz, Deir Al Zor province, Syria February 18, 2019. REUTERS/Rodi Said/File Photo

Reuters: Explainer: Does Islamic State still pose a threat? BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State looks about to lose its last foothold on the banks of the Euphrates in Syria, but though its era of territorial rule may have been expunged for now, there is near universal agreement that the group remains a threat. WHAT HAS ITS TERRITORIAL DEFEAT ACCOMPLISHED? Islamic State’s possession of land in Iraq and Syria set it apart from other like-minded groups such as al Qaeda and became central to its mission when it declared a caliphate in 2014, claiming sovereignty over all Muslim lands and peoples. Destroying the quasi-state it built there denies the group its most potent propaganda and recruiting tool as well as a logistical base from which it could train fighters and plan coordinated attacks overseas. Read more ....

Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- February 20, 2019

Endgame for the Isis ‘caliphate’ looms in small Syrian town -- Bethan McKernan, The Guardian Mapping the US war on terror -- Stephanie Savell, Asia Times Poll: 73% of Americans Don’t Believe North Korea Will Denuclearize -- Daniel R. DePetris, National Interest 40 Retired Generals and Diplomats Support Continued US-North Korea Diplomacy -- National Interest/American College of National Security Leaders India and Pakistan have returned to a level of hostility not seen in decades after the attacks in Pulwama in Kashmir -- Rashmee Roshan Lall, The National India’s options after Pulwama -- Happymon Jacob, The Hindu Xi Jinping is taking China down a dangerous path -- Alexander Görlach, DW Conscript deaths making political waves in Singapore -- Nile Bowie, Asia Times Putin's empty promises -- Ingo Mannteufel, DW How Russia's domestic divisions could foil its Middle East plans -- Dmitriy Frolovskiy, Al Jazeera Eastern Europe’s problem isn’t Russia -- Thomas de Waal, Politico.eu From Haiti to Madagascar: The world's forgotten crises -- Helena Kaschel, DW The Final Version of the EU's Copyright Directive Is the Worst One Yet -- Cory Doctorow, EFF Could Huawei threaten the Five Eyes alliance? -- Gordon Corera, BBC From Julius Caesar to JFK to Jamal Khashoggi — the nature of assassination is changing -- Joey Watson and Keri Phillips, ABC News Online from War News Updates https://ift.tt/2SOFo1P via IFTTT

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