America’s Sunday morning political shows had a synchronized message;
cite an ABC/Washington Post poll on Brexit and Donald Trump showing those Brits
who voted for Brexit were old, uneducated, uninformed xenophobes and Donald
Trump’s popularity is tanking.
The American media monopoly sets the messaging agenda for
the week on Sunday morning. Last Sunday
the messaging centered on Brexit and an ABC/Washington Post poll showing Trump
trailing Hillary Clinton by double digits.
What the media failed to reveal was, of the people polled 36% were Democrats and 24%
Republicans. The Washington Post is owned
by Jeff Bezos who is involved in a very public feud with Donald Trump.
The Trump/Bezos feud began when Trump leveled the charge
that Jeff Bezos owner of Amazon, is using The Washington Post paper to attack
him because as President he would force the massive online retailer to pay more
in taxes. Trump has threatened to go
after Bezos for antitrust violations because he has a monopoly and is getting away
with murder tax-wise. Bezos denied he
used the Post to go after Trump, but Bob Woodward, editor of the Post revealed a
“20 man army” has been assigned to dig up dirt on Trump.
Trump has been a vocal supporter of Brexit and a believer in
national identity, taxing the rich and border control. After his “Trump emblazoned helicopter”
landed in Scotland, Trump congratulated the British people for achieving an exit
from the European Union. Trump went on
to state "I think it's a great thing that's happened. It's an amazing
vote, very historic.” "People are
angry all over the world. They're angry over borders, they're angry over people
coming into the country and taking over and nobody even knows who they are.” "They're angry about many, many things
in the UK, the US and many other places.
The media pounced on Trump citing tanking global markets and
volatility. The Clinton campaign
released a campaign video stating “The last thing we need in volatile times is
a volatile President.”
Now, we know why the media savagely attacked Trump, the
biggest losers from Brexit are the world’s 400 richest people. According to Bloomberg 15 of the wealthiest
people in Britain lost $5.5 billion; Amancio Ortega, Europe’s richest person
lost $6 billion and Bill Gates and Jeff
Bezos lost $1 billion each. So, it’s
pretty evident who the beneficiaries of membership in the European Union are.
Trump went on to further enrage the media when he criticized
President Obama for interfering with the Brexit vote. In May Obama spoke to the people of the UK
threatening trade deals would take ten years if they voted to leave the EU. Trump said “I was surprised that President
Obama would be so bold to come here and tell people what to do.” "I think a lot of people don't like him
and I think if he had not said it I think you're result might have been
different."
Nigel Farage party leader of the pro-Brexit UKIP also harshly
criticized Barack Obama for interfering in the Brexit referendum saying "He
has done the bidding of the giant American corporates who want Britain to stay
in the EU.” "Why? Because they want
this Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
deal done so that the big American corporates can buy up chunks of our public services, including the National Health Service - that's a
bigger motivation."
Minutes after the announcement of the Brexit vote, it was announced
a petition bearing 3.5 million signatures requesting a referendum “do over” was
presented to Parliament. But in fact only
353,000 of the 3.5 million signatures are from Britain. Steve Lendman is reporting “tens of thousands
of fake names from America, Germany,
France, Italy, other EU countries,
even Middle East, Asian, Latin American and African nations as well as virtually
uninhabited Antarctica” have been identified.
The global press is owned and funded by the same
billionaires who financially benefit from wars, globalization and banking
cartels. In 2014 the European Union awarded
Rupert Murdoch’s BSkyB unconditional
clearance for its acquisition of Sky Italia and at least 57% of Sky
Deutschland. That gave Murdoch’s media
empire 20 million pay TV subscribers in the U.K., Ireland, Italy, Germany and
Austria. Potentially, Sky Europe will be able to reach up to 97 million
households.
In America, Public Broadcasting is funded in equal parts
from government and the private sector and is governed by a board of directors
that is selected by the President of the United States and confirmed by the
Senate. C-Span is funded by the cable
companies and provides a 24 hour a day platform for the neoconservative and
neoliberal think tanks’ propaganda.
So wake up folks, anything you hear in the media is pure,
unadulterated propaganda designed to intimidate and frighten you into
submission. The media wants you to
believe that those Brits who voted for Brexit were old, uneducated, uninformed
xenophobes and Donald Trump’s popularity is tanking. Don’t buy it follow the Brits and say “we’re
not gonna take it anymore.”
By Patricia Baeten
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