Reading this piece, I was struck by the thought, as I often am, that the decline of culture is really at the heart of our problems. Not enough individual artists are producing our culture. It’s corporate fascism that’s giving us our art, entertainment, news and literature. Your revelation that a national security reporter is now curating news about rock n’ roll is especially depressing. But it does seem that we’ve reached the cultural nadir in our history. The pap being peddled can’t get much worse.
You tied up this story neatly by beginning with the Citizen Jay reference and waiting to the end to explicitly connect it to Citizen Kane and the yellow journalism of Hearst. You also provided a nice twist at the end by bringing in the history of Italian fascism and the car racing industry (which, through no fault of its own, is coincidentally linked to this political practice). Our moment in history has all the characters and plot twists of a feature film, and RFK, Jr, recently cast in a staring role, is almost “too good” for the part of the banished hero returned to fight the bad guys as the underdog.
In the mainstream news, RFK, Jr. epitomizes the “conspiracy theorist,” as the son and nephew of the assassinated leaders whose murders inspired the CIA to promote that term in a pejorative way. And his name (along with Del Bigtree’s) has been associated with “anti-vaxxer” as peanut butter is with jelly. You couldn’t find a more “controversial” character to play the part of hero. It’s as if the screenwriter had carefully crafted all the parts of the narrative to create the most dramatic tension possible, and we are watching the scenes that are working toward a satisfactory denouement.
Does life imitate art? I hope in this case, we see a happy ending, and we—all human beings on this planet—manage to secure our rights and liberties and get to work healing ourselves and our environment. And I want to note that we must resist the temptation to put all our hopes in a hero. Our movement is so diverse and so widespread that it is not led by a single person, and therefore, it cannot be decapitated. And this, more than a security team, protects RFK, Jr.—because his opponents surely know that if anything happens to him or his family, the people won’t just quietly mourn. We are ultimately a self-organized movement, representing all people, that won’t be stopped.
Too much as been exposed about the corruption of the leaders and institutions in power. The lesson of this story is that power corrupts, and, I hope, as the outcome, power will be, not just handed up to a better leader, but decentralized, democratized, so that B-movie villains never have the opportunity again to take over our culture, and true artists can get back to work.
Being that 75% of the media’s income is from big pharma the answer is to get the third leading killer of all Americans off TV. If cigarettes are too dangerous then certainly pharma drugs are worse! When the media’s paycheck isn’t mostly from them we will see different reporting.
"Barack Obama told me when we were just young men, 18 years old—he’s only 45 days older than me—that he was the son of Muhammad Subuh Sumohadiwidjojo, the Javanese Indonesian founder of Subud in Indonesia."
This is such an excellent piece. As a j-school grad in the post-Watergate era of “we’re the defenders of the First amendment” it is head spinning to see what has happened in print media, but equally important to learn that the corruption of the media by intelligence has a LONG history.
the corruption of the media by ELITISTS has a LONG history –– basically since Gutenberg up through Operation Mockingbird to the present day....
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ~ William Casey, ClA Director in first staff meeting 1981
"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media" ~ former ClA Director William Colby
The New World Order is a long time in the planning. There's a reason the ruling class still performs human-sacrifice rituals to Sumerian gods, and that reason is that the rituals ARE SUCCESSFUL. Those gods never die: they're still hanging around.
The Omega Project to bring in the Fourth Reich and the New World Order
As a J student at a Calif. State University in 1997, the chairman of the department hated me so much he called campus police and told them he felt threatened by me. He kept trying to get me kicked out, but I managed to graduate. The New World Order doesn't tolerate dissent.
"Barack Obama told me when we were just young men, 18 years old—he’s only 45 days older than me—that he was the son of Muhammad Subuh Sumohadiwidjojo, the Javanese Indonesian founder of Subud in Indonesia."
One correction. Penske is now the largest shareholder of Vox Media. Used to be Accel, but Penske did a $100M funding round for 20% more of the company earlier this year. He can have my shares fwiw.
Such a fine magazine in its day, and with a lot of cultural power. Here's a little rock star satire about the old Rolling Stone: Dr Hook and the Medicine Show ~ "Cover of the Rolling Stone" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuvfIePDbgY
Now the rolling stone gathers not moss, but greenbacks.
We lived by Hunter S. Thompson during the early pandemic days: "Pray to God, but row away from the rocks"
I was 11 in the fall of 1974 and I remember Rolling Stone in its oversized, newspaper format. The page count was high and the articles were expansive, meandering, and thought provoking. Full length interviews with Jimmy Page were what I prized the most. The paper wasn't glossy; it was like pulp, very cheap; and the ink would stain my fingers. But that's what kept the price down. It was a countercultural icon; a voice of refusal and resistance; of thumbing the nose at the corporate establishment...just as rock music still was. We smoked pot illegally at Madison Square Garden concerts because we were rebellious and defiant.
The preamble was not ratified and is not part of the founding document. Our Confederation and perpetual Union is/was named The United States of America in 1777. The Declaration is of the 13 colonies not Independence. The perpetual Union was broken the first time by Rhode Island and Providence Plantation. It was repaired by its return prior to Vermont.
The United States of America created the Constitution as an Article of the Confederation and perpetual Union; the United States was created as a government service company. There are only two names. The other iterations are bogus and de facto. United States of America is not either name thus bogus. There is no lawful federal anything, that is part of the deception. United States has enumerated responsibilities. It is correctly written The United States of America's Constitution circa 1859 that is original jurisdiction. After Oregon became one of the several states and before South Carolina seceded from the Confederation and perpetual Union.
The goal is to return to a Constitutional republican form of government this year 2023. We flipped Oregon back to a de jure jurisdiction and proper Constitution and law form in 2022.
What took us 4.5 years doing it one step at a time can be done by 5 people doing 15 hours work, 50 bucks in postage and 40 bucks for a seal? Then work on gathering a Jury Pool while waiting for the docs to cure 21 days in de jure and 30 days in de facto.
'As Kennedy saw it, if the childhood vaccines were safe, why did the manufacturers lobby for liability immunity for injuries caused by them?' EXACTLY, just like the Covid Bioweapon "vaccine".
'A notable example of regulatory capture was the FDA’s approval of Purdue Pharma’s Oxycontin painkiller. As reported by Patrick Radden Keefe in The New Yorker:
Purdue had conducted no clinical studies on how addictive or prone to abuse the drug might be. But the F.D.A., in an unusual step, approved a package insert for OxyContin which announced that the drug was safer than rival painkillers, because the patented delayed-absorption mechanism “is believed to reduce the abuse liability.” … The F.D.A. examiner who oversaw the process, Dr. Curtis Wright, left the agency shortly afterward. Within two years, he had taken a job at Purdue.' SOUND FAMILIAR?
I'm curious who actually reads these magazines Penske Media now owns? They used to have combined readerships in the tens of millions but they can't possibly have that kind of readership now. They were ubiquitous and now no one I know reads any of their magazines.
So is this another case of Jack's Magic Cafe, where Twitter never made a profit and yet employed thousands of people and had all the money in the world for buying employee benefits and equipment? All provided by the US taxpayer as we have since found out, for the purposes of thought control and data scraping. By the way Rolling Stone is attacking Kennedy, it would seem so. Rolling Stone is/was after all, a music magazine.
A delegate is one of the people, not a person which has multiple definitions. So, one of the people, with proper de jure bona fides can be a delegate to the Electoral College in a de jure Congress Assembled. That would of course fulfill the Constitutional obligation and elect the President and Vice President of the de jure United States.
So, when we read the Declaration of the 13 Colonies we find we need to remove that which is a vile abomination. The de facto State of Oregon a subdivision of the United States of Washington District of Columbia Inc. We lawfully removed the executive, legislative, judiciary of the Salem Oligarchy and martial law/Lieber code/FEMA. When we implemented our unalienable rights. As in ARTICLE I Section 1 "Natural rights inherent in people. We declare that all men, when they form a social compact are equal in right: that all power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority, and instituted for their peace, safety, and happiness; and they have at all times a right to alter, reform, or abolish the government in such manner as they may think proper. —"
Reading this piece, I was struck by the thought, as I often am, that the decline of culture is really at the heart of our problems. Not enough individual artists are producing our culture. It’s corporate fascism that’s giving us our art, entertainment, news and literature. Your revelation that a national security reporter is now curating news about rock n’ roll is especially depressing. But it does seem that we’ve reached the cultural nadir in our history. The pap being peddled can’t get much worse.
You tied up this story neatly by beginning with the Citizen Jay reference and waiting to the end to explicitly connect it to Citizen Kane and the yellow journalism of Hearst. You also provided a nice twist at the end by bringing in the history of Italian fascism and the car racing industry (which, through no fault of its own, is coincidentally linked to this political practice). Our moment in history has all the characters and plot twists of a feature film, and RFK, Jr, recently cast in a staring role, is almost “too good” for the part of the banished hero returned to fight the bad guys as the underdog.
In the mainstream news, RFK, Jr. epitomizes the “conspiracy theorist,” as the son and nephew of the assassinated leaders whose murders inspired the CIA to promote that term in a pejorative way. And his name (along with Del Bigtree’s) has been associated with “anti-vaxxer” as peanut butter is with jelly. You couldn’t find a more “controversial” character to play the part of hero. It’s as if the screenwriter had carefully crafted all the parts of the narrative to create the most dramatic tension possible, and we are watching the scenes that are working toward a satisfactory denouement.
Does life imitate art? I hope in this case, we see a happy ending, and we—all human beings on this planet—manage to secure our rights and liberties and get to work healing ourselves and our environment. And I want to note that we must resist the temptation to put all our hopes in a hero. Our movement is so diverse and so widespread that it is not led by a single person, and therefore, it cannot be decapitated. And this, more than a security team, protects RFK, Jr.—because his opponents surely know that if anything happens to him or his family, the people won’t just quietly mourn. We are ultimately a self-organized movement, representing all people, that won’t be stopped.
Too much as been exposed about the corruption of the leaders and institutions in power. The lesson of this story is that power corrupts, and, I hope, as the outcome, power will be, not just handed up to a better leader, but decentralized, democratized, so that B-movie villains never have the opportunity again to take over our culture, and true artists can get back to work.
On the mimicry between life and art, you might be interested in the August 2nd article by Talbot: https://open.substack.com/pub/thekennedybeacon/p/how-jack-ryan-captured-hollywood
So what was the outcome of the emergency hearing yesterday in Northern California Circuit Court? I can't seem to find any follow-up reporting.
I've been wondering the same.
He's live streaming a roundtable discussion on censorship tonight with Glenn Greenwald and 3 others. Do you think he's saving the news for then?
Here's the info for the roundtable. https://www.kennedy24.com/censorship_roundtable
Wow, another livestream, does Bobby ever sleep?
That's a good point, maybe he'll give an update then.
Being that 75% of the media’s income is from big pharma the answer is to get the third leading killer of all Americans off TV. If cigarettes are too dangerous then certainly pharma drugs are worse! When the media’s paycheck isn’t mostly from them we will see different reporting.
How many hundreds of tv programs are "Brought To You By... Pfizer" ?
Agreed
This piece gave me chills, reminded me of the McCarthy era. Bless us all and Robert Kennedy Jr. Thank you for this illuminating piece.
Some light reading ; )
“I met Barack Obama on the Mars missions” - chrononaut Andrew Basiago
https://inscribedonthebelievingmind.blog/2023/04/13/barack-obama-mars-missions/
"Barack Obama told me when we were just young men, 18 years old—he’s only 45 days older than me—that he was the son of Muhammad Subuh Sumohadiwidjojo, the Javanese Indonesian founder of Subud in Indonesia."
wow
This is such an excellent piece. As a j-school grad in the post-Watergate era of “we’re the defenders of the First amendment” it is head spinning to see what has happened in print media, but equally important to learn that the corruption of the media by intelligence has a LONG history.
the corruption of the media by ELITISTS has a LONG history –– basically since Gutenberg up through Operation Mockingbird to the present day....
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ~ William Casey, ClA Director in first staff meeting 1981
"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media" ~ former ClA Director William Colby
The New World Order is a long time in the planning. There's a reason the ruling class still performs human-sacrifice rituals to Sumerian gods, and that reason is that the rituals ARE SUCCESSFUL. Those gods never die: they're still hanging around.
The Omega Project to bring in the Fourth Reich and the New World Order
https://inscribedonthebelievingmind.blog/2022/08/30/omega-project/
As a J student at a Calif. State University in 1997, the chairman of the department hated me so much he called campus police and told them he felt threatened by me. He kept trying to get me kicked out, but I managed to graduate. The New World Order doesn't tolerate dissent.
Excellent and Enlightening! Thank you!
Rolling Stone is now a flat rock owned by a murdering Saudi
Oh, I'm sorry, it's in the story. My bad. I saw Penske and thought it said Psaki, Jan Psaki, so I skipped it.
KSA made Trump their king in 2017. I think the purchase of entertainment media was done by Saudi deep-state actors without the king's knowledge, but otherwise Saudi Arabia has cleaned up most of their corruption. https://rumble.com/vos5aj-the-greatest-military-intelligence-operation-of-all-time-trump-saudi-israel.html
That's a good way to put it. But do you mean to tell me that Prince owns Rolling Stone now?
Wow. I didn't know any of this. Thanks for this information.
I am also curious about the outcome of emergency hearing.
Here's some light reading while you're waiting for the Robert F Kennedy roundtable discussion to start (https://www.kennedy24.com/censorship_roundtable)
“I met Barack Obama on the Mars missions” - Andrew Basiago
https://inscribedonthebelievingmind.blog/2023/04/13/barack-obama-mars-missions/
"Barack Obama told me when we were just young men, 18 years old—he’s only 45 days older than me—that he was the son of Muhammad Subuh Sumohadiwidjojo, the Javanese Indonesian founder of Subud in Indonesia."
One correction. Penske is now the largest shareholder of Vox Media. Used to be Accel, but Penske did a $100M funding round for 20% more of the company earlier this year. He can have my shares fwiw.
Vox is in serious financial trouble, no?
Penske should stick to what he knows best, commercial trucks.
His son Jay is completely different than Poppa Roger.
Right up to their surnames.
Never read Rolling stone. It was just a rag and always will be “a rag”!
Years ago RS was not a rag, very good actual journalists wrote for them
Hunter Thompson, the originator of Gonzo Journalism, for one.
Such a fine magazine in its day, and with a lot of cultural power. Here's a little rock star satire about the old Rolling Stone: Dr Hook and the Medicine Show ~ "Cover of the Rolling Stone" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuvfIePDbgY
Now the rolling stone gathers not moss, but greenbacks.
We lived by Hunter S. Thompson during the early pandemic days: "Pray to God, but row away from the rocks"
This is the pattern---they capture and subvert cultural institutions and media, which then benefit from the halo effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect
Rolling Stone has fallen.
Excellent reporting by John Leake, as usual.
I was 11 in the fall of 1974 and I remember Rolling Stone in its oversized, newspaper format. The page count was high and the articles were expansive, meandering, and thought provoking. Full length interviews with Jimmy Page were what I prized the most. The paper wasn't glossy; it was like pulp, very cheap; and the ink would stain my fingers. But that's what kept the price down. It was a countercultural icon; a voice of refusal and resistance; of thumbing the nose at the corporate establishment...just as rock music still was. We smoked pot illegally at Madison Square Garden concerts because we were rebellious and defiant.
Before they became a propaganda rag instead of a music magazine.
The preamble was not ratified and is not part of the founding document. Our Confederation and perpetual Union is/was named The United States of America in 1777. The Declaration is of the 13 colonies not Independence. The perpetual Union was broken the first time by Rhode Island and Providence Plantation. It was repaired by its return prior to Vermont.
The United States of America created the Constitution as an Article of the Confederation and perpetual Union; the United States was created as a government service company. There are only two names. The other iterations are bogus and de facto. United States of America is not either name thus bogus. There is no lawful federal anything, that is part of the deception. United States has enumerated responsibilities. It is correctly written The United States of America's Constitution circa 1859 that is original jurisdiction. After Oregon became one of the several states and before South Carolina seceded from the Confederation and perpetual Union.
The goal is to return to a Constitutional republican form of government this year 2023. We flipped Oregon back to a de jure jurisdiction and proper Constitution and law form in 2022.
What took us 4.5 years doing it one step at a time can be done by 5 people doing 15 hours work, 50 bucks in postage and 40 bucks for a seal? Then work on gathering a Jury Pool while waiting for the docs to cure 21 days in de jure and 30 days in de facto.
'As Kennedy saw it, if the childhood vaccines were safe, why did the manufacturers lobby for liability immunity for injuries caused by them?' EXACTLY, just like the Covid Bioweapon "vaccine".
'A notable example of regulatory capture was the FDA’s approval of Purdue Pharma’s Oxycontin painkiller. As reported by Patrick Radden Keefe in The New Yorker:
Purdue had conducted no clinical studies on how addictive or prone to abuse the drug might be. But the F.D.A., in an unusual step, approved a package insert for OxyContin which announced that the drug was safer than rival painkillers, because the patented delayed-absorption mechanism “is believed to reduce the abuse liability.” … The F.D.A. examiner who oversaw the process, Dr. Curtis Wright, left the agency shortly afterward. Within two years, he had taken a job at Purdue.' SOUND FAMILIAR?
Exactly!
I'm curious who actually reads these magazines Penske Media now owns? They used to have combined readerships in the tens of millions but they can't possibly have that kind of readership now. They were ubiquitous and now no one I know reads any of their magazines.
So is this another case of Jack's Magic Cafe, where Twitter never made a profit and yet employed thousands of people and had all the money in the world for buying employee benefits and equipment? All provided by the US taxpayer as we have since found out, for the purposes of thought control and data scraping. By the way Rolling Stone is attacking Kennedy, it would seem so. Rolling Stone is/was after all, a music magazine.
A delegate is one of the people, not a person which has multiple definitions. So, one of the people, with proper de jure bona fides can be a delegate to the Electoral College in a de jure Congress Assembled. That would of course fulfill the Constitutional obligation and elect the President and Vice President of the de jure United States.
So, when we read the Declaration of the 13 Colonies we find we need to remove that which is a vile abomination. The de facto State of Oregon a subdivision of the United States of Washington District of Columbia Inc. We lawfully removed the executive, legislative, judiciary of the Salem Oligarchy and martial law/Lieber code/FEMA. When we implemented our unalienable rights. As in ARTICLE I Section 1 "Natural rights inherent in people. We declare that all men, when they form a social compact are equal in right: that all power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority, and instituted for their peace, safety, and happiness; and they have at all times a right to alter, reform, or abolish the government in such manner as they may think proper. —"
Big pharma is using Vivek Style New Startups to get drugs passed by the FDA. Go easy on the new guy is a thing in health fields.