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Bill Gates discussed with Jeffrey Epstein how they could “get rid of” all the poor people in the world in 2011.
This is the true psychopathic mentality of powerful capitalists; to them, we are just ants to be stepped on if we no longer benefit them financially.
Source where i found this -> https://xcancel.com/DaniMayakovski/status/2019439855520891304#m

Crosspost from https://lemmygrad.ml/post/10609901

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submitted 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) by geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to c/ManufacturingConsent@lemmy.ml

International law is absolutely clear. If the US attacks Iran, it would be a war of aggression and the “supreme international crime”.

The job of even supposedly liberal media like the Guardian is to persuade you this is not what is at stake. To disbelieve your lying eyes.

Look at this astonishingly dishonest headline and subhead from today’s paper:

“Threat of US-Iran war escalates” intentionally obscures the truth: that it is the US doing the “escalating” – and that its escalating is entirely illegal.

“Trump warns time running out for deal” makes it sound as though Trump has some kind of authority to make this “warning”. Hey, Guardian, maybe he’s doing it on behalf of his Board of Peace.

The truth is he has no such authority. That resides with the United Nations. What Trump is doing is not a warning; it’s a threat – an utterly illegal threat of aggression.

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As a follow-up to my last article discussing the language of propaganda, I wrote about a few crucial terms that make up much of the western mindset. I write on anti-imperialist topics, inside and outside the empire using communication theory, and dialectical materialism.

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Since the outbreak of the protests, there has been a race to estimate and report on the casualties – something I call a “Death Toll Olympics”.

Iran-focused human rights organisations led by dissident activists have been going through all sorts of evidence and testimonies to verify the number of the dead. As of writing this piece, the US-based organisation HRANA (Human Rights Activists News Agency) has cited more than 6,000 deaths and a further 17,000-plus cases under examination.

However, there are valid doubts about the speed of the activist-led verification process.

For every reported death, multiple accounts have to be examined, possible duplications must be identified and eliminated; and dates, locations and specific circumstances must be cross-checked against the timeline of events.

Furthermore, any visual evidence has to be localised and authenticated based on open-source data or corroborated by the accounts of multiple witnesses. From an investigative standpoint, the reliability and quality of activist-led counts that increase rapidly on a daily basis, therefore warrants caution.

The UN Special Rapporteur on Iran, Mai Sato, has cited a conservative estimate of around 5,000 deaths. At the same time, she has mentioned that unverified numbers of up to 20,000 have been reported to her by medical sources.

The described obstacles, and difficulties of verification over the past weeks, have been further exacerbated by Iran’s severely restricted internet access. Despite this, major media outlets have begun distributing much higher figures, solely based on vague anonymous sources who claim privileged access within Iran’s government or health sector.

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submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by Pierre121000@lemmy.ml to c/ManufacturingConsent@lemmy.ml

HRANA (Human Rights Activists News Agency / Human Rights Activists in Iran) or Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO), they just say what they want and we run with it.
Why would our capitalist-owned imperialist rulers stop lying to their credulous population ?

It's funny those adults mocking children for believing in Santa Claus.


Edit : What the official death toll by Iran's government will look like : https://x.com/i/status/2018006527198539975

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A "human rights" organisation still shows the name in their cached Google results but has in the article they have changed the name and city of the person who was supposedly killed.

https://hengaw.net/en/news/2026/01/article-121

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