The Foxification of Planet Earth

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Podcast summary…

breaking-news-7613046_1280Most of the media of the world is Left leaning or Marxist in nature. It supports Leftist ideologies, causes, people and parties. All diverse and differing non-Marxist is clubbed together and called the Right and in intellectual opinion is an exception and is usually lost in the crowd. Or it just carves out a niche in some corner and is happy.

In America, like many other countries, most of the national newspapers, news channels, newspapers, radio stations have traditionally been Leftists. It was in such a setting that Fox News was launched in 1996. How would Fox News get itself heard in a crowd and with all the odds against it? Well, it would shout the loudest. It would take an extreme stand. It would never accept that it was wrong and double-down. And it would tell non-Fox News audiences to go to hell. Well maybe they didn’t exactly say that in the launch strategy, but that’s what they ended up doing anyway.

At that time such a thing was difficult to imagine because no matter how high the bias of a media organisation and what their target audience was, they in those days would at least pay lip service to their opponents and pretend that they heard them as well.

I guess a lot of analysts would have said Fox would sink without a trace. But it didn’t and started gaining great traction and became a brand name. A “shouting” Bill O’Reilly on prime time became a staple. Now it may have ended here and Fox would become just another successful media house.

Fox ended up becoming the most demonised media house and was presented as an outcast and an anathema. But a curious thing started happening. Despite calling it the devil and shunning it, all the media houses started aping Fox News. I first started watching TV news with BBC and ITV in London in 1978 as a child and I have witnessed the Foxification of the entire media industry in the last couple of decades.

Today almost every media house shouts the loudest, takes an extreme stand, never accepts that it is wrong and double-downs. And it also tells their opponents to go to hell. Think over it. Every media channel is like that. In fact come to India and every host aspires to be a Bill O’Reilly and shouts and insults all the guests that he calls on his own show. Right wing media has also risen.

If it ended with the media, then itself would be something. It spread to other forms of media. Look at the way Disney and the spectacularly successful MCU has turned out. They have curiously decided to cater to a minority of audiences. They take an extreme stand and if they fail, then they double down and abuse those who don’t like their movies as being racists and misogynistic.

The bug even got to corporations. Now even these have decided that they will only cater to their target audiences in an aggressive way and the rest of humanity can go to hell. On failure they too double down and blame those who don’t buy their products.

The entire political discourse has become like that. You carve out a niche political world for yourself, shout, never admit you are wrong, double down and call your opponents the choicest abusive words. That’s how political parties have become. In the past they used to find common ground. Not anymore. They have all been Foxified.

Think of political discourse in the last century. Then came Bill O’Reilly thundering on his media pulpit. Now think of a few decades back Trump doing the same on the political pulpit. You could say it has been a natural evolution. Everyone hates Fox, Bill O’Reilly and Trump. But the truth is that everyone wants to be like them. You can argue that there may be many reasons for the current state of affairs, but at least I personally saw the change right after Fox News was launched.

Fox News was Fox News. Media became Fox Media. Corporations became Fox Corporations. Political parties became Fox parties. Global discourse went the Fox way. The Social Media era only made this more potent and polarised.

Hate it or love it, Fox has become the most influential brand in the world.

The Right, the Left and the media

journalist-985075_640Every mainstream media analysis and opinion poll is virulently pro-Left and anti-Right.
In 2014 they said it was impossible for the Right (Modi) to get 272+ seats.
Failed prediction.
In 2015 they said the Right (Netanyahu) would lose.
Failed prediction.
In 2015 they said the Right (Cameron) would see a hopelessly hung Parliament or the Left (Labour) would inch ahead.
Failed prediction.
In 2016 they said the Right-leaning Brexit couldn’t happen.
Failed prediction.
In 2016 they said the Right (Trump) couldn’t win, some put his chances at below 1%!
Super failed prediction.
They got Macron right, but then mainland Europe heavily leans Left and you can’t get them wrong all the time!
Basically they see the chances of the Left and add 5-10% to that randomly and predict accordingly in order to influence the outcome.
That is why the mainstream media is dying.

Qatar has the most powerful Arab media house: Al Jazeera.
And yet it finds itself totally isolated in the Arab world.
Another example of how media has become a paper tiger.

Old media saying…
There is no Freedom of the Press in India.
There is only Freedom of the Proprietors of the Press.

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Global liberals still in total meltdown

administration-1846270_640US Democrat worldview…
1961-69: Democratic President.
1969-77: Crooked establishment.
1977-81: Democratic President.
1981-93: Reagan was lucky.
1993-2001: Democratic President.
2001-09: Democratic candidate won.
2009-17: Democratic President.
2017-21: Democratic candidate won.

We can get news wrong a million times.
But if we suspect that your news may not subscribe to our ideology, then it’s “Fake News”.
Regards,
Media.

Anything tagged as “Fake News” by media and social media barons is in fact “Anti-Communist News”.

The American Left is still furious that Russia gave up Communism in 1991.
They are still trying to take their revenge in 2017.

Nero fiddled while Rome was burning.
Media-Liberals-Leftists-intellectuals fiddling while Europe is burning.

Obama took over in 2009 and his honeymoon period is yet to end with the media.
Trump took over in 2017 and his honeymoon period ended in 2015.

Obama oversaw the abuse of Trump and sabotaged his upcoming Presidency.
He can expect no mercy if he’s made grave infractions.

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10 ways how Trump will turn the globe totally upside down

donald-trump-1757583_640Most of the focus on US President Donald Trump has been about him being a “Hitler” (the Left just loves throwing that adjective hundreds of times a day) and him being “illegitimate (despite him thrashing Hillary Clinton 304-227 in the 2016 Electoral College vote).

Protesters seem to forget that Trump is the most powerful man in the world and cannot be toppled by screaming hysterically from the rooftops 24 hours a day. Meanwhile Trump is virtually on the rampage trying to implement his totally different worldview.

The mainstream media, the Left lobby and Democrats keep hurling the word “chaos” at the Trump administration but they are the ones in total disarray. Meanwhile Trump is sticking to his gameplan.

A look at the grand changes that he is bringing in.

1. Globalization is out. Localization is in.

For decades we have been presented with the fact of globalization being inevitable and the only way forward. That’s why heads of state have been virtually shoving it down the throats of their citizens. Governments, banks, financial institutions and all manner of global organizations have totally aligned themselves to this reality.

There was some overlap in the Brexit and Trump campaigns and in a way they fed off each other. Both won in the same year and have changed the course of globalization and Europe faces disintegration. Had Hillary come to power, she would have fought against it it tooth and nail but Trump will in fact facilitate it.

Both French Marine Le Pen and Dutch Geert Wilders draw inspiration from Trump and it is certain that they will either win the upcoming elections in their countries or become the main opposition leaders. Frexit and Dexit referendums seem inevitable now.

Trump is the world’s biggest anti-globalization ambassador and the fact that he is now the most powerful man in the world will boost localization. Make America Great Again: Many countries will follow this mantra by just replacing “America” with their country.

(Read: Why 2016 (like 1991) is the Year of Disruption)

2. Climate Change has been totally rubbished.

polar-bear-2199534_640This was another inevitability we were presented with in the pre-Trump Age. The Left lobby calls those who do not subscribe to their climate views “deniers”, compare them to murderers and call for them to be jailed. California in fact has introduced legislation to that end.

Trump has thrown the very concept of Climate Change into the dustbin. The government website was officially changed just when Trump took over. Hardliner Scott Pruitt, who has taken the Left climate lobby head-on on numerous occasions, is now head of the United States Environmental Protection Agency.

Trump has said he wants nothing much to do with United Nations Climate Change Conference. This is a big blow to the climate lobby which has been whipping up quite a hysteria. Obama was a delight for them and Hillary would have continued with his policies, but Trump has effected a 180 degree turn.

(Read: The climate talks fraud and why India won’t do much)

3. Open borders are dead and dusted.

statue-of-liberty-828665_640German Angela Merkel, former US President Barack Obama and Hillary saw eye to eye on the issue of immigration. In fact had Hillary come to power, she might have well tried to break Merkel’s immigration records. But Merkel is disgraced, Hillary is history and the Obama legacy is being dismantled.

The era of open borders is finally over. While Trump has been rubbished for his border wall with Mexico, many European nations are openly talking about fences to keep out immigrants. Trump. Brexit. Le Pen. Wilders. The future looks closed.

Even though a court blocked one of his executive orders, he is coming out with a slew of initiatives to check illegal immigration and crime and so the tide is already turning.

(Read: Rising Islamophobia in Europe a worrying sign)

4. West Asia will see a transformation.

palestine-gaza-strip-in-2015-678979_640Both the Bushes went to war with Iraq. Both Bill Clinton and Obama seemed confused over West Asia. Trump plans a radical break from both. While almost every American supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Trump was one of the first prominent dissenting voices soon after. He alienated a sections of the Republican base by blasting Bush over the Iraq war.

Obama had embarked on a policy of liquidating West Asia dictators starting with Libyan Muammar Gaddafi and failing with Syria’s Bashar al-Assad. After that Obama’s West Asia policy drifted and was mired in confusion and chaos.

Trump is presented as a Hitler who will start World War 3 but if you go be speeches, then he’s totally anti-war. In fact if you can pick up one consistent obsession from all his speeches then it’s trade. He has a one-track mind on that.

Trump doesn’t believe in grand treaties or wars but getting the best trade deals for America via individual treaties with individual countries. That’s exactly his long-term vision for West Asia. He has opposed Obama’s soft stance on both Iran and Saudi Arabia, so that’s another change.

But the biggest change will be Israel. Israel has always been a friend of America and they came really close in the 1970s thanks to the Shuttle Diplomacy and the oil crisis. Obama tried his best to launch an all-out diplomatic war against Israel but Trump will reverse that. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu detests Obama and likes Trump but that doesn’t stop the American press from curiously calling Trump anti-Semitic.

(Read: Why the Middle East problem is so complicated)

5. Big Oil is back with a bang.

oil-106913_640A few years back if you said that the Chairman of ExxonMobil would become the US Secretary of State, then you would have been laughed out of the room. But that has already happened. No amount of screaming by the Climate Change lobby can change that.

The Secretary of State is the most important person in America after the President and Rex Tillerson is big on trade and oil. It is a huge departure from the John Kerry and especially Hillary days.

After taking over, Trump immediately overturned the oil pipeline ban put in place by Obama and “Drill Baby Drill!” is back with a bang. The world has never seen the likes of the troika of Trump-Tillerson-Pruitt and the Leftist environmental lobby is powerless.

Trump is at heart a Capitalist who supports the oil industry and has the balls to carry out his vision.

(Read: What if the world never runs out of oil?)

6. The terminal decline of Communist intellectualism.

hammer-and-sickle-1183328_640Communism was seen as an Utopia in 1848. It seemed internationally inevitable after the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Chinese Revolution of the late 1940s. However with the Chinese Economic Reform of 1978 and the collapse of the USSR in 1991, the whole world saw what a royal sham it was.

Leftist parties like the US Democrats, UK Labour and Indian Congress tried their best to go Left. They were fully supported by the media, Liberals, intellectuals, NGOs and the like. That regime ruled till the 2000s.

But in the 2010s they were totally busted by the troika of Modi-Brexit-Trump (the social media was a great help) and the Left has really taken a beating. While Modi has waged a silent war against the Left, Trump has gone all out.

(Read: The decline of the Socialist Liberal Intellectual Media Ecosystem or SLIME)

7. The death of the media.

press-2333329_640The Fourth Estate had virtually become the Fifth Column. They are nothing but mouthpieces of the global Left establishment. They campaigned for the Democratic party and Hillary in 2016.

The influence of the media is already over, but they are just being propped up by their advertisers. The day their advertisers desert them, they will fall like a flimsy pack of cards. The BBC is no longer respected, CNN ratings have plummeted and the New York Times is facing financial difficulties.

Now Trump is taking the media head on and openly dubbing them Fake News. He is rubbishing them in his Tweets and speeches, snubbing them in person, boycotting their events, misleading them with umpteen red herrings and excluding them from certain meetings. Trump is generally playing them at will and having a good laugh at their expense.

The media has never encountered anyone like Trump and so far is losing every major battle.

(Read: The men who killed the mainstream media)

(Read: Trump and Modi’s victories show public decides elections, not media)

8. Taking Islamic terrorism head on.

criminal-1577887_640Nobody talks of the huge elephant in the global room. The Islamic State has tens of thousands of terrorists. Pakistan has tens of thousands of terrorists. Many Islamic countries have thousands of terrorists.

The Al-Qaeda of yesterday and the Boko Haram of today have been really destructive. But many world leaders, Obama included, refused to use the term “Islamic terrorism”, something that Trump is not shying away from and using in his official speeches.

Immigrant crime has wrecked many areas of Europe, but most world leaders refuse to even acknowledge the problem let alone do anything about it. Trump does not shy away from being blunt on the issue of Islamic terrorism and though it is early days, he has vowed that his words will be backed by action.

(Read: Eight reasons why the ‘Clash of Civilizations’ is already upon us)

(Read: Islamic State is a Country not a Terrorist Group)

(Read: Do you know how many million Muslims must die for War On Terror?)

9. United Nations will become irrelevant.
un-1190183_640The League of Nations died a natural death and the United Nations was becoming more and more irrelevant. Obama tried for a big push during his term to boost it, but he wasn’t very successful. Now Trump has made it clear that he is no fan of the United Nations and is not even ready to play lip service.

America is a big financial sponsor of the UN and Trump has proposed a cut in funding. Trump has thrashed the UN’s overtly anti-Israel pro-Palestine stance and vowed to neutralize it. In fact the media is already speculating that United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley is planning to go in for a virtual war with the global body.

(Read: United we fall?)

10. The end of political correctness.

trump-2062441_640Political correctness was taken to ridiculous levels levels during the Obama years. That has produced a generation of snowflakes and people who take great offence at each and every thing. The Left hurled myriad abuses at anyone who even differed from the narrative.

Trump has thrown political correctness into the fire. He is blunt. He calls a spade a spade. He blasts his critics with his Tweets and speeches. One of the reasons why people voted for him is because they were really getting tired of political correctness. Trump may probably end up being the most politically incorrect US President of all time.

They thought he would change during the fag end of 2015. They thought he would change after getting the Republican ticket. They thought he would change after getting elected. They thought he would change after taking the oath of office.

No sir! No changes! Welcome to the Politically Incorrect Era!

(Read: 8 reasons why “Joker” Donald became a “Trump” card in the American political game)

Sinking global media musings…

bundle-1853667_640Media…
According to sources*.
According to experts*.
According to people*.
According to polls*.
According to morality*.
* = me.

When there’s a colossal information overload then each person chooses his own bubble universe.
We have reached that stage.
Multiple realities.

Irony.
BBC-CNN are Lefty anti-Trumpers.
Yet Lefty Corbyn-Sanders call them Fake News.

He who laughs last, laughs the longest.
TV news channel remix…
The channel that shouts the longest laughs all the way to the bank.

Trump and media war is escalating fast.
But then only the US President has unlimited resources and power.
Suicidal move by media.

Republic of India launched 104 satellites at once on a single rocket.
Republic TV will launch 104 panelists at once on a single TV screen.

Social media owners will never learn.
Their severe anti-Modi anti-Trump bias keeps backfiring yet they keep targeting Modi-Trump supporters.

Statement: We will filter Fake News.
Translation: We will do Censorship to propagate our Ideology.
#Communism

For media whatever Obama did was right and whatever Trump does is wrong.
That’s why Obama became so mediocre in the end and Trump doesn’t care.

If the media is going to attack every little thing Trump does then he’s going to do absolutely anything he wants, isn’t he?
So in the end media becomes a toothless watchdog.

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The decline of the Socialist Liberal Intellectual Media Ecosystem or SLIME…

berlin-1594352_640Karl Marx gave a hopeless utopia called Communism in 1848 which was a dead duck on arrival. It was made a powerful zombie which goes around biting people to this very day. China went Capitalist in 1978 and the USSR collapsed in 1991. Other Communist States simply converted themselves to dictatorships.

However it is still kept alive as an ideology and those who follow it use the euphemism Socialist to describe themselves. These Socialists live by Capitalism but talk only Socialism. Capitalism gives them big bucks, five star dinners, first class air travel, sponsors their children’s foreign education, but they still rubbish Capitalism and propagate Communism under the garb of Socialism. And of course they still wait for the Socialist/Communist zombie apocalypse.

The next cog in the wheel is a Liberal which is a contradiction.  The Communist ideology is murderous authoritarian rigid and probably an opposite of the word Liberal. Yet the Liberals support the ideology (not directly though).

The Liberals are also the most intolerant of all species and they support only their own Freedom of Speech and will not let any other opinion flourish.

Then there is the so called Intellectual and nobody really knows who gave him that title. They pretend to be the real experts but all they do is propound a Communist Liberal ideology as espoused by the above. This species is the stupidest of the lot and gets regularly exposed in cyberspace.

These three have the full backing of the mainstream Media and together they form a very powerful Ecosystem called the Socialist Liberal Intellectual Media Ecosystem or SLIME. SLIME has been calling the shots for decades.

SLIME decides which politician should rise or fall.

SLIME decides which cause should be taken up or not.

SLIME defines abuse from its side as freedom of speech and all criticism as trolling.

SLIME hates Social Media and wants it banned. It has to stay on it because it knows how powerful it is.

SLIME thrives in the offline world and is being thrashed in the online world.

SLIME is abusive in the offline world and gets away with it.

SLIME is abusive in the online world but doesn’t get away with it. In fact it dubs its critics as trolls, gets accounts suspended and screams from the rooftops that online abuse should end.

In 2014 in India SLIME told you that an incompetent heir apparent who was the son of the worst politician India had ever produced was the best choice.

The people went for the “Fascist” rival.

You see they worship Mao and Stalin who together led to the death of more than 100 million, but call anyone who disagrees with them a Hitler.

In 2015 SLIME told you that Brexit was prime evil.

The people embraced the “Fascist” choice.

In 2016 in America SLIME told you that the biggest establishment crook ever was the best choice.

The people went for the “Fascist” rival.

So…

…the people of the most powerful country in the world…

…the people of the world’s largest democracy…

…the people of what was once the greatest empire of the world…

…have collectively thrashed them.

Their lies don’t work in cyberspace anyway.

So the SLIME is finally on the decline.

© Sunil Rajguru