If you want to know how the Jewish noise and spin machine
works, read the series of columns that Thomas Friedman of the New York Times
wrote on the Arab countries. As of now, the last column was published on May 9,
2012 (today) under the title: “Jobs[at]Arabia.com” It
is about a business park in Amman ,
Jordan Cairo and Damascus .”
The column preceding it was published on May 6, 2012, under the title: “Lead,
Follow or Get Out of the Way” It was about the absence of leaders that Friedman
says could have pulled the Arab countries out of their rut.
You clearly see in the first
sentence of the May 9 column that the writer draws a contrast between the new
Arab Spring which he associates with Amman , and
the old Arab Spring which he calls “drama in the streets,” and he associates
with both Cairo and Damascus . To someone who knows little about
the Arabs, it sounds like there is nothing in their countries but that one
business park in Amman .
To those who know better, it sounds like someone went to a chicken farm, saw no
chicken, roosters or chicks, and came back with one measly egg. Did Friedman
neglect to see if there is something else in the Arab world? Or was this a
deliberate act on his part to mislead his readers?
Those who know what goes on inside
the Jewish noise and spin machine will tell you that his trip to the Arab world
was planned on April 25, 2012. This was the day that the website CNN Money
published an article under the title: “Inside Egypt 's
bustling start-up scene.” and the subtitle: “Despite the economic uncertainty
and social unrest in Egypt ,
tech start-up investors are finding plenty of promising options.” It was
written by Christopher M. Schroeder who is an American entrepreneur and
investor. His description of what he saw in Egypt says that Friedman only saw a drop in the bucket of the
Arab high-tech parks; only one egg in the entire chicken farm. But try to
imagine the panic that hit the people inside the Jewish noise and spin machine
when they read the Schroeder article, and try to imagine the frantic phone
calls they made to Tom Friedman and to others like him urging them to look for
and find ways that will mitigate (or in Jewish parlance, balance out) the
positive piece on Egypt. They must have looked like chicken running around with
their heads cut off. It must have been a pitiful spectacle.
To better understand the workings
of the Jewish noise and spin machine, we analyze the May 6 column. Friedman
begins it by describing as being a “huge volcanic political eruption”
what he calls the “post-Awakening Arab world,” and he claims that not enough
leaders have emerged from all this. Okay, you say, let's assume this to be
true, so what? And he tells you so what. He says he wants to see men and women
who will tell their people the “truth [that is] required to get their societies
moving forward again.” Hmm, you say and you scratch your head as if to
stimulate a thought that would end your puzzlement. It is that you always
thought if and when people wake up and cause a huge volcanic eruption, it means
they already know the truth about themselves, so much so that they do not need
a little fart from America
to come and tell them about it.
Oh no, says he without actually saying it, I am not a little
fart from America ,
I am juggernaut Thomas L. Friedman, columnist for the New York Times. In fact,
he writes that he even discussed the problem with his Arab friends. He does not
say what their reaction was, and he does not mention them again in the rest of
the column. But he assures us that he was quick to note to them: “...my own
country – not to mention Europe – has a
similar problem.” You see, my friend, this is a guy that believes the whole
world is missing something because nobody is telling it the truth – the truth
that only he and no one else knows.
He elaborates on the theme by asserting that while there is
a global leadership vacuum, it is particularly problematic in the Arab world
today -- this being a critical juncture for it. He then blows in your face a
typical friedmanite fart that stinks so badly, it takes you a while before you
realize what he just did. Here is how he does that: “Every … awakening … needs
to … transition from Saddam to Jefferson
without getting stuck in Khomeini.” What? What is this thing he calls Saddam?
Is it a chicken salami of some sort? And that Jefferson
thing? Is it a motorbike like the Harley? And the Khomeini one; could it be a
chicken dish stuffed with rice or something? This guy has the habit of throwing
smart aleck remarks that do not inform or entertain but simply distract.
Now he gets serious enough to tell you why “the Arab
awakening produced so few leaders.” There are technical reasons, he says, but
there are also “deeper factors at work.” And speaking of depth, the absolute
truth is that these societies are confronting a deep hole, he explains. So
then, what do you do when you need to tell the people about a truth so deep
they could never see it by themselves despite the fact that they woke up on
their own and caused a huge volcanic eruption? Simple; you get them a
Moses-like leader to preach to them from the mountaintop a sermon they will
never forget.
And so, here comes T. L. Moses Friedman who ascends to the
top of the mountain and delivers the holiest of sermons: “Who [but I] will tell
the people how much time has been wasted? Who [but I] will tell the people
that, for the last 50 years, most of the Arab regimes squandered their
dictatorship moments. [Yes] dictatorship is not desirable, but at least East
Asian dictatorships, such as South Korea
and Taiwan ,
used their top-down authority to build dynamic export-led economies and to
educate all their people – men and women. In the process [I assure you, my
children that] they created huge middle classes whose new leaders midwifed
their transitions from authoritarian rule to democracy. [By contrast,] Arab
dictatorships did no such thing. [Instead,] they used their authority to enrich
a small class and to distract the masses with 'shiny objects' – called Israel , Iran and Nasserism to name a few.”
And this is where you come out of your snooze and yell: What? Shiny Israel ? Shiny Iran ? An object
called Nasserism? What's that? Did he finally get to see a rooster in the
chicken farm?
And you go on yelling: “What the hell is this self-styled
dumbo/Moses talking about?” You do a little research and discover that there
was a time when a debate had probed the reasons why South
Korea , Taiwan
and Hong Kong industrialized as rapidly as
they did. The conclusion arrived at was that America and Britain invested in
them enormous amounts to show to the communist Chinese, the North Koreans and
the Soviets that Capitalism was better than Communism. To get there, they
enriched a small class of tycoons that make the rich in the Arab oil-poor
countries look like paupers, and make the rich in the oil-rich countries look
like wannabe moguls on their way there but not yet there. And so, you ask, what
was the role of Friedman in that debate? And the answer is zilch, zero, nada,
zip, goose egg. In fact, while the debate was raging, he ran around yelling his
own yell: The earth is flat, the oil is bad. High-tech is hot; the earth is
hotter.
And this is where you wonder if he is preaching to the Arabs
or preaching to us here. Reading further down the column, and giving the matter
more serious thought, you conclude that being an important part of the Jewish
noise and spin machine, he is talking to us here. What he is doing is implement
a program of continuing education aimed at transforming the North American
population into mindless human drones who live and die for the sole purpose of
serving Israel
and the other Jewish causes to the exclusion of everything and everyone else.
But what is he trying to “educate” us about? Not
surprisingly, it is the same old propaganda of distortion and demagoguery; it
is a package of things like: “Now … Islamist parties are trying to fill the
void … Egypt and Tunisia … need
loans.” And he goes on to say the things that show how little he knows about
the debates now raging in the Arab world. In the same way that he missed the
important debates in North America in favor of
championing such Jewish causes as the threat of global warming and the evil of
the oil companies, he remains deaf to the avalanche of ideas that emanate at
this time from the Arab Revolution.
In fact, it is clear that he is oblivious of the debates
which are now raging in the Arab world where they tackle subjects like
governance in an age when the Left and the Right are seen to crumble under
their own weight; the balance to aim for in education between the hard sciences
and the humanities; the sort of economy that will ensure organic growth yet
make room for innovation; the shape of a social safety net that will help the
needy without encouraging the greedy; and so on, and so on, and so on. But to
give us the impression that he is participating in the Arab debate over there,
Friedman says this to us over here: “Islam is … not the answer … Math is.” What
a joker wasting precious time and expensive space!
As if this were not enough, he takes advantage of the fact
that he has rendered you giddy to sneak up on you and mug you. Look what he
says: “Who will tell young Arabs that they have as much talent as young people
anywhere?” Say that again, Tom. Are you saying that young Arabs need someone to
tell them they have talent? Are you volunteering to do them this favor? Are you
nuts or something? But he does not stop here; he goes on to tell us this: “Look
at the worldwide trend their uprisings sparked.” Yes, we looked and we know
what they have known for a long time which is that America
needs a better press to help it create a better political system that will not
waste time spinning every piece of news to serve Israel and the Jewish causes to the
exclusion of everything and everyone else. At a time when America needs all its talent and
all its energy to heal itself, the nation is being mobilized by the power of
demagoguery so as to see but one foreign entity and serve it with utmost devotion.
What a crime!
It is time for Thomas Friedman to get out of the way because
he is doing America
more harm than good. It is time for the New York Times to stop becoming worse
than the rag it is now -- a toilet paper.