Human Rights & Pig Empire Imperialism on Media Madness

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Pig Empire Says the Quiet Part Out Loud

I think one of the things that makes me good at my chosen profession as an analyst, is the fact that I’ve always been obsessed with saving the dirty, salacious sort of dark secrets about our government and those who effectively own it, for some later, undefined use. This May 9th, 2019 post on Media Madness was a product of that habit, as I pulled out and examined a devastating 2017 Politico article that exposes what we all know, but can now prove – that the U.S. government doesn’t give the slightest crap about “human rights” except in so much as it can be used as a cudgel against our “enemies” (countries like China, Iran, and North Korea.)

Apparently, before he finally realized working for a fascist was going to impact his ability to show his face in public, it seems former U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson actually started behaving as if the Pig Empire’s human rights rhetoric meant anything except an excuse for war. Thankfully for corpse merchants everywhere however, his faithful aid Brian Hook set him straight in an official memo that should have set off alarm bells in the minds of investigative journalists everywhere – but instead, produced silence and mild shrugs of indifference.

“Let me start by saying that if the entire sad history of Politico was just a run-up to this article, I’d be forced to admit that it was probably worth it. Here you have a US State Department official, with longstanding ties to the Pig Empire propaganda machine across multiple governments, telling Trump’s SecState to shut up about Human Rights because we don’t really give a crap and it’s just a tool to manipulate our “enemies.” This is without a doubt one of the most significant moments in US media history, and yet it largely passed by without much note at the time it was published.”

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