A Global Wave of Media Silence

Remember when the media were working themselves into a lather about the so-called “Pink Tide” of socialism in South America in the 1990s and 2000s? From writing open letters of fawning adoration to Hugo Chavez, the legacy media have gone awfully quiet about all that. They’ve stopped jabbering about the “Arab Spring”, too, and all their other “colour revolutions”.

But there’s a tide of revolution sweeping the world right now that the legacy media don’t even seem to want to talk about at all. If they do, it’s only to smear and lie about them.

After years of encouraging ordinary people to rise up against the global elite, the legacy media are screeching, “Not like that!” as thousands of Canadian truckers and Wellington Freedom campers rise up against their local minions of the WEF’s Great Reset.

One suspects that the legacy media have finally worked out that they are the elite. Suddenly they’re not so keen on the peasants grabbing their torches and pitchforks.

But lying when the truth is plain for anyone with an internet connection to see is hard work, even for the legacy media. Far easier to just sweep the global tide rising up against the Great Reset under the carpet entirely.

So, the legacy media are barely mentioning the massive protests sweeping the Netherlands, rejecting the “climate action” policies of the Rutter government. They can hardly hide what’s happening in Sri Lanka, so they just studiously avoid mentioning why it’s happening.

Now, the Panamanians are joining the global trucker protests.

Large trucks and banner-waving demonstrators blocked the Panamerican Highway and other roads in Panama on Friday as two weeks of revolt against high prices and corruption showed no signs of abating.

As protesters ignored government calls for negotiations to end the angry mobilization, dozens of blockades were maintained on the critical highway that connects the country of 4.4 million people to the rest of Central America.

I wonder how the legacy media are going to go, smearing Panamians as “white supremacists” and “Nazis”? No doubt they’ll find a way.

Just like in Canada, the Netherlands and Sri Lanka, the protests have been sparked by the inflation crisis and energy and food shortages that have followed on the heels of two years of Covid lockdowns.

At one roadblock, outside the city of Aguadulce, protester Nelly Jaen, a 63-year-old homemaker, told AFP: “We are desperate. Panama cannot take any more of this.”

“Lower the price of food, fuel and medicine, because we can’t stand it in this country any longer,” added truck driver Arnulfo Sarmiento, 53 […]

Year-on-year inflation of 4.2 percent was recorded in May, along with an unemployment rate of about 10 percent and fuel price hikes of nearly 50 percent since January.

Does all this sound familiar?

“Politicians are the biggest thieves,” said another of the Aguadulce protesters, 41-year-old homemaker Mitzila Chanis.

“But it is also partly the fault of the people who keep electing swindlers, scoundrels and liars… That’s what they are. While they are eating ham, the people have nothing.”

France24

Elect swindlers, scoundrels and liars in haste, repent at leisure.

As I’m sure BFD readers are aware.