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Submitted by Steven Kaszab

Ever watched the morning or evening news cast thinking just how blessed you are living in North America? The horrors of Gaza, the Russo-Ukrainian Conflict, planes dropping from the sky, a boat sinking with all aboard in India, a bus load of tourists falling off a cliff in Italy, shark attacks off the coast of Australia  and Virginia Beach. The long list goes on and on. Local news projects the number of victims of gun violence while a celebration continues regarding the police apprehension of massive cubes of Cocaine and illicit pills. No wonder we are all insanely stressed and fatigued. 

The Media has presented these images to us, and has lead us towards a psychologically primed state of mind, one of stress filled fear and fatalism. How the heck did we get into this position, and can we get away from it? Answers to these questions are usually not given by the media. The News Sector exists to make profits, so it only makes sense presenting bad news instead of the good things in life like the  flowers and singing birds that surround you, the laughter of children, that you still have a job and money to pay your bills. Bad and sad news sell. It massages your emotions and indirectly leads you on a pathway daily. Will it somehow lead you to do good things for others or initiate a state of confusion, uneasiness and perhaps even hate? 

Is the Media responsible for the setup and direction of its broadcasts? Yes indeed it is. Can the Media help transform the national attitude towards an issue, people or problem? Yes it can. The Propagandist Joseph Goebbels (Nazi’s) ability to sway a huge population in favor of war and their great leader Hitler showed just how powerful the Media can be, and is today. The election of Donald Trump also shows the world just how influential the Media can be, and how open the Media is to political and social manipulation. 

Canadian Prime Minister Carney tells us that Canadians will be O.K. even with the threats of tariffs and unfriendly foreign influences from down south. Will Canadians believe this message, or will we open our eyes and ears to the reality of a oncoming recession, mass layoffs and uncommon bankruptcies due in a large part to US Tariffs. Can the Media curtail the influence of socio-political propaganda? Lets wait and see. 

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14 responses to “The media has created American isolationism”

  1. Bush tea Avatar
    Bush tea

    What Media what!!??
    The media is just another pawn in the SATANIC play currently being enacted in the world of the twenty-first century…
    In any case, the ‘media’ has now morphed into ANY brass bowl with a smart phone and the desire to share their own brand of ‘wisdom’.
    We now have totally clueless BBs pontificating on everything under the sun, …EVEN while their OWN lives are classic examples of failure, misery, hopelessness ..

    Brass tacks is hilarious in this regard…
    Known praedial larcenist pontificating on agriculture…
    Poor, broke and clueless callers advising on national financial management…
    Life failures, who take up politics, then becoming experts in national management…

    Our whole world is in a phase of EVIL.
    This comes as a result of our collective CHOICE to ‘big up’ the albino-centric approach of greed, materialism, hatred, selfishness, spite etc…. AS OPPOSED TO the community-centric way of LOVE, selflessness, QUALITY, and GODLINESS, during that long phase where this choice was FREELY available to us.

    We battle not against shiite flesh and blood, but against PRINCIPALITIES AND POWERS…

    The spiritual forces that promoted the community centric way to success have FINALLY given up, and ACCEDED to our collective choice of the albino-centric ways…
    God has turned away – and left us to our CHOSEN path…. The OTHER forces now have FREE reign….

    Money and Mafia-styled POWER now characterize our way of life…as opposed to Love, Godliness, and Righteousness.

    It is not just the Media…
    From the VERY top, to the lowest Parro, …our priorities, desires, energies, and our VERY THINKING… is materialistic, selfish, and (therefore) combative and hateful.
    It is WHY we have the leaders that we have….
    Trump is no fluke….

    Isaiah 3 explains in VIVID detail, where we are as we speak…

    What a time to be alive…

  2. David Avatar
    David

    Agree with you Bush Tea, the traditional media is a joke which has created the vacuum being filled by the so-called ‘influencers’ to satisfy their thirst for ‘likes’.

  3. David Avatar
    David

    Our unfortunate new pastime: Posting before processing
    Today’s Editorial
    In the age of endless scrolls and knee-jerk reactions, Barbados may have found itself a new national pastime: posting before processing. Whether it’s a viral video from Grand Kadooment, a controversial lyric in a Crop Over tune, or someone’s private pain suddenly made public, outrage on social media often comes faster than understanding—faster, even, than facts.
    Barbadians have always been people who talk things out, who congregate at the rum shop, on the block, or under the mango tree to reason and reflect. But somewhere between the rise of reels and the rush to be first—not necessarily right— we’ve lost something vital: our pause.
    During this Crop Over season, we saw this play out in real time. A dancer slips on stage? Cue the flood of memes before concern. A band gets criticised for costume choices? Forget context—just click ‘share’ and pile on. A young woman vents about her Kadooment experience? Her face and words are everywhere, dissected by strangers who don’t know her whole story, only her soundbite. What used to be private moments of joy, mistake, or vulnerability are now content.
    And it’s not just during Crop Over. Young people, especially, are feeling the effects of a culture where clout often trumps compassion (and adults too). Every day, they’re bombarded with pressure to perform, to curate their lives for likes, and to respond to complex issues with 15-second hot takes. There’s little room left for grace, or growth, or simply saying: “I don’t know enough about this yet.”
    This isn’t to say we shouldn’t speak out about injustice or hold each other accountable. But there’s a difference between accountability and ambush, between digital dialogue and digital dogpiling. When we lead with outrage instead of curiosity, we lose opportunities for learning, healing, and honest connection.
    It also chips away at something deeper: trust. When everyone’s scared their worst moment might be tomorrow’s trending clip, we stop being real. We start curating our emotions, flattening our opinions, and staying on the surface. We stop reaching out. Vulnerability becomes risky.
    And it’s not just about fear of embarrassment. It’s the quiet calculation people start making before they speak, share, or show up. Will this be misunderstood? Will someone twist it, clip it, repost it with a snide caption? That kind of secondguessing makes us hold back—not just online, but in real life too. We start filtering ourselves even in safe spaces, unsure of who’s listening or recording, unsure of what might be used against us.
    The irony is, in a world more connected than ever, many of us feel more alone—guarded, self-conscious, and quietly exhausted from keeping up a version of ourselves we think is acceptable.
    When people are bottled up, it bursts in other ways—through anxiety, burnout, and depression. And we wonder why so many of our young people—and adults too—feel unseen, unsupported, and afraid to speak their truth.
    What we post matters. But so does how and why we post. Are we uplifting or just amplifying noise? Are we calling out or calling in? Are we creating space for growth, or are we crowding it with judgement? Are we genuinely trying to raise awareness, or are we riding the wave of attention? Are we posting because something moved us—or because we know it’ll move numbers?
    It’s easy to convince ourselves that we’re “just sharing” or “just reacting”, but digital footprints leave real-world impact. The how and why shape the message more than we think.
    It helps to remember that the Internet doesn’t always need our opinion right away. Sometimes it’s more powerful to pause, to listen, to learn. Sometimes grace is the most radical thing we can offer each other online.
    As the Crop Over season winds down in a few days, maybe it’s time for a digital detox—to process before posting, to hold our tongues (and fingers) before we tweet, to practice empathy that lasts longer than a comment thread. The question isn’t whether we’ll go viral. It’s whether we’ll go deeper.

    Source: BT

  4. David Avatar
    David

    Trump’s global tariffs ‘victory’ may come at a high price

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0l6g13rlwko

  5. BAJE Avatar
    BAJE

    I DON’T UNDERSTAND THE OUTRAGE ABOUT THE USA IMPOSING TARIFFS.

    WHEN I RAN A REGIONAL COMPANY THAT I BUILT FROM SCRATCH, IMPORT DUTIES ON MOST ITEMS WERE EXTREMELY HIGH—EXCEPT FOR COMPUTERS, WHICH EVENTUALLY BECAME DUTY-FREE.

    SO IT’S ACTUALLY A GOOD THING THAT THE USA IS FINALLY LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD, ESPECIALLY WHEN SMALL ISLAND NATIONS HAVE BEEN EXPLOITING THEIR OWN CITIZENS FOR YEARS WITH HIGH IMPORT DUTIES AND EXCESSIVE TAXATION.

  6. wargeneral Avatar
    wargeneral

    @David Donald Trump just fired the Commisioner of the Buereau of Labor Statistics after the latest disappointing jobs report, thats like firing the head of the Barbados Statistical Serivice because you don’t like the unemployment numbers. Trump also just imposed higher tariffs on a number of countrues including Canada and Brazil. As an investor and someone who follows these developments closely, I am not supprised. What has supprises me, is the number of people who thought this would somehow end well. A number of Businesses in the U.S have essentially put plans on hold and have frozen hiring beause of the uncertainy caused by trade policies which change by the day. To add more chaos to the mix, the U.S is now begining to look like a thrid world country where the strongman fires officials from entities charge with collecting economic statistics when he doesn’t like the data.

  7. David Avatar
    David

    @wargeneral

    The less said about Trump the better. Did he just script his press secretary to demand a Nobel peace prize because he is responsible for stopping several wars?

  8. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    ̶T̶h̶e̶ ̶m̶e̶d̶i̶a̶ ̶h̶a̶s̶ ̶c̶r̶e̶a̶t̶e̶d̶ ̶A̶m̶e̶r̶i̶c̶a̶n̶ ̶i̶s̶o̶l̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶i̶s̶m̶
    The media has fueled White Supremacy Race-ism

    By War Whores against correct thinking
    Liberalism after Slavery and Civil Rights undermined
    Human Rights Truth and Rights Equal Rights
    Racial Wars
    Trade Wars
    Political Wars
    Propaganda Wars
    It is easy to trigger the racist demon lurking inside every white ghost

  9. David Avatar
    David

    Bad move by Skerrit to accept Palestinians

    I was shocked to hear Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit say on Emancipation Day that Dominica will provide for the relocation of a couple of hundred Palestinians.

    He did go on to say that they would bring certain skills that are lacking in Dominica. He further justified such a scheme by saying that he would welcome funding to assist the country in building the infrastructure to accommodate them, as part of the strategy to develop Dominica.

    It is difficult to understand how a prime minister who days before at the Africaribbean Forum on Investment and Trade in Grenada, spoke of encouraging Africans and Caribbean people to forge greater cultural links, can, before his words dry, offer to settle hundreds of Palistinians in Dominica.

    This is the wrong time to do that.

    Social implications

    Apart from certain social implications, Why would we in CARICOM, serve United States (US) and Israel’s agenda of getting rid of the Palestinians by abetting their killing or by accommodating their evacuation?

    The Palestinian cause is better served by the United Nations censuring the US and Israel and commanding a ceasefire before bringing about a settlement that recognises all the historical rights of the Palestinians.

    On August 1, 2025, a major detriment, after 191 years since the abolition of slavery is that “we are not devoid of all the inhibitions of inferiority and lack of confidence as a people. “That quote is from the Weekend Nation Editorial of July 31.

    It is still ingrained in the majority of black people that people of lighter complexion are superior. Take a look at our societies and you would see how this plays out.

    Higher education

    Who more so guides our thinking? Who controls the top echelons of trade, commerce and finance in our countries?

    Inspite of all the higher education, we still have not addressed the big white grizzly bear in the room. We have to deal with the inferiority complex institutionised from 400 years ago. That is what emancipation is about.

    Mr Skerrit, you are doing a disservice to the struggling people of the Caribbean and more particularly so, the struggling black population of Dominica, if you proceed with your plan to immigrate hundreds of Palestinians.

    – Andrew Bynoe

    Source: Nation

  10. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    Skerrit is even more mendicant and ‘anti-development of his people’ than we are in Brassbados.
    Yet another money-grabbing, albino-centric joker – whose idea of leadership is his permanent enthronement as Emperor, and the continuing mis-education and degrading of the people he is supposed to represent.

    After all his years in position, he has to be begging fo developmental skills and money from international scammers…? What was HIS role for Dominicans?

    No wonder he invited the then CARICOM chair to canvas for him last election. She can’t even sort out the 11+, …but bringing Tom, Chico and TinYan from over and away to ‘develop’ Brassbados….

    Perhaps Skerrit is hoping that Mossad will then bomb the Palestinians who move to Dominica – so that he could then beg for international pity …and aid.

    What a lack of vision.
    What traitors to emancipation.
    What a let down to their brass bowl peoples

    Who would have thought we would come to this after our much vaunted eddykashun investments….

  11. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    Pasty faced crackers don’t know the meaning of the word woke
    They think it means black ..
    not enlightened and Woke like Jesus and the Buddha

    According to their racist science Woke is a slang Jazz term by black musicians who smoked ganja that made black and brown people think they were equals to whites and have sex with white women to make mongrel babies

    Nazi Dictator Drumpf White Collar Crimi praised Sydney Sweeny for the hottest commercial and said “being woke was for losers”

    Don’t ever let a white person define a single thing with their prejudiced minds every anonymous pale face on the internet is a potential racist troll where their racist tropes thrive and go viral like the clap and are then picked up by the bent Australian dogs media to propagate the racist propaganda like it was still slavery days daze

    White trash Turning Point boys didn’t like this video when I posted it 6 years ago in a robust online debate

  12. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    Sydney Sweeney has great jeans (genes).. but he face looks ugh! like she has got Downs Syndrome

  13. David Avatar
    David

    Shame on you, Mr Skerrit

    SPEAKING DURING his contribution to the 20252026 National Budget Debate on July 31, Prime Minister of Dominica, Roosevelt Skerrit, raised the worrying prospect of a possible role for Dominica in the “relocation” of Palestinians to Dominica.

    This has brought sharply home, once again, the inability of Caribbean governments to frame progressive foreign policy positions, which are independent of the imposed demands and interests of global imperial powers.

    Skerrit suggested that he would be “open to engage the government of Qatar, the government of Saudi Arabia and the government of the United Arab Emirates with a view to quite possibly allowing the resettlement of a couple hundred of Palestinians into Dominica if we can get funding from these governments”. Consistent with the “materialist-centred” as opposed to “principle-based” approach to foreign policy, Skerrit touted his “proposal” as a “development” initiative since a “couple hundred” qualified Palestinians would be “relocated” to Dominica and would contribute to national development. The major problem with this is its neo-colonial dependency and economic opportunism devoid of ideological principle. Instructively, none of the “authorities” upon which Skerrit is expected to depend in facilitating his offer to “accept” “relocated” Palestinians, are Palestinian. In making his “offer”, Skerrit made no reference to the troubling question of ongoing imperial plans to “depopulate” and “empty” Palestine of Palestinians. His proposals did not emerge in a vacuum. They were presented in a context where words like “genocide” and “depopulation” are being used to describe the military actions being taken by some major western powers against the residents of Gaza.

    Glibly intervene

    That a Caribbean prime minister, whose party is supposedly part of a global labour movement, could so glibly intervene into a global discussion on the future fate of a whole people whose struggle is now the main trigger point of a possible global war would have been comical had the consequences not been so serious.

    That he would frame his “proposal” in the context of the development needs of Dominica, suggests the deepest hints at an absence of economic development creative thinking, in which the enforced suffering of a whole population was being leveraged to place Dominica in the “good books” of global imperialism and at the same time to facilitate a “development” vision.

    Has the Caribbean which championed the release of Nelson Mandela and the end of apartheid in South Africa fallen so low?

    Is history having a laugh at our expense that at a time when the South Africa which our reggae artistes, political leaders and international diplomats helped free is now at the forefront of the global effort at ending the Palestinian genocide, the most that we can now do is to propose resettlement schemes that will legitimise the emptying of Palestine of Palestinians? Wake up, Caribbean people!

    Tennyson Joseph is associate professor of political science at North Carolina Central University. Email tjoe2008@live.com

    Source: Nation

  14. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    Is this Guardian (UK) article an accurate representation of ‘Little England (Not)’
    https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/aug/06/little-england-no-more-what-i-learned-on-my-first-trip-to-the-caribbean

    Leading Global Scholars and Palestine Action
    Could Caribbean academics and scholars link up with Palestinian academics and scholars to fight against evil at it’s roots namely the white powers that be in segregated USA and apartheid Israel where the wicked rule in dominion

    A US and Israel Boycott would be copacetic

    Tribute to Benjamin Zephaniah
    Palestine Solidarity Campaign
    In April 1988, Zephaniah visited Occupied Palestine to learn of the Palestinian struggle for liberation under Israeli apartheid.

    Rasta Time In Palestine
    Palestine, Benjamin Zephaniah
    Cease The War, Peter Broggs,
    Stop The War, War Mongers, Prince Far I,
    Stop The War, Free South Afrika (Illegal), Benjamin Zephaniah

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