been. actually 3 percent of the population. the majority jabs at this point today the president was celebrating the 5000000. will be the problem is 80 percent. for herd immunity. and what we're seeing here is exactly the opposite it's also getting worse by the day in brazil that's reported another record number of fatal it is in a single day 2841 people died in just 24 hours it comes as the government's 4th health minister since the start of the pandemic prepares to take office gunmen on motorcycles of a touch a group of civilians in the killing of these 58 people they were attacked while returning from a live stock market in bunny bank near the border with mali the group also destroyed nearby grounder it was 3 days of national mourning the declared for the victims. the government in nigeria's kaduna state says it won't be giving in to ransom demands after 3 teachers were kidnapped from the primary school is the latest in a string of abductions from schools in northern nigeria the u.n. says 149 people have now been killed since last month's coup in may and political prisoner group puts the toll at 183 martial law has been imposed in many areas but protesters are defying restrictions on gathering on the streets for u.s. secretaries of state and defense are visiting south korea on the 2nd stop of the asia tour lloyd austin and anthony blinken are on their 1st foreign trip since taking office they started with japan where they joined forces with their counterparts to criticize what they called china's coercion and aggression across asia north korea's nuclear ambition is expected to be a key issue in seoul. so those are the headlines the news continues as era after the listening post thank you that's watching. when afghan filmmaker has sand 1st catches the taliban's attention a bounty on his head forces him to flee with his family desperately seeking sanctuary they journey across continents chronicling their multi year saga on their phones. midnight traveling an odyssey of hope was the aliens and ultimately one family's love for each other with nice analogy is the. past 2 weeks of speculation we finally got 3 story what appears to be the print. media often argues that all the attention they get is required to fix lives. and a pretty good to try. to predict what tabloid media. hello i'm richard gere's burden you're at the listening post where we don't cover the news we cover the way the news is covered here are the media stories we're examining this week prince harry and megan marco are up against more than just buckingham palace they're also taking on british journalists many of whom stand guard for the monarchy mian mars' new military rulers are hoping some good p.r. will change the news narrative on the coup alternate realities the similarities between conspiracy movements like you went on in america and the gaming world plus give that arab a case did you know that i would read dealing with a distinct lack of diversity in the future hero community we begin with a story about the royal family in london datelined california to royals in exile prince harry and his american wife megan marco interviewed by oprah winfrey their criticisms of the royal household this suggestions of racism with it were not well received by certain british news outlets and individuals. the frenzied coverage has already forced one of the u.k.'s more problematic pro-monarchy voices piers morgan off the airwaves and it has british journalists debating what the country's society of editors is than i that the racism in parts of the u.k. news media runs deep in that interview prince harry also spoke of an invisible contract that exists between the royals and the tabloids the access that the family grants in exchange for favorable coverage which raises questions about the integrity of both institutions our starting point this week as oprah winfrey's primetime special with megan and here. tonight with a person i know there's no right i'm sitting down but meghan perry caused by being interviewed by oprah of course was a global platform like no other. making in the carrying desperate to get control of the americans who could not have found a more sympathetic interview they did approve. or you. know i mean head to head with someone like piers morgan. he's going to give you a tough time. because you need to say exactly what he's going to say is that will not go like a 1000 reaction. this is no mere celebrity fast this story gets set to british institutions the royal family that make him mark an american of mixed race married into and the u.k.'s media particularly its tabloid news culture . but people often forget is that this is a. national and international institution and so you know the royal family raise questions of national identity and state power with us to come. the queen is a had to stay in other countries around the world is not just about britain it's not just about this family it is a much bigger question here being are the royal family need the media to cover them the queen famously said on one occasion we need to be seen to be believed in those months when i was pregnant concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he's born who is having that conversation making them harry have undermined pretty severely with a sense that the institution let them down that it didn't treat them properly particularly megan. doubt will strike pretty resonant chord and we're coming up to a point where we need to have a serious conversation about how that future. why are our taxes going into the woods and is it necessary to rule family in in order trust to maintain our position in in the out i would argue no they don't have any political power any relevance to 21st century not. 8 8 at the outset of this story in 2016 the coverage wasn't all bad openminded news outlets welcomed the idea that a prince could marry a mixed race woman but in tabloid land the signs were troubling. within days of the relationship becoming public the daily mail and the express were both exploring markov belly roots in unflattering terms fuelling the trolls on social media. it was only a month before prince harry issued a statement on the racial undertones of certain commentators and the nightly legal battles to keep defamatory stories out of the papers. that's what the british media does it sells we says a. sexism you know right it's protected us right off it click big online because it has a market for it the way this is a intersects with sexism it intersects with the subject i most definitely intersects with bigotry this is what black women experience and biracial women of black heritage the narrative that the british public the money and the tabloid press have always been against maggie and simply isn't true i completely agree that that wasn't very unpleasant nastyass just as kate middleton had i think it was more a case of her class than her race people don't want to hear that and i think that's what the real issue is you can't. there's a racial element in existence challenges everything that the are as shells of society in britain stand for which. harry inherited wealth and status and having a villain southgate this people they don't give a damn about rule family but they wanted no doubt someone being made to cry on the evils that whites say because that's just who we are. if the royal family needs the media then the feeling is mutual the relationship symbiotic journalists require access to the palace for news contact piers morgan a tabloid editor turned broadcaster is the embodiment of that conflict morgan newmark he said they went for drinks once that he liked but he found himself rebuffed that i had never heard from her so whatever. she goes to me right after the wedding was announced morgan used social media to lobby for an invitation which he never got. after. he eventually grew more critical of mark and when she spoke this week of having mental health issues thoughts of suicide which she said the palace disregarded morgan accused her of lying i'm sorry i don't believe a word she says about in the bank she's fired up there's this onslaught against our royal family i think is contemptible things the next morning one of his co-anchor said morgan had a personal grudge that was affecting his journalist she said anything about you since you cut you off i do think she has but yet you continue to trash i'm dumber there's no no no sorry no don't know what that's right a moment by not being so sorry because of the absolutely diabolical behavior he may as well not overturn after tens of thousands of complaints were made about morgan his bosses at i.t.v. announced he was no longer with the program. of course meghan in the interview really has brought out the 2 big guns of mental health and race and what i feel is that it's become incredibly difficult to question those i don't see why piers had to go because he questioned her credibility i can see that that calling somebody whining winching for complaining of mental health issues has got everyone on red alert but for me this highlights a far bigger issue that it's become impossible in our society to have reasonable debate where this really speaks to reseize kind of which why do. now social media lends itself to these really polarized positions so the right team hears and you are you to make an in this kind of know it's a no nuance debate between those 2 things. the modern history of the house of windsor has been told through television cameras many britons bought their 1st t.v. in 1953 so they could watch the coronation of queen elizabeth in 1905 princess diana used a b.b.c. interview to accuse the heir to the throne of adultery. 3 of us in this marriage susan in rendition and at her funeral 2 years later the televised images of prince harry by the coffins were seared into memory banks why why we staying with a convicted sex offender in 2019 the b.b.c. grilled prince andrew over his american paedophile friend geoffrey epstein and that picture of him with a 16 year old girl who would later accuse him of rape the prince has yet to face justice his d.v.c. interview was big news in the u.k. but not on the same scale nowhere near the feeding frenzy that this one has become . his end was a disaster because prince andrew is a disaster he could not contemplate the mistakes of his ways which is in should never have had it could kill as a friend. but the lack of major backlash it comes down to this to violence relationship at a royal family has with the british media that is why however many in situation is used to use at scapegoats they are you know. the characters that are they. ever that are is emerging. this new story. populated with celebrities is far more revealing than it might appear. and it's about class race access and aspiration discourse and its limits. and it's about whether aging institutions the monarchy and britain's mainstream media remain fit for purpose in the 21st century it hasn't been a good week for either of them. it's been a month and a half now since the military coup in me and mark the. protests ever since the crackdown by the military goes on and the news media are still beat your head. we covered what's changed. well some things have changed a lot has stayed the same so when we cover the story we looked at the violent crackdown by the military the rolling shutdowns of the internet the arrests of journalists the censorship of coverage. all of that is still happening but it looks like the efforts of being ramped up the number of journalists have not been arrested it is at least 35 and as many as half of them are still behind bars and the raids on independent news outlets that's continued and against 5 news organizations like the democratic force of 7 days they have had their licenses stripped from them so the military really has maintained its tight grip on the country's media yeah but what to do about the extra what's being said on the outside the sanction of. so number of countries particularly in the west have placed sanctions on myanmar and there are reports now that the e.u. intends to widen the measures it's already taken so meanwhile is now looking to the outside for the for help it's hired a canadian p.r. firm to quote assisted in explaining the real situation in the country the firm dickens' and mets in canada is owned by ari been monash he is a former israeli intelligence officer turned on turned lobbyist what he tell us about not formalised clients and his modus operandi is so ben bernanke she has worked with the former president of zimbabwe robert mugabe he's worked with the military government in sudan he's got a long list of clients and he is company is known for its manipulation of the media even now we're seeing became a national giving interviews ways trying to pin the blame on unsung suchi for the persecutions of the writing is as if that somehow absolves the military of guilt even though it stands accused of carrying out many if not most of the atrocities and he said that the civilian government was straying into the orbit of china which seems to be an attempt to rebrand the coup as being pro-west or very at the very least anti beijing and he's also admitted that there's a lot of money in this for him he says that there is a big bonus in it for him at the end of the day if he manages to get these sanctions against me in lifted so it's going to be interesting to hear what he has to say next ok. in the aftermath of january's capitol hill riots in washington conspiracy theories from the dark corners of the web have been dragged out into the light the q and on movement for example which contends that our world is somehow controlled by a cub all of satan worshipping cannibalistic paedophiles followers believe that q. is one or several senior military or intelligence officials who have been trying to expose a deep state plot against donald trump and q flags were seen all over washington on that january day journalists have since devoted a lot of time to trying to understand the conspiratorial mindset how so many americans have come to believe these things one of the more interesting takes that we've seen came not from a reporter but a game designer read berkowitz in q one on berkowitz sees a world similar to the ones that he creates in a.r.g.s alternate reality games his analysis and essay we asked him to adapt for television explains a lot about the way our flawed minds work and how easily we can be dragged down the conspiratorial rabbit hole. i am a game designer with experience in a very small niche i create research games designed to be played in reality. fictions designed to feel as real as possible puzzles the deeper you dig the more you find. games with rabbit holes that invite you into wonderland and entice you through the looking. when i saw a q. and i knew exactly what it was and what it was doing. they'd seen it before. almost built before. it was gaming's evil twin. a game that plays. q anon uses the form and techniques of alternate reality gaming a r g q in an universe has a game like feel to it that it's evident to anyone who has ever played an error g. or an online role play however q. is not a game q anon is like the reflection of a game in a mirror it looks just like one but it is inverted and one of the very 1st experience fictions i ever designed the players had to explore a creepy basement looking for clues the object they were looking for was barely hidden and the clue was easy as a participant started searching for the object hidden they spotted little random scraps of wood on the floor that happened to make the shape of a perfect arrow pointing right at a blank wall that had to be a clue then it got worse since they're obviously was no clue there the group decided the clue they were looking for was in the wall the collection of ordinary tools they found conveniently laying around seem to enforce their conclusion that this was the right direction. it was all random chance but i can see the connections that had been made were all completely logical these were normal people and their assumptions were normal and logical and just completely wrong they had not found a clue they had created. colleges have a name for this kind of syndrome they call it apophenia apophenia is the tendency to perceive a connection or meaningful patterns between unrelated random things q and that's the point it isn't about finding the clues and solving the puzzle it's about confusing people to tearing down walls if you're a designer and have puzzles and have a plot and apophenia is a wild card you always have to be concerned about. cubana is a mere reflection of this dynamic. here apophenia is the point of everything there are no scripted plots there are no puzzles to solve created by game designers there are no solutions they're constantly getting the player lost but pointing out unrelated random events and creating a meaning for them that fits the propaganda message queues deliver. ok for you so it doesn't tell you to follow you could think about what you want what you q. is a fictional character in a fictional game a real whistleblower with important information would get it out as fast as possible to the most reliable source possible there are people like daniel ellsberg edward snowden and chelsea manning they don't drop clues and make you solve puzzles to look at the information q does though he does this because he is not a whistleblower q. is a fictional character and acts exactly like a fictional character. this is because the purpose of q. is not to divulge actual information between create fiction let's take a look at how this works. to create apophenia 1st you need random data the more the better then you need to interpret that data in a way that leads you to a full solution that fits the narrative and several q. drops q. tells followers that there is a shadowy call to out there in which the members are required to reveal their status through symbolism owls or an animal. cue to ask them to look out for these symbols and jewelry tattoos or hand gestures of public figures and celebrities of course q. knows what they'll find the clintons throwing the rock an off hand horns jay z. flashing the illuminati. the rothschilds wearing foreign heads of fancy dress costume parties. the images pile up fast clue after clue points the investigators to mountains of out of context images of the people they distrust totally looking like they are in a cult there is no doubt about the political nature of this propaganda either this is the internet's repurchasing of hatreds greatest hits. it is an isolated process but then in a large community of like minded people to share their finds and get showered with compliments courage men and praise they post images trade theories create. photoshop the images into crazy quilt people wearing owls and goat head pentagrams . they may not believe it at 1st but as they watch and list music videos of the hollywood elite flicks covered in the cult symbolism screaming about drugs and demons. a dope. doubts are notoriously hard to get rid of the ideas start to surround them a majority of people they know believes. at least partly cumin on inspired conspiracies all their news feeds echo the same thing tick tock instagram facebook and all over twitter oh in a newsmax or reporting on. is becoming a widely accepted system of beliefs then you mainstream if they ever lose faith their senators and even the former president of the united states talking about what a great movement human on is i've heard these are people that love our country eventually they just stop fighting they finally accept what is right before their eyes and what explains so much of what everyone around them is also seeing and telling them is the truth it's an international satanic cult and this is the moment of a pop. only this is delusion as revelation there's a reason the people enjoy doing puzzles one most of us aren't aware of. when we solve puzzles we get ahead of dopamine biochemically anchors the idea into our mind in a way that can be a certainty it gives us the motivation solve more puzzles it's that feeling you experience when you get the lawnmower to work when you solve a hard puzzle a great game the problem is we also get the same rush when we solve the puzzle in correctly but think we've got it right unlike the puzzles in a real game that have a real solution there is no reality no solution in the real world instead this is a breadcrumb trail away from reality away from actual full lucian and toward the dangerous psychological. works because when you figure it out yourself you own it because you've experienced the thrill of discovery the excitement of the rabbit hole the acceptance of a community that loves and respects you because you are convinced to connect the dots yourself you can see the absolute logic of it it's a feeling that game designers are always chasing giving players the ability to live in a world of magic that is vibrant and alive with potential a world that reveals itself to you day by day a world you can understand how to roll and. i can't believe people want to give that feeling up without a fight. whatever happens with trump acumen on one thing is certain the gaming techniques employed acumen and for simply too effective to be forgotten. the genie is out of the bottle. the may not be cute but the game of cation propaganda will continue to evolve. this is just the bitter. and finally if your error but you are accustomed to the film and television industries especially hollywood casting people like you or who look like you as villains white westerners usually get to play the hero superheroes are no different the original lineup of marvel's avengers was 5 white guys and one white woman the hulk was green but only when he had anger management issues we're seeing a little more diversity these days the comic book spider man is now an afro latino and this is marvel is a pakistani american but we're still waiting on that 1st arab in a cape equipped with superpowers saving the world on the big screen a comedy duo out of toronto called wishful genie has decided to wait no more so we leave you now with to be the 1st arab superhero and we'll see you next time you're at the list. please. did you know that i want. kids to be like. she was middle eastern i think and get really good. we've never seen for i'm going . to tell you something. but you should still get a degree but you need a real job men. leave your country needs you. sorry there's just a quick screening it's completely random we get home. i'm a superhero. when on t.v. like dr strange he is a superhero and a doctor. expert or city. to get married or do you know 20. being with you puts me in danger. to get the we need to be. the thing of the year. but if you say. we believe you'll be cutesy before jimmy can you. just say yes or. 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