Bought Journalists - Udo Ulfkotte HD

When they ban a book, you know it’s going to be good! In this case, there was meant to be an English translation published last year of a controversial German bestseller written by a journalist who also suddenly passed away. People wondered what happened — we still don’t know. Here was the proposed book jacket copy — you can guess what happened: Dr. Udo Ulfkotte, a former editor for the German main daily newspaper, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), has first hand knowledge of how the CIA and German Intelligence (BND) bribe journalists to write articles free of truth, facts, and with a decidedly pro-Western, pro-NATO bent or, in other words, propaganda. In his bestselling book Bought Journalists (“Gekaufte Journalisten”), Dr. Ulfkotte explains in great detail the workings of the US and NATO’s propaganda campaign and how a lack of compliance with it, on the part of a journalist, can cost a career. Dr. Ulfkotte also provides a wealth of names! Journalist for Hire: How the CIA Buys the News is the English translation of Dr. Ulfkotte’s bestselling book. This book was part of the origin story of this project. A certain gentleman — Mr. M. Mockingbird — mentioned that he once saw it for sale online for $1500, but he wasn’t able to buy it, because it really never existed. We thought — why not? — let’s help bring Udo’s work to the American people. I really want to do this story justice, but I’m running out of time: what follows are my notes to him after reading it through in English, including the page numbers of all the juicy stuff — so you can read it yourself. (The machine translation is “just ok” but definitely good enough to get the gist — I found reading it with an accent made it almost passable…) I didn’t think the revelations were so damning on first glance, but doing some research into the story of this journalist, Udo Ulfkotte, I found an even bigger story it really tied into — and some pay dirt! Another German bestseller, also never translated or published here, with some terrifying conclusions about what this means for mockingbird, worldwide. It’s about how influence works, how the U.S. pressures other countries, plus a whole new vein about gold reserves that will become especially relevant here, but that’s too complex for this post. So, we’re going to lead with the lede and start with notes on the second book, then you can see the details of what we found in the first — all of it interesting but we think the message is clearer in the second. The gist as to why these two German books aren’t published here is because they are unveiling what the CIA didn’t want us to talk about — exactly how they manipulate foreign countries, foreign press and foreign governments. Basically, what we are finding they do now to us at home! And, friends, that’s their first dirty secret.