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Faux News
Faux News You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. – Abraham Lincoln It’s beginning to appear that ‘ol Abe might have been wrong. We have seen war after war after war, intervention after intervention […]
NBC’s Brian Williams is Forced to Admit His Tale of Being on a Downed Helicopter in Iraq Was Pure Fantasy
NBC’s Brian Williams is Forced to Admit His Tale of Being on a Downed Helicopter in Iraq Was Pure Fantasy NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams admitted Wednesday he was not aboard a helicopter hit and forced down by RPG fire during the invasion of Iraq in 2003, a false claim that has been repeated […]
Does Ottawa’s skip-the-media strategy get the message out?
Does Ottawa’s skip-the-media strategy get the message out? Communicating directly is fine, but it also helps to hit the target with relevant information Government critics of the media seem increasingly convinced these days that they can do the job of communicating a message better than journalists can — and, as a result, they are coming up […]
2015: Grounds for Optimism
2015: Grounds for Optimism This may seem like an odd line of reasoning to pursue given what everyone else seems to be saying. Some are thinking that 2015 will be a repeat of 2014 with a few incremental changes (always a safe bet, but makes for boring reading) while others are warning of the potential […]
The Archdruid Report: The Cold Wet Mackerel of Reality
The Archdruid Report: The Cold Wet Mackerel of Reality. To misuse a bit of prose from Charles Dickens, it was neither the best of times nor the worst of times, but I know very few people who will object when, a few hours from now, 2014 gets dragged off to the glue factory. This has not […]
EDWARD BERNAYS’ THEORY HAS BEEN PERFECTED « The Burning Platform
EDWARD BERNAYS’ THEORY HAS BEEN PERFECTED « The Burning Platform. When six mega-corporations who depend upon other mega-corporations, Wall Street banks and political parties for their revenue, control all of the news and information flowing to the masses, you have all the ingredients needed to control, influence and mold the opinions, tastes and ideas of […]
2014: The Year Propaganda Came Of Age – The Automatic Earth
2014: The Year Propaganda Came Of Age – The Automatic Earth. From just about as early in my life as I can remember, growing up as a child in Holland, there were stories about World War II, and not just about Anne Frank and the huge amounts of people who, like her, had been dragged […]
Feds Pay $1.25M For ‘News’ Handouts To Media Editors | Blacklock’s Reporter
Feds Pay $1.25M For ‘News’ Handouts To Media Editors | Blacklock’s Reporter. Public Works Canada is awarding a $1.25 million contract to a publicist to distribute government-vetted “news” to publishers and radio and TV stations. The budget for handout “news” increased 25 percent from a previous contract. The department said it wanted to “inform and educate […]
Newspapers Complicit In Selling Phony “War On Coal” | DeSmogBlog
Newspapers Complicit In Selling Phony “War On Coal” | DeSmogBlog. U.S. newspapers are helping conservatives push their misleading “war on coal” narrative, according to a new report.There are a number of reasons why thetide has turned against the coal industryaround the globe. Mining and burning coal for energy poses huge risks for human health and the […]
BBC News – Turkey police raid opposition media with Gulen links
BBC News – Turkey police raid opposition media with Gulen links. Turkish police have made at least 23 arrests during raids on a newspaper and TV station with close ties to US-based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen. Those detained are accused of forming an illegal organisation and trying to seize control of the state. Mr Gulen, […]
The Biggest Scandal in America Is Its Controlled Press Washington’s Blog
The Biggest Scandal in America Is Its Controlled Press Washington’s Blog. How many Americans know that the current regime in Ukraine was installed in a very bloody February 2014 coup d’etat, that was planned in the U.S. White House, and overseen by an Assistant Secretary of State, Victoria Nuland, and run by the CIA, and carried […]
When elected independents are seen as interlopers – The Drum (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
When elected independents are seen as interlopers – The Drum (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). According to the elite members of the Australian press gallery, any politician who isn’t from a major party is a pet to be managed by the grown-ups, writes Tim Dunlop. Guy Rundle’s Quarterly Essay, Clivosaurus, is ostensibly about Clive Palmer, but it actually […]
‘RT will soon be banned in Germany too’: Russian FM jokes at media conference — RT News
‘RT will soon be banned in Germany too’: Russian FM jokes at media conference — RT News. Russia’s foreign minister, known for his impeccable diplomatic skills, brightened the mood of the media conference held in Moscow after meeting with the German FM. Both diplomats chuckled at a joke directed at RT. Sergey Lavrov met with […]
Shock At ISIS Beheadings, Silence At Saudi Arabia’s: Why? | Zero Hedge
Shock At ISIS Beheadings, Silence At Saudi Arabia’s: Why? | Zero Hedge. In the past 3 months there has been much discussion regarding the gruesome and barbaric beheadings by ISIS of western hostages. Yet surprisingly, a similar and just as barbaric tradition has been taking place for ages just a few hundred miles east of […]
The Great Change: BooneDoggle
The Great Change: BooneDoggle. “In the event of the worst case – where successive 75-year-old earthen dams built by the Corps of Engineers under emergency wartime conditions are overtopped or washed away – there is no plan to protect these riverside nuclear reactors.” Many of our friends have been urgently sending us warnings of an […]
