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The Madhouse
The Madhouse In the late 17th century, we British decided that, as a humanitarian effort and public service, we’d collect up all the people from the towns and countryside who were bonkers and confine them in institutions, so that society could be protected from them. As so often proves the case, the idea of a […]
The “News” Is Content-Free
The “News” Is Content-Free We’re “your” trustworthy news source, even though we’re all owned by six corporations or billionaires with political agendas. The “news” has loomed large in The News–a classic self-referential loop in which the media itself becomes its own content. While the controversy over what constitutes “fake news” and “real news” has itself become […]
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast Alice laughed. “There’s no use trying,” she said. “One can’t believe impossible things.” “I dare say you haven’t had much practice,” said the queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before […]
Phone Baloney: The 9 Fakest Fake-News Checkers
PHONY BALONEY: THE 9 FAKEST FAKE-NEWS CHECKERS Sex blogger, gamer, Trump-haters among self-appointed experts in determining truth image: http://www.wnd.com/files/2017/02/Trump-media-TW.jpg Since President Donald Trump won the presidential election in November, there’s been an explosion of “fake-news” checker sites, some cloaked behind a veil of anonymity. In some cases, Americans really have fallen for “fake news.” Just […]
There’s a Difference: Fake News and Junk News
There’s a Difference: Fake News and Junk News Media junkies on the tragic path to extinction believe the junk news, non-junkies see through the manipulation. The mainstream media continues peddling its “fake news” narrative like a desperate pusher whose junkies are dying from his toxic dope. It’s slowly dawning on the media-consuming public that the MSM […]
Information or Disinformation? Only 32 Percent of Americans Trust the Media
Information or Disinformation? Only 32 Percent of Americans Trust the Media The News Leaders / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 A Gallup Poll released this week shows the largest decline in trust in the media since the organization started asking the public’s opinion on the subject in 1972. Conducted with people over 18, across 50 states, only 32 percent […]
6 Giant Corporations Control The Media, And Americans Consume 10 Hours Of ‘Programming’ A Day
6 Giant Corporations Control The Media, And Americans Consume 10 Hours Of ‘Programming’ A Day If you allow someone to pump hours of “programming” into your mind every single day, it is inevitable that it is eventually going to have a major impact on how you view the world. In America today, the average person […]
When Newspapers Die and Reporters Go Bad
When Newspapers Die and Reporters Go Bad When right wingers go off on NPR and the New York Times for being mouthpieces of the Democratic Party or left wingers criticize Fox News and PBS for having too many conservatives on the air, it makes my head spin. Is there no such thing as truth anymore or not a single honest […]
How They Brainwash Us
How They Brainwash Us Anyone who pays attention to American “news” can see how “news” is used to control our perceptions in order to ensure public acceptance of the Oligarchy’s agendas. For example, Bernie Sanders just won six of seven primaries, in some cases by as much as 70 and 82 percent of the vote, […]
DIY Antibiotics
DIY ANTBIOTICS With antibiotic resistance becoming a bigger and bigger issue have you ever wondered if there was there anything else you could do, or are you stuck with what big pharmaceuticals put out? There are alternatives and these alternatives are actually much better! Watch this short 2:31 video by backyard food production expert and […]
6 Positive Signs That Mainstream Media is Collapsing
6 Positive Signs That Mainstream Media is Collapsing There is an information awakening taking place right now, and mainstream media is being outed for what it really is: corporate and government controlled propaganda. People are turning to alternative news sources more swiftly than ever now, and as a result, the old guard of media is collapsing at […]
Shining a Light
Shining a Light The just-released movie Spotlight is about a Boston Globe investigative reporting team circa 2001-02 that uncovered and documented a vast network of child sex abuse by priests in the Catholic Church that had been on-going for decades. More to the point, Spotlight revealed the institutional rot at the very top of the Boston Catholic Church hierarchy, led by […]
We created Islamic extremism: Those blaming Islam for ISIS would have supported Osama bin Laden in the ’80s
We created Islamic extremism: Those blaming Islam for ISIS would have supported Osama bin Laden in the ’80s Jingoists conveniently forget the West’s Cold War strategy was to arm the Islamic extremists that became al-Qaida (Credit: AP/Dennis Cook) History takes no prisoners. It shows, with absolute lucidity, that the Islamic extremism ravaging the world today […]
America’s News Is Heavily Censored
America’s News Is Heavily Censored On 7 September 2002, U.S. President George W. Bush blatantly lied to concoct a “new report” by the IAEA about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction program, and the U.S. news-media reported the statement but hid that it was a lie. He said (and CNN and others quoted it): “a report came […]
Burdened by debt and slipping behind, survey respondents say
Burdened by debt and slipping behind, survey respondents say 48% said they might be in trouble if a single paycheque was delayed Many working Canadians feel overwhelmed by debt and more than half of them say they would have difficulty if they missed a paycheque. They also are losing confidence in the economy, with only […]
