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How Fox News Creates Its Own Insane Reality
How Fox News Creates Its Own Insane Reality If you’re a Fox News watcher, this is how your political reality is generated. Every once in a while a Fox personality says something so outlandish he shocks himself. Such was the case when Fox Business host Charles Payne got amped up over Michael Moore’s American Sniper criticism and unleashed […]
The Big Lie: 5.6% Unemployment
The Big Lie: 5.6% Unemployment Here’s something that many Americans — including some of the smartest and most educated among us — don’t know: The official unemployment rate, as reported by the U.S. Department of Labor, is extremely misleading. Right now, we’re hearing much celebrating from the media, the White House and Wall Street about […]
Bjørn Lomborg Sings WSJ’s Same Old Climate Change Song: Don’t Worry, Be Happy
Bjørn Lomborg Sings WSJ’s Same Old Climate Change Song: Don’t Worry, Be Happy Bjorn Lomborg’s latest op-ed in the Wall Street Journal resurrects repeatedly demolished distortions of fact to downplay the real and increasingly documented threats of climate change. His trademark tactic is to acknowledge that climate change is real and human-caused, only to then dismiss the […]
NYT’s Tom Friedman: Propaganda Shill For The War Party’s Ukrainian Coup
NYT’s Tom Friedman: Propaganda Shill For The War Party’s Ukrainian Coup If you wonder how the lethal “group think” on Iraq took shape in 2002, you might want to study what’s happening today with Ukraine. A misguided consensus has grabbed hold of Official Washington and has pulled in everyone who “matters” and tossed out almost […]
“I’d Like to Change the World, but I Don’t Know How So I’ll Leave it Up to You”
“I’d Like to Change the World, but I Don’t Know How So I’ll Leave it Up to You” What a great lyric that is from the late 60′s, early 70′s English band ’10 Years After’. I believe this describes that uneasy feeling of discontent that sits deep in the stomach, beneath the day to day exteriors, of […]
Fear And Dread Of Deflation—-The Keynesian Big Lie At Work
Fear And Dread Of Deflation—-The Keynesian Big Lie At Work The fear of deflation has become the cornerstone of Keynesian economic thought. A lack of inflation has been used to explain periods of economic weakness from the Great Depression of the 1930’s, to the Great Recession 2008-2009. And now, that philosophy has been adopted as […]
MedievalDeception 2015: Inhofe Drags Senate Back To Dark Ages
MedievalDeception 2015: Inhofe Drags Senate Back To Dark Ages On January 21, Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) again displayed the same deception/incompetence that pervaded his book, The Greatest Hoax (2012). In this video segment (3:00-5:20), he presented a poster on the Senate floor that matches the image below from“Kyoto by Degrees,” an anonymous Wall Street Journal (WSJ) Opinion piece, June 21, 2005. Both contained […]
Russia In The Cross Hairs
Russia In The Cross Hairs Washington’s attack on Russia has moved beyond the boundary of the absurd into the realm of insanity. The New Chief of the US Broadcasting Board of Governors, Andrew Lack, has declared the Russian news service, RT, which broadcasts in multiple languages, to be a terrorist organization equivalent to Boko Haram […]
Pleasure vs. pain in the programmed society
Pleasure vs. pain in the programmed society “In experiments on mice, scientists rewired the circuits of the brain and changed the animals’ bad memories into good ones…The researchers said they were able to do the opposite as well—change a pleasurable memory in mice into one associated with fear.” (Kevin Drum, Mother Jones, 8/27/14) Aldous Huxley once […]
Distrust But Verify
Distrust But Verify What the U.S. government does openly is many times worse than anything it can be doing secretly, and yet the secrets fascinate us. If you compare polling on majority views on most political topics with actual U.S. policy, there’s little overlap. Scholars now produce reports finding that the United States is an oligarchy. Most […]
HEAD IN THE SAND, ASS IN THE SKY
HEAD IN THE SAND, ASS IN THE SKY There are far too many people that refuse to question or investigate the world around them with a clear, logical and rational mind. They don’t want to know. Most of them are gripped by fear of knowing the truth. They would prefer to listen to what their […]
Facebook allows users to weed out fake news
Facebook allows users to weed out fake news Facebook has unveiled a new feature, which allows users to flag news articles deemed “purposefully fake or deceitful news.” The move is said to be aimed at restricting the number of fake stories, hoaxes and scams appearing on the social network. The new algorithm developed by the […]
The Only Road Out Of Davos
The Only Road Out Of Davos After 6+ (BIG +) years of deepening poverty and rising stock markets, of creative accounting, of QE and ultralow interest rates, of extend and pretend and outright propaganda and of what have you, all of which have led us to where we are today, facing yet more rounds of […]
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 […]
