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IN DEFENSE OF JUDGEMENT-
I’m judgmental about the things people watch and like. I generally think that judgment is bad. That is, I certainly don’t like it when it is done to me, but what am I, if not a hypocrite? The thing is, I have this unrelenting suspicion that the world is out to make us stupid and lazy. Everything has become about convenience including our entertainment and thoughts. Mass media is the thought equivalent to a candy bar. We as humans crave candy bars because we have not evolved faster than the world. We like candy bars because they are small, easy to eat, things that are packed with calories. Those calories that we still crave as if we are cavemen, the same principle is used to catch fish. Fish have evolved to eat shiny things, and we exploit that by making our hooks and lures shiny because the fish have not evolved fast enough to now know to be wary of shiny things. Candy bars are human lures. With thought and entertainment we have done the same thing. Our news is already processed for us, we don’t have to think for ourselves at all. It’s been done for us by the thoughtful people who now control your mind. Not such a bad deal I guess, but lets hope those people don’t want to use that power over us for evil. I’m sure they don’t. And our mainstream entertainment has created a world where advertisers and entertainers appeal to our lowest desires. Again, the equivalent to a calorie rich candy bar lure. Instead of challenging us to understand things on a deeper and more layered level, we get nut shots and Ashton Kutcher. Most people are fine in Ashton Kutcher world because they are surrounded by other Ashtons and free of judgment. This is where judgment becomes important, instead of allowing these idiots to remain in what I like to think of as the first layer of existence, we should shame them for what they like. It may feel unnatural at first as none of really like to make others feel bad, but you have to keep in mind that you have been chosen. Okay, not chosen, you have chosen to not buy into the stupidity. The others will thank you when you pull the hook out of their cheek, I promise.IN DEFENSE OF JUDGEMENT-
I’m judgmental about the things people watch and... more
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"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country." http://dedroidify.blogspot.com/2008/04/edward-louis-bernays.html"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions... more
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Fox News stands as the culmination of everything Ailes tried to do for Nixon back in 1968. He has created a vast stage set, designed to resemble an actual news network, that is literally hard-wired into the homes of millions of America's most conservative voters. Republican candidates then use that forum to communicate directly to their base, bypassing the professional journalists Ailes once denounced as "matadors" who want to "tear down the social order" with their "elitist, horse-dung, socialist thinking". Ironically, it is Ailes who has built the most formidable propaganda machine ever seen outside of the Communist bloc, pioneering a business model that effectively monetises conservative politics through its relentless focus on the bottom line. "I'm not in politics," Ailes recently boasted. "I'm in ratings. We're winning." http://www.alternet.org/teaparty/151980/how_the_head_of_fox_news_is_making_americans_more_right-wing,_more_ignorant_and_ever_more_terrified?page=entireFox News stands as the culmination of everything Ailes tried to do for Nixon back in... more
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In my recent article, “Creating Evidence Where There Is None,” about the alleged killing of Osama bin Laden by a commando team of US Seals in Abbottabad, Pakistan, I provided a link to a Pakistani National TV interview with Muhammad Bashir, who lives next door to the alleged “compound” of Osama bin Laden. I described the story that Bashir gave of the “attack” and its enormous difference from the one told by the US government. In Bashair’s account, every member of the landing party and anyone brought from the house died when the helicopter exploded on lift-off. I wrote that a qualified person could easily provide a translation of the interview, but that no American print or TV news organization had investigated Bashir’s account. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28772.htmIn my recent article, “Creating Evidence Where There Is None,” about the... more
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Well, almost. Virtually nothing shows up on US television. Some gets print coverage, but not enough to explain a major story accurately and fully. More on that below.
For weeks, tens of thousands of Israelis have been protesting high prices, especially unaffordable housing, creating an intolerable burden for growing numbers being priced out of a place to live. http://www.opednews.com/articles/Israeli-Street-Protests-S-by-Stephen-Lendman-110805-144.htmlWell, almost. Virtually nothing shows up on US television. Some gets print coverage,... more
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President Obama announced his debt deal with House Speaker John Boehner with a dramatic quote about the intensity of the cuts in the deal:
"The result would be the lowest level of annual domestic spending since Dwight Eisenhower was President — but at a level that still allows us to make job-creating investments in things like education and research."
The problem is that his statement was an outright lie. http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/8421-obamas-spending-lie-on-the-debt-dealPresident Obama announced his debt deal with House Speaker John Boehner with a... more
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Rupert Murdoch has had a profound influence on the state of journalism today. It’s a kind of tribute, in some sense, that the general coverage of his current troubles has reflected the detrimental effect of his influence over the years. Right now, the media, by and large, are focusing on tawdry “police blotter” acts of the very sort that have historically informed Murdoch’s own tabloid sensibility, while the bigger picture gets short shrift. http://whowhatwhy.com/2011/07/25/what-rupert-murdoch-means-for-you-personally/Rupert Murdoch has had a profound influence on the state of journalism today.... more
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Artist Brian Springer spent a year scouring the airwaves with a satellite dish grabbing back channel news feeds not intended for public consumption. The result of his research is SPIN, one of the most insightful films ever made about the mechanics of how television is used as a tool of social control to distort and limit the American public's perception of reality.
Take the time to watch it from beginning to end and you'll never look at TV reporting the same again. Tell your friends about it. This extraordinary film released in the early 1990s is almost completely unknown. Hopefully, the Internet will change that.
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/spin/spin-by-brian-springer.htmlArtist Brian Springer spent a year scouring the airwaves with a satellite dish... more
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Fair and balanced for Fox News means putting idiots on to spout the party line no matter how insane, ignorant or dishonest. Look at the two clowns Fox dug out of the intellectual trash heap to predict a 10% increase in real estate prices in 2007. Note how they are permitted to shout down and ridicule the only person who got it right. The real estate lending scam was engineered to keep a very shaky credit-crazy economy humming along for as long as possible until the whole thing fell apart.
Mission accomplished, Mr. President.
Recall that Bush & Co. actually sued states that tried to enforce their own long-established and rational real estate lending laws. This puts the political assassination of Eliot Spitzer in a new light. http://www.realecontv.com/videos/media-con-artists/remember-the-real-estate-boom.htmlFair and balanced for Fox News means putting idiots on to spout the party line no... more
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“Despite the faux-shock with which the mainstream media seems to be “discovering” the extent of Murdoch’s political clout, the facts about News Corporation’s ownership of a bewildering number of media outlets around the world has been a matter of public record for some time. Nor should the idea that Murdoch uses his political influence to shape public policy come as a surprise to anyone who has followed the admissions from his broadcasting networks and from Murdoch himself that this is precisely what he has been attempting to do.” http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2011/07/20/the-eyeopener-murdoch-empire-how-media-shapes-society-2/“Despite the faux-shock with which the mainstream media seems to be... more
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Does anybody actually take these people seriously anymore? Because if you ask me, our Grand Kabuki Theater performers are either dumber than a box of rocks, or lying, thieving, crooks. Either way, they're not fit to tie my shoes, let alone govern me (or anyone else for that matter).
Straight-up. Whatever your politics may be, the Democratic and Republican parties are both screwing you and your children over, and hard. http://the-classic-liberal.com/everything-need-know-about-cut-cap-balance/Does anybody actually take these people seriously anymore? Because if you ask me, our... more
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Max Keiser and co-host Stacy Herbert this week look at how propaganda shapes political and economic outcomes in our economies. They report on Americans collecting government social welfare benefits without knowing it and US Congressman taking financial bets against its government debt. And, finally, Max and Stacy suggest that if British teenagers are being extradited to America on copyright infringement, then George Michael ought to have a case against Rupert Murdoch under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act as well. http://rt.com/programs/keiser-report/keiser-report-murdoch/Max Keiser and co-host Stacy Herbert this week look at how propaganda shapes political... more
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I believe perhaps the running of the two articles on the same theme below as natural companions might alert or illuminate the hard core believers of Mainstream Media propaganda and/or so-called official stories, to what is being done to them on a daily basis, and on why people believe what they do and how hard facts belying fundamental beliefs usually seem to reinforce them in the gullible and thoughtless. http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/07/06/propaganda-the-news-and-what-people-believe-and-why/I believe perhaps the running of the two articles on the same theme below as natural... more
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Simi Valley California, about 45 minutes from Los Angeles by car, was the site of the worst nuclear disaster in U.S. history in 1959, and the amounts of radiation leaked to the environment and atomosphere were more than 240 times that of the accident at 3-Mile Island. Odds are you never heard of it. The information only started coming out 20 years later and only because of an accidental discovery. And you think the government can't keep secrets. http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/energy/southern-california-nuke-disaster---1959.htmlSimi Valley California, about 45 minutes from Los Angeles by car, was the site of the... more
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A series of disasters, potential disasters, bad news and worrying studies over the course of the past week have brought public attention back to the issue of radiation and its attendant health risks, and further exposed how governmental agencies that are supposed to protect the public have in fact knowingly put the public at risk and even colluded with the very industries they are supposed to be “regulating.” http://www.corbettreport.com/sunday-update-20110703/A series of disasters, potential disasters, bad news and worrying studies over the... more
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