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Hard News: Taxpayers' Union: still…, in reply to Russell Brown,
I think it’s pretty clear that these people don’t give a shit what they say.
And they're still no less selective about their targets. Wonder how they'll react when Trump gets a tad too crony capitalistic and statist for their liking?
That said, the media deserves brickbats for even giving them oxygen to start with.
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Hard News: The fake news problem, in reply to Neil,
The smearing of Obama and Clinton along with the minimising of the brutality of Assad and Putin must be one of the most effect propaganda campaigns in recent years.
Nothing's changed much since the Soviet-era Active Measures programme. You can take Putin out of the KGB, but not the KGB out of Putin.
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Hard News: The fake news problem, in reply to mark taslov,
This leads to that ending up here
Do the owners of the models' photos have a case for copyright violation against the producers of the fake Twitter accounts?
And soon to be ex-President Obama should have invoked the Sherman Anti-Trust Act on Big Oil when he had the chance.
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Guy Standing, who's warned of the emergence of the new precariat, cites Uber as an example of rent-seeking as applied to the Internet of Things.
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Hard News: The fake news problem, in reply to mark taslov,
Intermittently we awaken from our slumber. This fits the spirit.
http://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-2428-how-standing-rock-gave-us-tactics-new-millennium.htmlForcible uprooting of any kind can be a major catalyst for taking action.
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Which is the more dangerous of the two right now, Syria or South Sudan?
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Hard News: The fake news problem, in reply to Tom Semmens,
I have not heard a single corporate MSM entity talk about war weariness in America or about the human consequences of endless war and the possibility the an American population that is war weary voted to end war.
Trump is no pacifist. More likely he’s a reactionary isolationist in the vein of Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh who were known sympathisers of European Fascism in the 1930s.
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Hard News: The fake news problem, in reply to Farmer Green,
The question in my mind was whether genuine dialogue is possible in this climate ; will the U.S. become united?
There are calls for secession, but that is not new. A civil war would not be without precedent.The one good thing to come from Germany and Japan being bombed to rubble in WW2 was that their populace learned about the futility of war. But the losing side of the American Civil War has no such humility to this day. I suspect there's a lot more to it than just the bungled handling of American Reconstruction.
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Hard News: The fake news problem, in reply to tussock,
How feasible would it be to fight misinformation with misinformation?
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Speaker: No, there isn’t a popular…, in reply to Kirk Serpes,
The US is too polarised to meet the other side halfway. It's become very clear from the last few cycles that centrist establishment candidates don't win and that you need to throw red meat/vegan patties to your base rather than try to extend olive branches to the other side.
I'd also agree that Third Wayism has done its dash, as the centre ground has been knocked out by the Great Recession. What chance of a Second American Civil War, or an extra-big Troubles?
I suspect also that the "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" mirage remains embedded in the American psyche. When temporarily embarrassed millionaires become permanently embarrassed ones, they'll blame everyone below them in a desperate attempt to push themselves up, instead of blaming the system they want to become part of.