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 Social Media Madness: the Russiagate Fantasy posted by Norman Solomon via shirl, 2018-01-04 01:48:57
For several months we’ve been hearing a crescendo of outcries that Russia used social media to sway the 2016 presidential election. The claim has now been debunked by an unlikely source — one of the most Russiagate-frenzied big media outlets in the United States, the Washington Post. (full story)
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We Can BUT We Won’t! posted by daniel, 2018-01-04 00:57:25
It amuses me greatly to read various articles on how we could make 2018 a good year, not the usual progression into a nihilistic future driven by a tiny minority of ultra-wealthy pathological and avaricious types in society that profit from perpetual war, destruction and chaos. Well, of course we can, or could, to be grammatically correct, but that also applies to every new year since the 21st century began and just take a good look at those disastrous 17 years. So, always the realist, fat chance that appalling trend would change in 2018, though it could, it could change anytime BUT it won’t. Why? (full story)
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2018 a Grim Year from Any Perspective posted by Abdel Bari Atwan via shirl, 2018-01-02 21:56:15
With the US now adopting insularity and insanity as its main credos, the international economic and political balance is sure to shift dramatically in 2018; China is rightfully subverting the petro-dollar, as like many other nations affected, the greenback has been used to blackmail and impose sanctions on other sovereign, non-compliant (to Washington's dictates) nations. Moreover, the USA is an undisguised military nation hell bent on perpetual war as that is the only foreign policy it knows, which is the focus of the following article. The future promises anything but peace, harmony and stability for the entire world. (full story)
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Digital SLAVERY -- You'd Better Believe it! posted by justin, 2018-01-02 04:46:07
Facebook insiders speak frankly about the horrifying reality of the effects of social media -- video below (full story)
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God May be a Poof posted by joyce, 2017-12-31 20:11:04
As usual we see in the sensationalist section of the mass media that they have purportedly found Noah’s Ark for the umpteen time -- LOL -- now considering that Jonah lived in a whale, probably with en-suite, one can only wonder at imbecilic religionists that have replaced personal responsibility for their lives with some idiot fantasy, or perverse myth at best. (full story)
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Coherence and Incoherence posted by jake, 2017-12-31 03:09:54
It is easy to denounce Trump and the morons that continue to support him in view of his policies that clearly favour elite interests and create evermore hardships for the dispossessed white American working class that stupidly continue to support Trump. Though Trump is smart enough to throw off on the ‘other’ as the problem, such as illegal immigrants, Muslims, foreigners in general, racism is always a handy political card to play, as humans by nature are tribal. (full story)
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US Prepares for yet Another Illegal Proxy War in Syria posted by Alex Gorka via gail, 2017-12-30 19:31:32
After the Islamic State proxy fighting group was roundly defeated in Syria by Russia and its allies, the USA illegitimately and ILLEGALLY continues to occupy Syria and arm, train and supply the Kurdish YPG separatist group with modern weaponry to re-ignite the conflict. The US is doing all this in plain sight of other nations and so one can only wonder why the rest of the world sits back idly and allows the needless killing and destabilisation to continue. America's current subversive actions are totally illegal as is its continuing occupation of Syria, so WHY are other nations doing nothing to end the crisis, particularly Russia and China? It stinks as it’s all being done OVERTLY without the least regard for international laws and conventions. (full story)
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The Uselessness of the ‘ME’ Generations posted by stella, 2017-12-30 00:40:26
It should be no surprise that spoilt rotten generations, focused primarily on themselves, cannot establish real social relationships, that is, talking and interacting with others outside familiar niches. (full story)
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The Screams ... posted by jude, 2017-12-28 22:47:57
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Who? posted by dee, 2017-12-28 09:05:43
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Disney’s potential 21st Century Fox merger continues troubling trend of media Concentration posted by Margot Susca via jane, 2017-12-27 21:05:45
In the U.S., only a handful of media companies control what children and adults watch and read. (full story)
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  The Cyber Elite posted by tom & jerry, 2017-12-26 22:33:34
Get with it children, there is only one HUGE avenue to freedom left in the world today and that avenue is traversed with a keyboard. (full story)
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Meanderings posted by maggie, 2017-12-26 05:37:07
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 A Solitary Scribe posted by jude, 2017-12-25 21:17:30
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 What Christmas Means posted by Chris Hedges via jane, 2017-12-25 02:59:18
In the early 1980s I was in a refugee camp for Guatemalans who had fled the war into Honduras. It was a cold, dreary winter afternoon. The peasant farmers and their families, living in filth and mud, were decorating their tents with strips of colored paper. That night, they said, they would celebrate the flight of Mary, Joseph and the infant Jesus to Egypt to escape the slaughter of the children of Bethlehem ordered by Herod. The celebration is known as the Day of the Holy Innocents. (full story)
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