The propaganda machine is apparently out in force.
Submitted by SnappleBC on Thu, 07/28/2016 - 2:36pm
I visit a site called "newsmap" regularly because it gives me a high level heatmap of what MSM is talking about. Here's what today looked like:
http://newsmap.jp/#/n/us/view/
Yup... EVERYONE is talking about Hillary's big challenge. Nobody is discussing the total corruption of the Democratic National Committee as documented by their own emails in wikileaks. Nobody is discussing rampant election fraud as documented by Election Justice USA. Heck
I'd say the propaganda arm of the oligarchy is working flawlessly today.
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It is a wide and deep River in Egypt the Media swims in
Complete with dam to ensure it never overflows its banks.
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
Yeah, there's definitely been talk of that on Reddit.
KFS has a running thread today about how progressive websites like Mother Jones and AlterNet suddenly have pro-Hillary/LOTE articles up, seemingly out of nowhere. TYT was praising the hell out of the Obama speech last night and talking about how the party is on the rise against Trump. The Democrats are definitely pushing the "unity" narrative everywhere, too. Never mind the huge protests at the DNC.
Mother Jones lost credibility
Mother Jones lost credibility for me back when they printed pro-Monsanto articles - a sad waste of a once-excellent publication.
Losing Alternet and TYT sucks... tentacles - and bribes/threats - are everywhere. It's now or never, guys, they're taking over the world.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
TYT
Cenk keeps me guessing.. I was pissed enough a couple of months ago to not watch him at All for weeks, but then he goes big in the Democracy Spring protest at the Capitol.. So, I'm still on the fence . >> Now Jimmy Dore..! He is like that friend in college who has the passion. Luckily, he has the goods to go with it in most cases.
#NotMeUs
Cenk has to walk a precarious line
If people start thinking of him as a sellout, TYT will start to lose viewership. Of course, that didn't stop Kos.
Beware the bullshit factories.
Whose line is he walking?
The gaslighting from "media" is getting awfully bright all of a sudden, ya think?
The line of expectations
I didn't mean to imply he already has sold out, just that I think it's easy to falsely appear to sell out with all the pulling back of the media curtains that's going on.
Beware the bullshit factories.
TYT
Cenk keeps me guessing.. I was pissed enough a couple of months ago to not watch him at All for weeks, but then he goes big in the Democracy Spring protest at the Capitol.. So, I'm still on the fence . >> Now Jimmy Dore..! He is like that friend in college who has the passion. Luckily, he has the goods to go with it in most cases.
#NotMeUs
I like Jimmy Dore's videos
I like Jimmy Dore's videos (at least with respect to election coverage) more than TYT too. He nails it every time, especially when cutting through establishment narratives.
Cenk at least said
That is not unity but conformity being pushed at the dnc.
Remember that old Nike or Apple commercial?
Here it is, in real life.
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Mother Jones has been part of the Hellery/DNC Propaganda Machine
for at least a year -- hardly progressive.
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When the concressional black caucus PAC
was found to be made up of alcohol, tobacco, student loan and narcotics lobbyists, and The onion was purchased by David Brock, I wondered how far the tentacles went. Looking around the media landscape, the answer is: pretty far!
Used to love Raw Story, now big $hillarers too. TYT still good,
though Cenk was disappointing at the end of the primaries. Should have had the audacity, which he is known for, of opening up the segments more to covering the rampant and obvious voter suppression and election fraud. Their ears are more to the ground than all the MSM put together, so they could have had a really dynamic probe into it by asking their viewers to share their stories and such.
That said their coverage of the banal corporate propaganda farce of the DNC has been outstanding in their usual refreshing way. It's the only way I have been able to stomach even the tiniest segments, only through their lens and then immediately mute it when they go live to the insipid, choreographed speeches.
They really dig in and know and cover their subjects with the right mix of discernment, not being pliable to mainstream memes, humor and a decidedly unapologetic Progressive viewpoint. They're always fit with the healthiest skepticism of any emperor's new clothes garbage the lapdog MSM press just gobble up. What really distinguishes them from the staid, floundering, really dying corporate MSM is the way they also give less well-known folks a chance to speak, in addition to grilling the big ones. They've done some excellent interviews with delegates and protesters out in the streets.
A couple of examples:
Lots more here, if you're interested.
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THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
- Kurt Vonnegut
Yeah its everywhere on the
Yeah its everywhere on the net, reddit supposedly had a problem with them hacking subreddits and removing or blocking anti clinton posts, #ANIMALFARM/HRC
Yeah, some people are equal.
Yeah, some people are equal. The others are poors.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
I'm grateful for the activists who showed up
and made their voices heard over days and forced the Clinton team to spend 4 days trying to "fix" the optics, especially inside the convention hall. The message regarding the TPP was heard loud and clear.
Of course, the Clinton people and the Democratic Party could have fixed a large part of the underlying problem if they had cleaned house at the DNC 18 months ago and placed a higher priority on maintaining a neutral stance during the nominating contest.
Lol, the fix was in for
Lol, the fix was in for Hillary years ago. President Obama still officially won but by a much smaller margin than he really did, which is why the cheating against Bernie was so blatant and extreme - nothing else could have created the appearance of a Hillary win against Bernie, even with all of the corporate media support, including outright lying and the altering of even their own polls, in the case of CNN.
https://richardcharnin.wordpress.com/page/6/
There are many specifics on the site pertaining to the Obama/Clinton race, but I'm not up to searching them out.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Interesting site...
I am unfriending, unliking, blocking, muting, deleting, and exterminating every Hillary supporter in my social media.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
Um, exterminating?
I'd better watch what I say around you! You do like Jill, right? (Gulp)
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I like it because of the overview of the propaganda machine
I automatically assume, of course, that pretty much any story relating to politics or finance is utter bullshit, but it gives me a clear view of what the propagandists want me to believe.
Interesting note... I cannot recall EVER seeing a box on the heat map that large and I've been looking at newsmap daily for about 3 years. There have probably been a very view, but to say that box is an anomaly is the understatement of the year. I'm going to be interested to see if even the winner of the general election makes such a big splash.
A lot of wanderers in the U.S. political desert recognize that all the duopoly has to offer is a choice of mirages. Come, let us trudge towards empty expanse of sand #1, littered with the bleached bones of Deaniacs and Hope and Changers.
-- lotlizard
Not sure it's such a bad thing.
To have half the news stories today pointing out that Hillary is not generating excitement.
I mean, it's not exactly a positive spin, is it?
The current working assumption appears to be that our Shroedinger's Cat system is still alive. But what if we all suspect it's not, and the real problem is we just can't bring ourselves to open the box?
Me too. Well, no exterminating. But.
I unfriended a bunch on Facebook, all Democrats. I unfollowed the Republicans long long ago.
Thank you, Snapple! I did not know about newsmap, but I
like it! Note that's the U.S. national map, and if you click on other buttons you can get world news, etc. I wish I could read the small headlines better - could use a simpler font, maybe. Anyway, I now have a new tool for keeping up! Kewl.
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Just hover your mouse
... over any of the tiny little ones and you'll get a popup.
It's kind of like getting the internal daily marching plans of the oligarchy sales & marketing department.
A lot of wanderers in the U.S. political desert recognize that all the duopoly has to offer is a choice of mirages. Come, let us trudge towards empty expanse of sand #1, littered with the bleached bones of Deaniacs and Hope and Changers.
-- lotlizard
Oh, look at that! A nice little summary and clickable links!
Yes, that is great!
Thank you, I'm bookmarking the link for future reference.
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I hope that I can cross-post
I hope that I can cross-post a cut and paste of one of Don midwest's posts from The Progressive Wing here without permission from him? But his intent is always to inform (this may very likely already be here) and my reply has been running endlessly without apparently posting there, and reading this, I thought people here might be interested.
http://theprogressivewing.com/democracy-lost-the-election-justice-report/
Wow, thanks for the link - spent last night and a chunk of today skimming through some posts as that blog provides an interesting historical record of previous elections as well, showing clearly that corporate/billionaire interests have been selecting their representatives throughout America for a VERY long time, building to this attempt at total global capture, using the already dispossessed, drained and industrially poisoned average American's tax-money and military. This last Dem primary and current election theft being set up must not be simply accepted by The People but repudiated en masse before any peaceful political revolution becomes impossible.
The analysis of the previous Clinton race between Hillary and Obama was a salutary demonstration of the need for immediate reform - he won what was really a far more epic victory than showed, despite the massive cheating on her side, explaining why the cheating this time against Bernie was so blatant - and why the outrage of PUMAs was so obsessive, rather like that famous televised Republican 'fixer' melt-down when the vote numbers didn't mysteriously 'flip' for Romney even later, 'before morning'. And why certain Hillary supporters are such 'sore winners', rubbing their victim's noses in their theft - in part to establish their 'win' as 'established' via the Big Lie in the face of endless evidence proving the opposite.
Putting this portion at top to post for anyone interested: https://richardcharnin.wordpress.com/page/6/
And this:
And this is why it's always 'the voter's fault' or that of a 3rd-party runner, obsessively repeated, like the Big Lie propaganda it is.
Speaking as One Who Knows Nothing about stats, I feel that Richard Charnin's blog ought to be required reading for people like myself, as well as for those better versed in such things.
This has been going on forever, with destructive self-interests running America, Americans, victimized countries and the environment into the polluted ground - ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! BERN IT DOWN!
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
I should point out for those less familiar
That what we are looking at there is one single story about Hillary Clinton occupying half of the national news attention. There are quite a few other stories about her also showing. It's not the fact that she's being talked about that astonished me. It's the unity of the narrative.
A lot of wanderers in the U.S. political desert recognize that all the duopoly has to offer is a choice of mirages. Come, let us trudge towards empty expanse of sand #1, littered with the bleached bones of Deaniacs and Hope and Changers.
-- lotlizard
what else would you expect?
After pulling every dirty trick she and her cohorts could find in cheating her way to the coronation, you really didn't expect her emulation of Rove would stop there, did you? (gryn)
The R's have Faux News. Hillary makes sure she has EVERY major and minor media company on her side -- or else. That's exactly the way she'll "govern," too.
Sick of this shit...
I just finished unsubscribing from another batch of pro-DNC email lists that somehow got my contact info (don't even know who to blame at this point) - I like to imagine the intern who reads through the unsubscribe feedback will maybe have a moment of clarity perusing my angry rant.
The media drones are all on the Russia bandwagon. Shocker, who would've thought that the media which we now know COLLUDED with the DNC to stifle the Sanders campaign, are now.... Colluding with the DNC to misdirect public backlash?
I saw this morning that Hillary trolls are out in full force harassing Jill Stein on Twitter. I gave up on having a real presence on social media a few years ago after receiving death threats for criticizing anti-Arab and anti-Muslim racists. As someone with anxiety disorder I usually have to take a deep breath anytime I dive into social media, or even the news these days. It's hard to stay positive. Websites like c99 give me that dose of hope I need to keep going in such a toxic world, while I try to reach more of my friends and relatives with information on what's REALLY going on every day. So far I've turned at least 3 former Sanders supporters onto Jill Stein - one who was leaning Libertarian and drinking the 'jill is an anti-vaxxer anti gmo' kool-aid even. Small victories.
"The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history." ~ Czesław Miłosz
Lol, last nght I unsubscribed
Lol, last nght I unsubscribed and asked to have all emails deleted from 3 such Dem sites which were sending me crap about Bill Clinton's wonderful speech and wound up with 1585 deleted emails from those 3 sources. I feel so much lighter now.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Trump 's doubling down on the Russian spying possibility
moved the spotlight away from dnc corruption for another 24-48 hours, almost enough to get through the convention. it is almost like he is trying to help the looking away from election fraud.
bygorry
I think we'll know by November if Trump is with the Clintons
If Trump keeps acting more and more hate filled and scarier, that would indicate that he doesn't care about winning and he's trying to throw it to Hillary. If he moderates in an attempt to get Bernie supporters, then he's probably scary and wants to win. That whole Birther thing could have been a plot with Bill to make Trump seem like a total nut. Who knows, it's a pretty good act though.
Coming back to this using the wonderful "edit" button: This is too over the top of me. Why would Trump ask the Russians to release Hillary's 30,000 deleted emails if he was in cahoots with Hillary. He's a scary dude, but if Hillary doesn't make a case for herself instead of against Donald Trump, and if she doesn't acknowledge how cheated we feel, then I have to be suspicious of her too. But I admit, I think it would be better with her than Trump, but I'm not crossing that bridge until the end of October, and only if Jill's truths have been successfully silenced.
Beware the bullshit factories.
Whether this has been
Whether this has been arranged or not, Trump has been progressively scarier in response to Hillary's/her funders need for someone apparently worse than she to act as 'the greater evil', although I don't think even he can keep up with her, never mind exceed that evil quotient. I keep leaning toward the choreographed theory, even though he's clearly having fun and profit from it and might well take the Presidency for further fun and profit, if given the chance. But in any event, there are not only two Presidential choices, as much TPTB would like the American people to believe this, after disposing of Bernie via blatant cheating.
Why would the Russians listen to Trump? Come to that, why would anyone?
Are you saying that if Hillary cheats/silences a second progressive Presidential candidate, you'd reward a classic psychopath by voting for her to have the Presidency and control of the military to attack more countries and start 'limited' nuclear wars with Russia and China?
I'm sure that the Clintons and their funders will have very comfortable and well-stocked bunkers to spend the rest of their lives in after Mutual Assured Destruction, assuming their bunkers survive any near blasts. But the next most lucky people will be those who instantly die in the first blasts.
Apart from this hazard, the slower alternative is that of dying of unlimited polluting and financial industry abuses, in corporate serfdom, as life on the planet and its ability to produce oxygen perish within decades.
Personally, I'd never vote for that, myself, but that is what we're facing.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
I unliked Bernie of Facebook today
And Chris Hedges showed up in my newsfeed. Specifically his last column on Truthdig. 2 days ago...Hmmm...
I liked Chris a long time ago, why wasn't I seeing him...
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I think...
that Chris's recent appearance on Democracy Now! where he debated Robert Reich has made him more visible on social media.
That was a fascinating debate
I think Chris won:
Hedges vs Reich
Beware the bullshit factories.
Wow.... fascinating debate
I certainly think both debated with truth and honesty but fundamentally I can't get behind Robert Reich's view. He seems to have some fairly sharp blind spots regarding the risks of Hillary. Let's be clear, Hillary is head of the machine which has lied throughout this entire campaign and twisted/broken election rules wherever it could. Hillary is also a clear and present danger to the United States and democracy itself. Asking me which narcissistic megalomaniac I want isn't really a choice and I don't care enough about it to give up on my own best interests.
A lot of wanderers in the U.S. political desert recognize that all the duopoly has to offer is a choice of mirages. Come, let us trudge towards empty expanse of sand #1, littered with the bleached bones of Deaniacs and Hope and Changers.
-- lotlizard
Since I've been lied to so often I've decided to use that little
link at the end of most articles that goes back to the author of each story. All I plan on doing is asking why, since the entire media has been so corrupt up unto now, should I believe ANYTHING they have to write about. Even articles that aren't about HillBillary.
Just to remind them that we know what they did and DIDN'T do. They lied and they didn't perform their profession honestly.
Just a cut and paste reminder. I'm trying to come up with one for Robert Reich. He really went off the rails.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
Really interesting! I'd love to know if anyone replies,
but still worth asking. What an awful position to be put in just to keep a job.
Hell is empty and all the devils are here. William Shakespeare
Robert Reich gets
serious pushback from the #NeverHillary people when he posts his oh-so-concerned drivel on Facebook. It's quite gratifying to dive into the comments section and see at least 2/3rds of the commenters calling him out. It's a nice change from most comment sections.
I've also noticed one other thing: Correct the Record seems to be spread fairly thin. I would normally expect Bernie supporters to be fairly embattled - or at least just holding ground - but that is not the case. Everywhere I've been, the #NeverHillary people greatly outnumber Hillary 'supporters'. Every once in a while I come across a site where CTR has overrun the place, but that's the point: it seems like there are only enough of them to really concentrate on one or two major sites at a time. Reminds me of small wildfires berning all over the landscape, and all they can do is frantically run from fire to fire trying to put them out.
Just a pattern I've observed. It makes me smile.
"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained." - Mark Twain
Hey, they can only hire so
Hey, they can only hire so many trolls - and the odds are 99 to 1% to begin with. We have them outnumbered.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.