@snoopydawg

heh, well, the week off was mostly to give me some time to work on a couple of projects, one in particular. i'm happy to report that phase one of extreme vehicular resuscitation is complete. i've got the darned thing running again and managed to mollify the state by driving it to one of their emissions inspection stations and getting it to pass their test.

i mostly drained the gas tank to get rid of some old corny gas and refilled it with fresh stuff, removed the old battery - defeating the mangled hold down ruined by a previous owner and replaced the battery with a sparky new one. i may yet have to change the fuel filter, but so far performance has been adequate.

next phase, i'll have to attack the algae and moss growing on the sides (even though i kind of like the color), get the slow leak in one of the tires fixed, which i am guessing is caused by the reaction of the metal in the tire pressure monitoring system with the aluminum rims.

then after that, i can probably call that project pretty much done, unless something else pops up.

so, it's been a busy week actually.

Maybe when Ukraine is forced to sue for peace and people find out that they never had a chance to win against Russia they will pull their heads out of mainstream sources and see that they have been lied to.

that may be sort of optimistic. the mainstream media has been caught red-handed so damned many times before and yet they persist. i remember thinking that something really big, like discovering that saddam had no weapons of mass destruction would destroy the credibility of the media, the neocons and lots of other morons - but, of course, they are still with us and undeterred.

good luck with the camper!

I hope your week away from the news, but lots of blues has done you some good.

Here’s Jimmy and Aaron discussing the feebies inside with the democrats.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUDST3T-osQ]

Jimmy says that this news should be all over the media, but they are ignoring it because it would show how they were complicit in deluding the country and they might be held accountable.

Aaron says that no one in the media or democrats will be held accountable, but it’s we the people who are going to pay the price for their Russia Russia delusions. He says that we are already paying the price with high inflation and energy, food, etc bills and possibly the whole world will pay the price with nuclear war. Aaron agrees with me on how Mueller was hired to protect HerHeinous and democrats for cooking up Russia Russia. Funny how he didn’t notice any of the things that Durham has found.

We know one reason for Russia Russia was to ramp up Russian xenophobia and to get people behind Ukraine in the war that they provoked on Russia.

Maybe when Ukraine is forced to sue for peace and people find out that they never had a chance to win against Russia they will pull their heads out of mainstream sources and see that they have been lied to.

Have a great weekend. The news will be here next week.

Heh…I picked up the trailer and made an appointment for next week and hopefully I’ll have to cancel it. I’ve learned not to say that I’m done fixing it. It really wasn’t in bad shape, but add ons and a few additions. 3 service guys have dibs on it if I ever sell it. Just hope I don’t have to just sit in it in the storage place because I can’t afford to buy gas and go somewhere. Here’s hoping!

@snoopydawg

it will be interesting to see if this attempt to control the narrative space will work. the powers that be have been throwing all kinds of stuff at the wall for a while (remember propornot?) in various shades of public (disinformation board) and private enforcers. hopefully people will see through all of them and there will remain enough people to call bullshit and mobilize in favor of first amendment rights to fend off these attempts.

Somehow the shitlibs won’t see anything wrong with government backed companies starts fact checking alternative media. Lots of them have said that they used to love the site until they started lying about Russia Gate.

US State-Affiliated NewsGuard Targets Consortium News

Consortium News is being “reviewed” by NewsGuard, a U.S. government-linked organization that is trying to enforce a narrative on Ukraine while seeking to discredit dissenting views.

The organization has accused Consortium News, begun in 1995 by former Associated Press investigative reporter Robert Parry, of publishing “false content” on Ukraine.

It calls “false” essential facts about Ukraine that have been suppressed in mainstream media: 1) that there was a U.S.-backed coup in 2014 and 2) that neo-Nazism is a significant force in Ukraine. Reporting crucial information left out of corporate media is Consortium News‘ essential mission.

But NewsGuard considers these facts to be “myths” and is demanding Consortium News “correct” these “errors.”

Who is NewsGuard?

NewsGuard set itself up in 2018 as a judge of news organizations’ credibility. The front page of NewsGuard’s website shows that it is “partners” with the State Department and the Pentagon, as well as with several major corporations, such as Microsoft. The nature of these “partnerships” is not entirely clear.

NewsGuard is a private corporation that can shield itself from First Amendment obligations. But it has connections to formerly high-ranking U.S. government officials in addition to its “partnerships” with the State Dept. and the Pentagon.

Among those sitting on NewsGuard’s advisory board are Gen. Michael Hayden, the former Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency director; Tom Ridge, the first U.S. Homeland Security director and Anders Fogh Rasmussen, a former secretary general of NATO. NewGuard says its ”advisors provide advice and subject-matter expertise to NewsGuard. They play no role in the determinations of ratings or the Nutrition Label write ups of websites unless otherwise noted and have no role in the governance or management of the organization.”

The co-CEO, with former Wall Street Journal publisher Louis Gordon Crovitz, is Steven Brill, who in the 1990s published Brill’s Content, a magazine that was billed as a watchdog of the press, critiquing the role of the media to hold government to account. NewsGuard is a government-affiliated organization judging media like Consortium News that is totally independent of government or corporations.

Consortium News was contacted by NewsGuard analyst Zachary Fishman. In his request to speak to someone at Consortium News he said categorically that CN had published “false content” and that the interview would be on the record. “I’m hoping to talk with someone who could answer a few questions about its structure and editorial processes — including its ownership, its handling of corrections, and its publication of false content,” he wrote in an email.

As editor-in-chief, I informed him that our founder, editors and writers came from high levels of establishment journalism. I told him that in thousands of press interviews I’ve conducted over nearly half a century in journalism I had never known anyone accusing a prospective interviewee of misconduct upfront and then determining that the interview would be on the record, when the ground rules are usually set by the person being interviewed.

Fishman apologized and tried to say his mind wasn’t made up about Consortium News, when he had clearly stated that it was. “I do apologize that the wording of my email insinuated that I had come to a predetermined conclusion on whether your website has published false content, when I have not — be sure that I am interested in your responses to my questions,” he wrote in an email.

Charge: There Was ‘No US-Backed Coup’

NewsGuard alleges that Consortium News has published “false content” by reporting that there was a U.S.-backed coup in Ukraine in 2014 and that ne0-Nazis have significant influence in the country.

Fishman took issue with a:

“February 2022 article ‘Ukraine: Guides to Reflection,’ [which] asserted, ‘Hence, the inflation of Russian behavior in Ukraine (where Washington organized a coup against a democratically elected government because we disliked its political complexion) … .’

Fishman then wrote:

“The U.S. supported the Maidan revolution that ousted then-Ukraine President Viktor Yanikovych (sic) in 2014 — including a December 2013 visit by John McCain to Kyiv in support of protesters — but there is no evidence that the U.S. ‘organized’ a ‘coup.’ Instead, it has the markings of a popular uprising, precipitated by widely covered protests against Yanukovych’s decision to suspend preparations for the signing of an association and free-trade agreement with the European Union.”

YouTube has removed all videos of Vicky Nuland saying, "F the EU! Yatz is our guy. When I was a wee lass I thought the future would be full of flying cars and other neat things and that the world would finally be at peace and we’d be surfing the stars. I never dreamed I’d be living in Orwell’s 1984 book, but here I am living it and watching how many people are cheering for things to get worse. IIRC Winston Smith didn’t get to live happily ever after. Bummer. Let’s hope that we can rewrite the ending!

This is a fascinating article that I hope people will read.

@The Liberal Moonbat

what is one to think?

i guess one is going to have to think for one's self and come to whatever conclusion makes sense to one. there is lots of contradictory information out there (that's ok, that's the way science works, even though governments don't) and sometimes one has to step back and consider whether to wait until scientific inquiry results in a stabilization of consistent information, or whether to act immediately because of the risk one perceives.

one has to do what one thinks is best.

What is one to think when the mainstream press of a nation of highly-educated, civic-minded, US-indentured, conspicuously-more-intelligent-than-average, authoritarian Woody-Allen-impersonators with an epic case of mass-PTSD caused in part by cruel medical experiments openly declares:

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/328102/

@enhydra lutris

heh, i'm scratching my head trying to think of a blues that's in 3/4 time. so far i'm coming up blank other than maybe some tunes that break into a 6/8 jazz waltz. oh well, maybe one will strike me later.

anyway, have a great weekend!

Dunno why, but I expected a bit more 3/4 time out of a Viennese. Good set all the same.

Meanwhile, got to get back to work here.

be well, have a good one, and have a wonderful weekend.