Hot Air
Submitted by magiamma on Thu, 09/10/2020 - 4:32am
Propagating Propaganda
It is one of the most important aspects of our media system, and yet hardly known to the public: most of the international news coverage in Western media is provided by only three global news agencies based in New York, London and Paris.
The key role played by these agencies means Western media often report on the same topics, even using the same wording. In addition, governments, military and intelligence services use these global news agencies as multipliers to spread their messages around the world.
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[video:https://youtu.be/rPcrvRuEv9k?t=219]
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The Evening Blues - 9-9-20
Submitted by joe shikspack on Wed, 09/09/2020 - 2:42pm
Papa Bear Numbers on The Asteroid Virus
Submitted by fire with fire on Wed, 09/09/2020 - 1:37pmWith public life abolished, to the extent we have politics now, it takes place here in cyberspace. There is an election coming up and weather extremities continue to portend a very bad future, but both of those prominent topics are vague abstractions compared to the daily reality of the plague that I call The Asteroid Virus. Everybody's life is changed, everybody's future now is utterly different from what was planned as of just six months ago.
09/09 OT: Wednesday Whatchamacallit
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Wed, 09/09/2020 - 5:00am-
whatchamacallit
The War On Terror was one of the worst events in all of history
Submitted by gjohnsit on Tue, 09/08/2020 - 3:48pmI'm going to make this short because there is nothing worthy that I can add to it.
The Evening Blues - 9-8-20
Submitted by joe shikspack on Tue, 09/08/2020 - 2:15pm
Who had crazy East wind storm for September on their 2020 bingo?
Submitted by snoopydawg on Tue, 09/08/2020 - 10:19am24 Hr High/Low: 92/44
We have been mentioning the high winds and you may be familiar with the term "downslope winds". Attached our graphics where we expect the strongest winds to occur and an info graphic about downslope wind storms. pic.twitter.com/ZDXctlWuuT
— NWS Salt Lake City (@NWSSaltLakeCity) September 7, 2020
White Catholic Voters Driven by Baseless Fear and Dark Money
Submitted by Betty Clermont on Tue, 09/08/2020 - 6:43amWhite Catholics favor Trump by 59% as shown by a Pew Research poll conducted July 27 – Aug. 2, higher than the 54% of all white voters. (In this poll, Latinos were only 18% of registered voters.)
“Swing states, such as Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Wisconsin have an oversized influence on the outcome of the presidential election. Catholics comprise 20-25 percent of the population in these states,” according to the Political Science Now.
How the Good Guys and the Bad Guys Handle Reality
Submitted by Moser99 on Tue, 09/08/2020 - 3:20amAfter a dearth of opinion articles in the New York Times worth reading, they come up with two in one day.
You have to dig down a little to see how they are related, but you have Pico Iyer saying the Dalai Lama likes science, which I guess is a little more real than politics, because it gets us away, again, at least in theory, from all the partisanship, religion, advocacy. The good guy using reality.
