it’s a pageant
Propaganda
Acceptable Opinion
Those who have studied the sacred texts of the economic prophets are telling us to rejoice.
Our heroes have courageously slain the abomination of capital controls, – at only nominal cost, payable to the capital owners.
We will thus in near future be able to enjoy: freedom, growth, and public welfare not previously seen.
Bad Samaritans
The Selling of Free Enterprise
The Illusion of Choice
The Mask of SanityÂ
J is for Junk Economics
Idiocracy (Are We There Yet?)
Manufacturing Consent
Once more the “business community” has captured the day.
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 “words and meaning have parted company”
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“In the case of a word like DEMOCRACY, not only is there no agreed definition, but the attempt to make one is resisted from all sides.” Â G.O.
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Populism ?
(P)Re-Elections
The propaganda industry has made its bidding. Candidates with acceptable opinions have been chosen, others have been marginalized. All by the book.
Non-issues:
“Less than a hundred people slight 33 thousand million resource rent each year”
Frontpage material?
Proving a point (1%)
One can expect children/journalists to be illiterate. But an Official body on education?
How to Lie with Statistics
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Another induced interpretation is the “Welfare queen” driving a Cadillac.
Not in the stats, – Sorry.
One side to every story
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Having never been able to afford independent foreign policy, it is amusing to see our MPs squirm – Bad, Bad Putin! – But wait he buys our fish.
The spectrum of acceptable opinion does not include the elephant in the room.
Manufacturing Consent
War by media and the triumph of propaganda
The Empire Lies: How to Fight Western Propaganda
Ukraine: Lies, propaganda and the West’s agenda
Ending the Reign of Junk Food News
Self-Censorship & Shadow Editors
Twice in 20th Century
Antidote to news (pdf)
One, Two, Many
Among the 10 costliest banking crises, – the cost to the Nation 748 billion, or 2.4 million per man, woman and child.
It is ‘chilling’ to see the players in this financial and moral crash state that it’s the cost of investigating the reasons for it, and trying to get the banksters behind bars, – that constitutes the extravagant costs.
When Your Number is Big
Human Inability To Grasp Very Large Numbers Abused By Politicians And The Fed
The Essential Exponential! For the Future of Our Planet
Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences
How to Lie with Statistics
Systemic Banking Crises Database
The Great Schoolmaster
His pupils are everywhere, – Manufacturing ______.
And the inverse:
Who has ‘personnel’ in 130 nations and 900 overseas bases?
Canaries in the Coalmine
the people who own the wealth
VIPS
The Military Industrial Complex (+ Congress & Media): We supply weapons and enemies.
Bonfires of vanities: Serfs meet to swear allegiance to Rome, but Cesar is a lame duck?
The best propaganda is totally meaningless: ~ We support the north-pole penguins!
(Oh Gosh)
And Then There Were None
The media rarely reports on the consent of the governed, – nor the dismal state of affairs between trustee and trustor.
Has corrupting the policy process, the meltdown, corporate welfare, stealing our constitution, pension funds, etc. – anything to do with it, – who knows?
But, being proud friends of worldly organizations not to forget its speaker, – we will ofcourse not see any negative reporting from places like Newport as we truly believe in all the campaigns for a (Chevron) liberated world.