Influence

Newsroom Exodus

Glenn Greenwald

Undue influence

US Debt Ceiling 2012 visualized
“No wonder, then, that the World Health Organisation (WHO) has talked of the “inherent conflict” between the legitimate business goals of the drug companies and the medical and social needs of the wider public.”

A growing number of us would like to try alternative (original) treatments for a number of ailments, but are thwarted in doing so by conflicting messages from authorities claiming to have our best interest at heart?

extraordinary profits made by drug companies.

Global pharma market will reach $1.12 trillion in 2022

Global Pharmaceutical Industry – Statistics & Facts

Regulatory capture

Government Sovereignty and Individual Rights

TPP, TTIP, & TISA

The One Satire Solution

 

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In the Shadow of the Sun King – The new bestseller about how guilt and power never met.

Selling a bank for a hospital is nice. – Wait! what? We already sold the Telecom company for just that. Well at least we didn’t sell the Royal Mail.

 Home is Best (is) ~ “All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.”

Some 20 years ago, Sagan worried about: 95% being ‘scientifically illiterate’,  10 seconds sound bites representing ‘substantive’ media content, and Dumb and Dumber being the number one video. We, however,  in the run up-to the local-elections and our brush with Big-Pharma, might add illiteracy about increasingly sophisticated persuasion technologies.

The Fine Art of Baloney Detection

Understanding our very own

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Same ideologues, now turned ‘purists’, convinced of a different outcome.
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“Without delay” maybe someday
“Live broadcast” ‘enhanced’ tape-delay
“Not privatization” cronyism
“Impossibility” nuisance
“Unimplementable” irritating
“Integrity” broken campaign promises
“Safeguards” broken campaign promises
“Reasoned discussion” shut the fuck up
“Speculations” the government budget
“Campaign promises” speculations
“Immediately” never
“Simple” impossible
“National Consensus” the will of the minister
“Nature reserves” more Power Plants
“Restructuring” cutbacks
“Solidarity” obedience
“Safeguarded” abolished
“Untraditional” the MP is lying
“Thinking aloud” the MP is lying
“Money in the Post” more comities & no fulfillment

Adapted from Jonas.is

Repeat after me:

“Redundancies reasonable and necessary”
– today it is Public broadcasting – to morrow it will be …

“The era of manufacturing consent has given way to the era of manufacturing news. Soon media newsrooms will drop the pretence, and start hiring theatre directors instead of journalists.” ~ Arundhati Roy

Now that we have one, – we can continue to enjoy the regurgitated BS they call news.

Even our FM took cookies to Kiev à la Nuland, – not doing to well at home?

Newspeak Dictionary
The real battlefield is your mind (1/8)
Reality Asserts Itself  (1/4)
Friendly Dictators Trading Cards

Dog-whistle politics
The dire need for an enemy

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