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Tune in alert for Discovery as they show you the entire SEAL plan of action in securing Osama bin Laden and escaping with his body from the Pakistan compound. (Editor Note: Airing tonight, 2 weeks after the supposed raid)
What has happened to the West is that it can see itself and others only through the eyes of its own propaganda.
The US military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media sites by using fake online personas to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda.
So, you thought the economic crisis we are currently experiencing was caused by loose monetary policy, loose economic regulation, or just plain loose morals by the likes of Goldman Sachs and associated plutocrats? Wrong!
So this must mean that the market is giving a huge thumbs up to Obama's deficit-cutting plans.
Fox News is not an unbiased purveyor of information. Not news, you say? OK, it's true that Steve Benen and Conor Friedersdorf say exactly that on almost a daily basis. What is news is that the latest criticism comes from a former employee of the netw
Dear Ernie, Important headlines you published in the front page like this one: Who rules Egypt is none of our business [http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=5514] -- need a thorough public discussion as they affect
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Even the Washington Post describes it like something out of Orwell’s 1984. The FCC has approved a presidential alert system. Obama may soon appear on your television or call your cell phone to warn you about the next specious al-Qaeda underwear bombi
The language of beneficence is used to speak to those outside the centers of death and pillage, those who have not yet been totally broken, those who still must be seduced to hand over power to predators. The road traveled to total disempowerment...
Managing perception is the game plan, not fixing what ails the real economy. Why? Cui bono: it's all about rescuing a politically sacrosanct and highly insolvent financial sector.
This morning’s example: A weird little bit of Davos cheerleading from Bloomberg. A headlined piece leads off with the following two paragraphs, if you can believe it:
Remember Amy Bishop? You probably don’t, although her gun-shooting rampage happened less than a year ago.
"Dear Editor, I'd like to know why another question isn't being asked re the Tucson massacre."
When governments do all the wrong things and then dissemble and rely on a fictitious narrative bolstered by their fellow travelers in the media that has no connection with reality and that is hurting the people, isn’t it time for a little revolution?
The America of Kennedy’s day and the America of today are two different worlds. In America today the media are expected to lie for the government in order to prevent the people from finding out what the government is up to.
(Just Say'n)
Can you imagine an apologist for USA PATRIOT or the TSA saying: “Well, I guess draconian security clampdowns and police statism aren’t any good for preventing terrorism after all”? No, they’d use it as a pretext for doubling down.
20 Million Kids & Adolescents are labeled with "mental disorders" that are based solely on a checklist of behaviors. There are no brain scans, x-rays, genetic or blood tests that can prove they are "mentally ill".
Zuckerman dismisses most of the leaked cables as no more than gossipy trivia about Putin’s personality, and suggests Assange’s supporters care nothing about Wikileaks’ effect on the ability of government officials to promote “peace and security”
This interview of a former KGB agent took place in 1985, but the information is very relevant to American society today.
[This is] the first really sustained confrontation between the established order and the culture of the internet. There have been skirmishes before, but this is the real thing.
WikiLeaks is exposing the great divides among the American citizenry: the good, little citizen who has a reverential deference for government power and the independent, critical thinker who isn’t scared to expose and oppose government wrongdoing.
Reflecting longtime conservative disdain for civil liberties, Kuhner bluntly writes, “At this point, we are beyond indictments and courts. The damage has been done… Kill him.”
So many intelligent Americans believe, say and do stupid things. When a large fraction of the population is like this, a nation rots from the inside and succumbs to external forces.
The "reform" is to add multiple layers of bureaucracy and additional costs on a bloated, out-of-control system in which 50% of the money is already wasted on fraud, needless procedures/meds and paper shuffling.
The government changed the "seasonal adjustment" it made to the payroll numbers--and, in so doing, boosted the number of "jobs" created in October by 100,000.
Considering this is the same administration that claims that right to assassinate American citizens outside of war zones this is not, as you might expect, a concern about law and order so much as one about turf.
"People who accept the authenticity of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion are not likely to be paying much attention to what is happening in the Rhodesian and Leninist camps – and that’s where the action really is."
Weeks, months or years later, those claims get quietly exposed as being utter falsehoods, by which point it does not matter, because the goal is already well-achieved: the falsehoods are ingrained as accepted truth.
A U.S.-wide foreclosure moratorium would be "catastrophic" and could unjustly impose losses on investors in the housing market, a major securities lobbying group said Monday.
