Chris Martenson examines media biases in U.S. elections, focusing on MSNBC's portrayal of Trump and election security fears as fear-mongering. He critiques financial market manipulation and the implications for public skepticism and potential market instability.
Pollution, homophobia, racism, hate; activists claim everything is getting worse.The opposite is true. But if they admit that how would they raise money?“For activists, success is a threat,” journalist John Tierney explains. “It is going to put you out of business unless you find a new cause.”
whatever one feels about these other issues, the right to facts and debate is fundamental and not to be abridged. if such occurs and is further institutionalized without check or balance, then history will be re-written, the present will be lost, and the future will follow with it.you can build nothing on a foundation (much less a mountain) of lies.stay skeptical my friends and stay loud.the society you save may be your own.
oh noes, social media makes it "really hard to govern today!"
when the government starts talking about how “difficult” or “awkward” the bill of rights makes governing, there is only one answer:good.that’s quite literally the point. that’s quite literally the genius of the form of republic imagined and enshrined by our framers.the individual stands paramount to the state. our rights, derived from and imbued by our personhood not from some proffered license from leviathan, stand paramount to the state. and if that makes it impossible for the state to do some thing that it wants to do?tough noogies.that’s almost certainly a sign that it’s something the state should never have been contemplating in the first place.
“Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.”The world of George Orwell’s dystopian classic Nineteen Eighty-Four is divided into three totalitarian superpowers: Oceania, Eurasia, and EastAsia. And the novel’s protagonist, Winston Smith, is a mid-level bureaucrat within Oceania’s “Ministry of Truth”.Early in the book we learn that Oceania is in the midst of a protracted war with Eurasia.But suddenly the party announces that they were, in fact, at war with Eastasia… NOT Eurasia. Everyone was simply expected to forget that Oceania was ever at war against Eurasia.The ideological dictatorship of Orwell’s world demanded that all citizens memory-hole the old truth and internalize the new truth “Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.”Watching what little of the Democratic National Convention I could stomach; I couldn’t help but think of this scene from Orwell’s novel.
Vice President Harris officially accepted her party’s nomination on Thursday night with a speech that was confident, patriotic, and pretty damn presidential. Here’s the TL;DR, in order of appearance: hard work; family values; civil rights; fight for the little guy; Trump’s an asshole; January 6; democracy at stake; protect the middle class; jobs; economy; lower costs; cheaper groceries; Trump tax; your body, your choice; gun violence; gay stuff; clean air/water; climate change; voting rights; border security; space; cease-fire soonish but big hearts to Israel; wait, here’s a bone to Palestine too; folksy wisdom from Mom; strength; freedom; opportunity; dignity; We Are Not Going Back, We Are Not Going Back, We Are Not Going Back. That was pretty much it, and after four days of nonstop Democratic Party boosterism, I’d been so inundated with the message that Kamala Harris is the most qualified candidate to ever run for president, one who will usher in a new era of prosperity, that by the time she took Doug’s hand and retired backstage for a drink and a smoke, I almost, for a second, believed it. But then I remembered that politics is theater, that Joe Biden stepped down only because Nancy Pelosi held a gun to his head (and would have pulled the trigger), and that Harris was cast in this role not because the people choose her, but because Biden needed a brown woman to appease activists and then his brain turned to mush. A month ago, the only thing left of the KHive was four gay guys in P-Town snorting Adderall off a wicker coffee table; now it’s half the country! Whoever scripted this deserves an Oscar.
Biden is no longer fit to be president. Last night’s debate exposed the lies we’ve been told.
