Ha ha, did you not get the memo saying that all devices were to be used to watch advertising video in the standard wide screen format. Moron you have no idea how to give your money to big corporations.
The European Union is unusual among political groupings in that it has steadfastly resisted the panopticon whether by businesses or States. Sadly fascism has managed to defeat this in the UK using the nationalist bandwagon and promoting hatred for immigrants. Minority pressure groups will soon find themselves imprisoned as quickly as they are in basket case countries like Turkey, Egypt or North Korea. The brief flowering of representative democracy is coming to an end all over the world. China is soon going to look really enlightened soon compared to what is going on in the west.
Sadly all democratic States appear to have embraced efficiency as the metric of success above all else. Random destruction of individuals is the result. The joke that life is ruled by "doing the right thing" became the opposite of reality once politicians declared it as their goal. Here is a tip to guide your life by. Just take any slogan that politicians declare and realize that they are saying it because they know for sure that they are either implementing policies that have the opposite effect or that it is already happening. Watch your back and keep a low profile, they are out to get you paranoid or not.
Why should a capitalist corporation bother investing in developing fusion when governments are doing the spending for them? Since they have the politicians in their back pockets they will have no difficulty getting access to the technology for free if it ever succeeds. Big Oil is just investment capital looking for an investment, research is what the public pay for with their taxes.
And does nothing to dispel the belief that fusion is fifty years in the future. And it has been fifty years in the future for the last fifty years. Given the recent success of renewables and advancing battery and storage technology, fusion is unlikely to ever see the light of day. The funding will soon be diverted into military spending for the coming global war between populist fascist states in any case. Who needs science and experts when there is a war against immigrants and foreigners to be fought.
Nonsense, you have new heroes. Fine upstanding American consumers to look up to like the Kardashians and Trump - did you see his diamond encrusted gold door? Keep drinking the Kool aid dummies.
It is a pity that this sort of reasoning is not available to Americans because their super rich have managed to use propaganda to fool the people into believing in Murcia, freedom and dog eat dog economics instead. Frankly if people are so stupid I say laugh at them dying, the world is better off without them. Just remember that they are the opposite of the actual free world. It is long past time that we stopped believing that American philosophy has anything useful to learn from.
It is also undoubtedly true that MP's are examined by all of the 40 odd agencies given access to the internet browsing history of the UK population, the only difference is that any data found cannot be used in a court of law to screw the bastards. No doubt the police will just plant or make up evidence as necessary.
It has been happening apace ever since the end of the cold war. Extremely disappointing to discover all that rhetoric against the evils of communism was just rhetoric now that capitalism can get away with the same behavior.
The only people in recent recorded history to wave a gun at the government were in dispute over land rights with its tree hugging arm. The next nearest thing likely to happen is lynching of foreigners and brown people. So no the gun owners are largely useful idiots who only respond to primal instincts and are easily manipulated. UN tanks and FEMA death camps my backside.
Who cares what you send, they know how you think because an algorithm looks at the web sites you visit and decides which box you belong in. It must be a right pain switching all the Russian site readers out of the terrorist box and moving all the Arab news site readers in to replace them to align with Trump. Expect Tor and VPN to be made illegal shortly.
It is almost funny in the week fake news inserted by the Russian secret service is accused of modifying the American election result - to be discussing a story sourced in the Daily Mail. For those who do not know the Daily Mail is a propaganda tool for controlling the lower classes. Of course it also publishes hard news because it could not peddle its propaganda without it, but the likelihood of an entertainment piece (man bites dog) like this story being true is almost negligible. The year in which post-truth becomes the word of the year is the one in which we should start acknowledging that most news is propaganda despite the theory that there is a free press. The rest of it is just entertainment that makes money and is content free. There may well be a cure for the common cold in the offing but this article will be wrong on almost all of the story. If someone can be bothered please post a link to something slightly more informative than the Daily Mail.
Actually looking in from outside the American right did not put up with Obama. They obstructed and vilified him for the entire time he held office and the left will look like pathetic losers if they do not do the same thing to Trump. Given the appalling performance in picking Hillary by the DNC I suspect that they are losers so you may be right.
Good luck with that Trump by the way, he might have pretended to be your friend to get elected but seriously, he is a billionaire and you are a worthless schmuck who's usefulness has come to an end.
Great, it is so refreshing to see an analysis which sums the whole thing up in so few words. Trump and Hilary were both dreadful candidates and neither the American people or Putin have won anything.
Hillary is an ass-hat for not clarifying that statement. Anyone who thinks that deporting 13 Million Mexicans in cattle trucks is indeed a deplorable and needs calling out. You do not seriously think that US trading would face some problems after the world watches the biggest ethnic cleansing event in history? Don't be surprised if Trump dumps the deplorables now he has been elected, even he must realize that you cannot actually implement the deportation of 13 Million people.
You know you should link into https://www.youtube.com/watch?... in your Redgum - ASIO (1984) sig. Remember just because you are paranoid doesn't mean that they are not out to get you lol.
Oh come off it. Trump has made numerous inflammatory statements that if put into practice could cause the end of civilization as we know it and the replacement is terrifying to many people. Deporting 13 million Mexicans for a start would change the place of America in the world forever. So there is extreme sensitivity to anything he actually does do. Hopefully he just suckered the voting public with his rhetoric and as a "business tactic" was expressing the most hard-line position possible from which he will row back from and "make a deal". But it is not a given that this is the case. The man is more of a religious leader than a politician so we are obviously worried about what he might choose to try and do.
Of course RT denies it, that is the job of RT for goodness sake. It is the reputable source of news with Russian propaganda as and when needed. You really ought to look at the history of propaganda through the cold war. News sources are always used to put the party line because their general truthiness is used to mask the necessary lies used to undermine the enemy. Duh!
Interesting links. The Soviet Union and latterly Russia have maintained a strong propaganda presence in the media for decades. During the cold war the favorite channel was exceptionally attractive young women whom presumably could be trusted not to spout hateful lies whilst mellifluously catching the ear of the western strong men they were pitched at traducing. You can still hear this style of coercion in the spokespeople for Assad who are undoubtedly Russian trained. We also have the prospect of RT, the exceptionally effective television news channel which will have a video of any global event online. Most of the news is as solid as the BBC or CNN so it is probably widely watched outside the USA. The "alternative" viewpoint to the Americans is as obvious as "Al Jazzera's".
And then we come to whatever the bright young minds in the Russian secret service might have developed over the last 50 years from traditional propaganda. I for one would be surprised if they had not become aware of the internet and the possibilities of fake bloggers and news. Under Putin there has been a resurgence of military aggressiveness by the Russians and frankly it is their style to use propaganda to undermine and attack their enemies.
The Americans despite the amazing success of Hollywood appear unable to understand the concept of hearts and minds in furthering their interests, relying on brute military force and economic power. American propaganda is disorganized and unappealing, the message "I am rich and I have my boot on your neck" does not resonate. The USA in any case does not seem to understand the power of propaganda.
If the Russians truly have effected a shift in the result of the American presidential election then they are to be congratulated on their cunning. What we do about it is more problematic as it attacks a weakness of our own creation. The fact free hate propaganda of the American right has created the opening for this attack by Russian fake news. For example the question of Barack Obama's birth certificate was used to attack the president despite it being a complete lie. This has opened up a channel for malicious propaganda from any source, it would be fairly hilarious if the Russians had taken advantage of it to elect Trump.
You must be joking - have you taken a look at the platform that Trump just got elected on? more waterboarding, ban all Muslims, repatriate 13M Mexicans, go back to coal. The USA is as authoritarian as they come and doesn't even pretend to be otherwise these days now there is no inconvenient Soviet Union to compare themselves with. Also let me know how the pipeline protesters are getting on against the paramilitary police, I hear one of them just had her arm shot off. Is it not also a sign of an authoritarian state when the black minority keeps being randomly shot dead by the police. Frankly I find little to choose between the USA and China these days.
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Ha ha, did you not get the memo saying that all devices were to be used to watch advertising video in the standard wide screen format. Moron you have no idea how to give your money to big corporations.
I am sorry but when did you not get the memo that the mobile web site makes the money and that keyboard users can go fuck themselves. ha ha ha!
The European Union is unusual among political groupings in that it has steadfastly resisted the panopticon whether by businesses or States. Sadly fascism has managed to defeat this in the UK using the nationalist bandwagon and promoting hatred for immigrants. Minority pressure groups will soon find themselves imprisoned as quickly as they are in basket case countries like Turkey, Egypt or North Korea. The brief flowering of representative democracy is coming to an end all over the world. China is soon going to look really enlightened soon compared to what is going on in the west.
Sadly all democratic States appear to have embraced efficiency as the metric of success above all else. Random destruction of individuals is the result. The joke that life is ruled by "doing the right thing" became the opposite of reality once politicians declared it as their goal. Here is a tip to guide your life by. Just take any slogan that politicians declare and realize that they are saying it because they know for sure that they are either implementing policies that have the opposite effect or that it is already happening. Watch your back and keep a low profile, they are out to get you paranoid or not.
Why should a capitalist corporation bother investing in developing fusion when governments are doing the spending for them? Since they have the politicians in their back pockets they will have no difficulty getting access to the technology for free if it ever succeeds. Big Oil is just investment capital looking for an investment, research is what the public pay for with their taxes.
And does nothing to dispel the belief that fusion is fifty years in the future. And it has been fifty years in the future for the last fifty years. Given the recent success of renewables and advancing battery and storage technology, fusion is unlikely to ever see the light of day. The funding will soon be diverted into military spending for the coming global war between populist fascist states in any case. Who needs science and experts when there is a war against immigrants and foreigners to be fought.
Nonsense, you have new heroes. Fine upstanding American consumers to look up to like the Kardashians and Trump - did you see his diamond encrusted gold door? Keep drinking the Kool aid dummies.
It is a pity that this sort of reasoning is not available to Americans because their super rich have managed to use propaganda to fool the people into believing in Murcia, freedom and dog eat dog economics instead. Frankly if people are so stupid I say laugh at them dying, the world is better off without them. Just remember that they are the opposite of the actual free world. It is long past time that we stopped believing that American philosophy has anything useful to learn from.
It is also undoubtedly true that MP's are examined by all of the 40 odd agencies given access to the internet browsing history of the UK population, the only difference is that any data found cannot be used in a court of law to screw the bastards. No doubt the police will just plant or make up evidence as necessary.
At my last place of work they used to play this over the speakers when we had layoffs https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I think I preferred their honesty to all that euphemism and bullshit
It has been happening apace ever since the end of the cold war. Extremely disappointing to discover all that rhetoric against the evils of communism was just rhetoric now that capitalism can get away with the same behavior.
The only people in recent recorded history to wave a gun at the government were in dispute over land rights with its tree hugging arm. The next nearest thing likely to happen is lynching of foreigners and brown people. So no the gun owners are largely useful idiots who only respond to primal instincts and are easily manipulated. UN tanks and FEMA death camps my backside.
Who cares what you send, they know how you think because an algorithm looks at the web sites you visit and decides which box you belong in. It must be a right pain switching all the Russian site readers out of the terrorist box and moving all the Arab news site readers in to replace them to align with Trump. Expect Tor and VPN to be made illegal shortly.
It is almost funny in the week fake news inserted by the Russian secret service is accused of modifying the American election result - to be discussing a story sourced in the Daily Mail. For those who do not know the Daily Mail is a propaganda tool for controlling the lower classes. Of course it also publishes hard news because it could not peddle its propaganda without it, but the likelihood of an entertainment piece (man bites dog) like this story being true is almost negligible. The year in which post-truth becomes the word of the year is the one in which we should start acknowledging that most news is propaganda despite the theory that there is a free press. The rest of it is just entertainment that makes money and is content free. There may well be a cure for the common cold in the offing but this article will be wrong on almost all of the story. If someone can be bothered please post a link to something slightly more informative than the Daily Mail.
Actually looking in from outside the American right did not put up with Obama. They obstructed and vilified him for the entire time he held office and the left will look like pathetic losers if they do not do the same thing to Trump. Given the appalling performance in picking Hillary by the DNC I suspect that they are losers so you may be right.
Good luck with that Trump by the way, he might have pretended to be your friend to get elected but seriously, he is a billionaire and you are a worthless schmuck who's usefulness has come to an end.
Great, it is so refreshing to see an analysis which sums the whole thing up in so few words. Trump and Hilary were both dreadful candidates and neither the American people or Putin have won anything.
The problem is that News is 100% entertainment these days so who cares about news, can it tap dance?
Hillary is an ass-hat for not clarifying that statement. Anyone who thinks that deporting 13 Million Mexicans in cattle trucks is indeed a deplorable and needs calling out. You do not seriously think that US trading would face some problems after the world watches the biggest ethnic cleansing event in history? Don't be surprised if Trump dumps the deplorables now he has been elected, even he must realize that you cannot actually implement the deportation of 13 Million people.
You know you should link into https://www.youtube.com/watch?... in your Redgum - ASIO (1984) sig. Remember just because you are paranoid doesn't mean that they are not out to get you lol.
Oh come off it. Trump has made numerous inflammatory statements that if put into practice could cause the end of civilization as we know it and the replacement is terrifying to many people. Deporting 13 million Mexicans for a start would change the place of America in the world forever. So there is extreme sensitivity to anything he actually does do. Hopefully he just suckered the voting public with his rhetoric and as a "business tactic" was expressing the most hard-line position possible from which he will row back from and "make a deal". But it is not a given that this is the case. The man is more of a religious leader than a politician so we are obviously worried about what he might choose to try and do.
Of course RT denies it, that is the job of RT for goodness sake. It is the reputable source of news with Russian propaganda as and when needed. You really ought to look at the history of propaganda through the cold war. News sources are always used to put the party line because their general truthiness is used to mask the necessary lies used to undermine the enemy. Duh!
Interesting links. The Soviet Union and latterly Russia have maintained a strong propaganda presence in the media for decades. During the cold war the favorite channel was exceptionally attractive young women whom presumably could be trusted not to spout hateful lies whilst mellifluously catching the ear of the western strong men they were pitched at traducing. You can still hear this style of coercion in the spokespeople for Assad who are undoubtedly Russian trained. We also have the prospect of RT, the exceptionally effective television news channel which will have a video of any global event online. Most of the news is as solid as the BBC or CNN so it is probably widely watched outside the USA. The "alternative" viewpoint to the Americans is as obvious as "Al Jazzera's".
And then we come to whatever the bright young minds in the Russian secret service might have developed over the last 50 years from traditional propaganda. I for one would be surprised if they had not become aware of the internet and the possibilities of fake bloggers and news. Under Putin there has been a resurgence of military aggressiveness by the Russians and frankly it is their style to use propaganda to undermine and attack their enemies.
The Americans despite the amazing success of Hollywood appear unable to understand the concept of hearts and minds in furthering their interests, relying on brute military force and economic power. American propaganda is disorganized and unappealing, the message "I am rich and I have my boot on your neck" does not resonate. The USA in any case does not seem to understand the power of propaganda.
If the Russians truly have effected a shift in the result of the American presidential election then they are to be congratulated on their cunning. What we do about it is more problematic as it attacks a weakness of our own creation. The fact free hate propaganda of the American right has created the opening for this attack by Russian fake news. For example the question of Barack Obama's birth certificate was used to attack the president despite it being a complete lie. This has opened up a channel for malicious propaganda from any source, it would be fairly hilarious if the Russians had taken advantage of it to elect Trump.
Well that seems plenty of water to supply a closed loop greenhouse system. Mars here we come!
So true.
You must be joking - have you taken a look at the platform that Trump just got elected on? more waterboarding, ban all Muslims, repatriate 13M Mexicans, go back to coal. The USA is as authoritarian as they come and doesn't even pretend to be otherwise these days now there is no inconvenient Soviet Union to compare themselves with. Also let me know how the pipeline protesters are getting on against the paramilitary police, I hear one of them just had her arm shot off. Is it not also a sign of an authoritarian state when the black minority keeps being randomly shot dead by the police. Frankly I find little to choose between the USA and China these days.