More nuggets for your mental mastication....
>>T-Rumps's Parade:
I'm trying to discern just what T-Rump's "logic" is behind his
request. He sees France, North Korea, and other countries parading
their weapons packages, equipment, and other phallic-looking devices
down the main drags of their respective capital cities, so why not
here? Other than stroking his ego to his satisfaction, the other net
effects are all negative: unnecessary expense, torn-up roads and other
infrastructure, personnel diverted to provide security and operations
for the industrial-sized stroking of T-Rump's ego, etc. We don't need
to parade anything about our military at this point – we already have
enough nukes to reduce the Earth's crust to radioactive toast many
times over, and boy, does the rest of the world know THIS.
>>Izvini Pajalusta:
I'm not sure that anybody could have predicted two years ago, that we
would see a return of McCarthyism – but this time, with the Democratic
Party being the perpetrators of said political illness. I still find
the case against Russia incomplete at best, and suspect at worst.
Recall that in the book Shattered (pertaining to the 2016 presidential
campaign), that less than 24 hours after Clinton's ignominious defeat,
that plans were already afoot to roll out the anti-Russia narrative.
That, combined with all of the hearsay being repeated by Big Media about
how this agency said this, and this person with a big-sounding title
said that, leads me to the conclusion that nobody is right on this. I
don't know, honestly, who to believe.
>>Internet Censorship:
I have been a denizen of Facebook for the last couple of years, using
it as my primary outlet for my political activism and commentary. My
newsfeed used be chock-a-block of postings from alternative news sites
and lefty opinion groups, but now I'm seeing the number of posts drop
considerably over the last several months. I've also heard about sites
like my personal favorites Truthdig and Truthout
lose a considerable number of Google page hits (and thus, revenue)
because of Google's change in search algorithm. In seeing the countless
other examples of "adjustments" in search algorithms, Ajit Pai's
recent demolition of Obama's Net Neutrality regulations, and other
factors, it's easy to draw a conclusion – however conspiracy-based it
may be – that there is a concerted effort by the elites to re-gain
control of the messaging that goes through the internet. There would
certainly be a vested interest in doing so: Trump's election has been
attributed, in part, to the political establishment losing control over
the messaging. Let's face it – Trump treated the entire campaign, at
least initially, as a publicity campaign designed to further his brand
and fill his coffers. I doubt that he or any of his inner circle
expected to get anywhere near the White House, let alone win it
outright. If the "machine" worked properly, Hillary Clinton would be
our president – she had the entire media machine behind her, she had
Hollywood, she even had noted Republicans behind her. But she was up
against a master of media manipulation: Trump plays the media and the
press like a Stradivarius.
More later, including the recent Florida school shooting.
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