Another insightful view of the damage done by George W Bush’s administration was published in the INTERCEPT, comparing Bush’s use of the press during the run up to the Iraq war against Trump’s incompetent battle with the press, 14 years after the Iraq invasion. Below, is a copy of some reminiscences of a series of … [Read more…]
Keeping people poor is a political choice we can no longer afford, with so much human potential wasted. We need a universal basic income By Rutger Bregman the Guardian, March 6, 2017.
Sausalito News, 27 February 1947 Holding its regular monthly meeting at the Buckeye Wednesday evening, the Associated Chambers of Commerce of Marin county … ENDORSE ROAD WORK The group took formal recognition of a resolution passed this week by the board of supervisors and endorsed the proposal to construct a tunnel under Lombard street, San … [Read more…]
Today, it is apparent that advertising’s roots in propaganda are resurfacing, we can now add the term analytics under the propaganda heading. These new and highly devious suites of techniques are becoming key to swaying hundreds of millions of people who use social media and who are unprotected from targeted advertising during their internet sessions. Persuasion is part and … [Read more…]
Demento wrote today in an Ars Technica comment thread concerning the Cloudflare bug: How much cache would a webcache cache if a webcache could cache cache? It was so good I had to save it.
In this recent article from IEEE Spectrum on the Fukushima disaster, they mention something called CORIUM. I’d not heard of it before so I went to the Wikipedia page on Corium and became a little less ignorant about what it is and what this article really means. What the authors say in Spectrum isn’t really … [Read more…]
In searching for a suitable article to include in my “This Day in History” section, I chose the February 20th, 1877 edition of the Sacramento Union to try to find something interesting. There was column after column of reports on the volatile situation in Congress surrounding the contested 1876 election of Hayes and Tilden. The electoral … [Read more…]
Sanders repeated many of the populist platforms he ran on, including rallying against the influence of money in politics and a financial system he says rewards Wall Street bankers while the American middle class shrinks. The key to a progressive resurgence, he said, could be turning The Ape In A Suit’s message on its head by persuading … [Read more…]
L.M. Slackens: The Yellow Press, showing William Randolph Hearst as a jester handing out newspapers, published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, October 12, 1910 ” In the long history of misinformation, the current outbreak of fake news has already secured a special place, with the president’s personal adviser, Kellyanne Conway, going so far as to invent … [Read more…]
ProPublica published a very insightful interview with Alan Bersin. He “served in several key posts in the Department of Homeland Security, including as acting commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, the force of 58,000 employees that includes the U.S. Border Patrol as well as CBP officers guarding air, land and sea ports of entry. He … [Read more…]