Saturday, December 17, 2016

Is "Cut It Out!" Code Speech?

So far the record is not good for leaders telling other people who are rich and powerful to "cut it out." I can only assume that the phrase actually is code for "I couldn't care less" or "have at it" or "carte blanche."

Propublica: Hillary Clinton’s Mixed Record on Wall Street Belies Her Tough ‘Cut it Out’ Talk

Radio Free Europe: On Hacking, Obama Says He Directly Told Putin To 'Cut It Out'

Maybe it's a combination of the aforementioned phrases plus a caveat such as " you can burn the peasants but please spare me."

Friday, September 2, 2016

News for 09-02-2016 as of 0856-1150

I'll try to find something worthwhile. I apologize in advance if my choices digress.There are a couple of articles associated with Labor Day celebrations such as recognizing an overdose and how to find a local event.


Hope you found something helpful.

Monday, August 22, 2016

News not about Trump or Lochte

I skipped over many sources because they were too full of Trump or whatever. I try to find news you can use but it's tough. Click here for my full list of sources.

Sunday, July 24, 2016

Collection of alternative news stories for 201607240840


That's all for now. browse for more at my links page.

Friday, June 3, 2016

Animal Rights: New Angle of Attack On Bernie Sanders

Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders had to be shielded twice by the U.S. Secret Service while in California ahead of the June 7 Primary, The first attack was in Oakland, then in Modesto by what appeared to be animal rights activists.

YouTube comments suggested the attackers were hired by a Super PAC created by David Brock. After a few searches I found the following:

So far I found nothing that directly links the animal rights group to David Brock, the DNC or any political organization. The last paragraph of the Wall Street Shill article confesses the link is entirely speculation.

The group Direct Action Everywhere, an animal rights group claimed responsibility for both attacks. More pics available at Daily Mail.


Should MSNBC Suspend Chris Matthews for Political Bias?

After Chris Matthews of MSNBC revealed that the main-stream media (MSM) is planning to report on June 7, 2016 that Hillary Clinton has won the nomination, despite the fact that no one wins the nomination until the conclusion of the Democratic Convention in July, the Internet has had enough.

MoveOn.org has a petition for his removal from MSNBC for being a blatant shill for Hillary Clinton.

A meme went viral suggesting that Bernie Sanders Supporters should counter the MSM propaganda attack with #BernieWinsCalifornia at 5pm Eastern Time, but James Walker at Source Planet suggests that this counter-attack will actually defeat Bernie by creating a false sense of security among voters who will then choose not to vote.

This makes perfect sense since it will only be 2 P.M. Pacific time, and it may affect even more voters than the MSM attack.

But Chris Matthews has alerted us about this. Just like Judas was vilified despite being instrumental in Jesus's plan to save Christian souls, should we vilify Chris Matthews? Hell yes.

Sunday, May 29, 2016

District Profiles of Progressive Candidates

I found a great list of progressive candidates at Progressive Army's website.*  While their personal profiles are interesting, we need to learn about their districts for strategic purposes. I will attempt to compile as many relevant links as I can.



*Alex Law is Running for Congress in New Jersey's 1st District, not for Senate which holds elections in 2018 and 2020.

Saturday, May 21, 2016

News of the Free World

May the Emperor of the Free World cast his glorious golden light upon you.

Saturday, April 2, 2016

Rent

I was going to produce a video tutorial on how to build tables like the one here, for Blogger using Microsoft Excel and Adobe Dreamweaver. For the sample data I chose rent statistics from census.gov and for kicks I made some charts, but they screamed at me. Between 1970 and 1980 rents across the United States more than doubled. There is no data from the 2010 census which raises even more questions.

I sorted the data from highest to lowest based on the 2000 rents, so the rent change becomes more extreme as you scroll down:

The first thought that popped into my head was the war on drugs because of a Redacted Tonight segment on the same topic was fresh in my mind. That war was started by Nixon around the same time. Gentrification may have been the intent, I can't help wonder why rents never went down during recessions.




Median Gross Rents: Unadjusted 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000
United States $27 $42 $71 $108 $243 $447 $602
Hawaii NA NA $72 $132 $311 $650 $779
New Jersey $36 $49 $80 $126 $270 $592 $751
California $27 $42 $79 $126 $283 $620 $747
Alaska NA NA $126 $189 $368 $559 $720
Nevada $26 $47 $91 $141 $310 $509 $699
Maryland $27 $46 $78 $127 $266 $548 $689
Massachusetts $34 $47 $75 $117 $255 $580 $684
Connecticut $34 $45 $77 $127 $260 $598 $681
New York $39 $48 $74 $111 $249 $486 $672
Colorado $22 $39 $72 $110 $252 $418 $671
Washington $22 $43 $71 $113 $254 $445 $663
Virginia $19 $39 $71 $115 $259 $495 $650
New Hampshire $26 $41 $65 $99 $251 $549 $646
Florida $16 $39 $71 $112 $255 $481 $641
Delaware $30 $46 $77 $111 $247 $495 $639
Oregon $21 $44 $70 $107 $257 $408 $620
Arizona $18 $37 $69 $109 $264 $438 $619
District of Columbia $45 $57 $81 $119 $224 $479 $618
Georgia $13 $27 $51 $86 $211 $433 $613
Illinois $33 $47 $85 $124 $246 $445 $605
Utah $23 $40 $66 $97 $235 $369 $597
Texas $17 $37 $60 $95 $246 $395 $574
Minnesota $28 $43 $72 $117 $236 $422 $566
Rhode Island $28 $40 $62 $93 $222 $489 $553
Vermont $24 $41 $62 $98 $224 $446 $553
North Carolina $14 $30 $55 $86 $205 $382 $548
Michigan $33 $47 $77 $115 $250 $423 $546
Wisconsin $31 $49 $79 $113 $234 $399 $540
Pennsylvania $27 $40 $64 $93 $224 $404 $531
Indiana $24 $42 $70 $105 $218 $374 $521
Idaho $21 $44 $65 $92 $218 $330 $515
Ohio $28 $42 $75 $105 $225 $379 $515
South Carolina $12 $26 $49 $77 $206 $376 $510
Tennessee $15 $31 $52 $82 $203 $357 $505
New Mexico $17 $41 $71 $88 $215 $372 $503
Kansas $19 $38 $66 $94 $218 $372 $498
Maine $25 $41 $64 $90 $216 $419 $497
Nebraska $22 $43 $67 $95 $213 $348 $491
Missouri $22 $36 $65 $96 $211 $368 $484
Iowa $23 $43 $68 $99 $226 $336 $470
Louisiana $15 $27 $53 $81 $214 $352 $466
Oklahoma $16 $34 $57 $82 $215 $340 $456
Arkansas $12 $28 $47 $71 $185 $328 $453
Alabama $12 $25 $45 $69 $188 $325 $447
Montana $23 $41 $66 $89 $200 $311 $447
Kentucky $16 $31 $55 $83 $198 $319 $445
Mississippi $11 $25 $43 $65 $180 $309 $439
Wyoming $22 $41 $67 $87 $252 $333 $437
South Dakota $21 $42 $67 $88 $188 $306 $426
North Dakota $21 $43 $71 $97 $206 $313 $412
West Virginia $17 $28 $53 $72 $195 $303 $401

Looking for an explanation revealed very little, but the data seems to suggest a major policy change on a national level.

Here are some of the links I found:

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

News Not Trump




Americablog
Pro-Clinton, Anti-Sanders propaganda from Vox and the Tax Policy Center. What else won't change much under the Hillary Clinton Administration? Basically everything.


Anti-Media
You may get a warning that someone in another country attempted to sign-in to your account.

The Intercept
The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board

Alternet
No. 11 would be the attempt to paint Bernie as unable to reach black voters.

The Center for Public Integrity
Florida Doctor Claims Humana Knew!

Common Dreams
USGS to include Man-Made Earthquakes.

Counter-Current News
In my opinion, stress may be engineered to facilitate "Impulse-Consumerism."

Stars and Stripes
Acting on lessons learned from the Tet Offensive?

Dissident Voice
This pretty much sums everything up.
I thought you should take a news break from Trump's campaign manager being arrested, so I dug up some alternative headlines.

Monday, March 21, 2016

PSYWAR: You Are Living in Learned Helplessness


Wikipedia
A basic description of the term

Yale University
Mailers sent to voters that threatened to publish to their neighbors whether or not they voted, increased voter turnout.

Harvard University
Quote from abstract: "If free-will beliefs support attributions of moral responsibility, then reducing these beliefs should make people less retributive in their attitudes about punishment."
( Studies show that scientific education about free-will mitigates vindictiveness. ) This may also apply to aggravating Learned Helplessness in the public through propaganda.

Wikipedia
Psychological manipulation on a large scale, of attitudes and social behaviors. AND an overview of the book by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky

Wikipedia
The psychological study of small groups and how they often make bad decisions.

Demos
You should never let anyone convince you that voting is a waste of time.
Repeat these words as often as you can, no matter what the circumstances:

"Learned Helplessness."

I was feeling beaten-down by blogs and news websites that continue to post crazy gaffs and quotes from politicians, like watching a runaway train carrying crude oil inevitably heading for disaster, disaster for America.

We are being conditioned by demagoguery like "Congressional Obstruction," "Gridlock." "Fascist," "Socialist" and many more. Now I'm beginning to understand why college students are creating "Safe Spaces." They are completely fed-up with such "Trigger Rhetoric."

I think they understand the psychological warfare tactic of conditioning Learned Helplessness through relentless disparaging news reports about politics.

I like Bernie Sanders because he has very clear and unwavering concerns and ideas for us. It would be very easy for me to completely turn off the news and un-follow both the main-stream and alternative media (with one or two exceptions).

Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Why are you voting for Hillary Clinton?

Why?

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