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Jan 4, 2018

An Introduction To, & Overview Of, The Mainstream Corporate Media

Background

  • Fox News - And Right Wing Media - Is Nothing More Than A Conspiracy & Nazi-Style Propaganda Ring
  • NBC/MSNBC's Hidden Role As "The Rights, Left"
  • CNN's Model For Reporting & Journalism Has A Problem With Conveying The Whole Truth Based On Facts
  • Corporate Media's Iraq War Coverup: Incontrovertible Proof Of Media Covering Facts About The Iraq War For Their GOP Masters


This post summarizes some of the problems with the media and is meant to be a basic introductory post to how left-wing (mainstream/normal/non-conspiracy-based) media operates in America. Notice, in particular, how media makes GOP seem nicer than they are, sometimes just by ignoring hard facts that involve death (which would obviously cast a negative impression on the GOP) (Stockholm syndrome?)...

Media keep calling the GOP's corporate tax bill a "win" for Trump The extraordinarily unpopular bill is built on lies and ignores what we know about economics


President Donald Trump and his Republican congressional allies are enjoying a round of praise from media commentators for finally getting a legislative “win” on the board as their tax bill closes in on passage before the end of the year. The budget-busting corporate giveaway will enrich the superwealthy and do little for Americans who have to work for a living.
Republicans finally unveiled the finished version of their tax legislation last Friday evening, and -- despite the public having just days to absorb its 1,097 pages -- both chambers of Congress plan to vote on the bill before the end of the week. If everything goes according to plan, the president will sign the bill into law just in time for members to head home for the holidays.
After a year plagued by self-destructive outbursts, failed policy changes, unprecedented legal troubles, embarrassing scandals, humiliating legislative defeats, and nationwide political upheaval, many in the press are framing the GOP tax proposal as a crucial “win” for Trump and his party.

What this is..., well, what I call this is "kissing the asses of their GOP masters". The actual truth may be more or less (maybe stockholms syndrome?), in any case, helping the GOP by covering up for their past lies (that Jon Stewart said should be set afloat on an ice flow for their Iraq War lies), is what the media does from time to time like with the following example of avoiding harsh stuff during election season (helps the GOP with winning, not like they need help);

The Present: Iraq war lies ignored in Republican campaign coverage - Rachel Maddow sets the record straight on the deliberate lies told to support the decision to go to war in Iraq, and talks with Dan Rather of AXS TV about how political coverage of "the Iraq question" is allowing Republican candidates to re-write history.



6 key mistakes media made in covering the health care debate


In the wee hours of the morning of July 28, Democrats, activists, and three Republican senators just barely thwarted the GOP’s attempt to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Ever since President Donald Trump pledged to make repealing the ACA one of his first priorities as president -- and Republicans retreated to secrecy to take health care away from tens of millions of people -- media have continuously made six key mistakes in their health care coverage.

Ignoring diversity and intersectionality

Focusing on process over consequences

Letting the GOP off the hook for sabotage efforts

Not challenging Republicans

Pushing unworkable solutions

Ignoring the debate all together

Read the details here.


5 Worst Media Moments Last Week From rehabilitating W’s image to overlooking white supremacist violence in Florida, here were the media’s worst moments last week.
1. Media eats up George W. Bush’s latest PR tour.
2. New York Times defends its long track record of backing wars by insisting it has “raised many questions” about wars it supported.
3. Critics mock Rachel Maddow’s Niger conspiracy theory.
4. New York Times says US “stood by” during mass killing It actively helped organize.
5. Cable news shockingly silent on neo-Nazi terror attack. Or not so shocking if you consider how casually racist our media usually is. Media Matters found that of the three major cable networks, only MSNBC covered the recent arrest of three of Spencer’s neo-Nazi supporters--Tyler Tenbrink, William Fears, and Colton Fears, who were arrested for attempted murder after firing a shot at a group of protesters in Florida. Both CNN and Fox News ignored the story entirely and MSNBC’s coverage only lasted for 1 minute and 57 seconds.
Read details here.


I've actually seen many guests on cable news white wash history with Trump, for example, ignoring all the Iraq War lies and acting like this is the first President to play with nukes (Bush helped Iran - undercover & illegal operations have been a GOP hallmark for years - and encouraged the nuclear breakthrough of the North Koreans). In fact, Trump ENTIRE political pitch (picking on North Korea 7 Iran with incendiary rhetoric) is LITERALLY the completion of George Bush's "Axis of Evil' speech where Bush, like Trump today, is after both Iran & North Korea. This trend of pretending there was no treason before Trump (a tactic for Pence to replace him?) is seen in this piece;

NYT Trumpwashes 70 Years of U.S. Crimes Trump washing presents Donald Trump as an aberration.


The New York Times reports that Donald Trump “holds a radically different view of the United States’ role in the world than most of his predecessors,” citing his lack of interest in “the rules-based postwar international order.”
Trumpwashing—defined as whitewashing, obscuring or rewriting the broader US record by presenting Donald Trump as an aberration (FAIR.org, 6/3/16)—was on full display Thursday in a nominally straight news report from the New York Times’ Mark Landler (12/28/17) on how Trump has reshaped US foreign policy. Buried in the otherwise banal analysis was this gem of US imperial agitprop:
Above all, Mr. Trump has transformed the world’s view of the United States from a reliable anchor of the liberal, rules-based international order into something more inward-looking and unpredictable. That is a seminal change from the role the country has played for 70 years, under presidents from both parties, and it has lasting implications for how other countries chart their futures.
There’s lots of ideology to unpack here, but let’s start with the empirically false assertion that the “world” viewed the United States as a “reliable anchor of the liberal, rules-based international order.” Poll (Guardian, 6/15/06) after poll (Pew, 3/14/07) after poll (PRI, 1/3/14) throughout the years has shown that much of the world views the United States as threat to peace, often taking the top spot as the single greatest threat. What evidence Landler has for the world viewing the US as a sort of good-natured global babysitter is unclear, as he cites nothing to support this hugely important claim (since if Trump’s cynical disregard for “human rights” is nothing new, then there’s no real story here). It’s just thrown out with the assumption the Times readership is sufficiently nationalistic and/or amnesiac to either not notice or not care. It’s designed to flatter, not to elucidate.
The US invasion of Iraq in defiance of international rules

More problems...

CNN's "both sides" problem infects coverage of Trump's anti-Muslim retweets


New Book Exposes Koch Brothers' Guide To Infiltrating The Media

The book examines the influence of several of the country's wealthiest conservative donors, but it pays particular attention to the activities of Charles and David Koch, who have organized their network and spearheaded the group's political efforts. "Few had waged a more relentless or more effective assault on Americans' belief in government," Mayer wrote of the Kochs.
A key element of the Koch brothers' strategy is influencing the media. Through media, they have advanced their political and ideological goals and attacked those who stand in their way. The Koch brothers and their network have paid conservative media figures to promote their message, bankrolled front groups that run aggressive anti-environmental media campaigns, and even created their own right-wing "news" outlets. Meanwhile, they've garnered some favorable mainstream media coverage by tightly controlling reporter access to their summits and other events, while attacking and otherwise intimidating journalists who dare to shine a light on their activities.
Here is how the Koch brothers and their network have infiltrated the media:
Buying A Conservative Media Echo Chamber
Creating Their Own Media Outlets
Funding Front Groups That Run Deceptive Media Campaigns
Tightly Controlling Reporter Access To Their Events And Activities
Intimidating Journalists Who Seek To Uncover Their True Agenda


Links: The conflicts of interest and corporate interests lurking behind op-eds in 2017


Media Matters has documented this year how op-ed pieces that have appeared in newspapers and online publications have frequently failed to inform readers about their authors’ financial conflicts of interest; and when corporate-backed entities have deceived editors and readers with cut-and-paste jobs supposedly by different writers.
Here are seven examples from this year:  
GOP leadership touted pro-tax plan op-eds that were deceptive cut-and-paste jobs
Procter & Gamble placed nearly identical pro-tax cut op-eds by supposedly different authors
Media outlets published anti-net neutrality op-eds from telecom-backed groups without disclosing the groups’ financial connections
Outlets across the country ran pro-pipeline op-eds without disclosing the writer’s financial ties to the pipeline industry
The Wash. Post continued to employ a lobbyist as a writer; Media Matters identified over a dozen times they didn't disclose his conflicts of interest
Newt Gingrich used his Fox position to push for-profit colleges without disclosing his conflict of interest

Former Sen. George Allen regularly appeared in the media to defend manufacturers on taxes and regulations without disclosure that he works for them


Gerrymandering is ruining our democracy. Will television news ever care?



Broadcast and cable news’ reluctance to talk about gerrymandering, let alone address the outsized impact it has in state and federal elections, has allowed American democracy to quietly become less representative. As movements build behind redistricting reform, the question remains: Will TV news ever care about gerrymandering?
A yearlong Media Matters study found that cable news shows brought up gerrymandering in only five segments between July 1, 2016, and June 30, 2017. During that same time period, broadcast morning news programs and nightly newscasts didn’t discuss gerrymandering at all. And this isn’t a new trend; for years, media have shown a reluctance to discuss gerrymandering and redistricting. Given the outsized influence partisan and racial gerrymandering has on American democracy, these issues deserve more coverage.
Read details here.


Sunday news shows completely ignore growing Whitefish scandal in Puerto Rico Whitefish, the inexperienced, Montana-based firm that was contracted without a competitive bidding process to restore power in Puerto Rico, was charging “eye-popping” rates. Meanwhile, a month after Maria, 70 percent of Puerto Rico remains without power.

The Sunday news shows on broadcast networks and CNN all completely ignored the growing scandal over the small Montana-based firm Whitefish Energy Holdings that had recieved a $300 million contract from Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) to restore power to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria devastated the island. The contract, which was facing increasing scrutiny, was canceled late Sunday afternoon.
E&E News first reported on Whitefish’s contract with PREPA in stories on October 6 and October 9, revealing that PREPA decided not to take advantage of a mutual aid program among 1,100 electric companies that could have helped to quickly restore power on the island, where about 70 percent of residents still have no electricity. Instead, PREPA awarded a contract to the Montana-based firm, which at the time had only two full-time staffers.
On October 23, The Washington Post reported that Whitefish is based in the hometown of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, that Zinke and Whitefish CEO Andy Techmanski know one another, and that Zinke’s son worked for the company during one summer. Zinke’s office said he had no role in Whitefish securing the contract. BuzzFeed further reported on October 24 that a major donor to President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and the Republican National Committee, Joe Colonnetta, is the head of one of Whitefish’s major funding sources, private equity firm HBC Investments. However, the report noted, “It’s unclear whether Colonnetta, who did not respond to a request for comment, has specific connections to Whitefish, or whether his stake in Whitefish Energy is simply a business investment.”
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FEMA now says it has “significant concerns” with the deal, which was canceled this afternoon hours after Puerto Rico’s governor urged the utility to cancel the contract. CNN and MSNBC gave the Whitefish story significant attention this week amid the rise of serious questions and discrepancies that have been flagged. But the Sunday political shows, which are influential in Washington and which can help hold government agencies and lawmakers to account, barely discussed Puerto Rico at all, and they ignored the deal completely.


Sunday political talk shows barely cover Hurricane Maria’s devastation of Puerto Rico The entire island is without power, a dam is in danger of bursting, and Sunday political talk shows talked about it for less than a minute

Sunday political talk shows completely ignored Trump White House officials' use of private email accounts ABC’s This Week, CBS’ Face the Nation, CNN’s State of the Union, Fox’s Fox News Sunday, and NBC’s Meet the Press all failed to mention Jared Kushner and other Trump officials used private email accounts


On September 25, The New York Times reported that at least six White House advisors, including Steve Bannon and Reince Priebus, had used personal email accounts to conduct official government business. The Times’ story followed a Politico report that Jared Kushner, a senior advisor and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, had used a private email account to conduct correspondence related to White House matters. Even though the story that White House advisors used personal email accounts for official business was reported several days ago, ABC’s This Week, CBS’ Face the Nation,  CNN’s State of the Union, Fox Broadcasting Co.’s Fox News Sunday, and NBC’s Meet the Press all failed to discuss it during their Sunday morning broadcasts.
As the Times notes, “Officials are supposed to use government emails for their official duties so their conversations are available to the public and those conducting oversight.” According to Politico, the National Security Agency (NSA) had “warned senior White House officials in classified briefings” against the “improper use of personal cellphones and email,” as it “could make them vulnerable to espionage” by foreign entities. By failing to discuss the news of the officials’ use of private accounts, Sunday political talk shows ignored a significant story and failed to inform their audiences of yet another example of the lack of transparency that has been an endemic in the Trump administration. The Sunday shows’ failure to report on officials’ use of personal email accounts is particularly shocking given the media’s obsessive focus on Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server during her time as Secretary of State throughout the 2016 election.


Of all the Sunday shows, only Dana Bash on CNN asked a GOP senator about changes to 401(k) contributions


CNN’s Dana Bash was the only host of a Sunday morning political show to ask a Republican lawmaker or official about a potential tax reform provision that is reportedly being considered that would limit pre-tax 401(k) contributions. Such a move would limit how much money millions of middle class Americans would be able to set aside for retirement.
The New York Times reported that Republicans are considering a proposal to put limits on how much American workers can contribute to their 401(k) accounts before taxes, potentially decreasing caps from $18,000 a year (or $24,000 for workers over 50) to “as low as $2,400.” The Times noted that this move would likely cause “a vocal backlash from middle-class workers who save heavily in such retirement accounts.” As CNBC reported in 2015, over 13 million people have 401(k) retirement plans.
While several Republican lawmakers and officials made the rounds on the Sunday morning political shows to discuss tax reform, Bash was the only host to ask one of them about the 401(k) proposal. In an interview with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on State of the Union, Bash asked what he plans to do if Republicans were to take this path, which, she pointed out, “could mean higher taxes on the middle class.”



2017 was a disastrous year for local news


Local news matters now more than ever -- and it’s also in unprecedented peril.
In the midst of an unparalleled presidential war on the press, people still trust and rely on their local news. This year we’ve watched local journalists contribute invaluable on-the-ground reporting that helps communities and saves lives -- whether it’s about natural disasters, a mass shooting, or a public health crisis -- while adding valuable local context to national stories.
Although the decline of local news certainly did not begin this year, 2017 has dealt the industry some particularly heavy blows. And right-wing corporations are already swooping in to fill the voids that dying local outlets leave behind. As conservative media expert Will Sommer theorized recently, 2018 may become “the year that every media market in the country gets its own Fox News-style voice at the local level.”
If that terrifying prospect comes to pass, it will be directly because of the damage done in 2017.

Sinclair quietly pushed pro-Trump propaganda on local news stations across the country -- and it’s only going to get worse

Billionaire Joe Ricketts bought, then shut down, a conglomerate of hyper-local digital outlets

Local news on the West Coast is rapidly disintegrating, and it hurts Spanish-speaking communities most

Local media newsrooms are downsizing and shutting down across the country, creating local “news deserts”

Read details here.


A compliant press helped bring Alliance Defending Freedom's anti-LGBTQ hate back into the mainstream in 2017 The hate group led the fight against queer and trans equality this year, but many in the press fell for its "free speech" narrative


Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) began 2017 by being designated as an anti-LGBTQ hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and finished the year arguing before the Supreme Court in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commision. Throughout that time, ADF fervently opposed LGBTQ equality at every step while also moving its hardline extremism more and more into the mainstream. The media, in turn, aided the group’s efforts by largely failing to contextualize its unrelenting campaign against queer and trans people.
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Much of the reporting around the Masterpiece Cakeshop case fell into this trap. Time and time again, media outlets failed to contextualize ADF, instead simply noting that it was arguing the case or sometimes calling it “conservative.” In their reports on the case, The Washington Post, NPR, Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times all mentioned ADF’s role in the case but failed to mention its years-long campaign against LGBTQ equality, and those compose just a small sampling of a larger problem. A report by Time explicitly said that ADF “is making the argument that [the case] is fundamentally not about LGBTQ discrimination but about free speech” but also failed to note any of ADF’s other work combating LGBTQ equality. The piece did appropriately address the ramifications of the case for queer and trans rights, but it failed to counter ADF’s narrative or give background to its work, which would’ve shown the readers that ADF’s argument about the case “not [being] about LGBTQ discrimination” is without any merit in the context of its other work.
Leaving out important context about ADF can give readers an impression that the case, or even ADF’s work as a whole, may truly be about “free speech” rather than discrimination against LGBTQ people. ADF’s history proves that, for the group, the Masterpiece case is not about so-called “artistic freedom” or the First Amendment; it’s about preventing LGBTQ people from being fully recognized citizens in public and even private life. If news outlets won’t call it hate in 2018, they can at least give enough information for their readers to see it for themselves.


This is how TV news ought to be covering the death of net neutrality Don’t give in to the spin, stick to the facts, and provide viewers with some sense of the stakes


UPDATE: As expected, the commissioners of the FCC voted 3-2 along party lines to rescind the net neutrality protections instituted by the agency in February 2015. Internet advocacy groups responded to the vote by announcing legal challenges.
Broadcast and cable news programs have been largely silent on the topic of net neutrality in the weeks since the Republican-led Federal Communications Commission (FCC) indicated its intention to rescind Obama-era consumer protections codifying a free and open internet. With the FCC set to begin deconstructing those regulations today, news coverage must provide viewers with enough context to make clear the stakes of this dramatic policy shift.
The FCC’s commissioners, a majority of whom are Republican appointees, are expected to vote “along party lines to scrap Obama-era net neutrality rules” during its December 14 meeting, marking “a huge victory for the big internet service providers” who have sought to dismantle the consumer protections governing how customers and content-providers interact online. According to a December 12 report from Reuters, three major net neutrality advocates -- Public Knowledge, Common Cause, and Free Press -- have given up attempting to convince Republican-appointed FCC commissioners to reconsider their decision and, with little reason to expect a legislative solution from an unproductive Republican majority in Congress, are “preparing to turn to litigation as a last resort.” Another major net neutrality advocacy group, the Internet Association -- which represents technology giants and content providers like Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft -- is also weighing possible legal challenges to the FCC’s ruling, according to the report.
The FCC’s Trump-appointed chairman, Ajit Pai, spent the days leading up to the December 14 vote doing a tour of friendly conservative media outlets to promote his anti-neutrality agenda without facing any pushback from consumer advocates and regulatory experts. Chairman Pai argued that his move to install a so-called “light touch” regulatory framework is just a return to the way the internet worked pre-2015, never mentioning that net neutrality was instituted that year in response to worries that the free and open internet Americans had come to rely on might soon disappear. (Pai’s right-wing media blitz neglected to mention his previous work on behalf of Verizon, one of the telecommunications conglomerates pushing to unwind net neutrality.)
Broadcast and cable news programs, which Media Matters demonstrated have been conspicuously absentfrom net neutrality discussions, need to emphasize for their audience what is at stake in the ongoing net neutrality fight. Despite the overall inadequate coverage, there have been several examples over the past month demonstrating how news programs can inform viewers, advance the discussion, and give time to expert perspectives.
On the December 13 edition of MSNBC Live, host Stephanie Ruhle brought on guest Jeff Jarvis who said that  rescinding net neutrality would “enable the oligopoly of cable and telephone” to control content on the internet while showcasing Pai's inconsistent approach to regulating the service providers he is aligned with and content producers who might not share his political perspective. Two weeks earlier, during the November 23 edition of MSNBC Live, host Ali Velshi and tech entrepreneur Michael Fertik engaged in a similarly fruitful discussion that provided viewers with specific examples of how telecommunications companies might take advantage of consumers in a world without mandatory net neutrality:
During the November 26 edition of CNN’s Reliable Sources, host Brian Stelter and New York Times reporter David Gelles also delved into the net neutrality debate, and again stressed the ideological inconsistency of the Trump administration’s position. Gelles pointed out that Trump’s threat to block a proposed media merger by citing concerns about competition and consumer choice was directly at odds with his FCC chairman’s decision to entrust the same media titans as caretakers of the free and open internet:
Consumer advocates have long been concerned that an internet unprotected by net neutrality could devolve into a maze of predatory and expensive consumer traps similar to what we see in countries without net neutrality, which do not provide consumers with the same protections Americans benefit from today. The Republican-led FCC has already demonstrated that it plans to use its time during the Trump era empowering corporate interests, fighting for right-wing pet priorities, and ignoring American consumers. Mainstream news outlets need to start making that story clear.


Watch a tech entrepreneur explain why millions of Americans oppose the FCC's rollback of net neutrality Michael Fertik: FCC rules change could make your internet at home as expensive and limited as it is on airplanes

ALI VELSHI (HOST): Reactions pouring after the [Federal Communication Commission's (FCC)] controversial move yesterday to roll back net neutrality rules, which require internet service providers to treat all traffic on the internet equally. Opponents are protesting the move saying the rule change is going to hurt consumers and could give internet providers the ability to block or slow down content on the internet. And some are taking action.
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We should note, Comcast, the parent company of MSNBC, is one of the country's leading internet service providers and supports the rollback of net neutrality rules. Comcast has said in a statement it's commitment to customers remains the same, the company is not going to block, throttled, or discriminate against lawful content.
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The amount of fury around this discussion is of epic proportions. The interesting thing is everybody makes the same argument. Everybody, no matter whether you're for net neutrality or you're against it, the argument is that "my side protects a free and open internet." Make it clear to me, Michael. What am I supposed to believe?
MICHAEL FERTIK: Epic fury, Ali. There is epic fury you’re exactly right. And it is justified epic fury. We do not know what will happen in the play out of these rules but it is possible that there's a lot of damage coming to the internet, and a lot of damage coming to innovation, in particular. When you go on an airplane, say Southwest or some other airline, and you open up your phone or your browser. You are usually allowed to have a certain, very limited access to the internet for free. Maybe a couple of magazines, a couple of TV shows. Those things are subsidized by the airline or by their content partners. But if you want the access to the whole internet, then you have to pay. So that is what the new change in the FCC rules could bring to your house. You might get a very small flavor of the internet, a very small slice of the internet. For example: just Facebook or just Google for free. But if you want access to the open internet, you might have to pay.
That's sort of my version of -- I think Silicon Valley's version of -- the worst, nightmare scenario. In which the big guys, the big companies, the ones like Google and Facebook that supposedly oppose this net neutrality rule change might actually profit from it. They might be able to pay or subsidize the Comcasts of the world to get a free, small sliver of the internet. That lowers your Comcast bill or your AT&T bill to zero dollars per month, but guess what? You don't get to use the entire internet.
Previously:
Net neutrality died in silence as news networks once again dropped the ball
This is how TV news ought to be covering the death of net neutrality\
Journalism professor: Anti-net neutrality FCC chairman Ajit Pai "wants to enable the oligopoly of cable and the telephone to control the net"


Note; Local news all over the country (for example in Oklahoma) is being taken over by a autocratic style "Sinclair" group cresting "news deserts" where news is no longer available publicly on TV on in newspapers;


John Oliver highlights Sinclair Broadcast Group's consolidation of local news to push their conservative agenda Oliver: "With Sinclair, they're injecting Fox worthy content into the mouths of your local news anchors"


Previously:
Sinclair Broadcast is purchasing Tribune Media. Here's a short history of its right-wing politics.
How Sinclair Broadcasting purchasing Tribune Media could help Trump get re-elected
Experts and Tribune Media unions raise concerns about Sinclair’s history of pushing conservative “propaganda”



Scientific Studies: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver discusses how and why media outlets so often report untrue or incomplete information as science.





More research;

Study: Cable and broadcast news still largely ignoring Thursday's planned net neutrality repeal

Fox's Jonah Goldberg: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is "a hate crime against the Constitution"

Politico fails to disclose conflicts of interest in article attacking Democrats for protecting consumers A strong, independent CFPB was created to rein in a predatory financial industry, not cater to political whims

Sinclair is forcing local news stations across the country to air multiple false attacks on the Southern Poverty Law Center Right-wing groups and anti-LGBTQ hate groups have been actively campaigning against SPLC’s “hate group” designation

How news outlets have treated reports of sexual harassment in their own newsrooms

New York Times Magazine profile of Sean Hannity missed a ton of his conspiracy theories

The latest Trump propaganda segments running on local news, courtesy of Sinclair Broadcast Group

2017 was a terrible year of climate disasters -- and too many media outlets failed to tell the story

Cable news networks forgot Trump sexually assaulted women, until the Harvey Weinstein stories broke Evening programming on Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC all devoted much more time to the allegations against Trump after The New York Times reported on Harvey Weinstein’s sexual misconduct

How right-wing media are laying the groundwork for an assault on voting rights in 2018

The Chilling Trump Propaganda Airing Across Local News, Courtesy of Sinclair Broadcast Group Americans are being told there was no collusion, and the president did a bang-up job in Puerto Rico.

Fox News pays contributor Kevin Jackson to push blatant lies and conspiracy theories In addition to speculating about an FBI plot to kill the president, Jackson has falsely claimed that Colin Kaepernick supports terrorism and Trump released his tax returns

Fox’s Napolitano baselessly claims GSA acted unlawfully by not informing Trump transition team of Mueller's request for emails GSA told Trump officials that it would comply with requests for information from law enforcement

Rupert Murdoch's Trump support pays off Disney deal, FCC action will make the conservative mogul an even more potent force in U.S. media

Study: Local TV news omits key details of Senate GOP's tax bill

Net neutrality dies in silence as morning shows largely ignore FCC's vote The flagship morning news shows on broadcast and cable news covered net neutrality for less than four minutes combined

Bernie Blackout? As DNC Accused of Targeting Sanders, Corporate Media Ignores Historic Campaign Sanders is making history despite being subjected to what he calls a "blackout" in the corporate media.

Why Is There a Media Blackout on Bernie Beating Trump in the Polls?Whether or not this goes any further, something remarkable has happened.

The Washington Post Just Published Probably the Most Inaccurate Editorial on Bernie's Campaign So Far The Post, owned by a man worth $53.2 billion, really doesn't like Bernie Sanders.

The Term 'Bernie Bro' Is an Over-Used Smear: Even Krugman Used It to Dismiss Criticism of ClintonWhile the term once had some kernel of truth, now it's the worst kind of thought-terminating political label.

The New York Times enabled harassers in a tech article on its Sunday front page

New York Times Magazine profile of Sean Hannity missed a ton of his conspiracy theories


How cable news should cover Trump's latest effort to screw you over while helping big banks White House appointment to CFPB could doom successful watchdog agency

New Study: Conservative Media Is An Echo Chamber That Increases Partisanship Vox Highlights Study: "Republicans Rely On A Media That Is More Likely To Echo Their Partisan Biases, And Democrats Rely On Media That Does Not Pick A Side"

A History Of Dishonest Fox Charts

Despite What Corporate Media Tells You, Bernie Sanders’ Positions Are Mainstream

Pundits overlook John Kelly's extreme record, instead speculate that he could save Trump
Media figures and political strategists flocked to the Sunday shows to speculate that Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly will promote “discipline” and reduce “chaos” as White House chief of staff, and that Trump will listen to him because he “respects” military officers. What their analyses left out is Kelly’s extreme policy position on immigration and his defense of Trump’s chaotic Muslim travel ban implementation.

Media

  • Fox News - And Right Wing Media - Is Nothing More Than A Conspiracy & Nazi-Style Propaganda Ring
  • NBC/MSNBC's Hidden Role As "The Rights, Left"
  • CNN's Model For Reporting & Journalism Has A Problem With Conveying The Whole Truth Based On Facts To Its Viewers Because Of Its "Both Sides" Format That Places Outright Lies On the Same Footing With Facts On Their "Facts First" Apple-Banana Channel
  • FCC's Anti-Constitutional Push Under Trump To Cut Of Net Neutrality To Increase Authoritarianism
  • BREAKING... The Misunderstood Economy: What Counts and How to Count It OR Real Economics VS Fake Economics: How The Kochs Are Destroying America By Attacking Its Societal Structures In Favor Of Social Darwinism Or "Survival Of The Fittest"
  • The Last GOP Bill Condemned 28,600 Americans To Death (Approx), Media Ignores Story
  • Trump's America: The GOP Sentences At Least 15,000 To 17,000 Americans To Death EVERY YEAR! (i.e. The Effects Of 13 Million Uninsured)
  • Talking About The Healthcare Bill Or ANY GOP Policy WITHOUT The Context Of The Koch Brothers Pulling The Strings Is Disingenuous At Best
  • How Media Helps With the GOP's "Murder, Death, Kill" Policies OR How The Media Is Failing The American People On The Healthcare Debate
  • How Media Silence Helps With Right Wing Hate: The Laura Ingraham Example Of Explaining Away A Hate Crime Against A Young Muslim Girl
  • How "Liberal" Media Helps The GOP With It's Fake Healthcare (More Examples Of The Corporate Media's Coverups)
  • Corporate Media's Iraq War Coverup: Incontrovertible Proof Of Network News & The Beltway Media Covering Facts About The Iraq War For Their GOP Masters
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Screenshot of the UFO/UAP from the first declassified video of UFOs from the Pentagon

UFO Facts

  • Pentagon Confirms UFO Videos Released By Department Of Defense, And Confirmed As Real By The Navy, Are, In Fact, Real
  • UFO Facts: The Navy Confirmed That 3 Videos On The Web Are In Fact Real UFOs, Providing A Confirmed Starting Point For UFO Research
  • UFO Facts: A Navy Pilot Did An Interview With Mainstream News Media Outlets And Revealed That UFOs Are Shaped Like White Tic Tacs & Can Move At Hyper Velocity, Vertically Or Horizontally, Showing Capabilities Beyond What An Air Force Pilot Or Physicist Can Imagine Modern Aircraft Doing
  • UFO Facts: Civilian/Commercial Airline Pilots Have Reported Seeing UFOs/UAPs
  • UFO Facts: The Chilean Navy Released A Video Of A Tic Tac Shaped UFO In January Of 2017
  • UFO Facts: There Is A Video From 2011 Of A UFO Behaving The Way The Navy Pilot Of The Confirmed UFO Videos Describes in 2017 Of An Experience He Had in 2004!
  • UFO Facts: A White Tic Tac Shaped UFO Was Spotted Over Texas 2016 & 2018 (UFO Fits Navy Pilots Description!)
  • UFO Facts: Fighter Jets Have Been Scrambled To Meet UFOs In England (UK) & Oregon (USA)
  • UFO Facts: UFO's Seem To Like The UK! They've Shown Up On Live BBC News Several Times!
  • UFO Facts: Debunking The Abydos UFO/Helicopter/Jet-Plane/Glider And A Look At The Possibility Of An Ancient Flying Machine
  • See All Three Of The Official UFO/UAP Videos Released By The Department Of Defense (Pentagon) Thus Far...

UFO Phenomenon Analyzed

  • The Pentagon Has Released A Video Of A UFO Proving That There Is Unidentified Advanced Technology Wandering The Skies! Expert Testimony Confirms UFO Visitation Since 1948!
  • Pentagon Confirms UFO Videos Released By Department Of Defense, And Confirmed As Real By The Navy, Are, In Fact, Real
  • UFOs Burst Into Mainstream Popular Culture! Neil deGrasse Tyson Is Unimpressed, Requires Dinner Date.
  • The UFO Fear Factor: Fear Of UFOs And Aliens In Popular Culture
  • UFO Fear Factor: Pentagon Releases UFO Videos... Do UFOs Exist? If UFOs Exist Are They A Threat? What Do They Want?
  • Why Accepting The Presence Of UFO's And Alien Life, As A Global Culture, CAN Help Reduce Divisions In Our Society
  • Advanced Aerospace Threat Analysis And A Cultural Analysis Of The UFO Phenomenon
  • Debunking The Ancient Aliens Hypothesis: Meet The Ancient Humans & Giants Whose Descendants Were The Annunaki/ Watchers/ Niphilim/ Egyptian-Gods ("Civilization Bringers") Of Ancient History
  • Debunking The Ancient Aliens Hypothesis: A 3 Hour Debunking Of Ideas On Ancient Aliens Supplemented With New Discoveries Of History
  • Debunking The Ancient Aliens Hypothesis: Its The False Historical Timeline That Makes The Remains Of A Forgotten Civilization(s), And Its Mythology, Seem Like A Reference To Aliens Or UFOs To UFO Enthusiasts (With Graham Hancock)

Reality Bites

  • Reality Bites: Psychics Don't Exist. At Least, There Is No Hard Evidence Of Psychics Anywhere.
  • Reality Bites: A Simple Scientific Explanation For Why Astrology Can't Work

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  • WTC 7 - The Ultimate Smoking Gun & Much More - 9/11 Truth & Science

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Antiquities Research

  • Fascinating Synchronicity: The Animistic Or "Mystical" Outlook Of Modern Physics And Evolutionary Science
  • Animals And Humans Share DNA, A Nervous System, Intelligence, Creativity And Emotions (Such As Empathy)
  • Is The Missing Link Between Man And Ape Psychological? Since We All Seemed To Have Evolved From The Same Root/Source Species?
  • Where We Are In Anthropology Today: Many Species Of Humans Existed Simultaneously & Occasionally Intermingled And Homo Erectus Traveled The World For Over 2 Million Years, Maybe As Far As America!
  • Discoveries Of Fossils Have Been Going On Forever! So Dragons Must Be The Ancient Interpretation Of Dinosaur Bones! (& Other Such Possibilities)
  • Lost History: Dinosaurs In Ancient Popular Culture - The Stegosaurus At Angkor Wat (12th Century)
  • Lost History: Dinosaurs In Ancient Popular Culture - "Lions Paws" Of The 5th Century Sigiriya Of Sri Lanka Which May Be Dinosaur Claws!
  • The Ramayana Epic (Animated) And The Controversial Dating Of The Ramayana Epic (It Could Be Over 9000 Years Old!)
  • Paradigm Altering Discovery Of Comet Impact Of 13,000 Years Ago Has To Be Taken Into Account When Examining Human History
  • A General Overview Of Extinct Species Of Humans

Tracing The Origins Of Culture & Civilization

  • Kailasa Temple - Evidence Of Advanced Stone Drilling Technology In India?
  • Over 140 New Nazca Lines Found! And A Look At How A Plane Could Have Developed In The Americas From A Colony From Egypt
  • Tracing Evidence Of Yoga Postures For Shamanic Meditation To 15,000 BC!
  • About The Denosivan Stone Bracelet That Has A Drilled Hole Providing An Ancient Technological Developmental Link To The Later Megalithic Cultures And Monuments Such As Gobleki Tepe & The Pyramids Of Giza
  • Tracing The Sources Of Our Culture To The Paleolithic Age... With Art & Music Being Well Over 40,000 Years Old!
  • Tracing Lost Megalithic Cultures From 9500 BC To The Present
  • Cultural Diffusion: Tracing Water Travel By Canoes To AT LEAST 8000 BC & Extensive Ocean Travel By Ships To 1600 BC!
  • Lost Knowledge & Technology Of The Ancient World... And A Random Collection Of Inventions Showing How Inventive Humankind Is Given The Opportunity To Play At Tinkering
  • A Look At The Fall Of Civilizations (With An Emphasis On The Fall Of 1200 BC & Lost Knowledge Through Library Burnings)
  • Geologists Agree That The Sphinx Has Rain Erosion Patterns On It Indicating It Was Built Before 5000 BC! 2500 Years BEFORE Mainstream Egyptologists Claim It Was Built!
  • Was The Egyptian Pyramid Complex Built Up Over Time? From About 10,500 BC To About 2,500 BC?
  • Breaking News: Using Archeoastronomy The Pyramid Complex At Giza In Egypt Has Been Dated To 10,500 BC
  • Debunking Egyptologists Dr. Mark Lehner From the University Of Chicago & James F. Romano Curator At The Brooklyn Museum
  • Göbekli Tepe: Tracing Probable Links In The Mythology Of Göbekli Tepe To The Native Americans
  • Was Ancient Egyptian Culture Influenced By Shamans & Shamanism In Its Early Development Stages?
  • The Ancient Shamanic Link To Yoga, Meditation & The Other Major Religions (With The Swastika Link Between Native Americans, Hindus & Buddhists Explained)
  • Evidence Of A Rock Cutting Machine In The Ancient World That Has Been Lost To Time
  • "Is The House Of History Built On Foundations Of Sand?" - Graham Hancock
  • Ancient Underwater Ruins: A Review Of Graham Hancock's "Underworld, Flooded Kingdoms Of The Ice Age" (With Discoveries Dating To 7500 BC And Earlier!) & "Advanced Ice Age Civilizations & Atlantis"
  • The Discovery Of A Proto-Proto-Proto Shiva At Göbekli Tepe? A Short Look At Correlations Between Göbekli Tepe And Other Cultures (Includes Observations By Graham Hancock)
  • Graham Hancock: The First Fall Of Civilization Happened By Comet 12800 Years Ago And It Remnants By A Flood 11600 Years Ago (Atlantis). This Is Conclusive Scientific Proof. The Debate Is Over.
  • America Before: The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilisation, by Graham Hancock
  • Breaking News - The Shaman Of Gobekli Tepe: The Link Between The Shaman Of Lascaux Cave, Shiva & The Headless Man Gobekli Tepe
  • An Overview Of The Best Theories & Discoveries On Ancient Civilizations By Graham Hancock (From "Fingerprints Of The Gods" To "Magicians Of The Gods" ... With A Critique)
  • Jared Diamond’s ‘Guns, Germs and Steel’ Part 1 – Out of Eden
  • Jared Diamond’s ‘Guns, Germs and Steel’ Part 2 – Conquest and the Tropics
  • {Subject: Archaeology} The Fragmentation of Knowledge Part 1 [Or, The case against over-specialization in theory based academics]
  • {Subject Psychology} Fragmentation Of Knowledge 2 - [Or, The case against over-specialization in theory based academics]
  • A Talk By Michael Cremo, Author Of Forbidden Archaeology (From Talks At Google)
  • Debunking The Ancient Alien Hypothesis: Meet The Ancient Humans & Giants Whose Descendants Were The Annunaki/ Watchers/ Niphilim/ Egyptian-Gods ("Civilization Bringers") Of Ancient History

Talks By Andrew Collins

  • Andrew Collins: Giza's Cave Underworld
  • Debunking The Ancient Aliens Hypothesis: Meet The Ancient Humans & Giants Whose Descendants Were The Annunaki/ Watchers/ Niphilim/ Egyptian-Gods ("Civilization Bringers") Of Ancient History
  • Finding Eden: The Mystery of Göbekli Tepe & Giza's Cave Underworld - Andrew Collins FULL LECTURE
  • Meet the Denisovans | The True Founders of a Lost Civilization | Andrew Collins | Origins Conference
  • Andrew Collins | Genesis and Evolution of the Giza Pyramids | Origins Conference
  • Andrew Collins: The Cygnus Key - The Denisovan Legacy, Göbekli Tepe, and the Birth of Egypt
  • Andrew Collins: From Göbekli Tepe to Stonehenge: A Cosmic Blueprint 10,000 BC
  • Andrew Collins: Gobekli Tepe: Temple of the Watchers, Gateway to the Stars

Gobekli Tepe Related Research

  • Built 6000 Years Before Stonehenge, Göbekli Tepe Is The Oldest Megalithic Stone Site We Have Found So Far

Talks By Graham Hancock

  • Graham Hancock | Ancient Civilizations - Presentation at the 2012 Tipping Point Prophets Conference.
  • Magicians of the Gods Lecture by Graham Hancock at Göbekli Tepe in Turkey
  • America Before: The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilization, by Graham Hancock
  • Graham Hancock: Quest for the Lost Civilization - A Species with Amnesia
  • Ancient Underwater Ruins: A Review Of Graham Hancock's "Underworld, Flooded Kingdoms Of The Ice Age" (With Discoveries Dating To 7500 BC And Earlier!) & "Advanced Ice Age Civilizations & Atlantis"
  • "Is The House Of History Built On Foundations Of Sand?" - Graham Hancock
  • Graham Hancock: 'The First Fall Of Civilization Happened By Comet 12800 Years Ago, And Its Remnants By A Flood 11600 Years Ago (Atlantis)'. - {This Is Conclusive Scientific Proof. The Debate Is Over.}
  • Graham Hancock: ‘Magicians of the Gods’, snapshots of a work in progress

Popular Posts (Of All Time)

  • Prelude to a new article series on education
    The modern form of scientific thought and analysis emerged from the philosophy of the Ancient Greeks and their writings. Which were passed ...
  • CNN Documentary: God's Christian Warriors (Nazi's are a white CHRISTIAN Movement)
    Background: Morgan Freeman on the tea party, racism and Obama Racism 1 - North-South Cultural Division in The USA Racism 2 - North-South ...
  • Environmental Solutions Collage: The Climate Change Debate Is Over... Now Lets Prepare 4 Floods
    Bugs Bunny  In " Water Water Every Hare "... There is an old story... There were a couple of guys holding to the ground...
  • The Heart Of Culture and Society – The Golden Rule
    We tend to notice differences more than similarities when encountering other races or cultures. Yet we(the human race) have more in common t...
  • Phil Donahue on His 2003 Firing from MSNBC, When Liberal Network Couldn’t Tolerate Antiwar Voices
    Phil Donahue on His 2003 Firing from MSNBC , When Liberal Network Couldn’t Tolerate Antiwar Voices ... In 2003, the legendary televisi...
  • What is the difference between culture and society?
    The first thing Id like to clear up before I begin to look at culture is that my perspective on culture is a lot broader than is normally us...
  • Case Study: Many "Business" Channels (Such As Fox Business) Are Designed To Deceive It's Viewers For Profit - Part 2!
    Background:  Case Study: Many "Business" Channels (Such As Fox Business) Are Designed To Deceive It's Viewers For Profit  (Par...
  • The Fragmentation of Knowledge Part 1 [Or, The case against over-specialization in theory based academics]
    Historically, knowledge has always been approached from a holistic perspective. The Ancient Greeks studied every field of knowledge and put...
  • BREAKING: "WTC 7 Did Not Collapse from Fire" Dr. Leroy Hulsey... Engineering Experts, 9/11 Families And A Former NIST Employee Call On Congress To Launch A New Investigation Into 9/11!
    A comprehensive study with computer model simulations prove that World Trade Center Building #7 did NOT fall from fire... "WTC 7 Did ...
  • Proofs That Trump Is Nothing But A Dictator, And Tyrant, At Heart
    Background: 1.  The GOP's Dictator Worship Tendencies: Tax Bill Example 2.  An Overview Of Trump's 'Fire And Fury' Scandal...

Popular Posts - For the year thus far

  • Prelude to a new article series on education
    The modern form of scientific thought and analysis emerged from the philosophy of the Ancient Greeks and their writings. Which were passed ...
  • How Mainstream Media Helps The Republicans Lie To The People - Part 9 (Promoting A Fundamentalist Domestic Terror Group)
    Background/Context: 1.  How Mainstream Media Helps The Republicans Lie To The People - Part 8 (Helping Cover Up GOP Discrimination Against J...
  • Trump's Top 100 Scandals That The Trump Presidential Library Is Going To Have To Explain Away
    Trump’s 100 Most Tremendous Scandals | The Daily Social Distancing Show Whittled down from a list of 35,000, here are Donald Trump’s 100 Mos...
  • How Mainstream Media Helps The Republicans Lie To The People - Part 1
    Related:  Media Matters Proves Corporate Media's Journalists Aren't Real Journalists Media Matters:  Senate Republicans waited until...
  • How Mainstream Media Helps The Republicans Lie To The People - Part 8 (Helping Cover Up GOP Discrimination Against Jews)
    Background: 1.  How Mainstream Media Helps The Republicans Lie To The People - Part 7 2.  Media Fear Offending Right Wing America While The ...
  • How Mainstream Media Helps The Republicans Lie To The People - Part 3
     Related: How Mainstream Media Helps The Republicans Lie To The People - Part 2 Media Matters:  Sunday show coverage of COVID-19 relief neg...
  • Trump Brags About His Test For Dementia As If It Were An Actual Intelligence Test Proving He's Too Mentally Handicapped To Handle ANY Real Job That Isn't Being A Janitor!
    Related: Trump Is Crazy. There's No Denying It. Just Accept It. We Have A Completely Mad President And A Party That Wants A Mad Man In O...
  • Trump Is Crazy. There's No Denying It. Just Accept It. We Have A Completely Mad President And A Party That Wants A Mad Man In Office For Personal Gain!
    Background/Context: 1 -  The GOP's Strategy Has ALWAYS Been To Pick An Idiot For President 2 -  GOP Acquits Trump With No Witnesses, B...
  • Tucker Carlson Is Going Out Of His Way To Help Trump Get People Sick With Coronavirus
    Background:  Misinformation From Fox News Gives The President Coronavirus And Encourages A Super Spreader Event Media Matters:  Trump’s prim...
  • How Mainstream Media Helps The Republicans Lie To The People - Part 4
     Related: How Mainstream Media Helps The Republicans Lie To The People - Part 3 Media Matters: Republicans refused to engage on COVID-19 rel...

Popular Posts (Last 30 Days)

  • How Mainstream Media Helps The Republicans Lie To The People - Part 9 (Promoting A Fundamentalist Domestic Terror Group)
    Background/Context: 1.  How Mainstream Media Helps The Republicans Lie To The People - Part 8 (Helping Cover Up GOP Discrimination Against J...
  • Politics Update: The GOP & Fox News Take Domestic Terrorism To New Levels
     Background/Context: 1.  The Right Wing Are Basically Terrorists Or "Terrorist Creators" (Alt Right Terrorists Is The Politically ...
  • Trump's Top 100 Scandals That The Trump Presidential Library Is Going To Have To Explain Away
    Trump’s 100 Most Tremendous Scandals | The Daily Social Distancing Show Whittled down from a list of 35,000, here are Donald Trump’s 100 Mos...
  • Tucker Carlson Is Going Out Of His Way To Help Trump Get People Sick With Coronavirus
    Background:  Misinformation From Fox News Gives The President Coronavirus And Encourages A Super Spreader Event Media Matters:  Trump’s prim...
  • How Mainstream Media Helps The Republicans Lie To The People - Part 8 (Helping Cover Up GOP Discrimination Against Jews)
    Background: 1.  How Mainstream Media Helps The Republicans Lie To The People - Part 7 2.  Media Fear Offending Right Wing America While The ...
  • Highlights Of The Second Impeachment Trial's Case Against Trump With Late Night Hosts
    GOP Senators Want to "Move On" from Trump's Second Impeachment Trial: A Closer Look Seth takes a closer look at former Presid...
  • How Mainstream Media Helps The Republicans Lie To The People - Part 1
    Related:  Media Matters Proves Corporate Media's Journalists Aren't Real Journalists Media Matters:  Senate Republicans waited until...
  • Mainstream Media's War On The People: Media Silence On Fox News & The GOP's Continued Incendiary Rhetoric, Given The Insurrection, Indicates Complicity
    Background/Context: 1.  Media Uselessness Example: Ignoring Historical Context To Explain The Trump VS Lincoln Poll Of Republicans 2.  The R...
  • Trump's Legacy: A Look At The January 6th Insurrection And Attempted Coup By Trump/GOP/FoxNews
    Looking at the January 6th insurrection and attempted coup from its beginning, as Media Matters analyzed and warned about it, provides a uni...
  • How Mainstream Media Helps The Republicans Lie To The People - Part 3
     Related: How Mainstream Media Helps The Republicans Lie To The People - Part 2 Media Matters:  Sunday show coverage of COVID-19 relief neg...

Introduction To Culture

  • What is the difference between culture and society?
  • History: The earliest evidence of ritual and myth part 1
  • The earliest evidence of ritual and myth part 2
  • Daniel Quinn’s theories on culture and civilization part 1
  • Daniel Quinn’s theories on culture and civilization part 2
  • Daniel Quinn’s theories on culture and civilization part 3
  • Daniel Quinn’s theories on culture and civilization part 4
  • Could American psychology have a major Native American influence?
  • Jared Diamond’s ‘Guns, Germs and Steel’ Part 1 – Out of Eden
  • Jared Diamond’s ‘Guns, Germs and Steel’ Part 2 – Conquest and the Tropics
  • Joseph Campbell puts culture and society in perspective
  • Reflection of Cultural Perspectives Through Gardening
  • Psychology: An introduction to the use of psychology in understanding culture and society
  • Having More Than One Head... Do Myths, Such As Medusa, Contain Slivers of Truth?
  • How Can Psychiatrists Be Allowed To Prescribe A Physical Substance For A Mental Disease That Has No Biological Source?
  • Has The USA Become Like A Sort Of Disneyland?
  • American Lion: Andrew Jackson in The Whitehouse
  • Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (Book Review)
  • The Constitution Is A Liberal Document & The Founding Fathers Were Liberals
  • Our Title Comes Second. What We Are (CITIZENS) Comes First. - Obama

Learning & Education

  • Prelude to a new article series on education
  • Learning and Education With The 'Socratic Method'
  • The Power Of Your Brain: Brain Plasticity & IQ Enhancement
  • How Emotions Cloud Judgement: An Introduction To True Empathy
  • Introduction To NLP, It's Therapeutic Models & The 5 Minute Phobia Cure (With A Talk By Richard Bandler)
  • Basics of Body Language and Lie Detection
  • Book Review: What Is Intelligence? - The Flyn Effect
  • Problems With The "No Child Left Behind" Act In 3 Interviews
  • Education Part 1 - The Problem Of Psychiatric Drugs
  • How Can Psychiatrists Be Allowed To Prescribe A Physical Substance For A Mental Disease That Has No Biological Source?
  • The Fragmentation of Knowledge Part 1 [Or, The case against over-specialization in theory based academics]

Animals

  • Animals And Humans Share DNA, A Nervous System, Intelligence, Creativity And Emotions (Such As Empathy)
  • The Modern Dodo: Meet The Flightless Parrot Called The Kakapo
  • Incredible Animals: A Look At Elephant Intelligence (They Can Paint, Count, Communicate etc.)
  • Incredible Animals: A Look At Parrot Intelligence
  • Incredible Animals: A Look At Raccoon Intelligence
  • Incredible Animals: A Look At Whale Intelligence
  • Incredible Animals: A Look At Dolphin Intelligence

Media's War On The People

  • Mainstream Media's War On the People Part 2 - Applying Double Standards To Leadership That Helps Republicans Obstruct The Democrats Majority But Don't Allow The Democrats To Do The Same To The GOP Minority
  • Mainstream Media's War On The People Part 1: Treating Majority Views Of Democrats As Extreme & Extremist Views Of Republicans As Normal
  • Mainstream Media's War On The People: Media Silence On Fox News & The GOP's Continued Incendiary Rhetoric, Given The Insurrection, Indicates Complicity
  • How Mainstream Media Helps The Republicans Lie To The People - Part 10 (Making A Few Bad Apples Seem Like The Whole Apple Grove)
  • How Mainstream Media Helps The Republicans Lie To The People - Part 9 (Promoting A Fundamentalist Domestic Terror Group)
  • How Mainstream Media Helps The Republicans Lie To The People - Part 8 (Helping Cover Up GOP Discrimination Against Jews)
  • How Mainstream Media Helps The Republicans Lie To The People - Part 7
  • How Mainstream Media Helps The Republicans Lie To The People - Part 6
  • How Mainstream Media Helps The Republicans Lie To The People - Part 5
  • How Mainstream Media Helps The Republicans Lie To The People - Part 4
  • How Mainstream Media Helps The Republicans Lie To The People - Part 3
  • How Mainstream Media Helps The Republicans Lie To The People - Part 2
  • How Mainstream Media Helps The Republicans Lie To The People - Part 1
  • Media Matters Proves Corporate Media's Journalists Aren't Real Journalists
  • Mainstream Media Is Markedly Pro-Right Wing Lies
  • Mainstream Media Is Markedly Pro-Right Wing Lies - Part 2
  • Media Matters: NY Times Shouldn't Treat Matters Of Facts As Opinions, And Opinions Shouldn’t Be Treated As Matters Of Fact
  • We Know That Most People Only Read Headlines So Is Mainstream Media Being Incredibly Stupid Or Are They Intentionally Pushing Untruths?
  • Washington Post & NY Times Buried The Lead - And The Facts - With A Pro-Republican Lies Push On A Coronavirus Bill
  • CNN's "Civility" Argument Shows CNN Anchors/Hosts Can't Put Facts In Context Of What's Going On!
  • The Ultimate Proofs That Fox News Is Basically Just A Group Of White Supremacists/Nationalists/Nazis

Politics

  • Fox Used To Pretend It Was Part News And Part Opinion. That Pretense Is Over. Now Its Lies All the Time.
  • After Helping To Cancel 500,000 Lives With Coronavirus Misinformation, Fox News Conservatives Go On TV To Complain About Cancel Culture
  • For Fox News, Mass Murder In The U.S. Was Just The Cost Of Doing Business
  • Congratulations To Fox News For Winning The Misinformer Of The Year Award!
  • Fox News Merged With The Trump Administration And Showed Up What They Are Made Of Over The Last 4 Years
  • With Democrats in Control of the White House, House and the Senate They Must Get Rid Of The Filibuster Or Choose Undemocratic Minority Rule
  • Daily Show & Colbert Report Prove That Fox News Is Fake News
  • Daily Show: Jordan Klepper vs. Trump Supporters
  • Trump's Legacy: A Look At The January 6th Insurrection And Attempted Coup By Trump/GOP/FoxNews
  • Hypocrisy On Display: Ted Cruz Demonstrates What He Stands For (Texas Winter Power Outage 2021)
  • Texas Winter Power Outage 2021: GOP And Fox News Lie And Demonize To Hide Their Economic Incompetence
  • Mitch McConnell Pretends to Be Honorable After Avoiding To Convict Trump For Treason Again, Again!
  • Highlights Of Trump's Acquittal With Late Night Hosts (2nd Senate Trial)
  • Highlights Of The Second Impeachment Trial's Case Against Trump With Late Night Hosts
  • The Rights War On The Left - A Walk Through Some Of The Intimidation/Bullying/Terror Tactics Fox News Uses
  • The Rights War On The Left (Blaming The Left For Everything Is A Standard Tactic Of GOP & Fox News)
  • The Real Divide In America Is Establishment VS Non/Anti-Establishment ("We The People") - With Robert Reich
  • Politics Update: The GOP & Fox News Take Domestic Terrorism To New Levels
  • GOP, Fox News & Right Wing Media Are Waging War On Rule Of Law
  • Class Warfare: How The GOP, Fox News & Billionaires Make Nonsense Sound Like Common Sense
  • Lou Dobbs: One Of The Creepiest Authoritarian Style Newsperson From Fox News Was Just Fired Because Of A Multi Billion Lawsuit Against Fox For Its Lies
  • After Helping Trump Lie & Deceive The People For Four Years, On Trump's Last Day, Mitch McConnell Pretends to Be Honorable After Avoiding To Impeach Trump For Treason, Again!
  • Trump's Top 100 Scandals That The Trump Presidential Library Is Going To Have To Explain Away
  • Tucker Carlson Is Going Out Of His Way To Help Trump Get People Sick With Coronavirus
  • Joe Biden's Vote For The Iraq War Proves He Lacks Leadership Qualities That Are Needed To Run A Country (Such As The Ability To Tell Right From Wrong, i.e. Biden Is Incompetent, At The Very Least)

GOP's Height Of Hypocrisy Series

  • Seth Meyers: Trump And His Allies Are Lying In The Exact Same Ways The Bush Administration Lied Us Into A Catastrophic War In Iraq Nearly 17 years Ago
  • The Anti-Diplomacy And Anti-Deal Making Party: The GOP Used Bullying And Assassination To Start A War With Iran
  • The United States Of Russia: Why Is Trump Always Sucking Putin's Dick? And Why Are The GOP Joining Him? If You Can't Beat 'Em Join 'Em?
  • As Anti-American As A Party Can Get: Trump Sees Himself As A King And The GOP Are More Than Willing To Comply And Treat Him Like A King (Fighting A King Is What Created The USA In The First Place!)
  • Mitch McConnell: The Most Anti-American And Un-Constitutional Politician Of All Time?
  • Lindsey Graham's Hypocrisy On Impeachment Is Epic
  • Snapshot Of The Present: Colbert Calls The GOP "A Spineless Group of Self-Interested Toadies Who Would Rather See The Country Destroyed Then Stand Up To An Out Of Control, Narcissistic Toddler."
  • A Snapshot Of The Modern Political & Media Structure Under A GOP President (With Seth Meyers)
  • GOP Hypocrisy...The Republicans Basic Argument Is: We Are Going To Hurt & Betray The Country But You Should Be Nice To Us... While We Lie & Incite Terror!
  • Republicans Demonstrate What "The Height Of Hypocrisy" Looks Like & Fox "News" Ignores It!
  • Republicans Demonstrate What "The Height Of Hypocrisy" Looks Like & Fox "News" Ignores It! PART DEUX: The Golf Edition
  • Height Of Hypocrisy 3: Using Taxpayer Money For Personal Use Like Communists & Dictators
  • Height Of Hypocrisy 4: Republican Hypocrisy On The Deficit Is Epic!
  • Height Of Hypocrisy 5: Roy Moore Hypocrisy & Deficit Hypocrisy Show GOP Stand For Nothing. Not Family Values. Not Fiscal Responsibility. Nothing. Except Maybe Pedophiles.
  • Height Of Hypocrisy 6: GOP & Fox News Helps Trump In Obstruction Of Justice Showing They Don't Care About The Rule Of Law... And Now, The Nation Is in A Constitutional Crisis!
  • Height Of Hypocrisy 7: The Executive Order & Dictator/Tyrant Hypocrisy
  • GOP's Height Of Hypocrisy Series Part 8: Being Civil To The Uncivil Would Be An Atrocity! Fearing the Backlash the Trump Administration Calls For Civility After Showing None Since The Campaigning Days!
  • GOP's Height Of Hypocrisy Series Part 9: The Supreme Court Hypocrisy & Why Approving Any Trump Nominee To The Supreme Court Is A Bad Idea!
  • GOP's Height Of Hypocrisy Series Part 10: Rule of Law Hypocrisy - More Evidence Of The GOP Obstructing Justice & Other Constitutional Abuses
  • GOP Latest Hypocrisy On Healthcare... Inspired By My Explanation Of Why Trump Won In 2016?

9/11

  • BREAKING: "WTC 7 Did Not Collapse from Fire" Dr. Leroy Hulsey... Engineering Experts, 9/11 Families And A Former NIST Employee Call On Congress To Launch A New Investigation Into 9/11!
  • 9/11 News: Video Shows How World Trade Center Building # 7 Fell And How Badly The NIST Got The Modeling Of The Collapse Wrong
  • The Deep State Red Herring: Created By Alex Jones & Picked Up By The Others To Blame All Of Trump's Crimes On A Fictional Enemy
  • The Evidence Of Molten Metal, Explosions And Building Architecture That Proves Explosives Were Used On 9/11
  • Visual Analysis: The Plane That Hit The Pentagon On 9/11 Was Too Small To Be A Passenger Jet But Not Too Small To Be a Drone
  • The Explosive Testimony Of The 9/11 Firefighters & Other 9/11 Truth Heroes
  • 9/11 Analysis: The Strange FBI 9/11 Attack Photos That Would Have Provoked An Inquiry On ANY TV Detective Show But Not In Real Life
  • 9/11 - The Day The Earth Turned To Water: The Flight 93 & Pentagon Debris Pattern Resembles A Plane Crash At Sea Not On Land!
  • Lawsuit Filed Against The FBI For Its Failure To Incorporate Key Evidence In Its Report To Congress On The 9/11 Attacks
  • 9/11 Cognitive Dissonance: Who Cares How Hot Jet Fuel Burns? The Whole Building Wasn't Even On Fire, How Could The Steel AND Concrete Dissolve So Fast That It Collapses In Seconds Without Even Being On Fire?!
  • 9/11 News: University of Alaska Fairbanks Study Finds Fire Did Not Cause Building 7’s Collapse on 9/11
  • 9/11 News: Majority Who See Building 7's Collapse Suspect Explosives
  • 9/11 News: Architects and Engineers Explain the Mystery of Building 7 (Ed Asner Narrates)
  • 9/11 History: The "Free Press" Ended A Long Time Ago (Or Maybe It Has Just Been Compromised By Stockholms Syndrome Since 9/11 By The GOP?)
  • An Exclusive Look At The 9/11 Terrorists In Their Den On 9/11: Pictures Of Dick Cheney Admiring His Handiwork On 9/11
  • 9/11 Mysteries: The Mystery Of The Magical Passport
  • 9/11 History: The Repeated Calls To Reopen The Investigation Into 9/11 Ignored!
  • Support The Bobby McIlvaine Act To Start A New Investigation Into Official Unscientific Stories Of 9/11
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"Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty." - Rumi

"God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that." - Joseph Campbell

“If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.” - Dalai Lama

“Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison. When the door is so wide open?” ― Rumi

"Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated. I was in hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy, which has marked the present age, would at least have reconciled Christians of every denomination so far that we should never again see the religious disputes carried to such a pitch as to endanger the peace of society." - George Washington

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