Propaganda (Marketing 2)
Toward an Information Operations Kill Chain - Worth the read..
The throw-in about RT is exactly what this article claims to be trying to stop, planting a disinformation seed without any proof.
Step 4: (This step is new.) Build audiences, either by directly controlling a platform (like RT) or by cultivating relationships with people who will be receptive to those narratives.
This is almost a perfect description of Facebook.
Step 6: Cultivate “useful idiots” who believe and amplify the narratives. Encourage them to take positions even more extreme than they would otherwise.
Politics
Gin and Tacos - Ass Backward - On the establishment D's search for a nice guy D.
Another good reason to Vote for Bernie - Israel Lobby AIPAC slams Bernie Sanders for branding Netanyahu’s Gov’t “right-wing, racist”
The World Order
America Isn’t as Powerful as It Thinks It Is - In general you can bully people for a while but eventually they tend to gang-up on the bully. Trump and his crew are operating as a classic bully and their end can't be far off. The US Republican party along with the Netanyahu-led fascists in Israel and a few third-world dictators and are about the only friends the Trump admin has at this point.
Taxes
Bernie Sanders Made a Lot of Money — and He Wants It Taxed
They use federally funded highways and federally protected airways. A significant number of their employees were educated at state schools and/or by way of federally funded student loans, as were they themselves in many instances. They are served by state and locally funded fire services. Their tax-funded streets get cleared by tax-funded plows when it snows. Their trash gets picked up every week by tax-funded municipalities. They don’t die by the score at intersections because people stop at tax-funded traffic lights. Their corporations get taxpayer-funded government contracts, and when they run their too-big-to-fail companies into the ground, they get taxpayer-funded government bailouts.
But “they did it themselves,” so screw paying taxes.
Economics and Health Care
In American the people bitch about paying taxes while in general, we pay less than the rest of the world and at the same time worship the free market that forces us to pay more than the rest of the world for health care and medicines.
Older Americans are twice as likely to work now as in 1985 - We need to get these old bastards out of the way so the young people can take over some of the better jobs.
Soaring Healthcare Costs Jeopardize Retirement In America
But the heart of the matter is that eternal American bogeyman of healthcare: The system is broken to the point that retirement is increasingly elusive and many are hoping that it will crack soon–and preferably before Baby Boomers end up workers as Walmart greeters just to survive.Who'll defend Freedom - Stumbling and Mumbling - Speaking of freedom, where I work there are about 20 people who would be free to retire tomorrow if we had Medicare-for-All.
Trump vs Obama
No More Mister Nice is right. The D establishment are wimps.
It's a cliché to respond to an outrageous act by the Trump administration with the words "Imagine if Obama did this," but imagine:North Korea issued a $2 million bill for the hospital care of comatose American Otto Warmbier, insisting that a U.S. official sign a pledge to pay it before being allowed to fly the University of Virginia student from Pyongyang in 2017.
... the main U.S. envoy sent to retrieve Warmbier signed an agreement to pay the medical bill on instructions passed down from President Trump, according to two people familiar with the situation....
The bill went to the Treasury Department, where it remained — unpaid — throughout 2017, the people said. However, it is unclear whether the Trump administration later paid the bill....If the parties were reversed, the GOP and Fox News would be calling this "Ransomgate," and they'd milk it at least until November 2020, and probably for years after that. The Democrats so far? Crickets
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