Society's Child
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"Tell a Lot of the Truth, but Never Tell the Whole Truth."
Propaganda: "a message designed to persuade its intended audience to think and behave in a certain manner. Thus advertising is commercial propaganda. Or institutionalized and systematic spreading of information and/or disinformation, usually to promote a narrow political or religious (or commercial) viewpoint." - from Business Dictionary
"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic (AKA "capitalist") society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, and our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.... It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind." - Edward L. Bernays, Sigmund Freud's nephew, from his seminal book Propaganda (1928). Bernays was the founder of the public relations industry in the US.
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Women set up a picture of Paris terror attack victim Nohemi Gonzalez for her funeral service at the Calvary Chapel Dec. 4, 2015 in Downey, California.
Women set up a picture of Paris terror attack victim Nohemi Gonzalez for her funeral service at the Calvary Chapel Dec. 4, 2015 in Downey, California.
The case is one of several complaints in U.S. courts alleging that the social media giants have played crucial roles in the growth of terrorist organizations in recent years. The biggest hurdle facing such claims is a federal law that insulates publishers from liability for the speech of others.
The family of Nohemi Gonzalez, who was fatally shot in the Paris attacks, said Friday in a revised version of a lawsuit initially filed in June that the companies created "original content" by tying advertisements to ISIS-supported posts and generating revenue from them.
Comment: Clearly there are a few psychopaths employed by Twitter whose only thought to what they do is how to make more money for their company...
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"Why isn't the FBI investigating this? I'm serious," radio host Rush Limbaugh said on his national broadcast Wednesday. "Why isn't the FBI investigating all of these threats, these emails, these phone calls, this intimidation effort that's under way against these electors?"
"I know who runs the FBI. [President] Obama runs the FBI," he continued. "But still, why isn't somebody demanding it or calling for it? ... This is the kind of stuff the left does ... they laugh at it, they shrug it off, they shove it way out to the extreme, [suggesting] 'nothing's gonna come of this,' and something always does."
Limbaugh noted, "This is a sleazebag effort if there ever was one. These are the kind of people that need to be pounded into the ground. They need to be defeated to the point that they're demoralized and don't ever try this again. I'm thinking sign surrender papers on the deck of the USS Missouri."
Street children — boys of around 13-17 years of age, were given to men known to be pedophiles, Spiegel said on Friday citing a study by Göttingen-based scientists.
The Berlin Senate also sent boys to the Odenwaldschule boarding school, where students were sexually abused in the 70s and 80s, the newspaper added. According to Spiegel, the existence of the "practice" has long been revealed, but this is the first time that researchers have presented documented evidence of it.
Comment: We were unable to locate a copy of the Spiegel report in English. If you can find a copy and translate it please send a copy via email to sott [at] sott.net
Update (4 Dec. 2016)
Sott.net reader S. Maksovic kindly translated the summary report for us; see here:Pedocracy: For decades, Berlin government authority deliberately sent orphans to 'special school' run by pedophiles
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Demonstrators hold up signs during a protest against U.S. President-elect Donald
Demonstrators hold up signs during a protest against U.S. President-elect Donald
Jill Stein-initiated efforts to recount votes
The recount effort underway in three states - Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania - spearheaded by Green Party candidate Jill Stein is being opposed in all states by lawsuits from Donald Trump supporters.
On Friday, a lawsuit was filed on the President-elect's behalf to stop the ballot review in Michigan, the state where Trump defeated Hillary Clinton by 10,700 votes. Unless a court intervenes, a recount could start in that state as soon as next Wednesday.
Comment: "Now that we lost the election we insist the rules be changed to secure our victory!" - said a large number in the losing party in the 2016 US Presidential election. Have a cupcake, and be thankful that you weren't drafted into what might have become Clinton's plans to inflict World War 3 upon the world.
After facing intense criticism about how misinformation ran rampant on Facebook during the US election, Mark Zuckerberg announced the company is working on new measures to fight fake news. While that's underway there's one thing you can do on Facebook right now to help.
Many people don't realize that you can report fake news when you see it on Facebook. This helps stop it from spreading. The problem is that the option is kind of hidden. So here's how to use it.
Many people don't realize that you can report fake news when you see it on Facebook. This helps stop it from spreading. The problem is that the option is kind of hidden. So here's how to use it.
Marvin Louis Guy
The first thing Guy likely heard, at 5:30 am, on May 9th, 2014, was the breaking of his bedroom window glass. Possibly startled by the fact someone was breaking into his home, and hearing someone attempting to break down his front door, Guy started shooting, striking three of the officers, and killing Dinwiddie with one fatal shot to the face. While Guy has never denied he did fire his weapon, he's repeatedly maintained he did not know he was firing at police.
The cops were searching for drugs. Finding none, they took Guy into custody and charged him with capital murder in Dinwiddie's death. With one police officer dead, and a would-be innocent man now charged with his murder, the community was understandably shaken, and so was the reporter covering the story.
Clay Thorp, reporter for the Killeen Daily Herald, was the newspaper's crime reporter, and he'd been in the business for many years. Thorp has long since moved on from the KDH, and Killeen, TX, but hasn't been able to shake off the unsettling concerns he's had surrounding the treatment of Mr. Guy. The Free Thought Project had a chance to catch up with Thorp, get a better understanding of the impact Dinwiddie's death had on the community, and to further explain the complexities of Guy's case.
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Swiss police have seized several looted items from a duty-free warehouse in Geneva, some of which came from the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, Geneva state prosecutors announced on Friday, Switzerland's Neue Zurcher Zeitung reported.
A total of nine culturally and historically important artifacts were seized, and they should be returned to their place of origin, Swiss authorities said. In the meantime, they will be exhibited in the local museum for art and history. The operation recovered several looted artifacts from the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, a UNESCO world heritage site which was overrun by the Daesh terror group in 2015 and liberated by Syrian government forces in March this year.
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The case sparked massive public outcry, prompting police to form a special group consisting of about 40 investigative officers and forensic specialists. After an investigation that lasted for more than a month, police finally arrested the alleged murderer and rapist on Friday.
A single strand of black hair partially dyed blonde, a scarf found on the riverbed, and several DNA samples found on the victim's body and at the crime scene led investigators to the suspect, police revealed during the press conference.
Comment: Peterson's response: