I sent this creator a few bucks – this is an issue I’ve always followed since the days of PW Botha.
Month: January 2018
More celebutard hypocrisy
tainment declare that if their preferred candidate is not victorious, they will move to Canada.
www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/22/move-to-canada-celebrities-donald-trump
How the money corruption in DC works
Lobbyists are at the heart of the system. Therefore they cannot be cut out.
For anyone who has ever heard the term “Washington insider” and felt outside — we are with you. So this week, we go inside the rooms where the deals get made, to the actual moment that the checks change hands — and we ask the people writing and receiving the checks what, exactly, is the money buying?
www.thisamericanlife.org/461/take-the-money-and-run-for-office
Job Alert: How Would You Like to Babysit Robots?
BOOK A NIGHT at LAX’s Residence Inn and you may be fortunate enough to meet an employee named Wally. His gig is relatively pedestrian—bring you room service, navigate around the hotel’s clientele in the lobby and halls—but Wally’s life is far more difficult than it seems. If you put a tray out in front of your door, for instance, he can’t get to you. If a cart is blocking the hall, he can’t push it out of the way. But fortunately for Wally, whenever he gets into a spot of trouble, he can call out for help.
www.wired.com/story/job-alert-how-would-you-like-to-babysit-robots/
Via Babysitting Robots questioningourreality.blogspot.com/2018/01/babysitting-robots.html
Trump gets A+ for persuasion
Are the Fake News Awards Persuasive?
I’m no historian, but I doubt any prior president has combined theater and politics so ambitiously and so effectively. President Trump is intentionally and deftly “bringing the show” on this topic and lots of others. If you don’t understand persuasion, you might think he is just being crazy or narcissistic or authoritarian or some other misdiagnosis. But if you know that attention and memory are the primary levers of persuasion, and you see how often he commands both, you might recognize that you are seeing something special here in terms of a talent stack. (A talent stack is a combination of skills that are designed to work well together, such as the collective sub-talents for persuasion, theater, and politics.)
What happened to Bill?
Amazing shooting numbers
Unbelievable numbers until you listen to this podcast.
Final 2017 Totals
Shot & Killed: 624
Shot & Wounded: 2937
Total Shot: 3561
Total Homicides: 675
Niagara Falls are fake – or at least not 100% natural (real)
The falls are very engineered and far from their natural form.
Niagara Falls might be at its most spectacular in winter. Over the recent holidays, the icy cascade captured the public’s imagination: numerous newspapers ran stories about the frozen wonderland, and social media posts about the falls were widely shared.
Source: How Niagara Falls is a wonder of natural — and artificial — beauty | Toronto Star
Mapping: a humiliation ritual
Fascinating story about a process called mapping: where IDF soldiers enter Palestinian homes without a search warrant and wake up children and photograph them and their parents. In the end none of this intelligence-gathering is used, indicating that this is just a ritual to let the Palestinians know who is in charge.