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Head shaker. Zero HedgeIn Stunning Reversal, DHS Says Russians Were Not Behind Attempted Wisconsin Vote HackingTyler Durden

A Google search on the title returns, "sorry we could not find that page"and a search at Amazon returns "did not match any products". Sure looks strange to me. This is more disturbing than the counter-narrative about Browder. A documentary about Browder was suppressed, too. See Robert Parry, A Blacklisted Film and the New Cold War at Consortium News, previously linked to at MNE. The Naked HedgieAmazon.com burns my book – and you need to know about this Alex Krainer, The Naked...

  The barriers to freedom are falling all around us. Which is more liberating? ReutersSaudi king decrees women be allowed to drive Twitter to test 280-character tweets, busting old limit

Moon of Alabama trashes Russiagate and the US Russophobic propaganda campaign. There is no "there" there.Propaganda is effective, however. For example, on January 7, 2015, The Hill cited a Fairleigh Dickinson University's Public Mind poll showing that 42% of American erroneously believed that Saddam's WMD had been discovered. 19% erroneously believed that Obama was not an American citizen.It's the effect of propaganda that counts and propaganda is difficult to debunk in the minds of many...

AbstractIn science publishing and many areas of research, the status quo is a lexicographic decision rule in which any result is first required to have a p-value that surpasses the 0.05 threshold and only then is consideration—often scant—given to such factors as prior and related evidence, plausibility of mechanism, study design and data quality, real world costs and benefits, novelty of finding, and other factors that vary by research domain. There have been recent proposals to change the...

Under a job guarantee, there would be a standing job offer at a living wage for anyone who wanted such a position. Anyone without employment in the broader economy, or unhappy with their present employment, could opt for a position in the job-guarantee program. Similarly, anyone with less hours of employment than desired could top up their hours by working part-time in the job-guarantee program. In principle, the program might be locally or centrally administered. But, irrespective of...

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Those living in the bubbles of prosperity are largely unaware of the big picture, which is distorted by stats like per capita GDP.Wall Street On ParadeNew Economic Study Presents a Disturbing Map of the United States Pam Martens and Russ MartensSee alsoAsia TimesDespite recovery, 50 million Americans stuck in ‘distressed communities’ Asia Unhedged

Much is being made about the ostensibly omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent Russian propaganda machine. In the Western view, it decides Western elections and threatens the ‘global liberal order’. In fact, an anti-Putin media organ has published a comparison of the resources devoted to propaganda or ‘strategic communications (stratcomm) by Russian and just the US (excluding European) governments. It demonstrates that the American propaganda machine alone is approximately 3-4 times more...

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