Monica I think I’ve figured out why Obama wants to raise overtime pay.…When Obamacare kicks in for full time workers, what will businesses do? Hire part-timers, right? Yes, but what about jobs they need experienced people to do full time? Fire some of them and make the rest work overtime. The workers get more hours and … Read more
I think I’ve figured out why Obama wants to raise overtime pay.…When Obamacare kicks in for full time workers, what will businesses do? Hire part-timers, right? Yes, but what about jobs they need experienced people to do full time? Fire some of them and make the rest work overtime. The workers get more hours and … Read more
Click on the article below to get the full story from Techdirt. For my interview with Todashev’s widow, click here.
How The FBI Has Been Working Hard To Deport Friends Of Guy They Killed During Interview About Boston Bombing (via Techdirt)
This week’s This American Life is an entire hour devoted to investigating the FBI’s killing of Ibragim Todashev along with a companion piece in Boston Magazine. You probably heard about the basics of the Todashev story. Todashev was a friend of Tamerlan…
Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky used the phrase “manufacturing consent” to describe how the media acts to garner the consent of the governed for policies and actions to which an objectively informed constituency might not consent. This builds on the premise by the great and precocious Étienne de La Boétie that government always requires the consent of the governed. The media, Herman & Chomsky’s theory holds, manufactures this consent.
Recently, however, I have noticed that the phenomenon goes beyond manufacturing consent and now qualifies as manufacturing advocacy. I have noticed that when I try to tell people one-on-one about the truth behind the propaganda, (most recently, for example, with regard to the Ukraine), the majority of people don’t evaluate the new evidence they had been previously shielded from, they actually argue against it! The responses differ between left and right, but the result is the same: irrationally advocating the unprincipled behavior of our agents in government against our own interests as tax-paying citizens who value liberty and justice for all.
Hour 1 Hour 2 Here is some of the source material I used for the show today… Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and US Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt conspiring to install a shadow government in the Ukraine (BEFORE the uprisings that ousted the democratically-elected President Yanukovych). Here is the wiki entry on one … Read more
From Zero Hedge The last time a leaked phone call out of Ukraine was released about a month ago ostensibly by the Russian NSA equivalent, one between US assistant sec state Victoria Nuland and the US envoy to the Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, it was revealed that the real puppet masters behind the Maidan movement, and … Read more
From Zero Hedge The last time a leaked phone call out of Ukraine was released about a month ago ostensibly by the Russian NSA equivalent, one between US assistant sec state Victoria Nuland and the US envoy to the Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, it was revealed that the real puppet masters behind the Maidan movement, and … Read more
Here is the article I wrote about the REAL plan of the Republican Party… Neo-Conservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea A caller recommended we learn more about Ben Johnson but actually he meant Ben Carson – here’s an article on Ben Carson! What Does Ben Carson Prescribe for America? And here is Dr. Carson lauded … Read more
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