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When Censorship Means More Money, Facebook Leans In

The article on Vanity Fair titled Facebook Is Reportedly Building a Censorship Tool to Win Over China suggests that the people nervous about what it will mean to address the fake news proliferation are correct. The fear that Facebook managing fake news stories might lead to actual censorship of the news is not so far-fetched after all. . . . Zuckerberg’s interest in capturing China’s 700M+ internet users has led to the creation of a censorship tool that can “automatically suppress content in specific geographic areas.”

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2016/12/10

Glenn Greenwald: Anonymous Leaks Are Not Evidence — A Sharp Critique of Fake News from the Washington Post

Corruption, IO Impotency, Media

Anonymous Leaks to the WashPost About the CIA’s Russia Beliefs Are No Substitute for Evidence

The Washington Post late Friday night published an explosive story that, in many ways, is classic American journalism of the worst sort: the key claims are based exclusively on the unverified assertions of anonymous officials, who in turn are disseminating their own claims about what the CIA purportedly believes, all based on evidence that remains completely secret.

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2016/12/10

Jon Rappoport: Death Notice – Mainstream News = Fake News = Dead, Dead, Dead…

Corruption, IO Impotency, Media

Posted in full with permission.

The Spiritually Dead gatekeepers of mainstream news

By Jon Rappoport, NoMoreFakeNews

A new series of realities is on the way. Centralized information-reality is on the way out. It's going to be thrills and chills. Major newspapers are dying. The internet is crushing them. And yet, if the NY Times and the Washington Post and the LA Times wanted to resuscitate themselves, they could. I'm not talking about one-day headlines. I'm talking about investigations that pound and pound on issues of corruption day after day, month after month. For example, these issues:

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2016/12/102016/12/10

Robert Steele: NYT (David Sanger, Scott Shane) WashPost (Adam Entous, Ellen Nakashima, Greg Miller) Full of Crap – Fake News — Russians Did Not Hack Election UPDATE 2

07 Other Atrocities, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, IO Deeds of War, IO Impotency, Media, Power Behind-the-Scenes/Special Interests

Robert David Steele

Secret CIA assessment says Russia was trying to help Trump win White House

Russia Hacked Republican Committee but Kept Data, U.S. Concludes

The Obama Administration is being duplicitous at the last minute before the Electoral College meets on 19 December 2016, the CIA is lying, the “intelligence” is being fabricated, and both the New York Times and the Washington Post are now joining CNN (the Crap News Network) as purveyors of “fake news.” The Huffington Post, which appended the most offensive erroneous statement slandering President-Elect Trump to every article, is beneath contempt — hardly worth a mention, but noteworthy for being the bottom of the media cesspool.

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2016/12/102016/12/09

Ty Sympson: Weaponizing Anthropology

07 Other Atrocities, Corruption, IO Deeds of War, Military

2011 book, 2014 course, still relevant.

New Directions in Anthropological Research

Category Archives: WEAPONIZING ANTHROPOLOGY

Offers syllabus, discussion agenda, and multiple reviews of the book.

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2016/12/102016/12/07

Stephen E. Arnold: Facebook, Google, Twitter All Agree to Censor the Deplorables!

07 Other Atrocities, Commerce, Corruption, Media

Facebook, Google, Twitter, YouTube: A Spirit of Cooperation

I found this write up interesting. No philosophy or subjective comment required. The title of the write up is “Partnering to Help Curb Spread of Online Terrorist Content.” This is what is called “real” news, but that depends upon one’s point of view.

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2016/12/092016/12/07

Winslow Wheeler: Pentagon Hiding $125B in Waste — and the Report It Asked For… + Waste Reference Library

Corruption, Military

Bottom line up front: one quarter, 25%, of the Pentagon's annual budget, is spent on overhead, not on troops or weapons or mobility systems.

As a businessman, President-Elect Trump should understand that more money for a system this sick is a step in the wrong direction and that a take-no-prisoners manager (with a proven record for same) as the #2 in the Pentagon (as Deputy Secretary) is a must.

Pentagon buries evidence of $125 billion in bureaucratic waste

The Pentagon has buried an internal study that exposed $125 billion in administrative waste in its business operations amid fears Congress would use the findings as an excuse to slash the defense budget, according to interviews and confidential memos obtained by The Washington Post.

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