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Going Underground Jeremy Corbyn attacks the government on its treatment of Julian Assange and calls for his potential extradition to be halted.

Gordon Dimmack

Silicon Valley billionaire Reid Hoffman funded the creation of ACRONYM, the group that sabotaged the Iowa caucus results, after bankrolling voter manipulation campaigns including the notorious online “false flag operation” in Alabama’s 2017 senate race. by Max Blumenthal Part 4 - Aiming to ‘mirror’ the tactics of Russia’s Internet Research Agency Following the 2018 midterm congressional election, Reid Hoffman and his henchman Dmitri Mehlhorn faced further scrutiny in national media, this time for operating a fake news-style organization called News for Democracy. This shady outfit managed an array of community Facebook pages initially focusing on sports, Christianity, patriotism, and other topics that were likely to generate interest from right-wing voters in swing states. Yet the seemingly locally-branded cultural pages took a decisively political turn as election night approached. After racking up millions of likes, News for Democracy slipped in ads for Democratic Se

Mega, όπως πάντα, που λέει πολύ εύστοχα και το κεντρικό σύνθημα του σταθμού στην καμπάνια που πραγματοποιεί με αφορμή την επιστροφή του στους τηλεοπτικούς μας δέκτες. "Όπως πάντα", σε μπλε, γαλάζιο και κόκκινο φόντο. Ενδεχομένως να υπάρχει κάποια πολιτική σημειολογία, ίσως πάλι και όχι.   Θάνος Νασόπουλος Έχει δίκιο το Mega. Ό,τι συμβαίνει πάντα στην Ελλάδα, συνέβη και τώρα. Ένας πτωχευμένος τηλεοπτικός σταθμός, με συνολικές οφειλές σε τράπεζες, δημόσιο, συνεργάτες και εργαζόμενους πάνω από 150 εκατομμύρια ευρώ, εξαγοράσθηκε επί της ουσίας καθαρός από χρέη με μόλις 35 εκατομμύρια. Ήτοι, με λιγότερα από το 1/4 των χρωστούμενων. Για τα υπόλοιπα έχει ο θεός, η μάλλον ακριβέστερα, έχει ο... λαός.  Σε μια μακρά διαδρομή μέχρι και την τελική του επιστροφή όπου οι πρώην και νυν μέτοχοι έβαζαν μπροστά τους απλήρωτους εργαζόμενους όταν έπρεπε να διαπραγματευτούν με τους πιστωτές και να καταγγείλουν τη διαδικασία της αδειοδότησης, αλλά τους πέταγαν πίσω όταν έπρεπε να βάλο

A misunderstanding of social media is driving media elites to keep pushing an easily disprovable stereotype by Keith A. Spencer Part 3 - Angry people and angry brands But the demographics of Twitter's user base only say so much about the site's distorted commentariat. There's also the question of how people behave online, and why they behave so differently than they do in real life. There is a psychological reason why even very nice people are more likely to behave like assholes online. It is called the online disinhibition effect, and it is a big source of misery from pundits who do not understand it. The combination of three factors — the anonymity and pseudonymity of being online, the lack of accountability, and the indirect nature of online communications — make it so that online communication is dehumanizing, and often cruel. Demographics and "real" users aside, Twitter — like most social media sites — has a huge number of accounts that ar

Facebook isn’t the only Silicon Valley firm with partisan oversight of what we see: the bipartisan billionaire class and their security state have partnered with tech firms since the dawn of the internet to control the parameters of users’ thinking. by Morgan Artyukhina  Part 16 - Assembling Google News Initiative In 2015, Google launched its own media pruning organs, First Draft and the Google News Lab, in conjunction with Facebook, Twitter, the George Soros-funded Open Society Foundations, the Omidyar-funded Knight Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and Craig Newmark Philanthropies, another billionaire philanthropist known for founding the website Craigslist . The two projects’ goals will by now sound familiar: aiming to coordinate “ efforts between newsrooms, fact-checking organizations, and academic institutions to combat mis- and disinformation. ” That same year, Google launched its Digital News Innovation Fund, which was later folded into the much larger Google News

by system failure During a speech four years ago, Yanis Varoufakis ended with some interesting views about the future of the capitalist system. As he pointed out: The world we live in, is increasingly rudderless, in a constant slow burning recession, while at the very same time, the increasing concentration in the IT sector is creating the new technologies that will do that which the Left has failed to do: overthrow Capitalism. It is really very simple. The moment machines pass the Turing test properly, and you pick up the phone and you do not know whether the person you are talking to is a human being or a machine˙ the moment we are going to have 3D printers operating as public utilities - you can send any blueprint to it and it can print from one pin to a motorcycle, or to a car - the moment that this happens, we have not just a process of Schumpeterian creative destruction, but we have a process where economies of scale and the whole logic of corporate Capital

The UK media is in the midst of the biggest propaganda campaign since the War to destroy Corbyn Here's why Bernie could end up being better than even FDR WikiLeaks evidence that the imperialist machine was monitoring anti-imperialist Jeremy Corbyn at least since the US invasion of Iraq  The Brits have just committed suicide and opened the road for a second Trump term Already started: US liberal media immediately begin campaign to exploit Corbyn's heavy defeat and use it against Bernie Sanders Promoting 'authoritative propaganda': YouTube openly admits it systematically suppresses independent media!

Unlike Iowa’s debacle, yesterday’s New Hampshire primary results were announced promptly, showing Vermont senator Bernie Sanders in first place with 26 percent of the vote total. Former South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg was a close second, winning 24 percent of votes and the same number of delegates as Sanders. Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar came third, the only other candidate to draw enough support to secure any delegates. But while the primary totals were relatively close, the top candidates’ support comes from radically different segments of the population, highlighting the deep fault lines in American society. Sanders was the runaway winner among New Hampshire’s working class, receiving 38 percent of the vote from those with household incomes less than $50,000. That is a 21-point lead over his nearest challenger.  But his support fell to just 17 percent among those earning over $100,000. In contrast, Buttigieg doubled Sanders’ votes among the rich but fared poorly amon

Self-declared Venezuelan “Interim President” Juan Guaido may have been given a hero’s welcome at President Trump’s State of the Union Address last week, but he certainly did not receive the same treatment after he touched down at Simon Bolivar International Airport, Caracas, yesterday. His very presence was enough to turn those present, including airport employees, into an enraged mob hectoring, jeering and manhandling him, kicking his car and covering him in water and other liquids. Video shows an angry female immigration employee shouting, “ You are a traitor to our country ” as his passport is getting checked. Others yelled “ murderer ” and “ fascist ” at the controversial opposition politician. Guaido was roughed up in a scrum of angry Venezuelans, his shirt ripped and his pride dented. Another video shows an employee of Conviasa (an airline recently sanctioned by Trump) chasing him through the arrivals lounge, pouring beer on him, expressing her contempt for him. He escaped i