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The Government's Word Games When Talking About NSA Domestic Spying. Government officials have made many statements about the warrantless surveillance since it became public in 2005.

The Government's Word Games When Talking About NSA Domestic Spying

They’ve done so in court, in Congress, and in the media. Unfortunately, their words have too often served to evade or obscure, rather than clarify, their actions. A close reading of the government’s statements, along with other publicly available materials, sheds some light on at least some of their word games. Here are some words or phrases to watch closely: This list likely isn’t complete, but with the specific definitional games in mind, the government’s public statements about the warrantless surveillance become both much less clear and much more troubling. “Terrorist Surveillance Program” Government officials have generally cabined their discussions of the warrantless surveillance program to one aspect of the Program: the “Terrorist Surveillance Program” (TSP). A first glance, this seems like a rather strong denial of warrantless spying. “Surveillance” MR. “Content” WAR MADE EASY. How Political Power Uses Propaganda to Distract the Public: Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent - YouTube - Iceweasel.

The Taking Of America. Excerpt from Chapter 3: You Can Fool the People Ingredient 1.

The Taking Of America

A patriotic issue. A fundamental issue permeating nearly all conditions of life in the U.S. is needed, around which the rest of the fooling can be constructed. The perfect issue since 1947 has been “The Red Menace,” or “Communism” or “The Radical Communist Left Conspiracy.” No one is more adept at using this issue than Richard Nixon. The people, to be fooled, have to really believe in the issue, from the heart, from the gut. Some believe because they are religious, and somehow religion is always linked to anti-communism. There can be several sub-issues of lesser significance than the fundamental issue.

If played one against the other, very carefully, many of these sub-issues can be blamed on Communism. Examples of sub-issues used by those controlling Nixon administration to fool the people include: Ingredient 2. Ingredient 3. The problem is not so difficult as it seems. Leaked European Commission PR strategy: "Communicating on TTIP" 7 November 2013 Issues paper Communicating on TTIP – Areas for cooperation between the Commission services and Member States On 22 November 2013 in Brussels, the Commission is organising an informal meeting with Member States representatives to discuss issues related to communication on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.

Leaked European Commission PR strategy: "Communicating on TTIP"

The meeting is intended to explore possibilities for greater cooperation and coordination of respective communication activities around TTIP. The Shock Doctrine 2009. GMO Food = Scary experiment and YOU are the lab rat !!! Industry Word Games Mislead Americans on Fracking. By David Manthos Hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking, and other drilling practices have unlocked previously inaccessible reserves of oil and gas across the U.S. and the world.

Industry Word Games Mislead Americans on Fracking

However, some of the debate over fracking is distorting public understanding of these practices and interfering with good decision-making about this recent boom in unconventional oil and gas production. We often hear statements like this from industry and pro-drilling politicians: America has drilled and fracked more than 1 million wells over the past 60 years, and in all that time there has never been a proven case of groundwater contamination caused by fracking. This statement, in some form or another, is repeated from the kitchen tables of ordinary citizens to the halls of Congress, as landmen use it to try to secure mineral rights from private landowners and legislators advocate for more drilling on millions of acres of public land.

Let’s take a closer look at some of these claims. …caused by fracking. Monsanto, McDs, Coke and Friends Mis-Educate Registered Dieticians About the "Benefits" of Processed Food. The Utopian · The Thirteen Commandments of Neoliberalism - Iceweasel. By Philip Mirowski.

The Utopian · The Thirteen Commandments of Neoliberalism - Iceweasel

Neoliberals are not fundamentalists. But they approach crises with a certain logic—one that is directly relevant to comprehending neoliberalism’s unexpected strength in the current global crisis. Blaming the Poor for Poverty. Unrestrained free markets destroy the middle class, push working people down the economic ladder and concentrate wealth at the top.

Blaming the Poor for Poverty

But promoters of this hyper-capitalism, who dominate the U.S. media debate, simply blame the poor for poverty, as Lawrence Davidson explains. By Lawrence Davidson Most of the poverty in the United States is artificially manufactured. It is poverty created in the pursuit of “free market ideals,” expressed in recent times by the imposition of neoliberal economic policies – the sort of policies that cut taxes on the wealthy, do away with fiscal and other business regulations, shred the social safety net, and erode middle-class stability – all while singing the praises of self-reliance and individual responsibility.

As a result we have done very well in making the rich richer and the poor both poorer and more numerous. A classic photo of a poor mother and children in Elm Grove, California, during the Great Depression. Consider what all this really means. Beware of Images.