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    • I am data; politicians micro-target me to get elected

      Posted by VincebusEruptum from Scholarsandrogues

      To our presidential candidates, I am not a human being: I am a set of data points, one of about 168 million sets of data points collected by both the Democratic and Republican national committees. Presidential candidates will base their direct-mail, push-poll, robo-call and volunteers-knocking-on-my-door messages on computerized analyses of me as data. I will be micro-targeted by candidates’ campaign organizations for the sole purpose of producing a vote...

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      Pssst! Want a cushy news corporation CEO job?

      Posted by srpr from Scholarsandrogues

      The compensation of the new CEO of Journal Register Co., a media corporation, will leave you flabbergasted, considering the company's stock price tanked by 90 percent while he was a director. And his predecessor gets very nice parting gifts, too.

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    • Which came first? Network news or public’s short attention span?

      Posted by srpr from Scholarsandrogues

      Whether the brevity of the evening network news stories produced the short attention span or the short attention span produced the brevity is the sort of chicken-and-egg question philosophers and lawyers love. But rarely do those involved in network news admit to their roles in creating a public less capable of sustained, serious thought.

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    rhoadesb comments on:

    On the waning days of madmen in the media

    the days of craziness I fear are numbered

     

    Would it were true.

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    2:20 am 11/07/08
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    Real Journalists Don't Make $5 Million a Year | Media and Technology | AlterNet

    http://www.freespeech.org/fscm2/genx.php?name=home

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    5:50 pm 6/28/08
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    zarafa comments on:

    I-35W bridge downed by design flaw; infrastructure issues fade from headlines

    Thanks for bringing up this issue—here are some thoughts that are not about “gusset plates”

    Extremely low frequency, or ELF, waves can be used for submarine communications and for probing the planet; because of the way they propagate, HAARP can cover “a significant fraction of the Earth.” The waves can be used for “seabed exploration” and even locating mines underwater, not to mention “underground target detection.”

    Sorcha Faal reported at the times of the bridge collapse there was a small tremor registered by the Russians the bridge is two or three miles from the center of a HAARP experimental center

    Russian Intelligence Analysts are reporting in the Kremlin today that Britain%u2019s Prime Minister, Gordon Brown and numerous leaders of the United Kingdom%u2019s business community were %u2018targeted%u2019 in a failed assassination attempt which instead of downing the aircraft due to take the British Leader on his first state visit to China instead brought down a British Airways 777 upon its landing approach to London%u2019s Heathrow Airport.

    According to these reports, Prime Minister Brown%u2019s flight to China was delayed due to British billionaire Sir Richard Branson%u2019s late arrival at Heathrow, as he was one of the many business leaders accompanying Brown to China, and which allowed the British Airways 777 flight from China to land first.

    But, upon the British Airway 777%u2019s attempt to land, and as examined by Russian Military Scientists, a %u2018non-nuclear micro-burst%u2019 electromagnetic pulse (EMP) was %u2018fired%u2019 which then caused a catastrophic engine failure due to loss of power causing that flight to plunge to the ground prior to reaching the runway,Reported by Sorcha Faal http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1063.htm

    Electro-Magnetic Spectrum
    By Brent Jessop
    12-25-7

    In 2003, then Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld signed a document called the Information Operation Roadmap which outlined, among other things, the Pentagon’s desire to dominate the entire electromagnetic spectrum.

    If you are unfamiliar with this document, more detail can be found here.
    http://www.knowledgedrivenrevolution.com/Articles/200711/20071105_IOR_1_Thrust.htm

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    11:20 am 1/21/08
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    Jon comments on:

    NY Times to stop charging readers for TimesSelect content

    I hope this is true -- it would be really nice to have Paul Krugman's columns back on the free internets!

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    9:17 pm 8/07/07
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    Jeff is the founder of NewsCloud. He is also a freelance writer and blogs at Idealog.

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