Building trust in media

Kissinger’s plan to solve trade deficit Germany and Japan using Petrodollar Scheme

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they’ve got huge trade surpluses with us uh we’re buying their stuff they don’t buy enough of our stuff what can we do what do they need well they need energy so then America um you know American Military went to Saudi Arabia Kissinger went to Saudi Arabia and they had this they made forged this deal that uh Saudi Arabia the biggest oil exporter would only sell the oil against the US dollar

Citizens United: Against the Suppression of Corporate Knowledge

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In the Citizens United case, Justice Anthony Kennedy raised concerns that corporate knowledge would be lost if corporations were unable to engage in speech (political donations): Government silences a corporate objector, and those corporations may have the most knowledge of this on the subject. Corporations have lots of knowledge about environment, transportation issues, and you are silencing them during the election.

This argument is as artificial as classical economics’ concept of  Homo Economicus because it ignores how humans and society actually function.

In reality, when corporations “speak” to provide their “knowledge‘, it isn’t to distribute publications about the environment that their scientists discovered when they studied global warming. Rather, it means that they pay money to political front groups that pay political consultants to create 30-second ads on a completely different wedge issue, like gay marriage or CRT or DEI.

George Washington: Bigotry and Citizenship

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On August 21, 1790, George Washington wrote:

for, happily, the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens in giving it on all occasions their effectual support.

Matt Taibbi: Who Blew Up the Nord Stream Pipelines? “Russia, Russia, Russia!”

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About a month ago, on September 26th, explosions rocked the undersea “Nord Stream” natural gas pipelines connecting Russia to Germany, sending boiling methane rushing to the surface in masses big enough to be seen from space.

We’ve all seen the video of Joe Biden promising last February, There will be no longer a Nord Stream 2 and We will bring an end to it.  The history of America’s bellicose threats with regard to Nord Stream were far more expansive than just a clip or two. Stopping Nord Stream was a central goal of American foreign policy for nearly a decade, with politicians from both parties pounding the table to stop it, and all that history was disappeared the moment the blasts took place.

 

Links:

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKoPA3M7x2o&feature=shares&t=656>
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKoPA3M7x2o&t=661s>

 

 

FROM THE EDITORS: The Times and Iraq

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The New York Times  May 26, 2004 article from the editors wrote:

Some critics of our coverage during that time have focused blame on individual reporters. Our examination, however, indicates that the problem was more complicated. Editors at several levels who should have been challenging reporters and pressing for more skepticism were perhaps too intent on rushing scoops into the paper. Accounts of Iraqi defectors were not always weighed against their strong desire to have Saddam Hussein ousted. Articles based on dire claims about Iraq tended to get prominent display, while follow-up articles that called the original ones into question were sometimes buried. In some cases, there was no follow-up at all.