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Of Journalists, Students and Power

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  Of Journalists, Students and Power PATRICK LAWRENCE The original Gaza Solidarity Encampment, just minutes after NYPD arrested ~100 protesters, and still surrounded by a large protesting crowd of students as well as bystanders. عباد ديرانية, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons The American media are never short of red-letter days when it comes to their wonderful combination of superciliousness and irresponsibility. But last week the mainstream dailies and magazines went all the way to scarlet and alizarin crimson. The brighter the better, I say, when the derelictions of our media are on display such that readers can no longer miss the deceptions and distractions that are at this point their intent. I was reading along over breakfast last Thursday in search of the overnight news on the Israeli–U.S. genocide in Gaza when I came upon the headline in The New York Times, “Laundry Detergent Sheets Are Poor Cleaners.” Wow. This is a story The Times had been following since its April 5 opener, “The 5

Chariots of Wire

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 "Chicoms"... To watch some of the featured videos, go to the source . Chariots of Wire Chicom facts don't care about your feelings. GOOD CITIZEN America is a golden calf and we will suck it dry, chop it up, and sell it piece by piece until there is nothing left but the world's biggest welfare state that we will create and control. This is what we do to countries that we hate. We destroy them very slowly. — Chicoms Tucson Airport Last summer I helped The Senior Citizens move from over-taxed, soggy, pantifa-demoralized Oregon to sunny election and border-demoralized Arizona. The two-month event was exciting but stressful, and not without some sobering revelations about how dysfunctional everything in America has become after seventeen years away. Make America Functional Again GOOD CITIZEN · JUNE 27, 2023 (Girly upspeak voice) Hi, thanks for calling Hucksters Inc. Just say what you’re calling about. For example, if you’re calling about your— Customer service agent! I’m