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For avalanche-level lying, deceiving, and misleading, mega-mimic Donald Trump need look no further than the history of the corporate advertising industry and the firms that pay them.
Dissembling is so deeply ingrained in commercial culture that the Federal Trade Commission and the courts don’t challenge exaggerated general claims that they call “puffery.”
Serious corporate deception is a common sales technique. At times it cost consumers more than dollars. It has led to major illness and loss of life.

Let's not wait for President Beto to get to the White House before taking action on FacebookFirst a caveat: I don't really "get" Facebook and my page is pathetic and 95% of the time I just use it to promote my DWT posts.

If a billion-user, private, hugely profitable company were truly this powerful, what should be done about it?by Gaius PubliusThe revelations about Facebook and Cambridge Analytica have come and gone quickly, like a fiery auto crash into a ten-foot wall, the remains of which nevertheless disappear overnight — in this case replaced by the next Trump scandal to hit the news.

This week, the Open Markets Institute reported some good news, namely that the Federal Trade Commission may be about to "waken from it's anti-trust slumber." Hard to imagine.

(MPN) In 2009, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) decided to end a three-year program that used private debt collectors to chase down delinquent taxpayers after an internal report found that it was actually losing the government money and that government employees were much more efficient at collecting debt

Second Sight, distasteful videos and the Rothschilds Musical + this day in history w/Queen Elizabeth I and our song of the day by Gorillaz on your Morning Monarchy for March 24, 2017.

Vault 7 leaks, doomsday scenarios and smart condoms + this day in history w/Stanley Kubrick's death and our song of the day by Alt J on your Morning Monarchy for March 7, 2017.

Believable ads, movie ops and comically "BrainDead" + this day in history w/Ziggy Stardust's premiere and our song of the day by De La Soul on your Morning Monarchy for February 10, 2017.

Despite the polls in the run up to November 8, 2016, and the post-election shenanigans that continue to this day, the United States has a new President, and it is not Hillary Clinton. There are many reasons for this, and Charles Ortel’s dogged, two-year investigation of the Clintons’ predatory humanitarianism is a major one. He is not yet done.

This explains a lot.