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One of these "newsy" items is not like the others --[Click to enlarge.]by KenI know I'm supposed to be humiliated to admit that I still use an AOL e-mail address, which marks me as some sort of pathetic, antique computer naïf. If I were foolish enough to use it to, say, apply for a job, I would be laughed out of consideration just for this. Still, perhaps you'll pardon my observation that none of the other e-mail systems I've been exposed to seem to me any better.

How do you sell fast food to a nation? Apparently by creating a massive lie. In 1971, the man behind Japan’s McDonald’s franchise proclaimed that by eating McDonald’s, Japanese citizens could ‘grow taller, turn their skin white, and their hair blonde’ by eating McDonald’s burgers and fries for the rest of their lives.
It sounds absolutely insane — because it is. And, unfortunately, this is not satire.

by KenHave you had the experience of visiting a website and after a while hearing mysterious, not immediately traceable, er, stuff -- very likely stuff of a commercial nature -- and you can't figure out where it's coming from? Yes, there are Web pages that triggger the opening of other Web pages, but those you can find and close down easily enough.

The revelations last week by the Daily Telegraph’s former chief political commentator Peter Oborne that his newspaper spiked stories that upset advertisers to avoid losing lucrative ad revenue have apparently taken most journalists by surprise.

An old friend who works as a senior manager at an advertising company specializing in social media marketing has been talking with me about how ad agencies are not eager for their clients to find out that only a tiny fraction of people who "like" a brand or follow it on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. ever actually interact with the brand. Social media has opened up a whole world of potential ad revenues, but a lot of the tactics are not supported by data.

[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2014-07-31%20Financial%20Survival.mp3"][/audio]Is reality independent of perception, or is perception reality? If perceptions shape our experience of the world, can government and corporations create a false reality for us with their lies? And how does this all relate to unemployment statistics, Sigmund Freud's nephew, and Plato's cave? Join James and Alfred for this philosophical edition of Financial Survival.

“Gov. Tom Corbett, who claims he opposes legalization of marijuana, was seen behind a barn smoking weed. Just a-puffin’ and a-grinnin’.”
“Tom Wolfe was speeding and driving drunk through the streets of York. If he can’t obey traffic laws, why would we think he’d obey the Constitution if elected Pennsylvania governor?”
“That commie socialist fascist Kenyan Muslim in the White House brought Ebola into the country to get rid of White opposition.”

As a state legislator-- and Speaker of the House-- Pat Murphy has been working tirelessly and effectively for ordinary Iowa families for many years. They know it and we've written about it before. Blue America endorsed him and we've been asking our supporters to help his campaign.

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Art Olivier, Former Mayor of Bellflower, California, former Libertarian candidate for Vice-President of the United States and producer of the 9/11 thriller, Operation Terror, spoke about his $100,000 film being blocked by Alex Jones’ media outlet, on the January 21, 2014 episode of Exposing Faux Capitalism with Jason Erb, with the full audio here. Art […]