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Conservatives may worry that moral decline is destroying the American nuclear family, but in fact economic reality is rendering it impossible and obsolete. CBS News writes: With the cost of living on the rise and showing no sign of slowing down, total strangers desperate to save money are moving in together. Two million Americans over the age of 30 now live with a housemate or roommate, and shared households make up 18 percent of U.S. households – a 17 percent increase...
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Who are they? Insectile hive mind derivative entities? Beings from the Sirius conglomerate of planetary intelligence systems? Holy Guardian Angels? Unholy Protector Daemons? They can be all of these things, and for the second time since I’ve been writing for Disinfo they reached into my psychic life, compelling me to blog about a specific subject matter. The problem is that unlike the last time, I honestly couldn’t understand the message entirely as it wasn’t as neatly succinct. Okay, it’s not...
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Hey disinfonauts, if you’re a repeat visitor to our site, you’ll notice that the site is not quite the same as it was yesterday. The changes are mostly under the hood, but obviously there are some aesthetic and functional changes too. Feel free to make suggestions for further changes, but please understand that going back to the old version of the site is not possible. We’ve gone through these types of overhauls a few times in the past and it’s...
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Just as governments spy on activists, so do corporations. In an interview, investigative reporter Eveline Lubbers is asked which corporations have the most extensive intelligence-gathering operations. The answer (maybe) via Parapolitical.com: Royal Dutch Shell, Nestle, Monsanto and McDonald’s. Are these corporations the worst offenders in general? That is a difficult question, and I have no answer to it in terms of straight figures and statistics. Since most of these manoeuvres are secret, they remain in the dark (no pun intended)....
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Wear a mask, pay cash, and break out your old brick cell phone. Consumer Reports tells all: High-resolution video cameras monitor all areas in and outside the store. With facial-recognition software, your mug shot can be captured and digitally filed. Ditto for your car’s license plate. Stores don’t provide sufficient disclosure, so you can’t opt out to protect your privacy. Gaze trackers are hidden in tiny holes in the shelving and detect which brands you’re looking at and how long...
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Just as governments spy on activists, so do corporations. In an interview, investigative reporter Eveline Lubbers is asked which corporations have the most extensive intelligence-gathering operations. The answer (maybe) via Parapolitical.com: Royal Dutch Shell, Nestle, Monsanto and McDonald’s. Are these corporations the worst offenders in general? That is a difficult question, and I have no answer to it in terms of straight figures and statistics. Since most of these manoeuvres are secret, they remain in the dark (no pun intended)....
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Via orwellwasright: If there’s one thing the British government and its media mouthpieces can rely on it’s a general public who are quite happy to spread their propaganda for them – not since the riots of 2011 have I witnessed such a degree of slavish, unthinking repetition of falsehoods and lies as can be seen on forums and social media networks in response to the recent wave of cuts to the welfare system. This feeling of despair at the gullibility...
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Via orwellwasright: If there’s one thing the British government and its media mouthpieces can rely on it’s a general public who are quite happy to spread their propaganda for them – not since the riots of 2011 have I witnessed such a degree of slavish, unthinking repetition of falsehoods and lies as can be seen on forums and social media networks in response to the recent wave of cuts to the welfare system. This feeling of despair at the gullibility...
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The Toys for the State of Exception tumblr is your buying guide for toys and actions sets for children to play militarized-anti-unrest police force make-believe: Curated by Leigh Phillips, European Union affairs journalist and science writer (EUobserver, Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Nature, Scientific American, New Statesman, Jacobin, amongst others). Chilean Carabinero riot squad, Riot Police Multipurpose Helicopter, Chinese Urban Pacification Unit playset, Micro Machines ‘Operation Secure City’, German riot police. …read more
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In five years, Bronies will be added to the census. The Huffington Post UK writes: A police force has become the first in the country to record attacks on goths, emos and punks as hate crimes. Abuse towards alternative subcultures will be classed in the same way as those based on race, religion, disability or sexual orientation. The historic move was welcomed by the mother of teenager Sophie Lancaster, who was kicked to death in Bacup, Lancashire in 2007 because...
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