Blamestream media?

Many so-called conservative media complain about the lamestream media.  I guess they don't like the glare of reporting that is more truthful than their own "reporting".

A case in point is Veritas' distortion of what the Washington Post reported about Veritas' truly false news.  See https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/11/27/james-okeefe-tweeted-about-his-confrontation-with-a-post-reporter-heres-what-really-happened/.

Veritas?  What truth?

Newspeak in action!

Apropos the manipulation of reality, check out this video that Al Jazeera English gave a link to:

http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6465342/twin-baby-talk-translated

The kids are very animated and engrossed in their "dialog".  Does their dialog make any more sense than the captions that have beed added about Libya?

It was a story supposedly about the media manipulation in the Ivory Coast, see http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/listeningpost/2011/04/201149855326742.html

I was disappointed in the text of the page.  It seemed to barely touch the Ivory Coast, but listed stories in many other areas.

But then I discovered that I was only being teased to listen to and watch a 25 minute program - Listening Post.

BTW, Radio des Nations Unies has been covering Côte d'Ivoire extensively on its 15-minute daily podcast.  Unfortunately, my French is not good enough to get more than a general sense of what is being said.

Corporations receive more benefits than people

I attempted to make a comment on Yahoo Finance in response to "Why the U.S. Tax Code Puts American Companies at a Massive Disadvantage", Rebecca Stropoli, Daily Ticker, 2011-03-28.

This happened to me before because I included a link in my comment, but this time I could find nothing that violated Yahoo's rules.

My comment was:

If Congress is going to support U.S. companies not paying U.S. taxes on earnings outside the U.S., why not support U.S. citizens not paying taxes on earnings outside the U.S.?

It is a bit onerous for an individual to fill out two tax forms: one for the country one is working in, and one for the U.S., a country one might not visit for a couple of years.

Report spoof email as often as you can

It seems that every day I get some spam that intimates that it is from a major corporation and that my account has been compromised. I report almost every one of these to the spoofed corporation (if I've found an email address for such) as well as to the Federal Trade Commission (spam@uce.gov) and the Anti-Phishing Working Group (reportphishing@antiphishing.org).

Sometimes it is hard to find an email address for a spoofed company. Somewhere on a home page or a help page you might find a link to spam, spoof, phishing, fraud, or security.

You might think that it is a bit of work to report spoofing, but consider it like calling the police when you see suspicious activity around a neighbor's house. Consider also this statement that I received from PayPal after reporting a phishing message:

Every email counts. When you forward suspicious-looking emails to
spoof@paypal.com, you help keep yourself and others safe from identity
theft.

See also my blog entry Phishing against which bank this week?