The past couple weeks, I’ve commented several times about domestic spy-craft lurking beneath the surface concurrent with the campaigns, election, and now the Trump administration. The contributing factors are well documented on the figurative ‘back-page’ of the news so I’ll not cite sources here. Something was not right with the whole Hillary-Soros-and other shadowy globalist […]
Archives for 2017
The Trump Scorecard 3/1/17
In this week’s installment some prior week’s issues have moved up – Succeed, or down – Fail, after being in the Wait and See category. The point here is many issues are never clear-cut at first hype. Would that most media organizations took that approach. Some issues, such as foreign affairs developments or spy-craft are […]
TIR 2/27/17: Reddit is Being Manipulated By Big Financial Services Companies
Reddit is Being Manipulated By Big Financial Services Companies Web Publication: Forbes, by Jay McGregor Information bedbugs For those of a certain vintage, you may not be familiar with Reddit other than name recognition. The average age of a Reddit User is 23.03 and the median is 22 according to one bright young analyst. Additional […]
Truth-Bot
Part 2 – Fake News In my piece ‘Fake News Checkers and Misplace Priorities’, I suggested we need to go beyond blanket condemnation of news outlets and instead, authenticate or condemn specific news stories. We have the technology. Immediately after the election, we heard about fake news authored by kids running junk websites. Just three […]
Fake News Checkers and Misplaced Priorities
I came upon an interesting expose piece about dubious fake news checkers on a site that is itself dubious. But since there are plenty of quotes and details that can be researched and it’s heavily hyperlinked, I thought I’d go ahead and use it as a springboard for some crucial thoughts about the fake-news war. […]
The Trump Scorecard 2/22/17
This is a summary look at hot news issues surrounding Trump during the past week. To summarize the past week of Trump, we’ll call it ‘The Education of Donald’. He is slowly finding out that Washington will do him no favors nor reward him for his abrasive business style. At face value, this is good […]