tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post4481186740298434978..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: Do You Know Anyone?The Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-58000695157824260382016-12-09T17:42:03.079-08:002016-12-09T17:42:03.079-08:00Do you know anyone?
Yes the Main Street Media.
ht...Do you know anyone?<br />Yes the Main Street Media.<br /><br />http://powellriverpersuader.blogspot.ca/2016/12/christy-clarks-taxpayer-<br />funded-lng.html<br /><br />The omission of news is just as degenerative as false /fake news.<br /><br />TBAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-45000468676554597782016-12-09T15:16:42.285-08:002016-12-09T15:16:42.285-08:00The Alberta government and the Oil Patch were able...<br />The Alberta government and the Oil Patch were able to manufacture a narrative in which the Athabasca bitumen fields were to be called the "oil sands" rather than the "tar sands." They even got the CBC to use oil rather than tar or bitumen. Given the pre-petroleum history of bitumen, i.e. patching birchbark canoes, etc., it's been a PR coup.<br /><br />I would like to see someone take an unused tank of the sort you find in oil tank farms, fill it with seawater, pour in one 50-gallon barrel of dilbit and then monitor what happens over 24 hours; 2, 3, 4 and 7 days; 2, 3, 4 weeks and then once or twice every following month. Because those tanks are sealed it would be able to capture the emissions from the diluent evaporation as well as the rate of chemical leaching into the water.<br /><br />It's such an obvious experiment that I have to wonder why the government or the fossil fuelers haven't already run it if only to prove their product relatively benign. Or perhaps they have run it and they know the answers and don't want them to see the light of day.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-27608790026790383982016-12-09T09:31:59.922-08:002016-12-09T09:31:59.922-08:00What I find scarier is that advertising works; peo...What I find scarier is that advertising works; people believe what they see/hear in ads. How many of your friends understand that Kinder Morgan plans on shipping dilbit? How many think Kinder Morgan plans on shipping oil? Tobynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-65857285079112129452016-12-08T16:05:18.405-08:002016-12-08T16:05:18.405-08:00Fake news from major outlets is a problem?
http:...Fake news from major outlets is a problem?<br /><br />http://www.vancouverobserver.com/news/postmedia-prezi-reveals-intimate-relationship-oil-industry-lays-de-souza<br /><br />TBAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-12306008293704735092016-12-08T13:40:20.452-08:002016-12-08T13:40:20.452-08:00Marie, how could educators, entrusted with teachin...<br />Marie, how could educators, entrusted with teaching our kids logic and critical thinking, succumb to this Gullibilly stuff? Don't their colleagues call them on it? What you've said is a bit disturbing.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-15030316520387131252016-12-08T13:38:52.986-08:002016-12-08T13:38:52.986-08:00Thanks for the link, Dana. I'll digest that la...Thanks for the link, Dana. I'll digest that later. I've got firewood to get in and a few groceries to pick up before the next storm hits.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-36675212635844223822016-12-08T13:33:32.532-08:002016-12-08T13:33:32.532-08:00Anon, you're missing the point. I've long ...Anon, you're missing the point. I've long been a critic of the corporate media cartel and its many failings. That said there are many credible sources from which fake news can be readily discerned. Among these sources are international agencies, NGOs, think tanks, science journals and more.<br /><br />If you choose to live in a "post truth" world, at least accept that's your own doing.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-28497904933940821332016-12-08T12:28:08.579-08:002016-12-08T12:28:08.579-08:00Unfortunately I know people like that who are educ...Unfortunately I know people like that who are educators. Marie Snyderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13872774009526266579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-89309118776888311782016-12-08T12:02:27.252-08:002016-12-08T12:02:27.252-08:00Remember kiddies, unless your news is brought to y...Remember kiddies, unless your news is brought to you by a giant corporation it is FAKE NEWS. <br /><br />Of course, I shouldn't need to state the obvious, but since we live in the "post-truth era": corporations would never lie to you, get involved in political campaigns, or forward self-serving agendas by spinning narratives and implanted memes in the public psyche. <br /><br />Corporations are our benevolent overlords! Just look at the beautiful world they have wrought!<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-41824474555549015052016-12-08T09:44:08.067-08:002016-12-08T09:44:08.067-08:00Or it just be that she's an angry old lady.
...Or it just be that she's an angry old lady. <br /><br />https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/dec/08/welcome-age-anger-brexit-trumpDanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12465953801145126160noreply@blogger.com