Tag Archives: Media

Fracking WikiLeaks’ “right circumstances”

Posted on October 26, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers WikiLeaks is continuing to publish more emails from the account of John Podesta, the chair of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. One newly published email revealed that Clinton privately bashed environmentalists opposed to fracking and the Keystone XL … Continue reading →

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all this rigging comes from Trump’s Leninist: Smash State!

Posted on October 25, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers All elections are “rigged” considering the problems of decentralized pluralism, but given that reality, can we now move on to democracy. Reality TV is not really TV   Unlike other nations, we don’t schedule our elections as … Continue reading →

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Trump gets first major newspaper endorsement (sort of)

Posted on October 24, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers The 2016 election demonstrates why newspaper editorial endorsements of candidates might not (ever) make any difference but at least Trump has one, finally; even if the paper is owned by Sheldon Adelson. Follow Jon Ralston @RalstonReports BREAKING: First … Continue reading →

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factory for Conspiracy-Theory machines: more Putin-Puppetry

Posted on October 15, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers WaPo’s editorial board now uses the explicit term, “Putin’s Puppet”, to identify Donald Trump, and there is some MSM spin that claims a false equivalence between WikiLeaks and a FOIA, considering some clear technical errors in some of … Continue reading →

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Cadet Trump Mongers War: more George C. Scott & Gregory Peck than Patton & MacArthur

Posted on October 11, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Why Trump only mentions two generals: Patton and MacArthur. Did he lose it at the movies: Patton (1970) and MacArthur (1977). Breitbart comes over the Southern Border for your Wildlife Refuge   Trump’s generational fascination with the Playboy … Continue reading →

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America Great Pumpkin and the Cuban Revolutions

Posted on October 2, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers View image on Twitter Follow Bloomberg ✔@business Why Mark Cuban changed his mind on Donald Trump http://bloom.bg/2cIGlnz  12:19 PM – 1 Oct 2016 358   358 Retweets 638   638 likes   How many elections have had this kind … Continue reading →

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Political-Media Complex: the factory sites for Conspiracy-Theory Machines

Posted on September 17, 2016 by ann li-summers

Hillary Clinton (6 September 2016): “I believe I have created so many jobs in the conspiracy theory machine factory, because honestly, they never quit. They keep coming back.” By ann summers While an elaboration of the “vast RW conspiracy” that … Continue reading →

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Goodbye Person of Interest, gone but forever prescient

Posted on June 4, 2016 by ann li-summers

Despite appearances, I am not that avid a Person of Interest fan, I just like the strength/flaws of Shaw/Root…a symphony.  The program was basically the problem of machine intelligence and the role of human ethics in its construction with a … Continue reading →

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Frisco Flix Fascist Nix

Posted on May 3, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Hollywood North is not San Francisco South, nor North Hollywood or South San Francisco. But maybe in an age of media crime fascination there can be high-tech tours of location specific cinematic crime, something better than the Alcatraz … Continue reading →

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Michael Ware’s Only the Dead knows that the end of War documentaries are not snuff films

Posted on April 2, 2016 by ann li-summers

        By ann summers No one wants to see the explicit images of death and the dying, the actual rather than the Michael Bay cinematic explosions, and yet like the spectacular trainwreck of the 2016 elections season, … Continue reading →

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