Collaborate Disseminate
A new post about a notorious Nazi collecting ad dollars is getting banned by LinkedIn. (I find neo-Nazi to be a unnecessary wordplay concession to Nazism, since no Nazi ever says neo-Communist when talking about people today who they think are Communis… Continue reading Censorship of “Seb Gorka, a Nazi, is collecting your ad dollars”
At 9:40 AM on Feb 17, 2016, using Twitter for iPad, the @brian_bilston account tweeted: Here’s a poem entitled “America is a Gun”. Strangely, however, you will not find this poem anywhere on Brian Bilston’s official “Poetry Laboetry“.
The post America … Continue reading America is a Gun
Since I was a teenager I’ve preferred watching non-American movies because they aren’t saddled with the boring good/bad split. Drama becomes exceptionally lame when you are told who is good, who is bad, and then you take an obvious side and wait out th… Continue reading What If There Was No Good/Bad Split in Narratives?
This story gets reported again and again every few years, but never with any real depth. Nobody knows why a “Harvard-taught evolutionary biologist named Joseph Popp” invented ransomware. Somehow he could afford to send 20,000 floppy discs “in the mail … Continue reading The Bizarre True Story of Where Ransomware Started
You have to appreciate the rich irony of people trying to sway opinion in PsyOps (information operations) failing to do so at home and instead installing a crude political shortcut to push operations faster without convincing anyone… It is easier to ge… Continue reading Pompeo Tried to “Fast-Track” PsyOps to Avoid Having to Convince People
A paragraph in the 1977 book “The Shamrock and the Swastika: German Espionage in Ireland” on page 44 has this detail: …informers provided [Eduard Hempel, German Minister to Dublin from 1937 to 1945] with technical information. One, claiming to be a fol… Continue reading WWII Exploding Cylinders of Wires in the Sky
An old story from The Guardian reported how transparency played in a war with liars: An academic trawl of the corporation’s archives has revealed that while the Nazi regime used puppet broadcasters such as William Joyce – nicknamed Lord Haw-Haw – to sp… Continue reading The British in WWII Reported Own Losses to Undermine Nazi Confidence in Wins
The news right now is about a widely respected and beloved leader in the US Military achieving the highest award for valor. 70 years after the battle of Hill 205, November 25, 1950: Ralph Puckett at 95 years old is to be upgraded to the Medal of Honor…. Continue reading “General MacArthur told President Truman the Chinese are not coming into Korea”
On the 22nd of February 1943 a brave 21-year-old woman walked to a Nazi guillotine, displaying full conviction she “had done the best I could have done for my people”. This is where her life ended. But how did it begin? Today marks what would have been… Continue reading This Day in History 1921: Sophie Scholl Was Born
Here’s the big story: UT-Austin released a report… that concluded there was ‘no racist intent’ behind the song, even as the song was written in a racist setting. I totally get where that report is coming from. This is like UT-Austin saying its culinary… Continue reading UT-Austin Report: Students Aren’t Meant to Be Safe From Dangerous Harms