Newly published research suggests nuggets of misinformation embedded in a fictional television program can seep into our brains and lodge there as perceived facts.

By Tom Jacobs

Our beliefs about the world are shaped by many factors. The courses we took in college. The lessons we learned from our families.

And, of course, the prime-time courtroom drama we watched a couple of weeks back.

Considering the fact that no real votes will be cast until next year and considering the fact that the polls are constantly changing, shouldn't all of the candidates participating in the Republican debates be given roughly the same amount of time to talk? After all, what kind of a "debate" is it when certain candidates are given double (or sometimes even triple) the amount of talking time?

Why is it that Rick Perry and Mitt Romney have been getting about twice as much talking time as the other candidates during the Republican debates? It is amazing that more people are not calling into question the credibility of these "debates".

Bank Of America Holds Patent On 'Changing Your Emotions' During Customer Service Call

SYSTEMS FOR INDUCING CHANGE IN A HUMAN PHYSIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTIC

Independent journalists have been threatened by the murderous NATO/terrorist occupation force in Libya.

Independent journalists have been killed by the same forces of evil in Libya.

Yet for every one of them, there are thousands of us.

Foundations paid $42 million to spread anti-Muslim propaganda

By Andrew Jones

The Center for American Progress has compiled a report in which seven foundations has been paid $42 million dollars to spread fear of Muslims in America.

America Must See!

FAKE YouTube Twitter Accounts From Libya-

Manipulated Social Media- Mirror

Ron Paul 2012 - The momentum is growing!

This is the first video available from tonight's show. This is an absolutely outstanding clip that tells the truth about Paul's massive success in Iowa and beyond, and skewers the corporate media for ignoring the truth.

Why Is Sean Hannity So Mad You're Having Sex?

(Because even gay men won't touch this SOB, much less straight women? His only hope is retarded women or closet transexual Ann Coulter)

Conservatives' attacks on sexuality have grown more radical, in the past year alone.

By Amanda Marcotte

The other day I showed you a video which was blatant rumormongering and stock biased manipulation by supposedly unbiased reporters. Disgusting!

Is America Caught In The Closed Mind Trap?

By Paul Craig Roberts

“Wouldn’t a Caesar be preferable to a democracy in which the people are too ignorant, disinterested, and stupid to engage in self-government?”

And the Sewer Sludge at CNBC dares blame Main Street for the Wall Street Gang's crimes and the depression! How dare they call Main Street losers!

by TocqueDeville

I've been waiting for a good time to bring this story to Daily Kos and, since it's CNBC day (or week hopefully), I figured now would be a good time.

Greetings from the Ministry of Propaganda

BBC Bombast – Propaganda, Complaints And Black Holes of Silence

By Media Lens

We are fed myths that our governments are essentially well-intentioned; that powerful investors, banks and corporations promote ‘free trade’ and ‘open markets’ while providing responsibly for society’s wants and needs.

By Mike Whitney

The phone hacking incident has helped to crystallize the public's growing contempt for the media and its methods.

Boy, this is about as sleazy as it gets....

The good news is that the more conscious you are of these techniques, the less likely they are to work on you.

What in the world is really going on at Los Alamos, Ft. Calhoun and Fukushima? There are millions of Americans that would like the truth about what is happening at these nuclear facilities, but the mainstream media has been strangely quiet. Instead, the mainstream media is running headlines such as "10 Dirtiest U.S. Beaches Named" and "Pole Dance Stops Times Square Cold". Yes, those are actually headlines that appeared on the front pages of major mainstream news websites in the United States today.

Why Are Food Prices Rising So Fast?

If you do much grocery shopping, you have probably noticed that the cost of food has been rising at a very brisk pace over the past year. So why are food prices rising so fast? According to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, inflation is still very low and the economy is improving. So what is going on here?

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

WHAT MAX PLANCK HAD ALREADY KNOWN

It has been my long-standing judgment on the subject of Classical artistic composition, that that principle of metaphor which underlies that principle of human creativity on which scientific creativity depends, demands that we must not presume that sense-perceptions give us an image of the actually observed subject-matter; but, rather, such perceptions are, so to speak, virtually "shadows" which had been cast by a relevant object. I have, therefore, often suggested, that if we are observing the footprints being left behind by the steps of a walking man, we must imagine the creature which is making that pattern, as, in some sense, as if they had been made by a "creature" invisible to the footprints as such.

As the mainstream media continues to be obsessed with Anthony Weiner and his bizarre adventures on Twitter, much more serious events are happening around the world that are getting very little attention. In America today, if the mainstream media does not cover something it is almost as if it never happened. Right now, the worst nuclear disaster in human history continues to unfold in Japan ,

U.S. nuclear facilities are being threatened by flood waters, the U.S. military is bombing Yemen, gigantic cracks in the earth are appearing all over the globe and the largest wildfire in Arizona history is causing immense devastation.

But Anthony Weiner, Bristol Palin and Miss USA are what the mainstream media want to tell us about and most Americans are buying it.

By: Sorcha Faal

A shocking report prepared by Russia’s Federal Atomic Energy Agency (FAAE) on information provided to them by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) states that the Obama regime has ordered a “total and complete” news blackout relating to any information regarding the near catastrophic meltdown of the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant located in Nebraska.

By Butler Shaffer

Bill Clinton – the examplar of truth in modern America – has proposed the establishment of a government "ministry of truth" – to be run by either the United States government or the United Nations

by Kathleen Wallace Peine

I’ve pretty much taken all of the precautions that I can after watching the 24/7 coverage from my cable news network. I always try to remain vigilant in regard to the threats we face every single day as Americans. I willingly give my constant attention to the images and try to keep up with the fact filled ticker parading across the bottom of my screen. Because of them, I was ready in 2001 with the duct tape; I watched with interest when the terror color went from ecru to taupe right before elections. I made the necessary changes to my life, which included keeping an eye out on my sketchy (exotic) neighbors.

This weekend, dozens upon dozens of the wealthiest and most powerful people in the world will be gathering behind closed doors at a luxury hotel in Switzerland. All of the participants are sworn to secrecy and swarms of heavily armed security guards are making sure that nobody unauthorized gets in. Decisions will be made at this meeting which will fundamentally change our future.

From Nixon's plumbers to James O'Keefe's video smears: How political lying became normal.

By Rick Perlstein

It takes two things to make a political lie work: a powerful person or institution willing to utter it, and another set of powerful institutions to amplify it. The former has always been with us: Kings, corporate executives, politicians, and ideologues from both sides of the aisle have been entirely willing to bend the truth when they felt it necessary or convenient. So why does it seem as if we're living in a time of overwhelmingly brazen deception? What's changed?

What Obama, Media Won't Say: Storms Threaten Food Supply

by Marcia Merry Baker

—Drastic food shortages and sky-high food prices are now in the making, from the combined results of the extreme weather on the continental farm belt, and the inaction by the Obama Administration. Relevant agencies—the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the National Guard, the Coast Guard, the Army Corps of Engineers, local first-responders and volunteers—are doing what they can, but they lack authority and resources; plus, they are muzzled by the White House from getting out the truth.

What Justifies the Adoption of Convenient Fantasy and Denial of Inconvenient Truth?

by Steve Salmony

Culture presents us with much that is real and also less that is illusory. From a psychological standpoint, because humans are shaped early and pervasively by cultural transmissions in our perception of reality, it is an evolutionary challenge for humankind to see the world as it is.

Have you noticed that our entire society operates on fear now? Everyone is afraid of everybody else. We are taught not to trust anyone that we do not know and that we should literally spy on our neighbors because they might be a threat.

If you do not participate in all of the extreme paranoia that is going on then supposedly something is wrong with you. In fact, if you are not paranoid like everyone else is then you might be a threat.

After all, according to FBI Director Robert Mueller, "homegrown terrorists" represent as big a threat to American national security as al-Qaeda does.

In their online lives, most people are shielded from viewpoints that do not mesh with their own, making it difficult to build the diverse coalitions that lead to real change.

Jonathan Matthew Smucker

How the Tea Party's Assault on Dissenting Thought Has Trapped the GOP

The Right has always policed dissenting thought in its ranks. But in the past few years the Tea Party has upped the ante.

By Paul Waldman

By Paul Craig Roberts

Independent thought is not a concept with which very many Americans are familiar or comfortable.

In case you haven't noticed, the world has gotten even crazier in May. Just when you think that things can't get any more bizarre, events go to a whole new level. Sadly, millions of Americans seem almost completely oblivious to all of the world-altering things that are going on all around us. I recently got back from doing a bit of traveling, and the reality is that most people out there are so busy living their lives and trying to survive from month to month that they don't really have much time to pay attention to what is going on in the world around them.

They are too busy working their tails off to make a living, they are too busy stocking up on groceries and foreign-made goods at the big box retail stores and they are too busy cheering for Scotty on American Idol.

By Paul Craig Roberts

What has happened to the West is that it can see itself and others only through the eyes of its own propaganda.

One of the wishes that readers often express to me came true today (May 11). I was on the mainstream media. It was a program with a worldwide reach--the BBC World Service. There were others on the program as well, and the topic was Hillary Clinton’s remarks (May 10) about the lack of democracy and human rights in China.

Are you addicted to bad news? Do you have an addiction to "gloom and doom"? Well, if so, then 2011 has been a banner year for you so far. There are plenty of websites out there that do nothing but track the latest doom. Some people actually seem to enjoy it when a new disaster strikes. But we shouldn't rejoice over bad news. Millions of people are deeply hurting around the world because of all of the horrible things that have happened so far this year.

by Beto Almeida, director of Telesur

I just returned from Iran integrating a delegation of journalists and bloggers. One observation is immediate: a sophisticated and complex negative image was built of Iran to the world, which serves to justify all UN sanctions against the country, under the clear manipulation of the great powers. With the 1979 Islamic revolution, they lost the privileges they had over the vast energy resources in Iran.

Many Americans believe that capitalism and free market economy contradict to Christian principles. A poll conducted by Public Religion Research Institute showed that such views are shared by 44 percent of respondents. Thirty-six percent of the polled disagreed with the affirmation, though. Is it really so? What is the approach of the Orthodox Church to this issue?

US Knew Where Osama Was Since 2005

By ISRAEL SHAMIR

The unredacted Guantanamo files show clearly that the trail to Abbottabad was known to the US intelligence services at least since 2005, when al-Libi, another Abbottabad dweller, was captured.

Are we on the verge of a dollar collapse? Don't believe the skeptics.

The truth is that there is no currency in the world that is stronger than the old greenback. The U.S. dollar is the reserve currency of the world. Virtually all of the nations on the face of the earth use it for trading and they always will.

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Snake Oil Meme

Oh What Tangled Web They Weave...

by Michel Collon

Every war is preceded by a lie using mass communication. One day Bush threatens Venezuela and Ecuador. Tomorrow, Iran? Then who else? (...) Let us remember just how many times the same United States and by the same means have manipulated us. Every major war was "justified" by what later (too late) is shown to be deliberate misinformation. A quick inventory:

By ALEXANDER COCKBURN

Americans were offered closure Wednesday to one of among the multifarious strands of our national dementias. It took the drab guise of the “long-form” birth certificate, signed and filed in Hawaii on August 8, 1961, indicating that the president is a legitimate occupant of the Oval Office. But will the White House’s release of the certificate finish off the “birther” movement? Certainly not. We’re dealing here with cognitive dissonance.

Our Public Schools Are Churning Out Drones for the Corporate State

Unconscious civilizations become totalitarian wastelands.

By Chris Hedges

New Yorkers protest U.S. policies Thousands of Americans have staged a protest rally in New York City to voice concerns over U.S. war and foreign policies as well as the economy and the persisting reduction of social programs

Now that nearly a month has gone by since the horrific tsunami in Japan on March 11th, it is starting to become clear just how much economic damage has been done. The truth is that the Japanese economy is in much bigger trouble than most people think. This is almost certainly going to be the most expensive disaster in Japanese history. The tsunami that struck Japan on March 11th swept up to 6 miles inland, destroying virtually everything in the way.

Every once in a while, establishment control of the mainstream media cracks for a moment. In an effort to achieve higher ratings, mainstream news programs will invite guests on that promise to be "interesting", but then they will say something that is not part of the script and the entire system will go into a state of chaos for a moment. One example of this happened recently when two CNN "infobabes" interviewed former CIA officer Michael Scheuer about the situation on the ground in Libya.

Entertainment Giant Judge Judy Joins Growing List Of ‘Gibberish’ Talk Reporters

By: Sorcha Faal

A most curious phenomenon of ‘gibberish’ speaking reporters sweeping North America has gained its biggest victim to date after reports that the entertainment giant known as Judge Judy [photo 2nd left] had production halted on her highly syndicated show and was brought to hospital yesterday after she began speaking nonsensical words during a live taping.

CNN Foreign Correspondent Calls Out Fox News: ‘Outrageous’ ‘Lies And Deceit’

This afternoon, Fox News reported that the Qaddafi regime used foreign journalists, including teams from CNN and Reuters, as a “human shield” to thwart an attack on Qaddafi’s compound last night.

Did Gaddaffi Bomb His Own People?

Airstrikes In Libya Did Not Take Place - Russian Military :

By RT

Confirmed: Union-Bashing Right-Wing Media Stars Hannity, Limbaugh and O'Reilly Are AFL-CIO Union-Affiliated Members

By Ted Cox,\

In spite of their criticism of unions in Wisconsin, AlterNet has confirmed that leading right-wing pundits are American Federation Television and Radio Artists union members.

Bill Keller, an editor with The New York Times, has recently published an article titled "Dealing With Assange and the WikiLeaks Secrets." In the article, the author wrote how the newspaper was working with secret cables. From what the article says, it seems that Russia appears to be a real stronghold of freedom of speech.

The Fed's Policy of Creating Inflation

by Rodrigue Tremblay

If once [the people] become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
– Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), 3rd US President

The Media in America: Selling Views, Calling it News

By Prof. John Kozy

Sometime in the 1960s, I took part in a university symposium along with three other faculty members—a political scientist, a historian, and a journalism professor. The topic was Freedom of the Press—Good or Bad.