Fake news and its effect on the community

[noirua]

Fake news 'killing people's minds' - Apple boss
http://www.aol.co.uk/news/2017/02/10/fake-news-killing-peoples-minds-apple-boss/

 

[DB008]

CNN cuts feed, again.

Surprising how a multi-billion $$$ news network has so many problems with live feeds, but people seem to be able to live-stream on Youtube hours on end with no issues...

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[luutzu]

CNN cuts feed, again.

Surprising how a multi-billion $$$ news network has so many problems with live feeds, but people seem to be able to live-stream on Youtube hours on end with no issues...

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Maybe they're testing a system design to save Trump from his verbal diarrhoea. You know, cut live feeds when he goes off the script and say something real stupid.

btw, what's with Trump and using people as props? We're into Show and Tell now?

Check this out:

Republican Obamacare repeal would benefit wealthiest: study

A Republican plan to repeal taxes set under Obamacare would benefit the wealthiest U.S. households at more than five times the rate for middle-income families, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center.

"The effects are really very dramatic. We found that a typical middle-income family would get a tax cut averaging about $300, while people in the top 0.1 percent would get a tax cut of about $207,000," Howard Gleckman, a senior fellow at the nonprofit research group, said on Monday. (tpc.io/2n1Mdwi)

The expected benefits equal 2.6 percent of a wealthy family's after-tax income, but only 0.5 percent of the income of a middle-class household making $51,600 to $89,400 a year, including fringe benefits like employer-provided health insurance, the center estimated. The top 0.1 percent of U.S. families have income of at least $3.9 million.

Also mean cutting taxes, mainly to the rich, of $600B over next 10 years. That's $60B a year in tax cuts on this healthcare bill alone.

For those too poor to pay or continue with their insurance, they'd be slapped with a 30% surcharge on their premium if they ever decide to buy insurance again. This time, the fine goes to the insurers instead of the tax office.

Woohoo... make 'merka great again folks.

 

[Tisme]

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Republican Obamacare repeal would benefit wealthiest: study


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For those too poor to pay or continue with their insurance, they'd be slapped with a 30% surcharge on their premium if they ever decide to buy insurance again. This time, the fine goes to the insurers instead of the tax office.

Woohoo... make 'merka great again folks.

You seem to be having a problem with how the American psyche works, let me explain so you don't continue mistakes again.

A) America is the "land of opportunity"... this is uber important to every 1) American and 2)outsider who dreams of wealth creation.

B) In context, opportunity by definition means the possibility of success of something better or gain

C) When someone like Obama introduces a floor or social safety net, that someone takes away a level of opportunity and that is not the American way. Every American should have the freedom to start in the gutter and rise to the White House.

It's the freedom of choice that is core. Get it?

It is not unfamiliar here where people who live on the bones of their ar5e inexplicably vote for the LNP who would take away their social benefits in the blink of eye in the face of weak popular opposition.

 

[DB008]

Headline....

Donald Trump refuses to shake Angela Merkel's hand

President greeted German leader with handshake upon her arrival but appeared to ignore requests to do so as the pair sat together in front of TV cameras​

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...angela-merkel-shake-hand-refuse-a7635911.html
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Reality....

 

[bellenuit]

Headline....

Donald Trump refuses to shake Angela Merkel's hand

President greeted German leader with handshake upon her arrival but appeared to ignore requests to do so as the pair sat together in front of TV cameras​

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...angela-merkel-shake-hand-refuse-a7635911.html
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Reality....

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Actually you are wrong there DB. Trump shaking hands with Merkel on arrival was widely reported in both the print and video footage. But what the headlines are referring to is the press conference when both were sitting beside each other. They were taking photos and then a few photographers shouted "how about a handshake" as is the norm. Merkel looked at Trump and even though what she said was muffled, you could hear the work handshake and she put her hand at the ready. But Trump just sat there impassively and Merkel looked quiet embarrassed and made a face gesture suggesting bewilderment to the attendees.

Personally I wasn't 100% sure Trump was aware of what had been asked of him as he seems to have difficulty understanding words with more than one syllable, as handshake is.

Why you would put that story under fake news is beyond me when it as accurate portrayal of what happened.

 

[DB008]

Why you would put that story under fake news is beyond me when it as accurate portrayal of what happened.

Because that is how it was portrayed (mainly on social media) - that Trump refused to shake Merkel's hand at all. Google and look at the headlines.

 

[bellenuit]

Because that is how it was portrayed (mainly on social media) - that Trump refused to shake Merkel's hand at all. Google and look at the headlines.

The article sub-heading: President greeted German leader with handshake upon her arrival but appeared to ignore requests to do so as the pair sat together in front of TV cameras

Exact description of what happened, unlike Trump's wiretapping fake news.

 

[explod]

The following, purportedly from James Rickards seems a bit over the top. What do others make of this and a growing number of such messages:-

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Every Brokerage and Bank Account FROZEN
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 07:04:12 -0400
From: Jim Rickards <jim-rickards@northenscimitar.com>
To: .................


Every Brokerage and Bank Account FROZEN

Dear Reader,

Do NOT deposit another dollar in your bank account until you read THIS.
Strange new warnings are appearing on ATMs across the country...
Here's a snapshot of one I took:

I did not open further as there was a warning "this could be spam"

 

[pixel]

first question: How did he get your email address?
second question: Do I know that this guy is for real? Or could the link carry a Trojan?

Put differently: I always move this kind of uninvited alarmist cr@p into the bin.

 

[moXJO]

There are a huge amount of scammers currently targeting Australia via email, phone, or one click opt in. Don't trust anything.

 

[explod]

Thanks for the posts above fellow Members. Never open them from a family members warning sometime ago. Found the words of propaganda interesting, sort of financial ramping perhaps.

 

[DB008]

***Fake News Alert***

WATCH: Trump signs kid's hat and then throws it away​

President Trump has been caught on camera signing a little boy’s hat and then appearing to fling it into the crowd.

https://au.be.yahoo.com/lifestyle/r...-hat-and-then-throws-it-away-yahoo7-be/#page1
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Another angle....shows how much BS the media is spinning.....

https://twitter.com/MicahGrimes/status/854009984606228480

Main Stream Media is getting worse...

 

[DB008]

Google's bias is also showing.

Putting RNC mail into the spam folder.

 

[DB008]

CNN and BBC stage fake protest in London

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/artic...ssage-from-muslims-after-london-bridge-attack​

 

[basilio]

A group of Muslims wanted to express their anger at the ISIS massacre. They recognised it as "barbaric and inhuman" . It was destroying the community. The media is organised to film their protest and get their message out.

So what part of this is "fake" ? That people take care of what they are saying ? That the press get good shots ? That the Muslims are not running through the streets but staying (safely..) in one spot ?

 

[moXJO]

A group of Muslims wanted to express their anger at the ISIS massacre. They recognised it as "barbaric and inhuman" . It was destroying the community. The media is organised to film their protest and get their message out.

So what part of this is "fake" ? That people take care of what they are saying ? That the press get good shots ? That the Muslims are not running through the streets but staying (safely..) in one spot ?

By making it seem like the number of protesters were greater in number. Media is constantly trying to mislead.

 

[basilio]

By making it seem like the number of protesters were greater in number. Media is constantly trying to mislead.

That's puzzling. The media always bunch people up for a shot. That's just good television. There were no numbers quoted in the report. It was always simply a protest by a group of Muslims who were sickened by the attack.
Fake news ? Don't think so. Looks more like an effort to dismiss the protest as "not true" "not believable".

That is the lie here.

 

[moXJO]

That's puzzling. The media always bunch people up for a shot. That's just good television. There were no numbers quoted in the report. It was always simply a protest by a group of Muslims who were sickened by the attack.
Fake news ? Don't think so. Looks more like an effort to dismiss the protest as "not true" "not believable".

That is the lie here.

Its the exact same bs that turns 100s into 1000s when reporting.
I'm not dismissing those that protested, I fully support them regardless. But the media has angled it as more than what it was.

 

[dutchie]

CNN reporter is caught up in 'fake news' row after being accused of 'setting up' a Muslim counter-terror protest

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4573882/Fake-news-row-Muslim-protesters-TV-crews.html

Be suspicious of every source of so called news.