Robert Mercer – the money behind the extreme right

It was $10m of Mercer’s money that enabled Bannon to fund Breitbart – a rightwing news site, set up with the express intention of being a Huffington Post for the right. It has launched the careers of Milo Yiannopoulos and his like …

With links to Donald Trump, Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage, the rightwing US computer scientist is at the heart of a multimillion-dollar propaganda network

Robert Mercer: the big data billionaire waging war on mainstream media

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related – NY Times – How One Family’s Deep Pockets Helped Reshape Donald Trump’s Campaign

our car rally trophy from 1975

I’m downsizing.

Word is I won’t be able to bring my trophies to Heaven, so I’m melting this one down for GOLD and donating it to the survivors of the “Bowling Green massacre“. (Conway #AlternativeFacts)

Rick McCharles and Richard Englehardt win Viscount Bennett High School Car Rally.
Rick McCharles and Richard Englehardt win Viscount Bennett High School Car Rally.

As I recall, Rich and I won because the real winners were disqualified. They’d not worn seat-belts. First prize was a watermelon, I believe.

the BEST Canadian Conservative leader?

I can’t support O’Leary or Leitch. I’d vote for ANYONE ahead of those two.

300px-maxime_bernierTherefore it seems Bernier is my best option. … Assuming Trudeau loses the next election, highly likely at the point, I’d say.

Maxime Bernier, 54, is the MP for Beauce, Quebec …

Bernier is considered a libertarian and advocate of limited government. …

Leave a comment if you have any advice for me.

Registered candidates:

us and them …

I mostly say what I think. Don’t worry about consequences.

But the majority in the age of Trump are trying to be careful what they say.

Here’s some good advice for us all.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

This Danish ad will challenge you to step outside your defining box

Man in the High Castle – season 2

I read one bad review. And almost decided not to bother with season 2.

But with Dictator Trump looming this TV series seemed too timely to pass up.

As it turned out, I’m glad I continued watching. Season 2 is not as good as season 1, but I still recommend it.

Click PLAY or watch a trailer on YouTube.

The Man in the High Castle is an American dystopian alternative history television series produced by Amazon …

The series is loosely based on the 1962 novel of the same name by American science fiction author Philip K. Dick. Taking place in 1962—in an alternate history of the world in which the Axis powers won World War II and subdivided the world, splitting the United States into two powers, the Greater Nazi Reich and the Japanese Pacific States …

Season 3 has been green lit.

do you share fake news?

If so, what the Hell is the matter with you? 😦

Stupid man with bag over his head
Stupid man with bag over his head

We’ve always had propaganda.

Big Tobacco obfuscation of facts about cancer and smoking, for example.

… ignorance spreads when firstly, many people do not understand a concept or fact and secondly, when special interest groups – like a commercial firm or a political group – then work hard to create confusion about an issue. …

BBC Future – The Man Who Studies The Spread of Ignorance