Propaganda Is Masked As News, Greed Is Dismissed As Capitalism, And Ignorance Is Disguised As Politics

Some say that corrupt billionaires are the problem.
Some say that a corrupt government is the problem.
But few realise that corrupt billionaires are running a corrupt government.
( Rose Winfold )

Abundance is not a number or acquisition.
It is the simple recognition of enoughness.
( Alan Cohen )

Education spending for 16 to 19 year-olds has fallen by £1.2billion in real terms since 2010.
Shadow Education Secretary Angela Rayner said, “Despite their warm words, the Tories have slashed over a billion pounds of funding that should have been spent educating young people.”
( Keir Mudie, 08.04.2018 )

Political corruption works by having an equally corrupt legal system to protect it.
( Steven Magee )

The truth is very bitter.
There is no purpose for humans.
Their only purpose is to propagate and consume resources.
Humans take, take, take, and give nothing back.
In Nature, humans are the most useless species.
If humans disappear, Nature and all other species will thrive.
The bacteria, the fly, the insects, the algae, the plants all have more important roles.
( Fred O. Wilson )

Power happily walks hand in hand with abuse.
( Dean Cavanagh )

First, our enemies were the natives, then they were the Nazis, then after a while it was the communists.
Finally, at the pinnacle of what we’re calling civilization, our enemies are the Islamic terrorists.
Our enemies seem to change over the course of history along with our ways of fighting them.
But what hasn’t changed is government profit.
Politicians and leaders seem to always be getting richer by the blood of our soldiers.
Makes you wonder who the real enemy has been all this time.
( Bruce Crown )

Those who are weak, those who are afraid, those who are stupid, will more easily accept the policies and believe the propaganda from Government.
( Rose Winfold )

A free press is essential to our democracy, but much of our press isn’t very free at all.
I want media workers to be free to do their best work, not held back by billionaire owners, tech giants or the state.
( Jeremy Corbyn, 23.08.2018 )

The moral crisis of our age has nothing to do with gay marriage or abortion.
It’s insider trading, obscene CEO pay, wage theft from ordinary workers, Wall Street’s gambling addiction, corporate pay-offs to friendly politicians, and the billionaire takeover of our democracy.
( Robert Reich )

The Nazis used the term ‘Socialist’ to cover the fact that they were not socialists.
The clue is in the fact that they killed all the real socialists first.
Read some history.
( Penny Flynn )

We live in a time when ignorance is disguised as politics, propaganda is masked as news, and greed is dismissed as capitalism.
( Rose Winfold )

In a 52-48 referendum this would be unfinished business by a long way.
If the remain campaign win two-thirds to one-third that ends it.
( Nigel Farage, prior to the EU referendum )

Tory MP Ben Bradley defending his call for unemployed men to have vasectomies.
What a shame his father didn’t have one, eh?
( Brian Reade, 27.01.2018 )

I twice wrote to Richard Branson about how bad his Virgin East Coast train service from Hull was, but he never replied.
So I’m glad the East Coast route is temporarily back in public hands.
Virgin and Stagecoach are the third private operators in a decade to fail on it.
But by allowing Branson to walk away, we’re losing £2billion.
When Labour nationalised the East Coast in 2009, it returned £1billion back to the taxpayer.
( John Prescott, 19.05.2018 )

David Cameron spotted looking miserable in Disneyland Paris.
Is that because he was deemed too big to go on the Three Little Pigs ride?
( Brian Reade, 27.01.2018 )

All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
( J.D. Salinger )

A Tory MP who has fought against slashing the maximum bet on high stakes gambling machines received thousands of pounds of tickets from bookies in the past year.
Philip Davies got tickets to top horse racing meetings, such as the Cheltenham Festival, from the likes of Ladbrokes.
Many of the freebies – worth £4,385 in total – included hospitality.
Campaign for Fairer Gambling spokesman Matt Zarb-Cousin said, “Philip Davies has been the bookies’ puppet in Parliament for years, cashing in on freebies.”
( Ben Glaze, 19.05.2018 ) 

Corrupt utility companies require a corrupt legal system to protect them from their own sickened workers and the masses.
( Steven Magee )

It’s painful to believe that the would-be ‘public servants’ you’re forced to choose between are all phonies whose only real concern is their own care and feeding and who will lie so outrageously and with such a straight face that you know they’ve just got to believe you’re an idiot.
( David Foster Wallace )

The media is a closed shop for the privileged, the press being mostly run by wealthy oligarchs who defend a status quo from which they benefit.
( Owen Jones, 23.08.2018 )

I have interacted with the police complaints and internal affairs division twice and both times I came away with the opinion that I was dealing with a blatantly corrupt group of people.
( Steven Magee )

Not to be outdone by Boris Johnson calling for a bridge to be built over the Channel, DUP politicians are calling on Theresa May to cough up £20billion to build one between Northern Ireland and Scotland.
Why not? She’s given them everything else they want.
And if they’re stuck for a name, why not call it The Magic Money Bridge?
( Brian Reade, 27.01.2018 )

The Tories have decided to pack the Lords with another nine Tory peers in a desperate bid to stop losing votes there.
They’ve only got themselves to blame.
In the coalition, they filled it with Lib Dems to push their austerity agenda.
Now the Lib Dems are stopping them.
( John Prescott, 19.05.2018 )

The American people, and the citizens of all Western nations, have the right to know about every single thing their representatives do on their behalf.
After all, elected officials are merely representing those who hold the true power, the people.
( James Morcan )

I read the newspapers avidly.
It is my one form of continuous fiction.
( Aneurin Bevan, 1897 – 1960 )

I saw some pretty decent placards at the initial women’s march in Washington last year, but there was one at the anniversary event last weekend which beat all-comers.
Seriously, what could ever beat this description of Donald Trump: “SUPER CALLOUS FRAGILE RACIST SEXIST LYING POTUS.”
Magnificent.
( Brian Reade, 27.01.2018 )

Two Russian Military Intelligence Officers arrived in the UK on March 2nd., 2018
(after being granted entry visas by the British Home Office?).
Yulia Skripal arrived in the UK on March 3rd., 2018
On March 4th., the two Russian ‘assassins’ used one of the most lethal nerve agents in the world in a botched attempt to murder Yulia Skripal and her father.
The two Russian ‘assassins’ left the UK later that day.
Really?
( Wilfred Soon )

A ‘no deal’ Brexit would be an unmitigated disaster, and the fact that UK Government is even talking about it is evidence of their abject failure.
That they once had the nerve to tell us that independence threatened our place in Europe adds insult to injury.
Scotland deserves better.
( Nicola Sturgeon, 23.08.2018 )