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The New York TImes. One of Americas trusted names in media. I certainly trust them, but let me clarify that statement. All their sports scores are accurate, and their telephone number and website address are correct usually, They have a good spellcheck software option. Sometimes their page numbers are correct, and their address perhaps. Anything else?"Perhaps their economic indicators are technically accurate, even if they are reported in a completely disingenuous context. Anything else?
Nope, nothing else is correct because they insist on filling their content with "News" and "Politics" and "Climate Change".....
....and let's face it....
They will never get any of that right, so my praise is limited to my opening paragraph which is a testament to nothing more than the staggering misplacement of trust I was referring to in my second sentence.
In the clip below from his YouTube channel, Tony Heller goes back in time and shows us how much hotter summer used to be in the States, but he uses a method that the NYT may not fully understand, He goes by facts. He then takes those facts and makes conclusions BASED ON THOSE SAME FACTS!
He could be onto something. All I know is that if the fact-based reporting on politics, war or climate change ever catches on in the good old USA, all of their MSM is finished.
But let's be serious for a moment here. I am joking around of course, I don't really believe US media will really start reporting facts, not even a flat-earther would believe a wild conspiracy theory like that!
There is something amiss in cyberspace. Searches feel like there is a nanny standing by protecting us from the horrors of alternative takes on world affairs, Google, in particular, is absolutely terrified we could at some stage receive news that is not entirely true (where were they during my childhood and National Enquirer or People Magazine stories of alien abductions). They are so worried that they have assigned all the worst news companies that have lied us into wars, push hopeless nonsense that is quite patently false, and directly lie.... to vet out news sources. I don't know what colour the sky is in Google land but last time I checked we are not all fucking morons. Perhaps 30% of us, sure, and another 30% too busy to bother but the rest of us are not so utterly devoid of our faculties of independent and critical thought that we haven't noticed that after 30 years of global warming panic it hasn't gotten any warmer beyond expected trends (in fact cooling seems to be an issue).
We are not so utterly lacking in mental fortitude as to swallow the rubbish that Google cough's up. Are we?
Censorship is everywhere, a natural successor to "Divide and Rule" means that if we decide today that if, leta say gays or minorities, people of colour or women are to be empowered, we come down hard on any descent. Problem is we come down once more on those same groups when we later replace them with Transexuals entering female sport (just ask Martina Navratilova) or pot plants running for president or whatever the hell is in vogue. The main point is that we are getting used to being silenced, and the symptoms are everywhere in the PC search environment and MSM or social media environment online.
While the Dark Web is stimulating the revival of a near free market-esque vibe using cryptocurrency to mirror the informal vendors and traders so desperately trying to take back entrepreneurial capitalism from large globalist multinationals, it's not enough. (See fascinating talk in clip below)
We have to build our own search framework around the real world. Establishment search engines are profiled by pro-war, political, partisan, climate change propagandist spin and algorithm weighting. It should be easy to ditch our fetish with some organic gas vital for life, since anyway that is virtue signaling your way to the globalist agenda. Care about the plane? Try getting those behind the AGW movement to stop producing nuclear bombs and millions of tons of plastic waste instead. They are the same people using the same media. We need to stop listening to media cheering for us to keep spending trillions on wars and bailing out banks and spend one tenth of that eliminating homelessness and give everyone basic healthcare. The socialism vs capitalism debate is actually moot unless you consider that society should be judged on how it treats its warmongers and banksters, rather than it's sick and old. Those guys who complain they are paying for the poor are full of shit. The poor are paying for them, do you really want these guys deciding your search parameters by some shadowy unknown policy? Even politicians are sick of it.
I put it to you that simply searching for correct information would correct the course, and start us back on the road to... we... something other than completely and utterly batshit clueless.
Rather than simply having you type a query into a search box and enjoying results supplied by the engine, YaCy uses installed software through which anyone can contribute to the results, in a decentralized peer-to-peer, crowd-sourced take on Web search. The program also lets organizations build an internal search for their sites or intranets. Finally, YaCy comes with none of the privacy or censorship concerns of Google or the rest, since it doesn't rely on one large company.
This way the more of us that use it, the better the framework of indexed results begins to organically mould towards information we are ACTUALLY LOOKING FOR.
In fact YaCy is more of a framework for peer-to-peer search services, though a demo "portal" lets the curious try out searching on one of the general Web search implementations, called freeworld. But YaCy's makers stress that just using the service without installing the peer-to-peer service destroys the service's basic concept of decentralization. Users who install its software store a piece of the service's index.
Signup and Setup
YaCy's site claims that installation takes just three minutes, and in my case it actually took less than 2 minutes. Installer software is available for Windows, Mac, and GNU/Linux, each about 20MB in size. Luckily, after this quick installation, you don't have to do your searching in the program; everything is done in the browser, just as with any other search service. But this background operation inevitably drains a bit of your system resources and Internet bandwidth. There is a Performance settings page, where YaCy's priority set set to "below normal" by default, but the interface for throttling down the service's bandwidth usage isn't straightforward.
Interface
A system tray icon is pretty much the extent of the installed program's interface. Double-clicking this opens your default browser to a YaCy Web search box. Along the top of the webpage are tabs for Administration, Web Search, Search Network, Peer Owner Profile, and Help/Wiki. In the tradition of Google, the search interface is barebones: You just get a box under the P2P Web Search title, with the only options at this level being text or images.
A "more options" link lets you tell YaCy how many results to display per page (10, 50, or 100), whether to use the P2P network or just a local index. This page also show some search tricks, like parameters to only show results with a specified phrase in the URL, from a specified site, by a certain author. You can also tell YaCy to sort results by date, nearness of search terms, and language. But doing a lot of this is simpler in Google. Options you won't find in that leader are to include Scroogle results (i.e., Google results scraped clean of ads and cookie tracking) or Blekko results.
If you're fond of using your browser's built-in search, YaCy suggests simply "click-open on the default search engine in the upper right search field of your browser and select Add YaCy Search. This worked fine in Firefox, Chrome, and Opera, but Internet Explorer needs a plugin to be created for its search provider site.
YaCy's Administration tools are where you can choose whether you want to use it for regular Web search with Freeworld, for you own Web pages, or an intranet. You can also change your peer's name and port. To help the search service, you'll need to open a hole in your firewall, which the setup tries to do for you.
Google is no longer just towing the globalist line, it is actively pushing the establishment narrative on all the flashpoint issues where censorship is required and in all the regions where regime change is required.
Welcome to the Orwellian reality of Google's new hybrid think-tank/ Company JIGSAW.
According to establishment mouthpiece, Wikipedia, the sanitised blurb for Jigsaw is as follows:
Jigsaw, formerly Google Ideas, is a technology incubator created by Google, and now operated as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. Based in New York City, Jigsaw is dedicated to understanding global challenges and applying technological solutions, from "countering extremism", online censorship and cyber-attacks, to protecting access to information.Wikipedia
Because I'm so frustrated with the narrative of media coverage in SA, and the entire framing of issues in the minds of South Africans, I'm going to do a whole series of posts on Banks, Mines, The JSE, the bogus reasoning of all our political parties etc. I'll be attempting to completely reframe the way we think about things here in SA. Blue text is an active link. The Issue of Climate Change has been shown (even on this blog alone ) to be a globalist construct and product of the dynastic legacy families of capital finance as well as think tanks from globalist and tax-exempt foundations. The objective is to seize control over sovereign energy policies and to drive up the price of energy commodities used in privatised or parastatal utility companies such as the Eskom price hikes experienced through hikes in the coal price (energy commodities other than the oil price that is, which is linked to the petrodollar faction of the US hegemonic globalist faction blooded through the CFR which is behind the oil wars, regime change, the US Department of State and the Pentagon). The globalist agenda via the UN is to use sustainability to implement the planned austerity (already rolled out in the globalist vipers den of the EU) and particularly the austerity of carbon swaps, carbon taxes and carbon credits in the post-carbon economy which is being marshalled so diligently at the various globalist climate conferences, the Bilderberg meetings and the PR handled by the ever faithful MSM. The science is flimsy at best and the data is regularly corrupted to fit the awful predictions made by the woeful models developed and used as evidence (not that models can EVER be called evidence). Simply put the science does not stand to scrutiny and this has been dealt with many times before in previous posts. If you do not accept this premise the impact of this particular post will be lost on you but I welcome any constructive engagement through the contact section of this blog or as a private message on Facebook or Twitter. Please focus on the specific point of disagreement to save me the time of repeatedly covering the same issues if I have not covered that issue in enough detail previously to persuade you. I only use a tiny fraction of the collection of reputable data sources, professional sources and media or organisational institutions as referenced links but have dozens more too detailed to use as quick verifications for citations on my posts. If you make a compelling case I assure you I will reply and cite you in amendments or corrections with thanks if you can clearly demonstrate an error or point out a reasoning flaw. Usually, the globalist cabal (for lack of a better word to describe this sort of colluding collective) has gotten to our government via the finance ministers post, usually via treasury or the SARB. The climate change agenda works differently and uses the IPCC as well as the UN as its supra-national enforcer of choice instead of the IMF or World Bank and ICC. It also has taken the trouble of establishing working committees and departments established in every government. In South Africa this is notably manifest as The Centre For Environmental Rights which will enforce laws and permit criteria which the Chamber of Commerce and Department of Trade and Industry will duly fall in line with. This will give them extra clout because since CODESA the capital finance "powers that be" only control the economy of SA but the Government are the lowly administrators but can still be a barrier to passing legislation, even when insiders like Rhamaphosa are Pravin Ghordan are in office. This way all legislated enforcing can be done using government agencies that have traditional taxpayer oversight, from the bureaucratic sector to even the police force and the courts, all are now going to have to police this these practices or they will be in the unenviable position of dereliction of duty if they refuse to enforce. We missed the boat by stopping this at the source, prior to legislation being passed. Rhamaphosa's latest cabinet features too many politicians from the post Zuma cabinet that are loyal to Rhamaphosa and possibly therefore his masters from the JSE or offshore to be sure about who will put the country first VS who will do us damage by following rich heritage of globalist traitors such as Tito Mbowemi, Trevor Manual and Pravin Ghordan but even if they don't the damage is already done.
Because I'm so frustrated with the narrative of media coverage in SA, and the entire framing of issues in the minds of South Africans, I'm going to do a whole series of posts on Banks, Mines, The JSE, the bogus reasoning of all our political parties etc. I'll be attempting to completely reframe the way we think about things here in SA. Blue text is an active link. Paper needs LAND and Paper products form an interesting discussion around tax. Most of SA's tax is from VAT, formerly GST as well as feul tax and levies as well as income tax. 1. VAT on textbooks is a form of capital generation by the government, although a book itself is a finished product, large capital flow goes into the beneficiation of paper from timber. 2. Paper is obviously still made from wood, JSE listed companies Sappi and Mondi Rotatrim, Typek all need vast tractions of land or deals with farmers or other related timber companies which often leads to deforestation (destroying the ecological base of South African fauna with plantations and monoculture) 3. Some of these companies lie and say they use coated, woodfree paper, whatever that means. It is a lie. 4. Universities and schools are amongst the largest consumers of paper and pulp products everywhere, possibly the biggest of them all. This ranges from books to textbooks, cardboard, pulp, toilet tissue etc. Brands like Twinsaver, Kleenex, Baby Soft are all branches of the large conglomerates involved in the paper and pulp making industry, which all use wood found on LAND as a raw material. USA, Great Britain, Canada, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Korea, China are amongst the scavengers of African forests for the paper and pulp industry. A very good case was recently made against VAT in textbooks, considering the above this is nowhere near enough! The issue should be further unpacked to look at plantation ownership rather than just "employment opportunities" offered since plantations take up over 1% of our total land, which is massive when you consider how much Karoo and highveld wilderness remains unused or undeveloped or protected.In terms of land use, the afforested area is about 1,27 million ha or about 1% of the total South African land area of 122,3 million ha. This opens a Pandora's box which I will get to in future posts.I have many reservations that any meaningful land reform will ever come from purely race-based politics which feed the divide and rule agenda, even though most of the land historically recently has been in "white" hands, by perpetuating the above nothing will change except some blacks will be empowered. However, this only applies if your idea of empowerment is the rich black CEO's, upper management and shareholders that South Africas "Employment Equity" laws guaranteed placement. This especially applies to these multinational companies and equally corrupt sub-contractors and vendors. In real-world terms, no opportunity exists on the land of the forefathers of the black majority for their descendants even years after the colonial rule was supposedly ended. Racial employment laws and other factors also are sending "previously advantaged" whites packing if the emigration stats are anything to go by. Racial issues exist as inextricably linked to land issues in South Africa but the local approach to them, just like everywhere in the world is divide and conquer/ divide and rule. If history teaches us anything (real history not fake history) is that we should not support top-down initiatives masking such tactics unless you are a ruling elite who would then benefit. Are you a ruler? Will you benefit? These multinationals own much of the land their plantations are on, rather than "White farmers" we are dealing with clever shareholder arrangments, JSE arrangments and political bureaucracy that leads to all the usual suspects. https://www.sappi.com/sappi-forests https://ejatlas.org/conflict/mondi-and-sappi-plantations-in-zululand-south-africa
https://fulldisclosure.cer.org.za/2015/paper-pulp/licences The issue is not just land but the paper itself and this extends to education. 1. SA Reserve Bank has a duty to regulate rates which determine prices at which goods are sold. 2. SARS has a duty to collect revenue from these monstrous Multi-National companies which manufacture paper. But how many billions does Sappi have offshore? which if were progressively taxed would fund the education of thousands of students? 3. The National Treasury, Finance Minister and SARS also have a duty in making sure that all textbook selling stores in South Africa don't engage in price fixing or hike the price due to opportunistic political development. After all, why should the students pay so much money while Multi-National companies, especially those profiting off our land, are allowed to shift profit to offshore havens without them declaring profits? If anyone wants their land back or at least reasonably priced back in the public domain for entrepreneurs and taxpayers rather than rebate thieving offshore multinationals, start with the paper industry and follow the path to free government education. Paper leads to business and education... but also to land and taxation. This is how to frame the issue in your mind. Now, what if I told you every other industry follows a similar path? Don't believe me? Stay tuned for upcoming posts on SA Land & Taxes for more of this As a side note on the education thread that I'd like to tie up, It is critical that the core syllabus never be handled in privatised capacity. This should always be a taxpayer-funded function that must be improved from that sphere rather than privatising. The reasons for this are clear and abandoning expectation for government improvements and allowing faceless, shadowy corporate agendas to steer the ship can only end in tears.
When I wrote this post: https://dwahts.blogspot.com/2018/12/american-people-buy-stuff-they-dont.html
I realise I left out some important information essential to a bigger understanding of how the manipulated economy works, which is of course much different to how it will be explained on Bloomberg, CNN / BBC Money /Biz or MSNBC. I focussed on exporting inflation but I entirely forgot to understand bubbles in the context of also being inflation. This is critical. It also supplements my post: https://dwahts.blogspot.com/2019/04/money-printing-for-dummies.html
Perfectly and would suggest reading both those posts before listening to the brilliant Mike Maloney in the following video which you must listen to in its entirety. I learn a lot from this man.
Other Posts I have done where I use Mike Maloney's input are as follows:
Most companies become successful thanks to their stellar reputations. But not always. RT Business scraped the bottom of the barrel to find the most hated companies trending on the internet.
Monsanto
The company that needs no introduction, creator of DDT and Agent Orange, Monsanto is one the world’s largest pesticide and GMO seed manufacturers. It is known for being the first company to genetically modify a seed to make it resistant to pesticides and herbicides. Monsanto’s herbicides have been blamed for killing millions of crop acres, while its chemicals were added to blacklists of products causing cancer and many other health problems.
Once the darling of Microsoft-hating gadget lovers, Apple more recently has been accused of mistreating or underpaying their employees, hiding money offshore, and not paying taxes. It has also been accused of violating health or environmental legislation, and misusing its position where they have a monopoly in the market. And, oh yes, deliberately slowing older iPhones and overcharging for its products to boot.
The world's largest food and beverage company Nestle says it is committed to enhancing quality of life and contributing to a healthier future. However, it has been dragged through numerous scandals involving slave labor. The multinational is one of the most boycotted corporations in the world, as violations of labor rights have been reported at its factories in different countries.
The products of the American multinational cigarette and tobacco manufacturing company are sold in over 180 countries outside the United States. Philip Morris owns Marlboro, one of the world's biggest brands. Back in 1999, Philip Morris courted officials of the Czech Republic by explaining how smoking would in fact help their economy, due to the reduced healthcare costs from its citizens dying early.
McDonald's
American fast-food company McDonald's was founded in 1940. The company serves more customers each day than the entire population of Great Britain, but has a long history of terrible labor practices. It has been constantly under fire for serving unhealthy junk food, which contributes health problems. Researchers have found that McDonald’s burgers cannot decompose on their own.
