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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
I don't really watch the TV news any longer. I used to watch it daily several times a day, keep on the radio news, and check websites. Now, I don't. My life is a lot better for it.
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Aye. Websites are about it for me, other than the occasional coffee shop newspaper scan. News addiction is evil.
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It is like we are slowly converting to a third world country.
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We're in the middle of yet another blackout. Currently 3hrs and counting, and it covers several square miles. We usually have 1 or 2 shorter versions each week but early July we had 5 in a week from transformers going *bang*. The same ones. Our grid just can't take the load. The instability reminds me of our silicon valley enron rolling brownouts late 1990s.
Time to alert FEMA? /sarcasm
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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