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commentary: ny times How Wall Street Lied to Its Computers
my response
from where i stand this is a who’s wearing the emperor’s new clothes scenario of believing in your own propaganda - when you believe in your own propaganda you are in trouble - the other factor is i ask myself in you is “who benefits [...]

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hi jeff interesting point - i believe social media is a social sculpture that is learning how to walk and is like the frog in boiling water metaphor - put a frog in slow boiling water and it will boil to death put a frog in boiling water and it will jump out fast - [...]

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commentary: shelly palmer end of broadcast tv
hmmm shelly - i think we have to ask ourselves also who is wearing the emperor’s new clothes? - i think the traditional media - tv broadcasting world and governements and biz included have been believing in their own propaganda for so long they can’t believe it ain’t reality [...]

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Commentary: blogging revolution by Roy Greenslade - guardian.co.uk
my comment response to Roy Greenslade - Why journalists must learn the values of the blogging revolution as posted in the guardian online - June 25, 2008 9:02 AM - click here to go to article
i think of blogging as the power of one is [...]

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comentary: oh my god! Pew survey 92% of Americans believe in God or a universal spirit
my note: i am not sure about what god would say about this and if he/she/it/them/we/hmmm would agree or disagree or be pleased or displeased or remain silent to protect the innocent or or and but then again -who are [...]

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Commentary: Manufactured Oil Chaos, Bush Proposes Lifting Offshore Drilling Ban
The Future wants to know who we were and who protects us from those who say they are protecting us?
Bush Proposes Lifting Offshore Drilling Ban (see below) The reason for the recent manufactured chaos oil crisis was one of his last gifts to us of lifing [...]

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commentary: anonymous sources - in response to ask ny times
—– Message Text —–
my email response
as a documentary filmmaker working on a doc called Who’s
Wearing the Emperor’s New Clothes - if so many people
believe in something how can it be wrong - i also wonder
about the question of anonymous sources as a weapon of mass
deception [...]

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Commentary: game of hints, promises and deception
editors note -
in reading in ny times article
Myanmar Rulers Still Impeding Access
i am caught by the revolving door that all point of view, agenda driven propaganda including but not limited to political and religious motivate comments all tend to be about promisses and deceptions - in my [...]

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excerpted from email i sent to some of my friends romans and filmmakers
Subject: knock knock food for your imagination -  Reporter Gives up Everything  to Tell a Story
yo and so
this piece of the rainbow of possibilities is from al tompkins of poynter institute - see below below
(editors note:) what got my attention is not only [...]

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What happens now for Zimbabwe?
wake up people we are living in an idiotcracy - we need to stop pretending we are zombies and don’t know what is going on in Zimbabwe, many places in africa, around the world, the USofA are heading for melt down - our leaders of the world care only about staying [...]

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Commentary: Neutralizing the Net - NYTimes - Net Neutrality Hearing - Feb 25 2008
article in NYTimes online
My Comments on NYTimes web site
net neutrality is about neutralizing us - we need to wake up and liberate ourselves from fear - “we the people” came running to this country, to this internet nation too, we came from [...]

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the following is a message to the members of Facebook Nation group on facebook that i started to see what mischief we the people could make
 dear facebook nation et and al
as we again have the american s-Election process - we have to ask ourselves who are we and who do we want to be and [...]

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Commentary: Robert Scoble conversation with FacebookZuckerberg at davos jan 26 08
my comment on scobleizer blog
interesting piece - would have loved to get more on Musharraf’s comments and if maybe zuckerberg and musharraf realized they both had maybe more in common then we can imagine - musharraf, a give me a break, totalitarian leader (president?) of [...]

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as we enter a new year a new beginning, ITS ABOUT TIME that we looked at ourselves and the world we live in and say something anything about how we can make it a better world isn’t IT ABOUT TIME more from the archive

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my take on the FCC ruling, Zombies & Emperor New Clothes Syndrome
first we all know by now that the media is mistress to big biz and gov, and basically one and the same and that for the most part nothing the media reports is what it appears to be
the question is Who is Wearing The [...]

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tomorrow is today tomorrow
by yesterday
tomorrow is today tomorrow
and yesterday is the day before today
and the present is always present
and somewhere over the rainbow there is
somewhere under the rainbow
and somewhere there is somewhere too
and nowhere is somewhere somewhere too
and wherever nowhere nowhere is not
and wherever where is where is not
and there there it will be ok
and [...]

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in response to ny times article  Exec Who Moved ‘Dem Bums’ Out of Brooklyn Is Hall of Famer
and my commentary send Brooklyn Dodger O’Malley to Baseball Hall oh’Shame
i wrote something similar in nytimes comment
i went to my first baseball game in Ebbets Field and went the year before last to see the METS with jeff [...]

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ok jeff hmmm - making life your major
i think there should be a subtext subtitle that should be the motto mantra of all education K-12, higher learning, and life learning educational structures and that should be - making life your major - education should be preparing you to be fit for life and making your [...]

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commentary: jeff pulver - How would YOU reinvent College?
still percolating on your comments - college/university are top down management by fear organization i believe colleges should a city collage of diversity that encourages fearlessness, curiosity and the courage to be creative - to imagine the unimaginable - i don’t think one can find it - i [...]

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