HOW do we explain that the prime minister and his regime LIE and LIE?
WHAT do we teach our children?
DO we tell them that if they make an agreement with someone, they have to honour that?
HOW do we explain that the prime minister makes agreements and then breaks them?
WHAT do we teach our children?
DO we tell them everyone is of equal value?
HOW do we explain a country with more millionaires and billionaires than ever - a rich country - where millions are left trapped in penury and need food banks to survive?
WHAT do we teach our children?
DO we tell them it was agreed after WW2 that countries should give refuge to those fleeing with well-founded fears of death and persecution and how right that was?
HOW do we explain the cruel, heartless treatment of refugees?
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CARD STACKING is a propaganda technique that seeks to manipulate audience perception of an issue by emphasizing one side and repressing another. Such emphasis may be achieved through media bias or the use of one-sided testimonials, or by simply censoring the voices of critics.
NAME-CALLING (or "ad hominem") is a propaganda technique that seeks to manipulate audience perception of an issue by applying insulting or demeaning labels to an individual or group opposing the perception aimed at
BANDWAGON is a propaganda technique that seeks to manipulate audience perception of an issue by exploiting the desire of most people to join the crowd or be on the winning side and avoid winding up on the losing side
The darkness crumbles away.
It is the same old druid Time as ever,
Only a live thing leaps my hand,
A queer sardonic rat,
As I pull the parapet’s poppy
To stick behind my ear.
Droll rat, they would shoot you if they knew
1/?
Your cosmopolitan sympathies.
Now you have touched this English hand
You will do the same to a German
Soon, no doubt, if it be your pleasure
To cross the sleeping green between.
It seems you inwardly grin as you pass
Strong eyes, fine limbs, haughty athletes,
2/?
Less chanced than you for life,
Bonds to the whims of murder,
Sprawled in the bowels of the earth,
The torn fields of France.
What do you see in our eyes
At the shrieking iron and flame
Hurled through still heavens?
What quaver—what heart aghast?
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THREAD
I. F. Stone (1907 – 1989) was a leftwing, progressive US investigative journalist, writer, author
He was fiercely independent
He produced I. F. Stone's Weekly (1953–71), a highly respected and trusted publication
I will post some of his quotes I like in the course of today
“Facts are subversive”
- I. F. Stone
“The only kinds of fights worth fighting are those you’re going to lose, because somebody has to fight them and lose and lose and lose until someday, somebody who believes as you do wins”
- I.F. Stone
AWAKE! For Morning in the Bowl of Night
Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:
And lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light.
from Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, A Loaf of Bread—and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness—
Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!
from Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring
Your Winter-garment of Repentance fling:
The Bird of Time has but a little way
To flutter - and the Bird is on the Wing.