LOVE STORIES
A House for Mr Biswas, V. S. Naipaul
The General in His Labyrinth, Gabriel García Márquez
Palace Walk, Naguib Mahfouz
The Fall, Albert Camus
- It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.
- The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
https://www.rt.com/news/325524-assange-privacy-rt-10/
not much news here, if not insisting it is
- but this one -
The Five Eyes intelligence arrangement [of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the US]
info re-religified
sci-tech deified
science for massproduction
http://rossaforbes.com/sockpuppets-astroturfing-and-anti-stigma-campaigns/
Sockpuppets, astroturfing and anti-stigma campaigns
Pharmaceutical Industry Agenda Setting in Mental Health Policies
Richard Gosden and Sharon Beder Excerpt
The use of sophisticated public relations
techniques for setting political agendas has become a standard practice
in most advanced democracies. The consequences are slowly becoming
apparent. The system of representative democracy is being reshaped into
a new kind of “managed corporatocracy” in which public opinion and
government policy are custom-made products that can be shaped, packaged
and sold by skilled public relations experts.
