[SeaGypsy]

Another Aspergers symptom is being deeply disturbed & excited by direct criticism. Mostly his mumblings from the corner get mostly ignored, poor Pstar gets stuck into him a bit you probably noticed, but I'm better at it & sometimes he pisses me off enough & I get stuck in, which Mossie can't stand, hence his pathetic sneery whiney tone & broken record noise making. Honestly I don't get why he is here, just been around so long he thinks he's part of the furniture is the only conclusion. (As Mos he began in the first year or 2 of the site & from memory made over 12,000 posts.)

[ennui2]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SumYunGai', '
')This site is currently experiencing an ennui glut! Hopefully 34 posts in one day will constitute the all time peak. I wonder what caused ennui's production numbers to suddenly spike so uncontrollably?

[AgentR11]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ennui2', ' ') What's relevant is whatever people want to know.

[ralfy]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ibon', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ennui2', 'T')hat's why a lot of this sentiment is simply the fantasy we have of using the MSM as our own personal ideological mouthpiece (ala Network).

[ralfy]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Subjectivist', '
')
When the MSM reports a story about Fukushima do they report the facts, or do they hype fear with every scary sounding word in their vocabulary to draw more audience and increase their ratings for ad revenue purposes?

[Subjectivist]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ralfy', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Subjectivist', '
')
When the MSM reports a story about Fukushima do they report the facts, or do they hype fear with every scary sounding word in their vocabulary to draw more audience and increase their ratings for ad revenue purposes?

[ennui2]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ralfy', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Subjectivist', '
')
When the MSM reports a story about Fukushima do they report the facts, or do they hype fear with every scary sounding word in their vocabulary to draw more audience and increase their ratings for ad revenue purposes?

[ralfy]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Subjectivist', '
')
Theoretically sure, but since 1979 I have never seen them do that, always on the side of hyping the fear, never on the side of calm logical decision making.

[regardingpo]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SumYunGai', 'E')nnui might not have much to contribute, but that hasn't stopped him from putting up some pretty impressive numbers lately. What he lacks in quality, he now makes up for in shear quantity of posts.



This site is currently experiencing an ennui glut! Hopefully 34 posts in one day will constitute the all time peak. I wonder what caused ennui's production numbers to suddenly spike so uncontrollably?

[Subjectivist]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ralfy', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Subjectivist', '
')
Theoretically sure, but since 1979 I have never seen them do that, always on the side of hyping the fear, never on the side of calm logical decision making.

[ralfy]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Subjectivist', '
')I have no idea how you got there from anything I have ever posted on this group. Were you aiming at someone else and quoted me by mistake?

[onlooker]

I would add that Media hypes The War on Terrorism over these more pernicious limits to growth problems, so that is fear but misdirected

[ennui2]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ralfy', '
')Increased sales of cell phones, computers, cars, condo units, fashion accessories, pop music, movies, etc., worldwide during the past few decades were not brought about by hyping fear but by doing the opposite.

[ralfy]

Indeed, as

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket

[SumYunGai]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('onlooker', 'I') would add that Media hypes The War on Terrorism over these more pernicious limits to growth problems, so that is fear but misdirected

[ennui2]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SumYunGai', 'Y')ou don't hear them saying: "And now let's break away to Shep Smith for the latest on the newly formed Triangle of Doom", do you? Laura Ingram hasn't mentioned the Etp model, or thermodynamic limits generally, even once.

[vox_mundi]

Reality is an Illusion ...

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')img]https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/2c/6a/be/2c6abe62353e1140a56744bf69372a0b.jpg[/img] -

[vox_mundi]

New Research Uncovers 'One of the Tobacco Industry's Greatest Scams'

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')wo new studies from the Tobacco Control Research Group at the University of Bath, published in the BMJ journal, Tobacco Control, expose evidence that big tobacco companies are still facilitating tobacco smuggling, while attempting to control a global system designed to prevent it, and funding studies that routinely overestimate levels of tobacco smuggling.

The first study, which draws on leaked documents, highlights the elaborate lengths the industry has gone to control a global track and trace system and to undermine a major international agreement - the Illicit Trade Protocol - designed to stop the tobacco industry from smuggling tobacco.

... Leaked documents show the four major transnational tobacco companies hatched a joint plan to use front groups and third parties to promote 'Codentify' to governments and have them believe it was independent of industry and how these plans were operationalised. For example, the study reveals how a supposedly independent company fronted for British American Tobacco (BAT) in a tender for a track and trace system in Kenya.

The study suggests that in order to bolster support for their system and enhance their credibility, Big Tobacco created front groups, poured funding into organisations meant to hold it to account and into initiatives that would curry favour, and paid for misleading data and reports.

... The authors suggest that despite overwhelming evidence of historical complicity in tobacco smuggling and their latest evidence suggesting that tobacco companies are continuing to fuel the illicit trade, the industry now portrays itself as key to solving the problem, presenting its funding of research as an example of its attempts to reduce illicit trade.

[onlooker]

Thanks for bumping this thread Vox