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Showing posts with label Press. Show all posts

Saturday 28 October 2017

How To Win The War For Your Mind



Brandon Smith, Contributor

All battles, all wars, all fistfights and bar brawls, all conflicts in every place and in every time (except those conflicts in which both sides answer to the same puppeteer) begin and end as battles of the mind. No struggle is determined on strength of arms alone. In fact, the technologically advanced adversary with all his fancy firepower is often more vulnerable than his low-tech counterparts.

Noam Chomsky - “10 strategies of manipulation” by the media

Renowned critic and always MIT linguist Noam Chomsky, one of the classic voices of intellectual dissent in the last decade, has compiled a list of the ten most common and effective strategies resorted to by the agendas “hidden” to establish a manipulation of the population through the media.

Thursday 26 October 2017

Russell Brand: Society is collapsing

By Steven McIntosh
Entertainment reporter
25 October 2017

From the section Entertainment & Arts
www.bbc.com




Addiction and mental health may not be the kinds of issues you'd normally expect to be addressed at a stand-up comedy gig.

But Russell Brand has never been your conventional comedian - and it's precisely these subjects that he's tackling in his new book and at one of his upcoming London shows.

"Society is collapsing," the comedian tells the BBC, "and people are starting to recognise that the reason they feel like they're mentally ill is that they're living in a system that's not designed to suit the human spirit.