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  • Billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong says social media is the cancer of our time!

    Billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong says social media is the cancer of our time!

    Billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong wants the change the way people consume news on social media.. he called the platforms the “cancer of our time.”

    “The short attention span we’re creating in this millennium is actually very dangerous,” said Soon-Shiong, the new owner of the Los Angeles Times. “It’s the unintended consequences of social media.”

    He told “Squawk Alley” that “I say it’s the cancer of our time and social media is a form of metastasis of news. We need to change that.”

    He described Facebook as a “advertising facing” organization, and therefore people cannot differentiate from “fake news,” “real news” or “opinion news.”

    …there may be a financial gain to him if people stop consuming their news on social media.. but does he have a point?
    Recall the old wild west days of the NET … when REAL news and FAKE NEWS collided in a beautiful storm of controversy.. now everything seems fake. Everything seems, just..unreal.
    And one final thing is for sure … social  media has caused news orgs to change the way they write headlines.. to change the way journalism is done. For the most part–it’s been awful. It watered down what matters and obscured what really happened.
    So ….The billionaire has a point.
    but … will any amount of money or opinion from a man who has it change anything…?
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  • THE ANTI SOCIAL MEDIA. AND ALL THE BAD FRIENDSHIPS. You are…

    THE ANTI SOCIAL MEDIA. AND ALL THE BAD FRIENDSHIPS. You are…

    THE ANTI SOCIAL MEDIA. AND ALL THE BAD FRIENDSHIPS.

    You are being a bad friend!!

    So says a new article posted in the NEW YORK POST, all about how our constant reliance on social media is creating a terrible person out of everyone.

    And I believe it.
    We are getting winded by the steady stream of 24/7 junk. This election had consequences, too.. we just delved deeper into a pile of excrement on a daily basis of politics..

    Real friendships aren’t online. Real friendships can be aided by social media.. but just quicky skimming through a feed and casually liking things and forgetting ten seconds later what you saw is the most repugnant form of friendship one can find.. and it’s very ‘BLACK MIRROR’ish to be perfectly honest..

    I went back to my 2015 year in review and 2016 predictions. I actually am going to toot a horn. One prediction was that social media would wane, and that we would all find real ways to connect to people again. I sense that is happening.

    I think the quicker it happens, the better it will be..

  • UK GUARDIAN SPLASHES: Is it time for a horror movie about the evils of Donald Trump?

    UK GUARDIAN SPLASHES: Is it time for a horror movie about the evils of Donald Trump?

    UK GUARDIAN SPLASHES: Is it time for a horror movie about the evils of Donald Trump?:

    Chuck Bowen writes this for the world to read:

    A much larger proportion of the electorate is terrified of a Donald Trumppresidency, of course. This alarm has led to protests of all kinds. One image circulated on Facebook depicts the “Make America great again” huckster as one of the mossy-colored, skull-exposed aliens from John Carpenter’s They Live. Below this monstrous caricature is a caption that will be familiar to fans of the horror film: OBEY.

    This caricature, like Hillary Clinton’s address in San Diego, offers a small catharsis for those of us who find Trump’s running for office to be a prolonged and baffling ordeal – a serrated cornucopia of unchecked authoritarian aggression, most obviously embodied by his obsession with dictatorial regimes and attending hatred for non-white, non-male citizens as well as the press and judicial systems. (Imagine what the hypocritical Republican hate machine would say about a Democrat who praised Russian president Vladimir Putin.)

    Debate away.. the political spectrum is filled with vibrant colors on both sides.

    But one thing Bowen writes struck me: 

    They Live was released in 1988, following a couple of likeably macho salt of the earth types (played by Roddy Piper and Keith David) as they discover that the upper class of society are alien monsters lulling us into a stupor with pop culture, exploiting us and polluting our planet while living the high life. Change the size of the TV sets, gingerly sprinkle the phrase “1%” into the dialogue, digitally insert cell phones into the characters’ hands, have a few extras snapping selfies in the background and They Live could pass as a story of the present day.

    They live was one of the best movies ever made..
    There have been a lot of candidates for ‘they live’ cred long before Donald Trump emerged from the stairway in the same style the SIMPSONS predicted he would ..

    Bowen goes on to name other films in recent horror memory, like THE PURGE.. 

    Horror and pop culture.. they go together so well.

    I have often written that horror movies encapsulate the moment in time they were created..
    Perhaps a Trump movie is in order. To be fair, maybe Hillary should be in it too. And the victor in the end? Gary Johnson! Ok that can only happen in the movies.

  • Congo “child witches” exorcised

    Congo “child witches” exorcised

    Congo “child witches” exorcised

    These are headlines that can be straight from old times of ages gone by.  They are not, however. They are today. Now. Right now. The UK DAILY MAIL is running a big spread in their latest Britwrappers telling the hidden story of the ‘demons’ in the Congo children.. 50,000 at least who are ‘exorcised’ in a brutal way to ‘beat the devil’ from their human bodies. Nikki Fagge writes in more detail:…

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  • Congo “child witches” exorcised

    Congo “child witches” exorcised

    These are headlines that can be straight from old times of ages gone by.  They are not, however. They are today. Now. Right now.

    The UK DAILY MAIL is running a big spread in their latest Britwrappers telling the hidden story of the ‘demons’ in the Congo children.. 50,000 at least who are ‘exorcised’ in a brutal way to ‘beat the devil’ from their human bodies.

    Nikki Fagge writes in more detail:

    Squeezing a toddler’s eyeballs and shoving his thumb into her tiny nose a Catholic priest purges a child of the devil, one of many exorcisms he carries out every day.

    Flicked with holy water, her face smeared with olive oil and poked violently in the stomach, two-and-a-half-year old Angel bursts into tears as she is rid of the evil spirits that lurk within her.

    The child wriggles to free herself but her mother holds on firmly, insistent that she endures the exorcism to protect her from the sorcery that many in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) believe controls their lives.

    And more//

    Angel and Grace, an 11-month-old baby exorcised the same day, have been ‘saved’ by the ceremony, the devil banished, and for now they remain safe in their homes.

    But tens of thousands of other children in this troubled central African country have been branded ‘child’ witches and flung out onto the streets by their families into a life of destitution, violence and abuse.

    MailOnline ventured into the frightening world of the occult in this African heartland, famously described as the ‘heart of darkness’, as part of series examining the challenges facing the United Nations trying to help these children. 

    In the capital Kinshasa, at the Gallicane Catholic Church, Father Alexis Katziota Mungala talks almost matter of factly of his work releasing thousands of children from the devil.

    Exorcism is a daily ritual he performs in his church.

    ‘These witches they eat human flesh, they drink human blood,’ Father Alexis told MailOnline.

    The ‘rest of the story’ is told in more detail, and large photographs of the ‘demon children’ are showcased–children who look quite fine, quite beautiful, and quite normal. Normal except for a culture and parents who believe that demons must be ‘beat’ out of them.

    Assaulted: Therese, pictured with other girls from the shelter where she lives, was taken to church where priests shoved their fingers into her mouth, checking for pieces of her grandmother's flesh. They didn't find any, but said the cyst on her head was filled with evilDevil: Back at Gallicane, Father Alexis - performing during the ceremony - explains what happens a little more. ‘It is the work of the devil. Witchcraft kills the love within the child,' he says. 'It fills them with hate, it makes them eat their father, fight with their brother'Changing the culture: Ettienne - known as 'Papa' to the boys he helps - hopes in the future he will no longer need to run his shelter, but for now he is focused on making them successful members of society. One, he tells MailOnline proudly, has even gone to university

     

  • Congo “child witches” exorcised

    Congo “child witches” exorcised

    Congo “child witches” exorcised

    These are headlines that can be straight from old times of ages gone by.  They are not, however. They are today. Now. Right now. The UK DAILY MAIL is running a big spread in their latest Britwrappers telling the hidden story of the ‘demons’ in the Congo children.. 50,000 at least who are ‘exorcised’ in a brutal way to ‘beat the devil’ from their human bodies. Nikki Fagge writes in more detail:…

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    A brutal ritual where girls as young as 10 are forced to have their breasts pounded and burned with hot stones to disguise signs of pubescent development could be on the rise in Britain, campaigners warn.

    Breast ironing, a process which involves using stones, hammers or hot spatulas to mutilate breast tissue, is often performed by mothers intending to prevent their daughters from being sexually harassed or raped.

  • Telling tales. Americans are obsessed with telling stories about themselves.. but as this author Qi Wang reveals, Asians are not

    Telling tales. Americans are obsessed with telling stories about themselves.. but as this author Qi Wang reveals, Asians are not

    Telling tales. Americans are obsessed with telling stories about themselves.. but as this author Qi Wang reveals, Asians are not