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Journalism’s Market Failure Is a Crisis for Democracy

Illustration by Joey Guidone

Local journalism is failing in the United States. Many of us learn in school that a free society requires a free press, but we rarely reflect on what it actually means to lose the fourth estate. Democracies need independent, fact-based journalism to provide a voice for a diverse range of people, to watchdog the powerful, and to keep members of a society informed.

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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

By: Taylor Jenkins Reid

Monique Grant has reached the official lowest point of her life. Her marriage of less than a year has failed, and her career is proving that the world underestimates her. But when Monique receives news that the famous and beautiful Evelyn Hugo, a millionaire actress from the 50s, wants to do an exclusive interview with her, she could not be more confused.

When she finally…

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Thanks Turbo Tax lobbying: Congress makes it more expensive to do taxes

Congress is set to pass one of the most blatant pieces of corporate welfare in years.

ProPublica’s Justin Elliott reports that the Taxpayer First Act, sponsored in the House by Democratic Rep. John Lewis (GA) and Republican Mike Kelly (PA), and in the Senate by Finance Committee Chair Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Ron Wyden (D-OR), would prohibit the IRS from creating an online tax preparation system that would compete with TurboTax and H&R Block.

As a freelancer, this is really bad news. This will affect a lot of low-income people. And this was all paid for by Turbo Tax lobbying so they can make money off people needing help to do their taxes. Did I mention they also paid Congress to make tax filing so difficult in the first place?

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इंडिया के 15 ऐसे संपादक व पत्रकार जिन्होंने पत्रकारिता की ऐसी की तैसी कर दी

इंडिया के 15 ऐसे संपादक व पत्रकार जिन्होंने पत्रकारिता की ऐसी की तैसी कर दी

हमारे देश में या फिर कहें कि पूरी दुनिया में पत्रकारिता को एक महान पेशे के तौर पर देखा जाता है. इसमें कई तरह के काम होते हैं. रिपोर्ट लेखन, लेख लेखन, साक्षात्कार तो वहीं इन सभी की निगरानी करने के लिए संपादकों की एक सजग टीम. संपादकों पर इस बात का अत्यधिक दबाव होता है कि वे जल्द-से-जल्द ख़बरों को जनता तक पहुंचाएं, लेकिन इसी क्रम में कई बार गलतियां भी हो जाती हैं. या फिर कहें कि दूसरे लोगों द्वारा…

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Enter Death Battalion: Ukrainian volunteer battalions starve a population as Chechnian battalion enters combat

  As the Ukrainian civil war evolves so have the characters fighting it, on both sides. It wasn’t so long ago that volunteer battalion fighters were to be tried for war crimes. Militants went to court as their commanders went to American military academies, all while civilian casualties climbed. The battalions continued to make news with new abuses as more Russian fighters poured in country. Now, this independent transformation away from government control climaxes in time for the arrival of a new Russia battalion-Enter Death Battalion

Ukrainian battalions recently blocked much needed humanitarian aid to the war torn east. Over half a million will starve if the aid isn't sent, the region's residents now serve as examples of this conflcits hunger for civilian life. Though some battalions consist of nationalistic Ukrainians, others have been labeled “mercenary battalions”, these were the forces blocking the region. One “mercenary commander” said, according to The Centre for Research on Globalization; “we’re at war with them and we’re spilling our blood, but in the same time we’re feeding them.” The fighters hope to deprive Pro-Russian forces by starving the entire region, reminiscent of the Nazi sentiments some battalions possess.

Nazism is a factor which first attained notoriety shortly before atrocities were reported, ties to the wars origins. The ousting of former president Viktor Yanukovych shifted power to a new Nazi tainted cabinet. It was these individuals, CRG reports, that ordered war facilitated ethnic cleansing to be committed by the battalions. Yanukovych voters were called “subhuman” and targeted by newly appointed Minister of Defense Mikhail Koval, who authorized systematic land seizures by government forces.

“Land parcels will be given out for free to the servicemen of the Ukrainian armed forces and other military formations”, Koval said in a statement. “As well as to the employees of interior ministry and security service of Ukraine that are defending territorial integrity and sovereignty of the country in eastern and south eastern regions of Ukraine.”

Ukraines broken government possesses not the funds to pay soldiers it uses in this war, all money went into creating bullets. Donbass Battalion was reported as having looted all the medication it could, as well as other scarce resources. Militants planted land mines in noncombatant areas like fields where farmers and livestock cautiously roamed. Food was burned by the Ukrainian army and refugee’s were denied promised supplies, the winter killed many through exposure. The Centre for Research on Globalization also referenced the abduction of Donbass children to orphanages for programing, to become good Ukrainian nationalists. Amnesty International reported, “These battalions often act like renegade gangs and urgently need to be brought under control. Denying food to people caught up in a conflict is against international law and  the perpetrators must be held accountable.”

Ukraines ravaged east has now manifested a comparable foe to ruthless battalion fighters, The Chechen Death Battalion. This force is 300 fighters strong in Donetsk, hailing from a land stricken by two bloody wars since the fall of the Soviet Union. Many of the battalions volunteers say they’re former state security troops, experienced and battle hungry. A Death Battalion commander, nicknamed “Stinger”, said; “Now we are (former) soldiers and officers of the Russian Army and Russian Special Forces, mostly veterans of war campaigns.” Russian authorities continue to assert no active duty soldiers fight in Ukraine, that these men are volunteers or are “on leave.” Very little information on this battalion is currently available, their effectiveness as a force remains open ended.

It would seem Russia has found a way to participate in this war unofficially, its strategy blatant and cunning. Their participation, however, does not improve the situation and only works to prolong this already dragged out conflict. The Russians answered the call of their rebel counterparts, losing ground quickly not too long ago. With the surge came a change in advantage, volunteers were now up against trained soldiers of a rather large military. The Battle at Ilovaisk, in which hundreds of volunteers were massacred as cannon fodder, spawned ruthless and bitter fighters. These two determined, nationalistic, and war craving forces ensure the prolonging of a cold and costly conflict. Lawlessness and civilian targeting only encourages intervention from outside, yet another barrier between Ukraines people and peace.

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The Real Rick Ross -- a story in the saga of black on black violence.

While this story itself is dead and cold it can give you a window into the continuation of this drama with female on female harassment and violence across the internet currently unfolding. Each, and more is part of a larger recursively misreported story of perpetual class warfare, but the hallmarks are scattered across history, and it's coming to its technological finale. If the 'keepers of matters' are successful the rites and rituals of mankind will all be administered according to our most dissimulated, researchable, and cultured biases. The fall of humankind will be complete and dominion over this world will be lost to a new superior specie of being which may or may not be "of us" depending on the eyes of the beheld.

I would like to attempt to put together a series of informative posts over time dealing with the evidence of real events to address many strategically placed myths that also try to avoid the most historically contentious issues. Myths which are closely guarded today by the trans-media ivory towers of hidden aristocracies, and surrounded with divide and conquer tactics.

We are no longer a society of nations, but followers of the intelligentsia. The CIA has had a leg up in this war for a long time now, and this story of Freeway Ricky Ross, even if manufactured itself, might be your chance to see how deep the deception goes. It's no longer a matter of if you've been deceived, but how many times and in how many ways.

If you look back at the history of science fiction you can see our inability to project what form technology will take on. With computers we are free to simulate any 3 dimensional hallucination, but if the pattern of unforecastable technology continues, it's human consciousness itself which will be advanced; the question: with physical sickness already targeted by conventional technology what would you expect such an advancement to repair? If all roads continue to lead to Rome then it's everyone's time to face Judas with his kiss of death that draws near.

The theory: our battles are being engineered, and our hate is being selectively focused to suit agendas beyond our wildest education.