February squish factor

Every month I tally up how many views my fresh posts garnered at Blogger compared to Before It's News.

In theory, since I publish on Blogger, the biggest blog host on the web, the looks there should by far outstrip the views at Before It's News, where I'm stashed in the fringe back corner on what's already a fringe website.

However, Google loads up its Blogger platform with a gauntlet of all sorts of algorithms designed to protect the public by squishing misinformation, disinformation, Putin's propaganda, Chinese propaganda, Iranian propaganda... in fact, any propaganda whatsoever unless it's US propaganda, and any other ideas that do not pass the the current groupthink sniff test.

In February I posted 34 stories on Blogger. Before It's News reposted 33 of them.

Views on Blogger; avg of 16.5 views per post for a total of 560.

Views on Before It's News; avg of 77 per post for a total of 2,554.

Algorithms at work!

 

Freedom of speech long fucked in France

Ask Dieudonne M'bala M'bala about "free speech" in France.

The spectacle of 40 plus foreign leaders jockeying for photo-ops in Paris today was truly wretch-worthy.

I'm listening to the Rex Murphy show on CBC, and today's topic is the past week in Paris. We're getting late into the show, but thus far the only caller who tried to connect the dots between Paris this week to our drones, our bombing of this Muslim nation and that, our ravaging of Iraq and Libya and Afghanistan, was cut off early.

Obviously, at the CBC, "Islamic terror" is a spontaneous eruption of irrational hate, aimed at the West generally and at Jews specifically, for no reason whatsoever, other than that the crazy Islamic religion just makes towel-heads crazy with hate!

A few topics not in any way approached on Murphy's show; the history of colonialism, Algeria, Palestine, America's serial wars on Muslim countries, that lovely photo collection from Abu Ghraib...

The Rex Murphy show today is a great showcase of Western ignorance and denial. The only caller who suggested a causal link between "terror" and what we do to "them" was cut off.

If we can't get beyond our ignorance and denial, we're headed for lots more of what we saw this week.