This Week's Buzz

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Ladies And Gents

...Burbank looks at the news.

The Buzz

So many Russians. Every time we learn a bit more about Cult45 and their election year fuckery, we get more names that are always very Russian-ey, and the rubes get even more adamant about their support for a POTUS who's obviously crooked like a mountain road.

Makes me wonder how all of this would be playing out if those names were like Ramirez or Garcia or Montano.

Bob Cesca's contribution (at about 30:20) is another good one.

This week's recap - Buzz Burbank

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A good recap - every Thursday

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Buzz Burbank's wrap-up from last Thursday:

It takes a while to sort through all the shit - sometimes I have to listen to this kind of thing 2 or 3 times because there's so much to grok, my brain overheats and shorts out.

Buzz helps me connect some of the dots and keep it more or less organized.

Two really big ones:

• The Kennedy retirement
• NRA laundering Russian money for 45* and the GOP

Today's Buzz

Buzz Burbank News and Comment:

The Shearer Dossier:

Unlike Steele, Shearer does not have a background in espionage, and his memo was initially viewed with scepticism, not least because he had shared it with select media organisations before the election.

However, the Guardian has been told the FBI investigation is still assessing details in the “Shearer memo” and is pursuing intriguing leads.

One source with knowledge of the inquiry said the fact the FBI was still working on it suggested investigators had taken an aspect of it seriously.


TrumpIsNotAboveTheLaw.org

Enter your zip code and get ready to hit the streets.

Pay close attention at about 44:10 - when Buzz Points out that we're still pretty much the Stoopid Country.

The Buzz Man

You've heard it before, and here it is again:

Of all the wealth generated in the world last year, 82% of it went to the Top 1%.
None of it - NONE OF IT - went to the bottom 50%.

And there's a very good rundown of what's been happening in the Mueller investigation, and the bit about the use of bots and American social media.*

Buzz Burbank - News & Comment:




*BTW -

Why Fake News Targeted Trump Supporters - The Atlantic from last year.

‘Fake News’: Wide Reach but Little Impact, Study Suggests - NYT this month 

(I think this guy's conclusions are a bit silly, because we know that moving even a low percentage of voters makes a huge difference)
Here's the study

Abstract: 

Though some warnings about online “echo chambers” have been hyperbolic, tenden- cies toward selective exposure to politically congenial content are likely to extend to misinformation and to be exacerbated by social media platforms. We test this prediction using data on the factually dubious articles known as “fake news.” Using unique data combining survey responses with individual-level web tra c histories, we estimate that approximately 1 in 4 Americans visited a fake news website from October 7-November 14, 2016. Trump supporters visited the most fake news web- sites, which were overwhelmingly pro-Trump. However, fake news consumption was heavily concentrated among a small group — almost 6 in 10 visits to fake news web- sites came from the 10% of people with the most conservative online information diets. We also find that Facebook was a key vector of exposure to fake news and that fact-checks of fake news almost never reached its consumers.
Happy Friday!

Today's Buzz

Pointing up some shitty shit that's been flying under the radar.

Buzz Rounds It All Up

Buzz Burbank tells us what's goin' on.

The Buzz

Buzz Burbank (@MichaelJElston) does the straight up news - with that old familiar liberal bias most closely associated with reality.

(Loads of fun with Political Spoils starting at about 13:38)