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Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy; but I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven; for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so? Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect . -- St Matthew v.43-48. ... And the rascally Dems made peace with the obdurate Repubs. Then the nation came together to heal a needy and troubled world. Amen

Propaganda's Secret Weapon REPEAT, Repeat , Repeat, repeat, repeat .... You know it's a lie, then you keep hearing it over and over, and the repetition will twist your mind. “Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth”  A law of propaganda: Nazi Joseph Goebbels.   Research experiments conducted by social scientists help illustrate why it’s so insidious for President Trump and his congressional defenders to keep  parroting  the debunked conspiracy  theory , which originated with Russian intelligence agencies, that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 U.S. election. People who are repeatedly exposed to the same false information, even if they’re initially told that it is false, feel fewer qualms sharing it on social media after each additional time they see it. In five experiments involving more than 2,500 Americans, Daniel Effron, who teaches organizational behavior at the London Business School, and Medha Raj, a PhD student at the Universit...

Think the Mighty Russian Internet Army Doesn't Watch You? I was amazed when some Republican pals bought into the "Not Russia, But Ukraine" bald faced lie, so I did a mild mannered blog post pointing out the obvious.  It got a lot of attention IN RUSSIA!  Here's the count of where this blog's readers were over the last few days: Hmmm. Usually I get maybe one or two views from Russia.   Make of it what you will.