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Bloomberg Surrogate Was PR Guru for Bolsonaro February 20, 2020 Arick Wierson, who is pushing the billionaire’s presidential bid, devoted himself in 2018 to softening the image of Brazil’s extreme-right leader, reports Ben Norton. Michael Bloomberg, left, and Jair Bolsonaro.  By  Ben Norton A  Michael Bloomberg surrogate pumping up the billionaire’s 2020 campaign for president helped to elect Brazil’s extreme-right leader, Jair Bolsonaro, an open supporter of military dictatorship who frequently threatens violence against his political opponents. Arick Wierson is a public relations strategist who served as a political aide and the top communications adviser to Bloomberg when the Republican media mogul was mayor of New York City. Wierson worked with Bloomberg for nearly nine years, he noted, “first as an aide in his 2001 political campaign, and later as his  chief media advisor  at City Hall.” Wierson is so close with the billionaire he sarca...

We All Wear Tinfoil Hats Now  How fears of mind control went from paranoid delusion to conventional wisdom Geoff Shullenberger I n early 2017, after the double shock of Brexit and the election of Donald Trump, the British data-mining firm Cambridge Analytica gained sudden notoriety. The previously little-known company, reporters claimed, had used behavioral influencing techniques to turn out social media users to vote in both elections. By its own account, Cambridge Analytica had worked with both campaigns to produce customized propaganda for targeting individuals on Facebook likely to be swept up in the tide of anti-immigrant populism. Its methods, some news sources suggested, might have sent enough previously disengaged voters to the polls to have tipped the scales in favor of the surprise victors. To a certain segment of the public, this story seemed to answer the question raised by both upsets: How was it possible that the seemingly solid establishment consensus...

Posting this for comic relief. P igeons U nited T o I nterfere N ow Pigeons in MAGA hats set loose in Las Vegas ahead of Democratic debate By  Natalie O'Neill February 19, 2020  Pigeons wearing MAGA hats spotted in bizarre Las Vegas stunt Play Video MORE ON: PIGEONS Chihuahua and pigeon, two roommates at pet shelter, are touching the hearts of millions Hundreds of pigeons stand their ground in this creepy video 'PigeonBot' unveiled and can bend its wings like a real bird Pigeon spotted wearing tiny sombrero — after pigeon in cowboy hat dies A flock of pigeons wearing tiny “Make America Great Again” hats was released in Sin City by a group of Trump boosters on the eve of the Democratic debate, according to a report Wednesday. In the bizarre stunt, activists adorned one of the birds with a coifed Trump wig as part of the “aerial protest,” according to a press release cited by  news3lv.com . “[It ...