This morning as I was sleeping through a conference call, I found some reason to check the stats on this blog. It turns out that some Chinese bot was keying on the word 'yellow' according to Google. Since the phrase I saw contained the phrase '500 tons of yellow' I quickly discerned that we were talking about the Valery Plame scandal and the matter of yellowcake in the evidentiary buckets of Iraqi causus belli.
Just last week I asked over at Quora to some intelligency guys what they considered to be the amount and quality of disinformation assaulting our senses in the miasma of the interwebz. I got some fair answers, but nothing definitive. I'll go back later and ask another way. What I suspect is that the qualified experts on these matters pay attention to the qualified experts. The problem is than unless you are somehow hooked into their writing, it's hard to find out their syllabi. For me, on matters like Plame and Yellowcake, I would depend on Bellingcat. This reminds me that I am awaiting some factual resolution of the recent outrage over mined ships in the Persian Gulf, keywords 'limpet mines above the waterline'.
What I would like to start now, is a new category called Penultimate Histories. It is the longitudinal stuff missing from the MSM that gives the appropriate context to the study of complex issues that are spun our way through various craptastic means. This is very much like the curated quality of a BoxTagged XRepublic except that I'm the sole dude. I have to start somewhere, and I can't get this crap out of my head.
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