A bit about NewsScape's philosophy: Every now and then, we see a post that stops us dead in our tracks. Never mind the 4+ million views of our hilarious and thankfully harmless firework launch demo, the picture here is what NewsScape is about. The role of an honest news/information broker is to explain and present the facts, and for you to say what you want about them - and occasionally step in when facts are misrepresented in opinions. Outrageous spin is at last being potentially harmful propaganda and in some instances, far more insidious. When a once-respected operation like the BBC gets caught with its pants down according to many who were told to look the other way when Jimmy Savile et al were struggling to keep theirs on, it lost all credibility. Cliff Richard's “trial by innuendo and helicopter” ought to have lead to wholesale sackings and new brooms at every level. But it didn’t. We think that Britain's "silent majority" is pretty
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” 14JULY20 Google famously wrote their own motto: “Do no evil” …and have struggled to live that down. At this time in world affairs, there is no need to create anything new as the one above has an awkward resonance. It is generally attributed to the 18th century philosopher Edmund Burke and has been tragically true at far too many points throughout history. It is a close relative of the "line of least resistance". The UK is presently an example of what can happen when good men are not doing enough. A democratic vote of the British people dramatically confirmed their wish to leave the European Union, and recover their ability to govern themselves through directly elected representatives. This means leaving the unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats of Brussels to focus on maintaining the EU as a protected trade area designed and maintained (mostly) to provide F