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Doomsday Clock expected to move closer to midnight as threat of global annihilation grows (telegraph.co.uk).

Indeed, and to two-and-a-half minutes toi midnight it was moved. But besides the threat being more likely a tangerine rump sitting on the wrong red button, is that the sort of fear—often found in or as response to “fake news”—when a “donate” button is involved from which online ad and donate driven economic democracy profits and keeps bear-wrestling strongmen such as Russia’s Putin in and allows America’s newly elected The Orange Don—much to the incredulity, shock, outrage or just amusement of most—with his desire to democratise nuclear destruction to ascend to power?

A digest that through the quirky deconstruction of latest stories aims to show that a lot of media “opinion” is actually just “agenda” or “opportunity” and why philosophy is useful in everyday life in defining—for and by yourself—the difference between what ancient Greeks like Plato defined as episteme (knowledge) and doxa (belief), and not just idealistic training to pack Fyffes bananas. Think a bumper bonanza of those cultural, political and just down right hypothetical you don’t really read in Latest Picks.

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