Word: fakeness
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FEMA held a press conference on Oct. 23 to respond to fake questions about the real wildfires in California. Here's how it happened: Real reporters were notified only 15 minutes in advance, so all they could reasonably do was call in to a conference line. But the line was set to "listen-only" mode, so asking questions was out of the question. Only the people there - a group consisting almost entirely of FEMA public affairs employees - could grill FEMA representatives...
...here's the irony: in a way, FEMA had responded as it had trained to respond. Since 2000, the nation has held four full-scale exercises to simulate a major terrorist attack. Each time, the "mock media" is played by fake reporters - paid PR people, to be specific - just like in the fake FEMA press conference last week...
DIVERSIFICATION The report claims the Mafia has its fingers in everything; for example, it runs 2,500 illegal bakeries in Naples, makes fake olive oil and finances the illegal fishing of endangered tuna...
Percentage of fake bombs missed at San Francisco international airport, which employs private screeners, not TSA employees...
...time of year when squads’ true characters are revealed, when the metaphorical face paint peels off and the metaphorical papier mache comes unstuck. In the thick of the Ivy League schedule, the contenders separate themselves from the pretenders, cute as they may be in their fake furry tails and big glasses with rubber noses attached...