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The Truth will prevail, but only if we demand it from Congress! 9-11 Inside Job and Neocons Hacked 2004 SCROLL DOWN
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| EDITORIALS REGARDING MAINSTREAM MEDIA COMPLICITY _______________________________________________________________ Keepers at the Gate
By Manuel Valenzuela In this age of modernity and technology, where the television monitor has become the center of the average American household, from cradle to grave acting as surrogate parent, teacher, role model and as influencer of human thought, it should come as no surprise that entire populations can be controlled with such facility and efficiency, turning once thinking humans into grazing sheeple. For in today’s day and age, he who controls television controls the masses, and he who controls the masses controls the nation. Television has become, quite simply, the greatest tool of mass manipulation and thought control civilization has ever seen, an incarnation of the myriad of myths, fables, fictions, story telling, theologies and all other forms of ‘bread and circus’ history’s elite have concocted from which to retain power and control the lower echelons of man’s corrosive pyramid of hierarchy. In the television the elite have found the greatest weapon of mass control, seemingly able to dictate culture, politics, events, thought and destiny from the moment of birth to the time of death. It can even be said that it is they who can determine reality in twenty-first century America, magically making history disappear, altering the past, changing the present and molding the future. Reality is what they want it to be, shifting culture to their dictates, conditioning minds to fit their goals, pushing society in the direction that most benefits them and erasing from memory any manifestation that does not correspond to the reality they wish to create. ______________________________________________________ Newsweek and the Silence of the Lambs 14 December 2005 showing George Bush in a bubble with the heading: "Bush's World - The Isolated President: Can He Change?" For months Doug Thompson's blog - Capitol Hill Blue - has been circulating on the internet, with many of us more curious about Thompson than about Bush. Thompson's charges were outrageous - reports of a President who wandered the White House yelling at his aides, accusing those around him of betraying him - surely Thompson was on a private rant of his own. (Thompson is not a left winger - if anything, he is a libertarian, so his reports carry more sting than something written by a liberal). (with a terrific follow-up column on the "Imperial Presidency" by Fareed Zakaria), it is clear that Capitol Hill Blue was reporting the reality. What is most interesting about the article is not what is in it, but what is not in it. Where other articles discussing past Presidents - Clinton, Kennedy, Johnson, Reagan - would have been able to quote "named sources", what we have here is almost entirely anonymous. Take this example: "A White House aide, who like virtually all White House officials (in this story and in general) refused to be identified for fear of antagonize the President..." or "White House officials, as well as one of his closest friends (also speaking anonymously so as not to complicate relations with the President )...." __________________________________________________________________________________ ALICE IN WONDERLAND IN THE TIMES AND POST NEWSROOMS, AND THE WHITE HOUSE IS PATTING ITSELF ON THE BACK Ok, did the WH set out to neutralize the two top newspapers in the country or did it just work out that way? Let's back up for a minute, remember what happened with 60 Minutes in its report about Bush's National Guard records -- egg on the face, tail between the legs, and reduced credibility along with long term timidity. Humm, pretty good results from a classic Rovian strategy. _______________________________________________
Mike Whitney: 'The corporate media's threat to freedom'
Mike Whitney media operates according to its structural make-up, which requires it to serve the interests of ownership and maximize profits. Its top-down style of management ensures that it will align itself with the political centers of power which create the opportunity for greater prosperity. This explains why the media giants have consistently concealed the Bush administration's attacks on civil liberties, supported the expansion of executive power, and paved the way for global war. After all, they are just acting in their own best interest, accommodating the political establishment to allow for more consolidation and expansion. One hand washes the other. ________________________________________________________ The Mindless American: A Tragedy In The Making As a result of nine-eleven’s jarring impact upon our nation, journalists have discovered a nearparanoid rise in retaliation against individuals attempting to expose governmental malfeasance. By: Doug Soderstrom, Ph.D. Psychologist October 9, 2005 ______________________________________________________________________________________ Bernard Weiner: 'Before the Plamegate deluge: Honoring our journalistic heroes'
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