And the Torture bill is for what? All the president has done is to make the world a more dangerous place. The leaked CIA report documents this.
Do you feel safer? Heck no.
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This congress and the president have gone mad.
Liberty is never defined by the whip...
Its time to reclaim the ideals of liberty and human decency.
If its a question of what action. Well it's time to do what Martin Luther king did in the 60's and just flat Speak out and start by refusing to play by their games.
And that is to stop living in fear and to start acting out in <a href="http://www.personaltao.com/tao/freedom.htm">humanity </a>.
The question is , where is the leader to speak up and pull the people together on the issue?
any ideas? Maybe <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=tgqpMChtOD8">Christopher Walken</a>?
He said he would take the job of prez :)
peace
casey
It's our choice as voting citizens as to whether or not we want a singlely-owned media to operate as our King.
I've heard it said by people who happen to have inside information on stories that come out in media news outlets, that every time they happen to have personal information about something, that the news got the main jist of the stories totally wrong. Sometimes the news seems to work in collusion with other outfits, such as someone situated in a governmental agency, to concoct an essentially fabricated story, such as using reports that are mere allegations that have been refuted, etc., as if they were be all, end all truth.
This can only get worse in a society with only one singlely-owned "megaphone."
I have now seen it for myself, at least twice, that the news outlets are not reporting the news so much as creating it. And it is quite rare that I happen to have inside information on anything in the news. IT STANDS TO REASON THAT ALMOST EVERYTHING THEY REPORT MUST BE RIFE WITH FABRICATIONS -- made to look as though they are something, and yet when all the facts are scrutinized, they are nothing.
To someone, this set-up (of only a very few people owning media megaphones) is very convenient for their personal uses and pleasures. Maybe they sit around and laugh every time they fool people and it actually works, and put another feather in their caps.
This is exactly how egomaniacs go off the deep end. They start telling themselves that they are somehow "better" (eg. smarter, or what not) than other people. Now I'm not saying that everyone should be in total love with total strangers. But more and more, they bypass their consciences with this excuse that they are better than other people (so what the hell with others), as they sink deeper and deeper into sociopathy.
SOCIOPATHY IS QUITE TRENDY THESE DAYS. And we have the media as our example every day, to set these trends for the rest of society and the naive crop of new youth, etc., for whom we have no time to socialize with ourselves or to bequeath our own experience/s.
Who the hell thought this was a good idea to allow only a few people to own media megaphones? Is it some marketeering ploy to monopolize markets? Someone afraid of being found out, because they have a shady past? This can only end in dictatorship, and that is just fine with those who think they are going to have the reins.
If they are justifying this to themselves for something like "in the name of God" --- well if that is some Christiany slant then I would like to remind them that it is one of the Ten Commandments to not bear false witness against thy neighbor, and that lying is really not that cool in the eyes of this God whose name they use for advantage.
I keep thinking of how Jesus was crucified with a thief, and that is exactly what these control freak sorts do today, too. They incriminate and bunch together anyone who does not kiss up to their drum as if they are something in need of crucifixion or the like. Our world is very very pathetic. Is it not strange, that in two thousand years, we cannot learn?
The [http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003157690 Associated Press reports]:
Rep. [[Robert Andrews]], D-N.J., who serves on the House Armed Services Committee, said he would be asking the Department of Defense for information about how this "controversial" vendor was chosen, saying the choice of the Lincoln Group "concerns me greatly."
But, Andrews said he's more concerned about the fact that the contract was awarded at all, not just to the Lincoln Group.
"I wish that our problem in Iraq was that the military wasn't getting good PR," Andrews said. "The problem seems to be that the country is sliding into civil war."
I suggest a Karl Rove Propaganda Award for President Bush following his comment about medias revealing parts of the intel report on terror and Iraq. According to King Dubya, the said medias did "create confusion in the minds of the American people", which could be translated into "did their jobs" or "exposed our propaganda machine".
Things to read : interesting papers from Newsweek (20061002 issue) about :
- Hizbullah's propaganda machine : "Winning Hearts and Minds"
- The Architect's new proteges (Todd Olsen, Terry Nelson...) : "In Rove's Footsteps"
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Stephane MOT -
http://e-blogules.blogspot.com
Beth Wellington, Roanoke, VA
http://360.yahoo.com/beth_blog
Since E&P requires a subscription, here's a link to Filkins's comments
http://www.cpj.org/Briefings/2006/anniversary/IraqMP3.mp3
It's our choice as voting citizens as to whether or not we want a singlely-owned media to operate as our King.
I've heard it said by people who happen to have inside information on stories that come out in media news outlets, that every time they happen to have personal information about something, that the news got the main jist of the stories totally wrong. Sometimes the news seems to work in collusion with other outfits, such as someone situated in a governmental agency, to concoct an essentially fabricated story, such as using reports that are mere allegations that have been refuted, etc., as if they were be all, end all truth.
This can only get worse in a society with only one singlely-owned "megaphone."
I have now seen it for myself, at least twice, that the news outlets are not reporting the news so much as creating it. And it is quite rare that I happen to have inside information on anything in the news. IT STANDS TO REASON THAT ALMOST EVERYTHING THEY REPORT MUST BE RIFE WITH FABRICATIONS -- made to look as though they are something, and yet when all the facts are scrutinized, they are nothing.
To someone, this set-up (of only a very few people owning media megaphones) is very convenient for their personal uses and pleasures. Maybe they sit around and laugh every time they fool people and it actually works, and put another feather in their caps.
This is exactly how egomaniacs go off the deep end. They start telling themselves that they are somehow "better" (eg. smarter, or what not) than other people. Now I'm not saying that everyone should be in total love with total strangers. But more and more, they bypass their consciences with this excuse that they are better than other people (so what the hell with others), as they sink deeper and deeper into sociopathy.
SOCIOPATHY IS QUITE TRENDY THESE DAYS. And we have the media as our example every day, to set these trends for the rest of society and the naive crop of new youth, etc., for whom we have no time to socialize with ourselves or to bequeath our own experience/s.
Who the hell thought this was a good idea to allow only a few people to own media megaphones? Is it some marketeering ploy to monopolize markets? Someone afraid of being found out, because they have a shady past? This can only end in dictatorship, and that is just fine with those who think they are going to have the reins.
If they are justifying this to themselves for something like "in the name of God" --- well if that is some Christiany slant then I would like to remind them that it is one of the Ten Commandments to not bear false witness against thy neighbor, and that lying is really not that cool in the eyes of this God whose name they use for advantage.
I keep thinking of how Jesus was crucified with a thief, and that is exactly what these control freak sorts do today, too. They incriminate and bunch together anyone who does not kiss up to their drum as if they are something in need of crucifixion or the like. Our world is very very pathetic. Is it not strange, that in two thousand years, we cannot learn?
The [http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003157690 Associated Press reports]:
I suggest a Karl Rove Propaganda Award for President Bush following his comment about medias revealing parts of the intel report on terror and Iraq. According to King Dubya, the said medias did "create confusion in the minds of the American people", which could be translated into "did their jobs" or "exposed our propaganda machine".
Things to read : interesting papers from Newsweek (20061002 issue) about :
- Hizbullah's propaganda machine : "Winning Hearts and Minds"
- The Architect's new proteges (Todd Olsen, Terry Nelson...) : "In Rove's Footsteps"
______________________________________________________________________________________
Stephane MOT -
http://e-blogules.blogspot.com
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