Folks here might enjoy this satire.

http://hubpages.com/hub/KevinMartin

Now the 5 commissioners have job security, or did they also work for them Mass Media before, sort of like the FDA having chemical company employees running and calling the shots.  We cannot have the regular slob on the street making decisions that affect big business.

I does not matter if three big capitalists own the media or nine do.  The problem is that all the media that most people see are owned by big Capital, and they all have the same agenda.

The global war on Socialism has reached a peak of sorts in the United States.

We should do everything we can, as concerned citizens, to move our country toward the mixed economy model probably best expressed in the Scandinavian countries.

I read the other day that one of those nations, either Denmark or Sweden, has eliminated over half of its income tax and replaced it with a carbon tax.

We need Dennis Kucinich’s leadership as he understands these issues better than any of the other candidates.  Please ignore the corporate brainwash and vote for Kucinich in the primary.

Amy Goodman had Harvey Wasserman on recently about the fact that the Ohio Secretary of State had concluded that the Ohio election was stolen in ‘04, and that, therefore, George Bush stole the White House that year through vote fraud in Ohio.

Wasserman commented during the interview that “the media laughed at us in ‘05” when he and Bob Fritakis reported the theft of the ‘04 Ohio election.  He was diplomatic enough to not directly mention that Amy Goodman also failed to cover the story at the time. 

I’m glad Amy had Mr. Wasserman on now, but she owed him an apology, which she did not give, at least on air, and, more importantly, she owes the nation and the world an apology for not covering this story appropriately 3 years ago.

Amy also should have Richard Gage on and interview him regarding the solid science that pretty much proves that the World Trade Center buildings could not have done what they did as a result of fire and gravity but had to have been blown up with explosives.

Why not get to the end point and skip all the steps in between.One entity owns all the media in the United States.Let us make it a government office.Now if we can only find a Joeseph Goebbels to run it.The track we are on to Fascism will have completed the biggest goal of Fascism to control the media.Congress as usual shows how freaking gutless they are.

This tidbit comes for our heroes, CNN, “The Most Trusted Name in News”. It is such obvious PROPAGANDA I just had to share it! Give it read, and try not to vomit:

(Bill) Clinton closes gap with Bush as nation’s ‘Most Admired Man’ (Gore third place)

WASHINGTON (CNN) – Looks like all of Bill Clinton’s time on the campaign trail this year for his wife Hillary may be paying off in the polls for more than one member of the family.

Sitting presidents usually top Gallup’s list of the country’s most admired man, and this year is no exception: President Bush leads, as the choice of 10 percent of those polled. But in this survey, he’s in a statistical tie with former President Bill Clinton, at 8 percent. In the last survey, there was an 8-point margin of separation, with Bush leading 13 to 5 percent, and a 17-point difference in a 2004 poll.

Former Vice President Al Gore, who won several high-profile awards in 2007 for his work to raise awareness about climate change, also shot up in the poll — now in third place with 6 percent — 5 percentage points higher than last year.

This is but one further step by this nation’s economic elite to control what we see, hear and read; proof that it is impossible to have anything resembling political democracy until there is some level of economic democracy.  While the hard-right touts “freedom,” it is the “freedom” of capital to defeat the egalitarian goals of labor; the freedom of corporations to buy up and commercialize all forms of political discourse that equates to an Orwellian “freedom is slavery” for the masses.

Right on the mark as usual Amy--thank God for you and other independent journalists such as yourself--you are the the last ones manning the ramparts of our dimished freedoms.

I wondered about Martin’s background--I figured it had to be close to Bush in the past--he certainly was Bush’s lapdog on this issue---yet one more of many that Bush has tapped to run just about every agency imaginable--nothing more than hatchet men and woman who have pretty well eviscerated any effectiveness and independence the many federal agencies had.

I do hope that Congress does go through with their threatened overturning of this FCC action and can sustain it agianst Bush’s vow to veto such action by Congress.

You do have to wonder why the “need” to get this action done had to be done so quickly???

Like maybe they need to make sure the various consolidations that you know will take place now were done by November.

Hell--Martin sprung the announcement last Tuesday on his fellow commission members that along with the vote on the rule change--there were 46 waivers to the policy to allow companies in other markets to engage in such mergers and takeovers!!!

The waivers were granted--of course!!!