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This Summer’s Trilogy of Truth

By David Sirota

The future of the media is cloudy. In this brave new world of YouTube, Facebook and 400 cable channels, book publishers are fretting about obsolescence. But books have survived radio and television for the same reason they will survive the Internet. Human life is simply too complex to be represented by a news spot or a blog post — and… return to article

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    Granted, the new media are not enough. Not if you really want to know what’s going on.

    What we really need is an awareness of history — recent and the past century will do for a start.

    The “clustering of like-minded America” is actually what Republicans and Democrats have as common ground. Any perception of the opposite is merely Kabuki being played out for the 6 o’clock news and other popular public propaganda sources.

    Eisenhower’s warning to be wary of the “military/industrial complex” should be revised to The Corporate/Congressional Complex.

    Free Trade, Free Enterprise, should be recognized as the same as Free Lunch — which Milton Friedman correctly pointed out there is “no such thing as”. The recent massive government intervention in the financial market rescue (the mortgage fraud) removes all pretense of “FREE” from intervention when not beneficial to Wall Street.

    Job protection is billed as a no-no. Tariffs to protect our companies are verbotten. Even inspection of imported food, medicine and toys is only a wink and passed through. Homeland Security is a joke and for a quick buck we’ll sell bridges, tollways — Hey, Buddy, what will you give us for the Statue of Liberty?

    For a historical precedent compare today’s US corporate influence with the 1930s support of Adolf Hitler’s rise to power by Germany’s major industrial leaders.

    “What’s good for Krupp is good for Germany,” is now the pattern for NAFTA, CAFTA, WTO and all the other pro-Globalization support groups and their techniques — down-sizing, right-sizing, off-shoring, and wage-lowering by digital out-sourcing.

    If you’re looking for truth — look to your own financial health prognosis.

    It is now nearly impossible for a family to live on one member’s income. Spendable income has been falling for three decades. Each year more citizens cannot afford health care. AND, while the hedge fund managers pay 15% income tax, the costs of Social Security and Medicare payroll deductions continue to eat into our middle class.

    We have:

    A Falling dollar — to pay off massive indebtedness at taxpayer’s expense

    Soaring inflation — 4.2% is a derivative of Hitler’s Big Lie technique (along with the CPI and unemployment fiction)

    Continuous Congressional investigations and studies rather than effective oversight and solutions. Anything to stall and avoid action. Each party can blame the other. How convenient.

    Congress should have pay and benefits equal to their constituents.

    Whoever moves into the White House matters little to the oligarchy’s army of lobbyists. They will continue to draw their salaries and bonuses (and in many cases their congressional pensions).

    United States Posted by whattheheck on Jun 28, 2008 at 10:14 AM
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