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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Even though only about two percent of all LWs on Salon actually give a real name, most of them adopt a handle and stick to it. Frequent readers develop a familiarity with LWs and can begin to ascribe a personality to people who sign their letters.
Anonymous, on the other hand, could be anybody. It's a devalued opinion because it is delivered without context, without personality.
So why should I, Anonymous get a star? I shouldn't. I should go jump off the garage roof, or stick my hand in the kitchen garbage disposal. But get a star? Fuggitaboddit.
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HH and RT take snide and cheap potshots at an obvious target all the while clucking over whether "we" will ever be free from talking about the target. Feh.
The real story here is the fact that it has become normal for low level offenders to get early release in LA, and Paris Hilton can't get it because she's too famous.
Her early release would call attention to something conservative politicians don't want the rest of the country to learn -- that this is an overincarcerated country. We can longer afford those conservative fantasies of using jail as a quick and easy means of social control.
The reason why Salon can't cover this story from a factual point of view is quite simple -- the Democrats are only going to get back in the White House by winning the support of law enforcement.
Democrats aren't going to win that crucial law enforcement support by writing articles critical of overincarceration.
Since Democrats are politically constrained from any kind of serious or critical examination of the law enforcement decisions being made in this case, they're only left with the most shallow approach possible to this story.
From Paris Hilton's statement, via CNN:
"I would hope going forward that the public and the media will focus on more important things, like the men and women serving our country in Iraq, Afghanistan and other places around the world."
That last post of mine was stupid, even for me. I apologize to the Democratic Party and to the editors of Salon.
The real scandal is how Paris Hilton gets reams of publicity for her inane antics while real news is ignored or, worse yet, HIDDEN from the general public. What news?
That the CIA controls 55% of illegal drug imports into the US. That the 1500 compounds that do not have to be listed on food labels are largely untested- WE are the guinea pigs. That it is acknowledged by those in the know in the military that between 23 and 56 alien species are currently regularly visiting this planet. That the Bush clan is advancing the one world order front pushed by the true kingmakers- the $400 trillion Rothschild/Bank of England transnational empire (Clinton briefly got on the wrong side of them, which is why the media never let up on him). That the moon is a highly altered, largely artificial body placed into Earth orbit long after the planet was formed. That at least three nations on Earth (the US, Russia, China) have the technology to control hurricanes and regularly do steer them into certain areas for strategic advantage. That those in the know have been pulling their assets from the states in record amounts since 2001. That the Bush family has bought 100,000 acres in Paraguay after that nation vowed that noone in its borders will ever be permitted to be extradited to the international criminal court. That the Earth shifts the tilt of its axis every 26,000 years, generating massive planetwide cataclysms, 2012 may be the next one (scientists readily acknowledge in above board journals that the pole shift is accelerating as we speak). That ..
I could go on and on. All of the above is quite likely largely true and is the result of many independent and informed observers over the years piecing together lots of bits of evidence. More importantly, it is considerably more relevant than most of the easy pap being served up in the media. More important even than what color Paris Hilton's nails are today.
But guess who owns the media and who their allegiance is to? What is it Saddam Hussein said after he blewback into our CIA's face: that 400 families control the USA? Certainly the media owners could care less if we proles know less than nothing as long as they give us the illusion of serving us the news.
(to those who think I read too much crap alternative journalism, I know FIRSTHAND several of the above topics I mention to be all too true, and the alternative media representations of those topics pale in comparison to the reality of those topics, so I can only guess how much more depraved the topics I mention REALLY are if we only knew the whole story. Another way, when I was deeply ensconced in the group doing the firsthand research on several of the above topics, we regularly had CIA, mafia, and foreign government handlers circling around us in vain trying to figure out what was really going on and what we really knew- in the end, 'brains' wins out, the 'priesthood' who actually figure this stuff out are 'manna from heaven' to the rubes- the bureaucrats, politicos, bullies- who only run this prison planet).
Ultimately, the so called 'legit' media does not need to cover these topics, the programming is effective. Most of the proles have already been programmed to disregard the realpolitick in favor of the circuses.
I guess I have a mistaken faith in humanity ultimately waking up to reality and taking its destiny into its own hands rather than relying on the elites to decide for them what they will know and what the proles' fate will be. Call it silly really.
I have seen too many lives destroyed by drunk drivers. I have no sympathy for her or anyone else who chooses to get behind the wheel intoxicated. If a few days or weeks in jail makes her think twice about drinking and driving or if it influences any of her fans then all of this will be worth it.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
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