Who Rules America?

The Alien Grip on Our News and Entertainment Media Must Be Broken

By the Research Staff of National Vanguard Books

P.O. Box 330 · Hillsboro · West Virginia 24946 · USA

THERE IS NO GREATER POWER in the world today than that wielded by the manipulators of public opinion in America. No king or pope of old, no conquering general or high priest ever disposed of a power even remotely approaching that of the few dozen men who control America's mass media of news and entertainment.

Their power is not distant and impersonal; it reaches into every home in America, and it works its will during nearly every waking hour. It is the power that shapes and molds the mind of virtually every citizen, young or old, rich or poor, simple or sophisticated....

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Vote 4 Ron Paul! Only He can save the Universe!

No, I'm not a luddite. I was thinking specifically of the inferior resolution of early digital photography, and its gamut limitations. I was also thinking of low-bitrate MP3 conversions. I wasn't decrying progress, or raising the Verichrome 25 forever flag (which dates me horribly, I know.)

But ondelette's point, that a devolution of standards can occur from time-to-time, is basically correct. Many people raised on Wonder bread and Coors still swear by them. The pleasures of the real stuff seem alien to them, and the extra expense and inconvenience of, say, bread with a 24-hour shelf-life, leave them unimpressed. They aren't aware that the industrialization of food production in the early days mandated long shelf-life, and that you can sell more beer if you denature it, and are therefore able to sell it to people who don't actually like beer.

Political atrophy isn't directly comparable to either of our examples, but it certainly is true that people can accustom themselves to an inferior political system if it isn't too awful for them personally, and if changing it would require an investment in time and energy from them which would interfere with what seems -- superficially, at least -- to be more important.

sorry Dirigo. That old title just popped up without my permission. Serious.

I'll sign all Salon bumped off 's the Internet to Talk To Me wwwtalktome.com

The guy upside down is Billy. Lizz and Billy did a farm summer with us.

It was one of the best, if not, the most fun summer. Billy always has his

journal nerd - pad and pen out like Colombo, writing things down.

He attends Columbia University now - Some young people are ready

to fill the GOP vacancies.

GOPS will croak in SHAME.

Check out Talk To Me Site. Encourage this new-web-idea of his? It's brand new.

Tell him Blueberry Hick & Veg/flower CSA Farm sent you. Tell Billy I never paid the Gettesburg Pa (sp)

Battle Field parking ticket. It's still outstanding.

Ask Billy to stay outta' Dirigo's fireing range....

The digital revolution in audio was about 25 years ago, and the instant superiority of CDs was apparent, but we still have folks who worship scratchy plastic records, and highly (but pleasantly) colored tube amplifiers. (OK, guitar amps need the coloration

What about voice? Have you never seen the Hitler Bottle? You've heard it all your life. Now I show it to you!

There’s no denying that a decent bottle microphone is a thing of beauty. The term ‘bottle microphone’ was first applied to George Neumann’s pre-war designs and they’re also known as ‘Hitler bottles’ because a certain fascist dictator favoured them for live work, but that’s another story… Their defining characteristic is a lollipop-shaped capsule that sits high above the main body. This arrangement provides two distinct advantages: firstly, unwanted reflections from the body are minimised, and secondly, the capsule housing can be removed and substituted to achieve different pickup patterns and response characteristics.

http://www.musictechmag.co.uk/mtm/reviews/trion-8000

I ask you again: WHO RULES AMERICA?

Congress will give Cheney everything he wants. Immunity for the telecoms, and (by extension) his own sinister ass. If we still had the type of statesmen we had in Congress back during Watergate, these criminals would have been all been impeached within a few months after 9/11. The republic is dead. Long live the empire.

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That validates the mystique. same-same. Yes. The reason? I get those creeps

fiddling around with my exemplary reputations. The aliens will explain it to ya's.

They are real slimy.

http://www.acoustilog.com/neve_32408.html

Rupert Neve was an alien.

He should be docked $3.00 from his annual salary for that grin and fake smile.

Mr. Bush thinks the economy is growing as planned? Yea. I grow wood rulers.

The wood rulers grow 3-feet each growing season. They will be pistachio trees.

Anonymous.

you can change that. Why don't you sit on each news pundit talk show host's and hostess's lap like they are Lushball santa 'cause...

whisper in their ears...softly. go pffft.

ask Fox staff to administer world peace.

Order the pro-war killers to distribute stolen cash.

Signs in old abandoned mom ad pop stores, square dance ice scream shops, nursery shrub, pubs, car washes, sub shops, and headache drug parlors will READ in the storefront windows.

Toe nails polished. 5-cents.

Signs will flash neon-REID:

Closed ~ It's all your fault.

At the time that the VP made the comment, the fanciest consumer camera on the market was 1.2 megapixels. Nevertheless, a reasonable quality 35mm slide has about 1.6 million pixels per linear inch. Digital images do not have this quality, which you can confirm by how many times each can be enlarged well. They have other advantages, to be sure, but the issue was quality at the time the man made the statement. As for audio, the CD standards were not set to a high enough level, because they were based on single tone frequency tests of human hearing, humans discern a lot of beat frequencies making the high end a little low in the standard, and the standard started at 15-25Hz, humans generally can hear below 25Hz. CD's lack rich bass and a lot of overtones, which is why they created the SACD and DVD-A standards for those who missed them.

I own an SACD player, a turntable, and a couple of digital cameras, along with a 35mm. My stereo amplifier has a flat sound response from 4Hz to 250KHz to be safe. If that makes me a luddite, so be it.

The principal is well known in corporate marketing. For instance, when the public revolted against the large tasteless tomatoes that were easier to pick by machine, and went for the softer, juicier Roma tomatoes in a big way, the response of the industry was to create the Saladina tomato, Roma shaped but firm enough to be picked by machine, and pretty tasteless. The hope is that if people gradually buy a larger proportion of Saladinas over a period of time, they will accommodate and forget all about those hard to pick Romas. It's quite cynical.

But not as cynical as attempting to inure the population to permanent silent war and to torture as an "enhanced interrogation" method. Selling me a tasteless tomato will just make me shop at the farmer's market. Selling me war and torture makes me want to see the purveyors in jail.

And yes, WT, I do blame the constant societal mania with "business principles" and "productivity". This is a government that operates without morals in a manner learned from the executive suites of corporations. It acts with the consent of corporations. It acts on the advise of corporations. It acts in the interests of corporations. Why give the corporations immunity from blame? Like Spencer Tracy says in Judgement at Nuremburg, "You knew this would happen the first time you sentenced an innocent man to die." Can anyone say Bhopal?

If scientists can be portrayed year in and year out as dangerous nerds who are inventing the destruction of the universe, if mathematicians can be protrayed in movie after movie as madmen and schizophrenics always always always, then it's high time we caricatured MBA's after the most prominent and notorious of their breed. If they don't like it, they can look at their own track records and try to prove otherwise.