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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
There is nothing independent anymore about the enabling participants in war/military expenditure. That sham of a "free press" that hovers over our republic like a doting hen shades her citizenry chicks lost out before Eisenhower.
Most Americans are so enamored with the spit and polish of militaristic culture they cannot think critically beyond- STFU if you dare question/attack ANYTHING pertaining to the glorious, uniformed branches that deplete this and every country's treasure into insolvency.
Now, every boy/girl child has been so indoctrinated to believe that defense budgets are as innocent as well, every boy/girl child's Barbie Doll. After all, you don't wonder or question why we must kill or destroy if it it makes some rich doing it.
What a slogan for a company that has been steeped in murder and corruption its entire existence. In Cleveland, General Electric had its incandescent light business for many years. You may have heard of NELA Park, where a famous Christmas light display brought thousands of tourists. GE had chemical plants, light bulb plants, laboratories, tungsten plants, nuke-you-ler facilities and an assortment of bulb-related companies scattered all across Ohio for decades.
GE employed a LOT of folks here in Cleveland. It was one of my dad's and many vendors in Cleveland's biggest customers. So, I suppose I should begrudgingly thank them for paying for my college education. Thanks, GE.
But, to give you an idea of what they did to Cleveland when they closed GE Lighting and shipped all the manufacturing to Hungary in the early 90s, with the exception of the tungsten and chemical plants?
Wasteland. Devastation. Vast and unexpected unemployment.
Never mind the hazardous waste they left behind. The mercury required to make light bulbs is so poisonous, it's too dangerous to demolish the buildings. GE paid a few million in fines over the years and has left an environmental impact so toxic, areas of blocks are uninhabitable.
And that doesn't even address the human impact they left.
I have boycotted GE since 1993. The only thing I watch is Olbermann and a little bit of Maddow. And I watch them on iPod cast, so I don't even see the commercials.
GE has always been and always will be a Monster.
And wasn't it Brian Williams who lead the charge against Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews as anchors of its election coverage on MSNBC out of concern that it would "taint" the image of the sister network?!
Most Americans are so enamored with the spit and polish of militaristic culture they cannot think critically beyond- STFU if you dare question/attack ANYTHING pertaining to the glorious, uniformed branches that deplete this and every country's treasure into insolvency.-- behindthecurtain
The link leads to a story about a Gallup poll taken in 2007 wherein most Americans polled said that we are spending too much on military. That number is growing in spite of Congress, the administration and the very disgraced media we are commenting on in this thread.
What makes this result especially surprising is that few leaders in Congress and no one in the administration today argues that the United States can or should reduce military spending. Quite the contrary: leaders of both parties seem eager to add to the Pentagon's coffers, even as public anti-war sentiment builds. And Congress is not the only institution that appears insensitive to the shift in public opinion. The Gallup survey also drew little attention from the news media. Indeed, a Lexis-Nexis database search shows almost no coverage of the poll, which was released on 02 March 2007.
http://www.comw.org/pda/0703bm41.html
Be careful. It seems those Israelis are redacting your words to make you appear to be an ignorant douche. Unless you really produced such stupidity.
-- hawkpsd's flair for the non-sequitur, straw man is undaunted by the self-flagellation.
But you expect us to take the rest of commercial media seriously, probably because they pay your salary. What a laugh.
Conservatives have found the means for attaining complete unaccountability. By simply overloading America with floods of incompetence, deceit and self-dealing, they have reached a point where, aided by a media too lazy and freightened to do their jobs, Conservatives can do as they please through George W. Bush, safe in the knowledge that there will never be a single moment of accountablity. Ever.
All that is required is for all Republicans to have their conscience surgically removed and replaced with an unlimited love for power and money.
It has worked completely.
War profiteers belong in prison, not on television.
Ahmed Chalabi supplied all the networks those defectors that we saw every day on the evening news during the run-up to the Iraq war, and the nets NEVER vetted them.
Only McClatchy Newspapers (Knight-Ridder,then) and the Guardian questioned the defectors' reliability.
Bill Moyers covered this story in detail, the ONLY major TV news org to do so.
Ego won't let them admit the truth, something they have in common with Bush.
How could one see any conflict? ALL of the players involved are greedy, sociopathic bastards...
Glenn:
You said "I'm aware of that, and have noted it. The difference is substantial: that NBC is owned by GE is public information. That NBC's military analysts have financial stakes in the policies they're advocating is not."
Wrong both ways, Glenn.
Yes, NBC's ownership is public knowledge, but so is the the bias of McCaffrey! The NYT just did a front page story on it! The problem is that you can't read everything, and that you don't search to uncover the truth unless you suspect something.
Public knowledge means that if you go looking for it, you can find it without breaking into secret files. The Freedom of Information Act renders a lot of things "public knowledge". That doesn't mean they are publicly known.
It is publicly known knowledge that we are concerned with. Having the truth available somewhere out there is a far cry from printed disclaimers in the header of a story, or an opening remark from an anchorman.
NBC's ownership may be public knowledge, but that doesn't mean that the public has knowledge of it. Joe the Plumber may very well believe that NBC is a corporation unto itself, with no bigger owner. And it is this lack of awareness that is causing the damage to truth, justice, and the American way.
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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