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(3,888 posts)xiamiam
(4,906 posts)programming by the tv is evident. I haven't watched for several years and never will again but when I come here, I can tell what is being pushed by the msm by how many posts are on a specific issue. Distracting us is a perfected science as well as controlling what we think. Sure, you don't watch Fox but you're still being manipulated.
mick063
(2,424 posts)I'm still on the 2008 economic debacle.
It is popular to waive a flag and say "never forget" about 9/11.
I choose to waive my fist and say "never forget" about the 2008 economic collapse.
We have collectively spent great treasure and blood due to a major terrorist crime that took place twelve years ago. We can't get more than a handful of politicians, at the national level, to champion the justice required, nor the policy changes needed, for a major economic crime that took place five years ago.
Until the day I die, I am dedicated to influencing others, that this crime must be addressed, and that policy must be put in place to mitigate the chances of it happening again.
The current media talking points will always take second place. It is all part of that "never forget" thing.
Conviction keeps you on topic. Dedication does not allow you to stray.
For me personally, this goes well beyond party "loyalty". All who impede correction are criminal in my mind.
I slip in the comment, "too big to prosecute" at almost every opportunity. The current administration has failed.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)octoberlib
(14,971 posts)polynomial
(750 posts)Do some research on Metacognition, you find some stunning facts such a whole theory of thinking surrounds the Meta data concept.
Especially when only a few do control Meta data the results are the total risk in the existence of Democracy. Yes, Democracy will disappear and will not exist as we know it today.
Or especially, that simple phrase Too Big To Fail is not complete. The real phrase is Too Big To Fail as long as it is secret. Once someone blows the whistle, but in this time like Snowden could be over.
I do believe as others on this blog that the Democratic Party is saturated with Blue Dogs, from what I understand Blue Dogs are Republicans parading around as Democrats.
Also there are hold overs from the other administration that are working in concert, buried deep in all agencies, NSA, FBI, especially the CIA under poppy Bush one.
If you all did not know Herbert Walker Bush, George Bushs dad was a director of the CIA at one time. Like Bush one installed the shadow government that is suggested Cheney closely manipulated through profiteering and Black Water mercenaries. With those of the Republican Party to deliberately sabotage the economy to gain power and profiteer.
They not only use Al Qaeda fundamentals, fear, terror, and chaos as suggested by a popular news journalist, they are Al Qaeda with the corporate media behind them.
As Jerry Lee Lewis once said There is a whole lot of shaken goin on.