Thursday, August 23, 2007

What that means is money is going to control truth.

When the corporations grab the last bastion of freedom, the internet, which they will, then....What that means is money is going to control truth.

Read this article on the death of democracy to get a full taste of it.

http://www.truthdig.com/interview/item/20070802_last_days_of_democracy/
Truthdig speaks with Elliot Cohen, author of “The Last Days of Democracy,” who argues that the United States is in political and cultural decline, with media and telecommunications giants engaged in “a well-organized effort to hijack America.”

Excerpt here:

And don't forget the following, as noted in the above article: "Certainly, the Clinton administration, which in 1996 signed into law the Telecommunications Act , which gave more control over larger markets to the media, the mainstream—these large corporations—and helped to move along this corporate consolidation."

So do you really want Hillary for Prez? Hmmmm, she's a corporatist in my view. The Clintons controlled the media quite well, but Bush has exerted even more control, just as PNAC planned.....

'''the difference here, and this is the difference in kind, I believe, is the ideology that the Bush administration has and that’s this amassing of power and control, this global domination theme, and this is what it lives and breathes for. Control. And, so, when you have this voracious appetite for control and then you have the media set up to accommodate it, there is a difference here that’s going on between what we’ve seen in America before. And it’s the kind of control and desire for control that’s analogous to what we saw in Nazi Germany. ... What’s different about this case is that we have technology that we never had before. If Nixon had more than his little tape recorders, he could do a lot more than he did as well....

Never cower. Never cower. It’s not over until it’s over, and right now we need to understand that that’s where we’re heading. And it’s easy enough to say, “Well, you know it happened in [Nazi] Germany, but we’re different.” That’s a very pompous attitude. As though Americans are somehow different than Germans. They’re not. They’re people. And if we don’t watch it, this is where we’re heading. Well, what do we do about it? There’s thing we can do. Well, one thing is for the average person to make sure that they’re informed: To stop relying on mainstream media as much as they do, and to get their information from independent media. Then really when you look at the survival of dictatorships, and whether they thrive or not. They thrive on keeping people ignorant...

They’ve gone to such absurd lengths of just disregarding the rule of law that anybody, no matter how perfect your system was, if they weren’t going to follow the rules then the system wouldn’t work. So I think what Congress needs to realize is just that. They have to take the powers that they do have, they have some powers that they can exercise, but they’re not doing it. I think this is human error. I think it’s with people who are in power right now and the people are trying to do something about it. There’s where the wimpishness comes in. They’re being ... the Congress is being wimpish. They need to impeach Bush. They can do that. But they’re not. And it’s not the system’s fault; it’s their fault.

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