The big news of the day seems to be that ComCast is going to buy out NBC because General Electric wants to let it go. Apparently the number of major communacation outlets in the country has gone from 53 or something in 1983 - to just six today. This is most certainly an alarming trend. According to George Washington's blog there are five reasons why the media is so pro war in Afghanistan and most of the reasons have to do with either self cencorship or government sencorship. There are a couple of links you should look at that lay out the organization of the communacations media today. As you can see, choice is not a major factor in our TV news selections.
Of course many are saying that we need to take the money raising aspects out of political campaigns. Money feeds the war machine. It all depends where the oil is and the pipelines are which "Just causes" we decide to intervene in. There are all sorts of dictatorships and rape and oppression and genocide in the rest of the world. There is the "blood for gold" scandal that 60 Minutes recently talked about. We ourselves in this country have recently been in grave danger of losing a lot of our rights. Why is President Obama pursuing a war the American People do not want? Thomas Jefferson said "All a Tyranny needs to establish itself in a country is for good men of conscience to do nothing". What do you think? When it comes to the Afghan war itself people confuse the Talliban with Al Qaeda. Apparently it was Al Queda that planned the 9 - 11 attacks and not the Talliban. But it is the Talliban that rule Afghanistan whereas Al Queda are in Pakistan. Some have suggested that they could easily relocate, but according to the secretaries of Defence and State yesterday they are going to stay where they are because "This is the historic site of their victory over the Soviets" and also it was said that "No other area of the world would be more hospitable to them". But if Al Qaeda can plan attacks on the US from Germany, I don't see how leveling Afghanistan will solve the problem. If we're worrked about Al Qaeda getting nukes as the President suggested the other night, Pakistan is the one with the Nukes - and the US isn't going to invade Pakistan. The whole war campaign is frought with illogic.
Unemployment is now back down to 10.0 % We are so desperate for any good news on the economy this story will have to do. Randy Rhodes, as an Obama apologist points out that they revised the October and September job loss figures sharply downward, and that this month only 11,000 jobs were lost, which is nothing compared to the 600,000 we were having per month. Also the Chicago index of business activity was at 56.1 last month and they say any time it's over fifty it means the economy is doing better. This index has been on the rise since August. But what I can't escape is the reality of that "real rate" of 17% unemployment, and how the 10. 0 % figure was only possible because people who had given up looking for work were knocked off the unemployment rolls. When they again are counted, we'll talk again.
Professor Dyer or whoever says "When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." Just think for a moment how utterly infantile that sounds! But some people look at things that are clearly illusion and label them as reality. This is where Einstein's "train analogy" we talked about kind of gets off the track to most people. We know when something is "really happening at the same time as something else". Because a "normal person" sees one explanation for why you see the caboose signal light before you see the engine light- - in the example. But Einstein and how followers have a whole other Alice in Wonderland "explanation" for viewing the same data. If we really do have the power to change "things" by "looking at them differently" there is a lot of untapped power out there. Our President wrote "The Audacity of Hope" whereas in retrospect the book should have been titled "The Audacity of Peddeling Hope". That's what the President did. He sold us all a pig in a poke. But every time the President has had to make a decision of real subatance, he's made the wrong one. That's my oppinion anyhow.
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