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Proposed FCC Media Consolidation Rules
by Stephen Lendman
In October 2007, then FCC chairman Kevin Martin proposed lifting the 1975 media cross-ownership rule. It forbid owning a newspaper and television or radio station in the same city even though conglomerates like Rupert Murdock's News Corp. and the (Chicago) Tribune Company already did.
On November 13, he expanded his earlier plan, claiming changes would only allow cross ownership "in the largest markets where there exists competition and numerous voices."
At the time, Free Press.net's policy director Ben Scott said:
From now on … Our Biggest Mistake is Believing We Are Free
Bob Alexander
On December 17, 2007 Senator Christopher Dodd spoke on the Senate floor against George W. Bush’s warrantless eavesdropping and telecom company amnesty compromise, “Clear, first-hand whistleblower documentary evidence [states] that for year on end every e-mail, every text message, and every phone call … hundreds of millions of private, domestic communications … have been copied in their entirety by AT&T and knowingly diverted wholesale … into a secret room controlled exclusively by the NSA.”
Then Senator Barack Obama announced he supported the amnesty "compromise" saying, “So I support the compromise, but do so with a firm pledge that as President, I will carefully monitor the program, review the report by the Inspectors General, and work with the Congress to take any additional steps I deem necessary to protect the lives -- and the liberty -- of the American people.”
Political Tyranny of the Few and the Mankind
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D.
By nature, politicians are problematic. They are constantly in conflict with the self, not knowing except pretending to be something they are not - an actor on stage - a puppet to entertain others, you will hardly find a man of politics with living conscious and discarding pretension and cynicism, and more obliged to public good.
The people’s revolution in America, Europe and across the globe called “Occupy Movement” has articulated inspiration from the struggle of the Egyptian people against the authoritarian tyranny at Tahrir Square to emerge as a force of courage and imagination for New Thinking and Change uniting the humanity as ONE against the tyranny of the few bankers, corporate warlords, billionaires, politicians and blood sucking draculas of the so called democracy who have never known homelessness, nor experienced poverty, unemployment and being outcastes in an overwhelming man-made class system of the few.
American Duplicity and Emerging New Arab Middle East
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D.
Discard cynicism and wickedness but be conscious that some contemporary politicians and monsters of history are often the two sides of the same picture enriched with perversion and treacherous escape from the facts of real life. They exhibit individualistic absolutism and despotic intents to gain irrational favors. This week, Newt Gingrich, the former US Speaker and if the political number game is relevant, the leading Republican candidate for the 2012 US Presidential Election, made extremely irresponsible remarks while talking to a Jewish cable TV host. Again on Saturday, the night of December 10, in the ABC televised election debate from Des Moines, Iowa State, Gingrich and four others candidates except Ron Paul (Senator from Texas) reiterated the falsified and deliberately misleading facts of the human history that Palestinians are “an invented people” and they should not be allowed to reclaim Palestine as they continue to make “murderous attacks against Israel.” They allege that “West Bank or other parts of the occupied territories are part of Israel.” All of these candidates are well briefed by the Jewish lobbyists / US official interests. Gingrich claims to be a historian to assert that “Palestinians” are no different than any other Arabs. It seems that some of these Republican candidates may have defied the record of history, honest logic and previous American active engagements in addressing the true aspirations of the people of Palestine who have been deprived of their promised national freedom and establishment of an Independent State of Palestine existing side by side with Israel. Gingrich and others cannot pretend to be ignorant but certainly to appease the powerful Washington political lobbyists and Jewish financiers support, they are using ignorance as an excuse to disregard and challenge the American history, official policies and global commitments.
The 1961 Speech That Got JFK Killed
By Katherine Smith, PhD
On the anniversary of JFK’s birthday, an edited video of the April 27, 1961 speech “that got John F. Kennedy Killed” was making its way around the Internet [1]:
"For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence--on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system that has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.
Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, and no secret is revealed." [1]
It was hard to miss JFK’s veiled reference to the Skull and Bones society at Yale University, a branch of the Bavarian Illuminati, the Bilderbergers, CFR and the other secret societies that rule the world from behind the scenes, The Powers That Be (TPTB).
G. William Domhoff, a Research Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz first coined the non-conspiracy acronym TPTB. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Miami. He has been teaching at the University of California, Santa Cruz, since 1965. Four of his books are among the top 50 best sellers in sociology for the years 1950 to 1995: Who Rules America? (1967); The Higher Circles (1970); Who Rules America Now? (1983); and the non-"conspiracy" critique and theory of the U.S. power structure, The Powers That Be (TPTB) in 1979.
[Excerpt from "Bones" in the Money Pit
Our consumer society didn’t just happen; it was planned. Not in 1910, or 1954, but in the year 1832, the year William Huntington Russell and fellow classmate Alphonso Taft founded the Skull and Bones society at Yale University, a branch of the Bavarian Illuminati.
Members, known as “Bonesmen,” include Rockefeller, Kuhn, Loeb and Morgan all connected to the House of Rothschild’s global financial empire. They are founders of the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, France, and Germany or, for that matter, any central bank anywhere in the world. In theory, the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, one of the most important domestic acts in the nation’s history, took the power to create money from the people and gave it to the Bonesmen for profit.
Russ Baker's new book, “Family of Secrets: the Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces That Put It in the White House, And What Their Influence Means for America," is about George H. W. Bush’s secret intelligence work with the CIA many years before he became the Agency’s director. Bush Sr. had played a powerful but hidden role in determining the direction of the U.S. government.
Imperialism and the “Anti-Imperialism of the Fools”
James Petras
One of the great paradoxes of history are the claims of imperialist politicians to be engaged in a great humanitarian crusade, a historic “civilizing mission” designed to liberate nations and peoples, while practicing the most barbaric conquests, destructive wars and large scale bloodletting of conquered people in historical memory.
In the modern capitalist era, the ideologies of imperialist rulers vary over time, from the early appeals to “the right” to wealth, power, colonies and grandeur to later claims of a ‘civilizing mission’. More recently imperial rulers have propagated, many diverse justifications adapted to specific contexts, adversaries, circumstances and audiences.
This essay will concentrate on analyzing contemporary US imperial ideological arguments for legitimizing wars and sanctions to sustain dominance.
Obama's America: Tyranny and Permanent War
by Stephen Lendman
December 31, 2011 will be remembered as a day of infamy. More on it below. October 17, 2006 was an earlier one under Bush.
In a White House ceremony, he signed the infamous Military Commissions Act (MCA). It authorized torture as official policy.
It also enacted sweeping unconstitutional powers to arrest, interrogate, and prosecute alleged terrorist suspects and collaborators (including US citizens), detain them (without evidence) indefinitely in military prisons, and deny them habeas and other constitutional protections.
It lets presidents call anyone anywhere an "unlawful enemy combatant," order them arrested, detained and denied all rights.
On the same day, Bush quietly signed the FY 2007 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Included were hidden Sections 1076 and 333. Major media scoundrels ignored them.
Osho, on Lofty ambitions... and personal ruin, from Fame, Fortune and Ambition
Sarmad
“All so-called great thinkers and philosophers and theologians are stargazers. they don’t see that which is close; their eyes are fixed far away on an imaginary God, a paradise beyond death.
I don’t care at all about your gods, and I don’t care at all what happens to you after your death. My concern is what happens to you right now, to your consciousness. Because that will always be with you, beyond death, wherever you are. Your consciousness will carry the light that divides the wrong from the right.
Anything that makes you more alert, more conscious, more peaceful, more silent, more celebrating, more festive, is good.
Anything that makes you unconscious, miserable, jealous, angry, destructive, is wrong.
30 Statistics That Show That The Middle Class Is Dying Right In Front Of Our Eyes As We Enter 2012
Michael Snyder
Once upon a time, the United States had the largest and most vibrant middle class that the world has ever seen. Unfortunately, that is rapidly changing. The statistics that you are about to read prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the U.S. middle class is dying right in front of our eyes as we enter 2012. The decline of the middle class is not something that has happened all of a sudden. Rather, there has been a relentless grinding down of the middle class over the last several decades. Millions of our jobs have been shipped overseas, the rate of inflation has far outpaced the rate that our wages have grown, and overwhelming debt has choked the financial life out of millions of American families. Every single day, more Americans fall out of the middle class and into poverty. In fact, more Americans fell into poverty last year than has ever been recorded before. The number of middle class jobs and middle class neighborhoods continues to decline at a staggering pace. As I have written about previously, America as a whole is getting poorer as a nation, and as this happens wealth is becoming increasingly concentrated at the very top of the income scale. This is not how capitalism is supposed to work, and it is not good for America.
Ratcheting Up Middle East Tensions
by Stephen Lendman
Post-9/11, Washington's aggression created a Middle East cauldron. As a result, it's been on the boil. Things ahead look worse. Obama and key NATO allies threaten the entire region. In 2012, expect continued destructive violence.
Israel's partnered in this enterprise. On December 20, Jerusalem Post writer Yaakov Katz headlined, "US commander visits Israel to finalize missile drill," saying:
This spring, Washington and Israel will "hold the(ir) largest-ever missile defense exercise....amid Iranian efforts to obtain nuclear weapons."
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