4 posts tagged “media”
That’s exactly what I consider the US media. Every day, every time we turn on the television, the radio or browse the Internet, there’s another weapon being “fired” to take our attention away from more important and pressing matters. It gets so that I feel a deep disgust for anyone who claims themselves to be part of this mass madness movement.
What’s amazing, yet appalling at the same time, is the fact that the “leaders”—for lack of a better term—can’t get Amerikka right, but they can be all up in the business of other countries. You could swear there were no poor, malnourished, diseased people living right here in Amerikka, much of whose afflictions are due to the corrupt US pharmaceutical mafia aka Big Pharma that has been given free reign by masquerading agents of acronym agencies who pretend to care about public health.
And then these same low lifes—the acronyms and those calling themselves leaders—turn around and speak of democracy. As if they really know what that means, when they’d honestly give anything to be able to freely go back to stepping on the necks of certain people. But, don’t for a minute believe they’re not still stepping. They’re just using other, more stealth methods to do so.
Ask anybody who’s just lost a job or been earnestly searching for one for the past year; who’s been evicted or is facing eviction; who checked their 401(k), only to find out it was empty. For that matter, talk to the employees of KB Toys, AT&T, Bank of America, City of Atlanta and all these other companies that are dropping workers like Raid drops flies. If that’s not neck stepping, I don’t know what is. Everybody gets a bailout, but the very people whose money is being used to bail out sharks. What a spectacular example of democracy at work!
Surprisingly, there are those of us who really believe that Obama will be able to change all this around. By his lonesome, he’s going to make a country that as long as it’s been called Amerikka has been imperfect, perfect. I hate to sound pessimistic, but it ain’t gonna happen. Equality is a concept foreign to those running this country and they will do everything to ensure there are degrees of separation between the haves and the have nots.
My money that was involuntarily taken from my paycheck was involuntarily given to banks and other companies who wouldn’t give me a loan if my life depended on it. They didn’t want to give them to me before, and they sure as hell ain’t gonna do it now, but because of the ruthless, criminal enterprises the PEOPLE have “s”elected as representatives, we get no say so. And like everybody else paying taxes in this corrupt country, I didn’t receive so much as a letter of thanks for allowing this country to make a damn fool out of me, while they shoved their financial burden off on me and my future generations.
Do I sound a wee bit upset? It’s because it’s about principle, people. Of which this country is sorely lacking. That and the aptitude to admit that this country is run by muttbrained fu**ups. whew! it felt good to get that off my chest—now for the finale*
My suggestion is that we bear down and get ready to weather one of the worst storms to transpire during our lifetime—just keep in mind that you cannot do that if you allow yourself to get sucked away in the media’s arsenal of mass distractions.
How do you like that? I'm dropping by my own blog. LOL I have been one busy beaver. In less than a week and a half, the hubby and I are opening our long-awaited center, Eklectiks. We'll carry book titles, media (to include documentaries and audio), games, and other learning systems that aren't usually found in traditional bookstores. That means we get to provide information on topics mainstream might consider just a weebit too controversial for their storytelling ways. ;-)
The center will host lectures, seminars and booksignings. Look for there to be lecturers sharing information about some of my most passionate topics--HIV/AIDS, health and medicine, the Amerikkan "food" supply and history. We're also working to develop an independent school to assist in shaping critical thinkers and doers--something that seems to be becoming more and more unAmerikkan like.
Melody, if you're around, tell your hubby to get us a box packed with Too Profitable to Cure. I can't wait to place it on the shelf.
Now, back to my regularly scheduled program, which revolves around contacting distributors, taking inventories, painting, gardening, parenting and any other areas of living that require my attention.
The other day I spoke about how the media uses trivial issues to hide more pressing issues. The day before yesterday served as a perfect example of their dual-pronged tongues.
Significant story with little media coverage:
Bush has requested another $50 billion for FY08 on top of the already requested $142 billion for the war in Iraq.
Less significant story, yet works in parallel to significant story:
Bush visited a school in New Orleans where he pretended to care about the education and needs of little Black children. This, around the same time as the media "leakage" about the additional $50 billion.
Your Turn:
You tell me, where could this money have been better used? Adding to that, where could all the money spent on a war to place a stronghold on the resources of another country been better used? Add this to the fodder while you're at it: This money he continues to request is coming out of your pockets. You're helping to fund his terror and greed overseas, while leaving people homeless stateside.
Sometimes things just hit you. I was reading about Countrywide's recent woes in California, where customers were rushing to pull their savings out of Countrywide's Bank for fear the company would file bankruptcy because of the sub-prime mortgage meltdown. As I was reading the latest, I realized something--the media truly has the power to destroy.
So-called experts are running around talking about the media isn't to blame for falling housing prices and the destruction of mortgage lending companies, but I say they're wrong--to a certain degree.
Yes, a lot of people took out bad loans, and a lot of lenders wrote those bad loans. But there's more to this than meets the eye. Every day, in almost every media outlet, there are stories of the downfall of the mortgage industry. It's like someone placed a CD on repeat, because each day we hear the same doom-and-gloom stories. And then one day, if we're intelligent enough, we see what's happening. If we're not, we run around in a panic making decisions based on what the people holding the wires to our brains influence us to do.
Everything the media speaks into existence, happens--with our assistance. These liars are the mouthpiece for government and anyone else who has their hands seriously in the pot. Their job is to place people in a state of panic, and then lead them, like puppets on a string, in the direction the folks behind the scenes wish for them to go.
And many of us buy into it. The Mike Vick case is a prime example.
- How many of you have already hung this boy out to dry?
- How many of you have already found him "guilty" in your own court of law based on the emotions aroused in you by the media?
- How many of you recite verbatim everything you've ever heard said in media outlets about him?
- How many of you have found yourselves discussing the herpes and airport incidents, with all facts discussed obtained from the media?
It's time we use our brains for more than regurgitating what these propaganda machines constantly hit us with. The old folks used to say "use your head for more than a hat rack." I couldn't agree more.
