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BartendingBearfollowshare
1-29-2009 12:30 PM
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Editorial by Paul Craig Roberts well worth the click to read the whole piece.
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1-29-2009 12:32 PM
BartendingBear
The function of the “mainstream media” is to sell products and to
brainwash the audience for the government and interest groups. By
subscribing to it, Americans support their own brainwashing.
1-29-2009 12:43 PM
abailart
It's been phrased also as "to deliver potential customers to advertisers."
1-29-2009 1:08 PM
BartendingBear
That's part of the brainwashing.
1-29-2009 5:41 PM
Kreuzberg-Jakob
The first chapter is religion!
Neither any American is as dumb, to believe all, that he hear from the Bible and priests. He knows, at least on the seams of his brain, that it's fairy tales. But it's law, it's the right form of living a.s.o. - and he repeats as often as needed, to make no difference between truth and lie. "It's true, 'cos it's written down!" - hääääää?
"Conan" is written down too ....
A similar idiocy was in the so called "Communist Countries". They repeated silly slogans as long as it seemed true. But this magic was not as strong as this of Christianity!
They had no organs, golden cups or olibanum to obscure and nebulize the brains of their believers.
(But sparkling decorat...
1-30-2009 10:55 AM
brightlight4
Good Clip, thanks Bear
1-30-2009 11:26 AM
ColoradoRight
And now that The Messiah has been annointed to rule, you can completely trust government proclamations - right? The fact that America elected this little twit who promised 95% of Americans tax cuts (remember that?) shows that the media has done their job of obscuring the truth.
1-30-2009 12:29 PM
darkduskx
2-3-2009 10:43 PM
MaxGxlGuru
“When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing – when you see money flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors – when you see that men get richer by graft and pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you – when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice – you may know that your society is doomed.”

Ayn Rand...Scary Truth!
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