The So-Called Free Press
 Do we have a free press today? Sure. It’s free to report all the sex scandals, all the stock market news, and every new health fad that comes down the pike. But when it comes to the real down and dirty stuff—such stories are not even open for discussion.  Media Dictatorship There has been a striking consolidation of the media from hundreds of firms to an industry dominated by less than ten enormous transnational conglomerates. The largest ten media firms own all US TV networks, most TV stations, all major film studios, all major music companies, nearly all cable TV channels, much of the book and magazine publishing industry, and much, much more. Expensive investigative journalism—especially that which goes after national security or powerful corporate interests—is discouraged.  A Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to the Crips and Bloods gangs of LA and funneled millions in drug profits to a guerilla army run by the CIA. The cocaine that flooded in helped spark a crack explosion in urban America. In the weeks and months that followed September 11th, the federal government began to take an unprecedented attitude about the access of American journalists to the Iraq war. Fear ruled every newsroom in the country in some important ways—fear if we don't dumb it down, if we don't tart it up, if we don't go to the trivial at the expense of the important, we're not going to be publishing a newspaper or magazine. We're not going to be on the air. The ratings will eat us up.  3,500 America POWs have in fact been kept by the Vietnamese as hostages to make sure the US would pay the more than $3 billion in war reparations. After the war American POWs had become worthless pawns. The US had not paid the promised monies and had no intention of paying in the future.  Nov. 8, 1996, documents proving that a US Navy missile had accidentally downed TWA flight 800 was quashed.  Bush Voting Fraud Year 2000 balloting, Gov. Jeb Bush ordered elections supervisors to purge 58,000 voters on the grounds they were felons not entitled to vote. As it turns out, only a handful of these voters were felons. This extraordinary news ran on page one of the country’s leading paper. Unfortunately, it was the wrong country: Britain.  CIA Smuggled Heroin Massive amounts of heroin being smuggled into the US in the bodies and body bags of GIs killed in Vietnam. Case after case was killed by CIA and State Department intervention and there wasn't a thing we could do about it…. In 1980, CIA-recruited mercenaries and drug traffickers unseated Bolivia's democratically elected president. Immediately after the coup, cocaine production increased massively. Bolivia became the source of virtually 100% of the cocaine entering the US. This was the beginning of the crack "plague."… The CIA along with State and Justice Departments had to protect their drug-dealing assets by destroying a DEA investigation. Bloggers Beware "Bloggers beware," because "the US military seeks the capability to knock out every telephone, every networked computer, every radar system on the planet." Other parts of the same system intercept messages from the Internet, from undersea cables, from radio transmissions, from secret equipment installed inside embassies, or use orbiting satellites to monitor signals anywhere on the earth's surface. The Echelon System The system includes stations run by Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, in addition to those operated by the United States. The ECHELON system is not designed to eavesdrop on a particular individual's e-mail or fax link. Rather, the system works by indiscriminately intercepting very large quantities of communications and using computers to identify and extract messages of interest from the mass of unwanted ones. A chain of secret interception facilities has been established around the world to tap into all the major components of the international telecommunications networks. Some monitor communications satellites, others land-based communications networks, and others radio communications. ECHELON links together all these facilities, providing the US and its allies with the ability to intercept a large proportion of the communications on the planet. The computers at each station in the ECHELON network automatically search through the millions of messages intercepted for ones containing pre-programmed keywords. Keywords include all the names, localities, subjects, and so on that might be mentioned. Every word of every message intercepted at each station gets automatically searched whether or not a specific telephone number or e-mail address is on the list. The system also uses "voice recognition" technology to trace the identity of phone conversations intercepted. Intelligence gathered is used to protect national security and is also routienly made available to corporations as part of what has come to ben known as "corporate warfare". The thousands of simultaneous messages are read in "real time" as they pour into the station, hour after hour, day after day, as the computer finds intelligence needles in telecommunications haystacks. At the same time, that capability at any time could be turned around on the American people and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn't matter. There would be no place to hide. If this government ever became a tyranny, if a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back, because the most careful effort to combine together in resistance to the government, no matter how privately it was done, is within the reach of the government to know. Such is the capability of this technology...  Labels: Armageddon, Bible Prophecy, Bush Brotherhood of Death  Stumble It! |
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