Media ownership and consolidation is a critical issue of our time. Yesterday the Senate listened to the American people and, for once, stood up for the public interest when they passed a Resolution of Disapproval that “would nullify the Federal Communications Commission’s latest attempt to dismantle longstanding media ownership limits”.
The staff here at Revolutionary signed a Freepress.net petition, wrote letters to our Georgia Senators, Chambliss and Isakson, and placed phone calls yesterday to their offices urging them to vote for the Resolution. Because the Senate vote was a Voice Vote, no record was kept of individual Senators votes, unfortunately. In any event, we will continue to engage Congress and make our positions known.
“In a near-unanimous voice vote tonight, the Senate passed a “resolution of disapproval” that would nullify the Federal Communications Commission’s latest attempt to dismantle longstanding media ownership limits.”
“Last December, the FCC voted to remove the “newspaper/ broadcast cross-ownership” ban that prohibits one company from owning a broadcast station and the major daily newspaper in the same market. The resolution of disapproval (Senate Joint Resolution 28), introduced by Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.), would nullify the FCC’s new rules if passed by Congress and signed by the president. The House version of the resolution was introduced by Reps. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) and Dave Reichert (R-Wash.) in March.”
“Today, the Bush administration issued a statement opposing the resolution and threatening to veto it. The statement called the FCC’s new rules the product of “extensive public comment and consultation” but failed to mention that only 1 percent of public comments supported the administration’s position…”
“Poor Obama. No matter how much he tries to placate the Israel lobby, they just won’t take yes for an answer…”
“Yet Obama still keeps trying to appease the Lobby. He’s purged staff members who so much as looked cross-eyed at the Israelis, such as one poor adviser who meekly suggested that talking to Hamas might not be such a bad idea. He was out faster than you can say Mearsheimer and Walt …”
“Goldberg [Obama interviewer], clearly enjoying himself, digs the knife in deeper and inquires if Obama was “flummoxed” upon receiving the Ahmed Yousef seal of approval.
Obama – flummoxed? Surely he jests.
It’s time for Obama to play his trump card, and he does so by citing his support for Israel’s 2006 invasion of Lebanon, in which factories, hospitals, and Christian churches were bombed and thousands of Lebanese civilians were killed, in retaliation for the kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers and the killing of three more…”
Presidential candidate Ron Paul stands for personal freedom and liberty, limited government, and a foreign policy of non-intervention. You know, traditional American values. The Ron Paul Revolution is educating and inspiring a new generation of American patriots who believe in personal liberty and the rule of law.
Ron Paul wants to abolish the criminal cartel that is the Federal Reserve System, abolish the criminal wealth transfer conducted by the IRS, otherwise know as the Federal Income Tax, and restore our Republic to the fundamental principals of our Declaration of Independence, The U.S. Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.
Every true American believes in Ron Paul’s message, some just don’t know it yet.
Your United States Government: rounding up pastors and charging them with “terror and espionage” for encouraging Boy Scouts to educate themselves about the Constitution and to help save our dying Republic. Your tax dollars at work.
While you were watching last night’s episode of Dancing with the fucking Stars on TiVO; youranti-American, anti-freedom, anti-liberty government was planning to round up more of your neighbors who are trying to savethis country from the authoritarian nightmare that is the United States Government. This is your fascist police-state.
This is no longer a country of free speech, of free thought, or of free opinion. This is no longer a country based on freedom and liberty. It is a fascist dictatorship based on the Military Commissions Act and the Orwellian horror that is the ‘Patriot’ Act. What happens if you decide to question authority? To exercise your God given rights to liberty and free thought? You are rounded up by yourpolice-state.
When you get over the joy of skipping commercials with that idiot-box recording device, TiVO, do yourself and your family a favor, and wake the fuck up. You are living in Germany, 1939.
“A student of a large bible college in east Texas was accused by federal agents of committing an “act of terror and espionage” after he gave a talk to a group of Boy Scouts in which he encouraged them to educate themselves about the U.S. constitution…”
“Jeff said he told the boys, “It’s going to be you who is going to take this country and either make or break it - you need to get back to your constitution, you need to get to know your bill of rights and you need to stand up for them…”
“I said they’re stripping us of what we know to be America, what you need to do is re-orient yourself to the constitution because that is the very founding basis of our government and it is the supreme law of the land,” he added.
The next day Jeff was called into the main administrative office of the university where he was met by college officials and two men wearing dark suits and sunglasses who did not identify themselves…”
“After asking the men where they were from, Jeff was told he was committing “acts of terror and espionage” by talking to the Boy Scouts about the constitution and the bill of rights.”
“Jeff said that the two men told him, “If you say anything, do anything, continue to talk about these kind of things, we can have your head on a silver platter…”
Please visit Prison Planet for more frightening examples of our neo-fascist government round-up of innocent patriots who dare challenge the authoritarian regime of the United States government.
“Nowhere in the world, in no act of genocide, in no war, are so many people killed per minute, per hour and per day as those who are killed by hunger and poverty on our planet.” - Fidel Castro
“The starting point for our analysis must be this: there is no shortage of food in the world today…”
Contrary to the 18th century warnings of Thomas Malthus and his modern followers, study after study shows that global food production has consistently outstripped population growth, and that there is more than enough food to feed everyone. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, enough food is produced in the world to provide over 2800 calories a day to everyone - substantially more than the minimum required for good health, and about 18% more calories per person than in the 1960s, despite a significant increase in total population…”
“Over the past three decades, transnational agribusiness companies have engineered a massive restructuring of global agriculture. Directly through their own market power and indirectly through governments and the World Bank, IMF and World Trade Organization, they have changed the way food is grown and distributed around the world…”
“The fact that there is already enough food to feed the world shows that the food crisis is not a technical problem - it is a social and political problem.”
“Why can’t the global food industry feed the hungry? … The answer can be stated in one sentence. The global food industry is not organized to feed the hungry; it is organized to generate profits for corporate agribusiness.”
There has been no objection to any of this from any major figure in American politics. Barack Obama doesn’t object to it. Hillary Clinton doesn’t object to it. Nancy Pelosi doesn’t object to it. It goes without saying that John McCain and the Republicans don’t object to these latest war crimes by their blood-drenched leader. The entire Washington power structure has lined up to support this hideous project: military aggression, murder, destruction and rampant atrocity. Somalia — already one of the world’s most fragile and ravaged nations — is being battered into utter destruction before our eyes….and in our names…”
“The media no longer ask those who know something … to share that knowledge with the public. Instead they ask those who know nothing to represent the ignorance of the public and, in so doing, to legitimate it.”
“…Nothing is allowed in political discourse except the bromidic, the stupid, the superficial. Any attempt at truth or honesty is attacked as extreme, even insane, by a cowardly bunch of media pundits trying to score points with each other by ganging up on the victim like schoolyard bullies ganging up on the new kid…”
“…In this country, the chattering classes all compete to see who can repeat the same hackneyed phrases more loudly. Any dissent is seen as a reproach on the monolithic poltroonishness of the conformist establishment and its apostles. With the new 24 hour electronic yellow journalism and its vaudeville showmen posing as thinking pundits, the superficiality takes on hyper levels. Complex issues concerning peace and war, foreign policy, terrorism (and its causes), morality, political philosophy become mere talking subjects, theatrical props, for media sideshow barkers pimping for ratings glory. The tendency is to use out-of-context sound bites to invent huge media controversies, full of sound and fury and signifying nothing…”
