I got yer “news.”
Right here!!!
There is not going to be, was not going to be and…short of a true meltdown of some kind…never will be any kind of “government shutdown” whatsoever. And here’s why.
It’d be bad for business.
The end.
It’s just a negotiation. Always was. Between wings of the corporate world on one hand and between the pretty nearly monolithic corporate world and the American public on the other. In situations like this the media act as a testing board. Throw this idea out for the fish to gobble; run that one up a flagpole and count the erections. Both the DemRats and the Ratpublicans are totally and absolutely owned by corporate interests. “America’s business is business” said jolly ol’ Silent Cal Coolidge, and baby, like a true man of few words he pinned it in four. That’s all you need to know. And not just in the U.S., either. The whole idea holds true over the entire “developed” world.
Read on for more.
Whatisname the legal serial rapist? Dominique Strauss-Kahn? As soon as they pegged him with a three letter nickname, DSK was home free. Instead of a gun or knife his weapon of choice is power…money and position…and he wields it with great joy.
“C’mere honey. I’ve got something fer ya.” And of course it ain’t ever what she was hoping for. But at the plateau of money power upon which he lives, it’s no matter. Really busting him would be…altogether, now…
“BAD FOR BUSINESS!!!”
Yup.
The apparently earth-shattering news that Rupert Murdoch is going to close The Worst Sunday Newspaper In History?
Wow!!!
He’s actually doing something because of a moral issue?
Please.
Rupert Murdoch fights to keep BSkyB deal on course
Rupert Murdoch fought to rescue the merger of News Corporation and BSkyB by announcing the closure of the News of the World after a deluge of 11th-hour complaints to the Government appeared to delay the deal for months.
Shares in BSkyB fell 1.8pc, closing at 812p on fears that the deal would be delayed. The announcement that News Corp would shut the News of the World was made after the market closed.
In New York, News Corp shares edged up 0.5pc in afternoon trading to $17.55.More than 100,000 people and organisations made last minute submissions to the Government’s consultation on the proposed bid as the phone hacking scandal deepened, leaving the Department for Culture, Media and Sport with months of work ahead of them before Jeremy Hunt, the Culture Secretary, can reach a decision.
He was originally expected to deliver his final verdict on the proposed deal just before Parliament’s summer recess on July 18. It is now not expected to make a decision until at least September, according to sources, and it could be as late as 2012 if a way is not found to speed up the process.An earlier consultation on News Corp’s proposed bid to buy the 61pc of BSkyB it does not already own received around 40,000 of submissions, which took civil servants and lawyers a full three months to work through.
Follow the money to find the truth. Aways and everywhere.
It’s just business, podna. No hard feelings. Nuthin’ personal.
Bada BING!!!
And of course “ka-ching, ka-ching.”
Just as it’s always been.
Meanwhile you lib shmoon are glued to your media of choice.
Will he or won’t he?
Should they or shouldn’t they?
Oh wow! Whut’s gonna happen next!!!
Grow the fuck up, folks.
Power will find its best path to profit and then take it.
End of story.
The rest?
All (digital) smoke and mirrors.
Grow the fuck up.
Turn your fucking media off.
Then you’ll get the news.
Bet on it.
Until then?
You’re just a third part of a negotiation. The weakest part. The fish at the poker table.
Nothing more.
Bet on it.
Nighty-night.
Later…
AG
Tips? Recs? Say it ain’t so, Joe?
It is so.
Wake the fuck up.
You are a bunch of extras in the world’s largest soap opera.
And it’s all bullshit.
If it makes it to the media…it’s all bullshit.
Arts, politics, world affairs, culture…if they see fit to report it, then it is not real.
Step away.
Please.
Thank you and goodnight.
AG
Full credit. Now back to the foofaraw.
I am sorry have to say this, anarchronarchist, but the truth is not an “insult.” Nor am I trying to insult anyone. What I am trying to do is wake people up to what is happening, both to the country as a whole and to their own psyches by way of media sickness. Why am I so relatively alone in this attempt? I really do not know. Just lucky, I guess. I got bumped out of the mainstream white American mindset at about 18 years of age, when I was at least provisionally accepted by black (and later, hispanic) musicians who had come up totally outside of the system.
That was stroke of luck number 1.
Number 2? I met…after some serious searching…a teacher of Sufi-influenced ideas and methods. This took me even further afield from middle class white culture.
Number 3? The final straw? The execrable media-backed runup to the invasion of Iraq.
I no longer believe in anything that is promulgated by the media.
Nothing.
Alexander Cockbur’ns father Claud told him “Never believe anything till it’s officially denied.”
Well, there is a useful corollary.
Never believe anything that is officially supported.
And the corporate-owned media of the United States…including PBS, NPR and almost all of the news outlets on the internet… is the “official” voice of the kleptocracy. It’s not the drivel that passes for official information from the White House or the State Department or the Pentagon or any other government office.
It’s the totality of hte news that is considered, in the great words of the Old Grey Times Lady…”fit to print.”
Fit to be used to confuse.
So-called reality shows, the news, the movies and TV dramas and comedies, advertising of all kinds…the works, brother.
The works.
A gestalt of untruth.
And then you write:
Asa lways when I see evidence of the depth of hypnomedia addiction in the American people…that makes me very sad, brother.
Very sad.
But…enjoy yourself.
It’s later than you think.
Bet on it.
AG
At least I know where my bread is buttered. The world is connected and so are you, in ways that will probably shame you as you discover them. You can’t help it.
I can pretend I don’t take (small) part in the manipulation of masses. The masses are asses that need to be whipped to make them move in a timely manner. You do a lot of that, motives aside, it’s the same methods. You just have the strength of your convictions, but pure contrarianism isn’t particularly practicable because it depends the main stream thought to exist.
All I am saying is if you didn’t plan on manipulating your readers, you’d keep the language under control. But you do choose to take a crap on your readers’ eyes to get their minds softened and then deliver your message. While you do get an important thought or two through the veil this way, you also supply the reader ten reasons to ignore them.
Not exactly pure informational truth, is it?
You write:
“Shame me?”
I think not. I’ve been around long enough to have a good idea of how the world…the universe, to be more precise…is connected.
I am not trying to “manipulate the masses,” either. I am only trying to open a few eyes.
You say that I am practicing pure contrarianism . I am not. Read back through my posts here. I actually supported Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama during the primaries. Groucho Marx’s “Whatever it is, I’m against it” shtick is not what i am about. I call it as I see it, and what I see of most importance in this U.S. society is the power of the media in controlling the minds and emotions of almost all Americans.
You think that I am trying to “manipulate” my readers, and that my use of the language of the NYC streets is proof of this?
Fuck you then.
Lenny Bruce-“If you can’t say fuck, then you can’t say ‘Fuck the government.’ “
Like dat.
Is my street talk supplying you with “ten reasons to ignore ” what I am saying? Then examine your own position. I can walk into any working class bar in this country, into the halls of absolute power, into any barracks or office of the armed forces, into the ghettos in which so many of our people of color are forced to live and into the dorm rooms of every college in the U.S. and hear the same language that I am using. In can hear it in NYC and I can just as easily hear it in Peoria or Oshkosh fucking Wisconsin.
Where can it not be heard?
In the corporate-controlled media, classrooms and public governmental pronouncements of this country.
Dassit.
Why?
Because real language…people’s language…threatens the control system.
If you can’t say fuck, you also can’t say “Fuck the corporations.’
“Fuck the controllers.”
“Fuck this system as it stands.”
This language “shocks” you?
Get out more.
AG
P.S. You use as a sig a quote from some dress-up doll version of a real teacher that was part of a series of fantasy rebellion movies that was used…allowed by the corporate controllers at the very least…to fill the minds of the young with thoughts of divine magic as a practicable way to fight the incursions of a corporate-style system on the freedoms of mankind?
Shit.
Why do I bother?
I guess you like the Harry Potter series too, eh?
Wake the fuck up.
You quote Yoda, I quote Henry David Thoreau.
What’s the use?
Don’t bring a sock puppet to a thought fight.