brainwashed by corporate owned media
Abookamongstthemany
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You know that you've been brainwashed by corporate owned media IF YOU ...
... believe the 5 corporations who own almost all of the media in the U.S. are liberal.
... believe $300 billion of U.S. tax money, allocated for the war and reconstruction in Iraq is actually going to Iraq .
... are unaware Iraq had 650 million barrels of oil in reserve just before the war in Iraq .
... are unaware at least $8.8 billion is known to be missing in Iraqi oil revenue from the period the U.S. was in control of Iraq .
... are unaware 198 million in Iraqi dollars is missing from the Iraq treasury from the period the U.S. was in control of Iraq .
... are unaware that war is exceptionally profitable for a small number of investors.
... believe Halliburton's no-bid contracts have nothing to do with former CEO, now Vice President Dick Cheney.
... are unaware that the Iraq war is the biggest case of war profiteering in human history.
... believe Saddam Hussein or Iraq had anything to do with 9/11, Al Qaeda or Osama bin Laden.
... are unaware the U.S. has killed more than 10,000 innocent women and children in Iraq with cluster bombs and depleted uranium munitions.
... believe depleted uranium weapons are not radioactive or deadly weapons of mass destruction (they are 12ess radioactive than nuclear weapons grade uranium and very deadly).
... believe wealthy, warmongers can also be true Christians.
... are unaware stem cell research threatens the pharmaceutical industry by curing and preventing diseases which drug companies profit from by treating with drugs.
... are unaware the pharmaceutical industry is based entirely on treatment and is threatened by cures and prevention.
... are unaware the Food and Drug Administration does NO testing of food or drugs. They only set guidelines and review the testing corporations do of their own products.
... are unaware the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act has been 're- estimated' to cost U.S. taxpayers $1.3 Trillion (not the original $243 billion or the 'adjusted' $400 billion), and only pharmaceutical corporations and HMOs benefit from the increase.
... are unaware the Boston Tea party was a protest against corporate corruption (East India Company).
... are unaware our founding fathers intentionally made sure that corporations had no power over people or our government.
... are unaware corporations have fought aggressively and systematically over the past 200 years to increase their power and influence over our government.
... are unaware U.S. corporations are now protected under the 14th amendment as a legal 'person.'
... are unaware the definition of fascism is: 'The marriage of corporation and state' -- Benito Mussolini.
... are unaware well known U.S. corporate interests attempted a military coup against Franklin Roosevelt in 1933.
... are unaware most corrupt and wasteful government projects are run primarily by corporate contractors.
... are unaware 'less government' means paying corporate contractors three times what we pay government workers to do the same work.
... are unaware American corporations behave very differently in other countries.
... are unaware Enron and others were NOT investigated until they collapsed under the weight of their own greed.
... are unaware Bush's massive tax cuts were invested overseas to build sweat shops, factories and other facilities, where our jobs have been outsourced.
... are unaware outsourcing American jobs weakens labor unions and keeps wages low and corporate profits high .
... are unaware weak enforcement of immigration laws lowers wages in the U.S. and increases corporate profits.
... are unaware 'Free Trade' means 'Slave Wages' to poor people in Honduras, Bangladesh, China, Malaysia, Burma, Cambodia, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Philippines, Thailand, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Nepal, El Salvador, Guatemala, Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and others.
... believe America is hated all over the world because of our freedom.
... believe the massive U.S. national debt (now $7,786,000,000,000) created by Republican presidents Reagan, Bush and Bush does not seriously threaten the future of our children and grandchildren.
... are unaware massive national debt ensures the expansion of poverty, which keeps wages low, which increases corporate profits.
... are unaware widespread poverty keeps wages low and corporate profits high.
... are unaware weak gun control laws perpetuate violence in poor neighborhoods which expands poverty, reduces wages and increases corporate profits.
... are unaware abortions go down only when we reduce poverty, expand healthcare and improve education.
... are unaware that making abortion illegal expands poverty which reduces wages and increases corporate profits.
... believe the Michael Jackson trial deserved more news coverage than the genocide of 400,000 people in Darfur , Sudan.
... believe Social Security is the biggest priority in America .
... are unaware privatizing Social Security would be a massive give away to experienced Wall Street investors that would also destabilize Social Security.
... are unaware that NOT funding 'No Child Left Behind' is dismantling funding for schools in poor neighborhoods, which expands poverty, lowers wages and increases corporate profits.
... are unaware the Healthy Forests Initiative has led to massive clear cutting of prime lumber and almost none of the forest fire prevention that it was sold on.
... are unaware the Clear Skies Initiative has increased pollution.
... are unaware Tort Reform will absolve corporations of massive negligent liabilities for things like asbestos exposure, pollution, mercury poisoning, hazardous waste, mad cow disease and all sorts of dangerous products and practices.
... are unaware mercury pollution (mostly from coal fired power plants and medical vaccines) has caused an epidemic of Autism, ADD and ADHD in the U.S.
... are unaware the Bush administration is dismantling three decades of US environmental protection.
... believe global warming is a rumor or conspiracy.
... are unaware 'Global Warming' is causing colder weather because the melting ice caps are cooling the gulf stream.
... believe the science of evolution is less valid than literal fundamentalist interpretation of creationism.
... believe the UN scandals could have taken place without the largest, most influential member and host nation being involved.
... believe making a war monger ambassador to the UN will help prevent more wars.
... are unaware that expanding equal rights to any segment of the population (including gay people) also expands economic opportunity and puts pressure on wages, which would reduce corporate profits.
If you believe Fox News is fair and balanced...
you have been brainwashed by corporate owned media!
... believe the 5 corporations who own almost all of the media in the U.S. are liberal.
... believe $300 billion of U.S. tax money, allocated for the war and reconstruction in Iraq is actually going to Iraq .
... are unaware Iraq had 650 million barrels of oil in reserve just before the war in Iraq .
... are unaware at least $8.8 billion is known to be missing in Iraqi oil revenue from the period the U.S. was in control of Iraq .
... are unaware 198 million in Iraqi dollars is missing from the Iraq treasury from the period the U.S. was in control of Iraq .
... are unaware that war is exceptionally profitable for a small number of investors.
... believe Halliburton's no-bid contracts have nothing to do with former CEO, now Vice President Dick Cheney.
... are unaware that the Iraq war is the biggest case of war profiteering in human history.
... believe Saddam Hussein or Iraq had anything to do with 9/11, Al Qaeda or Osama bin Laden.
... are unaware the U.S. has killed more than 10,000 innocent women and children in Iraq with cluster bombs and depleted uranium munitions.
... believe depleted uranium weapons are not radioactive or deadly weapons of mass destruction (they are 12ess radioactive than nuclear weapons grade uranium and very deadly).
... believe wealthy, warmongers can also be true Christians.
... are unaware stem cell research threatens the pharmaceutical industry by curing and preventing diseases which drug companies profit from by treating with drugs.
... are unaware the pharmaceutical industry is based entirely on treatment and is threatened by cures and prevention.
... are unaware the Food and Drug Administration does NO testing of food or drugs. They only set guidelines and review the testing corporations do of their own products.
... are unaware the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act has been 're- estimated' to cost U.S. taxpayers $1.3 Trillion (not the original $243 billion or the 'adjusted' $400 billion), and only pharmaceutical corporations and HMOs benefit from the increase.
... are unaware the Boston Tea party was a protest against corporate corruption (East India Company).
... are unaware our founding fathers intentionally made sure that corporations had no power over people or our government.
... are unaware corporations have fought aggressively and systematically over the past 200 years to increase their power and influence over our government.
... are unaware U.S. corporations are now protected under the 14th amendment as a legal 'person.'
... are unaware the definition of fascism is: 'The marriage of corporation and state' -- Benito Mussolini.
... are unaware well known U.S. corporate interests attempted a military coup against Franklin Roosevelt in 1933.
... are unaware most corrupt and wasteful government projects are run primarily by corporate contractors.
... are unaware 'less government' means paying corporate contractors three times what we pay government workers to do the same work.
... are unaware American corporations behave very differently in other countries.
... are unaware Enron and others were NOT investigated until they collapsed under the weight of their own greed.
... are unaware Bush's massive tax cuts were invested overseas to build sweat shops, factories and other facilities, where our jobs have been outsourced.
... are unaware outsourcing American jobs weakens labor unions and keeps wages low and corporate profits high .
... are unaware weak enforcement of immigration laws lowers wages in the U.S. and increases corporate profits.
... are unaware 'Free Trade' means 'Slave Wages' to poor people in Honduras, Bangladesh, China, Malaysia, Burma, Cambodia, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Philippines, Thailand, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Nepal, El Salvador, Guatemala, Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and others.
... believe America is hated all over the world because of our freedom.
... believe the massive U.S. national debt (now $7,786,000,000,000) created by Republican presidents Reagan, Bush and Bush does not seriously threaten the future of our children and grandchildren.
... are unaware massive national debt ensures the expansion of poverty, which keeps wages low, which increases corporate profits.
... are unaware widespread poverty keeps wages low and corporate profits high.
... are unaware weak gun control laws perpetuate violence in poor neighborhoods which expands poverty, reduces wages and increases corporate profits.
... are unaware abortions go down only when we reduce poverty, expand healthcare and improve education.
... are unaware that making abortion illegal expands poverty which reduces wages and increases corporate profits.
... believe the Michael Jackson trial deserved more news coverage than the genocide of 400,000 people in Darfur , Sudan.
... believe Social Security is the biggest priority in America .
... are unaware privatizing Social Security would be a massive give away to experienced Wall Street investors that would also destabilize Social Security.
... are unaware that NOT funding 'No Child Left Behind' is dismantling funding for schools in poor neighborhoods, which expands poverty, lowers wages and increases corporate profits.
... are unaware the Healthy Forests Initiative has led to massive clear cutting of prime lumber and almost none of the forest fire prevention that it was sold on.
... are unaware the Clear Skies Initiative has increased pollution.
... are unaware Tort Reform will absolve corporations of massive negligent liabilities for things like asbestos exposure, pollution, mercury poisoning, hazardous waste, mad cow disease and all sorts of dangerous products and practices.
... are unaware mercury pollution (mostly from coal fired power plants and medical vaccines) has caused an epidemic of Autism, ADD and ADHD in the U.S.
... are unaware the Bush administration is dismantling three decades of US environmental protection.
... believe global warming is a rumor or conspiracy.
... are unaware 'Global Warming' is causing colder weather because the melting ice caps are cooling the gulf stream.
... believe the science of evolution is less valid than literal fundamentalist interpretation of creationism.
... believe the UN scandals could have taken place without the largest, most influential member and host nation being involved.
... believe making a war monger ambassador to the UN will help prevent more wars.
... are unaware that expanding equal rights to any segment of the population (including gay people) also expands economic opportunity and puts pressure on wages, which would reduce corporate profits.
If you believe Fox News is fair and balanced...
you have been brainwashed by corporate owned media!
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
-Oscar Wilde
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
-Oscar Wilde
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...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
at least some people are paying attention
when it hits you, you feel to pain.
So brutalize me with music.”
~ Bob Marley
i dont think it is funny at all...
i would wager $20 that 95% of those claims can be supported by published documents... and if the claim was opinion like some are, i would wager another $20 that there is a large number of "educated" people that would agree with those claims?
it's pretty sad when you realize it is the truth
i believe canadian surfers should be added to the U.S. State Departments terrorism list
ill match that and raise you 10.
~Ron Burgundy
I had the displeasure of watching faux "news" on a Jet Blue from NY to L.A. and while channel surfing I stopped on FN just lon enough to see a blip of a ten year retrospective.
one of the tools on there was saying that it was shame that FN had not been around to counter walter cronkite on the Vietnam war. Keep things "fair and balanced" as it were.
might as well have said..
"Where the truth exists, we'll be there with the lie".
Most of these guys aren't fit to hold Cronkites colostomy bag.
It's hilarious there is a large portion of most of those statements that are unsubstantiated and it takes a brainwashed person to believe EITHER side of them.
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
better yet, you could enlighten us as to what was wrong about the original post...
shine on you crazy diamond...
I just skimmed the list, but 3 questionable "facts" would include:
... are unaware most corrupt and wasteful government projects are run primarily by corporate contractors. -- These contractors make winning bids (with exceptions). They are not in charge of budgeting tax dollars for the program, that would be the government's role. If the government isn't choosing the best contractors or lacking in oversight, that's not the contractor's fault.
... are unaware 'less government' means paying corporate contractors three times what we pay government workers to do the same work. -- If a company has the logistical infrastructure in place to support particular projects, ie building a bridge, please explain how the government can build that necessary infrastructure and then build the bridge using only 1/3 of the money allotted to the contractor?
... are unaware that expanding equal rights to any segment of the population (including gay people) also expands economic opportunity and puts pressure on wages, which would reduce corporate profits. -- eh? gays not being able to marry has NOTHING to do with wages. Gay marriage is the ONLY form of "unequal rights" under the law. Black women's wages may lag far behind a white man's wages, but to imply the difference is caused by a lack of "equal rights" under the law is ludicrous.
I know that the pharmaceutical industry initially was based on treatment as was medicine in general but there are many drugs that millions are spent on researching for the prevention of disease. Off the top of my head the biggest ones would be the Statins, a group of drugs that were designed to lower cholesterol levels and therefore prevent heart disease and stroke. Another group of drugs are the blood thinning drugs, used to prvent strokes and the like.
As for the free trade = slave wages, I can't speak for all the other countries on the list, but regarding Malaysia, US companies that set up shop there pay much better salaries and offer better perks than many local ones. Granted, they may not be as high as the wage for a person in a similar job in america but they're still very competitive for the local economy.
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Hail, Hail!!!
Thanks for posting this, everyone needs to read this... but others will be scared to read it.
The truth is an ugly bitch!
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You're an intelligent fella Know1. It's a shame that too often you choose to simply knock people/or their opinions down without making any constructive criticism of them. Your posts would be far more interesting if you put some meat on their bones and backed up what you say with some source/background information. I believe that it was not wholly unconstructive of Abookamongstthemany to put forward these points. I just don't see what good it does to make a side-swipe at his post without giving us something to feed on.
ahhhh this thread needed that. thanks. so many people here think they speak the whole truth, nothing but the truth, so help them allah.
My mind is filthy!
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
-Oscar Wilde
Duh shit! Everyone thinks they are speaking the truth or else they are lying. What sense does it make to say something you think is false? Nobody here should have to post 'This is just my opinion, I could be wrong.' with every post. Get real and drop the whining! But of course, I can admit to being wrong and change my mind when presented with facts that contradict my beliefs. I don't resort to saying 'Tell Osama I said fuck you.' instead of coming up with something constructive to bring to the table.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
-Oscar Wilde
Hail, Hail!!!
honestly, I think its about how your lover/partner has always used bluecheese dressing. what do you think to yourself? Such thoughts as "not on my health" or...."Its tooo creamish and....overfloody for the tastebuds."
Well guess what??
I had some today......and i liked it!!!!
Did it have to do with quantity or quality? Look. I dont know, but it mixed well with the particular salad that I had.
I dont think there is more that needs to be said.
Thanks.
Thanks. I wasn't knocking anybody. Many of those statements are just unsubstantiated "catch phrases" and I find it completely humorous that people will believe one side of them but call those who believe the other side (also completely unsubstantiated) as brainwashed.
Here - you only need to look as far as the very first statement. Can anyone show me that the "almost all" of the media in the U.S. are controlled by 5 corporations?
(I'll bet that someone can, but I'll bet that someone else just as easily can show that "almost all" isn't controlled by 5. After all, "media" is quite subjective).
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
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I feel therefore I vote.
What is your truth? Can you even state an opinion without insulting or using a backhanded compliment? I dont believe you can, therefore your truth is nothing but dogshit.
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Ignorance is Strength
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