Do You Really Know What’s Goin’ On?
Forget about what you read in America's Washington Post and NYT; and forget about what you hear and see on America's main television or radio outlets. Remember also that the local media affiliates follow their lead. Consider also the reporting and opinion of main media streams, for the most part, is CIA-induced. The CIA even holds influence over how the US military is portrayed in movies spawning from Hollywood. It even has access to everything you write and see on the Internet! In a totality sense, you are watched!
How many folks realize investigative journalism budgets in America’s media have been severely slashed? For example, where is the journalism to counter to anti-Russian narrative?
You’ll only find this among independent media sources, such as Consortium News or sometimes in The Intercept. Pretty much, you’re only getting the media ‘they’ want you to have.
Anybody remember the days when every media source featured an ombudsman, a watchdog overview position meant to assure the journal reported correctly, using fair standards and considerate of important viewpoints? Well, where have all the ombudsmen gone?
How many of you travel daily upon these indoctrinated pathways? How easy do you think it is for popular opinion to become manipulated? Given confusion and distractions with every day life, how great is the average attention span of the average citizen? How many of you think you know something and act within this assumption; but, in reality, you’re clueless and just trying to get along?
Hence, the comfort of home and family, the only thing you really possess that is of true value, that is if you have a home and family. Today, it’s like your friends aren’t really with you anymore because they are off competing against their own needs and wants, needs and wants which become fewer and fewer. It’s harder today than ever before to share a drink with someone. And among those who do, it’s more likely than not they despairingly drink too much. And, of course, licit and illicit drugs become so very self-medicating.
Pursuit of intellectualism and academics be damned! The very idea life can be lived and enjoyed under an extraordinarily different approach to the quality of human need is nothing but an anathema to the strict capitalism prevailing over every day life. Simply stating, passe, “the rich get richer and the poor get poorer” no longer cuts it. This statement is meaningless unless it’s supported by action. However, very few are willing to act!
Yes, America is just the way that ‘they’ want it to be!
Inequality in life has become the norm, this against a backdrop of a severe and very militarized perpetuated drug war. Amazingly, this drug war keeps way too many people living within an underground reality. They don’t participate in jobs or building families and homes and families, they don’t share in knowledge ... they don’t even vote (which is just the way ‘they’ like it)! The once fond and cherished American Dream meant to flourish “The Land of Opportunity,” has sadly succumbed to the economic interests of The Ugly American, the small few completely controlling our economy!
The Princeton Study, published in 2014, declared America has become an oligarchy. Former US President Jimmy Carter also is on record stating we’ve become an oligarchy. This Study proves Congress legislates on behalf of the needs of corporations; not on behalf of the needs of people.
Meanwhile, America has built the largest imperial army ever in history, keeping around 900 military bases worldwide. Just this year, 89% of Senate Democrats joined with the Republican majority to fund a 720 billion dollar Defense Budget! Two-thirds of House Democrats also supported. The two-party system also voted to provide the president (Trump) increased power to spy on people. Deregulation of business and the smashing of labor has become ordinary. All of this couples with an end to net neutrality, and censorship on social media now abounds!
America’s media has become incredibly monopolized whereby only six (they’re trying for five) corporations control 90 percent of all media in America. When Reagan was president there were 50 major media companies! What’s more troubling is the inequality of wealth in America. One would think under President Obama small folk would have gotten a better break. However, under his two terms 95% of all the wealth generated in America went to the fat cats at the top! Here is the larger view:
https://inequality.org/facts/wealth-inequality/
In decades past, America’s powerful military and corporate might would overthrow and install dictators in smaller third world nations. Once control of the government was assured a corporate-friendly ambassador would get appointed and US corporations easily would exploit third world labor in order to rape precious resources from those nations: oil, diamonds, gold, silver, copper, tin, rubber and timber, etc. Read the book: The Ugly American -- also see America-Friendly Dictators:
http://home.iprimus.com.au/korob/fdtcards/Cards_Index.html
The Occupy America Movement finally highlighted the true disparity: 99% vs. one percent! Everything economically in America is meant for the benefit of the one percent. This is no longer theory, it is proven! The oligarchy clearly has concluded a bad economy for the many is necessary in order to keep enlistments up in America’s military. This then begs the question: What is the value of a society whereby one need join the military in order to get ahead in life? And, even doing so, there becomes no satisfaction guaranteed!
Let’s use plain language: It’s a beat deal!
So what becomes the objective of America’s military? Much of it is similar to what’s described above about using dictators and corporate ambassadors to control, rather than help, third world nations. Thus, now the pitiful question: What is the value of America’s military if not for the value of all America’s people? ANSWER: The value of America’s military is only for the value of a few Americans.
The below link very well describes how all of the above exists today (please read closely):
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