Sure you can stand on the soap box and shout your lungs off but how likely are you to do this. You are not going to reach all that many people and whoever does hear you is hardly going to give a flying f*ck about what some nutcase on a soapbox is saying.
The information that average American pleb receives and bases their opinions on is controlled by mass media corporations which are controlled by a handfull of people. Government/mass media/military establishment manages public opinion in USA as much as it does in China, and any other country, except by slightly different means:
Thing happens in real world that is undesirable for average citizen to read about.
China: Jail/Shoot anybody who publishes it
USA: Don't publish, deny, cover up, put a favorable spin on it, fill the airtime with garbage non-news and relegate a softened version of it to back pages, discredit and ridicule the publisher
Different tactics for different circumstances.
Just look at the international news on CNN, from wars in Balkans, through coverage of Israels occupation of Palestine through patriotic hysteria of the current war(s). The purpose is to maintain public support for aggression of US foreign policy and of its allies.
For all those ranting about how great freedom and democracy are in America I have a big orange bridge here in San Francisco on sale, going cheap
http://otn.oracle.com/products/9i_appliance/cont en t.html
If so, then you are wrong. It replaces some of the OS functions and provides it's own administration tools, both for the OS and for the aplication server, but it does have an OS kernel (Solaris:( ) underneath.
"I'll tell you why I think we should bomb Belgrade"
[war is terrible and innocent civiliants suffer...] Shed a tear if you want, and then get on with the business of killing our enemies as quickly as we can, and as ruthlessly as we must."
"I'd institute a policy that I call "rogue state rollback." I would arm, train, equip, both from without and from within, forces that
would eventually overthrow the governments and install free and democratically elected governments."
"I'll tell you why we ought bomb Iraq"
"we have to focus, not just on containment, but on a change in the regime in Iraq"
"Let us praise the good intentions that created the ABM Treaty, then consign it to the history pages where it belongs"
"Vietnam war was a worthy cause despite the failure to win it"
Quotes from a teenagers web site? No, quotes from a US senator, John McCain.
I wonder if PBS are planning to do a mental engeneering program regarding the mainstream news programs instead of comercials.
There is far more mental engineering going on there.
Good old BBC. Not perfect by any means, but anybody who like me has lived in UK will tell you that this country is so much poorer for not having a decent public TV service.
You have 90% of people spending a large proportion of the day watching TV which is the source for most if not all of their information and entertainment. I believe in free market as much as anybody, but I think there is at least as much of a case for the regulation of content (ex. setting max. time limit for comercials) as there is for most of the other huge multitude of things that are goverment regulated in order to protect consumer from corporate greed.
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Mariah's fans everywhere are insulted. After all, it had some great reviews.
that way you don't have to do any testing because you know it's Unbreakable :)
> and think how complacent the US is in their deaths.
I think complacent is the wrong term. Israels ocupation of Palestine is almost entirely funded by you and me in other words the US taxpayers.
Sure you can stand on the soap box and shout your lungs off but how likely are you to do this. You are not going to reach all that many people and whoever does hear you is hardly going to give a flying f*ck about what some nutcase on a soapbox is saying.
The information that average American pleb receives and bases their opinions on is controlled by mass media corporations which are controlled by a handfull of people. Government/mass media/military establishment manages public opinion in USA as much as it does in China, and any other country, except by slightly different means:
Thing happens in real world that is undesirable for average citizen to read about.
China: Jail/Shoot anybody who publishes it
USA: Don't publish, deny, cover up, put a favorable spin on it, fill the airtime with garbage non-news and relegate a softened version of it to back pages, discredit and ridicule the publisher
Different tactics for different circumstances.
Just look at the international news on CNN, from wars in Balkans, through coverage of Israels occupation of Palestine through patriotic hysteria of the current war(s). The purpose is to maintain public support for aggression of US foreign policy and of its allies.
For all those ranting about how great freedom and democracy are in America I have a big orange bridge here in San Francisco on sale, going cheap
Did nobody else notice that the guys name is Shuttleworth?
Or else nobody thought it was funny enough to mention?
Is that Oracle Applicance you are reffering to?
http://otn.oracle.com/products/9i_appliance/con
If so, then you are wrong. It replaces some of the OS functions and provides it's own administration tools, both for the OS and for the aplication server, but it does have an OS kernel (Solaris
Advocating violence?
"I'll tell you why I think we should bomb Belgrade"
[war is terrible and innocent civiliants suffer...] Shed a tear if you want, and then get on with the business of killing our enemies as quickly as we can, and as ruthlessly as we must."
"I'd institute a policy that I call "rogue state rollback." I would arm, train, equip, both from without and from within, forces that
would eventually overthrow the governments and install free and democratically elected governments."
"I'll tell you why we ought bomb Iraq"
"we have to focus, not just on containment, but on a change in the regime in Iraq"
"Let us praise the good intentions that created the ABM Treaty, then consign it to the history pages where it belongs"
"Vietnam war was a worthy cause despite the failure to win it"
Quotes from a teenagers web site? No, quotes from a US senator, John McCain.
I wonder if PBS are planning to do a mental engeneering program regarding the mainstream news programs instead of comercials.
There is far more mental engineering going on there.
Good old BBC. Not perfect by any means, but anybody who like me has lived in UK will tell you that this country is so much poorer for not having a decent public TV service. You have 90% of people spending a large proportion of the day watching TV which is the source for most if not all of their information and entertainment. I believe in free market as much as anybody, but I think there is at least as much of a case for the regulation of content (ex. setting max. time limit for comercials) as there is for most of the other huge multitude of things that are goverment regulated in order to protect consumer from corporate greed.