OT - 10 steps to fascist police state

On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:08:00 GMT, "Blueskies"
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PBS?

International short wave broadcasts?

Blueskies wrote:

"Larry Dighera" wrote in message ...
: On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:37:38 -0400, Jose
: wrote in :
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: If you don't like what you choose to watch, turn off the TV.
:
: And what of the news you'd like to watch, but because it may have a
: negative impact on the news media's parent company, it isn't reported?
:


PBS?



PBS rocks. I was up until 2am last night for this thing
they did on Enron.

PBS and dailyrotten. Bread and butter.

The Wealth Distribution
In the United States, wealth is highly concentrated in a relatively few
hands. As of 2001, the top 1% of households (the upper class) owned 33.4% of
all privately held wealth, and the next 19% (the managerial, professional,
and small business stratum) had 51%, which means that just 20% of the people
owned a remarkable 84%, leaving only 16% of the wealth for the bottom 80%
(wage and salary workers). In terms of financial wealth, the top 1% of
households had an even greater sha 39.7%. Table 1 and Figure 1 present
further details drawn from the careful work of economist Edward N. Wolff at
New York University (2004).

Assuming these states have some semblance to reality (which is questionable)......

Even if the numbers are not precisely correct, the picture painted
above most assuredly has a "semblance to realilty." No one who knows
anything about economics would dispute the statement that "In the
United States, wealth is highly concentrated in a relatively few
hands."

This not-so-thinly-veiled message of support for socialism.......

That's silly! Is the Department of Commerce of the United States,
currently under the control of a Republican Administration, a
supporter of socialism?

Do you even know what the word "socialism" means?

vince norris

"Erik" wrote

PBS rocks. I was up until 2am last night for this thing
they did on Enron.

PBS and dailyrotten. Bread and butter.

It is always good to hear thing from a different viewpoint, but if you think
PBS is a neutral source, think again.

Far from it.
--
Jim in NC

but if you think
PBS is a neutral source, think again.

Far from it.

Has there ever been a neutral source?

Jose
--
Get high on gasoline: fly an airplane.
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On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:24:36 +0100, "Chris"
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"Don Tabor" wrote in message
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On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:42:40 GMT, "Private"
wrote:

Well written and thought provoking IMHO

If laughing so hard that I fall of my chair counts as thought
provoking, OK.

The rise of Fascism relies on people having the notion that their own
prosperity, power and security derive from being a member of some
collective. Individualism, as expressed by capitalism, is the absolute
antidote to fascism.

Funny how communism and fascism seem so similar.

There's nothing funny about it.

The left wing press and academia have engaged in a 50 year effort to
link fascism to the political right, and too many people with a
limited understanding of history have accepted that.

Yet there are no instances of a capitalist country becoming fascist
without first drifting to collectivism and class envy.

Don


Virginia - the only State with a flag rated
"R" for partial nudity and graphic violence.

"Jim Fisher" wrote in message
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"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
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On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:37:38 -0400, Jose
wrote in :

If you don't like what you choose to watch, turn off the TV.

And what of the news you'd like to watch, but because it may have a
negative impact on the news media's parent company, it isn't reported?


Then you won't know about it and will continue to live in blissfull
ignorance. On the other hand, if you DO know "the news media" is
conspiring against you then you already know where to go to get the "real"
news.

--
Jim Fisher
(Who has lived with the "liberal news media"for 45 years and is still not
brainwashed)

They told me I was gullible...and I believed them.

My daughter is in the upper 1% income bracket that some of you seem to
despise... She does not watch the news on TV or read the front section
of the newspaper - if you were to ask her she would not have a clue
who Cho is/was, and could not care less if she tried... She does not
watch Rosie, Idol, or Dancing with the Stars, or other TV garbage...
She listens to CD music or radio stations (no talk radio), watches
movies as she chooses, reads magazines and books, works on her
projects, cooks gourmet meals, and works hard at her profession...
We have discussed this and she says in the past listening/watching/
reading the garbage the media passes off as news/entertainment only
made her feel 'crazy'... She is much happier without knowing who
killed who yesterday; and being that it is not anything she can
change, why abuse her psyche and emotions by watching it...

Let me challenge you to every day for a week to skim the news on the
BBC, New York Times, Washington Post, Pravda, ABC, NBC, Google, and
Yahoo.. Really pump up on the news (you are going to find that they
all run much of the same stories, even Pravda is hard to tell from any
other paper at times) At the end of seven days of doing this ask
yourself how you feel; good?

Then spend a week and do not do any of those things; read books, get
an audio CD course on Spanish/French or whatever, go for a walk after
supper instead of watching the news, etc... At the end of seven days
ask yourself how you feel...

Let me know how it comes out...

denny

"Matt Barrow" wrote in message
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They told me I was gullible...and I believed them.


Thanks for my laugh of the day!

Here is the one from yesterday.

'It would be wrong to impeach Cheney, because then Bush would be president.'

and this cartoon strip about Internet argument
http://www.xoverboard.com/cartoons/2..._argument.html

On 26 Apr 2007 07:49:16 -0700, Denny wrote:

My daughter is in the upper 1% income bracket that some of you seem to
despise... She does not watch the news on TV or read the front section
of the newspaper - if you were to ask her she would not have a clue
who Cho is/was, and could not care less if she tried... She does not
watch Rosie, Idol, or Dancing with the Stars, or other TV garbage...
She listens to CD music or radio stations (no talk radio), watches
movies as she chooses, reads magazines and books, works on her
projects, cooks gourmet meals, and works hard at her profession...
We have discussed this and she says in the past listening/watching/
reading the garbage the media passes off as news/entertainment only
made her feel 'crazy'... She is much happier without knowing who
killed who yesterday; and being that it is not anything she can
change, why abuse her psyche and emotions by watching it...

Let me challenge you to every day for a week to skim the news on the
BBC, New York Times, Washington Post, Pravda, ABC, NBC, Google, and
Yahoo.. Really pump up on the news (you are going to find that they
all run much of the same stories, even Pravda is hard to tell from any
other paper at times) At the end of seven days of doing this ask
yourself how you feel; good?

Then spend a week and do not do any of those things; read books, get
an audio CD course on Spanish/French or whatever, go for a walk after
supper instead of watching the news, etc... At the end of seven days
ask yourself how you feel...

Let me know how it comes out...

Or you could stick your head in the sand and hope that those of us who
are paying attention will take care of you.