my thoughts on my life and my world
For the past two weeks I’ve been listening to Alex Jones daily. This is the Austin, Texas radio journalist and activist who has remained focused for longer than anyone in the media on exposing the drift of our American experiment in democracy toward tyranny. Special concerns of Jones and his guests include 9/11, [...]
America, why not take back our airwaves for neighborhood radio stations?
PROBLEM:
Radio stations across America are being consolidated quickly into fewer and fewer large multi-national corporations. The local voice of local radio is drowned out by ClearChannel, Sirius and XM satellite radio, and even NPR’s local voice is abdicated more and more to the national [...]
OK, I like it now. I tried it when it first came out, and found it clunky, boring… whatzit for again??
Now, on second look, and after reading the suggested uses more carefully(!), this Stumbleupon really works for me.� That’s a reminder for me and all the other just-jump-in-and-start-using-it types out there.
Just give it another [...]
A favorite tactic of demagogues is the Lie. They get away with outright lies by controlling the mass media, thus avoiding accountability. Fascist dictatorships protect their exploitation and favoritism by dumbing down the masses. Hitler and Stalin, Maoist China and Castro’s Cuba, North Korea, all are threatened by the free flow of ideas. That’s because [...]
…your “gut feeling” was actually that you’d better throw up a diversion soon on Mr. Bush’s behalf, or “something real” like the Republicans’ revolt about Iraq, and the nauseating “gut feeling” that we have gotten 3,611 Americans killed there for no reason — was actually going to seep into the American headlines and consciousness.
Amen, Keith. [...]
