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    Repiglican Roast

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    I'm furious about my squandered nation.

    Tuesday, August 28, 2007

    Complete 9/11 Timeline

    They let it happen.
    But they also made it happen through decades of insane foreign policy. Detailed knowledge of information on the 9/11 timeline site makes it completely clear the Bush Administration knew what was coming on 9/11 and did absolutely nothing to stop it.

    But what infuriates me even more than that, with all this information available, is how many Americans believe we are actually fighting a war against terrorism or that Israel is under attack by Arab terrorists and must defend itself or that those A-Rabs have been killing each other for hundreds of years because they are violent, tribal, incorrigible thugs (compared, I suppose, to civilized peace loving Christian Westerners-Bleech!) and so on.

    What could terminal satyriasis sufferer Bill O'Reilly possibly say if CNN actually reported information available on 9/11 time line or guerrilla news network or even Daily Kos? What could anyone say if that information were widely available through mainstream sources?

    Bush and his flying monkeys would be in prison.

    It frightens and depresses me that most Americans appear completely unable to think critically but that many of the average people who bother to think view CNN as liberal media, or at least as reliable, and Fox as "conservative" and so we continue on 6 years after the fact with little if any discussion of real threats, like our corporate run government which is the biggest threat America faces.

    I watched about 90 minutes total of Christiane Amanpour's 6 hour special on religious extremism and felt extremely frustrated by all the missed opportunities and mischaracterizations. Amanpour is the best of what CNN offers, but the best of CNN just isn't good enough and the worst of it - like Wolf Blitzer and Lou Dobbs - is downright crap

    I wonder what the twentieth century would have been like if Hitler had had media such as ours at his disposal?
    24 hours a day of lies, sensationalism and speculation passed off as independent, unbiased journalism...

    There's all that verifiable information, right there on the Internet, though that may not last many more years, yet there is no mechanism for it getting to millions and millions of people who are casual consumers of news. And that is what most people are - casual consumers of news.

    The media conglomerates need to broken up. It is not possible for democracy to exist inside this media system.

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