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Echo In Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-03-08 07:29 AM
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The Corporations – Killers of Democracy
The Corporations – Killers of Democracy
by Siv O'Neall

It's way too late at this moment to ask the question: Are we going to lose our democracy? We may not all have noticed it yet, but the Big Corporations stole our democracy a long time ago.

How did they manage? They bought up everything, from the heavy to the light industry, arms, oil, chemical, to the people in Congress who are supposed to protect us from abuse of power by applying the rules set down in the Constitution. But, above all, they bought up the media. There is no objective source for authentic news in the U.S. any more, other than the Internet.

Robert Murdoch and his equally power-hungry fellow media moguls have seen to it that we just get pre-cooked baby-formula infotainment. People are dumbed down by the non-stop stream of meaningless chatter and unceasing propaganda.

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mdmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-03-08 07:32 AM
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1. ibtl
please don't mess with the illusion
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Echo In Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-03-08 09:37 AM
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MedleyMisty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-03-08 09:56 AM
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3. It's people's choice to listen to the propaganda and chatter
Even if you can't afford the internet or books, you can borrow books from the library for free.

But okay - yeah - my mother says that the library in Mount Airy has had to really cut back on its hours.

Hmm. Of course you can choose to not have a TV or not to watch it (we have one but it's only used for watching DVDs - and for playing console games but there haven't been any good console games in years and of course we've never seen a Wii available for purchase) but then if you're also working during the only hours the library is open...

I know that even Mount Airy has a used bookstore.

I am beginning to think that the best possible thing I could do is donate books to people. But...they're my books. Mine. My precious.

I can always go buy new copies to donate, I guess. I've started with my mother, who doesn't have a net connection right now. I bought her My Bondage and My Freedom for Mother's Day.
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