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, "FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote: "Billy" wrote in message news:wildbilly- "FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote: "0tterbot" wrote in message "FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote in message Tut tut. I'm sure you do care as I can't imagine that you could possibly approve of the invasion of Iraq based on falsified information. i didn't, i don't. :-)) Thought not. but i don't give a flying **** who the president of the usa is, & that's the truth!! :-D whether i care or not i can't do anything about it, so i therefore don't invest any energy in caring about any of them. Well there is that. Given how sick I am of the coverage of the Democratic contest, by the time the real contest comes round to elect the new President, I don't think I'll give a flyer either. honestly, all we are seeing is the bush effect - nobody in the world wants to see anyone like that in power again, EVER. Sorry to say but Bush isn't the problem. Well he certainly isn't part of the solution either, but he and anyone in his position should be. Is it just me? I'm feeling a whole lot of 'tude here. Are you reacting t what I said or what you think I said? If this is to be a conversation, then let's keep it in response to what is written. Bush is guilty but he isn't the puppeteer who orchestrates the show. He is a political hack representing his moneyed backers over the interests of the electorate. If the new government doesn't go after the malfeasance of this administration, then we are all in deep doo. Welcome to our world Billy. We had the a similar situation here for the past 11 years. I have voted for both sides of the political spectrum in this country but I am very pleased that not once did I vote for anyone in the last Government. By the time they got the axe, they too had become a weeping sore just as Bush seems to have done for you. You get your chance next year but I have to say that so far I'm underwhelmed with your choices. You ain't the only one sister. oh dear. i think the truth is that most people worldwide are "a bunch of idiots". truly. the modern world is ridiculously complicated & lots of people simply can't keep up. Especially when their governments and the media present them with bald faced lies or information that is so freakin' skewed, that reality is imperceptible. If you're a democratically elected leader of a country that opposes American foreign policy, you're a militant. If you're a ruthless dictator who supports American foreign policy, you're our ally for peace. But I see that as the fault of a lazy public as all politicians will try to use that sort of idiotic brain washing. It's designed to manipulate those within the populace who are gullible and/or stupid. Anyone capable of any degree of clear thinking should only be caught by it once. How many times does Joe Public have to be bludgeoned over the head about whatever the current political issue is, get all excited and whipped up because of the patriotic (usually) rubbish he's being spoon fed before he finally starts to think for himself and realises that the last time he was sucked in and believed the lies, he felt like a total fool when it all came unstuck? It seems that Joe Public either doesn't care or is too stupid to know that he's being manipualted. With access to the internet, there is no way that anyone should accept unquestioningly anything they are fed by the media. The world is a big place and access to all sorts of differing of views is only a few clicks away (or should be). I don't know how Ruppert Murdock plays in Australia, but he is the most egregious example of media incompetence in America, but still, only the most egregious. Studies have shown that views of Fox News are worse informed than people who don't watch anything. Viewers of Fox News are still likely to think that Saddam Hussein had WMDs. The rest of the media here is similar. The hysteria from the "corporate press" and the "reputable" N.Y. Times, and Judith Miller, helped convince the country that intervention was necessary. They were aided and abetted by Gen.Colin Powell, who most of us thought was a good guy. Nearly all of our the media depends on advertising (except for free-speach radio like Pacifica and some college stations), advertising that would disappear for an un-American media that didn't support the government's declared intent of protecting the American people. In the case of the Tampa and much else in the past 11 years it was a case of sinking backwards into the primordial ooze, not furthering the cause of rational thinking or high human ideals. I must have been asleep when this happened, thanks for bringing it to our attention. We do the same thing to Haitians all the time:-( Speaking of rational thinking, it was good to hear one of your countrym . ., hehem, citizens, Helen Caldicott, on the radio last thursday, http://www.flashpoints.net/ . She is supposed to be starting a new radio programm soon on KPFT, Huston http://www.kpft.org/index.php . Always refreshing to be exposed to reality. I've only ever read a few of the things she has written and heard her a few times as she has mostly lived in the US. What I have seen of her is impressive, as at least she seems to be able to use her loaf. Sadly there don't seem to be enough of such people around. Loaf? Typo or Aussi argot? She seems to tour a lot. My understanding was that she was live from Australia and her guest David Lockebaum (sp?) could have been anywhere. If You Love This Planet, hosted by Dr. Helen Caldicott http://www.kpfa.org/archives/index.php?arch=26076 -- Billy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KVTf...ef=patrick.net http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=7WBB0s...eature=related |
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"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote: "Billy" wrote in message news:wildbilly- "FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote: "0tterbot" wrote in message "FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote in message Tut tut. I'm sure you do care as I can't imagine that you could possibly approve of the invasion of Iraq based on falsified information. i didn't, i don't. :-)) Thought not. but i don't give a flying **** who the president of the usa is, & that's the truth!! :-D whether i care or not i can't do anything about it, so i therefore don't invest any energy in caring about any of them. Well there is that. Given how sick I am of the coverage of the Democratic contest, by the time the real contest comes round to elect the new President, I don't think I'll give a flyer either. honestly, all we are seeing is the bush effect - nobody in the world wants to see anyone like that in power again, EVER. Sorry to say but Bush isn't the problem. Well he certainly isn't part of the solution either, but he and anyone in his position should be. Is it just me? I'm feeling a whole lot of 'tude here. Are you reacting t what I said or what you think I said? If this is to be a conversation, then let's keep it in response to what is written. It's must be just you because I DID respond to what you wrote. You wrote "Bush isn't the problem". There is absolutely no way to misinterprete that sentence as he is either the problem or he's not the problem. I think he's certainly a huge part of the problem as he's complicit and that is what I wrote. Bush is guilty but he isn't the puppeteer who orchestrates the show. He is a political hack representing his moneyed backers over the interests of the electorate. And nothing I wrote in the sentence which you think has ""tude", disagrees with what you've NOW written. You are now saying he's guilty, whereas before you said he wasn't the problem. He is the problem just as there are also many other problem individuals and corporations and vested interests etc. If the new government doesn't go after the malfeasance of this administration, then we are all in deep doo. Welcome to our world Billy. We had the a similar situation here for the past 11 years. I have voted for both sides of the political spectrum in this country but I am very pleased that not once did I vote for anyone in the last Government. By the time they got the axe, they too had become a weeping sore just as Bush seems to have done for you. You get your chance next year but I have to say that so far I'm underwhelmed with your choices. You ain't the only one sister. No. Despite all the hoopla, I've picked up from my reading that there are a lot of people around who aren't convinced by any of the candidates. oh dear. i think the truth is that most people worldwide are "a bunch of idiots". truly. the modern world is ridiculously complicated & lots of people simply can't keep up. Especially when their governments and the media present them with bald faced lies or information that is so freakin' skewed, that reality is imperceptible. If you're a democratically elected leader of a country that opposes American foreign policy, you're a militant. If you're a ruthless dictator who supports American foreign policy, you're our ally for peace. But I see that as the fault of a lazy public as all politicians will try to use that sort of idiotic brain washing. It's designed to manipulate those within the populace who are gullible and/or stupid. Anyone capable of any degree of clear thinking should only be caught by it once. How many times does Joe Public have to be bludgeoned over the head about whatever the current political issue is, get all excited and whipped up because of the patriotic (usually) rubbish he's being spoon fed before he finally starts to think for himself and realises that the last time he was sucked in and believed the lies, he felt like a total fool when it all came unstuck? It seems that Joe Public either doesn't care or is too stupid to know that he's being manipualted. With access to the internet, there is no way that anyone should accept unquestioningly anything they are fed by the media. The world is a big place and access to all sorts of differing of views is only a few clicks away (or should be). I don't know how Ruppert Murdock plays in Australia, but he is the most egregious example of media incompetence in America, but still, only the most egregious. He pops over here now and again to see his mother and he owns a lot of media here but there is still good competition for all of his media including good free to air media, so he isn't seen as too much of a problem. We were all delighted though when he took out American citerzenship as we could claim that he no longer belonged to us. Studies have shown that views of Fox News are worse informed than people who don't watch anything. Viewers of Fox News are still likely to think that Saddam Hussein had WMDs. Yeah. Sad that. The rest of the media here is similar. The hysteria from the "corporate press" and the "reputable" N.Y. Times, and Judith Miller, helped convince the country that intervention was necessary. They were aided and abetted by Gen.Colin Powell, who most of us thought was a good guy. I've always wondered how much of an orchestrated campaign it was in the US to whip up support for the invasion of Iraq whatever the cost. IIRC, the statistics supporting the war were about two thirds against and one third for in the rest of the world and the reverse in the US. I've always thought it was a deliberate and well planned con job and I've also thought that Colin Powell was conned too and that is why he slunk off into the night when it al came unstuck. How embarrassing for him. Nearly all of our the media depends on advertising (except for free-speach radio like Pacifica and some college stations), advertising that would disappear for an un-American media that didn't support the government's declared intent of protecting the American people. Indeed. And given that any one of us is far, far, far more likely to die as a result of a car crash or even the flu, the hype over terrorism was rather over the top given the circumstances as terrorism wasn't new and had been building up since the Munich Olympics. I've always thought that only 3,000 people dying in the WTC collapse was an alsolute miracle. It's appalling for the families and it was a huge tragedy but on the other hand, a quarter of a million people a day entered that complex yet only 3,000 were lost. It could have been so much worse so the survival of so many really is a triumph of American building skills, emergency procedures, heroism etc. In the case of the Tampa and much else in the past 11 years it was a case of sinking backwards into the primordial ooze, not furthering the cause of rational thinking or high human ideals. I must have been asleep when this happened, thanks for bringing it to our attention. We do the same thing to Haitians all the time:-( It was a shameful incident and until that happened, I had never felt ashamed to be an Australian. Speaking of rational thinking, it was good to hear one of your countrym . ., hehem, citizens, Helen Caldicott, on the radio last thursday, http://www.flashpoints.net/ . She is supposed to be starting a new radio programm soon on KPFT, Huston http://www.kpft.org/index.php . Always refreshing to be exposed to reality. I've only ever read a few of the things she has written and heard her a few times as she has mostly lived in the US. What I have seen of her is impressive, as at least she seems to be able to use her loaf. Sadly there don't seem to be enough of such people around. Loaf? Typo or Aussi argot? Use her loaf = use her head. She seems to tour a lot. My understanding was that she was live from Australia and her guest David Lockebaum (sp?) could have been anywhere. If You Love This Planet, hosted by Dr. Helen Caldicott http://www.kpfa.org/archives/index.php?arch=26076 I think she lives here now and has a place in a forest somewhere in either south eastern NSW of north eastern Victoria. I've seen her on a few panel interviews etc and she is a very good analyst of the issues I'll check out your cites, but can't do them from this ISP that I use to read newsgroups. |
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