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The media does not do its job. If it did, we might be learning that there’s a very good chance that the Mexican government could collapse at any minute, which, most likely would mean military intervention by the United States. In other words, another war.
The source of this information comes directly from the United States military. It’s from the U.S. Joint Forces Command “Joint Operating Environment” – a 2008 report that names Pakistan and Mexico as two states that could “suddenly collapse.”
"The Mexican possibility may seem less likely, but the government, its politicians, police and judicial infrastructure are all under sustained assault and press by criminal gangs and drug cartels. How that internal conflict turns out over the next several years will have a major impact on the stability of the Mexican state. Any descent by Mexico into chaos would demand an American response based on the serious implications for homeland security alone,” the report states.
Major new agencies in the United States have told us about the Mexican journalists and dozens of citizens who are being brutally murdered and put on public display for people to see. Recently, there was even an American who was shot down in a massacre. Every news agency from ABC to CBS covered the story. But, that was it. No further look into the real situation.
If the media was doing its job -- that is, being the watchdog of the people -- reporters and news agencies would look deep into the labyrinth of this complicated situation and not stop until the American public (its audience) had sufficient answers.
It is drug cartels that are taking over the Mexican government. Most of these cartels deal in massive amounts of cocaine, marijuana and heroin, most of which is ending up in communities across the United States.
If the media looked further, they might even find that the United States government, specifically the C.I.A. was (at least at one time) involved in helping drug traffickers get their shipments where they need to be, including in our own country.
One of the things that the public needs to realize before it’s too late is that the media is not real, reliable or even trustworthy. It is an enemy of the people and it’s doing more harm than good.
While we hear about the American journalist being gunned down in a Mexican border town, we never usually hear about how the C.I.A. helped create the crack epidemic of the 1980s, thus creating even more powerful drug lords in Mexico and South America, all of which have now become as powerful or more powerful than the actual Mexican government.
All the “media” of the United States ever does is skim the surface of every topic, never going too deep.
In this day and age, people must finally look much deeper into the issues that shape our world and have a say in how decisions are made.
But our media has become nothing more than opinion-base rhetoric and is typically one-sided. To say that Fox is “Fair and Balanced” is a joke. It is a right-wing media outlet owned by one man (Rupert Murdock) whose editorial decisions are made by people who are not journalists. CNN? A left-leaning news agency that pushes its own agenda. This is not what the “media” is supposed to be. The media should not choose sides; it should address the issues that “the sides” are bringing up.
Once again, the media’s job is to be the watch dog, the voice and the movement of the people. It is one of the most powerful forces that the First Amendment and the Constitution have allowed, yet it has been hijacked by corporations who serve different masters than their readers.
It is a fact that six companies own just about every TV channel, radio station and large newspaper in the United States and beyond. Most of the companies have nothing to do with actual news. General Electric owns NBC, Universal Pictures, MSNBC, Bravo and 26 television stations in the United States.
Walt Disney owns ABC, ESPN, 277 radio stations, Touchstone, Mirimax and Pixar. Time Warner owns MTV, Paramount Pictures. CBS, a joint venture with Time Warner owns book publishing companies, 29 TV stations, 140 radio stations and is one of the leading suppliers of video to Google’s new Video Marketing.
Such companies are supported by their advertisers which are other large corporations that make up Corporate America and that are funded by large central banks that, in my and many other people’s opinions, has control of not only the United States government, but much of the of the world. As President Calvin Coolidge said “the business of America is business.”
The media is part of the corporate machine that is (or already has) ruined the values of the Constitution and the American Dream.
In reality, there is only one place left where news is unbiased and where facts can be discovered, and that’s on the Internet. But even that is under attack.
The Internet is the last beacon on light for the First Amendment and Freedom of Speech in the United States and the world. In most countries, because of the freedom the Internet encourages, it has been banned and censored. People in China don’t even know the famous Tank Man stood in front of the tank in Thiamin Square. If they “Google” Thiamin Square, all they see is pictures of the square from tourists and maps. The insecure Chinese government censors individual freedom and the United States could be looking for this same power.
The Cybersecurity Act of 2009, sponsored by Senator John Rockefeller of West Virginia would create “a Cybersecurity Advisory Panel within the White House and stream-line the cybersecurity effort through all levels of government.” In a nutshell, it would give the government control over the Internet and allow it to shut down anything that it feels is inappropriate. What is “inappropriate” is not defined.
If the Internet is taken over by the government, it is probably the end of freedom as we know it.
In my own life, I have turned to alternative media for my news. At home, my wife and I have eliminated TV from our home and replaced it with a computer-based entertainment system.
I’m sure I’ll get some flack for this article, but there is a huge elephant in the room. It is the money, greed-driven Corporate American government that has spread its tentacles around the world and is working to eliminate competition, prosperity and any type of personal freedom, all of which America stands for.
America, the United States, is the last hope. You and I are the last hope.
Rebel against corporate America by creating local economies in our own communities. Put your money in a credit union rather than a bank. Buy your food from local farmers and farmers markets or, better yet, grow your own. Support the locally-owned shops in your city, especially people who produce their own goods. Support alternative media. Choose media that researches the issues, rather than eating from the trough of government press releases and agendas.
Go beyond the government and the two-party cartel system.
This is the age of rebellion. The people are rebelling against a government that is run by corporations and central banks, with a media that’s compliant, and that cares not for the best interests of the people. This is how this age will be remembered. News agencies that take hold of this mantra will survive, while others, who simply regurgitate the rhetoric of a corporate controlled media will go down in the pages of bankrupt history. Unless they do their job.
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