Tag: Free Press
INSTITUTIONALIZED HUMANITY
On 5/26/2022 and aired on The PBS NewsHour was an interview about the shooting in Texas, between a PBS host and a mental health “professional”. The question from the host related to a query as to the reason that predominantly the shooters are young males. The professional answered in typical psycho babble but without touching on an answer to the question.
JANE MUST EXPLAIN
C-Span offered a glimpse from the view of Jane Harmon (D-CA) about her idea of American governance and policy.
SUPREMACY OVER AGELESS WISDOM
This must be a national security risk far beyond any risk from a foreign nation, and it is current, intense, ubiquitous, and nasty—-
WHAT WE VOTE FOR
A democracy requires FACTual information and this implies a Free Press. Notoriously the news sources in the USA are owned and controlled by only several corporate entities that seem as involved in disseminating reports as they may be in donating to political campaigns. This further implies that commercial interests and governance are closely connected.
EST. CHAUVINISM
Similar to the history of Jesus, the Establishment interpretation of the ideas of The Founders are quite different from what can be understood by reading their words. Not only The Founders had a diverse and sophisticated view of government, but also what in 2022 could be called “influencers” also could be eye-opening. For example, having heard but never read the ideas of Thomas Paine, who is said to have influenced views for liberty, to read his ideas is fascinating and heartening.
AFFECTATION NATION
It’s not like there aren’t alternatives to war and Climate Change. Denial and obfuscation aren’t working so well. Let’s try reality.
IMAGINE LIFESTYLE THAT DOES LITTLE HARM
Some corporate-owned-state-run MSM views are heard to call lifestyle with consideration of inflicting as little harm on the environment and each other is “Pollyanna-ish”. This is an extraordinarily violent perspective. Yet we seem sufficiently indoctrinated with hierarchical violence to submit to this mindset. A thoughtful person simply cannot accept this aggression and violence as being normal. This view is surely a choice, but a very bad choice.
TERRORISTS AND MADMEN
A nation with a military squatting in the Middle East over decades, bombing at their pleasure, suddenly have found moral clarity as it jumps at the chance to position their political opposition as quasi terrorists and madmen. How soon we forget the inanity after 9/11 when W. attacked not the nation of origin of most of the terrorists, but Iraq and the Saddam Hussein who had offended Poppy Bush. The actual effect of that is the deaths of millions of Iraqi’s. The leadership was also changed; and by the way, who is leading that nation now? Who knows?
SANITY COULD HELP?
Putin may or may not be insane, but what about the rest of us? Or at least honesty.
NATURE AND HUMANITY STILL MATTER
Collaboration between politicians, commercial interests, and corporate-owned-state-run MSM crowd out the reality of the majority of humanity and of nature. This is a good time to stop such travesty by hearing diverse voices.
DEFINE SANCTIONS
Is anyone else feeling the embarrassment of threats by the USA of sanctioning other nations? Joe Biden asked the Middle East to ramp up oil production to ease the upward spiral of gasoline costs in the USA and they said no. Is this a sanction? China possesses American jobs used to manufacture products needed by the American public and with China in control of the amount if any of the products getting to the USA. Is this a sanction?
WHAT WILL REPLACE CAPITALISM?
Someone asked a completely relevant question which was “what will replace capitalism”? The answer was entirely too glib but deeply truthful which was “soul”. Surely preoccupation was the cause of this reply, combined with dismay that over years of discussion as to the universe of possibilities of replacement of capitalism, this question was asked. In FACT it is a timely question as we are beginning to recognize that capitalism is a Pyramid Scheme. Capitalism like communism thrives when a Free Press is replaced by corporate-owned-state-influenced MSM that has given us news blackouts whenever anyone mentions what will replace capitalism. But once again, the possibilities are endless.
DENIAL NATION
Hyperbole is typical in a political campaign but should have become undignified in a leader by the time political office has been reached.
CONTEXT
Information gathered from MSM could be considered as pertaining either to We The People or hierarchy. The same information implies different outcome depending on the group discussed. We don’t filter information correctly when we confuse the two. MSM is all about hierarchy and seldom about the public.
THE OTHER NEWS
The USA generally have state-influenced-corporate-owned media posing as news outlets. This isn’t a Free Press. It seems more nearly to be advertising. If democracy is to continue, it is each member of the public who is responsible for searching out and verifying information that supports the vote for or against political policies. This would be the case even with a Free Press. It’s even more necessary when news reports are based upon political and commercial collaboration.