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Triana

(22,666 posts)
Sat Nov 16, 2013, 05:46 AM Nov 2013

ABSOLUTELY VITAL public interest stories the media SHOULD be covering, but doesn't . . .

Someone posted about the lame-ass garbage being presented on "60 Minutes" this Sunday. The corprat-owned propaganda-spewing media is designed to keep Americans entertained - and ignorant. And they're very good at that.

THESE are just a few of the stories the media should be covering but are not:

The John Birch Society, now known as the "Tea Party" (+Dominionists, KKK, NRA, et al), featuring Claire Conner and her book 'Wrapped in the Flag': http://claireconner.com/ - and how Fred Koch was one of its founders: http://www.jbs.org/fred-koch

ALEC - http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/08/12202/groups-charge-alec-tax-fraud-over-secretive-scholarship-fund-finances-junkets-sta and http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed

KOCH BROTHERS vast web of funding to buy and control the U.S. government for their own benefit - http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=2AAD0995-04D3-40D9-905F-CD3C0F06AD13 and http://www.prwatch.org/news/2010/08/9396/american-politics-getting-all-koched

SPN - http://stinktanks.org/national/ and http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/File:SPN_exposed_red.jpg

How the privatization being pushed by billionaires and corporations via Republicans in Congress only helps a wealthy few, while public services help many: http://thecontributor.com/public-beats-private-six-reasons-why

The ongoing Fukushima distaster and other environmental issues such as the decimation of bees: http://action.foe.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=14141

The MJIA and why it's needed - how sexual assault is an epidemic in our armed services and how badly this issue is being handled by them, including the film "Invisible War" about the issue. http://www.gillibrand.senate.gov/mjia

Why American wages are stagnated/lower than they were in the 1970s when adjusted for inflation and ALEC et al's efforts to drive them even lower, along with the TPP and other policies being pushed by corporate billionaires: http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Economy/Just-How-Low-Can-Your-Salary-Go-117-ALEC-Bills-in-2013-Fuel-Race-to-the-Bottom-in-Wages-and-Workers-Rights

The TPP and America's Corporate Deathstar: http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/18115-mankind-death-by-corporation-part-iii-the-tpp-as-corporate-deathstar

The vast rightwing conspiracy that Hillary Clinton talked about and how it absolutely exists: http://www.motherjones.com/print/230071

How 'Legitimate rape' comments have their roots in flawed "research" by a Nazi anatomicist who dissected his own friends in the name of "science": http://www.slate.com/articles/life/history/2013/11/nazi_anatomy_history_the_origins_of_conservatives_anti_abortion_claims_that.html

PETE PETERSON AND HIS CAMPAIGN TO "FIX THE DEBT" OFF THE BACKS OF SENIORS BY GUTTING SOCIAL SECURITY: http://www.alternet.org/print/economy/pete-peterson-and-social-security and http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/19548-america-on-fire and http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Portal:Fix_the_Debt

VOTER SUPPRESSION AND GERRYMANDERING and the roots of this - all the way back to Jim Crow and Paul Weyrich:



The for-profit prison industrial complex and school-to-prison pipelines.

The dishonesty and malfeasance of the Insurance Industry in selling inferior policies to people that are not up to ACA standards - AFTER the ACA was passed into law - in a way that doesn't blame Obama but rather investigates Insurance Industry practices and features Wendell Potter and his book: "Deadly Spin"

WHO WAS BEHIND IT, AND FOR HOW LONG THE RECENT GOV'T SHUTDOWN HAD BEEN PLANNED: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/us/a-federal-budget-crisis-months-in-the-planning.html
_ _ _ _ _ _ _

Most people have never HEARD of:

ALEC
SPN
PETE PETERSON
AHIP
"Fix the Debt" ... and so on

Americans are blissfully ignorant of the factions and institutions which control their money, their health, their futures, their kids futures, and their lives. And believe me, our corprat-controlled media intends to KEEP it that way. They are PART. OF. THE PROBLEM. That being the case, they are not about to rat on themselves to the Public - so they don't cover these stories.

But really. Somebody should. And not just on the internet. But on MAINSTREAM MEDIA during PRIMETIME - like - say - 60 Minutes on Sundays? Yea. I won't hold my breath waiting for that.
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chervilant

(8,267 posts)
2. Please help enlighten people about
Sat Nov 16, 2013, 07:58 AM
Nov 2013

how corporate megalomaniacs have used evolving theories of psychology to brainwash and manipulate the masses.

We ARE "waking up," and I'm confident we'll stop the corporate criminals -- hopefully without too much bloodshed.

 

Triana

(22,666 posts)
3. One more: Income Inequality and its devastating long-term effects on the economy and society
Sat Nov 16, 2013, 10:50 AM
Nov 2013

Featuring Janet Yellen and Robert Reich and his new film: "Inequality for All"

Federal Reserve Chair Nominee: Income Inequality Is ‘A Very Serious Problem’ - http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/11/15/2947861/federal-reserve-janet-yellen-income-inequality/

At her Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday, Janet Yellen, the nominee to replace Ben Bernanke as chair of the Federal Reserve after he steps down from his current term, discussed the rising trend of income inequality and the threat it poses to the economy.

This is a very serious problem, it’s not a new problem, it’s a problem that really goes back to the 1980s, in which we have seen a huge rise in income inequality… For many, many years the middle and those below the middle [have been] actually losing absolutely. And frankly a disproportionate share of the gains, it’s not that we haven’t had pretty strong productivity growth for much of this time in the country, but a disproportionate share of those gains have gone to the top ten percent and even the top one percent. So this is an extremely difficult and to my mind very worrisome problem.


She noted that there are many causes for rising income inequality, pointing to technology, globalization, and the decline of unions. “The solutions involve a multitude of things, including education, maybe early childhood education, job training, other things,” she said. While the Federal Reserve can’t change all of those problems, she argued, what it can do is try to bring about a strong economic recovery that creates jobs and gives people more opportunities to rise up the ladder.

But she also slammed Congress for getting in the Fed’s way when it comes to bolstering the economy and creating growth that can lead to jobs, with austerity through budget cuts hurting the Fed’s monetary efforts to support the recovery.

fadedrose

(10,044 posts)
8. It does count ;)
Sat Nov 16, 2013, 02:41 PM
Nov 2013

I couldn't tell from her post whether she liked it or not, or the subject matter.

Thanks for your opinion and its topics.

librechik

(30,663 posts)
10. Just think of yourself as sitting in a room with millions of other folks
Sun Nov 17, 2013, 11:31 AM
Nov 2013

all handcuffed, wearing sound blocking headphones and hoods over their heads. They are told to imagine they are going through their normal daily activities, work, eating, etc. and the hoods don't exist. If you mention the hoods to anyone or ask for help, you are put into an isolation room alone.

That is the United States today.

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