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DeSwiss

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19. Newton Minow....
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 12:07 AM
Aug 2012

...knew exactly what he was talking about when he called teevee ''a vast wasteland.'' He saw it early on and tried to warn us. Just as Ike tried to warn us about the eventual police state -- the one that we now have -- but many still refuse to accept the truth of it.

We kept waiting for an onslaught of heightened hysteria accompanied by the dramatic arrival of the police state like in the movies. But we didn't wake up one morning and find black-suited police all over the place. Because we already had them in-place and we they are there right now. They were eased into place in full view, and we accepted it all because we were taught by the teevee to be afraid and to demand security. And that our enemies (whomever they are) be crushed, and we didn't care how many of our rights it cost us. Just so long and we were still free to drink our HFCS sodas and to eat our Chick-fil-A GMO-raised chicken samiches. We were good with it all.


- We rarely listen to the warners or their warnings......

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K & R, words of wisdom: mother earth Aug 2012 #1
Indeed. DeSwiss Aug 2012 #3
Throw resources in a pile and let's fight for them. xtraxritical Aug 2012 #8
The unknown man to Americans. zeemike Aug 2012 #2
Part of the reason..... DeSwiss Aug 2012 #4
Well you are dead on with that. zeemike Aug 2012 #9
and Obama uses a presidential form of a 'bill of attainder' to execute, without habeas corpus, U.S. stockholmer Aug 2012 #15
Well I don't hold it personally against Obama zeemike Aug 2012 #18
Newton Minow.... DeSwiss Aug 2012 #19
Yes, the people are mostly to blame. And here we do not have the excuses other sabrina 1 Aug 2012 #24
I never new the source of that vast wasteland comment. zeemike Aug 2012 #26
one of the best short posts I have ever read on this board stockholmer Aug 2012 #14
De nada. n/t DeSwiss Aug 2012 #20
Who else is getting sick and tired of hearing it's "brave" to go against the "solutions" put forth Spitfire of ATJ Aug 2012 #5
Raises hand. DeSwiss Aug 2012 #21
Mr. Torfarson, would you consider making a trip to the US for several speking engagements? There Citizen Worker Aug 2012 #6
While a speaker of his experience and stature is sorely needed.... DeSwiss Aug 2012 #22
I was wondering if Ice Land was threatened with Marshall Law if they did not pay off the bankers midnight Aug 2012 #7
the reverse, the government would have been over-run, plus many of the banksters fled the country stockholmer Aug 2012 #13
So the fear on the congressional floor released by one member, midnight Aug 2012 #17
I believe it was: DeSwiss Aug 2012 #23
No, it was the Bankers and their collaborators in Government who were threatened sabrina 1 Aug 2012 #25
Tell them banksters to EAT IT! magic59 Aug 2012 #10
Kicking and to add..... Hotler Aug 2012 #11
re:The Man Who Changed Iceland - The Message For Greece. allan01 Aug 2012 #12
du rec nt limpyhobbler Aug 2012 #16
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