topic - the gold manipulation story via a quasi state controled media
Heard on this thread is a constant frustration
expressed by gold bugs that a wide reaching
mainstream media vehicle knowned as CNBC t.v.
has a policy to accent small or insignificant
gold market news that is negative in nature,
while ignoring or down playing any positive.
Question: Freedom of the press
along with freedom of expression
are hallmarks of a nation where
the truth exists, but is something
more needed, as in a vehicle?
For example, Bill Murphy, Chairman of the
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.(GATA)
gata.org
can exercise both of these as an American citizen.
But what if the http//www internet was not available
and used as it is today? What if all the mainstream
media outlets like newspapers, magazines, t.v.
and radio represented 99.9% of "whats happening",
and just as today, each's existence is similiar
to that of a politician wanting to continue,
in that money as revenue from commercials
being sold, to a politician receiving money
from special interests so that the politician
can sell himself for reelection.
The politician's ability to carry out the wishes
of the people who voted for his pledge of ideas
takes a distance second place once his or her
desire for reelection clicks into place.
In the same line of thoughts, each company that
has its purpose to collect and distribute the news,
for example CNBC t.v., has upfront in big letters
its right to exercise the freedom of the press,
which is good, but it is NOT a requirement
that they publish what they know as the truth.
Freedom of the press allows anyone to speak
what they want, and if their agenda is to
increase viewers, so that they can increase
commercial ad rates, then they can do so.
This allows CNBC to broadcast to the viewers
what they know is a lie, and knowing that
the viewers assume it to be the truth.
If CNBC decides non truth will generate
an increase in viewers, which translates
to a healthy business bottom line number,
and knowing that they are in a business
and money is needed to survive.
Truth is good, but as in love, its don't pay the bills.
Truth is moral, but it can belly-up your business.
Question becomes a Concern
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If the vehicles of truth are controlled,
not by the masses, but by a few well connected
rich and powerful persons with influence
directly or indirectly to government policies,
then
Freedom of the Press and Expression
is limited,
not through laws or corruption
but through the indifference of the citizens of a nation
not to question a possibility that there exists
a link or channel or agenda or influence
to those who decide what news will be delivered
that these persons who "give us the news"
have the Fredom of the Press
to lie to us legally, eventhought,
the source for the manipulation,
the government person,
can be guilty of fraud.
Where would the gold market, a.k.a. price of gold,
be today if the http//www internet did not exist?
Silicon Investor, this thread, we posters and all
the information and views presented by us, never done
and never knowned.
By default, the truth would arrive via CNBC et al.
If the media vehicle puts out lies as truth,
and 99.9% of the citizens accept it,
how can the .1% expose this lie?
Bill Murphy could go to a street corner,
tell some friends, or if luckly,
find a location where people gather
for good food drink and talk,
like cafes of long ago, of Paris, France.
Or as with the internet,
Bill Murphy's version of those cafe places of past,
his Le Metropole Cafe in that spirit,
where that spirit is expressed at a table, as follows.
sandiegomuseum.org
sandiegomuseum.org
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
French
born Albi, November 24, 1864
died Château de Malromé, September 9, 1901
age 36
aristocratic family of Toulouse-Lautrec Monfa
surviving son of the Comte Alphonse de Toulouse-Lautrec
His early years were spent on family estates
near Albi, with Paris becoming his home in 1872.
The victim of a genetic bone condition
that made him vulnerable to fractures,
he walked with a cane by age thirteen
and grew to be only four feet eleven inches tall.
Always of frail health, his adulthood was marred
by his physical handicaps and also by alcoholism.
Yet during his brief life he managed to create
his own immediately recognizable style,
and to evoke in his inimitable way
a world full of gaiety and humor.
Lautrec was the archetypal bohemian artist
of the belle époque,
... when Paris flaunted its song, dance, sports, and fashion.
... during the height of "the banquet years" of Paris
the city and her inhabitants took up ways of behaving,
thinking, playing, and perceiving that begot
the twentieth century before its time.
Along with van Gogh, Lautrec is perhaps the most
memorable artistic character since Rembrandt,
a status recognized years ago by novelists
and the film industry. Certainly his "image,"
in his own time and since, has contributed
to the continuing stereotype of the modern artist
as an antiestablishment bohemian.
An aristocrat from the country,
he lived a dissolute life in the city
and chose his environs as his subjects
- cabarets, bars, and bordellos.
... he brought to them a new objectivity,
sometimes empathy, always an incisive wit.
For all his rebelliousness, however,
Lautrec was a serious and industrious artist,
producing an enormous body of work:
... posters of cabaret stars,
vignettes of life in the brothels,
... theater, circus, and music hall.
His career began around 1890,
... opening of the Paris World's Fair,
lighted by electricity
... just-completed Eiffel Tower (1889);
... opening of the Moulin Rouge (1889);
and continuing sallies against the Academy
by artists' exhibiting groups such as the Incohérents,
the Indépendents, and their journalistic mouthpieces.
From this Parisian banquet of sights and ideas,
Lautrec derived the primary themes of his work.
... art that touched the public's everyday lives.....
Lautrec's posters ... a form of antiacademic propaganda.
By taking his work to the street,
he engaged in a subtle but classic form of anarchism,
an act of revolt more real than the exhibitions and salons
of the avant-garde ever were.....
Copyright 1996 SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART.
ON October 5, 1889, the Moulin Rouge opened
as the "rendez-vous du high life"
at the foot of Montmartre.
At once its illuminated windmill vanes became a landmark,
rotating above rooftops on the boulevard de Clichy.
A combined dance hall and cabaret,
it housed a big dance floor, mirrored walls,
and a fashionable gallery lit by round glass globes of gas lamps.....
... donkeys that ladies would ride after removing their stockings.
... music was a brassy accompaniment
to various new forms of the risqué can can
which shocked some visitors.
Professional dancers appeared on the floor,
described in the Guide des Plaisirs à Paris
"... young girls ... to demonstrate
... heavenly Parisian Chahut dance
... a physical elasticity as they do the splits,
which promises just as much flexibility in their morals."
... a representative from the police morals squad
had to be on the watch to be sure the chahuteuses
(can can dancers) were wearing underwear.....
Copyright 1996 SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART.
Bill Murphy, taking his work to the streets of the internet,
he engaged in a subtle but classic form of anarchism,
an act of revolt more real than the exhibitions
and salons of the avant-garde ever were.....
[Post Card from Thor]
Being corrected for one's bad French is normal.
I am abused daily.
... a crooked cafe with absinthe makes any table difficult to spelll.
As one can see the summer is here and the people like that.
The people will enjoy that.
Today, we do the guillotine cafe,
it's over next to the river and Saint Michel.
Come here and put your finger on the molded slab of hard wood
and I can try to see if this thing still works...)) Salut! |
