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Politics : HOWARD DEAN -THE NEXT PRESIDENT? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mephisto who wrote (674)	11/25/2003 9:17:15 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 3079

Fox tonight reported that Bush is ahead of all democrats in the polls by 20% in florida. They neglect the rest of the country where Bush is in an incredible tailspin. If Fox viewers are stupid enough to believe their man is not in trouble despite the widespread discontent then they deserve "news" like Fox.

To: Mephisto who wrote (674)	11/26/2003 1:13:00 AM
From: elpolvo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3079

This is unacceptable practice for a media outlet... guess what? there is no journalistic code of ethics... no oath or obligation to be either fair or balanced. newspapers and TV news are commercial enterprises. and they are NOT interactive. they exist to make money from advertising. advertisers pay money for eyeballs who may purchase goods and services. that's all you need to know about them to discern their motives. OTOH, if they lose your trust, they lose your eyeballs. they're a dying medium. i'd go with the internet for news, facts and information. it's got more viewpoints, more watchdogs, and more immediate rebuttals and that's as close to fair and balanced as you'll get. there is nothing wrong with capitalism... ...except that it fuels the lust for greed and power and there is no natural mechanism to counter that... short of revolt. and revolution is not fair either. :-) perhaps a heavy tax on wealth would help balance the load of human financial responsibility? the 20th century wealthy won't accept that without a fight though. think of it as a monopoly game going on. the current crop of industrialists and energy barons have been winning throughout the 20th century. they are fighting two wars right now. one war is against the third world poor and the hopeless who are now trying to incite a guerilla revolution against economic oppression and imperialism... fueled by capitalism which in turn, fuels the lust for greed and power... they are ready to revolt and dump the gameboard on the floor because they've lost all the money and all the power in the world. they might as well kill themselves... they have no hope. their only alternative is donkey bombs and suicide attacks. terrorism isn't about religious fanaticism or the hatred of freedom, it's about the absence of freedom and money and power and hope. the second war is against the friggen middle class and the nerds who've discovered high tech and computers and a whole "new network economy" that threatens to make a quick power-play on the leading industrialists. at the turn of the 21st century, companies like amazon, yahoo, microsoft and others were raking in so much money they could buy haliburton, all the oil companies, all the automakers, walmart, boeing and all the media networks put together and win the monopoly game. YIKES!!! do you think that was scary for them? you betcha ass it was AND IT STILL IS! here's a look at the new economic model on the horizon that threatens the old wealth. go read about it here if you're interested: New Rules for the New Economy wired.com the wealthy industrialists haven't bothered to understand it because they are happy with the economy just as it is. they've been winning the monopoly game for 100 years. why should they have to learn a whole new set of rules for a whole new game? and why would they support a new economy that pushes power down to the people at the bottom instead of keeping the control in a few hands at the top? and if all necessities become "almost" free how do you keep any power over people? two wars are very hard to fight at once. it's a squeeze play. the war against terrorism is a diversionary tactic to distract the public through fear, moral ideology and false self-righteousness. it's almost working on the american public but it's not working very well on the rest of the world. these neo-con industrialists are going to lose the monopoly game and they are trying to take america down with them in a suicide play by cultivating fear of evil, portraying the hopeless as terrorists and portraying the progressives as unpatriotic. it's desperation - the same as we see in the donkey bombers who have lost all hope. but they can't kill everyone... and those who survive will be wiser for having gone through this. this is interesting to watch. it will make a good movie someday but... i'd rather be sailing. :-) -elpolvo