Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Sioux Nation -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (52550)	12/16/2005 3:06:41 AM
From: Crimson Ghost	Respond to of 361732

NOMINALLY PUBLIC RADIO: BROOKINGS IS AS FAR LEFT AS WE HAVE TO GO JEFFREY A. DVORKIN, official audience placator for Nominally Public Radio, has revealed what that network thinks left and right consists of. Here's the quote: \|\|\| NPR often calls on think tanks for comments. But NPR does not lean on the so-called conservative think tanks as many in the audience seem to think. Here's the tally sheet for the number of times think tank experts were interviewed to date on NPR in 2005: American Enterprise - 59 Brookings Institute - 102 Cato Institute - 29 Center for Strategic and Intl. Studies - 39 Heritage Foundation - 20 Hoover Institute - 69 Lexington Institute - 9 Manhattan Institute - 53 There are of course, other think tanks, but these seem to be the ones whose experts are heard most often on NPR. Brookings and CSIS are seen by many in Washington, D.C., as being center to center-left. The others in the above list tend to lean to the right. So NPR has interviewed more think tankers on the right than on the left. The score to date: Right 239, Left 141. \|\|\| To call Brookings and CSIS leftist think tanks is either a total lie or remarkably stupid. As John Stanton wrote of CSIS and its ilk in Counterpunch: "The frightful Department of Homeland Security currently promoted by the Bush Regime and its disciples, and recent converts, has its genesis in defense and security study 'think tanks' in Washington, DC. These groups wield enormous influence on local, state and national policy and arguably constitute the real shadow government of the United States. Eliminate the US Congress, Presidency and Supreme Court, and the three branches of government could just as well be the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the ANSER Institute for Homeland Security and the Center for Security Policy. "These defense and security nonprofits--far removed from any public accountability--serve as a carving knife used by the most callous of interests in and out of government to slice away at the public good. Whether it's to pocket some hard cash for missile defense, get a piece of the Homeland Security action, fix a troublesome regulation that penalizes government contractors for providing poor working conditions, rid the world of that pesky rule that cuts into executive compensation, or promote an outdated weapons system, the nonprofits stand ready to undertake these actions not only because it makes 'good business sense' but because their operatives take a patriotic view of the 'bottom line.' "Defense and security nonprofit organizations house former elite US civilian and military officials---always a short step away from return to government service and available for consulting fees--many whose worldview closely approximates those of the character General Jack Ripper in Stanley Kubrick's famed classic Dr. Strangelove." But Dvorkin's stunningly misleading calculation reveals exactly how establishment Washington thinks about the political spectrum and one of the ways in which the media enables America's move to the far right. npr.org

To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (52550)	12/16/2005 4:05:30 AM
From: geode00	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 361732

Well if the US military doesn't know if he has one leg or two, I suspect identification would be pretty difficult. They'll probably just arrest everyone who looks remotely like him and then lose track of all of them in Abu Ghraib.