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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (64074)	6/5/2010 6:09:54 PM
From: desert dweller	6 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217693

One of the best posts EVER.You spotted the ugly truth in that post,American politicans spend about half their energy stroking voters egos "the Great American People",what blarney...our fathers yes, but not any of the post world war 2 bunch(and I'm a boomer).You nailed it pretty damn good.

To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (64074)	6/5/2010 6:34:00 PM
From: energyplay	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217693

America as number #1 is a relatively new idea in the nation's history, it did not really start until after World War I. It is a multi-edge sword, use for many things, for pushing foreign aid, to getting kids to do more math homework, to justifying covert action, etc. For many Americans, the USA as number #1 has become something they take for granted. For the more informed people, and policy wonks, and most of the professional classes, number #1 is a goal and a direction, a constant hurdle. They don't take it for granted, and know that it has a high price. ***** There is also a faction, usually on the technology side, that wants much more than number #1, they want hegemony and world domination. It is not just the Linux people. Microsoft, Google, Oracle, Apple, Ebay, Cisco, Intel and a dozen others don't just want to make tons of money - they want power and control, too. But beyond them, the PayPal alumni - the PayPal mafia - wants to contol who you are and what you think. they funded Facebook, and movies, and now space ships. See Elon Musk and Peter Theil on wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org The PayPal crowd - en.wikipedia.org Most of these people are big Ayn Rand fans....

To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (64074)	6/7/2010 11:56:00 AM
From: benwood	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217693

Thanks for your thoughtful reply. That is so true about the "stroking" and do you know why? There has been raging debate on the airwaves (TV and radio) about what emotions Obama has shown regarding the Gulf. Has he shown "rage" or has he shown "frustration" yada yada. Anybody who buys into that BS is part of the problem. It isn't what one says; it's what one DOES. In a debate, for instance, if one candidate doesn't wear a little American flag lapel pin, THAT will be the topic the next day. So they must ALL conform. The conformity is in what the press is allowed to run with in it's effort to have a 24/7 story. And WE are the reason they can do that (not you and me, but we Yanks). Those that give ratings to that kind of shoddy journalism nearly guarantee that the only kind of journalism we get is shoddy. In reality, we get very little real journalism nowadays. Bill Moyer reporter over a year ago how 90% of all investigative journalists in the US had been fired. The airwaves are largely for the promotion of the corporate viewpoint. Many stories that appear in the press are 'puff pieces' actually written and distributed to newspapers and magazines and TV stations. If it looks good and is "fit to print" then it lowers the cost of publication. And those things get published all the time. Stop watching national (and most regional news) as I have done, and one will stop getting bombarded with the corporate serving slant and the trivialization (or outright ignoring) of important or accurate information and the drumbeat of asinine and meaningless information that serves to wag the dog. People said a few years ago that the Internet would be the great equalizer. Since then, the elite have made out like bandits and there are really very, very few getting both sides of any story, if they are even aware the story exists at all.