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PART 2 : http://youtu.be/hfDhJuWBkOw Transcript: http://www.microtopia.org/us-and-california-politics-and-policy/us-corporate-media-ownership-agenda file downloads at bottom of web page.
partial notes: Last week, you lost the right to own a computer or a cell phone. It is now a service not a possession. If you misuse the product you can be jailed. It is incredible. The copyright and patent laws now no longer reward innovation and invention they suppress it. This is the tip of the iceberg. IBM, Google, Oracle and Apple have ammased millions of patents. Your only recourse in many cases as a small company is to hope to sell out to a well connected large enterprise who can license these many vague patents. Patents on your bodies tissues and cells, patents such as 1-click shopping.
And in each industry consolidation occurs. As consolidation occurs, profits rise, competition and choice dies out, barriers to entry rise, and government grants, contracts and licenses are given increasingly to those consolidated companies and their satellite sub contractors.
In the business of money itself, at the very top lie BlackRock, State Street, Fidelity,
5 or 6 large private equity firms that control the worlds money.
CNN, ComCast now owns NBC, Disney's ABC, Sumner Rothstein's CBS ViaCom, and Rupert Murdoch's Fox News.
ComCast bought NBC, and have you noticed most people still thinks its owned by GE?
GE if you search their financial statements you would be hard pressed to find their military industries. It is all classified under innocuous titles. Maybe GE to avoid public scrutiny as the maker of the drones and bombs Rachel Maddow covered in her story on Pakistans sold the enterprise.
The joining of the powerful broadcast network with the primary cable company, means that 2 competing lobbies in Washington become 1.
The rule seems to be 5-5-5 or 6-6-6
Six Massive Private Equity Firms controlling the investments of the unsuspecting labor unions, the retirement funds, the average persons and the billionaires stock portfolio. All invested in each other as well.
Five massive networks controlling the vast majority of television, news and entertainment.
Internet Access is controlled by a very small group of players, the old regional bell companies renamed, Verizon and ATT the two key players and ComCast. ATT and Verizon have not yet bought CBS, the smallest of the entertainment and news giants. They could not likely buy Fox or Disney unless they stumble, though AOL Time Warner CNN is a possible target.
So now we see some threats to the Internet.
It suits companies like Showtime and ESPN to not allow access to their product via the Internet
Five or 6 major contractors for the massive security state.
1 in 10 dollars of our economy goes to the military industrial complex, 1 in 12 to the prison industrial complex and police, 1 in 5 to medical insurance cartel.
Clearly real productive work is no longer needed. Now we simply need to drag blocks into the ocean, as Keynes described. Jobs are disconnected from real productivity, and the news speak of the right now uses the euphemism job creators instead of the ultra wealthy. The military is used to safeguard corporate manipulation of economies around the world, "commerce follows the flag", the military works for the big corporations, and gives the big corporations trillions in pork larded no bid contracts.
John Kerry when questioned by Rand Paul, made it clear he was a totalitarian when he said the President should be able to use military force in an emergency. He claimed our acting in Benghazi saved 10,000 lies. In fact at most a few hundred would have died in putting down Benghazi and the people at the CIA who inform him knew that. The Gadaffi Government had it been treated with respect rather than like dirt would likely have accelerated the pace of reforms, as Libya had been 'liberalizing' that is doing more and more as the West dictated, for a decade.
Kerry used the same lie to justify using Libya for NATO target practice, as we had used in Iraq and in the decision to nuke Japan. A hypothetical massacre. In Vietnam we attacked our own ships in the Gulf Of Tonkin. The propagandist lie that accompanies every war of choice should be attacked frontally, never submitted to, and exposed. We could go through the wars of the last 200 years, and each one was proceeded with a propagandist reason, a distortion, and most of them went unchallenged.
not ready to admit that no consideration was given at all for Libyans by killing instead of thinking. Thoughtful solutions are complicated, do not play well on TV, and involve potentially embarrassment from setbacks, and can take time. Now 10,000 SAMs and 100s of thousands of small arms have spread like a plague out of Libya, into Syria trans shipped to Turkey.
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