WE ARE BEING CHEATED BY OUR GOVERNMENT AND BIG MEDIA
"It would be nice if the Washington Post and the rest of the media would report honestly on the bank bailout and stop trying to conceal plans for a massive redistribution of wealth to the bank shareholders and their top executives," says a piece by Dean Baker this morning.
The working class of our nation are being indebted to bankster executives and wealthy transnational investors, and not one of the slimy toads of our mass media has the courage to tell the truth about what is happening. Of course, if they did, they would lose their job.
RUSSIA TO INTRODUCE DEFENSE SANCTIONS AGAINST EASTERN EUROPE
Pravda's major headline this morning is that Russia will quit supplying Eastern Europe with weapons in response to those countries supplying Georgia with weapons in support of the Bush regime during the Russia/Georgia conflict last year, after Georgia'
This is a result of Bush regime belligerence in an attempt to restart the Cold War for Nuclear Mafia profits-- pushing Georgia and the Ukraine to join NATO and moving Star Wars to Russia's borders. Assurances of a new direction by the Obama administration do not appear to be entirely accepted by Moscow, particularly in the recent insistence that the Star Wars program continue in Eastern Europe for no logical reason.
As the Vice President travels, French news reports "Biden ... said that Washington would press ahead with its planned missile defense shield -- which has alarmed Moscow."
This situation could be the straw which breaks the camel's back in the American economy, as a New Cold War could require trillions of dollars that we would have to borrow, even as we are borrowing to bailout Wall Street banksters. The Obama administration is giving mixed messages which have Russians worried.
The Forces of Greed (FOG) who run the country, finance our elections and control the mass media, each believe they are entitled to the lion's share of the tax dollars. The Nuclear Mafia's master plan for a new Cold War with which to replace the failed "War on Terrorism," appears to be in disarray, as Wall Street sucks up tax dollars that they crave.
So much is missing from the corporate media "news" reporting on Iraq. From the start of the war we have relied on Dahr Jamail for reports coming from the countryside, outside of the Green Zone. He reported from the inside of Fallujah, when that city was being destroyed early in the war, even as the corporate media reporters merely placed their microphones in front of official sources in the Green Zone, identifying it as "news."
In the following piece, Jamail gives us a glimpse of the humanity missing from corporate media coverage. We now know that in the small country of Iraq that corporate media tells us is now a garden of peace because of the "surge," there are 4 1/2 million people dislocated by the violence brought by the Bush regime, and essential services still don't function; among them electricity, clean water, and basic security.
We got a wonderful email from Dahr yesterday, and he is still at it, digging where the corporate media do not venture --Jack