Mass Media such as newspapers or TV relies on big companies about the revenue. This may be preventing them from being a true journalism.
In Japan, MyNews Japan that is an innovative internet media not relying on the advertisements from companies is getting noticed, and it picked up "Shinbun(newspaper) Red Flag" being published by Japan Communist Party. It has been run without getting any advertisement from companies as well.
MyNews Japan, an online media, praised the "Shiubun Red Flag" saying, "There are many social matters related to big companies such as Canon, Toyota, or Matsushita and to politicians' corruption.
Traditional big newspapers started to follow the matters after the "Shinbun Red Flag" picked up. This means that the dominant newspapers do not work as journalism because they cannot criticize the important matters that are truly for citizens. The perspective of citizens is lacking.
The reason why traditional newspapers are decreasing the sales is not just because of the development of internet but the decline of the quality.
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hello Shogo
Have you listen to this popular song "Soak Up the Sun" by Sheryl Crow ?
『
my friend the communist
holds meetings in his R.V.
i can't afford his gas
so I'm stuck here watching T.V.
』
The answer to that is this 1988 movie『 華の乱 』
http://blogs.dion.ne.jp/cio_z7/archives/5894870.html
and also in the movie 1984
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_(film)
as the character Winston Smith discover who really wrote "the book".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldstein's_book
Marc
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the
truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
--Thomas Jefferson
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already, another step for dictatorship in the Usa
http://www.gnn.tv/headlines/14927/Bush_Executive_Order_Criminalizing_the_Antiwar_Movement
any media or person critics of government's war will be stop!
Crazy. That's crazy!! I think that government of Japan must know it, and so does Japan mass media! I have never known this BIG news!!
hello Shogo
Henry Kissinger once said that reality is less important than perceived reality, that means the "bogus reality" feed by the media is the reality for the population. The official lies become real. Those being arrested won't be shown on tv, and to be aware of reality, the citizen will know it when he (or a family member) personally get arrested. Genuine informations circulate underground, not on tv. Most citizen will be busy with their football team or the dirty personel secrets of a tarento. To get good ratings, they might put Paris Hilton at the top of information news, while important changes such as loss of contitutional rights goes unreported. TV watching people are living in a dream world. It's a prison for their mind.
Al-Qaida official a fake
the top U.S. military spokesman said al-Baghdadi, whose name translates as "the father of Omar from Baghdad," and his Islamic State of Iraq group do not exist.
http://www.sacbee.com/111/story/280321.html
you might have seen the movie "the matrix" but you probably did not slow it down to have time to read the title of the hollow book Neo is using to hide his digital cassettes, its' "Simulacres et simulation" by Jean Baudrillard.
Marc
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation
for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
--Soren Kierkegaard
hello Shogo
This one is even better!
President Bush's post-terror attack martial law plan is so shocking that even sitting members of Congress and Homeland Security officials are barred from viewing it, a chilling portent of what is to come as constant reminders of the inevitability of terror attacks reverberate. Congressman Peter DeFazio was asked by his constituents to see what was contained within the classified portion of the White House's plan for operating the government after a terrorist attack. Since DeFazio also sits on the Homeland Security Committee and has clearance to view classified material, the request would have appeared to be routine, but the Congressman was unceremoniously denied all access to view the documents, and the White House wouldn't even give an excuse as to why he was barred.
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/118489654058910.xml&coll=7
This is a tell tale sign of the next pearl harbor. Of course, you won't see that on tv because their are busy with the latest fashion trend started by some tarento.
Bush's anti-torture Executive Order authorizes torture:
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/07/20/usdom16444.htm
heil Bush! heil Bush! (lifting my right arm in the air like the nazi) heil Bush! heil Bush!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieg_Heil
Marc
My way of joking is to tell the truth.
It is the funniest joke in the world.
--George Bernard Shaw
W Bush was already acting like a dictator a long ago, Dec 9th 2005
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7779.shtml
"I don't give a goddamn," Bush retorted.
"I'm the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way."
"Mr. President," one aide in the meeting said.
"There is a valid case that the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution."
"Stop throwing the Constitution in my face," Bush screamed back.
"It's just a goddamned piece of paper!"
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It look like martial law was planned a log ago!
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The Chineses fear a cut of iranian oil from futur Iran war and are building crude oil reservoir at local and federal level.
Cindy Sheehan just got arrested.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindy_Sheehan
there is so much development right now, i have to force myself to go to sleep or otherwise i would stay up all the time with just two or three hours of sleep per night!
Hi Marc!! How've you been!! You are already like an authentic media for me!!!! Thanks a lot!!
I cracked up for "It's just a goddamned piece of paper!" Crazy funny! Whew...
I could feel reading your comments that Government of America seems to accelerate their plan. They are under such a dangerous situation for oils and currency related to the oils as well, right? However, though there is no certain reason, I just feel that they may fail to wage war against Iran. It may be my wish, but I also feel that people who notice something strange about what's been going on around Bush are increasing because of internet.
Japan may have many interesting changes or findings gradually. The election is coming. The prospect that the current ruling party loses is pretty high. General Citizens start to notice the tricks of the ruling party (though not sure about other parties, either.)
Well, different from you, it's just my hunch. Have a sound sleep!!
Shogo
hello Shogo
Oil is so intertwined with the economy, it's the Usa economy crashing they are trying to limit the fall of. In 1971, when the usa went bankrupt
http://www.currentconcerns.ch/archive/2003/04/20030409.php
they made an agreement with the Saudies that ALL oil payment must be made in US$ (most likely because of hidden deadly military threats), thus, forcing the world to use the us currency and keep the american economy artificially afloat.
When Iran announced it's oil bourse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Oil_Bourse
it was a direct attack on the US$ and it's economy, sort of a nuclear attack on the bogus artificial US$. It was supposed to be effective in march 2007, and at the time i was sure they would find a pretext to attack Iran, and Iran was clever to create an incident and capture british soldiers, making it impossible for the Usa to repeat another gulf of tonkin incident as a pretext to invade Iran
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_Incident
Now, instead of having an official oil bourse, Iran force their customer to use their own currency and not the US$. When the Usa gets control of iranian oil fields, it will be a very powerfull denial weapon, as stopping iranian oil flow to China, Japan or any other country would prove a catastrophe for them.
The Chinese have bought iranian oil with the yuan for over a year and are dumping their us$ reserve as fast as they can while trying to avoid loosing too much at the same time. Their are the most likely the one NOT to get iranian oil after the war. Whatever the reason they claim, the chinese assume shortage of oil soon:
"A sound oil reserve system will help ensure the nation's energy security, in case there is an interruption in supplies or a hike in oil prices," Han Xiaoping, chief information officer of China5e.com, said.
http://www.chinanews.cn//news/2007-07-19/37721.html
China consumes record amount of crude and refined oil
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-07/24/content_6424784.htm
Japan crude imports to rise on extra demand
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/japan-crude-imports-rise-extra/story.aspx?guid=%7B5A250F0B-A547-4A80-914A-97B5A1044E65%7D
By Mari Iwata Last Update: 11:46 PM ET Jul 24, 2007
TOKYO (MarketWatch) -- Japan's crude oil demand is expected to rise on year in August as refiners are likely to step up imports to meet extra demand from utilities for sweet crude and low-sulfur C-fuel oil after Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501.TO) shut its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant last week following a strong earthquake. This may provide a substantial boost to Japan's crude demand for several months or even longer, analysts said. "As long as Kashiwazaki-Kariwa remains shut, the extra demand will continue," said Toshinori Ito, an analyst with UBS Securities Japan Ltd. Tepco and other utilities will have to boost electricity production at their thermal power plants to meet summer electricity demand amid a strong economy and forecasts of a hot summer. Other utilities not only have to sell power to Tepco, but also to Hokuriku Electric Power Co. (9505.TO), whose Shika plant in western Japan is expected to remain closed throughout this fiscal year ending March 2008 due to the coverup of an accident and turbine flaws.
When Mike Ruppert was still healthy, he was the main journalist for his "from the wilderness" website, and two days before nine eleven, he had issued an econonic crisis to his paid subscriber. After the nine eleven distraction, the authorities managed to postponed the economic crash with the housing bubble, but now, it is crashing real strong, and i don't know how they can postponed it again. My guess is they will redirect the blame for the economic crisis to the iranian, as the next pearl harbor will be used to all the purposes they can. It's like when you have a glass full of water, so full that the water is above the glass and the "capillary retention" make it looks like a thin invisible skin keep the water from splilling; then you add a single drop of water, you get a spill. If they make "it" happen at the right moment, the next pearl harbor could be that final drop of water, crashing the economy in a fast spiral. Whatever happens will be blame on Iran.
And of course, there is the obvious need of the oil itself.
Simply said in an old movie, the 1975 movie "3 Days of the Condor" by Sydney Pollack (two years after the oil crisis of 1973)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Days_of_the_Condor
『
it's simple economics.
today it's oil, right?
in ten or fifteen years -- food, plutonium, and maybe even sooner.
now what do you think the people are going to want us to do, then?
ASK THEM !
not now. then. ask when they're running out.
ask them when there is no heat in their homes and they're cold.
ask them when their engines stop.
ask them when people who have never known hunger start going hungry.
you want to know something?
they won't want us to ask them.
they'll just want us to get it for them.
』
How can i be so sure the iranians will get their ass kicked by the americans? In 1991, the Usa bombed Iraq and Kuwait for a whole month before the ground army got in. In 2003, the Usa bombed Iraq for three days before the ground army got in and managed to get hold of key strategic positions, such a bridges and airports. About four months ago, Al Jazeera was courageous enough to go public with the testimony of a former iraqi general that revealed the use of the neutron bomb. A neutron bomb give very little radiation when you are really close to the explosion and a lot of neutron all around, killing the living (human, plants) and fine electronics (computers, radars) while keeping intact all the rest (buildings, cars, road). He focused on the Bagdad airport and explain how the americans were able to capture it because of the neutron bomb and it was why they couldn't destroy the airport has there where to do if they were to retreat and make sure the amerericans could not use the airport. He gave many other interesting details that would be too long to write here, but last week, as i was re-watching a 2004 dvd documentary about the media coverage of the 2003 Iraq war, i saw differently the comments of the journalists that were flabbergasted at the speed of the invasion and said comments like: "where are the iraqi republican guards?", "it's as if the republican guards vanished out of thin air!". The more i look at it, the more it becomes obvious that the neutron bomb was a key element in the success of the invasion. Iran have bought anti-missile weapons from Russia, but the use of dummy missile to deplete anti-missile weaponry was use by the iraqis in 1991, and because Usa has more ressources that Iran,
i expect the next war with Iran to look similar to this 15 seconds excerpt of Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkLXdLgOybE
It looks like W Bush choose dictatorship to "save" Usa from the "end of the age of oil", a similar remedy his grandfather liked.
1933 american coup d'état that failed:
The coup was aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war veterans. The plotters, who were alleged to involve some of the most famous families in America, (owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea, Maxwell Hse & George Bush's Grandfather, Prescott Bush) believed that their country should adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the 1929 great depression. Mike Thomson investigates why so little is known about this biggest ever peacetime threat to American democracy.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/document.shtml
John Buchanan, who was instrumental in uncovering the documents
tying Prescott Bush to the financing of the Third Reich.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4-TL5AGHFY
Major General Smedley D. Butler: war is a racket
http://lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm
I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested.
And for the July 29th election, don't hope too much. Spending time thinking and talking about what party B can do better that party A is similar to spending time thinking and talking about Santa Claus giving the A gift or the B gift. The real people in power are those hiding behind the political parties, bribing them, financing them, manipularing them, and pushing them to kill themselve if the source of money and true power, to make hide the puppet masters (most likely big business and big bankers). Keeping the illusion of the election is as important to adults as keeping the illusion of Santa Claus to the childrens.
Marc
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to
our liberties than standing armies. --Thomas Jefferson
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yep, more media manipulation, more fear mongering to prepare the minds of tv watching people for their self inflicted wound
A top U.S. military commander said Tuesday he believes there are al-Qaida cells in the United States - or people working to create them - and the military needs to triple its response teams to counter a growing threat of attack.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6803123,00.html
Hi Marc. Thanks a lot for such a voluminous comment! I'm gonna find time to read today or tomorrow.
Thanks a lot,
Shogo
Korey Rowe got arrested before he had time to finish the final edition (3rd edition) of the "loose change" movie.
who is Korey Rowe and how he was transformed, 23 min - Jun 29, 2006
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3837554806768067398
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Korey Rowe: Loose Change producer reveals startling new details to Prison Planet, Fox News, including how arresting officers cut his phone lines, came out of the woods - Fort Drum officials immediately released Rowe following barrage of phone calls from supporters.
The upcoming cinematic release of Loose Change Final Cut should be scheduled to be released on the weekend preceding September 11, 2007. The documentary is set to include explosive new interviews that will shake the political spectrum to the core.
http://www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/july2007/260707dischargepapers.htm
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Dick Cheney has been telling us about the next pearl harbor for over three years and it will be a nuclear bomb
Dick Cheney October 7, 2004
I'm absolutely convinced that the threat we face now, the idea of a terrorist in the middle of one of our cities with a nuclear weapon, is very real and that we have to use extraordinary measures to deal with it.
http://premium.edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/05/debate.transcript3/
June 20, 2006
Dick Cheney said the biggest terrorism threat now “is the possibility of an al-Qaida cell armed with a nuclear weapon or a biological agent in the middle of one of our own cities.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13431077/
Dick Cheney on Face the Nation, CBS, April 15, 2007
The greatest threat now is "a 9/11 occurring with a group of terrorists armed not with airline tickets and box cutters, but with a nuclear weapon in the middle of one of our own cities."
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_2220.shtml
Hi Marc. Thanks a lot!! Please give me time to consume(^^;) I plan to read on weekend. Tomorrow is the election of Japan.
Thanks,
Shogo
hello Shogo
Take your time to digest the intellectual food and don't report mailing costs twice.
:-)
correcting a typo from above post July 25, 2007:
"he had issued an econonic crisis WARNING to his paid subscribers."
Mexico, Jul 27, 2007 (Prensa Latina), Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) announced that oil reserves may run out in seven years.
http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7BF1F8B8FE-DA99-4717-8FBD-2B3C4F90FBA3%7D%29&language=EN
Pat Tillman was a popular professional football player, rich and famous, and, after 9/11 he patriotically decided to joint the us army to fight al-queda, as he naively believed the official story about 9/11. The u.s. administration used him as an icon and an exemple to follow for the public to recruit more soldiers to go die in Iraq for Exxon, Shell and British Petroleum. After fighting in Afganistan and Iraq, he faced the truth and openly said that this war was highly illegal and based on lies and asked everybody in his military unit to vote against W Bush for the 2004 election. He wrote to his family about his intentions to be an anti-war activist after leaving the army, and he even contacted Noam Chomsky (#1 american intellectual).
You watched the DVD of "fahrenheit 9/11",
at 1h38m11s you can see Abdul Henderson and at 1h54m52s he and Micheal More are trying to enlist congress members' childrens, but to hear more from Abdul Henderson you have to go to
main menu
features
confidential
more from Abdul Henderson
to see the additional 7 minutes about him, you can see how he faced the truth: that he was there for the oil companies and that the war was an unjust cause. So did Korey Rowe. Many soldiers are really disgusted and loose morale, that's why desertion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desertion
is as high as 20% in the u.s. army personel serving in Iraq. That explains why the u.s. administration is lying massively, to be effective, the military needs soldier with good morale, and since the war is unjust, they need to lie all the time about everything to create the illusion of a just war. That's the reason they did 9/11 and blame the arabic people for it.
Back to Pat Tillman,
if he was to get back in the Usa and tell the truth, it would have had a negative effect on the official lies, so they had him killed while he was still in Iraq and create a cover up story, burn his clothes, lied about the real caused of his death, and so on. Now it has been proven a cover up, but few media are covering the new developement of the story, so the impact is limited and many tv watchers will still only have seen the official bogus story.
Jul 27, 2007, New Documents Shed Light On Tillman's Death
http://wcbstv.com/topstories/topstories_story_207212230.html
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/07/26/ap3958728.html
It will be interesting to see how the next pearl harbor will "save" the u.s. administration with a new pretext for more war and more economic disaster...as the stock exchange might crash sooner than expected.
Marc
A crime is like any other work of art.
Every work of art, divine or diabolic, has one indispensible mark: the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.
Every clever crime is founded ultimately on some one quite simple fact - some fact that is not itself mysterious.
The mystification comes in covering it up, in leading men's thoughts away from it.
--G. K. Chesterton's legendary "Father Brown" in The Queer Feet
Hi Marc. I read all the comments. I think that those who get to know the fact reach the critical mass sooner or later. Maybe, much later. But, at that time, everything may be over and people may be unable to stand up from the valley of despair.
A young Japanese IT tycoon, called "Horiemon" was arrested much before (Surprisingly, people almost rarely talk about him now. Maybe, people forgot it because mass media stopped to pick him up any more…) In the peak, he said straight, "Money is all."
He may have just said a simple truth without hesitation to express what's going on in this society.
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