Ted Koppel Mourns the Death of News Journalism

Ted Koppel writes in the Washington Post a blistering critique of news journalism of today, declaring: “…the death of the real news.”  Indeed he has eloquently placed the blame on what we can all plainly see, alas, those few left with cognitive thinking power.  Our school budgets drastically cut until after 30 years of Reagan, Bush, and the American non-tax-payer; not even 20% of the country can identify Iraq on a world map.  For those of you so bewildered that is a country we were led into a war under false pretenses and our armed forces bravely fall on their soil every week since 2001.  As Ted Koppel points out our country no longer gets world news because the networks cut the budgets of foreign news correspondence to nil.  Most Americans believe our president that our war in Iraq is over yet, there is no news for us coming from Iraq.  According to Ted Koppel our news is catered to every taste and biased to what we want to hear.  But journalism is about bringing us news we need to hear.

Thanks to Ted Koppel pointing out what is very obvious that our news is not telling us what we need to know.  As a viewer I can always tell when news is being sold out.  I have that sixth sense which makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up when my intelligence is being insulted.  I know articles and commentary should point out causes of reports and I receive only omissions and deceit.  A great deal of people, seem too busy to notice or care.  I care and notice what exactly is missing in our news today.

First off what has been the response of countries towards the United States specifically after 9/11.  Our country is being look upon as a third rate democracy in which capitalism oversteps its bounds into common decency.  We are seen as a vengeful bully stomping on the wrong types of people and perhaps should be turning this aggression towards our leaders.  After all, most of the free world at this point in time believes that 9/11 was an inside job, helped along by the corporate-will for profit exploited from other people’s misery.  The world trade centers and pentagon destruction have been more likely caused by assistance from non-Arabs with fanatical headsets.  The headsets of the conspirators are those that profit the most under our corrupt form of “democracy.”  It is these questions that we need news to answer and unlock the source of news discrepancies versus the official government propaganda-lies.  This is what we need to know for certain: who really was behind 9/11 and who is covering for whom?

Secondly, our country needs a new way to present interested parties who wish to run for office.  The two-party system is a failure of American democracy.  What we have left is two biased opposing views which promote deadlock.  Nothing gets done right in our government. What does go through is pushed by the most unethical practices for a true democracy.  One party claims to be conservative yet spends trillions upon trillions of our tax dollars on unjust wars and unethical detentions.  Add this non-conservative nature of tax cuts for the well to do, unleash corporate profiteers on a unarmed citizenry, and bail out corporations when greed gets the best of them all at taxpayer expense.  Our citizens mostly believe in conservative government which is fair for all people, however our conservative party consistently votes on matters of budget extravaganza and issues that are unfair to people in favor of corporate profit.  Our other party when it finally gets control careens so far to the left as to fall into the ditch of socialism.  Our government needs to get all the corporate money out of campaign finance and put that money toward investigating the corruption.

Thirdly and most important, basic services need to be provided and assured by our government.  These services must come from taxpayers.  Without taxpayers a government can not properly function.  To restore our government’s income the rich need to pay a fair amount of their good fortune in taxes.  This trickle down effect has failed.  Profit windfalls are not going back into investing in American production this money is going directly offshore.  Offshore to buying factories overseas where labor laws are non-existent.  The rich have not only bankrupted our government they have reinvested those former tax dollars outside our country.  What is not reinvested is being horded and accumulated.  Tax rates need to go back towards 50-75% before Reagan started the illogical imbalanced notion that nobody needs to pay for government.  These taxes on the very rich who make over 1 million per year annually should never have come down to 30% with as many loopholes they were already provided.  Those that make between 200k and 1 million also need a rate increase to balance our huge annual deficit.  If you think we need to go and destroy the Taliban, Korea, Communism, or what-ever then we need to raise taxes.  You can not spend 1 trillion dollars a year on the military when you do not have the money to do so.  Your country will go broke.  Yes our country has about 1 year left and our dollar will completely collapse.  If you do not act now the greatest nation on the planet will be taken out by the power of compound interest.  We already borrow at least 100 billion per month just to pay our debts.  Fifty four trillion dollars in debt our country pays with our tax dollars.  Our government should not meddle in other countries while we have such chaos in our own democracy.  We need campaign finance reform, better public schools, more college grants, sensible health care, and finally we need to turn Homeland security back to investigating white collar crime.  TSA need to quit touching our junk and look into all that corporate junk.  I am sure they will find Osama Bin-Laden in some fine corporate office eating caviar watching FBI confiscated video of the cruise missile that really hit the Pentagon.

Corpora-tology: Scientology’s BIG BROTHER

             In David Michael Green’s article on commondreams.org “I Have a Dream: 2010 Version” he asks the question; what Barack Obama is dreaming?  Mr. Green, a professor of political science at Hofstra University, writes a scathing review of Obama’s entire presidency and the inadequacy and ineptness of his many broken promises of change.  To free thinking objective thinkers it seems that our government has been bought and sold to corporate interests no matter who wins elections.  True change comes to people realizing that our government’s very constitution, politicians, and political two party system remain employees of corporations, banking moguls, and media “corpora-tologists.”   In fact, our political system along with its global and domestic reach victimizes the world caught in a web of corporatology.

            Scientology is a cult which depicts movie stars and other public figures as enlightened individuals who are placed in elevated positions while cultist followers are dehumanized and subjugated as a slave class in comparison.  The entire world seems fair game for Corporatology.  For years our government slowly eroded by corporate banking interests pulled the wool over citizens’ eyes in the same likeness as cultist blinded by Scientology.  Certain higher “enlightened individuals” of ultimate wealth, power, and corruption purchase political puppets to do their bidding under the guise of spreading “Democracy” throughout the world.  It becomes almost a religious slur to speak out against the world’s allergic reaction to democracy.  Democracy is in theory a government for the people by the people.  Not in America!  Government is for the corporations and those in position to line their pockets like the Grinch stealing the Whoville’s last morsel of Christmas cheer.  Absolute power makes our government a corporate dictatorship rather than a democracy.

           

            The greatest moguls of our government today in corporatology are those who control the puppets handling the Federal Reserve.  The Federal Reserve has nothing to do with our government system.  Yet it remains a thick lambskin over the eyes of common people who believe this is a Federal Agency.  Those in oversight of the Federal Reserve are former banking CEOs and other paid agents of the banking industry.  The Federal Reserve is the first primary breach of our so called democracy.  It allows the very rich in the world of money to give themselves loans.  By creating value out of thin air banking moguls cause the citizens to pay them back with income tax payments.  Until this primary breach of democracy is eradicated, democracy will always consume the interests of banking moguls, corporate domination of the world’s resources, and not the interests of the people. 

            We the people of the United States live in a dictatorship to a headless and nameless cult.  We fight in the name of democracy yet succumb to capitalism.  Our government shamelessly spreads capitalism not democracy.  This spreads distrust of America all over the globe.  If America were truly a democracy then our message of help would be required all over the world.  A true “government for the people” would place the Federal Reserve accountable to the people and not those of corporate and banking interests.

           

            Big Brother firmly wrests control from the people and control of the entire system through the corporate news media.  Government propaganda permeates our society so completely that few people even see the transparent forces that control 90% of the world’s resources today.  In pursuit to dominate all world markets, a few moguls bend the rules in governments enabling their absolute power.  Unfortunately for the people, history shows that absolute power absolutely corrupts.   The corruption in government remains enablers of the most destructive criminal forces in our society today.  These criminal forces remain at large harming people all over the world without regard of human costs.  Democracy will remain a forgotten dream until exposure shows big brother as a criminal cult of evil capitalism.  Our democracy will remain a cult - not a true democracy.  The people should enable the check and balances, as intended by the Constitution, to expose those lining their pockets to keep democracy in place as an evil cult. 

           

            What checks and balances are in place when bombs fall on innocent civilians overseas?  What checks and balances help our loyal troops overseas being fed tainted water by Halberton?  What checks and balances exist to allow the people access to see the faces of those who lined their pockets with the banking bailout money of 2009?  What access do the people have to investigate all the documents and evidence the Warren Commission collected from the assassination of John F. Kennedy?  Investigations in our society become mere lip service allowing the real criminals to investigate themselves.  If the people had true access to these investigations outrage against the banking moguls would cause their undoing.  True democracy would cause those same moguls to lose their power over the people once and for all.

            The people must take back their government by taking back the control of the Federal Reserve.  Thomas Jefferson in 1798 said; "I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution - taking from the federal government their power of borrowing."  Our founding fathers struggled against banking moguls of those days who’s loyalties and patriotism where grounded not on loyalty to freedom and democracy but to only personal gain.  These same forces magnified and leveraged by the Federal Reserve and the federal budget remains the primary fuel that allows corporatology to spread its evil form of democracy.   Americans live in a world taken hostage by this alternate evil democracy and will never be free until the Federal Reserve bares the oversight by the people and eventually phased out of our society.

            This will never happen in America until the people revolt against every government rule allowing corporations to lobby government.  The Supreme Court should rule against any individual who acts as a paid agent of a corporation in the affairs of lawmaking.  Every law written in a back room committee by corporate lobbyists should be ruled unconstitutional.  Last minute votes in Congress on laws written in the back room should never happen until the full details are read and explained to the general public.  Corporations are dictatorships not democracy and its interests fall toward the stockholders of the few and not many people of consumption or even its own employees.  The stockholders become the landowners and the CEOs become the king while all else are in servitude as peasants.  Therefore corporations are not subservient to a government by the people for the people their interests rest at nothing other than domination of their particular market share.  In a true democracy the people will need to rise up against those who seek to rule for the profit of the few against the will of the many.  The only fair way to succeed as a democratic society is to handcuff those who seek domination of governments for the soul profits of the few.  The people insisting on diminishing government lobbyists remain a cause for all citizens of a free society.  This is the dream of our forefathers and the dream of true democracy.