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"How The Media Controls Britain"

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We have yet to read Owen Jones' "The Establishment... And how they get away with it", although Russell Brand's take of the author has certainly piqued our interest: ''Owen Jones may have the face of a baby and the voice of George Formby but he is our generation's Orwell and we must cherish him." We do know, however, that the young author and Guardian columnist is one of those who are not afraid to think critically while accepting there is far more than meets the eye, and certainly than the controlled media would like revealed. To wit, from the book's official blurb:

Behind our democracy lurks a powerful but unaccountable network of people who wield massive power and reap huge profits in the process. In exposing this shadowy and complex system that dominates our lives, Owen Jones sets out on a journey into the heart of our Establishment, from the lobbies of Westminster to the newsrooms, boardrooms and trading rooms of Fleet Street and the City. Exposing the revolving doors that link these worlds, and the vested interests that bind them together, Jones shows how, in claiming to work on our behalf, the people at the top are doing precisely the opposite. In fact, they represent the biggest threat to our democracy today - and it is time they were challenged.

The following infographic from the book, showing "how the media controls Britain" reveals the schism between popular British sentiment about key social issues courtesy of media influences and reality, indicating that the "establishment" is more than happy to sow discord within the working/middle classes using its traditional "objective" distribution channels, while it remains aloof, collecting the rent its record capital provides.

 

And while the middle class around the world fights for scraps, and has seen its real wages over the past three decades largely unchanged, the "establishment", wrapped in a comfortable cocoon spun by the captured media, benefits:

 

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Sun, 09/28/2014 - 13:42 | 5264982 Gringo Viejo
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America is being intentionally undermined and overthrown by the corporate/globalist controlled political class and media.

Any information I need, I get from the net.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 14:00 | 5265013 X.inf.capt
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the media lies to us???

im shocked, SHOCKED!

i just read in the check out line the goverment is ruled by gay martians...

glad to see that wasn't true...

 

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 14:05 | 5265025 PrecipiceWatching
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Do thieving, homosexual RaceMarxists count?

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 14:08 | 5265030 Latina Lover
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When the British Lager Louts have the courage to defy the BBC (British  Bullshit Corporation) by not paying the TV tax,(every brit has to pay a compulsory tax to the BBC), then they willl have the opportunity for freedom. In the meantime, they are just slaves.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 14:19 | 5265052 logicalman
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All the other bullshit channels you get to pay for through advertising whether you have a TV or not.

I've not had a TV for over 15 years. Getting rid of the damn thing was one of my better decisions.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 14:27 | 5265066 J S Bach
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"how the media controls Britain"

 

And who - pray tell - controls the media?

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 14:42 | 5265090 0b1knob
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The percentage of Muslims in London and many other urban boroughs ranges as high as 34%.   It excedes 20% in dozens of other boroughs.   The percentage of immigrants in urban areas is also much closer to people's perceptions than the very misleading "average" figure quoted in the article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_Kingdom

England and Londonistan are lost causes.  The Muslim percentage of the population has already passed the tipping point.  They might as well convert all the cathedrals to mosques and start using Sharia law.   Prince Charles can become King and finally admit to his secret 1974 conversion to Islam.

Brits with any sense should move to Canada, Australia or the US while they still can.   Even India would be better than the coming Caliphate of England.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 15:21 | 5265151 JR
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Even Wiki can’t cover up the intentions of this Communist, hence the highly suspicious and slanted data Jones provides.

Here is Wiki’s profile, in part, of Troskyist Owen Jones.

“Owen Jones (born 8 August 1984) is a left-wing English columnist, author and commentator. He is a regular columnist for The Guardian.

“…His father was a non-statutory local authority worker and senior trade union shop steward,[1] his mother an IT lecturer[3] and he describes himself as a "4th generation socialist"; his grandfather was involved with the Communist Party and his parents met as members of the Trotskyist Militant tendency.[4]”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Jones_%28writer%29

As for the advancement of the welfare state in Britain, Wiki states: “The British system has been classified as a liberal welfare state system…”

Here’s where the money goes:

“The level of public spending on the welfare state by the British Government accounted for £113.1 billion, or 16% of government spending in the fiscal year 2011, with a further 17% (£119.4 bn) being spent on the state pension and 18% (£121 bn) on health.[4] A report published in 2010 by the Government of David Cameron entitled State of the Nation compared the cost of the most expensive benefits and indicated that state pensions were overwhelmingly the largest governmental welfare expense, costing in excess of £50 billion, followed by housing benefit and council tax benefit, which combined accounted for over £20 billion.[5] Expenditure in 2011-12 on benefits included £5.1 billion paid to unemployed people and £41 billion to people on low incomes:[6][7]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_state_in_the_United_Kingdom

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 17:39 | 5265398 Seahorse
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+ 1

Exactly, in the UK the left ARE the establishment which is why it's a high-tax, low-freedom, welfare-statist, bureaucratic shithole where compliance has overtaken production as the primary activity. Little turds from the Guardian love to paint things the other way around ('4th generation socialist' suggests he can't think for himself). 

The recent Scottish 'No' vote means that these creeps will likely be in charge forever meaning we will never get out of the EU thus going down with the whole ship. As someone on here said 'the battle for Middle Earth has been lost'. I agree, last one out please turn off the lights. 

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 23:13 | 5266038 The Doofus
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The media doesn't control England.  Football controls England.  Everybody is busy getting drunk and supporting their favorite club.  So important matters are often not given proper attention.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 17:28 | 5265440 Escrava Isaura
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"How The Media Controls Britain"

This is the wrong title, and wrong question to ask.

 

The right title, and question to ask:

“Why Is The Media Controlling Me”

 

 

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 18:29 | 5265548 weburke
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good ole smithsonian.........   media had pretty complete control way back when........... http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/cant-make-it-to-the-moon-head-to-ar...

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 17:48 | 5265473 pendragon
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owen jones is a gob shite of the highest order.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 16:32 | 5265312 tony wilson
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ob1knob

 

here is why you fucking wanker

Barbara Lerner Spectre and jewish implementation of multiracial multiculturalism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2Vq_e2Z1ug

 

do not blame the dumb fucking muslims for a sick and twisted zionist plot

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 19:03 | 5265602 lockdown
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You (and by that I mean the British electorate) voted for your spineless, U.S.-loyal poodle appeaseniks you have in government, so deal with it. We have our own to straighten-out. Australia is already stuffed to the rafters with smarmy responsibility-shirking English fugitives; there's no more room for any more. You've already got your own country and fucked that one up good and proper, so sort out your own damn problems. Australia is no longer a dumping ground for Englishmen looking for a soft landing and an easy way out. For too long already has Australia been reaped and then sucked dry by the denizens of England. Enough already! Why and how can you continue to believe that England-flitterers, with their bloated pasty girths and faces and disproportionate sense of entitlement, have a preeminent right to Australia? Australia is no longer the shanty town to English cast-offs, of neither the undesirable nor the privileged kind like the ones you are inferring.

And furthermore, do you understand what carrying capacity means? Here's a quick link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrying_capacity

Human populations in Australia have always been small and dispersed, being an order of magnitude or more smaller than the average density found on other continents (Birdsell,  Ecology and the Protohominids, American Anthropologist Volume 55, Issue 4, pages 481–498, October 1953).

Virtually all hunter-gatherer societies seem to possess a 'golden rule' of population. This is, that in "normal" times, the human population of a given area rarely exceeds 20-30% of the carrying capacity of the land. (Sahlins, Tribesmen, American Anthropologist, Volume 70, Issue 6, pages 1195–1196, December 1968).

And don't give me that bullshit about how much more clever we industrialised nation-dwelling, iPhone-toting, Great British Bake Off-watching, media-literate, brand-centric, trend-sensitive and pop-culturally-aware modern urbanites are than your average bare-arsed hunter-gatherer.

Australia's population of over 22.5 million and increasing rapidly, currently at a rate of 1.7% increase per year, is on the life-support conferred by the utilisation of cheap fossil fuels. With such a low-yielding, moisture-impoverished natural habitat into which to expand, the European settlers have created for themselves a prosthetic environment to sustain their communities. Remove fossil fuels and there's nothing to support such an inflated population. But it's worse than that. In the last 200 years European settlement has resulted in the catastrophic degradation of the original biological and ecological fundamentals. When the collapse comes (and it will come - it's a matter of when and not if), it is likely that the carrying capacity will be even lower than before Europeans arrived. How can you argue for any increase in Australia's population? Oh, but they're already letting in scores of brown and black people from god-knows-where, but we're sensible British folk? The Empire is ended, get over it! All you are entitled to now are your Scunthorpes, Blackpooles, Stevenages, Hulls, Basingstokes, and your Chorlton-cum-Hardys. Leave the rest of the world well enough alone.

 

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 20:18 | 5265764 falconflight
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I'm not too sure who is whose "poodle"  From WWI through WWII, and ME policy ever since, UK has had a "special relationship" with America.  

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 21:31 | 5265890 0b1knob
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"Special relationship".   USSA uses a condom for the butt sex and kisses you afterwards.   Strange to hear the hate from the Aussie guy for the Brits.  The Anglosphere is coming apart.

Mon, 09/29/2014 - 05:52 | 5266270 lockdown
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Strange to hear the hate from the Aussie guy for the Brits.  The Anglosphere is coming apart.

Strange?! When was the last time you spoke about it with a lucid, coherent, un-narcotised (of media and propaganda), even moderately-intelligent contemporary Australian? The British and their pathologically straight-jacketed class-thinking ever have derided and scorned Australians as a degenerate caste of provincial colonists. As a result, scores of Australians have a healthy "disrespect" for our former British overlords as well as for any moist-eyed demonstration of Anglophilia, and the musty nostalgia and saccharine-sweet retro-pandering to a loathsome British-dominated bygone era, as irreparably retrograde and dilapidated as it is gratefully, and the outrageously perverse burlesquery of their Royal family and the even more scurrilous sycophancy of royalists. Realise that these enlightened imperials and their cowering, cow-eyed votarists who held sway over the Australian government (and public opinion, it must be said, both then and now despite our history) sent tens of thousands of young Australian men at the embarrassingly disgraceful debacle of the Gallipoli Campaign of World War I, just so that the British could save face with the Russians. These same luminaries and paragons of civilisation and the kowtowing fawning Australian government who let them conduct the British Nuclear tests between 1956 and 1963, at Maralinga in South Australia, about 800 kilometres north-west of Adelaide:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_nuclear_tests_at_Maralinga

Imagine a foreign power being allowed into your country (imagine if that country were the U.S.) to conduct their own nuclear tests in your backyard. I can, because it actually happened in mine!

But of course U.S. power conducts itself with no greater decorum, and the Australian government is no less willing to bend over and lube-up for them as they were for the British - think Pine Gap. Here we have all of the merry band together, having themselves a whale of a time: the CIA, NSA, and the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), as they party hard and rock the global surveillance network ECHELON. It just doesn't ever stop...

Mon, 09/29/2014 - 05:55 | 5266271 JulianAD
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Leave the Australia over population fear-porn to crazy old Dick Smith. With our vast coal, uranium, LNG & solar resources we could support atleast 200million people. I'll also add before the 'what about the water' enviro-nihilists brigade get their knickers in a knot, Australia has vast amounts of fresh water and coastline, not always in the most accessible places. In this context energy can be seen as a proxy for water, just ask Saudi Arabia. Population is the last of Australia's problems.

Mon, 09/29/2014 - 06:28 | 5266283 lockdown
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Population is the last of Australia's problems.

Population is the FIRST of all problems! At the very least, it is the primary and most vexing symptom of the problem. It's this immoral and unassuageable gluttony for energy that's devastating the planet. You can't keep burning your way out of your problems!

we could support atleast 200million people

That's a brilliant idea! Let's do that and run up our population to those levels. Go on, grab yer sheila and let's all get fucking like rabbits - before myxomatosis and calicivirus scuppered their charge, that is. It would supercharge the economy and all the brilliant prevailing economic paradigms that are working out so well for us. Yeah, you've got it right mate. I'll just shut the hell up seeing I must be like one of those stick-in-the-mud enviro-nihilists brigade types you mention, who must be sex-starved otherwise why are they so uptight, right? I'll go throw down my missus and turn out a whole battalion of new consumers, and gain myself the corporations' and world religions' approval to boot. It sure as heck would be much better fun than trying to reason with the likes of you.

 

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 19:28 | 5265656 logicalman
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Once you see through the bullshit it doesn't matter who controls it because it ceases to influence you.

I read the 'news' every day - just to understand what the agenda is.

Knowing what the fucks want you to think is not a bad thing.

Mon, 09/29/2014 - 02:11 | 5265434 Sirius Wonderblast
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The BBC is an abomination.

What's more. if you have the temerity to not a have TV, rest assured you will have incessant house calls from people trying to push and lie their way into your home n the hope of finding one of these satanic devices within your curtilage. For plainly, the TV is a lethal and dread thing, which can only be made safe for watching by the issue of a licence, which shall fund the BBC to spread the peculiarly un-British propaganda of TPTB. Ho yas!

But in happier news, Tory MP Mark Reckless (goood name) has defected to UKIP, while simultaneously another Tory MP Brooks Newmark has been forced to resign as Minister for Civil Society due to a sex scandal. What the fucking hell is a "Minister for Civil Society" fer Chrissakes?! Anyway, this one was born in Connecticut and attended Harvard Busness School, so we can be sure he will be rehabilitated asap - can't have that sort of, er, talent sitting on the sidelines, eh? Anyway, at the same time Clegg has thankfully disappeared from sight entirely and Millipede just gets more and more unelectable. Please God let them all implode!

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 14:08 | 5265031 Terminus C
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Obama just declared war on war.

We have gone full retard.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 14:12 | 5265038 Terminus C
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The funny thing is, on Fox news (I know, my father in law watches it...), they were saying Obama was too weak on the muslims, we need moar war!

I broke out in histerical laughter when Obama declared war on war (it was wither that or cry)... and then when Krauthammer came on claiming that all muslims are barbarians and need to be destroyed I had to leave the room because the viewership was nodding sagely in agreement.  I wanted to scream.

FUCK ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 14:16 | 5265049 Terminus C
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Where I really lost it (sorry to on about this but I never watch MSM, especially the news so when I got a full dose of it ("I watch it so I can be informed," he says...) it rattled me to the core) was when the news was demanding full action against Syria because Syrian rebels said Assad was using chemical weapons on them and in the NEXT sentence saying that we needed to stop the ISIS who are the Syrian rebels...

 

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 14:23 | 5265062 X.inf.capt
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i watch CNBC world myself...

those girls are HOT...

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 19:13 | 5265611 rocker
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What is this 'Fox News' Ternunys C speaks of ?  Never knew Fox had a news channel.

Although I have heard of this Faux news that makes stuff up and tells concerned viewers it is the viewers responsibility to decide what is truth.

This Faux news claims they are shows for entertainment, not facts and journalism. I quess some are easily entertained.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 19:28 | 5265655 sylviasays
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Where's the real Faux news? Just watch the state sponsored propaganda on CNN, NBC, MSNBC, ABC, PBS, CBS, etc. 

I see that some are easily brainwashed. 

 

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 15:06 | 5265125 nmewn
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For the record, he's declared war on "work place violence" against reporters abroad but still seems intent on having the DOJ wire tap domestic reporters here (which is a softer, gentler sort of warfare) while at the same time declaring war on climate change, ebola, Ferguson cops, border control agents, our wallets, strawmen of every description and that stupid sandtrap on the 11th hole par 3 at Maaahthaws Vineyaaahd.  

He's like the great warrior king Jinjus Obama or sumpin ;-)

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 17:47 | 5265465 Dugald
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FUCK ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No fear,  we don't know where you have been!

Mon, 09/29/2014 - 02:53 | 5266211 Cognitive Dissonance
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He's been with the MSM. You'd better wear a full body condom. ;-)

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 14:09 | 5265029 Latina Lover
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Britain is the past, continuing into decline. Eventually, they will be the janitors of China.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 14:09 | 5265032 logicalman
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Likely wouldn't be any worse if it was true.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 14:09 | 5265034 AlaricBalth
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Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012
To amend the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 to authorize the domestic dissemination of information and material about the United States intended primarily for foreign audiences, and for other purposes.

"It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise."
Joseph Goebbels

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 15:06 | 5265124 Karaio
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No! 

The media mind just for you! 

Okay, there are other idiots. 

hehe.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 14:03 | 5265019 thunderchief
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I just can't wait for the first British Muslim Royalty, and can't wait to dot on the dozens and dozens of prince and princes they will breed out.

Britain, you are truly fucked!

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 14:13 | 5265040 Winston Churchill
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Princess Dianna found out how that works out, and that was only a potential

muslim stepfather to royalty..

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 14:17 | 5265044 junction
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For an example of media control, look at how for decades the media has totally ignored dealing with pedophile rings in high places, up to covering up for child murderers.  The UK Exaro website has for the past two years been reporting on high level pedophile rings in the government.  The perpetrators, many with titles like Lord, have had enough power to suppress any Metropolitan Police or Crown Proseution Service investigations for the past 30 years.  The newest person just put in charge of looking into these pooves, the Lord Mayor of London, turns out to be close friends with Lord Brittain, the guy who squashed the last big investigation of degenerate UK politicians in the 80s.  Margaret Hodge, a top Labour MP and close confidante of former PM Tony Blair, was his  Minister for Children in 1992 when sickening reports came out how Hodge tried to cover up a pedophile ring operating in her constituency in Islington.

http://google-law.blogspot.com/2013/03/margaret-hodge-covered-up-child-a...

Hodge's family are billionaires from their wolrldwide mining interests.  Even today, the Metropolitan Police is still trying to protect Hodge's degenerate associates.  

In the USA, no newspaper covers high level government pedophile rings, just being satisfied to report on the latest perverts arrested for having kiddie porn on their computers, the arrest information illegally obtained by the NSA and, in one case recently, the NCIS. 

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 14:17 | 5265050 Winston Churchill
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The Slog has been reporting it much longer.With names and dates.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 14:33 | 5265076 Global Hunter
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I've been thinking for the last 3 or 4 years that most of these western "leaders" are pedophiles and the last couple of years I just openly refer to them as at.  It makes people recoil and I have angered a few family members over the past few years not that I talk about politics much at all with my family members.  Here and there somebody asked me why I thought they were and I would just say "after observing them that is what the instincts I was born with tell me" or something to that affect.  

I appreciate that there are others out there who have made the same observations and unlike me have some sort of proof or evidence that alleges that.  Sadly I am not at all surprised by what you (junction and WC) have posted.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 15:30 | 5265157 Monty Burns
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Leon Britton was one of the paedophiles himself. No wonder the 'investigation' failed. Both he and Hodge are of the Tribe.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 18:09 | 5265495 layman_please
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my honest assumption is that british, and not only british, politicians are handpicked based on the criteria which makes them vulnerable to blackmail. pedophilia is just one of many vices, but nevertheless one of the most popular among political elites. it's not reported in media on purpose because those who handpick these individuals into positions of power own and control the media in the first place and will only use that as a leverage. 

check out this list, it's inconceivable. 

Partial List of Convicted British Paedo Politicians

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 14:51 | 5265105 midtowng
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Looks like the British media tells the same pro-corporate, anti-poor lies than the American media tells.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 15:24 | 5265154 Monty Burns
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As far as I can judge almost all the Western media are the  same.  

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 19:32 | 5265669 sylviasays
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But the Daily Mail gives us all we need to know about the Kardashians! 

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 20:10 | 5265747 falconflight
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Anti poor?  Are you serious?  

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 13:42 | 5264985 FreeSlave
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the same, or even worse control is in almost every western country.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 13:44 | 5264987 JustObserving
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The CIA has owned US media for decades starting with Operation Mockingbird which began in the 1950s:

"You could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple hundred dollars a month." - CIA operative discussing with Philip Graham, editor Washington Post, on the availability and prices of journalists willing to peddle CIA propaganda and cover stories. "Katherine The Great," by Deborah Davis (New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1991)

"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." -- William Colby, former CIA Director, cited by Dave Mcgowan, Derailing Democracy

"There is quite an incredible spread of relationships. You don't need to manipulate Time magazine, for example, because there are [Central Intelligence] Agency people at the management level." -- William B. Bader, former CIA intelligence officer, briefing members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, The CIA and the Media, by Carl Bernstein

"The Agency's relationship with [The New York] Times was by far its most valuable among newspapers, according to CIA officials. [It was] general Times policy ... to provide assistance to the CIA whenever possible." -- The CIA and the Media, by Carl Bernstein

http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MOCK/mockingbird.php



Sun, 09/28/2014 - 13:59 | 5265011 Freddie
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They eventually whacked a retired Wm Colby because he talked a bit and probably because of his testimony from the Frank Church investigations.

Church was very wary about the NSA as well.  Glenn Greenwald said Church warned us about the NSA in 1975.  He died at age 59 from pancretic cancer.  I would not be suprised if he was whacked as well.  He would have been much better than Jimmy Carter.

Sadly, there are no Democrats like him anymore.  Ron Paul is probably the only Republican.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Church

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 14:51 | 5265073 JustObserving
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Agree 100%.  No country for honest men.

WHO MURDERED THE CIA CHIEF?

Still, the fact was that Colby had more enemies than friends. In the period between September 1973 and his dismissal in November 1975 as CIA director, Colby testified before congressional committees 56 times.  When Congress asked him a question, he gave a straight answer. The Intel guys hated him for it.  They thought it was his duty to lie.  So did Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger who fired him as CIA chief for revealing what were called “the family jewels”—assassination plots and other dirty deeds.

Colby had got rid of a lot of guys in the clandestine service at CIA.  I'd talked to ex-CIA officers who hated his guts.  Even Lou Conein, one of the best-known CIA operatives in Vietnam, told me he believed Colby had destroyed the agency.

http://www.pythiapress.com/wartales/colby.htm

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 14:52 | 5265107 ISEEIT
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The pervasiveness of propaganda is obvious.

What truly shocks me is that the 'global warming' scheme goes un-challenged by these useful idiot's who've pulled down their panties and laid on their backs for 'president' obozo and his ilk for the last six years?

 

The shitferbrains left is busily bitching about 'president' obozo but these cowards refuse to recognize the central planning dominance of this cluster fuck as being the CAUSE of this dystopian shithole in the first place!

 

The 'governing' philosophy of the criminals running this turf is "we won".

 

Which of course by corollary means "WE" lost.

 

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 15:03 | 5265123 arby63
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Wholly true. Saw it first hand.

Saw it firsthand: It's call "manufactured pedigree"

Be careful who you trust.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 13:44 | 5264989 DOGGONE
Sun, 09/28/2014 - 18:07 | 5265506 OldPhart
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Date "2014" stone removed from Georgia Guidestones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkQd2WySV4U&feature=player_embedded

 

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 13:43 | 5264990 Pretty Maggie M...
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Owen jones is a rat and Russel Brand a moron. Both of whom form part of this Media control.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 14:08 | 5265015 11b40
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Who are your heroes?
Russell Brand may not be 'normal', but he's no moron. He has done very well by poking sticks in the eye of the establishment.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 15:15 | 5265138 Monty Burns
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" poking sticks in the eye of the establishment"

Well let's just say he's quite careful about the eyes he pokes.  Christian institutions fair game, Muslims, Jews and sexual degenerates treated with tender loving care. Think Pussy Riot with hairy faces.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 20:08 | 5265738 falconflight
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Oh he's had plenty to spew about da Jooos.

Mon, 09/29/2014 - 09:08 | 5266508 Monty Burns
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Depends what you mean. He spoke out in favour of an Israeli boycott but was quickly whipped back into line and has spent his time since explaining why he's not anti-Semitic. That was my point.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 14:04 | 5265018 lasvegaspersona
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Russell Brand PLAYS as a moron. He can actually give a good coherent interview....unlike our politicians.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 17:44 | 5265461 Seahorse
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Yes, perfect for the BBC i.e. can only attack from the left.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 14:05 | 5265021 Pretty Maggie M...
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Perhaps the downvoters missed mr jones position on scottish independence where he stacked up alongside soros, the city of london and westminster to tell scots to vote no.

 

Hillarious that he positions himself as anti-establishment

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 14:11 | 5265036 logicalman
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So, if a guy is 90% correct you throw that out for the 10% you don't agree with???

 

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 17:47 | 5265468 Seahorse
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What the 100% Marxist bit?

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 19:29 | 5265664 logicalman
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Which bit would that be?

Just asking.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 13:43 | 5264994 Smiley
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It is called 'programming' for a reason.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 14:04 | 5265020 knukles
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+ bazillion.  Insight of the month.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 13:45 | 5264996 Dapper Dan
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Some scary shite coming soon....

"We will go after non-violent extremism"

"Ban illegal videos"

"Ban preachers"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cc_snhbSw4#t=150

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 15:04 | 5265041 logicalman
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Banning preachers wouldn't be too upsetting. Might be a good idea.

Edit.

To all the red arrow chaps - not that red arrows concern me - I'd just like to ask how you know what the preacher is saying is worth listening to, or whether he/she is correct.

Better to make your own decisions than listen to someone else who wants to make them for you.

 

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 13:46 | 5264998 All Out Of Bubblegum
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The Banking Class owns the media, the intel agencies, the corporations, the government and you. Russell Brand doesn't ever mention that salient fact.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 13:53 | 5265008 DOGGONE
Sun, 09/28/2014 - 14:59 | 5265117 arby63
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Is ol' Russ a Joo?

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 15:09 | 5265133 Monty Burns
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No, but after once dipping a delicate toe outside the reservation he's diligently toed the line since.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 20:27 | 5265782 falconflight
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I'm not so sure.  He could be a crypto-Jew.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 17:55 | 5265482 Blackfox
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To be fair he did say he knows fuck all about economics a few weeks back on one of his videos.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 13:47 | 5265000 giggler321
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offical figures are useless.  every1 on ZH should know that by now since they all talk and collect PM's.  brit's read & watch media constructed for them by their gov. and costed to them by direct taxation. it's used to put across a particular view or silence other views - that's it.  control is just a state of mind and they are very polished at projecting exactly what to think and when.  you will never see neg Israeli; if mentioned it would almost certainly contain justification.  Using this forum suggests you ain't buying either...

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 13:47 | 5265001 Infinite QE
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Its TFJ.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 14:05 | 5265023 knukles
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"TFJ"?  "Tank da fuk we's back in Joisey!"

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 14:07 | 5265028 Infinite QE
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da friggin joos

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 19:36 | 5265676 logicalman
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I think your brush is too broad.

It's a small percentage of the 'Joos' that cause the problems.

It's a small percentage of Americans that cause the problems

It's a small percentage of _____________ that cause the problems - fill in the blank.

Time for the larger percentage to say NO.

Zionists.... that's different. Evil fucks to a man.

 

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 19:53 | 5265709 sylviasays
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"Zionists.... that's different. Evil fucks to a man."

So says the feminized limey Illogicalman who puts on her burka lest her Muslim master beats her. 

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 19:59 | 5265724 logicalman
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You should lower your dose of halucinogens.

 

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 13:49 | 5265002 skbull44
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It was the father of propaganda, Edward Bernays, who stated in 1928 that "The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society."

Or, as comedian George Carlin stated: "It’s all bullshit; and it’s bad for ya!"

http://olduvai.ca

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 14:54 | 5265112 arby63
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Exactly. Great quote. That is why I try to live simply. Makes life better. More enjoyable. Not always easy or possible but every effort counts.

A thought for us all: Still have direct deposit?

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 20:04 | 5265733 falconflight
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many no longer have a choice regarding DD.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 13:57 | 5265003 Bokkenrijder
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Check out this brilliant satirical program from south Germany's ZDF about the mainstream media's 'objectivity' regarding the Ukarine crisis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSOfQ7tgTLg

Germans that are actually funny...who would have thunk that?!

English subtitles available, click on CC.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 15:07 | 5265128 Monty Burns
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Very good...recommended.  

 

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 13:57 | 5265010 I am Jobe
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Brown people have won,British fuckers just like Amerikans Fatso's are now being enslaved. 

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 14:20 | 5265048 PrecipiceWatching
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Real white Americans have yet to even return fire Mofo.

 

Your low IQ, wholly incapable, racist parasitic class has been given a major pass for FAR too long.

 

 

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 14:57 | 5265109 Monty Burns
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Indeed, real white Americans have yet to even return fire.  But is there any sign of it happening?  If there is I've missed it.  

Millions of illegals are swarming in unopposed and permanently transforming the ethnic structure of the nation, a criminal cabal has taken over the political and banking systems, White Americans - especially males - are systematically discriminated against in every possible arena, black-on-White crime is rampant and unprosecuted while the occasional 'Trayvon' case gets ongoing wall-to-wall national coverage, movies and TV 'drama' always portray NAMs as clever, honest, intelligent and kind, highlighting the contrast to the real white Americans you refer to.

I live in hope but I'm not confident.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 20:02 | 5265729 falconflight
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50 years of Camolot, social justice, and the feminization of the white male guarantees that they'll fire on their own when so ordered.  

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 14:47 | 5265097 arby63
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Another simplistic fool. Arouse the wrong animal.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 14:03 | 5265016 DipshitMiddleCl...
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The difference is now, media conglomerates have teams of statisticnas (data scientists) doing data analysis all day to manipulate even better.

 

This is what "big data" is being used for.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 14:43 | 5265088 arby63
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And where do they get their cash to afford all these trappings? From the addiction we have the the boob tube.

People worldwide would benefit greatly from cancelling TV and avoiding all major corporations when making purchases.

A good alternative is not always available but many times one can eat at a local diner and drink a local beer.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 14:07 | 5265027 ekm1
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I absolutely adore it when media articles are provided as Proof and Evidence by the majority of Zerohedge readers.

 

It is quite cute.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 14:13 | 5265043 Blazed
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2011 Census: 45% of Londoners white British

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-20680565

ROTHERHAM: 1400 CHILDREN GROOMED, DRUGGED AND RAPED BY MULTICULTURALISM

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/08/27/Rotherham-1400-kids...

600,000 Migrants Are Lined Up Along North African Coast and Ready to Enter Europe This Summer Warns Italy http://www.amren.com/news/2014/05/600000-migrants-are-lined-up-along-nor... France is considering declaring Marseilles, its second largest city, a ‘NO-GO’ Zone due, primarily, to rampant Muslim violence.

http://www.barenakedislam.com/2013/08/01/france-is-considering-declaring...

 

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 14:47 | 5265095 Monty Burns
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Bingo.  How ironic for Owen Jones and the Guardian to complain about the media feeding the proles misinformation given that  the Guardian is one of the prime offenders. In fact the examples chosen show the extent of their bias and misrepresentation because that same newspaper goes out of its way to hide and downplay the level of immigration to Britain and the proportion of crimes committed by cultural enrichers such as Muslims and Africans.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 15:33 | 5265166 radiobomb
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yeah Blazed, the Rotheram thing is even worse because that is the number of official complaints/cases, and many kids were threatened not to report abuse or even tell parents [often by the abusers threatening to burn down family home/ attacking parents/etc, if disclosed and the terrified kids not telling anyone].

The local Pakistani community did nothing. They knew. It  was endemic. The police did nothing fearing a multicultural backlash if they even investigated. FFS. No one helped these poor kids.,..all of them were white, that was the point.  

Thousands of ruined lives right there.   And those that are now being arrested [still not many] are getting legal aid.

unreal.  This story has been seriously under-reported in lamestream media.  Wonder why ?

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 16:55 | 5265359 Monty Burns
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It gets worse.  Quite recently one of the victims saw her attacker on the street and berated him.  Police arrested and charged her!

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 18:06 | 5265504 radiobomb
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wow..... trying to get my head round that logic,... but can't.

Mon, 09/29/2014 - 02:18 | 5266171 free_lunch
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So if a gang of blue-eyed criminals raped 1400 kids while the police and government actively protects them, you make all blue-eyed people in the world your enemy and you feel sorry for the police and government?

Because they said they were afraid people would call them names if they stopped this and that's why they arrested the victims instead?

And your IQ is?

 

 

 

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 14:22 | 5265056 MATA HAIRY
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the idiots in america and britain think the media is "Leftist".

 

Not even close. The media is operated and owned by the rich. The media supports policies that help the rich.

 

Supporting mass immigration and multiculturalism depresses wages and increases GDP and corporate profits. That aint Leftist! That is Corporatist.

 

 

The corporations want less welfare state and more mass immigration from the 3rd world. And so that is what the media plays to.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 14:59 | 5265110 Loucleve
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and they have emasculated the male population through gender propaganda, so there isnt much backbone left there.

then they disarmed the populations in europe.  good thing too, or the Rotherham peds would have been dealt with.

and now everybody has their own special interest group, supported by TPTB.  except whites. 

and we have the multicultural meme crammed down our throats all day every day, and the benefits of diversity.  question that, and you are officially racist.  (ever wonder why they have to sell diversity so hard?)

so its divide and conquer.

all managed by the CFR, Trilateral Commission and Chatham House, who took over the CIA and State Depts long ago, fund the Think Tanks, control education - and therefore thinking (or lack thereof) - through foundation grants.

They once said, you will have One World Government whether you like it or not.  We might not have it "officially", but have it we do.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 16:15 | 5265272 MATA HAIRY
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feminism propagandizes females to think and act like men.

 

That way females are more "empowered" to compete against men in the workplace, contrary to their evolutionary role.  This increases the supply of labor and consumers.

 

More $ for the corporations.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 19:51 | 5265706 falconflight
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An emasculated male is a passive male who doesn't foment revolution.  I don't know about more money for business.  Who cares

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 20:08 | 5265739 logicalman
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So, let's do away with a gender - see how well that works out.

Roles are diffeent, but both are essential and should be equally valued in any sane society.

(That wouldn't be this one, by the way)

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 20:24 | 5265777 falconflight
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I think you might have misinterpreted my "who cares."  That was posted re corporate profits.  A central tenet of the new Amerika is to emasculate and ridicule men; a great crime against humanity.  

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 20:03 | 5265730 logicalman
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Women were encouraged to go to work to increase the take.

Kids suffered, but what the hell, rich fucks made a fortune.

 

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 19:48 | 5265701 falconflight
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Supporting mass immigration and multiculturalism is a decidedly socialist/communist paradigm.  National sovereignty and borders is fascist according to the Left pursuant to the Left's definition of Fascism [Free enterprise] (Cause we know that Fascism was uber Socialist as well, just not the People's ownership of all property).

Anyone who believes that large corporations are capitalistic and so called right wing hasn't even made it through a college 101 course of comparative political systems.  just sayin

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 14:22 | 5265058 Cthonic
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off topic:  Ebola smoothed new case rate (GN,LR,SL):

 

26 Sep 14 - 140/day

24 Sep 14 - 135/day

22 Sep 14 - 124/day

20 Sep 14 - 118/day

18 Sep 14 - 113/day

16 Sep 14 - 101/day

12 Sep 14 - 92/day

08 Sep 14 - 86/day

04 Sep 14 - 75/day

28 Aug 14 - 69/day

22 Aug 14 - 59/day

20 Aug 14 - 54/day

19 Aug 14 - 46/day

15 Aug 14 - 54/day

13 Aug 14 - 40/day

11 Aug 14 - 37/day

08 Aug 14 - 54/day

06 Aug 14 - 55/day

04 Aug 14 - 57/day

02 Aug 14 - 43/day

29 Jul 14 - 38/day

27 Jul 14 - 23/day

23 Jul 14 - 12/day

17 Jul 14 - 10/day

Case Fatality Risk Estimate: 48%

Active Case Growth Rate: 4.3% per day

Health worker deaths/cases: 208/373 as of 21 Sep

Estimated from WHO and MoH releases:

 

http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/135029/1/roadmapupdate26sept14_...

http://health.gov.sl/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Ebola-Situation-Report_V...

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 16:02 | 5265246 Victor999
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Coming to a port near you!

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 14:25 | 5265064 besnook
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who cares? what are you going to do about it? revolutions are initiated by the energy of the younger prt of a population. the western youth are too spoiled and stupid to want to really fight the system now. it took the soviet states(including russia) 50 years to break away from the ussr and all the people knew they were an occupied country. there are too many way too ignorant people in the usa for a national epiphany any time soon.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 14:29 | 5265068 Radical Marijuana
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There is no doubt that this article is correct. However, like most of these kinds of problems, that elections are puppet shows put on by the mass media for muppets who have been brainwashed to believe in bullshit, THERE ARE NO PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS, since it is easy to fool enough of the people enough of the time, while nobody else can compete with the established systems to actually change that.

The ways that the mass media have developed is one of the facets of the basic problem which is THE FUNDING OF THE POLITICAL PROCESS. Like every other aspect of that process, it has become so totally unbalanced over time that there are no feasible ways to bring it back into better balance, other that some series of prodigious political miracles, or eventual collapse into crazy chaos.

Every problem that human beings face is compounded by the ways that civilization is controlled by LIES, and the mass media are the biggest example of professional LIARS. Every issue is grossly distorted, and the significance of various issues tends to have been totally inverted. However, the few that realize that can not effectively do anything inside the context where the established systems only need to fool enough of the people enough of the time, which is relatively easy for the mass media to continue to do.

After those who can make the public "money" supply out of nothing as debts for everyone else were able to corrupt the political processes enough so that the government enforced that fraud, everything automatically got worse, faster. Every social institution is controlled by its funding, with the mass media being one of the most significant in terms of its political effect. However, it is the same pattern everywhere one looks.

We live in a civilization based on integrated systems of legalized lies, backed by legalized violence, while the mass media are one of the main social institutions to making sure that will automatically get worse, faster, for the foreseeable future. All of the problems that human beings have are becoming more extreme, while there are no practical political solutions, because nobody else can possibly compete with those who already have the legal right to counterfeit the public "money" supply, and have used the profits from that fraud to invest in other frauds, throughout every social institution, such as through the mass media in particular.

This article above presented the distorted view of basic social facts that the mass media have been able to instill in most people. However, the same thing applies, only much worse, to the distortions regarding basic environmental facts. The two primary things that the established social pyramid systems are driving are runaway irreconcilable social polarization, and irreparable environmental destruction. The mass media assist in driving both of those trends, and making sure that nothing can be done to ameliorate either of them.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 15:08 | 5265130 radiobomb
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exactly RM. Fiction-as-fact..... to influence outcomes and socio-political directions. Psycology used within the influencial media 'services' isnt random. And the pattern is clear to independant thinkers, but hidden to the masses ......  Hidden yet further from the obvious is the ownership of media groups by handfulls of multinational corps, who will never have a sub-section of their corp attack other business activity under the same umbrella.

A few charts occasionally surface showing global ownership of biggest brands and their parent structures and affiliations.  There really are just a few globally dominant players.

I think it was Benjamin Franklin who said ' Politics is the shadow cast over society by big business'.... still so true today.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 19:30 | 5265660 Radical Marijuana
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Yes, radiobomb, the basic "legal fictions" are that corporations are "persons" that have ended up having more rights and freedoms than flesh and blood human beings, and that the biggest banks, as the supreme corporations, can make the public "money" supply out of nothing as debts, which frauds governments enforce.

Combined, those legal fictions have created a situation where the political economy is overwhelmingly oriented more to sustain those legal fictions, than care about human beings, as demonstrated by derivatives heading towards being measured in quadrillions, since the legal fictions are adding up to being fraudulence on a scale that would take more than 10 planet Earths to make real!

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-09-25/5-us-banks-each-have-more-40-trillion-dollars-exposure-derivatives

5 U.S. Banks Each Have More Than 40 Trillion Dollars In Exposure To Derivatives

"We are steamrolling toward the greatest financial disaster in world history, and nobody is doing much of anything to stop it. Things could have turned out very differently, but now we will reap the consequences for the very foolish decisions that we have made."

ORGANIZED CRIME MAKING AND MAINTAINING GOVERNMENTS SHOULD BE UNDERSTOOD QUITE DIFFERENTLY THAN THINKING OF THAT AS "FOOLISH!"

The mass media are dominated and directed by the best organized gang of criminals, that were able to capture control over the powers of governments, in order to effectively privatize those powers to use rob the vast majority of people. The so-called "legal fictions" which are now totally dominating the political economy systems are actually the triumph of systems of legalized lies, backed by legalized violence. That is not merely the result of "very foolish decisions," that is the result of runaway criminally insane directions, supported by the political processes in which the mass media dominate, in proportional degrees to how much social control the ruling classes have over countries. In my opinion, the English mass media in Canada are even worse than those in the UK and USA, which reflects the degree to which the mainstream morons in Canada are even more brainwashed to believe in the biggest bullies' bullshit, without the slightest doubt.

One of the ironic ways that the mass media work is that in some fictional shows, the ONLY time that some relative truth is presented is when some character who is otherwise appearing to be insane is allowed to rant a while, in which context that rant presents more relatively truth about the social facts than ever otherwise seen in the standard mass media shows.

It is an interesting question to what degree some individuals working inside the mass media are consciously aware of the bullshit agenda that they are promoting. I think that that level of individual consciousness is higher than it otherwise appears from the outside, since all of those individuals are faced with the dilemma that they would not be employed if they did not agree to promote the professional lying that the mass media specializes in. One of the most difficult things is to estimate how much genuine awareness there may be in people, when the mass media presents such a deliberately distorted Bizarro Mirror of social realities. Personally, I like to day dream that there is building a level of hidden awareness, that is not obvious, and can not be demonstrated to exist, beneath the surface of the people employed to promote the biggest bullies' bullshit, but who themselves do not believe that. From a sublimely silly perspective, the mass media theoretically could do even more good, rather than harm, if there were somehow enough prodigious political miracles that the mass media were informing people about radical truths, rather than huge lies.

The basic BIG LIES are that there is nothing wrong with private banks being treated like they are human beings with rights and freedoms to make the public "money" supply out of nothing as debts. Those are ENORMOUS LEGAL FICTIONS, which are obvious absurdities, but yet which totally dominate our current civilization.

The phrase "legal fiction" is a widespread euphemism used to justify the enforced frauds that dominate society, and drive it to behave in ways that are increasingly insane, because they are more and more psychotic, in the sense of out of touch with the real world. However, it is currently impossible to tell to what degree individuals are actually aware of that ??? Therefore, it is very difficult to judge to what degree society as whole will eventually have to go through psychotic breakdowns, and how difficult it will be to recover from that final failure from too much success at controlling civilization with huge lies.

Wed, 10/01/2014 - 09:00 | 5274478 Mediocritas
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The basic BIG LIES are that there is nothing wrong with private banks being treated like they are human beings with rights and freedoms to make the public "money" supply out of nothing as debts.

<-- I like how succinct that is RM.

The constraints, that accompanied the initial granting of these powers, would soon be discarded as power beget power. The banksters would find ways to securitize EVERY payment stream and extend debt leveraged off ANY asset (including payment streams themselves, tranched and mixed, leading to recursion). This insanity would consume all debt-default buffers, leading to total collapse at the first minor default with its subsequent plural claims on singular collateral.

Meanwhile the Red Queen kept accelerating on the spot because all the banksters' credit creation tricks came with interest attached, yet with no money created to represent future interest payable. Exponential growth of new debt and/or exponential growth of monetary velocity had to occur to maintain normality and a societal effort to pay down debt would trigger deflationary collapse.

The peons came to realize that the exponential debt insanity did not occur in a virtual, infinite world. They discovered, painfully, that exponential money required exponential resource extraction passaging through exponential consumption to exponential pollution, yet the world was finite. As their standards of living fell they turned upon one another in misdirected fits of rage, shitting in their own nests in the process. Eventually, even the banksters would drown in the shit, but it would all be far too late.

I often wonder whether this is a default development path for sentient lifeforms in general. I suspect it is and that most civilisations fail to advance beyond it. Little more than r/K selection theory in action.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 14:43 | 5265089 tony wilson
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no mention of the mi5 and the mossad running the padophile rings and the blackmail.

no mention of the helmand heroin

no mention of the murdoch pimp.

yelegraph,bbc and guardian what a fucking tavistock sick joke

what ho

time for a pims

a cucumber sandwich and a masonic rothschild child sacrifice party

tally ho

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 14:47 | 5265098 Loucleve
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"If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it."

"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the public is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country." -- Edward Bernays

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 15:41 | 5265188 BouncyTheWonderbunni
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Yes I would like extra bernaise slathered on my shit sandwich, thanks that really makes it taste better :)

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 14:49 | 5265096 alexcojones
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Lost ALL respect for BBC when Skank Jane

Standley standing in front of the WTC-7 telling viewers building already fell.

WTC7.net the hidden story of Building 7: BBC's Premature

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 15:08 | 5265131 logicalman
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Lost all respect for BBC at Orgreave Colliery during the miners' strike.

Funnily enough in 1984

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 14:49 | 5265099 Lea
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Typical Guardian piece. It explains to you how the right-wing media lies to people, but not how the left-wing media does exactly the same on other issues.

 

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 15:58 | 5265239 Victor999
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The Guardian is usually quite good on domestic issues.  It is the internatinal scene that it completely misses the mark and spreads lies consistently.

 

Having said that, however, there are left issues where the Guardian will obviously slant to that side.  All news sources do that.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 19:38 | 5265681 falconflight
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What 'major' UK media outlet is "right-wing?"  In fact what 'major' US media outlet is "right-wing?"  Don't say Fox News Channel.  That would be akin to Stalin calling out Trotsky after he demurred to lock step support the Georgian Butcher.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 14:50 | 5265102 css1971
Sun, 09/28/2014 - 15:03 | 5265120 False Capital
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Owen Jones, Guardian columnist. Says it all there really. No need to read on.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 15:07 | 5265129 disabledvet
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If Scotland had voted for independence there would have actually been a second media outlet for Britons...probably a far better one than the BBC.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 15:32 | 5265164 Whelk
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What a load of bollocks this article is! We Brits are being replaced in our own country. Eventually there will be major civil unrest between the different groups in this country.

 

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 15:55 | 5265233 Victor999
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No, we Brits are being played by the powers that be.  They love setting us against each other whilst they reap the profits - and we never do anything about it.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 15:43 | 5265193 Clesthenes
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“and it is time they were challenged.”

I have to disagree: ‘it is past time, some 200 years past time in the case of America; probably 400 years past time in the case of England.

But, don’t worry; nothing will happen.  They know that the current breed of Americans (and Englishmen) will do absolutely nothing to oppose them; I mean nothing sensible, nothing effective.

Oh, sure, a few Americans will sit on their haunches and howl; and they might as well bray at the wind for all they accomplish.

The only action available to us is to save ourselves; for, no one else cares.  And the only way this can be done is for few Americans (1%-2%) to utilize the power of redress.   You see, Americans have the power to stop it, and make accountable all who perpetrated this, or any other, evil; and they (Americans) refuse to use that power.  There are three main reasons for this failure: one is that they have no knowledge of such power; the second, they’ve been herded into a kind of impotent stupor by medication and indoctrination; the third, that they aid, benefit or were complicit in such evil (full article).

In addition, there is hardly an American who knows ideals won by the Revolution.

For example, Founders repeatedly declared the co-called right of consent: that no man was obligated to obey any law or pay any tax unless he gave his personal consent to such.  Did they really mean that? Of course they did.  They had been living by those rules from the first English settlement to the Revolution.  That is, according to the origin of English/American law, “laws” and “taxes” originated in contracts between various assemblies and those who petitioned for redress of grievances.  Terms of such contracts were sometimes referred to as “laws” and money payments as “taxes”.  And, no one but petitioners were obligated to obey or pay such “laws” or “taxes”; that is, all non-petitioners were exempt from such.  Further, when redress was completed, such “laws” and ‘taxes” were extinguished.

When you realize the significance of this right of consent, you will discovery that there is hardly a constitutional tax on the books.

Today we no long live according to American law: for, petitioners make themselves exempt from laws and taxes necessitated by their redress while all non-petitioners are saddled with such burdens.  For example, when munitions makers, big banks, and Main Stream Media wish for another war, they petition Congress, Congress grants authority for the war, petitioners receive the booty of war and non-petitioners are stiffed with the expenses (thru payment of taxes).  This inversion of American law is generally known as Persian law, law of the conqueror, law of the high seas, mouth law, martial law, ecclesiastical law… it goes by many names.

And it will continue unopposed until a few Americans….

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 15:44 | 5265197 TheMadNumismatist
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Another example of “The establishment” would be a young Marxist author graduated from Oxbridge on the payroll of the Guardian writing about the establishment for his union paymasters.

As for Russell Brand as a reference source, another millionaire champagne socialist, so called artsist, sucking up tax breaks whilst doing videos and blogs from the mansion of Jemima Khan, nee Goldsmith daughter of the financier Sir James Goldsmith, sister of Tory politician Zac Goldmith, and “environmentalist”/ financier Ben Goldsmith.

Cannot believe ZH would allow such BS.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 15:54 | 5265222 Victor999
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So nothing in the article is true.  I live in the UK and the article rings truth through and through.   Rather than throwing ad hominem insults, give us the real facts if they differ.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 16:18 | 5265277 TheMadNumismatist
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What Owen Jones gets wrong part 1\: http://www.iea.org.uk/blog/what-owen-jones-gets-wrong-part-1-of-2-landlo...

What Owen Jones gets wrong part 2: http://www.iea.org.uk/blog/what-owen-jones-gets-wrong-part-2-of-2-tax-cr...

Owen Jones is a snivelling Marxist that gets on TV because of his patronising account of “d Yuff” he out down in “Chavs”, his first book.

He is a paid stooge of the unions and in the employ of the Guardian; THE ESTABLISHMENT RAG: and graduated from Oxbrdge.
Where, in that is an Ad Hominem?

If you live i the UK, you will know that the BBC is the TV arm of the Guardian, or do you noth rank the BBC as part of the establishment?

“Following a Freedom of Information request, new numbers reveal that Britain's largest news outlet, funded by a mandatory licence fee paid by all UK TV owners, again procured more copies of the Left-wing Guardian newspaper than any of its rivals.” http://www.thecommentator.com/article/3458/exclusive_bbc_bias_exposed_as...

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 19:32 | 5265671 falconflight
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The only way that a marxist/socialist/human secularist can find redemption is at the cattle feed processing plant.  

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 20:18 | 5265763 thamnosma
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Yeah, but I demand truth in labeling as I wouldn't want to eat it.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 20:20 | 5265770 falconflight
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Well there goes redemption for the Socialist Swine of Amerika (SSA).

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 20:20 | 5265766 thamnosma
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I pretty much read the piece as anti-UKIP propaganda.   At least the Guardian and its fellow travelers are getting a bit sweaty under the brow.

Mon, 09/29/2014 - 15:37 | 5267974 trader1
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and the Guardian was the first media outlet to break the snowden nsa spy "scandal"...

what's your point?  how do you propose to make the world a better place?

what's your beef with brand?  he's too much of an idealist?  he looks like jesus?  he's trying to help firemen keep their jobs?  he's telling george osbourne to fuck off?  or he's trying to push forward the evolution beyond the corrupted status quo?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8sgxsS4T0c

 

brand's talking about anarcho-syndicalism, not just socialism.  and what's the problem with people who want to love their neighbors as theirselves?

 

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 15:54 | 5265226 random999
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EEhhhh... in Sweden its the opposit.

The media keeps on telling how we need more people, how we need multiculture, how we can handle a lot more immigrants.

Yet when i go out I sometimes, night or day, I wonder if Im in Iraq or Sweden. Hard to tell.
The only time I know Im in sweden is early mornings when everyone is going to work.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 16:02 | 5265244 JamesH
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owen jones is a scumbag and as bad if not worse than those he exposes

 

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 16:14 | 5265264 Lord Peter Pipsqueak
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Owen Jones?I wonder who he represents writing total shite like this dis-information?

Don't make us laugh, anyone living in any of England's major cities(Birmingham the second largest is now approx 50% ethnic,50% white) knows that "white British" as an ethnic group are rapidly being outbred by the exisitng immigrants and they are coming in at the rate of approx 500,000 a year(the govt always quotes NET immigration so the number at around 300,000 looks lower, all this means is that 200-300,000 white British have given up trying to live in a multicultural ethnicnally diverse helhole where immigrants -especially muslim immigrants are above the law and treated better by the government than their own people,not only that, the anti white pro immigration media is ramming the pro immigration message down everyones throats at every opportunity, recently head of Sky TV says 15% of actors on their programmes and dramas should be ethnic minorities to better reflect their representation in the general public, blacks on TV shows are always shown as positive role models, whites the bad guys.

So Owen Jones thinks these figures are correct then -only 15% of the population ethnics?So how come central London is minority white and Birmingham 50% white?Add in Leeds, Bradford, Leicester and anyone with half a brain can see the figures are a total sham.

As if more proof were needed, the UK govt have decided not to do any more census, I wonder why?Probably because publishing the statistics would prove beyond doubt that the white UK population is only a few decades away from being a minority in their own country.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 19:39 | 5265686 sylviasays
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What is going on in England is just like what is going on in the USA: Bathhouse Barry and the Red and Blue teams in Congress are flooding the country with legal and illegal immigrants from the turd world.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 20:15 | 5265756 thamnosma
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They really aren't flooding us with LEGAL immigrants.  You will have a far more difficult time earning legal status from say, Slovenia, with a Ph.D. in mathematics than you will have snatching a green card by swimming across the Rio Grande in your underwear with no education, no skills and no IQ. 

 

Each country still has a legal quota for yearly immigration.  These number are paltry compared to what our political/financial ruling elite have shoved down our throats.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 20:34 | 5265796 falconflight
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Spot on

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 20:17 | 5265761 thamnosma
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He's an international collectivist.   ZH should be ashamed promoting this bullshit.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 16:35 | 5265319 NoWayJose
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The media does control the UK and has for many decades. The average Englishman still thinks the Allies defeated Germany in WWII and beat the Societ Union in the Cold War. Instead, fascists and Marxists now control the United Kingdom and the Englush (and Scottish) don't even know it!

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 16:49 | 5265342 TheMadNumismatist
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@ NoWayJose: An excellent insight; I realized long ago that the true collectivists in the world are the bankers and financiers and the politicians are just two sides of the same coin under their direction.

It is amazing how far we have slipped into that collectivism, with most thinking we are still a free market.

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 20:11 | 5265749 thamnosma
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International finance has always found a way to work with marxist collectivists.  Statists all.  Modern feudal society with high tech is the goal.  Destroy entrepreneurship through regulations only the large favored entities can be "in compliance" with, move masses of unskilled labor to destroy the middle class, blah, blah...it's certainly obvious to you and me.

Free market, what's a free market?

Sun, 09/28/2014 - 20:33 | 5265793 falconflight
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The Road to Serfdom, FAH.

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