"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." - George Orwell SUCH AS... If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged." - Noam Chomsky OR... "It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people" - Gore Vidal / Let alone the fact that most of the voting will be done on Diebold & friends machines, exposing American democracy as the sinister & cynical farce it has become under the proto-fascism Bush/Cheney junta.

"McCain will make Cheney look like Gandhi" - Pat Buchanan

While the civilian economy is shrinking, the military sector is expanding. The Republicans, are pledged to an even bigger U.S. military. It's good for business, if your part of the growing group of Americans whose livelihoods, and claim to some sort of social status, depend on the continuation of our foreign policy of perpetual war and civilian abuse.

GOP KILLING FLOOR examines how Nixon's ghost & ghoulies are still haunting american politics.

The privatization of the army undermines the "real one". It parallels the process by which the US middle class now competes with brutalized children in third world factories. We've now experienced the corporatization of the voting system with Diebold & friends, of the intelligence ( CIA, NSA & FBI ) with Choice Point ! And now a private army hell bound for the rapture is on deck... "What God wants, God gets, God help us all ! " - Roger Waters

"A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reforms. It does not haggle over expenditures for armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain" - Anatole France

A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection — not an invitation for hypnosis." - Umberto Eco

The writers strike is crucial. Its resolution will determine how creative minds will be paid in the future. Intellectual property and publishing rights are sacred in civilized nations. When money is generated, content creators should be compensated.

So Big Media & The Man are perverting democracy beyond recognition... Business as usual ! But to have "The Daily Show" & "The Colbert Report" permanently on re-runs...That does it !

"I'm mad as hell & I'm not going to take it anymore !"

As far as writers go, Gonzo certainly had a way with words ;)

 "The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason. There's also a negative side. " - Hunter S. Thompson

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa

Is 'Disaster Capitalism' merely a hot short-term investment opportunity for you ? Or is it a national 'crisis,' a warning bell, a 'shocking' call to ... rein in the 'military-industrial complex' mindset that's pushing America into a disastrous, self-destructive future? "He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt.

" He has been given a large brain by mistake, for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable an ignorable war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder." - Albert Einstein

In a culture where insignificance is glorified, a few thoughts about the state of the union from an outspoken critic of the American political establishment should be welcome. "Our only political party has two right wings, one called Republican, the other Democratic. But Henry Adams figured all that out back in the 1890s. 'We have a single system,' he wrote, and 'in that system the only question is the price at which the proletariat is to be bought and sold, the bread and circuses." : Gore Vidal - The Decline and Fall of the American Empire

 " We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity..."

"Politics is the entertainment branch of industry" - Frank Zappa

We have become a monster in the eyes of the whole world - a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. We are human scum, and that is how history will judge us... No redeeming social value. Just whores. Get out of our way, or we'll kill you. - Hunter S. Thompson

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"A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself" - Joseph Pulitzer

"If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves." - Howard Zinn

"The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly...it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over." - Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister

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