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Post by 3bid on Aug 14, 2014 16:48:14 GMT -5
Published on Aug 14, 2014
Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss the Portrait of Uncle Sam aging horribly in the basement of Fort Knox and on the real economic data charts while flouncing around the world as if a spritely and handsome young thing. In the second half, Max interviews Nick Lambert and David Irvine of MaidSafe about reinventing the internet with proof of resource and decentralization.
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141fe
Dr. Of Diamonds
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Post by 141fe on Aug 14, 2014 20:07:24 GMT -5
Not bad for a Russian propaganda TV station.
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Post by 3bid on Aug 15, 2014 16:53:09 GMT -5
Not bad for a Russian propaganda TV station. 141fe
Russia Today's exposure is global. The entire western hemisphere is covered by their satellite signal, beamed free to air. This is primary and in addition to what is offered by cable, internet, or pay satellite services. Many people are unaware that we can easily access information, audio and video, from all over the globe, without an ISP, legally and at no charge. Which means, anyone with a relatively small dish and cheap FTA receiver can acquire the standard format signal to view unencrypted feeds for free. Within the U.S., the extent of our free to air TV is limited to a local basis, not global and by satellite. So with our present non-global standard system of terrestrial digital TV, we won't accidentally receive the hundreds of free broadcasts from foreign countries outside our closed 'network'. A homeland information grid populated mostly by mainstream news sources owned and controlled by just a few powerful corporations with glaring conflicts of interest. In that regard, the U.S. is exceptional by itself, employing proprietary technology that best suits the interests of anyone but the public. Thus, impossible to share and communicate with other countries, or they with us, in like manner. Of course we assume we will always have access to a free internet. Complete with unknown eyes and ears, and an ever more complicated and hacked, vulnerable infrastructure which includes a kill switch for those with executive privilege.
I prefer to watch live news feeds, as uplinked on location. Some with natural sound; no talking heads leading the thought process by providing interpretation biased with subtle propaganda. One has to be wary. We know all too well what happened in the build-up to the illegal and disastrous war with Iraq. A good memory and critical thinking are essential. You make a good point about news being source infused with propaganda. But, likewise, you could be inserting a diversion to affect the thought process of those most vulnerable -- the masses. Masses that should be consuming and tasting alternative sources for news and information, to learn for themselves, the reality of the world. I never take main or alternate streamed news for granted; but instead, remote and as-is, possibly tainted in the process for consumption. As it is, currently, the U.S. is creatively painting Russia with a wide brush of negativity. War hawks and war mongering always eager to manufacture fuel to run the military industrial complex. Our foreign policies suck, IMO. Not much more to say on that, without entering into a battle of politics or religion. Obviously, going that direction is running off the plank and abandoning the ship and subject of this thread.
My intellect suffers to digest the over-salted main course of mainstream corporate controlled news in this once free country of ours. We are what we eat. I'm not threatened by a variety of foreign cuisine prepared outside the MSM fast-food chain. I never trust the labeling and I resist the temptation of flavor enhanced ingredients. The selling of sweet cookies, propaganda recipe-scripted to U.S. foreign policy. Money and power are the props behind a screen of projected images affecting the sentiment of the viewing public, groking for understanding. Yes, that is slime oozing from your TV set.
By fate of birth we are forced to be preoccupied with planet earth, our only home and amusement park. I shudder to think about an expanding planetary territorial situation. Worlds with boundaries, pimpling a galaxy of bases structured for interactive manipulations of resource control; propaganda reaching out to the stars. Talking heads attaining the status of astro-propagandists. There must be some fiction in books shelved in the darker isles of a library, somewhere. Stories that predict our future of expanding nightmares.
Don't take me too seriously. I'm just a moderator.
-3bid
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