Youtube have slapped a ‘verify your age by signing in’ onto this, which will probably drop the viewing of this film considerably. Yet another chess move in a media war of which the “sides” are become ever clearer.
These protests are historic, beginning in Tunisia and whipping around the globe before coming to London. And the mainstream media are ignoring it. Why? Because, for example, the ex-head of MI6 is on the board of directors for the Sunday Times (Private Eye, October week 1 2011 edition). Now what is the relationship between corporations and our secret intelligence services? Look up Mosaddegh, first elected Iranian President 1953, and the role the CIA, MI6 and BBC had in ensuring the nationalised oil fields fell back into British and American corporate hands. Didn’t know that?… What else don’t you know?.. Starting to wonder?Even skeptics have to admit that Solomon’s sword never falls evenly.
About 20,000 Yemenis went out to the streets today in an anti-government protest. Demonstrators held banners reading, “The people want regime change,” and “No to corruption, no to dictatorship”.
“President Saleh, whose country is the poorest in the Arab world, said that he was opposed to hereditary rule, a response to suspicion among critics that he was grooming his eldest son, Ahmed Saleh, who commands an elite unit of the Yemeni army, to succeed him as president.”
Prior to the carve-up of Europe between the allied forces and Communist Russia, Churchill allegedly wanted to give a display of merciless power to improve the NATO’s bargaining position with Stalin: so 400,000 refugees and civilians were murdered in a cultural-apex of northern Europe who’s main industrial supply to the war effort was cigarettes. It is viewed by some as the single most atrocious homicidal event in human history, murdering more human-beings in one campaign (that lasted 3 days between the 12th and 15th of February, 1946) than Hiroshima and Nagasaki put together.
Andrew Neil, recently, has also been touted as a bit of a radical, what with his rants against poor Climate Change science, health and safety procedures, and political correctness. This makes me all the more suspicious.. What are the BBC grooming him (in the public eye) for?
I’m not saying social equality isn’t good, I’m just suspicious of any governmental philanthropy that claims to be aside from ideology. You just have to look at the last Labour government, the crime statistics during it’s regime, and what it did to combat it. Was it really an anti-crime mandate or something else?
Governments are puppets to corporations, those that fund them and give them lucrative careers after office. Politics, in itself, can do nothing to alleviate humakind’s strife and suffering: only technology can do this. Technological innovation, strangled in the grip of a monopolistic market place, can do little where it really matters. And so the snake eats it’s own tail…
And, perhaps one could argue (perhaps a little pedantically), while one can claim to be proponents of social equality by allowing people less-privileged equal-standing among their richer peers, as long as those less-privileged in society still exist at all, it’s not really social equality is it? It’s about maintaining the status-quo by throwing some bread from the table, a caelo usque ad centrum (“for whoever owns the soil, it is theirs up to the sky and down to the depths” – Wikipedia).
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