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.

Are things changing?

I recently returned from abroad. I arrived at Luton airport to the sight of the Daily Telegraph proclaiming “A Very British Revolution”. The news that the corrupt MPs caught thieving from the British tax payers purse are to be reprimanded is warming; hearing the usually thuggish, arrogant tomes of the piously ignorant Gordon Brown eat humble pie across the radio networks was sweet music. However, I am not convinced.

The international mainstream media are currently engaged in a viscious battle with independent and free internet-based media. The potential spoils are no less than our very own minds, the possession – even – of our souls. Many of them have lately been running “conspiracy type” stories to try and catch a slice of the internet pie. Only hits can justify the rates for their advertisers, one of their last standing sources of revenue. Rupert Murdoch, head of News Corporation, recently illustrated this as he vowed the end of the “free internet”: the mainstream media is a dinosaur mired in the mud. It’s death is going to be slow; it’s agonizing shudders of pain, like a severe bout of every flu pandemic it has ever manufactured, will be felt throughout the old order. Who knows what knee-jerk reactions, what slavering, rabid lunges from the leash this demise may create; but die it must and, eventually, will.

American television-based media are deploying smoke screens and decoys left right and centre to bleed and smother topics, evidently of utmost contemporary concern, the alternative media have made their well-rounded and widely – even if often secretly – respected reputation on.

Recently, British MPs were embroiled in attempts to raise their salaries, tax those (to the tune of 50%) that earn more than themselves, and ban public intrusion into the details of their expenses. Now they seem to be clammering over one another to humbly ‘accept’, deny, or deflect responsibility for the atrociously arrogant and childish nest-feathering at the expense of the comparatively honest and underpaid British worker.

Meanwhile, however, the bankers seem to go unpunished: their multi-million pound pensions unretrieved, their sickening bonuses paid.

In the US the overly celebrated and ignorantly defended Barack Obama perpetuates pro-corporate Bush policies under the banner of ‘socialism’; while in the UK the Tory leader David Cameron proposes a Tory leadership to heal the drastic wounds British democracy has sustained since 9/11/2001, when we all know he works for exactly the same people Gordon Brown does.

Things appear to be changing. But what is really happening? Is it really that the powers-at-arms sense the real changes happening around them? While there may have been no riots, no protests, no burning cars or rubber bullets – no “summer of rage” as yet – they know power is slipping out of their hands, fast: they just have to look at any poll undertaken by any think-tank or media-outlet unwilling to fiddle the figures.

There is a massive crisis of faith in government and private sector leadership. What am I saying, though? There always has been. But now there is a massive and ever-expanding awareness of the ultra-capitalist elite that truly govern our affairs. Now, it appears, there is a gargantuan effort of the instiutions of the old machine to feign change, to play the part of revolution. The very largest, most deeply set cogs in this prehistoric, reptilian machine are beginning to turn again. The earth is shaking; the gigantic snake is shedding its skin. But it remains to be seen whether we will all simply recognise the same cold creature adorned in its new comely colours.

When we are told about economic crisis, nobody says that this crisis didn’t come about suddenly. The crisis had always been there but it got worse each time that popular masses become more and more conscious of their rights against exploiters.

- Thomas Sankara Addis Adebba, July 1987.

The old paradigm is compromising out of necessicity. In an effort to retain control and keep real change at bay it is shirking and shrugging off middle-management layers. It is, begrudingly, having to appease it’s true, but weary and sadly deluded, master: the public.

One thing I will say, it is encouraging to see this wobble in the matrix. It is a balking within the forward ranks of the enemy. We can only keep up the pressure. We must urge what little integrity we have left among our journalistic elite to thrive now on the information available to them, as it has been to us for so long.

Most of all we must not fall for this feinting tactic. We must purge the system of this sickness and regain control for the sake of our children and the spiritual survival of man.

Let the battle for truth and freedom and the prosperity for all human kind commence.

- Ed

“Ron Paul and Internet Politics: At the intersection of the Internet and politics, presidential candidate Ron Paul’s supporters are rewriting the rules of political campaigns. NOW explores how the Texas congressman and his supporters are using the Internet to attract voters—and massive campaign contributions—from across the political spectrum. Supporters include anti-war progressives, anti-tax libertarians, civil libertarians, and even some white supremacists. The common theme is anger over where the country is heading.”

The old media is dead, bought and paid for by the established elite. This is the beginning of something new and it is impossible to stop. The only question is, how long will it take? Or perhaps, how long do you want it to take?

“Interview with Naomi Wolf author of “Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries” given October 4, 2008 on Mind Over Matters, KEXP 90.3 FM Seattle.”

Very important viewing. But now Barrack Obama’s won the election everything’s going to be alright, isn’t it? Sorry, what? He’s not retracting any of the laws or civil liberty abuses put into place by Bush? And he voted for the Patriot Act, I and II? Er..

1994. And look what’s happened… Militia or prophets with guns? Phil Donahue certainly “does his job” here using the usual “debate show” tactics of over familiar and aggressive implication: a unidirectional discourse less cultivated than the worst tabloid newspaper article.

Er. WOW.