Anyway...

Anyway, I have come to agree with Mike Ruppert, who said, what would you rather focus on, the elephant that has already run you over, or the pack of elephants that is about to run you over(paraphrasing).

Corporate media entities are too beholden to the moneyed interests that own them to have your interests at heart.

Reporters do not ask the tough questions anymore, because they fear the loss of access to such places as the press room at the White House.

Editors pick and choose which stories to air based on the lowest common denominator, the "common" man, and the goal of delivering the maximum number of eyeballs to the advertisers. Wouldn't want to offend anyone by asking uncomfortable questions, or showing the uncomfortable realities, such as they did during the Vietnam war.

During the Vietnam "conflict" , the advertisers begged, please don't show any more dead bodies, cause it doesn't help us to sell cars. During the current engagement in Iraq, it was not allowed even to show the caskets of our dead soldiers arriving back in the United States for many years(I believe that the ban was recently lifted). But it shows you how far from reality we have come.

The very language has been used to alter reality, and it goes under the guise of political correctness. It's better to call a war a "conflict", the dead and wounded are now "casualties". But sanitizing the language does not change the nature of the beast. One mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter, and who makes the definition controls the conversation.

The United States has nearly bankrupted us, morally, financially and politically by fighting wars all over the world, not a single one of which is a war as declared by Congress, which alone has the right to declare war in defense of our people. We would save trillions just by pulling our forces back to legally declared wars and legally defensible "conflicts", but I am afraid that ending all the waste and abuse of resources that enriches so many of the already rich, and is funneled to so many black programs would not please the powers that be. While they feed at the trough, nobody bothers to even question why we let it be so, where all of the money really goes, and why the labors of the poor are so exploited, so little rewarded.

The bank bailout is just another example of this exploitation. The bailout of those who mismanaged their businesses would have been better spent on covering the needs of the great mass of citizens, the ones that create all of the wealth, but do not have health coverage, the ones whose wages have stagnated even as corporate profits have soared, and been victimized by rising commodity prices.

My only consolation here, is that the Corps have shot themselves in the foot, and are now suffering the low profits(ouch) that their own greed has fostered. In their short sightedness, they have raped the middle class upon whom much of their profits are derived, triggering the foreclosures and debt that triggered the failings of banks, businesses and much of the world economy.

I'm rambling, but, I say, you can't have it both ways. There must be equity within the markets, the sharing of profits which raises incentive to the many to produce more, to create more, to synthesize more, and some attempt to rationally to balance resources with consumption. Reward folks their due, enough to create even more wealth, but not at the expense of our health and our planet. When we grow, you grow. Balance now.

DON'T TAKE US FOR MULES, FOOLS