Losing the fear is an act of defiance!

No one has noticed, we are terrified of each other. Try asking a shop or cafe to look after a bag for you. This is not a human’s natural condition. We are all distrusting one another! Is it by design? Is this part of the brief for mainstream media? There is a lot of mileage to be made, when everyone is afraid of each other, or of a stranger. And in comes the internet again. We can converse with some distance. Is it the same in all countries? Os is it worse in the AngloSaxon countries. It is the war on terror that is heightening the fear. Fear plays into the hands of the oligarchy. Losing the fear is an act of defiance!

Independent: Bush can expect protests in the UK

Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/whos-the-last-visitor-brown-needed-at-a-time-like-this-step-forward-george-bush-842073.html

We are not told what goes on behind the scenes. But there are clearly major differences of opinions. Highest ranking officers in the British Afghan forces are resigning.

Headlines saying US unhappy with British proposals for transatlantic airlines taxes are just euphamisms for some genuine differences, probably about the war on terror.

Link found here: http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/166738 where this is more info.

Protest organisers: http://www.stopwar.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=616&Itemid=1

Downloadable leaflet: http://www.stopwar.org.uk/images/stories/bush%20demo%205pm.pdf

If war with Iran, the Internet will probably be cut

If there is a war with Iran, the Internet will probably be cut Of course it will, National Security, prevent terrorists communicating. It could backfire through stopping people being armchair revolutionaries, and forcing them onto the streets. But it will feel like a big loss. Unilateral actions we have already seen when about 6 cables were cut. When a major demonstration is organised in London, on that day there are severe disruptions to the tube (the underground transport), to prevent people getting there. With similar forethought the authorities wouldn’t want any free communications. Cutting the internet is likely a possibility in any crises, not only war with Iran. I think there is nothing that comes close to replacing it.

Whatreallyhappened: The power of Blogging

This blog has three posts on the power of blogging, showing ten’s of millions of visitors a day (alexa.com) to various alternative blogs. But a professional like Michael Riviero says it all better. I AM BLOGGER, HEAR ME ROAR! The mainstream media has finally acknowledged what has been obvious for quite some time; that the internet web logs, or “blogs”, are here to stay. Far from being a passing fad, blogs like the present one existed before the word “blog” was coined to describe them. After nearly 14 years, and a readership that exceeds that of most city newspapers, the suggestion that blogs like this one are a passing fancy is at best wishful thinking. http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/blogger.html

ABC Australia “Unanswered 9/11 questions” 16 May 08

The politics of corporations

Do Microsoft and Yahoo have different politics? Might they support different candidates in the elections? Or take a different stance on foriegn policy? Have different vested/lobbying interests ? Probably yes.
Just as we would expect from a newspaper, except in a newspaper we can often read an editorial and know what the papers politics are.
Certainly neither Yahoo, Microsoft, Apple or Sun have ever taken a public stance on politics. Although Intel having been involved in the ‘laptop for every child’ was political, anyway Intel withdrew.
They are all global players, Globalisation is political, it is institutionalised capitalism. Our IP addresses are statistically accumalated. And while consumer preferences are often discussed, also our political leanings are accumalated.
That won’t stop us going to this or that web site. But if we knew the corporations politics we might consider where we lodge our accounts.
AOL, Google, Yahoo, Wikipedia have all been in the headlines for politically censoring activities.
Looking at one (dated) web page www.mediachannel.org/ it quickly becomes apparent that there is an overlap between media, cable ownership and search engines.

Web Alt News overtaking print

The graph below shows 17 million web page views per day on four very alternative news sites.

There are more than that amount of page views again by adding the lesser known sites together.

The four major sites on the graph are:

www.whatreallyhappened.com

www.rense.com

www.thepeoplesvoice.org

www.prisonplanet.com

Alexa is owned by Amazon

Newspaper circulation has been declining for years!

Haaretz gags its commenters

The Comments on Israels most prominent Left Newspaper, don’t allow for one commenter to be seen with another. Instead each comment has to be opened in a separate window.

So there is no real thread or conversation to follow, Just a disparate noise.

If Bush or Brown do this or that.

If Obama or Mcain do this or that.

I can’t imagine that any individual could rise to the top and exersize any personal choices, not now and not in recent decades. Just consider the powerful lobbies surrounding them, let alone what it has taken for them to get where they are.
Putin seems to have proved himself, and probably has had the power to exersize his personal political judgement.
A better terminology for those leading our democracies might be the Defence Industry, The Financial Institutions and also Religions, oh and I forgot the Oil Industry.
DIFIROI for short.
Now it becomes easier to understand the inertia, and inability to change track. But for sure the candidates do have advisors, I only know Brezinski with Obama and Kissinger with Mcain.
It just seems to add to the delusion and deception that there is a leader, when there are the same vested interests behind whoever happens to be on top.
Yes Obama is more likely to withdraw from Iraq than Mcain. Obama therefore represents an ideology, an attitude.
What exctly was Bush and Cheney’s attitude? It would be obscene to explore.
Well I saw a headline that Brown won’t attend the opening of the Olympics. I don’t imagine him attending or not attending has anything to do with what he thinks, assuming he can see the wood for the trees.
Maybe I should have included agricultue in the power of lobbies. Look at all the kebbable when beef exports are curtailed…