Posted on 11/19/2016 3:36:11 AM PST by Louis Foxwell
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Obviously this isn’t the same Greenfield that hides on Whidbey island.
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Same with Asia, the Mongols are not the Chinese or Japanese but their ideals are very much along the same lines.
"East is East and West is West" to quote Mr Kipling.
India, South America and Africa has always been usually just regarded as resource depositories.
Now I am speaking of near history, you go back further and things get much more messy.
Oh, I go back to the Scorpion King of Egypt and Evil-Merodach of Assyria.
However, I think the blocks shift on the margins, depending on where you draw your temporal lines. Tom the Son could make a case for a variety of realignments in the last 500 years; it’s the kind of thing he does for fun.
If you think life is a muddle now, wait until Tom the Son is running things.
But he will have to contend with Number Two Niece for world domination. And she never forgets the importance of Australia.
I have not noticed Tom’s paying attention to Australia. That could be a major error. Is your niece well over six feet tall? If not, she may be at a disadvantage when it comes to killing large marsupials with her bare hands.
I hope to be too old to care before it blows up, too.
Oh, ouch. My mom had five foot surgeries. Tom is 6’3-1/2”.
When the Global Economic Collapse hits, we’ll be glad we have our own homegrown grizzly bear.
He can get things off of top shelves in the mean time.
Indicates that the Associated Press was an aggressive monopolist practically from its inception.
- News Over the Wires:
- The Telegraph and the Flow of Public Information in America, 1844-1897
by Menahem BlondheimThe AP was held by SCOTUS to be in violation of Sherman back in 1945.
The antitrust implication of the wire services is not (at least, not limited to) the monopolization within the market for wire services. My objection applies to any and all wire services but with particular force to the AP. We speak of “the MSM” and we complain that if you have seen one newspaper, you’ve seen them all. The reason that is so is predicted by Adam Smith in 1776:
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary. - Adam Smith, Wealth of NationsSince the AP has been going on without interruption for well over a century and a half, “ends” is not an issue. The conversation is continual, and permanent. The result of it is that all major journalism outlets have the same inputs, and see each other’s outputs - and have the same motives. All journalism is either negative - or advertisement. Journalist would not argue that journalism is negative - and yet journalists claim to be objective. But what kind of person thinks that negativity is objective?? A cynic, is who. And cynicism against society, combined with naivete towards government, is the exact nature of “liberalism.”SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.For “some writers” read “liberals,” and for “little or no” read, “absolutely no” and you have the modern “liberal” - and the modern journalist. Society is a blessing but government is a (necessary) evil. To elide the difference is to be negative towards society - and naive about government.Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one: for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries BY A GOVERNMENT, which we might expect in a country WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise. For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest; and this he is induced to do by the same prudence which in every other case advises him, out of two evils to choose the least. Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others. - Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)
The real “tell” of propaganda is that the propagandist claims (or induces you to take for granted) its own objectivity. Journalism does that, in spades. What is the alternative? It is to be open about your perspective, whether “conservative” or “liberal.” But if you are open about being conservative, the journalist will criticize you for not being objective - thereby claiming objectivity for himself. This is sophistry. The only way to even try to be objective is to be realistic about why you might not be objective. Claim actually to be objective, and you only prove that you are not even trying to be objective.
abstruse = difficult to understand, recondite
obtuse = unable to understand something that is simple
Thanks for the further info on AP, but I still see no basis for the statutory requirements of antitrust, such as predatory pricing, price fixing or unfair competition through vertical/horizontal integration.
Antitrust has no provisions against sharing information, or even colluding as to news stories. It is all about pricing and marketplace (i.e., pricing and competition).
Transcript of Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890) is a one-pager. Which kind of puts violations of it in the “I can’t define pornography but I know it when I see it” category.At a minimum, the Federal Government must avoid putting its imprimatur on wire service journalism. That means you, FCC . . .
“The left won’t win. But it can destroy America. And many of its ideologues hate the country enough that they would consider that a victory. If nothing else, America provided a model that served as a counterweight to the ideal leftist society. Wrecking that model is already an ideological win for the left. The right didn’t have to fix Communist societies. That was a bonus. It just had to wreck them. The left doesn’t have to fix America. It just has to wreck it so that it’s seen as unworkable.”
And that about sums it up.
Of course we are being lied to!
LIEberals LIE!
The Prisoners in the Gulags cried when Stalin died.
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