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To: markomalley

A better bet is to break up the corporate oligarchy that controls the vast majority of the media.

Time Warner, Disney, Murdoch’s News Corporation, Bertelsmann of Germany and Viacom. That’s it. And just 15 billionaires own it all.

This is why news about our elections were so corrupted, that and the fact that almost all the major pollsters are “Friends of Bill and Hillary Clinton”.

So how do you break up the “big five”?

People thought it was impossible to break up the giant oil trust Standard Oil. Its controversial history as one of the world’s first and largest multinational corporations ended in 1911, when the United States Supreme Court ruled that it was an illegal monopoly.

It was based on The Sherman Antitrust Act (1890). It prohibits certain business activities that federal government regulators deem to be anti-competitive, and requires the federal government to investigate and pursue corporations that engage in them.

However, things change, so Sherman is seldom invoked, but the problems it was designed to address have evolved beyond it, avoiding those conditions that force the government to act.

So a new, anti-oligopoly act is needed. And while the MSM would be its primary targets, there are other industries that would also profit from having *their* oligopolies broken up.


58 posted on 11/24/2016 5:04:50 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Friday, January 20, 2017. Reparations end.)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

>>A better bet is to break up the corporate oligarchy that controls the vast majority of the media.<<

This may just happen. Every industry all across America has been bought up until there is just a few owners controlling it. The corporate oligarchy was put into place to have fewer heads at the table when the NWO is installed.

http://www.corporations.org/media/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/27/consumer-brands-owned-ten-companies-graphic_n_1458812.html

http://www.certifiedorganic.bc.ca/rcbtoa/services/corporate-ownership.html

https://msu.edu/~howardp/seedindustry.html

https://www.cornucopia.org/2004/09/organic-corporate-controlcorporate-ownership-tracking-the-shifting-sands-of-the-organic-industry/


207 posted on 11/25/2016 4:19:41 PM PST by B4Ranch (Conservatives own 200,000,000 guns and a trillion rounds of ammo. If we were violent you'd know it.)
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