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Can the Media Overthrow the Kelptocracy?
Freep | 11/6/2016 | CharlesOConnell

Posted on 11/06/2016 7:02:26 AM PST by CharlesOConnell

Kleptocracy: A form of government in which corrupt rulers (kleptocrats) use their power to exploit the people and natural resources of their own territory in order to extend their personal wealth and political power. - Wikipedia.

Until now, the present generation of ultra-rich ruthlessly exploit the media disninformation technicians, the Winston Smiths, to bring billions under the sway of mass delusion.

But is there potential for the media to take advantage of their present idea hegemony, to stage a coup, to overthrow their masters? In past centuries, the was the concern with the Military. (You likely never heard that the ultra-rich almost overthrew the American government in the 1930s, the so-called Wall St. Plot; if they had succeeded, a military strong man would have succeeded FDR.) By the time you heard the braying of the left against a non-existent Military coup in Seven Days in May, it was a safe subject. (Imagine Gen. Curtis LeMay overthrowing the Ultra-Rich, America's 60 Families!)

But there are various strange emanations of the information sector overthrowing the Ultra-Rich. We think of Vladimir Putin as an intelligence strong-man, but his native class (warriors, priest-intellectuals, merchants, peasant-famers) is can be interpretetd as a Russian equivalent of the Fifth Estate.

In the West, William Randolph Hearst wielded his power through newspaper advertising.

In the East, information control of the political process only had short-term success under the Soviets with the dictatorship of Yuri Andropov.

But post-Soviet, the information sector achieved lasting power in the person of Vlad the lover of children, who famously overthrew various Oligarchs. (NY Times: There are no more Russian Oligarchs.)


 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd2Z3nXnLD0

Is there any potential for the media to overthrow the Soros-Buffett-Gates axis in the American Banana Republic?


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Politics
KEYWORDS: 2016issues; clintonfoundation; collusion; cultureofcorruption; draintheswamp; kleptocracy; kleptocrats; liberalmedia; media

1 posted on 11/06/2016 7:02:26 AM PST by CharlesOConnell
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To: CharlesOConnell

We are governed by a corrupt web of seaweed.


2 posted on 11/06/2016 7:05:23 AM PST by jimfree (In November 2016 my 16 y/o granddaughter will have more quality exec experience than Barack Obama)
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To: jimfree

I hear kelp’s good eating. Kind of like poke salad.


3 posted on 11/06/2016 7:13:01 AM PST by onona (Honey this isn't Kindergarten. We are in an all out war for the survival of our Country !)
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To: onona

Unleash the sea urchins !


4 posted on 11/06/2016 7:14:25 AM PST by onona (Honey this isn't Kindergarten. We are in an all out war for the survival of our Country !)
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To: CharlesOConnell

They could but why would they? They participate n it!


5 posted on 11/06/2016 7:17:43 AM PST by Reily
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To: CharlesOConnell

There is no exploitation going on; our traitorous media are willing participants.


6 posted on 11/06/2016 7:22:45 AM PST by JGT
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To: CharlesOConnell

An anti elite, anti Marxist media?? Ain’t gonna happen. The media has been admitted to to elite class and will do anything to remain there.


7 posted on 11/06/2016 7:25:32 AM PST by JimSEA
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To: CharlesOConnell

The media is owned by the progressive cabal that has taken over our country. They are the ones who helped overthrow the constitutional republic.


8 posted on 11/06/2016 7:26:39 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: CharlesOConnell

Meme time:

Kleptocracy Street, Washington DC (where all the lobbyists hang out...)


9 posted on 11/06/2016 7:30:48 AM PST by cgbg (Another World War I veteran for Hillary!)
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To: CharlesOConnell

No.
The kleptocrats donating to the politicians are the same kleptocrats the media gets it’s advertising income from.
The media is protected with monopolistic laws and has common interest with politicians to serve the kleptocrats.

Thngs that would help:

Mandated ala carte cable programming. This would give the audience more effect upon the income streams of the individual channels. With bundling channels can have few viewers and still occupy cable space- excluding others that would be more popular.

Remove anti-First Amendment laws and regulations.
Over the air programming no longer has the monopolistic advantages it once did. Licenses should be allocated solely on cost, not “community service” or other political ends.


10 posted on 11/06/2016 7:31:24 AM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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Not while the media is a part of the corrupt Kleptocracy

The media are willing participants, with very few exceptions. The possibility of “outside channels” has been massively reduced by the USA giving up control of Internet addressing. Eventually the UN and its puppeteers will stop the flow of any unapproved information.

Mark


11 posted on 11/06/2016 7:35:47 AM PST by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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I could be wrong, but I think it used to be the case that the presidents and CEO's of large companies had a love for the products and services their companies delivered. So the CEO of a newspaper could be called a "newspaperman" and the president of an airline company might very well have flown jets in the Air Force, etc.

Now corporations are just run as profit centers. The presidents and CEOs don't really care as much about the products and services they are creating. They just want to know how much profit they can skim off the top.

So there really no longer is a financial sector, a media sector, an oil sector, etc. There is just the market and market participants and market makers.

One sector will not of its own accord decide to topple the other sectors. Its in all of their interests to keep the market going and the profits rolling in.

The good news is that they won't want the market to be disturbed by a massive war, atomic explosions, etc. The bad news is that just because they don't want those things doesn't mean they won't blunder into them, e.g. the crisis in the Middle East, Ukraine, China Sea, etc.

12 posted on 11/06/2016 7:47:54 AM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
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