[FirstTomato]

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[ClaireSolt]

I think of Orwell everytime I walk outside and see a silver screen glowing in each livingroom...and everytime I flip channels and see the same three stories being pounded all night long...knowing that the agenda was set by the morning New York Times.

However, interviews with Muslims throughout the Middle East are even scarier. From Beirut to Cairo, they all say that democracy cannot come from occupation, it must arise from the people. That obviously comes from the same state run progagnda and discounts history since WWII and the democracies of Germany, Japan, and South Korea.