Re: How the BBC hollows out the 'news'

In article <Y%6Df.2117$wk5.1505@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, drodgers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Card
XII) wrote:

Nothing of any interest, as always. Just a pontificating windbag. Guess what
Rogers? This guy says it all for me:

http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=47776

VHeadline.com commentarist Chris Herz writes: So why should Venezuela's Attorney
General have to defend his government against US criticism of some supposed
censorship? This relating to protection of a state witness from opposition
journalistic harassment of the paparazzi type.

There's no propaganda in the world more efficient than that of the US/Corporate
variety.

We have here a dumbed-down population, at least half of which will permit
any excess by either government or corporation. Goebbels would be green with
envy.

Indeed, in his diaries, Josef Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda, wrote that
it was foolish to believe that he -- or anyone else -- could turn all the
Germans into perfect Nazis, but what could be done and what was done was to
control the parameters of the conventional wisdom. That was sufficient to create
an autocratic dictatorship and to plunge the whole world into the most
destructive war in history ... and the German people were held in near-unanimous
support for Hitler and his war by this massive control of information until the
very last day of that war.

In the USA, the supine and complete acquiescence, and even collaboration, by
media in the lies and jesuitical prevarications of the Bush regime, in the build
up to war in Iraq, was the most complete exemplar of state propagandization
since the collapse of the USSR.

* Even Israelis could not be fed the utter pap we were here; their press
still retaining some vestiges of freedom.

But the larger and more sinister story is the onrush toward open Fascist tyranny
now so evident in the USA and in the other Anglo-Saxon nations. This is both
masked and enabled by this media control, which is an essential ingredient in
the totalitarian recipe now being served up to our people.

Venezuela's Bolivarian government has no reason at all to be civil or polite in
responding to US criticisms.

Indeed Venezuelan leaders' comments and defenses are better heard here the more
forceful and critical of the Bush regime that they are: They are thus more
difficult to ignore. And whatever your officials may say, unless they propose
surrendering Venezuela to the tender mercies of the Empire, they cannot
conciliate our rulers to the notion of an independent and sovereign Venezuela.

There can be no doubt that governing elites in the USA, Britain, Australia and
to a lesser extent Canada are now convinced that only by force of arms can they
maintain any ability to extract resources from hitherto subordinated nations
like Venezuela. And that if this is to be done their domestic societies must
become fully militarized ... and, naturally, a militarily based plutocracy
cannot afford domestic discord or dissent ... this is as natural and plain a
political syllogism as has ever existed.

When one reads the works of rightists here about Vietnam in particular, we see
prominently displayed amongst the reasons for the US defeat is the failure to
intern critics and to control the press. It is thus only natural that through
corporate and financial pressures this media control has largely been achieved
in time for this season of war. And we can see in the increasing use of
imprisonment, spying and provocation against opposition elements the pattern
developing for the suppression of a thousand years of political progress away
from autocracy. A pattern which will be completed upon the occasion of the next
terror attack on US soil. These people can hardly have been more open in their
writings and speeches over the years.

None of this is any secret.

Britain and Australia have even worse difficulties in preventing this
creepy, creeping Fascism by reason of their lacking a codified Bill of Rights.

What we thus are seeing is a reversal of the main currents of Anglo-Saxon
history, going right back to Magna Carta.

* It is not just British Social Democracy, or US Civil Rights or the New
Deal being torn down.

It is the whole ethos of a civilization; it is seeing the governors and
inheritors of a thousand years of history themselves rending the fabric which
contains their very political language.

Such men do not deserve your respect ... and certainly not your obedience.

Chris Herz

Hey, I just think I might feel right at home in Venezuela.

*s****

Lord Cerne Abbas

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