You have to hand it to the mainstream media. The control it has exerted over the general election coverage these past few weeks is a wonder to behold. A beautifully executed con job that has left nothing to chance.
Certainly what the TV presenters, interviewers, commentators and news anchors have achieved, along with their counterparts in the press, is unethical, immoral, corrosive to democracy and the idea of liberty and wholly harmful to the people of this nation. But it can’t be denied they have managed to massage an angry and vengeful electorate into a compliant and misdirected mass, on the TV screens at least.
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Vote as you will, but he gets the money.
The third general election debate between the mainstream party leaders has ended and history has been made. For the first time the electorate has had a chance to properly assess the candidates and their policies, politics has been energised and democracy is the winner, we are assured.
David Cameron won the latest debate, according to the polls. Nick Clegg ran in a fairly distant second and the hapless Gordon Brown trailed in last again. None of them fully explained how the deficit will be cut, all of them agreed immigration should be controlled but won’t admit they have no means to control it and all three warned the coming years will be “tough”.
Cameron blasted Brown about his tax on jobs, Brown warned Cameron’s policies were a danger to the alleged recovery and Clegg wondered why everyone couldn’t just get together and work things out.
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by AT on September 25, 2009
Ignorance is Bliss (David Shankbone)
The world is divided into good and bad. There are good nations, such as the United States. There are bad nations, such as Iran. Good people, such as Barak Obama and bad people such as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Further, Americans live in a democracy and enjoy liberty. Americans worship a Christian God who is a God of love. Iranians are enslaved under a tyrannical and backward religion that is founded in violence.
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European Central Bank in Frankfurt
The Lisbon Treaty, that rehash of the EU Constitution. I don’t know about you but apart from threats of economic meltdown if we don’t sign, here in the UK I haven’t heard a single argument from any politician of any major party explaining the benefits and costs of our ever closer integration with Europe.
As for the economic meltdown, look around you. It’s here anyway, is Europe going to rescue us from the global mess created by the bankers? How, by handing total independence to the bankers? By allowing the banks to operate without the fussy interference of our (allegedly) democratic representatives?
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