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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Ayman al-Zawahiri, second in command of Al-Qaeda?
Does Al-Qaeda actually exist? Anyone who asked this question just a few years back would have been branded a lunatic. The “informed” majority might have shouted in frustration, “Of course it exists! What about 911? What about those videos of bin Laden? What about his secret bunker in the mountains?”
As time moved on and “The War Against Terror™” (TWAT) unfolded and collapsed into disaster, certain influential individuals began to break ranks by questioning the characterisations of Al-Qaeda being used by Washington and London to build a case for war against Afghanistan and then, most controversially, Iraq.
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