“If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier — so long as I’m the dictator.” – George W. Bush, Dec. 19, 2000

“Lead me not into temptation, I can find the way myself.” – Rita Mae Brown

“When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.” – Henny Youngman

“No army can stop an idea who’s time has come.” – Victor Hugo

“It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.” – Aristotle

Faux News is really going to great lengths now to smear anything that isn’t Republican, loyal to the Bush regime, Fanatical Christianity or something to which disagrees with their lunacy. I’ve got two words for Rupert Murdoch and his cronies at Faux News who are clearly manipulating public opinion through fear mongering, smear tactics, lies, and other trumped up horse shit…. F*** YOU!

I’m not even a real big fan of Obama, but seriously Faux News, f*** you and all your bullshit, clearly biased, propaganda style reporting.

“A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.” – Marcus Aurelius

We have more proof that media is controlling the US elections. This video provides the insight into how our media picks the president. In this case, who is behind the media or who owns the media becomes very critical.



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I can agree with this…

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The former prime minister Paul Keating has attacked the Western media’s coverage of the Beijing Olympics as condescending, elitist and typical of the developed world’s general disdain for China.

Most of the coverage was seen through the prism of Tibet, Mr Keating told the Melbourne Writers’ Festival at the weekend, and disregarded the “massive leaps” forward in areas such as poverty alleviation and declining infant mortality.

“In a Western and elitist way, we have viewed China’s right to its Olympic Games, to its ‘coming out’, its moment of glory, with condescension and concessional tolerance,” Mr Keating said.

“The Western critic, feeling the epicentre of the world changing but not at all liking it, seeks to put down these vast societies on the basis that their political and value systems don’t match up to theirs.”

In a wide-ranging speech on foreign policy, Mr Keating was critical of the lack of action taken by the world in getting rid of nuclear weapons, saying proliferation was the “single most immediate threat hanging over the world today”.

Mr Keating joined those critical of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, saying it was “perhaps the most egregious example of international double dealing of any international regime”.

“The plain fact is, there can be no non-proliferation without de-proliferation,” he said.

“If the weapon states are not prepared to rid themselves of nuclear weapons, why would other states continue to deny themselves the kind of leverage that these weapons bring?”

The Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, was also critical of the treaty earlier this year.

On a visit to Japan in June, he announced his plans to stimulate efforts to curb the growth of nuclear weapons and push for eventual nuclear disarmament through the establishment of a new international commission to be led by Japan and Australia.

The new commission will be co-chaired by the former Labor foreign affairs minister Gareth Evans.

It will examine ways to strengthen the provisions of the 40-year-old Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty before it undergoes its next five-yearly review, in 2010.

The commission is modelled on the Canberra Commission, which was established in the dying days of Mr Keating’s government.

Although the “bipolar” period of the Cold War was over, Mr Keating said the world would continue to be dominated by the United States and China, with Russia playing a big but not equal part.

Mr Keating was critical of the US President, George Bush, and his predecessor, Bill Clinton, saying the past 16 years had been wasted. He also said the former British prime minister Tony Blair and the former French president Jacques Chirac had stood by and allowed the US to dictate international foreign policy.

“We are now sitting through, witnessing, the eclipse of American power,” Mr Keating said.

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