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Termyn8or -> RE: What influences world opinion on the US...does it mattter? (7/4/2006 7:28:36 AM)
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How can people all over the world know more about what the US is doing than the sheeple here who yell "number one, number one" ? Media control.
I don't know how many of you have heard of Radio Solidarity in Poland. I know the guy who personally built the transmitter for that venture. He emmigrated to the US in the 90s, after finding it difficult to get licensing to start his business after his imprisonment for that venture. They never actually convicted him, but his time being held under suspicion added up to about 7 months. He explained the operation to me, metal vacuum cleaner wand sections made up the antenna, another cohort had the batteries, and Jaroslaugh, who was not only the electronics guy who built the transmitter, was the fastest runner. Thus he was the one to carry the transmitter when it was time to "bug out". Lek Waleska wanted them to air a tape, a request they had to refuse as it was too long. After all if they got caught it was all over.
They would transmit at the sound carrier frequency of a local TV station during "prime time" and realistically, nobody knows if they had a significant impact. Thing is why does the common man have such difficulty gaining access to the "public" airwaves ?
Well if you think it's bad in Poland, try the US. The US FCC has guns and a SWAT team. They proved it one day. A farmer with a satellite dish obtained one of those "island" FM radio transmitters, probably a 50 watt. Being on a farm and out of range of most local radio stations he fed the output of the dish to the transmitter so he could listen to his satellite radio in his tractor. IIRC, in the area he couldn't recieve anything else anyway.
I think part of the problem is that instead of music, he was rebroadcasting not heavy metal or bluegrass, but ADV, American Dissident Voices. ADV is put out by the Nartional Alliance, which is a highly racist group, but not malevolent. In fact they preach to their members specifically NOT to do any violence, nor even to be bigotted. They tout their main goal as having a seperate living space, though it is unclear how this will ever happen.
Well the federalis came, trashed the guy's house and took all his equipment. they had an armoured vehicle, flack jackets and automatic weapons. We are talking the FCC here ! Why go to such great lengths to secure the airwaves "for the public" ?
You know, you all know exactly why. Then about four years ago the noose tightened, when the next wave of deregulation hit the US communication industry. It is to the point in the US where one entity can own every TV and radio station one can recieve, as well as the local cable and phone companies. Out there are lists of just who owns the TV networks etc., and the list is shrinking. There are not less media outlets, but the control over these outlets bacomes increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few multinational corporations.
I am not a conspiracy theorist, I am a partnership theorist. We have a partnership between government, big business and the media, but it is not a conspiracy. Their overt goal is to make as much money as possible, but their covert goal is to undermine everything the US is supposed to stand for, it does not fit in with their plans.
I don't know if they still do, but ADV used to be on shortwave. The FCC kept trying to kick them off because "the content appears to be aimed at US audiences". What ? Here's the kicker, go buy a shortwave radio, and look at how the bands are setup. With a cheap one, you will not get ADV, as they were relegated to a band that is omitted on most shortwave radios sold in the US. At about the $250 price level you can buy a radio that will recieve these "forbidden" bands.
Remember the name Jaroslaugh Sykla, he may well have been the last one to breach the powers that be' stranglehold on the airwaves. In the US they probably would've shot him, and now the window of oppotunity is closing rapidly. Why, in the US, is the government mandating that regular NTSC broadcasts be stopped by a certain date and all terrestrial TV broadcasting will be done in HDTV, or even split up HDTV (into multiple low resolution channels) ?
Think of it. I know electronics and could easily take a VCR modulator connected to a camcorder and amplifier and get my message out, but now, so many people who watch any significant amount of TV have cable, or a dish. Can't break in on that. Even ATSC broadcasts, which are actually on the air, do not have a simple sound carrier offset 6 Mhz from the video carrier. Very few people have the wherewithall to encode the new signals, let alone to overpower transmitting towers with megawatt level amplifiers. With NTSC one could target a sound carrier like Sykla, and get a message through, with digital TV you have to completely swamp the TV transmitter signal, figure out the algorythms for the MPEG encoding etc., and while not easy, even if you succeed it will probably only confuse the electronics in the recievers, resulting in garbage, or no output.
Media is the reason the the sheeple keep voting for tweedle dee or tweedle dumb, and control of the media is essential to keep the apple cart upright so to speak.
In this respect the situation in Europe is indeed promising. With the advent of the internet US Citizens can see news from around the world, which is considerably less biased and less dumbed down. Kinda like a backfire for them. I read a few years ago that actually more Americans get their news from the BBC than Brits.
People are waking up slow but sure, and the media masters' interest is to cause this unintended consequence to unfold as slowly as possible. It is OUR money killing children, it is OUR money goose stepping all over the globe. It is OUR money dictating what kind of government other countries should have. If the American People ever woke up, they might just decide to put a stop to it. I certainly would, but I am but one. One cannot bring about the change needed, so how would one get people to rally on the side of what this country is supposed to be, to bring us back to a course of friendly trade and non-inteventionalism as the Founding Fathers intended ? Access to the media. The ability to get the message out.
That's why the FCC has a SWAT team.
That's also why most of the sheeple are unaware that those in the know across the globe do not support the war in Iraq. That's why they get up in arms of outrage when an American soldier is killed in Iraq, and scream for vengance. How dare the Iraqis defend their country ? We went there to kill them, how dare they kill us ? We have the sole right in the world to determine which countries are allowed to defend themselves, and for Iraq, we said NO. We bomb their hospitals, schools and TV station, but the Iraqis just love the American liberators right ? Yeah right. They bombed Al Jazeera, Iraq's main TV network. There wasn't a gun in the place I bet, but they had cameras rolling during the invasion, this had to stop.
BTW, if they were bombing hospitals and schools, which they did, I would assume that there were hospitals and schools. Who built them ? And don't forget, Saddam's trial was hushed up, know why ? The US put him in power and kept him there until he didn't fit the plan. But there is no conspiracy, they call it a partnership when they do it.
Israel's treatment of the Palestinians and the wars in Iraq and Afganistan are why we are hated. Bin Laden was another one. Took him down and heroin production tripled. They said they wanted to stamp out heroin, but the Taliban gave out death sentences for it's production. And don't forget, at one time Bin Laden was closely allied with US interests. I am not even going to go into how the heroin gets here, it may be too much for the squeamish.
Last but not least, it is the American arrogance and ignorance that makes the rest of the world hate us, although some have alot better reasons. I have never read Orwell's 1984, do you think I need to ? American TV has got to be an experiment in stooooopidity, a test so to speak. I have seen drug commercials "ask your doctor if killyastine is right for you" without giving any clue as to what the drug is supposed to do.
I don't mean to sound like a gloomy Gus, but I refuse to bury my head in the sand.
T
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