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More about the media, not so much about pop culture:



I just watched a reality show, whose identity I will not disclose (out of embarrassment). On the show tonight one young women, who looks like a barbie doll (anatomically disproportionate, with long straight, perfect hair, perfectly lined eyes, an innocent/clueless personality) and works at a recording studio for a major record label--dumped her boyfriend on camera. During "The Dump" (which inevitably began with the sentence: "I don't think this is working out) the y.w. actually took a bite of food and then continued to tell him what a special guy he is while she chewed it! Amazing. Did I mention she walked out in the middle of a recording session where a famous and talented music star was in mid-song? Awesome.

The episode also included a y.w. who looks, literally, like a muppet--lot's of plastic surgery, collagen lips, bleach blond, perfect looking hair--the works. This "muppet" stared into the camera incessantly while obsessively playing with her hair and occasionally flashing a sexy yet sinister look as she delivered a line. No word yet if her camera glances and sexy-fidgeting were due to insecurities in her appearance or desperate attempts to look sexy. Likely both.

In this episode I witnessed social manipulation and powerplays, unnecessary urging for confrontation, emotional abuse and back stabbing. All the while, the extremely tolerant, pious, kind nature of one character lingered as the main storyline.

All of the young women and men on the show are quite affluent (with their famous industry parents conveniently left out of the plot) they are often taking private jets & limos, sporting the finest couture, and landing the coolest jobs/internships in the land. Their life, it seems, is a dream-come-true--well except for some guy in Florida who will forever be known as the guy who got dumped on television...anyway, they are, it seems, the representatives of a generation.

Quite an interesting American show, eh?

What is interesting to me is the way they are portrayed as real people. Think about it. It's a reality television show. With this title alone, the producers of the show are telling us that these are REAL people and this is the way REAL people act. And they are also rewarded with fame and wealth for acting the way that they do: talking behind each others' back, cheating on one another, manipulating each other, purposely ending friendships, verbalizing their hatred of one another, being blatantly obsessed with their appearance, never (ever) talking about what is actually happening in the world, and showing complete and utter devotion to looking/being perceived as cool. They have no black or gay friends and they appear regularly on various talk shows (Ellen, David Letterman, The View) to enforce their fame and flaunt their fortune.

My question is this--if the mainstream media is promoting these "real" people as a generation's idols and role models--complete with the wealth, fame, and beauty their generation desires wholeheartedly--isn't that the same as attempting to create-through influence, a generation of assholes?

Why would the mainstream media do that?

...if it made you think...

Read this blog... IT'S AMAZING!!

Shelly, from CitizenAgainstLies.com, wrote an amazing Blog about the MTV spots which were run on MTV last summer (see below or click above). I'm glad she did... we need to get the word out--even if we are wrong. The possibility that we could be right (which truly does exist) far outweighs the consequences of being wrong.

MTV warns the public about Martial Law and Concentration camps... Whaaaaaaat?

OK... when I first watched the video below--which you will soon click on and watch--I was in utter shock and disbelief.

So take a look and I'll tell you what I think...



I often go off on these wild tangents when I talk about the United States government and my disdain for it's blatant acts of dishonesty--its achievements in stripping Americans of their rights--USA Patriot Act, Military Commissions Act, Preemptive Raids on activists--the incredible amount of power the Bush Administration has managed to secure for itself by use of stolen elections and staged events, and of course the obvious and nauseating control over the media it has managed to seize.

Without fail, each and every time I speak my mind and express my fears over a Government-Gone-Wild , I am called a conspiracy theorist--which is the equivalent of being called a "silly child". And though it is frustrating to hear this very common reaction--there is no doubt in my mind that there is plenty of truth to what I am trying to tell you. I am trying to tell you, in the simplest of words that the United States Government is not finished plotting and practicing the evil deeds it began to commit in 2001.

Their track record says it all:

• using tragedy to gain power -- 9/11 and most recently the tanking of the economy
  
• using ruthless propaganda and flat out lies--where do I begin? Weapons of Mass Destruction, Sadam Husseins ties with Al Queida, or the McCain Campaign calling Obama a terrorist?
• Torture? WTF!
• The Military Stop-Loss policy--a secret way for the government to use and reuse and then reuse troops.... over and over...
• Preemptive War, preemptive raids, survaillance of citizens
  
• allowing and even encouraging racism and hate speech at rallies and elsewhere
  
• controlling the media--Fox News, is this what we call respectable journalism?
  
• a questionable aliance with the Bin Laden family which was (suspiciously) NEVER legally, publically, questioned by congress. Where is Kenneth Star?
• ENRON?
  
• lying about a $700 billion dollar Bailout Bill--which according to MANY economists, was unnecessary and misused; as there was plenty of hidden agenda contained inside of a bill, comprised of hundreds of pages, that Senate only had hours to read and then vote upon
  
• stolen elections of the past (hanging chads anyone?) and more recently, countless reports from all over the nation of people being purged from the voter roles and voter caging

Let's face it, these guys--the Bush Administration, the One-Percenters, the Neocons--are plotting some serious, Voldemort-Style, world domination and it's obvious (to me at least) that they plan on gaining it by any means necessary.

The fact of the matter is, and not to scare the shit out of anyone, but this is REALLY happening. It's not a movie, it's not a commercial in a movie--it's a real commercial that was run in the United States by MTV. Can you believe that? A commercial comparing today to the days of Holocaust... this is real.

So instead of remaining in your current state of blissful-ignoring (i.e. denial) Let's try to think of what we can do to stop it! We can stop this from happening--whether it's on the horizon or not.

Check out this book: "Give me Liberty: A Handbook For American Revolutionaries", by Naomi Wolf. The book was written with the intention of helping us to fight the power and keep our freedom. After all, if it happens in the US... whose to say they'll respect the borders and let Canada live freely? What's the likelihood with Harper in charge?

My point is this: how can it be "conspiracy theory" if MTV is saying it too? It doesn't get more Mainstream than that. Think about it.




**Link to Citizen Against Lies. I sent this link to Shelly, who writes this blog, and she was just as astonished by the video as I was. She said she would post on it tonight and it will definitely be interesting to learn her point of view.

MORE talk of a stolen election...

On Citizen Against Lies there is an investigative report by Rolling Stone Magazine about stolen votes in the US. It claims that the vote has already been stolen by the GOP. According to this article, there are 9 different ways that the GOP plans to "steal votes". A portion of the article is listed below as well as a 2-Part related video by Greg Palast of the BBC--it's not the best, but I will to do some more investigating to learn more about this... Read below and tell me what you're thinking. If you find any additional information, please send it my way!

There is no doubt that there is something sketchy going on... so let's get to the bottom of it!

-E

From Rolling Stone Magazine:

"I don't think the Democrats get it," says John Boyd, a voting-rights attorney in Albuquerque who has taken on the Republican Party for impeding access to the ballot. "All these new rules and games are turning voting into an obstacle course that could flip the vote to the GOP in half a dozen states."







UPDATE: this information is EVERYWHERE... take your pick:

PBS on "voter caging":


MSNBC--Keith Olbermann on "voter caging":

WATCH THESE VIDEOS....

If you don't think the Neo-Cons, currently in power, plan to steal the upcoming election, then watch these videos. Unfortunately, if you're able to see between the lines, you're called a "Conspiracy Theorist"... but what if I can provide facts?
I'm not the only one who thinks this way, so watch these videos.

This is a video of a US Congressman--Brad Sherman speaking on the floor of the US House of Representatives. He's talking about the $700 Billion Bailout Bill and the tactics being used behind the scenes to make sure it passed. This is REAL!


This is a video of author Naomi Wolfe in a radio interview talking about what has been going on in the US Government--in her words, a Coup D'etat. This is interesting stuff--backed up by fact!

Is the American Government really gearing up for a take-over?
We will see, won't we?

If it's true, what will come of Canada with its newly elected Barely-A-Minority Conservative Government? We all know Harper is working in conjunction with Bush, can the same things begin to happen here?

Civillianism--thanks for the intel!