{"id":3604,"date":"2014-08-04T10:02:54","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T16:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/?p=3604"},"modified":"2014-08-07T11:50:55","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T17:50:55","slug":"rejecting-the-vomit-of-the-government-and-corporate-stream-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/rejecting-the-vomit-of-the-government-and-corporate-stream-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Rejecting the vomit of the government and corporate-stream media"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published in Intrepid Report on\u00a0August 4, 2014<\/a>
\nRepublished in thepeoplesvoice.org on August 7, 2014<\/a>
\nby\u00a0Larry Pinkney<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cHide nothing<\/em> from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories.\u201d
\n\u2014Amilcar Cabral<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIf a nation expects to be\u00a0ignorant and free<\/em>\u00a0in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.\u201d
\n\u2014Thomas Jefferson<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let us get one thing crystal clear: We in the United States of America, do not live in an\u00a0informed<\/em>\u00a0genuine people\u2019s \u2018democracy\u2019 nor do we have a government or mass media that is honest and transparent that serves the needs, interests, and aspirations of everyday ordinary Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people.<\/p>\n

It is time to cease being in denial and dispense with mythology.<\/p>\n

The government of this nation is owned and operated, in real terms, by the power elite of giant avaricious corporations, including the corporate-stream \u2018news\u2019 media. In fact, the U.S. government, including so-called \u2018elected\u2019 representatives, has become, in reality, nothing more than a corporate clone, replete with self-serving pimping political parasites intent upon keeping everyday ordinary people dis-informed, divided, and controlled<\/em>\u00a0on the de facto\u00a0plantations<\/em>\u00a0of the Democrat and Republican parties.<\/p>\n

The politicians of this nation from Barack Obama on down, including both Democrats and Republicans, have repeatedly demonstrated that they are adroit at lying, dividing, and manipulating\u2014not<\/em>\u00a0truth telling. They are irreconcilably wedded to a corrupt and dishonest corporate-owned political\u00a0system<\/em>,\u00a0taking their cues from the relatively tiny, filthy rich, national and global power elite\u2014always at the enormous economic, physical, and psychological expense of the everyday ordinary people of this nation and those throughout our precious Mother Earth.<\/p>\n

These elected so-called people\u2019s \u2018representatives\u2019 in the executive and legislative branches of the corporate-owned U.S. government are in essence anything but<\/em> genuine representatives of the struggling masses of everyday ordinary people of all colors and both genders. They are\u00a0stage props<\/em>\u00a0in the political theater of the absurd\u2014keeping people perpetually divided, manipulated, and controlled in a corrupt political system that has gone\u00a0absolutely berserk.<\/em> And the judicial branch, has for the most part, become a terrible and sick joke\u2014acting essentially as\u00a0ping-pong<\/em> systemic rubber stamps.<\/p>\n

Corporate-stream vomit<\/strong><\/p>\n

The U.S. corporate-stream media, which includes ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, MSNBC, FOX, etc., constantly disinform and lie by omission to the everyday people of this nation by presenting the regurgitated and lopsided narrative of a greedy, war mongering power elite. This is nothing more than packaged corporate-stream\u00a0vomit<\/em>\u00a0being rammed down the throats of everyday ordinary people by the corporate-stream media in service to the thought police and systemic gatekeepers of the Democrat and Republican plantation.<\/p>\n

Why does the corporate-stream media continue to serve the masses of people a diet of lies and distortions, i.e., a diet of vomit? What purpose does it serve?<\/p>\n

The U.S. so-called \u2018mainstream\u2019 media are essentially owned and\/or controlled by only five major corporations. These corporations are in turn owned and\/or controlled by a small and powerful power elite whose objective is\u00a0not<\/em>\u00a0to honestly inform the masses of people\u2014but rather to\u00a0shape and thereby control<\/em>\u00a0public opinion. These corporations are in turn wedded to other corporations that make\u00a0huge profits<\/em>\u00a0of blood money from manufacturing weapons of destruction in the air, in space, on land, and in the seas. Thus, the drums of war are virtually always being pounded\u2014in the name of allegedly protecting an economic, political and social \u2018democracy\u2019 that,\u00a0we the people,<\/em> of this nation do\u00a0not<\/em>\u00a0in the main enjoy. The\u00a0objective of the corporate-stream media<\/em>\u00a0is to\u00a0keep pumping the vomit<\/em>\u00a0to the people in order to ensure that the blood money from war profits of, for example, Boeing, General Electric, Honeywell, etc., continue unabated. This reality has nothing to do with so-called \u2018national security\u2019 or \u2018democracy\u2019\u2014but everything to do with the reaping of enormous profits for the national and global power elite, at the immense expense of humanity, both nationally and globally.<\/p>\n

Another objective of the corporate-stream media is to seek to discredit those persons who seek to expose the lies, distortions, and\/or frame-ups, etc., by the government and its various local, state, and federal police and so-called \u2018intelligence\u2019 agencies. The courts, of course, also play a major role in in attempting to legitimize systemic actions to discredit, silence, imprison, or otherwise \u2018neutralize\u2019 political activists who are organizers and truth-tellers in this nation. There are\u00a0no limits to the depths<\/em>\u00a0of dirty tricks and set-ups that the government, with the support of the corporate-stream media and the courts, will utilize in attempts to neutralize, discredit, and silence persons who oppose its agenda. They just keep pumping out the vomit to be consumed by everyday ordinary people.<\/p>\n

Finally, another potent objective of the corporate-stream media (including the \u2018entertainment\u2019 industry) is to distract<\/em>\u00a0from the truth and to distort<\/em> it in every conceivable fashion. U.S. and British television networks are particularly notorious in, for example, propagating drama shows and so-called sitcoms that attempt to\u00a0distract<\/em>\u00a0people from the obvious while\u00a0utterly distorting<\/em>\u00a0historical and contemporary reality. The corporate-stream media moguls are keenly aware of how the narrative and agenda of the power elite can be stealthily propagated in the seemingly innocuous name of \u2018entertainment.\u2019 Being entertained is one thing but being subliminally brainwashed is\u00a0quite another.<\/em><\/p>\n

Lie after lie after lie<\/strong><\/p>\n

The immense damage and impact of and by the corporate-stream media on the\u00a0minds and daily lives<\/em>\u00a0of everyday people should\u00a0never be underestimated.<\/em><\/p>\n

The words of the martyred South African political activist Steve Biko are worth remembering and internalizing: \u201cThe most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is\u00a0the mind<\/em> of the oppressed.\u201d<\/p>\n

If we do not\u00a0critically think for ourselves<\/em>\u00a0then we are slaves\u2014systemic slaves of\u00a0all<\/em> colors.<\/p>\n

Whether it\u2019s about this nation, Libya, Palestine, Syria, Somalia, or the Ukraine (Obama Regime Engaged in MH17 Cover Up<\/a>, by Donn Marten), etc., we the \u2018American\u2019 people, are fed a diet of lie after lie, after lie, after lie<\/em> by the corporate-owned U.S. government and the corporate-stream U.S. media.<\/p>\n

Even as joblessness, home foreclosures, prison incarceration, homelessness, the so-called \u2018national debt,\u2019 and corporate glut and domination, etc., reach virtually unprecedented heights, the corporate-stream media would tell us that conditions are somehow getting better for the masses of everyday people in\u00a0drone man Obama\u2019s NDAA, NSA, \u2018kill list,\u2019 surveillance\/de facto police state.<\/em>\u00a0We are expected to suck up the corporate-stream media\u2019s vomit despite what we see and experience firsthand in our families and communities. I reiterate: If we do not critically think for ourselves then we are slaves!<\/p>\n

Moreover, those relatively \u2018fortunate\u2019 few in this nation who are able to attend colleges and universities are also force-fed a diet of corporate-stream vomit by \u2018educational\u2019 institutions that are increasingly corporate owned and\/or controlled and are largely beholden to promoting a corporate narrative and agenda. This is\u00a0not<\/em>\u00a0real education and it is certainly\u00a0not<\/em>\u00a0an environment wherein\u00a0critical thinking<\/em>\u00a0is seriously encouraged, supported, and promoted. Indeed,\u00a0critical thinking,<\/em>\u00a0just as in the larger U.S. society, is, in actuality, considered to be\u00a0subversive.<\/em>\u00a0Notwithstanding the outrageous debt that most students are compelled to incur in order to attend these colleges and universities, far from being educated, they are being brainwashed to be systemic cogs\u2014good little\u00a0obedient,<\/em>\u00a0non-critically thinking corporate slaves.<\/p>\n

As bloody conflicts and wars persist, at the behest of the national and global corporate power elite, decimating our planet\u2019s natural environment, ravaging Mother Earth and her people, the time is upon us to creatively, consistently, and collectively act in the interest of ourselves and the rest of everyday ordinary humanity. This is not a matter of choice\u2014it is a matter of absolute necessity.<\/p>\n

We in this nation are not Democrats or Republicans\u2014we are\u00a0victims of<\/em>\u00a0the Democrats and Republicans. It is time to\u00a0stop<\/em>\u00a0being their victims and find the ways and means together<\/em> to relegate those pimping political parasites (and<\/em>\u00a0their corporate-stream media) to the dustbin of history.<\/p>\n

What must we the people do?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The situation in this nation\u00a0is<\/em>\u00a0dire but\u00a0not<\/em>\u00a0hopeless. Here are some ideas of what we can do as individuals and collectively:<\/p>\n

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  1. We should immediately start to utilize\u00a0critical thinking.<\/em>\u00a0To do so is, in and of itself, a necessary and revolutionary step. Thomas Jefferson correctly stated that, \u201cEvery generation needs a new revolution.\u201d\u00a0This<\/em>\u00a021st\u00a0century generation must act\u00a0now<\/em>\u00a0if there is even to be yet another generation.<\/li>\n
  2. We should treat the corporate-stream media for what it is<\/em> understanding that its objective is to keep us disinformed, manipulated, and controlled. However, we should also share our insights with our friends, neighbors, and other associates\u2014while simultaneously listening to their perspectives with a view towards creatively finding ways to develop and\/or support viable alternatives<\/em> to the corporate-stream media and be consistent.<\/li>\n
  3. We should remember to use plain, simple, down-to-earth language when communicating our observations, ideas, and goals\u2014keeping in mind that if we truly want to change this rotten system, we must endeavor to be in ourselves that which we want to see in a more humane and just society for which we are striving.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    It is important to remember that this cynical political system\u00a0thrives upon and exacerbates<\/em>\u00a0human weaknesses. Thus, we should strive to recognize\u00a0our own<\/em> strengths, weaknesses, and limitations as we organize and communicate with one another.<\/p>\n

    We everyday ordinary people must consistently utilize a very large dose of creativity<\/em> as we\u00a0aid one another<\/em>\u00a0to debunk and disengage from the poisonous vomit of the corporate-stream media. The task before us is an imperative one for this nation and humankind as a whole. In the paraphrased words of Amilcar Cabral, we must \u201ctell no lies to the people and claim no easy victories.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Remember: Each one, reach one. Each one, teach one. Onward then, my sisters and brothers. Onward!!!<\/p>\n