Who controls almost all the media, entertainment, money markets and politics in America?
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ABC is owned by Disney. In 2004 Disney split its political donations pretty equally between Dems and Repubs. NBC is owned by General Electric. General Electric leans heavily Republican. CBS is was purchased in 1995 by Westinghouse Electric Corporation which then changed its name to CBS corporation. CBS as a corporation leans democratio in its political contributions although its board of directors lean republican. Fox is owned by Rupert Murdoch and News Corp. They are by far the most biased donating (2006 election cycle thus far) $116,600- 17% democratic and 83% republican.
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Western countries are controlled by a small exclusive club of people.  Religion is just another tool on their belt to control us with.  It's why western countries are split 50/50 on every damn issue you can think of.
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Eventually?  I believe this has already occurred.  Those who think Americans live in a democracy are sorely mistaken.  There are two main forces that currently control America: The conservative corporations and the liberal media.  (Neither of those statements are intended to be a negative judgment on either group).  Those two groups are the ones with the money, and the power.\n\nI'm not sour about that.  But I do think that anyone who thinks that every person has a say is fooling themselves.  Both of these groups, over time, have gotten very good at positioning their message so that the majority of people will vote for their candidate.
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America RULES!!!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGot my 2 points.
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absolutely! we know that the average person is just not very educated, particularly in politics, so they do not know any better but to get their news from TV. Fox news, run by wealthy right-wing rupert murdoch, has done enough marketing to figure out how to be hugely popular, and now has become a mass propaganda machine for the ruling party -- damm! this sounds like the old USSR doesn't it? if you want some details of this see the references below. they are disturbing but i believe it is important for people to understand the MSN and exactly how much news is skewed in this country. It's not that Americans are stupid, they are just victims of a faulty system of news which feeds them misinformation; think of it as a bad side-effect of capitalism.
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Might makes right. And the US is the wealthiest and most militarily powerful nation at the moment, so the US gets to make the rules for everyone else.\n\nEspecially nations that have natural resources our largest industries/corporations want to control.
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They run the show, they are in charge of everything.  Kinda like the president only over sports, and you don't get secret service.
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In terms of power it is easily the US.  \n\nAs for who follows who it rather depends if we are talking historically, musically, fashion?\n\nIs there a particular aspect you are concerned about?
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I actually think the media has much more of a conservative slant.  Considering that most main-stream media is owned by giant corporations, this is not surprising.\n\nMay I ask how you manage to fit so much information into your questions without going into the additional details?
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Recent reports indicate as few as five companies exert almost total control, at the government's commands since 1991, of the news media outlets combining print, TV, and radio. The government guided censorship is attended by propaganda and misinformation, which in toto, some say, grossly insult, dis-serve, and injure the Jeffersonian democray of a free, educated, and informed citizenry which should be trusted to decide justly the course of the ship of state. In opposition, warmongering profiteers and political cronies have pirated the ship of state via tactics of deception and fear and steer it toward the oilfields. Luckily, some fearless lookouts have climbed the crowsnest- the higher moral ground of the less constrained Internet, and they show us that the truth is out there, and it spells corruption and possibly treason as some of the reasons we are under-informed about ongoing genocide, atrocities, and other sources of diminishment to the 'establishment'- they fear truth so much- ask Rumsfeld- and loss of their obscene criminal profits- that they would deny anything- truth to us, life itself to others- rather than lose. What is really going on is world-wide cultural revolution, nothing less, but you cannot readily discover this without somewhat agressive research. The more we learn, the more we realize how little we really know.
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Dem or Rep doesn't matter.  Big Business and lobbyists rule this country.
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Everything is monitored by the US government
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god all we need is another one of those in America. I'm sure all you need is a business license. but try a underground mag first and then call the media radio etc let send them a copy see what they think about it.
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The media is just reporting the truth. You really wont find out who's telling the truth until George Bush and his Nazi Zionists followers are out of power. If you haven't noticed it yet, but they are all about oppression right here in America to enable their power base for centuries to come. They are also imposing these ideals on other nations for their own benefits. The Bushes don't mind bragging about it all either. They call it saving America from Liberals and socialists, and turning it over to Communists and Fascists to rule.
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The news media is owned by six right wing corporations, they should be called news manipulation stations, we can thank pretend democrat bill clinton for that... If we actually had a real news media, bush would have never gotten away with these kind of things.
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Yes!!Take a closer look!! Through economics or politics, the U.S.already controls the world.Anyone who speaks out against them( Bush Administration)-France,Iraq,Iran,Venezuela-face invasion or some other form of retaliation. China is being courted,Cuba is being paid,Mexico has the illegal immigrant thing going on and there is no balance of power left. It would take the other countries banding together to stop this and they are kept distracted with internal turmoil or an unwillingness to put aside their long standing differences.What was your question again??Peace.
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Hitler and Hussein\n\nwhen the gov. controls ALL aspects of ur life\n\nspeech, media, job, life, etc are ALL CONTROLLED 100% by "BIg Brother"