codshit.com: War puts Murdoch on top in Bush's USA

Thursday 17 April 2003

War puts Murdoch on top in Bush's USA

It's always the wealthy industrialists that are behind the fascists. Even Mussolini himself said that fascism could more accurately be described as corporatism. People like Hitler and Bush don't get into power without some rich bastard footing the bill. Corporations are the only things that benefit from fascism (apart from the fascists themselves of course). Just because Bush doesn't wear a silly mustache, worship a swastika (that we know of) and think he's an uber-mensch (that we know of) doesn't mean to say that he isn't a fascist. If Mussolini's description is accurate then this US administration is an almost perfect fusion of the corporation and the state.

spawn of satan

This is a very good time to be alive if you are Rupert Murdoch.

He has just realised his long-held ambition to break into the US satellite television market, buying the market leader, DirecTV, after three years of tortuous negotiations with its owner, General Motors.

His cable news channel, Fox News, has come out of the Iraq war stronger than ever.

Having overtaken CNN with its hot-blooded, rabble-rousing style and deferential approach to the Bush Administration's every move, it came out as the top-rated cable station - news or non-news - in 36 of the top 40 time-slots from March 31 to April 6.

Perhaps more significantly, it may be transforming the way Americans get their news in times of crisis.

The three main networks - NBC, ABC and CBS - have been losing about two million viewers a night to cable. It is the first time their audiences have shrunk during a war.

Meanwhile, Fox's morning magazine programme, Fox & Friends, has brought in more viewers than the CBS Early Show in another unprecedented challenge to the status quo.

More potential windfalls are ahead.

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Enlightenment

Do you feel like you're living in some Orwellian nightmare? Or perhaps you feel as if you're plugged into The Matrix? Well if so, you've come to the right place. No matter how messed up you thought the world was, by the time you've finished reading some of the things I've found on my travels in Cyberspace you'll realise that 1984 was just a typo!

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Wisdom

Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'...they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git'....
.: Alexi Sayle :.

If you confront the Universe with good intentions in your heart it will reflect that and reward your intent... usually... It just doesn't always do it in the way you expect.
.: G'kar :.

So there, we have figured it out, go back to bed America, your government has figured out how it all transpired. Go back to bed America, your government is in control again. Here, here's American Gladiators. Watch this, shut up. Go back to bed America, here's American Gladiators. Here's 56 channels of it. Watch these pituitary retards bang their fuckin skulls together and congratulate you on living in the land of freedom. Here you go America, you are free... to do as we tell you.
.: Bill Hicks :.

Let there be no doubt that the people of the free world are engaged in a war... In the next few years, we are either going to see the people of the free world rise up against these fascists, now setting the stage for global war, or we are going to see the end of democracy as we know it with martial law the end result.
.: David Shayler :.

Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
.: Albert Einstein :.

Wisdom