The Daily Dose of Linkworthy Links: Wednesday could be more positive, but then we couldn't call it news

Good morning. Welcome to the news, because if it was positive we wouldn't be calling it news. Useful information could be considered positive news, but still not 'news'. So I'm trying to meet you halfway here. News on the television is censored news, coming through a 3rd party group- the media is funded by the people that decide what people should and shouldn't know. All of the top news companies give the news that they are told to give and the reporters are just puppets with a friendly face to deliver the message for the politicians that want the general consensus to all have the same opinions and standpoints on certain subjects. It's worse then watching a bad soap opera- because at least you know its fictitious. TV news makes me sick and newspapers work the same way. All of the writers and editors are all answering to the manager, who is answering to the media, who is directed by politicians that fund the media to be projected in a certain viewpoint so that the general population will have the same opinion that the politicians want them to have. It's cruel game, and the name of the game is 'fear'. Because once you have fear in you, you will react cautiously. With fear, you want someone to protect you. The only 'heroes' we have to 'save' us are government funded, and what does a hero do when there are no enemies? ..Make one up! It's all part of the 'Problem, Reaction, Solution' game plan they have set up to get what they want, which is usually just money and oil. Make a problem, react to it as if you didn't know you set it up, and then give the solution to the problem. except that the solution is the original game plan that you could not work out unless you had the population on your side. How to get them on your side? Fill them with fear and make yourself look like the hero. Its sick and depressing, and it's why I'm here writing about this for you. The internet is our intervention, and the easiest way to unite and fight. It's a direct news source that cuts out the third party, true person to person blogging. Instead of writing an editorial and having it reviewed, edited, and manipulated into what the company wants it to sound like- you can freely express the real situations and problems. The internet is a revolution of sorts, into the era of free speech. In the pre-internet era there was no way to transfer data and news so freely, and as wide spread. It is a tool for this fearful age we are living through, to help us see clearly in the fog of war. We are being paraded into the same traps America has set for the past 300 years, and now we have a weapon. True free speech, blogging, and the united power of people that can see through the governments game. We are not pawns in this new world order plan. Everyone needs to stand up and see that the news we are given has been selected and planned out. We need to open our minds to deeper intelligence, rather then care about how Paris Hilton is doing in Jail. Celebrities have never been so idolized as they are now, and we take it even further. We get involved with their personal life, when their job is to entertain. Either they aren't doing a good enough job entertaining, or we are so deprived of real entertainment that we need gossip about these 'popular' people's personal life. We all need to get a life and care more about the planet, nature, and peace. There. I'm done with my rant. NOW WAKE UP!

Judge Scalia defends torture, citing Jack Bauer and 24 - This is sick and disturbing. Support of torture, using '24' as an advocate. All '24' is, is DESENSITIZING. To make you more comfortable with world nuclear events involving Russia and China, they make it into an action TV show. This is all just to make you more comfortable with the US 'fighting terrorists'. While we are the actual terrorists of the world. Just keep that in mind as you watch television programs directed at making you comfortable with what we are doing to the world right now. And to have a Judge support these viewpoints? we're fucked.

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