Your nightly news source, is not really a source at all. Americans are getting their news from talking heads. The newscaster sits in front of the camera, and tells you the "news", many times without any facts, or any opposing points of views. The news tells you it is fact, and you believe it, unfortunately. I hold a Bachelor's of Mass Communications, I was not taught to report news, I was taught to find news, expose truths, and keep the public well-informed.
So, NBC News reports on this asteroid, with no pictures, no interviews with those who saw the asteroid, no none of that objective reporting. You the viewer are expected to believe, as the newscaster says, "They, the ones who tell us these things". "They" aren't even defined! We could be believing monkeys, for all we know! The real source of this information is not even made known. Weird.
This is a one-sided story, that shows a group of people, polluting the ocean in their boats, chasing whales and "tracking" them. The best part is when the people save one whale who got its mouth caught on a line. Why save it? There are a lot of ropes, and unfortunately a lot of garbage floating in the ocean. So why is man trying to save moron whales? The report even says, one or two whales a year get caught up in fish nets, but this year it's up to five. These whales are dumb, and should not be kept alive. It is apart of natural selection, the whales dumb enough to get wrapped up in fish nets, should pass away. But no!! Man, the whales only natural predator, should save the whales, by chasing them with boats that pollute the ocean, and saving the moron whales, interfering with nature. No wonder more whales are getting caught on ropes, there are more moron whales swimming around, thanks to the heroic intervention of mankind! HOORAY!
Seriously? Where is the off-camera interview with the Congressmen? Is there an opposing point of view? I don't know about you, but every single person I talk to about bailouts, HATE THE BAILOUTS, and believe WE CANNOT SPEND OUR WAY INTO PROSPERITY. Where are these points of view in this newscast? And how the hell can the Federal Reserve Chairman, THE MAN on US Monetary Policy (because the Fed prints the money) HAVE NO IDEA WHAT OUR COUNTRY'S BORROWING LIMITS ARE? That's because, ladies and gentlemen, this man is THE BANK. He is the spokesperson for all the big banks lending our country all these billions of dollars. Basically, the bankers have not set a credit limit for American taxpayers. We the taxpayers (or our children and grandchildren) will pay back this debt in the years to come. Of course the banks want us to borrow more, that's more interest money for them in the long run! Not to mention, there was not even one single camera shot of the Treasury Secretary being questioned by Congress. We are told by the newswoman, the Treasury Secretary was there, answering questions, but the public is not given any clue as to what answers were given. This is nothing but propaganda: Bernake says more money is needed to save the economy and the economy went to hell in a hand basket because of a lack of government regulations. Which, makes the viewer believe the solution is to spend more money on bailouts and make more rules on investors, more rules, mean less people/investors that are able to follow the rules, which translates to less people/investors getting the opportunity to make money on the stock market. Government regulation regulates the poor, and make the rich richer!!
Obama writes a letter to Russian President Medvedev, but the letter is not shown on the report. There are no direct quotes from the letter, just Obama shown on TV telling Americans that Russian cooperation is needed to stop Iranian missiles, and that the US MIGHT scraps plans for a missile defense system, if Russia helps stop Iranian missiles. Where is the report that Iran even has missiles? How do we know Iran has missiles? This information is not included in the newscast. The news tells the viewer Obama is changing from Bush's Russian policy agenda, and is attempting to open up a discussion on the matter. There isn't even an interview, or quote, with any Russian diplomat, so how do we know this letter even exists? There aren't any hard facts or evidence to support this, just talking heads. From my point of view, the US is looking to have Russia as an ally in the upcoming World War. Israel will attack Iran, and the US will back Israel, and the US is hoping Russia will be on the American side, and not the Iranians.
News--what news? The news is a myth, any invented story, idea, or concept, which is is believed to be true by the masses, all because it is on TV. No one questions the myth. How long will the sheeple sleep?
Music speaks across all barriers. Let it feel your mind space, let it help you realize the spell you may be under. We must win, failure is not an option. If you don't understand, don't bother to ask.
There's a war going on for your mind: Flobots
Media mavens mount surgical strikes from trapper keeper collages and online magazine racks Cover Girl cutouts throw up pop-up ads, infecting victims with silicone shrapnel Worldwide passenger pigeons deploy paratroopers Now it's raining pornography, lovers take shelter Post-production debutantes pursue you in nascar chariots, they construct ransom letters from Biblical passages and bleed mascara into Holy Water supplies
There's a war going on for your mind.
Industry insiders slang test tube babies to corporate crackheads, they flash logos and blast ghettos, their embroidered neckties say "stop snitchin'" Conscious rappers and whistleblowers get stitches made of acupuncture needles and marionette strings
There is a war going on for your mind.
Professional wrestlers and Vice Presidents want you to believe them the desert sky is their blue-screen, they superimpose explosions they shout at you, "Pay no attention to the men behind the barbed curtain, nor the craters beneath the draped flags, those hoods are there for your protection!" And meteors these days are the size of corpses.
There's a war going on for your mind We are the Insurgents.
We Rise Together: Flobots
So much pain we Dont know how to be but angry Feel infected like we've got gangrene Please dont let anybody try to change me Me Just me In the middle of a sea full of faces Full of faces Some laugh some salivate Whats in your alleyway Recycling bins or bullet cases? Its not equal Its not fair We're different people But we're not scared We ain't never scared To pave a new path Make a new street Build a new bridge Say can you see by the dawns early light Free slaves running Song's words weren't right Now a new days coming The few stay stunning while the many are handsome Your soul is alive but they want it for ransom The base drumming is the anthem We step to the heartbeats of our granddaughters and grandsons And
Rise together we
Lost hope and found need Grounded by our surroundings Did the walls scream universities? Or you and I verse the tees? React automatic and we burst when squeezed And make 9-11 each emergency Urgency amber to red like the turning leaves Oh please let the hurting cease Don't let apathy police the populace We will march across Those stereotypes that were marked for us The answer's obvious We switch the consonants Change the sword to words and lift continents
If you believe in redemption I'm calling to you from another dimension
Stand Up: Flobots
Stand up We shall not be moved Except By a child with no socks and shoes If you've got more to give then you've got to prove Put your hands up and I'll copy you Stand up We shall not be moved Except by a woman dying from a loss of food If you've got more to give then you've got to prove Put your hands up and I'll copy you
We still don't understand thunder and lightning Flash back to when we didn't fund the dam Didn't fund the dam levee? No wonder man Now our whole damn city's torn asunder man Under water but we still don't understand We see hurricane spills overrun the land Through gaps you couldn't fill with a 100 tons of sand No we still don't understand We've seen planes in the windows of buildings crumbled in We've seen flames send the chills through London And we've sent planes to kill them and some of them were children But still we crumbling the building Underfunded but we still don't understand Under God but we kill like the son of Sam But if you feel like I feel like about the son of man We will overcome
So Stand up We shall not be moved Except By a child with no socks and shoes If you've got more to give then you've got to prove Put your hands up and I'll copy you Stand up We shall not be moved Except by a woman dying from a loss of food If you've got more to give then you've got to prove Put your hands up and I'll copy you
I said Put your hands up and I'll copy you Put your hands up and I'll copy you If you've got more to give then you've got to prove Put your hands up and I'll copy you
We shall not be moved Except By a child with no socks and shoes Except by a woman dying from a loss of food Except by a freedom fighter bleeding on a cross for you We shall not be moved Except by a system thats rotten through Neglecting the victims and ordering the cops to shoot High treason now we need to prosecute
So Stand up We shall not be moved And we won't fight a war for fossil fuel Its times like this that you want to plot a coup Put your hands up and I'll copy you So Stand up We shall not be moved Unless were taking a route we have not pursued So if you've got a dream and a lot to do Put your hands up and I'll copy you
I said Put your hands up and I'll copy you Put your hands up and I'll copy you if you've got a dream and a lot to do Put your hands up
Now shake, shake A Polaroid dream nightmare negatives develop on the screen We sit back and wait for the government team Criticize they but who the fuck are we? The people want peace but the leaders want war Our neighbors don't speak, peek through the front door House representatives preach "stay the course" Time for a leap of faith Once More
Put your hands up high if you haven't abandoned Hope that the pen strokes stronger than the cannon Balls to the wall, Nose to the grindstone My interrogation techniques leave your mind blown So Place your bets lets speak to the enemy Don't let em pretend that we seek blood And who's we anyways Kemo Sabe? Mighty warlord wanna-be street thug a threat for a threat leaves the whole world terrified blow for blow never settles the score word for word is time need clarify We the people did not want war
So Stand up We shall not be moved Except By a child with no socks and shoes If you've got more to give then you've got to prove Put your hands up and I'll copy you Unless were taking a route we have not pursued So if you've got a dream and a lot to do Put your hands up and I'll copy you
Mosh: Eminem
I scrutinize every word, memorize every line I spit it once, refuel, re-energize and rewind I give sight to the blind, my insight through the mind I exercise my right to express when I feel it's time It's just all in your mind, what you interpret it as I say to fight, you take it as I'mma whip someone's ass If you don't understand, don't even bother to ask A father who has grown up with a fatherless past Who has blown up now to rap phenomenon that has Or at least shows no difficulty multi-task And in juggling both perhaps mastered his craft Slash entrepreneur who has helped launch a few more rap acts Who's had a few obstacles thrown his way through the last half Of his career typical manure moving past that Mr. kisses ass crack, he's a class act Rubber band man, yea he just snaps back
[Chorus:] Come along follow me as I lead through the darkness As I provide just enough spark that we need to proceed Carry on, give me hope, give me strength Come with me and I won't steer you wrong Put your faith and your trust as I guide us through the fog To the light at the end of the tunnel We gonna fight, we gonna charge, we gonna stomp, we gonna march Through the swamp, we gonna mosh through the marsh Take us right through the doors (c'mon)
All the people up top on the side and the middle Come together lets all bomb and swamp just a little Just let it gradually build from the front to the back All you can see is a sea of people some white and some black Don't matter what color, all that matters we gathered together To celebrate for the same cause don't matter the weather If it rains let it rain, yea the wetter the better They ain't gonna stop us they can't, we stronger now more than ever They tell us no we say yea, they tell us stop we say go Rebel with a rebel yell, raise hell we gonna let em know Stomp, push, shove, mush, Fuck Bush, until they bring our troops home (c'mon)
[Chorus]
Imagine it pouring, it's raining down on us Mosh pits outside the oval office Someone's tryina tell us something, Maybe this is God just sayin' we're responsible For this monster, this coward, That we have empowered This is Bin Laden, look at his head noddin' How could we allow something like this without pumping our fists? Now this is our final hour Let me be the voice in your strength and your choice Let me simplify the rhyme just to amplify the noise Try to amplify the times it, and multiply by six... Ten million people, Are equal at this high pitch Maybe we can reach al-queda through my speech Let the president answer a higher anarchy Strap him with an Ak-47, let him go, fight his own war Let him impress daddy that way No more blood for oil, we got our own battles to fight on our own soil No more psychological warfare, to trick us to thinking that we ain't loyal If we don't serve our own country, we're patronizing a hero Look in his eyes its all lies The stars and stripes, they've been swiped, washed out and wiped And replaced with his own face, Mosh now or die If I get sniped tonight you know why, Cause I told you to fight.
[Chorus]
And as we proceed, To Mosh through this desert storm, In these closing statements, if they should argue Let us beg to differ As we set aside our differences And assemble our own army To disarm this Weapon of Mass Destruction That we call our President, for the present And Mosh for the future of our next generation To speak and be heard Mr. President, Mr. Senator Do you guy's hear us...hear us?
