Mo' Far'

Hi folks,

Working on a list of interesting items that are remaining under the mainstream radar for the most part, due largely to distractions. Of course, the major distraction of the ‘eavesdropping’ issue is a good one, for a change, but there is really so much more going on out there we won't want to lose sight of.

But did want to make sure in the meantime that all of you remembered to visit Maureen Farrell’s second entry of her Top Ten Conspiracy Theories over at buzzflash.

Her section on the media is spectacular, pointing out something that haunts me daily, which is the fact that everything changed when the Fairness Doctrine was dropped in ’87 by Reagan. Think about it; the media morphed into a shrill shilling machine and has never been the same since.

She also visits the stolen elections, applying ‘liberal’ details. (She understandably under-explains Stephen Freeman’s statistical analysis, though; he calculated “the odds that the exit polls were wrong, in that many states, at 250 mill to one,” true. But what makes this figure so very compelling is that it represents that those exit polls were wrong in that many states in the same direction (i.e., favoring Bush). This point is utterly key, as stats would predict that they might be wrong in that many states, but in both directions in a reasonably random pattern across those states.)

Mo’s review of the fundamentalist takeover of our government is a chilling reminder of perhaps the most insidious of all these issues, and certainly the most hypocritical, given the WH position on radical Muslim fundamentalists.

Her analysis of the military-industrial complex presents yet more evidence that we are, folks, quite screwed. However, she interestingly omits the fact that this complex essentially constitutes the definition of fascism, though she does note the connection between our WWII profiteers (Prescott Bush among them) and pre-war Nazis and post-war Nazi industrialists.

She concludes with several points about the war on terror, most of which we’ve known for some time, but her arrangement of these timebombs, replete with her generously linked details, is arresting.

Both parts are keepers; don’t miss ‘em. And many thanks to Joe for first bringing it to our attention.

dr. elsewhere