It's appropriate that after opening with the Clintons Mary went on to the impending Paramount buy out of Warner's, because it is because of the Clinton's, or rather Bill Clinton, that we are about to see ownership of 90% of US media go from one in five to one in four. In 1996 Clinton signed the Telecommunications Act which made possible exactly what we are seeing now, thanks Bill! And also thanks faux progressive Obama and the rest of the establishment Democrats who should have and could have repealed or amended the Act when they had even more control over Congress than the Republicans do now, when it was perfectly obvious what the Act was facilitating, the concentration of the MSM into fewer and fewer hands. But as long as the owners tread the neoliberal/neoconservative i. e. pro-US establishment, line what was the problem? Only now some are treading a neo-fascist line, with dstinctly Zionist overtones, subservient to a neo-fascist, criminally self-aggrandizing presidency.
Gregg— No one seems to remember the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which did almost the exact opposite of what the Communications Act of 1934 did. The latter, signed by FDR, created the FCC, which helped to create standards and increase availability of electronic communications, which were only a few decades old at that time. It also mitigated against media monopolies: I think the bill’s authors and FDR remembered the damage newspaper moguls of previous decades wrought. (Example: Hearst ordered the editors of his newspapers to broadcast the lie that the Spanish Armada blew up the U.S.S. Maine in Havana Harbor, which was the pretext for the War of 1898 and the US land grab that followed.) On the other hand, the 1996 Act allowed entrepreneurs to own media and technology companies across different industries which, as we have seen, has led to what is euphemistically called “consolidation “ (just as Auschwitz was called a “concentration “ rather than a “death “ camp).
It makes perfect sense that Mary world mention media “consolidation “ in the same dispatch as the Epstein files. There is, of course, the Clinton connection, even if he is innocent. Epstein and Maxwell destroyed the lives of some of the most vulnerable people; the current administration wants to silence their voices, or anyone who would speak for them.
One point, the Armada consisted of the Spanish ships Philip II sent to attack England in 1588. William Randolph Hearst spread the lie about Spanish military personnel blowing up the Maine, which led to the U.S. acquiring Puerto Rico, establishing Cuba as a sort of protectorate, and substituted the Philippines and Guam as American overseas territories. It is far more likely the Maine blew up due to a flawed boiler, not sabotage. Cuba had had its own independence movement in which Cubans like the Maceo Grajales brothers had been fighting to liberate- themselves from Spain for a period before the U.S. started the Spanish-American war. The Filipinos were not happy with the U.S. taking over their islands, and Emilio Aguinaldo fought to defend himself and the independence of the Philippines against the U.S., but lost.
Nothing else matters since tonight the most inept administration in American history has just attacked Iran. Now Donnie and Bibi can build their resort on the Gaza Strip with impunity.
Thank you for podcast, Mary! Looks like war is coming to Iran they are evacuating embassies, their. I am glad that, President Clinton testified. I voted for him! Unfortunately he turned out to be a serial cheater in Chief. I’m glad his daughter Chelsea brought him and Secretary Clinton back together.
I voted for him and Obama even though I knew they had exactly the same problem: They’re Corporate Democrats. Unfortunately, they are the only kind who have been able to win national elections because of the vast amounts of money needed to run an effective campaign.
More important than my vote for Bill was my vote for Hillary. If only..... what if, infinity. Thank you , Mary for this indepth info. I am sick at heart, though, that so many in this country are allowing the inhumanity on every level to continue.
' Pledge America campaign at the FCC which allows broadcasters to air pro‑America patriotic programming' I didn't realize that it took a campaign from the FCC to allow broadcasters to broadcast patriotic programming. Just what is this programming, what makes it so patriotic?
For ages I've watched 'American Experience' and the various Ken Burns programs, the Concerts for America on the 4th of July. All on PBS, that notorious perveyor of anti-American propaganda. I guess that's not good enough.
I've been telling people for months about the obvious fact that the House can investigate, person number 1 is to be most likely investigated - the current Oaf in the Oval Office. That's the main thing behind the attack on Iran today, the weaponizing of avoiding that investigation, an extreme violation of international law. It's a war, and only Congress can declare a war. Oh, the Rs didn't declare a war? The US started a war, and our sons and daughters will die. The Oaf called them brave Amricans? When they die, he killed them just for political reasons. In the hopefully not too distant future when the Oaf is whimpering that he's a victim and he's sorry, he's not sorry. He has no feelings for anyone else, unless it was for Roy Cohn or other dictators.
I had a bone marrow transplant last year Jan 25. I was focused on the science and technology of ridding my body of cancer cells in my marrow. I never thought about the stress I now have about vaccines! When your body is purged of its old marrow and replaced with a donor new cells all vaccines are lost. So the protocol is to get new vaccines. Typically this wouldn’t be scary but due to the failures and opinions of the jackasses at the Health dept I continue to stay separate and hold on and wait for the measured vaccines I can have over this year. (They don’t blast you with all of them at once). The MMR is the last I will get end of this year or Jan 27. Hoping that these diseases get tamped down but it doesn’t look like that is going to happen. It’s not all about me but I hope all immune compromised people will be okay.
Annette - so sorry you had to go through so much and I know from my own experiences it always takes longer than you thought it would to get to the end of medical processes. A friend of mine went to a Womens Health event last week attended by about 200 women doing yoga and listening to speakers, etc. 4 days later she tested positive for Covid as did her husband and son. Not certain the event was the nexus of the infection, but strengthens my agreement with your plan to stay separate. The supposed (🤮) health dept. and rampant measles outbreaks and folks who didn't get the covid vaccine because the govt. wouldn't fund it, etc., etc., etc. makes it VERY SCARY to go out among the people if you are dealing with immunity issues. Take good care and continue be your wonderful self.
It was pointed out tonite that Clinton flew on Epstein's jet with his Secret Service detail, so somebody would have certainly reported something if they knew anything was going on.
I would chime in on broadband prices, but we can't get it where we live. Thank you for your nonattention to this matter, Mr. Carr.
I knew this was coming… the war on Iran. Narcissistic sociopaths will do anything to protect themselves and The Epstein Files undoubtedly show Trump as. Pedophile. Old nurse with Psych experience.
Hello Dr. Mary: I recently finished your book, “Too Much and Never Enough.” I confess that when I read the subtitle about Donald being the world’s most dangerous man, I wondered if that was just a bit hyperbolic. Only a bit, mind you.
Obviously my capacity for self-delusion is in full effect. For this morning, I awoke to the news that Emperor Orangus Dingulus the first had begun a war with Iran. He won’t be satisfied until he can manipulate events to make it look like a national crisis that will then be used as the reason he must take full control. Given his unquenchable need for domination, there will be no limits. Didn’t he already tell us that the only guardrails are his morality, his mind? (BTW, if you actually *see* that mind somewhere, don’t return it.). Your book was enticing and perspicuous, but even that didn’t prepare me for what the day has wrought.
It's appropriate that after opening with the Clintons Mary went on to the impending Paramount buy out of Warner's, because it is because of the Clinton's, or rather Bill Clinton, that we are about to see ownership of 90% of US media go from one in five to one in four. In 1996 Clinton signed the Telecommunications Act which made possible exactly what we are seeing now, thanks Bill! And also thanks faux progressive Obama and the rest of the establishment Democrats who should have and could have repealed or amended the Act when they had even more control over Congress than the Republicans do now, when it was perfectly obvious what the Act was facilitating, the concentration of the MSM into fewer and fewer hands. But as long as the owners tread the neoliberal/neoconservative i. e. pro-US establishment, line what was the problem? Only now some are treading a neo-fascist line, with dstinctly Zionist overtones, subservient to a neo-fascist, criminally self-aggrandizing presidency.
Mary—Great work, once again!
Gregg— No one seems to remember the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which did almost the exact opposite of what the Communications Act of 1934 did. The latter, signed by FDR, created the FCC, which helped to create standards and increase availability of electronic communications, which were only a few decades old at that time. It also mitigated against media monopolies: I think the bill’s authors and FDR remembered the damage newspaper moguls of previous decades wrought. (Example: Hearst ordered the editors of his newspapers to broadcast the lie that the Spanish Armada blew up the U.S.S. Maine in Havana Harbor, which was the pretext for the War of 1898 and the US land grab that followed.) On the other hand, the 1996 Act allowed entrepreneurs to own media and technology companies across different industries which, as we have seen, has led to what is euphemistically called “consolidation “ (just as Auschwitz was called a “concentration “ rather than a “death “ camp).
It makes perfect sense that Mary world mention media “consolidation “ in the same dispatch as the Epstein files. There is, of course, the Clinton connection, even if he is innocent. Epstein and Maxwell destroyed the lives of some of the most vulnerable people; the current administration wants to silence their voices, or anyone who would speak for them.
One point, the Armada consisted of the Spanish ships Philip II sent to attack England in 1588. William Randolph Hearst spread the lie about Spanish military personnel blowing up the Maine, which led to the U.S. acquiring Puerto Rico, establishing Cuba as a sort of protectorate, and substituted the Philippines and Guam as American overseas territories. It is far more likely the Maine blew up due to a flawed boiler, not sabotage. Cuba had had its own independence movement in which Cubans like the Maceo Grajales brothers had been fighting to liberate- themselves from Spain for a period before the U.S. started the Spanish-American war. The Filipinos were not happy with the U.S. taking over their islands, and Emilio Aguinaldo fought to defend himself and the independence of the Philippines against the U.S., but lost.
Excellent post, Mary. As usual.
Nothing else matters since tonight the most inept administration in American history has just attacked Iran. Now Donnie and Bibi can build their resort on the Gaza Strip with impunity.
Thank you for podcast, Mary! Looks like war is coming to Iran they are evacuating embassies, their. I am glad that, President Clinton testified. I voted for him! Unfortunately he turned out to be a serial cheater in Chief. I’m glad his daughter Chelsea brought him and Secretary Clinton back together.
I voted for him and Obama even though I knew they had exactly the same problem: They’re Corporate Democrats. Unfortunately, they are the only kind who have been able to win national elections because of the vast amounts of money needed to run an effective campaign.
More important than my vote for Bill was my vote for Hillary. If only..... what if, infinity. Thank you , Mary for this indepth info. I am sick at heart, though, that so many in this country are allowing the inhumanity on every level to continue.
' Pledge America campaign at the FCC which allows broadcasters to air pro‑America patriotic programming' I didn't realize that it took a campaign from the FCC to allow broadcasters to broadcast patriotic programming. Just what is this programming, what makes it so patriotic?
For ages I've watched 'American Experience' and the various Ken Burns programs, the Concerts for America on the 4th of July. All on PBS, that notorious perveyor of anti-American propaganda. I guess that's not good enough.
I've been telling people for months about the obvious fact that the House can investigate, person number 1 is to be most likely investigated - the current Oaf in the Oval Office. That's the main thing behind the attack on Iran today, the weaponizing of avoiding that investigation, an extreme violation of international law. It's a war, and only Congress can declare a war. Oh, the Rs didn't declare a war? The US started a war, and our sons and daughters will die. The Oaf called them brave Amricans? When they die, he killed them just for political reasons. In the hopefully not too distant future when the Oaf is whimpering that he's a victim and he's sorry, he's not sorry. He has no feelings for anyone else, unless it was for Roy Cohn or other dictators.
I had a bone marrow transplant last year Jan 25. I was focused on the science and technology of ridding my body of cancer cells in my marrow. I never thought about the stress I now have about vaccines! When your body is purged of its old marrow and replaced with a donor new cells all vaccines are lost. So the protocol is to get new vaccines. Typically this wouldn’t be scary but due to the failures and opinions of the jackasses at the Health dept I continue to stay separate and hold on and wait for the measured vaccines I can have over this year. (They don’t blast you with all of them at once). The MMR is the last I will get end of this year or Jan 27. Hoping that these diseases get tamped down but it doesn’t look like that is going to happen. It’s not all about me but I hope all immune compromised people will be okay.
Annette - so sorry you had to go through so much and I know from my own experiences it always takes longer than you thought it would to get to the end of medical processes. A friend of mine went to a Womens Health event last week attended by about 200 women doing yoga and listening to speakers, etc. 4 days later she tested positive for Covid as did her husband and son. Not certain the event was the nexus of the infection, but strengthens my agreement with your plan to stay separate. The supposed (🤮) health dept. and rampant measles outbreaks and folks who didn't get the covid vaccine because the govt. wouldn't fund it, etc., etc., etc. makes it VERY SCARY to go out among the people if you are dealing with immunity issues. Take good care and continue be your wonderful self.
It’s their own children who are going to die, ours are vaccinated.
It was pointed out tonite that Clinton flew on Epstein's jet with his Secret Service detail, so somebody would have certainly reported something if they knew anything was going on.
I would chime in on broadband prices, but we can't get it where we live. Thank you for your nonattention to this matter, Mr. Carr.
I knew this was coming… the war on Iran. Narcissistic sociopaths will do anything to protect themselves and The Epstein Files undoubtedly show Trump as. Pedophile. Old nurse with Psych experience.
Hello Dr. Mary: I recently finished your book, “Too Much and Never Enough.” I confess that when I read the subtitle about Donald being the world’s most dangerous man, I wondered if that was just a bit hyperbolic. Only a bit, mind you.
Obviously my capacity for self-delusion is in full effect. For this morning, I awoke to the news that Emperor Orangus Dingulus the first had begun a war with Iran. He won’t be satisfied until he can manipulate events to make it look like a national crisis that will then be used as the reason he must take full control. Given his unquenchable need for domination, there will be no limits. Didn’t he already tell us that the only guardrails are his morality, his mind? (BTW, if you actually *see* that mind somewhere, don’t return it.). Your book was enticing and perspicuous, but even that didn’t prepare me for what the day has wrought.