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stcredzero on Nov 14, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Who rules America

Money rules the media. (In large part, not completely.)

Through the media, corporations, and lobbyists the rich rule America.

jraines on Nov 14, 2010 [–]

Agreed; reminds me indirectly of Arthur Jensen's speech to "off the reservation" media star Howard Beale in Network.

"It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet -- it is the order of things today"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sySuIXG_IM

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