The Great Disconnect - Citizens, MainStream Media, and Politicians

A few moments ago on CNBC I heard President Obama say these words `the economy's growth has been the greatest in the last three decades'...................................... I'll let that settle a bit in your mind and the bad taste in your mouth to dissapate.

Here's how I think most would feel.

Oh, really, seems this RHP headline of your own government statistics a few days ago  Great Recession Continues - Unemployment Up In More States Than Down - would be more accurate to the citizens of the country. Let alone your own statistics also showing 44 states with WORSE unemployment numbers now compared to a year ago. Does that remotely sound like the best news in three decades? To most citizens, playing with the numbers to produce words such as `greatest growth in three decades' is beyond reproach.

But, nonetheless, the government leaders speak of the great comeback - and, while the MSM can read the same numbers as the citizens (due to a free press?) - and whose talking heads live in the same communities of the citizens -- and who themselves KNOW that conditions HAVE NOT IMPROVED -- and despite all that - the MSM `talking head' simply repeats what the `leaders' want - and finishes the words with a smile. Following the mantra to `Cheerlead' the economy at all costs - even if it destroys the reporters believability factor. Even if classroom sizes are doubling because of the near disaster of an economy we HAVE? (Can the dissconnect be greater than `saving' at the expense of the children?)

OR, how about this headline at RHP in the last few days? Poll Finds Tea Party Backers Wealthier and More Educated - I mean, to me, certainly, the Tea Party folks have been portrayed nearly ONLY as uneducated, racist, outsiders to the American way of life. Portrayed that way by who? The MSM, of course. Wonder why? Democraps and Republinuts buy LOTS OF ADS and contribute to the MSM's bottomline. The same Republinuts and Democraps that the citizens By Nearly 4-1 Majority of Americans Distrust the Government: Survey feel like this RHP headline.

OR, how about the use of force on citizens that has increased with barely a wimper from the MSM over the last few decades? How much have you heard of this recent RHP headline in the MSM? Maryland's SWAT Transparency Bill Produces Its First Disturbing Results - Just who's side is the MSM on? Huh? Have you EVER heard a MSM person (one that wants to keep their paycheck next week) question where all this is going? Or, what happens when they come for YOU?

And, how could the media miss for decades this story - How The War On Drugs Is A War On Class - again a recent RHP headline much more in contact with citizen views than Politician views. Is the MSM that stupid? Are they that much of a shrill for the views of the politicians? Do they realize that when they show a SWAT raid that nets 20 pounds of pot in one state that in some states Judges are ordering the RETURN of pot to citizens - sometimes pounds of pot? Or that many have prescriptions for this product? Does it strike the media that they have been a shrill for a phoney war against the citizens? (Oh, that's right, lawyers advertise too - let's not upset one of their core businesses.)

Or, that Poll Indicates Plurality Of Americans Views Closer To Tea Party Reformers Than To Elected Worthless Politicians In Congress - is the attitude they should take about what the politicians `say'. But, we have a pussy-whipped media of the first order.

I'm pretty sure it is beyond hopeless - and this - just another internet rant to ignore. And, don't even get me started about the deficit, or, the last time you saw a Libertarian interviewed on TV.

http://realheavypolitics.blogspot.com/2010/04/poll-finds-tea-party-backers-wealthier.html
http://realheavypolitics.blogspot.com/2010/04/great-recession-continues-unemployment.html
http://realheavypolitics.blogspot.com/2010/04/by-nearly-4-1-majority-of-americans.html
http://realheavypolitics.blogspot.com/2010/04/marylands-swat-transparency-bill.html
http://realheavypolitics.blogspot.com/2010/04/how-war-on-drugs-is-war-on-class.html
http://realheavypolitics.blogspot.com/2010/03/poll-indicates-plurality-of-americans.html

Times Square Billboard From NORML Denied By CBS

The control of the peons opinions continues - shamelessly - as in this example - http://blog.norml.org/2010/02/05/times-square-billboard-from-norml-denied-by-cbs/ --- Free speech -- Real Heavy Politics.

http://www.whatawaytogomovie.com/2010/02/05/the-year-we-make-contact/ I certainly could have put this onto Barf Stew or AnomalyMan -- but - it links to my UFO blog and has a strong politics angle to it. Enjoy.

China Defaulting Loans Soar, Insolvency Lawyer Says (Update1) - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=aJhBD4AeX8WA Yes, the China folks had a real estate bubble too. Real Heavy Politics.

A Radical Solution to End the Drug War: Legalize Everything - http://www.esquire.com/the-side/richardson-report/drug-war-facts-090109?src=LOVEdrugs Radical only to a pussywhipped media.

Secret Banking Cabal Emerges From AIG Shadows - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=aaIuE.W8RAuU - Must read story, from Bloomberg, that the rest of the MSM seems not interested in much - how surprising. From the article:

"Yet when unelected and unaccountable agencies pick banking winners while trying to end-run Congress, even as taxpayers are forced to lend, spend and guarantee about $8 trillion to prop up the financial system, our collective blood should boil. "

Marijuana in the classroom? Sometimes it's legal - http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0123/Marijuana-in-the-classroom-Sometimes-it-s-legal Another radical story from Christian Science Monitor.

Joe Rogan on Hemp, Marijuana and DMT - Worth Your Click

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An Alternative View Of The State Of The Union

As you might expect - I have a different view of the current State of the Union than the President. To me, the USA government has become a bloated, runaway, disaster. We have a President who talks about a `freeze' on spending - only to find out that it really is a `freeze' in the future and only at 20% MORE than when taking office. Total horse manure.

We have a government totally out of touch with economic reality - and the economic reality of the bulk of it's citizens. With the refusal, by politicians, one day before the State of the Union address, to have a commission on the government debt that may bankrupt the country in less than a decade. Politicians who care WAY more for themselves than the country. Total horse manure.

All this dour economic news while the big time media leads a cheerleading effort telling us it isn't so. That things are getting better. Talking continually of new jobs while millions become unemployed. Acting like folks are not ready to throw out EVERY member of congress (as some polls have shown). NEVER featuring Libertarians or independents who have run in the past such as John Anderson or Ross Perot. A media that is nothing more than a mouthpiece for the government policies of the two parties. Total horse manure.

We have a President elected on bringing the defense budget under control via ending our foreign conflicts - leading us into a new increased war with no real justification or reward if we are successful. We have troops in more countries than any other country on Earth - spending 10 times as much on `defense' as the next highest country spends. Being the leading EXporter of `weapons' on the planet. With politicians bought by big business contracts and the media bought by the politicians. Total horse manure.

We have corporations making the difference larger between the haves and have nots - to go to a level once thought impossible, by increasing the payment to the top people -- as if they are not replaceable. No longer does a CEO make 40 times the normal worker -- only 400 times the pay of the peons will work in the 2000's. While at the same time government decreased those same top earners tax levels via the Bush `cuts'; regardless of its effects on the Federal Deficit. Total horse manure.

We have a failed decades long war on drugs - that the government doesn't admit to - regardless if it has already busted the once proud black society of America. Regardless if it limits rights via all the methods the drug war has been conducted against the citizens. Regardless if it has often been directed at pot, a drug much less damaging than the legal alcohol. All the while - the drug war supported by the pussywhipped big media who depends on a % of their money from political ads. Total horse manure.

And, do we even have to mention the Federal Government turning its head the other way while 10's of millions of illegals entered the country - and the governments refusal to do anything about it till this day? While the illegals, in general, use the federal services for free and fill the prisons? While the illegals make babies to change the very nature of our country while having no interest in even learning the native language? Beyond horse manure.

And, should I even mention a government that has promised `energy Independence' FOR DECADE AFTER DECADE - while sending billions upon billions of our dollars to governments who have no respect for human rights - instead of moving to our own natural gas for cars? With a car fleet that averages the same 25 mpg that the Model T did? Indeed, the very easiest thing for President Obama to have supported on Day one in office would have been the Pickens Plan - instead - we flounder for another year. Total horse manure.

Yes, this is an alternative view of the State Of The Union - is this closer to your view - or - is the point of view you hear via the media daily closer to your view?

Thought so.

I welcome your viewpoint.

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Another Decade Ends As Pussy-Whipped Media Continues Drug War Rhetoric For Government

Hello, welcome to Real Heavy Politics @ Blogspot - I appreciate your visit today. Please bookmark my site if you like what you read here today.

So, welcome to the 10's -- yet another decade our media allows the war againist privacy and our citizens concerning marijuana usage. As you know, the reasons the pussy-whipped media allows it is partly due to their own dependence on advertising from the very sources of the drug war - namely, politicians (political ads), and lawyers (category ads) - who depend on their rhetoric from being challenged on the MSM - especially at the local level.

That is not to say that other advertisers - like beer and alcohol - don't have a stake in pot remaining non-competitive. Or, the various pharmacological products that might be able to be replaced by pot, such as pain relievers and sleep-aids. Indeed, as you know, every time the media runs some trumped up story about evil people who get caught by the pot laws - remember their own conflict of interests.

The real question is whether the MSM will feel even a twinge of guilt when there is finally legal pot in the country - able to be purchased without a prescription (see they still have cover - only SICK people use pot). You see, at that point, justice will have HUGE differences depending on where one lives - and the media has always claimed they were all for justice.

Don't hold your breath - we have a media as worthless and spineless as our politicians. Especially when it involves Real Heavy Politics.

Here's some more links to enjoy:

http://hailmaryjane.com/25-of-the-best-marijuana-related-stories-of-2009/ As you can read from the link - the best 25 pot stories of last year - Phelps and more.

Re-framing the Population Issue As a Women's’ Rights Issue - http://www.ecofriendlymag.com/general-green-news/re-framing-the-population-issue-as-a-womens-rights-issue/ Will the 10's be the time the world finally wakes up to the real Earth issue? --- Overpopulation.

Czech Decriminalises All Drugs - http://www.harderfaster.net/?sid=8e0a70d2ccf7cb7a66cc749f76e89864&section=news&action=shownews&newsid=1177599047 Read about the legal limits here.

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