They Admit It!
From http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/04/30/ownership/ on April 30:
Sen. Dick Durbin, on a local Chicago radio station this week, blurted out an obvious truth about Congress that, despite being blindingly obvious, is rarely spoken: "And the banks - hard to believe in a time when we’re facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created - are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly own the place."
One might think it would be a big news story for the second most-powerful member of the U.S. Senate to baldly state that the Congress is "owned" by the bankers who spawned the financial crisis and continue to dictate the government's actions. But it won't be. The leading members of the media work for the very corporations that benefit most from this process. Establishment journalists are integral and well-rewarded members of the same system and thus cannot and will not see it as inherently corrupt (instead, as Newsweek's Evan Thomas said, their role, as "members of the ruling class," is to "prop up the existing order," "protect traditional institutions" and "safeguard the status quo").
So if you haven't seen this piece of news, now you know why.
I was thinking, maybe Durbin said this because he, too, is trying to get We, the Sheeple, to take action against the Oligarchy. Or maybe they want to see just how effectively the Internet disseminates such news, and what its impact is. Probably, however, they are firmly convinced they are completely unassailable now and just want to prove it to the non-sheep before they drop the axe on them and isolate them from their sources, one way or another.
Sen. Dick Durbin, on a local Chicago radio station this week, blurted out an obvious truth about Congress that, despite being blindingly obvious, is rarely spoken: "And the banks - hard to believe in a time when we’re facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created - are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly own the place."
One might think it would be a big news story for the second most-powerful member of the U.S. Senate to baldly state that the Congress is "owned" by the bankers who spawned the financial crisis and continue to dictate the government's actions. But it won't be. The leading members of the media work for the very corporations that benefit most from this process. Establishment journalists are integral and well-rewarded members of the same system and thus cannot and will not see it as inherently corrupt (instead, as Newsweek's Evan Thomas said, their role, as "members of the ruling class," is to "prop up the existing order," "protect traditional institutions" and "safeguard the status quo").
So if you haven't seen this piece of news, now you know why.
I was thinking, maybe Durbin said this because he, too, is trying to get We, the Sheeple, to take action against the Oligarchy. Or maybe they want to see just how effectively the Internet disseminates such news, and what its impact is. Probably, however, they are firmly convinced they are completely unassailable now and just want to prove it to the non-sheep before they drop the axe on them and isolate them from their sources, one way or another.