That's becoming less important in the US as our priorities have shifted over the years. The US isn't spending the money on education nor is it spending money to make better informed citizens. Compare what was occurring in public education in the 60s to what has happened with education now. The liberal arts are needed yet get little attention for vocational skills.
I'm really not seeing this... Why is Palmer different? For decades, people have had apprenticeships in music. You have plenty of artists that link up for a tour and find new talent and ways to interact with the crowd.
We have stories from centuries past in how bards travel together and spread songs. Yet now, someone has to get paid in order to enjoy the music. What has our culture become when we focus on money over good music?
Instead of tackling concrete problems, the vague threat of "terrorism" is constantly invoked -- without ever defining what that means -- to justify a range of extreme measures.
The reason no government will ever define terrorism is because they would be the first ones locked up by inducing Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry, and Smear on the populace.
The problem is the 14th Amendment allows corporate speech through a misreading precedents. Kind of sad that we can't regulate the largest companies because of problems in judicial activism.
Reagan and the Fairness Doctrine destroyed news by combining news with edutainment.
Further, we have to recognize that his media deregulation policies have screwed us over immensely. The FCC has been handicapped in regulating the internet and Net Neutrality and they don't have the manpower to really fight corporations as AT&T and Verizon are trying to assert "First Amendment" rights on control of networks similar to the robber barons of the 1880s.
Geez, I mean the only half-way decent (and given her lackadaisical interviewing style, it sadly is only half-way decent) news show is Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman.
Thom Hartmann and the Big Picture
The Young Turks
Mother Jones
Huffington Post Live
I believe there are more liberal views online than just Amy Goodman.
It's not like they're in the business of selling their news on DVDs. They're in it for the advertising dollars. They get that by being up to date with relevant and informative news (or at least shocking and enraging, whatever draws the eyeballs). There's no point protecting old news stories because there's no money for them in it.
What happens if a news organization gets the story wrong? What about if they want to bury a story?
These are the problems of trying to hold control on a story. It also ensures that the people that want a different view can't get it
The only ones that can fight these stories that could possibly be directed are the big ones that are already large enough to absorb these ridiculous stories.
But that main bias had two problems: the de-emphasis on liberal arts and our media having the ability to lie to us.
I'm positive that if we wanted to have an informed citizenry, it is attainable in one or two generations. The same can be said of any other country that is evolving into a democratic state.
What do you do, though, if the will of the people is to elect a conservative religious government?
More education trumps religious zealotry. They've needed help in defining the things that are needed in the new democracy that is forming.
"When the protests against an American-made online video mocking the Prophet Muhammad exploded in about 20 countries, the source of the rage was more than just religious sensitivity, political demagogy or resentment of Washington, protesters and their sympathizers here said. It was also a demand that many of them described with the word 'freedom,' although in a context very different from the term’s use in the individualistic West: the right of a community, whether Muslim, Christian or Jewish, to be free from grave insult to its identity and values."
The film was the tenderbox. But that's not what everyone is truly against here. .
The three grievances I've listed (and there are others) aren't wholly unrelated to that horrible YouTube video. They're interpreted by some Muslims as evidence of American contempt for the Muslim world, and the video was taken as yet more confirmation.
Obviously, the fact that an American policy contributes to anti-Americanism in the Muslim world isn't by itself a decisive argument against the policy. But ever since terrorism became a significant threat to American interests, this consideration has belonged in the policy cost-benefit calculus. All the more so in the wake of the Arab Spring, when the policies of Egypt and some other Muslim countries are more responsive to popular opinion, and anti-American sentiment can therefore translate more directly into anti-American policies.
That's not it. You have a dictatorial government that is being overthrown because of a fundamental shift to the want of a better life. As James C Davies(pdf) stated in 1965:
Revolution is most likely to occur when a
prolonged period of rising espectations (material and nonmaterial) and rising gratifications is followed by a short period of sharp reversal, during which the gap between what people want and what they get quickly widens and becomes intolerable.
The government is slowly losing its legitimacy and fighting to maintain it. The people in Syria lived with dictatorial rule for quite some time but the Arab Spring movement showed people a new life. New jobs are attainable by overthrowing a corrupt regime. Unfortunately, the Obama administration has not put together its own Marshall Plan to help the Arab world.
What we're seeing is the last remnants of a government looking to crush opposition. Unfortunately, democratic countries haven't come in to help bring up a middle class. Instilling actual democracies in areas is quite difficult when you have a ton of people who believe in a small government that works against those interests.
It's the one way that corporations can get around our Constitution. They tried for SOPA and they still want those requirements. What they will push for is more predatory capitalism where corporations are given priority over individual people.
I rather blame Clinton for everything that happened here. When he signed NAFTA he gave US sovereignty to corporations. Sure, he was a good president, but he hurt the US in a number of ways by creating free trade zones that will allow for corporate control of copyright over what the people want.
After watching parts if the trailer on the news, I can say that it wasn't very good. That said, this movie was just the tenderbox which had lighted a fuse. Another example would be the Rodney King beating which spawned the LA riots. The history behind the actions is ignored. Over 4 generations of suppression eventually get released and it's doubtful that all of that raw emotion will be good for the US and its interests. I'm sad that we lost a good ambassador, but maybe it's time for building schools and giving medicine instead of dropping bombs and installing dictators.
I can confirm that my Representative is "safe". He'll vote for this and not see one iota of punishment. I can't vote him out, nor can I vote for the alternative because he believes in the same policies.
I truly hate crony capitalism and all of it's forms...
The MPAA only has a little over 100 members at last check. I want you to seriously consider this. They, and their affiliates, are so miniscule as to be nothing more than a small business that takes the flack for the movie industry. Yet, they have inordinate power similar to the Robber Baron Era, where they are effectively a trust that needs busting.
The only thing they have is a lot of money that is slowly dwindling. The movie industry will begin to lose money as they are disrupted by the internet. But before that happens, they're doing a lot of damage with technology.
You can't innovate until you either get them to play by the same rules as everyone else or you find a way to become a Google or a Microsoft to make them adapt new rules.
And that's the saddest part about this entire thing...
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We have stories from centuries past in how bards travel together and spread songs. Yet now, someone has to get paid in order to enjoy the music. What has our culture become when we focus on money over good music?
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The reason no government will ever define terrorism is because they would be the first ones locked up by inducing Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry, and Smear on the populace.
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Why Fox and others can lie to you
Reagan and the Fairness Doctrine destroyed news by combining news with edutainment.
Further, we have to recognize that his media deregulation policies have screwed us over immensely. The FCC has been handicapped in regulating the internet and Net Neutrality and they don't have the manpower to really fight corporations as AT&T and Verizon are trying to assert "First Amendment" rights on control of networks similar to the robber barons of the 1880s.
Geez, I mean the only half-way decent (and given her lackadaisical interviewing style, it sadly is only half-way decent) news show is Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman.
Thom Hartmann and the Big Picture
The Young Turks
Mother Jones
Huffington Post Live
I believe there are more liberal views online than just Amy Goodman.
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What happens if a news organization gets the story wrong? What about if they want to bury a story?
These are the problems of trying to hold control on a story. It also ensures that the people that want a different view can't get it
The only ones that can fight these stories that could possibly be directed are the big ones that are already large enough to absorb these ridiculous stories.
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I'm positive that if we wanted to have an informed citizenry, it is attainable in one or two generations. The same can be said of any other country that is evolving into a democratic state.
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More education trumps religious zealotry. They've needed help in defining the things that are needed in the new democracy that is forming.
"When the protests against an American-made online video mocking the Prophet Muhammad exploded in about 20 countries, the source of the rage was more than just religious sensitivity, political demagogy or resentment of Washington, protesters and their sympathizers here said. It was also a demand that many of them described with the word 'freedom,' although in a context very different from the term’s use in the individualistic West: the right of a community, whether Muslim, Christian or Jewish, to be free from grave insult to its identity and values."
The film was the tenderbox. But that's not what everyone is truly against here. .
The three grievances I've listed (and there are others) aren't wholly unrelated to that horrible YouTube video. They're interpreted by some Muslims as evidence of American contempt for the Muslim world, and the video was taken as yet more confirmation.
Obviously, the fact that an American policy contributes to anti-Americanism in the Muslim world isn't by itself a decisive argument against the policy. But ever since terrorism became a significant threat to American interests, this consideration has belonged in the policy cost-benefit calculus. All the more so in the wake of the Arab Spring, when the policies of Egypt and some other Muslim countries are more responsive to popular opinion, and anti-American sentiment can therefore translate more directly into anti-American policies.
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Revolution is most likely to occur when a
prolonged period of rising espectations (material and nonmaterial) and rising gratifications is followed by a short period of sharp reversal, during which the gap between what people want and what they get quickly widens and becomes intolerable.
The government is slowly losing its legitimacy and fighting to maintain it. The people in Syria lived with dictatorial rule for quite some time but the Arab Spring movement showed people a new life. New jobs are attainable by overthrowing a corrupt regime. Unfortunately, the Obama administration has not put together its own Marshall Plan to help the Arab world.
What we're seeing is the last remnants of a government looking to crush opposition. Unfortunately, democratic countries haven't come in to help bring up a middle class. Instilling actual democracies in areas is quite difficult when you have a ton of people who believe in a small government that works against those interests.
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I rather blame Clinton for everything that happened here. When he signed NAFTA he gave US sovereignty to corporations. Sure, he was a good president, but he hurt the US in a number of ways by creating free trade zones that will allow for corporate control of copyright over what the people want.
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(Too Bad. Japan doesn't want this treaty.)
にほんもうわかる。。。
（Japan already understands...)
この条約 は国家主権を破壊する
(This treaty disrupts our national sovereignty)
それが 大変だよな。
（That's rather scary)
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Just my thoughts...
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I truly hate crony capitalism and all of it's forms...
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The only thing they have is a lot of money that is slowly dwindling. The movie industry will begin to lose money as they are disrupted by the internet. But before that happens, they're doing a lot of damage with technology.
You can't innovate until you either get them to play by the same rules as everyone else or you find a way to become a Google or a Microsoft to make them adapt new rules.
And that's the saddest part about this entire thing...
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