I've seen some stories about the bank debacle in Portugal and wondered if it bit you.
Sounds like your vacation was not quite what you envisioned. My ribs hurt just reading about yours.
Cat
Mikado14 wrote:Luis,
The problem is the media. A long time ago, in land far, far away, the media used to tell the truth. They didn't take sides. The reasoning was that the truth was important. No agendas and it was up to the readers or viewers of the media to make their own judgement for that is what freedom was, a right to choose.
Something happened along the way from then until now. The media is driven by principles derived from what they think the rest should be thinking for they now better than anyone else, their view is the correct view or so they think. They indoctrinate those views upon us repeatedly for what we do is wrong in their eyes and according to their principles.
Therefore, someone as Phelps is not allowed to be a person. Not allowed to have a personal life. He must be something other than that. He is a commodity so that when he lives his life as he wants but is contrary to what they feel is proper, then he will be brought down and be made to look as if he is something less than a normal person.
The media has become the self-righteous watch dog of all the people, whether it be by lifestyle, politics, family, whatever, they know what we all should be.
Just my two euros,
Mikado
Linda Leach wrote:The PRESS printing the absolute truth?
Postby Linda Brown » Sun Dec 21, 2014 3:22 pm
Someone on the HUT ( the paragon of virtue as far as " printing the " truth"
Has recently printed this. I thought that it would give you all a good morning laugh.
"The problem is the media. A long time ago, in land far, far away, the media used to tell the truth. They didn't take sides. The reasoning was that the truth was important. No agendas and it was up to the readers or viewers of the media to make their own judgement for that is what freedom was, a right to choose. "
What historical period is this person living in? What disinformation is he spreading here? The press has ALWAYS been used as an instrument of disinformation and public control. Anyone who thinks differently than that needs to study history just a little more carefully. And note how the shift of blame is being used here! The "problem" is always something else....someone else... and they are always to be used to blame.
The difference NOW is that with the instantaneous... person to person media which has developed between us all.... the " press" that usually forms our opinions of our day to day reality is losing its grip. Information is going directly to the consumer. and it is flashing like a wildfire jumping from tree top to tree top. CONTROL of information is going away.......Even on small forums.
The winter Solstice is today. Its the shortest day and the longest night of the year... and changes will come with that. The days of sunlight will get longer and longer.... and the shadows will have less time to hide things away from all of us.
GO FORTH. ( my Dad would say!)
and " Stay on the Sunny side of the street"( My Mom would say! )
article wrote:<snip>
But Biddle took her tweet at face value and posted it to the popular Gawker blog under the sarcastic headline, “And Now, a Funny Holiday Joke from IAC's PR Boss.”
It quickly went viral and spawned the hashtag #HasJustineLandedYet, which people used to vent their anger and attack Sacco.
“Not knowing anything about her,” Biddle wrote in a Gawker article published Saturday morning, “I had taken its cluelessness at face value, and hundreds of thousands of people had done the same: instantly hating her because it's easy and thrilling to hate a stranger online.”
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Biddle says that he tried to rationalize sharing her tweet with the world — to generate outrage/traffic — by viewing the act as media criticism, social justice, or karma, but that when he saw her in person, he knew he couldn’t suppress the guilt.
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kevin wrote:Yesterday was the solstice.
See if You can see how such a TIMEing relates to this link?
http://thelamplight.ca/schematicoftime/researching3.htm
You will need to read through the pages, and then try to consider how the solstices and equinoxs fit into the patterning described .
Kevin
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