There are a whole range of subjects and issues where the Corporate controlled media is completely silent and never mentions the real problems affecting America and how they can easily be fixed.
The media no longer performs their primary function which is to question the government and inform the public.
Corporate media's only goal is to not rock the boat and maximize profits.
If any presenter or pundit were to start discussing any of the following issues in any objective fashion they would be fired, any guests would not be invited back and if any of the subjects are raised on air there is always "a technical fault" or "sorry, we seem to have run out of time" excuse to cut any discussion off quickly.
The numerous issues the media is silent upon :-
The $1.3tn of annual Corporate Welfare a year
The $1.2tn of annual subsidies and continuing bailouts to the big banks
The endemic corruption within the political system where large corporations buy the politicians with campaign donations and write their own laws and regulations.
If the media reported the campaign contributions by politician and relevant industry whenever a vote was held in Congress it would soon become apparent to everyone how deeply corrupt the current system is.
E.G. Those on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who voted yes for intervention in Syria received double the amount of campaign contributions on average from the 'defense' industry, compared to those who voted no.
That the Federal Reserve is a completely privately owned institution whose aims, like any other private company, are to maximize the profits of it's major shareholders - the large banks.
The Federal Reserve private bank is always presented as a force for good in the media, when the exact opposite is undoubtedly true. The Federal Reserve is good for the big banks and bad for the rest of America.
The continuing removal of civil rights as defined in the Bill of Rights - not much is now left.
The fact that Obama is a Corporatist with policies for the top 0.1% and large crony corporations, not a Democrat with policies for the 99%.
The fact that the Rule of Law no longer applies in America.
The extremely wealthy and the boards of large Corporations can get away with pretty much any white collar crime. The only penalties handed out are occasional trivial fines.
While the poor are subject to extremely harsh jail sentences for trivial crimes (and often no crime at all - just abusing their own bodies).
The real reasons why the American government wants to intervene in Syria.
It has nothing whatsoever to do with chemical weapons.
It has everything to do with big bucks, gas pipelines, increasing military spending and the interests of Saudi Arabia and Israel.
It is not in America's interests to support Islamic Extremists in Syria that make up the bulk of the "rebels".
The increasingly monopoly powers of the Federal government and the complete monopoly powers of the Federal Reserve private bank over monetary policy.
The genius of the United States was that it was a system of friendly competition between "the several states" who each had their own laws, control of their monetary and financial systems and their own currencies.
This has now all but disappeared and replaced by the Federal government collecting the vast majority of the tax take and thus power, rather than the individual states having that power as defined in the Constitution.
The monopolistic cartels that now operate in each major industry, with the extremely unhealthy undue influence over the government and lack of competition that comes with it.
The top 5 big banks
The top 5 big oil companies
The top 6 media conglomerates that now control 90% of America's media
The top 10 arms companies for hardware
The top 5 arms companies software
The 5 or so top pharmaceutical companies that dictate the price of drugs in America, favoritism for which is provided by the government in general and by the FDA
Monsanto, Dow Chemical and Bayer which now effectively control food production in the U.S.
The companies in these cartels spend far more on lobbying the Federal government than they ever pay in taxes in order to maintain their monopolistic position and favorable treatment by the government.
To say nothing of the millions they spend in campaign contributions every year.
The real reasons the the government is now spying on every American and collecting just about every electronic communication.
It's not to protect the American public - quite the reverse, it's to protect the government from the people by identifying and then suppressing domestic dissenters. The same reason the Stasi set up their Mass Surveillance program in East Germany.
Israel and the power of AIPAC lobbying.
AIPAC lobbies for Israel's interests, not America's.
The great majority of the time, what AIPAC lobbies for is directly AGAINST America's interests.
America's unquestioning support of Israel creates many more enemies of America - it has been a primary recruiting tool for the Islamic Extremists for decades.
The unwavering support for Israel undermining America's interests was raised by General Petraeus in testimony to Congress in 2010, he immediately became a target for removal from public life.
The suppression of any objective discussion of Israel runs deep in America - you are not even allowed to mention the subject on Democratic Underground, almost all other subjects are allowed.
Nobody is even allowed to criticize Saudi Arabia in the media for fear of upsetting what is an autocratic state, that keeps it's own people poor in favor of enriching it's Royal Family while exporting it's own form of Extremist Islam - Wahhabism that has laws and the treatment of women that best belong back in the Middle Ages.
The fact that the drone warfare program actually recruits more Islamic Extremists and Jihadists than it kills and is deliberately designed to do so.
Drone strikes kill ten times as many innocent civilians as piloted airstrikes.
Where would the military industrial complex be if it didn't create more enemies?
America is now spending $1.2tn a year on arms or 8% of GDP, without a single credible military threat.
For comparison China is spending around $100bn a year or 2% of GDP, despite having a million strong army which is largely used for domestic control.
As the Founders were well aware of :-
Trade and friendly relations makes nations wealthy, war and excessive military spending makes nations poor.
A truism that China is applying and America has completely forgotten.
The primary objective of an arms company CEO is not to make America safe.
His primary purpose is to sell more arms to maximize profits. This objective is helped if there are more wars and conflicts in the world and Americans feel and actually are LESS safe.
The relentless decline in America's overall wealth, strategic power, economic power and financial stability (since 2000).
The relentless decline in America's relative strength since 2000 and the rise in Asia's.
The unsustainability of the National Debt - it is never going to be paid off.
The transition from American hegemony to Asia centered on China is already apparent.
The Chinese and Russians are working on plans to replace the US dollar as the Global Reserve Currency - they are building an economic coalition with India, Brazil, South Africa, Japan, Australia, Chile, the rest of South America and half of Africa.
The relentless decline in ordinary people's standard of living.
The understatement of true inflation in official government statistics.
Real inflation is between 6 and 9% not the circa 2% reported.
How much have your food, gas, healthcare and college education costs gone up in the last 10 years?
All of these things have gone up by around 8 to 10% a year over the last 10 years.
All of these things have a far more significant effect on the 99% than they do on the top 1%.
The understatement of true unemployment rates.
U6 unemployment which includes those who can no longer claim benefits is 14%..
Real unemployment is now 24% - this includes discouraged workers who have given up looking for a job, because there are no decent paying jobs out there.
The fact that social mobility in America is now in the bottom three in the developed world.
50 years ago there was a thriving, widespread and growing middle class in America.
Just about everybody in America could aspire to it and most did if they worked for it.
The middle classes are now being wiped out by government policies.
The fact that education standards in America have dramatically declined and have fallen behind other developed countries.
The fact that spending more money won't fix the problem.
The STYLE of education needs to change back towards where it was 50 years ago.
The fact that sending 50% of young people to college isn't helping when only 10 to 20% of jobs actually require a college degree.
The old system of on the job training, apprenticeships and community colleges for work related skills was far better than the system we have now.
It didn't load young people up with $30,000 of debt as they started out in life.
It didn't increase the cost of college education by 8 or 10% a year.
The fact that American Healthcare now costs twice as much as any other developed country, with worse overall outcomes. The average lifespan of Americans is now declining from already low levels.
The fact that Obamacare is going to make things even worse by making American Healthcare even less efficient..
The American Healthcare system makes more people sick for longer. This makes more money for large drugs companies, large insurers and large Healthcare companies.
The fact that Social Security and Medicare are unsustainable under the current system.
America has between $80tn and $220tn of unfunded liabilities which can never be paid, if nothing is changed.
The retirement age needs to be raised to 70+ to reflect increased life spans since the 1930's, to address Social Security shortfalls.
Medicare needs to be fixed by :-
reducing the exorbitant price paid for prescription drugs
over prescription
over treatment
reducing the vast amounts of blatant fraud
some increase in the age qualification and some means testing are also required.
The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), currently being negotiated, which subordinates national sovereignty and national laws in order to favor multinationals and large corporations.
It will have far more severe detrimental effects, as it stands, on America and American jobs than Nafta.
The Federal government and Federal taxes are far too high which makes America in general far less competitive with the rest of the world.
America grew from almost nothing, to the greatest economic power in the world in around 130 years without a Federal income tax at all, it would prosper again if the Federal government was reduced to the confines as defined in the Bll of Rights.
The real reasons why the government does not want to legalize drugs.
How to turn things around from America's current death spiral of lower wealth and higher poverty and create a virtuous circle of increasing prosperity like the 1950's and 1960's.
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2013/05/how-to-fix-americas-economy-create-jobs.html
References
The following are previous articles that support the above statements.
Each article has links from credible sources that provide the evidence for the statements and assertions made.
The $1.3tn of annual Corporate Welfare that can easily be cut - a detailed list
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2012/11/it-is-very-easy-to-cut-1tn-from-federal.html
The $780bn+ of annual subsidies to the big banks need to be taken away
The $500bn of annual bailouts need to be stopped
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-780bn-of-annual-subsidies-to-big.html
How Congressmen Are Bought - Excellent videos on the Washington system of corruption
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2013/08/how-congressmen-are-bought-excellent.html
What Everybody Needs to Know About the Federal Reserve private bank
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2013/07/what-every-student-and-citizen-in.html
Why do people have this strange idea that somehow the Federal Reserve is some kind of force for good? Congressman Louis McFadden knew the truth.
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2013/04/why-do-people-have-this-weird-idea-that.html
Superb educational video of how the world, politics and the Federal Reserve system really work
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2013/03/connecting-dots-this-guy-is-awesome-at.html
Obama's Catalog of Civil Rights Abuses and preparations for massive civil unrest
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2012/11/obamas-civil-rights-violations.html
An inconvenient truth for Barack Obama - He is a Corporatist NOT a Democrat
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2013/06/why-do-people-still-think-that-barack.html
The heinous and serious crimes of the Obama regime - the utter failure to uphold the Rule of Law
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-heinous-and-serious-crimes-of-obama.html
The facts behind the conflict in Syria that Obama does not want you to see (and mainstream media aren't mentioning)
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2013/08/action-in-syria-what-would-it-achieve.html
The contortions being performed in the American/Russian negotiations over Syria
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-contortions-being-performed-in.html
NSA Mass Surveillance - it's to protect the government FROM the people
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2013/06/verizon-revelations-tom-clements.html
A complete pack of lies - the government story on the NSA Mass Surveillance programs
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2013/09/a-complete-pack-of-lies-government.html
The People Against the 800 Pound Gorilla » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
The power and unhealthy influence of the AIPAC & Israel lobby on American politics and policy
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/09/13/the-people-against-the-800-pound-gorilla/
The purpose of the drone warfare program is to .... create more Islamic Extremists
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-purpose-of-drone-warfare-program-is.html
The numbers NOBODY wants you to see. Military spend now TRIPLE that of cold war.
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2013/03/military-spending-1962-to-date.html
There hasn't been ANY economic recovery since 2009
The vast majority of people are worse off - only the wealthy are better off since 2009.
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2013/07/there-hasnt-been-any-economic-recovery.html
The unsustainable and relentless increase in government spending.
From $1.5tn in 2000 to $3.5tn in 2013, to $6tn in 2023.
Deficits are expected to be over $3tn in 2023.
The National Debt is expected to rise from $17tn now, to over $40tn in 2023.
America's greatest National Security threat - it's unsustainable debt levels
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2012/02/greek-scenario-and-us.html
Secret TPP Treaty “This Agreement Hands The Sovereignty of Our Country Over to Corporate Interests”
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2013/07/secret-tpp-treaty-this-agreement-hands.html
Cops say legalize drugs - ask me why. The real reasons why the Federal government does not want to legalize drugs
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2013/06/cops-say-legalize-drugs-ask-me-why-real.html
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