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Don White wrote in news:17YGg.60$9u.2475@ursa-
nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca:

What makes you think they can't control this medium also. They could
insert their own agents spreading dis-information while tracking down
and eliminating non-conforming posters. I'd be very careful.



Too many bloggers....regular folks. It's the old "they can't arrest us
all" scenario...

Case in point is Mahmood in rigidly-controlled Bahrain. It's a great
read from a really nice Arab the Illuminati would really rather you
didn't get to know:
http://mahmood.tv
He's in the video business in Bahrain and there are lots of vlogs from
his website. After you read it the third time, you'd swear you were part
of Mahmood's family. His regular jabs and reporting unpleasant aspects
of Bahraini government bureaucrats, politicians and the royal family is
very revealing about Arab society. Right now there's a big row amoungst
Bahraini bloggers because the Bahraini elite, who control the telephone
company internet, have cut off access to Google Earth. Google Earth
recently switched from low res to very high resolution pictures of the
whole island. Bahrainis could now peer OVER the compound walls of the
filthy rich and look around their palaces to see where all the money has
gone. It made them nervous...(c; I'm amazed these bloggers aren't all
in a concentration camp.

Disinformation posters are real easy to spot. The blogger community soon
expose them and they are forced to back out and restart. Start reading
alt.cellular.verizon and see if you can spot the company shills, who
always support the company, no matter how stupid or wrong they are...in
the face of consumers reporting on poor performance and service....

--
There's amazing intelligence in the Universe.
You can tell because none of them ever called Earth.

Great Battery Book on Usenet
 

DSK wrote in news:ARXGg.313$C6.176
@bignews1.bellsouth.net:

Oh yes, I noticed those, but I'm still busy downloading 150
engineering texts. In fact really useful stuff on composite
structures keeps showing up faster than I can download it.


The size of the boat library you can take on a long, mostly boring voyage,
on a single DVD would sink a 70' motor yacht.

I loved the quotation. I forget which English economics professor said it,
but back in the late 1700's he said something like:

A democracy can only exist until the electorate discovers that they can
vote themselves an income from the public treasury.....something to that
effect. America's gone past that line many year ago....

Great Battery Book on Usenet
 

Larry wrote:
The size of the boat library you can take on a long, mostly boring voyage,
on a single DVD would sink a 70' motor yacht.


True.
But there's something really really nice about having a
book, so far no computer or little electronic gizmo has
replaced it. Another nice thing is the book exchange shelf
at marinas & sailing clubs. I have often found very
interesting things that I would not normally have sat down
to read.

I loved the quotation. I forget which English economics professor said it,
but back in the late 1700's he said something like:

A democracy can only exist until the electorate discovers that they can
vote themselves an income from the public treasury.....something to that
effect. America's gone past that line many year ago....


There weren't very many English economists in the 1700s, so
it's a rather small field ;)

Anyway, a Roman named Seneca made an oft-quoted similar
statement, employing the key phrase "bread and circuses."
Rome was a republic for several hundred years and retained
elements of democracy under the early & middle empire... the
senators had a lot of power and universally manipulated the
gov't and the military to make more money for themselves.
Sort of like Halliburton only without the faudulent billing ;)

Seneca: "Democracy is the greatest form of government, but
destined to be short-lived because the masses will always
vote for bread & circuses for themselves." Of course he said
it in Latin so this phrased many different ways in English.

DSK