Corporate Censorship: We Own Your Opinion

If only we could turn over all of our media to the private sector. Then, there would only be efficiency. No inefficient stuff like censorship would exist. Our glorious corporate story would be on view for all to see:

Greed Requires Regulation

This is what the unfettered, deregulated free market has to offer:



Yes, mere "externalities", those lazy birds and fish. Apparently they are not using their bootstraps--otherwise they would have saved themselves by now.

The free market will take care of all of this by allowing BP to go bankrupt--or be taken over. And all that death? All that environmental destruction? All the lost jobs? Just more "externalities."

See, all better. All done.

"How Soon Until The Free Market Stops The Oil Spill?"

From Bob Cesca:

...As I watch these robots slice the riser from the blowout preventer and read the news about lakes of oil moving towards the coasts of Florida, I'm wondering who to blame for this. The list is long, but, in part, I blame anyone who bought into the lines: "government is the problem" and "the era of big government is over." It's been systematic deregulation and the elevation of free market libertarian laissez-faire capitalism that have wrought this damage and allowed potentially destructive corporations to write their own rules and do as they please.
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This oil spill is the culmination of deregulation mania, which started with dear Ronald Reagan. Policies have consequences.

C'mon private sector. What's taking you so long? How come that invisible hand thing ain't workin'? Where's your self interest? Milton? Ronnie? Anyone??

Death On The High Seas & Underground

Have you heard much about the workers who were killed on the Transocean/BP oil rig in the Gulf? Heard anything about the totally outdated laws on the books today dealing with how a deceased worker's family is compensated in the event of an on the job fatality?

Why, its almost as if these workers don't even exist. Certainly, in the eyes of many a multinational, workers are simply viewed as being expendable. And those laws? Well, those same multinationals have a pretty strong interest in making sure that they NEVER get updated.

At about 8:35 in to this video, Ed Schultz talks to the father of a worker killed in the explosion on the Transocean/BP oil rig.

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Oh, and just in case you have forgotten--some miners were killed in West Virginia. Remember?

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Ah, what deregulation hath wrought. Look at that private sector self-policing itself.

Cheney's Katrina

And from the slime, his tentacles emerge...his familiar seizes the reins of deliberate misinformation:

As if the water wasn't deep -- or oily -- enough around British Petroleum's public relations, the company has hired a former spokeswoman for Vice President Dick Cheney to be its public face for the disaster.
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