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The most amazing thing about this article: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. The photo suggests that he was actually in Ferguson. While other former athletes rarely show much social awareness, he is different. On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 5:33 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ====================================================================== > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > ====================================================================== > > > The U.S. Census Report finds that 50 million Americans are poor. Fifty > million voters is a powerful block if they ever organized in an effort to > pursue their common economic goals. So, it's crucial that those in the > wealthiest One Percent keep the poor fractured by distracting them with > emotional issues like immigration, abortion and gun control so they never > stop to wonder how they got so screwed over for so long. > > One way to keep these 50 million fractured is through disinformation. > PunditFact's recent scorecard on network news concluded that at Fox and Fox > News Channel, 60 percent of claims are false. At NBC and MSNBC, 46 percent > of claims were deemed false. That's the "news," folks! During the Ferguson > riots, Fox News ran a black and white photo of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., > with the bold caption: "Forgetting MLK's Message/Protestors in Missouri > Turn to Violence." Did they run such a caption when either Presidents Bush > invaded Iraq: "Forgetting Jesus Christ's Message/U.S. Forgets to Turn Cheek > and Kills Thousands"? > > How can viewers make reasonable choices in a democracy if their sources of > information are corrupted? They can't, which is exactly how the One Percent > controls the fate of the Ninety-Nine Percent. > > full: http://time.com/3132635/ferguson-coming-race-war-class-warfare/ > ________________________________________________ > Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/michael. > perelman3%40gmail.com > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
