The commander(s) in chief. Those who distribute the command and control messages, which help to govern and shape our mindsets.

America, an aquarium made and maintained by special narrow interests of the feudal elite. Do you think you are really free and live in a democracy... (who keeps telling you that mantra)?

Don't be suckered in by statements like: “the media is being liberal again”, or “the media is controlled by the liberals”. Who owns the media? Who owns CNN? MSNBC? or ABC? Think we have a "free press" eh? Check out who owns who, and WHO owns WHAT…then you tell me.

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GENERAL ELECTRIC --(donated 1.1 million to GW Bush for his 2000 election campaign)

TELEVISION HOLDINGS: NBC: includes 13 stations, 28% of US households. NBC Network News: The Today Show, Nightly News with TomBrokaw, Meet the Press, Dateline NBC, NBC News at Sunrise. CNBC business television; MSNBC 24-hour cable and Internet news service (co-owned by NBC and Microsoft); Court TV (co-owned with Time Warner), Bravo (50%), A&E (25%), History Channel (25%). The "MS" in MSNBC means Microsoft. The same Microsoft that donated 2.4 million to get GW bush elected.

OTHER HOLDINGS: GE Consumer Electronics. GE Power Systems: produces turbines for nuclear reactors and power plants. GE Plastics: produces military hardware and nuclear power equipment. GE Transportation Systems: runs diesel and electric trains.

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WESTINGHOUSE / CBS INC. Westinghouse Electric Company, part of the Nuclear Utilities Business Group of British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL) whos #1 on the Board of Directors? None other than: Frank Carlucci (of the CARLYLE Group)

TELEVISION HOLDINGS: CBS: includes 14 stations and over 200 affiliates in the US. CBS Network News: 60 minutes, 48 hours, CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, CBS Morning News, Up to the Minute. Country Music Television, The Nashville Network, 2 regional sports networks. Group W Satellite Communications.

OTHER HOLDINGS: Westinghouse Electric Company: provides services to the nuclear power industry. Westinghouse Government Environmental Services Company: disposes of nuclear and hazardous wastes. Also operates 4 government-owned nuclear power plants in the US. Energy Systems: provides nuclear power plant design and maintenance.

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VIACOM INTERNATIONAL INC.

TELEVISION HOLDINGS: Paramount Television, Spelling Television, MTV, VH-1, Showtime, The Movie Channel, UPN (joint owner), Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, Sundance Channel (joint owner), Flix. 20 major market US stations

MEDIA HOLDINGS: Paramount Pictures, Paramount Home Video, Blockbuster Video, Famous Players Theatres, Paramount Parks. Simon & Schuster Publishing.

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DISNEY / ABC / CAP (donated 640 thousand to GW's 2000 campaign)

TELEVISION HOLDINGS: ABC: includes 10 stations, 24% of US households. ABC Network News: Prime Time Live, Nightline, 20/20, Good Morning America. ESPN, Lifetime Television (50%), as well as minority holdings in A&E, History Channel and E! Disney Channel/Disney Television, Touchtone Television.

MEDIA HOLDINGS: Miramax, Touchtone Pictures. Jane, Los Angeles, W, Discover- Magazines, 3 music labels, 11 major local newspapers. Hyperion book publishers. Infoseek Internet search engine (43%).

OTHER HOLLDINGS: Sid R. Bass (major shares) crude oil and gas. All Disney Theme Parks, Walt Disney Cruise Lines.

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TIME-WARNER TBS - AOL (donated 1.6 million to GW's 2000 campaign) America Online (AOL) acquired Time Warner-the largest merger in corporate history.

TELEVISION HOLDINDS: CNN, HBO, Cinemax, TBS Superstation, Turner Network Television, Turner Classic Movies, Warner Brothers Television, Cartoon Network, Sega Channel, TNT, Comedy Central (50%), E! (49%), Court TV (50%). Largest owner of cable systems in the US with an estimated 13 million subscribers.

MEDIA HOLDINGS: HBO Independent Productions, Warner Home Video, New Line Cinema, Castle Rock, Looney Tunes, Hanna-Barbera.

MUSIC: Atlantic, Elektra, Rhino, Sire, Warner Bros. Records, EMI, WEA, Sub Pop (distribution) = the world's largest music company.

33 MAGAZINES: including Time, Sports Illustrated, People, In Style, Fortune, Book of the Month Club, Entertainment Weekly, Life, DC Comics (50%), and MAD Magazine.

OTHER HOLDINGS: Sports: The Atlanta Braves, The Atlanta Hawks, World Championship Wrestling.

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NEWS CORPORATION LTD. / FOX NETWORKS -Rupert Murdoch. (Rupert Murdoch: Board of Directors, Philip Morris USA. Phillip Morris donated 2.9 million to George W Bush in 2000)

TELEVISION HOLDINGS: Fox Television: includes 22 stations, 50% of US households. Fox International: extensive worldwide cable and satellite networks include British Sky Broadcasting (40%); VOX, Germany (49.9%); Canal Fox, Latin America; FOXTEL, Australia (50%); STAR TV, Asia; IskyB, India; Bahasa Programming Ltd., Indonesia (50%); and News Broadcasting, Japan (80%). The Golf Channel (33%).

MEDIA HOLDINGS: Twentieth Century Fox, Fox Searchlight. 132 newspapers (113 in Australia alone) including the New York Post, the London Times and The Australian. 25 magazines including TV Guide and The Weekly Standard. HarperCollins books.

OTHER HOLDINGS: Sports: LA Dodgers, LA Kings, LA Lakers, National Rugby League. Ansett Australia airlines, Ansett New Zealand airlines.

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In 1983, 50 corporations controlled the vast majority of all news media in the U.S. At the time, Ben Bagdikian was called "alarmist" for pointing this out in his book, The Media Monopoly.

In his 4th edition, published in 1992, he wrote "in the U.S., fewer than two dozen of these extraordinary creatures own and operate 90% of the mass media" -- controlling almost all of America's newspapers, magazines, TV and radio stations, books, records, movies, videos, wire services and photo agencies.

He predicted then that eventually this number would fall to about half a dozen companies.

This was greeted with skepticism at the time. When the 6th edition of The Media Monopoly was published in 2000, the number had fallen to six.

Since then, there have been more mergers and the scope has expanded to include new media like the Internet market. More than 1 in 4 Internet users in the U.S. now log in with AOL Time-Warner, the world's largest media corporation.

In 2004, Bagdikian's revised and expanded book, The New Media Monopoly, shows that ONLY 5 HUGE CORPORATIONS -- TIME WARNER, DISNEY, Murdoch's NEWS CORPORATION, BERTELSMANN of Germany, and VIACOM (formerly CBS) -- now CONTROL MOST of the MEDIA INDUSTRY in the U.S. GENERAL ELECTRIC'S NBC is a close sixth.

The MEDIA AQUARIUM is now OWNED by a very close knit circle to SUBTLY shape public opinion without the public knowing that it's happening. It's all orchestrated to throw wool in the minds of the aquarium population... to make it look 'freedom' and 'democracy' are at it's best in America... with many colorful characters parading in the circus for making this grand illusion... of freedom and democracy possible. (You know what they say about how power corrupts…)

"A research team at Sonoma State University has recently finished conducting a network analysis of the boards of directors of the ten big media organizations in the US. The team determined that only 118 people comprise the membership on the boards of director of the ten big media giants. This is a small enough group to fit in a moderate size university classroom. These 118 individuals in turn sit on the corporate boards of 288 national and international corporations. In fact, eight out of ten big media giants share common memberships on boards of directors with each other. NBC and the Washington Post both have board members who sit on Coca Cola and J. P. Morgan, while the Tribune Company, The New York Times and Gannett all have members who share a seat on Pepsi. It is kind of like one big happy family of interlocks and shared interests."

In the words of Louis Brandeis, one of the greatest of our Supreme Court justices: “You can have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, or democracy, but you cannot have both.”

Silent weapons for quite wars…raging on, never ceasing, endless attacks of propaganda against it’s enemy…us.