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Former President Bill Clinton Calls for a Return to "Big 3" News Networks?
Bill Clinton said it a month ago at a luncheon I attended: "There is too much information on the internet. The only way a website gets ahead is by disseminating polarizing information for its own profit. Free speech needs to be more consensus driven. We need to go back to the Big 3 networks." ... Paraphrase – Dilence Sogwood/DB feedbacker/ 12.22.2011
Dominant Social Theme: Too much information is bad for society.
Free-Market Analysis: Bill Clinton (left) wants to return to the days when three big television networks explained the Way the World Worked.
According to "Dilence Sogwood," a financial-industry DB feedbacker, Clinton spoke at a luncheon he attended and made these and other provocative points. What Clinton is revealing in these speeches he is giving around the world is that there is a historic struggle going on between free-market thinkers and those, like Clinton himself, who are attempting to maintain and justify the status quo.
We have no direct or corroborating evidence that Dilence Sogwood's statements are accurate; however, we have a history of his feedback going back nearly a year. In that time, we have never had a sense that he was anything other than a feedbacker who wished to share information about freedom, investing and elite social themes.
For purposes of this article, we will treat them as legitimate "sourced" statements. His feedback on Clinton's luncheon talk is important in our view because it provides a window into how Clinton and others who work for the Anglosphere elites are grappling with what we call the Internet Reformation.
The statement mentioned in Sogwood's feedback (above) is especially startling because in making it, Clinton reveals himself as pure utilitarian. He also reveals inadvertently the pervasiveness of the Anglosphere power elite control in the US.
The Big Three media networks (ABC, CBS and NBC) did not exist on their own but were supported by a vast corporate network that included virtually every large company and government agency germane to the 20th century. Clinton is not just calling for a renewed social compact; he is demanding a full-fledged return to the status-quo ante. More on this below.
It is the Internet that is upsetting the power elite's status quo and making it increasingly difficult for them to realize their long-held dream of total world government. This one-world order is to be run by a handful of self-selected elites.
These intergenerational, familial elites control hundreds of trillions of dollars apparently via central banks around the world. This is part of the world's current "secret government." The way the world is run (and is to be run) is via mercantilism; the great families are to continue to control government (and money) behind the scenes.
To realize this strategy is not easy. It cannot simply be done by brute force. Because government is an essential part of world control, the Anglosphere power elite needs to ensure government's expanding power as well as its credibility. If a credible argument cannot be made for government, then the elites cannot rule.
And so circulating around the globe are charismatic "helpers" like Bill Clinton, funded via book contracts, foundation donations and speaking engagements with all the resources they need. They are in perpetual motion, building up a consensus for the mercantilist system that the elites intend to fully impose. They are the paid helpers – enablers – of the world's elites.
One could argue, in fact, that Clinton has become the new David Rockefeller, when it comes to the US. Such men are valuable because they are able to muster support, cogently, for the state and the power elite that runs it behind the scenes.
Tony Blair is another one. Once they have proven their worth and skill by winning and maintaining high political office, these individuals are essentially employed by the powers-that-be to spread the elite's dominant social themes.
The points that Sogwood provides us are in line with those made in many other Clinton speeches. But they are interesting because they are provocative and perhaps "edgier" than the statements that Clinton ordinarily provides at large public forums where he is recorded and filmed. From what we can tell, this was a private luncheon and not reported (at least not extensively) by the media.
What it tells us is that Clinton and other elite associates and enablers don't have any real idea about how to turn the tide away from the enlightenment that has occurred as a result of a technology that is as fundamental as the Gutenberg Press itself.
The Internet is radically changing the context and belief structures of the time, as we have predicted many times before. How do we know the Internet is in a sense winning the day? In part because the arguments being mustered against the free-market orientation of many in the alternative media are far more convincing than the arguments of the elite's paid apologists.
It is true, of course, that the elites can try to force the planet's billions to go along with their schemes, but pure force is most likely a recipe for long-term failure. It is absolutely imperative to build a believable (moral) argument for the system that the elites want to impose.
Clinton and others like him are most important to this effort. They are in a sense the foot-soldiers of global governance. Here is a full summary of the points Clinton made, sent to us from Sogwood on Dec. 8, along with our comments:
• Too much Internet news. It divides people for profit. Must get back to the Big 3 networks.
This is an astonishing sentiment and one that is immensely revealing. It reveals a perspective regarding news and information that is profoundly patrician. What Clinton seems to believe is that the purpose of information and education is not to enlighten but to contribute to social harmony.
The trouble is that someone must still DEFINE the constitution of such harmony. If people don't have the requisite information, then how are they supposed to do so? The unspoken conclusion is that "people" won't have to worry about it. Bill Clinton and others will do the job for them.
Which leads to another reasonable question: Where are Clinton and the rest of his elite circle getting THEIR information and their view of the world? Somebody, somewhere, must define what an "undivided" society is and to what views it will subscribe. Clinton's idea apparently is that he will, and you won't.
• The free market doesn't work. Look at all the science that NASA spills out. Look at the success of Brazil (wait, what?). We need public-private partnerships (fascism).
This is an interesting comment because it shows the paucity of examples available to Clinton when he wants to make a point about the dysfunction of the free market. In truth, there are no (or hardly any) free markets in the world today. But free markets are the solution, not the problem; they are the antidote to what the elites have in store.
Clinton points to NASA as a good example of a mammoth bureaucracy that "spills out" science. But there are legitimate questions surrounding every aspect of NASA's science, from its moon landings to its use of questionable data to support so-called global warming.
The former US president points to Brazil as a success story within the paradigm of a public/private partnership. But Brazil's economy is central banking driven. The success that Clinton refers to has to do with monetary stimulation driving a boom that will eventually turn into a bust. To use Brazil (or any of the central-banking-run BRICs) as an example of the free market at work is fairly tenuous, in our humble view.
Clinton calls for public/private partnerships but it would seem this is basically just a way of justifying government control (or at least guidance) when it comes to the private sector. In fact, the marketplace does not need "guidance." It is hard to think of any significant advances that were initiated by government; it is hard to think of any industries that were driven forward successfully by government.
• The Tea Party is the reason the Congress has a 10% approval rating (said as if it were a fact).
The initial Tea Party was an outgrowth of US libertarian Congressman Ron Paul's ability to reach more and more people via the Internet with his free-market, anti-military empire arguments. While the Tea Party has in a sense been taken over by mainstream, elite-oriented politicians, this has not affected the underlying paradigm at work.
It is true that the Tea Party has probably contributed to the low esteem in which Congress is currently held. But this a ramification of education and reality, not the result of some sort of propagandistic trick. We would argue the Internet has merely revealed the fundaments of so-called democracy throughout the West, and the results are predictable.
• We need bold leadership in Europe to end this crisis. The problem is populism. Leaders of rich countries have to transfer wealth, and leaders of poor countries have to transfer sovereignty.
This is some statement! It is truly a recipe for government control of every part of one's life. Greece is to give up freedom; the Germans are to give up money. In this way, the EU itself is to be saved and the empire further entrenched.
Whether Clinton's proscription will work in the era of the Internet is questionable, however. It is certainly not a solution to anything except the elite's problem of how to generate regional building blocks from nation-states on the way to world government.
• Bush was as much a big government guy as he [Clinton] was. (Presented as if we all buy into the left-right paradigm).
It is true that President George W. Bush was a "big government guy." The Internet has helped make it very clear to people that political parties throughout the West are simply two or three fingers of the same fist.
What is more interesting is that, in making such a statement, Clinton may be seen as a touch defensive over "big government." Perhaps he was simply trying to make the point that all solutions essentially lead back to large government and its (ruinous) methodologies. He was, in other words, trying to stress the inevitability of the current system.
We have looked at other Clinton speeches online. He is obsessed with making the point that communitarianism ("it takes a village") is the way that people relate best to each other. He may be correct but we would argue that the sort of communitarianism that he is discussing works best in groups of 150 or fewer people.
What Clinton and other elite surrogates are doing is trying to build "villages" of hundreds of millions – and then billions – of people. It is a ludicrous argument; what works for relative handfuls of people has no utility in such fantastic populations.
Nevertheless, Clinton will keep trying. You can see how they take these small "c" verities and attempt to expand them grandiosely here, "Do Mandela's Elders Violate Human Rights?" and here "World's 'Elders' Claim All Is Well in Ivory Coast."
Our thanks to Dogwood for the summary of Clinton's private remarks. What they seem to show most clearly is how seriously the power elite take the "struggle of ideas" and how little intellectual firepower it can muster in their defense.
Conclusion: This should be encouraging to anyone who has used the Internet to educate himself or herself about the advantages of freedom and the true prosperity that can only be discovered via free markets and the human action they allow and support.
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Posted by RedTerrorThegame on 12/31/11 12:05 AM
If you cant even get that right I dont think you have any clue of whats going on.
Reply from The Daily Bell
Oh goodness! You have exposed us! We do not have a clue of "whats" going on. Oh woe. Oh wow. We hang our heads. We hang up our pens ...
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Posted by RedTerrorThegame on 12/30/11 11:58 PM
I have to question who is running the show, is it the "anglo-saxon" power elite, why have they been pounding the WASPs (white anglo saxon protestants) non-stop for the past 65+ years (non-stop) or is it ZOG.
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Posted by amanfromMars on 12/26/11 08:53 AM
Methinks the system has much more than it will ever be capable of handling, ... .. if the master plan is for present principals to be able and enabled to stay in mirrored positions of current control and power, ... ... . if it does not do something radically different and counter-intuitive to most everything they may have done in the past, and thought then to have been the best course of action for unlimited control, with their cynical manipulation of information and intelligence flow with media baron and communications channels collusion.
Things have changed a tad and Power Elite conditions and their hallowed levers of mass subjugation and ignorant brain-washing, are now out exclusive executive order establishment control and circulating in the wild for free and revolutionary purchase on private rogue and pirate renegade markets, which Real Future SMART Virtual Governance Government Programs can be considered as in these Changed InterNetworking Age times ... ... .. for the reality is as revealed in a comment as posted on 26 December 2011 at 10:35 am ….. on Click to view link
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Posted by oldman67 on 12/25/11 11:23 PM
The Bilderberg group at one of their meetings thanked the major news media outlets for keeping their plans from the public for the last forty years. the corporate controlled news media is a disgrace to America. The information highway is our only source for the truth.' If we expect to be free and ignorant in a state of civilization, we expect what never was and never will be... if we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every citizen to be informed. Thomas Jefferson. At the same time we need to heed the advice of George Bernard Shaw who said, " Beware of false knowledge, it is more dangerous than ignorance.Too many citizens have been dumbed down by the news media for too long. there is a internet revolution. America has awoken and we don't need more lies from the news media.
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Posted by mpresley on 12/25/11 08:36 AM
I understand the part about the "Big Three." But where would that leave the Clinton News Network?
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Posted by Von on 12/25/11 01:48 AM
A point about the internet reformation, yes:
Without it what is called the Tea Party, OWS, the Ron Paul Revolution, and any mass awareness of corporatism, fiat currency, and central banking would have never happened.
Of course the flood of information has enabled all of it. And the elites don't like it, and yes I agree they probably don't know what to do about it ..
Because it's too late to "shut it off" in the West - any attempts to shut it down (beyond slow-burning legislation like SOPA) would have disastrous results:
At this point cutting off the pipes and censoring it would lead to vastly unpredictable, and potentially violent results.
Cut off from the information; cut off from each other ... people will panic.
Revolution - again, most likely violent - when people wake up and the wire is down, with only corporate propoganda spilling out of the screens around the world?
People will start taking up arms.
They know that.
So ... as an elite ... this is the burning question ..
"... what to do ... what to do ... "
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Posted by Thomas Molitor on 12/24/11 10:18 AM
"It divides people for profit" versus the PE's "your ignorance is their profit."
Who will win? Stay tuned.
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Posted by AlSledge on 12/23/11 10:15 PM
I got a chuckle at NASA "spilling out science". I still think their greatest contribution to humanity was Tang. NASA is an applied engineering group and while they pretend to do science, the concept is impossible. Scientific break through comes from the fringe and employees are not paid to play at the fringe.
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Posted by NAPpy on 12/23/11 07:24 PM
With all due respect to the bible and other wisdom literature, I'll rely on reason and evidence.
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Posted by NAPpy on 12/23/11 07:18 PM
"No, I'm afraid it wasn't freedom that made the US great, it was The Holy Spirit"
Prove it.
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Posted by chad2 on 12/23/11 05:18 PM
You are correct! There are many man made religious institutions which are part of the world system which are deception! Very good!
The only instruction which is NOT of man is The Bible. It was delivered through man, but it was not sourced from man. What it states will NOT fail! It has already stood the test of countless failed world systems and is still relevant today and even explains today's crisis and where we will end up after this crisis! When read properly, in humility, you can know it is from God and that this is the only freedom.
Stop looking to man made things which we all know by common sense fail! Look to the one thing that has stood the test of time and has never failed, The Bible.
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Posted by dave jr on 12/23/11 05:05 PM
"Stop looking for a world system answer. They are all deception and will all fail!"
I totally agree. And religions are just more world systems, or various man made institutions. Is that too hard to believe, or is it easier to believe our Creator planned for us to murder each other in his name.
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Posted by chad2 on 12/23/11 04:28 PM
1) So freedom isn't required to succeed? Yet, the Holy Spirit delivers us truth, which sets us free. For what purpose then?
Answer: Freedom from government is not freedom as you move from one slave to another: Getting rich, eating until you are 500 pounds, pick your idol/lie...
2) How is this dichotomy (believers vs nonbelievers) any different than government (producers vs nonproducers) who would have me "believe" that "all good things" will be delivered? Delivered by whom, in the earthly sense?
Answer: The good things are not earthly, that's the mystery. Government or some earthly freedom concept is just leading you away from the true good things; the things that satisfy completely. The world system is simply deceptive, always leading you down some new dead end path. The bible says a slave can be free and it says I am a prisoner of Christ Jesus, because He's that good and satisfying.
3) Freedom includes the freedom to fail, learn and to try again. We the People need to try again. Not sit around and wait for a great healing.
Answer: Agree. Failure gives one another chance to learn; not to find a new deception, but to take hold of the truth and be free! Do you realize that's what this crisis is about? People don't turn to the truth without crisis, they don't turn to a doctor unless they are sick! Yes, they will turn and be freed!
Stop looking for a world system answer. They are all deception and will all fail!
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Posted by kaydellc on 12/23/11 03:35 PM
Former President Clinton comments are nothing more than "let the three progressive networks who are water carriers for us give the half truths about political parties and policies. What Alexis de Tocqueville said long ago now truly applies... The American citizens are so enamored of equality that they prefer equality in servitude to inequaltiy in freedom!
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Posted by cydale2 on 12/23/11 03:22 PM
I meant "promoting" not "promoted."
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Posted by planet on 12/23/11 03:22 PM
I guess Bill Clinton would like all America to listen to ABC, CBS, NBC, all evening listening to their version of the news with a Bud or Coors in their hand and a bag of chips or TV dinner , or watch sports all weekend while he and his ONE WORLDER friends are thinking of laws to pass or sneak through Congress to steal our rights and country from us, our children and grandchildren while living as parasites off the rest of America, its labor and sacriface and blood.
President O'Bama and Congress can talk of creating joibs all they want. The jobs that mattered and made security for Americans and our country have been given away to foreign countries.They will not come back . They were the heavy industry , steel ,machinery, manufacturing, mining, and related jobs.
Maybe those who believe these Conservatives that we have too much and spent too much and should be entrapenurs and be self- sufficent, should ask those college drop-outs,ex-drug, ex-alcoholic ,draft dodging MULTIMILLIONAIRES on Fox whom they listen every day what their real goals are when they complaim hour after hour,day after day, week after week, year after year, and even decade after decade up to 20 or more hours a day against their country and government what their real purposes and goals are.
Look up the Heritage Foundation. It is a THINK TANK that thinks up ways to influence our government.
We are told we have a poor education system. It was told years ago, our education system had to be destroyed. Is it any wonder , we have pornography, alcohol, sports, entertainment, even religion alted and made fun of in movies.
It was said years ago: The United States must be LAID LOW to conquer the world.
That is why Bill Clinton wants ABC,CBS, NBC, to take a more aggressive approach to the news. The Internet has not only allowed people to be more informed, but to communicate with each other whether they know each other or not and with others all over the world to share our knowledge with each other and learn to appreciate each other and sympathize with each other.
As far as 9/11, to me the planes did not seen like real planes. No wings were found at the Pentagon. As far as the buildings collapsing, one can put a straightedge on the TV scren as each building falls and they go down perfectly straight.
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Posted by dave jr on 12/23/11 03:17 PM
Do you know what "Is" is? Don't underestimate the brillance of this slippery snake.
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Posted by cydale2 on 12/23/11 03:10 PM
"The Internet is radically changing the context and belief structures of the time, as we have predicted many times before. How do we know the Internet is in a sense winning the day? In part because the arguments being mustered against the free-market orientation of many in the alternative media are far more convincing than the arguments of the elite's paid apologists."
This statement appears to be worded in a confusing way. Shouldn't the word "against" be replaced with "promoted" perhaps ?
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Posted by onebornfree on 12/23/11 02:22 PM
The DB software has apparently inserted erroneous links into my previous post [so I try again :-( ] :
Mr Clinton is not stupid.
He has publicly stated that the OKC bombing [ an obvious, staged, false flag event if ever there was one], is what that got him re-elected and then politically capable of ramming through the new [I forget the exact name/acronym] "anti-terrorist" legislation that presaged the [post 9/11] P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act.
See:Click to view link .
As with 9/11, OKC was, in retrospect, a deliberately staged false flag event carried out by the US government, with various, major, political objectives.[e.g shutting down/discrediting the various, growing state militia movements which were at that time a threat to the establishment ].
Back then the internet was still in its infancy, so that the network "big three" , plus the newer, but already ultra- government controlled cable networks [i.e. CNN etc.etc.] were the only game in town, and easily fed the governments total B.S. story, which they all dutifully regurgitated en mass, on cue, just as trained monkeys are expected to . [In the first link given the OKC researchers mention that 1 small independently owned OKC local media outlet apparently refused to go along with the big medias charade for a year or so and was then conveniently bought out, taken over and then silenced by the New York Times.]
It would be nice to assume that because of the internets increasing influence that 9/11 could well have been the last major false flag "psy-op" that could be so blatantly ["in your face"] pulled off ; complete as those televised events were with fake, computer generated, "live" ,"amateur" footage of "magic" planes able to glide effortlessly through multiple steel column facades, plus the {scientifically} hilarious sight of the complete top to bottom collapses of two 1300 ft. tall, 500,000 ton steel and concrete buildings in around 10 seconds flat. See: Click to view link , but I am not going to be holding my breath on that assumption, after all , as Mencken once said :"one should never underestimate the stupidity of the american public" [or words to that effect].
One thing is for sure, Mr Clinton has always understood the value of near total media control - and he's not the only one. Regards, onebornfree.
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Posted by onebornfree on 12/23/11 02:13 PM
Mr Clinton is not stupid.
He has publicly stated that the OKC bombing [ an obvious, staged, false flag event if ever there was one], is what that got him re-elected and then politically capable of ramming through the new [I forget the exact name/acronym] "anti-terrorist" legislation that presaged the [post 9/11] P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act. See: Click to view link .
As with 9/11, OKC was, in retrospect, a deliberately staged false flag event carried out by the US government, with various, major, political objectives.[e.g shutting down/discrediting the various, growing state militia movements which were at that time a threat to the establishment ].
Back then the internet was still in its infancy, so that the network "big three" , plus the newer, but already ultra- government controlled cable networks [Click to view linkN etc.] were the only game in town, and easily fed the governments total B.S. story, which they all dutifully regurgitated en mass, on cue, just as trained monkeys are expected to . [In the link given above the OKC researchers mention that 1 small independently owned OKC local media outlet apparently refused to go along with the big medias charade for a year or so and was then conveniently bought out, taken over and then silenced by the New York Times.]
It would be nice to assume that because of the internets increasing influence that 9/11 could well have been the last major false flag "psy-op" that could be so blatantly ["in your face"] pulled off ; complete as those televised events were with fake [Click to view linkputer generated], "live" ,"amateur" footage of "magic" planes able to glide effortlessly through multiple steel column facades, plus the {scientifically} hilarious sight of the complete top to bottom collapses of two 1300 ft. tall, 500,000 ton steel and concrete buildings in around 10 seconds flat. See: Click to view link , but I am not going to be holding my breath on that assumption, after all , as Mencken once said :"one should never underestimate the stupidity of the american public" [or words to that effect].
One thing is for sure, Mr Clinton has always understood the value of total media control - and he's not the only one. Regards, onebornfree.
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