Is President Trump a Patriot?

[Hum Dinger]

Does anyone here dispute that President Trump is doing what he believes to be in the best interests of United States?

If so, state your case.

Trump does what is in the best interests of Trump.

 

[jwoodie]

No one here...NO ONE...knows what Trump believes or why he does what he does. It is virtually impossible to know what someone else is thinking - especially when you have never even met them.

If you say otherwise...you are either an idiot and/or staggeringly ignorant on this subject.


Now...what do I believe that Trump's motives are for doing what he does?

I believe Trump is a man-child and that he has a very small understanding of life through his INCREDIBLY sheltered life (especially since college). I believe he does what he does because he is desperate to be liked/loved (which is why he surrounds himself with his family - even at work...a sure sign or insecurity and an inability to deal with the world in general).
He seems utterly paranoid about loyalty above all else. Above honor, above righteousness and above decency...he just demands blind loyalty. Again, a sure sign of emotional regression/weakness.
A truly strong man/woman can handle dealing with the world absolutely alone...with no support structure. Sure, they prefer the company of friends/loved ones. But it is not essential to their emotional well being (as it clearly is to Trump).

The upshot of all this is that I believe that Trump does not care about other people as much as he cares about how other people perceive him. The fact he apparently watches hours of TV news every day. The fact that he almost completely refuses to watch negative news reports about himself - will only watch good news. The fact he viciously attacks any news outlet/person who puts him down.
A strong man/woman would not care much what others think...especially people they do not know personally. They have their beliefs/code of honor...and they stand by them. They are strong inside and confident; when someone attacks them, it does not hurt them. They learn from it (if there is anything to learn from it) and move on. They do not feel pain or rage...they just blow it off.
Trump does not do this. When you attack him...he clearly seems to get hurt by it and than he gets FURIOUS. And he immediately seems to try to hurt the other person...like a child in a schoolyard.

IMO, Donald Trump is a man-child. An insecure, lonely, unhappy man-child. I believe when he is in a good mood...he cares somewhat about the United States. But, when he is feeling badly (which I believe is most of the time), I don't think he gives a rat's buttocks about the United States...like most children, he just wants to stop feeling bad...NOW. And like more vicious children, he will hurt/attack anyone he has to, to feel better about himself...probably because that is all he knows what to do.

The good thing about this is I do not think Trump has a vicious agenda for America or the world. The bad thing is - when push comes to shove, when he is feeling REALLY hurt/attacked - I don't think he much cares what happens to America or the world. He just wants to stop feeling bad NOW.

The more words, the less understanding. Because you can't appreciate what President Trump is doing, you declare him to be emotionally disturbed. Quite funny, coming from someone with TDS.

 

[jwoodie]

What ever Trump thinks is best for America, is always closely tied to what Trump thinks is best for Trump.

Which of his policies have been designed to benefit him personally? Hmm?

 

[deanrd]

Does anyone here dispute that President Trump is doing what he believes to be in the best interests of United States?

If so, state your case.

Trump puts Putin over patriotic Americans who put their lives in danger to protect this country.

That tells you everything you need to know.

 

[BluesLegend]

Lets see, who takes the side of illegals who kill and rape thousands of American citizens? Not Trump. The entire Dem leadership sides with illegals plus a number of RINO's. There you have it, patriot vs traitor.

No one is for illegals. Illegals have a lower crime rate than Americans do.

Trump is using illegals to fire up his feeble minded base. Hell, the fat ass bastard import labor to work in his resorts & vineyards.

I rate your post lie and bigger lie. Illegals have a much higher crime rate than Americans AND substantially higher violent crimes. Liberal hacks and their lies ^^^

 

[Hutch Starskey]

I believe every president we have ever had did what they did in what they viewed as the best interests of United States?

I believe that President Obama did what he believed was in the world's interest, not necessarily in our country's best interest. For example, the Paris Climate accord which placed much greater burdens on the U.S. than any other country.

The US had greater burdens because we are way behind other nations in that regard.

 

[RealDave]

What ever Trump thinks is best for America, is always closely tied to what Trump thinks is best for Trump.

Which of his policies have been designed to benefit him personally? Hmm?

Tax cuts?

 

[RealDave]

“Is President Trump a Patriot?”

No.

Trump’s attacks on the rule of law, our democratic institutions, and a free press are not the acts of a patriot.

The press has not been free in a long time, they are controlled by liberals that hate this country and want to turn it into a socialist paradise. Most of our Democratic institutions have been corrupted by obama and his cronies. The FBI and Justice Department have been corrupted by the deep state swamp rats and no longer follow the rule of law. Trump attacks what is corrupt and it makeing the deep state panic. Our government needs a good housecleaning and Trump is our Mr Clean God Bless Mr Trump. Trump is putting himself and family through a shitstorm he could have avoided by not running for President. He is already wealthy and could have just relax and play golf for the rest of his life but being a Patriot he had to do what is necessary to save our country the socialist agenda obama and hillary were trying to impose. Patriots do what Patriots gotta do.

If Trump attacked what was corrupt, he'd be beating himself over the head with a baseball bat.

Its been a year and a half. Time to quit blaming Obama for Trump's DOJ.

 

[AntonToo]

Does anyone here dispute that President Trump is doing what he believes to be in the best interests of United States?

If so, state your case.

Trump is an ignorant, A.D.D. riddled opportunist and a scoundrel...what he "thinks" is almost beside the point given how shot that process is.

 

[edward37]

Does anyone here dispute that President Trump is doing what he believes to be in the best interests of United States?

If so, state your case.

Trump is an ignorant, A.D.D. riddled opportunist and a scoundrel...what he "thinks" is almost beside the point given how shot that process is.

Woodward say Nervous breakdown at the WH WH lawyer says trump would go to jail if he talks to Mueller,,,,,would look like a dumb..bell

 

[jwoodie]

I believe every president we have ever had did what they did in what they viewed as the best interests of United States?

I believe that President Obama did what he believed was in the world's interest, not necessarily in our country's best interest. For example, the Paris Climate accord which placed much greater burdens on the U.S. than any other country.

The US had greater burdens because we are way behind other nations in that regard.

Like Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa?

 

[Hutch Starskey]

I believe every president we have ever had did what they did in what they viewed as the best interests of United States?

I believe that President Obama did what he believed was in the world's interest, not necessarily in our country's best interest. For example, the Paris Climate accord which placed much greater burdens on the U.S. than any other country.

The US had greater burdens because we are way behind other nations in that regard.

Like Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa?

No, like all of europe.

 

[jwoodie]

I believe every president we have ever had did what they did in what they viewed as the best interests of United States?

I believe that President Obama did what he believed was in the world's interest, not necessarily in our country's best interest. For example, the Paris Climate accord which placed much greater burdens on the U.S. than any other country.

The US had greater burdens because we are way behind other nations in that regard.

Like Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa?

No, like all of europe.

BRICS are the greatest polluters and you know it, so why the misleading comparison with Europe?

 

[cutter]

“Is President Trump a Patriot?”

No.

Trump’s attacks on the rule of law, our democratic institutions, and a free press are not the acts of a patriot.

The press has not been free in a long time, they are controlled by liberals that hate this country and want to turn it into a socialist paradise. Most of our Democratic institutions have been corrupted by obama and his cronies. The FBI and Justice Department have been corrupted by the deep state swamp rats and no longer follow the rule of law. Trump attacks what is corrupt and it makeing the deep state panic. Our government needs a good housecleaning and Trump is our Mr Clean God Bless Mr Trump. Trump is putting himself and family through a shitstorm he could have avoided by not running for President. He is already wealthy and could have just relax and play golf for the rest of his life but being a Patriot he had to do what is necessary to save our country the socialist agenda obama and hillary were trying to impose. Patriots do what Patriots gotta do.

All media is owned by conservative people.
Who owns America?

America, an aquarium made and maintained by special narrow interests.

So you think you live in freedom and democracy... Who keeps repeating that mantra?

Don't be suckered in by such talk as the media being liberal.

Who owns the media?

Who owns CNN? or MSNBC? ABC?

So ya think we have a "free press" eh? Check out who owns who, and WHO owns WHAT you THINK...

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 Tom Brokaw, 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.
==================================================

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.
================================================== ==============
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.
=============================================
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.
* Magazines: Jane, Los Angeles Magazine, W, Discover.
* 3 music labels, 11 major local newspapers.
* Hyperion book publishers.
* Infoseek Internet search engine (43%).
Other Holdings:
* Sid R. Bass (major shares) crude oil and gas.
* All Disney Theme Parks, Walt Disney Cruise Lines.
================================================== ====

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 Holdings:
* 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.
================================================== =====
NEWS CORPORATION LTD. / FOX NETWORKS (Rupert Murdoch) (donations see bottom note)
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.
* Rupert Murdoch: Board of Directors, Philip Morris (USA).

*(Phillip Morris donated 2.9 million to George W Bush in 2000)*

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



































Los Angeles Independent Media Center

Original article is at Who owns CNN? or MSNBC? ABC? : LA IMC Print comments.

Who owns CNN? or MSNBC? ABC?
by systemfailure Wednesday, Apr. 09, 2003 at 1:43 AM

So ya think we have a "free press" eh? Check out who owns who, and who owns what you think.......

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 Tom Brokaw, 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.
==================================================

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.
================================================================
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.
=============================================
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.
* Magazines: Jane, Los Angeles Magazine, W, Discover.
* 3 music labels, 11 major local newspapers.
* Hyperion book publishers.
* Infoseek Internet search engine (43%).
Other Holdings:
* Sid R. Bass (major shares) crude oil and gas.
* All Disney Theme Parks, Walt Disney Cruise Lines.
======================================================

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 Holdings:
* 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.
=======================================================
NEWS CORPORATION LTD. / FOX NETWORKS (Rupert Murdoch) (donations see bottom note)
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.
* Rupert Murdoch: Board of Directors, Philip Morris (USA).

*(Phillip Morris donated 2.9 million to George W Bush in 2000)*

Do you think the deep state is all Democrats? There are a lot of Republican swamp rats too. Why do you think so many of them choose to not run for re-election? Trump is going to drain the swamp and the deep state is running for cover. Remember what hillary said about if Trumpwins they will all hang. Well Gitmo get ready, a lot of traitors are coming your way.

 

[bripat9643]

I believe every president we have ever had did what they did in what they viewed as the best interests of United States?

Not Obama. He's main goal was "transforming America." That means he wanted to cut it down to size.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

I believe every president we have ever had did what they did in what they viewed as the best interests of United States?

Not Obama. He's main goal was "transforming America." That means he wanted to cut it down to size.

Yes, even Obama was doing what he thought was best for America.

 

[An@lDestroyer]

Lets see, who takes the side of illegals who kill and rape thousands of American citizens? Not Trump. The entire Dem leadership sides with illegals plus a number of RINO's. There you have it, patriot vs traitor.

Who takes the side of a hostile nation over his own country’s intelligence community?

Not Trump

 

[LA RAM FAN]

“Is President Trump a Patriot?”

No.

Trump’s attacks on the rule of law, our democratic institutions, and a free press are not the acts of a patriot.

The press has not been free in a long time, they are controlled by liberals that hate this country and want to turn it into a socialist paradise. Most of our Democratic institutions have been corrupted by obama and his cronies. The FBI and Justice Department have been corrupted by the deep state swamp rats and no longer follow the rule of law. Trump attacks what is corrupt and it makeing the deep state panic. Our government needs a good housecleaning and Trump is our Mr Clean God Bless Mr Trump. Trump is putting himself and family through a shitstorm he could have avoided by not running for President. He is already wealthy and could have just relax and play golf for the rest of his life but being a Patriot he had to do what is necessary to save our country the socialist agenda obama and hillary were trying to impose. Patriots do what Patriots gotta do.

I agree with at least the first half of your post.Clayton never goes by facts. The mainstream media-err the LAMESTREAM media,is nothing but a tool for the government,they dont do any investigation and that is because they are controlled by the CIA as a congressional investigation in the 70's proved. I dont agree with the second half that Trump is fighting the deep state as he wants us to believe,if she really was,why not just issue an executive order to ban all these evil organizations the CIA,FBI,IRS,and the FED? all which he could EASILY do with the swipe of a pen.

 

[LA RAM FAN]

“Is President Trump a Patriot?”

No.

Trump’s attacks on the rule of law, our democratic institutions, and a free press are not the acts of a patriot.

The press has not been free in a long time, they are controlled by liberals that hate this country and want to turn it into a socialist paradise. Most of our Democratic institutions have been corrupted by obama and his cronies. The FBI and Justice Department have been corrupted by the deep state swamp rats and no longer follow the rule of law. Trump attacks what is corrupt and it makeing the deep state panic. Our government needs a good housecleaning and Trump is our Mr Clean God Bless Mr Trump. Trump is putting himself and family through a shitstorm he could have avoided by not running for President. He is already wealthy and could have just relax and play golf for the rest of his life but being a Patriot he had to do what is necessary to save our country the socialist agenda obama and hillary were trying to impose. Patriots do what Patriots gotta do.

All media is owned by conservative people.
Who owns America?

America, an aquarium made and maintained by special narrow interests.

So you think you live in freedom and democracy... Who keeps repeating that mantra?

Don't be suckered in by such talk as the media being liberal.

Who owns the media?

Who owns CNN? or MSNBC? ABC?

So ya think we have a "free press" eh? Check out who owns who, and WHO owns WHAT you THINK...

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 Tom Brokaw, 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.
==================================================

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.
================================================== ==============
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.
=============================================
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.
* Magazines: Jane, Los Angeles Magazine, W, Discover.
* 3 music labels, 11 major local newspapers.
* Hyperion book publishers.
* Infoseek Internet search engine (43%).
Other Holdings:
* Sid R. Bass (major shares) crude oil and gas.
* All Disney Theme Parks, Walt Disney Cruise Lines.
================================================== ====

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 Holdings:
* 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.
================================================== =====
NEWS CORPORATION LTD. / FOX NETWORKS (Rupert Murdoch) (donations see bottom note)
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.
* Rupert Murdoch: Board of Directors, Philip Morris (USA).

*(Phillip Morris donated 2.9 million to George W Bush in 2000)*

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



































Los Angeles Independent Media Center

Original article is at Who owns CNN? or MSNBC? ABC? : LA IMC Print comments.

Who owns CNN? or MSNBC? ABC?
by systemfailure Wednesday, Apr. 09, 2003 at 1:43 AM

So ya think we have a "free press" eh? Check out who owns who, and who owns what you think.......

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 Tom Brokaw, 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.
* Magazines: Jane, Los Angeles Magazine, W, Discover.
* 3 music labels, 11 major local newspapers.
* Hyperion book publishers.
* Infoseek Internet search engine (43%).
Other Holdings:
* 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 Holdings:
* 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) (donations see bottom note)
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.
* Rupert Murdoch: Board of Directors, Philip Morris (USA).

*(Phillip Morris donated 2.9 million to George W Bush in 2000)*

Do you think the deep state is all Democrats? There are a lot of Republican swamp rats too. Why do you think so many of them choose to not run for re-election? Trump is going to drain the swamp and the deep state is running for cover. Remember what hillary said about if Trumpwins they will all hang. Well Gitmo get ready, a lot of traitors are coming your way.

I wish you were right on him draining the swamp but i am afraid that is just wishful thinking.It has been two years now since he has been in office and he has yet to show that he is going to serve the american people by getting rid of these Evil organizations the CIA,FBI,IRS,FED. THEY are the reason the world is in the mess that it is and as long as they exist,world peace can never happen. I am giving him the rest of his term,two years to prove me wrong and if he doesnt try and do that,then that will be the proof in the pudding he is no different than war mongers Bush and Obama.Puppets for the elite there to serve the bankers instead of the people and same as our last five administrations,all which took a shit on the constitution.

 

[LA RAM FAN]

I believe every president we have ever had did what they did in what they viewed as the best interests of United States?

Not Obama. He's main goal was "transforming America." That means he wanted to cut it down to size.

which pretty much describes every president since Reagan who got the ball rolling for the destruction of america that each president since then has all expanded on.

Yes, even Obama was doing what he thought was best for America.[/QUOTE]


which was of course to destroy America.