While Americans were distracted by gay marriage and Confederate flags...

[cupocity303]

Say good bye to free Internet porn soon.

[Monaco Slim]

The American vote means absolutely nothing.

One of the many problems with America is that they think money is the solution to EVERYTHING including politics "lets just let the billionaires run our country, they know whats best for us"

Well the billionaires do run your country and thats why you all work for £3 an hour for 60 hours a week just so you can make ends meet and pay for your crappy american health insurance which has rescission departments that go through your paper work to scam you out of treatment.

[Monaco Slim]

Corporations will now make our laws.

They already do, thats why your minimum wage is a £3 an hour slave wage and you have to pay hundreds of dollars every month for health insurance.

[Elroy1]

Say good bye to free Internet porn soon.

That would be ****ed!

[Elroy1]

The American vote means absolutely nothing.

One of the many problems with America is that they think money is the solution to EVERYTHING including politics "lets just let the billionaires run our country, they know whats best for us"

Well the billionaires do run your country and thats why you all work for £3 an hour for 60 hours a week just so you can make ends meet and pay for your crappy american health insurance which has rescission departments that go through your paper work to scam you out of treatment.

Could not agree more!

And things in Australia are just as ****ed up of not worse!

One big dumb country and its little dumb parasite, uh I mean "satellite" LOL

Most real Australians, the ones that have to work for a living and don't own property, business or hold office agree that this country has gone to the dogs!

Ironically, Europeans left their home country for places like America and Australia... NOW many are wanting to return to obviously much better conditions, smarter economics and better government, and social interest!

[Monaco Slim]

Could not agree more!

And things in Australia are just as ****ed up of not worse!

One big dumb country and its little dumb parasite, uh I mean "satellite" LOL

Most real Australians, the ones that have to work for a living and don't own property, business or hold office agree that this country has gone to the dogs!

Ironically, Europeans left their home country for places like America and Australia... NOW many are wanting to return to obviously much better conditions, smarter economics and better government, and social interest!

You should kick out Tony Abbott and vote for the "spider extermination" party. I ****ing hate spiders.

[Bushbaby]

Of course it was. We were on the brink of war and the media was dominated by Zimmerman and Martin.

Now ask me what I care about. A super rent a cop and some little thug, or world war 3.

Operation mockingbird is and has always been alive and well. Add a spoonful of mk ultra and presto.......dumbed down, manipulated and controlled masses.

[ShoulderRoll]

More than one thing can happen at a time, and people prefer news that is interesting to news that is not.

That's the point, it seems to me that people SHOULD be interested about such a wide-ranging set of rules being put into place that we are going to have to follow. Rules cooked up by the corporations with no input from us and that we can't even look at.

How do we get so riled up over petty crap but not over the things that really matter?

“If instituted, the TPP’s IP regime would trample over individual rights and free expression, as well as ride roughshod over the intellectual and creative commons. If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you’re ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.”

-Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks

[DARKSEID]

This is a weird meme. The implication is that the powers behind the throne deliberately engineer events in order to distract the populace, so you're saying in this case that "confederate flags" and marriage equality were deliberately put into place so that people weren't shocked and stunned into outrage by a dry and tedious bit of trade negotiation?

More than one thing can happen at a time, and people prefer news that is interesting to news that is not.

By the way, that confederate flag distraction was actually a shithead murdering people in a church.

It's more like being opportunistic and taking advantage by inflating the smoke that's already there as opposed to engineering it.

If you can't comprehend the credulousness of the masses and the ease with which they can be swayed and distracted by media and propoganda, then maybe you should get out more. Hell, all you need to do is check your news feed on facebook lol

[Mukuro]

This is a weird meme. The implication is that the powers behind the throne deliberately engineer events in order to distract the populace, so you're saying in this case that "confederate flags" and marriage equality were deliberately put into place so that people weren't shocked and stunned into outrage by a dry and tedious bit of trade negotiation?

More than one thing can happen at a time, and people prefer news that is interesting to news that is not.

By the way, that confederate flag distraction was actually a shithead murdering people in a church.

It is no conspiracy theory to acknowledge that the media is very selective in what events it portrays and how. I think he is spot on in his criticism of how the media and general population are more interested in gay marriage than economic or strategic policies. It is understandable because it is more compelling on an emotional and moral level to some people, but it also demonstrates how most people lack the insight and vision to even comprehend how a nation should be run effectively. I think to anyone who is rational and understands the constitution, it is more about why is the government deciding who can get married in the first place?

The "Confederate flag distraction" is just an example of hijacking sad and emotionally charged events like mass murder and using them to pursue a long held agenda. At least with gun control, it directly addresses the manner of violence if not the violence itself. Who in their right mind thinks that if the confederate flag was not flown on official buildings in the South that this wouldn't have happened? He was also known to sport flags of Rhodesia and Apartheid SA. Somehow I think the official standing of the Confederate flag has nothing to do with "a shithead murdering people in a church", whether he waved it or not.