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According to a CNN report a law has now been passed in the Gulf of Mexico that makes it illegal for any media or journalist or blogger to come within a visible distance of any oil-cleaning operation. Is this is potent handling Obama was supposed to be all about? Just ban the media so no one sees whats going on? And what a flimsy excuse for this law: ‘the oil operations are supposed to be hindered by the presence of the media’ – yeah, right, and dictators are hindered by the presence of free media as well. Do these people actually have a brain?

Don’t believe this news? It even made the NY Times: See here

“Journalists struggling to document the impact of the oil rig explosion have repeatedly found themselves turned away from public areas affected by the spill, and not only by BP and its contractors, but by local law enforcement, the Coast Guard and government officials.”

The new law states that journalists, media and bloggers could be fined 40.000 dollars and prosecution for a federal offence if they are caught within a certain radius of an oil cleaning operation.

Absurd, utterly absurd. And a very strong signal that the States are still heading the wrong way, in spite of the more friendly Obama appearance. Its just an appearance, unfortunately. To forbid media access to one of the largest ecological disasters that has ever occurred on this planet is the act of either a lunatic or an evil man.

What is going on here? Why cant these people be honest about what is going on? Are the American people simply accepting this sort of censorship? It’s obvious that Obama is not very happy with the whole disaster but banning journalism seems an oddball way of handling the situation.

If there’s anything clear about the past 80 years it’s the fact that the Media have actually replaced the role the Church used to occupy in our societies. Where in the old days people were told by the Church what to believe, what worldview to have, how to look out on the world nowadays this role is fulfilled by the media. It was a smooth transition, almost unnoticeable. And as the old believers were incapable of seeing the problem of a patriarchal hierarchy telling them what to do, the same is true nowadays: most people do not realize what big problems the media represents.

There’s a crack, a huge crack, in the old monopoly of the media caused by the internet. Doubtlessly with horror, the media and the large cooperations and governments behind them found out that the internet by nature is not monopolisable. Where the old news was simply a hierarchy comparable to the old church, the internet is by nature anarchistic. Because of this, it slowly became more and more apparent to the public, at least to the intelligent part of the public, that history and news are phenomena that are actually staged instead of just deterministically happening.

There are countless examples of such ‘staging’ the last ten years. One doesn’t need to be too bright to see them. Hussein pulled out of a hole in the ground at Christmas time? Right. Beheadings of westerners, conveniently only occurring in the month after Abu Graib? Right. It’s not like they’re trying very hard to hide these ‘staging events’. For chrissake, they even publicly admitted that there was a ‘ministry of propaganda’ operative in 2002. So why is it just the last ten years that people are starting to actually notice these things? The answer is simple: internet. Does anyone actually believe that something like Abu Graib would have even surfaced in the old days, when the monopolistic news channels were in total control? Of course not. Did the Gulf of Tonkin incident get a lot of critical research in the media? Nope. It’s the internet that has breached the Berlin Wall of the Old Media, the Altar of the New Church. Events were always staged in exactly this way, it’s just that the last ten years that became more easy to understand since the newsflow was hard to control.

So, now we know our news programs and history are partly staged and invented, what can we do about it? Simple. Just stop watching. That’s all you need to do. Don’t fool yourself by thinking you’ll miss something. You are not. You have stopped listening to a liar that tries to fool you and brainwash you about how the world out there is, was, or should be. I guarantee you that the world without media and the world without news is a world that is brighter, more intelligent and much better to live in. It’s really no use to keep listening to something that was just invented to fool you. The only way of getting rid of the influence of the church is stop going there every sunday.