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Spencer,<br>
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I would submit that consolidation of ownership of prisons - and the
attendant concentration of power and profit - was the driving force.
"Follow the money" is still sage advice. The mainstream (lamestream)
commercial media is simply the handmaiden, delivering the
appropriate soothing message (i.e. party line) when necessary, but
mostly just infotainment and fear mongering. If you follow the
money, you will find that all these huge corporations have
interlocking Boards of Directors. Which leads to corporate
group-think - which dooms our planet. <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03/02/2014 10:23 PM,
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<pre wrap=""> The incarceration rate in the US today is 5 times what it was 40
years ago. No change in crime correlates with that. I know of only one
change during these past 40 years that can explain that: Consolidation
of ownership of the mainstream commercial media with a massive reduction
in investigative journalism.
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