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Post by kungfuzu on Sept 5, 2021 13:52:29 GMT -8
We have all heard about how the national media is controlled by a few companies. This enables a handful of people to set the narrative which is fed to the credulous and, more importantly, lazy public. In future posts, I will give specific examples, but in this first post, I will link to an article available at LewRockwell.com. This is a general piece not only dealing with media. I have previously mentioned that three companies control something like US$15-20 trillion in assets. The writer also notes this fact. He mentions Black Rock and Vanguard. I also included State Street. When anyone tries to point out the fact that there are powers coordinating what is happening today, one is accused of being paranoid or being a conspiracy theorist. Nothing could be further from the truth. It is a simple historical fact that some men try to control and take assets from others. There is nothing conspiratorial about this, it is simply part of the human condition. And one doesn't have to be paranoid to believe there are others out to get our money and control us. They are called representatives of government. Who runs the world As far as I can see, the facts in this piece are correct.
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Post by kungfuzu on Sept 5, 2021 14:24:26 GMT -8
Once you have read the who runs the world piece, have a look at the below-linked article which proposes that power, not pure profits are the main motivating factor behind media companies. Power over profits Nobody will deny that greed is a basic motivating factor for most of mankind. Catch-as-catch-can is the mantra for the bulk of humanity. Most people are not sophisticated or patient enough to step back and see that losing money in one area, will bring profit in another. The very rich understand this, or at least those managing their money do. It is a cost of doing business. I believe they see the media business as a sort of primary advertising. They don't openly try to market this or that product. They are more subtle. They sell ideas, delusions, lies and falsehoods. In a word, they sell narratives which suit their aims. They determine what poison they want the public to ingest and let it drip out slowly, slowly over they various media outlets.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Sept 6, 2021 9:17:19 GMT -8
Who runs the world? Some would say...
I'll take the brunette on the very left.
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Post by kungfuzu on Sept 6, 2021 9:40:50 GMT -8
Which brings another level to the question, "Who is pulling the strings?"
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Post by artraveler on Sept 6, 2021 11:29:04 GMT -8
Who is pulling the strings? As Aaron said to Moses in the middle of the desert, "you planned this?" Some how that conversation is left out of scripture.
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Post by kungfuzu on Sept 6, 2021 13:21:27 GMT -8
As readers might recall, I have long maintained that it is relatively easy for a small group of powerful people to "influence" decisions made by our major institutions and thereby create a specific narrative for the public at large. The news media has never been simply about broadcasting the "news." Perhaps its more important role has been to influence public perceptions and opinion. The Founding Fathers were aware of this and stood firmly on the rights of a free press and freedom of speech. By the time the official imprint of the Declaration of Independence had been printed, the text of that document had already been published by at least 29 newspapers across the country. At that time, the population of the Colonies was around 2.5 million. The U.S. Postal Service Act of 1792 gave impetus to the growth of newspapers in the country as it made mailing papers relatively cheap. From that moment on, the number of newspapers across the country boomed. By 1835 there were about 1,200. By 1900 there were 2,226 daily newspapers published across the country. There were something like 14,000 weekly newspapers by this time. These papers were largely independent of each other and had their own points of view. The newspaper was "the media" in those days. The many different papers and the lack of concentration in the "news" was healthy. There was no oligarchy controlling the flow of information to the public. Of course, cities and towns had special interest groups which controlled or at least influenced the reporting and editorials published, but these were countered by other special interest groups who had reporting and editorials, to their liking, published. Today, the mass media much larger. It now controls areas of entertainment which did not exist in the old days. What is worse, the media is overwhelmingly in the hands of very few companies. Where newspapers have lost readers TV and Cable have grown. Now with the internet and other innovations, new media companies such as Facebook have a reach never before possible. They spew their mantra of "diversity" when in reality, this is the least diverse, most controlled media in American history. The link will take the reader to a list of the largest media companies in the USA. Please read this carefully and go through the list of subsidiaries of these companies. I can imagine that those who have not been following things will be surprised at the concentration of our national media. It should be clear to anyone that with so few media companies controlling so much of the space, a very small number of people, in positions of power in these companies, can coordinate to create narratives which are to their political or monetary advantage, and not to the advantage of the public. 15 largest media conglomerates
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Post by Brad Nelson on Sept 6, 2021 17:31:04 GMT -8
My solutions is to turn it off. Given the propensity of masks being worn, I think people (especially women) are addicted to the media.
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Post by kungfuzu on Sept 6, 2021 18:08:50 GMT -8
A very wise suggestion. Unfortunately, too many people seem to have little else to fill their hours. Perhaps worse is that it would appear the largest percentage of people either want or need some higher authority to tell them what to do. I believe this is a combination of stupidity and laziness, but I'm betting laziness is the larger part of the problem.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Sept 7, 2021 6:52:43 GMT -8
Mr. Flu, you must be confusing me with a dynamic social gadfly who has engagements everywhere and loads of friends. The fact is, I’m the perfect market for the media conglomerates. I should have nothing else to do but sit in front of the TV and soak up their propaganda. I think the problem is that I lack estrogen and (excessive) gullibility.
But let’s not forget that the media conglomerates provide a valuable service:
1) They tell you what to think 2) They tell you who to hate 3) They keep you in a state of panic
Because Progressivism is a religion, the media also functions as sacred texts.
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Post by kungfuzu on Sept 11, 2021 16:01:40 GMT -8
I will continue this string reminding readers of my previous posting of the largest media companies in the world. The largest media company in the world is ATT. Who are the largest shareholders? Owners of ATT The reader, will note so-called "Institutional Investors" own 54-56% of ATT's shares. Of these institutional investors, only three hold almost 20%. 1. Vanguard Group 2. BlackRock Inc. (I initially wrote Black Guard Inc. Freudian Slip) 3. State Street Corp. Anyone who understands how public corporations work will grasp the power these three "institutional investors" exercise at ATT. Now let's look at the second largest media company Facebook. Facebook is a relatively new company so the primary power still lies in the hands of the founder Zuckerberg. But it is still interesting to note the largest institutional investors in Facebook. 1. Vanguard Group 2. Black Rock Inc. 3. FMR LLC (The is Fidelity Investments) 4. T. Rowe Price Associates The first two we know. The second two we will, no doubt, see again. Moving on to no. 3 in the list of largest media companies brings us to The Walt Disney Company.
Who are the largest shareholders? 1. Vanguard Group 2 BlackRock Inc. 3. State Street Corp. Combined, these three companies control 18% of the Disney Company. Let's stop for a moment and see what the size of these companies gives them as regards power. You will follow our agenda I advise everyone to carefully read this piece. It clearly demonstrates the power these companies have and the willingness they have to use it. They are all behind the big push on climate change. I am also guessing they are helping push the KFF fraud. Who do you think is pushing the insane vaccine mandates? They are the people pushing all of the globalist, LBGTUVWXYZ, anti-American agendas. Note the following quotes from the article. Investors and advisors have not only funneled their assets to the ETF elite for the past decade but also made them all powerful by giving carte blanche to deploy Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) filters that would freeze out scores of companies. "It doesn't matter whether it's Vanguard, BlackRock, Fidelity or the California Public Employees Retirement System; if two or three investors control 20% to 40% of the vote of every US company, shareholder democracy will not work as intended," he says, via email. "BlackRock voted against 255 board directors at companies including Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway and oil and gas firm Exxon Mobil in the year to June 30, because they failed to act on climate issues," it wrote. "This is more than four times the 55 executives it rejected the year before."These humongous "investment" companies which use everybody else's money, have gather enormous power to themselves. These are the people directing things. The politicians are just assholes on the payroll of these criminals. This is exactly what one gets by pushing "libertarian" economics. Smart, vicious, ruthless people will always gain from this and crush democracy and the middle class.
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Post by kungfuzu on Sept 11, 2021 16:06:57 GMT -8
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Post by kungfuzu on Sept 11, 2021 16:17:29 GMT -8
Who owns these investment companies? State Street Can it be? Vanguard, BlackRock, T. Rowe Price, FMR and other familiar names. BlackRock Wow, what a surprise. Vanguard, State Street, FMR and some more familiar names. Does anyone believe these companies don't work together? Now you can see why the big guys are too big to fail. If one or two of them go, the whole, and I mean whole system will collapse. That's why the government and these companies are so intertwined. They can't let the other get out of their control.
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Post by kungfuzu on Sept 11, 2021 17:11:45 GMT -8
We are now at the fifth largest media company in the US, which is Warner Media. No need to check who owns it as it was acquired by ATT a few years back so Vanguard, BlackRock and State Street are the major owners. The sixth largest media company is Fox Corp. Who owns it? Fox Corp. We run into Vanguard, BlackRock, State Street and T. Rowe Price again. Together they own almost 20%. Fox is an interesting study as Rupert Murdoch, who built the company from an Australian newspaper business to a leader in world entertainment is still in charge. I believe the family owns about 39% of the company still. Now we come to the seventh largest media company in the USA. ViacomCBS Again, Vanguard, BlackRock and State Street are the largest institutional shareholders, plus Susquehanna International, about the ownership of which I cannot find much. At number eight is Netflix As Gomer Pyle was wont to say, "Surprise, surprise, surprise." Once again, we encounter Vanguard, BlackRock, State Street, T. Rowe Price, FMR and other familiar names. The ninth largest media company is the Hearst Organization. I feel warm and tingly in this case as the family appears to have held on to the company handed down to them by the old reprobate William Randolph. Of course, he got his money from his father who made a fortune in mining.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Sept 11, 2021 17:56:14 GMT -8
I thought it was Karen & Karen. I stand corrected, Mr. Flu.
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Post by kungfuzu on Sept 11, 2021 20:42:08 GMT -8
The 10th largest media company is News Corp, which is related to Fox News. I am not able to find the financial numbers on this, but would not be surprised if they were similar to those of Fox News. I will keep trying. The 11th largest media company is Next Star Media . The largest shareholder is Vanguard with almost 9% and FMR (Fidelity) with a bit more than 5%. Number 12 on our list is iHeart Media. BlackRock is the second largest shareholder and Vanguard the third. State Street is tenth. Finally, we close with no. 13 which is Gannett. BlackRock is the largest shareholder, while Vanguard is the second largest. State Street comes in at no. six. I trust readers will now have a small idea of who controls the media in our country. Three very large financial companies are major shareholders in virtually all of the major media businesses. To imagine that these, and a few other investment companies, don't have huge sway in what is reported is worse than naive'. I will continue this investigation with the intent of showing readers how a very few companies are actually in control of the power in this country. It is too cute to call this "The Swamp" or "The Deep State." This is much more open and vast. It is an tightly-knit oligarchy which could not care less about what the rest of us think. They don't try to hide things because they understand most people are too lazy or disinterested to check. Next up will be views into the defense industry, the food industry, energy and other industries. Readers will be surprised at how the country is run by a very few people who know each other pretty well. If they don't know each other directly, they know someone who does. They went to the same schools and have worked together for years. By in large, the companies they run are located in the North East of the USA. The most obnoxious thing about these people is that they are using Middle-Americans' own money to force Middle America to conform to their globalist and/or leftist views. Do you actually believe Joe Biden is the one behind the idea of vaccine mandates?
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Post by kungfuzu on Sept 12, 2021 11:53:27 GMT -8
Below are the six largest defense companies in the USA and who owns them. Lockheed Martin State Street, Vanguard and BlackRock are 1,2 & 3. About 30% combined. Raytheon State Street, Vanguard and BlackRock are 1,2 & 3. General Dynamics Corp. Vanguard, BlackRock and State Street are 2, 5 and 6. Boeing Vanguard, BlackRock and State Street are 2,3 & 4. Northrup GrummanState Street, Vanguard and BlackRock are 1, 3 & 5. Huntington-IngallsVanguard, BlackRock and State Street are 1,2 & 3. About 33% combined. There are, of course, a few other familiar companies which one encounters in the ownership of these major defense contractors. There really is a military-industrial-financial complex and you can bet they coordinate things.
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Post by artraveler on Sept 12, 2021 12:26:17 GMT -8
you can bet they coordinate things. They don't really need to actively coordinate. The share common interests and often common board members. What one wants they all want without even a phone call or email.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Sept 12, 2021 12:31:59 GMT -8
Extraordinarily well said. Still, it begs the question as to why their coordination (active or passive) is so much more effective than any other. Prager calls Leftism the most dynamic religion in the world. I think that's true.
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Post by kungfuzu on Sept 12, 2021 12:33:39 GMT -8
Here is a list of the largest Energy Companies in the USA and their largest shareholders. Exxon MobilVanguard, BlackRock and State Street are 1,2 & 3. ChevronVanguard, State Street, BlackRock are 1,2 & 3. Phillips 66 Vanguard, BlackRock, State Street are 1,2 & 3. General Electric Company (GE)T. Rowe Price, Vanguard, BlackRock, FMR (Fidelity), State Street are 1,2,3,4 & 5. ConocoPhillips Vanguard, BlackRock, State Street are 1,2 & 3. ExelonBlackRock, Vanguard and State Street are 1,2 & 4 Enterprise ProductsBlackRock is 4 on the list of owners. NextEra EnergyVanguard, BlackRock and State Street are 1,2 & 3. Duke EnergyVanguard, BlackRock, State Street 1,2 & 3. EOG ResourcesVanguard, BlackRock and State Street 3,4 & 4. Southern CompanyVanguard, BlackRock and State Street 1,2 & 3. Kinder MorganBlackRock, Vanguard and State Street 1, 2 & 3. Consolidated Edison, Inc.BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street 1,2 & 3. Xcel EnergyBlackRock, Vanguard and State Street 1, 2 & 5. Pioneer Natural ResourcesVanguard, BlackRock and State Street 1,2 & 3. Hmmmm? Let's see, Vanguard, BlackRock and State Street are the top investors in the largest corporations in media, defense and energy. I'll bet this holds true in the other areas which we will look into.
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Post by kungfuzu on Sept 12, 2021 12:41:20 GMT -8
You are absolutely correct. Once I have gone through my list of industries, my final posting on the subject will show what you say to be true. I will show they are all from the same institutions and share similar world views. I pointed this out about our Federal Judiciary sometime back.
I know most of us have a heuristic understanding of this, but I have decided to give actual facts and numbers so anybody will be able to understand where we are. It is a bit of a pain in the ass, but I believe it is important.
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