Press to become "State Run"

POSTED BY: whozit
UPDATED: Thursday, September 24, 2009 13:29
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WHOZIT

Monday, September 21, 2009 9:33 PM

Might as well make it offical

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/59523-obama-to-newspa
per-bailout-bill

KWICKO

Monday, September 21, 2009 9:37 PM

Wonder if Rupert Murdoch will be in line with his hand out, since his NewsCorp just lost $203 million in the last quarter...

I LAUGH AT YOUR PAIN, ZIT!

Mike

Old friend charity
Cruel twisted smile
And the smile signals emptiness
For me
Starless and Bible black

WULFENSTAR

Monday, September 21, 2009 9:38 PM

Still believe Obama is your Messiah? Well now.. the newspapers will back you up OFFICIALLY.

WULFENSTAR

Monday, September 21, 2009 9:52 PM

Yay... welcome to Soviet Russia...

In Soviet Russia, the papers tell YOU what to think!

YAY!!!!

Will somebody please shoot the traitor who went to the President with this? Please?

KWICKO

Monday, September 21, 2009 10:23 PM

Wulfie, as I tried to point out before to BigDamnNobody and Out2Lunch, Obama is my "messiah" to EXACTLY the degree that Dubya was YOUR "messiah".

Make of that what you will.

PIRATENEWS

Tuesday, September 22, 2009 1:24 AM

Police State Draft's News Corps...

That explains why the news corps are suing me for $10,000s in lawyer sanctions and seeking my arrest while banning me from court. Fokkers.

I'm their worst frakkin nightmare, according to Obama Bin Laden.

CHRISISALL

Tuesday, September 22, 2009 1:42 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Kwicko:
Wulfie, as I tried to point out before to BigDamnNobody and Out2Lunch, Obama is my "messiah" to EXACTLY the degree that Dubya was YOUR "messiah".

Make of that what you will.

Ditto!
(To use a Lush Pigball term

)

The laughing Chrisisall

PIRATENEWS

Tuesday, September 22, 2009 2:04 AM

501c3 tax-exempt contract with IRS requires the news corps to never criticize govt and to lie to the public, or forfeit all property by raid from police state death squad.
www.freedomsphoenix.com/Opinion/047474-2009-03-18-u-s-attorney-declare
s-government-out-to-destroy-you.htm
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/church.htm

S673 is the same text.

Quote:
NEWSPAPER REVITALIZATION ACT

To allow certain newspapers to be treated as described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and exempt from tax under section 501(a) of such Code. (Introduced in House)
HR 3602 IH

111th CONGRESS
1st Session

H. R. 3602
To allow certain newspapers to be treated as described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and exempt from tax under section 501(a) of such Code.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
September 17, 2009

Mrs. MALONEY introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

A BILL
To allow certain newspapers to be treated as described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and exempt from tax under section 501(a) of such Code.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. TREATMENT OF CERTAIN NEWSPAPERS AS EXEMPT FROM TAX UNDER SECTION 501.

(a) In General- Paragraph (3) of section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by inserting `(including a qualified newspaper corporation)' after `educational purposes'.

(b) Qualified Newspaper Corporation- Section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended--

(1) by redesignating subsection (r) as subsection (s), and

(2) by inserting after subsection (q) the following new subsection:

`(r) Qualified Newspaper Corporation- For purposes of this title, a corporation or organization shall be treated as a qualified newspaper corporation if--

`(1) the trade or business of such corporation or organization consists of publishing on a regular basis a newspaper for general circulation,

`(2) the newspaper published by such corporation or organization contains local, national, or international news stories of interest to the general public and the distribution of such newspaper is necessary or valuable in achieving an educational purpose, and

`(3) the preparation of the material contained in such newspaper follows methods generally accepted as educational in character.'.

(c) Unrelated Business Income of a Qualified Newspaper Corporation- Section 513 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:

`(k) Advertising Income of Qualified Newspaper Corporations- The term `unrelated trade or business' does not include the sale by a qualified newspaper corporation (as defined in section 501(r)) of any space for commercial advertisement to be published in a newspaper, to the extent that the space allotted to all such advertisements in such newspaper does not exceed the space allotted to fulfilling the educational purpose of such qualified newspaper corporation.'.

(d) Deduction for Charitable Contributions- Subparagraph (B) of section 170(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by inserting `(including a qualified newspaper corporation as defined in section 501(r))' after `educational purposes'.

(e) Effective Date- The amendments made by this section shall apply to taxable years beginning after the date of the enactment of this Act.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:HR03602:

DREAMTROVE

Tuesday, September 22, 2009 2:54 AM

Gotta agree with Wulf on this one:

Quote:
Yay... welcome to Soviet Russia...

Just a spot look, that's what it's looking like. Fortunately for us, our govt. might collapse immediately rather than waiting 70 years.

KWICKO

Tuesday, September 22, 2009 11:46 AM

Quote:

501c3 tax-exempt contract with IRS requires the news corps to never criticize govt and to lie to the public, or forfeit all property by raid from police state death squad.

Maybe you could cite for us the relevant parts of the bill, then? Because from what you posted (the text of the bill), I can't find any mention of "death squads" or the banning of criticism of the government.

Mike

Old friend charity
Cruel twisted smile
And the smile signals emptiness
For me
Starless and Bible black

DREAMTROVE

Tuesday, September 22, 2009 5:32 PM

Mike
lol
...yet

OUT2THEBLACK

Tuesday, September 22, 2009 8:27 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Kwicko:
Wulfie, as I tried to point out before to BigDamnNobody and Out2Lunch, Obama is my "messiah" to EXACTLY the degree that Dubya was YOUR "messiah".

Make of that what you will.

This one's easy...

Can't speak for BDN , but I never supported 'Dubya' for anything...I wouldn't even have given him a job as dogcatcher...

On the other hand , Squick campaigned for the Obamessiah , voted for him , and gave him cashy money...

...So that he and Squick can take over the Internet and the 'free press' and crush dissent...Wants to get us banned from expressing our points at places like 'FFF-net'.

Makes Squick not only a fool , but a big damned st00pid liar as well...O-bot !

'...A new bill would give the President emergency authority to halt web traffic and access private data.'

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/04/should-obama-control-inter
net

OUT2THEBLACK

Tuesday, September 22, 2009 9:39 PM

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=15300

9/11 Truth. An American Enigma
A Message to Truth Activists

by Prof Peter Phillips

'...9/11 has become an American enigma. For many, 9/11 remains a puzzling, inexplicable, phenomenon that defies understanding in its complexities and misinformation. Most people doubt the full truth of the 9/11 Commission's report, but are unable to accept that people inside the government could be so evil as to allow the deaths of 3000 Americans.

In a study published in the journal Sociological Inquiry, sociologists from four major research institutions focused on one of the most curious aspects of the 2004 presidential election: the strength and resilience of the belief among many Americans that Saddam Hussein was linked to the terrorist attacks of 9/11. The study calls such unsubstantiated beliefs "a serious challenge to democratic theory and practice" and considers how and why so many people linked Hussein to 9/11. Co-author Steven Hoffman, Ph.D., from University at Buffalo, says, "Our data shows substantial support for a cognitive theory known as 'motivated reasoning,' which suggests that rather than search rationally for information that either confirms or disconfirms a particular belief, people actually seek out information that confirms what they already believe.
"In fact," the study reports, "for the most part people completely ignore contrary information. "The argument here is that people get deeply attached to their beliefs. Over the course of the 2004 presidential campaign, several polls showed that majorities of respondents believed that Saddam Hussein was either partly or largely responsible for the 9/11 attacks, a percentage that declined very slowly, dipping below 50 percent only in late 2003.”

The research concludes that people deeply hold on to their beliefs, and that they form an emotional attachment that gets wrapped up in their personal identity and sense of morality—irrespective of the facts of the matter. So given that many people in the US believe that we are the world's best democracy it is likely that many will tend to seek self-serving justifications for wars and American misadventures and to ignore contradictory information. Therefore, it is at present cogitatively unlikely for many people to even consider that 9/11 was an inside job, or that our government allowed 9/11 to happen...

...So what are the strategies that we need to build to convince people of the validity of our factual research on 9/11?
First off, we need to be aware that conspiracies tend to be actions by small groups of individuals rather than massive collective plots by governments and corporations. However, small groups can be dangerous, especially when the individuals have significant power in huge public or private organizations. The Manhattan project aside, it is very unlikely that conspiracies can be interlinked in a macro way, bridging the gaps between dozens of corporations and government bureaucracies. There are just too many opportunities for leaks and exposures.
Nonetheless, small groups of people like corporate boards of directors do meet in closed rooms to plan to how best to maximize profit. If they knowingly make plans that hurt others, violate laws, undermine ethics, or show favoritism to friends, they are involved in a conspiracy. Conspiracies exist everywhere, and yes, people do sit in rooms and conspire all the time. Micro-plots may well be the answer to some of the famous conspiracies, however, without accurate complete investigations, we can only stew in our distrust. Critical thinking and accurate, transparent investigative research is needed to counter the emotional fraud and propaganda of speculative ideas, fear mongering, and groupthink.
Secondly we need to understand that 9/11 truth critics do not operate in a rational manner. The first thing that critics of investigations on 9/11 do is to link all the questions—including some of the most hair brained ideas— together in a crazy hodgepodge of irrationality that undermines legitima

KWICKO

Tuesday, September 22, 2009 10:53 PM

Quote:
Posted by Out2Lunch:

...So that he and Squick can take over the Internet and the 'free press' and crush dissent...Wants to get us banned from expressing our points at places like 'FFF-net'.

Makes Squick not only a fool , but a big damned st00pid liar as well...O-bot !

Do you really want to start all this again? I freaking OWNED your ass the last time you made that utterly bullshit claim. I'm fully prepared to do it again.

Show me WHERE I EVER TRIED TO HAVE YOU BANNED, or admit that you're a fucking liar and a coward. Put up or shut up. Hell, show me one single post where I even supported ANYONE being banned.

Sorry, but my belief in free speech extends even to utter fucking morons like you, Out2Lunch. That doesn't extend to your right to fabricate complete lies out of whole cloth, though.

Mike

Old friend charity
Cruel twisted smile
And the smile signals emptiness
For me
Starless and Bible black

KWICKO

Wednesday, September 23, 2009 10:45 PM

And like that - POOF! - he's gone once again. Just like the last time.

GINOBIFFARONI

Thursday, September 24, 2009 6:21 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Wulfenstar:
Yay... welcome to Soviet Russia...

In Soviet Russia, the papers tell YOU what to think!

YAY!!!!

Will somebody please shoot the traitor who went to the President with this? Please?

is that much different than what we have now?

I open up my local paper and see editorials and opinion pieces backed by a selection of letters to the editor wedged between the 75% of the paper which consists of adverts

crap

will not break my heart when they go under

MAGONSDAUGHTER

Thursday, September 24, 2009 6:29 AM

Actually, having a fed funded tv station is actually pretty good. At least we get some decent programming to compete with reality tv and info news/

DREAMTROVE

Thursday, September 24, 2009 1:26 PM

Since the state is already Press-Run...

KWICKO

Thursday, September 24, 2009 1:29 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by dreamtrove:
Since the state is already Press-Run...

Good point!