Growing disillusionment forces Obama to retry internet tricks
by Kingfisher Thursday, Jan 15 2009, 2:47am
international / social/political / opinion/analysis

The mainstream has always been SLOW to adapt to the latest technologies; an amusing and highly exploitable fact/situation. Antiquated media modes of communication and moguls too old to change have no answer to the millions of independent digital voices that speak in one voice whenever the need arises.

Barack O'Snake Oil

At times it is extremely amusing watching an outmoded thinker like Rupert Murdoch gibbering irrelevancies while refusing to relinquish control of his media empire to his sons, who may or may not be equipped to meet the challenges they would face; nonetheless, one thing IS certain, Rupert’s time is past.

The Murdoch boys and the Obama team are acutely aware of the power inherent in personal digital technologies. However, these technologies require a different approach to that employed by the mass media. Unlike the mass media the internet is NOT a ‘sledge-hammer’ medium, take note some contributors to this and other independent publishing sites!

The digital age provides an opportunity for every communicator to hone their skills and compete for a greater share of the GLOBAL audience. Competing on the internet would have been a pure form of social Darwinism but for the fact that search engines, especially Google, favour paying customers and also comply with the wishes of various governments to de-list and/or background sites – though certain counter-measures exist the ability of search engines to manage flows of information on the internet is enormous.

Over the past decade the world witnessed millions of small voices on the internet combine to form a popular attack, one which destroyed the mendacious, geriatric, (international) conservative push for power. The popular voice was highly effective, as today’s loathing of Bush-Cheney, Blair and Howard would indicate -- conservative leaders continue to run from the prospect of war crimes trials.

[Bosnian Serb leader, Radovan Karadzic, who is currently facing trial at the Hague for the alleged murder of 8000 civilians, is a relative ‘mosquito’ compared to Bush, Blair and Howard who together are directly responsible for one million civilian deaths, four million displaced persons and a ruined State!]

The real ruling executive of the USA is currently facing the knowledge that the world will not tolerate the (puppet) Obama administration ignoring war and other crimes committed by the outgoing Bush administration.

[If Karadzic was smart he would exercise his prerogatives, as a Leader of State, and subpoena previous and serving leaders of Western Governments and expose the entire sordid farce behind which Western Imperialism hides – but intelligence and heart are rare among Serbs these days, the Serbian people are shadows of their former, fighting selves! Do today’s Serbs really expect the world not to recognise Kosovo if they refuse to FIGHT FOR THEIR OWN SOVEREIGN TERRITORY, wake up, donkeys?]

Obama’s team witnessed the cost to Bush and his allies of relying principally on the antiquated mainstream media for propaganda purposes; they were not about to make the same mistake! Obama’s team was the first mainstream political group to successfully exploit the internet for funding, support and propaganda! It was a superb effort that devastated the opposition.

However, it is now evident that Obama’s team had no intention of sweeping into office on a wave of popular (real democratic) grass roots support; instead they utilised successful internet funding as a threat to the ‘powers’ in order to leverage BIG MONEY in their direction, and it worked beyond their wildest dreams; hundreds of millions were made available overnight, and more if needed. But money is never given without conditions; today it is clear that Obama agreed to support the status quo! Doesn’t it just break your grass roots hearts?

This guy is worse than Bush; idiots can’t hide their condition but this smooth, black, no-conscience, opportunist deceived millions of loyal and trusting citizens – makes reaching for the keys to the cabinet hard to resist!

Facing mounting discontent and insistence from the public that Obama display some INTEGRITY and pursue SELF-CONFESSED TORTURERS and other guilty members of the former administration, Obama’s handlers have offered a digital distraction instead. They forget, it's far more difficult to renege in the digital world – of very fast learners -- than the world of mainstream moron media, where black becomes white then any other shade you care to name!

For Australians the meaningless distraction/gesture offered by the Obama team is déjà vu; Kevin Rudd, the current PM, voted into office primarily to replace the universally loathed John ‘lying rodent, deputy sheriff’ Howard, also promised 'change' but delivered the status quo instead!

Soon after Rudd’s ‘inauguration’ he demonstrated his inability to govern in his own right; in order to hide that failing and allow corporate interests to continue their wholesale pillaging of the nation’s wealth, Rudd embarked on a number of meaningless political gestures to give the APPEARANCE he was actually doing something. He held a summit and asked various citizens to contribute ideas for the running of the country – nothing came of it but it did provide loads of ‘photo ops’ with famous Australians, including professional actors!

Rudd’s handlers forgot that strategies designed for banjo playing morons do not cut it in Oz – Rudd was soon exposed for the no-account, visionless, incompetent, Murdoch lackey, HE really IS!

[Prelude America!]

Faced with ENORMOUS ISSUES ON EVERY FRONT what do Obama’s handlers offer the public? A “service” program!

Following are some excerpts from an AP story titled:

Obama makes pitch for ideas, e-mail addresses
by Philip Elliott

“…the best of their ideas on how to govern, submitted on his Web site, would get his attention.”

“Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett told supporters, by e-mail, that transition officials would bind together user comments from Obama's Web site and present him with the top-rated ones. Thousands of entries were posted under the economy, energy, education and homeland security sections.”

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g1nWr2gQuI1zQvW6fDS-IhpQhiCgD95NB04G1