Some Things Never Change

RUPERT MURDOCH, THE WEALTHIEST @ Most Powerful man in the history of corporate capitalism, maybe, wants to buy Time-Warner for about eighty billion. If he succeeds, the media monopoly headed by King Murdoch shall grow even larger and more powerful, and concentrated, in the hands of one. What we need are more media entertainment corporations, not fewer. And we don't need them to be ownedr by foreign, non American carpet baggers! Didn't we used to have something called the "Sherman Antitrust Act"? Whatever happened to it? Surely it wasn't repealed unbeknownst to me! The concentration of corporate capital and power in America, and across the world, is frightening. Before long the ruling global oligarchy will consist of only a few very wealthy powerful people. The United States government, more obviously than ever, is in the hands of the corporate oligarchy,and essentially always has been, as we know. Our "founding fathers" were the wealthiest, and hence the most powerful, the framers of our political and economic systems in America. And those systems were for by the wealthy, and for the wealthy. It turns out that things haven't changed much in two hundred years. Now America is the land of corporate dominance, rather than wealth of land ownership dominance. Some Things never change.