i found a video here about Reason's stance at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTshrURtcjU (Will Net Neutrality Save the Internet?). I'm not throwing the baby out with the bath water yet...>> ^waynef100:

this is intriguing can you provide an example? thanks!>> ^marinara:
reason.tv are hypocrites who want to wreck free speech by killing net neutrality.

this is intriguing can you provide an example? thanks!>> ^marinara:

reason.tv are hypocrites who want to wreck free speech by killing net neutrality.

reason.tv are hypocrites who want to wreck free speech by killing net neutrality.

My list

1: Pharmaceutical Industry
2: Textile Industry
3. Religion Industry
4. Psychiatry Industry
5. Tobacco Industry
6. Alcohol Industry
7. Private Prison Industry
8. Gangs/Blackmarket drug industry
9. Military Industry/Neocons - by denying revenue to Anti-American forces in South America and The Middle East

Is ScaifeTV's list similar?

In reply to this comment by blankfist:
Hey butterbean, thought you might enjoy this from those corporatist scalawags at reason.tv:

http://videosift.com/video/Judge-Jim-Gray-Six-Groups-Who-Profit-From-Drug-Prohibition

Isn't "butterbean" just terribly southern sounding?

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

The Bush corporate tax cuts are not only back on the table, but now top priority. That's a big change. Now why would corporately funded "Reason"TV fail to notice or mention this in this re-education video? hmmmmmmm.....
Sorry brother blankfist, but the same people that fund ReasonTV also fund Sarah Palin and the Tea Party.


A large portion of reason tv is, much like the real news, individual sponsors. I also don't see how a tax cut that has already existed for a good deal of time is that big of change worth mentioning in this non-exhaustive talk on how the parties are more similar than dissimilar; giving 2 trillion away isn't so different than a tax cut.

The Bush corporate tax cuts are not only back on the table, but now top priority. That's a big change. Now why would corporately funded "Reason"TV fail to notice or mention this in this re-education video? hmmmmmmm.....

Sorry brother blankfist, but the same people that fund ReasonTV also fund Sarah Palin and the Tea Party.

>> ^quantumushroom:
How The Hell Did GM Pay Back Its Loans "in Full And Ahead of Schedule"? Well, It Didn't.

How the hell is that a response to anything said by the Economist? Well, it isn't.

Right wing media rots your brains. You gave a great response for the fantasy Economist article that said "the government got all the money back already". Not to mention, you're operating on the false premise that it can't have been successful or good unless the net sum of transactions with GM is >$0.

Even so, your Reason-TV propaganda is out of date. Right now, it's expected that when the government sells its shares of GM stock, it will turn a profit on the bailout, plus you still haven't addressed that whole thing about saving an American icon and keeping hundreds of thousands of people employed, all the while making sure that the people at the top paid the price for their bad decisions (stockholders wiped out, upper management fired, etc.).

hey i hope you forgot that i flamed you on that reason.tv video.

watch this if you wanna see obama in flames
http://fb.me/xsKcUVV1

cheers!

Blankfist, aren't you an IT guy? Flash programmer or somethign? You should know better. This is AT&T, NBC-Comcast, money flowing right through reason.tv right into the youtube.

Remember how much money people wasted buying myspace and what not?
http://www.observer.com/2010/media/media-companies-have-lost-15-billion-social-networking

I'm not going to say that they want to carve the internet up into little profit ponds. I'm saying I know I would want to. Making billions, doubling your market cap, being a CEO of a glamourous media company. I would carve up the internet if i were them.

As a libertarian you know that large corporations often push regulations thu congress so that smaller, more competitive companies can't enter the market. Deregulation is good.

So why are you posting this shit? This video actually says that the FCC has to regulate content. What a terrible lie.

Just like billionaires got the estate tax repealed by scaring dumfux about some death tax... they sent buses around claiming to be grassroots, trying to pass this flat tax shit. Meanwhile all the dumasses don't know that if you made less than 3.5 million in 2009, you aint paying the death tax.

I guess I'm saying you're as dum as the idiots who let themselves be terrorized into repealing the estate tax. Terrorized by some propaganda a few billionaires bought with their pocket change.

look at the phone and cable companies. They are in backroom deals with the FCC in order to shut out your internet and pipe their internet in. it's happening now. Reason.tv doesn't give a shit about a free internet. They care about keeping the lights on for Reason.tv. They won't report on the backroom deals that will turn your internet connection into a NBC.com pipe. Why do you think comcast is buying NBC? Do you think they like peacocks? No so they can turn your goddamn internet into a shopping mall for NBC.

Anyhow the wall street journal reports on the deal.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/timothy-karr/the-fate-of-the-internet_b_620690.html

what do you think will happen if NBC doesn't get it's way? Exactly what is the FCC going to fuck up? Reason.tv would have you think it's going to turn the internet into some kind of communist propaganda newspaper. Really, what exactly is the FCC going to do?

That reason TV video is a lot of BS. Kids eating healthier is good for everyone. The kids have more energy and are happier. If they keep up the healthy eating they'll be happier, healthier, more energetic adults. happy + healthy => more productive, innovative, energetic => greater economic value to the nation. Feed them well while they're young and you can buy bigger guns in the future.

Fresh fruits and vegetables ARE better for you. The fresher the plant the more the beneficial chemicals haven't been destroyed in wastage. The longer an apple is uneaten the closer it is to bad. Can anyone argue that a bad apple is better for you?

Finally, if you get the kids to like locally produced produce it will benefit the economy locally and nationally as opposed to fast food sourced abroad.

I wonder who the hell that woman was working for. She seemed sneaky.

>> ^marinara:

kudos to blankfist for posting anti-libertarian stuff.
Observehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCcHVagMMCc&playnext_
from=TL&videos=57tPHzOm0JI


Wow. I don't know if I hate the reason.tv guy or Jamie Oliver more. It's a douche-off!

Well...this is a side of reason.tv I hadn't seen before.

I'll admit that there are certain legitimate uses for eminent domain: sewer/water lines, roads and bridges (in some cases), and other pure infrastructure projects. Eminent domain is appropriate for projects that benefit the population as a whole, when there is some serious restriction as to where they can be built. For example, there may be a limited number of locations at which to place a bridge to relieve traffic congestion. That might lead to a legitimate use of eminent domain to acquire the land on which to build it.

Building sports stadiums is not something that government should be involved in at all, much less taking private property for such a purpose. For one thing, there's no actual evidence that sports stadiums are money-making propositions for cities...they tend to end up breaking even at best, and more often lose money (although they make plenty for the rich team owners). Which certainly means it doesn't benefit the population as a whole.

As I said, I really don't give a fuck what you want to call it. Reason.tv produced a spin piece, to excuse and support AT&T's and other corporate ISP's extortion.

That's hardly a libertarian stance. I'm truly surprised you think it is. Wake up and smell the coffee...what they -say- they stand for means diddly-squat. What they -do- says corporate apologists.

>> ^Stormsinger:
I'm getting the idea that reason.tv is really nothing more than a propaganda machine for Corporate Amerika.


They're pro-free market, not pro-corporation. You can read about them here: http://reason.org/about/

Meh, they tried to hard, about half of that is just non-libertarianism, not double-speak. If they stuck to the things that he really contradicted himself on, such as the troops coming and going, they would have made a better case.

There is enough quote mining in there to make me question the validity of any of the contradictions I didn't already know about. The reason.tv folks (like most libertarians) seem to think they are brilliant, this is poorly constructed propaganda piece is evidence against that assumption.