American ISIL Media

One common practice among old school Americans would be reading the news.  Because our society unfortunately has become so computer dependent, the internet has taken the place of many traditional means of commerce and distribution of information.  I embraced this new trend and happily use the internet for most of my needs.  I purchase products via the internet, and I used to read the news on the internet until now.  Only a few short years ago Reuters was a tried and true news organization.  Maybe they still are, but their news reporting online has gone the same way as television.  Either they prefer a radical right perspective, or they like has become common in America are trying to scare the American people.  The "Campaign of Fear and Intimidation" is not new.  It emerged during the second Bush administration and has proliferated since.  I open Reuters' web page for news or the BBC and I feel only can it be satire.  Maybe it is.  Possibly millennials have become so deprived of true human contact they have become this sardonic.  Is everything satire?  Is this what the news has become?  I am required to fish through the spin to arrive at a realistic depiction of the news?  So it seems.  "So it goes Lt. Exley."   In what should have been best picture in 1997, "LA Confidential" depicted the Los Angeles Police Department corrupt.  Corruption began at the top with Captain Dudley Smith, and throughout the film honest devoted people were murdered in an attempt to cover up his wrong doings within the department.  I am beginning to learn after being abroad for over a decade, corruption is commonplace in American society.  Everyone it seems is "on the take."  My experience has told me that corruption of this sort is a result of the common man failing to provide a comfortable living within the normal parameters of our capitalist socieo-econmic system.  It is common knowledge America has experienced a "financial crisis," what amounted to huge greed hence corruption on Wall Street.  Without disparaging President Clinton any further, Wall Street cronies exploited his campaign promise that, "Every American should be able to buy their own home."  Suddenly America's traditional set of checks and balances for credit were cast aside, and abundant capital from India and China was handed over to the American people in return for their financial souls.  Home prices doubled and mortgages were handed out like grub at a soup kitchen.  Everyone was encouraged to join the party and purchase a home out of what should have been the normal price range.  This was accomplished with hedge funds, pooling and selling these not vetted mortgages.  Eventually this available liquidity from overseas dissipated, Wall street hid their new earnings in Grand Camen and Switzerland, and the bottom dropped out of the housing market.  Millions of Americans defaulted on their loans.  Before George Bush left office, he dipped his hand into America's pockets and handed this money to these Wall Street scoundrels.  It was up to Eric Holder, the Attorney General in the Obama administration, and his justice department to find and prosecute this corruption.  He found great success as a litigator, and one by one these financial institutions were prosecuted and punished with a hefty fine.  What an interesting way to fund America.  This has become the modus operandi of our federal government.  The private sector has become so unregulated and corrupt, we fund America by fining them for wrongdoing.  Obama:  Let's auction off oil parcels in the Gulf of Mexico then prosecute the hell out of the oil companies when they act irresponsibly and pollute our natural resources.  Recently BankofAmerica was levied a seventeen billion dollar fine by the federal government for its role in the hedge fund scandal.  Consequently I no longer have the convenience of drive through windows at local branches in Fayetteville.  Simply put the news has become worse than George Orwell's "Newspeak."  Not only is media lying about reality, they have implemented a huge campaign of fear and terror more potent than a ranting war-crazed president scorned by Saddam Hussein.  ISIL with their extreme Islam roots truly have infiltrated American consciousness by purchasing our media.