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[Karl12]

I am always struck by the notion that initially, the military industrial complex successfully orchestrated their insertion into the government, and subsequently the media... and now we have corporations doing the same... good thing there on the same side 

Never looked into the card game mate.but would certainly agree with your notion on the MIC media though.

Apparently the fourth estate has always been 'compromised' but I would say the year things went truly rotten was 1996.

Just like the Smith Mundt Act, lots of legal safeguards once put in place to protect the public have now been systematically dismantled (or just blatantly removed) and along with the elimination of the 'Fairness Act' and the 'perverse move' of giving media corporations 'free speech' rights then would say Clinton's 'Telecommunications Act' played a fundamental role as 'the rules of the airwaves were rewritten and all regulation thrown out'.

Bill Clinton was a Bilderberg member (along with Hillary) and apparently one of the first things he did in 1996 (other than selling secrets to China) was to pass the T.A.

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Passed in 1996 under President Bill Clinton, the Telecommunications Act has resulted in large-scale deregulation of the entire US media industry, removing many limitations on the number of different media outlets that can be owed by a single company

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