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Summary: Excellent Muckracking....
Review: This is an excellent book which exposes the sham called Globalization. Read this book and then pass it to atleast one of your friends. I heard about this book from Alex Jones Show. Please do a search on Google for ALEX JONES, his website contains many great interviews with Mr. Palast. One of the interviews appeared worldwide in hundreds of newspapers.
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Summary: Reveals the truths they try to hide from us!
Review: This could be one of the most important books that you will ever read. Greg Palast has gone out and done a superb job of investigating and getting to the nitty gritty to reveal some amazing and disgusting actions that have been perpetrated on our people and other nations. It will absolutely boggle your mind and will make you sad and angry at the way some people abuse their power. He gives us the facts on the 2000 election and how crooked it was. He takes our media to task for not reporting the true facts of that atrocity to the people. Other countries knew more about what was happening in our country than we did. The news here is controlled and we get pretty much what the corporations and money people want us to hear so we have to dig for the facts ourselves. He touches on global actions that our country and others have been involved in, that the average citizen never hears about, that have hurt so many innocent people throughout the world. The facts are alarming and shameful. He even touches on Pat Robertson. At one time I used to watch him, but I never donated to his show because I always felt that by giving directly to the people who were in need around you (whether it be taking over food to someone who you know needs it, or mowing the lawn for an elderly or incapacitated person who is unable to do it, driving someone to the store or picking up groceries, etc. for someone who can't get out, and so on) then you know the ones who are in need are the ones receiving your help. I found out that Mr. Robertson is worth 200 million to a billion dollars, that is astronomical for a person who ministers and who is generally thought of as giving most of what he has to others because of his faith that the Lord will provide. I will NEVER donate to the 700 Club even though I believe in God with all my heart. He tells how Enron cheated, lied and swindled its way into an energy monopoly. The energy crisis is going to come to a head soon. The Republicans had a meeting this last week about energy and did not let the Democrats into the meeting or give them any information on it. Be prepared people to get ripped off in some way. He gets on Clinton's case as well as the Bushes, but more on the Bush administration. Read this book to get the feel of the way this administration and the corporate world is heading this country and others in the near future. We need to clean house in our congress. We need to get the patriot act repealed and we need to look at how our congressmen have voted (both parties), and if they haven't voted for what is best for the people replace them with someone who will. I really urge you all to read this book because you won't hear a lot of what it contains on our news and what he covers in here are things the people need to know.
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Summary: Fear and Trembling
Review: Palast, an American expatriate living in the UK, is sick and tired of being taken for a ride by a media establishment that wants to straddle the fence, a series of governments that don't answer to the people, and runaway authority being given to corporations. And this is his manifesto to do something about it. The largest part of this book is dedicated to detailing the abuses of the current administration in dealing out power and authority. Palast's flip, vulgar tone seems designed to shut out people who most need convincing in this part, and I have to wonder why he did that. However, for those of us hungering for the exact facts on who's doing what to who and why, the first three chapters of this book explain more than we even feared. But Palast isn't just peeved with the Bush administration. He's also ticked with the Clintons, who he says bent over and took it for the corporations too. He doesn't spend the kind of time on Clinton as he does on Bush, by his own admission, but that's not partisanship. Bush is in power, Clinton is yesterday's news, and what's to be gained by flagellating that particular moribund equine? The targets of Palast's ire also include Pat Robertson, Milton Friedman, small-town businessmen, CEOs who hold power like Pharaoahs, and more. He tears after tham all with equal zeal and, unfortunately, equal flippancy. Palast isn't a stock liberal, but his rhetoric comes across like one, and I'm afraid he may polarize more opinion than he sways. But truth is seldom pretty. For those who have strong feelings one way or the other on issues of government and industry, this is a strong book. Maybe it won't make any converts, but it will make the true believers understand all the more what it is they already believe.
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Summary: Mandatory reading unless you're rich and don't give a damm.
Review: If you care about this country and its future, you must read this book. I have now lost all faith in the mainstream media and its ability, if not its willingness, to convey to us the news that really matters. Palast's account of the deliberate elimination of LEGITIMATE voters from the Florida rolls previous to the 2000 election is both detailed and chilling. If you care about the integrity of the electoral process and this nation's democratic ideals, you will be outraged. I rank this activity tantamount to Watergate on the stink register and I hope that I am not so foolish as to believe that even open-minded Republicans will find themselves nauseous and then fuming mad. There is no room for complacency about the upcoming election. There's also much in this book about globalization and the acts of malfeasance that are done under the name of this country. I am a news junkie, yet I wasn't aware of one-tenth of this activity. If you want to know why much of the world hates us, this book is a good place to start. The big money media organizations have lost their collective souls and sent our democratic ideals down the river.
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Summary: The Best Democracy Money can Buy
Review: A lot of repetition, but good investigative reporting. Debunking the myth of the "liberal media" is always welcome. It reminds me of a cartoon I saw a few years back, I think it was titled, "Rush Limbaugh view on the Media". Anyway, on a large cooporate office, an executive is talking to his minions, on the back of this there is picture window overlooking a large factory, with a sign saying "Mega Media Coorporation". The executive addresses the meeting with "Comrades, which pillar of Capitalism shall we bring down today?".
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Summary: Should be on the 25 best seller list
Review: Having just finished Chapter 1, Jim Crow in Cyberspace, The Unreported Story of How They Fixed the Vote in Florida, I was standing in front of my hotel in Miami Beach. A taxi drove up and 6 Republican Party Members with signs saying such got out; to attend some sort of event I guess. I wished I had Greg Palast's book in hand to hold out as some sort of protest or protection against their illegal shenanigans. I was shaking and outraged as I got in my taxi and I was shaking and outraged as I read Palast's book. Read the book, get in the know, and do what you can.
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Summary: The truth isn't pretty.
Review: They employ you. They hold your savings in their banks. They own your government. They voraciously lobby your congressmen/women and legistlators. They own all the major media. They write, and draft the legislation that governs over you. You purchase their products.They do not live by the same rules as you. They are exempt from the laws they draft. They are afforded indemnity. They are the elite. AND THEY DISLIKE YOU,AND DEMOCRACY.They need you to buy into their lies. Read this book. Enlighten yourself.
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Summary: A Necessary Reading for all of us
Review: An excellent, serious and well supported investigation into the real problem of power and money. This book is a necessary reading for anyone who wants to learn about the contemporary society and develop critical thinking. A very important contribution to the field of journalism and a good source for all inquiring into politics, economics and social issues. Great book, but a bitter pill. Distant from the political critique and inter-party bashing, this is a great analysis of our contemporary society.
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Summary: For serious journalism, look elsewhere
Review: Palast is more a writer of political fantasy than a serious journalist, though it took me about a chapter to discern that. I began by actually taking his work at face value, and eventually got tired of writing frustrated notes in the margins, counting the logical fallacies on which Palast relies to make his very flimsy arguments. You'd have to be pretty gullible to believe that Palast PROVES anything at all in this book. What he does is draw very sketchy inferences, coupled with aggressive, manipulative language. And thus are his readers made into dupes. Read this dangerous propaganda lazily at your own peril. But read it CAREFULLY to learn how to debate in our current, sad intellectual climate.
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Summary: Physician, investigate thyself (and the BBC)
Review: While some of the public acquisations that Mr. Palast might make are true, and common knowledge, he fails to mention some of the connections to socialist organizations that have shown corruption, such as the BBC and their failing to report atrocities committed by the Hussein regime, or the forged BBC letter from Florida. Or how about the connections to Ramsey Clark and the World Workers Party and other pro-socialist groups? We are all begging to know Greg. Enlighten us...
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