This Web Blog was haphazardly produced without using Spell Check one danged time. We like it that way.

ESOTERICA: Yeah, the top country for readers here is still the USA. But only about 47% of the people reading this site come from America. More than 50% come from elsewhere. We're still trying to figure that out.

Look around you for a moment at my colleagues.

• Rory O'Connor and Danny Schechter - both of whom I respect - maintain total control over the content of MediaChannel.org - a media network with which G21.net is associated.
• Don Hazen, another leftist who rails against the controlling influence of the so-called "mainstream media" has total control at Alternet.org - where Rory's referenced piece was published.
• Amy Goodman, a journalist I've expressed my admiration for many times, over at DemorcracyNow.org has been described by other colleagues and journalists I know as "unapproachable." A snob, some might say. There's no doubt that her program and Web site are tightly controlled.
• Fabrice Florin, with whom I worked at NewsTrust.net has been described as "dictatorial."

Meanwhile all of these people manage to complain about a Rupert Murdoch. Quite frankly, it's the pots calling the kettle black. Totalitarianism is just as awful from the left as it is from the other side of the aisle, at least from this view. Carping about other people's control because they have more money than you do is tantamount to penis- or vagina-envy. Wake up! It's called capitalism. If you don't like the system, do what I'm attempting to do and work to change the system.

Now, since I've increased the list of people who consider me a heretic, let's put the icing on the cake, shall we?

Democracy is now proven to be a failed system. George W. Bush and Dick Cheney took care of that one.

What they managed to prove in the process was the validity of socialism. For those of you who don't understand t he difference between socialism and communism, I'll provide a simple definition. In short, those who are able contribute to the benefit of society as they are able, those who are in need are offered what they need. (Think health insurance for a moment.)

I certainly expect backlash for both the propositions I've brought up in only these few hundreds words. First of all, by pointing out hypocrisy on the left and secondly by calling democracy a failed system.

Let me close by saying that I am not blameless. When G21.net was a magazine, one writer referred to it, kindly, as "Rod's Little Toy Store." I maintained editorial control of the content. The difference between myself and some of my fellow travelers is that I never denied my bias. They claim to be champions of a free press while running systems that are anything but free. Therein, in my view, lies the rub.

Finally, I continue to have a hope, a dream - if you will - that social media will take control out of all of our hands, Rupert Murdoch's, Amy Goodman's and mine. Wouldn't that be nice?

The Catholic Church Rant

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18 July 2007: As mentioned on the lead page of this Blog, I received a rant from a person I know in Georgia about The Church and its latest payoff for the rampant pedophilia that has gone on. Herewith, that rant: