I've said it before- never in history (perhaps Germany in 1935) have so many people been convinced to vote against their own best interests than in the USA.

A huge swathe of the working and middle class in the USA now vote for a party that keeps their wages low and taxes them for war in foreign lands.

The Southern states are a great example-once solidly Democratic and concerned with things like trade unions, jobs wages etc..now Republican and obsessed by imaginary threats (terrorism, loss of their weapons, socialist health care etc)

The Republicans support an internet with gateways...an extra charge for some services which will spell the end of an unfettered internet..something media moguls like Murdoch need to finally control the access of information.

# Also watch Cameron handover total control of BSkyB to Murdoch and the beginnings of the destruction of the BBC.

No matter what you think of the BBC...once it goes commercial if it's broken up , it becomes another set of TV stations with shows broken up be adverts..it will be weakened, demolished over time.

It now begins.

Baron Puttman yesterday at the House of Lords:

"My Lords, the purpose of this afternoon's debate is to draw attention to the possibility that we are on the edge of a very slippery slope - one that could find us falling further and further under the influence of a single, US-based owner, with a highly questionable interest in the benefits of a diverse and flourishing plural media here in the United Kingdom (...)

The purchase of these shares would give News Corporation an unprecedented level of control over the UK media, one that to my mind has the potential to be extremely damaging, not just in respect of media plurality, but to informed democratic debate as a whole (...)

If Mr Murdoch’s intentions are entirely even-handed and non-political, why is it that he was only the second person to visit our new Prime Minister, entering by the back stairs for what is reported to have been an un-minuted meeting; while Mark Thompson, the Director-General of the BBC, goes through the front door for a meeting, every detail of which will doubtless be available through the Freedom of Information Act?"

Murdoch Takeover Extremely Dangerous To Informed Democratic Debate

great minds think alike !