And That's The Way It Is

[PigDogg]

Walter Cronkite, an iconic CBS News journalist who defined the role of anchorman for a generation of television viewers, died Friday at the age of 92, his family said.

Mr. Cronkite anchored the €œCBS Evening News€ from 1962 to 1981, at a time when television became the dominant medium of the United States. He figuratively held the hand of the American public during the civil rights movement, the space race, the Vietnam war, and the impeachment of Richard Nixon. During his tenure, network newscasts were expanded to 30 minutes from 15.

RIP Walter

[Stogie]

RIP. An American icon for sure. He added a lot to 60 minutes.

[ladyboyluva]

I won't be missing him!

Walter Cronkite said in accepting the 1999 Norman Cousins Global Governance Award at the ceremony at the United Nations:

“It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government [emphasis mine] patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace. To do that, of course, we Americans will have to yield up some of our sovereignty. That would be a bitter pill. It would take a lot of courage, a lot of faith in the new order. But the American colonies did it once and brought forth one of the most nearly perfect unions the world has ever seen.”

Now you know why Walter Cronkite was called “the most trusted man in America”—he was trusted by the Establishment that control America to promote their One World Government Fascist agenda.

[PigDogg]

world government

Don't you think it's likely that in 300 years there will either be a world government or one country will dominate?

Now we have the Eurozone but it could have been Hitler instead.

[Stogie]

(PigDogg @ Jul. 18 2009,21:26) Now we have the Eurozone but it could have been Hitler instead.

Now that's just wishful thinking with the benefit of hindsight...

[ladyboyluva]

(PigDogg @ Jul. 18 2009,21:26)

world government

Don't you think it's likely that in 300 years there will either be a world government or one country will dominate?  

Now we have the Eurozone but it could have been Hitler instead.

No I don't, because if we get anything approaching world government, then we'd all be so broke that soon enough the world government would break down, as it did in the USSR.

But that ain't a ride smart people would want to take.

Government works to increase its power. Without competition, or reference to better systems, a powerful world government would soon make the people slaves.

The burgeoning US federal government is proof enough of this trend, and hence is rushing at break neck speed to save the people from plant food (CO2) and rampant capitalism (Instead of it's own federal reserve which caused the current economic crisis).

Revolution or slavery is on the way.

By the way, you'll find the current US policies are as socialist, and more fascist than the German National Socialists (NAZI party): http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwel....23.html

[Lefty]

I honestly thought he had already died. Oddly, I was talking to one of the expats in Sunee on Thursday night or so. We were talking about which news people have been on a US postage stamp. He said only Edward R. Murrow and Eric Sevareid so far. The subject came up because, according to my friend, Sevareid's son lives here and was at the bar where we were talking. I asked him, why hasn't Cronkite been on a stamp yet? He said Cronkite's still alive, they're just waiting for him to die. Then..boom...the next day he dies.