The CIA for Kids?

[Tim May]

At 11:43 AM -0800 2/19/01, Ray Dillinger wrote:
>On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Matthew Gaylor wrote:
>
>>The CIA for Kids?
>>
>>The Central Intelligence Agency now has a web site for children.  And
>>I'm not kidding. http://www.cia.gov/cia/ciakids/index.html
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>>And nary a ripple surfaced last year by the mainstream media when it
>>was revealed that the US Army's Psychological Operations Units do
>>Internships at CNN and other news outlets.
>
>Have you noticed that General dynamics owns General Electric, who
>in turn own NBC and RCA?  So how do we like getting large chunks of
>our news broadcasts and pop music from one of the government's major
>arms dealers?

No, I _hadn't_ noticed that General Dynamic owns General Electric! 
Wow. Have you notified the Wall Street Journal and other such outlets?

Even stranger, GD has a market cap of $14 billion, while GE has a 
market cap of $475 billion, so this new ownership arrangement is 
itself a news item.


--Tim May
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