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Combat II: Sinclair Broadcast Group

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18:12 / 14.10.04

This is straight from Moveon, since they stated it so well:

"The Sinclair Broadcast Group is going to instruct their 62 local stations, many in key battleground states, to pre-empt regular programming to air a Kerry smear piece two weeks before the election. This unprecedented move would be direct electioneering by a corporate media giant--and against federal election law." Moveon also supplied phone numbers for local tv stations, the FCC, and for Sinclair (who often don't answer the phone...)

I keep thinking how those ridiculous swiftboat ads hurt Kerry, who so far is ignoring the whole thing.

Now, I don't want to destroy any corporate media giants, heck no! But I'd love to see Sinclair so scared that they decide not to air the thing after crowing about it for the past week. Barring that, it would be nice if it just backfired, and blew up their collective face. For instance, maybe the viewing public will be so enraged that their favorite shows were pre-empted they will automatically vote for Kerry, since it obviously wasn't HIS idea.

Two weeks before the election is October 19. Anyone want to fight?

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18:33 / 14.10.04

I want to but I'm having trouble envisioning how to do this. Subliminal messages that this would be a bad economic and political move, maybe? Hm.

19:13 / 14.10.04

Now, I don't want to destroy any corporate media giants, heck no!

Um, yeah, uh, me niether. really.

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19:23 / 14.10.04

Is it too late to get the FCC to pull this? Do you have a link to the full text from MoveOn, as I can't find it on their site?

19:42 / 14.10.04

Entity,

Go to www.sinclairwatch.org. From there, you can get contact info for your local stations and the FCC.

I'm not thinking about destroying the corporate media giant per se, I want to deflect the potential harm this program could cause. Or, even better, stop it from ever being shown.

19:47 / 14.10.04

Good idea - some magickal works on this would be helpful.

01:16 / 15.10.04

>Now, I don't want to destroy any corporate media giants, heck no!

>Um, yeah, uh, me niether. really.

I wondered about this too. May I ask: why not?

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01:46 / 15.10.04

Okay, the FCC won't block it, which is probably a good thing. Last thing we need is to give more fuel to the radical right "liberal media conspiracy" theorists. Anyone know what the DNC's response is likely to be?

Thing to do now seems to be to focus on this backfiring like mad. And let Sinclair Media know it will backfire.

Good thing: Never has an incumbent President been THIS desperately on the run.

07:06 / 15.10.04

Lyke, my sarcasticness didn't come through on that earlier transmission. I meant exactly the opposite.

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17:29 / 15.10.04

Lyke, I too was being sarcastic.

I am going to start e-mailing Sinclair with the single one-word message: NEMESIS.

Nemesis, the goddess of JUST retribution, is the one I am asking for help. She was the one I thought of as soon as I heard about this. I feel that Sinclair is using its power in an unjust manner to further themselves (since if Kerry wins, there will be a new FCC and bye-bye, right-wing gravy train).

I hope Nemesis sees it that way. I have done my best to explain things.

21:08 / 15.10.04

Ooh, I like the NEMESIS idea. Think I'll have a go at that too.

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21:27 / 15.10.04

(practicality)Use an untraceable account as people are likely to take that as a threat, or at least harassment.(/practicality)

Good idea. I've been thinking of setting up a refraction-reflection mechanism and making sure their message is run through that, so what doesn't get bounced right back at them will be completely inverted. Anyone have any ideas on that?

01:43 / 16.10.04

OH MY GOD!!! Michael Moore had a PAY TV (like Pay Per View) special airing of his Farenheit 9/11 movie and the company that was backing it CANCELLED it!!!

And yet Sinclair gets to spread their fucking bullshit on MAJOR NETWORKS, not Pay Per View!!! My uncle fucking died in Vietnam, I was NAMED after him, and only a nationalist blind asshole would say that Kerry's speaking out against atrocities was condemning ALL Vietnam soliders!!! That's like saying "Love it or leave, Commie pinko bastard! You spit on our boys in uniform!!" when someone points out how horrible the Abu Gharib prison scandal was.

NEMESIS, LET JUSTICE BE SERVED ON THE SINCLAIR BROADCASTING GROUP!!!! LET THEM GET WHAT IT COMING TO THEM!!!!!

I am going to do some SERIOUS workings on this now... I also just got a message from my family that someone is doing an organized memorial service for my late uncle (who served in Vietnam and died there, mentioned above), and I can't remember the last time someone had a memorial for him (beyond having his name mentioned at church or something like that) so I feel that the timing is meaningful.

03:00 / 16.10.04

I wonder if we should prepare a sigil specifically for this intent because, Chad's POTUS sigil isn't designed for this sort of thing.

Maybe a servitor designed to attack this Sinclair corporate entity?

06:02 / 16.10.04

Now yer talkin. :]

12:43 / 18.10.04

Nemesis will have revenge and serve justice on the people who have made this decision for the Sinclar Broadcasting Group. No doubt!

02:34 / 19.10.04

Okay, so Nemesis it is.

Anybody want to coordinate some sort of group evocation? Or should we go at it alone?

02:59 / 19.10.04

Well, there's a full moon coming up... This would be in line with the anti-bush full moon rites that many have been working.

13:26 / 19.10.04

Funny, I was thinking of the John Byrne-created supervigilante Nemesis, from the middle of his wonderful Alpha Flight run

But I love that painting, Imp - I need to read more about Nemesis and prepare a working.

15:51 / 19.10.04

Impulsivelad, about that Nemesis painting...It looks like she is standing on the beach.

Last Friday, I asked Nemesis if there was anything she wanted from me (in the way of offerings, gifts, gestures), to please let me know in a dream. That night I dreamed that I was on a highway that went along the shore. The ocean had covered the road. It was sunny, and I wasn't upset, I just kept saying "This is high tide. This always happens at high tide." Then I got out of the car and jumped in the water. It was deep, but there were other people swimming, and having a good time. The ocean covering the roadway occurred three times, and seawater was present throughout the entire dream.

So, I got some sea salt, put it in a dish of blue glass, and annointed the dish with ambergris. All oceany things. I also added some peppermint, and I'm sure I had a good reason for doing that. Funny thing is, I never saw a picture of Nemesis, beyond a black and white line drawing.

The one thing I have been doing, is e-mailing Sinclair with the single word message Nemesis. But I am not sending a word, I am sending Nemesis.

17:11 / 19.10.04

I just sent a single word email "Nemesis" to Michael Powell at the FCC and to Sinclair, also to one of their advertisers.

17:28 / 19.10.04

When I first saw the image I thought of Lillith, which made me suggest the full moon. Gale's dream seems to me to have a lot of lunar symbolism - at least in the sense of the Sea of Binah.

19:43 / 19.10.04

According to their website (www.sbgi.net), Sinclair will be airing "A POW's Story" on Friday October 22, in key battleground viewing areas.

If you go to their homepage, they have a link to the press release for the show, which will make you laugh until you're sick (or just make you sick). They also have a list of the stations/locations, call letters, and times of the program's airing. I am printing out the list since it may come in handy.

It's also good to have the extra time!

15:50 / 20.10.04

Apparently Sinclair just announced that they're now shortening the special and not showing all of the documentary & also changing the title. But they didn't specify how short it will be now...

I'm still goin' after them full force.

15:52 / 20.10.04

And, they're getting sued for libel by a guy who is quoted in the documentary and says they twisted his words around horribly (he's a Vietnam vet and says that the way the edit his footage and comment on it via narration implies that he never served at all).

16:21 / 20.10.04

...and their stockholders are furious, because Sinclair's stock has plummeted since last week.

And, the man who was supposed to do the commentary for the show refused on ethical grounds, got fired, and is now talking, big time....

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16:42 / 20.10.04

Woohoo! Link?

17:47 / 20.10.04

Also see the Sinclair thread in The Switchboard for more developments on this... I wrote down highlights from a New York Sun article that's out today on the worsening situation for Sinclair...

Thank you, NEMESIS!!!! I think things will only continue to deteriorate for Sinclair, now that their credibility is no better than Fox News or ClearChannel, and everyone in America now knows the kind of company they are...

21:04 / 20.10.04

That's great! And I agree about still going at them full force. I should take advantage of the fact that I live in Miami and do my Nemesis working on the beach (the night of the full moon.)

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02:01 / 21.10.04

Someone might want to help me minimize the effectiveness of the right wingers' "liberal media censorship" spin...

03:59 / 21.10.04

Great work, folks!

14:58 / 21.10.04

I'll see if it's possible for the Morrigu to help me with any type of working aimed at these jokers, I'll probably get a clip around the ear from her (being a relative newbie and all) but it's worth asking.

I love the idea of a group of us sending spells at them and then checking their shareprice, maybe we could aim some energy at specific parts of their infastructure, or send anti-Sinclair memes out into the astral plane to help those shareholders sell, sell sell?

I agree with LVX on the great work bit aswell, I hope we can make a difference. (I'm still obsessed with seeing that shareprice fall, I'll have to find somewhere that I can check on it.)

20:07 / 21.10.04

Tonight, I'm going to use the list of broadcast times and viewing areas for the POW Story (it's airing tomorrow) and try my best to get potential viewers to take a nap (heck, my father always fell asleep between 7:00 and 8:00), go out to dinner, read a good book, read a bad book, read the phone book, surf the net, play chess/checkers/backgammon/cribbage, talk on the phone, go for a walk, etc., while the show is on.

I don't know how it will work, but hey, I'll give it a go. I might also just for fun make a bar chart tracking Sinclair's stock activity for the past week.

14:13 / 26.10.04

OK, so they aired a total thrown together at the last minute hodge podge to appear balanced, and all the world hates Sinclair Broadcasting Corp. now. Good work, all!

22:04 / 26.10.04

Yeah, this is great news. So what's our next target? I love all this political magick!

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