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Two minutes on the internet shows you how alive the movement is. The Occupy Wall Street Journal relates all the latest news across the country about the movement. And will take submissions and updates.Two minutes on the internet shows you how alive the movement is. The Occupy Wall... more
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Yesterday, all across America, copy editors who are in too many cases inexperienced, poorly trained and swamped with more responsibility than one person can reasonably manage, did what they usually do. They took the headline at face value and ran the press release pretty much as-is.
And what landed in front of the public, flying under the banner of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Seattle Times, and, the gods help us, the PBS News Hour, was unfiltered crisis PR put together by hacks paid not to think about the best interests of the public, but about the financial and political agendas of their client. Put in the terms of my courtroom analogy above, it’s like we’ve made the defense attorney the judge and jury, as well.Yesterday, all across America, copy editors who are in too many cases inexperienced,... more
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In a “What would you do*” article on January 13, 2012, Andrew Adler spoke openly of long denied, yet best known secret in the US capital, when calling on Israeli Mossad agents operating and spying on US soil, to “order a hit” on US president.
Unlike an unscripted impromptu speech, Alder’s incitement in the Atlanta Jewish Times to kill the President was a well thought of editorial. The “hit” option was repeated in two paragraphs and reasserted in third.
Now after it became public, it presents America with a taste of Zionists’ self-righteous arrogance. Apparently, no one, including America, can possibly satisfy Israel’s rapaciousness.
The Zionist writer was troubled the weak US economy and the “newly implemented [Pentagon] military budget” cuts might curb the US ability to finance future proxy wars on behalf of Israel.
In his article, the owner of the Atlanta Jewish Times was addressing Israeli loyalists; hence and unlike Zionist writing in mainstream US media, he had no need to befuddle his war mongering message with fabrications like “preserving” US interests or defending America …etc.
The Jewish publisher was disappointed with the President not because Obama was not doing enough to protect America’s interest or securing Atlanta (the publisher’s city) from Iran or Syria. The writer did not care about economic hardships American taxpayers suffer bankrolling Israel’s proxy wars.
Alder was livid for US [Obama] was more concerned with “… preserving a healthy, worldwide economic climate” than fighting wars “… to preserve Israel’s existence
In a “What would you do*” article on January 13, 2012, Andrew Adler, owner and publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times, suggested that Israel should consider three options, one of which “order a hit on a president [Obama] in order to preserve Israel’s existence.”
*The “What would you do” article can be accessed at http://www.jamalkanj.com/AJT-Document.php.In a “What would you do*” article on January 13, 2012, Andrew Adler spoke... more
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The owner and publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times, Andrew Adler, who suggested Israel should assassinate U.S. President Barack Obama, has resigned from his post, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported on Monday.
Adler, who has since apologized for his article, listed three options for Israel to counter Iran’s nuclear weapons in an article published in his newspaper last Friday. The first is to launch a pre-emptive strike against Hamas and Hezbollah, the second is to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities and the third is to “give the go-ahead for U.S.-based Mossad agents to take out a president deemed unfriendly to Israel in order for the current vice president to take his place and forcefully dictate that the United States’ policy includes its helping the Jewish state obliterate its enemies.”The owner and publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times, Andrew Adler, who suggested... more
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I’m not sure who made the decision about the comics page. Ms. Simmons is the editor, but the choice could have been that of the features editor or a combination of people. It seems as if someone saw the cartoon as racist, racially offensive, or just patently offensive because of the line “they all really do look alike to me.” We all understand that the phrase in question can be highly charged and insensitive.I’m not sure who made the decision about the comics page. Ms. Simmons is the... more
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Then, from bad logic he shifts to chicanery, as my research failed to establish where “Carl Sagan (among others) thought that the answer is to be found, tragically, in the final variable: the high probability that advanced civilizations destroy themselves.” Would Sagan the evidence-driven scientist make such specific predictions about absent civilizations about which no one knows anything?Then, from bad logic he shifts to chicanery, as my research failed to establish where... more
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Barack Obama, bias, journalism, Katie Couric, Mainstream media, manipulators, Media bias, Misrepresentation, Mitt Romney, MSM, news, Newspaper, Newt Gingrich, Omnipotent Poobah, Politics, Press, Reporter, Romney Flip Flop, Sarah Palin, Sharron AngleBarack Obama, bias, journalism, Katie Couric, Mainstream media, manipulators, Media... more
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2011 has been a bad year for working journalists. Layoffs increased nearly 30 percent, leaving a record low of 41,000 newspaper journalists trying to tell stories that matter.2011 has been a bad year for working journalists. Layoffs increased nearly 30 percent,... more
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In this series on land grabbing, I hope to shed light on how Africa, where land has been characterised as being plentiful and cheap, is becoming the new breadbasket for developing countries.
http://www.simbarusseau.com/kenya-indigenous-samburu-land/In this series on land grabbing, I hope to shed light on how Africa, where land has... more
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Are bloggers journalists or not? Thanks to the recent court case things are muddier than ever. An extremely helpful (and intensely detailed) analysis from Frank Balsinger...Are bloggers journalists or not? Thanks to the recent court case things are muddier... more
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Within the Little Tokyo district of downtown Los Angeles, eclectic Matsumoto's 2nd Street Jazz weekly event showcase presents Jazz, Blues, Hip Hop, Rock n' Roll, Soul and R & B artists, as well as open mic opportunities and DJ turntable battles... http://actorschecklist.com/wordpress/?p=160Within the Little Tokyo district of downtown Los Angeles, eclectic Matsumoto's... more
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The Guardian has continued its war on WikiLeaks with three new attacks over 48 hours—five days before Julian Assange’s final extradition appeal judgement in the High Court and a UK Parliamentary debate and vote on extradition abuses (both Monday, December 5). While it is often counter-productive to divert resources to dealing with PR attacks head-on, we provide here a revealing window into the behind-the-scenes realities that WikiLeaks has to deal with every day as a result of its high profile. While many attacks come from "traditional" enemies — the organizations WikiLeaks has exposed — others come from opportunists trying to work an easy socio-political sector — apparently saying what they believe these powerful enemies would like to be said, in the hope of preferment or relief in other areas. Others still, in fear of their reputations or the legal process, seek to whitewash past opportunism before natural moral or legal redress. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/free-stuff/43033-guardian-pr-war-against-wikileaks-qwikileaks-secrets-and-liesq-guardian-documentaryThe Guardian has continued its war on WikiLeaks with three new attacks over 48... more
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Wicker explained the mission of journalism: “We stand against privilege and we must question power.” Few understood as well as he the necessity of holding the powerful accountable for their words and deeds.
Now, for Wicker and tens of thousands of journalists who began plying this trade before the arrival of the Age of Internet Experts On Everything, this has been our calling. It’s what journalists must do in exchange for First Amendment protection against government interference.Wicker explained the mission of journalism: “We stand against privilege and we... more
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November 25, 2011
Tom Wicker, Times Journalist, Dies at 85
By ROBERT D. McFADDEN
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Tom Wicker, one of postwar America’s most distinguished journalists, who wrote 20 books, covered the assassination of President John F. Kennedy for The New York Times and became the paper’s Washington bureau chief and an iconoclastic political columnist for 25 years, died on Friday at his home near Rochester, Vt. He was 85.
The cause was apparently a heart attack, said his wife, Pamela Wicker.
On Nov. 22, 1963, Mr. Wicker, a brilliant but relatively unknown White House correspondent who had worked at four smaller papers, written several novels under a pen name and, at 37, had established himself as a workhorse of The Times’s Washington bureau, was riding in the presidential motorcade as it wound through downtown Dallas, the lone Times reporter on a routine political trip to Texas.
The searing images of that day — the rifleman’s shots cracking across Dealey Plaza, the wounded president lurching forward in the open limousine, the blur of speed to Parkland Memorial Hospital and the nation’s anguish as the doctors gave way to the priests and a new era — were dictated by Mr. Wicker from a phone booth in stark, detailed prose drawn from notes scribbled on a White House itinerary sheet. It filled two front-page columns and the entire second page, and vaulted the writer to journalistic prominence overnight.
Nine months later, Mr. Wicker, the son of a small-town North Carolina railroad conductor, succeeded the legendary James B. Reston as chief of The Times’s 48-member Washington bureau, and two years later he inherited the column — although hardly the mantle — of the retiring Arthur Krock, the dean of Washington pundits, who had covered every president since Calvin Coolidge.
In contrast to the conservative pontificating of Mr. Krock and the genteel journalism of Mr. Reston, Mr. Wicker brought a hard-hitting Southern liberal/civil libertarian’s perspective to his column, “In the Nation,” which appeared on the editorial page and then on the Op-Ed Page two or three times a week from 1966 until his retirement in 1991. It was also syndicated to scores of newspapers.
Riding waves of change as the effects of the divisive war in Vietnam and America’s civil rights struggle swept the country, Mr. Wicker applauded President Lyndon B. Johnson and Congress for passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but took the president to task for deepening the American involvement in Southeast Asia.
He denounced President Richard M. Nixon for covertly bombing Cambodia, and in the Watergate scandal accused him of creating the “beginnings of a police state.” Nixon put Mr. Wicker on his “enemies list,” but resigned in disgrace over the Watergate cover-up. Vice President Spiro T. Agnew upbraided Mr. Wicker for “irresponsibility and thoughtlessness,” but he, too, resigned after pleading no contest to evading taxes on bribes he had taken while he was governor of Maryland.
The Wicker judgments fell like a hard rain upon all the presidents: Gerald R. Ford, for continuing the war in Vietnam; Jimmy Carter, for “temporizing” in the face of soaring inflation and the Iranian hostage crisis; Ronald Reagan, for dozing through the Iran-contra scandal, and the elder George Bush, for letting the Persian Gulf war outweigh educational and health care needs at home. Mr. Wicker’s targets also included members of Congress, government secrecy, big business, corrupt labor leaders, racial bigots, prison conditions, television and the news media.
In the 1970s, Mr. Wicker, whose status as a columnist put him outside the customary journalistic restrictions on advocacy, became a fixture on current-events television shows and addressed gatherings on college campuses and in other forums. Speaking at a 1971 “teach-in” at Harvard, he urged students to “engage in civil disobedience” in protesting the war in Vietnam. “We got one president out,” he told the cheering crowd, “and perhaps we can do it again.”
A Prison Uprising
Mr. Wicker had many detractors. He was attacked by conservatives and liberals, by politicians high and low, by business interests, labor leaders and others, and for a time his activism — crossing the line from observer to participant in news events — put him in disfavor with many mainstream journalists. But his speeches and columns continued unabated.
His most notable involvement took place during the uprising by 1,300 inmates who seized 38 guards and workers at the Attica prison in upstate New York in September 1971. Having written a sympathetic column on the death of the black militant George Jackson at San Quentin, Mr. Wicker was asked by Attica’s rebels to join a group of outsiders to inspect prison conditions and monitor negotiations between inmates and officials. The radical lawyer William M. Kunstler and Bobby Seale, chairman of the Black Panther Party, also went in, and the observers took on the role of mediators.
Mr. Wicker, in a column, described a night in the yard with the rebels: flickering oil-drum fires, bull-necked convicts armed with bats and iron pipes, faceless men in hoods or football helmets huddled on mattresses behind wooden barricades. He wrote: “This is another world — terrifying to the outsider, yet imposing in its strangeness — behind those massive walls, in this murmurous darkness, within the temporary but real power of desperate men.”
Talks broke down over inmate demands for amnesty and the ouster of Russell G. Oswald, the state corrections commissioner. Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller rejected appeals by the observers to go to Attica, and after a four-day standoff, troopers and guards stormed the prison. Ten hostages and 29 inmates were killed by the authorities’ gunfire in what witnesses called a turkey shoot; three inmates were killed by other convicts, who also beat a guard to death. Afterward, many prisoners were beaten and abused in reprisals.
Mr. Wicker wrote a book about the uprising, “A Time to Die” (1975). Most critics hailed it as his best book, although some chided him for sympathizing with the inmates. “Attica,” a television movie starring Morgan Freeman as a jailhouse lawyer and George Grizzard as Mr. Wicker, was made by ABC in 1980.
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The writer, journalist and contrarian Christopher Hitchens has died at the age of 62 after being diagnosed with an oesophageal cancer in June 2010. Vanity Fair, for which he had written since 1992 and was made contributing editor, marked his death in a memorial article posted late on Thursday night. Since we know you all loved the Hitch we are repeating the brilliant tribute programme 'Stephen Fry and friends on the life, loves and hates of Christopher Hitchens' this weekend at the following times:
Friday 16 December 10pm
Saturday 17 December 2:30pm
Sunday 18 December 6:30pm
Here is a who's who guide to all of Christopher's friends who featured in the programme.
Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens was born April 13, 1949 to is an Anglo-American author and journalist. His books, articles and essays have made him a prominent public intellectual and a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits. He has been a columnist and literary critic at Vanity Fair, Slate, The Atlantic, World Affairs, The Nation, Free Inquiry and a variety of other media outlets. He was named one of the world's "Top 100 Public Intellectuals" by Foreign Policy and Britain's Prospect.
In 2010 Hitchens was diagnosed with esophageal cancer.
Below are some of Hitchen's best moments ever caught on camera - please add your own favourite Hitch clips below.
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In "Under the Knife Abroad," "Vanguard" correspondent Adam Yamaguchi travels to India, Mexico and Barbados to investigate one industry flourishing in these tough economic times: medical tourism. Americans are increasingly being forced to seek medical care overseas, often life or death procedures, because they can't afford it here at home. Is healthcare America's next industry to be outsourced to foreign lands?
Watch the premiere of "Under the Knife Abroad," Monday, November 14 at 9/8c on Current TV.
"Vanguard" is Current TV's no-limits documentary series whose award-winning correspondents put themselves in extraordinary situations to immerse viewers in global issues that have a large social significance. Unlike sound-bite driven reporting, the show's correspondents, Adam Yamaguchi, Christof Putzel and Mariana van Zeller, serve as trusted guides who take viewers on in-depth real life adventures in pursuit of some of the world's most important stories.
For more, go to http://current.com/vanguard.In "Under the Knife Abroad," "Vanguard" correspondent Adam... more
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Coming up on today’s show, we have David Waldman from Daily Kos back on the show to give us an update on the Super Congress.
We also have Amanda Marcotte from Pandagon back on the show to give us her take on the Herman Cain sexual harassment scandal and the proposed insane Mississippi personhood amendment.
Plus we have an update on Rick Santorum’s war on condoms from none other than the Incredible Hulk.
And we have the world premiere of the trailer for Rick Perry: The Movie.
We’ll also be discussing updates at Occupy Oakland, the New York’s Post ridiculous attack on Occupy Wall Street, and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker being confronted by protesters in Chicago.
Our writer/performers today are Josh Bolotsky and Bob Rok.
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For More info go to —> http://matthewf.net/ http://twitter.com/#!/MattFilipowicz and http://www.youtube.com/user/matthewmattmattComing up on today’s show, we have David Waldman from Daily Kos back on the show... more
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While the mainstream media criticizes the demonstrators for being anarchist hippies, corporate media outlets don’t actually go into the crowd that much to listen to what the frustrated people have to say.
Reporters go live from across the street. TV satellite trucks are on stand-by for violence and arrests. The independent and foreign channels are the ones covering the important issues from within the action. RT’s Anastasia Churkina takes a look at media coverage of Occupy Wall Street.
Step 1 – Ignore. Step 2 – Ridicule. Step 3 – Undermine. That’s the approach some media outlets seem to have been taking when it comes to Occupy Wall Street.
“The real big thing that this movement needs to do is to appeal directly to the millions of people who are direct victims of what has happened since 2008,” said editorial columnist and author Ted Rall.
This has been tough to do through mainstream media outlets.
“America is all about having your voice heard. No matter how stupid that voice may be.”
“It’s a joke. They just want to have a party. It’s their lame excuse to have burning man, right? It’s a joke."
These are some of the many criticisms from corporate news channels while covering the Occupy Wall Street movement.
“The media in America, it’s a joke,” counter argued comedian Travis Pinon.
“We’re not hippies, we are not trying to have an excuse to party around. These are working people. People actually come from work, come here, and volunteer their time,” explained one of the protesters, Rafael Moreno.
Showing up at the protest without the network’s logo, FOX News Channel has spear headed operation Undermine Occupy Wall Street.
“All they have to do is take a shower and then get a job, if they went to college,” said host Bill O’Reilly in his show.
FOX’s coverage has seen a hit below-the-belt approach prevail.
“They are going to chop up whatever you say, and they are going to leave the truth on the cutting floor, and they’re going to run with whatever pushes their narrative,” said protester Jesse LaGreca.
It’s no secret that it’s the corporations, protested against at the encampment, that own the big TV networks in the US.
“People are standing up against corporations that actually run the media. Benito Mussolini defined fascism as a collaboration of corporation and government. Welcome to America, guys! That’s what it is. This is fascism at its finest,” said comedian and protester Travis Pinon.
Little interest in substance or analysis has been shown, like exploring why Americans have been driven out onto the street.
More @ link http://rt.com/usa/news/media-occupy-wall-mainstream-725/While the mainstream media criticizes the demonstrators for being anarchist hippies,... more
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