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Earlier this month, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released its much-trailed report ‘presenting new evidence’, said the BBC, ‘suggesting that Iran is secretly working to obtain a nuclear weapon.’ Relying on ‘evidence provided by more than 10 member states as well as its own information’, the IAEA said Iran had carried out activities ‘relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device’. Indeed, informed scepticism in the corporate media has been muted or non-existent - the image of Iran as a ‘nuclear threat’ has yet again been imposed on the public mind. Any reasonable news reader and viewer would find it extremely difficult to question the emphatic declarations offered right across the media ‘spectrum’. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/recent-news/43028-the-iaea-iranEarlier this month, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released its... more
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EPIC RANT....AND I MEAN EPIC!!!!!!!!!
(I don't endorse the man's views on myriad issues, however on this I am in complete agreement)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-cNVR35j8wEPIC RANT....AND I MEAN EPIC!!!!!!!!!
(I don't endorse the man's views on... more
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By Phil Rockstroh,WWH – The global designs of the neo-liberal agenda have met the living architecture of a larger order — a portion of which has taken the form of a still coalescing, yet potent, countervailing consciousness, a global-wide Liberty Plaza of the mind — an order that is not informed by corporate era public relations legerdemain, hyper-adrenaline media sound bites, rightwing emotional displacements, or “sensible” centrist platitudes — but the type of order that begins to jell when the structures of an existing system lose touch with the realities of daily life.By Phil Rockstroh,WWH – The global designs of the neo-liberal agenda have met... more
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By Diana May-Waldman,WWH- Once again mainstream news is throwing out their opinions and bait. Reporting about the Occupation of Wall St., and peppering their articles with words like, “hippie” and “the remnants of burning man.”By Diana May-Waldman,WWH- Once again mainstream news is throwing out their opinions... more
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Since the early 1970s, the rich, corporate power brokers and right-wing cultural warriors realized that education was central to creating a viable populist movement that served their interests. Over the last 40 years, the financial elites and their wealthy accomplices have not only mobilized an educational anti-reform movement in the name of “reform” to dismantle public education and turn it over to hedge-fund managersSince the early 1970s, the rich, corporate power brokers and right-wing cultural... more
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WWH – ‘God’ tells me, the whole US government, is comprised of Corporate owned “EVIL DOERS”and the Media is also.. We have coffee each morning. God likes two sugars and half and half.WWH – ‘God’ tells me, the whole US government, is comprised of... more
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I think the outline of Anthony Weiner’s cock is aesthetically attractive. It has substantial length without falling into the category of porn star scary like John Holmes. The girth is substantial, the head is perfectly formed and the shaft has a pleasing curve. II think the outline of Anthony Weiner’s cock is aesthetically attractive. It has... more
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I don't usually write on the Israeli Palestinian conflict, because while I have my views, I am not self educated and informed enough to run commentary on the issue that would be worthy of the quality that TPV has become known for. I don't plan on a departure from that today. But I did think it is extremely important, in light of the recent media bruhaha about what the President said about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, for everyone to actually listen to what the President had to say. Here is the President's speech at AIPAC today:
Nothing to add, really. Steven Spiegel of the Israel Policy Forum wrote that the President, with his speech on Thursday, had moved closer to Israel's position, and made a more constructive move towards a peaceful solution. J Street, a pro-Israel, pro-peace organization, commended President Obama's speech on Thursday, as they themselves called for peace negotiations based on the 1967 borders with mutually agreed land swaps. AIPAC itself today praised the President's statement.
That a public statement by the President of the United States advocating for what has been the baseline for negotiations for a long time would set of a firestorm is a statement in and of itself about the pathetic state of our media today. It is also, however, a reflection on our politics - much of which has become based upon knee-jerk reactions to cherry-picked parts of a speech, legislation, etc. It pervades the Right wing noise machine, but today, it also affects the Purity Left noise machine just as well as they, too, concentrate on ginning up people to react rather than to think. Far too often, our media - and our Inboxes - urge us to be outraged, and act from that outrage, rather than for us to think, understand full context and facts, and act out of responsibility rather than simple, raw, ideological rage. Think about this in your personal life: you hardly ever make good decisions when you are angry.
If we are to build a better country, we must rise above that constant barrage of reactionism. There are plenty of things in the world to be outraged about, but outrage must be informed, not ignorant. Ginning up anger in place of presenting facts is responsible for today's media environment that is toxic, unproductive, and unbecoming for a mature democracy.
http://www.thepeoplesview.net/2011/05/corporate-media-fail-manufactured.htmlI don't usually write on the Israeli Palestinian conflict, because while I have... more
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As an American living in Europe, I have to say that watching the US news is like watching your beloved Aunt Agatha slowly go insane. What’s worse is watching it with my wife. She’s French and though we have similar political views,As an American living in Europe, I have to say that watching the US news is like... more
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Data collected by an IAEA team show that radiation levels of 161 microsievert per hour have been detected in the town of Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, the officials said, according to a report posted by House of Japan.
Tests carried out by IAEA technicians in numerous locations around the plant revealed radiation levels ranging between 2 and 160 microsievert per hour, while the normal level for the area should not exceed 0.1 microsievert per hour, the Russian newsite RIA Novosti reports.
A CBS affiliate in Wisconsin also reported on the high radiation levels that will ultimately be dispersed around the world and will undoubtedly result in unprecedented health problems and premature death from cancer. Most of the corporate media, however, did not bother to report the story.
Reuters reported that there was 500 microsieverts of radiation per hour on March 18 at the site but does not explain what this means. It did not mention the 1,600 number.
Earlier in the week, nuclear energy critic and author Hirose Takashi wrote about the media effort to obfuscate the truth about Fukushima:
Around Fukushima Daiichi Station they measured 400 millisieverts – that’s per hour. With this measurement (Chief Cabinet Secretary) Edano admitted for the first time that there was a danger to health, but he didn’t explain what this means. All of the information media are at fault here I think. They are saying stupid things like, why, we are exposed to radiation all the time in our daily life, we get radiation from outer space. But that’s one millisievert per year. A year has 365 days, a day has 24 hours; multiply 365 by 24, you get 8760. Multiply the 400 millisieverts by that, you get 3,500,000 the normal dose. You call that safe? And what media have reported this?
The corporate media as the complaisant handmaiden of the elite are obliged to cover up the truth. In the end, all of us – especially our children – will pay for it.
http://www.infowars.com/corporate-media-ignores-astronomical-fukushima-radiation-levels/Data collected by an IAEA team show that radiation levels of 161 microsievert per hour... more
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How things change. In 2007, then presidential hopeful Biden stated unequivocally that he would work to impeach Bush if he bombed Iran without first gaining congressional approval. Now Biden is dutifully ringing up the royalty in United Arab Emirates and cajoling them to support Obama’s unconstitutional war waged on Libya and kicked off without congressional approval.
Joe didn’t mean it in 2007, of course. He was running for president, after all. The hand-picked minions of the elite who are permitted to pretend they will run the country always tell lies. It’s in their job description. Most Americans understand elections are all about promising the moon and delivering nothing but an IOU. Still, they turn out to vote for these guys.
The elite and their brokers at the United Nations wanted this shabby little war waged against Libya. Biden is simply taking orders, as usual. It does not matter an iota what he said in 2007. And the corporate media, of course, will not hold him to that comment. It found the memory hole long ago, only to be relived by the alternative media, the only media telling the truth in a time of Big Lies of the sort Hitler told.How things change. In 2007, then presidential hopeful Biden stated unequivocally that... more
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Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi announced the other day that the problems in Libya were being caused by, are you sitting down? Al Qaeda. It sounds absurd, doesn’t it? But why does it sound absurd? Qaddafi is trying to use the grounds of a foreign insurgency to justify his own use of military power to put down a domestic insurrection. The man is crazy, right? A raving lunatic, right? But aren’t these the same grounds given to by George W. Bush and Barack Obama for our own wars?Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi announced the other day that the problems in Libya were... more
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Wikileaks ~ A Swedish Documentary Film About Julian Assange & Wikileaks
(60 Min / SVT)Wikileaks ~ A Swedish Documentary Film About Julian Assange & Wikileaks
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Written by Ken_SayersDaily Journal (Opinion)Nov 17, 2010
Yesterday, NPR’s “Morning Edition” magically transported me back to 1974, to when I first watched the Mel Brook’s classic, “Blazing Saddles.” I was reminded of the scene where the town discovered that Cleavon Little, the man they had hired to be the new sheriff, was black. Cleavon, upon seeing that his life was in danger, pulled his gun and threatened to shoot himself. It was hilarious.
Sadly, the magical transportation of yesterday was any thing but hilarious. I found myself listening to some yoyo news reporter talk about how unfortunate it was that Obama could not get his message out, to the public, about all the [fine] things he did for the people of this country. I cannot believe that I am the only one who saw the irony of his statements—as if it was Obama’s fault that the reporter did not do his job.
During the time that there was a debate in congress over health care, the media never pointed out that there are other countries in the world that have universal health care and it works. The media never pointed out that if our health care system is so great, why do we have the shortest life span of all the developed countries in the world, or why we have the highest infant mortality rate. The whole time, we heard not one word about how we are the only country in the world that ties health care to the workplace. There was not one intelligent discussion, in the media, about the insanity of measuring an employee’s value to a company by considering that employee’s health costs. NO, the only thing you heard were the Republican rants of death squads and the threat of Socialism. The Republicans pointed to their own failures, like taking care of the low-income victims of Katrina, as an example of how the government could not be trusted to run health care.
The performance of the main-stream media was remarkable. They shaped public opinion exactly the way they were supposed to shape it. Did I say shaped? Forgive me, I never meant to indicate they have stopped. They took an election where a very low percentage of the electorate voted and that have magically transformed that into a mandate to destroy this country. They are helping narcissistic idiots gain control of this country and they are not even smart enough to see the danger they created. Journalists should be required to take a lot of history and economics, but then we all know the real problem. The media is owned by the corporations, about whom it should be reporting. Oh well, as I have said before, “The joke is on us.”
http://dailycensored.com/2010/11/17/the-magic-of-words/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+Dailycensored+(Daily+Censored)Written by Ken_SayersDaily Journal (Opinion)Nov 17, 2010
Yesterday, NPR’s... more
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If you listen to Thad Allen, Obama’s point man on the BP oil gusher, we’re over the hump. On the weekend the former Coast Guard commander said the well no longer poses a threat to the Gulf and crews will now begin the last few remaining operations needed to abandon the well this week.
In short, Obama gets to declare another mission accomplished. he problem has been lurking in the Gulf since the first days of the BP oil spill and now has the potential ignite a disaster unlike any this country has ever seen.
However, here is what Allen and the corporate media are not talking about — residents along the Gulf Coast are sick from the effects of the oil gusher.
“The harm dealt by this silent enemy is beginning to creep into the lives of those living and working in the Gulf. The problem has been lurking in the Gulf since the first days of the BP oil spill and now has the potential ignite a disaster unlike any this country has ever seen,” reports Project Gulf Impact, an organization of citizen journalists who are doing what the corporate media refuses to do. “The residents of the Gulf of Mexico are entering a crisis whose scope cannot be calculated. Several symptoms have been reported, from subtle to severe: skin rashes and infections, upper respiratory burning, congestion and cough, headaches, nausea, vomiting, and neurological symptoms including short-term memory loss and coordination problems. These health problems, if acknowledged at all, are mis-diagnosed, buried, and mis-attributed.”
In August, chemist Bob Naman tested the waters off Orange Beach, Alabama, and found they tested positive for the dangerous neurotoxin pesticide 2-butoxyethanol, the main ingredient of Corexit 9527A.
Months ago we were told by the government this version of Corexit was no longer in use.
Mr. Naman apparently made a mistake by making his findings public. He was subsequently threatened by BP. “I am not certain the reason or nature of the threats or whether they were financial or physical threats, but given the sudden rash of untimely deaths of those with damaging knowledge about BP I would not take any threats from BP lightly,” Alexander Higgins wrote on August 24.
On September 1, Infowars.com carried a story about a swimming pool in Homosassa, Florida, testing positive for the Corexit 9527A marker 2-butoxyethanol. Samples were tested by Robert Naman, the thorn in BP’s side. The story was ignored by the corporate media.
For BP and the Obama administration, scrubbing the oil gusher and its untold number of victims from the front page is more important than the health of people along the Gulf coast. The Democrats want the oil gusher to go away because of the political damage it will inflict on them during the mid-term elections this November. Republicans want it to go away because they are covering BP’s back. Illness and misery will not be allowed to interrupt the political dog and pony show.
On September 18, 2001, then EPA administrator Christie Whitman announced the air at Ground Zero was safe to breathe. Experts estimate that as many as 40,000 people breathed noxious pollution, including dust, in the wake of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.
But the afflicted — including heroic first responders — should not expect help from the government.
The James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2009 would provide medical monitoring to those exposed to toxins, increase treatment at specialized centers for those afflicted by toxins and reopen a compensation fund to provide for the economic loss of victims. It was characterized as another Obama entitlement program by the GOP House leadership, who vowed to defeat the legislation.
If the massive poisoning of the people of the Gulf is ever exposed, we can expect a similar response on the part of the government.If you listen to Thad Allen, Obama’s point man on the BP oil gusher, we’re... more
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The latest establishment media smear attempt against Rand Paul, in which they falsely reported for over a week that the Kentucky Senatorial candidate had “abducted” and “force drugged” a woman while in college, has completely failed again, with the very latest Rasmussen poll showing that Paul has retained a healthy lead over Democratic opponent Jack Conway.
The latest Rasmussen survey, conducted on Tuesday in the immediate aftermath of the “kidnap” hoax, confirms that Paul maintains a nine point lead over Conway in the race for the Kentucky Senate seat, a result “almost identical to those found in three surveys conducted in July and June,” proving that both the kidnap smear and the hyped civil rights argument had absolutely no effect at all on Paul’s popularity in the state.
“The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of Likely Voters shows Paul picking up 49% support, while Conway earns the vote from 40%. Four percent (4%) prefer another candidate, and seven percent (7%) are undecided,” states the report.
In addition, when “leaners” are added to equation, people who are initially undecided but then lean towards a particular candidate when follow-up questions are asked, Paul extends his lead to ten points, attracting 51% of the vote to Conway’s 41%. Leaners become more important as the election gets nearer.
10 per cent more voters are “certain” to vote for Paul (73%) than for Conway (63%), emphasizing the fact that despite the manufactured controversies surrounding Paul, his support has in fact hardened.
When a completely discredited establishment media attacks Rand Paul, his supporters only see that as a sign that he is on the right track. This fundamentally underscores how much power the corporate media has lost in attempting to sway elections with bias and propaganda. Since hardly anyone trusts them anymore, their attacks are completely inept and sometimes even help the candidate being targeted.
Paul has been assaulted with at least one overblown, mischaracterized, or outright invented smear in each month since he trounced establishment Republican candidate Trey Grayson in the Kentucky primary back in May.
The establishment is desperate to discredit Paul by any means possible because he represents a true threat to the status quo and has become the most prominent Tea Party candidate in the run up to the October midterms.
Paul’s campaign victory speech, in which he stated, “I have a message from the Tea Party, we’re here to take our country back,” sent shockwaves through the Washington elite, and ever since they have been clamoring to tear down his reputation, with smear after smear repeated ad infinitum.
In the case of the “kidnap” hoax, the establishment media and the phony left-wing George Soros-funded outfits continued to claim that Paul had abducted and drugged a woman even days after the woman herself admitted that the whole thing was nothing more than a harmless college prank that had been “blown out of proportion” by the media.
Since Paul is developing a teflon-coated immunity to establishment smear attacks, one wonders what they will come up with next. As we asked in our last article on the issue, will the media start claiming that Rand Paul was the gunman behind the grassy knoll who shot JFK? Will they blame Paul for convincing LeBron James to leave the Cleveland Cavaliers? Did Rand Paul blow up the BP oil well? Do claims made by anonymous pals from college initiations from nearly 30 years ago indicate that Paul is actually a space alien from the planet pop tart?
Your guess is as good as ours, but we’re sure to see more lies, slander, and smears thrown at Paul between now and October. The good news however is that none of them so far have had any impact whatsoever on his comfortable lead over establishment Democrat Conway, so we invite the establishment media to concoct more twaddle, safe in the knowledge that its effect is at best sterile and in some ways even counterproductive.
Ron Paul appeared on The Alex Jones Show yesterday and discussed his son Rand’s campaign.The latest establishment media smear attempt against Rand Paul, in which they falsely... more
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1. Torch Cock Block
2. Take Back our City
3. Heart Attack
4. The Motherfuckin NLG
5. Gord Hill breaks it down.1. Torch Cock Block
2. Take Back our City
3. Heart Attack
4. The Motherfuckin NLG... more
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CNN talking heads Kyra Phillips and John Roberts discuss internet journalism and the Sherrod case. “Imagine what would have happened,” says Roberts, “if we hadn’t taken a look at what happened to Shirley Sherrod and plumbed the depths further and found what had been posted on the internet was not in fact reflective of what she said.”
Too bad this self-righteous attitude was nowhere to be found when it was discovered that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction. It was obvious well before Bush and the neocons invaded Iraq that Saddam Hussein did not have nuclear and biological weapons. Iraq had nothing to do with al-Qaeda. It did not buy yellow cake in Niger.
In 1995 Gen. Hussein Kamel told U.N. inspectors and the CIA that Iraq had destroyed its entire stockpile of chemical and biological weapons and banned missiles (weapons, incidentally, sold to Hussein by the U.S. and European countries). Even one of then Secretary of State Colin Powell’s analysts, Greg Thielmann, said key evidence cited by the administration was misrepresented to the public.
Everyone knew Saddam did not have WMDs and that includes the corporate media. Tony Blair said Iraq did not have WMDs. Majority Whip at the time, Richard J. Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, who was on the Senate intelligence committee, knew Saddam did not have weapons of mass destruction.
Former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neil, who was a member of the National Security Council, said he saw absolutely nothing he would have characterized as evidence of weapons of mass destruction. He also said the neocons planned to invade Iraq well before the attack of September 11, 2001.
In 2008, former White House press secretary Scott McClellan published a memoir. In his book McClellan said that the Iraq invasion and occupation was sold to the American people with a “political propaganda campaign” led by Bush and aimed at “manipulating sources of public opinion” and “downplaying the major reason for going to war.”CNN talking heads Kyra Phillips and John Roberts discuss internet journalism and the... more
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