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Link to this video Michael Tomasky reviews the performances of Sarah Palin and Joe Biden in the US vice-presidential debate
Link to this video Michael Tomasky reviews the performances of Sarah Palin and Joe... more
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Highlights:
Fifty-one percent of debate watchers say Biden did best job, CNN poll says
Eighty-four percent of debate watchers said Palin did better than expected
Biden more likely to bring change, according to 53 percent of debate watchers
Highlights:
Fifty-one percent of debate watchers say Biden did best job, CNN poll... more
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It’s not as if some journalist are not doing their job the best way they can.
It’s just that the mighty Wurlitzer just doesn’t want to play their tune...
“At least 22 American news organizations had employed American journalists who were also working for the CIA, and nearly a dozen American publishing houses printed some of the more than 1,000 books that had been produced or subsidized by the CIA. When asked in a 1976 interview whether the CIA had ever told its media agents what to write, William Colby replied, ‘Oh, sure, all the time.”
PS : Check out Carl Bernstein’s 1970s Rolling Stone article on the CIA’s stranglehold on the US media, which has gotten far worse since then:
http://tmh.floonet.net/articles/cia_press.html
So there ya go, continue to absorb the journalistic pabulum that passes for information these days at your own risk, but remember, THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE INDEED !
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." – Plato
Sample this site for size.. http://freedocumentaries.org/index.php
Project Censored: The Top 10 Stories the US News Media Missed in the Past Year
The daily dispatches and nightly newscasts of the mainstream media regularly cover terrorism, but rarely discuss how the fear of attacks is used to manipulate the public and set policy. That’s the common thread of many unreported stories last year, according to an analysis by Project Censored.
Since 1976, Sonoma State University has released an annual survey of the top 25 stories the mainstream media failed to report or reported poorly. Culled from worldwide alternative news sources, vetted by students and faculty, and ranked by judges, the stories were not necessarily overtly censored. But their controversial subjects, challenges to the status quo, or general under-the-radar subject matter might have kept them from the front pages. Project Censored recounts them, accompanied by media analysis, in a book of the same name published annually by Seven Stories Press.
1. HOW MANY IRAQIS HAVE DIED?
Nobody knows exactly how many lives the Iraq War has claimed. But even more astounding is that so few journalists have mentioned the issue or cited the top estimate: 1.2 million.
Sources: “Is the United States killing 10,000 Iraqis every month? Or is it more?” Michael Schwartz, After Downing Street.org, July 6, 2007; “Iraq death toll rivals Rwanda Genocide, Cambodian killing fields,” Joshua Holland, AlterNet, Sept. 17, 2007; “Iraq conflict has killed a million: survey,” Luke Baker, Reuters, Jan. 30, 2008; “Iraq: Not our country to return to,” Maki al-Nazzal and Dahr Jamail, Inter Press Service, March 3, 2008.
2. NAFTA ON STEROIDS
Coupling the perennial issue of security with Wall Street’s measures of prosperity, the leaders of the three North American nations convened the Security and Prosperity Partnership. The White House–led initiative — launched at a March 23, 2005, meeting of President Bush, Mexico’s then-president Vicente Fox, and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin — joins beefed-up commerce with coordinated military operations to promote what it calls “borderless unity.”
Sources: “Deep Integration,” Laura Carlsen, Center for International Policy, May 30, 2007; “The Militarization and Annexation of North America,” Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 19, 2007; “The North American Union,” Constance Fogal, Global Research, Aug. 2, 2007.
It’s not as if some journalist are not doing their job the best way they can.... more
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How did we get to the point where our favorite village idiot bimbo can actually say out loud TOTAL OBSCURANTISM CRAP without being ridiculed & laugh out of town ? How can she still be a hearth beat away of becoming the President of the USA !!!
Some say it is a deliberate dumbing down of america !
Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt, former Senior Policy Advisor in the US Department of Education, blew the whistle on government activities.
http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/
CHECK THIS FOR SIZE ! NO JOKE ! NO ONION HERE…
PALIN CLAIMED DINOSAURS & PEOPLE COEXISTED !
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/100822/
Now don't feel too bad, those crazy canucks (Canada is up there somewhere near Iceland some say ;) ...well those igloo huggers are equaly proud to ignore that the person in charge of their whole security (yeah that means protecting them from fundamentalist ignorant terrorist ;) well believes and says the exacts same thing !!!
THE MAN WHO WALKS WITH DINOSAURS http://thetyee.ca/Views/2004/12/01/TheManwhoWalkswithDinosaurs/
So I'd say advantage USA since Palin is but a candidate but Stockwell Day has been protecting them beaver lovers against whatever for years now
Soooo...How about reading a book once in a while !
But beware some are dangerous and could increase your knowledge and even make you think and even bring you up to par with science and 2008 common knowledge for anyone that... hum...reads !
* YOU'VE BEEN WARNED !*
VIVA BANNED BOOK WEEK !
http://www.bannedbooksweek.org/
BANNED BOOKS ONLINE
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/banned-books.html
(Guest blogged by NonnyMouse)
It probably comes as no surprise to regular C&L readers to learn that I grew up in a liberal-minded household; although at the time, being a kid, I didn't especially realize just how liberal such attitudes were. Our house was filled with books, magazines and newspapers, everything from a revered set of encyclopedias (the Google of the 1960's) to stacks of ratty romance paperbacks. We had at least forty years worth of National Geographic magazines, from which I gleaned juicy facts for hundreds of school reports. I learned to read from Humpty-Dumpty magazines at the age of three and had read Ivanhoe by the time I was seven, although I have to admit I didn't understand much of it at the time.
It didn't matter. What mattered was that nothing was off-limits in our house when it came to the written word. I read Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde and the complete works of Jonathan Swift, the back of cereal boxes, A Little Princess and Mein Kampf and Uncle Tom's Cabin and Black Beauty, Dr. Seuss and Archie comics, a huge box of pulp science-fiction novels from a garage sale, Jehovah's Witness Biblical tracts that got shoved in the letterbox, the perpetual Cherry Ames, Army Nurse novels my grandmother inevitably sent us every Christmas, every book ever written by Philip Wylie, several year's worth of a wonderful science magazine for teens to which my Aunt Ruth gave me a subscription (Build a Working Computer from Empty Matchboxes!), until the magazine went bust and folded. The written word, from high-brow to no-brow, was sacrosanct.
How did we get to the point where our favorite village idiot bimbo can actually say... more
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Go to bannedbooksweek.org, find a good book that interests you from the banned books list, and read. It's that simple.Go to bannedbooksweek.org, find a good book that interests you from the banned books... more
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“Celebrating the Freedom to Read,” Banned Books Week runs September 27th to October 4th this year. Starting on September 27th as well is the eighth annual National Book Festival, taking place on the National Mall. Presented by the Library of Congress and Laura Bush, over 70 authors will be participating, and the website will post podcasts of events. I’ll also promote the wonderful, ongoing Favorite Poem Project yet again.
The American Library Association has a page on Banned Book Events, including a page for events by state (at least one listed event appears to be from 2007 or else there’s a typo, so you may wish to confirm an event before attending). There are official Facebook and MySpace groups for Banned Books Week, and you can also find several “I Read Banned Books” groups. Apparently, there will even be Banned Books Week activities in Second Life (details forthcoming on the website). Children’s author Sam Riddleburger shows how you can use an online motivational poster generator to make your own “Read” posters. (Continuing on the lighter side, The Onion has a piece called “Nation’s Teens Disappointed by Banned Books.”)
I’ll also invite any and all bloggers to a very informal blogswarm on banned books and intellectual freedom. Feel free to link your post(s) in the comments, or shoot me an e-mail, if you’d like.
I write a little post for Banned Books Week every year, but this year the subject’s been, well, more on my mind. Banned Books Week is a fine time to celebrate “Biblio-Americans” and all those teachers, librarians, parents, siblings and friends who may have introduced us to a great book or the joy of reading. It’s a great excuse to revisit a favorite book or read a new one – especially a banned one. It’s a nice way to share a favorite book with someone else, or start a conversation about why a challenged book such as 1984, The Great Gatsby or The Color Purple means so much. That’s not to mention books banned in other countries currently or throughout history. One of my favorite novels, The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, was initially published in the Soviet Union only in censored form, but a more authentic version was one of many works passed around between friends clandestinely (and illegally) in Samizdat form. (The excellent 2006 film The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) portrays a similar dynamic in East Germany in the 80s.)
Personally, I draw the most inspiration from hearing tales like that, and by reading over the lists of the many books challenged over the years – it’s venerable company. To that effect, from the Frequently Challenged Books page, here’s:
The most frequently challenged books of 2007…
The ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom received a total of 420 challenges last year. A challenge is defined as a formal, written complaint, filed with a library or school requesting that materials be removed because of content or appropriateness. According to Judith F. Krug, director of the Office for Intellectual Freedom, the number of challenges reflects only incidents reported, and for each reported, four or five remain unreported.“Celebrating the Freedom to Read,” Banned Books Week runs September 27th... more
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