WorkingForChange-Energy insanity

WorkingForChange-Energy insanity: "Energy insanity
Just when you thought it was impossible, Cheney energy schemes get even worse"

Bush Shows No Remorse for Fake Newscasts

Bush Shows No Remorse for Fake Newscasts

Yahoo! News - Rice Alarms Reformist Arabs with Stability Remarks

Yahoo! News - Rice Alarms Reformist Arabs with Stability Remarks: "CAIRO (Reuters) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has alarmed many reformist Arabs with comments suggesting a new U.S. approach that promotes rapid political change without regard for internal stability"

Business Sees Gain In GOP Takeover

Y! News: "Fortune 500 companies that invested millions of dollars in electing Republicans are emerging as the earliest beneficiaries of a government controlled by President Bush and the largest GOP House and Senate majority in a half century."

Federal Court Rules Indiana Protester's Rights Violated During Cheney Visit

American Civil Liberties Union : Federal Court Rules Indiana Protester's Rights Violated During Cheney Visit: "VANSVILLE, IN-In a victory for free speech rights and the Indiana Civil Liberties Union, a federal judge ruled today that Evansville police violated a protester's constitutional rights by restricting his movement and arresting him for disorderly conduct before a 2002 appearance by Vice President Dick Cheney.

In granting summary judgment on John Blair's claim that his First Amendment rights were violated, U.S. District Court Judge Larry J. McKinney directly addressed the recent trend of using security concerns as justification for limiting advocates to so-called 'protest zones' far away from official events.

'The restriction of protesters to an area 50"

TomPaine.com - State Of The News Media, 2005

TomPaine.com - State Of The News Media, 2005

The past year was an interesting—and not altogether positive—one for the media. There was the rise of blogging, the Bush administration-produced "reports" during election season, the revelations that several reporters had been paid to tout government programs, and the continued move toward faster, flashier news coverage. In its second annual "State Of The News Media" report, the Project For Excellence In Journalism extensively reviewed the media's work and trends among newspapers, magazines, broadcast, online news and the ethnic press. Among the findings: verification in journalism has fallen off in favor of assertion; broadcast news is reaching a transition point; and we're not nearly as partisan in our news consumption as we've been led to believe.

Daily Kos :: Political Analysis and other daily rants on the state of the nation.

Daily Kos :: Political Analysis and other daily rants on the state of the nation.

This guy (Gannon) was recently "outted" as a fake member of the White House Press corp. He was famous for interrupting embarassing questions put to the President during press conferences. Turns out he was a shill. Represented a basically fake news service. Had never had a background check by the FBI like all others in the press room. (Raising the question of who gave him permission to be there). Then he turned out to run Intenet sites for male military "escorts" (yeah, that kind of escort). He was supposed to be an ex-Marines (part of his hunky image?). Now he appears to have never served in the armed forces.

LA Weekly: News: Censor Alert

LA Weekly: News: Censor Alert

Just as a TIME magazine poll out this week shows Americans want more TV censorship, a brace of Republican initiatives threatens to extend federal control of what you can see and hear and read to both cable TV and the Internet.

Hollywood better wake up. Remember the Hays Office, which imposed family-values censorship on the movies in the 1920s — a ham-fisted squelching of “indecency” that cramped and crippled scriptwriters and moviemakers for decades thereafter? Well, what one of the most powerful Republicans in the U.S. Senate is now talking about sounds very much like the same thing, except now it’s about cable TV and the Net.

roanoke.com - Commentary Stories -It's not easy to 'get a job' with a health plan

roanoke.com - Commentary Stories -It's not easy to 'get a job' with a health plan

AlterNet Mobile Edition

AlterNet Mobile Edition: "Many media outlets self-censored their reporting on the Iraq invasion because of concerns about public reaction to graphic images and content, according to a survey of more than 200 journalists by American University's School of Communications."

EPA Nominee Advocates Human Guinea Pigs :: Intervention Magazine :: War, Politics, Culture

EPA Nominee Advocates Human Guinea Pigs :: Intervention Magazine :: War, Politics, Culture: " EPA Nominee Advocates Human Guinea Pigs



Stephen Johnson, Bush's nominee to run the EPA, advocates the testing of pesticides on humans -- even children -- for the benefit of large chemical companies. "

Homeschooled Kids Barred From Spelling Bee

Homeschooled Kids Barred From Spelling Bee: "Homeschooled Kid
Barred From Major
Spelling Bee Competition!"

Democracy Now! | Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Laurie Garrett Quits Newsday: "When You See News As a Product...It's Impossible To Really Serve Dem

Democracy Now! | Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Laurie Garrett Quits Newsday: "When You See News As a Product...It's Impossible To Really Serve Democracy"

"Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Laurie Garrett made headlines last week when she resigned from New York Newsday - where she had worked since 1988.

In a blistering memo to her colleagues at the paper, she ripped Newsday's parent company - the Tribune Company - for putting profit over quality journalism"

Bonnie M. Anderson Newsflash

Bonnie M. Anderson Newsflash: "Bonnie M. Anderson Looks at the 'News'

Call me old school. Call me old fashioned or a dinosaur, but I think government should be about protecting the Bill of Rights. Government should be truthful to the American public, and not about trying to manipulate the public and, in this case, also manipulating the media.

Bonnie M. Anderson won 7 Emmy Awards and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize during her 27 year career as a print and broadcast journalist. Now, as author of News Flash: Journalism, Infotainment, and the Bottom-Line Business of Broadcast News, she turns a critical eye on what passes today as America's free press. In Newsflash, she details the decline of independence and truth in the media, which has gone hand in hand with the ever greater consolidation of the media in the hands of a few. She talks with BuzzFlash here about infotainment, journalistic ethics, preoccupation with the bottom line, ageism, and the politics of the news rooms."

Mary Mapes, CBS Producer in 'Rathergate,' Inks Big Book Deal

NEW YORK Mary Mapes, the CBS News producer fired over "Rathergate,” has inked a deal to tell her side of the scandal, reportedly for a high six-figure sum.

The publisher, St. Martin's Press, beat out a reported half a dozen others. It announced today that the book would come out in the fall with a tentative title of “The Other Side of the Story.”

St. Martin's said that Mapes "will chronicle what really happened at CBS and reveal the corporate, political and ideological agendas that threaten the integrity of journalists and the news."

Mary Mapes, CBS Producer in 'Rathergate,' Inks Big Book Deal

Miscovering Anti-War Protests (Again)

Miscovering Anti-War Protests (Again)

AlterNet Mobile Edition

Paul Wolfowitz is Assistant Secretary of Defense. A couple of years ago he told Salon.com in an interview that he and several other "neocons" needed a reason to attack Iraq. They "decided that weapons of mass destruction would be the easiest 'sell' to the U. S. public -- among a list of others reasons they considered. Bush has just nominated him for head of the World Bank -- which is supposed to help less developed nations become self-sufficient.

AlterNet Mobile Edition

Internet Week > Internet Becomes A Major Political News Source > Internet Becomes A Major Political News Source > March 8, 2005

Internet Week > Internet Becomes A Major Political News Source > Internet Becomes A Major Political News Source > March 8, 2005

Lobbyists so powerful in Legislature that they sometimes write bills themselves: South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Lobbyists so powerful in Legislature that they sometimes write bills themselves: South Florida Sun-Sentinel: "Lobbyists so powerful in Legislature that they sometimes write bills themselves

By Linda Kleindienst
Tallahassee Bureau Chief
Posted March 8 2005

Tallahassee � They have been called the Third House and their ranks are rife with former legislators, political party powerhouses and former aides to legislative leaders and governors."

Beyond the Brain @ National Geographic Magazine

Check out this truly fascinating article about the human brain that appears in a recent National Geographic.

Beyond the Brain @ National Geographic Magazine: "What goes on within the human skull is more complex and fantastic than anyone imagined. Now science is delving deeper into what we know of the mind."

AlterNet: What Jesus Wouldn't Do

Excerpt: Much of the religious right's agenda is in direct contradiction to Christ's own teachings – and most devout Christians know it.

AlterNet: What Jesus Wouldn't Do

Can you read other people's faces???

Do your part for science. Take a 15-minute survey to find out how well you read human facial expressions.

Survey2005@nationalgeographic.com

U.S. National Debt Clock

I mentioned the other day that every man, woman, and child in the U. S. now owes about $20,000 on the national debtl Which is currently rising at about 2 billion dollars per day! Here's a link to check out the firgures:

U.S. National Debt Clock

The U. S. is Number One -- think again!

Fascinating (if depressing) list of numberical facts and how the U. S. stacks up against the rest of the world.

City Pages - No. 1?

Consumer Debt -- ouch, ouch, ouch

U.S. economic collapse looming for 2005 - Forums powered by Reason and Principle: "The American family is highly indebted, not just for their home. The Federal Reserve data show a total U.S. debt level now above $35 trillion, or some $ 450,000 for a typical family of four. Average consumer debt for credit cards, autos and such is at record highs. Car makers continue to offer car loans, with loans for up to six or even seven years. Many Americans owe more on their car than it is worth. "

Missing Pentagon Unobstructed Citgo Videos

Remind anyone of the article re the TWA flight in Into the Buzzsaw?

Missing Pentagon Unobstructed Citgo Videos