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Protests on Wall Street - what the news media isn’t showing you

Protests took place on Wall St. to protest the bail out plan - and the mainstream news media didn’t even mention it

Hundreds of protestors demonstrated agains the proposed $700 Billion bail out plan for the finance and banking industry, yet the national news media in America didn’t even report it! Why not? It seems strange that this barely generated a gander from the big news outlets like ABC, CNN, CBS, NBC etc. all of whom have a presence in New York City. Despite having such a large protest event occurring in their backyard, the major news media chose not to tell the American people about it. I had to stumble upon this on the internet to find out about it. That’s really indicative of the pathetic state of affairs in the U.S. media today. Read more

Putin Stunned by Power of Western Propaganda

Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said he was surprised by the power manifested by western propaganda after Georgia’s assault on South Ossetia, RIA Novosti reported from Sochi.
A foreign participant of Valdai International Debating Club asked the RF prime minister, why Russia’s troops that moved to South Ossetia acted in such a way towards Georgia.

“Your question doesn’t surprise me. I’m surprised by quite another thing - how powerful the propaganda machine of the West actually is. It is stunning, astonishing. This is out of all notch, but it is in it nevertheless,” Putin answered.

Putin reiterated that Russia’s response to Georgia’s assault on South Ossetia was adequate, as Georgia used heavy artillery against peaceful civilians.

“You’d like us to swing a penknife there? What’s the adequate application of force when the tanks and heavy artillery are used against us? Should we have catapulted? The thing to be expected was they would get the snout smashed good and proper,” the prime minister was explicitly emphatic.

Kommersant | Friday, September 12, 2008

Google copying, storing more stories fit for print

Google Inc. is trying to expand the newspaper section of its online library to include billions of articles published during the past 244 years, hoping the added attraction will lure even more traffic to its leading Internet search engine.

The project announced Monday extends Google’s crusade to make digital copies of content created before the Internet’s advent, so the information can become more accessible and, ultimately, Google can make more money from ads shown on its Web site.

As part of the latest initiative, Google will foot the bill to copy the archives of any newspaper publisher willing to permit the stories to be shown for free on Google’s Web site. The participating publishers will receive an unspecified portion of the revenue generated from the ads displayed next to the stories.

Google is touting the program as a way to give people an easier way to find a rich vein of history. The initiative also is designed to provide a financial boost to newspaper publishers as they try to offset declining revenue from print editions that are losing readers and advertisers to online news sources.

“I believe this could be a turning point for the industry,” said Pierre Little, publisher of the Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph, which touts itself as North America’s oldest newspaper, with editions dating to 1764. “This helps us unlock a bit of an asset that had just been sitting within the organization.”

Besides the Chronicle-Telegraph, other newspapers that have already agreed to allow Google to copy and host their archives include the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the St. Petersburg Times in Florida. Google declined to specify how many other papers have signed up or how much the company has budgeted for the project.

Google already has committed to spending tens of millions of dollars to make electronic copies of books and other material kept in dozens of libraries around the world. The book-copying program, launched in 2004, has triggered a lawsuit from group of authors and publishers that alleges it infringes on copyrights - a charge that Google is fighting.

Major newspapers including The New York Times and The Washington Post began to give Google’s search engine access to some of their electronic archives in 2006. But those results frequently displayed only news snippets. Readers often had to pay a fee to see the entire article.

Besides being free, the newspaper archives hosted by Google will be presented in the same way they originally appeared in print, said Adam Smith, Google’s product management director.

Finding the old newspaper stories initially will require searching through Google’s “news” or “news archive” section. The newspaper archives should start showing up on Google’s main results page within the next year, Smith said.

AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Monday, September 8, 2008

MSNBC Drops Olbermann, Matthews as News Anchors

MSNBC is removing Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews as the anchors of live political events, bowing to growing criticism that they are too opinionated to be seen as neutral in the heat of the presidential campaign.

David Gregory, the NBC newsman and White House correspondent who also hosts a program on MSNBC, will take over during such events as this fall’s presidential and vice presidential debates and election night.

The move, confirmed by spokesmen for both networks, follows increasingly loud complaints about Olbermann’s anchor role at the Democratic and Republican conventions. Olbermann, who regularly assails President Bush and GOP nominee John McCain on his “Countdown” program, was effusive in praising the acceptance speech of Democratic nominee Barack Obama. He drew flak Thursday when the Republicans played a video that included a tribute to the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks, saying that if the networks had done that, “we would be rightly eviscerated at all quarters, perhaps by the Republican Party itself, for exploiting the memories of the dead, and perhaps even for trying to evoke that pain again. If you reacted to that videotape the way I did, I apologize.”

Matthews, who has criticized politicians in both parties, drew less criticism for his convention role but became a divisive figure during the primaries when he described how he was inspired by Obama’s speeches and made disparaging remarks about Hillary Clinton, for which he later apologized.

In May, MSNBC President Phil Griffin said in an interview that during live events Olbermann and Matthews “put on different hats. I think the audience gets it. . . . I see zero problem.”

But NBC News journalists, who often appear on the cable channel, did see a problem, arguing behind the scenes that MSNBC’s move to the left — which includes a new show, debuting tonight, for Air America radio host Rachel Maddow — was tarnishing their reputation for fairness. Tom Brokaw, the interim host of “Meet the Press,” said that at times Olbermann and Matthews went too far.

Olbermann and Matthews will remain as analysts during major political events, and officials at both networks, who declined to be identified discussing personnel moves, said Olbermann had initiated the discussions to clarify his role. They said Olbermann’s influence at MSNBC would in no way be diminished and that the shift would enable him and Matthews to offer more candid analysis during live coverage. Olbermann confirmed yesterday he had initiated the discussions.

“Phil and I have debated this set-up since late winter/early spring (with me saying, ‘Are you sure this flies?’ and him saying, ‘Yes, but let’s judge it event by event’) and I think we both reached the same point during the RNC,” Olbermann said by e-mail.

Olbermann was involved in several on-air incidents during the conventions that drew unwanted attention. He told morning host Joe Scarborough, a former Republican congressman, to “get a shovel” as Scarborough was defending the McCain campaign. And when GOP strategist Mike Murphy was debating Matthews, Olbermann could be heard saying, “Let’s wrap him up.”

These and other clashes fueled a sense that conservative voices are less than welcome at MSNBC as it has tried to position itself as a left-wing alternative to Fox News Channel. Olbermann disputes this view, calling the incidents “overblown.” Still, the network canceled Tucker Carlson’s show in March and has diminished his role. And Dan Abrams, the veteran NBC legal analyst and former MSNBC general manager, had his program dropped last month to make room for Maddow, an Olbermann protege.

MSNBC’s more liberal outlook has boosted its ratings, though it remains the third-place cable news channel. But both parties began castigating its coverage last spring. Steve Schmidt, McCain’s top strategist, called the network “an organ of the Democratic National Committee,” and Clinton campaign chairman Terry McAuliffe said Matthews was “in the tank” for Obama.

Washington Post | Howard Kurtz | Monday, September 8, 2008

EU wants to ban ’sexist’ TV commercials

MEPs want TV regulators in the EU to set guidelines which would see the end of anything deemed to portray women as sex objects or reinforce gender stereotypes.

This could potentially mean an end to attractive women advertising perfume, housewives in the kitchen or men doing DIY.

Such classic adverts as the Diet Coke commercial featuring the bare-chested builder, or Wonderbra’s “Hello Boys” featuring model Eva Herzigova would have been banned.

The new rules come in a report by the EU’s women’s rights committee.

Swedish MEP Eva-Britt Svensson urged Britain and other members to use existing equality, sexism and discrimination laws to control advertising.

She wants regulatory bodies set up to monitor ads and introduce a “zero-tolerance” policy against “sexist insults or degrading images”.

Ms Svensson said: “Gender stereotyping in advertising straitjackets women, men, girls and boys by restricting individuals to predetermined and artificial roles that are often degrading, humiliating and dumbed down for both sexes.”

She added: “Gender stereotyping in advertising is one of several factors that have a big influence in efforts to make society more gender equal.

“When women and men are portrayed in a stereotypical way the consequence may be that it becomes difficult in other contexts to see women and men’s resources and abilities.”

The Advertising Standards Authority however had said there are already checks in place to prevent “discriminatory or harmful” material.

A spokesman said: “Although the ASA supports the overall objectives of the report… the approach suggested is inflexible and impractical.”

Telegraph | Chris Irvin | Friday, September 5, 2008

America’s Israeli-Occupied Media

Is Dubya an Agent of the New World Order?

“Out of these troubled times, our…objective can emerge–’a New World Order.’” - George Bush, Sr., Dubya’s Daddy

When you mention the word “conspiracy” to explain a situation, most people tune you right out. They think you’re a whack-oh. Yet, the U.S. Congress, as dumb as it is, subscribes to the proposition that there is such a thing. After the Civil War, it passed a law, the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, to make it a crime for two or more individuals to agree to fix the price of goods in restraint of trade. Every day in America, in both the state and federal courts, a defendant faces charges dealing with the “crime of conspiracy.” Conspiracy is as American as apple pie. Therefore, I submit that the evidence is compelling that there is an ongoing conspiracy, hatched by the New World Order, to reduce the U.S. to a vassal state. Which leads me to this question: Is Dubya, President George W. Bush, Jr., one of its covert agents?

The last seven and one half years has been an absolute disaster for the American Republic. Under Dubya’s reign, we have suffered with lethal wars of choice in both Iraq and Afghanistan, resulting in huge casualty numbers; a failing economy with a loss of hundreds of thousands of middle class jobs, a sharp decline in the value of stocks and of the dollar, too; Katrina and massive flooding in the Heartland of America, prompted in part by Global Warming and defective levees; and a foreclosure rate in the housing market that mirrors the worst days of the Great Depression.

As I write, banks are going under, monthly. About 150 may be in serious trouble. And “The Fed” is held in the lowest possible esteem, thanks mostly to Alan Greenspan’s gross ineptness when he was its Czar. (1) The two wars will cost taxpayers a staggering $3.5 trillion, which will be added to our present national debt of $9.5 trillion. Meanwhile, gasoline is selling at an average $4.10 a gallon, with no end in sight as to increases. In fact, if Dubya takes us into a war with Iran, you may be paying $10 for a gallon of gas! It is fair to say that Dubya, and his predatory gang, have inflicted more damage on our country than any foreign enemy could inflict.

On another front, the current U.S. Congress has the lowest approval ratings in the history of polling by Rasmussen Reports. It scores at just nine percent. (2) The voters polled think less of their elected politicos in Washington, D.C., than they do of the dreadful Dubya himself. The Globalists Wise Guys on Wall Street, mostly unregulated, have played a huge part, too, in this unfolding tragedy. Think Bear Stearn’s bailout and Enron! (3) Then, there are the “speculators” in the commodity markets, who have been given a green light to drive up both oil and food prices. (4)

Whose side is Dubya on? Is he working for the American people or for someone else? Who has profited from his demented policies? The answer has to be: “Not the vast majority of the American people!” Dubya does a good job of posing in front of the American flag, but what flag does this cowboy really serve?

How did the U.S., which stood as a mighty colossus astride the globe after the end WWII, fall into such a miserable state in 2008? Was it by accident? FDR said: “In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happened, you can bet it was ‘planned’ that way.”

A few decades ago, I stumbled onto a book, “The Anglo-American Establishment,” written by a scholarly author and history professor from Georgetown U., the late Carroll Quigley. In his treatise, he documented with extensive footnotes, the existence of a secret cabal, in 1891, centered around the grasping British imperialist, Cecil Rhodes. The cabal’s objective was the creation of a “New World Order.” At p. 33 of his book, Mr. Quigley restates from Rhodes’ first “Last Will and Testament,” signed in 1877, some of the purposes of his emerging secret society. It called for “the extension of British rule throughout the world…and the ultimate recovery of the United States of America as an integral part of a British Empire.” How does that last part grab you?

Recently, another book, “Conspirators’ Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300,” ended up in my library. Its author is Dr. John Coleman, a former MI6 operative. Coleman’s book isn’t in the same literary league with Quigley’s brilliant effort, but it does bring the sinister connivings of the Rhodes’ cabal up into the present time, but without the detailed documentation and learned interpretation that Professor Quigley’s was so famous for.

Cutting to the chase, here’s the bottom line: Under the guise of international trade treaties, the U.S., Mexico and Canada will be merged into one system–a Super State. It will be controlled by the Wire Pullers–the cunning heirs of the Rhodes’ cabal. The American Republic, forged by our Founding Fathers, will exist only on paper!

In his 1992 book, Dr. Coleman charged, on p. 36, that the global elite planned to “deindustrialize America…to accelerate the collapse of first the steel industry, and then the auto and housing industries…resulting in a postindustrial, zero-growth society.” (5) What a prophet! He went on to allege that the elitists will create “one crisis after another” in order to more easily brainwash and manipulate the populace. (Doesn’t 9/11fit into that prescription?) (6) Dr. Coleman further speculated that “we are being brainwashed [by the corporate controlled media and by other scientific-based methods] “to give up the Constitution itself…and to permit the President to break U.S. law with impunity, [so he can] invade a foreign country.” Was the attack on Iraq Neocon inspired? Was the media their accomplices? “We are being brainwashed,” Dr. Coleman added, “to accept…every lawless act carried out by our government.”

As an aside on the pitiful status of the media, pundit Nicholas von Hoffman sent out the following broadside. Commenting on the recent death of Tim Russert and his funeral–Russert was a Buffalo-born, ex-coat holder for Sen. Patrick J. Moynihan)–he wrote: “The mourning ceremonies for Russert offered a window on Washington, where the crosshatching of journalism, politics, and commerce is so fine that the boundaries are inscrutable.” (TAC, July 14, 2008).

Getting back to Dubya. He said of the U.S. Constitution: “It’s just a Goddamned piece of paper.” While he has been in the White House, our ancient rights have been shredded from the gutting of Habeas Corpus to the rescinding of important parts of the Fourth Amendment with the passage of the new FISA law. The U.S.A. Patriot Act and the Military Commissions Act, among other laws, have granted Dubya, and his predecessors, mostly unchecked power to suppress, at will, any dissent in this nation. (7)

As to the abysmal state of our Civil Liberties, I strongly recommend Naomi Wolf’s book, “The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot,” and Jim Marrs’ riveting tome, “The Rise of the Fourth Reich.” Both of these scribes envision “a Police State America” that should make every thoughtful citizen shudder with fear for themselves and for their children. Marrs writes: “In Fascist Italy and Nazi German, the state gained control of the corporations. In modern America, corporations have gained control over the state…Today, anyone who criticizes foreign policy…or even questions national policies, opens himself up to charges of being unpatriotic… (8) The philosophies of Fascism are alive and active in modern America.”

I’m convinced that there is an ongoing conspiracy to destroy the American Republic. The evidence for it is growing more abundant every day. Open your eyes and see it for yourselves. And, I also submit that Dubya, if he isn’t a covert agent for the New World Order, sure as heck acts like one. Only a probe of his conduct by a Special Prosecutor can establish the truth.

Dr. Coleman’s remedy to this predicament is this: “The only way we can fight back is by exposing the conspirators and their multiplicity of front organizations…Only a crash program will stop the rot which is consuming our nation.”

As America collapses, Dubya plans to go golfing with his daddy, on July 21, 2008, at Kennebunkport, Maine. I say, begin saving our Republic now by impeaching Dubya. (8)

Notes:

1. “Greenspan’s Bubbles” by William A. Fleckenstein, with Frederick Sheehan.
2. Rasmussen Report, July 8, 2008.
3. “The Trillion Dollar Meltdown” by Charles R. Morris.
4. “Stop the Oil Speculators” by Ralph Nader, 05/27/08.
5. http://www.economyincrisis.org/ and
http://legacy.usw.org/usw/program/content/839.php and
http://www.citizen.org/trade/nafta/
6. “The Terror Conspiracy: Deception, 9/11 and the Loss of Liberty” by Jim Marrs.
7. “Dissent: Voices of Conscience” by Col. (Ret.) Ann Wright and Susan Dixon and
“Protesting Power” by Professor Francis A. Boyle and
“The Complex: How the Military Invades our Everyday Lives” by Nick Turse.
8. http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/ and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwiSyIbeYjI and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdWdKIIM3sE

©2008, William Hughes, All Rights Reserved.

William Hughes’ videos can be found at: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=liamh2. His conspiracy book of fiction, “Andrew Jackson vs. New World Order,” is available on Amazon. Email Contact: liamhughes@comcast.net.

The People’s Voice | William Hughes | Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Carlin, counterculture comedians’ dean, dies at 71

LOS ANGELES (AP) - George Carlin, the dean of counterculture comedians whose biting insights on life and language were immortalized in his “Seven Words You Can Never Say On TV” routine, died of heart failure Sunday. He was 71.

Carlin, who had a history of heart trouble, went into St. John’s Health Center in Santa Monica on Sunday afternoon complaining of chest pain and died later that evening, said his publicist, Jeff Abraham. He had performed as recently as last weekend at the Orleans Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas.

“He was a genius and I will miss him dearly,” Jack Burns, who was the other half of a comedy duo with Carlin in the early 1960s, told The Associated Press.

Carlin’s jokes constantly breached the accepted boundaries of comedy and language, particularly with his routine on the “Seven Words” - all of which are taboo on broadcast TV and radio to this day. When he uttered all seven at a show in Milwaukee in 1972, he was arrested on charges of disturbing the peace, freed on $150 bail and exonerated when a Wisconsin judge dismissed the case, saying it was indecent but citing free speech and the lack of any disturbance.

When the words were later played on a New York radio station, they resulted in a 1978 Supreme Court ruling upholding the government’s authority to sanction stations for broadcasting offensive language during hours when children might be listening.

“So my name is a footnote in American legal history, which I’m perversely kind of proud of,” he told The Associated Press earlier this year.

Despite his reputation as unapologetically irreverent, Carlin was a television staple through the decades, serving as host of the “Saturday Night Live” debut in 1975 - noting on his Web site that he was “loaded on cocaine all week long” - and appearing some 130 times on “The Tonight Show.”

He produced 23 comedy albums, 14 HBO specials, three books, a couple of TV shows and appeared in several movies, from his own comedy specials to “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure” in 1989 - a testament to his range from cerebral satire and cultural commentary to downright silliness (and sometimes hitting all points in one stroke).

“Why do they lock gas station bathrooms?” he once mused. “Are they afraid someone will clean them?”

He won four Grammy Awards, each for best spoken comedy album, and was nominated for five Emmy awards. On Tuesday, it was announced that Carlin was being awarded the 11th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, which will be presented Nov. 10 in Washington and broadcast on PBS.

Carlin started his career on the traditional nightclub circuit in a coat and tie, pairing with Burns to spoof TV game shows, news and movies. Perhaps in spite of the outlaw soul, “George was fairly conservative when I met him,” said Burns, describing himself as the more left-leaning of the two. It was a degree of separation that would reverse when they came upon Lenny Bruce, the original shock comic, in the early ’60s.

“We were working in Chicago, and we went to see Lenny, and we were both blown away,” Burns said, recalling the moment as the beginning of the end for their collaboration if not their close friendship. “It was an epiphany for George. The comedy we were doing at the time wasn’t exactly groundbreaking, and George knew then that he wanted to go in a different direction.”

That direction would make Carlin as much a social commentator and philosopher as comedian, a position he would relish through the years.

“The whole problem with this idea of obscenity and indecency, and all of these things - bad language and whatever - it’s all caused by one basic thing, and that is: religious superstition,” Carlin told the AP in a 2004 interview. “There’s an idea that the human body is somehow evil and bad and there are parts of it that are especially evil and bad, and we should be ashamed. Fear, guilt and shame are built into the attitude toward sex and the body. … It’s reflected in these prohibitions and these taboos that we have.”

Carlin was born May 12, 1937, and grew up in the Morningside Heights section of Manhattan, raised by a single mother. After dropping out of high school in the ninth grade, he joined the Air Force in 1954. He received three court-martials and numerous disciplinary punishments, according to his official Web site.

While in the Air Force he started working as an off-base disc jockey at a radio station in Shreveport, La., and after receiving a general discharge in 1957, took an announcing job at WEZE in Boston.

“Fired after three months for driving mobile news van to New York to buy pot,” his Web site says.

From there he went on to a job on the night shift as a deejay at a radio station in Forth Worth, Texas. Carlin also worked variety of temporary jobs including a carnival organist and a marketing director for a peanut brittle.

In 1960, he left with Burns, a Texas radio buddy, for Hollywood to pursue a nightclub career as comedy team Burns & Carlin. He left with $300, but his first break came just months later when the duo appeared on the Tonight Show with Jack Paar.

Carlin said he hoped to would emulate his childhood hero, Danny Kaye, the kindly, rubber-faced comedian who ruled over the decade that Carlin grew up in - the 1950s - with a clever but gentle humor reflective of its times.

Only problem was, it didn’t work for him, and they broke up by 1962.

“I was doing superficial comedy entertaining people who didn’t really care: Businessmen, people in nightclubs, conservative people. And I had been doing that for the better part of 10 years when it finally dawned on me that I was in the wrong place doing the wrong things for the wrong people,” Carlin reflected recently as he prepared for his 14th HBO special, “It’s Bad For Ya.”

Eventually Carlin lost the buttoned-up look, favoring the beard, ponytail and all-black attire for which he came to be known.

But even with his decidedly adult-comedy bent, Carlin never lost his childlike sense of mischief, even voicing kid-friendly projects like episodes of the TV show “Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends” and the spacey Volkswagen bus Fillmore in the 2006 Pixar hit “Cars.”

Carlin’s first wife, Brenda, died in 1997. He is survived by wife Sally Wade; daughter Kelly Carlin McCall; son-in-law Bob McCall; brother Patrick Carlin; and sister-in-law Marlene Carlin.

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Associated Press writer Christopher Weber contributed to this report.

AP | KEITH ST. CLAIR | Monday, June 23, 2008

Hunter S. Thompson on the end of America

On 9/11: “[Y]ou sort of wonder when something like that happens, well, who stands to benefit? Who had the opportunity and the motive? You just kind of look at these basic things [...] I saw that the US government was going to benefit, and the White House people, the Republican administration to take the mind of the public off of the crashing economy. [...] And I have spent enough time on the inside of, well in the White House and you know, campaigns and I’ve known enough people who do these things, think this way, to know that the public version of the news or whatever event, is never really what happened.” –Hunter S. Thompson

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