FOX News shows an amazing clip of Ron Paul at the Iowa debate on Aug 5. Then a hot anchor interviews Ron Paul in what may be one of the most civilized and fair interviews Ron Paul has had, yet.
Bush is Forced to Admit No Iraq involvement in 9/11 and No WMD’s
•August 6, 2007 • Leave a CommentCheck this out
Mayor Bloomberg Confronted as Filming Restrictions Set for Enforcement
•August 3, 2007 • Leave a CommentNew York Mayor Michael Bloomberg was confronted outside of his Manhattan residence yesterday by reporters affiliated with WeAreChange.org and Infowars.com, who asked if his new film policy is meant to be an attack on the First Amendment, which is demonstrably the case. Bloomberg refused to comment on two occasions about the free speech assault. Talk about desecrating the constitution no one can film on the public streets of NY for more than 30 minutes without a PERMIT????? Wake Up People
The Bottled Water Lie:
•August 2, 2007 • Leave a CommentThe Bottled Water Lie: As Soft Drink Giant Admits Product is Tap Water, New Scrutiny Falls on the Economic and Environmental Costs of a Billion Dollar Industry.
The soft drink giant Pepsi has been forced to make an embarrassing admission – its best-selling Aquafina bottled water is nothing more than tap water. Pepsi has agreed to change its label under pressure from the advocacy group Corporate Accountability International (CAI) which has been leading an increasingly successful campaign against bottled water. We look at the economic and environmental costs of the bottled water industry with CAI’s Gigi Kellett and freelance journalist Michael Blanding.
The soft drink giant Pepsi has been forced to make an embarrassing admission – its best-selling Aquafina bottled water is nothing more than tap water. Last week Pepsi agreed to change the labels of Aquafina to indicate that the water comes from a public water source. Pepsi agreed to change its label under pressure from the advocacy group Corporate Accountability International which has been leading an increasingly successful campaign against bottled water.In San Francisco, Mayor Gavin Newsom recently banned city departments from using city money to buy any kind of bottled water. In New York, local residents are being urged to drink tap water.The U.S. Conference of Mayors has passed a resolution that highlighted the importance of municipal water and called for more scrutiny of the impact of bottled water on city waste.
The environmental impact of the country’s obsession with bottled water has been staggering. Each day an estimated 60 million plastic water bottles are thrown away. Most are not recycled. The Pacific Institute has estimated 20 million barrels of oil are used each year to make the plastic for water bottles.
Economically it makes sense to stop buying bottled water as well. The Arizona Daily Star recently examined the cost difference between bottled water and water from the city’s municipal supply. A half liter of Pepsi’s Aquafina at a Tucson convenience store costs one dollar and thirty nine cents. The bottle contains purified water from the Tucson water supply. From the tap, you can pour over six point four gallons for a penny. That makes the bottled stuff about 7,000 times more expensive even though Aquafina is using the same source of water.
Kudos to Democracynow.org for this story.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/01/1435240
Kucinich to receive pro-impeachment petitions
•August 2, 2007 • Leave a CommentRep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) is expected to say Thursday morning his push to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney is gaining support among the American people as he collects petitions with more than 100,000 signatures supporting the impeachment drive.
Why Bush Won’t Ax Gonzales
•August 2, 2007 • Leave a CommentTime Magazine GETS IT. 1. Gonzales is all that stands between the White House and special prosecutors. As dicey as things are for Bush right now, his advisers know that they could get much worse. In private, Democrats say that if Gonzales did step down, his replacement would be required to agree to an independent investigation of Gonzales’ tenure in order to be confirmed by the Senate.
Without Gonzales at the helm, the Justice Department would be more likely to approve requests for investigations into White House activities on everything from misuse of prewar Iraq intelligence to allegations of political interference in tobacco litigation. And the DOJ could be less likely to block contempt charges against former White House aides who have refused to testify before Congress. “Bush needs someone at Justice who’s going to watch the White House’s back,” says a Senate Democratic Judiciary Committee staffer. If Gonzales steps down, Bush would lose his most reliable shield.
Kucinich rips Rumsfeld: Cover-ups worked for you
•August 2, 2007 • Leave a CommentAfter Rumsfeld joked any DoD press strategy for Tillman wouldn’t have been good, Kucinich retorted, “Well you know maybe it was very good because you actually covered up the Tillman case for awhile, you covered up the Jessica Lynch case, you covered up Abu Ghraib, so something was working for you.”
Awakenings
•August 2, 2007 • Leave a CommentAs lovely as the american dream use to sound to me, I find myself distraught over the pursuit of said “Dream”. No longer are the white picket fences and freshly manicured lawns attractive. The urban sprawl suits me much better. The one thing that fascinated me when I was little was watching the sky and wondering what was out there? I would get lost in fantasy and play out all sorts of scenarios in my head. I would see strange things, most of which were explainable. Some not so much. I would question the unexplainable and ask lots of questions being the inquisitive kid I was. I know one thing is for sure in my 27 years on planet earth. We are all going to pass away one day and leave behind a legacy. A legacy that is measured by the impression we made while we were here.
So back to the “American Dream”. My pursuit has become riddled with buckshot. There are many holes in the dream now. When I was a kid I listened to AM radio like it was going out of style. I heard everything from evangelists to one of my hero’s Art Bell on the dial and stayed up till 5am most mornings listening to the state of all things human and……not so much human. I was baffled at some of the things I heard so I would read about the subjects that fascinated me the most. I was home schooled so reading was encouraged but books about “visitors” from outer space and supernatural entities were not always the most welcome study material by my teachers. I had an uncanny knack of enlightening others three times my age with knowledge they would have never begun to research. So I became somewhat of a conspiracy theorist. Not just one of those quacks that decides everything we have been told is lie. Just one of those guys that questions absolutely everything he has been told. There is a DIFFERENCE!
Im kinda tired of everyone that fashions a hypothesis about something and because the mainstream doesnt agree they cast said individual into the abyss! See I believe we need a few more free thinkers in society. The difference between my self and an individual that is content with his close minded existence is the aknowledgement of the things that are not being fed to them from our agenda based media. The propaganda machine is working overtime and it us bloggers that must dissect it and create an open forum for feedback. So I’ll try not be like all the others but somehow I think it may be inevitable.
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