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NEW YORK Public trust in newspapers and television news continued to decline in Gallup’s annual survey of "public confidence in major institutions" in the United States, reaching an all-time low this year.
Those having a "great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in newspapers dipped from 30% to 28% in one year, the same total for television. The previous low for newspapers was 29% in 1994. Since 2000, confidence in newspapers has declined from 37% to 28%, and TV from 36% to 28%, (…)

He doesn’t look terrified, what do you think?
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If anyone doesn’t understand what the patriot act will do and how similar it is to an open COINTEL program, you should read about it and draw your own conclusions. Deep Throat’s Crimes Mark Felt: Serial Constitution-shredder by DOUG IRELAND
After Mark Felt outed himself as the legendary Deep Throat in the Watergate case last week, there was a media rush to canonize the FBI’s former Number Two man, and politicians proposed he be given the Presidential Medal of Freedom. But in all this (…)

"Knowledge is the antidote to fear." Emerson
Two years ago, shortly after American troops "had taken" Baghdad, Stefan, my Greek economist-friend and former classmate at UCLA, paid me a short visit. During his stay, the topic of Bush’s lunacy occupied much of our time together and, for once, found us in synchronized agreement as to this folly?s likely outcome.
Not my intent, however, to recount our castigation of Iraq’s invasion, or the prophetic pronouncements we both made on the WMD (…)

The Downing Street Memo reported that in a July 23, 2002 meeting between Prime Minister Blair and his war cabinet, attendees of the meeting discussed the fact that President Bush had already made up his mind to attack Iraq. According to the minutes of the meeting:
“There was a perceptible shift in attitude. Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action.”
Yet, as the record below proves, President Bush claimed over and over after July (…)

Published on Friday, June 10, 2005 by the Richmond Times-Dispatch (Virginia) Psychological Warfare Effort to be Outsourced Army command hires three firms to sway Afghans and Iraqis by James W Crawley WASHINGTON — The U.S. Special Operations Command has hired three firms to produce newspaper stories, television broadcasts and Web sites to spread American propaganda overseas.
The Tampa-based military headquarters, which oversees commandos and psychological warfare, may spend up to (…)

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Republican chairman walked off with the gavel, leaving Democrats shouting into turned-off microphones at a raucous hearing Friday on the Patriot Act.
The House Judiciary Committee hearing, with the two sides accusing each other of being irresponsible and undemocratic, came as President Bush was urging Congress to renew those sections of the post-Sept. 11 counterterrorism law set to expire in September.
Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., chairman of the panel, (…)

Editorial
PRESIDENT BUSH apparently thinks he can dismiss the damning "Downing Street memo" with a few glib words.
If he is right, it is a sad commentary on the state of American democracy and values.
The memo, recounting the details of a July 23, 2002, meeting at British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s official residence on 10 Downing St., strongly suggested that the message had been sent across the Atlantic that the Bush White House had made the decision to wage war on Iraq. The minutes (…)

...and the Hijacking of Our Collective Fear
by Anthony Wade
On September the Eleventh, 2001, our worst fears were realized. I will never forget that day and traveling home by subway in New York City. Looking into the shell-shocked faces of people I never met, would never see again, realizing how truly close we all were. We were bound together by the experience. A collective outrage, a collective understanding that we were in this together. Unfortunately, some took this opportunity to (…)

The GOP. That party that stands for Greater Operational Profits at ANY COST.
Yes it was tuff but now I am out of GOP rehab and feel HUMAN again and seem to have feelings of peace and happiness that my "balance" sheet just seemed to lack. If your thinking about giving up your addiction to money think about the following it may help align your mind with realities of life on earth... As a GOP memeber the following kept going through my mind until I made the call and got help... I called
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