ONLY OUR CITIZENS, TOGETHER,, ARE OUR HOPE AND STRENGTH

Both Gaddafi and I have two things in common.  We are alive and sentient and believe that Bin Laden is more powerful that the world has credited him.  I keep recalling his last threat; that he would destroy the US economy.  I fantasy that he has succeeded in doing so through paying off the greedy and getting a movement going with the Ultra Conservative right to privatize everything, make the poor even poorer, so that the fat cats can live off the rest of the world and enslave the poor.

Daniel Eran Dilger writes: "In November 2004, CNN reported that Bin Laden released a video monologue to Al-Jazeera where the terror-savvy, extreme fundamentalist announced plans to continue a “policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy” using similar tactics to those used when fighting the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 80s, “guerrilla warfare and the war of attrition to fight tyrannical superpowers.”

CNN released a tape from Al Jazeera which stated: that Bin Laden planned to bring the USA to bankruptcy.  Dilger wrote:  "Bin Laden bragged at the time that al Qaeda has found it “easy for us to provoke and bait this administration. All that we have to do is to send two mujahedeen to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al Qaeda, in order to make generals race there to cause America to suffer human, economic and political losses without their achieving anything of note other than some benefits for their private corporations.” ".

" Bin Laden said of President Bush that “the darkness of black gold blurred his vision and insight, and he gave priority to private interests over the public interests of America.”

 My voice is not very loud but I have raised it as loudly as I can.  To date, I have not found anyone in a position of power who has listened.  Bin Laden has appealed both to American stupidity and greed and was winning until a puppet of the plan pushed the people of Wisconsin too far.  A rebellion was started that is possibly going to make people in the Obama administration listen, at last.  It seems only people power will prevail in this fight.
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STOP, LOOK, AND LISTEN BEFORE YOU BEFORE YOU FIRE SOMEONE

Once again, the 'one-size-fits-all' folks are at work.  They are trying to make the Shirley Sharrod assassination of .character  a racial issue.  It is about so much more4 than race. It is an expose on just how lax we have become about what we see and believe without checking out more facts.  In fact is is an outrage about what our medias has done to the truth.  It should not have come as a shock that video can easily be tampered with to show the propaganda that is wished to be shown.  For years we have seen during campaigning and saw it during the Bush-Kerry campaign in all its full glory.  Andrew Breitbart is called a genius at it.  And the rest of us have allowed it.

I have written before that it used to be the habit (nay, requirement) of new editors that a story had to have three sources of confirmation before it could be accepted.  Journalism lost its Bible and I don't mean the ancient story of religion, I mean the  morality and integrity codes of journalism.  That it has, by osmosis, drifted into politics and media, and now even government handling, is not a surprise.   Secretary Virsack did no noble thing, though he was praised as a hero for admitting what an incompetent he had been.  He takes 'full responsibility', whatever that may mean.  People are blaming Obama.  The man isn't in the Gulf to offer support.  Of course not, he is needed elsewhere,where can actually do some good. He didn't stop the  Sherrod fiasco from happening. He hasn't  made the country healthy, wealthy and wise in eighteen months of office, and more there are more complaints, ad nauseum.  The man is human and being asked to do the equivalent of cleaning out the Aegean  stables.  His advisors need a refresher course in helping the man do his job rather than trying to do the job themselves for which they were not elected.

Why can nothing be done about the evil of Fox News, owned by an Australian and an wealthy Saudi Arabian prince.  That knowledge makes me believe that Fox News is a plant of Osama bin Laden.  Surely there must be some rules when a media license is given that Fox News is clearly violating, is there not?  It is wonderful to have a few in CNN and on MSNBC trying to help but they need more clout than their reach can influence.  Is there not some agency that can explore the requirements for owning such a powerful tool for evil against our country!  Wake up, Americans!

THE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH!

Writing on the blog AS TIME GOES BY, Saul Friedman quotes: "In 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt called these reporters “muckrakers,” but while he criticized them he also said, “I hail as a benefactor...every writer or speaker, every man who, on the platform or in book, magazine or newspaper, with merciless severity makes such attack, provided always that he in turn remembers that that attack is of use only if it is absolutely truthful.”"


In 1906 the world was not full of people in your face on a TV screen who were known to be untruthful yet permitted to go on daily to spew their falsehoods and vicious attacks as though their opinions and lies deserve merit.
The Society of Professional Journalists has a Code of Ethics. To read it in entirety, click here.

Surprising only to some of the professional journalists who seem not to know it exists or choose not to follow it. Ignoring it seems to have few, if any, negative consequences though it has existed since 1909. Some of the major points (and you will recognize those that have been forgotten by those who run the TV news media today, especially) are: 1. Seek truth and report it. 2. Minimize harm. 3. Act independently. 4. Be accountable.

Since Fox News, CNN, MSNBC. seem to be the major network news channels, it is no wonder that most of us who watch them wonder where Hannity, Beck, O'Reilly, and so many others occasionally less flagrant in their abuse of the the code, can face the camera and say the things they say. Understanding that Beck, Limbaugh (though he insists that he is only an entertainer though he is not entertaining but self-propelled in his vitriol spewing) were admires of and mentored by Bob Grant.

Perhaps viewers will weigh some of the faces on news TV against those four points in the code of ethics. If you convince yourself that the person you are watching does not adhere to the code, will you continue support by watching? Glenn Beck took it a bit over the top with his inaccurate and insensitive remarks so that as viewership began to fall and sponsors began to leave, his future on the network began to weaken.
After all, the power is in the viewer ratings and what advertising they can pull in. However, as long as viewers like (or don't realize they are) being lied to, brainwashed, and consciously fed misinformation...those personalities will continue to shine.