And now, NOT in the news today!
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UPDATED: Tuesday, February 3, 2026 22:33
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Also NOT in the news today...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3037881/site/newsweek/
Top of page, left side - four edition covers.
You tell me.
For more blatant propaganda, consider that your tax dollars are used to lie to you.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lincoln_Group
Dennis Kucinich and others attempted to stop this practice, only to be voted down by an almost 2-to-1 margin
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:HZ01074:
http://www.kucinich.us/floor_speeches/iq_no_funds_lincoln20jun.php
And the major, 'mainstream' media wonders why they are losing out to blogs running on spare change... maybe cause folks get tired of being lied to, perhaps ?
-Frem
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Now, here is something important that should be at least on the front page.
Published on Tuesday, September 26, 2006 by the Associated Press
Global Temperature Highest in Millennia
WASHINGTON - .. researchers report in Tuesday's issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. ... That brings the overall temperature to the warmest in the current interglacial period, which began about 12,000 years ago.
It was nowhere to be found in any of the on-line publications (below). I've included the other topics the publishers thought were more news-worthy.
CNN
Paris Hilton charged with DUI
Aerosmith star reveals he has hepatitis C
Mona Lisa's smile hides new baby theory
USAToday
Hilton charged with DUI Stems from Sept. 7 arrest in L.A.
LATimes
Riverside Rejects Pot Dispensaries
Where Mail Carriers Fear to Tread
BostonGlobe
US eases ban on liquids in air travel
Conan O'Brien helps Lawrence priest dedicate meals center
NYTimes
Vatican Excommunicates Zambian Archbishop
WashPost
Hill Salary Site Too Big a Hit
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NOT IN THE NEWS !
basic facts
http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2003/12/19/iraq6770.htm
Human Rights Watch estimates that as many as 290,000 people were killed under the rule of Saddam Hussein.
For 24 years, that's roughly 12,000 per year. Or if you include roughly 600,000 dead from sanctions (a middle estimate), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_sanctions and 190,000 deaths from the Iraq/Iran war http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Iran_War,
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Hussein's regime was responsible directly or indirectly for 45,000 deaths per year.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/10/AR2006
101001442.html
Study Claims Iraq's 'Excess' Death Toll Has Reached 655,000
Now, if you take the start of the post-Hussein period to be when the US invaded in March 2003 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_invasion,
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the US-led invasion is responsible for a mere 187,000 deaths per year.
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Trivial !
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This addresses the day to day behind the scenes machinations of the Bush administration. It clearly shows how Bush is taking apart the EPA by muzzling it, cutting its funding, and dismantling the pieces it needs to work.
BUSH DECLARES ECO-WHISTLEBLOWER LAW VOID FOR EPA EMPLOYEES http://www.peer.org/news/news_id.php?row_id=743
As a result of an opinion issued by a unit within the Office of the Attorney General, federal workers will have little protection from official retaliation for reporting water pollution enforcement breakdowns, manipulations of science or cleanup failures.
EPA DUMBING DOWN ITS RESEARCH http://www.peer.org/news/news_id.php?row_id=661
“The one group not being asked to testify about agency science is the EPA scientists themselves,” Ruch added. “Unfortunately, EPA has forbidden its own specialists from speaking without political clearance.”
EPA CLOSING ITS MIDWEST LIBRARY — Holding Will Be Stored Indefinitely; Public Access to Research Compromised http://www.peer.org/news/news_id.php?row_id=660 The memo cites a 90% loss of funding for the regional library in President Bush’s proposed 2007 budget
EPA CLOSING ITS HEADQUARTERS LIBRARY OCTOBER 1 — Congress Asks for Review of Effects on Research, Regulation and Enforcement http://www.peer.org/news/news_id.php?row_id=751 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is closing its Headquarters Library to the public, as well as its own staff, effective October 1. This shutdown is the latest in a series of agency library closures during the past few weeks. Curiously, EPA issued no similar public notice for its closures of its regional libraries in Chicago, Dallas and Kansas City, even though these three libraries provide services for the general public in 15 states and 109 tribal nations.
STEALTH CLOSURE OF PRINCIPAL EPA CHEMICAL LIBRARY — Unannounced Move Hampers Agency Scientists’ Review of New Chemicals Washington, DC http://www.peer.org/news/news_id.php?row_id=778 Without any word to the public, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has closed its specialized library for research on the effects and properties of chemicals
Citing budget pressures, EPA has in recent weeks closed several of its libraries across the country
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Two entries for today:
Where is Condi Rice? While Iraq is falling apart and dubya is jetting around the world doing the diplomatic thing that he's so bad at, Condi is.... nowhere significant.
Whatever happened to Starchild Cherrix, the boy who refused chemo for lymphoma? It turns out, he's not going to the Hoxsey Clinic but has opted for the more conventional radiation therapy. His tumors have shrunk and he believes he's "cancer free".
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2006/10/starchild_abraham_cherrix_ra
diation_shri.php
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Reality sucks. Especially when it contradicts our cherished ideas.
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And Kaneman and Auraptor will lump Bolivia in with Iran.
You mean to say they aren't ?
People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy. - Joss
" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "
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Originally posted by AURaptor:Quote:
And Kaneman and Auraptor will lump Bolivia in with Iran.
You mean to say they aren't ?
There is no comparison between Bolivia and Iran. I mean , c'mon, one is a tropical jungle full of guys with guns who hate us, and the other one is a desert full of camel jockeys with guns who hate us.
NO, wait, that was Iraq and VietNam.
"Now,I'm confused..."
I know... In Vietnam , they wore BLACK pajamas, and in Bolivia, they wear WHITE pajamas. See, that makes all the difference.
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Many years ago I used to enjoy frequenting the microfilm archives at our local newspaper. Occasionally, (when I could afford to) I'd make photocopies of the front pages of certain dates and bring them home to study in greater detail.
Doing this over a span of several months one thing occured to me (well, more than one thing occured to me, but as relative to this thread...)...
What stood out to me was the unmistakable fact that a decent percentage of things which made the headlines of yesteryear actually turned out to have no bearing at all in the annuls of history. If you doubt me (and I'm sure many of you do -- I know, it's your way), go back and peruse the front pages of your own local newspapers. You don't have to go back a century -- just a few decades. You also won't have to look long to see that much of what yesterday's world found itself fretting over never amounted to anything.
Of course, on the other side of the coin, there were the things which needed to be addressed, but which were remarkably ignored (Hitler, for one thing).
It makes you wonder what we're missing today, and what we're fretting needlessly over.
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And that is the point of this thread, so I thank you for your input.
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Reality sucks. Especially when it contradicts our cherished ideas.
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Originally posted by SignyM:
And that is the point of this thread, so I thank you for your input.
Uh...
I don't think I've ever been "thanked" before.
You want me to have a heart attack or something???
You're welcomed.
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