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Hey folks! Welcome to the previously dormant San Diego Talks website. I invite you to pound away (ahem) at the lying thieves…I mean Hard Working Journalists who provide our vital information.Have had it!
April 6 2008 at 17:30
The medium is the message!
April 7 2008 at 12:56
Today in the U-T, also known as today’s “fish wrap” according to Stacy, actually has a story about the war in Iraq on the cover, above the fold. Is there hope that the war will start getting more coverage by the mainstream media? Perhaps other important stories unfolding in the world? I doubt it. The other stories on the cover are about Charities in need of electronic bingo money, below that is the slaughter in Tibet. Then there’s something about farmers/immigration and kids being over dosed in hospitals.
This is completely incongruous with what I was taught in journalism school. I’ve gone back and forth with the reader’s rep and she makes lame excuses, such as “the L.A. and New York Times don’t have stories on the war either.”
Do you know that one day we argued over whether there should be a story about using trays on college campuses on the cover of the paper? Apparently the cafeterias at SDSU have decided to forego the old tray. There are supposed to be all sorts of green benefits and weight benefits for students. As an employee of SDSU, at lunch that very same day, I went to the cafeteria, got a tray to hold my salad and soda and read about how we’re not using trays on campus anymore.
I don’t hold out any hope for these people and although I still glance at the paper, I do most of my reading elsewhere.
April 7 2008 at 17:25
2+2=4 not to complex of an operation!!!!
The PNAC group said we need another Pearl Harbor event to go tap Iraq and Iran see this link: http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?ID=103
“Catastrophic and catalyzing event- like a new Pearl Harbor”
Elliott Abrams,Dick Cheney, I. Lewis Libby, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz”Catastrophic and catalyzing event- like a new Pearl Harbor”
Link below page 51 first new paragraph:
http://www.newamericancentury.org/Re…asDefenses.pdf
What PNAC meant when they said another “Catastrophic and catalyzing event- like a new Pearl Harbor” event was that the United States government would be required to let it happen. The human element of the death and destruction along with national security has no real meaning among these people (Elliott Abrams,Dick Cheney, I. Lewis Libby, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz TRACK RECORD BABY) it was a means to justify the attack on Iraq with their eyes of course on Iran. These simplistic fools (PNAC members) live in a reality that relies totally on fictional analogies that is why they were unable to conquer Iraq. Dick Cheney, I. Lewis Libby have already proven by empirical facts that their interests Dick Cheney, I. Lewis Libby out weigh true National Security concerns just ask Valerie Plame and Joseph Wilson.
Now see the names of the PNAC signatories: http://www.newamericancentury.org/st…principles.htm
Elliott Abrams Gary Bauer William J. Bennett Jeb Bush
Dick Cheney Eliot A. Cohen Midge Decter Paula Dobriansky Steve Forbes
Aaron Friedberg Francis Fukuyama Frank Gaffney Fred C. Ikle
Donald Kagan Zalmay Khalilzad I. Lewis Libby Norman Podhoretz
Dan Quayle Peter W. Rodman Stephen P. Rosen Henry S. Rowen
Donald Rumsfeld Vin Weber George Weigel Paul Wolfowitz
Where have we seen these names before DUH.
April 7 2008 at 18:57
Taliban welcome back an old friend
By Syed Saleem Shahzad
KARACHI - Like a voice from the grave, legendary Afghan mujahideen leader Jalaluddin Haqqani has emerged from years of silence to boldly launch the Taliban-led spring offensive in Afghanistan, at the same time burying any doubts of a split between his coalition of resistance groups and Mullah Omar’s Taliban.
In a video message released last week and which is only now coming into wider circulation, Haqqani, speaking in his trademark low-pitched voice and with his hair dyed red with henna, called on the people of Afghanistan “to stand up against the US-led forces in Afghanistan and drive them out”.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/JD04Df02.html
April 7 2008 at 19:01
Media wrong on Wright
By William Fisher
The comments of Dr George Hunsinger of Princeton University, an ordained Presbyterian minister, are typical of those who believe the US popular media have distorted Wright’s remarks.
“I think we are looking at some basic questions of fairness,” he told Inter Press Service. “Is it really fair to take a minister’s remarks, no matter how provocative or ill-advised, out of context and to broadcast them incessantly, as if they were the only thing that minister ever said or believed? What purposes are served by this sort of propaganda?”
Hunsinger also raised the issue of faulting Obama for remarks made by Wright. “Is it really fair to slime a candidate with the defamation of guilt by association? Does anyone really believe that tactics like this belong in a well-functioning democracy? What kind of media succumbs to these tactics?”
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/JD04Aa03.html
April 7 2008 at 19:07
BlackListed News is Your Total Resource for
Real Uncensored Daily World News, Information, and Commentary
http://www.blacklistednews.com/index.asp
BlackListed News is Your Total Resource for
Real Uncensored Daily World News, Information, and Commentary
$3 trillion Iraq War Cost May Be Too Low
Published on Monday, April 07, 2008.
Source: The Guardian - Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes
Notwithstanding President Bush’s response, our original estimate of the cost of the Iraq war was too conservative: in reality, it will be much higher
President Bush has tried to give the impression that the $3 trillion dollar estimate of the total cost of the war that we provide in our new book may be exaggerated.
We believe that it is, in fact, conservative. Even the president would have to admit that the $50 to $60 billion estimate given by the administration before the war was wildly off the mark; there is little reason to have confidence in their arithmetic. They admit to a cost so far of $600 billion.
Our numbers differ from theirs for three reasons: first, we are estimating the total cost of the war, under alternative conservative scenarios, derived from the defence department and congressional budget office. We are not looking at McCain’s 100-year scenario - we assume that we are there, in diminished strength, only through to 2017. But neither are we looking at a scenario that sees our troops pulled out within six months. With operational spending going on at $12 billion a month, and with every year costing more than the last, it is easy to come to a total operational cost that is double the $600 billon already spent.
http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=6157
April 7 2008 at 19:13
Very good site if your into history two thumbs up.
http://www.progressivehistorians.com
April 11 2008 at 13:42
Randi Rhodes got reamed by Err America
April 11 2008 at 14:19
Naw, Randi was too out of control and offensive. I couldn’t stand the way she wouldn’t let her callers or her guests talk. Plus, calling Clinton and Ferraro F***-ing whores was a little over the top. We all know she is an Obama supporter. Good riddance.
April 12 2008 at 14:28
Great news source:
http://therealnews.com/web/index.php
April 13 2008 at 12:03
Randi was rarely wrong about facts she presented and just because she ranked on Hill & Far in a stand up gig shouldn’t be grounds for suspension. Reading all the facts revealed a very different story. Lorelei, I get it your’e a a Hill supporter but get out and watch a stand up routine, they shock and tittelate some times
April 13 2008 at 17:43
You’re correct that she knows her facts, but she completely stressed me out when I listened to her because she cuts off and is rude to callers, whether it was the same or different from Randi’s opinions. She won’t let her guests talk–she wouldn’t even let Joseph Wilson talk when she had him on her show. I stopped listening to her a long time ago.
May 12 2008 at 15:44
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