Dear Radio Friend,
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Recently asked by reporter Mike Miliard of The Boston Phoenix (my alma mater) to define authentic journalism, I said: “A journalism that doesn’t pander to the interests of the advertisers. That doesn’t go out and look for the more upscale readership in order to please those advertisers, but rather serves people — in a way that the people come to believe and to know that the newspaper, or whatever media it is, is part of them and serves their interests.”
There are also some darn entertaining quotes in Miliard's story from an official journalism school spokesman trying to spin his way out of what is obvious to all: that authentic journalism rises at the very moment that official forms of journalism are falling down.
The School of Authentic Journalism, begun in 2003, has trained and formed ranks that are building that journalism of the future across international boundaries. And for ten days on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, from February 3 to 13, a volunteer faculty of 48 professors on the themes of journalism and civil resistance – with hundreds of years of gumshoe experience between us – are going to share skills and knowledge and coach 24 scholarship recipients in this craft.
Loveland-based Advocates for Children in Therapy is not without controversy.
The organization appears to do nothing except criticize licensed child therapists.
The organization admits to getting started with the Candace Newmaker case.
They are going to great lengths to conceal other litigation they have been involved in.
Larry W. Sarner started a venture to develop voting machines. His machines did not work and his investors filed suit.
Both Sarner and his wife, Linda Rosa, ended up in bankruptcy court as a result.
The Wikipedia editor known as "Fainites" who is a supporter of the organization, has repeatedly removed this information from Wikipedia, even though it is an important part of the organization's history.
Similarlhy "Fainites" has deleted references to the suspension of blogs on WordPress by the internet persona known as the "Wayward Radish"; these blogs contained defamatory statements about these therapists, such as accusations of criminal activity and the use of degree mill credentials.
Sarner's organization is currently receivig a great deal of pro-bono legal help; this will make it necessary for them to file public disclosures with the IRS.
Onground probe by George Zhibin Gu of China (5 parts):
China's unfinished revolution: how to get rid of universal rights of government vs corruption
Part I. origins of China's political corruption: political-economy, self-appointed government and development in light of history and globalization
(George Zhibin Gu is an author of several new books on China and globalization, including: China's global reach, China and the new world order, and Made in China)
It has been interesting to read the comments by WAISers on Confucius and other classic Chinese writings. To me, there is a great need to study the circumstances in which these ideas emerged.
Indeed, Confucius or Mencius intellectually responded to the urgent issues their eras faced, along with other influential thinkers. Now, the old eras are little understood, while Confucius and Mencius have become doctrines as well as political cults for political bodies for ages until the collapse of the Qing dynasty in 1911.
From an intellectual point of view, Lao Zi and Zhuang Zi are more exciting and challenging. Again, their ideas are a direct response to a cruel political environment in which self-appointed, self-serving political bodies preyed on society and the people. These thinkers offered challenging advice on how to escape the cruel environment people faced in their eras, along with other ideas for the rulers. Their ideas are greatly relevant today, for China's self-appointed political body remains. What is more, this self-appointed government body remains inherently self-serving and stands as an oppressor politically, and a squeezer economically (without knowing this basic
issue, there is no way to understand today's China or its past history).
Dicen que los amigos son como los taxis, pues escasean cuando hay mal tiempo, y tal parece ser el caso del obispo-presidente de Paraguay.
“Fernando Lugo no tiene hoja de ruta, ni brújula, ni norte. Es indeciso, contradictorio, presionable, e hizo nombramientos como pago de favores”
Quien lo dice no es un opositor al obispo que estafó al electorado paraguayo el 20 de abril del 2008 con su imagen fraudulenta de referente moral, sino un cercano amigo y colaborador del hoy clérigo-presidente. La frase pertenece al libro “¿A dónde va el Paraguay? III”, del ex consejero de Yacyretá Roberto Paredes, un seguidor del obispo Lugo de la primera hora, y otrora cercano y apasionado colaborador. Ver nota completa:
by Paul Bame
When I first heard last Friday morning that President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize, my heart sank a little. Not that I wasn't proud; I was just scared of the reaction of the radical right.
Diario Siglo XXI. El Primer Negociado de Fernando Lugo
La denuncia de que el Indert, instituto abocado a la reforma agraria, va a pagar tres veces el valor por un inmueble al brasileño Ulises Rodríguez Texeira –unos 31 millones de dólares- sacude hasta los cimientos el mito de la honestidad nunca comprobada del clérigo-presidente de Paraguay Fernando Lugo.
En las negociaciones había participado nada más y nada menos que un condenado por desvío de fondos de organizaciones campesinas, Eulalio Manuel López.
Para comprender la gravedad del chanchullo, basta leer la versión de ABC color, el diario que apuntaló el proselitismo de Fernando Lugo:
“No es solamente el ministro López Perito –hombre de extrema confianza de Lugo– quien está metido hasta la gorra en esta vergonzosa operación de sobrevaluación de tierras a ser adquiridas por el Estado, sino el mismísimo Fernando Lugo, porque él estuvo atestiguando las conversaciones iniciales, las que fueron dadas al conocimiento público en una rueda de prensa convocada por López Perito, en Mburuvicha Róga, en octubre del año pasado, reunión en la que dicho ministro tuvo el “honor” de estar flanqueado por el dirigente campesino Eulalio Manuel López Martínez, acusado y condenado judicialmente a dos años de prisión por falsificación de documento público en otros negociados de “ayuda para campesinos”, por valor de 200.000 dólares. Por supuesto, López Martínez no hubiera salido en la foto si no hubiera sido invitado por su amigo y cómplice López Perito”.
Dear Radio Friend,
The latest Shortwave Report (October 16) is up at the website http://www.outfarpress.com/outfa... in both broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quickdownload or streaming form (4.9MB) (28:59)
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~ WHILE THEIR CHILDREN ARE SENT TO FIGHT IN OUR U.S.MILITARY~THEIR POORER FAMILIES BACK HOME ARE DYING WITHOUT HEALTH CARE ~
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**JUST MAYBE AMERICA NEEDS A FEW MORE REVOLVING DOORS IN OUR U.S. CONGRESS **
OUR COUNTRY AND U.S CONGRESS COULD REALLY USE MANY MORE SINCERE AMERICANS LIKE OUR TWO U.S. SENATORS FROM MAINE WHO CONSIDER THIS COUNTRIES 45 MILLION POOR AMERICAN MEN WOMEN AND CHILDREN WITHOUT PROPER HEALTH CARE LIKE THEIR OWN FAMILY AHEAD OF THEIR ELECTED POLITICAL FAMILY **
45 MILLION POORER AMERICANS HAVE OBVIOUSLY BEEN TOUCHED BY ANGELS WITH THE PEOPLES TWO U.S. SENATORS SNOWE AND COLLINS OF MAINE.
LAWYERS FOR POOR AMERICANS THANKS THESE SPECIAL WOMEN FROM THE CARING STATE OF MAINE FOR SHOWING THE REST OF AMERICA THAT GODS VILLAGE OF ANGELICA BEINGS CAN EVEN BE HERE WITH US EVERY~DAY IN THE FLESH.
~ OUR U.S.CONGRESS AT LEAST DOES NOT DISCRIMINATE...THEY AFFORD POORER AMERICANS THE SAME EMERGENCY ONLY HEALTH*CARE THAT ILLEGAL ALIENS RECEIVE ~
AMERICA~LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT~ 45,000 DEAD POOR AMERICANS LEAVE U.S. EVERY*YEAR DUE TO 3rd WORLD HEALTH CONDITIONS ??
** POLITICS IN AMERICA IS VERY SIMPLE TO UNDERSTAND WHEN OUR MIDDLE~CLASS & WORKING POOR CITIZENS ARE ALL BEING FORCED 2 ALLOW BIG $$$ TO CONTROL THE PEOPLES HALLS OF THE U.S.CONGRESS..
~ SADLY,OUR VERY OWN AMERICAN HEALTH*CARE SATANIC VERSES HAS KEPT 45 MILLION POOR AMERICANS IN 3rd WORLD HEALTH CONDITIONS~
DON'T WORRY BE HAPPY ~ THE WORLDS SELECT BILLIONAIRES AND THEIR FRONT CORPORATIONS WILL ALL GET ON BOARD THE NEW HEALTH~TRAIN OF $$$...**ADDING 45 MILLION MORE AMERICAN CITIZENS TO THE CURRENT GIVEN PROFIT MARGINS + WITH A FUTURE AMNESTY PROGRAM (6 months) AFTER NEXT U.S.PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION = $$$$$$$$$.........
Diario Siglo XXI. Fernando Lugo y sus peritos en alegres negociados
Afirmò Joseph Conrad que no hay credulidad tan ansiosa y ciega como la credulidad de la codicia, que es, en su medida universal, la miseria moral y la indigencia intelectual de la humanidad. El aforismo se cumplió con el ejemplo de los seguidores del fraudulento obispo Fernando Lugo, quienes aprovechándose de la credulidad de un pueblo ignorante y miserable abrieron de par en par las arcas del estado paraguayo a la propia codicia.Ver artículo:
Professor Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (MIT) Boston, talks by telephone from his office to Radio Havana Cuba.
Bernie Dwyer interviewed Professor Chomsky for Radio Havana Cuba on the eve of the 11th anniversary of the arbitrary arrest and detention in Miami of Cubans Antonio Guerrero, Ramón Labañino, Gerardo Hernandez, Fernando Gonzalez and Rene Gonzalez, who after a legally flawed trial in Miami District Court, are incarcerated in US prisons for infiltrating anti-Cuba Miami based groups of terrorists with the aim of defending Cuba against US based terrorism. As Professor Chomsky says in this interview "They weren't criminals. They were heroes". He points out "that the only way to remedy the injustice is to withdraw the charges completely".
Interview
Bernie Dwyer (RHC)-: The five Cubans arrested and held in Miami in 1998 are now entering their 12th year of incarceration. You have often commented on the United States government's hostile policy towards Cuba. Would you see the Cuban Five as victims of that hostile policy towards Cuba rather than criminals who have committed crimes that deserve to be harshly punished?
Noam Chomsky: They weren't criminals. They were heroes. I mean they were exposing to the US government crimes that are being committed on US soil; crimes the US government is tolerating and theoretically should be punishing itself. The government should have welcomed that, fine, we can put an end to the crimes. The five Cubans took a risk in doing that and that was a heroic act and instead of being honored for it they are being severely punished for it.
And that's why global opinion is so appalled by this travesty.
Diario Siglo XXI. Fernando Lugo, el deterioro moral y la industria del sexo
Si esto está claro, podemos empezar diciendo que si algún indicador ha mejorado en Paraguay con el advenimiento al poder del obispo Fernando Lugo, puede decirse que se trata de la industria del sexo.
Mientras los indicadores macro-económicos se desploman, el Paraguay va definitivamente camino a convertirse en el paraíso de esta industria dentro del Mercosur. Tanto es así, que en la capital argentina, Buenos Aires, el vocablo “paraguayita” ha pasado a ser sinónimo de joven prostituta.
El destape de la vida amoral del clérigo-presidente, acusaciones de mujeres de haberlas violado y ultrajado, el descubrimiento de su aporte a la densidad demográfica del Paraguay, sin lugar a dudas despertaron la curiosidad en el mundillo del ramo.
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The latest Shortwave Report (October 9) is up at the website http://www.outfarpress.com/outfa... in both broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quickdownload or streaming form (4.9MB) (28:59)
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Riding unprecedented popularity in recent republican history of Brazil, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, the migrant turned president, has only one concern wrinkling his forehead: his own succession.
It makes no sense to allow in an oversight that the fabulous political wealth accumulated in a whole lifetime of struggles and battles, especially over the last seven years, is sprayed in a barely-rehearsed maneuver that bring again the forces of delay to Planalto Palace.
Lula has governed under dense and crossed fire. It has been so throughout Brazilian history, with all those leaders who have held and do hold commitments to the majority of the population.
Because of his so popular origins, an unforgivable crime from certain people’s point of view, he faced the fury and the permanent scorn, far beyond the limits of what’s understandable and of what’s acceptable.
For his limited schooling, he faced day and night misgivings about his intelligence, as if the owner of such a life path could be less than brilliant.
He was extremely cautious, even timid in the eyes of many who were concerned and mutinied against the immensity of the values sterilized by the public debt and by the financial merry-go-round organized around it or against the continuing of the auctions of Brazilian oil.
He apparently missed a plan that lend clearer or more consistent course to his actions, or he have missed, perhaps, the political conditions to wield such a plan.
Only by being in his skin to scale the forces and the pressures that were exerted on the president..
I had occasion to meet him over the late 1970’s, when he was an unionist and I was an unionist also. I’ve organized his first coming to Curitiba for a seminar. Even though my relative inexperience and youth at the time, I could see that I was not in contact with a common man.
(Actually, this is for all Colorado and all of the country. Why's that option not there in the "Region" box?)
Health care bill, now in hands of the Senate, ignores every industrial threat and harm to health. It finds that people's behavior is the biggest threat. Could this be because all Senators are economically-linked to health-harming industries, AND their insurers and investors? Sworn and public-paid Congress members wouldn't go AWOL on their solemn oaths and duties to the people, would they?
If it were not for people, there would be no Health Crisis.
The legislation the Senate is discussing now is quite interesting and telling by what's there, or not.
See the Bill at: democrats.senate.gov/reform/patient-protection-affordable-care-act.pdf
A convenient search tool at the site finds the number of times a word appears in the legislation:
There seems to be a theme here, perhaps aimed at reassuring us that private industries, especially investment properties of for-profit insurers, are no threat to health. That is off the radar. Nothing to worry about or act on there.
We (the) people are the problem.
Government Diabetes.Org located in Washington, DC has reported, "There are free watches for every state plus billions of dollars in assistance earmarked for people previously diagnosed as diabetic. Public and private funds are now available for them to repair homes, start a business, consolidate debts and any worthwhile purpose." In addition, he reported how new financial resources have been committed to help diabetics get job training and re-enter the job market.
"Now is the time for diabetics to act if they need money, Wall Street has no effect on theses funds," urged Greene. He also revealed that several reduced-cost and free programs now exist to help diabetics and the economically disadvantaged who have been diagnosed with diabetes. Such programs include energy assistance, free prescriptions, free diabetic watch,home repair and legal aid.
Free-Glucose-Meter-Rx.Com offers the free diabetic watch program that provides the latest information on assistance for diabetics. It covers job training, financial assistance, phone bill assistance, diabetic recipes, free grants, scholarship and loan resources available for a wide variety of purposes, including business start-ups for diabetics. The kit also includes a list of more than fifteen hundred professionals offering diabetics free advice and business guidance.
For additional information on Government Diabetes.Org, contact Charles Greene or visit http://www.government-diabetes.orghttp://www.free-glucose-meter-rx... , Diabetic-Testing-Supplies.Orgfor news on diabetes visit , http://www.free-diabetic-supplie... . . Government Diabetes.Org offers a free diabetics watch and a free glucose meter to qualified beneficiaries with diabetes. Free diabetic watch offers are available in all 50 states while supplies last.
George Zhibin Gu summarizes the history of China's Communist Dynasty:
(George Zhibin Gu of China is an author of several new books, including: 1. China's global reach, 2. China and the new world order, 3. Made in China.)
The past 60 years of China's Communist history can be divided roughly into two phases.
The first phase, between 1949 and 1978, was this: the Communist bureaucracy had totally destroyed society, the economy and the culture. This was done by a total bureaucratic monopoly over all of nation's wealth, labor, markets, organizations and institutions. Furthermore, it completely destroyed the free press and the law. But this unprecedented bureaucratic domination immediately produced unprecedented man-made disasters in world history, not just China's. The disasters include endless violence and terror, the creation of the state sector and people's communes, the total bureaucratization of media, education, and thought.
In the end, beginning in 1958, the regime wanted to have a total bureaucratic miracle in the so-called Great Leap Forward (1958-60), and record disasters emerged all at once. Record deaths of some 50 million people occurred in the period of 1958-62, killing some 50 million people by an unprecedented famine as well as a record oganized violence.
What is more, these unprecedented miseries turned out to be the very beginning of bureaucratic disasters. Worse than the famine, three bureaucratic wars emerged against society and the people in the period of 1959-78, which ended to destroy countless millions of lives, or even more, by organized violence, not to mention a near total destruction of culture, education, thinking, wealth and all other good things in life.
PETTUS, W. Va. – Early this morning two concerned citizens, Dea Goblirsch and Nick Martin, locked down to a drill rig on Coal River Mountain’s Bee Tree mountaintop removal site, effectively stopping blasting. Two others, Grace Williams and Laura Von Dolen, joined them in direct support, holding a banner with the message “Save Coal River Mountain”.
These nonviolent protestors have taken this action to bring attention to the extreme danger facing residents of the Coal River Valley from blasting near the Brushy Fork Impoundment. They plan to stay locked down until law enforcement removes them.
Resident of Rock Creek, W Va., Delbert Gunnoe, stated his concerns with the blasting, “You know when they put a blast over there, and it shakes the windows over here, at what, ¾-a-mile distance, imagine what it does over there.” Gunnoe continued, “if [the impoundment] did bust…what would be the destruction? The town of Whitesville would no longer exist.”
The four are fearful of the blasting that Massey Energy began in late October. These blasts are 200 feet from the Brushy Fork Impoundment, permitted to hold nine billion gallons of toxic coal slurry. The impoundment sits atop miles of hollow, abounded underground mines, further endangering its integrity. By Massey’s own estimates, roughly 998 people will die should the dam break. The emergency evacuation plan states that a 40-foot wall of sludge, cresting at 72 feet, will flow through the valley, reaching 20-feet-high about 15 miles down the road. Apart from the initial flood, the impact of this potential spill would be felt along the Coal River’s 88 miles.
The universities across the nation (and AG) do more for the fbi/cia than assist in the search for foreign terrorists; today our colleges and universities directly encourage their campus police and civilian employees to engage in unlawful intel operations against whistleblower
GERAL SOSBEE.
In November, 2009, the Texas Attorney General (AG) grants near blanket authority (in Case number OR2009-16316 & Case ID#367454) to the University Of Texas Police (UTP) and Harlingen, Texas (HTP) Police to withhold from Open Records (OR) disclosure the key data in their possession relating to Geral Sosbee. The AG also states in each opinion that the AG has no authority beyond the scope of the OR statutes. The AG thus hides from his responsibility as a citizen and human being for civil and human rights violations behind the the OR guidelines ( which are designed to allow the police to engage in witch hunts, stalking, harassment, fraudulent stings and other crimes as I have documented at many pages of www.sosbeevfbi.com.) I have also provided the AG with evidence of ongoing felonies against my person (continuing in Texas and other locations for the past decade); by the AG letters referenced above the fbi now gains the AG approval and authority to use UT employees (including UTP) in efforts to silence or kill me; see for example the specifics of some of my reports at
An Evening of Solidarity for Mutulu Shakur
Presented by Denver and Aurora CopWatch, Sisters of Color United for Education, and Denver ABC
Saturday, November 28th
Sisters of Color 2895 8th Ave, Denver, CO (8th and federal across the street from the bus yard)
7:30-12ish
Sliding Scale 1-5$ (if you ain't got it don't let it stop you from coming)
Teach-in by Professor Ward Churchill
Live Music by:
Mike Wird
Ietef
Debajito (of Debajo Del Agua)
Hosted by Shareef Aleem
Please join us on Saturday, November 28th to stand in solidarity with Dr Mutulu Shakur before his appeals hearing on Monday, November 30th at the super-maximum Federal prison in Florence, CO.
Dr. Shakur is a New Afrikan (Black) man whose primary work has been in the area of health. He is a doctor of acupuncture and one of the most prolific, committed and conscious freedom fighters and political prisoners to whom the Black liberation struggle has given birth.
Since the age 16, Dr. Shakur has been a part of the New Afrikan
Independence Movement. As a part of this movement Dr. Shakur has been a target of the illegal Counterintelligence Program carried out by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (COINTELPRO). This was a secret police strategy used in the U.S. starting in the 1960's to destroy and neutralize progressive and revolutionary organizations. It is believed that Dr. Shakur's resistance to this program led to his arrest and trial.
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Water is essential, in various ways, to all human activity. Water is something that humans, literally, cannot do without. Every human needs water in order live and to have a good life. Societies need water in order to be provide for the survival of their populations. Usable water, as a resource, is finite and distributed unevenly across the planet. Most societies have difficulty providing water to their populations, especially in the Third World. The inability to access water is referred to as the water crisis.
LA VIRGEN DE LA GUADALUPE ES DE TODOS LOS MEXICANOS, NO DE LOS CURAS
La Conferencia del Episcopado Mexicano (CEM) no está de acuerdo en que los Mexicanos utilicemos a la Virgen de la Guadalupe, como sucedió en la marcha de SME el pasado 11 de noviembre (2009) por “manipular el sentimiento religioso”, se ha afirmado en varias ocasiones desde que concluyó la 88ª Asamblea Plenaria del CEM. Los curas, junto con los políticos y las grandes transnacionales se han adueñado de nuestro país y de nuestros símbolos.
¿Ya se les olvidó a los curas que la Virgen de Guadalupe es el único símbolo religioso auténticamente Mexicano? ¿Ya se les olvidó que ellos llegaron con Hernán Cortés a robar y a imponernos su cruz a sangre y fuego? La Virgen de Guadalupe es Tonantzin y es nuestra, aunque no les guste a los extranjeros como ellos.
Lo que los curas del CEM no quieren es que el pueblo Mexicano, unido al SME, siga la trayectoria de don Miguel Hidalgo y les arrebate la jugosa ganancia.
Yo les pido a los curas del CEM que ya no nos “salven”.
¡¡Larguense de aquí!! ¡¡Larguense!! ¡¡Larguense!! ¡¡Larguense!! ¡¡Larguense!! ¡¡Larguense de México y de todo este continente!!
Josefa Ortiz http://josefaortiz.hpage.com/sme...
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TAX EXEMPT SLUSH FUND CHARITIES(FOUNDATIONS) FOR OUR U.S. WEALTHY ELITE AMERICANS WE ALL KNOW are QUITE COMMON AND COSTING THE U.S.GOVERNMENT BILLIONS IN POSSIBLE TAX REVENUE.
***MANY OF THESE SAME AMERICAN WEALTHY ELITE NOT ONLY HAVE FULL CONTROL OVER THEIRTX EVADING FOUNDATIONS BILLIONS,BUT ALSO FIND IT NECESSARY TO HIRE LOBBYISTS TO ATTEMPT THE DIRECT CONTROL OVER VARIOUS USES OF AMERICAN TAX PAYERS TAX $$$ ???
WEALTHY ELITE AMERICANS HAVE COMPLETE CONTROL OVER OUR U.S.CONGRESSIONAL TAX DOLLAR SPENDING WITH THEIR BEHIND THE SCENE LOBBY MONIES... AND ARE CONTINUING TO DENY MIDDLE~CLASS AND WORKING POOR AMERICANS PROPER HEALTH ~ CARE , PROPER LEGAL PROTECTIONS IN AMERICAN FAMILY COURTS,CIVIL COURTS,& FEDERAL APPEALS FROM STATE COURTS. **THOUSANDS OF POORER AMERICANS ALL ACROSS AMERICA ARE LOSING PARENTING AND VISITATION RIGHTS WITH THEIR CHILDREN, ARE BEING FALSELY IMPRISONED, WRONGFULY EXECUTED,LOSING THEIR HOMES OR APARTMENTS ETC...
** IS THIS REALLY WHAT MANY SAY APPEARS TO BE THE FORMATION OF A NEW WORLD ORDER IN AMERICA THAT IS ATTEMPTING TO BREAK DOWN AND DESTROY AMERICAN FAMILIES AND ESTABLISHED FAMILY VALUES ACROSS OUR GREAT COUNTRY ???
