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What mainstream news hasn’t been telling you

August 19, 2007 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

Here are some interesting stories from the past week that I’m willing to bet you haven’t seen on CNN.

There’s so much going on right now, I can’t even try to keep up, so this is just a tiny little taste. Don’t wait for me to post it all, go find it for yourself!

Bush orders Rove not to testify — SHOCKER!

August 2, 2007 0 Comments Tags: , , .

Good luck finding this in the mainstream news. As is usually the case, the latest freak accident couldn’t come at a better time.

I have a funny feeling about this bridge collapse story, that’s for sure. And I’m not alone. When consuming stories like this one happen, that’s when you should pay attention to OTHER events happening, the ones in smaller print. Use your detective skills to find what’s NOT on CNN, what’s on the last page of the newspaper, or what is being bumped completely off the headlines right now.

Like this little gem:

Karl Rove granted executive privilege — real original Mr. Bush!

US President George W Bush has ordered close adviser Karl Rove not to testify before a Senate hearing on the sacking of eight federal prosecutors.

Mr Bush used the executive privilege he has as president to exempt Mr Rove from having to appear.

The US Senate committee is investigating whether the White House arranged the sackings for improper political reasons.

The Bush administration maintains that the dismissals were justified.

“Mr Rove, as an immediate presidential adviser, is immune from compelled congressional testimony about matters that arose during his tenure and that relate to his official duties in that capacity,” White House lawyer Fred Fielding wrote in a letter to Democrat Senator Patrick Leahy, and made available to the Reuters news agency.

Mr Rove had been due to testify at a hearing on Thursday morning, along with another White House aide, deputy political director Scott Jennings.

You have the internet, therefore you have a choice.
Get – your – news – from – somewhere – besides – the mainstream media.

The news you need to know

April 16, 2007 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

Rosie was right. The pet food recall… Imus… and now a barbaric school shooting that will surely dominate the headlines for days to come. Our government loves news days like this.

- Remember Gonzales?

- Did you hear about the 6 Iraqi cabinet members quitting?

- The 3,653 U.S. soldiers killed by two illegal occupations justified by lies?

- Have you noticed that all political news is now focused on the 2008 Presidential election? Not what’s going on right NOW. Not the complete inability of Congress to stand up to Bush, get our civil liberties back, repair our broken Constitution and Bill of Rights, and heed the demands of a majority of Americans calling for an IMMEDIATE end to the Iraq occupation.

Don’t be distracted.

Every day: Our military perpetrates this kind of violence.
Every day: Iraqi civilians risk their lives when they go to the market.
Every day: Our troops risk their lives trying to calm the chaotic stew of a country their Commander in Chief stirred up and mercilessly threw them into.
Every day: The roads blow up underneath them.
Every day: The families of 9/11 victims wonder what really happened to their loved ones and why their deaths are being used to justify so much violence and destruction.

Our media doesn’t deliver the news you need to know. It delivers what they want you to know. Seven corporations control ALL of your tv channels.

You can’t be lazy anymore, you have to get the news for yourself, dig a little, read news from outside the U.S. Don’t assume that if it’s not on the front page it’s not important. Likewise, don’t assume that if it is on the front page it is important. Usually it’s the back pages that hold the real stories.

EDUCATE & INFORM YOURSELF.

Rosie O’Donnell: the newest voice of the 9/11 Truth movement

March 26, 2007 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

In case you’re not totally obsessed with the 9/11 Truth movement like I am (it’s okay if you don’t read 911Blogger every day) here’s the news:
Rosie O’Donnell is all over 9/11 Truth.

And she’s been getting plenty of s—t for it too. Yet she keeps on keepin’ on! It’s been very reassuring to see it in the news, bad press and all, because the fact remains that it’s getting out there in the mainstream media. On The View for crying out loud! Middle-aged soccer moms who maybe never realized a third building fell on September 11th are going “what the he— is she talking about? What’s building 7?”

She’s had a prominent link to 9/11 Scholars on her website/blog for a while now, and has just added WTC7 to that list (of only 17 external links.)

Today she posted about the Gulf of Tonkin —

…a false flag operation carried out by the U.S. government under President Johnson, i.e. another inside job, to provide a pretext for escalating U.S. involvement in Vietnam.

On March 15th she posted about WTC building #7 —

…You know, the building that wasn’t hit by a plane but collapsed perfectly and was never mentioned in the 9/11 Commission Report?

And she is frequently including 9/11 Truth questions in the “Ask Ro” part of her site.

Really, just subscribe to the RSS feed for a week and you’ll be amazed.

The way she does it is beautiful though. She doesn’t flood the blog with an overload of information or tell readers what to think about that information. She just gives brief bits of history in the hopes her fans/viewers/readers will figure it out and come to their own conclusions. Which is exactly the approach that Columbus 9/11 Truth is trying to take. She doesn’t argue one theory or another, she just points people in the right direction so they may do their own research.

She doesn’t just speak about 9/11 Truth either, she’s also spoken up about the need for IMPEACHMENT and the obvious ridiculousness of the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed “I was responsible for the 9/11 operation, from A to Z” confession. Not to mention the links on her website for Iraq For Sale, Impeach 07, the recent March on the Pentagon, and Cost of War. And she uses Flickr, how much cooler can she get?!

Props to you Rosie for speaking the Truth!

Yes, Mr. Kucinich, IT’S TIME.

March 20, 2007 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

No bad news in this post. Time for some I N S P I R A T I O N !

The first bit of hope is a video (by Columbus IndyMedia) of Saturday’s protest at the Federal Building here in Columbus.

The second is something we’ve all been waiting for. You may have heard last week that Ohio’s own Rep. Dennis Kucinich said the “I” word on the House floor.

“Since war with Iran is an option of this Administration and since such war is patently illegal, then impeachment may well be the only remedy which remains to stop a war of aggression against Iran.”

Now Kucinish has gone even further and has sent out a video appeal to the nation, asking US, is it time?

We cannot let this administration go any deeper into this journey, into destroying democratic governance, trashing our Constitution, forgetting the very purpose of this nation. America was never meant to be a nation forever on the warpath. It was meant to be a nation which also had the capacity to “Promote the General Welfare.”

We need to reevaluate the direction of this administration by looking at its conduct in office, by determining whether it has faithfully followed the laws of our nation.

I’m prepared to start that process. I began this week with a speech on the floor of the house, which warned the administration that its actions toward Iran already constitute a case to ask the question about impeachment.

So I’m asking you, what do you think? Do you think it’s time?

Tell him it’s time.

Today’s Dispatch article

March 19, 2007 1 Comment Tags: , , , , , .

Sometimes it’s just cooler to see a real article vs. the online version. Plus then you get to see the page placement, and it’s the main article on page 4!

And as it turns out, even though none of our quotes got in, they decided to put a picture of me in there, random huh? But it’s a great thing only because it got them to print “Columbus 9/11 Truth“!! HA! The moonbats made it in!

Columbus Dispatch chooses Homer Simpson over Constitution

March 10, 2007 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

Once you start looking critically at mainstream media, it becomes hard to go back to being a passive reader/viewer/listener. Today’s Columbus Dispatch is a perfect example.

On the front page towards the bottom you will see an article titled “Ohio’s Springfield to Homer: ‘Pick me!’ – Cities of same name vie for movie premiere“

You may think nothing of it, although it’d be nice if you thought “that’s a front-page worthy story? Is that all that’s going on in the world right now?”

Next we’ll flip to the last page of the main section, A10. Along with a large ad for some great mattress deals you’ll see an article titled “Hearings start for Guantanamo detainees.”

I guess the optimist in me would have hoped that the beginning of “a series of closed hearings yesterday to determine whether 14 alleged terrorist leaders … should be declared ‘enemy combatants’ who can be held indefinitely and prosecuted by military tribunals” would have garnered more attention and been placed on the front page. I mean these trials are UNCONSTITUTIONAL after all. Not to mention the TORTURE at Guantanamo Bay that most turn a blind eye to for fear of having to act on their cognitive dissonance and betrayal of humanity.

Care for some Habeas Corpus or Bill of Rights? Oh wait, we tossed both of those out the window along with our greasy cardboard container of Freedom Fries…