Saturday, June 19, 2004

Struggling and coming to terms with Sharon's manipulating language.

(This is unedited as I wrote it back in June. I never had it in my mind that people would actually try openly to 'affect' the way people think and derive their morality. I am embarrassed by the 'crudeness' of the composition but it was brainstorming and never meant to impress. I am hoping every piece of puzzle I put together here will help me unravel what has happened. What has happened to me, my country and the way the world has come to see us ON THE VERGE chronically of war with SOME country, any country especially those of The Middle East with oil. I cannot believe this is the USA.)

AARON BROWN, CNN ANCHOR: Good evening again everyone.Evil in many forms seems to be the theme of the program tonight. We didn't plan it that way exactly but there's no doubt that's how it turned out. There is the evil you know about, the terrorists who murdered American Paul Johnson in Saudi Arabia today and then there are evils of another time no less horrific.The Arab world didn't invent evil after all. They didn't run the death camps of World War II. The Nazis did. And later in the program we'll be reminded of that evil just as we will also be reminded of our own domestic evil, the Klan, which operated so freely in Mississippi 40 years ago.Each oddly believed they were doing God's work. Each contorted religion to suit their own evil ends. The names change over time, so do the locations, but the evil itself change little and, sadly, we think you will be reminded of that too tonight.The whip begins with the al Qaeda leader behind the murder killed shortly after Paul Johnson's body was found, Nic Robertson covering that thread of the story from London, so Nic start us with a headline.

MALVEAUX (voice-over): President Bush's reaction to the beheading of American Paul Johnson was strong and swift.GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: The murder of Paul shows the evil nature of the enemy we face. These are barbaric people. There's no justification whatsoever for his murder.MALVEAUX: Saudi officials joined in expressing their deep sorrow.

Approximately 11 or 12 minutes into the program there was a report about Bush and his address of the beheading.

From the Transcript, (NOTE THE WORD 'EVIL.')

MALVEAUX (voice-over): President Bush's reaction to the beheading of American Paul Johnson was strong and swift.

GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: The murder of Paul shows the evil (HERE IT IS. THE WORD 'EVIL') (VERY LIMITED VOCABULARY EXHIBITED BY BUSH. SO WHEN SHARON IS TRYING TO PROMOTE HIS POINT OF VIEW WHAT IS SHE SUPPOSED TO DO? THAT'S RIGHT, BE AS LIMITED AS HE IS. THERE YOU DO SHARON. WHO NEEDS 'NO STUDENT LEFT BEHIND WE JUST HAVE TO LIMIT THE DICTIONARY TO GEORGIE'S EIGHTH GRADE READING LEVEL.) nature of the enemy we face. These are barbaric people. There's no justification whatsoever for his murder.

MALVEAUX: Saudi officials joined in expressing their deep sorrow

SO, AS A GOOD NEOCON QUEEN WOULD DO SHE INSTILLS THE HATRED AND THE WORDS REQUIRED BY THE NEOCON COMMANDER AT CHIEF AT THE BEGINNING OF THE PROGRAM.

"AARON BROWN, CNN ANCHOR: Good evening again everyone.
Evil (THERE IT IS, 'EVIL') in many forms seems to be the theme of the program tonight. We didn't plan it that way exactly but there's no doubt that's how it turned out. There is the evil (HERE IT IS AGAIN 'EVIL' - SO NOTED THIS IS THE THEME OF THE PROGRAM. DO YOU BELIEVE THIS EXECUTIVE PRODUCER? SHE ACTUALLY LET'S BUSH WRITE THE SCRIPT FOR CNN AND NEWSNIGHT. AMAZING PROPAGANDA.) you know about, the terrorists who murdered American Paul Johnson in Saudi Arabia today and then there are evils (THERE IS AGAIN, 'EVILS') of another time no less horrific.

The Arab world didn't invent evil (IT DIDN'T INVENT EVIL? REALLY? NO, YOUR RIGHT IN MODERN DAY, BUSH REPRESENTS THE 'NEW NORMAL' INVENTED 'EVIL') after all. They didn't run the death camps of World War II. The Nazis did. (THIS IS NOT WWII, AARON. THIS IS 2004 AND THERE IS AN ISRAEL. THE TERROR CAMPAIGN IS NOT WWIII EVEN THOUGH YOU AND SHARON AND BUSH WOULD LIKE IT TO BE.) And later in the program we'll be reminded of that evil (AH, STILL ANOTHER KIND OF EVIL TO INCORPORATE INTO THE RECRUITMENT OF SYMPATHY FOR BUSH'S EVIL. WHAT I DON'T GET IS HOW YOU CAN INCORPORATE BIGOTRY EVIL INTO BUSH'S EVIL WHEN HE IS A WHITE SUPREMIST AND A BIGOT HIMSELF AS EXHIBITED BY HIS AFFILIATION WITH BOB JONES UNIVERSITY AND NASCAR? EXPLAIN THAT ONE.) just as we will also be reminded of our own domestic evil, the Klan, which operated so freely in Mississippi 40 years ago. (BUT I GUESS WHEN THERE IS AN ELECTION COMING AND BUSH HAS TO BE THE WAR PRESIDENT ANY BLACK ISSUE WILL DUE REGARDLESS OF THE VIOLENCE THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN POSTPONED TO A MORE APPROPRIATE TIME LIKE THE REAL ANNIVERSARY ON MONDAY. YES, INDEED, A FRIEND IN NEED IS A FRIEND IN DEED OR IS THAT 'IN DEAD?'

Each oddly believed they were doing God's work. (GOD'S WORK? I SUPPOSE BUSH FEELS HE IS DOING GOD'S WORK AS WELL. THE USA MILITARY IS NOT A 'HOLY ARMY' FOR GOD NOW IS IT, AARON?) Each contorted religion to suit their own evil (EVIL AGAIN?) ends. The names change over time, so do the locations, but the evil (EVIL STILL) itself changes little and, sadly, we think you will be reminded of that too tonight.

The whip begins with the al Qaeda leader behind the murder killed shortly after Paul Johnson's body was found, Nic Robertson covering that thread of the story from London, so Nic start us with a headline.

NOW, I'M NOT SAYING al Qaeda is a nice bunch of people and they should be described as anything of the sort. What I am saying is that the gross injustice in the use of language to entangle American emotions into killing fields is GROSSLY WRONG in the reporting of issues of the day when ALL the issues of the day are woven into a deceitful web to support a very dangerous and ill conceived strategy for foreign relations.

I continue to resent the manipulation of the American conscience and the purported dignity of a news agency that lacks it as well as an administration that will lie to achieve a goal regardless of the hardship on Americans. The problem to some extent Aaron and Sharon hasn't addressed is how the death of Mr. Johnson has played to an agenda they would like to be seen as successful when in fact Bush's agenda for the War on Terror has failed.

The media to a greater extent than they will ever admit plays into the danger Americans face abroad and their New Normal Identity as a High Value Target.

So, in all honesty Sharon here is a list of words from a thesaurus for you and Aaron to share should you both ever find a rush of conscience to stop victimizing the American Public.

evil

adjective

1. Morally objectionable:
bad, black, immoral, iniquitous, peccant, reprobate, sinful, vicious, wicked, wrong.
See right.

2. Causing harm or injury:
bad, deleterious, detrimental, harmful, hurtful, ill, injurious, mischievous.
See help.

3. Bringing, predicting, or characterized by misfortune:
bad, ill, inauspicious, unfavorable, unpropitious.
See luck.

4. (TELL ME THIS ONE DOESN'T SOUND LIKE SHARON 'THE EVIL MEDIA MANIPULATOR' VON ZWIETEN. Characterized by intense ill will or spite:
black, despiteful, hateful, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean2, nasty, poisonous, spiteful, venomous, vicious, wicked.

Slang bitchy.

See attitude.

noun

1. That which is morally bad or objectionable:
iniquity, peccancy, sin, wickedness, wrong.
See right.

2. A wicked act or wicked behavior:
crime, deviltry, diablerie, evildoing, immorality, iniquity, misdeed, offense, peccancy, sin, wickedness, wrong, wrongdoing.
See right.

3. Whatever is destructive or harmful?
Bad, badness, ill.

4. A cause of suffering or harm:
Affliction, bane, curse, ill, plague, scourge, woe.
See help.

Friday, June 18, 2004

Floundering to Understand

http://forums.nytimes.com/top/opinion/readersopinions/forums/editorialsoped/todayseditorials/index.html?offset=7544&fid=.f5ed4d1/7544

I think I finally hit the nail on the head.

NewsNight is CNN's flagship newscast. The CABLE network station, webpage and particularly NewsNight has been going through some kind of 'metamorphosis' that was leading more and more to a Neocon pundancy.

I thought that had turned the corner at the beginning of the week. I attributed the 'rummaging' around of expressed values by this CABLE Network as perhaps "New Inexperienced Executive Producer" who was struggling for her footing in the ratings war of the Cable/Satellite stations since that aspect of the industry has been abandoned by 50% of it's viewership due to it's advocating NEOCON values and the primary promotion of the Re-Election of Walker Bush.

It started all over again yesterday. Early morning about 5AM I checked out the website and noted the poll has over 200,000 respondants. That phenomina hadn't been seen for a long time. At the same time and since the beginning of the week the front e-page had taken on the old home look of the former CNN. The CNN prior to the infiltration of Sharon von Zwieten.

To make a long story short, I returned home yesterday expecting to find the same type of CNN e-page as I saw earlier in the day. Wrong. Rather than an upbeat and fun website there were a minimum of 11 morbid subjects of death and dying and war and sacrifice on just the domestic page alone. It wasn't as if the news turned ugly it was the choice of articles that were displayed in all the subjects on the page. I looked at the opinion poll and there were a little less than 16,000 respondants from the day. This morning the same survey world wide has attracted a litte over 50,000. That is a net lose of more than 75% of it's viewership from the 'upbeat' page the day before.

Last night on NewsNight they returned to the same old junk they put out all over again including the Christian Science Monitor during Morning Papers.

They are attempting to be 'slick' and bring in people to the practice of Neocons. I'm sick of it but more than that for the life of me I couldn't understand why? What the heck was going on at CNN that they absolutely INSISTED this Christian theme and anti-any other religion was all about. It didn't make sense as they were getting turned around and their viewership was on the upswing again unless one takes into account the idea of 'the hook' and an Executive Producer who was then riding the coat tails of the success over the previous week of others in order to get her message across and indoctrination a viewership to her values.

So, given that the New Executive Producer of CNN is more than likely a Christian Scientist consider yourself warned off. See the CS Monitor has won Pulitzers for some of it's work but then so have most major newsprint. The LA Times won six this year.

Considering that CNN actually thinks it is among a new and winning influence it is going right along with the 'constructed' program of the new Exec.

She is scary as hell. No word of a lie. I can tell when she is in charge of the news agency and the product that comes out is morbid, pro-war with real disregad for peace anywhere within it's scope.

So, let me introduce you to Sharon von Zwieten, Christian Scientist. Stay away from her values they are archaic and dangerous. Very, very dangerous. They are anti-life from the prospect that Christian Scientists don't believe in modern medicine. They place their children in danger.

So rather than get into all the particulars this is the 'friendly letter' I sent to Sharon last night after I realized what this chick is all about. You got to feel sorry for her, she is so out of touch with life as we know it.

BY THE WAY I NEVER SAID THE LETTER WAS NICE. WHY SHOULD IT BE, NO ONE AT CNN IS ANYMORE ESPECIALLY SHARON 'THE BIGOT' VON ZWIETEN.

Hey, Larry King, Christian Science means things like, no genetic research to find a cure for heart disease. Heck, Larry, there are no HEART CATHS either. These folks are dangerous, does everyone at CNN and other wise realize that?

I don't scream bloody murder at the top of my lungs for no reason, okay? This chick is a dangerous person to be in the position she is in to have an affect on the news in this large an impact the visual media carries. THE ONLY PLACE THIS TYPE OF RELIGIOUS ADVOCACY BELONGS IN WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF A NEWSPAPER STATING IT'S PREFERENCE, like "The Christian Science Monitor." When one picks up a copy of that rag one knows what to expect, but, when one tunes into CNN it is all covert and incideous. It's a very dangerous thing. I am pleased the CABLE networks and especially CNN is failing. That's a good thing when the message is this dangerous to the general public and the country and it's future.

Here we go.
Sharon.

You have yourself some problems. How is the ankle you broke? Is it better? Did you go to a Western Medicine doctor or take it to a Christian Science Reading Room?

http://www.tfccs.com/GV/CSPS/CSJ/testimonies.jhtml

Are you inspired by Mary Baker Eddy?

http://www.marybakereddylibrary.org/news/earlyenterprising.jhtml

Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science

Healer and pioneer of a reliable, widely practiced system of prayer-based healing

President and founder of a teaching college, the Massachusetts Metaphysical College, which continues to prepare teachers of Christian Science

Founder of a publishing house whose products include numerous books, weekly and monthly magazines, a foreign language magazine, and a Bible daily self-study guide

Founder and publisher of a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper,
The Christian Science Monitor

Leader of a worldwide church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and its branches in 80 countries

Baker Eddy was a sophisticate as her second spouse was a dentist. She had money and social influence so no different than today women who are ‘married to money’ frequenty take on social issues of the day. Baker Eddy was no different. The problem is the ‘religion’ never got set straight as society progressed. That is not so unusual, the Shakers were the same way, so are the Amish.

Here’s the perspective”

“In 1853, Mary Baker Glover married Daniel Patterson, an itinerant dentist who proved to be unreliable and unfaithful. He abandoned her in 1866, and, after years of living apart, she divorced him in 1873 on grounds of desertion.


Struggling with chronic illness compounded by personal loss, Mary Patterson was preoccupied with questions of health. Like many in her day, she avoided the harsh treatments of conventional 19th-century medicine and its dangerous side effects. She sought relief in various alternative treatments of the day, from diets to hydropathy (water cure). During Patterson's long absences, she studied homeopathy in depth and became intrigued by its emphasis on diluting drugs to the point where they all but disappear from the remedy. At one point, she experimented with unmedicated pellets (now known as placebos) and concluded that a patient's belief plays a powerful role in the healing process. While investigating such new cures, she continued to seek comfort and insights in the Bible, still drawn by the healing record contained in its pages.”

Sharon, she lived a long time ago, when there was no modern medicine. She was a witch-doctor. Back when women were chattel. Her role in this life was limited by social mores’ that don’t exist anymore. Do you understand?

SHARON WE HAVE MOVED OUT OF THE CIVIL WAR, BUT, EVIDENTLY YOUR BIGOTED SELF HASN’T SO I THINK WE’LL LEAVE YOU THERE ALONG WITH YOUR NEOCON VALUES. OKAY, BABY?

BUNCH OF SICKOS.

I have seen CNN go from informative news agency to Evangelical advocacy overnight and you are continuing to persist. Monday under the direction of someone else the Website started to life from the morbid influence of your ‘prayerfulness’ over war and death to something interesting and even fun.

Tuesday was an even better day for the CNN website and by very early Wednesday morning the Quote of the Day had registered over 200,000 hits. By the time I returned home at 8 PM the CNN website was back to this morbid overcast with at least eleven death stories on the Domestic Page. I didn’t bother to look at the International Page.

I am going to say this probably rather indelicately. You are an adult are you not? Make no mistake I mean every word.

Basic ideas include:

God is divine Love, Father-Mother, supreme.

The true nature of each individual as a child of God is spiritual.

God’s infinite goodness, realized in prayer, heals.

THIS RELIGION AND BELIEF SYSTEM IS A BUNCH OF HORSE SHIT!

http://www.community.spirituality.com/sp-spiritkids/

You don’t belong anywhere near children and as a matter of fact hospital and health professtional take them away from Christian Science parents on a real regular basis when their health is in danger. The same is true of Jehovah Witness. You and I will never get along, Sharon. The reason is not my problem it is yours. You don’t value life and to maintain health without injury is a real preoccupation with you.

The CNN site has become morbid because of your constant prayer ritual to achieve God’s order with this issue. You chronically seek to undermine the mental health of every person that you come in contact with to achieve acceptance of your value structure. You are so dysfunctional that you’ve become embittered and foolish seeking to cause acceptance of issues, like the Jews, from a perspective YOU are willing to live with

YOU ARE ON SICK LITTLE WHORE, Sharon. We ain’t close to finished. I really think this will have to go to the web if this stuff continues. You need to get out of your own way. You managed to scare off over nearly 200,000 people today from the CNN website. Doesn’t that tell you something. The problem Sharon is not me, or my activism. It is your dysfunction and malformed ideas of life.

You’ll go out of business. You are trying to convert CNN to the Christian Science Continous Neocon Network. And I am supposed to stand by and let it happen? No. I don’t think so.

I don’t see any understanding of you improving. Do you understand me? No matter who or how they try to bail you out of your own message.

Go die, Sharon. You embrace so much, go pick up a gun and go to Iraq. Heal the maimed USA soldiers over there you deceptive little witch.

I think I have to let the public know. I don’t really have a choice. You and whoever is pulling or you including boyfriend, Aaron, has a lot to confess to the American Public who is being fooled by those that would have us all believe the status quo is true at CNN. I haven’t seen an articles about Israel or Africa on the pages of CNN since I don’t know when. You are a lousy bigot. Man, oh, man.

BOUY!

Tuesday, June 15, 2004

One Good Turn Deserves Another

One good turn deserves another, right Aaron?

That might be the case with a lover but not when it involves the ‘slight’ of hand of a friendship to win over people who have become estranged from a program that for sometime now advocates Neocon values and not much else. I didn’t think “Morning Papers” measured up to the rest of the program. I don’t know what your motivation is but is certainly seems as though a good friend in David Bohrman was recruited to bring about a change in heart by an old acquaintance. I don’t know how David feels about accommodating your ‘new flame’ if that is what it is; but I sure didn’t appreciate it.

THE SMOKE AND MIRRORS OF SHARON ‘THE RELIGIOUS BIGOT’ VON Z-WHITE-N

From the transcript:

“(ROOSTER CROWING) BROWN: OK, time to check morning papers from around the country, around the world. It's always interesting on a day when there's no kind of slam- bang story going on to see how papers lead."International Herald Tribune" has lots of stuff on the front page," but what catches your eye, this was really the money shot today, I thought, at the White House, the two presidents, 42 and 43, and Chelsea Clinton all grown up in the picture as well. That shows up in a number of different newspapers. But it didn't show up on "The Guardian" which has a story -- it's a British paper. "British Soldiers Face Abuse Court-Martial" is their lead. "Indecent Among the Charges.’Guardian' Told of New Ill Treatment Allegations." So we'll keep an eye on that. "Christian Science Monitor" leads politics. "Key Tests Loom For Bush and Kerry. President Faces June 30 Iraq Transition. Concern About Jobs, as Rival Needs to Find a Running Mate and to Define Himself." Neither seems to be an easy task these days. "COURT KEEPS ‘UNDER GOD’ IN PLEDGE." It actually just sort of skirted the issue.

AND A LITTLE SLIGHT OF HAND AND RENEWED LOYALTY:That's the lead in "The Washington Times." "UNDER GOD’ REMAINS IN PLEDGE. Court Reverses Ruling on Technicality." Also, Iraq leads. Now, remember that really nice picture I showed you of the two presidents? Here's the one "The Washington Times" put on, kind of a goofy picture of Mrs. Clinton, Senator Clinton. Hey, they could have been a little nicer.

WHERE IS THE REPRESENTATION OF OTHER FAITHS AND HOW THEY MAY HAVE SEEN THAT RULING, AARON. MS. VON ZWIETEN IS A RACIAL AND RELIGIOUS BIGOT FULL OF AN AGENDA OF HATRED OF OTHER RACES, INCLUDING ‘INSURGENT IRAQIS’ which I thought Molly spoke well to. SHARON ‘THE TYRANNICAL’ IS ALSO AGAINST WOMEN’S RIGHTS, FREEDOM OF CHOICE IN LIFESTYLE, ASSERTING SEXUAL IDENTITY OUTSIDE THAT OF HETEROSEXUAL. THE LIST GOES ON AND ON. NEWSNIGHT WAS INTACT AND CORRECT TREATING EVERYONE FAIRLY AND WITH EQUITY AND SOCIAL CONCERN FOR EVERYONE. I DON’T CONSIDER THE ‘PRESENTATION’ OF A ‘PREPPY’ ARTICLE ONCE IN A WHILE ABOUT MINORITIES A COMMITMENT TO IT.

WHERE IS RILYA, AARON. "Detroit News." "Time to Punch Out." They lead basketball. The Pistons could wrap up the series against the Los Angeles Lakers. And I hope for me they do. Don't have to for you. "The Chicago Sun-Times" I have somewhere in this mess of papers. Here it is. The weather tomorrow in -- oh, look quickly here. Wow, look at what a grownup Chelsea is. They put that on the front page. And the weather tomorrow is, "Oh, yes," in Chicago, 84 degrees. Sounds nice to me.We'll wrap it up for the day in a moment.”

SO IN RESPECT FOR THE NEW RELATIONSHIP IN YOUR LIFE I THOUGHT TO PROPERLY ILLUSTRATE THE POTENTIAL OF WHAT A ‘FAMILY WITH SHARON’ MIGHT YIELD I PROPOSE THIS:

In a world with tenuous atmospheres and even more tenuous political nature I resent the use of events that are American for the sale of other ideals when it comes from a licensed media such as CNN. By using “Images of the Day” Sharon “The Manipulator” von Zwieten sets an agenda and a message rather than reporting the news. Where in any ethical standard is that allowable?

So in honor of you Sharon let’s look in on an afternoon of fun for she and her children.

Children?

Yes, children. Sharon loves to be pregnant and have children. Would you like to meet them?

Good.

There is Sharon’s Favorite child still in his stroller “Zealot von Zweiten” named for her religiously bigoted side. She rejoices in him of course.

There is Georgie “The Space Invader” von Zweiten. She adopted him from a tabloid.

There is “Hump Knight” von Zwieten. “Hump” was carried in fine fashion on Sharon’s back according to Weekly World journalism.

There is Katie Kerr-McGee “Red Hot” von Zweiten named after her favorite state of mind.

There is Bennie “Beyond Imagination” von Zwieten named for her favorite BP refinery that can imagine a world of energy different from those that produce carbon dioxide but is beyond them to achieve it.

There is ‘Gold’ von Zwieten named for the “Golden Brain” which is the false god Sharon holds dear to her heart courtesy of Exxonmobile. Exxonmobile is a company spanning over 100 years of supplying oil for energy. Of those one hundred there has been nearly fifty years whereby society has been warned of the impending dangers of burning fossil fuels and coal.

Then there is ‘Gold’s sister, “Steamy Hot” von Zwieten that recall the commercial of Exxonmobile whereby that steamy tea kettle is a somehow magically taking up enough carbon dioxide to make 100,000 cars guilt free on the American roads of doing any damage to Earth.

There is also Conti ‘Confused’ von Zweiten renamed in the image of her momma to reflect the state of mind of Sharon in regard to benign energy. Conti takes the flying carpet of Conoco-Phillips as they take the viewer through a magic carpet ride of images that are supposed to ‘elevate.’ Elevate to what is part of the mystery of the message.

Then last but hardly least is Smutty “The Tabloid” von Zweiten.

Being a dedicated and disciplined Neocon woman Sharon is concerned about the spaces still available at the national cemeteries for the returning dead GIs from Iraq. So she loaded up the kids in the Hummer and toured the national cemeteries making careful survey of any available space. She even made proposals where the cemeteries could be rearranged to move folks around to create those precious places for the dead Iraqi GIs.

Her youngest child, Zealot was the most precious during the tour stating: “Are there specials cemeteries for Christians?” Gifted child I am sure.

Sharon von Zweiten is a bigot, a woman’s worst enemy and one of the vilest people that have ever crossed my viewership path. She is dangerous in her mindless pursuit of changing values through visual assault with the media at her disposal. She doesn’t deserve her position at this level of the American Trust to media licensures.

A TOAST TO THE ‘SHARON AND AARON’ HOUR AND IT’S DEFEAT IN THE SOCIAL SETTING OF ACCEPTABLE STANDARDS IN JOURNALISM.

Wednesday, June 9, 2004

The Fossil Fuel Industry has no loyalty to Earth so much as it's exploitation by it's policies.

This is promotion of a deadly commercial practice that serves a political agenda of a Neocon President who personally profits from it as well as his Vice President REGARDLESS the blind trut their investments are placed in.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WEATHER/06/08/weatherpage.tues.pm.ap/index.html

Heavy rain in northern Plains
Wednesday, June 9, 2004 Posted: 12:00 AM EDT (0400 GMT)
(AP) -- Strong thunderstorms rolled across the northern Plains Tuesday, producing heavy rain, high wind and hail.
Rain, small hail and wind gusts up to 45 mph were reported in parts of the Dakotas, Nebraska and Minnesota.
A front triggered scattered showers in the southern Appalachians. Showers and thunderstorms also pushed through southern Florida and coastal North Carolina.
………………………………
The use of oil, gas and coal is directly responsible for this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/08/science/earth/08gree.html?ex=1087709507&ei=1&en=20f12842d523b588

An Icy Riddle as Big as Greenland

More proof of the damage done by the companies that harvest these deadly products:

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/MediaResources/Greenland/iceflow.jpg

Summer melt on the Greenland Ice Sheet

Read up if you like:

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NasaNews/2002/200206069411.html

There is still even more proof of the ludicrous nature of companies like Kerr-McGee, BP whose commercials promote investment in alternatives but the fine print of their commercials advocate gas and oil reserves that can be found in the Gulf of Mexico. The Gulf has virtually no corals left as the heating of the ocean due to the products drilled out of the Gulf causes devastating damage. The disturbance of the off shore drilling in the Gulf has damaged the subterranean structure that New Orleans and the Louisiana coastline continues to sink. The other companies also responsible are Exxonmobile, Occidental and Conoco-Phillips.

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=15341

Those that enjoy the profiteering from the commercials of deceitful images are all the cable, satellite and network news organizations.

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=4035

The Ice Melt globally is enabled by vortex systems not native to a normal Earth:

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/weather/maps/satradloop.htm?USA&Rgoes&8

Activate the animation.

It doesn’t matter the date anymore there are always vortices working in this area of the troposphere anymore.

The weather links are no longer accurate

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WEATHER/06/08/weatherpage.tues.pm.ap/index.html

Heavy rain in northern Plains

Wednesday, June 9, 2004 Posted: 12:00 AM EDT (0400 GMT)
(AP) -- Strong thunderstorms rolled across the northern Plains Tuesday, producing heavy rain, high wind and hail.

Rain, small hail and wind gusts up to 45 mph were reported in parts of the Dakotas, Nebraska and Minnesota.

A front triggered scattered showers in the southern Appalachians. Showers and thunderstorms also pushed through southern Florida and coastal North Carolina.

The use of oil, gas and coal is directly responsible for this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/08/science/earth/08gree.html?ex=1087709507&ei=1&en=20f12842d523b588

An Icy Riddle as Big as Greenland

More proof of the damage done by the companies that harvest these deadly products:

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/MediaResources/Greenland/iceflow.jpg

Summer melt on the Greenland Ice Sheet

Read up if you like:

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NasaNews/2002/200206069411.html

There is still even more proof of the ludicrous nature of companies like Kerr-McGee, BP who’s commercials promote investment in alternatives but the fine print of their commercials advocate gas and oil reserves that can be found in the Gulf of Mexico. The Gulf has virtually no corals left as the heating of the ocean due to the products drilled out of the Gulf causes devastating damage. The disturbance of the off shore drilling in the Gulf has damaged the subterrainian structure that New Orleans and the Louisiana coastline continues to sink. The other companies also responsible are Exxonmobile and Conoco-Phillips.

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=15341

Those that enjoy the profiteering from the commercials of deceitful images are all the cable, satellite and network news organizations.

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=4035

The Ice Melt globally is enabled by vortex systems not native to a normal Earth:

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/weather/maps/satradloop.htm?USA&Rgoes&8
Activate the animation.

The North Atlantic Vortex

http://www.cnn.com/WEATHER/NAmerica/sat.atl.anim.html

http://weather.unisys.com/satellite/sat_vis_east_loop-12.html

http://weather.unisys.com/satellite/sat_wv_east_loop-12.html
Water Vapor

The North Pacific Vortex
http://www.cnn.com/WEATHER/NAmerica/sat.pac.anim.html

not operating well
http://weather.unisys.com/satellite/sat_vis_west_loop-12.html

Water Vapor
http://weather.unisys.com/satellite/sat_wv_west_loop-12.html

Friday, May 28, 2004

A Tribute to Aaron :)

I put this together when he presented it.

Tonight in Aaron's e-mail he stated, "The rooster is always ready. " Then at the top of the segment Aaron stated how he loves this time of the show. That statement never made the transcript.

The 'enhanced' edition of Morning Papers was some time ago with a crowing Rooster and a statement of how much he loves the critique he delivers. Also there was a great deal of compassion during this news hour and I included it here. That enthusiasm for the material presented during the show was repeated tonight ( June 8, 2005 ) when Aaron mentioned the failing president's polls as noted in the Washington Times.

My point to this is that Aaron is a great anchor demonstrating over time a consistent pattern of reporting people can count on when he is left to his own whiles and FAIRNESS.

The segment then:

(ROOSTER CROWING) BROWN: OK, time to collect morning papers from around the country, around the world. Lots of good ones today. Do I say that every night? Sometimes I do and I don't mean it. I love this. It just tells you so much about Miami. "The Miami Herald,"
two top stories speak to the cosmopolitan nature of the city.

"Venezuela Owns Stake in Ballots."

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/front/8780409.htm?1c

The Venezuelan government has a 28 percent ownership in the company that will help voting results in future elections. I'm sure that makes everyone feel comfortable. And they also put the flooding in the Dominican and Haiti on the front page.

"Devastated Town Can't Get Flood Aid" is "The Miami Herald."

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/8780343.htm

DURING THE PROGRAM
SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Aaron from the Dominican Republic. In fact the government is planning an air assault of sorts tomorrow dropping disinfectant from the air over one of the hardest hit areas. And, in Haiti, one small village is under 10 feet of water.

From New York this is NEWSNIGHT.(COMMERCIAL BREAK)BROWN: On the Caribbean island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic a reminder that not all disasters are manmade and that while nature's motives may be neutral that doesn't lessen the damage.Fierce rains over the weekend led to major flooding which led to mudslides and now whole towns, whole families have been wiped out. More than 500 people are known to have died. Thousands more are missing, the death toll expected to rise.CNN's Susan Candiotti is in the Dominican tonight.(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)CANDIOTTI (voice-over): Days after Sunday's violent storm bodies are still being recovered from a lake, swept into the water when currents carried away entire homes with sleeping families inside.Dominican Republican President Hipolito Mejia flew to the hardest hit town of (unintelligible) to see the destruction firsthand. The U.S. ambassador also on hand.HANS HERTELL, U.S. AMBASSADOR: We've been told that some places like over 200 homes were just literally washed away near that water tower. Boats out by a lake recovering some of these bodies and it's pretty grim.CANDIOTTI: In town, despair and disbelief."It's been four days" this woman says "and it doesn't look like my country."Mud fills homes that defied the storm and for some meager belongings that were inside appear unrecoverable. In other cases, household goods are now cluttering the streets.This man says people here have lost everything.Parts of roads remain under water or damaged further isolating villages. Power is out. There is damage to crops, much of it sugar cane, and livestock has been lost. Immediate concerns remain drinking water, food, clothing and shelter. Up to 15,000 people are believed to be homeless.(END VIDEOTAPE)CANDIOTTI: And to prevent a possible onset of disease from decomposing bodies that already have been buried, the government is planning to drop disinfectant from government airplanes tomorrow. It almost sounds like something out of a movie script.And an equally troubling situation in neighboring Haiti where a small town called (unintelligible) about 30 miles out of the capital of Port-au-Prince that town is said to be under more than ten feet of water. A U.S.-led international force is continuing to bring relief there but to make matters worse forecasters, Aaron, are predicting more rain in the next few days.BROWN: Susan, thank you, Susan Candiotti in the Dominican Republic tonight. My goodness.Coming up on NEWSNIGHT still the former archbishop of Boston gets called to Rome. Some feel such a reward is not in order.From New York this is NEWSNIGHT.
I should actually say that to the end, since it's the Chicago paper, shouldn't I? That's how we do this every night."The Santa Rosa News" in Santa Rosa, New Mexico. – A New York Times paper

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/local/news/24grads.html

Community Garden
http://www.celebratecommunity.org/features/news/23volunteer_b5b05_empcityb.cfm

The Devastating Floods
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/28/international/americas/28CARI.html?ex=1085803200&en=a9ed79bc70d96bf6&ei=5030&partner=PRESSDEMO

Kerry Policies
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/28/politics/campaign/28KERR.html?ex=1085803200&en=a8ec43187c4ca1c4&ei=5030&partner=PRESSDEMO



They have helped me out by putting that on the front page. It is just graduation. And that's why I liked it. The kids in Santa Rosa are graduating. And that should be front-page news. It's not everywhere, but it's nice to see it here."The Cincinnati Enquirer" leads local also. Actually, almost the whole front page is local.

"City Cancels 'Cops' After Two Days."

The show
http://www.wcpo.com/news/2004/local/05/25/cops.html

The cancellation
http://www.enquirer.com/midday/05/05282004_News_mday_cops.html

That's the TV shows that's on one of those other networks. "Infighting at City Hall Leaves Streicher" -- that's Tommy Streicher, the police chief -- Tom Streicher -- "To Halt Filming." That's lead in Cincinnati. Also this weekend, it is the taste of Cincinnati. I love those things when all the restaurants come out in Cincinnati. It is like 1,000 different kinds of chili over noodles and with -- you know, the Cincinnati chili.

"The Detroit News," good front-page story there, too.
"Michigan Abortion Ban Revived. Voters Petitions OKed That Will Let Lawmakers Bypass Granholm." She's the governor, vetoed the partial-birth abortion ban.

http://www.enquirer.com/midday/05/05282004_News_mday_cops.html

They also put sports on the front page. Game four can seal it up for the Pistons. That would be the Detroit Pistons.

http://www.detnews.com/2004/pistons/0405/28/index.htm
I like this story in "The Detroit Free Press."
"U.M.'s" -- University of Michigan's -- "Next Class Looks Whiter. Why Is Debated."

http://www.freep.com/news/education/um28_20040528.htm

That's a very good story. We should look at that. "Chicago Sun-Times," just the headline.
"Alderman Tricked By Her Gang Lover." You just can't get a better headline than that.

http://www.suntimes.com/output/commentary/edits27.html

ALSO WAL-MART DEBATE
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-wal27.html

The weather in Chicago tomorrow, please...(CHIMES)BROWN: Thank you, "Chirpy." How appropriate. INDEED.

Thursday, May 20, 2004

I was never capable of 'discrediting composition' until I was attacked by a bigot.

This is all very bizarre. I think I apologize to myself for having to be put through this. What the heck?

The Neglect of Oil, Gas and Coal Companies to work with the American public in finding answers that would keep us out of war while providing the energy this nation needs.

Sharon likes this commercial the best, so we give it special status in our hearts I am sure. I am confident every Sharon finds important belongs in everyone of our hearts endeared forever to our value system. Kerr-McGee Sharon “RED HOT’ von Zwieten has it in for Earth. Her limited view of life belief dictates if you hit your knees in worship to God everything will be fine but only if your Christian soul is lily white. She got the lily part right because we are in the sixth extinction. Unlike Red Hot von Zwieten, we are stewards of this planet and it is up to us to define limits to the extent Earth can provide for us. Over population, consumerism that provides high levels of carbon dioxide is destroying the very planet we live on. Kerr-Mc Gee does nothing to prevent Global Warming resulting in sudden climate change and human death. Sharon “The RED HOT MOMMA” of NewsNight knows along with ‘Her Deepness” that protecting the oceans is important. What they won’t tell you is that exploiting them for oil isn’t the way to protect them.

Exxonmobile is attempting a campaign with empty images, a steamy tea kettle for one. I guess the folks at Exxonmobile have met Sharon “The Steamy Sex Pot Kettle” von Zwieten herself. See, Sharon, you are in inspiration to all those exploitive. Exxonmobile would like to have us believe the steam that is put into the troposphere by Greenhouse Gases somehow is magically recycled into a benign form. The ‘CYCLE” is right, isn’t Sharon. I mean you would know about cycles right BABY? The rotation of the steam certainly reminds me of a vortex system that moves the heat from the tropics to the arctic to returns that cooled air back to the lower latitudes in the form of deadly and furious weather patterns known as climate change. NOW, the latest commercial that is Sharon’s passion was aided with inspirational guidance for Exxonmobile has the “GOLDEN BRAIN” that thinks magical thoughts about oil and energy. It is an amazing commercial. I thought at first it was promoting MRIs. Magical thoughts that help both Exxonmobile and Sharon “The Golden Brain Drain Queen of NewsNight” to come up with more images of nonsense than any company I have ever seen.

Before we continue, think about it. There have been some ridiculous commercial campaigns recently but none like that of the Bush/Cheney cronies. These oil companies have no excuse for their negligence of the need of this country. They are Anti-American and Pro-Arab. We are in Iraq because of people who extract oil like Halliburton currently enjoying over $20 billion in revenue from Iraq alone. Most of that money has come from the US Treasury in Reconstruction costs, etc. NO HALLIBURTON, WE DO NOT BELIEVE YOU PROVIDE A VITAL, NECESSARY AND VALUABLE SERVICE.

The other commercial Sharon “THE CONFUSED” von Zwieten would have us believe is a valid one is the Exxonmobile ad stating they have been exploiting the Earth for one hundred years and now they are moving into better exploitation of ‘advanced fuels.’ That’s right, Sharon, 100 years of profit taking without giving back to society any form of answer to the quickly dwindling oil supply, energy hungry societies that have no choice but to use energy that also destroys the very biotic environment necessary for us all to survive. Even babies, Sharon, even the newest of generations need a planet to survive and what is your answer? Burn, BABY, burn. One has to wonder how close to the devil she is. Of is it a she-devil she is? More ‘BABY DOLLS’ but none from Victoria Secrets on television, right Sharon?

See, Sharon’s Christian orientation in life dictates “Tease ‘em, but, don’t every please ‘em.” It is a wonder how they procreate? Maybe the Religious Right doesn’t because they end up with entities in society named Eric Rudolph.

Conico-Phillips and their ‘images’ while ‘elevating.’ Right. Sharon ‘ELEVATED TO OIL QUEEN’ von Zwieten that causes me pause to realize images in this manner is truly a manipulation of the mind. You like playing with peoples’ minds, Sharon? I do believe based on past performances on NewsNight context you do. There is no message to this commercial by Conico-Phillips except to try and relay a role of high goals in benevolence when they have never done a benevolent thing to this planet. EVER!!

Then there is the schizophrenic reality of Sharon ‘BEYOND IMAGINATION’ von Zwieten. It is beyond any imagination what BP (Beyond Petroleum) is doing in this commercial to promote alternative energy and fuel. BP seems to exploitation what is left of any natural resources left on the planet but also the exploitation of people captured under the guise of ‘This fantasy NEED’ to state. It goes something like this. ‘Yeah, oil is a necessary evil, but, hey, what am I supposed to do about it?” Good question. But, Sharon has no answer except to say BP is working on it. How long are they going to work on it Baby? Forever? Or just until the lives in the oceans are dead and we are unable to live with the heat of the sun? When will Sharon grow up enough to take responsibility for her actions?

There are good alternatives. Recycled Corn into fuels. Imagine an Illinois, Indian or Iowa corn field completely harvested for the nations fuel needs? Not only that but in those same fields rather than ‘striking it rich’ which is something you completely understand, huh, Sharry Baby, with oil derricks there are row after row of giant windmills maintained all year round for that same farmers income. Guaranteed income, Sharon.

Have you ever seen the sun harnessed for energy Ms. Von Zwieten? Take a trip. I am sure you love to travel. Go to the desert east of the southern Rockies in California. There is a huge solar collection field. It is impressive. It actually looks like there is a miniature sun suspended in mid-air above the solar panels. The interesting thing about solar panels is that is that once the sunlight hits them there is shade behind them and Earth stays cool. How about that. I bet at night time there is actually ‘collectable due’ that forms under those panels. If the coolness persists during the day it could be a watershed if it were on higher ground. How about that?

So, Sharon, you like to fight than switch? That’s obvious. Christian Republican philosophy seems to dictate confrontation and conflict rather than peace and benevolence. And you think you are competent to be parents? Think again. You can’t even keep Earth healthy long enough, nor keep species alive long enough for children to appreciate. That’s right Sharon, you ARE the problem. We all know it. You keep trying to manipulate your way around it and everyone knows that as well. You’ll scream how lousy it is to have to PUT UP WITH people like me. So now. I get to say how lousy it is to put up with people like you; while break the law but keep their licenses anyway.

THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE. BUT, I BET YOUR LOOKING GLASS IS PERFECT, ISN’T IT, SLEEPING BEAUTY?

If it weren’t for Aaron, you wouldn’t have any worthwhile moments on NewsNight. Jerk! You know there is nothing worse than a woman that makes a bad name for other women! You and Karl Rove and Michael Powell should be very happy together. No one here is maladjusted, Sharry, except for all of you!

Tuesday, May 18, 2004

The ACLU Statement

For a while there was a protest made on the New York Times Message Boards. This was part of it. The rest of it to follow.

ACLU statement

What needs to happen here is for the ACLU to take a stand about equity of all kinds. In the years 2002 and 2003 the current administration used the media to promote an illegal war. Since that time, others who are profiting from the influence of this administration and its extreme right leanings such as the ‘faith based’ initiatives have promoted religious bigotry, segregation and racism. I firmly believe there is a profound hatred by Bush and his administration for any religion of the world except White Evangelical Christianity.

Organizations such as the ACLU need to examine the use of public access including public airways, both radio and television including where there are religious stations regardless the denomination or those that advocate religious preference in their broadcasting. The bias demonstrated by this administration and it’s subsequent supporters who are supposed to be neutral in a country whereby there is a separation by design of church and state need to offer ‘equal time’ to other belief systems when accessing the public openly.

Currently there is no way for other faiths or beliefs to have access to the same audiences where intolerance is being preached. Not long ago this would have been unthinkable, but, the Government Faith Based monies open the concept of organized political operatives to churches, synagogues, mosques and temples. There is no way to know if the monies are being distributed equally OR if the social ‘good’ of the country is being served. In actuality, government is now funding ‘political action committees’ that serve the incumbent president. We know for a fact the churches of the country have become more interested in promoting voting and ‘swaying’ their parishioners to vote in favor of this administration in fear of losing their new found dollars.

Religion is a personal preference and not government dictates, but the potency in the electorate has become so profound that the media that least interests the public through paid cable networks now panders to that population and is promoting wars without cause to hold their viewership. This is an outrage and spawned by the ‘sick’ little man in the Oval Office who can’t even support the military he currently has engaged in an illegal war instigated by the same stations assisting with promotion of more of the same.

Sunday, May 16, 2004

The Incidious Nature of Sharon's Plans to overwhelm Election Outcomes

Came one evening when she openly invited fraud to become a part of the newsprint of any paper that cared to be advertised as part of "The Morning Papers" Segement. She was influence peddleing. I began to keep a 'watch list' to alert others that indeed they are participating in the fraud she invited. Evidently, the Democrats were too much of a 'threat' to the agenda the Neocons have mapped out.

This was a list I started, after a time it became easy to spot any fraud. To prove how unsuccessful Sharon's Campaign for fraud was the current participants are far, far few than listed here. At one time it was a wide array of newsprint and an enjoyable segment. Now, it's all 'tilted bigotry' to serve the propaganda of the Neocons who favor war over peace.

San Francisco Chronicle
http://www.sfgate.com/

Philadelphia Inquirer
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/

Boston Herald
http://news.bostonherald.com/

The Boston Globe
http://www.boston.com/

The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/

The Press of Atlantic City


Detroit Free Press


Washington Times


Oregonian


Chattanooga Times Free Press


Times Herald Record


Times of London


Dallas Morning News


Richmond Times Dispatch


San Antonio Press


Atlanta Journal Constitution


The Washington Times


Amelia Bulletin Monitor


Sun Sentinel


Chicago Sun Times


The Guardian


The China Daily


The Detroit News


International Herald Tribune


The South Bend Tribune


The Miami Herald


The Cincinnati Enquirer


Chattanooga Sun Times


Philadelphia Daily News


The Birmingham News


San Antonio Express News


St. Paul Dispatch


Washington Daily News – The Voice of the Pamlico

The Herald Sun – Raleigh, Durham, Reasearch Triangle


The New Zealand Herald

The News Print still remaining as a part of this segment from the above list are:

Philadelphia Inquirer

Boston Herald

Detroit Free Press

Washington Times

Oregonian

Chattanooga Times Free Press

Times Herald Record

Times of London

Dallas Morning News

Richmond Times Dispatch

San Antonio Press

Atlanta Journal Constitution

The Guardian

The Detroit News

The International Herald Tribune

The Miami Herald

The Cincinnati Enquirer

Chattanooga Sun Times

San Antonio Express News

ODD THOUGH. I never monitored The Christian Science Monitor because I never considered and still don't consider them legitimate newsprint. Even when they were the ONLY reporters within Najaf when all the conflict was being stirred up by Bush over al Sadr, their reporting was discriminatory in favor to White Neocons. They reported 'the fighters' of Najaf as unsophisticated and the people that backed them did so out of loyalty. You know when you consider the level of unsophisticated fighters loyal to 'al Sadr' one would expect the USA to stop their assault realizing any further combat would be nothing more than a slaughter. But, it was like the reporters from The Chrisitan Science Monitor was giving the USA clues to the ease at which the battle could be won. None of the towns of Iraq are so well equipped they deserve the kind of wrath they receive from the USA. They are unsophisticated. Bush did this. He forced them to continue the fight because he has no 'savvy' to do otherwise. If the Sunnis weren't forced from the current government because of the unnecesssary and unsuccessful attack on Fallujah there would be far less oppostion today. Allawi is more trouble than solution. He needs to step down from Prime Minister. He allowed the attacks to proceed against his own people. He shouldn't have done that.

Saturday, May 15, 2004

Sharon von Zwieten's Propaganda - PROOF

She uses Beth Nissan to 'pull at the heart strings' but when Beth's reporting turns into Anti-War testimony it is all RE-Written.

May 4, 2004

(END VIDEOTAPE)

BROWN: Since the war began, there have been 3,000 of these flights, 40,000 patients. They haven't lost one yet.

BROWN: Quickly looking ahead to tomorrow, the beginning of a series of reports on the wounded and bringing them home from Iraq in the wake of the deadliest month in the war. Beth Nissen returned to Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany, where the injured are brought. Eventually, they are flown to Andrews Air Force Base in Washington. And Nissen made the trip home with some of them.


(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

BETH NISSEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): There is one scheduled almost every day from Ramstein Air Force base in Germany, a medevac flight carrying troops wounded in Iraq back to the U.S.

On this flight, 37 troops with gunshot wounds, blast fractures, serious shrapnel injuries. Two are in critical condition. One with a spinal cord injury is on a ventilator. For the nine-hour flight home, the huge cargo plane turns into a flying hospital. It is a constant struggle for the onboard medical team. Stethoscopes are useless. They can't hear heart sounds or breath sounds over the roar of the C- 141 engines.

Changes in altitude, turbulence can cause drops in blood pressure, spikes in pain. Everyone from the onboard nurses to the on- ground refuelers has the same sense of mission: get these sick and wounded soldiers and Marines back to Walter Reed Army Medical Center and other U.S. hospitals for surgery, treatment, rehab, to carry on the fight to recover.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

The initial report clearly stated there were 3000 flights with 40,000 wounded. It was the first time the 'reality' of the level of disabled became known to the USA public. The reality was staggering.

This was the narrative to the Nissan Presentation. Above is the concluding statements and the ones manipulated by von Zwieten.

BROWN: In a week when we've talked a good deal about bad apples in Iraq, it is time to talk of angels. We found these angels on a clunky airplane filled from ceiling to floor with the wounded of the Iraq war. They travel from Iraq to Germany and then on to Washington, the beginnings for many of a very long road back to health.At every mile they travel, they're watched over and tended to by medics and nurses and doctors who have seen too much to be unchanged by a war that is still just a year old.

NEWSNIGHT's Beth Nissen made the journey with them this week.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

BETH NISSEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Thirteen hundred hours, Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany. On approach, the day's medical evacuation flight from downrange, a C-141 Starlifter bringing in sick and wounded troops from Iraq.

CAPT. DAN LEGERE, MEDICAL CREW DIRECTOR: We continuously move patients out of theater. The patients that we see, most of them have trauma of one type or another from their battle injuries.

NISSEN: The war wounded, almost 20 on this flight, are all floated on to buses that will take them to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, the big Army hospital nearby. The plane is immediately reconfigured for the next medevac flight to carry another set of sick and wounded troops from Landstuhl to military hospitals in the U.S. for more surgery, treatment, long-term rehab.

SMSGT. RICKY SMITH, PRIMARY LOADMASTER: These kids, they've done their job. And it is our job to make sure they get back to medical attention and get put back together, if you will.

NISSEN: Seventeen hundred hours: 37 patients loaded on to the plane for the long flight to the U.S. Their injuries are typical of those carried on medevac flights, especially in the last five weeks, gunshot wounds to the chest and abdomen, legs and arms fractured in mortar blasts, eyes ruptured by shrapnel. Two patients are in critical condition, both with spinal chord injuries. One is on a ventilator. For the ground and flight crews, seeing so many so badly injured is hard, yet hardens their sense of mission.

LEGERE: A few things that you see will really tug at your heart.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I just sympathize with them so much. And I just want to make sure that we do everything, everything possible for them.

NISSEN: That isn't easy on board a C-141 cargo plane, an inhospitable flying hospital. The challenges start on takeoff, especially for the critical patients.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The most dramatic thing here is when the airplane takes off and the nose pitches up, the head pitches down and kind of destabilizes things for us when that happens.

NISSEN: Changes in altitude, cabin pressure can cause drops in blood pressure. Turbulence can cause spikes in pain.

MAJ. STEVE GRIFFIN, AIRCRAFT COMMANDER: We try to watch out for it. We keep the smoothest flight that we can for our patients. It is their comfort level we're concerned about. And we try to make it as comfortable as what we can for them.

NISSEN: Things are far from comfortable for the medical flight crew. Most crew members are Air Force reservists, Air National Guard. In civilian, they are E.R. nurses, EMTs. At 30,000 feet, their work is the same, but working conditions are radically different. The light is dim. Space is cramped. Stethoscopes are useless in the roar of the C-141's engines.

TECH SGT. TIMOTHY MITZEL, MEDICAL FLIGHT CREW: We all have to wear ear plugs. We can't hear. We can't hear blood pressures. We can't hear lung sounds.

NISSEN: Crew members use monitors, use informal sign language, lean in to listen to patients. For nine hours, they work to control pain, to monitor mortar and bullet wounds.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You're OK.

NISSEN: To dispense comfort.

LEGERE: The kids that we see, they've all got still that great spirit. You don't ever hear any of them complaining or whining or any of the things that you really would expect seeing the disfiguring and the severe injuries that these guys have.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: OK.

NISSEN: Twenty-two hundred hours: Andrews Air Force Base in Washington, D.C. Patients are off-loaded onto buses bound for Walter Reed Army Medical Center or Bethesda Naval Hospital. It is hard for the flight crew, especially the older ones, to see them go.

GRIFFIN: You don't look at them as some stranger that is on the other side of the world. You look at them as, wow, this could have been my son or my daughter.

NISSEN: There is little time for reflection. Within hours, the medevac missions go again, back to Germany, back downrange, back home with the latest casualties of war. Beth Nissen, CNN.

THE MANIPULATION

May 14, 2004

Coming up on NEWSNIGHT, the fighting in Iraq (unintelligible) of course of the casualties, Nissen returns to Landstuhl, a military hospital there where the soldiers are treated, their stories and their caregivers too.Around the world this is NEWSNIGHT.


(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

BROWN: Every war is marked by milestones, of course, and most of them are grim. Last month was the deadliest yet in Iraq. As the Iraq insurgency spread, the American death toll spiked, and so did the medevac flights. Every time the fighting worsens, a new surge of injured soldiers arrive at Landstuhl Medical Center in Germany. It will be that way again in the next 24 to 36 hours in the wake of fresh battles in Najaf and Nasiriyah.

NEWSNIGHT's Beth Nissen returned to Landstuhl recently to check on the wounded and the medical heroes who treat them.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

BETH NISSEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The number of sick and wounded troops arriving at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center is at a six-month high. In the month of April alone, more than 1,000 were medevaced here from downrange in Iraq.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We're busy. We're very busy. This is the new normal. So being very busy is the new normal here.

NISSEN: Part of the new normal, a sharp increase in the number of medevaced trooped with battle injuries, from 20 percent to more than 50 percent.

LT. COL. RONALD PLACE, LANDSTUHL REGION MEDICAL CENTER: We're seeing a large increase in improvised explosive device-type wounds, fragment wounds that are just open, jagged, ragged wounds.

MAJ. JIM MILBURN, CHAPLAIN: We have seen amputees. We have seen lots of burn patients, badly burned patients.

1ST. LT. TINA HALL, POST-ANESTHESIA CARE UNIT: Lots of broken bones. Sometimes, both legs are broken. Sometimes, one leg may be broken or they may have suffered an amputation on the other leg.

NISSEN: The surge in serious injuries reflects the escalation in fighting in Fallujah and Najaf and what seems to be a change in insurgents' attacks.

COL. RHONDA CORNUM, COMMANDER, LANDSTUHL REGION MEDICAL CENTER: Unfortunately, the enemy has recognized that our body armor is really quite good. And I think instead of aiming for the chest or torso, where they know they can't be very effective, they are probably aiming at the head and neck.

NISSEN: Many patients have head injuries, eye injuries. Shrapnel from a grenade blast damaged Corporal Joshua Carpenter's (ph) right eyeball.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Best case is I'll be back to 20/20. Worst case is, I won't be able to see.

NISSEN: Shrapnel from the same grenade blast also hit Lance Corporal Brian Carnot (ph) in the legs and chest, cut nerves in his face, sliced into his neck.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It was very close to my jugular vein, they were saying. And at the time, I thought it did hit it, because I had my hand on my neck and it was squirting through my fingers.

NISSEN: Like most of the seriously injured, he has vivid flashbacks.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I can remember the screaming and I remember seeing what I saw when I first opened my eyes.

NISSEN (on camera): What was that?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I saw another Marine looking at his arm screaming really loud.

NISSEN (voice-over): That Marine was Lance Corporal Zack Thunecannon.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I heard a loud pop. Then I looked over to my left and I seen that my arm was dangling. I didn't think I was going to make it.

NISSEN: He made it to Landstuhl, but his lower arm was too mangled to reattach. Surgeons here had to amputate just below the elbow. It is hard for Landstuhl's corps of doctors and nurses to see so many so young with such serious injuries.

PLACE: While they are still here, while things are still fresh, typically, the reality of the situation haven't set in yet. They are so young, many of them don't really get it that they are hurt this bad.

NISSEN: It is hard for nonmedical staff, too, for the orderlies and the chaplains who meet every group of new patients bussed from medevaced flights that land at nearby Ramstein Air Force Base.(on camera): What's been the hardest for you personally?

MILBURN: Probably unplugging machines with some of the young men when they are not going to make it and to sit there with mom and dad or a wife while they pass away. That's very difficult, heart- wrenching, heart-wrenching.

THE LIE and THE OVERT PROOF of Propaganda using the very troops this network claims to uphold in dignity. It is not their dignity they are interested in. It is the ability to manpulate the reality of these troops in propagands Sharon von Zwieten holds an interest.

NISSEN: Those heart-wrenches are rare. More than 14,000 troops, the injured and the sick, have been treated at Landstuhl since the start of the war. Only eight have died here. Doctors say the high survival rate is due in large part to the patients themselves, their resilience, their dedication.

CORNUM: We have a generally young population who can tolerate an unbelievable amount of trauma and will still -- will just fight to make it.

NISSEN: For hospital staff, the mission is clear, stay ready for incoming wounded in any number with any injuries, stay ready for the next six weeks, six months, two years, the new normal. Beth Nissen, CNN, Landstuhl, Germany.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

To Review and contrast and compare:

One of the star princesses at CNN is a reporter by the name of Beth Nissan. I don’t really care her ethnicity all I know is that under the direction of Executive Producer Sharon “The Religious Zealot” von Zwieten; Ms. Nissan has turned into a propaganda Queen.

May 4, 2004

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BROWN: Since the war began, there have been 3,000 of these flights, 40,000 patients. They haven't lost one yet.

BROWN: Quickly looking ahead to tomorrow, the beginning of a series of reports on the wounded and bringing them home from Iraq in the wake of the deadliest month in the war.


May 14, 2004

NISSEN: Those heart-wrenches are rare. More than 14,000 troops, the injured and the sick, have been treated at Landstuhl since the start of the war. Only eight have died here. Doctors say the high survival rate is due in large part to the patients themselves, their resilience, their dedication.

CORNUM: We have a generally young population who can tolerate an unbelievable amount of trauma and will still -- will just fight to make it.

A desparity of 26,000 injured erased by von Zwieten in complete disrespect of the soldiers involved was proven to be true to exist a few days later in The New York Times in a Op-Ed Chart.

Wednesday, May 12, 2004

Sharon von Zwieten's alienating form of Propaganda - It is personality disorder dominated.

Protest of the Zwieten NewsNight

The analogy was made last night between Danny Pearl and Mr. Berg. There are a few similarities but I have a problem with the ‘lumping’ together of violent protest killings of Islamic terrorist groups. It has been mentioned by NewsNight, “Danny Pearl was murdered and what exactly was the reason for that?” There were similar analogies in other news reporting but to bring this all to one focus is a mistake. The circumstances surrounding Danny’s death was of ‘bankrupt political clout’ no different than any terrorist attack. Danny’s death took place in Pakistan where is working to ‘dialogue’ with underground militants to bring their grievances to light. He did that but not on his terms. This was some reporting at the time:
“He was in Karachi, Pakistan, working on a story about the Islamic militant underground when he was kidnapped January 23 by a group calling itself the National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty. Initially, his captors claimed he was an agent for the CIA, which brought quick denials from federal officials.
"Mr. Pearl is a respected journalist," Richard Boucher, a State Department spokesman, said in an interview in late January. "He has no connection with our government."
Later, his captors claimed Pearl worked for Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency. His colleagues at the Journal scoffed; Pearl, they said, was a top-flight journalist, nothing more.
"This is a man who lives for three things," Paul Steiger, the Journal's managing editor, said recently. "He lives for covering stories accurately. He lives for his wife -- they have a wonderful relationship -- and he lives for his unborn child."
I BRING THIS UP AS A WILLINGNESS TO ENTER A DANGER ZONE OF PROVIDING INCENTIVE TO CONFLICT RATHER THAN IT’S RESOLVE IN IRAQ. Mr. Nic Berg is a tragic reality of what happens in Iraq when terrorist groups are able to find reason to justify their anger because of poorly run military operations. Mr. Berg is a tragic loss to his family, town and this country but it is grossly different in nature from the death of Danny Pearl.
The only commonalities between the two gentlemen was the fact they were Jewish, attempting to make a difference in a turbulent land, assassinated as a protest to The West and assassinated in a very violent and abrupt manner. There is no incentive in the Iraqi Conflict for bringing Danny into the subject nor should there ever be. It is my estimation of Danny Pearl that he would never consent to the conflict in Iraq. In recent public initiative of Danny’s Organization, his father Noah has continued Danny’s proud heritage of ‘dialogue’ without conflict.


We'll start with "The Christian Science Monitor," three good stories. "Where U.S. Goes After Abu Ghraib. As Americans Brace for More Brutal Images and Testimony on Abuse Continues, War Support Drops and Talk Of Justice Grows" -- Peter Grier the writer. Also, in the middle of the front page, "Who Were They," a look at those who have died in Iraq, a very good story, that. (THIS ARTICLE WHICH APPEARS AT THE TOP OF THE NEWSPRINT WOULD HAVE YOU BELIEVE THIS WAS A RERUN OF NIGHTLINE’S TRIBUTE TO THE WAR DEAD. IT IS INSTEAD A STATISTICAL VIEW OF THE ‘AVERAGE’ IRAQI DEAD. IT IS A ‘COME ON’ ARTICLE.) But maybe the best story is down at the bottom.

THIS IS EXACTLY THE RESULT THE AMERICAN FORCES WERE LOOKING FOR WITH THE PRISON ISSUES. MOST OF THOSE IN THE PRISON WERE INNOCENT IRAQIS. BY HUMILIATING THEM AND KILLING SOME A RESULT OF SOCIAL COMPIANCE WAS SOUGHT. WHEN THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR ALONG WITH AARON BROWN AND NEWSNIGHT WANTS TO ACCLAIM SUCH ‘SHIFTS’ IN CITIZEN BEHAVIOR AS BENEFICIAL AND GOOD IT IS OCCURING BECAUSE OF THE VICTIMIZING OF THEM AND NOT BY THE DESIRED COOPERATION OF THEM. HERE AGAIN THE PROPAGANDA OF A CHRISTIAN BASED NEWSPRINT TAINTS THE REALITY IN FAVOR OF THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION AND AWAY FROM THE TRUTH.

"More Iraqis Accept Their U.S. Trained Forces. Now People Are Beginning To Understand That Iraqi Forces Are Serving The Country."
More Iraqis accept their US-trained forces
By Scott Peterson Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
BAGHDAD – Accused of being collaborators with American occupation forces, Iraqi policemen, guards, and soldiers have endured ridicule, threats, and targeted violence that have left hundreds dead over the past year.
But there are signs those hard-nosed attitudes toward the country's embattled, US-trained security forces are beginning to soften.
There is no way to tell the breadth of this apparent change in popular thinking. But some dozen security personnel in Baghdad and the flash point of Fallujah report that the views of their fellow Iraqis - tired of the continual burn of insecurity, car bombs, and kidnappings - are shifting.
I'm going to have to read that. (YOU SHOULD HAVE READ THAT AND MORE BUT BEING A BUSH SUPPORTER AND PUNDIT TO THE WAR WHY WOULDN’T YOU PROMOTE THIS AND OTHER ARTICLES THAT APPEAR AS WELL. ARTICLES TAKING THE REALITY OF THE IRAQIS WITH AN AMERICAN WAR PRESIDENT SPIN THAT ENCOURAGES CONTINUED CONFLICT THAT OBVIOUSLY HAS NO RESULT IN PEACE OR END IN SIGHT. THE NEWSPRINT OF THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR HAS A HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL INFLAMMATORY STANDS AND THIS IS NO DIFFERENT. BY REMOVING THE ATROCITIES OF THE PRISON AS THE MOTIVATIONAL FORCE FOR A CHANGE IN IRAQI BEHAVIOR THE RESULT WOULD BE ‘THAT SOMETHING GOOD HAS COME OUT OF SOMETHING BAD. SO, WHY NOT REPEAT THE SAME AND ENFORCE THAT BEHAVIOR, HUH?) THE PEOPLE THAT PARTICIPATE IN THIS TYPE OF PUNDANCY INCLUDING ARRON BROWN, NEWSNIGHT AND SHARON VON ZWIETEN ARE BIASED AND FAVOR GREATER INVOLVEMENT AND CASUALITY. That's a pretty good news story on a bad news day.

TO CONTINUE WITH THE REST OF THE SEGMENT:

"The Detroit News." "American Beheaded in Retaliation" is the lead. Down at the bottom, one of those stories that will come back to haunt, as they say. "Jobless Benefit Bill Fails. Kerry Misses Vote." The senator was out campaigning. The Democrats needed 60 votes to continue -- to pass an amendment to extend unemployment benefits. He wasn't there. He was out campaigning. I suspect we'll hear about that. AND I SUPPOSE YOU SHOULDN’T HEAR ABOUT THAT EITHER, RIGHT AARON?"The Philadelphia Inquirer" absolutely must lead this way. He's a West Chester, Pennsylvania man. "Tape Shows West Chester Man Beheaded By Captors in Iraq." Lots of different ways to headline this story. That's how "The Philadelphia Inquirer" did it. Here is how

"The Boston Herald" did it. "Prisoner Abuse, Iraq Style." That's the picture that we have all seen too much of today, or a lot of today, and a pretty good headline for a tabloid. That's a very nicely written headline there. How much time we got? None? Well, then I have to do this. "Chicago Tribune" (THE CHICAGO HAS ALWAYS STOOD IN PROTEST OF THIS SEGMENT. I THINK THEY ARE RIGHT.) -- or "Chicago Sun-Times. (THEY KINDLY INDULGE THE COMICAL AND MUCH NEEDED RELIEF OF SOME OF THE ASPECT OF THIS SEGMENT. IT IS ALSO A STATEMENT TO RAISE AWARENESS ON A REGULAR BASIS TO THE CLIMATE WE LIVE IN. “Quickly, the weather tomorrow is, "Bring it on." (THAT BY THE WAY IS A FAVORITY NORTH CAROLINA SAYING.) And "Walter Jacobson Says, 'I Wasn't Drunk.' He's one of the famous local news anchors of all time. And if he says it, I believe him. Why not.

IN REVIEWING THE NEWSPAPERS PRESENTED ‘AFTER’ THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR IT IS EASY TO DISCERN A BETTER EQUITABLE FOCUS WITH A HEADLINE REGARDING THE CONTINUED ATROCITIES OF INNOCENT IRAQIS BUT CONTINUING WITH THE LIFE OF THE AVERAGE CITIZEN IN THE LOCAL FOCUS. The Christian Science Monitor is newsprint with a specialized focus and does not take the reader to other levels of life that include local community concerns. It holds a single focus in legitimizing this Neocon Administration at all levels of authority including that of women and social ? authority ? including a favorite status of Christianity over any other faith. That is a bigoted view of the world.

The unique flavor of “Morning Papers” in that it allowed a balance to the view on the world from large news stories. It allowed the ‘all of the viewership’ to sample the focus of different local dailies. It was a worthwhile segment in ‘community’ but it is becoming a segment to bias the viewership to a religious preference that is also a political preference by this administration and Karl Rove. It is a horrible thing to have a good and trusted friend “Morning Papers” become a propaganda forum to be legitimized by the inclusion of other newsprint. I honestly believe editors of contributing papers need to rethink their involvement.

I might add the continued dominated show of Larry King Live continues with its lack of positive minority figures. The last appearing on April 21st of The contestants of “The Apprentice” and one appearance of Colin Powell during that period of time.

Paula Zahn still has not addressed women’s issues but only attempts at every turn to justify the unjustifiable Iraq Conflict while credit to her guests call it as it is regardless of her lead to allow them to do otherwise.

Friday, May 7, 2004

24 Hour News Indoctrination

24 Hours of Indoctrination
Gore Announces Acquisition of Cable TV Network
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: May 4, 2004
NEW ORLEANS -- An investor group headed by former Vice President Al Gore said Tuesday it is launching a cable news network for young adults, buying an existing network with an eye to retooling it with "irreverent and bold" programming.
The group is buying the Newsworld International channel from Vivendi Universal Entertainment for an undisclosed sum. The deal with Gore's company, INdTV Holdings, was announced Tuesday during the National Cable and Television Association convention in New Orleans.
Newsworld International is a 24-hour channel broadcasting international news produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. that now has about 14 million North American households, according to the Vivendi Web site.
Gore said the network will be "an independent voice in this industry" with a primary target audience of people between 18 and 34 "who want to learn about the world in a voice they recognize and a view they recognize as their own."
"This is not going to be a liberal network, a Democratic network or a political network," Gore said at a news conference.
The programming will continue to be provided by Canadian Broadcasting Corp., officials said.
Gore will serve as chairman of the board and said he will devote most of his time to the network. Also announcing the acquisition Tuesday was Joel Hyatt, an entrepreneur and former finance chairman for the Democratic National Committee who ran a failed campaign for the U.S. Senate in Ohio in 1994.
"Having learned from both the successes and failures of other cable networks, we are confident this is a winning concept," said Hyatt, who will serve as chief executive.
Hyatt said the programming will include traditional news formats like documentaries. But he used words like "irreverent and bold" to describe the tone of the programming, which he said will include news comedies and other "formats you haven't seen before."
He would give no specifics but added: "Our goal is not to be the 251st cable network that looks like the others."
Gore said he and Hyatt had met a lot of young, creative people "who need a venue to compete in a meritocracy of ideas."
The former vice president, who was once a newspaper reporter in Tennessee, said he was making a long-term commitment to the network. He said he is enjoying life outside politics and does not foresee running for political office again, although he would not rule it out completely.
Gore would not say how much INdTV paid for the network, which is currently carried by DirecTV, Time Warner and in some areas by Comcast.
INdTV said its acquisition was financed by equity capital firms and individual investors.

When does the public get rid of the toxic effects of the Bush White House when a continuous network news does nothing else but use a common thread in their broadcasting?

If I had to give CNN a personality it would be a Caucasian male in their mid-forties, Republican, hooked on violence and self-righteous identity with little regard for women except to produce offspring and keep her legs crossed otherwise.

When I scan the horizon for a news network that can deliver the news with a realistic view CNN falls far shorter than I ever anticipated. They are biased in every sense of the word and last night on NewsNight it put the frosting on the cake.

Thursday, May 6, 2004

More Troubled Thoughts attempting Problem Solving while nothing seemed balanced and 'fair/equitable'

I have been increasingly troubled over an instance of a burgeoning philosophy that supports Bush's view of the world. It is most evident by some productions at CNN. I 'think' (and I realize this is kind of over the top, but, not exactly) there is a movement toward a philosophy base that can safely be called Bushism. Analogy - Marxism. In other words, Bush is creating a 'perfect world' allowed by his position as president enabled by a congress of debtors.

It is not exactly the Religious Right, it is not exactly Republican but it is the Republicans that are likely the basis of their power within the vision provided by Bush.

It is very troubling. I believe some of the reverberations I have seen in the N Y Times lately is due to the fact they have identified issues but don't see the bigger picture. I think this IS the bigger picture.

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Criticism of The Unilateral religious views of CNN's NewsNight Morning Papers segment: NewsNight with Aaron Brown even after their new Senior Executive Producer took charge, Sharon van Zwieten, continues to practice Anti-Equity in regard to religious issues during the Segment “Morning Papers.”

For twelve nights now the segment has been openly promoting The Christian Science Monitor. To stop at the definition of Anti-Semitic would be an error, because to promote ONLY Christian Newsprint is to be anti-any other religion including Muslim leading to ONLY a pro-Bush Christian agenda as dictated by Karl Rove.

I can’t help but wonder if NewsNight’s investment in promoting Christian Newsprint as it is promoted by a political figure isn’t a violation of McCain-Feingold.

To prove how ludicrous this is, not long ago the Roman Catholic Church was put to ridicule without mercy for their sex scandal. And yet on Saturday CNN was anxious to further show a clash between US Government authority and the clout the Pope carries, or should I say he believes he carries regarding Senator Kerry’s communicant status. Their reporting on that subject was biased again in favor of the view that Kerry is a waffler even as viewed by his faith on issues like abortion. That of course is a communist view of the world in that personal choice is not an option. Senator Kerry has no choice in his office but to carry out the will of the electorate under the US Constitution and if anything clearly demonstrated that will clearly was The Million Woman March on Washington, DC favoring abortion rights.

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This is just one example of the affiliation between Christian Coalition newsprint and NewsNight’s parent company Time Warner:

April 19, 2004

Time Warner continues plagiarism with The Christian Science Monitor


Headline on AOL Website reads,

"Mideast Ally Snubs Bush" - Jordan's King Postpones Visit. After US Shift Toward Israel."
Christian Science Monitor


"Jordan's king snubs Bush, cancels meeting - Key Mideast ally "irked" over US support for Sharon's territorial claims."

PROOF POSITIVE THAT CNN/TIME WARNER/ AOL IS NOW A Christian Based Organization. It no longer practices reliable journalism.

In an attempt to improve the quality of its reporting the Christian Science Monitor is quoting the New York Times.

'King Abdullah of Jordan abruptly postponed a visit with US President George Bush scheduled for Wednesday. Jordanian officials said the meeting had become impossible because of Mr. Bush's recent support for "Israel's territorial claims in the West Bank," reports The New York Times."

Why read the CS Monitor if all one needs to do is read The N Y Times.

Dah!

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It is simply astounding to me NewsNight has taken on a discriminatory tone without extending the segment to other religious newsprint to balance the display of The Christian Science Monitor. In the past an invitation has been extended while ‘on the air’ to papers interested in submitting to this segment.

The Christian Science Monitor is biased in its views and a trouble maker with rather bizarre articles such as “What is Russia doing to prevent Osama bin Laden from hacking into the main frame of the Nukes? “ That is just bizarre, inflammatory and hostile toward a long standing friend the USA has enjoyed in Russia. The entire articles is just to make the reader want to run right out there to invade Russia for control over their missile system.

This was a Letter to the Editor is proof positive of International Harassment for an agenda that is ONLY christian.


US aid to Egypt has tangible results

The assertion that US development aid is given to the Egyptian government "to do with as it pleases," advanced in the April 12 story, "$50 billion later, taking stock of US aid to Egypt," is just plain wrong. The US and Egypt decide the uses of resources. There are regular and comprehensive audits.

Also false was the claim that US aid is enabling Egypt to avoid reform. In fact, reforms are manifest everywhere. Egypt has adopted legislation protecting intellectual property, a prerequisite for boosting foreign direct investment. Significant reforms in customs administration are under way. Both of these reforms were conditions for US assistance.

Last January, Egypt abandoned its longstanding, economically crippling link of the pound to the dollar. As a result, exports are up, imports are steady, and the surplus following the first half of fiscal year 2003-'04 rose about eightfold to $2.2 billion. In education, Egypt has devolved decision-making to local government and schools. The government recently founded a watchdog Human Rights Committee.

The principles guiding US foreign aid under President Bush are clear: assistance must encourage governments to "rule justly, invest in their people, and encourage economic freedom." USAID in Egypt is governed by these values. Kenneth Ellis USAID Mission Director, Cairo
Yet still another example of Trouble Making is the article today, the same article was pointed out by the Trouble Makers at CNN’s NewsNight during Morning Papers.


http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0427/p01s03-woiq.html

Sadr the agitator: like father, like son


By Dan Murphy Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

KUFA, IRAQ – Sadr enters the mosque at Kufa where he's led Friday prayers for nearly a year denouncing the authorities and warning of an "imperialist" conspiracy against Iraq's majority Shiites.

The thousands fill the vast open courtyard, chanting the name of their hero when he strides through the gate, and they take up his call during the sermon. "No, no to America! No, no to Israel! No, no to imperialism!" In Baghdad, the authorities worry about how to handle this militant cleric, his rising profile and his willingness to flex the street muscle he's built up in Iraq's slums. But the Sadr in question is not Moqtada, the young cleric whose gunmen now occupy Kufa and the neighboring shrine city of Najaf. Instead, the year is 1998 and the man leading the prayers is Ayatollah Mohammed Sadek Al-Sadr, Moqtada's father.

While Moqtada's religious credentials are weak, his family's political standing is as deep as the modern history of Iraq. His grandfather was the prime minister in 1932. And this young, militant cleric didn't spontaneously emerge after the fall of Saddam Hussein. US forces now entering the city of Najaf, are up against a man who has donned the well-cultivated mantle of his father, the leading Shiite thorn in the side of the Hussein regime in the 1990s.

The unfortunate tone of the article is grossly inappropriate in that it advocates the killing of clerics. The oddity is when one considers Walker Bush wants Sadr prisoned for murder supposedly and eventually killed he is taking on the same directive as Saddam Hussein.

There is another thing very strange here. There was a contrasting radio presentation by NPR which was contributed to by the same author as the above article. I guess the radio has to be credited it more to the lead author Anne Garrels of NPR because the radio article wasn’t nearly as biased as or cruel in concept as Mr. Murphy’s lead article.

http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1847235

Iraq Lock Down

April 22, 2004Car bombings in Basra, attacks on contractors, the kidnapping of foreigners. Almost every day a new trouble spot emerges in Iraq. From Baghdad, to the Sunni Triangle to the south, a survey of the situation in Iraq, and what it means for the future.

Guests:Anne Garrels
*NPR correspondent

Dan Murphy
*Reporter with The Christian Science Monitor, working on a profile of Sadr

Bob Fiddes
*Country director for Relief International in Iraq, based in Ammarah

Maggy Zanger
*Country director, Iraq, Institute for War and Peace Reporting

Considering the issue of Depleted Uranium is it any wonder the people of Iraq don’t want the USA lead coalition around.

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To realize the extent to which NewsNight programming for has included the priorities of The Religious Right it has featured people like:

“Randall Terry who made a name for himself protesting abortion and honosexuality.” NewsNight characterized Terry “…as a new revolutionist as the co-founder of the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue and the man who led the fight against same-sex marriage in Hawaii and Vermont.”

Randall Terry is also known for the abandonment of his family. He is on his second marriage and he ridicules his children. Randall Terry denies his own children identities accusing a gay son of using his name for profit when in fact it is Mr. Terry that exploits those young people for his ‘entrenched against the devil’ fatherhood mantra of which he derives his livelihood through CASH contributions. One can only feel sorry for Mr. Terry’s desperate profession as he cannot grasp the concept of becoming a grandfather to a child of his unwed daughter. I personally believe she is probably better off considering his ability to be ‘cruel’ to his own family.

I hope both children within this family find peace outside their relationship with their father. He is a cruel man. A social agency needs to get involved and try to resolve these issues, especially considering the arrival of an innocent infant. It’s ridiculous. Terry has compassion for everyone putting money in the collection plate, but, none for his own children.

More Evidence to the Fact:

Two Friday nights ago it was the movie Alamo as presented by Beth Nissan. It was strongly plagiarized from the ‘article’ on the same subject of the Christian Science Monitor right down to the analogy of John Wayne. NewsNight never reviews movies unless; there is a huge controversy, such as The Passion of the Christ.

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CNN has become a sell-out to the Religious Right, as Paula Zahn NOW rarely addresses feminist issues. Not one appearance that I am aware, has a member of N.O.W. appeared in a positive light on any subject. As a matter of fact, the issues most of concern by N.O.W. is circumvented which is just as damaging as negative promotion of the issues. In other words, let’s all just avoid the recognition of the issues and they will go away. Bush has the same strategy. Paula Zahn has gone into the baby business so much so, that ONLY the nurturing of children and having babies and a woman’s place within that realm rises as a focus all too often. Again in the year 2004 women, according to the tilt of the Zahn NOW shoe, need to get used to being a baby machine.

This past weekend there were one million women who marched in Washington, DC. Did Paula Zahn NOW embrace the issue and bring in an enthusiastic viewership. NO. Here is the ‘proof of the allegations of the circumvention of the issues belonging to N.O.W.’

In addition and in not such great taste I have to review the ‘context’ as which CNN’s Jeff Greenfield uses women’s images in discussing a subject. In an attempt to bring criticism to a reference made to communism of mandated military service regardless the ‘war’ status of the country; Jeff Greenfield took the subject masculinized it and set a woman’s image in subserviencey and wonderment at the grand display of male fairness.

“But for pure political theater, no one had ever seen anything like the confrontation between a powerful senator and the United States Army that played out 50 years ago this spring in a Senate committee hearing. (Referring to the McCarthy Hearings.)

Brandeis, Professor Tom Doherty, author of "Cold War, Cool Medium," a book on McCarthy and the media stated: "People who had never tuned into TV with quite that avidness before found themselves being almost hypnotized by these hearings as they went on. There are stories of housewives neglecting their work so they could catch the afternoon show. For an entire generation, it was the first time they confronted the full force of TV as a special medium. “

In Contrast at the very same time was a woman journalist making her claim to fame. Her obituary, of all things, was listed in the N.Y. Times for the wonderfully insightful and intelligent person she was.

A Singular Voice From Washington


By FRANCIS X. CLINES
Published: April 23, 2004

It was always a treat to watch Mary McGrory buttonhole a lawmaker or cabinet secretary in a Washington corridor and present a punishing question or two in her disarmingly sweet way. Across five decades as a singular journalist, Mary tracked and hounded the political class — "Capitol strivers and pretenders," she called them — with a crackling mix of insight and affection. She died on Wednesday at the age of 85, a year after a stroke put a stop to her lyrical prose…
Over time, there seemed a Southern tinge to her Boston Irish lilt, and greater mercy in her proudly liberal outlook. The mischief, the grandeur, the evil in public life stand as the narrative core of her work. Even at her breakthrough assignment, a beguiling account of Senator Joseph McCarthy's downfall before a Congressional inquiry a half-century ago, Mary found time to sneak fresh helpings of words from her beloved Jane Austen. Right then, Mary discovered what she described as Austen's "deadly accuracy" and her "informing principle, that politeness serves a purpose, that civility and kindness are moral imperatives." And such was true of Mary.
The obvious indignant to the status of women is dramatic and I admit I apologize for using this article of appreciation by Francis X. Cline but the contrast and comparison was too dramatic and well illustrated. I am confident Mary McGrory would not mind her image relaying a demonstratively positive image of a woman in commander of her life as well as the attentions of the American public.


So. What did the hour of news of Paula Zahn NOW address? The issue of 33 years ago regarding Kerry’s ribbons/metals/ and the metals of other Vietnam Veterans that were unable to attend the protest.

To that programming I have to say only that as NOW and as then, John Kerry stood up to be counted by the people of an issue desperately in need of Excellent and Excelling leadership. John Kerry appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations committee not because he was a man of violence but because he was a man of peace seeking to end a war that was illegal and grossly unjust to the people of this country and that of Vietnam. John Kerry came forward to lead and carry an issue to completion 33 years ago with passion, insight and commitment. The Vietnam Veterans that oppose him today were on the wrong side of the argument then as they are now. Senator Kerry was right then and he is right today. I trust John Kerry.

CNN has become a regressive cable station that promotes segregation as well. I have yet to see a broad spectrum of cultural issues addressed on Larry King Live and like the Bush White House CNN as their political pundit has become segregated in their viewership. The last Black American appearing on Larry King Live was Mr. Jason Blair, the New York Times Reporter that plagiarized and lost his job. Jason’s life was riddled with substance issues, undiagnosed Manic-Depression that took him down a path of self defeat and destruction. It could have happened to anyone but to show case him as a ‘success story’ for a Black American that overcame hurdles is a bit unkind to the an image of race that at least bothers me. It bothered someone else that evening as well when a call came in. I recall thinking the same way the caller did and though King brushed it off all too quickly. That interview since been succeeded with other Black Americans with success in their futures for at least one evening. Let’s hope the trend continues beyond April 21, 2004. CAUCASIAN COUNTDOWN: 6 days since last African American appeared in a positive profile.

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In Celebration of Earth Day, The Science Christian Monitor features these earth

? friendly ? features:

THEY LATER REMOVED THESE ARTICLES.

REVIVAL: Ore is loaded into 240, 0000-pound trucks from giant shovels, then hauled to a loading site. With the once-struggling mines reopening, and the local economy swiftly improving, businesses in downtown Eveleth, Minn. are expected to become more profitable.BOB HARBISON – STAFF

Surprise revival for iron mines of Minnesota


By Amanda Paulson Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
EVELETH, MINN. – Spring comes slowly to Minnesota's Iron Range. Its home to the world's largest hockey stick, a place where the lakes are still frozen in late April and vowels roll slowly off people's tongues. For the past couple of decades, the region's economy has seemed frozen as well, its bedrock mining industry slowly dying.


In the past year, however, a new life has been blowing into these ochre hills from an unlikely place. You see it in the noise and dust that spews, 24 hours a day, from the recently dormant iron mine just above town, and in the guarded optimism of residents, used to bad news and silent cranes that claw at some of the world's largest open-pit mines.

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The results or the Christian Science Monitor poll regarding the release of documents of The Energy Committee.

Should Cheney release documents related to his 2001 national energy task force?
Yes. Every advisory committee's documents should be available to the public.
242 votes (93%)


No. The president must be able to obtain unvarnished advice from his officials.
18 votes (7%)


260 people have voted so far

Your vote was Yes. Every advisory committee's documents should be available to the public. on 4/27/2004 7:17 am

I guess it’s a little early in the day and folks are still at their prayer rituals or more like serving mass and haven’t checked in yet.

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I ALWAYS THOUGHT CHRISTIANS WERE PEACE LOVING PEOPLE. WHERE IN ANY OF THIS DOES ANYONE CALL FOR PEACE? ON ANY GIVEN DAY THERE IS NO ADVOCATING FOR PEACE BY THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR or CNN.
What needs to happen here is for the ACLU to take a stand about equity of all kinds. Including those accessible to the public, where there is religious stations regardless the denomination, in order to promote understanding among others who practice differently. There needs to be exposure through that same media to their viewership of beliefs that are different to promote understanding and acceptance of difference. Any public broadcast is open to ‘equal time’ on issues and I believe it is reasonable to state that includes religious stations including extremist such as Jerry Falwell. There should be no EXCLUSIVITY to any public airway to deliver a message that is biased and segregationist.


More and more families are finding turning off paid television allows them to open small saving accounts to reap the benefits of a vacation rather than the sedentary lifestyle of ‘couch potatoes.’ More health, more time as a family and more parenting focus for the children. Sounds right.

BOYCOTT BEEF – OPPOSE THE DRAFT

THE DISCRIMINATION AND DISTAIN OF WOMEN AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF JEFF GREENFIELD IN CONTRAST TO THE NYTIMES!

JEFF GREENFIELD, CNN SR. ANALYST (voice-over): Even in the first days, TV had proven its political punch.


UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Eisenhower.

BROWN: The tumultuous 1952 conventions attracted millions and Richard Nixon saved his political career that year.

RICHARD NIXON: People have got to have confidence.

GREENFIELD: With his famous Checkers speech.

But for pure political theater, no one had ever seen anything like the confrontation between a powerful senator and the United States Army that played out 50 years ago this spring in a Senate committee hearing.

Brandeis, Professor Tom Doherty, author of "Cold War, Cool Medium," a book on McCarthy and the media:THOMAS DOHERTY, AUTHOR, "COLD WAR, COOL MEDIUM": People who had never tuned into TV with quite that avidness before found themselves being almost hypnotized by these hearings as they went on. There are stories of housewives neglecting their work so they could catch the afternoon show. For an entire generation, it was the first time they confronted the full force of TV as a special medium.

Then we'll look at the event that took place 33 yearsago and is turning into a political flap for John Kerry.Candy Crowley reports on the medals flap, what theSenator has said and what the Senator meant over theyears when he talked about his anti-war activities. Weasked Jeff Greenfield to weigh in as well on thepolitical significance of all of this and of Vietnam allthese years later. Plus, the state Senate race thatcould have national impact. We'll look at the battlefor a Pennsylvania Senate seat: 4-term incumbent SenatorArlen Specter vs. Rep. Pat Toomey. This is a storyabout whether Specter is "Republican" enough for thetimes. He has been targeted by a conservative groupwhich clearly thinks the answer is no.