Octafish
Octafish's JournalProperty rights include mineral rights and they trump human rights.
Like money, it trumps everything. Right.
Poor Hallowiches. Silenced by money -- money offered to alleviate INJUSTICE.
Well, we can talk about fracking. Like the people whose water catches fire.
Lot of money in extraction industries. That's why all the effort to separate people from what's underneath their homes, whether Pennsylvania or Iraq.
''Sex is the poor man's opera.'' -- George Bernard Shaw
And for a guy who's never worked a day in his adult life, Mr. Duggar has done a lot of it.
Politico started by cronie of the BFEE
Politico founder Robert Albritton is son of the late Riggs Bank boss Joe Albritton of Houston.
CIA-types sabotaged his presidency.
Human Rights foreign policy didn't sit well with the money trumps peace crowd. Ollie North, Richard Secord and Friends didn't give the hostage rescue the old college try. Then the CIA agents fired by Stansfield Turner gave rise to Safari Club funded by petrodollars and it's goodnight democracy.
Weren't for Reagan-Bush dealing with Ayatollah in 1980...
There never would have been the rightward lurch of past 34 years, from wars without end to courts where money trumps democracy to welfare for Wall Street. October Surprise also explains Iran side of Iran-Contra.
Absolutely!
Just when the investigation was about to be completely derailed by political infighting cough CIA interference Luis Stokes kept the House Select Committee on Assassinations alive and moving forward. I think the world of the Stokes Brothers.
I am happy for you. Others haven't been so fortunate.
Details:
Startling Revelations About Three Mile Island (Nuclear) Disaster
Raise doubts over nuclear plant safety
bySue Sturgis
CommonDreams, Friday, April 03, 2009
by Facing South
It was April Fool's Day, 1979 -- 30 years ago this week -- when Randall Thompson first set foot inside the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Middletown, Pa. Just four days earlier, in the early morning hours of March 28, a relatively minor problem in the plant's Unit 2 reactor sparked a series of mishaps that led to the meltdown of almost half the uranium fuel and uncontrolled releases of radiation into the air and surrounding Susquehanna River.
It was the single worst disaster ever to befall the U.S. nuclear power industry, and Thompson was hired as a health physics technician to go inside the plant and find out how dangerous the situation was. He spent 28 days monitoring radiation releases.
Today, his story about what he witnessed at Three Mile Island is being brought to the public in detail for the first time -- and his version of what happened during that time, supported by a growing body of other scientific evidence, contradicts the official U.S. government story that the Three Mile Island accident posed no threat to the public.
"What happened at TMI was a whole lot worse than what has been reported," Randall Thompson told Facing South. "Hundreds of times worse."
CONTINUED...
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2009/04/03/startling-revelations-about-three-mile-island-nuclear-disaster
For those interested, lots more info n links here: http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/three-mile-island-coverups-exposed.html
I've written about Fukushima since it happened four years ago.
Here are a few links you might want to go through and actually show where I actually exaggerated. Going from the responses on them, the people who are exaggerating are the posters promoting the safety of nuclear power.
A Public Service Announcement about Plutonium
TEPCO - Plutonium is not dangerous. Where is the Boss?
Fukushima, Plutonium, CIA, and the BFEE: Deep Doo-Doo Four Ways to Doomsday
Before and After photo show significant tsunami damage...
On the Poet's Trail
Helicopter pictures show devastation inside Fukushima reactor towers
Governments Covering Up Nuclear Meltdowns for 50 Years to Protect the Nuclear Power Industry
Surviving Chernobyl Cleaner: 'Tell The People Of Japan To Run!'
What part of what he said wasn't true?
First thing I'd do if I were fighting this nuclear disaster is get the Team the best gear.
The Return of Nukespeak
TEPCO - Plutonium is not dangerous. Where's the Boss?
Toxic plutonium seeping from Japan's nuclear plant
Japan's Nuclear Rescuers: 'Inevitable Some of Them May Die Within Weeks'
Fukushima from Space
Absolutely. A real shame - man's hubris.
Japan Nuclear Power Plants
A more-recent satellite image of Fukushima Daiichi reactors 1-4...
The SCALE of the devastation is incredible.
Jimmy Carter, USN - Nuclear Hero
Utility Engineer Warned of Tsunami Threat at Japanese Nuclear Plant
Voyage to Fukushima Daiichi
TEPCO was warned and took the cheapskate's way out.
Fukushima owners failed to follow emergency manual - report
The people's ancestors left monuments to remind them of the dangers...
Fukushima tsunami plan a single page
Doubts deepen over TEPCO truthfulness after president's sightseeing trip uncovered
Atomic Samurai -IAEA Humbled By Worker Courage at Fukushima Daiichi
Fukushima Radiation Data Quarantined by Governments of Japan and the United States. Why?
Absolutely. And some, if not most, cancer deaths can be avoided with forewarning and knowledge.
''We never meant to conceal the information, but it never occurred to us to make it public.''
Fukushima Daiichi Mystery Man Steps Forward
The Fukushima Crisis Demonstrates how Lowly the Global Elites Hold the Common People
Plutonium detected 40km from Fukushima plant
Trivializing Fukushima
''We never meant to conceal the information, but it never occurred to us to make it public.''
In regards to Fukushima, the only thing TEPCO has successfully buried is the Truth.
TEPCO was warned and took the cheapskate's way out.
Trivializing Fukushima
Citizen Testing Finds 20 Radioactive Hot Spots Around Tokyo
Japan Fukushima plant dismantling needs over 30 yrs
Fukushima Typhoon raising radioactive water levels in contaminated buildings.
Fukushima owners failed to follow emergency manual - report
Fukushima and the Nuclear Establishment - The Big Lies Fly High
I've tried to make up for lack of news coverage, using DU as a news medium. Show me where I claim, even once, to be an expert or "exaggerate" or sensationalize what I have found. Better yet, show where the experts or my post is wrong. I'll be happy to admit the mistake and correct the record, unlike my devoted critics on DU.
The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America
An excellent overview of the impact Capitalism's Invisible Army makes on the "free press" and its import for democracy...
The covert “selling” of anticommunism
The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America
By Nancy Hanover
World Socialist Web Site, 17 August 2015
EXCERPT...
The Mighty Wurlitzer
The detailed and engrossing 2008 book, The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America, by Hugh Wilford, investigates the CIA’s ideological struggle from 1947 to 1967 to win “hearts and minds” for US capitalism and prosecute the Cold War.
SNIP...
Most important of all, the reader comes away with a sense of the immense significance attributed by the American ruling elite to the ideological struggle against socialism.
The author correctly emphasizes, “If anything, these practices have intensified in recent years, with the ‘war on terror’ recreating the conditions of total mobilization that prevailed in the first years of the Cold War.” He adds that the agency is “a growing force on campus.”[3]
The metaphor—a “Mighty Wurlitzer”—was coined by Frank Wisner, the head of the Office of Policy Coordination (OPC), a paramilitary and psychological operations group created in 1948, which was folded into the CIA in 1951. He prided himself on directing the network of organizations to play any propaganda tune on demand, likening it to the world-famous theater organ.
The agency sought out those who might be predisposed in a socialistic direction, targeting constituencies that had grievances with the status quo. It selected representatives from ethnic groups, women, African-Americans, labor, intellectuals and academics, students, Catholics, and artists and organized them into various front groups to promote anticommunism. These links, in turn, provided the agency with the cover it needed to influence strategically important sectors of foreign populations.
Ironically, as the federal government was conducting its House Un-American Activities witch-hunts and assembling the attorney general’s List of Subversive Organizations, supposedly to ferret out Communist Party “front groups,” the CIA was busy doing precisely that—creating front groups of thousands of unwitting Americans for covert political operations.
CONTINUED...
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/08/17/wur1-a17.html
Labor's POV missing from public discussion on Corporate McPravda.
Pulitzer's Legacy : The Decline of Print in AmericaNewspapers are cutting jobs left and right while wondering why their circulations are down. Maybe it's because they refuse to tell the truth?
By Matt Hutaff Dec 6, 2005
The Los Angeles Times announced yesterday it would close the doors on its Chatsworth plant and consolidate production into three downtown facilities, eliminating 110 jobs. This news comes on the heels of the Tribune Company's decision to cut 85 Times newsroom jobs from its workforce in November.
SNIP...
It appears it doesn't pay to publish.
Except it does. Despite the gnashing of teeth from traditional media about soaring costs, newspapers do turn a profit... just not enough of one for its shareholders. Newspaper chain Knight Ridder posted a 19% increase in earnings last year -- impressive by any Wall Street standards -- yet even that draws ire from investors. And while subscriptions and advertising revenue are down (a trend that started decades ago), those reading the paper are among the most lucrative and desirable demographics in the United States -- affluent, educated men and women.
So I find it amusing when I hear editors bemoan the state of print journalism. Cutting jobs to maximize corporate profits only result in crappier papers that survive in the short-term. Blaming the downturn of print's prominence in daily life on "the current business climate" is just deflection.
Heads up, Jeff: the reason people are abandoning both print and televised media is that they are no longer amused by the lies you continue to peddle about the state of our nation. They find the truth elsewhere and see your whitewash jobs as obvious and tired. Perhaps if you devoted some of your reporters to actually reporting how events really unfold you'd regain some of your readership.
SNIP...
The press has no one to blame but themselves for their disintegrating readership. People are tired of reading bullshit and even more tired of a disgraced institution propping itself up with passable reporting three years after the fact. They've moved on to better sources of information. And no amount of reorganization or job cutting will make a newspaper a viable source of news to someone who has tasted the real deal.
CONTINUED...
http://www.thesimon.com/magazine/articles/canon_fodder/01032_pulitzer_legacy__decline_print_america.html
2005 DU OP: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5542680
Profile Information
Gender: MaleMember since: 2003 before July 6th
Number of posts: 55,745
