Censored! ...News in America Today

[babylonsister]

:wow:

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/7426

Censored! ...News in America Today
by Timothy Gatto | May 12 2007


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The cold hard facts are that anything that is exposed by the Progressive Community in this country is ignored or put on a back shelf by Congress and The Mainstream Media until so many leaks emerge all saying the same thing that the facts can no longer be ignored. When it gets to the point that this information becomes common knowledge, then, and only then, will Congress and the Mainstream Media bring out information and label it as “breaking news”. The general public then is alerted to what everyone else has accepted as “old news”. This has been the way our government has been working at least for the last six years.

Who is the entity that decides what is to be released to the general public and what isn’t? Who decides who is to be determined as a “credible source” and who isn’t? Obviously there has to be someone or something that determines what is to go out as news and what stories get “blacklisted”. I have been following quite a few stories from the Liberal/Progressive Camps for a number of years now and I have seen this type of censorship happen on more occasions than I could possibly remember.

Some examples of news stories that are being ignored and not being picked up by the Mainstream Media:

#1 Bush Administration Moves to Eliminate Open Government
#2 Media Coverage Fails on Iraq: Fallujah and the Civilian Death
#3 Another Year of Distorted Election Coverage
#4 Surveillance Society Quietly Moves In
#5 U.S. Uses Tsunami to Military Advantage in Southeast Asia
#6 The Real Oil for Food Scam
#7 Journalists Face Unprecedented Dangers to Life and Livelihood
#8 Iraqi Farmers Threatened By Bremer’s Mandates
#9 Iran’s New Oil Trade System Challenges U.S. Currency
#10 Mountaintop Removal Threatens Ecosystem and Economy
#11 Universal Mental Screening Program Usurps Parental Rights
#12 Military in Iraq Contracts Human Rights Violators
#13 Rich Countries Fail to Live up to Global Pledges
#14 Corporations Win Big on Tort Reform, Justice Suffers
#15 Conservative Plan to Override Academic Freedom in the Classroom
#16 U.S. Plans for Hemispheric Integration Include Canada
#17 U.S. Uses South American Military Bases to Expand Control of the Region
#18 Little Known Stock Fraud Could Weaken U.S. Economy
#19 Child Wards of the State Used in AIDS Experiments
#20 American Indians Sue for Resources; Compensation Provided to Others
#21 New Immigration Plan Favors Business Over People
#22 Nanotechnology Offers Exciting Possibilities But Health Effects Need Scrutiny
#23 Plight of Palestinian Child Detainees Highlights Global Problem
#24 Ethiopian Indigenous Victims of Corporate and Government Resource Aspirations
#25 Homeland Security Was Designed to Fail
These stories can be seen at: http://www.wanttoknow.info/060127newsstoriescensored

Here are 10 more:
1. The Feds and the media muddy the debate over Internet freedom
2. Halliburton charged with selling nuclear technology to Iran. ?????
3. World oceans in extreme danger
4. Hunger and homelessness increasing in the United States
5. High-tech genocide in Congo
6. Federal whistleblower protection in jeopardy
7. U.S. operatives torture detainees to death in Afghanistan and Iraq
8. Pentagon exempt from Freedom of Information Act
9. World Bank funds Israel-Palestine wall
10. Expanded air war in Iraq kills more civilians
You can go to this Web Site at : http://www.wanttoknow.info/061222projectcensored2006

You can find more at:
Censored!
The 10 big stories the national news media ignore.
By Camille T. Taiara
http://www.sfbg.com/38/49/cover_censored.html
1. Wealth inequality in 21st century threatens economy and democracy
2. Ashcroft versus human rights law that holds corporations accountable
3. Bush administration manipulates science and censors scientists
4. High uranium levels found in troops and civilians
5. Wholesale giveaway of our natural resources
6. Sale of electoral politics
7. Conservative organization drives judicial appointments
8. Secrets of Cheney's energy task force come to light
9. Widow brings RICO case against U.S. government for 9/11
10. New nuke plants: taxpayers support, industry profits

All of these stories can be found at the addresses above. Some of these I have found to be very revealing and also frightening. Where are our investigative journalists in the MSM? Why are journalists that uncover truth and government excesses and crimes regulated to the internet? The story that scares me the most is “The Feds and the media muddy the debate over Internet freedom”. In fact, this article and the web sites that I’m directing you to may not be available after too many “debates” like these.

One thing before you go: I don’t make this stuff up.

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Timothy V. Gatto

[Monkeyman]

1. K&R

[DeSwiss]

2. KnR!!!

[bonito]

3. K&R

[kimmylavin]

4. K & R

Gladly.

[Morgana LaFey]

5. I haven't looked at this yet

but it may have some relevence:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=865720

[OneBlueSky]

6. possibly biggest of all . . . "What REALLY happened on 9/11?" . . .

it has been used as an excuse for more governmental law-breaking than this country has ever seen . . . everything from invading and occupying sovereign nations to spying on citizens to torture to doing away with habeus corpus to you name it . . .

in some circles, this is called "Fascism" . . .

[Judi Lynn]

7. Thank you. K & R.

:kick: :kick: :kick:

[Dr.Phool]

8. K&R

[Pierzin]

9. AIR AMERICA, Pacifica, White Rose , and the Internet!!!!!

K&R

You will ONLY HEAR OR SEE these stories talked about at length on liberal shows like Thom Hartmann, Randi Rhodes, Mike Malloy, Amy Goodman, etc etc. Which is why I support White Rose Society so I can hear Thom Hartmann.

A friend of mine said recently he was too depressed about politics because he felt no one is going to do anything about any of this stuff.

And yet, CNN carries clips of the Larry King Anniversary and MSNBC runs "Lockup" and "Predator" specials nearly 24/7!!! How can we even trust the MSM after they have COMPLETELY FAILED in their duty to tell the public what is going on with their government???

[bedpanartist]

10. they have not completely failed, they have completed succeeded

in creating the beginnings of an idiocracy.