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The mainstream media spent an entire week mythologizing Ronald Wilson Reagan. Why did the corporate for-profit media spend so much time creating a cult of personality around a former President with an estimated 105 IQ? Because the actual historical reality of Reagan’s life are so shockingly reactionary you need the pageantry, majesty and imagery of a Hollywood-scripted finale to cover up the thousands of damning facts.
AUSTIN, Texas -- Such comfort. At the close of the G-8 summit, described by President Bush as "very successful" (except we didn't get anything we wanted), the president offered us comfort on the uncomfortable topic of torture: "Look, I'm going to say it one more time. The instructions went out to our people to adhere to the law. That ought to comfort you."
"We're a nations of laws," he went on. "We adhere to laws. We have laws on the books. You might look at those laws, and that might comfort you."
"We're a nations of laws," he went on. "We adhere to laws. We have laws on the books. You might look at those laws, and that might comfort you."
The U.S. House of Representatives will soon have the chance to protect our national forests with two upcoming forests votes.
One vote will protect Alaska's Tongass Rainforest and stop fiscally irresponsible spending by prohibiting taxpayer dollars from being wasted on new logging roads in the Tongass National Forest. For decades, American taxpayers have been forced to subsidize clearcut logging in the Tongass; in a single year, taxpayers spent $36 million on the Tongass logging program and received only about $1 million in revenue.
The second vote, on the Forest Wildlife Conservation amendment, would conserve wildlife and ensure sustainable forest management.
Please take a moment to ask your U.S. Representative to protect our national forests and vote YES on the Tongass amendment and the Forest Wildlife Conservation amendment. Then ask your family and friends to help by forwarding this e-mail to them.
To take action, click on this link: pirg.org/alerts/route.asp?id=695&id4=ES
Background
One vote will protect Alaska's Tongass Rainforest and stop fiscally irresponsible spending by prohibiting taxpayer dollars from being wasted on new logging roads in the Tongass National Forest. For decades, American taxpayers have been forced to subsidize clearcut logging in the Tongass; in a single year, taxpayers spent $36 million on the Tongass logging program and received only about $1 million in revenue.
The second vote, on the Forest Wildlife Conservation amendment, would conserve wildlife and ensure sustainable forest management.
Please take a moment to ask your U.S. Representative to protect our national forests and vote YES on the Tongass amendment and the Forest Wildlife Conservation amendment. Then ask your family and friends to help by forwarding this e-mail to them.
To take action, click on this link: pirg.org/alerts/route.asp?id=695&id4=ES
Background
Many writers mourning the death of our 40th president fail to mention that
Ronald Reagan's administration brought on a poverty and despair that
inflicted an entire generation of minorities and changed the sound and
reality of ghetto life from a pursuit of the dream deferred into a descent
into the American nightmare. The children of that era are many of the
progenitors and purveyors of modern hip-hop, and Reagan's presidency
single-handedly changed that music. Ronald Reagan is hip-hop's first
president, and while America mourns, rappers are still rapping about the
rusted legacy he left behind.
Federal energy regulators have just released more than 400 pages of
documents that suggest former Enron chairman Ken Lay and former chief
executive Jeff Skilling were aware that Enron's west coast traders may
have broken the law by using manipulative trading tactics in California to
boost Enron’s profits during the height of that state's power crisis.
Moreover, one of Enron's most powerful Washington, D.C. lobbyists, who met with several members of the Bush administration in the spring of 2001 about Enron's opposition to price controls on electricity sales in California, was told by Tim Belden, the mastermind behind Enron's notorious trading scams, less than a year earlier that Belden and other traders working at the company's West Coast trading desk in Portland, Ore., spent the better part of 2000 and 2001 breaking the rules governing California's power market "when opportunities presented themselves to make money.”
Moreover, one of Enron's most powerful Washington, D.C. lobbyists, who met with several members of the Bush administration in the spring of 2001 about Enron's opposition to price controls on electricity sales in California, was told by Tim Belden, the mastermind behind Enron's notorious trading scams, less than a year earlier that Belden and other traders working at the company's West Coast trading desk in Portland, Ore., spent the better part of 2000 and 2001 breaking the rules governing California's power market "when opportunities presented themselves to make money.”
Mr. Wasserman: Just read your latest, and I couldn't agree with you more;
Reagan was a lot of things, but certainly not one of my "best" Presidents.
After the berlin wall-fall, PJ O'Rourke (Rolling Stones token conservative)
made essentially the same point that yu are making; R & R, LEVI jeans
brought about the fall of communism. He made a point that the Soviet people
had only one choice for shoes, those made (poorly)in Bulgaria. Western,
moern, youth culture brought doen the evil empire. I think the same argument
should applied to Cuba; our culture will bring down Fidel.
Flag Day is near (June 14), and the Pledge of Allegiance court case
is expected to be decided soon. As an attorney, I am asked about the case's
historic precedent. The history of the Pledge shocked my libertarian mind.
The Pledge was the origin of the salute of the horrid National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazis). The Pledge's original salute was straight-armed. The Pledge's creator was a National Socialist in the U.S. (Francis Bellamy).
The Pledge was the origin of the salute of the horrid National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazis). The Pledge's original salute was straight-armed. The Pledge's creator was a National Socialist in the U.S. (Francis Bellamy).
If journalism is history's first draft, the death of Ronald Reagan
has caused a step-up in the mass production of falsified history.
It's mourning in America.
The main technique is omission. People who suffered from the Reagan presidency have no media standing today. It's not cool to mention victims of his policies in, for example, Central America.
President Reagan lauded and subsidized the contra guerrillas -- extolling them as "freedom fighters" while they terrorized the population in Nicaragua, killing thousands of civilians. And he proudly funneled large-scale support to governments aligned with death squads murdering thousands more in Guatemala and El Salvador.
It's mourning in America.
The main technique is omission. People who suffered from the Reagan presidency have no media standing today. It's not cool to mention victims of his policies in, for example, Central America.
President Reagan lauded and subsidized the contra guerrillas -- extolling them as "freedom fighters" while they terrorized the population in Nicaragua, killing thousands of civilians. And he proudly funneled large-scale support to governments aligned with death squads murdering thousands more in Guatemala and El Salvador.
I appreciated Your series about cannabis / hemp, especially, "Hemp - It's
Growing!" (June 1, 2004). It is one reason I support Ohio Congressman
Dennis Kucinich for the Democratic Presidential nominee. Kucinich put in
writing on His website, if elected President He will decriminalize
cannabis and regulate it similar to alcohol. It stands to reason, if
citizens may have and grow cannabis with THC that farmers would be
allowed to grow hemp with out THC.
My main concerns on the cannabis / hemp issue are Biblical, where We presently have a powerful nation, caging humans for using what God said was good on literally the very 1st page of the Bible. Cannabis / hemp, a plant, known as kaneh bosm, before the King James version, is good and should not be exterminated.
Truthfully,
Stan White
My main concerns on the cannabis / hemp issue are Biblical, where We presently have a powerful nation, caging humans for using what God said was good on literally the very 1st page of the Bible. Cannabis / hemp, a plant, known as kaneh bosm, before the King James version, is good and should not be exterminated.
Truthfully,
Stan White
