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Is This Media manipulation on a grand scale?
The photographs tell the story...
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2842.htm
A tale of two photos
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2838.htm
Wider angle view of the pulling down of the Saddam statue
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0304/S00117.htm
The stage-managed events in Baghdad's Firdos Square
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/apr2003/fird-a12.shtml
Is Killing Part of Pentagon Press Policy?
http://www.fair.org/press-releases/iraq-journalists.html
'Chaotic' situation at Baghdad hospital
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=5106
Baghdad descends into chaos
The photographs tell the story...
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2842.htm
A tale of two photos
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2838.htm
Wider angle view of the pulling down of the Saddam statue
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0304/S00117.htm
The stage-managed events in Baghdad's Firdos Square
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/apr2003/fird-a12.shtml
Is Killing Part of Pentagon Press Policy?
http://www.fair.org/press-releases/iraq-journalists.html
'Chaotic' situation at Baghdad hospital
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=5106
Baghdad descends into chaos
Sign it now, and get to work against the death penalty!
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www.petitiononline.com/IBF_2003/petition.html
In times of war, journalists can serve as vital witnesses for the
people of the world. So it's especially sinister when governments take
aim at reporters and photographers.
A few weeks ago, when I was talking with a CNN cameraman, he recalled an overseas stint to cover events in the West Bank. Anger was evident in his voice: "The Israelis were shooting at us."
When military forces are assaulting civilians, commanders often try to prevent media from telling true stories with pictures and words. Governments that maim and kill civilians are routinely eager to stop journalists from getting too close to the action. Those who persist are vulnerable to retribution.
For a long time now, the U.S. government has been hostile toward the Al-Jazeera television network. Widely watched in the Arab world, Al-Jazeera's coverage of the war on Iraq has been in sharp contrast to the coverage on American television. As Time magazine observed: "On U.S. TV it means press conferences with soldiers who have hand and foot injuries and interviews with POWs' families, but little blood. On Arab and Muslim TV it means dead bodies and mourning."
A few weeks ago, when I was talking with a CNN cameraman, he recalled an overseas stint to cover events in the West Bank. Anger was evident in his voice: "The Israelis were shooting at us."
When military forces are assaulting civilians, commanders often try to prevent media from telling true stories with pictures and words. Governments that maim and kill civilians are routinely eager to stop journalists from getting too close to the action. Those who persist are vulnerable to retribution.
For a long time now, the U.S. government has been hostile toward the Al-Jazeera television network. Widely watched in the Arab world, Al-Jazeera's coverage of the war on Iraq has been in sharp contrast to the coverage on American television. As Time magazine observed: "On U.S. TV it means press conferences with soldiers who have hand and foot injuries and interviews with POWs' families, but little blood. On Arab and Muslim TV it means dead bodies and mourning."
Education and entertainment will be the topic at a meeting for the Stonewall
Columbus Programming Committee on Wednesday, April 30, 2003. The Programming
Committee is seeking input from the GLBT community on what types of
activities Stonewall should provide. The public is invited to attend to
offer ideas and suggestions, volunteer to direct a program or join the
Programming Committee.
"We are looking for some creative individuals to help us design and conduct programs. We need your ideas and efforts," Jack Miner committee co-chair said.
Programs currently in the planning stage include Stonewall's own version of the Antiques Road Show, a bartending class, a book club, a pet care program and a monthly play date for GLBT parents and their children.
"In order to serve our community we need to ask what they want and need," Executive Director Kate Anderson said. "Stonewall has a 22 year history of serving the GLBT community, but as our community grows and matures, needs change and we need to keep up with those changes," Anderson added.
"We are looking for some creative individuals to help us design and conduct programs. We need your ideas and efforts," Jack Miner committee co-chair said.
Programs currently in the planning stage include Stonewall's own version of the Antiques Road Show, a bartending class, a book club, a pet care program and a monthly play date for GLBT parents and their children.
"In order to serve our community we need to ask what they want and need," Executive Director Kate Anderson said. "Stonewall has a 22 year history of serving the GLBT community, but as our community grows and matures, needs change and we need to keep up with those changes," Anderson added.
Join the Columbus MeetUp for Presidential candidate and former Vermont Governor, and physician Howard Dean. Meetings are the first Wednesday of the month. Go to http://dean2004.meetup.com/ to join the 100-plus local activists working to win the nomination for Dean. Learn more about Dean by visiting www.deanforamerica.com. Rally for Dean when he visits Columbus in May! For immediate info on local action contact: Steve Chaffin (lawbug@direcway.com). Dean in his own words: “What in the world are so many Democrats doing supporting the President’s unilateral intervention in Iraq?” “I’m tired of listening the fundamentalist preachers!” and “I want my country back!”
Your unwanted but still useful items can help us help Central Ohio's
homeless animals...
What is it?
No More Homeless Pets: Central Ohio has secured a prime space for selling your donated goods at German Village's Village Valuables. All proceeds benefit NMHP: Central Ohio.
VILLAGE VALUABLES
Event Date: Saturday, May 17
Event Hours: 8:00 am - 4 pm
The City's Largest Yard Sale! You will donate your unwanted goods to us and we will sell them at Village Valuables in conjunction with our animal adoption event. All proceeds will benefit NMHP: Central Ohio.
How can I help?
You can help in many ways:
1. Tell all your friends and family about this event and encourage them to donate any unwanted, but still useful goods to NMHP: Central Ohio -- instructions for drop-off below.
2. Scour your cupboards, clean out the garage and see what you can find to donate.
What next?
What is it?
No More Homeless Pets: Central Ohio has secured a prime space for selling your donated goods at German Village's Village Valuables. All proceeds benefit NMHP: Central Ohio.
VILLAGE VALUABLES
Event Date: Saturday, May 17
Event Hours: 8:00 am - 4 pm
The City's Largest Yard Sale! You will donate your unwanted goods to us and we will sell them at Village Valuables in conjunction with our animal adoption event. All proceeds will benefit NMHP: Central Ohio.
How can I help?
You can help in many ways:
1. Tell all your friends and family about this event and encourage them to donate any unwanted, but still useful goods to NMHP: Central Ohio -- instructions for drop-off below.
2. Scour your cupboards, clean out the garage and see what you can find to donate.
What next?
The Ohio State University continues in its efforts to separate the public's
views of animals it uses for research into the "lower" and "higher" animals,
the "higher" animals being primates, dogs, cats, and rabbits; the "lower"
animals being rats and mice.
OSU distributed a press release April 3, 2003, which stated , "The university is constantly working to reduce the number of animals required to conduct its research projects and uses alternative approaches to animal use when and where they are feasible"
OSU distributed a press release April 3, 2003, which stated , "The university is constantly working to reduce the number of animals required to conduct its research projects and uses alternative approaches to animal use when and where they are feasible"
Two weeks ago, after the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued a staff report to Congress that said California’s electricity and natural gas markets were the victim of widespread manipulation by more than a dozen energy companies, the chairman of FERC and one of the agency’s commissioners took the unusual step of holding a private conference call with Wall Street analysts to calm jittery investors who feared the report would send energy company stocks plummeting.
One of the items that came up for discussion during the conference call was whether FERC would decide if California’s $20 billion in long-term electricity contracts should be abrogated because, according to California state officials, the deals were signed during the height of the energy crisis when manipulation in the state was rampant.
FERC Commissioner Nora Brownell indicated during the public meeting hours earlier that she would likely not support California’s argument that the contracts be voided because it would scare away investors or discourage companies from signing similar deals in the future.
One of the items that came up for discussion during the conference call was whether FERC would decide if California’s $20 billion in long-term electricity contracts should be abrogated because, according to California state officials, the deals were signed during the height of the energy crisis when manipulation in the state was rampant.
FERC Commissioner Nora Brownell indicated during the public meeting hours earlier that she would likely not support California’s argument that the contracts be voided because it would scare away investors or discourage companies from signing similar deals in the future.
Baghdad's hospitals admit a hundred casualties an hour and have run out of anesthetics. Surgeons try to numb up mangled children with short-term pain-killers, but even these are in dwindling supply. Iraqi families who fled into the desert face 100-degree temperatures and no water. U.S. tanks inflict mayhem and slaughter in Baghdad's streets.
From Umm Qasr and the Faw peninsula, through Basra to Baghdad, it's a scene of devastation, with every bridge and guard post adorned with civilian cars riddled with bullets by jumpy U.S. soldiers. There's no "fog of war" where the disaster of daily life in Iraq (what's now swaddled in that virtuous bureaucratic phrase "humanitarian crisis") is concerned. Reports confirm what all sane forecasts predicted of a U.S. attack: It is a catastrophe for the Iraqi people, particularly the poor.
From Umm Qasr and the Faw peninsula, through Basra to Baghdad, it's a scene of devastation, with every bridge and guard post adorned with civilian cars riddled with bullets by jumpy U.S. soldiers. There's no "fog of war" where the disaster of daily life in Iraq (what's now swaddled in that virtuous bureaucratic phrase "humanitarian crisis") is concerned. Reports confirm what all sane forecasts predicted of a U.S. attack: It is a catastrophe for the Iraqi people, particularly the poor.
AUSTIN, Texas -- Oh good. It looks as though we're going to have
as big a fight over postwar plans for Iraq as we did over the war itself.
Just what we need, more of everybody being at everybody else's throat.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who seems prepared to run the world, favors one Ahmed Chalabi of the Iraqi National Congress, an exile-emigre group, as postwar leader (read figurehead-puppet). Chalabi is bitterly opposed by both the State Department and the CIA.
According to Knight-Ridder's Jonathan Landay, American military planes flew Chalabi and 700 troops, the newly named "First Battalion of Free Iraqi Forces," into Nasiriyah Sunday to be integrated into Gen. Tommy Franks command. Landay reports, "Senior administration officials said that Chalabi had had difficulty recruiting enough forces to go into southern Iraq and may have tapped the discredited Badr Brigade, an Iranian-backed Shiite Muslim group, to get his 700 soldiers." Think how happy the Iraqis will be to see some detachment from their old enemy Iran.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who seems prepared to run the world, favors one Ahmed Chalabi of the Iraqi National Congress, an exile-emigre group, as postwar leader (read figurehead-puppet). Chalabi is bitterly opposed by both the State Department and the CIA.
According to Knight-Ridder's Jonathan Landay, American military planes flew Chalabi and 700 troops, the newly named "First Battalion of Free Iraqi Forces," into Nasiriyah Sunday to be integrated into Gen. Tommy Franks command. Landay reports, "Senior administration officials said that Chalabi had had difficulty recruiting enough forces to go into southern Iraq and may have tapped the discredited Badr Brigade, an Iranian-backed Shiite Muslim group, to get his 700 soldiers." Think how happy the Iraqis will be to see some detachment from their old enemy Iran.