Watching the watchers

http://www.orwelltoday.com/readercameraadopt.shtml

Hearst News Bans Rense!

http://www.rense.com/general84/hearst.htm

Regret-Me-Not

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/04/AR2008120402859.html?nav=slate

Changes They Can Believe In

How the candidates edited their Web sites last week


http://www.slate.com/id/2199228/

Bush Edits Out Jefferson's Religious Views

Hat tip to Sandefur for catching this. President Bush was at Monticello for a 4th of July celebration and he delivered an address. But it's quite telling that his speechwriters, in quoting Jefferson, cut out an anti-religious statement from a long and famous quote. Here's the way Bush put it:



http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2008/07/bush_edits_out_jeffersons_reli.php

The Department of ForgettingHow an obscure FBI rule is ensuring the destruction of irreplaceable historical records.

By Alex Heard

http://www.slate.com/id/2191902/

Reporters Say Networks Put Wars on Back Burner

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/23/business/media/23logan.html?_r=2&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1214393467-UNMOkKoEYUV7ZqPpBm6txQ

Americans have many reasons to ignore history

http://www.magicvalley.com/articles/2008/03/12/opinion/letters/132649_20.txt

Governments step up blogger arrests

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080615-worldwide-rise-in-the-number-of-blogger-arrests.html

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4124354.ece

Officials fell trees inscribed by US soldiers who fought for France

Historic ‘name trees’ bore thousands of carvings

Why The Media Blackout of Denzel Washington's Extraordinary Gift to a Texas Military Hospital? Simple!

http://www.jonesreport.com/articles/141107_denzel_hospital.html

Black Men say Rebel flag flies for freedom

http://www.revisionisthistory.org/black_confederates.html

• Reviewing Recount, the New York Times lies about its own report on Florida vote in 2000:

http://phoenixwoman.wordpress.com/2008/05/24/f-k-the-new-york-times/

"Spin" by Brian Springer

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/43.html


One of the most important films
of the last 25 years

URUKNET CUT OFF FROM GOOGLE NEWS AGAIN!

http://uruknet.info/?p=m43505&hd=&size=1&l=e

Burger King exec used daughter's online identity to slur farmworker advocates

http://southernstudies.org/facingsouth/2008/04/burger-king-exec-used-daughters-online.asp

STATISTICAL REVISIONISM AND WIZARDRY

http://mwhodges.home.att.net/statistic-wizardry.htm

US Department of Justice banned from Wikipedia

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/29/wikipedia_blocked_doj_ip/

Perino Rewrites Banner: ‘Mission Accomplished For These Sailors Who Are On This Ship On Their Mission’»

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/30/perino-rewrites-banner/

The Torture Drawings the Pentagon Doesn't Want You to See

http://www.alternet.org/rights/81406/

Drawings by journalist Sami Al-Haj depicting torture at Gitmo have been censored.

Other Blogs

Other blogs modify the filtered words instead of killing posts.

Submitted by foreignoregonian on Tue, 04/08/2008 - 8:22am.

Hopefully the news will reach Idaho Soon.

Louis Freeh Charges 9/11 Commission Cover-Up

http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/11/17/122900.shtml

US journalists ignore Sunday Times scoop on FBI nuclear scandal

http://www.911summary.com/

Pentagon employee erases mention of homosexuality on dead soldier’s Wikipedia page.»

From Think Progress:

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/04/pentagon-employee-erases-mention-of-homosexuality-on-dead-soldiers-wikipedia-page/

The Washington Blade reports that a computer with a Pentagon-registered IP address removed references of Maj. Alan Rogers’ sexual orientation:

Information that was deleted included Rogers’ sexual orientation; the soldier’s participation in American Veterans for Equal Rights, a group that works to change military policy toward gays; and the fact that Rogers’ death helped bring the U.S. military’s casualty toll in Iraq to 4,000. […]

The IP address attached to the deletion of the details and the posted comments is 141.116.168.135. The address belongs to a computer from the office of the Army Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence (G-2) at the Pentagon. The office is headed by Lt. Gen. John Kimmons, who was present at Rogers’ funeral and presented the flag from Rogers’ coffin to his cousin, Cathy Long.

On March 30, Washington Post Ombudsman Deborah Howell said the paper erred when it excluded references to Rogers’s homosexuality in its original report, noting that “the story would have been richer for it.”

Andrew Sullivan wrote: “I can see why outing someone who is alive and closeted is unethical; inning someone who is dead and was out is a function of utterly misplaced sensitivity, rooted in well-intentioned but incontrovertible homophobia.”

BANNED CARTOON OF MORMONS GHOST SPIRIT DEMONIC SATANISM KIDS

Barry? Barry who? It's as if he was never here

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2008/03/27/SPCBVQS6I.DTL

CBS Exposes Hillary Clinton Bosnia Trip.

Americans have many reasons to ignore history

Another great letter in today's Times-News by MARK SCHUCKERT from Twin Falls, Idaho

Here is the link:

http://www.magicvalley.com/articles/2008/03/12/opinion/letters/132649_20.txt

"Mr. Akagi: Excellent! But you forgot some tidbits.

We all know, during early American colonial times, Puritans were killing witches. Witchcraft was considered such a heinous crime because, when the government confiscated the condemned's property and resold it to well-connected families, it proved rather profitable. When this gainful employment tool for the judgmental jerks of the community proved a lethal fraud, leaders didn't change the game - they changed the target group and killed the next white female Quaker off the boat.

With this witch-hunt mentality pervading everything we did - and do today - we carved out the wilderness with whiskey and muskets, butchered every tribe we couldn't pacify, kept the British busy until they went home and initiated not one but more than 50 trails of tears.

The newly elected President Lincoln, a ruthless ex-railroad corporate lawyer, supported massive tax increases to sustain the federal government's excesses. No longer able to nullify, the South seceded - which it had every right to do. In response, Honest Abe plunged the nation into four years of bloody fratricide. Then, the Yankee scum, minus Lincoln, refined the crime with 12 long years of theft and murder called "Reconstruction."

Soon, it was the Indians again, the fabricated Spanish-American War, the Boxer Rebellion and the Philippine Insurrection, where concentration camps were used to slaughter thousands. The carnage was so horrible Mark Twain wrote, "Our flag should be the Jolly Roger."

Afterward, it was Pancho Villa, couldn't find him either, but the United States gained control of Mexican oil and it was save the banks in World War I. Next, there was the machine-gunning of labor union camps by corporate gunmen, the pitiless brutalization of our World War I veterans in Washington, D.C., on July 28, 1932, and the Great starvation, sorry, Depression.

No wonder Americans don't study their history. More later."

Pentagon Rules Out Fallon Testimony

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/ap/20080322/twl-us-iraq-ef375f8.html

Pot, Kettle, Black: State Department Tells Us How to Identify Misinformation

http://infowars.net/Pages/Aug05/300805potkettleblack.htm

Iraq: teachers told to rewrite history

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/iraq-teachers-told-to-rewrite-history-795711.html

UFO Greatest Story Ever Denied - NASA space secrets

An African-American Icon Speaks Truth to the Lincoln Cult

http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo139.html

60 Minutes broadcast on Alabama ex-governor's political imprisonment is blacked out in Alabama

http://harpers.org/archive/2008/02/hbc-90002487

The Wisdom of the Chaperones

Digg, Wikipedia, and the myth of Web 2.0 democracy.

From Slate:

http://www.slate.com/id/2184487/

John Hanson was our First President

http://www.thehollowearthinsider.com/news/wmview.php?ArtID=4

"George Washington was elected President on February 4th, 1789… eight years, and several presidents later. The Continental Congress was the United States’ first government. And John Hanson was our first President. In an ironic twist there is a letter from General George Washington to newly elected president John Hanson him congratulating on his “appointment to fill the most important Seat in the United States”. *

Of course the die-hard skeptic will think “That’s because Hanson was elected by Congress… but, Washington was the first to be elected by the people”. This is a non-reason and only opens up another can of worms.

There are several instances of Vice Presidents taking over for President’s, but the case that comes to mind is that of Gerald Ford. He wasn’t elected by anyone. Not as President nor Vice President. He was appointed by Richard Nixon to replace Vice President Spiro Agnew.

It’s also interesting to note that after advancing to the presidency following Nixon’s resignation to stop impeachment against himself, Ford gave Nixon a full pardon blocking any criminal charges that might come along. If Hanson doesn’t deserve to head the short list of America’s presidents because he wasn’t elected by the people then it would mean Gerald Ford wasn’t the 38th President.

The fact of the matter is John Hanson, the real first president of the United States has been virtually ignored by historians and educators."

Report critical of army in Iraq suppressed

Bush-appointed judge orders wikileaks.org domain off-line

http://wikileaks.be/wiki/Wikileaks.org_under_injunction

Excerpt: Wikileaks has six pro-bono attorneys in San Francisco on roster to deal with a legal assault, however Wikileaks was given only hours notice "by email" prior to the hearing. Wikileaks was NOT represented. Wikileaks pre-litigation California council Julie Turner attended the start of hearing in a personal capacity but was then asked to leave the courtroom. ... The order is clearly unconstitutional and exceeds its jurisdiction. Wikileaks will keep on publishing, in-fact, given the level of suppression involved in this case, Wikileaks will step up publication of documents pertaining to illegal or unethical banking practices. ... In order to deal with Chinese censorship, Wikileaks has many backup sites such as wikileaks.be (Belgium) and wikileaks.de (Germany) which remain active. Wikileaks never expected to be using the alternative servers to deal with censorship attacks, from, of all places, the United States.

Papers reveal Mao's view of women

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7243500.stm

The Political Re-Education of Rupert Murdoch

A new book by the mogul's former right-hand man in China tells nearly all.

http://www.slate.com/id/2184197/nav/tap3/

How the spooks took over the news

In his controversial new book, Nick Davies argues that shadowy intelligence agencies are pumping out black propaganda to manipulate public opinion – and that the media simply swallow it wholesale

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/how-the-spooks-took-over-%20the-news-780672.html

Local reporter on Texas UFO case leaves newspaper; integrity of local, national news media explored

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/51832

Why It Was Called 'Water Torture'

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/08/AR2008020803156.html

Sundown Towns

http://www.christiancentury.org/article.lasso?id=4357

Sundown Towns

A Hidden Dimension of American Racism

Britain kow tows to China as athletes are forced to sign no criticism contracts

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=513362&in_page_id=1770&ct=5

Winds of Change

Winds of Change

On Removal of the Tillman Statue

http://www.free-times.com/index.php?cat=1992912064033858&ShowArticle_ID=11460502080521889

Fox News Documentary: George W. Bush is SO like Abraham Lincoln

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/02/03/fox-news-documentary-george-w-bush-is-so-like-abraham-lincoln/

Quarter of Brits think Churchill was myth: poll

From The Raw Story

http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Quarter_of_Brits_think_Churchill_wa_02032008.html

"Britons are losing their grip on reality, according to a poll out Monday which showed that nearly a quarter think Winston Churchill was a myth while the majority reckon Sherlock Holmes was real.

The survey found that 47 percent thought the 12th century English king Richard the Lionheart was a myth.

And 23 percent thought World War II prime minister Churchill was made up. The same percentage thought Crimean War nurse Florence Nightingale did not actually exist.

Three percent thought Charles Dickens, one of Britain's most famous writers, is a work of fiction himself.

Indian political leader Mahatma Gandhi and Battle of Waterloo victor the Duke of Wellington also appeared in the top 10 of people thought to be myths.

Meanwhile, 58 percent thought Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective Holmes actually existed; 33 percent thought the same of W. E. Johns' fictional pilot and adventurer Biggles.

UKTV Gold television surveyed 3,000 people."

Parent criticizes book 'Fahrenheit 451'

http://www.hcnonline.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17270600&BRD=1574&PAG=461&dept_id=532215&rfi=6

Goodell defends destroying Pats' tapes

http://www.idahostatesman.com/450/story/282574.html

Why would a federal agency trash its libraries?

http://www.hcn.org/servlets/hcn.WOTRArticle?article_id=16964

"The closures started during the last few months of the Republican-controlled Congress when budgetary oversight was not high on the agenda. Aside from its claim of fiscal austerity, EPA said the closures were part of an effort to “modernize” its information systems by digitizing thousands of documents, page-by-page. In the meantime, whole collections are now inaccessible to both agency and outside researchers."

Censorship causes blindness

Last German World War I veteran dies

"When France's second-last surviving veteran from World War I, Louis de Cazenave, died Jan. 20, the news made international headlines.

But in Germany — which lost both world wars and has had to cope with the shame of the Nazi genocide for more than six decades — there is not even an organization keeping track of the remaining veterans.

"That is the way history has developed," Kaestner's son, Peter Kaestner, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. "In Germany, in this respect, these things are kept quiet — they're not a big deal."

The news did not even trickle out into the German press until this week, and the stories were more about how Germans remember than about Kaestner's death itself.

"The losers hide themselves in a state of self-pity and self-denial that they happily try to mitigate by forgetting," the daily Die Welt wrote Friday in its obituary for Kaestner.

Der Spiegel magazine noted that "the German public was within a hair's breadth of never learning of the end of an era" until someone who had read Kaestner's death notice in a newspaper figured out who he was and updated a Wikipedia entry on the Internet."

Story Link:

http://www.rawstory.com/news/mochila/Last_German_World_War_I_veteran_die_01252008.html

A mind is a difficult thing to change: (Part 7B: the Vietnam photos revisited)

http://neoneocon.com/2008/01/16/a-mind-is-a-difficult-thing-to-change-part-7b-the-vietnam-photos-revisited/

Texas candidate alters photo in mailer

Texas Congressional Candidate Appears Magically Thinner in Doctored Campaign Photo

http://www.rawstory.com/news/mochila/Texas_candidate_alters_photo_in_mai_01182008.html

A mailer from a congressional candidate's campaign contains a photo of his head attached to an image of a different body that makes him look thinner.

The photo is presented as a true image of Dean Hrbacek, a Republican former mayor of Sugar Land. In reality, it is a computerized composite of Hrbacek's face and someone else's slimmer figure, in suit and tie, from neck to knee.

Report reveals Vietnam War hoaxes, faked attacks

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080108/pl_afp/usvietnamintelligence512

WASHINGTON (AFP) - North Vietnamese made hoax calls to get the US military to bomb its own units during the Vietnam War, according to declassified information that also confirmed US officials faked an incident to escalate the war.

The report was released by the National Security Agency, responsible for much of the United States' codebreaking and eavesdropping work, in response to a "mandatory declassification" request, the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) said Monday.

How the Pentagon planted a false story

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JA17Ak03.html


WASHINGTON - Senior Pentagon officials, evidently reflecting a broader administration policy decision, used an off-the-record Pentagon briefing to turn the January 6 US-Iranian incident in the Strait of Hormuz into a sensational story demonstrating Iran's military aggressiveness, a reconstruction of the events following the incident shows.

China blogger beaten to death

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/01/11/china.blogger/index.html

The skepticism of believers

Article begins:

"I used to think of skepticism as a primary intellectual virtue, whose goal was truth. I have changed my mind. I now see it as a weapon.

Creationists opened my eyes. They use the techniques of critical thinking to expose weaknesses in the evidence for natural selection, gaps in the fossil record and problems with evolutionary theory. Is this because they are seeking truth? No. They believe they already know the truth. Skepticism is a weapon to defend their beliefs by attacking their opponents."

http://www.edge.org/q2008/q08_11.html#sheldrake

By RUPERT SHELDRAKE Biologist, London; Author, The Sense of Being Stared At