50 Years Later: Bravery Outshines Public Humiliation

http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/12/bravery_outshines_public_humil.html

David Addington Pushed To Eliminate Job Of National Archivist Who Challenged Cheney

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/26/archives-cheney-addington/

Father Christmas does exist: Russian government

http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Father_Christmas_does_exist_Russian_12272007.html


Russia's government has ridden to the rescue of children by banning a television ad that declares Father Christmas does not exist, the daily Rossiiskaya Gazeta announced Thursday.

Wikipedia black helicopters circle Utah's Traverse Mountain

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/06/wikipedia_and_overstock/

Google to tackle Wikipedia with new knowledge service

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article3054287.ece

READER COMMENT: Americans of Japanese ancestry were not guilty of any wrongdoing

http://magicvalley.com/articles/2007/12/12/opinion/reader_comments/126579.txt

Award-winning sci-fiction and fantasy writer to give reading at library

"Brockmeier, a Little Rock author, wrote "The Brief History of the Dead," "The Truth about Celia" and "Things that Fall From the Sky;" two children's books "Groves: A Kind of Mystery," about a seventh-grader who receives messages when he rubs a Victorola needle in the ridges of his jeans, or on a certain brand of potato chips, and "City of Names," about a third grader who orders a book of pickle jokes and receives instead a map of his hometown that contains the real names of buildings."

http://www.thecabin.net/stories/121307/sty_1213070036.shtml

"Brockmeier gives a possible explanation for the idea of The City in the epigraph from Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen. The excerpt from Loewen's book tells about an African tribal belief in the sasha, "the recently departed whose time on earth overlapped with people" still living, or the living-dead. One is not dead, or zamani, until the last person to remember them dies."

Dirk gets unkind cut

http://www.boiseguardian.com/2006/11/21/dirk_gets_unkind_cut.html

Wikileaks busts Gitmo propaganda team

http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Wikileaks_busts_Gitmo_propaganda_team/

OLD NEGRO SPACE PROGRAM

Criticism of monument is a wake-up call

Letter to the editor in Today's Times-News:

http://www.magicvalley.com/articles/2007/12/10/opinion/letters/126466_15.txt

"In response to Byrd Golay's comments concerning the Minidoka Internment Camp monument:

Most of your talking points were about the hard treatment of our Gis in the Japanese prison camps and your objection to the Minidoka Internment Camp monument. I agree, the Japanese Imperialists were brutal in the war and we rightfully defeated them.

You stated that the Japanese-Americans in the Minidoka Camp were not treated like our GIs were in the overseas Japanese prison camps. Well, of course not. They were not prisoners of war; 62 percent were American citizens.

You can't seem to get your facts right. You stated they walked out with a $25,000 bonus. Bonus you say? Wrong. It was $20,000 and it was called reparations paid to the surviving internees. Also, they didn't walk out with it; it was not given to them until some 50 years had passed.

According to you, the monument is to honor all Japanese in the world. Wrong. It is to honor the Japanese-Americans that were interned during the war and were denied the freedoms that you and I enjoyed. Also, don't forget the Japanese-Americans that spilled their blood in Italy fighting the Germans for our way of life.

You stated in your article, "Come on, Magic Valley, voice your opinion. This is a moral issue, wake up." Well, you definitely woke me up. I have no problem with the monument, but I can clearly see you have a problem. Remember, if you read your history, the United States government acknowledged the reason for putting the Japanese-Americans in the internment camps was race prejudice, war hysteria and a failure of political leadership."

JERRY WALLACE

Twin Falls

White House press secretary admits she didn't know what Cuban Missile Crisis was

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/White_House_press_secretary_admits_she_1210.html


"I came home and I asked my husband," she said on air. "I said, 'Wasn't that like the Bay of Pigs thing?' And he said, 'Oh, Dana.' "

Secret mailing list rocks Wikipedia

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/04/wikipedia_secret_mailing/

How Much of Cryptogon Has Google Disappeared?

http://cryptogon.com/?p=1464

YouTube stops account of Egypt anti-torture activist

http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnL27590430.html

The Media Arranged for Brothel Owner to "Endorse" Ron Paul

http://www.jbs.org/node/6438

IAAF erases Jones' results dating to September 2000

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/summer/track/2007-11-23-marion-jones-results_N.htm

Why Johnny is reading Islamist propaganda

Critics charge Muslim radicals
determining textbook content


http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52623

Florida teacher chips away at Plymouth Rock Thanksgiving myth

http://www.usatoday.com/life/lifestyle/2007-11-20-first-thanksgiving_N.htm

Let Sibel Edmonds Speak

http://letsibeledmondsspeak.blogspot.com/2007/11/sibel-edmonds-case-untellable-story-of.html

Police snipers snipped from NY Times

http://www.unknownnews.net/0215-1.html#sidebyside

Cop gets probation for beating up little boys

http://www.unknownnews.org/070829-stinkybadges.html

Old crime records 'must be deleted'

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2578318.html

University to students: 'All whites are racist'

Brave New Schools

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58426

Should US fix history?

http://sify.com/finance/fullstory.php?id=14551457

God Banished from flag ceremony

http://blog.sunvalleyonline.com/index.php/2007/10/28/god-banished-from-flag-ceremony-washington-monument/

FEMA's fake news conference

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/26/433236.aspx

eBay Removes ANY Criticism Of Israel On Boards

http://www.rense.com/general78/crit.htm

NASA sits on air safety survey

http://www.idahostatesman.com/aptopstories/story/190087.html

Deesillustration.com

http://www.deesillustration.com/

Asteroid 1997 XF11

http://eo.nso.edu/MrSunspot/answerbook/ast1997xf11.html

On the apparent paradox of big things with no witnesses

http://www.unknownnews.org/071020-sd-17-HerbR.html

What we say in print about our ancestors

http://www.newenglandancestors.org/publications/NEA/editorial_what_we_say_in_print_about_our_ancestor_607_1102.asp

The Mississippi state legislature removed fractions and decimal points from the mathematics curriculum of public secondary schools.

http://www.snopes.com/lost/fraction.htm

CNBC admits deleting poll because Ron Paul was winning

http://www.cnbc.com/id/21257762?__source=RSS*blog*&par=RSS

Senate should draft resolution against Columbus

http://media.www.trumanindex.com/media/storage/paper607/news/2007/10/11/Opinions/Senate.Should.Draft.Resolution.Against.Columbus-3026431.shtml

'Howl' too hot to hear

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/03/MN0PSIM67.DTL

50 years after poem ruled not obscene, radio fears to air it

Hemp History taken out of the Smithsonian

http://www.bestcyrano.org/THOMASPAINE/?p=339

Fast-forward to the 1970’s, and what is known as “Reefer Madness II”. High school texts were universally cleansed of the word “hemp”. And at the Smithsonian Museum, Jack Herer, author of that touchstone of hemp truth The Emperor Wears No Clothes, asked a curator why “hemp” had been removed from all of the exhibits. The curator replied, “Children do not need to know about hemp anymore. It confuses them.”

SAY WHAT? One of the most important aspects of the history of civilization has been cleansed from the Smithsonian Museum so as not to confuse children? Someone decided simple omission was better than “embarrassing questions”? If the truth is embarrassing, doesn’t that imply profound systemic problems? Omission of important meaning is a cornerstone of our corporate-controlled media (CorpoMedia)…but the Smithsonian! Pulling hemp from history left a hole in the Smithsonian Museum big enough to drive cattle through. History is a tapestry of events, and if you pull a thread hooked to so many others it’s no longer a tapestry, but a bunch of threads dangling into a big hole. Omission for convenience changes history to propaganda. And the more we look at such a hole the bigger it gets….

Twilight Zone: And When The Sky Was Opened (1/3)

Frequently asked questions about the Holocaust

"As more facts about past events come to light, it becomes necessary to re-evaluate them taking the new information into account. All history is constantly being reviewed. It is a natural process. It is an important process. The only way to judge the future is to accurately compare current trends and events to those of earlier times. It has been said that the good thing about experience is that one can recognize a mistake when it is made again. So it is with history, the sum of recorded human experience. Historical revisionism is the process of changing the human record so that it more accurately represents events as they actually occurred. Often there is resistance to the process of bringing history in accord with the facts. The reason for this is history is not simply a record of events, but is also a resource from which a world view is drawn. A re- examination or re-evaluation of important historical events can be viewed as a threat to the political status quo and to interests upon whose power partially rests the established view of these events. It has also been said that historians have the power to upset everything. Vested interests take a dim view of having everything upset."

More of story here:

http://www.rense.com/general78/hol.htm

Chat Room caused trouble for CIA employees

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A64444-2000Nov11?language=printer

Brought new meaning to the saying 'too clever by half'.

The Bush Administration's history of blocked investigations

http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=3855753046436660198

Bush's Mission to rewrite the past

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/06/EDSMRURUQ.DTL

A Documentary's Quiet Massacre

http://www.filmstew.com/showArticle.aspx?ContentID=16368

Beware False Reality

http://www.epi-centre.com/reports/9802bcs.html

Revisionism

http://sueandnotu.blogspot.com/2003/10/revisionism-2003-marks-70th.html

History will not absolve us

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0735,hentoff,77643,6.html

Excerpt:

"But The New Yorker's Jane Mayer has sources who have seen accounts of the Red Cross interviews with inmates formerly held in CIA secret prisons. In "The Black Sites" (August 13, The New Yorker), Mayer also reveals the effect on our torturers of what they do—on the orders of the president—to "protect American values."

She quotes a former CIA officer: "When you cross over that line of darkness, it's hard to come back. You lose your soul. You can do your best to justify it, but . . . you can't go back to that dark a place without it changing you."

Few average Americans have been changed, however, by what the CIA does in our name. Blame that on the tight official secrecy that continues over how the CIA extracts information. On July 20, the Bush administration issued a new executive order authorizing the CIA to continue using these techniques—without disclosing anything about them.

If we, the people, are ultimately condemned by a world court for our complicity and silence in these war crimes, we can always try to echo those Germans who claimed not to know what Hitler and his enforcers were doing. But in Nazi Germany, people had no way of insisting on finding out what happened to their disappeared neighbors.

We, however, have the right and the power to insist that Congress discover and reveal the details of the torture and other brutalities that the CIA has been inflicting in our name on terrorism suspects."

English Russia

http://englishrussia.com/?p=710

Seeing Corporate fingerprints in Wikipedia's edits

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/19/technology/19wikipedia.html?em&ex=1187755200&en=a9b3ee18eb5be094&ei=5087%0A

Has the Trend of Airbrushing photos gone too far?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/portal/main.jhtml;jsessionid=ZKE5IX2CLVQWHQFIQMFSFFOAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/portal/2007/08/17/nosplit/ft-airbrush-117.xml&DCMP=ILC-traffdrv07053100

BBC IP edits Bush Wikipedia Entry

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mithridate-ombud/2007/08/15/bbc-ip-edits-bush-wikipedia-entry

MSNBC Newsroom booed Bush State of the Union address

http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=3855753046436660198

100 Oldest Domains on the Internet

http://theforrester.wordpress.com/2007/08/13/the-100-oldest-domains-on-the-internet/

Historians Protest New Enola Gay Exhibit

http://www.historians.org/Perspectives/Issues/2003/0312/0312new4.cfm

"The Committee for a National Discussion of Nuclear History and Current Policy charges that the proposed exhibit will be "devoid not only of historical context and discussion of the ongoing controversy surrounding the bombings, but even of basic information regarding the number of casualties." (See the "introductory letter" on the committee's web site at http://www.enola-gay.org.) The committee's Statement of Principles (also available on the web site) declares that displaying the Enola Gay as a technological achievement reflects "extraordinary callousness toward the victims, indifference to the deep divisions among American citizens about the propriety of these actions, and disregard for the feelings of most of the world's peoples." A number of historians signed the statement, which was delivered to Smithsonian officials on November 5. Among the many other signatories are several prominent activists, authors, and other public figures including Noam Chomsky and Robert Jay Lifton; authors E.L. Doctorow, Daniel Ellsberg, Jonathan Schell, and Kurt Vonnegut; writer-producer Norman Lear; actor, director, and activist Martin Sheen; and filmmaker Oliver Stone.

The petition asks Smithsonian Institution Secretary Lawrence Small and NASM's director, General John R. Dailey, USMC (Ret.), to meet with scholars to plan an exhibit that places the aircraft in historical context. It also asks the museum to cosponsor a conference on the history of nuclear weapons. The petition says that should the museum fail to respond, "we will join with others in this country and around the world to protest the exhibit in its present form and to catalyze a national discussion of critical nuclear issues."

A statement issued by the National Air and Space Museum in response to the petition, (see http://www.nasm.si.edu/events/pressroom/releases/110703.htm) notes that "this type of label is precisely the same kind used for other airplanes and spacecraft in the museum." Museum officials believe that the text "does not glorify or vilify the role this aircraft played in history" but rather conforms to the museum's congressionally mandated mission to "memorialize the national development of aviation and space flight."

Google wipes Katrina off map

http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/37189.html

Google updates Katrina maps after "airbrushing" complaints

http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/37212.html

See Who's editing Wikipedia - Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign

http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/08/wiki_tracker