TVNL Editor's Comments: Overwhelmed

As of late a combination of overwork and disillusionment has taken it's toll on me. I have neglected to prepare a newsletter on a regular basis. I apologize for this. Over the next few weeks I will continue to update the news page throughout the day but I may scale not send daily news letters or I may send them will little or no daily commentary. This is simply because the combination of issues at hand, combined with my frustration that the general public, including my close friends, refuse to respond to the real world evidence of what is taking place in our world is overloading my temper.

I will make every attempt to resume daily commentary as soon as possible. In the meantime please continue to visit the news page for continual coverage of the reality based world.

For now I ask you to take some time and watch this video for free on line: http://zeitgeistmovie.com/

The video gets off to a slow and odd start but it covers interesting aspects of religion, 9/11, central banking and war. I have yet to finish it but I have to tell you it is fascinating. Most of what is in the video I knew but there are certainly pockets of information that is new to me and I find it to be very intriguing if not completely enlightening.

So again I apologize for the inconstancy of my newsletter as of late. I'll be back in full swing soon...I promise. In the meantime keep spreading the good word. Maybe together we can open enough eyes and eventually wake the nation out of the sleep that the establishment media has placed them in! Then perhaps we can appropriately address the crimes of those who have made it their business to hide the truth from us all. Think about it! Jesse Richard – Editor, TvNewsLIES.org

NOTE: You can respond to my daily comments on my blog, located here: http://tvnewslies.org/blog

WAR : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#war

Blasts Kill 70 in Baghdad As Sunni Political Bloc Quits Government - Also Wednesday, Iraq's largest Sunni Arab political bloc announced it is withdrawing from Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's coalition government, further undermining attempts at national reconciliation.

$40 Billion "Surge" - The "surge" of increased troops in Iraq could cost as much as $40 billion to maintain, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office.

Britain will take troops out of Iraq regardless of US, says PM - The Bush administration, under mounting domestic pressure to produce an exit strategy from Iraq, has been nervous that a full British withdrawal would add to the criticism. But Mr Brown made clear - and President Bush accepted - that Britain would go its own way, even if that gave the impression the two countries were diverging.

The butchers of Baghdad - DESCRIBING what is going in Iraq as a civil war doesn't come close to capturing the horror of the depth of the depravity destroying that country.

POLITICS : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news#politics

Why Bush Won't Ax Gonzales - Bush tossed Donald Rumsfeld last fall despite support from conservatives for the then Defense Secretary, and the President chucked Joint Chiefs Chairman Peter Pace at the first sign of congressional resistance to his renomination. So why the extraordinary support for Gonzales in the face of a protracted meltdown at the Department of Justice (DOJ)? Here are four reasons why Bush can't afford to let Gonzales go:

For Alberto Gonzales, a Decade of Scandals, with a Child Molestation Cover-Up to Boot - These disturbing findings by Dr. Corsi and Wired Magazine detail an even more disturbing picture of an Attorney General already embroiled in controversy. Further, it is clear that the mainstream media has continued to ignore this issue and will continue to do so as long as Gonzales remains by Bush's side.

Answering to No One - This all changed in 2001, and especially after Sept. 11, when Cheney set out to create a largely independent power center in the office of the vice president. His was an unprecedented attempt not only to shape administration policy but, alarmingly, to limit the policy options sent to the president.

Gonzales's Truthfulness Long Disputed - Claims of Misstatements to Shield Bush Stretch Back a Decade
TVNL Comment: Misstatements? They are called...LIES!

ECONOMY : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#economy

J&J to Cut Up to 4,820 Jobs on Drug Woes - Johnson & Johnson said Tuesday it would reduce its global work force by up to 4 percent, or up to 4,820 jobs, to cut costs due to slumping sales of heart stents and its No. 2 drug, plus looming patent expirations.

Top Mortgage Company On Brink Of Failure As Shares Plunge 87% - American Home Mortgage Investment Corp (AHM.N), a large U.S. mortgage provider, said on Tuesday it can no longer fund home loans and may liquidate assets, putting its survival in doubt.

Attorney Tom Cryer Wins Against the IRS - Shreveport attorney Tom Cryer won a unanimous NOT GUILTY verdict in federal district court defeating the IRS's claim that he "willfully" failed to file federal income tax returns. Tom refused to file tax returns because the IRS could not show him any law making him liable for 'filing' a tax return.

IBM lays off 450 in Systems and Technology - IBM Corp. said Monday it would lay off 450 U.S. workers as part of a "resource action" to cut costs in its Systems and Technologies Group.

Corporations attempt to frame earned benefits as "legacy costs" - WIN’s Doug Cunningham reports from Michigan on corporate efforts to rip off earned autoworker retiree benefits by tagging them as so-called “legacy costs”.

Workers are told to shape up or pay up - Clarian Health Partners will charge employees as much as $30 every two weeks unless they meet weight, cholesterol and blood-pressure guidelines that the company deems healthy.

IRS loses challenge to prove tax liability - The Internal Revenue Service has lost a lawyer's challenge in front of a jury to prove a constitutional foundation for the nation's income tax, and the victorious attorney now is setting his sights higher.

County home foreclosures rise 551% in first half of 2007 - DataQuick reported on Tuesday that during the first half of 2007 San Diego County had 2,896 foreclosures compared to 445 during the first half of 2006, a 551 percent increase.

Mortgage default notices skyrocket - The number of mortgage default notices sent to homeowners in Los Angeles and Orange counties skyrocketed again in the second quarter of the year, while the statewide figure reached its highest level in a decade, according to data released today.

9/11 News : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#911

Iraq war veteran and experienced demolitions expert blows the cover on 9/11 inside job - So who isn't wanted for the crimes of 9/11? Gasps were heard from the audience as information relating to former paid CIA operative Tim Osman having no involvement in the crimes of 9/11. Tim Osman was Osama Bin Ladens CIA codename.

Pelosi Says "No" to a New 9/11 Investigation, Claims Close Collaboration with Victim's Families on 9/11 Bill Passage - Not only were many families of 9/11 victims disappointed with the 9/11 Commission's findings, many 9/11 survivors were outraged that their testimony had been omitted or distorted in the final report.

CNN Omits 9/11 Conspiracy Comments From Video - Why would CNN cut out the 9/11 conspiracy comments?

Political Prisoner: Loose Change Producer Korey Rowe Arrested - Loose Change producer and Iraq and Afghanistan veteran Korey Rowe has been arrested and handed over to military officials without bail for allegedly "deserting the Army".

Analyst counters Bush on Al Qaeda - A day after President Bush sought to present evidence showing that Iraq is now the main battlefront against Al Qaeda, the chief US intelligence analyst for international terrorism told Congress that the network's growing ranks in Pakistan and Afghanistan pose a more immediate threat to the United States.

CONGRESS : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#congress

Congress eyes pay raise for itself - “This is the people’s money, and we need to use it on their priorities,” said Republican Rep. Sam Graves of Missouri, who’s co-sponsoring a bill to prevent the raise. “Increasing the pay of members of Congress is not their priority.”

Committee demanding details of NSA data-mining - In a Monday letter, Rep. John Conyers, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, asked Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to hand over "all opinions, memoranda and background materials, as well as any dissenting views, materials, and opinions" about the data-mining program.

DOMESTIC : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#domestic

State: Fla. voting machines can be hacked - Reversing an unofficial policy of denial, the Florida Secretary of State's office has conducted an elections study that confirmed Tuesday what a maverick voting chief discovered nearly two years ago: Insider computer hackers can change votes without a trace on Diebold optical-scan machines.

Mayor Takes the Subway — by Way of S.U.V. - On mornings that he takes the subway from home, Mr. Bloomberg is picked up at his Upper East Side town house by a pair of king-size Chevrolet Suburbans. The mayor is driven 22 blocks to the subway station at 59th Street and Lexington Avenue, where he can board an express train to City Hall. His drivers zip past his neighborhood station, a local subway stop a five-minute walk away.

U.S. Attorney Became Target After Rebuffing Justice Dept. - The night before the government secured a guilty plea from the manufacturer of the addictive painkiller OxyContin, a senior Justice Department official called the U.S. attorney handling the case and, at the behest of an executive for the drugmaker, urged him to slow down, the prosecutor told the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday.

NSA Spying Part of Broader Effort - The disclosure makes clear that a controversial National Security Agency program was part of a much broader operation than the president previously described.
TVNL Comment: Democracy or dictatorship? It's obvious, isn't it?

Data mining, the NSA, DOJ corruption and impeachment - In all the controversy over Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' testimony, no-one has noticed a key fact: The latest stories about data mining -- stories based, it is said, on administration leaks intended to aid the embattled Gonzales -- confirm the report of an unfairly tarnished NSA whistleblower. Remember Russell Tice?

Republicans Move To Stealthily Steal Electoral Votes - The bottom line is that the initiative, if passed, would spot the Republican ticket something in the neighborhood of twenty electoral votes-votes that it wouldn’t get under the rules prevailing in every other sizable state in the Union.

In Violation of Federal Law, Ohio's 2004 Presidential Election Records Are Destroyed or Missing - In 56 of Ohio's 88 counties, ballots and election records from 2004 have been "accidentally" destroyed, despite a federal order to preserve them -- it was crucial evidence which would have revealed whether the election was stolen.

ENVIRONMENT : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#environment

Scientists mobilizing to fight President Bush - More than 60 influential scientists, including 20 Nobel laureates, are mobilizing scientists and citizens alike to push for reforms that will protect our health, safety, and environment. The Scientific Integrity Program from the Union of Concerned Scientists

White House sees black gold in melting sea ice - Arctic sea ice has decreased nearly 20% in the last two decades as the Earth's climate warms, making access to the area easier. The eight countries bordering the region, including the USA, are now staking competing claims.
TVNL Comment: As we have reported all along, this is why the Bush administration want global warming to continue...so they can get to the oil!

Energy Bill Aids Expansion of Atomic Power - A one-sentence provision buried in the Senate’s recently passed energy bill, inserted without debate at the urging of the nuclear power industry, could make builders of new nuclear plants eligible for tens of billions of dollars in government loan guarantees.

BP gets OK to dump mercury into Lake Michigan - A BP refinery in Indiana will be allowed to continue to dump mercury into Lake Michigan under a permit issued by the Indiana Department of Environmental Management.

CONGRESS TO FINALLY PROBE MASSIVE 2002 KLAMATH FISH KILL - Water Levels Halved by Cheney and Political Appointees over Scientists’ Objections

If It's All Taken Away - What Then? - Our marvelous planet is one of incredible riches. We take for granted trillions of plants which grow each year that feed us.

Gulf 'dead zone' still 3rd largest - The oxygen-poor "dead zone" off the Louisiana and Texas coasts isn't quite as big as predicted this year, but it is still the third-largest ever mapped, a scientist said Saturday.

Farm emissions ruling sparks outrage - Environmentalists are fuming over a federal court decision that they say means more misery for Iowans and other Americans living near livestock farms - and a free pass for the operations to pollute without penalty for the next two years.

INTERNATIONAL : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#international

Barak: Draft dodgers must face public scorn, carry 'mark of Cain' - The defense minister's remarks followed the Israel Defense Forces' release of data two weeks ago showing that a quarter of all draft-age men who are obligated to serve are not enlisted.

U.S. checking possibility of pumping oil from northern Iraq to Haifa, via Jordan - The United States has asked Israel to check the possibility of pumping oil from Iraq to the oil refineries in Haifa.
TVNL Comment: Isn't that sweet? How do you think that will sit in the Arab world?

Japan PM suffers election drubbing - Voters angry over a string of government scandals and gaffes, and government bungling of pension records, stripped Abe's coalition of its upper house majority in his first big electoral test since taking office 10 months ago.

Gorbachev says U.S. is sowing world ‘disorder’ - Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev criticized the United States, and President Bush in particular, on Friday for sowing disorder across the world by seeking to build an empire.

MILITARY & VETERANS : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#military

Retired general censured in Tillman case - The Army censured a retired three-star general Tuesday for a "perfect storm of mistakes, misjudgments and a failure of leadership" after the 2004 friendly-fire death in Afghanistan of Army Ranger Pat Tillman.
TVNL Comment: Mistakes? Since when are calculated actions called mistakes?

Pentagon announces 20K troops will rotate into Iraq - CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr reported Tuesday that a "worst case scenario" would stretch military ranks as troops leave for their 15-month rotations.

Rumsfeld apparently refuses to testify at hearing on death of Pat Tillman - Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld appears to have refused to testify at a hearing scheduled for Wednesday on the friendly fire death of Army Specialist Patrick Tillman, RAW STORY has learned.

Military Orders - To Obey or Not to Obey? - Recruits are taught to obey, immediately and without question, orders from their superiors, right from day-one of boot camp.

Olmert welcomes 'significant' boost in U.S. military aid - According to the New York Times and the Washington Post, the proposed package of advanced weaponry for Saudi Arabia is expected to eventually total $20 billion. It reportedly includes advanced satellite-guided bombs, upgrades to its fighter jets and new naval vessels. It has reportedly raised concerns in Israel and among its supporters in Congress.

Soldier: Army ordered me not to tell truth about Tillm - The last soldier to see Army Ranger Pat Tillman alive, Spc. Bryan O'Neal, told lawmakers that he was warned by superiors not to divulge -- especially to the Tillman family -- that a fellow soldier killed Tillman.

EDITORIAL : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#editorial

Coming of Age in Bush’s America! - Really think about these last seven years and recoil at what it actually means to have come of age in Bush’s America,

Neoconservatism Is Dead - Never has any philosophy been proven so wrong, so fatal, so disastrous for our country and so deadly for our troops as the views expounded by neoconservative theoreticians.

How Will Humanity Survive The Capitalist Threat? - Why is the establishment so desperate to vaccinate us against the "disease" of communism? Because at its hopelessly rotten core, capitalism, which is manifested most strongly in the United States, is about exploitation, hyper-competitiveness, "rugged individualism", survival of the fittest, concentration of wealth in the hands of the few, profits above all, property over people, greed, and selfishness.

JOURNALISM & MEDIA : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#media

Just One Example Of Who 'They' Are In Media - The next time someone challenges you for using the phrase "they control the media" you can give them a very specific, accurate answer.

A new low of mindlessness for our media - It is difficult to remember a media spectacle to match yesterday's grand pagent where Ken Pollack and Michael O'Hanlon were paraded across virtually every network and cable news show and radio program and heralded as "war opponents" and "Bush critics" who nonetheless returned from Iraq and were forced by The Truth to admit that we are Winning. For sheer deceit and propaganda, it is difficult to remember something quite this audacious and transparently false.

Why TV and Radio Journalists Can’t Be Like Murrow Anymore - A CBS television newswriter says: “We take a lot of stuff from ‘Entertainment Tonight.’ We watch it at 6:30 and decide what to use.”

HEALTH & SCIENCE : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#health

Office printers 'are health risk' - The humble office laser printer can damage lungs in much the same way as smoke particles from cigarettes, a team of Australian scientists has found.

FDA's Retention Bonuses Rise to the Top - Critics Say Money Goes to Managers, Not Scientists Coveted by Drug Firms

Crisis for poor as Medi-Cal funds end - Article
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GM Food Nightmare Unfolding in the Regulatory Sham - Regulator agencies like the European Food Safety Authority and the UK Food Standards Agency have been ignoring the precautionary principle, manipulating and corrupting science, sidestepping the law, and helping to promote GMOs in the face of massive public opposition and damning evidence piling up against the safety of GM food and feed

Cancer Patients, Lost in a Maze of Uneven Care - “Here it is, a country with such a great health system, with so many different breakthroughs in treatment, but even though we know things that work, not everybody who could benefit gets them,” said Dr. Nina A. Bickell, an associate professor of health policy and medicine at the Mount Sinai medical school in Manhattan.

Bush Aide Blocked Report - A surgeon general's report in 2006 that called on Americans to help tackle global health problems has been kept from the public by a Bush political appointee without any background or expertise in medicine or public health, chiefly because the report did not promote the administration's policy accomplishments, according to current and former public health officials.
TVNL Comment: This is one of the many reasons that the public should rid itself of the Bush administration as a body rids itself from cancer cells.

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#rights

Gaza Strip: Rafah Border Crisis Creating Death and Skin Illnesses - Dying Under the Summer Sky and International Eye: Gazans Continue to Be Targeted by IOF and Border Closures

Third of Iraqis 'need urgent aid' - The report said the government was failing to provide basics such as food and shelter for eight million people. It warned of a humanitarian crisis that had escalated since the 2003 invasion.

War Crimes and the White House - The Dishonor in a Tortured New 'Interpretation' of the Geneva Conventions

Abuse of workers building U.S. embassy in Iraq alleged - John Owens, who worked on the site as a security liaison from November 2005 to June 2006, said he had seen foreign workers packed in trailers and working 12 hours a day, seven days a week, with time off on Fridays for Muslim prayers. Several told him they earned about $300 a month, after fees were taken out, and that they were docked three days' pay for such offenses as clocking in five minutes late.

MPs criticise U.S. over prisoner rendition - Looking into possible British involvement in the controversial U.S. programme of "rendition" of prisoners to foreign jails where they may be tortured, it said there was no evidence of any British agency being directly involved.

OF INTEREST : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#interest

ZEITGEIST - TVNL Comment: This takes a while before it gets interesting but if you can get past the imagery and the initial monologue it is absolutely fascinating.

NASA Contractors Censoring Saturn V Info - No word yet if the assignment of a Karl Rove protege high up in NASA has any connection."
TVNL Comment: Still believe that we went to the moon?

Christian Group Warns U.S. Against Pressuring Israel on Peace Deal - "I don't believe Israel should give up any piece of their land. I think they've given up too much of their land," said Michelle Stephens, one of 50 million Evangelicals who are said to be "waking up" to the idea that Israel's existence is integrally tied to their own religious outlook.
TVNL Comment: Are they referring to the land that Israel was given when in fact it belonged to others at the time?

Hannity's Freedom Concert... Freer Than Expected? - While Hannity bragged on Hannity & Colmes that it was a benefit for Freedom Alliance's Scholarship Fund, only $4 of every ticket purchased (prices ranged from $38-78) went to the Fund.

Wikipedia and the Intelligence Services - While researching my next article about the Lockerbie bombing, I witnessed an incident that made me wonder whether intelligence agents had infiltrated Wikipedia. - Anyone who knows the universal success of Wikipedia will immediately grasp the importance of the issue.

Ron Paul : Don't tread on me - The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people. - Congressman Ron Paul

Aquafina Labels: It's Tap Water - The label on Aquafina water bottles will soon be changed to spell out that the drink comes from the same source as tap water, the brand's owner said Friday.

Christian Evangelism - Threat To Jewish Survival? - Countless Jewish opinion-makers falsely equate Hitler's malevolent desire to destroy Jews with Christians' benevolent desire to convert them.