TVNL Editor's Comments: As California Burns and Georgia Thirsts, the US Government & Big Business (real estate developers in this case) Share Some Blame

I recently rebuild one of the bathrooms in my condo. I did a great deal of research prior to purchasing the fixtures. I have always been very careful to consider the environment when I make any purchases that may have an environmental impact. In the case of my bathroom I stumbled upon two technologies that could save a great deal of water, both related to the commode (toilet).

New toilets today are available that can save water in two ways. First off there is the simple dual flush system. This is a simple system where a second flush lever is available for flushes that require less water. One flush is a standard 1.6 gallon flush that we find in most commodes in the U.S.. The second flush is a lighter 1.0 gallon flush that we normally find in urinals, where less water is required to do the trick.

The next little technology is called pressure assisted flushing. This is where a tank inside the commode stores water that is pressurized by the water pipes that fill it. The result of this pressure is apparent once you flush the unit. To put it bluntly hardly a person reading this had never encountered a situation where more than one flush is required to complete the job. Well let me tell you this, you would hardly find a job that require a second flush from these pressure assisted commodes.

Now why am I bringing this up and what does it have to do with California, Georgia & the U.S. Government? It is all about the laws and it is all about our dwindling water supply! As I did my research I found out that the dual flush commodes are required by law in nations like China, Australia and Israel. Yet there is pressure in the US to keep this technology quiet because it would costs builders and landlords more money. Again, we have an example of American values. The only thing that matters is money. That's it. Nothing else, not even drinking water or water to put out fires!

I paid almost $400 for one of these commodes when I redid my bathroom. I could have had a fancy one piece commode for less than $100 but I chose to save water for my condo, my city and my fellow human beings. I also purchased a Gerber brand commode because it is the only commode that is still made in America. Call me silly for writing this and call me silly for picking this uncomfortable topic to write about, but every little bit helps. And if every American would save a few gallons of water each day places like Atlanta would not be in a state of emergency as they watch their watter supply vanish. And if we had a real news media our government may actually be forced to protect the people instead of just the people who own them! Think about it! Jesse Richard – Editor, TvNewsLIES.org

PERSONAL NOTE UPDATE: For the many people who have written me asking what has been going on...I will be writing a personal blog piece on what I have been going through. I think you will find it interesting and quite informative taking into account all I have learned from the experience.

Getting the CT scan results tomorrow. Still able to do regular updates to the news page but the newsletter is still a struggle right now. I'll get it out as often as I can.

Thank you for understanding,
Jesse

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

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

Bomber in Iraq kills 27 police recruits - A suicide bomber on a bicycle blew himself up Monday in a crowd of police recruits northeast of Baghdad, killing at least 27 people — most of them struck by iron balls packed with the explosives, police and hospital officials said.

Defense contract award protested - The winning firm had an unfair advantage due to Bush administration links, say companies in complaints to GAO.

Eleven Sunni tribal chiefs abducted in Baghdad - Eleven Sunni tribal chiefs were abducted in Baghdad on Sunday after their meeting with a top government official, as Iraq was set to post its lowest monthly death toll in almost two years.

The world of private 'security': Unleashed: the fat cats of war - The US is finally facing up to its failures to supervise the private armies operating on its behalf in Iraq. But the problem may be worse than it admits.

Explosive charge blows up in US's face - When the United States military command accused the Iranian Quds Force in January of providing the armor-piercing EFPs (explosively formed penetrators) that were killing US troops, it knew that Iraqi machine shops had been producing their own EFPs for years, a review of the historical record of evidence on EFPs in Iraq shows.
TVNL Comment: The lie counter keeps ticking.

US to order diplomats to serve in Iraq - In the largest call-up of U.S. diplomats since the Vietnam War, the State Department is planning to order some of its personnel to serve at the American Embassy in Iraq because of a lack of volunteers.

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

Straitjacket Bush - Liberals, put it behind you. George W. Bush and Dick Cheney shouldn't be treated like criminals who deserve punishment. They should be treated like psychotics who need treatment.

The dark forces driving Bush’s absolute power - What it amounted to, in fact, was a neo-monarchical concentration of power in the hands of one man who came to exercise power on an unimaginable scale – the power to take the most powerful country in the world to war against any country or person anywhere, the power to seize and hold indefinitely any individual deemed to be an “enemy combatant” and the power to torture – the most dangerous of all powers ever held by executives in western history.

FEMA Official Involved In Staged News Conference Leaving The Agency - PRNewser scoops reports that FEMA's director of external affairs, John "Pat" Philbin is leaving his job just three days after the agency was "outed for a staging a fake press conference" related to the California wildfires.

State Department Official Resigns in Wake of Blackwater Criticism - The assistant secretary of state, who oversaw diplomatic security, submitted his resignation in the wake of a report critical of his handling of Blackwater security contractors, according to the State Department spokesman Sean McCormack.

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

Here comes $100 oil, and $3 gas - With crude setting new highs every day, experts say there's no way motorists won't see a spike at the pump.

More housing gloom as mortgage lending hits lowest level for seven years - The number of mortgage approvals for house purchases fell by 27 per cent in September.

Bank of America to cut 3,000 jobs, review investment bank - Most of the job cuts will be from Bank of America's investment banking unit, it said.

National City Bank cuts another 12,000 jobs - National City Corp. has cut nearly twice as many jobs as expected, and its third-quarter profit dropped by nearly 80 percent, the Cleveland bank said Wednesday.

U.S. "undoubtedly in recession": Jim Rogers - "Many parts of industry are actually in a state worse than recession. If it were not for (Federal Reserve Chairman Ben) Bernanke putting huge amounts of money into the market, the stock market would probably be down much more than it is."

Bush wars to cost 40 times higher than original estimates; $8,000 per man, woman child in US - New estimates show Iraq, Afghanistan will cost US $2.4 trillion; White House refuses to provide estimate

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

Iran says documents show U.S. backing "terrorists" - Tehran says the rebels are operating in Iraq with U.S. forces present in the country and this shows Washington is refraining from tackling them.

30% of Americans Dont Know When 9/11 Attacks Occurred!! - But it doesn't end there; The Chasers War on Everything ask random Americans questions about 9/11. Apparently it occurred in October, by Hindu's.. and millions died

Is a Second More Deadly 9/11 Now In the Works? There are good reasons to believe so - The activist group Citizens for Legitimate Government has come up with an astounding revelation that has been ignored by our controlled media. A spokesperson for the group has indicated that six members of the US Air Force who were directly involved in loading or transporting the missiles, were killed within 7 days of the Barksdale interception.

America Could Have Killed Usama bin Laden — But Didn't - We know, with a 70 percent level of certainty — which is huge in the world of intelligence — that in August of 2007, bin Laden was in a convoy headed south from Tora Bora. We had his butt, on camera, on satellite. We were listening to his conversations. We had the world’s best hunters/killers — Seal Team 6 — nearby. We had the world class Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) coordinating with the CIA and other agencies. We had unmanned drones overhead with missiles on their wings; we had the best Air Force on the planet, begging to drop one on the terrorist. We had him in our sights; we had done it. Nice job again guys — now, pull the damn trigger.
TVNL Comment: Because he is one of the gang!

Tucker: 'I don't want to know' what Americans believe about 9/11 - A 2006 poll about the causes the causes of 9/11 -- which indicated that more than a third of Americans suspect government involvement in the tragedies -- is too "frightening" for MSNBC's Tucker Carlson to even think about.

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

Ex-Army officer drops out of race for Congress - A former Army captain who works with Blackwater USA has dropped out of the Republican race for the U.S. House in northern Indiana's 2nd District.

D'Oh: House Panel Screw-Up Reveals Whistleblower Email Addresses - But in an email sent out today, the committee inadvertently sent the email addresses of all the would-be whistleblowers to everyone who had written in to the tipline.
TVNL Comment: Do you really believe that this was an accident?

Limits don't slow trip perks for U.S. lawmakers - Despite new House travel restrictions, lawmakers accepted free trips worth nearly $1.9 million during the first eight months of this year — more than in all of 2006, records show.
TVNL Comment: What do you expect from criminals?

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

Lengthy SWAT Standoff Over Foreclosure Ends in Suicide - A 12-hour standoff ended this morning with a north Houston man lobbing Molotov cocktails at Houston Police before taking his own life rather than vacate a home he'd lost to foreclosure.

State Department Use of Contractors Leaps in 4 Years - Over the past four years, the amount of money the State Department pays to private security and law enforcement contractors has soared to nearly $4 billion a year from $1 billion, administration officials said Tuesday, but they said that the department had added few new officials to oversee the contracts.

Government Surveillance Threatens Your Freedom, Even If You Have Nothing To Hide - The case against expanding surveillance powers for a White House that's already out of control.

Destruction of Evidence – Ohio’s 2004 Ballots - Overall this blatant destruction of evidence only reinforces the widespread belief that the 2004 election was stolen.

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

As California Burns and Georgia Thirsts, the US Government & Big Business (real estate developers in this case) Share Some Blame - And if every American would save a few gallons of water each day places like Atlanta would not be in a state of emergency as they watch their watter supply vanish.

INDUSTRY'S PLAN FOR US - The fossil fuel corporations have a plan for us, and it does not include any substantial investment in renewable solar energy. Their plan is focused on "geo-engineering" -- which means re-engineering the oceans, the atmosphere and the earth itself to make it possible to continue burning fossil fuels. U.S. EPA is on board with the plan.

'Humanity's very survival' is at risk, says UN - The speed at which mankind has used the Earth’s resources over the past 20 years has put “humanity’s very survival” at risk, a study involving 1,400 scientists has concluded.

States Set to Sue the U.S. Over Greenhouse Gases - New York is one of more than a dozen states, led by California, preparing to sue the Bush administration for holding up efforts to regulate emissions from cars and trucks, several people involved in the lawsuit said on Tuesday.

White House cut warming impact testimony - The White House severely edited congressional testimony given Tuesday by the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the impact of climate change on health, removing specific scientific references to potential health risks, according to two sources familiar with the documents.

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

ElBaradei: UN has no evidence Iran is making nuclear weapons - The head of the United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reiterated on Sunday that he had no evidence Iran is building nuclear weapons and accused US leaders of adding "fuel to the fire" with recent bellicose rhetoric. "I have not received any information that there is a concrete active nuclear weapons program going on right now," Mohamed ElBaradei told CNN.

British cabinet minister detained at U.S. airport - "The abusive attitude I endured last November I forgot about and I forgave, but I really do believe that British ministers and parliamentarians should be afforded the same respect and dignity at U.S.A. airports that we would bestow upon our colleagues in the Senate and Congress.

Russia Working to Limit Election Observers - Russia has opened a diplomatic campaign to curtail the activities of election observers in the states of the former Soviet Union, proposing to cut the size of the missions sharply and to prohibit the publication of their reports immediately after an election.

Iran to buy from China 24 fighter jets based on Israeli technology - The 24 aircraft are based on technology and components provided to China by Israel following the cancellation of the Lavi project in the mid-1980s. The engines of the J-10 are Russian-made.
TVNL Comment: This is almost funny!

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

Former Bush General Touts Privatization of National Disaster Response - The government does not have the tax base to provide services to everyone in the event of a major catastrophe, retired Brigadier General Richard W. Mills told an audience in Pellston last night.
TVNL Comment: But it has the cash to pay expensive private companies to help out?

Car crash kills 2 of soldier's young kids traveling to visit him - Two children of a Fort Bliss soldier flown back from Iraq with combat injuries are dead and a third is on life support following a car accident on the way to visit their father in the hospital, Army officials said.

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

Why those who love America are feeling brokenhearted - I am ashamed for America because all the evil done in the nation's name in recent years is turning off the light on the mountaintop.

American Fascism - Time to Speak Out - The Bush administration and today's extremist-wing of the Republican Party are Nazi-like in many respects and it is absurd for any reasonable person to pretend otherwise.

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

FEMA Meets the Press, Which Happens to Be . . . FEMA - Of course, that could be because the questions were asked by FEMA staffers playing reporters.

Senators threaten to block media ownership plan - Two senators on Wednesday threatened to introduce bipartisan legislation that would block the Federal Communication Commission from easing rules governing media ownership.

Fox News: Al Qaeda is causing the CA wildfires. - They pointed to a 2003 FBI memo, which raised the possibility that al Qaeda may try to set wildfires around the western United States. They also noted that men in a “hovering helicopter” saw “a guy starting one of these fires.”

The CFR controls American media - Who runs your major media?

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

Medical marijuana advocate kills herself - Robin Prosser, a Missoula woman who struggled for a quarter century to live with the pain of an immunosuppressive disorder, tried years ago to kill herself. Last week, she tried again. This time, she succeeded.

Contamination from depleted uranium found in urine 20 years later - Inhaled depleted uranium (DU) oxide aerosols are recognised as a distinct human health hazard and DU has been suggested to be responsible in part for illness in both military and civilian populations that may have been exposed.

Did GM Crops Create Antibiotic Drug-Resistance In SA? - "The types of genes and proteins introduced into high tech food crops could have dangerous side-effects, as has been shown in a well-documented case where a food allergen from Brazil nuts was transferred to soybeans through gene splicing," he said.

PBDEs in U.S. infants mirror adult population - The largest study yet of PBDEs in infants confirms trends seen in adult populations.

FDA seizes $71k in herbal tea products as campaign of censorship against nutritional supplements continues - The company, Fulllife Natural Options, was accused by the FDA of marketing an "unapproved drug" due to the truthful marketing claims that accurately describe the blood sugar lowering effects of the product's main ingredient: Bitter Melon fruits. - According to the Food and Drug Administration, there is no such thing as an herb, food or supplement that has any biological activity whatsoever on the human body (other than simply providing calories), and any person who dares to make such a claim is immediately considered to be in violation of the FDA's authority.

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

Israel cuts fuel supplies to Gaza Strip - Israeli officials said Sunday that Israel had begun reducing fuel supplies to Gaza and had closed down one of the two crossings through which food, medicines and other supplies pass into the strip, in line with a recent government decision to respond with sanctions to continued rocket fire from the Hamas-run territory.

Child sweatshop shame threatens Gap's ethical image - An Observer investigation into children making clothes has shocked the retail giant and may cause it to withdraw apparel ordered for Christmas

AFL-CIO Files International Complaint Charging Bush NLRB With Assault on Workers’ Rights - The abuses have been so egregious that the AFL-CIO today took the unusual step of filing a complaint with the International Labor Organization (ILO) charging the Bush administration’s NLRB with denying workers’ rights in violation of international labor standards.

Israel shaken by troops' tales of brutality against Palestinians - A study by an Israeli psychologist into the violent behaviour of the country's soldiers is provoking bitter controversy and has awakened urgent questions about the way the army conducts itself in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
TVNL Comment: Not a word about this in the US press.

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

Who is responsible for the California Fires? - Obviously, we don't have enough information to come to any conclusions as to what this might mean, maybe we never will, but these are very suspicious stories that need some examination.

The Evangelical Crackup - The 2008 election is just the latest stress on a system of fault lines that go much deeper.

A tale of two decisions (or, how the FBI gets you to confess) - Looking at things from another angle, we don't know how the FBI gets suspected terrorists to tell the truth.