TVNL Editor's Comments: How Can Anyone Take “Mainstream” (Establishment) Media Seriously at This Point?

As many of you know I have been out of the loop for a little while as I address a heal issue, but I have not been out of the loop when it comes to keeping track of what has been going on (and I have not been out of the loop in keeping the news page up to date! Nor have I been out of the loop when it comes to the exponential decline of the pretend news industry in our nation.

There have been many things to comment on and point out during my downtime, but I have to tell you that every once in a while I catch something that just blows me away when taken in complete context. Now you see I see things from a different vantage point than most people. That is why I do what I do. Things that may not be obvious to most people are obvious to me. I am like the kid in the movie “The 6^th Sense”; you know the kid who could “see dead people!” I seem to be cursed in that unnoticed outrages seem to pop out of the scene and jab me in the eyes. All I do with my writing and speaking is point these things out. I don't even go looking for things to point out, they just keep popping up. Only these days there are so many outrageous moments taking place (with the establishment media) that these “pop out and jab me in the eye” moments are starting to make me feel like I am living under a strobe light. I can't possibly keep up with reporting all of these moments.

Now that being said I hope this little “pop out moment” that I am sharing is not to anti-climactic...but if you really take this in the context of what journalism is journalism, national journalism, it's importance as a Constitutionally protected entity under our so called democracy, all the important issues that exist, and all that is and is not reported to the American public by our Constitutional sentinel known as the “free press”, and if you include the overwhelming ignorance and stupidity of the general public in this nation, you may just understand why I found this little particular moment noteworthy.

OK, so here it is...as I was doing my duty by monitoring the TV so called news networks during their top of the hour headline runs I found that they all reported, among other things, on the status of Brittany Spears child custody. Brittany Spears! We are talking about a celebrity that is pretty much famous for being famous. A nothing. A nobody. Go ahead, name one song that she sung and see if it ends up on some classic music collection in 25 years. We are not talking about John Lennon here. We are talking about a blond chick with a barely passable singing voice and whose contributions to the art of music don't even match what Rice Crispy treats are to the culinary arts. People who called themselves journalists had no problem reporting this ridicules item as news while the world around us crumbles. Sorry, maybe it's all the medicine that I am taking but I just don't understand how everyone around me does not see how ludicrous this is and I just don't understand how those so called journalists are not embarrassed to death to be doing what they are doing! Think about it! 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.

Currently my pain is minimal thanks to several powerful medications, a trip to the emergency room and finally a friend who is a Chiropractor, who was the only person to relieve my pain (using acupressure, nutrients and a neck collar...no chiropractic however). I'll tell you all about this guy, who was the only person who relieved my pain to the point of not having to take powerful tranquilizers and pain killers anymore!!! I am however awaiting results of a CT scan but I am operating at 80% or so.

Again, I am sorry that the “daily” newsletter has been anything but “daily”...but the news page has not lost a beat so keep checking there for news vital to all Americans. (In my opinion;-)

I REPEAT: I would like to collectively thank the many of you who have written me with words of support and encouragement. Your kind words are not only my compensation for running this website but they help to strengthen me when I am experience periods of weakness. I have always been a very strong person, both physically and emotionally. I have always been the person to fight for those who could not fight for themselves. I have always been the person to be there for those who have no place else to turn. It is overwhelming and humbling when I find myself in a position where it is I who is in need of help. I am at a loss for words that would adequately express the support and friendship of my family, friends and TvNewsLIES brothers and sisters. Your kind words mean more to me than I can describe and during this time where I am experiencing excruciating and debilitating each kind word and every moment taken by someone who cares enough to think of me will remain in my heart as a ray of eternal sunshine that lights up my existence. Thank you all beyond ability to accurately express the magnitude of my appreciation.

Thank you for understanding,
Jesse

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

Files raise questions on Gitmo transfers - Two dozen prisoners were cleared for transfer from Guantanamo Bay last year even though U.S. military panels found they still posed a threat to the United States and its allies. Dozens more were cleared even though they didn't show up for their hearings.

Blackwater scandal deepens - Waxman also criticized the State Department's handling of several incidents involving Blackwater and incidents of paying off victims' families, rather than investigating.

Blackwater contractor wrote government report on incident - The State Department's initial report of last month's incident in which Blackwater guards were accused of killing Iraqi civilians was written by a Blackwater contractor working in the embassy security detail, according to government and industry sources.
TVNL Comment: How many times will the American public let this government continue with the farce we call democracy. The next Moveon.org march should be to remove, by any means necessary, the current executive and legislative branches of government and replace them with legitimate representatives of the people.

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

Former Bush administration lawyer questions eavesdropping program - There were certain aspects of the Terrorist Surveillance Program "that I could not find the legal support for," Jack Goldsmith, the former head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, told the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Iraq Wiretap Delay Not Quite as Presented - The debate centers on the boundaries of FISA, which requires a special court to issue orders for surveillance of foreign intelligence targets inside the United States. The attorney general can authorize an emergency FISA order for as much as 72 hours without the court's approval, but Justice officials say he must have the necessary probable cause.
TVNL Comment: Can anyone count the lies? Can anyone or anything count that high?

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

Taxing our World War II Heroes Out of their Homes: Abolish The Property Tax - Recently, I had the honor to be with Utah's World War II veterans as they visited the World War II monument in Washington D.C. Even here the subject of property taxes came up as I talked with a veteran who was among the first to storm ashore on D-Day in 1944 and then fought in battles throughout Europe.

Media Blackout: 161 Federal Tax Charges, 0 Convictions - Tax Questions Raised Regarding Gold and Silver Coins Used to Pay Wages

U.S. $10 trillion in the red - Congress raised the limit once again as U.S. debt nears $10 trillion. That's about $30,000 for every American.

The Rise of the Have-Nots - The American middle class has toppled into a world of temporary employment, jobs without benefits, and retirement without security.
TVNL Comment: Another Bush legacy/accomplished mission.

35K state workers get layoff notices - Thirty-five thousand state workers were told to stay home from work Monday as Michigan's budget crisis intensified and a partial government shutdown loomed ever closer.

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

WTC Worker Witnessed Lobby Explosions On 9/11 - "Once the plane hit the top, that's when the bombs started going off on the first floor," said Dean Brown. "It's like the plane actually hit the first floor." "You were hearing boom, boom, boom, boom from the top floor all the way down to the first floor."

9/11 Truthers Respond to Bill Maher - Bill Maher attacked 9/11 truthers. We Respond

Kevin Barrett Questions Amy Goodman On Building 7 - In Madison, WI Sept. 27th, 2007 Kevin Barrett (mujca.com) and Matthew Naus (ts911t.org) heard Amy Goodman speak and Kevin Barrett was able to ask Amy Goodman about her ground zero silent journalism on Building 7 while I videotaped. Kevin even tried to get Amy Goodman to sign Eric Hufschmid's book "Painful Ouestions" on page 65 which has pictures of Building 7 on it only Amy didn't want to mess up his page. Amy Goodman did state that the 9/11 investigation was inadequate.

9/11 Nonprofit Removes President - The Times said Merrill Lynch and Company, where Head told people she had worked, had no record of her employment. She has claimed she had a romance with a man who is a confirmed 9-11 victim, but the Times said his family and friends never heard of her.

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

Officials: N.M. Sen. Domenici to retire - Sen. Pete Domenici of New Mexico, an influential Republican voice on budget issues for a generation, intends to retire at the end of his term next year for health reasons, party officials said Wednesday.

House pushes for ‘phone jamming’ probe of White House. - Today, members of the House Judiciary Committee sent a letter to the Justice Department seeking answers about “phone jamming” and voter suppression tactics in past elections.

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

Harvard law school expels star student for “holocaust denial” - She was set to graduate Summa Cum Laude at the end of this semester, but the university law school was forced to reconsider her status when criminal law professor Alan Dershowitz criticized Njiem’s scholarship.
TVNL Comment: How is that for freedom of speech?

Outgoing General confirms - American Democracy is Dead on Arrival - "Just as telling as the substance of Pace’s comments was the reaction to them in Washington political and media circles, where his public rejection of democratic decision-making on the war provoked only yawns. No Democrat condemned his remarks or defended the right of the people to vote for an end to the war. No Bush administration official raised any objection. Press reports of the event were perfunctory."

Chinese hackers crack Homeland Security computers - Chinese hackers broke into Department of Homeland Security computers and made off with "many megabytes" of data, and the contractor charged with securing the department's networks attempted to cover up the breaches, according to Congressional investigators who have asked the department's inspector general to investigate the computer security breaches.

Former Presidents Can't Withhold Records - Presidents don't have indefinite veto power over which records are made public after they've left office, a federal judge ruled Monday.

GOP Occupied America: Does the GOP "Vision Thing" Include Blackwater Patrolling America's Cities, Innocent People Awaiting Death? - The horrible state of criminal justice in Texas is a predictor of criminal justice in a fascist America, where outsourcing replaces responsible, accountable government. The GOP likes outsourcing. It's an easy way to shirk civic responsibilities and reward cronies.

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

Quebec introduces carbon tax, Canada CEOs urge more - The province of Quebec slapped the country's first carbon tax on energy firms on Monday, as Canadian business leaders urged "environmental taxation" to rein in greenhouse gas emissions.

U.S. leaks 6B gallons of water a day - The AWWA estimates that the country needs to spend $250 billion in the next 30 years repairing and expanding water delivery.Droughts in the southwest and southeast have given the matter new urgency.

Climate Crisis Update 10-1-07: The Planet's People have Awakened, But Many Business & Political Leaders, Particularly in USA, Continue to Pretend - But as pathetic and disingenuous as these speeches were, the US mainstream news media was even more feckless, it reported them as straight news stories, without providing the context of the last seven years, in which it has been widely reported (at least in the alternative media) that the Bush-Cheney administration sought to suppress the truth, distort the facts and harass the US government's own scientists concerning their research.

Bush's EPA Is Pursuing Fewer Polluters - The Environmental Protection Agency's pursuit of criminal cases against polluters has dropped off sharply during the Bush administration, with the number of prosecutions, new investigations and total convictions all down by more than a third, according to Justice Department and EPA data.
TVNL Comment: Old news, know from the minute Bush appointed his first EPA head.

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

Huge crowds in Costa Rica protest U.S. pact - More than 100,000 Costa Ricans, some dressed as skeletons, protested a U.S. trade pact on Sunday they say will flood their country with cheap farm goods and cause job losses.

Russia, China enjoy strategic relationship - Putin - The level of Russian-Chinese relations is unprecedentedly high, President Vladimir Putin said in a message to his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao on the occasion of the 58th anniversary of the People's Republic of China.
TVNL Comment: Another Bush legacy.

Burma: Thousands dead in massacre of the monks dumped in the jungle - Thousands of protesters are dead and the bodies of hundreds of executed monks have been dumped in the jungle, a former intelligence officer for Burma's ruling junta has revealed.

I hate all Iranians, US aide tells MPs - And she also accused Britain of "dismantling" the Anglo-US-led coalition in Iraq by pulling troops out of Basra too soon.

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

National Guard Troops Denied Benefits After Longest Deployment Of Iraq War - Had they been written for 730 days, just one day more, the soldiers would receive those benefits to pay for school.

Many soldiers get boot for 'pre-existing' mental illness - Thousands of U.S. soldiers in Iraq — as many as 10 a day — are being discharged by the military for mental health reasons. But the Pentagon isn't blaming the war. It says the soldiers had "pre-existing" conditions that disqualify them for treatment by the government.

Sycophant Savior - David Petraeus is a political general. Yet in presenting his recent assessment of the Iraq War and in describing the “way forward,” Petraeus demonstrated that he is a political general of the worst kind—one who indulges in the politics of accommodation that is Washington’s bread and butter but has thereby deferred a far more urgent political imperative, namely, bringing our military policies into harmony with our political purposes.
TVNL Comment: Where is all the attention to this comment?

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

WHO RUNS THE WORLD AND WHY YOU NEED TO KNOW IMMEDIATELY - As a rhetorical question, can someone please explain to me how it is that progressive liberals such as John Edwards and Hillary Clinton, as well as do-gooder humanitarians with multiple social projects ongoing such as the Rockefellers and every Royal House in Europe, can perennially attend Bilderberg meetings apparently knowing that the final objective of this despicable group of hoodlums is a fascist One World Empire?

What Democracy? - This country would thus be a much different place than the budding corporofascist dictatorship which is being built up slowly so as not to disturb the mental slumber of those who, as P.M. Carpenter describes them in his Attack of the Right-Winging Befuddled, are "the result of far too many years of gluing themselves to simpleminded talk radio and assorted right-wing scribblings of overbearing oversimplification."

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

FCC accused of unfairly aiding some firms - In addition to the case studies, several businesses or groups said they were tipped off about upcoming votes by FCC staff. "One stakeholder -- representing a large organization that is involved in numerous rulemakings -- told us that FCC staff call them and tell them what items are scheduled for a vote," the report said.

SF Supervisors Vote To Condemn Radio Host Savage - The resolution creates a formal rebuke of "defamatory language used by radio personality Michael Savage against immigrants," the proposal said.

'Star Trib' Editorial Page Editor Forced Out In 'Local' Dispute - Harte, the chairman of the Star Tribune company, assumed the publisher's title last week when former publisher Par Ridder was forced out by a court ruling, the paper added. It said his decision about Albright "was not rooted in political differences with Albright."

BRING A REAL NEWSPAPER BACK INTO AMERICA'S TOWNS & CITIES - America's newspapers are the same facilitators of fabrications, spin and lying through omission of events, investigations and legal issues as the boob tube because they're all owned by a half dozen massive conglomerates who also own propaganda publications like Time, Newsweek and publications put out by organizations targeted at specific age or ethnic groups. They all have a message, but few of them have any grasp of constitutional government, the restrictions placed on government - only how to vote more and more of the public's empty treasury for their pet cause.

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

Bush vetoes children's health bill - George Bush today used his presidential veto for only the fourth time in seven years to block legislation that would have given health insurance to millions of poor American children.
TVNL Comment: Would anyone really be upset if we used vile language in our comment on this story?

Bill would reduce meat inspections - As one of the largest meat recalls in history unfolds, Congress is considering legislation that would reduce required federal inspections for meat that is produced by small companies and then shipped to another state.
TVNL Comment: If you still feel that "your party" is better at national security and keeping you safe...you are simply stupid. If you think that military action is the only way you are kept safe (if at all) you are simply stupid. If you do not realize how you are being raped, abused, robbed and murdered by your leaders, you are simply stupid.

8 states sues Bush over children's health insurance - New Jersey on Monday joined seven states in filing separate lawsuits against the Bush administration's challenge of proposed federal rules the states say will force poor children to lose health coverage.

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

Secret U.S. Endorsement of Severe Interrogations - The classified opinions, never previously disclosed, are a hidden legacy of President Bush’s second term and Mr. Gonzales’s tenure at the Justice Department, where he moved quickly to align it with the White House after a 2004 rebellion by staff lawyers that had thrown policies on surveillance and detention into turmoil.
TVNL Comment: Hidden because the NY Times did not report this until now.

Soldiers hunt dissidents in Myanmar - Soldiers announced that they were hunting pro-democracy protesters in Myanmar's largest city Wednesday and the top U.S. diplomat in the country said military police were pulling people out of their homes during the night.

'The President Has Accepted Ethnic Cleansing' - Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has consistently led the way in telling the story of what's really going on in Iraq and Iran. SPIEGEL ONLINE spoke to him about America's Hitler, Bush's Vietnam, and how the US press failed the First Amendment.

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

Super Foam Fends Off Swinging Shovel - A revolutionary new foam has been developed which its makers claim can protect people from pain and injury when they hit something at speed - or when something hits them.
TVNL Comment: ATTN. NFL! Time for new helmets!

Suspected Georgetown gay-basher has Bush Administration ties - Phil Cooney was appointed chief of staff with the White House Council on Environmental Quality, suffering criticism for his lack of environmental experience. After his resignation and subsequent hire to a position with ExxonMobil, it was found that Cooney had reportedly tampered with data to support the Bush line on climate change.