Project Censored's Top 25 Stories You Won't Hear From The Media
By Nicole Belle Tuesday Nov 18, 2008 1:44pmIt's been out for a while, but still cannot be mentioned enough. Project Censored, a media research and analysis group based at California's Sonoma State University has released the 25 Most Important Stories that are completely ignored by the mainstream media. They are:
#1. Over One Million Iraqi Deaths Caused by US Occupation
# 2 Security and Prosperity Partnership: Militarized NAFTA
# 3 InfraGard: The FBI Deputizes Business
# 4 ILEA: Is the US Restarting Dirty Wars in Latin America?
# 5 Seizing War Protesters’ Assets
# 6 The Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act
# 7 Guest Workers Inc.: Fraud and Human Trafficking
# 8 Executive Orders Can Be Changed Secretly
# 9 Iraq and Afghanistan Vets Testify
# 10 APA Complicit in CIA Torture
# 11 El Salvador’s Water Privatization and the Global War on Terror
# 12 Bush Profiteers Collect Billions From No Child Left Behind
# 13 Tracking Billions of Dollars Lost in Iraq
# 14 Mainstreaming Nuclear Waste
# 15 Worldwide Slavery
# 16 Annual Survey on Trade Union Rights
# 17 UN’s Empty Declaration of Indigenous Rights
# 18 Cruelty and Death in Juvenile Detention Centers
# 19 Indigenous Herders and Small Farmers Fight Livestock Extinction
# 20 Marijuana Arrests Set New Record
# 21 NATO Considers “First Strike” Nuclear Option
# 22 CARE Rejects US Food Aid
# 23 FDA Complicit in Pushing Pharmaceutical Drugs
# 24 Japan Questions 9/11 and the Global War on Terror
# 25 Bush’s Real Problem with Eliot Spitzer
My local Air America station (San Francisco's Green960) is working with Project Censored to cover these stories in a continuing series. You can listen to their coverage of the #25 story on Spitzer now, and check back for updates of other stories.
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In regard to number 18, that got tons of coverage down here when the Florida child died or was killed.
Number 25 doesn't surprise me but damn, it should have been chewed on by the media for a long time.
..it's a long list
Thankfully, Democracy Now also tries to cover matters like these on occasion (and I'm a devout listener), so few of these subjects are surprising to me.
Information is power!
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Whoopee!
For publishing this list on C&L. I agree, few of these are surprising, but the fact that the Japanese GOVERNMENT (No. 24) is questioning the events of 9/11 is extremely significant.
I think this is one of those "consider the sources" as I don't think Rense.com is a site I would consider well sourced.
Just MHO, but it is MHO.
..but being that it was my first source of alternative media before finding C&L (and its most excellent section of comments and commenters), I still have a soft spot in my heart for them.
In any case, Rense is more "on the money" than CNN's John King has ever even pretended to try to be.
John King is DEFINITELY a consider the source guy. I agree with you completely.
...you can just go online and read tons of information, and look at bazillions of still photos and video. Anyone who really takes the time to do so, will at least have serious doubts about the "official" story. Especially the parts about the Bldg #7 implosion, and the supposed crash of a 757 into the Pentagon.
I happened to have read the PNAC docs back near the end of 2000, just found them on line one day and read the militray stratgey paper. When 9/11 happened, and then shortly after Bush & Cheney started beating the drums to invade Iraq, I went back and reread parts, then I started watching the videos and reading on line (as my job was eliminated at the end of 2002, I had plenty of time).
I'm fairly certain that we will one day learn that 9/11 did not happen as we were led to believe....just like we learned the details about the "original" Pearl Harbor, and the Gulf of Tonkin Incident that was used to justify ramping up the Viet Nam invasion. Nothing is as it seems.
I definitely have my doubts, especially about both WTC7 and the Pentagon.
I doubt we will ever learn of this in our lifetimes...but one day it will come out. I suspect it will be long after anyone who is in this administration is alive.
I agree that Rense.com is a shaky source, but Project Censored has student & faculty fact checkers from Sonoma State College vetting these stories. Also, statements made in Japanese parliament are a matter of public record; this wasn't a Rense opinion piece - they just reported it.
...just a couple days ago I wrote a post on a thread here about #2 on the list, the SPP, along with comments about the Feb '08 agreement to allow US/Canada troops to "quell civil unrest" in each other's countries.
What's interesting is that David Niewart (sp) wrote a reply comment to mine and said, "please don't believe this crap" - about the SPP.
It ain't crap, and people ought to know what's going on. We have stealth government!!
Last year, C&L ran this piece by the usually excellent Steve Benen. Anyone who disputed Benen's article was attacked as a conspiracy theorist, and many comments (including mine) were deleted. Is the SPP a valid concern now, or is it still a loony conspiracy theory?
As a member of InfraGard, I find the claims regarding it rather overstated. It's an outreach program, it's not the Hoover Youth. And the intelligence mailings expose more about the inner workings of the Intelligence community than one skeptical of that community is likely to obtain anywhere else. I've been a member for years now, and have never been asked for or provided any intelligence on my neighbors or colleagues.
Is InfraGard worth being aware of? Yes. Is it worth fearing? No. I'd be more afraid of the St. Paul Chamber of Commerce. Now THERE'S a diabolical organization!
All it takes is one fine patriotic person to totally fuck up someone else's life.
I do not want business deputized in any fashion. The right is going apeshit about Obama making citizen's voluntary military (which is not what he is trying to do) and I do not want Big Business - or anyone in business - to be standing over my shoulder. This IS adopting big business as a government watchdog.
Sorry...I have two words for that: Fuck No.
Nobody is deputized. It might be worth visiting a local meeting before getting too askeert.
It still smells like shit.
...I think the "big business" Telecom corps are already doing that - monitoring emails and phone calls, etc., no? Maybe not yours or mine, now; but maybe soon.....
By law they can monitor everything you do. They can monitor your corporate email and everything you send or receive through it. They can monitor all phone calls to and from corporate phones. They can monitor everything you do on a corporate owned computer. They have the law on their side, telecoms or not.
I don't have to worry about that much as I work from home using my own computer and almost never use my company email for personal use...and if I do use it for personal use, I do so with the expectation that my boss, and others, may very well read it someday (IOW, I am not stupid enough to send out stupid jokes which might get me or my employer into trouble).
...that the Telecoms are now intercepting the communications of regular citizens whom they "suspect" of who-knows-what; that's what the FISA fight was about.
Certainly, anyone who works and uses the company computer and phone systems has no reason to think their communications are "private." The company I worked for made that very clear, I think we had to sign a receipt attached to the policy statement acknowledging we understood. (even so there will still some folks who got dismissed for looking atporn or sending stupid jokes.)
FISA was about protecting information coming out that would show what level Bush has invaded our privacy. I do agree with you that anyone using any type of communications, beit cell, landline, text or internet, there should be no expectation of privacy. That horse is long out of that barn.
Which is why I firmly believe that Bush, et al, has something on all of the congresscritters (except for Feingold who seems to have enough ethics, or brains, to be able to vote and act according to his beliefs).
That's what the mainstream news should look like, in that order of importance, too. It's still amazing to me that Americans can find out that well over a million Iraqis have been murdered because of the US invasion (and that's a conservative estimate) and still, because of endless repetition, think that celebrity gossip and the latest cars are real news. And it hasn't always been this way.
If the media did its job and reported all those terrible deaths I bet Bush wouldn't sleep so good at night and always be in that stupid jovial mood of his. No wonder no one believes he'll be punished. I'm disgusted every day by this.
Bush is a socieopath who has no conscience. He feels entitled to everything and above anyone else.
If he personally had the balls to torture someone (which I think he would do if he knew he wouldn't get his pansy ass kicked) he would sleep like a baby.
He feels he is above everything, including the law, which is for us little folk (and even more so should us little folk be anything other than lilly white).
It is up to someone like Vincent Bugliosi, or an international body like the Hague to bring this animal to justice. There is hope out there.
Why Eliot Spitzer was assassinated
The predatory lending industry had a partner in the White House
Read along:
Predatory Lenders' Partner in Crime
How the Bush Administration Stopped the States From Stepping In to Help Consumers
By Eliot Spitzer
Thursday, February 14, 2008
...to anyone who has concerns about Joe Lieberman retaining his chairmanship of the HS committee. The House passed it by a wide margin; Joe tabled it in the Senate, but it will be brought back, I'm sure, in the new Congress.
People who regularly dismiss many of these things as "not important," "not serious," "doesn't affect me," "they're all conspiracy theorists" etc. need to take a second look and pay close attention. This is one bill that could eventually lead to serious ramifications for, say, those who write what they think are innocuous comments on blogs like C&L.
Is somebody going to come kill me? I'm not being cute!
Regarding Lieberman, I am watching David "Dances With Rove" Gregory right now, and the people he's interviewing assure us that the Dem senators HAD to let Lieberman keep his HS chair, because "Obama needs McCain" and "most people know that Joe Lieberman is perhaps John McCain's BEST friend."
So you see, the losers actually WON. Eat it, or don't, nobody cares, you have no power, nor have I. Change was all in jest. It got votes. That's over.
Still, Democratic party voters, there aren't enough of you, without independents, peacenik libertarians, and snarling, spitting, infuriated EX-republicans, to win a presidency.
Good luck in 2012.
Sorry, wasn't paying attention. You were talking about a Homegrown Terrorism bill. Good point. I think I'll start being careful right now, if it isn't too late.
Autism continues to increase. One subpopulation in Minnesota is reported to be 1 in 28 but the authorities still see no need for alarm.
Simply posting a story about Ron Paul has turned C&L into a "conspiracy" website.
Linking to stories that aren't about high school drama politics, but about Infraguard, NSPD-51 and Japanese 9/11 truth.
What's next?
I guess we'll be talking about a new world order where global banking cartels run the governments of industrial countries everywhere.
But I have it bookmarked now, thanks. "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance" True then, even more so today.
Can we talk about #24 in here? I agree with the Japanese, a crime requires a full investigation, not a bunch of shoddy evidence, hearsay, gut reaction, and some hasty conclusions made by a dry-drunk (used to do coke) nitwit with a bullhorn in his hands.
Number 3 is a red herring. I work in Information Security and have been to a few InfraGard meetings, I can assure each and everyone of you that that InfraGard's purpose is to exchange information regarding Cyber-Security between Law Enforcement, Business and Infrastructure communities. They do not (I repeat, Do Not) have any powers granted them nor is it secret, they even teach information about InfraGard in school. This is about Cyber Security (The Internet and its connecting networks) which if the same care that was given New Orleans during Katrina or The financial system over the past 8 years can lead to a Bushian disaster if information like this isn't shared.
MIDEAST: On Top of Humanitarian Disaster, A News Blackout
By Cherrie Heywood @ IPS
RAMALLAH, West Bank, Nov 18 (IPS) - Israel has imposed a virtual news blackout on the Gaza Strip. For the last ten days no foreign journalists have been able to enter the besieged territory to report on the escalating humanitarian crisis caused by Israel's complete closure of Gaza's borders for the last two weeks.
Steve Gutkin, the AP bureau chief in Jerusalem and head of Israel's Foreign Press Association, said that he personally "knows of no foreign journalist that has been allowed into Gaza in the last week."
Gutkin said that "while Israel has barred foreign press from entering Gaza in the past, the length of the current ban makes it unprecedented." He added that he has received no "plausible or acceptable" explanation for the ban from the Israeli government......
ENTIRE ARTICLE - http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=44745
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