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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-11-07 06:50 AM
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The PEN: Corporate Media Desperate To Suppress Coverage Of Impeachment Movement
Edited on Sun Nov-11-07 07:11 AM by Hissyspit
Via The Peoples E-mail Network: www.usalone.com

Do you have any idea how desperate the corporate media is to suppress
coverage of the growing impeachment movement?

One of the most riveting events to occur in Congress in recent
history occurred last week, and not one of the major so-called news
channels wanted you to know it had happened. An incredible live
event, and they didn't even cover it. But they will, finally, if only
more of us speak out now.

Cheney Impeachment Action Page: http://www.usalone.com/hres333.php

Facebook Version:
http://apps.facebook.com/fb_voices/action.php?qnum=pnum709

On Nov. 6, 2007, Dennis Kucinich brought a privileged resolution
calling for the impeachment of Vice President Cheney, based on just a
couple of Cheney's constitutional high crimes. And for two hours the
House of Representatives was tied up in knots trying to figure out
how to try to shut him up.

In their contempt for the people, the Republicans committed the
colossal tactical blunder of trying to mock the momentous occasion.
When the Democratic so-called leadership tried to table the Kucinich
resolution, as we expected them to do, the Republican big shots
suddenly directed their underlings to change their votes, to start
voting AGAINST the motion to table, thereby forcing the very vote
Kucinich sought.

The entire House of Representatives was thrown into a turmoil. It was
high drama as the motion to table suddenly was being rejected
numerically, with Republican help. The scheduled 15 minute vote
extended into two hours, with nobody in a leadership position knowing
how to deal with the crisis of one man standing up and speaking the
truth. And did you hear about this incredible drama on your cable TV?
No you did not.


Now the defeatists out there, and we know they are out there, will
try to tell you that because the impeachment resolution was
ultimately sent to the Judiciary Committee that nothing more will
happen. That's like saying because the indictment was given to a
judge and a prosecutor, that will be the end of it. But whatever the
vain intent of certain so-called Congressional leaders, the Judiciary
Committee is exactly where we want the resolution, for that is where
the actual impeachment articles must emerge from.

Look at what's actually happening, and not what the right wing
spinners are trying to tell you is happening. Progressive talk
personalities are calling for action all over the dial. They are
giving out toll free congressional phone numbers and calling on their
listeners to now put real pressure on the Judiciary Committee. This
is happening only because your voices forced the issue in the first
place, by calling those shows and talking about impeachment and the
necessity for it.

Look at what's actually happening. Members of the House are being
forced to justify why they have not yet acted to defend and protect
the Constitution.
And their lame and pathetic excuses are exposing
just how poorly represented the people of the United States are. More
people are realizing that their voices do count, and that Congress
has no answer to defend their failure to do their sacred
constitutional duty.

It is only because of the impeachment movement that attention is
being focused on Cheney's insane fixation on bombing Iran and
starting the last World War of them all. It is only your voices that
can stop the secret march to Armageddon, as they make up new lies to
sucker the American people into yet another, and even more
monumental, military debacle.

Yes, the heat is on the Judiciary Committee alright. Their first
bleating reaction was to talk about how busy they were putting
together a contempt citation for Mier and Bolton. This is something
that should have happened instantly 6 months ago when the subpoenas
were first defied, at the direction of the Cheney White House, itself
an impeachable offense. Well, we'll just see if they even do that in
the next two weeks.

Yes, the heat is on the Judiciary Committee, as more and more people
all over the country raise their voices, some for the perhaps the
first time. Join those voices now. Use the either of the action pages
below to send your personal message to the Judiciary Committee, Nancy
Pelosi and your own member of the House as well. Tell them we will
not shut up. Tell them we will not go away. Tell them they work for
us and not the other way around.

Cheney Impeachment Action Page: http://www.usalone.com/hres333.php

Facebook Version:
http://apps.facebook.com/fb_voices/action.php?qnum=pnum709

What is actually happening is they have stupidly and arrogantly given
the people hope. And hope is the most powerful enemy the corrupters
of our democracy have. The only thing they have going for them is
fear, and its two evil twins, defeatism and inaction. The rule only
by fear . . . flooding our TVs with propaganda and smug indifference
to the will of the people, masquerading as the news.

Tell them you are not afraid. Tell them you will no longer be ruled
by fear. Speak out now to force the hand of the Judiciary Committee,
and necessary truth of how our country has been systematically
betrayed by imperial subversives in the White House for the last 7
years will be heard and confronted, at last.

Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed
to be ours, and forward this alert as widely as possible.

If you would like to get alerts like these, you can do so at
http://www.usalone.com/in.htm
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-11-07 07:56 AM
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1. Rec'd! nt
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caseycoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-11-07 10:42 AM
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2. Thanks Hissyspit!
Can't say much more... This makes my brain become awash with cuss-words. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
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tekisui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-11-07 10:47 AM
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3. It being censored.
:mad:
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Mnemosyne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-11-07 08:08 PM
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5. CNN AND PSYOPS

edited by alexander cockburn and jeffrey st. clair

March 26, 2000

CNN AND PSYOPS

By Alexander Cockburn

Military personnel from the Fourth Psychological Operations Group based at Fort Bragg, in North Carolina, have until recently been working in CNN's hq in Atlanta.

CNN is up in arms about our report in the last issue of CounterPunch concerning the findings of the Dutch journalist, Abe de Vries about the presence of US Army personnel at CNN, owned by Time-Warner. We cited an article by de Vries which appeared on February 21 in the reputable Dutch daily newspaper Trouw, originally translated into English and placed on the web by Emperor's Clothes. De Vries reported that a handful of military personnel from the Third Psychological Operations Battalion, part of the airmobile Fourth Psychological Operations Group based at Fort Bragg, in North Carolina, had worked in CNN's hq in Atlanta.

De Vries quoted Major Thomas Collins of the US Army Information Service as having confirmed the presence of these Army psy-ops experts at CNN, saying, "Psy-ops personnel, soldiers and officers, have been working in CNN's headquarters in Atlanta through our program, 'Training with Industry'. They worked as regular employees of CNN. Conceivably, they would have worked on stories during the Kosovo war. They helped in the production of news."

snip>

"The facts are", De Vries told me, " that the US Army, US Special Operations Command and CNN personnel confirmed to me that military personnel have been involved in news production at CNN's newsdesks. I found it simply astonishing. Of course CNN says these psyops personnel didn't decide anything, write news reports, etcetera. What else can they say. Maybe it's true, maybe not. The point is that these kind of close ties with the army are, in my view, completely unacceptable for any serious news organization. Maybe even more astonishing is the complete silence about the story from the big media. To my knowledge, my story was not mentioned by leading American or British newspapers, nor by Reuters or AP."

http://www.counterpunch.org/cnnpsyops.html


They haven't left either. It's worse now, way worse, imo.

Faux "News" obviously the worst, CNN close second. :grr:
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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-11-07 10:26 PM
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6. Good god. I did not see that. Thanks for posting. Do they have a desk for CodePink?
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Mnemosyne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-12-07 01:38 PM
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16. No desks for 'radicals' pacifists allowed!
The more I learn the more I despair some days. :(
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Wilms Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-11-07 11:54 AM
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4. Done.
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Audio_Al Donating Member (536 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-12-07 01:03 AM
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7. Signed up tonight. Thanks.
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kelligesq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-12-07 01:16 AM
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8. It is illegal to use psy ops for domestic use, but Rumsfeld-Cheney decided differntly
There is a law on the books that actually says it is illegal - maybe another thing to add to the list of
Cheney's impeachable offenses.
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Mnemosyne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-12-07 01:40 PM
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17. See my post above - CNN and PSYOPS.
And welcome to DU, kelligesq! :hi:
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kelligesq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-12-07 01:20 AM
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9. WAIT A MOMENT -Dennis is chairman of an FCC committee ! Does he know about this? &
if he doesnt know about psy ops working at CNN shouldnt somebody find a way to get this information to him ???
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-12-07 01:23 AM
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10. LOL! Highest kick!
:kick:
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Senator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-12-07 03:58 AM
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11. K&R&ImpeachNow
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NoFederales Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-12-07 09:13 AM
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12. Form written and fired away! K&R
NoFederales
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sicksicksick_N_tired Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-12-07 09:27 AM
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13. Kick.
Grrrr!
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Pooka Fey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-12-07 09:57 AM
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14. Kick.
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pberq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-12-07 10:38 AM
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15. Kick
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