From the [http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080430/BUSINESS/80430004/-1/NEWS04 Des Moines Register]:
"It's the speculators," said [Keck Oil president Mark] Meyer, whose company supplies gasoline from refinery pipelines to service stations throughout Des Moines and central Iowa. "There's no shortage of gasoline supplies, and demand is down, so prices should be falling. But there are too many non-oil speculators in the energy markets, and they are driving up the prices."
And two West Virginia papers covered an American Petroleum Institute staffer's talk to the Wheeling Rotary Club. It's at least her second talk to Rotarians in West Virginia this year, oddly enough:
"When you talk about what you pay for the price of gasoline at the pump, you have to remember that 72 percent of it right now is actually the price of crude oil," [Denise McCourt] [http://www.statejournal.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=37926 says]. "Crude oil's been trading at about $120 a barrel, just a little below that."
"Contrary to popular belief and what some politicians might say, America’s oil companies aren’t owned just by a small group of insiders," [Denise McCourt] [http://www.theintelligencer.net/page/content.detail/id/508901.html?nav=510 said]. "Only 1.5 percent of industry shares are owned by company executives. The rest is owned by tens of millions of Americans, many of them middle class."
Barbara Reynolds declared her flame to Hillary's candidacy earlier this year on her blog.
She also set up the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's latest controversial conference, the one that led media to wonder whether the man was in favor of Obama or against him.
Now we know, thanks to NY Daily News' Errol Louis (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/04/29/2008-04-29_is_jeremiah_wright_a_colossal_disaster_f-2.html).
Reynolds claims the didn't have anything in mind of that sort*. As if a former editorial board member of USA Today didn't know anything about the power of such a mediatic rally.
Did she have something in mind when she deleted the Feb. 14 entry of her blog where she declared her preference for Clinton over Obama (http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/alerts/349 ) ?
[http://www.earthrights.org/campaignfeature/yadana_pipeline.html EarthRights International] has a new report on Chevron's activities in Burma, titled: "[http://www.earthrights.org/files/Burma%20Project/Yadana/HCoE_pages.pdf The Human Cost of Energy: Chevron’s Continuing Role in Financing Oppression and Profiting From Human Rights Abuses in Military-Ruled Burma (Myanmar)] (PDF file)."
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Last week, I posted a <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/4/21/1794/48249/102/500264">diary</a> on the Pentagon's long-running (read: before September 11th) <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/washington/20generals.html?_r=2&pagewanted=5&hp&oref=slogin">campaign</a> to groom retired Army officers to appear as “military analysts” on the mainstream media and to promote administration-generated talking points on the war.
I ventured that the muffling of war atrocities by the media stemmed what I predicted should be an inevitable outcry against the unjust and corrupt war.
This week, in response to the Times article and the outrage generated amongst progressives and others who care about the truth the Pentagon announced it's suspending it's program.
That's great news. Kudos to the Times for breaking the story. But some progressives fear that this is the Pentagon's way of evading consequences by protecting the program under executive privilege. And history, very recent history as a matter of fact, shows that we can't rely on the mainstream media to regularly publish these stories . . .
The mainstream media is big business. It's focus on attracting advertisers (read: other big businesses) and maintaining the bottom line, rather than delivering unbiased reporting, is a blow to our security, livelihood and civic interests. For example, early in the primary race, a debate on CNN between the Democratic candidates was <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/04/15/coal-cnn-velshi/">co-opted by the coal industry</a> wherein no questions were asked on global climate change and advertising for the 'clean' energy alternative was omnipresent. And Fox News continues to be a <a href="http://www.newshounds.us/">broadcast platform for the administration's conservative and religiously intolerant policies</a>.
However, we can take stock of victories like the suspension of the Pentagon's analyst briefing program and realize that any instance of citizen advocacy will make a difference, because it keeps the media in check. Some have said that the media is our fourth branch of government. If this is true, I say let the public be the fifth, using our personal prerogative to always look to alternative sources to find the true story as our method of checks and balances. I would ask those of you who haven't yet signed the <a href="http://progressivefuture.org/contractor-accountability/propaganda-war2?id4=BLCD">Petition for an Open Media</a> to do so, and together we can begin chipping away at the system of corporate dominance.
From the [http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080430/BUSINESS/80430004/-1/NEWS04 Des Moines Register]:
And two West Virginia papers covered an American Petroleum Institute staffer's talk to the Wheeling Rotary Club. It's at least her second talk to Rotarians in West Virginia this year, oddly enough:
Barbara Reynolds declared her flame to Hillary's candidacy earlier this year on her blog.
She also set up the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's latest controversial conference, the one that led media to wonder whether the man was in favor of Obama or against him.
Now we know, thanks to NY Daily News' Errol Louis (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/04/29/2008-04-29_is_jeremiah_wright_a_colossal_disaster_f-2.html).
Reynolds claims the didn't have anything in mind of that sort*. As if a former editorial board member of USA Today didn't know anything about the power of such a mediatic rally.
Did she have something in mind when she deleted the Feb. 14 entry of her blog where she declared her preference for Clinton over Obama (http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/alerts/349 ) ?
To me, this set up is the actual pastorgate.
* http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/04/29/reynolds_claims_no_ulterior_mo.html
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[http://www.earthrights.org/campaignfeature/yadana_pipeline.html EarthRights International] has a new report on Chevron's activities in Burma, titled: "[http://www.earthrights.org/files/Burma%20Project/Yadana/HCoE_pages.pdf The Human Cost of Energy: Chevron’s Continuing Role in Financing Oppression and Profiting From Human Rights Abuses in Military-Ruled Burma (Myanmar)] (PDF file)."
The Internet Archive doesn't archive everything on the web, and they will remove archives of a particular site from public display if the site's owner asks them to do so.
In case anyone is wondering why the Internet Archive does this, I think they have good reasons, reflecting their desire to build as comprehensive as possible a historical archive for the benefit of future generations, while also balancing other legal, copyright and privacy concerns. You can find their policy and some explanations for it here:
http://www2.sims.berkeley.edu/research/conferences/aps/removal-policy.html
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