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The Censored Stories of 2007
From Project Censored (via Ten 95) comes a list of the top 25 censored stories of 2007. Did you know that the Pentagon is exempt from the Freedom of Information Act? Or that the Department of Homeland Security contracts with KBR to build domestic detention centers? Or that six to seven million people have died in the Congo since 1996?
Project Censored has the scoop on all of those and more, so check out the link. But we'd like to point out that Mother Jones extensively covered two of the list's top ten.
6. Federal Whistleblower Protection in Jeopardy
Special Counsel Scott Bloch, appointed by President Bush in 2004, is overseeing the virtual elimination of federal whistleblower rights in the U.S. government. The U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC), the agency that is supposed to protect federal employees who blow the whistle on waste, fraud, and abuse is dismissing hundreds of cases while advancing almost none.
Yup, we were on that one. Check out "Office of Special Counsel's War On Whistleblowers" from our May/June 2007 issue. Also...
3. Oceans of the World in Extreme Danger
Oceanic problems once found on a local scale are now pandemic. Data from oceanography, marine biology, meteorology, fishery science, and glaciology reveal that the seas are changing in ominous ways. A vortex of cause and effect wrought by global environmental dilemmas is changing the ocean from a watery horizon with assorted regional troubles to a global system in alarming distress.
We did a whole issue on that, with articles like "The Fate of the Oceans", "The Catch", and "Net Losses."
Comments
Gotta love how the mainstream media sets its priorities. Anything from a government official goes totally unchallenged with no scrutiny and no demand for facts. The only challenges printed are from larger corporations protecting their interests from government oversight. Any time a little guy makes allegations they have to show full proof - and give the news media ample time to verify [or discredit the little guy via innuendo].
"Whistleblowers"? Be sure that they are watching this very space and will pull strings to keep you from expressing your opinion and acting for the good of the common weal. The Emperor's minions are deligent and it will take a long time to ferret them out and heal our liberties and rights.
Posted by: Tim Shullberg on 05/31/07 at 10:04 AM Respond
I think that big brother is out to tag everyone with some sort of mental problem like ADD or bi-polar... to make whistleblowers of the future discredited. Take all the kids in school being tagged by school administrator as having some social disorder so later their credibility can be attacked. The drug companies are only to happy to oblige. They even help run the programs. Not to mention the behavior problems exacerbated by the food that is fed to them at school. Not to mention all the fast food promotions. There is a diferent deal at a different outlet every day of the week. Our children are lucky if they can survive such an onslot of manipulations to be of any worth as an opponent of corruption.
Posted by: Martin Smith on 05/31/07 at 1:14 PM Respond
Nobody is forcing anyone to buy and consume fast foods full of sugar, transfats and preservatives. It just fills people up for less money. Most of the crime and behavioral problems are caused by a lack of opportunity for living wages. Getting better educated only raises the bar for the rest of us. Only when a college degree comes with a living wage job will education be worth something. Getting steadily higher degrees only makes low level fast food supervisors - with appropriate incomes - into underpaid highly educated underutilized professionals. Many PHDs are driving taxis to make ends meet.
Posted by: JT Barrie on 05/31/07 at 6:10 PM Respond
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