Disinformation and Depleted Uranium

The RAD ALERT Conference: Nuclear Dollars versus the Common Good was held in Columbus on Sept. 25th complete with national and international level speakers. It seemed to be of a greater relative interest to the domestic psyops corps of the US Military. The central intent of the conference was to provide the necessary information to understand several current nuclear issues.

What I am most interested in here is the coverage given to the conference by the Columbus Dispatch. It actually provides several insights into the motivations of its editorial staff in its effort to provide what they tell us is "news." It is true that the subject matter of the conference had a strong technical element. It is also true that typical journalism graduates tend toward the liberal arts range of preferences and less toward the technical side of issues. This indicates a deficiency in our educational expectations. It is also true that corporate filtered news tend toward the bland and the pretense of fairness, rather than the substance

Information Age

The debates

John Kerry came across as the clear winner in Thursday night's debates on foreign policy.  As George W. Bush bumbled and stumbled his way through the debates, John Kerry was clear, concise and showed how Bush's bungled plan on Iraq was wrong and was a diversion from our goal; finding and killing Osama bin Laden.  Bush tried to mislead the public about a connection between Saddam Hussein and Iraq, but Kerry wouldn't let him do it.  Bush was not able to handle the heat that John Kerry was putting on him by forcing him to answer the tough questions that he hasn't been asked before.

        Bush's unwillingness to see the reality of Iraq and the war on terrorists only shows that he is unable to serve effectively as president.

Kerry VS Bush was no debate, Bush forfeited

It was Bush’s sophomoric pandering to the "average Joe" that ruined the quality of the debate and his insistence on untruth. That really was not a debate but a facade that needed more propping in the hurricane of truth from Kerry.

It was suggested by some media outlets that Kerry has a poor record in the Senate but the time he spent on these very issues that indited the right is then not referenced. His 2 investigations, one being the BCCI investigation and the Iran Contra investigation were both started by him.

He threatened the right and obviously has more guts to stick it out despite criticism and pressure from the "powers that be" as he did when he came back from Viet Nam.

It is these same guts that he used in the "debate" to enlighten the American public about the reality of the current administration and its present state.

Stephen Caruso

Hope for the homestretch

In an election likely to be decided as much by voter turnout as by convincing the remaining undecided, how do we maintain the hope that's necessary to keep making the phone calls, knocking on the doors, funding the key ads, and doing all the other critical tasks to get Bush out of office?

Even those of us working hard for change hit walls of doubt and uncertainty about whether our actions really matter. Our spirits rise and fall as if on a roller coaster with each shift in the polls. In a time when lies too often seem to prevail, we wonder whether it's worthwhile to keep making the effort.

We need to remind ourselves that we never can predict all the results of our actions. A few years ago, I met a Wesleyan University student who, with a few friends, registered nearly three hundred fellow students concerned about environmental threats and cuts in government financial aid programs. The Congressman they supported won by twenty-one votes. Before they began, the student and her friends feared that their modest efforts would be irrelevant.

Even when our actions seem futile, we never really know their full

Other Stuff

AUSTIN, Texas -- This column is not about the presidential debate. It's about Other Stuff. Particularly eye-catching are the updates on the price of gasoline, your overtime pay, why the company most likely to hold the mortgage on your house could go broke, why you're getting peanuts from new tax cuts just passed by Congress and how the government is kicking hundreds of thousands of kids off health insurance while promising not to. Cheer all around.

        -- The price of a barrel of oil went over $50 for the first time early this week, and the price of gassing up my vehicle, Truck Bob the Ford, is now $36 a pop. According to oil-ologists, this is on account of the unrest in oil-producing countries and rising global demand destabilizing world energy markets. Don't you love the jargon? The petro experts also say this ain't gonna get better.

        Also Not Helping -- in fact, headed in completely the wrong direction -- is U.S. energy policy under You Know Who. More than half the oil we use today is imported, much of it from such stable, democratic regimes as Iraq. The Energy Department predicts this will rise to 70 percent in 20 years.

Bush,Attila the Hun,Hitler,Stalin... COLUMBUS

I read your article about George Dumbass Bush being the biggest environmental terrorist of all time (I agree) and his many other too-long-to-list violations (I agree) but when you ran down a list of history's bad guys, you did NOT list Christopher Columbus... why?

Why is it that so many people still think of this greedy, murdering, slave-trading bastard as a hero? There were an estimated 6,000,000 people (Taino) in the Caribbean when Columbus, lost, came upon it and then promptly "claimed" it... He called it the New World and was heralded for his "discovery"... but, didn't the Taino discover it...they had been in the (cough,cough) New World for two thousand years when Columbus stumbled upon them. Columbus promised the King & Queen of Spain riches beyond imagination for funding his voyage... but even though he enslaved the population and put them to work in the gold mines until they dropped dead from exhaustion or starvation... the greed was never-ending but the gold just wasn't there. So, the enterprising Columbus rounded up 1,000 of the biggest, strongest Taino and stuffed them into the stinking holds of his

Addressing Republican issues with John Kerry

The Republicans have posted a "Debate Facts" section on their website. As is shown below, there is nothing factual about their claims.

1. Kerry On The Threat Posed By Saddam Hussein

Republicans charge that Kerry once supported and is now critical of the decision to go to war against Saddam Hussein and Iraq. This, in their minds, is a flip flop.

RESPONSE: A huge amount of information has been uncovered since 2002, including a great deal of evidence that the intelligence Bush used to the war was incorrect or even forged. Kerry and the rest of Congress voted on Bush’s bad information. Now that we know the justification for the war was invalid, it is by definition a mistake. As a Senator and as a Presidential candidate, it is Kerry's duty to use this information to improve our government's global policy -- to correct a mistake propagated by Bush and his cabinet.

2. Kerry Flip Flop On Iraq

RESPONSE: See point 1.

3. Breaking Debate Fact: Kerry Said President Has Lost Support Among Military Officials

Environmental Advocate Robert F. Kennedy Visits Ohio State University

Robert F. Kennedy was greeted with a standing ovation on Wednesday at Campbell Hall on the OSU campus. A Harvard graduate, Kennedy is a professor at the Pace University School of Law, senior attorney for the National Resources Defense Council, and chief prosecuting attorney for the Hudson Riverkeeper Fund.

More than two hundred people came to hear him talk about his new book, Crimes Against Nature, and the Bush administration's irresponsible environmental policies.

Kennedy blamed the public's ignorance of President Bush's environmental abuse on the timidity of the national press and the White House Press Corps, whom he referred to as "stenographers."

One of the problems Kennedy discussed is the particulate emissions from 1100 coal burning plants operating illegally in the country, causing acid rain, sterilization of lakes, accumulation of ozone, and mercury poisoning. Effects of air pollution are thought to be responsible for as many as 5000 deaths per year and a recent increase in cases of asthma in children. Lawsuits from the Clinton era against many of these plants were ordered to be dropped by Bush

The History of the CIA and the American Elections Coup

Long before the Florida election the CIA had been active in influencing the American electorate.

We've witnessed the Iran Contra scandal and all those involved affect the outcome of elections in the nineteen eighties. Although the information acquired from this scandal was a bit more complicated than the average human listener had time for or attention span to understand, none the less the outcome was obvious.

The hostage crisis in Iran ended in a fallacy that undermined quest for a firm foundation of democracy in the United States. On this basis, the Republican Party maintained power for twelve years under the guise of a dogooder for the US populace. The same party oversimplified political ramifications of they're debt creating overextended government bureaucracy. Today we see a continuation of this bombastic upheaval of democracy being led by a military industrial complex.

With the appointment of Goss to head the CIA, the continuation of this corrupt democracy lives on. Goss was implicated in the drug smuggling ring allegedly run by the CIA. Well I could also conjecture that he was a main

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