Female Gulf War Veterans send a Letter to CNN: (asking to report the truth)

[annm4peace]

CNN:

Does anyone in the news room ask questions anymore? Really thoughtful and balanced questions? Do you think about the person you give air time to and what financial connections they have to companies who will make money off the war they are promoting or the looming need for another bailout?

Follow the money ... why are the sharks going after Social Security?

First were told by the Bush folks that we couldn't 'wait for the mushroom clouds' group of lies to get us into an over $1 Trillion dollar war of naked aggression against a country that did not attack the U.S. nor had the capability to do so.

I know --- I am a Gulf War veteran and we leveled that country back to the stone ages. They had NO military standing fast to attack a country with a nuclear arsenal to destroy all life on the planet 25 times, NO WMD, NO CONNECTION to Bin Laden -- we invaded anyway so the US companies could steal more tax money and provide shoddy work for our women and men in uniform - even killing some of them.

Then after that cluster fuck, we had to 'surge' in Afghanistan - another country that did not attack the U.S., nor were any of their citizens on the hijacked planes on 9/11, but they DID have Bin Laden and asked only for PROOF that he was responsible for 9/11 --- a convenient Pearl Harbor for the militarists to make a ton of money again.

Then we had the concocted financial crisis and the bailout of the energy companies, the same companies that met with Cheney in his bailout and war mongering room planning for other countries to invade so the men and their corporations could have access - liberally - to the resources an cheap labor.

Next our tax money bailed out banks -- which is totally fucked up ... if a bank needs to be bailed out -- it is either due to incompetence or criminal behavior -- they got rewarded anyway ... and that included their golden parachutes.

So now you are allowing the same robber barons air time to go after people's social security ... after WE THE PEOPLE have already had homes taken, savings taken -- literally -- jobs outsourced to other countries so the companies can make more money -- while the millionaires in congress can pay more money to their friends in high places.

Do you report anything from other than republican reptilian brained scoundrels and offer a balance? Do any of you think anymore or are you just a puppet for the growing fascism in this country I use to love so much and served with honor?

WAKE UP and report the news like you use to.

For shame ... if that is even in any one's vocabulary anymore.

Sincerely,

Chante Wolf
Air Force 1980-92
Persian Gulf War I
(more correctly a slaughter)

"Tearing my uniform into strips for creating paper, symbolizes the act of tearing open the curtain exposing the violence against women in the military. I am changing the energy of violence into that of healing, peace and reconciliation." Chante Wolf Combat Paper Project - Sept. 2009

[SugarShack]

1. I heard Valerie Plame last week on TV say our problem is Iran, but we must secure borders of Iraq

and Afghanistan. She was working on weapons in IRAN when she was outed by Cheney. So is this the real reason for these wars? Once we secure the border of Afghanistan...we will attack Iran?

Am I the only one who saw Plame interviewed last week? lemme know.

[annm4peace]

3. I didn't see the interview or hear about it

but they have been rattling the sabers to go to war with Iran.

[maryf]

2. and now its to Iran...

K&R

like the paper project idea...

[w8liftinglady]

9. Article in Veterans Today "U.S. Weapons Sale to Saudi Arabia Said to Reach 60 billion"

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/08/14/u-s-weapons-sale-to-saudi-arabia-said-to-reach-60-billion/

A proposed U.S. weapons sale to Saudi Arabia of Boeing Co. F-15 fighter jets also includes as many as 132 Boeing Apache attack helicopters and United Technologies Corp. UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters that bring the total value of the package to around $60 billion, according to a government official familiar with the plan.

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The proposal fits the Obama administration’s strategy of buttressing the defense capabilities of Middle East allies to counter Iran’s growing offensive missile might and suspected nuclear weapons program. It would be part of the Gulf Security Dialogue started by the Bush administration.

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The Pentagon intends to formally notify the Senate and House foreign affairs panels by mid-September of the final arms package, the official said.

“In the past, a record-setting deal to a region of tension like the Persian Gulf would have drawn considerable congressional opposition,” Hartung said. “That does not seem to be the case this time around.”

[maryf]

10. PLEASE make this an OP!!!

this needs to get out there...

[JohnyCanuck]

4. A plea that will only fall on deaf ears.

To see why, get a copy of the book "Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press". The penalties for telling the ugly truth in the corporately controlled, mainstream media are just too great. Anyone who tries meets the "buzzsaw."

Flexing the Power of the Press (A review of Into the Buzzsaw, former 60 Minutes producer Kristina Borjesson editor and contributor)


Kristina Borjesson never expected to write an exposé of the business she'd devoted her life to. A 20-year veteran of mainstream journalism, she was a successful insider who produced for the country's most well-regarded news shows, including Frontline and 60 Minutes. Working with industry stars including Dan Rather, she'd won one Emmy and had been nominated for others. She said she imagined spending the rest of her life "going around the world, doing the stories, doing documentaries, having a great time and putting out important information."

As she writes in her book "Into the Buzzsaw", "Trust me, never in a million years did I ever imagine that I'd find myself in my current position as some kind of rebel trying to take on America's journalism establishment. I was reared a member of Haiti's Morally Repugnant Elite‚ and educated, for the most part, in private institutions, including Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. Not a thing in my frankly elitist background prepared me for this experience."

The experience she's talking about is her excommunication from mainstream journalism for digging too deep on the TWA 800 story, which she'd been assigned to research for CBS. Like the other reporters whose stories she collected in "Into the Buzzsaw," she essentially lost her job for doing it too well.

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"When I was tromping around the halls of CBS saying, "Why aren't we covering this?'" I had no idea why they didn't want to do a story, because I had received all these documents from a senior investigator inside Calverton <airplane hangar>," she says. But her information was contradicted by "official sources," and, as she says, "the buzzsaw was getting ready to hack me up."

http://www.alternet.org/story/12941/

[ProfessionalLeftist]

5. Um. The reason the media doesn't report the other side of things is...

..they are ALSO owned by the same corporations that occupy Wall Street, and the MIC - BIG corporations. About six of them to be exact. And as corporations, who own and control our government and profit from it quite handsomely thankyouverymuch, - they don't want that to change - they want the status quo - they want things to stay just as they are now - complete corporate control of the entire country top to bottom. Why would they tell the truth? What reason do they have to do that when they are profiting so much by lying, hiding, twisting, obfuscating, and covering up what his really going on in this country?

This letter will fall on deaf ears.

The plutonomy exists for the benefit of itself. Serve it or die.

Or, fight it - but writing letters to liars who know they are liars and why they are liars will gain you nothing. Somehow, they have to be kicked in the financial balls and made - forced to tell the truth and change their memes and mantras to more honest and less greedy ones. Otherwise, they're not going to.

When it hurts them to lie - they'll stop. Right now, it's only hurting us. Question is, what are we going to do about it - in a language they understand? ($$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$)

[JohnyCanuck]

6. n U.S., Confidence in Newspapers, TV News Remains a Rarity

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Americans continue to express near-record-low confidence in newspapers and television news -- with no more than 25% of Americans saying they have a "great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in either. These views have hardly budged since falling more than 10 percentage points from 2003-2007.

The findings are from Gallup's annual Confidence in Institutions survey, which found the military faring best and Congress faring worst of 16 institutions tested. Americans' confidence in newspapers and television news is on par with Americans' lackluster confidence in banks and slightly better than their dismal rating of Health Management Organizations and big business.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/142133/Confidence-Newspapers-News-Remains-Rarity.aspx

[ensho]

7. yes

nt

[SargeUNN]

8. CNN is far away from what Ted Turner had in mine

when he started it. He was wanting news for people to be informed but now CNN is trying to be another Fox Noise. No wonder Ted is so upset about what has become of his dream.