The 99% Solution
The 99% Solution
We are weeks away from an election that could mean hope or utter despair. If the Democrats gain a majority in either the House or the Senate, they will have subpoena power, the power to investigate, the power of oversight of a reckless and ruthless administration that has side-stepped laws with executive signing, launched a war based on known lies, and continues to rule by fear.
The media is now firmly entrenched in right-wing hands. Fox News covets its pro-Bush designation to the extent that if anything anti-Bush appears in an on-air interview or news segment, it is immediately removed from view and inaccessible in its online archives. Most people have no idea what is happening to this country simply because they watch or listen to what they believe is unbiased news. They never hear the truth and may not have the means to seek the truth. Those are the people who must be reached before November 7th. Those are the people who need to know how corrupt this administration really is. Currently, truth is shared among bloggers and those who listen to Air America, but that is a small segment of the population. The dilemna is, how do we get the truth to the average American? Network news is controlled. Even PBS guardedly reports news. That leaves one path, the power of paper. If every blogger selected just a few of the crimes committed by this administration, crimes that can be proved: the Downing Street memos prove that Bush intended to invade Iraq regardless of investigators' findings; our troops were fed rancid meat and contaminated water by KBR (a subsidiary of Cheney's Halliburton, and Cheney still receives income from the company he's made filthy rich with war contracts);or just show photos of the people who were left to drown in New Orleans juxtaposed to photos of Bush attending John McCain's birthday party. There is SO much wrong wrought by this administration that the toughest part is deciding which glaring crime to publish!
Create one-page newsletters with whatever you consider most damning, but also include proof and ways for the doubtful to verify what you print. Then distribute them in your local communities. If every left-wing blogger did this, we would have nationwide press!
Another idea is to create an online newspaper on some central blog where each blogger could post one item of news with substantiation. At the end of the week, if each blogger printed and distributed the newsletter, it would have nationwide circulation.
We are weeks away from an election that could mean hope or utter despair. If the Democrats gain a majority in either the House or the Senate, they will have subpoena power, the power to investigate, the power of oversight of a reckless and ruthless administration that has side-stepped laws with executive signing, launched a war based on known lies, and continues to rule by fear.
The media is now firmly entrenched in right-wing hands. Fox News covets its pro-Bush designation to the extent that if anything anti-Bush appears in an on-air interview or news segment, it is immediately removed from view and inaccessible in its online archives. Most people have no idea what is happening to this country simply because they watch or listen to what they believe is unbiased news. They never hear the truth and may not have the means to seek the truth. Those are the people who must be reached before November 7th. Those are the people who need to know how corrupt this administration really is. Currently, truth is shared among bloggers and those who listen to Air America, but that is a small segment of the population. The dilemna is, how do we get the truth to the average American? Network news is controlled. Even PBS guardedly reports news. That leaves one path, the power of paper. If every blogger selected just a few of the crimes committed by this administration, crimes that can be proved: the Downing Street memos prove that Bush intended to invade Iraq regardless of investigators' findings; our troops were fed rancid meat and contaminated water by KBR (a subsidiary of Cheney's Halliburton, and Cheney still receives income from the company he's made filthy rich with war contracts);or just show photos of the people who were left to drown in New Orleans juxtaposed to photos of Bush attending John McCain's birthday party. There is SO much wrong wrought by this administration that the toughest part is deciding which glaring crime to publish!
Create one-page newsletters with whatever you consider most damning, but also include proof and ways for the doubtful to verify what you print. Then distribute them in your local communities. If every left-wing blogger did this, we would have nationwide press!
Another idea is to create an online newspaper on some central blog where each blogger could post one item of news with substantiation. At the end of the week, if each blogger printed and distributed the newsletter, it would have nationwide circulation.
posted by AlwaysaTruthseeker | 8:24 PM
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