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PAGE NINE -- No. 12 by Alan Korwin, Author
Here's a casual sample. It might make you say, "We'll NEVER run that!" but the page will be built around ad revenues from clear thinking mainstream businesses. Alan Korwin, Author
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Contents:
Today's Q:
The lamestream media told you: The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that: ---------- The lamestream media told you: The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that: Encouraging born losers who would never vote, to vote so they can have a chance at prize money, is the opposite of the American Way, where voting is a civil duty, the act of responsible individuals, and requires a little research to examine the candidates and the issues. The proponent, who deserves scorn, has been treated as a dignitary in published reports. Every person who votes for a winning candidate, or a losing candidate, plus everyone else who pays taxes, will have to front the one million dollars. No constitutional authority exists to take any money from the public treasury and give it to a single voter based on a lottery. This has not stopped the advocates of the measure, the judges who approved the measure or members of the voting commission, none of whom have been arrested. ---------- The lamestream media told you: "This guy happens to be one of the 45 most notorious, most wanted drug traffickers in the world," Mike Braun of the DEA said. Mexican authorities said Arturo Villareal, arrested at the same time, was more significant. The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that: The organizations of these two reputed leaders are intact and unaffected. Now, unnamed lieutenants will move up the chain of command for promotions, without the usual need to murder their superiors, thanks to the efforts of the official "anti-drug" warriors. In that sense, the officials may have saved some lives. It was not clear at press time if the next most dangerous 45 drug trafficking leaders liked being ranked as second tier, or if the official rankings were accurate. The loss of about 2% of the leadership was laughably small, someone said on condition of anonymity. In familiar reporting style, the only important questions were not asked, let alone answered. For example, "With regard to the war on drugs, is the war succeeding? When could it be declared a success, the expense of waging it cease, and the tax-based infrastructure surrounding it be decreased or dismantled? If it can't be declared a success, when might it be declared a failure and brought to a close? How do you respond to critics who say the war on some drugs is really a federal-agents jobs program, and price supports for the drug dealers?" For an in-depth look at the questions the "news" media never touches, see The Liberty Poll, by columnist Vin Suprynowicz, attorney Mike Anthony and The Uninvited Ombudsman. ---------- The lamestream media told you: The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that: The U.S. has more than 140,000 soldiers in Iraq, and news consumers are left to wonder -- what do they do? Americans simply don't know, because there is routinely zero coverage of them. Most Americans, facing an absolutely blank slate, haven't even noticed that the slate is blank. The soldiers must be doing something, right? A blind guess suggests they are on patrols, conducting search and destroy missions, ferreting out jihadis and killing them, gathering evidence and intelligence, supporting reconstruction projects, destroying captured munitions, interviewing locals for leads, protecting the crews rebuilding Iraq, working near the oil fields -- but the papers are dead silent on this. That's not really a blind guess. Returning soldiers have provided such details directly to the Uninvited Ombudsman, with news of how the schools are no longer ammo dumps, hospitals have supplies, and how most citizens are better off and appreciative, even though it's still a dangerous place (but, see following story). When the Unibomber was in the news, you read all sorts of meaningful expert analysis -- explosive types, bomb design, modus operandi, likely perps, source of materials -- for every event. With all the money being spending over there, at least some details on explosives used ought to leak through, but it is virtually 100% suppressed. How? How do the newspapers manage to uniformly report isolated bombings constantly yet collectively neglect any other coverage day after day, of what our 140,000 troops are doing every day? This glaring omission contributes to why the public increasingly distrusts the "news" media. ---------- The lamestream media told you: The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that: Approximately 60% were a direct result of, or related to, crime and the war on some drugs. The victims are largely "people of color," a fact known to police but rarely revealed in the lamestream media. The remaining 40% were generally elderly suicides, by people who had run out of patience, money, and the ability to endure prolonged illness, in a land where palliative care is severely restricted. Although America faces three times the killing rate of Iraq, the "news" media only focuses on deaths in Iraq for some reason. ---------- The lamestream media told you: The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that: The rational for keeping or donating containers of suspected explosives has not been explained. The nature of the liquid explosives has not been revealed, for fear of leaking the information to terrorists, who were planning to bring the liquids onto planes. Think about that. No compensation for the takings, required by the Constitution, is being made. ---------- The lamestream media told you: The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that: Locally here, the truth ran on page 17, in a sidebar, in small type, covered with a gray halftone, with no byline (Arizona Republic, 8/11/06). It may be the first time this has come out publicly in such unvarnished terms: "President Bush said that a foiled plot to blow up multiple flights from Britain to the United States shows, 'this nation is at war with Islamic fascists." No reason for running this item 17 pages behind the lead stories was given. ---------- The lamestream media told you: The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that: According to Parvez Ahmed, chairman of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, "The use of ill-defined hot button terms such as 'Islamic fascists,' 'militant jihadism,' 'Islamic radicalism,' or 'totalitarian Islamic empire,'" are not well received, "particularly in the Islamic world." He got that right. The L.A. Times attributes the popularization of such language in part to conservative talk show hosts, who prefer the term "Islamo fascists" for "terrorists" and "insurgents." The lamestream media sometimes expresses a certain distaste for conservative talk show hosts, for some reason. ---------- Corrections and Clarifications: 1. Several Page Nine readers wrote to say that supplying Internet service over household power lines has little to do with planned government control of the web, since they can already do that if they need to through the highly regulated cable and phone companies. They also know where the handful of major domestic web nodes are, which they can flood with troops at a moment's notice. No, the problem is that web on power lines generates static that demolishes ham radio transmission, and the radio community is up in arms. Hey, you learn something new every day. 2. Arguing that global warming is indeed real, carbon dioxide levels are rising, and scientific thought is all but unanimous, James Lippard does note that: There seems to be a cluster of global warming skeptics at ASU (the Idsos and Robert Balling, Jr.)--there are only about a half-dozen others of any prominence. 3. One reader finds bias in Page Nine because in the intro it says it expects to find support from "right thinking businesses." The Uninvited Ombudsman apologizes for a poor word choice, and has changed that phrase to "clear thinking businesses," to eliminate the perception of bias. (See full remarks at end.)
Plain Ole Observation:
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What would happen if the Founding Fathers returned today?
Thanks for reading!
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Great stuff, Alan. Keep up the great work. And: Thank You. Kirk
Alan,
Your 'Page Nine' bite-icles are really great. 'Uninvited Ombudsman' tickles me every time I read the phrase.
I'm still laughing over the visual of "needing" fried chicken as the result of sex!
Great stuff, Alan! I will have to quote you somewhere in something meaningful.
Mr. Korwin,
I especially enjoyed "Machine Gun Stickup".
Dear Alan,
If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed If you read the newspaper you are misinformed. --Mark Twain (Note: This remark was not made directly to me.)
Hi Alan,
Please unsubscribe me. I prefer RSS feeds, and am now subscribed on my blook's aggregator and on my PDA via your feed. Love this stuff! Keep it comin'!
Alan, You are something ELSE! I, of course, have been an admirer of you since our first meeting at the Cactus Chordsmen gathering. In no way, however, did I comprehend the full extent of your involvement both locally and nationally. You have my full respect and friendship! The Page Nine is a great idea and one which no body else could pull off with such aplomb.
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