Unknown News http://www.unknownnews.org/ Unknown News Headlines Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:17:55 -0500 en-us <![CDATA[After 9/11, the Bush-Cheney White House met with the heads of all the major studios, to seek out ways that the US could be more favorably portrayed in the entertainment media. The word for this is propaganda, yet the <i>New York Times</i> hides this tidbit under a completely innocuous headline, "World falls for American media, even as it sours on America".]]> Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:17:55 -0500 New York Times hides this tidbit under a completely innocuous headline, "World falls for American media, even as it sours on America".]]> <![CDATA[European police are readying a system to allow remote searches of hard drives. Based on recent history, if the Europeans are now planning for this, then the Bush Administration has already been secretly doing it in America for a couple years by now.]]> Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:17:55 -0500 <![CDATA[Canada may be on the verge of toppling the conservative Harper administration, as three other parties form an alliance to remove him from power. Having been to Canada a few times when I was younger and holding Canadians in high esteem, I've long thought our northern neighbors deserve better, much better than Stephen Harper. Go, Canada!]]> Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:17:55 -0500 <![CDATA[And in Thailand, the ruling party has been ordered disbanded and the Prime Minister booted from office and blocked from running again for five years, after mass protests over election theft. ]]> Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:17:55 -0500 <![CDATA[Here's your "mainstream" media, demonstrably lying to all America, by letting the President of the United States lie once again about how he started the Iraq war. The facts of the matter are not in dispute, but Bush's version of events is in dispute with the facts of the matter, and nobody in mainstream media will say so. This is just the latest media betrayal of truth in a long pattern of lies stretching back to at least 2000, as George W. Bush was allowed to lie with impunity during his campaign for President, while his opponent Al Gore, who lied far less often, was characterized as a serial liar by the media. And really, big picture, I don't see how anything resembling democracy can survive, when public discourse devolves to nothing but lies.]]> Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:17:55 -0500 <![CDATA[Bush's last-minute vandalism continues -- the EPA has rescinded a 25-year-old rule that banned obliteration of streams by mountaintop mining.]]> Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:17:55 -0500 <![CDATA[And for no reason I can ascertain beyond just plain meanness, Bush has signed an executive order stripping about 8,600 federal workers of collective bargaining rights.]]> Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:17:55 -0500 <![CDATA[The apparent selection of David Gregory to host <i>Meet the Press</i> might represent a slight improvement over the phenomenally overrated Tim Russert, but make no mistake, Gregory is another one of those hacks who habitually reiterates right-wing lies as fact.]]> Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:17:55 -0500 Meet the Press might represent a slight improvement over the phenomenally overrated Tim Russert, but make no mistake, Gregory is another one of those hacks who habitually reiterates right-wing lies as fact.]]> <![CDATA[Why not nationalize General Motors? I'm sure it's a proposal that's going nowhere, but I can't spot any major fallacies in the arguments for nationalization from the L.A. TIMES' automotive critic. ]]> Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:17:55 -0500 <![CDATA[(pdf link) I'm not particularly impressed by General Motors' plan. I've only skimmed it, but it looks a lot like something their public relations people put together after GM was roundly and rightly criticized for jetting its CEO to DC to ask for billions of federal dollars WITHOUT a plan.]]> Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:17:55 -0500