“Boycott cable TV,” urges Wendy Meremark:

High-visibility Republicans are not the only lockstep brigade that’s breaking up. The rant-wing radio and TV broadcast bunch has its own backstabbing at each other. Kick ‘em while they’re down, Democrats, if we’re ever going to kick. That, and the fact that I’m hearing liberal voices everywhere, and myself mad as hell, asking “what can we DO when our massive protest march on the Liars War is not covered on TV?” — all went to stir this ink I’m spilling.

People say they are Democrats, and they shout to stop the Republican terror. And then every month the same people pay more money to fuel the fascist fires. Every month, when they pay the cable TV or dish TV corporation. While we keep buying them more rope, they keep lynching democracy on TV. Duh!! Kill the mass media!

BOYCOTT bundle-TV packages, which have the fear FUX you. And Khristian broadcast. Sick-brain liars. And straight-out psycho’s. If you don’t watch, you still pay. FOX nickels: They steal, you don’t feel.

So cut ‘em off !! You’re getting NEWS HERE, aren’t you? Send your money to Media Channel and get more kick for your buck, wild Westerners. More bite from your burro.

CRAP DEBUNKED

Eugene Duran writes about oil refining capacity:

So much crap about refining capacity yet as I have stated before, the oil industry has been closing down refineries for over a decade now. Now why would the industry do that? Perhaps they know something we don’t. Perhaps they know that there is no sense in investing in new refineries if there is a limited amount of oil left to be produced. What a great way of deflecting off Peak Oil and blaming the limits on gas on refining capacity. They say it will take at least 10 years to increase refining capacity yet no new refining facilities are planned. One thing is true. Due to the most of the remaining oil being dirty oil (high sulphur, tar sands etc…) then that type of oil requires a different and more complex refining ability.

COUNTING THE MARCHERS

MediaChannel reader Douglas Marshall, a business executive and former naval officer at his first Washington protest, did what any news organization could have done with its minions of interns:

Instead of marching I decided to try to get an accurate count of the parade participants last Saturday. I stationed my self at the corner of H and 15th Streets, facing north. Standing with the police line blocking off the right turn off H Street so that marchers would continue on to the east on H. Street, the designated parade route. My vigil started at 1:00 PM. before any marchers had arrived. The first marchers passed my line of vision at 1:15 PM and continued passing my line of vision until 4:45 PM when the last ones passed by.

It was my first try at crowd estimation but with extensive early experience in construction estimating, I had adequate, common sense approximating-skills to bring to bare. Using several different approximation techniques Saturday evening, I came up early on with several different figures as follows; 255,000, 216,000, 205,000, 193,000. Back home after a day to let it settle, I went back over the numbers and the whole procedure, and established for myself the most likely set of approximations to make allowances for the fact that some times there were only 5-6 marchers per second crossing my view. At other times, including marchers on the sidewalks there were 24-26 marchers per second.

Allowing for only 5-6 marchers per second passing my line of vision for 1/10th of the time; 22 marchers per second passing my line of vision for 4/10ths of the times, and 14 marchers per second passing my line of vision for the remaining 5/10ths of the time, I arrived at what for me feels most comfortable: 210,000 marchers. Interestingly enough, as I read this over now, I’ve just averaged the four first preliminary approximations; the average of the four is 217,000+.

PATTERNS

Mark Robinowitz sent us a link to a website that details propaganda patterns:
http://www.oilempire.us/newsletters.html

LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN

Mickey Z pays tribute to a man you should know about:

Eighty-seven years ago — on September 14, 1918 — Eugene V. Debs (1855-1926) was sentenced to 10 years in prison for opposing U.S. entry into World War I.

Debs was one of the most prominent labor organizers and political activists of his time. He was also nominated as the Socialist Party’s candidate for president five times. His voting tallies over his first four campaigns effectively illustrate the remarkable growth of the party during that volatile time period:

1900: 94,768
1904: 402,400
1908: 402,820
1912: 897,011

http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2005-09/26z.cfm

NOT TO BE MISSED: ‘OH YEAH, THAT…’
http://www.markfiore.com/animation/that.html.

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