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NYT: OPINION | October 5, 2008
Editorial: Foreclosures and the Right to Vote

With the recent foreclosure crisis, not much work has been done to ensure that people who lose their homes do not also lose their chance to vote.

Obama, McCain Spending Big On Local Attack Ads
Campaigns have run virtually the same number of attack ads in local markets,
particularly in swing states.

By John Eggerton — Broadcasting & Cable, 10/3/2008 2:25:00 PM

Complaints about the other side’s negative campaigning notwithstanding, Barack
Obama and John McCain have run virtually the same number of local attack TV ads
against each other–at least through Sept. 7–according to Nielsen.

According to the Nielsen Monitor-Plus report, from June 7, when the primaries
ended, through the first week of September, McCain ads attacking Obama ran
76,192 times, while Obama was right behind with 75,246 ads.

Those included ads from the campaigns as well as the nonprofit so-called “527″
groups that back one or the other.

Both campaigns ran the most ads in the swing state of Ohio, McCain ran 14,397
(Republicans essentially have to win Ohio to get the top job), while Obama ran
11,037.

MCCAIN’S FREINDSHIIP WITH A 60’s RADICAL

If you have heard Sarah Palin’s charges against Obama. Now Read this.

LETTERS

Jackie Newberry asks: “When Democratic Pres candidate John Edwards was outed by the National Enquirer regarding an affair, this week’s NE cover story reveals an affair between Repub VP candidate Sarah Palin and her husband’s business partner. Not that relying on the NE, which has actually proved accurate on a number of similar tawdry stories, is a reflection of excellent journalism, why is the main stream media so silent on this now? ”

John Wheat Gibson writes

Let us suppose that, as you and the economists you cite claim, the “bailout” will not improve the lives of ordinary people. Let us suppose that removing all limits from federal borrowing will not “straighten a system out of wack, create jobs, restore capitalism and make it all ok again>>. You know it, Ralph Nader knows it, and I know it. How come Paulson, Bernanke, Obama, Pelosi, et. al. don’t know it? How is it that you and I and Ralph are so much smarter than they are?

What if they do know it? What if they are as well informed as we are? Then shouldn’t we move on past noting that the “bailout” will not accomplish what its proponents tell us it will accomplish? Should we not, then ask, “So, what will it accomplish?” Perhaps the answer to that question is the reason Paulson, Obama, Bernanke, Pelosi, et. al., are shoving the “bailout” down our throats. Perhaps they know as well as you and I and Ralph what it will accomplish, and what it will accomplish is something they want.

ON DEBT

John Merryman writes

This is someone you might want to look into;

http://webofdebt.wordpress.com/monetary-proposal/

Here is a similar idea of my own that I sent a version to you previously;

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/07/reverse-shock-doctrine/

I’m including it because I don’t think Ms. Brown fully develops the point that while the monetary system should be top down, ie. national, a public banking system should be bottom up, with separate banks incorporated at all levels of government, feeding their profits back into the specific communities which created them, rather then skimmed off into private hands. If this discussion makes it into the larger debate to the point of really affecting it, the outcome of this crisis could actually be beneficial in the long run

DID I MALIGN RALPH?

David W. Deitch thinks so:

“….even if you think he’s a has been.”

How dare you refer to Nader in this manner. If anybody is a “has been” it’s you.

PLUNDER IN THE NEWS:

I have yet to get on mainstream cable and broadcast networks to talk about my investigation into our economic calamity, but I am being invited on many news talk radio shows nationwide to discuss my book Plunder. I was on in Chicago, Tuscon, Tampa and Tehran yesterday. Tomorrow, I will be on KPFK in LA and the Stony Brook University station. If you are a journalist writing or interviewing on these issues, please give me a call.

My first mainstream media review was published yesterday in the Buffalo News. Mark Sommer called my book a “primer on the nation’s financial meltdown.”

Excerpt: “Danny Schechter, known with the moniker “the News Dissector,” has been one of the few to incisively track the issue that Sen. Christopher Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, called “a 50-state Katrina.” Schechter has done so with his daily blog/newsletter at newsdissector. com; his 2007 documentary, “In Debt We Trust”; and now with the perfectly timed release of “Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity and the Subprime Scandal.”

The conversationally written book is essential reading in grasping the biggest financial collapse in more than three-quarters of a century”

I was called a “prophet” by the newspaper in Appleton Wisconsin which reported on a local screening of my film In Debt We Trust. The prophet label is of course over the top–it reminds me of Howard Beale of Network fame, the “Mad Prophet of the Airwaves.”

Filmmaker-Turned-Prophet

“How did we go from a nation that made things to a nation that buys things,” filmmaker and narrator Danny Schechter asked in the film. “When did the mall replace the factory as America’s economic engine?”

Schechter said he fielded ample criticism after the release of “In Debt We Trust,” his investigation of the role of debt — credit cards, student loans, payday loans and predatory mortgages — in the lives of everyday Americans.

“The reaction to it in some quarters was, ‘This is alarmist,’” he said when interviewed by telephone Wednesday. “‘The economy’s doing great right now. Why would you warn us that there’s going to be a crisis when things are going so well?’

“In a way, I went from being sort of a zero to a hero.”

LISTEN: ON THE AIR IN SWEDEN

WHAT NOW FOR OJ?

ANDY BOROWITZ: O.J. Seeks Bailout
Juice: Incarceration Would Hurt Cable Nets’ Bottom Line

Minutes after being convicted of robbery and kidnapping in Las Vegas, former football great O.J. Simpson said he would seek government intervention, claiming that his imprisonment would cost the nation’s cable news networks untold billions of dollars.

“My three trials have generated billions of dollars for the cable TV industry, not to mention the tabloids,” Mr. Simpson told reporters outside the Las Vegas courthouse. “All those billions go away if I go away.”

Mr. Simpson made his case for the government bailing him out of jail, arguing that as long as he is a free man he is likely to become involved in other criminal cases that could generate much-needed television revenue.

“As long as the Juice is loose, there’s no telling what trouble I’ll get into,” he promised. “And that means one thing to the TV networks: cold hard cash.”

The former Heisman Trophy winner said that with the nation’s economy teetering on recession, the U.S. could ill afford “putting a major financial asset like O.J. Simpson out of circulation.”

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