Last Monday on C-SPAN, The Brookings Institute held a discussion panel on U.S. and Latin America Relations. On stage was the Former President of Mexico Ernesto Zedillo 1994-2000, who commented that America should continue the war on drugs.
It occurred to me that the actions of a bureaucracy are primarily for the sake of the bureaucracy's existence alone, which explains why there doesn't appear to be progress in the war on drugs, the war on terror, or the war on poverty.
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Media controllers are getting more aggressive.
Yesterday after hearing that C-SPAN2 was moved off the basic cable line-up (furthering the vacuum of important government information for the public) I picked up my remote control and selected the option to automatically program my TV channels.
The TV cycles through the channels looking for a clean signal, then programs the channel into its memory. I noticed that Channel 15 for C-SPAN1 was one of the channels that was not programmed. The channel still exists, but my TV's programming option did not recognize it.
So both channels 14 and 15 disappear from the lineup. I have to go back and manually add channel 15 to my TV's memory. This is happening, coincidentally, during the senate hearings about the failing banking and finance industry.
I can easily make a conspiracy out of this issue linking corporate mentality to the suppression of public affairs information that every voter should see. They have been going after PBS for years because of Bill Moyers and programs like Frontline.
So double-check your TV's cable channels to make sure you are not missing the important channels upon which you need to make your next election decisions, and please bookmark http://www.cspan.org so you at least have internet access to unbiased coverage of government information.
The TV cycles through the channels looking for a clean signal, then programs the channel into its memory. I noticed that Channel 15 for C-SPAN1 was one of the channels that was not programmed. The channel still exists, but my TV's programming option did not recognize it.
So both channels 14 and 15 disappear from the lineup. I have to go back and manually add channel 15 to my TV's memory. This is happening, coincidentally, during the senate hearings about the failing banking and finance industry.
I can easily make a conspiracy out of this issue linking corporate mentality to the suppression of public affairs information that every voter should see. They have been going after PBS for years because of Bill Moyers and programs like Frontline.
So double-check your TV's cable channels to make sure you are not missing the important channels upon which you need to make your next election decisions, and please bookmark http://www.cspan.org so you at least have internet access to unbiased coverage of government information.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Big Oil and Corn Growers
I noticed a pattern. When the crops were being planted last spring and farmers needed to buy fuel and seed, gas prices were outrageously high. Now that farmers have the harvest in, prices have plummeted.
The price of gas and now the price of corn has dropped. A double whammy on farmers because they had to pay more for their fuel, and now they are getting paid less for their corn.
Is it typical for oil prices to consistently gouge agriculture like this?
The price of gas and now the price of corn has dropped. A double whammy on farmers because they had to pay more for their fuel, and now they are getting paid less for their corn.
Is it typical for oil prices to consistently gouge agriculture like this?
Monday, November 10, 2008
LinkTV
Searching through YouTube after the election I found a video produced by LinkTV.org that summed up how various media organizations around the world reported Barack Obama's election.
LinkTV's slogan is "TV Without Borders." I think it's worth a look so here's the link.
http://www.linktv.org
I added it permanently to the International Perspectives section of SageofSpringfield.com
LinkTV's slogan is "TV Without Borders." I think it's worth a look so here's the link.
http://www.linktv.org
I added it permanently to the International Perspectives section of SageofSpringfield.com
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Something is wrong
Sangamon County voted 51% in favor of Barack Obama and 47% in favor of John McCain.
The actual vote count:
Obama: 51,176
McCain: 46,857
Nader: 662
Barr: 382
If Nader and Barr were not in the picture and McCain got all of those votes, McCain would still be down 3,275 votes in Sangamon County.
So why did Republicans dominate most of the local elections?
This does not smell right. 72 percent of Sangamon county population turned out to vote.
Since House and Senate districts extend beyond Sangamon County, we can easily conclude that the views expressed by Aaron Schock and John Shimkus don't necessarily reflect the opinions of the majority of us in Sangamon County. Phil Hare was totally unapposed, but Illinois congressional district 17 looks like a Reindeer doing a back-flip.
The actual vote count:
Obama: 51,176
McCain: 46,857
Nader: 662
Barr: 382
If Nader and Barr were not in the picture and McCain got all of those votes, McCain would still be down 3,275 votes in Sangamon County.
So why did Republicans dominate most of the local elections?
This does not smell right. 72 percent of Sangamon county population turned out to vote.
Since House and Senate districts extend beyond Sangamon County, we can easily conclude that the views expressed by Aaron Schock and John Shimkus don't necessarily reflect the opinions of the majority of us in Sangamon County. Phil Hare was totally unapposed, but Illinois congressional district 17 looks like a Reindeer doing a back-flip.
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