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Marcus Mabry writes: "It's hard to say which is worse news for Republicans: that George W. Bush now has the worst approval rating of an American president in a generation, or that he seems to be dragging every '08 Republican presidential candidate down with him. According to the new NEWSWEEK poll, the public's approval of Bush has sunk to 28 percent, an all-time low for this president."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050507D.shtml

A former US Justice Department official and central figure in the firing of eight US attorneys tearfully told a colleague two months ago her government career probably was over as the matter was about to erupt into a political storm, according to closed-door congressional testimony.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050507B.shtml



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The chief of staff to Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty has told congressional investigators that phone calls he placed to four fired US attorneys - calls that three of the prosecutors say involved threats about testifying before Congress - were made at McNulty's direction.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050507A.shtml



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US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales should resign, Rep. Adam Putnam, the third most powerful Republican in the House, said Thursday.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050407T.shtml



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Henry Waxman, chairman of the House oversight committee, wrote to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice today to complain that State Department officials had tried to block a nuclear weapons analyst at the department from speaking with Waxman's staff. This comes after Waxman's committee issued a subpoena last week for Rice's testimony on how she dealt with claims before the war that Iraq had sought uranium from Niger.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050407S.shtml



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May 03, 2007 youtube

Montage of Congressman Ron Paul at the GOP Presidential Debate held at the Reagan Library on May 3rd, 2007

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hfa7vT02lA
http://www.ronpaul2008.com/
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Ron Paul Rides High In Polls After GOP Debate

Prison Planet Friday, May 4, 2007

Ron Paul is currently riding high in the polls after last night's GOP Presidential debate, jockeying for first position with Mitt Romney and ahead of both Rudy Giuliani and John McCain.

more: http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2007/040507ronpaul.htm


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A professor at Bristol University has called for an inquiry into the dangers of Wi-Fi wireless internet technology.

‘The research hasn’t been done. Therefore we cannot assume that there are no effects,’ Professor Dennis Henshaw, professor of human radiation at Bristol University told the Independent on Sunday (IoS).

‘I would be in favour of an inquiry into the dangers of Wi-Fi,’ he continued. ‘This technology is being wheeled out without any checks and balances.’

Concerns over the health effects of the electromagnetic fields generated by Wi-Fi devices are beginning to mount following news that the chairman of the Health Protection Agency, Sir William Stewart, has called for an official investigation.

On Sunday, the IoS revealed that Professor Lawrie Challis, the head of the Government’s committee on mobile phone safety, has warned children against placing Wi-Fi enabled laptops on their laps.

Professor Alan Preece, also from Bristol University, urged caution:
‘No one is really aware of what we are dealing with,’ he said. ‘The Department for Trade and Industry needs to take the lead and do some investigation.’


Comments

Dr Tim Norris- 30/04/2007 19:51:54 Until circa year 2000, I had never experienced tinnitus. I was late in buying a mobile telephone. Each time I used it, I felt nausious. I made a miskake of using the mobile telephone continuously for circa 20 minutes; it seemed during the conversation that there was much bakground noise - the problem was that the noise continued after the call was terminated. My life was plagued with severe tinnitus and headaches for at least two years thereafter. Special medication helped (Seretonin uptake inhibitors) but still I ahve some background tnnintus. The tinnitus level now rises as soon as anyone activcates their mobile telephone in close proximity to me (i.e. nearer than 5 metres). Mobile telephone technology and similarly mobile telephones are not safe technology. Many years ago, no-one question the health risks of smoking - now it is a known health risk - just wait, mobile telephones and such like will sometime in the future also be correctly recognized as the health risk they really present. By that time, most of the Worlds population will have been irradiated. less

http://www.theecologist.org/news_detail.asp?content_id=893



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China has come in for heavy criticism from members of the US House of Representatives with one congressman labelling the country a "Frankenstein" created by the US that now threatens American interests.

http://snipurl.com/1jdmq


From Information Clearing House

Attempts by "moderate" Arab leaders to whip up popular fear of Iran are US-orchestrated and aimed to keep in-check regional resistance to US-Israeli plans.

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/842/op12.htm


From Information Clearing House

Homeland Security officials had suggested forcing British Pakistanis to apply for US entry visas because they are perceived as a potential terrorist risk.

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/other/display.var.1375573.0.0.php


From Information Clearing House

All three opposition parties accused the Conservatives of misleading Canadians and demanded to know when the government became aware of the report.

http://snipurl.com/1jdmg


From Information Clearing House

The military is putting already-strained troops at greater risk of mental health problems because of repeated deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, a Pentagon panel said Thursday in warning of an overburdened health system.

http://snipurl.com/1jcig


From Information Clearing House

Video

"Do you know what's worse than a soldier dying in vain? It's more soldiers dying in vain".

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A must listen interview with Sen Mike Gravel

Former Alaska Senator and Democratic Presidential Candidate Mike Gravel discusses his plan for the Congress to criminalize the Iraq war, the cowardice of the Congress, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards's aggressive position against Iran, his proposal for opening of friendly relations with them instead. Audio: http://snipurl.com/1juei

From Information Clearing House



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He is a former Sunni Arab mujahid from Ramadi who until recently was fighting the US occupation. He has only a secondary education and is married with two wives. Now he is praised even by urban, secular, highly educated Shi'ites as a "conscious man", or "the kind of man we need now in Iraq".

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IE05Ak01.html



Mr Bush, your sheikh is dead

Some may call it divine providence, some may call it Allah's bidding; in the end it was up to real Iraq to intervene and shatter the "surge is a success" story sold to US and world public opinion by President George W Bush and his top man in Iraq, General David Petraeus.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/II15Ak03.html



An assassination that blows apart Bush's hopes of pacifying Iraq

Last week George Bush flew into Iraq to meet Abdul-Sattar Abu Risha, leader of Anbar province. This week General David Petraeus told the US Congress how Anbar was a model for Iraq. Yesterday Abu Risha was assassinated by bombers in Anbar.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2961318.ece


From Information Clearing House



A special investigative report from inside Iraq
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18412.htm



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By Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad

"Be careful," warned a senior Iraqi government official living in the Green Zone in Baghdad, "be very careful and above all do not trust the police or the army."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17645.htm



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By PAULINE JELINEK
Associated Press Writer

In the first internal military study of battlefield ethics in Iraq, officials said Friday they also found that only a third of Marines and roughly half of soldiers said they believed that noncombatants should be treated with dignity.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17648.htm

By AFP

A survey of US combat troops deployed in Iraq has found that one in 10 said they mistreated civilians and more than a third condoned torture to save the life of a comrade, a report said Friday.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17647.htm

By United Press International

Some 133 Iraqi lawmakers from different political blocs, calling themselves the "free deputies," signed a document demanding a scheduled withdrawal of the U.S.-led multinational troops from their country, according to the Sadrist bloc in Parliament.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17644.htm

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/04/962/



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Victory vital in Iraq : US Republican hopefuls

A packed field of Republican White House hopefuls vowed to pursue victory in Iraq and castigated anti-war Democrats Thursday, in their first head-to-head showdown of the 2008 campaign.

http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=174464


From Information Clearing House

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/04/963/



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http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/emf_emr_night_exposures.htm

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ELECTRIC APPLIANCE CONCERNS (NIGHT EXPOSURES)...... http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/nighttime_exposures.htm



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Justin Raimondo: America's Coming Dictatorship

The theory and practice of oligarchical "conservatism"
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=10911


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PRESS RELEASE

Ecological Internet's "End Ancient Forest Logging" Campaign Targets World Bank, WWF and Greenpeace for Their Role in Promoting Ancient Primary Rainforest Logging

-- Do WWF and Greenpeace members realize they are supporting industrial logging of the world's last ancient rainforests? Until this changes, they should cancel their memberships.

May 4, 2005. By Rainforest Portal, a project of Ecological Internet, http://www.rainforestportal.org/ Contact: Dr. Glen Barry, glenbarry@ecologicalinternet.org

For years the World Bank, WWF and Greenpeace have put their faith in protecting the world's remaining ancient primary forests by reforming criminal industrial logging practices. These ancient forest logging apologists' policies of pursuing "sustainable forest management", "forest certification" and "improved forest governance" has been pursued for nearly two decades. Yet, ancient forest logging remains out of control, severely damaging ecosystems and the climate, and providing few if any local benefits to rainforest dwellers. The climate crisis makes maintaining all intact rainforests even more important.

"The scientific literature and years of failed, ecologically and socially devastating tropical rainforest logging clearly show there is no such things as 'sustainable certified' ancient forest logging; and global ecological sustainability, successful climate change mitigation, maintaining fully intact rainforest ecosystems and species, and future survival of local rainforest dwellers and their eco-development options sadly depends upon confronting the global ancient forest logging apologist industry," explains Ecological Internet's Dr. Glen Barry.

"Logging primary forests for the first time results in species composition, structure and dynamics that are irreversibly diminished and much of their carbon is released. It is time to stop working to reform and instead shut down ancient forest logging, compensating not yet over-developed countries for this avoided deforestation and diminishment, and supporting community based small-scale eco-forestry activities."

Africa's Congo Basin provides an example of ill-advised international forest conservation policy. The Congo contains the world's second largest rainforest; a haven for vital global biodiversity and ecosystem services, and a safeguard against runaway global warming. About 400 mammal species live there, including the world's largest populations of lowland gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and forest elephants. Some 655 bird species and over 10,000 plant species can be found.

It is terrible that in the DRC, Greenpeace supports a moratorium but not an end to industrial logging, that WWF continues to advocate and work with loggers to facilitate the "certified" diminishment of these ancient intact rainforests, and that the World Bank has failed to enforce the logging moratorium and continues to subsidize national policy and institutions that promote industrial logging of ancient forests. In a Bank- mediated 2002 logging moratorium deal, DRC's government agreed to not issue or any further logging licenses in return for $90 million in aid. Since then an estimated 100 logging contracts covering 15 million hectares have been issued. Many are being legalized in a review subsequently initiated by the World Bank.

WWF, the global conservation organization, promotes industrial forest certification throughout the world's last natural, large and intact ancient forests. WWF works with and takes money from logging companies -- including some of the world's worst ecological abusers -- to help get their primary rainforest logging operations certified. The supposed best forest certification is the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) which is closely associated with both WWF and Greenpeace. Greenpeace chairs FSC's international board, and advocates ancient forest certification widely throughout the world. Recently both organizations sold our large areas of temperate rainforest in British Columbia, Canada, to "sustainable" logging. There are serious and ongoing problems with FSC including repeated issuing of inappropriate certificates and certifiers certifying whatever they want. The rules on 'High Conservation Value Forests' are just one set of rules that are routinely violated, and FSC's principles make no claims of ecological sustainability.

The ultimate aim of Ecological Internet's "End Ancient Forest Logging" campaign is to get the World Bank, other donors and mainstream conservation bureaucracies completely out of the business of supporting industrial ancient forest logging -- and in particular to stop supporting national forestry institutions and policy that perpetuates the industrial logging model.

"Sadly, these groups are a big part of the ancient forest loss and diminishment problem. After years of these concerns being ignored, and now blocking of our protest emails, we are calling for a boycott of new, and cancellation of existing, WWF and Greenpeace memberships, and for the World Bank to be barred from ancient forest policy making. This is the beginning of a sustained campaign."

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For media interviews:

Dr. Glen Barry President Ecological Internet, Inc. P.O. Box 433 Denmark, WI 54208 USA GlenBarry@EcologicalInternet.org
+1 920 776 1075 phone

Ecological Internet's projects include: EcoEarth.Info -- http://www.EcoEarth.Info/ Climate Ark -- http://www.climateark.org/ Forests.org -- http://forests.org/ Water Conserve -- http://www.waterconserve.org/ Rainforest Portal -- http://www.rainforestportal.org/ Ocean Conserve -- http://www.oceanconserve.org/ My.EcoEarth.Info -- http://My.EcoEarth.info/

Dr. Glen Barry's personal "Earth Meanders" essays can be found at: http://earthmeanders.blogspot.com/

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Plant trees, lots of them, you can never plant enough!
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3515163/

Michael T. Klare writes: "Today, the Nimitz is rapidly approaching the Persian Gulf, where it will join two other US aircraft carriers and the French carrier Charles De Gaulle in the largest concentration of naval firepower in the region since the launching of the US invasion of Iraq four years ago. Why this concentration now?"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050407F.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Michael+T.+Klare

Michael Winship writes, "While maintaining that the Iraq invasion brought down 'an abusive totalitarian regime with a history of sponsoring and supporting regional terrorism,' the report admits that the war 'has been used by terrorists as a rallying cry for radicalization and extremist activity that has contributed to instability in neighboring countries.'"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050407D.shtml

Two months ago, Rove helped coach Justice Department officials on how to testify about the US attorney firings. Was that a harmless part of his job, or an inappropriate attempt to mislead Congress?

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050407A.shtml



US Attorney, GOP Congressman and a Timely Job Offer

Adam Cohen writes: "Ms. Yang was investigating Jerry Lewis, who was chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee. Ms. Lam and most of the other purged prosecutors were fired on December 7. Ms. Yang, in a fortuitously timed exit, resigned in mid-October."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050407C.shtml



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There are a million ways to vent your anger in Baghdad. In this episode of Hometown Baghdad, Adel chooses graffiti. Hometown Baghdad was shot by an all-Iraqi crew and tells the stories of three young people trying to survive in Baghdad.

http://electroniciraq.net/news/3043.shtml

Gerne leiten wir Ihnen eine Einladung zu einem Mobilfunk-Vortrag weiter, vom Verein aus Rapperswil info @summ.info:

Liebe Mobilfunkkritiker

Gerne möchte ich Sie an den Vortrag "Mobilfunk - Gratwanderung zwischen Nutzen und Gefahr" vom 7. Mai einladen. Wir konnten als Referentin Frau Dr. med. Gilli, Ärztin für Allgemeinmedizin und Kantonsrätin der Grünen im Kanton St. Gallen, gewinnen. Sie wird über ihre Erfahrungen in der Praxis und neuste Studien zum Thema Mobilfunk & Gesundheit berichten. Der Vortrag richtet sich grundsätzlich an alle, die interessiert sind, insbesondere jedoch an Behörden, Vertreter des Gesundheitswesens, Lehrer und Eltern. Detailliertere Infos können Sie dem Anhang entnehmen.

Bitte leiten Sie diese Einladung an Personen weiter, die ein Interesse am Vortrag haben könnten.

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/einladung_vortrag_gilli.pdf
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/mobilfunk_a4_farbig.pdf

Es würde mich sehr freuen, Sie an diesem Abend zu treffen!

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Sophia Iten
Ortsgruppe SUMM
Postfach 1252
8640 Rapperswil
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John McCain Vs. Our Troops
http://ga3.org/ct/R120pgF14mYO/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain

by Isaiah Poole, TomPaine.com

Conservatives think their ideology is tested and true, but have they examined the results?

http://ga3.org/ct/R720pgF14mYI/

#Die Linkspartei.PDS: Pressemitteilungen

04. Mai 2007

Innenminister Schäuble hält offenbar an seinen Plänen für Inlandseinsätze der Bundeswehr fest. Dazu erklärt die stellvertretende Parteivorsitzende Katina Schubert:

Innenminister Schäuble versucht nach wie vor seine Sicherheitsphantasien durchzusetzen. Es vergeht kaum eine Tag, an dem er nicht unter dem Vorwand der Terrorismusbekämpfung eine Verschärfung der Gesetze fordert oder ankündigt. Jetzt versucht er erneut, den Einsatz der Bundeswehr im Innern hoffähig zu machen. Die Methode ist alt, nur die jeweiligen Anlässe sind neu. Strafverfolgung und Prävention sind Aufgabe von Justiz und Polizei, nicht des Militärs und dabei muss es auch bleiben. Auf die zunehmende Militarisierung der Außenpolitik, die wir bekämpfen, darf nicht noch die Militarisierung der Zivilgesellschaft folgen. Eine entsprechende Verfassungsänderung ist mit der Linkspartei.PDS nicht zu machen.

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=35653



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Foundation for Economic Education
by Becky Akers

05/03/07

As with most bureaucracies, what the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) claims to accomplish and what it actually does accomplish are entirely different things. The excuse it offers for patting us down and rifling our belongings at airport checkpoints is that these shenanigans protect us — from terrorists, if not from sexual predators and thieves. In reality, the TSA exists to control us. Theory tells us that, and so do the facts when we connect several recent but isolated events...

http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=1278


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Pottsville Republican & Herald

05/03/07

Defiant Democratic leaders in the House are considering a proposal that would pay for the Iraq war at least through July but could cut off funding after that if the Iraqi government does not meet certain political and security goals, congressional officials said Thursday. The bill would be a direct challenge to President Bush, who has demanded Congress fund the war without strings attached...

http://tinyurl.com/3x7fle


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

International Herald Tribune [France]

05/04/07

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton proposed Thursday that Congress repeal the authority it gave President George W. Bush in 2002 to invade Iraq, injecting presidential politics into the congressional debate over financing the war. Clinton’s proposal brings her full circle on Iraq — she supported the war measure five years ago — and it sharpens her own political positioning at a time when Democrats are vying to confront the White House. … Her stance emerged just as congressional leaders and the White House opened delicate negotiations over a new war-financing measure to replace the one that Bush vetoed Tuesday...

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/04/america/04congress.php


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

US oil company Occidental Petroleum has been accused of contaminating an area of the Peruvian Amazon where it and its successor company have drilled for oil over the past 32 years, creating misery for the local Achuar people through widespread lead and cadmium poisoning. The oilfield in the Corrientes river basin was turned over to the Argentinian oil company Pluspetrol in 2000, but the pattern of spillage and poisoning has continued unabated.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050407P.shtml



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Congressional leaders demanded that the veterans affairs secretary explain hefty bonuses for senior department officials involved in crafting a budget that came up $1 billion short and jeopardized veterans' health care.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050407M.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=veterans+affairs

A former deputy attorney general lavished praise yesterday on most of the eight US attorneys who were fired after he left the job. James Comey, the Justice Department's second-in-command from 2003 until August 2005, testified that only one attorney had serious performance problems.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050407L.shtml



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Handys können Krebs auslösen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3261806/

Zunahme der Hirntumore bei Handy-Vieltefonierern: Risiko steigt um 39 Prozent
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3261838/

Lösen Handys Krebs aus, Krebs durch Handy-Strahlung?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3265429/

Handy am Ohr: Hirntumor?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3270151/

Langzeitstudie aus Dänemark: kein Krebsrisiko durch Handy-Strahlung?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3040849/

Kein Beweis für ein erhöhtes Risiko durch Handys?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3271250/

Elektrosmog als Krebsrisiko: Kein Krebsrisiko durch Handy-Strahlung?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3271439/

Flucht aus Oberammergau: Pfarrer flüchtet vor Handy-Strahlung
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3258411/

Mobilfunk und Gesundheit
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3300771/

Wissenschaft zu Mobilfunk
http://tinyurl.com/93epp

Ärzte und Mobilfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/408385/
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=%C3%84rzte+und+Mobilfunk

For Immediate Release: May 3, 2007

Poll Report on the War on Terrorism

The Denial of Innocence and the Terror of Ignorance

Berkeley, CA—Last week, more than five years into the “War on Terrorism”, Retro Poll asked a national sample of Americans this question: “Do you agree or not with the government’s assertion that people seized and detained at Guantanamo are presumed to be dangerous terrorists or they would not have been seized in the first place?” A slightly different wording last October had garnered 37% agreement. In the current poll 48% agreed. We conclude that a substantial proportion of people do not grasp a key principle of democracy--when everyone is not presumed innocent under the law until he/she/we have been proven guilty of a crime in a fair trial, dictatorial powers of government achieve supremacy. Civil rights exist not mainly to protect criminals, but to protect the public from arbitrary government abuse of authority. How come many don’t know this, or are looking the other way?

Retro Poll data, based on small random samples--in this case 164 people—are not projected to precisely represent the general public on individual questions. Retro Poll instead focuses on statistically significant comparisons and unexpected findings within its random samples. In the current sample only 9 (9 out of 164) people could identify Maher Arar as the “Canadian citizen awarded $11 million for being tortured under the US extraordinary rendition.” Two times that number (18) misidentified him as one of the 9/11 hijackers and 136 didn’t know. Likewise 70% did not know that Italy has brought charges for kidnapping against 26 CIA agents in a case of “extraordinary rendition.” Why are such important stories of extraordinary rendition, an anti-democratic if not outlawed process, not common knowledge? Where do people buy their ignorance and where is the source of this ignorance?

Lack of information is the tip of an iceberg. To get answers, Retropollsters asked the extent to which people believe various major corporate media organizations present the truth. The options were “usually”, “mostly when it suits their interests”, and “half the time or less.” Whether asking about CNN, NYTimes, Fox, CBS, MSNBC, NBC or others, in every case less than 40% of the respondents thought the media “usually” tells the truth. Moreover, between 22 and 28 percent said that each outlet tells the truth “half the time or less.” Retro Poll is a media critical group, but this can’t be true. Even if the media manipulates, distorts, censors, its methods must be more subtle than to lie half the time. This latter response represents mass disaffection and mistrust of media.

Exploring the data further by cross-tabulating opinions on the media with responses to factual questions, the manipulation of the public becomes clearer. Not surprisingly, those who tended to “usually” trust Fox were consistently different in their political views from those other minorities who “usually” trust other corporate media outlets, or those who believe Fox tells the truth “half the time or less”. In fact, those who think Fox usually tells the truth were consistently less aware or blind to important facts—for example, 2 out 3 claimed that the “U.S. opposes and does not teach, sanction or engage in torture” and more than 3 out of 4 denied that the Administration “fabricated intelligence on Iraq” before the war. By now these are facts so hard to deny that one must belong to an ideological support group or sect that thinks everything they read or hear is a conspiracy—perhaps against Mr. Bush or against themselves or against “America” or the “white race.”

Regarding the presumption of innocence or guilt of Guantanamo prisoners, seventy-seven percent of Fox supporters (within the “usually truthful” group) held the presumption that captives are all terrorists. Surprisingly, adherents of other corporate media were not so highly different as on other questions with 40-52% also sustaining the government’s position. In contrast, however, people who distrusted the various other media--truth “less than half the time”—supported the presumption of innocence. Presumption of guilt was only 10% for distrusters of NBC, 13% for CBS and 23% for CNN. These statistically significant results suggest that people who trust the Fox network tend to be the most ignorant and susceptible to anti-democratic demagogy but that many who trust other corporate media outlets--when compared with people who do not trust the corporate media market in general--also appear deceived and unprepared to defend their democratic rights. Monitoring disaffection with corporate media may be a useful tool to estimate support for public rights and democracy. The full questionnaire, poll responses and links defending factual questions can be found at http://www.retropoll.org .


Contacts:

Marc Sapir, MD, MPH
Executive Director, Retro Poll
marcsapir@comcast.net
www.retropoll.org
510-848-3826

Warren Gold, MD
Director, Retro Poll
warren.gold@ucsf.edu
415-476-2092

Mickey Huff, MA
Director, Retro Poll
mickeyhuff@mac.com
510-798-6251


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