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Gore's Documentary Wins 2 Oscars

Elaine Meinel Supkis

Due to too little time, I didn't write about the wonderful news that Inconvenient Al Gore's documentary won 2 Oscars. This is so satisfying. Congratulations, Al! I will always love you. But the media fell silent when this happened including much of the big 'liberal' blogs.

The Environmental News Wire carried this important story:

(ENS) - Former Vice President Al Gore won the Oscar for Best Documentary for his climate change warning film "An Inconvenient Truth," last night at the 79th Annual Academy Awards, highlighting a night devoted to environmental awareness.

In fact, the award went to director Davis Guggenheim and producers Lawrence Bender, Laurie David and Scott Burns, but it was really Gore who was being recognized for focusing international attention on the issue of global warming and he joined the winners on stage for the acceptance.

"I made this movie for my children," Guggenheim said in his acceptance speech. "We all did. And we did so because we were moved to act by this man... all of us were inspired by his fight for 30 years to tell his truth to all of us."

Al Gore's daughter makes cartoons that are the funniest things on earth. Go, Bender!

Environmental news services online celebrated this news. So did a communist-based news service in China. But when I googled for this story, there were virtually NO media I could link to because this incredible victory and honor for Al Gore was 'disappeared'. I went to the biggest of the big American newspapers, the New York Times which claims to print the news that fits and they saw fit to mention this news in the fifth paragraph of a very thin article that simply listed the Oscar victories. One sentence.

The odious Rich who was a movie critic before being elevated to 'pundit' status said nothing. He has a lot of Al Gore's blood on his dirty hands. Because he criticizes Bush, a lot of people link to him or talk excitedly about him but the Daily Howler keeps close tabs on the endless stream of abuse and lies the mainstream media floods into our political and cultural landscape.

Just for example, here is a Nov. 25, 2002 article by the incomparable Daily Howler:

THAT’S RICH: Normal people have a word for it: Lying. We refer to Frank Rich’s inexcusable column in Saturday’s New York Times. Rich—the self-admiring incompetent who, along with Maureen Dowd, ginned up that fateful Love Story nonsense—doesn’t believe you should vote for Al Gore. But instead of trying to argue his case, he quickly started spinning you blue:

RICH: The [Gores’] books celebrate The Family, the one cause every Democrat feels compelled to embrace after Monicagate. The reviews for the author are thumbs up… Rich—who, incredibly, can’t stop talking about Monica Lewinsky!—implies that Gore is “embracing” the family due to Lewinsky concerns. But of course, the Gores have staged a Nashville “Family Reunion”—a forum on issues facing the family—every year since the early 90s (see below). Like all pundits, Rich knows this fact; he simply doesn’t want you to know it. So he dumps the fact from his piece. Prepare yourself for a dark, mordant chuckle: In this baldly dissembling way, Rich warns you about Al Gore’s character!

I expected the left blogsphere to celebrate wildly when the Academy Awards honored Al Gore. I remember when Farenheit 9/11 was given an award: the TV station run by total right wingers, ABC, had its crew boo very loudly into microphones! None of the mainstream press pointed this out, of course. Instead, they deep-sixed this embarrassment and ditto, the filmmaker himself. Michael Moore is seldom in the news these days. Like Al Gore.

I'm not really blaming the left side of the sphere for dropping the ball, they are trapped in the same matrix they complain about so bitterly. But instead of merely reacting to whatever the right spews forth, we have an obligation to talk about the good news that concerns us and indeed, I, myself, am just as trapped as everyone else in this stupid molasses news cycle.

The main tool I use to avoid this is to read mostly foreign news. It is also an eye-opener because it holds up a dim mirror to ourselves. But the main thing is, the rotting corpse of a demented, corrupt, pill-popping gold digger has been top news for weeks with everyone running every possible fragment of a storyline to milk this rancid cow of a story and at the same time, a man who should have been President of the USA because he won the popular vote, is ignored when, for the very first time, someone of his political stature has won an Oscar!

Well, after throwing every possible bric-brack at Jimmy Carter for telling the harsh truth about Israel is doesn't surprise me to see Al Gore being ignored because he is warning us about our own actions destroying our own planet. What next? Warnings about World War III?

Back to the bad news, everyone!

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All Over The Earth, Bloggers Go To Prison

Elaine Meinel Supkis

An Egyptian law student is being sent to prison and torture in our allied country, Egypt, for posting political analysis on the internet. The Iman kidnapped by the CIA demands justice and freedom but will probably go back to prison for daring to talk about his torture in public and Ernest Zundel is sentenced to harsh prison conditions for doubting the Holocaust. This is all ridiculous and evil.

Of course, Condi recently praised the dictator of Egypt.

Egyptian blogger Abdel Kareem Nabil Suleiman has been detained since November [AP]

An Alexandria court has convicted an Egyptian blogger for insulting both Islam and the Egyptian president, sentencing him to four years in jail over his writings on the internet.

During the trial, an Egyptian imam allegedly kidnapped by CIA agents in Italy and taken to Egypt, showed up to speak to the media, breaking his release conditions.

Known as Abu Omar, the former Milan-based imam on Thursday told reporters that he was tortured in an Egyptian prison and that he wants to return to Italy.

He showed the cameras scars he said were from torture in Egyptian jails and said he will resort to the Italian government to help him.

Thanks to the Founding Fathers, we still have freedom of speech here in the USA. But they are trying to eliminate this as much as possible and before the internet, it didn't matter much because anything outsiders wrote would be ignored safely but now we can be read by anyone who wants to click on our URLs. I have readers all over the earth, most of them come via my cartoons which can be googled. Others type in key words and get my site. Of course, the government could do tricks like get search engines to boycott irritating writers like myself but so far, this hasn't happened to me...yet.

As the economic system here deteriorates and as our wars go from bad to worse, I am expecting a crackdown on us internet users who pass on information the government wants ignored.

Of course, much of our media don't mind carrying stories about the Egyptian kid being punished for writing intelligent analysis online. They might even feel sort of sorry for him but since Egypt is part of our empire and we pay the dictator there a ton of money to keep the Palestinians penned into Gaza and starving to death...a recent story claims 50% of the them, mostly children, are starving to death, the media isn't going to hammer Mubarak.

Egypt seethes with hatred for the USA. This young blogger is a liberal and thus, a future important person with whom we should be planning to do business: he wants our sort of political system! For crying out loud. He isn't a radical conservative seeking cutting ties! But he will emerge from his prison hell a radical Muslim. This is absolute. And he might lead a future army against us. We can't tell. Maybe he will simply be murdered in prison, a more likely situation since we rule with an iron fist.

Meanwhile, Germany puts a man in prison for Holocaust denial!

February 5, 2007

My Dear Jeff

Greetings to you from Mannheim Prison...my fifth prison in the last four years. This must be some kind of record for a man not yet convicted of anything. But that, too, will change soon - for we are in the last days of what passes for a 'judicial' proceeding here.

Jeff, NO American could believe - without actually having experienced it - what is going on here. The unfamiliar or the non-initiated could simply not believe that in an otherwise modern nation, proceedings like these could actually take place.

This totally infurates me. We get hosed with holocaust this and holocaust museum that and most of our media is owned by open Zionists and many reporters and commentators and neo cons and so on are Jewish and they have a huge influence on the stream of information in the world and they put this poor man in prison for his itty bitty webpage?

IS THIS DEMOCRACY??? IS GERMANY A NAZI STATE????

It is. The lesson of the Holocaust wasn't 'killing Jews is bad' but 'fascists who destroy our rights are evil.' The blogger left wing never mentions any of this. The Zionist organizations supposedly for free speech and democracy are silent or want this sort of misrule extended to America! My nation!

The rank attacks on Jimmy Carter disgusted me. The abuse of the Palestinian people nauseates me. Turning Germany into a Nazi prison state that puts people in prison for disputes about history is evil.

Turkey won't allow Kurds to dispute history, they are put in prison. Turkey is an ally of the USA. Turkey won't let our Congress talk about the Armenian Holocaust! But then Japan won't let us talk about them raping school girls during WWII, either. And the key to all this is, states are using their power to prevent history from being discussed or acted on. Why the left bloggers can't see the dangers to themselves for ignoring this important news irritates me.

Deliberately ignoring this loss of freedom is dangerous for any blogger or web master put in prison for merely TALKING about history or the news means you or I can be put in prison too! What if I go to Germany again and am arrested like the English historian was arrested in Austria, because I wrote something that angered someone over there? I write all sorts of stuff!

A blogger in Russia is going to prison for making fun of Putin! He is a victim! We are all in this together, left, right and center! No government should imprison ANYONE for discussing current affairs or mocking leaders. This is tyranny of the most evil sort.

And Zundel says it very well indeed:

When I try to explain to them that in America one could write about and discuss virtually any topic without the ever-present threat of being arrested, tried, convicted, fined and even imprisoned for just thinking or writing about things other than the orthodox, generally accepted viewpoints, seems unbelievable to most. They respond as if one is feeding them some kind of American propaganda. Thus, I often feel like a fish out of water.

Our nation was founded by people who ardently believed in freedoms (even as they were slave owners, alas!). Now that we have freed the slaves, we have to keep this freedom. And ignoring people losing their freedom just because we don't agree with them is stupid. We have to stand united! Or we all fall.

We have been steadily losing freedoms thanks to attacks on the left and the right as both sides of the political spectrum find increasing reasons to interfere with the flow of debate and struggle for hearts and minds. People don't fall for Nazi ideology because it is there, they go for it because it appeals to them just like socialist ideology gains ground as people find it sympathetic to their needs!

And debating all this means being allowed to talk openly and honestly. Lies get defeated by honorable debate, not putting people in prison.

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Bomb Scare Aimed At Media NOT Reported By Reporters In White House

Elaine Meinel Supkis

I started reading Xinhua news regularily after my daughter was unable to get on the train to come home due to a bomb scare that was TOTALLY blacked out of the American media! I read it in the Chinese news as it was unfolding! Well, another bomb scare and another media black-out.

The entire media witness this event since it happened to THEM!

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 (Xinhua) -- The White House Conference Center, the temporary press room near the U.S. presidential residence, was evacuated for half an hour Friday in a bomb scare, CNN reported.

White House spokesman Tony Fratto had begun his briefing on 9:30 a.m. when he was interrupted by Deputy Press Secretary Scott Stanzel, who said everyone must leave the building, according to the report.

A nearby car checked by a bomb-sniffing dog had tested positive, Stanzel said.

Later, Secret Service said nothing suspicious was found in the vehicle, which was driven by a government contractor and had been stopped at the entrance to the White House complex.

During the bomb scare, nearby streets were closed, but the presidential residence of White House itself was not evacuated.

I know the press corpse (deliberate misspelling) doesn't care if they are blown to smithereens or run over by a big tractor driven by Bush or whatever but not even mentioning news that happens to them, themselves, well! HAHAHA. Why do we have these guys in the first place? Are they all this brain-dead? Just the mere fact that they were sent scurrying like the little rats they are, into the streets because of fears they were going to be blown up, isn't that in the normal world, news?

It should be, I would suggest. Even if no one gives a damn if any of these toads were blown up, they, themselves, should care. The communist Chinese cared enough to make it a sub-headline story at the top of the list of new stories out of America, the land that is terrified it will be blown up. This dovetails with the 'land of the fearful' that we have become. It is very important to see that our ruler is a terrified rabbit and the military in our police state are in hysteria and we are madly scuttling about, trying to avoid being blown up.

So I am adding story number 4 to the list of people running this story today.

Fox news, of all people, were the only Americans to run this story. And all they did was run the same stupid, terse wire put out, obviously their own reporter couldn't tell the story him or herself because they don't know how to write or report anything. This affllicts the entire press corpse. Did we see pictures of Bush laughing while running these idiots over?

No? HELL, it was a damn photo-ops! There should be tons of footage.

And so it goes. If you want to know what is going on here, read the news put out by people who plan to destroy us. You can bet, they are tracking everything, closely.

Ditto Bin Laden. Only he doesn't run any newspapers. Maybe we should ask him.

Click here to see short Fox news story. I will also note, we can see from the illustration at the top, the Fox news headline was written by someone who decided to minimize it as much as possible since there is no descriptive words like 'BOMB THREAT!' or some such. It is the most ho-hum headline they could devise.

Click here to read the Canadian news story (the Canadians get more news about us than we do, too!).

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