@Ending EnviroIgnorance

I’ve always said that our environment encompasses everything around us.  Now our form of government is under attack by large corporations.  We cannot turn a blind eye to these wealthy, powerful, and influential people who may use there riches, their power, and their influence in an attempt to overthrow our government.

If you are not familiar with the Koch brothers and you’ve never heard of the American Legislative Exchange Council, Citizens United, or other organizations.  Do some research!  Don’t be afraid to talk politics.  In what I would call a very revealing and well written article by Jane Mayer entitled: Covert Operations (The billionaire brothers who are raging a war against Obama) was published in the New Yorker and is indeed a masterpiece.  An excerpt from her article reads:

But Charles Lewis, the founder of the Center for Public Integrity, a nonpartisan watchdog group, said, “The Kochs are on a whole different level. There’s no one else who has spent this much money. The sheer dimension of it is what sets them apart. They have a pattern of lawbreaking, political manipulation, and obfuscation. I’ve been in Washington since Watergate, and I’ve never seen anything like it. They are the Standard Oil of our times.”

There is allot of work ahead and loads of information gathering needed before next week.  The following links have been updated from the 18th of July to Present:

• Where Are You?
  Posted July 29, 2011

• Koch Brothers: Wealthy, Powerful, & Evil
  Posted July 28, 2011

• My Thought Of The Day: Even More Stupidity
  Posted July 28, 2011

• Hilarious!
  Posted July 26, 2011

• Lesson 1- Know Your Representatives
  Posted July 25, 2011

• My Thought Of The Day: Writing About Congressional Stupidity
  Posted July 25, 2011

• July 24, 2011: My Thought Of The Day

• July 23, 2011 My Thought Of The Day: Beatles!

• Texas Governor Rick Perry: May Run For President
  Posted July 22, 2011

• July 22, 2011 My Thought Of The Day

• July 21, 2011 My Thought Of The Day
• Dear Mr. President
  Posted July 20, 2011
• Just How Stupid Is Boehner?
  Posted July 19, 2011
• President Obama’s Big Deal: Cuts for Social Security, but No Taxes for Wall Street – Newsroom: U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (Vermont)
  Posted July 18, 2011

• Fox News Lobbies For Balanced Budget Amendment That Economic Experts Say Would Hurt The Economy
  Posted July 18, 2011

• Mainstream Media & ALEC
  Posted July 18, 2011

• Part 1: The Worst Decade In American History: Why Obama Will Win In 2012
  Posted July 17, 2011

• Another Reason To Replace Republicans & The Tea Party
  Posted July 16, 2011

• How Our Government Fails
  Posted July 15, 2011

• TED: Naomi Klein
  Posted July 11, 2011

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@ Ending EnviroIgnorance

I’m no journalist but these are indeed tumultuous times that require our attention.  The decade that began on January 1, 2000 and ended just after midnight on December 31, 2009 is likely going to be recorded historically as the worst decade in American History. Today Uncle Sam points his finger calling us all to defend our constitution. He weeps tears acknowledging that there is a radical faction of power hungry businessmen who are secretly creating legislation behind closed doors, doors that are not open to the people, doors that hide tyranny, and doors that threaten our own constitution.  Now Uncle Sam shouts loudly to all Americans, “The probability that we may fail; ought not deter us, and it shall not deter me”. Become a participant in our democracy.  This is my effort!

The following is a list of topics:

• President Obama’s Big Deal: Cuts for Social Security, but No Taxes for Wall Street – Newsroom: U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (Vermont)
  Posted July 18, 2011

• Fox News Lobbies For Balanced Budget Amendment That Economic Experts Say Would Hurt The Economy
  Posted July 18, 2011

• Mainstream Media & ALEC
  Posted July 18, 2011

• Part 1: The Worst Decade In American History: Why Obama Will Win In 2012
  Posted July 17, 2011

• Another Reason To Replace Republicans & The Tea Party
  Posted July 16, 2011

• How Our Government Fails
  Posted July 15, 2011

• TED: Naomi Klein
  Posted July 11, 2011

Mainstream Media, Propaganda, & Spin

As the News Corp. drama unfolds I find myself wondering why Americans have permitted the corporate takeover of our free press.  Ladies and Gentlemen this is nothing new!  For over two decades organizations who have followed our free press have also warned, reported vital information, and provided educational material.  If we close our eyes and simply believe whatever our Government states we are complacent in our duties of governing.

• PRWATCH The Center for Media & Democracy’s [The Father of Spin: Edward Bernays and the Birth of PR]
• American Association for Justice [American Legislative Exchange Council]
• ALEC Exposed
• Media Matters
• FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting [The Global Media Giants]
• Freepress [Ownership: The Big Six] [Murdoch Scandal Jumps The Pond]
• If you find something that should be added to this list please contact me at: jamespond.usa@gmail.com

How much of the pie does News Corporation own? You will likely going to be surprised!

NEWS CORPORATION

1211 Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York 10036

www.newscorp.com

• Holdings
• Timeline

Television

Cable Television

FOX News Channel

FOX Business Network

FOX College Sports

Fox Deportes

Fox Movie Channel

Fox Pan American Sports (33%)

Fox Regional Sports Networks

FOX Soccer Channel

FOX Sports Enterprises

FOX Sports Net

Big Ten Network (49%)

FSN

FUEl TV

FX

Nat Geo Wild (71%)

National Geographic Channel United States (71%)

SPEED

STAR

Stats, Inc. (50%)

Fox Television Stations

WAGA (Atlanta)

KTBC (Austin)

WUTB (Baltimore)

WFXT (Boston)

WFLD (Chicago)

WPWR (Chicago)

KDFW (Dallas)

KDFI (Dallas)

WJBK (Detroit)

KRIV (Houston)

KTXH (Houston)

KTTV (Los Angeles)

KCOP (Los Angeles)

WHBQ (Memphis)

KMSP (Minneapolis)

WFTC (Minneapolis)

WNYW (New York City)

WWOR (New Jersey)

WOGX (Ocala-Gainesville)

WRBW (Orlando)

WOFL (Orlando)

WTXF (Philadelphia)

KUTP (Phoenix)

KSAZ (Phoenix)

WTVT (Tampa Bay)

WTTG (Washington D.C.)

WDCA (Washington D.C.)

Satellite Television

BSkyB (39%)

FOXTEL (25%)

Sky Deutschland

SKY Italia

Sky Network Television Limited (44%)

TATA Sky (20%)

International Television Stations

FOX Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America

FOX CRIME Europe and Asia

FOX LIFE Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America

FOX MOVIES Asia and Middle East

FOX NEXT Europe

FOX RETRO Europe and Africa

FOX SPORTS Europe, Africa, and Latin America

FOX Telecolombia (51%)

AQUAVISION PRODUCTIONS Africa (51%)

Asianet (75%)

BABY TV Europe, Asia and Latin America

CHANNEL [V]

CHANNEL [V] Asia

CULT Europe

ESPN STAR Sports (50%)

FX Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America

Hathway Cable and Datacom (17%)

LAPTV (Movie City Pack, Cinecanal, and The Film Zone) (55%)

National Geographic International Channels (52%)

Nat Geo Adventure Europe and Asia

Nat Geo Music Europe, Africa and Asia

Nat Geo Wild Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America

NHNZ PRODUCTIONS Asia

Phoenix Satellite Television (18%)

Premier Media Group (50%)

Rotana (9%)

SPEED Latin America

STAR Chinese Channel

STAR Chinese Movies

STAR Den (50%)

STAR GOld

STAR Movies

STAR MOVIES Asia

Star News (26%)

STAR ONE

STAR PLUS

STAR UTSAV

STAR World

STAR World Asia

UTILISIMA Latin America

Telecine (13%)

TVN Asia

VIJAY (81%)

VOYAGE Europe

XING KONG

Other Television

FOX Broadcasting Company

FOX Sports

FOX Sports Australia

FOX Television Stations

MyNetworkTV

Film

20th Century Fox

20th Century Fox Espanol

20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

20th Century Fox International

20th Century Fox Television

Fox 2000 Pictures

Fox Music

Fox Searchlight Pictures

Fox Studios Australia

Fox Studios LA

Fox Television Studios

Blue Sky Studios

Twentieth Television

20th Century Fox Licensing and Merchandising

Premium Movie Partnership (Australia and New Zealand – 20%)

Newspapers (U.S.)

New York Post

The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal Digital Network

SmartSource (Coupons)

Newspapers (International)

The Advertiser and Sunday Mail (Australia)

The Australian (Australia)

The Courier-Mail and The Sunday Mail (Australia)

The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph (Australia)

Gold Coast Bulletin (Australia)

Herald Sun and Sunday Herald Sun (Australia)

mX (Australia)

The Mercury and Sunday Tasmanian (Australia)

News of the World (U.K.)

Northern Territory News and Sunday Territorian (Australia)

Perth Now (Australia)

Post-Courier (Papua New Guinea)

The Sun (U.K.)

Sunday Times (Australia)

The Times and The Sunday Times (U.K.)

Weekly Times (Australia)

Dow Jones

The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal Asia

The Wall Street Journal Europe

The Wall Street Journal Radio

The Wall Street Journal Digital Network

The Wall STreet Journal Classroom

Barron’s

Dow Jones Local Media Group (Ottaway):

Cape Cod Media Group (MA)

Cape Cod Times

Cape Cod View

Barnstable Patriot

Hudson Valley Media Group (NY)

Times Herald-Record (Middletown)

Orange Magazine (Orange County)

Nantucket Island Media Group (MA)

Times Herald-Record (Nantucket)

Nantucket Today

Pocono Mountains Media Group (PA)

Pocono Record (Stroudsburg)

San Joaquin Media Group (CA)

The Record (Stockton)

Seacoast Media Group (NH)

The Portsmouth Herald

The Exeter News-Letter

The Hampton Union

The York Weekly

York County Coast Star

South Coast Media Group (MA)

The Standard-Times (New Bedford)

The Advocate (Fairhaven)

The Chronicle (Westport and Dartmouth)

Middleboro Gazette

The Spectator (Somerset and Swansea)

The Fall RIver Spirit

New England Business Bulletin

Southern Oregon Media Group (OR)

Medford Mail Tribune

The Nickel (Medford)

Ashland Daily Tidings

AllThingsD.com

BigCharts.com

eFinancialNews

Factiva

Dow Jones AveragesDow Jones Client Solutions

Dow Jones Companies & Executives

Dow Jones Events

Dow Jones Indexes

Dow Jones Insight

Dow Jones Investment Banker

Dow Jones LP Source

Dow Jones Newswires

Dow Jones Private Markets

Dow Jones Reprint Portal

Dow Jones Watchlist

Dow Jones VentureSource

FINS.com

Marketwatch.com

SmartMoney.com (with Hearst)

Vedomosti (with Pearson and Independent Media)

Virtual Stock Exchange

Magazines

Alpha (Australia)

Big League (Australia)

Inside Out (Australia)

Donna Hay (Australia)

Other News Properties

News Digital Media

News International

Publishing

HarperCollins Publishers

Amistad

Avon

Avon A

Avon Inspire

Avon Red

Caedmon

Harper Design

Ecco

Eos

Harper

Harper Business

HarperLuxe

Harper Paperbacks

Harper Perennial

Harper Perennial Modern Classics

HarperAudio

HarperBibles

HarperCollins e-Books

HarperOne

ItBooks

Rayo

William Morrow

HarperCollins Children’s Books

Amistad

Balzer + Bray

Collins

Greenwillow Books

HarperCollins Children’s Audio

HarperCollins Children’s Books

HarperCollins e-books

HarperFestival

HarperTeen

Katherine Tegen Books

Rayo

Walden Pond Press

HarperCollins Australia

HarperCollins Canada

HarperCollins India (40%)

HarperCollins New Zealand

HarperCollins US

HarperCollins UK

Zondervan

Online Properties

AmericanIdol.com

AskMen

BrandAlley UK (49%)

careerone.com.au

CARSguide.com.au

Fox.com

FoxSports.com

FoxSports.com.au

Fox Audience Network

hulu.com (32%)

kSolo

Milkaround

Myspace

News.com.au

News Digital Media

Realestate.com (58%)

Scout

Spring Widgets

truelocal.com.au

WhatIfSports

Other

Fox Mobile Group

IGN Entertainment

National Rugby League (Australia) (50%)

NDS (49%)

News America Marketing

News Outdoor Group (79%)

last updated 12/24/2010

So You Thought Dallas, TX is Organized- Think Again!

Last nights stampede for housing vouchers was anything but organized and the City of Dallas is fortunate that nobody is launching a lawsuit against the city.

If you think this lack of organization is unusual you need to know that it really isn’t. Piss poor planning by the City of Dallas is a common occurrence.

It’s business as normal in Dallas, TX.

Think Again!

Information Resources

Domestic & Foreign Newspapers Online:

U.S. Links:  The Top Twenty Newspapers

1. Alabama  2. Alaska  3. Arizona 4. Arkansas 5. California 6. Colorado 7. Connecticut 8. Delaware

9. District of Columbia 10. Florida 11. Georgia 12. Hawaii 13. Idaho 14. Illinois 15. Indiana 16. Iowa 17. Kansas

18. Kentucky 19. Louisiana 20. Maine 21. Maryland 22. Massachusetts 23. Michigan 24. Minnesota

25. Mississippi 26. Missouri 27. Montana 28. Nebraska 29. Nevada 30. New Hampshire 31. New Jersey

32. New Mexico 33. New York 34. North Carolina 35. North Dakota 36. Ohio 37. Oklahoma 38. Oregon

39. Pennsylvania 40. Road Island 41. South Carolina 42. South Dakota 43. Tennessee 44. Texas 45. Utah

46. Vermont 47. Virginia 48. Washington 49. West Virginia 50. Wisconsin 51. Wyoming

Highly Recommended Media Alternative Resources: Under Construction

• Democracy Now, Rachel Maddow, 
• Media Matters,

Foreign Newspapers: Under Construction

1. My Afghan News 2. Afghan Daily 3. Kabul Daily 4. AOP Online 6. All Africa,Com 7.