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Journalist Arrested at RNC (Participated in Riots)

Posted by ampnetMedia on Thursday, September 04, 2008 12:00:00 AM
It has been floating all over the internet… one of my friends (a liberal one) sent it to me… so this was my response…
 
So what did they do to be arrested? Do you even know? The producers of this “Democracy Now” participated in riots and where arrested with 280 other people. This Goodman chick was arrested for obstructing justice. You can’t go to one of these kinds of events and expect to push around policemen and secret service that are already on high alert. What a scam… She got exactly what she wanted, a big seen and some video to boot. Please!
 
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From: Munnch Date: Sep 3, 2008 10:14 AM

Is this what we can expect out of a McCain-Palin presidency? China-type abuses of police power being used to control media coverage? A professional journalist with CLEAR credentials was arrested while doing her job peacefully.


1. Watch this video.

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Read below
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Take action



This is America. We don't jail journalists here.


Jailing journalists is unacceptable in a democracy. But that's exactly what is happening at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn.


Award winning journalist and host of "Democracy Now" Amy Goodman was arrested by St. Paul police while covering a protest outside the Republican National Convention. Though clearly identified as press, Goodman was charged with "obstruction of a legal process and interference with a 'peace officer.'" Two of her producers were arrested for "suspicion of felony riot.
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This video is upsetting, but you deserve to know what's really going on.


Goodman and her producers were released Monday night. (An AP photographer was also arrested and released). But the charges are still pending.


This story has been virtually ignored by the mainstream press. The cable channels are providing extensive coverage of events related to the Republican National Convention, but there has been a virtual news blackout on the arrest of Amy Goodman and the Democracy Now team.


Americans deserve to know that journalists are being jailed for trying to do their jobs. E-mail CNN President Jonathan Klein and NBC News President Steve Capus today (NBC News controls MSNBC) to demand coverage of this brutally important story.


Source: Credo Action
http://act. credoaction. com/campaign/dont_arrest_journalists/?r=1376&id=796-1722275-vqi. YVx

Follow the link to contact media.
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Chavez's and Socialism

Posted by ampnetMedia on Thursday, August 21, 2008 12:00:00 AM

  Is this why people love this guy? I just don’t get the love affair that people of free nations have with socialism. Chavez has already seized control over American companies when we built up their oil infrastructure and their telecommunications for their country. Now they are doing the same, not just to our European allies, but our friends to the south as well. How can we put up with someone like this? We should take action against him, with a coalition of the countries that Chavez has disgraced. Not necessarily military action but the first steps toward it. We could blockade his shipping ports, stop trades, and help the people in Venezuela that protest this dictator. We are too wrapped up in not wanting to look bad to the rest of the world, and most of the rest of the world is sympathetic to growing socialist countries like Venezuela. Even with that, we must not let him continue to use his military to force private companies, from other countries that put their time and money into Venezuela, out of the country.
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The bulbs of our future, whether you like it or not!

Posted by ampnetMedia on Wednesday, July 02, 2008 8:39:00 AM
With the recent story in the BBC news, about consumers hoarding incandescent light bulbs, and the legislation passed by our congress banning them it seemed like a good time to blog.

BBC story :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7480958.stm

This is a path that the US is on as well. When you take choices out of the consumer’s hands and put them into the government’s hands, that’s called tyranny. Who is the government of Brittan or the US to tell companies that they cannot sell or make a certain type of product? If the people are that worried about CO2 emissions then the companies and the government can lobby the people to switch to different products, but to mandate the switch is just wrong. There are more stories out there about this situation in the US; here is one that I had commented on back in February of this year.
http://ampnetmedia.com/webnews/research/mercury_bulbs.aspx

I like these compact florescent bulbs. I have been using them for a long time now, unlike the global warming crowd. I use them because they save money on the electric bill and they still put off a sufficient amount of light. I am strongly against the government banning conventional light bulbs in the name of global warming and energy security. There is a lot more we can be do and need to be doing. Wake up Washington!
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Oil Companies Invest in Iraq

Posted by ampnetMedia on Monday, June 30, 2008 12:00:00 AM
 

This morning I caught a story, on the CBS morning news program, about Iraq opening its oil fields for the first time to outside companies to start drilling. It caught my attention because I automatically assumed that it was a great thing for Iraq and the Iraqi people. Then the broadcaster, whom I don’t know because I don’t watch much of CBS news, continued to say that the oil companies did not have to submit bids for their contracts and that this was proof to the people that are against the Iraq war that the war was waged for oil. What a dumb statement from a “news” man.

Why can we not focus on the fact that this will help the Iraq economy, the Iraq people, bring the world wide inventory of oil down, and bring down world wide price per barrel of oil? Bringing capitalism into Iraq is the best thing we could be doing.

It’s obvious that the anti-war crowd does not want any success to come to Iraq, and calling this a war for oil is just absurd. It was the democratically elected Iraqi government that invited the oil companies to drill not the oil companies or the US government demanding it.  

Reading the article on CBS’s web site you get a little more tame and in-depth view of this story. This makes the fact that they spent 30 seconds on TV talking about it, with most of those pushing the anti-war view point outrages.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/06/30/world/main4218574.shtml

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