jay - calm down and take a valium - or have yourself a toke. Whichever
works best. my beloved america has become trash. the US is a global
joke. that should be no surprise. if you want to see knew - get a
satilite and expand your mind. this evening the phillipines had more on
the wto crap then any of the US services.
That's the way it is in america Jay. It's all glitz - no substance. and
I find it all very unfortunate.
I suggest instead - ester do a red latex bar dance for us to put us in the
mood for todays wto events ;-)
Regards
Joe
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Jay Fenello wrote:
>
>
> Well, it's 3:30 a.m. EST, and I have seen very
> little coverage of the riots. It's seems that
> the Pete Rose story is a much higher priority
> topic tonight!
>
> In other words, I'd say were in the midsts of
> another media blackout. For those who missed
> the last one, there is a good summary at:
> http://www.icann.org/comments-mail/icann-current/msg00677.html
>
> Consider the situation. We have a World Trade
> Organization meeting in Seattle, one that has
> delegates arriving from over 130 countries of
> the world, one that has been disrupted by riots
> in Seattle.
>
> The riots are so bad that police have reportedly
> fired rubber bullets, and used tear gas and pepper
> spray to disperse the thousands of protesters who
> took to the streets on Tuesday. Riots that were
> so bad that the opening WTO meeting was canceled.
> Riots that were so bad that the mayor of Seattle
> imposed a 7 p.m.-to-dawn curfew, and has called
> out the national guard.
>
> We practically have marshal law in Seattle, and
> yet, the Network news has done very little to
> cover the fiasco.
>
> On my cable system, I get all four networks,
> and I get CNN, CNNFN, CNN Headline News, CNBC,
> MSNBC, and Fox News. After hours of channel
> surfing, I have very little to report. Other
> than the three minute leader that is run at
> the top of the newscasts, I have seen little
> in depth coverage.
>
> [Compare this to the recent coverage given to
> the Kennedy search and rescue. We had non-stop
> coverage on every network for hours and hours,
> with live pictures of the empty ocean, and
> little else to report.]
>
> The media is obviously hiding this story!
>
> One blatant example is the current story running
> on MSNBC: http://www.msnbc.com/news/340805.asp#BODY
> It's one of the longest I've seen, yet it doesn't
> even mention why so many people are protesting.
> It's like the question WHY doesn't even exist!
>
> Not only are they hiding it, but they are even
> taking sides. The one in-depth news report that
> I did see was on MSNBC and featured a spokesperson
> for the White House. Unfortunately, she
> characterized the protestors as a confused bunch
> of disparate parties who were all protesting a
> disjunctive and contradictory slate of issues.
>
> Why the bias? -- you ask.
>
> The truth of the matter is that the riots in
> Seattle, the fight over ICANN, and the media
> blackout given to both topics, are all related.
>
> The riots in Seattle are about the loss of U.S.
> sovereignty to multinational corporations, just
> like the Domain Name Wars were about the loss of
> the Internet to the same multinational corporations.
>
> Not possible! -- you say.
>
> Consider that the media is owned by these same
> multinational corporations:
>
> "The notion that journalism can regularly produce a product
> that violates the fundamental interests of media owners and
> advertisers ... is absurd."
> -- Robert McChesney, journalist and author
>
> Consider that while knowledgeable people recognize
> the bias of the media in the U.S., the vast majority
> of Americans doubt that it is possible:
>
> "The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one
> of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country
> has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media
> all objectivity - much less dissent. "
> -- Gore Vidal, novelist and critic
>
> Consider the implications of this email:
>
> "Corporations have been enthroned .... An era of corruption
> in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor
> to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the
> people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands ...
> and the Republic is destroyed."
> -- Abraham Lincoln
>
> Until next time . . .
>
> Jay.
>
>
> At 09:31 PM 11/30/99 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >the national guard has just landed in seattle. should be an interesting
> >day tommorrow - a city full of pepper spray, tear gas, tree huggers,
> >labour unions, national guard and of course el presidente clinton.
> >Clintons gonna need more then a cigar tommorrow to pull it off.
> >
> >On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Jeff Williams wrote:
> >
> > > Michael and all,
> > >
> > > I am watching CNN right now and Seattle has declared a
> > > civil emergency and the trade talks have been shut down
> > > temporarily. More than 20,000 AFL-CIO staged a rally
> > > at the Seattle stadium protesting the non representation of
> > > Unions in the trade talks. A curfew will be in effect in
> > > Seattle in two hours from now.
> > >
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > > > You wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >Also, according to NBC news, the
> > > > >reason everyone is protesting is
> > > > >over "jobs." What a crock!
> > > >
> > > > The CBC just broadcast on shortwave radio an interview with an A.F.of
> > L. economist who said that the WTO rules and the WTO judiciary panels are
> > all one-sided because there are no representatives of labor. Sound familiar?
> > > >
> > > > ========================
> > > > Michael Sondow ICIIU
> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.iciiu.org
> > > > ========================
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > --
> > > Jeffrey A. Williams
> > > Spokesman INEGroup (Over 95k members strong!)
> > > CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java/CORBA Development Eng.
> > > Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC.
> > > E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Contact Number: 972-447-1894
> > > Address: 5 East Kirkwood Blvd. Grapevine Texas 75208
> > >
>
> Respectfully,
>
> Jay Fenello,
> New Media Relations
> ------------------------------------
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>
> "We are creating the most significant new jurisdiction
> we've known since the Louisiana purchase, yet we are
> building it just outside the constitution's review."
> -- Larry Lessig, Harvard Law School, on ICANN
>
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