True News
By Lee Robinson ©2004

These days it is increasingly difficult to differentiate between real information and plain old propaganda. All of the media is biased in one direction or another and most commentators are really just shills for the different political parties. So-called reporters are almost invariably people with no experience in the actual workings of the subjects they ‘report’ on. While sometimes well intentioned they are shamelessly manipulated by politicians and editors alike. It has been said that if you want to know what’s really going on in the world, read history; if you want an editor’s opinion of what a reporter thinks is going on, read the ‘news’.

But now there is an alternative to all that nonsense; True News.

At True News we have developed a proprietary formula based on historical patterns and the psychological study of those who need to rule others as well as the known qualities of various populations and special interests. We will distill all of the conflicting, confusing, deceptive and even, on rare occasions, accurate information from various media sources and, in conjunction with this publication, provide our readers with a version of events that is more reliable than anything available elsewhere. We guarantee that what True News presents will be correct at least half the time, which is better than you can get from newspapers, news magazines, radio or television. (Read the rest here)

Transportation Security Abominations
By Ted Lang © 2004

As if the continuing swirl of corruption surrounding Halliburton, Vice President Dick Cheney, and a growing number of Bush administration connections and officials weren’t enough, more and more examples of outright executive branch malfeasance are surfacing on a daily basis.

The Halliburton fiasco first appeared as a sole source closed bid anomaly for Bechtel, Parsons, Fluor and the like, a handful of corporations very tightly aligned financially with the Bush administration. These companies are all heavy donors to the Republican Party. Cheney was Secretary of Defense under Bush I, and then became CEO of Halliburton.

Restrictions were placed upon equipment sales to Iraq as part of the economic sanctions against Saddam and Iraq resulting from the first Gulf War. All American corporations were prohibited from selling equipment to Iraq. Halliburton sidestepped these restrictions and enjoyed millions in profit by end-running the sales through French companies. This travesty has once again come up, and right on the heels of Halliburton’s price gouging on gasoline sales to the American military forces stationed and fighting in Iraq. And within the context of the alleged scam, two Halliburton executives admitted skimming millions of taxpayer dollars. (Read the rest here)

Impartial Juries and Stacked Juries
by Iloilo Marguerité Jones, Executive Director

AJI/ FIJA maintains that despite the hullabaloo and boasting, neither the defense nor the prosecution in the Martha Stewart trial are looking for "impartial juries". Iloilo Marguerité Jones, Executive Director of AJI/FIJA said today that both sides actually have zero interest in impartiality. Their entire interest is, in fact, to create through the voir dire process as much bias for their respective sides as they can. This is because their sole interest is in capturing the respective jury's verdict.

Seeking to win by whatever means they can may be a natural enough goal for the attorneys involved, she said, but this fact should not allow the institution of trial by jury to be corrupted. Many treatises weigh heavily upon law library shelves advising trial participants how to get "the jury you want" -- the jury that will have a bias leaning to the desired verdict by your side of the case. (Read the rest here)

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