Dear President Obama: Blogs Fact-Check and Put Stories in Context Much Better than the Corporate Media Former CBS anchorman warns of corporate influence over news Investors gird for post-recession inflation
President Obama said yesterday: the quality of journalism in the mainstream media has eroded considerably, and news has been corporatized, politicized, and trivialized.
On September 16, Dan Rather, the former anchor of the CBS Evening News, warned that today’s news is shaped by very powerful corporate network owners who “are in bed with powerful political interests” that are influenced by government regulatory interests.
Brushing aside statistics that show an annual inflation rate of less than zero, investors already are selling off dollars and driving up the price of gold in anticipation of a surge in prices as soon as the economy recovers from its deep recession.
• US gold rises toward $1,020/oz on dollar tumble
• Bailed out banks may lend government money
Nurses Plan Rally To Protest Mandatory Swine Flu Shot
Albany nurses and other health professionals are planning to stage a rally next week to protest a state regulation that mandates they will lose their jobs if they refuse to take the swine flu shot, as fears grow about the vaccine's dangerous ingredients and government plans to forcibly inoculate whole populations with the H1N1 jab.
• UK Regional Swine Flu Plans Outline Mass Vaccination Centres
• Mercury In Australian Approved H1N1 Vaccine
• H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine Makes Germ
an Man Extremely Sick During Clinical Trials
• Pregnant women bare arms for H1N1 vaccine
Brown: Global Tax “Worth Looking At”
Prime Minister Gordon Brown said the introduction of a global tax to reduce risky behaviour by banks was “worth looking at”, as he prepares for a G20 summit next weekend.
U.S. to push for new economic world order at G20
The United States will urge world leaders this week to launch a new push in November to rebalance the world economy, but there are doubts national governments will bow to external advice.
• The Economy is a Lie, too
• Government watchdog: AIG must repay taxpayers $121 billion
• Trade Wars and Protectionism are not Free Trade
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