“America does not at the moment have a functioning democracy,” (Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter in a speech in Atlanta as reported in the German magazine “Der Speigel” in German edition article). These are powerful but true words by a former President of the United States that has been marginalized for speaking his conscience.
For my very small act of civil disobedience, going to Marquette University library after I had been ‘banned’ from campus I got lots of notice for our message: Marquette University Teaches War and Killing. Jimmy Carter’s remarkable remarks got coverage only from RSN, Readers Supported News, on the web. Of course I have been saying we do not have a functioning democracy in America and no one has paid attention.
On land and sea there are many reports that go unheard and many that get too much coverage? If you want to read the news du jour just turn on CNN or other popular news sites. You might not hear the important news of the days but you will hear the most sensational and sometimes superfluous news stores of the day.
I watch lots of news, local, national and sports. What makes the news, especially on TV, may not be the important news of the day. For example, tomorrow we have prayer vigils for three homicide victims in North Central Milwaukee, all shot, yet all we hear in the news, at least last week, is George Zimmerman’s trial. Even the President of USA got his opinion in about the verdict in the trial but made no mention of the 54 persons killed, including four children during the Zimmerman trial in his home town of Chicago. Even killing is used for political purposes.
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“America does not at the moment have a functioning democracy,” (Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter in a speech in Atlanta as reported in the German magazine “Der Speigel” in German edition ([ [http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/18486-focus-jimmy-carter-us-qhas-no-functioning-democracyq |article]]. These are powerful but true words by a former President of the United States that has been marginalized for speaking his conscience.
For my very small act of civil disobedience, going to Marquette University library after I had been ‘banned’ from campus I got lots of notice for our message: Marquette University Teaches War and Killing. Jimmy Carter’s remarkable remarks got coverage only from RSN, Readers Supported News, on the web. Of course I have been saying we do not have a functioning democracy in America and no one has paid attention.
On land and sea there are many reports that go unheard and many that get too much coverage? If you want to read the news du jour just turn on CNN or other popular news sites. You might not hear the important news of the days but you will hear the most sensational and sometimes superfluous news stores of the day.
I watch lots of news, local, national and sports. What makes the news, especially on TV, may not be the important news of the day. For example, tomorrow we have prayer vigils for three homicide victims in North Central Milwaukee, all shot, yet all we hear in the news, at least last week, is George Zimmerman’s trial. Even the President of USA got his opinion in about the verdict in the trial but made no mention of the 54 persons killed, including four children during the Zimmerman trial in his home town of Chicago. Even killing is used for political purposes.
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