Comments on: Investigative Journalist I.F. Stone Died 20 Years Ago Today http://blog.locustfork.net/2009/06/investigative-journalist-if-stone-died-20-years-ago-today/ A Wide Open Weblog for Big News, the Big Picture Wed, 23 May 2012 14:44:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: THELMO ALMEYDA http://blog.locustfork.net/2009/06/investigative-journalist-if-stone-died-20-years-ago-today/comment-page-1/#comment-2959 THELMO ALMEYDA Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:45:58 +0000 http://blog.locustfork.net/2009/06/19/investigative-journalist-if-stone-died-20-years-ago-today/#comment-2959 This is so true and if you analyze it, it makes since. We have been so brain washed with the excuse of patriotism that we can't think for ourselves any more and point the finger in the wrong direction by saying "if i serve my country," am doing the patriotic thing. This is all true when our country has been attacked without provocation, which has never been the case, but they find a way to blame some one, some where so as to justify their actions. Little attention has been placed on the country recovery. After a recession, a conflict is created to put people back to work at the expense of the "citizen army," not mercenaries, just to justify our armament industries which are the only beneficiary of wars and the cost are carried down for generations to come as we could see at present. NAPOLEON once said it takes 3 things to win a war, money, the will to fight for a cause you believe in, are mercenary army so as to fight away from the mother land such is the case of FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION. I saw this poster and i thought it was good for the country: from the Petersburg Times Newspaper on Sunday May 17,2009 The Business Section asked readers on " How Would You Fix The Economy?" This was a bright answer i thought. Dear Mr President: Please find bellow my suggestion for fixing America's eonomy instead of giving billions of dollars to companies that will squander the money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan. You can call it the Patriotic Retirement Plan: There are 40 million people over 50 in the work force. Pay them $1 million apiece severance for early retirement with the following stipulations: #1)They Must retire.Forty million job openings -Unemployment Fixed #2)They Must buy a new American Car.Forty million cars ordered - Auto Industry Fixed. #3)They Must either buy a house or pay off their mortgage -Housing Crisis Fixed. It can't get any easier than that! If more money is needed, have all members of Congress and their constituents pay their taxes. This is so true and if you analyze it, it makes since. We have been so brain washed with the excuse of patriotism that we can’t think for ourselves any more and point the finger in the wrong direction by saying “if i serve my country,” am doing the patriotic thing. This is all true when our country has been attacked without provocation, which has never been the case, but they find a way to blame some one, some where so as to justify their actions. Little attention has been placed on the country recovery. After a recession, a conflict is created to put people back to work at the expense of the “citizen army,” not mercenaries, just to justify our armament industries which are the only beneficiary of wars and the cost are carried down for generations to come as we could see at present. NAPOLEON once said it takes 3 things to win a war, money, the will to fight for a cause you believe in, are mercenary army so as to fight away from the mother land such is the case of FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION.

I saw this poster and i thought it was good for the country:
from the Petersburg Times Newspaper on Sunday May 17,2009 The Business Section asked readers on ” How Would You Fix The Economy?” This was a bright answer i thought.

Dear Mr President:

Please find bellow my suggestion for fixing America’s eonomy instead of giving billions of dollars to companies that will squander the money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan. You can call it the Patriotic Retirement Plan: There are 40 million people over 50 in the work force. Pay them $1 million apiece severance for early retirement with the following stipulations:

#1)They Must retire.Forty million job openings -Unemployment Fixed
#2)They Must buy a new American Car.Forty million cars ordered – Auto Industry Fixed.
#3)They Must either buy a house or pay off their mortgage -Housing Crisis Fixed.

It can’t get any easier than that!

If more money is needed, have all members of Congress and their constituents pay their taxes.

]]> By: Glynn Wilson http://blog.locustfork.net/2009/06/investigative-journalist-if-stone-died-20-years-ago-today/comment-page-1/#comment-2958 Glynn Wilson Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:16:21 +0000 http://blog.locustfork.net/2009/06/19/investigative-journalist-if-stone-died-20-years-ago-today/#comment-2958 He didn't work on assignment for a corporate, chain newspaper. He knew freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one... He didn’t work on assignment for a corporate, chain newspaper. He knew freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one…

]]> By: Yana Davis http://blog.locustfork.net/2009/06/investigative-journalist-if-stone-died-20-years-ago-today/comment-page-1/#comment-2957 Yana Davis Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:12:57 +0000 http://blog.locustfork.net/2009/06/19/investigative-journalist-if-stone-died-20-years-ago-today/#comment-2957 I had almost forgotten how astoundingly sane I. F. Stone was, and how much the establishment media, not to mention the political establishment, were afraid of him. Maybe "afraid" is not the right word. But -- their reaction had something to do with fear because when Izzy Stone investigated something or analyzed something, you could count on 100% integrity, honesty and rationality, all qualities foreign to the aforementioned power structure. Stone was one of the greatest journalists of all time, and is still virtually unknown, a very sad commentary. I had almost forgotten how astoundingly sane I. F. Stone was, and how much the establishment media, not to mention the political establishment, were afraid of him. Maybe “afraid” is not the right word. But — their reaction had something to do with fear because when Izzy Stone investigated something or analyzed something, you could count on 100% integrity, honesty and rationality, all qualities foreign to the aforementioned power structure.

Stone was one of the greatest journalists of all time, and is still virtually unknown, a very sad commentary.

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