Month: August 2005

8/29/05 Media News Monday

In this edition: Jon Stewart gets Wired, Iraq worse than Vietnam in number of journalists killed, Media Cowardice (then & now), the “Needs Gingko” Award, how Novak is paying for those legal bills, measuring...

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Katrina causing Oil Shockwave

Wow – this is just like what I saw at the Oil Shockwave exercise a couple of weeks ago in Torrance, California. A single event can affect oil prices in dramatic ways. Katrina has just sent oil to $70/barrel, up from $65...

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Protecting the Vote: the fight for our Democracy

I have written about this twice before. This is an update on what may be the most critical issue of our lifetime–the preservation of our vote. Once again, what I am presenting is largely derived from the newsletter of a...

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Brothers and Sisters (pray* for New Orleans)

In honor of the City of Saints, an Invocation of the Saints: Bridegroom of poverty, our brother Francis, follower of Jesus and friend of creation: Stand here beside us. John XXIII, Pope and friend of the poor, who longed for the...

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