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Walter Martineck hardly knows Drew Peterson, a retired police sergeant in the Chicago suburb of Bolingbrook, but he's a good friend of Peterson's stepbrother, Tom Morphey. So it was that Martineck found himself unwittingly drawn into the events of October 28, 2007, the day Peterson's young wife, Stacy, was last seen. The prologue that follows is a dramatization based on an account Morphey reportedly gave to police, as well as statements Martineck made in the media regarding his strange run-in with Morphey late that day, before Martineck had heard a word about Stacy's disappearance. In the months that she's remained missing, numerous stories have flooded out from both those who knew her well and those who barely knew her; stories that the police, and everyone following the case in the national news, are sorting through to answer the vexing question: What happened to Stacy?

Drew Peterson set a cup of coffee in front of his stepbrother, who was slumped in a stuffed chair in the back of Starbucks, away from the wide windows looking out onto busy Weber Road. Tom Morphey sipped the coffee and waited to hear why Peterson had summoned him there.

But Peterson only said, "Drink this. You look like you need it."

Morphey could believe he did. He'd woken up that morning with a familiar dull ache behind his eyes and burning in his stomach after spending the day on the couch, watching the Bears give away a game to the Lions. Then he dozed off and might still have been asleep if his stepbrother hadn't called at 5 o'clock that evening, asking to meet him at the Starbucks midway between their homes in the Chicago suburb of Bolingbrook.

Peterson told Morphey to be there at seven; it was important.

Morphey heaved himself off the couch and, since he had nowhere else to be, headed over to Starbucks, happy for the chance to help his stepbrother for a change. Usually it was Peterson coming through for him with things like money, furniture, or work. Just the other day Peterson had told him he could probably line up something at the local Meijer department store; Morphey needed the job, and it would not have been the first that Peterson had helped him get.

When Morphey walked into Starbucks, he was early for their meeting. Peterson was already there, sitting in back, reading the paper.
After getting Morphey coffee, Peterson asked, "How's things at home?"

Morphey just shrugged and asked about Peterson's three boys, daughter, and wife, Stacy. Peterson gushed about the kids: Tom at the top of his class and playing trumpet in the school band, Kris a champion junior high wrestler, Anthony and Lacy adorable and growing up fast. About Stacy -- his fourth wife, mother to Anthony and Lacy, stepmother to Tom and Kris -- he said nothing. He fell silent and stared across the table.

"Why aren't you working tonight?" Morphey asked.

"Taking the day off." More silence. Then: "I need something."

So he didn’t just want to talk, to get something off his chest. He -- Drew Peterson, Bolingbrook police sergeant, enforcer of law and order -- needed something from his troubled, unemployed stepbrother. It was the best Morphey had felt in a long while.

"What?" he said quickly.

"Stacy," Peterson said. "She said she's leaving me again. You know how she is."

Morphey said he knew.

"It's like this every month," Peterson said. "Right around her period. It's getting to be too much. Especially since Tina."

Stacy's half sister, Tina, had died about a year before. Peterson had told Morphey how hard Stacy had taken it, about her depression, her pills. Morphey, too, knew a little something about depression and pills.

"You know what else?" Peterson said. "I think she's running around on me."

"Get out of here."

Peterson pulled out his wallet and opened it to a picture of Stacy, in a tight party dress, leaning over Drew as he sat on a chair. "You'd say no to this?"

"She's a fox," Morphey agreed, "but that doesn't mean she's running around."

Peterson put the wallet away. "It's getting to be a problem," he said. "She's a problem. We got to dispose of the problem."

Morphey didn't know what to make of that. He didn't really want to know. Had he even heard his stepbrother correctly? He didn't try too hard to figure it out.

Peterson rubbed his temples and pushed back his hair. "I need you to wait here for a little while." Then he reached into his jacket, pulled out a cell phone and handed it to Morphey.

"Take this. Whatever happens, don't answer it. Just stay here. Don't fall asleep. Get another coffee, whatever. Just don't leave and don't answer the phone. And don't call anybody either. Think you can handle that?"

"Yeah, Drew."

Peterson left. Morphey studied the phone. It was a nice one, but Morphey did not mess with it. He did not want to screw up. He sat there and tried to stay awake.

After about half an hour, a jolting ring made Morphey drop the phone in his lap. When he picked it up, he saw the caller ID.

Stacy.

Morphey stared at the phone until it stopped ringing. He didn't know what was going on, but suddenly he wasn't so sleepy.

Another half hour passed before Peterson reappeared. When Morphey asked where he had gone, Peterson told him that he just went to run an errand.

Morphey handed back the phone. "Your wife called."

Peterson put the phone in his pocket without looking at it. "I know," he said. "You did a good job."

Out in the parking lot, Peterson said, "Give me a call tomorrow. I might have something on that Meijer's thing." He got in his GMC Denali and drove off.

A few hours later, he called Morphey again. "You think you can come over here? I need a hand moving something. The Denali and the Grand Prix are in the driveway, so just park in front. You're all right to drive, right?"

Morphey put on his jacket and headed for the door. He told his girlfriend Sheryl he'd be back in a minute; he had to go to Drew's.

When he got to Peterson's house, his stepbrother opened the front door before Morphey had a chance to ring the bell. As Morphey stepped inside, Peterson glanced around the sleepy cul-de-sac. It was a few days before Halloween. The air was crisp, the house almost as dark as the street.

The kids were sleeping, and Peterson said Stacy was out with her sister. Morphey thought that was strange, since both cars were parked in the driveway. Maybe Stacy's sister had picked her up from the house.

Morphey followed Peterson upstairs and into the bedroom. He noticed a blue plastic barrel next to the bed. The barrel was tightly sealed and had two plugged holes in its lid, maybe openings for a pump. It looked a little smaller than a fifty-five-gallon drum.

Peterson squatted and put his fingers under the edge of the barrel's bottom. "I'll tip it," he said. "You take it from the top."

He pushed the barrel over, and Morphey accepted its weight. It was warm against his hands. Peterson backed out of the bedroom and toward the stairs. Morphey walked after, holding up his end. The barrel was not very heavy, and now Peterson bore all of its weight as he stepped backward down the stairs.

Morphey asked what was in the barrel.

"Chlorine," Peterson said.

Morphey thought it was strange that Peterson would have a barrel of chlorine for his swimming pool all the way upstairs, next to his bed. He wondered for what reason it needed to be moved late on a Sunday night, not to mention why it felt warmer than the air in the room. But he didn't ask any of these questions. He told himself to just believe his stepbrother, to go along with it and show himself capable of helping with this simple task.

Once downstairs, they carried the barrel through the attached garage and out to the driveway, where Peterson set it down to open the back of his Denali. The two men hoisted the barrel into the car. Peterson wedged a piece of wood against it to keep it from rolling around.

"Well, I better get this out of here," he said.

"Where you going?" Morphey asked.

"I know a guy wants to buy some chlorine," Peterson said.

"Now?"

"He wants it pretty bad." Peterson pulled a wad of bills out of his pocket and palmed it into Morphey's hand.

"Ah, Drew, come on," Morphey protested. "You don't have to."

"Got to run," Peterson said as he climbed into his Denali and closed the garage door from inside his car. Morphey watched the door go down, then drove home.

In his kitchen, he sat down and had a few drinks. His head throbbed. Dispose. Problem. He had a few more and then walked up the street to the home of his pal Walter Martineck. Lights shone through the front window, so he knocked on the door.

Wally opened the door, and Morphey blurted out, "I think I just helped move Stacy with Drew."

Wally tried to follow what he was saying, but Morphey was drunk and rambling, nearly incoherent. He kept trying to push a handful of money onto his pal. Wally refused and asked where the cash had come from. Morphey wouldn't say. He left his friend standing mystified in the doorway and walked back to his own house.

When he woke up the next morning, his girlfriend told him something that he already knew, no matter how much he tried to convince himself otherwise. So he went back to bed and tried to forget; he tried to pretend that it had never happened.

When he awoke the second time and couldn't fall back to sleep, Morphey swallowed a handful of pills and chased them with what was left in a big plastic bottle of liquor. The rest of that day, October 29, 2007 -- the day that Stacy Peterson was reported missing, as his girlfriend had informed him in the morning -- was largely lost to Morphey. And as he gratefully drifted off again, he hoped the whole thing had been a bad dream.

Waking up in a hospital room in Naperville, the next town over, was no dream. Through his haze, he heard people saying he had tried to end it all with liquor and pills. He believed what these people were saying, never mind that he could not quite make out what they looked like. Whether he had intentionally tried to kill himself, which was entirely possible, or had simply overdone it trying to block out the terrible thoughts racing through his mind, Morphey didn't know or care. They gave him drugs to sleep, which was nice, but when the drugs wore off, an unwelcome consciousness returned.  He slept and woke, and upon one woozy resurfacing, Drew Peterson had materialized next to his bed.

Peterson, catching Morphey's eye, leaned over and asked, "How you feeling?"

The above is an excerpt from the book Fatal Vows: The Tragic Wives of Sergeant Drew Peterson
by Joseph Hosey
Published by Phoenix Books;  September 2008;$22.95US/$24.95CAN; 978-1-59777-606-6
Copyright © 2008 Joseph Hosey & Phoenix Books, Inc.

Joseph Hosey has been a reporter for the Chicago area's Herald News since 1999 and has been on the cusp of every major development in the Drew Peterson case. He is the only member of the media to cover Kathleen Savio's inquest, having broken the stories of her death and, later, the disappearance of Stacy Peterson.
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Hello everyone!! It's indeed a great pleasure to talk to you all through this excellent tool.

I thought that instead of introducing myself and sharing my success story, I shall do something different by narrating a short story of a princess which has both of above:
Once upon a time, God was scratching His brains coz He felt monotonous in His creations and had too much work load. He thought and thought and one day had a great idea! He decided to create a Heaven on Earth; there He placed Daddy Angel and Mummy Angel. One year later, the angels were blessed with a Prince. They were all very happy together and God was atleast a bit relaxed coz the Angels made World a better place, took good care of their problems and their Angel prince. God decided to promote them for their consistency in doing a good job and 10 years later, the Angels were blessed with another baby princess. The Angels loved her too dearly. Her elder brother was more of a guardian and a mentor to her. She grew from a toddler, to her schooling years, to college where she was topper in academics as well as a star performer in the extra curricular activities - She holds a treasure of more than 2 dozen certificates so far in Elocution, Debate, Essay writing, Group dance, Personality campaign, Advertising campaign and the list goes on. She was the Cultural Secretary in the final year where she learnt about coordination, public relations, organizing cultural events for her college and finally entered into the corporate world. She had a bundle of angel friends which grew heaps and bounds each year. The Angels were all with her to take good care and to protect her from evils. The prince Angel by now had a family with his wife and a younger angel - who was the cutest in the family; he had become the "cherry on the cake" for the family.

The princess started her corporate career in 2003, being an Office Assistant at an Export firm; her angel boss soon realized her passion for work and gave her two promotions in the same year. She became Assistant to Director. She learnt and developed a lot in the job. Two and a half years down the line, she joined Blue Dart Express Limited, as an Assistant to Sr. VP - Marketing and Projects. Here she explored the creative element in her, while working on Events, Projects, Marketing Promotions etc. She was promoted to Assistant Manager and was given a special responsibility of looking into the pricing issue. Two years later, she joined Schneider Electric India Private Limited. Her angel boss here gave her a lot of challenging assignments, opportunities and she continued to grow. The best of the memories here were at the Outbound training where she had a chance to interact with the outstation teams, explore fun and adventure, realizing the importance of Teamwork. She also won the "Schneider Mumbai Idol" and "Best Dancer - Female" awards at the recent Diwali Bash 08. The princess was recently accoladed - PWMD (People Who Make The Difference) Award which was a Jewel in the Crown. As of now, the princess is 5 years 11 months old in the corporate world and is pursuing MBA in HR. The Angel family is all happy, closely bound and happily living and God is happy as well coz He has His representatives tackling the issues for Him. That was the end of the story and everyone lived happily ever after..........

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Narendra Toprani - we all r so proud of u. keep it up!!!!!

Matt Johnson - Hi Namita, Thanks again for the article on yourself - it was really cleverly written. Perhaps you could also look at studying journalism aswell as HR!!! Have a great week.

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Manishi Sengar - I loved reading through the strory... It made me a bit emotional. Thanks for your sharing... Wish this world is filled with lot many angels - to make it a better place to live.

Narendra Shah - Congrats, nice story .. keep it up .. I m seeing in future, one day, you will leave your job ... & will be bussy in writing stories ... ur father angel & mother angel will be bussy, to invest the flow of money .. because every six months lot of money comes from the selling of your best selling books.

Vittal VB - Beautiful. That's the only word i hv to applaud Ur creative work in THIS WEEK. U hv put you thoughts in a very very nice fashion. Keep it up. 

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Exchanging digits no longer means the painful quandary of making that first phone call. Mobile phones have added a new stage that we call text dating. This is a brilliant opportunity to start to know about the new person in your life, without having to deal with the clumsy conversation

It is a common parable that text messages are less personal than other means of communication but you can learn quite as much, if not more about a person from texting with less of the stress. Here is a few tips to help you if you opt to embark on the path of using a txt dating service.

1. Introduce yourself. Even if you have already met your date in person he or she possibly knows really little about you. Confirm its clear who you are to avoid puzzlement, and give some basic info about yourself. This may motivate them to share identical with you.

2. Question them. Try to include at least one question within your message to urge a reply. This gives the other person something to reply to and they are less sure to get stuck for words, the telephone call equivalent of the clumsy silence.

Three. Always make take the time to retort. Folks get busy and instant contact is not always possible or even the best tactic, but a text is fast and simple to send. Your date may assume you're not interested if you don't take two minutes out of your day to reply!

Four. Spelling and Grammar Not everyone seems to be perfect at it, and texting adapts well to unjustifiable shortening, but when you're becoming familiar with somebody its vital to make your words clear and concise. Meaning is easily lost, so be sure you are understood.

5. Be respectful. It could be annoying if somebody has not had time to respond to your texts but people do get busy. Sending messages when you are upset can sound much more harsh than they were intended and finish your relationship before it starts.

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The day before he died, luger Nodar Kumaritashvili spoke to his father by phone and said he was terrified of the track at the Whistler Sliding Center.

David Kumaritashvili gave an interview Sunday outside his house in the Georgian mountain town of Bakuriani, recounting on of the last conversations he had with his 21-year-old son. The Wall Street Journal reports:

"He called me before the Olympics, three days ago, and he said, 'Dad, I'm scared of one of the turns.'

"I said, 'Put your legs down on the ice to slow down,' but he said if he started the course he would finish it. ... He was brave."

Nodar Kumaritashvili also spoke with his parents minutes before his fateful slide, telling them he planned to make them proud according to The Globe and Mail.

Since his death, many people have debated whether the track was too fast or the relatively inexperienced luger was out of his element. A number of Olympic lugers think the track was fine. They fault Kumaritashvili – a sentiment shared by luging officials who deemed the track safe (even while hypocritically lowering the starting location and adding pads to the metal beams that caused the death).

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Germany'sNatalie Geisenberger, who won a race at Whistler last year, said the women's event has turned into a kids race, a startlingly insensitive remark given the tragedy of Friday:

I'm not happy about the new start.

It’s not a woman’s start, it’s a kinder (German for children’s) start. The rest of the track is OK, but it's not as fast as from the proper start. It's the same for all the athletes, but I don't like it. I felt very good, but now because of the new start it's not fun.

Canadian Regan Lauscher complained that the lowered start means her nation's home-track advantage is "basically gone." Given that some have said Canada's resistance to allow other countries to train at the Whistler track played a role in Kumaritashvili's death, that comment beats out even Geisenberger's for insensitivity. Maybe Lauscher is taking cues from her coach, Wolfgang Staudinger, who said that exotic sliders are the reasons luge accidents happen.

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Dozens of magazines are made for women, but no one is as popular as Cosmopolitan. Being probably the only magazine with which reviewers seem to have a love/hate relationship, Cosmo is around since 1886 with 58 international editions, in 34 languages, sold in over 100 countries around the globe.

Fans, particularly male, find many reasons to like Cosmo although they don't buy it. But can you recall how many times have you seen a man seeing sneakily in Cosmo's pages while waiting in doctor's office to be called? I can tell you why! On almost any given page, there are scantily dressed women posing seductively. Even the fashion pages feature scantily clad models strutting down the runway. Almost all the ads show at least one scantily clad female and one male really checking her out. So no doubt why male audience likes Cosmo!

But, female fans have also a lot to look for in Cosmo's pages.

Number one: the sex tips, sex help, sex question and answers to spice up your love and sex life. We sure all know about sex and we sure all are buying, but is it really necessary to put a cover about the best orgasm tips, with red, bold, 19 Times New Roman letters that could attract even a visually impaired from an average distance? Well, yes, because sex sells much more than you can imagine. And Cosmo people know that if you're looking for juicy articles to get juicy answers about bedroom topics, Cosmo is the only magazine to look into.

Number two: the fashion tips. In every Cosmo issue there are articles about the hottest new fashion threads. Regardless if the clothes are shockingly overpriced and no average person could afford them, still you may get ideas about what hot celebrities wear, what is trendy and what is not. You don't have to be rich to be Orlando Bloom's or Josh Saunders' girl, but you have to be well dressed to be the boy's next door girlfriend. Let alone, Cosmo offers you advice about the latest trends in the make-up, hairstyle, skin as well as step by step instructions of how to achieve the make up of famous celebrities.

Number three: gossip. By reading Cosmo, you get the scoop on all of the Hollywood gossip. Who's dating who, who's wearing what, who's partying where through photos and stories on hot-shot celebrities.

Number four: confessions. This is the section where the readers write and share their most embarrassing, and funny stories. Betrayed women, who cut their ex's clothes into tiny shreds because they caught them cheating; employees, who got caught by their boss having sex at the office at night. Plus an "Ann Landers" type column plenty of advices on terrible problems that make you feel sorry for the woman that had to go through such mess.

On the other hand, Cosmo has been heavily criticized as boring, repetitive and pathetic for printing the same old stuff for so many years. Even worse it has been criticized fro been a porno magazine sold over the counter instead of being sold behind the counter. Male audience often categorizes Cosmo like the female alternative of Playboy and Penthouse.

Another criticism relates to the fact that although it covers useful and in-depth articles on mental and eating disorders, still it features fashion for skinny people. Also, although it tries to cover topics about cultural issues, stalkers, domestic violence and many others, it often gets repetitive, especially when providing advice about men. "Ten ways to get him to bed on the first date", "How to keep your man", "Get closer to your man" and all this stuff often gets rampant.

Personally, I find Cosmo interesting and entertaining. However, it appears to have nothing to do with fashion, but music and movie reviews. Also, the increasing amount of advertisements and pages dedicated to diets and celebrity tips are greatly overwhelming. The truth of the matter is that Cosmo often promises much more than what it actually delivers. It may even be fancier than required or more modern than expected. And I don't think that it deserves all the credit it gets, lacking real topics, featuring poor amount of fashion and being self-obsessed with diet articles.

But, for so many years, millions of loyal consumers have proved that women need it. And after all, since it has managed to create such a fuss around its editorial, it cannot but having something good to be reviewed for. Even it is all about negative advertising, still Cosmo has managed to dominate the market for so many years. So, enjoy!

I work as a financial and investment advisor but my passion is writing, music and photography. Writing mostly about finance, business and music, being an amateur photographer and a professional dj, I am inspired from life.

Being a strong advocate of simplicity in life, I love my family, my partner and all the people that have stood by me with or without knowing. And I hope that someday, human nature will cease to be greedy and demanding realizing that the more we have the more we want and the more we satisfy our needs the more needs we create. And this is so needless after all.
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India and Pakistan is two neighbors. But we never find them to be co-ordinate in and matter, all time they opposed to each other. We can see them together only in cricket, which is not continue after 26/11.

Now we are hearing that Indian home minister is going to visit Pakistan at the end of the February. If he visits to the country it would be the first visit by any Indian minister after 26/11 attack on Mumbai, for which country is considering Pakistan and its Intelligence responsible for it. But on the contrary it is being denied by cross border country.
Pakistan has meeting on 26-27 February for South Asian region regarding internal security in which ministers from the region are going to participate and Mr. Chidambaram is also looking forward for this .

And in the same context Foreign Minister S M Krishna said that Pakistan had announced an investigation for terror attack on Mumbai, if therewould any step regarding this, it would be appreciated by the country. Well this, cross border visit had already been taken by both country several time but in result we don’t find and conclusion. We all get victimized with this cruel violence and still waiting for peace and silence.

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Media stand for medium of communication. It deliberately deals between two points, the first is sender and the second one is receiver.What the content is passed to receiver, their must be feedback in return from the that, although it is not possible in all media instantly. Here the work of media to inform the event which happen in the surrounding.

So, media literacy is a way of communication of content, which happen either globally or locally. It is a ability of expression to its audience from the best source and path.This education is broadly divided into two category i.e. (a) Electronic media (b) Print media

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Introduction

 Will you be online today? I will be there. Tell me your mail id……… will update you whenever you are on the way about the latest sensex, and Obama government’s ministerial berth. Nowadays I seldom get chance to read a newspaper….. Really I am indebted to internet vis-à-vis cyber media for getting information.

 This is an honest confession of a professional who has become fond of cyber media because of its speed, timeliness, proximity and uniqueness, the basic ingredients of journalism.

 In the last decade the world has witnessed a stupendous growth of internet users especially in the African, Arab and South-East Asian countries vis-à-vis the proliferation of cyber media. As of today, most of the leading newspapers and magazines have their online versions for more reach ability, and this further enhances the brand of the respective media houses along with the business.

 In this article I will make an attempt to give a basic idea about this new form of media, and a glimpse about the online journalism tools in the backdrop of the convergence concept.

Cyber Media – Definition

 Before going into intricacies let us discuss something about cyber media or internet media.

 Wiener used the term cybernetics, starting in 1948, to encompass a broad range of communications between humans, between humans and machines, and between machines themselves. Within the scope of cybernetics he included the transmission of messages, especially those that exert control; the likelihood of information to degrade as time and distance intervene; and especially the function of feedback between humans and all the systems with which they have contact (Wiener, 1954). The ancestry of cyber media begins with Wiener, who said, "To live effectively is to live with adequate information."

 McLuhan (1964) separated "cool" media, which demand active participation and an "involvement in process” from "hot" media, like print, which come in complete packages and encourage passive consumption. In McLuhan's thinking, roads and vehicles, money, and weapons are media, just as movies, books, and radio are. Media act as extensions of the human body, and electric media are extensions of the human nervous system.

 Cyber media doesn't really exist yet. But it is rushing toward us. According to Mindy McAdams, cybermedia is vast quantities of electronic information stored in incremental form, with the increments able to be combined easily by any user into sequences and sets that suit his or her needs, without boundaries related to subject matter, original authors, or print-packaging conventions. 

Online Journalism

 From the cradle of cyber space the concept of Online Journalism evolved. Though Internet journalism is still evolving, but its contours are getting more sharply defined. Online journalists (read globally) are increasingly becoming aware of the need to develop a new phrase for the medium. The media itself understood that the internet cannot be treated as an extension of the print media despite numerous similarities between the two. There are many advantages of this new entrant in the media bandwagon where a story can be told in three different ways – in the text format, in audio mode, and as a video clip. The medium further demands that stories be communicated in different forms – as a news alert; as a wireless headline; and as well as written story on the net. The medium further calls for knowledge links, audio and video skills, and some latest skills that go far beyond traditional reporting and editing requirements.

New Horizons

 There are five unique areas where online journalism is different from its traditional counterpart “print”.

 The five areas are follows:

-  News Cycle

-  Updating Frequency

-  Packaging

-  Knowledge Links

-  News Vehicles

Principles of Online Reporting

 There are some basic rules pertaining to this online journalism especially from a journalist’s point of view while reporting online. The media has emerged up for the busy people mostly, and for its global reach just with the help of a click.

 While reporting online an online reporter should abide by the following rules:

-  The news story has to be short and precise if it has to sustain the browser’s attention. A story that runs into two or more screens is not likely to hold readers attention for long. Word count continues to be an important yardstick in the case of net. The internet reporter must keep this fact in mind while writing the story. He must ensure that it runs across the minimum number of screens in the format chosen by the site editors.

-  The Internet reporter must adopt the inverted pyramid format. It is the most rational storytelling format. The most crucial point is hosted, right on top of the story, the less important points follow. This saves the user the need to plough through to the last paragraph to find out what happened. The information is available in the first few paragraphs; with facts arranged in their decreasing order of importance.

- The story must be updated as it breaks. The reporter cannot sit back and wait for events to unfold.

-  The reporters writing for web media must learn to write short sentences using simple, common, everyday words that a browser will have no difficulty in understanding. Paragraphs should be short. Long paragraphs create fatigue and push browsers to reach for the mouse.

- The Internet reporter must develop the ability to break a story into short, fascinating side stories. The side stories enhance browser’s interest, and give more hits and clicks for the site.

- The net journalist must go through log reports carefully. He must understand which stories are being read on the net. This will help him work on stories that are likely to be read more. Successful sites are those that share browser behavior with their staff members.

-  The web journalist must understand that a mistake, even if it is corrected after it is omnipresent on the site, does not offer much comfort to the individual or the company that has already suffered loss of face on account of the error. A mistake will be deemed as a blunder in case of incorrect information.

        Editing for the Net

   The first and foremost precondition for internet editing is economy. A story must be reported in as few words as possible. The sentences should be short, easy to read and understand. There are 11 golden rules that are prominent for editing in print. All these rules are invariably crucial for editing on the net. Let us give a glimpse.

-   Use short sentences.

-   Avoid modifiers.

-   Substitute wordy phrases with simple small words.

-   Remove relative clauses.

-   Avoid starting a sentence with a subsidiary clause.

-   One sentence, one idea.

-   Use   active voice.

-  Delete clichés.

-  Proper synchronization of names and designations.

-  Simple, short and familiar words.

-  Avoid abstractions.

Conclusion 

 Reporting, writing and editing for cyber media is an art so as a science, where creative faculty has to submerge with the rational one. A proper style, along with the proportional amalgamation of traditional doctrine” the inverted pyramid” and the latest technique “search engine optimization” could take this media into zenith. The trend is already bullish; the only acceleration and proliferation factors are proper style, tools and techniques. Happy reading.

A leader writer in economics, media and management. Professor in a leading college in India, teaches media studies. A member of the PhD.and syllabus committee in a leading Indian university. He can be contacted at debanjan.mediaguru@gmail.com or www.nshm.com
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1. People have different opinions

In a world of 6 billion people and only a limited amount of time and space for the media to tell you what has happened to them in a single day, something's obviously going to miss the final cut. The decision of what's Newsworthy varies greatly according to the personal opinions of the audience. If you're liberal, you want to hear about starving Darfuri children and Hugo Chavez' latest economic proposal. If you're conservative, you want to hear about the latest terrorist raid in Pakistan and global market trends.

What most mainstream Americans think of the political center is considered conservative by European standards, socialist by Lew Rockwell standards, and fascist by Ralph Nader standards. This is why serious writers have written books called Weapons of Mass Distortion: The Coming Meltdown of the Liberal Media and What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News. This is also why some people think media reporting on Iraq is treasonous disrespect to our troops, and other people think it's an oil-driven corporate conspiracy to silence popular dissent. The uncomfortable fact is that true media objectivity - especially on contentious political issues - is simply an illusion.

It just so happens that those who work in the mass media, like journalists, actors and writers, tend to have opinions more liberal than the average American. It also just so happens people want to listen to them more than they do to economists, preachers or talk radio pundits, who tend to be more conservative than the average American. This doesn't mean that the media is a failure - it just means different people think differently. It's the job of the average American to evaluate these different perspectives.

Objectivity isn't one correct viewpoint. It's the expression of every viewpoint.

2. The marketplace of ideas has plenty of options Everyone knows that informed consumers shop around and consider all of their options. So why would consumers of news behave any different?

The solution to media bias is the same solution to low product quality in any other industry: Shop around. Ask your friends and coworkers for their opinions on an issue. Go online and research the issue. Go to a newsstand and read different views on the issue. Those who assume the bias of the media is something to worry about assume that people aren't capable of making decisions for themselves. Anyone ignorant enough to be politically duped by media bias is ignorant enough to be politically duped by a spouse, a pastor, or a boss. Who cares?

Perhaps media bias was a problem in 1954 when the average household had three TV channels, but in the modern internet age, it's nothing more than an imaginary crisis. Want a fair and balanced perspective? Go visit wsj.com, nyt.com, ft.com, bbc.com, nationalreview.com, huffingtonpost.com, and aljazeera.com. Then decide for yourself what you believe.

The principle of intellectual self-reliance was aptly summed up by Beatle George Harrison, in the song "Think For Yourself":

Do what you want to do

And go where you're going to

Think for yourself

'Cause I won't be there with you

3. When in doubt, use your brain

For conservatives to still whine about media bias is laughable. Yes, CNN probably is and was always slightly biased toward the Democrats. So the solution is and was always to let the market create a pro-Republican news channel, and let the two compete for viewers. Now, can we shut up about media bias, already?

Answering loudly in the negative, Bill O'Reilly spent a recent segment indicting The Media for their liberal bias. The most recent contretemps was over a decision to interview an Obama heckler who drew an angry tirade from former President Clinton during a campaign rally. By showing the former president losing his cool, Mr. O'Reilly reasoned, the media was attempting to undermine the Clintons. Furthermore, went the O'Reilly conspiracy theory, interviewing the heckler on television was "legitimizing" his pro-Obama views, creating, in effect, a "paid commercial for Obama."

The problem with all of that was that the pro-Obama heckler was a rambling moron who made zero sense.Mr. O'Reilly even sneered at the fellow's lack of intelligence, but apparently assumed the American viewing public was incapable of making the same common sense observation. The rambling Obama heckler makes Clinton's angry reaction more understandable, and made Obama supporters look like belligerent imbeciles. But Mr. O'Reilly, looking out for the Common Man, apparently was less confident in the mental capacities of his viewers.

Fortunately, the Prometheus Institute respects your intelligence. If we could only say the same for the sophists on cable

The author of The American Evolution, Matt Harrison is the founder and executive director of The Prometheus Institute, Los Angeles, CA, a nonprofit public policy institute. He has authored more than 200 articles, many of which can be found on www.ThePrometheusInstitute.org, has been a guest on several talk radio shows, and a guest blogger for CNN.    Harrison earned a BBA in political science from University of Miami and has completed requirements on his law degree and master of public policy degree from the University of Southern California.
The Prometheus Institute is a public policy organization dedicated to discovering independent policy solutions to reduce the burden of government on the people, and creatively marketing these ideas to the lay public of the United States, in order to create the political demand for positive change.
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COVERT WAR ON ROCK BY ALEX CONSTANTINE SUMMARY

(re: what the" POWERS-THAT-BE "have done to MUSICIANS for decades AND not all of them have survived it. This includes mind-control and surveillance and murder by the alleged CIA AND FBI and other forces of destruction, on civil rights activists and other AWAKE people in the WORLD OF MUSIC comments, questions, feed-back and requests are welcome)
Acknowledgements:
OPERATION CHAOS ....a draft outline found among the papers of the late political researcher Mae Brussell, provided the framework and inspiration for the study.

The decision to write it was made ten years ago, and since that time the author has gathered pertinent material toward this end, often at the suggestion of friends who had a piece of the puzzle to contribute, including Will Robinson, Marilyn Colman, and Brussell Sprouts, David X. Patrick Fourmy, publisher of Prevailing Winds, Al Marcellienme, John Judge, Lee Lewe-Lee, Cynthia Ford, Lynn Moss-Sharman, Adam Parfray, Bennett Theissen, Matty, DasGoat, Virginia McCullough, Dick Farley, Cynthia Richards, the late Sharon White, Andrew and David, MIHRA, Linda Minor, and CTRL's researchers, Vicky - Guerra Michael Putinism, Melissa Darpino, and the pertinent librarians at UCLA research library, and the Los Angeles municipal library system.

The author also wishes to thank Elliot Mintz, spokesman for Bob Dylan and Yoko Ono, reggae archivist Roger Steffans and Realist editor Paul Krassner for the admirable roles they have played in opposing some of the unimaginable acts described in this volume.. ...... Alex Constantine, author

Chapter 1. A Killing Field For The Heat
Chapter 2. The Machine....The CIA And The Mob
Chapter 3. Para political Stars In The Dope Show
Chapter 4. The Death Of Cass Elliot(Mamas And The Papas) And Other Restless Youth
Chapter 5. Brian Jones ..The Rolling Stones
Chapter 6. The End Of Rock Festivals
Chapter 7. Jimi Hendrix., Political Harassment And Murder
Chapter 8. Fragrance Of Chaos Jim Morrison
Chapter 9. Joan Baez, Phil Ochs And Bob Dylan Etc
Chapter 10. Who Killed The Kennedy’s And Sal Mineo
Chapter 11. Project Walrus John Lennon
Chapter 12. The Deaths Of Marley And Tosh
Chapter 13. Gang War Sons Of Chaos
Chapter 14. False God Syndrome

FOREWARD
The corporate media harbors hundreds of CIA propagandists and fawning loyalists who find revelations concerning domestic political assassinations inconvenient and stroll by with little comment. The agency and organized crime have, for over thirty years, engaged in a program to silence popular musicians whose influence subverts the cynical thought control tactics of American government and media.

This book is an attempt to return that evidence to the historical record.

PRELUDE..
Assassination Politics of the Vietnam War period.

Former CIA Richard Ober, director of OPERATION CHAOS...
the most expansive domestic surveillance and covert ops net-work in America’s history. The intelligence sectors response to the anti-war and civil rights movements, ran covert assassinations programs as well.
The Nixon administration rose on a foundation of political murder.
The C.I.A. had assembled a thick concordia of lethal methods.
The project began with an anonymous , undated memo on assassination by "natural cause." Knock off key people the heavily censored document specified, " how to knock off key guys, natural causes, a declassified memo..
1 Bodies left with no hope if the cause of death being determined by the most complete autopsy and chemical examinations,
2 Bodies left in such circumstances as to simulate accidental death
3 Bodies left in such circumstances as to simulate accidental suicide
4 Bodies left with residue that simulate those caused by natural diseases.

April 2, 1977 Washington Post reported that the agency had experimented in exotic poisons.

CHAPTER 1

In 1967 a subversive form of music melded with politics in San Francisco.
Thus, destabilization tactics were summarized in a leaked memo, excerpt:
"show them as depraved” call attention to their habits, and every possible embarrassment.
Send articles to the newspaper showing their depravity.
Use misinformation to confuse and corrupt.
Provoke target groups into rivalries that might result in death."

For the first time since it's creation the warfare state erected by the Dulles brothers, Hoover, MacArthur, Kissinger, Nixon, etc. was threatened by an increasingly militant segment of society.
The FBI rose to the challenge.
On July 30, 1994, Intelligence files on Leonard Bernstein reveal the bureau spent countless hours examining his links with associations deemed communist to subversive.
FBI agent Jane Moore said the FBI saw the strength and power of the idea of socialism, realized it represented a very real danger to our profit-motivated corporate state and had declared total covert war against not only the denim clad revolutionaries but all progressive forces
The bureaus tactic was to cut them down or burn them out before they realized their potential.
At the federal level, the CIA. was already pursuing similar objectives under code name Operation Chaos.
Targets of Chaos
Blank Panther Movement (Geronimo Pratt, jailed for 27 yrs. for murders he did not commit. He was also a target of COINTELPRO, the FBI "counter-surveillance program)
Politically active hippies were also targets.
Many underground papers were put out of business when they were abandoned by advertisers who had been pressured by the FBI.
From 1967 to 1972 the operation compiled 13,000 files, which concerned 300,000 individuals and organizations.
The CIA directorate of operations created an index of 7 million names.

CHAPTER 2

THE MACHINE CIA AND MOB INFLUENCES ON THE ROCK INDUSTRY....

The mafia was to be enlisted for the covert war against the counter-culture. In the mid-60's CHAOS officials and the mob both eyed the rise of political rock music. The CIA saw them as long haired communists screaming for revolution and the end to the Vietnam War. The mafia wanted more constrictive financial control over the recording industry. Top 40, the reigning broadcast format in America owes its very existence to the CIA and mafia combo. Drugs would enter the equation, plus youth and LSD with the politics of heroin and LSD drugs were only one contribution the agency has made to the American culture.

The National Security Council was patterned after Hitler’s security council , and its jurisdiction was to oversee the CIA by dictate of the NSA of 1947.

CHAPTER 3
PARAPOLITICAL STARS IN THE DOPE SHOW

Books were burned, book stores closed down, offices and social centers were broken into, artists, writers, musicians and countless hippies got dragged into court., to answer trumped up charges of corruption, obscenity, drug-abuse, and anything that might silence their voices. LSD appeared on the streets, as if on cue to destroy student descent. More potent drugs used in federally sponsored behavior modification studies (translates mind-control) also found their way to society at large. STP created by Dow-Chemical Co. in 1964 was considered incapacitating agent by the CIA Emergency wards was choked in San Francisco with freaking bohemians. PCP an animal tranquilizer, also fed to the hippies by the CIA. The Mob opened mass production labs and a meticulously organized network of traffickers to move black market drugs..

A CIA agent who claims to have infiltrated the covert LSD network, provided a clue when he referred to Height-Asbury as a human guinea pig farm. A dozen years earlier in the same city , George Hunter White and his CIA colleagues had set up a "safe house" and began testing hallucinogenic drugs on unwitting citizens. Now suddenly there was a neighborhood packed with young people who were ready and willing to gobble experimental chemicals. Charles Manson and Timothy Leary arrived in San Francisco and each had a keen interest in mind-control.

Dulles mentioned in his memo that the agency was testing drugs on groups of people. CIA personnel mingled with the drug dealers.. Monitoring stations were set up, among them was Louis J West, Jack Ruby’s shrink, West oversaw Dr Jose Delgado, author of Physical Control of the Mind and Ross Addey, a veteran of operation Paperclip (Nazi's entry into CIA and NASA and else where), Dr. Margaret Singer of the CIA created False Memory Syndrome. All participated in the study of LSD as a politically destabilizing weapon. One CIA memo named the drug as a potential new agent for unconscious warfare. In 1967 as CHAOS was launched by CIA White House. Timothy Leary, tossed out of the army for erratic behavior, left experimenting with LSD on prisoners in N.Y. for the CIA, and donned the robes of the designated LSD media prelate. He later admitted to knowing at the time that some powerful people in Washington have sponsored this drug research. Leary was constantly surrounded by ops of intelligent agents.

CHAPTER 4
The death of Cass Elliot (of the Mamas and the Papas)and other restless youth

According to Mae Brussell, researcher, in 1968 orders went out to proceed to neutralize segments of society. including those restless youth. By 1969 the SSS (Special Services Section of the FBI), combined with the Justice department and with the CIA operation Chaos.

Thus. Manson Murders, etc. Manson joined the Process church, a Satanist church , who also worshipped Lucifer and Jehovah. It was (is) big in Hollywood at the time. (Manson clearly a mind-controlled dupe).

One FBI report on Cass Elliot marked urgent states she attended a fund raiser in Hollywood , for Peace and Justice. Cass had political ambitions and wanted to be a senator, maybe, in 20 yrs or so. An underground paper called The Realist suggested Cass was the target of political foul play. The editor Paul Krassner said, "I believe she might have been killed. She knew a lot about the incredible criminal links between Hollywood and Washington and Las Vegas.

CHAPTER 5
THE MURDER IN THE HOUSE OF POOH BRIAN JONES OF THE ROLLING STONES.

The fusion of music and politics made the stones an enemy of the state. There were infiltrators and drug set-ups and busts thus, Jagger said " This is a protest against the system, war stems from power-mad politicians and patriots, we must end all these mindless men from seats of power, and replace them with real people, people of compassion.” The stones were stalked harassed and getting paranoid.

An odd construction crew came to restore the house of Brian Jones, the former cottage of AA Milne, author of Pooh books. They muscled their way into his private life, and had a weird hold over Brian. One worker, Thorogood, made a death bed confession, that he had drowned Wilson The tell-tale signs of cover-up by authorities are unmistakable. He was off drugs at the time. his death was not caused by a life of abuse as was claimed, he was murdered.

CHAPTER 6
THE END OF ROCK FESTIVALS

Five Months later, a music festival happened near San Francisco, and became murderous. The band would be forever tainted by the surreal violence..

Editor of Rolling Stone, Jan Wenner, put the Rolling Stones Band in touch with Melvin Belli, attorney of California well-heeled conservative base, whose eulogy at his funeral was, "a man of law against the CHAOS of life, a man of CHAOS against the law of life." He was one of CIA's most trusted court room wonders. Belli chose the Altamount for the Stones concert. It had all the charm of a grave yard, and not fit to draw 300,000 people.! Ralph Sonny Barger of the Hells Angels was hired to keep the peace, (an informant hit-man, who was hired by feds to kill labor activist Cesar Chavez, but was arrested instead on an old charge.) Hells Angels are represented in 18 countries now, largest crime family export. Who in 1969 suspected the Hells Angels was a death squad in employ of the political agencies? (a refreshing break from the status quo?)

At the Stone’s concert the Hells Angels beat up on the youth to excited to see Jagger and Leary arrive, an 18 year old girl was stabbed to death for allegedly having a gun, by the Hells Angels. There ended up 3 dead and many wounded..

A CANCER WAS PLANTED AND GROWING IN THE COUNTER-CULTURE

CHAPTER 7
JIMI HENDRIX POLITICAL HARASSMENT AND MURDER.

He didn't die from a drug overdose, he was not an out of control dope fiend. He was not a junkie.

FBI COUNTELPRO was out to do more than prevent a communist menace, from overtaking the U.S.! (or to control black power movement). It was out to obliterate its opposition and ruin the representatives of the people involved in the anti-war movement, Civil Rights Movement, and the rock revolution.

Hendrix manager, Mike Jeffery, by his own admission was an intelligence agent. He frequently boasted he had powerful underworld connections. There were many mafia managed "acts". The CIA/Mafia connection had exercised considerable influence in the music industry for decades. Hendrix wanted out of the contract. He felt he was under surveillance and felt more and more unsafe in New York, his former safe haven. His manager, thus, might have created a Toronto arrest, to silence Jimi. He preferred him to be isolated. He had always been a trusting and open person before, and now he didn't know who to trust.

He was getting 10 grand for a 50 grand concert. Hendrix friends said Jeffrey’s would get more money from a dead Hendrix than a living one. There was also a possible million dollar insurance policy in Jeffrey’s name.

Was Hendrix murdered? The official cause of death was asphyxiation caused by vomit? The pathologist report left the cause of death open. Monica Danneman (investigator), had long insisted Hendrix was murdered. At the time of her own death, she had brought media attention to the case in a letter and highly publicized court battle. Monica's body was found in a fume-filled car near her home, in south England. It was called a suicide.

She had a lot of death threats, and people who knew her said "she didn't believe in the concept of suicide"

CHAPTER 8
Death of Jim Morrison, lead singer of the doors.

Two years after the death of Brian Jones, Jim Morrison's body was found in a bath-tub in his flat in Paris. Death was attributed to natural causes, possibly heart failure. Morrison’s political outbursts attracted the FBI. He had said, " I like the idea about the breaking away or over-throw of the established order." In another interview Manzerek (of the Doors) considered possible motives for the elimination of the Anarchistic Lizard King " they were going to stop all rock and roll by stopping the Doors. He was considered the most dangerous because he was saying . “We want the world and we want it NOW.”

FBI harassment rendered Morrison so anxiety ridden that he had an ulcer by mid-twenties. Paranoia struck deep and it was thought he was a marked man. Bob Seymore wrote a book re: Jim called The End and conceded" you could say the CIA and the other intelligence agencies may have had a hand in the deaths of Hendrix, Joplin and Morrison etc., simply because they were the leaders of the generation of the 60's.

A book " The Bank of America in Louisiana" appeared in 1975, after his death, supposedly written by Morrison. Some say he survived Paris and lived a life free from celebrity and the FBI. A James Douglas Morrison, claimed to be operating as an intelligence agent for a number of groups including the CIA and Interpol, and also had connections with various occult groups. This JM2 also claims to be the dead rock star. There are stacks of official looking document, and letters between the agencies, CNN, NBC, and JM2. This claim was made by researcher Thomas Lyttle who claims to have seen what looks like authentic documents. There seems to be hundreds if not thousands of miscellaneous files under the name. No autopsy was performed after his death, a probable violation of French law. Pamela Courson, who was with him at the time, died later of an overdose that some said was a "Hot Shot" or poisoned opiate.

CHAPTER 9
JOAN BAEZ PHIL OCHS

Joan Baez survived the chaos backlash, she fully understood that political assassination could be her reward for openly castigating military-industrial masters of war. Her close friend Martin Luther King Jr., the worlds most honored civil rights leader told her and a group of activists before delivering his famed speech how the police had dumped him in the hole and it was black and he couldn’t see. They shoved food in the room but he wouldn’t eat it for fear it was poisoned starving and afraid he got on his knees and prayed and when he got up he said it didn’t matter anymore.

Kings entourage hid their pain when they knew what he meant. We knew he was going to die, and he was ready to die, and he was ready to make a commitment to Vietnam etc. He said, “I have been to the mountaintop and I have seen the Promised Land and it doesn’t matter anymore.”

Joan Baez wrote a memoir, And a Voice to Sing With, (1987) of her childhood and her father as a bright young Stanford scientist "Albert Baez recognized the danger of the unleashed atom even in the early days" He took a job at Cornell University in Ithica, New York (Cornell is the base of CIA Mind Control experiments and Joan is a survivor of ritual abuse and mind control experimentation, according to letters she has written to researchers and other survivors), a common cover for trauma-based-mind-control programming. She has a song about it

”I am paying for protection, Smoking out the truth...chasing recollections...nailing down the roof”

Baez entertained no illusions about the CIA, and promoted State of Siege, film she saw as exposing the corrupt element of AID (Agency for International Development, overseas), which funded the teaching of techniques of torture tactics in Latin America. We solicited signatures against the use of torture. Torture was made more prevalent than it had been since the Middle Ages, thus the danger was its common use as government policy. The hands of the US government were far from clean.

Joan did years of intensive therapy to confront her inner demons ,fears, insomnia, panic attacks, phobias, anxieties, etc. Therapists kept Joan glued together, to get me to the next gig, she said.

Joan’s father was invited to become the head of Operations at Cornell, which would bring him in contact with CIA Human Ecology Foundation, (re: Academic Mind Control Studies) behind the fences of the Ivy League campuses across the country. Joan said it was classified. She was not buried by Chaos, but she lived under its intolerant eye and it could silence her. An example is a mistranslation in Japanese re her comments on Vietnam and Nagasaki. The interpreter was threatened and complied. A year later sale of her records were banned from all Army PXs and when she denounced the draft on the Smother‘s Brothers Hour, she was censored by CBS, her comments cut, and CBS cancelled the Brothers soon after. The same year her then David Harris was sentenced to three years for draft evasion.

Civil rights activists were falsely linked to Communist organizations. A common smear tactic.

JOAN BAEZ AND BOB DYLAN
MIMI FARINA AND RICHARD FARINA

In 1961 Joan Baez met Bob Dylan. Whose songs had such stark political flavor. Bob nearly died in 1966 after a motorcycle accident. Joan's brother-in-law Richard Farina did die a few months later in a motorcycle accident. It was suspicious and happened on his wife Mimi Farina birthday. He was on his way back from a promotional party for his book "Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up". Before his death he had been producing an album to be performed by Joan, but it got shelved.

Mimi Farina, sister of Joan, is an equally talented and politically active woman who sings in prisons and goes out hands on to the poor, last I heard, and I believe Joan’s heart is also with the poor folk (My Note)

After Dylan’s accident he went thru a political change . He dropped the broadside lyrics grating on the nerves of the establishment. Mark Edmundson wrote: He wasn't ruined by drugs. His work combines art and politics and the harshest truth about the world. He is a visionary skeptic ,he loves the promise of America and yet is disgusted by much of its reality.

His songs tell about the cane murder of black servant Hattie Carroll, the death of boxer Davie Moore, the unbroken chains of injustice. They go to the heart of the decades most recurring preoccupation ,that in a time of irreversible technical progress , moral civilization has pathetically faltered, that no matter how much international attention is focused on the macro-cosmic affairs, the plight of the individual must be considered.

Five years after the accident he wrote "George Jackson", a fiercely driven ballad about the Black Panther leader " "George Jackson" who was consiciously murdered by a prison guard.

PHIL OCHS ( THE OUT LAW AND HIS BRAIN) MIND CONTRO AND MPD

"U.S. agents were able to destroy any persons reputation by inducing hysteria or excessive emotional responses, temporary or permanent insanity, suggest or encourage suicide , erase memory , invent double or triple personalities, inside ones mind."
---quote by the late Mae Brussells Operation Chaos investigator etc.

Ochs was a close chum of Bob Dylan , and thought Bob was the greatest poet ever. Ochs ,Bob, and Farina set out on the Folk minstrels path in the village in the early 1960's. Together with others they dragged folk music away from the migration camps and union halls into direct confrontation with the Eisenhower’s looming military-industrial complex. Ochs denounced the American politics in the "Cops of the world". song

" and when we've butchered your sons boys, have a stick of gum boys, we own half the world...."OH CAN YOU SEE"? AND THE NAME OF OUR PROFITS IS DEMOCRACY.

He was the ultimate dissident song quote" the comic and the beauty queen are dancing on the stage .The raw recruits are lining up like coffins in a cage." "Oh we are fighting in a war we lost before the war began"

Not long before he died, one night after too many drinks, he drew down the CIA Director Wm. Colby, director of the murderous Phoenix Project in Vietnam. He claimed he put a contract out on his life for 100,000 dollars. "I told Colby he's got a half of year to live or get out of Vietnam or he is dead. They can kill me but he is dead" he said.( He as well was certain that Gloria Steinem, editor of Ms. magazine and famous feminist is a CIA agent) Ochs was founder of the Yippee party, sang with protesters, and appeared as a witness for the trail of the Chicago Seven. His lyrics were considered so inflammatory that he was banned from the air-waves. The FBI did not refrain form amassing a huge file on him, and the feeling that he was never alone unnerved him. He wrote " take everything I own, take the tap from my phone, and leave my life alone, My life alone! He was tarred as a communist and a threat to national security. His friends said Ochs was convinced he would be assassinated. He was driven to drink by the radio black-listing his music and the ongoing surveillance and harassments and his nerve gave out. He lived in a perpetual state of paranoia His vocal cords were crushed by thugs.

He developed a right wing pseudo personality called John Train who he wrote about
( Beth’s note: Who created John Train? Was he like his good friend Joan Baez, a mind-controlled MPD(DID), from abuse and experimentation? On the first day of summer ,1975," Phil Ochs "was murdered in the Chelsea Hotel by John Train, Ochs said in a taped interview. "for the good of societies public and "secret," he needed to be gotten rid of." He also made reference to his Pseudo personality in song fragments in an album never recorded re: "Phil Ochs checked into the Chelse a Hotel, there was blood on his clothes, Train Train Train, the outlaw and his brain. (my note: I have read accounts of cloning since the 50's. Lots of hi-tech knowledge kept secret, including in Jim Keith’s book "Secret and Suppressed").

Ochs actually now believed he was working for the CIA., writes biographer Marc Elliot.( Ochs also referred to N.Y. Cornell Hospital in mysterious lists) "Train hinted that if Ochs had been a commercial success "they"(CIA) would have killed his host personality.. " Colby and Co. would have been more than happy to put a slug thru his head at that point, "said Train, the alternate personality. Ochs committed suicide on April 9, 1976, by hanging. This was the same year of the book " the Control of Candy Jones" by Donald Bain., ( a study of CIA mind control experimentation, Candy was also an MPD, created personalities, who carried out covert assignments , a marionette with an inner Nazi personality. She worked without her knowledge as a CIA op. for 12 years. Her final post-hypnotic command was suicide, which was intervened by her husband, talk show host John Nebel. ( the book is out of print, I have a copy) It is very probable that "John Train" was programmed to kill Philip Ochs the host personality.

Another musician with repressed memory of child-hood trauma was Peter Townsend ("Who" guitarist). In 1999 it occurred to him that certain phrases from rock opera "TOMMY" were not fiction but his life. He filled in the blanks from his childhood amnesia.

CHAPTER 10
WHO KILLED THE KENNEDYS AND SAL MINEO (REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE)

Actor Sal Mineo was stabbed to death in a parking lot after signing on to play Sirhan Sirhan in an upcoming movie regarding JFK. (CIA assassination and post-hypnotic programming were the major themes of the movie.) Elliot Mintz talk show host for ABC, later Bob Dylan and the Lennon’s publicist was buried in research with Mineo, regarding JFK killing. They became convinced Sirhan was innocent. The movie production disagreed and Mineo pulled out of the picture. After he was killed the media revealed in his secret life of bi-sexuality, and the murder was taken as homophobia. Gay Bars were closing in fear, and Hollywood stars took refuge behind locked doors.

Michael Ruppert a former LAPD officer left the department to expose his CIA trained colleagues. He claims "Sirhan was hypno-programmed using hypnosis, drugs and torture by Rev. Jerry Owen and CIA Mind-Control Specialist Wm. Bryan at the stable where he worked months before the shooting. The LAPD concealed evidence implicating the CIA in shooting. The channels of the intelligence world swarmed with crooks and killers.

Conservative Evangelist Billy Graham was Presidents Nixon’s celebrated "spiritual advisor". Then there was LA's gangster corrupt public servant and wealthy gambling czar Mickey Cohen.(who "claimed "to be a friend of Sal Mineo) The former hit-man Cohen contacted the press after Mineos death t o boost that he was his pal. Cohen was also chummy with Nixon, and his entourage. In 1968, Cohen was coined the godfather of the West Coast Mafia gambling ops. When Cohen was close to death he opened up to investigative reporter Chuck Ashman, and he said, "Mickey Cohen told me the tale of his being paid off to fake a conversion and dose of Christianity for Billy Grahams N.Y. crusade. Two of Graham’s staff had passed more than 10,000 dollars to Mickey and his family." We found the dates and the amounts and even the checks" Cashmon said.

Cohen was the first bridge linking the killers of Robert Kennedy and Sal Mineo. He was on friendly terms with Carlos Marcellos, mob boss, who ran with David Ferrie, CIA corrupt ops., who was investigated by Jim Garrison in the connection of killing of JFK. Cohen was also a chum with Jack Ruby. Cohen was also a friend of Melvin Belli, Jack Ruby’s defense attorney. He also controlled the Santa Anita race-track where Sirhan was employed. Mickey Cohen’s circle of friends and his appearance in the limelight after the Mineo killing begs question on Hollywood power brokers. Sirhan and Cohen were close to Desi Arnez, (Producer) of I Love Lucy .Arnez was an anti Castro Cuban exile leader. In 1966 Sirhan wrote in his notebook that he landed a job at the stables Corona Breeding Farm co-owned by Desi Arnez, Buddy Ebsen, Dale Robertson, ultra conservatives, and TV personalities were well acquainted with Sirhan. Sirhan was known as a fervent anti-communist. Attorney, Russell Parsons, Sirhan's attorney, showed no effort to make known that Sirhan was in the wrong position to kill senator Kennedy, he was shot from behind and Sirhan stood in front of Kennedy.

CHAPTER 11
PROJECT WALRUS..JOHN LENNON..

Mark-David Chapman chose to plead not guilty due to following the direction of his voices.. His attorney J. .Marks, punctuated the plea "by reason of insanity". Chapman testified "I can hear their thoughts, I can hear them talking, but not from the outside, from the inside" Not one of the three psychiatrists at the trial explored the possibility of Mind-Control. In 1977 Chapman lost his fundamentalist religion and became a Satanist..

At 19, 1n 1975,Chapman signed onto the YMCA,(international camp counselor program) and was sent to Beirut where he allegedly received instructions in lethal arts at the CIA training camp school of terror. (there was a known "experiment in Mind Control unit" for the army in Lebanon.). In 1980 he surfaced in New York, and mailed a letter to an Italian address. The Dakota (residence of the Lennon’s) was given as a return address. There was a reference to his" mission " in N.Y.. It was returned to New York, the address not found in Italy, where it sat for three years in the dead letter bin, and finally delivered to the Dakota. Yoko Ono glanced at the letter and dropped it in her deranged file. In 1983, head of security, Mahoney, found the letter. This was evidence of premeditated murder and conspiracy. The letter vanished and reappeared slightly altered, the post-date now was 1981. The "mission" statement was missing...

Elliot Mintz, friend of Sal Mineo ,was instrumental in exposing "Project Walrus" as a conspiracy regarding Lennon. He had been Lennon’s chum too and publicist since 1971 Mintz recalls that some of Yoko body guards were at the time New York Police officers.. It is very difficult for a private citizen to legally possess a weapon in New York. The people who can are off duty officers. It is thus, a common celebrity arrangement. There were many files with missing contents at Yoko's apt. after Lennon was killed. Listening devices were planted at the Dakota and once swept clean would reappear. There had been numerous attempts on Yoko's life. One man was arrested at airport who had made a call that he was coming to finish the job and kill Yoko and Sean. There were also calls made to tell her body guards were going to kill her. Sean Lennon said, "I grew up afraid my mother and I were going to be killed".

After John's murder the first promoting of Project Walrus was the ruining of his reputation. John had known he was wire-tapped and was paranoid. After Watergate he filed a lawsuit for wiretap and surveillance and made some progress. Justice Dept. never would admit it actually carried out the wiretap and blamed it on other possibilities. After he got his green card he gave up the litigation. Lennon overcame his fear of federal harassment and gave public statements that were anti-republican.

Killing Lennon was only the first step. All that he signified must be defaced. That was the principle objective of Walrus. His diaries were stolen and returned later with extra entries and some entries altered. Fred Seaman wrote a defamatory book on Lennon. Seaman was to be executive of Lennon’s archives, and much was feigned regarding their bond. He told friends he was going to discredit Ono at all costs. The goal was to drive her to a nervous breakdown and discredit her attempt to set straight the public record. The walrus crew anticipated immense profits. Dead Lennon’s money’s The events at the Dakota began to sound like the Movie "Gaslight"..( in which a husband tries to drive his wife crazy by reality distortion) Yoko began sleeping badly. One of Yoko’s assistants, wracked by stress began packing a gun at all times. He said " you do not know how big this is. The people doing this are too big to fight." To discredit Lennon and Yoko and the Peace movement was a major part of Operation Walrus. (but it didn't and IT WILL NOT)

CHAPTER 12
WHAT CHA GONNA DO?..THE DEATHS OF MARLEY AND TOSH.

Quote: “Vampires do not come out to bite your neck anymore, instead they cause something destructive to happen that will spill blood., and those invisible vampires will get their meal " Peter Tosh.

Peter Tosh , like Marley was a widely influential civil rights agitator, and like other black activists before him he was gunned down. He died in 1987 at age 43. He was upset with the treatment of his people. Tosh went to Trench Town to live with an uncle after the aunt he was living with died. It was there he met the young Bob Marley, and taught him to play guitar. They got together with Bunny Wailer and the trio called themselves the Wailin Wailers. They were drastically underpaid. Record producers are notorious for pocketing money. (dem pirates and dem thieves). Peter Tosh always let his feelings be known. He cared more about principles and morals than popularity and fame. He said "they know I do not support POLITRICKS and games, my duty is to unify the people." He and Marlew had some wrangling and he left the group, and went on his own. Destabalsation tactics were employed, and political violence and sabotage etc. from the CIA with pernicious attempts to wreck the economy of their country.. The new weapon and the new menace was destabilization..

Bob Marley held onto the Wailer name and took on new members. The peoples National Party asked them to play at Smile Jamaica concert. He agreed.

In Nov. a death squad came to Marley’s home and started shooting. They shot bullets into his manager, and one in his wife’s’ Rita's head , as she tried to get their 5 children out of the house. They survived. The last bullet creased Marley’s breast below his heart and drilled deep into his arm. Marley would sing "Ambush in the night, all guns aiming at me." This did not stop them performing at the Smile Jamaica concert.. ("War") "Until the ignoble and unhappy regimes that now hold our brothers, in Angola, in Mozambique, in subhuman bondage, have been toppled utterly destroyed...everywhere is war......

Carl Colby , son of CIA head Wm. Colby, came to the concert and posed as crew and got back stage where he gave a gift to Marley, a pair of boots. Former black Panther Lee Lew-Lee was close to Marley and he thinks Marley’s cancer started with the boots He claims there was a link of copper wire attached to the boots, which hurt his foot when he tried them on and had to be removed..(it might have been treated chemically with a carcinogenic toxin. Marley later broke his toe and found out it was cancerous, it spread. He did not trust main-stream medicine and continued to perform. He knew by 1977 he was dying and compressed a lifetime of music into a few years

Something of a Caribbean CIA POGROM was underway via Kissinger and Co. There was emphasis on psychological Ops. which became arson, banking assassination disruption of the now Manley's democratic socialist rule. Political violence was stoked and arsenal of weapons supplied. This was all mostly financed by Hard Drugs, which disrupted the Rasta movement and marijuana. They wanted it legalized. Their chosen weapon in the Rasta Movement was free expression and they were crucified for it. Tosh was busted and beaten almost to death and it made his music more vengeful.. Secret Police and the CIA tailed him thru it all. Grotesque human rights violations were commonplace. Marley found out he had a brain tumor. He sang " these songs of freedom is all I ever had, emancipate yourself from MENTAL SLAVERY. "He was observed rubbing his forehead and grimacing while performing. One woman explained "Hidden lasers were fixed to spotlights above the stage and burned out his brain" Fellow
Rasta’s heard about an alternative doctor in Jamaica, who advised Marley to talk to a Doctor Josef Issels, a holistic immuno therapist in a Bavarian village. He went. The Dr. said "I hear you are one of the most dangerous black men in the world.” Issels medical career did not hold up under scrutiny, during WW2 he had worked hand in hand with Dr. Mengele (angel of death) in research in Poland, at the Auschwitz camp. The Wailers found this out after his death.

Issels told Bob he could cure him and did sadistic procedures that left him in agony. After visits the Wailor’s said "he is killing Bob" He also cut off his dreadlocks. He was in the hands of the doctor who had been the accomplice of Mengele in horrific Medical experiments against what they considered "sub humans". His mother said " he was starving and wasting away , and he would fall into fits of shaking, etc" Marley weighed 82 pounds on the day of his death. May 11, 1980. (HIS MUSIC LIVES ON)

Peter Tosh found the bloodshed and hypocrisy of death squad justice in the Third World unbearable He was obsessed with the hidden evil. By 1987 the year of Tosh murder Jamaica musicians were censored by the prevailing politics. Witnesses and friends insist his murder was a political hit. They were convinced Tosh was killed for his statements on Human Rights, Black liberation and the legalization of Marijuana. Tosh was throwing a small party at home when Mike Robertson, a local radio host answered the door. Leppo Leppan, an old buddy from Trenchtown days stepped in. Behind him were two clean-cut looking strangers, professional hit men, they insisted on talking to Tosh at gunpoint. Shots were fired and three people were dead.

Shortly afterward the N.Y. City apartment of Tosh was entered and burglarized, (such as the aftermath of Hendrix death). Two out of three of the Tosh killers remain at large. One hit man was said to be a policeman, (of course Leppan was convicted.)

Chapter 13 GANG WAR Sons of Chaos.

Rap artist Tupac Shakur was gunned down at a stop-light in Las Vegas in 1996. It will be evident re: the police strategy of disinformation, ignoring of witnesses, and the presence of undercover agents from L.A. and N.Y. at the murder of rapper Notorious B.I.G.

This suggests that both rappers were murdered by hit squads under the sanction of federal officers. Tupac's father said "It was clear to me form day one that the Las Vegas police never had any interest in solving the case of my sons murder..".. It was said “ we dealt extensively with COINTELPRO (FBI) issues. We worked around a lot of political prisoners and the black liberation movement over the years. This shaped Tupac into the person he was. The family operated the "Centre for Black Survival! They had a youth group called "The New African Panthers" and Tupac became the chairperson for it."

The agony of the Rap industry was exacerbated in March 1997 by killing 24 yr. old Brooklyn rap artist Notorious B.I.G. in L.A. This happened after he had attended the annual 'Soul Train' Music awards, by an unidentified gunman. Tupacs father said in a letter (excerpt)"we do know that Brother Biggie was a part of an industry that has been under attack from the highest form of government officials." " They have targeted Tupac, Sister Souljah, and IceT. Ice Cube, just to name a few. This is reportedly due to the content of the lyrics. "IF" this was the case why would devil-worshippers (music-artists) not be hounded out also?????(They openly worship the devil in a so-called God fearing country.) Their lyrics preach mayhem, destruction. Death to parents, and even government; whereas our rapper loved-ones wanted to explain their pain and identify from where they came, with hopes for a better tomorrow; if all things were fair.

We believe that history has demonstrated that the murders of black people (young and old) who can have a profound impact, those who refuse to bow down, have been targeted by government at its highest level.

What we must understand is that our warriors are needed when it has been proven beyond contradiction that the C.I.A. were principal importers of Crack Cocaine and Cocaine into the 'HOOD’, with blatantly racist drug laws, to set into motion tactics of genocide to destroy or lock away our brothers and sisters or the rest of their lives.

Pay attention to the game that is being played on/against us! SEARCH FOR TRUTH! Don't look at who shot them, but why? Don’t be fooled by the media that has never shown real concern for our welfare. DR. MUTULU SHAKUR

Mutulu Shakur's conviction that SECRET POLICE killed his stepson and Notorious B.I.G. proves to be increasingly feasible.

Chapter 14 FALSE GOD SYNDROME

DEATH OF MICHAEL HUTCHENE

.... 1997-----M. Hutchence was found tethered by his neck to a door frame. He too was an activist, who willed the lion share of his fortune to Amnesty International and the Green Party. He was found at the Ritz-Carleton in Sydney Australia. The media concocted scenes of SM but he was found with a broken hand and lacerations and had taken a bad beaten. His friends said he was not depressed and he was against suicide. There were rumors of the "MOB" involved in his investments possibly unknown to him. He died penniless due to investments and trusts and his family had to fight for his money.

He knew Gianni Versace, famous designer who was gunned down, and was also said to be possibly mafia involved, although he denied it angrily (A dead mourning bird was found by the Versace body, a symbol of a hit-man).

Diana Spencer, the Princess of Wales, and a month before her own death attended the funeral of Versace. As it happened another friend of Hutchence was Dodi Fayed , someone said to have mob links. Dodi's uncle was arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi of the Iran-Contra Fame.

Dodi and Diana were killed in a car accident four months before Hutchence died.

THE DEEP POLITIICS OF MUSIC

Roger Bunn director of the Music Industry, Human Rights Assoc. (MIHRA), in the U>K> lives in the eye of the corporate music beast. These are excerpts from letters form Bunn:

"Re: M. Hutchene..."so that's it, huh? Death due to hanging? Sort of unusual that...even for the music industry. Those wonderful featured artist really light up the sky every now and then. Maybe we should consider making the poor darlings an endangered species? When they reach their peak it probably means worth more to the conglomerates dead than live. Think about that next time you go out to buy your conglomerate primitive/folk music, or a well-known movie.... you add strength to the cartel Monopoly. The music industry turns over 120 billion dollars a year. In the music industry there is no such thing as Real Competition".

"Music Industry Is The Richest Industry On The Planet. By providing the public with a marketing of.

FALSE GOD SYNDROME

When artists "usefulness” to a conglomerate is over things can get a little sticky. (End of quote)

MY NOTE......THIS PROJECT OF SUMMARIZING THIS BOOK HAS BEEN ONE CLOSE TO MY HEART, SINCE I HAVE LOVED MANY MUSICIANS (AND WORLD OF FAME PEOPLE) UP CLOSE AND FROM AFAR. I HAVE SEEN HOW THE WORLD OF FAME WORKS AND I THINK IT IS SOMETHING THE PUBLIC SHOULD KNOW. THEY ARE PEOPLE FIRST AND FOREMOST AND HAVE ALL THE SAME TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS THAT WE HAVE, (AS CAN BE SEEN BY ALEX CONSTANTINES BOOK.). MY GRATITUDE TO YOU ALEX.....

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A group of Prostitutes operating in a region called Obalande in Kaduna state, Nigeria has commenced their two months sex freebie, which would last from November 1 to December 31, 2009.

Obalande, which has been addressed as Sodom and Gomorra in Kaduna state originated in 1980s, the region operates from 7: pm to 4 am featuring high-class prostitutes along with different kinds of assorted bars in every nook and cranny.

Despite the security threat to the area and constant police patrol, the prostitutes have began to raise the awareness of their sex freebie by the putting up banners and poster along the region also increased the price of services they offer.

Speaking with one of the most famous prostitutes who go under the nickname ‘Presido’, which means president, whom is also a graduate of Ahmadu Bello University, says that they can no longer afford to provide services to people at the formal price due to inflation in the country and increase the price they have offer sex freebie.

“Nigerian economy is getting worst on daily basis and the government does not give a shit about the situation. This is what we do to survive, this is where we make our daily bread also am proud of my job, and to keep the business going on there is the need to step up the rice with a bonanza to please the customers.”

The sex prices increased are been categorized into two kinds, which are gas instant/per night sex and petrol instant/per night sex. The Anal sex is been described as gas sex which was increased from 20, 000 to 50, 000 naira per night, equivalent to $323 while the normal sex which is been done via the virginal is called petrol sex also increased from 5, 000 to 15, 000 per night equivalent to $97. On the other hand, Anal instant sex was increased from $120 to $200 while the instant virginal sex increased from $20 to $45 per night.

The ‘Presido’ whom goes on to talk about how she became a prostitute after spending 3 years at home in search of a job after her graduation from the university explains how the sex freebie will run.

“We are giving out free sex to our customers for two months to keep them coming, if anyone pays for any of the sex categories he or she gets another one of that category for free, we love our customers and we want to show them that we truly care.”

While the ‘Presido’ was commenting further about the police harassment and unlawful arrest without any cause, she said that soon a union would be formed in the area to protect their rights.

“The sex bonanza should have started before now but the police constant patrol in the region could not allow us to hold the rarely, but that will soon come to an end. We want to form a union which will be known as Nigerian Association of Prostitutes because the same people who arrest us are the same people who patronize us.”

Commenting further, the aspirant President who also goes under the nickname of ‘Angel’ says since the freebie began the number of customers has increased and by God’s grace, if she wins she will legalize prostitution throughout the nation.

“I was thinking that we are going to scare people away with the price but as soon as we began the promotion the number of customers tripled just that the people are scared of the region due to police. Nevertheless, we are working on that and that is why I need everyone to vote for me because if am elected I will make sure prostitution or whatever you want to call it is legalized. Believe me or not we contribute to the economy”

Some people who live around the region said that the free sex promotion is a ticket to free HIV and free death while some says it time they get extra value on the money they spent on the prostitute and it’s time to enjoy.

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Every newspaper, small or large, should have a comic page, even if it is only one single panel cartoon.  Why?  Because comics are one of the most popular features in a newspaper and encourage readership. Even though publishers may not experience any immediate revenue from a cartoon feature such as they would from paid advertising, the comics still contribute to more income in the long run. The more overall interest a publisher can generate in his paper, the more readers he will have, and the more interest advertisers will have in supporting his plublication. Nobody buys a newspaper just for the comic page, but they will gravitate toward the newspapers that are the most interesting overall.

Of course the big concern most newspapers have, especially the smaller ones, is how are they going to pay for it?  Syndicated cartoons are the least expensive option, however even syndicated cartoons and comics can become costly. One of the largest syndicates, King Features, has recently announced a new program, Comics Kingdom, which is designed to bring in advertising revenue for newspapers,  shared with the syndicate. Currently this service is only available to the nation's largest newspapers, which doesn't help the small publisher.  In fact, if you look at the syndicate's price structures, the smaller papers pay proportionately more than larger papers for syndicated content.

There are some things smaller papers can do to alleviate some of this cost and still enjoy the  benefits of a comic page.  Rather than compete for the most popular comics, a newspaper can publish some of the lesser known, and less expensive comics.  For example, Johansen International Features offers Belvedere,  a series about a mischievious little dog. This feature was created by the late George Crenshaw and has been in syndication for over 30 years. Although it is not one of the most popular features, it still has a following.  There have been a couple of instances where newspapers tried to cut the feature to save money, and had to change their mind because of protests they received from their readers. Aside from it's lower popularity, one reason this feature is less expensive than most is because it is no longer being drawn and the cartoons that are published are re-runs of cartoons from the past 30 years.

There are some webcomics which may be less expensive than the larger syndicated offerings. In
selecting one of these comics, however, the publisher must make certain that the comic is in good
taste.  Some of the comics you find online may be offensive to newspaper readers, or worse yet, to
newspaper advertisers.

Here is something else to consider. For a little bit more a newspaper can get custom cartoons which may be even more valuable than the syndicated comics.  For example, a paper  may want an  editorial cartoon concerning a local issue. Another popular feature could be a weekly sports cartoon which focuses on local sports personalities --  high school or college stars, or even Little League players.  By featuring a different local player each week a newspaper can generate  interest that no nationally syndicated feature could match.

So how you do you pay for this, the publisher may be asking. For one thing, without a syndicated
contract a publisher is not required to publish a cartoon every single day.  A newspaper could publish once or twice a week and still maintain reader interest.  If the feature generates enough local interest advertisers may pay more for a premium spot next to the cartoon feature.  Better yet, one of the paper's local advertisers may choose to sponsor the cartoon in return for concessions on their advertising rates.

Most cartoonists are willing to do custom local cartoons for newspapers. By shopping around
publishers can find cartoonists who offer a good price yet still offer professional quality. Most cartoonists will offer a better price to newspapers who are willing to purchase cartoons on a
regular basis or in volume.

Comics are fun.  Readers love them and the newspaper publisher who adds them to his paper will be laughing all the way to the bank.

Ron Coleman has been a freelance cartoonist and writer for over 40 years. His work has appeared in hundreds of magazines, newspapers, books and on the internet. He offers more information about newspaper publishing on his website: http://newspapers.colemantoons.com">http://newspapers.colemantoons.com
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Media for many people are a source of information on topics and news. The need to digest and keep abreast of important events is always in demand by the media consumer. But the current trend has showed how tabloidization, or sensationalism in American Press are making headways among the media traditionalists, be it in print or online.

The term tabloid is often synonymous to sensational and scandalous stories or columns on crimes, celebrities and stars. The focus on entertainment is a growing multi billion dollar industry especially in the United States. Albeit less 'toned down' than the European tabloids, still American tabloid media offer little mainstream credibility.

Media in American Press such as the New York Post, the Daily News and the Metro are some of the nationally recognised tabloids, and most supermarket tabloids distributed in American are published by American Media, Inc. such as National Examiner, The National Enquirer, The Globe, Star and Weekly World News.

These supermarket tabloids are notorious filled with sensationalized stories and the facts distorted and unverified. The supermarket tabloids are unlike from your regular tabloids newspapers which are distributed via magazine channels, as these supermarket tabloids issues are aggressively sold on the checkout lines of supermarkets.

Do such tabloids be it the regular tabloids or supermarket tabloids, have influence for more mainstream newspapers? Well the influence of tabloidization in the newspaper media can be said that more and more mainstream medium are converging to a more utilization of tabloid formatting and reporting tactics. Respected print medium such as Charlotte Observer and Tampa Tribune are moving towards screaming flashy headlines, large illustrations and photography to the use of police records.

More and more mainstream medium are embracing the tabloids style of reporting as being acceptable. Current newspaper reporting methodologies are making it a necessary part to employ such tactics and publications. The spread of tabloidization is inevitable.

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                Tarot Cards: Wrestlemania 26 Under Taker's Show Stopped

Even though Wrestlemania 26 is not until Sunday March 28, 2010 I'm writing this article on Sunday February 7, 2010. Number 22 (a master number in numerology and half of 44) of the Saints has just scored a touch down by interception (Super Bowl 44). What an upset!. Speaking of upsets, WWE's Under Taker is in for a big upset at this years Wrestlemania 26. Before I tell you why Under Taker's show will be stopped by the "Show Stopper" Shawn Michael I'll give a little history. Some readers might not be wrestling fans.

I also want to add that the information I recieved by my Tarot Card inquiry is based on both the Under Taker and Shawn Michaels being active and available for Wrestlemania 26. Shawn Michaels is presently not scheduled to compete with Under Taker at Wrestlemania 26. We've seen Michaels find his way into matches he wasn't schedule to compete in before. Shawn's tenacity and Astrology's plan are the main reasons why Shawn Michaels will indeed meet the Undertaker at Wrestlemania.

While in his prime Shawn Michaels battled the Under Taker in a cage match. Michaels is a very worthy athlete. Yet he had nothing for the Under Taker. The "Dead Man" tossed Shawn around like a cook baking tomatoes. Shawn won that match, but only because of the interference of Kane (Under Taker's brother). Kane knocked out the Dead Man. Shawn Michaels, the opportunist that he is, merely rolled over for the 3-count pin (and then passed out again). We saw a more aggressive and determined Shawn Michaels battle the Under Taker at Wrestlemania 25. Unfortunately, this was one show that "Mr. Wrestlemania" Shawn Michaels couldn't stop.

Well why do I believe that Shawn Michaels will pull off the greatest upset in professional wrestling history and stop the show of the Understaker's Wrestlemania winning streak? Well one reason is the WWE story line. But this is not the main reason. My Tarot card reading is the main reason. But we'll talk about that shortly. We all know that Vincent McMahon and the WWE love Shawn Michaels. Shawn Michaels will always be Vincent McMahon's "boy champion". Those two have a "love-hate" relationship. The Under Taker also has great respect for Shawn Michaels. Shawn has a history of seizing opportunities and securing upsets. Shawn recently gave defeats (such as to Randy Orton). This is something the "Heart Break Kid" usually does not do. So Shawn is paying dues now to secure a win over the Under Taker at Wrestlemania 26. You might remember Degeneration X (Shawn Michaels and Triple H) beating Stone Cold Steve Austin down shortly before Austin defeated Michaels for the Championship. The "pre-championship win beatdowns" are part of wrestling's history.

A few nights ago I did a Tarot Card reading. These readings are amazingly precise and totally supernatural. When I drew the card for Shawn Michaels it was the Queen of Wands. I immediately saw the "spooky" black cat. I of course related that black cat to the world of the dead (which is the Under Taker's connection). I pulled other names and other cards. When I pulled the Tarot card for the Under Taker, the Tower Tarot card was pulled. The number for this card is number 16. There's that 4 x 4 connection. By the way, Super Bowl 44 was stopped at 44 seconds of the 4th quarter (and Barack Obama-Akhenaten is the 44th President). Here we are seeing the powers of Numerology and Astrology.

The Tower Tarot Card has a powerful struggle being overthrown. I perceive this tower to represent the Under Taker himself as it was the Tarot card I pulled to represent him. I also noticed that a crown was blown off the Tower at its overthrow. So there is a possibility that if the Under Taker is holding a WWE title at Wrestlemania 26 that Shawn Michaels will be taking that title as well. The Tower card is a very dark card as it symbolizes the Underworld (world of the dead). The Under Taker is the "Dead Man" in touch with that world. Shawn Michael's Tarot card pulled was the Queen Of Swords. She is the soldier who comes to fight with the sword in her hand. The black cat is subdued at her feet, just as the woman of Revelation subdues (Revelation 12:1-10).

Based on past and total accuracies of Tarot card readings, I predict that if both Shawn Michaels and the Under Taker are active and available for Wrestlemania, that Shawn Michaels will upset and defeat the Under Taker and take from the "Dead Man" whatever glories (or titles if applicable) that position held.

Something else to note is that Wrestlemania 26 is publicized to be held in Phoenix, Arizonia. That location is known as a location of freemasons and secret knowledge. The Phoenix bird (of Harry Potter fame) is known to burn itself to death and then "re birth (John 3:1-10). 2+6=8. In Numerology number 8 also represents Regeneration, Rebirth, and Infinity.

These are the reasons why I believe that at Wrestlemania 26 the now Christian Shawn Michaels will Stop the Show of the Dark World Dead Man, the Under Taker.

This article can be freely reprinted and/or edited as long as credit is given to the author.

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Mahatma Gandhi had succeeded in abolishing the untouchability from India. ( ? )

Dear Ms. Dnyanada,

 Greetings from Deepak!!

I really appreciate your continuous kind efforts to aware & sensitise the people by noble writing on value education through GOST DOT COM in Loksatta News Paper.

I have been continuously reading your short stories which gives different aspects everyday.

As usual last Saturday, I read one short story about Mahatma Gandhi & his contribution towards untouchables.

You have mentioned in your short story that Mahatma Gandhi had been always tried to abolish the untouchability from our cast based society.

And in next line, you have mentioned that Mahatma Gandhi had succeeded in abolishing the untouchability from India. ( ? )

I would like to kindly inform you that whatever as per my reading on Mahatma Gandhi & Bharat Ratna Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, 

Mahatma Gandhi had been always strongly promoted the hierarchical caste system and also supported to Chatur-Varna.  On same time, he had delivered many speeches to show the sympathy towards the issues of untouchabilty.  That means Mahatma Gandhi had played double standards about the issues of umtouchability.   I believe that you must aware that our hierarchical caste system & Chatur-Varna are root cause of untouchability.

Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar struggled in his whole life to get political and legal rights to ensure the social and economical upliftment of untouchables.  But on the other hand Mahatma Gandhi had been always tried to put obstacles in efforts of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar to ensure the rights of depressed community. 

It was very painful to read word “Harijan” in your short story.  I think that you have not studied the origin of this word.  It’s really unfortunate that after fifty years of independence, still the people like you are using such insulting word with the support of unrealistic philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi towards marginalized communities of India.

I kindly request you that please read carefully any opinion of Mahatma Gandhi prior to publish in such noble newspaper which has biggest circulation in Maharashtra.

Meaning of "Harijan"

“We know the meaning of the word "Harijan". It means bastard.”  

 
Why in our opinion, "Harijan" means bastard? It is necessary to know. In Karnataka, there is a temple of goddess Yelamma. In that temple, the young girls belonging to scheduled castes and some backward castes are presented to the goddess. These girls are called as "Devdasis", means servants of gods. The brahmin priest and pandas indulge in sex with these girls, but they do not owe the responsibility for the same. They leave it to god. When these Devdasis become pregnant and give birth to a child, these children are called "Harijan" means children of God. Infact, they are the children of Priests and Pandas. Why Gandhi called only untouchables as "Harijan”?

If harijans mean children of god, then Gandhi is also a child of god. Then, why Gandhi did not call himself as child of god? Because Gandhi was knowing the real meaning of the word "Harijan". Hence, he did not call himself as Harijan.   

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I hope you will understand my views on your sentences – “Mahatma Gandhi had succeeded in abolishing the untouchability from India”. ( ? )

Your short story can read by large number of population of Maharashtra, so it can easily spread the wrong message among the society.

I look forward to get your kind support to ensure the dissemination of correct information about depressed community.

Thanking you,

Sincerely yours,

Deepak Panzade,

Mumbai.

 M- 9224145705 

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From: Dnyanada Naik <dnyanadanaik@hotmail.com>
Date: May 13, 2009 10:18 PM
Subject: RE: Mahatma Gandhi had succeeded in abolishing the untouchability from India. ( ? )
To: deepak.panzade@gmail.com

Dear Mr. Deepak,
 
Thank you for your letter and for being so kind as to read my column in Loksatta regularly. I honour great leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi and Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar and do not mean any disrespect to anybody. I would like to appologise if I have unknowingly hurt your sentiments.
Thank you for your unique and different perspective on untouchability in India. You have obviously researched the issue well, and have a great deal of knowledge about it. I have taken due cognizance of your views, and shall strive for historical accuracy if I address this issue again in my future writings.
 
yours sincerely,
Mrs. Dnyanada Naik

  Short Story Writer in Loksatta News paper

Dear Deepak,

Thanks for your e-mail and we need educated persons like you, and we have
them in great numbers in our communities all over the world, who can
challenge false and fabricated presentation of historical facts about us.
Mrs Naik is probably is right in saying that untouchability has been
abolished from India but unfortunately she is giving the credit to the
wrong person.  It was Dr Ambedkar who made is possible to theoratically
abolished untouchability by making it unlawful through Indian
Constitution. However, the caste identity and related caste prejudice is
in the DNA of people from Indian sub-continent, irrespective to the
religious faith they may practice.

Caste discrimination is still being practised in India and else where in
the world and authorities in India turn a blind eye to it. As and when our
people would take positions in law making and law enforcement agencies,
the perpetrators would be punished. I am sure that goal seems to be in
sight.

CasteWatchUK is leading an equality campaign in the UK and we are lobbying
the political classes here to make caste discrimination unlawful through
changes in the legislation -  Single Equality Bill -  which is currently
going through the British Parliament.  Younger members of our communities
do not understand why some people who are from same race and same ethnic
background, try to discriminate against them on the grounds of caste.
These young people  are educated and have been brought up in British
Society and have absorbed British Values.  They are ready to challenge the
monster of Caste in this country. If we are successful in getting the
caste included in the Single Equality Bill, this success would have
implications for our people living in other countries, including India.

Regards

Davinder Prasad
General Secretary
CasteWatchUK

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