TVNL Editor's Comments: Just a Quick Thank You to My Readers (Taking a day off from my usual commentary)

I spend a great deal of time investigating and reporting about the many depressing issues. Sometimes I get emotionally overwhelmed. At times I find it very difficult to continue my quest. There are surly times when I feel like my temper will get the best of me. It is usually during one of those emotional breakpoints when I fire off one of my angrier news letters or commentaries; the ones that usually result in significant un-subscriptions!

Then again there are moments, like this, when I become overwhelmed by the support that I receive from my readers. On an average day I will receive about 2000 e-mail messages. You can add another 1000 but I try not to count spam! Of those messages many of them contain kind complimentary messages (that really keep me going) or humbling requests to reprint my articles. I receive messages correcting my spelling or grammar...no surprise to me. I receive messages asking me for advice. I receive messages asking me to become involved with other organizations or individuals trying to make our world a better place. I also receive many messages telling me where to buy Viagra or that I have won some international lottery or that someone wants me to help them to move $millions into a bank account or that...oh, you mean that is spam too?

Of course I get slammed now and then; but thankfully not too often.

Oddly enough the humbling moment I am experiencing right now is not a result of any special compliment that I received. It is the result of perusing through my “submissions” e-mail box; the account set up for people to send us news and information for publication on our news page. For some reason I was overwhelmed by the sheer volume of people who have taken it upon themselves to help me by keeping me informed. These people have helped to make my job easier and they have helped to make TvNewsLIES.org become a pretty darn good place to visit if you want to stay informed about what is going on in the world. I still do a lot of manual research but I don't think I would be able to maintain the consistent broad spectrum coverage without the many contributors. It is very humbling to know that people, many people, take the time to pass on vital information to a website that I started with the expectation that some day we may get 100 visitors per day. Now we get 100 e-mail or more per hour, to say nothing of the visitor volume! Very humbling indeed.

The list of contributors seems to grow as I am finding new “sent from” names all the time. But there are are a few dozen power contribuotrs, you know who you are, who at this point could be considered official TvNewsLIES contributors! I just wanted to take today and thank you all, especially the regulars, for being a big part of what I am trying to do. You might be falling a tree in the woods but I'm letting you know it is surely making some sound! Think about it! - Jesse –Editor, TvNewsLIES.org

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WAR : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#war

Armed groups ‘breeding like mushroom’ in Baghdad despite U.S. campaign - Baghdad inhabitants say the presence of armed groups has intensified since the start of U.S. military operations to pacify the city more than two months ago.
TVNL Comment: We have not verified the source of this information so we are posting it with this appropriate caution.

Force 'cannot solve Afghanistan' - Nato head Jaap de Hoop Scheffer has said he believes there is no military solution to the Afghan situation.

Commanders in Iraq See 'Surge' Into '08 - U.S. commanders in Iraq are increasingly convinced that heightened troop levels, announced by President Bush in January, will need to last into the spring of 2008.

21 civilians killed in Afghan airstrike - Airstrikes called in by U.S. Special Forces soldiers fighting with insurgents in southern Afghanistan killed at least 21 civilians, officials said Wednesday. One coalition soldier was also killed.

US attack 'kills Iraqi children' - An attack by a US helicopter against suspected insurgents in Iraq has killed a number of children at a primary school, Iraqi security sources say.

Report: Iraq Child Mortality Rate Soars - The chance that an Iraqi child will live beyond age 5 has plummeted faster than anywhere else in the world since 1990, according to a report released Tuesday, which placed the country last in its child survival rankings.
TVNL Comment: Sanctions and war. A gift to the Iraqi people from America!

George Tenet cashes in on Iraq - The former CIA chief is earning big money from corporations profiting off the war -- a fact not mentioned in his combative new book or heard on his publicity blitz.

"KILL EVERYBODY" - AMERICAN SOLDIER EXPOSES US POLICY IN IRAQ - LINK - We can see around here there's no Al Qaida, there's no terrorist syndicates in Baghdad, or Iraq. Saddam had stamped 'em out." And I asked my buddies, "Well, you know, we're here to find 'weapons of mass destruction'." And they laughed at me. And I said, "Well, you know, we're here to 'help the people.'" And they laughed at me. And I said, "What's our mission? What's our goal?"...They're like, "All we're trying to do is make it home alive..."
TVNL Comment: VIDEO

WMD document 'must be released' - The government must release a draft of a 2002 dossier on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, the Information Commissioner has ruled.

POLITICS : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news#politics

UPDATE PENDING

ECONOMY : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#economy

Gas Station Owner Told to Raise Prices - A service station that offered discounted gas to senior citizens and people supporting youth sports has been ordered by the state to raise its prices.
TVNL Comment: How is that for freedom? Yet anyone who criticizes America is called anti-American. Well when you hear stories like this it is hard to be pro-American.

US workers angry as IBM jobs move to India - In a development laden with irony and emblematic of a global economic shift, IBM, the world’s largest IT firm, is getting a roasting from American tech workers, including its own employees, for moving tens of thousands of jobs to India.

American dream sours as housing market collapses - Home owners' losses will total an estimated $164 billion (£82 billion), according to the Centre for Responsible Lending, an independent research group.

Cost of war: Why we don't feel the financial pain - Since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Congress has approved more than $609 billion for the wars, a figure likely to stand as lawmakers rework their latest spending bill in response to a Bush veto. Requests for $145 billion more await congressional action and would raise the cost in inflation-adjusted dollars beyond the cost of the wars in Korea and Vietnam.

Trick or trickle? – As U.S. richest get richer, family income share drops - The figures are startling. Since 1980, a period of prolonged stagnation in inflation-adjusted median incomes, the income share of the bottom 90 percent of families has fallen by about 17 percent. Even the very upper-middle class folks in the 90-95 income percentiles barely kept their shares constant, while the top one-thousandth and top ten-thousandth have more than doubled and tripled their shares. The top ten-thousandth, fewer than 15,000 taxpayers, now collect 3 percent of all personal income.

9/11 News : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#911

22% Believe Bush Knew About 9/11 Attacks in Advance - Republicans reject that view and, by a 7-to-1 margin, say the President did not know in advance about the attacks.

WTC7: Complaint for Injunctive and Declaratory Relief filed - As most of you are already aware, there are significant overt and covert conflicts of interest that will overshadow the conclusions that will be reached by the government regarding how WTC7 collapsed. Unless a federal judge intervenes right now, the final WTC7 report will be woefully inadequate if not purposefully deceptive.

TINY ISRAEL IS THE WORLD'S SECOND TERROR STATE - Norman G. Finkelstein (De Paul, Chicago) explains the odds set by the Israelis: you kill one of ours, we kill 400 of yours; and so on.
TVNL Comment: VIDEO

CONGRESS : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#congress

House Admin Committee Unanimously Votes to Dismiss 4 of 5 Federally Contested 2006 House Elections - Hundreds of Sworn Voter Affidavits Collected by Curtis Campaign, Suggesting Inaccurate Counts on Electronic Voting Machines in FL-24 Race Against Feeney, Disregarded as 'Not Enough Evidence'...
TVNL Comment: Why would the very people who benifit from election fraud investigate election fraud? It is getting to the point that the citizens of this nation have to take things into their own hands!

Republican quotes KKK founder on House floor - Roll Call reports today that a House Republican delivered a foreign policy speech yesterday in which he quoted Nathan Bedford Forrest, founder of the KKK.

DOMESTIC : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#domestic

White House, Kansas governor argue over storm response - The White House fought back Tuesday against criticism from Kansas' governor that National Guard deployments to Iraq are slowing the response to last week's devastating tornado.

ENVIRONMENT : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#environment

M Crops Contaminate Honey in Bee Hives - The disclosure, showing that GM organisms can enter the food chain without consumers — or even farmers — knowing they are present, will undermine assurances by Tony Blair and ministers that such crops can be tested in Britain without contaminating the food chain.

INTERNATIONAL : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#international

Blair begins 50-day countdown to leaving No10 - Tony Blair plans to return on Thursday to his Sedgefield constituency, where his political career began 24 years ago, for the long-awaited announcement that he is standing down as leader of the Labour Party.

MILITARY & VETERANS : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#military

Retired U.S. Army generals to make TV commercials criticizing Bush's handling of Iraq war - The ads represent the first time former military commanders in Iraq have appeared in commercials to criticize the conduct of the war, now in its fifth year.

EDITORIAL : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#editorial

Just a Quick Thank You to My Readers - Then again there are moments, like this, when I become overwhelmed by the support that I receive from my readers.

JOURNALISM & MEDIA : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#media

Four Iraqi journalists shot dead near Iraq's Kirkuk - They said one of the journalists was the well-known director of a local media organisation which publishes several newspapers.

The Lethal Media Silence On Kent State’s Smoking Guns - It proves what “conspiracy theorists” have argued since 1970—that there was a direct military order leading to the unprovoked assassination of unarmed students.

'The Net' shoves Ron Paul right down ABC's throat ! - Whether ABC purposely left Cong. Ron Paul out of their poll, or whether they're just so arrogant that they just assumed that they know who the candidates are, or should be, they got a cold slap in the face the other day.

HEALTH & SCIENCE : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#health

Doctors Reap Millions for Anemia Drugs - Two of the world’s largest drug companies are paying hundreds of millions of dollars to doctors every year in return for giving their patients anemia medicines, which regulators now say may be unsafe at commonly used doses.

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#rights

UPDATE PENDING

OF INTEREST : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#interest

Enemy of liberal Anglicans was poisoned - A British missionary was fatally poisoned after helping to prevent a London vicar from becoming a bishop in Central Africa, The Times has learnt.