http://media-visions.com/globalsenseblog A blog of common sense by Judah Freed Fri, 30 May 2008 18:53:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Did you see yesterday morning's NBC interview of Scott McClellan on Today? I felt Meredith Viera could have done a better job of extracting the particulars of his experiences in the book. She mostly focused on the Bush counter-charges that  attack the messenger while ignoring the message. Despite the sligthly hostile questions, ... http://media-visions.com/globalsenseblog/scant-improvement-in-mcclellan-coverage/ Yesterday former White House press secretary Scott McClellan released his new book, What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception (Public Affairs Books). Charging that senior White House officials misused him to sell the Iraq war as if selling a candidate, McClellan accuses President George W. Bush, ... http://media-visions.com/globalsenseblog/scott-mcclellans-book/ Ever since the Chinese government  invaded and occupied Tibet in 1959, the top leaders in Beijing have fostered the fiction that Tibet is part of China. The repression used to deny the independence of the Tibetan people, meanwhile, has amounted to cultural genocide. The recent uprising of monks and common ... http://media-visions.com/globalsenseblog/why-the-us-should-boycott-the-beijing-olympics-and-why-we-wont-do-it/ Today are the pivotal presidential primary elections in Ohio and Texas. By late tonight, we may know whether Barak Obama can seal the deal or whether Hillary Clinton will continue her bid for the Democratic Party nomination at the convention in Denver this August. Whatever the outcome today, Hillary's campaign has ... http://media-visions.com/globalsenseblog/shrillery-hillary-stop/ Last week my car blew it's head gasket. I was to blame, and the expensive lesson keeps teaching me. When I’d added antifreeze two weeks earlier, I should have bled the cooling system line, which I did not know to do. I'd learned auto mechanics on an old slant six Plymouth ... http://media-visions.com/globalsenseblog/the-man-who-refused-rescue/ Judah Freed is the featured speaker on how to change the world by changing yourself. Sunday, January 27, at 10:30 AM, at the First Spiritual Science Church of Denver, 3375 So. Dahlia Street at Cornell Avenue (one block south of Hampden Ave.) For information: http://firstspiritualsciencechurch.org Call: 303- 756-3226 http://media-visions.com/globalsenseblog/change-the-world-by-changing-yourself/ When the camera pans across the stage at the Democratic and Republican presidential debates, I'm hard pressed to find a candidate that feels authentic. Look at the top tier candidates on the Republican side. Mitt Romney oozes insincere charm. Mike Huckabee feels like an "aw shucks" huckster. John McCain has earned ... http://media-visions.com/globalsenseblog/the-debatable-inflatable-candidates/ A top New York magazine writer recently rejected a story pitch from me by saying, "I don't tend to use self-published authors as sources." When I tried to explain the difference between self publishing and independent publishing, he was not interested. He's apparently chosen to limit the range of his story ... http://media-visions.com/globalsenseblog/expert_news_sources/ Pop singer Britney Spears is the latest casualty of media madness. The press frenzy over her apparently impulsive decision to shave her head is totally out of proportion to the significance of her act. If she's having emotional problems right now, the paparazzi probably is contributing to her distress by ... http://media-visions.com/globalsenseblog/bald_sopranos_media_madness/ WITHIN the past few weeks, my life has experienced a total turnaround. In early January, I headed off to New York City for a book reading and signing at Vox Pop bookstore in Brooklyn, performing with New York's top political comedian, Scott Blakeman. This was the best-attended reading I've done so ... http://media-visions.com/globalsenseblog/must-be-my-lucky-day/