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Op Ed: MainStreamMedia
Distort Historic Role,
Damaging Democracy

Causes include technology, working staff-slashes, owner greed and stock value.

(EUGENE, Ore.) - Already this is a tipping-point primary-election, readying for even more historic/change-producing onslaught vs Washington-ways impacting our democracy.

Op Ed: When `Unsustainable`
IS Finally UNSUSTAINABLE,
What DOES One Finally DO?

MSMedia Failings Lulling Nation Into “Unsustainable” Abject Apathy

(EUGENE, Ore.) - More than thirty years ago, when “the thinking public” finally found its frustration-even-then beyond silence-any-longer, the now-essential “reform the MainStreamMedia” movement began.

Along with others learning about media, I attended one such very-early session --where else than on a leading university campus?

Op Ed: `Pretentious` Pundits
Pervert, Trivialize
Citizen Decisions

"Free Press"-principles reduced to recycled-rubbish, issues are ignored.

(SALEM, Ore.) - America’s most crucial citizen decisions in more than a century are being “slobbered-over and stupid-ified” by overly-pretentous “ratings-fed pundits-of-the press and broadcast-media”.

They profess portentiously-probing knowledge of national-issue significance, while burying their actual participation under tons of minor trivialities; program-time/wasting repeat-accusations; false-celebrity sayings, and the most-recent/rumors of political rape and revolt; ad nauseam.

Op Ed: `That Bull` Might
Just Get to YOU
Without Due Care NOW

Far too many Americans falling prey to racism-virus on vote.

(SALEM, Ore.) - One of my favorite stories is about a well-experienced old farmer breaking in another barn-worker. The kicker comes when he warns his younger friend: “Watch it --that bull is gonna s... right on you !”...but NOT in time!

Op Ed: Renewed Racism
Can Wreck Any
Return to Democracy

Greed-driven unwarranted myth of superiority major danger now.

(SALEM, Ore.) - It is a fact that most psychiatrists, and especially cognitive scientists, consider personal racist beliefs and attitudes as major symptoms for possible/probable psychotic problems.

Additionally, most practical practitioners, in those two very essential fields for the 21st Century, also attribute overwhelming personal denial of such attitudinal shaping of actions to the extremely strong force of modern cultural, societal, and economic impacts.

Op-Ed: Asking The Right Business Questions About High Gas Prices

It is time for organizations to seriously consider the impacts of continuing to use petroleum fuels when their competitors are starting to convert to alternative fuels.

(SAUSALITO, Calif.) - The notion of "peak oil" -- which holds that the world's production of oil is at it's all-time high this year, or within a few years -- has recently become credible in the business community.

While most everybody will agree that petroleum is a depleting resource with a limited supply, the question many now wrestle with is: "How much more oil is there left in the ground?"

Op Ed: Americans Learning That
Radical Action `The Hard Way`
Is NOW Demanded of Us ALL

Overwhelming Consequences Vs. Youth, Young Adults Motivates Millions

(BEND, Ore.) - Millions of American parents are worried sick-and-nearly silly over negative consequences they see set solidly into life-sequences now for their beloved progeny --essentially inescapable, and bound to get even worse.

These same millions are becoming mightily aroused --and angered-- when they DO begin to think-and-learn the realities they have allowed to occur in our nation through their own apathy and inattention.

Op Ed: Stupidity, Greed, Anger
Costing Nation Trillions
Destroying Democracy

"The Enemy IS Us" until we return to America’s founding principles.

(BEND, Ore.) - Pogo, that paragon of natural common-sense, must have been truly shocked to discover --that first/time !-- that "the enemy is US!"

His striking remark --uttered with deep dismay, natural remorse, and suddenly-desperate self-understanding-- instantly became an historic reflection of the world and its ways, for millions everywhere.

Op Ed: Racism `Unsustainable`
In ANY Modern Nation
For This 21st Century

Dollar-motivated hidden agenda distracts, delays, denies equality.

(BEND, Ore.) - Barack Obama’s direct, courageous and extremely sensitive and wise defiance of “political correctness” to confront and overcome “the racial bomb” in this campaign reflects the highest credit on not only his personal courage but also his professional competence as our next national leader.

There is no question about the serious, continuing damage and the potential destruction this nation faces if we allow further continuance -- and our own complicity-- in an “unsustainable” attitude-and-approach to fellow humans.

Op Ed: U.S. National Debt
$9 Trillion and Rising,
Forcing Action NOW

Two Wars or None, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid 'Unsustainable'

(BEND, Ore.) - Painful choice remains unmistakably, relentlessly, unavoidably our greatest democratic danger NOW --with OR without continuance of our wasting wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

National fiscal disaster faces us from every part of ANY rational, reasonable survey of the situation --known for decades and very carefully covered-up, with no visible conscience-pangs whatsoever-- while consciously avoided by every thinking, manipulating politician.