BE INFORMED

INFORDEM08

• Information is the currency of Democracy - Thomas Jefferson - Wed, 22 Oct 2008
  This NH-based site provides access to some of the news that’s fit to post. Culled from US and UK sources, it may fill in where the often sponsored US press falls short in the substance of informed debates about the fundamental issues in this crucial election. Thomas Jefferson, in setting out on the experiment of the American democracy 200 years ago, understood well that democracy requires high regard for its constitution and a well-informed participating citizen-electorate. We need both now!
  
  Janet Collett
  
  
  
  THIS BLOG IS ORGANIZED AS A COLLECTION OF BLOGS WITHIN A BLOG WHICH FEED DIRECTLY FROM THE CHESHIRE DEMOCRATS WEBSITE:
  
  http://cheshiredemocrats.net/ > Voter Info > Be Informed
  
  This Master Blog is about the contents of each Subject Blogs together with their Blog addresses. These Sub-Blogs, like this Master Blog, are accessible through the Cheshire Democrats website. Once into the Master Blog from “Be Informed” Copy and Paste each Sub-Blog address into the Cheshire Democrats web heading to be fed into each of the sub-Blogs.
  
  THE SUB-BLOGS PROVIDE RELIABLE INFORMATION ABOUT THE MAJOR ISSUES OF THIS ELECTION TO HELP CAMPAIGNERS CAMPAIGN
  
  Each sub-Blog contains a list and brief description of recent specialist authored articles in the US and UK press together with their web addresses. These articles are chosen to provide reliable background, detail, perspective and wise analysis and commentary about local, national and world affairs related to each of the major issues and may provide antidotes to the fiction and cant of campaign claims and assertions as they are rolling out in this final week of campaigning.
  
  
  THE ISSUES TAKEN UP IN THE SUBJECT BLOGS
  (Those with web addresses are available; others are on the way.)
  
  
  THE CONDUCT OF THE ELECTION
  
  Go to: http://infordem08-electionconduct.blogspot.com/
  
  THE CANDIDATES AND THEIR CAMPAIGNS
  
  Go to: - http://infordem08-candidates.blogspot.com/
  
  ECONOMIC ISSUES: EMPLOYMENT, CAPITAL MARKETS,
  THEIR REGULATION, TAXATION, DEFICITS,
  CONSEQUENCES OF GLOBALIZATION
  
  Go to: - http://infordem08-economic.blogspot.com/
  
  GROWING POPULATIONS IN ENVIRONMENTS
  OF LIMITED RESOURCE
  
  HEALTHCARE: A RIGHT OR A PRIVILEGE?
  – WHAT COSTS AND PROFITS TO WHOM?
  
  PRE-EMPTIVE WAR AS FOREIGN POLICY:
  THE MIDDLE EAST AND WHERE IS DIPLOMACY?
  
  Go to: - http://InforDem08-middleeast.blogspot.com
  
  EDUCATION IN A CHANGING WORLD:
  - WHAT COSTS IGNORANCE?
  
  
  The hope in compiling sources is that they may facilitate well-informed choices and campaigning in this election, as in -
  
  Letters to newspapers
  Talking with friends and folks on the street
  Questioning candidates
  Participating in radio talk shows
  Countering fiction on talk shows
  Canvassing for candidates
  Pressing the media for the real news in the news
  Writing informative op ed pieces –
  Creating telling signs
  
  …ETC …
  
  
  
  In addition, some of the many interesting, amusing, provocative,
  reliable and sometimes cavalier websites worth visiting include:
  
  dailykos.com For Democrats, it offers topical information of the moment
  
  digby at http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/
  
  eschatonblog at http://www.eschatonblog.com/
  
  firedoglake at http://firedoglake.com/
  
  
  And several excellent news sites which themselves cull and make available interesting/important articles from newspapers around the world are:
  
  http: Truthout.org
  Truthout is exclusively a member-supported news service
  (It NEEDS support from readers)
  
  http: Huffingtonpost.com
  
  http://www.counterpunch.org
  Provides selected articles from other publications that must buy at source!