The happiest guy in America

SUBHEAD: Meet Alvin Wong, a oriental, senior, self-employed, jewish, Hawaiian.By Kim Corollo on 8 March 2011 for ABC News - (http://abcnews.go.com/Health/happiest-person-america-hawaiian-alvin-wong-fits-gallup/story?id=13087258)Image above: Alvin Wong and his wife Trudy Schandler-Wong at East-West Center in Honolulu. From (http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2011/03/06/HAPPY.html). Alvin Wong

An Empire of Lies

SUBHEAD: We must demand more of our corporate media and we must desert them, as is already happening, for better sources of information.By Jonathan Cook on 28 February 2011 in Information Clearing House - (http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27583.htm)Image above: Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, a.k.a. "Curveball" now lives in Karlsruhe, Germany. From (http://www.bollyn.com/

In This Great Time of Crisis

SUBHEAD: I hate to think we’ll have to sink to the lows the Egyptians have faced before we get it and turn things around.By Lindsay Curren on 11 February 2011 in Transition Voice -(http://transitionvoice.com/2011/02/in-this-great-time-of-crisis)Image above: Still frame from "The King's Speech". From (http://suspiciouskind.blogspot.com/2010/12/kings-speech-thoughts.html).More than simply

ABC's solid Climate Change story

SUBHEAD: The forecast is looking more and more extreme!By Brian Merchant on 14 January 2011 for TreeHugger - (http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/01/abc-runs-good-story-climate-change-video.php)Image above: Still frame from opening of video below.Wha? What's this? A well-researched, well-rounded, entirely accurate story on climate change run in the mainstream media? In prime time, on a major

Gutless Corporate Media

SUBHEAD: The Fourth Estate is now inhabited with fearful pundits and supplicants working for Big Business.By Ray McGovern on 14 October 2010 for AntiWar.com - (http://original.antiwar.com/mcgovern/2010/10/13/leakers-beware-the-corporate-media)[Editor's note: Even satire of corporatism requires ad revenue. Be warned this clip may be preceded with a message from the sponsor.]Video above: New live

Resisting the Green Dragon

SUBHEAD: Religious Group Puts Out 12 DVD Series on Environmentalists' "Spiritual Deception".By Daniel Kessler on 18 December 2010 in TreeHugger.org - (http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/12/religious-grren-dragon.php)Image above: Graphic of a green dragon wrapped around a Christian cross. From (http://pictures.augustow.pl/green-dragon-picture.html).The Family Research Council's Tony Perkins, via

OpenLeaks vs WikiLeaks

SUBHEAD: Openleaks, WikiLeaks rival, to launch as break away From 'Slave Driver' Assange.Image above: Julian Assange and Daniel Domscheit-Berg in September. Photo by David Applebaum.[Editor's note: This sounds to me like a cooptation that will actually cut-out the "openess" out of the WikiLeaks phenomenon. The crucial line in this article is "the new site will differ in that it won't be

We pass 750,000 hits

SUBHEAD: Since beginning our blogspot format for Island Breath we have had posted over 2000 articles and had 750,000 hits. Mahalo.By Juan Wilson on 5 December 2010 -Image above: Rolling over 750,000 site hits and over 2000 articles.Linda Pascatore and I have been publishing the Island Breath website since January 1st 2004. Until mid 2006 we did not monitor traffic and do not know visitor counts.