Newsweek gives America different cover story than the rest of the world

By Blayne Clements | October 2, 2006 |

My wife sent me a link the other day. The link was to a story about the October 2, 2006 week of Newsweek. As truthout.org states,

“Newsweek has scrubbed the cover of its United States edition for October 2, 2006. The cover of its international editions, aimed at Europe and other world regions, has maintained the original title of the story, “Losing Afghanistan.” The new cover for the United States edition features photographer Annie Leibovitz and is titled “My Life in Pictures.”

I found this infuriating and sent the following email to 30 people (it has been edited for space, if you would like the whole email just let me know): «Read the rest of this article»

Learn About CDE’s Referendum

By Bill Larson | September 12, 2006 |

The Clarksville Department of Electricity is proud to be able to meet the energy needs of our customers. For nearly 70 years, CDE has made it a point to utilize the latest in technology in order to provide our customers the best service possible. Because of the dedication of our employees and board members, and the loyalty of our customers, CDE has been able to consistently offer quality electric service at an afffordable price.

CDE now has an opportunity to enhance the service we offer to this community. «Read the rest of this article»

Inside Google: The search engine we know and love

By Bill Larson | September 9, 2006 |

Indexing the Internet is not easy. It’s something that Google however does exceedingly well. How do they do it? Find out in this interesting documentary about the worlds largest search engine. Consider this a chance to meet those faceless people who are behind the machine. «Read the rest of this article»

Charter Communications Lying to Clarksville, TN Voters on CDE Referendum.

By Bill Larson | September 7, 2006 |

What is the November CDE Referendum about?

The Clarksville Department of Electricity is planning on building a citywide fiber optical network, fiber optic connections would be extended to all homes and businesses in the city. This will allow CDE to: check meters; disconnect and reconnect services; offer custom billing packages, including picking the date for your meter to be read, “Select Billing”; monitor the power distribution grid in real time, instant outage detection, and monitor electrical quality; all from their central office. All services, which Clarksville has a need for.

CDE also proposes to offer other services to help recoup some of the expenses incurred from the building and the maintaining of this network. Services such as Telephone, Cable television, On-demand video, Video-conferencing, Community access TV channels, High speed internet, as well as other services. «Read the rest of this article»

Clarksville Online mentioned on Broadband Reports in reference to CDE’s Fibre referendum

By Bill Larson | August 23, 2006 |

We have posted several articles in reference to the CDE plan to wire every home in Clarksville with Fiber optic connections.

Clarksville will be voting in November, to authorize CDE to form a Telecommunications Authority. I encourage everyone to vote yes on the referendum.

CDE wants to build this network to enable them to read meters, turn on and off electricity for overdue customers, and real time monitoring of the local power grid all from the central office. Once installed these cables can also be used to provide cable television, on-demand video, worldwide video-conferencing, multiple community access TV channels, high speed Internet, and other services, which are not currently offered by Bellsouth or Charter Communications. «Read the rest of this article»

Montgomery County Home Sales Remain Strong In Defiance of National Trends

By Randy Worcester | July 29, 2006 |

The Leaf-Chronicle reported the national information that existing home sales were flattening and prices were cooling. Clarksville and Montgomery County are defying this trend!

Nationally, existing home sales declined 1.3 percent from May and were 8.9 percent below June 2005. The median house value was $231,000. The median is a typical market price where half of the homes sold for more and half for less. «Read the rest of this article»

High oil and gas prices, a sign of market manipulation?

By Bill Larson | July 26, 2006 |

$55,000 per minute or $7.27 billion. That what the profits for oil giant BP in their second quarter breaks down to. Profits for BP are up over 30% from last year, a record high for them in any single quarter.

In Kuwait, government financial assets have reached $166 billion, mostly due to the their record oil profits. So, they have issued plans to give each citizen of the country a gift, of approximately $690 US dollars each. Kuwait has had a surplus for each of the past seven fiscal years of more than 50 billion dollars a year. They are also headed for record revenues for this year as well. «Read the rest of this article»

Federal Income Tax, is it a Fraud?

By Blayne Clements | July 16, 2006 |

A few years back, I read an interesting book, “The Creature from Jekyll Island” by G. Edward Griffin. It is a book that reads like an investigative novel, about the history of federal or nationalized banking systems that have been tried in the United States. It argues that the federal income tax is not needed because of the hidden ‘tax’ of inflation through manipulating the currency production.

I also read a book about Andrew Jackson and his campaign to end the national banking system at the time (he succeeded actually). I suppose for a while there it was the flavor of the month in my reading. «Read the rest of this article»

The UPtown Artists’ Swap

July 11, 2006 |

The UPtown Artists’ Swap is held at The Icehouse Cafe, 118 University ave on the last Saturday evening of every month at 7PM. This event is free, all ages, and open to the public. All artists are encouraged to bring arts and crafts to buy, sell, and trade! The cafe provides tables, which are available to the artists on a first come, first serve basis. The next Swap will be held on July 29th.

For more information, please contact Brandt at (931) 220-4532. The Swap also seeks to book acoustic musicians to perform at these events (also contact Brandt to get booked).

Political art show, at the Ice House Cafe

By Debbie Boen | July 5, 2006 |

The Ice House Cafe located on University Boulevard between Michael’s Pizza and the Burrito Bungalow, is without asking for anyone’s approval, hanging political art on its walls. This is a dangerous thing in this day and age.

There will be a reception on Thursday, July 6, from 5 pm till it’s finished. «Read the rest of this article»

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