Kindle Books Author Autographs

Get your Kindle e-books autographed through Kindlegraph, a fun new feature to collect authors' personalized messages to you. Simply request an autograph from participating Kindle authors. You even get an autograph e-book where your collected signatures and messages are all together.

Last Door and Iron Desire are available for this feature. Check it out, fun!

San Joaquin - SISTERS IN CRIME

My next speaking event is at the San Joaquin - Sisters In Crime meeting Sat. June 4, 2011.

I will be discussing screenwriting, adaptation and two of my completed projects: Last Door, an original screenplay (psychological thriller), based on a true story, and Mail Order Murder, adapted from the true crime book by Patricia Springer.

I will be selling and signing books at the meeting, and I am thrilled to spend the morning with this intriguing, mystery-loving, literary group.

Details: Yosemite Falls Cafe, 4278 W. Ashlan (near Fwy. 99), Fresno, CA 10:30 a.m.

$15 for SJ-SIC members/ $20 for non-members; lunch is included, and there are door prizes!

Media Manipulation

These are the 6 media companies that exist today. There used to be 88. These 6 all get their news from Reuters and the Associated Press. Reuters owns the AP and Rothschilds own Reuters.

GENERAL ELECTRIC

Television Holdings

* NBC: includes 13 stations, 28% of US households.
* NBC Network News: The Today Show, Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, Meet the Press, Dateline NBC, NBC News at Sunrise.
* CNBC business television; MSNBC 24-hour cable and Internet news service (co-owned by NBC and Microsoft); Court TV (co-owned with Time Warner), Bravo (50%), A&E (25%), History Channel (25%).

The “MS” in MSNBC means microsoft.

Other Holdings

* GE Consumer Electronics.
* GE Power Systems: produces turbines for nuclear reactors and power plants.
* GE Plastics: produces military hardware and nuclear power equipment.
* GE Transportation Systems: runs diesel and electric trains.

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WESTINGHOUSE / CBS INC.

Westinghouse Electric Company, part of the Nuclear Utilities Business Group of British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL)
who's #1 on the Board of Directors? None other than: Frank Carlucci (of the Carlyle Group)

Television Holdings

* CBS: includes 14 stations and over 200 affiliates in the US.
* CBS Network News: 60 minutes, 48 hours, CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, CBS Morning News, Up to the Minute.
* Country Music Television, The Nashville Network, 2 regional sports networks.
* Group W Satellite Communications.

Other Holdings

* Westinghouse Electric Company: provides services to the nuclear power industry.
* Westinghouse Government Environmental Services Company: disposes of nuclear and hazardous wastes. Also operates 4 government-owned nuclear power plants in the US.
* Energy Systems: provides nuclear power plant design and maintenance.

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VIACOM INTERNATIONAL INC

Television Holdings

* Paramount Television, Spelling Television, MTV, VH-1, Showtime, The Movie Channel, UPN (joint owner), Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, Sundance Channel (joint owner), Flix.
* 20 major market US stations.

Media Holdings

* Paramount Pictures, Paramount Home Video, Blockbuster Video, Famous Players Theatres, Paramount Parks.
* Simon & Schuster Publishing.

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DISNEY / ABC / CAP

Television Holdings

* ABC: includes 10 stations, 24% of US households.
* ABC Network News: Prime Time Live, Nightline, 20/20, Good Morning America.
* ESPN, Lifetime Television (50%), as well as minority holdings in A&E, History Channel and E!
* Disney Channel/Disney Television, Touchtone Television.

Media Holdings

* Miramax, Touchtone Pictures.
* Magazines: Jane, Los Angeles Magazine, W, Discover.
* 3 music labels, 11 major local newspapers.
* Hyperion book publishers.
* Infoseek Internet search engine (43%).

Other Holdings

* Sid R. Bass (major shares) crude oil and gas.
* All Disney Theme Parks, Walt Disney Cruise Lines.

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TIME-WARNER TBS ­ AOL

America Online (AOL) acquired Time Warner­the largest merger in corporate history.

Television Holdings

* CNN, HBO, Cinemax, TBS Superstation, Turner Network Television, Turner Classic Movies, Warner Brothers Television, Cartoon Network, Sega Channel, TNT, Comedy Central (50%), E! (49%), Court TV (50%).
* Largest owner of cable systems in the US with an estimated 13 million subscribers.

Media Holdings

* HBO Independent Productions, Warner Home Video, New Line Cinema, Castle Rock, Looney Tunes, Hanna-Barbera.
* Music: Atlantic, Elektra, Rhino, Sire, Warner Bros. Records, EMI, WEA, Sub Pop (distribution) = the world’s largest music company.
* 33 magazines including Time, Sports Illustrated, People, In Style, Fortune, Book of the Month Club, Entertainment Weekly, Life, DC Comics (50%), and MAD Magazine.

Other Holdings

* Sports: The Atlanta Braves, The Atlanta Hawks, World Championship Wrestling.

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NEWS CORPORATION LTD. / FOX NETWORKS (Rupert Murdoch)

Television Holdings

* Fox Television: includes 22 stations, 50% of US households.
* Fox International: extensive worldwide cable and satellite networks include British Sky Broadcasting (40%); VOX, Germany (49.9%); Canal Fox, Latin America; FOXTEL, Australia (50%); STAR TV, Asia; IskyB, India; Bahasa Programming Ltd., Indonesia (50%); and News Broadcasting, Japan (80%).
* The Golf Channel (33%).

Media Holdings

* Twentieth Century Fox, Fox Searchlight.
* 132 newspapers (113 in Australia alone) including the New York Post, the London Times and The Australian.
* 25 magazines including TV Guide and The Weekly Standard.
* HarperCollins books.

Other Holdings

* Sports: LA Dodgers, LA Kings, LA Lakers, National Rugby League.
* Ansett Australia airlines, Ansett New Zealand airlines.
* Rupert Murdoch: Board of Directors, Philip Morris (USA).

Try something different. Alternative news sites:
http://drudgereport.com/
http://foodworldorder.blogspot.com/
http://www.naturalnews.com/
http://www.prisonplanet.com/
http://www.rense.com/
http://republicbroadcasting.org/

Read An Ebook Week!

Read an ebook week is March 6 - March 12, 2011.
During this week, receive FREE copies of Last Door and Iron Desire only at Smashwords.com.
Happy E-reading!

Chemtrail Awareness Day

Sat. Jan. 22, 2011 is Chemtrail Awareness Day. Share your thoughts in the poll to the right.

http://aircrap.org/
http://www.californiaskywatch.com/

Trial By You!

Cool new site to voice your opinion about the shenanigans going on in the U.S.

http://trialbyyou.com/