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Imagine: Your Own FREE Foreign News Bureau

By

Randy Garsee

Let’s face it, no matter what your position, you may feel like your budget is under attack by economic terrorists determined to silence the voice of local broadcast and print news nationwide. Budgets are hacked with mathematical machetes. Correspondents are turned to crisp with financial flamethrowers. Reporters written off. Producers pushed out. Photographers flushed into the streets.

The last thing you’re thinking about right now is how to expand your international news coverage. The idea of putting a local face on the battlefields of Iraq or Afghanistan is not even a remote consideration, right? How can you possibly pull that off in this economy?

It’s simple. You can do it and it’s free. It doesn’t matter if you need video, audio, photos or print content for Read the rest of this entry »

I reported in the Laguna Journal as syndicated worldwide in March 2008 that the United States Northern Command and the North American Aerospace Defense are charged with protecting our southern border with Mexico. That the U.S. Military was capable and ready to respond with specially trained fast response U.S. Army military units. These forces are already in place with the heart of the power being concentrated in El Paso and Southern New Mexico with a far reaching responsibility from East Texas to Southern California. See U.S. Military Being Sent to the Border with Mexico

Yet within days of that press report retiring Gen. Richard A. Cody, the Army’s vice chief of staff told Congress that the “Readiness of the army Is Dangerously Low.” In a stark assessment a week before Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, was to testify on the war’s progress, the Army Read the rest of this entry »