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Counterpunch's Begging Campaign Underway - Remind Them Why You're Not Giving Them Any Money!

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Submitted by gretavo on Thu, 2007-11-01 14:40.

There's an 800 number below that should be posted on every truth site from here to Timbuktu...

Alexander Cockburn: The 9/11 Conspiracists and the Decline of the Left

America's Best Political Newsletter. ... What You're Missing in Our Subscriber-only CounterPunch Newsletter

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Red Alert for CounterPunchers!
Annual Fundraising Appeal

We interrupt your regular reading habits to bring you the following important announcement: CounterPunch needs your financial support!

We're not in the habit of making idle threats and this isn't one. Either we meet our fundraising goal of $70,000 over the next three weeks or we'll be forced to drastically curtail the operation of our website. It's near the end of our year and the wolves are gathering at the door.

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The continued existence of CounterPunch depends solely on the support and dedication of our readers. And we know there are a lot of you. We get thousands of emails from you every day. Our website receives nearly 100,000 visits each day-and those numbers grow by the month. Of course, all these readers chew up a lot of bandwidth and that costs money.

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Onward,
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I called in and gave them a piece of my mind

Submitted by Keenan on Thu, 2007-11-01 17:39.

I just called the fundraising 800 number and basically said the following:


"I used to subscribe to Counterpunch years ago but no longer. I have become convinced that Alex Cockburn is a disinformation agent. He refuses to tell the truth about the stolen elections and the 9/11 fraud. I will not give any more money to Counterpunch and I tell other people not to as well. Please pass this message on."

The nice woman, named Deva, asked for my name and said she would pass my message on.

I noticed in the above fundraising appeal blurb that, "CounterPunch's website is supported *almost* entirely by subscribers to the print edition of our newsletter."


Yea, and I think we can gather that the three-lettered agency's little (or is it big) source of the funding not from subscribers will not let CounterPunch fail if their subscribers don't raise enough funds, cuz the mission of CounterPunch and Alex Cockburn to derail the left and any possibility for real change in this hijacked democracy is just too important to fail.
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nice! well done.

Submitted by gretavo on Thu, 2007-11-01 22:00.

so much of the truth biz is just speaking up at every opportunity to let someone--anyone--know what you think about 9/11 ideally giving them a reason to think maybe they too should be...

examples:

checkout girl (or boy):  you're total is $9.11

you: 9/11 was an inside job.

CG (B): pardon?

you: oh nothing, just that the three towers that day were totally rigged with explosives.

CG (T): duuuhhh, did you JUST find out?

you: hey... weren't you CG (B) a second ago?

CG (T): tran.  we have three genders you know--tran is gender neutral.  it's sort of but not really between a man and a woman.

you: but you yourself areG right?

CG (T):otally--the (T) is an inclusive gesture.

you: far out.  so you're not something in between a man and a woman.

CG: well, there's a lot of room between a man and a woman.

you: too much, usually... I agree.

CG: I mean, it's good for there to be enough room for something between a man and a woman.

you: oh yes of course, something between a man and a woman is like jello--there's always room for it.

CG: I always have room for J-E-L-L-O...

you: between you and a man?

CG: no, between you and me...

a passionate kiss ensues. as does maybe something to do with jello.

 

 

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