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Barad Simith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 06:17 AM
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Create pent-up demand for Downing Street Memo/Minutes using GOOGLE ALERTS
Google Alert: Downing Street Memo
http://www.google.com/alerts?hl=en&q=downing+street+memo

Google Alert: Downing Street Minutes
http://www.google.com/alerts?hl=en&q=downing+street+minutes


Create a Google Alert Enter the topic you wish to monitor.

Search terms: (if the box is empty, type in "downing street memo" or "downing street minutes")

Type: News & Web

How often: as it happens

(enter your email address)

Click the Create Alert button.


Come to think of it, this would work with other combinations of words we're not seeing enough of in the media, like impeach Bush.

Tens of thousands of these requests would have to add a significant amount of weight to this snowball.

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HeeBGBz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 06:20 AM
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1. Never thought about that
Thanks for the idea.
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unhappycamper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 06:29 AM
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2. Excellent idea, thanks!
You should also post this idea in GD.
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eShirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 06:30 AM
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3. brilliant!
I love it!
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gademocrat7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 06:46 AM
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4. Done
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pbartch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 02:45 PM
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16. I just signed up.
I use GOOGLE alerts for many topics.
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OneTwentyoNine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 06:56 AM
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5. Great idea...I signed up BUMP!
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whistle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 07:04 AM
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6. Done, for all three.......
...thanks for the suggestion! Brilliant minds of DU!
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whistle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 08:10 AM
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8. Just got my first feedback....
<snip>
Google Alert for: downing street memo
Timid media overlook Downing Street Memo
The Argus - Fremont,CA,USA
... Either way, it had much to answer for, but the media was not asking. The motivation for the invasion has resurfaced with the Downing Street Memo. ...
See all stories on this topic

Let's Hear More About Downing Street Memo
TheDay (subscription) - New London,CT,USA
This is a request to The Day and to the rest of the mainstream media to report on the Downing Street memo, the leaked classified document that seems to have ...
See all stories on this topic

Michael Kinsley chokes on the Downing Street Memo
BTC News - USA
... LA Times today that you were dragged kicking and screaming to your desk and forced by "200 emails from strangers" to write about the Downing Street Memo. ...
See all stories on this topic

Downing Street Memo Hits the Press
Outside the Beltway - VA,USA
The mainstream press is suddenly all over the so-called Downing Street Memo, which purports to show that the Bush Administration was hell bent on war with Iraq ...


Downing Street memo's route to paper
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - MN,USA
The US media, as a whole, have been in slow motion reacting to the Downing Street memo, a highly classified report the London Times published May 1. ...


Downing Street Memo proves invasion wasn't 'last resort' ...
Collective Bellaciao - Paris,France
The Downing Street Memo proves that invasion of Iraq wasn't the 'last resort' but Bush's intent all along, leading to cooked intelligence and other ...


Conyers To Hold Democratic Hearing On 'Downing Street Memo'
OfficialWire - New York,NY,USA
... and will further investigate the Administration's actions in the lead up to war with new documents that further corroborate the Downing Street memo. ...


Downing Street Memo: Case for Impeachment Builds
Scoop.co.nz (press release) - New Zealand
We take a look at the so-called "Downing Street Memo" which reveals how the former director of the British intelligence agency, MI6, told Prime Minister Tony ...


Downing Street Memo Shadows Blair Visit with Bush
Scoop.co.nz (press release) - New Zealand
... in Washington, the chairman of the Republican National Committee faced questioning on NBC's "Meet the Press" about the festering Downing Street Memo scandal. ...


The Downing Street Memo Reveals Blood on the Hands of Our ...
uruknet.info - Italy
... In what can only be described as beyond fluff, Matthews paid lip service to the recently exposed, "Downing Street Memo", by asking her to comment on the ...
See all stories on this topic
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whistle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 12:50 PM
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12. Just got my second feedback
<snip>
Google Alert for: downing street minutes

Downing Street Minutes: Brits & Yanks Want Answers
American Chronicle - Beverly Hills,CA,USA
... and AfterDowningStreet.org, in the United States, are working together to demand answers to the questions raised by the Downing Street Minutes and related ...
See all stories on this topic

DOWNING STREET DOCUMENTS -- Ten Briefcases Full
uruknet.info - Italy
... We had the "Downing Street Minutes" all right. And we had a BBC transcript from March 20, 2005 that included the minutes, and several memos... ...
See all stories on this topic

Downing Street minutes that lasted for months
Times Online - UK
... The memo is not actually a memo, but the minutes of a top-secret meeting in Downing Street on July 23, 2002, when Tony Blair gathered senior ministers and ...


House Judiciary Democrats to hold hearings on Downing Street ...
Raw Story - Cambridge,MA,USA
... "None of the documents are as earth-shattering as the Downing Street minutes but all of them corroborate the accuracy of what it says.". ...


GOP Chair At Loss By Downing Street Minutes
American Chronicle - Beverly Hills,CA,USA
By David Swanson. On June 5, 2005, Ken Mehlman, Chairman of the Republican Party, was asked about the Downing Street Minutes on "NBC News' Meet the Press.". ...


John Kerry wimps out on bringing up Downing Street Minutes/Memo ...
Collective Bellaciao - Paris,France
... RAW STORY has confirmed that Kerry intends to deliver a statement on the Downing Street minutes. Any detail beyond that, however, is up in the air. ...


Timid media overlook Downing Street Memo
The Argus - Fremont,CA,USA
... The motivation for the invasion has resurfaced with the Downing Street Memo. The memo, minutes of a July 2, 2002, meeting between British Prime Minister Tony ...
See all stories on this topic

After Downing Street
AlterNet - San Francisco,CA,USA
... That's what the leaked secret British intelligence document now known as the Downing Street Minutes tells us from back in time to July of 2002, before ...


Media Black Out Downing Street Minutes
Collective Bellaciao - Paris,France
Aggressive followers and participants in US politics often have strong opinions about the Downing Street Minutes. Most other Americans ...


Media Black Out Downing Street Minutes
OpEdNews - USA
By David Swanson. Aggressive followers and participants in US politics often have strong opinions about the Downing Street Minutes. ...
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whistle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 12:52 PM
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13. Just got my third feedback....
Snip>
Google Alert for: impeach Bush

On the "to do" list for Democrats: Impeach Bush
Enter Stage Right - Sudbury,Ontario,Canada
By Vincent Fiore. Having lost badly in this new century's elections, Democrats are now sounding the alarm for impeachment proceedings against President Bush. ...


The Jig Is Up: IMPEACH BUSH and CHENEY FOR VIOLATING the ...
Collective Bellaciao - Paris,France
... 2000 elections under the suspicion of fraud, George W. Bush and Richard B ... American people, through the representatives of the Congress, to impeach the President ...
See all stories on this topic

Green Party: Impeach Bush Now!
uruknet.info - Italy
WASHINGTON -- June 9 - Green leaders reiterated the party's July 2003 call for impeachment of Bush, and called on all Americans outraged by the Bush ...


On the 'To Do' List for Democrats: Impeach Bush
ChronWatch - Alamo,CA,USA
Having lost badly in this new century's elections, Democrats are now sounding the alarm for impeachment proceedings against President Bush. ...


Gary Steven Corseri: 25 Reasons to Impeach Bush
Palestine Chronicle
"If the founders had had their own government, Jefferson would have framed an impeachment bill..". By Gary Steven Corseri. Among other ...


Let's Impeach Bush
The Conservative Voice - USA
... BS. (It doesn't actually BOTHER you people that you have to BULLSH*T every time you attempt to defend the Bush Administration????). ...


Let's Impeach Bush
TheRealityCheck.Org - Shelton,CT,USA
It seems that their big beef was that a supposedly new memo fingers Bush for plotting Iraq strategy with the British, with full knowledge that Hussein had no ...


Nader: Impeach Bush!
Questions and Observations - USA
If this is answered affirmatively Bush and Cheney have committed ''high crimes and misdemeanors." It is time for Congress to investigate the illegal Iraq war ...


Downing Street Memo proves invasion wasn't 'last resort' ...
Collective Bellaciao - Paris,France
Green Party: Impeach Bush Now! The Downing Street Memo proves that invasion of Iraq wasn't the 'last resort' but Bush's ...


British War Memo Evidence Enough To Impeach Bush
VDARE.com - Warrenton,Virginia,USA
... likely to stay destroyed, because at this point the only way to restore America's reputation would be to impeach and convict President Bush for intentionally ...
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Alpharetta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 08:01 AM
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7. A nice thought, but ....

Google is adept at detecting attempts to influence their rankings.
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info being Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 09:25 AM
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9. Or use a DUer's similar service: Infobeing.net Alerts
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unhappycamper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 12:25 PM
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10. Kick to keep a good idea visible.
It makes a lot of sense to request updates through Google news. Keep in mind that these guys post news that folks want to see. If you don't tell them what you want to see, other folks will.

:kick:
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Spazito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 12:46 PM
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11. Done and Thanks for great idea!
*
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MelissaB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 02:28 PM
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14. Done!
:kick:
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ElectroPrincess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 02:37 PM
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15. Done! Great idea :-) /eom
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 03:22 PM
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17. Done! and thanks! nt
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Alizaryn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 03:54 PM
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18. Great idea!
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Douglas Carpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 03:59 PM
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19. Fantastic Idea
:bounce:





Just a reminder of some very, very important links:



To sign Congressman Conyers’ letter



http://www.johnconyers.campaignoffice.com





To put and keep pressure on the Mainstream Media:



http://www.downingstreetmemo.com/takeaction.html#awaken





http://www.afterdowningstreet.org





C-SPAN Ask--them to cover the Hearing on Thursday, 16 June:



events@c-span.org





Peace

O8)



Here is my standard letter to the Media:





Dear Sir/Madam:



As you know, on May 1 of this year a document now commonly referred to as “|The Downing Street Memo” was released into the British Press. This document raises serious question about how the administration was handling intelligence related to Iraq and appears to suggest that the Bush Administration had already decided on war when publicly it was claiming that no such decision had been made. Now further documents have been released in the British media which cast even further doubts.



These documents and other documents suggest that the Bush administration was determined to “fix intelligence” around a predetermined policy. Some of these documents make it clear that the administration had no credible plan for dealing with the post-war occupation.



It is most disturbing that there has been a virtual media blackout regarding “The Downing Street Minutes” and other disturbing documents.



Even more disturbing is the absence in the America media of any credible in-depth follow-up discussion or coverage regarding strong, credible and independent evidence that the Bush Administration intentionally mislead the U.S. Congress, the media and the American people.



I do hope you will accept the responsibility to address this issue and provide serious investigative journalism into this matter.



Furthermore, on Thursday June 16, 2005, Rep. John Conyers, Jr., ranking minority member of the House Judiciary Committee, and other House members will hold a hearing to consider testimony concerning the Downing Street minutes and questions of possible fixing of prewar intelligence. I do hope you will be giving full coverage to these events.



Sincerely,
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Shallah Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 07:19 PM
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20. You can do this with Yahoo as well
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OneTwentyoNine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-05 07:13 AM
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21. BUMP this again...I received an Email from Google today on DSM...
Everyone needs to sign up for this,it increases the "hits" on the DSM that Google will have to email out for those who sign up.

Do it today....
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