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Investigative Documentaries The Asheville Tribune, as the flagship News Magazine for Tribune Papers, has prided itself on it's growing reputation as an Investigative Media Source. The same attention to detail that has gone into our national features is also given toward local and state matters. Below is a sampling of a few of our national level investigations. Enjoy! The North American Union Rolls Along Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 By Mike Scruggs Buried deep in the 300-plus pages of the latest Senate Amnesty-Guestworker bill, S.1639, was a proposal to expedite the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP). The SPP is the forerunner of a North American Economic Community with no internal borders dividing the United States, Mexico, and Canada. It in turn foreshadows a North American Union (NAU) which would have many sovereign administrative and judicial powers over its three major administrative regions. Tribune Index to the Terry Stewart Saga Series of articles following the Terry Stewart Case America's Back Door Market For Aborted Fetal Tissue By David Morgan and Matthew Mittan The documentary that follows is the result of a great deal of analysis; it attempts merely to present to the reader a comprehensive understanding of exactly what is involved with fetal-tissue research. Our comprehensive report presents the facts as well as the opinions of some of those most closely involved with this issue, from all sides of the debate. We leave the moral judgments to you, our readers. Privatizing Social Security for dummies How to turn $3.00 per day into over $1 million By David Morgan Sometimes it is difficult for many of us to grasp a view of the obvious. I once had a professor of mine say: ?Any fool can take something simple and make it complicated, or take something complicated and keep it complicated.? He was right. So what we will attempt to do here is to take something really rather simple and keep it that way. Principal spurns black spokesman for Southern Heritage Valley Springs School blocks H.K. Edgerton appearance Don?t be surprised if you?re driving on Long Shoals Road next week and see H.K. Edgerton picketing Valley Springs Middle School. He?ll be easy to recognize. He?ll be the black man wearing the Confederate uniform, carrying the Confederate battle flag. He says he?ll be picketing against political correctness and the lack of free speech inside the windowless government building. The old mass media has no pants by David Morgan "Many years ago lived an emperor, who thought so much of new clothes that he spent all his money in order to obtain them; his only ambition was to be always well dressed. One day, two swindlers came to his city; they made people believe that they were weavers, and declared they could manufacture the finest cloth to be imagined. Their colors and patterns, they said, were not only exceptionally beautiful, but the clothes made of their material possessed the wonderful quality of being invisible to any man who was unfit for his office or unpardonably stupid. Hill Street Baptist Church bans Confederate-style funeral Anna Bell Edgerton, age 80, was laid to rest in Asheville, NC's historic Riverside Cemetery this Saturday in the company of more than 200 friends and supporters, but not until she and her family received a major snub from the management of Hill St. Baptist Church. Mrs. Edgerton, mother of seven, passed away Jan. 16 after a long illness. Does bin Laden have US Army medical files? Asheville, NC woman blows whistle; MedQuist denies story Could Osama bin Laden and other terrorists have access to the medical records of thousands of retired and active duty American military personnel? That's one possibility according to a story of overseas outsourcing, broken promises, corporate intimidation and massive technological failure told by Susan Purdue, a former employee of the MedQuist medical transcription company. Gettysburg College to "lynch" Confederate battle flag Avant-garde artist to demonstrate "proper way to hang" Southern flag & H.K. Edgerton marches Gettysburg, PA -- Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania last week announced hostilities will resume in the war against symbols of the South when it hosts the symbolic "lynching" of a Confederate battle flag at a specially built 13-foot high gallows on Friday, Sept. 3. The ceremony will occur on the opening night of an exhibit by Florida artist John Sims entitled "Recoloration Proclamation: The Gettysburg Redress." The announcement of the event at the Schmucker Art Gallery has stirred the passions of supporters of the Southern heritage, especially those of H.K. Edgerton, an Asheville black man who has marched across the South in support of Southern heritage. UNC-A and its "Free Speech" zone Few people seem to be aware that the University of North Carolina at Asheville (UNC-A) has what is called a "free speech" zone. Even fewer seem to be aware that the area in front of the Ramsey Library and the 'quad' is not an area that is considered a "free speech" zone. It's not even an area where calm discussions can be held, unless the University decides to look the other way. The untold dangers of public access TV How would you like to see a show called "Tranny Talk" on your local cable channel. It's a show for, by, and about transsexuals. Or maybe you'd rather see a program promoting the white race as the supreme race. Throw in Nazi Skin Heads and black racists and you might have a combination that will beat the line-up on "Must See TV." Two men, who ran a local cable issue program, believe that's what viewers will be in for if public access television comes to Asheville and Buncombe County. Chad Nesbitt and Don Yelton, hosts of the "Citizens Speak" program have no doubt that's what citizens are in for. They believe so strongly that such controversial programs will be carried on public access, that they are ready to buy billboards and plaster the names and faces of Buncombe County Commissioners who vote in favor of public access on them. Congressman Taylor testified under oath Dominant Media Cover-up? By David Morgan The attempt to defraud the Blue Ridge Savings Bank, and what the dominant media didn?t tell you Investigative Documentary "THE HAGE REPORT" Ever wonder how the U.S. collateralizes it's debt? By David Morgan and Matthew Mittan Tribune Exclusive Interview Black leader defends Confederate Flag, responds to violent attackers By Dana Davis, The Tribune Confederate Flag defender, political activist, former President of the Asheville chapter of the NAACP and 52-year-old black man, H.K. Edgerton was recently accosted by two black men while standing by his confederate flag in front of Asheville High School. Though he was appalled by the alleged violent actions of 19-year-old high school drop-out Andre Dewayne and 32-year-old Kevin Miller, he concedes, "I know and understand their pain because they've been lied to for so long. A lot of people know nothing about that time in history." In-Depth Special Report Excommunication: ... American Style Church And Sexuality Battle For Control Reflects Changes In Secular Society. Investigative Documentary "THE CONTRAILS SERIES" By Dana Davis
Investigative Documentary THE SPECTER OF JIHAD IN AMERICA Number 16 in a Series on the Middle East Crisis By Mike Scruggs for The Tribune |