Susan Boyle
An Extraordinary Ordinary Woman

Dear friends,

If you haven't heard about Susan Boyle yet, I invite you to read about this latest, very unusual Internet sensation. Susan would be the first to admit that she's a pretty ordinary woman, yet at the same time she is not. In a seven-minute video clip that brought tears of joy and gratitude to my life, Susan Boyle shines her soul in a way that is just unforgettable. You can find the video and an article I wrote on about her at the link below:

http://www.examiner.com/x-6495-National-Intelligence-Examiner~y2009m4d17-The-hottest-new-Internet-sensation-Meet-Susan-Boyle--the-extraordinary-ordinary-woman

If you go to the article about Susan above, you will see that I have begun working as a citizen reporter for the popular Internet news website examiner.com. I've been writing almost an article a day now there for three weeks. I'm very excited about this work. Not only is it a great way to spread inspiration and education far and wide, they actually pay their reporters (the call them examiners) a penny per page view, so that if they are a good writer who draws attention and interest, these examiners can actually earn a decent amount.

Many of us have felt for a long time that the old media is fading and a new, citizen-based media is gradually replacing it. Alternative news websites are growing in popularity as newspapers worldwide are losing readership, with some even closing. One of the most exciting developments is citizen-based reporting on certain online news websites like examiner.com. On these informative sites, caring citizens report the news directly without the censorship of major media editors and corporate ownership. Though examiner.com only started about two years ago, citizen-based reporting has already had a powerful influence for a number of years all over the world.

One of the first citizen-based news services, OhmyNews in South Korea, played a decisive role in the 2002 loss of the two establishment presidential candidates, and the victory of political outsider Roh Moo Hyun, who went on to serve as president of South Korea until 2008. As shown in its slogan, "Every Citizen is a Reporter," OhmyNews is a powerful example of what online citizen journalism can do. After being elected, Roh granted his first media interview to OhmyNews. You can read about this in an excellent New York Times article available here.

OhmyNews and Examiner.com are excellent examples of what I believe will become the new media, replacing the old and outmoded major media which has sadly failed to inform the public of some of the deepest, most important stories affecting our lives and world. This new media can empower caring citizens to report important news like that reported on PEERS websites which is sometimes censored by the major media. Examiner.com has a wide reach, as it is already one of the most popular websites on the Internet, ranked in the top 2,000 out of about 200 million websites now on the world wide web, and it continues to climb in the ratings.

Almost anyone with writing skill and a passion can become a citizen reporter at examiner.com. If we can get large numbers of caring, dedicated people to sign up as reporters – people who are aware of the deeper politics of our world and committed to spreading inspiration and building a brighter future – we can more easily spread the news far and wide. I invite any of you with writing skill and a passion for spreading the news to sign up and join me and many others as citizens reporters who are building a brighter future. The more who join, the more our voices will be heard far and wide.

For full disclosure, please note that I do receive $50 for each new person who signs up and puts me down as the referral source. If you have any problem with this, please don't mention me as the referrer, but do sign up, as I am not doing this for the money. Yet, I am amazed that examiner.com actually pays their reporters. As I mentioned, you receive one penny for every page view you receive on articles you write. One of my articles has already received over 4,000 visits, so I will receive $40 for those visits. Two of my friends who got me started on this are earning about $1,000/month as examiner.com reporters now.

The money is certainly nice, particularly as I've had very little income in the past five years due to volunteering most of my time and energy for PEERS. I've actually donated $25,000 of my limited retirement savings to support PEERS. Yet much more important than the income is the opportunity here to make a difference in our world. I invite you to join me in becoming a citizen reporter and help to inspire and to open people's eyes around the world to the deeper realities and to the many ways we can make a difference and build a better world. To sign up as a reporter, click here.

Whether or not you choose to become a reporter, I invite you to take a look at the articles I'm writing at examiner.com. Most people are inundated with email, so I limit emails to this list to one every two weeks. If you have time and interest, on examiner.com I'm writing articles almost once a day, though please be aware that most of them are deep political analysis about things the major media is failing to report adequately.

For those of you who have time and interest in these subjects, you might even want to subscribe to receive articles I post. I've already started a fascinating series on highly revealing information about the U.S. government's mind control programs and how they have secretly shaped significant parts of the world's political landscape. These reports are largely based on declassified documents I received directly from the CIA using the Freedom of Information Act. For the link to this particular series, click here. To subscribe to my postings, simply click on the "Subscribe to Email" link next to my photo on any page.

Thanks to powerful new technologies like the Internet and citizen-based reporting, and thanks to caring individuals who are willing to do what it takes to make a difference, the world is rapidly transforming around us. It's not always pretty, but the old hierarchical structures are breaking and crumbling as we the people build a new world which better supports all of us from the bottom up. It's a wonderful and exciting time to be alive. Thanks for playing your part, and you have a great day and month ahead.

With heartfelt love and best wishes,
Fred Burks for the inspiring and educational PEERS websites

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