tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-301708502024-02-03T06:44:20.499-08:00War Is Hell!"You don’t know the horrible aspects of war. I’ve been through two wars and I know. I’ve seen cities and homes in ashes. I’ve seen thousands of men lying on the ground, their dead faces looking up at the skies. I tell you, war is hell!’ The reporters had missed the biggest story of the day. Brown, seated alongside Sherman, wrote down the speech verbatim." The Enquirer and News (Battle Creek) 18 November, 1933.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger457125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30170850.post-74948548718553169232010-09-11T00:03:00.000-07:002010-09-11T00:03:00.411-07:00While My Guitar Gently Weeps<object style="background-image:url(http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/0ITrQXES8kU/hqdefault.jpg)" width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0ITrQXES8kU?fs=1&hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0ITrQXES8kU?fs=1&hl=en_US" width="425" height="344" allowscriptaccess="never" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30170850.post-66068753207547905252010-09-10T23:58:00.000-07:002010-09-10T23:58:48.506-07:00Eric Clapton & Friends - White Room<object style="background-image:url(http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/rvnWuOjJDh4/hqdefault.jpg)" width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/rvnWuOjJDh4?fs=1&hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/rvnWuOjJDh4?fs=1&hl=en_US" width="425" height="344" allowscriptaccess="never" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30170850.post-56803510964296982442010-09-10T23:52:00.000-07:002010-09-10T23:52:31.259-07:00Cream - Sunshine Of Your Love (Live 1968)<object style="background-image:url(http://i2.ytimg.com/vi/eCJAqE_5WDI/hqdefault.jpg)" width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/eCJAqE_5WDI?fs=1&hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/eCJAqE_5WDI?fs=1&hl=en_US" width="425" height="344" allowscriptaccess="never" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30170850.post-22134969222622996742010-09-10T23:45:00.000-07:002010-09-10T23:45:28.310-07:00Cream - Tales of Brave Ulysses LIVE!<object style="background-image:url(http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/BwJkY1KC9eM/hqdefault.jpg)" width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/BwJkY1KC9eM?fs=1&hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/BwJkY1KC9eM?fs=1&hl=en_US" width="425" height="344" allowscriptaccess="never" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30170850.post-15505896958235714752010-09-09T08:35:00.000-07:002010-09-09T08:36:10.217-07:00YouTube - The Emperor's Clothes (Invincible)<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MepX0PcjzfA&feature=player_embedded#!">YouTube - The Emperor's Clothes (Invincible)</a><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">The Emperor's Clothes (Detroit, San Francisco, Palestine, 4 mins)<br />Directed by Maha Bazzy and Wesley Taylor<br />Score by K-Salaam and Beatnick<br />Footage by Vanessa Huang and Al Jazeera Creative Commons Depository<br />Poster artwork by Melanie Cervantes, Faviana Rodriguez, and Jesus Barraza<br />Produced by EMERGENCE<br /><br /><a href="http://emergencetravel.net/" target="_blank" title="http://emergencetravel.net/" rel="nofollow" dir="ltr" class="yt-uix-redirect-link" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 51, 204); text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">http://emergencetravel.net/</a><br /><a href="http://emergencemusic.net/" target="_blank" title="http://emergencemusic.net/" rel="nofollow" dir="ltr" class="yt-uix-redirect-link" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 51, 204); text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">http://emergencemusic.net/</a><br /><br />In January 2009, Israel launched an assault on the Gaza Strip, causing massive damage to civilian infrastructure, killing more than 1,300 Palestinians and wounding 5,300. Israel has held Gaza under siege, controlling the borders, air and water space, preventing even the most basic humanitarian goods from entering.<br /><br />The Emperors Clothes is a call to action. One of the most effective strategies we can pursue right now is boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaigns (<a href="http://bdsmovement.net/)" target="_blank" title="http://bdsmovement.net/)" rel="nofollow" dir="ltr" class="yt-uix-redirect-link" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 51, 204); text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">http://bdsmovement.net/)</a>against Israel, as we demand an end to Israel's 60-plus years of occupation and war on Palestinian life.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30170850.post-17344761012506732352010-09-07T21:07:00.000-07:002010-09-07T21:09:48.666-07:00Viddler.com - Collapse ! Part One - Uploaded by josephwouk<a href="http://www.viddler.com/explore/josephwouk/videos/52/">Viddler.com - Collapse ! Part One - Uploaded by josephwouk</a> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><b>I have no way of assuring you that the bleak version of the future outlined by Michael Ruppert in Chris Smith's "Collapse" is accurate. I can only tell you I have a pretty good built-in B.S. detector, and its needle never bounced off zero while I watched this film. There is controversy over Ruppert, and he has many critics. But one simple fact at the center of his argument is obviously true, and it terrifies me.</b></span> http://collapsenet.com/Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30170850.post-78615207719527197442010-09-05T15:55:00.000-07:002010-09-05T15:55:27.493-07:00Movie Review: NFLer and U.S. Army Soldier Pat Tillman's Real Story Told - Salem-News.Com<a href="http://www.salem-news.com/articles/september022010/tillman-movie-ma.php">Movie Review: NFLer and U.S. Army Soldier Pat Tillman's Real Story Told - Salem-News.Com</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30170850.post-2048022985134085892010-09-05T15:54:00.000-07:002010-09-05T15:54:43.358-07:00The Tillman Story Sets the Record Straight - Page 1 - Movies - New York - Village Voice<a href="http://www.villagevoice.com/2010-08-18/film/the-tillman-story-sets-the-record-straight/">The Tillman Story Sets the Record Straight - Page 1 - Movies - New York - Village Voice</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30170850.post-30873581340464463712010-05-05T14:16:00.000-07:002010-05-05T14:16:31.827-07:00t r u t h o u t | Slick Operator: The BP I've Known Too Well<a href="http://www.truthout.org/slick-operator-the-bp-ive-known-too-well59178">t r u t h o u t | Slick Operator: The BP I've Known Too Well</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30170850.post-53687130168243691742009-11-13T11:37:00.000-08:002009-11-13T11:39:03.811-08:00Afghan Peace Activist Malalai Joya Speaks on “Crisis and Resistance”Malalai Joya is one of Afghanistan’s leading democracy activists. In 2005, she became the youngest person ever elected to the Afghan parliament. She was suspended in 2007 for her denunciation of warlords and their cronies in government. She has just written her memoir, “A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Woman Who Dared to Speak Out.”<br /><br />She spoke in New York at the Northeast Socialist Conference on October 23, 2009.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30170850.post-53076639760983537112009-09-16T16:10:00.000-07:002009-09-16T16:11:43.094-07:00"Hey there,<br /><br />Have you seen the media reports that the crazy hecklers who equate insurance reform with Socialism and death panels and call our first African-American president all kinds of names are getting their way by killing the public option? Well that's not the whole story.<br /><br />The public option is alive and well with the support of over 70% of Americans, powerful members of the House and tons of opinion leaders. The only place the public option is in danger, is in the US Senate.<br /><br />I just told my Senators that reform won't wait for the crazy people - and that they should get behind the Public Option and real healthcare reform or get out of the way. Can you do the same thing?<br /><br />This website makes it really easy:<br /><a href="http://act.truemajorityaction.org/t/120/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=35">http://act.truemajorityaction.org/t/120/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=35</a>"Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30170850.post-78131254033566102492009-09-16T15:21:00.000-07:002009-09-16T15:21:19.045-07:00The VoiceAmerica™ Talk Radio Network - VoiceAmerica Variety<a href="http://www.modavox.com/voiceamerica/vchannel.aspx?cid=246">The VoiceAmerica™ Talk Radio Network - VoiceAmerica Variety</a>: "Waking Up in America<br />Go beyond rhetoric and tune into America’s premiere experts; scientists, athletes, celebrities and world leaders in public and spiritual realms as they discuss the issues of today. A veteran interviewer, Dr. Kirkgaard brings you knowledgeable, entertaining and unpredictable guests like Deepak Chopra, Jean Houston, John Denver and US Ambassador for Nuclear Disarmament Thomas Graham. No matter what happens, Dr. Kirkgaard keeps her cool and shows you a side of her guests that you've never <a href="http://www.modavox.com/voiceamerica/vshow.aspx?sid=685">More </a>»"Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30170850.post-58961807877691900522008-08-01T20:14:00.000-07:002008-08-01T20:16:04.042-07:00Hearing on Limits of Executive Power: Vincent Bugliosi<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GDAFozFn4kU&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/GDAFozFn4kU&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30170850.post-80217312689714721142008-07-31T22:38:00.000-07:002008-07-31T22:43:12.510-07:00Impeach Bush For Peace » Feedburner<a href="http://impeachforpeace.org/impeach_bush_blog/?cat=69">Impeach Bush For Peace » Feedburner</a><br />Watch it <a href="http://www.blogger.com/GOP%20Rep.%20Walter%20Jones%20Not%20Opposed%20to%20Using%20Inherent%20Contempt%20against%20Rove">HERE</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30170850.post-61569707879025629362008-04-05T04:41:00.000-07:002008-04-05T04:43:18.254-07:00Rep. Wexler responds to AG's refusal to enforce contempt<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0OY0HQM0fT0&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0OY0HQM0fT0&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30170850.post-13118322291271618482008-03-19T02:09:00.000-07:002008-03-21T17:01:33.172-07:00How Many Child Prostitutes Is Bush Responsible for?<span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;">How Many Child Prostitutes Is Bush Responsible for?</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.alternet.org/authors/8980/"><span style="font-size:85%;">By Bob Fertik</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><a href="http://www.democrats.com/"><span style="font-size:85%;">Democrats.com</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;">. Posted </span><a title="View all stories published on March 18, 2008" href="http://www.alternet.org/ts/archives/?date[F]=03&date[Y]=2008&date[d]=18&act=Go/"><span style="font-size:85%;">March 18, 2008</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;">.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">March 18, 2008 George Bush has been tied to a prostitution ring involving as many as 50,000 women and girls. The prostitutes, some as young as 13, are among the 1.2 million desperate Iraqis who fled to Syria after Bush's invasion of Iraq in 2003, </span><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/50000-iraqi-refugees-forced-into-prostitution-454424.html"><span style="font-family:arial;">according to the U.K. Independent</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;">.<br />Bush's invasion destroyed the Iraqi government and unleashed a wave of political and sectarian violence that has killed over 1 million Iraqis and forced 4 million to become refugees, according to the UN.<br />Facing starvation, as many as 50,000 women and girls have been forced into prostitution in Syria alone, according to Hana Ibrahim of the Women's Will Association.<br />"70 percent to 80 percent of the girls working this business in Damascus today are Iraqis," 23-year-old Abeer told the New York Times. "The rents here in Syria are too expensive for their families. If they go back to Iraq they'll be slaughtered, and this is the only work available."<br />According to the Times, "inexpensive Iraqi prostitutes have helped to make Syria a popular destination for sex tourists from wealthier countries in the Middle East. In the club's parking lot, nearly half of the cars had Saudi license plates."<br />Driving women and girls into prostitution violates numerous human rights agreements, including the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children. George Bush himself denounced sex trafficking at the United Nations in 2003.<br />Bush's invasion of a country that posed no threat to the U.S. was illegal under both U.S. and international law, according to legal experts. Bush has been convicted of war crimes by citizen tribunals around the world, including New York, Paris, Tokyo, and Istanbul. Just las week, the towns of Brattleboro and Marlboro Vermont voted to indict and arrest Bush and Cheney.<br />In 2002 and 2003, Bush led a propaganda campaign to defraud Congress, the American people, and key allies into believing Iraq was a threat. Bush claimed Iraq had stockpiles of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons to use against the U.S., and was sharing them with Al Qaeda.<br />Speaking near Rochester NY, Bush later admitted, "See in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."<br />According to a recent study by the Center for Public Integrity, top Bush Administration officials told at least 935 lies about Iraq on 532 separate occasions. These included 259 lies by Bush, 254 lies by Secretary of State Colin Powell, 109 lies by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, 109 lies by Press Secretary Ari Fleischer, 56 lies by National Security Advisor Condi Rice, and 48 lies by Vice President Cheney.<br />The lies about Iraqi WMD's were manufactured by the White House Iraq Group (WHIG), which included the most senior White House staff: White House Chief of Staff Andy Card, Condi Rice, Stephen Hadley, Karen Hughes, Mary Matalin, Jim Wilkinson, Nick Calio, Michael Gerson, and Vice President Cheney's Chief of Staff, Scooter Libby.<br />After the invasion, 1,400 experts in the Iraq Survey Group scoured Iraq for WMD's but found none. Charles Duelfer wrote the ISG's final report in September 2004 and concluded Iraq ended its WMD program in 1991.<br />This publicly confirmed what the CIA had privately known since 1995, when Saddam Hussein's son-in-law, Gen. Hussein Kamel, defected to Jordan and told the CIA he had personally overseen the complete destruction of Iraq's WMD after 1991 Gulf War.<br />In May 2005, the Times of London published the "Downing Street Memo " which revealed Bush's pre-war intelligence was a deliberate fraud, according to Sir Richard Dearlove, head of Britain's MI6 spy agency, who met with George Tenet in July 2002. "The intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy" of invading Iraq, Dearlove told a secret meeting of Tony Blair's war cabinet on July 23, 2002, eight months before Bush invaded Iraq.<br />This publication of the "Downing Street Memo" led to widespread calls for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney. John Conyers and other Democrats held preliminary impeachment hearings in the basement of the Capitol on June 16, 2005. In 2006, Conyers published his explosive findings in "George W. Bush Versus the U.S. Constitution: The Downing Street Memos and Deception, Manipulation, Torture, Retribution, Coverups in the Iraq War and Illegal Domestic Spying."<br />In 2007, Rep. Dennis Kucinich introduced three Articles of Impeachment against Dick Cheney for his role in the Iraq War lies. Kucinich's bill, H.Res. 333, has 26 co-sponsors.<br /></span><a href="http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/79770/?page=entire"><span style="font-family:arial;">more:</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span><a href="http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/79770/?page=entire" target="_new"><span style="font-family:arial;">www.alternet.org/waroniraq/79770/?page=entire</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span></span></span></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30170850.post-48012597836511992982008-03-15T05:20:00.000-07:002008-03-15T05:32:38.399-07:00Democracy Now! | Winter Soldier: Hundreds of Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan Gather to Testify in Echo of 1971 Vietnam Hearings<a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2008/3/14/hundreds_of_veterans_of_iraq_and">Democracy Now! Winter Soldier: Hundreds of Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan Gather to Testify in Echo of 1971 Vietnam Hearings</a>: "Winter Soldier: Hundreds of Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan Gather to Testify in Echo of 1971 Vietnam Hearings"<br />Hundreds of veterans and active-duty soldiers of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are gathering today for the Winter Soldier hearings. The soldiers plan to give eyewitness accounts of the occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Organized by Iraq Veterans Against the War, the gathering is modeled after the 1971 Winter Solider hearings organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. [<a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2008/3/14/hundreds_of_veterans_of_iraq_and">includes rush transcript</a>]Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30170850.post-4969642409036045502008-02-29T18:08:00.000-08:002008-02-29T18:12:47.867-08:00Why Dennis Kucinich Still Matters - AlterNet: Election 2008<a href="http://www.alternet.org/election08/78156/">Why Dennis Kucinich Still Matters - AlterNet: Election 2008</a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">By </span><a title="View all stories by Deborah Emin" href="http://www.alternet.org/authors/9116/"><span style="font-size:85%;">Deborah Emin</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;">, </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/"><span style="font-size:85%;">Huffington Post</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;">. Posted </span><a title="View all stories published on February 29, 2008" href="http://www.alternet.org/ts/archives/?date[F]=02&date[Y]=2008&date[d]=29&act=Go/"><span style="font-size:85%;">February 29, 2008</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;">.<br /></span><br /><strong>Dennis Kucinich does not treat politics like a popularity contest. He is a voice for the people and ideas that we need to repair this country</strong><br /><br />Several months ago I wrote an article that appeared on the Huffington Post called "<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deborah-emin/why-not-dennis_b_52317.html" linkindex="27">Why Not Dennis?</a>" and received an email from his campaign staff to thank me for the posting and for the sentiments expressed in the article. They also offered me work and I took it, gladly.<br />Now after spending several months thinking about and writing about the things that Kucinich ran on, we are looking at the choice we are left with between Tweedle-Dum and Tweedle-Dee in the Democratic twosome ready and able, they assure us, to get to work on the first day in office. Well, I sure hope so or else why bother even getting into the race? I listened on the radio to their debate from Cleveland last night, the home of Dennis and Elizabeth Kucinich and where an awful fight is going on in the primary for Dennis' seat in Congress. He is up against a man who doesn't live in his district and is supported by the same moneyed interests that have always been opposed to Dennis because of his stand against them. Fair is fair, if you are not with us you are against us. But there are reasons on both sides and what gets lost in all these debates are the reasons for things.<br />While Hillary and Barack were going after each other about the ways in which they had campaigned against each other, one of the comments Barack made struck me. While defending his campaign's use of a smear against Hillary in his campaign literature, he said that this is the way he has learned things are done in a campaign and therefore it was okay for him to do it too. Oh really? Is that so? First of all, that no one called him on this blatantly disingenuous statement and that he is just given this free pass to say the most insipid things as if he had come here from Mars and never been involved in politics before this run for the presidency is just a laugh we should all share together because we can.<br /><a href="http://www.alternet.org/election08/78156/">read more</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30170850.post-60829716572235444332008-02-09T17:38:00.000-08:002008-02-09T17:38:13.009-08:00JOIN WEXLER"S CALL FOR CHENEY HEARINGS<a href="http://wexlerwantshearings.com/">JOIN WEXLER"S CALL FOR CHENEY HEARINGS</a><br /><br />The charges are too serious to ignore. There is credible evidence that the Vice President abused the power of his office, and not only brought us into an unneccesary war but violated the civil liberties and privacy of American citizens. It is the constitutional duty of Congress to hold impeachment hearings.<br /><a href="http://wexlerwantshearings.com/">CLICK HERE to watch the Video</a> and Join!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30170850.post-75913104742786372612008-02-09T17:22:00.000-08:002008-02-09T17:24:22.762-08:00Randi Rhodes interview of Wexler regarding WexlerWantsHearings.com<a href="http://www.blogger.com/Randi%20Rhodes%20interview%20of%20Wexler%20regarding%20WexlerWantsHearings.com">Randi Rhodes interview of Wexler regarding WexlerWantsHearings.com<br /></a><br />Randi Rhodes interview of Wexler regarding WexlerWantsHearings.com<br />as well as the op-ed, and the media (non)response<br /><br />Congressman Wexler spoke with Randi Rhodes Friday, December 14, on Air America Radio. Thank you to Randi and her producers for having Robert on.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/Randi%20Rhodes%20interview%20of%20Wexler%20regarding%20WexlerWantsHearings.com">CLICK HERE to listen</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30170850.post-37406161860287136162008-02-04T11:11:00.001-08:002008-02-04T11:11:42.825-08:00<object width="425" height="373"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gq0kIyrX03Q&rel=1&border=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gq0kIyrX03Q&rel=1&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="373"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30170850.post-66427823578591992352008-01-31T05:10:00.000-08:002008-01-31T05:12:21.268-08:00HAVE A COOKIE<a href="http://www.truemajorityaction.com/oreos/"><img src="http://www.truemajorityaction.com/images/oreocartoon_270x170.gif" border="0" /><br /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30170850.post-13538322247140083592008-01-29T19:38:00.000-08:002008-01-29T19:44:39.065-08:00Kucinich2008<span>Battling big media to be heard in the debates. Breaking the silence on Democracy Now! Fighting for ballot access in Texas with a little help from music legend Willie Nelson. All that and an interview with Academy Award-nominee James Cromwell in this week's Kucinich Campaign Update -- your first source for news and information about Dennis Kucinich's race to the White House!<br /><br />Help us fight Censorship and win the fight against Corporate controlled media, pass this video on to friends and family!<br />Click Favorite and Add us to your playlist. Together, we can make our own media and get Dennis Kucinich's message of not-for-profit healthcare, an immediate end to the Iraq War, ending U.S. involvement in NAFTA and the WTO, fixing the disasterous U.S. economy and banning Torture in all of it's forms.<br /><br />Together, we can make a difference!<br /><br />Kucinich for President, we will overcome!<br /> </span><span></span><br /><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GNXP1djL27A&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/GNXP1djL27A&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30170850.post-65572189815443557152008-01-29T01:06:00.000-08:002008-01-29T01:09:39.225-08:00Wexler delivers names to CongressFormally calls for impeachment hearings.<br /><p>Last night, Congressman Wexler took the House floor, calling for hearings on Rep. Kucinich's Articles of Impeachment for Vice President Dick Cheney.</p> <p>To watch the video, please click play on the player below.</p><object width="425" height="373"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/3VRRtTA41hg&rel=1&border=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/3VRRtTA41hg&rel=1&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="373"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30170850.post-87992375659155144122008-01-28T02:56:00.000-08:002008-01-28T02:59:36.066-08:00The murdering of the Kucinich campaign<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td><span class="article_text"> <span class="article_title">The murdering of the Kucinich campaign</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">By Jack Balkwill<br /></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: black;">Online Journal Contributing Writer<br /><br /></span><br /> Jan 28, 2008, 00:48<br /><br /> </span> </td> <td align="right" valign="top"> <span class="article_text"> <a href="mailto:?subject=The%20murdering%20of%20the%20Kucinich%20campaign&body=http%3A%2F%2Fonlinejournal.com%2Fartman%2Fpublish%2Farticle_2886.shtml">Email this article</a><br /> <a href="http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/printer_2886.shtml">Printer friendly page</a><br /> </span> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <span class="article_text"> <p class="MsoNormal">The Dennis Kucinich campaign was destroyed by the corporate media for trying to represent the public interest.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">At the start of his campaign, corporate media did not cover Kucinich because he refused to take the bribes. The transnational investors who own corporate media, or represent its interests on corporate boards, or advertise in it for control, do not trust anyone to be president who does not <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://members.cox.net/luvsite/Bribes.htm"><span style="">take the bribes</span></a>.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">So at the start of our modern presidential campaigns, all of the talk is about who raised the most cash from transnational investors who don’t give a damn about this country or its people.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Next, corporate media cited the lack of campaign funding for Kucinich as the reason they did not cover him. “Hillary has more money from the nuclear mafia and Medical industrial complex than any other candidate” they recognized, “so we have to give her tens of millions of dollars of free coverage.” Same for all of the corporate CEOs; Clinton, Edwards, Obama.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">All that free publicity for the CEOs moved their polling numbers up until, <i>voila</i><i style="">,</i> corporate media could exclude Kucinich because he was not as well known. Finally, they simply refused to let him into the debates.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">When Kucinich was allowed into debates and got brief chances to speak, the audiences went wild. It was a rare time when a candidate spoke to their issues, the public interest. This forced other Democrats to move toward Kucinich positions, at least in rhetoric, to win audience share.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Polling tells us that most Americans want cuts to that which euphemistically passes for “defense” spending, a withdrawal of our troops from Iraq, and a single-payer health care plan, as Kucinich advocates. The CEOs are all on the other side of these and many other of Kucinich’s issues, the only viewpoint corporate media allow.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">So they had to kill the campaign from fear of a second opinion rising up to smite them with an outbreak of democracy. Ironically, on the day he announced, all of the mass media broadcast that he withdrew from the race. These are the same corporate media outlets which rarely let a whisper of his existence be known prior to this, except for an occasional slur from one of their talking heads.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">It is probably best for Dennis that he does this. Corporate media had so blacked out the campaign anyhow that he was no longer influencing the message of CEOs Clinton, Edwards and Obama. More importantly, his Ohio congressional seat is being challenged and he needs to spend time working to keep the seat in order to provide a rare progressive voice in Congress.</span><span style=""><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">The whole election process is rigged against the public interest in every important way. As an old man,<a name="Editing"></a> I have watched this happen, with great frustration, for decades, feeling helpless.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">When Kucinich declared his candidacy, I noticed attacks on him from everywhere, including the left, so I wrote a piece supporting him and published it at <i><a href="http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1523.shtml">Online Journal</a></i>, showing why it might be a good idea to send the campaign a few bucks.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">Dennis’s wife Elizabeth posted the article on her web site, and I remember feeling that it was pathetic that the campaign couldn’t get help from someone more famous than a guy who has a name nobody can pronounce or spell.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">In the piece I said it was important to have a candidate to bite at the heels of those promoted by corporate media as the frontrunners. He would force the frontrunners to accept his positions or lose the audiences, and Dennis did this so well that corporate media finally took him entirely out of the debates for fear the CEOs might consider exchanging corporate interests for public interests.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">The American people don’t know what they’ve lost, because most are watching sitcoms as directed, zombie-like, learning from corporate news media that they should want a candidate who is for “change,” without any details of what this means.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">Now that Kucinich is gone, platform particulars are unimportant. The CEO peace programs are Orwellian war programs, their health care is run lock stock and barrel by the same corporations that will run Republican health care, and they may drown in the campaign contributions they are given to toe the line.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">The Kucinich campaign was a diamond shining briefly in the shit which passes for an election season here in the Land of the Free. Idealism just had a dagger plunged through its beautiful heart.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">Jack Balkwill <i><span style="color: black;">has written for publications as varied as the little-read English Honor Society’s Rectangle to the millions of readers USA Today.</span> He does the web site <a href="http://members.cox.net/luvsite/"><span style="">Liberty Underground of Virginia</span></a> (LUV). He can be reached at <a href="mailto:libertyuv@hotmail.com"><span style="">libertyuv@hotmail.com</span></a>.</i></span> </span> <br /><p class="article_text">Copyright © 1998-2007 Online Journal<br /> <a href="mailto:editor@onlinejournal.com">Email Online Journal Editor</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0