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Category Archives: History
15 seats, none for single-payer
We’d love more of this! <video>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKP05AyfRsI</video>
Best scene in the movie ‘Network’
You have meddled with the primary forces of nature, Mr Beale, and I won’t have it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI5hrcwU7Dk
Posted in Economics, History
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The Holgan-Belzer Incident
Mr. T is a knucklehead – the pop-ups are greathttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-SEkZDL5Kk
Frank hits it on the head
Bailout: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viKFUj1Tk-w
Posted in Economics, History, Video
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PBS is saved
This is greathttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2883185966575573317
Keating Economics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDofbll86dY
Hagel chides McCain on Iraq
(AP) Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel, fresh from an Iraq trip with Democrat Barack Obama, said the presidential candidates should focus on the war’s future and stop arguing over the success of last year’s troop surge. Hagel didn’t name names but … Continue reading
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Hunt Oil Contract in Kurdistan
(TP) President Bush denied knowledge of the contract, saying that he “knew nothing about the deal†and was “concernedâ€: I knew nothing about the deal. I need to know exactly how it happened. To the extent that it does undermine … Continue reading
Obama Speaking to Staff
June 6, 2008 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnhmByYxEIo
Posted in History, Politics, Video
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Ticking Time Bomb
How many of these scenarios have there ever actually been? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka0rw0zvK90
Posted in Al Swearengen, History, Justice
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The Turning Point
Senator Voinovich A big moment… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsJkHebt4fc
Obama’s Speech on Race
One of the best speeches in my lifetime: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrp-v2tHaDo
Posted in Al Swearengen, History, Politics
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Harper’s Weekly Review (part)
“…Dwarf thieves had infested Swedish buses,9 Lithuania was pondering changing its name,10 and a plot by retired Turkish Army officers to kill Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk was foiled. 11 Police in Malda, India, were battling avian flu by conducting a … Continue reading
Massoud’s Last Conquest
by Sebastian Junger, published in Vanity Fair – February 2002 Afghanistan’s master guerrilla commander, Ahmed Shah Massoud, was assassinated by suspected al-Qaeda suicide bombers just two days before September 11. But his Northern Alliance coalition became the U.S.’s most important … Continue reading
Posted in History, Military
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Cornell West & Mos Def
This is one of my own creations, cliped out of what I consider to be far and away the best episode of Real Time w/ Bill Maher this season. Rahm Emanuel was also scheduled, but he didn’t show up. What … Continue reading
Olbermann on Torture
A Special Comment on torture:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arWJ358tZgU
Chris Dodd – A Brilliant Floor Speech
Check this out. In 8 minutes, Dodd runs through just about everything. No meandering. This man needs to be the senate majority leader. What I saw and heard here had ‘Profiles in Courage’ potential. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO9WXEqz03o
Bartolome de Las Casas
He was a Spainard who made the voyage to North America in the 1500s. The following work is a portion of his ‘Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies’, published in 1542. The first reading of this a while … Continue reading
Posted in Al Swearengen, History, Politics, Religion
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The Kindness of Stangers
By Robin Fox, from an essay in the September/October issue of Society. Fox is a professor of social theory at Rutgers and the author, most recently, of Participant Observer: Memoir of a Transatlantic Life. His “Human Nature and Human Rights” … Continue reading
Documentary – The Making of Deep Throat
This one is perfect. A lot of it is hillarious, especially the early parts when they’re interviewing the people who worked on the most notorious porn film ever made. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6404197429724896283&hl=en
The Iran War
This is its genesis right here – text of an amendment to the defense authorization bill (note that paragraphs 3 and 4 were removed from the final version, and 5 remained): (1) that the manner in which the United States … Continue reading
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Walter Cronkite after the Tet Offensive, 1968
h/t to Blue Gal over at Crooks and Liars http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdOb_183d1o
Conservatism’s failures for Katrina
Liberal Oasis – Bill Scher’s radio program – Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3XVxD6GzEw Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgYyDraiaKI
An Inconvenient Truth
by Andrew Cockburn – published in The Nation magazine (excerpts): In September 2003, Secretary of State Colin Powell descended on the town to inaugurate a newly completed museum commemorating the 5,000 victims, making emotional reference to the “choking mothers [who] … Continue reading
The War (Pithy Pre-September Position)
The security situation is improved on each piece of ground directly beneath our soldiers’ feet. Put these soldiers in vehicles, and the IED explosions argue against this theory. Our forces exit an area, and what happens then? The security situation … Continue reading
Posted in Al Swearengen, History, Military
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Maher Arar Video – Gonzo vs. Leahy
This case is on my mind, and I wanted to post this video once more. In light of what we now know, watch this again and consider how absolutely full of shit Gonzo is right here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4rfVLo4xFY
Birds of a Feather
Fatigue cripples US army in Iraq Memo shows [Utah] mine owners already knew they had roof problems in March Texas girl in [taxpayer funded] “boot camp” is tied to a van and dragged Cheney in ’94 on why it would be stupid … Continue reading
American Blackout – Documentary on Voting Rights
I’m not sure how many, if any, of the readers of this blog actually watch these long videos I post from time to time, but my idea in doing so is that a single viewer is enough to justify posting … Continue reading
The Last Bill Hicks Show (Igby’s L.A. 11/17/93)
There are other comics worth featuring here, but its during times like these when Hicks is the one I think about most often. Imagine him teeing off on Dubya! RIP Bill…http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-617683135050137292
Casting for 9/11 ‘The Sequel’
The story is going to be buried (U.S. Aborted Raid on Qaeda Chiefs in Pakistan in ’05), and our country will once again be left stupefied, wondering “what happened”, as the Pulitzer Prize winning book Ghost Wars by Steve Coll … Continue reading
Posted in Al Swearengen, History, Military
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