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CurrentEra.com
2008-03-01 16:24:00 Go here for more…. http://currentera.com More About: Multimedia , Montrose
CurrentEra is Changing
2008-02-26 17:51:00 I would like to let everyone know about the changes being made here at CurrentEra.com. We are keeping the blog, but the daily updates will be found on the CurrentEra.com main page (www.currentera.com). While the bog serves it’s purpose well, CurrentEra requires a bit more versatility than the blog will allow. Do not worry, daily ... More About: Multimedia , Changing
Parody Video
2008-02-25 17:03:00 1min 58sec Here’s a parody video that rebukes the fearmongering video that the House GOP just put out about the “destruction of the world” because the Telecoms didn’t get immunity. Below is the original fear mongering piece of shite. 1min 50sec More About: Video , Multimedia , Parody
Comedian (I do not know his name) on Fox News
2008-02-25 16:58:00 The most humerus part is after he says Fox News is all propaganda, the host disputes that and cuts to another insignificant non-news time waisting dumbing down of America rich piece. The comedian calls fox a festival of ignorance and then Fox proves his point. Comicby luvnews 1min 05sec More About: Multimedia , Comedian , Fox News
The Century Of The Self
2008-02-24 18:28:00 7 min 27 sec From Episode Two of the film series “The Century of the Self” by Adam Curtis. If the above clip interested you, here is the full movie, Century of Self, in 4 parts. This is one of my favorite documentaries. I can not tell you how many times I think of the things ... More About: Multimedia
Globalisation and the Media
2008-02-24 17:54:00 20min 58sec More About: Media , Multimedia , The Media , Globalisation
When the Terrorists Were ?Our Guys?
2008-02-23 20:16:00 By Robert Parry In 1976, when George H.W. Bush was CIA director, the U.S. government tolerated right-wing terrorist cells inside the United States and mostly looked the other way when these killers topped even Palestinian terrorists in spilling blood, including a lethal car bombing in Washington, D.C., according to newly obtained internal government documents. That car bombing ... More About: Terrorists , Guys
What Happened to Mental Health Care for Vets?
2008-02-23 19:35:00 by Tara McKelvey American Prospect The debate over the subject of suicide, and the treatment of soldiers and veterans, continues in Washington. Meanwhile, veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are killing themselves at an alarming rate. Andreas-Georg (”Andrew”) Pogany was trained at the U.S. Army Intelligence Center in Fort Huachuca, Arizona, to interrogate high-level terrorism suspects ... More About: Health , Mental , Health Care , Mental Health , Care
Superdelegate Endorsement List
2008-02-23 18:49:00 from the 2008 Democratic Convention Watch Here’s a list of superdelegates to the 2008 Democratic Convention that have officially announced who they plan to nominate. We have also created a list of superdelegates that have not committed to a candidate. There are 795 (not including Michigan and Florida) total Democratic superdelegates that the nominees are trying to be ... More About: List , Endorsement
The new invasion of Iraq: Up to 10,000 Turkish troops launch an incursion w
2008-02-23 18:39:00 By Patrick Cockburn The Independent A new crisis has exploded in Iraq after Turkish troops, supported by attack planes and Cobra helicopters, yesterday launched a major ground offensive into Iraqi Kurdistan. The invading Turkish soldiers are in pursuit of Kurdish guerrillas hiding in the mountains. They are seeking to destroy the camps of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) ... More About: Launch , Troops , Invasion
Inside the world of war profiteers: From prostitutes to Super bowl tickets,
2008-02-23 18:21:00 By David Jackson and Jason Grotto Chicago Tribune ROCK ISLAND, Ill.?Inside the stout federal courthouse of this Mississippi River town, the dirty secrets of Iraq war profiteering keep pouring out. Hundreds of pages of recently unsealed court records detail how kickbacks shaped the war’s largest troop support contract months before the first wave of U.S. soldiers plunged ... More About: World , Super Bowl , Super , Tickets , The World
John McCain?s Lobbyist Friends
2008-02-23 18:18:00 2min 08sec More About: Multimedia , Friends , John , John McCain , Lobbyist
McCain Disputed On 1999 Meeting: Broadcaster Recalls Urging FCC Contact
2008-02-23 17:58:00 By James V. Grimaldi and Jeffrey H. Birnbaum Washington Post Broadcaster Lowell “Bud” Paxson yesterday contradicted statements from Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign that the senator did not meet with Paxson or his lobbyist before sending two controversial letters to the Federal Communications Commission on Paxson’s behalf. This Story * ... More About: Contact , Meeting
An Open Letter to Bill O?Reilly
2008-02-22 17:31:00 By Jason Miller ….Being the avaricious and narcissistic careerist you are, you have clawed your way to the top of the dung heap of apologists for a system that is murdering the planet by ?bravely? proclaiming your support of motherhood, apple pie, and the American Way. What most of your fans and viewers don?t realize (and ... More About: Multimedia , Open , Bill O , Letter , Reilly
The New Nixon: Hillary has taken her strategy straight out of Tricky Dick?s
2008-02-22 17:10:00 by MATT TAIBBI Rolling Stone I’m in Las vegas, at yet another stiflingly full-of-shit Democratic debate, just breaking up now. The show tonight was a new low, with a suddenly cuddlesome troika of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards spending two hours giving each other friendly establishment back rubs while NBC played the Big Brother role, ... More About: Strategy , Dick , Tricky , Nixon
Behind the John McCain Lobbying Scandal: A Look At How McCain Urged the Fed
2008-02-22 17:04:00 DN! On Thursday The New York Times revealed McCain repeatedly wrote letters to government regulators on behalf of Paxson Communications and other clients of the telecommunications lobbyist, Vicki Iseman. We speak to Angela Campbell, the attorney for the Alliance for Progressive Action and QED Accountability Project, the community groups that sought to block Paxson?s takeover of ... More About: Scandal , John , Lobbying , John McCain
Superdelegates should step aside
2008-02-21 19:28:00 Democracy my ass! I am so tired of hearing the pandering by the media and politicians trying to make us believe our opinions matter. It is a lie. We are supposed to believe that Democracy is the reason for why we are in two wars in the Middle East and now they want us to ... More About: Multimedia , Step
50 Facts that Should Change the World by Jessica Williams: The Contents
2008-02-21 17:38:00 Below are some of the facts listed in the contents from this book. My copy came in yesterday, and I had to share some of them. * If you stand at the junction of Oxford Street and Regent Street in central London, there are 161 branches of Starbucks within a fie-mile radius. * China has 44 ... More About: Facts , World , Change , The World , Contents
?We had a democracy here, until America came over and crushed it?
2008-02-21 16:28:00 6min 20sec More About: America , Multimedia , Democracy
Citizens Have Even Less Influence With Lobbyists Like This
2008-02-21 16:08:00 How can we even think our opinions matter to politicians when our letters and calls are compared to a dedicated lobbyist. The excerpt below is from the New York Times this morning. ….Mr. McCain, 71, and the lobbyist, Vicki Iseman, 40…. ….A female lobbyist had been turning up with him at fund-raisers, visiting his offices and ... More About: Lobbyists , Influence
CIA Attacks Inside Pakistan Without Approval: Unilateral Strike Called a Mo
2008-02-20 18:58:00 By Joby Warrick and Robin Wright Washington Post In the predawn hours of Jan. 29, a CIA Predator aircraft flew in a slow arc above the Pakistan i town of Mir Ali. The drone’s operator, relying on information secretly passed to the CIA by local informants, clicked a computer mouse and sent the first of two Hellfire ... More About: Inside , Strike , Attacks , Unilateral
Seeking Superdelegates
2008-02-20 18:28:00 Capital Eye At this summer’s Democratic National Convention, nearly 800 members of Congress, state governors and Democratic Party leaders could be the tiebreakers in the intense contest between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. If neither candidate can earn the support of at least 2,025 delegates in the primary voting process, the decision of who will represent ... More About: Seeking
Inside Iraq - Battle for Haditha - Interview with Broomfield
2008-02-20 16:43:00 Part 1 7min 56sec Part 2 13min 36sec More About: Multimedia , Iraq , Interview , Inside , Battle
Gitmo Trials Rigged
2008-02-20 15:32:00 by Ross Tuttle Secret evidence. Denial of habeas corpus. Evidence obtained by waterboarding. Indefinite detention. The litany of complaints about the legal treatment of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay is long, disturbing and by now familiar. Nonetheless, a new wave of shock and criticism greeted the Pentagon’s announcement on February 11 that it was charging six Guantánamo ... More About: Multimedia , Gitmo , Trials
Dead In The Water - The Sinking of the USS Liberty
2008-02-19 22:30:00 1 hr 8 min 32 sec During the Six-Day War, Israel attacked and nearly sank the USS Liberty belonging to its closest ally, the USA. Thirty-four American … all » servicemen were killed in the two-hour assault by Israeli warplanes and torpedo boats. Israel claimed that the whole affair had been a tragic accident ... More About: Multimedia , Water , Dead
Saddam Hussein - The Trial you will never see
2008-02-19 22:28:00 48min 35sec More About: Multimedia , Saddam Hussein , Trial , Saddam
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
2008-02-19 22:22:00 1 hr 14 min 31 sec HUGO CHAVEZ ELECTED PRESIDENT OF VENEZUELA IN 1998, IS A COLORFUL, UNPREDICTABLE FOLK HERO, beloved by his nation’s working class and a tough-as-nails, quixotic opponent to the power structure that would see him deposed. Two independent filmmakers were inside the presidential palace on April 11, 2002, when he was ... More About: Multimedia , Revolution , The Revolution
The Road to Guantanamo
More articles from this author:2008-02-19 22:19:00 1 hr 31 min 37 sec More About: Multimedia , Guantanamo , Road , The Road 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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