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"You Must Be the Change You Wish to See in the World" - Mahatma Gandhi

Deny Global Warming Then Light Up A Smoke

June 20th, 2008 1 Comment »

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Act 1: Coal Train Lockdown - The Guardian
Act 2: Exploring for oil in the arctic - NPR
Act 3: Tim Flannery Interview
Act 4: Global Warming denyers as wrong as ever - CounterSpin
Act 5: Global warming and Tobacco - On the Media
Act 6: Strike Out Exxon - Essay by Mike Tidwell

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The Dream in Bush’s America

June 8th, 2008 1 Comment »

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Act 1: The Young Turks – 22 yr old military contractor
Act 2: Ring of Fire – Pap Attack: Profits over safety in health care
Act 3: The Young Turks – Bad News For the Budget
Act 4: TAL – Immigration Dream Act/ giving bright kids a chance
Act 5: Ring of Fire – Health care system
Act 6: The Young Turks – Outsourcing the outsourcing
Act 7: Ring of Fire – Assassination tax
Act 8: Greg Palast – Chavez and his revolution

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Of Course We’re Right and They’re Wrong!

May 26th, 2008 Comments Off

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Act 1: The argument for tyranny - The Young Turks
Act 2: Pop psych on the GOP - Ring of Fire
Act 3: How good people turn evil Part 1 - BBC
Act 4: A real liberal - The Young Turks
Act 5: How good people turn evil Part 2 - BBC
Act 6: Fascism - Ring of Fire
Act 7: Conservatives have always been wrong - The Young Turks
Act 8: R.I.P GOP? - Ring of Fire
Act 9: Taking away rights for liberty - The Young Turks

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Slime and Punishment

May 7th, 2008 2 Comments »

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Act 1: The Young Turks - Karl Rove / Don Siegelman
Act 2: Hardball W/ Chris Matthews - Announcement: Siegelman Released
Act 3: Ring of Fire - Don Siegelman Interview
Act 4: Sam Seder - Pentagon News Scandal
Act 5: Democracy Now - Military Silences Soldier / Journalist
Act 6: Ring of Fire - 10 Million White House Emails Missing
Act 7: Rachel Maddow - “McContradiction” Express
Act 8: Amy Goodman - The Importance & Power of Independent Media

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Let Them Eat War

April 28th, 2008 2 Comments »

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Act 1: Ring of Fire - Iraq Failures
Act 2: Patraeus Protests
Act 3: Daily Show - “Iraq me, Dave Petraeus”
Act 4: The Young Turks - How to Confront Petraeus
Act 5: Sam Seder - Ambassador “Crock-of”
Act 6: Eisenhower - The Last Good Republican President
Act 7: Bill Maher - Bush + Petraeus = Bullshit
Act 8: Rachel Maddow - Iraq Complications

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Gotta Know When to Fold ‘Em

April 1st, 2008 Comment now »

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Act 1: Seder on Sundays - Death of the Southern Strategy
Act 2: Rachel Maddow - Dems Take Hastart Seat
Act 3: Randi Rhodes - Privately Sponsored Do-Over Elections
Act 4: Thom Hartmann - Republicans Voting for Hillary in Texas
Act 5: Fox News - Ferraro to Obama- Don’t Antagonize Me
Act 6: Keith Olbermann - Clinton Campaigning like a Rebuplican
Act 7: Bill Maher - Campagins, Spitzer, Patterson, Obama Speech
Act 8: The Young Turks - Cenk Calls It - Hillary Is DONE

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Fool Me 935 Times

March 23rd, 2008 Comment now »

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Act 1: Rachel Maddow - Bush Lies Compiled
Act 2: The Young Turks - Talking to Our Enemies
Act 3: The Young Turks - Bush is a Sick Thug
Act 4: Rachel Maddow - Cheney Brings Peace Bush Brings Torture
Act 5: Greg Palast - Palast on the Reasons for the War in Iraq
Act 6: Sam Seder - Republican Troubles
Act 7: Sam Seder - Pentagon Report Censored
Act 8: The Young Turks - Scamming Lying Motherfuckers

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5 years in Iraq

March 16th, 2008 1 Comment »

Photographs taken over five years, since the invasion of Iraq in 2003 until today, by Franco Pagetti, from the new book by Trolley Books ‘The House of Wisdom - Five Years in Iraq’. music by Bob Dylan ‘Masters of War’ 1963

http://www.trolleybooks.com/
Franco Pagetti

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A Closer Look at the Frontrunners

March 6th, 2008 Comment now »

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Act 1: Keith Olbermann - Hillary vs Obama Debate Recap
Act 2: Bill Maher - Hillary McCain jokes
Act 3: Davis Fleetwood - Superdelegates
Act 4: Meet the Press - Nader Jumps in (again)
Act 5: Keith Olbermann - Olberman on Clinton
Act 6: Ring of Fire - Dem Spines
Act 7: The Real News Network - Obama vs Clinton Foreign Policy Advisers
Act 8: CounterSpin - McCain Beyond Criticism
Act 9: Rachel Maddow - The Pander Bear
Act 10: Sam Seder - McCain Scandal
Act 11: Thom Hartmann - Liberal VS Conservative Morality
Act 12: Olbermann & Maddow - The Obama Patriotism Smear
Act 13: The Young Turks - Obama Clinton Campaign Styles

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Not Falling For it Anymore

February 26th, 2008 Comment now »

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Act 1: The Young Turks - Reid & Telcom Immunity
Act 2: Sam Seder - Telcom Immunity
Act 3: Realtime With Bill Maher - Weighing the Threat
Act 4: BBC - The Future of Spying
Act 5: Olbermann - Nexus of Politics and Terror
Act 6: The Young Turks - New GOP Video, Old Fear Tactics
Act 7: Rachel Maddow - Snuggly the Security Bear
Act 8: Olbermann - The Manipulation of Our Yearning for Safety

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