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| Vintage George Carlin: The Language of Lying Politicians | |
| Date: 04 August 2010 - Added by: KMC | |
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| GRITtv: What Are Teachers Worth? | |
| lauraflanders | 03 August 2010 What are teachers really worth? That\\\'s the question, as the Senate puts off a vote on $10 billion for state and local governments to prevent teacher layoffs. Senate leadership wanted the bill to be deficit neutral?a line never applied to war funding, where no spending\\\'s too great because we\\\'re killing for peace. Estimates are that it costs $1 million per soldier per year to keep troops in Afghanistan. But enough of that. Distributed by Tubemogul. | |
| Date: 04 August 2010 - Added by: KMC | |
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| Jeremy Scahill on the End of Iraq Combat Operations or Beginning of Rebranded Occupation | |
| Democracy Now! President Obama said Monday in a speech before the Disabled American Veterans national convention in Atlanta that the US military is on target to withdraw all its combat troops from Iraq by the end of August. We speak with independent journalist Jeremy Scahill, who says this instead marks the beginning of a downsized and rebranded occupation that will rely heavily on private military forces. SEE Pt 2-->> | |
| Date: 04 August 2010 - Added by: KMC | |
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| Antonia Juhasz: BP's Missing Oil Washes up in St. Mary's Parish, LA | |
| Democracy Now! 04 August 2010 We speak with independent journalist Anotnia Juhasz who is just back from Louisiana where she found what she calls some of BP\\\'s \\ | |
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| Environmental Activist Jerry Cope: What BP and U.S. Government Don't Want You to Know | |
| Democracy Now! 04 August 2010 Environmental activist Jerry Cope has spent the last few weeks traveling along the Gulf Coast and experiencing first-hand the contamination in the air and water. In an article being published on Huffington Post, Cope argues that instead of celebrating the allegedly vanishing oil, we should be concerned about the disappearance of marine life in the Gulf. He describes the Gulf as a \\ | |
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| Assassination attempt against Ahmadinejad? | |
| RussiaToday | 04 August 2010 Iran is denying reports that an attempt\\\\\\\'s been made on President Ahmadinejad\\\\\\\'s life. A news website had reported that a hand grenade was detonated as his convoy was travelling to the Hamadan province, which is a couple of hundred kilometres west of Tehran. The online story said Ahmadinejad wasn\\\\\\\'t injured and that the blast happened a hundred metres from the president\\\\\\\'s car. But state TV is saying no such attack took place, with confusion being cause by an exploding firework. | |
| Date: 04 August 2010 - Added by: KMC | |
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| Static Kill a Success, So Far | |
| AssociatedPress | 04 August 2010 BP says it has reached the \\ | |
| Date: 04 August 2010 - Added by: KMC | |
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| Potato could provide electricity to millions (no kidding) | |
| AlJazeeraEnglish | 04 August 2010 More than 1.6 billion people in the world have little or no access to electricity and most have no way of accessing modern electrical technology, such as like electric lighting, mobile phones or televisions. But scientists at an Israeli university say they have made a remarkable discovery in relation to the potato which may bring electricity to millions of the world\\\'s poor. Al Jazeera\\\'s Tarek Bazley reports. August 4, 2010 | |
| Date: 04 August 2010 - Added by: KMC | |
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| Buy American Pot: A Special Message From the AMGA, Dedicated to Keeping Pot Illegal & Profits High! | |
| ReasonTV | We all know that a lot of people are harmed by prohibition, but who benefits? Strangely enough, some of the biggest beneficiaries are the bootleggers. Sure, they take a big risk, but black marketeers don\\\\\\\'t have to pay taxes, they\\\\\\\'re protected from foreign competition, and they benefit from artificially inflated prices. Talk about protectionism. What kind of message would an honest American Marijuana Growers Association have for us? \\\\ | |
| Date: 04 August 2010 - Added by: KMC | |
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| Worst. Decade. Ever. | |
| ReasonTV | Hands down, the \\\'00s were the worst political decade at least since the 1990s. Reason.tv celebrates the (lack of) personalities, the scandals, and the screw-ups that made us all want to forget the first 10 years of the 21st century. Approximately 2.10 minutes. No politicians were hurt in the making of this video. Produced by Meredith Bragg and Nick Gillespie. For downloadable versions of this and other videos, go to http://reason.tv. Please subscribe to Reason.tv\\\'s YouTube Channel. For an alternate take on The Aughts, read Jesse Walker\\\'s Five Reasons For Optimism at http://reason.com/archives/2009/12/17... | |
| Date: 04 August 2010 - Added by: KMC | |
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