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BP doesn't stand for back-up plan -Jane Hamsher Discusses BP Oil Disaster, Tea Party Election Impact, and Facebook Privacy |
| firedoglake\\\'s Jane Hamsher Discusses BP Oil Disaster, Tea Party Election Impact, and Facebook Privacy |
| Date: 2010-05-10 20:59:02 - Added by: KMC |
| Views: 759 - Votes: 1 - Rating: 5 |
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GRITtv: Dean Baker: Deficits, Loans and Losses -The Fed helps bailout Greece's banks |
| lauraflanders 10 May 2010 The big economic news this morning was that 16 countries that use the euro and the International Monetary Fund have agreed to create a nearly $1 trillion rescue fund to support the euro and keep the problems in Greece from spreading. Here in the U.S., the Dow might be climbing, but people are still struggling to find employment and recovery, Dean Baker reminds us, is still a long way off. Meanwhile, the people who created the crisis are trying to use the deficits they caused to force cuts in social spending--here and around the world. Baker joins us via Skype from Washington, D.C. to discuss the situation in Europe, the U.S.\\\\\\\'s involvement, Fannie Mae, and whether there\\\\\\\'s any hope for real change in the economy. GRITtv with Laura Flanders brings participatory democracy onto your computer screen and into your living room, bridging the gap between audience and advocates. Watch any show, at any time: http://grittv.org Distributed by Tubemogul. |
| Date: 2010-05-10 20:49:55 - Added by: KMC |
| Views: 786 - Votes: 1 - Rating: 5 |
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It's your CALL! Boycott AZ corporations! |
| bravenewfoundation 10 May 2010 Sign the pledge to boycott: http://www.facebook.com/cuentame?v=ap... We don\\\\\\\'t have to affect small business owners and non-supporters of SB 1070 in Arizona. These big corporations funded the republican party which in turn passed SB 1070! No matter where you are in the country, you can boycott these corporations by no longer consuming their products. CALL them and tell them you will continue to boycott them as long as they help fund such hateful laws. Have you called? Comment @ Facebook.com/Cu?ntame |
| Date: 2010-05-10 20:47:24 - Added by: KMC |
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Inside Story - Shaking up the UK electoral system |
| AlJazeeraEnglish 10 May 2010 For the first time in 36 years the British general election has produced a hung parliament. The third largest party is now in the driving seat, holding talks with the Conservative party to try to reach a coalition deal. But one of the crucial issues is a change in the voting system, something the conservative leader has said he doesn\\\'t want. So where now for British politics? |
| Date: 2010-05-10 05:51:11 - Added by: KMC |
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Environmental Armageddon: Battle for Canada's oil |
| AlJazeeraEnglish 09 May 2010 The tar sands in the province of Alberta cover a wide area centered on the town of Fort McMurray. They lie in the heart of Canada\'s Boreal forests, and produce close to one-and-a-half million barrels of oil a day. The area is the epicentre of a struggle between environmentalists and multinational energy companies, with each side painting different pictures of how oil extraction impacts the region. Al Jazeera\'s Steve Chao reports from Fort McMurray, Canada. |
| Date: 2010-05-10 05:23:58 - Added by: KMC |
| Views: 774 - Votes: 5 - Rating: 5 |
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Seymour Hersh on Obama Being Dominated by the Military |
| 08 May 2010 REPORTER: You didn\'t include Obama in your list of liar presidents. I\'m wondering if you would include him also? HERSH: To use a basketball or a football analogy, American football, fourth quarter, he may have a game plan. At this point he\'s in real trouble. Because the military are dominating him on the important issues of the world: Iraq, Iran, Afghan and Pakistan. And he\'s following the policies of Bush and Cheney almost to a fare-thee-well. He talks differently. And he\'s much brighter, he\'s much more of the world. So one only hopes he has a game plan that will include doing something, but he\'s in real trouble, in terms of -he\'s in real trouble. In Iraq I don\'t have to tell anybody the prospects in the American press they never mention Moqtada Sadr, but look out. He\'s going to be the kingmaker of that country. He\'s now studying in Iran. And he\'s going to be the next ayatollah-to-be. I don\'t know how he\'ll work it out with Sistani. But he\'s going to be the force, the Shia. And so this is going to be very complicated for us because the two men we talk about, Allawi and Maliki, have about as much to do with the average Iraqi -they\'re both ex-pats. Allawi, let\'s see, he was certainly an American agent and a British agent, the MI-6, the CIA, the Jordanians ran him probably for Mossad. I\\\'m not telling you anything that is not a fact. So who knows? So Iraq is very problematical. There\\\'s going to be much more violence. Whether it\\\'s civil war or not it\\\'s going to be much more violence. He\\\'s never going to be win, whatever that means, in Afghanistan. The only solution in Afghanistan is a settlement with the Taliban. And the only person to settle with is Mullah Omar, and he\\\'s become another Hitler to the American public. So how we\\\'re going to do that and survive politically? And the same in Pakistan. He\\\'s got the wrong policy there. So it is?and again for Obama, Iran\\\'s not resolved, in terms of, Iranians have come out of this crisis stronger than ever. We don\\\'t want to believe that. They have, politically. |
| Date: 2010-05-10 04:54:56 - Added by: KMC |
| Views: 773 - Votes: 6 - Rating: 5 |
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Bill Moyers TV Farewell with Jim Hightower: The Fight of Our Lives: The Populist Battle with Corporate Power |
| Bill Moyers Journel PBS 07 May 2010 Bill Moyers interviews populist Jim Hightower about the history and legacy of people\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s movements and discusses how ordinary people can reclaim political power. Aired Friday, April 30 on PBS. http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/043... |
| Date: 2010-05-09 07:15:53 - Added by: KMC |
| Views: 766 - Votes: 15 - Rating: 4.8 |
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MSNBC's Rachel Maddow - Dean Baker, on America's lack of credit worthiness |
| 07 May 2010 MSNBC\'s Rachel Maddow - Dean Baker, on America\\\'s credit worthiness |
| Date: 2010-05-09 07:13:55 - Added by: KMC |
| Views: 732 - Votes: 4 - Rating: 5 |
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Guerilla Music Video: What kind of system are we feeding when we continue to use the large banks that actually helped cause the economic crisis? |
| craftyactivist 03 March 2010 What kind of system are we feeding when we continue to use the large banks that actually helped cause the economic crisis? Is there a better way? If you want to participate get your masks here or make your own! http://www.flickr.com/photos/43103096... http://www.flickr.com/photos/43103096... Thanks to Amity in Fame for their inspiring song, Dinner for One, licensed gratefully through Jamendo. Gorilla footage from films \\\\ |
| Date: 2010-05-09 07:09:29 - Added by: KMC |
| Views: 778 - Votes: 5 - Rating: 5 |
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Counting the Cost - US oil spill, will it change Big Oil? |
| AlJazeeraEnglish 08 May 2010 The oil industry is crucial to those living on the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama - for years it has brought in money and employed people. But what happens when it threatens to cause great ecological and economic damage as it does now? Counting the Cost looks at the costs and benefits of the economy of oil to the US Gulf coast. |
| Date: 2010-05-09 05:15:42 - Added by: KMC |
| Views: 754 - Votes: 3 - Rating: 5 |
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