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winkler1
Edited my comment and upvoted.
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umm...I'm an idiot.
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Batman debates the Penguin
The Last Laugh: October 14 2007
http://www.videosift.com/video/Dry-British-humor-explains-recent-stockmarket-volatility
Mike Ruppert talk about Brzezinski's "The Grand Chessboard"
Martin Luther King - Positively Maladjusted
Listening to his cadence really draws you in.
Biden: paying higher taxes is a patriotic act
my15minutes
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your closing is exactly why instant-runoff voting should be adopted nationally.
then you can vote your conscience, for that 3rd-party candidate, without "spoiling" the election. not having IRV is one of the ways Rep's and Dem's have been able to take our votes for granted, for so long.
it would remove the artificial dichotomy, and completely change the political landscape.
seriously. pass it on.
NicoleBee
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Thank you for your insight! And for sharing. I wish I had anything of relevence to add, but this was a very good read. And I wanted to say so.
The CIA's coup in Guatemala & The End of Democracy (1954)
Ignorance, laziness, fear, and apathy are killing America.
NordlichReiter
http://www.videosift.com/video/Soke-Don-Angier-86-Aiki-Festival-Highlight-Aiki-Jujutsu
Long, but very interesting and instructive.
Matt Damon Actually Sounding Smart On Palin
How is using one's fame any different than using one's inherited or earned wealth to promote an idea?
Money, fame, time, etc are just tools that people use to promote their ideas.
>> ^Trancecoach:
>> ^volumptuous:So, depending upon your job dictates whether you can have an active role in politics or not?
Wrong. A person's job does not dictate the value of their opinions. These celebrities can vote in a democracy in any way they choose. When they speak out, with absolutely no basis from which they're speaking, and influence public policy is where I have a problem. If you want to take your political cues from how the Dixie Chicks, Spike Lee, Matt Damon, or Bono tell you to think, that's up to you. For journalists to cover it -- well that's relying on a crutch instead of doing real journalism and is a waste of the public attention.
Umm... Obviously there is a bit of frustration there. Seems you personally dealt with people that have based their opinion on a celeb's, etc opinion and hold onto that frustration. I do sympathize, but I think you are attacking the wrong thing here.
Maybe your real fight should be promoting civic and logic classes for people.
This American Life: Every Marriage is a Courtroom
This American Life is brilliant. I've never seen the television show, but the radio show is better than everything else on the radio or television in my opinion.
It's the only radio show I've ever made a point of listening to every week.
I don't really know about this particular segment though...
Unfortunately, I am too busy (and/or forgetful?) to make the time to listen to the radio show...
so I download the free podcasts. Now I can take it everywhere!
Fireworks Battle Between Two Churches
I know where I am going next easter...
Seconded.
Olbermann Apologizes For Airing Republican 911 Video
Hitler would be proud
I think Joseph Goebbels, the masterful propaganda minister, and Hermann Goering, Hilter's designated successor, would be proud also.
“The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State.”
- Joseph Goebbels
“Why of course the people don’t want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don’t want war: neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship…Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.”
- Hermann Goering