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This two-minute mockumentary may have the answer. If was produced by BAMPA -- the Barely Any Motion Picture Association.
http://youtu.be/sdeKW76y_3UThis two-minute mockumentary may have the answer. If was produced by BAMPA -- the... more
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This film and book project is a collaboration of evolutionary philosopher Brian Thomas Swimme and historian of religions Mary Evelyn Tucker. They weave a tapestry that draws together scientific discoveries in astronomy, geology, and biology with humanistic insights
concerning the nature of the universe.
PBS National Broadcast Premiere coming this December.
Click here for listings nationwide. WNET Ch. 13 in New York City will broadcast the film primetime on December 7th, 8:00pm.
More at the linkThis film and book project is a collaboration of evolutionary philosopher Brian Thomas... more
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Did it happen on Saturday Sept 24th?Can anyone collaborate or dismiss this story???
"The second major problem is inherent within the mass media. Reporters need to know how and when to challenge authority to protect their own and the public’s rights. A camera crew from the PBS “Frontline” series was at the protest, but abruptly stopped recording the demonstration after Brower was arrested and either before or during Biren-Wright’s arrest. Rob Kall later said that a member of the “Frontline” crew told him the police informed them they would be arrested if they continued to film the demonstration."Did it happen on Saturday Sept 24th?Can anyone collaborate or dismiss this story???... more
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Public Television’s StoryCorps oral history project is premiering “The StoryCorps 9/11 Series,” three new animated films commemorating the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The three-minute animated short films by the Rausch Brothers animators were created to preserve the memories of those who lost loved ones that tragic day. While the films are presented in a vintage cartoon-style, they carry deeply emotional heft due to the tragedy inherent in their stories. They are simple works, befitting the everyday lives that were nonetheless changed forever nearly 10 years ago. A major reason that 9/11 is such a tragedy is that it happened to people not unlike you or me, and these films do an amazing job of crystallizing that central truth.
This piece includes a number of colorful illustrations, as well as the three animated short films, “John and Joe,” “Always a Family” and “She Was the One.
”http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/09/08/the-10th-anniversary-of-911-the-storycorps-911-series/Public Television’s StoryCorps oral history project is premiering “The... more
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In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that's been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, insecticide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won't go bad, but we also have new strains of E. coli — the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults.
Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser ("Fast Food Nation"), Michael Pollan ("The Omnivore's Dilemma") along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield Farms' Gary Hirschberg and Polyface Farms' Joel Salatin, Food, Inc. reveals surprising — and often shocking truths — about what we eat, how it's produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here.
Food, Inc. will be accompanied by Notes on Milk, a short variation of the 2007 feature documentary Milk in the Land: Ballad of an American Drink. Ariana Gerstein and Monteith McCollum, whose Hybrid aired on POV in 2002, take a quirky and poetic look at some lesser-known aspects of America’s favorite drink: the industry’s spiritual underpinnings, politics and the struggle of independent farmers.
Please note: This is an encore broadcast. Not all PBS stations choose to rebroadcast encore presentations. Please check local listings two weeks before August 16 to see whether this show will be airing. Food, Inc. had its premiere broadcast on POV on April 21, 2010.
(120 minutes)
http://www.pbs.org/pov/foodinc/In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food... more
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Too cold in Detroit for me, but it is nice to see young people stepping up to make chanes they can believe in. :)Too cold in Detroit for me, but it is nice to see young people stepping up to make... more
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A new book Le petit livre bleu (The little blue book) claims that the Smurfs, those sarsaparailla-eating little blue denizens of Smurf village who talk about smurfing this and smurfing that, are anti-Semitic and racist. This, on top of earlier claims that, due to their living in a cooperative-like environment where everybody contributes to Smurf society, the Smurfs are communists, "Small Men Under Red Force," as one American critic says.
The author of the book, Antoine Buéno, a lecturer at Sciences Po university in Paris, says in the Guardian that he's been surprised at the "hyper violent" reaction to his claims among Smurf fans, some of whom have said he has "paranoid delusions" and is a "dream breaker." Some more unhappy Smurf devotee critique via the Telegraph:
"What a disgrace to soil the legends of our childhood," wrote Bibouille on the "Schtroumpfmania" website.
Another, called Anastasia wrote: "It's not hard to find anti-Semitism in Shakespeare or Balzac." The author's arguments spring "from his own obsessions ... the hooked nose of a wizard is neither Jewish nor Goy, it's a traditional for wizards," she wrote.
Buéno has indeed said he has "feared for his physical safety and insisted he meant no harm," according to the Telegraph.
So what's causing the big smurf-roar?
Belgian artist Peyo, whose real name was Thierry Culliford, created the Smurfs in 1958. Since their original appearance in comics, there have been animated films, a TV series, all manner of merchandise, theme parks, video games, an Ice Capades show; Sony is to release the first of three live-action/computer generated Smurf films on July 29. Buéno's critique starts with Peyo's very first work which was title The Black Smurfs in French and retitled The Purple Smurfs in English on the grounds of political correctness:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jun/06/smurfs-accused-antisemitism-racism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwJKTzq_XPg&feature=player_embeddedA new book Le petit livre bleu (The little blue book) claims that the Smurfs, those... more
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http://www.boingboing.net/2011/05/29/pbs-hacked-in-retrib.html
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The PBS.org website, and data associated with the PBS television network, its programs, and its affiliate stations, appear to have just been hacked by an entity calling itself LulzSec. The information compromised and published appears to include network, server, and database details and logins, as well as user login data for some PBS staff and contractors who access the PBS computer network.
They identify themselves as unrelated to "Anonymous".
According to the tweets, the intrusion is in retribution for the recent "Wikisecrets" episode on Wikileaks, which was perceived by Wikileaks and its supporters to be unfair to Wikileaks.
A statement from LulzSec:
Greetings, Internets. We just finished watching WikiSecrets and were less than impressed. We decided to sail our Lulz Boat over to the PBS servers for further... perusing. As you should know by now, not even that fancy-ass fortress from the third shitty Pirates of the Caribbean movie (first one was better!) can withhold our barrage of chaos and lulz. Anyway, unnecessary sequels aside... wait, actually: second and third Matrix movies sucked too! Anyway, say hello to the insides of the PBS servers, folks. They best watch where they're sailing next time.
While the PBS program Frontline may have been the intended target, the scope of intrusion and damage was significantly more broad.
LulzSec posted an overview of the data and defacements here.
Here's a cache of the fake "Tupac still alive in New Zealand" story the intruders put up. Unfortunately, Tupac remains dead, and PBS NewsHour social media and online engagement point person Teresa Gorman is spending her Sunday night on Twitter repeating that fact to many incredulous individuals and news organizations.http://www.boingboing.net/2011/05/29/pbs-hacked-in-retrib.html
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“Never Sorry” is a fascinating 17-minute documentary short film about China’s renowned dissident artist Ai Wei Wei by freelance filmmaker Alison Klayman, who spent several months documenting his work and life, as well as capturing his many provocations and scuffles with the government. So who’s really so afraid of Ai Wei Wei? Well, the Chinese government for one. Ai Wei Wei is China’s most famous contemporary artist, acclaimed for his solo exhibitions the world-over.
Much to the Chinese government authorities’ chagrin, Ai Wei Wei has vociferously used his fame to speak his mind. A prolific blogger and tweeter, Wei Wei often publishes angry writings against injustice, corruption and abuse, which the Chinese censors invariably take down. Most famously, after assisting in the design of China’s renowned 2008 Olympic Stadium (the Bird’s Nest), Ai Wei Wei publicly repudiated the project and the whole Olympic buildup as a preposterous fraud to put on a “good face” for the international community.
A mere 5 days after the PBS television airing on March 29th of this short film, Ai Wei Wei was detained by police at Beijing airport, and proceeded to vanish. No word was given about where he was taken, only a vague statement from authorities that he had committed “economic crimes.” His associates and lawyer were also targeted and disappeared. A global outcry went out, blasting the Chinese government for what was deemed a politically motivated move; however, the protests appeared to have no effect. Youth culture began to assert itself, and based on the title of this short film, stencil graffiti and light tags imaging Ai Wei Wei went up all around Hong Kong and mainland China, in spite of extraordinary risks.
After 43 days of silence, Ai Wei Wei’s wife was finally allowed to visit him on May 15th. She has confirmed that he had not been maltreated and appeared to be in good health, but his imprisonment does not look as though it will be overturned any time soon. So for the time being, Ai Wei Wei is now China’s best known detainee.
This piece includes a number of color photographs, as well as the fascinating documentary short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/05/20/never-sorry-whos-so-afraid-of-ai-wei-wei/“Never Sorry” is a fascinating 17-minute documentary short film about... more
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Blacks in Cuba: A look at being black in Cuba and issues of race, racism, and their reflection in society and everyday life in the island nation.
In Cuba Professor Gates finds out how the culture, religion, politics and music of this island are inextricably linked to the huge amount of slave labor imported to produce its enormously profitable 19th century sugar industry, and how race and racism have fared since Fidel Castro's Communist revolution in 1959Blacks in Cuba: A look at being black in Cuba and issues of race, racism, and their... more
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In the first episode of the four-hour series THE ASCENT OF MONEY, economist and historian Niall Ferguson documents the roots of money and finance in the conquest of the Americas, from the Incan empire to the Louisiana territory.
In the second episode of the four-hour series THE ASCENT OF MONEY, economist and historian Niall Ferguson explores John Law and his Louisiana territory Ponzi scheme; bond markets that supported warfare in Europe.
In "Risky Business," part three of the four-part THE ASCENT OF MONEY, economist and historian Niall Ferguson examines the roots of the insurance industry, natural disasters and risk management, and the history of hedge funds.
July 8th, 2009
In the final episode of four-part THE ASCENT OF MONEY series, Niall Ferguson chronicles the spread of good -- and bad -- financial practices across the globe, the meteoric rise of the American real estate market, and the consequences of the subprime mortgage fiasco.
July 17th, 2009
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ascentofmoney/featured/the-ascent-of-money-episode-1-from-bullion-to-bubbles/44/In the first episode of the four-hour series THE ASCENT OF MONEY, economist and... more
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Congressman Ron Paul was on PBS to discuss Libya with Tavis Smiley. Near the very end, the topics of a potential government shutdown and the good doctor's political future come up. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a8JAVdf6MUCongressman Ron Paul was on PBS to discuss Libya with Tavis Smiley. Near the very end,... more
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WASHINGTON, DC - In their latest assault on public television, Republican lawmakers have vowed not only to eliminate funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and PBS, but also to locate and destroy every last Sesame Street toy, book and video. Sesame Street, the educational Muppet series which has delighted children for decades is, perhaps, the most identifiable program that would be left without a home should PBS lose all its funding - which is precisely why it is the prime target for Republicans.
"What we don't want is to destroy a show that children are going to miss," said House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA). "That's why we're asking parents to take away all their kids' Sesame Street toys, so that they won't be reminded of what they've lost. I mean, we're not monsters."
The proposed legislation would require parents to pry their babies' Cookie Monster rattles from their itty bitty hands and snatch Elmo videos away from their toddlers' big, uncomprehending eyes, and surrender them to the office of House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH). From there, all the Sesame Street memorabilia and other precious childhood memories would be incinerated in a massive bonfire on the National Mall in a Koch Industries-sponsored event called For the Children.
Speaker Boehner encouraged parents to act, whether or not the legislation passes. "Regardless of the outcome of the bill," said Boehner, "we are calling on all parents to surrender their kids' Sesame Street stuff. The public bonfire will happen. There's nothing Sesame Street or PBS offers that can't be accomplished without using taxpayer dollars. The fraction of a percent we'll save by taking away Sesame Street, Teletubbies, Arthur and other beloved icons of children's programming will help offset the massive cost of the Bush tax cuts that America's wealthiest so desperately need. Our children can't live in a fantasy world forever."
Boehner promised that the attack on Sesame Street is only the beginning. "We are crafting legislation at the moment that would at last strip the collective bargaining rights of workers at The Electric Company. If the babies and toddlers of America have a problem with that, fuck 'em."
For more Election 2012 laughs, visit www.SuperTuesdayNews.com - political satire served up daily!WASHINGTON, DC - In their latest assault on public television, Republican lawmakers... more
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Make no mistake about it. The attempt to defund NPR and PBS is an attempt to control the public, by eliminating factual and truthful information. If corporate right succeeds in this effort, it is another bar in our collective prison.
DEADLINE: Sign this petition by 5pm EST on Tuesday and we will deliver your signature to Congress along with over 1 million other signatures from members of CREDO, MoveOn, and Free Press in support of public media.
http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/dont_defund_npr/?r=7110&id=17581-3878759-OO51bbx
Tell Congress: Save NPR and PBS
Don't let Republicans pull the plug on NPR and PBS.
Clicking here will automatically add your name to this petition to Congress:
"Fully fund NPR and defend public service media."
Sign this petition by 5pm EST on Tuesday and we will deliver your signature to Congress along with over 1 million other signatures in support of public media from CREDO Action, MoveOn and Free Press.
Dear Lynn,
Congressional Republicans are attempting to pull the plug on public media.
While deciding how to fund the government for the remainder of the fiscal year, House Republicans were able to zero out all funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the nonprofit responsible for funding public media including NPR, PBS, Pacifica and more.
If the funding is not restored by the Senate, it would be a tremendous blow to the entire public interest media sector.
We cannot allow Republicans to destroy public media.
Tell Congress: Fully fund NPR and defend public service media. Click here to automatically sign the petition.
Republicans are disingenuously claiming that they need to cut funding for public media because of budgetary constraints. But what they fail to highlight is that national public broadcasting is remarkably cost effective, providing local news and information, free of charge, for millions of viewers while only receiving about .0001% of the federal budget.1
More to the point, it's nearly impossible to put a price tag on the actual value of public broadcasting.
Public media is one of the last bulwarks against the corporate media, where the combination of consolidation and profit motive has long since shifted the focus to infotainment rather than substantive news. In many rural and less affluent communities, broadcasters rely on federal funding to provide the only available high-quality news and public affairs programming.
Without public media, corporate media monopolies would increase their already large control of what we see on television, hear on the radio or read in the newspaper.
This outcome should deeply worry all of us. The increased accumulation and consolidation of corporate power is a threat to our democracy. And nowhere is this more evident than in our media.
At a time when media consolidation is shrinking the number of perspectives we have access to over the airwaves and when newsrooms are shrinking, we need more diversity in our media not less. And we simply cannot afford to lose what public media brings to the table.
Tell Congress: Fully fund NPR and defend public service media. Click here to automatically sign the petition.
Conservatives have longed for any opportunity to defund NPR, PBS and other public media. And with Speaker Boehner wielding the gavel, it looks like they may finally get their wish.
Don't let Congress pull the plug on NPR and PBS! Tell them reject cuts to public broadcasting. Click here to automatically sign the petition.
Thank you for defending public service media.
Matt Lockshin, Campaign Manager
CREDO Action from Working Assets
P.S. It's been said that NPR receives 98% of its funding from non-government sources. But that's highly misleading. The government — through the Center for Public Broadcasting — provides a significant source of funding for NPR and NPR member stations.
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1"Public broadcasting is critical to our democracy," Rep. Earl Blumenaur, The Hill's Congress Blog, Jan. 20, 2011.Make no mistake about it. The attempt to defund NPR and PBS is an attempt to control... more
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SHOULD PUBLIC MEDIA BE WHOLLY PUBLIC SUPPORTED?
There are questions about NPR and PBS being truly unbiased reporting, considering that they are 90% corporate funded, and only 10% publicly funded.
Therefore, the questions are:
If we believe that the free flow of factual and unbiased information is requisite to maintaining a free and independent people , with a democratic styled government, that we can not get that from coporate owned media, how do we insure ourselves of that free flow of factual and unbiased information.
Do we remodel NPR and PBS, and fund them exclusively with public money,
or,
Do we defund them, and form new public media from the ground up.
However we decide these questions, if we decide to have public media, we must determine how it can be funded without it succumbing to the pressure and influence of politically motivated and constantly changing government administrations. We certainly need truth in publishing laws, in general. Perhaps with entitlement funding, like in the style of social security, public media can function without the acute risk of administrative influence.
Of course, the corporate right will continue to allege that public media; even as it now exists, is dominated by left wing liberal "elites". It is evident that whomever speaks on behalf of the people, will always be viewed as liberal left activists, by the corporate right, who desire to keep the people perpetually uninformed. It is also characteristic of corporate right projection, that they refer to those speaking and acting on behalf of the people, as the elite. If they can sell some, on the guilt of possibly being some form of elite, then perhaps it distracts some from their perpetual campaign and fight to insure that they are the true elite; of wealth and stealth, anyway.SHOULD PUBLIC MEDIA BE WHOLLY PUBLIC SUPPORTED?
There are questions about NPR and... more
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The Republicans Are At It Again!
This time with a vengeance to take NPR & PBS forever FROM OUR LIVES.
The Republicans are against anything that may have something to do with a social issue. They also can't stand the idea that actual and real facts can expose some of the misinformation they dish out about anything social “Public”. Republicans are so blatant about this they don't even try to conceal their ambition to make everything private and thus out of reach for many lower income people ( a group growing in number so quickly that it’s turning the middle class into an anomaly known anew as the working poor). If we want Democracy to flourish we must first fight against those who wish to dismantle it right here at home. And to achieve this weakening of democracy the Conservatives must first do away with any public broadcasting known for its factual information. In the unprogressive world of the Rightwing, Ignorance Is Bliss. Please sign the petition (below) to stop the Republicans from doing away with NPR and PBS.
thinkingblue
The Republicans just released their budget proposal, and it zeroes
out funding for both NPR and PBS--the worst proposal in more than a
decade. We need to tell Republicans that cutting off funding was
unacceptable last time they were in charge, and it's unacceptable now.
I signed a petition to save NPR and PBS.
Can you join me at the link
below?
http://pol.moveon.org/
Thanks! thinkingblue
That's
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This time with a vengeance to take NPR & PBS... more
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The world is much smaller than you think... First, don't believe everything you see on main stream TV here in the states... Sometime you need to reach beyond the low hanging fruit.
It is nice to look around and say everything in this country is just fine and Americans and the constitution are strong enough to survive... you are dreaming...
The fundamental corruption we see in Egypt also exist in other countries, in varying degrees. That corruption is hidden and disguised and ignored... but it exists even here... As supporters and enablers of Dictators our position is clear... as exposed in the wikileaks cables that brought all this on.
It is time we too wake up and look around us and see we also have house cleaning to do.
AMERICA Today....
As we all now all look around us... today we see much more homeless on the streets much more suicides more desperate people... things were much different for so many people ... before the money & wealth was sucked out of our country.
Just look at all the hard working American families all being foreclosed on and forced out into the streets as the "Corporate Royalty continue to award themselves Billions as; A Job Well done! And this year 1.3 million more families are scheduled for foreclosures and pushed on to the streets in 2011!
Look around us today, The right the Left the middle the Tea Parties the Gays the Birthers the Black, Brown, Yellow, Red and White, NRA Rich vs Poor the so many groups waving the flag... shouting and some even shooting and everyone fighting between themselves... For what I ask? For the basic fundamental things in life... Like having enough money to buy (safe) food to eat, For healthcare, For a warm place to live and sleep at night... An affordable education for our Children.... These All are the basics things in life!
If we are fighting battles amongst ourselves.....Blinded with all this nonsense, innuendo and, distractions... Fueled by over caffeinated snake-oil salesmen on Fox & Talk radio preaching hate ~ BUT WAIT... It's not just Fox, But all Corporate Media, ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNBC, CNN they do it too... They do in their own way... It is all tailored to fit the demographic Audiences that they hold...
So, If you haven't already noticed... It is easy to divide and control our population... as it is being done right now.... After ~ you filter the content and control the money then, you control the airwaves. You then... have the power to control peoples attitudes, their viewpoints and, their topics of conversation.
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Targeted Demographic Viewer Audiences:
In the United States, our News today in not "News Driven" as it was in the past... But, today our News is "Market Driven" looked at as " Content & as Programming".
Today, Full News stories are edited out and "News Fluff" is inserted or, News stories are removed altogether and arent even reported. News Anchors today (in the USA) are not reporting facts as was done in the past but, An "pre-opinionated spin" presented as fact.
Today the news in the United States is designed for each targeted demographic viewer audience that each Network represents. . ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNBC, CNN, & FOX NEWS all have different targeted demographic viewer audiences.
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What should be a wake-up call to all of us in the United States: Is when the people outside of our US borders know more about what happening inside our country than it's own citizens do... We should all realize that we have a very big problem in our News and Broadcast Media!
The problem is...
"Market Driven" techniques don't report the news.... Market Driven" techniques create "viewer drama" amongst the targeted demographic viewer audiences... No wonder people are angry and pointing fingers at each other. Today, we are so busy caught up in our perceived drama[s] that we don't see the really big picture...
And the big picture is.... that we are all only fighting for the crumbs left... after the 98% of our countries wealth has been sucked out of every Americans pockets stolen and hoarded by the Ultra Wealthiest 2-3%.
I guess that is the plan.... if we are so busy arguing with ourselves we are not looking up and seeing what is really going on... When you are distracted... It is easy to have your pockets picked!
Maybe it time we all look up ~ And time we... all follow the Money!
Today We Do Again need someone like Martin Luther King Jr. To wake people up and again to vote with their feet and bodies. like in Egypt... To get people standing up again... and out in the streets Marching Against Oppression and Against Corruption.. That our Government need to represent of the all the people of the United States and " not just the Ultra Wealthiest 2-3% at the very top!"
"TO STOP THE CORRUPT CORPORATIONS CONTROLLING OUR GOVERNMENT"
Martin Luther King said:
The hottest place in hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
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FOR NEWS TRY WATCHING....
http://www.democracynow.org/
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