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Summer's almost here: Viral Video Film School

Those who say our educational system is broken clearly aren't spending enough time on the Internet. Professor Brett Erlich's YouTube tutorial shows that our schools are, in fact, teaching vital lessons on everything from physics to personal responsibility. You'll be talking about this Viral Video Film School episode all summer long.

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infoMania is a half-hour comedy show that airs weekly on Current TV. Picture the ultimate office water-cooler, only with funnier co-workers who willingly stay up late imbibing all forms of media so you don't have to. Caveat: Bring your own water. Hosted by Brett Erlich and co-starring Sergio Cilli, Erin Gibson, Ben Hoffman and Bryan Safi, infoMania airs Fridays on Current TV.

Viral Video Film School is a recurring segment on the weekly television show infoMania. In each episode of VVFS, Professor Brett Erlich teaches you valuable skills in the discipline of Viral Video making. So sit down, take notes, and try not to piss him off. For more Brett visit http://current.com/viral-video-film-school-im/ and Current TV.

Go to http://current.com/infomania for more, and make sure to check out our Facebook profile for special features at http://facebook.com/infomania.

Current Media, the Peabody-and Emmy Award-winning television and online network founded in 2005 by Al Gore and Joel Hyatt, engages viewers with smart, provocative and timely programming -stories that no one else is telling in ways that no one else is telling them. Current's programming shines a light where others won't dare and boldly explores important subjects -- opening minds, sparking conversations and forming deep connections with its viewers. The channel's audience is comprised of affluent, curious, social and connected adults who crave the kind of entertaining, enlightening, witty and informative programming found on Current's TV and online properties. Current is now available via cable and satellite TV in 75 million households worldwide - 60 million households in the US - through distribution partners Comcast (Channel 107); Time Warner ; DirecTV (Channel 358 nationwide); Dish Network (Channel 196 nationwide); Verizon and AT&T. In the UK and Ireland, Current is available on BSkyB (Channel 183) and Virgin Media (Channel 155), and in Italy, Current is available on Sky Italia (Channel 130). Viewers can also find Current online at www.current.com.Those who say our educational system is broken clearly aren't spending enough... more

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Ryan Gives Up On His Budget - Washington Post

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Posted at 01:43 PM ET, 05/17/2011
Ryan gives up on his budget
By Ezra Klein

Pick your objection to Rep. Paul Ryan’s Medicare plan. Maybe, like Michele Bachmann, you’re worried it shifts costs onto seniors. Maybe, like Newt Gingrich, you’re worried that it’s too much, too fast. Maybe, like Josh Barro, you’re worried that the caps on Medicare and Medicaid spending are totally unrealistic. Maybe, like Alice Rivlin, you’re worried that there’s no plan for changing the way health care is actually delivered. Maybe, like Henry Aaron, you’re worried that the plan calls itself “premium support” even though it lacks the key features of a premium-support plan.

Whatever your concern, Ryan didn’t mention it in his much-hyped speech yesterday. The section on Medicare was three paragraphs long — compared with 10 paragraphs on taxes — and bereft of details. The closest Ryan got to a specific was when he said: “If I could sum up that disagreement in a couple of sentences, I would say this: Our plan is to give seniors the power to deny business to inefficient providers. Their plan is to give government the power to deny care to seniors.” That’s really it. And even that’s not correct. As Austin Frakt writes, Ryan’s Medicare plan lets seniors choose among insurers, not among providers. The result, for seniors, will be less choice of providers, because private insurers have much more limited networks than Medicare.

Ryan is hiding the ball here, of course. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the choice of private insurers will mean insurance costs more, as Medicare can bargain for lower rates than private insurers can. So that’s not where the savings are coming from. Rather, Ryan’s plan saves money by capping the growth of Medicare at inflation. The theory is that giving seniors a choice of insurers will bring down costs and make that cap viable, but there’s no evidence, anywhere, that giving seniors a choice of insurance options will dramatically cut costs. Rather, the repetition of the word “choice” hides the real way Ryan’s plan works, which is to shift costs, making seniors pay more for private care. That eases the pressure on the federal government by cranking up the pressure on seniors and their families.

However, the real story isn’t what Ryan said but what he didn’t say. The word “Medicaid” never passed his lips. The section on Medicare was perfunctory at best. This wasn’t a speech written to save his embattled reform. This was a speech written to save Ryan. His plan has put his reputation as a viable national Republican and a smart economic messenger at risk, and this speech was an effort to show that, budget aside, he’s still got the magic that made him look like such an effective foil to Obama lo those many months ago. That’s why the speech was delivered in Chicago — Obama’s home town, thus ensuring lots of Ryan vs. Obama headlines — and why it emphasized coinages such as “shared scarcity.” But the real news here is that Ryan’s specific reforms are, for now, dead, and even he’s decided against mounting a serious effort to revive them.

By Ezra Klein | 01:43 PM ET, 05/17/2011

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/ryan-gives-up-on-his-budget/2011/05/09/AFcEcs5G_blog.htmlhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_606w/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/ezra-klein/Sta... more

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"24th century SEALS team killed Bin Laden" ...what!?

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Noam Chomsky: My Reaction to Osama bin Laden’s Death

It’s increasingly clear that the operation was a planned assassination, multiply violating elementary norms of international law. There appears to have been no attempt to apprehend the unarmed victim, as presumably could have been done by 80 commandos facing virtually no opposition—except, they claim, from his wife, who lunged towards them. In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress “suspects.” In April 2002, the head of the FBI, Robert Mueller, informed the press that after the most intensive investigation in history, the FBI could say no more than that it “believed” that the plot was hatched in Afghanistan, though implemented in the UAE and Germany. What they only believed in April 2002, they obviously didn’t know 8 months earlier, when Washington dismissed tentative offers by the Taliban (how serious, we do not know, because they were instantly dismissed) to extradite bin Laden if they were presented with evidence—which, as we soon learned, Washington didn’t have. Thus Obama was simply lying when he said, in his White House statement, that “we quickly learned that the 9/11 attacks were carried out by al Qaeda.”

Nothing serious has been provided since. There is much talk of bin Laden’s “confession,” but that is rather like my confession that I won the Boston Marathon. He boasted of what he regarded as a great achievement.

There is also much media discussion of Washington’s anger that Pakistan didn’t turn over bin Laden, though surely elements of the military and security forces were aware of his presence in Abbottabad. Less is said about Pakistani anger that the U.S. invaded their territory to carry out a political assassination. Anti-American fervor is already very high in Pakistan, and these events are likely to exacerbate it. The decision to dump the body at sea is already, predictably, provoking both anger and skepticism in much of the Muslim world.

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What is NonAggressionism?

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Internet life coaches: Viral Video Film School

Professor Brett Erlich convenes class with the help of some guest lecturers - the Internet's self-proclaimed "life coaches." There's a mentor for everyone, whether you prefer your life coach to balance on a yoga ball, bark at you like a drill sergeant, moonlight as a professional magician, or look like Hurley from "Lost." Who says school isn't fun?

Viral Video Film School is a recurring segment on the weekly television show infoMania. In each episode of VVFS, Professor Brett Erlich teaches you valuable skills in the discipline of Viral Video making. So sit down, take notes, and try not to piss him off. For more Brett visit http://current.com/viral-video-film-school-im/ and Current TV.

infoMania is a half-hour comedy show that airs weekly on Current TV. Picture the ultimate office water-cooler, only with funnier co-workers who willingly stay up late imbibing all forms of media so you don't have to. Caveat: Bring your own water. Hosted by Brett Erlich and co-starring Sergio Cilli, Erin Gibson, Ben Hoffman and Bryan Safi, infoMania airs on Thursdays at 11/10c on Current TV.

Go to http://current.com/infomania for more, and make sure to check out our Facebook profile for special features at http://facebook.com/infomania.

Current Media, the Peabody-and Emmy Award-winning television and online network founded in 2005 by Al Gore and Joel Hyatt, engages viewers with smart, provocative and timely programming -stories that no one else is telling in ways that no one else is telling them. Current's programming shines a light where others won't dare and boldly explores important subjects -- opening minds, sparking conversations and forming deep connections with its viewers. The channel's audience is comprised of affluent, curious, social and connected adults who crave the kind of entertaining, enlightening, witty and informative programming found on Current's TV and online properties. Current is now available via cable and satellite TV in 75 million households worldwide - 60 million households in the US - through distribution partners Comcast (Channel 107); Time Warner ; DirecTV (Channel 358 nationwide); Dish Network (Channel 196 nationwide); Verizon and AT&T. In the UK and Ireland, Current is available on BSkyB (Channel 183) and Virgin Media (Channel 155), and in Italy, Current is available on Sky Italia (Channel 130). Viewers can also find Current online at www.current.com.Professor Brett Erlich convenes class with the help of some guest lecturers - the... more

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Is Free Market Capitalism an Oxymoron?

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Epic Obama / Osama mix-up

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"USA" Chant on NYC Subway FAIL

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Intoxicated Wedding Guest Crashes Reception - Bride Is Pissed (VIDEO) - The Daily Blender

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FAIL: Fat Guy Falls Off Scooter... Hard! (VIDEO) - The Daily Blender

I think he's OK ...he bounced. I'm glad he was wearing a helmet.

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See Saw MASSSIVE FAIL

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Gravity Fails: A Song

Brett Erlich sings an ode to Mother Earth for her greatest gift of all...gravity.

Viral Video Film School is a recurring segment on the weekly television show infoMania. In each episode of VVFS, Professor Brett Erlich teaches you valuable skills in the discipline of Viral Video making. So sit down, take notes, and try not to piss him off. For more Brett visit http://current.com/viral-video-film-school-im/ and Current TV.

infoMania is a weekly half-hour satirical show that puts a comedic spin on the 24/7 media overload. Picture the ultimate office water-cooler, only with funnier co-workers who willingly stay up late imbibing all forms of media so you don't have to. Hosted by Brett Erlich and co-starring Sergio Cilli, Erin Gibson, Ben Hoffman and Bryan Safi, infoMania airs on Thursdays at 11/10c on Current TV.

Go to http://current.com/infomania for more, and make sure to check out our Facebook profile for special features at http://facebook.com/infomania.

Current Media, the Peabody-and Emmy Award-winning television and online network founded in 2005 by Al Gore and Joel Hyatt, engages viewers with smart, provocative and timely programming -stories that no one else is telling in ways that no one else is telling them. Current's programming shines a light where others won't dare and boldly explores important subjects -- opening minds, sparking conversations and forming deep connections with its viewers. The channel's audience is comprised of affluent, curious, social and connected adults who crave the kind of entertaining, enlightening, witty and informative programming found on Current's TV and online properties. Current is now available via cable and satellite TV in 75 million households worldwide - 60 million households in the US - through distribution partners Comcast (Channel 107); Time Warner ; DirecTV (Channel 358 nationwide); Dish Network (Channel 196 nationwide); Verizon and AT&T. In the UK and Ireland, Current is available on BSkyB (Channel 183) and Virgin Media (Channel 155), and in Italy, Current is available on Sky Italia (Channel 130). Viewers can also find Current online at www.current.com.Brett Erlich sings an ode to Mother Earth for her greatest gift of all...gravity.... more

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Lady Gaga Trips And Falls On Stage ...Again (VIDEO) - The Daily Blender

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73 year old woman dropped into the North Sea during rescue!

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One Year Anniversary of The Gulf Oilspill . I will be posting regularly again.

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