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Inside Story - Zimbabwe's political conundrum - 25 Jun 08 P1
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With no challenger after the opposition leader announced his withdrawal, and with this Friday's presidential run-off virtually meaningless, is it time for the international community to intervene in Zimbabwe? Will the elections become a referendum on Mugabe's policies? |
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Beatbox Political Debate
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Sketch by Last Comic Standing's Drennon Davis.
Cast in order:
Moderator - Nato Green
Senator - Tim Lee
Docter Beat Master - Drennon Davis
Rapper #1 - Moshe Kasher
Rapper #2 - Reggie Steele
Back up singer - Marcella Arguello
Dancer #1 - Star
Dancer #2 - Nihal
Dancer #3 - Edwin Li
Production Credits
Directed by Matt Prigmore and Drennon Davis
Director of Photography - Jon Bowerbank
Editor - Tim Lee
Sound - Ben Lunden
Grip - Joy Lam
For more comedy by Drennon Davis go to www.drennondavis.com |
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Political activists detained in Bangladesh - 17 Jun 08
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The country has been under emergency rule for over a year and a half, but as Bangladesh prepares for its elections in December, a nationwide crackdown has already started.
Opposition sources say the detainees are mostly grassroots activists, including leaders of the Awami league and Bangladesh nationalist party, who say they will boycott talks on organising an election later in the year.
In the last two weeks, the interim government says its detained at least 25,000 people, on charges of corruption.
Among them, the eldest son of Khaleda Zia, former prime minister.
Lawyers for Tareque Rahman said he has been tortured during custody, and that he may be permanently crippled as a result.
However Zia's son is one case among thousands, as Al Jazeera's Nicolas Haque reports from Dhaka. |
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Political Science 179 - Election 2008 - Lecture 2
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Political issues facing the state of California, the United States, or the international community.
Instructor: Alan Ross
Guest Lecturer: Senator Mike Gravel - Former Democratic Senator from Alaska
http://polisci.berkeley.edu/ |
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Helter Skelter X
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This is a cover of Helter Skelter, aka Electro Skeletor, featuring Senator Mike Gravel, Libertarian candidate for president. http://www.gravel2008.us. and http:/www.youtube.com/gravel2008. More soonest. |
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Political Humour - American Dad Featurette
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I do not own American Dad. American Dad is owned by Fox Studios and it's Creators.
This is a special featurette from the American Dad Volume 2 DVD which can be (and in my opinion should be) purchased from all major retailers.
Enjoy. |
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hillary 'a monster' (Samantha Power, clinton and Genocide)
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HILLARY A MONSTER! 'historical reference,' indeed
(Samantha Power, clinton and Genocide)
The Barack Obama campaign is about to pay a very high price for the inopportune words of one of its most distinguished foreign policy advisors. The dazzlingly brilliant journalist, Pulitzer-prize winning author, and Harvard professor, Samantha Power, has been forced to resign from the campaign after she recklessly told a reporter that Hillary Clinton is a "monster."
In the pungently hypocritical game of American politics, this is just something outside the rules. Whether it's true, or not, matters little. Nor does it matter that the object of Power's derision has just finished spending millions on TV ads implying that Obama would be responsible for the countless deaths of millions of American children sleeping at 3 a.m. Tut, tut. Nothing monstrous about that.
Power was rightfully awarded the Pulitzer for her finely written and downright horrifying book "A Problem From Hell" which, in macabre detail, describes the calculated indifference of the Clinton administration when 800,000 Rwandans were being systematically butchered. The red phone rang and rang and rang again. I don't know where Hillary was then. But her husband and his entire experienced foreign policy team - from the brass in the Pentagon to the congenitally feckless Secretary of State Warren Christopher - just let it ring.
And as more than one researcher has amply documented the case, the bloody paralysis of the Clinton administration in the face of the Rwandan genocide owed not at all to a lack of information, but rather to a lack of will. A reviewer of Power's book for The New York Times, perhaps summed it up best, saying that the picture of Clinton that emerges from this reading is that of an "amoral narcissist."
Former Canadian General Romeo Dallaire, who commanded the UN forces in Rwanda at the time of the genocide, tells us a similar story in his own memoir. General Dallaire recounts how, at the height of the Rwandan holocaust, he got a phone call from a Clinton administration staffer who wanted to know how many Rwandans had already died, how many were refugees and how many were internally displaced. Writes Dallaire: "He told me that his estimates indicated that it would take the deaths of 85,000 Rwandans to justify the risking of the life of one American soldier." Eventually, ten times that many would die. And our response? A handful of years later, at a photo-op stopover in Kigali airport, Bill Clinton bit his lip and said he was sorry.
Therein resides the richest and saddest irony of all. Samantha Power has actually lived the sort of life that Hillary Clinton's campaign staff has, for public consumption, invented for its candidate. Though not quite 40 years old, Power has spent no time on any Wal-Mart boards but has rather dedicated her entire adult life rather tirelessly to championing humanitarian causes. She has spoken up when others were silent. She took great personal risks during the Balkan wars to witness and record and denounce the carnage (She reported that Bill Clinton intervened against the Serbs only when he felt he was losing personal credibility as a result of his inaction. "I'm getting creamed," Power quoted the then-President saying as he fretted over global consternation over his own hesitation to act).
We gave Power the Pulitzer for exposing the, well, monstrous indifference of the Clinton administration as it stared unblinkingly and immobile into the face of massive horror. But we give her a kick in the backside and throw her out the door when she has the temerity to publicly restate all that in one impolite word. Monstrous, indeed.
Clinton, Genocide and a Campaign Gaffe.
by Marc Cooper.
March 7, 2008. |
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Ron Paul on Bloomberg TV, Political Capital, 11/23/2007
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Ron Paul on Bloomberg Television, Political Capital with Al Hunt 11/23/2007
Text article:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=axM7t8OfWxFg
Bloomberg Political Capital with Al Hunt:
http://www.bloomberg.com/tvradio/podcast/politicalcapital.html
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Ron Paul versus Ben Bernanke:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4kxTkhwR_Q
Ron Paul Schools Ben Bernanke Again
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAwvlDJgJbM
Gold, Peace, and Prosperity
http://www.mises.org/books/goldpeace.pdf
Case for Gold, The
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1982. Cato Institute 1982.
http://www.mises.org/books/caseforgold.pdf
Mises and Austrian Economics: A Personal View
http://www.mises.org/books/paulmises.pdf
The Economy and Monetary Policy
http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/topic.php?id=9
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American Freedom Agenda Act of 2007
http://www.americanfreedomcampaign.org///storage/afagenda/documents/AFA%20Act%20text.pdf
Email your Congressman in support of the American Freedom Agenda Act of 2007, Republican or Democrat, it doesn't matter:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2165/t/1027/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=17371
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Thomas Jefferson
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Ron Paul 2008 Presidential Campaign:
http://www.ronpaul2008.com
Ron Paul YouTube Channel:
http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=RonPaul2008dotcom
Ron Paul United States Congress Website:
http://www.house.gov/paul
Political Positions of Ron paul:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Ron_Paul
Ron Paul Library:
http://www.ronpaullibrary.org
Daily Paul:
http://www.dailypaul.com
Congressman Ron Paul Archives
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul-arch.html
Ron Paul campaign literature files are freely available at meetup sites
like the Houston Meetup.com group:
http://ronpaul.meetup.com/24/files/
Speech: A Republic if You Can Keep it, January 31, 2000
http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2000/cr020200.htm
Primaries, Open and Closed (this is important):
Open and Closed (if closed, you need to register as a Republican to vote in the Primary, as distasteful as it may
be, or Ron Paul may not win the Primary and will not be on the Presidential ballot). The largest obstacle is the
Republican Primary:
http://www.primarilypaul.com/ron-paul-in-the-primaries/ |
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Mahathir on KJ as his 'political son'
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On a story in Sunday Star in which Khairy Jamaluddin, Umno youth's deputy chief and the PM's son-in-law, was referred to as a 'political son of Mahathir' ... |
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We're the Government -- and You're Not
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What if the U.S. government released an "educational video" to teach today's Americans how to be good citizens? |
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John Cleese SDP/Liberal Alliance political broadcast 1987
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John Cleese does a party political broadcast on the subject of extremism for the British centre-ist party (or parties), the SDP/Liberal Alliance. A very convincing and funny piece of propaganda it is, makes you want to vote for them. Just a shame you'll never get the chance, The Alliance got annihalated in the '87 election and had split up and disbanded within a year. Still, it's not all tears, A Fish Called Wanda was soon to do great box.
Broadcast on April Fools Day 1987 |
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Doug Stanhope's "Political Saturation"
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Watch it. Courtesy of Sacred Cow. |
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