Archive for September 15th, 2005


Uncovered: The War on Iraq - Interviews

From OurMedia.

Producer Robert Greenwald has released original video interview footage
from his documentary, Uncovered: The War on Iraq. These are legal
downloads, covered by Creative Commons.
 

All three full-length files are now available here on Ourmedia. Over 50 minutes of interview footage in all.

This is the original interview footage from the documentary film
Uncovered: The War on Iraq, produced and directed by Robert Greenwald.
The film, which has drawn attention for its pointed criticism of the
Iraq war, consists largely of interviews with former government
officials such as John Dean, Madeleine Albright, and Admiral Stansfield
Turner.

Greenwald said, “In making Uncovered, I learned how cumbersome and
expensive it can be to license footage from news organizations. The
Creative Commons license, as used here, allows me as a filmmaker to
know immediately how I can use a piece of content in my films.
I could think of no better way to walk the talk myself than by
releasing the interviews from Uncovered here under a license that
allows other filmmakers to use my material in new and creative ways.
I look forward to seeing what others do with these interviews.”

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Wiretap mosques, Romney suggests

Governor Mitt Romney raised the prospect of wiretapping mosques and conducting surveillance of foreign students in Massachusetts.

“How about people who are in settings — mosques, for instance — that
may be teaching doctrines of hate and terror,” Romney continued. “Are
we monitoring that? Are we wiretapping? Are we following what’s going
on?”

As if Al Qaeda would be stupid enough to recruit publicly in a mosque.
They are many things, clueless is not one of them. Romney, on the other
hand, demonstrates deep cluelessness with his uncomprehending remarks
on how to uncover terrorists.

However, a country where the citizenry is monitored constantly is no
doubt precisely what Romney and the rest of the repressive neocons
want, and fighting terrorism makes a convenient smokescreen for
implementing that.

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Here come the Greedheads


Speculators rushing in as the water recedes




Would-be home buyers are betting New Orleans will be a boomtown.

Brace yourself for this shocker.

And many of the city’s poorest residents could end up being forced out.

I can see it now, a “restored” French Quarter
surrounded by pricey condos and homes. A simulacrum of what once was
real, existing as image only, with no real soul. And free from all
those pesky non-wealthy people.

A common definition of the simulacrum
is a copy of a copy whose relation to the model has become so
attenuated that it can no longer properly be said to be a copy.



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More on NOLA devastation and inaction

From WaPo

No one has been
able to say how many people died inside the convention center; police,
military and center officials estimate the number is about 10. Nor has
there been any attempt to document the number of assaults, robberies
and rapes that eyewitnesses said occurred from the time the first
people broke into the convention center seeking shelter on the
afternoon of Monday, Aug. 29, and when units of the Arkansas National
Guard moved into the center on Friday, Sept. 2.

But even without those numbers, what happened in the convention center
stands as a harsh indictment of government’s failure to help its
citizens when they needed it most.

From hip hop activist Rosa Clemente on Sept. 13.

As we went down
Canel street the damage was surreal, there was a boat in the street,
toxic sludge in the streets, what we immediately noticed, was the
number of police, military, contractors, and Blackwater mercenaries
protecting property.

We came up on the Convention Center, and after all the clean up, it
still looked like a living hell, the smell of dead bodies was
overwhelming, what was more crazy and shows the inhumanity, the
VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS as defined by the Internatinal Convention on
Human Rights and the CRIMINAL MISCONDUCT of these devils, and that
includes, Condi and Alberto, is that there were plenty of hotels, The
Marriot, The Wyndham, The Holiday Inn, that were completely habitable.

As New Orleans is under marshal law, last night around 6:30pm the
military informed us that anyone on the streets would get a warning
shot, and after that be shot on the spot, throughout the night, we saw
groups of white men riding around in pickup trucks, vigilantes, along
with the NOPD and the @#%$ NYPD, yes, yes yall the NYPD is in the
house, this is the battle ground, this is the BATTLE FOR ALGIERS, we
are on our way to Baton Rouge, Houston, TX and Jackson, MI, more to
come.

She was arrested last night for reporting. Details coming.

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L.A. Event. Join Africa Bambaataa this Saturday at Lemiert Park

This Saturday, September 17, 2005 from 2-5pm
at KAOS Network (4343 Leimert Blvd, LA, CA)

Leimert Park, CA, LALOC, KAOS NETWORK and JUICE present an Intergenerational Forum to
bring the generations together to address misperceptions, find common
ground and begin healing our communities by working together.

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Latinos souring on Schwarzenegger and his party

In an open letter, a group of Republicans says the GOP is ‘politically stupid.

As he
prepares to launch his reelection bid, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is
facing attack from a group of fellow Republicans who condemn his record
on Latino appointments and assail the state GOP as “morally wrong and
politically stupid” in its treatment of Latino candidates.




In an unusual open letter drafted for
release today, the activists offer a litany of political grievances and
assert that “the California Republican Party and its key leaders are
systematically excluding Latinos from any kind of meaningful role in
the state party or state government.”

The letter noted that Schwarzenegger has no Latinos in his cabinet or in senior positions.

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The repression escalates

Investigators
appointed by the Vatican have been instructed to review each of the 229
Roman Catholic seminaries in the United States for “evidence of homosexuality” and for faculty members who dissent from church teaching.

Suddenly the Monty Python “No one expects the Spanish Inquisition” isn’t nearly as funny any more.


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