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On August 8th 2008, Nicolas Sarkozy will represent both France and Europe at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Beijing.
Before this day arrives, we ask you to watch the three short films that we have made with the help of Chinese dissidents, Tibetan refugees, film-maker friends from Mémoire Magnétique and countless volunteers
from here and elsewhere.
Reporters Sans Frontières have also joined our cause.
Click on the link,
Watch,
Think,
And if you s…
Posted by Team T@Z on August 5th, 2008 at 7:30pm — No Comments
Venezuela has been a focus of interest for people on the left and on the right. What is Venezuela all about? Where has it come from, where it going, and who is taking it there? This a documentary Julia Capon and I directed and produced, using the 2006 presidential elections as window into the answers to these questions and to pierce through much of the conventional wisdom on Venezuela.
Renderyard, in association with the Alternative Channel and Rethos are hosting a three day open scree…
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Today I attended a demonstration against Shell Oil's projected exploration and development of the Klappan Valley, a place where deep underground lie beds of anthracite, thought to contain (possibly) commercial quantities of natural gas. The Klappan Valley is adjacent to the "Sacred Headwaters", the sources of three great rivers: the Nass, the Skeena, and the Stikine. Peoples along the rivers fear contamination, both of the water and of the salmon that migrate yearly up and down these great arter…
Posted by Skeena on July 15th, 2008 at 9:47pm — No Comments
Source : ZEITGEIST ( Copy left )
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Life isn’t always easy. Some say life is a struggle, a challenge. We often hear the saying “up a creek without a paddle.” Life can be a test, you’re either prepared or unprepared. Who we become as adults is greatly influenced by the way we are raised as children. The abilities and skills to survive and excel in this test of life are forever ingrained in us by our parents and educators. In this fast-paced ever evolving world, the prepared are able to rise to the challenges of life and fortune of…
Posted by Doris Anne Beaulieu on June 26th, 2008 at 3:17pm — No Comments
Last night BBC world news america reported that Hugo Chavez is a president under pressure, and that he is all over the place on policy.
They support these claims by pointing to his most recent decisions, especially his apparent shift in position on the farc, calling on them to lay down their arms and give up their armed struggle, when he just a few months ago asked the international community to acknowledge the farc as being a legitimate army.
This apparent shift in position is…
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Much as passed since I last ventured onto this site. I'm now writing full-time for Fast Forward Weekly in Calgary as one of the staff news writers. It's fun and exhausting, but I love it.
As a journalist, remaining objective can be tiring, especially in Alberta, . Few media outlets in this neck of the woods are willing or able to dig beneath the rhetoric that spews from the mouths of government PR or the oil and gas industry. It is saddening to say the least. And the "official" opposit…
Posted by Trevor Howell on June 8th, 2008 at 5:55pm — No Comments
So with Bob Barr getting the nomination and Mike gravel out, I find myself baffled that some one who shares more interest within the Libertarian party than any of the other candidates. I also find it baffling that Gravel still didn't have a full fledged organized team. There is only one thing I can conclude here and that is despite Gravel's anti-war chanter, and despite Gravels accurate and legitimate criticism of modern American society, Gravel; in my own opinion, knew that he couldn't win any…
Posted by Peter Fulgham on June 4th, 2008 at 6:40pm — No Comments
I know the junkies have many videos on net neutrality, as well as other places such as YouTube, etc.. but with Comcast's recent decision to follow in Time Warner's footsteps, it is time we all became more active in ensuring the future of a free and neutral internet. Time Warner Cable is loosing too much money, and they wish to recoup that by preventing people from easily or cheaply watching videos online.
Time Warners version is a monthly fee with a limit (40g). ABOVE the LIMIT will be…
Posted by David Manning on May 27th, 2008 at 6:29pm — No Comments
Yesterday i watched a scientific documental in a french channel called ARTE. Scientist stayed on a boat for more than one year, in the ice of the antarctic. Their findings are more then alarming. A third of the ice is missing.(melted) Most scientists, so far, where always talking about periods of 30- 40- 50 and 100 years, till we will experience any significant change. What these scientists are saying now is : we will experience drastical climat change within the next 10 years. The changes that…
Posted by volker barion on May 25th, 2008 at 4:39pm — 2 Comments
This spring we began to expand our garden area on our five acre property from the modest flower and vegetable garden near the house to now include an area at lest ten times the size. An ambitious undertaking. A local farmer, 89 years old, came in on his small tractor and tilled the soil in two areas. The plan was to plant more vegetables in the larger piece and sunflowers in the other. As the work has gone on now for about 3 weeks now, the idea has expanded to include potatoes, onions, leeks, to…
Posted by Steven Michael Pague on May 21st, 2008 at 10:24am — No Comments
It makes you feel very upset initially, as would any situation where you realise that you have been lied to for so long and even when you thought that you had arrived at some truth, in fact you were just lifting yet another veil to reveal a further veil...
That's how I feel about Chomsky and his ilk... but what I like about Mr Watt is that he leads a simple life, doesn't make much money AT ALL, doesn't have ties to any of the groups or organisations who exert the control that he speaks…
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For the people of Tibet
i received this wonderful link here today
http://www.for-the-people-of-tibet.net
it is a huge wave of love towards the people in Tibet
have a look
Posted by volker barion on April 10th, 2008 at 4:41pm — No Comments
The intelligence who created this mess, is not the intelligence that will solve it. Because the intelligence that can solve it, would not have created it in the first place. So if you look for any changes through politics, you will not see anything. They do not make live better, all they do is create chaos. To get into power, they promise you anything and more. Once in power, they turn against you. Now you votet and you slowly start seeing their real face. But now its too late, you can`t do anyt…
Posted by volker barion on April 8th, 2008 at 5:47pm — 2 Comments
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Now that America is preparing for a five to ten year recession,
and states like California and Florida cannot even afford to keep
their parks open, we need to ask ourselves: how do we get money
so that we may pay our bills?
The Inevitable Legalization of Cannabis
Columbia ships cocaine to America through Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. It's true. Planes fly coke from Columbia, make a stop at the negative star hotel, and off to Alberto Gonzales and the Miami cops for d…
Posted by andrew damisch on April 5th, 2008 at 2:04pm — No Comments
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No where in the bible does it say to give money to preachers so they can help people, these so called ministers help themselves. A person shared with me one time and said that it was ok if the stole, just as long as they use some of the money to help people. My respose, you cant kiss someone nine times slap them once and say the nine kisses cover the one slap. It is either all kisses or all slaps.
Posted by Charles J. Garcia on April 5th, 2008 at 1:37pm — No Comments
Just saying hello, and thanks to the office in Toronto for telling me about this site!
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Why are you reading this? I don't have any expertise in politics, sociology, economics, opera or fishing. I don't have any university degrees in the humanities. I'm only qualified, some say, to quantify and interpret natural phenomena. So who am I to comment on civilization or whatnot, these artificial phenomena so removed from chemical reality?
Perhaps you're a blogger, awash in the DIY zeitgeist, Web2.0-energy crackling from the eyes, each muscle contraction triggering a cascade of bi…
Posted by RMB Hoffman on March 10th, 2008 at 10:07pm — 1 Comment
Many forms of government are possible: monarchy, autocracy, socialism, communism, libertarianism, fascism, feudalism, anarcho-syndicalism, democracy, and so on, An oligarchy (or concentrated power in the hands of a few) may either be a part of, or the main drive of some of these forms. Oligarchy may manifest itself as an emergent power structure; oligarchy is a possible extension of some governmental forms. Democracy may also lead to oligarchy. The end game of the FREE TRADE AGENDA --in the form…
Posted by andrew damisch on March 4th, 2008 at 3:26am — No Comments
economy is driven by education, man-hours worked, capital investment and technology. It is not driven by what I owe you
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"In the Japanese warrior tradition you would shame an opponent. A real sword expert would aim his slice at the first four fingers of his opponent's sword hand. This would cost a warrior his livelihood and someone suffering this wound would normally commit suicide rather than live without their sword hand.
"That's what I…
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Posted by Jean-Francois William on February 26th, 2008 at 1:07pm — No Comments
I have been concerned for sometime about the misinformation we get because of the monopoly of big corporations owning the media. For example there were thousands of people marching to impeach Bush and Cheney in Washington in September 07 and there was no reporting of it in news tv or print. The liberal blogs were the only ones that wrote about it.
I want to see citizens demand legislation that does not allow corporations to own the media, like Rupert Murdoch, Roger Ailes just a couple…
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Recently, I attended a noon presentation by a representative of Nova Scota-Gambia Association - under a title "The Bright Faces of Africa". They ( the NSGA ) are doing a really good job of educating a selected citizens from Gambia towards a better lives, fight against HIV/AIDS and so on. However, I found some information about this small country at the West Coast of Africa ( through the sight World Facts Book ), and was appalled at the following condition which definitelly would not bring "..…
Posted by Dan Kustudich on February 11th, 2008 at 8:21pm — No Comments
Hello to all sharp thinking supporters,
During a recent coverage of the debate on whether Canadian solgiers should continue to "fight" against the "insergents, resistence warriors, or the 'enemy'", depending whose definition you accept, the interviewees are always sellected from those who are obviously
prejudicial to the power brokers, from pentagon, or some other right wing corporate gang.
WHY is it that we never hear the spokespersons who are opposing this senseless, or…
Posted by Dan Kustudich on February 11th, 2008 at 7:43pm — No Comments
We now have a new incentive to take good care of our health. Technology is allowing us to live longer and it will also help us live better. We are at the dawn of genetic engineering, gene specific organ and tisssue replacements , therapeutic pharmacology and the use of nanotechnology to discover and cure diseases by monitoring our blood streams. Scientists now have the tools to race ahead and find cures and perhaps preventions for diseases such as diabetes, hearth disease, Parkinson's , Alzhe…
Posted by JUDY BATAY on January 31st, 2008 at 11:16pm — No Comments
The word "animal" comes from the Latin word animal, of which animalia is the plural, and is derived from anima, meaning vital breath or soul. In everyday colloquial usage, the word usually refers to non-human animals. The biological definition of the word refers to all members of the Kingdom Animalia.
Therefore, when the word "animal" is used in a biological context, humans are included
So Greenpeace, the RSPCA and WWF should all be outraged that more people die of starvation ev…
Posted by Jonathan Crabtree on January 24th, 2008 at 6:07am — No Comments
In a November 2006 article for Harper's Magazine, Barack Obama Inc.: The birth of a Washington machine, Ken Silverstein noted that one of Obama's greatest talents is his ability to be a mirror to others values and aspirations, and to communicate the feeling to people of all political stripes that he's on your side. Obama's current campaign, which has drawn an unbelievable number of supporters with a nebulous and unspecified…
Posted by Ben Jackson on January 17th, 2008 at 5:11pm — 1 Comment
I contemplate the situation where nothing exists and then, there is us
and the universe we perceive and I ask; How is it that something
exists? Can it be that something can spring from nothing?
The glib answer from those of little imagination is to assert that
there cannot be nothing, that where nothing exists there is still a
god. I assert that that is a good answer for monkeys, not
philosophers. It simply avoids the conundrum by refusing to ask
how that god exists. Note that I do no…
Posted by Peter Cohen on January 16th, 2008 at 10:49pm — 1 Comment
Posted by andrew damisch on January 10th, 2008 at 2:17am — No Comments
A hand count in New Hampshire differs wildly from the original outcome Diebold machines recorded. There is no doubt votes were not counted correctly, New Hampshire voters themselves said that while they, themselves voted for a certain candidate, the results posted recorded 0 votes for that candidate.
This needs to be stopped, NOW. I do not post this as a supporter of any particular candidate, I post this as an American. An American who believes that no matter how ill-informed or how co…
Posted by Sarmonster on January 10th, 2008 at 1:06am — 2 Comments
Los terroristas sólo existen en el imaginario cultural como un producto de demagogia, propaganda, publicidad, pero sobretodo, como un producto de la ignorancia de las masas. Es presisamente esta falta de conocimiento y pensamiento crítico lo que hace a la mayoría de la gente tragarse estas construcciones retóricas de lo que es el terrorismo. Las fuentes principales de estas construcciones semánticas proceden principalmente de las diferentes instituciones hegemónicas de nuestra sociedad y de las…
Posted by Fernando Castro - Alvarez on January 9th, 2008 at 7:38pm — No Comments
Kyoto and Disarmament
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Posted by Edward H. Craill on January 3rd, 2008 at 10:29pm — No Comments
Thanks to a notice sent by Canadian Haiti Action Network I just saw Randall Robiinson's appearance on Charlie Rose recorded on 12/26/2007. Finally, a bit of truth about the shameful coup of 2004 makes it to mainstream media. Sadly, this bit of truth must include Canada's complicity. The video can be seen at
http://www.charlierose.com/shows/2007/12/26/2/a-conversation-with-author-randall-…
Posted by Reynold Reimer on January 3rd, 2008 at 1:00am — No Comments
This article was sent to The Real News by a supporter. I thought you may all like to look at it and post comments. Download Kyoto and Disarmament.doc It was written by a contributor, Ted Craill.
Enjoy
Posted by Geraldine on January 2nd, 2008 at 1:35pm — 1 Comment
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CBC = Corporate fascist, told to keep mouth shut, liars??!!
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/national/070823/n0823114A.html
"Police said the three were told to monitor protesters who were not
peacefully demonstrating to prevent any violent incidents, but they were
called out as undercover agents when they refused to throw objects."
At no time were the rock wielding underc…
Posted by Frederick R. Palmer on December 31st, 2007 at 7:25pm — 3 Comments
I did not study economics when I was getting my bachelors degree, so I came to the ideas and laws of economics sideways - in conversations with friends, and by following my own interests in urban planning and politics. In recent news, Ron Paul, one of the republican candidates for the office of the president, has spoken in several televised debates about how the U.S. dollar is made "out of thin air". Some of Paul's supporters would like to return our monetary system to a commodity-backed currenc…
Posted by U. Brayj on December 28th, 2007 at 5:22pm — No Comments
I currently have an idea of taking a work truck (from the electric company, gas company, or city) and converting it to a biodiesel engine running it off of filtered vegetable oil from local restaraunts. Most restaraunts have to have their used oil disposed of anyway why not have the city buy it and filter it into a very eviromentally friendly, efficient source of energy.
I understand that the city would need to hire workers to filter the oil and collect it but in the long run the c…
Posted by Raymond LeMay on December 24th, 2007 at 5:20pm — 3 Comments
If you live in Idaho Legislative Districts 3, 7, 11, 12, 27, 31, 33, then your legislator should hear from you about Fair Elections. You can use this example letter. More information is at http://fp1.centurytel.net/democracy/.
Example letter, email, or telephone conversation to Senator Davis. You can use this letter for Senators Stegner, Davis, Little, Geddes, McKenzie,
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Coleridge noted that "the most savage of men are not beasts. They are something worse...much worse." FCC Chairman Kevin Martin is much worse and is pushing for immediate unmediated media conglomeration in p
Posted by Tim Hollis on December 17th, 2007 at 9:21pm — No Comments
Suppression of the truth by media is not a natural state of affairs in a free country.
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I have two post-secondary degrees related to communication and mass media. I'm in the process of choosing my news-gathering equipment. So far I think I need an HD video camera, a wireless equipped laptop, and perhaps a high resolution still-camera.
The most overlooked engineering on video cameras is the audio. There must be external audio inputs on the camera, either RCA, or mini stereo XLR phone jacks. I will also need a good set of wireless microphones. You can tell I've been away fr…
Posted by SPFLDnet on December 16th, 2007 at 10:52am — No Comments
You can help democracy now.…
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Kinkiller Steals To The Bone: Caught'chya!
by Andrew Damisch
Gonzales secured for his personal ownership (like a skull pirate from the drink. i mean Locker!) hundreds of thousands of dollars as a fee to uh--not narc on the DEA in Texas. The DEA was aware of the House of Death, a torture chamber and slaughterhouse used (by the DEA) to stamp out the embers of intervening drug warlords. In other words, Gonzales profited from the DEA's guilt by refusing to te…
Posted by andrew damisch on December 12th, 2007 at 5:17pm — No Comments
Prevention of Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism
Guilty of every offense resident in its newspeakian lingo, radical extremist legislators have criminalized the eighty-nine per cen
Posted by Tim Hollis on December 11th, 2007 at 4:05pm — No Comments
So I'm going to be in Greece, getting some stuff set up for school, between the 18th and 30th of January. I'll be flying into Saloniki, and going on to Athens after about 5 days or so.
If there are any junkies in the area, let me know if you want to grab a cup of coffee or something.
Just to let you know, my Greek sucks (πάρα πολύ :/), so, all questions in Greek will be diverted to, and answered by, my local friends. :)
So, come on... who wants Starbucks?!
The one…
Posted by Mark on December 10th, 2007 at 8:04am — No Comments
Many who have followed the Bush Administration's roller coaster ride through the halls of American government have been subjected to an onslaught of increasingly volatile, and hostile, lather of rhetoric from President George W. Bush and his cohorts. That there seems to be no end to their Machiavellian disregard for the sensibilities of the governed leaves one thinking, whether there is not a massive campaign by the current administration to make the American people the butt of their jokes. Howe…
Posted by Greg Winterborne on December 9th, 2007 at 7:59am — No Comments
Hello to all RN Junkies,
During the past week we have read about the tremendous number of people in Bangladesh
being victims of typhoon weather and flooding. However, in almost all of these reports there
is NO mention of various FACTS related to the country of Bangladesh. Let me give you some of these. Situated in the delta of rivers Ganges and Jamura, it has only about
140,000 km.sq. and a population of close to 150 million . This gives a tremendous population DEN…
Posted by Dan Kustudich on December 8th, 2007 at 5:51pm — No Comments