President Bush "shoe-in" for worst prez ever??
Don't miss Fox News commentator's poignant conclusion!
Don't miss Fox News commentator's poignant conclusion!
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Ray McGovern: Rumsfeld's departure and replacement by Gates allowed US to continue unpopular war.
(Compare with, Bush's departure and replacement by Obama allows US to continue unpopular war.)
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as early as obama was a serious contender for the democratic primary, my dad said he felt somebody would try to kill him. obama would be too prominent, too symbolic, and too much of a shift in leadership for many in this country to accept. i wondered if a well-armed, racist, home-grown, white american wouldn't adopt a method of assassination that has worked so many times overseas in the form of a suicide bombing. i hope it never comes to pass, but i still feel people are going to try like never before to assassinate him.
below is an excellent video documenting the potential assassination plots coming from american white supremacist groups. the cover of the "national worker" magazine that is displayed about 3/4 of the way through the video made my jaw drop.
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"There were 130 members of the House, 23 members of the Senate who voted against war; Barack Obama did not choose one of them to be in his cabinet"--Amy Goodman.
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Jeremy Scahill talks about the rise of private military contractors, and how this might look for the world. The first half of his talk is mostly about Obama's challenges, while the second half's about privatization, with some deviations.
http://www.zmag.org/zaudio/2894
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On DN. The Chomsky segment begins at min. 29:00. How Obama movement is illusory populist movement; Obama's appointments / Clinton presidency No. 2; more. Click here.
(The first half hour is Part 2 of Amy Goodman's interview with scurrilous terrorist Bill Ayers.)
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i've been reading about the Providence, RI, underground art/music scene this weekend because of my new found interest in john dwyer of the coachwhips, pink and brown, and his most recent work with thee oh sees. it seems as though much of the most innovative and daring work in the late 90s came from a collective, now disbanded, that dwyer was a member of called Fort Thunder. pictures of the old Fort Thunder, which is now a parking lot, are here >> http://fortthunder.02909.com/gallery-00.html
The problem lies in the fact that institutions devoted to preserving and promoting documents tend to think in terms of a legacy of objects. They see their work as part of a long chain of objects, and what counts to them is things with faces attached- not events or experiences. Their world is the world of paintings, and books; manifestos and letters of intent; things to be hung up, shelved, counted, sorted and named. They draw a circle around some, and not others- giving labels where perhaps none belong- and in doing so eliminate everything contradictory, ephemeral, and fragile.from a 2006 nytimes article about a retrospective on the providence scene >>
Their imposed coherence can never do justice to something that is in fact unlimited, wild and unpredictable- something indefinitely growing and changing.
Something dangerous. This is a thing called culture- moments and shared experiences for the "us" who are watching, listening and making.
Another product of the Providence/RISD scene is Ryan Trecartin, a recent graduate of the school whose brilliant senior-year film, “A Family Finds Entertainment,” may be the apotheosis of Fort Thunder’s collage-cartoon aesthetic. It was screened at the 2006 Whitney Biennial on a small monitor near the elevator and was not widely noticed.below is the first of five youtube videos of a family finds entertainment. i think it's pretty awesome.
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On Vietnam and activism today.
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Part 1. Part 2 will "Ayer" on Monday.
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