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12:55:00 10/24/11
Lion King, Kim Kardashian, OWS - NTN #085
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Nearly The News #085
THE CIRCLE OF REALLY BAD DREAMS
Cap News is reporting that Disney Studios re-release of its classic animated film The Lion King, will offer a whole new generation of children the chance to be traumatized when the young protagonist witnesses his father's brutal murder and is tricked into believing he is responsible for the death.
"The scene where Mufasa falls from a cliff and is trampled to death as Simba watches helplessly was probably the single most wrenching emotional moment for millions of children in the 1990s," said Edwin Catmull, president of Disney Animation Studios. "That's what Disney is all about."
Catmull noted that since the new version is in Disney Digital 3-D, the experience will be even more poignant for today's youngsters, who will feel like Mufasa "is falling to his death right on top of them."
VEGAS BOOKIES: SHOULD HAVE TAKEN THE OVER
Gamblers in Vegas are scratching their heads over the continuing marriage of Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries. A casino spokesman told NTN that the over/under on how long the relationship would last was two months, three days. “Some bettors are going to take a real bath,” said the source. “But I guess love wins out… or they just haven’t closed their merch deals for their divorce special yet.”
OWS: CHAPTER SIXTY FOUR – VEGAN CABINET POSITIONS
And finally…
Occupy Wall Street, the grass roots movement that has been holding sit ins across the country, has responded to criticism that it is just an unfocused bunch of hippies, lefties and college kids, by releasing a list of demands totaling some six hundred pages.
“We got really cranked last night, took out our Ipads and the words just flowed,” said an OWS spokesperson wearing a mask. “We want more vegan mayors in government, no more bank profits, and like, stop killing animals for lipstick testing… cause that sucks too.”
Other demands from the group include an overhauling of the feds monetary policy, breast feeding rights for the transgendered, and Cheetos.
This episode written by Colin Friesen.
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16:00:53 02/12/11
Tim Pawlenty Echoes the Bush Years in His CPAC Speech
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Although this year's CPAC convention has been strangely void of any formal discussion about the events unfolding in Egypt or jobs for unemployed Americans, Tim Pawlenty did manage to remind us all of what these last three weeks would have looked like if George Bush had been in office. In his speech today, Pawlenty slammed President Obama for allowing Egyptians to determine Egypt's future in their way and their time. >
"Bullies respect strength, they don't respect weakness," Pawlenty said in a speech to the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington. "So when the United States of America projects its national security interests here and around the world, we need to do it with strength. We need to make sure that there is no equivocation, no uncertainty, no daylight between us and our allies around the world."
Pawlenty called it a simple principle that the White House "doesn't seem to understand."
"We undermine Israel, the U.K., Poland, Czech Republic, Colombia, amongst other of our friends," Pawlenty said. "Meanwhile, we appease Iran, Russia, and adversaries in the Middle East, including Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.
"Mr. President, with bullies, might makes right. Strength makes them submit. We need to get tough on our enemies, not on our friends. And, Mr. President, stop apologizing for our country," Pawlenty said in one of his speech's biggest applause lines.
"The bullies, terrorists and tyrants of the world have lots to apologize for. America does not."
It's worth contrasting that with President Obama's speech made shortly after TPaw's spew:
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And above all, we saw a new generation emerge -- a generation that uses their own creativity and talent and technology to call for a government that represented their hopes and not their fears; a government that is responsive to their boundless aspirations. One Egyptian put it simply: Most people have discovered in the last few days -- that they are worth something, and this cannot be taken away from them anymore, ever.
This is the power of human dignity, and it can never be denied. Egyptians have inspired us, and they've done so by putting the lie to the idea that justice is best gained through violence. For in Egypt, it was the moral force of nonviolence -- not terrorism, not mindless killing -- but nonviolence, moral force that bent the arc of history toward justice once more.
And while the sights and sounds that we heard were entirely Egyptian, we can't help but hear the echoes of history -- echoes from Germans tearing down a wall, Indonesian students taking to the streets, Gandhi leading his people down the path of justice.
As Martin Luther King said in celebrating the birth of a new nation in Ghana while trying to perfect his own, There is something in the soul that cries out for freedom." Those were the cries that came from Tahrir Square, and the entire world has taken note.
For TPaw, respecting Israel et al means showing force, shaking our guns at whoever they call enemy instead of respecting the right of people to determine their government. How is it disrepecting democracies to support democracy?
When I read what he said, I was whisked back to the days of George W. Bush. In 2002, he gave a speech where he called for Palestinians to enact true political reform, including free and fair elections. He promised that if they did so, the United States would support them.
In 2006, the Palestinians elected Hamas in elections supervised by the UN and deemed to be free and fair. In a press conference following the elections, Mr. Bush paid lip service to the democratic process and then refused to acknowledge the Palestinians' duly elected representatives.
Juan Cole, writing for Salon: >
In a mystifying self-contradiction, Bush trumpeted that "the Palestinians had an election yesterday, the results of which remind me about the power of democracy." If elections were really the same as democracy, and if Bush was so happy about the process, then we might expect him to pledge to work with the results, which by his lights would be intrinsically good. But then he suddenly swerved away from this line of thought, reverting to boilerplate and saying, "On the other hand, I don't see how you can be a partner in peace if you advocate the destruction of a country as part of your platform. And I know you can't be a partner in peace if you have a -- if your party has got an armed wing."
So Bush is saying that even though elections are democracy and democracy is good and powerful, it has produced unacceptable results in this case, and so the resulting Hamas government will lack the legitimacy necessary to allow the United States to deal with it or go forward in any peace process. Bush's double standard is clear in his diction, since he was perfectly happy to deal with Israel's Likud Party, which is dedicated to the destruction of the budding Palestinian state, and which used the Israeli military and security services for its party platform in destroying the infrastructure of the Palestinian Authority throughout the early years of this century. As Orwell reminded us in "Animal Farm," some are more equal than others .
Which is precisely what TPaw said in his speech. Some are more equal than others. Poland, the UK, Columbia, Israel. Those democracies are just fine. But in Egypt's case, we should have been strong, firm, unequivocal in our undying support for the dictator. Because THAT would somehow have protected our national interests.
Democracy is democracy, regardless of whether this country likes the outcome. As President Obama said, the way forward for Egypt won't be easy, and I expect it also won't be pretty, because democracy means letting everyone have a voice, even when you don't like what they say. This is what conservatives and TPaw really don't understand at all. In their minds, we should undermine and starve any democracy that isn't aligned with our express (white, Anglo-Saxon, conservative Christian) ideals, because we don't like it.
This clip with The Nation's Katrina VandenHeuvel puts an exclamation point on it:
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TPaw's speech is nothing more than a living example of that. From the day Barack Obama was elected, they have worked to de-legitimize his presidency. Birthers. Glenn Beck. Fox News. They work with one goal, to undermine a democratically-elected president that they don't happen to agree with.
Who are the real dictators here?
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02:03:00 04/03/09
Economic Revolts / Bailout Blues / Wall 7 are Free! / Gore's Dire Warning / West Bank Food Boycott / a tribute to Gil Scott-Heron / Media Elixir / Weapons of Mass Distraction / Fur Free Firday / Judas Goat
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Franklyn Lopez never stops amazing. He is so bold, so radical, that he thinks its normal to be that way. And that's why we carry his stuff on “Indymedia Presents.” This week we lead off with another episode of Frank's “It's the End of the World As We Know It, And I Feel Fine.” He starts with a report on the worldwide economic revolts, then turns his unblinking eye to “Bailout Blues,” “Wall 7 are Free!” “Gore's Dire Warning,” “West Bank Food Boycott,” a tribute to Gil Scott-Heron, and finishes off with “Media Elixir.” In a political moment when much of the left still has Obama stars for eyes, Frank's material is a potent antidote.
Then on the occasion of the 6th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq, we dip into our archive for a little “Weapons of Mass Distraction” to invite you to remember the lies that justified this horror.
Jim Lockhart is a dedicated Portland, Oregon video activist. He sent us our next video, Fur Free Friday, about a campaign by In Defense of Animals (www.idausa.org) that targets Nordstroms, among other retailers, in hopes that they will stop carrying fur products. The campaign has already had some success. Jim's video takes us to the street to join the protest. For more from Jim, visit www.philosopherseed.org.
And since we're talking about animals, we finish off this week's episode with “The Judas Goat,” a counter-recruiting “message from the front.” Military recruiters are a human judas goat. So long as they supply their quota of fresh meat to the front, they don't have to go themselves. We call them out for what they are.
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Indymedia Presents" is a 28 minute weekly cable public access program produced on behalf of the Seattle Independent Media Center (IMC) by PepperSpray Productions. "Indymedia Presents" airs in Seattle on Thursdays at 8:30 pm. In addition to SCAN Channel 77 in Seattle, "Indymedia Presents" also airs on channels in greater King County (Channel 23), Bainbridge Island (Channel 12), Port Townsend, WA (Channel 97 & 98), Olympia, WA (Channel 22), Tucson, AZ (Channel 73), St Paul, MN (Channel 15), Minneapolis, MN (Channel 17), Fort Wayne, IN (Channel 57), Philadelphia, PA (Channels 54 & 62), Brooklyn, NY (Channels 34 & 67), and on New York City's Manhattan Neighborhood Network, (Channel 34). Our newest channel is in Phippsburg, Maine. This station is downloading the show for free through a new service for PEG stations, available at PEGMedia.org.
Indymedia Presents #348 first airs on Seattle's SCAN TV on Thursday, April 9, 2009 at 8:30pm
This show airs on the Manhattan Neighborhood Network's Channel 34 on Sunday, May 10, 2009 at 10:30pm. All other locations, check local listings
For more info visit our website: www.peppersprayproductions.org
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23:54:00 01/22/09
Recrui-ducation / Judas Goat / Rebel Voices / Franklyn Lopez
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Tajuan LaBee is the PepperSpray Collective's newest member, and he lost no time finishing his first piece for PepperSpray, which is the lead segment in this week's "Indymedia Presents." He was on hand at Seattle Central Community College when student activists recently staged a counter-recruiting action. His footage forms the basis for "Recrui-ducation." Stopping the flow of recruits into the military remains and will continue to be an important political and practical tactic in limiting US efforts to wage aggressive wars. Beyond that, it has the potential to save the lives of those who otherwise might be recruited. A few years back, students at SCCC made national headlines when they ran recruiters off their campus. Apparently the military thought this might be the time to sneak back on campus. The recruiters were met with a spirited action, and Tajuan got it on tape. With the airing of his first PepperSpray production, we publicly welcome Tajuan into our merry band.
We dipped into the archives to follow Tajuan's piece with our short "Judas Goat." A judas Goat is a trained slaughterhouse animal that leads the others to their death, only to be spared the knife itself, so it may lead herd after herd into the killing chambers. Recruiters perform a similar function. So long as they can deliver a supply of fresh recruits for the front lines, military recruiters don't have to go themselves.
Next up, we turn to a bit of music that continues the theme, featuring Seattle's daring duo, Rebel Voices, singing "Put your name on a different line." This material was filmed live in Seattle in 2008 and was edited into this piece to accompany Tajuan's "Recrui-ducation.
Rounding out our show we are VERY pleased to include Episode 1 of Franklyn Lopez's third season of "It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine." Regular viewers will welcome Franklyn's work back to the little screen. Last fall the Swami of Snark announced that he was not going to be producing "End of the World" while he pursued other things, but luckily he just couldn't help himself. This episode features:
1. Greece is the word
2. Oakland riots
3. Sea Shepherd stink bomb attack
4. Coal christmas
5. The first auction hero
6. Anarchists Against the Wall
7. Barack Israel Obama
8. Buh Bye King of Pain
9. Beastie Boys
10. New Years Revolutions
11. Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping
"Indymedia Presents" is a 28 minute weekly cable public access program produced on behalf of the Seattle Independent Media Center (IMC) by PepperSpray Productions. "Indymedia Presents" airs in Seattle on Wednesdays at 8:30 pm. In addition to SCAN Channel 77 in Seattle, "Indymedia Presents" also airs on channels in greater King County (Channel 23), Bainbridge Island (Channel 12), Port Townsend, WA (Channel 97 & 98), Olympia, WA (Channel 22), Tucson, AZ (Channel 73), St Paul, MN (Channel 15), Minneapolis, MN (Channel 17), Fort Wayne, IN (Channel 57), Philadelphia, PA (Channels 54 & 62), Brooklyn, NY (Channel 34 & 67) and on New York City's Manhattan Neighborhood Network, (Channel 34).
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18:24:06 03/30/07
Episode #2: Echoes of Bats and Men
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All this talk about stop motion has to do with Globalburger's second episode, which features a wonderful animated short, Echoes of Bats and Men, by Jo Dery. For me, her film is similar to the style and quality of the children's programs I grew up with, including the Sesame Street shorts, parts of Reading Rainbow, and the series Long Ago and Far Away, hosted by James Earl Jones. Like those shows, Jo's film has appeal for anyone ages 1 on up, with its interesting history lesson about Providence, beautiful artistic style, and engaging story. I first saw this film projected on a wall with Jo's old 16mm projector clacking away at the back of the room. If you ever get a chance to meet Jo, ask her if she is ever going to show it again from it's native 16mm format, as it is an awesome experience. If it were possible, I am sure that she would travel across the country projecting it on clothesline sheets, living room walls, or anything else flat enough. Since this is unfortunately not going to happen anytime soon, I am pleased to present the digital format that Jo so graciously has let me share with you.Take a look, I will bet that its sights and sounds stick with you as they have with me.Cheers,Drew
