November 4, 2009 by radioactivegavin
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November 3, 2009 by radioactivegavin
Posted in News, Video, WWW | Tagged Andy Schwartzman, broadband stimulus, Copyright Alliance, defense spending, Dennis Kucinich, Dick Cheney, digital divide, Digital Literacy Initiative, Dollars and Sense, DTV, Elizabeth Warren, Excess Copyright, FCC, Future of Music Coalition, Gaza, Goldstone report, John Dean, marijuana, Matthew Lasar, net neutrality, Newsosaur, Nielsen, NY Times, One Economy, pirate radio, Project Censored, shield law, single-payer, SPLC, Victoria Espinel, war crimes | Leave a Comment »
November 2, 2009 by radioactivegavin
Posted in News, Radio, Video, WWW | Tagged FCC, Barack Obama, Media & Democracy Coalition, Grist, Truthout, Raw Story, Common Dreams, DTV, telecom immunity, net neutrality, Maria Cantwell, True/Slant, broadband stimulus, MPAA, Goldstone report, e-voting, Hannah Miller, warrantless wiretaps, Pirate Cat Radio, Project Censored, 60 Minutes, Bit Torrent, rural broadband, Ross Douthat | Leave a Comment »
November 1, 2009 by radioactivegavin
Posted in Breathing, Video, WWW | Tagged bandwidth, Dennis Kucinich, digital divide, Ed Markey, Grit TV, Josh Stearns, Kalle Lasn, marijuana, mountaintop removal, net neutrality, Netflix, Phyllis Bennis, War in Afghanistan | Leave a Comment »
October 31, 2009 by radioactivegavin
Posted in News, WWW | Tagged Acorn, Amy Goodman, Art Brodsky, Barack Obama, Basta Dobbs, Comcast, CS Monitor, Daily Beast, Huffington Post, John Nichols, marijuana, Media Hacker, net neutrality, News Hunt, NY Times, Phoenix Center, Poynter, Robert McChesney, Save the Internet, shield law, single-payer, SXSW, The Yes Men | Leave a Comment »
October 30, 2009 by radioactivegavin
Capitalism: A Love Story
Filmmaker Michael Moore told CNN’s Larry King that it’s time for President Barack Obama to wind down the war in Afghanistan. “It’s unwinnable. It’s immoral. It’s illegal. It’s wrong,” he said. “We need to leave.”
Moore appeared on the program Thursday along with another war critic, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas).
“It is my sincere hope that he decides to wind down and end this war, at least our part of this war, in Afghanistan,” Moore said. “Initially, the idea of going and trying to capture the criminals who committed a mass murder on 9/11, that was a good idea. But we never did that.
“There is no middle ground,” he stated emphatically. “You’re either going to go all out and fight a big war that can’t be won, or you’re going to bring the troops home and focus on the problems that we have right now — huge unemployment, global warming, a health care mess, all these things, our educational system, everything.”
Moved by Obama’s attendance at the transfer of bodies at Dover Air Force Base, something President George W. Bush infamously didn’t do, Moore offered hope that Obama might end the war in Afghanistan.”I’m going to trust in all my heart that he’s going to make the right decision,” he opined.
Yet earlier this month a senior administration official told the press, “What is not on the table, in any sense, is leaving Afghanistan or so narrowly defining our mission as to be the equivalent of leaving Afghanistan.” (After Moore’s appearance, Rep. Paul told King, “I don’t think he’s quite willing to criticize Obama like Bush, but I am.”)
And although King didn’t comment, Moore hammered on the scandal of CIA involvement with the opium trade there. “Yesterday, Larry, that story in The New York Times about how the brother of the president of Afghanistan, the brother of Karzai, is suspected of being involved in the opium trade, which funds the Taliban, and our CIA pays this man. So we’re paying the guy who’s helping to create the money that’s funding the Taliban that’s killing our soldiers. Are we, like, an insane country? When is this going to stop? I want this ended. I want these troops home.”
Moore’s latest film Capitalism: A Love Story has grossed $13 million in five weeks of release. He has now directed four of the eight highest grossing documentaries in U.S. history.
See the video by clicking HERE. This story was originally published on RawStory.com. My Dad wrote a response, see below:
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October 29, 2009 by radioactivegavin
US Foreign Service Officer Matthew P. Hoh,
Senior Civilian Representative, Afghanistan
“I have lost understanding of and confidence in the strategic purposes of the United States’ presence in Afghanistan. I have doubts and reservations about our current strategy and planned future strategy, but my resignation is based not upon how we are pursuing this war, but why and to what end. To put simply: I fail to see the value or the worth in continued US casualties or expenditures of resources in support of the Afghan government in what is, truly, a 35-year old civil war.”
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October 28, 2009 by radioactivegavin
President Barack Obama signed into law a historic and contentious defense spending bill Wednesday that includes a broad expansion of hate-crimes legislation to include crimes committed against people because of their sexual orientation.
After passing out of the Senate 68-29 last week, the defense appropriations bill included hate-crimes language deemed too important for Obama to follow up on his threatened veto over concerns about military spending.
“I promised Judy Shepard when she saw me in the Oval Office that this day would come,” Obama told the crowd at the signing of the 2010 National Defense Authorization Act. Shepard’s son, Matthew was tortured and murdered in Laramie, Wyoming in 1998, because he was gay. According to the FBI, more than 77,000 hate-crime incidents were reported between 1998 and 2007.
Many conservatives worry the law will be used to criminalize speech. During recent floor debate, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) asked, “Can priests, pastors and rabbis be sure their preaching will not be prosecuted if it says certain things are right and wrong?”
Firebrand libertarian broadcaster Alex Jones urged opponents of the president to write letters this week promising to vote out Democrats if he signs “the freedom-destroying hate crimes bill.” However, Attorney General Eric Holder has said the law will only be used to prosecute acts of violence.
The new ‘hate crimes bill’ expands the 1969 United States federal hate-crime law to include crimes motivated by a victim’s actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability. It is the first law in the history of the federal government to extend legal protections to transgender persons, requiring the FBI to track statistics on hate crimes against them for the first time.
The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act also removes the current prerequisite that a victim be engaged in voting, going to school or other federally-protected activity. Federal authorities will be able to engage in hate crimes investigations that local authorities choose not to pursue, with extra funding for prosecution available to all.
At the signing, Obama also touched on the problem of billions of dollars in cost overruns for military projects, pointing out that funding for F-22 fighters was removed from 2010 defense spending. He had threatened to veto the spending bill during summer negotiations with Defense Secretary Robert Gates. Critics have warned the defense bill nevertheless contains $100B in unnecessary spending on other equipment, including F-35 jet engines. Obama today called for further “fundamental” reforms in how the government and Pentagon do business, according to CNN.
Thirty-year Government Accountability Office veteran Winslow T. Wheeler warned earlier this year not to trust talk of defense spending reform. “For decades, the media have taken their descriptions of the size of the defense budget straight from the Pentagon’s annual press release,” he wrote. “Its business as usual, pure and simple.”
This writeup was originally published on RawStory.com.
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October 28, 2009 by radioactivegavin
Posted in News, WWW | Tagged Barack Obama, Grist, The Yes Men, hyperlocal, EFF, Michael Moore, Editor & Publisher, War in Afghanistan, clean energy, smart grid, USA Today, Google Wave, 350, Mother Jones, Innocence Project, Ralph Nader, bong water, e-waste, digital divide, printcasting | Leave a Comment »
October 27, 2009 by radioactivegavin
John Wall at practice last week.
TV news host Rachel Maddow invited sports writer Dave Zirin on her show to talk about the funding behind the basketball program. Read more about the political economy of sports by clicking each of these links. Wall’s eligibility is in question, as reported by AP. Meanwhile, donors want to fund a $7M dorm for student-athletes called the Wildcat Coal Lodge sponsored by coal interests. Read about it and watch the video at RawStory.com.
My Dad wrote back about the story:
Something is just weird about this story–black lung and basketball in the same floor plan. Not to mention minority stardom in basketball against the non-presence of minorities in the coal industry elite, mid-elite, high salaried labor, and all the way down the line. What do coal miners and college basketball players have in common? (knock/knock): Exploitation.
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October 24, 2009 by radioactivegavin
Posted in News, Video, WWW | Tagged Barack Obama, David Swanson, FCC, Glenn Greenwald, Goldstone report, marijuana, Media Hacker, MPAA, net neutrality, peace movement | Leave a Comment »
October 22, 2009 by radioactivegavin
Posted in News, WWW | Tagged Absolute Radio UK, Acorn, Adam Carolla, App Rising, e-voting, FCC, hemp, Huffington Post, iLike, Infinite Dial, Jared Polis, Lala, Liz Cheney, marijuana, Media Shift, National Security Letter, net neutrality, propaganda, Public Knowledge, public media, Rachel Maddow, Raw Story, Save the Internet, Sequoia, TechDirt, torture music, Westword, white spaces | Leave a Comment »
October 21, 2009 by radioactivegavin
Click over to the Boise Weekly news department to read my latest article. ACORN couldn’t raise enough funds to stay in Idaho. There was a lot of material that couldn’t fit in print. Should have a blog coming out later this week. If you’re in Boise, grab me a newsprint copy. I love newsprint.
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October 20, 2009 by radioactivegavin
Posted in News, WWW | Tagged Alexander Cockburn, Blue Bell Democrats, crowd-sourced radio, Daily Kos, Fox News, Jelli, marijuana, net neutrality, Newsweek, NORML, Rahm Emanuel, WA Post, War in Afghanistan, Wired | Leave a Comment »
October 17, 2009 by radioactivegavin
Posted in News, Video, WWW | Tagged Wired, Future of Music Coalition, Shepard Fairey, FCC, Barack Obama, Amy Goodman, Van Jones, Huffington Post, Raw Story, Common Dreams, Ars Technica, Megan Tady, Cindy Sheehan, net neutrality, Lawrence Lessig, Joel Kelsey, Consumers Union, Glenn Greenwald, Al Franken, broadband mapping, Rachel Maddow, The Contrarian, Bill Maher, Namappah Radio, Target Women, Sarah Haskins, Blather Watch, NPR, Naked Capitalism, Josh Stearns, Editor & Publisher, Courage to Resist, Lt Ehren Watada, Lt Dan Choi, Drew Clark, The Rag Blog, Art Brodsky, Blue Bell Democrats, Tech Crunch, Gore Vidal, Eric Boehlert, War in Afghanistan, Arianna Huffington, Ron Paul, Code Pink, Adbusters, Blackwater, Air America Radio, Liz Cheney, Hollywood Clout | Leave a Comment »
October 16, 2009 by radioactivegavin
I toured with the Josh Martinez Sex Buffett across Idaho & Montana last winter.
Josh Martinez live in Boise @ Gusto
Listen to exclusive audio & read all about it on The Finger HERE.
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October 15, 2009 by radioactivegavin
Jeremy Scahill
Heads up, my new article about ACORN in Idaho is coming out in the Boise Weekly next Wednesday. There is a lot of material, so why not start HERE with the latest from Rebel Reports writer Jeremy Scahill in The Nation on how ACORN fits into the larger federal contractor scene.
Posted in WWW | Tagged Acorn, Boise Weekly, Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports, The Nation | 2 Comments »
October 14, 2009 by radioactivegavin
Posted in Dance Parties, Radio, WWW | Tagged Anonymous Monk, Blue Scholars, Diego Bernal, Exponential Records, I Have Seen the Future, K Records, Karl Blau, Khingz, Lake, Moka Only, Pretty Lights, Smokeout Festival, Touch the Sky, Westword | Leave a Comment »
October 13, 2009 by radioactivegavin
Posted in News, Video, WWW | Tagged Wired, Barack Obama, Jon Stewart, Netflix, Ars Technica, Current TV, David Sirota, EFF, Daily Kos, PTFP, Benton, Sarah Van Gelder, CNN, job loss, Daily Beast, Henry Paulson, Tim Geithner, The Guardian, kode9, Media Post, Willie Nelson | 2 Comments »
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