Archive for the tag "US Politics"
Julian Assange 60 Minutes CBS
Julian Assange interviewed for 60 Minutes. Presented without comment. Come to your own conclusions (or not) – about Assange, Wikileaks, the US media, whatever.
Posted: 31 January, 2011 in Aussie Citizenship, Australian Politics, Australian Values, Computing, Internet, legal, Life, politics and government, Technology, US Politics, values, Video.
Tags: 60 minutes CBS, american politics, Assange, assange 60 min, assange 60 minutes, Australian Politics, Ellsberg, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, government, hacking, Internet, Julian Assange, julian assange 60 minute, julian assange 60 minutes, law, legal, Pentagon Papers, political values, politics, US Politics, Video, whistleblower, whistleblowing, WikiLeaks
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Tucson Sheriff Points Finger at Talk Radio
Who does Sheriff Dupnik blame for the attack on Gabrielle Giffords? “The anger, the hatred, the bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be outrageous”
Posted: 9 January, 2011 in Culture, Life, Media, politics and government, US Politics, Video.
Tags: anger, Arizona, bigotry, broadcast, broadcasters, Congresswoman Giffords, dirty digger, Dupnik, Fox, Fox News, Gabrielle Giffords, Giffords, Glenn Beck, hatred, Limbaugh, Media, O'Reilly, politics, Sheriff, shock jock, shooting, talk radio, Tucson, US Politics, vitriol
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Gabrielle Giffords in the Crosshairs
Sarah Palin has with guilty haste taken down her web-page with the crosshairs over Giffords and replaced it with a page with “sincere condolences” and prayer.
Posted: 9 January, 2011 in Culture, Internet, politics and government, Religion, US Politics, values, Video.
Tags: 2nd amendment, american political values, american politics, Arizona, crosshairs, Gabrielle Giffords, Giffords, Giffords in the crosshairs, gun culture, gun ownership, guns, house of representatives, Palin, political values, politics, responsibility, rhetoric, Sarah Palin, SarahPAC, shooting, tragedy, US Politics, violent rhetoric
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Batman – Guess Who?
Kim Jong Il Ends Nuclear Program For Lead In Next ‘Batman’
Posted: 5 January, 2011 in comedy/humour, Literature, movies, Video.
Tags: Batman, comedy, foreign policy, humor, humour, international politics, Kim Jong Il, Korea, Korean politics, movies, North Korea, North Korean politics, nuclear, Onion, Onion News, politics, satire, The Onion, US foreign policy, US Politics, Video
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GetUp at Last Responds on Wikileaks
Sir Roger is really glad that GetUp has is taking some action on Wikileaks and Assange. You can be part of that action if you wish
Posted: 10 December, 2010 in Aussie Citizenship, Australian Politics, Australian Values, Internet, legal, politics and government, US Politics, values.
Tags: Amazon, Assange, Australian Politics, Australian Values, democracy, diplomacy, freedom of speech, GetUp, Gillard, Hicks, Internet, John Howard, law, McClelland, political values, politics, Rudd, rule of law, US Politics, WikiLeaks
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You Can’t Handle the Truth!
We keep thinking of Jack Nicholson. “You want The Truth? You can’t handle The Truth!” Do we really need to be kept in the dark and fed bullshit like mushrooms?
Posted: 8 December, 2010 in Aussie Citizenship, Australian Politics, Australian Values, Blogging, China and Tibet, Computing, History, Internet, Iran, Iraq, legal, politics and government, Sex, US Politics, values.
Tags: Amazon, Assange, Australian Politics, Australian Values, China Tiananmen, Clinton, daniel ellsberg, democracy, diplomacy, freedom of speech, GetUp, Gillard, Glenn Greenwald, Guardian, Hillary Clinton, Internet, Iran, Iraq, Jack Nicholson, John Howard, law, McClelland, political values, politics, ron paul, Rudd, Salon, truth, US Politics, Washington Post, WikiLeaks, you can't handle the truth
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Jefferson Says
Sir Roger’s readers are impatient to hear what Thomas Jefferson, Founding Father of the American experiment would have said about the Wikileaks matter.
Posted: 6 December, 2010 in History, Literature, politics and government, US Politics, values.
Tags: American constitution, cablegate, Constitution of the United States, Declaration of Independence, democracy, democratic values, Enlightenment, founding fathers, government, independence, Jefferson, liberty, political values, politics, resistance, Thomas Jefferson, tyranny, United States, US Politics, values, we the people, WikiLeaks
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Sarah Palin Has Strange Friends!
There’s really not much you can say except if she gets the republican nomination and wins the Presidency this is the person who will be running the world.
Posted: 26 November, 2010 in Australian Values.
Tags: allies, Beck, Glenn Beck, Korea, North Korea, Palin, politics, presidency, president, republican, republican party, Sarah Palin, South Korea, US allies, US Politics
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Naked Woman Could Win: Onion News
Majority Of Male Voters Would Have Elected Naked Woman; Global Warming Issue May Still Be A Problem; Oprah Invites Lucky Fans To Be Buried With Her In Tomb
Posted: 14 November, 2010 in Australian Values, comedy/humour, environment, Life, Media, politics and government, Science, Sex, US Politics, values, Video.
Tags: afterlife, american politics, buried alive, catastrophe, celebrity, climate change, comedy, Copenhagen, drought, Earth, ecological, ecology, environment, environmental values, famine, flood, future, global values, global warming, hieroglyphics, humor, humour, Live Earth, male preference, mankind, memorial, men, naked, naked woman, naked woman could win, Naked Woman Could Win: Onion News, nudity, Onion, Onion News, Onion News Network, Onion video, Oprah, planet, political issues, political values, politics, poll finds majority of male voters would have elected naked woman, pyramid, rising temperatures, Science, Sex, starvation, The Onion, Today Now, tomb, US Politics, values, Video, winfrey, woman
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Happy Birthday Carl Sagan (Decline and Fall)
Carl Sagan’s birthday present was delivered with a big bang by the Large Hadron Collider this week. Meanwhile a US politician bases science policy on Genesis.
Posted: 10 November, 2010 in Australian Values, comedy/humour, environment, fun, History, movies, mystery, politics and government, Religion, Science, US Politics, values, Video.
Tags: american politics, american religious values, ark, Australian Values, bible, big bang, boson, Carl Sagan, church and state, climate change, comedy, cosmic, cosmos, decline and fall, flood, genesis, global warming, gluon, Higgs Boson, humor, humour, impressions, Large Hadron Collider, lead ion, LHC, Mass, Michael Caine, Noah, politics, quark, rainbow, Religion, religious values, Science, science values, scientific values, universe, US Politics, values
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Jon Stewart Restores Sanity
Can’t help drawing a parallel between Jon Stewart’s speech and Obama’s at the Democrat Convention when Al Gore was nominated for President.
Posted: 3 November, 2010 in comedy/humour, History, Life, Media, politics and government, Racism, Religion, The Daily Show, US Politics, values, Video.
Tags: America, american politics, American values, and/or fear, belief, comedy, comedy central, communism, Culture, Daily Show, government, humor, humour, Jon Stewart, Jon Stewart speech, Media, most trusted man, orator, oratory, politics, press, Racism, rally, Rally to Restore Sanity, Religion, society, speech, US, US Politics, USA, values, Video, Washington
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Yeah, Yeah, ‘There’s No Decent Men Out There’
Yeah, right. Another populist knee-jerk reaction to an urban myth from a senior politician. “Obama Releases 500,000 Men From U.S. Strategic Bachelor Reserve”?
Posted: 27 September, 2010 in comedy/humour, Culture, Life, politics and government, Sex, US Politics, values, Video.
Tags: bachelors, brazilian, comedy, cultural values, Culture, decent men, good men, humor, humour, Life, men, metrosexual, no decent men, Obama, Onion, Onion News, Onion News Network, politics, Sex, sex inequality, sexual politics, society, The Onion, US Politics
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The Stiglitz Perspective on the Economic Spin
Columbia University Professor and Nobel laureate economist, Joseph Stiglitz, says he is very unimpressed by the hysteria over the “great big debt and deficit”.
Posted: 7 August, 2010 in audio, Australian Politics, Australian Values, Economics, Media, politics and government, US Politics, values.
Tags: ABC, advertising, audio, Australian economic values, australian election, Australian political values, Australian Politics, Australian Values, campaign, commercial, debt, deficit, Economics, economist, economy, election, federal election, GFC, Hockey, Joe Hockey, mp3, Nobel, PM, politics, Stiglitz, tv, US economy, US Politics
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Ass-Quest 2010
President Obama in 180 degree personality reversal – intemperately seeks “Ass to Kick”. And he’s not looking for a mule. Jon Stewart’s Daily Show:
Posted: 13 June, 2010 in comedy/humour, Economics, politics and government, The Daily Show, US Politics, values, Video.
Tags: Barack Obama, blame, blame shifting, BP, British Petroleum, cocaine, comedy, complex, complexity, complicated, culpability, Daily Show, financial crisis, florida, Gulf, Gulf of Mexico, health care, hookers, humor, humour, it's complicated, Jon Stewart, louisiana, mexico, mississippi, Obama, oil, oil companies, oil company, oil spill, political values, politics, presidency, president, President Obama, regulator, tar balls, texas, tourism, US Politics, values, Video, whores
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Bush Admits Criminality
Former President George W. Bush said Wednesday he has no regrets about authorizing the controversial waterboarding technique to interrogate terrorist suspects
Posted: 5 June, 2010 in Iraq, legal, politics and government, Racism, US Politics, values.
Tags: american politics, Bush, George Bush, Guantanamo, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, politics, torture, US Politics, waterboard, waterboarding
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