Cutting Through the Bull - Sarah Palin

I saw Campbell Brown on The Daily Show recently - If what she said on TDS and this short clip above is an accurate cross-section of her new show, No Bias, No Bull; expect to see more clips from her.

Don't Vote & Five Friends

The star studded voting public service announcements - really well done.

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

"I can do anything... I was in a boy-band" - Priceless!

Prankin Palin

A couple of Quebec radio show hosts prank call "foreign policy expert" Sarah Palin.

Wassup Circa 2008

KO Special Comment - The Real America

Time for Some Campaignin'

If Canada's political leaders were children

In time for the elections...

Ron Paul Slams Republican Warmongers

I've said it before and I'll say it again, this guy makes more and more sense every time he says something.

KO Special Comment FISA Veto - Feb 14, 2008

A part of what I will say, was said here on Jan. 31. Unfortunately it is both sadder and truer now than it was then.

“Who’s to blame?” Mr. Bush also said this afternoon, “Look, these folks in Congress passed a good bill late last summer.... The problem is, they let the bill expire. My attitude is: If the bill was good enough then, why not pass the bill again?”

Like the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. Or Executive Order 90-66. Or The Alien and Sedition Acts. Or slavery.

Mr. Bush, you say that our ability to track terrorist threats will be weakened and our citizens will be in greater danger. Yet you have weakened that ability!

You have subjected us, your citizens, to that greater danger! This, Mr. Bush, is simple enough for even you to understand.

- Keith Olbermann

Source: Countdown with Keith Olbermann (Complete Transcript)

Wexler Confronts Condi on Iraq War Lies

Rice is so full of shit, her ass is jealous.

"Taxi To The Dark Side" - Trailer

This documentary murder mystery examines the death of an Afghan taxi driver at Bagram Air Base from injuries inflicted by U.S. soldiers. In an unflinching look at the Bush administration's policy on torture, the filmmaker behind Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room takes us from a village in Afghanistan to Guantanamo and straight to the White House.

Obama on "60 Minutes"

KO Special Comment on FISA - Jan 31 08

Once again, Olbermann hits the idiot right on the head

The Reality of Kenya circa 2008

Apologies for the graphic image associated with this entry. Regular readers will know that I'm not one to exploit graphic and grisly images but after a friend living in Nairobi sent me this I felt it needed to be seen. She also sent another one that was even more heart breaking but I chose not to utilise it as it may have been too graphic - Take a minute to digest that.

I've been trying to keep apprised of the volatile situation in Kenya by making a concerted effort to read as many news sources on the escalating turbulence in my birth nation and they all have one thing in common - they dispense their stories methodically and clinically.

Rwandan President Paul Kagame has called for military solution within Kenya to end the current violence. Quoted by Thursday's Daily Metro, Kagame suggests that a military coup would be the only way to save Kenya from a genocide like what was experienced in Rwanda in 1994.

Source: Africa News (Complete Article)

One can read volumes on the rioting, looting, burning, raping and killing and never ever get a sense the anguish the citizenry are experiencing. Even this single image will not convey the worst of the atrocities, but if it makes you turn away in shock then perhaps the message is getting through, even if ultimately you decide to ignore it and try to put it out of mind, it will not be easy, or at least, it should not be, it may yet stick with you.

Personally, I do not condone the use of shock tactics to send a message. I have always been of the mind, naive as it may be, that with enough time and patience, you can reach someone on an intellectual level, but I fear that Kenya and her people do not have the luxury of either. If doing this makes me a hypocrite, then so be it. I am willing to sacrifice my principles to draw attention to the plight of Kenyans.

To the "leaders" in Kenya, for the love of all that is near and dear to you please, for goodness sake, put aside your petty squabbles and begin healing what was once a good and true nation.

Those dying in Kenya are not the politicians, they are not the rich, and they are simple people whose only mistake is to belong to a certain tribe and not the other. And when all is calm and normal, the leader Raila Odinga and Mwai Kibaki will remain the leaders of Kenya whether now or in future.

Source: allAfrica.com (Complete Article)

This is a critical time. This is the time when damage can still be minimised. This is the time when the nation can still be saved. If you want to lead this nation, then make it a nation worth leading. There is still time to prevent Kenya from becoming Rwanda circa 1994.

H/T: Sameera K.

Noam Chomsky On CBC

I know I know... More videos, but when it comes to Chomsky, I just can't resist.

PART I


PART II

Noam Chomsky on "Concision" on the North American Media

I know I've been posting a lot of videos lately and I told myself that I would try to kerb that - then I came across this Noam Chomsky video. I've said it before, and I'll say it again - One of the smartest people I have ever come across. This is a must watch!

Didn't I tell you it was a must watch?

Barack Obama interview w/ Keith Olbermann & Chris Mathews

Legislators vote fraud caught on video

While this is scary, it's hardly surprising. What probably concerns me most is how rampant it is and how the violators don't even bother being discrete.

935 Whitehouse Lies That Led To War

I'm surprised that no one had done this before. The Centre For Public Integrity has a searchable database of all the lies.

Mr Ranneberger, The Wise.

So I was perusing The New York Times web-site and came across an article about the violence and post-election riots in Kenya. Here is the opening few paragraphs of that article, the bits in Bold are the parts I would like to draw attention to.

U.S. Envoy Wants Political Pact in Kenya

NAIROBI, Kenya — The American ambassador to Kenya said Wednesday that his deepest worries about the postelection crisis here were not about Kenyans rampaging in the streets or killing one another because of ethnic hatreds, both of which have claimed hundreds of lives.

Possibly even more dangerous, he said, were the deep rifts among the country’s opposing politicians, who seem “entrenched” and surrounded by “hard-liners.”

“You can never underestimate the ability of just a couple of people to tear a place apart,” said Michael E. Ranneberger, the ambassador, during an interview at his home in Nairobi, the capital.

He said his chief concern was whether Mwai Kibaki, the president, and Raila Odinga, the top opposition leader, were “prepared to rise above themselves and put the interests of the nation ahead of their own personal or their group’s political interest.”

“That is still an unanswered question,” he said.

Source: The New York Times (Complete Article)

Mr. Ranneberger, sir, truer words were never spoken. May I suggest you speak them to your own government?