First Hour - The Best of the Big Picture - Thom previews his favorite Big Picture segments from the year 2011 and the most popular Daily Take. From RT English
Second Hour - The Crazy Old Man talks about 2011 and the future. Unrehearsed and off the cuff. I have no idea what I am going to say or do.
Def Jam Recordings is a comprehensive history of the first major hip-hop label. Founded by Russell ‘Rush’ Simmons and Rick Rubin in 1984, the label’s first office was Rubin’s NYU dorm room. Def Jam led the way in transforming hip-hop from a projects-based art form to a popular phenomenon. Def Jam is responsible for launching and sustaining the careers of musicians such as Jay-Z, LL Cool J, Run-DMC, Public Enemy and The Beastie Boys. Both Simmons and Rubin have now left Def Jam to pursue successful careers in and away from music; but their creative legacy remains at the heart of the label's modern-day identity. 10/14/2011
Rocky Anderson talks formation and platform of new United States political party -- The Justice Party -- and presidential run for office in 2012.
Rocky Anderson To Run For President - ABC4 12-8-11
Brief clip of upcoming Chris Vanocur interview and news spot outlining Rocky Anderson's intention to run in 2012 for president as the first Justice Party candidate, a new party whose interest is in the public, rather than the corporate. From ABC4 news in SLC, Utah.
Rocky Anderson MSNBC Daily Rundown - 2012 Run, Justice Party
Aired December 12, 2011. Rocky Anderson discusses Justice Party political platform, corporate corruption, Obama's record and a run for president in 2012 in a political climate waiting for action for the public.
Rocky Anderson Talks Presidential Run & Justice Party on CNN
Aired Dec. 13, 2011 -- Rocky discusses his pledge to end corporate control of government, and replace it with governence in the interest of the public. Rocky Anderson is running in 2012 as a candidate for the Justice Party (justicepartyusa.org).
Rocky Anderson Visits The Alyona Show on RT, Dec 14, 2011
Rocky Anderson -- the first candidate to run for the newly formed Justice Party -- lays out his take on the most controversial issues America is faced with. He offers solutions for action, rather than empty rhetoric.
Rocky Anderson of Justice Party on The Solution Zone 15Dec11
ROCKY ANDERSON RUNS FOR U.S. PRESIDENT w/Guest Rocky Anderson --
Before Television my family would watch the radio shows. Yes I said watch, we used our imagination. When TV came I missed the radio shows because the imagination was better than what was shown on TV.
I hope you enjoy the shows like I did. Let your mind free to see what is on the show. You can see more with your mind than with your eyes.
HAMID DABASHI, Professor of Iranian Studies & Comparative Literature, Columbia University
HELGA TAWIL-SOURI, Professor of Media, Culture, & Communication, NYU
From Academy Award nominated director Julian Schnabel and based on the autobiographical novel of Palestinian journalist Rula Jebreal, Miral tells the story of three generations of Palestinian women as they navigate the complexities of life after the creation of the state of Israel. Shot in Jerusalem, the film charts decades of history, from the onset of Israel's occupation to the start of the "peace process."
Miral provides an unprecedented lens on Palestinian stories as told through Palestinian voices and experiences.
Schnabel and Jebreal discuss the political, historical, and artistic context of the movie, including the difficulties of making a movie about Palestine for the mainstream American audience.
This event is sponsored by The Center for Palestine Studies. Co-sponsored by the Middle East Institute and Columbia Film Program's Carla Kuhn Series. Seating is on a first-come, first-serve basis.
When the Goldstone Report was released in September 2009, it quickly became the report heard round the world. The United Nations Human Rights Council investigation of the 2008-09 Gaza conflict shook the international community with its unflinching look at the outrages unleashed on a captive population, and it deeply rattled Israel with its call for accountability for war crimes committed by both Israel and Hamas. Last month the lead author of the report, Justice Richard Goldstone, once again made headlines when he wrote an essay in The Washington Post "reconsidering" one of the key findings of the report: the targeting of civilians by Israel. The piece has been seized on by Israel's supporters to try to discredit the report once and for all.
Come hear a distinguished panel of experts, including a co-author of the report, discuss the fallout of Goldstone's Op-Ed and the ongoing need for accountability for the crimes of Operation Cast Lead. More than 18 months after it was released, the Goldstone Report remains as critical as ever.
Culture Project and Mondoweiss are pleased to present Blueprint for Accountability: Gaza, Goldstone and the Crisis of Impunity in association with Adalah-NY, Center for Constitutional Rights, CODEPINK, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine, Jewish Voice for Peace,Jews Say No, Haymarket Books, The Nation, The Nation Institute and Umbrage Editins. The evening will feature photos from Kent Klich's Gaza Photalbum (Umbrage Editions).
Before Television my family would watch the radio shows. Yes I said watch, we used our imagination. When TV came I missed the radio shows because the imagination was better than what was shown on TV.
I hope you enjoy the shows like I did. Let your mind free to see what is on the show. You can see more with your mind than with your eyes.
12/24/1942 Command Performance Christmas Show for the Troops - Bob Hope
12/25/1946 Command Performance Christmas Show for the Troops - Bob Hope
Before Television my family would watch the radio shows. Yes I said watch, we used our imagination. When TV came I missed the radio shows because the imagination was better than what was shown on TV.
I hope you enjoy the shows like I did. Let your mind free to see what is on the show. You can see more with your mind than with your eyes.
A very private miracle was on the CBS Radio Mystery Theater in 1978
Miracle in Manhattan was on Duffy's Tavern in 1948
Orson Welles and Joseph Cottens Christmas Show in 1944
Before Television my family would watch the radio shows. Yes I said watch, we used our imagination. When TV came I missed the radio shows because the imagination was better than what was shown on TV.
I hope you enjoy the shows like I did. Let your mind free to see what is on the show. You can see more with your mind than with your eyes.
Voices of Christmas Past 1898 to 1922 for the first hour and 15 minutes.
Before Television my family would watch the radio shows. Yes I said watch, we used our imagination. When TV came I missed the radio shows because the imagination was better than what was shown on TV.
I hope you enjoy the shows like I did. Let your mind free to see what is on the show. You can see more with your mind than with your eyes.
12/21/1945 Duffy’s Tavern Is There a Santa_Claus
12/29/1948 Duffy’s Tavern Missing Christmas Cards with Dorothy Shaye
12/25/1946 Henry Morgan Show Christmas Story
12/24/1942 Norman Corwin The Plot To Overthrow Christmas
Before Television my family would watch the radio shows. Yes I said watch, we used our imagination. When TV came I missed the radio shows because the imagination was better than what was shown on TV.
I hope you enjoy the shows like I did. Let your mind free to see what is on the show. You can see more with your mind than with your eyes.
10/19/1977 The Island on Silver Tree Lake
6/30/1978 The Good Times Express
12/21/1943 Duffy’s Tavern Christmas Show with Monty Woolley
This is the full, unedited version of US President Barack Obama's disarmament speech in Prague, as made available by the Czech presidency of the European Union. 4/5/2009
Resetting the Nuclear Disarmament Agenda (Gorbachev)
United Nations, Geneva, 5 october 2009 - The United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG) and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) are organizing a series of open lectures on a regular basis at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, entitled The Geneva Lecture Series. The lectures aim to foster awareness of a number of pressing global challenges among audiences in Geneva and beyond, with a focus on how each individual can contribute to resolving such challenges. The third lecture, delivered by Mr. Mikhail Gorbachev, Former President of the Soviet Union and Founding President of Green Cross International, on the topic Resetting the Nuclear Disarmament Agenda.
"Using Depleted Uranium as a Weapon"
"Using Depleted Uranium as a Weapon" with the subtitle :
"Putting our Troops and the Rest of the World at risk."
A talk by Dr. Doug Rokke, member of U.S. Army Medical Command's Special Operations during Gulf War 1, Produced February 23,2003 but as retinent to our time as ever
The opening music is from the video Depleted Uranium Dust - Crime Against Humanity Public Health Disaster For The World - see video
For Hitchens, In Life And Death, An Unaware Cosmos
From New York Public Library
Christopher Hitchens: Some Confessions and Contradictions - 6/4/2010 Interview
Christopher Hitchens, tackling nearly everything with unmatched enthusiasm, erudition and, at times venom, has up to now barely touched upon one subject: his own life.
After many years writing about world issues and traveling to some of the most dangerous places on the planet, comes his memoir Hitch-22. Though Hitchens can navigate any argument with great dexterity, his memoir focuses on those whom he has loved, those he has abhorred, and those who have helped shape him throughout his life. The memoir answers this question: How the hell did Christopher Hitchens become Christopher Hitchens?
With tenderness he writes about his parents -- his mother Yvonne, in particular, "a beautiful woman who loves me" and about his father, Commander Hitchens, whose "liver was that of a hero." In a form that is anything but shy, Hitchens describes his complex and warm relationship with his mother, whose Jewish heritage he discovered only after her suicide.
The memoir naturally touches upon friendships, both lost and found over the course of his life. Hitchens' many sketches of friendships and ex-friendships from Martin Amis to Noam Chomsky, Edward Said to Gore Vidal are delivered in a style that is at once ironic, witty and tough-minded. A legendary bon vivant with an unquenchable thirst for literature, Hitchens has at times ridiculed those who claim the personal is political, even though he has often seemed to illustrate that very idea.
Paul Holdengräber, in conversation with Hitchens, will goad him to help bring into focus the many sides of Hitch, thereby illustrating Robert Frost's dictum that "a liberal is a man too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel."
Rocky Anderson is the ex-mayor of Salt Lake City. He has started the Justice Party and Is running for president. He seems to be the best choice. I know he has a snow ball’s chance in hell to win. I am also afraid he may make it possible for the idiot who runs on the republican ticket to win. (All those running are idiots)
The Republicans are openly anti people and the Democrats are anti people but try to hide it.
We are the many by Makana
Democracy Now! Amy Goodman’s interview of Rocky Anderson
Synopsis: Valarie Kaur was a 20-year-old college student when she set out across America in the aftermath of 9/11, camera in hand, to document hate violence against her community. From the still-shocked streets of Ground Zero to the desert towns of the American west, her epic journey confronts the forces unleashed in a time of national crisis - racism and religion, fear and forgiveness - until she finds the heart of America... halfway around the world.
Shining Soul: Helen Keller's Spiritual Life & Legacy
Director: Penny Price | Producer: Penny Price for Swedenborg Foundation Genre: Documentary | Produced In: 2006 | Story Teller's Country: United States Synopsis: This documentary explores the specific ideas and visionary theology that fired Helen Keller's long and productive life of triumphant accomplishment in the face of all odds, and her tireless philanthropic efforts to improve the lives of the less fortunate throughout the world. Keller derived her lifelong spiritual inspiration from the writings of the visionary sage and philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg
The Real Helen Keller
Director: Liz Crow & Ann Pugh | Producer: Liz Crow & Ann Pugh Synopsis: More than forty years after her death, Helen Keller is still known internationally as the little deaf-blind girl, the "miracle child" who triumphed over adversity. It is an image that endures through the Hollywood film "The Miracle Worker" - but Keller never chose that image, and she battled against it all her life. Hidden from the public gaze was the real Helen Keller, a flesh-and-blood woman, writer and radical activist, suffragette and socialist.
Director: Gary Ravenscroft | Producer: Golden Era Productions Genre:Documentary | Produced In: 2009 | Story Teller's Country:United States Synopsis: This film separates the truth from the lies. Here are the answers to questions about drugs - what they are, what they are made of, what they look like, how they're taken and what they do to your body and mind - told by people who've been there, done them and survived to tell about it. It empowers youth with factual information about drugs so they can make informed decisions to be drug-free - and to say no because they decided it by themselves, not because "drugs are bad" or somebody telling them to do it - but because they have seen on their own that drugs will destroy their lives, if they continue on that route.
Before Television my family would watch the radio shows. Yes I said watch, we used our imagination. When TV came I missed the radio shows because the imagination was better than what was shown on TV.
I hope you enjoy the shows like I did. Let your mind free to see what is on the show. You can see more with your mind than with your eyes.
Examination of various aspects of the My Lai massacre, the attempted cover-up, and the military trial. - CONTENTS: "My Lai 4" - BROADCAST: WBAI, Dec. 1969.
This audio is part of the collection: Pacifica Radio Archives It also belongs to collection: News & Public Affairs Artist/Composer: Pacifica Radio Archives
The 1968 My Lai massacre, its subsequent cover-up, and the heroic efforts of the soldiers who broke ranks to try to halt the atrocities, and then bring them to light.
In 1971 Defense Department analyst, former U.S. Marine company commander and anti-Communist Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers to the media. In this talk, Ellsberg presents an explosive inside account of how and why he helped bring an end to the Vietnam War and Richard Nixon's presidency. He also talks about the current potential for war with Iraq and why he feels that would be a major mistake for the United States. Series: Voices [1/2003] [Public Affairs] [Humanities]
1. An interview Dave Emory did with John Loftus on December 5, 2010.
2. RenseRadio-America's Nazi Secret- John Loftus Feb 8, 2011
This is a must-read, something you will never be able to read in your historical books something you must teach yourself to your children so that they could learn about the true cause of wars so that when they become adult, they won't be so gullible about their political leaders when they would ask them to go to war for supposedly patriotic or humanistic reasons. Politicians and Dictators have always been working, willingly or manipulated to work for the interest of the World Bankers who finance the weapons merchants.
Extract from "Former Federal Prosecutor John Loftus confirms the Bush-Nazi scandal" published on October 31. 2003
"These long buried US government files demonstrate that the Bush family stayed on the corporate boards of Nazi front groups even after they knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that they were helping the financial cause of the Third Reich. It was all about the money. Nazi Germany is where the Bush family fortune came from, and where the Harrimans, and the Rockefellers increased their fortunes to obscene proportions.
The Rockefeller's lawyers, the Dulles Brothers, had deliberately and systematically bankrupted the German economy with the Versaille Treaty. German currency was almost worthless after WWI, and so the Dulles brother's favorite clients, the Rockefellers, were able to buy the stock of nearly every German company for a song. The great sucking sound that preceeded the Great Depression was the whistling of Wall Street money out of America into Germany, Russia (and as a side deal, Saudi Arabia). Two generations later, we are still paying for it.
The Robber Barons did not call it an international crime. They called it synergy. Harriman's Soviet cartels would deliver the raw materials, Rockfeller's high-tech German companies (the Thyssens) would process the manganese into steel for Harriman's railroads. To save transportation costs, the Robber Barons looked for a middle ground in eastern Poland for a future factory site. It had to be in the coal fields of Silesia, on the banks of the Vistula river, where a canal could be dug to ship materials in cheaply from Russia. The Polish town was named Oswieczim, later known to the world by its German name: Auschwitz.
It was not a killing factory then, although slave labor was always contemplated for the maximum profit factor. Auschwitz was designed to process Silesian coal into tar additives necessary for Russian aviation fuel. It was a high tech German chemical factory built to balance out Harriman's Russian-to-Germany export trade.
he Rockefeller-Harriman front company that financed Auschwitz was called Brown Brothers Harriman. It is still around today. Our President's great granfather, Herbert Walker, founded the company, and appointed his impecunious son-in-law Prescott Bush to the boards of several holding companies, all of which became Nazi fronts. The Walkers and Bushes never really liked the Nazis, anymore than Harriman liked the communists. To the robber barons, they were just dogs on a leash. One day the dogs broke their chains, and Hitler and Stalin got loose. Fifty million people died as a result of a bad investment.
The Robber Barons saw it coming. Their lawyers, the Dulles brothers, had a contingency plan. They had established three banks, one in Germany, one in Holland, and one in New York (the Union Banking Corporation, headed by the ever-useful son-in-law Prescott Bush). No matter who won World war II, the corporate stocks would be shifted around to whichever bank was in a neutral country when the war was over.
After WW II, the Dulles brothers' shell game deceived a gullible and war-weary world. The "neutral" Dutch bank reclaimed their German assetts as "stolen" by the Nazis, and the whole merry fraud continued. Prescott Bush got his Union Bank back from the US Government in 1951, despite its seizure in 1942 as a Nazi front. Prescott Bush and father-in-law Walker were paid two shares worth about $1.5 million in 1951 dollars. It was a pretty payoff for a job.
FDR's Political Career And The 'Regulation' Of Big Business
This is the first part of a series Vyzygoth did called The 1934 Coup Boo.
In 1934, Smedley Butler came forward and reported to the U.S. Congress that a group of wealthy pro-Fascist industrialists had been plotting to overthrow the government of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in a military coup. Even though the House Un-American Activities Committee corroborated most of the specifics of his testimony, no further action was taken.
Smedley Butler's Testimoney At The McCormick-Dickstein Hearing And Media Blackout
This is the second part of a series Vyzygoth did called the 1934 Coup Boo.
In 1934 he was involved in a controversy known as the Business Plot when he told a congressional committee that a group of wealthy industrialists had approached him to lead a military coup to overthrow Franklin D. Roosevelt. The individuals that were involved denied the existence of a plot, and the media ridiculed the allegations. The final report of the committee stated that there was evidence that such a plot existed, but no charges were ever filed. The opinion of most historians is that while planning for a coup was not very advanced, wild schemes were discussed.
American Liberty League And Its Aftermath
This is Part 3 of a series Vyzygotn did called the 1934 Coup Boo.
On 15 August 1934, after the onset of strikes that would last until 1938, the American Liberty League, funded largely by the Duponts and their corporate allies, was chartered in Washington. In its six years of existence, the Liberty League fought New Deal labor and social legislation, rallied support for the conservative-dominated Supreme Court, and sought to build a bipartisan conservative coalition to defeat the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration and the trade union movement.
