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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 02:19 PM
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BBC probe: US Gag orders hide contractor corruption in Iraq
 
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Pryderi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 02:35 PM
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1. The video was removed. :(
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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 02:36 PM
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2. link still works - though it seems like BBC doesn't like their vids being embedded?
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But.... Donating Member (656 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 02:42 PM
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4. Thanks.
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But.... Donating Member (656 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 02:38 PM
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3. "no longer available?"
Got that right-freedom is no longer available in the U.S. We have to get news in bit and pieces from over seas.:banghead:
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enough Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 03:06 PM
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5. Just go to the YouTube link. It works.
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But.... Donating Member (656 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 03:14 PM
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6. Thanks again...
darn fouldey computing things...I'll get the hang of this yet.:blush:
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vinylsolution Donating Member (807 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 03:34 PM
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7. Wouldn't it be nice if....
... the US media had 10% of the spine that The BBC has?

It's appalling that I have to go to foreign web sites to get meaningful news reports about my own country.

If Greg Palast's BBC reports were shown over here, there would be a revolution within days.



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Sunnyshine Donating Member (698 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 04:51 PM
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8. That would be real, real, nice.
It's appalling that I have to go to foreign web sites to get meaningful news reports about my own country.


Exactly. That says much about everything that is wrong- and has been wrong. If people in our country could step back and look in, from an outsiders POV, we must know how terribly indifferent we appear to be, to the things we see with our eyes, know with our minds, and feel in our bones.

Years of devastating policies and agendas that read like wacky plots in world domination for natural resources. This war has actually secured the strangle hold these Resource Barons abroad are wielding on our domestic and global market economies.

It is stupid that I am subjected to this garbage government from these leaders who play a fine fiddle and dance for money.

Many of them, are not whole heartedly earning their title of Senator or Representative, or President, if they do not resemble the heart of diplomacy and democracy. We should be demonstrating that ability to teach others. Instead we are looking discombobulated and loosely affiliated.

Their chaos is ruining the nation I love. I hate our politics and our policies, it is cut throat and over-bloated. They always set up for eventual failures. Shit could be so much easier. We do have the power to put a stop to it.

8 yrs. out, and I am certain the executive, judicial, and legislative branches of our government is damn broke. No support for honest and dire oversight. Adjustment is not their forte. Its a boiling pot waiting to spill over.

They need to 1) Uphold the rule of law. 2) Uphold their oath. 3) Talk to all voters.

Balancing established law, with the will of the voters. The tax payers. The ones who pay them to "represent" us and work for the betterment of our civil society.

Misrepresentation is what we have seen most of- not the other way around. That must end. Democratic Party would look strong and could be in the majority for decades if we were to set the record straight. Justice and Freedom would ring here at home and across the world.

Our president caused atrocities to be unleashed upon a sovereign nation. That is on our backs now. Thanks to the wackos that are still in power today. I can't for the life of me...understand why?
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