good night, and good luck

bravo! movie highly reccommended. thanks, Geo.

Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)
@ netflix:
George Clooney's Oscar-nominated docudrama pits TV newsman Edward R. Murrow (David Strathairn) against Sen. Joseph McCarthy and his single-minded crusade to quell the red threat at home. Despite corporate pressure to back off, Murrow and his CBS staff are determined to examine the lies and fear tactics perpetrated by McCarthy during his Communist witch-hunts. The impressive cast includes Robert Downey Jr., Patricia Clarkson and Jeff Daniels.


Any of you kids know what McCarthyism is ???
@Wikipedia:
McCarthyism is the term describing a period of intense anti-Communist suspicion in the United States that lasted roughly from the late 1940s to the late 1950s. The term derives from U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, a Republican of Wisconsin. The period of McCarthyism is also referred to as the Second Red Scare, and coincided with increased fears of Communist influence on American institutions, espionage by Soviet agents, heightened tension from the Soviet domination of Eastern Europe, the success of the Chinese Communist revolution (1949) and the Korean War (1950-1953).

What do you think the role of "the media" should be?

How about "Cointelpro"? did you ever hear of that?
@Wikipedia:
COINTELPRO (Counter Intelligence Program) is a program of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation aimed at investigating and disrupting dissident political organizations within the United States. Although covert operations have been employed throughout FBI history, the formal COINTELPRO operations of 1956-1971 were broadly targeted against organizations that were (at the time) considered to have politically radical elements, ranging from those whose stated goal was the violent overthrow of the U.S. government (such as the Weathermen) to non-violent civil rights groups such as Martin Luther King Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership Conference to violent racist and segregationist groups like the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party. The founding document of COINTELPRO directed FBI agents to "expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize" the activities of these movements and their leaders.

How about Fascism? do you know what it is?
@Wikipedia:
Fascism is a radical political ideology that combines elements of corporatism, authoritarianism, nationalism, militarism, anti-anarchism, anti-communism and anti-liberalism.

so: Since when is it unpatriotic to dissent?

and: Why and how would calling for peace make you a traitor?

kinda makes you think about whats going on in the good ol' USofA these days, don't it?

/RENEGADE/: save whales

/RENEGADE/: save whales

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re/see_also: center-of-earth

deadelephant.ORG

Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 05:43:28 -0700
From: Bill Mandel
Subject: underground "anti-marketing" campaign against the GOP


This crossed my desk today and will be of interest to you.

DeadElephant.ORG, an "anti-marketing" campaign, distributed friend-to-friend over the web, launched last week against the GOP. The underground campaign features more than 50 bumper-stickers in a single theme which share a distinctive logo - you guessed it: a dead GOP elephant! These are available instantly and FREE directly from the website - just click and print!

The messages capture the earnest self-satisfaction of the neoCons perfectly, and are very funny. Of course no bumper-strip message, however clever, can move public opinion on its own. But picture Dead Elephant logos popping up everywhere... Now THAT will effectively express MASS disaffection with the current leadership, and will help defeat the GOP on November 7th.

Have look for yourself. Print some out. And most important:

TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW !




Happy culture jamming!

--Bill
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William (Bill) Mandel


My autobiography, SAYING NO TO POWER (Introduction by Howard Zinn), is a history of how the American people fought to defend and expand its rights since the 1920s (I'm 88) employing the form of the life of a 30s AND 60s activist, one who was involved in most serious movements: student, labor, 45 years of efforts to prevent war with the USSR, civil rights South and North, women's liberation [my late wife appears on 50 pages], 37 years on Pacifica Radio [where I invented talk radio], civil liberties. You may hear/see my testimony before different McCarthy-Cold-War-Era witch-hunting committees [used in six films and a play]) on my website, http://www.billmandel.net I am the author of five books in my academic field. For an autographed copy of SAYING NO TO POWER, send me $24 at 4466 View Pl.,#106, Oakland, CA. 94611