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Top Documetary Films

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:48:56 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A site for... documentaries.

TDF (Top Documentary Films) is basically "one man show" (driven by one enthusiast) and the content here is created with a passion for documentaries. The site is in open form and it is allowing readers to add comments about documentary films they like or dislike... more

Clip Source: topdocumentaryfilms.com

Top Documentary Films is basically “one man show” (driven by one enthusiast) and the content here is created with a passion for documentary films. The site is in open form and it is allowing readers to add comments about documentary films they like or dislike.

In so doing, I hope to provide a valuable resource to those with an interest in documentary films and in future I hope to help independent documentary filmmakers and festival coordinators promote their films and events.

Clip Source: topdocumentaryfilms.com

Anyway, I handpicked these documentaries here just for you, but overall at Top documentary Films you can find 300+ (more to come) stunning, eyeopening, interesting documentaries.

Rush Limbaugh Is Destroying The National Conversation

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:42:41 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Excellent analysis at source by a former talk-radio host who's been there.

Clip Source: beauweaver.wordpress.com

Rush Limbaugh is getting a lot of promotional help these days, though he does not need it, from the preposterous suggestion that he is the new head of the Republican party. This makes about as much sense as suggesting that Kieffer Sutherland should head the CIA. You do know that Jack Bauer is just a character on a television show, right? Just as Rush Limbaugh is a character invented by a radio deejay who had to reinvent himself as a talk show host many years ago.

Mistaking Limbaugh for an actual political authority is not much different from thinking Stephen Colbert is actually a conservative talk show host. You see? The media fun house mirror has distorted our perceptions beyond belief. And, in this confusion, former top forty deejay Limbaugh is in a real way responsible for the complete breakdown of civic discourse in America.

His pig headed consistency is a brilliant example of effective radio branding.

He is a cartoon! An entertainer!

The Difficulty of Being an Informed American

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:30:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Editorial by Paul Craig Roberts well worth the click to read the whole piece.

Clip Source: baltimorechronicle.com

The function of the “mainstream media” is to sell products and to brainwash the audience for the government and interest groups. By subscribing to it, Americans support their own brainwashing.

The American print and TV media have never been very good. These days they are horrible. If people intend to be informed, they must turn to foreign news broadcasts, to Internet sites, to foreign newspapers available on the Internet, or to alternative newspapers that are springing up in various cities. A person who sits in front of Murdoch’s Fox “News” or CNN or who reads the New York Times is simply being brainwashed with propaganda.

Before conservatives nod their heads in agreement, I’m not referring to “the liberal media.” I mean the propaganda that issues from the US government and the Israel Lobby.

When the truth cuts against the position of the US government, conservatives see it as “liberal.”

When propaganda supports the government’s lies, conservatives see it as “patriotic.”

The Press & Democracy Were Hung Out To Dry

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:48:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Public left holding the bag while Congress plays dumb.

Clip Source: www.cjr.org

Hung Out to Dry

The national-security press dug up the dirt, but Congress wilted

In November and December 2005, The Washington Post and The New York Times published two groundbreaking national-security stories that revealed controversial and possibly illegal behavior by the Bush administration in its conduct of the “war on terror.” In November 2005, the Post published Dana Priest’s piece about a previously undisclosed, CIA-run, overseas prison network for off-the-books terror suspects where “enhanced interrogation techniques,” including waterboarding, were employed. Six weeks later, in December 2005, the Times ran James Risen and Eric Lichtblau’s story on the Bush administration’s secret authorization of the National Security Agency to monitor some domestic-to-international telephone and electronic communications and mine communications transactional data without a court warrant. Both stories received the Pulitzer Prize.

Court Case Over Teaser Content & Links Could Change The Internet

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 07:35:39 GMT

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clipper's remarks: As avid Clipmarkers this seems to me to hit us right between the eyes. Silly lawsuit, but a lawsuit just the same.

Clip Source: crooksandliars.com

This could affect the blogosphere as we know it, most specifically news aggregators:

A copyright and trademark infringement lawsuit filed last month against The New York Times Co., owner of The Boston Globe and its Boston.com website, is being watched closely by news organizations, Internet researchers, independent bloggers, and companies that aggregate news online by linking to a variety of news sites.

At the heart of the complaint, lodged by GateHouse Media Inc., which publishes 125 community newspapers in Massachusetts, is the question of whether Internet news providers will be able to continue the practice of posting headlines and lead sentences from stories they link to on other sites.

the case could result in new guidelines for how much, if any, content from one website can be used by another.

Ann Coulter(guist) Faces New Voter Fraud Allegations

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:11:07 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Excellent! Maybe this will take her to the level where her last hope for the public attention she craves so openly is a Playboy offer. (Never gonna happen, Ann.)

Clip Source: www.newshounds.us

Ann Coulter was cleared in a 2006 voter fraud investigation in Florida after an FBI agent/friend "intruded," but new questions have arisen about her previous voting record in Connecticut. The New York Daily News reports that Coulter voted there via absentee ballot in 2002 and 2004 while records show she actually lived in New York City.

The Daily News reports that Connecticut will begin a formal investigation if they receive a complaint under oath. The paper notes, "There are a few 9/11 widows who might volunteer. (Coulter, you remember, called them “harpies and witches.”)" Private investigator Joseph Culligan has the documents relevant to Coulter's Connecticut voting posted on his site, webofdeception.com.

Brad Friedman has an excellent run down of the Florida allegations, including convincing evidence that Coulter also committed tax fraud.

in a 2006 FOX News appearance, Coulter "defended" herself against the Florida allegations by saying that she really lived in New York.

Tags: liar liar pants on fire

Sean Hannity: 2008 Misinformer Of The Year

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 05:43:18 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Extensive substantiation of the award at the clipped source.

Clip Source: mediamatters.org

As Media Matters for America has demonstrated time and again, Fox News' Sean Hannity has been a prolific and influential purveyor of conservative misinformation. But never has he so enthusiastically applied his talents for spreading misinformation as he did to the 2008 presidential race, focusing his energies primarily on President-elect Barack Obama. Day after day, Hannity devoted his two Fox News shows and his three-hour ABC Radio Networks program to "demonizing" the Democratic presidential candidates, starkly explaining in August: "That's my job. ... I led the 'Stop Hillary Express.' By the way, now it's the 'Stop Obama Express.' " Hannity's "Stop Obama Express" promoted and embellished a vast array of misleading attacks and false claims about Obama. Along the way, he uncritically adopted and promoted countless Republican talking points and played host to numerous credibility-challenged smear artists who painted Obama as a dangerous radical.