Barack Obama at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner 2013 + Conan O’Brien

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President Obama at 2013 White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

Power-Packed Political Songs by Rocket Kirchner

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by Rocket Kirchner
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April 25, 2013

Well, here we go again. This time it is music.

1. It’s alright ma (I am only bleeding). Bob Dylan. One voice, one guitar tour de force. “The” existentialist political manifesto.

Great Political Movies You May Have Overlooked by Rocket Kirchner

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by Rocket Kirchner
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Rocket Kirchner (blog)
Rocket Kirchner (youtube channel)
April 15, 2013

1. Metropolis. Fritz Lang’s 1927 German Expressionistic futuristic masterpiece. The Commies loved it. The Nazis loved it. Both the religious and secularists loved it. One wild ride into the politico-socio matrix.

New Year’s Concert 2013: Vienna Philharmonic: Johann Strauss: Blue Danube + Radetzky March

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mkd12345678·Jan 1, 2013

This is a video of an another great performance of Johann’s Strauss Waltzer | An der schönen blauen donau | On the blue Danube performed by the Wiener Philharmoniker | Vienna Philharmonic on the 2013 Neujahrskonzert | New Year Concert.

The Rumble 2012 – Bill O’Reilly vs Jon Stewart (no longer available)

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Note: video is no longer available.

Oct 8, 2012 by Sweetyfashonista

The Rumble 2012 – “Daily Show” funnyman Jon Stewart and Fox News host Bill O’Reilly faced off in a debate Saturday tonight at the Lisner Auditorium on the campus of George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

Brother Sun and Sister Moon (1972)

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Brother Sun, Sister Moon (Italian: Fratello Sole, Sorella Luna) is a 1972 film directed by Franco Zeffirelli and starring Graham Faulkner and Judi Bowker. The film is a biopic of Saint Francis of Assisi.

Francesco, the spoiled son of Pietro Bernardone, a wealthy textile merchant, returns home from fighting in the war between Assisi and Perugia.

Juice News: A News Hope – Julian Assange vs Rupert Murdoch

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Jun 2, 2012 by RussiaToday

Juice Rap News presents the new bulletin of “news show for the internet nation”.

Robert Foster talks about rebel journalists who dare to challenge the establishment’s grip on information. No reliable media at a time of corporate wars. The people of Earth are misinformed as “speakers of truth are censored and imprisoned”.

Barack Obama at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner 2012 + Jimmy Kimmel

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Apr 28, 2012 by CSPAN

President Obama at the 2012 White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

New Year’s Concert 2012: Vienna Philharmonic: Radetzky March + Vienna Boys Choir + Johann Strauss: Fatherland March + 10,000 singing Beethoven-Ode to Joy

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Here is the post for 2013: New Year’s Concert 2013: Vienna Philharmonic: Johann Strauss: Blue Danube + March Radetzky

Happy New Year! Love, Lo

myben2011 on Jan 1, 2012

Vienna New Year’s Concert 2012, Vienna Philharmonic, Radetzky-March, op. 228

“Too Big To Fail” – The Movie by Jill Dalton

by Jill Dalton
Guest Writer
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May 21, 2011

Monday evening I was honored to attend the premiere of the HBO film, “Too Big To Fail,” which opens on HBO May 23^rd at 9 p.m. Curtis Hanson of “The Hand That Rocks the Cradle,” “The River Runs Wild,” “8 Mile” and “L.A. Confidential” fame, directs the film. Peter Gould bases the screenplay, on the book of the same name by Andrew Ross Sorkin about the financial collapse of Wall Street and the big banks.

Barack Obama at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner 2011 + Seth Meyers

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Capturing the Millennial Demographic? by Joseph Natoli

by Joseph Natoli
Guest Writer
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March 4, 2011

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“The Oscars tripped in their transition to a hipper, younger, media-mad future, attracting 12 percent fewer viewers than last year in the important 18-to-49 age bracket.” – Michael Cieply and Brooks Barnes, “Younger Audience Still Eludes the Oscars,” NY Times March 1, 2001

“European students live in societies where it becomes more difficult to collapse public life into largely private considerations. Students in these countries have access to a wider range of critical public spheres;

Soylent Green (1973)

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Soylent Green is a 1973 American science fiction film directed by Richard Fleischer. Starring Charlton Heston, the film overlays the police procedural and science fiction genres as it depicts the investigation into the brutal murder of a wealthy businessman in a dystopian future suffering from pollution, overpopulation, depleted resources, poverty, dying oceans and a hot climate due to the greenhouse effect. Much of the population survives on processed food rations, including “soylent green”.

The Colbert Report: Cornel West: I’m a militant for tenderness and radical love

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Cornel West wants the love to flow so that poor people will have the same dignity as investment bankers. (06:54)

Tweeting Away the Time by Ralph Nader + Smigly: Talk To Me

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Updated: Jan. 12, 2011 added a video.

by Ralph Nader
The Nader Page
January 3, 2011

The start of the New Year is a good time to talk about Time. About this, we can all agree—there are only twenty four hours in a day. Zillions of companies and persons want a piece of that time from us in order to make money. But that supply of Time is not expandable. Unlike other supplies in the marketplace, this one has no give beyond twenty four hours a day.