While no one president alone can wave a magic wand and change the world, Barrack Obama has inspired the kind of hope that has people thinking big. Even if you don’t buy into the Obama revolution and think Obama espouses a foreign policy that could only be described as “the Bush doctrine, with slightly less calories” (and you would be correct) you can still dream big, can’t you?
On the eve of the inauguration, let’s create a list, if only as a social experiment, of the things we want in the first year from this administration. Express your wishes in a short phrase or sentence like “single payer healthcare” or “revoke the policy of pre-emption” or “all dogs neutered”. I’ll take the most compelling of these & create poll.
On the day after the inauguration, I will post that poll right here at Operation Itch. This should give us a clear idea of what Operation Itchers want in Obama’s first year.
Then we can put our heads together and see if we can’t achieve it. Don’t think we can get anything done together? Come on, say it with me now- YES WE CAN. – DT ( you can read the David Swanson article I talk about here)
The MN Senate race and the conflict in Gaza are connected more than you realize. Please view the video response to this video (read the video information) and find out how you can stop the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 from passing the senate.
5 January 2009- While none of these stories have actually happened yet, we here at operation itch believe in the cyclical nature of history. That, combined with the uncanny instincts of our YT subscribers brings you this list- edited from the many submissions from my (not another) top 10 news stories of 2008 video.
I want to encourage you take a the poll (below the video) declaring which of the following stories will end up being a top story of 2009 & use the comments to defend your thinking. Vote as often as you like, use the “add” feature in the poll to add & vote on your own predictions & check back throughout the year to see how we are doing.
So then, in no particular order, here are the headlines, created by my YouTube viewers, edited imperfectly by yours truly. – D
In the comments below, write the word HEADLINE and then write a single headline that you predict (or WISH) will happen in 2009. On Monday, January 5th, using the 10 best headlines- I will create a script and a video that will be the TOP TEN POLITICAL STORIES OF 2009. And then, in December of 2009, when everyone is scrambling to create their top 10 lists of the year, we can compare the list we created together, with the actual headlines that unfold.
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It is a testament to the filmmaking and propaganda skills of Frank Capra that even a grown male atheist like me will weep like a schoolgirl whose puppy just died when, at the very end of It’s a Wonderful Life, George’s brother raises a glass and says: “To my brother George, the richest man in the world.” The New York Times article I reference in the video, well worth the read, is right below the video.
Wonderful? Sorry, George, It’s a Pitiful, Dreadful Life
WENDELL JAMIESON • NYTIMES
The classic “It’s a Wonderful Life” stars James Stewart as a man who can see the world as it would be if he had never been born.
MR. ELLMAN didn’t tell us why he wanted us to stay after school that December afternoon in 1981. When we got to the classroom — cinderblock walls, like all the others, with a dreary view of the parking lot — we smelled popcorn.
He had set up a 16-millimeter projector and a movie screen, and rearranged the chairs. Book bags, jackets and overcoats were tossed on seat backs, teenagers sat, suspicious, slumping, and Mr. Ellman started the projector whirring. “It’s a Wonderful Life” filled the screen.
I was not a mushy kid. My ears were fed a steady stream of the Clash and the Jam, and I was doing my best to conjure a dyed-haired, wry, angry-young-man teenage persona. But I was enthralled that afternoon in Brooklyn. In the years that followed, my affection for “It’s a Wonderful Life” has never waned, despite the film’s overexposure and sugar-sweet marketing, and the rolling eyes of friends and family. Read the rest of this entry ?
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With the world economy in decline and citizens all over the globe suffering under the weight of credit card debt that they cannot repay, Google and iphone have teamed up to create a new application, playfully named the Bush doctrine..
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