MUST SEE – Michael Jackson: The Untold Story of Neverland

http://nimmer.net/

Please link to this blog post and send it out to everyone you know! This is for all of the people who either believe that Michael molested children or “aren’t sure” about it. I won’t voice my opinion on it, I’ll let you watch the documentary yourself and make the judgment for yourself. Again, make this documentary VIRAL!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_v._Jackson

PART 1

PART 2

PART 3

PART 4

PART 5

Sick for Profit

http://sickforprofit.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKI9be55N00

This issue should not be a partisan one. Tell Republicans to support Americans, not the profits of Health Insurance executives.

Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood

http://www.mediaed.org/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=134

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQYKXGj2JA4

Part #1

Part #2

Above are a few video clips from the video “Consuming Kids”. It is an amazing film on how marketers and advertisers (aided by deregulation and dilution of power of the FTC in the 1980s & under Reagan) are targeting children like pedophiles. They are extremely aggressive, taking on an amoral approach to converting infants into life long loyal consumers of their products (whether it is good or bad for them). Cartoons were made for the sole purpose of selling the toys. Even schools are now taking field trips to malls and stores, and having gyms sponsored by companies like Pizza Hut or Pepsi. Marketers have done brain scans on babies to see what stimulates them the most. They’ve even followed children into the bathroom or observed how they bathe all as a part of “research” on how to target them to sell products.

This video is extremely eye opening and disturbing. Marketers are only interested in their bottom line, and their actions have contributed to many problems we now face including childhood obesity, attention deficit disorder, social anxiety/depression, teen pregnancy, etc. I have only posted two parts out of seven in this post, you can see the rest on youtube or I may follow up by posting more in an update.

Every parent should watch this video.

Fox Crops videos, is there any truth from this station?

It is often said that Fox News is a right wing leaning station or conservative station. However, what is conservative about lying or editing videos in a deceitful manner? Do conservative values and principles include misleading the public?

What got cut from the stimulus bill

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/07/stimulus.cuts/index.html

(CNN) — A coalition of Democrats and some Republicans reached a compromise that trimmed billions in spending from an earlier version of the Senate economic stimulus bill.
Senators worked late into the night to trim billions from the original stimulus bill

Senators worked late into the night to trim billions from the original stimulus bill

CNN obtained, from a Democratic leadership aide, a list of some programs that have been cut — either entirely or partially:

Partially cut:

• $3.5 billion for energy-efficient federal buildings (original bill $7 billion)

• $75 million from Smithsonian (original bill $150 million)

• $200 million from Environmental Protection Agency Superfund (original bill $800 million)

• $100 million from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (original bill $427 million)

• $100 million from law enforcement wireless (original bill $200 million)

• $300 million from federal fleet of hybrid vehicles (original bill $600 million)

• $100 million from FBI construction (original bill $400 million)

Fully eliminated

• $55 million for historic preservation

• $122 million for new Coast Guard polar icebreaker/cutters

• $100 million for Farm Service Agency modernization

• $50 million for CSERES research

• $65 million for watershed rehabilitation

• $30 million for SD salaries

• $100 million for distance learning

• $98 million for school nutrition

• $50 million for aquaculture

• $2 billion for broadband

• $100 million for NIST

• $50 million for detention trustee

• $25 million for Marshalls Construction

• $300 million for federal prisons

• $300 million for BYRNE Formula

• $140 million for BYRNE Competitive

• $10 million state and local law enforcement

• $50 million for NASA

• $50 million for aeronautics

• $50 million for exploration

• $50 million for Cross Agency Support

• $200 million for National Science Foundation

• $100 million for science

• $1 billion for Energy Loan Guarantees

• $4.5 billion for GSA

• $89 million GSA operations

• $50 million from DHS

• $200 million TSA

• $122 million for Coast Guard Cutters, modifies use

• $25 million for Fish and Wildlife

• $55 million for historic preservation

• $20 million for working capital fund

• $165 million for Forest Service capital improvement

• $90 million for State and Private Wildlife Fire Management

• $1 billion for Head Start/Early Start

• $5.8 billion for Health Prevention Activity

• $2 billion for HIT Grants

• $600 million for Title I (NCLB)

• $16 billion for school construction

• $3.5 billion for higher education construction

• $1.25 billion for project based rental

• $2.25 billion for Neighborhood Stabilization
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• $1.2 billion for retrofitting Project 8 housing

• $40 billion for state fiscal stabilization (includes $7.5 billion of state incentive grants)

The shooting of Oscar Grant by BART Police. 3rd video, NEW angle

Here’s the video

Be warned, the video is disturbing. It shows the shooting very clearly, as well as the sickening treatment of Grant after he just got shot.

Here is a pretty good response to it. It has strong language, and you’ll have to skip the intro which last about 1:05 in or so, but the man gives some perspective from a military perspective how we should view this shooting.