We the people from Al Jazeera

We The People - Jobs - 17 May 08 - Part 1

We The People is a new series examining the issues weighing heavily on US voters in the lead up to one of the most hotly contested presidential elections in years. By traveling the country and meeting the people whose lives are most affected we look forward to the post election nation. In the first episode we go to Dayton, Ohio, a state that has lost thousands of well paying manufacturing jobs.


We The People - Jobs - 17 May 08 - Part 2

Via: toosense

Question: Al Jazeera is commonly dismissed as having a biased view. Might one inquire as to why Western news stations are automatically assumed to be objective? Especially when they are reporting on other parts of the world? Hell, we don't have to go that far. We can always look at the the way they report on minorities of any kind. To say nothing of different ideological viewpoints. My view? We have heard how the West define the world. Its past time to listen to definitions of the East, South and North.

People and Power Series

People & Power - The Gyspy King - 10 Feb 08 - Pt 1

They've been called thieves, beggars, and in the words of the Romanian president - "stinky gypsies."

People & Power - The Gyspy King - 10 Feb 08 - Pt 2

People & Power - Open Wound - 17 Feb 08 - Pt 1

Kosovo's missing people are the ghosts that haunt the birth of the state. When the Kosovo war ended on June 11, 1999, it left Kosovo in chaos and Yugoslavia facing an unknown future.


People & Power - Open Wound - 17 Feb 08 - Pt 2

People and Power Series

People & Power- New born Kosovo- 21 Feb 08- Part 1

People & Power goes on location in Pristina to examine the wider implications of the declaration and how the country can survive politically and economically.


People & Power- New born Kosovo- 21 Feb 08- Part 2

People & Power - Homeless Hero - 03 Feb 08 - Pt 1

Homeless Hero is the story of Cheri Honkala's rise from homelessness and single motherhood to leadership of a growing popular movement in the USA


People & Power - Homeless Hero - 03 Feb 08 - Pt 2

A report on the opposition to a new power plant on the American Navajo reserve.

Yes, I am absolutely in love with this series. Why do you ask?

People & Power - The Village: Busunju - Part 1 - 16 Jan 08

The first of an on-going People & Power report on the economic and social development of Busunju, a small Ugandan town.


People & Power - The Village: Busunju - Part 2 - 16 Jan 08

People & Power - Burning Issues - 09 Jan 08

A report from Baluchistan,{Pakistan} where nationalists struggle for greater control over their region's natural resources.



People & Power - Hunted by the Past - 26 Dec 07

People and Power examines the problems of investigating Poland's past.


People & Power - First People, Last Chance - 26 Dec 07

People & Power reports from the heart of Australia on a dilemma facing the country's indigenous people.

People and Power

People & Power - Race and Rights - 04 Nov 07 - Pt 1

People & Power's Aloke Devichand investigates the current tensions and complexities of race and politics in Malaysia



People & Power - Race and Rights - 04 Nov 07 - Pt 2

People & Power's Aloke Devichand investigates the controversial marketing tactics and impact of formula milk manufacturers in Indonesia.

People & Power - Crossing Over - 11 & 15 July 07 - Part 1

People & Power's Zeina Awad explores the underground trafficking world with Zimbabwean refugees;


People & Power - Crossing Over - 11 & 15 July 07 - Part 2

The Power of One profiles an extraordinary retired civil engineer who builds glaciers in Ladakh, India to help his village's irrigation problems.

Hill Supporter: Obama weak, not fit for Pres. 'cause, he's ...loyal to his wife?!?!?!!?!!?!?!!?!?!?

The Shrinkage Factor
Sylvia Welsh



Barack Obama may be the only male politician of any significance in the past, say, one thousand years who is faithful to his wife. Does anyone doubt Obama's fidelity? Now that it's near certain he will be the Democratic nominee, I've been trying to sort out why I don't think this is a good thing. It's not that I'm pro-infidelity, mind you. As a psychologist who has seen many couples torn to pieces over it, I know how corrosive betrayal is to a relationship. Yet, Obama's certain fidelity is somehow troubling me.

Now, to many of you on this site who have seen my postings before (and I want to thank you for the bodyguard I felt the need to hire), you know that I am a Hillary Clinton supporter. Perhaps I was more drawn to her to begin with because of her fierceness. It made me feel safe knowing there'd be this big, strong bear of a Mother in the House protecting her children at all times, ever vigilant and ever ready to do whatever it took to keep us out of harm's way. On the other hand, Obama's monotonic calm admittedly kind of scares me. Maybe because he looks kind of scared himself, especially in Hillary's presence. I'm not the first to comment on this. Maureen Dowd, an Obama-ite from early on, noted how he seemed to shrink (and, I would add, blink an awful lot) when forced to be in the same room with her. She may be over-doing the Rocky Balboa thing, but Obama's idea of getting into the ring seems to consist of trying to reason her out of the fight and the belief that if he just speaks quietly and soothingly to her, while putting a platonic, friendly hand on her shoulder, she'll settle down and leave the ring peaceably: in other words, if he's nice. Obama is a nice guy. And, as most any woman will tell you, "nice" guys finish last. And they finish last because, well, they just aren't very sexy. Power, for better or worse, is a turn on. I have no doubt that Obama wants to be President, which must mean that the guy wants power. And someone, most likely Axelrod, convinced Obama that the time to go for the gold was now — not in 8 years, but NOW. Obama bought into it and, I guess, the rest is history.


Read the rest, it gets even MORE crazy!


I. Have. NO. Words.

Compare and contrast

Kelly Osbourne "One Word"

Visage "Fade to Grey"