Videos Posted by James MacWhyte: Tsunami Footage [HD]
Tsunami Footage [HD] by James MacWhyte (videos) 6:21 I want to show everyone the news media we are being presented with here in Japan. I think it’s quite different from what you see on CNN and other Western news outlets. One thing about Japan—there are professional cameramen EVERYWHERE! It reminds me of the Vietnam war, and how it was the first time the US got real-time, color footage of a war zone. Since the quake, we’ve had lots of steady, HD video playing non-stop, showing you exactly what it would be like to witness the disaster first hand. Watch it in full-screen, and please share on your wall!!
Rep. Dennis Kucinich gave a keynote speech last Friday at the Animal Rights 2010 national conference with a message you’ll never hear from another member of Congress. In fact, his comments on our economic system were so quintessentially radical that you’re unlikely to hear the same words spoken by most pundits on the Left or even many people sympathetic to the cause of nonhuman animals and the environment.
Cindy Sheehan questions DC police officer about 911 emergency call made in response to peaceful protest outside General Atomics’ DC office on July 8, 2010
Industrial Capitalism in Action
“The murder of the Gulf of Mexico by BP shouldn’t surprise us. It is precisely what industrial capitalism does.” - Derrick Jensen
Ellsberg worries Obama plans incapacitation of Wikileaks’ Julian Assange
“We’ve now been told by Dennis Blair, the late head of intelligence here, that President Obama has authorized the killing of American citizens overseas, who are suspected of involvement in terrorism. Assange is not American, so he doesn’t even have that constraint. I would think that he is in some danger. Granted, I would think that his notoriety now would provide him some degree of protection. You would think that would protect him, but you could have said the same thing about me. I was the number one defendant. I was on trail but they brought up people to beat me up.” - Daniel Ellsberg
From The Daily Beast
B’nai Brith Canada: Complete and total whack jobs
Check out this insanity:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
B’nai Brith Canada calls on Canadian government to designate radical Turkish organization behind Gaza Flotilla incident a terrorist entity
TORONTO, June 7, 2010 – B’nai Brith Canada has called on the Government of Canada to designate IHH, the radical Turkish Islamist organization behind the Gaza Flotilla incident, as a terrorist entity. David Matas, renowned international human rights lawyer and B’nai Brith’s honourary senior legal counsel, laid out the justification for the designation in a brief sent to both Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Leader of the Opposition Michael Ignatieff. The brief, which was based on numerous credible reports, highlighted the IHH’s links to the global jihadi movement, its close ties to Hamas, its support for Al-Qaeda, and its connection to various terror plots.
“We have contacted both Prime Minister Harper and the Leader of the Opposition to call on them to act against IHH without delay,” said Frank Dimant, Executive Vice President of B’nai Brith Canada. The IHH, the radical Islamist organization which came to everyone’s attention when it organized the violent Gaza Flotilla incident against the Jewish State recently, has a long history of involvement with and links to Islamist terrorist organizations which clearly justify its inclusion of the list of designated terrorist entities. Designating the IHH as a terrorist entity would clearly fit with the Harper administration’s public safety platform, and we fully expect that the Liberal Party, under the stewardship of Mr. Ignatieff, will support this undertaking.”
“There is more than enough information on the public record about IHH to raise real concern that this organization uses humanitarian aid as a front or cover to pursue a terrorist agenda,” said David Matas, Honourary Senior Legal Counsel of Bnai Brith Canada. “Because of the IHH’s connection to the Canadian-linked Millennium Bomber terrorist plot, Canada should pay special attention to the threat that this organization could pose.
“Listing the IHH as a designated terrorist entity now would also serve as a timely reminder that the Gaza Flotilla incident was far from a humanitarian operation. IHH was rather using the cover of humanitarianism to poke a hole in an arms blockade against Hamas, a terrorist organization which the IHH has very strong ties to.”
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For more information, please contact, Dan Rabkin, Communications Officer:
416-633-6224 X 140 / cell: 416-312-9173
B’nai Brith Canada has been active in Canada since 1875 as the Jewish community’s foremost human rights agency
Tarahumara: Those Who Run Fast
That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they’d never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running was mankind’s first fine art, our original act of inspired creation. Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees, we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain. And when our ancestors finally did make their first cave paintings, what were the first designs? A downward slash, lightning bolts through the bottom and middle—behold, the Running Man.
—Christopher McDougall, “Chapter 15,” Born to Run, p. 92, 2009.
