Michael Moore Comedy: Healthcare Olympics: Watch Online

This is from Moore's old show TV Nation comedy/political show on NBC.
They put out a couple volumes of it on VHS that are OOP but a few copies are floating around the Amazon marketplace for $4 and change that you can check out by clicking right here.



Michael Moore: Check out The Health Care Olympics with color commentators Bob Costas and Ahmad Rashad as the U.S. competes with Canada and Cuba in the sport of health care.

7 minutes with Bill Maher on Chris Matthews

7 minutes with John Hodgman on Keith Olbermann regarding Obama's geekiness: Watch Online

Will Rogers on the 1930's depression audio download

In the well known Will Rogers' style he gives his take on the 1930's depression and the actions of the gov't to deal with it.

Right click here to download in .au format
(it's an old format but it'll play in Windows Media Player fine)
Runs approx 12 minutes

Bill Maher on Keith Olbermann discussing healthcare and Obama's failings

Runs approx 9 minutes

Leonard Nimoy: Obama perfers Spock!

Google Video: Leonard Nimoy recounts an encounter with Barack Obama at a political function in which the Senator said, "I heard you were here" while giving the Vulcan salute.

Leaked Red Cross shocking Bush era torture report: Read Online

Click here to read (or right click to download) in pdf format direct from The New York Review of Books.

NYRoB/Mark Danner: Torture is more than a repugnant series of "procedures" applied to the fourteen "high-value detainees" at "black site" CIA prisons—procedures described with chilling and patient particularity in this authoritative report. Torture is a critical issue in the present of our politics. By torturing, the United States has wounded itself and helped its enemies in what is inherently a political war. And by torturing prisoners, many of whom were implicated in committing great crimes against Americans, the United States has made it impossible to render justice on those criminals.

and click here to read "The Red Cross Torture Report: What it All Means" by, again, Prof. Mark Danner.

Source: NY Review of Books

Notes to Obama from John Waters

Click here to watch direct from The BBC
Runs approx 3 minutes

Niall Ferguson's The Accent of Money: Download the MP4's or watch online

Click here to download part one
Click here to download part two
Click here to download part three
Click here to download part four

Each part runs approx 48 minutes.

If you want to get a primer on his work click here to check out the Colbert Report episode where Ferguson was a guest.

Amazon.com:
In THE ASCENT OF MONEY, Ferguson whose series War of the World garnered critical attention last summer traces the evolution of money and demonstrates that financial history is the essential back-story behind all history. Everyone needs to understand the complex history of money and our relationship to it, he says. By learning how societies have continually created and survived financial crises, we can find solid solutions to today s worldwide economic emergency. As he traverses historic financial hot spots around the world, Ferguson illuminates fundamental economic concepts and speaks with leading experts in the financial world.

BBC Doc: Super Rich: The Greed Game: Download in MP4 and watch online

Click here to download in MP4
Runs approx 58 minutes

Google Video: As the credit crunch bites and a global economic crisis threatens, Robert Peston reveals how the super-rich have made their fortunes, and the rest of us are picking up the bill

Canadian Conservatives lie to Obama on their love of the enviroment

After hundreds of ducks died because of Canadian oil companies (the people backing Canada's current Conservative minority government) what the right wingers in Canada are doing to the North American environment and Global Warming it caught the worlds attention.

Mind you when Obama visited Canada Canadian Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper pretended to love the environment however check out the before and after shots of what they've allowed to happen below direct from National Geographic.

If you want to contribute to stopping this boycott anything made in Canada (except for Naked Gord of course since I'm trying to be part of the solution here ;) ) and let your friends know what's being done.

Click here to read the entire article direct form National Geographic


Before/After side by side from TreeHugger.com

Mark Twain's The War Prayer MP3 download

Right click here to download in MP3

Runs approx 20 minutes




Archive.org: Mark Twain wrote The War Prayer in 1904. Since then, every gerneration facing war has found it as fresh and timely as when it was written. This radio drama version was produced and directed by W.D. Sherman Olson and stars Abbie Williams and folk singer/song writer Billy Krause.

Ralph Nader MP4 download: An Unreasonable Man

Click here to download part one in MP4 format

Click here to download part two in MP4 format

Runs approx 120 minutes total

Or watch below in embedded video:

Final Letterman "Great Moments in Presidential Speeches" - watch online

Check out the 4 minute montage below and click here to check out the Associated Press article featuring interviews with Letterman writers on the final "Great Speeches".



CBS/Youtube: With George W. Bush's presidency at an end, Dave presents the final edition of "Great Moments in Presidential Speeches."

6 minutes with Richard Lewis on politics, Bush and "the worst 8 years of his life"

Extended interview with Barack Obama on "This Week" MP3 download

George Stephanopoulos speaks with the President Elect on the issues facing America today.

Right click here to download in MP3 direct from ABC News

Bill Cosby discusses comedy and politics on Meet The Press: Download the MP3 and Watch Online

Here's the take two web-only extra where Cosby discusses comedy and politics and check out the MP3 just under the video for the entire broadcast which includes Cosby discussing how he thinks America will benefit from Obama and the African American community in particular.

Right click here to download in MP3 direct from NBC

BBC Doc on Noam Chomsky with intro by Harold Pinter: Watch Online

Click here to download in Mp4 direct from Google Video
Runs approx 23 minutes

Google Video: Noam Chomsky speaks to BBC's Francine Stock at London's St Paul's Cathedral, Dec '02. Harold Pinter's Nobel Lecture video: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2005/pinter-lecture.html Francine Stock: Since you first started in political activism in the sixties, do you feel that you have made a great deal of headway? Noam Chomsky: I think the country has made a great deal of headway and I'm happy to participate in it, but it's not traceable to individuals....If you go back to the sixties…there was no feminist movement, no Third World solidarity movements, no substantial anti-nuclear movement, no global justice movements. These are all developments of the last twenty or thirty years and they come from all over the place. For example, the solidarity movements...are quite unique - there's never been a time when people from the aggressor country went to the victims and lived with them to try to protect them. That happened in the eighties - tens of thousands of Americans did it and they came from conservative circles. A lot of it was church based. And it came from Main Street in the United States, and now it's all over the world

Iraqi reporter throws shoes at President Bush

Apparently it's the biggest insult in their culture...

Harvard's Niall Ferguson on how history relates to the current economy

Runs approx 56 minutes

Click here to check out his new book: The Ascent of Money direct from Amazon.com

Youtube: Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Harvard historian Niall Ferguson for a discussion of his new book, "The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World." In the conversation, drawing on insights from the biological sciences, Ferguson describes the rise and evolution of finance focusing on insurance, banks, and the bond market. Using the
examples of housing and the U.S. China economic relationship, Ferguson demonstrates the way history can inform our understanding of the current financial crisis. He also reflects on the implications of the financial crisis for American global hegemony.