[[ Video ]]

Bob Dylan — “All Along the Watchtower”

read more...

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has said Iraqi forces will be ready to assume security control of the country in June 2007.
“Iraqi forces will be… fully ready to receive this command,” Mr Maliki said in an interview with US ABC TV, to be aired later on Thursday.
continue reading

read more...

The UN says Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu will lead its fact-finding mission into Beit Hanoun where 19 Palestinians died in Israeli shelling on 8 November.
The mission aims to “recommend ways to protect Palestinian civilians against further Israeli attacks”, the UN says.
Israel has said the strike, which hit a civilian area in the Gaza Strip [...]

read more...

Lucas at PrideDepot has a very good post on recently released figures that one in thirty-two Americans are behind bars.
“Today’s figures fail to capture incarceration’s impact on the thousands of children left behind by mothers in prison,” Marc Mauer, the executive director of the Sentencing Project, a Washington-based group supporting criminal justice reform, said in [...]

read more...

From The Hollywood Reporter:
In announcing the competition slate for the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, Geoffrey Gilmore, its longtime director, said he sees the beginning of a new era in independent filmmaking. “Filmmakers are undergoing a massive expansion in perspective and aesthetic qualities,” he said. “Where once independence meant a detachment, a kind of navel-gazing, that [...]

read more...

In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
O, Almighty God, bestow upon humanity the perfect human being promised to all by You, and make us among his followers.
Noble Americans,
Were we not faced with the activities of the US administration in this part of the world and the negative ramifications of those activities on the [...]

read more...

MOUNT PLEASANT, Iowa (AP) — Democratic Gov. Tom Vilsack launched his long-shot bid for the presidency Thursday, calling for an end to U.S dependence on foreign oil in favor of alternative energy sources.
“Energy security will revitalize rural America, re-establish our moral leadership on global warming and climate security, and eliminate our addiction to foreign oil,” [...]

read more...

Condi put on her cutest pair of shoes and headed to Jericho today and met with Mahmoud Abbas, where she informed him: “The daily difficulties, the daily humiliations that are associated with life for the Palestinian people simply must be eased. … I will work with you, Mr. President, and the Israelis to do precisely [...]

read more...

Ok, so how many mules were there to bring in the polonium 210. What form is it? Liquid? Powder? Were there 5 mules taking different flights to bring the stuff in to kill this guy, so that if one got caught, another might get through? Why weren’t ANY of them caught bringing [...]

read more...

O’Reilly declared that “secular-progressives” want “out-of-wedlock birth in the USA” to be “at record highs”
On the November 27 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, The Radio Factor, host Bill O’Reilly highlighted an upcoming segment of the program on “wins” and “losses” in the “culture war” by claiming “out-of-wedlock birth in the USA [is] at [...]

read more...

Accidentally followed a link over to that bastion of fascism, FOXNewsPropaganda, and found this:

Apology Requested
The head of the American Legion is calling on New York Congressman Charles Rangel to apologize for saying troops in Iraq are there because they had no better career opportunities.
Rangel made the comments to me on “FOX News Sunday” last weekend, [...]

read more...

[[ Video ]]

Clark Terry and the Unifor Big Band

read more...