Tag: obama
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Bernie and the Billionaire, Bread and Circuses
Love this speech from Bernie Sanders, amazingly the first self-described ‘socialist’ in the Senate if Wikipedia is correct. I wish there were more politicians brave enough to say this – sadly the currently corporate funding and lobbying system here and abroad means they’re very unlikely to do so – that system breeds corruption, kickbacks and…
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Iran war: WW3?
Fairly balanced video (via Pete Wallace); ignores the socialist/communist drive of the revolution though (see the likes of Persepolis which talks about that, and the ensuing brutal clampdown in the years after the 1979 revolution) and makes it out to be a purely Islamic revolution – isn’t that like saying Arab Spring was purely Islamic-focused…
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Don’t Touch my Junk!
Rx does it again – Obama says ‘Don’t touch my Junk!’ Also check out these TSA-tastic bumper stickers:
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Lawrence Lessig – I Was a Teenage Republican CC Supporter
http://blip.tv/lessig/tedx-talk-3328859 Genius, especially the end…I think as with Brown here, Clinton and Obama we expect the New Labour/Left wing/Democrats to ‘do the right thing’ with copyright and the internet (I’m reminded of my MP Glenda Jackson here – she’s really good and a socialist – apart from copyright; she seems to be siding with the…