I think Jones is nuts for various reasons and I certainly don't agree with everything in this video, but it's worth a watch if you want to see some of the structures in place behind the presidency in general. Towards the end, you could turn off the video and save yourself from Jones' paranoid delusions based on loose connections and misunderstandings of issues.
I disagree that Obama was not the lesser evil and like always, I still think us peasants (united states citizens) should continue to vote in lesser evils. It's all we got. We would be tremendously worse off under McCain and that idiot Palin... we'd have even less access and more misery. Jones seems to come from a childish libertarian point of view where you have to throw out everything, instead of dealing with reality and working from there.
It's a shame it has dumb, false interpretations of the Fairness Doctrine (which would help fight against corporatists) and has idiots who think manmade climate change is only a conspiracy and idiotic railings against health care policies without mentioning alternatives like a true single payer system. Full of loose connections, this documentary falls apart at the seams at the end with typical teapartyesque Hitler references, etc. It's a shame, because it had a lot of promise in the beginning, but falls apart into idiocy towards the end.
Politically Incorrect with host Bill Maher (05/23/1996) discusses LSD and Timothy Leary with guests Robert Anton Wilson (last minute fill-in for an ill Leary), Michelle Phillips, David Cross, and Bob Guccione Jr.
President Obama spent most of December 4 touring Allentown, Pennsylvania, meeting with local workers and discussing the economic crisis. A few hours later, the state's former governor, Tom Ridge, was on MSNBC's Hardball With Chris Matthews, offering up his own recovery plan. There were "modest things" the White House might try, like cutting taxes or opening up credit for small businesses, but the real answer was for the president to "take his green agenda and blow it out of the box." The first step, Ridge explained, was to "create nuclear power plants." Combined with some waste coal and natural gas extraction, you would have an "innovation setter" that would "create jobs, create exports."
As Ridge counseled the administration to "put that package together," he sure seemed like an objective commentator. But what viewers weren't told was that since 2005, Ridge has pocketed $530,659 in executive compensation for serving on the board of Exelon, the nation's largest nuclear power company. As of March 2009, he also held an estimated $248,299 in Exelon stock, according to SEC filings.
Moments earlier, retired general and "NBC Military Analyst" Barry McCaffrey told viewers that the war in Afghanistan would require an additional "three- to ten-year effort" and "a lot of money." Unmentioned was the fact that DynCorp paid McCaffrey $182,309 in 2009 alone. The government had just granted DynCorp a five-year deal worth an estimated $5.9 billion to aid American forces in Afghanistan. The first year is locked in at $644 million, but the additional four options are subject to renewal, contingent on military needs and political realities.
In a single hour, two men with blatant, undisclosed conflicts of interest had appeared on MSNBC. The question is, was this an isolated oversight or business as usual? Evidence points to the latter.
Here's the documentary that all the networks in the United States refuse to air despite its popularity in the free world. Even HBO won't touch it. A head of a major network has said it's fear that kept him from airing it. Well, this is what you aren't supposed to see, Americans:
PART I
This is part 1, watch part 2 & 3 here. At that page, just click play video and when it loads, click on chapter 2, etc. in the playlist embedded in the bottom of the video.
