Amusing and Informative, Your Lil' Sister Loves to Get the 'Scoop' on the Mainstream Media and To Present a Variety of Obscure, Under-Reported and Decidedly-More Newsworthy Items From Around The Globe; You'll Also Be Privy To Pieces of My Own Personal Paranormal Phenomena; and Frequently Hear of Things Your Parents, Clergy, Society and Uncle Sam didn't bother to tell you. But, I will...
In Other Words:
The Way This Grrrl Sees It!
YOU should know...Bassem Youssef: At great risk to himself, he spoke Truth To Power - with humor. His show - in Egypt - had 30 Million viewers. Egypt's violent, authoritarian regimes didn't like that and had him arrested and shut down his show...
This is a fascinating documentary of a UFO crash retrieval case that I hadn't heard of before seeing this video. "In January 1983, the sleepy Welsh village of Llanilar near Aberystwyth was buzzed by a strange craft, which hit trees, scattered shiny metal debris over four fields and flew off apparently unaffected." This documentary is noteworthy because it presents some of the unusual pieces of debris recovered from tree branches on the site. Also, it's made significantly more intriguing due to the fact that the M.O.D. - after gathering all the debris from ground level - returned with the Forest Service shortly afterwards and completely removed the forest at the site which included trees that had been damaged by the craft as it crashed through. They claimed they removed it due to "wind damage", although the Forest Service had never removed a forest for that reason prior to this incident. Enjoy!
"UFOs: It Has Begun": An older, yet, extraordinary documentary. Hosted by Rod Serling. Appearances by J. Allen Hynek, Mr. quintanella, Jacques Vallee, Lonnie Zamora and other key military and UFO experts. *It's a very rare thing to see active military personnel appear on camera and describe their sightings!
Check it out...
Enjoy!
Sunday, August 26, 2007
Check this out: (No, Really... it's funny... and quite revealing. I especially like the open-mouthed, gum-chewing, seat-warmer. And, don't let the starting image turn you off, the picture gets better immediately.) Brought to you from the soon-to-be-legendary (if he isn't already) Max Blumenthal. I just heard about this on Bill Moyer's Journal on PBS. Whatever you think about Bill (if you even think about him), his show definitely unearths some priceless gems. Thanks, Bill. And, Max.... Michael Moore would be proud. Peace. L.
Generation Chickenhawk: the Unauthorized College Republican Convention Tour
On July 13, 2007, I visited Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery, where the bodies of American soldiers killed in Iraq were freshly interred. Afterwards, I headed across the street to the Sheraton National Hotel, owned by right-wing Korean cult leader Sun Myung-Moon, to meet some of the war's most fervent supporters at the College Republican National Convention.
In conversations with at least twenty College Republicans about the war in Iraq, I listened as they lip-synched discredited cant about "fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them over here." Many of the young GOP cadres I met described the so-called "war on terror" as nothing less than the cause of their time.
Yet when I asked these College Repulicans why they were not participating in this historical cause, they immediately went into contortions. Asthma. Bad knees from playing catcher in high school. "Medical reasons." "It's not for me." These were some of the excuses College Republicans offered for why they could not fight them "over there." Like the current Republican leaders who skipped out on Vietnam, the GOP's next generation would rather cheerlead from the sidelines for the war in Iraq while other, less privileged young men and women fight and die.
Along with videographer Thomas Shomaker, I captured a vivid portrait of the hypocritical mentality of the next generation of Republican leaders. See for yourself...
