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Ethos

Hosted by the two-time Academy Award® nominated actor and activist Woody Harrelson,
ETHOS: A TIME FOR CHANGE lifts the lid on a Pandora’s box of systemic issues that has proven to have a negative impact in every aspect of our lives.

From the environment, our democracy and our personal liberty to conflicts of interest in politics and unregulated corporate power, we cannot change our system until we know how it works.

From director and activist Pete McGrain, ETHOS: A TIME FOR CHANGE sheds light on how we can affect change. With interviews from influential thought-leaders including, author and activist Noam Chomsky (Manufacturing Dissent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media), Chalmers Johnson (Blowback: The Sorrows of Empire), Oscar® winning documentarian Michael Moore and Howard Zinn (A People’s History of the United States) to name a few, ETHOS: A TIME FOR CHANGE will show you how to make meaningful and sustainable change in order to create a world where we can live harmoniously in a clean environment.

Thursday, September 11, 2008

"We Are Out Here" - Republicans Speak Truth to McCain's Lies

We are out here - the Republicans or ex-Republicans who will no longer tolerate the racist, despicable slime machine that the right wing and the John McCain-Sarah Palin campaign has become. I know, for I am one of them. I am not your typical progressive, being an ex- Air Force officer (9 yrs), evangelical Christian, card carrying conservative ...

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Are The Attack Ads True?

Obama Talks 'Lipstick,' 'Pigs' On Letterman

Reality Check: McCain's New 'Lipstick' Ad

Bill Clinton predicts Obama win

What's Hot On The Web? -- September 11, 2008

Matt Damon Condems Palin

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Lose your house, lose your vote

Michigan Republicans plan to foreclose African American voters...

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Top pollsters caught fudging with Presidential Race numbers

CBS, Gallup, and USAToday were caught tinkering with the outcomes of their early September polls. They've been over sampling the number of Republican respondents at the expense of Democrats and Independents. The media is trying to make a "horse race" out of this election by rigging poll results to support the "fairy tale" narratives they create.

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Top pollsters caught fudging with Presidential Race numbers

CBS, Gallup, and USAToday were caught tinkering with the outcomes of their early September polls. They've been over sampling the number of Republican respondents at the expense of Democrats and Independents. The media is trying to make a "horse race" out of this election by rigging poll results to support the "fairy tale" narratives they create.

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Warren Buffett On Fannie, Freddie And Palin

Obama: Lipstick controversy a 'phony outrage'

Obama win preferred in world poll

All 22 countries in a BBC World Service poll would prefer Democratic nominee Barack Obama to be US president, ahead of his Republican rival John McCain.

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Monday, September 8, 2008

Media Ignores Massive Voter Purges by Republicans

While the media focuses on the antics of McCain's chosen VP battleground states are purging their voter rolls.In Colorado, one fifth of all voter registrations were dropped.Florida is refusing to accept 85,000 new registrants -- overwhelmingly blacks.Ohio & Nevada are scrubbing tens of 1000s of voters who lost their homes.

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Barack Obama at the 2008 DNC

Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for president on August 28, 2008, before 84,000 people at Mile High Stadium, in Denver, CO.

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Veterans Disgusted with McCain

John McCain voted against veterans in 2004, '05, '06 and '07," says Jeffrey David Cox, who spent twenty-two years as a VA nurse before moving to the American Federation of Government Employees, where he serves as secretary-treasurer (AFGE represents employees of several federal agencies, including the VA). Cox is right.

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Palin Confuses Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae and Government Role

Well, McCain campaign advisor Todd Harris said they didn't want Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to make a mistake early on, and that's exactly what happened today. Palin, commenting on the news that the Federal Goverment was going to take over Freddie Mac and Fanny Mae, did not know the firms were privately held.

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Saturday, September 6, 2008

A Palin Convert

Last night, Sarah Palin gave a speech that was in theory meant to get people like me excited about the Republican ticket. This was one that should have gotten me back on board and excited about the McCain/Palin platform. Instead, it sickened me in a very deep and personal way.

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Friday, September 5, 2008

Joe Klein: Palin & Giuliani: "What a Shameful Performance."

Palin & Giuliani: Mocking & making fun of a young man's decision "to serve a cause greater than himself," in the words of John McCain. They were mocking McCain's favorite message. Obama served the poor for 3 years, then went to law school. To describe this service- first thing he did after college as anything other than noble is cheap and tawdry.

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Obama: Palin's Speech Had No Substance (VIDEO)

Barack Obama responded personally to Sarah Palin's harsh speech at the Republican National Convention in York, Pennsylvania. "You're hearing an awful lot about me, most of which is not true," he said. "What you're not hearing is a lot about you."

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Thursday, September 4, 2008

Monday, September 1, 2008

RAW FOOTAGE: Giant crowds stage anti-Russia protests in Georgia

AP Rough Cuts: Protesters prepare in St. Paul

No One Takes Hurricane Gustav Lightly

First Person: Riding out the storm

Raw Video: Gustav damage in Houma, Louisiana

Gustav's storm surge swamps Gulfport

Gustav goes over the top as it hits land

Raw Video: Floodwaters overtop New Orleans levee