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 Sam Waterston Video (3min 3sec) of TV actor Sam Waterston speaking about a new political movement called Unity08 a chance to pick the next president directly.
"My name is Sam Waterston. You may have seen me on TV, but I haven't spoken out like this before. You and I have something very much in common. We've both 'had it' with today's shameful state of politics. Fortunately the recent congressional elections have served to reenergize our imaginations and raise our expectations. Recent election results may be a breath of fresh air for some of us but we'd all do well to remember that a breath of fresh air is a long way from a strong and persistent wind of change. |
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 Valerie Plame Third of Three Videos (5min 52sec) of Beautiful Spy testifying before House of Representative about the illegal activities of the Bush Adminstration in Divulging top secret security information for political purposes. Former under cover CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Friday, March 16, 2007. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH): "When you look at this chart and you see the extraordinary efforts that were made to disclose your identity. And most of this information came out of the Libby Trial, what were you thinking when you saw the effort? |
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 Valerie Plame Second of Three Videos (9min 49sec) of Beautiful Spy testifying before House of Representative about the illegal activities of the Bush Adminstration in Divulging top secret security information for political purposes. Former under cover CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Friday, March 16, 2007. Rep. Paul Hodes (D-NH): "Mrs. Wilson, thank you for coming today. What happened to you is deadly serious. You were the victim of a national security breach. |
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 Valerie Plame First of Three Videos (9min 51sec) of Beautiful Spy testifying before House of Representative about the illegal activities of the Bush Adminstration in Divulging top secret security information for political purposes. Former under cover CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Friday, March 16, 2007. Ms. Plame believes she was outed as retaliation against her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who criticized the Bush administration's prewar intelligence on Iraq. |
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 John Nichols Video Visit (7min 58sec) Interview with John Nichols, Taos author and writer of the Milagro Beanfield War, Sterile Cuckoo, and lots of others. John Nichols is the author of the New Mexico trilogy, a series about the complex relationship between history, race and ethnicity, and land and water rights in the fictional Chamisaville County, New Mexico. The trilogy consists of The Milagro Beanfield War (which became a movie by Robert Redford), The Magic Journey, and The Nirvana Blues. Two of his other novels have been made into films. The Wizard of Loneliness was published in 1966 and the film version with Lukas Haas was made in 1988. Another successful movie adaptation was of The Sterile Cuckoo, which was published in 1965 and was filmed by Alan J. Pakula in 1969. "I written 80 books, 90 books, and I've published sixteen of them. I have been writing books since I was sixteen years old. And most of them and most of the drafts of books that eventuallu got published were totally unsuccessful... |
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