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Bill Clinton On The Daily Show

This is from the August 9, 2004 program.
Clinton said a lot of inspirational words in this interview. Namely:
“When you’re a democrat, you win when people think.”
They also talked about the debunking of the debunking of Kerry’s purple hearts, and how it was the exact same disinformation group that attacked McCain in 2000.
Thanks to
Sean Bonner for mirroring these clips for me.

Clinton Part 1 of 2 15 MB (mirror)
Clinton Part 2 of 2 10 MB (mirror)








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About To Put Up A Ton O’ Daily Show Clips

Hey I’m about to post most of last week’s Daily Show Clips and I know the server’s going to be hit pretty hard, so I’m asking in advance for those of you who have emailed me in the past with bandwidth offers to give me a ping if you can this weekend so we can divvy up the load.
Thanks in advance!
lisa

Video Of Redwoods Slaughter In Scotia, California

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This video was shot on August 6, 2004 in Scotia, California.
My friend Gregory and I went back up to the redwoods last Friday to document the horrors we had seen the week before. To us, these tree carcasses provide a shining symbol of our own demise. The beginning of the end, if you will. Humans in the future will look back at this time period and wonder how we could have been so careless and stupid. These trees help keep us and the whole planet alive.
Here is a short video we have created to illustrate what’s going on up there, and, specifically, what we saw two weeks ago that set us on such a rampage to try to save this forest:

Pacific Coast Lumber’s Scotia Redwood Slaughter
(Small – 7 MB) (Music is “War Again” from the Variable Unit album Handbook for the Apocalypse.)
Remember! As of this moment, there is something you can do. Please, wherever you are in the world, write a letter (I’ve provided text and word files) to the Appropriations Committee supporting SB 754, The California Heritage Tree Preservation Act. The vote is taking place this Wednesday, August 11th.
Here are some stills of what’s in the video. Please send off letters to Judy Chu today. I’m going to figure out who else is on the Appropriations Committee so we can all send them letters too.





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Condi Rice On Meet The Press – August 8, 2004

This is from the August 8, 1004 program of
Meet the Press.
I’ve got it in two parts, and three parts (for those of you with less bandwidth) here.
The files are named accordingly:

Condi Rice On Meet The Press
I haven’t had a chance to examine this too closely. I just wanted to get it up in a timely manner for those of you who need the footage for your various projects.
One thing that did stand out was Condi’s insistance that they had very specific “casing reports” with regard to specific terrorist targets. This contradicts what Tom Ridge was saying a few weeks ago that they had no specifics whatsoever.
Also of interest is a question from Tim Russert about 4 minutes 50 seconds in, where he asks Condi head on if she feels whatever we accomplished over there was worth the lives of over 6,000 Iraqi’s and 1,000+ soldiers that were “officially” killed in the process. (This reminds me that I need to post a Bill Moyers story on how 1,000’s of American soldier casualties aren’t being included in the reports because they happen during “non-combat” situations. Like all the suicide bombings – soldiers killed in those don’t count…Somebody remind me if I don’t get this up in the next few days, ok? – Update 8/12/04 – someone found a link to the entry and real video of the show. (Thanks, Sol!) )

Send A Letter To Save The Ancient California Redwoods

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Update August 8, 2004
I called the Assembly Appropriations Committee last week to check on the vote, and it turns out that the vote was pushed forward to August 11th. That means we have a few more days to send letters.
I went back to the redwoods on Friday to get video of all the redwoods being killed.
Here it is.
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Short explanation:
I know this is short notice, but it’s pretty self explanatory and will only take a second! Thanks for helping out!
Here’s a letter to fax and email asap: (Text) (Word).
Detailed explanation:
I was driving through the Northern California Redwoods last weekend when I came across a horrific site: miles and miles of new lumbermills spawning stacks upon stacks of freshly-killed ancient redwood trees. Some of the trees in these piles were so huge that they must have been 1,000’s of years old.
My friend and I came home and immediately began to research this issue, and it turns out that there is a bill, The California Heritage Tree Preservation Act (SB 754), that is being voted on tomorrow (August 4th) by California’s Assembly Appropriations Committee. This isn’t an impossible task as it has already cleared a major hurdle on June 14 with the approval of the Assembly Natural Resources Committee by a 7-3 vote.
If passed, the bill will protect many species of “heritage trees” on non-federal forestland in California. (Heritage Trees are older than California, which became a state in 1850, and must also meet specific diameter requirements.)
These trees hold the soil, shade streams, preserve fisheries, act as seed trees, maintain generic diversity, resist fire by reducing temperatures, shade out underbrush and maintain moisture, and provide species habitat. Less than one percent of California’s old-growth trees remain standing on non-federal forestland.
SB 754 would also grant property owners and their heirs the benefit of substantial reduction in estate taxes. This fact alone would help keep many old-growth trees standing, since they wouldn’t have to be cut down and sold to meet tax obligations.
Here’s a letter (Text) (Word) that you can FAX and email if you want to help swing tomorrow’s vote.
(Please do both.)
August 3, 2004
The Honorable Judy Chu
FAX# 916-319-2149
Email: william.wong@asm.ca.gov
RE: SB 754 – SUPPORT
Dear Assembly Member Chu and Members of the Appropriations Committee,
I urge your support of SB 754, the Heritage Tree Preservation Act. This bill has been carefully written to protect some of California’s largest and oldest trees while minimizing impacts to landowners, jobs and state revenues. The bill minimizes and offsets costs and it preserves revenues to the state from tourism, recreation and fisheries.
Less than one percent of California’s old-growth trees remain standing on non-federal forestland. SB 754 will protect these trees and the ecological and economic benefits they bring to our state. Millions of tourists flock to California’s forests each year to witness these towering giants with their own eyes. The trees protected by this bill are among the oldest, tallest, and largest living things on earth.
Please approve SB 754 and help us preserve California’s ancient trees for future generations.
Sincerely,
Your name and address here
Thanks to the
Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters for the great information and sample letter.

Right On Schedule: Shrub Seeking Authority To Postpone Elections

I didn’t think they’d try this until September, at least. But I guess it takes a while to set the wheels in motion.
Let this post serve as a red flag that they are preparing to set the wheels in motion.
Looks like we’re going to have to fight for our right to even have an election.

U.S. Mulling How to Delay Nov. Vote in Case of Attack (Reuters)

Exclusive: Election Day Worries
By Michael Isikoff for Newsweek.
Here’s the
Freaked Out “Briefing” the Shrub folks are distributing. (Hey look, it’s an xml file 🙂
From the Newsweek story:

…sources tell NEWSWEEK, Ridge’s department last week asked the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel to analyze what legal steps would be needed to permit the postponement of the election were an attack to take place. Justice was specifically asked to review a recent letter to Ridge from DeForest B. Soaries Jr., chairman of the newly created U.S. Election Assistance Commission. Soaries noted that, while a primary election in New York on September 11, 2001, was quickly suspended by that state’s Board of Elections after the attacks that morning, “the federal government has no agency that has the statutory authority to cancel and reschedule a federal election.” Soaries, a Bush appointee who two years ago was an unsuccessful GOP candidate for Congress, wants Ridge to seek emergency legislation from Congress empowering his agency to make such a call. Homeland officials say that as drastic as such proposals sound, they are taking them seriously – along with other possible contingency plans in the event of an election-eve or Election Day attack. “We are reviewing the issue to determine what steps need to be taken to secure the election,” says Brian Roehrkasse, a Homeland spokesman.

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My Server Got Boing Boinged Again

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So as you may have figured out by now, I’ve got a smaller scale slashdot-effect going on here — a ““Boing Boing Effect,” if you will.
This is great as far as I’m concerned, because it allows me to test out the new server and figure out how to accomodate the bandwidth accordingly.
Mirrors help too, so I’m looking for folks to host single clips for me. I’m trying to make it so I have at least one mirror for each clip. (Interested parties will contact me I’m sure 🙂
I also discovered that much of my music site had become un-linked. So I’m fixing that now.
Fixed my 60 Minutes Archive too, so that stuff is back up in place. (Including Leslie Stahl busting Halliburton’s fake Caymans operation and the Shrub ex-Counterterrorism Zsar Richard Clark explaining why the Shrub can’t be trusted to protect our country if there’s oil revenue to be generated somewhere else.