Frontline: Rumsfeld’s War and The Choice 2004, And 60 Minutes On Patrick Miller, REAL Jessica Lynch Hero – previously: “All The Video Is Uploaded, But My Server Is Hosed”

Okay, so I’m having trouble posting because of all the traffic on the server — which is GOOD, I suppose, except that it’s making it hard for me to post.
(Don’t worry! The video should play back fine, we bought a larger pipe this week just for the occasion.)
So I’m just going to fight to get this post up for a while, with links to the directories of everything. And then I’ll try to get the posts up one by one later today.

Frontline: Rumsfeld’s War
(How Rumsfeld used the poor tactics that screwed up the military in Vietnam to screw up the military in Iraq. Really, except for, of course, the innocent people of Iraq who were killed/tortured by some of our troops, the rest of our troops are in the process of being screwed over worse than anybody right now.)

Frontline: The Choice 2004
(This chronicles the lives of Kerry and the Shrub from Yale on.)

Patrick Miller On 60 Minutes
The real hero of the Jessica Lynch story, and how the Shrub Administration actually covered up his heroism in order to peddle their false story about Jessica Lynch’s rescue.

60 Minutes Explains How Electronic Voting Machines Are Inherently Insecure

This is from the October 27, 2004 episode of 60 Minutes. (Last night)
I’m not sure why they waited so long to put this out there, but I didn’t want to waste any time bringing it to you.
It’s available as two smaller 18 MB files, and one large 37 MB file.
Sorry the reception was so bad. It’s almost as if someone was purposefully jamming the transmission. (Said wearing tinfoil had 🙂

Counting the Vote

Bill Moyers On The 911 Commission Report

This is the September 10, 2004 program of Bill Moyers NOW!

911/For The Record (Parts 1-6) (Files are 20-25 MB each)


This program is riveting from beginning to end. Moyers recounts the events of 911 in chronological order, using testimony, video footage, taped conversations, transcripts, etc.
He then reminds us what the report concludes: the Administration had been warned repeatedly by their own counterterrorism experts that Al Qaeda was determined to attack within the United States. (Richard Clark sent his first memo just five days after Bush’s inauguration in January 2001.)
And yet the Shrub Administration did nothing to try to prevent it.
They did everything to use it to their advantage after it happened, however.
The Frontline episode on “Rumsfeld’s War” I’m about to put up illustrates this fact nicely.

Repub Angle Becoming Crystal Clear

Well, after watching Sunday’s “Meet the Press,” it’s becoming obvious what the Repub’s angle is going to be this time around.
I’m watching the head of the Republican party talk about how there are too many people registered now. More registered voters than they are people eligible to vote.
Bet you 100 bucks that they are going to contest the election if Kerry wins on these grounds. He’s talking about people like “Mary Poppins” registered to vote. Wonder who signed her up? Hmmm.
The Repubs are also talking about Provisional Ballots as if they were something questionable. The Provisional Ballot is a voter’s only line of defense when their name isn’t on the roster when they show up to vote. Lack of provisional ballots is one of the things that went terribly wrong in Florida in 2000. They are a good thing, not a bad thing. They can be counted (and re-counted) by hand.
It’s obvious that this election ain’t gonna be over when it’s over folks. I’ll be here at my post trying to bring as many pertinent clips as I can straight to you.
Well I’m busy preparing the Bill Moyers Now episode on the 911 Commission Report. After that, I’ve got to put up the Frontline I saw last night on “Rumsfeld’s War.” After that, I’ll put up the Frontline on Bush/Kerry that I blogged about the other night.
Lots to do. Lots to do. Hope any of this will help.

Bill Oreilly On the Daily Show

This is from the October 7, 2004 program.
These files are too damn big. I’m having trouble doing anything with the DV files I’m ripping from .VOB files using MPEG stream. The 4GB files wouldn’t import into Imovie. So I had import the DV file into Premiere and then generate these from there.
The result is that they’re too damn big. Sorry. Maybe one of you can generate smaller versions from these.

Bill Oreilly On The Daily Show – Part 1 of 2 (51 MB)

Bill Oreilly On The Daily Show – Part 2 of 2 (30 MB)

California Voters: You Cannot Be Forced To Vote On An E-voting Machine — Demand A Paper Ballot

This just in from our friends at the EFF:

We need your help. California voters who are worried about electronic voting machines have an option to vote on paper this year. We worked very hard to get this from the Secretary of State and it was a major victory — he was sued over it and won in federal court.
Now we’ve learned that several of the larger counties (including Alameda, Santa Clara and Riverside) have instructed their pollworkers that they cannot tell voters about this choice. They must steer voters to the insecure machines and can only offer paper if a voter affirmatively chooses it.
Needless to say, this is outrageous. To try to raise voter awareness of the choice (and hopefully shame the registrars of voters to change their minds), we’ve thrown together a website:

http://www.paperorplastic2004.org
Please take a look and send the link on to your friends, family and other voters in the 11 affected counties (the list is on the website). We have very little time to get the word out, and I’m hoping that we can spread this far and wide and hopefully even provoke a little media coverage as well.

Tutorial On Ripping DVDs to DV and Quicktime Using MPEG Streamclip

Hey dudes,
Okay so I’m still trying to get a grip on using my new equipement and software to rip the nice DVDs people have been sending me in order to make .mov files suitable for my archive. Thanks to all of you that have been trying to help me out. It’s going slow, but I’m figuring it out.
Here’s a nice tutorial that Pete whipped up for me for MPEG Streamclip. I’ll be blogging the clip I’ve made so far and some other stuff in a second before going to Wide Hive for the morning. Then I’m back on the case this afternoon.
peace,
lisa

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