Daily Show On The Republican Response To Richard Clarke’s 911 Commission Testimony

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This is from the March 29, 2004 program.
This bit includes clips of Richard Clarke’s testimony before the 911 Commission, the Republican’s retaliatory media frenzied response, Condi Rice on 60 Minutes (going up soon), Colin Powell’s rather mild criticisms, and Clarke on Meet the Press reading a highly complimentary note of thanks sent to Clarke from the Shrub after Clarke resigned his post. Meanwhile, CIA Outer Robert Novack accuses Clarke of being racist towards Condi Rice.

Repub’s Response To Clarke’s Testimony (Small – 16 MB)

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Back At Cha

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Just got back from London, Paris and Amsterdam. Pics and movies up soon.
I see there’s been a lot going on while I’ve been gone. I’ll be crunching news and Daily Show clips accordingly…
If you’ve written me in the last two weeks, I’ll be getting back to you soon.
Peace,
lisa

Bill Moyers Goes Off On The Shrub

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…very politely, of course.
This is from the March 25, 2004 program of Bill Moyers NOW.
Wish I had more time to comment, but I think this one speaks for itself. (Like most stuff from Bill.)
Bill Moyers:

Mr. Bush clearly believes what he said: The War On Terror is an in escapable calling of the generation now in charge. Like many of you, I want to support him in that work. I want to do my part. But the President makes it hard. He confused us by going after Sadaam Hussein when villian behind the mass murder of 911 was Osama Bin Ladin. He seems not to realize how his credibility has been shredded by all the false and misleading reasons to put forth to justify invading Iraq.
Lyndon Johnson never recovered from using the dubious events at the Gulf of Tonkin as an excuse to go to war in Vietnam, and even if Mr. Bush wins reelection this November, he too will eventually be dragged down by the powerful undertow that inevitably accompanies public deception.
The public will grow intolerant of partisan predators and cronie capitalists indulging in a frenzy of feeding at the troughs in Baghdad and Washington, and there will come a time when the President will have no one to rely on except his most rabid allies in the right wing media. He will discover too late that you cannot win the hearts and minds of the public at large in a nation polarized and pulvarized by endless propaganda in defiance of reality.

Bill Moyers: What Now? (Small – 11 MB)

Richard Clarke On 60 Minutes

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This is from the March 21, 2004 program of 60 Minutes.
Richard Clarke, former top advisor on Counterterrorism for the Shrub, Clinton Terrorism Czar, and an appointed expert for both Daddy Shrub and Reagan, has written a book Against All Enemies that exposes a number of different things going on over at the old White House during the days after 911.
I’ve made the files available in one and four parts.

911 Before and After
(Richard Clarke on 60 Minutes – March 21, 2004)

60 Minutes Exposes Halliburton’s Fake Subsidiary In The Caymans

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This is from the January 25, 2003 program of
60 Minutes.
This piece is riveting from beginning to end. Don’t miss a second of it.
I’ve made the files available as a single download or in three smaller parts.

Doing Business With The Enemy
(60 Minutes – January 25, 2004)
Leslie Stahl is my new hero. She’s been taking her responsibility of reporting for one of the best rated news programs in the United States very seriously by going out of her way to fill us in on things we need to know about what the Shrub Administration and its good friend, Corporate America, have been up to lately. Specifically, doing things behind our backs with our own money.
And it’s not pretty. In this piece, we learn that virtually anyone in the U.S. with a pension plan could unknowingly have their money invested in one of several “terrorist” countries.
Turns out that the reason companies like Halliburton, GE, and Conoco are allowed to do business with these “terrorist” driven countries to begin with, is that they have operations located in the Cayman Islands.
So Leslie goes to the Cayman Islands to check out Halliburton’s offices there, but it turns out that Halliburton’s Cayman island office doesn’t really exist. Not a single employee of Halliburton actually works there and all of the mail is re-routed to Texas. (Leslie sneaked in a hidden camera to interview the manager of the bank in the Caymans where Haliburton rents space to find all this out.)
The hidden camera gets some priceless footage of the bank president explaining that a lot of American companies do this, and some of them actually do hire people to sit in the office and push paper, and others (such as Halliburton) don’t.
This story was produced by Richard Bonin and Adam Ciralsky.
Here’s Leslie Stahl’s opening statement:

When President Bush said “Money is the lifeblood of terrorist operations,” did it ever occur to you that the money he’s talking about is, in large part, yours, mine, and every other American’s?
Turns out, just about every one of us with a 401K, pension plan, or mutual fund, has money invested in companies that are doing business with so called “rogue states.”
In other words, there are U.S. companies that are helping drive the economies of countries like Iran, Syria, and Libya, that have sponsored terrorists.

Let Me Know About Cool Record Stores In London and Paris So I Can Visit Them In April

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I’m going to London and Paris in a week, and I’m looking for cool record stores to hit while I’m in town. (I’m also looking for Drum and Bass and Hip Hop Clubs.)
I just found what seems to be a cool website with information on London recordstores, but I have no way of knowing if the information is current or not.
Thanks in advance for any advice you can give me!
I’m including the list I’m currently working from below. As the list improves, I will update it here (note the working date at the top).

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