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Monday 08-11-2008 12:42pm PT
THOM HARTMANN CYBER BOOK CLUB
Sunday 08-10-2008 1:11pm PT
You are hereby invited to a cyber book circle named The Art & Science of Political Persuasion on My Barack Obama.com Featuring Thom Hartmann’s latest book to help win another election: Cracking the Code. Remember: we did have success in the 2006 election largely in part to media and other reformists like you. What was it that worked? Let’s recapture that, strengthen and encourage others to replicate that success from directly within the Obama Camp Stronghold. As Thom tells us daily, we must get progressives into the Democratic Party and we must influence them to make the right decisions. And we must elect Barack Obama. The purpose of this group would be to discuss how best to improve those results of conversations regarding electing Barack Obama as our next President of the United States. Daily, we have opportunities to speak with our family and friends and strangers, including the media. We will share actual conversations we have been apart of and discuss what has and hasn't worked, and how we might better promote our candidate. Please tell a friend!
Cracking the Code was written by Green 960 host Thom Hartmann, author, eclectic, psychotherapist and advertising executive as well.The intention of creating such a group would be to promote best manners of speaking in both the media and to the masses to promote the vote for Barack.
More for you as per the inside cover of the book:
Millions of working Americans talk, act, and vote as if their economic interests match those of the mega wealthy, the multinational corporations, and the politicians who do their bidding. How did this happen? Bestselling author Thom Hartmann says it's because the apologists of the Right have become masters of the subtle and largely subconscious aspects of political communication.
For example, it's not an escalation in Iraq, it's a surge; it's not the inheritance tax, it's the death tax; it's not drilling for oil, it's exploring for energy.
Conservatives didn't intuit the path to persuasive messaging- they learned these techniques. There is no reason why progressives can't learn them too. In Cracking the Code, Hartmann show you how. Drawing on his background as a psychotherapist and advertising executive as well as nationally syndicated Air America Radio host, he breaks down the science and technology of effective communication so you can apply it to your own efforts to counter right-wing disinformation.
See more about the book and Thom Hartmann, who has been vocally supporting Barack Obama since before he won the nomination for the Democratic Party from Hillary Clinton.
Cracking the Code Web site is HERE
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Submitted by Green 960 Community member Karen Hansen OFFSHORE OIL DRILLING: WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW
Sunday 08-10-2008 12:56pm PT
Posted by
zrants in Environment.
Tags: Florida
oil, off-coast drilling
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We designate liberal vs right wing, news and commentary by editorializing. If
the spin is liberal, it tends to attack the right wing agenda. When the spin is
conservative, the RW media will lie to sell their agenda.
Consider the lies
that took us into Iraq with the spin of the corporate RW media.
Look at the drilling debate. The dems want to conserve our ecology and
pristine beaches for the fisheries and tourism. Makes economic sense huh. I love
to swim, surf, dive and sail there, as well as beach weddings feed my family.
The real reason for high oil prices is speculation by oil co. traders, (the
enron loophole), continued filling of the strategic reserve, and the wasteful
driving habits of gas guzzling road hogs. The RW tries to demonize the dems as
obstructing progress of supplying our own oil. Why? because big oil contributes
billions to their campaign. McCain has received 1.5 million in contributions
this year. And they want those leases now to sell the oil on the world market
and get top dollar.
Any Floridian who cares about our economy and environment knows that the few
barrels of Florida oil, sold on the world market, will not make a penny
difference in the price of gasoline, but 1 spill in 1 hurricane could devastate
our economy and.... READ THE ENTIRE POST HERE!
Friday 08-08-2008 2:18pm PT
Well well, well. John
Edwards, onetime Vice Presidential candidate and a potential Cabinet member for
Barack Obama, admitted to the world this weekend that he had consistently lied
about having an affair. Edwards had been dogged by internet gossip, fuelled by
The National Enquirer, that he had an affair last year with a women while
running for president. When the allegations surfaced seven months ago he
described them as completely untrue and ridiculous.
Two thoughts on this:
Number one, I find the
behavior unseemly and morally wrong, and kind of tacky. Other than that, I
actually could care less. The only thing that I was ever going to consider when
I chose vote or not vote for him was based purely on his politics. Simple.
Done. Unless he is a closet commie or a child molester, what he does in his
private life is none of my business, and it's none of your business and it's
none of OUR business.
Number two: We Americans are
a sickening collection of hypocritical and sanctimonious nattering nabobs of
nothingness. We are among the most puritanical societies on earth, so we say.
We are completely uncomfortable with sex, sexuality, immediacy and morality.
We, this society where 9 out of 10 of us say we're Christians, are among the
most violent nations on the face of the earth. The raw hatred we express as
citizens toward our fellow citizens is shocking to many other cultures. We are
the world leaders in dispensing pornography and graphic cinematic violence to
the planet. Yet we point our fingers at celebrities like Edwards who do what
millions of us (wrongly) do every day and the best thing we can come up with is
that we expect character from our leaders. Jesus, do we have to remind
ourselves about MLK's and JFK's numerous dalliances? Jesse Jackson? Bill
Clinton?
Why do we think we're
electing Popes or Rabbis or Pastors instead of electing PEOPLE?
The French and the Brits and
quite a few other societies are snickering at us, and the press coverage of the
Edwards saga. Juicy? Sure? Makes us want to look, like rubbernecking at a crash
on 101? Sure? Good salacious copy for Cable News? Absolutely. I'm just saying that every single
one of us has sinned in the eyes of our gods, and we get so churchy every time
one of these stories comes out.
And you republicans better
shut the hell up. GOP conventions are proven Prostitution boom weeks. When you
go to Denver, keep your pants on. How NBC Terrorized the IOC
Friday 08-08-2008 11:42am PT
I was enjoying a sandwich
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It is not about the sport, its about the money.
The Olympic summer games are upon us and I have a serious beef, a bone to
pick if you will with NBC, owned by General Electric. First off I AM NOT a
fan of tape delaying sports. The Olympic games are about money, about
ratings, about times. Not about the competition. I don't mind waking up to
watch the swimming events, or the track events, basketball etc because I
am rooting for our guys and girls to bring home medals and represent our
country. NBC is going to tape delay the opening ceremonies 14 hours in the
Bay Area. You can watch them tonight at 7:30pm. Mind you, there will be a
medal count already by the time you can watch them. Heck the games have
already started by the time you read this. NBC has hijacked the games.
They terrorized the IOC, to redo the scheduling for the swimming events. I
am including an excerpt from Janet Evans who I swam with in the 90's. She
feels the same way I do...
"As you watch the swimming finals live, you can thank NBC for some
last-minute maneuvering to broadcast the races in real time. But the
swimmers certainly won’t be thanking NBC. Because of the network’s desire
for live broadcasting and the IOC’s desire to keep it happy, all
preliminaries will be held in the evening and finals in the morning – the
opposite of the schedule that swimmers train for and compete with their
entire careers.
As an athlete, I am trained to be at my best in the evening. The thought
of racing for a gold medal at 10 a.m. – as the swimmers will do in Beijing
– is beyond comprehension. My training was geared around morning
preliminaries and evening finals; my morning workouts focused on long,
stretched-out swims, and my evening workouts focused on speed. At the
Olympics, my races mirrored my training: preliminary swims were long and
smooth, while evening finals were swum with 100 percent effort.
There are others besides the swimmers who are unhappy with the swimming
schedule in Beijing. Broadcasters from different parts of the world –
namely Asian and Australian networks – viewed the Beijing Games as their
chance to broadcast live to their respective audiences. But in the end,
money won out. NBC pays more to the International Olympic Committee for
broadcast rights than the other broadcasters put together, and with NBC’s
ratings slipping due to up-to-the-minute results on the Internet,
broadcasting live to the American audience will be a key way for NBC to
buoy ratings. The net result: happy NBC executives and swimmers who have
changed their life-long routines in order to become champions." (From
Janet Evans Blog)
So here's to you NBC. You piece of trash. Thanks for ruining something
that athletes have trained for their entire lives. You keep on doing your
money thing. I salute our athletes for keeping quiet, for going out and
doing the right thing. Representing our country, and doing their best.
Something NBC hasn't done. You can take your peacock and shove it. |
Postage Paid Bites Back...
Thursday 08-07-2008 10:31am PT
I was enjoying a sandwich
A friend who happens to be on the mailing lists for the Republican
National Committee and John McCain fund raising efforts received
mailings from each yesterday. Why, you ask, is he on those particular
mailing lists? Why would he want to be on those lists? That is
for another day. The point is – he gets the mailings and so we get to
see them. And – in the end – learn how he strikes back at the GOP.
Know thine
enemy.
The McCain mailing conveys some sense of concern. Worry? Not necessarily
worry, but it strives to convey an urgency to the recipient. Not all of
it seems to be the spin of a PR flack. It begins:
Dear Friend,
We have some
catch-up work to do – and we must do it now. I have enclosed two
Emergency Pledge Envelopes for you, one marked “AUGUST,” and the other
marked
“SEPTEMBER.”
Nice
move – it saves the cost of printing and mailing a second pitch to the
same, hopefully, deep pockets. McCain has been rumored to be cash poor
compared to the Obama war-chest. It goes on:
……Here’s why
I’m personally asking for your immediate help:
The Obama
Democrats have launched a massive 50-state voter registration drive
which will result directly in dramatically increasing Democrat voter
turnout on November 4th.
(His italics.)
With
enormous fundraising resources at their disposal – including wealthy
special interests, Big Labor, and unregulated “527” soft-money groups –
they have already registered more than 200,000 new Democrats in
Pennsylvania, more than 165,000 in North Carolina, and more than 150,000
in Indiana.
How DARE those Democrats register new
voters!? And especially after the GOP worked so hard in the past two
national elections to keep that rabble from the polls!
The bottom line on
McCain’s appeal is just that – the bottom line. He wants to raise at
least “$10.6 million in the next 60 days.” He then requests that
the envelopes be returned with $50 in each. Then, in case you haven’t
been swayed sufficiently by what you have read so far, McCain kicks it
up a notch by saying:
Make no
mistake: If the Obama Democrats succeed in gaining control of Washington
in November, they will instantly move to raise your taxes, expand the
federal government, socialize medicine, appoint liberal judges, and
retreat from Iraq.
Horrors! Actually, it all sounds pretty
good to us.
The letter from the Republican National
Party was even better. According to that, they are so short of cash that
they have randomly chosen “Fellow Republicans” to complete a survey
which will develop “..a NEW BLUEPRINT for the Republican Party for the
next 10 years….”
WOW! What power!
The communiqué spends another two pages emphasizing how dangerous the
world would be should those cursed (our word choice) Democrats take over
the White House. Nancy Pelosi is featured prominently among the list of
existing dangers which would only be made more frightening with a
Democrat at 1600 Pennsylvania. By page three the RNC gets to the real
purpose of this sham survey:
“……at a cost
of $.40 each, our CENSUS OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY will cost the
RNC more than $2.48 million.
So along
with your completed GOP CENSUS DOCUMENT, won’t you also enclose a
contribution (Aha!)
of $500 (WHAT?!?!?),
$250, $100, $50, $35 or even $25
(Cheapskate!)
to the RNC?”
In closing
the RNC warns that losing to the Democrats would mean the Republican
agenda will be “demolished and America will take a disastrous turn to
the left - - your taxes will skyrocket and our economy will grind to a
halt…” Well, that last portion won’t take much of a push based on how
the GOP have screwed things up.
In any case, our friend plans on returning all three envelopes. Just not
the way Senator McCain or the RNC expects. You see, all three are
postage paid. He plans on filling three boxes with bricks , attaching
the pre-paid envelopes and letting the right wing spin-meisters pick up
the tab for shipping all those pounds of dead weight.
Something
for each of us to consider before tossing any misguided appeals we might
receive.
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