Coal Companies Mine Family Graves in West Virgina

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Monday April 12, 2010 · 8:08 AM PDT

2010/04/12 · 08:08

Posted on behalf of @Symbolman:

I come from mining stock. One of my ancestors was blown to hell underground with a score or more of others, whose bones still lay buried under tons of rock in Colorado. My sisters blessed a statue dedicated to those brave men a few years back. I've placer mined gold with family in the bush of Alaska, using heavy machinery, and prospected for uranium in the bush of that incredible state by helicopters 18 hours a day for two summers, under a relentless sun. So I know something about this issue, it's in my blood.

This is what led me and my wife in 2006 to take a trip to West Virginia to film, document and witness firsthand the coal mining technique referred to as mountaintop removal. In earlier times generations of men and machinery wrested coal (and in some areas it's still that brutal) from the bowels of the earth with a pick and shovel. Many will stay there, forever, encased in coal, while families grieve and suffer in poverty.

Click for video of West Virginia graves being mined and continue reading...

TBTM Julie

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Thursday March 04, 2010 · 7:35 PM PST

2010/03/04 · 19:35

Posting here on behalf of @Symbolman:

Who needs teleprompters when a studio can simply insert canned laughter?

I've dealt with sound engineering for 30 years, as a film maker, interviewer, musician, working with master reel to reel tapes/decks at EMS Music in Seattle in the 80's as a sound duplication engineer, or setting sound levels for my and other bands in live situations at shows. I won a Hollywood award for animation in 2000. I know sound. And it's my opinion that audio portions of Sarah Palin's March 2nd appearance on Jay Leno's Tonight show were added or amplified, edited before broadcast to make it appear that Sarah Palin was more welcome than she was.

I know. I was there.

TBTM Julie

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Monday December 19, 2005 · 5:04 AM PST

2005/12/19 · 05:04

Click for new interactive flash from Take Back The Media:

MERRY FITZMAS! I wanted a Damn Fitzmas Tree ever since I heard the term, and NOW by god I have one, and you can too...

Also, if you've missed it before, check out "Rove's War," the definitive chronology of the CIA Leak Investigation - click here to see 12 minute video preview. Read More

"Secret Agent Plame" MP3 Song plus VIDEO - "Rove's War" & Plame Chronology

TBTM Julie

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Thursday October 06, 2005 · 5:01 PM PDT

2005/10/06 · 17:01

Fun stuff: Listen to Symbolman from Take Back The Media's new parody song, "Secret Agent Plame" - based on "Secret Agent Man."

From the song:

There's a gal who led a life of danger
Everyone she met she stayed a stranger
With every move she makes, another story breaks
Odds are her old pals won't see tomorrow
Secret agent Plame, secret agent Plame,
Rove took away your number and gave away your name

Take Back The Media also is offering an extensively researched chronology/documentary about Rovegate/Plamegate/DSM entitled "Rove's War." You can view a 12 minute preview clip here. Read More

Put Rove on Administrative Leave!

TBTM Julie

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Thursday July 21, 2005 · 1:38 PM PDT

2005/07/21 · 13:38

I keep seeing email after email "Fire Karl Rove!" and "Revoke his Security Clearance!"

While I'd love to see either of those two things happen, the very minimum George Bush should do immediately is put Karl Rove on Administrative Leave and temporarily suspend his security clearance until the outcome of the investigation.

If the potential exists for Karl Rove to have breached national security, we can't afford to have him continue to be in a position where he could continue this behavior. Administrative Leaves are commonplace in private business, and this is the basis for Temporary Restraining and No Contact Orders. You could also stretch this to parallel the basis upon which we went to war in Iraq: preemptively restrain Iraq from attacking us based on the possibility they have WMDs.

Could we please preemptively restrain Karl Rove from further breaching national security based on the possibility that documents show he may have leaked classified information?

If you were Karl, how would you deal with getting caught in a leak? Answer: leak more information!

TBTM Julie

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Friday July 15, 2005 · 4:57 PM PDT

2005/07/15 · 16:57

Deconstructing today's New York Times article

For days, Scott McClellan has been a one-note Johnny in refusing to comment on any question about Karl Rove's outing of Valerie Plame - no matter how oblique. Like a pull-string toy he regurgitates that he will not answer questions pertaining to "an ongoing investigation."

Today, the New York Times has an extended article quoting a source: "someone who has been officially briefed on the matter".

First off: how can the New York Times claim to have any credibility when it comes to this matter considering they are no longer a neutral party with their own Judith Miller in jail.

And excuse me, but if the White House is not talking about Rove and this investigation, how could someone be "officially" briefed?
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