Recent Dennis Kucinich Interviews

Agree or disagree with his views, Dennis Kucinich is one of the few members of Congress today that really does seem to speak his mind. Which probably explains why he, along with Mike Gravel, were marginalized in the 2008 presidential debates.

Kucinich remains very active on capitol hill, and has recently been making the rounds on the major news networks to discuss issues like health care, creating jobs for Americans, and bipartisanship. Take a look:

Dennis Kucinich Discusses Health Care on the Ed Show - 1/21/10 - 1/28/10

Dennis Kucinich Discusses Creating Jobs for Americans on Your World with Neil Cavuto - ???

Congressmen Dennis Kucinich and Tim Johnson Discuss Bipartisanship on American Morning - 1/22/10

Doug Stanhope Explains Why Americans Like Fear

Because most of them are going to live a long, boring life devoid of any significance whatsoever.

Keep on preaching the truth, Doug!

'Caligula' Director to Make First 3D Porn Film

'Caligula' director to make 3D porn film
Tinto Brass announces project involving Roman emperor
By Eric J. Lyman

Jan 28, 2010, 04:15 PM ET

ROME -- Longtime Italian erotic film director Tinto Brass on Thursday announced that he would produce what he called the world's first-ever 3D pornographic production.

Brass, 76, best known for his 1979 film "Caligula," which he directed in collaboration with noted author Gore Vidal and magazine publisher Bob Guccione, said the time is right for 3D technologies to be used to create an erotic film. He noted that the project, which he said will be the world's first 3D erotic film, will also be the first 3D film of any type made in Italy.

Brass said that with the film he plans to "revisit an abandoned project about a Roman emperor that was ruined by Americans, and go from there," a reference to "Caligula," which he has criticized because of hard-core sex scenes added during postproduction without his consent.

He said he would start work on casting and the script immediately, and that he planned to start filming in May or June.

Link to Original Article @ The Hollywood Reporter

Secret Banking Cabal Emerges From AIG Shadows

This is a bit unexpected coming from Bloomberg, no?

Secret Banking Cabal Emerges From AIG Shadows: David Reilly

Commentary by David Reilly

Jan. 29 (Bloomberg) -- The idea of secret banking cabals that control the country and global economy are a given among conspiracy theorists who stockpile ammo, bottled water and peanut butter. After this week’s congressional hearing into the bailout of American International Group Inc., you have to wonder if those folks are crazy after all.

Wednesday’s hearing described a secretive group deploying billions of dollars to favored banks, operating with little oversight by the public or elected officials.

We’re talking about the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, whose role as the most influential part of the federal-reserve system -- apart from the matter of AIG’s bailout -- deserves further congressional scrutiny.

The New York Fed is in the hot seat for its decision in November 2008 to buy out, for about $30 billion, insurance contracts AIG sold on toxic debt securities to banks, including Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Merrill Lynch & Co., Societe Generale and Deutsche Bank AG, among others. That decision, critics say, amounted to a back-door bailout for the banks, which received 100 cents on the dollar for contracts that would have been worth far less had AIG been allowed to fail.

That move came a few weeks after the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department propped up AIG in the wake of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.’s own mid-September bankruptcy filing.

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Braving Serge Gainsbourg's Legacy on the Big Screen

Braving Serge Gainsbourg's Legacy on the Big Screen

The late Serge Gainsbourg’s status as a brilliant songwriter, a generation-straddler and a man of contestable sexual morality has remained so forceful in France that filmmakers have long viewed the creation of his biopic too daunting of a task – until now.

Vie Héroïque, or Heroic Life, released in theaters across Europe this week to an overwhelmingly positive critical reception, chronicles Gainsbourg’s life from the time he was a young child in Nazi-occupied France until his death. There’s no scheduled U.S. release date yet, but the myriad intricacies of the making of the film itself might be interesting enough to tide us over as we wait. Take a look:

- Who was audacious enough to attempt a Gainsbourg biopic? You probably haven’t heard of director Joann Sfar because he’s primarily a comic book artist and Vie Héroïque is his first crack at the big screen. “I knew it was perhaps a foolhardy thing, to take on the life of Serge Gainsbourg,” Sfar said.

- Sfar isn’t the only one trying out new things -- the film marks Universal’s maiden voyage into French cinema.

- Jane Birkin, the British cultural icon and mother of Charlotte Gainsbourg, is upset by what she feels is the film’s inaccurate portrayal of the late singer’s life. She wants a disclaimer placed on the film describing it as a “folk-tale” rather than a biography.

- Sfar initially hoped to cast Charlotte Gainsbourg -- who's rising the ranks of film and music today -- as her father, but she declined.

- The film’s release has been clouded by the tragic tale of Lucy Gordon, a British actress who played Birkin but killed herself last May, just weeks after filming was completed.

Not satisfied? Head over to Gainsbourg’s Wikipedia, where you can read about the time he told audience members of Michel Drucker’s live show that he wanted to “fuck” Whitney Houston, who also appeared as a guest on the program that same night.

Link to Original Article @ Big Think


Trailer for Vie Heroique

Parapolitical Researcher Alex Constantine's New Website

Leading anti-fascist parapolitical researcher Alex Constantine has a new website complete with a logo that is sure to piss off lots of people. Check it out!

Thanks to the Hugh Manatee Wins of Rigorous Intuition for alerting me to this!

RIP Howard Zinn

I am not very well-versed on his many acclaimed writings, but Howard Zinn always struck me as a fighter for truth and justice. May he Rest in Peace.

Vietnam-era whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg has written a touching piece about his memories of Zinn at Antiwar.Com's blog.