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Showing posts with label Video. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Video. Show all posts
Astroturf Organizations Spreading Propaganda: "Don't Make Us Pay"
I was sent an email from a concerned citizen about this seemingly grassroots organization concerned about consumer welfare:
Don't Make Us Pay
I use Sourcewatch to check up on suspected manipulative/misleading propaganda.
I looked at who funds this organization and it is "Electronic Payments Coalition" (look at the bottom of their "about" website page)
Sourcewatch: Electronic Payments Coalition) Which is a credit card organization fronting as a citizen rights group (we call these types of propaganda groups, "astroturf" organizations--because they are bogus, misleading, corporate fronts)
Also found this youtube video "Don't Make Us Pay": A Lesson in Astroturfing" where the author breaks down the misleading/manipulative nature of this campaign.
They are very sneaky -- we need to combat these forms of disinformation/misinformation and call them out for their manipulative propaganda.
Don't Make Us Pay
I use Sourcewatch to check up on suspected manipulative/misleading propaganda.
I looked at who funds this organization and it is "Electronic Payments Coalition" (look at the bottom of their "about" website page)
Sourcewatch: Electronic Payments Coalition) Which is a credit card organization fronting as a citizen rights group (we call these types of propaganda groups, "astroturf" organizations--because they are bogus, misleading, corporate fronts)
Also found this youtube video "Don't Make Us Pay": A Lesson in Astroturfing" where the author breaks down the misleading/manipulative nature of this campaign.
They are very sneaky -- we need to combat these forms of disinformation/misinformation and call them out for their manipulative propaganda.
Video Samples for ENG 282
Broke Spoke—Lexington Community Bike Shop
“The Student Poverty Song” by Nova Scotia Students
“The Suburbs” by Arcade Fire
Wisconsin protest set to Arcade Fire’s “Rebellion”
Protesters Breakdancing in Wisconsin State Capitol
Jon Stewart on Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein and Alfonso Cuaron
“The Student Poverty Song” by Nova Scotia Students
“The Suburbs” by Arcade Fire
Wisconsin protest set to Arcade Fire’s “Rebellion”
Protesters Breakdancing in Wisconsin State Capitol
Jon Stewart on Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein and Alfonso Cuaron
Peter Rothberg: Wisconsin Revolts -- Matthew Wisniewiski Stirring Video Chronicle
[Please watch this video and share it with as many people as you can -- these are the American workers that Wisconsin governor Scott Walker threatened to brutally suppress with the National Guard if they protested against his measures. Song is Arcade Fire's "Rebellion" -- via The Nation]
Protestors Breakdancing In Wisconsin State Capitol Building
Emma Goldman in her 1931 autobiography Living My Life:
At the dances I was one of the most untiring and gayest. One evening a cousin of Sasha [Alexander Berkman], a young boy, took me aside. With a grave face, as if he were about to announce the death of a dear comrade, he whispered to me that it did not behoove an agitator to dance. Certainly not with such reckless abandon, anyway. It was undignified for one who was on the way to become a force in the anarchist movement. My frivolity would only hurt the Cause.
I grew furious at the impudent interference of the boy. I told him to mind his own business, I was tired of having the Cause constantly thrown into my face. I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from conventions and prejudice, should demand the denial of life and joy. I insisted that our Cause could not expect me to become a nun and that the movement should not be turned into a cloister. If it meant that, I did not want it. "I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everyboy's right to beautiful, radiant things." Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live it in spite of the whole world--prisons, persecution, everything. Yes, even in spite of the condemnation of my own comrades I would live my beautiful ideal.
[Living My Life (New York: Knopf, 1934), p. 56]
Democracy Now Reports on Egyptian Uprising: February 7th and 8th
February 8th
“People Are Determined to Stay Until Mubarak Leaves”: Democracy Now!’s Sharif Abdel Kouddous Reports in Cairo on Day 15 of the Egyptian Pro-Democracy Protests
The pro-democracy protests in Egypt have entered their third week as demonstrators are holding another massive protest in Tahrir Square. While Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is refusing to resign, the German magazine Der Spiegel is reporting that preparations are underway for him to possibly leave Egypt and visit Germany for an "extended medical check-up." Human Rights Watch is reporting 297 people have died over the past two weeks of protests, an estimate far higher than the Egyptian government has acknowledged.
Asmaa Mahfouz & the YouTube Video that Helped Spark the Egyptian Uprising
Three weeks ago today, 26-year-old Egyptian activist Asmaa Mahfouz posted a video online urging people to protest the “corrupt government” of Hosni Mubarak by rallying in Tahrir Square on January 25. Her moving call ultimately helped inspire Egypt’s uprising. "I, a girl, am going down to Tahrir Square, and I will stand alone. And I’ll hold up a banner. Perhaps people will show some honor,” Mahfouz said. "Don’t think you can be safe anymore. None of us are. Come down with us and demand your rights, my rights, your family’s rights. I am going down on January 25th and will say no to corruption, no to this regime." [includes rush transcript]
“The Heroes are the Ones in the Street”: Google Exec and Facebook Activist Wael Ghonim on His Release After 12 Days in Egyptian Jail
Twelve days after being snatched from the streets of Cairo, Wael Ghonim was released Monday from secret detention. He is being hailed as a hero by the pro-democracy movement for administrating a Facebook page key to organizing Egypt’s unprecedented pro-democracy uprising. In his first interview after being released, Ghonim told Egyptian TV, “I never put my live in danger while I was typing away on the internet. The heroes are the ones in the streets. This revolution belongs to the internet youth.”
Shooting the Messenger: Egyptian Journalist Shot Dead by Sniper While Covering Cairo Protests
The only journalist known to have been killed during the Egyptian uprising was honored Monday in Cairo. Ahmed Mohamed Mahmoud was a reporter for the state-owned newspaper Al Ta’awun. He was shot on January 28 when he tried to use his phone to film riot police as they fired tear gas canisters at protesters. He spent a week in the hospital before he died on February 4. On Monday, journalists, family and friends held a symbolic funeral in Cairo, marching from the Journalists’ Syndicate to Tahrir Square holding an empty coffin. We speak to Al Jazeera English producer and writer Laila Al-Arian, who has just returned from Cairo, where she interviewed Mahmoud’s widow.
Detained Al Jazeera Journalist: '[The Military] Viewed So Many of Us as Prisoners of War. Our Hands were Tied Behind Our Back with Cables. Our Eyes were Blindfolded.'
Ayman Mohyeldin, the Cairo bureau chief for Al Jazeera English, was detained by Egyptian police and held for seven hours. Inside the jail, Mohyeldin witnessed rampant police abuse. "We saw the military slap detainees, we saw them kick detainees, we saw them punch them," Mohyeldin said. "One of the soldiers that I was observing had with him a small Taser gun." He also talks about how the Mubarak regime has attempted to silence Al Jazeera. Despite its journalists being arrested and threatened, its offices set on fire and its satellite system cut off, Al Jazeera’s news coverage of the popular uprising has been unchallenged by other news outlets and is battling Egypt’s pro-Mubarak TV outlets for delivering truth to Egyptians. “I think Al Jazeera Arabic and Al Jazeera English have something important to offer. They’re offering the viewers around the world a context that may sometimes be missing from a lot of Western and foreign media,” Mohyeldin says, who was detained by security forces for questioning on Sunday. “More importantly, they’re offering the viewers a view of this country that I think is very hard to get in the absence of less and less media. So, if they were to take Al Jazeera off the air and silence us completely, it would be a great disservice to humanity, and particularly to information.”
February 7th
Protests Demanding Mubarak’s Resignation Grow Stronger, Despite Some Government Concessions
Newly-appointed Egyptian vice president Omar Suleiman held talks on Sunday with opposition groups in Cairo in an attempt to stem the anti-government protests that continue across the country. Suleiman agreed to several major concessions, including ending the country’s decades-old emergency laws (he did not say when), allowing a free press (even as another Al Jazeera reporter was arrested), and creating a constitutional reform committee. The top demand of demonstrators--the immediate removal of President Hosni Mubarak-was not addressed. Protests continue today across Egypt, and tens of thousands of demonstrators have held their ground in Tahrir Square amidst a heavy military presence. We go to Cairo to speak with Democracy Now! senior producer Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Hossam Bahgat, an Egyptian human rights activist.
"The Empire’s Bagman:" Obama Egypt Envoy Frank Wisner Says Mubarak Should Stay
The official U.S. response to events unfolding in Egypt remains mixed. Over the weekend, the Obama administration distanced itself from U.S. “crisis envoy” to Egypt Frank Wisner after he issued a statement in support of President Hosni Mubarak. Revealing a possible conflict of interest, British journalist Robert Fisk recently reported Wisner works for the law firm Patton Boggs, which openly boasts that it advises "the Egyptian military, the Egyptian Economic Development Agency, and has handled arbitrations and litigation on the [Mubarak] government’s behalf in Europe and the U.S." We are joined by Trinity College Professor Vijay Prashad, who has written about Wisner’s history with the U.S. Department of State and his close relationship with Mubarak.
Media Crackdown: Democracy Now!’s Sharif Abdel Kouddous Reports from Tahrir Square on the Systematic Targeting of Journalists in Egypt
Reporting on the Egyptian uprising has been not only difficult, but even dangerous for many domestic and foreign journalists. Tactics used against media workers include cutting phone lines, repeated arrests and detention, harassment, the seizure of equipment and intimidation. The first fatality of a journalist was also reported last week. Democracy Now! senior producer Sharif Abdel Kouddous speaks with journalists in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. He also visits a media tent set up by activists to collect reports from people on the streets.
“People Are Determined to Stay Until Mubarak Leaves”: Democracy Now!’s Sharif Abdel Kouddous Reports in Cairo on Day 15 of the Egyptian Pro-Democracy Protests
The pro-democracy protests in Egypt have entered their third week as demonstrators are holding another massive protest in Tahrir Square. While Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is refusing to resign, the German magazine Der Spiegel is reporting that preparations are underway for him to possibly leave Egypt and visit Germany for an "extended medical check-up." Human Rights Watch is reporting 297 people have died over the past two weeks of protests, an estimate far higher than the Egyptian government has acknowledged.
Asmaa Mahfouz & the YouTube Video that Helped Spark the Egyptian Uprising
Three weeks ago today, 26-year-old Egyptian activist Asmaa Mahfouz posted a video online urging people to protest the “corrupt government” of Hosni Mubarak by rallying in Tahrir Square on January 25. Her moving call ultimately helped inspire Egypt’s uprising. "I, a girl, am going down to Tahrir Square, and I will stand alone. And I’ll hold up a banner. Perhaps people will show some honor,” Mahfouz said. "Don’t think you can be safe anymore. None of us are. Come down with us and demand your rights, my rights, your family’s rights. I am going down on January 25th and will say no to corruption, no to this regime." [includes rush transcript]
“The Heroes are the Ones in the Street”: Google Exec and Facebook Activist Wael Ghonim on His Release After 12 Days in Egyptian Jail
Twelve days after being snatched from the streets of Cairo, Wael Ghonim was released Monday from secret detention. He is being hailed as a hero by the pro-democracy movement for administrating a Facebook page key to organizing Egypt’s unprecedented pro-democracy uprising. In his first interview after being released, Ghonim told Egyptian TV, “I never put my live in danger while I was typing away on the internet. The heroes are the ones in the streets. This revolution belongs to the internet youth.”
Shooting the Messenger: Egyptian Journalist Shot Dead by Sniper While Covering Cairo Protests
The only journalist known to have been killed during the Egyptian uprising was honored Monday in Cairo. Ahmed Mohamed Mahmoud was a reporter for the state-owned newspaper Al Ta’awun. He was shot on January 28 when he tried to use his phone to film riot police as they fired tear gas canisters at protesters. He spent a week in the hospital before he died on February 4. On Monday, journalists, family and friends held a symbolic funeral in Cairo, marching from the Journalists’ Syndicate to Tahrir Square holding an empty coffin. We speak to Al Jazeera English producer and writer Laila Al-Arian, who has just returned from Cairo, where she interviewed Mahmoud’s widow.
Detained Al Jazeera Journalist: '[The Military] Viewed So Many of Us as Prisoners of War. Our Hands were Tied Behind Our Back with Cables. Our Eyes were Blindfolded.'
Ayman Mohyeldin, the Cairo bureau chief for Al Jazeera English, was detained by Egyptian police and held for seven hours. Inside the jail, Mohyeldin witnessed rampant police abuse. "We saw the military slap detainees, we saw them kick detainees, we saw them punch them," Mohyeldin said. "One of the soldiers that I was observing had with him a small Taser gun." He also talks about how the Mubarak regime has attempted to silence Al Jazeera. Despite its journalists being arrested and threatened, its offices set on fire and its satellite system cut off, Al Jazeera’s news coverage of the popular uprising has been unchallenged by other news outlets and is battling Egypt’s pro-Mubarak TV outlets for delivering truth to Egyptians. “I think Al Jazeera Arabic and Al Jazeera English have something important to offer. They’re offering the viewers around the world a context that may sometimes be missing from a lot of Western and foreign media,” Mohyeldin says, who was detained by security forces for questioning on Sunday. “More importantly, they’re offering the viewers a view of this country that I think is very hard to get in the absence of less and less media. So, if they were to take Al Jazeera off the air and silence us completely, it would be a great disservice to humanity, and particularly to information.”
February 7th
Protests Demanding Mubarak’s Resignation Grow Stronger, Despite Some Government Concessions
Newly-appointed Egyptian vice president Omar Suleiman held talks on Sunday with opposition groups in Cairo in an attempt to stem the anti-government protests that continue across the country. Suleiman agreed to several major concessions, including ending the country’s decades-old emergency laws (he did not say when), allowing a free press (even as another Al Jazeera reporter was arrested), and creating a constitutional reform committee. The top demand of demonstrators--the immediate removal of President Hosni Mubarak-was not addressed. Protests continue today across Egypt, and tens of thousands of demonstrators have held their ground in Tahrir Square amidst a heavy military presence. We go to Cairo to speak with Democracy Now! senior producer Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Hossam Bahgat, an Egyptian human rights activist.
"The Empire’s Bagman:" Obama Egypt Envoy Frank Wisner Says Mubarak Should Stay
The official U.S. response to events unfolding in Egypt remains mixed. Over the weekend, the Obama administration distanced itself from U.S. “crisis envoy” to Egypt Frank Wisner after he issued a statement in support of President Hosni Mubarak. Revealing a possible conflict of interest, British journalist Robert Fisk recently reported Wisner works for the law firm Patton Boggs, which openly boasts that it advises "the Egyptian military, the Egyptian Economic Development Agency, and has handled arbitrations and litigation on the [Mubarak] government’s behalf in Europe and the U.S." We are joined by Trinity College Professor Vijay Prashad, who has written about Wisner’s history with the U.S. Department of State and his close relationship with Mubarak.
Media Crackdown: Democracy Now!’s Sharif Abdel Kouddous Reports from Tahrir Square on the Systematic Targeting of Journalists in Egypt
Reporting on the Egyptian uprising has been not only difficult, but even dangerous for many domestic and foreign journalists. Tactics used against media workers include cutting phone lines, repeated arrests and detention, harassment, the seizure of equipment and intimidation. The first fatality of a journalist was also reported last week. Democracy Now! senior producer Sharif Abdel Kouddous speaks with journalists in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. He also visits a media tent set up by activists to collect reports from people on the streets.
Firedoglake: Police Brutality Alive and Well in Houston: Teen Battered [Video]
[The video is amazing for so clearly capturing six officers brutalizing a 15 year old in broad daylight and being broadcast on TV news (and available in this link), but what is also very disturbing is the Houston Mayor Annise Parker's attempts to defend the police brutality, her attempt to suppress the video, and her attempt to threaten community activist Quannel X (awesome in the video) for releasing it to the media.]
Firedoglake: Police Brutality Alive and Well in Houston: Teen Battered [Video]
Firedoglake: Police Brutality Alive and Well in Houston: Teen Battered [Video]
Photographer Nick Knight's Film Tribute To Alexander McQueen "To Lee, With Love, Nick"~
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“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching" -Unknown
Famed fashion photographer Nick Knight has produced a film tribute to the late great Lee Alexander McQueen entitled "To Lee, With Love, Nick". The film showcases some of McQueen's legendary pieces with Bjork providing the beautiful yet haunting soundtrack... It's a evocative tribute that Alexander McQueen would have loved and appreciated.
"This film is my way of speaking about a very unique and important person who changed my life. My desire was to speak in some way about the dark and the light contained within Lee, and within us all." -Nick Knight
Kisses Bitches...
Glamour Whore...xoxo
~Agent Provocateur "Love Me Tender...Or Else" Valentine's Day Reminder Video -BRILLIANT~
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"Jesus paid for our sins - now let's get our money's worth." -Unknown
Anyone who knows me or reads Glamour Whore knows Christmas is nice but it's not my favorite holiday. My favorite holiday is Valentine's Day. It's kind of an obsession of mine... And so is lingerie. So when I spotted an email about Agent Provocateur's "Love Me Tender...Or Else" Valentine's day reminder video in a sea of Christmas-related product pitches/press releases it was like...well...Valentine's Day morning for me. This video is f*cking brilliant. And ridiculously sexy. Rosie Whiteley Huntington KILLED it!! Enjoy...
Agent Provocateur's "Love Me Tender... Or Else":
Kisses Bitches...
Glamour Whore...xoxo
~Forget False Eyelashes... We're On To Eyelash Jewelry~
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"When I die, they`ll probably auction off my false eyelashes." -Bette Davis
Eyelashes seem to be becoming a genre of art unto themselves. In recent years false eyelashes have gotten so dramatic some of them resemble pieces of art for the face. A shop on the DIY site Etsy has taken the art a step further with "eyelash jewelry". Yup...jewelry for your lashes. They are applied with the same glue you would use for any other set of falsies and the jewelry is wired so you can bend and shape it to custom fit your eye shape. Some of them are beautiful, some of them...not so much. But the product itself is haute... Check out the pix of my favorites from the "Spirys" shop on Etsy and video below:
Kisses Bitches...
Glamour Whore...xoxo
~Eva Mendes Stars In "Crazy For Eva" For Vs Magazine~
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“Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society.” -Thomas Szas
Eva Mendes stars in short-film entitled "Crazy For Eva" for Vs. Magazine that was directed by the legendary Ellen von Unwerth. The plot of the film is basically a insane Eva being chased around by a meds wielding nurse. The film itself is entertaining I suppose, as entertaining as 2 minute film can be anyway. However, visually it's beyond stunning. The fashion and makeup have me clicking "replay" over and over...red is definitely Eva's color.
"Crazy For Eva":
Kisses Bitches...
Glamour Whore...xoxo
~Turkey Is So Overrated... This Is Where I'll Be On Thanksgiving~
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"I've always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me."
-Cher
I've never been a big fan of turkey so this I'll be having popcorn (extra butter and super salty), nachos and a giant Pepsi while watching this...
Looks so f*cking fabulous... I can't wait.
Starring: Christina Aguilera, Cher, Eric Dane, Peter Gallagher, Alan Cumming, Kristen Bell, Stanley Tucci, Cam Gigandet, etc... OMG.
Kisses Bitches...
Glamour Whore...xoxo
~Barry Bondz Sneak Peek: 1st Trailer From His Upcoming "Omerta" CD~
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"Leave the gun, take the cannolis" -The Godfather (1972)
A few weeks back I introduced you to recording artist Barry Bondz in my post ~Haute Music: Barry Bondz "The Comeback III Made In America~ . I said you would be hearing a lot about him and told you he had big things coming up... and I ain't never lied. The 1st trailer from his "Omerta" CD, scheduled to drop 11-30-10, has been released and it's pure fire. If this trailer is any indication...the "Omerta" CD is gonna be a problem. A big one.
Damn... The man definitely has style.
Damn... The man definitely has style.
Witness his rise to the top...
Kisses Bitches...
Glamour Whore...xoxo
~Ring The Alarm... Beyonce's Latest Photoshoot Is Straight FIRE~
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PIX: The Beyonce Network
Shake ya derriere in them Dereon’s
Shake shake ya derriere in the House of Dereon
Shake ya derriere in them Dereon’s
Shake shake ya derriere in the House of Dereon...
-Beyonce "Get Me Bodied"
Lately I've been wondering when Bey's hiatus from music was going to be over. I miss shaking my ass to one her new joints... Drake and Nicki should follow her lead and let someone MISS THEM...that's off subject but needed to be said.
Anyway... Like I said been missing Mz.Knowles-Carter and although she doesn't have a new single out she has released some pix and a video from the latest House Of Dereon photoshoot...straight fire. Seriously. Fly. If someone has something negative to say about em, they're just mad and they'll get over it...or they won't and they'll eventually choke on their own jealousy. The. Bitch. Is. Bad.
PIX: The Beyonce Network
Kisses Bitches...
Glamour Whore...xoxo
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