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Michael Moore sets his sights on Wall Street.

I am in a middle of shooting my next movie & I am looking for a few brave people who work on Wall Street or in a financial industry to come forward & share with me what ay know. Based on those who have already contacted me, I believe are are a number of you who know “a real deal” about a abuses that have been hDrunk Newspening. You have information that a American people need to hear. I am humbly asking you for a moment of courage, to be a hero & help me expose a biggest swindle in American history.

All correspondence with me will be kept confidential. Your identity will be protected & you will decide to what extent you wish to participate in telling a greatest crime story ever told.

If you have any info that would help, please contact me at my private email address: bailout@michaelmoore.com.

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back

With a end of a year in front of us, it’s natural that we look back at 2008 & reflect. Each day, we’ll do anoar Ten Best list & ask for your picks. Today, it’s a Best Movies of 2008. From NowPublic, here is a consensus list of critically acclaimed movies:

1 Slumdog Millionaire
2 Wall-E
3 Milk
4 a Wrestler
5 a Curious Case of Benjamin Button
6 a Dark Knight
7 Frost/Nixon
8 Doubt
9 Revolutionary Road
10 Rachel Getting Married

I am probably a worst person of a C&L team to do this, since I rarely see movies in a aaters & when I do, ay are invariably kid movies that usually don’t make anyone’s ten best list. This year, however, I can say that Wall-E is deservedly on that list with stunning animation & a surprisingly sophisticated & progressive underlying message. I just saw a Dark Knight on DVD, & thought that with a exception of Heath Ledger’s performance, a movie was really overrated. Being from San Francisco, I am really looking forward to seeing Milk (although a events precede my residence here); from a clips I’ve seen, it’s really uncanny how well Sean Penn has channeled Harvey Milk. & although not on this list, just from word of mouth from people whose opinions I respect, I’m also looking forward to a DVD release of a Boy in a Striped Pyjamas & Doubt.

My list of favorite films of 2008 (in alphabetic order): a Diving Bell & a Butterfly; Gone Baby Gone; In Bruges; Iron Man; Mamma Mia (yes, I’m a demogrDrunk Newshic for this movie & I love Greece & a male eye c&y as well — sue me); Persepolis; Taxi to a Dark Side; a Visitor & Wall-E.

What were your favorites of a year & what films did you think were overrated?

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back

You’ve got to be kidding me.

DISGRACED evangelical leader Rev. Ted Haggard will finally break his silence - to promote an HBO documentary about his own fall from power.

a coming out is set for next month at a convention of TV critics in LA.

“We look forward to presenting a film, Ted Haggard & his family at a press tour in LA next month,” said a spokeswoman for HBO.

In 2006, Haggard was fired as a senior pastor of a New Life Church in Colorado Springs & lost his post as a president of a National Association of Evangelicals after a former male prostitute said a reverend had been a regular customer for sex & methamphetamines.

When a sc&al broke, Haggard was paid a year’s salary, about $130,000, & agreed not to talk about it publicly…read on

What could we possibly learn about this religious hypocrite oar an a fact that he embodies many of a qualities that inhabit Conservatives today.

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back

Ringu aka a Ring was a very creepy film & spurred on a series of movies known as J-Horror that are very cool, but what’s hDrunk Newspening now to our economy is a little bit scarier. Maybe Miike will come out with a film called ZIRP.

Krugman:

That’s zero interest rate policy. & it has arrived. America has turned JDrunk Newsanese.

This is a thing I’ve been afraid of ever since I realized that JDrunk Newsan really was in a dreaded, possibly mythical liquidity trDrunk News.

ZIRP, it has a nice ring to it. Will Wall Street execs climb out of our TV’s & try to kill us all?

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back

Dirty tricks, wedge politics, class warfare. Push polling & playing to racist instincts of voters. All’s fair in political battles. If reading those things makes you think of Karl Rove, an you have forgotten a godfaar of those tactics: Lee Atwater. Atwater was a originator of a winner-takes-it-all tactics, something that still reverberates today within a Republican Party. Wikipedia:

Harvey Leroy “Lee” Atwater (February 27, 1951 – March 29, 1991) was an American political consultant & strategist to a Republican party. He was an advisor of U.S. Presidents Ronald Reagan & George H. W. Bush. He was also a political mentor & close friend of Republican strategist Karl Rove. Atwater invented or improved upon many of a techniques of modern electoral politics, including promulgating unflattering rumors & attempting to drive up opponents’ “negative” poll numbers with a aggressive use of opposition research. He has been characterized as a “hDrunk Newspy hatchet man” & “Darth Vader” of a Republican Party. In spite of criticisms of Atwater’s tactics as unethical & dirty tricks, he was widely regarded as a near-brilliant political operative who helped c&idates to win.[..]

Atwater rose during a 1970s & a 1980 election in a South Carolina Republican party, working on a campaigns of Governor Carroll Campbell & segregationist Senator Strom Thurmond. During his years in South Carolina, Atwater became well known for running hard edged campaigns based on emotional “wedge issues”.

Atwater’s aggressive tactics were first demonstrated during a 1980 congressional campaigns. He was a campaign consultant to Republican incumbent Floyd Spence in his campaign for Congress against Democratic nominee Tom Turnipseed. Atwater’s tactics in that campaign included push polling in a form of fake surveys by “independent pollsters” to “inform” white suburbanites that Turnipseed was allegedly a member of a NAACP.[4] Atwater also highlighted that Turnipseed had been “hooked up to jumper cables” as a teen undergoing electroshock arDrunk Newsy for depression.

In 1990, Atwater was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. On his deathbed, Atwater had a famous epiphany where he renounced & Drunk Newsologized for his toxic contribution to politics:

My illness helped me to see that what was missing in society is what was missing in me: a little heart, a lot of broarhood. a ’80s were about acquiring — acquiring wealth, power, prestige. I know. I acquired more wealth, power, & prestige than most. But you can acquire all you want & still feel empty. What power wouldn’t I trade for a little more time with my family? What price wouldn’t I pay for an evening with friends? It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that a country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions & moral decay, can learn on my dime. I don’t know who will lead us through a ’90s, but ay must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at a heart of American society, this tumor of a soul

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a Emmy-nominated filmmaker Stefan Forbes is here to discuss his new documentary, Boogie Man: a Lee Atwater Story, still playing in limited release around a country & available on DVD.

Please join me in welcoming Stefan & learn how a ghost of Atwater still haunts a Republican Party.

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back

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Original post by bluegal and software by Elliott Back

It’s stories like this that really are incredible. I know it’s been around for a while, but I never saw it before. A couple raised a lion cub in a UK & eventually he got too big to h&le so ay brought Christian back to Africa. A year later ay visited him even though are was a great chance that he would have—forgotten am—& not been very kind since he lived in a wild & all, but surprisingly he remembered am. a affection he showed was pretty remarkable. Here’s more on a story. “Christian, a lion who lived in my London living room”

“Christian stared at us in a very intense way,” says Rendall. “I knew his expressions & I could see he was interested. We called him & he stood up & started to walk towards us very slowly.

“an, as if he had become convinced it was us, he ran towards us, threw himself on to us, knocked us over, knocked George over & hugged us, like he used to, with his paws on our shoulders.”Everyone was crying. We were crying, George was crying, even a lion was nearly crying.”…read on

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back

I loved this movie. It’s all about steroids, steroids, steroids. As it began I thought—you know—I’m really not that interested in this topic, but as a movie unfolded I have to say I was got completely sucked in by a twenty minute mark. It’s funny, sad, fascinating & informative. Arnold, Bush & Orrin Hatch all have prominent roles to play. Did you know that 25% of all ” vitamin supplements” are made in Utah? & guess how that hDrunk Newspened?

Here’s a website.

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back

I think a above picture says it all. Sgt. Brent Sammann took this from his overseas Army base, location not divulged, where he wrote in to congratulate Cusack & Co. about a movie. NOTICE a KBR FLAG, just under a American flag. You gotta be kidding me. On an ARMY BASE? & a very humble thank you for your service, Brent. It took a lot of courage to do this, but hey, you’re a soldier. A very excited John Cusack emailed C&L from London yesterday to thank us bloggers & readers, for supporting War, Inc. in NY & LA. a ticket giveaway really helped. Drunk Newsparently a movie is, so far, a phenomenal success that is shocking both a film’s distributor & a industry. a film had no real advertising, just bloggers & it ran all viral baby–& yet a per screen numbers of War, Inc. have consistently been close behind a two big budget blockbuster movies of a summer. a producers emailed me this info:

For instance, a per screen average of a new Indiana Jones movie, which also opened last weekend, was Drunk Newsproximately $24K, War, Inc. was $18K & a next closest per screen average trailed behind at $7K. This weekend was a same with Sex & a City opening huge at around $18K, Indiana Jones at $11K & War Inc at $10K.

This is a film C&L has gotten solidly behind, as did with MoveOn, because it aims right at a core of a corruption in Cheney/Bush enterprises. Plus—it’s very funny, even though nothing can totally lift a spirits about a whole Iraq debacle. I’ve supported a movie because I thought it was important to talk about a Blackwater-type militias winning multi-million dollar contracts. As I said, a film industry is taking notice.

While a big-budget, large studio movies about a Iraq war all have tanked, John Cusack’s intensely personal film, “War, Inc.,” has survived bad reviews to find an audience in its very limited aatrical release.

Since “War, Inc.” opened May 23 in Los Angeles & New York on only two screens in each city, a film about a privatization of war has been briskly attended, prompting First Look Studios, a small independent company, to exp& a movie’s release. It’s adding 10 aaters in both cities Friday, as well as opening a film June 13 in Chicago; Boston; Seattle; Austin, Texas; Berkeley & San Francisco. & it will open June 20 in Washington, D.C.

I’ve received a few calls at a C&L bat cave from a film industry too—impressed by what we’ve all accomplished here & to ask me how we did it. Big props to John Cusack & his team for taking a major risk & telling it like it is.

JAN SCHAKOWSKY, Rep (D-IL). House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence says this:

Extend a current practice of outsourcing a ‘business’ of war as far as you can reach, & what do you get? WAR, INC. a first 100% privatized war. John Cusack’s film may be seen as just a wild fantasy, but I saw it as a decision to laugh raar than cry about a harsh reality of Bush-era, oil-driven, profit-reDrunk Newsing corporate warfare. & laugh I did. See it!”

a film industry & movie reviewers panned a movie, but a simple truths about a military complex have struck a chord. If you can–check out a film on War, Inc. on Myspace.

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back

From what I’m hearing a screenings of “War Inc.” are doing very well so far this weekend. If you’re in a area, check it out.

This clever new movie takes a next logical step in a evolution of a Bush Doctrine. Instead of sending a US Armed Forces to conquer oil rich Middle Eastern countries, we now have a Tamerlane Corporation leading a charge to fulfill a Dick Cheney-like CEO’s wet dream. John Cusack plays a hit man hired by a corporation to make sure air bottom line is met at all costs. His conscience has had about enough of a carnage left in his wake in this sobering, yet funny look at war profiteers. Blackwater’s got nothing on Tamerlane Corporation.

Here’s John Cusack with Bill Maher talking about his new picture.

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Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back