Alaska: 'Frozen Gore' Sculpture

Another two-ton ice sculpture of former Vice President Al Gore is back in front of a Fairbanks liquor store.


"Frozen Gore" is a dig at Gore's beliefs about climate change.


The first statue went on display last year. This year's version is hooked up to the exhaust of a pickup truck to make it appear Gore is spouting hot air.


The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports the smoke drew laughs from a crowd Tuesday as a Gore speech on climate change played over a loudspeaker.

The sculpture was commissioned by two businessmen, Craig Compeau and Rudy Gavora, who want Gore to discuss global warming in Fairbanks.


"We don't agree with his theories — we're suspicious of the financial motivation behind them," Compeau said.

Last year's inaugural Gore ice sculpture got national attention, including mentions on The Drudge Report, CNN, Fox News and MSNBC.


Compeau said his Web site with photos and information about the sculpture attracted 1.7 million visitors. He also was swamped with mostly positive e-mails from people who found the sculpture entertaining.


According to CBS News, climate change scientists say Alaska has warmed by 3 degrees Fahrenheit during the past 50 years. The average temperature for 2009 was 27.8 degrees in Fairbanks, about one degree warmer than normal, said Rick Thoman, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.

America's Constitution: A Biography

On this installment of "Books of Our Time" host Dean Lawrence R. Velvel will interview Akhil Amar. Amar has written a definitive account of the history of the U.S. Constitution. Amar’s stellar research yields page after page of original, invigorating insights into the birth of the American constitution.


Amar’s book will long serve as a standard reference book for scholars investigating this period as well as a starting point for those trying to ascertain the intent of the founding fathers. Amar is a professor at Yale Law School. The Massachusetts School of Law, located in Andover, Massachusetts, makes high quality, affordable legal education available to less privileged persons who are traditionally excluded from the legal profession.


As part of its mission of providing high quality education and information for both law students and the general public, the Massachusetts School of Law also presents information on important current affairs to the general public via television and radio broadcasts, an intellectual journal, conferences, author appearances, blogs and books.«

The Immigration Debate

Great Immigration Debate - Super News!
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The immigration debate blows up when the Pilgrims protest limitations to their rights in America...


SuperNews was nominated in two categories for the 2006 Webbys.


The animation is a half-hour, satirical animated television series which airs on Current TV. It was created Josh Faure-Brac who also writes for the show and performs the majority of male voices.


According to wikipedia, the show is primarily based on popular culture satire and political humor.


Frequent characters to include animated interpretations of such mainstream figures as President of the United States Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Senator John McCain, and various pop-culture icons and celebrities such as Lindsay Lohan, Perez Hilton, and Britney Spears.


Episodes are also available for viewing on the official website, along with behind the scenes content.

Remote Control War: Vanguard

Vanguard presents: Remote Control War


Criss-crossing America to uncover some of the trend lines in warfighting technology, Kaj Larsen investigates the issue of remote control warfare.


Vanguard is Current TV's original documentary series.


Led by correspondents Laura Ling, Mariana van Zeller, Christof Putzel, Adam Yamaguchi and Kaj Larsen, Vanguard features enterprising reports from around the globe.


It airs every Wednesday at 10pm on Current TV. And you can view all Vanguard stories by visiting current.com/vanguard.

Muslims in America

Muslim students.


Faculty and community members of Pennsylvania State University share their perspectives as Muslims living in Pennsylvania following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.


WPSU-TV and Pennsylvania State's Institute for the Arts and Humanities hosted the open forum.

Strikebreakers

Because thousands of US auto jobs are in Mexico, Moore decides to go down there and find NAFTA Mike.

Moore shows a clip of a rowdy group who breaks up workers strikes. This groups beliefs take an ironic turn when they discover what their salary is.


As the 20th century comes to a close, Moore thinks we should celebrate all the rights were worked hard for by going back to the traditional values that americans are currently returning to such as monopolies, union crushes and kids working in sweatshops.

A Cheaper Way to Conduct A Witch Hunt

Ken Starr spent 50 million dollars to prove Bill Clintons affair with Monica Lewinsky.


Michael Moore and his gang of modern day witch hunters find both a cheaper and more comical way of proving adultery.


Thirty-four year old Chris needs a pancreas transplant to live. Unfortunately, Humania, Chriss HMO, denies Chris the transplant.


Michael Moore and Chris decide theres nothing left to do but personally invite the executives of Humania to Chriss funeral.


When Humania declines, Moore and Chris bring the funeral to them.

Bill Would Give U.S. President Emergency Control of Internet

According to Cnet news, internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to seize and disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet.



A revised version of the bill that aides to Democratic Sen. Jay Rockefeller have been spending months drafting behind closed doors would allow the president to declare a cybersecurity emergency relating to "non-governmental" computer networks and do what's necessary to respond to the threat.

Vladimir Bukovsky: The Europen Union Is The New Soviet Union!

Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky is a notable former Soviet political dissident, author and political activist.

Bukovsky was one of the first to expose the use of psychiatric imprisonment against political prisoners in the Soviet Union. He spent a total of twelve years in Soviet prisons, labor camps and in psikhushkas, forced-treatment psychiatric hospitals used by the government as special prisons.


The fate of Bukovsky and other political prisoners in the Soviet Union, repeatedly brought to attention by Western human rights groups and diplomats, was a cause of embarrassment and irritation for the Soviet authorities.

According to Wikipedia, December 18, 1976, while imprisoned, Bukovsky was exchanged for former Chilean Communist leader Luis Corvalán. In his autobiographical book To Build a Castle, Bukovsky describes how he was brought to Switzerland handcuffed. This biography is available online at several sites.


In 2005 Bukovsky participated in They Chose Freedom, a four-part documentary on the Soviet dissident movement. In 2005, with the revelations about captives in Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and the CIA secret prisons, Bukovsky criticized the rationalization of torture. Bukovsky warned about some parallels between the formations of Soviet Union and European Union.


The former Soviet dissident, fears that the European Union is on its way to becoming another Soviet Union. Mr Bukovsky describes the EU as a “monster” that must be destroyed, the sooner the better, before it develops into a fullfledged totalitarian state.

Clash Of Worlds: Palestine

"Clash Of Worlds: Palestine" tells the story of the extraordinary tensions and mutual misunderstandings, wars and reconciliations that have haunted the jewish, the Christian and Muslim cultures during Imperial Britain's rise and fall.


The programme explores the ways in which the centuries-old conflict between religions in that part of the world can shed light on the causes of terrorist acts in the 21st century. This final programme in the series looks at the politically-charged history of Palestine. It explores how decisions made by the British rulers of Palestine 90 years ago – when they supported the idea of a nation state for Jews in Palestine – are still blamed for intensifying a conflict that continues to this day.

In December 1917 the British General Edmund Allenby entered Jerusalem with T. E. Lawrence, the guerrilla leader of an Arab army, by his side. More than 800 years after they were evicted from Palestine during the Crusades, the British again ruled over the Holy Land. From the deserts of southern Jordan, through the West Bank and Israel, this film traces the roots of the "Palestine Issue" and the competing nationalist demands that the British faced.


The Balfour Declaration of 1917 promised a homeland for Jews. But many children in schools in the West Bank and militants fighting the Israeli army today consider British rule over Palestine as a simple betrayal of the Arab cause.