http://bravenewfilms.org/topics/deficit 2008-11-19T02:47:40Z http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/62973-niall-ferguson-don-t-trust-democrats-to-fix-economy 2008-11-19T02:47:40Z FORAtv <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/b7RFu4RiFvs&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/b7RFu4RiFvs&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/62973-niall-ferguson-don-t-trust-democrats-to-fix-economy"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/78854" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Complete video at: <a href="http://fora.tv/2008/10/21/Geopolitical_Consequences_of_the_Credit_Crunch">fora.tv</a> </p> <p>Harvard historian Niall Ferguson argues that Barack Obama's plans to increase income taxes for wealthy Americans could lead to an economic climate similar to the "stagflation" period of the 1970's.</p> <p>-----</p> <p>Professor and historian Niall Ferguson asks what the ramifications of the subprime crisis will be in the realm of grand strategy and politics.</p> <p>Is this an historical turning point, marking a decisive shift in financial power from West to East? Or are rumours of the death of the dollar and the decline of American empire exaggerated? - Hoover Institution</p> <p>Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University. He is a resident faculty member of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. He is also a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University, and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/62973-niall-ferguson-don-t-trust-democrats-to-fix-economy">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/61295-obama-s-tax-plan-austan-goolsbee 2008-11-19T02:47:42Z FORAtv <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/z38coMjhkpU&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/z38coMjhkpU&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/61295-obama-s-tax-plan-austan-goolsbee"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/75931" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Complete video at: <a href="http://fora.tv/2008/09/04/Tax_Policy_At_A_Crossroads">fora.tv</a> </p> <p>Austan Goolsbee, economics professor at the University of Chicago and senior economic advisor to the 2008 Barack Obama Presidential campaign, compares Obama's and John McCain's respective tax plans.</p> <p>-----</p> <p>Advisors from the Obama and McCain camps - Austan Goolsbee from the University of Chicago and John Taylor from Stanford University, respectively - lay out the candidates' tax plans and duel over what they would mean for the American economy and the average family.</p> <p>Leonard Burman of the Urban Institute-Brookings Institute joint Tax Policy Center and Joel Slemrod, Director of the Office of Tax Policy Research referee - Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs</p> <p>Austan Goolsbee is the Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.He is also a Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation,Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts,and a member of the Panel of Economic Advisors to the Congressional Budget Office. He has been Barack Obama's economic advisor since Obama's successful U.S. Senate campaign in Illinois. He was until recently the lead economic advisor to the 2008 Obama presidential campaign.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/61295-obama-s-tax-plan-austan-goolsbee">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/60837-mccain-campaign-tries-to-reconcile-contadictions-on-deficit 2008-11-19T02:51:14Z newshounds <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/lsvNiYL3354&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/lsvNiYL3354&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/60837-mccain-campaign-tries-to-reconcile-contadictions-on-deficit"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/75223" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>McCain economic advisor tries to reconcile his statement earlier in the week on FOX News that it would be impossible to balance the federal budget at the end of the McCain's first term with Sarah Palin's promise that McCain would do so. From the 11/1/08 Hannity & Colmes.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/60837-mccain-campaign-tries-to-reconcile-contadictions-on-deficit">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/59942-proof-of-republican-fiscal-responsibility 2008-11-19T04:18:13Z klepster <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/09DW1NVVYX4&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/09DW1NVVYX4&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/59942-proof-of-republican-fiscal-responsibility"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/73876" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>A portion of John McCain's acceptance speech with a listing of statistical proof of the Republican Party as the fiscally responsible political party.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/59942-proof-of-republican-fiscal-responsibility">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/59704-piggybank 2008-11-19T04:42:21Z Piggybank <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/IcvToF3vDqc&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/IcvToF3vDqc&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/59704-piggybank"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/73547" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Is our kids' future going down the drain, McCain?</p> </div> <a href="/blog/59704-piggybank">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/59446-gop-add-barack-obama-who-the-hell-does-barack-obama-think-he-is 2008-11-19T02:53:51Z FuckYouBush.com <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZeNvEhtcUpE&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZeNvEhtcUpE&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/59446-gop-add-barack-obama-who-the-hell-does-barack-obama-think-he-is"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/73036" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Got GOP-ADD? Have no idea why you hate Barack Obama? You just know you are thinking what you are programmed to think. What CHANGE? ... you keep asking, over, and over, and over again. This video will help. </p> <p>The failures of George W. Bush and his lame administration.</p> <p>Pro-life? Pro-choice? Your genitals controlled by Congress?</p> <p>Gun "freedom" and the NRA (National Redneck Association).</p> <p>Gay marriage and same sex unions do not threaten your ass.</p> <p>Immigration? Border control? Those dang Mexicans?</p> <p>A black guy as President? Aint havin' no "nigger" in office?</p> <p>But, he's an Arab! But, he's a Muslim! But, he's a Socialist!</p> <p>God bless the United States of America?</p> <p>Barack Obama was raised by a single mother and his grandparents. They didn't have much money, but they taught him values from the Kansas heartland where they grew up. He took out loans to put himself through school. After college, he worked for Christian churches in Chicago, helping communities devastated when steel plants closed. Obama turned down lucrative job offers after law school to return to Chicago, leading a successful voter registration drive. He joined a small law firm, taught constitutional law and, guided by his Christian faith, stayed active in his community. Obama and his wife Michelle are proud parents of two daughters.</p> <p>EARLY YEARS</p> <p>Barack Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4th, 1961. His father, Barack Obama Sr., was born and raised in a small village in Kenya, where he grew up herding goats with his own father, who was a domestic servant to the British.</p> <p>Barack's mother, Ann Dunham, grew up in small-town Kansas. Her father worked on oil rigs during the Depression, and then signed up for World War II after Pearl Harbor, where he marched across Europe in Patton's army. </p> <p>Barack's father eventually returned to Kenya, and Barack grew up with his mother in Hawaii, and for a few years in Indonesia. Later, he moved to New York, where he graduated from Columbia University in 1983.</p> <p>THE COLLEGE YEARS</p> <p>Remembering the values of empathy and service that his mother taught him, Barack put law school and corporate life on hold after college and moved to Chicago in 1985, where he became a community organizer with a church-based group seeking to improve living conditions in poor neighborhoods plagued with crime and high unemployment.</p> <p>He went on to earn his law degree from Harvard in 1991, where he became the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. Soon after, he returned to Chicago to practice as a civil rights lawyer and teach constitutional law. Finally, his advocacy work led him to run for the Illinois State Senate, where he served for eight years. In 2004, he became the third African American since Reconstruction to be elected to the U.S. Senate.</p> <p>POLITICAL CAREER</p> <p>In the Illinois State Senate, this meant working with both Democrats and Republicans to help working families get ahead by creating programs like the state Earned Income Tax Credit, which in three years provided over $100 million in tax cuts to families across the state. He also pushed through an expansion of early childhood education, and after a number of inmates on death row were found innocent, Senator Obama worked with law enforcement officials to require the videotaping of interrogations and confessions in all capital cases.</p> <p>In the U.S. Senate, he has focused on tackling the challenges of a globalized, 21st century world with fresh thinking and a politics that no longer settles for the lowest common denominator. His first law was passed with Republican Tom Coburn, a measure to rebuild trust in government by allowing every American to go online and see how and where every dime of their tax dollars is spent. He has also been the lead voice in championing ethics reform that would root out Jack Abramoff-style corruption in Congress.</p> <p>As a member of the Veterans' Affairs Committee, Senator Obama has fought to help Illinois veterans get the disability pay they were promised, while working to prepare the VA for the return of the thousands of veterans who will need care after Iraq and Afghanistan. Recognizing the terrorist threat posed by weapons of mass destruction, he traveled to Russia with Republican Dick Lugar to begin a new generation of non-proliferation efforts designed to find and secure deadly weapons around the world. And knowing the threat we face to our economy and our security from America's addiction to oil, he's working to bring auto companies, unions, farmers, businesses and politicians of both parties together to promote the greater use of alternative fuels and higher fuel standards in our cars.</p> <p>Whether it's the poverty exposed by Katrina, the genocide in Darfur, or the role of faith in our politics, Barack Obama continues to speak out on the issues that will define America in the 21st century.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/59446-gop-add-barack-obama-who-the-hell-does-barack-obama-think-he-is">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/55421-john-mccain-rejects-flip-flopper-charge 2008-10-28T10:52:53Z FORAtv <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/X1MuFKuS-eY&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/X1MuFKuS-eY&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/55421-john-mccain-rejects-flip-flopper-charge"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/67183" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Complete video at: <a href="http://fora.tv/2008/08/14/John_McCain_on_the_World_Economy">fora.tv</a> </p> <p>Republican Presidential candidate John McCain defends himself from accusations of "flip-flopping" on the issues of taxation and the Christian right.</p> <p>-----</p> <p>Republican Presidential Nominee John McCain discusses the world economy with Aspen Institute president and CEO Walter Isaacson.</p> <p>John Sidney McCain III, is the Republican senior U.S. Senator from Arizona. He is currently the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, and serves on the Armed Services, and Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committees. He was a presidential candidate in the 2000 election, but was defeated by George W. Bush for the Republican nomination. McCain formally announced his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election on April 25, 2007.</p> <p>Walter Isaacson is the President and CEO of the Aspen Institute. He has been the Chairman and CEO of CNN and the Managing Editor of Time Magazine. He is the author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (2003) and of Kissinger: A Biography (1992) and is the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (1986). His biography of Albert Einstein - Einstein: His Life and Universe - was released in April 2007.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/55421-john-mccain-rejects-flip-flopper-charge">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/54701-an-american-story 2008-11-19T04:28:28Z pfc41 <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vcoFe9aroSk&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vcoFe9aroSk&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/54701-an-american-story"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/66349" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>A brief history about how much money this country has spent over the last 7.5 years and what we got for it.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/54701-an-american-story">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/53430-globalization-trade-deficits-and-the-new-working-class 2008-11-01T03:33:00Z FORAtv <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ylFw1ZXxZ28&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ylFw1ZXxZ28&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/53430-globalization-trade-deficits-and-the-new-working-class"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/64861" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Complete video at: <a href="http://fora.tv/2008/06/12/Gabor_Steingart_The_New_World_Disorder">fora.tv</a> </p> <p>German journalist Gabor Steingart blames western nations' trade deficits for the shift of traditional manufacturing jobs to developing countries, a phenomenon he describes as a "second industrial age - blue-collar 2.0."</p> <p>-----</p> <p>The 7 Fallacies of the Globalisation Debate: Is it destroying the West? The Flat World. Outsourcing. Free Trade.</p> <p>Each of these phrases is a flashpoint in one of the most heated debates of our lifetime: is it a force for good? - The Global Policy Institute</p> <p>Gabor Steingart is a German journalist and author. From 2001 until the end of June 2007, he headed the main city office of the news magazine Der Spiegel in Berlin today, he is responsible for the mirror office in Washington.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/53430-globalization-trade-deficits-and-the-new-working-class">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/49710-john-mccain-media-avail-08-01-08 2008-10-29T15:29:58Z IssueAlliance <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vGxz8Ig50ck&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vGxz8Ig50ck&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/49710-john-mccain-media-avail-08-01-08"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/60307" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>John McCain <br />Media Avail <br />Panama City, FL 08/01/08</p> <p>TRANSCRIPT: <br />REPORTER: Thank you Senator, just back to the problems we're facing in the economy. As you know, earlier this week the government announced that we are running a half a trillion-dollar deficit. How does that, given that news and given the bleak situation we're in, how does that square with your pledge to extend, continue, make permanent President Bush's tax cuts and to balance the budget eventually? </p> <p>JOHN MCCAIN: Because I believe firmly, and I am convinced that lower taxes is important, particularly in very difficult economic times. I think one of the best examples I can give you is capital gains. Senator Obama wants to increase capital gains. History shows since 1960 when Senator Kennedy said we would lower capital gains taxes, every time we've lowered capital gains taxes there's been an increase in revenue. That's a historical fact. I think that is the worst thing you can do, is raise peoples taxes in very difficult economical times. So it renews my commitment to keeping taxes low and letting people keep more of their hard earned salaries, wages and profits. And whatever happens in the economy, I think it can only harm it by increasing taxes. So if we don't keep taxes low, we can turn this serious situation we have economically into a worse situation." </p> <p>LABEL: JM FL 08-01 (KF#6) SKAG - ClipH</p> </div> <a href="/blog/49710-john-mccain-media-avail-08-01-08">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/47621-what-will-real-economic-change-look-like 2008-10-29T15:30:50Z mpal <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/pvUlHOqNuBU&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/pvUlHOqNuBU&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/47621-what-will-real-economic-change-look-like"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/57014" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>More at <a href="http://therealnews.com/c.php?c=080801YT">therealnews.com</a> <br />Downturn and record high deficit mean next Prez must protect Americans from 'vagaries of the market'</p> </div> <a href="/blog/47621-what-will-real-economic-change-look-like">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/47328-the-bush-administration-has-been-a-miserable-failure 2008-10-28T15:29:30Z youngturks <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Rsym4lKd_Qg&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Rsym4lKd_Qg&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/47328-the-bush-administration-has-been-a-miserable-failure"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/56033" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Watch more at <a href="http://www.theyoungturks.com">www.theyoungturks.com</a> </p> </div> <a href="/blog/47328-the-bush-administration-has-been-a-miserable-failure">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/45410-flynt-leverett-wake-up-america-it-s-a-post-us-world 2008-10-29T14:41:02Z Carnegie Council <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/MDmBGHht2r8&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/MDmBGHht2r8&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/45410-flynt-leverett-wake-up-america-it-s-a-post-us-world"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/52550" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>"We have a political debate, a foreign policy debate, in this country that is basically about some other planet from the one that we are talking about right now," says Leverett. <br />This is an excerpt from a Carnegie Council Global Policy Innovations event, "The Rise of the Rest," on July 1, 2008. For the full video, audio, and transcript, go to <a href="http://www.policyinnovations.org">www.policyinnovations.org</a> or <a href="http://www.carnegiecouncil.org">www.carnegiecouncil.org</a> </p> </div> <a href="/blog/45410-flynt-leverett-wake-up-america-it-s-a-post-us-world">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/45265-flynt-leverett-sovereign-wealth-funds-oil-drilling 2008-10-16T14:49:44Z Carnegie Council <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Nkek1CvLZps&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Nkek1CvLZps&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/45265-flynt-leverett-sovereign-wealth-funds-oil-drilling"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/52349" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Restrictions on sovereign wealth funds? "Be careful what you wish for," says Leverett, "because you might not like it if you get it." <br />This is an excerpt from a Carnegie Council Global Policy Innovations event, "The Rise of the Rest," on July 1, 2008. For the full video, audio, and transcript, go to <a href="http://www.policyinnovations.org">www.policyinnovations.org</a> or <a href="http://www.carnegiecouncil.org">www.carnegiecouncil.org</a> </p> </div> <a href="/blog/45265-flynt-leverett-sovereign-wealth-funds-oil-drilling">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/43890-mccain-speech-and-roundtable-3-25-08 2008-10-26T21:30:38Z IssueAlliance <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/41GxtKxtZFk&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/41GxtKxtZFk&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/43890-mccain-speech-and-roundtable-3-25-08"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/50230" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>John McCain <br />Speech and Roundtable <br />Santa Ana, CA 03/25/08</p> <p>TRANSCRIPT: <br />JOHN MCCAIN: "I'm sure that there are many factors that have contributed to our deficit, including the out of control earmark pork barrel spending."</p> <p>LABEL: JM CA 3-25 (JC#121) AGZZ - ClipI</p> <p>To download a high res version of this clip, VISIT: https://issuealliance.box.net/shared/jmrg8fjwcc</p> <p>To download the full campaign event, VISIT: https://issuealliance.box.net/shared/lh5yscoco4</p> </div> <a href="/blog/43890-mccain-speech-and-roundtable-3-25-08">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/43649-mccain-town-hall-05-01-08 2008-10-26T21:29:39Z IssueAlliance <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/HsLiSHm-WT0&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/HsLiSHm-WT0&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/43649-mccain-town-hall-05-01-08"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/49987" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>John McCain <br />Town Hall <br />Cleveland, OH 05/01/08</p> <p>TRANSCRIPT: <br />JOHN MCCAIN: And [the gas tax holiday] would be funded in deficit by general revenues and if it came to a real crunch then maybe we wouldn't fund the bridge to nowhere and other pork barrel projects that jeopardize the congressional appropriations process where billions of dollars in pork barrel projects are wasted and/or mismanaged</p> <p>LABEL: <br />JM OH 5-1 (EW#5) DAGH -- Clip J</p> <p>To download a high res version of this clip, VISIT: https://issuealliance.box.net/shared/e8qfwv90c8</p> <p>To download the full campaign event, VISIT: Tape 1: https://issuealliance.box.net/shared/56q9jm2ccs; Tape 2: https://issuealliance.box.net/shared/qwcj4u6scw</p> </div> <a href="/blog/43649-mccain-town-hall-05-01-08">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/32876-treasury-secretary-paulson-evasive-on-raising-sinking-dollar 2008-11-19T02:47:35Z Mugsy <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/MTFULixJB_E&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/MTFULixJB_E&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/32876-treasury-secretary-paulson-evasive-on-raising-sinking-dollar"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/35808" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Bush's Treasury Secretary had two chances to explain how he would strengthen the sinking dollar that is now worth half the Euro, pushing gold to a record $1,000+ an ounce and oil over a record $111 a barrel.</p> <p>Both times, he gave long and rambling answers that did nothing to explain what they intend to do... followed by my analysis as to just why.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/32876-treasury-secretary-paulson-evasive-on-raising-sinking-dollar">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/28637-american-business-pursues-euros-as-dollar-grows-worthless 2008-11-19T02:47:36Z Mugsy <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2YovSAjdjnI&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2YovSAjdjnI&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/28637-american-business-pursues-euros-as-dollar-grows-worthless"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/30797" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>As the value of the U.S. dollar continues to plummet, loosing 50% of its value against the Euro since George W. Bush took office in 2001, American businesses are now actively courting European shoppers. Places that once accepted dollars now refuse them. Meanwhile, the U.S. real estate market is booming as Europeans buy up American property at bargain prices.</p> <p>Good news though, the value of the dollar is expected to climb again as soon as George Bush is out of office.</p> <p>Bonus "Family Guy" scene thrown in for fun.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/28637-american-business-pursues-euros-as-dollar-grows-worthless">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/19448-a-conservative-s-critique-of-u-s-foreign-policy 2008-10-18T03:31:05Z FORAtv <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/cjV1cUJgULo&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/cjV1cUJgULo&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/19448-a-conservative-s-critique-of-u-s-foreign-policy"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/19122" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Complete video at: <a href="http://fora.tv/2007/10/29/Niall_Ferguson_After_the_Bush_Doctrine">fora.tv</a> </p> <p>Harvard University historian Niall Ferguson offers a conservative's critique of U.S. foreign policy under the Bush Administration.</p> <p>-----</p> <p>Niall Ferguson discusses "After the Bush Doctrine: What Next for American Foreign Policy?" This event was part of the Hoover Institution's Fall Retreat 2007.</p> <p>Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University. He is a resident faculty member of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. He is also a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University, and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.</p> <p>He is a regular contributor to television and radio on both sides of the Atlantic. In 2003 he wrote and presented a six-part history of the British Empire for Channel 4, the UK terrestrial broadcaster. The accompanying book, Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power (Basic), was a bestseller in both Britain and the United States. The sequel, Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire, was published in 2004 by Penguin. His latest book is The War of the World, a global history of the Second World War, which was published to critical acclaim in September 2006. He is currently completing a biography of Siegmund Warburg and has recently begun researching a life of Henry Kissinger.</p> <p>A prolific commentator on contemporary politics and economics, Niall Ferguson writes and reviews regularly for the British and American press. He is a contributing editor for the Financial Times. In 2004 Time magazine named him as one of the world's hundred most influential people.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/19448-a-conservative-s-critique-of-u-s-foreign-policy">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/4258-what-globalization-international-trade-needs-focus 2008-10-15T21:31:07Z seeprogress <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Mw5nDT1uYKQ&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Mw5nDT1uYKQ&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/4258-what-globalization-international-trade-needs-focus"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/3513" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Center for American Progress Associate Director of International Economic Policy Jonathan Jacoby explains that paying attention to globalization and trade issues is important, not just to the economy but to national security and American morals. </p> <p>For more information please see: <br />http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/02/trade.html</p> </div> <a href="/blog/4258-what-globalization-international-trade-needs-focus">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/2055-q-a-in-new-hampton-iowa-may-27-2007 2008-10-20T15:30:47Z johnedwards <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ukxUnP3A0eE&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ukxUnP3A0eE&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/2055-q-a-in-new-hampton-iowa-may-27-2007"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/1331" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>John Edwards answers questions in New Hampton, Iowa as part of a series of four Town Hall meetings in Iowa on May 27, 2007.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/2055-q-a-in-new-hampton-iowa-may-27-2007">Watch the video</a>