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Indonesian eyes on US presidential race 13 October 2008

2008-10-13T00:49:21Z

Almost two-thirds of Indonesians have a negative opinion of the United States and anti-American sentiment is running high just weeks before the November 4 presidential election.

Al Jazeera's Step Vaessen asked three Indonesians if a new president in the White House could change that view.

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Will Racism Have an Impact at the Polls? - John Zogby

2008-10-13T00:49:45Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

Pollster John Zogby discusses Barack Obama and the impact of race on the 2008 U.S. Presidential election.

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As we enter the final months before the historic 2008 presidential election, how has the American character and our attitude towards politics and foreign policy changed?

According to pollster John Zogby, the conventional wisdom about Americans -- that we're isolated from the world, politically fragmented, and inclined toward material pleasure -- isn't just flawed, it may be 180 degrees from the truth.

Drawing on thousands of in-depth surveys, he reveals a new and developing American character, including the emergence of the most globally oriented generation in our history.

Join the Council for a conversation with John Zogby as he helps us to understand where we are headed politically, culturally and globally, as well as how this new direction is shaping the politics behind both presidential campaigns - World Affairs Council of Northern California

John Zogby is President and Chief Executive Officer of Zogby International, a leading public opinion and market research firm. Mr. Zogby routinely conducts polls on health care reform and global health efforts. Among his accomplishments, he is widely recognized for correctly predicting the cliffhanger result of the 2000 presidential election for George W. Bush, in contrast to most other pollsters who had projected that Bush would win easily. Mr. Zogby established his firm in 1984 and since then has been tracking public opinion in North America, Latin America, the Middle East, Asia and Europe. He has written guest editorials for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, among other major newspapers, and he is the author of a forthcoming portrait of the new American consumer, which will be published by Random House this fall. Mr. Zogby holds degrees in history from Le Moyne College and Syracuse University.

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What Do Americans Want in a President? - John Zogby

2008-10-13T00:49:45Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

Pollster John Zogby discusses American attitudes leading into the 2008 U.S. Presidential election.

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As we enter the final months before the historic 2008 presidential election, how has the American character and our attitude towards politics and foreign policy changed?

Drawing on thousands of in-depth surveys, he reveals a new and developing American character, including the emergence of the most globally oriented generation in our history.

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Why are blacks supporting Obama?

2008-10-13T00:36:30Z

I am a black conservative black male. I'm ashamed of my black people. Obama represents bigger government and leans heavily on the far left. He believes in raising taxes. How can you be a black entrepreneur owning a small business support him? The government will take 62% of your profit leaving you with 36 cents on the dollar. I'm all for supporting black people but my principles comes first. This man panders and says anything to get a vote. One day he claims to be pro choice now a banner on his pathetic website says he's pro life. My mother always told me the friends and company you keep is a reflection on you. Obama has friends and associates running his campaign who are not good for America. He wants to socialize our nation? Look at Europe? Do we really want our rights taking away from us? Do you really want the government running our life? Everything the government does fails. Look at Fannie and Freddy. I really wish McCain would call names. Connecticut own Chris Dodd needs to do the right thing and step down. New World Order is soon coming.

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Poll: Fox News Makes You Stupid

2008-10-10T12:49:14Z

Mike Papantonio of Air America's Ring of Fire talks about the latest research from the Pew Research Center that proves that watching Fox News makes you less informed, less accurate, and just plain dumb. See this video and more by visiting www.GoLeft.tv.

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Indian Establishment Favors McCain Over Obama - Raja Mohan

2008-10-13T00:49:48Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

Indian foreign affairs analyst Raja Mohan argues that many leaders among India's foreign policy establishment would prefer John McCain over Barack Obama as the next U.S. President.

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During the Asia Society's 36th Annual Williamsburg Conference in April in Bali, Indonesia, we asked policy leaders from across Asia which US presidential candidate is most favorably viewed in their part of the world.

A large number of respondents said Barack Obama was the most popular, and the Indonesian respondents in particular talked about the significance of Senator Obama's early childhood in the country. Meanwhile, the city named "Obama" in Japan is enjoying increasing popularity! - Asia Society

Dr C Raja Mohan is an analyst of Indian foreign policy and international security affairs and an advocate of India's strategical alignment with America.He has served on India's National Security Advisory Board during 1998-2000. He is currently a professor at the Nanyang Technical University in Singapore.

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Democrats and the Values Vote - Media Panel Discussion

2008-10-13T00:49:48Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

Political scientist Shanto Iyengar and media critic Amy Mitchell argue that Republican appeals to "American values" - a successful strategy in recent elections - may not be as effective in 2008.

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Join swissnex and our esteemed panel to discuss the media/politics nexus inside election campaigns.

During the course of the evening we will gain a better understanding of the interplay between systems of political mass communications, party competition and election polemics by exploring the relationship between media and politics - Swissnex

Shanto Iyengar holds a joint appointment as the Harry and Norman Chandler Chair in Communication and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. Iyengar is also a senior fellow (by courtesy) at the Hoover Institution.

Iyengar's teaching and research addresses the role of the news media and mass communication in contemporary politics. He is the author of several books including Media Politics: A Citizen's Guide, Going Negative: How Political Advertisements Shrink and Polarize the Electorate Explorations in Political Psychology,and News That Matters: Television and American Opinion.

Amy S. Mitchell is Deputy Director for the Project for Excellence in Journalism. She has been with the Project since its inception in 1997. Her primary focus is creating and managing the Project’s research, including the Annual Report on the State of the News Media as well as other more specific studies of the news media. She also works on the Project’s teaching instruments including editing a case study curriculum for journalism teaching, titled Thinking Clearly: Case Studies in Journalistic Decision Making. Prior to this occupation, Mitchell was a congressional research associate at the American Enterprise Institute where she researched public policy and its relationship with the press, the public and government.

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Why is Obama so Popular in Europe? - Frank Esser

2008-10-13T00:49:48Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

Frank Esser, Media Research Professor at the University of Zurich, explains why Barack Obama enjoys high popularity ratings throughout Europe, and why Europeans in general express such a high level of interest in the 2008 U.S. Presidential election.

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Join swissnex and our esteemed panel to discuss the media/politics nexus inside election campaigns.

Frank Esser is Professor and Chair of International & Comparative Media Research in the Department of Mass Communication and Media Research at the University of Zurich. He was assistant professor of mass communication at the University of Mainz and the University of Missouri-Columbia, and visiting professor at the University of Oklahoma. His research focuses on cross-national studies of news journalism and political communication. He has published five books including Comparing Political Communication: Theories, Cases, and Challenges and sixty book chapters and journal articles. Esser is on the editorial boards of Journalism and The International Journal of Press/Politics, and serves as Vice Chair of the Journalism Division of the International Communication Association (ICA).

In Zurich he is co-director of the NCCR Democracy, a National Center of Competence in Research funded by the Swiss Science Foundation, to study the impact of globalization and mediatization on Western democracies. A current project compares election campaign coverage in nine countries (U.S., Mexico, Spain, Italy, Britain, France, Denmark, Germany, and Switzerland) and aims at identifying the underlying differences between political news cultures. Another project investigates the degree of media-centeredness of election campaigns in various countries.

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Rupert Murdoch on Bias in the News

2008-08-12T04:19:33Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

News Corporation Chairman Rupert Murdoch argues that all news media - News Corp's own Fox News included - is inherently prone to bias, and that the best counter to this problem is a diverse media representing a variety of opinions.

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Media mogul Rupert Murdoch warned that "technology will continue to destroy all of the old ways and old assumptions, especially in the media" during an April 2 speech on "Creative Destruction: News for the 21st Century."

Rupert Murdoch is the chairman and chief executive officer of News Corporation, a global media company with properties in film, television, print and online.

News Corporation's subsidiaries include Fox News Channel, Dow Jones (publisher of the Wall Street Journal), 20th Century Fox, and MySpace - Georgetown University

Rupert Murdoch is an Australian-American global media mogul. He is the major shareholder, chairman and managing director of News Corporation (News Corp).

Beginning with newspapers, magazines and television stations in his native Australia, Murdoch expanded News Corp into the UK, US and Asian media markets. In recent years has become a leading investor in satellite television, the film industry, the Internet and media. News Corp is based in New York.

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Tom Wolfe - In Defense of George W. Bush

2008-08-01T14:52:57Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

Acclaimed author Tom Wolfe offers a defense of the much-maligned 43rd President of the United States.

This program was recorded as a part of the Hoover Institution's interview series, "Uncommon Knowledge."

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Peter Robinson engages America’s master novelist in a conversation that ranges from the death of the American novel to the "charming aristocracy" that seeks to dictate literary standards to the intersection of culture and the latest findings in neuroscience.

Along the way, Tom Wolfe reaffirms his place as the preeminent chronicler of the changing American scene - Hoover Institution

Dr. Thomas Kennerly "Tom" Wolfe is an American author and journalist, best known as one of the founders of the New Journalism movement of the 1960s and 1970s.

Tom Wolfe is the author of many books including I Am Charlotte Simmons, Hooking Up, A Man in Full, The Bonfire of the Vanities, The Purple Decades, From Bauhaus to Our House, In Our Time, The Right Stuff, Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine, The Painted Word, Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Pump House Gang and The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby.

Peter M. Robinson is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he writes about business and politics, edits Hoover's quarterly journal, the Hoover Digest, and hosts Hoover's television program, Uncommon Knowledge.

Robinson is also the author of three books: How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life; It's My Party: A Republican's Messy Love Affair with the GOP; and the best-selling business book Snapshots from Hell: The Making of an MB.

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310 Million People in a Country of "I Don't Care"

2008-10-07T16:41:31Z

Thanks for viewing and post your comments at the bottom.

Minus One Equals, 309,999,999! That's would be me!

Still here's a thought! If the country is in the bad shape it is, why do you need an "honest" opinion like mine? I am from Dayton, Ohio. I work for a living and do YouTube as a hobby. I am a media watchdog and will go hard on the media! I get so much flack from liberals who think "I'm too conservative" or conservatives who think "I'm too liberal".

What kind of person needs an adjective to their name?

This is an outlook of the things to come.

Celebrate your independence and take a stand against those who want to silence your voice.

Whether you are a liberal or conservative, I am here to make my message clear: "We are all Americans! And we love our country!"

Follow up to And They Think I Am...

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Dear American Voter Highlights

2008-10-13T00:34:48Z

Join the discussion at www.linktv.org

This video highlights some of the great opinions we've gathered so far on the Dear American Voter site. Got something to say? Post now!

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SamVLOG.com - Sam Harris - What's Your Favorite Vlog?????

2008-06-15T15:32:57Z

► SamVLOG.com

Sam asks you to tell him your favorite vlog moments. Could be something funny, something poignant, something thoughtful, revealing, silly. It could be a 2 second bit or a song. It could be from Friend Friday or an Ask Sam or one of the mini movies. Tell us your favs!

► SamTUBE.com ...

► SamVLOG.com
... behind the scenes in the everyday life of Sam.

► AskSamHarris.com
... ask Sam anything, and he'll reply via a vlog.

► SamHarris.com
... answer link from the "Ask Sam Harris" series.

► MySpace.com
... keep up to date, and be Sam's MySpace friend!

► SamTUNES.net
... to download Sam Harris songs and full albums.

► SamHarris.com
... information, biography, discography and buy cds.

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4000 Americans Dead in Iraq, Views from DC

2008-10-13T00:37:23Z

Here are some points of view from people on Dupont Circle, the day after the 4000th US soldier was killed in Iraq. The respondents were all against the war from the beginning, and express a desire to see a responsible end to the war.

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WH Press Briefing March 20, 2008

2008-06-16T15:37:27Z

Dana Perino White House Press Briefing, March 20, 2008, and Vice President Dick Cheney on Good Morning America, March 19, 2008

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Arab Nations' Views of Iran-US Tensions

2008-06-11T03:30:12Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

Egyptian journalist Kahled Dawoud discusses Arabic nations' views of tensions between Iran and the United States.

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Iran and Israel - An Irreversible Enmity?:
Implications for the United States, the Region, and the Security Council with Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian American Council and author of Treacherous Alliance - The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran and the United States, and discussants Khaled Dawoud, New York correspondent for Al-Jazeera, and Daniel Levy, director of the Prospects for Peace Initiative.

Khaled Dawoud is a Correspondent for Al-Jazeera Arabic in New York.

From 2002 to 2006, Mr. Dawoud was the Bureau Chief of Egypt's daily Al-Ahram's office in Washington, DC.

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Chadians Harbor Negativity Toward French

2008-06-09T03:31:02Z

Gallup finds that more than half of Chadians have unfavorable opinions about France, their former colonial ruler, and similarly unfavorable opinions about the French people.

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Bill O'Reilly hits like girly-man

2008-07-09T14:00:37Z

Fox attack on Daily Kos and all bloggers.

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Sorry Decky11, 9/11 was NOT an "inside job"

2008-06-15T21:30:30Z

http://representativepress.blogspot.com/2007/06/campaign-to-stop-lies-and-denial-about.html

WTC Pre-Collapse Bowing Debunks 9/11 "Controlled Demolition" Theory
http://www.representativepress.org/BowingDebunksExplosives.html

See decky11's videos here:
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=Decky11

SCANDAL: "9/11 Commissioners Bowed to Pressure to Suppress Main Motive for the 9/11 Attacks"
representativepress.blogspot.com
Jet Fuel Debunks 9/11 "Controlled Demolition" Theory
http://representativepress.blogspot.com/2007/01/jet-fuel-debunks-911-controlled.html

WTC 7 was severely damaged on the south side of the building and was on fire for about 7 hours
http://representativepress.blogspot.com/2006/09/wtc-7-was-severely-damaged-on-south.html

The McCormick Center in Chicago and the Sight and Sound Theater in Pennsylvania are examples of steel structures collapsing
http://representativepress.blogspot.com/2007/03/not-first-time-steel-framed-building.html

Hijackers are NOT still alive:
http://www.911myths.com/html/still_alive.html

Jet Fuel Debunks 9/11 "Controlled Demolition" Theory
http://representativepress.blogspot.com/2007/01/jet-fuel-debunks-911-controlled.html
http://www.911myths.com/html/pakistan_s_isi_link_to_9_11_fu.html
http://www.911myths.com/html/india_and_isi-sponsored_terror.html

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Outfoxed: Fox News technique: "some people say"

2008-07-09T16:18:19Z

www.outfoxed.org Shows how Fox News uses the phrase 'some people say' to insert unsourced opinion into news briefs. As seen in Outfoxed.

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