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Photoshopping in Iran

Started by Shawn Collins · 11 months ago

RedHatBlueHat, the weekly political podcast where marketing guys from both sides of the aisle banter, argue and debate politics, covered lots of ground in episode 8.

The attempt by Iran to Photoshop rockets kicked things off, along with Vice-Presidential predictions, whether Jesse Jackson is nuts, and some lighthearted talk about which cable news network has [...] ... Continue reading »

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  • A POET'S PSALM
    TO PRESIDENT OBAMA:

    Torture, tyranny, hedgemony kept in place
    do not a freedom, liberty, democracy make--
    And the words and blurbs we call "national security"
    are really wheelings and dealings of corporate brutality--
    So no matter the effusion of a president's eloquence,
    it will not end the privileged few, their greed or opulence,
    nor will it end the segration of those who have
    from those who have nothing, nor will it truely
    change by rebates of something their undjust condition--
    Metaphors of articulation will not end wars and occupations,
    and the turn of the screw will follow us
    from recessions turned into depressions.
    War keeps our nation poor.
    And an eternal war on terror
    will only keep us poor forever.
    Tell me, what color is terror,
    and what color is tyranny?
    And is it fair to the rest of we millions and billions
    to be swallowed by this beast as food for its belly?
    War is not peace.
    There is no peace through war.
    Peace means peace and actions of peace,
    and nothing more.
    And change is change.
    Change is not the same policies
    substituted by new personalities.
    change is not the same old faces
    wearing the scars of the same old failures.
    Change does not mean just more of the same.
    "Change" means we do things differently
    than we have ever done them before,
    where words and faith turn to acts,
    and those acts turn our tyranny into
    tractors and ploughshares and rakes and hoes--
    To build a nation from the fruits of war
    will destroy the tree, the poison too bitter to eat.
    We must stop spreading the seeds of hate,
    and live by our labors of kindness,
    and our deeds of forgiveness
    so we can begin to harvest a brand new fruit
    that will taste far sweeter from peace.

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