 | An Uneducated Electorate Promotes Democracy Lost Richard Dreyfuss suggests that the current inattentive, apathetic and uninterested nature of our citizenry will eventually doom U.S. republican democracy. He discusses Jeffersonian views and how the future survival of our freedom and democracy is dependent upon an educated and inquisitive citizenry, not those who accept administration rhetoric, or Fox News propoganda. |
 | DIE LAUGHING AT DEMOCRACY AND FREEDOM SHADOWY PUPPET MASTERS LAUGHINg in OUR FACE AND SPITting ON OUR GRAVEs VOODO RELIGIOUS NUTTERS LOCKED IN ETERNAL STRUGGLE FOR possession of our non existant souls WEALTHY POWERMONGERS NOT WORRIED BY our pathetic efforts at DEMOCRACY AND FREEDOM.. Hello temporary life forms , welcome to the fkn newz Im moving to montana, here are tonights headlies... |
 | Democracy in America, Open Rant - Slideshow Here is a photo slideshow of some of the shots during the Open Rant night at Creative Time's Democracy in America exhibition at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City. Curated by Nato Thompson. Lee Wells presents Supermodernism, Nothing Is What It Seems at Open Rant, part of |
 | Bangla TV -Milan - Open Discussion : Democracy in Bangladesh Bangladesh Association Milan Lombardia in ITALY organized an Open Discussion about the Democracy in Bangladesh. Report for London based community channel Bangla TV. |
 | Bangla TV - OSLO - Democracy in Bangladesh : Open Discussion Bangladesh Association Norway organized an Open Discussion about the Democracy in Bangladesh. Report for London based community channel Bangla TV |
 | opendemocracy.net: Leaving Sutton St fragments from the leaving party, Friday 20 July |
 | How The Elite Control Politics Please rate and comment and send this video to all your contacts :) This is a very simple animated version of Alex Jones's talk on the fraudulent left-right 2-party paradigm that we are all locked into. In the original version, Alex uses pen and paper to sketch out the 2-party paradigm. I was already aware of how the 2-party system is used to contain revolution in most "democratic" countries. But I was very impressed with the way that Alex sketched it out in simple, easy-to-understand terms. I therefore decided to spend an afternoon transferring his sketches into a 2D animation. It is very important for us all to realise that we are living under a simple but clever system that has been designed to contain revolution whilst projecting the illusion of being a free, fair and open democracy. The 2-party system provides firm support for the elite to implement their agenda from the top down, whilst the ordinary people at the grassroots level squabble between themselves over which political party is the best. In reality, it doesn't matter which of the two parties you vote for because the same agenda will unfold regardless. Hence, both parties are controlled at the very top by the same force. Oh yeah, YouTube, please stop censoring the view counters on these videos, it is beyond obvious now and just about every YouTube user knows that you fiddle the view counters to keep videos like this off the most-viewed lists. Why bother when it is just so blatantly obvious? |
 | Vote Ralph Nader and Matt Gonzalez 2008! Demand the debates be open to all ballot qualified Candidates! Presidential Debates Right now, they are limited to the candidates from the two corporate parties. The debates are controlled by the so-called Commission on Presidential Debates, a private corporation which was created by the Democratic and Republican Parties in 1987. The Commission is headed by Frank Fahrenkopf -- Debate sponsors have included Anheuser-Busch, Phillip Morris, Ford Motor Co., Yahoo Inc., 3Com, among other companies who gave soft money to the two parties' national committees. In 2000, some in the press dubbed the debates as the "Anheuser-Bush-Gore" debates. In a memo by the CPD, the avowed goal for forming the commission was to "strengthen the two parties." In 1988, the Commission seized control of the debates from the League of Women Voters. The League had a history of allowing third party candidates to participate in the debates. In 1980 the League invited Congressman John Anderson to join Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan in the debates. Anderson was given a boost from the public debates. At one point the polls had him at 21%. He won 7% of the vote. When Jesse Ventura ran for Governor in Minnesota he was polling at 10 percent in the polls before the debates. After ten statewide debates he rose to 38 percent and won a 3-way race. The Commission on Presidential Debates took a different tack from the League of Women Voters. This Commission/corporation has excluded Ross Perot, Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan from the debates. In 1996 Ross Perot was excluded from the debates. Even with all his money and after having won nearly 19 percent of the vote in 1992 it was determined that he did not have "a chance to win," despite the fact that he even led in the polls at one point in 1992. Walter Cronkite called the presidential debates under the CPD an "unconscionable fraud" because the CPD format "defies meaningful discourse." In early years the CPD determined who could be in a debate by vague criteria including interviews with columnists, pollsters and consultants who determined whether a candidate could win. In the year 2000, the CPD changed their criteria for third party and independent candidates -- a candidate now needed 15 percent or more support as measured by the average of five private polling organizations -- which just happen to be owned by several major newspaper and television conglomerates. In 2000, Ralph Nader was excluded from the debates because the parent corporations that conduct these polls were giving him scant attention. Without the mainstream media attention there is no moving up, and without moving up, candidates like Nader do not get into the debates and reach tens of millions of people. In 2000, a Fox poll revealed that 64% of likely voters wanted to see 'other candidates' including Ralph Nader in the debates. Other polls in 2004 showed similar results. But it didn't happen, thanks to the Commission on Presidential Debates. Independents voices and third party candidates, including the Abolitionist, Women's Suffrage Movement, Worker Protection, and Farmer Populace Party, have brought about many of the major changes in this country. When Abraham Lincoln ran for office, the two major parties were the Whigs and the Democrats. As a Republican, Lincoln was elected as a third party candidate -- even after being left off the ballot in the 11 states that seceded from the Union. In 2004, 17 national civic leaders from the left, center and right of political spectrum - including Paul Weyrich, Chellie Pingree of Common Cause, Alan Keyes, Tom Gerety of the Brennan Center for Justice, Bay Buchanan, Randall Robinson, former FEC General Counsel Larry Noble, Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, and Jehmu Green of Rock the Vote - created the Citizens' Debate Commission. Bolstered by an advisory board comprised of 60 diverse civic groups, the Citizens' Debate Commission goal is to sponsor presidential debates that serves the American people, not political parties, first. References: Open Debates No Debate by George Farah Please help demand that the Debates be opened up to Third Parties... Call John McCain at (703) 418-2008. Hit 2 or 3 to speak with a campaign volunteer, 6 to leave a message in the general campaign voice mailbox. Politely ask if John McCain is a supporter of equal opportunities and equal rights for him to insist that Ralph Nader and the other qualified candidates be included in the debates. Call Barack Obama at 866-675-2008. Hit 6 to speak with a campaign volunteer and insist that Ralph Nader and other ballot qualified third party candidates be included in the upcoming Presidential debates. Then, e-mail the executive director of the Commission on Presidential Debates Janet Brown at jb@debates.org Tell her to end the exclusionary restrictions and allow Ralph into the debates. |
 | CW Smith advocates for any regressive tax at Budget Meeting In this video, Commissioner CW Smith brilliantly outlines his opposition to placing an Income Tax proposal before the voters of Jackson County, Oregon: He's worried it will pass, he's worried it will fail, he's worried that there's not enough time to implement and he's worried there's too much time before collection. (Apparently, that is not time that can be used for implementing details to execute a tax.) He points out that a 1% Income Tax is actually a 10% increase over existing state income tax, so he voted to place a 25% increase of the property tax before the voters. Most revealing, however, is that Smith is ignorant that government can borrow against future revenue streams. How do those buildings get built, CWya? |
 | Open the Debates Super Rally: Challenge the System Join us in Denver for the "Open the Debates Super Rally" during the 2008 Democratic National Convention. Open the debates and take democracy back from the bipartisan, corporate tyranny of The Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD). To ensure that only members of the Democratic and Republican Party are allowed to participate in national presidential debates, the CPD requires that candidates poll at least 15% nationally, as measured by the average of five corporate media polls. When the NONPARTISAN League of Women Voters hosted debates, they employed a fair 5% rule as measured by independent polls. Help us challenge the CPD during the "Open the Debates Super Rally" on August 27th in Denver to end corporate control over our electoral process. Special guests TBA. Visit http://www.votenader.org for more info as the event develops. Video by Manila Ryce http://www.youtube.com/ManilaRyceTLM |
 | Democracy in Jeopardy! OpenTheGovernment.org invites you to come join James Madison, Ms. Public, and George W. Bush in a flash video game show - Democracy in Jeopardy! - about government openness and secrecy. The flash video can be viewed at http://democracy.openthegovernment.org - with links provided for ways to take action to fight back against secrecy and promote openness. |
 | . \ ' UBUNTU LINUX ' / .: Democracy Video (Miro's old self) This video represents my first video, created on my camera, transfered to Ubuntu, converted from Quicktime MJPEG format to Ogg (Theora Video with Vorbis Audio), Ogg BTW is a completely open source container format, whereas Windows Media Format and Quicktime are "PROPRIETARY NON-OPEN SOURCE" media formats. This means that if Apple or Microsoft so wanted to they could select which platforms you can use their container formats on.. Whereas OGG, anyone can store/play ogg formats on any platform.. |
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