"This movie, like the title suggests is required viewing for every single person living in the free world. Not many movies can claim to start political and grass-roots movements but this one has.
If you value your intelligence, if you don't believe a pre-fabricated word of what the media machine throws at you, if you want to fight to keep your intellect alive and your own individual thinking original, if you are sick and tired of how this world is NOW and passionately want to change it for the better, then this movie is for you. The movie and accompanying book claim to be primers in intellectual self-defense, which they certainly are but beyond that, they also serve to showcase the many talents of linguist/political dissident/writer/philosopher/professor Noam Chomsky.
I'm surprised the movie didn't win a Best Documentary Oscar, which it certainly should have, perhaps more than anything it just goes to show you that the contents of this movie probably strike too close to home and make the media elite squirm in their seats."
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| The Howard Zinn documentary "The People Speak" will premiere on Sunday, December 13, 2009, at 8 pm, on the History Channel. | |
. . . . PhRMa and other lobbyists (BIO) did all of the following:– They hoodwinked the White House on their financial plight, pleading financial hardship when their prospects were exactly the opposite;
– They effectively bribed numerous members of Congress and the White House through millions in "legal" campaign donations and promises of future support;
– Genentech and BIO flooded Congress with lobbyists who turned members of both parties into stenographic shills for the drug makers (details from Marcy Wheeler, here and here);
– They conned Congress into proposing unjustified, lengthy and semi-permanent "evergreening" extensions of patent and exclusivity prohibitions on generics and bio-similars (more here and here);
– And they conned the Senate Finance Committee into shielding them from competition from drug imports and Medicare negotiations.
[ As Aldous Huxley foresaw, there would one day be government sanctioned drugs that enable us to turn off our normal human responses and accommodate ourselves to life in a world that we continue to make less and less livable. But if you take your meds, you can ignore the problems and continue to function.
the maverick and controversial Defense Dept. group, whose futuristic work has had amazing civilian and military applications.
Joyce Riley is an outspoken, upholder of American ideals and traditions with seemingly limitless charisma. She is fueled by her desire to keep Americans informed of the challenges this country is faced with everyday.
In the spirit of democracy Joyce welcomes callers to speak their minds and share their knowledge. As we all know knowledge is power, that's why we call this The Power Hour!
Help us restore the Constitution to its rightful place of importance in the United States.
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