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Video: New Ad Takes Obama to Task for Ditching Public Option
Posted by AlterNet Staff, AlterNet on December 23, 2009 at 7:13 AM.

The Progressive Change Campaign Committee is running this ad in Washington, D.C., and in Wisconsin, home of Sen. Russ Feingold. The purpose of the Wisconsin buy is to exert pressure on Feingold to push for improvements in the final health-care bill.

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Are Hewlett Packard Computers Racist?
Posted by Staff, AlterNet on December 21, 2009 at 9:00 AM.

Via Buzzfeed:

Desi and Wanda have figured out that there's something wrong with HP's webcam face recognition software. Specifically, it doesn't see black people. A pretty funny response to a pretty huge gaffe.

Is Techno Chicken Gay (Not That There's Anything Wrong with That)?
Posted by Staff, AlterNet on December 20, 2009 at 9:33 AM.

Sadly, No! is in one of those crappy-video wars so popular in some corners of the blogosphere, and posted this one, which we think is just hilarious:

MoveOn Video: Joe Lieberman Totally Socks!
Posted by Staff, MoveOn.org on December 18, 2009 at 3:00 PM.

MoveOn.org has a campaign to go after Joe Lieberman for holding health care reform hostage: "First, Joe Lieberman helped President Bush invade Iraq. Then he endorsed John McCain. Now he's single-handedly gutting health care reform. It's time to hold him accountable. Senator Lieberman must go."

Year in Review: 2009 Right-Wing Lie Machine Amped Up the Obama Madness (VIDEO)
Posted by Joshua Holland, AlterNet on December 18, 2009 at 8:51 AM.

Remember how this was supposed to be the dawn of a new era, with those hopey-changey feelings settling over a reunited America?

Yeah, well, as the year-end compilation from Media Matters in the video window to your right suggests, the conservative noise machine didn't adapt to a changing political climate -- it just turned its amp up to 11 (FYI: most only go up to 10).

God Promises 30 Percent Increase In Global Warming By 2012 While at Copenhagen
Posted by Lee Camp, AlterNet on December 14, 2009 at 6:40 AM.

As the Copenhagen Climate Conference enters its second week, how many of us are paying attention?

Awesome: Pink Glove Dance for Breast Cancer Awareness
Posted by Staff, AlterNet on December 10, 2009 at 11:45 AM.

The staff at Portland's Providence St. Vincent Medical Center put this together to raise awareness about breast cancer. 

h/t Courtney at Feministing.com

Alan Grayson to Dick Cheney: STFU
Posted by Joshua Holland, AlterNet on December 10, 2009 at 4:29 AM.

Entertaining political theater, courtesy of Tweety and Alan Grayson. Enjoy [ht: Oliver Willis] ...

Rachel Maddow Takes on Man Who Claims He Can Make Her Straight
Posted by Jan Frel, AlterNet on December 9, 2009 at 3:14 AM.

Maddow's thorough takedown of Richard Cohen, whose teachings on Gay-Straight Therapy have been debunked by essentially all national (and even state) psychological associations and associated peer-reviewed assessments.

Check out AlterNet's recent interview with Ted Cox, who posed as a gay man to infiltrate gay-to-straight therapy programs.

Part 1 of the video is to the right.

Part 2 of this video below:

2011? Did We Say 2011? Administration Officials Backpedal on Afghan Withdrawal
Posted by Staff, Think Progress on December 7, 2009 at 2:00 PM.

As administration officials touted the President’s new Afghanistan strategy on the Sunday political talk shows, they underscored that the U.S. troops may not be coming home in 2011:

Gen. David Petraeus: "There's no timeline, no ramp, nothing like that." [Fox News Sunday]

National Security Adviser James Jones: "It is not a cliff. It is a glide slope. And so certainly, the President has also said we are not leaving Afghanistan." [CNN State of the Union]

Defense Secretary Robert Gates: "Well, first of all, I don’t consider this an exit strategy. And I try to avoid using that term. I think this is a transition." [ABC This Week]

Watch a compilation.

(Go here for more).

This Week in Right-Wing Media Crazy
Posted by Staff, Media Matters for America on December 4, 2009 at 12:58 PM.

The video to your right comes to us from the good folks at Media Matters.

The Story of Cap and Trade: More Scam Than Solution
Posted by Tara Lohan, AlterNet on December 3, 2009 at 3:44 PM.

If you've heard anything about how we're going to solve our climate crisis then cap and trade is likely familiar to you. But if you don't know exactly what it is, then this new video from Annie Leonard (who also did "The Story of Stuff") is definitely in order. You can also check out a contrarian perspective from David Roberts at Grist.

Here's the description of Leonard's "Story of Cap and Trade."

The Story of Cap & Trade is a fast-paced, fact-filled look at the leading climate solution being discussed at Copenhagen and on Capitol Hill. Host Annie Leonard introduces the energy traders and Wall Street financiers at the heart of this scheme and reveals the "devils in the details" in current cap and trade proposals: free permits to big polluters, fake offsets and distraction from what's really required to tackle the climate crisis. If youve heard about Cap & Trade, but aren't sure how it works (or who benefits), this is the film is for you.

President Obama's Escalations in Afghanistan Far Exceed Troop Increases Discussed in Campaign
Posted by ZP Heller on December 2, 2009 at 7:00 PM.

And that's just his latest escalation.

During the campaign, he said he'd send around 12,000 troops. So far, he's sent 50,000. Each of these troops will cost taxpayers in the U.S. $1 million per year.

Learn more at http://rethinkafghanistan.com.

The Tar Sands Suck
Posted by Staff, Agit-Pop on December 2, 2009 at 11:38 AM.

The Canadian Tar Sands is the world's largest, and dirtiest, energy project. Dirty oil sands crude generates as much as five times greenhouse gas as conventional oil. Yet, unless steps are taken by the U.S. and Canada, both countries will become irrevocably addicted to the dirtiest oil on earth. Totally lame.

Activists Strip Down to Their Birthday Suits to Protest Fur
Posted by Staff, AlterNet on December 1, 2009 at 12:48 PM.