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"WAR, INC." <- official movie site with movie trailers via: FirstLookStudios.com
"WAR, INC." Movie trailer  via GooTube
+ John Cusack interview with Amy Goodman and Jeremy Scahill, + John Cusack interview, AP's "Hilary Duff Grows Up in 'War, Inc.'," NBC's "Hilary Duff Declares "War"," and CBS's "Hilary Duff Grows Up." Hillary Duff singing in character: "Yonica BabyYeah - Blow You.......Up." WAR, INC.

"When it comes to war... America means business."
"An incendiary political cartoon."

War Inc. "Synopsis: Recreating his role as a hitman, John Cusack gives a hilarious performance in "War, Inc.", a political satire set in Turaqistan, a Country occupied by an American private corporation run by a former U.S. Vice President (Dan Aykroyd). In an effort to monopolize the opportunities the war-torn nation offers, the corporation's CEO hires Hauser (Cusack) to kill a Middle Eastern oil minister." ... "Now, struggling with his own growing demons, the assassin must pose as the corporation's Trade Show Producer in order to pull off his latest hit, while maintaining his cover by organizing the high-profile wedding of Yonica Babyyeah (Hilary Duff), an outrageous Central Asian pop star, and keeping a sexy left-wing reporter (Marisa Tomei) in check." -http://FirstLookStudios.com

WATCH John Cusack interview - MP3 John Cusack interview - "“War, Inc.”: John Cusack’s New Film Satirizes the Corruption, Profiteering and Hubris Behind the Iraq War." ... "John Cusack joins us to talk about War, Inc., his new film taking on issues few in Hollywood today would dare to: war profiteering, mercenaries, political corruption and embedded journalism. A political satire, the film stars Cusack as Brand Hauser, a hit-man for hire who is deployed to the fictional country of Turaqistan to kill a Middle Eastern oil baron. Hauser’s employer is Tamerlane, a secretive for-profit military corporation headed by a former US vice president played by Dan Aykroyd. We also speak to Democracy Now! correspondent Jeremy Scahill, author of the bestselling book Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army." -DemocracyNow.org

"John Cusack ["WAR, INC." movie interview]: Outsourced Warfare Represents a "Radical, Dangerous, Disgusting Ideology."" [By Joshua Holland (1, 2, 3, 4) -AlterNet.org ] An interview with Cusack about his latest film, War Inc., which takes the outsourcing of military operations to the absurd." ... "John Cusack's new film, War, Inc., is set in a fictionalized Iraq. It's a funny film. It might have been tough to watch if it weren't, given the level of destruction that five years of occupation have wrought on the real country." ... "Cusack, along with co-writers Mark Leyner and Jeremy Pikser, offer up a dystopian vision of the future of privatized warfare set in "Turaqistan," a presumably oil-rich country that, if it really existed, would surely be somewhere that most Americans couldn't find on a map." ... "The film's humor rests on very real and demonstrably disastrous trends in neoconservative foreign policy of recent years -- a lethal war of choice and profit, the dismantling of states and plundering of their resources, a profound cultural insensitivity, lack of accountability and reckless disregard for easily-predicted consequences -- which are then pushed to the absurd." ... "In Iraq, journalists are embedded with troops and tour Potemkin villages to demonstrate progress; in Turaqistan, they're given virtual-reality tours of combat without leaving the cozy confines of "Emerald City," War, Inc.'s version of Baghdad's Green Zone. In Iraq, contractors like Halliburton have squeezed billions out of the treasury for substandard work that has left the country's infrastructure decimated; Turaqistan is wholly-managed by the Halliburton-esque Tamerlane corporation, and the tanks that patrol the country's burned-out streets are covered with NASCAR-style logos for everything from Popeye's Chicken to Golden Palace online gambling." ... 

"Joshua Holland: Tell me a little bit about your new project."

"John Cusack: Well, we thought of it as an incendiary political cartoon that would hopefully put America's current imperial adventures in Iraq into a kind of a larger context. And maybe put a different lens on what privatization means; what this plan has been and what it's been like when people try to privatize the very core things it means to be a state. And what it means to spread an ideology like that across the globe." ... "There are 180,000 contractors in Iraq and about 160,000 troops, right? And if one just takes that trend to its logical conclusion, well that's where "War, Inc." is set. It takes place at a time in the near future when warfare us an entirely corporate affair."

"Holland: As a political nerd, it struck me as a highly referential film. I felt like your character, to some extent, was loosely patterned maybe on John Perkins, who wrote Confessions of an Economic Hit Man."

"Cusack: You know, that book came out when we were already making the film, I believe. And I know we were writing it when Naomi Klein's groundbreaking piece called "Baghdad Year Zero" came out in Harper's. She's a journalist I've always greatly admired and respected. And then as we were making the movie, she was writing the Shock Doctrine. I remember being aware of it while we were writing it. And I remember talking about it. But you know, this character was also based on [former U.S. Envoy to Iraq] Paul Bremer flying in while Baghdad [Iraq's capital] was still burning and literally ruling by Fiat. Sitting down in Saddam's old palace and banging out 50 or 60 new laws that would allow 100 percent foreign ownership of previously state-owned industry by these outside corporations. And he was running around in those Brooks Brothers suits and the military boots when he did it."

"Holland: I thought that I saw a lot of Naomi Klein in Marisa Tomei's character."

"Cusack: Yeah, I think it wasn't Naomi straight up, but I think it was Katrina Vanden Huevel. It was Lara Logan and it was Naomi. It was, you know, any of the great journalists out there who are women ... Christiane Amanpour."

"Holland: Now, the film presents kind of a dystopian vision of where we're at or where we're heading -- tell me a little bit more about this central theme, this idea of outsourcing warfare to this kind of Halliburton-like mega corporation."

"Cusack: Well, it was an ideological viral disaster -- that's what this war was. It wasn't Paul Bremer, although a lot of people would like to paint him as the fall guy. It's the entire system of thinking that is insane. The Shock doctrine does a great job chronicling what's essentially been a 35-year campaign to destroy the New Deal and privatize everything, and the use of disasters and wars to justify "shock therapy" -- to pass legislation that would never get passed in any country that wasn't reeling from trying to bury their dead or stop from being tortured or killed or trying to get water or food." ... "So I think it's really about the entire system and that entire ideology. There seems to be these companies that helped create a new market by creating a war, and then they bar the competitors from entering into the clean up. In the meantime, they've privatized the entire country, which is basically strip mining it. Basically, it's a land-grab. So not only are we looking at a murder scene, but it's the scene of an armed robbery." ... "And that's the version of democracy ... the version of a free market that we're not only supposed to worship, but into which we're also supposed to keep feeding bodies. We have to kill to feed this kind of twisted version of their free market. And [American political leaders] seem entirely unconcerned that Halliburton and Bechtel -- and Parsons and KPMG and Blackwater and the rest -- are kind of madly gorging off of this protectionist racket." ... "If you really think about outsourcing all the essential things it means to be a state, like armies, disaster relief, interrogation, border patrol -- all of these functions -- then I don't really know what's left in terms of the sovereignty of a country. I don't really know what's left." ... "So it's not even about free markets. I mean, if these [corporations] want to just go invade a country and take it over, and take their chances on the open market, that's one thing. But to use the U.S. military and our Treasury Department as their ATM to do it -- that's ... that's cause for revolt." ... 
"John Cusack ["WAR, INC." movie interview]: Outsourced Warfare Represents a "Radical, Dangerous, Disgusting Ideology."" (1, 2, 3, 4) -By Joshua Holland -AlterNet.org

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 ClimateCrisis.net "An Inconvenient Truth" movie website - 
"An Inconvenient Truth" Movie Trailer an inconvenient truth

"A Global Warning"
"by far the most terrifying film you will ever see."

"An Inconvenient Truth"

"Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced."

The science behind the movie An Inconvenient Truth:

"WHAT IS GLOBAL WARMING?" ... "Carbon dioxide and other gases warm the surface of the planet naturally by trapping solar heat in the atmosphere. This is a good thing because it keeps our planet habitable. However, by burning fossil fuels such as coal, gas and oil and clearing forests we have dramatically increased the amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere and temperatures are rising." ... "The vast majority of scientists agree that global warming is real, it’s already happening and that it is the result of our activities and not a natural occurrence. The evidence is overwhelming and undeniable." ... "We’re already seeing changes. Glaciers are melting, plants and animals are being forced from their habitat, and the number of severe storms and droughts is increasing." -ClimateCrisis.net

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McCain + Hagee -McCain Blog "McCain Endorser Hagee: God Sent Hitler, Jews Have Dead Souls" -via Tube user Bruce Wilson

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McCain SOUGHT HAGEE's endorsement. Hagee claimed of the Holocaust that God sent Hitler to hunt Jews, "Then god sent a hunter. A hunter is someone who comes with a gun and he forces you. Hitler was a hunter." ... "How did it [the Holocaust] happen? Because God allowed it to happen." ... "They [Jews] are physically alive but they're not spiritually alive."

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McCain + Parsley -McCain Blog
"McCain's "Spiritual Guide" Wants America to Destroy Islam." McCAIN'S "SPIRITUAL GUIDE" ROD PARSLEY IS A MILITANT EXTREMIST. In a church sermon Rod Parsley screamed: ""We were built for battle! We were created for conflict! We get off on warfare!" -BraveNewFilms.org

Rod Parsley: "We get off on warfare."
(poor quality video of McCain "spiritual guide" Rod Parsley screaming, "we get off on warfare.")

McCain Parsley WARFARE Warmonger "Spiritual Guide"

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Murdoch's FOX Host Liz Trotta Laughs After Advocating Murdering American Presidential Candidate LIZ TROTTA TERRORIST? FOX "News" TERRORIST  Network?

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"Now watch this drive," video of Republican President Bush golfing immediately after explaining that "We must stop the terror. I call upon all nations to do everything they can to stop these terrorist killers, thank you. Now watch this drive." Bush Golfing

"Now watch this drive."

"Bush Says He's Not A Golfer In Wartime." ... "[Republican] President Bush said yesterday that he gave up golfing in 2003 "in solidarity" with the families of soldiers who were dying in Iraq, concluding that it was "just not worth it anymore" to play the sport in a time of war." ... "Democrats have criticized Bush for allegedly not requiring Americans to sacrifice enough while waging wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and for urging people to keep shopping as a way to fight terrorism after the [September] Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Bush was also widely criticized in August 2002 when he decried terrorist bombings in Israel while golfing and then told reporters: "Now watch this drive."" ... "... [Presidential historian Robert] Dallek, who is critical of the current president's legacy, said Bush's remarks about Iraq "speak to his shallowness." Dallek added: "That's his idea of sacrifice, to give up golf?"" -By Dan Eggen -WashingtonPost

Keith Olbermann:

WATCH - "Mr. President, the war isn’t about you — or golf: Olbermann: [Republican President] Bush's claim he gave up game to honor dead GIs is ludicrous." ... "President Bush has resorted anew to the sleaziest fear-mongering and mass manipulation of an administration and public life dedicated to realizing the lowest of our expectations. And he has now applied these poisons to the 2008 presidential election, on behalf of the party at whose center he and [Republican Candidate] John McCain lurk." ... "Mr. Bush has predicted that the election of a Democratic president could "eventually lead to another attack on the United States." This ludicrous, infuriating, holier-than-thou and most importantly bone-headedly wrong statement came during a May 13 interview with Politico.com and online users of Yahoo." ... "The question was phrased as follows: "If we were to pull out of Iraq next year, what's the worst that could happen, what's the doomsday scenario?"" ... "The president replied: "Doomsday scenario of course is that extremists throughout the Middle East would be emboldened, which would eventually lead to another attack on the United States. The biggest issue we face is, it's bigger than Iraq, it's this ideological struggle against cold-blooded killers who will kill people to achieve their political objectives."" ... "Mr. Bush, at long last, has it not dawned on you that the America you have now created, includes "cold-blooded killers who will kill people to achieve their political objectives?" They are those in — or formerly in — your employ, who may yet be charged some day with war crimes." ... "Through your haze of self-congratulation and self-pity, do you still have no earthly clue that this nation has laid waste to Iraq to achieve your political objectives? "This ideological struggle," Mr. Bush, is taking place within this country." ... "It is a struggle between Americans who cherish freedom, ours and everybody else's, and Americans like you, sir, to whom freedom is just a brand name, just like "Patriot Act" is a brand name or "Protect America" is a brand name." ... "But wait, there's more: You also said "Iraq is the place where al-Qaida and other extremists have made their stand and they will be defeated." They made no "stand" in Iraq, sir, you allowed them to assemble there!" ... "As certainly as if that were the plan, the borders were left wide open by your government's farcical post-invasion strategy of "they'll greet us as liberators." And as certainly as if that were the plan, the inspiration for another generation of terrorists in another country was provided by your government's farcical post-invasion strategy of letting the societal infra-structure of Iraq dissolve, to be replaced by an American viceroy, enforced by merciless mercenaries who shoot unarmed Iraqis and then evade prosecution in any country by hiding behind your skirts, sir." ... "Terrorism inside Iraq is your creation, Mr. Bush!" ... "Then came Mr. Bush's final blow to our nation's solar plexus, his last reopening of our common wounds, his last remark that makes the rest of us question not merely his leadership or his judgment but his very suitably to remain in office." ... ""Mr. President," he was asked, "you haven't been golfing in recent years. Is that related to Iraq?"" ... ""Yes," began perhaps the most startling reply of this nightmarish blight on our lives as Americans on our history. "It really is. I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the Commander in Chief playing golf. I feel I owe it to the families to be as — to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal."" ... "Golf, sir? Golf sends the wrong signal to the grieving families of our men and women butchered in Iraq? Do you think these families, Mr. Bush, their lives blighted forever, care about you playing golf? Do you think, sir, they care about you?" ... "You, Mr. Bush, let their sons and daughters be killed. Sir, to show your solidarity with them you gave up golf? Sir, to show your solidarity with them you didn't give up your pursuit of this insurance-scam, profiteering, morally and financially bankrupting war." ... "Sir, to show your solidarity with them you didn't even give up talking about Iraq, a subject about which you have incessantly proved without pause or backwards glance, that you may literally be the least informed person in the world?" ... "Sir, to show your solidarity with them, you didn't give up your presidency? In your own words  "solidarity as best as I can" is to stop a game? That is the "best" you can do?" ... "Four thousand Americans give up their lives and your sacrifice was to give up golf!" ... "The great Bushian sacrifice — an Army private loses a leg, a Marine loses half his skull, 4,000 of their brothers and sisters lose their lives — and you lose golf, and they have to pull you off the golf course to get you to just do that?" ... "If it's even true." ... "... CBS News has records of you playing golf as late as [October] Oct. 13 of that year, nearly two months later [two months after Bush claimed that he had given up golf "in solidarity" with the families of American troops.]." (1, 2, 3, 4) -By Keith Olbermann -MSNBC

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McCain TV > McCain Blog
Republican John McCain celebrates his birthday with Republican President Bush while New Orleans drowns. 2005/08/29 McCain Bush

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McCain SOUGHT HAGEE's endorsement. Hagee claimed of the Holocaust that God sent Hitler to hunt Jews, "Then god sent a hunter. A hunter is someone who comes with a gun and he forces you. Hitler was a hunter." ... "How did it [the Holocaust] happen? Because God allowed it to happen." ... "They [Jews] are physically alive but they're not spiritually alive.".
McCain thinks Russian Vladimir Putin is the President of Germany.
McCain Gets Basic Iran Fact Wrong.
McCain's YouTube Problem Just Became a Nightmare.
Obama takes on McCain/Bush.
Obama: "Anywhere, Anytime" to Debate McCain on For. Policy.
McCain on Hamas in 2006: Going to Have to Deal With Them.
McCain Endorser Hagee: God Sent Hitler.
McCain: Fire Charlie Black.
John McCain Faces off with Ellen Degeneres [on gay marriage McBlinky has a hard time looking Ellen in the eyes].
Headzup: McCain's [Myanmar] Junta Man.
Harwood: McCain has benefitted from very friendly press.
John McCain's Myanmar (Burma) Connection.
[McCain's endorser] Pastor Hagee Blames Homosexuals For Katrina! AGAIN!
McCain's"Spiritual Guide" Rod Parsley advocates armed revolution in America. ROD PARSLEY: "I came to incite a riot. I came to affect a divine disturbance in the heart and soul of the church. Man your battle stations. Ready your weapons. Lock and load."
McCain's "Spiritual Guide" on "Black Genocide".
Rod Parsley: McCain's Anti-Gay "Spiritual Guide".
McCain: "Mission Accomplished".
McCain Healthcare.
McCain's "Spiritual Guide" Wants America to Destroy Islam.
Multi-Millionaire Cindy McCain Refuses to Release Her Tax Returns... Ever.
McCain Katrina response =cake with Bush.
McCain Katrina duplicity
John McCain's Elite Jet Lifestyle & $100 MILLION Dollar Heiress.
McCain: Out of Touch Economics.
Countdown: McCain's "100 Years" War. [10 Million year update].
[McCain's Iraq War.] How do you get to 100 years in Iraq? Six months at a time.
McCain Iraq: "100 years, or a 1,000 years, or 10,000 years" in Iraq. McCain: "There's going to be other wars".
McCain falsely claims Sadr ordered the ceasefire in Iraq.
McCain Won't Sign GI Bill?.
McCain's Campaign Finance Hypocrisy.
McCain's Iraq 100 Years, 1000 Years, 10,000 Years.
McCain campaign finance crime alleged.
McCain FEC Complaint.
McCain John Hagee's anti-Catholicism.
Bush vs. McCain on Lobbyists and Ethics.
John McCain & John Hagee vs Catholic Church.
John Hagee preaches anticatholicism.
Catholics Outraged Over McCain Endorsement.
Texas Republican Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson Defends McCain's Embrace of Pastor Hagee who's callled the Catholic Church "a Great Whore".
John McCain embraces John Hagee and Jerry Falwell, the "agents of intolernace".
McCain finance FEC defiance.
McCain's FEC law enforcement doesn't include McCain.
McCain's "Bad Memory".
McCain's special interest money omitted or forgotten?
McCain on indicted Rick Renzi.
"John McCain has a problem with personal integrity he has a problem of saying one thing and doing another. What about John Hagee, what about a guy who's a vicious anti-Catholic who is supporting John McCain and John McCain does not denounce or reject him...?".
McCain: "Liberal Republican," "Dispirited".
John McCain LOBBYING $traight Talk.

Who's the REAL McCain?

McCain on Economy: "not an expert".
"Banana" Military Poll.
McCain's "Straight Talk."
Less Jobs and More Wars.
McCain v McCain.
McCain v Video.

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McCain TV > McCain Blog
"McCain's YouTube Problem Just Became a Nightmare." -TheRealMcCain.com John McCain

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"McCain's YouTube Problem Just Became a Nightmare." [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate John McCain] ... "According to Cliff Schecter, author of The Real McCain: Why Conservatives Don't Trust Him And Why Independents Shouldn't: "It is dangerous for a democracy when a presidential candidate can lie with impunity, change positions on a whim, and physically and verbally threaten others and virtually none of it is reported by a besotted media eagerly awaiting the next moment when he might slap their backs in friendship." -TheRealMcCain.com -BraveNewFilms.org

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