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This is a video about domestic spying in the USA.

There is a new animation by Mark Fiore from the USA on the Internet.

It is called Constitutional Comprise.

It is about George W. Bush´s domestic spying, and the compromise in Congress about it.

It is here.

This video is called Wild snow leopard hunting - www.snowleopard.org.

From Reuters:

Foreigners threaten Afghan snow leopards

June 27, 2008

By Jonathon Burch

KABUL - Afghanistan’s snow leopards have barely survived three decades of war. But now the few remaining mountain leopards left in Afghanistan face another threat — foreigners involved in rebuilding the war-torn country.

Despite a complete hunting ban across Afghanistan since 2002, snow leopard furs regularly end up for sale on international military bases and at tourist bazaars in the capital. Foreigners have ready cash to buy the pelts as souvenirs and impoverished Afghans break poaching laws to supply them.

Tucked between souvenir stores on Chicken Street, Kabul’s main tourist trap, several shops sell fur coats and pelts taken from many of Afghanistan’s threatened and endangered animals.

In this cartoon video from the USA:

Vice President Cheney responds to the notion that Blackwater might be barred from Iraq.

An Independent Line is a new book and exhibition at the Political Cartoon Gallery in London featuring cartoons by the Independent newspaper’s three editorial cartoonists – Dave Brown, Peter Schrank and Tim Sanders, whose work also graces this paper.

The exhibition covers the past 12 years and it’s striking how the earlier cartoons seem to come from a completely different era. Much of the humour concerns Bill Clinton’s sexual peccadillos, or former Tory leader William Hague’s bald head.

But 9/11 and the subsequent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq transform the tone of the exhibition. It also brings out the best in the cartoonists, as their outrage turns to focus on the lies, murder and torture doled out by George Bush and Tony Blair.

“The Iraq war is the overwhelming event of the century,” says Tim Sanders. “The world has become darker since then and cartoonists – who tend to be dark and twisted people – come into their own.

“Cartoons act as a wonderful historical record – you can look at them to see the world expressed in ink and bile on paper. It’s in black and white, a stark and violent expression appropriate to violent times.”

The theme of the war figures prominently. The cover of the book displays cartoons by all three artists of prominent figures in the “war on terror” such as Condoleezza Rice, Gordon Brown and Osama bin Laden – all with blood on their hands.

Part of the reason for this was the decision by the Independent to play a campaigning role against the Iraq war in 2003. Since then it has kept up its critical coverage of the “war on terror” with reports from journalists such as Patrick Cockburn and Robert Fisk.

The Imperialist Right Threatens Obama on Iraq: here.

Washington’s new alibi for a criminal war: the “surge has worked”: here.

This video from the USA says about itself:

[George] Carlin gives his take on Bush, the religious right, illegal wiretapping, and more with Keith Olbermann.

American comedian George Carlin, an acerbic commentator on life and at times a sharp social satirist, died June 22 in Santa Monica, California at the age of 71. His was a critical voice in American public life.

George Carlin Can Burn In Feminist Hell: here.

This video is called The Road to Guantanamo.

There is a new animation by Mark Fiore from the USA on the Internet.

It is called Guilty in Guantanamo? Of course you are!

It is here.

Book on Guantanamo: here.

This video is from Dutch nature conservation organization Natuurmonumenten.

Tonight, at the European football championship, the Dutch team will play its first match, against Italy.

The team colour is orange.

The Natuurmonumenten video has a football melody by the late Dutch singer André Hazes, as “sung” by various wild animals living in the Netherlands, with (more or less) the colour orange in their skin or feathers.

With some, the connection is a bit vague, like with the black woodpecker, black with a red, not orange, crown on its head.

Nevertheless, interesesting video.

Intelligence in animals: here.

Dutch orange marine invertebrates: here.

This video from the USA about the Iraq war is called WMD LIES - Bush Cheney Rumsfeld etc.

There is a new Mark Fiore animation on the Internet.

It is called Sh– Happened.

It is here.

It is about the United States Bush administration and their lies on the Iraq war etc., as told in the recent book by Bush’s ex spokesman Scott McClellan (parodied in the video as Bush’s dog Barney).

From Slowpoke blog, by United States cartoonist Jen Sorensen:

With all this talk of whether the media was soft on the Bush administration during the buildup to the Iraq war, I thought this cartoon from March 2003 might prove a refresher.

Protests link Bush to McCain, urge end to war in Iraq: here.

Bush’s comparisons of Iraq to World War II: here.

Tim Russert and the US media: here.

This video from the USA says about itself:

Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) criticized President Bush for threatening to veto his 21st Century GI Bill, saying that no president in history has ever vetoed benefits for the troops.

It is about George W. Bush’s “supporting the troops” … NOT!

See also here.

The animation is here.

This video from the USA is called EXPOSED: Media ignore Pentagon Pundits scandal.

There is a new animation by Mark Fiore on the internet.

It is called General Happy Swellspin.

It is about war propaganda in the media in the USA; see also here.

The animation is here.