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  • Posted By: gultekin @ 11/05/2008 5:21:23 AM

    First of all, in the name of all those who are contributing to this film, I would like to
    thank you for the
    interest you have shown in our project. In a way, this film is the story of the over 40
    million
    Kurds living in the world. My aim with this project is to leave the new generation and the
    world an example of the cultural heritage of humankind, as well as telling the world our
    history and culture in the language of cinema.
    To make such a film in Turkey is very important, particularly if one looks at the films
    made about Kurds up to date. Up to now no historical or cultural films have been made in
    this
    country, and as a Kurd I have been trying to make the ???Brukan??? film happen for the last
    two
    years in order to fill this gap. During this time I met with several actors and firms
    interested in partnerships. However, our aims always clashed. These people only approached
    the project with financial gains in mind. Their attitude made me feel more protective about
    my project.
    I have been looking for partners who would embrace this project and have met with
    people in several European countries. But I have to say that I have been touched most by
    your interest and suggestions. In addition, our shared roots have honoured me. Personally, I
    am not interested in how much ???profit??? I am going to make. But I wish with all my heart
    that
    my friends who support the project benefit financially and otherwise. My only stipulation is
    that I want to put aside 3% for educational projects. Agreeing on the rest should be very
    easy. I see you as a companion and together with you I would like to realise the ???Brukan???
    film, which will introduce our culture and history to the world. I sincerely believe that by
    working together we will make a film that will target world cinema.
    We have written the story of the project, but of course there are shortcomings. A
    written scenario or story is not absolutely necessary and, working together, we can develop
    both. I believe that with this project we can develop an international film that becomes our
    culture and history. I am sure that in the following stages we will collaborate in agreement
    and make up the shortcomings of the project. The biggest problem of the project is its
    funding, but I am sure that with your collaboration and support we will overcome this
    problem.
    I would like to reiterate that I would like to collaborate with you on the ???Brukan???
    project from the bottom of my heart and I invite you to work with me on an international
    project. May this film be a valuable creation to leave to the next generation.
    Yours sincerely,
    Kas??m GÜLTEK??N/Producror
    kasimgultekin@brukan.com

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 11/03/2008 5:04:51 PM

    Obama said he denounced and left the radical Trinity United Church but it???s not true!!

    Obama has Trinity United pastor Rev Ottis Moss accompanying him on his campaign!!

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 11/03/2008 4:20:31 PM

    More and more disturbing stuff on Obama's past and his real intentions are just starting to surface.

    As I predicted over a year ago ..... Obama is a big fraud and America is being duped !!

  • Posted By: SassyFrassy @ 11/02/2008 11:35:16 PM

    Pssst get a load of Obama's and bill ayers track record of accomplishments.
    While working together bill ayers and obama spent 60 million dollars and DIDN'T teach children to read, even though they would have enable them to learn on their own. Instead they tried to radicalize them.

    Communism is not about improving the lives of the poor. Communism thrives when people are poor, wretched and angry. Stirring up the anger of people are what ACORN and community activism are all about.

    Did you know the housing projects OBAMA AND REZKO worked on are now boarded up? SO, whom has OBAMA helped? Himself.

    A note a hospital his wife worked at ended up tripling her salary from 100,00.00 to 300,000.00. While a telecope for a planetarium brought them a promise of a 100,000.00 donation.



  • Posted By: SassyFrassy @ 11/02/2008 11:29:15 PM

    submit for your reading NY Times 1999 - MUST READ!

    Well, it???s about time, the mainstream ???brainwashing media??? is finally coming out with the truth on this meltdown???

    I think if they would???ve come out with the truth right away instead of letting obama camp point fingers at the Bush Admin. THE Gallup polls etc would look a whole lot different RIGHT NOW!

    I just hope the ???American People??? Get it ~ before it???s too late!

    Look! The New York Times is catching up to the American people..it???s important for ALL Americans to know who is responsible for this Economic Meltdown we are experiencing???in fact, some of you might remember that I posted the notice from Bill Clinton himself [I posted again, what Bill said at the bottom of this post]

    Who???s administration
    caused the problem??? See below.

    Amazing
    foresight!! Take a gander at this while they try to lay blame for the whole meltdown???

    9 years ago???this one is priceless and worth the read- right out of New York Times

    September 30, 1999

    Fannie Mae
    Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending

    By STEVEN
    A. HOLMES HERE IS WHAT BILL CLINTON HAS TO SAY:

    Bill Clinton knows who is responsible for this NATIONAL CRISIS!

    PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON: ???I think the responsibility that the Democrats have may rest more in resisting any efforts by Republicans in the Congress or by me when I was President to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.???

    ANNCR: You???re right, Mr. President. It didn???t have to happen.

    Watch this video with Bill Clinton ~~ AND NO THIS WAS NOT TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT???

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szMGSbtYFtc

    ???BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE???

    IT FULLY EXPLAINS THE DEMOCRATIC WELFARE MORTGAGE CRISIS!!!!!!!


  • Posted By: SassyFrassy @ 11/02/2008 11:14:33 PM

    Comment: LET'S TALK ECONOMICS--and what has led to our "meltdown"

    In OUR previous administration after the previous administrations FIRST term and BEFORE their second term the Usa sent our law enforcement to Yeman to arrest Osama bin laden. The Yeman ambassador promptly got into a 'turf battle" with USA law enforcement to claim the USA LAW ENFORCEMENT was "infringing" on YEMAN ambassadors "turf".

    So what happened OUR USA LAW ENFORCEMENTS WERE TOLD by OUR USA PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION--to go home empty handed. Our previous Administration didn't know at the time their irresponsible actions had paved the way for terriorist to make plans and lay groundwork for 911.

    The Wall Street journal at that time printed a small article on it and to the recent it has been discussed but apparantly NOT ENOUGH.



    I submit for your reading NY Times 1999 - MUST READ!

    Well, it???s about time, the mainstream ???brainwashing media??? is finally coming out with the truth on this meltdown???

    I think if they would???ve come out with the truth right away instead of letting obama camp point fingers at the Bush Admin. THE Gallup polls etc would look a whole lot different RIGHT NOW!

    I just hope the ???American People??? Get it ~ before it???s too late!

    Look! The New York Times is catching up to the American people..it???s important for ALL Americans to know who is responsible for this Economic Meltdown we are experiencing???in fact, some of you might remember that I posted the notice from Bill Clinton himself [I posted again, what Bill said at the bottom of this post]

    Who???s administration
    caused the problem??? See below.

    Amazing
    foresight!! Take a gander at this while they try to lay blame for the whole meltdown???

    9 years ago???this one is priceless and worth the read- right out of New York Times

    September 30, 1999

    Fannie Mae
    Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending by steven A Holmes where the DEMOCRATS admitted that faulty lending pracitces along with ACORN activities have brought use to the crossroads our Nation is today.

    If we are looking for ECONOMIC DELIVERENCE-- we must TIE our exit to political progress people. Honestly, how could anyone have MISSED the point??? Tieing our exit to political progress will kick start jump the US and everyone and businesses OUT of RECESSON "MODE" and into re-building phase mode. It will put the Us and everyone and businesses back to work at full capacity.

    Perhaps the catchphrase of this election should be--when will we learn, oh baby, when will we learn and WAKE UP AMERICA THE FREEDOMS YOU SAVE WILL BE YOUR OWN.


  • Posted By: Krohn @ 11/02/2008 11:08:43 PM

    The Wall Street crisis was planned the night of Obama's meeting at Bill Ayres home to put Obama in The White House. Together they put a beautiful plan into place.

    This Strategy was first elucidated in the 1966 issue of 'The Nation' Magazine by a pair of radical Socialist Columbia University professors, Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven.

    David Horowitz summarizes it as:

    "The strategy of forcing political change through an orchestrated crisis. The "Cloward-Piven Strategy" seeks to hasten the fall of Capitalism by overloading the Government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.
    unquote

    Obama begin with ACORN by funneling millions into their organization. He then trained ACORN to stage protests in banks to force them to issue risky loans or they would be threatened to face racial charges. ACORN was trained to intimidate financial institutions into giving ???Ninja??? loans to people with NO assets, NO job and NO income, who couldn???t afford these loans.

    That caused the housing bubble two years ago it was by ACORN's actions they were able to destroy our credit system.

    As this played out, D-Barney Frank and D-Chris Dodd were able to cover up the millions of improvident loans to these bad risky house buyers. And Barney Frank and his chums successfully were able to block all of President Bush's attempts to put a rein on this problem.

    So Fannie & Freddie was forced to purchase all these failed subprime mortgages.

    Then both Frank and Dodd denied that there were any problems, and refused the Bush Admin. requests to set up a regulatory agency to watch over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and they were still pushing for these agencies to go even further in promoting sub-prime mortgage loans almost up to the 'minute they failed'.

    Democrats then blamed Bush saying it happened on his watch knowing it would hurt the Republican Party in the election setting it up that Barack Obama could use this to his advantage.

    Karl Marx once compared a Revolutionary struggle with the work of the mole, who sometimes burrows so far beneath the ground that he leaves no trace of his movement on the surface.

    Barack Obama is that Marxist mole !

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 11/02/2008 10:47:49 PM

    BREAKING NEWS ALERT....

    Obama taped conversation with San Francisco Chronicle states his policies ???will bankrupt coal mining operations that produce gas emissions in states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia and North Carolina
    which it will cause energy prices to skyrocket....." .....more info nobody knew until now about what Obama wants to do!!

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 11/02/2008 5:48:55 PM

    Obama's Links To Radicals Starting To Surface!! www.newsmax.com/timmer

    Obama-Farrakhan Ties Are Close, Ex-Farrakhan Aide Says

    A former top deputy to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan tells Newsmax that Barack Obama???s ties to the black nationalist movement in Chicago run deep, and that for many years the two men have had ???an open line between them??? to discuss policy and strategy, either directly or through intermediaries.

    ???Remember that for years, if you were a politician in Chicago, you had to have some type of relationship with Louis Farrakhan. You had to. If you didn???t, you would be ostracized out of black Chicago,??? said Dr. Vibert White Jr., who spent most of his adult life as a member and ultimately top officer of the Nation of Islam.
    White broke with the group in 1995 and is now a professor of African-American history at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.
    White said Obama was ???part of the Chicago scene??? where Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. and radicals would go to each other???s events and support each other???s causes.
    ???Even though Chicago is the third-largest city in the country, within the black community, the political and militant nationalist community is very small. So it wouldn???t be uncommon for [Obama and Farrakhan] to show up at events together, or at least be there and communicate with each other,??? White told Newsmax.
    The Anti-Defamation League has denounced Farrakhan and his Nation of Islam as a ???hate group.???
    Farrakhan has called Jews ???bloodsuckers,??? ???satanic??? and accused them of running the slave trade. He has labeled gays as ???degenerates.??? In a 2006 speech, the ADL again condemned Farrakhan when he said: ???These false Jews promote the filth of Hollywood that is seeding the American people and the people of the world and bringing you down in moral strength. ??? It's the wicked Jews the false Jews that are promoting lesbianism, homosexuality. It's wicked Jews, false Jews that make it a crime for you to preach the word of God, then they call you homophobic!"

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 11/02/2008 5:15:53 AM

    Number of unrepentant terrorist friends with anti-American views for Obama = 57

    Number of unrepentant terrorist friends with anti-American views for McCain = 0

    The choice is obvious...vote for the patriot and war hero...JOHN MCCAIN!!

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 11/02/2008 5:15:39 AM

    Number of unrepentant terrorist friends with anti-American views for Obama = 57

    Number of unrepentant terrorist friends with anti-American views for McCain = 0

    The choice is obvious...vote for the patriot and war hero...JOHN MCCAIN!!

  • Posted By: wendydk @ 11/01/2008 7:47:52 PM

    What is most troubling in todays political climate is the promotion of hatred as a philosophy. The emergence of an ultraconservative dogma relies increasingly on the encouragement of mass hostility aimed at one group in particular - Americans with progressive political views. Liberals are spoken of with the kind of dripping contempt and virulent hostility that used to be associated with racism and sectarian religious strife. Liberals are viewed not fellow Americans citizens concerned with the future of their country, but as ideological enemies that need to be destroyed - and eaten if possible. This view is fundamentally anti-American.

    This right-wing sect manifests a complete lack of empathy toward other Americans whom it defines as its ideological enemies. Its core beliefs are absolutely impervious to reason and are unleashing ugly and violent impulses. What makes their zeal so dangerous for our country is their willingness to do serious damage to our precious American Democracy in their quest for absolute power.

    -The Assault on Reason (2007)

    SOUND FAMILIAR? IT DOES TO ME AND I AM SICK OF IT. IF YOU ARE TOO, VOTE OBAMA/BIDEN ???08

    www.republicansforobama.com

  • Posted By: 40YearR @ 11/01/2008 5:09:04 PM


    "Nowforthetruth" is now selling that Obama has PLO buddies referring to an LA Times story about Rashid Khalidi. McCain dropped that when it was disclosed that McC donated $440k to Khalidi.

    See for yourselves at: http://richmonddemocrat.blogspot.com/2008/10/mccain-funded-rashid-khalidi.html

    "Nowforthetruth", a little more "truth" about guilt by association....

    "Nowforthetruth" also said: "Nins, all you prove is that you have perpetual PMS and cannot read. If you are as careless in your practice, you are a danger to your profession." You reveal too much of yourself "Nowforthetruth".

    "Nowforthetruth" continues repasting that the cause of our problem is a law decades old that encourages loans to qualified low income people. "Nowforthetruth" continues to repeat well known deceit.

    Alan Greenspan stated recently that the problem was not anything like that. Rather, he stated that an entire financial system was built outside of regulation, and "we trusted" these self-interested looters to regulate themselves. Credit Default Swaps were the result.

    Credit Default Swaps increased from $106 trillion in '02 to $531 trillion under the R stewardship. No regulation.

    While there are several variations of a viral email that tries to blame a few thousands of political donations to some Ds, the actual, legitimate news has reported that Fannie and Freddie paid many millions to Republican lobbyists to lobby Rs, only, to PREVENT REGULATION.

    McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis, received up to $35K/mo. from Fannie and Freddie from 2000 to present, to lobby Rs,only, against regulation. Freddie paid Rick Davis while he has been McC's campaign manager. Freddie donated $250k to the R convention.

    These facts are everywhere in the legitimate news: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/us/politics/22mccain.html and http://www.newsweek.com/id/164732/page/1 There's much more legitimate news on this.

    Trillions were looted from our economy because the Rs allowed it. It is inescapable that the Rs, most prominently McC's campaign manager, were in the pockets of big money while they drove the buss off the cliff with us in it.

    You can try to distract people with fears about 'those guys'. Lies, distortion, deception. 'Socialist' is only the last in a long, now desperate, list of labels you have tried to pin on 'that one'. That's all you have left.

    Is your most recent reposting here directed to fears about "Socialism", or is it just innuendo, or are we trying to fold in a little racism too?

    Since we have no more ideas, let's keep running our campaign on fear, smears and hypocrisy.

    Keep talking "Nowforthetruth", you're really helping. You keep demonstrating that we all have to vote against lies and propaganda and attempts to hijack our political process with deceit. Your actions are the kinds of reasons that I'm voting for Obama after 40 years of never havin

  • Posted By: 40YearR @ 11/01/2008 5:07:38 PM

    "Concerned Canadian": In an earlier posting you said "we Canadians just voted in..."

    Are you entitled to vote in our election, or are you just 'helping'?

    Having looked at the same old postings you keep pasting on these sites, you look more like you're part of the R propaganda machine that has been spamming us all, since McC sold out to the rightwing, with those countless viral emails filled with smears, hate, innuendo, lies and propaganda.

    A 40 year republican

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 11/01/2008 5:00:22 PM

    WELL SAID BILL COSBY !!

    'They're standing on the corner and they can't speak English.
    I can't even talk the way these people talk:
    Why you ain't,
    Where you is,
    What he drive,
    Where he stay,
    Where he work,
    Who you be...

    And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk.

    And then I heard the father talk.

    Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads.
    You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth.

    In fact you will never get any kind of job making a decent living.

    People marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an Education, and now
    We've got these knuckleheads walking around.

    The lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal.

    These people are not parenting. They are buying things for kids.

    $500 sneakers for what?

    And they won't spend $200 for Hooked on Phonics.

    I am talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in an orange suit.

    Where were you when he was 2?

    Where were you when he was 12?

    Where were you when he was 18 and how come you didn't know that he had a pistol?

    And where is the father? Or who is his father?

    People putting their clothes on backward:
    Isn't that a sign of something gone wrong?

    People with their hats on backward, pants down around the crack, isn't that a sign of something?

    Isn't it a sign of something when she has her dress all the way up and got all type of needles [piercing] going through her body?

    What part of Africa did this come from??

    We are not Africans. Those people are not Africans; they don't know a thing about Africa ...

    I say this all of the time. It would be like white people saying they are European-American. That is totally stupid.

    I was born here, and so were my parents and grand parents and, very likely my great grandparents. I don't have any connection to Africa, no more than white Americans have to Germany , Scotland , England , Ireland , or the Netherlands . The same applies to 99 percent of all the black Americans as regards to Africa . So stop, already! ! !

    With names like Shaniqua, Taliqua and Mohammed and all of that crap .....And all of them are in jail.

    Brown or black versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.

    We have got to take the neighborhood back.

    People used to be ashamed. Today a woman has eight children with eight different 'husbands' -- or men or whatever you call them now.

    We have millionaire football players who cannot read.

    We have million-dollar basketball players who can't write two paragraphs. We, as black folks have to do a better job.

    Someone working at Wal-Mart with seven kids, you are hurting us.

    We have to start holding each other to a higher standard.

    " We cannot blame the white people any longer.'
    Dr. William Henry 'Bill' Cosby, Jr., Ed.D.

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 11/01/2008 1:51:48 PM

    Two central issues in the election Barack Obama is wrong and misleading:

    1) No tax increases to those earning $250,000 or less promised by Obama, then he
    lowered this figure to $200,000, then the "Gift that keeps on Giving" Joe Biden says
    the number is $150,000 and just yesterday Gov. Bill Richardson says the figure is
    $120,000 ...and now a videotape is disclosed where it shows Obama recently stated
    that in the interest of fairness with taxes is around $80,000.00!!
    Sounds like good old fashion Democratic ???reverse auction ???tax policy they implement
    after they break their campaign promise to the American people.

    2) On national security ...Obama???s own VP running mate Joe Biden ... ???mark my words,
    this guy Obama is going to be tested by a generated international crisis within 6
    months of his Presidency..I guarantee it??? Obama will meet with USA's enemies with
    no pre-conditions!
    John McCain???s surge strategy in Iraq is working and its saving the lives of young
    American men and women in uniform serving there...Obama won't admit to this day
    the surge is working and he voted to cut funding for these military forces !!

    John McCain is Commander-In-Chief material ....Obama is just a cardboard "cut-out"
    candidate of the DNC.

  • Posted By: 40YearR @ 10/30/2008 9:04:56 PM

    "Concerned Canadian": In an earlier posting you said "we Canadians just voted in..."

    Are you entitled to vote in our election, or are you just 'helping'?

    Having looked at the same old postings you keep pasting on these sites, you look more like you're part of the R propaganda machine that has been spamming us all, since McC sold out to the rightwing, with those countless viral emails filled with smears, hate, innuendo, lies and propaganda.

    A 40 year republican

  • Posted By: 40YearR @ 10/30/2008 9:04:03 PM

    "billtill": Here's my quick effort at your question for a better explanation of the differences between Democrats and Republicans.

    Bush abdicated our national energy policy to be run by secret meetings between Dick Cheney and the oil companies.

    Bush disregarded his experienced military and diplomatic advisers, and abdicated Iraq to his NeoCons who mesmerized themselves and him with their ideology and fantasies about what would be the outcome.

    McCarthyism is a uniquely republican practice.

    A republican characteristic is to accuse any person who does not agree with them as: Socialist, unAmerican, antiAmerican, unpatriotic, "Godless" whatever, ad nauseam.

    McCain said lobbyists were what is wrong with Washington, and he promised to root them out. Then he got behind and he took on the Bushies to run his campaign, and hired Rick Davis to be his campaign manager. Davis took many millions in lobbyist fees to lobby Rs, only, to prevent regulation while the Rs allowed the big money funds to loot trillions from our economy.

    But here's what drove me from a recent McCain supporter and solid McC vote, who's never voted for a Dem in 40 years, is that since McC sold out to the rightwing, the Rs have run the most organized and prolific smear, hate, disinformation propaganda machine I have ever seen.

    So, as best I can tell about the last 8 years, and this campaign especially, is that Dems don't try to win elections with smears like: he's a Socialist, unAmerican, antiAmerican, a terrorist, an Arab, a Muslim, numerous fabricated quotes purportedly from his books, his birth certificate is forged, and on ad nauseum.

    I'm tired of the "Redistribution" to the megarich, oil companies and Haliburton. But I'm afraid of the Republican propaganda machine and the obvious belief that the end justifies the means.

    A 40 year republican

  • Posted By: Augiec @ 10/30/2008 7:39:33 PM

    In response to Billtill, a very amusing and effective annecdote is still just that; an annecdote. It oversimplifies the differences between the two parties to the extent that both parties want success for the country. No one could argue contrary to that and still sound reasonably objective. The difference is how we get there. Is it fair to give tax cuts to those who work hard, but for whatever reason have been blessed with a skill set that has a higher value in our society? Their hard work is already well compensated. CEOs in many cases are well trained leaders, successful small business people had the analytical ability to see a demand and drive to fill it. Athletes and movie stars have talents and/or physical attributes we all strive to emulate. They are all well paid for the gifts they have.

    What about those who aren't so fortunate? Those who just emigrated here? Those who settled for lower paying jobs they could get quickly with the hope of paying for their children's future? Those who were placed in less qualified schools and didn't get the fair end of the deal in where they grew up, etc? Your anecdote says they just "don't work as hard." I personally do better than many; I'm not in the top tax bracket, but I'm in the upper echelons of the second bracket. However, I also understand that paying a few extra dollars to ensure others have similar opportunities my parents sacrificed for is part of what makes this country so great. George W. Bush's presidency has been 8 years of a "Me-First" tone being passed down from the top. His patent disregard for personal liberties under the guise of protection, his blatant disregard for balance in Supreme Court nominees, Guantanamo Bay - which is the embodiement of "do as I say, not as I do." The list goes on, and on, and on... Ultimately, that mind-set is what led to the greed the author of this article & Ron Suskind refer to; a greed that has led not only to our financial collapse, but also a collapse in our global standing.

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 10/30/2008 5:25:14 PM

    You can find hundreds of copies of the LA Times videotape that could destroy Obama at Blockbusters.

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