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Film award season begins: The run-up to Oscar

So here we go again. The film award season is underway. And our annual Oscar Odyssey will begin. Today The New York Film Critics Circle announced its awards.

Best Film: "The Artist"
Best Director: Michel Hazanavicius, "The Artist"
Best Actor: Brad Pitt, "Moneyball" and "The Tree of Life"
Best Actress: Meryl Streep, "The Iron Lady"
Best Supporting Actor: Albert Brooks, "Drive"
Best Supporting Actress, Jessica Chastain, "Take Shelter" and "The Tree of Life"
Best Screenplay: Steve Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin, "Moneyball"
Best Cinamatography: Emmanuel Lubezki, "The Tree of Life"
Best Foreign Language Film: "A Separation" directed by Asghar Farhadi
Best Non-Fiction Film: "Cave of Forgotten Dreams" directed by Werner Herzog
Best First Film: "Margin Call" directed by J.C. Chandor
A Special Award will be given posthumously to filmmaker Raoul Ruiz

Washington Lobbyists Crafted $850,000 Secret Plan For Bank Lobbyists To Undermine Occupy Wall Street | Truthout

If Wall Street banksters & big city mayors, like Bloomberg, had the courage of their convictions they would have sat back & let the OWS patriots (as Thom Hartmann calls them) do their thing; but their hysterical use of pepper spray, rubber bullets & beating up a pregnant protester says more about the power of the OWS truth than the truth of power. When you attack peaceful protesters in the dead of night & exclude the press it's obvious you have something to hide.

Washington Lobbyists Crafted $850,000 Secret Plan For Bank Lobbyists To Undermine Occupy Wall Street | Truthout

Capitalism vs. the Climate by Naomi Klein (from The Nation)

This is the best analysis of the current situation I've read. That won't surprise anyone who has read The Shock Doctrine. Not only is Naomi Kiein the best progressive thinker, but she can really write.

Capitalism vs. the Climate | The Nation

This Is What Revolution Looks Like | by Chris Hedges - from Truthout

This Is What Revolution Looks Like | Truthout

The knee

Ann's knee in all its glory. She's doing very well, but rehabs a bitch. Likely date of discharge next Monday. Could change.

Ann's surgery

Ann's surgery went very well. She's in recovery & awake. I've seen her twice. I'm hoping the next time I see her (probably around 4:30PM) she'll be in a room. But all is going very well.

Measures of poverty

There's a new measure of poverty in the U.S. from the Census Bureau. It jiggles the numbers & concludes that less of some groups & more of other groups are poor, but as Lawrence Katz, Harvard professor of economics, says: "The big picture is that in this so-called recovery there are more people in distress regardless of how you measure poverty". (NYT, 11/8/11)

10,000 Surround White House to Protest Keystone XL Tar Sands Oil Pipeline

Here's this morning's interview about the Keystone XL Tar Sands Oil Pipeline. Obama is postponing a decision, I hope it's not just an election ploy. The pipeline needs to be stopped. It would be an environmental disaster & despite claims will
Not create jobs.

10,000 Surround White House to Protest Keystone XL Tar Sands Oil Pipeline