Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Monday, October 3, 2011

Meltdown

Commentary By Ron Beasley


 



When it comes to financial collapse documentaries, the public canon has one well-deserving Oscar Winner, "Inside Job", and one straight to HBO exercise in ass kissing and name dropping which shall remain nameless. Ironically, just like during the Arab Spring, it is that "dubious" Al Jazeera that shows US media how coverage of various matters, either geopolitical or financial, is done.


~Tyler Durden



The corporate media of the United States has given us bits and pieces of the events that led to the financial collapse but it took Al Jezeera to put it all together. Thanks to Tyler Durden of Zero Hedge we can watch a four part series that puts the bits and pieces together.  Each part is 40 plus minutes long but if you want to know what happened, how it happened, why it happened and what is likely to happen take the time to watch all four.



Must see TV!


Update:


Commentors have pointed out this was a CBC production not Al Jezeera.


Related: 


The Monster



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  1. geoffOctober 3, 2011 at 3:18 PM

    Actually Ron it's a CBC program only distributed internationally by Al Jezeera. I watched it before seeing Inside Job.

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  2. Ron BeasleyOctober 3, 2011 at 3:31 PM

    Actually Geoff it's an Al Jezeera program that was broadcast by CBC. Good for CBC - no American networks would broadcast it.

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  3. BJ BjornsonOctober 4, 2011 at 1:21 AM

    Geoff's right Ron. Check the credits at the very end of the videos you linked, at the bottom they state its a CBC production.

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  4. geoffOctober 4, 2011 at 3:48 AM

    You guys are right. In checking it was also done injunction with the great PBS station WGBH for Frontline.
    Another link to to the 4 programs from CBC's doczone:http://www.cbc.ca/doczone/meltdown/

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  5. Ron BeasleyOctober 4, 2011 at 4:05 AM

    OK, I was wrong.

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  6. geoffOctober 4, 2011 at 7:53 AM

    Didn't mean to sound sarcastic Ron early this mooning. I read too quickly what BJ wrote as the door bell was rung by the guys who've spent most of the day installing a new furnace.

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  7. Ron BeasleyOctober 4, 2011 at 11:34 AM

    geoff
    You were right I was wrong - nuff said.

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  8. anna missedOctober 4, 2011 at 9:57 PM

    thanks for the link Ron - who ever did it I've not seen it - or any links to it!! before now.

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