C-Span

[Saint]

Hi all. Just figured this oughta be in here, and maybe even should be stickied. If anyone here still believes we have some kind of chance to change things politically, this channel is a very important tool. Does anyone know who owns it? Or who runs it btw? It would honestly make no difference to me, since the footage is usually a camera running in the senate or house, there are no commercials, no real "new casts", other than to put you at an event. A very important TV channel for watching these scum bags trying to pull the wool over our eyes. Basically you can watch whatever news channel you watch, and see their interpretation of the events on capitol hill...or you can watch the shit unfold and make up your mind yourself.

I don't have standard television. We do not subscribe to cable, and I havent even run an antennae for airwave TV (2 years now). It all sucks, and has been turned into a method of control, influence, and commercialism. I actually watch the channel from their site, for free...I'm streaming it now as I bounce around this forum. You will find all kinds of programming from american and foreign relations commitees, white house bullshit briefings and much more. The most important programming I think is the Judiciary Commitee, who i believe is as strong as the supreme court (maybe even more so due to the fact that each judge is a senator or rep from our states), but has cameras running live...allowing you to sit in and see the testimony that so many newsources and people quote.

Tonight for instance (4-15-07) should be VERY interesting...General Micheal Hayden will be on Q&A. For those unfamiliar with Mr. Hayden, you will be familiar with his work...he is the director of the CIA. I'm not sure if they allow us to call in...hehehe...but perhaps they will if it is a live broadcast. It airs tonight at 8pm eastern time.

If people would like I can update this thread to show when important things will be coming up, such as Attorney General of the US Alberto Gonzales' testimony, live on April 17th. This has been touted as his last chance to save his job, and given the arrogance of him - and this administration he tells to sign executive orders to put themselves above the laws this land passes - we may watch this fuckin scumbag get handed his ass.

Reply if you'd be interested in this thread being maintained. L8rZ

[Calm]

Hi! Saint

I rather enjoy the Q&A interviews.
http://www.q-and-a.org

And BookTV is rather good.
http://www.booktv.org

Over the past couple of years, I've saved quite a few of these broadcasts to my hard drive.

Calm

[GamerS]

Yes, C-Span is one of our best resources, but no one watches it. They prefer the propagandized sound bites of the news networks. Fortunately there are a few who do and capture the good bits and put it on youtube. Much of the great stuff from Ron Paul is put on youtube and was originally aired on C-Span. If we had equal coverage of Ron Paul on the major networks, we would be out of this mess.

[Saint]

Sadly, i couldn't agree more.

[IrrigatedPancake]

A line up of important C-Span events would be nice. If anyone has a tv card or some other way of recording C-Span, they could upload videos to a C-Span only account in Google Video (since the videos would probably be too long for YouTube) and we'd have our own unfiltered C-Span based news channel.

I think they should make slander/libel laws harsher for people involved in news media.

I don't want to get too far off topic, but quickly: I don't think the solution is to force the owners to put different information into their pipe. Instead, the pipe should be widened enough so everyone can put any information they want into it, or more pipes should be created so that ultimately, more information can be available to the people on the other end of that/those pipe/s. That way, people can develop their views of the world based on the info. they choose to consider allowing many different world views to exist and be argued and hopefully that will lead to the weeding out of indefeasible views and produce action based on an individual's situation.

The internet is like a second giant pipe that competes with the tv pipe, the only problem is that there is still more people per drop of tv info. than per internet info..

Note: I don't mean pipes like that crazy senator, pipes = medium through which info. passes from one person to another. (pipes = internet, tv, books, air plane smoke trail sky messages, birthday cakes, etc.)

[Ry]

I was on CSPAN for like a hour once when they covered the RNC. they were the only ones to do it as it was ignored by the MSM.

[Calm]

Anything I watch on-line, I download it if I want to. It is very simple.

I use several programs to accomplish this.

Of course, I'm able to record anything being broadcast by any of the corporate news channels because I have an ATI All-In-Wonder Graphics card.
http://ati.amd.com/products/radeonx1900 ... index.html

Convert Google Flash Video to .avi Windows Media Player
This program allows you to download from Google or YouTube and the program will convert the GoogleFlash video to an .avi file for Windows Media Player or an MPEG file as well.
http://www.enriquepuertas.com

Example:

If you want to download or save a LiveLeak video .... Or from Jon Stewart site and many others ....

It is easy using Mozilla FireFox
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox

You will need an "Add On"

FireFox Download Helper 1.96
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla ... -fx+fl.xpi

The video will download as an .FLV

There are free FLV Players out there in Mouse Land
http://www.martijndevisser.com/blog/art ... er-updated

Or You Can Convert .FLV file to .AVI

Media Coder (It's Free)
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/MediaCoder.htm

Download File Here
http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/dlfull_stable.htm

If your watching C-Span Book TV (RealPlayer Presentation) as an example ....

Play the video in your own RealPlayer program and not on the net. Check the View Menu and check out the "view clip" information and you will find a URL which begins with "RTSP" or "PPM" .

If your at the Democracy Now site and want to download the video content, you need to right-click the view program link and download the "RAM" file.

Then you could use EMEditor to read the "RAM" file in order to find the RTSP or PPM URL.
http://www.emeditor.com

I use Off-Line Explorer to download once I have the RTSP or PPM URL.
http://www.metaproducts.com/mp/Offline_ ... rprise.htm

If your watching BBC Newsnight, as an example, you can download the video content by using a program called StreamDown.
http://stream-down.cocsoft.com

I guess I could go on and on with descriptions and instructions, but I don't wanna bore you.

I'm very fluent about this kind of stuff. I collect software programs like most people collect stamps. I've got 12 thousand software titles which I've collected over the past 4 or 5 years. It is almost a full time job keeping up to newer versions. I haven't paid for a program since Windows 3.1.

I subscribe to a NewsGroup or UseNet as well. ($15 American per month)
http://newshosting.com

I got my own site, forums, blog, livechat, mailserver and whatever. I only set it up in order to learn how to do it. After I learned how, I lost interest. I've not updated my site since two years. I dislike using my blog because people were adding crazy comments or MSN/Yahoo/Google robots were trippin' in and out .... so I closed the blog comment section. Now, if I write at my blog, it feels too much like talking to myself, since I closed the comment section.

I use my forums as a database or a place to store news articles and commentaries I find on the web. It is kind of funny to see a forum with 43 thousand posts and all by the same poster or member. I don't have my forums open to the public because I operate a server without the consent of my ISP. I use an old Pentium4 with IGig of Ram and it works really well as a server. I'm set up to stream or broadcast audio visual/visual content. I must have a collection of 4 thousand audio/visual items.

Am I boring yuh?

Calm

[Ry]

Calm that is the best thing ever I have needed info like that for a long time. I need more geek friends.

[Calm]

VLC media player 0.8.6a (It's Free)

This program will even play a corrupted video.

http://www.videolan.org

[Calm]

Hi! RY

If ever you (or anybody else) wanted to visit my forums to view the content and perhaps copy/paste some stuff, you could PM me. I would sort of schedule a time or day, and just change the name or URL for this instance or time of your viewing.

The content consists of Word Documents, PDF's, Text files, graphics, and audio/visual stuff. More then 200Gig of content. I would think that my database is at least 3 times larger then the Information Clearinghouse site.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info

When I did have my forums open to the public, I was getting 700 hits a day.

The major difference between me and the Clearinghouse is that I never link to a story externally. I would think that 30 or 40% of the Clearinghouse content is linked externally. I approached things differently .... I copy/paste the story internally. The problem with external linking is that your forums self-destruct over a period of time. Stories linked to are inactive after about 6 months. Thus your database is only good for 6 months. I made every attempt to ensure that all the content was available internally within my own database.

I could show you how to broadcast or stream your own video or at least give you an example. My server Operating System is Windows 2003 Enterprise. (Necessary if you want to stream video,)
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/default.mspx

The livechat program I use is called FlashChat. I like it because it allows me to add MP3 music content which people can listen to while chatting. I had a pirate copy but once the guy began to sell it for 5 bucks, I felt kind of guilty and sent him 5 bucks.
http://www.tufat.com/script2.htm

This is the Mail Server program I use.
http://www.digiware.com/Mdaemon/md_worldclient.htm

I don't understand why people would pay thousands to somebody to design their site when all the best templates is already available for far less then that. (I stole this guy's complete collection.)
http://www.projectseven.com/products/index.htm