Lisa Sylvester on campaign contributors to the new Super Committee debt panel, discusses their agendas with Bill Allison of Sunlight Foundation

CNN video: Reporter Lisa Sylvester examines the identity and interests of some of the largest campaign contributors to the 12 members of the new Super Committee debt panel, and discusses their agendas with The Sunlight Foundation's Bill Allison. August 16, 2011.

http://youtu.be/ljaJg2k-Z04

Sunlight Foundation video: The Debt Ceiling Deal and You, August 15, 2011

http://youtu.be/lv-1zUV742Y

The informative videos above about the Super Committee Debt group were in my YouTube Channel inbox today, and yesterday afternoon I received this latest email from Nicole Aro of The Sunlight Foundation, and I reprint it here for your edification:

Dear Sunlighter,

Congressional leaders have appointed members to the “Super Committee” -- 12 lawmakers assigned the power and responsibility of cutting $1.5 trillion from the national deficit -- by the end of the year. As you might expect, lobbyists and powerful special interests have already started to circle.

This “Super Congress” or “Super Committee” certainly has “Super Powers” -- but if they don’t pledge to be Super Transparent, we won’t know if they’re working for us or for the powerful, wealthy lobbyists and special interests in Washington. This work could stay in the shadows until the recommendations of the committee are released in December!

We made a quick video I want to share with you about the “Super Congress” - will you watch it and join our campaign?

The creation of this committee -- totally outside normal congressional rules and accountability -- is a pretty clear signal that something is broken in our democracy. While the committee members are certainly entitled to some private deliberation, this process needs be open and transparent. Sunlight's come up with five demands to increase transparency in this committee, but we need your help to make sure others join our campaign.

Demand an Open Super Congress and ask your friends to join you today.

Thanks for all that you do,

Nicole, Tiina, John and the rest of the Sunlight team

P.S. -- Got a clever idea for a campaign tactic that will show Congress we’re serious about our democracy? Please let us know here -- or let us know if you think someone else has a really great idea.

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http://sunlightfoundation.com/

http://www.youtube.com/user/SunlightFoundation

also see Pelosi Names Clyburn, Van Hollen, Becerra to Debt Panel

http://youtu.be/6NFiAYx740w

ABC News video: Diane Sawyer tours 'Nightwatch,' the U.S.'s high-tech 'Doomsday' plane capable of surviving a nuclear attack -sorry, no window seats!

'Doomsday Plane' Would Save President and Joint Chiefs in Apocalypse Scenario,

By Michael Murray, June 7, 2011

http://abcnews.go.com/US/doomsday-plane-save-president-joint-chiefs-apocalypse-scenario/story?id=13782736

I meant to post this interesting video two weeks ago after seeing this when it first aired on the ABC Evening News with Diane Sawyer, but after saving the embed info in Draft on my email account, I forgot about it.

A week later, I saw the Swedish version of it while perusing Aftonbladet's website
and their WebbTV page, so I decided then to go ahead and post both of them so that you could see what the latter emphasizes.

Just about everything as it turns out, but you also get a kee sense of how much the people in Sweden know about what's compelling news video here in the U.S., but when was the last time you saw a video segement of a foreign TV network news that wasn't BBC or ITN on U.S. TV?
I mean besides here on the humble blog?

Aftonbladet: Följ med in i domedagsplanet - Tål en kärnvapenattack
http://www.aftonbladet.se/webbtv/nyheter/utrikes/article13149866.ab


http://abcnews.go.com/

SVT video of Saab's nEUROn fuselage for new UCAV; Will Brazilian President Rousseff ditch French and buy Saab's Gripen or Boeing F-18 instead for $4B?

SVT Rapport - Här är Saabs nya stridsflygplan
Here's Saab's new fighter plane.
http://svtplay.se/v/2307433/har_ar_saabs_nya_stridsflygplan

This video ran on Wednesday night's Swedish TV (SVT) thirty-minute national newscast and has some English but is mostly in Swedish.

This particular video is available on the SVT Play website until January 25, 2012, and if you are curious enough to want to watch the entire newscast, which features an interesting report on security in Moscow -at 10:56- following the Chechen suicide bombing last week at the airport, you can see it at: http://svtplay.se/v/2307476/rapport/25_1_19_30_-_textat?cb,a1366518,1,f,-1/pb,a1366516,1,f,-1/pl,v,,2308531/sb,p103263,1,f,-1

I've selected the version of the newscast that has closed-captioning so that you can see what some of the words you are hearing actually look like, as it's more logical than it sounds. You can watch the newscast vid until Tuesday February 1st, and as always, I recommend that you hit the Full screen button on the bottom right marked "Fullskärm."
The story on the fighter plane comes on at 19:39.

Saab delivers nEUROn fuselage to Dassault Aviation

http://www.shephard.co.uk/news/uvonline/saab-delivers-neuron-fuselage-to-dassault-aviation/8187/

Also read this story on the $4 billion sale of 36 fighter jets to Brazil from France that may be on the verge of collapsing under new Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and the possibility that Saab or Boeing will swoop-in and take it from Dassault, lock, stock and lavalier.

"Rousseff has indicated she wants to review the political agreement between the two heads of state and "start over" the evaluation process that pitted the Rafale against Boeing Co.'s (BA) F-18 and the Gripen made by Sweden's Saab AB (SAAB-B.SK)"

Dassault Workers' Bonuses Hinge On Rafale Export Deal
January 25, 2011, 10:29 A.M. ET
By David Pearson of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110125-710700.html


Gripen's current website -in English- at http://www.gripen.com/en/index.htm is moving to http://www.saabgroup.com/gripen

Photos of Gripen is at:
http://www.saabgroup.com/Air/Gripen-Fighter-System/gripen-downloads/Image-bank/

There's a video in Portuguese on Saab's website about their efforts and capabilities there:
http://www.saabgroup.com/gripen-for-brazil

Here's the Saab JAS 39 Gripen in Flight [HD]


Saab JAS 39 Gripen (Griffin) Fighter in Flight [HD]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSJ4i8IExjY