Rage Aganist the Machine - Renegades of Funk

Mar 31st 2011, 15:30 by The Economist online
Revolution in the Arab world, as told through the graphics that have accompanied The Economist's coverage.

Think Progress

My "rep" -- sucking on the BigPharma tit. Ah Jeez, no wonder my rent is so overpriced and he's taking orders from BigPharma.

Don't these guys know they can't hide anymore?

This is why we blew our savings on a college education?

So said recipient of college education could work for FREE?

hat tip to Tom B at They Gave us a republic.


Fuck me running.

I love the Nightowl Newswrap

The Nightowl Newswrap (+)
by: BG & YD bring you the news
Wed Mar 30, 2011 at 00:00:00 AM CDT

Is this a hit piece sponsored by the Pentagon?

The Private Life of Bradley Manning.

10 min excerpt here.

I guess the whole Frontline program goes on in May. I dunno, kinda stinks to me. Does the DOD ever get tired of the PR efforts it has to make?

Frontline Ignores Most Embarrassing “Cause” of WikiLeaks Leak

By: emptywheel Tuesday March 29, 2011 8:01 am

How 80s pop culture set the stage for todays islamophobia

Mark Knopfler - Punish the Monkey

Mark Knopfler .

Abandoning Private Manning

Yeah, the owner/operators of the American government get really pissed if any of their bullshit is revealed. And he did that. How soon before he is stark raving mad and they commit him to be experimented on by batshit crazy "patriots" who've read too many writings of the Japanese and Nazi scientists that we welcomed with open arms after WWII? Go ahead - imagine that I am imaginative, or take a good look at what they are doing.

I'm watching Eat Pray Love , and frankly, I'm finding it an incredibly self-indulgent piece of crap. Not that the book is something that I would read in the first place. I didn't turn it off because I laughed inside of 22 minutes. That was it. Jeez, Hollywood should listen to the people they employ to clean up after them, they might learn something.

Skins vol 4 commentary

I'm watching the Skins VOL 4 commentary and after spending a whole day with my friend from another English speaking country and watching it I decided that UK English, as fascinating and wonderful as it is, and S CA American are not the same language...and a couple of people on Skins have disdain for either Americans or American filmakers...

Whatever.

Something to listen to while you go read something worthwhile

Cause I got nothin this morning....

except for this: Hanging judge says get rid of death penalty in CA, help balance budget.

Heh

She makes sense

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Katie Couric Likely Leaving CBS Evening News; Scott Pelley a Leading Replacement

Kaydee not happee no more?
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Oh.

Blood cancer?

Geraldine Ferraro, first female major party candidate for national office, has died at 75

By Associated Press, Saturday, March 26, 12:53 PM

BOSTON — Geraldine Ferraro, who in 1984 became the first woman to run for vice president on a major party ticket, only to lose in a landslide, died Saturday. She was 75.

Bummer.

She was an interesting woman.

Alison manages the threee stooges

I'm listening to Editors Roundtable on KPBS radio. Gawd I hate bowtie Bob, but he's sooooooo indictative of how fucked up San Diego is. A conservative who never met a business he couldn't paint a pretty picture for and suck up to who just has to be a flaming fag or a major stick-up-the-ass church lady. Possibly both.
I am laughing my ass off. Only one of these guys has a clue.

I may be loud about hating local rethugs, but they ain't exactly endearing themselves to even their own party members nationwide.

What's Cooking?

I like it .

This is what happens when the economy sucks

Posted on Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Theft of copper, other recyclables rising
By Brad Dickenson | Myrtle Beach Sun-News

WRAPUP 2-U.S. new home sales hit record low, outlook gloomy
Wed Mar 23, 2011 1:11pm EDT
Reuters

This week's articles brought up in Google news using "homelessness increasing" brought up 149 results (0.09 seconds). Here's one using the search term "US homelessness increasing" and the search parameter "last 24 hours ."

"...85% of organizations expect an increase in service demand in 2011; just 46% expect to be able to fully meet this demand..."

Hmm, makes you wonder if the other 15% are throwing the towel in, don't it?

update 2pm, boy these last two posts are cheerful, eh? Eeek, I'm going to go escape into some funny silly show, hopefully the next post will be less dreary.

Just thoughts

The countries on this planet that can actually take care of themselves are finding things rather amusing lately. They are watching the most powerful country slowly implode. The crumbling of this leviathan actually pretty funny.

I'm not talking about Japan. Once Japan recovers they will be laughing also.

Listen up here, Tony can make you laugh if you haven't exhausted yourself fighting with the urge to throttle his snooty ass and stop the flow of "conservative" verbal diarrhea.

I swear, Wall Streeters are like a herd of gazelle. The most powerful group of people on the planet are like a frightened school of fish, fleeing whlen something looks like it might possibly tank.

I've been avoiding the news

But I kind of can't because my friend's son does emergency medical care in disaster areas. Well, actually he sets it up, so he's always there ASAP when disasters happen. Now he's in Japan. The Japanese are polite, maybe even too polite. They say yes when they really mean no.

I happened to get a call from my friend when I was almost finished watching "The Killing Fields" a movie from 1984 which tells the story of one of the first reporters to write about the US bombing of Cambodia. It was shortly before the movie came out that most of my buddies were Vietnamese refugees. There were Lao, Thai, Cambodian and Hmong kids there also. I never read or watched the news and I was apolitical then. I was also pretty naive, so these kids could have fed me all kinds of bs lines and I would have believed them. I wonder now what kinds of horrors they went through and wouldn't mention to me even if I asked them. My boyfriend told me about heads on sticks down by the river.

It was within a year or two of making the Asian refugee friends that I met the friend with the Dr. kid who is now in Japan trying to save lives. As much as I hate some of the stupid shit my government does, I love the American people, there are all kinds of us.

All outta corned beef

Yes, 4 large chain grocery stores were out of corned beef when I went to get some this afternoon for tonight, and this weekend for friends. Bummer.

Still have beer and "The Closer" DVD and I don't give a flying fuck what is going on in the world today. Thank kewwwww.

Happy St. Patrick's Day! (Yes, there is some Irish blood in me, but no Catholic, thank God, lol.

Great documentary on Prop h8

8: The Mormon Proposition
2009 R 77 minutes (Streaming on Netflix now)

Some Mormon walking baby factory tried to get me (through my kid) to tithe 10% of my welfare check to the Mormon church many years ago. They look like they needed the money, didn't they?

They need to be taxed if they are funding political campaigns. They strong-armed their church members to give a lot of their money and time to defeat gay marriage after the CA Supreme court OK'd it.

At least the little fuckers are not banging on my door 10 times a year now. I wonder if their flock is shrinking now? Or they have problems now if they wear their little Mormon uniforms? I hope so. They throw h8 out there, they can certainly have some back from me. They started this fucking war, and the cowards won't be honest about the evil, rigid, intolerant, ugly and illegal things they do.

"Many LDS feel stung by the criticism leveled against them in 8: The Mormon Proposition, even without seeing the film."

Well waaaaaah. There are Mormons (or ex-Mormons) in the film telling their story.

Greg Palast knows fraud investigations in nuke plants

Tokyo Electric to Build US Nuclear PlantsThe no-BS info on Japan's disastrous nuclear operators

Greg Palast Mar 14, 2011


"I need to speak to you, not as a reporter, but in my former capacity as lead investigator in several government nuclear plant fraud and racketeering investigations.

I don't know the law in Japan, so I can't tell you if Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) can plead insanity to the homicides about to happen.

But what will Obama plead? The Administration, just months ago, asked Congress to provide a $4 billion loan guarantee for two new nuclear reactors to be built and operated on the Gulf Coast of Texas — by Tokyo Electric Power and local partners. As if the Gulf hasn't suffered enough.

Here are the facts about Tokyo Electric and the industry you haven't heard on CNN:..." read the rest of it

Maddow knocks it out of the park again

Yeah, raise taxes on the poor and elderly for tax cuts for the rich. Oh looky, it's deja vu!

skippy points us towards the answer to this nonsense:

Americans Target Bank of America to Stop Corporate Tax Dodging

Gasland (2009)

Uddate Sept 19, 2011 "Gasland" Wins an Emmy!

Gasland.
Aw jeez, 15 minutes in I thought "Fuckin' Halliburton, fuckin' Dickhead Cheney."

"...Mr. FOX: But there's a kind of gas drilling syndrome that people have been identifying which has to do with a kind of a peripheral neuropathy. But the symptoms for these - exposures to this kind of chemicals range from, you know, skin and eye irritation, to respiratory irritation, to cancer. And those chemicals - the ones that we do know about have Manufactures Safety Dash Sheets that list those possible effects and a lot of them are carcinogenic..."

And the EPA is like many regulatory agencies in the US these days - either bought and paid for, or hog-tied by the industries that they are supposed to be regulating and protecting us little people from. This is one of the companies in the documentary. I guess their bullshit works, because they are making money.

Hmmm. Japan is actively searching for alternative energy supplies. Hmmm. Hmmmm. Hmmm. Hmmmm

Asia ex-Japan shares rise on Japan rebuilding plays 2:08am EDT Factbox: Asian stocks on the move

Borrowers in Japan debt market face delays
By Atanas Dinov and Wakako Sato
TOKYO/LONDON, March 14 | Mon Mar 14, 2011 11:35am EDT

"....Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFG, Mizuho Corporate Bank and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp.

The three megabanks provided 88 percent of the country's $244 billion of corporate loans in 2010, leaving relatively little business for international players."

Why Japan scares the crap out of me

Explosion at Japan nuke plant, disaster toll rises

Umm, earthquakes here?
Check. Even my adrenaline level rises, and I'm used to quakes that are under 5.0, but have been in ones up to 6.6.

Nuclear power plant here?
Check

But even more than imagining what might possibly happen here, I am horrified at how many people will be affected in Japan, which is densely populated. As soon as I saw the number "8.9" I got nauseous, and horrified and tears came to my eyes.

Why?

Richter magnitude scale

Japan Disaster Relief: Where to Give
With Thousands Feared Missing, Relief Organizations Offer Assistance
ABC World News March 12, 2011

Help Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Victims Without Getting Scammed

By Ginny Mies, PCWorld Mar 11, 2011 2:00 PM

8.9 is a massive quake - Japan

And a frickin' tsunami also? Wow, this is so sad.

Holy crap.

March 11, 2011 9:24 AM PST
Twitter, Facebook vital as cell networks jam in Japan
by Tim Hornyak

Ha, Larry Summers had no idea how important Facebook would be, the idiot.

Guess How Much Larry Summers Will Get Paid To Go To Bermuda And Pal Around With Hedge Fund Managers
Courtney Comstock | Jan. 7, 2011, 6:00 PM | 1,293 | 4

I'll just bet that he's really not all that interested in the little people being able to communicate during a crisis or a revolution anyway. As a member of the elite, I'll just betcha he doesn't perceive of either of these technologies as a threat. Like I said, he's an idiot, but that's how I view most arrogant and elitist assholes.

Fed Report Finds No Wrongful Foreclosures By Banks, Consumer Advocates Slam Methodology

I watched the documentar­y that won the Oscar this year called "Inside Job." The banksters get the laws changed to bend to their wills, but the Fed has never been a government service. It's a group of private bankers, so why would they find anything wrong with their own?
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Chervron has owned mess for ten years, won't pay

Monday, March 7, 2011
NY judge extends order blocking Chevron judgment

"NEW YORK (AP) - A federal judge in New York has extended his temporary order banning collection of an $18 billion judgment by the courts in Ecuador against Chevron..."

Important enough to win Oscars

I managed to get the DVDs from Netflix. I'm watching "Inside Job" and I watched "The Social Network" three weeks ago. If you don't feel like weeding through lots of bullshit news stories in order to figure out what is really happening on this planet watch these two movies. They should help you scan headlines with a more discerning eye, so you can decide which ones are worth reading.

Holy shit, the rich ass perps in "Inside Job" are easy to hate. These fucking fucks bring violent thoughts to my mind, especially since I've been fucked over by drug addicts and alcoholics. That's what the perpetrators of the financial crisis are: money junkies, and they aint no different than cocaine addicts. You ever have to deal with one of those narcissistic and sociopathic cokeheads that are still using? I have. These guys are worse because they get the laws changed so that what they are doing is legal on paper. These motherfuckers act like we are stupid if we figure out what they are doing. Fucking arrogant assholes.

America is not broke

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