The… 24 May 2011
Posted by marisacat in 2012 Re Election, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter, Total fucking lunatics.trackback
New photographs released of tsunami hitting the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station in Japan. Tepco power station’s sea defences seen crumbling as wall of seawater overwhelms facility….
Most of the cars disappear as the waters rise higher – just one can be seen, standing vertically on its nose. [Tepco/AFP/Getty Images]
A gallery of 9 photos at the Guardian.
The… best laid plans of mice, men – and monsters…
They don’t seem to want to show the first shots of the tsunami hitting the square, so artfully designed outerwalls of the blue and white towers. I thought the design looked like tissue paper, art paper designs. And hell yeah, it was tissue paper.
And now we know, because they say so now, that within hours we had initial stages of melt down. I am so very shocked.
And of course surprised.
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A lovely listing of protests, with arrests, just in the Years of Obama, part of our long, slow, inevitable trickle down thru the muddy drains of imperial collapse.
Jack Cohen-Joppa, who with his partner Felice, edits The Nuclear Resister, told me
“Over the last three decades, in the course of chronicling more than 100,000 arrests for nonviolent protest and resistance to nuclear power, nuclear weapons, torture, and war, we’ve noted a quadrennial decline as support for protest and resistance gets swallowed up by Presidential politicking. It has taken a couple of years, but the Hopeian addicts of 2008 are finally getting into recovery [hmm well, maybe, but!, let's not rely on the Hopium addicts - Mcat].
We’re again reporting a steady if slow rise in the numbers willing to risk arrest and imprisonment for acts of civil resistance.
Today, for instance, there are more Americans serving time in prison for nuclear weapons protest than at any time in more than a decade.”
If reading the protest list does not cause an almost involuntary sense of rage against the parade of Shuffle Toe’d, Shambles and Mess of Shit for Brains leaders who throw themselves at us… well….
(And that drippy, third-rate, God Bless America! thugdom from Bibi this morning is just the carcinogenic cherry on top of it all…)
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hmm I see Irish Times just calls it “triple meltdown”. No beating around the bush…
1, 2, 3. Knock out punches.
In other news, criminal boychicks play ping pong, declare themselves “essential for the world” (not merely special like wares on the sale table at Macy*s) and I noticed Mother Michelle looked bored out of her skull at the various displays and events.
Whoops
No indictments for BushCo?
I think Edwards is easy pickins
No doubt. Him and any whistleblower Obama’s DOJ can target.
60 Minutes just last Sunday did a horrible story of a whistleblower being put on trial under the Espionage Act, by Ob and Holder.
It was horrifying to listen to. And I just fell into it, I had put 60 M on to hear the Lance Armstrong mess….
This could complicate Edwards’ comeback.
Send hair gel now to the prison.
Surely they have that readily available.
Well, then.
No?
What’s a hair floofin’ millworker’s son from Carolina ta do?
Of course in Edwards favor, he does have the visits with Kerry to look forward to.
Not to mention a grateful Party.
They were all very close. (This close!™)
Edwards wanted to change his life……………… and HE DID!
Kerry visits? Mon dieu. Just how much is the son of a mill worker supposed to endure in one lifetime!??
Protester who heckled Netanyahu in Congress allegedly beaten, arrested at hospital
Nothing like spreading that Israeli-gov’t style “peace” stuff to the US.
everything is going so well…
President Obama Has No Idea What Year It Is
I see he also threw in an unnecessary comma.
I fear for your republic.
oh mamamama mia.
I landed on the last few mins (replay version at 1:45 am) of The Poperah’s Last Popover or whatever this is.
It is actually kind of mindblowing. Not in a good way either.
All I can think is: Promise? To go away?
caught a slobbery write up, which I couldn’t bear to digest, and piccys of that hideous ruffled pink gown and pink chair for She, Herself…will be ever so glad not to overhear again, slobber about her show, since it appears OWN may be heading for disaster.
The following 2007 incident, really nailed down my opinion of the Poperah:
oh her shows on Katrina were terrible. She was just a government mobster. The ones filmed down there were beyond disgusting. She embraced HORRIBLE people who were making things worse. Esp black thug types like Eddie Compass who was acting Chief of Police.
(Spike embraced him too.. and a lot of slobber for Russell Honoree, the *** general, light skinned black, sent in to make it seem it was all working. Sick empty showboating.)
Dogs. (sorry to be rude to the dogs)
And her shows afterward, terrible too.
She is just government issue, imo.
glad to have missed her katrina airings …yeah, Government Issue Mamma, She Herself ….
IOZ may have left the building:
http://whoisioz.blogspot.com/2011/05/no-revoir.html
oh thanks! I ran over to read.
I’m so over this.
I will miss him, but I undersand where he is. (I am not going anywhere, however).
It is all “What the Fuck is Next?” now… which I thought again as it is reported today that Obby, in London, says he will continue to pound Libya and work to get rid of Qaddafi. One world, under the USA, til someone rises to take us down. Help us destroy ourselves.
No hope. Much less Hopium.
Most everything seems useless….
utterly selfish, I know,…but that’s the best news I’ve heard in a long time.
All things unfortunately pass… I love Ioz. Hopefully he’ll go write that novel.
I hope it wasn’t in utter despair, and more of a pissed off mode, will miss him.
NOW he is involving the creatures. I strayed into He Himself’s speech to the Parliament (and assorted guests, I think) and he spoke of
“… as long as the bird of freedom chirps in the hearts… “
Not even the sparrow is safe.
Who the hell wrote that? The bird of freedom chirps? Christ, that almost makes me miss Peggy Noonan.
It blew what little was left of my mind, after Popover’s extended good-buy….
We’d shackle and torture the little bird. Even as the little thing chirped to be let go. We’d truss it up and serve with various mice and rabbits to the Big Bad Bald Eagle.
A Holy Sacrifice.
I thought at first he might be referring to a Twitter IPO….I can imagine.the Wall Street investors waiting for that IPO and refering to $$$$$the bird of freedom chirps$$$$$ guess that old asshole Churchhill may have been prophetic.
that old asshole Churchhill
Yes the man who wanted to air bomb Iraq with poison gas. And so many Americans have a slavish love of all things Churchill. As though via his American mother we are invested in him.
His grandson, a very tedious sort, came over to lecture us on the eve of The Bush Wars. I resented it. But the supposed former colony lapped it up.
Full Text of the speech via CNN… it was part of the great crescendo to the finale, he quoted Churchill.
It is a terrible speech. Short version: We are for Freedom and Peace… and War War War is the way to get to those heart fluttering, bird chirping ideals.
Oh and the UK and USA are essential for the world. We matter. Believe it or we bomb you off the earth. Etc.
That sort of drool. Self Fellate.
Self Fellate
I think nothing sums up contemporary ‘civilization’ quite so succinctly.
Truly.
AND he said we are humble. Which was a theme in the utterly gagging 15 minutes of Poperah Popover Time I caugh over night. She is so humble.
Looks like with IOZ gone I’m going to have to rely on WIIIAI to pick up the slack. Excellent takedown of Netanyahoo’s speech:
http://whateveritisimagainstit.blogspot.com/2011/05/netanyahus-speech-to-congress-israel-is.html
Thanks for that… it was a highly manipulative speech.
AND no longer mentioned, but I plowed alll thru the commentary and track backs a couple years ago when suddenly it was … “must recognise the right of the JEWISH state of Israel to exist”. Even tho it would appear to be counterintuitive it was a new wrinkle coming from the Israeli head of state.
And anyway, so much fucking demanding. So scared of how we will look when, if the Palestinian statehood comes up for a vote in the UN.
Zionists and Israel supporters deny it, but there IS religious friction in Israel between Orthodox and the secular majority. They DO have a nutzo religious ”police”… Actual police have to be sent in to keep the Othodox from bitching at people for being on cell phones, being out and about, driving etc on the Sabbath. Doing much fo the same stuff the Mukhabarat do in Arabia nad so on.
Not at all new. And not going away.
I am so tired of the lecturers.
hmmm never thought I’d be cheering on Rand Paul, but have to say, thanks for this Rand:
And as I have said, I am sure none of them has read the PATRIOT Act, yet. 10 years later…
Yup. The fuckers are sure clear on the extensions their voting on though:
(they’re…not their)
(looks like I screwed up the blockquotes somewhat, but I guess it’s pretty clear that the two paragraphs starting with: just for the pleasure…, were my opinion (and the bolding was mine).)
From Glenn Ford: The Corporate Dream: Teachers as Temps
so fucking true:
There was a good analysis of Columbine, in all the mess of verbiage after the killings. It was commented that the school itself looked like the modern suburban office park.
And, the analysis went, it surely did. As that is what the PARENTS valued.
I paid strict attention when the 4 ”Jersey Girls” surfaced in the wake of 9/11. All four were wives of some level or other of corporate executive at Cantor Fitzgerald, which was almost at the top of the building – and in fact had DoD contracts, among other connections to government….
They freely admitted, they did not vote with any regularity (neither do I, anymore, but I pay attention) nor did they know anything at all, down to basics like the 2 houses of Congress, which was which, which was bigger, etc… they admitted they knew nothing at all of how government at any level operated.
Of course not, they took their lead from the corporate structure. They admitted they voted for Bush as they attended events Cantor Fitzgerald put on in support of Bush (and they proceeded to be very disappointed in Kerry, after they signed on to appear with him, extracted promises w/r/t 9/11 and got royally stiffed. I think all have said they are IND now, not R or D).
Of course they HAD voted, whether they went into the polling booth or not….. They were satisfied til their husbands died in quite spectacular fashion.
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