Seeds 27 May 2011
Posted by marisacat in 2012 Re Election, AFRICOM, Pan Arab Revolt - 2011.trackback
Tunisia murals by Zoo Project – in pictures
‘Zoo Project’, a Franco-Algerian graffiti artist based in Paris, visited Tunis in March and April and created images of political struggle. The popular uprising that unseated the dictator Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in January grew out of chronic youth unemployment; social and economic disparities between the affluent coastal regions and the impoverished interior; and a lack of political freedom…. [Elissa Jobson]
Strange little Zuckerberg. A man (is he one? looks like a child to me) who frankly is more likely to be some gruel sipper than a Great White Hunter.
But then we are so debased.
Can’t we arrange to introduce him to some hungry cannibal? Maybe eHarmony has this category at the site?
A Very special Facebook friending?
You know, a nice ethical cannibal, who hunts only sustainably. Prays before eating, washes his hands… is properly grateful for his food… and so on.
Oh! a cannibal who composts.
I see Marky Z. as the next Howard Hughes, only without the class…
just a stupid, uninteresting, perpetually annoying eccentric billionaire.
I kill what I eat too. In fact, I ruthlessly shot a banana just before lunch today.
I ruthlessly shot a banana….
Oh excellent!
I cruelly shot the Meunster for my sandwich. Strangled the avocado. And! I knifed the tomato. In fact, I knifed the tomato several times.
We are savages. There will be tomato blood!
thanks you two, I needed that smile. ;0) I killed a 24 ouncer of cheap beer, can I join the partay?
(I can’t stomach that fuckin creep)
I am thinking of killing some salad….
(I was hungry for salad when I put in the Safeway order… and tearing and washing lettuce myself is just too hard now… so I gingerly ordered a clam shell of prepared red leaf, spinach and butter lettuce … It is much better than I expected it would be.)
well, I’m kind of redundant and boring, so I’m killing another 24 ouncer!
(that salad sounds tasty. any tomatoes? yummmm, I killed some cabbage earlier with a bow and arrow, and cooked it up with some paprika, pepper, butter and a tad of salt.)
oh the salad was great…. with tomatoes, avocado and those tiny spring peas.
Kind of a break thru for me…. some prepped lettuce in the past, at least, was put in a chlorine wash… stuff that sat t salad bars and so on.
This seemed fine. So I am looking around for more selections…
sounds yummy, now I’m wishing I had some lettuce and avocados on hand, guess I’ll go with a tomato and salt for now.
What a great pic!
Snicker.
, he said , screwing up the lines,
waiting to hear a “We Love You Back!”.
What a peddler.
Methinks his sissy slap thing with Bibi recently was connived with some intent to keep Michigan in play. How the fucker is ever going to win there, or Florida, or Ohio, or PA, I have no idea.
52 bucks for a tank of gas.
As The Wars, wars fought, uh,
for Oil by the way…. drag on.
So Heckuva Job, Brownie, all around.
But, hey, he DID bag Osama Bin Laden.
, and John Edwards.
Oh,
The FBI swept down on an Amish farmer the other day, for selling raw milk. All sorts of ludricrous little, cmpletely unimportant ”sin” and what have you violations.
Tom Dispatch reported a secret (I guess not so very) agreement from 2010 betwen Scy of State and Bibi that specifically names the ’67 borders.
Not that it matters. Uri Avnery said, Obbie let Bibi spit on him and will be calling it rainwater…..
We are so blessed.
Oh yes, we’re just wading thru hammered horseshit about now.
e.g. –> ’67 Borders!™
My Administration Calls For™…Negotiations™!
The Parties must work it out™!
And heavy on the Hammered Horseshit Helper at that. As if anything with the weaselly addendum as a basis for negotiation means anything.
The guy really should try the hot watch hustle on the street.
$10,000! ~As basis for Negotiation™!
$100 Dollars! Name your Price!
You wonder how long the charade can go on…esp as we are so unmasked thru the Arab uprisings… covering for Bahrain and Saudi A, attacking ohters… god knows how long in Libya… too many in Europe fully engaged ugh…. and so on.
(To crude in my thinking, as the wars are wholly diversified commercial enterprises…)
Don’tmake me laugh TOO hard.
the “autopen” will likely become the norm, despite the legality. Wonder how many times it’s already been used unbeknownst to the public.
The new nickname fits: Robama …
so very screwed we are ….
oh the jokes have been great………..
between teleprompter and robot-rama
Long, but good, article by Michael Hudson:
http://counterpunch.org/hudson05272011.html
Really good piece, thanks…
This is what gives economists a bad name. The IMF was vilified for forcing these kinds of self-destructive austerity policies on countries (see Argentina as recently as 2001), now they get to play “good cop”, but like that game, its a psychological tactic. The conditions for the person being interrogated aren’t going to change.
Oh yeah I remember Argentina very well.
In fact my running joke for some time is that we are becoming a mix of Argentina and Chile, in decades past.
We are so very fucking screwed.
And I will be delighted to make it far enough to see the unravelling of the Euro Zone. The best thing about it was open borders (the opposite of our frantic shut down, precursor to full-on, no holds barred, police lock down) and that is going away.
FWIW… which is not much.
So it is all Rand’s fault. Mean Rand. Mean mean.
Jesus had the manna already to drop from his hands, secure the holy nation against all infidels… and Rand cut his holy fingers off. He did.
Christ are we in a mess.
I see Babs didn’t even bother to play good Pwogwessive Cop on that one.
And yeah, that roll call is the correct link: the bill is titled with no reference to it’s main puropose in the long title, because that’s the way they roll:
(some of the bolding mine. In order to link to the above, on the address bar, add two colons (::) at the end of this address: [http] ://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c112:5:./temp/~c112smlfol or access it via this page, under version 5.)
it’s very depressing, frankly.
Oh Babs and those like her know they are home free… they don’t have to bother to “oppose” anything much anymore. L’Obster is cover.
Just like they all lined up to kiss Bibi’s ass… in such a show of collaboration and collusion.
I DID note what the media is calling a “war weary vote in the House this week. Not that it mattered, while it came close, it still managed to get the 218 needed to pass.
yup, morbidly fucking depressing, I always knew there were more than enough assholes involved with running things, but I never knew there were that many, who were so unbelievably venal, for lack of a more suitable adjective.
And I’m sure that many war weary congress critters are equally, if not, in fact, more, worried for their own safety from the PUBLIC they’ve never served, … as they test, to the last pulsing artery, the human capacity for forgiveness.
as they test, to the last pulsing artery, the human capacity for forgiveness.
Well I think most of these votes are so when they go home and people complain they can say, but I did this or that. of course full knowing that the wars go on.
As we are auto penned to death.
I always knew there were more than enough assholes involved with running things, but I never knew there were that many
yeah it is ALL of them. Every last one The only exception I might make is the odd local person… or tiny small number in some state leg body. But never enough to really matter.
We have a pretty remarkable Publc Defender here, Jeff Adachi… who has broken open quite a lot of police corruption in the last few months. It cheers me up no end. But also hard to say whre it is headed, if he will somehow be stopped. He is elected, so he does nto serve at the pleasure of the mayor nor the nearly competely corrupt board of supes… etc.
I think I might know who you’re talking about from the recent years I had a SF Kronky subscription (not to say I wouldn’t still buy the in concrete, paper hardcopy, if there were a rag worth doing so. (Fuck Kindle, …and inexplicably denied access; easily, readily chameleoned text, ultimately only one cloud sourced nooz/knowledge databank, etc.. ….WAPO, being a prime nooz example among a multitude of them ….))
I’m betting Jeff is getting the fucking blues for his humanity.
Yeah he is also going after pension reform, at least in SF…
I caught him for the 5th or so time last night on KGO, the local talk radio… and he happened to mention that one of the dirty cops, whose name he used, makes $ 228,900 a year. A police detective, plain clothes. Who steals from the poor…
Absofuckinglutely ridiculous.
I will have to keep my eyes open for any future radio interviews, I generally can’t stomach most of those lizards on talk radio (along with the unrelenting, every two minute commercials), unless someone decent is at least getting a few words in edgewise.
well Adachi hs made big waves, on both fronts… He is some kind of mini miracle.
I also hold out a bit of hope for Jean Quan, the mayor over in Oakland.
hmm You might enjoy The Only Liberal (that is just what I call her, as a joke) at KGO… she is on Friday and Saturday nights, from 1 – 5 am. It was she who had Adachi on last night. Then she spent the next hours on cops, prisons and things inbetween… I just looked her up at the site, and see she is filling in Monday in the 9 am – 12 Noon slot.
Even the slippy sliddey propaganda shits at KGO have to admit, he/Adachi is right about stuff.
so good to know that hope hasn’t been totally destroyed, despite the horrifying effort going on, will have to read up on Jean Quan.
oooh, thanks for that hon, I’m going to try to give a listen asap, so nice to witness sanity across the frequencies.
Ohh but wait! …Nan isn’t war weary just yet.,…….I wonder, do they get to pick straws, as to good Cop, Bad Cop, in The House? ……or, does it somewhat depend on whether they would be satisfied living long term at that 2nd, primary residence?. ….(backdrop, …heh we, didn’t know it, but bipartisanship was perfected quite a while ago.)
(shit, sorry, ..the fuck up is a “bold face,” instead of an “end boldface,” at the end of just yet…)
The Holy Waxworks. Just call it Madame Tussaud’s.
THE SHOWS:
–NBC’s “Meet the Press“: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY); Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY); roundtable with former Rep. Harold Ford, Jr. (D-TN), Republican strategist Alex Castellanos, Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus and New York Times columnist David Brooks
–ABC’s “This Week“: 2012 GOP presidential candidate and former Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-MN); Gov. Mitch Daniels (R-IN); Publisher of U.S. News and World Report and the New York Daily News Mort Zuckerman and Qwiki.com Founder and CEO Doug Imbruce; roundtable with ABC’s George Will, ABC’s Jonathan Karl, Democratic strategist Donna Brazile and Republican strategist Ed Gillespie
–CBS’s “Face the Nation“: House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA); DNC Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL): Gov. Jay Nixon (D-MO)
–”Fox News Sunday“: Rep. Allen West (R-FL) and Rep. Donna Edwards (D-MD); Sen. John McCain (R-AZ); roundtable with the Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol, Fortune’s Nina Easton, the Washington Examiner’s Byron York and Fox News’ Juan Williams; “Power Player of the Week”: Bugles Across America Founder and President Tom Day
–CNN’s “State of the Union“: Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Peter Chiarelli; panel on Veterans’ treatment with American Legion Legislative Director Tim Tetz and Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of American Founder and Executive Director Paul Rieckhoff; Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA); Purple Heart Homes co-founder Dale Beatty
–CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS Live“: New York Times columnist Tom Friedman; Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah nephew Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal; Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Chief Executive Thomas Hoenig
You’d think Friedman and Zakaria in the same room would be like brainmatter and antibrainmatter annihilating itself. We could always hope.
Ooh, anybody hungry? This almost qualifies as a full snicker meal,…with beverage:
(hat tip to lambert)
Here is my thought
The NYSE is a criminal org and wants to limit photographic evidence.
Works as well as anything else!!
yup, works for me.
Rest In Peace Gil Scott-Heron
I think his death almost got more attention in some corners of Europe, than here.
[sigh]
Parting words in Poland (where we are negotiating an air base, I read)
Bombs away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
impulses ? unsettling choice of words if you ask me. And I can’t help but suspect the duping of his supporters with Hope ™ and Change ™ was the disingenuous impetus for that proclamation.
yup, Bombs Away
I don’t believe the civilians were mistaken for Taliban, I’m sure it didn’t matter, and I’m sure things will ‘progress’ to that point in the “civilized” countries such as the US, starting with the largest urban, and poor rural communities, at the rate the Elite’s desires, and disregard for human life, is infesting the landscape.
We can’t arrest criminal bankers for destroying thousands of lives (and who knows how many of their victims committed suicide), but you can be shackled for dancing in public, and for performing music for free in public places which you have ownership in.
Your freedom of expression, is only allowed at “virtual” places such as Facebook, with your fwends, until of course, it’s not.
(not “destroying thousands of lives,” more likely: “destroying billions of lives.” ….One of these days I’ll follow my own advice about: haste makes waste …but it’s so very hard to meditate given the mess we’re in…)
(oh speaking of Facebook, .I thought this was fucking hilarious, ….in a rather bleak, mostly disgusted, hopeless and weeping, sort of way:
(bolding mine))
well that is the whole ”I kill my own food” thing.
As catnip ruthlessly shot her banana…
I think he just looks silly. Take him on a tour of a big slaughter house, see how he fares.
of course he’s silly,….fully senseless actually, the worrying thing is the prior lack of voice, as to how silly he was, when Facebook became the required, end all, be all, [virtual bot] place to be. ….;0(
But he is just one of many. These business government partnerships.
well, my thought is that Facebook, in terms of its industrial classification, ….is actually one of a very, very small few, especially given the world’s population, …and that’s one of the things I find worrying.
I think the techno guys we never hear about thru mass media are likely as dangerous. Ocaisionally I read the numbers of unused Facebook accounts, accounts with low to no usage (that would be me), numbers who have fallen off, etc. So much more hype than reality, on some days.
I guess I find zero-ing in on one or the other of them to be calculated diversion.
The problem is the deep alliance of business and government. Not that it is anything new, either.
Fully agree:
1. the techno guys we never hear about thru mass media are likely as dangerous.
2. The problem is the deep alliance of business and government. Not that it is anything new, either.
And yeah , zeroing in, to the exclusion of all else, can certainly be a diversion. A happy medium might have worked though, and there wasn’t even that., when it could’ve prevented the current, ghastly, status quo.
I don’t think such a thing as a “happy medium” exists for America. Never did. Never will.
I am currently hunting for a too cute little segment i caught on local ABC news tonight… It was at the periphery of what I was doing, so I want to find it on the local news site to get it all.
A too cute human interest piece on Bob Baer, the ex CiA guy who lives around here now. How he and his wif met while both were CIA.
We are fucking INUNDATED. This one or that one is pointed diversion. It really is.
this, ‘sole author’-less (outside of Mr./Mrs./Ms. CBS NOOZ ?), Orwellian shit, is exactly what I was trying to portray (bolding mine):
Yup, with the advent of Hyper Technology, we’ve never felt more Free ™,…nor been more prosperous, and safe, per capita, worlwide. :0)
(bolding mine)
Frances Fox Piven made the point years ago, that the left, such as it is, is allowed their magazines, books, web sites, etc… because IT DOES NOT MATTER.
The reach is so small… overall.
Truly does not matter. And she is right. It cannot cut thru the dense verbiage, the control, the strangle.
years ago too, Maher, in a very true comment, said, the internet can never match 3 top notch researchers at your disposal. Well bingo on that. But it goes over most peoples’ heads. They think EVERYTHING is online. When it is drip drip drip dribbles of various “types” of information. Nothing more.
I can’t begin to tell you Marisa, how much what I consider to be your sanity, has helped me hang on to my own sanity, amongst the madness.
Thank you,…..so very much, honey.
Neue
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