Opera Glasses and Popcorn
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A protester walks past a policeman with a poster from the British embassy in Tehran | Reuters
Oh it just says so much. Not that I care what the native fellows do to the foreign interlopers… I don’t care.
Carry on…
An Opera Glasses and Popcorn view of Politics and the Assembled Multitude...
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- Real independent observations on current events with a particular fondness for the follies of the Big Box Blahgers.
Deflates bloated egos like a champion fencer in a balloon warehouse.
- Alan Smithee
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"...polish on a mud wallow"
- Meteor Blades [May 24 at Mcat]
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"... doyenne of donkle deconstruction"
- Who is IOZ [January 2 2007]
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"... hardened professionals and their primary strength lies in their being completely unconflicted."
"... the primary difference is that on the level of criticizing other blogs and bloggers, they can actually do some damage."
"... Not what I look for in a liberal blog product."
- peeder - MLW, Daily Rant [3.24.07]
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on one stage reading their poetry"
"I think Allen Ginsberg standing up there reading - putting himself on the line - was one of the two bravest things I've ever seen. Remember, it was '55. People had crew cuts, and they looked at you like you were misplaced cannon fodder. The country was being run by Luce publications. It was a dangerous, cold, ugly time, and it was scary. . .
In all our memories no one had been so outspoken in poetry before. We had gone beyond a point of no return. None of us wanted to go back to the grey, chill, militaristic silence, to the intellectual void - to the land without poetry - to the spiritual drabness. We wanted to make it new and we wanted to invent it and the process of it as we went into it. We wanted voice and we wanted vision."
-Michael McClure
Over and over, in election year after election year, GE and MidTerms both… the Dems start to purr and preen, they stretch luxuriously - at just being TOLD they are going to win [...]
It never fails.
... in February of 2002, looking over the already joyless congressional stragglers willing to be drafted for duty… they barely dreamed, yet, it was even possible (Howard, a different person then, had not arrived to say it could be done)… but one thing was clear, we could not rely on the party to swing it. Could not. You could smell it, they would screw the deal. And I am not talking about Howard and primary issues here. By the end, that was a passing political story. Chuck it on the heap.
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Upshot? The Republicans make it thru. They hold on.
If you click on La Louche the picture or the words, it leads to the Amazon PayPage, a way to ... oh let's say help with the cat can deliveries.
Thanks to all who made the very kind suggestion.
I think I posted about this months ago. Here’s an update:
Anonymous library paper sculptor returns, and calls it quits
oh I remember those, they were wonderful!
Your allotted amount of free speech has expired!
The Declaration of Occupy D.C.
I am very impressed.
BTW face-off on-going in SF with Occupy and the cops. Barricades are up – peole penned in or out, the cops would move in, then fall back across hours but it seems to be sparking now. I wold guess the plan was to keep the tension up for hours then move in in the dark.
watching the way the cops are operating now I really do think they’re trying to incite a violent response.
Well like that quote from Benito Shlomo… all about (pretty much close to) I am God I have a God’s army that is the 7th largest on earth. And so on.
They have gone mad with power.
He is almost saying, At a word of command frm me my armies would move on Washington. That would be the next mad move… as I see it.
And horrific as the wars have been … they seem to b spiraling as well. I mean this “story” with supplied “movie” from Zawahiri about a captured US Aid worker, some 70 year old guy named (so help me god) WARREN WEINSTEIN…. taken on Pakistani soil and supposedly held by AQ in Pakistan… and now threats that if Slob does not do thi or that they kill some guy named WEINSTEIN.
It is all spiraling very fast.
…shoulda gone with the ole ‘Bud McNally’ ruse or somethin..
and all….
Yanah – to throw them ‘Qaedastanis off the track..
LOL
Welp. I bet ya that motherfucker now is revisiting the advisability and legal underpinnings of local municipal ordinances prohibiting the wearing of masks in public.
Yanah – Better come to terms with it quick.
SO tired of being in a Mossad Cia commercial… but it seems we are…
Well it’s all so commercial and televised now.
As Weinstein is to likely to find out.
Poor schmuck.
Rough territory that Lahore, I mean especially for. ya know,
a new guy workin door-to-door encyclopedia or vacuum cleaner sales or whatever in the neighborhood.
Hard out there.
See things will pick up if Romney gets in,
– use the MORMANS for cover. LOL
and we can
Although if Gingrich gets it we always have the fallback of sending in the Sequined Gown crews now that he’s a member of the One True Faith. LOL.
I tell ya what I pray for – > a fuckin SPACESHIP.
Fuckin loaded with otherworldly creatures.
I mean, who cares, right? Fuck it, I’ll go, I’ll submit to their experiments or whatever. LOL Hell, I figure they can’t come from anymore a crazy ass Exceptionalist realm than we got here.
Fuckin loaded with other worldly creatures.
That famous bar scene… in what was the movie… Star Wars? The original?
That was beautiful, thank you so much!
That famous bar scene… in what was the movie… Star Wars?
Welp, the scene I recall is with the fat, slobbering, insatiable, lewd-tongued bastard about to take every captive down, tho I may be thinking of one of the Clinton or Gore runs back when, ya know,
Democrats were.Democrats.
Were they ever? I guess I think.. or at least this is what my mother used at dinner parties to break up heated arguments, that ‘the Democrats at least moved money around’.
snicker. They still move it around, they finger it in their pockets and wallets… constantly counting and feeling the money up.
Oh isn’t that great…
and have you read the statement out of Occupy DC? Someone sent it to me tonight…
oh I see Madman posted it ot the thread…
The Declaration of Occupy D.C.
cool
Loved this:
(bolding mine)
I don’t know if diane will swing by, but Cumulus cleaned house today at KGO radio…. I found it so entertaining…. what a hoot!
“What we are doing is adding a tremendous amount of news content to KGO.” The goal would be to make up ground compared to CBS Radio’s all-news KCBS-AM (740) and its FM simulcast at 106.9. Gone are veteran KGO talents Gil Gross (2-4pm). Gene Burns (7-10pm), John Rothmann (10pm to midnight) and Ray Taliaferro (1-5am). At 6:13pm Thursday evening, the San Francisco Board of Radio-Info.com carried this post: “KGO fired Burns, Rothmann, Gross and Taliaferro today.” Gil Gross posted this message on Facebook Thursday evening: “It’s been fun, San Francisco. Truly the most fun I’ve ever had was at KGO. See you soon.” Weekend talent Brian Copeland remains, as weekends will apparently stay mostly talk. (KGO’s own statement about the changes is here.) On the San Francisco Board, there is speculation that Cumulus Media-syndicated talker Doug McIntyre may be added for late nights.
UNfortunately it has gone downhill for years…. adding more and more advertising and more advertising that was questionable…. many hosts, while probably not by comparison in a weird business, but in reality were stale and frankly rank propagandists. It was clearly, even in our rigged system, an operative joint…increasingly right wing tho hosts keeping lip service to “a woman’s right to choose” and more lip service to SS marriage allowed most hosts to call themselves liberal or progressive… but other than that so right wing with a few exceptions here and there. Interestingly keeping call-in talk on the weekend means they have kept the one host I refer to as The Only Liberal.
There was a heavy pro war, pro Israel bias in all things. And it had been increasing – it went from bad to gut wrench – with ramping up for war or something ith Iran… Fanning huge fears over Egypt, Islamists under the bed, in the cupboard… and on and on and on and on. One of the hosts fired had just called for a US Israel operation in the Sinai, basically war… again. More war. War forever. Israel Uber Alles.
Etc.
While Cumulus is yet another Vampire Squid, I couldn’t be happier to see the GasBag Exodus. It would probably be too good to be true if Rothman found himself unemployable (in CALI), and without a voice; …. on the other side of being able to click that off switch on DESPAIR, and have his own ‘despair,’ go, … not only unacknowledged, … but loaded with BLAME pointed toward himself, … see how well he holds back his emotions after something ultimately breaks and snaps in him.
I’d really love an OCCUPY THE AIRWAVES, and was disappointed when Pat Thurston was not only incredulous, but highly miffed at the idea. Maybe she never listened to the GasBags cutting off and/or insulting callers, though I was glad to know she will remain. I wonder if Cumulus will still be airing that nasty blurb implying that all late night callers to her show, were Lone Wolf Losers ™ ? Seems likely to me.
(oops, meant to cut off italics after: Lone Wolf Losers ™.)
I think something of a pirate radio station would be best… I loved it when down in Chiapas they occupied the radio station… but people died that day iirc (a few years ago now and those weeks were bloody) rather than try to invade a locked secure site that is a working station. Meaning there is arms carrying security…
Oh she did not handle that well, but what was she going to say? Come on in, I’ll leave the back door unlocked for you (and mail me my pink slip if you see it lying around).
Love the pirate radio idea honey. ;0)
And yeah, I got that Pat wouldn’t have been able to say much, what bothered me a bit was what seemed to actually be her anger, and misunderstanding of how voiceless people actually feel.
I think all radio show hosts should dedicate at least one show a month to just letting their talkers air their woes, I really don’t think they understand voicelessness at all.
Avctually I think Pat gets that…. She is th ONLY host who has not carried pure propaganda on what were the big issues that host after host fought people on, RIDICULED people on, laughed at people, marginalised people… AND there have been shows where people, ordinary callers were ambushed. That happened esp on Oscar Grant.
From Oscar Grant, to Fukushima to TSA to Occupy. Over and over on the big contentious issues KGO imo even for talk radio becuase they parrot the gibberish that somehow they are peoples’ friends that they are part of the community (
), but over and over they took the position of the State, of the corps, of the nuclear industry… and they REALLY ridiculed people over TSA.
And please don’t think I am naive, Pat I am sure also exists as a valve… a release valve.. but I’ve listened to her long enough and watched her avoid what the others did, over and over.
I don’t think you’re naive at all about ‘the valve,’ …and I love the wonderful way Pat lets people talk to her, …. one on one, never ever shuts them off, ….. it’s absolutely wonderful. I was just disappointed, and surprised, at what seemed to be her honest disbelief that people might want to take over the airwaves (for the most part) at KGO, and I wondered if she was aware of how many people are actually afraid to call in, no matter how wonderful she responds, because they don’t want their boss recognizing their voice, because they don’t like their phone number being recorded when they are complaining about the hideous government, et al…(there is no anonymity anywhere, anymore, anyhow, …even though it is absolutely necessary to fix things).etc. etc. .
Inner-tube/cable guy came out today after 36 hours of no net to explain that the THIRD box has to be plugged in FIRST to make innertubes work…its hard in the 21st century for neanderthal sybarite
BTW This looks great:
OccupythePorts.com
thanks for that…. I am surprised San Francisco is missing from the line-up!
hmm seems John Timoney horrid cop late of NYC Miami and wherever else is moving on to Bahrain.
From Cpunch:
Evil people running things, …. so evil, that they managed, deliberately, for quite some time, to near obsolesce, … the word, EVIL.
Yet another reason to choose the wiser bud and not budweiser; safer streets.
,Tuscola Today Link
Time has an article up on the study, too.
Pro’lly shouldn’t be admitn’ nuthin, but when the wheel bearing went out in TX I had just finished “titrating” …there’s a reason why Raven is always laughing…
I’ve noticed that or those studies being referred to fairly widely… all to the good.
The problem is they are cracking down on EVERYTHING.
Yep, but I think they can try to crack down all they want, it won’t do them any good…It won’t be tomorrow, and a lot of good jpeople will suffer gross injustice in the meantime, but we’re posed to overgrow the government.
Google map Norcal and zoom in anywhere oaks grow, and the cannabis plant gardens are more ubiquitous than vineyards (well, almost…) And that’s just Cali…Illionois had local grown “kind bud” (something Ras Marius calls “something to talk you out of it”) Mafia weed. Chem shit. But an indigenous cannabis product, and something you didn’t see (notwithstanding the odd bro’ doing ‘dro , or rarity a full blown organic rainbow gardner) before the so-called “drug war in mexico” sic…
Love how the dude’s in mendo paying the sheriff for each plant and staying under the Fed’s magical 99 plant number still got raided….I cant wait to see Stephen of harborsde on CNBC’s special next week, but they made it seem like he was saying that pot was dangerous in the previews…of course he was talkng about the threat posed by the FEDS but they cut made it look like it was the devil weed that made it dangerous…
Love how the dude’s in mendo paying the sheriff for each plant and staying under the Fed’s magical 99 plant number still got raided
They got brutally raided – not just the plants but also the house proper… they operated completely within the law from everything I read… but I also read that one of the principles was a long long long time MJ rights activist. I think htat is why it happened. And afterall, it is the traffikers and “criminals” that the Feds like to do business with. Not some sraightforward medical mj grower.
l…ong time MJ rights activist. I think that is why it happened
B I N G O
At least that’s the view from closer than 6 degrees of separation…
To be more precise, some folks seem to think the Fed’s are picking on the Mendo Sheriff’s posse and other “legit” scenes (more than the fronts for exporters) as a lame attempt at thwarting the legitimizing of cannabis (as opposed the state “legalization” they can’t do anything about either) within the broader culture.
I’m not so sure the fucker’s giving the orders are really that stupid. Making pot businesses prohibitively unappealing to increasingly hopeless and impoverished intelligentsia? A fool’s errand surely, and forcing the public, legit and taxed scene underground NOW, once again, is so pointlessly stupid when you realize how far the cat is out of the bag in NorCal (and in the cancer wards, bedrooms and behind the bar allies in even TX) that other than hazing the competition nothing else makes sense to me..
I was a pathetic driver the few times I smoked weed. I found myself stopping way too far away from intersection stoplights, for one, like twenty feet or so. I’m actually a better driver drinking a couple of brews than smoking weed, but that’s just me, can’t speak for anyone else (have never had an accident that I caused, though I don’t drive when toasted, either).
The DUI laws are ridiculous, and I can tell you from my disatereous foray into tavern ownership the laws are not equally applied…but I can honestly say that I could smoke weed until my eyes bled an still not be functionally physically impaired. Find me a skater/surf-border/skier/snowboarder/waterskier/dirtbiker/bmx/etc. and I’ll you somebody who might not smoke themselves, but certainly knows a “colleague” who does so ritually before they set out for fun…
DUI laws are ridiculous… so is the federal requirement of 21
I think weed should be legalized. I have a feeling that they will only do that after the powers that be set themselves up to reap the fortune. Schultz, of Poppy/Reagan Reign/Iran Contra infamy, was recently on record as pushing drug legalization, which had me instantly thinking of MICCORPoratization, …Afghanistan, and Poppies ……sigh ….
Shultz has long long long supported legalisation, at least of MJ. For years he has donated $ to any initiative that came up.
I think Eagleberger was talking about him (shultz) being the cabinet guy who kept him from getting biblical with the napalming the andean foothills and jungles to destroy the coca prodcution…
I hate the fucking “black lodge”…
There’s so many spooks in the high end of drug distro/production I’m sure they out-number the narcs and a nearly at parity with the actual outlaws …this has been especially true in the hippy scenes since the beginning (I hate Leary because of what he gave the spooks to come back from Morroco..well that and other reasons
) They usually focus on powder drugs, but Leary got busted for hash trafficking…
See… all the lauding and slobbering over people like Leary has always bored me to death – aspects of his story are very very interesting, and I leave it at that…. The falling for his sort, it is just more drool… now maybe that is just from growing up here… seeing the passing parade or what… I hve a disdain for anything that smacks of groupies in any case…
and yes it, traffiking, the whole mule train is mixed up w/ the government and various factions and entities… Like Hasenfus, the pilot who went down about 20+ years ago with Poppy’s card in hs pocket iirc. SO many DEA stories.
Whre there is arms trade there is drugs trade often… and usually the same people in it.
the hero worship thing is sickening, but Leary (Mentzer and Alpert too) did do a lot of research on “re-programming” that does echo bizzare stories from the Church commission’s findings on MK-Ultra…
BTW Multidisciplinary Approach to Psychedelic Studies is a serious science group doing good work
I certainly believe in programming and re-programming. I never thought Manchurian Candidate, quite aside from the particular setting, was some fairy tale for adults. I was thrilled when after decades it as available again.
I’ve learned to love the bomb…er bong
Al Alkhbar Link
the whole thing is worth a read, IMO
Oh yeah… Rothmann (blissfully now fired) on KGO had two participants from the Urban Shield Yamam event here… an Israeli ”anti terror firefighter” (that was how he introduced him) and a “Special Operations captain” from the Alameda Fire Dept who regularly takes part here and in Israel in these joint events. Rothmann repeatedly mentioned the Israeli is stationed in North Israel near the border…
I was GAGGING. And enraged ….
Of course Rothmann did not mention nor did either of the men, that they also particpated in the Northern Cal operations against Occupy.
Thanks for that I will go read.
jeebus …
ug where to begin.
THe United States of Israeli Occupied America.
FWIW.
and, on the ADL wesite, in the paragraph following that sadistically ironic paragraph, is this sick message:
There was ‘Just’ Law Enforcement during Hitler’s Reign???????
Poking around further at the ADL site (with full hazmat suit on):
Sick, NAZI fucks.
Well Facebook requires a name. They don’t demand that you scan your passport or driver’s license into their system to support the name you use. Tho of course I am sure the police could find anyone, pseudonym or not.
Of course the hook is that most people using Facebook WANT to be found.
The Team!
so screwed
uuuuughhhh, this is AWFUL this 2010 Urban Shield Supporting Agencies page, is even creepier than the Team ‘page.’ For example:
(More re the Urban Area Security Initiative, From FEMA. (of course).)
Occupy Cleveland helps prevent foreclosure eviction at West Side home
#OccupyBoston: Boston Police Steal Kitchen Sink
I heard audio from Menino about the sink, that old hag of an city pol. Awful
he and the rest end up looking like petty bullies
Jackass NYPD Pigs Throw Protesters In Jail And Eat All Their Food
Walker lights Christmas tree among protesters
Not a surprise of course…
I haven’t landed on any reporting about the collection of buccal swabs from people at LA Occupy
The undercover work yielded information that some protesters were preparing bamboo spears and other potentially dangerous weapons in advance of …
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Fuck, come out of the JUNGLES, motherfuckers.
Wrong Occupation! Wrong Century!
THOSE Wars are OVER. No Really! They Are!
Script Doctor! New Scenery! New Bogeymen already!
Of course, what ARE they gonna say?
Ya know – That doesn’t raise the spectre of the half dozen other ACTIVE Brain Death Wars our much vaunted Security State are perpetrating and are in fact ..uhm … LOSING.
LA Occupy… the last hold out Pacific Island with Japanese warriors left from WW2.
Yup.
SO in need of a script doctor…. we are trapped forever in the jungles in the Phillipines filming the past.
Bamboo spears.
Of course they won’t be filming the reality, Urban Shield hunting down renegade 4 year olds and frisking them in public. At gun point because they are dangerous threats.
Did you see that somewhere there was a fight between 6 yerar olds? One mimic’d strangling one, the child fought back by grabbing or kicking the othr child between the legs. The one that went for the crotch is being looked at for a charge of sexual battery… (or something close).
Holy Fuck. The mother of the one in danger of being fingered for being a sex soemthing or other has said she wants the other child then charged with attempted murder. Boy she is not far off. Push back. Escalate.
If we can sexualize our female toddlers, why can’t we militarize/gangsterfy our boys… I can say with pride that mi changito has begun his guerilla trainin’
If your competition has a superior product, the best gangsta can do is do drive-bys at their corners…
Independent UK
I loathe the articles slant that “drug violence” is the root problem. Unfortunately it is a common refrain across the globe and is particularly specious w.r.t. cannabis production; the profit the stigma of illegality provides attracts criminal groups, remove the profit (i.e. legalize) and the violence disappears as the small scale garden scene explodes.
BTW..Amsterdam is awash in tourists right now because with the Cannabis Cup is in full swing.
They’ve been cracking down, ever more and bit by bit… in Amsterdam and the Netrlands for a couple of years, at least, now.
It worries me, it’s nutty as all hell. Even cracking down on the famous cannabis cafes. I assume the red light districts will be next.
My sampling of dutch people is vanishingly small, 3 guys, all cannabis people, but they are bemoaning the undercurrent of good ol’ germanic style fascism making a comeback in their neck of the fens…don’t worry about the working folks though, I’m sure private member clubs will replace the windows and the “live” theaters will hide behind green doors…
oh i figured that private clubs would be the answer for the locals… and I blame the US, not that Europe cannot re-embrace authoritarian fascism all on their own, but I do think we have had a campaign not only agaisnt more open drug laws (esp much written about liberalisations) but to entrench conservative repressive bureacrats in office – anywhere we can make it work….
Pity.
I think that the impetus towards fascism is funded by US sources in many locales, but ultimately are controled by the same puppetmasters and with the same modus operandi here and there (and elsewhere); appeal to some vanishing variety of “white, moral purity” in the “embattled” white neighborhoods and countryside while actually “corporatizing” everything instead and rely on the media/electronic circus to pacify anyone alive enough to care about “their neighbors as themselves”
oh I agree… but imo immigration itself was also used to de-stabilise. And it is in Europe and elsewhere as well… I’ve seen that in California. we (the US) have been, over all, in contraction for some time, not just the last 4 years. It became an enormous strain to absorb the legal immigration much less the pro corp laissez-faire special work visa situation. what a fucking nightmare!
I am not interested in a white world (what, if anything, could be more boring) but this has not worked. Plus a lot of the immigration, as spelled out in 1964 (’65?) Immigration and Naturalisation Act was imo done to marginalise and furhter impoverish, slowly combatting any gains made from integration and CR, US born blacks.
…my father was a chauffeur, my mother was maid…
Herman is up, wif by his side. He is mis-speaking quite a bit.
Go away.
Thank you Jesus. He IS going away… those meanies hurt his wif and famileeeeeeeee.
Lordy.
I’m sorry to see the Hermanator go; he’s funnier than either amos or andy…
BTW isn’t PLAN B classified as an abortion by the Kristian Konservatives?
oh I admit I used HC for laughs… but it has reached the ”Larry Summers reaction”, the sight, the sound of Herman and my stomach lurches.
He is so emblematic of so much that is wrong. I don’t really care who he came on to or cavorted with, or if he and his wif live separately… he is jst one more dumb fuck that rode our business, advertising, cheap food, cheap labor world.
the perfect cartoon of of a crook, of a cock crown’d king…almost shakespearean, to me, but definetely grating to endure his soliloquies, like an Iago ..
He needs to go. And in the end the wifette stood there with him.
without a doubt, and truly good riddance but with so many goddam cockroaches everywhere it’s hard to get excited until I see some industrial strenght Raid/DDT spray cans comming out of the cupboards…
globally
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