Opera Glasses and Popcorn
Maragojipe, Brazil: revellers participate in a masked ball during carnival celebrations | Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters
Hahahaha… somehow it reminds me of the Oscars show!
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An Opera Glasses and Popcorn view of Politics and the Assembled Multitude...
Marisacat -
- 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]
Democracy NOW! / Amy Goodman Electronic Intifada / General Content Press TV / Middle East News Press TV McClatchy Headlines The Real News Reuters / Politics
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.
Marisacat 
Wow looks like Anonymous and Wikileaks lanced an enormous pus filled boil, but good:
WikiLeaks Begins Publishing 5 million Emails from STRATFOR
THE FILES ARE BEING PUBLISHED HERE: http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/
(Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!)
Welp. That’s what they get for downloading hacked porno.
Which should, you know, be easy to rectify. LOL
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Oh there is SOOOO much good stuff in there, Diane!
AND! So much for DO NOT SHARE OR DISCUSS! 😆 😉
Ya pretty much shot that to Hell! LOL
My God, Woman!
“What StratCap will do is use our Stratfor’s intelligence and analysis to trade in a range of geopolitical instruments, particularly government bonds, currencies and the like”.
……a complex offshore share structure extending as far as South Africa was erected, designed to make StratCap appear to be legally independent
……….Stratfor did secret deals with dozens of media organizations and journalists – from Reuters to the Kiev Post. The list of Stratfor’s “Confederation Partners”, whom Stratfor internally referred to as its “Confed Fuck House” are included in the release. ….
Important revelations discovered using this system will appear in the media in the coming weeks, together with the gradual release of the source documents.
SO MUCH GOOD STUFF. Love it, just Love It.
Now dig who pops up from market manip hidey-hole as the foregoing ~ and the list ~ is about to spill all over……SCHUMER.
Where else? ~ In a puff piece on BL 😯 BERG
Ah yes, Schumer, as always, standing in the breach, getting out in front of the gathering mob and trying to make a parade of it. So good Chucky-chicklet is on top of it now, with own campaign manager and top DNC kick in jail , shot down for parole last week, yepper Hank Morris is still in jai (begging to get out after a full year!) for ripping-off the NY State Pension for , oh, @ $70 million. Coincidentally the approximate take and in the months that ANOTHER Schumer/ Clinton bundler Nemazee was handed $70 mil from Citi alone in a bank fraud. Coincidentally the amount and and in the months that another 70 mil was found to have gone POOF from a bond-backed NJ development loan program funneled through Corzine to Schumers crew for development scams. (More on that eventually! )
Like Mcat says, Put the money on a milk carton! 😆 😉
Milk Cartons all around!
Half-gallon minimums! Otherwise, we’re not picky!
Help us find the money in 50 to 100 Million dollar increments!
Nemazee BTW is a lounger from a family of ex-pat retainers to the Pahlavi’s, you know, lounging around the ol’ Peacock Throne of Iran. His sister is the wife of the Brits’ Ambassador to France, you know, lounging around Paris. LOL.
Sorry to meander so from Stratfor. Excellent post, Diane.
You had me at “Friedman”. 😉
What a piece tho, eh?
The “Confed Fuck House”.
Oh DO tell! Spring is in the air, most definitely.
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Too funny! TOO good!
Thanks for the compliment, though it’s really hard to fuck a post up too much when such a gem is available. ….Yep, It sure does feel like spring, …isn’t it precious? ;0)
Just wow….:)
isn’t it though? ;0)
One thing, their published (I have no idea what else they may have shared privately) but their published global analysis was shit, so it had to exist for other reasons…
Fantastic… when Wikileaks feels like waking a few people up, they sure do it.
Thanks diane…
It truly is a delicious clusterfuck,
Sort of like the “independent” (Bankster shilling) market research orgs and ops that ply their pump’ndump analysis. Not even sort of, these particular Stratfor-subscribed jackboots come to make market with the Banksters loooking for war. Such a lovely couple.
The leaks are hoot to read, almost like Drudge via SUBSCRIPTION! ($28,000 dollar is a smaller org subscription)
Where tattling recruits to their network speak of hush-hush daring dooos over pesto tortellini!
No really! It’s in there!
Like Bloomberg News wannabes and everything!
(Frankly, their internal memos read like a minor fiefdom in decline aligned with other minor fiefdoms in decline, subcriptions and tithings falling off, what else is there to do but start a Hedge Fund LOL)
What a nice little operation, tho. And such a long, hilarious way from Letters to the Editor In Defense of Israel circles in some Shlomo’s basement.
What a hoot, Friedman brokering chatty spook gossip from one dunderhead to another in the National Security complex, all of which is used to inform strategic analysis and Pentagon planning when not watching the Military Channel.. All of which the agencies pay Friedman for – LOL – .the privileged of making the whole disastrous , Getting-Their-Counterinsurgency-Ass-Kicked-Out-of-The-Lot of them…. F E E L better.
Oh this is the best thing since Moulitsas offered Premium, ad-free content to elite subscribers on Daily Kos. LOL.
Which I am sure he then tried to sell as some “Premium List” to fundraisers. hell if they are fucking dumb enough to buy my product, they’ll give to YOU. Hell, they’d leave their donation on a grave!!
Freidman just resigned, Effective immediately. 😆
oopsie – …last night…it is said… no major MSM confirmed it yet…
I like results…
snicker.
Stratfor: Friedman is NOT Out!
Despite what the Yes Men say!
How ironic, all of it tho….:
On the one hand, you have Assange arrested and Bradley Manning hanging by a shred for his life. On the other, you have cretins like Friedman, or a ghoul like Eric Prince, the media barons like Murdoch and Bloomie, the lawmen and security types from the Mil to Scotland Yard right down to the NYPD making sales, markets, and sport of classified material. And that’s without enumerating the Bankers, Wall Street, the Corps and their wholly owned flaks, the Pols in the inside-info business….
The Benito Schlomos go free. When really, in support of Mussolini, they should be hung. Upside down.
My pleasure honey! ;0) and sorry, I messed up one of the ‘blockquotes,’ can you fix it, there should be an end blockquote symbol after This is an obvious fear sale, so that’s a good thing. …., so that the next two quotes aren’t indented.
(thanks hon!)
Gee what a shock!
I think it is more than Right WIng the anti Slob anti government propaganda… I think people HAVE figured out the damned thing will bankrupt people BEFORE they are even sick.
I hope so.
I just about spit out my own teeth last year, reading some typical stupid tantrum from a typical stupid “progressive” PDX poster on LJ about how we, the doubters of the Great Obamacare Care-y Caringness, were killing her FRIEND WHO HAS CANCER AND NEEDS HELP!!11OMG shut UP!!11
Yeah, because waiting two-plus years to access a shit corporate suck-up plan that’s worth less than no plan is really going to save 2011’s cancer sufferers.
“Progressives” really are some of the most pathetic, stupid-ass fucks on the planet.
hmm Not good news. AT all.
Read more at:
Wapo – The Fix
shit, that fucker’s not dead, or semi-dead in some big house in some tropical shithole?
Fuck, spare us.
Watching France 24 and both France (in the person of Juppe) and Saudi A’er (in the person of a speech maker at some Human Rights Commission, WTF? if WE don’t belong lecturing for fucks sake the Saudis sure do not)… anyway both are humping for Syria interventionist war.
Or at least arming the “opposition”.
Gessh… so the prisons can have NEW GUARDS?
hmmm
Slob. SO historic.
Cpunch
loved this at the end:
LOL. Well, surfing the web Internets online today, really something, all three of them, AND I noticed there were a few mistakes.
For instance. “New Jersey Marijuana Sales Delayed”
No, no – not exactly!
And on a site I like, Naked capitalism, there was this Matt Stoller matter of material fact, errors, and omissions by way of his introduction.
Shouldn’t that read the former Senior Policy Advisor to the Former Representative Alan Yada Yada Flash-in-the-Pan-Yada C-Yah Bye Yah?
Hell Stoller seems more invested in the ex-officio courtesies than Grayson. Tho I CAN imagine the two of them out for sandwiches, Grayson reflexively working the booths, introducing himself with the “Call me Alan” routine to a thoroughly disinterested middling luncheonette crowd.
“Fine, Alan, can we get some ketchup and a booster seat?” being the reply.
Then there would be Stoller…. staking out the toothpick and mint dispensers over by the gumball machine, with every passerby him launching into the ole “AND YOU can call me Former Senior Pubey Policy Poobah to His Eminence, the Lord Milk-Titty Grayson”.
Oh FFS. LOL, Hook a car up to that motherfucker and our mileage woes are OVER.
Oddly enough when I dropped in on Dennis Perrin this am, not having been thre in ages, but he had something on MStoller TOO. Apparenlty he soemtimes appears as a ‘sitting in the audience’ side stick to Russell Brand. And he manipulates digital images that are part of RB program.
How odd.
Who knew.
I did not realise I still had th DP site open but here is he link:
http://dennisperrin.blogspot.com/2012/02/brand-oh.html
Welp not exactly Looking for Love In All the Wrong Places but close. I’m kidding, I dig Dennis, I dig Brand, I dig that Dennis digs Brand. I dig that they looked into each others eyes. .
Excuse me for a moment..
Okay, I’m back. With all seriousness, Dennis can access vulnerability and longing in the human soul like few can. And I dig anyone who holds themselves , their ideas, their work, the premises behind it out to a crowd.
….And while I don’t dig Stoller, minor sleight of hand artist, seeker of Less Successful Honorary Emanuel Brother status. I dig how Dennis indeed DOES dig Stoller:
HA!
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And etc… email from Friedman, and vid at the link… snicker
We wuz robbed!!
http://www.Stratfor.com/hacking-news
tooo fuckin funny … : 0) … and so many pundits today, most: somewhat unsurely, rather meakly, implying: …wellllllllllll … Stratfor what a waste of time, we all know he’s just an asshole …why waste time blah blah blah ….but not a peepster about that hedge fund, for just one thing….
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I don’t think it’s a waste of time at all.
Here you have this lousy, lousy scumbag Government, the latest in its long lousy line of scumbag Presidents and hustlers on the Hill, in DoD, at State and CIA, lecturing the world on its “justifiable” wars through every horror known to mankind, through every obvious tactical defeat and strategic failure , a Government , broke while blaring the threat of of nuclear war at every turn, lecturing the world on the necessity of its dungeoning , torturing or summarily liquidating any opposition in arbitrarily deems fit for the killing, a Government that reserves the same ends for those reporting on the nature of its actions.. A governemt that reserves the right to literally strip its citizens and delegates said duties to minor jerkoffs enriching major jerkoffs like Chertoff as part of the Homeland Security Plan ….And at the same time you have a Governement that itself is not only leaking like sieves, but selling off whatever fancies some fuck with a worthless buck.
There will be damage from this, (IMO, the least of which is what actually happens to Friedman , his STRATFOR sales op and his clients) I certainly hope it helps Manning, I suspect the Anons meant it as much for him as for Assange…
And while I don’t believe in “legitimacy” per se, certainly not positive assertions by this Government, I do believe in my rose-colored way, that it matters a great deal when a Government is widely seen to be over-run by murderers, thugs, and thieves…
Some standards now! ( The lying and the hypocrisy doesn’t help much either. LOL)
As picture comes clearer in to view, it comes down to a few questions : Who really wants to roll with us? Who among those free to choose otherwise will continue to do so? And as it is answered in the ever diminishing negative : What happens when they actually don’t?
yes Friedman and Stratfor may have outlived whatever usefulness there was in it…
Yep Honey! I hear you, I feel you.
ugh unfortunately I think we always scrounge up enough to roll with us. BUT our mess and inability to cope, clean up etc, certainly emboldens, Russia China and Iran… and some in Europe/EU WILL peel off. Despite all the work we have done to ensure leadership there that suits us.
As in, no more Olaf Palmes, etc.
It does seem about that time again, every 10 years or so where we through cause or effect, bring death down upon some Swedish Prime or Foreign Minister….
Thinking of Sweden now, the Swedes doing the US dirty work over Wikileaks, their fully cut-in AfPakIRaq war profiteering, I suppose toady whathisname as PM has nothing to worry about.
I have this impression of them, very poorly ‘formed I might add – mostly around their “neutrality” in World War 2 and to be frank, Swedish Erotica, that they are and have been a rather happy lot.
THAT simpletonia aside, I think they, like US, like any country, the assassinations ablated whatever popular resistance to militarism was left between them and some manifest national identity: the lure of lucre. They seem to have gone from Olaf to simply…aloof.
Frankly at wars end…. they have a lot to lose now.
I dunno .. lots of heavy drinking in Scandinavia… and a brutal strata. BUt overall, likely a lot more sane than we are.
Plus one dirty secret, they mostly hate or at least dislike, mistrust, accuse each other. I mean from one Scandinavian country to the next.
1. (and, to my knowledge, the purported incorrect “email” about his resignation, was not even a proclaimed email, but, perhaps, a tongue in cheek joke which was posted on paste bin (see here also), and dated the 26th of February; …noticeable by its “Subject Line:” Subject: Draft, which literally means, an email which was never “sent.”
(jeesh, I hate the lil fucking Billy Gates Krew ………. I didn’t add that “1.” and I deliberatley attempted to omit it from the paste, but MS knowz better, and they work in nanoseconds ……)
The ole blame it on Nader.
We wuz robbed!!
Same thing Murdoch said about the NoW phone hacking, the payoffs to Scotland Yard, etc.
I think this guy Friedman’s operation is going down.
WL and Anon simply providing match to very exposed timber.
Afterall, we need the goddam insurace money! Basically.
Seems to me anyways, set against the recent Merkel-driven EU swat teams raiding banks over LIBOR rate rigging ( it sticking from London to Tokyo , too – the Nikkei cops even getting off the mat now, and, ~ gasp~ 😉 Canada is now involved… …
$ O M E action, of necessity anyways, to clawback some dough…
Even here 😯 there seems to be some prosecutorial clawback using the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, e.g. slammer-time the other day for a KBR {Haliburton} CEO and another KBR/ Haliburton exec a DUAL
{slid in last Friday}
I also think the Insider Trading Massage Bill (heading to Conference! 🙄 😆 ) is part of the dance as mostly minor affiliated perps are thrown under the bus with some ratfucking household name or two between now and the Fall..
Soooooo some stuff, IMO, is being driven by deminimus international standards of appropriate behavior, LOL,
(Don’t-rob-and-pillage-too-TOO-Hideously-much!) some resulting in FCPA enforcement here (weak tea as it is , like for the CCI case, some seeing extraditions , the arms dealer sent back from the UK the other day… even Israel , LOL, reliquishing some minor schemers back for American Justice.. LOL. (After 4 Years 🙄 )
Not exactly the best timing I think for Friedman of STRATFOR and the Mil-strap / Mossad leg-humping lot of them…..not when there is Kraut-Frau hell to pay and minor ass to burn.
‘Stimulus’ we can believe in!!!!! ™,….under cover of the Pseudo War on Drugs [Lone Wolves and Darkies] !!!!!! ™:
AP Exclusive: White House grant money paid for NYPD blanket surveillance of Muslims, [and Blacks who we all know look like Muslims – diane] mosques
Shocking!:
A veritable circus of seals and ballz:
This is hilarious the NYPD is Green ™
What’s a good terrerist story without Obombster’s bossom bud, tour jeté:
Snirk
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(fock, instead of using an end blockquote after carried the seal of both the NYPD Intelligence Division and HIDTA., I used a blockuote. The comment that followed it, This is hilarious the NYPD is Green ™, was, obviously, mine .. but is now blockquoted. All of the blockquotes would have shared the same margin, if I hadn’t made that fuck up, very sorry!.)
(thank you sugar!)
Over this, rising Dem “star” Cory Booker, 🙄 the Newark Mayor came off exactly like he is : a trinket.
And Here I thought the NYPD only came to New Jersey to hijack trucks, burglarize warehouses, steal slot machines, and engage in conspiracy to transport firearms interstate.
Oh …no, no, no, no, no honey, it’s allllll that! …and so very much more!
(mother fuckers, bar not too very many…I’m sure those who aren’t: don’t live too very long; get lobotomized; ….or move far the fuck away.)
The pisser is how they (other major metros too) seed and weed police departments throughout the country. Local yocal pols and councils love hiring their detritus, usiually on the heels of some other departmental personality disorder . Big packages too. Then they come in generally shake down the citizens, rough up passersby, and extract every last dime legal and otherwise to divide as spoils between themselves and the pols.
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Welp, on that happy note, I’mshoving off now. N’ght all.
Thanks as always…
Official found dead, head covered with plastic bag after measuring radiation in Tokyo park
Madison Ruppert, Contributing Writer
Activist Post
I think it’s a fifty/fifty as to whether he was murdered, or was ‘murdered’ via killing himself …not desiring to live anymore watching innocent people slaughtered by those “calling the shots,” having given up on being able to ‘effect change’… with so many silent witnesses surrounding him. ….Same thought I have about Gary Webb; and, at the end of the day, both possibilities are Murder, to my mind.
(boldinjg mine; a tip of the hoody, to Edgar)
I really don’t think Webb committed suicide.. IIRC there were two shots from his gun.
It seems to me those cesium readings for Tokyo did come out… but I cannot remember how long ago.
I may have read it in a Fukushima update in al Jazeera…
yeah, those two bullets ….. were pretty fucking damning, … despite his wife’s “reported” commentary. ….I would go so far as to say …that even if he did shoot himself in the brain, ….twice!, … it was still MURDER by those he was tracking for their evil. It was $UZ$,…whitegloved …. MURDER.
welll I think wives, ex wives say any manner of things after a murder, removal, assasination… it may or may not be reliable.
yep.
Michael Douglas, star of Wall Street movie, to help FBI
Michael Douglas, who played a greedy executive in the movie Wall Street, is the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s new spokesman against insider trading.
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The [above ↑] move is a part of Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) [sole] efforts to tackle insider trading and fraud.
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“Integrity and fairness are paramount to the success of our markets. Today’s announcement [see above ↑ Headline] brings us closer to that objective,” said the FBI’s Assistant Director in Charge, Janice Fedarcyk. [Ray Kelly and his NYPD will handle the rest of the $$$$UZ$$$$ $$$$$Law$$$$$ $$$$$$Enforcement$$$$$ $$$$action$$$$.]
FBI Success FIle Piccy of Raj Rajaratnam
Some high-profile hedge fund managers have been found guilty of insider trading in recent years
(bracketed notes mine.)
(siiiiighhhhhh, meant to blockquote the first three paragraphs after the Heading and before the file piccy, ……sorry, …. and g’night all …)
pre GE PR
I read he was going to do a big PSA roll-out for them.
HollyWood DC
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