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One Year Ago
Ralph Nader here
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TechTicker interview with Elizabeth Warren, my heroine, here
Same view from Naked Capitalism here
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Yves Smith here
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Naomi Klein here
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Yves Smith here
Good piece, she has several links of particular note
Matt Taibbi here
A must see documentary from Adam Curtis after the work of Edward Bernays, the nephew of Sigmund Freud and architect of American Corporate Propaganda. After the Nazi's gave the term 'propaganda' a bad name the phrase became 'Public Relations' or PR for short. They have been high jacking the language every since.
here
Related links can be found here
Also see the docomentary Ad and the Ego here
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
I still hadn't bookmarked Taibbi's blog since I got the new computer. He's always a great read!
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
straight up front .
every time you throw a little mud , you lose a little ground .
Any Chamber of Commerce, is nothing but a front for a group of anti-worker serial killers, sociopath's, and evil Dick Cheney clones! They are the absolute worst thing a small business owner could support.
Who is going to purchase your product and make your small enterprise grow, when the middle class is wiped-out? Which is the only pupose and goal of the CoC.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
.............seems to me that the only group that Jesus really hated were the $$$$$$$$$ Changers who got the whip attention for their greed!!! Notice how he specifically didn't condemn the whore, just the $$$$$$Chnagers, the Zionist whores.
............was the first 'propaganda' event and it was probably some greedy bastard with more of some stinking commidity that he thought he could get rid of at a profit.
I'm usually too tired to stay up for The Open Thread, so in the morning I awaken to get my days homework reading/viewing assignments from you (and others here).
Thanks again for all the great links you find!!
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
"The Republican idea of reforming healthcare is allowing patients to bring guns to their doctors' offices."
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On Afghanistan: "We're fighting a 14th-century army with 18th-century strategy."
Gotta love the guy...
Tweety was sharp, but Gary Shandling sure seemed like he was drunk.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
(YouTube): Alan Grayson on Real Time With Bill Maher ~ Oct 16, 2009
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
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"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
is picking up traction big time , go boy !!!!! .
every time you throw a little mud , you lose a little ground .
Comment had me rofl.
:D
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
My fave too
I had a good laugh when I read that.
the US military $400/gallon in Afghanistan!
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
the
US militaryAmerican taxpayer $400/gallon in Afghanistan!far left loon >.<
So last night on Colbert, his guest was a reporter who dug up and re-investigated murders from the '60s of civil rights workers in south who for one reason or another were never prosecuted. Most of the civil rights workers were trying to register black voters.
And it strikes me that its the same thing with Acorn. Acorn primarily registers minority voters. And for this, they must be destroyed. So fuckin sad.
The GOP became the party of the Segregationist South a few years after the Democrats passed the Civil Rights and Voters' Rights acts.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
I knew the drive against acorn was motivated by their registering of minority voters. I was just struck by the stark reminder. They were killing minority registrars then, they're still trying now.
Til I saw the Colbert piece I didn't connect the events as being fundamentally the same.
of a connection either. Now that I do, the more things change, the more they stay the same... *sigh*
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
that got killed in Kentucky, in one of the most horrific ways imaginable I may add. It happened right after Bachmann burped her fatwa against the census (which incidentally it is one of the few things cited as mandatory by the constitution).
Funny how we never got to hear much about that, or any of the other "unrelated" crimes by right wing extremists.
Yet all sorts of unfounded accusations about ACORN manage to make it to the news no problem.
It's "still under investigation"...
And now they've decided that they will only send out census workers in PAIRS.
Problem solved.
(Snark).
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
In the early '70s it came into existence as the Arkansas Community Organizations for Reform Now. It spread to Texas and South Dakota in '75. Not a ton of black folks in South Dakota. Lots of poor people, though, especially on the reservations (though the ranks of the poor aren't limited to Native Americans). I wonder if the asshole filmmaker/"pimp" went to the South Dakota or Idaho offices at all to play his little gotcha games....
The right-wing reaction to ACORN disgusts me for a lot of reasons, but that they put a black face on an organization that lobbies for and caters to poor people - no matter what color- is what disgusts me the most, because they know that they'll be more effective when they demonize ACORN by implying that it's an organization by and for black people. Divide and conquer strategies work, huh?
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
"The floor of a cave called; it wants its bat shit back."
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
ROTFLMFAO! That's damned funny!!
Here is a fake Apple commercial that mocks Republicans
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_IAN081P8I&fe...
400 bucks a gallon to KBR or ???? for supplying gas to our military . You see ! No way we can afford a decent and civilized country making health-care affordable and accessible for all . Sheesh !
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
Meet the 42 lucky people who got to see the secret copyright treaty
ACTA (The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement): The secret copyright treaty that would criminalize just about all communication on the internet.
This is some seriously scary shit. It would make legal netwide wiretapping of internet communications, invasive searches of computer hardware, as well as stiff penalties for infringement. "Infringement" includes the copying and dissemination of ANY copyrighted material, including quotes more than five or six words in length. That means things like Neil Armstrong's first words on the moon, the song "Happy Birthday" - hell, anything that might at any time have fallen under some copyright whether it's generally known or not.
The scariest thing about this is the secrecy of it all. The few people who've been allowed to see the Act have had to sign secrecy oaths in order to do so. The Obama administration denied a Freedom of Information Act request for it on the grounds that it is a matter of "national security."
I hope C&L is going to do something on this. If there were ever an issue that ought to be blown open across the net, it would be this one.
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
On a thread about....record companies trying to get paid by radio stations who play their artists songs?
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
Means you can post anything here. Take a look at the other comments - how many are about record companies?
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
It was a Saturday evening post(pun intended), and that was the topic. It was in May or June, iirc.
BTW, I know what an Open Thread is. I'm credited with writing at least one at this site, and I've got more than a few Late Night Music Club posts under my belt, too. :D
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
Because somebody posted this a while back, we can't talk about it anymore? This topic has been resolved and is no longer valid? Is that what you're saying? Because I haven't heard any such thing.
That blog post at Boing Boing went up two days ago. I'd say it's still a valid topic for discussion, yes?
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
Go back up-thread and take a gander at your header:
I was pointing out that, yes indeed, someone here at C&L was on top of this. Never meant to imply that I didn't think it worthy of discussion.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
So lets hear some discussin, dammit!
Intellectual property sucks and needs to be outlawed along with corporate personhood.
Unless you invent something that causes a physical transformation, there should be no intellectual property. I wouldn't have said this ten years ago, but Intellectual property has been abused. This copyright treaty only serves to further criminalize open sharing of the world's intellect, and it is fucked.
I do think artists, writers, songwriters, filmmakers, etc., deserve some protection. What chafes me is like when an entity like NBC claims ownership over segments created by Letterman and his staff. Or when Flo & Eddie sue De La Soul for a short sample of one of their works to create a wholly different thing....I'm sure i can think of a few more things, but it's after 2AM here, and I'm getting a wee bit tired.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
Should I pay someone royalties every time I make a "happy face" :), or sing happy birthday? I didn't invent/create either.
MsJoanne (below) I see your point too. This is something that needs review.
far left loon >.<
Intellectual property sucks? No fucking way! I spend five or 10 months writing something and you think my efforts should go into the public domain? Again, no fucking way! That's my livelihood. You may not see value in it because I didn't invent something, well let me tell you, I invented that piece of work and that IS my intellectual property!
Many years ago I was an aspiring musician and half of a songwriting team. We spent many hours everyday writing, playing, and recording our music. We had some interest from a few agents, but alas, it wasn't meant to be.
However, if we would have gotten a contract for any of our songs, I would like to know that our work, effort and investment (which was huge) would have been protected.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
I hear you msjoanne, but hear me out.
I'm a musician too who one day hoped to make money from his creations. But I saw how little proceeds went to the creators and how much went to distributors, managers, ticketmaster, etc.
We now have a different system of distribution called the internet. An artist can post their album online and even if 9 people take it for free, one of those ten may pay for it. This is happening with established artists like radiohead, nine inch nails, but it can happen for rising artists as well.
About a year ago I downloaded a torrent with over 5000 songs. These were 78 rpm recordings digitized to mp3's and they were ALL from before the 50's, some as far back as 1900. I can't tell you how much I've enjoyed these songs and how much they have broadened my horizons as a musician.
Many of these are out of print and there is no method (or effort) for distribution for them other than the internet. Do you think these should remain under lock and key unheard to new generations indefinitely? Do you think the artists that wrote these songs would want their songs to remain unheard unless a corporate entity which owned the rights was compensated enough? (you can imagine what their compensation was back then)
The Greatful Dead saw their music as something to be shared with the masses. They encouraged people to record and distribute tapes and they became one of the most popular, profitable bands of all time.
I thought you were a writer MsJoanne. What did you invent?
Say that we had taken MsJoanne's approach (like I said I felt the same way 10 years ago)to intellectual property hundreds of years ago when the printing press was invented. This would give people the ability to distribute and consume information in large quantities, that the people could then use and re-distribute as they pleased.
But the Vatican had most of the books and didn't like the notion of sharing knowledge unless it was in a place and message of the church's choosing.
You are not paying intellectual property rights when you take a book from the library, read it through, and return it. Maybe we should be paying $21.95 to take a book out?
far left loon >.<
Yes that's right. I had a college professor who whined to our class that when we bought his book used, he did not receive royalties, implying we should buy new every time.
Aside from the fact it is unethical to make a textbook you authored the core, required book of the class.
Those LNMC posts of yours are always extra special!
;)
teh internets does not want! Try it and the barbra streisand effect will kick in.
Bite my shiny metal ass.
http://www.startalkradio.net/
http://www.slate.com/id/2231808
But there is nothing "secret" about this.
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
Boy, under the Accomplishments section, they sure do love them some African Americans, don't they?
I also noticed under the accomplishment of Operation Iraqi Freedom, it states the following:
After Hussein violated and ignored many United Nations resolutions regarding Iraq's failure to comply with disarmament and cease-fire terms from the first Gulf War, Congress authorized Republican President George W. Bush to use force to hold Hussein accountable.
Ummm..guys...I thought it has been established that Saddam did indeed disarm. That's why there were no WMDs found.
Oh...and there are no accomplishments listed after 2004. Indeed, the only major accomplishments by Republicans during Dubya's first term are tax cuts (credited for job and economic growth) and starting the War on Terror.
Which pretty much confirms what I've been saying for years: if not for the War on Terror, Bush would have been a one-termer.
Via the new GOP web site, for them to even remotely suggest that the GOP of yesteryear even comes close to the GOP of today is, at the very least, comical.
a corrupt Supreme Court and Diebold. Both still exist today.
News Flash: John Sweeney, the former DC politician who ran the physical violence in Florida for Bush Co. during the attempted recount there in the 2000 election (at least until SCOTUS stopped it by appointing Bush president) has lost his driver's license for 18 months due to multiple DWI's in a relatively short period of time. He is still facing even more charges. His wife, whom he beat, has dumped him. Hey, John. Put on your big boy panties and do your time, you whiny bastard. I do hope there is a big Bubba waiting for you in prison. In NYS, one can only serve a year in a county jail, so here's hoping he gets no special treatment and has to go to an actual prison.
The republicans are out there complaining about $250 to seniors and no COLA increase in Social Security but still defend billion dollar boneses for Wall Street CEOs.
You expect something else from scum sucking assholes? If it's not going in their pockets, or the pockets of their cronies, it's a bad thing.
What a crazy idea! Giving the poor legal representation. Obama thinks he can play good cop, bad cop with Sudan. Are your college football players learning? Sheriff Joe returns in a "limited" capacity. Obama is forced to argue he really is doing a heckuva job for New Orleans' recovery. BofA loses more money, while the AP blames it on delinquent consumers. Military commanders try to limit what reporters can cover in Afghanistan. Obama would rather work with Dubya's dad to promote community service than the son. Barry wags his finger at the banks for being against reform.
Um, you're a little late on that, dude. The numbers on deficits. Another rich con gets a bust. Ironic that he got nailed by a wiretap. Now maybe we'll see big business lobby against the Patriot Act?
should listen to the US why ? remind me again , im so tired of HRC and BO already , the US has no moral high ground none . Life is groovy if your rich and in power . The US should just STFU , untill we can take care of our own , instead of being the largest arms dealer in the world . BO you are a big time disappointment to millions , grow a spine end the wars , you want peace how about food , medical , housing , heres a clue , YA DONT BRING THOSE IN WITH DRONE'S .
And HRC shooting her big mouth off about Iran is insane , or telling Russia what to do , bottom line these are your choices and the future and history will judge you . As of now dont count on my vote in 2012 as i'd rather vote repug at least then i would know who is stabbing me in the back .
every time you throw a little mud , you lose a little ground .
...people don't listen any more. I mention America (overseas and in Canada) and the room has a visible sigh... whatever (who cares???) I'd say the general concensus on America is a misguided, corrupt, fallible and dishonest nation. I get the same response from some Americans too.
To the world at large it appears America is going down the tubes.
Maybe you will start breaking up, like that Russian guy said.
far left loon >.<
Can't argue with ya on that.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
Capitalist Little Eichman".
Elizabeth Warren ,
Up front , logical , to the point and not afraid to tell the truth , my kind of people !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! .
every time you throw a little mud , you lose a little ground .
.............is crying again. He doesn't like people who hate his son, Sockpuppet, he hates the 'incivility' of the rape he and his family are perpetrating on the poor peons of the USofBLOODYISRAEL, and he thinks Rachel and Olberman are 'sick puppies'. Thanks, fool, we knew Rachel and Olberman are hitting nerves but when Iran-ContraBushI comes out of his coffin to speak...............it's unliving proof. SIEG HEIL!!! This filty family of crooks finally has their very own coup de etate.
America's best journalists deserve an apology from the slimy bastard hypocrite.
True liberals/progressives don't simply critique the elite, we actually fight them and win.
Just like the party itself, their new site crumbles under the stress of reality. I wonder who they will find a way to blame for this one.....
wasn't killed in that small plane crash shortly before he was due to testify in Ohio about fraud in the 2004 Presidential election they would have a site that is functional.
Oh what a tangled web we weave........
I thought it was just stupid by design, You know like all things republican. Am I exaggerating? Think about it. In the past thirty years which party has had more influence, or the ability to influence more people? Who had had more influence on wall street, the K street project, the explosion of lobbyests, the buying up of all the tv, radio, and newspapers. Almost totally conservative in ownership in almost every way. They have ripped apart the economy under perfect control. Only the greed needs to be attended all things else should be cast aside.
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness. 25% of America could use some serious hospital time and some heavy drugs!
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