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I write for Fast Company, The Atlantic, AlterNet and LA Weekly among many (many) others. My weekly column is syndicated in these things called "newspapers," which are analog blogs that 80-year-olds enjoy. I'm also the managing editor here at Crooks and Liars.
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Alerta_Alerta's picture
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Time to kick them out. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16992702 I'm sorry, but you are a pariah. just go away.


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Amitola's picture

"Republican SQUARES" to me! A la 'Hollywood Squares' - only these people aren't funny at all.


"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy

Geronimo.'s picture

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Trantorian's picture

This ratfucker doesn't even hire an actor for his own propaganda? That takes an incredibly inflated ego to do something like that. This is one of those examples of how such a blatant fraud can go pracitically unnoticed and yet should incite such incredible outrage that this individual SHOULD gain instant attention, as a vile, underhanded liar.


"Someday somebody related to some of these sufferers, these victims, these collaterally damaged souls, may try to kill you. And I have to tell you, I think you’ll have it coming." - Christopher Cooper

Geronimo.'s picture

That's how I feel too. Many circumstances and situations like that. Good call.


"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Geronimo.'s picture

They can't let Ron Paul win for the third straight year. Not in an election year. So...

CPAC 2012 installed electronic voting machines

Will the sheep stand by and silently allow this to all happen again. Why don't more people in the intelligent media highlight shit like this??


"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Geronimo.'s picture

Classic Chris Hedges - booed off stage in 2003 for being critical of the Iraq war and predicting how it would unfold with pinpoint accuracy.


"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Alerta_Alerta's picture
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How is that censorship?


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Geronimo.'s picture

I'm not sure if that is the right word, but people cut the cord to his power supply which disabled his microphone from working properly.

Is that a wrong definition or am I using the word incorrectly? It's a free country.

Land of the free. Home of the brave. Or it used to be. Its funny to see a graduating class of Americans turning their back on intelligent discourse because they are emotionally uncomfortable with it. That occurs a lot in our society and even on the internet. We are all worse off because of it. I'm sure some people are richer for doing so and those behind PNAC and the stolen elections are happy about it though.


"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Alerta_Alerta's picture
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It's called ignorance. In other words, they are idiots.

Not censorship.


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Geronimo.'s picture

Something besides ignorance occurred when the mic was cut. That takes a little initiative or ingenuity as well I think.


"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Alerta_Alerta's picture

Ah, ok, cutting the mic would be a form of censorship. I was going with the "booed off stage" part.


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Geronimo.'s picture

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Alerta_Alerta's picture

Are you a 911 truther? If you are, i'm going to punch you in the face so hard the universe explode.


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Alerta_Alerta's picture
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the silence is deafening. You are, and an idiot.


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Geronimo.'s picture

I find your use of labels off putting and your advocation of violence frightening.


"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Alerta_Alerta's picture

Oh, look at you. Your mind is a beautiful flower, isn't it?

How infantile can you get. I think it's pathetic.

You went from OK guy to NWO idiot in one second.


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I advocate for the truth in all instances/situations I can. I think it is a valuable thing to do.


"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Alerta_Alerta's picture

But you are in it. So you are stupid as well.


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Geronimo.'s picture

No shit. Nice work. Later.


"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

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Ape-Man's picture

Great video. Goes to show how easily we can be manipulated. We can just as easilly be manipulated into thinking the government is working for us as against us. that's why it is so important to stay above the fray - gather the facts - all the facts - see the full picture, not just a stovepiped version of it.


"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-

Geronimo.'s picture

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Ape-Man's picture

Isn't Time Magazine a propaganda organ for the plutocrats and the MIC. There are facts that they cannot expose the American people to, and they have ideology that they need to expose the American people to.
Every American should know what Time Magazine has become, what it really is.


"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-

gogetem's picture

was Skull and Bones.

Ape-Man's picture

Bernstein is an American hero.

Among the executives who lent their cooperation to the Agency were Williarn Paley of the Columbia Broadcasting System, Henry Luce of Tirne Inc., Arthur Hays Sulzberger of the New York Times, Barry Bingham Sr. of the LouisviIle Courier‑Journal, and James Copley of the Copley News Service. Other organizations which cooperated with the CIA include the American Broadcasting Company, the National Broadcasting Company, the Associated Press, United Press International, Reuters, Hearst Newspapers, Scripps‑Howard, Newsweek magazine, the Mutual Broadcasting System, the Miami Herald and the old Saturday Evening Post and New York Herald‑Tribune.

By far the most valuable of these associations, according to CIA officials, have been with the New York Times, CBS and Time Inc.


"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-

Auximinus's picture

So who gets the center square where Alice the maid went?

Karl Rove? Rush?

Geronimo.'s picture

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Ape-Man's picture

Michael Chertoff is of ambiguous nationality. He should not be put in any sort of position of authority in the government of, for, and by the American people.


"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-

ikalbertus's picture

The Donald. He's the conscience of the Republican party.

Auximinus's picture

Great choice

fastfeat's picture

for a square hole.


"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."

---Southwest Airlines

Geronimo.'s picture

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

flag_bible_gun's picture

"8 Arrests in British Inquiry Tied to Murdoch Tabloids"
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/world/europ...

LONDON — British authorities arrested eight people on Saturday, including five employees of Rupert Murdoch’s tabloid The Sun, as part of an investigation into bribery of public officials by journalists, according to Scotland Yard and the newspaper’s parent company.

In addition to the journalists, a police officer, a Defense Ministry official and a member of the British armed forces were arrested Saturday, the police said. They were also charged with corruption, as well as “misconduct in a public office.”

The arrests on Saturday bring to nine the number of current and former Sun employees arrested in the case. Late last month, four other current and former employees of The Sun, as well as a police officer, were arrested on suspicion of corruption.

........
I think the numer of total arrests made is getting close to 30, but I may be wrong. seems like it was over 20 total after that last batch.

His boy James is getting out of Dodge this summer and moving to New York city.
He has a new staff, a new legal team and plenty of friends here in the media they own.
Some well placed campaign contributions and he will feel right at home.


Wall Street is just a parasite on the actual labor and investments of average Americans.
Banks play with futures, debt paper, complex financial instruments, and other peoples incomes.
Sell 'em short & help 'em crash - Tear 'em apart & sell the pieces

Geronimo.'s picture

Sean Hoare ~ Murdoch Whisleblower


"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Tim REALLY misses Japan's picture

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"Better." It's what we should ask of ourselves and of our leaders.

gogetem's picture
or

Jm J. Bullock.

brigadier gerard's picture

These gangsters were emboldened by the milquetoast response of the Democrats to the attempted coup against Clinton and the stolen election of 2000.

The brazen attempt of the Bush campaign to declare victory in the presidential campaign—in the face of mounting evidence of massive ballot irregularities in the state of Florida—exposes its utter contempt for the democratic rights of the American people. In 1998-99 the Republican Party, controlled by the extreme right, sought to overturn the result of two presidential elections through the impeachment and trial of Bill Clinton. Now it is attempting to hijack the 2000 presidential elections through crudely antidemocratic methods, using their control of the state government in Florida headed by the brother of the Republican presidential candidate.

The Socialist Equality Party did not support the campaign of Al Gore. We have unbridgeable political differences with the Democratic Party. Nonetheless, there are fundamental issues of democratic rights involved in the struggle over the outcome of the 2000 election. The working class cannot stand on the sidelines and allow the extreme right-wing elements in the Bush camp to, in effect, steal the election...

The issues are essentially the same as those posed by the impeachment drive against Clinton. An attempt is underway, using conspiratorial methods, to overturn a democratic decision by the American people.

In the impeachment, the far right made use of bogus lawsuits and independent counsel investigations to bring trumped-up charges against an elected president. The Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted for impeachment shortly after the 1998 congressional elections had revealed widespread popular hostility to the anti-Clinton campaign. The right wing thumbed their noses at public opinion and went ahead with their politically motivated assault on the White House...

...Bush and his congressional Republican allies speak for an entire layer of the ruling elite that has grown utterly contemptuous of democratic rights. They want control over all agencies of state power to ride roughshod over democratic rights and impose social policies of the most reactionary character—the abolition of all taxation on wealth and income; the elimination of federal regulatory powers over business; the destruction of Social Security, Medicare, and whatever else remains of the social welfare programs.

Impeachment failed to oust Clinton because of public opposition, but there was widespread confusion about the political significance of this right-wing campaign, because of the cowardice of the Democrats and the torrent of media sensationalism about a “sex scandal” in the White House. In the struggle now developing over the presidential vote, the political line-up is clearer and more readily apparent to public opinion...

http://wsws.org/articles/2000/nov2000/elec-n1...

Stephen Colbert launched a new Twitter hashtag: #preparethem to prepare the GOP presidential hopefuls, as suggested by Mitt Romney.

#preparethem

. lots of cursing and ... well, I guess the cursing is the least offensive part of the thread.
.some are pretty funny:

The Tea-party supporters are completely against contraception. Most of them just rely on their personalities. #preparethem

When Mitt Romney was 4 years old, he collateralized his baby teeth futures and almost bankrupted the toothfairy #preparethem


Wall Street is just a parasite on the actual labor and investments of average Americans.
Banks play with futures, debt paper, complex financial instruments, and other peoples incomes.
Sell 'em short & help 'em crash - Tear 'em apart & sell the pieces

ikalbertus's picture

while staying in character. Brilliant.

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ikalbertus's picture

"Why CPAC swoons over Santorum's fury." Some things you can't make up.

pissed off patricia's picture

Maybe they meant oozes rather than swoons


Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.

ikalbertus's picture

Santorum all over his nose, disgusting piece really. He says Santorum looks the part of a conservative. Must be like porn, you know it when you see it. "Santorum embodies the Republican Party in a way that is hard to articulate in words." Perhaps violent retching and hacking up some large goobers would articulate it better.

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I just listened to Sarah Palin's speech at C-PAC. Yeah I know I shouldn't have but it was kind of fun especially when she said American farmers of old toiled from dusk till dawn. I kinda wondered why farmers toiled all night.

But it's over and for those small wonders I thank goodness.

Funny, in the straw poll for who would make the best republican veep, Marco Rubio won. I guess they don't believe that any of their candidates would be worthy of that position.

That was the largest gathering of assholes I have ever witnessed in one group.


Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.

fastfeat's picture

Yet.


"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."

---Southwest Airlines

Ever seen some of those old farm women? Most fine ladies I'm sure, but plowing some of those furrows might've required some serious work...


"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."

---Southwest Airlines

Simon Girty's picture

as Mitt doesn't get to impale Salma during her dance, and Newt doesn't get the Cheech Marin or Tom Savini roles! Maybe Herman Cain could do the Fred Williamson bit with the shotgun... ah, never MIND!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvyxEBNHk-0&fe...

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Vlad Teppich is suddenly, finally, going to announce for the Confederate Theocratic Kleptocrats (while Santorum's out swallowing flies for their blood, prancing about, frothing) and bat-shit crazy Bachmann launches the crowd into blathering in tongues about Jehovah's flame-breathing Dracul IMPALING the ass out of us disbelievers, heretics, Zog, Gog and Magog or what the fuck dingbat shit gets the hooded acolytes dancing about their burning crosses... OK, circling their gub'mint Hoverrounds in their Snuggies a'shooting and a'hootin... Suddenly SATAN His-own-self will burst forth from HELL with Newt all triumphant; clad all in burning raiments stitched from tattered shards of the Constitution and trod evile Hussein underfoot? I demand to see Dracula's Turkish/ Romanian DEATH certificate!!!

Or maybe, she means MUSHROOM farmers, Hobbits sowing shit?

plans on supplanting the 15 tons of meth seized by Mexico. Where are the jobs, Sarah?


"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."

---Southwest Airlines

Simon Girty's picture

They'll have to go back to feeding on the febrile brains of the living, durn it? Is Callista like shooting lasers out of her eyes, dueling with ol' batshit Michele, on the DARK SIDE... mud 'wrassling in a steaming cesspool of SANTORUM? And has Sister Sarah bitten the Ring O' Power off of Obama's finger and fallen into the Crank O' Doom yet? I just can't frigging LOOK!!! Where the HECK is Baby Jesus, and adorable Dino his gore slavering, rabid Velocioraptor? Not LOST in fucking Baltimore, AGAIN??? And FURTHERMORE, rant, rave... snort! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3YRWhg4YaA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIvQXiMVf-Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVseBfMq_Dc

fastfeat's picture

Perhaps, but with one exception, a whiter shade of pale...


"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."

---Southwest Airlines

Geronimo.'s picture

Maine's caucus results are supposedly coming in soon. Hopefully Diebold wasn't involved at all.


"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

fastfeat's picture

Paul 36%, Leaky 18%, Staypuft 6%.


"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."

---Southwest Airlines

But it turns out there's actual congresspeople advocating the US remove the "terrorist" label from MEK.

(After all, they're "the enemy of our enemy" now ..)

Clearly these congresspeople are in violation of our anti-terrorism laws, right?

It's against the law to give any kind of support to a known terrorist group.

Should these congresspeople be indefinitely detained in an undisclosed location until the end of hostilites?


When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?

Not soon enough!

Captain Kangaroo's picture

So how did it work out when the U.S. supplied the Mujahedin in Afghanistan when the Russians were there? I forget.

Samson-'s picture

some of the most infamous and dastardly names in the political duopoly are paid spokespeopel for MeK

Former US officials taking part in MEK-linked events told the Monitor or confirmed publicly that they received substantial fees, paid by local Iranian-American groups to speaker bureaus that handle their public appearances.

The State Dept. official, who is familiar with the speech contracts, explains the mechanism: “Your speech agent calls, and says you get $20,000 to speak for 20 minutes. They will send a private jet, you get $25,000 more when you are done, and they will send a team to brief you on what to say.”

louis freeh, ed rendell, rudy guil911ani, tom ridge, michael hayden, tony zinni, etc.

http://www.csmonitor.com/CSM-Photo-Galleries/In-Pictures/Speakers-in-support-of-the-MEK/(photo)/378030

Geronimo.'s picture

False Flag Terrorism is the best kind of terrorism though, so these people think they are above the fray of public scrutiny.


"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Geronimo.'s picture

Ron Paul comes in second in Maine caucus.


"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Alerta_Alerta's picture
So?

He's a fucking idiot. What a twat.


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tweakerbelle's picture

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x28_I9oIVg

Don't be so snarky. Ron Paul is pulling an end run on the Republican system - he's gaming it so that instead of favouring Romney, it will favour him. Pay attention.


It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.
-George Carlin

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That's like math. I ignore it.


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tweakerbelle's picture

Here's some math for you then:

Alerta_Alerta == willfully ignorant troll.


It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.
-George Carlin

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A_A=bliss+finger salute+don't give a damn=∞

Go suck a pine tree.


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mjb's picture

This would be the greatest thing to happen to an American election since...ever! I can't wait to see the look on Santorum's and Romney's faces if this works. Classic gaming the system.

Samson-'s picture

good to see others don't take that threat idly

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/10/strikin...

According to Russia Today, “Several hundred firemen broke through police cordons and hosed down the prime minister’s office. The men, dressed in full gear, were smiling as they directed the water at the building…and the small bunch of police officers huddled in front of it.”

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Oh look, it's RT. Fuck them. It's Putin TV.

Bastards.


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Samson-'s picture

but it is still an interesting video

Alerta_Alerta's picture
nt

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tweakerbelle's picture

or the Republican convention - Conservatives don't care and they won't listen and it will only make you a tool / weapon of the Democratic Establishment who don't care about you any more than the Republicans do. If they did, they wouldn't be doing what they're doing.

If anything, you should Occupy the Democratic Convention this summer. Barking at the Republicans won't matter - they' think you're a bunch of stinky hippies. But the Democratic Party sees you as a tool and a pathway to a co-optible constituency. As a consequence you have more sway smacking the Democrats around than the Republicans. The Democrats need you. So twist their arms, PWN THEM. Make them do YOUR bidding, and not the other way around. Remember - you're dealing with douchebags in either case - it's just that the Democratic Douchebags have more to lose if they lose you. The Republicans Reptilian douchebags will just as soon have you all tossed in Guantanamo...


It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.
-George Carlin

mjb's picture

the Democratic Establishment who don't care about you any more than the Republicans do

They don't have any more to lose because no one will vote them out. However, at least some of them will pander under pressure; that might get us something.

Geronimo.'s picture

What a fucking joke. They install electronic voting machines and Mitch Romney wins. Ron Paul won the last two years in a row. Something is up and the media is ignoring their responsibility.


"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

muddyboots's picture

Fun time.
Question to Sarah Palin , "It is said that Governor Chirsty believes in them firmly and believes he has even seen them at one time. What are they? " Answer by Sarah Palin, " His feet, Peter?"


If not now, when?

FreeThought's picture

a lot more squares.


Their homeworld was a place called Earth, located in an uninteresting part of the galaxy. They had an expression: pride goeth before a fall. Their pride was their undoing. I know. I was there....They did not listen, of course. Arrogant men never do.

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There are currently 12,000 US troops based in Malta that are awaiting deployment to Libya. They will be joined by Italian and French forces based on photographic evidence of encampments that have been set up in the desert.

http://digitaljournal.com/article/317943