America, Fuck Yeah

This Plame thing has partly degenerated into porn. But it is articles like this one that sully the distinction between porn and geniune political enjoyment, that can be justified and made productive within a variety of ideological frameworks. I'm a happy penis.

New 'Whistleblower' blows

Colin Powell's former Chief of Staff, Lawrence Wilkerson, releases a hurricane, or will it be a tropical storm? Or just a depression.

There is no doubt, that I have
reconstituted a hard-on.

Galloway - Hitchens MUST SEE TV

This is old news folks, however, I listened to this in it's entirety for the first time last night and was very impressed with the degree of viscera, blood was spilled ladies and gentleman, please avert your eyes if you are weak stomached ...this is beyond freddy vs jason: BATTLE OF THE BEHEMOTHS

Neoliberalism Still Sucks

Finally Democrats Attack!!! Could it be? :pray: to my civic gods of democratic socialism that, yes, it can be! IT can BE! - Graeme

An ode to Dick

``Don't you think when people tell you you're allowed to do
whatever you want as long as it's not sexually X-rated
that they should stand behind their word and show your
cow?''

Cheney Watch ep. 1

This is the beginning of the end, my friends! Rumours aboud that Cheney will step down as VP and Condi be elevated. WOW.

It had to have been Cheney!

This just keeps getting better and better, I am livid that CNN, MSNBC and the networks aren't on this 24/7. My question is; Why would Libby leak Plame's name (not conclusive) to Miller autonomously. He is the Vice Presidents' Chief of Staff, it's his job to carry out the directives of the VP's office, therefore, it make very little sense that he would independantly decide to smear Wilson? From the WSJ Mr. Fitzgerald asked Ms. Miller if Mr. Libby "ever indicated whether Mr. Cheney had approved of his interviews with me or was aware of them," Ms. Miller wrote. "The answer was no." A spokesman for Mr. Fitzgerald couldn't be reached to comment."
LIAR!

Just How Good Would This Be?

At the tail end an incredibly comprehensive Bloomberg peice on the Plamegate dragon, I found this tasty morsel:

"In an interview yesterday, Wilson said that once the criminal questions are settled, he and his wife may file a civil lawsuit against Bush, Cheney and others seeking damages for the alleged harm done to Plame's career. If they do so, the current state of the law makes it likely that the suit will be allowed to proceed -- and Bush and Cheney will face questioning under oath -- while they are in office. The reason for that is a unanimous 1997 U.S. Supreme Court decision ruling that Paula Jones' sexual harassment suit against then-President Bill Clinton could go forward immediately, a decision that was hailed by conservatives at the time."
The article focusses on how Fitzpatrick is gunning for Cheney.

New York Times Falling Apart?

According to Ms. Huffington the NYT is having a crisis of conscience and at stake is their credibility. She asserts that's it's imperative that the paper's next Plame/Miller article not be a "mushy bowl of Judy-shielding pablum" but rather must be something at least resembling the truth. What allegience do they owe to Judy Miller? Why won't the paper just come clean? Is it editorial vanity? She's been corrupted and if they stubbornly cling to their editorial line they'll become infected and lose their brightest stars. She clearly had extensive ties to the whitehouse in the run up to the war and spat propaganda under the NYTimes banner. fuck her. sorry miller, your days of martyrdom are through! hack! CHECK IT

Pauvre Bush, Pauvre Monde

This op-ed piece by Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981 is the single best assessment of Bush and company's slipshod neocon philosophy and misaction have increased terrorism and caused unnecessary suffering. A must read.

Why help never arrived.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the President of the United States...

Frazzle McDazzle!

The Real Katrina

We've all been barraged by images on CNN and elsewhere of the human devastation that the abject response to Hurricane Katrina caused. However, most of those images were sanitized at the behest of the Louisiana state government and FEMA officials. I found an incredible set of images that, at least in my mind, convey something that seems a little closer to reality than those recycled images and footage of black folk standing outside the convention centre. These stills are infinitely more powerful.

Is the White House in Deep Shit?

In case you haven't been following, Plamegate is exploding with possible indictments for Karl 'the brain' Rove and Cheney's chief of staff Lewis Libby and potentially the entire conspiracy (not a bad word!) responsible for manipulating the public, the UN, allied nations and the media in the run up to war may be completely exposed. This is extremely significant! With scandals erupting in thecongress and the senate it looks as though the Republicans are in trouble come 2006. The weight of these scandals, Plamegate, the war in Iraq and the poor response to Katrina may ultimately lead to the premature ruin of this administration, something many of us have dreamt about since Bush took office in 2000. Bush's approval rating is at a solid 40%-38% depending on which poll you trust and a Washington Post NBC poll found that only 2% of African Americans supported the president, the lowest number ever reported since the question has been asked on polls. Uber-pundit Howard Fineman speculated on the October 10th Hardball w/ Chris Mathews that the white house was bifurcated(ing) into two camps: chief of staff Andy Card (the anti-Iraq camp) and Rove and the Hawks (Iraqi civilian killers).
FINEMAN: "Right now, my sense, in reporting this, Chris, is that the Bush family, political family, is at war with itself inside the White House. My sense is, it's Andy Card, the chief of staff, and his people against Karl Rove, the brain."
My sense from Fineman is that the Card camp is a fetal administration within the administration that will survive the indictments resignations and possible impeachment that the current admin might face in the next year or so and thereby become the new government.

RESURRECTION

After being shot, poisoned, stabbed in the thigh, neck and eye industrial dairy scratches it's way through six feet of worm-filled soil only to discover that the world has become an even more insanely apocolyptic political nightmare. Standing upright maggots fall from this blog's face and puss oozes from it's forehead. Rove, Bush, McClelland, Libby, Miller, Martin, Gibson, Cruise and many more will now pay the price at the hands of this resurrected puss fuelled zombified blog....beware we's a coming home.

Workers First

An interesting bill is being put forward in the House of Commons, to little fanfare from the press.

The lack of notice is surprising, too, since most press agencies, daily papers, television channels, etc are multimedia conglomerates, owned by large commercial entities and maintaining a great distance from the journalist image of yesteryear.

Jack Layton and his rouge band of middle class lefties are pushing a bill through parliament that would mean greater protection of the working class in this country. Bill C-281 would "move workers to the front of the creditor line in a bankruptcy" thus squeezing out taxes, lenders and suppliers in the shuffle for compensation when a big corporation tanks.

And tank they will. WorldCom, anyone?

The "Workers First Bill" is on parliaments agenda now and it seems important that you, each and every one of you, if you do support this bill, contact you MP via fax/phone/email and let them know that this is (if in fact it is - and it should be) an important issue to you.

Urge your MP to vote for the Workers First Bill!
For more info see The Workers First Bill website

Interesting

Publicist to the neo-conservatives.
It really is amazing how huge the Iraq PR campaign was.
Pretty weird site. Look through the list of 'Members'.

Oh damn

Judy Miller

Graffiti by Banksy

"Imagine a city where graffiti wasn't illegal, a city where everybody could draw whereever they liked. Where every street was awash with a million colours and little phrase. Where standing at a bus stop was never boring. A city that felt like a living breathing thing which belonged to everybody, not just the estate agetns and barons of big business. Imagine a city like that and stop leaning against the wall - its wet."


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4748063.stm

http://www.banksy.co.uk/


Loving his brilliant skills and diverse styles. Most of all, loving the social messages, the humanity, the satire.

Incredible new documentary about... UTAH??

Conservatives are such weirdos!!! Watch an insane millionare spend 25G to not allow Michael Moore speak at a university. Watch as conservative white men and women foam at the mouth as the evils of liberalism slink into their backyards stealing away their kin and exposing them to HOMOSEXUALTIY and LATINO PASSION...sorry...I've read a few positive advance reviews on this film which was the brainchild of first time filmaker steve greenstreet. Check out the Hannity clip! Okay here's the trailer and some clips.

Congotronics

CONGOTRONICS CHECK IT

I want a new music! This desire was inaugerated by a personal research project I embarked on trying to discover the roots of industrial noise music, it's political orientation in particular (this was a genre I reveled in for years but had abandoned only a few years ago). I discovered that one of the bands I really used to like, Death in June, quite early in their career (1983) used to parade around on stage wearing brown shirts. Actually fairly recently there was a bit of a controversy when they were booked to play a show in Chicago. I found out that groundbreaking bands such as; NON, Throbbing Gristle, Foetus, and Nurse with Wound flirted with fascist imagery and symbolism. I got really turned off and began to explore other music. I have been adrift musically for quite some time...that is until recently. One of my discoveries was a band from the DRC called Konono No. 1, the album Congotronics. Now this IS NOT namby pamby world music it's an exploration of sound and texture that is vibrant and challenging.
Description From the website:
KONONO N°1 was founded over 25 years ago by Mingiedi, a virtuoso of the likembé (a traditional instrument sometimes called "sanza" or "thumb piano", consisting of metal rods attached to a resonator). The band's line-up includes three electric likembés (bass, medium and treble), equipped with hand-made microphones built from magnets salvaged from old car parts, and plugged into amplifiers. There's also a rhythm section which uses traditional as well as makeshift percussion (pans, pots and car parts), three singers, three dancers and a sound system featuring these famous megaphones. It's truly a beautiful beautiful album. So fresh!

21 and life retarded

A University of King's College Alumni, and former aquaintance of mine, writes on a fascinating well written 'literati' blogspot blog. There he experiments with tone, emotional phrasing and expounds on his shattered and tortured life by dropping small literary bombs leaving psychological shrapnel the readers soulder, left breast and occasionally in the eye. In person, he justifies his utterance of racial slurs and deep feelings of hatred by hiding behind some slipshod theory of freedom of speech and the rejection of the totalitarianism he sees in political correctness (not a dirty word). I was not without sympathy and was empathetic to his plight for quite some time, giving him distance and keeping my comments (as a person of colour) to myself. That is until I read this post on his blog. Am i to understand that because these views are couched in prose gifted by years of reading and guided by the academy, written by an individual I know to be intelligent, well educated, and obviously quite talented! that they are somehow not horribly venemous, dreafully terrifying (to "queers, Jews and niggers" and yes even visible minorities? In my estimation these are the attitudes of rapists and murderers, of the rapists and child murderers at Auchwitz and those Southern evil bastards who chased 'coons' for sport.I re-print this with a great deal of hesitation and a heavy heart: "Am I racist? Yes. Do I wish I wasn't? Yes. Violence materializes in many forms: pistol whippings are one blatantly obvious one. But can't a "lynching" happen with something so subtle as a sideways glance? Yes. The violence is so widespread. I hate queers, niggers, jews, and Roman Catholics. I HATE them. And so do you. You can't help it.Those of you who don't believe that you are as guilty of hatred as I am are the fullest of hate. You mask your hate. You cover up your true identity. Embrace it instead." Embrace it? I loathe my repression of the beast but I'll die before I 'embrace' him.
btw, my dear peer signs his name using the psuedonym of Paul Blood (an obscure American poet from the 19th c).

Please comment, am I crazy or is this unacceptable.

Bolton Through to UN by way of Recess Appointment

Un-fucking-believable...Controversial rage-oholic diplomat (?) John Bolton has been given a recess appointment by President Bush to the UN. Now Bolton did NOT get a recommendation from the senate and during the confirmation hearings alot of damming info came out about this guy. John Bolton is incompetant; let's review: he is in charge of America's policy on nuclear poliferation in both Iran and North Korea (and we all know how well that's going), also, he almost singlehandedly bungled the deal with Libya in 2004. He's been implicated in some grossly unproffesional behaviour, including chasing a woman down a hotel hallway screeaming! And where are the democratic talking points!! where's the 'liberal' media on this one! With a few exceptions = Go Harry Reid!! TODAY Iran has announced that it wants to expand it's yellow cake enrichement program, great work Bolton, great work.

Pop Quiz!!

One of these things is not like the others
One of these things does not belong

You tell me which:

Republican congressman Connie Mack has proposed a three-point plan regarding Venezuela. It involves ”the creation of institutions that will foster a free press, the freedom of speech and religion, and free and fair elections for Venezuela; a Venezuelan Security Zone that will isolate Chavez and limit his ability to destabilize Latin America; and promotion of economic development in Venezuela through free markets, privatization, and other means that will create lasting prosperity and opportunity for all Venezuelans.”

A) free press
B) freedom of speech and religion
C) free and fair elections
D) free markets and privatisation

Three guesses, kiddies!


Apparently all this new hubbub regarding Venezuela comes in response to Hugo Chavez launching (what has been called in the mainstream media) HIS OWN television station, TeleSur.
In reality, the station is a joint effort between Venezuela, Argentina, Uruguay and Cuba and works to promote Latin American and Caribbean culture, producing and featuring locally made documentaries, news casts, arts broadcasting, etc.

TeleSur website claims that its purpose as a Pan-Latino station is to, for the people of the South, "difundir sus propios valores, divulgar su propia imagen, debatir sus propias ideas y transmitir sus propios contenidos, libre y equitativamente."

(Broadcast or spread our own values, create our own images of ourselves, debate our own ideas and transmit our own content, freely and equitably)

This is done, of course, in response to the fact that most Latin American television stations are saturated with largely American programming. More CSI, anyone?

This sounds harmless, in a sense. Things get problematic for the rebel station a little further down on their website's opening page, where they claim that as a station they will "Frente al discurso único sostenido por las grandes corporaciones, que deliberadamente niegan, coartan o ignoran el derecho a la información, se hace imprescindible una alternativa capaz de representar los principios fundamentales de un auténtico medio de comunicación: veracidad, justicia, respeto y solidaridad."

("Confront the discourse maintained and offered by the large corporations, which deliberatly deny, limit or ignore the peoples right to information, and become and alternative [broadcaster] capable of representing the fundamental principles of authentic media communication: truth, justice, respect and solidarity")

Why, thats practically terrorist talk!


In closing, Chavez's little media empire states that, for the people of Latin America, possibly the profit motive is not the bottom line (gasp!). In the poetic language of the conquistadors, TeleSur states that "Vernos es conocernos, reconocernos es respetarnos, respetarnos es aprender a querernos, querernos es el primer paso para integrarnos."

(To see ourselves is to know ourselves, to know ourselves is to respect ourselves, to respect ourselves is to learn to love ourselves and to love ourselves is the first step in the creation of community.)

"Si la integración es el propósito, teleSUR es el medio."
(
If community [or, unity] is the intention, TeleSUR is the means)


Uh-Oh! I think I see why the U.S. House has earmarked nine million dollars for 2006 and another nine million for 2007 to support opposition political parties, media and civil society organizations in Venezuela. (I mean, there's no one hungry in america or anything...)






All translations my own, so apologies if there are any discrepancies...

Gratuitous Bush Jokes

At McSweeney's.

Poking fun at the humourlessness [sic?] of the American left.

A doctor, a lawyer, and an accountant all die and go to heaven on the same day. When they get to the Pearly Gates, they are greeted by St. Peter. St. Peter says, "Scott McClellan is a lying sack of shit and I'd tell him so myself if he weren't going straight to hell when he dies."

Priceless

The Cone of Instability.

Hahahahahah.

Shanghai Suicide Map

Here is a translation:

Find a place to die! Is it you or the judges who should go to hell? After seeing the 4As exhibition, you’ll have your answer.

1. Huichunji pharmacy sells sleeping pills.
2. Suzhou Creek is uncovered.
3. The #57 bus goes directly to the zoo. You can jump into a tiger’s mouth and die.
4. The Kerry Center is 32 stories tall. Jumping off is 100% successful.
5. A manhole cover has been stolen — jump into the sewer and drown.
6. Cars under the Yan’an Road viaduct drive very fast. Accidents happen often.
7. Changshu Road subway station — lie on the tracks.
8. Fuxing Park — hanging yourself is simple among the tall, close trees.
9. Barber stand at 1324 alley — steal a razor and cut your throat.
10. High-voltage power lines — with 20,000 volts, electrocution is convenient.
11. Wang’s Tofu Stand — crush yourself with a piece of tofu.
12. Dafa Gardens construction site — there’s always something falling.
13. Filling station — death by self-immolation.
14. Free and Easy Sauna — death by suffocation.

This was adapted from the location map of the Creative Awards Show 4A.

They were warned (anger part III)

So we know who was responsible for the mess.

The US Officer Corps and the CIA have been made to seem like apparently moderate and reasonable institutions in comparison with this radical administration. Yay! Go CIA!