Take Solace! God PLANNED Your Rape!

Says Tea Party backed Senate candidate from Nevada, Sharron Angle. Listen below and then take a shower. Even if, like myself, you feel that voting in America, where the difference between any two given candidates whose main goal is inevitably the maintaining of an inherently destructive system is typically a waste of time, I would be, and am, thinking long and hard about heading out to the nearest ballot receptacle and voting against Tea Baggers like this come November.

via Think Progress

Washington/Toronto-based The Real News Network has amassed a lot of media coverage of the G20 Summit on its website. Here's their leading story, about one of their own journalists who was punched in the face by police at a G20 protest:

WHAT

surfs up!!

Earth July 20, 1969

All girls should have a poem
written for them even if
we have to turn this God-damn world
upside down to do it.

don't be a pussy

try it

not going to california >:i(

pissed

NIRVANA MONDAYS

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.

"'Anchor babies' isn't a very endearing term, but in Arizona those are the words being used to tag children born in the U.S. to illegal immigrants. While not new, the term is increasingly part of the local vernacular because the primary authors of the nation's toughest and most controversial immigration law are targeting these tots - the legal weights that anchor many undocumented aliens in the U.S. - for their next move.

"Buoyed by recent public opinion polls suggesting they're on the right track with illegal immigration, Arizona Republicans will likely introduce legislation this fall that would deny birth certificates to children born in Arizona - and thus American citizens according to the U.S. Constitution - to parents who are not legal U.S. citizens. The law largely is the brainchild of state Sen. Russell Pearce, a Republican whose suburban district, Mesa, is considered the conservative bastion of the Phoenix political scene. He is a leading architect of the Arizona law that sparked outrage throughout the country: Senate Bill 1070, which allows law enforcement officers to ask about someone's immigration status during a traffic stop, detainment or arrest if reasonable suspicion exists - things like poor English skills, acting nervous or avoiding eye contact during a traffic stop.

"But the likely new bill is for the kids. While SB 1070 essentially requires of-age migrants to have the proper citizenship paperwork, the potential 'anchor baby' bill blocks the next generation from ever being able to obtain it. The idea is to make the citizenship process so difficult that illegal immigrants pull up the 'anchor' and leave."

Full article here.

Note the link on this page to a Fox News video entitled "Illegals Jailed in Lap of Luxury?" Yeah.

OH AND FUCK MASSEY ENERGY

"You know, and that has always been my feeling as a journalist and as a historian, that a crisis is never a crisis unless it’s validated by a disaster. And so, we’re just waiting for another disaster. And we have all these ticking time bombs ready to go off. You know, the BP oil disaster is horrific, and it’s catastrophic, but it’s in the millions of gallons. And if you look up just a few miles up from the Upper Big Branch coal mine, there’s a billion-gallon coal slurry impoundment held back by an earthen dam. And right now Massey, in massive violations, is blasting with a mountaintop removal operation, a strip mining operation, that is once again compromising and jeopardizing the earthen dam that is holding back almost six billion gallons of toxic coal sludge. And if that earthen dam broke, as it did ten years ago in eastern Kentucky, when not one single mainstream news media covered it, then the people below, the same coal miners who have just lost twenty-nine people in the Upper Big Branch, they will have less than fifteen minutes to flee a seventy-foot tidal wave of toxic coal slurry." - Jeff Biggers

FUCK B.P.

Thus Dove Zarathustra

That there is the world's largest underwater sinkhole, approximately 663' deep in Nietzschean symbolism.

severe lack of skramz on cake police

even though jayson from orchid has a NEW SKRAMZ BAND???? cmon!


their recordings are pretty qwerm

and they have a blogspot that reads like the livejournal of..... someone who used to be in orchid. his vocabulary and diction are the stuff of legend, man


here's a pretty good interview with the dude


"I’m going on the South Beach Diet so kids who only know me from Orchid pictures won't audibly gasp when they see me."

sick.


orchid was tru skramz

Very good opinion piece by my fellow Seymour, Richard, about the Israeli propaganda campaign surrounding the murder of nine activists on board the Mavi Marmara, from his blog Lenin's Tomb:

"You know how it is. For days, it's been impossible to log on to Twitter without some frantic Israeli apologists urgently messaging you to say - no, look, it's really clear, these so-called 'humanitarians' attacked Israeli soldiers who merely responded, yadda yadda yadda. They lynched those servicemen... Or, better still - peace activists don't carry weapons, they were there to get themselves killed... Rarely has such a toxic mixture of the desperate, the cowardly and the callous been compressed into 140 characters or less, and almost all of it is directly inspired by the carefully crafted tweets of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. (Anyone who doubts the Israeli government's online virtuosity should check out what they can do with Flickr).

"Israel, as noted before, never has any agency in any of this. Not one of Israel's apologists can contemplate for a second that the IDF, and the commando outfit Unit 13 that perpetrated the massacres, made a choice at every step leading to the murder of those aid workers - each of whom was deliberately executed with several bullets from close range. Their solidarity with the murderers is complete: 'We are all Unit 13', as the Israeli protesters have reportedly taken to chanting. This is a pretty pathetic position to be in. Just as well Max Blumenthal has taken the trouble of trawling through the Israeli media's build-up to the attack, and documented that the attack was planned down to every detail, and that the use of lethal force was planned on the pretext that the flotilla's occupants were 'terrorists'."

Full piece.

Also, this site has begun an effort to combat the Israeli media offensive.

Ironic!

The State of the American State

I came across this passage today in Slavoj Zizek's Living in the End Times and thought it was an interesting follow up to my post yesterday. In this section of the text, Zizek discusses the current global-political situation, particularly the way in which nation-forces (the US, Europe, China, etc.) relate to each other in terms of the roles they play and the goals they set for themselves relating to future political standing. Central to the US's failure to ultimately accomplish its goals (to be the global police-state) is the sort of hypocrisy obvious in George W. Bush's incredulous openness about committing at least one (and we all know it was more than that) war crime. Because of this hypocrisy (demanding unwavering moral fortitude from everyone but itself), Zizek determines the US to be a state in decline where global political and economic dominance is concerned.

"With regard to "ordinary" rogue states, the US is its self-sublating universalization: the "universal" rogue state which, as such, imposes and sustains global law and order. We have thus two series of states: rogue states and civilized states, with the US as the doubly inscribed element, the rogue state among the civilized and the civilized among the rogues.

"Furthermore, the idea of the United States practicing double standards, and heroically doing the heavy lifting for a Europe luxuriating in its high principles, is misleading: what makes the US so annoying for Europeans is pragmatic politics and willingness to do the ugly but necessary work, but the fact that it combines its obvious double standards with an excessive moralization of its politics. The US reproach to Europe is not primarily that it clings to an idealistic peace-moralism out of touch with the brutal reality of world politics, but, on the contrary, that it is all too pragmatic in accommodating itself to fundamentalist threats and human right violations around the world. Recall how, prior to the second Iraq war, the US criticized Europe not for its idealism, but for its pragmatic opportunism and blindness to the threats lurking around the corner: the metaphor often evoked was that Europe was behaving like Chamberlin in Munich in 1938, deluding himself that a genuine peace treaty was possible with the Nazis - no wonder Donald Rumsfeld characterized Europe's unreadiness to participate in the attack on Iraq as being 'beneath contempt.'"

"It was foretold to Oedipus's parents that their son would kill his father and marry his mother, but the very steps they took to avoid this fate (exposing him to death in a deep forest) ensured that the prophesy would be fulfilled - without their attempt to avoid fate, fate could not have realized itself. Is this not a clear parable of the fate of US intervention in Iraq? The US saw signs of a fundamentalist threat, intervened to prevent it, and thereby massively strengthened it. Would it not have been much more effective to accept the threat, ignore it, and thus break its grasp? Iraq is today regressing to a pre-state condition: state power cannot enforce law and order sufficiently to contain the war amongst fundamentalist militias, which are joining force and gradually one of the positive legacies of Saddam's regime, the existence of a large, secular and well-educated middle class. The saddest new from Iraq tells the story of a massive brain-drain: as a result of religious fundamentalists' [and, I would add, the US military's] attacks on schools and hospitals, the educated middle classes are leaving the country, thus depriving it of a key element of a functioning liberal democracy.

"The message of incidents like these is clear: the US is an empire in decline. Its growing negative trade balance suggests it is an unproductive predator nation: it has to suck up an influx of one billion dollars daily from other nations to help pay for its consumption needs and is, as such, the universal Keynesian consumer that keeps the world economy running. This influx, which is essentially like the tithes payed to Rome in antiquity, relies of a complex economic mechanism: the US is "trusted" as the safe and stable center, so that all others, from the oil-producing Arab countries to Western Europe and Japan, and even now the Chinese, invest their surplus profits in the United States. Since this "trust" is primarily ideological and military, not economic, the problem for the US is how to justify its imperial role - it requires a permanent state of war, so it had to invent the "war on terror" offering itself as the universal protector of all other "normal" (non-"rogue") states. However, as Moishe Postone has astutely noted, the very attempt of the US to reassert itself as the global policeman is already a reaction to the emerging multi-centric global order."

From the Harper's Indexes

Some of these statistics are a little dated:

Ratio of federal spending each day on a U.S. public-school student to the amount spent on a federal prisoner: 1:4

Number of U.S. colleges offering an academic course in "leadership" in 1998: 237

Factor by which Harvard's admission rate for the children of alumni exceeds that for other qualified applicants: 3.63

Percentage change during the 1990s, in real dollars, in the average tuition at a U.S. private college: +24

Percentage change in the average tuition at a public college: +36

Ratio of Illinois death-row inmates executed since 1976 to the number declared innocent: 1:1

Expenditures for which the Pentagon could not account in 1998: $22,000,000,000

Months after the publication of Newt Gingrich's 1995 book To Renew America that his publisher asked retailers to cut the price by 38 percent: 6

Federal funds spent in 1996 and 1997 to gild Gingrich's office ceiling, gold excluded: $40,400

Annual federal spending on promotional activities for U.S. arms dealers: $444,200,000

Rank of arms trading, illegal drug trafficking, and oil production among the world's largest industries: 1,2,3

Maximum fine for begging without a permit in Orlando, Florida: $500

Federal anti-poverty funds granted Texas since 1996 that had not been spent by the fall of 1999: $149,000,000

Change in the number of Americans able to receive C-SPAN full-time since Congress altered cable laws in 1992: -5,000,000

Percentage by which the cost of producing Titanic exceeded the 1997 budget of the National Endowment for the Arts: 100

Portion of U.S. stock owned by the wealthiest 10 percent of Americans: 9/10

Months before the 1929 stock market crash that Forbes magazine noted the "heroic scale" of U.S. economic growth: 4

Number of Playboy centerfold models since 1959 whose bios claimed their favorite book was by Ayn Rand: 12

Innocent Until Proven Guilty, And Even Then

Sure, we waterboarded Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, former President George W. Bush reportedly said on Tuesday. And he would “do it again to save lives.”

"Bush’s statement amounts to an admission of his role in a serious crime. He can speak and act without concern because the Obama White House has announced its intention not to enforce American domestic law, under which this conduct was a felony, and not to comply with the unequivocal treaty commitments of the Convention Against Torture, under which the United States is unconditionally obligated to undertake a criminal investigation. In this way, the sins of one regime have been assumed by its successor."

Full small article

less talk more rock

i like tokyo police club he has a cool voice and good melodies and its kinda wanky dance music sometimes but its still good, this is the first song from their new album, bump it nasty




record cover is cool too


gnarcake

WHAT DO....

a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, 2 German politicians, 17 members of parliament from Ireland, Bulgaria and Sweden, and an 85 year old holocaust survivor all have in common??

they're anti-semites of course



this guy shreds em pretty well


world is pissed


banned stuff


"Notice the prohibited items (seeds, chickens, donkeys, horses, goats, cattle, wood for construction). These are tools used by autonomous nations composed of a self-sustaining population."

"As for newspapers and music, well, the reasons for their presences on The List should be obvious, too. An educated population is a dangerous population, and music is cathartic and motivational for human beings, particularly among young revolutionaries. Music creates solidarity, and it can be used as a way for slaves to communicate with one another."

people on the boat talkin vvvv
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/2010/06/20106193546785656.html

Oh, Good

"Federal officials are hoping film director James Cameron can help them come up with ideas on how to stop the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

"The "Avatar" and "Titanic" director was among a group of scientists and other experts who met Tuesday with officials from the Environmental Protection Agency and other federal agencies for a brainstorming session on stopping the massive oil leak.

"The Canadian-born Cameron is considered an expert on underwater filming and remote vehicle technologies. "Avatar" and "Titanic" are the two highest-grossing films of all time."

via Huffington Post

Oh, good. Finally. I'm so relieved. If I have any question it is "What the hell took you so long, Feds?!" There are tons of good options James Cameron could bring to the table here. One (and I'm just spitballing here, and am obviously no James Cameron) possible solution James Cameron could bring to the table is to plug the hole with the remains of the Titanic. No good? Maybe if you compressed all of the Avatar film stocks and DVD's into one massive block roughly the size of the moon that would do the job. Or maybe, just maybe (and this should appeal to Cameron and human beings in general), in a truly awesome ending befitting a James Cameron narrative, Cameron himself will dive down into the hole, using his expertise in "underwater filming" and, with the help of his massively inflated ego, singlehandedly block the hole forever and establish himself as one of the great sacrificial heroes of all time. And then be reborn as a Native American tribal leader (Just kidding, that is ridiculous, obviously. Reincarnation is the opiate of the masses).

The last one gets my vote, as it assures the oil spill will be plugged (since James Cameron's ego far surpasses the Titanic or the surely astronomical total size of Avatar media), and also assures that James Cameron will never ever make another movie, or pompously declare himself "King of the World" for having convinced a studio to spend more money on a piece of shit Hollywood movie than anyone else before him. In any case, things are looking up!