Obama's people are not happy that Trump has slowed down the killing. You almost have to wonder if the swells didn't decide in 2008 that the world has too many people and that there was a profit opportunity in solving that problem. Fortunately for the war hawks, John Bolton is still on their side.
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Fucking with Venezuela because we're still a nation of pricks.
News people are finally talking about how you can't talk about Palestine on the news.
Today is the day after the third anniversary of the Wikileaks release of DNC emails. Interesting bit about the guy who instantly knew it was bullshit. At some point this won't just be falling apart, there will be calls of treason because that's exactly what it all was. When it comes to Hillary Clinton, humiliation by proxy (Epstain) isn't good enough. She committed her own crimes, and should be prosecuted for them just as surely as she had Gaddafi killed for threatening the French International franc.
Hard to believe, but Louisiana cops — who can kill any Louisianan of color with impunity — have been fired for making eliminationist threats against a member of Congress from New York!
Click this link if you've never heard of Ronald McNair. I sure as hell hadn't.
Via NC, black metal goes antifa. Not surprising. In the '80s there were two very different kinds of skinheads, '70s saw the rise of long haired rednecks.
Ponzibook.
Epstain.
Boris.
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Slate responds to the New Yorker to insist women must be believed! Moving back to the country really did a 180° on my head. Living among people who do what they say and say what they mean within the restrictions of civility has erased my tolerance for neoliberal bafflegab.
The women being abused, raped, overworked (not an issue for neolibs!) and otherwise abused are overwhelmingly from the lower classes. If some upper class women get fake fondled or Hollywood hugged, that's a social register problem, not a legal one.
And the problems of actors are frankly a problem for MeToo which seems to have done PR for a lot of women who advanced their careers by spreading their legs when their more talented competition wouldn't.
Rape is rape, but "I'll let you rape me for this part" is maybe a slightly different type of rape. Respect the women whose careers were ended, not those who compromised themselves to get ahead by giving head.
And if it seems weird for an old guy to get worked up about this, maybe it's because I helped a lot of women to find new jobs after the pig they worked for made advances. Women who quit, and saw damage to their careers as a result. Many of whom would tell me about how older women in the org would tell them to 'suck it up' because corporate life isn't easy.
We desperately need an honest conversation about this vile shit, and we sure as hell haven't had one because the worst offenders (the rapists and the collaborators) are in charge of all the media spin. (Do I need to mention the fact that we haven't really gone beyond Charlie Rose when it comes to exploring what some women in the news media have done to get promoted?)
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Gov. Walz seems to have inherited a steaming pile of backscratching corruption at DHS. Reading between the lines, this is extremely consistent with what I saw from this sector in the 2000s. Clients lacking any kind of communication skills were bringing in proposals for absolutely specious projects. That were getting funded. Within the not for profit sector, there are a lot of bad actors churning out crappy proposals that get funded by neoliberal suckers who could care less about the validity of a program because really they're all just make-work gigs for their friends and friends of friends. Keith Ellison's ex-gf from hell would be a good example of this.
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I have actually watched some movies recently. Frank Capra's The Bitter Tea of General Yen was an interesting period piece. Can't say much more without spoilers and I know someone who wants to see it.
No chance of spoilers with Batman Hush. Everyone's in it and it's serious Batman but not so noir you have to adjust the picture. Which makes the laugh out loud humor in the early second half a nice treat. At least I thought it was funny but that could have just been the Darlin's Net talking.
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Written under the influence of radicalfashion's Garcon, Wu Tang & Jimi Hendrix' Black Gold, and Moljebka Pvise's Komoku.
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