December 2009
signing off until next year. have a motherfucking...
(except Dick Cheney)
love,
vruz
“…[T]he man accused of trying to blow up Northwest Flight 253, Umar Farouk...”
– Eugene Robinson - Dick Cheney’s lies about President Obama - washingtonpost.com (via ryking)
vruz: read that again: the Al-Qaeda lieutenants who helped prepare the recent attack were freed by George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.
the neocons get more and more dangerous by the minute. and why are the...
Eight GOP Senators Opposed Bill That Funded... →
(via ryking)
Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters Speaks Out in Support of... →
DemocracyNow.org
In a Democracy Now! exclusive interview, British musician Roger Waters of the iconic rock band Pink Floyd speaks out about the Gaza Freedom March.
“I actually would be very interested to hear what the President of the United States has to say about this nonviolent, democratic demonstration of ordinary people from forty-two countries all over the world,” says Waters. “They feel...
“Rush Limbaugh was taken to the same hospital President Obama was born in.. I...”
– thepoliticalpartygirl (via brooklynmutt:apsies)
vruz: oh, but they only accept islamic faith people there, don’t they?
“To put it simply: this President is not interested in bellicose rhetoric, he is...”
– White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer
vruz: Pfeiffer seems to agree Cheney’s shit has only helped Al-Qaeda. this is consistent with my earlier commentary about the neocons being the single most dangerous group that could possibly hurt the US (which Colin Powell agrees with), and...
“Dick Cheney uses Politico like Sarah Palin uses Facebook: a venue to spout false...”
– Glenn Greenwald
vruz: although it’s unfair to put poor sarah on the same level as dick cheney. she is many things, but war criminal is not one of them.
“Berlusconi prepara i manifesti con il suo volto ferito.
Meno male che non ha...”
– Paul Olden (via spinoza, ianinja, rispostesenzadomanda) (via aitan) (via gravitazero) (via savingoldlitter)
I hereby declare Myriad Pro is the new Arial....
The Big Zero - Paul Krugman →
vruz: I’ve been calling it ‘the lost decade’ for a while, but this may be handy in order to differentiate it from the japanese lost decade, for example. except that this decade was special for it was a worldwide lost decade that didn’t withstand the great hopeful attitude of millenial innocence.
buffleheadcabin:
I’d suggest that we call the decade past the Big Zero. It...
Marketing stuff
—via @rsscloud:
I know programmers aren’t into marketing that much, but someday someone will ask why you’re so darned excited about Realtime RSS and related technologies. For that day you might want to keep a link to this piece around:
12/29/09: Why it’s smart to publish Realtime RSS now.
Dave Winer Berkeley CA
ooohhhhhhhh ooooohhhh ohhhhhhhh ohhhhhhh steve...
nevermind the $4 billion he got from the sale of pixar to disney, his disney salary, and all that lovely backtrading that was investigated by the SEC and got them a few million more, some pocket change!
but seriously, he can do no wrong! he’s so minimalistic he can live on a penny! he’s such a rebel! he’s such a $1 genius! he’s god! by that I mean he made the fucking...
Dear the rest of the world: overall, Americans...
—via moorewr:inothernews:michaelmcgee:inothernews:
[snip good stuff for brevity]
My theory is we are the new British. Long after our “hegemony” is gone, visitors will notice us apologizing for everything..
vruz: no argument about intelligence. the problem is however the wild assymetry between people who perceive the world through a lens of rationality and those who don’t. the...
“These are dangerous criminals, and we must deal with them. But come on, this is...”
– Fmr. Secretary of State Colin Powell
vruz: Question: what’s the main objective of terrorism? to annihilate you (they can’t) or to terrorise you causing panic and an irrational reaction? (they’ve succeeded before, and the added cost of warring endless wars brought the US economy...
@bthny: not a dumb chart #2
45,000 people die yearly in the US because of lack of assistance for preventable diseases.
gunshot deaths and car crashes not included. (they are not considered preventable diseases)
if you follow the previously provided links you will reach this article on the Harvard Study that explains it in full detail, here it is again for your perusal:
...
One day we'll all be terrorists - Chris Hedges →
vruz: First they came for the muslims… (under the pretext they were searching for terrorists).
—via afghanibanani:
Syed Fahad Hashmi can tell you about the dark heart of America. He knows that our First Amendment rights have become a joke, that habeas corpus no longer exists and that we torture, not only in black sites such as those at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan or at...
“The concept of “no-fault” divorce is certainly repugnant to most Christian and...”
– Glenn Greenwald - Rove: Champion of “Traditional Divorce” (via apsies) (via bringmethathorizon)
Israeli warplanes fly over Lebanon, draw army fire... →
Lebanon’s army said on Tuesday it fired anti-aircraft rounds at four Israeli warplanes which flew at low altitude over south Lebanon.
U.N. peacekeepers and Lebanon say Israeli flights over the country violate Security Council Resolution 1701 that ended a 34-day war between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas in 2006.
Israeli warplanes fly over Lebanon frequently but are no frequently fired...
All Power is Unitary →
by Josh Marshall, TPM
I’m fond of telling friends who are more interested in foreign than domestic policy that they’re two sides of the same coin in terms of the power of a president whose policies you support or oppose. And it’s no less the case with Obama. As Akiva Eldar notes in Haaretz Prime Minister Netanyahu and his advisors have made little secret of their hope that...
Never underestimate the potential for stupidity of... →
Despite bipartisan cooperation in response to recent terrorism-related issues, the Republican Party is seizing on last week’s attempted terror attack on Flight 253 and the Obama administration’s response as an opportunity to point out Democrats’ weaknesses. Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R.-Mich.), the ranking Republican member of the House Intelligence Committee, pointed to the Fort...
to: republicans cc: teabaggers. subject: idiots....
Are America's Mercenary Armies Really Drug... →
—via thedaytheytriedtokillme:
Speculation regarding contractor involvement in the Afghan narcotics trade. Did the Enterprise ever stop if it ever really existed at all?
vruz: no, they aren’t exactly that. although they may sometimes operate as the armed branch of something like that. they may serve to overthrow unstable governments in africa when they’re not too obedient...
Palestinian Journalist Remembers Israel’s Assault... →
via DemocracyNow.org
One year ago this weekend, Israel began its twenty-two-day assault on the Gaza Strip. Dubbed “Operation Cast Lead,” 1,400 Palestinians and thirteen Israelis were killed in what was Israel’s deadliest attack on Palestinians. We look back on Operation Cast Lead with Palestinian journalist Sami Abu Salem, who was in Gaza during the assault.
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