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Thursday August 17, 2017 · 10:45 PM PDT

2017/08/17 · 22:45

Sandy and Richard Riccardi just confiscated the C-ville Nazi’s nuts, and gave Trump a nickname as absurd as he is. Behold their show tune “Tiki Torch Nazis”, sung to the tune of “Beauty School Dropout”.

Who is Trump if not the best and biggliest of the Tiki Torch Nazis?

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Greenwald Invites Snowden's Assassination

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Saturday July 13, 2013 · 12:02 PM PDT

2013/07/13 · 12:02

Glenn Greenwald is in South America speaking to the Argentinian press. He's fired off a new sensational volley guaranteed to generate headlines, perfectly tailored for a Latin American audience:

"Snowden has enough information to cause harm to the U.S. government in a single minute than any other person has ever had," Greenwald said in an interview in Rio de Janeiro with the Argentinian daily La Nacion.
"The U.S. government should be on its knees every day begging that nothing happen to Snowden, because if something does happen to him, all the information will be revealed and it could be its worst nightmare."

I'm not very sophisticated at international intrigue, but isn't that a juicy invitation to anyone that would love to see the US get a big black eye? Just assassinate Snowden, and everything will be released!

On a more basic level, why is Greenwald in South America giving press conferences to the Latin American press? He seems more Don King than journalist right now, pitching the story of Snowden as a hero that will drive the US government to its knees.

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Thursday February 16, 2012 · 12:35 PM PST

2012/02/16 · 12:35

There's an article up on Huffington Post that everyone should read. It is a frontline view on the militarization of local police forces--increasingly armed by defense industry manufacturers--as well as a blueprint for disrupting that militarization through local political pressure.

I've seen the militarization of local police in my own community. A friendly police officer proudly showed me the hardware he had in his trunk--a military assault rifle and armor--in a town of 7000 people. You know, just in case. This militarization is being driven by a defense industry that sees huge dollar signs in arming local police forces as if they're combat troops. The result is increased aggression, the likes of which we are seeing in the response to Occupy Wall Street.

Many towns have purchased vehicles like the Bearcat, or obtained tanks or armored vehicles from the Pentagon, saying they need to be prepared for terror attacks or school shootings.... [But,] since terror attacks and school shootings are rare, police agencies tend to use their armored vehicles for more mundane police work, like serving drug warrants.

Follow me down the rabbit hole for a surreal look at the how are cops are being made into soldiers. Read More

The Dow Decline Trigger: Tools for OWS 2.0

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Friday November 18, 2011 · 5:23 PM PST

2011/11/18 · 17:23

I just read Bex's brilliant diary on leverage and how it can be used as a sledgehammer, and was struck by his idea about how to use it to reel in Wall Street. If banks are highly leveraged in the loans they make to Wall Street, which they are, the closing of consumer accounts means not only that they lose the cash in their vault, it means they lose 20x that amount in loan capacity and all the interest that would have earned.

So when the masses get behind a "move your money" day, it's a sledgehammer. But if you change the concept of a fixed date for rallying people to move their money to a floating date, like, oh, maybe the day after the Dow tanks suddenly the OWS movement doesn't seem so "unfocused". Read the post, it's beautifully explained.

So I'd like to suggest extending Bex's powerful notion into a Web 2.0 campaign game called the Dow Decline Trigger, or DDT for Wall Street. If traders can use leverage to improve their advantage, so can we.

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Thursday November 17, 2011 · 11:24 AM PST

2011/11/17 · 11:24

Watching the raids that have been going on across the US to evict protesters from the parks, I've been thinking about what kinds of methods the movement could use not only to keep the momentum going, but to draw in more participants--especially more participants who aren't likely to spend days at a time camped out in the park. There's no point in judging what level of commitment people are willing to make, there's just an imperative to keep the momentum growing.

While I don't think the movement needs tents and camps to survive, I do think it needs the symbolic power and continuity of physical occupation. It keeps the message visible, and provides the images needed to keep the media broadcasting the message, even as the message evolves.

I think one solution may be to organize a constantly rotating army of occupiers. Instead of relying on the incredible commitment of a few to camp for as long as it takes in parks and squares, create a much broader base of participants willing to spend a few hours each week in occupation, with a focus on keeping the spaces full 24/7 with a never-ending stream of occupiers. More over the jump.

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Wednesday October 12, 2011 · 10:35 AM PDT

2011/10/12 · 10:35

It's fascinating to watch the OWS protests roll out across the US. You can see the frustration and anger coalesce, you can see the realization dawning among politicians and corporate executives that this might have legs, you can see the attempt to deflate the momentum by dismissing the protesters as hippies. The street protests are a critical step in gaining public awareness that a tipping point has arrived, but in and of themselves, they are not the most potent form of power we have in our hands. Not by a long shot.

Parallels with the Arab spring are interesting, but we are not Egypt. We are not Tunisia. We are an advanced economic system that lends the masses overwhelming power if they only wake up to what's already in their hands.

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Tuesday March 15, 2011 · 3:38 AM PDT

2011/03/15 · 03:38

I just got out of Tokyo this morning after getting thoroughly rattled, as much by the constant earthquakes since Friday as by the growing confusion in transportation, information and basic logistics. I was lucky--I had a previously scheduled flight out of Narita, and all I had to do was find a way to get there. For many people who are trying to follow, there is already a hefty supply of blankets and sleeping bags waiting for them at the terminal.

Right now, I'm trying to get my sister and her two young daughters out. Her husband is on a business trip out of the country. I'm looking up flights, checking Twitter for train outages, looking up bus information and locations, and keeping tabs on the news--all in an effort to feed my sister up to date information so she can make the smartest moves to keep safe. I know there are many more like my sister, and many people on Kos trying to help. How can we combine forces? Is there something that could be done like Anonymous? Does something already exist you can point me to?

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Friday November 05, 2010 · 12:04 AM PDT

2010/11/05 · 00:04

A movie called "Fair Game" opens this week, starring Sean Penn and Naomi Watts as Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame.

The spectacle is irresistible, as Liman and screenwriters Jez and John-Henry Butterworth unspool a story all about truth versus lies, professionals versus amateurs, villains versus heroes and patriots versus posturing careerists. Penn plays Joseph Wilson with a good eye for the real Wilson's two-fisted intellectual quality and for the way his veneer of calm persuasiveness barely covered his outrage. He's effectively contrasted with David Andrews, who plays Lewis "Scooter" Libby as the worst kind of bully, an amoral weakling hiding behind his boss' skirt.

I'm not going to pad out a diary. Mick LaSalle's review is better than anything I can say about it. You can read it at SF Gate. Put a smile on my face.

Republican Values for a Christian Nation

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Thursday October 08, 2009 · 9:14 AM PDT

2009/10/08 · 09:14

Today I am almost speechless. I'm angry, outraged, apoplectic. So many threads that have been weaving around in my head for weeks converged today on one inescapable point: the utter bankruptcy of Republican values. I know the preference here is for long diaries with a wealth of links and analysis. But sometimes the job at hand is to distill.

Over the past few months we've seen the Republican agenda for what it is: a craven imperative to destroy Obama at all costs. The loser in this fight is the American people--on healthcare, on climate legislation, on economic recovery--while the winner seems inevitably to be the rich and powerful. Banks are winning, healthcare giants are winning, big corporations are winning, while ordinary people lose their homes and their lives.

As I've watched the Republicans wage their increasingly vitriolic fight against Americans, I've been trying to see this Christian Nation they yelled so much about when Obama went to Egypt. That was only a few months ago, and they were so passionate about reminding us all of our Christian roots. So where are these Christian values in today's political battle? I'll tell you.

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Thursday December 04, 2008 · 8:22 PM PST

2008/12/04 · 20:22

I'm the founder of an Internet start-up. For the past 2 years, I've worked 80-hour weeks writing business plans, writing marketing plans, writing code, and generally running my ass off. My company provides an online product that helps companies manage their business -- business software, not some gambling, porn, or ring-tone start-up.

I gave up my salary, emptied my bank account and mortgaged my house to start my company. I created jobs, not only for my two employees, but for a number of programmers, designers and consultants. I've taken huge risks to create value, hoping I can make a living, and maybe even get lucky someday and sell my company at a profit. Well, that was the thought. Now I'm just struggling to survive.

Now the world is slowly caving in, as banks deny me credit, credit card companies lower my limits and liquidity dries up everywhere. Meanwhile we pump billions into saving those who gave us this mess, politicians talk about the importance of small business while entrepreneurs are starving for cash and captains of industry get billion-dollar bailouts. Follow me over for a view of exactly what we're killing in America.

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Saturday October 18, 2008 · 9:34 PM PDT

2008/10/18 · 21:34

Obama has been mopping the floor with McCain for two weeks straight. McCain has completely fumbled his campaign. But now conservatives who have given up on McCain are closing ranks and taking control of the message themselves. If McCain can't lead, they will. And the message they are framing for voters is that a Democratic president and a powerful Democratic congress is something to be feared: unrestrained power in the hands of a black man, a shrill woman, and a scary liberal.

I started hearing this frame from a conservative friend in Ohio, and I've seen it talked about here and there on Kos, Politico, et. al. But now conservatives are really starting to beat this drum. Pat Buchanan, who some were giddy over when he praised Obama's convention speech, has come out with a screed ladeling on the fear for a "liberal backlash".

This center-right country is about to vastly strengthen a liberal Congress whose approval rating is 10 percent and implant in Washington a regime further to the left than any in U.S. history.

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Thursday October 09, 2008 · 5:07 PM PDT

2008/10/09 · 17:07

I've been watching a pattern emerge, first among my friends who are conservatives, and now flooding into the mainstream, as exemplified by this video today: http://www.breitbart.tv/...

In the video, someone at a McCain rally takes the mike and goes on a rant, to the joy of the crowd. "I'm mad," he says. "I'm really mad. And it may surprise you that it's not the economy I'm mad about, but about these socialists taking over the country." And he goes off on Ried, Pelosi and Obama, as if Obama had been president the last eight years, and the congress controlled by Democrats for 10 of the last 12.

The pattern started with conservatives distancing themselves from Bush after the bloodbath of 2006. I watched as they first started to simply say, Bush has been bad for the Republican party, and then increasingly pushing him over a cliff along with their own responsibility for supporting his policies rabidly since they first voted for him in 1999.

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