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Nationwide Tax Protests

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Tea Party Tyranny

Moment of Zen - Sore Losers

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Today is the twentieth anniversary of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, when fans of Liverpool FC were crushed at the Hillsborough football stadium in Sheffield. The fans were caged in by metal fences and as a result were unable to escape on to pitch when the crush developed. 96 people died.

"We Can Be Together"

We are all outlaws in the eyes of america

In order to survive we steal cheat lie forge fred hide and deal

We are obscene lawless hideous dangerous dirty violent and young

But we should be together

Come on all you people standing around

Our lifes too fine to let it die and

We can be together

All your private property is

Target for your enemy

And your enemy is

We

We are forces of chaos and anarchy

Everything they say we are we are

And we are very

Proud of ourselves

Up against the wall

Up against the wall fred (motherfucker)

Tear down the walls

Come on now together

Get it on together

Everybody together

We should be together

We should be together my friends

We can be together

We will be

We must begin here and now

A new continent of earth and fire

Tea Bag aka Get Over Yourself!

(THIS REALLY DESERVES NONE OF MY TIME OR ENERGY...)

Y'know how when someone gives birth to their first child, they seem to be under the impression this has never been done before?
Rightwing fucks in the USA have had their first child: a protest.

Somehow they think that this is all new and has never been done before.
They freaked the fuck out beforehand that they wouldn't get the media coverage somehow entitled to them. As if other protests always got media coverage.

Somehow these idiots think that dipping your toe in the ocean of dissent is equivalent to being beaten, jailed, and killed by the waves of state repression deep out into that ocean.

Only in the USA could people be hyped into protesting in favor of the rich being able to keep more of their money.
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Frothing Tea Bagger Hate-Fest in Sacto

Tea Bagging Confusion About Fascism

Tea Bagging Sen. Joseph McCarthy-style
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If the rightwing wants to turn this country into Lebanon, bring it!
Sectarian militias! Get into it!

If Texas wants to secede, can California??

Hillsborough 1989

"South South Yorkshire - mass murderer
How can you sleep at night, sleep at night"

"Yorkshire policemen chat with folded arms, people try and save their fellow fans"

The inquiry into the disaster, the Taylor Report, named the cause as the failure of police.
(Fuck off to all the assholes who just want to blame Scousers!)

Let us all also not forget the 22 dead in Côte d'Ivoire last month.

(thanks to History Is Made At Night)

Death By Homophobia: Carl Walker-Hoover

Carl Walker-Hoover.
Remember that name. Remember his face.

This young boy killed himself after being the target of gay jokes and being threatened with physical violence on a daily basis.

Everytime I hear someone casually throw around "gay" and/or "fag" as insults as if words bore no connection to meanings, I think of people like Carl Walker-Hoover.
Blood on your hands.

Vans: Customize

Vans has redone their custom shoe site.
Now you can order customized Eras!!!

I been waiting for this!

Music To Torture To

music used to torture U.S. captives:

1. Fuck Your God – Deicide
2. Die MF Die – Dope
3. Take Your Best Shot – Dope
4. White America – Eminem
5. Kim – Eminem
6. “I Love You” – Barney The Dinosaur
7. Bodies – Drowning Pool
8. “Enter Sandman” – Metallica
9. Meow Mix TV commercial
10. “Sesame Street” Theme
11. “Babylon”– David Gray
12. Born In The USA – Bruce Springsteen
13. Shoot To Thrill – ACDC
14. Stayin’ Alive – Bee Gees
15. All Eyes On Me – Tupac
16. Dirrty – Christina Aguilera
17. America – Neil Diamond
18. Bulls On Parade – Rage Against The Machine
19. American Pie – Don McLean
20. Click Click Boom – Saliva
21. Cold – Matchbox 20
22. Swan Dive – Hed P.E.
23. Raspberry Beret – Prince
24. “Dirrty,” Christina Aguilera
25. “Shoot to Thrill,” AC/DC
26. “We are The Champions,” Queen
27. Britney Spears “…Baby One More Time”
28. Barry Manilow “Mandy”
29. Captain & Tennille “Muskrat Love”
30. Twisted Sister “We’re Not Gonna Take It”
31. Neil Diamond“America”
32. Meat Loaf “Paradise by the Dashboard Light”

Metallica loves torture:
"If the Iraqis aren’t used to freedom, then I’m glad to be part of their exposure…It represents something that they don’t like — maybe freedom, aggression… I don’t know… freedom of speech... I think politics and music, at least for us, don’t mix. It separates people, we wanna bring people together... (Metallica) felt honored to be part of the “war on terror.”
-James Hetfield

(Ya, nothing screams freedom like torture. Nothing screams separation of politics and music like supporting a specific "war." Hetfield rocks a fauxhawk these days too.)

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Fuck the Hippocratic Oath or Geneva Conventions. American Doctors got in on the torture too.

(thanks to Kasama)

We <3 Socialism

Only 53% of American adults believe capitalism is better than socialism.

Adults under 30 are essentially evenly divided: 37% prefer capitalism, 33% socialism, and 30% are undecided.

Republicans - by an 11-to-1 margin - favor capitalism.
Democrats are much more closely divided: Just 39% say capitalism is better while 30% prefer socialism.
Those not affiliated with either major political party, 48% say capitalism is best, and 21% opt for socialism.

iPod Domination

I was fascinated by this poll:

100% of teens want an iPod (and no other mp3 player).
Mac/iTunes has a fuckin' stranglehold on mp3 players. I don't want to sound shortsighted or naive but I can't figure out how it will end (although I am certain it will).

(Lifted from The Smoking Section)

Watch: Pacquiao-Hatton 24/7

HBO's 24/7 Part 1 for Pacquiao and Hatton is online.

Honestly, it makes Pacquiao look more interesting and a better fighter.

Pirates!.. yawn

I cannot fuckin' believe the amount of airtime this one American who is captured by pirates warrants!
The US has even sent in a warship!!!!
One fuckin' dude!

I have yet to see any major corporate media report on a foreign government firing on and nearly killing another dude.
Tristan Anderson

Seth Rogen & Date Rape

Hey, I loved him in Freaks & Geeks and thought it was cool how he graduated to writer with Undeclared but now I am a little tired of Seth Rogen's bro humor.
I don't know if anyone even plans on seeing his latest masterpiece 'Observe And Report' about a mall cop. Here's another reason NOT to see it. Rogen's character rapes an unconscious female after heavy drug and alcohol use!

Seth Rogen justifies it like this:
When we're having sex and she's unconscious like you can literally feel the audience thinking, like, how the fuck are they going to make this okay? Like, what can possibly be said or done that I'm not going to walk out of the movie theater in the next thirty seconds? . . . And then she says, like, the one thing that makes it all okay: "Why are you stopping, motherfucker?"

Ya, hilarious, Seth.
This film is all about a fascistic loser who goes to great lengths to protect a woman's innocence (whom he rapes) from a flasher who he eventually kills.

Econ Lessons: Stimulus Package is Bound to Fail

It is very important for us all to understand the economic shit that is going down as best we can. It is often intentionally presented in ways too heavy for the average person to understand... especially a person not drinking the Kool Aid off the tit of capitalism.

I came across Why the U.S. Stimulus Package is Bound to Fail by David Harvey.
Part 1 is mainly historical. Part 2 is where it gets juicy.

I suggest reading it.
Here are some highlights:

In order to work, the stimulus has to be administered in such a way as to guarantee that it will be spent on goods and services and so get the economy humming again. This means that any relief must be directed to those who will spend it, which means the lower classes, since even the middle classes, if they spend it at all, are more likely to spend it on bidding up asset values (buying up foreclosed houses, for example), rather than increasing their purchases of goods and services. In any case, when times are bad many people will tend to use any extra income they receive to retire debt or to save (as largely happened with the $600 rebate designed by the Bush Administration in the early summer of 2008).

What appears prudent and rational from the standpoint of the household bodes ill for the economy at large (in much the same way that the banks have rationally taken public money and either hoarded it or used it to buy assets rather than to lend). The prevailing hostility in the United States to “spreading the wealth around” and to administering any sort of relief other than tax cuts to individuals, arises out of hard core neoliberal ideological doctrine (centered in but by no means confined to the Republican Party) that “households know best.” These doctrines have broadly been accepted as gospel by the American public at large after more than thirty years of neoliberal political indoctrination. We are, as I have argued elsewhere, “all neoliberals now” for the most part without even knowing it. There is a tacit acceptance, for example, that “wage repression” – a key component to the present problem – is a “normal” state of affairs in the United States. One of the three legs of a Keynesian solution, greater empowerment of labour, rising wages and redistribution toward the lower classes is politically impossible in the United States at this point in time. The very charge that some such program amounts to “socialism” sends shivers of terror through the political establishment. Labour is not strong enough (after thirty years of being battered by political forces) and no broad social movement is in sight that will force redistributions toward the working classes.

...collective goods do have the potential to generate multipliers for employment as well as for the effective demand for further goods and services. But the presumption is that these collective goods are, at some point, going to belong to the category of “productive state expenditures” (i.e. stimulate further growth) rather than become a series of public “white elephants” which, as Keynes long ago remarked, amounted to nothing more than putting people to work digging ditches and filling them in again... preference for tax cuts rather than infrastructural transformations makes the pursuit of a full-fledged Keynesian solution all but impossible in the United States.

But in China the emergence of mass unemployment (at last report there were thought to be some 20-million unemployed as a result of the slow-down) and signs of widespread and rapidly escalating social unrest will almost certainly push the Communist Party to massive redistributions whether they are ideologically concerned to do so or not.

If China uses more of its financial reserves to boost its internal market, as it is almost certainly bound to do for political reasons, so it will have less left over to lend to the United States. Reduced purchases of U.S. Treasury Bills will eventually force higher interest rates and impact U.S. internal demand negatively and, unless managed carefully, could trigger the one thing that everyone fears but which has so far been staved off: a run on the dollar... The supreme irony, of course, is that the political and ideological barriers in the United States to any full-fledged Keynesian program will almost certainly hasten loss of U.S. dominance in global affairs...

David Harvey's blog

(thanx to Kasama)

Tofu Yu Is Back!

Awhile back, I noticed that Tofu Yu had shut down their cafe.
They are back!!!

Support this spot!
I would hate to see them shut their doors forever.

"Pace Your Rage"

Maybe you have been hearing about the case of Richard Poplawski and the three dead Pittsburgh cops. Poplawski was fueled by a mix of white-supremacist/conspiracy-theorist paranoia and mainstream-media fearmongering, including from the likes of Glenn Beck and Fox News... That bit doesn't seem to be catching the headlines though.

Orcinus is a blog that covers the USA rightwing like no other. I highly recommend checking it out. Dave Neiwert of Orcinus fame recently came out with a book, The Eliminationists: HowHate Talk Radicalized The American Right.

I don't agree with Neiwert on everything but his blog rules enough for me to really punt it.
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Let's catch up with the mighty loud rightwing shitstorm in America.

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Baracknophobia - Obey