Marklar's Blog – July 2009 Archive (18)

Trail Of Carrot Bombs Across Sweden

Disinfo.com

A Swedish artist has spent months on a mega-project involving the public installation of faux-bombs, made of carrots, alarm clocks, red and blue cables, metal wire and tape, in the Göteborg area of Sweden. Called "Bunny Project," the concept is "rabbit as symbol for subversive activities, activities outside the reach of the control system. The rabbit has an almost… Continue

Added by Marklar on July 21, 2009 at 1:50am — 5 Comments

Watch What We Do, Not What We Say

Counterpunch

July 17-19, 2009

By ALEXANDER COCKBURN

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"Watch what we do, not what we say,” was the famous advice Nixon’s first Attorney General, John Mitchell, gave the press at the onset of the Nixon presidency in 1969. It’s a handy piece of advice in the Age of Obama too, as we roll towards… Continue

Added by Marklar on July 18, 2009 at 7:30am — No Comments

Naomi Wolfe - “Obama has the right to lock any US citizen up forever without trial”

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Added by Marklar on July 15, 2009 at 2:00am — No Comments

Murdoch Papers Paid £1m to Gag Phone-hacking Victims

By Nick Davies

July 14, 2009 "The Guardian" -- Rupert Murdoch's News Group Newspapers has paid out more than £1m to settle legal cases that threatened to reveal evidence of his journalists' repeated involvement in the use of criminal methods to get stories.

The payments secured secrecy over out-of-court settlements… Continue

Added by Marklar on July 15, 2009 at 12:03am — No Comments

The Fable of Mouseland - (VIDEO)

Disinfo.com

Mouseland was a story told first by Clarence Gillis, and later and most famously by Tommy Douglas, leader of the Saskatchewan Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and, later, the New Democratic Party of Canada, both social democratic parties. It was a political fable expressing the CCF's view that the Canadian political system was flawed in offering voters a false dilemma: the choice of two parties, neither of which… Continue

Added by Marklar on July 14, 2009 at 9:00pm — 1 Comment

Fox News Host: Americans "Keep Marrying Other Species and Ethnics" (VIDEO)

>>>>> MARKLAR: "Will somebody please hit this guy over the head and stuff him into a time machine so we can give him his wish of living in 1952. We can perform the emergency vasectomy while we're strapping him… Continue

Added by Marklar on July 10, 2009 at 5:00am — 4 Comments

Glenn Greenwald: The Obama Justice System

by Glenn Greenwald

Salon.com

Spencer Ackerman yesterday attended a Senate hearing at which the DOD's General Counsel, Jeh Johnson, testified. As Ackerman highlighted, Johnson actually said that even for those detainees to whom the Obama administration deigns to give a real trial in a real court, the President has the power to continue to imprison them indefinitely even if they are… Continue

Added by Marklar on July 9, 2009 at 8:00am — 1 Comment

Two Militarized Cops Fight it Out - Video

Added by Marklar on July 9, 2009 at 7:45am — No Comments

Why the FBI Squelched an Investigation of a Post-9/11 Meeting Between White Supremacist and Islamic Extremists

By Mark Levine, AlterNet. Posted July 9, 2009.

Shock: It seems the FBI cares more about protecting its illegal surveillance methods than following leads to stop terrorism.

The recent shooting at the Holocaust Museum serves as a stark reminder to us all that murderous racial and religious hatred still endures in America. One would expect the FBI to infiltrate and prosecute individuals and organizations that… Continue

Added by Marklar on July 9, 2009 at 6:19am — No Comments

Geonomics: The Citizens Dividend Liberates Everyone

The Geonomy Society

by Jeffery J. Smith

Introduction

People campaigning for a better world should also demand a social salary. A social salary is an extra income apart from one's labor or capital, paid to everyone. It is not a bribe. It is not a reward for good behavior. It is your right. It's similar to the European proposal for a Basic Income.… Continue

Added by Marklar on July 6, 2009 at 8:30pm — 1 Comment

Taibbi: NYSE ends transparency to protect Goldman Sachs

The Raw Story

By Daniel Tencer

Published: July 4, 2009

The New York Stock Exchange quietly announced last week that it would end its practice of requiring companies to report all their program trading — a move that helps shield large investment banks, particularly Goldman Sachs, from public scrutiny.

The new rule means the public will no longer be able to tell… Continue

Added by Marklar on July 6, 2009 at 6:36am — No Comments

Washington becomes Jefferson - Original Humor

12.160MHz

By Marklar M. Marklar

July 06, 2009

What do you think of when you hear the word Washington? If you’re like most people then words like, graft, organized crime, military industrial complex, lies, lobbyists, sex scandal, war crimes, and even murder capital USA might immediately spring to mind.

Unfortunately there is another place with the… Continue

Added by Marklar on July 6, 2009 at 2:30am — No Comments

Interwebs, Hypertexts and Newspapers – Original Humor

12.160MHz

By Marklar M. Marklar

July 03, 2009

Recently a respected judge from New York, Judge Richard Posner, has suggested a ban on interweb hyperlinks in order to save the floundering newspaper industry.

Experts at UC Berkely were quick to point out that Judge Posner seems to be mega illiterate when it comes to… Continue

Added by Marklar on July 3, 2009 at 9:30am — 3 Comments

'There Is No Way I Will Deploy to Afghanistan' -- Seeds of Dissent in the U.S. Military Are Growing

Alternet

By Dahr Jamail, Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute. Posted July 2, 2009.

From suicide to desertion to refusal to deploy -- service members' dissent may be growing into something far larger.

The All-Volunteer Force (AVF) exists for a reason captured in a study by Colonel Robert D. Heinl, Jr., author of the "definitive… Continue

Added by Marklar on July 2, 2009 at 11:30pm — 1 Comment

Homosexuality Exists Everywhere, So Too Should Equal Rights

Published on Wednesday, July 1, 2009 by The Independent/UK

Almost Everywhere is Touched by the Stonewall Riots Now

by Johann Hari

It is now 40 years since the start of a riot for freedom in a small tavern in New York City – and the riot has never stopped. It is spreading slowly across the world, to every continent, to Mumbai and Shanghai and Dubai. Everywhere it goes, it wins, in time. Yet on 28 June 1969, it seemed only like another Sixties ruck in the… Continue

Added by Marklar on July 2, 2009 at 2:55am — No Comments

The Significance Of Washington's Coup Attempt In Honduras

By Shamus Cooke

01 July, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- There should be no doubts about the U.S.’ decisive role behind the now-crumbling military coup in Honduras. As commander and chief of the U.S. armed forces, the blame for this intervention lies solely on President Obama.

The White House, however, would like you to believe that they “attempted to convince the Honduran military not to intervene.”

Rubbish.

When it comes to the Honduran… Continue

Added by Marklar on July 2, 2009 at 2:25am — No Comments

Why Zelaya's Actions Were Legal

By Alberto Vallente Thorensen

July 01, 2009 "Counterpunch" --- In the classic Greek tragedy, Prometheus Bound, the playwright observes: “Of wrath’s disease wise words the healers are.” Shortly put, this story is about Prometheus, a titan who was punished by the almighty gods for having given humanity the capacity to create fire. This generated a conflict, which ended with Prometheus’ banishment and… Continue

Added by Marklar on July 2, 2009 at 2:22am — No Comments

'World's unluckiest tourists' witness three separate terrorist attacks

A couple have been labelled the world's unluckiest tourists after being caught up in three separate terror attacks during their holidays.

By Chris Irvine

telegraph.co.uk

Published: 7:30PM GMT 21 Dec 2008

Jason and Jenny Cairns-Lawrence, from Dudley, West Midlands, were in central Mumbai… Continue

Added by Marklar on July 1, 2009 at 2:00am — 2 Comments