February 2010
"Looting" is another dog-whistle codeword
jmarie3:
jjbny:
Great another network accusing the Chilean people of “looting for food, water, diapers and milk.”
Really? Oh “looting” for necessities? It was after an earthquake! What are they supposed to do, wait til the store rebuilds and reopens?
Here are some more:
Freedom
Terror
Terrorism
Political correctness
How many can you name?
People are ringing COWBELLS.
(via love-and-radiation)
He's 23. But taken.
Apple admits using child labour →
vruz:
Apple has admitted that child labour was used at the factories that build its computers, iPods and mobile phones.
At least eleven 15-year-old children were discovered to be working last year in three factories which supply Apple.
The company did not name the offending factories, or say where they were based, but the majority of its goods are assembled in China.
—via The...
unburyingthelead:
Crystal Stilts - “Love Is a...
Nato draws up payout tariffs for Afghan
civilian... →
Average compensation paid by Britain to bereaved families falls from £7,300 to £2,900.
22 injured Afghans received an average of £1,400 in the year until April 2008, but an average of £1,060 during the following year. By contrast, injured British troops are entitled to a maximum tax-free lump sum of £570,000.
(via Instapaper)
Watchfrangry:
Rick Sanchez Explains Tsunami To Audience of Children, Apparently
I have absolutely nothing to blog about.
kiamatthews:
I’m sitting here at the dining room table of a cabin in the mountains trying to think of something to post and I ain’t got it. We went through a made for TV movie level of turmoil yesterday to get checked in to this god damn place which involved getting stuck in a snow storm on a hill and having some local bro pull us up a hill with a chain hooked to the back of his truck and...
Anybody know where I can donate to Hawaii tsunami...
THIS IS THE BORINGEST TSUNAMI EVER
(via nudawn)
Sex in Europe
Mother: Don't let your friends pressure you into having sex in Barcelona.
Phillip: I won't.
Mother: It's bad enough if you have sex in America, but those Europeans are just so sexual.
Phillip: Did you have an experience with a European man?
Mother: (Ignoring the previous comment) You might get rashes, or your back will get sore, or your teeth will fall out.
Phillip: Oh no.
Mother: Your penis will definitely fall off. I guarantee it.
I was only thinking the other day what had happened to Phillip, and now THIS.
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The Feminist Pessimist's Fun Blog: Happy Birthday... →
I love her so much. She rocks in just about every way possible.
Best two years ever. I love seeing the world the way she does. I love the excited shout of “Mommy!” when she sees me walking toward her. I love when she cups my face in her hands and kisses me. I love when she falls asleep on me. I…
And - AND - the little lady has a Tumblr.
Is David Bazan > or < Pedro the Lion?
Thank you, America
Seasoning salt, Worcester sauce, onions, lettuce and tomahto it is.
Amy Goodman interviews David Harvey
Goodman: If you were the Treasury Secretary what exactly would you be doing?
Harvey: I would take a lot of that money, and I would put it into some kind of a national reconstruction corporation. And I would say, “Look, your first duty is to take care of the foreclosure crisis and the people who have been foreclosed upon. So go into cities like Cleveland and areas in California that have been devastated and take care of the foreclosure crisis. One of the ways you could do that is to start buying out all of those houses that are about to be foreclosed on and put them into a municipal housing association or some collective form of that kind, and then allow people to remain in those houses, even though they’re no longer necessarily owners. So the ownership rights would shift. What we’ve seen in the housing market is a tremendous plundering of the assets of some of the most vulnerable people in the country. I mean, this has been the biggest loss of asset wealth to the African American population that there’s ever been.
Goodman: Were you for no bank bailouts?
Harvey: Well, I was in favor of solving the foreclosure crisis. You see, if you’ve solved the housing crisis, the banks wouldn’t be holding any toxic assets. If you had gone in and bailed out all of the people, there would be no problem on Wall Street. You wouldn’t have the foreclosures. So we should have gone in there right at the beginning and actually held down the foreclosure crisis.
Goodman: And why didn’t they?
Harvey: Because that would mean bailing out poor African Americans and people of that sort, and they’re not concerned with that. They’re concerned with protecting the bankers, not the people. (more at http://www.urbanhabitat.org/rights/harvey)
but it's not that simple. at every level of government that he says should have stepped in there corresponds a private sector interest. if it were to be handled by the government, it would most definitely have to start from the top down, and not with some corporation the government turns to handle its financial issues with home ownership. that's how subprime started in the first place, by allowing corporations to undertake liabilities that are beyond their scope. it may sounds like they're not such bad guys, the fannie maes and the freddie macs, but if you were those poorer african-americans or whatever they're doing some wrong things with all of that money.
OK, Americans, make yourselves useful.
I’m just about to cook some burgers. I have avocados, bacon and jalapenos. Anything else I should make to put on them?
“This [earthquake in Chile] is much more powerful than the Haitian...”
– Matt Yglesias, underlining the degree to which poverty amplifies the negative effects of pretty much anything, including natural disasters. (via abbyjean)
vruz: and charity and relief are never the good thing. they are second or third best, which we shouldn’t aim for. the only good thing is what...
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“Stop being so anger-averse and stop making fun of those pissed-off...”
– Paul Street (via adamquinn)
“Those who manipulate the unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible...”
– Edward Bernays (via azspot)
The Not-So Reactionary People →
adamquinn:
The American people are nowhere nearly as reactionary as many middle class liberals I know insist. For what its worth (not all that much in America’s corporate managed dollar democracy), popular U.S. attitudes on key policies and values have long stood well to the left of both of the two dominant U.S. political parties, the investor class, and the nation’s “mainstream” (corporate)...
