Another example on how Liberty is Winning and the GOP establishment "Just Don't Get It" Ron Paul Supporters Trying to take over Washington State GOP: From the article Peters, a Romney supporter who has been a PCO since 2008, said: We can go back in our... Read more »
A Paean to Masochism: A New Philosophy of Life
Via Adequacy:
Read more »First of all, let us ask “What is masochism?”
Many people seem to think masochism is just a desire for pain. But it is so much more than that. Certainly pain is a large part of it – whether it be emotional or physical. Pain is inflicted through domination. The whip doesn’t just lash you, it dominates you, and brings a new awareness. Thigh high leather boots grinding into your face don’t merely inflict pain, but a value system too. Pain is the grease that lubricates the passage of higher types of civilized behaviour, values and ideas. I would define as masochistic any person, body, institution, country, whatever, that welcomes being dominated and taken over by another, and even seeks it out.
Why would a body want such a thing? Well, if one accepts that it is impossible to get anywhere in life without learning from another, we can see that already our…
Chicago #NoNATO Dispatch Day 1
Photo: Aaron Cynic
Aaron Cynic writes at Diatribe Media:
The day kicked off in a tame but at least celebratory manner at a rally held in Daley Plaza by National Nurses United. After two hours of speeches and wandering around a square grabbing random flyers and other literature, there was no way that at least part of the 3,000 plus people standing on the square were simply going to go home. Everyone knew it, and one could feel a nervous sense of excitement wafting on the air while the last few chords of Tom Morello’s performance rang out.
As people still milled about and I waited to see exactly when an unpermitted march would begin, the Chicago police made what appeared to be a very targeted snatch and grab of a masked protester. According to reports, the police attempted to ask the man a few questions, he refused to answer and was immediately…
Read more »Android 5.0 Will Launch this Fall with Five Nexus Devices: Report
When Android 5.0 "Jelly Bean" launches this fall, it will appear first on several new mobile devices sold by Google itself as part of the "Nexus" line. That's according to a Tuesday story in the Wall Street Journal, which reports that Google is shiftin... Read more »
Only on Wall Street: Lose $2 Billion of Your Company’s Money and Make $15 Million Yourself
Photo: Leoboudv (CC)
It’s great to have a job where even if you seriously screw up, you still make plenty of dough. Via RT:
Read more »Ina Drew helped make bank for JPMorgan Chase as the firm’s chief investment officer — until a blunder on her part cost the company roughly $2 billion. Drew resigned as CIO on Monday, but that’s not to say she is stepping down with nothing to show.
Despite being responsible for an in-house trading loss that totaled as much as $2.3 billion in losses for JPMorgan Chase, Drew stands to walk away from the Wall Street firm with a payout that could bring her as much as $15 million.
Drew’s departure from JPMorgan Chase was publicized early Monday, only days after she was named in a major economic goof-up that garnered criticism directed towards one of Wall Street’s most iconic institutions.
The bank is still slated to hold its annual shareholders meeting…
Kellogg Brown & Root May Become Part Of Police Forces In Britain
In areas of the U.K., policing is being partially privatized for the first time ever, and Texas-based former Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root is on the short list of candidate companies, the Guardian reports. Does the public really want the kind of experience KBR brings?
Read more »A US Pentagon contractor that was involved in building Guantánamo Bay is on a shortlist of private consortiums bidding for a £1.5bn contract to run key policing services in the West Midlands and Surrey.
The Texas-based Kellogg Brown & Root, which was sold off by the controversial Halliburton corporation in 2007, is part of a consortium which has made it to the final shortlist for a contract that will see large-scale involvement of the private sector in British policing for the first time.
Not What the Doctor Ordered: 20 Million Could Lose Employer Coverage
In all the hand-wringing over the last two months for Obamacare by “liberal” apologists, little has actually been said about the actual effects of the law. True, whether or not Obamacare is beneficial has little if anything to do with its constitutionality. (And the actual Constitutional issues involved, however valid, have little to do with the cynical politics behind the Supreme Court’s right-wing block in the case.) But you’d think if someone was gonna go to bat for a law, they’d at least acknowledge the law’s merits.
Hence one story that caught my eye in March: “20 million could lose employer coverage under Obama health care overhaul.” The source, the World Socialist Web Site, may not be acceptable to the media establishment, but the primary source for the WSWS certainly is: the Congressional Budget Office. Here’s what the CBO concludes:
Read more »As many as 20 million Americans could lose their employer-sponsored coverage in 2019…
UN Investigator Says U.S. Should Return Stolen Land To Indian Tribes
"The Treaty of Penn with the Indians" by Benjamin West (1771)
Says a new UN report on the conditions of Indigenous peoples in the Americas. Chris McGreal writes in the Guardian:
Read more »A United Nations investigator probing discrimination against Native Americans has called on the US government to return some of the land stolen from Indian tribes as a step toward combatting continuing and systemic racial discrimination.
James Anaya, the UN special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, said no member of the US Congress would meet him as he investigated the part played by the government in the considerable difficulties faced by Indian tribes.
Anaya said that in nearly two weeks of visiting Indian reservations, indigenous communities in Alaska and Hawaii, and Native Americans now living in cities, he encountered people who suffered a history of dispossession of their lands and resources, the breakdown of their societies and “numerous instances of outright brutality,…
Mouth Spray Makes You Instantly Drunk
The bizarre part about this story, for me anyway, is that the spray was designed by Phillippe Starck, the French designer of expensive boutique hotels, furniture and all sorts of other bits and bobs. From the Daily Mail:
Read more »A new gadget is designed to get people drunk INSTANTLY.
The makers claim, however, that the ‘harm’ is limited, because you sober up equally rapidly.
The alcohol is delivered via an aerosol spray, so people feel briefly drunk, then sober up.
But however quickly people might recover, drunkenness can lead to accidents – and it’s also unclear how the device could be misused by alcoholics.
Two American scientists designed the device – a small spray that gives you that instant drunk sensation from less than a drop of alcohol.
The feeling lasts just seconds – but when it fades, you are sober and able to carry on with your day.
The ‘Wahh Quantum Sensations’ delivers just a miniscule dose…
Alien Abductees’ Drawings Of Their Encounters
A fascinating collection via the Daily Mail of colored marker renderings (accompanied by portrait photographs) created by victims of alien abduction, attempting to depict what they believe they experienced: Cynthia says, “When I was in my thirtie... Read more »
