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Is "Capitalism" the PRoblem? Fucking DUH!

More annoyingly kid-gloved criticism from LBJ's former press secretary:

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Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian and my dream-crush!

NPR's "Spurious Objectivity" Drives Another Listener Away

      

Woody normally DON'T listen to NPR's Morning Edition, or any of their "news" programs, anymore.
Never Provoke Republicans radio.
NPR: Youm cannot spell "RePublicaN" without it.
The "bias" toward the spurious "middle" is too unrelenting...
And besides, it makes me physically ILL to listen to the inanities and chirpy, chipper maunderings of Insqueak and Rene Mundane.
Today I reminded myself why.
In a segment discussing the possible implications of the impending/threatened "sequestration," the editorial cretins invited the painfully orthodox, Friedmanesque "economics editor of the Wall Street Journal, David Wessell,  for "clarification."
Nearly the first thing out of his reeking gob was a blithe, off-hand repetition of the canard that the biggest problem going forward was "the growth in entitlements."
And there was NO even remotely skeptical voice heard from NPR.

Now, an even modestly intelligent person of ordinary, critical faculties might wonder WHY an ostensibly 'non-partisan' radio program would invite a representative of the most recalcitrant attacker of "entitlements,' one Rupert Murdoch--OWNER of the WSJ and dozens of other right-wing rags--to be the sole and only explicator of these intricacies. There ARE other possible commentators: Dean Baker, Joe Stiglitz, even the "Shrill One,"Paul Krugman, etc. Any of them could have answered the questions.
But NPR CHOSE to enlist a man who contributes to the MOST reactionary editorial board in North America, and he named the "usual suspects," and the drooling drones and mephitic minions of the most CORRUPT "Boss" on the planet never uttered a fuuking PEEP.

THAT'S why I have 1) cancelled my donation and 2) why I no longer defile my smoky, dusty domain with their feculent codswallop.
Here's the segment:
http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=172373131&m=172373122

What Would Jesus Do?

Lee Camp: Empire's in Decline Make Celebs of Their Chefs

The Journey of the Sperm: Sex Ed from BBC

Did We Go To The Moon? Why It Matters...

I REALLLY wish he hadn't disabled the comments. There would have been considerable opportunities for schadenfreude as the heads exploded...

Clean Water for EVERYONE? A Dream No Longer...

SLINGSHOT | Paul Lazarus from Focus Forward Films on Vimeo.

This is Slingshot, the aptly named water purification device that is now taking on a Goliath of a challenge, the worlds clean water supply.

Slingshot was created by Dean Kamen who’s best known for inventing the Segway PT. The idea was inspired by the World Heath Organization (WHO) statistics that portray a rather shocking story of 900 million people across the globe without a readily available supply of drinking water and around 3.5 million people many children under 5 dying annually with diseases related to unclean water.

The world’s surface is about two-thirds water yet only about 1% is fresh potable water with the large percentage making up saline oceans and ice. Slingshots objective is to tap into this vast resource creating drinkable water that is readily available and inexpensive to produce.

Climate Change: A Postscript

 

 

 

(In 10-minute segments is the only way I can find it Click on the link for all 10 subsequent sections.) I copied the following comments from the Fbook correspondent, one Marco Spinelli, who introduced me to this.

 James Burke of "Connections"-fame produced an excellent program about 30 years ago called "After The Warming" that you can see online. It's done as if it's 2050 with Burke looking back over the history of the world's climate changes and the effect that cyclical warming and cooling has had on the development of animal, vegetation, and civilization. Up until the industrial revolution, and how what's happening is man-made, how we know that it's man-made, and how fast it's happening. In less than one generation, human civilization on the planet is going to irrevocably break down. Mass die-off of species, specifically humans, from a whole host of assaults (famine, drought, disease, pandemics, wars, etc.).

If every Fox viewer saw it, they might be convinced, but it wouldn't matter; it's too late.

What's happening politically now is that the world leaders are arranging for the time when chaos will be the order of the day. The loss of civil liberties, setting up for martial law, endless wars, etc. I think they're giving the 'haves' one last bite at the apple, to amass as much wealth as they can, to move their families to high ground for the coming bad times. The US is positioning itself much like the Roman Empire did, and will take what it wants through military might - Not for we ordinary mortals, mind you, but for the survival of the elites.

I think it's obvious that the decision was made some time ago, like several decades ago, that the US wasn't going to respond and try to avert the catastrophe. Too many people to get on board, too much work, and altruistic work at that. It was a cynical and corrupt decision, with greed controlling it, with the likes of Jim Baker and the Bushes making fortunes by the decision (in oil). War industries were another venue for amassing great wealth, and that's the path that Cheney took.

In the late 1990s, when the bubbles were taking shape, I estimated that those who didn't have a net worth of, at least, $250,000 wouldn't stand a chance, but I'm revising that upwards to $5 million. That's just bare bones, to keep from dying from an inability to purchase food and water, and keep a roof over your head that you don't have to trade watch duty with family and friends to keep marauders out.

Bleak? You bet. But we have to start talking about it and demanding politicians address it.

Watch "After The Warming" with your families and friends. It's somewhere to begin. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oFjy5FORbo&list=PL16E277DDB6723CC0

Corporate Welfare Bums! The Return of Ascher Platts

We are Star-dust: Neil DeGrasse Tyson on the Periodic Table

Lewis Black on Guns, Lately:

Fugelsang Takes On "Creationism"

Trouble with parable and metaphor:

Advertizing: Pernicious but SOME of It Is...

JUST TOO FUUKIN FUNNY!

Bill Moyers, w/ Yves Smith and some nominal GOPhuq for "balance."

You cannot fault Moyers for not being earnest or well-meaning enough. But for all that, he's pretty fucking ineffectual.

The REAL News: Bill Black--Going Nuclear & The Fiscal Cliff Fraud

Ed Asner Pisses On, and Pisses Off, the Owners

Tax the fucking rich!
What this country needs is a totally confiscatory inheritance: after bequethals of up to but no more than ONE MILLION DOLLARS per heir per estate, everything else reverts directly to the Public Treasury. Nobody should get, or deserves, or has in any way earned, MORE than a million dollars' worth of unearned privilege.

And PHUCK "PHILANTHROPY." That's mainly just a way for the wealthy CorpoRat zombie capitalists to ensure that they control their fortunes from beyond the grave. FUCK 'EM!

Exxon (e.g.) Hates Your Kids!

Folks are collecting money( ?), signatures (?) , or something to try to get this spot onto the SCUM/MSM/CorpoRat media.
As salutary an event as it would certainly be, I'd bet there aren't 10 MSM/SCUM/CorpoRat TV-stations in the whole country that would accept/run such an ad.
It's gotta go VIRAL on the TUBEZ!
Repost, and do your part!

Blasphemy: "Discouraging" Words???

Religious "crimes" are all "thought" crimes. Apostasy. Blasphemy. Heresy. Sacrilege.