The Teachings Of Jesus at The Brick Testament
The Brick Testament has some new illustrations on the teachings of Jesus. They crack me up. My favorite: On Love, On the Laws of Moses and, starting our president, On Forgiveness.
Madonna lobbies UK Goverment for Majical Cleaning Solution
MADONNA and her husband, Guy Ritchie, have been lobbying the British Government and nuclear industry over a magic cleaning solution.
The couple, both followers of the Jewish spiritual movement Kabbalah, approached Downing Street, Whitehall and British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL) promoting a scheme to clean up radioactive waste using a "mystical" liquid tested in a Russian lake.
"It was like a crank call ... the scientific mechanisms and principles were just bollocks, basically," one official said.
Artur Spokojny, the director of Oroz and a Kabbalah follower, is said to have developed a "revolutionary" [nuclear waste] decontamination agent called Orodyne, which can reportedly also treat gynaecological problems in cows and sheep.
N-waste? Madonna has solution | World Wide Weird | The Australian
George Galloway tears SKY NEWS a new asshole
Thank God for George Galloway. He makes the "tough questions" in my previous post look like conservative media bias.
PR Firm Fakes “Grassroots” Video Mocking Climate Change
ABC News: Al Gore YouTube Spoof Not So Amateurish
I like the term they use for faked grassroots support; Astroturf. This whole fucking country is nothing but Astroturf. Oh well, let's just keep fiddling.
In the movie, Gore is seen boring an army of penguins with his lecture and blaming global warming for everything, including Lindsay Lohan's thinness.
But when the Wall Street Journal tried to find the guy who posted the film "Al Gore's Penguin Army" — listed on YouTube as a 29-year-old — they found the movie didn't come from an amateur working out of his basement.
The film actually came from a slick Republican public relations firm called DCI, which just happens to have oil giant Exxon as a client.
I found the video. It's really rather stupid by anyone's account, one of the lowest rated videos on YouTube.
4 Things You Don’t See on American News
via mefi:
Exhibit #1 - Journalists who ask questions - I
Calling it what it is - terrorism against a civilian population
UK correspondant John Snow interviews Israeli ambassador about Israel's attacks against Palestinians.
Notice that in the UK, television journalists don't automatically defer to Israeli government represenatives the way US news people do. Why is that?
Exhibit #2 - Journalists who ask questions - II
For European eyes only
CNN broadcasts different news in Europe than it does in the US.
Why can't we get reporters like this on CNN-US? Instead we get Wolf Blitzer, a former employee of AIPAC, the Israeli War Party's lobby in the US.
Exhibit #3 - US citizens who say "NO!"
The US is mortgaging its future to support
the criminal activities of a foreign power - why?
Do you think all Americans are uninformed and/or unconcerned about America's relationship with Israel?
You would if you watch US TV.
The reality: Millions of Americans are aware that US foreign policy has been hijacked by the Israeli War Party - and they cannot get their voices heard because of US media news censorship.
Exhibit #4 - Daily brutality
What goes on in the refugee camps
The Israeli military thought this footage of a routine operation in the Occupied Territories had been destroyed.
It wasn't and someone with courage ran it on TV - in Israel. Then, thanks to Canada, it was aired in North America. You will never see it on a US network.
Being on the receiving end of this kind of brutality is the norm for Palestinians living in the Occupied Territories.
Bonus: Ann Coulter on UK BBC Newsnight interview with Jeremy Paxman
Ok, that makes five, but, wow, I had no idea just how much of an idiot Ann Coutler is. She is the definition of Astroturf. What a whore.
Clean Elections is on California’s November Ballot
California is on it's way to becoming the third state to enact Clean Money/Clean Elections campaign finance reform. Prop 89 qualified for the November ballot. I'm excited. It seems everyone is pretty much in agreement that our current method of financing public campaigns gives corporations and those with money a much bigger voice than your average citizen. Prop 89 creates and alternative for candidates, allowing them to focus on the issues instead of worrying about how many $1000/plate dinners they can hold.
It's got my vote, and my money actually. Religious fundamentalists regularly give, or tithe, 10% of their income to the church. I think that's a good idea and secularists should start tithing to the issues they think are important. I decided this one was important enough to fork over some cash.
So if you're sick of politicians begging for money, here's the chance to put that money to a better purpose. Go on over to California Clean Money Action Fund and show your support.
“Is Israel doing anything that the U.S. would not do in the same situation?”
I enjoyed this comment on MetaFilter enough to post it on my blog. In response to the question:
Is Israel doing anything that the U.S. would not do in the same situation?
God, I'm so sick of this idiotic argument.
Get this into your head: Israel is not the United States, and never will be. Israel isn't even Korea. When Iraq unilaterally invaded Kuwait under some BS pretext, 500,000 soldiers and the largest bombing campaign in history smashed the country into submission. It never recovered. Israel is basically imitating the tactics of Iraq circa 1990.
Here are some thing the US did with respect to Iraq that Israel never did with respect to Lebanon:
* Israel never put on their case before the UN.
* Israel never asked the UN to try to negotiate a peaceful resolution (the US forced the inspectors back into Iraq, if you recall)
* Israel never consulted publicly with other nations having an interest in the matter before acting.
* Israel has no plans to stay and rebuild the civilian infrastucture of Lebanon.
* Israel has no plans to train the Lebanese army.etc.
These are all things the US has done, or tried to do, or did poorly, but it still did them. The US could have invaded Iraq unilaterally on 9/12/2001 with no stated reason whatsoever and nobody would have done a thing. But the US didn't do that. Bush bashing aside, they at least tried to court world opinion.
And, the downward comparison is bogus even if the situation was the same, which it isn't.
The U.S. gets to do things that Israel doesn't get to do, because the U.S. is a superpower, becasue the U.S. economy drives the gloabal economy (including Israel's), because it gives Israel money and military support every year, and because the US will be ultimately responsible for the middle east mess anyway, regardless of who is and isn't involved. Lebanese are blaming the US for the Israeli invasion, and the US had nothing to do with it. Thank you very much Israel. The Arab world clearly didn't hate us enough already for the stupid things our president did, now we have to put up with your nonsense. At least we can elect a new U.S. president. How do we get rid of your lunatic?
posted by Pastabagel at 11:41 AM PST on July 31