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Thursday, July 07, 2011

[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Fwd: The Takeaway: News of the World, No Longer

 

I wrote to PRI (but was not able to post on their webpage, they are even more chickenshit than NPR):

When I saw this in my email: "The Takeaway: News of the World, No Longer" momentarily I thought it meant The Takeaway was being cancelled. The warm, fuzzy feeling soon faded when I realized you were talking about somebody else. Murdoch could have saved himself a lot of problems by following NPR and PRI's lead; just forget about "reporting" entirely, and just interview other journalists, and pass along government propaganda as if it had something to do with the truth.  Bad Rupert!  No sushi!

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Tomorrow on The Takeaway

Sometimes the big news is the news itself.

After mounting pressure in the wake of a earth-shaking scandal in Britain involving reporters hacking the cell phones of murder and terrorism victims, News Corp. tabloid News of the World is closing. It's a historic development in the world of print media, and a huge change for the publication's employees. What's next? We'll learn more from News Corp. expert and author Sarah Ellison, and speak with someone whose phone may have been targeted by the tabloid. 

Another crisis still faces a different sort of corporation. The American government sits on the brink of debt default. Today, President Obama had a "constructive" meeting with top lawmakers to try and hash out a deal. Sounds familiar, doesn't it? We'll check in with The Takeaway's Todd Zwillich to get to the brass tax. 

While U.S. politicians struggle with a dearth of cash, Africa grapples with a deadly lack of water. International aid groups are appealing for help in the worst drought in 60 years that may threaten the lives of millions. It could be the biggest world news story you aren't hearing about, and we'll learn more with the help from Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times as well as reporters from our partners at the BBC. 

Also in the show, we'll continue our summer music series with Jim James of the band My Morning Jacket, finish off our "My America" series with actor John Turturro, and talk about this weekend's movie releases. 

These topics and more tomorrow, on The Takeaway. 

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Tuesday, July 05, 2011

[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Re: [Alex Carr] v0v

 

Hey Lizzette

It's been a long time since there's been any action on the Alex Carr list.  Alex is way too busy with his career to post here anymore, but we are all happy for his success. 

Tell me more about this k2h - sounds interesting. Is it anything like a2m?

2011/7/5 Lizzette Coreen <elidaquyen@kw.com>
 

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Saturday, July 02, 2011

[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Re: Your submission to LOOKBOOKS [1 Attachment]

 
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Dear Eric,


I am doing fine, thank you, and may I make the same inquiry as to your well-being?

I would humbly and respectfully ask you to review your opinion, and consider a reversal of it.  I have been careful to try to observe the standards of decency established by Talenthouse. My understanding of these standards were formed by careful observation of other people's entries - for example, GARE Art's entry for the VolBeat contest (attached)

If I'm not mistaken, this entry is a representation of a guitar's headstock being inserted into the rectum of a naked transvestite.

In contrast, I don't believe the images I used to highlight my good looks are art, not pornography.  I believe they are not indecent - I believe the supreme court would find them to be sensual.  There is no penetration involved in them.

In particular, the Knucklehead one brought out my inner playa - a man that the ladies all love because he treats them well.... buys them lots of bling, and slaps them around less than Chris Brown would.
 
Rum pa pum pum!

Yours most sincerely,

Matt Love


On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Eric Perron <eric@talenthouse.com> wrote:
Hi Matt,

I hope you are doing well.

I wanted to reach out to you to let you know that we have deleted your submission to the LOOKBOOKS creative invite per the article 3(d) or our Talenthouse Terms of Use Agreement;

(d) will not post Contributions that: (i) are defamatory, damaging, disruptive, unlawful, inaccurate, pornographic, vulgar, indecent, profane, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive, obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, threatening, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable or incite, encourage or threaten immediate physical harm against another, including but not limited to Contributions that promote racism, bigotry, sexism, religious intolerance or harm against any group or individual, or (ii) contain material that solicits personal information from anyone under 13 or exploits anyone in a sexual or violent manner.

The decision was made following a few complaints that the images submitted are indecent and because the submission does not comply to the guidelines of the creative invite.
We embrace all artists and we are glad that you are part of our community Matt. In fact, I know you have been active within our community and I have enjoyed a lot of your past submissions. Thank you for your time and please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or concerns.

Sincerely,

Eric
Director of Customer Support



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[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Fwd: New Meetup Group: AA/YPSI CLUB OF BROS

 

Will there be gathering in the woods and beating on drums communally?  If so, I'm soooo there, bro!

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[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Re: [progressive] Tea Party Activist urges attack on Gaza Flotilla

 

I recently left an anti-tea party group on facebook, becuase they focus on the many small (still largely hypothetical) depravities of the tea party, while overlooking the many huge depravities the two branches of the ruling party are engaged in right now.  


It doesn't take an Einstein to see that our first string psychopaths (Obama and Clinton) are saying the same thing as the benchwarmers shouting their encouragement from the sidelines, they just use language in a bit more clever way:  "the Obama administration is taking a strong stand against the flotilla, even suggesting that Americans on board cannot expect the US to intervene on their behalf if Israel attacks."

In blunt language, he is saying "go ahead."

It reminds me of the ex-CIA guy's explanation for plausible deniability.  At the cabinet meeting, the conversation turns to Allende.  Everybody agrees it's a worrisome development. Nixon says, "Yes, it's a shame, a real problem. It's too bad that somebody can't just, you know, take him out. BUT THAT WOULD BE WRONG."

The people in the room all understand this to mean "make it happen," but if they are successful in reaching their goals and Allende ends up dead, they can say "it's true that the topic came up in a cabinet meeting, but the president explicitly rejected the idea, because of his love for justice and fair play, and his devotion to the Constitution.  We have detailed minutes of the meeting to prove it."

Of course, things have changed. A foolish consistency in the application of the rule of law is no virtue; crimes in the persuit of foreign policy goals are no vice.  Obama can publicly urge the Israeli's to "bring it on" - nobody needs to pretend he warned them to lay off the flotilla - he can say "I warned the flotilla they were asking for trouble" and that apparently is enough to quench the American thirst for justice.

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Scott Peden wrote:
 

Yeah, Second string psychopaths would make statements like this, and the Psycho loving Main Stream Media would completely over look it as worthy of letting the general American Public know how we are being represented, and thusly viewed by the rest of the world (as at the very least, third rate psychos).



 

Opinion Tea party activist urges attack on flotilla
Bush era speech writer says most Americans are 'cool with' Israeli forces
shooting US citizens on Gaza bound aid boats.
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*Those aboard the 2009 Gaza Flotilla (who were not injured or killed)
were imprisoned after being intercepted in international waters by the
Israeli military [GALLO/GETTY] *

This week the second international Freedom Flotilla will embark to Gaza from
several ports in Europe. The flotilla represents an act of non-violent civil
disobedience aimed at ending Israel's four year long illegal blockade of the
tiny strip of land populated by 1.6 million Palestinians.

At least ten ships carrying dignitaries, doctors, professors, artists,
journalists, and activists as well as construction supplies and humanitarian
aid are expected to sail. The *New York Times* and *CNN* are among several
outlets sending
journalists<https://mail.aljazeera.net/owa/redir.aspx?C=348b737ce8424021a8544683903d7ceb&URL=http%3a%2f%2fmediamattersaction.us1.list-manage.com%2ftrack%2fclick%3fu%3d0e7994932b5c293ad6e9e40d8%26id%3d1ca3ace638%26e%3da64676712d>to
cover the event.

Critics of the flotilla contend that it is an unnecessary provocation - more
of a political statement than a relief mission - because Israel has lately
been allowing more goods into Gaza and Egypt has, since the revolution,
intermittently opened its side of the border.

Even if that is true - even if the need is somewhat less urgent - the
blockading of Gaza should be protested as illegal, as are all forms of
collective punishment.

*Israel's rights*

Israel has the right to keep weapons that might be used against Israelis out
of Gaza (assuming that, as is the case, Gaza remains under Israeli
occupation). But it has no right to keep out consumer goods like certain
foodstuffs or the construction material needed to rebuild homes and schools
after the devastation Israel inflicted on Gaza during the 2008-09 onslaught.
That one-sided war took 1400 Palestinians lives (including several hundred
children).

Nonetheless, under pressure from the Israeli government and its lobby, the
Obama administration is taking a strong stand against the flotilla, even
suggesting that Americans on board cannot expect the US to intervene on
their behalf if Israel attacks (in 2009, the IDF killed 9 passengers on a
Turkish relief ship).

The far right is already lining up in support of whatever action Israel
takes against the unarmed civilian relief activists.

Take a look at these tweets from Joshua
Treviño<https://mail.aljazeera.net/owa/redir.aspx?C=348b737ce8424021a8544683903d7ceb&URL=http%3a%2f%2fmediamattersaction.us1.list-manage.com%2ftrack%2fclick%3fu%3d0e7994932b5c293ad6e9e40d8%26id%3d26d7208015%26e%3da64676712d>,
who was formerly a speechwriter in the Bush administration, a staffer for
the failed senatorial campaign of Tea Party candidate Chuck DeVore (R-CA)
and an employee of the Texas Public Policy Foundation. Treviño condemned
Palestinians as morally depraved and deserving of any evil that befalls
them.

However, Treviño went much farther than that. He openly
called<https://mail.aljazeera.net/owa/redir.aspx?C=348b737ce8424021a8544683903d7ceb&URL=http%3a%2f%2fmediamattersaction.us1.list-manage.com%2ftrack%2fclick%3fu%3d0e7994932b5c293ad6e9e40d8%26id%3dbd33637894%26e%3da64676712d>for
the Israelis to kill any of his fellow Americans who get in their way.
"Dear IDF: If you end up shooting any Americans on the new Gaza flotilla -
well, most Americans are cool with that. Including me."

Treviño justified his twisted reasoning by likening the Americans bringing
relief to the Gazans to Americans who served in the German army during World
War II. After Kurt Schlichter, who writes for Andrew Breitbart's Big
Government site, called for the sinking of the flotilla, Treviño
wrote<https://mail.aljazeera.net/owa/redir.aspx?C=348b737ce8424021a8544683903d7ceb&URL=http%3a%2f%2fmediamattersaction.us1.list-manage.com%2ftrack%2fclick%3fu%3d0e7994932b5c293ad6e9e40d8%26id%3d587b248b43%26e%3da64676712d>,
"Not morally different from a Nazi convoy, is it?"

Treviño's words are even more offensive when you consider that a Holocaust
survivor<https://mail.aljazeera.net/owa/redir.aspx?C=348b737ce8424021a8544683903d7ceb&URL=http%3a%2f%2fmediamattersaction.us1.list-manage1.com%2ftrack%2fclick%3fu%3d0e7994932b5c293ad6e9e40d8%26id%3d8e623461cb%26e%3da64676712d>will
be on the flotilla. If she or a
*New York Times *reporter is shot, then Treviño's
words<https://mail.aljazeera.net/owa/redir.aspx?C=348b737ce8424021a8544683903d7ceb&URL=http%3a%2f%2fmediamattersaction.us1.list-manage.com%2ftrack%2fclick%3fu%3d0e7994932b5c293ad6e9e40d8%26id%3db687e0e311%26e%3da64676712d>would
leave one to assume that it's just like the death of a member of the
Wehrmacht or an al Qaeda terrorist.

*Humanitarian combatants?*

Even worse, Treviño sees no difference between people bringing humanitarian
relief and enemy combatants.

In case you ever wondered about the kind of people who would justify opening
fire on the Red Cross, take a look at Treviño's contemptible tweets. The
most amazing thing of all: he thinks he is a good American while calling for
the execution of other Americans by a foreign military force.

Asked if he endorses killing Americans overseas, Treviño
responded<https://mail.aljazeera.net/owa/redir.aspx?C=348b737ce8424021a8544683903d7ceb&URL=http%3a%2f%2fmediamattersaction.us1.list-manage1.com%2ftrack%2fclick%3fu%3d0e7994932b5c293ad6e9e40d8%26id%3d2bf118d7fa%26e%3da64676712d>,
"Sure, if they adhere to our enemies. Flotilla participants do." Another
right-wing columnist, Ben Shapiro, who loves to tout his patriotism, also
said<https://mail.aljazeera.net/owa/redir.aspx?C=348b737ce8424021a8544683903d7ceb&URL=http%3a%2f%2fmediamattersaction.us1.list-manage1.com%2ftrack%2fclick%3fu%3d0e7994932b5c293ad6e9e40d8%26id%3db96fa8ab8f%26e%3da64676712d>he
has "no problem" with Israel "taking out" any and all flotilla
participants. One has to wonder what Israel would do with Israelis who
openly endorsed the killing of their fellow Israelis by a foreign army.

And what does Treviño say to those who might be offended by characterising
Holocaust survivors and Noble laureates as Nazis? Why, they're just part of
the "Israel-hating, pro-Hamas left," he explained.

But for Treviño, *New York Times* reporters or Holocaust survivors are
probably of secondary importance. (His tweets, however, do indicate that he
sees everyone on the flotilla as being equally guilty.) The man's real
enemies are the Arabs and Muslims who dare defy Israel's blockade.

The Americans on the boat, as he sees it, are useful idiots being used for
propaganda purposes. The Arabs, Muslim and other "them"-looking people
taking part in the flotilla are fair game. (Here he is last year showing
displeasure at the news that one Muslim participant in the last flotilla was
not killed. "Oh well. Next
time,"<https://mail.aljazeera.net/owa/redir.aspx?C=348b737ce8424021a8544683903d7ceb&URL=http%3a%2f%2fmediamattersaction.us1.list-manage.com%2ftrack%2fclick%3fu%3d0e7994932b5c293ad6e9e40d8%26id%3dbdd7aae497%26e%3da64676712d>he
chimed in.)

Meanwhile, the *New York Times* reported today that the Israeli government
has been circulating a YouTube video featuring a gay rights activist whose
participation in the flotilla was ostensibly rebuffed by the flotilla's
organisers. The
video<https://mail.aljazeera.net/owa/redir.aspx?C=348b737ce8424021a8544683903d7ceb&URL=http%3a%2f%2fmediamattersaction.us1.list-manage.com%2ftrack%2fclick%3fu%3d0e7994932b5c293ad6e9e40d8%26id%3da8b0cd844d%26e%3da64676712d>uses
the gay man's experience as a jumping-off point for a full-blown
attack
on the flotilla as a Hamas operation, riddled with bigotry and reactionary
politics.

However, the *Times*
reports<https://mail.aljazeera.net/owa/redir.aspx?C=348b737ce8424021a8544683903d7ceb&URL=http%3a%2f%2fmediamattersaction.us1.list-manage.com%2ftrack%2fclick%3fu%3d0e7994932b5c293ad6e9e40d8%26id%3da12a7af800%26e%3da64676712d>that
the video, promoted by the prime minister's office and the foreign
ministry, is a total hoax. The supposed American gay activist is actually an
aspiring Israeli actor. This is from the *Times*.

*Smear campaign*

Ali Abunimah, the Palestinian-American founder of the *Electronic Intifada*,
suggested on Twitter that the video hoax was not a prank but part of a
public relations campaign to support the Israeli government's naval blockade
of Gaza by seeking to tarnish the Gaza flotilla activists as homophobic.

While there is no evidence of homophobia by the activists, and indeed some
of the participants in the new flotilla are gay, the Israeli actor featured
in the video has recently worked with a producer who appears to be opposed
to the flotilla campaign.

The actor, Omer Gershon - who is a minor celebrity in Tel Aviv - recently
directed and appeared in this commercial for Puma, which was produced by
Elad Magdasi. The commercial is currently featured on the home page of Mr
Magdasi's YouTube channel, which also features a link to videos made by "a
nonprofit Israel advocacy organisation" called Stand With Us.

At the very time that New York was passing its historic bill legalising gay
marriage, Israel's right-wing government was exploiting the gay community to
advance its indefensible hysteria about the flotilla. Expect more hoaxes of
this kind as the Netanyahu government sinks deeper into paranoia as
September's UN vote on the establishment of a Palestinian state approaches.

It is important to remember that Binyamin Netanyahu is not Israel. However,
the longer he stays in office, the harder it becomes for Israel's friends to
make people understand that. To put it simply, he is endangering everything
Israel's founders accomplished - not to mention the lives of Palestinians,
Europeans, Americans and others who dare get in the way.

*MJ Rosenberg is a Senior Foreign Policy Fellow at Media Matters Action
network.*

*This article previously appeared in Foreign Policy
Matters<http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=0e7994932b5c293ad6e9e40d8&id=8aae8d03c3&e=a64676712d>,
a part of the Media Matters Action Network.*

*The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not
necessarily represent Al Jazeera's editorial policy.*
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Friday, July 01, 2011

[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Re: [OregonDems_etc] Drowning Fish?

 

Thank you for posting this. I used to subscribe to Palast's newsletter, but I got repeated notices that I had unsubscribed (I had not). I wrote to Palast's people about it and asked if it was happening to anybody else, but they didn't seem concerned about it, so I decided to not be paranoid.  I eventually gave up trying to subscribe. Maybe I'll try again, since you've reminded me again why I value Palast's work.

I sent the following message to NPR's On The Media (usign the online form at http://www.onthemedia.org/emailform/contact-otm/).  I've said repeatedly I question the value of "speaking truth to power" - I believe in "speaking truth about power" - when I post to the message boards on NPR, I'm writing for other listeners, not NPR.  I'm distressed On The Media's new format seems to preclude this.

Anyway, here is my message:

I tried to post this on your website, but the internet gremlins apparently ate it:

Wow, hate your [website] format. Seems designed to exclude dialogue. I want to pitch a story idea, but not sure where or how to do it. Greg Palast wrote:  "According to the scientists on NPR, every one of whom is in BP's pay, Mother Nature herself was cleaning up the oil from BP's blow-out, so don't worry about the fish. But [Palast Associate] Zach [Roberts] found out that BP's fish story was baloney. "  Wow, is this true?  If so, how about an investigation into how NPR selected scientists to comment on the BP disaster, and how they've let the public down by their lack of balance?  Also, I used to hear Palast a lot on local NPR talk shows.  Then one time the formerly congenial host (Ross Reynolds) went after him like  a Schnauzer and he was never on again. Did NPR headquarters send down the word there'd be no more funding for KUOW if they didn't toe the line and exclude him as a guest (like Chomsky)?  Or is there a Palast smear squad that follows him around (like the one Chomsky has) that got to Reynolds?  Remember, your name is "On The Media" - you've been doing a lot of fluff lately, this could be a really good story!

On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 3:10 AM, Scott Peden <scotpeden@cruzio.com> wrote:
 


 

Drowning Fish?

by Greg Palast
June 30th, 2011



July 3 would have been my parents' 67th Anniversary. 67 years. Maybe it was the triumph of Hope over Reality (still have that Obama 2008 poster?). Or maybe something else, something that those of us who haven't walked that far down the path can't imagine.

My Dad's last wish the night before he died last November was to dedicate some of his small savings to the Palast Investigative Fund.

It's the only time I wished he'd been an investment banker. He wasn't, so the Gil Palast Memorial Fund is small. And therefore, I appreciate deeply the donations many of you added to it.

My mom asked me to wait until my parents' would-have-been anniversary to announce the recipient of the Gil Palast Really Tiny Memorial Fellowship in Investigative Reporting.

And the winner is: Rob Roberts, fish biologist.

Except his name isn't Rob and he doesn't know a damn thing about fish.

His real name is Zachary "ZD" Roberts, photo journalist extraordinaire.

Zach, under the name Rob, scoped out the Gulf Coast for our team immediately the BP Deepwater Horizon explosion.

If you google Zach Roberts, "Greg Palast" also comes up, making his undercover work more difficult than it need be. But google the name Rob Roberts and you get lots of hits including a sex offender and a fish biologist.

Using the name Rob (one of his many legal names, so it's legit), Zach could go where US media fear to tread: where BP doesn't want cameras to snoop.

Here's what he found. According to the scientists on NPR, every one of whom is in BP's pay, Mother Nature herself was cleaning up the oil from BP's blow-out, so don't worry about the fish. But Zach found out that BP's fish story was baloney. From local fisherman, Zach learned that fish were DROWNING.

Until I heard this from Zach, I didn't know a fish could drown.

They can, a biologist (a real one) explained to me. And they have, by the gazillions - but BP's rent-a-professor operation had drowned out the findings.

Yes, Mother Nature has created bacteria that can eat crude oil (good), and the bugs have had a party feasting on BP's gunk. Then these bacteria had bacterium babies (bad). These little buggers, like all creatures, breathe — and so they sucked all the oxygen out of the water. Result: fish drowned.

BP denies it — and the Department of Interior can't find the fish corpses. The Department hired these same biologists who are suckling on the BP money teat. They could not find the dead fish despite searching by sticking their white canes in the Gulf waters.

But we could. It's not easy finding a biologist who is not licking BP's candy cane. But we found a couple: You can meet them — and the deceased fish—in our film on BP, broadcast last week in Europe. The full-monty US version is on its way.

This year, Zach completed the first round of shooting in Alaska for his film on Sarah Palin. Click here for some of the killer shots from his portfolio, including the one at the top of oil from the Exxon Valdez — taken 21 years after the spill by Roberts in advance of our filming in the Arctic for our Arctic-to-Amazon investigation of BP and Big Oil.

Zach, by the way, conceived and edited the comic book, Steal Back Your Vote (2008), and convinced Bobby Kennedy and I to write it, along with artists Ted Rall and Lloyd Dangle.

The Fellowship will provide Zach a small stipend to work with us for one year. [I'd like to make it two years, and would appreciate your tax-deductible donations to do so. I don't want to pressure you, but my mother is 89 and it would break her heart if the Gil Palast Memorial Fund ran out of funds. Mom has also requested the list of names of all you subscribers who have NOT donated; which gives you a hint as to how she maintained a successful 66-year marriage.]

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