December 16, 2010 archive
Dec 16 2010
Late Night Karaoke
Dec 16 2010
The allies of Wikileaks
In an ironic twist, the latest batch of leaked embassy documents concerns the owners of the domain name wikileaks.ch.
No, they didn’t leak information about themselves. Wikileaks.ch is owned by an entirely separate entity. An entity with its own agenda, it’s own history. An international political movement that is officially registered in 20 countries and is active in 20 others, including the United States. It might be the biggest international grassroots political movement that you’ve never heard of.
It’s called Pirates Parties International, and it deserves a closer look.
Dec 16 2010
Cosmos & Psyche Part II / March 2011 It Begins
“There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations, much is given. Of other generations, much is expected. This Generation has a rendezvous with destiny.”
Franklin Roosevelt – 1936
Pluto is in Capricorn and it defines an era not seen in roughly 289 years when last the planet ruling collective transformation or degeneration of the human race transited the sign of business, executive power, utility and the creation of new kinds of political and religious order. An age of secular enlightenment leading to the American Revolution was born in the last Pluto-Capricorn transit.
Dec 16 2010
The Moon & The Sea: A Primer
Clown in the Moon
My tears are like the quiet drift
Of petals from some magic rose;
And all my grief flows from the rift
Of unremembered skies and snows.
I think, that if I touched the earth,
It would crumble;
It is so sad and beautiful,
So tremulously like a dream.
Dylan Thomas
Above the tower – a lone, twice-sized moon.
On the cold river passing night-filled homes,
It scatters restless gold across the waves.
On mats, it shines richer than silken gauze.
Empty peaks, silence: among sparse stars,
Not yet flawed, it drifts. Pine and cinnamon
Spreading in my old garden . . . All light,
All ten thousand miles at once in its light!
Du Fu
Dec 16 2010
Building a lifeboat (photo heavy).
There have been worse generations, but none have wasted so much, so fast, for so little.
It’s not clear exactly when America’s stranglehold over the world will be broken, but American “exceptionalism,” i.e., debt-dollar discipline is being broken, for reals, and for good. It’s really an amazing point in history. I don’t know when it will become apparent to all, but that end-time, when we discover Dick Cheney’s real negotiability, the actual mark-to-market value of “The American Way of Life,” cannot be far off. I’ve seen enough shocking viciousness, lawlessness, and moral depravity from our elites to know the jig is up sooner than later.
At this point, I am pretty firmly in Stoneleigh’s camp that one should be thankful for and use this time of suspended animation, this period of extend and pretend, to prepare for the inevitable and grim future of massive debt deflation. As she frequently warns, it’s okay to prepare for it too early, but it’s not okay to be late. In that vein, I offer the following photo-essay.
Dec 16 2010
Britain, Not Sweden, “Made” The Decision to Oppose Bail For Assange
The UK Guardian reports today that it has learned that “The decision to have Julian Assange sent to a London jail and kept there was taken by the British authorities and not by prosecutors in Sweden, as previously thought..”
The Crown Prosecution Service will go to the high court tomorrow to seek the reversal of a decision to free the WikiLeaks founder on bail, made yesterday by a judge at City of Westminster magistrates court.
It had been widely thought Sweden had made the decision to oppose bail, with the CPS acting merely as its representative. But today the Swedish prosecutor’s office told the Guardian it had “not got a view at all on bail” and that Britain had made the decision to oppose bail.
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Karin Rosander, director of communications for Sweden’s prosecutor’s office, told the Guardian: “The decision was made by the British prosecutor. I got it confirmed by the CPS this morning that the decision to appeal the granting of bail was entirely a matter for the CPS. The Swedish prosecutors are not entitled to make decisions within Britain. It is entirely up to the British authorities to handle it.”
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After the Swedish statement was put to the CPS, it confirmed that all decisions concerning the opposing of bail being granted to Assange had been taken by its lawyers.
The Guardian closes its article saying that it has seen the appeal, and says that it “will say that Assange must be kept in prison until a decision is made whether to extradite him, which could take months.”
Jeralyn at TalkLeft today also reminds that “At yesterday’s hearing, Sweden opposed bail“, and today the Swedish prosecutor has “not got a view at all on bail”??
Dec 16 2010
Sen Feingold Accepts 23,000 Thank You Cards From DFA
cross-posted from Sum of Change
I was honored today to join folks from DC for Democracy, the local Democracy for America affiliate, to personally deliver over 23,000 thank you notes to Senator Russ Feingold. Shortly after the the 2010 election, Jim Dean asked DFA members from all across the country to send the Senator messages of appreciation. In an email to all members, he wrote:
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