Monthly Archives: October 2011

It’s good he reminds us of all the gory details, the candy jar they offered the banksters in exchange for not blowing up the world.   I’m not interested in a sob story about inequality, I want to talk about … Continue reading →

1. I’ve noticed that the chimpster’s email has not been getting to me — the reason for my silence to any messages you’ve sent. That is fixed, but given the limited email list google allows, it would be better if … Continue reading →

Nassim Taleb on Bloomberg, essentially saying that poor capitalist management has endangered capitalism.

I never thought I’d see it, but some of the dukes and earls high up in America’s Great Tower of Bullshit are starting to blink a little bit. The right realizes they risk being unmasked. The rest of the post … Continue reading →

The authorities seem to be getting twitchy. Cops in the service of the megabanks doesn’t have such good “optics”, as they say in certain business circles.

Even 8 years ago during the anti-Iraq War mobilizations, I don’t recall the coordination being this crisp. Even in my teenage dreams I couldn’t have imagined that some person would write text into a computer reaching millions to say this: … Continue reading →

The guy who demolished the Fox News interviewer, Jesse LaGreca, makes it to the media bigtime. But the cloying concern of Peggy Noonan for the working class is nauseating and amusing at the same time.

Went to WalMart tonight – wore my convexity pig sweatshirt. An employee restocking fruit asked me about it – I told him. He said “Cool – so that’s about the mortgage bust and Wall Street, right?” My jaw about dropped… … Continue reading →

But here’s the takedown. The terrorist appears to be a nutcase. The DOJ complaint says that Arbabsiar boasted that his cousin (Gholam Shakuri) was a “general” in Iran but did plainsclothes work abroad and “had been on CNN.” Since two … Continue reading →

A lot of moves, each seemingly innocent, but together they add up. Looks to me like the US and India are trying to wean the generals from Beijing’s orbit. Hmmmm….. wonder what message that “swimmer” who snuck in to see … Continue reading →