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Jun 03 2010
Open Iggy Pop Invite (not I/P essay)
While many subjects have been wonderfully covered through the years on DD; and shall continue to so do, there be subjects that I shall not name, that are only allowed here as filtered privately by the admins.
To take this potentially messy subject off their hands, I invite anyone who would like to post on that unnamed subject, to come to Wildwildleft.com and post freely.
This is offered to support the rules here, and offer an alternative venue.
Iggy Pop discussions, be it about the (ahem) band, or any of its policies can be taken next door, ande posted at WWL.
There are no schedules there, every essay is considered a gift, not a duty, and being small, I trust that those of you who I make FPers will kindly take turns.
I am not taking comments on this thread, for it is NOT an attempt to further debate a policy here set in stone. (oops, see disclaimer below)
It is only an open invite, an alternative avenue. I will continue to read your OTHER content here (but you can still cross to us if you choose) but now I can read your opinions and reporting on the other subjects at home.
I probably won’t be around here much, so you all know where to find me. (and Gottlieb)
See you around the tubes.
Peace,
Diane G
(this format doesn;t have a no-comment button, but I IMPLORE YOU, do not use it to rehash the already hashed, or this essay will end up deleted or something, and me banned! To any admin, plz turn comments off for me????)
May 29 2010
I was LOST, and Always Found
I don’t know how many of my readers followed LOST; I would hope many of you did. For those who did not, reading on will not lose you, this is not just a show review. I really hope you do read this, and offer your thoughts on either the show, or my conclusions.
Many of my co-workers did not, in fact could not watch LOST. It was too “complex” for a people breast fed on Survivor, Idol and Dancing with the Criminals. I found it more amazing that so many did become addicted to the show. What this show did, has not been done in my memory in any format other than full length film, is offer a up parable. A deep moral story. It was all about decisions.
They created a grown up Aesop’s Fable, more than a nuanced mystery. Sure, there are people bemoaning “unanswered questions,” but I think the handling was sublime: they left it open enough to let people draw conclusions based on their own beliefs. Then they reached deep into the psyche of “this can’t be happening – but its happening” and made you suspend those very beliefs without jumping the shark errr, polar bear. They added both silliness, and seriousness while employing quotes from sages spoken by those named after the philosophers. It was a veritable candy store for the deep thinker.
Springsteen may have pointed out years ago that Adam raised a Cain; we got to see what happened when Jacob and Esau lived out their lot. It had men of science, men of faith, and men who were a combination of the two. There were maddona/whore temptresses, battling warriors for what they believed to be penultimate truths, intellectual ‘deciders’ and a Buddha whose sanity was always in question.
Let me tell you what the story told me: that I am never lost.
May 23 2010
So Long, Disneyland South
Sometimes the White Man’s Burden is just unbearable. Try explaining that to my Stockholders now. All they want is a bottom line of profit. They don’t understand at times, what we are up against.
Katrina wasn’t enough, you know those levees had to fail for it to be the Perfect Disaster for a nice white Capitalist takeover. It was almost done. Most of the tract houses and apartment buildings are still boarded and abandoned. There were “just enough” people of color left to play for the Tourists on Bourbon. Maybe a couple Chiefs who can still convince themselves that there is “pride on Bourbon” enough to create a second line or two here and there; while working two jobs and moonlighting at the strip clubs as musicians. But overall, the Blacks and the Creoles left en masse, and the Real Estate is there for the picking. Like manna from the heavens, room for all the rich white people who love just a “tiny bit” of color in their lives. You know, the “cultural absorption” spectator sport that convinced them in the past that seeing Buffalo Bills traveling Indian Show made them experts in Lakota, and that on Prince Spaghetti day everyone is Italian. God knows, there was no culture there in the slums, anyway. Poor people and their poor English, and the scariest of them at least stay way-back in the deep bayous. Those people are crazy.
We had such plans. The Resorts. The Marinas. The theme parks with genuine Cajun shrimp kabobs, but not too spicy for the freckle faced kiddies from the corn belt. Gauhrunteeeeed. Its not like we weren’t planning on buying east coast shrimp, anyway; and no one swims in the ocean when you have a series of cascading pools, but the smell? Its not just the oil and dispersants, now its dead fish too.
May 21 2010
Wild Wild Left Radio #65 Bankfoils, Turmoil and More Bleeding Oil
Tonight at 6PM Eastern Time, WWL Radio!!!!!
Gottlieb and Diane G. will be live and in color (or is that off color?) on WWL radio tonight at 6pm Eastern Time to guide you through Current Events taken from a Wildly Left Prospective.
Hear the Unreported & Under Reported Headlines stories you should be paying attention to, from US Politics, to the farthest reaches of the Earth by the WWL coalition of subversion: undermining the PTB by speaking Truth to Power!!!!
The Senate gives us a Permaform, rather than reform bill, making economic apartheid permanent. The color/apartheid movement in America is strong, despite the Elite’s grab, and Mexican is the new Nigger of us all.
The PTB lie to us about the Oil Disaster; trying desperately to hide the Gulf under a floormat.
Meanwhile, the rest of the World is in upheaval: The Koreas, Iran and Thailand…. and our leaders are swimming ass deep in it all; trying to find the edge to keep the upper hand.
What a news cycle!
Please join us for the only “out there where the buses don’t run” LEFT perspective on the breaking news!
Controversy? We face it. Cutting Edge? We step over it. Revolutions start with information, and The Wild Wild Left Radio brings you the best in information and op/eds from a position that others on the Left fear to tread.
Call In!
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The call in number is 646-929-1264
The live chat link will go live around 5:20.. found at the bottom of the show page, or by clicking the link below!
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May 16 2010
The “State’s Rights” Debate
We had a interesting debate Friday night over Arizona’s right to enact laws as a matter of a State’s Right to autonomy on WWL Radio. My esteemed partner and I saw it very differently.
First of definition of terms, as I plan to employ them:
As a matter of distrusting my own choice of words, when the semantic point came up that the idea of “Federalism” meaning FOR State’s rights, I chose to wander over and pick up my copy of “The Federalist Papers” off our library shelf. I also googled and skimmed “The Anti-Federalist Papers” which were published at the time to make the case against a strong centralized government and arguing against ratifying the Constitution. It was the Anti-Federalists who made the Bill of Rights being the first act of Congress an absolute guarantee. Jefferson was a strong Federalist in believing that the Separation of Powers would ensure a Central Government that would create safeguards against the Federal Government becoming an entity with enough power to become abusive to individual State’s or Citizen’s welfare.
The Federalist Party; thereafter was a product of pro-banking, pro-business who wanted a fiscally stable strong central government. Hamilton’s centralized banking economic policies were opposed by Jefferson – the arguments were essentially elitism versus populism; but culminated moreso in the only Federalist President, John Adam’s creation of a tax subsidized standing military (Navy) and the creation of the “Alien and Sedition Act” …the very first shot in the effort to create a Unitary Executive. However Jefferson also penned the Ky & VA resolution, which supported State’s Rights should the Federal Government overstep its bounds. A sticky wicket this term.
So, consider my usage of the term “Federalist” in description of my views for this debate only, as the Jeffersonian argument for a Central Government, and as the opposing view of the “Anti-Federalist” State’s Autonomy arguers of that era. I am comfortable in my use of this term under this intended usage. I am not employing all of the nuances of Federalist’s platforms or views in this debate, rather using the most simplistic of usages.
Ok, that said, let us move on to the legalities and ethical questions surrounding these points of views in this present era.
May 14 2010
Wild Wild Left Radio #64 On Obama’s Watch? 1/3 Through his Presidency
Tonight at 6PM Eastern Time, WWL Radio!!!!!
Gottlieb and Diane G. will be live and in color (or is that off color?) on WWL radio tonight at 6pm Eastern Time to guide you through Current Events taken from a Wildly Left Prospective.
Hear the Unreported & Under Reported Headlines stories you should be paying attention to, from US Politics, to the farthest reaches of the Earth by the WWL coalition of subversion: undermining the PTB by speaking Truth to Power!!!!
Sometimes we have no control over the hand we are dealt; but we ALWAYS have control on how we play our hand.
2008 played a tidal wave of resentment for the abuses of the last administration: The horrors of Gitmo and torture, the demanding of ending our presence in Iraq, the absolute mandate for National Health Care and last and probably most importantly, accountability for economic crisis and relief from such.
Tonight we will be discussing the continuing escalation and prolonging of the theatres of war in Iraq and Afghanistan. We address Seymour Hersch’s revelation about the battlefield executions done by our soldiers.
The oil spill, rather than creating stricter regulations, seems to have made it probable to pass an anti-energy bill that throws much of it to the “State’s Rights” set. The Wall Street thieves still are not being fully investigated, while Iceland actually is imprisoning their equivalents.
Obama seems intent on moving the SCOTUS rightward with his choice of Kagan.
Join us as we attempt to take the barrage if information in this news cycle; cut through the fog and explain what the true results will be….
…. and grade this first third of Obama’s Presidency.
Please join us!
Controversy? We face it. Cutting Edge? We step over it. Revolutions start with information, and The Wild Wild Left Radio brings you the best in information and op/eds from a position that others on the Left fear to tread.
Call In!
Join Gottlieb and Diane every Friday at 6pm EDT on Wild Wild Left Radio, via BlogtalkRadio, for News from the Real Left. No hand-wringing, no PC, just straight talk from reality based politics.
WWL Radio: Free Speech in Practice.
The call in number is 646-929-1264
The live chat link will go live around 5:20.. found at the bottom of the show page, or by clicking the link below!
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May 11 2010
Austerity for Whom????
I was talking to a Venezuelan citizen yesterday on Twitter. My regular mailing from the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the U.S.had a link to Hugo Chavez new Twitter account. Apparently, he actually answers a lot of people, and all tweets are by him personally. I perused it, and it was in Spanish, so I made a request for an English version.
Negrita Bella and I discussed what needs to happen here from her point of view, for us to have any success in the People’s Movement. We agreed (and I have LONG OPINED) that it has to start one way: Unionizing the Workers.
Then I was perusing the Right wing’s sites for their reaction to the recent EU bailout, and got an eyeful.
You see, they think its the People who DESERVE austerity for daring to ask for humane and equitable conditions from the Elites above.
May 07 2010
Wild Wild Left Radio #63 Its the Terror, Stupid – or is the STUPID TEWWOW?
Tonight at 6PM Eastern Time, WWL Radio!!!!!
Gottlieb and Diane G. will be live and in color (or is that off color?) on WWL radio tonight at 6pm Eastern Time to guide you through Current Events taken from a Wildly Left Prospective.
Hear the Unreported & Under Reported Headlines stories you should be paying attention to, from US Politics, to the farthest reaches of the Earth by the WWL coalition of subversion: undermining the PTB by speaking Truth to Power!!!!
Wow, are you afraid? You should be. Not of an ADD students wayward bookbag, but heck, the Fed is still being given free rein to run amok and wreak destruction upon us, Iran is now the voice of disarmament reason, while Israel hoards its nukes, and golly. Joe Lieberman thinks you should only be a citizen if he says so.
We have LOTS of reporting and opinions tonight, and we hope you join in with yours!
Please join us!
Controversy? We face it. Cutting Edge? We step over it. Revolutions start with information, and The Wild Wild Left Radio brings you the best in information and op/eds from a position that others on the Left fear to tread.
Call In!
Join Gottlieb and Diane every Friday at 6pm EDT on Wild Wild Left Radio, via BlogtalkRadio, for News from the Real Left. No hand-wringing, no PC, just straight talk from reality based politics.
WWL Radio: Free Speech in Practice.
The call in number is 646-929-1264
The live chat link will go live around 5:20.. found at the bottom of the show page, or by clicking the link below!
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May 05 2010
Pity for the Earth
Ia ora te natura
E mea arofa teie ao nei
Its in the coastlines now, in the harbors, bays and myriad brackish branches of the bayou. Visions of fingerling rainbows sparkling their false gold promise in the sun, creep into my view. Beautiful death, such a mask for the evil. Bright orange globs and tarred waters tint and leach into these relentless prismatic wisps, breaking free and meandering, searching, seeking to spread its chokehold throughout the very alveoli that breathes life into the Gulf.
Mother, mother ocean, I have heard you call
Wanted to sail upon your waters since I was three feet tall
You’ve seen it all, you’ve seen it all
Watched the men who rode you switch from sails to steam
And in your belly you hold the treasures few have ever seen
Most of ’em dream, most of ’em dream
Apr 27 2010
Boobquake: Baseline 310
Ok, the baseline standard for the test is set. There are 310 earthquakes on record for the morning of Boobquake. Surely we can triple that number. I would love to bring it to a thousand!
Lets see which is stronger the prophesies or the breastesies.
From the creator of Boobquake on Facebook.
“Many women who do not dress modestly … lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which (consequently) increases earthquakes,” Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi was quoted as saying by Iranian media. Sedighi is Tehran’s acting Friday prayer leader.
I have a modest proposal.
Sedighi claims that not dressing modestly causes earthquakes. If so, we should be able to test this claim scientifically. You all remember the homeopathy overdose?
Time for a Boobqauke.
On Monday, April 26th, I will wear the most cleavage-showing shirt I own. Yes, the one usually reserved for a night on the town. I encourage other female skeptics to join me and embrace the supposed supernatural power of their breasts. Or short shorts, if that’s your preferred form of immodesty. With the power of our scandalous bodies combined, we should surely produce an earthquake. If not, I’m sure Sedighi can come up with a rational explanation for why the ground didn’t rumble. And if we really get through to him, maybe it’ll be one involving plate tectonics.
So, who’s with me? I may be a D cup, but that will probably only produce a slight tremor on its own. If you’ll be joining me on twitter, use the tag #boobquake!
Apr 23 2010
WWL Radio#61 Its All About the Porn!!!
Tonight at 6PM Eastern Time, WWL Radio!!!!!
Gottlieb and Diane G. will be live and in color (or is that off color?) on WWL radio tonight at 6pm Eastern Time to guide you through Current Events taken from a Wildly Left Prospective.
Hear the Unreported & Under Reported Headlines stories you should be paying attention to, from US Politics, to the farthest reaches of the Earth by the WWL coalition of subversion: undermining the PTB by speaking Truth to Power!!!!
When Massa fondled men in his office, they covered it up (did he make them say “Thank you, Massa!” ??) but yikes, let him dip his tip in their money? It is TABOO!
It seems the Securities and Exchange Commission was more interested in the exchange of bodily fluid assets, and maybe stocks and bondage, than investigating anything. What is it about the Porn? This story is hotter than Goldman Sachs’ private offices in Dante’s worst nightmare….. and as the Great Satan, will GS actually go down and swallow for its fraud?
Then there’s Global Porn, the headlines for Earth Day included Oil Rigs spreading filth and a new Garbage Island in the Caribbean! The CARIBBEAN, the center of all things Gardeny and Edenish defiled? Now that’s porn even Johnny Depp couldn’t make me look at!
The honorable student body at UC Berkeley stand up to investing in War Porn, by demanding their University divest from companies that profiteer off the occupation of Palestinian Lands! That is one type of censorship I can get behind!
Richard Clarke wants to make our internet “safer” by allowing private industries to spy on every keystroke we make – maybe that would have stopped the SEC porn surfing?
Then the Worst case Porn of all: Noam Chomsky is afraid, very afraid; America is heading straight down the path of the Nazis. Jack-boot America: Snuff Porn!
It always comes back to the Porn…. Yum.
Controversy? We face it. Cutting Edge? We step over it. Revolutions start with information, and The Wild Wild Left Radio brings you the best in information and op/eds from a position that others on the Left fear to tread.
Call In!
Join Gottlieb and Diane every Friday at 6pm EDT on Wild Wild Left Radio, via BlogtalkRadio, for News from the Real Left. No hand-wringing, no PC, just straight talk from reality based politics.
WWL Radio: Free Speech in Practice.
The call in number is 646-929-1264
The live chat link will go live around 5:20.. found at the bottom of the show page, or by clicking the link below!
CHAT LINK:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/f…
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Apr 02 2010
Wild Wild Left Radio #59: Richard Gage, AIA; AE911Truth.Org Interview
Tonight at 6PM to 8PM Eastern Daylight Savings Time, WWL Radio’s exclusive interview with Richard Gage, AIA!!!!!
Join Diane Gee and Michael Gottlieb tonight for our interview with the esteemed Richard Gage, AIA, creator of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth.Richard Gage, AIA, will be speaking to us from 6-7pm. There is an additional hour available for post-interview questions and discussion, as needed. I remind all callers to be brief and respectful. This is a “G” rated show.
Every single failure in the last 9 years is linked in some way to the events of September 11th, 2001 and the entirely impossible “official story” about how the buildings collapsed.
Our Honored Guest is the leading expert in the study of this evidence, and the science that proves that the “official story” cannot possibly be correct.
Please visit www.ae911truth.org, and acquaint yourself with their mission, and Sign the Petition for a new, thorough, unbiased investigation into what happened on 9/11. Available there is the enlightening Documentary “911: Blueprint for Truth~The Architecture of Destruction” which you can view wholly online, or purchase to share with everyone you know.
Join us in spreading the word, and getting involved, armed with FACTS to demand a new, unbiased investigation to the events of 9/11.
Controversy? We face it. Cutting Edge? We step over it. Revolutions start with information, and The Wild Wild Left Radio brings you the best in information and op/eds from a position that others on the Left fear to tread.
Call In!
Join Gottlieb and Diane every Friday at 6pm EDT on Wild Wild Left Radio, via BlogtalkRadio, for News from the Real Left. No hand-wringing, no PC, just straight talk from reality based politics.
WWL Radio: Free Speech in Practice.
The call in number is 646-929-1264
The live chat link will go live around 5:20.. found at the bottom of the show page, or by clicking the link below!
CHAT LINK:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/F…
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