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Oct 21 2011
Wild Wild Left Radio #128 People #OWS / Elites #AWS
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AWS? What is that, you ask?
Assassinate World Streets.
I’m almost kidding. They have no problem carpet bombing civilians with drones, or assassinating World Leaders, or sicking the Police on unarmed civilians.
Bin Laden, Gahdaffi, American Citizens abroad, they kill them.
Peaceful protestors trying to get a Real Democracy reinstated, they brutalize them.
I think they are missing the one Real Demand worldwide. We want to rule ourselves, thank you very much, and we aren’t asking anymore.
It should be a great show.
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Oct 19 2011
“Don’t Let Me Get Me!” OWS Kabuki.
We need to talk. Seriously. I shit thee not.
The only thing really stopping you is you. You have choices you know. I mean, its almost ridiculous the notions we entertain in order to be “rational, contemplative” leftists; asking if every whack story out there has even a grain of truth.
Lets start with the media that you all claim to distrust if not despise, and how it works. I know its a 4 minute remedial course, but its going to be a fine jumping off spot for our conversation.
You know, the one: An anti-semite, a CIA color revolution plant and Democratic stategist walk into a bar, and ask the bartender which conspiracy cocktail is on special tonight…. and the bartender says…
(hat tip Ria for the video…)
Ok, c’mon into the kitchen and let me grab you a beer, or pour you an “and” (any drink with the word “and” in it), have a seat and lets get to it. Maybe, just maybe, since we all demonstrate for the free drugs according to Rush, I’ll even pack you a bowl of oregano or something… heh.
Oct 15 2011
Too Small to Fail / Where Were You?
He has the thick hard fingers of a carpenter, nails short and blunt, yet he can tie a micro-filament knot with the delicacy of a surgeon. Fly fishing season was nearly over, and there was little to do these days but prep for next year. The sound of the phone not ringing was almost palpable over the drone of the local news broadcast at noon. Another idle day, the contractor must had not coughed up the money for the next delivery of materials. His girlfriend had been making noises about him moving in with her and her two very young kids. It felt too soon, but his rent was already two weeks late. The cops beating on those people was depressing as hell; he turned off the news and went outside to rake the last of the fall leaves.
She was an angel. That’s what she like to call her temp job doing in-home care for the elderly. She was getting attached to her clients, and had already gotten in trouble for cleaning one persons house while they slept. “Not in your job description,” she was told. Worse? When she helped that half blind lady write out her checks, she learned that the company was getting over three times her pay an hour for her services. She would love to work for herself, save them money and perhaps make a little more. Things were tight enough, and she was up against enough keeping custody of her two daughters being openly gay. But self-employed meant paying for a LLC license and having to insure herself heavily. Hell, they didn’t have health insurance at home, how could she afford to insure a business? She had no idea what the demonstrations were about, but the pastor at her church said they were anarchists. Sounded scary.
A dreamer dreams, she never dies
Wipe that tear away now from your eye
Oct 14 2011
WWL Radio #126 Occupation Endgame
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Occupy Wall Street is again our topic tonight, as I assume it will be for a very long time as long as the Independent Journalists are still able to report freely.
Two very important questions remain.
The first is about how it will fail – for the odds are stacked very highly against the Populace saving themselves from a deeply entrenched and now global Oligarchy. Will it be through violence, being co-opted, being handed austerity and thrown a few bones? Or will they create violence and blame the resistance in order to turn the population against the Occupation, rewarding little Orwellian finger-pointers?
The second is about how it will succeed – for against all odds, we are the many and we could easily regain power if the will to do so is true. Is highly regulated capitalism what we must settle for, perhaps isolationist America-first selfishness, or will we truly break free into sane socialism?
These are the days we have been waiting for my friends. It has begun.
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Oct 11 2011
The Road to Hell
…..is paved with merger signs.
I’ve often said the rich are now eating their own, another sign of the apocalypse. Its a culling of the herd, a winnowing, an attempt to gamble down to the big prize of who gets it all.
I’ve thrown hundreds of thousands of words at the subject, in print and on the air. For many, many years.
But I think the one proverbial picture is better than them all.
Put your heads under your desks baby, and kiss your asses goodbye. This is not a test.
Sep 30 2011
WWL Radio #124 Bruce A Dixon, Black Agenda Report
SPECIAL GUEST BRUCE A DIXON live with Diane Gee on WWL Radio Friday, September 30th at 6pm EDT!
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Tonight I have the honor of interviewing Bruce A. Dixon co-founder of the wonderful (and wildly left) Black Agenda Report. His bio there:
“Managing Editor Bruce Dixon: Longtime Activist, Habitual Troublemaker
A habitual troublemaker and incorrigible activist, Bruce Dixon has been comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable since 1968.
As a rank and file member of the Black Panther Party in 1969-1970, a 1970s rank-and-file union activist in a string of factories, plants and workplaces, a 1980s community organizer in what were then some of the nation’s poorest neighborhoods, to organizing and consulting through the 1990s Dixon has built an impressive record of service in and to the cause of human liberation.
In 2002 he began writing articles for Black Commentator, the predecessor of this publication, and broke the first accurate analyses of the phenomena around the election of Denise Majette over Cynthia McKinney in Georgia that year.
As managing editor at BAR Dixon is chiefly responsible for maintaining this web site. He currently resides in metro Atlanta.
Bruce graciously allowed me to reprint his latest essay questioning the LOTE, lesser of the two evils with Barack Obama as perhaps the more effective evil. “Barack Obama VS Those Craaaazy Republicans: Is He the Lesser Evil, or the More Effective Evil?” I adored it. He is brilliant, outspoken, and a troublemaker like me. This should be an awesome show!
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Sep 26 2011
Dear Mr President: That “Democracy Crushing Regime” is Our OWN.
In too many countries, power has been concentrated in the hands of the few.
The United States opposes the use of violence and repression against the people of the region.
80 Occupy Wall Street Protesters were arrested yesterday alone. There were numerous reports of brutality. This violent repression happened here, is still happening here. The region is New York, sir. Wall Street to be exact. Why are you not against violence to people of that region?
Our message is simple: if you take the risks that reform entails, you will have the full support of the United States.
The officer in the video responded on YouTube (misspellings intact):
“ATTENTION: My name is Officer Larson of the NYPD and I am the one you see in this video lawfully restraining that dissident, in response to his aggressive posturing.
If any of you have a problem with that, please send me a private message with your address, and I’ll go down to your house, and drop-kick you in your dumb, beligerent mouths.”
That is the full support of the United States for the risk of peaceful protest. Here, anyway. Which is to say, no support at all. In fact quite the opposite of support. GOVERNMENT OPPOSITION.
Apr 19 2011
Minnows.
crossposted from The Wild Wild Left
The crunch of the sand seemed intrusive to the pre-dawn still of the morning, as she dragged the row boat off of its little wooden dolly that served as a trailer for the riding mower. “If the mower didn’t wake up the world, this surely won’t,” she thought.
The little electric motor was blessedly quiet as she slipped around the first sand bar and headed out of the cove into the lake proper. The sky was still silver, the water inky with the beginnings of the fingerlets of mist striving to break free from the confines of their fellow molecules in the lake. It was already warm, going to be a scorcher. The air smelled soft and thick as the birds started announcing the arrival of the first light.
She cut the motor and drifted into the second sandbar at the point. She needed the stillness and to think. She slipped off the shirt and shorts covering her bathing suit and stepped off into the water. Water always felt like home. It brought the inner quiet that brought the clarity the city sounds always drove out. Out in the water, or in the woods; it was a different world, a world in which there was only you and the everything. It made one feel both infinitesimally small, and immeasurably connected.
There was no better place to be at the crossroads in your life.
Apr 15 2011
WWL Radio #104 TAXECUTION: W(ho)TF are they trying to Fool?
Friday, April 1st at 6pm EDT!Listen live by clicking the link icon below:
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The Budgetary Boogie has gone Batshit Loonie…. I mean seriously Folks, wait until you hear some of the Foster Fun Fact I aly on you tonight about where the Money has gone and is still going.
Just over 45% of able Americans have JOBS, but what Taibbi calls “The Real Housewives of Wall Street” are swallowing huge swaths of our tax money along with their caviar and champagne. But remember? They’ve convinced us its the teachers fault…
Just Wow, man. Women have been thrown under the bus, racist profiling is spreading like (il) legal wildfire… we are blaming everything but the REAL pigs at the trough…
I have facts you just NEED to hear tonight, so join me!
Game On.
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Apr 08 2011
Minority Rapport ~ Note from a 3rd Party Fringer
Good morning. As I whip out a few hundred words with my first cup of coffee, it is so reassuring to know that I am so far out here on the far-left fringes that all 7 people who think remotely like me will be forgiving of its brevity and levity in the face of such a serious topic.
You see, overall the last ditch response to people like me that refuse to be enablers of the Uniparty of the Korporate State reads pretty much thus: “You are a big STUPID HEAD, and no one thinks like you!!” Well, golly surely it is better to be all alone~y by myself out here on the fringiest fringe, than to run with the sheep over the cliff. Sorry cupcake, I ain’t buying it.
Let me state that anyone who has a remote understanding of history, understanding not just rote-recall of dates and names, knows what happens to Empires when they turn their greed and avarice on their own people. Rome, falls, biotches. Hitler burns. Moscow rises. People revolt. Now, understanding that fact also presumes the knowledge that this doesn’t always work out too well for the people. Sometimes revolution just replaces one set of despots with another set. Kinda like ’08 did here. Puts a happy shiney face on the same abuses, repackages the arsenic and not much changes.
So sue me if I cannot see the ‘rigidity’ in thinking outside the rigid parameters of “tried and failed” that is the course of operating under a flawed system, nay a system not just flawed but diabolically stacked against us.
This is where the Smug Liberals lose the working class as much as the Righteous Righties do… they forget that one root, bit by bit can crack a boulder. Count on that lonely buttercup!
Apr 03 2011
Caught Between Syphilis and Chlamydia – Enabling the Corporate State
I have never seen so many people up in arms, or as knee-jerkingly rigid as in the great debate around the so-called Liberal blogosphere than the discussion of third party politics and the potential fall out of the coming elections.
I find it patently absurd, especially the FDL debacle that has sprouted as of late.
The two camps divide neatly into “more and better dems” and “the Uniparty is Kabuki – never again” groups, with a few “lets make a protest vote in the primaries then vote for the Corporate Sponsored One” claiming pragmatism, thrown into the fray.
This is not the Scylla and Charybdis, and I won’t be wrapped around their finger, my friend Sting. Hell I won’t even sail into the region to chance it, myself.
The bottom line is everyone has the right to vote or refrain as they see fit.
And I have the right, if not overwhelming compulsion to run my big mouth about my opinion about it.
I would venture to guess, were I to delineate every massive fail in this administration vs Bush’s all of you would agree with my math. What you may not agree with is my conclusions. But, listen to my logic if you’ve a mind to.