Bloomberg shuts down OWS

but the cat is out of the bag.

The Levellers at the Putney Debates: 1647

Thus Thomas Rainsborough argued:
For really I think that the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live, as the greatest he; and therefore truly, Sr, I think it clear, that every Man that is to live under a Government ought first by his own Consent to put himself under that Government; and I do think that the poorest man in England is not at all bound in a strict sense to that Government that he hath not had a voice to put Himself under.

The Last Refuge of Scoundrels - the flag

Too Big To Fail is Too Big.
Q: What did Wall Street get for donating to Obama in 2008?
A: Geithner as Secretary of the Treasury rather than Stiglitz,
and Larry Summers, and JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon's bonus.

The Reign of Terror - 21st century style

Original Guy

a penny for the guy?

Bev Rice

Arrested and jailed for demonstrating in front of the White House.

Drinking in public

If the boys hadn't come, there would have been plenty of wine.
Pastor: "John's followers fast, but you guys party."
Mary: "Why do You hang around with those people."
Assistant Manager: "Shows frequent lapses of judgement."

Entitlement reform

French Revolution style

If crucifixion is so bad for you

why did Christ do it?
blood on the tracks

Pride

Is a sin.
Pride says, you're exceptional.

Original Sin

Was it thinking "Am I not God?"
Original and still popular.

Super committee

Q: Will the super committee's plan differ from the default?
A: Huh?

Tax the rich.
Bring the weapons home.

Boo

You should be afraid.

The notion that anyone will not be welcome in heaven

is insane

Tom Perez to speak in Buffalo Oct 27th

Buffalo Club (388 Delaware at Edward) at noon.
Register in advance at bit.ly/PerezBuffaloClub
$25 in advance, $30 at the door.
See Ray McGovern's report of a previous Perez appearance at bit.ly/q15f7y (War is a Crime)

They Got Bailed Out - Day 13

We got sold out.
September 29: www.flickr.com/photos/zokuga/6196095827
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Bloomberg. Bloomberg. Clean up. Wall Street.

Is the Constitution quaint?

Glenn Greenwald asks.

The lesson of slavery

What is the lesson of slavery?
That southerners were blinded by self interest?
Or that people can be blinded by self-interest?
-or-
People who are making money
will defend the methods
no matter how vile.

Senior coffee

Age discrimination.

No middle class

No Las Vegas

He has guts, has backbone

Unfortunately, other parts were missing.

Has anyone forgotten

That on this day, ten years ago, nineteen young male muslims, mostly from Saudi Arabia, and educated in the USA, organized out of Germany, crashed four jetliners into targets in the USA,
and began all the trouble, so they say.

Since that time, the assholes have largely won.

BoA

The gold standard of white collar crime.

The new middle east

The old middle east, the second world, is falling.
The corruption has gone too far for too long.
The land is being split between Iran and the USA.
i think

Baths for the homeless

in Paris. Bains*Douches

Jobless recovery

If you need a job,
a jobless recovery is not a recovery;
it is the same ol' same old.

If you have a job,
it is still not a recovery,
just you might not be let go.

A jobless recovery is a recovery for business;
for the owners of the means of production.

If you have two coats, give one to him who has none

I hear many churches are pressing the government
to enact this moral legislation.
Similar law in the works for houses.
KJV Luke 3:11

A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats

If you own a boat, you are probably ok.
If you live in a low-lying area, you might be swept away.

For workers, the union is their boat.
The others, ...

The future of America

Flint, Michigan.
Or Detroit, says Dmitri.

Six Trillion Dollars worth

30,000 of them, in 1967, at $200,000,000 per.
Yup.
That's less than an F-22 at 3 for a billion

Protecting Missouri

Stealth technology.
Another great idea
whose time will never come.

Asymmetric Warfare: War 4.0

This is what is has come down to.

Antarctica - Mostly Dead Continent

But inside the limestone, green.

Temple Grandin

has been retained by the Social Security Administration
to design their new processing facilities.

Luis Gutiérrez

For President.

Chris Hedges

The sky is falling, and other stories.

If they don't want elections abroad

what makes you think they want them here?
. Chile - Allende
. Afghanistan - Karzai
. Gaza - Hamas
. Iran - Mosaddegh
. Guatemala - Árbenz
. Egypt - Mubarak
. 2000 Florida - recount
. 2004 Ohio - eight hour lines
. 1897 Indiana
. Haiti - Aristide, Lavalas
. Spain - Franco
more...

Abu Ghraib

First it was Sadaam's torture chamber.
Then it was Donald's.
The Handover.

General say he need missle

to protect from big American carrier.
"We feel very dangerous" he say,
"and plus I get missile patch".

The latest on GITMO Uyghurs

China criticizes tiny Palau for taking Uyghurs.
This make Palau not need Chinese hotel.

Atwar Bahjat

Reporter for Al-Arabiya, killed after reporting on
the bombing of the Samarra mosque, long ago.

Made in the USA

Tear gas canisters, and
paper money.

The "Support Our Troops" ribbons
are made in Malaysia.

Why are there officers and enlisted?

The eldest son inherits the estate,
the second son becomes an officer, and
the third goes into the church hierarchy.

Entitlement reform

What? What?

Why did the grid fail so badly?

Sure, the nuclear plants failed, and all that.
But why did the grid fail so badly?
No external power for so long... ?
Isn't that an important question?

All Men Are Created Equal

All white men. All white males. Not the Irish.
----
This statement is a passive assertion of one consequence
and only one consequence, of that statement:
We are every bit as good as they are.
----
It is a statement made by the weaker to the stronger.

Is a soldier a citizen?

Isn't he entitled to a speedy trial then?
Oh, I see, he isn't charged with doing anything.
He is just TDA solitary Levenworth.

The rich are insulated from climate change

The poor, not so much.

Freedom of the printing press

Does freedom of the press primarily mean the papers?
Does freedom of speech primarily mean the talk shows?

The First Amendment protects the common man, the little guy; protects him from being prosecuted for his ideas, spoken or written, public or private.
Freedom of the xerox, of the telephone, of the spray can.

The emperor has or has not clothes

All governments lie.
The issue is not true vs false.
The issue is deniable vs undeniable.

That's why cameras are essential.

Tomorrowland

Separation of church and state is new, even though
Christ said His kingdom was already somewhere else;
and you can't get there from here, not easily.

Maybe Buddha didn't want to found a church.
He didn't want to live in Tomorrowland.

Feed the homeless

Oh wait, it was feed the hungry.

Cant see the forest for the trees?

Sorry, those trees are the forest.
Can't see the government for the politics?
The glorious fruit of our democracy is
to help the rich and powerful at home,
and abroad.

St Teresa, Life

16. ...

But do we suppose that God is better pleased when men account us wise and discreet persons? We think that there is but little edification given if people do not go about, with great gravity, in a dignified way. Even in the friar, the ecclesiastic, and the nun, if they wear old and patched garments, we think it a novelty, and a scandal to the weak; and even if they are very recollected and given to prayer.

Such is the state of the world, and so forgotten are matters of perfection, and those grand impetuosities of the Saints. More mischief, I think, is done in this way, than by any scandal that might arise if the religious showed in their actions, as they proclaim it in words, that the world is to be held in contempt.

Out of scandals such as this, our Lord obtains great fruit. If some people are scandalized, others come to their senses: anyhow, we should have before us some likeness of that which our Lord and His Apostles endured; for we have need of it now more than ever.

Water

Water has three states: solid, liquid, gas.
As gas, it is in the atmosphere; about 1% is water.
Liquid water is in the lower places.
Solid water is in the colder places.
The more solid water, the less liquid water, the more land in the lower places.
The more liquid water, the more land in the colder places.

Whistleblower or Enemy of the State?

What's the difference?
Meyer

Onward Christian Soldiers

The new Prince of peace.

WW III to be declared, ten years later

Congress acts.
This is for the war in Pakistan.
They say: No more Lybias. Know what I mean?
They mean we got to be able to do the humanitarian interventions against terrorists, and it just might take more than 60 days.

Supreme Court confirms rendition

But decides that the program is top secret.
Will the Court get in trouble for revealing a state secret?
Probably not, unless they are tried in a military court,
and sent to Guantanamo before their appeal can be heard.

Fukushima... One line was down?

I wish I knew Japanese.
The x's in boxes [x] are "transmission towers".

Not proof that Obama is American

An American would arrest people who boasted in writing of committing a felony, who killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people, who subverted the Constitution.

Work on the Yonomori line

The Yonomori Line is a low voltage line south to a distribution substation near Yonomori. It leaves the Daiichi plant towards the south, going along the first base line of the ballfield. Notice that the insulators differ from one side to the other. The Yonomori Line is not connected to the Fukushima transmission substation. It looks like it might be owned by Tohoku, as it goes South, then West then North to a substation just west of Momouchi 桃内駅.

Fukushima transmission lines and substation

click image to enlarge
Daini was powered by midnight by the Fukushima substation. Why do we think that all six transmission circuits to Daiichi failed?
[4 circuits on the Okuma Lines (275kv) to units 1+2 and 3+4 and 2 circuits on the Futaba Line (500kv) to units 5+6. The Yonomori Line is not connected.]
Three towers would need to fail for a "station blackout".
Farther north, there were towers damaged or destroyed in the lowland swept by the tsunami, but they were in the path of the tsunami, close to the coast, and there were not many.