Posted in Fukushima Daiichi, Japan Earthquake 2011, Japan Tsunami 2011, Nuclear Plant, Tsunami, tagged damage unit 4 reactor, Fukushima Daiichi, Fukushima nuke plant, Japan Earthquake 2011, Japan Tsunami 2011, nuke, unit 4 reactor on March 17, 2011| 1 Comment »
About an hour ago– March 17, 2011
Screen grab from a video showing the extent of the damage done to the reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi complex.
This shot shows the damage done to the unit 4 reactor, where emergency workers earlier attempted to fire water at in a bid to cool the fuel rods.
Source: blogs.aljazeera.net
Posted in Charles Koch, David Koch, Koch Industries, Kochtopus, Scott Walker, Tea Party, Wingnuts, Wisconsin, Wisconsin Protests, tagged Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne, Governor Scott Walker, Koch, Legal Battles, Republicans, Scott Walker, union-busting, Wisconsin, Wisconsin DA Files Lawsuit, Wisconsin Republicans on March 17, 2011| 4 Comments »
In the aftermath of his Draconian power grab, Governor Scott Walker has been smirking his way though celebratory dinners and being slapped on the back by national Republicans who whisper “Vice Presidential material” to him through the decayed orifices of their corporate mouths. Scott’s pleasure with himself is evident to all who are forced to watch this soulless Koch logo preen his way through a press conference.
But back in his home state, things don’t look very good for Scotty. Numerous lawsuits have been brought against Walker’s anti-union bill, the most important one of which calls for the bill to be voided. After reading numerous complaints, the Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne believes the Republicans violated the open meeting law of Wisconsin. He further requests a stay on publishing the bill until the court can hear these matters. In addition, several other suits have been brought against the Republicans for violating open meeting laws and passing a financial bill without the necessary quorum.
After receiving at least five complaints regarding the Republicans’ alleged violation of the open meeting law, the DA filed a lawsuit. The suit alleges that in the March 9 meeting during which Republicans passed Walker’s anti-union bill, killing collective bargaining, the special legislative committee (consisting of Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald of Juneau, Senate President Mike Ellis of Neenah, Assembly Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald of Horicon and Assembly Majority Leader Scott Suder of Abbotsford) violated the Wisconsin Open Meeting Law in several ways.
Firstly, the Republicans claimed they were in an emergency meeting and thus exempt from giving notice as required by open meeting law, but the DA found they do not meet the requirements for an emergency meeting. Secondly, Republicans claimed that Senate rules overrode the state law, but the DA determined that because they had both the assembly and the Senate in the meeting, the Senate rules do not apply. Thirdly, the Republicans held the meeting at a time when they restricted access to the Capitol to the public (as well as lawmakers) as well as holding it in a tiny room where there was no room for the public.
Posted in Afternoon Jukebox, Video, tagged Afternoon Jukebox, Beautiful Day, Video on March 17, 2011| Leave a Comment »
U2 – Beautiful Day
Posted in Japan Earthquake 2011, Rush Limbaugh, Video, tagged Japan Earthquake, Rush Limbaugh, Rush Limbaugh Japan, Rush Limbaugh Japan Refugees, Video on March 17, 2011| 2 Comments »
HuffPost- First Posted: 03/16/11 08:30 AM Updated: 03/16/11 08:30 AM
Rush Limbaugh laughed about Japanese refugees recycling after the earthquake that struck the country on his Tuesday show.
A caller asked Limbaugh, “If these are the people that invented the Prius, have mastered public transportation, recycling, why did Mother Earth, Gaia if you will, hit them with this disaster?”
Limbaugh called this an “interesting question,” and played a clip of ABC’s Diane Sawyer reporting from a shelter in Japan. In the clip, Sawyer is surprised that the refugees in the shelter have maintained a recycling program. Limbaugh first mocked Sawyer, doing an impression of her and saying that “she sounds like she saw her husband for the first time in six months.” He then turned to his caller’s question.
“He’s right,” Limbaugh said. “They’ve given us the Prius. Even now, refugees are recycling their garbage.” Here, he began to laugh, continuing, “and yet, Gaia levels them! Just wipes them out!”
This angle has been something of a theme for Limbaugh; last week, he wondered if environmentalists would “cheer” the quake.
Watch (via Media Matters):
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Happy St. Paddy’s Day!
I hope you are wearing your green or I might pinch you! 🙂
Have a good one and be safe…
SQ
The Corrs & Bono – When the Stars Go Blue (Live 8 )
Posted in Class Warfare, Final Chapter, tagged Class Warfare, corporate media, entertainment industry, Final Chapter, marketing, propaganda apparatus, public relations, think tanks, universities, working class on March 17, 2011| 1 Comment »
President Barack Obama holds the door while talking to Chief of Staff Bill Daley inside his office in the West Wing of the White House, March 8, 2011. (Photo: Pete Souza / Official White House Photo)
Tuesday 15 March 2011
by: Michael Pirsch, t r u t h o u t | News Analysis
“There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.” -Warren Buffett to The New York Times, November 26, 2006
There is overwhelming evidence that we are entering the final chapter of class warfare in the US. Today, in the “public arena,” it is forbidden to say class warfare, and many citizens do not regard themselves as working class. The assault on language comes compliments of the propaganda apparatus, which includes: public relations, marketing, corporate media and the entertainment industry, universities, think tanks and so on. Its purpose is to distract our attention from serious matters so we can focus on trivial matters – usually involving consuming. Edward Bernays, the founder of the modern propaganda industry, described the process:
Those who manipulate the unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government. We are governed, our minds molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested largely by men we have never heard of … in almost every act of our lives whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind.[1]
In addition to inventing the propaganda model still in use today, Bernays’ model created support for World War I, first in England and then in the US, calling the war to save Morgan’s billions the war for “making the world safe for democracy.”
We have been overwhelmed by the propaganda apparatus to the point that it controls our thought processes, causing us to become relentless shoppers, even against our own interests. It controls our thinking in the public sphere so that we support the wealthy elite, even against our own interests. Far too many of us have been rendered thoughtless and clueless as to what it means to live in a democratic society. It is not democracy because the government says it is; it is democracy when the masses are informed and act through their delegates to develop policy that promotes the general welfare. Today there are two sovereign nations that exhibit more democratic tendencies than all others: Venezuela and Bolivia. Because of their efforts to build democracy, both sovereign nations have been under attack by the US. In Venezuela, the US sponsored a coup in 2002. In Bolivia, the US government has sponsored a secessionist movement made up of the wealthy elite, whose tactics includes murder of government supporters. The Bolivian government expelled the US ambassador for his role in the destabilization attempt. Both Venezuela and Bolivia have adopted new constitutions which were the result of a process that involved all citizens and especially both countries’ indigenous populations, who were previously completely excluded from any role in government. Both countries have improved access to their medical systems, increased literacy and established local spaces where democracy can be practiced. This shift causes the US empire considerable distress, because the empire fears the spread of real democracy more than anything else.
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