October 2009
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72 Hour Party People: What happens when Shabu... →
“It comes wrapped in red foil and purple tissue, this intricate figurine molded in the form of a Japanese demon, with clawed feet, a mane of fire and a thick tongue jutting from a bloodthirsty smirk. Transparent, the size of a child’s fist, it looks like a tiny ice carving or a statuette of glass. It is neither. In fact, it is 25 grams (a little less than one ounce) of nearly 100...
September 2009
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Emperors may be made elsewhere than at Rome
– Tacitus, on the military coup of Nero’s reign (via morningstar)
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the dude abides. i don’t know about you, but i take comfort in that. it’s good...
– the stranger, the big lebowski (via beetnik)
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Citigroup’s on the move, so is CIT . I think that Citigroup will be the...
– Jim Cramer 9/29/2009 1:54pm
Meanwhile, outside of Jim Cramer’s reality, CIT considering bankruptcy, again
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The Uprising! from PuppetGov on Vimeo.
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An Inside Look at How Goldman Sachs Lobbies the... →
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This country’s founders built an ingenious system of checks and balances...
– Dylan Ratigan
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Disco Biscuits Live at Tennessee Theatre on... →
Shaping up to be my favorite show so far of this Fall Tour - Flash Mob is one of the better new songs, the Caterpillar> Helicopters > Minions > Caterpillar is absolutely nuts, Caterpillar is shaping up to be one of my favorite songs of theirs. The Second Set is amazing, starting with Astronaut>.
Getting pumped for the upcoming Northeast shows - Don’t be marked absent!
Disc 1...
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Evolution (Burning Man time lapses)
via delrious
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Quantum Physics and Its Relation to Oneness
oceanofmind:
“In these past couple months, I’ve been cramming my head full of things such as Edgar Cayce’s theories, and what he had to offer the world. Unfortunately, I don’t think we will ever have another man as brilliant as him, but through him and his ideals people will forever use his knowledge to better themselves. I came across Edgar Cayce completely randomly, I believe the universe...
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ZeroHedge: Exclusive Smoking Gun: The Fed on Gold... →
Zero Hedge has recently presented several declassified documents from the pre-1971 “Nixon Shock” days, that endorse the case for gold as a major historical factor in US monetary and foreign policy, as demonstrated by State Department and CIA disclosure. Gold’s special status in policy and administrative decision-making was a direct factor in Nixon’s choice to abolish the...
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It’s funny. If your average guy were to rape a 13-year-old girl and then flee...
– Jeff Fecke (via katoleary) (via abbyjean)
Unfortunately this isn’t as Black and White as we would all like it to be, and I hardly believe this case is actually about seeking justice. It is politically motivated, the U.S. asks Switzerland for the names of 50,000 citizens hiding taxable income...
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This emptiness of language is a gift to demagogues and the corporations that...
– Chris Hedges (via azspot)
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FBI whistleblower talkin' about intelligence leaks →
catbus:
Morning raw text dump:
PHILIP GIRALDI: We were very interested to learn of your four-hour deposition in the case involving allegations that Congresswoman Jean Schmidt accepted money from the Turkish government in return for political favors. You provided many names and details for the first time on the record and swore an oath confirming that the deposition was true. Basically, you map...
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ZeroHedge: Frontunning Sept. 28th, 2009 →
World Bank chief to take shots at the Fed (WSJ) Taleb: “Bernanke, Geithner and Summers didn’t see the crisis
coming so why are they still there?” (Bloomberg) More taxpayer funded bailouts coming up (Bloomberg) Andy Xie: When one bubble burst deserves another (Caijing) Obama’s Too-Big-To-Fail is Too Dumb To Pass (Bloomberg) Federal Reserve reverse repurchases (Econbrowser)...
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The Dollar: Worth .08 Cents
Jim Rickards on the hopefully stable decline of the U.S. Dollar and what will replace it.
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Eat your view.
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Please Talk to Your Kids about Khanom Krok →
(via ianlee)
Please talk to your kids about drugs.
lickystickypickyme:
My parents never did. So when I left to Holland at the green age of 18 years, all alone and with the freedom to do as I please, I ended up living with 9 other housemates in a huge appartment. It was actually the whole floor, 4 appartments joined together. We’re talking Rotterdam, the year was 1754 or something.
Anyway we would have movie nights in the big living room, pow...
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