Nov
4
post-lapsarian agit-prop
“The House has approved a non-binding measure denouncing a UN inquiry for accusing Israel of committing war crimes in its assault on the Gaza Strip. The inquiry, headed by South African jurist Richard Goldstone, also accused Hamas of war crimes and urged both sides to investigate the charges or face international prosecution. But the House measure dismissed the Goldstone report as “irredeemably biased and unworthy of further consideration or legitimacy.” It also calls on the Obama administration to “strongly and unequivocally oppose” discussion of the report’s findings in any international setting. The resolution passed by a margin of 344-to-46. Before the vote, activists confronted the measure’s co-sponsor, Democratic Congress member Howard Berman. Medea Benjamin of CODEPINK said Berman is afraid to hear Goldstone’s findings.”
Democracy Now! | Headlines for November 04, 2009
Didn’t you know? Criticizing the indiscriminate killing of women and children is totally uncool.
Nov
3
“An investigation by the McClatchy Newspapers has found that banking giant Goldman Sachs made secret bets on an imminent housing crash while selling off billions in soon-to-be worthless securities. In 2006 and 2007, the bank reportedly peddled more than $40 billion in securities backed by at least 200,000 risky home mortgages, but never told the buyers it was secretly betting that a sharp drop in US housing prices would send the value of those securities plummeting. Goldman’s sales and its clandestine wagers enabled the nation’s premier investment bank to pass most of its potential losses to others before a flood of mortgage defaults staggered the US and global economies. Only later did investors discover that what Goldman had promoted as triple-A rated investments were closer to junk. By doing so, Goldman Sachs may have violated securities laws. Several pension funds, including Mississippi’s Public Employees’ Retirement System, have filed suits alleging that Goldman and other Wall Street firms negligently made “false and misleading’’ representations of the bonds’ true risks.”
Democracy Now! | Headlines for November 03, 2009
Early Bird Special: If a montage of some dude dancing like Michael Jackson at a bus stop filmed surreptitiously by some other dude over the course of 15 months from a nearby office doesn’t cheer you right up then you might as well call in sick forever because you appear to have lost the ability to experience joy.
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The bravest man in Iran is a… mathlete - True/Slant
On Wednesday, October 28, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei held a press conference with some of the country’s elite students on national television. He held a question-and-answer session with an assembled group of pre-approved honors students. He asked the students if they had any questions they wanted to ask them. One student raised his hand. Mahmoud Vahidnia (pictured) is a first-year mathematics major at prestigous Sharif University and the former winner of the International Math Olympics. Vahidnia’s question put him at significant personal risk. He replied, “Yes, I have some words with you.” For the next 20 minutes, Vahidnia criticized propaganda in newspapers regarding the election, political repression, official censorship and the inability of the people to criticize the government.
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Nov
2
“We are being choked and beaten and sexually assaulted, and all the while, my peers dance and snort cheap coke and photograph each other for the hundreth time. I scoff at it all now from atop my high horse, but I was there too, because I am poor and when people want give me money to play my guitar, I can’t ever say no. Kids, we are blowing it. Everything they say about us is true.”
Titus Andronicus: The VICE Halloween Party is Decadent and Depraved
Ezra Klein has some charts for you today.
BEST HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IN THE WORLD!! AMIRITE GOP?!?
i think they meant “obesity”
dhk:
This harks back to when KFC was running an ad with an over all theme of how their fried chicken was a ‘health conscious choice’ as it contained large amount of protein per serving.
Kellogg, the nation’s largest cereal maker, is being called to task by critics who object to the swine flu-conscious claim now bannered in bold lettering on the front of Cocoa Krispies cereal boxes: “Now helps support your child’s IMMUNITY.”
Of all claims on cereal boxes, “this one belongs in the hall of fame,” says Kelly Brownell, director of Yale University’s Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity. “By their logic, you can spray vitamins on a pile of leaves, and it will boost immunity.”
(From USA Today.) I don’t want to sound like Bill Maher, but there’s no way I’m giving my kid the Fruity Pebbles vaccine.
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