Watch the watching beast turn on Americans

From here:

WASHINGTON – The co-owner of a major Pentagon propaganda contractor publicly admitted Thursday that he was behind a series of websites used in an attempt to discredit two USA TODAY journalists who had reported on the contractor.

Let freedom ring!  Happy Memorial Day everybody!

Man, this country is on the most awesome techno-fascist trajectory.  I can’t wait to see how this all plays out – drones chasing political dissenters down the street is my current prediction.

It’s smelling mad Roman up in here

From here:

Lehman Brothers did nothing wrong when it booked billions of dollars in phony sales to disguise the true extent of its financial woes.

File this under you can’t make this shit up.

I’m wondering if I can do this.  Buy shit with fake money, mortgage my house while it’s in the process of being sold, basic business practices along the same line.

It’s is some sort of magical thinking that allows a society to pull off these moves and continue rolling along as a giant fraudulent shitpile.

Bravo!

Facebook’s version of ‘Brother can you spare a dime?’

From Sheryl Sandberg’s marketing speech here:

First, that you keep in touch, via Facebook. This is critical to your future success. And we’re public now. So can you click on an ad or two while you’re there?

A couple of points:

Just because she’s a woman doesn’t mean she’s not pimpin it big public company style.

I believe her net worth was just calculated at $900+ million.  We should be asking her for clicks and money, not the other way around.

Oh, the 1%.  They just can’t help taking and taking and making more and asking for more and stealing more.