Oh! PBS goes down on the Koch brothers. Nasty!

From here:

A New York public television outlet, WNET, went to great lengths to placate conservative industrialist David Koch as PBS aired an Alex Gibney documentary on income inequality that focused on the conservative billionaire. The president of WNET called Koch and offered to let him film a roundtable discussion that would air after the documentary, among other conciliatory gestures. The controversy reportedly also prompted PBS to back off another Koch-focused documentary in the pipeline. All the placation didn’t work: Koch resigned from his position on WNET’s board and reportedly canceled a large donation.

Not surprising, but I wonder if the PBS president feels like he did his best to blow Moneybags Koch and it didn’t work.

Overall, a cheap and tawdry affair.

I can’t wait for the Koch brothers to die — the world will be a much better place when they do.

 

You mean these huge seed companies don’t give seed away?? Shocking!

From here:

The report noted that three big companies now control more than half of the global seed market – a position that has sent prices soaring. The report said the average cost of planting an acre of soybeans had risen 325% between 1995 and 2011.

I thought the seed companies were in this game because they love seed and they want to help other folks out.

They’re just trying to corner the market on seed to make money?  That’s fucked up.

I feel really disillusioned by this, but I’m not sure what to do because the Supreme Court which is one of our ‘protectors’ and the most noble of the three branches of our fine government, voted 9-0 to continue this trend of corporate ownership of seed.

They must feel like they’re looking out for us.

 

When targeted, U.S. media turns on the ass they kissed for years

From here:

Upon finding itself a target of the administration’s spying program, the establishment press suddenly disapproves of the president’s record on “civil liberties, transparency, press freedoms, and a whole variety of other issues on which he based his first campaign,” Glenn Greenwald writes in The Guardian.

Oh, that same mainstream media that has been denouncing ‘the crazy left wing’ blogosphere that’s been denouncing Obama’s war on whistleblowers, his secret drone war, his manipulation of the press, his fellatio of the banks while he portrays himself as the Great Trust Buster.

You stupid assholes clearly have no principles and now that you’ve been bent over by Obama, you’re all indignant and trying to retain just a scrap of dignity?

 

A fantastic nugget of pro-corporate sociopath propaganda

From here:

Recently, Glencore Xstrata PC CEO Ivan Glasenberg argued that executives who start to focus on family and hobbies will find themselves undercut and replaced by ones who don’t.

It’s easy to dismiss these attitudes as outdated, macho, and unreasonable. But it’s possible that people seeking work-life balance are just avoiding finding a way to work extremely hard and be very happy about it.

Marty Nemko, a career coach, author, columnist, and radio host, argues that the most successful and contented people prefer a heavily work-centric life over work-life balance.

“The real winners of the world, the people that are the most productive, think that this notion of work-life balance is grossly overrated,” Nemko told Business Insider. “Most of the highly successful and not-burned out people I know work single-mindendly towards a goal they think is important, whether it’s developing a new piece of software, inventing something, or a cardiologist who’s seeing patients on nights and weekends instead of playing Monopoly with his kids on the weekend.”

The real winners of the world are, in my opinion, the ones most responsible for ruining the world and making it the toilet that it is.  I know this would come as a shock to these folks who think they are improving my life, but I don’t see it that way.

 

 

 

Bubba and the MILF won’t rock the Wiener!

From here:

Just because Hillary Clinton stood by her man doesn’t mean she has to stand behind her chief of staff’s. The former secretary of State may be a mentor to Huma Abedin, but she and husband Bill have no intention of supporting Huma’s husband, Anthony Weiner’s, mayoral aspirations. In fact, according to one Democratic source, “The Clintons wish Weiner would just disappear.

Didn’t Bubba play hide the weiner before, during, and after the White House.  My goodness, the moral hypocrisy of Slick Willie.  He should stand with his fellow horny Democratic Wiener and scream aloud the he loved the White House hummer and he’s not ashamed.

And alas, Hilary won’t Stand by the Wiener either.

Poor Wiener, no place to hide.

For God’s sake he lost $6.5 billion dollars

From here:

THE Jamie Dimon lynch mob is growing. It calls for the separation of the role of chairman and chief executive officer, attacking him for holding both at JPMorgan Chase.

I have studied corporate governance for 35 years, and I have come across no evidence to suggest that anything would be gained by separating those roles.

I think Mr. Corporate Governance New York Times guy should take his 35 years of experience and shove them up his ass.

When people fuck up, they should be punished.  Even if they’re very wealthy, Wall Street sociopaths like Mr. Dimon.

This guy lost $6.5 billion dollars and he gets a slap on the wrist.  Fuck that, you take away one of his titles and buck him down like the rest of us.

Yet another example of two sets of rules — one for the honchos one for the peasants.

 

The Spooks influenced that spook movie Zero Dark Spooky?

From here:

Several elements of the draft screenplay for Zero Dark Thirty were changed for the final film upon agency request, according to the memo. Jessica Chastain’s Maya, the film’s main protagonist, was originally seen participating in an early water-boarding torture scene, but in the final film she is only an observer. A scene in which a dog is used to interrogate a suspect was also excised from the shooting script. Finally a segue in which agents party on a rooftop in Islamabad, drinking and shooting off an AK47 in celebration, was also removed upon CIA insistence.

I’m shocked and amazed this happened.

We have a society based on transparency and honest discourse, not propaganda.

I expect the Spooks to get back to their high ethical behavior as quickly as possible.

 

The great jobs frame job

From here:

The Labor Department reports that 165,000 new jobs were created in April – below the average gains of 183,000 in the previous three months.

We can’t achieve escape velocity. Since mid-2010, the three-month rolling average of job gains hasn’t dipped below 100,000 but has exceeded 250,000 jobs just twice.

Only in America can you have decelerating employment met with stock market highs.  Oh, us Americans won’t let a little thing like reality upset the great stock ponzi.

I do understand.  With Friday’s report, it’s clear that the American economy is more of a leaky sack of shit rather than a full on shitshow.

Most people would prefer a leaky sack of shit over a complete shitshow so I get why the stock ponzi is doin’ its thing.

Oy.

 

Were it not so, pie in the sky-ers

From here:

First, some leading American opinion-makers love to delude themselves and mislead others into believing that the US is attacked despite the fact that it is peaceful, peace-loving, freedom-giving and innocent. As these myth-makers would have it, we don’t bother anyone; we just mind our own business (except when we’re helping and liberating everyone), so why would anyone possibly want to attack us?

Also known as the ‘they hate our freedom’ horseshit peddlers.

 

Police Yourselves! Information is now a privilege!

From an article on the Bradley Manning trial here:

Excerpt 1:

In reaction to the leak of audio of a statement read by Pfc. Bradley Manning in military court at Fort Meade last month, a military public affairs officer told reporters credentialed to cover his court martial, “Police yourselves.” The officer scolded the press saying, “If there is another violation, everyone feels the pain, not just certain individuals.”

Excerpt 2:

Perhaps most troubling of all, the officer reportedly declared, “This media operation center is a privilege, not a requirement” — a worrying attitude about press presence and record keeping at arguably one of the most important trials of this century.

I thought it was going to be different with a black President:)

Let’s just put a on everything:)