Henry Kissinger says “I hope we’re doing some hacking” in Russia
Ya know, if you’re in power or your a big political party shouldn’t you have an IT department? Doesn’t every bank spend millions on their system security?
We wouldn’t be in this mess if these political parties and candidates (yeah you, Podesta and Clinton) knew how to lock your shit down.
It’s not that hard to get your shit set up on Tor, stay away from bullshit links and get some enryption going.
#incompetent.
And as a final sentiment fuck Henry Kissinger and the horse he rode in on.
@@@ Rebel Kind: Just for Fools (Urinal Cake, 2016). Some three chord, old school girl punk indie off this week’s All Music notable release email. Crunchy guitars, slack vocals, straight drumming, you know the drill. Either the singer needs some Red Bull or I need some decaf.
@@@ The LOX: Filthy America….It’s Beautiful (D-Block/Roc Nation, 2016). Some NYC hip hop — the first in 16 years for these guys. This is the kind of music Trump bangs his wife to — high end and dirty at the same time. I like the beats. The third track has a multitrack vocal choir sample part as a key part of the arrangement and that parallels the opener. This is what I call partial gangsta — it’s not full on filthy gangster subculture, it has a sheen over it but there’s plenty of drug dealing, shooting, ladies and what not. It’s all right.
@@@ Gucci Mane: The Return of East Atlanta Santa (Atlantic, 2016). This record is front and center on the Apple Music home page and this first tune is a gangster Christmas tune. It’s a Christmas featuring a lot of weed and sex. Let’s peep more to see if keeps up with the Afro Kris Kringle theme. I would dig a full length Christmas hip hop record in this style but it moves on from that and goes straight gangsta. I like a bunch of the bass sounds and Mr. Mane does not play. He’s shooting people in the face, he’s moving weight, he’s quite active in his areas of business. I wouldn’t condemn him or his lifestyle but I don’t really need to listen to it.
YTD recordings listened to: 982
Good music, not recommended for purchase: 549
Not good music: 374
Buys: 19
Honorable Mentions: 21
Possibles: Chris McGregor, Dave Arner Trio, Zomby, Retox, Defeater, Jonwayne, Okkyung Lee, The Ballantynes, Slidhr, The Chewers, Toxic Holocaust, Susie Iberra/Roberto Rodriguez, Lenguas Largas, The Coral, T.O.M.B., Fofoulah, Lozen, Erase Errata, Mastery, Leviathan, Hartley C. White, Weed, Cold Water, Janelle Monae, Luther Dickinson, Graeme Barrett, Fast Asleep, Goldlink, Cavanaugh, Gentleman Surfer, Satoko Fuji, Divanhana, Moken, Juan Atkins, Drone, Lantern, Twin Peaks, Djelimady Tounkara, Miramar, The Oh Sees, Denny Zeitlin, MILF, Unfun, De La Soul, Carl Sagan’s Skate Shoes, Magrudergrind, Acid Arab, A Tribe Called Quest
American manufacturers have chosen a different path. Their CEOs grow wealthy by financially strip-mining their own companies, aided and abetted by elite financiers who have only one goal: extracting as much wealth as possible from the company while putting back as little as possible into production and workers.
The heroin driving their addiction is stock buybacks—a company using its own profits (or borrowed money) to buy back the company’s own shares. This directly adds more wealth to the super-rich because stock buybacks inevitably increase the value of the shares owned by top executives and rich investors.
It is unclear whether President FuckFace will be able to reverse this trend, but it is clear that this tactic of offshoring and fucking over workers has been a deliberate, profit driven decision by our fabulous ruling class.
Manufacturing companies and the banks that financed these moves are the people who made the TrumpFuck. Much more so than racism.
How FuckFace will reverse this 40+ years of cashing out given all the assholes he has picked for his Cabinet remains to be seen. I’m extremely skeptical.
FBI in agreement with CIA that Russia aimed to help Trump win White House
The FBI — a long and distinguished track record of lying.
The CIA — c’mon, weapons of mass destruction!
Donald Trump — an expert liar, smothers one lie with another, breathtaking.
Russia — Putin is a violent scumbag and a liar.
It’s so typical that here we have a situation that is going nowhere. Not one of these parties has credibility and this is a giant waste of time.
Also a distraction from getting people jobs, ensuring minorities have rights, this is a classic American strategy/excuse for not doing anything for the American people.
Outgoing North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory has signed a measure limiting the powers of his soon-to-be Democratic successor, Roy Cooper, a move critics are calling an unprecedented power grab orchestrated by the state’s Republican-controlled legislature.
The bill McCrory signed on Friday merges the State Board of Elections and State Ethics Commission into one entity comprised equally of Democrats and Republicans. Previous state law would have allowed Cooper to put a majority of Democrats on the board, which sets the rules for the state’s notoriously burdensome balloting.
This is the kind of shit a Democrat would never do and which is probably why this asshole Republican is doing this. If they knew the same asshole behavior was going to come back their way maybe they wouldn’t pull this shit.
On one side we have asshole Republicans who fight really hard but have no ideals at all outside of racism and exploitation and on the other side we have pussy ass Democrats who have some decent ideas (some) but have absolutely no balls.
“See, now we’re feeling what not having hope feels like. You know? Hope is necessary. It’s a necessary concept,” Obama continued. “And Barack didn’t just talk about hope because he thought it was just a nice slogan to get votes. I mean, he and I and so many believe that if you — what else do you have if you don’t have hope?”
If Barack Obama had taken his message of hope to certain policies — including the issue of manufacturing and the decay of rural white areas — we wouldn’t be in this spot with Trump now.
While the Obamas say publicly that he has been a President for all Americans but voters in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, etc did not feel the hope or see it in their lives. And they voted for an asshole who offered them a different flavor of hope.
As I’ve written repeatedly American politics can’t be about fake progressive white people, black people, Latinos, gay folks against straight white rural and suburban Americans. It is a fucked up and unnecessary split that our two stupid parties have created.
And the Obamas surely participated in that split and what has been wrought.
