Fair-weather socialist

Suddenly you face The possibility of me Getting a place Next to yours, of me Coming to dinner Without learning manners Without losing the cap Still using these vowels Not caring how much Jane Austen and Tolkien And the oeuvre of Mike Leigh And Romantic poetry Mean to you With my lack Of gratitude That [...]

And so it begins. Attack against federal offices by pilot

Stack's house in flames and the office his plane hit. Austin Stateman photos. They have continuing local coverage.

Pilot deliberately crashes plane into CIA, IRS, FBI building His manifesto, posted today and which assumes his death, is available at Business Insider who posted it saying it is “insane.” (The original site has been taken [...]

Liberty Unchained

Liberty Unchained Media Project (LUMP) is our newest Leftist adventure. It basically spins off the back of our radio show on Blog Talk Radio: The Authority Smashing Hour. Unlike the Authority Smashing Hour, Liberty Unchained will be a weekly radio program primarily focusing on grassroots campaigns and actions, from Starbucks Baristas organizing for better [...]

Priestly pedophiles and torturers. Read the report like a forensic

All the Pope’s men: penitent, or self-preserving?

The BBC reports on the Vatican meeting concerning the Irish pedophile priests and the torture chambers disguised as industrial and reformatory schools, orphanages, and the Magdalene Laundries. I’m a CPA and a Certified Fraud Examiner (AKA a forensic.) This is how I approach such reports.

Pope [...]

Christine Buckley. Interviews with Irish clergy abuse survivor

“Babies turned upside down and beaten to a pulp.” “Starved and eating rabbit feces” while the Church made big profits stuffing hellholes with innocent children. As the government did nothing. All this has been well-documented in the Ryan Report. These facts are not in question.

In an Irish radio interview on Tuesday Christine Buckley, [...]

North Carolina man freed after 17 years

The Innocence Project has done it again. Through their work, hundreds of people have been released from prison after DNA tests showed they were innocent.

Today, due to work by one of their member groups, The North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence, Greg Taylor walked out of a courtroom a free man and hugged [...]

Impossible hamster

However you need a way of providing prosperity without wrecking the planet, whenever I hear the phrase ‘blind capitalist accumulation’ I reach for my Elinor Ostrom….not convinced that many of the critics of growth have much of an idea of the basic framework of an alternative economic system.

Elinor Ostrom is the whole of [...]

The Uganda Gay Bill explained

Among other provisions, if you twice neglect to inform authorities of your knowledge of someone else having gay sex, you can be put to death.

Via Harry’s Place.

The truth shall set you free

Flickr photo. Slieschke

The Truth shall set you free, or so we are told. Today I ran across the following quote from a friend on Facebook:

“9/11 Truth can end wars, stop the Empire, expose the US National Security State and also expose the pressing geopolitical context of Peak Oil. That’s powerful stuff, and [...]

Shooter Jennings. Black Ribbons

Shooter Jennings is releasing Black Ribbons on March 2. It looks to be a seriously amazing album, heavily political, outlaw country mixed with Skinny Puppy and Ministry.

“Tonight I’ve chosen to play the one band the American Fascicrats don’t want me to play. Tonight I’m going off the air with the music of Hierophant. [...]