Polizeros Radio. Strauss-Kahn, Middle East, GOP 2012

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Who will succeed Strauss-Kahn? The old boys network says the World Bank and IMF should be run by an American and  European. But this may be changing, as Africa and Asia want to lead too. Strauss-Kahn was undoubtedly one of the most powerful people in the world. Our current political and financial [...]

Spain bailout protesters: “We want to be Icelanders!”

Spain protest. juanlusanchez, yfrog

The protests are spreading to Italy too. Good. May the protests spread to the entire Eurozone and bring down the corrupt edifice called international banking.

When the Iceland banking crisis happened, Iceland choose not to be ground under the boot heel of the banks and be indebted for years to [...]

The marginalization of Cornel West

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If you’ve been watching the recent controversy over Cornel West’s statements that Obama is “a black mascot of Wall Street oligarchs and a black puppet of corporate plutocrats,” among other things, you have been witnessing an interesting phenomenon.  What you are seeing – perhaps most prominently from West’s Princeton colleague Melissa Harris-Perry, [...]

Quote of the day

“I don’t go to CNN for news like I don’t go to a Burger King for a meal.” Henry Rollins in WL Central interview.

Wood fired boiler from recycled parts for cheesemaking

DJ improvises to avoid buying 600+ gallons of propane a year to pasteurize milk for cheesemaking. The result is a wood fired boiler made of spare parts. Wood is plentiful and cheap in the area and is free on government land with a low cost permit.

And it heats the milk faster than propane [...]

Polizeros radio tonight. Strauss-Kahn impact, Assad, GOP

Topics for tonight

DSK, focusing on the economic and political impact US freezing assets of Assad long after it would have had any appreciable effect. GOP candidates self-destructing.

The podcast is hosted on BlogTalkRadio. Call in to listen live at 626-414-3492 tonight at 8:30 PM PT (9:30 PM MT, 10:30 PM CT, 11:30 PM ET.) [...]

Defraggers, registry cleaners, paid anti-virus programs are useless

Woody Leonhard at the highly regarded Window Secrets says in a two-part article that Microsoft’s free Security Essentials is all the antivirus protection you need, that defraggers are a waste of money, and registry cleaners can be worse than useless.

“The Registry is an enormous database, and all this cleaning really doesn’t amount to [...]

Strauss-Kahn resigns, no diplomatic immunity

He has a bail hearing this afternoon. Meanwhile, ruling elite jackals are lining up to take his spot, anxious to continue the plunder of Eurozone countries for the banksters. Some, like France’s Finance and Economy Minister Christine Lagarde, are tainted with their own legal problems. Non-Europeans want the job too (oh the horror) so European [...]

Jon Huntsman. Governor, ambassador. Republican presidential candidate?

Huntsman was known as a moderate [Utah] Republican governor, who earned conservative ire for accepting stimulus money from the Obama administration. He also supported reducing greenhouse gas emissions, immigration reform with a pathway for citizenship for some illegal immigrants and civil unions for gays and lesbians.

He was a popular governor of Utah, Ambassador [...]

Water War. Vegas vs Utah

Las Vegas wants to build a water pipeline from Utah and the Great Basin to quench the thirst of its citizens. Hearings are starting. I’m guessing this will be OTDB of Utahns.

One can’t help but wonder about the wisdom of building a city of 2 million people in a place that doesn’t have enough [...]