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Massive Attack - "Heligoland"The pop-critic establishment is already busy disparaging th' new release from Massive Attack, the English group responsible for welding R+B, dub, and pure burning hopeless doom into a mesmeric sound that rips lives out of living humans. The previous release under the Massive Attack name, "100th Window" was a grody platter of hot sleep garbage, so my hopes weren't all that high for this record, th' geographically-named "Heligoland." However, after listening to this joint on repeat for the past week, I can say with confidence that the critics hating on it either ...

As a relative newcomer to urban agronomy but a very experienced practitioner of cynicism, crypto-radicalism, and anti-everythingism, I knew already that the current corporate approach to commercial seed-and-plant selling was doomed and damned. It's a fact that many commercial seeds and plants are bred for appearance and not function, and that many of them are genetically designed to be infertile. However, there is another practice in which I am highly experienced : that of doing things at the last minute. So, when I realized that planting season was upon me and that there was very little ...

What a terrible and brutish era it is that we live in. With the last credible mote of hope having been shuffled off to the abattoir, all we can offer you is this fleeting reminder that not everything has always sucked :In old Army parlance, a "forlorn hope" was a band of soldiers sent off on a mission that was deemed necessary but presumed suicidal. We're th' forlorn hope. We're being sent out into a burning hail of deathspittle in an attempt to wrench humanity's future from the weasel class. The kicker is, of course, that we know there is no future. The weasel class and we are going to ...

In a completely unexpected turn of events, the 'yes we can have hope and change' president has vetoed hope and issued an executive order against change. Obama has apparently lied about not enforcing the federal ban on marijuana in otherwise legal situations. As Obama pays populist lip-service to medical marijuana, his minions at the DEA are continuing to raid medical marijuana growers. Some of them may never live outside of a prison cell again. If this were done on a lower level, the claim that he would not enforce certain laws and giving the go-ahead to violate them may be considered ...

My Take: The part about subsidies (particularly corn and cooking oil subsidies) was great. Just ignore the part at the end where they blame the food companies for obesity and painted Kraft (child of the company that brought you Phillip Morris cigarettes) as the good guys.It ended with "How long will it take for government to act [to regulate the food industry]." Well maybe if government could get better education in schools about diet and civics, government wouldn't need to act at all. The more demand there is for fruit and vegetables, the more products will come out in those areas. Also, like ...

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...the Ancient Ones, to the Lord of Abominations, Humwawa, whose face is a mass of entrails, whose breath is the stench of dung and the perfume of death, Dark Angel of all that is excreted and sours, Lord of Decay, Lord of the Future, who rides on a whispering south wind, to Pazuzu, Lord of Fevers and Plagues, Dark Angel of the Four Winds with rotting genitals from which he howls through sharpened teeth over stricken cities, to Kutulu, the Sleeping Serpent who cannot be summoned, to the Akhkaru, who suck the blood of men since they desire to become men, to the Lalussu, who haunt the places ...

One of my favorite writer/economists strikes again!

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YouTube is quite possibly the worst depository of comments on the internet. While other sites may surpass the depths of stupidity YouTube makes up for it with enormous volume, so much so that the comments section of the videos should be called YouTroll.Today I got a good dose of confirmation bias:Bill: The majority of votes in favor of siphoning off wealth to bail out their crony banker friends where in fact Democrats. O-Bot: No you are wrong, what the democrats are doing is trying to put some money into the banking industry because the money which was supposed to be there was taking out of ...

For the first time in 25 years the Social Security program paid out more money then it took in. However unlike the 80s bailout, the demographic shift will increase the number of recipients for the foreseeable future. Yahoo NewsIt would have been a lot simpler to fix the system years ago, when we could have used Social Security's cash surpluses to buy non-Treasury securities, such as government-backed mortgage bonds or high-grade corporates that would have helped cover future cash shortfalls. Now it's too late.Even though an economic recovery might produce some small, fleeting cash surpluses ...

"The scope of the controversy changed when the new science of economics entered the scene. Political parties which passionately rejected all the practical conclusions to which the results of economic thought inevitably lead, but were unable to raise any tenable objections against their truth and correctness, shifted the argument to the fields of epistemology and methodology. They proclaimed the experimental methods of the natural sciences to be the only adequate mode of research, and induction from sensory experience the only legitimate mode of scientific reasoning. They behaved as if they had ...

This is one of the easier recipes in my cook book, and one of the better ones. The only thing you have to cut is the onion, you can let your blender do the rest for you:"Best Marinara Sauce Yet"From: Allrecipes.comIngredients 2 (14.5 ounce) cans stewed tomatoes 1 (6 ounce) can tomato paste 4 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley 1 clove garlic, minced 1 teaspoon dried oregano 1 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper 6 tablespoons olive oil 1/3 cup finely diced onion 1/2 cup white wineDirections1. In a food processor place Italian tomatoes, tomato paste, chopped parsley, minced garlic ...

The Creature From Jekyll Island
A Second Look at the Federal Reserve
by G. Edward Griffin
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After bailouts and printed money equivalent to double-digits of the GDP have been injected into the economy, the government managed to boost the GDP figure by 5.7%.That's like burning your neighbor's house down because you ran out of wood for your fireplace. What's odd is how unimpressed the Keynesians are with this result:Paul "Love Thy Government" Krugman:As expected, a big GDP number, signifying nothing much. It’s an inventory blip: topline growth at 5.7 percent, but only 2.2 of that is final demand....And I find myself wondering why I even bother reading the actual numbers; the Goldman ...

The State of the Union Address and Rebuttal are political pageant, where the President delivers a long winded speech in which they give an optimistic (read:warped) view of the country policy they have no chance of enacting, and the opposition delivers an equally insubstantial rebuttal. As such should a listener have no better use for their time, it is best the read the transcript instead of listening or watching so that they pick the kernels of content from the stinking mass instead of having it shoved in their eyes and ears. Alternatively you could get roughly the same effect as taking the ...

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The following is an excerpt from this article written by Alan Greenspan in 1967--four years before the end of the gold standard (by Richard Nixon).Recently, Greenspan told Ron Paul he still stands by every word of this.A fully free banking system and fully consistent gold standard have not as yet been achieved. But prior to World War I, the banking system in the United States (and in most of the world) was based on gold and even though governments intervened occasionally, banking was more free than controlled. Periodically, as a result of overly rapid credit expansion, banks became loaned up ...

For those of you who don't know, Glenn Beck is a "conservative" commentator who has apparently recently discovered libertarianism. He gets on the air 5 days a week on Fox News and rants about the 'classical liberals' who we call the founding fathers. Whenever I see his show (not often), I think that it's too bad he wasn't ham-fistedly proselytizing about these things when Bush was in office, he might have actually earned himself some credibility. Beck is well-known for finding and airing buried footage of people in the administration and upper echelon of the democratic party making communist ...

This may be black and white enough to actually convict the bastard. We'll see how ballsy the Obama administration is and if they'll refuse to convict their lapdog or if they'll be forced to capitulate to what's bound to be a public outcry.Apparently Geithner and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York knew about and possibly coerced AIG into illegally omitting some of the items on their balance sheet, particularly those belonging to [you guessed it!] GOLDMAN SACHS.UPDATE (1/24/10): Feds wanted "national security status" granted for the details of the AIG deal. Well that's interesting... {HTML ...

It would seem that now Obama can stop blaming poor people for the housing bubble collapsing. There is not now nor has there ever been a "Sub-prime Mortgage Crisis." It was an "ARM Mortgage Crisis."New data suggests that adjustable rate mortgages are foreclosing for both prime and sub-prime at the same rate.Naturally it spun a better tale to say that the deadbeats who were too poor or too drug-addled or too jailed to be recipients of the "prime" moniker were the bastards responsible for our recession. Unfortunately for us, the problem is not that simple/ridiculous.It wasn't just that "poor ...