Only after the last tree has been cut down. Only after the last fish has been caught. Only after the last river has been poisoned. Only then will you realize that money cannot be eaten. Cree Nation Tribal Prophecy
- “Financial markets bounced on Wednesday as hopes of further intervention in the eurozone by the European Central Bank gave some respite to investors.”
- TRNN: “‘Robin Hood Tax’ Makes Case in DC. As the Global AIDS Conference brings people from all over the world to Washington, DC, National Nurses United and other groups call for a Robin Hood Tax on financial transactions to fund healthcare, housing, and a cure for AIDS.”
- “The new president of the World Bank is determined to eradicate global poverty through goals, targets and measuring success in the same way that he masterminded an Aids drugs campaign for poor people nearly a decade ago.”
- “US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has said that he had warned UK authorities about problems with the Libor inter-bank lending rate in 2008.”
- TRNN: “Bill Black Reports: LIBOR and HSBC. Bill Black, author of The Best Way To Rob a Bank is to Own One begins a regular TRNN feature reporting on financial news.”
- “Last Thursday, James Holmes killed 12 people and wounded 59 others in one of the worst mass shootings in American history. This is a depressingly familiar tale of modern American life – the massacre of innocent people with guns and ammunition legally acquired with relative ease. Unfortunately while such mass killings are all too prevalent, so too is the muted response of policymakers.”
- TRNN: “10 Years Since Downing St. Memo: Is It Happening Again? Ray McGovern and Annie Machon: British Intelligence chief ramps up war talk against Iran.”
- “The first systematic look at the New York police department’s response to Occupy Wall Street protests paints a damning picture of an out-of-control and aggressive organization that routinely acted beyond its powers.”
The truth will set you free but first it will piss you off.



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Mornin’, pups
Thanks, SD, how encouraging that financial moguls can also be inclined to regard humanity as worthwhile, even when it involves their own pocketbooks. Fighting that War on Poverty on the wrong side doesn’t appeal to some of the 1%, maybe there’s hope for our species.
Mornin’, SD, Peeps
Good morning.
Rove is heading a billion dollar pot to oust O.
Perspective:
http://www.grimmy.com/editorials.php
http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/mass-shooting-canada-compare-and-cont
moJoGeist to Rmoney…your wife is in the Olympics and you’re not gonna be there? C’mon, man, it’s your wife!
Could this be a Dukakis parsing assault on his wife moment?
We can only hope both horse and rider perform poorly, mortifying the clueless Ann beyond belief, but she’ll blame it on the little people.
Equestrian trainers are responsible for teaching the horse and rider to perform, if either/both win a medal it really was earned by the trainer.
Details, details. Bah. *g*
Maybe the anti-doping people will mix Ann’s sample with the horse’s, and hilarity will ensue.
Morning all. Nice piece from Crooks and Liars on the Canadian response to mass murder. In that light here’s something from our neighbors to the north about Canadian health care written by an American woman who found herself living in Canada who was very skeptical of universal health care when she first moved there.
http://ayoungmomsmusings.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/how-i-lost-my-fear-of-universal-health.html
That’s funny.
You mean to tell me Ann Romney is in the Olympics????
A quick search of the internet showed there was almost no coverage outside the guardian about the NYU-Fordham Law Schools report blasting the NYPD’s response to Occupy Wall Street. Nothing I could find in the New York Times, NBC News.com, CNN, etc. There was an article in Thomson Reuters, a legal news service.
The NYT buried it in yesterday’s CityRoom blog.
Otherwise known as a beating-sweetener.
Good morning all and thanks for the post and host SoDrag.
In other news this morning apparently Morning JOkE has penned an OPED for Politico wherein he bemoans the lack of great leadership and the 3 decade long decline of America. His example of great leadership of course includes St. Ronnie of the Raygun without acknowledging said decline was willfully started on his heroe’s watch. Joe Scarborough, still a clueless asshole.
Stenography.
What a great article and follow-up. Where did you see this, Bluetoe2? As much as I dislike FB I think this is an article that needs wide distribution. We were very happy with OHIP when we lived in Canada from ’84-88.
Good morning, pupses, and thank you, as always, SD for your work in putting the links together and keeping the doors open.
Costing Brits $17 billion for Olympics.
They’re furious at the impact on transportation, especially the Tube, too.
Morning SD and fellow firedogians.
I’m sure the same can be said for NYPD’s everyday enforcement and policing activities. They are not a city police force. They are an army and NYC is their Iraq.
Olympics started out “amateur” to keep the hoi polloi out bc they couldn’t afford coaches and other equipment to train to compete, i.e. they originate as 1%ers event.
Now they’re venue for MIIC.
Why anyone is interested on Olympics is yet another mystery for me.
Good morning, everyone. Thanks, SD, for the interesting linkys. I also really liked the essay on Canada’s health care. I may post it on Facebook too.
Gloomy and rainy here this morning. No bike ride as I’d planned, but I am NOT complaining. Far from enough to lessen the drought, but we’ve been having some rain off and on this week. W00t!
Morning SD & Pupses:
Timmeh Question.
Too Big to Fail.
Occupy.
I used to watch the swimming events, because my kids were swimmers in elementary and high school. Otherwise, not much interested.
The 1% and the glitterati will never notice the Tube chaos. They’ll be traveling to the games and parties by chauffeured limos.
Wonder how much of that is security costs. And somebody remind me WHY countries and cities compete to host the olympics?
Boxturtle (My friends there aren’t pleased with almost everything Olympic. Especially the tube)
Corp sponsors of Olympics are a rogues’ gallery. BP, Dow to name two.
Because the Japanese womens beach vollyball swimsuits are so skimpy that they have to abbreviate JAPAN?
Boxturtle (Trying to think of another reason….)
I plan to avoid the Olympics altogether and read thick books instead. Only a few events on the program involve sports I ever bother to watch; NBC’s coverage of the events is enough to make one guzzle anti-freeze; and the people who run the Games are, even by the standards of modern sports, despicable.
You don’t really wonder that.
BC it’s a 1%er event, THE place to be.
Xtians & lions. Why did Roman emperors put those on & why did the forum fill up to watch those ‘games.’
Long & dark history.
We’re supposed to get the crap beat out of us by storms this afternoon. Looking forward to it!
Boxturtle (Starting to see decent peppers other than green in the farmers market)
I used to love the ski jumping and Nordic events.
Never watch them now. The money people did to the Olympics the same thing they did to Christmas.
Somehow I suspect that the Superbowl is not a big event chez eCAHNomics. Bread and circuses, without the bread.
GE-Comcast covering the thing, right? Just your regular, hometown “small business” job creators.
Got two thick books to rec: Rise & Fall of Third Reich (1500 pages of small type); spectacular.
The Prize by Yergen, definitive history of oil ind; I’m 200 pages into 800 pages of reasonable size type.
AHA. You’ve been reading Charlie Pierce — although he usually applies that to stuff in Politico!
Actually, eliminating traffic from central London has been putting the 1% onto the tube, to some extent. But telecommuting is promising.
No spectator sports.
I used to watch skating & gymnastics, but no longer since they’ve become extreme sports.
Nadia Comaneci pushed me over the edge.
I thought I was the only person who thought the mechanics of the coverage sucked.
Boxturtle (The US was going for gold in the mens downhill. They showed us prime time ice dancing)
Off topic.
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2012/07/in-1994-mitt-romney-called-for-ted.html
I’m there, too, have occasionally tried to watch the sports and had to turn it off when it turned into fluffing a Life Story of a future advertising Personality.
Raises hand, too.
When I flip by these games (any games) on the electric TV machine, I think, “Wasn’t this same shit on yesterday?”
I think we might get some storms, too, later. What we need is one of those day-long drizzles.
My AC isn’t usually on much in the summer, unless it gets unbearably hot and humid. I don’t like to be closed up in the summer when I’m closed up all winter. Just got my electric bill and it’s nearly double what it was at this time last summer.
Wm Shirer’s book? Is this a re-read? If not, in the Rise part you’ll see just what the Regressives have done for the last 40 years.
Clicking on that link just brings me back to this page. Try again?
One of the many reasons it’s worth reading.
Check your link :). Comes right back here.
Yup. I screwed up.
But is it a first read or a re-read?
Don’t leave us hanging!
” Woke up this mornin’, had those Statesboro blues ” . So nice to see the NYPD treated all the Occupy folks equally. Equally being denying them their Constitutional rights, excessive force, the whole cheesy enchilada. Well, as long as it was done equally I rest more easily. 90% of my fellows citizens have the same right to be hassled by the security state, extra-legally. I find it spiritually comforting to know these actions were performed in front of America’s temple; Wall Street. The cops protecting the crooks in the Big Rotten Apple Barrel is just so homey. Does anyone have some pie and ice cream? Or is that asking for to, too much?
And yes, yes, it was.
It appears that the U.S. edition of the Guardian is making an effort to compete with NYT and WaPo. Cenk Uygur’s guest last night on TYT regarding the events in Anaheim was a reporter from the Guardian. Also in August Glenn Greenwald is moving to the Guardian. Per the Wikipedia:
We may finally have someone in the mainstream media practicing “journalism.”
Roone Arledge’s decision to make the Olympics “up close and personal” was one of the worst things ever to happen in American popular culture.
Apply pie with vanilla ice cream only, though. This is ‘Merikuh!
Off to swim in the great capitalist cesspool.
US KIA Afghanistan: 2,067
Afghan, Iraki, Yemeni and Pakistani casualties: estimates vary to over 2M
US MBS 2012: 25,668 and counting
No war but class war
Tuxedo Junction
Be good to yourselves, and all other living things
Namaste
Never. Give. Up.
We already have that. His name’s Will McAvoy. Follow him on Twitter.
To go along with the Downing Street Memos vid, for your listening pleasure (not) may I present The Incredible Lying Bushco
Sorry, seems you in the middle of the country got TX heat dome that stayed over me all last summer. As you have noticed, this year I just said NO.
Brings to mind the famous Yogi Berra line. “I’ll have pie a la mode. Could you put a scoop of ice cream on it?”
Arledge made ABC a leader in sports TV at the time but ruined most sports and athletes it touched.
Watching Up! – and noticing that media is following the audience it’s showing still Lives.
I’m certainly not missing last summer.
In checking our CenTex weather outlook, though, I’m disappointed. We’ve had no rain for 10 days now, and the 10 day forecast shows nothing but clear skies. 20 (or more) days without rain + at or above 100 degrees = drought disaster 2012.
Right on a par with the networks screwing with the big parades. Used to be you could get get your bowl of cereal and sit on the floor in front of the tv and watch every last float and band. It was great. Then they started having ” celebrity ” hosts and cutting away for “special entertainment” and “shows”. Just whoring out their rising stars. That was the end, for me.
First read for me. My contractor picked up a copy at a library fair & lent it to me after he read it.
Morning Pups,
It appears to be the dog days of summer or the summer doldrums, a quiet, breathless, overcast stillness, listening intently for the change of the season. I was going to post this comment (I don’t have anything newsworthy to add, today) about 40 minutes ago and the London Games pooped up here. Food to harvest, I sauteed a half dozen icicle radishes, like I might do with carrots yesterday, spicy turned to sweet, yummy.
A good day to everyone. Checking in here and there today. Thanks for the links and hosting, SD.
Fox Sports has inflicted similar damage on major events like the baseball playoffs. The network’s worst stunt is placing dim-bulb actors in choice seats and training the camera on them while the announcers* gush about the upcoming prime-time show in which they appear.
* Once upon a time, sports announcers spoke recognizable English. Now they speak fluent cliche.
A favorite line from the whole sorry time was:
“I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can’t answer your question.”George W Bush, Reynoldsburg, Ohio, Oct. 4, 2000
http://www.endevil.com/Bushquotes.html
Some years back, I went to xeriscaping. This year, I’m just leaving, and my plants will either make it or not.
I saw somewhere just this morning — either on NWS or Weather.com, that it’s the dome of high pressure that’s causing this. At least we’re getting a bit of relief, but it’s still bone dry in central Indiana.
Soon enough that’ll be part of past tense memory, too. Once upon a time, people ran for office by going ‘on the hustings’, attending public festivities, I was informed by a few of them. Now they hire a publicist.
Sheesh. The myFDL recommended diary list is full of great stuff today. Off to read. Have a great day everyone.
Hey, nonquixote, personal comment: would you believe there is NO homegrown garlic at our farmer’s market — so far? A couple of vendors have it, but upon questioning I learn it’s California garlic.
I did find a place way on the other side of town (via teh Google) that grows and sells garlic, and I have a phone number to call. For now I’ve got a couple of heads so that will last for awhile.
Last night I cooked some rainbow chard I bought on Saturday at the market.
LOL. Was that a typo or just you being accurate?
In N.TX it grows wild, so I have local garlic with no trouble. And chard lasted through the winter. Sad to see the drought kill things off that we relied on for so long.
Don’t get that on the radio. If one doesn’t have baseball on the radio MLB.com has every broadcast avail live all season. Playoffs and World Serious you can listen to the announcers of your fave team. Not a bad deal for 20 bucks a year.
Love your imagery, “listening intently for the change of the season”. Late last night I sat out in the swing for a while and the crickets and cicadas were singing in a sort of rhythm. It was sort of like listening to the breathing of the summer night. Even here in the closely placed houses of a planned community it is awe inspiring. Can only just remember what it was like, sitting in a similar swing on the porch of our farmhouse at night, but the feeling is somehow the same. Sort of reassuring, in a way.
Thanks for the tip! I’d rather listen to baseball on the radio than watch it on TV, and 20 bucks is cheap indeed considering the better quality of announcing.
I liked that about Yahoo sports, being able to listen to Bob Kesling, the ‘voice of the Vols’ and Tim Priest call the game (football, for me) wherever I lived.
Have a good day, everypup. Safe travels and safe home.
Love
Ohmmmm
They also offer TV but it’s MLB TV and suxxxxxxxxx. Caught a free one one evening. Couldn’t get through 1 inning.
Saddest story I heard so far, today. Talk about deprivation.
It’s odd, the cicadas were an unknown factor when driving through the south with my Yankee friend, asked me what that buzz was? It took me awhile to figure out that the cicadas would not be familiar.
Thanks Omi,
Subtle (porch?) swings and hints all around.
Walked out to the garden early, only to hear a solitary wild turkey hen’s muffled cluck guiding what I suspected, about 16 poults in the long grass who suddenly popped on command, exploding in flight to the nearby poplars.
This is about the time of year when we begin to hear that buzzing in the trees that cicadas make. It is a sound of summer to me. And all of a sudden the humidity seems to have dropped a bit and the blue sky is peeping through the clouds.
Today’s task is washing kitchen and breakfast room windows and cleaning the wood blinds (UGH, slat by slat) so I guess I’d better get started.
I love my screened porch, but a swing would be wonderful.
nonqui, if you are still around, do you know the phrase, “entre le chien et le loup”. Between the dog and the wolf.
You are in a place to appreciate it most. It means the time of dusk, between the light and the dark. Just where the managed, controlled, tame world gives way to the world of the natural and wild things.
That’s one of the things I miss most about the farm, that time of the evening.
Watched US and Canadian CBC coverage of winter 1990(?)Olympics. Was commuting betw MI and Toronto whilst courting Ms hpschd. CBC showed all events all the time, US network showed only events where the US would made a podium finish. If you see backgrounder on a US Olympian, you can be sure that some furriner is winning gold somewhere else.
Hi msmolly
Searched dog days, and there was not much out there. Supposedly marked as a period of inactivity, not at your house though. :) Hope you are well.
or this:
From E magazine.
Not surprised. I was out of the country when something occurred here, was listening to foreign news and CNN at the same time, on it, and CNN used exclusively their own stable of reporters who had no knowledge of the subject at all, while other countries’ reporting brought in consultants who were directly acquainted with the topic. Although I forget what was happening, the differences were striking.
How are you doing this morning? How is the fambly handling the loss?
Paying work at this keyboard today, so in and out with the comments here.
I had not heard it and I probably can’t pronounce it properly, but yes on the feelings experienced and though this is different, “down on the farm,” thank goodness it is deliciously available universally.
Peace and Resolve.
I’m a fan of the Ninja Warrior show, and this season they didn’t even show all the competitors’ runs. Grrrrr. Sometimes I wonder who makes such crappy decisions.
Without an audience, you’d think, the shows would get replaced – but then we see Faux and the outlets that use it are paid to use it, so that’s not happening here in the U.S. Guess we’re too valuable to be allowed to roam.
Hangin’ in there. Ptah only one who seems to notice. Has been stuck to me like glue. Wants lots of attention. Didn’t know they had that bond, the house bully and the shy one.
Don’t have a lot of memories to hang on to and the dream for the next few years is gone. Really hard this time.
Sorry to hear you’re having a hard time. We’ve all been in that awful situation missing our loved one.
It must be difficult for Ptah, too. Now he has to figure out the new low man on the pecking order to harass. So sad for everyone.
Ptah never bothered Toes, quite the opposite actually, and that always surprised me. It’s usually Maste he picks on.
What?? Toes? Afraid to ask, but ehat happened to him? And when?
Guess I know the result , but sounds awfully sudden. How awful for you.
http://my.firedoglake.com/southerndragon/2012/07/25/caturday-special-edition/
Oh, Catman – Dragon, I am so so sorry. Toes, of all people..I mean cats. Not that any of them would be easy to lose. But you ‘ve worked so hard with Toes. To naame him right, encourage him out of his shell and give him love. What a shock. So sorry.
Seeing the xrays..reminds me of seeing Patchy ‘s tumor. It ‘s terrible. Poor Ptah, too.
Healing thoughts for both of you.
Hey, All…This is a Blondie alert….in case you’ve not had the pleasure.
I just had an extensive tc from, Yes, Callista Ging…telling me how much she and Newt regret that the left etc. are keeping God out of the schools, and on & on. But if you stay on the line for an operator, you can order a film that she and Newt have made to solve this problem and reclaim the schools….This is a warning only to say Do not hang up. You really will want to hear the whole message. Quite amazing stuff. I hope I am not the only one to have the pleasure and surprise of hearing from Newt’s Blondie, or should I call her Slim? Enjoy.