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18182791951_f1547d3f5dSorry About the lack of links today, Going on a little day-trip. Links will return Sunday afternoon. In the meantime, here’s a fresh thread, to tide you over. Have fun folks!

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  • towerofbabel
    • Edwin

      LOL

      • towerofbabel

        It’s not like Unka to leave us here unattended. I have to work all weekend but I will drop by now and then.

        • Edwin

          I’m sure we’ll be fine. 17 might be around to help smooth the way. ^_^

          • towerofbabel

            You seem sure of yourself. We could skew the conversation in any direction we want, I guess.
            But, back to work.

          • towerofbabel

            Oh wait. This would never have gotten by the censors: Voodoo Child-Jimi Hendrix / Gayageum ver. by Luna
            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfOHjeI-Bns

          • 17

            That all ya got?

          • We have censors? Or some other censors?

          • towerofbabel

            Just teasing.

          • Edwin

            Don’t forget how awesome we are.

          • 17

            Take it where you want. I’m not paying attention.

          • Edwin

            You just take up space anyway… remember?

          • 17

            Yup

          • I let it go where it wants, anyways. LOL

    • Shohanna

      I love that gif!!

      • kreskin

        It is a good one . LOL

    • Dosido3

      That. is. awesome!

  • 17
    • Edwin

      Hi, 17.

      • 17

        Good evening, Sir 😉

  • Edwin

    President Obama

    “Jim Comey’s a good man and I do not believe he is, in any way, trying
    to influence the election one way or the other. I think he is a serious
    public servant who wants to do the right thing.”

    http://www.mediaite.com/tv/obama-i-do-not-believe-comey-is-trying-to-influence-the-election/

  • notisaidthepig

    Excellent, Unka. Enjoy the hike. I went stargazing last night at Red Rock Canyon. So cool.

    • Staring at the universe, unimpeded, is the closest thing I ever get to “religious.” Sycamore Canyon, where the trail I was hiking is located, is in one of those rare spots in the US that’s not polluted by man-made light. So it’s like a cathedral, for me.

      http://d3a5ak6v9sb99l.cloudfront.net/content/advances/2/6/e1600377/F3.large.jpg

      • Edwin

        I’ve never been anywhere like that. Rural Ontario is not too bad, but still to close to light pollution and it is often very humid. I’d love to go to the desert at least once, somewhere far from any city, and see the night sky.

        • Well, Sycamore Canyon is more like a 5000ft elevation pine forest, but the desert at night is amazing. It’s like… Well, it’s like nothing else…

          But bring plenty of water!

  • 17
  • 17

    San Antonio Police Officer Matthew Luckhurst Fired for Trying to Feed Shit Sandwich to Homeless Man

    Officer Matthew Luckhurst of the San Antonio Police Department has been placed on indefinite suspension as the result of an incident in May. Luckhurst had bragged to another cop that he had placed feces inside
    bread and put it in a styrofoam container next to a sleeping homeless man, hoping he would eat it. That unnamed officer fortunately had some decency and told Officer Luckhurst to go back and throw the shit
    sandwich away. He then reported the incident to the San Antonio Police Dept.’s Internal Affairs Bureau in July.

    **In a just world, this asshole, his wife, and their newborn baby would be penniless, sleeping in the gutter with nothing but the clothes on their backs, and eating nothing but shit sandwiches for the rest of their lives.**

    http://www.copblock.org/168069/san-antonio-police-officer-matthew-luckhurst-fired-trying-feed-shit-sandwich-homeless/

    • panem et circenses

      All Cops Are Bastards.

      • kreskin

        Fuck that noise , it’s not true .

        • panem et circenses

          It’s their job description. They’re the fist of state violence. Their job is to protect property above people, and extract as much money as they can from the poor. That’s why most of them have quotas and nearly every “crime” is accompanied by large fines.

          https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/32db043b87a444cf55753f9edc016254fe6fa74785812fc214e098af0cfe0def.jpg

        • panem et circenses
        • Shohanna

          When that “good” cop does NOT turn in his peers, does NOT cross the blue line to stand up for right, justice and honor? That taints him, that makes him part of the problem. That makes him BAD cop.

          So long as we have BAD cops those good cops are just as bad for NOT turning them in. That means they are BAD TOO.

          There are no good cops until they CHANGE that status quo!! When I see cops CONVICTED of the cold, calculated murder they DID then we can discuss good cops. Until then, you won’t convince me of it.

        • Shohanna

          Not only that but police were first created to chase down and murder slaves who escaped. Think about that a minute. Let it sink in. The ONLY reason we have cops? Left over from slavery!

  • panem et circenses

    Some Interesting radical critiques of The New Jim Crow, for anyone who’s read the book or is interested. The article was originally published in People of Color Organize!, but the link is broken now.

    The New Jim Crow discredited, advocates demand revision

    https://libcom.org/news/new-jim-crow-discredited-advocates-demand-revision-03022013

    http://philpapers.org/archive/OSEBOM

    From Osel’s critique:

    “According to Alexander’s history, there is no Malcolm X or George Jackson, no
    Frantz Fanon, no Richard Wright, no Eldridge Cleaver, no Angela Davis, no Huey P.
    Newton, no Bobby Seale, no Black Panther Party, no Black Power Movement, no
    self-determination, no prison-struggles, no political prisoners. Suspiciously there is almost no 1960’s, no 1970’s, no Black History, no Black Criticism, no Black Radicalism, no radicalism, no class struggle. There is no serious or sustained critique of colonialism, imperialism or capitalism.There is no discussion of international law, implicit racism, of privileged ignorance or prosperity, no acknowledgment that the likely champions of the text are the direct and continued benefactors of the “caste system” they so deplore. There is no connection to any of this. None.”

    That’s not to say that there isn’t a lot of value to be taken away from the book, but just that a book about black oppression that doesn’t even mention capitalism or the black socialist radicals behind the struggle can fairly be called “whitewashed” in order to appeal to a larger liberal middle-class audience.

  • panem et circenses

    Abby Martin talks about the Podesta emails on Empire Files.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fat63bqvG8&feature=share

    • towerofbabel

      Calling Finance an “Industry” is an insidious form of propaganda.

  • panem et circenses
  • towerofbabel

    Since Unka is off with “his friends” having a “great time”, I though I would post this Pit Bull/Baby video:

    https://www.instagram.com/p/BMZ4kokjdLv/?taken-by=mvp_bullies

    • Edwin

      The nerve of that guy, leaving us in the lurch just hours from election day.

      😀

    • OMFG! She looks just like my Pitty Izzy, who would treat babies in that very same way. Best baby sitters ever!

      *CUTE OVERLOAD*

  • 17

    ISIS Calls For “Slaughter Of Americans” On Election Day

    One day after US intelligence sources warned that Al-Qaeda may be preparing for potential terrorist attacks in New York, Texas and Virginia, on Saturday the Islamic State called for the “slaughter” of U.S. voters on
    Election Day and demanded that Muslims not participate in the democratic process because “there is no difference between the Republican and Democratic parties in their “policies against Islam and Muslims.”

    Rita Katz <— There's your "Go-To" gal when a phony ISIS event needs to be promoted.

    http://anotherdayintheempire.com/isis-calls-slaughter-americans-election-day/

  • Blue Basilisk

    This post came across my tumblr dash this morning and it really pissed me off: http://gunwildversuseverything.tumblr.com/post/152814095551/bonus-quote-one-of-the-penalties-of-refusing-to

    You are not doing good by voting for the lesser evil, you fucking buffoons. You are working against any kind of common good because you are empowering this “lesser” evil by giving it power and a platform it did not previously have! If you’re so scared of Trump you want to go the lesser evil route, then fucking own up to it. Don’t try to fool yourself into thinking you’re doing something good, because you’re not.

    • towerofbabel

      Every time I see anti-Trump propaganda it makes me livid because it is masking an equally odious non-choice.
      I’m going to have to use this. Thanks.

      • Blue Basilisk

        What raises my ire is the self-righteous tone of this stuff. Some people are really, really scared of Trump. I can certainly understand those feelings and I don’t fault them for feeling that way, especially if his policies will have a direct impact on their life. But if you accept that Clinton is the “lesser evil,” then don’t torture logic like this and try to make it seem like the righteous choice so you don’t have to feel bad about it. You made the decision, so own up to it and stop brow-beating others.

        One of the comments mentioned LGBT support for Hillary. I also understand that and I know it’s presented a real quandry for some of the members here too. It’s not a choice I envy having to make and I’m sure some people are really scared. I’m not sure what I’d do in that situation. But tell me: if you support Hillary based on one issue knowing she’s a pro-fracking, pro-TPP warhawk, then what of the people killed or left destitute by those policies? If the people who don’t vote for her are responsible for what others would do to you, then aren’t her supporters equally responsible for those peoples’ woes? That’s a question more people need to ask themselves, I think.

        Edit: And that’s why I absolutely will not vote for Trump and why I don’t think I can bring myself to vote for Hillary, even as a “hold your nose lesser evil” vote. The polls don’t give us the option to qualify our vote with “I’m only supporting you because you’re not the other guy and I don’t back your policies” and I don’t want to support or endorse a lot of the shit she stands for.

        • towerofbabel

          I have already committed to Stein. I think we will only be in a worse situation if we support Clinton as if she is different. I would rather confront this crisis with my eyes wide open then perpetuate the illusion that Clinton, et al, are anything but a mask for the very same oligarchs that would also control Trump. It’s like choosing which violent gang we want controlling our neighborhood. It makes no sense.

          • I already voted for her! I felt damn good doing so. Seriously: I felt the burden of evil lift from my shoulders.

          • Shohanna

            That’s what voting should feel like. 😀

    • kreskin

      Best to vote against the establishment candidate and the status quo , HRC and the people backing her are NOT less evil .

      • Blue Basilisk

        That’s what I’m planning to do. Missouri usually goes red in presidential elections anyway.

    • Edwin

      I don’t have to decide because I am not American. I would not vote for Trump or Clinton. I think Americans should have been protest voting 30 years ago. Now is a good time to get started. 20 years ago would have been better.

  • 17

    Machines may never master the distinctly human elements of language

    In September, Google announced that its Neural Machine Translation (GNMT) system can now “in some cases” produce translations that are “nearly indistinguishable” from those of humans. Still, it noted:

    “Machine translation is by no means solved. GNMT can still make significant errors that a human translator would never make, like dropping words and mistranslating proper names or rare terms, and translating sentences in isolation rather than considering the context of the paragraph or page.”

    In other words, the machine doesn’t entirely get how words work yet.

    http://qz.com/826989/ai-may-never-master-the-distinctly-human-elements-of-language/

    • panem et circenses

      So machines are like the majority of humans.

      • 17

        Depends on what your definition of the word “is” is, I guess.

        Thanks, Bill.

    • towerofbabel

      Machines do not have the same level of agency as humans–yet. But they do have agency. Louis Kahn said “Every car wants to be a cheetah.” And we all know that every gun wants to kill someone or something. As instruments they are just waiting for someone to make it happen.

  • 17

    The FBI Can’t Actually Investigate a Candidate Such as Hillary Clinton

    The power above the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the US Attorney General, and, above that person, the US President.

    That’s whom the FBI actually serves — not the US public.

    http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2016/11/05/fbi-cant-actually-investigate-candidate-such-as-hillary-clinton.html

  • 17

    Democracy Is War by Other Means

    Superficially, it is waged with ballots instead of bullets. At the end of the day, those ballots become bullets. Elections load real guns and aim them at real people. If you disobey the commandments handed down by
    elected officials, beefy men with shaved heads and Ray-Ban sunglasses will come to take you away. If you resist them, hot lead will fly. Elections are scrambles for control over the service weapons that propel those rounds. In such contests, every faction is trying to point the gun barrels at someone else.

    In this war, all sides are net losers, save one: the government.

    http://theantimedia.org/democracy-war-means/

  • Back from my trip. Links in a bit.

    Some notes on my over-night backpacking trip:

    1. It’s amazing how quickly you get used to using hiking poles and how “weird” it seems to walk without them, after only a few hours.

    2. Spelunking is a much more challenging thing than plain hiking.

    3. (image) I had a little visitor last night. Can you guess what he was?

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/851f1735556cb074e29cd1a6b3d1d2643af82985d99cc70473f9aa163d510666.jpg

  • Edwin

    Breaking News

    FBI Director Says New Emails Are A Nothing-burger …………………..[not joking]
    http://crooksandliars.com/latest https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9674248e817343c0061b1c04271a777ecdd4c35f8d17c008155e13f2c86df486.jpg

    • Well, it is a phrase only used, in a non-ironic sense, mostly by Conservatives! 😉

      • Edwin

        Your beef is with Amato and the rest of the schmucks over there. 😀

        [pun not really intended, but… hey] (snicker)

        • Oh, no, it was a Reagan appointee who first used the word. Amato and those schmucks are just following the lead of those they look up to! 😀

          • Edwin

            I think they do it because they know it annoys you. Those nasty so and sos.

          • it only annoys me when progressives use it, as using the framing of one’s mortal enemies
            is self-defeating in the extreme, if one is not using it “ironically.” As to Amato and his one-ring circus, their use of it just confirmed to me their real leanings. Just like their emphasis on conservatives, conservative policy and conservative personalities did.

            I don’t think the Kooks and Losers even remember I exist.

          • Edwin

            B, b, b, but Karoli is a real shaker-mover in the political world. :~>

            Progressive news and media coverage is their byline.

          • Dosido3

            bootlicker anyway…

          • Edwin

            Bet she kept the pen and framed it. Maybe she even touched her.
            https://twitter.com/Karoli/status/743649656236695552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

          • Dosido3

            Yep. The good old days, when KK had to use a pseudonym because she was claiming to be undecided. How public/private Hillary of her. This is exactly what I think of when I look up bootlicker in the dictionary…

          • kreskin

            She’s just as disingenuous and phony as the candidate she’s supporting. No class .

          • Dosido3

            A mini Hillary, for sure.

          • Shohanna

            She has some major cognitive dissonance. I read those emails too, and what I found was a goddamned motherfucking LIAR and someone who sold our country down the goddamned river. Fucking idiot. Here I thought she had a damned brain in her head. She probably does but it’s on “snooze”. Just wait. Some big ass bullshit will wake her up and the rest of us will be like “TOLD YOU SO!!” I can’t fucking wait.

          • Edwin

            Yup. That’s when I learn to make my sock and go rub her nose in it.

          • panem et circenses

            So she pretended to be someone who wasn’t in the tank for Hillary from day one, under a pseudonym, and she’s proud of it. What a crackpot.

          • Edwin

            She is a horrible person.

          • panem et circenses

            The fact she’s publishing under a fake name for David Brock should have clued her drooling fans into the fact that she’s nothing but a propagandist, but I’m afraid their heads are all too far up their own assholes to make any type of logical connection.

          • Edwin

            Well, they spin all the bushCo neocons signing on with Hillary as a good thing because Trump is bad. That’s some logic for ya.

    • EdgarHF

      In even bigger news from the person following the footsteps of H. L. Mencken. This is a news story I kid you not.

      http://crooksandliars.com/2016/11/donald-trump-dangeroulsy-takes-baby

      • Edwin

        LOL. That is some of the worst writing I have ever seen. I think Amato’s alter-ego is a sassy illiterate teen girl. ………….. (Hey, maybe he’s SmellyPee.)

        196 people saw fit to comment. 🙁

    • 17

      Good point!

  • Edwin

    Nancy Pelosi doesn’t really want to say, she just wants to get through the election, but….
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Htq5OhjATn8

    • Dosido3

      law enforcement is “off the table”, amirite?

      • Edwin

        Everything is off the table except for her “constitutional right” to amass a fortune with legal insider trading (*only for Congress.)

        She and all her Dem cronies stalk up on Raytheon shares and then vote for wars.

    • towerofbabel

      Is Nancy puffing up her lips? How sad.

      • Edwin

        At this point she looks like she’s escaped from the waxworks.

        • kreskin

          A high society methane dispenser , worthless .

          • Edwin

            Your favourite. I was thinking about you when I watched.

          • kreskin

            LOL

          • Edwin

            She does a total hit job, a total smear, and ropes in the Russian hackers, all in one minute and then says, “I don’t want to go there. I don’t want to say anything.” What a piece of work.

          • kreskin

            Another phony , completely fake .

          • kreskin

            Am going to Russia 1st of Feb . Wife came home for two months had to leave again , has been a month already . She’s been gone 6 months out of the last eight . You know the story with her mother. If you been wondering why I’ve been crankier than usual lately … now you know . I plan on staying six months or so , we’ll see how it goes . Am going to put everything in storage . Hopefully we can find someone to take care of our African Gray for us , don’t want to have to give her up , but we may have to . If I had a normal functional family it wouldn’t be a problem , but …

          • Edwin

            Thanks for letting me know. It’s hard if your wife has to be there and you’re back home in the States. It might be nice for you to spend the time in Russia. A change can be a good thing.

          • kreskin

            I really miss her .. A change will be nice , for sure . I can help out and support them , won’t be paying this outrageous rent

            Americans probably aren’t a big hit there these days , that’s a bit of a concern .

            Anyway , Edwin , that’s the plan , assuming that nothing changes.

          • Edwin

            I hope it goes well for you.

          • kreskin

            Thanks , comrade.

          • towerofbabel

            Hang in there buddy. I wish the best for you and your family. Stay with us and don’t let Putin get into your emails and expose your shady deals.

          • kreskin

            LOL

  • EdgarHF

    Today I removed my Alternet bookmark from my browser’s toolbar. Are there any true progressive sites left that are not in the tank?

    • cathyx

      I have many that need to be deleted too. It’s been so disappointing this election cycle.

    • Edwin

      I still check it out a few times a week. It’s mostly very disappointing.

      • towerofbabel

        The DNC realized that it wasn’t that hard to buy-out or bully-out the opposition. Actually it’s amazing what they did to the progressive internet community.

        • Edwin

          Their mistake is they think they’ve silenced us, swayed us, or gotten rid of us. They haven’t. We’ve just gone elsewhere, like here, at Unka’s. And now angry like a disturbed hornet’s nest.

          • kreskin

            Face it , Edwin , a relative few of us can be accounted for now . Sanders and Warren really did a number on the progressive movement . Looks as if it was by design … a set up , meant to destroy the ( organized ) progressive movement . It’s amazing how all the supposed progressive / liberal sites have joined the dark side . $ over values and principles , how else can you explain it ?

            Regardless , we are worse off now than before this Presidential campaign began . We’re pretty much fucked , S.O.L. .

          • Edwin

            A lot of the sites were started during the bushCo junta so it was easy to be (to appear) progressive (and that’s when we started going there.) Once Obama got elected they never held his feet to the fire, but they were still covering leftie stuff and the (R)s are consistently bad so they just had to focus on them and cover some social issues, like rotten cops and abortion. Once the election got going we saw them for what they’ve really been all along.

            The Progressive Movement is a PR Front for Rich Democrats
            http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/03/15/the-progressive-movement-is-a-pr-front-for-rich-democrats/

          • EdgarHF

            That about sums it up in a nutshell.

          • Edwin

            Who’s not just a pretty face?

          • notisaidthepig

            Edwin!

          • Edwin
          • FaunaAndFlora

            Good article. Thanks for posting it.

      • kreskin

        I stopped in to mock and piss off the bots today , am probably banned now , I dunno . I wonder what gives , that site has turned into a joke .

    • towerofbabel

      I did the same.

    • Good for you! You’ll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy! 😉

    • kreskin

      It appears that Hillary’s feminazi have taken over that site . They cannot make a rational argument in favor of Clinton , according to them this election is all about their daughters and women in general , the stupid fucks don’t get it , HRC doesn’t give a rats ass about therm or their daughters. Oh , and then there’s the she has experience line , Hillary Clinton has thirty years experience ! Yeah ? Dick Cheney , Donald Rumsfeld and MItch McConnell have years of experience too , you friggin idiots ! And note her long list of accomplishments in those thirty years . Oh , wait . on second thought … scratch that . They are every bit as stupid and simpleminded as the tea baggers , just as obnoxious , there is no difference . Stupid fucks , this is why I believe it’s a hopeless situation , there are far too many senseless people in this country , brains the size of green peas . Seriously .

    • Shohanna

      Damn great minds think alike I removed mine today too! 😀

  • Edwin

    For you night owls (and everyone), part 1, 2 and 3 are on Vimeo. **Recommended**

    Part
    1 is “Empire” and starts with Bill Clinton reneging on “the peace
    dividend” (after the Iron Curtain came down) and bumping military and
    secret police budgets. .

    https://vimeo.com/101957662

    • kreskin

      The U.S. and it’s NATO lap dogs have not kept their end of the bargain , Russia is NOT the agressor .

      • Edwin

        Russia is merely the scapegoat they use to sell their hegemonic aspirations to the American (and global) public. “We have to fight… cuz… Russia!! And the idiots at C&L lap that shit up and dutifully pump it out on their pages. Beloved Obama (Dems/Clinton) says so.

        [aside: C&L is the enemy of thinking people. It’s a dangerous propaganda outlet.]

        • kreskin

          Too many careers and too much money at stake , they’re not about to let the cold war die.

          Eisenhower warned us about the MIC , in fact he nailed it . You’ve heard the speech , I’m sure.

          I’ve no interest in the assholes at C & L , the people at Breitbart have as much integrity.

          Bed time .

      • towerofbabel

        The Russians are occupying our complete hegemony.

  • panem et circenses

    Podesta emails- After CNN poll in July 2015 showing Clinton’s unpopularity, Neera Tanden wonders why the person who told Hillary Clinton it was ok to have a private server hasn’t been “drawn and quartered”.

    https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/51094#efmAAGAA9

    We all know who wanted the private server, and why, but these elite assholes can’t even conceive of blaming their queen for her own recklessness in trying to cover her own ass.

  • notisaidthepig

    Good morning, everyone.

  • notisaidthepig

    ICYMI:

    How Jill Stein Could Force the Enforcement of Election Laws and Save Us All
    By Walker Bragman

    https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/11/how-jill-stein-could-force-the-enforcement-of-elec.html

  • Morning all: New Links & Thread!

    • notisaidthepig

      Thanks, Unka. Good morning!

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