Happy 50th Birthday, Peace Sign

From LRC

"The peace sign is 50 years old today. It was designed in 1958 by British artist Gerald Holtom, who combined the semaphore letters N and D, for nuclear disarmament".



Wow, 50 years and still nothin'. I say we come up with a new sign. Any ideas?

Crinch Pin Late Night Music Club: Black Sabbath

Of course I could have played war pigs which is the obvious choice for our current political situation. But I just had to post this amazing live version of fairies wear boots from Paris, 1970.
This just completely rules in so many ways, I don't know where to begin. Enjoy!

Nader to Announce?

Ralph Nader will be appearing on Meet the Press this week (2/24), and rumor is he will announce his candidacy.

As much as I respect the guy, and will admit to the world that I voted for him in 2000*, it's time that Nader admitted to himself and his followers that his impact can be at it's greatest if he uses his considerable clout to build the Green Party's local organizations throughout the country. This year in Illinois, I could have actually filled out a Green Party ballot for the primary. In a state where the Democratic Machine has all but suffocated any other party organizations, this is no small feat.

* I do not believe that Nader lost the election for Al Gore. Nader had and has every right to run, and we have and had every right to vote for him. Al Gore lost the election by a) running a shitty campaign, b) moving to the Right to garner votes, c) bowing to the media pressure and basically giving up on the "intent of the voter" standard in Bush v. Gore before the Supreme Court thus stopping the Florida recount and handing the election to Bush.

Serbian Blowback

Looks like "blowback" is once again the product of another tentacle of U.S. foreign policy, this time it's Kosovo. The LRC blog has a great post on this by Lew Rockwell via James Elliot:

Writes James Elliott: "I just saw the headlines on the Serbian 'storming' of the US Embassy in Belgrade. This was not done to the French Embassy, because the French did not bomb Serbia beginning on their highest holy day, Orthodox Easter, the way the US did under the enlightened 'genocide'-halting foreign policy of the Clinton/Albright administration, and we have the audacity to ask the UN to be incensed for us over this issue now! Blow back strikes again."

Also, I just watched some highlights of the Clin-ton/O'Bomber debates on CNN . Imagine if the moderators would have asked a pertinent question about oh..I don't know...something that is happening right now....ummm...like maybe the fact that there are Serbians setting fire to our embassy right now in Belgrade over our Kosovo policy. Ok, Who wants to answer first?

Kucinich to Investigate 9/11 Insider Trading

Dennis the Menace is at it again, and I mean "menace" in a good way. The establishment can't wait to get rid of this guy. Probably why the corporate controlled DNC is making sure he has a primary challenger this year. Anyways, I love this guy. He's all truth and no bullshit. I've seen one YouTube video after another where 9/11 truth activists are hounding Kucinich to look into the discrepancies and lies in the official story. Well, Dennis has delivered again and again, and this time is no exception. The Ohio congressman just recently said that he will initiate an investigation of the pre-9/11 insider trading that has been exposed, dealing primarily with put options placed for both United and American Airlines.
I have a feeling that Dennis may be legitimately concerned about losing his congressional seat, so he is goin for broke. Cynthia McKinney, the former Congresswoman from Georgia has been pretty vocally supportive of those questioning the the official story. She was one of the only members of Congress who really took some of the administration and military officials to task by asking the important, and for those being questioned, uncomfortable questions about the government's response on that day. We all know what happened to her during the election of 2004. Let's hope Dennis doesn't get "McKinneyed". These are a few excerpts from Kucinich on this topic while being interviewed again on the Alex Jones Show.

"I've indicated a long-standing interest in gathering information and trying to get to the bottom of exactly what happened with respect to all the stock activity that took place preceding 9/11."

"From my own personal standpoint, I've had long-standing questions about why this volume, why those airlines, why that time, who made the buys, why did they buy them, who told them to make the buys, who was involved? There are questions there that need to be answered as part of an effort to get to the truth,"

"I think we need to talk to the people who were involved in making those transactions in order to try to figure out why they were made, for example, American Airlines and United Airlines stock."

UPDATE:

Here's Kucinich discussing more details about how and when this will be brought into hearings.

Teevee Terror

Damn! Greenwald is ON FIRE today.

Check out the shit the GOP is trying to pull over on all the impressionable sheeple out there:



Were it not so serious, this would be laughable. Unfortunately, dear reader, a lot of God and country loving Americans out there will take a look at this and say "Them turrorists are tryin' to take away ma 'Merican Gladiaters and neckid Lindsay Lohan pitchers?" and that will be it. No one will be able to convince them that they are victims of a cleverly targeted media terror campaign against their Constitutional rights.

Hey... can you get those Lindsay Lohan pics in the womb?

9/11 Changed Everything

John Swift wishes the NYT would get over it's pre-9/11 thinking. Everyone knows 9/11 changed everything...

Conservatives are soooo lucky to have this guy on their side.

Crinch Pin Music Club: The Who

As The Arm said when I played this for him: "Holy fuck!"
And he's not easy to impress.
I was never that into The Who until I saw them totally destroy EVERYONE at The Rolling Stones' Rock n' Roll Circus. This live clip of "Won't Get Fooled Again" is 10 minutes long, but not a second is wasted, so pour a green martini and watch the whole thing. It is simply amazing.

Meet the new boss, motherfuckers.

Obama: The "Cover Band" Candidate

Damn Barack, You just got called out bigtime with your own words. Looks like your response to the extremely valid point that all you have to offer is "just words" helped to prove that your detractors have a point on this one. In your speech the other day in Wisconsin, when responding to the "just words" accusation, you decided to lift a speech, or part of it at least, from Deval Patrick. I mean, this is so obvious it hurts.



ooh..but there's more:

Dick Cheney Plans for Retirement

American Vice President Dick Cheney test drives a custom hot air balloon.

Finally coming to terms with the fact that he is retiring in less than a year, American Vice President Dick Cheney tries to find a hobby.

"I love ballooning. I can imagine doing this in retirement. You can really take in the scenery," quacked Cheney. "Everyone looks like little ants that you could easily destroy underfoot while their little screams fade out into deadly silence," continued the Vice President, obviously aroused. "I mean, it looks like even a medium piss would wash away entire homesteads. Imagine what a finally-getting-to-the-john-after-sitting-in-a-car-on-a-long-roadtrip piss would do to them. Jesus. That would be awesome."

Obama, Japan

In case you needed one, and I find I do, here's another great reason to vote for Barack Obama...

Konnichiwa, bitches.

Fear & Loathing in DC

Glenn Greenwald takes the rock right at the hawks, and dunks in their faces (sorry, still sleeping off the NBA All-Star game). This guy's got all the right moves.

Keith Olbermann Calls Bush a "Fascist"

Looks to me like Keith Olbermann might be ready to start asking the real questions. Someone who is this vocal about the criminality of this president and his administration must be somewhat willing to "go all the way" and expose more in depth things like 9/11 and its coverup. Calling Bush a "fascist" on national television is a great start. Here's his recent special comment:

Crinch Pin Flashback 1983: Rep Larry McDonald (D-GA) Warns Of Plans For World Government

Congressman Larry McDonald was a Democratic Congressman from Georgia. He is a completely interesting story on his own. He was elected to Congress as a Democrat and at some point realized what was really happening with our policies by looking into the "behind the curtain" elite. He eventually joined the often controversial John Birch Society and stuck with his goal of stopping this covert world government plan. McDonald has a mysterious aura around his sudden death in 1983, in which his Korean Air Flight 007 was shot down by Soviet jet interceptors. Among the interesting facts surrounding this case is the fact that several other U.S. Senators and Congressmen were scheduled on that flight, but miraculously had their accommodations changed at the last minute. Here's Congressman McDonald on an episode of Crossfire with Pat Buchanan and Tom Braden four months before his death in 1983. This is the google video description:

Around May of 1983, approximately 4 months before being shot down in KAL007, Congressman Larry McDonald takes on Pat Buchanan and Tom Braden on Crossfire as they badger him about his new role as Chairman of the John Birch Society. He easily handles them and answers questions concerning the Elite's Conspiracy for a One World Government.

Also, if you're having problems connecting this segment to our current situation, just substitute the word "Socialism" with "Neo-Conservatism" and also substitute "communism" with "terrorism". Then it will all make a whole lot more sense.

Want More Wexler?

No Problem.
Here's Congressman Wexler's speech to Congress calling for impeachment hearings.Imagine if more of our government representatives actually gave a shit and asked the real questions like Wex. Apparently that's too much to ask for nowadays.