okay, good for cory

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I am heartily pleased to see this there.

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i'd've stayed a couple more days at peggy and jim's

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It would have been nice to know about THIS before it happened, wot? I could have hung longer with my dear friends, soaped up responsibly and so fragrantly, and worn my new purple tights that are cotton inside and preshrunk wool on the outside, and carried around a sufficiently succinct indictment of the plutocrats cowering behind the counter of the Fort Bragg B of A.... I'd've roused rabble! I'd've had every horn honking on Main Street. I'd've gotten my licks in for Julian and Glenn. I could so totally have done that!

Instead, I have to find out about it after the fact from a BRITISH newspaper.

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what a pansy

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It has been louder, harder, harsher, outright psychotic in the redwoods for 25 years—more, but at the psycho pitch for 25.

Mark Harper, the Conservative MP for The Forest of Dean, was attacked by protesters as he exited a public meeting where he had been defending the Government's plans for a forestry sell-off.

He was pelted with eggs by protesters who also attacked the police van to try to prevent him leaving.

Mr Harper accused a number of objectors of being "bent on violence" and likened them to a "baying mob".

This guy ain't seen nuthin' yet. If you want to cut down a redwood tree nowadays, you have to be willing to endure major flak—grateful when it's only eggs—from mobs first.

Unfortunately—and against all reason—there are people willing to endure that to get at the wood. When I tell you that the difference between us and them is that they have the will, believe me, I know what I'm talking about.

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This would also constitute why I know the awfulness will not stop short of whole populations going postal on their governments. NOTHING else is big enough to halt the march of capital. Global enlightenment would do it, but, who ever said I was completely insensible to reälpolitik?

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predators and prey

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It is not enough to riot and revolt, people need to keep at it until the danger of the wrong changes moving in has passed. This would be why movement leaders need to be clear on the goal before they urge people to the streets. Yes, sometimes the people don't wait for enlightened leadership to emerge, and sometimes I wonder if enlightened leadership is even possible anymore, those tending toward it being either completely disinclined to leadership or not enlightened in fact, but more corruptible power freaks is the norm. It's the norm that needs overturning. This means the people have to lose their default settings along with their patience for tyrants.

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Three people were shot dead as protesters fought police outside Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha's office on Friday during a rally to demand the government resign over corruption allegations. ...

This would be the prime reason no one in the United States wants to get out there to demand the resignation of our corrupt government. Fat people find it safer to use sophistry to avoid risk than to eliminate it. The harder it is to reconcile such an attitude with facts, the more superior the tone of the sophistry becomes. When the facts keep heaping up—despite the most elaborate and finely-wrought sophistry, complete with experts—the tone turns shrill, lots of sanctimony gets thrown in for good measure, and polemics turn to hard and heavy shit-slinging. If none of that works, it gets still louder, loftier on one side and lower on the other, by turns, and yet less amenable to even short lulls. We couldn't be lucky enough to have another civil war... let alone another revolution.

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tomorrow

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Any of you close enough could get me some pictures....

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i'm jealous

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Where are we in our opposition to our government's actions?

Big German protests pressure Merkel before CDU meet
By Annika Breidthardt Annika Breidthardt – Sat Nov 13, 12:12 pm ET

BERLIN (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of people marched in cities across Germany on Saturday to protest against government policies and social inequality, a day before a key meeting of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU).

German union umbrella group DGB, which organized the demonstrations, said nearly 100,000 people had marched in Stuttgart, Dortmund, Nuremberg and Erfurt, voicing their displeasure with Merkel's coalition for offloading the costs of the financial crisis.

"We don't want a republic in which powerful interest groups decide the guidelines of politics with their money, their power and their influence," Berthold Huber, head of IG Metall, Germany's largest trade union, told demonstrators in Stuttgart.

He demanded higher wages and the introduction of a mandatory minimum wage to give workers a share in Germany's economic upswing, which is outpacing those of its European partners.

Merkel's CDU hold their annual congress from November 14-16 in Karlsruhe, which will be watched closely for signs of nervousness in party ranks.

Merkel's center-right coalition with the Free Democrats (FDP) has been dogged by infighting and made little progress on its campaign promises in its first year in power, leading to a slide in its popularity.

CDU delegates will vote to re-elect Merkel as the head of the party on Monday and while the result is not in doubt, a drop in support for her leadership would highlight the level of dissatisfaction with her in the party.

Merkel has been criticized by some CDU members for not being conservative enough. Her center-right bloc now trails the center-left grouping of Social Democrats (SPD) and Greens in opinion polls.

Merkel addressed that criticism in an interview with the Welt am Sonntag newspaper to be published on Sunday, saying: "Those with conservative values have always had a home in the (CDU/CSU conservative bloc) and they will always have it there but they also have to ask themselves about the incredible pace of change today."

Labor Minister Ursula von der Leyen told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper that the party should consider holding a formal vote when choosing future candidates for chancellor in what could be seen as a challenge to Merkel.

Von der Leyen is a candidate to become deputy leader of the CDU and is seen as a possible successor to Merkel, whose term expires in 2013 but who could decide to run for a third term.

Germany suffered its biggest postwar recession in 2009 but has rebounded strongly this year on the back of robust exports.

She is under pressure from her coalition partners to press ahead with tax cuts promised during the election campaign but shelved as the government shifted its focus to budget consolidation.

Last week, tens of thousands protested against the extension of lifespans of Germany's 17 nuclear power stations, and a plan to build a multi-billion euro rail station in Stuttgart despite widespread opposition has also prompted protests.

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i want to kiss them all

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I so totally do.

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rock out

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Europeans aren't taking it lying down.

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calling them 'vandals' now

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Isn't that just so laudably neutral of them?

Black-clad demonstrators broke off from a crowd of peaceful protesters at the World Summit, torching police cruisers and smashing windows with baseball bats and hammers.

Whutever. Be they agents provocateurs or warriors, "vandals" doesn't exactly cut it, now does it?

You know, we don't have TIME to grow generations whose altruism is fearless... assuming tv and internet and cell phones would ever let us.... That MEANS our altruism has to get fearless—chop chop—or we're toast.

I hope the crowd scares the entire assemblage into aborting their mission and going home.

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it's far easier to fight for principles than to live up to them

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Keep repeating that to yourself. Rinse. Repeat. Rinse. Repeat. ...

At some point you will find you can't live up to them unless you will fight for them.

And I do NOT mean TALK....

Arguing doesn't cut it.

Robert Greenwald emailed me this morning with some of his "evidence" that the Tea Parties are full of racist scumbags, and I replied:

Quit fomenting civil war and START helping find ways to make common cause with people brave/stupid enough to rise up against fascism. We need a REVOLUTION and we have to stop producing hit jobs on each other, and start learning how to postpone our ideological differences until AFTER we have gotten back our country. YOU should not pretend to bravery if you can't stop yourself and realize what you are doing is just culture warring, and MORE than just acceptable to the people we really should be fighting.

...without any coffee in me yet.

Here's a woman that purportedly brave new filmer is vilifying... she may have her terms a little too fuzzily in mind, but she identified the problem and the need to unite a couple years ahead of the rest of us... so she's not stupid. She's not a hater. She's your sister.

These crappy hit jobs from people trying to make a living at the culture wars are not just no-holds-barred debating tactics. It's LETHAL shit. Lethal to US. ALL of us on Planet Earth. In a real sense Glenn Beck is no more perfidious than Robert Greenwald. Stop. Repeat the mantra. Open yer head. See the truth. The corruption has penetrated every nook and cranny of our society. The nonprofit fuckers are as corrupt as the profit fuckers; no branch of government is functioning; the fourth estate is 100% cognitive dissonance; the police are enforcing corruption. Your survival instinct has been massaged to turn off your brain and send you blindly after assholes trying to make a living off perpetuating agonizing and completely useless strife. Not one desperate problem has been solved. Not one. And new ones pile up daily.

WAKE UP!
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profoundly encouraging news

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Lifted a couple of tons off right away....
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i'd carry this sign

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You might want to use this marvelous tool to read that looooong page full of reasons progressives get a big fail stamped on their foreheads... and keep prancing around anyway....
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a bunch of demonstrators shaved their heads for climate justice

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Men and women. Right out there on the street in front of COP15.
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climate injustice unanimous

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I've been wading through about a hundred pages of images from Copenhagen for the last couple hours, and pulled some shots I liked. I'm thinking I will try to put them all in one post to link here later....

But the point of this whole disaster was that amazing numbers of people came from all over the world to be out in the streets to get bashed on the head by cops and get frostbite. More huge demonstrations in solidarity with the people on the streets of Copenhagen took place all over the world. While politicians turned this conference into one huge photo op, there were some world leaders who really did come to get action. Unfortunately our war criminal president is now adding climate criminal to his list of distinctions... and there really isn't any doubt left about that now.

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department of hints not taken

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It is seeming to be becoming ever more popular with leaders everywhere to simply never take the hint, no matter what. Yesterday they were exclaiming about the Mayor of Kabul not resigning despite a corruption conviction... which made no sense because, after all, why would he need to if he were hauled off to jail? And there is the template for all this right here at home, where none of them ever listen to us under even the most crucial circumstances... unless we can fork over a few hundred thousand while we are asking, that is... or make the credible threat of assassination if prosecutions for torture are brought....
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more arrests in copenhagen

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Power to the people of the planet....
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go kids go

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Hundreds arrested in Copenhagen
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2009
00:33 MECCA TIME, 21:33 GMT

Thousands of protesters have gathered in the Danish capital Copenhagen to call on governments at the UN global climate change summit to commit to a deal.

Police detained at least 900 people during demonstrations on Friday in which activists attempted to disrupt meetings between corporations and industry lobby groups, accusing them of being "climate criminals".

Most of the protesters arrested were masked youths dressed in black who threw bricks and firecrackers and smashed windows in the city centre.

Around 50 police in riot gear moved in, forcing the protesters to the ground and bundling them into vans.

Police later followed activists as they wound through the narrow streets of central Copenhagen to the sound of drums, whistles and horns and chants of "Our climate - Not your business".

The procession then split up, with activists fanning out to several locations, including the venue of a business conference.

Lars Borg, a Copenhagen police spokesman, said protesters did not reach the Bella Centre conference facility, where representatives from about 190 governments are negotiating a new global climate agreement.

Tania Page, Al Jazeera's correspondent reporting from Copenhagen, said the protests were largely peaceful.
"It has been a largely peaceful demonstration and something of a family affair really hoping to push home to the delegates here that the public won't stand for anything less than a firm concrete commitment and agreement to cut carbon emissions and to fork out the money to help poorer nations because they are the ones who are the front line of this," she said.

"There is still a level of confidence that there will be a political agreement by the end of the week but I don't think that anyone inside the conference believes there will be a legally binding agreement which is what the demonstrators are calling for.

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you idiots

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Just so.
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department of transcendental protest signs

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power to the children

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