we need a shitload more robert fisk all over the media in the united states. as a matter of fact, he'd be better than brian williams on nbc news or that jerkoff on cbs. perhaps olbermann should give fisk a satellite show on current tv.
fisk makes a useful point not often ever discussed in
the united states media that the story of iran, its foreign policy and
its nuclear weapons program, is not at all what is commonly portrayed in
the popular western establishment media. if any country deserves to
have nulcear weapons--and needs to--it is iran. the best thing ever for
the world, the palestinians, the americans, the israelis, and
especially the iranians would be a gaggle of fresh, shiny nukes in tehran that would inoculate them forever against terror attacks and invasion.
nuclear weapons are horrible things; they are terribly polluting and
suck up way too much money that should be spent on other things, but if
you are a shitty little country under threat from the evil empire because you happen to live on top of the stuff jesus put there for americans, nukes are always a prudent investment.
american tech companies use chinese
slave and prison and otherwise exploited labor
to maintain huge margins on their products? really? who fucking
knew? until today, everybody probably believed that they paid unionized
german and swiss craftsmen to build ipads. i mean, why wouldn't they?
jesus.
of course these companies are fucking scumbags, but it is mostly the
fault of the american government and its trade and labor polices. the
question from obama about how we get ipads and macbooks made in america
is a good one, but ultimately obama and the government are the only ones
who can answer that question. if obama wants that shit made here, he
would need to pursue policies that punished imports from slave-labor
sources and rewarded production in the united states and other
high-wage, high-quality countries. taxes, tariffs and other government
incentives are very powerful tools. as it stands now, all of the
benefits of government policies go to companies that utilize third-world
labor and ship jobs overseas because these companies
essentially are the government and rig the welfare state for their own benefit, so it once again obama was full of shit and grandstanding for a cheap soundbite.
this film was not horrible. it was completely pointless, and it lacked
any drama or surprise, so it was simply a machine to generate money for
the studio. still, it was okay, even if it did play like a mashup of brain candy and the live-action curious george at times. freida pinto is quite lovely, always a plus in movies. the biggest thing that rise has going for it is the abysmal tim burton apes
film with marky mark and paul giamatti. talk about a recipe for a
spontaneous abortion in an elevator: tim burton, marky mark, paul
giamatti, and planet of the apes. easily one of the worst
big-budget studio films ever made, and also tim burton's worst film.
that's saying something. his only decent film was a peewee herman
vehicle. so, in comparison, rise looks like touch of evil.
corporatist tool? yep. warmonger asshole? sure. firmly established
happy servant of the 1%? absolutely. so what is it that is
sooooo different
about barack hussein obama that makes the hard-right teabagger assholes
hate him so much? his policies and actions in office are as regressive
and dangerous as every president since nixon, so i just can't figure
out why they would be so freaked out by his being the president of the
united states. it's fucked up. why do they treat him with such
disrespect and loathing? we may never know the answer to this question,
but tune in again next time for another exciting episode of
bullshit or not?
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