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Friday, June 27th, 2008

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    1:12a
    Interesting anarchist theory
    Anarchy is open-source politics and a work-in-progress that always invites fresh input. And as such anarchism as the core body of ideas or libertarian-socialist distro evolves in relation with changed conditions and makes either revolutionary leaps or measured incremental progress depending on objective circumstances.
    The original thinkers articulating this shared vision were Godwin, Stirner, Proudhon, the first self-described modern anarchist, Bakunin and Kropotkin. Later Emma Goldman enriched the tradition as did the tireless Malatesta. Activists in the field such as the great fighters Makhno and Durrutti applied theory to great effect and kept-it-real along with thousands and thousands of others. So a living and vigorous narrative was created that married theory and praxis in a way confused Marxists could only dream of.
    There are still plenty of countries today that could re-create Spain in full flower of the greatest period of rapid evolution ever seen in all recorded hirstory. Besides this 'greatest-story-never-told' , theoretical texts, no matter how innovative or exciting, appear as pallid placebos almost designed for those who will always prefer fantasy to reality.
    Spain was 'workerist' to a large extent, influenced as it was by the Russian revolution of 1917, and some of the most interesting anarchist theoretical works of the middle-ages ( between now and Spain) related to the revolt against work. John Zerzan and Bob Black both contributing important and interesting supplements to our thing. Around this time Lorenzo Komboa Ervin wrote the masterful ' Anarchism and the Black revolution'. Writers as diverse as Ursula K.Le Guinn and Noam Chomsky made contributions of interest. And also the essay by the feminist Jo Freeman on ' The tyranny of structurelessness' is of interest by shining a light on informal hierarchies of power in activist networks.
    Its important to keep these significant incremental advances in mind as we move on forward to the recent past. While anarchism remains an easy to grasp ideology ( In the sense that it is necessarily an ideology, or set-of-ideas, that is the very worst in the world...apart from all the others) that is simple and supple, as all the best ideas are, it is also building and/or growing. It is a living thing and also the closest by far to deserve the appellation of scientific socialism.
    Now the rise of eco-logic demands a considered and measured response. Ecological consciousness raising has also been a strong feature of the anarchism of the last several decades. Some of the fruits of this have been seen in the rise of Green anarchy , post-left anarchism and Primitivism. Post left anarchism is well articulated by the likes of McQuinn and when combined with the best of the GA and Primitivist streams sums up where the anarchist center is today and the best path forward. The Mutualist and Propaganda-of-the-deed traditions remain lively 'sleeper' or surprise schools of thought and action within anarchism. They are embodied today by the likes of Kevin Carson and Jim Bell. So as there is theory to spare right here I might as well end here. Those who get off wanking around in text may feel free to wallow in our wake with the rest of the catch-up crew. A motley and unsavory bunch of post-modernists, mangy Marxists and 'recovering' Trotskyites. We're an internet based 'empire' now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality – judiciously, as you will – we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're hirstory's actors . . . and you, all of you followers, will be left to just study what we do.
    2:24a
    Mystic pizza
    '...The Pollan-Küng Technique goes like this: One debates the other side in a rational manner until pushed into a corner. Then one simply drops the argument and slips away, pretending that one has not fallen short of reason but instead transcended it. The irreconcilability of one's belief with reason is then held up as a great mystery, the humble readiness to live with which puts one above lesser minds and their cheap certainties. As Pollan writes:

    "'I have to say there is a part of me that envies the moral clarity of the vegetarian, the blamelessness of the tofu eater. Yet part of me pities him, too. Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris.'"

    And Myers comments:
    "How arrogant, in other words, how pitifully close to mental illness, to want to be a better person!"

    Myers is a wonderful thinker and writer, and I have given only a short synopsis of a review well worth picking up and reading. I was delighted that Myers acknowledged the excellence of Pollan's book, while still challenging some of Pollan's thinking. And as reviews in almost every other publication have commended Pollan's work without challenging it, I was thrilled to see this well-considered piece in the Atlantic Monthly.

    Please send a letter of support to the Atlantic, praising B.R. Myers's unusual review of "The Omnivore's Dilemma." - FROM

    http://animalrights.meetup.com/18/messages/boards/thread/3446521
    2:39a
    Save the lawyers
    I don't like lawyers much but as both left and right fascists want to liquidate them as a class so I have to step in and try and stop the slaughter. Poor things look like Harp seal pups. News reaches our shore ( Okay, I like Rumpole of the Bailey. So what) that lawyers can't be assured of secret consultations with their clients. ( Hi Lynn Stewart!) The obvious workaround is via quantum encryption. This would mean all prisoners would have a right to quantum encryption communications with their lawyers. As a side benefit once every large jail orders and installs these facilities then the overall price of the technology will drop.
    And while we're on the subject of the law, it seems that the march of technological progress will soon make judges obsolete. Especially judges like Clarence Thomas. They can be quickly and easily replaced with a computer program and optional penis-pump...for auld lang syne my dear. Sign up for the RAT Institutes ' Save the lawyers' foundation by subscribing to the Rat-law times magazine. Every two year subscription gets a home-baked rat-pellet cake with a file in it.
    3:04a
    Don't spawn! Organize!
    Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations (Hardcover)
    by Clay Shirky (Author) AMAZON
    From Publishers Weekly
    Blogs, wikis and other Web 2.0 accoutrements are revolutionizing the social order, a development that's cause for more excitement than alarm, argues interactive telecommunications professor Shirky. He contextualizes the digital networking age with philosophical, sociological, economic and statistical theories and points to its major successes and failures. Grassroots activism stands among the winners—Belarus's flash mobs, for example, blog their way to unprecedented antiauthoritarian demonstrations. Likewise, user/contributor-managed Wikipedia raises the bar for production efficiency by throwing traditional corporate hierarchy out the window. Print journalism falters as publishing methods are transformed through the Web. Shirky is at his best deconstructing Web failures like Wikitorial, the Los Angeles Times's attempt to facilitate group op-ed writing. Readers will appreciate the Gladwellesque lucidity of his assessments on what makes or breaks group efforts online: Every story in this book relies on the successful fusion of a plausible promise, an effective tool, and an acceptable bargain with the users. The sum of Shirky's incisive exploration, like the Web itself, is greater than its parts. RELATED

    Democracy without elections, Gasoline without lead and anarchism without Trotskyites.
    3:12a
    A DAY OR A LIFETIME
    Fire, theft, and casualty are not things that only happen to other people

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yochai_Benkler

    Yochai Benkler is Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School and the author of The Wealth of Networks and the paper "Coase's Penguin".

    There's a few people in virtual New York - hopefully our numbers are growing - who feel we have an opportunity now to forge something real out of everyday experience, create a living theater for the masses that's based on a few simple truths - not on some shopworn abstractions about political economy that don't hold true today, if they ever did . .
    3:27a
    Avalanche diodes
    '...Encrypted secure communication and quantum computing employ the properties of single photons as an elementary particle. These applications include quantum key distribution (QKD) in which single photons with differing polarizations or phases are used to represent digital bits of "1" and "0." QKD is implemented by transmitting single photons through a potentially insecure fiber-optic communication line. Using the single photon bits as the encryption key, this telecommunication approach is completely secure and impervious to intercept without the knowledge of the sender and receiver. Prototype QKD secure communication terminals have recently been introduced into the market. These QKD systems are limited by the communication range, data rate, and bit error rate caused by the limitations of currently available single photon detectors...' - FROM

    http://www.sensorsmag.com/sensors/Feature+Articles/Linear-Avalanche-Photodiodes-Enable-Single-Photon-/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/510337

    Article about this in the New Scientist June 21 issue. Diodes allow relays, thus longer communications.
    The RAT Institute has an outstanding $300 Euro reward for any quantum crack that doesn't trigger alarms.
    3:45a
    Boxing Obama
    How to relieve people of phantom limb syndrome 1) First remove limb

    Now people're gonna tell you, wrestling. Wallace Beery, it's a B picture. You tell them, bullshit.
    We don't make B pictures here at Capitol. Let's put a stop to that rumor right now.
    4:02a
    Thank fuck for the A-bomb
    '...Thank God for the Atom Bomb is a collection of recent essays that covers a lot of territory. In various ways it calls to mind Edmund Wilson and George Orwell, each of whom also brought a fine intelligence to bear upon matters of high as well as popular culture. Fussell begins by daring to defend Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Bomb saved not only a million American lives but who knows how many millions of Japanese lives. Okinawa had given us a sample of what we could expect had we undertaken a full-scale invasion. On the home islands the Japanese, civilian as well as military, were totally mobilized and prepared for mass suicide attacks. They would have been ground to pieces by an American invasion, of course, but at great cost to our side. Professor Michael Walzer has offered a critique (printed in this volume) of this theory, but Fussell handles it easily.
    Fussell includes a very funny essay on British covert propaganda during World War II, a surprisingly comprehensive effort, including a bogus memoir by a fictitious Dutch boy and a bogus map showing Nazi plans for Latin America which was actually cited by FDR in a speech.
    There are important essays on the exfoliation of the pastoral mode and a surprisingly interesting essay on nude beaches in Yugoslavia. We also read amazing things about the cult of the mother early in this century. And much else. The volume ends with an important essay on Modernism, which makes the countercase, persuasively, for the poetry of Edmund Blunden. When a critic enables us to re-see such poetry as Blunden's, bringing it out from under the shadow of Eliot and Joyce, he has done us an immeasurable favor.
    There is an essay here on Orwell, and the presence of Orwell is pervasive throughout. For Fussell, as indeed for Trilling and others, Orwell is an exemplary figure. Orwell very often succeeded in seeing what was in front of his face, and he wrote about it in a style not only free from cant but possessed of a muscular ease that was the product of long effort.
    And here we approach what can only be called the greatness of Fussell, whose arguments, opinions, and observations are important, but whose voice, stance, and intellectual bearing are more important still. Fussell writes as well as Orwell, and his imaginative range--not to mention his learning--is greater...'

    http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n17_v40/ai_6600602

    Essay online here as PDF

    http://books.google.com.au/books?id=CqUEAAAAYAAJ&dq=inauthor:Paul+inauthor:Fussell&lr=&pgis=1
    4:15a
    Hocking a logie
    Philo Farnsworth was a self-educated farm boy from Rigby, Idaho, when he first sketched his idea for electronic television on a blackboard for his high school science teacher. Six years later, while competitors still struggled with mechanical television systems, Farnsworth successfully demonstrated his invention. He was 21.
    In 1930, Farnsworth was awarded the fundamental patents for modern television. He spent the next decade perfecting his invention, fighting off challenges to his patents by the giant Radio Corporation of America and defending his vision against his own shortsighted investors who did not share his larger dream of scientific independence.
    The Boy Who Invented Television traces Farnsworth’s “guided tour” of discovery, describing the observations he made in the course of developing his initial invention, and revealing how his unique insights brought him to the threshold of what might have been an even greater discovery—clean, safe, and unlimited energy from controlled nuclear fusion.
    4:22a
    Your no Gödel
    Toward the end of his life Einstein confided that his "own work no longer meant much, that he came to the Institute merely…to have the privilege of walking home with Gödel"

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_G%C3%B6del

    Against totality - towards an incomplete life
    4:34a
    Dark at night
    Down by the reservoir...the past is not an inert, settled fact, but a reservoir to be drawn upon to shatter the sameness and the apparent inevitability of the present.

    http://www.amazon.com/Secular-Age-Charles-Taylor/dp/0674026764

    "History can save your ass." - William Gibson
    It shows you how rat choice theory can be used to give you a much more sophisticated handle on things like market failure and collective action problems. You end up looking at your own arm and seeing the Micky fin, looking at the yeggs, and seeing the arm. I remember enjoying The making of the atomic bomb, a weapon of mass destruction vastly exceeding the potential of existing military arsenals. It's sort of a brain-dump intended to be consumable by a lay-person. Kind of like 'How Things Work', but it's all about deconstructing our industrial infrastructure; dams, mines, railroads, bridges, the power grid and the rest.
    Then try: The Code Book, it's a history of cryptography and code breaking. Computer security can be a pretty intimidating subject but it does not need to be. Internet crime is not a technology problem, its a people problem: no people, no crime.
    Nudge. It's about the way people make decisions, and what kind of incentives we really respond to. Ah, hell, let Barry take a crack at it. He'll get into the swing of things or I don't know wankers. Let's make it a dame, Barry, keep it simple. We don't gotta tackle the world our first time out. The important thing is we all have that Barry Fink feeling, but since you're Barry the Fink I'm assuming you have it in spades.
    4:58a
    DSP outflanked by the Salvation Army
    '...Building Socialist Alliance has not led to the DSP watering down our
    politics. The DSP continues to campaign strongly in defence of the
    Cuban and Venezuelan revolutions, against imperialist war, in defence
    of the environment, for union rights, indigenous rights and gay
    rights, for the right of oppressed nations to self-determination, etc....'

    Cuba is a Stalinist state and even locked up a Trotskite ( ELN) just recently. Venezuela is a parliamentary cretinous, Peronist style police state in a squalid alliance with Stalinists like China and Vietnam and Islamofascist rogue states like Iran.
    Against Imperialist war - yeah right. Some Marxists never shut up about anarchists supposed lack of insight into the enemies MO. Well look pretty much in vain for any DSP analysis about those Trotskycons who provided all the neo-Marxist ideological ammunition for this latest imperialist war. It would seem plain as day that Marxism itself is an imperialist totalizing ideology with bad results everywhere it is foisted on people.
    In defense of the environment - Marxist states have some of the worst environmental records in the world, though I suppose if we all starved like the North Koreans we might lower our carbon footprint.
    Marxists worship production as a God and giant tractor factories as the perfect environment for Marxist revolution. Its no accident that Marx was a petit-bourgeois parasite on the wealthy fox-hunting capitalist factory owner, Engels. Maybe when Marxists have a sustained record of sustainability we'll re-consider this harsh opinion. Maybe.
    Union rights?
    Well I haven't heard them critique the police union yet so there may be something to this. Then there was all the support for unionists making 80k a year and sending their kids to private schools...up the workers.
    Indigenous rights - this is where DSPers leave off sucking wealthy mansion living workers arseholes and finally acknowledge indigenous leadership in struggle. Palm Island and Redfern and many other riots prove that first Aussies are in the vanguard of social revolution today...Dream on. DSP? MIA
    Gay rights? - well their Palestinian rep is sure gung-ho for unprotected anal-sex. Then theres their spirited defense of Stan Goff and articles like this...

    From: International News
    GLW issue #672 - 21 June 2006:
    VENEZUELA: 'Socialism is our model'

    If all this is revolutionary then so is my local Uniting church or even Hillsong. Its a racket. A sick cult and a huge lie. Creeps like this give honest frauds a bad name. Revolution my arse.
    6:04a
    Dear old Ch9
    Today show

    [ Jose Ramos Horta ] '...who was almost killed earlier this year by rebels he was trying to help'.

    Full stop. End of news segment. Is that all there is?

    'Trying to help'... what exactly?

    Surrender?

    Seek directions to president Xananas?

    Put safety catch back on?

    Find God?

    Do the macarena? What?
    6:21a
    We're finally on our own
    I ran, you ran, we all ran from affirmative action

    Section 42.1(a) of 28 C.F.R. Part 42 of the Code of Federal Regulations provides that "It is the policy of the Department of Justice to seek to eliminate discrimination on the basis of...political affiliation...." Moreover, the Civil Service Reform Act also provides that any federal agency is prohibited from engagin in employment discrimination on the basis of political affiliation, and that "selection and advancement should be determined solely on the basis of relative ability, knowledge, and skills...." (5 U.S.C. Section 2301(b)) and further provides that "All employees and applicants for employment should receive fair and equitable treatment in all aspects of personnel management without regard to political affiliation...." (5 U.S.C. Section 2301((b)(2)).

    If any of the people hired under the program were true conservatives, they would resign at once rather than face the ridicule of their colleagues for being unqualified affirmative-action hires. Surely. Nope?
    - "Clinton fired all the US attorneys which is worse"
    - "It's normal for the party in power to want those who agree with it"
    - "They were just trying to balance out all the liberals"
    - "conservatives work harder and they just picked the hardworking ones"
    - "They're whining"

    By the same logic, I guess the armed forces should discriminate against Republicans. ( The CIA could have stolen a march on them here! )

    What I love about the promotion of affirmative action for conservatives in intellectually challenging areas like academics and DOJ law is one gets to listen to the right sputter out all sorts of entertaining rationales for why these particular areas have so few conservatives.
    Their conspiracy theories aside, their under-representation really has to do with core tenets of their own worldview, which has contempt for things like Rural Sociology or Civil Rights Enforcement.
    If they really care about being represented in these areas, they only need change their ideology to include valuing the pursuit of knowledge and the enforcement of equal opportunity. Seems a lot easier. But really you know I'm glad to see that they approve of affirmative action at the DoJ - mediocre morons need representation, too.
    The evangelizing of the Air Force was rationalized as a spoils system, too, but there are enough political appointments to satisfy most party apparatchiks in the government. Yoo don't say.
    Right out of the box Conyers asked Yoo, "Could the President order a suspect buried alive?"
    Yoo hemmed and hawed on that one, and later in the hearing he refused to answer some questions on the basis of attorney-client privilege (he is the attorney, DOJ his former client).
    David Addington, a leading architect of the unitary executive: I don't even know what the theory of the unitary executive means. And from Sen. John Ensign (R-NV), chair of the Republicans Senate Campaign Committee ...

    "Energy is actually a huge opportunity for Republicans. Energy has the opportunity to change the climate if it's done right."

    Kinky sexual energy - for someone who's always quick to invoke her strict Catholic beliefs to paint liberals as loathsome lawbreakers, K-Lo sure has a hard time admitting she likes Santorum up the butt. Oh well, I don't mean to get up on my high horse, but why shouldn't we look at ourselves up there? Who cares about the Fifth Earl of Bastrop and Lady Higginbottom and - and - and who killed Nigel Grinch-Gibbons? How to get ahead. The Pennsylvania governor says it's time for Bill to "get over" the primary and "shake it off."

    But he is attached to the legislative branch?

    Addington: That's the quote I read you.

    Cohen: So he's kind of a barnacle.

    (voice off camera): Kind of a what?!

    Addington: He is attached. . . the word was attached by the Constitution to the latter. I don't consider the Constitution as a barnacle*, Mr. Cohen.

    Cohen: No, the Vice President. ( Biggus Dickus) Since he's really not fish or fowl, he's just attached to something.

    PRESIDENT BUSH: Madam President, it is a pleasure to welcome you back to the Oval Office. We have just had a very constructive dialogue. First, I want to tell you how proud I am to be the President of a nation that -- in which there's a lot of Philippine-Americans. They love America and they love their heritage. And I reminded the President that I am reminded of the great talent of the -- of our Philippine-Americans when I eat Malkin at the White House. (Laughter.)

    * Long time porn-star Ron Jeremy is known as the Barnacle because the shellfish has one of the largest penis's in the animal kingdom. Ron is a long time Liberal and possibly available for the Veep slot. Many politico's do everything in their power to insulate themselves from the common man - from where they live, from where they trade, from where they fight and love and converse and - and - and. . . so naturally their work suffers, and regresses into empty formalism and - well, I'm spouting off again, but to put it in GOP language, the Senate becomes as phony as a three-dollar bill.
    6:42a
    Tin roof
    Wired’s “The Petabyte Age.“

    Sensors everywhere. Infinite storage. Clouds of processors. Our ability to capture, warehouse, and understand massive amounts of data is changing science, medicine, business, and technology. As our collection of facts and figures grows, so will the opportunity to find answers to fundamental questions. Because in the era of big data, more isn’t just more. More is different.
    We need Indians for a Norman Steele western. Word on the street is that our friend Barry heard ' Seize the time' as ' seize the Timex'. At least I already own a George Foreman Grill and several hundred feet of AC cord and a sleeping bag. I’m ready for the underpass. Baby boomer retirement baby….throw another rodent on the grill.

    Bob Barr may be an SOB, but now he’s our SOB. - RUSS IN 08!

    LATE BREAKING...Ninefingers writes...Bud, please don't keep running around with yr hair on fire for the fucking forth. Round here thats just external lighting. But seriously NO! Your second amendment rights remain absolutely intact.
    7:04a
    Whoops, I did it again
    Ch9 newsdroid reads out the same Ramos Horta spiel.

    ' ...earlier this year he was shot by rebels he was trying to help'.

    I think I'm getting it now though.
    Jose was trying to 'help the rebels' the same way Bush was trying to help Iraq. ( Jose was for Operation Iraqi Liberation )
    Think about it, Fink. Writers come and go; we always need Indians.

    ' Help the bombardier!' - Yossarian
    7:41a
    Peachy keen
    Russ Feingold didn’t hit my radar until his sole vote against the (then shocking) patriot act. Clearly brilliant and a man of true conviction.
    A look at his financial statements convinced me he’s an honest man :-). One of the few critters whose financial statements indicate that he doesn’t run with the big dogs - moderate credit card debt and home mortgages - just like constituents with houses and kids to educate.
    He’s beautifully educated (Rhodes scholar if memory serves) and started his career with a fine regional law firm. No doubt he could be a rich man if he’d so chosen. Definitely one of those elusive better democrats. Protectionist - but no ones perfetc.

    Who the fuck needs Barry to flush more money down this toilet?

    As TPMmuckraker reports, not only did the Pentagon ignore a State Department watchlist in awarding a defense contract to AEY, Inc., those 20-something dudes from Florida, but the State Department itself ignored its own watchlist in awarding separate arms contracts to AEY. Barry White likes and respects the worlds largest bureaucracy and just wants to give them mo'yo money. Fuck me. Go back to Indonesia you fucking doofus.
    It's sad to see articulate and intelligent, if terribly misguided, wankers still trying to justify their FISA catastrophe by claiming its no different from STASI East Germany.

    Theocracy now

    '...couples who are not talking or touching can be reprimanded. Sabrina Poirier, a student at Pensacola who withdrew in 1997, was disciplined for what is known on the campus as "optical intercourse" — staring too intently into the eyes of a member of the opposite sex. This is also referred to as "making eye babies."

    With Barry you get egg-roll. Blech this day the Lord has made.

    A new poll of citizens’ attitudes about torture in 19 nations finds Americans among the most accepting of the practice. Although a slight majority say torture should be universally prohibited, 44 percent think torture of terrorist suspects should be allowed, and more than one in 10 think torture should generally be allowed.
    The findings of the WorldPublicOpinion.org poll put the United States alongside countries like Russia, Egypt and the Ukraine and lagging far behind allies like Great Britain, Spain and France in how its citizens view torture.
    The poll found 53 percent of Americans believed all torture should be prohibited; the average in all 19 countries polled was 57 percent.

    The Jack Bauer-ization of the torture question, the mainstreaming of cruel and unusual punishment, the ability for the right to demagogue this issue for six years, means that so much of this bipartisan condemnation is coming a little too late. God Damn Amerika!

    WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of 200 former government officials, retired generals and religious leaders plans to issue a statement on Wednesday calling for a presidential order to outlaw some interrogation and detention practices used by the Bush administration over the last six years.
    The executive order they seek would commit the government to using only interrogation methods that the United States would find acceptable if used by another country against American soldiers or civilians.
    It would also outlaw secret detentions, used since 2001 by the Central Intelligence Agency, and prohibit the transfer of prisoners to countries that use torture or cruel treatment. The C.I.A. has allowed terrorism suspects to be taken to such countries.
    Among the signers is George P. Shultz, secretary of state under President Ronald Reagan. “It’s a good time to step back, take a deep breath and set a standard,” Mr. Shultz said in an interview.

    Place impeachment on the table

    Harry? How's Pelosi's ass smell this morning?. . . Yeah?. . .Yeah?. . .Okay, the reason I'm calling, I got a wanker here, Barry the Fink, all screwy. Says I'm producing that Wallace Beery wrestling picture - what'm I, the goddamn janitor around here? . . . Yeah, well who'd you get that from? . . . Yeah, well tell Pelosi she can kiss my dimpled
    ass . . . Shit! No, alright . . . No, no, all right.
    7:44a
    No joke
    Dear Mr. Foxman,
    I respectfully disagree with your assessment of my position. First of all, I have never said that Jewish neocons were the primary reason we went to war in Iraq. The reason we went to war was that George Bush was foolish and uninformed, and his primary advisors were even more foolishly bellicose. But Jewish neoconservatives certainly played a subsidiary role in providing an intellectual rationale for the war. In a 2003 column, I called their arguments "the casus belli that dare not speak its name." The notion of a "benign domino theory"--benign, that is, for the interests of Israel—was certainly abroad in the community during that time. I had several off the record conversations with prominent Jewish conservatives who cited it. And there is now, in my opinion, an even more dangerous tendency among Jewish neoconservatives to encourage a pre-emptive attack on Iran's nuclear program. Their gleeful, intellectual warmongering—given the vast dangers and complexities of an attack on Iran--is nauseating.

    You write: "There can be no question that in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, legitimate and serious American security and foreign policy interests played a critical role in President Bush's decision to attack Iraq." Well, I question it. And so do a fairly thick slice of the diplomatic, intelligence and military communities, who believe that Iraq was a tragic, costly and, above all, bloody diversion from the battle against those who actually attacked us on September 11.

    I am disappointed, but not surprised, by your claim of antisemitism. But that's what you do for a living, isn't it? I find your "outrage" particularly galling because the people you defend are constantly spewing canards against those who favor talking to the Palestinians, or who don't favor witless bellicosity when it comes to Iran. Their campaign of defamation has cost people jobs, damaged reputations and careers. I am very tired of having reasonable people accused of being "soft on terrorism" or "unpatriotic" or favoring "surrender"--Joe Lieberman's favorite—by Jewish neoconservatives who seem to have a neurotic need to prove their toughness. They, and you, should know that most Jews disagree with their politics and many Jews are disgusted with their behavior. They, and you, should know that the tendency to "cry wolf" about antisemitism does real harm to the Jewish community—indeed, in this case, it is laughable.
    Best Wishes,
    Joe Klein

    http://www.adl.org/media_watch/Letter_response_jKlein.asp

    BTW I never ever use the term ' Jewish neocons'. I much prefer Trotskycon or Marxist neocon. This is not a racial or religious thing I have against neocons - its an ideological thing.
    Also while I see Marxism (and to a far lesser degree Freudianism) as a great evil, I still maintain the greatest respect for socialists like Goldman, Berkman, Einstein ,Chomsky who also happen to be Jews.
    As a Left ( ie democratic and libertarian socialist) anarchist I also disassociate myself where-ever possible from the rancid anti-semitism of some anti-state Right 'anarchists'.
    Some of my favorite artists are Jews.
    On the question of occupied Palestine I understand the circumstances that led to most of this - ie I don't deny the Shoah - and simply condemn it now on traditional anti-colonialist, anti-apartheid arguments.
    I would welcome a large influx of well compensated Jews here following decolonization. The Jews that have already come here have greatly contributed to all that is best about this place.
    In spite of my fondness for bad-taste jokes and violent anti-religious/statist beliefs this is one thing I've been consistent on for decades. I will not remain silent in the face of racism in general and anti-semitism in particular. I think the best way to minimize anti-Semitism is through strengthening and extending the separation of church and state. Religious wars of the late-middle ages killed even more people - seven million - than the Shoah and the general peace of the treaty of Westphalia stood up quite well till 1914.
    Sorry for this unpardonable lapse into po-faced pomposity - normal services shall now resume.

    Don't worry about it. It's just a B picture. I bring it in on budget, they'll book it without even screening it. Life is too short.
    8:05a
    Wedgie alert
    [ Mc Cain ] should talk to Lomborg. And do so very publicly. And do so now.

    Andrew Stuttaford

    YES! And take on-board Lomborg's most sensible advice on open borders. ' TEAR DOWN THIS WALL!'

    Wallace Beery. Wrestling picture. What do you need, a road map?
    2:37p
    No love for Chaves
    HALT! Hugo's there!
    '...Iran’s opposition is no friend of the West, nor a friend of freedom and democracy. The opposition’s leaders may be less extreme than Ahmadinejad, but the differences are relatively small. They may be moderate to Iranian standards, but that doesn’t mean a lot. After all, if you don’t call for the destruction of Israel and the Israeli people on a daily basis, you’re already a ‘moderate’ in the opinion of most Iranians.
    One such opposition party, and one that has been embraced - to a degree - by the West, is the People’s Mujahedeen of Iran (MEK). It was initially put on the terrorism list of the UK, but the British Parliament removed the MEK from that list this Monday. Furthermore, this group is the organization responsible for Western knowledge about Iran’s nuclear program. They are the ones who leaked information about this program to us.
    So, many seem to think, this means that they should be in charge of Iran; they can’t be as bad as the Mullahs. They’ve got to be a force for democracy and freedom; after all, they say they are.

    But there’s a problem; they’re not...' - MORE ON

    http://poligazette.com/2008/06/26/irans-opposition-friend-or-foe/

    No love for democratic socialism

    '...Communist Party of India–Marxist (CPI-M) cadre and Congress activists went for each others throat. The two sides had firearms. Brickbats were hurled and when the police tried to intervene they were attacked. The police fired 15 rounds in the air.
    The MLA, however, alleged later that the police were silent onlookers. He said the police in league with the CPI (M) cadre had attacked Congressmen. He claimed he was shot at by Marxist party workers and three more of his associates received bullet injuries while trying to save him. They have been admitted to Malda hospital and are being operated on...'

    Google alerts ' Marxist'
    2:45p
    Serious revolutionaries at work
    Actually more like young morons in love

    Re: [GreenLeft_discussion] Re: Finding Nemo
    OK Bjorn Olav Kvidal
    Your good friend Karsten Johansen knows you well and has pointed out your modus
    operandi, to spray disinformation and irrelevant arguments around left
    lists...many left lists all over the world much as the virus you so aptly
    adopted for your "online" name. Rather that constructive debate these messages
    are an attempt at sabotage...a terrorist activity. But its not the only user
    name you have is it Bjorn, there are in fact a few?
    So lets follow the links...Nemo is a member of RevLeft (where he lists his
    interests in fetishism) and his website as www.geocities.com/youcreatedcosmos/
    That website is facilitated by Bjorn. Read the story of Bjorn and his encounter
    with the work for dole...such an intellectual being asked to contribute to the
    community.... As Bjorn Nemo is the facilitator of the Yahoo groups
    Exrailean...IE some one who once obsessively subscribed to the "prophet" (and
    another fetishist) Rael but has now seen the light and is obsessing about the
    prophet Marx. Bjorn has developed a very convincing theory...although not all
    that original...that GOD is actually an ALIEN CIVILISATION!!!!! Was it Heinlen
    that termed the phrase Gallactic Organisations and Dominions? This established
    Bjorn as a credible UFOligist where he is has contributed on a number of
    occasions to capitalist media such as The Business Report!
    Tenuous link? OK, Bjorns email address is revsocialdemocrats@ XXXXXX (see
    http://www.itk.ntnu.no/ansatte/Andresen_Trond/kk-f/2005/0427.html) Nemo's email
    address is......you guessed it revsocialdemocrats@XXXXXXX (see
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/exraelians/msearch?query=Nemo&submit=Search&charse\
    t=windows-1252 )
    Of course out of curiosity you are going to want to look at
    http://profiles.yahoo.com/youcreatedcosmos
    I guess that "close encounter" in 06092000 really addled your brain Nemo....or
    is it the latex underwear??????
    I cant see how, Bjorn, that when you are more than happy to accept handouts from
    the capitalist state, enjoy a capitalist state education and yet when asked to
    join the "working class" to return something to the community....a public
    library is hardly a state capitalist institution... you dont refuse on political
    grounds, you dont make a statement of belief and accept the consequences but
    instead enter the system and then make a purile attempt, much as you do on left
    lists...to sabotage and undermine the team and the service. A martyr, Bjorn,
    accepts the consequences of their action and takes their puishment as a hero but
    you squirm and wiggle like a, a, Im not going to say it......
    There is plenty of evidence of Nemo/Bjorn's deception and betrayel of the
    working class, Ill leave it to others to unravel his lies but...as is happening
    on so many other lists and blogs...I would call for this agent provocatuers
    instant removal from Green Left.

    Daniel Moran

    [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
    2:53p
    Boycott racist Australia
    STOP TOURISM
    I think the word needs to get out about rapidly spreading racist apartheid in Australia. After a year of 'State-of-Siege' tactics against first Australians the rot is spreading to the private sector.
    A GROUP of young men was ejected from a Kings Cross nightspot after allegedly being told the venue had "an unwritten rule" about patrons of Lebanese descent.
    Sydney draftsman Malkoun Taouk, 21, said he and his cousins, Charlie and Anthony Taouk, and their friend Sam Tarabay were "shocked and upset" by the request from a bouncer at the Iguana Bar in Kings Cross, made during a night out last Saturday.
    Mr Taouk said the group, which was celebrating Charlie's 21st birthday, had spent about an hour at the venue and had just bought a second round of drinks when they were asked to go.
    "The security guard approached us and said his boss told him to tell us to leave because it was pretty much an unwritten rule as to why we had to go," Mr Taouk said yesterday.
    "We pretty much understood that it was because we were Lebanese."
    Despite being hurt and angry about their treatment, the group decided to do as the security guard had requested.
    "He said it in a nice way and he was patient with us and so we thought we'd just get our stuff and we left," Mr Taouk said.
    "We thought if we sat there and argued with the guy, it'd just end up causing trouble and maybe a fight, so we just went.
    "All we wanted was to have a few drinks and a bit of a laugh.
    "We had no plans to make trouble with anyone and it was very upsetting to hear, 'Guys, you have to go'."
    Mr Taouk said he had initially thought to challenge the bouncer about the Iguana Bar's "unwritten rule".
    "We asked politely anyway, 'What rule are we breaking?'," he recalled. "(The response was,) 'No Lebanese, sorry'."
    The fact that he and the rest of his party were, in fact, Australian-born just compounded the insult.
    "I've always thought of myself as an Aussie and consider Australia my home. Why shouldn't I? Im an Australian citizen. I was born and raised in Sydney," Mr Taouk said.
    The Iguana Bar did not return phone calls or emails yesterday. - END

    Tourism is a top money earner for racist apartheid Australia yet if Nelson Mandela came here he would probably be deported. BOYCOTT AUSTRALIA!
    3:01p
    Keelhaul Barry
    '...Dodd and Feingold have signed off on a unanimous consent agreement to hold debate on four amendments (one of them immunity) on July 8, and then hold the vote then.

    Here's Feingold's short statement on the delay.

    I'm pleased we were able to delay a vote on FISA until after the July 4th holiday instead of having it jammed through. I hope that over the July 4th holiday, Senators will take a closer look at this deeply flawed legislation and understand how it threatens the civil liberties of the American people. It is possible to defend this country from terrorists while also protecting the rights and freedoms that define our nation.

    And here's Dodd's statement on it.

    I’m pleased that consideration of the FISA Amendments Act has been delayed until after the 4th of July recess. I urge my colleagues to take this time to listen to their constituents and consider the dangerous precedent that would be set by granting retroactive immunity to the telecommunications companies that may have engaged in President Bush’s illegal wiretapping program.

    When and if FISA does come back to the Senate floor, I will offer my amendment to strip the retroactive immunity provision out of the bill. I implore my colleagues to support the rule of law and join me in voting against retroactive immunity.

    So we've got 12 days to convince our Senators to stop channeling the barnacle ...' - FIREDOGLAKE

    12 DAYS TO KEELHAUL BARRY!
    3:54p
    Bi-partisan Barry
    Tall slim well tanned man with small penis seeks well hung red hot military man for threesome with ugly wife

    On virtually every major controversial issue -- particularly, though not only, ones involving national security and terrorism -- the Republicans (including their vaunted mythical moderates and mavericks) vote in almost complete lockstep in favor of the President, the Democratic caucus splits, and the Republicans then get their way on every issue thanks to "bipartisan" support. That's what "bipartisanship" in Washington means.

    Ruddy hell

    '...there has been at least 14 instances where Obama blamed his staff, often anonymously, for misrepresenting his views and being responsible for other campaign mistakes.

    Asked for comment Barry responded by SMS . 'All of us undomesticated wankers eventually make their way out here to the Great Anal Salt Lick. Mebbe that's why I allus have such a powerful tongue thrust.'

    Big Government GOP [Andrew Stuttaford]

    There was a chance that the Internet gambling ban might be scrapped or diluted. That chance has now gone (at least for this year) thanks to a vote in the House Financial Services Committee, and who's to blame for that? Why (with honorable exceptions such as Peter King and Ron Paul) the Republican members of the committee, Republicans who apparently believe that Americans cannot be trusted with their own money, Republicans who believe that the role of the Congress is to stand in loco parentis for the entire American people. The big government Republican who led the opposition (one Spencer Bachus) on the committee to internet gambling justified his meddling in terms so familiar, so hackneyed, so insincere, and so nauseating that they can only be the ramblings of a member of the political class:

    "..Our children are worth protecting, and the cost of protecting them is worthy and worthwhile."

    Ah yes, "the children".

    [Larry] Hunter blogged on June 6: "The Republican Party is a dead rotting carcass with a few decrepit old leaders stumbling around like zombies in a horror version of 'Weekend With Bernie,' handcuffed to a corpse."
    4:59p
    A little social lubricant, Mistuh Fink?
    He's a selfish, power-hungry, inexperienced Anarchist-hating country club elitist. Case in point...

    "To be clear: Barack will support a filibuster of any bill that includes retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies."

    I'm still waiting for somebody to explain to me when it all of a sudden became risky to stand up to Mr. 25% & the unitary executive theory.

    As for Colon Bowell

    Of what value is an endorsement from the one man on this planet who may, just may have had sufficient prestige to have de-spoked the Cheney-Bush war wagon and was too gutless to do so. Colin Powell was and is the biggest disappointment of my lifetime; no other public figure who could have given so much to the nation has ever given so little and is so deserving of contempt. Perfectly positioned as Sec of State, possessing his own intell capability, supported by loyal staff and almost certainly bright enough to have known the right thing to do, Powell Uncle Tom'd it. Preferring to serve at the president's pleasure while dis-serving the people of the United States and the Constitution. His shameful conduct during the run-up to war proved that in his previous service he had never truly been tested as a soldier, a man or as an American. Surely he had not - else he would not have acted so dishonorably when his time came to stand up.
    His reputation is beyond salvation and so, I hope, is his soul. Could he not, at long last, come clean, tell what he knows, apologize to the nation and go away forever? Is that too much to ask?
    Posted by: Tex Ret Army

    Yes. colin powell endorsement would be one more tell-tale-sign. But... whatever. Change you can get sucked into...suckers.

    Powell apparently had his spine removed and/or was replaced by a replicant willing to do the administration's biddings, no questions asked.

    For what it`s worth (basically nothing) I wouldn`t stop to urinate on Mr. Powell if he was on fire.
    Every chance he has had to take the correct action he has failed; the UN presentation was only one among many (see My Lai for starters).

    "During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell
    Posted by: daCascadian

    For Colin Powell to tell the American people forthrightly that he knows for a fact that Cheney and Bush deliberately lied to the American people, the United States Congress and -- through Powell himself -- to the United Nations Security Council and the entire world in order to justify their long-planned war of unprovoked aggression against Iraq would be FAR more valuable to the nation than for him to endorse Obama.
    Posted by: SecularAnimist

    As far as how the leftwing bloggers and progressives in general would react to Powell -the word is out-- nobody cares. O's team effectively is saying "your day in the limelight" was securing the DEM nomination for Obama -bow out gracefully and fall on your swords. --Your job now is regulated to securing money for Obama. And as his policy goals change and he becomes more and more apparent, he will show himself --- as blackagendareport argued all along--- to be the political twin of Hillary Clinton.

    Just more proof - obama is not about change - he is just going to carry on the neocon agenda while distracting people with his rhetoric.
    He is more reprehensible than mccain who at least tells you that he is a neocon and anti-democracy.
    I hope to see obama's campaign "crash" bigtime, let mccain finish what the chimp started. Let the history books show that it was the republicans that destroyed our democracy.
    6:23p
    A freshman here, eager for an upperclassman's council.
    Will you be writing in Goofy? He is a collaborator with the Bush regime. McSame and O'Same both voted for the bill.

    "Bipartisan usually means that a larger-than-usual deception is being carried out." George Carlin

    What's particularly amazing about this whole process is that the House leadership unveiled this bill for the first time today -- and then scheduled the vote on it for tomorrow. No hearings. Nothing. They all have less than 24 hours to "read" the bill and decide whether to eviscerate the rule of law and the Fourth Amendment. I recall Democrats long complaining that they were only given one day before being forced back in September, 2001 to vote on the Patriot Act, yet here they are -- even without the excuse of the 9/11 attack.

    Barack Obama is an elitist son of a goat herder.

    When you think about it, Obama is counting on the support of his 1.5 million netroots supporters. And then he goes and flunks his first test as a leader. He may find himself in some serious financial jeopardy soon. I know I discontinued my monthly contribution and I know several other people who have done the same.

    If we can't influence him to do the right thing, then I guess he's nothing more than another mealy mouth politician.

    Here's what burns me. Obama could lock elbows with Feingold, Schumer and the lot of them, and YES, McCain would call him weak on terrorism, but guess what? McCain is going to call him weak on terrorism ANYWAY. And it amazes me how people have zero faith in Obama's ability to argue on behalf of the constitution. The man was a constitutional scholar and teacher. The notion that we have a choice whether to (a) get Dems elected or (b) protect the constitution is preposterous. The world is full of fucked up false choices, but this has to be one of the most fucked uppiest.

    "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." -Thomas Jefferson

    BTW any bomb now is a WMD if it's larger than grenade-sized.

    ‘‘(p) ‘Weapon of mass destruction’ means—
    ‘‘(1) any explosive, incendiary, or poison gas device that is designed, intended, or has the capability to cause a mass casualty incident;

    This vastly expands the number of weapons that could be considered WMD's, which vastly expands the number of groups which have them.
    I'll be they're expecting to use that to go after lots more using the WMD as a justification. A day after the new FISA went into effect Iran, for example, would possess WMD's.

    Rubus Eradicandus Est.

    Some beer farts might meet that definition of WMD.
    They're going to prove that they found WMD in Iraq even if it takes Bud lite and pork and beans to do it.

    by TerribleTom
    6:33p
    Scooping up the puke
    '...It looks like the House Judiciary Committee will finally play hardball with Attorney General Michael Mukasey.
    Committee chairman John Conyers (D-MI) has been requesting a range of documents from DOJ for a long time. Some of the issues date back as far as Election Day 2002, when Republicans in New Hampshire jammed the phone lines for a Democratic get-out-the-vote call bank, an effort one GOP operative said was modeled on the U.S. Marines tactic of jamming the enemies communications.
    Now Conyers has the authority to subpoena that stack of records after the subcommittee on commercial and administrative law took a vote today and gave him the formal go-ahead.
    They're looking for records of interviews from the DOJ investigation into who leaked the identify of CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson, documents that may shed light on allegations of selective prosecution, and the details behind the replacement of Minnesota's U.S. Attorney Rachel Paulose. The committee is also requesting Office of Legal Counsel memos and enforcement reports from the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. ..' - FROM

    http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/06/house_judiciary_commiitee_gets.php

    Bush, Cheney's FBI Interviews Subpoenaed
    By Andrew Tilghman - June 16, 2008, 12:40PM
    At first Rep. Henry Waxman asked politely.

    But today the chairman of the House Government Oversight and Reform Committee issued subpoenas for the FBI's paperwork stemming from interviews of Vice President Cheney and President Bush regarding the outing of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson...' - FROM

    http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/06/cheneys_fbi_interview_subpoena.php

    Aye the plays the thing.
    This is the killer-app with which to impeach the chimp - simply press on the Plame thang again and again.
    Just the thing we need to catch a king!
    7:12p
    Independent Australia worth fighting for
    You know, in a way, I envy you Kevin. Your daily routine - you know what's expected. You know the drill. My job is to plumb the depths, so to speak, dredge something up from inside, something honest. There's no road map for that territory . ..however you and I both know that the Queen will sooner-or-later topple off the throne. That will be the acid test of the Alternative Liberal Party.
    If nothing is ready for Au to move quickly to independence then the ALP will have failed the most fundamental test of workplace relations. What is required is really quite simple. A referendum to confirm that most Aussies want a republic and then legislation proving for an elected GG - one without reserve powers.
    So long as the GG doesn't possess reserve powers then it hardly matters if direct election or house election is used. The reserve powers can either default to our usual elected leaders... or maybe join our rights in a generally recognized sort-of-limbo. One thing is certain - the ALP leader who doesn't provide for this perfectly forseeable future will be forever damned by posterity and live on only in infamy.

    Over to you Kevvie

    Don't be a grovelling, lickspittle flunky and maggot to power all yr miserable, impoverished, pathetic and poor excuse for a life.
    8:01p
    They don't believe her
    Secretary of state, Condoleeza ' We-don't-torture' Rice is a liar

    But don't just take my word for it.

    '...The coalition released its statement June 25 with more than 200 prominent signatures, including former secretaries of State George Shultz and Madeleine Albright, former secretaries of Defense Harold Brown and William Cohen, national security advisers, retired military leaders, counterterrorism experts, and religious leaders...' - FROM

    Ban torture for security's sake, coalition tells Bush - By Jane Lampman

    And sack Condi Rice, for fucks sake
    8:07p
    Memories...
    Of the way ELF were
    MINGORA, Pakistan, June 26 (Reuters) - Islamist militants burned down a hotel at Pakistan's only ski resort on Thursday as security in a northwestern tourist valley deteriorated despite a month-old peace pact, police said.
    The Swat valley, several hours drive on mountain roads from the capital, Islamabad, was until last year a prime tourist destination with ancient Buddhist ruins, a golf course, trout streams and the ski resort.
    "Half of the hotel has been burned down," said Swat's police chief, Waqif Khan, referring to the only hotel at the Malam Jabba ski resort. The hotel is owned by the state tourism authority.
    Khan said authorities had not been able to get to the resort to tackle the blaze or inspect the damage.

    "The area is not under our control, it's under the militants' control and no one can go there," he said.
    9:43p
    Save our angel
    The Defend Our Porn DVD is the first DVD compilation to contain scenes from every current Evil Angel director and former Evil Angel director Jules Jordan.
    All of Evil Angel's proceeds from the movie will go into the legal defense fund to defend Evil Angel against the recent federal indictments on obscenity, and at the end of the case all remaining funds will continue to be used to fight the government's war on pornography. These scenes and all production costs related to creating this DVD were donated in support of Evil Angel.
    On April 8, 2008, charges of obscenity were filed against John Stagliano and his companies John Stagliano Inc and Evil Angel Productions Inc. The movies charged were Milk Nymphos, Storm Squirters 2 and a trailer of Belladonna: Fetish Fanatic 5 on the Evil Angel website.
    The organization Defend Our Porn was founded to spearhead the legal defense fund and DefendOurPorn.org was launched as a place for John to post comments and for fans to read articles related to obscenity cases. There is a guestbook on the site for fans to post their thoughts.
    “We received a tremendous amount of support from friends, colleagues and fans who asked what they could do to help,” said general manager Chris Norman.
    “John didn’t want to accept any offers of monetary donations because a prosecution like this has always been a possibility, and he was willing to accept that and face the legal fight.”
    Then Evil Angel director Christoph Clark came up with the idea of a compilation DVD from the Evil Angel directors. Each director offered a previously-released scene, and former director Jules Jordan when approached offered one of his former Evil Angel scenes to be included.
    “I feel that this is perfect. When I heard about the charges, I wanted to do something to help John and Evil Angel. There are a lot of fans that want to do something to help John, and this DVD gives them a chance to get an excellent DVD for their money that they wanted to donate. It’s also a great way to get the word out about what’s going on,” said company director Belladonna, who appears in two scenes in the DVD set – one from one of her own movies, and one from Jules Jordan.
    The Defend Our Porn DVD is a 3-DVD set containing 16 scenes and totaling 10 hours of porn. The scenes are trademark Evil Angel-quality sex, with each one showing the flair of its own director. Karen Stagliano, John’s wife, added, “I personally know quite a few of the girls in the scenes in this movie, and all of them have a love for expressing their sexuality and enjoying being a performer in porn. I truly believe that their love and enjoyment for what they’re doing is a highlight in their scenes.”
    Included is an original scene from Karen Stagliano, also known as former performer Tricia Devereaux. Retired from performing for the past 9 years, she is dominated by Derrick Pierce. She decided that in the scene she wanted to get spanked and have Derrick use dildos and anal toys on her.
    Karen and Derrick waived performing fees for the scene, as did cameraman Jay Sin, location owner Joey Silvera and Derrick's agent LA Direct Models. Also donating services towards the making of the DVD are authorer DVDemon, graphics company Art Attack Design, printer Great Western Litho and DVD replicator Sunshine.
    John Stagliano comments, “Evil Angel was singled out for this prosecution because the government is making an assault on more mainstream pornography, and not just the extreme fringe. I am honored to be called upon to defend our industry in this fight and I appreciate this support.”
    Defend Our Porn starts shipping nationwide today and will be available in stores and online on July 3, just in time for Independence Day. The trailer including a full flash version will be available on evilangel.com. There will also be copies for sale at the Bondage Ball (Bondage Ball.com) at the Henry Fonda Theatre on the night of July 3.
    The scene list for Defend Our Porn:

    Scene 1 – Melissa Lauren and Nacho Vidal (Fashionistas Safado: Berlin) - John Stagliano
    Scene 2 – Naomi and James Deen (Naomi: There’s Only One) - John Leslie
    Scene 3 – Kelly Stafford and Rocco Siffredi (Rocco’s Way to Love) - Rocco Siffredi
    Scene 4 – Sasha Grey, Mark Wood and Johnny Thrust (Face Fucking Inc) - Joey Silvera
    Scene 5 – Cherry Jul, Mik Blue, Mike Chapman, Roly Reeves, Omar Galanti (Angel Perverse 8) - Christoph Clark
    Scene 6 – Avy Scott and Nacho Vidal (Back 2 Evil) - Nacho Vidal
    Scene 7 – Belladonna and Lexington Steele (Cock Happy) - Belladonna
    Scene 8 – Eva Angelina in gangbang (E for Eva) - Jonni Darkko
    Scene 9 – Tara White and Manuel Ferrara (Evil Anal 4) - Manuel Ferrara
    Scene 10 – Mia Rose and Manuel Ferrara (Own My Ass) - Jake Malone
    Scene 11 – Dana DeArmond, Holly Wellin and Andrew Andretti (Gape Lovers) - Jay Sin
    Scene 12 – Nikki Jayne in DP scene (The Intitiation of Nikki Jayne) - Harmony Films
    Scene 13 – Gabriella Mai, Nick Lang and Frank Gun (Ass Traffic 4) - Raul Cristian
    Scene 14 – Sandra Romain and Jazz Duro (Cheek Freaks 2) - Jazz Duro
    Scene 15 – Belladonna and Jules Jordan (Ass Worship) - Jules Jordan
    Scene 16 – Tricia Devereaux and Derrick Pierce - original scene directed by Tricia Devereaux with Jay Sin

    Please call your local distributor, or if your distributor does not carry Evil Angel, contact Sandee or Jessica at 800-442-6435. - ADULT FYI

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