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Either the leisure class has nothing better to do...
Or 'The Wall Street Journal' loved the psy-ops in 'The Good Wife' so much...they jizzed out an entire transcript of last nights episode:

Source: Wall Street Journal (April 13, 2011)

Former Senator Fred Thompson plays an actor turned lawyer who turns up, explaining that the Venezuelan government has nationalized Latin Star.

Chavez is changing the law so there can be no fair market assessment. He has that power whenever he sees it necessary to protect the interest of Venezuela.

“Oh my God,” says Will. “It’s like being in a Woody Allen movie.”

The judge then rules that it would be in everyone’s interest for Lockhart, Gardner to join Frank in representing Chavez in the lawsuit.

“Great,” mutters Will. “We have a dictator for a client.”

A lot of incomprehensible back and forth leads to Will getting $87 mill, the extra bucks explained as “standard surcharge for dictators.”

There was good reason to ignore Venezuela's countless internationally monitored elections, billions of dollars paid out for takeovers, & astoundingly uncharismatic lawyers.

The American government, CBS, & Exxon could not let 'The Apple Pirates' go unchallenged:

Source: CBC Radio 3 (April 12, 2011)

Watch this great bunch of kids called the Apple Pirates covering Arkells’ song “The Ballad of Hugo Chavez”.

Hahaha! Cute cover of an old song that still gets rotation up here:

Album: Arkells - Jackson Square

Song: The Ballad Of Hugo Chavez

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QUOTED FOR LIFE

New state officials
Are outside runnin' around...
They're telling the public
That I need...
To be put down

And Washington's saying...
Emphatically...
That I wasn't doing things
Democratically.

But in the...
(Pop! Pop!)
Night...
Of the sun...
(Hey! Hey! Hey!)

I guess the earthquake destroyed math

I asked these dumbasses to calculate the popular vote. They gave me performance art.

Haiti just completed its two-round presidential election process.

These were the final results from the first round election in 2010:

Source: CIA FactBook & Provisional Electoral Council

Haiti
Total population: 9,719,932
Total eligible voters: 4,712,693
Total votes cast: 1,074,056

Michel Martelly
Total votes cast: 234,617
Popular support among eligible voters: 5%
Popular support among the population: 2.5%

Mirlande Manigat
Total votes cast: 336,878
Popular support among eligible voters: 7%
Popular support among the population: 3.5%

Popular support among eligible voters

These were the preliminary results from the second round election in 2011:

Source: CIA FactBook & Haiti Libre

Haiti
Total population: 9,719,932
Total eligible voters : 4,694,961
Tota votes cast: 1,053,733

Michel Martelly
Total votes cast: 716,986
Popular support among eligible voters: 15%
Popular support among the population: 7%

Mirlande Manigat
Total votes cast: 336,747
Popular support among eligible voters: 7%
Popular support among the population: 3.5%

Popular support among eligible voters

And this was the batshit crazy analysis coming out of North America:

Source: The New York Times

One of Haiti's most popular entertainers was elected president in a landslide, according to results announced Monday.

It appears that Haitians believed that only a political outsider like Mr. Martelly could change the country's direction.

Source: Reuters

"Martelly's victory implies a rejection of the political class that has both governed and been in the opposition," said Robert Fatton Jr., a Haiti expert and professor in the University of Virginia's Department of Politics.

"Martelly captured the mood of the voters by cleverly using his 'bad boy' image to enhance his status as the ultimate 'outsider' who symbolized change," he told Reuters.

Source: Associated Press

“Micky is a political animal, and the political establishment failed to realize how much of a phenomenon he is,” said Garry Pierre-Pierre, editor and publisher of The Haitian Times, a New York-based newspaper. “This is a man who literally can get a million people to move to his groove.”

Hope these motherfuckers get buried under the landslide they're manufacturing.

Quid Pro Quo

Heee Heee! Heee! I own Al-Jeezy - and they'll never tell you how I helped kill Iraqis!

Source: Al-Jazeera's Dima Khatib

I hope Muammar Gaddafi understands that Qatar and UAE are not after his country's oil !!!!!! #libya #qatar #uae

25 Mar via web

That is only a secondary concern:

Source: Reuters (March 28, 2011) & Reuters (March 30, 2011)

A senior Libyan rebel official said on Sunday Gulf oil producer Qatar had agreed to market crude oil produced from east Libyan fields that are no longer in the control of Muammar Gaddafi.

Ali Tarhouni, a US-based academic and exile opposition figure, was designated last week by the Benghazi-based national council to steer its financial and oil policy.

"We contacted the oil company of Qatar and thankfully they agreed to take all the oil that we wish to export and market this oil for us," said Tarhouni.

A U.S. Treasury Department official said crude oil sales by rebels would not be subject to U.S. sanctions.

This is the primary concern:

Source: Wired (February 22, 2011)

Al-Jazeera is in discussions with Comcast, the nation’s largest cable operator, about bringing the network’s English-language channel to millions of U.S. homes, the Qatar-based news service said Tuesday.

The Comcast meeting was the first move in a new push by Al-Jazeera to get on U.S. cable systems, which have been reluctant to carry the Qatar-based news network. A Comcast spokesperson declined to comment on the talks.

It’s quite a turn of events for Al-Jazeera, which until its widely praised coverage of the unrest in Egypt was something of a pariah in the United States. During the Iraq War, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld branded the network’s reporting of civilian casualties as “vicious, inaccurate and inexcusable.”

Now, the White House is watching Al-Jazeera alongside CNN.

Obama, Clinton, Comcast, & the defense department are growing increasingly pleased with the new & improved Qatar & Al-Jazeera.

How far we've come

2003: The year you couldn't fight or fuck without night-vision.

Remember the Iraq invasion in 2003? Though I was a yungin', I can still recall the sights and sounds as my TV broadcast an endless parade of overnight human rights activists, feminists, & democrats. They all agreed, other peoples children needed to act, and act now. Without Paris Hilton, the year would have lacked serious thought.

Remember 'Control Room' from 2004? The documentary introduced us to a young network called Al-Jazeera. They challenged dogma & gave voice to collateral damage. I wanted to date an Arab reporter & get her integrity to rub off on me.

Before we go any further, journalists in the northern hemisphere can relax. You're so vain, you probably think this song's about you. It isn't. Seriously, like 63% of us are proud your profession hires so many dyslexics.

No, this is about young jeezy. Actually, it's 2011 and jeezy's not young anymore. They've found their Iraq in Libya, their Saddam in Gadhafi, and their Pentagon in Qatar. As we shoot the shit, so do Qatar & NATO. To be fair, everyone knows Arab fighter jets are programmed to fly away from Israel and towards Muslims.

Throughout the day, Al-Jazeera's interview & debate segments are handed over to various Libyan exiles from the US & the UK. When a reporter appears in Benghazi, he's sure to be accompanied by helpless victims or victorious heroes. When a reporter appears in Tripoli, she's sure to be alone and highly skeptical of civilian casualties.

Al-Jazeera sent Anita McNaught to report from the parallel universe that seems to be Tripoli.

During an early report, McNaught showed off the aftermath of a NATO attack on the presidential compound. She suggested the Libyan government themselves caused the damage - as the rubble lacked sufficient smoke & fire. Within minutes, American hospitals began treating 911 truthers for debilitating erections.

In a later report, McNaught showed off pictures of dead bodies at a morgue. This time, she entertained the possibility of NATO culpability - because the bodies were sufficiently "mangled". Quickly enough, she suggested that Bin Ladin Saddam Gadhafi counted his terrorists fedayeen reserves as civilians. By the off-chance that civilians were in the bunch, she repeatedly warned the audience that the images were highly "political" in nature.

Yes. Al-Jazeera dismissed images of dead Muslims as "political".

They heard me singing & they told me to stop...

Canadians celebrate Arcade Fire's Grammy win.

It was always a question of when, not if, they'd win big. The Arcade Fire took album of the year, defeating peroxide abusers Lady Gaga & Eminem.

These guys have consistently combined great sound & thoughtful lyrics. As expected, someone who recognizes neither spent $40,000 to undermine their victory:

Source: New York Times

What truly inspired the writing of this letter was that this most recent show fed my suspicions. As the show was coming to a close and just prior to presenting the award for Album Of The Year, the band Arcade Fire performed “Month of May” — only to… surprise… win the category and, in a moment of sheer coincidence, happened to be prepared to perform “Ready to Start.”

Steve Stoute introduces himself as "the owner of a firm that specializes in in-culture advertising". Basically, he introduces prominent clients (ie. McDonald's) to eager sex workers (ie. Justin Timberlake). I'm pretty sure he created that infomercial 'Modern Family'.

Someone needs to punch Stoute repeatedly, and beat him with a telephone and champagne bottle. Oh wait...Puffy already did hahahaha!

Now enough talk about second-degree assault. Here's a beautiful song:

Album: Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

Song: Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)

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