I can’t wrap my head around this Question and Answer.

How is Vice going to cover, say, monetary policy?

That’s a good question. We’re not going to cover monetary policy. For us, we embed with Occupy Wall Street, the communists, the young people.

Watch out, Occupy Wall Street, Communists, and Young People.  Or are these all one thing?

And then after his defense of sending Dennis Rodman to North Korea, we get back to the Kids today…

You believe that young people worldwide are disenfranchised. Do you think popular uprisings will fix things?
No. I’m actually worried, because I believe that it’s going to get worse. Look, economic disparity is bad. But we’ve already tried having governments redistribute wealth. We tried it in Russia and China to disastrous effect.

… Who need to know their history of Russia and China, damnedit.

Hm.  As Edward Snowden says positive things on some NSA and administration’s policy changes, we see that On Edward Snowden.   Jimmy Carter would pardon the man.  Obama simply wouldn’t execute him.  So we have an interesting stylistic approach.

Also note:  NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander has denied that the spy agency has any interest in the former president.  “We’re not” tracking him, Alexander said in an interview with Fox News on Tuesday. If the NSA were snooping on Carter, he added, that would be “illegal.”

So Carter’s not being watched.  The man’s just paranoid.

A t-shirt I own, have worn in the past, though not for a while.

Question:

Would it be inappropriate and in poor taste if I were to wear it right about now?

Some interesting government censor stories…

Item… Government Agency in Turkey tries to block Twitter, doesn’t hold.  Everyone takes to Twitter to complain and kvetch.

Finally fed up, Mr. Erdogan tried to shut Twitter down on Thursday — 10 days before important local elections — after lashing out at the social network at a rally in the western town of Bursa, saying that he did not care about international reaction if national security was at stake.

“Twitter, mwitter!” (the rough equivalent of “Twitter, schmitter!”) Mr. Erdogan said. “We will root out all. They say, ‘Sir, the international community can say this, can say that.’ I don’t care at all. Everyone will see how powerful the state of the Republic of Turkey is.”

Nonetheless, the ban appeared to backfire, fomenting a loud and raucous backlash on Twitter, with the hashtags #TwitterisblockedinTurkey, #occupytwitter, #turkeyblockedtwitter, and #dictatorerdogan quickly becoming popular trending topics globally.

According to Twitturk, which records the statistics of Turkey’s roughly 12 million Twitter users, more than half a million tweets were posted in just 10 hours, despite the ban. Statista, a New York statistics portal, lists Turkey as the fourth-largest Twitter community in the world after the United States, Britain and Japan.

One posting circulated featuring a flock of Twitter’s blue birds pounding Mr. Erdogan’s head with bird excrement. Another superimposed the prime minister’s face on a campaign poster of President Obama, with the slogan, “Yes we ban.”

Then there’s … Pakistan... where, this is actually an age old item.  It happened in Batista’s Cuba when they needed to squelch reports that Fidel Castro was alive.

An article about Pakistan’s relationship to Al Qaeda, and its knowledge of Osama bin Laden’s last hiding place within its borders, was censored from the front page of about 9,000 copies of the International New York Times in Pakistan on Saturday, apparently removed by a local paper that has a partnership to distribute The Times.

An image of the front page — with a large blank space where the article appeared in other editions — traveled rapidly around social media on Saturday. A spokeswoman for The New York Times, Eileen Murphy, said that the decision by the partner paper, The Express Tribune, had been made “without our knowledge or agreement.”

The partner was recently the subject of an attack by an extremist group, she said. “While we understand that our publishing partners are sometimes faced with local pressures,” she said, “we regret any censorship of our journalism.”

Though the article appeared to have been excised from all copies of the newspaper distributed in Pakistan, the story seemed to be available to Pakistani readers online, Ms. Murphy said. There was no answer at a number listed for the partner paper’s parent company, the Lakson Group, on Saturday.

It can’t be this story, as it was in the New York Times Magazine … alongside a piece about bi-sexuals having to prove their worth in the gay community as actual bi-sexuals.  Hard to picture which story would offend and enflame the political religious climate more…

Two points to anyone who can find the most absurd or insane protest / picket staged by Westboro Baptist Church.

Maybe Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson?

Have they ever picketed an Abba Cover band?

I suppose this is the absurd response that they’re getting now, as in… why bother going to the high ground?  It doesn’t matter, I suppose… they don’t know what he’s saying because… Fred Phelps was ex-communicated last year.

Hm.

Near the end of CNN’s special primetime report on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 on Wednesday, anchor Don Lemon read a pair of tweets he received from viewers suggesting the plane’s disappearance could be the result of a “black hole,” Bermuda Triangle or an occurence akin to the television series “Lost.”

Lemon then turned to Mary Schiavo, former inspector general of the U.S. Department of Transportation, and said, “I know it’s preposterous, but is it preposterous, do you think, Mary?”

“It is,” Schiavo replied. “A small black hole would suck in our entire universe. So we know it’s not that. The Bermuda Triangle is often weather, and ‘Lost’ is a TV show.”

“Right,” Lemon said.

They’re mocking this at the Alex Jones site.  Mostly because it doesn’t correspond to their theories, but whatever the case… 24 Hour News Networks are pretty useless, and are prone to slip and slide into a “throwing out whatever” mode.

Or… you know… reading tweets.

In the grand scheme of things, more important than the side-show of the Kesha Rogers campaign in looking at the Larouche Movement…

Michael Billington impeach Barack Obama.  This is An interesting search phrase to this site, which came via the Russian search engine Yandex.

A summary of what is spiking the q rating for Michael Billington…

If you’re wondering, the American guest who advocates impeaching President Obama before he nukes Russia to avert America’s financial collapse is Mike Billington, an author and longtime active member of the Lyndon LaRouche movement who served 12 years in prison for what he claims were politically motivated reasons (prosecutors say he bilked old people out of $1.24 million).
Iran is a Russian ally. But even head-scarfed newscaster Kaneez Fatima seems uncomfortable with Billington’s commentary.

And this brings us to the main story in the field of Larouche right about now.  The Executive Intelligence Review spigot into the propaganda outlets of Russia and Iran state media, which is working overtime right about now.  The main items

West in no position to threaten Russia… says Geoffrey Steinberg.  (SIC)  And more from Jeffrey Steinberg on this “political football”.   And, the biggie of their message Obama after ‘thermonuclear war’ by provoking Russia, says Steinberg.  Obama Should be Impeached Over Crimes, says Journalist Jeffrey Steinberg.

US Stance on Ukraine not helping, says Bill Jones.  Diplomacy moving very slowly in Crimea: Analyst.  Says Bill Jones.  ‘Ukraine crisis edges near nuclear war’, says Bill Jones.  Global nuclear war likely in Ukraine, says Bill: Jones.

Criminal Obama must be impeached over Ukraine says  Analyst  Michael Billington.  Obama should be impeached over Crimea stance, says Analyst Michael Billington.
US seeks to provoke Russia over Ukraine, says Mike Billington.  Obama Antics Moving Us Toward Nuclear War, says “Expert” Billington.

“His [Obama’s] claim that is a national emergency in the United States is simply proof that Obama is declaring himself a dictator, that he’s acting outside of the constitution, outside of the Congress and that he must be impeached immediately if we are not to go with a thermonuclear confrontation with Russia in the coming days,” Mike Billington, editor for Executive Intelligence Review newsmagazine, told Press TV. […]
Billington added that the upcoming referendum in Crimea is not an issue about Ukraine rather it is an issue about a thermonuclear war between Obama and his British controllers with Russia.
“A war confrontation they desire because the entire Western civilization is in complete collapse and therefore they are pushing for a war to have the right to force Russia and China to back down to an imperial policy of looting the entire world. And this has to be reversed and the only way it can be reversed is under US constitutional law to impeach this criminal president,” the commentator pointed out.

‘US must stop supporting neo-Nazi coup in Ukraine’, says Edward Spannaus.
Interesting to note about Edward Spannaus… he’s the “secretary of the Lovettsville Historical Society“– which sounds a lot like the Leesburg Garden Club.

And working for China, French intervention in CAR keeps China out – analyst Douglas DeGroot.  And China sees peace between Koreas through denuclearization: Analyst William Jones.
Africa… with Lawrence Freeman… everything bad in Africa is the result of British Imperialism.

And now… Lyndon Larouche himownself… Obama’s US Government Must be Removed to Save Mankind.  Could Obama be impeached over the Crimea Crisis?

And, yes, we do see the EIR staff breaking out the Larouche.   Many American analysts – Lyndon LaRouche, the founder of my publication, Paul Craig Roberts, a number of others says Journalist Jeffrey Steinberg.  (Hm.  “founder of my publication”.)

ITEM FIVE:  Odds and Ends.
Wedler’s performances resemble the brainwashed productions of LaRouche Youth and their Communist predecessors. There is that same rigidity…

Hm.  Hersch Krustofsky’s facebook page.
The Blog of Internet muck raking Scandal Wizard Spike1138 exposes Webster Tarpley.  Kind of.  It’s just a reposting of a letter already seen, one found at Dennis King’s website, Tarpley trying to write off Larouche.  But never mind.  Whatever works.  You go, Scandal Wizard Spike1138… you go.

Occupy Movement disassociates…

It’s true that individuals and groups associated with the far right became involved in the movement, or tried to co-opt it, such as with calls to “End the Fed.” However, he overstates particular impact they had in the movement’s primary decision-making processes. For instance, he points out that supporters of Lyndon LaRouche supported calls within Occupy for reinstating the Glass-Steagall act — but so did a lot more left-leaning Democrats, and even the initial Adbusters call that seeded the movement. Early on, too, traditional leftists like socialists and anarchists were generally reluctant to claim the movement wholly as its own

Roger Moore on this thread is accused of being a Larouchie.  And hm.
Thom Hartmann references the “October Surprise”, Newsbuster brings up Larouche in denunciation.

Also on the Left but appearing to cater to the right is the Lyndon LaRouche crowd which publishes the Executive Intelligence Review. LaRouche wormed his way into conservative circles by attacking Jane Fonda and the environmentalists.