27 Monday Feb 2012
anthology
anthocyanidin anthodium anthoecology anthography anthoinite anthocoridae anthocodium Anthocerotes anthocerote
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anthems.
27 Monday Feb 2012
daddy imparts
“don’t change horses in mid-”
sentences punctuated
with beauty marks.
moles develop;
ugly personal growth.
we
become
universal and magnificent.
apple honey scented candles
remain unlit as
we forge ahead forgetting
jubilation.
creative futility
drops.
word entertainment
suspended
as skulls twist
to
oscar.
27 Monday Feb 2012
Posted in Opinion
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Feb. 27, 2012
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Dow pays “strategic intelligence” firm to spy on Yes Men and grassroots activists. Takeaway: movement is on the right track!
WikiLeaks begins to publish today over five million e-mails obtained by Anonymous from “global intelligence” company Stratfor. The emails, which reveal everything from sinister spy tactics to an insider trading scheme with Goldman Sachs (see below), also include several discussions of the Yes Men and Bhopal activists. (Bhopal activists seek redress for the 1984 Dow Chemical/Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal, India, that led to thousands of deaths, injuries in more than half a million people, and lasting environmental damage.)
Many of the Bhopal-related emails, addressed from Stratfor to Dow and Union Carbide public relations directors, reveal concern that, in the lead-up to the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster, the Bhopal issue might be expanded into an effective systemic critique of corporate rule, and speculate at length about why this hasn’t yet happened—providing a fascinating window onto what at least some corporate types fear most from activists.
“[Bhopal activists] have made a slight nod toward expanded activity, but never followed through on it—the idea of ‘other Bhopals’ that were the fault of Dow or others,” mused Joseph de Feo, who is listed in one online source as a “Briefer” for Stratfor.
“Maybe the Yes Men were the pinnacle. They made an argument in their way on their terms—that this is a corporate problem and a part of the a [sic] larger whole,” wrote Kathleen Morson, Stratfor’s Director of Policy Analysis.
“With less than a month to go [until the 25th anniversary], you’d think that the major players—especially Amnesty—would have branched out from Bhopal to make a broader set of issues. I don’t see any evidence of it,” wrote Bart Mongoven, Stratfor’s Vice President, in November 2004. “If they can’t manage to use the 25th anniversary to broaden the issue, they probably won’t be able to.”
Mongoven even speculates on coordination between various activist campaigns that had nothing to do with each other. “The Chevron campaign [in Ecuador] is remarkably similar [to the Dow campaign] in its unrealistic demand. Is it a follow up or an admission that the first thrust failed? Am I missing a node of activity or a major campaign that is to come? Has the Dow campaign been more successful than I think?” It’s almost as if Mongoven assumes the two campaigns were directed from the same central activist headquarters.
Just as Wall Street has at times let slip their fearof the Occupy Wall Street movement, these leaks seem to show that corporate power is most afraid of whatever reveals “the larger whole” and “broader issues,” i.e. whatever brings systemic criminal behavior to light. “Systemic critique could lead to policy changes that would challenge corporate power and profits in a really major way,” noted Joseph Huff-Hannon, recently-promoted Director of Policy Analysis for the Yes Lab.
Among the millions of other leaked Stratfor emails are some that reveal dubious financial practices, including an apparent insider trading scheme with Goldman Sachs Managing Director Shea Morenz, who joined Stratfor’s board of directors and invested “substantially” more than $4 million in the scheme, called StratCap. “What StratCap will do is use our Stratfor’s intelligence and analysis to trade in a range of geopolitical instruments,” wrote Stratfor CEO George Friedman in September 2011. StratCap was designed through a complex offshore share structure to appear legally independent, but Friedman assured Stratfor staff otherwise: “Do not think of StratCap as an outside organisation. It will be integral… It will be useful to you… We are already working on mock portfolios and trades.” (StratCap has been due to launch in 2012, though that could now change.)
Other emails show Stratfor techniques of a truly creepy Spy vs. Spy sort: “[Y]ou have to take control of him. Control means financial, sexual or psychological control,” wrote CEO Friedman recently to an employee, Reva Bhalla, on how to exploit an Israeli intelligence informant providing information on Chavez’s cancer. (Stratfor’s “confidential intelligence services” clients include, besides Dow and Union Carbide, the US Department of Homeland Security, the US Marines, the US Defense Intelligence Agency, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon.)
Perhaps most entertainingly of all, the email trove reveals that Stratfor’s “Confederation Partners”—an unethical alliance between Stratfor and a number of mainstream journalists—are referred to informally within Stratfor as its “Confed Fuck House.” (Another discovery: Coca Cola was spying on PETA. More such gems are sure to surface as operatives sift through the 5.5 million emails.)
A number of the remaining Yes Men-related emails take the form of reports on public appearances by the Yes Men, such as one that describes one audience comprised of “art students on class assignments and free entertainment.” Another notes that “The Yes Men tweeted about the US Chamber of Commerce ‘plotting forged emails, documents to trick (AND smear) opponents,’” a reference to an apparent plot to discredit Chamber opponents using forged documents, as revealed when thousands of emails were recently leaked by Anonymous from cyber-security firm HB Gary. Yet another discusses Alessio Rastani, the Wall Street traderwidely mistaken for Yes Man Andy Bichlbaum, who proclaimed, live on the BBC, that “governments don’t rule the world, Goldman Sachs rules the world.”
“Rastani was right,” said the real Andy Bichlbaum five months later. “But it’s now very clear that it doesn’t have to be that way anymore.”
The Yes Men and representatives from the Bhopal Medical Appeal will join Julian Assange of Wikileaks at a press conference at noon today, Feb. 27, at the Frontline Club in London.
27 Monday Feb 2012
Posted in Opinion
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If you love me,
Callswarm: Tell President Sullivan & BOV Move Up Meeting; Keep Your Promises.
Thank you, love.
26 Sunday Feb 2012
Posted in Opinion
His premise is that one has to earn acceptance.
If Gandhi wasn’t accepted by everyone, then why should fat “cunts” be accepted?
He doesn’t get that perpetuating hatred doesn’t correct the wrong of someone great not being accepted. Instead, it just creates more of the intolerance and anger that led to amazing people still having to take shit.
Accepting people don’t make others earn their acceptance. They, like Ghandi, accept and respect all.
Some do this, because their acceptance of people is a part of their communing with their higher power.
Some do this, because they believe they are on this earth to learn and experience unconditional love.
Some do this, because they have suffered the cruel whims of intolerant people and wish to never subject someone else to their past pain.
And, the list of goes on.
P.J. when you can’t find compassion, love, understanding, or patience with someone or a group, the flaw lies with you not with them.
If you want to be bothered less by people who make different choices than you, I encourage you to do a little bit of soul searching and less rude suggestions and name calling.
If you stop being a prejudiced, vulgar, judgmental, myopic person who is so up your own ass as to glorify blatant hate speak, you might be able to write from a more authentic and compelling perspective.
I accept you, because you breathe. I, however, cannot, accept your misguided, mean message.
So, I wish you an amazing, mind blowing, paradigm shifting orgasm with a Big Beautiful Woman.
Maybe your blog posts would be less….whatever you would call them now.
Since, you expressed disgust about BBW in provocative attire, this slide show is especially for you.
PS If you agree, maybe you should let him know in his comments section…..
25 Saturday Feb 2012
Tags
Blog, creative, domination, erotica, fetish, hurt, kyle, mews, nonfiction, pain, poem, poetry, sex, short
I cy feigned indifference wrings out your tears and sweat.
H aunt your Denis bear with fecal scent.
U se your eagerness to slowly abort you.
R am my language up your alveolus.
T orment your chili pasted turgid member.
Y outh misspent passes into mid-life repulse.
O ver and over, disappointment, punishment, domination.
U nder the disdain, an intimacy unravels and intermingles hate.
21 Tuesday Feb 2012
Posted in Photography
20 Monday Feb 2012
Posted in Awards
Rules of the Sexy Blog Award
1. Post 5 sexy suggestions.
2. Post a link to your sexiest blog post.
3. Nominate 5 other sexy bloggers.
4. Let your nominees know they’re sexy.
5 Sexy Suggestions
1. Find out who you are, and do it on purpose.
2. Learn to relish doing it with the lights on.
3. Write sexy, love poems to yourself.
4. Take pictures of yourself naked.
5. Be honest.
My Sexiest Blog Post
Desire with a Capital T http://vloves.wordpress.com/2012/02/18/desire-with-a-capital-t/
5 Sexy Bloggers
http://sweet0tea.wordpress.com
19 Sunday Feb 2012
Posted in Awards
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I really want my own reality show/documentary called “the love. project.”
7 Worthy Posts
Our Pluto Tango http://vloves.wordpress.com/2012/02/19/our-pluto-tango/
Top Ten: How to Make Abstinence Sexy http://vloves.wordpress.com/2012/02/19/top-ten-how-to-make-abstinence-sexy/
Desire with a Capital T http://vloves.wordpress.com/2012/02/18/desire-with-a-capital-t/
on being a sex tutor http://vloves.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/on-being-a-sex-tutor/
(Yes)terday http://vloves.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/yesterday/
My First Valentine http://vloves.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/my-first-valentine/
polyamory mini-manifesto http://vloves.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/polyamory-mini-manifesto/
7 Deserving Bloggers
http://smilekiddo.wordpress.com
http://reverendgwyon.wordpress.com
http://najapost.wordpress.com
