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MICHAEL ERIC DYSON: Well, as you brilliantly articulated Ed, what they are saying is that black people and gay people don’t count. They don’t matter to the bottom line. They don’t figure in our calculations about what we think is offensive. And as a result of the Cracker Barrel crowd, that crowd that said, ‘Look, we are disgusted with you for removing the items of Phil Robertson and Duck Dynasty, we are moreover disgusted with the fact African-American and Latino and other ethnic minorities, along with gay, lesbian, transgender and bisexual people have come together to say this is an outrage. And as a result of that, they have turned this into a matter of free speech.
The irony, of course, they don’t want more speech to counteract their negative, vicious, offensive and vitriolic speech. So they’re mad at the fact we are challenging what they’re saying and we don’t have the right to free speech. A&E has made the calculation that African-American people and gay people don’t matter, not only to their bottom line, but won’t raise as hard a ruckus as the right-wing will, and those who are very supportive of the Duck Dynasty are the very people who need that insight.
And by the way, Ed, what’s interesting, the right-wing has said, ‘Look, the grandson of Mr. Robertson happens to be an adopted biracial child.’ What difference does that make? The man who plunged a plunger deep into the behind of Abner Louima was himself dating a black woman when he did that heinous act. So there is no one-to-one correlation between particular domestic intimacy with a black person or a person of color and the behavior that you manifest that is either just or unjust. So all of this stuff is being brought up as a result of this. (The Ed Show, December 30, 2013)
Meet Michael Shammas: Blogger, Netflix Lover & Pundit Of the Week
Michael Shammas was exceptionally nervous the first time he submitted an article to the PolicyMic editorial queue (weren’t we all?). Now he’s a seasoned pro, a breaking news writer, and, as pundit of the week, eager to discuss why having to use your real name and photo on our site is one of our best user requirements.
As part of the “pundit of the week” column, we spotlight one PolicyMic-er to share personal experiences with our community, and pose one never-been-asked question to a staff member. This week I (gasp) answer Michael’s question about the origins of my experience with PolicyMic.
About Michael: He is a Harvard Law student, blogger, and avid Breaking Bad fan whose greatest fictional role model is, fittingly, attorney Saul Goodman (“Better Call Saul!”). In his spare time he enjoys caffeine-fueled Netflix binges.
Caira Conner: When and why did you decide to get involved with PolicyMic?
Michael Shammas (MS): I first stumbled upon PolicyMic last year when a friend on Facebook shared an article. I remember strolling through the website, specifically the “mic” system, and thinking what a cool concept it was. Less than five minutes later (seriously) I’d already made PolicyMic my homepage. As for how I got involved, that was actually kind of spur of the moment. One day I was reading an article when I spotted a solicitation for aspiring pundits on the website. I wrote up an article, sent it in, and — what do you know—it was accepted!
CC: A number of pundits have mentioned they’d like to connect with more people interested in their particular hot-button issues. Has PolicyMic been an effective platform for your cause? What are the advantages to using PolicyMic for your interests? Any disadvantages?
MS: One unique thing about PolicyMic compared to a website like CNN’s is that PolicyMic makes users post their real names and tends to attract informed policy nuts who are interested in substantive discussions. The comments section is not dominated by anonymous trolls, but is instead a place where anyone looking to learn about policy issues would be well-advised to look.
This ability to actually engage in substantive policy discussions — something that is all too rare on the Internet — is what attracted me most to PolicyMic.
That being said, I definitely comment less than most of my fellow pundits; that’s because, due to the high quality of PolicyMic users, I usually prefer to read others’ comments — especially the critical ones on my own articles (Yes, you guys do make some good points!) — so that I can learn from people who disagree with me.
CC: You’re a busy law student, but also one of our breaking news pundits. What about our platform motivates you to make time in your schedule to contribute?
MS: I’m actually motivated to write for PolicyMic largely because I am a law student. There are a lot of legal issues out there that fascinate me, yet they don’t receive nearly enough attention. For example, on PolicyMic I’ve written about the trampling of the NSA on our Fourth Amendment rights, about a youngster who was tossed into jail after a ridiculous overreaction to some comments he made on Facebook, and about the Republican push in North Carolina to restart executions. Such issues involve our fundamental legal rights as American citizens, yet they are often overshadowed by debates about some inane distraction like whether or not Miley Cyrus’ dress was too short. When these issues aren’t overshadowed, they are rationalized by our government and mainstream media. (For example, the NSA must supposedly shred the Bill of Rights because of “security interests.”)
If there’s anything I’ve learned so far in law school, it’s that the law is not equivalent to morality, and that subsequently one of the great struggles in our society has been and still is the glacial dragging up of the law to evolving standards of morality. This is where PolicyMic pundits come in.
Every article published on PolicyMic is a contribution to our national debate over what type of society we want to live in and, consequently, what sorts of laws we want to adopt.
Do we really want to trade in our hard-fought liberty for security? Do we really want to throw more people in prison than nearly all of Western Europe combined? Do we really want to hold so many humans indefinitely in Guantanamo without even respecting their habeas corpus rights? These questions are some of the most important questions there are, and the fact that they are being asked on PolicyMic is no small thing.
CC: You consistently receive a high number of shares and comments on your pieces. Any tips for new pundits looking to do the same?
MS: Absolutely: Speak your mind, and don’t be afraid to be divisive! The articles you write that receive the most praise will probably be the ones that receive the most criticism as well. But that’s okay. PolicyMic is all about constructive disagreement, and the best articles are often the ones that actually get under somebody’s skin and prompt an angry response in the comments section that can then turn into a great, informative debate.
CC: Let’s go offline. What do you like to do when you’re not PolicyMic-in’?
MS: Alas, when I’m not PolicyMic’-in it u,p or stuck in my room reading case briefs for Torts, I really enjoy simply hanging out with friends. I’ve also gotten involved with the Prison Legal Assistance Project — a Harvard Law student practice organization — and I hope to represent a client in a parole hearing soon. It’s not common, but sometimes American “justice” is actually injustice, and as an aspiring lawyer one of my greatest interests is how to rectify this so that the system produces justice on a more consistent basis. I can’t think of a better way to learn how to do this than to get involved with prisoners and criminal defendants who are, rightly or wrongly, suffering under the full weight of the legal system.
CC: Your turn. What’s a question you have for a member of our staff?
MS: My question is for you. I remember nervously emailing you my story when I initially wanted to get involved with PolicyMic — so to me, the idea that there was a time when you weren’tassociated with PolicyMic is almost unthinkable. That being said, how did you get involved with PolicyMic?
CC: (Ah, how the tables have turned). Yes, it’s true, there was a time when I wasn’t here — obviously wasn’t having as good a time as I am now — but before I worked at PolicyMic, I wrote for PolicyMic. In fall 2012, I was unhappily employed elsewhere and looking for a way out. I actually applied for a PolicyMic job, didn’t get it, and was redirected to editor Mike Luciano and his on-call writing program. By the time my dysfunctional job fell apart for good, I was hooked on PolicyMic and determined to find a way in full-time. That initial rejection was actually one of the best things that happened to me, professionally, for two reasons: Even though I’m now a current employee, I also know what it’s like to be a pundit, and can speak authentically on why writing for us truly is a good idea. I love the role I have, and this role is the culmination of efforts made from pundit to intern to staffer —it’s not a role that was available when I first applied.
That said, thank you Michael, for the chance to interview you and learn more about what makes our community tick. Another reason I love my job? Because I get to write this column every week. True story.
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The Pete Santilli Show With Special Guest: Michael Snyder
Michael T. Snyder is a graduate of the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia and has a law degree from the University of Florida. He is an attorney that once worked in Washington D.C., but now he is a very active blogger and is also a respected researcher, writer, speaker and activist. You can follow him on The Economic Collapse blog: http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/
How can big corporations be doing so well while most American families are having such a hard time? Isn’t their wealth supposed to “trickle down” to the rest of us? Unfortunately, that is not how the real world works. Today, most big corporations are trying to minimize the number of “expensive” American workers on their payrolls as much as they can. If the big corporation that is employing you can figure out a way to replace you with a worker in China or with a robot, it will probably do it. Corporations are in existence to maximize wealth for their shareholders, and most of the time the largest corporations are dominated by the monopoly men of the global elite.
By Michael Snyder, on October 22nd, 2013
The percentage of Americans that are participating in the labor force is the lowest that it has been in 35 years. During the 70s, 80s and 90s, the labor force participation rate consistently rose as large numbers of women entered the workforce. It peaked at 67.3 percent in early 2000, and just before the last recession it was sitting at about 66 percent. Since the start of the last recession, the labor force participation rate has not stopped falling and it is now at a 35 year low. In September, 11,255,000 Americans were considered to be “unemployed”, and an astounding 90,609,000 Americans were considered to be “not in the labor force”. The number of Americans “not in the labor force” has increased by more than 10 millionsince Barack Obama entered the White House. When you add the number of unemployed Americans to the number of Americans “not in the labor force”, you come up with a grand total of more than 101 million working age Americans that do not have a job.
The Obama administration and the mainstream media continue to insist that we are in the midst of an “economic recovery”, but that is a total joke. Does the chart posted below look like a recovery to you?…
Americans are leaving the labor force in droves. If the labor force participation rate was at the same level that it was when Obama first became president, the official unemployment rate would be up around 10 percent and everyone would be wondering when the “economic depression” would finally end.
It is funny how our perceptions of reality are so greatly shaped by what our televisions tell us to think.
Below I have posted a chart of the “inactivity rate” of U.S. men in the 25 to 54-year-old age group. As you can see, the percentage of men in their prime working years that are not employed and not considered to be unemployed either has been rising steadily…
We have millions upon millions of men just sitting around and doing essentially nothing. Not that women are doing so much better. In fact, the labor force participation rate for women is at a 24 year low.
Some people may be tempted to think that all of this is happening because more Americans are choosing to stay home and raise children. But that is not the case at all. In fact, in a previous article I showed that the marriage rate in the U.S. is at an all-time low and the birth rate for young women in this country is also at an all-time low.
People are not staying home because of family obligations. Rather, people are staying home because there aren’t enough jobs available.
And when Americans that are actually employed do lose their jobs, it is taking them a very, very long time to find another one. Just check out the following chart…
Once again, I must ask – does that look like a “recovery” to you?
Obama can say the word “recovery” as much as he would like, but that does not make it a reality.
So is anyone out there actually doing well?
Yes, as I have talked about frequently, some pockets of the country are doing quite nicely. In fact, government workers (think Washington D.C.) and finance workers (Wall Street, etc.) are tied for the lowest rates of unemployment in the nation (3.9 percent).
But for almost everyone else, things are very hard right now and poverty continues to grow.
Just today, I came across a recent study that discovered thatnearly half of all public students in the United States come from low income homes.
That is an incredible number.
But this is just the beginning of our problems. Our debt continues to grow by leaps and bounds and our big banks are engaging inextraordinarily reckless behavior. As Richard Russell recently discussed, it is only a matter of time before this entire house of cards comes tumbling down…
In this whole process, debt has been created to an extent never seen before in history. So far, the debt has been managed with super-low interest rates and borrowing. But the compounding process goes on, and the debt mountain continues to grow. So, to be brief, I see the theme of today as the “haves” doing whatever they have to — to remain in power.
The dangers in the background for the haves are the possibilities that (1) interest rates will begin to advance, and (2) inflation will rise and be so visible that even the common man will recognize it, and begin to protest, or even revolt and (3) the whole debt structure will rise so high that it will topple over of its own weight and take down the entire world economy with it.
So as bad as things are today, the truth is that they are far, far better than what is eventually coming.
If you want to get a glimpse of the future of the U.S. economy, just check out what has happened to Greece…
Greeks are on average almost 40 percent poorer than they were in 2008, data indicated, laying bare the impact of a brutal recession and austerity measures the government may be forced to extend into next year.
Gross disposable incomes fell 29.5 percent between the second quarters of 2008 and 2013, statistics service ELSTAT said on Tuesday. Adding in cumulative consumer price inflation over the same period takes the decline close to 40 percent.
As you can see from the charts posted above, our economy has never even come close to getting back to the level that we were at before the last financial crisis.
And now the next wave of the economic collapse is approaching.
Right now, Spain has an unemployment rate that is above 26 percent and Greece has an unemployment rate that is above 27 percent.
We will eventually be heading up toward those levels.
As millions of good paying jobs continue to be shipped overseas, and as technology continues to eliminate millions of our jobs, the unemployment situation in this country will continue to grow even worse.
And whenever the next great financial crisis inevitably strikes, that will greatly accelerate our employment problems.
If you can move toward becoming more independent of the “system”, now would be a good time to do so. The job that you have today may not be there next month or next year.
We are moving into the greatest period of economic instability in U.S. history.
Get ready for it while you still can.
Adam KokeshUPDATE
Joining Pete today was Anthony Antinello, media representative for Adam Kokesh, with an update on Adam’s status while being held a political prisoner in Washington DC.
Broke on: October 4th 2013 by: jeffrey Filed under: Blog
On July 4th Adam Kokesh did the most epic civil disobedience in modern history because he believes in liberty and that
self-defense is a civil right. click here to see the video.
On July 9th his home was raided and ransacked for 5 hours by over 50 officers with a tank and helicopters. click here to see the aftermath.
Since then, Adams team was sabotaged, all the money raised for legal defense was stolen.click here for the details.
Despite all that, he has been podcasting from jail. click here to see the podcast’s.
He and his team are working hard to use this opportunity to spread the message & raise awareness of jury nullification. for more info click here.
We need all the help we can get, email kim@adamvstheman.com if you want to volunteer.
Adams trial is coming up on Oct.24th & we are hosting a rally that evening in DC, to help out with that email salvi@adamvstheman.com & RSVP on the FB event page.
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FRESH OFF THE 21ST CENTURY WIRE
21st Century Wire says… Only a month and a half ago, dedicated francophile US Secretary of State John Kerry and French President François Hollande were beaming with excitement, as they shared a warm political bed together while planning a war with Syria. As they counted the coming cruise missile profits together, everything couldn’t have been more perfect. And then…The transatlantic romance is on the rocks, again. Washington DC’s insatiable international digital spy network, the NSA, has been caught collecting millions of electronic French letters and phone calls – in secret, and to stop terrorism. Or is it merely to justify billions in US government contract expenditures. Anyone above a fifth grade education level should really be able to figure that one out by now.A report was released this past Monday, detailing how the NSA has sucked in more than 70 million French phone records in one month.
What an embarrassment for Monsieur Kerry, who has been tasked with making yet another weak case for the US government, by trying to explain away the illegal actions of his government. Left to do damage control, Kerry insists that France is still “one of our oldest allies in the world”, but protecting people from terrorism is so “very complicated, very challenging task.”
Not the world’s most convincing actor, John Kerry, is trying hard to act concerned about foreign privacy.
His chief concerns are as far from ethics and international law as one could imagine. Here’s what really upsetting Washington’s most interesting man:
“Will I still be invited for raclette (cheese) and champagne parties in Aix-en-Provence this spring?”
This will be burning on Kerry’s mind over the holidays.
Next, the Teflon Don (photo, left) ponders the scandal… never one to willingly take any responsibility for anything that might be construed as negative, Obama avoids the issue altogether. This is because there’s no room for America’s reputation when he’s so obsessed with looking out for his own.Rather than getting a executive statement from America’s salamander-n-chief, President Obama has instead opted to call Hollande in private to try and re-spin the issue, in what the White House has labeled as “recent disclosures in the press — some of which have distorted our activities and some of which raise legitimate questions for our friends and allies.”What Kerry and Obama fail to realise is that, outside of their own private France on the millionaire ski slopes of Chamonix and aboard the yachts in Cannes, the rest of the country could not give a toss about America’s inflated national security concerns, and will hate the American government for abusing their trust.
Hollande’s hands are tied on this one. Regardless, the backlash has already begun. According to RT, the French as pissed off in a big way:
France has called for an explanation for the “unacceptable” and “shocking” reports of NSA spying on French citizens. Leaked documents revealed the spy agency records millions of phone calls and monitors politicians and high-profile business people.
The US Ambassador to France Charles Rivkin was summoned by the French Foreign Ministry to account for the espionage allegations on Monday morning. “I have immediately summoned the US ambassador and he will be received this morning at the Quai d’Orsay [the French Foreign Ministry],” French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told press. He added that “we must quickly assure that these practices aren’t repeated.”
The media scandal triggered a phone call between US President Barack Obama and French President Francois Hollande who, according to the White House, discussed “legitimate questions”raised by US “friends and allies” about how the surveillance capabilities are employed. Obama reportedly assured Hollande that the US was reviewing the way it gathers intelligence.
In addition, citing the report on French publication Le Monde, Interior Minister Manuel Valls spoke out on national television against US spy practices.
The US government is out of control and everyone knows it. Rather than dealing with the problem head on, and making correction to an illegal government operation, men like Barack Obama and John Kerry have chose instead to cover for themselves and the program. So no lesson learned.
That is Washington DC in a nutshell today – inept and unable to act honourably on the international theatre.
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Douglas said he lied because surgery for the latter can be disfiguring, and he was promoting “Wall Street 2” at the time.
During an interview with Samuel L. Jackson on a Male Cancer Awareness Week special edition of UK TV’s “This Morning,” Douglas says surgeons warned him, “If we do have to have surgery it’s not going to be pretty.”
“This was right before I had a big tour for ‘Wall Street,’ so we kind of said, ‘There’s no way we can cancel the tour and say we don’t feel well,’” Douglas told Jackson, according to People magazine.
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Douglas and wife of 13 years Catherine Zeta-Jones separated in August, but will reportedly reunite for Thanksgiving with their children in New York.
“I said, ‘You’ve just got to come out and just tell them I’ve got cancer and that’s it.’”
The actor previously said his throat cancer was a result of an HPV strain caused by oral sex.
The actor’s handsome mug now appears to be in the clear, but maybe all the talk is an attempt to take attention away from his separation from wife Catherine Zeta-Jones, who was recently spotted still wearing her wedding ring.
The success of Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead will be diluted by spin-offs: how about a hybrid of the two?
Breaking Bad is incontestably the most talked-about TV show of 2013. The show is superbly written, beautifully acted, and has the added “in crowd” cachet of premiering its final season on subscription service Netflix. It was already immensely addictive and now it’s a little harder to come by. It’s almost like … I don’t know … methamphetamine?
But from the opening moments of the first series, in which we see schoolteacher Walter White sucked into the world of crystal meth, the end of the journey was in sight. In terms of pure realism it’s a miracle he made it to the end of the second series. Where will Breaking Bad junkies go when it’s all over? Tapering off with The Great British Bake Off doesn’t seem like a realistic option.
Luckily AMC, the US network behind Breaking Bad, has commissioned Walter and Jesse’s creators – Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould – to write a new spin-off show called Better Call Saul. It focuses on amoral – well, more-amoral-than-average – lawyer Saul Goodman.
The series will begin, according to the press release, with a “one-hour prequel that will focus on the evolution of the popular Saul Goodman character before he ever became Walter White’s lawyer”. I find Saul one of the funnier elements of the Breaking Bad recipe. I hope comedy’s at the fore of Better Call Saul.
I like Breaking Bad. I’m pleased at the prospect of more stories from the same world. I also rather like The Walking Dead, another AMC show set in the aftermath of one of those zombie apocalypses we hear so much about. There are more stories to come from that world too.
Like its parent, the new (as yet untitled) Walking Dead show will follow the fortunes of a ragtag band of survivors trying to cope in a post-apocalyptic zombie nightmare but – crucially – they’ll be a different ragtag band of survivors than the ones we know and love. A band not led by Egg from This Life.
It’s hard to see what the writers will find to distinguish this new The Walking Dead series from its parent. It couldn’t be substantially grimmer or more visceral than the original show. Perhaps they’ll lighten it up. There’s definitely a shortage of zombie-themed musical comedies on TV right now.
Taking a step further down the genre-TV food chain, superhero show Arrow is spawning a spin-off too. Arrow takes the bearded, left-leaning DC Comics archery expert Green Arrow and reinvents him as a hip metrosexual nightclub owner. The spin-off, due this year, will feature Green Arrow’s fast-moving Justice League colleague The Flash. There was a Flash show once before, in that purple patch of superheroism that followed the success of the Tim Burton Batman films. It was perfectly fine. Hardly anybody watched it. Perhaps this Flash will be different. He’ll definitely have more defined abs.
Spin-offs are by no means a new idea. Successful TV shows, especially sitcoms, have been budding new properties since the days when people still knew what The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet was about. Even BBC2′s chin-stroking arts roundtable The Late Show reproduced by binary fission, spawning the more populist and much longer-lived Jools Holland Later series.
But there’s clearly something in the air at the moment. A little flurry of mitosis in the TV schedules. Networks, at least in the US, are determined to give us more of what we already like. They should proceed with caution though. There are two Joeys to every Frasier.
If I could make a constructive suggestion, rather than just carping from the sidelines, it would be this. Instead of making new comedies from existing comedies, or new dramas from the ones we already have, programme-makers should take a leaf out of hip-hop’s book.
Mashing up two shows is more creative than just extending one. Bring back a beloved deceased character from Breaking Bad (mentioning no names) and send them shambling across New Mexico in a search for human flesh. Or just commission a drug-themed cookery show featuring Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood cooking up meth in a nice tent in the home counties.
Because yes, we do want more of the stuff we already like. But we crave novelty too. And we’re always looking for a bigger, more exhilarating rush than last time.
ew York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is a successful man.
He founded an eponymous financial services firm in 1982 that has since become indispensable to traders and market analysts. He later launched his own (also eponymous) news business, as well as other (yes, also eponymous) business ventures. He’s served three terms as the mayor of America’s largest city, after convincing the city council to scrap the old two-term limit.
So how has Hizzoner become so successful? By trying really hard not to crap on the job, it turns out.
During Bloomberg’s radio program Friday, a caller asked him to impart some personal tips for success. In addition to some expected platitudes — “take risks”, “don’t stop learning” — Bloomberg also said it’s wise to work as hard as possible, all the time, even if that means skimping on lunch and bathroom breaks.
I always tried to be the first one in in the morning and the last one to leave at night, take the fewest vacations and the least time away from the desk to go to the bathroom or have lunch. You gotta be there. I mean, everybody says, “Oh, that’s crazy!” But if you want to succeed…you can’t control how lucky you are, you can’t control how smart you are, but you can control how hard you work, so that’s the first thing. [New York Observer]
Bloomberg has given the same advice in the past, as New York’s Dan Amira points out. Back in 2011, he took an even stronger anti-bathroom stance, saying, “Don’t ever take a lunch break or go to the bathroom, you keep working.”
Other prominent, successful New Yorkers aren’t so sure that’s a great long-term strategy.
And Bloomberg himself, despite what he says, is known to enjoy a good vacation here and there.
The outgoing mayor owns 10 homes, according to Forbes, including ones in London, Bermuda, and the Colorado resort town of Vail. He was also notably absent when a mammoth blizzard slammed New York in Christmas 2010. His private jet, it was later revealed, had been seen in Bermuda on the day the storm hit.
Meet Michael Shammas: Blogger, Netflix Lover & Pundit Of the Week
By Michael Snyder, on October 22nd, 2013
