Busher Pusher Plane

Remember the strange circumstances surrounding the Gulfstream II jet filled with 3.7 tons of cocaine that crashed in the Yucatan last month? There's more. According to Mad Cow Morning News, the plane was once owned by ultra-rich Bush supporter Stephen Adams. (In July, the Federal Election Commission filed suit against Adams on charges that he "failed to report and include proper disclaimers on $1,000,000 in billboard ads during the 2004 Presidential race.")
Not only that, but Mad Cow alleges that Adam's business partner owned the other American drug plane that was found in Mexico with 5.5 tons of cocaine in 2006. via boingboing

A Weekly Dose Of Sanity

From impeachment realities to secret governmental abuses, journeyman journalist Bill Moyers consistently digs deep for the harsh realities of blatant lies and abuse of power in our nation's capital. His weekly TV and webcast presence is a rare oasis of truth in today's parched field of corporate media.

Marshmallows Rain On FEMA Head

Overly soft questions from reporters at a hasty FEMA news conference on the wildfires, has ended up burning those involved. Washington Post journalist Al Kamen spilled the beans that all the reporters were actuualy FEMA stooges. More Bushit that smells like Brownie. Like a bad lover, FEMA can't even fake it.

The Killing Fields Of War Plants

"Greed of money, power, land and religion, are the roots of all War plants, but their flowers stink of death and their seed is poisoned with shame." -kosmik ray

Iraqi Deaths Over A Half Million.

Tho the Shrub administration and war supporters dispute the numbers (how can they when they claim to not record Iraqi fatalities), scientific researchers at Johns Hopkins stand firm that the real number is 655,000 dead due to the invasion and occupation, at a rate of 500 a day. Bush pegs them at "only" 30,000. Essachayemee. SHAME!

Sir, Have You Seen Our $1.2 Billion?

The State Department has thrown up its hands and thrown in to towel looking for where a $1.2 BILLION dollar contract went and what it got from DynCorp. Wait. They audit to find out what they got, the records are so bad they couldn't find hardly anything, so they stop the audit? And these skumchums are the guys they want to use to replace Blackwater? WHEN will this nightmare end?

Gilligan's Island The Size Of Texas

A little-known island continent of floating toxic plastic garbage the size of Texas, is growing in the pacific between Califormnia and Hawaii. Officially known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, until it can be taxed, U.S. officials will continue to ignore it. I heard of it once many years ago, but it apparently has been growing tenfold each decade since the 1950s, and now consists of 80% plastic. It has also been called Gilligan's Island, from the trashy TV sitcom that won't go away.
Via Truemors.com, photo by Keoki Stender.

How To Watch A Political Ad

Before you know it, the blizzard of political snow job ads will come sweeping into the media channels. This tutorial will prep you to sniff out the B.S.

NSA Siezes Hard Drive of Music

Despite proper documentation, Death Cab For Cutie's guitarist Chris Walla's hard drive containg his solo album master files has been siezed by our friends in Homeland Security on the Canadian border, leaving the musician baffled. Just one more idiotic step down on the escalator to the police state AND great P.R. Atleast this should make a good song, eh?

Finger Position

A Sad Truth You Can Change

Here is a taste of simple wisdom found in an anonymous gif file at stumbleupon. Caution: plastic explosive!

Jammin' With The Theory Of Relativity

Here's vid of an amazing post-prototype instrument from way outside the box. Technically, The Samchillian isn't an new instrument, but is a unique synth controller. It is based on the radical samchillian scale which is a relative scale, not sequencial like a traditional keyboard. Pair this up with a Reactable and go, eh?

The Complete Squeezed Beatles

Someone compressed all the UK-released Beatles albums at 800% to fit into a one hour MP3 (similar to what Cincinnati artist Kendall Bruns did several years ago on a CD), except this time some others have decomped some songs, and the results are trippy. I like the companded (compressed and expanded) version of "Tomorrow Never Knows". permalink
I wonder what Hendrix sounds like this way...

Headbanger's Dream

From England comes this vid showing a freaky thin orange flubber compound (pronounced dee-three-oh) that absorbs virtually all shocks- including the demonstrated hard shovel whacks to the head and knee. The inventor took a whopping 50,000 YouTube hits in two weeks before it got axed, but the original SkyNews link is here.

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Army Bribes In Land Of Oiled Palms

From our fearless leader's home state of Texas comes word via AP that Federal authorities investigating an Army contract bribery case have recovered $900,000 in cash from an alleged middle man in the scheme.

The person, identified as "Person A" or Megde "Mike" Ayesh Ismail in federal court documents, intermittently worked for various companies in Kuwait while Army Maj. John Cockerham was working as a contracting officer. He allegedly acted as a middle man to pay Cockerham, and he helped authorities recover money from a bank account in the United Arab Emirates.

Cockerham, his wife and sister have been charged with fraud conspiracy, obstruction of justice and related bribery charges in U.S. District Court. Cockerham is accused of accepting $9.6 million in bribes for contracts in Iraq while he was stationed at Camp Arifjan, south of Kuwait City.