Raining on his parade: A weather personality for KTLA Los Angeles stormed off during a live interview after someone back at the station cut his weather segment short.source
Members of Congress can legally trade stock based on non-public information from Capitol Hill.
As Lizzie O’Leary points out, much of this report owes its information from the work done by Brody Mullins at the Wall Street Journal:
Friends, read up on this story this morning. This is important. This is a major loophole in the law that proves most of the arguments we might have about the financial system. And thanks to “60 Minutes” doing such a thorough report on it, it’s now something that the public will now be able to act upon. Many people are named in the report, including John Boehner and Spencer Bachus.
More island for your buck: Due to recent underwater volcano activity, another Canary Island has been added to the chain. Islanders are already trying to think up names for the new piece of land, built from magma that spewed over 65 feet high. On Saturday, the area was hit by a 4.3-magnitude earthquake, which is when the underwater volcano started erupting. What would you name the new island? Does it have to be a bird? Tweety Island would be too obvious, right? source
Annie Leonard Takes On The Occupy Movement With “Story Of Broke”
This doesn’t really take on the Occupy Movement like Fast Company says, but it certainly does a great job of of explaining tax issues in a way that’s easy to understand.
FOOTAGE. Woman arrested at Citibank 555 Laguardia (around West 3rd/Bleeker). She’s wearing a business suit, clearly not protesting, just there to close her account with the bank as part of a group action. NYPD surround her, scare the shit out of her, and arrest her. For closing her bank account.
THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING.
If anyone has more information about this video, please contact me.
It doesn’t even look like she was there to close her account. Yikes.
Due to the source of the content, we wanted to do some fact-checking on the banned videos we noted in our post earlier today. Nothing against Infowars.com, the authors of the original article, but we felt it was worth a double-check. So, here we go. Above is a clip of a bizarre protest that took place in March, which involved members of a nationalist anti-authority British organization called the British Constitution Group. The protests, which were covered by both BBC and The Daily Mail (which has significantly more detail and photos), showed a group of people claiming that a bankruptcy proceeding around one of the group’s members was illegal. They attempted to make a citizen’s arrest of the judge; the Magna Carta was cited as the reason they were allowed to make the citizens’ arrest. (We told you it was weird.) Above is video of what happened. If you’re in the UK, you will not be able to watch this video; If you’re in the U.S. and want to see what a blocked video looks like, click through to this proxy. Granted, the video is months old, and its blocking is also months old, but there we go. After some fact checking, we can prove that this video was in fact blocked. source
This broke me.
Here’s the video of the Paul Simon WTC memorial performance we mentioned earlier. The rendition of the song here feels perfectly apt for this day. (The earlier reblog we posted stopped working because the video was marked private, so here’s another.)
adancewithdaffodils asks: Thanks for the play-by-play of last night's debate! Do you know where (if) we can watch the debate online? No cable, and internet decided to go out RIGHT before the debate. Thanks!
» SFB says: Sure! MSNBC has the full video over here. If you want to watch again, guys, be sure to play at home with our debate coverage! — Ernie @ SFB
Sarah Palin addresses a crowd of Tea Party supporters at an event in Indianola, Iowa. “The road ahead is not easy,” Palin warned supporters about the upcoming election. “You will be demonized. They’ll mock you. They’ll make things up. They’ll tell you to go to hell…we won’t say ‘No, you go to hell.’ We won’t say that.” [KGO]
This was the best moment of the entire speech. There are a couple of animated GIFs to be made from this.
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Benghazi reacting to news about Tripoli.
(h/t @ShababLibya.)
In Barcelona, completely peaceful protesters are being beaten up by riot police clearing up areas for an upcoming soccer match.
More: BBC News | Another video
In Spain, soccer tops legitimate protest? Ugh. This makes us uncomfortable.
Last night, Jon Stewart got so sick of reporting the same old Fox News B.S. that he decided to try rapping about it instead (around the 4:20 mark):
“You’re pigeons on a statue/Leavin’ little puddles of lie behind you!”
Today in Jon Stewart calling Fox News out on obvious hypocrisy (in rap form).
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