the dark cartel

Researchers in 82 nations, whose 10-year study aims to help protect life in the seas, found a mysterious meeting place for white sharks in the eastern Pacific Ocean and algae thriving at -25 degrees Celsius (-13 Fahrenheit) in the Arctic.

Other findings showed that white sharks traveled thousands of kilometers to spend six months at what researchers called the “White Shark Cafe” in the Pacific between Hawaii and California.

Maybe someone should send Artur Gorski down there to investigate this great white hope.

Poland’s foreign ministry on Sunday condemned an opposition member of parliament who said U.S. President-elect Barack Obama’s victory was a triumph for al Qaeda.”Someone regarded by the (American) Republican right as a crypto-communist has become the leader of the world’s greatest power … and al Qaeda are rubbing their hands with glee that the new president wants peace, not war,” Artur Gorski of the opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party told parliament last week.

“The black messiah of the new left has crushed the Republican candidate John McCain, and America will soon pay a high price for this quirk of democracy,” he added.

“Obama is an approaching catastrophe. This marks the end of white man’s civilisation,” he said in an address.

well, see for yourself.

Also,

Oh, you thought I was speaking of the government? No, not this time … this time it’s the baking industry and how we let them roll us over AGAIN!

“Unfortunately, many of the banks appear to have no intention of wasting the money on loans. “At least for the next quarter, it’s just going to be a cushion,” said John Thain, the chief executive of Merrill Lynch. Gary Crittenden, chief financial officer of Citigroup, had an even better idea: He hinted that his company would use its share of the cash — $25 billion — to buy up competitors and swell even bigger. The handout, he told analysts, “does present the possibility of taking advantage of opportunities that might otherwise be closed to us.”

And the folks at Morgan Stanley? They’re planning to pay themselves $10.7 billion this year, much of it in bonuses — almost exactly the amount they are receiving in the first phase of the bailout. “You can imagine the devilish grins on the faces of Morgan Stanley employees,” writes Bloomberg columnist Jonathan Weil. “Not only did we, the taxpayers, save their company…we funded their 2008 bonus pool.”

It didn’t have to be this way. Five days before Paulson struck his deal with the banks, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown negotiated a similar bailout — only he extracted meaningful guarantees for taxpayers: voting rights at the banks, seats on their boards, 12 percent in annual dividend payments to the government, a suspension of dividend payments to shareholders, restrictions on executive bonuses, and a legal requirement that the banks lend money to homeowners and small businesses.

In sharp contrast, this is what U.S. taxpayers received: no controlling interest, no voting rights, no seats on the bank boards and just five percent in dividend payouts to the government, while shareholders continue to collect billions in dividends every quarter. What’s more, golden parachutes and bonuses already promised by the banks will still be paid out to executives — all before taxpayers are paid back.”

From this article: http://www.naomiklein.org/articles/2008/10/bailout-profiteers

Still, Mr. Schwarzenegger, who has won the Mr. World competition in Ohio, whipped the crowd into a frenzy with some body-building advice for Mr. McCain’s Democratic rival, Senator Barack Obama.

“He needs to do something about those skinny legs!” Mr. Schwarzenegger shouted. “We’re going to make him do some squats. And then we’re going to give him some biceps to beef up those scrawny arms. If only we could do something about putting some meat on his ideas.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/01/us/politics/01mccain.html

Being half white/half black (and therefore half Dark Cartel token), I’m naturally conflicted.  My black half despises the white half of Obama more than my white half feels guilt toward his black half.

Sigh.  The speaker in the video expresses this far more eloquently.

I thought in honor of Halloween I’d post some King Diamond.

This from the Wikipedia article:

In an interview from 2006, King Diamond stated that he does not follow any specific religion, and expressed concern that religion has led so many people to kill and destroy each other. He stated that he cannot comprehend why religion has caused so much death and destruction when it is logically impossible to prove the presence or absence of any god. He states that he has reached a point in his life where he has completely given up believing in anything religious and that he simply does not know what to answer when asked whether he is a Satanist or not.

Poor King Diamond. He has entered a state of deep religious doubt about the existence of Satan. The world is just so evil, he’s not sure it makes sense that Satan could exist when the world is like this.

It’s not what you think. It’s the dance remix.

If (when) McCain loses, I think “scapegoat” will be too gentle a term to describe how they’re going to treat this woman.  I think I would sooner get the Republican nomination in 2012.