knut, siku, human zoos & sculptures

Knut, 2007

Siku, 2011

Knut proponents are riled up about Siku at the Scandinavian Wildlife Park, Denmark. Siku is cute, but it's not Knut. ('The new knut' whose mother had not enough milk is not really an orphan.) Knut fans are mustering a memorial tribute with voting until January 8, 2012 on 42 entries: Pick a knut memorial sculpture. Be prepared, some of the submissions are underwhelming.

Footballer turned curator.  Lilian Thuram's 'Human Zoos: The Invention of the Savage' --- "traces the history behind circuses, stage shows and 'zoos' in which people were the exhibits, dating it back to 1492 when Christopher Columbus displayed six 'Indians' at the Spanish royal court" (Daily Mail article). The exhibition is at Paris' Quai Branly, France, from Tuesday 29th November to Sunday 3th June 2012.
See more, including a video and the museum's website. Following his retirement in 2008, he established the Lilian Thurman Foundation.

In politics, Thuram made headlines during the 2007 French elections by calling out the institutionalized racism of Nicolas Sarkozy. (Article: France World Cup player Lilian Thuram now fights racism, November 11, 2009.)

Speaking of, there was a nazi encounter with swastikas and death threats on Christmas Eve for a biracial couple in Newmarket, Ontario. The man, from Nigeria ('nigger'), and the white woman ('whore'), are considering moving. The couple has already spent $6000 repairing damages. It isn't the first time.

An Occupy sculpture was hauled away from an encampment in Calgary, Alberta.

You can sign the Petition: Keep the “Heart of the Beast” sculpture as a permanent part of Olympic Plaza.

occupy wall street, chris hedges & the man in the yellow...

Tie. Video. So, first Obama says with some gravity that all across main street and so on, and is followed by this interview: Mr. Whoever Obnoxious and Mr. Cogent (guest), on CBC news.

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author Chris Hedges
talks about the 'Occupy Wall Street' movement.

Chris Hedges interview: October 6, 2011.

We the Kochs

Ian Murphy of Buffalo Beast calls the big guy, WI Gov. Scott Walker, pretending to be David Koch, pronounced Coke, not cock or even Kochsucking Bros. Fun, fun, fun.

Koch: We’ll back you any way we can. What we were thinking about the crowd was, uh, was planting some troublemakers.
Walker: You know, well, the only problem with that —because we thought about that. The problem—the, my only gut reaction to that is right now the lawmakers I’ve talked to have just completely had it with them, the public is not really fond of this […]

As Wisconsin anti union busting protests spread to Missouri and Sarah Palin weighs in with her well-considered gravitas, brother and sister, à la solidarity soirée, up close & personal, on Facebook, some juicy story about {{nurses and teachers--->}} 'shared sacrifice' (see: the Sarah-name and Bristol-name, as trademarks), the kochsuckers, yes bros. It's hard to know what all gets funded: American Legislative Exchange Council and Americans For Prosperity and standwithwalker.com and Joe the faux populist and what was that climate channel with the "trickle down" crowd.

There seems to be a lot of 'faux' going around... pretend Facebook fans - and/or pretend social consensus - and/or pretend hordes of supporters:

According to an embedded MS Word document found in one of the HBGary emails, it involves creating an army of sockpuppets, with sophisticated "persona management" software that allows a small team of only a few people to appear to be many, while keeping the personas from accidentally cross-contaminating each other--- source

Or denier-bots, similar to Conservative DND (Department of National Defense) CFB Cold Lake based F-18-35 opposition bashing wiki cadets or other Party edict chat soldiers of the fading public sphere, but really software programs. And "Leaked emails from Aaron Barr, CEO of a federal subsidiary for HB Gary" are just part of it. It gets worse.

But what does the US military use those same networks for? Well, we can't tell you: That's "classified," a CENTCOM spokesman recently informed Raw Story.--- source

In 2009: Koch Industries Inc. slashed 25% of workers in Greenbay, Wisconsin while Koch Bros. joint net worth increased by $11b. That's the main thing.

UK Uncut, the new protest group against austerity measures in the UK spreads to USA

UPDATE: Private prisons, Wackenhut and faux assailant - Carlos F. Lam, a Johnson County deputy prosecutor, resigned Thursday [March 24, 2011] after acknowledging he sent an email last month urging Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker to discredit labor union protests by orchestrating a fake assault on himself. Possibly, Lam suggested, the pretend assailant might even use a firearm.

Faux the plumbers.