DAILY MAIL: He astonished BBC viewers [Monday] by describing his hopes of profiting from a recession, adding: ‘The governments don’t rule the world – Goldman Sachs rules the world.’ MORE DAILY SABOTAGE: Invited onto the BBC to discuss the Greek debt crisis Rastani (identified only as an ‘independent trader’) sat in a satellite studio with an image of Canary Wharf behind him and pretended that he was our friend. He told us that the financial crisis was going to get worse, that we should protect our assets and (worst of all) that if we knew how to play the markets […]

Twenty years ago, Colonel Tom Sheehy was the house publicist for JC Dobbs. He was there on the first day of October 1991, when a scruffy, little-known band from Seattle walked through the door on their way to the center of everything. He remembers it all and even has the guest list to prove it. Look for it tomorrow on a Phawker near you!

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New York Times’ token conservative apologist Ross Douhat is cut a lot of slack by people left of the Hard Right and often tagged as a ‘reasonable’ conservative and usually we are inclined to agree — hell, he’s a HUGE step up from the bloodthirsty jingoistic asshattery of Bill Kristol, whom he replaced. But it is times like this that we have our doubts about just how compatible the word ‘reasonable’ is with the word ‘conservative.’ In his Sunday column in the Times, Douthat twists logic to the breaking point with his head-scratching defense of the death penalty in the […]

WARNING: The soundtrack is HORRIBLE. PREVIOUSLY: U SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION: Occupy Wall St.

INQUIRER: There is no shortage of awful, terrible Philadelphia stories to be told following last week’s release of the report by the city’s chief integrity officer, Joan Markman, on the Martin Luther King High School fiasco. You have the sordid details of backroom bullying, with an esteemed chair of the school board and a veteran legislator taking turns explaining to out-of-town charter-school operator Mosaica that things are different in Philadelphia and maybe he’d be better off leaving town. There’s the meteoric descent of Dwight Evans, a once-inspiring figure who has turned in a few short years into an all-too-common entitlement-addled […]

Pretty terrifying security cam footage released by the National Parks Service yesterday of panicked tourists at the top of the Washington Monument scrambling down the stairs when the earthquake hit. The shaking goes on for a LONG time. Yikes. Hats off to to the ranger for remaining at her post until the last tourist was down the stairs. RELATED: The National Park Service announced Monday that experts have completed an interior assessment of the monument and found it to be structurally sound. “The heaviest damage appears to be concentrated at the very top of the monument, in what is called […]

BY BRANDON LAFVING The Theater Collective entered a new, modern translation of Euripides’ The Bacchae, into the record. They pulled on a number of events and artifacts from recent history to connect Philly audiences to the masterpiece. The troupe is the brain-baby of one of the most prestigious authorial couples of Philadlephia, the eminent Lili Bita, poetess, actress, author, and Robert Zaller, author and professor of history at Drexel University. Zaller translated and adapted The Bacchae, while Bita plays the deranged/bereaved Agave, bewitched murderer of her own child. Original author of the script, Euripides, was one of the most prolific […]

He plays Union Transfer on October 25th with Friendly Fires. WIKIPEDIA: London was born on the island Trinidad, on February 23 of 1987 and was raised in Brooklyn[2] briefly, then moved to the suburbs of the Poconos. His debut EP Lovers Holiday, released on Warner Bros. Records on February 7, 2011, features TV on the Radio‘s Dave Sitek, Sara Quin from Tegan and Sara, Glasser, and Solange Knowles.[1] His full-length debut album Timez are Weird These Days, mixed by noted producer Dan Carey, was released by Warner Brothers on July 19, 2011. According to critics, London’s “genre-bending approach draws from […]