WALL STREET JOURNAL: Prof. Panarin, 50 years old, is not a fringe figure. A former KGB analyst, he is dean of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s academy for future diplomats. He is invited to Kremlin receptions, lectures students, publishes books, and appears in the media as an expert on U.S.-Russia relations. Mr. Panarin posits, in brief, that mass immigration, economic decline, and moral degradation will trigger a civil war next fall and the collapse of the dollar. Around the end of June 2010, or early July, he says, the U.S. will break into six pieces — with Alaska reverting to Russian […]
ANDY SAMBERG & JULIAN CASABLANCAS: Boombox
Digital short from last night’s SNL warning that with great boombox power comes great responsibility and unintended consequences.
JIHAD JAMIE: Second Blonde Blue-Eyed American Woman Implicated In Cartoonist Murder Plot
DENVER POST: A Leadville woman is in custody in Ireland, arrested as part of an investigation into a conspiracy to kill a Swedish cartoonist who made fun of the Prophet Mohammed, according to her family and Leadville police. Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, 31, was arrested Tuesday in Waterford, Ireland, the second American woman to be grabbed in an apparent plot to kill the Swede, who incited the Muslim community with anger after his parody cartoons. Paulin-Ramirez was traveling with her son, Christian, 6, who has not been heard from since his mother’s arrest on Tuesday. Paulin-Ramirez’s mother, Christine Holcomb, said Friday night […]
LADY GAGA & BEYONCE: Telephone
Every one on Earth should see this at least once before they die. RELATED: 10 Hidden Surprises
Police Officers Un-Fired For Televised Beatdown
INQUIRER: Eight Philadelphia police officers who were fired or disciplined in 2008 after a television news helicopter captured them beating three shooting suspects are getting their jobs back or having their punishments reduced, police announced yesterday. An arbitrator has ordered that the two officers who were terminated, Patrick Gallagher and Vincent Strain, be reinstated. Four other officers who were involved in the beating and later disciplined were punished too harshly, the arbitrator also found. Three of those officers were suspended, and Joseph Schiavone, a sergeant, was demoted. The arbitrator, from the American Arbitration Association, ruled that those suspended should receive […]
SCRAPPLE TV NEWS: Piggie Of The Week
This week A.P. takes on the Tea Party douchebags protesting the president’s speech on health care reform at Arcadia University on Monday.
CINEMA: Fulsome Prison Blues
A PROPHET (2009, directed by Jacques Audiard, 155 minutes, France) RED RIDING:1974 (2009, directed by Julian Jarrold, 102 minutes, U.K.) RED RIDING: 1980 (2009, directed by James Marsh, 93 minutes, U.K.) RED RIDING: 1983 (2009, directed by Anand Tucker, 100 minutes, U.K.) BY DAN BUSKIRK FILM CRITIC When we first meet Malik, the lead character in Jacques Audiard riveting new crime drama A Prophet, it does not seem like he could possibly be the titular character. Questioned upon entering prison for assaulting a policemen, the 19- year-old Malik professes no religion. In fact he seems like a vulnerable blank slate; […]
TONITE: Natural Selection
The Low Anthem + Annie & The Beekeepers, Lissie TONITE First Unitarian Sanctuary 8:00 pm
City Finds $3.4 Million In An Old Pair Of Pants
INQUIRER: The U.S. Department of Defense handed over $3.4 million to the City of Philadelphia yesterday, after an Inspector General’s Office investigation found evidence of uncashed wage-tax checks from the federal government to the city from 2005. City Inspector General Amy Kurland came across the missing funds as part of an ongoing corruption investigation into a former city employee. Kurland declined to say much about that ongoing probe, but she said the city notified the Defense Department of what it found, and Defense records confirmed that the 2005 checks had never been cashed. Kurland said she did not know exactly […]
The Most Hated Man In Congress Comes To Town Sat.
You might recall him from last week’s outrage of the week — he is the outgoing Senator from Kentucky who fiercely filibustered a bill to extend unemployment benefits to the jobless because it would add to the deficit. This from the man who voted fund two wars on the back of the Bush tax cuts for the super-rich. His message to the hundreds of thousands that would lose benefits? Too fuckin’ bad, freeloaders! He will be signing autographs at the Philadelphia Sports Card & Memorabilia Show. We urge anyone currently collecting to go to the show and get him to […]
JIHAD JERSEY: South NJ Man Captured In Yemen Terror Sweep Tried To Shoot His Way Out Of Hospital
EXAMINER: A New Jersey man from Buena Borough is accused of joining Yemen’s al Qaeda terrorists. Sharif Mobley is in custody in Yemen after an escape attempt in a deadly hospital rampage that left one guard dead. Yemeni officials charge that the 26 year-old Mobley was planning a terror attack. Mobley was apprehended and hospitalized last week. In a thwarted escape attempt, Mobley killed a policeman on Sunday as he attempted to shoot his way out of the hospital reports say. His friends and family expressed shock. MORE ASSOCIATED PRESS: WMGM-TV in Atlantic City quoted “federal sources” as saying Mobley […]
PAPERBOY: Slow-Jamming The Alt-Weeklies
BY DAVE ALLEN Like time, news waits for no man. Keeping up with the funny papers has always been an all-day job, even in the pre-Internets era. These days, however, it’s a two-man job. That’s right, these days you need someone to do your reading for you, or risk falling hopelessly behind and, as a result, increasing your chances of dying lonely and somewhat bitter. That’s why every week PAPERBOY does your alt-weekly reading for you. We pore over those time-consuming cover stories and give you the takeaway, suss out the cover art, warn you off the ink-wasters and steer […]