MEGASHOW PODCAST

I've been doing a Blogtalkradio show for the past couple months and am starting to archive them on podOmatic. Check out MEGADUDE on MEGASHOW & DISORDERLY CONDUCT here here and here.

PSYCHO DONUT PROTESTS PART DEUX

Campbell, California - Mental Health advocates are gearing up for another protest outside the Psycho Donuts donut shop this Sunday (August 2, 2009) at 11am. Members of NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) and various other organizations will stage a "silent march" on the donut shop, protesting the name and theme of the shop. NAMI and it's members say the shop helps to "stigmatize" mental health patients and further their suffering. This is the first large scale protest outside Psycho Donuts in several months. MEGAFORCE was in full effect at the last round of protests and will return to the scene again tomorrow to defend the rights of donuts everywhere. MEGADUDE will be broadcasting live from the donut shop on BTR and Vince in the Bay will broadcast his "RE-UP" show from the shop as well. To get you up to speed, here's some background on Psycho Donuts and the previous protests:

Take a tour of the shop:


MEGAFORCE defends PSYCHO DONUTS from protesters:





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Milwaukee Police break into house & pull guns on innocent family

2 days ago my friends in Milwaukee had an encounter with the local police who were chasing a suspect through their neighborhood. Apparently the suspect broke into their house as he was being chased by police. The officers followed him inside the house and pulled a gun on the occupants of the house (including their young children). The incident was not caught on tape, but the residents did manage to film the officer after and got him on tape admitting to pulling a gun on their young child. At the beginning of the video the officer threatens to take the camera away from the resident. What's your take on this? Can my friends press charges against the officers for unlawful entry and assault with a deadly weapon?

Get updates here: http://inthabuildin.ning.com/

LA Times: Sales tax on pot? Calif could bring in as much as $1.4 billion, state tax board says.

Check this ish out. SF's Tom Ammiano makes a good argument for legalization. But at what price? Who gonna get all the tax $$$'s exactly? Fed's want their cut? What type of regulation is this going to put in place? I'm skeptical as always. This type of legislation will end up where all government regulation does: Totally flipped upside down so the corporate/wall street mullahs can run the "industry" and squeeze out independent growers, distributors and retailers. Can't Trusss It...

FROM LA TIMES:

A pot tax?

4:06 PM | July 15, 2009

We all knew marijuana was a big business. But now, amid California’s latest and deepest financial crisis, the state Board of Equalization has put a revenue figure on the cannabis trade – and the potential benefit to government coffers.

A tax on pot sales in California could fetch as much as $1.4 billion, according to the board’s analysis in response to a proposal by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco) that would regulate cannabis much like alcohol.

Pro-pot groups ballyhooed the report as another sign that the long debate over marijuana legalization has entered a new, more serious phase. The Drug Policy Alliance said the report “amplifies the escalating national discussion of marijuana policy.”

Ammiano’s measure is staunchly opposed by law enforcement groups, but the lawmaker argues that it would generate much-needed revenue for the state, restrict access to only those over 21, end environmental damage caused to public lands by illicit crops and redirect police efforts to “more serious” crimes.

-- Eric Bailey in Sacramento


http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/07/a-pot-tax.html

Also cross posted on inthabuildin:
http://inthabuildin.ning.com/profiles/blogs/la-times-sales-tax-on-pot

Street Sweeper Social Club

Check out Street Sweeper Social Club, the new project from Boots Riley (The Coup) and Tom Morello (Rage Against The Machine, Audioslave, Nightwatchman). SSSC released their debut record this week and it's available now on itunes.

Tom and Boots were on Rockline this week, listen to the interview. They will also appear tonight (Wed. 6/17/09) on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.

Here's a few SSSC related videos:

My un-official Fight! Smash! Win! inspired music video:


video I shot of SSSC covering M.I.A.'s hit "Paper Planes" @ Shoreline in Mountain View on NINJA 2009 Tour:


SSSC perform MC5's "Kick Out The Jams" w/ Trent Reznor:


SSSC's Youtube Channel

5 Year Plan for the USA

I'm really sick of the bureaucratic neo-socialist/neo-con machine dictating policy. It's getting us nowhere fast. Basically Obama and the Dem's were handed a mess. Instead of cleaning up the mess, they chose to cover it up with a bigger mess. So in 2010 we need to bring some harsh realities to the table.

Donny Deutschbag - Champion of the "5 Year Plan"

What can we do to recover from the depression? No matter what path is taken, we are all in for some more hurting before things get better economically. I propose the US Congress & Executive Branch adopt a 5 Year Plan, the plan that CNBC's Donny Deutschbag always champions. We just apply the 5 year plan as a business model for the US Federal Government to follow in order to bring this land and it's people back to where we need to be. Here's a list of what I'd like to see done over the next 5 years...

End Drug War
End Federal Reserve
End Iraq & Afghanistan Occupations
Cut Foreign Aid by 50%
End FEMA
End Dept of Homeland Security
End NSA
Freeze spending for 5 years on all remaining budget items.
If Fed is not removed, then remove Bernanke & Geithner and replace with Paul Volcker and Ron Paul.

Volcker's already in the stable, put him in the game.

Place Fed Funds rate at 25% in 2009, 20% in 10, 15% in 11, 10% in 12, 5% in 13.

Take remaining unspent Stimulus $$$ and put into a Health Care Amnesty Bill (ala Reagan's amnesty bill). Give a one time only hand out for all who make less than $30,000 per year to be used as a tax credit for Health Care.

China likey goldie goldie love you long time.

Take any surpluses generated and put into GOLD holdings and promise to debtors: Japan, China, Mid-East as collateral for US debts. Promote a culture of 30% savings for consumers (compared to 50% in China/India/Japan). By 2014 we will be stable. Unfreeze the budgets and see what happens.

Let me know what you think, and please help put me in contact with someone who can help me get the ball rolling.

Peace!


-VT