Radio Zero: Snowstorms and Inlaws

What?  Tired of the in-laws already?  What are you talking about?  With the massive, climate change induced winter storm bearing down on the East, they haven't even arrived yet.  (Maybe this global warming thing is a net positive utility delta after all).  Well, Radio Zero is here for you (as long as the fiber stays up in the storm).

Listen here: http://72.13.86.66:8000/listen.pls thanks to the mind-blowing generosity of EGI Hosting.

Chat up the DJ (send your .mp3 files) here: radiozh.

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Comments

[BT310]

New Bill Moyers with Matt Taibbi:

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/12182009/watch.html

[Anonymous]

Nice one Marla!

[dqueue]

Snowed-in this morning. A doozy of a storm. It's nice to be able to sit and listen awhile!

[Anonymous]

Marla - just released (free on line) Jon Shaffer founder of heavy metal band Iced Earth

Sons of Liberty

track#1 Jeckyll Island
http://sons-of-liberty.net/music/01_Jeckyll_Island.mp3

link to site
http://sons-of-liberty.net/

[ChickenTeriyakiBoy]

the mid-atlantic got SOCKED with snow. dc is crippled, i see about 3 cars on the road. and considering this is the most resilient regional economy, i suspect this will have no small effect on holiday retail sales. amen to that

[Cindy_Dies_In_T...]

Started the party early in front of the fireplace with cognac and online reading and shopping. Generator ready to go, if needed.

I once found out about 2 years ago that I am the only one asides from the police and hospital here that has generators. (some guy fried himself to death and the local power plant and caused a blackout forthe entire area.) I offered one of mine to run any medical machines, and got a call from the police 5 minutes after I called in to help.

So this snowstorm reminds me that people on the East coast are pretty damn helpless.

Ah well.. Many thanks Marla!

[Cindy_Dies_In_T...]

Dc gets "crippled" with one inch of snow.. they have to truck in their snow plows from NOVA.

[anynonmous]

this might make/break your weekend

Democrats strike health care deal

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30807.html

and in the following link read the transcript of a debate between two very left of center journalists MATT TAIBBI and ROBERT KUTTNER  and how they both agree that big Pharma and Big insurance make out like bandits

MATT TAIBBI: Well, I think what most people should take away from this is that the massive subsidies for health insurance companies have been preserved while it's also expanded their customer base because there's an individual mandate in the bill that's going to provide all these companies with the, you know, 25 or 30 million new people who are going to be paying for health insurance. So, it's, obviously, a huge boon to that industry. And I think Wall Street correctly read what the health care effort is all about.

ROBERT KUTTNER: Well, it's two things. Part of it was we need to do whatever it takes to get a bill. Never mind whether it's a really good bill, let's get a bill passed so we can claim that we solved health insurance. Secondly, let's get the drug industry and the insurance industry either supporting us or not actively opposing us. So that there was some skirmishing around the details, but the deal going in was that the administration, drug companies, insurance companies are on the same team. Now, that's one way to get legislation, it's not a way to transform the health system. Once the White House made this deal with the insurance companies, the public option was never going to be anything more than a fig leaf. And over the summer and the fall, it got whittled down, whittled down, whittled down to almost nothing and now it's really nothing.

[spekulatn]

When these fools finish in dc, we'll all  be living in "detroit."

Priceless exchange above. Thanks for sharing.

[ZerOhead]

And the good news is that "Detroit" will come to you... 

[deadhead]

I see it was snowing some Obama directed cruise missiles into Yemen....caught it on ABC news this a.m.

Doesn't seem to have a lot of ink elsewhere at this junction...maybe it's me, but I would think the USA lobbing cruise missiles into another country would catch more attention....

[ZerOhead]

Yup. It'll pick up if the snow does... Just rolling another ball across the carpet to distract the puppies...

Cruise missile attack = Sizzle

Snow storm following climate summit? = Not something you want the sheeple to be thinking about.

[deadhead]

I'm confident the Commerce Dept will find a way to show final pre xmas weekend sales in the mid atlantic/n'east corridor increased 5 or 6 percent with the blizzard taking place.....

[Anonymous]

Bank of England Calls Bluff of Bankers Who Threaten to Depart UK to Avoid Taxes

in response to a 50% bonus supertax, bankers in the UK are threatening to decamp, as if that will move the authorities to relent. They are not blinking. And with good reason. The idea that everyone ensconced in a large financial firm can decamp to a hedge fund or a private equity fund, or start their own boutique is wildly exaggerated. Even though many traders like to cast themselves as solo producers, they have tremendous advantages by operating in a large firm, namely, access to concentrated capital and information flows, and in many cases leverage that either cannot be obtained at all in a smaller firm format or would be far more costly. Similarly, a lot of supposed “talent” in other businesses depends on the firm franchise to a greater degree than they fancy.

No less than a former co-chairman of Goldman, John Whitehead, disputed the idea that lofty pay levels were necessary (and he was criticizing 2006 bonuses, which were trumped by 2007 pay levels):

“I’m appalled at the salaries,” the retired co-chairman of the securities industry’s most profitable firm said in an interview this week. At Goldman, which paid Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein $54 million last year, compensation levels are “shocking,” Whitehead said. “They’re the leaders in this outrageous increase.”

http://tinyurl.com/yjuhsns

[Anonymous]

I love Marla's playlist. It always make me wanna
cuddle up before a romantic fireplace with a bottle
of Opus one and a NY cheesecake.

I'd eat the whole cheesecake by myself too.

-MobBarley

[Bthewee]

Marla

Is there ANY way to get a "Head's UP" Calendar for Radio??

GOD...

It would be nice to know when I need to sit down and log in!!!!!!!

Or Tell my date that I already have a Date... Can I please take you home now, as I have a very important meeting I need to get too.....

[CD]

You could direct ZH's RSS feed to your mobile device, and set the device to alert you when Marla is the author or the term 'Radio Zero' shows up in the post text.

Or you can just assume Marla will be there at some point on Friday night (however late), and at worst fume when/if she doesn't show up...

[CombustibleAssets]

Was Carbon Tax supposed to fund Health Care?