Nads: been covering some real hard core news of national importance...

[formerlurker]

nadinbrzezinski
 
My smelly valentine: Sewage treatment plant offers tours

If you rea
lly want to show that special someone how much your care about her this Valentine’s Day, take her to see some sewage.

On this Valentine’s Day, one of the more unorthodox activities available to lovebirds is the ability to take that special someone for a tour of the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn. New York City’s Department of Environmental Protection is offering a tour of the sewage treatment facility that lasts just under two hours and culminates in an expansive view of the Manhattan skyline and the 53-acre Newtown plant from 130 feet up.


http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/46348068/ns/today-celebrates_valentines_day/#.TzacPUxWpwY

For the record, have been covering some real hard core news, but will be posted all over facebook and twitter, not here.

SO if you really want to know what happened this weekend in san diego, of quite possibly national importance, just not here.

And a few of the hard core party loyalists would be jealous as well.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002298280


NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!   How how how will we get our hard core news now?? 


 



 
 

[formerlurker]

A little tough love... suffice it to say what I watched last night (as an observer) did not shock me or come as a great surprise.

Sometimes observers can see dynamics that you can't if you are in the middle of it, so take this as something coming from somebody who WANTS you to succeed and believes in the prize, but who for professional reasons cannot get involved more beyond coverage. (And trust me, last night was a doozie that goes into my notes of the history of Occupy, if I wanted to do real damage, it could easily be a news story)

First I have observed dysfunction ongoing and increasing for at least two months. When PROCESS was readopted, I went hooray... now that will be productive, FINALLY. So last night was truly the end result of that. Lord knows bringing somebody to watch a GA who'd never seen one in the flesh, that was NOT a good one to introduce a person to the process.

Second, you have an internal war going, and several groups who want to take over for whatever their perceived goals or objectives are. Some are 180 from each other. This is clear to anybody who is a careful observer. I have come to dub this the OSD civil war. Yes, you are at war with yourselves. This has been ongoing for at least three months.

Third, you do have infiltrators, that is a given, does the sun rise in the east? Is water wet? Occupy is a challenge to the power structure... so lucky duckies, you are not paranoid, but I can bet it is none of who you suspect. That be very, and I mean very... beginner level. The way you deal with this is the way that you deal with any of this shit... you just do your shtick...

Fourth, the Democratic party does want, and has wanted to co-opt the Occupy Movement... partly they have crashed against that sea wall since, like their counterparts in the Republican Party, they don't get it... But they do have a case of Tea Party Envy, which was co-opted this fast. So to see ongoing efforts at this, bumbling as they are, is not surprising. At this moment, lucky that you are, they are mostly over at the national level and they are starting to react to the pressure from the streets by actually starting to FOLLOW the streets, but yes, locally at multiple places you have continuing efforts... and they will continue to succeed, as they have... which is not at all.

Now due to the OSD wars I have come to learn a few things that are all but the purview of an external observer. Since I want you to succeed they are going into my academic notes... and I get that this happens to ALL social movements.

What you do with this information, is up to you. But what happened last night can either be a tonic... you do have some serious issues, and help you deal with them... or it might be lethal.

What I would personally do is look inside of yourselves and ask yourselves what do you want? As is, more tough love, Occupy is NOT just Occupy San Diego... and it may need to happen that your really active members find their way to other occupations in this town and to the next phase... which does not include physical occupations and requires what will be at least a five year marathon... and that is a hopeful prospect, it could very well be a lifetime effort.

I am not going to tell you how to solve this... it is not my purview. I am passing this as a friend, who's seen things that fit a certain historic pattern. But the choice that Labor had to make regarding the Anarcho Syndicalist, or MLK regarding Malcolm X, well, you are there. This happens every time with social justice movements.

I know I will keep my eye on this, and HOPE you overcome it... but suffice it to say, you are doing to yourselves what city leadership has not been able to do...

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003248998183


I notice it's a pattern that Nads never shares her infinite wisdom as a trained historian with the peasants.   

[formerlurker]

Nadin Brzezinski
February 6
Well a certain place can't handle anything serious whatsoever. So from now on team sports (politics), Pom Pom items, (same deal) and crunchy non filling "news."
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Don Heldenbrand It's just my opinion, but I think that certain website sold it's soul. That is why no dissent is allowed. That is why they don't need to do a fund drive.
February 6 at 2:45pm · Like

Nadin Brzezinski I don't know if quite selling soul applies.

I honestly think we have a very vocal group that hijacked it. They have been allowed to do things for years and at this point it's like FR.

As to funding, they still need it, just changed how they go about it.

But what you are seeing is classic cult of personality.

Sent from my iPad

[67 Rover]

Wow, I forced myself to read the entire thing and now I think that I either gave myself a tumor or I am just not as good as cracking codes as she led me to believe in the other thread. 

[FlaGator]

I really don't know why Skins hasn't canned her.

[GOBUCKS]

I really don't know why Skins hasn't canned her.

Skimmer doesn't read the DUmp anymore, and could care less what's being posted.

He lets the liquidation teams and the juries take care of disciplining the DUmpmonkeys.

Skimmer just counts cash and enjoys the high life. The new Dump is a bonanza.

[Big Dog]

blah, blah, blah...I have come to dub...blah, blah, blah

Watch out fellas, Nadin's ready for dub!

[Carl]

Dear nads...the best answers are usually the simplest.

You don`t have some tug of war,you have what you started with,a band of losers,dirtbags,hippies trying to recapture a drug hazed memory,stoners and America hating scum united by the one mission of getting freebies and smoking dope.

It has devolved into the character of the people attending and that is vermin.
No surprises and I didn`t need to spot the trends or watch the arcs to know that they crossed the Rubicon about 10 minutes after the first gathering of idiots hit the streets in September.

[Chris_]

Skimmer doesn't read the DUmp anymore, and could care less what's being posted.

He lets the liquidation teams and the juries take care of disciplining the DUmpmonkeys.

Skimmer just counts cash and enjoys the high life. The new Dump is a bonanza.

That's exactly what DU3 was planned for.  It frees up SKinner from babysitting the lunatics and still preserves his cash flow.

[Carl]

Skimmer doesn't read the DUmp anymore, and could care less what's being posted.

He lets the liquidation teams and the juries take care of disciplining the DUmpmonkeys.

Skimmer just counts cash and enjoys the high life. The new Dump is a bonanza.

B I N G O and worthy of several H5s.
The cretins have no idea they are being played for the idiots they are.

[GOBUCKS]

A bunch of DUmmies yapping at nadin's heels:

Response to nadinbrzezinski (Original post)
Sat Feb 11, 2012, 11:59 AM
zappaman (4,064 posts)  1. oh, how you torture us dummies on DU

'For the record, have been covering some real hard core news, but will be posted all over facebook and twitter, not here."

Hard core news like this?

http://www.eastcountymagazine.org/node/8382

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002271555

http://thisainthell.us/blog/?p=28611

What a joke.

 

Response to nadinbrzezinski (Original post)
Sat Feb 11, 2012, 12:01 PM
SidDithers (19,543 posts) 
2. Your "reporting" on hard-core news has been shown to be less than accurate in the past...

we all might be better off if you stick to "crunchy" fun stuff.

Response to SidDithers (Reply #2)
Sat Feb 11, 2012, 12:10 PM
zappaman (4,064 posts) 
7. Dammit Sid!

Thanks to you and your demands for non (crunchy) news, we don't get to hear about hard core news that could be breaking nationally any second now!
Thanks!

 

Response to taterguy (Reply #3)
Sat Feb 11, 2012, 12:06 PM
pintobean (5,066 posts)
5. I never knew

sewage is crunchy.

Response to nadinbrzezinski (Original post)
Sat Feb 11, 2012, 12:09 PM
Brickbat (10,977 posts) 
6. Well, I guess you sure showed us.

Response to zappaman (Reply #7)
Sat Feb 11, 2012, 12:24 PM
SidDithers (19,543 posts) 
11. Sorry. I've ruined it for everyone...

I'll go sit in the corner now

 

Tugging at Supperman's cape is a bad idea.




 
 

[miskie]

Breaking Hard !!! (And Crunchy !)

[Airwolf]

How is it that Nadinneedsabrain has something that the MSM doesn't and hasn't posted it? Can't imagine what earth shaking development it could be but then again the never found the guy on the grassy knoll either.

[GOBUCKS]

She was at the California democrat convention. Lots of crunchy fruits and nuts there, I'll bet.

[franksolich]

She was at the California democrat convention. Lots of crunchy fruits and nuts there, I'll bet.

Thank you, sir--I was trying to remember what nadin was covering this weekend.

And yeah, it's the California Democrat convention in San Diego.

For some reason, I thought she was covering the courtship of the whales on the beach out there.

[BlueStateSaint]

For some reason, I thought she was covering the courtship of the whales on the beach out there.

It would probably be more relevant to today's events . . .

[Mr Mannn]

Only at the DUmp would you find one poster (Nadin) actually PUNISHING the other posters for not taking her seriously.

Nadin will chastise you with cut-and-paste fluffy news. The fluff will continue until you DUmmies properly kowtow to her highness: the great and powerfull Nadin.

[obumazombie]

B I N G O and worthy of several H5s.
The cretins have no idea they are being played for the idiots they are.

Don't forget useful. Or is it automatically implied ?

[obumazombie]

Thank you, sir--I was trying to remember what nadin was covering this weekend.

And yeah, it's the California Democrat convention in San Diego.

For some reason, I thought she was covering the courtship of the whales on the beach out there.

Granola State.

[GOBUCKS]

The epic pout continues.

There'll be no news for the DUmp on San Diego occupoopers, or Facebook hoaxes, or imaginary U.S. soldiers in Syria.

There'll be no smug smirks as another dot lines up to be connected, another trend is sniffed, another arc detected and predicted.

There will be no blurry snapshots from The Good Rig.

The DUmp is being left to crunch on Whitney Houston's drug-addled carcass, with no access to meaningful news.

Response to nadinbrzezinski (Original post)
Sat Feb 11, 2012, 03:42 PM
MineralMan (40,402 posts) 

17. Oh, won't you tell us where you're posting this

"real hard core news?" We wouldn't want to miss it, I'm sure. So, if you could leave little hints or a cookie crumb trail, we'll find our way to your news. Just

give us a clue, won't you?

Response to MineralMan (Reply #17)
Sun Feb 12, 2012, 12:29 AM
nadinbrzezinski (101,630 posts) 

18. Nope, it don't matter really

Whatsoever... not to DU at least.

[dandi]

More adolescent passive-aggressiveness from Nads. She can't just stop posting her laughter-inducing "investigative reports". She has to post fluff pieces and announce each time that's all the Hive is going to get because they are not worthy of her reporting prowess. Her (unjustifiably) inflated ego won't let her leave it alone.

Oh, and Nads, because people don't agree with OWS doesn't mean they "don't get it". I know you like to be cryptic and use that phrase a lot, but there's nothing about that cluster**** of a movement that's like some ancient hieroglyphic painted on the wall of a cave that people can't understand or translate. In fact it's quite shallow. 

[diesel driver]

Thank you, sir--I was trying to remember what nadin was covering this weekend.

And yeah, it's the California Democrat convention in San Diego.

For some reason, I thought she was covering the courtship of the whales on the beach out there.

Rosie O'Donnell was at the beach?

That would explain the tremors felt here in the East.

[franksolich]

Rosie O'Donnell was at the beach?

That would explain the tremors felt here in the East.

It's a pretty obscure news story, the California Democrat convention in San Diego this weekend; all I've seen about it is that Al Franken spoke at it, nothing more than that.  

I'm waiting for nadin's description of this historic event.

[diesel driver]

It's a pretty obscure news story, the California Democrat convention in San Diego this weekend; all I've seen about it is that Al Franken spoke at it, nothing more than that.  

I'm waiting for nadin's description of this historic event.

If Al Franken was there, then it was a "comedy", not a convention.  I use both terms loosly.

Franken's no comic, and no senator.

[jukin]

The California democrat convention AKA How to finish off the once great sate of kalifornia.