Alex Jones Flash Mob McDonald's at SXSW Protest

Alex Jones and team protest McDonald's at South by Southwest.  At 12:30pm on March 17 2015
Alex Jones and team launched a flash-mob protesting the use of GMO in Mcdonalds foods.

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Police ticket Alex Jones's team for using a megaphone. Anthony Gucciardi and Police discus how sxsw representatives wanted them arrested for trespassing.

Infowariors descend on SXSW McDonald's and spread the word on McDonald's food made from plastic. Alex Jones calls the food "free slop".  Joe Bigs has become Donald McRonald, Ronald McDonald's brother who spreads truth and knowledge. Here are couple of Donald's quotes "I'm not lovin' it". "Your eating a boob job".

McDonald's SXSW
According to the NYTIMES.com " McDonald’s, a first-time SXSW sponsor, initially offered musicians only burgers and fries to play in its “lounge.” After an online backlash, it agreed to compensate the entertainment."

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Infowars.com reporter Anthony Gucciardi ask McDonald’s employees what ingredients were in their McNuggets and was removed by security. from infowars.com

Austin Texas Short Term Rental, A place to stay

Austin is the town of events.  Here is a great secret home for short term. With a Pool!
Home for rent during March, April, May, June and so on 2014

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3 bedrooms, 2 full bathrooms, sleeps up to 6

Relax during your stay in Austin at the Dandelion Muse Guest House, a quiet ranch house on a shaded lot in laid-back South Austin. A nice place to getaway but still be close to it all. Enjoy the tall oak, elm, and pecan trees, a large wooden deck and herb garden in back as well as your own peaceful egg-shaped swimming pool.
Quaint, clean, peaceful, and fully furnished - great for good sleep and enjoyment. Hardwood floors throughout, berber in the bedrooms. There is a queen all-latex bed in the main bedroom, truly a treat with all-cotton, high thread count sheets. The other bedrooms have high-quality, thick full sized futons (one with inner coils, the other wool-wrapped), and all guests are provided with high-quality, all-cotton linens. The house is cleaned using environmentally responsible products. Nicely equipped kitchen. Washer/dryer in the house. Chickering upright piano. High-speed wireless internet (6 Mbps) and free Netflix streaming movies with a Roku box.

Suitability:

• children welcome
• limited accessibility
• non smoking only
• Low Allergen Environment

• Mar 7, 2014 to Mar 16, 2014
Categories: Music Festivals | Film Festivals & Events | Annual Events
• Venue: Austin Convention Center
• Location: Austin Convention Center
Website

Noted filmmakers, musicians and multimedia artists from around the world converge to showcase music, film and interactive media during this internationally-recognized event.

2/16/14
Austin Marathon
Downtown Austin
One of the country's premier races attracts nearly 20,000 participants from around the world. www.youraustinmarathon.com

3/1/14-3/16/14
Star of Texas Fair and Rodeo
Travis County Exposition Center
Austin goes cowboy as PCRA competitors hit the arena and area-students exhibit prize livestock. Headline entertainers perform in concert nightly. www.rodeoaustin.com
3/2/14
Zilker Park Kite Festival
Zilker Park
The nation's oldest kite festival features hundreds of kites in the air and is free to attend for people of all ages; complete with kite flying contests, food, games and more. www.abckitefestival.com
3/7/14-3/16/14
SXSW® Music, Film, and Interactive Conference and Festivals
Austin Convention Center, Various Locations
Over 300,000 attendees, filmmakers, musicians and multimedia artists from around the world converge to showcase music, film and interactive media during this internationally-recognized event. www.sxsw.com
3/17/14
St. Patrick's Day Festival
Various Locations
For over ten years the Celtic Cultural Center of Texas has organized the best Austin St. Paddy's Day celebration in central Texas. A family-friendly St. Patrick's Day where families can come out and enjoy the culture of Ireland including music, dance and language. www.stpatricksdayaustin.com
3/28/14 - 3/29/14
Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays
Mike A. Myers Stadium, UT campus
The premier track & field event brings together the best high school, college and professional athletes from Texas, the U.S. and the world. The weekend wraps up with the Urban Music Festival on Saturday, which features soul, R&B and hip hop artists. www.texassports.com
3/28/14 - 3/29/14
Austin Urban Music Festival
Celebrate this year's 9th Annual local urban music scene, aimed at enhancing and sustaining the Afro-Centric experience musically, culturally, and economically. This year's theme "The Music Speaks" helps enhance music as a universal language. austinurbanmusicfestival.com
3/29/14 - 3/30/14
Zilker Garden Festival
For over 50 years, the annual Zilker Garden Festival has been a one-stop, garden shopping destination when spring arrives in Austin and Central Texas. A family-friendly event, the garden festival offers something for everyone, including the annual flower show, live music, gardening talks, a kid's corner and food court. www.zilkergarden.org/about/events/ZGF2014/zgf.html
3/30/14
Capitol 10,000
Congress Avenue to Auditorium Shores
Texas' largest 10K race and one of the nation's top runs draws some 10,000 serious and not-so-serious runners. www.statesman.com/cap10k

April and May 2014

Home for rent during April and May 2014

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4/4/14 - 4/5/14
The 13th Annual Lonestar Round Up
Travis County Expo Center
A huge outdoor car show and live music festival with tons of vintage hot rods and custom cars driven here from all over the country, and bringing visitors from all over the world.
lonestarroundup.com4/12/14 - 4/13/14
Art City Austin Festival
Downtown Austin
Get Ready for Austin's weekend-long arts festival that transforms the streets of downtown. The celebration of art, culture and creativity will invigorate the streets, plazas and open spaces along Austin's Cesar Chavez Street and 2ND Street District with art of all kinds.
www.artallianceaustin.org/art-city
4/18/14 - 4/20/14
Austin Reggae Festival
Auditorium Shores
A fundraiser for the Capital Area Food Bank, the event features three days of amazing reggae / world / dub talent on the Main Stage and Charlie's Dub Corner.
austinreggaefest.com
4/11/14 - 4/13/14
MotoGP
Circuit of the Americas
MotoGP^TM is the premier motorcycle racing World Championship; an eighteen-race series visiting thirteen countries, four continents and with pan-global television coverage. Ten nationalities of the world's most skilled riders line a grid armed with cutting-edge motorcycle technology with prototype machinery fielded by three manufacturers; Ducati, Yamaha and Honda. As well as the premier class there are also two ultra-competitive World Championship Grand Prix categories, which form part of MotoGP^TM.
circuitoftheamericas.com/motogp
4/23/14- 4/26/14
Moontower Comedy Festival
Paramount and State Theatres
Moontower Comedy and Oddity Festival presented by the Paramount Theatre brings to Austin, TX some of the funniest, wittiest and oddest world-class comics from around the globe. This marathon of side-splitting nights throughout the city is slated to bring over 100 comedians doing everything from stand-up and sketch to improv and musical comedy. National headliners, up-and-comers and local Austin-based comedians ensure that there are options for every type of comedy fan; die-hards to those just looking for a fun night.
www.moontowercomedyfestival.com
4/24/14-5/3/14
Austin Fashion Week
Locations around Austin
Austin Fashion Week showcases the work of fashion designers, photographers, hair stylists, makeup artists and models from around the state of Texas. Over a hundred events take place during Austin Fashion week including runway shows, designer meet-and-greets, themed parties and benefits for Austin non-profits.
fashionweekaustin.com
4/25/14 - 4/27/14
Austin Food & Wine Festival
Butler Park
Pamper your palate in one of the hippest cities in the country at the Austin FOOD & WINE Festival, presented by FOOD & WINE Magazine. Join top chef talent, sommeliers and winemakers from across the nation and Austin's own acclaimed gourmet scene for an indulgent, two-day epicurean adventure unlike any other, topped off with live musical performances.
www.austinfoodandwinefestival.com
4/26/14
Eeyore's 50th Annual Birthday Party
Pease Park
Live music, beer, food, acrobats and costume contests surround this annual gathering of Austin's most eclectic locals. Eeyore's Birthday serves as fund-raiser to benefit many local, Austin non-profits.
www.eeyores.org
5/2/14 - 5/4/14
Austin Psych Fest
Carson Creek Ranch
Mark your calendars, Austin Psych Fest will return to Carson Creek Ranch the weekend of May 2 - 4, 2014! There will on-site camping and three stages with music- the main stage and river stage with psychedelic light shows in the evening, and a tent stage featuring psychedelic light shows all day long.
www.austinpsychfest.com/austin-psych-fest-may-2-4-2014/
5/3/14 - 5/4/14
The Old Pecan Street Festival
Sixth Street Austin
The Pecan Street Festival is a FREE, bi-annual juried arts and crafts festival held on historic 6th Street in Austin, TX. The show proudly features over 275 artisan vendors from all over the world who display and sell homemade art and craft work.
www.oldpecanstreetfestival.com
5/19/14 - 6/1/14
Chaos in Tejas
Various Locations
A nice lil mix of punk, hardcore, metal, hip hop, garage rock, indie rock, and all points in between.
www.chaosintejas.com
KGSR Blues on the Green
Zilker Park
Every other Wednesday during the summer, Zilker Park will be filled with thousands of people, blankets and lawn chairs, families and music lovers. As Austin's largest FREE concert series KGSR's Blues on the Green is consistently ranked as a top annual entertainment event and has become a staple of the Austin lifestyle and a very casual and comfortable experience.
www.kgsr.com/bluesonthegreen5/26/14
Lifetime Capital of Texas Triathlon
Palmer Events Center
Life Time Tri CapTex attracts all levels of athletes from top ranked professionals to first-time triathletes. The event includes the USA Paratriathlon National Championship, sprint and international distances, First Tri distance and sprint and international distance relays.
www.captextri.com

June and July 2014 6/5/14 - 6/8/14
X Games
Circuit of the Americas
Austin, Texas, the Live Music Capital of the World®, has been selected to host one of six stops on the Global X Games circuit for the next four years. Austin was chosen from a pool of four finalists and will replace longtime host Los Angeles.
xgamesaustin.com
6/5/14 - 6/8/14
ATX Television Festival
Various Locations
This Austin Television event's focus is on the celebration of the medium: looking back at its history, where it is now, and where it is headed. The weekend will consist of events where attendees can interact with actors, writers, directors, creators, showrunners, music supervisors, casting directors and studio executives involved in all stages of bringing their favorite series to the small screen.
atxfestival.com

6/12/14 - 6/15/14
Republic of Texas Biker Rally
Travis County Exposition Center and Sixth Street
The state's largest motorcycle gathering attracts thousands of bikers for rides, parades and music.
rotrally.com
6/28/14
Keep Austin Weird Festival & 5K
The Long Center for Performing Arts
Keep Austin Weird reflects Austin's creativity and culture through music, family activities and local food vendors.
keepaustinweirdfest.com
7/4/14
Fourth of July Fireworks and Symphony
The Long Center for Performing Arts
The Austin Symphony hosts an annual concert of patriotic music culminating in a spectacular firework display over Lady Bird Lake. austinsymphony.org

Secret Places to stay for SXSW

In Austin Texas during SXSW hotels fill up fast.  The hotels become loud crowed crash pads.  So here is a tip rent homes from the locals.  The homes are quiet escapes from the downtown noise.  Late night parting only to be awaken by the normal rush hour city going to work.

here is a link to the perfect SXSW rental:  http://www.homeaway.com/vacation-rental/p255246#summary

SXSW rentals

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Austin Texas Starting to Suck. Envy not real.

by Owen Bay in what's left of Austin Texas
theowenbay@gmail.com

Quit selling Austin Texas.
  Articles like this, Austin Envy : Forbes by  
  Marian Salzman, Contributor I target Brand Me, or personal branding, including mine: trendspotter.

Here's the real story Big developers have repackaged Austin now they need to sell it to you.  Now you are being sold a bill of goods.  Get ready for the slow sinking of a city.

in the article it states, "If you took the best qualities of Palo Alto and Berkeley and put them together—minus the former’s overambitious striving and exorbitant cost of living, and the latter’s business-unfriendliness and occasional burnout factor—you’d end up with a place like Austin. It has kept itself weird."  

Guess what, the cost of living in Austin is going up.  Residence are being squeezed out. What you now have is an Austin Theme Park.  The city is being rebuilt for the new yuppie.  No hippie could live in this new economic mess called Austin Texas.

comments from the Forbes Austin Propaganda Article:

this is the best comment that describes Austin Texas:

Bruce Darling 6 days ago

Whatever made Austin a “weird” city has long been buried beneath gaudy MacMansions, ugly high-rise condos, traffic that moves like frozen molasses, skyrocketing real estate values and property taxes, and a raft of pointless and very expensive “green” ordinances shoved down the throats of residents by a gaggle of hare-brained left-wingers on the City Council. The soul of old Austin is now dimly lit, if not extinguished. Its once authentic “weirdness” has been replaced by slogans plastered on bumper stickers (“Keep Austin Weird”) adorning BMWs, Audis, and Hummers. Austin is weird no more.

• • William Pate II    You’re right: There aren’t jobs in Austin, unless you’re in a highly specialized field. Our governor can run around talking up the great business climate in Texas, but that doesn’t mean it creates a lucrative jobs market.
    It’s really too bad people can’t realize there is life outside of Austin, SF, San Jose, NYC . . .
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• Alexander Jon 6 days ago
  As a longtime Texas resident, I must say that Austin is a very fun place to visit. That being said, I would never want to live there. There are many better job opportunities in Dallas/Houston/San Antonio. Also this article forgets to mention all of the jobless hipsters begging you for change on every corner.
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• • Anon 6 days ago
    Well that would be a matter of opinion on what a “better job” might be. Unemployment rate is lower in Austin than those other metro areas. Are there some bigger companies HQed in those cities, sure, but not much happening in SAT, pretty horrid weather in HOU and super conservative pretentious DAL, as well as such sprawl that most ppl don’t even live in Dallas, do they? All have their upsides and downsides… Oh and crime rates much lower in Austin. Just a safer city
    Reply
  • WarrenP1 6 days ago
    So true! It seems like Austin’s homeless population has exploded in recent years, with beggars on every corner. You can’t even have peace at any off-ramp on 183 without some sob story knocking on your car window. If we have such a great job market here, why are there so many people now living under bridges?
    Reply
• • John Mays 6 days ago
    Austin hasn’t been “weird” in 20+ years. It used to be, no doubt. Now? Not so much.
    Reply
  • Bruce Darling 6 days ago
    Whatever made Austin a “weird” city has long been buried beneath gaudy MacMansions, ugly high-rise condos, traffic that moves like frozen molasses, skyrocketing real estate values and property taxes, and a raft of pointless and very expensive “green” ordinances shoved down the throats of residents by a gaggle of hare-brained left-wingers on the City Council. The soul of old Austin is now dimly lit, if not extinguished. Its once authentic “weirdness” has been replaced by slogans plastered on bumper stickers (“Keep Austin Weird”) adorning BMWs, Audis, and Hummers. Austin is weird no more.
    Reply
  • Parajit Patel 6 days ago
    AUSTIN NOW HAS 170 PEOPLE MOVING HERE PER DAY, PARTIALLY THANKS TO FORBES! the job market is ultra tight, traffic is miserable, apartment inventories are 97% occupied, and the cost of living withing 10 miles of downtown has grown by around 30%.
    Forbes is simply advertising for commercial real estate developers. If you want to move here, I hope you can afford a $500,000 condo downtown! suckers!
    Reply
  • Marian Salzman 6 days ago
    I am amazed by the enthusiasm for Austin that is everywhere. This blog posting has inspired a zillion more shares than most of my blogs, and it’s not my writing … it’s Austin. I bet Tucson, Flagstaff, and Tempe wish they knew the secret sauce:)
    Reply

Green Day video captures the New Austin Texas
Green Day See You Tonight from paul beck on Vimeo.

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Austin Police Sweep the Street

Austin Entertainment District gets a good old fashion street sweep.  Austin's police go street by street checking homeless people ID's.  Cleaning up downtown Public Order Insensitive

Over the weekend 300 hundred homeless were arrested compared to the average 90.

Homeless advocate believe the actions taken by the Police are in preparation for the F1 event.  The wealth attending F1 do not need to be subjected to the homeless.   Unlike the citizens of Austin who have to on a daily bases.

Austin Texas who does No Refusal Weekends mainly on local events but not on tourist beer fueled events like SXSW or ACL.  seems to be creating a pattern.

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Jovita's and Heroin, South Austin

goodbye Jovita's.   turns out to be drug related.  south austin maybe losing more of its soul.

Allegely the owner of  Jovita's was distributing Heroin.   Austin maybe losing a great place to hear live music and drink beer.

Over the past year Austin bars have been shut down due to drug related dealings.

Jovita's is a shocker for the live music of Austin and more to the South Austin neighborhood

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6th Street Hezbollah Connection? Clubs raided after SXSW

 allegedly:  Austin Texas 6th street clubs connected to Hezbollah and murder.
strafford company employee calls it a highly classified case

Officers from the combined agencies swarmed the Yassine Enterprises offices on West Fourth Street and some of the company’s nine bars — Pure, Spill, Kiss & Fly, Stack Burger Bar, Treasure Island, Hyde, Fuel, Malaia and Roial — Thursday morning, and were spotted removing computers and boxes of documents. Bottles of alcohol were also being inventoried.

alleged:
money laundering, murder, drug dealing and terrorist connection.
 
is this payback from disgruntle employees who reported the enterprise was not paying wages,  telling employees they could only work for tips.


also it is interesting these clubs where raided after SXSW.

we will see as the case unfolds.

List of arrests and charges:
Hussein Ali Yassine (Mike)

• conspiracy to launder monetary instruments
• three counts of money laundering

Mohammed Ali Yassine

• money laundering
• two counts of conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine
• two counts of distribution of 500 grams or more of cocaine
• transferring a firearm knowing it is to be used in a drug trafficking crime

Hadi Ali Yassine

• conspiracy to launder monetary instruments
• two counts of money laundering

Marisse Marthe Ruales

• conspiracy to launder monetary instruments
• four counts of money laundering

Alejandro Melendrez

• two counts of distribution of cocaine

Amar Thabet Araf

• conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine
• distribution of 500 grams or more of cocaine

Sami Derder

• conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine
• distribution of cocaine

Edgar Orsini

• conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine
• distribution of cocaine

Nizar Hakiki

• conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine
• distribution of 500 grams or more of cocaine
• transferring a firearm knowing it is to be used in a drug trafficking crime

Karim Faiq

• conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine
• distribution of 500 grams or more of cocaine
• conspiracy to distribute 5 kilograms or more of cocaine

Nicholas Jarmon, Black Male, murder during SXSW,Chester Martin Mumford Jr., Black male

City of Austin

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Release Date: Mar. 18, 2012

Contact : Contact: Public Information Office     512-974-5017     Email

Murder #6

Case:            2012-0771783
Date:             Saturday, March 17, 2012

Time:            7 p.m.
Location:      1900 block of East 13th Street
Deceased:    Nicholas Jarmon, Black Male, (D.O.B. 12-29-1979)
Narrative:
On, Saturday, March 17, 2012, at 7 p.m. Austin Police patrolling the area heard what they believed to be gunfire.  They went to investigate and found the victim down on the ground with an apparent gunshot wound in the 1900 block of E. 13th Street.
The victim was pronounced deceased at the scene.   He has been identified as:
Nicholas Jarmon, Black male, (D. O. B. 12-29-1979)
Homicide detectives quickly gathered information and took statements from witnesses.  A suspect, Parrish Wyatt, Black male, (D. O. B. 11-04-1989), has been charged with Murder, a 1st degree felony.  Bond is set at $ 1,000,000.
The suspect is currently not in custody.
This case is being investigated by the APD Homicide Unit.  Anyone with information about the suspect’s whereabouts or this case is asked to call the Homicide Tip Line at 512-477-3588 or Crimestoppers at 512-472-TIPS or text "Tip 103" + your message to CRIMES.  You may be eligible for a cash reward of up to $1,000 if your tip leads to an arrest or charges being filed.

City of Austin

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Release Date: Mar. 18, 2012

Contact : Contact: Public Information Office     512-974-5017     Email

Murder #5

Case:            2012-0770191
Date:             Saturday, March 17, 2012
 
Time:            1:15 a.m.
Location:      924 East 51st Street
Deceased:    Chester Martin Mumford Jr., Black Male, (D.O.B. 11/12/1965)
Narrative:
On, Saturday, March 17, 2012, at 1:15 a.m. Austin Police responded to a stabbing at 924 E. 51st Street.
The victim was found in the parking lot of the apartment complex with trauma to his body.  Austin Travis County EMS attempted life saving measures and transported the victim to the University Medical Center at Brackenridge where he was pronounced deceased.
The victim has been identified as:
Chester Martin Mumford Jr., Black male, (D. O. B. 11/12/1965).
He is known by the name “Omar”.
This case is being investigated by the APD Homicide Unit and detectives are asking anyone with information about the victim or this case to call the Homicide Tip Line at 512-477-3588 or Crimestoppers at 512-472-TIPS or text "Tip 103" + your message to CRIMES.  You may be eligible for a cash reward of up to $1,000 if your tip leads to an arrest or charges being filed.

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SXSW Sunday Rain

day 3 rain.
my feet look like shriveled raisins. i stink like mold. sloshed our way to the films and parties. my mom called to see if i had on my floaty because i am not a good swimmer.  Moses called,  he wants his arch back.

does anyone out there have the inside on the hot film to catch?
I fell down twice.





off to the next show
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sloshing to this: 5PM - Don’t Just Sell Things: Change the World
InterContinental Stephen F. Austin
Capital Ballroom B
701 Congress Ave.

The folks at Saatchi take part in another great panel, this time talking about their “Ideas for Good” as well as “explore the intersection of ethics and economics and look at why driving for social good has become has the guiding principle for the world’s leading innovators.”

SXSW Saturday Rain

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SXSW rain Friday

my hairdo is a mess. where is everyone to look at me. i hope my tattoo does not run. why does rain happen on my day. my poster wont stick to the poll. see my favorite band. band


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