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A clear and thorough explanation of what is meant by ‘austerity’ measures to make an economy more competitive. In a phrase, it is to intentionally lower the standard of living of a populace, to convince people to accept lower wages, less benefits, and less job security in the interests of maximizing corporate profits. A valuable companion article to this video can be found on The Daily Kos.
In what is possibly the greatest unintentional cultural commentary of all time by a scientific journal, the Times reported today that the Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders has removed narcissism from its list of mental disorders, along with four others.
Anyone feelin’ the post Black-Friday blues can follow me on down to the Gulf of Mexico. The land is so rich thar’ that you kin pull black gold out of the sea with yer own two hands! It’s 1849 all over again, except wetter. Weez all gonna be rich! Yeeeeee haw!
While our nutty country is forgetting its troubles with some good old capitalist ecstasy, let’s take a moment and remember some of the core ‘values’ that brought us to our current desperate station…
This ad was run a few weeks ago by a non-profit called Citizens Against Government Waste.
Continue reading “How to Scare the Bejesus Out of the American Voter” »
Those of us who live in the phony-baloney, ocean-adjacent America know little of John Boehner. Of course, we’ve heard the tales of his 27-hour workdays whittling American Jobs out of plain fir wood in his Ohio-based Opportunity Laboratory. We’ve heard of his quest to bio-engineer a giant human ear that is to be staked to his chest cavity so he may finally Listen to America in the way that we never could. And perhaps, it is because of our inferior listening skills that we’ve never before heard his suffering.
Continue reading “John Boehner’s Tears Smell of Cantaloupe” »
Here’s Pullitzer Prize winner, Chris Hedges talking about his recently released book, titled above.
An absolutely masterful use of xtranormal, a website that allows you to make crudely animated videos with built in settings and robotic VO…
As I’ve said before, the Tea Party is largely a Corporatist attempt to harness and steer the sort of populist rage movements that crop up during times of severe recession. It is being steered away from blaming banking cartels and Wall Street for its woes (primarily by Fox News and friends) and steered towards protesting government regulation. As such it is nothing more than a pitchfork-wielding arm of the Corporate Lobbyists..
And frankly, the Dems and more traditional Republicans are both solidly on that team as well, if in a less screamy fashion.
This piece isn’t as fresh as I’m accustomed to posting, but it caught my eye today. It’s a jarring look into the third world consequences of something as innocuous-seeming as animation. The sequence is purportedly inspired by the street activist/artist, Banksy.
