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Media’s Grim Addiction to Perseverance Porn
By Adam Johnson Source: FAIR You’ve seen or heard or read the personal interest story a thousand times: An enterprising seven-year-old collects cans to save for college (ABC7, 2/8/17), a man with unmatched moxie walks 15 miles to his job (Today, 2/20/17), … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, Health, Inequality, Labor, media, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Work
Tagged conditioning, corporate media, corporate news, economic crisis, Economics, economy, healthcare, healthcare system, Labor, Mainstream Media, media, Poverty, propaganda, recession, social control, Systemic Problems, Work
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Just Wait a Little While
By James Howard Kunstler Source: Kunstler.com The trouble, of course, is that even after the Deep State (a.k.a. “The Swamp”) succeeds in quicksanding President Trump, America will be left with itself — adrift among the cypress stumps, drained of purpose, … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Energy, Financial Crisis, Labor, Recession, society, Sociology, State Crime, Work
Tagged Debt, Deep State, Economic Collapse, Economics, financial crisis, Fossil Fuels, Growth, industrial society, society, Technological Civilization, Trump
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A Skeleton Key to the Alt Left
Source: the HipCrime Vocab Last time we looked at the differences between the “Left” as manifested in the mainstream political discourse and those of a number of authors, blogger and thinkers that I’ve (somewhat arbitrarily) lumped under the umbrella of … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, History, Labor, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Science, society, Sociology, Technology, Work
Tagged Alt-Left, Alt-Right, capitalism, Classical Economics, Collapse, Communism, Corporate Globalization, economic crisis, Economics, environment, Eurocentric Modernism, Eurocentrism, Karl Polanyi, Modernism, Neoliberalism, Progress, Rajani Kanth
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Anxiety Dream
By Miya Tokumitsu A 1636 Dutch print depicts a tender domestic scene: a father in his nightdress walks to and fro, soothing a wakeful baby while mom gets some well-deserved sleep. The accompanying verse is equally sweet, assuring us that … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, Economics, Labor, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technology, Work
Tagged capitalism, Economics, Efficiency, Insomnia, Public Health, Rest, sleep, Sleep Deprivation, technology, Work
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Another Unsolvable Issue for Americans
Mass Incarceration, Prison Labor in the United States By John Stanton Source: Dissident Voice The Federal Prison Industries (FPI) under the brand UNICOR operates approximately 52 factories (prisons) across the United States. Prisoners manufacture or assemble a number of products … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Dystopia, Economics, Labor, Law, Mass Incarceration, police state, Social Control, society, State Crime, Work
Tagged Bill Clinton, DOD, Donald Trump, Federal Prison Industries, FPI, Immigrants, Jeff Sessions, Mass Incarceration, Prison Policy Initiative, Prisons LAbor, Private Prisons, SINCGARS, Slave Labor, Towards Justice, UNICOR, US Department of Defense, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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Corbyn Teaches Us to Embrace the Change We Need
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers Source: The Unz Review The shocking election result in the United Kingdom – the Conservatives losing their majority and the creation of a hung Parliament; and Jeremy Corbyn being more successful than any recent … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, Authoritarianism, corporate news, culture, Empire, Health, Labor, Neoliberalism, news, society, war, war on terror
Tagged bernie sanders, Blairites, Campaign Financing, Conservatives, Democrats, DNC, Duopoly, empire, foreign policy, Jeremy Corbyn, Labor Party, Neoliberals, Parliament, Retail Politics, terrorism, Theresa May, Tories, United Kingdom, war, war on terror
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Luddism and Economic Ideology
Source: the HipCrime Vocab Smithsonian Magazine has a very good feature on the Luddites, well worth a read. There are many elements you just don’t read in many economic histories; for example, the 40-hour work week was not brought down … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, History, Labor, media, Neoliberalism, propaganda, Revolution, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technology, Work
Tagged 40 Hour Work Week, 5 Day Workweek, Adam Smith, automation, capitalism, Chris Dillow, economic inequality, Economics, Economism, James Kwak, Kirkpatrick Sale, Labor, London, Luddism, Luddites, Neoclassical Economics, Rebels Against the Future, Revolution, Robots, technology, Wealth Gap, Wealth of Nations, Work
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Saturday Matinee: Obsolete
Source: Truthstream Media The Future Doesn’t Need Us… Or So We’ve Been Told. With the rise of technology and the real-time pressures of an online, global economy, humans will have to be very clever – and very careful – not … Continue reading
Posted in Conspiracy, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Film, Financial Crisis, Labor, Philosophy, Saturday Matinee, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technology, Work
Tagged AI, artificial intelligence, automation, Corporate Globalization, culture, Documentary Film, economic crisis, Economics, Global Economy, Internet, Labor, Robots, science, social control, society, technology, Work
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